FREE/BARGAIN — Romance & Discussion

[Terisa de morgan]

I wasn't aware of it either.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:
Only rereads this week


Purchased:
none

[Terisa de morgan]

Weekly report:

• Purchased
  
• Read: All rereads of Zenina Master's novellas

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• A Father’s Desperate Rescue (Man on a Mission #7) by Amelia Autin (B/4 stars)
• Savannah’s Secrets (The Bourbon Brothers #1) by Reese Ryan (A-/5 stars)

Purchased:
none

[library addict]

Harlequin Sale

END OF SUMMER DOESN’T MEAN THE END OF SAVINGS

Get 40% off site-wide with coupon code SOLONGSUMMER at checkout!

Offer ends August 23, 2018, 11:59 p.m. ET.

Note: you still get full cover price for My Rewards

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Wish I'd seen it before I paid full price for the new Sharpe & Donovan book at Kobo, but oh well...

I at least used it for an old Carina title I've had my eye on.

[ShortNet]

Wild Child by Mary Jo Putney is presently free:

https://smile.amazon.com/Wild-Child-.../dp/B076KZ6PTY

It isn't my favorite Putney, but even a mediocre Putney is better than many others.

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by ShortNet

Wild Child by Mary Jo Putney is presently free:

https://smile.amazon.com/Wild-Child-.../dp/B076KZ6PTY

It isn't my favorite Putney, but even a mediocre Putney is better than many others.

Thanks, shared with the ladies at work.

[PurpleStar]

Year One by Nora Roberts is on sale for $2.99 today only. I snatched it up.

[library addict]

When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz (Sons of Anson Salinas #1) $1.99

Spoiler:

When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her stepsister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one of her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.

Beautiful, brilliant—and reckless—Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames—literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max needs the job.

After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn’s closest friends, women in a Seattle-based online investment club, for answers. But what they find is chilling...

When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her life. For the shadows of Jocelyn’s past are threatening to consume her—and anyone else who gets in their way...

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[bluesapphires2k]

A Girl Like Her (Ravenswood #1) by Talia Hibbert is free (Amazon only). I loved this book -- the hero is such a sweetheart

Spoiler:

Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers.

Meet the man next door…

After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect—until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre.

Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and—according to everyone in town—bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform ritual sacrifices? Howl at the moon? Pour the milk before the tea? He has no clue.

But he desperately wants to find out. Because Ruth doesn’t seem evil to him; she seems lonely. And funny, and clumsy, and secretly quite sweet, and really f*%king beautiful…

The more Evan’s isolated, eccentric neighbour pushes him away, the more he wants her. Her—and all her secrets. Because there’s no way a girl like Ruth truly deserves the town’s scorn.

…Is there?

A Girl Like Her is a steamy, small town BWWM romance with an Autistic heroine and an ex-military hero. Warning: this book is 65,000+ words of extreme pleasure and intense romance, ending in a HEA. There is NO cliffhanger and NO cheating. Enjoy responsibly!

[worktolive]

Free:

A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

I really liked this book. The hero is a sweet caretaker, and nurturer who loves to cook and the heroine is a socially awkward, on the spectrum web comic designer.

Spoiler:

Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers.

Meet the man next door…

After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect—until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre.

Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and—according to everyone in town—bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform ritual sacrifices? Howl at the moon? Pour the milk before the tea? He has no clue.

But he desperately wants to find out. Because Ruth doesn’t seem evil to him; she seems lonely. And funny, and clumsy, and secretly quite sweet, and really f*%king beautiful…

The more Evan’s isolated, eccentric neighbour pushes him away, the more he wants her. Her—and all her secrets. Because there’s no way a girl like Ruth truly deserves the town’s scorn.

…Is there?

A Girl Like Her is a steamy, small town BWWM romance with an Autistic heroine and an ex-military hero. Warning: this book is 65,000+ words of extreme pleasure and intense romance, ending in a HEA. There is NO cliffhanger and NO cheating. Enjoy responsibly!

[sufue]

When An Alpha Purrs by Eve Langlais is the first in her Lion's Pride series. It is free right now at Kobo US, and, somewhat unusually, not at Kindle US.

