Free and bargain romance ebooks + Discussion February 2014

[Amy_k]

Escapade by Susan Carroll (aka Serena Richards) for $0.99

Historical romance that was previously published by Berkeley

Smashwords

Rory Kavanaugh is so desperate to save her hot air balloon company, she takes on a risky performance with a circus. When the stunt goes wrong and she crashes onto the lawn of Zeke Morrison's estate, she sees a new opportunity to rescue her failing business. But when the ruthless millionaire claps eyes on the lovely Rory, Zeke harbors far different ideas than investing in hot air balloons. Rory finds herself attracted to him, a dangerous desire because Zeke is a man of many secrets. When his murky past catches up with him, Rory faces a daunting question: could she have fallen in love with a murderer?

[Amy_k]

Knights of Valor box set for $0.99

A Knight's Victory by Eliza Knight
A Knight's Reward by Catherine Kean (previously by Medallion Press)
A Knight of Honor by Laurel O'Donnell (previously by Zebra)
Summer's Storm by Denise Domning (previously by Topaz)

A KNIGHT OF HONOR
A LADY armed with a quick sword and a sharp tongue flees the fire that destroyed her mother. A KNIGHT vows to return
her to her dying father. Will the flames of her past consume them both?

A KNIGHT'S VICTORY
An Irish LADY trapped in a vicious marriage. An English KNIGHT willing to risk all to protect his childhood love. A knight's victory could be the lady's undoing...

A KNIGHT’S REWARD.
In hiding, a LADY TAILOR sews garments of costly silk to provide for her son. A KNIGHT seeks stolen cloth and finds instead his long-lost love. As he unravels her secrets will he lose all he holds dear or win the greatest honor of all?

SUMMER'S STORM
A bastard KNIGHT gives his heart to the one LADY who is his equal. Can he protect her from the husband who wants her dead and win the happiness that is their true legacy?

Smashwords



The Chauvinist by Vanessa Grant (previously by Harlequin) for $0.99

Smashwords

Kristy couldn't believe her ears! Within hours of meeting Blake Harding again, he calmly informed her she was going to marry him. Since coming to Vancouver her career had been her life, and her recent promotion at Point Grey College her dream come true. But her plans and dreams meant nothing to Blake. In fact, he wanted her to stop working and start having babies!

Former Harlequin titles (Smashwords) by Vanessa Grant - FREE

The Truth About Trish

Originally published under the title Hidden Memories.

They had met under difficult circumstances, and Abby had fallen into his arms seeking comfort in her grief. Then she'd walked out on him and she'd been living a lie ever since. Now, Ryan Marsdon was back and he wanted her. But Abby had to protect herself from this man or she could lose her family, her reality, and her daughter.

Catalina's Lover

Juan Corsica Perez was a man who believed the earth belonged to him, and everyone in it. Only Cathy Jenan thought otherwise. They had known each other once and it had been wonderful, but although Cathy had traveled all over the world since she last saw her first love, she'd never returned to Peru. Then fate, and Juan Corsica Perez, forced her back.

Jenny's Turn

Book 1 in the Pacific Waterfront Romances series: Life with Jake was fascinating! His energy, arrogance and talent made working with him an exciting experience. Sometimes he looked at her as if he wanted her, but then he wanted so many women, didn't he? She wasn't about to become one of the gang. Finally she realized that the only way to get over Jake was to get out of his life, so she ran away.

[Blue2u]

Sending good thoughts out to Anemic Oak, Loosheesh & KyBunnies. Hope you guys are all ok and check in soon.

[auntykatkat]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

Sending good thoughts out to Anemic Oak, Loosheesh & KyBunnies. Hope you guys are all ok and check in soon.

I ditto that!!

Auntykatkat

[apesmom]

Kindle deal

Hot Zone Bundle by Carly Phillips - $0.99
4 previously published sports themed HQN novels (2004-2008)

HOT STUFF

Powerhouse sports publicist Annabelle Jordan has sworn never to date another jock—not even one as sinfully sexyas football legend Brandon Vaughn. Yet as the two team up to turn his image around, the chemistry between them might be too hot to handle.

HOT NUMBER

She might work at a sports agency, but Micki Jordan has decided she's through being just one of the guys. But when she sets her sights on pro ballplayer and renowned playboy Damian Fuller, her heart might be in major-league trouble…

HOT ITEM

Cool, collected Sophie Jordan loves her daily routine running her family's top sports management agency—until star quarterback and notorious bad boy Riley Nash tempts her to break all the rules.

HOT PROPERTY

Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone has one task: to help center fielder John Roper get his life back on track after a World Series disaster. But then the two retreat to a secluded lodge to escape the fallout—and the gorgeous ballplayer throws Amy a curveball she never saw coming…

[sqdancer]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Kindle deal

Hot Zone Bundle by Carly Phillips - $0.99
4 previously published sports themed HQN novels (2004-2008)

Also $0.99 at Sony

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by auntykatkat

I ditto that!!

Auntykatkat

I triple it! Very worried with all the snow we've had all over the U.S. Although Loosh is not in the U.S but it's not like her to stay away so long! Not like her at all. I need to check her Goodreads page and see if she is active there. Her GR account is deleted. but she did most here at MR Feb 4th so maybe she is just too busy.

