FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2014

[hedwig]

Lena Diaz's Deadly Games series book #1, #2 and #4 are all $1.99 at Amazon and book #3 - Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead is $0.99

Amazon

[TallMomof2]

Originally Posted by copyrite

Any here get a Voyage? I cancelled my pre-order last week as I can't justify that cost with working eReaders/tablets in the house.

I bought one and for me it was well worth the $$. Better screen and page turn "buttons". It's not too small, lightweight, and my eyes prefer this to any tablet.

YMMV

I'm finishing up the Cat and Bones novellas and then I'll be on to some fantasy.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Lone Star Survivor (Lone Star #2) by Colleen Thompson (B/4 stars)
• Yuletide Protector (The Precinct #23) by Julie Miller (B+/4 stars)
• KCPD Protector (The Precinct #25) by Julie Miller (C+/3 stars)
• Betting Hearts (Rancho Del Cielo #1) by Dee Tenorio (A-/5 stars)

I only purchased one book this week

[ATDrake]

Free from the author('s republishing consortium) Steel Magnolia Press via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Tiger's Lady by Christina Skye, an historical exotic travel adventure romance involving dark secrets and cursed jewels and whatnot, originally out from Dell in 1992.

A rajah's prize or a dark entrapment?
In the shadowy pall of gaslit London streets, Barrett Winslow is stalked by a ruthless enemy in search of a confidence she can never reveal. When fate tosses her into the arms of an exotic stranger, she's swept away to a steamy paradise that hides deadly secrets and forbidden passions.

Fierce protector or dark betrayer?
To London's rich and powerful he is Deveril Pagan, Viscount St. Cyr, envied by all men and desired by all women. But in the mist-covered emerald hills of Ceylon, he is called the Tiger Sahib, and he is haunted by the curse of a priceless, fabled ruby -- whose blood-red facets pulse with a savage power that drives men to unquenchable greed and women to unspeakable desire.

Lovers bound by darkest destiny.
From the glittering corridors of London's elite to the wind-swept shores of colonial Ceylon, Barrett and Pagan flee their fierce fate that throbs in the crimson heart of the legendary jewel ... driving them to stolen passion and unthinkable evil in the sultry, tropical nights. Only one man stands between Barrett and the darkness ... and he might be the greatest threat of all...

[apesmom]

Sourcebooks deal

Her Perfect Mate (X-Ops #1) by Paige Tyler - $0.99
Kindle | Kobo (couponable) | Google

He's a High-Octane Special Ops Pro
When Special Forces Captain Landon Donovan is pulled from an op in Afghanistan, he is surprised to discover he's been hand-picked for a special assignment with the Department of Covert Operations (DCO), a secret division he's never heard of. Terrorists are kidnapping biologists and he and his partner have to stop them. But his new partner is a beautiful, sexy woman who looks like she couldn't hurt a fly—never mind take down a terrorist.

She's Not Your Average Covert Operative
Ivy Halliwell is no kitten. She's a feline shifter, and more dangerous than she looks. She's worked with a string of hotheaded military guys who've underestimated her special skills in the past. But when she's partnered with special agent Donovan, a man sexy enough to make any girl purr, things begin to heat up...

[apesmom]

Self-pub sale

Dangerously Hot (Hostile Operations #4) by Lynn Raye Harris - $0.99
Kindle | Kobo (couponable) | Google

Spoiler:

The world’s most wanted man is back from the dead. And only one woman can stop him…

Former Army linguist Lucky San Ramos escaped with her life, but the scars an evil terrorist leader left on her skin are a constant reminder of her captivity. Now her tormentor is back—and so is the sexy Special Operations soldier she once loved.

HOT operator Kevin “Big Mac” MacDonald rescued Lucky the last time. And then he walked away when he couldn’t be what she needed. When Lucky married his teammate, Kev knew it was for the best. But now Marco is dead and Lucky is no longer safe.

