Gena Showalter, Beauty Awakened - thanks,
cleobulle, you have never steered me wrong! The latest in GS' 'they are sorta like angels but not really' series, BA is no great masterpiece but it has about a million tropes that I adore all in one place so I was a happy happy camper. Hero is a 'sorta not really an angel' whose parents were emotionally and physically abusive monsters and who is now a tough, ginormous warrior for the good guys. Heroine is a teeny fragile heart patient, who is full of optimism and perseverance. You see now why I loved it? I bet you do. I confess nearly dying of laughter at one point though when heroine thought hero looked like Khal Drogo from HBO's Game of Thrones - picturing the hero as Jason Momoa in Drogo-style get-up didn't hurt my enjoyment of this book one bit.Liz Carlyle, A Woman Scorned - this Victorian (well, not really - it's set too late for a Regency but too early for a Victorian. A Williamian? :P) is so so so good! The hero is an officer in between postings who used to think about becoming a clergyman and the heroine is a widow into whose household he comes as a tutor to her two young sons (long story). There are murders and mysteries but the reason I love the book so much were Cole and Jonet - she is high-strung and brittle but so understandable in it and so strong, and he is such an incredibly good and patient and kind person without being weak. I loved them, separately and together, to bits.