FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2015

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by ScalyFreak

After railing against first person perspective in novels earlier in the thread (I'm sure more than once), I feel like I should mention that this book is written in first person as well. And it's really well done!

I like it when authors remember that human beings do not go through our days narrating everything to the invisible friend who follows us around. We observe and reflect, and occasionally our minds wander. This first person - Janie Morris - feels like a real person, and the reason I normally loathe first person perspective is that so few writers mange to pull that off.

I do enjoy first person when it's written well. One book I was trying to read but not sure I will try it again is Lick by Kylie Scott. I find the heroine's voice to be boring, the writing weak and the first person is not done very well. I couldn't get past the fourth chapter.

[Fbone]

The Rose Legacy (Diamond of the Rockies #1) by Kristen Heitzmann is FREE through March at most retailers. Christian romance. GR 4.16

http://smile.amazon.com/Rose-Legacy-...sten+heitzmann

[Blue2u]

4+ from me
NA, Free: Stripped From You - Marissa Carmel

Spoiler:

Ryan Pierce doesn’t come from much, doesn’t ask for much, and doesn’t expect much. And he's come to accept that until, Alana Remington. Alana is the girl who struck the match that lit his world on fire. She's the girl who opened his eyes to more. Who made him believe that just because you have nothing, doesn't mean you are nothing. And he loves her fiercely for it. But, just because you come together, doesn’t mean you stay together. One fateful decision rips Ryan and Alana apart and neither of them are ever the same again.

For five years he's regretted that decision, but the deep seeded anger, shame and resentment has kept him from reaching out. And over those five years, a series of moments have spun Ryan's world in a direction he never saw coming. A world ruled by endless nights, infinite women and the name Jack the Stripper. A world, unbeknownst to him, that may just let two severed hearts collide.

Reviews-
Absolutely loved this. Ryan's love and tenderness for Alana is amazing. Ryan's is such a strong character given his crappy mother and the responsibility of his brother. I was hooked from page one. - Goodreads

As a lover of Strip me bare, I was desperate to read ths prequel to find out more about Ryan and Alana...I fell in love with Ryan even more in this book. He's so loyal and loving, but at the same time smoking hot.
This prequel is a heartbreaking read. I'm kind of glad I already know how it all ends, because if I didn't, i think I'd be in tears now.A very emotional heartfelt prequel that needs to be read- This ReadHead Loves Books

I adore these two and was so sad to find out why their love story was cut short. I commend Ryan for doing what he did (even though there comes a time when you just have to accept family will never be what you need them to be and just simply cut your losses), however I find what he did and his actions to be extremely commendable. I loved him, literally fell head over stripper pole in love with this character Marissa so eloquently created. He's got his faults, but they are minor faults and I find that no matter his actions in this book I just simply cheered him on, hoping for him to find his way back to Alana....hence the cliffhanger tag....to be continued in Strip Me Bare. I for one cannot wait to find out what happens with Ryan and Alana. I surely hope there is much more to their love story and find Marissa Carmel's work thus far to be brilliant. -goodreads

[Fbone]

An Undeniable Rogue (Rogues Club #1) by Annette Blair is FREE everywhere. Regency romance from Zebra 2002. GR 3.75

http://smile.amazon.com/Undeniable-R...deniable+rogue

[Blue2u]

Free Novella, Hard Knocks - Lori Foster

Spoiler:

In the stunning prequel novella to her new mixed martial arts series, New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster brings together an elite fighter and the woman he's determined to win.

Power. Brute strength. Unforgettable moves. It's no wonder Harper Gates hasn't been able to get her fling with Gage "Savage" Ringer out of her head. Months have passed since she laid eyes—or any other body parts—on him. Months without a word of contact…until, sidelined by injury, he comes back to town.

Staying focused on his training seemed like a smart move to Gage, even if he thought about Harper every day. Seeing her again only makes it clear how much is at stake. He's got one night to earn back her trust. One night to show her that behind his breathtaking skill and ripped body is a man who'll give her everything she needs.

Don't miss No Limits, the first novel in Lori Foster's Ultimate series.

[apesmom]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Harlequin.com code

Save $8 on purchase of $15 or more. Good through tomorrow.
NBFEB15

Works on Avon titles. If you keep your total close to $15 this works out to be well over 50% off cover.

FYI this code expires at 11:59 EST. And it stacks with AVONF15 which is good for another 10% off Avon titles.

Used together they work out to roughly 68% off Avon's list price on a cart that totals $15. . . + rewards points

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author @ Smashwords (and thence price-matched in many other outlets):

Me and My Ghoulfriends by Rose Pressey, the 1st in her Larue Donavan series of f/m paranormal romantic comedies starring the eponymous psychic investigator, this installment originally out from Lyrical Press in 2008.

There's always fun to be had on a ghoul's night out.

By day, Larue Donavan is a down-to-earth bookstore owner. But by night, she's a world-renowned psychic investigator dedicated to helping lost spirits find peace. Dead people won't leave her alone and Abraham Lincoln thinks he's in charge of her lovelife. Larue can handle ghosts and undead presidents. It's the living who drive her crazy.

