FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2014

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[apesmom]

Entangled: Bliss freebie

The Practice Proposal (Suddenly Smitten #1) by Tracy March
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Liza Sutherland isn’t looking for love. Not from a charity-auction date she didn’t even bid on and especially not with Nationals first baseman Cole Collins, the guy she obsessed over as an awkward teenager. She won’t get involved with a notorious player, no matter how attractive Cole is.

Cole Collins is up for contract renegotiation, but after too many late-night parties, he’ll need some positive publicity before he can make the roster. His agent, Frank, pitches Liza as the perfect prop…only Cole didn’t account for Liza no longer being just a teenager with a crush. She’s gorgeous and smart and he’s instantly hooked.

When Frank makes Liza a deal she can’t refuse—a bet she will fall in love with Cole or a cool half mil goes to charity—the game is on. But neither bet on the real feelings that surface. Could a fake fling turn into an official forever?

[copyrite]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Entangled: Bliss freebie

The Practice Proposal (Suddenly Smitten #1) by Tracy March
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I bought that for .99c ages ago. Gotta love a romance mentioning the Orioles and the Nationals!

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Inescapable by Mills & Boon author Saskia Walker, an f/m/m ménage contemporary possibly BDSM-flavoured erotic romantic suspense novel set in Wales, originally out from Total-E-Bound in 2010.

When Lily Howard agrees to meet the man she is having a powerfully erotic online affair with, she subsequently walks into a crime scene. Sexy police officer Seth Jones takes her into witness protection together with her online lover, Adrian Walsh, a man with crucial evidence for a court case.

Deep in the heart of the Welsh countryside and locked up in a secluded hideaway with these two men — one alpha dominant policeman, and a wry, sensitive accountant who knows her every secret erotic desire — Lily soon becomes embroiled in a torrid ménage a trois that surpasses her every fantasy. Lily is wildly empowered by living her innermost desires in the safety of the hideaway. Adrian is the key that unlocks her sexuality, and Seth is the master who sets them both free.

As danger stalks ever closer and the three lovers are torn apart, they each find that deep emotional bonds have also been forged. Can Lily ever forget what they shared? Does she even want to?

Please note: This book contains sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers. This book has previously been published with a different cover.

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Double Vision by Regan Black, 2nd in her Unknown Identities series of f/m contemporary ex-spy romantic suspense novellas. Black has had one paperback published by small press Echelon, says she is a USA Today bestselling author (possibly under a pseudonym), and her blurb has quoted praise from Harlequin/Kensington author Debra Webb, who IIRC is one of the favourites of a few posters in this thread, so perhaps you might like to give her freebie a try if it sounds appealing to you.

Framed as a traitor, Adam Maxwell opted to lend his expertise to Unknown Identities, with the understanding that someday he'd get a chance to get even with the man who set him up. An orphan, giving up his past proved easier than surrendering his normal vision to the UI research scientists.

To Selena Vaccaro, owner of a showroom in NYC's Garment District, family is everything. So when her cousin is kidnapped, she agrees to trade a valuable watch for her cousin's life, but what should have been a relatively simple exchange turns complicated in the blink of an eye.

Adam doesn't know how or why Selena is connected to his nemesis, but he can't let her involvement change his plan for revenge. Until he realizes she offers something far more valuable - a chance to be loved.

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Xena by Ellora's Cave author Michelle M. Pillow, an f/m sci-fi erotic romantic action suspense novella, 4th in her Galaxy Playmates series. Am I the only one picturing Lucy Lawless* in this?

Agent Xena has nothing in common with the exotic dancer she's pretending to be. Her assignment should be like any other. Then why does dancing for the high-powered businessman thrill her beyond anything she's ever done? And when things get heated between them, will she follow her instincts or take him in for the crime she was sent to arrest him for?

* "Whenever you see something like that, a wizard did it." Or alternatively, "But Xena can't fly!" / "I told you, I'm not Xena; I'm Lucy Lawless."

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Checking in:

I bought two books last weeks and received one as a gift.

The Bachelor's Surrender - Janelle Denison / 99 cents (Old HQ)
Prosecco Pink - Traci Andrighetti (Franki Amato Mysteries 2) /99 cents
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich (New Hardback, Gift from Hubby) / $3

I am reading: Iced by Karen Marie Morning which I started in July then stopped because I was put off by Dani's age now I can read it as the newness I felt from starting right after Shadow Fever isn't there so I am not emotionally involved and I read a small sneak peek of Burned yesterday which has Lor in it! It's more adult I can tell and so looking forward to it.

