Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..

This is a DIK for us! 

 

Regency Sting is a traditional Regency Romance with a few variations. The hero, Jason Hughes is an American, the new Viscount Mainwaring by inheritance, who has never been in England before coming to claim his title. When he arrives, his appearance and manners are a bit rustic, so his aunt Harriet, with both social and matchmaking intentions, decides to leave him in her step-daughter Anne’s capable hands.

Anne Hartley is a proper English lady, who is all but engaged to the gorgeous, but frightfully dull, Arthur Claybridge. Neither one of them has any money, and Claybridge’s family has debts, so their parents oppose the match. When the old curmudgeonly Viscount Mainwaring died leaving nothing to his sister Harriet and no portion for Anne, the possibility of Claybridge and Anne marrying becomes even more remote. Anne grudgingly agrees to tutor Jason on the niceties of being an English lord in exchange for a generous dowry.

Jason is not quite the yokel everyone takes him for, but he plays along with their assumptions because he likes Anne and enjoys her fussing over him. Within a few weeks everyone but Anne can see that they have misjudged Jason, and he is a stunning social success.

Jason really is a charmer. Capable, considerate, stylish, and fun-loving, he sets Anne’s back up immediately with his extreme self-confidence and refusal to do things all her way. Anne, of course, spends most of the book confused at how he can affect her so much and wondering why she spends so much more time trying to ensure Jason’s social position than planning her own elopement with Claybridge. Their scenes together sparkle with wit and light sexual tension.

 

It’s at Amazon for 1.99 here.


Anna Campbell is known for her sexy historical romances. We enjoyed this one.

 

The last thing Camden Rothermere needs, in the opinion of his childhood friend, Penelope Thorne – is to ally himself with a family whose name is a byword for scandal. And she tells Cam so in no uncertain terms when she turns down his proposal of marriage, for the Thornes are by no means pillars of respectability. Her father is a rake and gambler, her eldest brother is cut from the same cloth, and Penelope herself is fond of forming her own opinions about things, frequently outspoken and not at all the type of demure debutante who will make Cam a dignified wife.

Her real reason for refusing him, however, is a completely different one, which she can’t tell him. Because Cam watched his parents’ marriage disintegrate –

As a result of love, my father descended into cruelty and obsession and my mother became a byword for promiscuity.”

– he doesn’t believe in love and wants nothing to do with it.

And Penelope – who has loved him all her life – won’t marry without it.

Like the heroes of the other full-length books in the series, Cam doesn’t know the identity of his father. In order to try to make society forget the circumstances of his birth and the public misery of his parents’ marriage Cam, now the powerful, cold and self-possessed Duke of Sedgemoor, has spent his entire life being fiercely correct, making sure his actions are above reproach, and doing everything he can to restore his family name to respectability.

Shortly after turning down Cam’s proposal nine years earlier, Penelope seized the opportunity to join an eccentric aunt on a trip to the Continent, and then settled with her in Italy. But the aunt has recently died, and in order to fulfil a promise made to Pen’s dying brother, Cam must find her and take her home. He traces Pen to a shabby inn somewhere in the Italian Alps, where he finds her being accosted by a group of nasty Italian bandits. Fortunately, Cam turns up in time to rescue his damsel, guns blazing, in a very “movie hero” moment, which I have to say, Ms Campbell does rather well.

 

It’s at Amazon for 1.99 here.


This HR by Justiss is a B+ at AAR.

 

Colonel Lord St. John “Sinjin” Sandiford returns home after Waterloo to an estate on the verge of bankruptcy. He must marry an heiress almost immediately if he is to have any hope of saving it. Since his childhood sweetheart Sarah (the heroine of The Wedding Gamble) has already married, he figures it doesn’t much matter who he marries anyway. Sarah’s husband offers to help him find a bride, and Sinjin tells him he wants to find a wealthy girl with middle class roots. His experience with ton women is that they are all vain and flighty.

His first glimpse of Clarissa Beaumont does nothing to disabuse his notions about aristocratic females. She is obviously wealthy, beautiful, and surrounded by admirers. Sinjin can’t help admiring her beauty himself, but he’s sure he would never marry someone like her. Clarissa soon cements Sinjin’s negative impressions by getting into a foolish predicament. Her handling of the consequences earns his grudging respect, but he still proceeds with his plan to wed someone from the middle class. But try as he might, he just can’t get Clarissa out of his head, and she is afflicted with a similar problem. But when Sinjin compromises her and feels honor-bound to propose, she refuses him because she wants him to want to marry her. Meanwhile, Sinjin becomes more and more sure that Clarissa is exactly the right woman for him.

 

It’s at Amazon for 1.99 here.


Looking for a sexy contemp? Here you go!

 

Fans can’t get enough of Levi Hunt, the Special Forces veteran who put his NHL career on hold to serve his country and fight the bad guys. So when his new Chicago Rebels bosses tell him to cooperate with the press on a profile, he’s ready to do his duty. Until he finds out who he has to work with: flame-haired, freckle-splashed, impossibly perky Jordan Cooke.

The woman he should not have kissed the night she buried her husband, Levi’s best friend in the service.

Hockey-stick-up-his-butt-serious Levi Hunt might despise Jordan for reasons she can’t fathom–okay, it’s to do with kissing–but her future in the cutthroat world of sports reporting hangs on delivering the goods on the league’s hottest, grumpiest rookie. So what if he’s not interested in having his life plated up for public consumption. Too bad. Jordan will have to play dirty to get her scoop and even dirtier to get her man.

 

It’s free at Amazon here.


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