Three very different contemporaries are on sale right now. Maybe one would be a great gift for yourself, and another for someone you know?
Personal Assets
Personal Assets by Kelsey Browning is .99c right now at most vendors. This is a contemporary romance, and is book 1 in the Texas Nights series. It has a 4+ star average on GR, and readers who gave it high marks used words like “crisp,” “fun,” “light,” sharp,” “hot,” and “witty” to describe it.
Sex therapist Allie Shelby has the professional credentials, but she could use a bit more practical experience. Finding the right man to bring out her inner bad girl is tough in a population-challenged Texas town. So when sinfully sexy Cameron Wright rolls back into Shelbyville, Allie wastes no time inviting him to join her in some hands-on research.
Cameron has come home to fulfill his dream of restoring classic cars. Back in high school, he knew the town princess, Allie Shelby, was way out of his league. Today he has even less in common with Allie, so he’s shocked as hell when she propositions him. Still, he’s only human, so he accepts her offer—and with each encounter, she shows him another, wilder side. Before long, he’s thinking about more than just sex.
But while her personal life heats up, Allie’s business is about to crash and burn. And she has to convince Cameron that she’s one princess who’s not looking for a prince to ride to her rescue.
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Good Harbor by Anita Diamant is $1.99 digitally. You might recognize her name from her mega-bestselling debut, The Red Tent, but this is not biblical historical fiction. This is a contemporary women’s fiction story about two women in the town of Gloucester, MA, who meet when both are facing difficult choices and circumstances. It has a 3-star average, and while some readers found the portrayal of female friendship moving and powerful, others were bothered by the way the characters handled facing cancer and the various treatment options.
Anita Diamant’s international bestseller The Red Tent brilliantly re-created the ancient world of womanhood, exploring the passions, traditions, and turmoil of a family of mothers and daughters from the Book of Genesis. In Good Harbor, she brings her remarkable storytelling skills and emotional insight to the lives of modern women, considering the precarious balance of marriage and career, motherhood and friendship.
The seaside town of Gloucester, on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, is a place where the smell of the ocean lingers in the air.Fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen Levine, a longtime resident, is graceful, maternal, and steady, a devoted children’s librarian, a convert to Judaism, the mother of two grown sons. But when she is diagnosed with breast cancer — which killed her sister fifteen years earlier — her life is thrown into turmoil.
Frightened, lonesome for a woman to talk to, burdened by secrets, she meets Joyce Tabachnik and a once-in-a-lifetime friendship is born. Forty-two-year-old Joyce, restless and funny, a freelance writer with literary aspirations, has just bought a small house in Gloucester, where she hopes to write as well as vacation with her family. Like Kathleen, Joyce is at a fragile place in her life: with her twelve-year-old daughter becoming increasingly testy and distant, she’s also feeling a distinct lack of connection to her husband.
A mutual appreciation of books, humor, and the beauty of the natural world brings the two women together for long walks along Good Harbor beach. Slowly, they begin to share their personal histories and to realize how much they can learn from each other. Ultimately they wrestle with some startling secrets, and help each other to confront scars left by old emotional wounds.
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Always On My Mind by Bella Andre is .99c at many vendors. This is book 8 in the Sullivan’s series, which follows the many hot, single, occasionally angsty and often witty members of the Sullivan family as they pair up with their HEAs.
I’ve loved several books in this series, though I haven’t read this one. I’m curious, though, because this is Lori, the “naughty” twin’s story, and she was a fascinating character in the prior books. This book has a 4+ star average on GR, too. Oh, temptation, how’ve you been?
In ALWAYS ON MY MIND, after a tragic loss three years ago, Grayson Tyler left his life in New York City behind and started over in the rolling hills of the California coast. He’s convinced himself that all he’ll ever need again is the blue sky, a thousand acres of pasture, and the crashing waves of the ocean.
Until one day, Lori Sullivan barges into his life and promptly blows his emotionless and solitary world to shreds, driving him crazy as only a woman nicknamed “Naughty” can. But will Lori be able to convince him that it’s safe to love her…and that forever isn’t actually out of reach?
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I remember enjoying Good Harbor, although it’s not my favorite Diamant. I really liked that it focused on the friendship between two adult women. It’s definitely not a romance – there’s a little about each woman’s relationship with her husband but it’s mostly about them and their friendship. It touches on a lot of tough topics – cancer, the loss of a child (in the past, not during the course of the book), adultery. I don’t remember anything about the cancer treatment.
The thing I remembered being annoyed by was that one of the characters wrote a romance novel and used the money she made to buy a summer home. She’s writing a sequel and casually mentions having to kill off the hero so her heroine can fall in love with someone new. Just no. I mean, yes sometimes romance authors do that, but usually they don’t. It made me think that Diamant doesn’t read romance (or stopped reading it in the 70s) and it did raise my hackles. But if you can forgive that, the rest of the story is good.