Free & bargain romance ebooks & discussion in April 2014

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by library addict

All I remember about Cassie Edwards is that she plagiarized so many people. But like Janet Dailey most publishers didn't seem to care

I did not know that. I never kept up with what was happening and until I started reading/posting here it was never something that crossed my mind. I always thought publishers would make sure nothing was plagiarized. Guess I was wrong

[library addict]

There was a big to do over it online a few years back. Lots of her fans said Sarah and Candy from SBTB and Jane and co from Dear Author were just mean girls for pointing out all the plagiarized passages. I think one of her publishers dropped her, but not all.

Dear Author had a really good post about the various authors she'd plagiarized from. The many faces of plagiarism

It was the nature article she copied about the black footed ferret that actually started the whole revelation.

[laurla]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

Been a while since I read them, but IIRC not really necessary, but it certainly added a great dimension to the series, I highly recommend all 3.
Laurla, do you remember?

I haven't read Thief yet, but from what I remember of the middle book and from what I understand the last one to be, you do need to know what happened in the middle. THere's a lot of character development there...

[mommyofkings]

It is still on preorder for $0.99.


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Charity Pineiro (Author),
Tina Wainscott (Author),
Maureen Child (Author),
Paige Tyler (Author),
Tawny Weber (Author),
Nina Bruhns (Author),
Virna DePaul (Author),
Karen Fenech (Author),
Kristin Miller (Author),
Gennita Low (Author),
Joyce Lamb (Author),
Maureen A Miller (Author)


This romantic suspense boxed set stars TWELVE Smoking Hot Heroes in TWELVE Full-Length Novels by TWELVE Bestselling Authors.


To Catch Her Man by Charity Pineiro, New York Times Bestselling Author. Investigative reporter Sylvia Amenabar must decide between friendship, love and discovering the truth behind a cop's murder... Undercover detective Carlos Ramirez nearly lost his life protecting Sylvia, but he knows it'll be a fight to reach her heart. . . Can they learn to trust one another and find out the truth about a failed assignment that nearly killed Carlos? Or will the secrets of the past and family issues cost them the things they hold most dear.



I'll Be Watching You by Tina Wainscott, New York Times Bestselling Author. Ten years ago, Kim left her steamy Everglades town under a cloud of murder and scandal. Her gran brings her back to reclaim her home and unearth the truth...while a killer watches her every move.



Bedeviled by Maureen Child, USA Today Bestselling Author. A *faerie* funny paranormal.



Protective Custody by Paige Tyler, USA Today Bestselling Author. Someone is stalking reporter Paisley McCoy, and police detective Gray Beckham is the only man who can protect her. While the chemistry between them is undeniable, there's no way he's going near the captain's daughter, and she has a hard and fast rule that says she doesn't date cops. Can they both survive the stalker who's coming after them long enough to realize how good they are together?



There's a New Witch in Town by Tawny Weber, New York Times Bestselling Author. Her magic, his town, their love... is it enough? Or will a witch just regaining her powers have to choose between saving a cursed town, or giving up everything she's come to care about?



In His Control by Nina Bruhns, New York Times Bestselling Author. A rogue detective will do anything to catch the sexy international thief he's fixated upon. When their titillating game of cat and mouse grows shockingly intimate, he must make the impossible choice between honor and duty...and the notorious woman he has unwittingly come to love.



Chosen by Sin by Virna DePaul, New York Times Bestselling Author. A wounded alpha werebeast bent on revenge... A female vampire trying to save her adoptive dragon-shifter family... Can they stop a group of rebel shape-shifters from unleashing every demon in hell? Only if they relinquish their secrets, face their fears, and open themselves to love.



Imposter: The Protectors Series -- Book One by Karen Fenech, International Bestselling Author. Chemist Dr. Eve Collins, wrongly accused by the CIA of developing a chemical weapon, learns someone has set her up as a scapegoat. That "someone" wants her dead. To save her life, she must join forces with CIA Operative John Burke--the man who doesn't believe her claim of innocence and the man she's falling in love with.



Dark Tide Rising by Kristin Miller, New York Times Bestselling Author. Police Sergeant Mark Thurgood is all work and no play, but he's harboring secrets that tie him to the vengeful sea. Free-spirited Emily McAllister is haunted by premonitions, and the latest shows her death in a dark coastal cave. Can they put their desires aside to focus on the task at hand and find the killer before he finds her?



Big Bad Wolf by Gennita Low. On the run from shadowy enemies, a secret agent finds sunlight and love while working undercover for a female roofer.



Found Wanting by Joyce Lamb. She's been on the run for 14 years. He's been sent to bring her home, dead or alive. A boy's life depends on what happens next. Can they overcome betrayal, lies and violence to find what they've always wanted?



High Tide by Maureen Miller. A couple locked in a struggle to protect the coast...and their lives.

[Blossom]

Huge 99 cents sale @ Amazon Today Only!

20 books for 99 each.

• Kathy Bennett, A Deadly Justice
  
• Kitty Bucholtz, Little Miss Lovesick
  
• Linda Carroll-Bradd, Capturing the Marshal’s Heart
  
• Kathleen Creighton, The Prince and the Patriot
  
• Jacqueline Diamond, The Cowboy and the Heiress
  
• Gillian Doyle, Mystic Memories
  
• Susan R. Hughes, A Baby for Christmas
  
• Michelle Knowlden, Indelible Beats
  
• Heather MacAllister, Counterfeit Cowgirl
  
• Mindy Neff, The Bad Boy Next Door
  
• Louella Nelson, Cora Lee
  
• Lyn O’Farrell, Worth the Risk
  
• Dee Ann Palmer, Where Eagles Cry
  
• Sandra Paul, Last Chance For Marriage
  
• Michael H. Payne, A Curial Quartet
  
• Edie Ramer, Christmas at Angel Lake
  
• Angie Ray, Ghostly Enchantment
  
• Susan Squires, Waiting For Magic
  
• Kristy Tate, Beyond the Fortuneteller’s Tent
  
• Patricia Thayer, Colton Creek Cowboy

Not all romance but some are old Harlequins and a few historical romance in there. I picked up a couple.

[Blue2u]

Originally Posted by laurla

I haven't read Thief yet, but from what I remember of the middle book and from what I understand the last one to be, you do need to know what happened in the middle. THere's a lot of character development there...

Yes, you're absolutely right in putting it that way.


Whew, I'm wiped, been working on my Mom's library for the past week. Just finished my first sweep of authors with multiple books. Probably got rid of a few hundred freebies. Next up is a more fine-tuned sort through of about 1000 individual freebies and then all 3 libraries [Main, mine and my Mom's] are culled and updated. I'll be so relieved when this is all done.

[library addict]

Originally Posted by Blue2u

Yes, you're absolutely right in putting it that way.


Whew, I'm wiped, been working on my Mom's library for the past week. Just finished my first sweep of authors with multiple books. Probably got rid of a few hundred freebies. Next up is a more fine-tuned sort through of about 1000 individual freebies and then all 3 libraries [Main, mine and my Mom's] are culled and updated. I'll be so relieved when this is all done.

But it sounds like you are making lots of progess

[apesmom]

For those of you that have been looking for medievals, Anne Stuart's Lord of Danger is on sale today for $0.99. It's couponable at Kobo. Previously published by Zebra 1997.

Kindle | Kobo

The plan was for beautiful Claire to marry the terrifyingly sinister Simon of Navarre, wizard in residence to Richard the Fair. Instead her plain sister Alys takes her place, proving herself more than a match for the man with the secrets, while sweet Claire falls in love with a handsome knight, while the truly evil Richard the Fair tries to make life miserable for all. Set in medieval times, this is a rich, gorgeous tale of love and deception and ultimate redemption

[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Need help finding author

All I remember about the author or her books is the hero was always Indian. If I remember correctly all her books had an Indian hero. I cannot remember anything else. I would go browse a bookstore but there is nothing near me. What little I do remember has not pulled up anything on Google or Amazon.

Does anyone know the author I am thinking about?

