FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2015

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Rowdy (Marked Men #5) by Jay Crownover - $1.99
Amazon | Kobo

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Marked Men series continues with this sizzling, sexy story of love, heartbreak, fate, and second chances.

After the only girl he ever loved told him that he would never be enough, Rowdy St. James knocked the Texas dust off his boots and set out to live up to his nickname. A good ol’ boy looking for good times and good friends, Rowdy refuses to take anything too seriously, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. Burned by love once, he isn’t going to let himself trust a woman again. But that’s before his new co-worker arrives, a ghost from the past who’s suddenly making him question every lesson he ever learned.

Salem Cruz grew up in a house with too many rules and too little fun—a world of unhappiness she couldn’t wait to forget. But one nice thing from childhood has stayed with her; the memory of the sweet, blue-eyed boy next door who’d been head over heels in love with her little sister.

Now, fate and an old friend have brought her and Rowdy together, and Salem is determined to show him that once upon a time he picked the wrong sister. A mission that is working perfectly—until the one person that ties them together appears, threatening to tear them apart for good.

[apesmom]

Kindle Freebie

Pitch Black (Black CATs #2) by Leslie A. Kelly [aka Leslie Parrish - Signet 2009]

Spoiler:

After a botched investigation left him wounded and disgraced, Special Agent Alec Lambert was forced to transfer onto Wyatt Blackstone's team. This former profiler has lost his edge, buried by the guilt he feels over another agent's death. But he'll need all his skills when he realizes he's getting another crack at a case that has haunted him. A serial killer known as the Professor is now using the latest e-mail schemes to lure his victims and the Black CATs are on his trail.

Samantha Dalton didn't set out to become an online vigilante, until her grandmother was swindled out of everything she owned. Devoting herself to exposing fraud and preventing tragedies from happening to other families, Sam has gained fame and success with her website and a recently released book. A hermit since her ugly divorce, Sam really doesn't want the outside world intruding on her privacy. Especially not when that outside world is a sexy FBI agent who tells her she has a cyber connection to a murdered teenage boy.

When the killer opens a line of communication with Sam via her website, Alec and his team enlist her help to stop him. There's one thing they don't know, however. The Professor doesn't just see Sam Dalton as an anonymous online foe. He is, in fact, her number one fan. He's been watching her, waiting for the time to be right to make his move. He just isn't sure what that move will be.

[pisceschick]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Yep that's where I am too well I did buy something but I haven't read anything since I decided to stop reading that HQ and save it for next Christmas. I'm just in a great big slump and I just downgraded my Audible membership to Gold after being a Platinum member for over 3 years. Still have Scribd, renewed Overdrive and have all these awesome devices and yet here I am S-T-U-C-K, Stuck.

Not glad to hear it's "catching" but glad to not be alone!

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

What do you like to read? Maybe we can suggest something.

Historical... I generally avoid self-pubs unless they're re-releases, and prefer the type that aren't so much the wallpaper variety (aka mistoricals). I don't start a series until all the volumes are out, so the recent suggestion I received to check into the Outlander books didn't help. Oh, and I don't like first-person. Not TOO picky, but a little persnickity I guess.

[apesmom]

Originally Posted by pisceschick

Historical... I generally avoid self-pubs unless they're re-releases, and prefer the type that aren't so much the wallpaper variety (aka mistoricals). I don't start a series until all the volumes are out, so the recent suggestion I received to check into the Outlander books didn't help. Oh, and I don't like first-person. Not TOO picky, but a little persnickity I guess.

She's self-pubbed these days, but wow Courtney Milan is so good!
Pamela Clare's McKinnon's Rangers
Anything Sherry Thomas
Anne Gracie and Jennifer Ashley (Highland Pleasures)

Oh, and I wouldn't wait to read the Outlander series because they all may not be out. She's written 8 books in the series over the past 25 years. Who knows if/when she'll ever write the last one!

[Blue2u]

M/M $.99 Faith & Fidelity - Tere Michaels
Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now the single father feels himself being crushed by the pain of loss and the heavy responsibility of raising his kids.

At the urging of his partner, Evan celebrates a coworker’s retirement and meets disgraced former cop turned security consultant Matt Haight. A friendship born out of loneliness and the solace of the bottle turns out to be exactly what they both need.

The past year has been a slow death for Matt Haight. Ostracized from his beloved police force, facing middle age and perpetual loneliness, Matt sees only a black hole where his future should be. When he discovers another lost soul in Evan, some of the pieces he thought he lost start to fall back in place. Their friendship turns into something deeper, but love is the last thing either man expected, and both of them struggle to reconcile their new and overwhelming feelings for one another.

