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  • The Vixen and the Vet

    The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery

    READER RECOMMENDED: The Vixen and the Vet by Katy Regnery is $2.99 at Amazon! This contemporary romance was previously nominated for a RITA® in the Long Contemporary category and is a Beauty & the Beast retelling. During the RITA® Reader Challenge, Reader Erica gave the book a B:

    I really did enjoy the hell out of this book. I really did. I loved Asher. I liked Savannah, I felt like she and I would be buddies. I was rooting for them together and I fully believe in this happily-ever-after (*cough* even though it happens too quickly *cough*), and I’m sure out there in this fictional world, they are together and doing good things. This was not a magic hoo-ha cures your PTSD story, and for that I am grateful.

    In this modern-retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” Savannah Carmichael, betrayed by an unreliable source, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia with her once-promising journalism career in ruins. Given the opportunity to get back in the game by writing a patriotic human interest piece, Savannah turns her attention to the town hermit, Asher Lee, a wounded veteran who returned to Danvers eight years ago, and hasn’t been seen since.

    After an IED explosion in Afghanistan took Asher’s hand and disfigured half of his face, he’s lived a quiet life on the outskirts of Danvers where the locals respect his privacy…that is, until Savannah Carmichael comes calling in a borrowed sundress with a plate of homemade brownies. When Asher agrees to be interviewed by Savannah, he starts feeling things for the beautiful reporter that he hasn’t felt in years.

    Misfits in small-town Danvers, Savannah and Asher create a bond right away, touching each other’s hearts in ways neither thought possible. When a terrible mistake threatens to drive them apart, they’ll have to decide if the love they found in one another’s arms is strong enough to fight for their hard-won happily ever after.

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  • Obsession

    Obsession by Jennifer Armentrout

    Obsession by Jennifer L. Armentrout is 99c! This is a standalone new adult paranormal romance. With aliens, maybe? Warning that there does seem to be a scene with dubious consent in the book in terms of touching. It also has a good vs. evil vibe that readers enjoyed. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.

    He’s arrogant, domineering, and… To. Die. For.

    Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.

    Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something… unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret.

    Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he’s doing the unthinkable—breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life… or is it Hunter?

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  • Unveiled

    Unveiled by Courtney Milan

    Unveiled by Courtney Milan – enhanced edition – is 99c. This is the first book in Milan’s Turner series. The enhanced ebook version features pictures and audio in addition to the text. It was also a RITA 2012 finalist for Best Historical Romance. Some readers expressed that they found the first half of the book on the slow side, but many agree it’s completely worth pushing through those first few chapters. Guest reviewer, Milena, gave it a B- during the 2012 RITA Reader Challenge:

    Unveiled was still wonderfully crafted, and managed to stay interesting all the way through, simply because the resolution – apart from the love story, obviously – could have gone either way. Also, the heroine develops a spine, slowly but certainly, which is very convincingly done and made me smile because it rang so true. There’s quite a bit of angst in there, too, the legal complications kept me on the edge of my seat, and the love scenes were lovely

    Ash Turner has waited a lifetime to seek revenge on the man who ruined his family – and now the time for justice has arrived. At Parford Manor, he intends to take his place as the rightful heir to the dukedom and settle an old score with the current duke once and for all. But instead he finds himself drawn to a tempting beauty who has the power to undo all his dreams of vengeance….

    Lady Margaret knows she should despise the man who’s stolen her fortune and her father’s legacy – the man she’s been ordered to spy on in the guise of a nurse. Yet the more she learns about the new duke, the less she can resist his smoldering appeal. Soon Margaret and Ash find themselves torn between old loyalties – and the tantalizing promise of passion….

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  • Bully

    Bully by Penelope Douglas

    Bully by Penelope Douglas is $1.99! Readers either loved or hated this new adult romance as the hero was once the heroine’s friend and now he’s her bully. Some felt the hero was beyond redemption, while others thought he really worked to be forgiven by the heroine. Have you read this one?

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Penelope Douglas delivers an unforgettable New Adult romance that toes the fine line between love and hate…

    My name is Tate. He doesn’t call me that, though. He’ll barely refer to me at all, and he’ll hardly ever speak to me.

    But he still won’t leave me alone.

    We were best friends once. Then he turned on me and made it his mission to ruin my life. I’ve been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got worse as time wore on. I even went to Europe for a year, just to avoid him.

    But I’m done hiding from him now, and there’s no way I’ll allow him to ruin another year. He might not have changed, but I have.

    It’s time to fight back.

    When one brave young woman stands up to her best friend Jared, now tormenter, the consequences go beyond anything either of them ever would have imagined…

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  1. Katie Lynn says:

    The second book in Regnery’s series is currently free. The first was good, from what I recall.

  2. CelineB says:

    @Katie Lynn Thank you! Now the second book can join the first and fifth books on my kindle where they were undoubtedly continue to sit for weeks, probably even months before I finally get around to reading them. So many books to read and so much time wasted doing responsible adult things instead of reading…

  3. Ren Benton says:

    Patricia Briggs’s Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Book 1) is $2.99 and Fire Touched (Book 9) is $1.99.

    Everything in between is $5.99-$7.99, in typical Penguin pricing fashion.

  4. Erin says:

    Racheline Maltese and Erin MacRae’s A Queen from the North is $2.99 USD ($3.71 CAD) for the next week in honour of the new royal baby.

    (I am not Erin MacRae, I am a different Erin.)

  5. Deborah says:

    Spotless by Camilla Monk is currently $0.00 (FREE!) at Amazon. When paired with the second volume in the series (Beating Ruby $3.99), it offers a solid romance that simultaneously embraces (virgin wallflower nerd heroine x OCD hitman hero) and mocks all the tropes. Read it. It’s FREE. READ IT.

  6. Lizzy says:

    Bully sounds awful. I can get enemies to lovers but it’s really got to be mutual, if the hero is an actual bully I just can’t forgive that.

  7. Joanna says:

    Madly by Ruthie Knox is currently $.99. Looks like the third book, Completely, comes out later this month.

  8. Dietz123 says:

    Bully? I just can’t. I was treated that way in school and adults said, “Oh, it’s because he LIKES you.” It’s not romantic behavior, it’s dickish behavor, and as such it should not be tolerated.

  9. KellyM says:

    There was a bully in my elementary school. He bullied other kids. I beat the snot out of him on the baseball diamond. As an adult I don’t condone fighting, but we were all of but 11? He was almost twice my size but I just had enough of his horrible behavior. He started taunting me thinking I wouldn’t have the guts to do anything. Ha! Just ask my family how stupidly impulsive and how I used to let my temper get the better of me. heh. Surprise was apparently on my side because I don’t think he didn’t expect me to actually tackle him. So my anger and maybe being a girl gave me the upper hand.
    I felt like I expressed how I felt about bullying. I felt I had an “impact” on his rotten behavior. Of course fighting is rotten behavior too. In my defense it was my one and only physical fight.
    I saw Bobby the Bully as an adult many years later. I am happy to report we both matured. 🙂

  10. Vasha says:

    I am the only person I’ve ever seen mention this, but the beginning of Unveiled really skeeved me out. So the lord arrives at his new home, and all the servants are lined up to greet him. One of them seems different somehow, and he immediately starts making sexual advances to her. Isn’t that UTTERLY inappropriate? At the time he didn’t know she was a spy not a servant. And if I recall rightly, he didn’t even know that she was (supposedly) employed by his father not by him. So he isn’t technically making advances to his employee, but for all he knows, he is… And this was never really dealt with in the book, I don’t think.

  11. Jennifer says:

    Nthing that hell no to the idea of romancing your bully. If someone’s gonna write that they’d better do a LOT of work to make anyone stomach it.

  12. Vasha says:

    Actually, in Unlocked, Courtney Milan made the reformed-bully thing work beautifully. It worked because he realized that there was nothing he could say that would make his former victim trust him; he simply had to be trustworthy, for ever. And she took a long time to see that he really had changed, by his behavior.

  13. Qualisign says:

    Why is the beast always the m?

  14. Vasha says:

    “Why is the beast always the M?” I can answer that for the original fairy tale (at least, it’s super-clear in some tellings; different tellers might emphasize different aspects of the story). In versions where her family is involved, we have a young woman forced by her father to leave home to go live with a stranger; the parallel with parent-controlled marriage is obvious. It’s then a story about transferring allegiance from her original family to her husband, confirmed when she goes back home and realizes that’s not where she belongs. No wonder this would appeal to girls who would not have much choice who they married, and who were told they had a duty to their husband. It provides both affirmation of their fears, and eassurance about the rightness of the values involved.

    Nowadays, unless they belong to a fundamentalist community, women in the English-speaking world are rarely told who they must marry by their parents, nor do they often marry someone unless they’ve dated for a while. So in current English-language romances the meaning of Beauty and the Beast shifts a bit. There is often little or no mention of transferring allegiance away from the childhood family, and the duty to the Beast is vaguer, more of a choice.

    But the idea that a woman might initially find the man she will marry intimidating or offputting still has great emotional resonance. After all there is a great power imbalance between men and women in our society, and women are still socialized to “give a guy a chance,” to date him even if she’s not sure it’s a good idea. So romances where this sort of thing works out well are still affirming and relevant.

    It’s true that you might have a romance where a guy learns to like a woman who initially alarms him, but with the social power gradient running in the opposite direction, the story would have quite a different feel to it; the level of threat, expectation, and hidden obligation would be different.

  15. Zyva says:

    The genderflipped Beast is a “loathly lady”

  16. LML says:

    I never imagined I’d feel this way about a romance novel, but here goes: I found The Vixen and the Vet to be a good (if old, as Beauty and the Beast) story strung together with entirely too many sex scenes.

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