Contemporary or historical?

Doreen Owens Maleek (sp?) has a few contemporary books where the hero is an American Indian.

[kg3]

FREE @ Amazon:

Prince of Swords - Anne Stuart
-Historical Romance (Georgian-London, 1775)
-Zebra/Kensington, 1996

Take an aristocratic cat burglar, a down on her luck gentlewoman who reads Tarot cards for living, add in a wicked villain, beheadings, the Tower of London, and luscious sex, and you end up with PRINCE OF SWORDS, a classic romp of a Georgian romance.

[NixLapi]

Originally Posted by laurla

I haven't read Thief yet, but from what I remember of the middle book and from what I understand the last one to be, you do need to know what happened in the middle. THere's a lot of character development there...

Originally Posted by Blue2u

Been a while since I read them, but IIRC not really necessary, but it certainly added a great dimension to the series, I highly recommend all 3.
Laurla, do you remember?

Thanks ladies!

[Britomart]

Today's freebie at AAR is The Charmer, a Tudor-set historical romance by C.J. Archer (and it will still be free tomorrow).

Handsome. Charming. Devastating.

He was the last man she needed, but the only one she wanted.

Orlando Holt has never assassinated a woman before. The lovely, feisty Lady Lynden will be his first. She's supposed to be a vicious murderess, but when Orlando begins to have doubts, he sets out to discover the identity of the person who hired him. What he learns will turn his world upside down, and propel him headlong into love with a woman who's immune to his charms.

Twice widowed by the age of twenty-four, Lady Susanna Lynden has had enough of charming men. Her last husband knew all the right things to say to get her to the marriage bed…then made her life miserable. Money may be scarce and her house falling down around her, but the exotic fruit from her orange trees will keep poverty away. Except someone is thwarting her at every turn. Someone who may even want her dead.

[Britomart]

Free pre-order prequel novella to a new series from Amazon:

Before the Kiss US DE by Jayne Fresina (Sourcebooks Casablanca). It's due to be published on May 6.

An original novella introducing Jayne Fresina's charming, delightfully naughty new Regency Romance series. In the sleepy village of Hawcombe Prior, the five young ladies of the Book Club Belles Society are looking for their own leading men. When handsome, mysterious Darius Wainwright strolls into town, the Book Club Belles are instantly smitten with his brooding good looks and prideful demeanor. It's as if he walked out of the pages of their favorite new novel, a scandalous romance called Pride and Prejudice. But Miss Justina Penny has a secret – she's met this arrogant, brooding bachelor before. In Bath. The town, not the tub. Although, she was naked...

[Britomart]

Free from Amazon:

The Fragile Hour US DE by Rosalind Laker (originally published by Severn House in 1996). I have not read this one, but some of her other novels set in 19th century England, and they are very good.

Two decades after the end of the Second World War, Anna Marlow stands among a crowd of spectators gathered around a lake in Norway.

She is watching an aircraft being raised up from the depths of a lake.

As she does so, she remembers its pilot - with a heart that is heavy for reasons far more complicated than a love that was lost during the Second World War.

As a British secret agent, Anna had returned to her Nazi-occupied homeland during the war to join the Norwegian resistance. Assuming a new identity, she lived among the Nazis whilst carrying out highly dangerous acts of sabotage, risking her life and the lives of her loved ones.

Despite the constant danger she faced, Anna found love – or love found Anna.

But as the war drags her away from those she loves, can this passion outlast Germany’s occupation of Norway?

Or will it be just one more casualty of the conflict?

‘The Fragile Hour’ is an gripping wartime romance about the courage and sacrifices made by the women of the secret service during the Second World War.

[xstitchfan]

Originally Posted by Britomart

Today's freebie at AAR is The Charmer, a Tudor-set historical romance by C.J. Archer (and it will still be free tomorrow).

Hi all, Thank you for posting the freebie link. I just downloaded "The Charmer". Can anyone tell me where on the All Romance site I can find the free book of the day during the special sale? I am stumped on how you are finding each day's freebie.Thanks for the info in advance! Happy Reading! Joan