I'm counting the days till I get my new Kindle Fire 6 for my birthday. I just finished a really involved panel which I am suppose to get a $90 Amazon Gift Card so I will be able to get the 16GB version. I need a new shiny to play with.

I am still trying to get rid of this yucky cold and so is hubby. It comes and goes. Almost watched all of LOST. I'm near Season 5 finale. I figure out how to connect my Laptop to my Desktop so I can be on my Laptop while using my Desktop. If that makes any sense. So I am getting together my small amount of Holiday Reads and will post the list when done. I don't see it being 12 books I am aiming for 5 for now.

[Britomart]

Free from Kobo:

The Bride Prize: Allen's Miscellany 1839 by Sandra Schwab (Dorchester author).

It's 1839, and Lord Eglinton's tournament in Scotland is the most anticipated event of the year: he and some of his noble friends will don medieval armor and joust like knights of old.

Does this mean a revival of true chivalry? Miss Florence Marsh thinks it might.

Or is the tournament mere tomfoolery and the greatest folly of the century? Mr. Robert Beaton thinks it is.

But when Flo and Robbie meet at Eglinton Park, they'll soon learn that a dash of romance can make the greatest differences look rather small and that true love might find you in the most unlikely place.

If only Robbie wasn't working for that scandalous new magazine Allan's Miscellany! If only Flo's father didn't detest the periodical press!

And if only they had remembered to bring an umbrella!

[Britomart]

Free from Amazon US DE:

Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge (orig. publ. 1972). Okay, this is not a romance but biography, but as there are some Jane Austen lovers here and Jane Aiken Hodge also wrote many romances, I thought I'd post it anyway!

In her lifetime, Jane Austen did her best to conform to the conventions of her day, and after her death the family touched up the picture.

But the real Jane Austen, who started as author at twelve years old, was something very different.

What depths of intellectual and moral despair must she have plumbed before she achieved the extraordinary moral vision that has been compared, with justice, to Chaucer's?

It was a fortunate thing for her family that the highly polished surface of the six novels, their sheer artistry concealing tension, makes it easy to miss the depth and bitterness of what they are often saying.

We must look for real evidence about her character not in the censored reminiscences of Victorian relatives, but in the books and the letters themselves.

Jane Aiken Hodge has gone deeply into the novelist's own writings, family and contemporary records to produce a new picture of this enigmatic figure who did so much to revive the English novel at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Jane Austen appears at once as a very warm and human figure (the "dear Aunt Jane" of the Victorians), and as a baffling one.

Did she, in fact, suffer what we should call a nervous breakdown in her silent, middle years?

And was she content with her publishers, and with the comparatively modest earnings of her novels?

Hodge does not pretend to provide final answers to these and other fascinating questions, but she is meticulous in giving the facts on which readers can base their own conclusions.

This is a book for those who have always loved Jane Austen, and for those who would like to know more about her.

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I just found out Maggie Osborne release three of her back titles in September. Salem's Daughter, Lady Reluctant and Love Bites.
I'm also very happy that they are on Scribd to read for members.

[Blue2u]

$1.99 Aden - D.B. Reynolds

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

New Life: Two Volume Set by Bonnie Dee, a 2-book bundle containing her f/m contemporary post-traumatic disability-coping recovery romances "New Life" and "New Year". Dee is a prolific Carina Press and Samhain author and I didn't check to see if these were previously published or not, sorry.

Since the car accident that caused traumatic brain injury, Jason has fought to regain his memories and the ability to organize thoughts and control emotions. His promising future shattered, he works as a night janitor in an office building and clings to routine to make it through his days.

New lawyer Anna breaks down one evening after fumbling her first court case. Self-doubt brings her to tears in a deserted stairwell where Jason finds her and offers comforting words. From this unexpected meeting an unlikely romance begins.

A casual coffee date soon leads to a deeper connection and eventually a steamy affair. But are Jason and Anna’s growing feelings for each other strong enough to overcome the social chasm that divides them and the very real issues of Jason’s disability?

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Double Dippin' by Em Petrova, 1st in her Texas Threesome series of f/m/m ménage contemporary western cowboy erotic romances. Petrova is a Samhain and Total-E-Bound author, IIRC.

