Harlequin is having their biggest sale ever.From October 18-25, all Harlequin category romance eBooks will be on-sale for just $1.99 each! There are over 18,000+ titles on sale.
That’s a lot of books and it’s hard to choose. So, we’re asking for recommendations. Tell us what are your favorite Harlequin category romances?
Thanks!
Whatever else has changed in romance, one thing is clear. Books are more explicit than they used to be. Over the years, AAR has given a Burning designation to 361 books. Of those, 15 got Fs, 65 got Ds, 99 got Cs, 151 got Bs, and 31 got As or DIKs.
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My favorite category romance is Kathleen O’Reilly’s Sex, Straight Up. I discovered it when I first started browsing AAR years ago. Blythe’s review intrigued me and I bought it. Since then, I’ve read it ten times. It’s one of my favorite post 9/11 books of all time and the romance is just lovely.
Sarah Mayberry’s books are good. I like Hot Island Nights and She’s Got It Bad. My favorite, however, is Suddenly You which is one of my go to pick me up books.
I’m bias since I write for them, but I recommend checking out Harlequin’s Romance line. The door’s close, but the stories have real emotional punch.
I’m a big fan of Ally Blake, who wrote a bunch for Harlequin Presents but seems to have stopped writing. Funny, short, sweet, packing a punch – what’s not to like? I’m sad she doesn’t write any more.
Books by Carla Kelly, Maisey Yates and Lori Foster.
Colleen Collins wrote some great Love & Laughter stories! I remember loving Right Chapel, Wrong Couple
I just stocked up on more old Presents:
Dark Mirror (Presents Plus) by Daphne Clair
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Mistaken Adversary by Penny Jordan
Her Best Worst Mistake by Sarah Mayberry is a solid A for me & I highly recommend it!
Isn’t that one she self-pubbed?
Yes. It’s 2.99. Totally worth it though.
It’s a two part series – Hot Island Nights is the Harlequin, and then Sarah wrote the story of the jilted ex in Her Best Worst Mistake (and self pubbed it) – so they are easily read as standalones but are linked. . I enjoyed both those stories very much.
I love both of these books. Sarah is such a gifted writer.
I love Her Best Worst Mistake. Martin is one of those sneaky hot heroes.
right Amanda?! I love his character!
Harlequin Historicals has some really good writers – I’d definitely recommend Marguerite Kaye’s Strangers at the Altar (a lovely marriage of convenience story) and Rumours that Ruined a Lady, which is a second chance romance with a very unusual twist to it. In fact, most of Ms. Kaye’s books are well worth reading. Louise Allen is another favourite – I enjoyed The Many Sins of Cris de Feaux recently, but I’ve rarely been disappointed in her books. More recently, new author Virginia Heath has made quite an impression and I enjoyed Her Enemy at the Altar and The Discerning Gentleman’s Guide.
Not an historical (shock, horror!) – I read Jessica Hart’s Mr. Not Quite Perfect for a reading challenge a few years back and loved it. And if Lucy Parker’s Act Like It is up for grabs, then grab it -it’s fab!
I do not understand this sale. Some of these are on sale and others not. It’s clearly not ALL Harlequin categories.
It says 18,000 ebooks are on sale, but they have just under 20,000 listings
I’m beyond sad that some of the older Conard County books by Rachel Lee aren’t on the website because I loved them back when I was in college. I used to read all historical and rom susp but I discovered the Silhouette Intimate Moments line in college because there was a UBS that had tons of IM books from the 1990s. I remember there being a lot of strong reads, so I went a little crazy in the 1990s Intimate Moments section over on Harlequin Treasury. I also stocked up on Jessica Hart titles. She is a consistently strong writer. And if you’re in the mood for a lot of nostalgia and some occasional WTF-ery, I recommend Betty Neels, who is pretty much the queen of sweet medical romance.
I snapped up Nicole Helm’ s All I Am this sale and enjoyed it (grumpy virgin farmer hero!!!) I also bought Andrea Laurence A Beauty Uncovered. I haven’t read it but came highly rec’d and seems to feature a Beauty and the Beast trope.
I love this series! I’ve got them all in paperback and digital.
Sorry, I should clarify – the Nicole Helm one. I haven’t read the other.
I loved it and ended up buying the first one about the naked farmer 🙂
That was my first book by Nicole Helm. It actually came out originally as part of Harlequin’s now defunct digital only line, then it was released as a SuperRomance where several new chapters were added. I read it in it’s original form, then bought the expanded paperback. After that I made sure the series was on my radar, as well as some of her earlier books.
Favorite of mine — Carla Kelly books that are $1.99: Beau Crusoe, Marrying the Royal Marine, Marriage of Mercy, Her Hesitant Heart, Marrying the Captain, The Surgeon’s Lady, The Admiral’s Penniless Bride and anthology Coming Home for Christmas.
Oh, how could I have forgotten Marrying the Royal Marine? That’s one of my favourites!
