The Beast of Beswick (Everleigh Sisters #1) by Amalie Howard

** spoiler alert ** I wanted to like this more than I actually did. 50% into the book and I was ready to be done. Two Stars

THE RAKESS by Scarlett Peckham

THE RAKESS

Society of Sirens

On Sale: 4/28/2020

Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS—three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve…

She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights…

Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning.

He’s not looking for a summer lover…

Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his passions buried with the losses of his past.

But one night changes everything...

What began as a fling soon forces them to confront painful secrets—and yearnings they thought they’d never have again. But when Seraphina discovers Adam’s future depends on the man she’s about to destroy, she must decide what to protect… her desire for justice, or her heart.

Scarlett Peckham writes steamy historical romances celebrating alpha heroines. Her USA Today bestselling debut novel, The Duke I Tempted, was named a Best Romance Novel of 2018 by BookPage and the Washington Post. Scarlett lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys trying to think of new ways to say “wicked", collecting vintage romance clench covers, and dressing her cat up in bowties.

 

"THE RAKESS is the kind of story that leaves you buzzing, excitedly advertising it to your fellow romance readers at the gym/coffee shop/bookstore. Scarlett Peckham has an elegant and lyrical writing voice and a tremendous gift for emotional complexity, leavened by a wonderfully sophisticated, wry sense of humor... a lush, clever, erotic, truly adult love story, a romance between two brilliant, scarred souls who risk everything for each other."

   — Meredith Duran, USA Today Bestselling Author

 

“I devoured THE RAKESS by Scarlett Peckham, with its unique role reversals, passionate couple, and rule breaking. The strong, brooding heroine rejects Society’s restrictions on a woman and lives life boldly on her terms. The widowed upstanding hero fights the pull of desire in order to protect his business and children. But love can seldom be denied.”

   — Lorraine Heath, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

 

"Everything I want in a historical romance: smart, sexy and feminist."

   — Maya Rodale, USA Today bestselling author on The Rakess

 

"The Rakess is a triumph, delicately written and unflinching in scope.  The writing thrums with desire and conviction, and Seraphina and Adam will leave you aching for more of Peckham's passionate, progressive romances!"

   — Sierra Simone, USA Today Bestselling Author

 

"A new and soon to be iconic voice in the world of historical romance, Peckham distinguishes herself as a master of her craft."

   — Liz Carlyle, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author on THE RAKESS

 

"Passionate, powerful, and flat-out romantic as hell.”

   — Eva Leigh, author of My Fake Rake on The Rakess

  

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

cute story, kinda hard to get into.
The h/h are a little blah but Dare is a fun writer and her writing is funny.
Her wit kept me reading.
Three stars