Category: Historical Romance

Code Redhead by Multi-Authors

Posted April 8, 2017 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Mystery, Romantic Suspense / 0 Comments

Thirteen of your favorite Best-Selling authors have come together to be part of a fundraising project called Code Redhead – A Serial Novel.

Each writer has their own interpretation of the title ‘Code Redhead’. There’s a story to satisfy and entertain most every reader in Code Redhead.

Books To Go Now will donate the proceeds from the sale of the Novel to The Children’s Cancer Research Fund.

When children are effected by Cancer it is heart wrenching for them and their loved ones. You can make a difference in their young lives by purchasing a copy of the Code Redhead Project.

Titles in the serial Code Redhead includes: REDHEADS HAVE MORE FUN by Sharon Kleve (Genre: Contemporary Romance) -REDHEAD DEAD by Jennifer Conner (Genre: Romantic Suspense) – MOONLIGHT SERENADE by Chris Karlsen (Genre: Historical Romance) – REVEALED by Angela Ford (Genre: Mystery) -REUNITED by Tammy Tate (Genre: Contemporary Romance) – Red-HOT by Tina Donahue (Genre: Erotic Romance) – RED SARAH by Carol Ann Kauffman (Genre: Time Travel Romance) – DAY OF THE DEAD by J.R. Wirth (Genre: Suspense/Thriller) – RITUALS by N.D. Jones (Genre: Science Fiction Romance) – THE CLUE OF THE RED TRESSES by Laura Strickland (Genre: Time Travel Romance) – STARLIGHT KISSES by Sibelle Stone (Genre: A Victorian Love Story) -ONE NIGHT IN LONDON by Kim Knight (Genre: Contemporary Romance)- THE FREEDOM GENE by Ella Medler (Genre: Dystopian)

Please pick up Code Redhead from your favorite retailer. All the proceeds go to a very good cause – The Children’s Cancer Research Fund. I know the devastation that a diagnoses can bring to a family, especially for a child. Cancer is a horrid disease that strikes all ages, but perhaps it’s most cruel for the children who are just beginning their journey in life.

Every story in Code Redhead follows the redhead theme in some fashion. Sure, there were some that I loved, others that I just liked, but I enjoyed them all for the simple fact that these authors are giving something that we can make a difference with. Buy it for the donation it will bring, buy it for the stories it will entertain you with. Simply buy this one – it will give you your “feel good” for the day.

Last Night with the Duke by Amelia Grey

Posted March 8, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

The Duke of Griffin has never lived down his reputation as one of the Rakes of St. James. Now rumors are swirling that his twin sisters may bear the brunt of his past follies. Hiring a competent chaperone is the only thing Griffin has on his mind–until he meets the lovely and intriguing Miss Esmeralda Swift. In ways he could never have expected, she arouses more than just his curiosity.

Esmeralda Swift considered herself too sensible to ever fall for a scoundrel, but that was before she met the irresistibly seductive Duke of Griffin. His employment offer proves too tempting for her to resist. She can’t afford to be distracted by his devilish charms because the stakes are so high for his sisters’ debut Season. . .unless one of London’s most notorious rakes has had a change of heart and is ready to make Esmeralda his bride?

Titles in The Rakes of St. James series include: Last Night With The Duke –

A Cowboy’s Temptation by Michelle Beattie

Posted February 16, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance / 0 Comments

With a thirst for adventure and a new life, Katie Matthews heads west to Marietta, Montana to reconcile with her estranged sister and prove she’s matured. But during her journey, her stagecoach is robbed leaving her destitute and on foot and later framed for theft, which lands her in jail. Not the ideal beginning to prove she’s turned over a new leaf.

Scott Taylor hitches horse and wagon to rescue his partner’s sister-in-law from jail. But what he’s not prepared for is the force of attraction towards this beautiful, fiery woman. When a hard rain sends them ducking for cover, his usual steadfastness is no match for Katie’s charm and their mutual passion. Determined to make an honest woman of her, Scott insists they marry.

Scott’s devoted his life to being a strong, responsible, hard working cowboy who does the right thing no matter how tough, but when he comes face to face with his ugly past, he fears he’ll lose what he’s just discovered he can’t live without.

