FREE/BARGAIN — Romance & Discussion

[library addict]

Mostly rereads for me again this week, but I managed some new stuff too


Weekly Report:

Read:

• Expecting Her Ex's Baby (Sutton's Place #3) by Shannon Stacey (B/4 stars)
• Talinn (Badari Gladiators #3) by Veronica Scott (B-/3 stars)

Purchased:

[sufue]

A Grave Girls’ Getaway is the eighth in Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. It's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HL9KF6G
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HL9KF6G

Spoiler:

Vampire Cat Crawfield Russell is looking forward to a little down time with her best friend, Denise. But when witches crash the party, a fun getaway turns into a paranormal showdown.

Vampire Cat Crawfield is experiencing a new role as a mother. Turns out, trying to manage a perfect domestic life for her daughter is more...challenging than Cat ever imagined. Since things have finally quieted down in the undead world, her husband, Bones, suggests that Cat recharge by spending a girls-only getaway with her best friend, Denise.

Cat and Denise intend to spend the week doing nothing more than dancing, drinking, and sightseeing. Unfortunately, they stumble across a deadly summer solstice ritual performed by powerful witches who have no intention of letting their uninvited guests live to reveal what they saw. Will this girls-only getaway turn out to be the last vacation – ever! – for Cat and Denise?

[apesmom]

Freebie! This is from her latest series, have not read yet.

A Forest of Stars (Court of Starlight and Darkness #1) by Linsey Hall

Spoiler:

When the fae king comes for me, my resistance crumbles....

My idea of a good time used to be a rom-com and pint of ice cream. But when a lethally sexy fae king kidnaps me, that changes. I’m forced to compete in a deadly competition to become his queen.

Now, my idea of a good time is surviving the day. The Court of Starlight and Darkness is a gorgeous place, but I can’t stay. The Ice King's eyes burn with heat each time he looks at me, and I burn right back. The problem? He's cruel and dangerous.

The king has no idea I’m human, and if he finds out, I’m dead. My only choice is to compete until I find a way to escape--I just need to survive until then.

[apesmom]

Freebies! Haven't read this author yet but T.S. Joyce gets consistently good ratings. Looks like a lot of shifter romances. I've been noticing a couple hers popping up as free over the past couple weeks.

Currently free.

How It's Meant to Be (Oath of Bain #3)

Spoiler:

Moore is the only one of the Bane brothers who is upholding a blood oath they made years ago. It has left him at a disadvantage. Without the bond from his mate, his brothers are too powerful to destroy. He has a plan, but it will come with big consequences. A mate chosen at random in town should give him a bond that will make him powerful enough to go to war with his brothers, but the more he gets to know the stranger he’s picked, the more he thinks she is more trouble than she’s worth. Stage five clinger, human, fragile, emotional, and much too pretty for her own good. This isn’t what he’s signed up for, but the more he gets to know her, the more his old life seems very far away. She’s teaching him a lot about patience, and making him question everything he’s been trained to do. She was supposed to be a tool to start a war, but she’s teaching him the value of peace, little by little. Too bad peace isn’t an option for a monster like him. He is a legend in the making, and nothing, not even Aurora, can stop what he has to do.

Aurora Shelton is done with men. For the next three months, the only plans she has are to grow her business and ignore all boys. It’s self-care time. But one chance encounter with a growly man in town has her thinking she should just go on one tiny date with him, as a temporary farewell to dating. With Moore, she’s stepped into something so much deeper than she could’ve ever imagined. His life is covered in secrets and shadows, and with the reveal of each one, she is realizing she’s in way over her head. The man in him has her hooked, but the bear inside of him is a different beast altogether. There’s a war brewing, and she might be the only one who can stop Moore from fulfilling his dark destiny. Or can she?

Three brothers, three monsters, three oaths, one destiny.
Their greatest power lies within the women they claim.
Their love will conquer all…or destroy all…
Nothing is as it seems with the Oath of Bane.

How It Is (Oath of Bain #4)

Spoiler:

The king is dying. Krome has been the leader of the Crow Blooded for years, but his reign is over if he can’t find a way to heal his wings after a war with the Bane brothers. He’s stuck in the in-between, not quite a crow, not quite a man, and unable to choose a form. When his crows break the rules and abduct a human woman they swear can fix him, he thinks they’ve lost their minds. She’s smart and beautiful, and she has his attention in an unsettling way. Her secrets for wanting to help him might just annihilate his defenses altogether, and on the verge of war, he can’t afford to go soft. The woman who is saving him could also be the broken king’s undoing.

Cora Peterson is just a regular girl working a unique job. She’s drawn to birds, and crows in particular because of her long history with them. On the day she discovers crow shifters exist, there is no time for shock. The man she’s thrown in with is dying, and she’s the only one who can help. And his Crow Blooded people have made her a promise. If Krome lives, she lives, too. What starts as a project for survival turns personal when Krome shows her surprising respect and care. All of the pieces of her past seem to be coming together, but there is danger in bonding to a man at the top of the food chain. If she lets him slip, she becomes the target in a war that the humans don’t even know about…and eventually, she will have to choose between his life, or hers.