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/when-an-alpha-purrs

Spoiler:

A lion’s pride isn’t defined only by those he commands but also resides with his hair, so when a human dares to butcher Arik’s mane, he gets his revenge—and claims her as his mate.

A billionaire CEO and leader of the largest East Coast pride, Arik is a ladies man and a lion. Used to commanding others, and obedience, he can’t believe it when a hairdresser with tempting curves chops off a hunk of his precious mane.

But her biggest mistake is in running from him.

Run as fast as you can, little mouse, because this cat loves to chase—and pounce.

Oh, and he also likes to nibble on tender bits. What he doesn’t expect is to fall for a human woman, a woman who can make the impossible happen because everyone knows lions can’t purr…until now.

[library addict]

Weekly Report:

Read:

• Serpent in Paradise by Stephanie James (B-/3 stars)
• Impostor’s Lure (Sharpe & Donovan #8) by Carla Neggers (B+/4 stars)
• Heart of the Dragon's Realm by Karalynn Lee (B/4 stars)
• Cowboy SEAL Redemption (Navy SEAL Cowboys #2) by Nicole Helm (A-/5 stars)

Purchased:

[FizzyWater]

I listened to 2 books by Mary Robinette Kowal this week: The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. They are not romance novels - in fact, the main character is already married. But I found the books to be solidly romantic - the main character's relationship with her husband was so good. If you like SFR (science fiction romance) and don't mind that these are really science fiction, I think you'd like the stories a lot.

The setting starts in a late 50s America where most of the northern eastern seaboard - including Washington DC - is destroyed by a meteorite. The scientists of the day decide this is a potential extinction disaster and stress the need to get into space to create a colony so humanity can survive.

NOTE: This is all in the book's basic description - I'm not giving any spoilers.

I couldn't put these [audio]books down. She sucked me in.

I discovered after I "read" the books that she wrote these because of a popular Hugo-winning short story she wrote a few years ago: The Lady Astronaut of Mars. For those of you who just have to read the entire series - the short story actually comes years after the two books, despite its being published before. Made me cry like a baby...I've been trying to decide if it would have hit me so hard if I read it first.

Trying to avoid spoilers...maybe in tags?

Spoiler:

The main character of the books has settled into life on Mars, after being forced to stop flying rocket ships when she turned 50. Her husband is slowly dying of a debilitating disease. And she's offered a chance to pilot another rocket on a minimum 3-year flight.

You can imagine her dilemma. And since I'd fallen in love with her husband in the two books, it was just horrible to go from his being a vibrant young NASA engineer to being bed-bound and in pain. *Sniff*

[worktolive]

On sale for $0.99:

Rise - a rock star romance by Karina Bliss. The MCs in this book are older - he's around 40 and she's in her mid-30's. He's pretty arrogant, but she's a mature, responsible academic and doesn't let him walk over her. I have a definite weakness for bad boy rockers and I really liked this one.

Spoiler:

Rise - The redemption story of a rock star going straight(er) through the love of a good(ish) woman.

Acclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes.
So bad-boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn’t possibly tempt her to write his memoir.
Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions–manipulative, honest, gifted, charismatic and morally ambiguous.
In short, everything she seeks in a biography subject.
When in her life will she get another chance to work with a living legend? But saying yes to one temptation soon leads to another.
Suddenly she’s having heated fantasies about her subject, fantasies this blue-eyed devil is only too willing to stoke.
She thought self-control was in her DNA; after all, she grew up a minister’s daughter.
She thought wrong.


Rock star Zander Freedman has been an outlier–many would say an outcast–for most of his life.
But there’s no disaster he can’t overcome, from the breakup of his band to the inevitable damage to his reputation.
His Resurrection Tour is shaping up to be his greatest triumph–if his golden voice holds out.
Contracting a respected biographer is simply about creating more buzz. Elizabeth’s integrity is the key to consolidating his legacy as one of rock’s greats.
All the damn woman has to do is write down what he tells her. Not force him to think.
Or encourage the good guy struggling to get out.
And certainly not make him fall in love for the first time in his life.
Turns out he is scared of something: losing his heart.