Absolutely delightful fantasy that reads like The Shop Around the Corner…with occasional zombies.
An epistolary love story
with a gruff marshal and a hardworking undertaker, this is a sweet and quirky
tale of two lonely souls who long for companionship but can only open their
hearts in letters to their unknown penpals. Sexy, fun, poignant, I enjoyed it
immensely.
"A uniquely charming mixture of whimsy and the macabre that completely won me over. If you ever wished for an adult romance that felt like Howl's Moving Castle, THIS IS THAT BOOK." —Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient
Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness.
Mercy never has a moment to herself. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right…
This was, hands down, one of the best historical
romances I've read this year. Great characters, engaging mystery, excellent sex
scenes (one of the best depictions of gaining consent that I've ever read), a
heroine who just won't quit, and a hero who is the quiet strength she needs at
her back.
In addition, there are well-drawn secondary characters
and a setting in Vienna at the beginning of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that's
as sparkling and rich as a sachertorte set to a background of waltz
music. I've enjoyed all the Diana Biller books I've read, but now she's an auto-buy author for me.
It's Ball Season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family's hotel, the Hotel Wallner, to its former glory. She's not going to let anything get in her way - not her parents' three-decade-long affair; not seemingly-random attacks by masked assassins; and especially not the broad-shouldered American foreign agent who's saved her life two times already. No matter how luscious his mouth is.
Eli Whittaker also only wants one thing: to find out who is selling American secret codes across Europe, arrest them, and go home to his sensible life in Washington, DC. He has…
I have enjoyed all the The Palace of Rogues series,
but this one was especially good.
A damaged man is freed from prison and given
a mission by a powerful peer--find a missing girl and a missing necklace. His
journey leads him to the Palace of Rogues, a unique boarding house/hotel in
London where we're reacquainted with the residents of that quirky
establishment, he finds the girl (of course) and a difficult yet rewarding
journey to a HEA commences.
I loved the ending so much, and I was anxious to find
out not if the boy gets the girl (of course he does), but whether a certain
potential employee of the Palace would give me the HEA I was really searching
for.
I was also pleased to see there are more PoR books in
the works, offering hours of reading pleasure in the coming months.
In the fifth installment of USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's charming Palace of Rogues series, a rakish spy finds more than he bargained for in his pursuit of an earl's enchanting runaway fiancee.
The mission: Find the Earl of Brundage's runaway fiancee in exchange for a fortune. Child's play for legendary British former spymaster, Christian Hawkes. The catch? Hawkes knows in his bones that Brundage is the traitor to England who landed him in a brutal French prison. Hawkes is destitute, the earl is desperate, and a bargain is…
David Fletcher needs a surgeon, stat! But when he captures a British merchantman in the Caribbean what he gets is Charley Alcott, an apprentice physician barely old enough to shave. Needs must, and Captain Fletcher takes the prisoner back aboard his ship with orders to do his best, or he'll be walking the plank.
Charley Alcott's medical skills are being put to the test in a life-or-death situation, Charley's life as well as the patient's. Even if she can save the pirate's brother there will still be hell to pay--and maybe a plank to walk--when Captain Fletcher learns Charley is really Charlotte Alcott.
A war is raging on the world's oceans, and two enemies will fight their own battles and their attraction to each other as they undergo a sea change neither of them is expecting, but cannot deny.
