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Knowing the Score
Knowing the Score by Kat Latham is $1.99 at Amazon! It’s available at other vendors, but for $3.99. This is a contemporary sports romance – set in the world of rugby. I mentioned this book on a previous podcast episode. It has a 3.7 average, and readers at GR liked the humor and the dialogue between the hero and heroine (though some reviews warn of a slow start to the story). Kat Latham also made an appearance in this year’s DABWAHA tournament!
Rugby player Spencer Bailey is determined to win a spot on England’s World Cup team. But with a month break before the selectors start watching him, he’s eager to have fun with a woman who knows the score: the relationship will end when rugby season begins. The lovely American Caitlyn Sweeney seems perfect for the role of temporary lover, since her visa will run out soon anyway.
Caitlyn works for an international disaster relief organization and can handle the world’s worst crises, but she flinches from her own. Her past has left her with a fear of intimacy so deep that she has trouble getting close to anyone—until she meets sexy Spencer. His hot body and easygoing nature are too much for even her to resist.
Neither Caitlyn nor Spencer expects to fall hard for each other. But with their relationship deadline approaching, the old rules of the game seem less important than before…until past secrets surface, challenging everything they thought they knew about each other.
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Friction
Friction by Sawyer Bennett is 99c! This is a hot contemporary romance between two lawyers, who are on opposite sides of the courtroom. Readers loved the enemies to lovers aspect of the romance. However, the chief complaints were a fickle heroine and too much sex. It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads.
At the powerhouse law firm of Knight & Payne, winning comes first and ethics a distant second. Leary Michaels uses her female charms to daze opponents, and it’s always worked well—until now. On her most personal case yet, she finds herself going up against a defense attorney just as skilled, shameless, and seductive as she is.
Reeve Holloway has never met a woman as sure of her own sexuality, or as ruthless in wielding it, as Leary is. But he won’t be toyed with. What Leary starts, he’ll finish—in the courtroom, the bedroom, or any-damn-place he wants. The sex is uninhibited, electrifying, and absolutely against the rules. Reeve’s job is to ruin Leary’s case…even if it destroys her in the process and costs him the woman he’s come to love.
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Autumn in the Vineyard
Autumn in the Vineyard by Marina Adair is 99c! There’s a star-crossed, enemies to lovers element and readers loved the smooth-talking, Italian hero. But some readers didn’t really see the gravity of the conflict between the hero and heroine. Right now, all five books in the St. Helena Vineyard series are available for less than $5!
Frankie Baudouin has a hundred reasons not to trust Nate DeLuca. First, he’s a DeLuca. Second, he kissed her—in front of the entire town—and then never called. Oh, and he’s after her land. Sorrento Ranch is Frankie’s last chance to prove to her family—and to herself—that she has what it takes to be an award-winning winemaker. And she will stop at nothing to ensure her success—even if it means playing nice with the starched, sophisticated, and oh-so-sexy Italian.
For Nate, Sorrento Ranch is more than just soil and grape vines; it was his father’s dream—a dream Nate is determined to make a reality. So when he finds himself forced to cohabitate with a hot-headed, irrational, and incredibly gorgeous Baudouin, Nate is surprised to discover that chaos could be so much fun—especially when she sleeps in nothing but lace.
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Part-Time Princess
Part-Time Princess by Pamela DuMond is 99c! This is more of a new adult romance with a woman who temporarily poses as a princess. Some readers say this book only works if you suspend your disbelief, but others said it’s perfect if you want to read something fluffy and fun.
Two Princes are in love with her. Too bad she’s an imposter…
Lucy Trabbicio’s a down-on-her-luck, young, cocktail waitress desperate to find a job to keep her uncle at Assisted Living. Lady Elizabeth Billingsley hires Lucy to impersonate her to keep the attention of Crown Prince Cristoph of Fredonia while she completes her pressing personal business in the States.
In the mother of all makeovers, Elizabeth’s people transform Lucy into a reluctant ‘Lady’ and she travels to Fredonia for ten days ‘tops.’ What could possibly go wrong?
Sexy, bad-boy Nick—Fredonia’s other Prince—that’s what goes wrong!
Nick has romantic history with Elizabeth and he wants to pick up the between-the-sheets action with her impersonator—Lucy. Even though Lucy’s wildly attracted to him, she has to resist—she can’t lose this job! Dreamy Nick’s courting Lucy hot and heavy when Prince Cristoph proposes marriage. What’s an imposter girl to do?
Elizabeth insists that she’ll make it back home in time for the wedding. Lucy accepts Cristoph’s proposal and is on the fast track to becoming a Princess when another glitch arises—someone’s trying to kill her! Besides Nick, the only folks helping Lucy are her wild, party hard, take-no-prisoners Ladies-in-Waiting.
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Oh, Autumn in the Vinyard was made into a cute Hallmark film last year with Rachael Leigh Cook and Brendan Penny! I’m gonna grab the book because the film was fun for a Hallmark.
@Aislinn: I love Rachael Leigh Cook! I may have to watch the movie adaptation now.
@Amanda: Yeah, she was in a couple last year. I fancy Brendan Penny, and really like her, so that one was my favourite. She was charming in it. I have my issues with Hallmark movies, but they definitely can be cute!
The cover of Part-Time Princess takes me back a million years to fifth grade typing class with the electric typewriters that had nail polish on the keys and those white strips you pasted over mistakes before typing over them.
I read one of the earlier books in the series for ‘Autumn in the Vinyard’. (Something I don’t remember ‘Mistletoe’) and, while I enjoyed the book it has an ending I rewrite in my head because the hero got forgiven way, way, way too fast. I want a book where the grand gesture doesn’t work and the hero has to work long term to EARN her trust again. Sometimes ‘ I’m sorry’ isn’t enough. Sure be sorry… then PROVE you won’t pull that shit again.
Joanna Shupe’ s Baron and Lauren Blakely’ s Big Rock are on sale for .99 on Amazon. I have really enjoyed Shupes series. There need to be more books set in Gilded Age NYC.
I quite like that series by Kat Latham.
@Lisa, it was Kissing Under the Mistletoe, and you’re correct that the hero did some really douchey stuff and got let off lightly. I did like the silliness about Randolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, tho.
I’ve read, and liked, Sawyer Bennett in the past but enough with these names already. A heroine named “Leary”… really? Ugh.
I really enjoyed the Kat Latham book. It was a sleeper surprise for me because sports romances are not usually my thing but Spencer and Caitlyn both had depth as characters.
Because I enjoyed Knowing the Score so much I ended up reading this entire series as well and enjoyed all of them. The books deal intelligently with issues associated with fame and success (or, sometimes, almost-but-not-quite-success). And her heroes are sexy but also are real people with real vulnerabilities. I would happily read more London Legends novels!
@Susan. Randolph was cute. I just had a hard time w/ the hero being forgiven the very next morning. I rewrite in my head that he made his brother sign a contract that the heroine couldn’t be fired by him and if she was that she would get the vineyard job she started with given back and a severance package. And I wanted him to offer her an iron clad year lease on the apartment.
How many jobs did he cost her? I though the big gesture should have been offering her Security that the rug would cease being pulled out from under her by he and his family. Then she could make decisions about whether to take him back (eventually) on her own terms without constantly fearing for her and her daughter’s home/job/finances without being dependent on him.