All tagged Historical Romance
I’m always ready to read a historical romance with a heroine who has a strong sense of self and a healthy disregard for gender norms, but make her a maverick rancher and put her in the hands of a storyteller like Beverly Jenkins, and you’ve got a book I’ll come back to again & again.
I went in expecting Regency Three Men and a Baby meets First Wives Club and excited to read a historical about a West Indian heiress, but was surprised to find Gothic notes joining the anticipated lilting banter and levity. Presumptive ghosts, the creeping villainy of a greedy uncle, and a convoluted mystery are juxtaposed with the silliness of well-meaning but clueless caretaking from a military man turned guardian & the poignancy of a desperate mother's battle to reclaim her son.
Peckham’s books consistently give me all the atmospheric, tropetastic goodness I've loved since pulling my first historical romance off my grandmother's bookshelf, but with a willingness to interrogate systemic power imbalances and portray strong, sex-positive, transgressive women in a way that makes her books feel relevant and powerful.
The Duke I Tempted is an erotic historical romance, marriage of convenience story between a sexually submissive duke and an iron-willed alpha heroine.
