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by SB Sarah | April 04, 2013 | Thursday at 11:45 am | 8 Comments
RECOMMENDED: Simply Irresistible is the first book in Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor series, and it's currently $2.99. Book 3, Head Over Heels, is still $1.99, so I'm reposting that below so you can grab both for yourself if you're so inclined.
Maddie Moore's whole life needs a makeover.
In one fell swoop, Maddie loses her boyfriend (her decision) and her job (so not her decision). But rather than drowning her sorrows in bags of potato chips, Maddie leaves L.A. to claim the inheritance left by her free-spirited mother-a ramshackle inn nestled in the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Starting over won't be easy.
Yet Maddie sees the potential for a new home and a new career-if only she can convince her two half-sisters to join her in the adventure. But convincing Tara and Chloe will be difficult because the inn needs a big makeover too. The contractor Maddie hires is a tall, dark-haired hottie whose eyes-and mouth-are making it hard for her to remember that she's sworn off men.
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by SB Sarah | April 03, 2013 | Wednesday at 11:33 am | 5 Comments
The Dark Days series from Jocelynn Drake is on sale for .99c each. Plus, two novellas from her Asylum Tales series are also 99c. The novellas and the novels both are .99c - ordinarily, a .99c novella wouldn't get my attention since I'm of the opinion that novellas should be priced around that amount. But the novels are also .99c, so Get Ready to Meet All The Books on Sale!
All the books in the series have very strong reviews on GoodReads, plus a reassuring number of OMGSQUEEYAYNEWBOOK reviews as well. If you like urban fantasy and paranormal, the whole series will cost you about $8.00 plus tax for six ebooks and two novellas. Not bad!
Bound to Me is a prequel novella in the series, and it's .99c. I confess, when I first glanced at the cover, I thought that bird was perched on an outhouse. Oops!
Mira, the heroine of Jocelynn Drake's New York Times bestselling Dark Days series, has been a nightwalker for centuries, traveling the globe as an enforcer for…
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by SB Sarah | April 02, 2013 | Tuesday at 12:49 pm | 8 Comments
Just for Now is a YA novel with some exalted exclamation-point-laden reviews on Goodreads, and contains very adult themes. It's on sale for $1.99.
The day Preston Drake figured out that wealthy women paid well for a set of tight abs and a pretty face his life turned around. The run down rat-infested trailer he had shared with his alcoholic mother and three younger siblings was now only a place he visited to pay the bills and stock the pantry with food. He no longer worried about his family starving or living without electricity. The money he made entertaining rich older women more than covered his family’s needs and his own.
He had it all figured out. Except… There was this girl.
She was as innocent as he was tainted.
Amanda Hardy wished her knees didn’t get weak when Preston walked into a room. She hated the fact her heart raced when he flashed his smile in her direction. He had a different girl in his bed every night. He was the kind of boy a smart…
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by SB Sarah | April 01, 2013 | Monday at 12:31 pm | 3 Comments
RECOMMENDED: Head Over Heels is book 3 in the Lucky Harbor series, and is one of the best in the series. I remember reading this book at a conference and not wanting to leave my room so I could finish it. It's hard to beat life-threatening asthma as a reason why the hero and heroine don't get down and dirty. This book is one of this month's Kindle deals at Amazon and is on sale for $1.99. ETA: BN has matched the $1.99 price! That's a great price for a great contemporary romance.
Free-spirited Chloe lives life on the edge. Unlike her soon-to-be married sisters, she isn't ready to settle into a quiet life running their family's newly renovated inn. But soon her love of trouble--and trouble with love-draws the attention of the very stern, very sexy sheriff who'd like nothing better than to tame her wild ways.
Suddenly Chloe can't take a misstep without the sheriff hot on her heels. His rugged swagger and his enigmatic smile are enough to make a girl beg to…
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by SB Sarah | March 28, 2013 | Thursday at 9:41 am | 2 Comments
Heartstrings and Diamond Rings is $2.99 digitally, and is one of the most recommended contemporary romances whenever I ask for suggestions. Many Goodreads reviewers effusively praise the dialogue and the comedy.
In a world full of frogs, Alison Carter is determined to find her prince. Maybe her dating past is more Titanic than Love Boat, but she's seen enough happy marriages to know that true love is possible. No matter what, she won't give up on happily-ever-after. If she can't find Mr. Right, she'll simply hire someone who can.
When Brandon Scott inherits a successful matchmaking business, he thinks his prayers have been answered. Set up a few lonely ladies, collect the fee, how hard can it be? No one needs to know he's not really a professional matchmaker-especially not his first client, the beautiful, spirited Alison.
Soon he's falling for her-and her dreams of kids and carpools. But Alison is getting close to figuring out his secret, and if she learns he's deceived her too, she'll walk right out the door, taking Brandon's heart with her.
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by SB Sarah | March 27, 2013 | Wednesday at 9:55 am | 2 Comments
How to Eat a Cupcake is $1.99 for a limited time. The reviews on this novel, about two very different friends who work in cupcakery, are largely positive. Is there a subgenre called 'cook lit?' 'Bake lit?' 'Cake lit?' This definitely fits within it.
Funny, free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated, ambitious Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clair’s housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls who know nothing of class differences and scholarships could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.
A decade later, Annie is now a talented, if underpaid, pastry chef who bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death. Julia, a successful businesswoman, is tormented by a painful secret that could jeopardize her engagement to the man she loves.
When a chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, they must overcome past hurts and a mysterious saboteur or risk losing their fledgling business and any…
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by SB Sarah | March 25, 2013 | Monday at 10:00 am | 4 Comments
RECOMMENDED & LAST CALL. Something About You is $1.99 for a few more hours. This book was featured in our Save the Contemporary campaign when it came out. Plus, it WON the DABWAHA in 2011. If you like contemporary romance, you'll probably like this. James writes very smart characters who don't forget how to do their jobs when their pants become slightly horny, and her stories have emotional and sexual tension to spare. Just go buy it. It's $2!
Of all the hotel rooms rented by all the adulterous politicians in Chicago, female Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Lynde had to choose the one next to 1308, where some hot-and-heavy lovemaking ends with a death. And of all the FBI agents in Illinois, it had to be Special Agent Jack Pallas who gets assigned to this high-profile homicide. The same Jack Pallas who still blames Cameron for a botched crackdown three years ago—and for nearly ruining his career.
Work with Cameron Lynde? Are they kidding? Maybe, Jack thinks, this is some kind of welcome-back prank after his…
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by SB Sarah | March 21, 2013 | Thursday at 1:53 pm | 1 Comments
Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep is book 1 in her Mythos Academy series. It's currently on sale for $2.99 digitally.
This book was a Sizzling Book Club Pick in August 2011 - I really liked the mixture and layering of different mythologies, and I liked Gwen as a narrator. The series is now five books long - and book 5 comes out this summer. Note: there is also a bundle of the first three novels and a prequel novella available for $12.64 at Amazon.
My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy -- a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest. But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos.
First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then, someone stole the Bowl of Tears, a magical artifact that can be used to bring about the second Chaos…
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by SB Sarah | March 20, 2013 | Wednesday at 8:23 am | 4 Comments
RECOMMENDED. Something About You is $1.99. This book was featured in our Save the Contemporary campaign when it came out. Heck, it WON the DABWAHA in 2011. If you like contemporary romance, you'll probably like this. James writes very smart characters who don't forget how to do their jobs when their pants become slightly horny, and her stories have emotional and sexual tension to spare. Just go buy it. It's $2! For one week only!
Of all the hotel rooms rented by all the adulterous politicians in Chicago, female Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Lynde had to choose the one next to 1308, where some hot-and-heavy lovemaking ends with a death. And of all the FBI agents in Illinois, it had to be Special Agent Jack Pallas who gets assigned to this high-profile homicide. The same Jack Pallas who still blames Cameron for a botched crackdown three years ago—and for nearly ruining his career.
Work with Cameron Lynde? Are they kidding? Maybe, Jack thinks, this is some kind of welcome-back prank after his stint away from Chicago.…
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by SB Sarah | March 19, 2013 | Tuesday at 1:19 pm | 6 Comments
Marked is book 1 in Elisabeth Naughton's Eternal Guardians series. It's on sale for .99c digitally.
THERON - Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly.
He's the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld. From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn't exist in real life--silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something.
Her.
She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron's duty to bring her in. But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn't strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat of her body. As war with the Underworld nears, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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by SB Sarah | March 18, 2013 | Monday at 11:09 am | 10 Comments
Several books nominated for the DABWAHA are on sale, or free, which is awesome, because reading!
Kensington has dropped the price on Laura Florand's The Chocolate Thief, nominated for the DABWAHA in the Contemporary Romance category. The price is $3.99, or $3.49 if you're Amazon.
Breathtakingly beautiful, the City of Light seduces the senses, its cobbled streets thrumming with possibility. For American Cade Corey, it's a dream come true, if only she can get one infuriating French chocolatier to sign on the dotted line. . .
Melting, yielding yet firm, exotic, its secrets are intimately known to Sylvain Marquis. But turn them over to a brash American waving a fistful of dollars? Jamais. Not unless there's something much more delectable on the table. . .
Whether confections taken from a locked shop or kisses in the dark, is there anything sweeter?
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by SB Sarah | March 14, 2013 | Thursday at 3:13 pm | 14 Comments
Kit Rocha's Beyond Shame is nominated in the PNR/SF category for the 2013 DABWAHA, and it's on sale currently for 99c!
ll Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond--beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman's daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier. The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal--men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four's ruthless leader, and he'll defend the O'Kane gang with his life.
But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet. Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they're crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she'll have to open herself to the gang, and to a world where passion is power, and…
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by SB Sarah | March 13, 2013 | Wednesday at 11:45 am | 11 Comments
Liza Palmer is a spiffy writer- though I didn't like the heroine of her 2008 book "Seeing Me Naked," I remember the writing well. Her book More Like Her is $1.99. (Yeah, I totally bought it. These deals are as dangerous for me as they are for you, I promise).
What really goes on behind those perfect white picket fences? In Frances’s mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently dumped with spectacular drama by her boyfriend, aspires to be just like Emma. So do her close friends and fellow teachers, Lisa and Jill. But Lisa’s too career-focused to find time for a family. And Jill’s recent unexpected pregnancy could have devastating consequences for her less-than-perfect marriage. Yet sometimes the golden dream you fervently wish for turns out to be not at all what it seems—like Emma’s enviable suburban postcard life, which is about to be brutally cut short by a perfect husband turned killer. And in the shocking aftermath, three devastated friends are going to have to come to terms with…
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by SB Sarah | March 12, 2013 | Tuesday at 2:15 pm | 10 Comments
An Accidental Seduction is a prequel novella to the two books on sale below. The novella is .99c Emily Barrow once dreamed that she could marry Stephen Chesterfield, the Earl of Whitmore, and be saved from her dreary life. Then Stephen's father sent him away, leaving Emily broken-hearted... Now Stephen has returned to find Emily destitute and alone. He has vowed to help her without compromising her honor...but Emily has other ideas. She doesn't want his charity, but she does long to know what it would be like to take him as a lover, even if marriage is out of the question. Confined to close quarters with their passion burning as brightly as ever, will Stephen be able to resist the temptation and rescue her, or give in to his desire and completely ruin her?
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The Accidental Countess is $1.99 for a very limited time.…
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by SB Sarah | March 11, 2013 | Monday at 2:08 pm | 5 Comments
There are two things you need to know about this book. First, The Surrender of Miss Fairbourne is $1.99 digitally. Second, this book was the subject of a Book Rant from Heather last fall. So if you're curious, your curiosity will cost you $2.
A woman running a prestigious London auction house? Preposterous! But that is exactly what Emma Fairbourne intends to do when her father dies, leaving her the reins of this fabulous enterprise. Of course, she is not addlepated enough to do this openly and scare away her wealthy collectors. So she and her friend concoct a deception, hiring a handsome and charming front man who will do her bidding...
All would have proceeded smoothly--if it weren't for the maddening interference of Darius, the arrogant Earl of Southwaite, who has been her father's "silent partner" and now shares ownership of Fairbourne's. An earl, of course, has no interest in running an auction house--and Darius is certainly not interested in allowing the lovely Miss Fairbourne to run it either, her ludicrous scheme notwithstanding.
Clearly the…
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