Free from the author via Smashwords and thence price-matched to assorted stores (sorry, no extra linkage today, I've got a bunch of stuff to do and don't feel like checking):
Living Wilde - The Gift and On The Wilde Side &
Emily: Sex and Sensibility by Sandra Marton, a set of 2 f/m contemporary romance novellas and 1 f/m contemporary probably-erotic romance. Marton is a current Harlequin author, and I really like how the only information in her Smashwords "About the author" just enthuses "I'm a USA Today Bestselling author!". That's awesome, and ultimately, probably everything you need to know about her anyway.
THE GIFT: Zach Castelianos runs a spy agency. A client needs a bodyguard to deliver his headstrong daughter, Ekaterina, to her bridegroom in Sardovia. Zach asks former Covert Ops Specialist Kazimir Savitch to take the job. Kaz isn’t into that stuff anymore, but he can use a change of pace. Sounds simple—until he meets Ekaterina and discovers that Katie is not an icy aristocrat. She’s a woman desperate for help, and there’s no way Kaz is going to deliver her to her bridegroom, once she’s spent the weekend in his arms.
ON THE WILDE SIDE: General John Hamilton Wilde is everything a good soldier should be. He’s tough, dedicated and brilliant. He’s demanding and commanding, and he knows how to keep his emotions in check. There’s just one problem. The general is also a fraud, a liar…and a bigamist. He’s convinced two women to fall in love with him and marry him, and he’s raised two families, one in Texas, the other in Sicily. The deceit lasts for years, until his children suddenly learn the truth. That’s when their world, and the general’s, blows apart.
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Angels and Airheads by Anne Brooke, an m/m contemporary romance short with supernatural elements. Brooke is a current Amber Quill Press author who, interestingly enough, writes both biblically-oriented inspirational meditations and torrid gay romance, according to her bio-blurb and title listings.
Ricky has been secretly in love with his best friend Jez forever, but he's never dared confess his feelings because he thinks Jez is too high-class for him. One evening, while sharing a quiet evening with Jez, a mysterious angel, Madred, appears and tries to persuade Ricky to take a chance on love.
Too bad Ricky doesn't believe in angels. Madred is forced to take desperate measures in an attempt to show the reluctant Ricky the truth. When the angel leaves, can Ricky find the courage to declare himself to Jez, and what will happen to their friendship if he does?
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Dreamland by Faye Adams, an f/m western historical romance set in 1880s Seattle's logging industry. This is newly written as far as I can tell (copyright info in the sample section is all for 2014, with no mention of previous publication), but Adams has been a Pocket-published author some of whose backlist we've previously gotten free.
Emma Denton arrives in 1889 Seattle with a deed in her hand and a dream in her heart. Her unexpected ownership of The Dreamland Lumber Company is a dream-come-true for her. She knows logging. She was raised around her grandfather’s mill. Unfortunately, the crew of Dreamland is ready to walk off. They won’t work for some woman who doesn’t know her place.
Jack Royal was waiting for his brother Evan’s, long overdue, return from purchasing Dreamland when Emma shows up with the deed. He’s certain she and her husband swindled Evan…or worse. When Emma seduces him he thinks he knows to what lengths she’ll go to have her way.
The fiery passion that flares between these two strong-willed people is more than either one of them can deny, and the troubles between them are only exaggerated by their shared desire.
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The Eleventh Hour Fall by Robert Appleton, 1st in his eponymous f/m sci-fi romance novella trilogy. Appleton is a current Carina Press author.
What if you fell from a great height...toward a ground you couldn't see...and hours later you were still falling?
For survival, for love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.