When Kev and Lucky team up to capture a terrorist, they’ll have to pretend to be man and wife on an explosive military mission to a war-torn nation. With time running out and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Kev and Lucky play a perilous game of cat and mouse with a madman during the day.

But at night, they battle the secrets of the past and the sizzling attraction that threatens to endanger the mission. Lucky shouldn’t want the man who abandoned her once before. But the passion between them is sinfully, sensuously, dangerously hot… and proving impossible to resist.

THE HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM SERIES:
Book 1: Hot Pursuit (Matt & Evie)
Book 2: Hot Mess (Sam & Georgie)
Book 3: Hot Package (Billy & Olivia)
Book 4: Dangerously Hot (Kev & Lucky)
Book 5: Hot Shot (Jack & Gina)
Book 6: Hot Rebel (Nick & Victoria) ~ Coming September 2014!

[apesmom]

I have a few 55% contest codes for anyone on this thread that would like one. PM me.

[library addict]

Hmm, anyone know what time the Google Play store is set on?

It's after midnight here (Eastern time) but my book which releases today still shows as pre-order.

[AnemicOak]

Don't know, but since their HQ is in Mountain View, California perhaps Pacific time.

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by library addict

Hmm, anyone know what time the Google Play store is set on?

For the purposes of freebie price-drop availability, I can tell you that Google Play switches over just a little bit after midnight Eastern Time. But I've no idea how their pre-orders work, sorry.

Bargain @ 99 cents each, with some authors having extra titles at the $1.99-$3.99 mark (US-only, unfortunately for international Gentle Readers) from HarperCollins (apparently from their new-ish HarperCollins e-books imprint). From the looks of the covers, there's some old school backlist stuff in the batches.

I ran a search in the thread for a couple of the author names and came up with nothing, so this seems to be a new deal that hasn't been mentioned yet, and I'm just going to link you to the author names at Kobo, auto-sorted by price. I tried to take a guess at the likely sub-genres in case you've got particular preferences you want to zero in upon, but I am literally judging these books by the covers here and might have gotten it wrong.

• Barbara Boswell, mostly writes contemporary, but her one sale book is listed as an historical, though it may be a misfile since the blurb sounds contemporary
• Edith Layton, historical
• Ana Leigh, historical
• Judi McCoy, contemporary, what looks like maybe romantic comedy or chick-lit, and also some maybe-cozy/humorous mysteries as well at the $2.99 mark
• Hailey North, contemporary, what looks like maybe romantic comedy or chick-lit
• Kathryn Smith, historical and what looks like maybe contemporary erotic
• Teresa Southwick, historical
• Judith Stanton, historical

These were all the authors who had obvious romance-y looking covers and titles I spotted while looking for my own sf/fantasy/mystery deals, so there's probably more out there.

If there's any among them that happened to be among your old school favourites whom you were hoping would price-drop, enjoy!

[library addict]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

For the purposes of freebie price-drop availability, I can tell you that Google Play switches over just a little bit after midnight Eastern Time. But I've no idea how their pre-orders work, sorry.

Still not there. I called Google Play and they're looking into it as they said it should be available for me. FYI: It shows on my Nexus (in Google Play Books), but the book won't open. So it may be an issue with the book (Blood Magick by Nora Roberts).

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Barbara Boswell, mostly writes contemporary, but her one sale book is listed as an historical, though it may be a misfile since the blurb sounds contemporary

When Lightning Strikes Twice is definitely a contemporary not historical.

[library addict]

Book became available at 1:30am.

