Deep Under
Deep Under by Lisa Renee Jones is 99c! This is a contemporary romantic suspense with some dark elements and a bodyguard hero. This can be read as a standalone, despite being the fourth book in the Tall, Dark and Deadly series. The heroine has suffered trauma (abuse, rape) in the past, so I’m issuing a trigger warning. However, if you love protective, alpha heroes, readers recommend this one.
Kyle, one of the alpha men of Walker Security, is hot, bothered, and intense, and when Myla lands in his line of fire, she’ll soon learn her secrets, and her passion, belong to him.
Myla is beautiful, a dove with clipped wings, captive by the wolf, a vicious drug lord. One look into her eyes and Kyle could see the pain, the fear… the desperation. Or so it seems. He’s been fooled before by a woman and it cost him everything and everyone he loved. He won’t be fooled again.
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Dangerous Desire by Annie Seaton is 99c at Amazon, Google:Play, and iBooks! At other vendors, it’s $2.99. This romantic suspense involves a school teacher heroine with a missing sister. However, several readers on Goodreads mention having trouble connecting with her. But many loved the suspense aspects and didn’t see the plot twist coming. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
A desperate search…
Schoolteacher Gracie James has never seen more danger than her kindergarten grade classroom, but when she goes searching for her missing sister, she’s thrown into a world of sex, crime…and passion. Following a hot lead, she sneaks onto a stranger’s boat—and gets caught. Their one-sided conversation convinces her of two things. One: the guy is seriously sexy. Two: he knows something about her sister. Oh, yeah. And did she mention he’s sexy? And a sizzling attraction…
Jake Alexander, former cop, is staking out a yacht brimming with criminal activity, for an insurance company, when a woman, dressed to kill and totally irresistible, stumbles into his dangerous undercover op. If he hadn’t tackled her, she’d have tottered straight onto the questionable yacht in those ridiculous high heels. Then she’d be dead. Or worse. As much as he’d like to kick her off his boat, he can’t risk her going off on some hare-brained scheme—but he can’t keep her around to muck up his job. Oh, yeah. And did he mention she’s distracting as hell? Lead to dangerous desire…
Unfortunately, she has a keen mind of her own. And a body any man would die for. Jake’s attempt to keep Gracie safe quickly morphs into a reluctant alliance. And a whole lot more… But Gracie finds herself knee deep in more trouble than she bargained for, with secrets revealed and the criminals coming after her. Unless they find a way to trust each other, they’re finished. Oh, yeah. And did they mention they’re in love?
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Heart Breaker by Erin McCarthy is 99c at Amazon, Kobo, & iBooks! It’s $3.99 elsewhere. Heart Breaker was featured on a podcast with Dr. Kristen Nielsen Donnelly and she called the book “really lovely.” However, reviewers on Goodreads found it was really hard to like the hero and heroine. Have you read this one?
They’re perfectly in tune—but only when it comes to their music. This sizzling romance from New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy follows Nashville’s hottest country music duo as they fight for love in a city where dreams often cost a broken heart.
Self-made singer/songwriter Jolene Hart loves everything about being on top in Nashville. Well, everything except her very public breakup with Chance Rivers, her sexy masculine other half. Once the hottest duo on the scene, they turned Music City on its ear. Now their careers are as cold as their relationship. Which is why their manager has practically locked them in a remote cabin with nothing but a guitar, a bed, and time to do what they do best: make some beautiful music together.As Nashville royalty, Chance has big boots to fill—and the pressure that comes with ’em. He fell hard for Jolene, but he couldn’t handle the spotlight, the crowds, and the fights that made headlines and killed any notion that love and success could go hand-in-hand. Still, Chance is more than willing to rekindle the one thing that worked: the wild passion behind their hit songs. Soon they’re making up for lost time, in the steamiest ways possible. But Chance finds himself wishing for the impossible: that their intimate hideaway could last forever.
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RECOMMENDED: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is $1.99! I loved this fantasy novel and highly recommend it to readers who love the classics. The heroine works in literary detection, so when characters in famous novels go missing, she’s the one to call. Admittedly, the book does take a while to get into as you try to settle into the worldbuilding, but I think Fforde eventually finds his footing and the following books in the series just get better.
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, veryseriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense.
All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë’s novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter the novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide.
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The Eyre Affair is wonderful! I love all of Jasper Fforde’s books. His nursery rhyme detective books are good too.
I had a tough time liking both the hero and heroine in Heart Breaker but it still was an interesting story.
Agreed. The Eyre Affair was clever and great fun.
It’s been years since I read The Eyre Affair but I loved that book both in print and audio.
Playing with Fire by Kate Meader is $1.99 at Amazon only (maybe the price match fairies will come through soon). It has a firefighter heroine and mayor hero. I’ve read one of the novellas that are part of this series (Playing with Fire is the second full-length book in the series) and I really enjoyed it. This one is also on Sarah Maclean’s recommended reads section on her website.
Also Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson is $1.99 at Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, and Google Play (B&N still showing $9.99). It’s a ya fantasy set on the Oregon Trail. I liked it, but thought it suffered from first-book syndrome (lots of set-up, little payoff).
Every Jasper Fford experience is mind bending fun. Action, twisted characters, puns beyond belief…it could all be yours.
There’s a Maya Banks historical on sale for $1.99… In Bed With a Highlander, I believe. I’m a sucker for improbable Scottish historicals
I recently tried to read Fforde’s Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages and have not finished it and meantime have read quite a few other books. My interest just waned. It’s weird because I am a big fan of that snarky Brit kind of writing and it seems like I should love this. Can someone recommend a good Fforde to start on? Is it this one on sale? Is the one I tried to read maybe not one of his best ones?
@Teev That book is not one I have read. I would try The Eyre Affair, or The Big Over Easy.mif you don’t like either of those, then he probably is not for you.
@Laurel Thanks for the recs will try. The blurbs always say “if you like Wodehouse and Douglas Adams” and I love them so I feel like I should like this guy!
Tall, Dark and Deadly Books 1 – 4 from Lisa Renee Jones is $2.99 as well.It looks like it’s the first 3 books of the series plus a bonus story.
Also Jennifer Crusie’s Charlie All Night is $1.99 on Amazon.
The Eyre Affair is the first in a series by Jasper Fforde in which heroine Thursday Next solves various literary crimes. These books are worth it just for the invention of the “footnoterphone” which is exactly what you might think it would be, given the name.
This series is a must for recovering literature majors!
Jo Beverley’s An Unwilling Bride is $.99 on Amazon.
Teev,
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages is written by Tim Holt. The Thursday Next novels are great.
I love The Eyre Affair. If you are a book nerd and love classics, it’s the ultimate inside book as there are a ton of jokes that you’ll get. I haven’t read it in forever so I ought have to break it out.
@Blv Good heavens you are correct! Don’t know how I got so confused. Thanks for the heads up!
I seem to be in the minority, but I DNF’d The Eyre Affair. It was too clever for the sake of being clever for my taste. And while I’ve read Jane Eyre, I don’t have the memory (or frankly the patience) for the kind of details given in the book, so a lot of the literary references just went over my head.
God damn it, I’m a sucker for a bodyguard romance (Kevin Costner had a profound effect on my youthful psyche), and I just can’t find one that isn’t brimming with shit that bugs me. For example, I hate EVERYTHING about this paragraph:
“Myla is beautiful, a dove with clipped wings, captive by the wolf, a vicious drug lord. One look into her eyes and Kyle could see the pain, the fear… the desperation. Or so it seems. He’s been fooled before by a woman and it cost him everything and everyone he loved. He won’t be fooled again.”
Heroine whose defining traits are reduced to 1. beauty, and 2. victimhood? Check!
Woman likened to a helpless animal? Check!
Hero who was wounded by one woman and has thus sworn off the entire gender because all women are liars? CHECK!
If you’ve read Deep Under, can you tell me if the cover copy is an accurate indicator of the book content? I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because I understand that sometimes marketing fails happen, but I’ve been burned too many times to waste my $.99. If it is accurate, do you have an alternate recommendation for a contemporary* bodyguard romance that isn’t populated by misogynists and heroines with no agency?
*Note: I just finished A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley, and holy shit, did she ever nail it. If you’re looking for a wonderful historical bodyguard romance with a heroine who is smart and tough and resourceful and who has a wonderful character arc; a hero who is strong and protective and competent without being a controlling, manipulative asshole; and a plot that makes it believable that the heroine would need a bodyguard without reducing her to a damsel in distress, this is the book for you.