Thanks to the team at Avon for sharing this Q & A with us! Maya's latest novel, Some Like it Scandalous, was released on June 18th. The Ladies of Liberty cause a lot of trouble—namely, attempting to dine alone at Delmonico’s. Why was it important for you to write include this boundary pushing scene? This scene is a fictionalized version of something that actually happened! The real life #inspo for the Ladies of Liberty Club, which this series centers around, is The Sorosis Society, a Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I feel like it has been forever since I talked about what I was reading! I looked back and it has been a few weeks, but I am back now. Here’s what I read recently. What Matters More by Liora Blake- I picked this up because I have read and enjoyed all of her previous books. For the most part I found this book boring and lacking emotional connection. Too much emotional stuff happened off page. That is annoying to me. There was a fair amount of sex though if that is something you are Continue Reading
Angela Tuesday Thoughts- May Historical Romance Edition
A Rogue in the Night by Kelly BowenThe Devils of Dover #3May 28, 2019 by Forever KINDLE * BN * GOODREADS If you've read the first two books in this series you will definitely remember Sir Harland Hayward. Brother to Clara and Rose, who is both a Baron and a doctor... and apparently a smuggler as well. His heroine is Katherine Wright. Daughter to a local smuggling family and a damn fine surgeon. Harland and Katherine kind of crash into each other one night when she is patching up her Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings
Defective by Mel TeshcoErotic Sci/FiMarch 18, 2019 by Entangled Scorched KINDLE * GOODREADS Blurb: EARTH, YEAR 2324Melody Simmons desperately needs to fill her bank accounts with credits that could help her family climb out of near poverty. And in the Virgin Hunt Games, that means enticing as many hunters as possible to bed her. The downside? Billions of viewers from all parts of the galaxy would be watching her fall from virtue with avid interest.Alien Damon Banscott despises Continue Reading
Giveaway: This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan
Harper Collins has generously offered to giveaway a copy of This Scot of Mine to two Smexy readers. Comment below with your favorite Marriage of Convenience romance, any genre, must have a HEA, and we will pick two winners at random. Comments from March 12 & 13, 2019 will be considered for the giveaway. US Only. This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan releases today, March 12. This Scot of Mine is a story featuring a marriage of convenience. Lady Clara fakes a pregnancy to escape Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings- Historical Romance Edition
It's Getting Scot in Here by Suzanne EnochWild Wicked Highlanders #1Historical RomanceFebruary 26, 2019 by St. Martin's I haven't read this author in awhile, but this is the first book in a new series and I couldn't resist. The MacTaggert brothers come to London to try and force their mother into changing her mind about forcing them to get married in order to keep her sending money back to Scotland and if that fails... honor the agreement made between their parents and find English Continue Reading
Review: Devil’s Daughter by Lisa Kleypas
Devil's Daughter by Lisa KleypasThe Ravenels #5Historical RomanceFebruary 19, 2019 by Avon New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of a beautiful, young widow who finds passion with the one man she shouldn't...Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it. But Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings
Any Old Diamonds by KJ CharlesLilywhite Boys #1M/M Historical RomanceJanuary 30, 2019 Self Published Favorite Quote: "Talk about making a profit on a job. I stole you, and I'm keeping you." I'm always excited when I open a new KJ Charles romance. I'm especially excited when the author herself describes one of the heroes as "more sociopathic than usual" and says the book is based on a real crime. Lord Alexander Pyne-ffoulkes is the younger son of the Duke of Ilvar. He's currently Continue Reading
Excerpt: Willing Depravity by Ingrid Hahn
Giles Warrington Hale, Marquess of Ashcroft, was born to do two things. Paint and rut. But lately, nobody but Miss Patience Emery has inspired him. The moment he sees her, he knows he must paint her and have her-- anywhere and everywhere. After a lifetime of trying to appear smaller, Patience no longer cares what anyone thinks. She’s resigned herself to a life having a man in her dreams only. But when the mysterious Lord Ashcroft approaches her with a chance to act on her bold, scandalous, Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings (On Tuesday)
The Duke I Once Knew by Olivia DrakeUnlikely Duchesses #1Historical RomanceDecember 31, 2018 First love is always the sweetest. For years, Abigail Linton devoted herself to caring for her aging parents and the children of her siblings. Now, eager to make her own life, she takes a position as governess on the neighboring estate. It shouldn’t matter that her absentee employer is Maxwell Bryce, the Duke of Rothwell, the infamous rake who once broke her youthful heart. Surely he’s forgotten Continue Reading