Historical Romance Saturday with Maureen Driscoll

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We highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like or a book we would like to get our hands on. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.

This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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Maureen Driscoll

I really enjoy the books by Driscoll. She has written the Kellington series. I've read the first book in that series and I loved it. She has a really lovely writing style, cozy almost. But her characters doesn't always have it easy and they face many challenges on their way to happiness. You can read more about Driscoll on goodreads

The Kellington series:

1. Never a mistress, no longer a maid
2. Never miss a chance
3. Never wager against love
4. Never run from love
5. Never deny your heart

Caught behind enemy lines at the Battle of Waterloo, nurse Jane Wetherby is forced to seek shelter with British operative Lord Edward Kellington. After a night of passion, the two are separated. With nothing but the alias Jane used to protect her family, Lord Edward is unable to find the woman he cannot forget.
Seven years later, Jane courts scandal by serving as the unofficial surgeon in the village of Marston Vale. When Edward arrives to formalize his betrothal to a viscount's daughter in accordance with his late father's wishes, Jane has no choice but to watch the match proceed. When a threat from the past emerges, Jane must join forces with Edward to safeguard her loved ones. But at what risk to her heart?

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Historical Romance Saturday with Isabel Cooper

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We highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like or a book we would like to get our hands on. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.

This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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• Highlight an author and a book that you enjoy by that author. 
• Tell us what you like about the author you have chosen and why the book is worth reading. 
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• If you do not have blog leave a comment with a recommendation of an author and a book.

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No proper Lady by Isabel Cooper

This week I want to share with you guys an author and a book that are new to me, Isabel Cooper. I have yet to read this but it is in my to be read pile and I am really exited about this book I think it sounds awesome! So I guess we will see if I'm right or not. But I am sure it will be good! You can read more about Isabel Cooper on goodreads 

All books in the Englefield series:

No proper Lady #1

Lessons after dark #2

Curious affairs at midnight #3

When a half-naked woman suddenly appears on his country estate, Simon Grenville doesn't have time to be shocked. Demonic beasts are hot on his heels until the beautiful stranger unsheathes several knives strapped to her skin-tight trousers and kills them. As he stares at her fierce, heart-stopping face, Simon knows he's in a hell of a lot of trouble...

Joan is from a time where demons run rampant and humanity is fighting for its existence. To prevent this terrible future, she is sent back to Victorian England to kill the magician responsible for unleashing the dark forces. But Joan is a soldier more used to sparring than dancing. To get close to her target, she'll need Simon to teach her how to fit into polite society. Joan doesn't mind practicing proper flirtation on Simon, but she can't allow herself to be distracted by his gentle hands or devilish smile--the very future depends on it.

Historical Romance Saturday with Jude Deveraux

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In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.
This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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This week I wanted to share with you an author who I had forgotten about and I can't for the life of me understand why because she is completely awesome at historical romance! I love her books. They are funny,  romantic and just plain hilarious! You just have to love her work. This book, the taming, is one of my favorites by her and it is the first in a series.

What is another name for sizzling romance? Jude Deveraux! With The Taming, Deveraux proves once again that she is at the top of the romance field, sweeping through the world of 15th-century England with two of the most unlikely people ever to fall in love! The Taming is the first in Deveraux' glorious, heart-stirring Falcon Saga.

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Historical Romance Saturday with Cynthia Wright

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In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.

This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or link up with your own post using inlinkz at end of the post. But if you do don´t forget to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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This time I will highlight an author that is new to me. I came to the conclusion it is almost impossible to have a new book every week that I´ve read! So This week I will highlight a book I´ve not read but one that I really looking forward to read.

Wild Blossom by Cynthia Wright

Impetuous and outrageous, Shelby Matthews had come up with the perfect plan to make money for the family cattle ranch. Disguised as a cowboy, she lured Geoffrey Weston, a stranger, into a poker game, only to lose the Sunshine Ranch to the deceptive British artistocrat. It looks like Shelby has met her match--even at roundup time, and their love nurtured by smoldering passions, grows like the sweetest of desert blossoms. But Geoffrey is honor-bound to return to England and an arranged marriage. The last person he expects to see in London is Miss Shelby Matthews. And this time, neither Shelby nor Geoffrey can deny a love that is their destiny..

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Historical Romance Saturday with Susan Wiggs

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In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.

This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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I recently found out that Susan Wiggs also writes historical fiction and not only contemporary.
I love that because I love her contemporary romance´s. So I´m thinking that she should do well with historical romance as well. I hope so I have not read the one I bought yet but I wanted to share it with you anyway. Wiggs has a really warm way of telling stories. They are mostly very cozy so I hope this one is  as well. You can read more about Susan Wiggs at goodreads and on susanwiggs.com

Lord of the night by Susan Wiggs

Sandro Cavalli, Lord of the Night, is legendary for bringing criminals to justice. But in the city's shadowy alleyways, a new, deadly plot is afoot—a sinister threat that even Sandro needs help to uncover. 

He enlists the aid of an alluring, sensuous beauty, Laura Bandello. But Laura's innocent loveliness may hide a dark secret, and Sandro vows to keep his distance. Yet the deeper he delves into the underworld, the harder he falls for Laura. Pursued by unspeakable danger, Sandro risks his honor, his reputation, and even his heart—all for the love of a mysterious beauty he can't quite trust.

