Your Romance Book Bargains for October 2, 2025

Sometimes even a duke needs help to find love…and Lady Agatha will stop at nothing to find her nephew the perfect wife! Outmaneuvered by his aunt, Alistair Brookings, Duke of Clarence, must play along with her “duchess contest” despite being more than a little skeptical. Sensible, practical Elinor Hughes thinks the contest is ridiculous. But when her younger sister is chosen as a contestant, Elinor jumps at the chance to accompany her. While Sylvia Hughes just wants to meet a duke, Elinor must escape their controlling father long enough to find respectable work and a life of her own. There’s only one problem: Elinor isn’t even a contestant, but she keeps winning the challenges! Can Alistair and Elinor find their happily ever after despite everything their histories, their families, and the other contestants will throw at them? Dive into this witty sweet romance to find out!

Category: Historical Romance

A disabled woman looking for a new start. A grumpy doctor with secrets. A marriage of convenience may be the chance they both need.

Alice Cordell is stronger than the leg she stands on. She is tired of people feeling sorry for her because of her disability. When she sees an advertisement to be a nurse and housekeeper for a Kansas doctor, she knows this is a chance to escape her current circumstances and prove she is as capable as any woman with two perfect legs. What she doesn’t expect is to find her employer dead.

Niall Mackenzie returns too late to Fox Creek. His father wrote, telling him he had to see him face to face. He had news to tell him, a secret he had discovered. By the time Niall arrives, his father has dead.

He determines to stay long enough to take care of his deceased father’s affairs. He doesn’t expect the beautiful stranger who shows up, claiming to be his caretaker and nurse. Not willing to throw her onto the streets, he allows her to stay as the housekeeper.

What follows comes as a surprise to him. Alice sees behind his gruff exterior and reminds him of why he became a doctor.
But the locals do not welcome Niall or trust him to be the town doctor.

Can a forced marriage bring the doctor out of retirement without risking his heart? Will Alice help the doctor heal and also lift the cloud of mistrust that hovers over him?

How will she find a place in this town cloaked in secrets?

“interesting characters and plot twists that are intriguing”

Category: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Romance