The Oath of Bane was just the beginning.
It’s the crows’ war now.

How It Was (Oath of Bain #6)

Spoiler:

Nuke’s new Crew has no idea what he is, or the level of destruction he can cause. He’s here for his own reasons, pledging fealty to a group of half-crazed, dominant shifters in hopes of gaining control of his life. But when a mousey, submissive human knocks on his door during move-in day, he starts to second guess his destiny. She doesn’t belong around a monster like him, but she has moments of strength, and a pile of secrets that have his inner animal a little too interested. The more he finds out about her, the more he wants to protect her, but she’s here on a mission of her own, and that mission could expose the entire Crew. He’s already been to war once with them, but this feels bigger. If Trina doesn’t stop tugging at his instincts, the whole world could burn.

Trina Hogue needs help. She’s stopped right in the middle of the Battleborn Crew to visit an old friend named Ren. But when she finds Ren, she’s surrounded by a small army of misfit shifters who are having trouble containing their inner animals. Her submissive personality won’t get her very far in this trailer park of beasts, so she has to adapt or perish if she wants Ren’s help. One night at the trailer park, and it’s clear she’s stumbled onto an ancient shifter who poses a threat to the world as she knows it. She should be terrified of Nuke, but with each passing minute, she starts to think he isn’t a monster at all. Maybe everyone else is.

Haunted by a past that will put the entire Battleborn Crew in danger before they’re even established, Trina must figure out whether to stay and lose herself, or leave and lose everything else.

[booklover6]

I love her. I've read about 113 of her books.

Originally Posted by apesmom

Freebies! Haven't read this author yet but T.S. Joyce gets consistently good ratings. Looks like a lot of shifter romances. I've been noticing a couple hers popping up as free over the past couple weeks.

Currently free.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:
Just rereads again.


Purchased:
none

[apesmom]

This week . . .

Call of Crows by Shelly Laurenston

#1 - The Unleashing - 3
Listened via Overdrive, not a fan of the narration, super annoying, pseudo-mid-atlantic accent. Missing the usual Laurenston humor.

Josh & Hazels Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren - 4

Listened via Overdrive, narration is good except for male narrator voicing females characters. Two very likeable characters.

Roomies by Christina Lauren - 4.5

Listened on Overdrive, narration is very good. Marriage of convenience with likable characters. There's no epilogue, I would have liked to hear how things developed down the road.

Edge Chronicles by Ilona Andrews

#2 - Bayou Moon - 4
#3 - Fate's Edge - 4
Listened on Overdrive, narration is good. Enjoying this series.

Purchased: none

[apesmom]

Freebie! Free on Kobo, Free on Smashwords, $0.99 on Amazon

Midnight Layrinth (Elemental Legacy #1/Elemental Series #15) by Elizabeth Hunter

Spoiler:

He’s one human caught in a tangled maze of theft, politics, magic, and blood.

In other words, it’s just another night.

Ben Vecchio escaped a chaotic childhood and grew to adulthood under the protection and training of one of the Elemental world’s most feared vampire assassins. He’s traveled the world and battled immortal enemies.


But everyone has to go home sometime.

New York means new opportunities and allies for Ben and his vampire partner, Tenzin. It also means new politics and new threats. Their antiquities business is taking off, and their client list is growing. When Ben is challenged to find a painting lost since the second world war, he jumps at the chance. This job will keep him closer to home, but it might just land him in hot water with the insular clan of earth vampires who run Manhattan.


Tenzin knew the painting would be trouble before she laid eyes on it, but she can’t deny the challenge intrigues her. Human laws mean little to a vampire with a few millennia behind her, and Tenzin misses the rush of taking what isn’t hers.


But nothing is more dangerous than a human with half the story, and Ben and Tenzin might end up risking their reputations and their lives before they escape the Midnight Labyrinth.

[library addict]

Driven by Eve Silver (Northern Waste #1) (originally published as Eve Kenin) is free

Spoiler:

In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She's spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and haul her load of grain to Gladow Station—but trouble finds her in the form of a sexy stranger called Wizard. He has the trucking pass she needs, and she has to drag him out of a brawl with the very people she's trying to hide from in order to get it.

She may have rescued him, but Raina's not foolish enough to see Wizard as anything close to helpless. He's hard and honed and full of secrets—secrets that may destroy them both. As they race across the Waste, trying to outrun rival truckers, ice pirates, and the powerful man bent on their destruction, Raina's forced to admit that trouble's found her. And this time, there's nowhere left to run.

It was free wide back in 2017, but now appears to be Amazon only

Amazon

FWIW, I first read this book back when it was published by Dorcherter's Shomi line. I "reread" this extended self-published version back in 2016 and enjoyed it.

