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Everywhere and Every Way
Everywhere and Every Way by Jennifer Probst is $1.99! This is the first book in the Billionaire Builders series and features a renovation romance. Readers loved how the hero and heroine started out with an antagonistic relationship, while others found it to be slow in getting to the romance. If you take advantage of this sale, I made a cocktail to go along with the book!
Hot on the heels of her beloved Marriage to a Billionaire novels,New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst nails it with the first in an all-new sexy romance series featuring red-hot contractor siblings who give the Property Brothers a run for their money!
Ever the responsible eldest brother, Caleb Pierce started working for his father’s luxury contracting business at a young age, dreaming of one day sitting in the boss’s chair. But his father’s will throws a wrench in his plans by stipulating that Caleb share control of the family business with his two estranged brothers.
Things only get more complicated when demanding high-end home designer Morgan hires Caleb to build her a customized dream house that matches her specifications to a T—or she’ll use her powerful connections to poison the Pierce brothers’ reputation. Not one to ignore a challenge, Caleb vows to get the job done—if only he can stop getting distracted by his new client’s perfect…amenities.
But there’s more to icy Morgan than meets the eye. And Caleb’s not the only one who knows how to use a stud-finder. In fact, Morgan is pretty sure she’s found hers—and he looks quite enticing in a hard hat. As sparks fly between Morgan and Caleb despite his best intentions not to mix business and pleasure, will she finally warm up and help him lay the foundation for everlasting love?
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Wake of Vultures
RECOMMENDED: Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen is $2.99! Carrie really liked this book and gave it an A-:
This book succeeds because Nettie is such a compelling character. Nettie is incredibly vibrant, prickly, compelling, flawed, exciting, and interesting. She feels like a real person, with a real personality and hopes and dreams and confused feelings and agendas. She’s incredibly interesting not only because of her unusual racial situation (which, in the Old West, wasn’t actually very unique but has been under-represented in fiction) nor in her genderqueer status, nor in her ability to hunt monsters. She’s compelling because all her experiences and aspects of her personality and her sharp mind come together to create a complex person who you just have to root for.
A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.
Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She’s a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don’t call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood, and he turns into black sand.
And just like that, Nettie can see.
But her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn’t understand what’s under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding — at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead to her true kin… if the monsters along the way don’t kill her first.
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Third Base
Third Base by Heidi McLaughlin is $1.99! This is the first book in the Boys of Summer series and is a sports romance. Some readers seems split regarding the hero’s POV. Some liked getting into the head of the hero, but others wished they also had the heroine’s POV as well to better understand her as a character. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
EVERY GAME HAS RULES. HE’S ABOUT TO BREAK THEM . . .
Since becoming a major league baseball player, I’ve learned a few hard lessons. Like never give out your home address on social media (sorry, Mom). Never shoot your mouth off without thinking . . . and never, ever let your personal life interfere with your game. But then I saw her – sitting alone behind the enemy dugout, watching me – and I just had to meet this girl.Now I know that Daisy Robinson has her secrets, but there’s something about her that drives me crazy. Maybe it’s her innocence, her absolutely amazing knowledge of baseball, or just the fact that she is so unbelievably beautiful. I have to take it slow. Prove to her that the rumors about me are just that – rumors.
Daisy might be my ultimate lifetime win. . . if I don’t get hit by the curveball that’s coming my way.
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
RECOMMENDED: Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon is $1.99! Carrie reviewed this book a B-:
If you have an interest in Edwardian history and the changes brought about by WWI, then I think you’ll find this book readable and enjoyable. If you are a fan of Downton Abbey, I think you’ll love this book since it directly addresses that place and period of time. If you like your history to be well rounded and gritty, then this book won’t do it for you.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon’s ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.
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Both Him and its sequel Us by Elle Kennedy and Sarina Bowen are currently $1. And if you’re into audiobook companions the audio for Him is really well done, but sadly there is no audio for Us yet (which makes me sad because it is my favorite of the two stories).
Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry is $1.99, sort of straddles the YA/NA line, motorcycle club books. I couldn’t get into the first one but have heard from other people that the follow ups are much better.
Why do so many romance novels have feet on the cover? Have the Smart Bitches studied this phenomenon before? It’s getting out of hand.
@Tina I was just thinking that! We used to be satisfied with chopping off their heads, but apparently now the whole body has to go.
@Tina! Agreed, there is something truly awful about the feet on that Probst cover. I’m almost indignant about it. Like he is so flat footed, no leg hair, and she looks like a victim of Chinese foot binding.
I had to get a closer look at the foot cover to see if the dude shaved his legs. (No, but he’d have to be the blondest of blonds.) He needs to share his Amopé and moisturizer with his lady friend so she too can have baby smooth feet.
I can’t get over his pinky toe being halfway down his foot like that, though. If that’s Photoshop… why? And if that’s his actual foot, pointy-toed shoes are his fated mate.
@Tina and @LizM:
It’s like he waxes his legs. Mine aren’t that smooth! And what size shoe does she wear, a 5? Weird.
And now I’ll be closely examining all covers with feet. Thanks for that.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the feet. And is it just me or is her heel square?
It’s like she has those creepy Barbie feet, that are the same shape as the shoes….
I am probably totally irrational about this, but I will be happy if I never again read a book description where the hero is intrigued by the heroine’s “innocence.” Particularly a contemporary.
I don’t know who wrote the copy for WAKE OF VULTURES, but it gets ick points from me for describing the multi-racial protagonist as a “half-breed”.
This isn’t “period” dialogue, this is the blurb.
I know it probably came from the publishing house, but I’ve never heard of the author and couldn’t help wondering if they okayed it. Severely squicked me out and made me not want to read this author.
It’s just a foot fetish phase the publishers are going through.
@Bu, to me the copy you mention is an attempt to reflect the language that Nettie would use and/or hear others use about herself.
I remember at some point all the heroines in historicals were going around barefoot (Beguiling the beauty, for example). I guess going barefooted marks a quirky heroine? And, of course, just feet should help the overworked photoshop department. No worries about weirdly pointing nipples, disappearing legs, unmatched or strange growths. Just feet.
Though, her feet? The toes look like mine, all scrunched up. Though that’s because of undiagnosed highly-arched feet, and her arches are normal. His are not. Flat foot and that twisted pinkie don’t add up.
Which means this was a photoshoot with Ken and Barbie and then the Photoshop people had to add the toes. Would explain the smoothness of his legs.
Yes, I have an obsession with feet arches. Comes with having a doctor’s note telling me to wear heels in summer.
What is w/ billionaires in romances? They don’t even make sense. Speaking as a professional in the construction industry, any ‘billionaire’ in construction is NOT going to agree to do a single family dwelling for an individual and damn sure wouldn’t he personally involved in the unlikely event they did.
Seriously can’t authors/publishers not go with ‘successful’ hero rather than obscenely wealthy?
While I usually don’t pay much attention to covers, the feet on the Probst cover are squicky-scary and totally turn me off the book.
@ Lisa (#14): I totally agree.
So in the Probst book the heroine is the evil guy trope. She’s blackmailing him or coercing him. Does romance always need a bad guy?
It’s official SBTB has the BEST readers! I looked at the cover of Jennifer Probst book and wondered if that was a YA in disguise and then got more and more creeped out so I had to force myself to look at the rest of the books. Only to find in the comments that I was not alone in my discomfort and in fact missed a few details in looking at the cover. Thank you!
Both feet are just weird. The male feet are not very masculine, not to mention the anatomically freakishly placed baby toe. Where is the other foot? Perhaps arch support flip tops would have been a better choice.The female feet seems oddly cropped, definitely not natural. Not the best Photoshop job I’ve seen.