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Book Savannah Breeze

Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews is $1.99! This is the second book in her popular Weezie and BeBe Mysteries series. While the first book focuses on Weezie, this one has BeBe as the main character, a Southern woman with a bone to pick with her swindling ex. Readers thought it was a quick and fun book, though some found the heroine slightly TSTL. It has a 4-star rating on GR.

Mary Kay Andrews takes us back to Savannah, Georgia, in Savannah Breeze, the uproarious sequel to her blockbuster New York Times bestseller, Savannah Blues. Breeze is the story of BeBe Loudermilk, a Southern belle who’d dearly like to get back at the handsome, two-faced con man who swindled out of everything she owns except for a broken-down 1950s-era motel on Tybee Island. Joining BeBe on a revenge-inspired road trip south to Fort Lauderdale is her junking friend Weezie, the heroine of Blues, and a car-full of lovable misfits. Readers with a taste for the novels of  Fannie Flagg, Jennifer Crusie, Adriana Trigiani, and Emily Giffin—not to mention Rebecca Wells and Sweet Potato Queens queen Jill Conner Browne—will adore this delightful take on the New South and one woman’s discovery of what’s really important in life.

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Book Desert Heat

Desert Heat by Elizabeth Reyes is $2.99! This is a New Adult romance between a young woman with a secret and a detective who originally meet at a speed dating event. Though the setup sounds like your typical meet-cute scenario, readers definitely stress the steamy factor of the rest of the book. However, some found fault with the hero, as he toed the line between Alpha and Alphole pretty closely.

Besides working three jobs, worrying about her family back home, and running from her past, the worst thing to complicate Bethany Amaya’s life further would be a romance. But after a second-run in with the irresistibly sexy detective Damian Santiago, that’s exactly what she gets. In the blink of an eye, she’s caught up in a passionate romance with one of the most intense men she’s ever met.

Awestruck for a second time by the beautiful and intriguing performer, Damian is both surprised and delighted that Bethany agrees to something he didn’t even expect to be asking for so soon—exclusivity. As things heat up, Damian’s skills of detecting and reading body language begin to raise suspicions—Bethany is keeping something from him. Try as he might to calm his suspicions, the blatant signs become impossible to ignore.

Some things are better left unsaid. At least that’s what Bethany keeps telling herself. She never imagined falling in love so quickly, and she refuses to get Damian caught up in her troubles. She knows what he suspects—sees it in those possessive eyes. With Damian’s suspicions mounting, time is of the essence. The race is on, and Bethany finds herself scrambling to fix the past before the truth comes out and Damian finds out that it’s much worse than he suspected.

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Book The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman is $3.99! This piece of historial women's fiction follows the story of a young Russian immigrant, as she builds an ice cream empire in America's early 20th Century. Readers loved the rags to riches story, though those with both historical knowledge of the time period and/or food-processing knowledge found some of the content inaccurate. It has a 3.8-star rating on GR!

In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.

Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, “The Ice Cream Queen” — doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality.

Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.

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Book The Fireman Who Loved Me

The Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer Bernard is $2.99. This contemporary romance is the first book in Bernard's Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel series. Our news producer heroine's meddlesome grandmother wins her a date with the fire captain, courtesy of a bachelor auction. And the rest is history. For readers, the hero was a charming gentleman and the heroine's grandmother was a nice dose of comedic relief, but some commented that the hero and heroine had too many “big misunderstandings.” Has anyone read this one?

Fearless, smoking hot, and single: meet the Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel. These firemen might be heroes, but it's their bad luck in love that makes them legendary.

News producer Melissa McGuire and Fire Captain Harry Brody couldn't be more different, though they do have one thing in common: they're both convinced they're perfectly wrong for each other. But when Melissa's matchmaking grandmother wins her a date with Brody at a Bachelor auction . . .

Sparks fly. Passion flares. Heat rises. (You get the picture.)

Add a curse, a conniving nightly news anchor, a stunningly handsome daredevil fireman, a brave little boy, a couple of exes, and one giant fire to the mix, and Melissa and Brody's love may not be the only thing that burns.

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  1. CelineB says:

    I read The Fireman Who Loved Me a while ago and don’t remember too many specifics. I know I liked it with reservations because of the heroine’s grandmother’s exploits were just stupid and bad. I do remember there being some miscommunication problems but I can’t remember if they were ones that got solved right away or the type where I screamed at the book to just talk to each other already.

    Roman Holiday: The Complete Adventure by Ruthie Knox is $1.99 at Amazon and B & N. I just finished it and enjoyed it. It’s not anywhere near my favorite Knox book but it was still very good.

  2. P. J. Dean says:

    I just like the cover of “The Fireman Who Loved Me’” because the woman is wearing a FLAT shoe for a refreshing change!

  3. Ova says:

    Oh, I loved the Weezie and BeBe mystery books, though I confess I liked Weezie’s story (Savannah Blues) better.

  4. Diane says:

    Why would anyone want to transform themselves into “Lillian Dunkle”?

  5. kkw says:

    @Diane Fair point, but Lillian Dunkle, Ice The Ice Cream Queen well, that does change things. Win some, lose some.

    Although. If the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream, seems like she’s also losing the game of thrones.

  6. kkw says:

    Sigh, and I was so pleased to get the italics to work.

  7. The Ice Cream Queen sounds really interesting.

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