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[library addict]

Suddenly One Summer by Julie James on sale for $1.99 (FBI/US Attorney #6)

Spoiler:

From the New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Wedding comes a novel about a man and a woman whose summer is about to get very, very hot…

Divorce lawyer Victoria Slade has seen enough unhappy endings to swear off marriage forever. That doesn’t mean she’s opposed to casual dating—just not with her cocky new neighbor, who is as gorgeous and tempting as he is off-limits. But once she agrees to take on his sister’s case, she’s as determined to win as ever—even if that means teaming up with Ford…

Investigative journalist Ford Dixon is bent on finding the man who got his sister pregnant and left her high and dry. He’s willing to partner with Victoria, despite the fact that the beautiful brunette gets under his skin like no other woman. He might not be looking to settle down, but there’s no denying the scorching attraction between them. Still, the more time he spends with Victoria, the more he realizes that the one woman as skeptical about love as he is might be the only woman he could really fall for…

Penguin Random House (has links for the usual sites, may have to click the ebook section)

[library addict]

Oops duplicate post

[sufue]

Lindsay Buroker's Trolled, which is the third in her Legacy of Magic series, is £0.99 right now at Kindle UK, as part of today's Daily Deal. (It's also part of KU in both the US and UK, at least as of now...)

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BMGWZD4Y

Spoiler:

Busy looking for her missing mother and dodging enemies that are after her magical hammer, Matti Puletasi doesn’t need any more problems. She definitely doesn’t need the person who hired an assassin to kill her mother to show up—and target her.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the handsome elven ally she’s falling in love with… may be working for the other side.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Shot in the Dark (Covert Cowboy Soldiers #4) by Nicole Helm (B-/3 stars)
• On His Watch (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #0.5) by Katie Ruggle (D-/1 star)
• Hold Your Breath (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #1) by Katie Ruggle (A/5 stars)
• Fan the Flames (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #2) by Katie Ruggle (F/1 star)
• Gone Too Deep (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #3) by Katie Ruggle (A/5 stars)
• In Safe Hands (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #4) by Katie Ruggle (B-/3 stars)
• After the End (Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue #4.5) by Katie Ruggle (A-/5 stars)

Also still up to Heart of Obsidian in my complete Psy/Changeling series reread.

Purchased:
none

[library addict]

Warrior Mage by Lindsay Buroker (Chains of Honor #1) is free for limited time.

This series is a spin-off/sequel to The Emporer's Edge series and Forgotten Ages series.

Spoiler:

His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.

Yanko White Fox doesn’t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he’s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it’s the only sure route back into the Great Chief’s good graces. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not.

Long before he’s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief’s son. Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives… or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war.

Books 2 Read link for Kobo, Google Play, Apple, Amazon, etc.

[sufue]

Two years and a bit later, Small Magics is $1.99 at Kindle US. Not quite $0.99, but still a pretty good price. The link below is still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Two titles from Ilona Andrews on sale in the US.

{edited other book}

Small Magics is a collection of short stories and some Curran POV that I quite enjoyed. I especially liked Magic Tests, which is a short story featuring Julie, Kate's ward, who is also about to make an appearance in January of next year with a self-pubbed book of her own, Blood Heir. I've always kind of wished Julie would hook up with Yu Fong, from Magic Tests, but the partially-serialized version of Blood Heir that was on the IA website for a while seemed to indicate that it's going to be Derek, not Yu Fong. (Not a spoiler, since it's already been on the IA website, and also not for certain, but certainly looked that way...) Sigh! In any case, Small Magics is $0.99 at Kindle US only, at least as of right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015JNEOEK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B015JNEOEK

[apesmom]

Freebie!

Ten Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend by Penny Reid

Spoiler:

Winnifred Gobaldi and Byron Visser are not best friends.

Yes, they’ve known each other for years, but they’re not even friendly. Winnie considers them more like casual, distant acquaintances who find each other barely tolerable, especially when he's being condescending (which is all the time).

The truth is, they have nothing in common. She’s a public school science teacher with stars in her eyes, and he’s a pretentious, joyless double PhD turned world-famous bestselling fiction author. She loves sharing her passion for promulgating women in STEM careers and building community via social media, and he eschews all socialization, virtual or otherwise. She’s looking for a side hustle to help pay down a mountain of student debt, and his financial portfolio is the stuff of fiduciary wet dreams. So why are they faking a #bestfriend relationship for millions of online spectators?

When a simple case of tit-for-tat trends between nonfriends leads to a wholly unexpected kind of pretend, nothing is simple. Sometimes, it takes a public audience to reveal the truth of private feelings, and rarely—very rarely—you should believe what you see online.

