FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - August 2014

[Blue2u]

Free: Happy Pants Café - Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
About: From New York Times Bestseller MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF

(Note: Stand-Alone Story)

The Happy Pants Café has no public information—no website, no address, no phone number—and it doesn’t show up on any map, either. Yet, there’s a line of single women around the block, waiting to get inside. And when they come out, their smiling faces don’t look like coffee buzzes. (Or afterglows.)

So what could they possibly be doing inside?

Harper Branton thinks she knows their dirty little secret, and it’s just the story to save her mess of a journalistic career. There’s just one problem: her competition. He’s sexy, he’s arrogant, and he’s about turn Harper’s life upside down with a few secrets of his own.

[Blue2u]

We just talked about this author/book in the past month or so.
$1.99 Forever Interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid
About: “Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.”

Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they’ve eloped.

Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met—and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists.

Interweaving Elsie and Ben’s charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there’s more than one way to find a happy ending.

[Blue2u]

$1.00 Until Series boxed set - Aurora Rose Reynolds
4 full length novels. I read the first and really liked it, believe I rated it 3.5-4.



On to weekly reporting. I did okay this week. Bought 15 books for $20;
Silent Whisper – Andrea Smith
Don’t Let Go – Sharla Lovelace
No Regrets – Claire Kent
No In Between – Lisa Renee Jones
Hard to hold On To – Laura Kaye
Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover
Only One – Tammy Falkner
Buried – Selena Laurence
Deep Surrendering: Episode Five - Chelsea M. Cameron
Captured – Jack & Jasinda Wilder
Losing Control - Jen Frederick
Worth Forgiving – Vi Keeland
Resenting me – Crystal Spears
Until series box set – Aurora Rose Reynolds
Forever Interrupted – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Read;
Being Me - Lisa Renee Jones = 4
The Master Undone = 3
Revealing Us = 4
Novellax2; His Secrets, My Hunger = 3
No In Between – Lisa Renee Jones = 4

[library addict]

Weekly Report:
I did not read any new-to-me books this week either The upside is that my house is looking much better Several of the new releases I purchased this week are burning a hole in my devices, so hopefully next week's report will be better on the reading end.

[Terisa de morgan]

No books purchased this week (Jayne Castle next week ) and I've read only a couple:

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

One of today's Kindle daily deals is the first five books in the Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire Mysteries) series by Charlaine Harris for $1.99 each.

It looks like it's a publisher deal because they're also $1.99 at Barnes & Noble (but not Kobo, yet).

One Two Three Four Five

[NixLapi]

I purchased one box set this week:

LOL Romantic Comedy Anthology with a story by Mimi Strong I *needed*, ha!
(it's still $0.99 if anyone else is interested - I think it is mostly novellas/shorts)

Read:
Faking It by Cora Cormack... 3
Undercover Professor by December Gephart... DNF
Discover of Witches (not technically a romance, but romantic elements)... 3.5/4
The Chief by Monica McCarty... 3.5

And now I'm in a reading funk and can't find anything I *want* to read... have started at least four books and can't get past 10%.

Originally Posted by library addict

Weekly Report:
I did not read any new-to-me books this week either The upside is that my house is looking much better Several of the new releases I purchased this week are burning a hole in my devices, so hopefully next week's report will be better on the reading end.

Alright, I'm going to have to look up Across the Line just for that cover! Yum!

[Blossom]

Checking In.

I didn't buy any books as my laptop mouse stopped working and had to be replaced. So what little book money I did have had to be used for it. I got Amazon Basic 3 optical mouse. It's pretty nice for $7

As you know I had a horrible week with a sick cat and my mother who was badly injured in a fall. The cat sickness which I think I figure out what she got a hold of. Now how do I get rid of it is the question. She started laying on the window sill and I didn't think anything of it but two weeks ago they did a quarterly inspection which includes pest control. This guy a put a dab of what look like toothpaste under the bathroom and kitchen counter top. He called it bait and he wasn't kidding I hadn't seen one bug till he put that stuff there now I am killing one every other day. *shudders* What happen to stuff that repels them not attracts them!!! My theory is there is some of that stuff on the window sill from pest control before we moved in and she got it on her fur. I gave her a bath and boy she didn't like that but she's hasn't been sick since I gave her a bath, brushed her everyday and wont allow her on the window sill. I need to get that stuff off. Not harmful to pets my FOOT!

I did finally finish Book 5 of the Cats and Bones series last night. So yay! It was another 4 star read for me. I am reading here and there These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer. Had to go back and reread who some of the characters was so I could follow the story. I'll probably start book 6 of the Cat & Bones series sometime this week if everything settles down.