[apesmom]

Now free on Amazon too.

Originally Posted by apesmom

Freebie! Free on Kobo, Free on Smashwords, $0.99 on Amazon

Midnight Layrinth (Elemental Legacy #1/Elemental Series #15) by Elizabeth Hunter

Spoiler:

He’s one human caught in a tangled maze of theft, politics, magic, and blood.

In other words, it’s just another night.

Ben Vecchio escaped a chaotic childhood and grew to adulthood under the protection and training of one of the Elemental world’s most feared vampire assassins. He’s traveled the world and battled immortal enemies.


But everyone has to go home sometime.

New York means new opportunities and allies for Ben and his vampire partner, Tenzin. It also means new politics and new threats. Their antiquities business is taking off, and their client list is growing. When Ben is challenged to find a painting lost since the second world war, he jumps at the chance. This job will keep him closer to home, but it might just land him in hot water with the insular clan of earth vampires who run Manhattan.


Tenzin knew the painting would be trouble before she laid eyes on it, but she can’t deny the challenge intrigues her. Human laws mean little to a vampire with a few millennia behind her, and Tenzin misses the rush of taking what isn’t hers.


But nothing is more dangerous than a human with half the story, and Ben and Tenzin might end up risking their reputations and their lives before they escape the Midnight Labyrinth.

[apesmom]

Freebie! not sure if it's been free before or not

Runaway Fate (#1 Moonstone Cove) by Elizabeth Hunter

Spoiler:

Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove.

Okay yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life in middle age.

Four minutes was all it took for fate to run away with anything that resembled normal.

Now Katherine is trying to place mysterious psychic visions into her previously ordered life. She’s playing referee between a displaced Southern mama and a sarcastic mechanic with a chip on her shoulder. And her quiet life has been upended by a mysterious rash of violent acts by students at her school.

Thankfully, her new friends have powers of their own, and together they just might discover who or what has it in for the quiet citizens of Moonstone Cove.

Runaway Fate is the first book in the hot new Paranormal Women’s Fiction series, Moonstone Cove by USA Today bestselling author, Elizabeth Hunter. It’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)

[sufue]

Now $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The Kindle link is still good, and here's the Kobo link...

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rose-cottage-3

Originally Posted by sufue

Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. Since it's a Big 6 (or 5) publisher price drop, it has probably also dropped at Kobo US, but I'm having trouble with accessing the Kobo website, so can't verify.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GW4P058

[apesmom]

Freebie! I haven't read this author yet but she's got another PNR chart topping series so worth a click.

Court of Shadows (Shadow Fae #1) by C.N. Crawford

Spoiler:

Rags to riches is supposed to be a nice fantasy. Going from a cheap London hovel to an elite fae institute should be amazing, especially when it involves a medieval castle.

It's just not so great when the aristocratic jerks in the Tower want to crush you.

It starts when a lethally gorgeous fae--Ruadan--hunts me down. He's known as the Wraith, and he's taken a vow of silence to snuff out illegal magic. Fae magic that I possess. The Wraith lets me live on one condition: I have to earn my place at the Court of the Shadow Fae. I'm a survivor. I think I can manage the competition.

Too bad the posh recruits have it in for me. Worse, I'm forced to share a room with the silent Wraith, who is as sinister as he is hot. All it takes is one slip up, and I'm out. And at the Court of the Shadow Fae, failure means death.

[apesmom]

Freebie! Books 1 & 2 have been free in the past year so you may already have them. 4.7 stars out of 3406 ratings. At some point I need to try this author.

Shielding Aspen (Delta Team Two #3)

Spoiler:

An impulsive kiss, a jealous ex, and her future in the balance. He might be exactly what she needs.

Desperate to ditch her ex once and for all, when Aspen Mesmer asks a complete stranger to kiss her, she never expects to feel an immediate connection. Despite already dealing with one soldier she can’t shake, Aspen would be a fool to ignore the intense chemistry she shares with the Delta Force operative. Even better, he shows her the respect few others offer in her male-dominated profession. It’s clear she’ll never have the camaraderie she craves with her own platoon, but maybe…just maybe…she’ll find it with Kane and his team.

Kane “Brain” Temple isn’t the kind of man most women look at twice, so when Aspen makes her interest clear after their impulsive, explosive kiss, he’s thrilled. As a combat medic attached to a Ranger team, Aspen is pretty impressive in her own right. She might be one of the few women who can not only handle Brain’s frequent deployments, but understand exactly how dangerous his missions can be. Bonus: she’s not turned off by his nerdy tendencies. It’s as if Aspen was made just for him.

Her ex disagrees. He’s not handling Aspen’s rejection well, or her deepening relationship with Brain. Being thrown over for a Delta is humiliating, and he’ll do anything to make her regret it.

Kindle | Kobo | Google

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Storm Echo (Psy/Changeling Trinity #6) by Nalini Singh (A-/5 stars)
• The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope (A/5 stars)

Purchased: