Love in the Afternoon
Love in the Afternoon by Alison Packard is .99 today at Amazon as a Kindle Daily Deal. This is book one of the Feeling the Heat series, and it has a 3.56 star average. It’s a contemporary romance set amid a television soap opera, and both characters are actors.
Note: the book is .99 at Amazon, and is not price-matched, but I’m hoping that other vendors will match the price sometime today, so I’m including the links. Fingers crossed!
Kayla Maxwell is eager to shed her slasher-flick bimbo image—and she plans to do just that in her new role on daytime’s most popular soap. With a chance to showcase her dramatic range, Kayla will be able to wash away the lingering betrayal and public humiliation left by her controlling, philandering ex-boyfriend.
Sean Barrett, the son of an influential, award-winning actor, is the hottest soap star in the country. Paired on-screen with the talented and beautiful Kayla Maxwell, Sean is determined to keep her at arm’s length, burned before by fame-seeking actresses who had no qualms about using him to get to his famous father.
But when Kayla receives threatening letters, her past as a scream queen seems to be coming back to haunt her. Succumbing to an attraction neither one of them can deny, Sean and Kayla must face down her stalker and their own personal demons before trusting what they both feel—a love that lasts long after the cameras stop rolling.
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The Winning Season by Alison Packard is .99 at Amazon today only. This is book 2 in the Feeling the Heat series and it has a 3.8 star average. The hero in this contemporary is a professional baseball player traded to a terrible team, and the heroine is the publicist for said team.
Kelly Maxwell has finally landed her dream job as publicist for the San Francisco Blaze. But the team’s newest member, handsome bad boy catcher Matt Scanlon, is refusing every interview. She’s got to get him to open up before the season ends, or she may not be back next year. And after everything she overcame to achieve her dream, Kelly’s not about to let that happen.
Matt Scanlon just wants to be left alone to rebuild his life and his career. After a year of masking the pain of a recent loss with hard partying and fast women, he finally hit rock bottom and was traded to a team he’s loathed his entire life—a team with little to no chance at the post-season.
Butting heads is getting Kelly and Matt nowhere but annoyed, and with the team’s schedule on the road, they can’t avoid close quarters—or their surprising attraction to one another. As the season winds down, Matt finds his growing feelings for Kelly have brought his numbed emotions back to life. But when betrayal shatters their fragile trust, winning it all seems more impossible than ever.
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Catching Heat by Alison Packard is .99 today at Amazon – fingers crossed for price matching! This is book 3 in the Feeling the Heat series, and it has a 3.8 star average. This is a second chance story. The heroine is the baseball team accountant, and the hero is the backup catcher. Both are trying to ignore their attraction. That always works the way they plan, right?
Life has taught Angie DeMarco that all baseball players are womanizers, and her incredible one-night stand with sexy San Francisco Blaze back-up catcher J.T. Sawyer seemed to prove it. Determined not to give in to their sizzling chemistry a second time, she’s kept her distance ever since, focusing on her accounting job with the team. But now she’s laid off…and pregnant.
J.T. was hurt by Angie’s rejection, but with one more year with the Blaze, he has no time for love. He needs to spend the off season training hard so he can negotiate a better contract with a new team at the end of the year. But when Angie shows up on his doorstep, he‘s overwhelmed by wanting to not just do right by her but pursue a relationship with her. Hoping for a second chance, he proposes.
Angie agrees to marry J.T. on one condition: the marriage will be purely a business arrangement. But as Angie spends time with him and his family, and J.T. neglects his training to spend time with her, what begins as a union in name only slowly grows into something more—something that looks a whole lot like love and friendship.
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Breaking His Rules by Alison Packard is .99 today. This is book 4 in the Feeling the Heat series, and has a 3.8 star average. The heroine has lost 50 pounds and is faced with attending a family wedding amid people who will be cruel to her. Instead of hiring a male escort, her personal trainer at her gym persuades her to bring him instead.
Losing fifty pounds is an incredible achievement. But for Melissa Atherton, progress doesn’t come with praise—a scathing comment from an evil cousin at a bridal shower threatens to crush her new self-esteem. Who will she bring to the upcoming wedding? Showing up without a date would be humiliating. It just isn’t an option.
Personal trainer Jake Sawyer was attracted to Melissa before she lost weight, but her progress has him floored. When she admits she plans to hire a male escort—and why—his heart all but breaks. Melissa’s come too far to be knocked down, especially by her own family. He’ll go as her date…and figure out a way to keep his hands to himself.
But when a steamy hotel room encounter takes them both by surprise, Jake balks. He’s sworn never to date one of his clients, not again. And Melissa can’t bear to be just friends with the man who treated her so tenderly, even if it was only for a weekend. Jake’s helped her see she’s strong enough to stand up for herself, but will she find the strength to pursue the only man who’s ever seen the real her?
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Can any of these be read as stand alones?
@Lisa M I’ve read Winning Season, which I didn’t even realize was Book 2 of a series, so I would say yes:-) I’m kinda interested in Catching the Heat because I liked those characters in Book 2 but I just cringe whenever I see “must have a date to a wedding” plot as in Book 4. I’ve never understood that concept. Where do these people live that absolutely requires a date to a wedding? And a hot date at that?
@Charlotte Russell Thanks for the info. And I totally agree about the “have to have a date to a wedding” drama. I had to lol because I’m going to a family wedding this weekend and am actually bringing a date for the first time (37 y/o generally singleton here). I think I’ll be given more crap from my relatives for having a date vs. if I’d gone alone. He is hot though, so at least I’ve got that going for me. 🙂
I agree with @Charlotte Russell about the bizarre trope of the pretend wedding date. It seems so odd. What is this universe where people are that invested in the romantic lives of others that everyone is compelled to bring a date to a wedding? So I’m torn about Breaking His Rules. On the one hand, I am also somebody who has lost a significant amount of weight and has experienced what a difference that makes in how the world perceives diverse bodies, so I’m drawn to the heroine of the book. People who have read the book: is the heroine’s story handled well enough for me to overlook my distaste for the plot setup?
I read a couple pages of the sample of the wedding date book. The sister suggested, “Let’s bail on the evil cousin’s wedding,” which I thought was wise. I mean, the sister’s in the bridal party — fuck up the bridesmaid-to-groomsman ratio and make Bridezilla’s head explode at the altar FTW. But the response to this wisdom was “No, that’s what she wants, then she’ll win.” Which sounds suspiciously like the goal is to “win” validation from the evil cousin… by proxy and through deceit because the protagonist in actuality has nothing the evil cousin values.
Self-esteem depending on some vile person’s opinion makes my skin crawl way more than fake-a-date ever will.
You’ll be happily surprised at how that wedding book ends up, I think. Nothing like it sounds like it will from the beginning.
But, darn it all, I just paid full price for the last one, Stealing Second. Which, btw, has the best description of a certain position often referred to by numbers….well, ever. *fanning myself*