[Joykins]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

M/M $.99 Faith & Fidelity - Tere Michaels
Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now the single father feels himself being crushed by the pain of loss and the heavy responsibility of raising his kids.

At the urging of his partner, Evan celebrates a coworker’s retirement and meets disgraced former cop turned security consultant Matt Haight. A friendship born out of loneliness and the solace of the bottle turns out to be exactly what they both need.

The past year has been a slow death for Matt Haight. Ostracized from his beloved police force, facing middle age and perpetual loneliness, Matt sees only a black hole where his future should be. When he discovers another lost soul in Evan, some of the pieces he thought he lost start to fall back in place. Their friendship turns into something deeper, but love is the last thing either man expected, and both of them struggle to reconcile their new and overwhelming feelings for one another.

This was one of the first m/m romances I read and I periodically re-read it. If you're looking to check out the genre it is a good one to start with.

[briefcandles]

Originally Posted by pisceschick

Historical... I generally avoid self-pubs unless they're re-releases, and prefer the type that aren't so much the wallpaper variety (aka mistoricals). I don't start a series until all the volumes are out, so the recent suggestion I received to check into the Outlander books didn't help. Oh, and I don't like first-person. Not TOO picky, but a little persnickity I guess.

If you want to try a historical set outside the British Isles, I'd recommend Veronica Scott's The Gods of Egypt series (Carina Press). I guess you can say it has some paranormal elements, in that the Ancient Egyptian gods are real and interact with their subjects (in one book, the hero *is* a god). Scott has a knack for making you feel that this rather fantastical world is what passes for a mundane existence to the characters, which helps you immerse yourself in the story.

I also enjoyed Carla Capshaw's Love Inspired gladiator trilogy, especially the final book The Champion. The hero is a wiseass and the ancient Roman equivalent of a rake, and his verbal sparring with the heroine is too adorable.

Finally, if you ever want to give first-persons another shot, I'd heartily recommend Janet Mullany's Improper Relations. It has a very different tone from most Regencies out there, more like Regency chick lit if you know what I mean. For one thing, the story is told from the first person - both H and h - and in the present tense to boot, and the characters have a very British dry wit about them. For another, the sex is fade-to-black or simply alluded to - even when they're right in the middle of it - but that somehow makes it sexier. (Also, with fewer pages devoted to sex scenes, you get more *story* in return.) The book touches on some pretty dark themes despite the light tone; what is more, while there is an HEA, there are issues involving secondary characters that remain unresolved, or at least not resolved in a way that makes everyone happy. Now all that might not sound promising, and indeed it took me a while to get used to the tone, but by the time I finished the story I was like "Why don't they write more books like this?!" It's just refreshing - and very well-written.

I'm in a somewhat of a historical romance slump myself, though it has more to do with other genres calling my name (specifically, historical fantasy a la Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - same era, different emphasis). I'm currently reading a Sarah MacLean but it's been a bit of a slog.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by pisceschick

Not glad to hear it's "catching" but glad to not be alone!



Historical... I generally avoid self-pubs unless they're re-releases, and prefer the type that aren't so much the wallpaper variety (aka mistoricals). I don't start a series until all the volumes are out, so the recent suggestion I received to check into the Outlander books didn't help. Oh, and I don't like first-person. Not TOO picky, but a little persnickity I guess.

We are alot alike. I do like first person though. Right now I have started the book I bought so I am reading something. However I started after hubby got called for a temp job it was suppose to be a month of work but due to a shift in the construction budget it last two days. So who knows when I will have me time again to finish reading it.

[ScalyFreak]

This one is also $0.99 from the publisher, Dreamspinner Press, for the non-kindle people among us.

PDF, ePub, .mobi, .zip/html formats.

Originally Posted by Blue2u

M/M $.99 Faith & Fidelity - Tere Michaels
Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now the single father feels himself being crushed by the pain of loss and the heavy responsibility of raising his kids.

At the urging of his partner, Evan celebrates a coworker’s retirement and meets disgraced former cop turned security consultant Matt Haight. A friendship born out of loneliness and the solace of the bottle turns out to be exactly what they both need.

The past year has been a slow death for Matt Haight. Ostracized from his beloved police force, facing middle age and perpetual loneliness, Matt sees only a black hole where his future should be. When he discovers another lost soul in Evan, some of the pieces he thought he lost start to fall back in place. Their friendship turns into something deeper, but love is the last thing either man expected, and both of them struggle to reconcile their new and overwhelming feelings for one another.