[sufue]

Storm Echo, which per its blurb is the sixth in Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling Trinity series, is $1.99 right now as part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KG1GN5M
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/storm-echo

Spoiler:

Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan Mercant. The biggest threat to his future lies dormant in his brain—a psychic monster that wants only to feed. And now, the brutal leash he’s kept on that monster is slipping. He prepared for this day, for the end of Ivan Mercant . . . but that was before he met Lei.

As primal as she is human, this wild changeling brings color into his life, laughter to his soul. Then the dream shatters in a rain of blood, in silent bodies in the snow. Lei is gone. Vanished without a trace . . . until he meets strangely familiar eyes across a busy San Francisco street.

Soleil Bijoux Garcia is a healer who has lost everything. She exists in a world of desolate aloneness . . . till the day she finds herself face-to-face with a lethal stranger. The animal who is her other half knows this man, but her memories are tattered fragments. Sorrow and a need for vengeance are all that drive her. Her mission? To kill the alpha of the DarkRiver leopard pack.

But fate has other plans. Soon, a deadly soldier who believes himself a monster and a broken healer might be all that stand between life and death for the entire Psy race. . . .

[sufue]

The first three books in Annette Marie's Guild Codex: Warped series are $0.99/£0.99 each right now at Kindle US/UK as Countdown deals, good for six-days-and-a-bit more. The titles are: Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors, Hellbound Guilds & Other Misdirections, and Rogue Ghosts & Other Miscreants.

These are also KU, but if you don't have that, or just want your own copies, here are links to the series pages:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BX47MX8...kindle_edition
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BX47M...kindle_edition

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Run to Ground (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit #1) by Katie Ruggle (B/4 stars)
• On the Chase (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit #2) by Katie Ruggle (D/1 stars)
• Survive the Night (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit #3) by Katie Ruggle (B+/4 stars)
• Through the Fire (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit #4) by Katie Ruggle (B+/4 stars)
• Rocky Mountain Cowboy Christmas (Rocky Mountain Cowboys #1) by Katie Ruggle (D+/2 stars)

Still on Heart of Obsidian in my complete Psy/Changeling series reread.

Purchased:
none

[apesmom]

Freebie!

Wait For It by Mariana Zapata

Spoiler:

If anyone ever said being an adult was easy, they hadn't been one long enough.

Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn't know what the hell she's doing half the time. How she's made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn’t supposed to be so hard.

With a new house, two little boys she inherited the most painful possible way, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask for.

Except for a boyfriend.

Or a husband.

But who needs either one of those?

[sufue]

Serpent's Kiss is now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052RGBTU
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/serpent-s-kiss-6

Originally Posted by sufue

Three books in Thea Harrison's Elder Races series have dropped to £2.99 each at Kindle UK. Books in this series don't seem to drop in price very often, either in the US or the UK, so it's odd to see three at once...

{edited other book}

Serpent's Kiss, #3
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005MZN1LS
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005MZN1LS

{edited other book}

[sufue]

Faith Hunter's fourth Jane Yellowrock book, Raven Cursed, is £0.99 today at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005GSYXN6

Spoiler:

The vampires of Asheville, North Carolina, want to establish their own clan, but since they owe loyalty to the Master Vampire of New Orleans they must work out the terms with him. To come up with an equitable solution, he sends an envoy with the best bodyguard blood money can buy: Jane Yellowrock.

But when a group of local campers are attacked by something fanged, Jane goes from escort to investigator. Unless she wants to face a very angry mast vampire, she will have to work overtime to find the killer. It's a good thing she's worth every penny.

[ZodWallop]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick is $1.99 at Amazon, Kobo and B&N US.

The book that inspired Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison—one of the most passionately romantic movies ever made. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani.

Burdened by debt after her husband's death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors to be true, the young widow ends up forming a special companionship with the ghost of handsome former sea captain Daniel Gregg. Through the struggles of supporting her children, seeking out romance from the wrong places, and working to publish the captain's story as a book, Blood and Swash, Lucy finds in her secret relationship with Captain Gregg a comfort and blossoming love she never could have predicted.

Originally published in 1945, made into a movie in 1947, and later adapted into a television sitcom in 1968, this romantic tale explores how love can develop without boundaries, both in this life and beyond.

Thanks to SomeSteve for catching this!

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Any Means Necessary (Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters #0.5) by Katie Ruggle (B-/3 stars)
• In Her Sights (Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters #1) by Katie Ruggle (A-/5 stars)
• Risk It All (Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters #2) by Katie Ruggle (A-/5 stars)
• Fused (Legacy of Magic #6) by Lindsay Buroker (A/5 stars)

Also up to Hide and Seek in my complete Psy/Changeling series reread.

Purchased: