Harlequin has a selection of novels priced at $1.99 – a price valid in both the US and Canada. Hi Canada!! There are twelve total, and I'll feature a few each day this week. I hope you'll share recommendations of which you enjoyed! My understanding is that the sale is to celebrate the new branding and design of each Harlequin line. What do you think of the new covers?
The Long, Hot Texas Summer is $1.99.
When Justin McCabe hires a master carpenter to help build his ranch for troubled teens, tall, gorgeous blonde Amanda Johnson isn't quite what he'd imagined. But not only can she do the job, she has a thing or two to teach him about judging by appearances. And, more important, she has a knack for reaching the kind of kid Justin wants to help. Amanda hadn't counted on her new boss-all strapping six foot five of him-being so utterly irresistible.
Working side by side under the scorching Texas sun, the two of them make a great team-in every way possible. The heat of summer is no match for the sizzle they generate whenever they're together. But when a crisis forces Amanda to face her past, she'll need to make a heart-wrenching decision about her future…whether Justin is in it or not.
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Daysider is $1.99.
Tensions between human and vampire factions are escalating. Peace hangs in the balance. And like two ill-fated stars, Alexia Fox and Damon are destined to collide. She's a seductive human operative on a mission to infiltrate an illegal vampire colony.
He's a vampire and represents everything she loathes—and all that she desires. Their attraction is scorching, immediate…and could explode like the fragile truce they've both been fighting independently to preserve. Now the world's last hope hinges on their ability to work together.
As enemies they are doomed, but as allies they just might save the world.
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The Cowboy She Couldn't Forget is $1.99.
One stolen kiss with a cowboy When Ana Slater's father is taken ill, she knows she can't look after The Lazy S Ranch alone. There is one man who can help. The cowboy she has found it impossible to forget–Vance Rivers.
With the words “Work hard and hands off my daughters!” etched into his memory, Vance knew from the very beginning that Ana was strictly off-limits–no matter what! All he could do was ensure he was the best cowboy in Montana.
But now, with Ana back on the ranch, the rules are set to change. And finally their chance at happiness might be just around the corner….
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Plus, today's Kindle Daily Deals are really spiffy – and, because of the word “daily,” available just for today.
The Legend of Eli Monpress is a three book set for $1.99. This is a Kindle Daily Deal but the price is being matched at BN and other vendors. This omnibus has a 4.19 rating on Goodreads, and is really, really well reviewed. If you have friends who like adventure fantasy, this would be a terrific gift.
Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief. But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age – and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners – a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls – he's going to put his plan into effect. The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things.
But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one will miss – at least for a while. Like a king.
The Legend of Eli Monpress includes the novels: The Spirit Thief, The Sprit Rebellion, and The Spirit Eater.
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Chain Reaction is one of Simone Elkeles' Perfect Chemistry novels, a YA series that is amazing, powerful, emotional and good. This book has a 4.13 average on GoodReads,
Like his brothers, Luis Fuentes is a risk taker; whether he's scaling the Rocky Mountains or dreaming of a future as an astronaut, Luis is always looking for the next thrill. Nikki Cruz lives her life by certain rules ― don't trust a boy who says “I love you”, boys lie to get their own way and never date a boy from the south side of Fairfield.
Then she meets Luis at his brother Alex's wedding and suddenly she's tempted to break all her rules. Getting Nikki to give him a chance is Luis's biggest challenge, until he finds himself targeted by the head of the gang that nearly destroyed his brothers' lives. Will Luis's feelings for Nikki be enough to stop him from entering a dark and violent world that could prove to be the ultimate risk?
Wonderful You is $1.99 today. This is a contemporary romance originally published in 1998, and it has a 3.93 average at GoodReads.
Twenty-eight, single, and struggling to keep her little shop of handicrafts afloat, Zoey Enright is pleasantly surprised when a knockout audition for a home-shopping network lands her an impressive job as an on-air saleswoman.
Little does she know, Delaney O'Connor, the company's CEO, is bringing his only grandson and the hero of Zoey's childhood, Ben Pierce, home from Europe to run the network.
Ben's one true passion was Grand Prix racing — until he laid eyes on Zoey again, all grown up and more beautiful than ever. But he also must face his haunted past and the near-fatal accident that brought his driving career to a screeching halt.
Confronting painful emotions he crossed an ocean to forget, Ben must barter his old dreams for new ones if he and Zoey are to claim the wonderful future they are meant to share.
I think I like the new Harlequin covers. I like that the photos take up the whole cover – makes them look much less dated. I just quickly checked out the Harlequin site – it seems like their basic approach to photography hasn’t changed (Blazes still = naked torsos, Super Romances still =wholesome looking couples, etc) but the overall cover design is much more current looking (except the HPs, imo).
I read the last author’s name as Martha Stewart at 1st…
Harlequin romances are the last bastion of romance novels that I’m embarrassed to read, mostly because of the covers. Well, the covers are better but still a hidden guilty pleasure (kind of like the bag of snack size kit kats I keep in my bottom drawer at work).
Elyse – I do that all the time
I adore, adore, adore the Eli Monpress books, and it has nothing (NOTHING!) to do with my fetish for twisty thieves in my fantasy.
Well, maybe a little. But there are also stoic swordsmen and adorable woobie demons and a badass sorceress and her dog / companion / best friend and angsty secret backgrounds and scheming gods and good bandits and bad bandits and spies and politicians and big honking world-shaking battles and a sweet, heartbreaking understated romance.
Just want to second everything hapax says about Eli Monpress. A wonderful, wonderful fantasy series with a great blend of dark complexity and character-based humor. I love the way Aaron avoids moral absolutes and still achieve satisfying resolutions of the various conflicts within her universe. Would appeal to lovers of Megan Whelan Turner. Both authors create thief-centered fantasies, both are incredibly skilled character and world builders, and both are just wicked creative and original.
Also, what is up with the cover on Chain Reaction. I love the older covers on Elkeles’s work, so dynamic. This, however, is not merely static but just plain ugly. What is that thing on his head? Looks like a sea anemone ate his head, then died.
I really liked the Eli Monpress books, too. So much so, that I broke my own rule of never paying more than MMPB prices for an ebook. (Books 4 & 5 are $9.99 @ BN.) I justified it by calculating that I got all five books for less than $22. But it was $22 well spent.