[Terisa de morgan]

Blossom, I didn't tell anything. I'm sorry for your mom, I hope she's better soon. And glad your cat is well now (and yes, take away all that stuff).

[apesmom]

Loveswept deal

Laugh (Burnside #2) by Mary Ann Rivers - $0.99
Kindle | Kobo | Google

Dr. Sam Burnside is convinced that volunteering at an urban green-space farm in Lakefield, Ohio, is a waste of time—especially with his new health clinic about to open. He only goes to mollify his partner, suspecting she wants him to lighten up. Then Sam catches sight of Nina Paz, a woman who gives off more heat than a scorcher in July. Her easy smile and flirty, sizzling wit has him forgetting his infamous need for control.

Widowed when her husband was killed in Afghanistan, Nina has learned that life exists to take chances. As the daughter of migrant workers turned organic farmers, she’s built an exciting and successful business by valuing new opportunities and working hard to take care of her own. But when Sam pushes for a relationship that goes beyond their hotter-than-fire escapades, Nina ignores her own hard-won wisdom. She isn’t ready for a man who needs saving—even if her heart compels her to take the greatest risk of all: love.

[apesmom]

Avon deal (I don't think this one was included in yesterday's Kindle Daily Deal)
Also if you missed the KDD yesterday Google has dropped the price of most of the series to $1.99-$2.24

Up From the Grave (Night Huntress #7) by Jeaniene Frost - $1.99
Kindle | Google

The Grave Ends Here.

Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war...

A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead to dangerous heights. Now Cat and Bones are in a race against time to save their friends from a fate worse than death...because the more secrets they unravel, the deadlier the consequences. And if they fail, their lives--and those of everyone they hold dear-- will be hovering on the edge of the grave.

Final novel in the Night Huntress series.

[BuyMore]

Prequel for FREE

One Night with a Billionaire (prequel to Billionaire Unmasked) by J. S. Scott - FREE
Amazon | B&N | Kobo

My name is Hope Sinclair, and I’m a liar. I’ve deceived everyone, including my own brothers, in an effort to hide what I do and who I really am. It’s not that I don’t want to be honest, but I really have no choice.

I thought I was strong, that I was doing fine, until I saw Jason Sutherland last New Year’s Eve, and he stripped me bare in more ways than one. Jason is everything I want, but a man I can never have. We’ve known each other most of our lives, but I’ve avoided him since I turned eighteen because I know he’s dangerous to me, to my façade.

Turns out…I was right. After our night together last New Year’s Eve, I haven’t been able to forget him, or the way he set my body on fire. I crave Jason like an addictive drug now, that fateful night haunting me still.

Is my One Night With a Billionaire going to be my downfall…or my salvation?

**This is a prequel novella to Billionaire Unmasked, Jason and Hope’s book in The Billionaire’s Obsession series.**

Billionaire Unmasked will be released on Aug 26.

[Blue2u]

Free Entangled Brazen: Burn for Me - Lauren Blakely
About:
A sexy category romance novella from Entangled's Brazen imprint...

She's the one fire he can't put out...

Jamie Lansing has had it bad for firefighter Smith Grayson for as long as they've been friends. Yes, he's ridiculously charming and she might stare a little too long at his abs, but his dirty-talking, rough-around-the-edges ways aren't for her. Plus, she knows that as a serial dater, Smith isn't the type to settle down. But then a terrible, fantastic, mind-blowing mistake leaves her body craving more than one night.

Smith Grayson has only ever had eyes for one woman in town--his best friend Jamie. But convincing her a relationship between them will work is next to impossible with her refusing to see beyond his past. But when she asks for a week of no-strings-attached sex to get him out of her system, Smith knows this is his one chance to prove he's not just the man she needs in her bed, but the man she needs in her life.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Avon deal (I don't think this one was included in yesterday's Kindle Daily Deal)
Also if you missed the KDD yesterday Google has dropped the price of most of the series to $1.99-$2.24

Up From the Grave (Night Huntress #7) by Jeaniene Frost - $1.99
Kindle | Google

I'm on book 6 now and have no desire to stop like I do most of series. It's that good! I mean where else can you hear a sarcastic Dracula literally he is in the series and the author does an amazing job. I can't wait to read his own books in the series.

[Lush]

[QUOTE=Blue2u;2905671]Free Entangled Brazen: Burn for Me - Lauren Blakely

A rare occurrence, this book is also free on Amazon Australia.