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Historical Romance Saturday with Diana Gabaldon

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In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.
This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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This week will be a little different from other weeks, because I haven´t actually read anything by this author BUT it was highly recommended to me by my little sister who has. Gabaldon has written a series about a woman who travels back in time to the 1700´s. She find love and is torn between to men and is part of many great adventures. Doesn´t this sound great? A little time traveling, romance in a historical environment, and adventures in a book with over 700 pages and that is not all! This is the first in a series of 8 books! Read more about Diana Gabaldon on goodreads and on dianagabaldon.com

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives 

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All books in the series:
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber
Voyager
Drums of Autumn
The fiery cross
A breath of snow and ashes
An echo in the bone
Written in my own heart´s blood
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Historical Romance Saturday: Debbie Taylor

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In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.
This feature is a weekly feature and will be posted every Saturday. If you want to join you are more than welcome to either you just leave a comment with a book you highly recommend or if you want to join with your own post. But if you do don´t forget to leave a comment with your url and to link back to us in your post so others can join in on the fun. You are welcome to use our button or use your own.  

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This week I am featuring an author who I encountered a long time ago. I was just walking by my book case when her book catches my eye and I thought to my self. Well why not, I really enjoyed this book so it will be perfect for this feature. I was however filled with both horror and enjoyment when I read this one. You will know why when you read it. But that is sort of why I like this author, they way you just cat decide if you want to throw away the book or keep on reading. One minute you feel sorry for the heroine and in the next you hate her or at least the way she acts

The Fourth Queen is the story of one woman’s struggle for power and love in the court of the eighteenth-century Emperor of Morocco. Poetically intense and sensual, it marks the debut of a gifted new author.

Beautiful Helen Gloag is determined to escape the cycle of poverty and early death that has destroyed so many women in her native Scotland. Barely out of her teens, she flees her hometown and sets sail for the Colonies on a ship bound for Boston. But the ship falls prey to a band of corsairs—pirates from the Barbary coast of Africa. Helen is taken captive and sent to a procuress in Morocco, where women are sold into the slave markets of the nobility. In the procuress’s house, she is discovered by the witty, soft-hearted dwarf Microphilus, who oversees the Harem of the Emperor himself. Knowing her red hair and milky skin will enthrall his master, he takes her to Marrakech, and the imperial palace.

The Harem of the Emperor is a mysterious, voluptuous, and forbidding place, a hive of dangerous political tensions and unlikely friendships. Microphilus, himself a Scot captured by pirates as a young man, has found his fortune in the Emperor’s Harem, where he serves the Queens, including the charismatic, amazonian African empress Batoom, who is his lover. With Microphilus’s help, Helen learns to negotiate the politics of the Harem and compete for the Emperor’s favor. 

Historical Romance Saturday: Brenda Novak

In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read.

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This week I wanted to share another author that is quite new to me, Brenda Novak. She is not only a historical romance writer and also writes contemporary romance. The book I read by her is a historic suspense romance. She has a great writing style. She has a way to really catch your interest and keep it. She is also very good at describing the feelings between the characters and the electric atmosphere that surrounds her main characters. This is also a author who writes from two perspectives. Both from her female main character and her male main character and that is a style I really enjoy. Like most historical romances I have read she writes in third person.

Find out more about Brenda Novak on goodreads and her blog Brendanovak.com

The book I want to share with you is the first in a series called High seas adventures

 Of noble birth by Brenda Novak

To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England...though not as a captive aboard a pirate's ship.

Pirate Captain Nathaniel Kent's strategy for exacting revenge on his cold-hearted father involved taking a valuable hostage...not a seamstress he mistakenly thinks is his half sister.

Yet fate has designs of its own, landing them both on board the Royal Vengeance. At sea, Nathaniel intercepts and plunders his father's ships, all the while tormented by his illicit hunger for the tempting prisoner he thinks is his blood relation. And although Alexandra wants no part in this terrifying voyage, to reveal her true identity to the handsome, blue-eyed Nathaniel would invite danger. Not only would she become worthless cargo, but the revelation would surely unleash what she and Nathaniel have been fiercely battling - a rising undercurrent of impossible desire that could sweep them away for good.

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All books in the 'High seas adventure' series:

Of noble birth #1

The bastard #2

Historical Romance Saturday: Vicky Dreiling

This our very first HRS on rather barefoot. In this feature we will highlight an Author and a book in the historical romance genre that we or one of us really like. But it is mostly about the book. It sort of like a recommendation of a really great read. And do not hesitate to leave a recommendation if you want to in our comment section or your url if you have made your own HRS.

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This week I chose the Author Vicky Dreiling for this feature. You can find out more about her on goodreads or on her blog Vicky Dreiling

It was not long ago that I was introduced to this Author and I think it was a review on some blog (I can´t remember which one) that caught my eye. I thought the book sounded interesting and it really was. I really like Dreilings writing style. She writes with a lot of humour and her stories are quite lovely and not overly detailed on the sex scenes. Sometimes it can be to much but it is not in the two books I´ve read by her. I also like that we get to know both characters in the books and we get to read the guy´s point of view-

So on to the book I wanted to show you. It is the first book in the 'How to' series.......

How to Marry a Duke by Vicky Dreiling

Tristan, the Duke of Shelbourne is a man with a mission: find a wife he can tolerate as long as they both shall live. Love is not necessary--nor desired. But how to choose among a dizzying array of wealthy-yet-witless candidates? Hire London's infamously prim and proper matchmaker. Then pretend she's not the most captivating woman he's ever met...

Helping a devilish Duke create a contest to pick his perfect mate is the kind of challenge Tessa Mansfield relishes. Her methods may be scandalous, but she's determined to find the notorious bachelor more than a wife--she'll bring him true love. Yet when Tessa watches the women vie for the Duke's affections, she longs to win his heart herself. And after a stolen kiss confirms Tristan's desire, Tessa knows she has broken a matchmaker's number one rule: never fall in love with the groom.

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All books in the how to series:

How to marry a duke #1

How to seduce a scoundrel #2

how to ravish a rake #3