[ATDrake]

Turns out there's even more Bargain @ 99 cents from HarperCollins for US-only/ some authors have extra books at higher bargain price points / linkage goes to the Kobo store but likely price-matched in all the standard ones / I am guessing subgenres by the covers and might have gotten it wrong, etc:

• Robyn Amos, African-American contemporary
• Pamela Britton, writes both historical and contemporary, but one of her sale books is missing a cover and I don't care enough to check
• Josephine Cox, the one at 99 cents has an ambiguous cover and blurb, but sounds like it's a contemporary countryside thing
• Genell Dellin, historicals which look like multicultural westerns
• Lynn Emery, African-American contemporary; she also offers a self-pub freebie
• Elaine Fox, contemporary looks like maybe romantic comedy or chick-lit
• Susan Kay Law, historical and/or contemporary (her covers are kind of ambiguous)
• Cindy Kirk, contemporary
• Kimberly Logan, historical and looks like maybe historical erotic (could be contemporary as well; when the couple on the cover are missing that much clothing, it's kind of hard to tell)
• Sara MacKenzie, contemporary Highlander paranormal, apparently
• Linda Needham, looks mostly historical
• Sari Robbins, historical
• Lori Bryant-Woolridge, African-American contemporary

If you've spotted anything in there you think you might like to get, enjoy!

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

An Impetuous Miss by Mary Chase Comstock, comedic-looking maybe-Regency historical originally out from Zebra in 1993.

When spoiled, independent Catherine Mansard discovers she cannot maintain ownership of the family estate unless she puts herself on the "Marriage Market" interesting events ensue. Can impetuous Cat maintain the propriety at which she's so often scoffed long enough to find an appropriate mate? Or will her true nature reveal itself and send her suitors running for the hills? Battles of will, a nefarious plot, badly behaved dogs, and a family mystery wreak havoc on the best-laid plans.

Free from the author('s author republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Ghost in the Bedroom by M. A. Harper, contemporary paranormal omnibus of The Year of Past Things and Louisiana Ghost Story, originally out from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2004 and 2005.

CAN THIS MARRIAGE SURVIVE TWO HUSBANDS, ONE ALIVE, ONE NOT?

Award-winning chef Phil Randazzo, and his anthropologist wife, Michelle, are as happy as any newlyweds with five kids and a ton of history. But something’s eerily amiss.

They’ve been married less than a year and already there’s someone else--at least it’s starting to seem that way.

First Hendrix the cat’s developed a new trick, but how does a flesh-and-blood feline walk through walls? Maybe with help from his best friend on The Other Side? Then there was that dude Phil saw upstairs Thanksgiving Day. Only nobody was there. But the odd thing was that “nobody” looked exactly like Michelle’s dead husband, Cajun musician A.P. Savoie. Her really really handsome and much-missed dead husband. Who died all too suddenly.

Can it be he wants her back?

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

By the Bay by Barbara Bartholomew, 1800s/1940s time-travel romance. Newly-written, but she's been published by Silhouette for romance and Signet for YA science fiction and has an ISFDB entry I'm not going to bother to list again since probably most of the Gentle Readers in this thread only care about the Silhouette parts of her backlist.

The man who walked out of the dark water of the bay that December night insisted he was not a pirate, but a privateer. Dashing Philippe de Beauvois took Jillian Blake's breath away from that first moment when she met him down by the sandy edge of the water. Has she fallen in love with a madman?

Philippe claimed to be one of Jean Lafitte's captains preparing for the battle of New Orleans. In Jillian's world it is 1942 and her whole community fears the presence of enemy submarines in the nearby Gulf of Mexico. Sent on a whirlwind through time, the lovers fight to survive and stay together through the chaos caused by a scientific experiment gone wrong.

[briefcandles]

$0.99 at Amazon, Kobo & Nook

Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale

Olympia St. Leger is a princess in desperate need of a knight in shining armor. Sheridan Drake, amused by Olympia’s innocence and magnificent beauty, but also intrigued by her considerable wealth, accepts the position of white knight. Unaware that Sheridan is a notorious scoundrel, Olympia willingly allows herself to submit to his protection and his potent embrace. Theirs is a love born in deception. But as they weather storms on the high seas and flee from nefarious villains, the love sparked by lies begins to burn uncontrollably. Taking shelter on a desert island paradise, the princess and the dark knight battle overwhelming odds to keep their adoration burning bright.