When Callahan Weiss moves to town, the handsome newcomer opens a coffee shop right next door. She's smitten from the start, but she's not the only one -- The boutique owner across the street has her eye on Callahan too, and uses witchcraft to fight dirty. When Callahan gets hit by a love spell, Larue will need more than a little help from her ghoul-friends to save the day...

[Blue2u]

NA, the first 2 books were on sale last couple of weeks, 4+ from me
$.99 Be My Hero - Linda Kage [Forbidden Men book 3]

Spoiler:

Once upon a time, there was this pampered rich girl who was kind of full of herself. She really only cared about appearances and hiding all her dark, ugly secrets under the guise of an opinionated snob. But then Eva Mercer got pregnant, shot by a psycho, and kicked out of the only home she knew. Now she’s broke, unemployed, and has to start anew with a newborn to raise. But how?

On the other side of town, sexy, tattooed orphan, Patrick Ryan, can’t get a break. He’s out on parole for defending the last damsel in distress while trying to help her support her child, but all he wants is to find his one true love. He knows this woman by scent, smile, and laugh, but he’s never actually met her. He doesn’t even know her name. He just knows she’s the key to fixing everything.

One kind of hero can save you from physical harm. Another can rescue you from a different kind of doom. To reach their dreams, Eva and Pick can save each other. But first, they must open their hearts and learn how to trust.

*New Adult Romance*
*Book Three in Series, but can also be read as a standalone*
*Explicit language and sexual content*

Free: When You're Ready - J.L. Berg

Spoiler:

Years after suffering the tragic loss of her husband, Ethan, which left her alone to raise their young daughter, Clare Murray still holds the last letter he wrote with the words "When You're Ready" written in his familiar messy handwriting, unable to break its weathered seal. Ready for what? He was her entire world, and Clare had accepted a life without him, without love. Until years later, fate brings her to an emergency room, and face to face with a stormy-eyed doctor intent on changing her mind.

Son of a billionaire, Logan Matthews has spent his life trying to make his absentee father proud. Without a family to depend on, all he's ever wanted is a place to call home. After a failed marriage, Logan believes he's unworthy of love...until he meets a woman who awakens his spirit and transforms his entire life in an instant.

But how far are Clare and Logan willing to go for love? Can his love mend the pieces of her grieving heart?

When their love is tested, is Clare ready to put her whole heart on the line again? Can Logan learn the true meaning of love, even if it means sacrificing his own happiness? When a second chance at love is given, Clare and Logan learn you are never truly ready until you're ready to risk it all.

This book contains adult language and scenes. Not intended for readers under the age of 18.

NA, $.99 Catch me - Claire Contreras

Spoiler:

Music is the center of both our lives, but as he found his place in it, I lost my way. He soared, while I spiraled down a destructive path.
I lost myself in more ways than I can count.

The ironic thing is that I didn’t realize how lost I was until he found me.

And now that he has, I have to wonder if he'll stay around long enough to catch me.

[Fbone]

Two free Kensingtons available everywhere.

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http://smile.amazon.com/Being-Amber-...ds=being+amber

[Blue2u]

I'm sure some of you are J.R. Ward fans. This was posted at a book blogger site, thought you guys might be interested.
Dec 2015, Blood Kiss - J.R. Ward

Spoiler:

Message from JR Ward : I miss the Brothers. The original ones. We're talkin' the ones who started it all... Z., V., Butch, Rhage, Wrath, Tohr, Phury, Rehv, Etc.

I miss that scene, in DARK LOVER, when Fritz kindly asks the Brothers, if they're going to bloody the human, please take him outside.

I miss Sox hats and grey Goose, Tums and Tootsie Rolls, Biggie Smalls in the Escalade, and Wrath putting a dagger into the wall next to Hollywood's head.

As much as I LOVE the BDB series where it is now, and as much as I'm psyched to keep writing it and will continue to do so, I miss the good ol' days.

The issue is that the nature of a series is that it must continue to grow, and change, or it dies. The Black Dagger Brotherhood books started off with the original Brothers, but after their meet-and-greets with their shellans were told, by definition, they had to background it in subsequent books: With a world as big as the BDB one, you have to train your "camera lens" in a controlled manner, or you run the risk of a given story bleeding out for too much extraneous stuff.

(Something I've been tagged with doing from time to time, and it's certainly a fair point.)

So when my boss (my editor) and I were chewing on things last spring, I told her... hey, I got this idea.

I have a lot of ideas. She's used to this.

I described to her a new series, where the BDB training center is reopened to a new cast of recruits, and THE ORIGINAL BROTHERS teach these FNUGs wassup. In the process of the new recruits falling in love and getting into a sh*t ton of trouble, THE ORIGINAL BROTHERS could be shown with their shellans, their Brothers, their people in the mansion, in a more prominent way than I'm able to do in the BDB books.