Titles in the Frontier Montana series include: A Rancher’s Surrender – A Cowboy’s Temptation

Ready Set Rogue by Manda Collins

Posted January 3, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 2 Comments

When scholarly Miss Ivy Wareham receives word that she’s one of four young ladies who have inherited Lady Celeste Beauchamp’s estate with a magnificent private library, she packs her trunks straightaway. Unfortunately, Lady Celeste’s nephew, the rakish Quill Beauchamp, Marquess of Kerr, is determined to interrupt her studies one way or another…

Bequeathing Beauchamp House to four bluestockings—no matter how lovely they are to look at—is a travesty, and Quill simply won’t have it. But Lady Celeste’s death is not quite as straightforward as it first seemed…and if Quill hopes to solve the mystery behind her demise, he’ll need Ivy’s help. Along the way, he is surprised to learn that bookish Ivy stirs a passion and longing that he has never known. This rogue believes he’s finally met his match—but can Quill convince clever, skeptical Ivy that his love is no fiction?

Titles in the A Studies in Scandal series include: Ready Set Rogue – Duke With Benefits (June 2017)

Ready Set Rogue earned a 4 star review.

Lord Sebastian’s Secret by Jane Ashford

Posted January 3, 2017 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Proud. Cunning. Battle-hardened. Lord Sebastian Gresham is the epitome of military might and excellence. He’s wealthy. The son of a Duke. There’s just one problem: he can’t read. It’s a secret he’ll never tell, certainly not to his new bride-to-be.

Brilliant. Witty. Gorgeous. Lady Georgina Stane has always known she’d make the perfect bride, that is, if her eccentric family didn’t scare off every potential suitor from London to Bath. After carefully orchestrating a London season with her parents out of the picture, she secured an engagement to an impeccable gentleman. And when Lord Sebastian arrives at her family’s estate to meet her parents, she’s not about to let their antics ruin her perfect marriage.

But what happens when these two learn that some secrets aren’t so easy to keep?

Titles in The Duke’s Sons series include: Heir To The Duke – What The Duke Doesn’t Know – Lord Sebastian’s Secret

Away in Montana by Jane Porter

Posted December 7, 2016 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Series / 1 Comment

Title: Away In Montana
Series: The Douglas Ranch of Paradise Valley #1
Author: Jane Porter
Genre: Historical Romance
Published: December 6, 2016
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Beautiful, spirited heiress McKenna Frasier–daughter to one of the Butte Copper Kings—vowed eternal love to Sinclair Douglas before she left for college and an introduction to society. Four years in New York and travel abroad have opened her eyes, making her realize she wanted more than marriage and a simple Montana life. But when McKenna commits an unforgivable transgression and destroys her reputation, her dreams are shattered and she is forced to return to Montana disgraced, disowned and unmarriageable.

Sinclair Douglas left Butte to escape the Frasier power and Frasier name, but suddenly all anyone talks about in Marietta is scandalous McKenna Douglas, Paradise Valley’s new teacher. Sin doesn’t want to know about McKenna anymore. He doesn’t want to have to help her, and he sure as hell doesn’t want to love her. But McKenna has lived so long in his heart that it’s her home–even if she doesn’t deserve to be there.

But if there is one man who knows how to rebuild a life when all dreams have been smashed, it’s fierce, uncompromising Sinclair Douglas. Can Sinclair and McKenna heal enough to find their own Christmas miracle, and one more chance at love?

Titles in this series include: Away In Montana – Married In Montana (June 2017) – Home In Montana

The Untouchable Earl by Amy Sandas

Posted November 25, 2016 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: The Untouchable Earl
Series: Fallen Ladies #2
Author: Amy Sandas
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Romance
Published: November 1 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Lily Chadwick has spent her life playing the respectable debutante. But when an unscrupulous moneylender snatches her off the street and puts her up for auction at a pleasure house, she finds herself in the possession of a man who fills her with breathless terror and impossible yearning.

Though the Earl of Harte claimed Lily with the highest bid, he hides a painful secret―one that has kept him from knowing the pleasure of a lover’s touch. Even the barest brush of skin brings him physical pain, and he’s spent his life keeping the world at arm’s length. But there’s something about Lily that maddens him, bewitches him, compels him…and drives him toward the one woman brave and kind enough to heal his troubled heart.

Titles in this series include: Luck Is No Lady – The Untouchable Earl

Campbell’s Redemption by Sharon Cullen

Posted November 22, 2016 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Campbell’s Redemption
Series: Highland Pride #3
Author: Sharon Cullen
Genre: Historical Romance
Published: November 22, 2016
Publisher: Random House – Loveswept
My Rating: 3 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Like his ancestors, Iain Campbell, the Marquess of Kerr, swears loyalty to whichever government happens to be in power. Privately, however, he despises the British for the slaughter following the Battle of Culloden and finds himself playing a dangerous game of deception. When he defends a fellow Scot under cloak of darkness, Iain is wounded and must put his life in the hands of a mysterious healer. The prickly, bewitching woman saves him with her touch, though she denies Iain the pleasure of a smile from her sensuous lips—which only makes him want her all the more.

