More holiday fun! I hope you’re enjoying these year-end recaps as much as we are! This week, Carrie and Sneezy from the SBTB review team join me to talk holiday wishes, year-end wins, and their favorite books of 2022. We also hear from Claudia, Darlene Marshall, Sandra and Katherine with their picks, too, so hold on to your holiday TBR. … Sleep better with Blissy and use SARAH to get an additional 30% off at … Continue reading 540. Holiday Wishes with Carrie, Sneezy, Sandra, Claudia, Darlene Marshall, and Katherine →
What the Parrot Saw is about a biracial female pirate who enlists the help of a white Englishman in her efforts to help enslaved people escape from Florida to the Bahamas in 1839. In the process she takes him to a beach and teaches him how to fight with knives while a parrot yells at him. You know full well that you are going to buy this and I can tell you that you won’t … Continue reading What the Parrot Saw by Darlene Marshall →
I seriously doubt that any summer experience can possibly be more delightful than sitting on the beach while reading The Pirate’s Secret Baby. It’s not a deep book but is sure is a lot of fun, especially if you read it while sitting on bath towel in the sand. In The Pirate’s Secret Baby, Captain Robert St. Armand wakes up from a lovely evening at his favorite brothel only to be greeted by a dowdy … Continue reading The Pirate’s Secret Baby by Darlene Marshall →
Tonight at 9pm EDT, the window below will go live and we’ll be discussing Sea Change by Darlene Marshall. Pirates! Cross dressing! Women practicing medicine! I seriously cannot wait to chat with you, especially after the discussion of cross dressing, gender, and women in history living publicly as men. Author Darlene Marshall will join us for a Q&A at 10pm EDT. I hope you’ll stop by and join us as well! Talk to you soon! … Continue reading Sizzling Book Club Chat Tonight: Sea Change by Darlene Marshall →
It’s time for the October book club pick – and we’re going to be reading another historical, but a More Different Historical. The Caribbean! Pirates! AND cross dressing! ETA: I’m opening the contest for an additional day since the site was down this weekend – have at it! The October book is Darlene Marshall’s Sea Change. Here’s the summary: American privateer Captain David Fletcher needs a surgeon for his wounded brother. But when he captures … Continue reading Sizzling Book Club Pick: Sea Change by Darlene Marshall →
Lady Julia Delerue is going over the accounts for the Florida branch of Delerue-Sanders shipping after the death of her uncle when she discovers that somebody is stealing cargo right from their ships. In an effort to find the culprits, she decides to disguise herself as a grubby cleaning woman and work at Ganymede’s Cup, a local tavern belonging to Richard and Robin, two former pirate cohorts of her mother’s. (Ganymede’s Cup is also known … Continue reading Smuggler’s Bride by Darlene Marshall →
Christine Sanders is an American heiress who inherits a considerable shipping fortune when her father dies. Her heinous uncle and legal guardian (Romance Novel Commandment Number 19: Thou Shalt Not Allow an Orphan Heroine to Have a Decent Guardian, Unless Thou Art Setting Up The Scene for a Guardian-Ward Romance) rushes her into marriage with Justin Delerue, Earl Smithton. Unfortunately, Christine hears some extremely unkind remarks bandied about by Justin and his best friend on … Continue reading Pirate’s Price by Darlene Marshall →
Time again for one of the most challenging recommendation features we have: READY, SET, GO! Here are the rules: We pick a specific sub-genre, trope, or type of romance, and we have to make ONE recommendation for that type. And no more than two sentences as to why. Just One. And our theme this month? This month: Historical Women in Trousers! Once spotted regularly in old skool romances where the back cover copy used words … Continue reading Ready Set Go: Historical Women in Trousers! →
RECOMMENDED: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean is $2.99 right now. This is MacLean’s first historical romance, and was an instant bestseller. It has a 4+ star average.
It won was nominated for (My mistake! Sorry!) the RITA® in 2011, and our RITA® Reader Challenge reviewer Diana wrote in her A- review, “This is one of those unputdownable books for me. One of those books that made me gasp/sigh audibly. One of those books that gave me those blasted butterflies in my stomach that seemed to turn pterodactyl-like in one of those heart-wrenching scenes.”
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by SB Sarah · Feb 22, 2014 at 5:00 am ·
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Time to thank the lovely folks who decorate the right sidebar with ample temptations in the form of books, books and man titty on books. Yay! And it's also time to thank you for being here. Hi! And thank you! If you've clicked or looked at an ad, you've helped support the site, and you've helped authors, publishers, and other fine folks who want to reach romance readers directly. Thank you! … Continue reading Thanking the February Advertisers →
by SB Sarah · Jan 25, 2014 at 10:00 am ·
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Time to thank the advertisers who decorated the sidebar this month, and to thank you for being here. Here are the folks who wanted to tell you about new books this month:
