FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2014

[KyBunnies]

Free Pre-Order The Desperate Love of a Lord by Jane Lark (Novella)

Publisher: HarperImpulse

Fiercely independent, Lady Violet Rimes, the merry widow, has played the ton, dangling men from leashes like a pack of adoring hounds, always the one in control. Never has a man toyed with her.

An idle, attractive, rake, Lord Geoffrey Sparks has had little to do other than enjoy life. He has let Violet play her games for months without complaint: he likes her company - and admittedly her bed.

But in recent months things have changed between them. He likes her for who she is and not simply the notorious widow. He thought his feelings were returned, but now she has suddenly vanished without a word...

Heartbreaker or heartbroken?


A couple of months
ago she'd complained about his friend being a heartbreaker, but now Violet is
breaking his heart...

[KyBunnies]

Free The Marlows by Rosalind Laker

Publisher: Endeavour Press

The year is 1847.

After the tragic death of her parents Tansy Marlow is surprised to discover her father has left her half shares in young colt and a large house, suggesting a life far superior to the poverty she and her siblings have grown accustomed to.

Tansy and her brother and sister Roger and Nina, and her foster sister Judith, start their new life at Rushmere only to discover a family secret that forces them to lie to their entire community

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Tansy finds herself indebted to Dominic Reade, a man she hates and holds personally responsible for her father’s death.

He is also the co-owner of Young Oberon, the race horse her father had set his hopes and dreams on.

Tansy is determined to do anything it takes to free her family from debt and the troubling Dominic Reade.

But her actions bring her into conflict with her siblings. Her brother is desperate to work at Dominic’s stables to achieve his dream of becoming a jockey while her beautiful and calculating sister Nina has set her heart on marrying the rich and aristocratic Edward Taylor.

Tansey tries to hold her family together but more tragedy is on the horizon for the Marlows.

And Dominic Reade will not leave her alone.

Can she rebuild her family’s fortunes?

Or will The Marlows lose their fortune once more?

[KyBunnies]

Free Endless Ecstasy by Kathryn Hockett

Publisher: Kensington

Jessica Watson knew that she was lucky. There weren’t too many young women that could count Butch Cassidy and the members of the “Wild Bunch” as friends. Why, she’d been raised among the outlaws. They were family! Someday Jessie wanted to be just like them. That is until she looked up into the bluest pair of eyes she’d ever seen when a tall handsome cowboy came to rescue her in a street brawl.

Corbin MacQuarie had come to Utah to settle down and become a successful rancher. He had it all planned. He’d take some of the money he’d set aside to bring one of the long-haired bulls from Scotland to his ranch. He’d start a special breed of cattle that could brave the cold winters. That he would be in the wrong place at the wrong time and end up being robbed and wounded by Butch Cassidy and his gang was not part of his plan.

Seeing Corbin fall, Jessie knew she had to save his life. She hadn’t meant to fall in love with him, nor lie to him about who she was. But if he ever found out that she was an outlaw she would lose more than just his love—she would find herself locked up in jail by a man determined to avenge the wrong done to him and rid the West of outlaws forever….

[KyBunnies]

Free The Price of Beauty by Helen McCabe

Publisher: Endeavour Press

19th Century England.

Young heiress, Lydia Annesley, returns from London to claim her inheritance to a salt fortune in Upwych.

However, the masters of sinister Raven's Mill, the handsome, brooding, Caleb Vyne and his dashing half-brother, Charlie Sheridan, appear to have other ideas.

Lydia is thrown directly into the middle of rivalries, secrets, and sabotage surrounding their family and that of their competition at Raven’s Mill.

Stubborn and determined, Lydia won’t rest until she gets to the bottom of the mystery of their families’ history.

But she will soon discover that some secrets are better left uncovered…

Lydia soon finds out to her cost what price she has to pay for her beauty, her fortune and her business…

‘The Price of Beauty’ was previously published as ‘Raven’s Mill’.

[KyBunnies]

Free The Engagement Party by Kimberley Freeman

Publisher: Hachette

It's 1925 and change is everywhere, even in rural Australia - but is Flora ready? Includes bonus material from Kimberley Freeman's captivating new Jazz age novel, EVERGREEN FALLS.

Flora Honeychurch-Black awakens on the day of her engagement party excited yet somehow unsettled. Throughout the day, despite the well-meaning attention of her friend Liberty and the distraction of the household's many preparations for the night's celebration, Flora's unease grows. Her much-loved, erratic brother Sam unwittingly adds to the tension, behaving oddly and drawing mirth from her suave fiance Tony and derision from some of his sophisticated coterie of friends.

As the storm clouds gather outside and the engagement party begins, Flora realises that something is amiss. Where is Sam? What secret is he hiding? The answers may be more than Flora - and her new relationships and loyalties - can bear.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Free The Engagement Party by Kimberley Freeman

Publisher: Hachette

It's 1925 and change is everywhere, even in rural Australia - but is Flora ready? Includes bonus material from Kimberley Freeman's captivating new Jazz age novel, EVERGREEN FALLS.

Flora Honeychurch-Black awakens on the day of her engagement party excited yet somehow unsettled. Throughout the day, despite the well-meaning attention of her friend Liberty and the distraction of the household's many preparations for the night's celebration, Flora's unease grows. Her much-loved, erratic brother Sam unwittingly adds to the tension, behaving oddly and drawing mirth from her suave fiance Tony and derision from some of his sophisticated coterie of friends.

As the storm clouds gather outside and the engagement party begins, Flora realises that something is amiss. Where is Sam? What secret is he hiding? The answers may be more than Flora - and her new relationships and loyalties - can bear.

Also free at BN.com.

[Froide]

Cross-posted in the People & Cultures thread:

Beneath a Navajo Moon
by Lisa Carter

Free Fridays pick at BN.com

Overview:
What happens when danger and love collide under a Navajo moon?The search for a woman who disappeared in 1906 has lead cultural anthropologist Erin Dawson to Cedar Canyon, where the iconic terrain of red rock walls and mesas keep Navajo traditions—and maybe criminal evidence—well hidden. When Erin’s search leads her to cross paths with tribal policeman Adam Silverhorn, it’s hardly love at first sight. But everywhere she turns, Adam is already there.Fighting their feelings for each other, the two are suddenly thrust into a battle far more dangerous—a common quest to rout an insidious drug cartel that has spawned the recent rise in gang violence on the reservation. Adam’s position of authority gives Erin a rare glimpse into Navajo life few outsiders like her ever see—and into a crime ring that no one dares to imagine. As danger mounts, Adam and Erin begin to wonder if they will live to tell how they really feel.

Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781426787225
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 3/4/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 218,213
File size: 2 MB

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Before She Dies by Rita Herron, prequel short to her Slaughter Creek series of contemporary romantic suspense. Herron is a current Harlequin author.

She thought this small town nestled in the Tennessee mountains was the perfect place to raise a family...until she found out what was happening to the children in Slaughter Creek...

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Christmas in Bruges by Meadow Taylor, standalone contemporary holiday short. Taylor is a current HarperCollins author and we've gotten official freebies of hers from them in the past. There's actually one still available in multiple stores if you missed it earlier: Christmas in Venice holiday short @ B&N (also UK), Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, Google Play, BookShout, and probably anywhere else you can think of.

Inspired by the beauty depicted in the movie "In Bruges," Paula decides to spend Christmas by herself in the gorgeous Belgian canal city. One evening at a cozy bistro, she is very pleasantly surprised to meet her old college boyfriend and very first love, James. As they walk through the snowy streets, they laugh at their younger selves and ponder the unexpected course their lives have taken over the past nine years. Paula, a promising actress, became a teacher, while James abandoned medical school to serve as a medic in Afghanistan. But as Christmas Day approaches, James' painful war memories threaten their rekindled love.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Frost Maiden by Michelle M. Pillow, 1st in her Space Lord series which comprises part of her Dragon Lords Stories series of f/m sci-fi space opera erotic romances, like unto some kind of nesting Venn diagram, as far as I can tell. Pillow is a current Ellora's Cave author, and this seems to have originally come out from micropress New Concepts Publishing in 2008.

Empath and space pirate, Evan Cormier is obsessed with decoding an ominous premonition about his future. When a fellow crewman angered a spirit, the vengeful Zhang An took her wrath out on everyone in the vicinity. Evan just happened to be one of them. He’s now facing a future in which he’ll be forever alone.

Lady Josselyn of the House of Craven has been betrayed. With her home world on a Florencian moon under attack and her family dead, she finds herself at the mercy of the one who deceived them. There is only one thing left to do—die with honor. But before she can join her family in the afterlife, she must first avenge all that she held dear. Falling in love with a pirate was never in the plan. Evan and his thieving crewmates might have delayed her fate, but they can’t stop destiny.

Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Free Endless Ecstasy by Kathryn Hockett

Publisher: Kensington

She is part of Kathryn Kramer team. I am collecting their books.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by apesmom

A bunch of new freebies from Diversion

• Hot Winds from Bombay by Becky Lee Weyrich (Fawcett 1987)
• Sweet Amy Jane by Anna Eberhardt (Pinnacle 1994)
• Do You Take This Man . . . Again? by Lori Avocato (? 2002)
• Mischief (Masqueraders #2) by Laura Parker (Zebra 2002)
• Heat of a Savage Moon (Moon #2) by Jane Bonander (St. Martin's 1993)
• Out of the Blue by Sally Mandel (Ballantine 2000)

I love Diversion books!

[library addict]

He's So Fine by Jill Shalvis is on sale (pre-order) for $3.89 at Google

It's $5.99 at Amazon but maybe they will price match. B&N has it for $4.79

[apesmom]

One more Diversion Books freebie

Sweet Dreamin' Baby by Mary Kay McComas (Loveswept 1992)

[AnemicOak]

For Amish Romance fans, all three books in the Adams County Trilogy by Jerry S. Eicher are $0.99 each...

Rebecca's Promise (The Adams County Trilogy Book 1)

Readers of Amish fiction will delight in this new series by a veteran author in this popular genre (50,000 Jerry Eicher books sold).

Rebecca Keim has just declared her love to John Miller and agreed to become his wife. But she’s haunted by her schoolgirl memories of a long ago love—and a promise made and a ring given. Is that memory just a fantasy come back to destroy the beautiful present...or was it real?

When Rebecca’s mother sends her back to the old home community in Milroy to be with her aunt during and after her childbirth, Rebecca determines to find answers that will resolve her conflicted feelings.

Faith, love, and tradition all play a part in Rebecca’s divine destiny.

Rebecca's Return (The Adams County Trilogy Book 2)

Readers who enjoyed Rebecca’s Promise will eagerly devour the next entry in this Amish series set in southern Ohio.

Rebecca Keim returns to Wheat Ridge full of resolve to make her relationship with John Miller work. But in her absence, John has become suspicious of the woman he loves. Before their conflict can be resolved, John is badly injured and Rebecca is sent back to Milroy to aid her seriously ill Aunt Leona.

In Milroy, Rebecca once again visits the old covered bridge over the Flatrock River, the source of her past memories and of her promise made so long ago.

Where will Rebecca find happiness? In Wheat Ridge with John, the man she has agreed to marry...or should she stake her future on the memory that persists...and the ring she has never forgotten? Does God have a perfect will for Rebecca—and if so how can she know that will?

Rebecca's Choice (The Adams County Trilogy Book 3)

Popular Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher finishes the Adam’s County Trilogy with an intriguing story of a young couple’s love, a community of faith, and devotion to truth.

Rebecca Keim is now engaged to John Miller, and they are looking forward to life together. When Rebecca goes to Milroy to attend her beloved teacher’s funeral, John receives a mysterious letter accusing Rebecca of scheming to marry him for money. Determined to forsake his past jealousies and suspicions, John tries hard to push the accusations from his mind.

Upon Rebecca’s return, disturbing news quickly follows. She is named as the sole heir to her teacher’s three farms. But there’s a condition—she must marry an Amish man. When John confronts Rebecca, she claims to know nothing. Soon Rachel Byler, the vengeful but rightful heir to the property, arrives and reveals secrets from the past. Now the whole community is reeling!

[ATDrake]

Free from the author @ Smashwords (may be price-matched elsewhere)

Unlaced by Kristina Cook, 1st in her Undone By Love historical Regency England romance series, originally out from Zebra Books in 2004.

All Lucy Abbington wants is to get through her first London season without losing sight of her true ambition—gaining some informal training in veterinary arts so that she can retire peacefully to the countryside with her beloved horses. Instead, she’s caught up in a whirlwind of balls, marriage proposals, and ton intrigues. Worse, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to her sponsors’ maddening neighbor, Henry Ashton, the Marquess of Mandeville. The handsome, arrogant, sometimes infuriating Mandeville stokes a passionate fire within her that won’t be denied, no matter the consequence.

Free from the author's/re-publishing consortium Steel Magnolia Press via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Savage Deception by Lynette Vinet, 2nd in the Liberty's Ladies series of South Carolina historical plantation-set possibly-multicultural romances, originally out from Zebra in 1989. Blurb says that 1st in series is on sale for 99 cents through September 15th, if this happens to be one of your long-lost favourites or whatnot.

Diana Montaigne is promised to another man, but the moment she sets eyes on Briarhaven's overseer, the highborn beauty is aflame with uncontrollable desire. Tanner's muscled arms make her want to be held, his lips make her hungry for his kiss. But then she learns he's her fiance's unacknowledged half-brother. Ashamed, she swears she'll hate him forever for making her disloyal to the man she's supposed to love and plans to marry.

[laurla]

Free from the author's/re-publishing consortium Steel Magnolia Press via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Savage Deception by Lynette Vinet, 2nd in the Liberty's Ladies series of South Carolina historical plantation-set possibly-multicultural romances, originally out from Zebra in 1989. Blurb says that 1st in series is on sale for 99 cents through September 15th, if this happens to be one of your long-lost favourites or whatnot.
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I've been waiting on this one!!