Cait Campbell has no fondness for the marquess and his political machinations. Now he makes a treacherous patient, since Cait is harboring Jacobite fugitives in her cellar. But with Iain confined to bed rest, Cait sees another side of the fierce warrior. How can she hate a man whose eyes sparkle in candlelight, a man whose voice stirs her soul? She soon discovers that he loves the Scottish people deeply—and, despite her painful intuitions, Cait is tempted to let Iain love her, too.

Titles in this series include: Sutherland’s Secret – MacLean’s Passion -Campbell’s Redemption

The Danger of Desire by Sabrina Jeffries

Posted November 22, 2016 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: The Danger of Desire
Series: Sinful Suitors #3
Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Genre: Regency Romance
Published: November 22, 2016
Publisher: Pocket Books
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

To root out the card cheat responsible for her brother’s death, Miss Delia Trevor spends her evenings dancing her way through high society balls, and her late nights disguised as a young man gambling her way through London’s gaming hells. Then one night, handsome Warren Corry, the Marquess of Knightford, a notorious member of St. George’s Club, recognizes her. When he threatens to reveal her secret, she’s determined to keep him from ruining her plans, even if it means playing a cat-and-mouse game with the enigmatic rakehell.

Warren knows the danger of her game, and he refuses to watch her lose everything while gaining justice for her late brother. But when she starts to delve beneath his carefully crafted façade, can he keep her at arm’s length while still protecting her? Or will their hot desires explode into a love that transcends the secrets of their pasts?

Titles in this series include: The Art of Sinning – The Study of Seduction – The Danger of Desire

Holiday House Parties by Elizabeth Mansfield

Posted November 21, 2016 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Holiday House Parties: Two Tales
Series:
Author: Elizabeth Mansfield
Genre: Regency Romance, Christmas Romance
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Open Road Intrigated Media
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

In “The Girl with Airs,” Lord Dunvegan—Laird Geordie to his friends—attempts to persuade bluestocking Caroline Woolcott to give his besotted, tongue-tied friend Sir Archibald Halford a chance to win her hand in marriage. A Scotsman banished to England to cultivate a more genteel manner, Geordie has yet to meet a female who tempts him to settle down. It certainly isn’t the headstrong lass who wants nothing to do with Archie—or Geordie. But then Geordie’s father decides the standoffish Caroline would make an ideal bride for his wayward son, and a sizzling kiss in the doorway of a grand Lancashire estate turns two warring hearts to love . . .

In “A Sneeze on Tuesday,” Elinor Selby succumbs to the worst cold she’s ever known five days before Christmas, and her entire future takes a catastrophic turn. After an absence of five years, Elinor’s betrothed, Julian Henshaw, Lord Lovebourne, is due home any day. Were it not for her quick-thinking, curmudgeonly neighbor, Miles Endicott, on whom she’s relied since childhood, she might not be able to cope with the momentous reunion. But then an unexpected series of events forces Elinor and Miles to take part in a scandalous deception that will ignite a firestorm of longing and love.

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When a Marquis Chooses a Bride by Ella Quinn

Posted November 20, 2016 by Marsha in Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: When A Marquis Chooses A Bride
Series: The Worthingtons #2
Author: Ella Quinn
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Romance
Published: August 30, 2016
Publisher: Keningston Books – Zebra Shout
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

The Dowager Lady Worthington isn’t quite sure what to make of country-girl Dorothea Stern. As the granddaughter of the Duke of Bristol, Dotty is schooled in the ways and means of the nobility. But her sharp wit and outspoken nature has everyone in a tizzy. Especially their cousin, Dominic, the Marquis of Merton.

Prematurely stuffy, Dom was raised by his cheerless uncle to be wary of a host of things, including innovation, waltzing, and most perilous of all: true love. Still, there’s something about Dotty, beyond her beauty, that Dom cannot resist. But the odds are against him if he intends to win her as his bride. Will he choose loyalty to his family—or risk everything for the one woman he believes is his perfect match…

Titles in this series include: Three Weeks To Wed – When A Marquis Chooses A Bride – The Second Time Around (#2.5) -It Started With A Kiss