Happy April!

I hope you're enjoying a wonderful spring.

This past weekend, I visited my college friend in the Netherlands and had an amazing time exploring charming Dutch villages, tulip fields, and museums. The trip was a bit last minute, so I didn’t get to visit the Van Gogh Museum (you need to book in advance!), but that just gives me a reason to go back to Amsterdam.

I'll be sharing some photos from the trip at the end of this email—so scroll down if you're curious! But first, let’s get to the bookish news...

A Wager with the Gentleman is on sale! 🎉

Yes, for the first time ever, A Wager with the Gentleman is on sale for only 99¢!

Whether you read it in KU, snagged an ARC, or were waiting for a price drop—now's your chance to grab it and keep it forever in your e-reader.

Haven’t read it yet? No worries! I'll pop the book description below so you can make an informed decision.

This book has it all:

• A romantic, bookish bluestocking (aren’t we all?)
• A risqué bucket list
• Grumpy hero / sunshine heroine
• Escaping an unwanted betrothal
• A fiercely protective hero
• Steam, steam, steam 🔥

A timid bluestocking… 

Stuck in her little cottage with her three sisters and an aging father her entire life, Miss Beatrice Fowley has never had the chance to experience the real world. After being jilted by a charming viscount, she now has to marry a seventy-year-old lord intent on begetting an heir and a spare.

Having read plenty of books—most of which are romance—Beatrice has a list of things she wants to experience before the church bells toll her doom. Unfortunately, real life is far more dangerous, and Beatrice quickly realizes that she needs a guide and a guard.

Meets her surly knight…

Adam Lewis has lived in the shadow of his brothers his entire life. When he encounters his brother’s former fiancée in distress, once again, honor dictates he step in to lend her aid and clean up after his brother’s mistake. Only the lady will not accept just any kind of assistance! The stubborn and naïve young bluestocking insists she wishes to experience “real life” before she allows him to escort her home to be married.

And the wager is struck.

Coerced into helping Miss Fowley with her scandalous list, Adam plots to outsmart the bluestocking to get her out of his life quicker. But as passion and desire flare between the reluctant partners, they realize one item has been left off the list—what to do with their wild, rebellious hearts when it comes to the end of the road…?

Bonus: Includes extra epilogues for all the books in this series!

Grab it now for just 99¢!

🌿 Pre-order alert: A new romance is blooming!

Have you pre-ordered my upcoming release?

Jacob Caldwell is many things—a botanist, an entomologist, an industrialist, and, if he’s being honest, a complete disaster of a guardian. He barely remembers to eat, let alone raise the three children suddenly thrust into his care. What he needs is a housekeeper who is competent, invisible, and entirely uninteresting.

Honoria Hartwell is none of those things. What she is, however, is a liar. Hiding in plain sight as a housekeeper is the safest way to escape her horrid past. But when the lure of her old life proves too irresistible, she takes one reckless risk and... finds herself in the arms of her employer.

Now, Honoria is trapped between two lives and drowning in a web of lies. When her past finally catches up with her, will the man she has started to love come to her rescue or abandon her to her fate?

Pre-Order!

Have you read my installment from the Rake Review series? Mad Duke March can be read any month of the year!

Whisky. Plenty of it. Keep it coming…

That’s all that Alexander Blackwood, the notorious “Mad Duke” of London, desires. Determined to waste his life away, he manages to offend even his closest friends. But when he carelessly ruins Miss Emily Fitzwilliam while in a drunken stupor, he finds himself chained to the only woman in England who refuses to fear or fawn over him.

It was the best day of her life… Until it wasn’t.

Emily Fitzwilliam loses everything when she is scandalously ruined by the most notorious rake London has ever known. And worst of all, the bounder refuses to marry her! But the wicked Duke who destroyed her life is about to discover that payback is hell.

A hasty marriage neither party wanted is about to become a passionate battle of wills as two warring hearts are destined to become one flesh… whether they like it or not.

Read in KU!

Now, as promised, here are a few snapshots from my Netherlands adventure!

Oh, and... stay tuned for my next email! There will be freebies!

Cheers,

Sadie