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 stint away from Chicago. But it's no joke; the pair is going to have to put their rocky past behind them and focus on the case at hand. That is, if they can cut back on the razor-sharp jibes—and smother the flame of their sizzling-hot sexual tension
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This is an Amazon-only pre-order deal, but it's a pretty impressive one: eight books for $.99c. These books will be delivered on 31 March 2013, and eight for a buck? Not bad!
To Die For – 8 full-length novels of life and death in one collection!
Unlucky – Jana DeLeon Mallory Devereaux is known throughout the town of Royal Flush, Louisiana as a walking disaster and her luck just got worse. FBI agent Jake Randoll needs to take down a money launderer, but he’s not prepared for the mojo that Mallory can serve up in a single touch.
Zane’s Redemption – Tina Folsom The last thing vampire bodyguard and Holocaust survivor Zane wants to do is to guard Portia, a young hybrid with a serious dilemma: in a few weeks, her virgin body will be set in its final vampire form, unless she finds a lover. Desire unites them just as Zane's past threatens to pull them apart …
The Shop of Shades and Secrets – Colleen Gleason When Fiona Murphy inherits a small antiques shop from an old man she met only once, she’s filled with surprise, confusion and delight. Then strange things begin to happen, and she's certain the shop is haunted. But the stiff and proper Gideon Nath doesn't believe her when she says she's seen a ghost….until they find a skeleton in the closet.
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes – Denise Grover Swank When Rose Gardner decides she’s done frittering away her days at the DMV, she turns Heryetta, Arkansas upside down as she navigates life, love, and the occasional murder every now and then.
Catch Me If You Can – Liliana Hart Ex-FBI sniper Shane Quincy is just trying to survive since his wife’s death when the daughter of America’s most infamous mob boss move into the apartment across the hall. Rachel Valentine is on the run from the only “family” she’s ever known. When Shane Quincy saves her life, she has no choice but to tell him who she’s running from, even though she knows it’ll make him the mob’s next target.
Stormy Montana Sky – Debra Holland Schoolteacher Harriet Stanton believes she is in love with another man, until a mysterious stranger rescues her. Newspaper reporter, ‘Ant’ Gordon, is chasing the man who murdered his sister and kidnapped his nephew, and the two join forces. But with the murderer on their trail, will they live long enough to acknowledge their hidden love?
Finding Kate Huntley – Theresa Ragan During a vacation in the Caribbean, fifteen-year old Kate Huntley's father, a prominent U.S. scientist, is murdered before her eyes. For the next ten years Kate grows up alone in Haiti, one of the most dangerous and poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Every day is a struggle for survival. And yet she lives for only one reason…revenge.
Wounded – Jasinda Wilder As an Iraqi prostitute, the one impossibility in Rania's life is love, until she meets USMC Lance Corporal Hunter Lee. When circumstance force them together, Rania and Hunter both learn that sometimes the impossible is also inevitable.
I bought this book when it was full price (darn it) after Jane and I talked about it in a podcast episode. She wasn't thrilled with it as a romance, but the reviews are hugely positive for this book both at retailers and Goodreads. Most reviews say it's got a surprising melancholy to it. I'm melancholy because I paid full price. Heh.
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.
A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves.
Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.
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Ergh, the description for Wounded
is just … icky to me.
@Laylapalooza: Really? Ha, that summary is the one that intrigued me the most.
Yeah, I’m worried there’d be maybe too much of an imperialist thrust (ahem) for my taste. I’m not sure those power dynamics are going to play out in an awesome way.
I stumbled upon the 8 pk. of books for .99 earlier today and snapped it up. Jana DeLeon is usually enjoyable and I’d expect the other 7 to be at least 3 out of 5 stars, so it’s worth the .99 chance.