[apesmom]

Kindle freebie

Silence (Faces of Evil #0.5) by Debra Webb - novella

Finally, the much anticipated Christmas prequel novella to the blockbuster thriller OBSESSION is here!

Ten years ago...

Special Agent Jess Harris has closed another tough case and now she's determined to make it home to spend Christmas with her only family, her sister. Jess needs a break and taking it far away from work is the only way to keep her mind off the many faces of evil waiting in the stack of case files on her desk.

Running into the past wasn't part of the plan...

Daniel Burnett was Jess's first love. She'd fallen hard for him in high school. Together they'd gone off to college with big dreams. But not all dreams come true. Jess hasn't seen Dan in ten years when they run into each other on Christmas Eve night...yet no force on earth can keep them apart.

[koland]

Pocket Star free pre-order:

The Nekkid Truth by Nicole Camden
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H5SE1QO

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I triple it! Very worried with all the snow we've had all over the U.S. Although Loosh is not in the U.S but it's not like her to stay away so long! Not like her at all. I need to check her Goodreads page and see if she is active there. Her GR account is deleted. but she did most here at MR Feb 4th so maybe she is just too busy.

I hope everyone is ok...and just enjoying the fam and offline life

[AnemicOak]

Hey gang

I'm around, just haven't been posting or spending much time on MR while I do my best to find a job. Having not needed a resume or anything for 20 years I had to basically start from scratch doing a resume, portfolio and website before I could really do much else. Finding things a bit discouraging so far. When you've been doing something for 20 years and for a small company your responsibilities can be so diverse that it's kind of hard to translate it into another position somewhere with a somewhat comparable pay level. Right now it feels like my best bet might be getting called back to where I was working. Should know about that in 3-4 weeks if I haven't found anything.

[library addict]

Thanks for "checking in," Brian. Sending good luck vibes for the job hunt.

[Terisa de morgan]

Good luck with you job hunt, Brian!

[NixLapi]

Good luck Brian with the job hunt! Hope Loosheesh and KyBunnies are doing ok too...

Another Sunday, where does the time go?! No purchases to report this week, I'm doing well on working on my TBR instead of just growing it.

I read a few this week between being glued to the Olympics:
Love Irresistibly (US Attorney/FBI #4) by Julie James... 3
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan... 4 (mistorical category 2 I'd say)
and
Temporarily Yours by "Diane Alberts"... 2 -> This one made me wonder about the trend of authors "writing as xyz" but the publisher putting their real name LARGER on the cover than the name they are "writing as". I don't understand the point of using the pseudonym in these cases?!

[Loosheesh]

Hi everyone Sorry to worry you guys; I'm no longer subscribed to the Romance thread but I was doing bookmark clean-up and decided to peek in and see what you all were up. I'm not doing well health-wise, to the point where I'm re-evaluating many things, including how I'm spending my time (especially online) and buying books that look more and more likely I will have much less time to read than I thought (or buying books I don't care to read anymore). It's been a time of wrestling, I'll be frank. Soul-searching, as I'm sure you all know, is not easy, but it has been worthwhile for me in re-prioritizing and returning balance to my life, especially when it comes to my faith (most importantly, the practice of my faith). This illness (*whatever it is) has seriously upended my life, to the point where I'm practically home-bound right now and cannot go anywhere on my own. For an independent-minded person like myself it is a major blow. But God has taught me a lot through it and I'm very grateful.

*So what is wrong with me? My health started deteriorating more 5 years ago and, thousands of dollars worth of tests later, I'm only a little closer to knowing the answer to that question. It's neurological, debilitative and progressive. Very enlightening stuff, right there My current doctor has her one major speculation; I'm scheduled to see a new specialist (and to do another mint-worth of tests) to find out if she's right.

My work has suffered a bit but I'm able to do some of it from home. My boss and coworkers are very supportive and co-operative. One of the things I wanted us to work on as a team this year was 'initiative' and we've been thrust in the deep-end with my situation. Everyone seems to be up to the challenge, though.

Regarding books and reading, I'm definitely buying less (only bought 4 so far for 2014), and I have yet to complete one book this month. My Calibre library, however, is finally getting the clean-up I always wanted to give it. And what a clean-up it has been! I went from over 7000 books to just a little over 2000. I was pretty ruthless I created a separate library for the Amazon books I wanted to delete from my account and have only 1600 left to get rid of.

I deleted my Booklikes account. I couldn't work up the energy to update anything, plus the things turning up in my update stream seemed so trivial in light of what I may be facing. When you collapse at work and have to now hold on to someone to get from point A to B, you might find yourself not caring about which author is having a beef with reviewers. No offense to anyone, but that is the dead-least of my concerns right now. Same with Twitter; there was just too much noise there. I cleaned up my following list and removed all my followers (afterward I felt that was probably kinda rude but I wanted to go in a different direction with what I was posting (if anything) and I didn't want to bombard people with stuff they didn't sign up for ).

[I'd already gotten rid of my Goodreads account after that September 2013 debacle so it has nothing to do with now. I created a new account (because I find it easier to navigate for book info when I'm signed in) but it's set to private].

So, there it is. Sorry for the length! Praying that AnemicOak gets a great job soon and that KyBunnies is OK. And I hope everyone else is doing well. And thanks for thinking about me!