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Just One Night
Just One Night by Lauren Layne is 99c! This is a contemporary romance and the third book in Layne’s Sex, Love, and Stilettos series. The heroine plays a sex columnist who has very little experience in the sex department. We’re talking only one, lone sexual experience. And well the hero…he’s now her own personal guinea pig. Readers thought Layne found the right blend between sexy and funny, while some disagreed and found the content more serious than the cover lets on. It has a 3.9-star rating on GoodReads.
Riley McKenna knows sex—good sex, bad sex, kinky sex…Her articles in Stiletto magazine are consistently the publication’s most scandalous—and the most read. But Riley has a secret…all that sexy talk? Not an ounce of it comes from personal experience. Her own bedroom escapades are more limited than even her best friends know. When her editor requests that all columnists write something more personal for Stiletto’s anniversary issue, Riley turns to the one man she’s always been able to count on and calls in the favor of a lifetime.
Sam Compton would do anything for Riley McKenna. Anything except be her experimental sex toy. He refuses her request. At least until she tells him that it’ll either be him or she’ll go to someone else. And that, Sam can’t accept. Reluctantly he agrees to her terms—one night of completely meaningless sex in the name of research. Riley thinks she’s prepared for what awaits her in Sam’s bed. After ten years of writing about sex, actually doing it shouldn’t be that different, right? So wrong. What starts as “one time only” becomes “just one more time.” And then one more. And before they know it, Riley and Sam learn first-hand that when it comes to love, there’s no such thing as just one night.
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Bringing Home the Bad Boy
Bringing Home the Bad Boy by Jessica Lemmon is $1.99 and it was just released this January! This is a contemporary romance and the first in a series. The hero is a tattoo artist and a widower, and I just know that has to be someone’s catnip. Truthfully, I may wind up buying this one for myself. The heroine also appears to be the best friend of the hero’s late wife, which I know isn’t everyone’s favorite trope. You have been forewarned. It also has a 4.1-star rating on GoodReads, which is mighty impressive.
The Bad Boy Is Back
Evan Downey needs a new beginning. Since the death of his wife five years ago, the brilliant tattoo artist has shut himself away in a prison of grief that not even his work can break him out of-and what’s worse, Evan knows his son Lyon is bearing the brunt of his seclusion. Moving back to the lake town of Evergreen Cove where he spent his childhood summers is his last chance for a fresh start.
Charlotte Harris knows she owes it to her best friend’s memory to help Evan and his son find their way again, but she can’t stop her traitorous heart from skipping a beat every time she looks into Evan’s mesmerizing eyes. Charlotte is determined to stay strictly in the Friend Zone-until a mind-blowing night knocks that plan by the wayside. Now, if they’re brave enough to let it, Charlotte and Evan might just find a love capable of healing their broken hearts . . .
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Blitzing Emily
Blitzing Emily by Julie Brannagh is $1.99 and is the first book in her Love and Football series. It also looks like the rest of the series is on sale at varying prices.This is a contemporary romance between an NFL player and an opera singer, with a pretend engagement started by a concussion. With a 3.8-star rating, readers thought this was a great debut novel, though some said the pacing could have used a jumpstart. Have you read this one?
All’s fair in Love and Football…
Emily Hamilton doesn’t trust men. She’s much more comfortable playing the romantic lead in front of a packed house onstage than in her own life. So when NFL star and alluring ladies’ man Brandon McKenna acts as her personal white knight, she has no illusions that he’ll stick around. However, a misunderstanding with the press throws them together in a fake engagement that yields unexpected (and breathtaking) benefits.
Every time Brandon calls her “Sugar,” Emily almost believes he’s playing for keeps—not just to score. Can she let down her defenses and get her own happily ever after?
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Sugar’s Twice as Sweet
Sugar’s Twice as Sweet by Marina Adair is $1.99! This is the first book in her Sugar, Georgia contemporary romance series and features an athlete hero: a “bad boy golf champion.” This is a small town romance with a cast of busybody neighbors, though some readers wished the chemistry between the hero and heroine would have happened a little sooner than it did. Any takers?
He’s trouble she doesn’t need . . .
Thanks to a cheating fiancé, Josephina Harrington’s perfect life just crashed and burned. Moving in with her overbearing parents is definitelynot an option. No, she needs to prove she can make it on her own. And she will-by turning her great-aunt’s old plantation house into a destination getaway. She’s just not expecting her contractor to be so hands-on-and so totally irresistible.
. . . but everything she wants
Bad-boy golf champion Brett McGraw figured his hometown of Sugar, Georgia was the perfect place to lay low and get his life back up to par. The leggy blonde with a pint-sized pup is the kind of sweet ‘n sassy trouble he never saw coming. She doesn’t know a nut from a bolt and before long, he’s renovating her house . . . as she steals his heart. Can he convince Josephina that his womanizing ways are in the past and he’s ready for forever?
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Also on sale: “Almost Like Being In Love” by Steve Kluger. $1.99 for Kindle. Wonderful epistolary m/m contemporary romance. 😀 <3 One of my favorite books!
Seconding the recommendation for “Almost Like Being in Love” — it’s very, very funny. Not exactly a romance though; the happy ending is a nontraditional one.
@Heather S: Oh! That’s on my TBR pile – thank you for the reminder!
It’s not new, but The Boss by Abigail Barnette is still free at Amazon, and I have to recommend it because I LOVED it. I picked it up on the recommendation of Mara Wilson after EL James lost her mind on Twitter, and I devoured all four books in the series. The series follows Sophie and Neil… six years ago they had a one night stand in an airport, and now, Sophie, who works as an assistant at a popular fashion magazine, is shocked when Neil walks through the door as the new owner… of course he’s a billionaire. While the BDSM and D/s is a lot heavier/darker than some and honestly isn’t my cup of tea, it’s handled SO well… Sophie and Neil have frequent, frank discussions about their desires, limitations, and more, Sophie is always, ALWAYS encouraged to use her safe word (and Neil checks in throughout), and most importantly, they’re portrayed as equals who love and care for one another. Honestly, far more than the sex is the relationship between Sophie and Neil… they’re incredibly funny, sweet, and passionate together so they FEEL genuine, and I loved them both in a way I rarely do with romance novel characters.
This sort of made the heavier BDSM stuff hard for me to take… Sophie enjoys all of it, and as we’re in her head we understand what she’s getting out of it, but the difference between Neil and his “Sir” Dominate persona is SO striking I had troubling reconciling them. Neil is the guy who rolls joints for Sophie while she’s crying in the tub from something that happened, who refers to himself as an idiot manchild and refers to his daughter’s fiance as “Horrible Michael”, who gets in a cake fight with Sophie and is self-deprecating and yet also endearingly vain. “Sir” slaps Sophie around and makes her cry and calls her names, and while, again, it’s all part of the game to them and they both discuss explicitly what they want (Neil even stresses to Sophie if she ever changes her mind they can go back to a “normal” relationship with no questions asked), it’s just not something I personally enjoy. I skimmed those scenes.
Fair warning, the series deals with some heavy stuff like cancer, abortion, rape, and more, and while most of it is done tactfully and compassionately, some readers apparently found it a bit too heavy compared to other books. The most recent book, The Ex, is probably the weakest… it introduces a VERY heavy plot point from Neil’s past that just sort of gets hastily handled at the end, and a lot of other issues are just sort of juggled around without going anywhere, so it feels like it has the weakest overall plot and sort of stinks a bit of having been padded out. Still, Neil and Sophie are so entertaining together that I’d probably pay for a book that was just about them sassing each other and making dinner, so I’ll still read the next one.
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I have Blitzing Emily and I’m like, 25% through it and utterly uninterested in reading further. Sports romances are not my catnip, but I liked the Jill Shalvis, Kate Angell, and Jaci Burton ones, so it’s not like I hate them either, but this one was just…meh.
FYI, “Yesterday’s News” by Kadja Ingmarsson (I’m sure I misspelled that) is a KDD today. ^_^
On the non-romance front, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is only $2.99 on Amazon. I highly recommend this book, especially to those of us of a certain age who would get all the Eighties references.
Did some say widowed tattoo artist? Puurrrrrr!
Also second that Ready Player One rec. Totally tubular!!
Had to enlarge to cover for Sugar’s Twice As Sweet. I thought the dog might have been a cat and was going to squee, but no. Just a fluffy, yippee dog. Why are there more cats on romance covers?
*aren’t
Why aren’t there more cats on romance covers. Noticed the typo just as I tapped Submit.
@Kelly S.: I bought it anyway, but I second your call for more cats on covers. Especially if they belong to the guys. Guys + cats = YUM!
Re: Cats on the cover of romances: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22028344-a-purrfect-romance
NOt that I’ve read it yet, but it’s in my TBR (virtual) pile
I have all the Love and Football books and the first is not my favorite, but I have really enjoyed this series. And while I love college football, I’m really not that fond of the NFL, but I found myself looking forward to every new release. I really liked Catching Cameron and Covering Kendall.
Okay, I bought “Just One Night”, because the sample was good. I am crossing my fingers AND toes that this will be one of the rare contemporaries I can handle. (It’s funny that what I consider to be “unrealistic behavior” really bothers me in contemporaries, but I’m always semi-willing to accept that a duke was up for marrying a penniless companion!)
Just dropping by to say I bought Almost Like Being in Love on the recommendation of the first two comments – mostly based on the epistolary thing because I’m a sucker for epistolary novels and I’ve never really read an M/M romance apart from a few fanfics (no problem with it but it’s not usually my thing) – and HOLY COW it was amazing. While I was reading it I kept sending quotes from it to my friend, and I reread parts of it several times because they were just so well-written. The characters were so real and multi-faceted and the romance was just perfect.
I’ve found a ton of books I love from reviews on SMTB but I can safely say this one will probably stay near the top of my keep-forever-and-reread-regularly pile.