{"id":1549,"date":"2009-12-09T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2009-12-09T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:00:47","slug":"april-and-may-top-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/april-and-may-top-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"April and May Top Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my desperate need to spotlight all of the Readers’ Top Picks<\/strong> before year end, I’m doubling up. Today, up again is Mary Balogh<\/em> <\/span><\/a>and her April Top Pick<\/strong><\/em>, Then Comes Seduction. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"thencomesseduction\"THEN COMES SEDUCTION<\/strong>
\nAuthor: Mary Balogh
\nPublisher: Dell
\nRelease date: March 24, 2009
\nISBN-13: 978-0440244233
\n400 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, had never lost a wager until he met Katherine Huxtable. But when he bets his friends that he can successfully seduce Katherine, after their first meeting, he not only admits defeat but also patiently listens to Katherine as she verbally decimates his character, then sends him on his way. When the two meet again three years later in London, Jasper finds he is still intrigued with the beguiling Katherine, so he proposes another wager: he will make her fall in love with him. Katherine knows the smart thing to do is to send Jasper away once again, but somehow she finds the idea of romance with a dangerous rake irresistible.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n

For the May Top Pick<\/strong>, readers chose Elizabeth Hoyt’s<\/em><\/span><\/a> To Beguile a Beast<\/strong>. Congrats, ladies!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"elizabethhoyt\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>Elizabeth Hoyt is a New York Times bestselling author of historical romance. She also writes deliciously fun contemporary romance under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in central Illinois with three untrained dogs, two angelic but bickering children, and one long-suffering husband. A fun fact about Elizabeth?<\/em> At sixteen Elizabeth was once accidentally locked in the Ashmolean Museum\u2014the oldest museum in Britain\u2014in Oxford England. Apparently, she didn\u2019t hear the bell that warns that the museum is about to close. She denies categorically that the reason she didn\u2019t hear the bell was because at the time she was looking at risqu\u00e9 Greek pottery.<\/p>\n

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\"tobeguileabeast\"TO BEGUILE A BEAST<\/strong>
\nAuthor: Elizabeth Hoyt
\nPublisher: Grand Central\/Forever
\nRelease date: May 1, 2009
\nISBN-13: 978-0446406937
\n368 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

CAN A WOUNDED BEAST . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Reclusive Sir Alistair Munroe has hidden in his castle ever since returning from the Colonies, scarred inside and out. But when a mysterious beauty arrives at his door, the passions he’s kept suppressed for years begin to awaken.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

TRUST A BEAUTY WITH A PAST . . .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Running from past mistakes has taken legendary beauty Helen Fitzwilliam from the luxury of the ton to a crumbling Scottish castle . . . and a job as a housekeeper. Yet Helen is determined to start a new life and she won’t let dust-or a beast of a man-scare her away.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

TO TAME HIS MOST SECRET DESIRES?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Beneath Helen’s beautiful fa\u00e7ade, Alistair finds a courageous and sensual woman. A woman who doesn’t back away from his surliness-or his scars. But just as he begins to believe in true love, Helen’s secret past threatens to tear them apart. Now both Beast and Beauty must fight for the one thing neither believed they could ever find–a happy ever after. <\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Comment and enter to win one of these books!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TheSeason-4\"<\/a>
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