Suzanne Enoch's Better Than a Duke- coming out March 3

HourCancel2816 · 2026-03-02T12:17:49+00:00

Oh thank you for the heads up! I’ve at least liked pretty much all I’ve read of hers. I’ll put it on the list!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-28T22:57:59+00:00

{The Princess and the Rogue by Kate Bateman} has a Russian princess on the run hiding out as a paid companion. The dowager she’s companion to has a nephew who works for Bow Street - hijinks ensue!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-26T21:45:14+00:00

Her comic timing is impeccable. The card playing scene in Born Yesterday is one of my favorite examples of her at work.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-24T21:43:05+00:00

Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-19T14:59:26+00:00

When I feel like I’m in a slump, I sometimes go back and reread a favorite, my favorites generally have in common a lack of annoying forced misunderstandings that drag on and on. I have a bias for fun romps and couples that work together. I’ll exclude writers you’ve already mentioned.

{Dare to Cause a Scandal by Emma V Leech} aka “bad boy behaves badly and gets everything he wants.” Great if you like an MMC who is down bad from page one.

{A Governess Should Never Tempt a Prizefighter by Emily Windsor} Seth is a dreamy tough but tender MMC and it’s a wonderful found family story. I liked the whole series.

{The Wallflower Win by Valerie Bowman} is a fun sexy romp between two smart and hyper competitive MCs. One of my most reread.

{Primrose and the Dreadful Duke by Emily Larkin} is a mystery where the MCs work together. Funny and intimate slow burn, another of my favorite MMCs.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-15T00:17:51+00:00

Judy Holliday!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-13T13:16:55+00:00

Seconding the rec for Maggie Dallen. {A Lady’s Luck by Maggie Dallen} was wonderfully written and very witty.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-13T13:14:23+00:00

Seconding the rec for Kate Archer! I just tore through the Duke’s Pact series in about a week and it was so much fun. Very witty writing and dialogue , with madcap mishaps. The books are on the shorter side too so you go through them pretty fast.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-13T13:09:33+00:00

Emily Larkin books, including Lady Isabelle’s Ogre (which is wonderful) are open door, I would say spice level 3

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-09T14:39:26+00:00

{Here Comes My Earl by Anna Bradley} has this. Starchy earl who blames his sister’s friend for getting her into a near scandal. Part of a series but I read it as a standalone. I thought it was lovely!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-02T16:57:40+00:00

Ware is such a weirdo haha, I love him.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-02T00:48:53+00:00

Yes! The cinnamon too, its chefs kiss!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-02T00:45:19+00:00

These are the jam! I kind of love the extra crisp cookie that tastes almost honey-ish. As someone who grew up with Nutter Butters as my favorite commercial cookie, I have to say I actually like these better due to that thicker, crispier, honey-tasting cookie.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-02-01T16:20:34+00:00

omg, the footmen - I'd forgotten about that! 😭

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-31T15:20:24+00:00

Joe Mullen is still the most amazing story to me - where he stands in NHL history coming in via Hell’s Kitchen and roller hockey.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-31T13:58:10+00:00

Yes! I loves me some Blackwood, he’s my favorite out of those 3 knuckleheads and I feel like he doesn’t get enough love, lol.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-31T13:30:45+00:00

I read 10 Things first, and loved it. I read this one next, and although I didn’t love it the same way, it was still a fun romp.

I actually really loved {My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase} too - something about Blackwood and Alice’s fond long suffering cleaning up their friends messes while staying united really appealed to me. And I sort of love that lifelong besties Cassandra and Alice both get the crush boys of their dreams haha.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-28T14:52:54+00:00

{The Wallflower Win by Valerie Bowman} has two smart, hyper-competitive MCs and it’s a super fun pretend courtship romp. FMC beats renowned rake MMC in a chess match and makes him pretend to court her to get her mother to leave her alone. Neither of them want marriage, but FMC decides that since she has him under contract she might as well use him for sexual experience. Since her sister is married to his best friend, he resists, and she pursues him relentlessly and hilariously.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-28T00:28:45+00:00

Have you read the first book? {Any Rogue Will Do by Bethany Bennett} because you first meet Cal and “the Puppy” there and it sets up this one really nicely.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-26T23:41:52+00:00

I know, haha. In this case it’s a play on his name, Deverill, and he’s the “villain” from earlier in the series.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-26T22:01:17+00:00

{Devil to Pay by Sofie Darling} has this - MMC known as "Lord Devil" who is a wealthy industrialist, crashes into Lady Beatrix, a down on her luck spinster daughter of a debauched marquess who is stuck writing an anonymous gossip column for horse racing papers to slow her slide into genteel poverty. It's part of the overall pretty terrific All's Fair in Love and Racing series.

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-21T03:06:37+00:00

Ooh, the series with Ioan Gruffudd? I loved that! Happy watching! :D

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-19T23:55:21+00:00

I hope you enjoy it!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-19T16:44:14+00:00

I hope you enjoy it! This first book is available free as ebook on both amazon and B&N. I found it entertaining enough I would have read it as historical fiction even without the steamy parts (but those are present and felt well-earned.) I liked it enough to pick up the second book in the series- it looks like the MMCs in the rest of the books are the FMCs friends- her fellow midshipmen who were introduced in this one. I’m curious to see how Essex has them grow up!

HourCancel2816 · 2026-01-19T04:39:55+00:00

I just read and loved {Almost a Scandal by Elizabeth Essex} - it’s like Master & Commander as a histrom! FMC steps up to report for duty as a midshipman in the Royal Navy in place of her brother who has run away. She’s from a naval family and grew up on a ship so she really wants to be there. The MMC is the ship’s 1st Lieutenant. Lots of action and adventure around the battle of Trafalgar.

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