Nicole Helm has some wonderful recent romances. I love her farmer series for HSR. Molly O’Keefe has some great titles from her backlist on sale! And I’ll second the Carla Kelly and Sarah Mayberry recs. Suddenly You is one of my go-to comfort reads.
I love Suddenly You as well. Such a lovely book.
I didn’t have this one yet! Now I do, thanks!
As others have mentioned, Sarah Mayberry, Nicole Helm and Molly O’Keefe stories are well worth having. I’m also partial to anything by Samantha Hunter and Amy Jo Cousins The Tylers series. And for lovers of Cara McKenna, she’s written for Harlequin under the name Meg Maguire – The Wilinksis series was actually what I read of hers before discovering her books under Cara McKenna (Making Him Sweat, Taking Him Down and Driving Her Wild are the three in that series, though she has other single title harlequins as well).
I see now that some of the titles have been changed for Meg’s books, with updated covers. Making Him Sweat is now All or N0thing; Taking him Down is now Going the Distance (and both are still listed at Amazon; and Driving Him Wild is now Takedown (again, both are still available). So don’t trick yourself into buying the same book twice! The description with the new titles/covers says what the old title was, but not vice versa.
Thanks so much for the rec Maria Rose! I’d forgotten that Cara McKenna writes as Meg Maguire. Just one clicked her Harlequin Blaze, Driving Her Wild. I picked that one to start with because on her Amz author page she says it’s her bestseller…So excited to try her writing under the Blaze line. Score!
Heh. I just bought that too!
Great minds think alike!!!! :)))
Oh, I’m glad you and Dabney picked it up! I actually was just going through the rest of my Meg Maguire titles to see if I’m missing any that are on sale .
Not sure if all of these titles are on sale, but here’s my “Favorite Harlequin Presents” list at Goodreads…https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2424608-penny-watson?shelf=favorite-hps
And here are some of the 5-star HPs I’ve read and loved over the last year…
The Irresistible Sicilian Series by Michelle Smart
The Perfect Cazorla Wife by Michelle Smart
Forgiven But Not Forgotten by Abby Green
The Legend of de Marco by Abby Green
In Christofides Keeping by Abby Green
Antonides Forbidden Wife by Anne McAllister
A Reputation for Revenge by Jennie Lucas
Bride in a Gilded Cage by Abby Green
Talos Claims His Virgin by Michelle Smart
Wedded, Bedded, Betrayed by Michelle Smart
Marchese’s Forgotten Bride by Michelle Reid
Abby Green and Michelle Smart are my 2 go-to authors for HP books. Love both of them!
Penny, I just bought one of YOUR books. Same price as sale HQs. Apples Should Be Red sounds amazing. Happy I happened upon your comment.
Thank you!
I totally have a thing for Carol Marinelli Medical Romance. I’ve read so many, I can’t even pick one over another. Possibly my all time fav HQs are the ones Maya Banks wrote for Desire. I think they have new covers now….
Is there one you’d recommend?
FYI – this sale doesn’t seem to be available to readers in the UK 🙁
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anything by Michelle Reid, Sarah Morgan, Abby Green, Michelle Smart and Jennifer Hayward
and what Penny said
also everything by Dani Collins too
and the latest addition to my autobuy list is Maya Blake
I’ve put this out on the AAR message board, but I’ll include it here. The books I’ve enjoyed that I saw on that humongous list:
The Best of Both Worlds by Elissa Ambrose
Heart on the Line by Judith Arnold
Her Secret Thrill by Donna Kauffman
Becca’s Baby by Tara Taylor Quinn
My favorite Harlequin’s include:
Her Hesitant Heart – Carla Kelly
The Admiral’s Penniless Bride – Carla Kelly
What the Librarian Did- Karina Bliss
The Older Woman – Cheryl Reavis
Suddenly You – Sarah Mayberry
A Promise for Baby – Jennifer Lohmann
A Gift for All Seasons – Karen Templeton
Welcome Home, Cowboy – Karen Templeton
The Tenderfoot Bride – Cheryl St. John
The Family Plan – Susan Gable
Clearly everyone should buy Sarah’s Suddenly You. It’s on so many readers’ lists!
I just bought the new Tiffany Reisz because of all the good recs but it’s not in sale because it’s a new release. Still worth it, though!
For the sale, I’d like to browse for some Sarah Mayberry titles that I either never got around to reading or don’t own anymore. I re-read a few of her books recently and with the exception of one, they were still as good as I remember!
If you like Anne Mather, a lot of her old Harlequin Presents are part of this sale!
For example, here is one of the books:
Take What You Want, a stepbrother romance from before decades before Penelope Ward.
Unfortunately they gave them new covers. 🙁 (Check the link and tell me what you think. Does that look anything like an Anne Mather heroine?!) Also, if you search for Presents, they won’t show up because of the repackaging.
With Child by Janice Kay Johnson was a winner in a our 2010 poll and its on sale. Dead Wrong Janice Kay Johnson is a good mystery. Anything and everything by Farrah Rochon I just purchased her New York football series.