The Missing
RECOMMENDED: The Missing by Caroline Eriksson is $3.99 at Amazon! This is a psychological thriller that Elyse loved. She wrote a Lighting Review of it because she didn’t want to spoil to much of the plot. It earned an A grade:
The Missing is a dark, dark book, but a deeply satisfying one. It’s the sort of book I desperately want to talk to someone about–but I have to wait for them to read it first. It’s worth not being spoiled.
An ordinary outing takes Greta, Alex, and four-year-old Smilla across Sweden’s mythical Lake Malice to a tiny, isolated island. While father and daughter tramp into the trees, Greta stays behind in the boat, lulled into a reverie by the misty, moody lake…only later to discover that the two haven’t returned. Her frantic search proves futile. They’ve disappeared without a trace.
Greta struggles to understand their eerie vanishing. She desperately needs to call Alex, to be reassured that Smilla is safe, or contact the police. But now her cell phone is missing too. Back at her cottage, she finds it hidden away under the bedsheets. Had she done that? Or had someone else been in the cottage? But who, and why? As Greta struggles to put the pieces together, she fears that her past has come back to torment her, or she’s finally lost her grip on reality…
In this dark psychological thrill ride—with more twists than a labyrinth and more breathless moments than a roller coaster—Greta must confront what she’s always kept hidden if she has any hope of untangling the truth.
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The Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran is $1.99! This is the first book in the Rules for the Reckless series and has a marriage of convenience element. Readers had a hard time liking the heroine, but others say this is a series that just keeps getting better and better.
One Daring Widow
In the social whirl of Regency England, Elizabeth Chudderley is at the top of every guest list, the life of every party, and the belle of every ball. But her friends and admirers would be stunned to know the truth: that the merriest widow in London is also the loneliest. Behind the gaiety and smiles lies a secret longing—for something, or someone, to whisk her away…
One Reluctant Suitor
Raised in scandal, Lord Michael de Grey is convinced that love is a losing gamble—and seduction the only game worth playing. But when duty threatens to trump everything he desires, the only way out is marriage to a woman of his brother’s choosing. Elizabeth Chudderley is delightful, delicious—and distressingly attractive. With such a captivating opponent, Michael isn’t quite sure who is winning the game. How can such passionate players negotiate a marriage of necessity— when their hearts have needs of their own?
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The Do-Gooder by Jessie L. Star is $1.99! This New Adult romance just came out last week and while I think $1.99 might be its regular price, it’s not a bad deal for a full-length new release. The heroine is trying to atone for the guilt of her brother’s death by doing good deeds. Some readers found the pacing to be uneven, while others enjoyed the heroine’s quest for redemption.
A college girl tries to make up for her bad karma by doing one good deed for anyone willing to ask—a witty, sweet romance perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Abbi Glines.
Lara Montgomery is no good. Having been scorned by her classmates since high school, she’s used to it. From where she’s sitting, the one with more notches on the bedpost has more fun anyway. At least, that’s what she tells herself.
Really, a small part of her hopes that her massive amounts of bad karma can be neutralized by wearing her Do-Gooder hat—that thing she does where she’ll complete one good deed for anyone who asks. And she does an amazing job at it, if she does say so herself. Still, there’s one thing she knows she can’t make better, no matter how many problems she solves for other people: on the night her brother died, she was off hooking up with his not-so-single best friend, Fletch.
It’s been three years since that night, and Fletch just wants her to let it go. To him, her persistence with the good deeds only serves to remind everyone in their small university town about what they did. As it is, they can’t help but get into a heated argument every time they run into each other on campus. And yet, neither of them can seem to stop that pesky electricity that runs between them whenever they get too close….
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Dangerous to Know by Dawn Ryder is $1.99! This romantic suspense is the first book in the Unbroken Heroes series and features a hero undercover. Some readers thought this was a great start to a new series, but others found the insta-lust between the hero and heroine a bit too distracting from the suspense plot. It has a 3.7-star rating on Goodreads.
In this red-hot romance-the first in a Special Ops series-Dawn Ryder takes readers into a world of dangerous secrets and forbidden passion…
She’s too good to be bad
A bad-boy member of an elite Special Ops team, Mercer has never been assigned an undercover mission he couldn’t complete. But when his latest job requires him to gain the trust-and get into the bed-of his newest target, the sexy, fiery colonel’s daughter, he has a whole new challenge ahead of him. All evidence points to her being a traitor to the country he’s sworn to protect, but the crackling desire between them is too strong a feeling to ignore…
He’s too bad to resist
Zoe has always kept her secrets close to the vest. The only woman in a decorated military family, she’s been taught that to let someone close is to flirt with disaster. But when the dangerously handsome, alpha-strong Mercer comes blazing into her life full-speed, it’s all Zoe can do to resist his wicked seduction. As danger circles closer, Zoe must decide if she can trust him to protect her-but there’s no way he could be bad when he makes her feel this good…
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I think This Scandalous Summer is one of the lowest-rated Duran’s books on Goodreads but I did like it. The hero’s brother and the heroine’s secretary are the main characters in Fool Me Twice.
I’m a Meredith Duran fan girl and I am so looking forward to her new book in Tuesday!
I think that yellow dress on the Duran cover may be the worst example of “Regency gowns were basically modern prom dresses, right?” I’ve ever seen. It’s so awful that it’s mesmerizing.
I really liked This Scandalous Summer. There are a lot of books that with a hero’s self-destructive behavior, but not many that feature self-destructive heroines (unless having a feisty personality in 1815 is considered “self-destructive). I thought Duran’s twisting of the tropes was very refreshing.
Robin Hobb’s “Fool’s Assassin”, the first in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy is $1.99!
@SusanH: definitely cringe-worthy!! My husband and I have a running debate about romance novels not getting their due and he always gets me with ‘but their covers!!” 🙂 I know we’ve come a long way from the Fabio covers but they are still so bad!!
@SusanH: At least she has a head.
@Claudia: I don’t think I ever read a ‘Fabio book’ but I assumed the covers were intended to be slightly ridiculous. Was I wrong? Many of the covers I see now, like the one with yellow dress, seem to be thoughtless/careless, instead.
Or perhaps, as was said on another thread about historical novels, the publisher doesn’t think the readers care.
@hazel chances are you read a ‘Fabio cover’ book! Newer editions of pretty popular historical romance got new covers but were ‘Fabios’ back in the day — the one that immediately comes to mind is Flowers from the Storm (one of my faves!). The old cover is quintessential Fabio era. I think another Kinsale, The Shadow and the Star, also got a post-Fabio makeover.
I don’t think these Fabio covers were intended to be ridiculous, and the real Fabio posed for them.
I cannot understand why publishers still are so careless about covers! I guess they figure people will read historicals anyway? Maybe is tradiiiition!! — like that fiddler on the roof song.
@Claudia: Really?! How interesting. I’m off to Google to see if I can find those original covers. Thank you.
Found Flowers from the Storm!! Don’t know if it was Fabio himself, but there were certainly a wide open shirt and outstanding pecs! 🙂
@Hazel I have a treat for you — google Wahington Post and Fabio and an article from Dec. 2015 pops in — not only it updates us all on all things Fabio but also says that there’s another model trying to break Fabio’s record of posing for the most romance novel covers! FftS was definitely him…