TOUR w/EXCERPT - Some Like It Scandalous (The Gilded Age Girls Club, #4) by Maya Rodale

Some Like It Scandalous

The Gilded Age Girls Club, #4

by Maya Rodale

Publication Date:  June 18th 2019 

Publisher: Avon Books

Genre: Historical Romance

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . SOME LIKE IT SCANDALOUS (The Gilded Age Girls Club, #4) . . . Maya Rodale give some of the more fun historical romance that I have read. I enjoy very much picking up one of her romances and seeing where it takes me. I love that so makes the titles feel like something familiar.

With Some Like it Scandalous we get us a pair of enemies that turn to lovers and then so much more.  The game of pretend or convenience makes its claim know and staked on the hearts of two very unsuspecting individuals. 

Daisy and Theodore Prescott the Third makes to most of their fake engagement. The take full advantage of all the offerings of being respectable in public and behind closed doors things were certainly different. 

I can only say that again I had fun with Maya's latest offering. I do very much look forward to more of the friends, family and other characters meet while traveling this journey with Theo and Daisy. 



BLURB They are sworn enemies…

Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan’s Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swann. Of all the girls in Gilded Age Manhattan, it had to be her.

Pretending to be lovers...

Daisy Swann has plans and they do not involve a loveless marriage with anyone. But when a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her standing in society, suddenly a fake engagement with Theo is just the thing to make all her dreams come true.

And now it’s time to kiss and make up…

Daisy Swann aspires to sell cosmetics that she has created, but this brainy scientist needs a smooth talking charmer’s flair for words and eye for beauty to make it a success. Before long, Daisy and Theo are trading kisses. And secrets. And discovering that despite appearances, they might be the perfect couple after all.

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EXCERPT 

“But you definitely must try harder to act like you’re seducing me,” she said. “I’m not feeling the slightest bit breathless or weak in the knees or whatever it is girls feel when they’re being swept off their feet.”

“My apologies,” he murmured. Then he dropped the reins and turned to her, intent on giving her a taste of her own medicine. “Let’s fix that immediately.”

“You don’t have to do it right now—”

He gave her his wolfish smile. Then he leaned in close to whisper in her ear, but words failed him for a second. She smelled good. It was that heady fragrance. And her skin was smooth and dewy and just lovely. Hers was a complexion that begged to be caressed. That was just the skin politely exposed; he idly wondered about the rest of her . . .

Finally, he remembered what he meant to say. Something romantic and seductive. Two could play at this game of irritating each other profoundly.

“What do you say we return to that gazebo and see if it’s empty so we can be alone?”

“To do what, exactly?”

“Get to know each other better. Intimately.”

Had they been alone he might have kissed her earlobe. Desire flared when the thought occurred to him.

Thank God they were not alone.

Author Info
MAYA RODALE began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence. She is now the bestselling and award winning author smart and sassy romances. She lives in New York City with her darling dog and a rogue of her own.

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TOUR w/EXCERPT - Duchess By Design (The Gilded Age Girls Club, #1) by Maya Rodale

Duchess By Design

The Gilded Age Girls Club

by Maya Rodale

Publication Date: October 23rd 2018

Publisher: Avon Books

Genre: Adult, Historical Romance

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . DUCHESS BY DESIGN (The Gilded Age Girls Club, # ) . . . Fun. Light. Typical Maya Rodale. This was just what was needed after a long week of non stop mishaps. The first book in this series was a yes, yes, for me. I very much enjoyed watching as Brandon and Adeline fought the attraction that was every present between them. The hilarious events that occur during their not-courtship was just what I have come to appreciate about Rodale's writing. She brings to life the fun that could have been had during the romance era of England and America. This time she serves it up on the Gilded Age New York City. 

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In Gilded Age Manhattan, anything can happen…

Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family’s estate, Brandon Fiennes, the duke of Kingston, is a rogue determined to do the right thing. But his search for an heiress goes deliciously awry when an enchanting seamstress tumbles into his arms instead.

…And true love is always in fashion

Miss Adeline Black aspires to be a fashionable dressmaker—not a duchess—and not even an impossibly seductive duke will distract her. But Kingston makes an offer she can’t refuse: join him at society events to display her gowns and advise him on which heiresses are duchess material. 

It’s the perfect plan–as long as they resist temptation, avoid a scandal and above all do not lose their hearts.

EXCERPT

Without thinking he grabbed her around the waist and tugged her close against him, out of the way of those dangerous riders.

She clasped the lapels of his jacket. Her lips were just inches from his.

He didn’t move an inch. Not at all. She clung to him and he didn’t exactly let go.

He stood tall above her, acutely aware that her breasts occasionally brushed against his chest, achingly aware just an inch would close the distance between his arousal and her skirts. He held her, his hand hot and possessive on her waist.

Kingston flirted with the possibility of kissing her.

He came so close he could taste it.

A slow, sweet kiss was just there between them, ripe for the plucking. Something stopped him, though. It was a deep, instinctive sense that once his lips touched hers it would be impossible to stop. When he kissed this woman, he was going to kiss her so thoroughly and completely that they would require all night and the morning, too.

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Author Info

MAYA RODALE began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence. She is now the bestselling and award winning author smart and sassy romances. She lives in New York City with her darling dog and a rogue of her own.

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TOUR w/EXCERPT - It’s Hard Out Here For A Duke Keeping Up With The Cavendishes, #4 by Maya Rodale

It’s Hard Out Here For A Duke
Keeping Up With The Cavendishes, #4

by Maya Rodale

Publication Date: November 28^th 2017

Publisher: Avon Books

Genre: Adult, Historical Romance

The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A DUKE (Keeping Up with the Cavendishes, #4) . . . This series has been fun from beginning to the end.

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Some Mistakes…

When American-born James Cavendish arrives in London tomorrow, he’ll become the Duke of Durham. Some might be ecstatic at the opportunity. Not James. He’s a simple man, fond of simple pleasures. And right now, nothing could be more pleasurable than spending his last night of freedom with a beautiful stranger.

Are Far Too Good…

One wild night, Meredith Green, companion to the dowager Duchess of Durham, said yes to a man she thought she’d never see again. Suddenly, they’re living under the same roof, where Meredith is expected to teach James how to be a duke-while trying not to surrender to temptation a second time.

To Be Forgotten.

For a duke and a commoner, marriage would be pure scandal. Yet nothing has ever felt as right as having Meredith in his arms…and in his bed. Soon he must choose-between a duty he never desired, and a woman he longs for, body and soul…

     

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EXCERPT

Though Miss Meredith Green lacked birth, or wealth, or many other qualifications one would assume of a gently bred lady, she had been raised to be one. She could curtsy with the best of them, expertly arrange both flowers and seating arrangements for dinner parties, and could recite pages from Debrett’s Book of the Peerage. These were just a few of her accomplishments.

As such, she should not be here, in the public room of the Queen’s Head Tavern and Coaching Inn. Especially not alone and especially not at night, where any old ruffian might think he could take a liberty with her, to put it nicely.

Which is why she should not have allowed the barmaid to add a generous splash of whiskey to her tea.

Which is probably why she was encouraging the ocular advances of a handsome man with whom she was not acquainted.

Meredith had noticed him the moment he walked in, tall and lanky but strong, with unfashionably long brown hair that fell rakishly in his eyes. What color were they, she wondered? She didn’t need to know. There was nothing she could do with this information. There was absolutely no point to her knowing.

She badly wanted to know.

So she dared one glance, then another.

Do not look. Do not look. Do not look.

Her better judgment was roundly ignored. Before she knew it they were somehow flirting from opposite sides of the room without even saying a word.

It was the sort of thing that made a girl’s heart beat giddily and her toes start to tap under her skirts. Thanks to years of training, she kept her posture poised and her movements elegant, but under her skirts, her toes were tapping.

This, this was what she need tonight: a distraction. The past few months had been trying, and the next few promised to be challenging as well, albeit in a different way. She had only tonight to live for herself.

She darted another look in his direction.

He was watching her. This truth elicited a slight smile from her lips. But she shouldn’t take pleasure in this.

She ducked her head.

But her heart beat quickly and she wondered: Would he come over?

He shouldn’t. He really should not. She absolutely should not encourage him. But life was full of should-nots, and tonight Meredith wanted to say yes.

It had been a bit of a day—on top of quite a week, and one hell of a month. Or two or three. Her visit to her ailing mother in Hampshire revealed a dispiriting truth: the life choices of Miss Meredith Green were few, and less than thrilling. Nevertheless, she had made her choice to return to London and live the restrained and dignified life of a lady’s companion.

Emphasis on restrained. When one relied on one’s spotless reputation for her very existence, one comported herself accordingly. One did not give or receive heated glances across crowded rooms.

But Meredith embarked on a little whiskey-infused rationalization: until she stepped foot in London, she could afford to live a little loosely. For one night, she might indulge in the sort of wicked behavior—and passion—that she’d have to refuse forevermore.

That was just the splash of whiskey talking, she told herself. It was just the strain of recent events wreaking havoc with her common sense. It was her mother’s bad influence. She’d had the great luck to be raised to be A Lady. She oughtn’t forget that.

Do not look. Do not look. Do not look.

She looked. Oh, she looked.

His gaze sparkled. Like he knew what inner turmoil and rationalization his glances inspired. This time, she didn’t look away.

Oh, goodness, he was coming over. Her heart beat faster and faster as his long strides brought him closer and closer until he was standing beside her, leaning casually against the bar.

Gentlemen did not lean.

“What is a beautiful woman like you doing alone in a place like this?”

 

 

Author Info

MAYA RODALE began reading romance novels in college at her mother’s insistence. She is now the bestselling and award winning author smart and sassy romances. She lives in New York City with her darling dog and a rogue of her own.

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