Paperback, yo. Not hardcover. Traditional PNR, just like DARK LOVER was in the old days.

Sex. Lot of sex.

As in, you might need your BBQ tongs. Maybe a flame retardant suit.

Maybe a fire truck on standby out in your front yard.

My boss, who's brilliant, was like, wow, that really doesn't suck. (Okay, that's paraphrasing.)

So... we have the first of the Black Dagger Legacy books, BLOOD KISS, coming out this December.

Now, let me say this: the ORIGINAL BROTHERS are still going to show up in the BDB books. Hell, yeah! And from time to time, a BDB book is going to be about them and their mate if there's a big thing going on in their lives (think THE KING.) I am NOT taking a step away from the Brothers at all- if anything, I'm bringing them further to the forefront with the Black Dagger Legacy books.

But I miss my boys I want to show you where they're at. I want to take you back to them- in their new roles as... well, role models and teachers.

Before you ask, yes, they will still be colossal a&&holes- I mean, let's be clear. Things haven't changed THAT much. (As an aside, Doc Jess and I were talking the other day, and she was like, I'm so impressed with your ability to be offensive with your heroes. LOLOLOLOL)

This is not to say that the Black Dagger Legacy books will solely be about the Brothers, however. The book will have a lot of the Brothers in them, but the Legacy books will feature a main romance between a couple, and the Brothers will help that along.

eHarmony the BDB way.

Jeez, I gotta be insane for signing up for this. Can you imagine V offering dating advice? "Well, sh*t, just get her some black candles and dog collar, true? Then order her to pop up her ***** **** * * ******* * * * ************** At that point, you're going to want to inform her, that you'll tell her when she can beg."

Great. Really looking forward to this.

*sigh*

Anywho, the first Brother who's up?

A certain cop. From Boston. Who's going to have his hands full with the new recruits- two of whom you'll meet in THE SHADOWS.

A cover reveal is coming soon- but I couldn't sit on BLOOD KISS any longer!!!!

Gahd, I suck at keeping secrets. But come on now, don't lie. You've missed those leathers, those sh*tkickers... that golf cart... the Pit.

V nakey in the shower.

Don't lie.

I know I have!

Happy Reading, and thank you for all your support, J.R.

[orangekiwi]

The first book in Nalini Singh's Guild Hunter series Angels' Blood is discounted in the UK £1.99 and Germany euro 2.49. This is a publisher special from Gollancz and seems to be available at amazon, kobo and google. Be careful the Berkley edition is not discounted.

Description
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best - but she doesn't know if she's good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear - failure is not an option . . . even if the task she's been set is impossible.

Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone bad.

The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other . . . and pull her to the razor's edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn't destroy her, succumbing to Raphael's seductive touch just may. Because when archangels play, mortals break . . .

Links
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/angels-blood
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003774XME
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B003774XME

[Blue2u]

Free, NA, Reckless Longing - Gina Robinson

Spoiler:

Book One of the Reckless Series
A Contemporary New Adult College Romance

Ellie and Logan's love story begins one hot August night…

Ellie

My mom betrayed me in the worst way possible. I can't forgive her, but I can outwit
her. I'm going to unravel the family secret she's been keeping from me my whole
life. So I'm going to college across the state from her, to the place that has the
answers. I hope. But I have to be careful or I'll blow everything. I can't tell anyone
what I'm doing.

I didn't mean to fall in love. I can't afford to give my heart away or open up to
anyone, least of all charming, rich, former bad boy baseball star Logan Walker. But
he looked so adorable sitting there nursing a black eye the night I met him at my
very first campus event. The way he held my hand made me flush in the suffocating
heat of August and feel really beautiful for the first time in so long I can't remember.
My scar didn't even hurt.

But Logan's moods are mercurial. He's keeping secrets of his own that are too dark
to share, even with me. We agree to be just friends. But our hearts and bodies have
minds of their own. Before I know it, I'm in too deep with him and the answer to the
family secret I came to campus to find may be the thing that tears us apart.

This is a contemporary romance with mature themes, language, and situations.
Readers should be over 17!

New Adult Romance Book Categories

[Froide]

Originally Posted by orangekiwi

The first book in Nalini Singh's Guild Hunter series Angels' Blood is discounted in the UK £1.99 and Germany euro 2.49. This is a publisher special from Gollancz and seems to be available at amazon, kobo and google. Be careful the Berkley edition is not discounted.

Description
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best - but she doesn't know if she's good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear - failure is not an option . . . even if the task she's been set is impossible.

Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone bad.

The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other . . . and pull her to the razor's edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn't destroy her, succumbing to Raphael's seductive touch just may. Because when archangels play, mortals break . . .

Links
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/angels-blood
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003774XME
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B003774XME

Not available in the US

[KyBunnies]

Has anyone read/listening to the Crossfire series by Sylvia Day? Is it any good?

[library addict]

Nothing to report this week.

I've had no luck with the Kobo contest so far, but fingers crossed since it still has several days to go.

No new books read, just a few rereads.