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Dirty Thoughts
Dirty Thoughts by Megan Erikson is $1.99 right now. This is book 1 in the Mechanics of Love series – get it? The hero is a mechanic who raised his brothers after their mother left, and the heroine is his high school girlfriend who moves home after a few years in New York. Catnip alert: this is a second chance love story, with class boundaries in a small town, and a very hot, very grumpy hero.
Some things are sexier the second time around.
Cal Payton has gruff and grumbly down to an art…all the better for keeping people away. And it usually works. Until Jenna MacMillan-his biggest mistake—walks into Payton and Sons mechanic shop all grown up, looking like sunshine, and inspiring more than a few dirty thoughts.
Jenna was sure she was long over the boy she’d once loved with reckless abandon, but one look at the steel-eyed Cal Payton has her falling apart all over again. Ten years may have passed, but the pull is stronger than ever… and this Cal is all man.
Cal may have no intention of letting Jenna in, but she’s always been his light, and it’s getting harder to stay all alone in the dark. When a surprise from the past changes everything, Cal and Jenna must decide if their connection should be left alone or if it’s exactly what they need for the future of their dreams.
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Under His Kilt
Under His Kilt by Melissa Blue is .99. This is a contemporary interracial novella with a museum curator and a hot Scottish consultant working at her museum. She’s looking for a fling, and he’s pretty sure that she’s off-limits. Readers who liked it say the dialogue between the hero and heroine is terrific.
Jocelyn Pearson is determined to spend her last month as a twenty-something doing everything she’s too busy or scared to try. Her imagination runs wild and then fixates on Ian Baird. He’ll be working at the Langston Museum for a short stint as a consulting curator. He’s Scottish. He believes sex is fun to be had. He’s the perfect choice for a fling. She only has to get him break his rule about sleeping with co-workers. Seducing a man was on her bucket list…
Ian is no one’s fool and knows exactly what Jocelyn wants—him. If she didn’t work for the Langston Museum, he’d be more than happy to oblige any and every fantasy she desired, but she’s the curator. She’s sweet, inexperienced and well liked by everyone including the museum owner and director. Ian can’t risk losing such an important contact for his consulting business. Not even when everything within in him craves a taste of her.
When Jocelyn sets her sights on him, there’s no way Ian can deny her. They agree their affair will end in thirty days. No emotions, no entanglements, just sex. The closer the end date looms, they start to question if it’s possible to walk away. They’ll either have to come to terms of what they’ve become or stick to their original agreement.
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Across the Distance
Across the Distance by Marie Meyer is .99 right now. This is a new adult romance with a friends to lovers plot that’s complicated by the fact that the hero is now a famous musician. This story has a 3.6-star average on Goodreads, too.
There’s a drawer I never open. It holds a picture I never look at. It reminds me of a day I hate to remember, but I’ll never forget.
I’d give anything to be like the other girls on campus. Going to parties, flirting with boys, planning for a future. But that’s not me. And hasn’t been since the day my parents died. The only thing that got me through was Griffin. Even though I didn’t have my family, I always had him. Only, now I’m not so sure I do.
It’s not just the eleven hundred miles separating us now that I’m at college. Or his band finally taking off, and all the gigs and girls suddenly demanding his time. It’s as if everything is different-the way we talk, the way we text . . . the way he looks at me and the way those looks make me feel.
Griffin has been the only good thing in my life since that horrific day. But I can feel our friendship slipping away-and I’m terrified of what will be left in its place . . .
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Meet Me at the Beach
Meet Me at the Beach by V.K. Sykes is $1.99 right now. This is a second chance romance with a professional baseball player hero who has come home to the island where he grew up, and a heroine who has stayed on the island and runs her own fishing boat (that’s cool!). This book has a 3.8 star average on Goodreads, too. Readers who liked it said they were expecting something light and were pleased when they got a much more satisfying contemporary romance instead.
When Lily Doyle spots her high school crush Aiden Flynn on the inbound ferry, she knows trouble is about to dock in Seashell Bay. And not just because he’s more handsome than ever. If Aiden’s in town, the rumors must be true about his family’s plan to sell their coastal land to the highest bidder. But Lily will do whatever it takes to convince the hottest guy on the beach to protect their idyllic island home.
Gorgeous Lily Doyle was the only thing Aiden missed after he escaped from his hometown to play pro baseball. Now all Aiden wants is to wrap up the business deal and get back to his life, not relive a past that still haunts him. But as memories rush in about the night of passion he and Lily shared long ago, everything else washes right out to sea—everything except the desire that still burns between them.
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“When a surprise from the past changes everything, Cal and Jenna must decide if their connection should be left alone or if it’s exactly what they need for the future of their dreams.”
It’s a kid, isn’t it? The surprise from the past is always a kid. Why can’t it be a cake or something? Like, “Oh, I got super wasted last night and bought a delicious cupcake that I then forgot because I browned out. Surprise!”
The second book in the Dirty series is also $1.99 for preorder. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RLVDGO8?refRID=0BMHMZCEXXW9Y2KAWC2Z&ref_=pd_typ_k_sp_1_1_p
But sometimes it is not their kid, like the hero boinked someone else…it’s the little twists that matter ;D
Okay, I bought the book and read the whole thing. I’m not going to spoil the “surprise” in Dirty Thoughts, but I am going to warn fellow childfree readers against it. It’s super insulting and condescending to people who don’t want kids. One character who lacks a parental instinct is depicted in an unrelentingly negative manner; and another who has legitimate and strong reasons for not wanting kids is painted as immature, and their character arc is basically about how they need to reverse the childfree decision they’ve embraced their entire adult life in order to become a complete human.
I kind of want somebody else to read this so I can chat with them about how shitty it is without having to avoid spoilers.
🙁 under his kilt is only on sale at Amazon and iBooks as far as I can tell
Two questions about the covers here:
1) On DIRTY THOUGHTS, what is the white thing on the top of her outfit that’s being removed? Is it part of the red dress (that’s somehow separated from the rest of it at the top of the arm), is it a bra (with the thickest straps ever), or something else? I’m confused.
2) Anyone feel cheated that a book called UNDER HIS KILT has *no kilt* on the cover?
@jimthered: 1)red jacket, white tank top/cami.
2)maybe it’s just hanging really low.
Also, divided on “Dirty Thoughts”. Hot and grumpy does it for me, but MY big bro is a grumpy mechanic… so, I think, no because weird.
@Jimthered
Good question! My guess is that she’s wearing some sort of red trench coat with a lighter coloured dress underneath?
Very grumpy blue-collar hero!!! I was about to one-click it into my hot little Kindle hands. Then I read a couple of negative reviews and now I’m on the fence. For anyone who has read it, is this that type of contemporary where the characters are very thin tropes (“He’s a grumpy mechanic! She wears high heels and is rich! The gulf between them is enormous and unbridgeable.”) and there’s an enormous cast of secondary series-bait cousins in the small town and so on? (I can’t do those.)
If anyone has any grumpy blue-collar heroes to recommend that are also excellent prose-wise and characterization-wise, please feel free to share, ahem.
I just bought Dirty Thoughts, I have read some great reviews for that one, and I do love Avon publishing. I like that they are starting to get into NA genre.
@Cordy,
There is one series-bait brother, as well as another brother whose book was previously released. And there’s one friend who might be series bait, but I’m not sure. The characters are not totally thin, though I was less than convinced by the depictions of the supporting cast. I also didn’t find the socioeconomic conflict between the hero and heroine particularly believable; it was more of a “my family hates your family” kind of thing than any meaningful exploration of the difficulties two people might encounter when they hail from wildly different backgrounds. It was a pretty predictable “wrong side of the tracks” stereotype. The villain was paper-thin in both characterization and motivation; I was honestly shocked that he didn’t have a mustache to twirl or a puppy to kick. Also, as I mentioned in a previous comment, there was a whole other reason that I found the book frustrating and unenjoyable. I’m kind of surprised at how good the reviews for it are. I didn’t find it worth my time at all (fortunately it only took me a couple hours to read), but obviously every reader values different things, so YMMV.
@Dread Pirate Rachel-I hate books that portray childless people as soulless monsters or deprived people we should pity. I have kids but I have several child-free (by choice! *gasp*) friends and some who are still undecided and are young enough to take their time. I hate convenient children and plot moppets in books. I mostly hate the way kids are portrayed in books, since they all seem so remarkably well-behaved and always say the most witty, most appropriate things at all times. REAL children are nothing like that. Mostly, unless the hero and heroine are discussing children and whether to have them prior to committing to each other, I don’t really see the need for children to come up at all.
/end rant
Sorry for that, but this is one of my hot buttons, obviously.
I just bought Dirty Thoughts and I’m confused as to how old the hero is in the book. In the first chapter, his brother calls to set up plans for his 30th birthday but then later as the heroine is introduced, there is talk/memories about them being 18 and in love. It’s only been 10 years since they’ve seen each other. Is he only 28 or is he going to be 30? Was he actually 20 when she was 18? WHERE ARE THOSE TWO EXTRA YEARS? This question keeps plaguing me so much so that I am having a hard time enjoying the book.
@Dread Pirate Rachel I want to read it so I can commiserate with you but I suspect the rage may kill me. But if you ever read a book where the surprise is a cupcake or other junk food impulse purchase, I am all over it.
@jimthered Naughty Mrs. Claus outfit? The sort of thing you’d see at Fredrick’s, or maybe for Halloween?
@Dread Pirate Rachel & @kkw – I’m with @kkw. I’d like to be able to bitch about the mistreatment of those who wish to be childless, given that I have chosen to be childless and am quite happy with my life and extra book money, but I suspect if I read the book I’d be wanting to throw it burning across the room having been set a flame by the looks I’d given it for its judging ways.
Also, I would SO VERY MUCH LOVE a book where the “surprise” wasn’t a kid. Because, then it might actually be a surprise.