“How to Misbehave” by Ruthie Knox (ebook, review copy, NetGalley)
Review to come

“The Office Slave” by Opal Carew (ebook)
This is a 9,000 word erotic story featuring a fantasy of a woman submitting to several male office workers. The story was fine, but a bit too short and underdeveloped for me.

“Taboo” by Olivia Rupprecht
This is a Loveswept category romance from 1991 which features a hero who is in love with his stepsister – and has been for most of his life. The heroine is three years older than the hero, but is a frigid virgin. This is absolutely a crack read.

“Power Trip” by Miranda Baker (erotic, Samhain, January 2013, $4.50, 144pp)

Series: Double Helix, book 1

Summary:
Calvin Davis is super-charged with electricity. A potential danger to everyone around him, he must release the energy building up inside, either by edgy electrical sex play or filling fuel cells for his power company. Cal lives his life under the radar and off the grid, finding new subs at the Lair and doing his dead-level best not to touch them, or anyone, with bare skin.

“The Seduction of His Wife” by Janet Chapman (contemporary, Pocket, June 2006, $7.99, 368pp)

Series: The Loggers, book 1

Summary:
He set out to seduce her for all the wrong reasons -- but found himself falling in love with her for all the right ones.

Alex Knight is dead -- or so everyone thinks. A widowed logger baron with a risk-taking streak, he took on a South American engineering project and was reported dead after a rebel attack. So when he turns up back in Maine very much alive, his grieving family is shocked. But the biggest shock is Alex's, when he discovers he's now married -- to a woman he's never met.

In November, I started a Best Romance Crack Quest and asked for people’s input on their favorite crack reads. It became clear to me fairly quickly that this quest would not work so well. People’s definition of crack reads varied wildly (which really wasn’t all that surprising) with no good common thread with which I could work. I do still have everyone’s suggestions and will put them all in a post, but I think I’ve decided to change the Best Romance Crack Quest into a regular feature in order to highlight the books I’ve read that seem cracky to me.

So, to me, romance crack is a label for books that make me think WTF? or “I did not just read that." They contain over-the-top characters or situations. Maybe they take overused tropes and push them in weird directions or even combined such tropes (amnesia secret babies, anyone?). Maybe they are funny. Sometimes, they are books that I don’t know why I like, but can’t stop reading.

In support of the release of Sarah MacLean's "One Good Earl Deserves a Lover," the author, Avon, and Romance Novel News are currently hosting a giveaway of a terrarium necklace and bundle of MacLean books.

"One Good Earl Deserves a Lover" is an RNN Recommended Read. Check out out review.

Want to win a handmade terrarium necklace or a bundle of MacLean books? Find out more here.

To help highlight the giveaway and spread the word, RNN is highlighting Sarah MacLean's blog tour. Read on to find out more. The author herself provided the description of each event.

RNN interviews debut author Heather Lire, whose contemporary romance "Second Chance at Forever" releases today from Desert Breeze Publishing. Lire is giving away a copy of this feel-good, small town romance. Read to the end for details.

Check out our review of "Second Chance at Forever."

1. Tell us a bit about your debut book "Second Chance at Forever," a contemporary romance from Desert Breeze Publishing.
Second Chance at Forever is the story of two people (Ryan & Morgan) who meet, fall in love and then are separated through circumstances & misunderstandings. Four years later they are reunited. A lot has happened in that four years, and they are no longer the people they were. There is a lot of anger and hurt feelings, however underneath all of that they are still in love with each other. Now they have to work together to forge a new future for their family. One where everyone is happy.

Monthly Totals:
Books Read: 59
Ebooks Read:49
Paper Books Read: 10
Review Books Read: 20
Re-Reads: 4
DNF: 2

“Second Chance at Forever” by Heather Lire (contemporary, Desert Breeze, February 2013, $4.99, 94pp)

Series: Holiday Vermont, book one

Summary:
When Morgan Sanderson left her grandparent’s anniversary party, she had no idea how much the previous week would impact her life. Four years later she’s living a content life, teaching literature and being the best mom she can be, even if she knows something is missing. That thing being the one person she can’t forgive and yet can’t get over.

In honor of the release of Sarah MacLean’s “One Good Earl Deserves a Lover,” Avon, Sarah MacLean and RNN are giving have a giveaway for readers.

“One Good Earl Deserves a Lover” is a Romance Novel News Recommended Reads. Check out our review.

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover is dedicated “for girls who wear glasses” – perhaps because New York Times bestselling author Sarah Maclean uses this sublime new Regency romance to showcase a bespectacled heroine with a wealth of intellect. Lady Philippa Marbury cares more for books than balls, for science than the Season, for laboratories than love. She has a passion for roses, and loves nothing more than spending hours in her orangery, grafting stems together hoping to create a new hybrid bloom….that is, until she throws herself into a new experiment. Her brilliant mind is afire as she experiments with ways to convince Cross, the clever, controlling partner in London’s most exclusive gaming hell, to teach her some seductive new lessons about the birds and the bees….

“One Good Earl Deserves a Lover” by Sarah MacLean (historical, Avon, February 2013, $7.99, 384pp)

Series: The Rule of Scoundrels, book 2

Summary:
Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . odd