Running the office for a saddle-making business shouldn’t make Posy squirm in her chair, but with two bosses who look like underwear models, she can barely contain her lust for the sexy-as-sin owners.

Trouble brews when both men make a play for Posy. While the cowboys have much more than a working relationship, Alex isn’t willing to share. But Loren won’t stand back and let Alex have his way, especially when there’s room for a smart and smoking-hot woman in their bed.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Rodeo Robin Hood by Libby Malin, 1st in her Legends and Tales Refashioned series of modern-transplant folktale-based contemporary f/m romances. Malin is a Sourcebooks author and one of her titles is actually currently in the Discover A New Love catalogue.

Aspiring medieval history professor Marianne Greene returns to her Texas hill country town, landing the only job she can find -- as a 'maiden' at a Renaissance Faire. There she runs into an old high school crush, rancher Rob Woodsman, who's also moonlighting to make money in order to save his ranch from foreclosure. Sparks fly, as the two find their way back to each other, overcoming their own snobbery and false impressions of themselves, their town and their goals.

The first book in the Legends and Tales Refashioned series, RODEO ROBIN HOOD showcases an Everyman's struggle against an entrenched "aristocracy" while trying to win the heart of the one he loves.

[library addict]

Wanting Mr Wrong by Avril Tremayne is 9¢ at Kobo US (pre-order)

Spoiler:

Wanting Mr Wrong is an irresistible rom com about a girl who refuses to fall for the man the whole world is in love with. Evie Parker has never been one to swoon after celebrities - give her a neuroscientist over an actor any day! So when she develops her first movie-star crush, she's determined to date her way out of it, starting with the next good-looking doctor she sees. Yet hovering on the fringes of her life is her gay best friend's determined brother, Jackson J Stevens, a famous actor who comes with trailing paparazzi. The one thing worse than a celebrity in Evie's eyes is a media circus, so Jack isn't an option no matter how hard he flirts with her. Evie knows what she doesn't want; Jack knows what he does. And somewhere in the middle, pheromones are making things go haywire every time they're together.

[library addict]

Chasing the Flames by Cheryl Adnams is 9¢ at Kobo US

Spoiler:

Sometimes the hottest fire burns with an old flame.Trisha Carne has loved Brian Muller, of Muller's Field vineyard, for as long as she can remember but the moment has never been right. Then an unexpected kiss on New Year's Eve has Brian looking at her in a new way. Has she finally caught his attention?Brian's been doing it tough since his wife left him, and has retreated into the safety of bachelorhood. So he's surprised to find this new fling with an old flame is starting to bring him back to life.Until his ex-wife turns up in McLaren Vale and he's thrown into a state of confusion. Will Brian and Trisha let their pasts keep them from finding true happiness? Or will they have the courage to chase the flames that still smoulder between them?

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Britomart

Free from Amazon US DE:

Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge (orig. publ. 1972). Okay, this is not a romance but biography, but as there are some Jane Austen lovers here and Jane Aiken Hodge also wrote many romances, I thought I'd post it anyway!

Yees, I like her books a lot, so I think I'll try it.

[library addict]

Losing Patients by Virginia Taylor is 9¢ at Kobo US

Spoiler:

A scintillating romantic suspense novel with a twist of intrigue and a lot of flirtation. Can true love be found in the hunt for a killer? It's Bree Branson's first day at Pemberton Private Hospital and the last thing she needs is a patient dying in suspicious circumstances on her watch. The only person who can help her clear her name is the one person she was hoping to avoid, the devastatingly handsome Sam Vincent . . . the doctor she stood up three years ago. Forced to work together to find a killer, will Bree and Sam be able to leave their past behind to find a future together?

[library addict]

Bet On it by Cheryl Adnams is 9¢ at Kobo US

Spoiler:

A sizzling rural romance set in the McLaren Vale, with a girl who's ready for a change and the three brothers who are determined to win her over.Gabrielle didn't believe men like this existed in real life - the three Muller brothers are ridiculously good-looking, and they're officially her new bosses. She's in need of a change of scenery, and the Muller's winery might just be the right place.Seth Muller isn't sure it's a good idea to bet on who can seduce Gabby first, but the new girl working at the winery is too gorgeous to give up to his brothers without a fight. But what happens if he starts to fall for her? Will he lose everything if she finds out what he's done?