FREE/BARGAIN - Romance + Discussion - 2015

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

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

It wasn't for me. The heroine was too eager to jump into bed with the male lead. No romance.

[ATDrake]

Free from the authors via KDP Select @ Amazon:

All I Want...is You!: Five Christmas Stories by long-time Harlequin author Marie Ferrarella, Helen Conrad, J.D. Winters, & Dakota Kahn, a festive boxset of 2 short novels & 2 novellas which are f/m contemporary romance and/or cozy mystery.

Got time for a few romantic Christmas reads? You'll enjoy these. A little romance, a romantic suspense, a Christmas puppy, an abandoned baby, a cozy mystery with ghosts, Christmas in New York City. We hope to make you smile at the end of each one of them!

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Heartless by Rita Herron, 1st in her Demonborn series of f/m paranormal contemporary romantic suspense. Herron is a Harlequin author, IIRC.

He had no heart...until he met Clarissa...

Born half demon, FBI agent Vincent Valtrez has fought the evil inside him all his life.

But now a serial killer has struck, using the victims' worst fears to end their lives, and he must call upon that dark side to track down the killer.

Worse, he's forced to work with a psychic named Clarissa King on the case, but he can't allow himself to get close to her or she might see inside his own mind - and reveal his darkest secret.

Clarissa King is tortured by images of the murders and hears the victims' terrified cries before they die.

But Special Agent Vincent Valtrez wants nothing to do with her or her visions.

Still passion ignites between them, and denying it is impossible. Yet in his arms, she also senses a dangerous force lurking beneath the surface of his desire.

And that the killer might be connected to Vincent.

Will Vincent save himself and Clarissa - and find his heart -- or will he join the dark side forever?

[Blossom]

Checking In:

I didn't buy any romance books just a few cheap non fiction I needed.
I read Veronica Mars: The $1000 Tan Line (4 stars) which I enjoyed very much. I am reading Virgin River by Robin Carr. I'm also reading Deeper Than the Roses by Charlene Cross.

I'm almost all caught up on Switch at Birth on Netflix. I don't know why I have been in such a mood to watch TV lately. I'm not really a TV person but in the last two months I have watched Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars and now Switch at Birth. Hubby's currently watching Parenthood so we have been trying to take turns on the TV which isn't working for me. My Kindle Fire for some reason the Sounds stutters on streaming.

We actually got snow a few days ago! We also got alot of ice and they closed everything down. Hubby said that the roads were not treated well like they do in mountains. I guess it's a rare event down here.

[Blossom]

Free @ Amazon


The Chase by Adrienne Giordano
(Justifiable Cause Book 1)
Carina Press & HQ Author.

[Britomart]

Free from Kobo and Amazon US DE:

Cowboy Delight by Cheryl Brooks (Sourcebooks Casablanca).

Getting stranded has never felt so good...
Lauren Allen is on her way to meet her future in-laws when her car breaks down on a scorching, dusty Texas highway. There's no shortage of handsome cowboys turning up to save the day, but she puts her trust in local rancher Steve Williams. From the moment she shakes his hand, his warm, calloused grip makes her hotter than she knows what to do with...

[Britomart]

Free from Harlequin:

The One You Want by Gena Showalter (publication date March 1st).

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter introduces the Original Heartbreakers—about sexy bad boys each meeting their match—with a special prequel novella!

In small-town Oklahoma, reputation is everything, and Kenna Starr will do anything to overcome hers. The supposed bad girl is determined to walk the straight and narrow, a seemingly impossible task when Tall, Dark and Sexy shows up…

Rich and powerful, Dane Michaelson is every woman's dream. When he returns to Strawberry Valley after a sixteen-year absence, he is unprepared for the redheaded girl he's never been able to forget. She's all woman now—and he's never wanted anyone more. But to have her, he'll have to break through her defenses…and surrender his own.

[Blue2u]

$.99 The Will - Kristen Ashley

Early in her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity, unconsciously and very successfully, Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. She led a globetrotting lifestyle on the fringes of the fashion and music elite, but she kept herself distant.

While Josephine was trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same small town as Lydia. There was nothing disguised about Jake. Including the fact he made a habit of making very bad decisions about who to give his love.

But for Josephine and Jake, there was one person who adored them. One person who knew how to lead them to happiness. And one person who was intent on doing it.

Even if she had to do it as her final wish on this earth.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author @ Smashwords, and thence price-matched in assorted regional retail outlets:

Tarnished Knight by Australian author Bec McMaster, a f/m Victorian paranormal romance tie-in story to her London Steampunk series which is published by Sourcebooks (and has been a featured selection of DANL a couple of times, IIRC). ETA: Kiss of Steel, the Sourcebooks-published 1st-in-series, is officially on sale for $1.99 (couponable @ Kobo).

In the steam-fuelled world of Victorian London, vampires, werewolves and slasher gangs stalk the night and a man made partly of metal is about to discover just how far he’ll go to protect the woman he loves…

After a vicious vampire attack left him struggling to leash the dark urges of the craving virus, John ‘Rip’ Doolan, thinks he’s finally starting to master the darkness within. The only thing that threatens to shatter his hard-won control is Esme, his closest friend and the only woman he’s ever wanted. If the stubborn beauty ever realised precisely what was going through his mind, their friendship would be ruined…

For six months Esme has waited for Rip to recover and take her as his thrall, not daring to hope for more. Too afraid to put her heart on the line, she’s devastated when Rip reveals that he never had any intentions of making her his.

But when a savage gang of Slashers start causing havoc in Whitechapel, Rip and Esme have no choice. They must face up to the depth of the passion that burns between them and forge a new relationship… or risk losing each other forever.

[Fbone]

Scoundrel for Hire (Velvet Lies #1) by Adrienne deWolfe is FREE today. Avon 1999. GR 3.36

http://smile.amazon.com/Scoundrel-Hi...ndrel+for+hire

[apesmom]

I have 3 65% contest codes to give away. PM if you contribute to this thread would like one. If they aren't claimed by this time tomorrow they will be dumped on the kobo thread.
Gone

[hannahi]

Does anyone know when new Avon releases are added to the Harlequin site? I was hoping to buy I Loved a Rogue by Katharine Ashe today but it's not on harlequin.com yet

[apesmom]

Originally Posted by hannahi

Does anyone know when new Avon releases are added to the Harlequin site? I was hoping to buy I Loved a Rogue by Katharine Ashe today but it's not on harlequin.com yet

Interesting some of today's releases are available but others still only have Coming Soon on the buy button. I suspect they are still trying to figure things out with Avon. I know they've been out of sync on some of Avon's publisher deals but have offered others.

I'd contact customer service to let them know.

Once they fix it don't forget AVONF15 is still good for another 10% off Avon titles.

[hannahi]

Once they fix it don't forget AVONF15 is still good for another 10% off Avon titles.

Yep, I was hoping to use this code and the Harlequin site looks like the only place this title is discounted. I emailed customer service to see when the title will be added.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Stand By Your Man by Canadian author Bobby Hutchinson, 1st in her Running Wild trilogy of f/m contemporary quote-unquote "romantic comedy mystery", this installment starring a PI who must prove her sister's criminal fiancée to be innocent not guilty of the particular crime he's currently accused of, only she's not particularly inclined to do so, were it not for his peskily hot brother who also wants him freed. This is newly written, but Hutchinson is former Harlequin Superromance author, and she also offers another free ebook title if you sign up for her newsletter (instructions inside her freebie, though the link is giving me a 500 error page at the moment).

SHE'S A PRIVATE DETECTIVE, AND HER SISTER FRANCIE'S IN LOVE WITH A CRIMINAL!

Francie wants Maddie to prove Sebastian's innocent, but the Seattle Police have proof that he's guilty.

Sebastian's brother, Finn, has hired Maddie to find out the truth and set his brother free.

Finn makes Maddie's blood boil and her bells ring--and she's truly, madly, deeply in love with his little daughter, Zoe. And she's pretty certain Sebastian is guilty as charged, so she’s trying her best not to find evidence to the contrary. She's doing the exact opposite of what Finn hired her to do, betraying the guy she—well, the guy she’s supposed to be working for, the guy she just might, maybe, almost be falling for because---

Maddie's parental units, the cop and the judge, want Sebastian safely in jail, and Francie somewhere safe-like a nunnery? And they want Maddie to make it happen.

Can a good honest detective play both ends against the middle without getting hoist on her own petard?

[Fbone]

An Igniting Attraction (To Protect and Serve, Heroes in Uniform, #1) by Stef Ann Holm is FREE today. MIRA 2005. GR 3.66

http://smile.amazon.com/Igniting-Att...ing+attraction