[Jane A]

This looks like a self pubbed historical, but I thought it looked interesting, and it is free right now at Amazon. I'm kind of a sucker for gold rush romances.

Restless Hearts: A San Francisco Gold Rush Romance

Boston, 1849. Denied her dream of attending medical school, Sarah Howard is desperate to leave Boston far behind. Determined to prove that she can make it on her own, she poses as a married woman and boards a schooner bound for San Francisco.

Stuck working in his family’s merchant bank, Jamie Thompson eagerly accepts the challenge of setting up a branch in San Francisco. He’s been restless for some time now, and barely escaped the clutches of the woman determined to marry him.

The attraction between Sarah and Jamie is instant and powerful, yet each has something to prove, if only to themselves. Will their single-minded determination derail a blossoming romance?

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Jane A

This looks like a self pubbed historical, but I thought it looked interesting, and it is free right now at Amazon. I'm kind of a sucker for gold rush romances.

Restless Hearts: A San Francisco Gold Rush Romance

It's self-pubbed, but Mona Ingram was an Avalon Books author for years before they got acquired by Amazon and turned into their Montlake romance imprint, so presumably she's gotten pretty decent at storytelling by now.

Also free @ Kobo and price-matched in other stores as well.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Pitch Black by Leslie A. Kelly, 2nd in her Black CATs series of f/m romantic action suspenses starring a specialized FBI team, originally out from Signet's Eclipse imprint in 2009.

FBI Special Agent Alec Lambert is on the trail of a fiendish killer who lures his victims using Internet schemes. Teaming up with scam expert Samantha Dalton, he realizes the unsub—who calls himself Darwin—has his own plan to thin out the gene pool. Alec and the entire Black CAT team use all their skills to stop the monster before he can kill again…especially once they realize he has a new obsession: Samantha!

[rgeorg]

Originally Posted by apesmom

She's self-pubbed these days, but wow Courtney Milan is so good!
Pamela Clare's McKinnon's Rangers
Anything Sherry Thomas
Anne Gracie and Jennifer Ashley (Highland Pleasures)

Oh, and I wouldn't wait to read the Outlander series because they all may not be out. She's written 8 books in the series over the past 25 years. Who knows if/when she'll ever write the last one!

And they are such long books, it could take years to get through them. This is a positive as they are a great value. I am on the 3rd book in about as many years. There are audio versions as well. They are good if you enjoy history as well as historical romance.

[tempest@de]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

M/M $.99 Faith & Fidelity - Tere Michaels

also available on scribd and they have books 2 and 3 from this series.

[apesmom]

This is not the typical bargain I usually post on this thread but for those of us waiting for this book it sure is welcome.

EDIT: Careful with the google link, I just tried to buy it but the popup wanted to charge me $11.84. I'll try it again in a little while, maybe they're in an update process.

Burned (Fever #7) by Karen Marie Moning - $6.99
[new release, previously priced at $11.84]
Kindle | Google

It’s easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing.

MacKayla Lane would do anything to save the home she loves. A gifted sidhe-seer, she’s already fought and defeated the deadly Sinsar Dubh—an ancient book of terrible evil—yet its hold on her has never been stronger.

When the wall that protected humans from the seductive, insatiable Fae was destroyed on Halloween, long-imprisoned immortals ravaged the planet. Now Dublin is a war zone with factions battling for control. As the city heats up and the ice left by the Hoar Frost King melts, tempers flare, passions run red-hot, and dangerous lines get crossed. Seelie and Unseelie vie for power against nine ancient immortals who have governed Dublin for millennia; a rival band of sidhe-seers invades the city, determined to claim it for their own; Mac’s former protégé and best friend, Dani “Mega” O’Malley, is now her fierce enemy; and even more urgent, Highland druid Christian MacKeltar has been captured by the Crimson Hag and is being driven deeper into Unseelie madness with each passing day. The only one Mac can depend on is the powerful, dangerous immortal Jericho Barrons, but even their fiery bond is tested by betrayal.

It’s a world where staying alive is a constant struggle, the line between good and evil is blurred, and every alliance comes at a price. In an epic battle against dark forces, Mac must decide who she can trust, and what her survival is ultimately worth.

[DHNightshadow]

[QUOTE=apesmom;3031651]This is not the typical bargain I usually post on this thread but for those of us waiting for this book it sure is welcome.

EDIT: Careful with the google link, I just tried to buy it but the popup wanted to charge me $11.84. I'll try it again in a little while, maybe they're in an update process.

Burned (Fever #7) by Karen Marie Moning

Did someone read it? It does not have so good reviews. I like to know what
you think about it, when you read the six fever books and did like all of them.