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Stars of Fortune
Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and the price is being matched! It’s the first book in a new paranormal/fantasy romance trilogy and was nominated for a RITA. One of our guest reviewers said that while the writing was beautiful, there was a lack of conflict that made everything seem really easy.
To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces…
Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five others have been lured to seek the fire star. Sasha recognizes them, because she has drawn them: a magician, an archaeologist, a wanderer, a fighter, a loner. All on a quest. All with secrets.
Sasha is the one who holds them together—the seer. And in the magician, Bran Killian, she sees a man of immense power and compassion. As Sasha struggles with her rare ability, Bran is there to support her, challenge her, and believe in her.
But Sasha and Bran are just two of the six. And they all must all work together as a team to find the fire star in a cradle of land beneath the sea. Over their every attempt at trust, unity, and love, a dark threat looms. And it seeks to corrupt everything that stands in its way of possessing the stars…
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Close to You
Close to You by Kristen Proby is $1.99! This has a heroine who owns a restaurant and a hero she’s always loved. The romance lacks angst, which readers either enjoyed or missed in the romance. It’s also book two in the Fusion series.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby comes the second novel in her sizzling Fusion series.
Camilla, “Cami,” LaRue was five-years-old when she first fell in love with Landon Palazzo. Everyone told her the puppy love would fade—they clearly never met Landon. When he left after graduation without a backward glance, she was heartbroken. But Cami grew up, moved on, and became part-owner of wildly popular restaurant Seduction. She has everything she could want…or so she thinks.
After spending the last twelve years as a Navy fighter pilot, Landon returns to Portland to take over the family construction business. When he catches a glimpse of little Cami LaRue, he realizes she’s not so little any more. He always had a soft spot for his little sister’s best friend, but nothing is soft now when he’s around the gorgeous restauranteur.
Landon isn’t going to pass up the chance to make the girl-next-door his. She’s never been one for romance, but he’s just the one to change her mind. Will seduction be just the name of her restaurant or will Cami let him get close enough to fulfill all her fantasies?
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Hard Rules
Hard Rules by Lisa Renee Jones is $1.99 at select vendors! Both Elyse and I were excited about this book in August and it has a 4-star rating on Goodreads. However, there is a cliffhanger and the hero is into some criminal stuff, which I know are offs for some readers. Have you read this one?
Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.
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The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family’s business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil.
Emily is consumed by Shane, pushed sexually in ways she never dreamed of, falling deeper into the all-encompassing passion that is this man. She trusts him. He trusts her, but therein lies the danger. Emily has a secret, the very thing that brought her to him in the first place, and that secret that could that destroy them both.
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A Million Miles Away
A Million Miles Away by Lara Avery is $1.99! This is a YA romance that I was excited about in July 2015. Some readers found the book a bit predictable, while others loved the emotional struggle between the characters. The general consensus on Goodreads is that it seems to be a hit or miss.
When high school senior Kelsey’s identical twin sister, Michelle, dies in a car crash, Kelsey is left without her other half. The only person who doesn’t know about the tragedy is Michelle’s boyfriend, Peter, recently deployed to Afghanistan. But when Kelsey finally connects with Peter online, she can’t bear to tell him the truth. Active duty has taken its toll, and Peter, thinking that Kelsey is Michelle, says that seeing her is the one thing keeping him alive. Caught up in the moment, Kelsey has no choice: She lets Peter believe that she is her sister.
As Kelsey keeps up the act, she crosses the line from pretend to real. Soon, Kelsey can’t deny that she’s falling, hard, for the one boy she shouldn’t want.
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I’m going to put in a plug for one of the YA books on sale, Ruta Sepetys’ Between Shades of Gray. It follows a young Lithuanian teenager, Lina, and her mother and brother when they are purged and sent to Siberia during WWII. It’s a really, really important sort of book, and Septeys is an incredible writer, beautiful and haunting and heartbreaking all at once. Salt to the Sea is kind of a companion to Between Shades of Gray and is also incredible (but it isn’t a Kindle daily deal today).
Indiscreet by Mary Balogh and A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (the first Victoria Speedwell mystery) are both $2.99 on Amazon at least.
The Vixen and the Vet by Kate Regnary is free right now. It’s a contemporary retelling of beauty and the beast, with the heroine being a journalist and the hero a wounded soldier. I had some issues with the heroine, but overall really enjoyed this one.
I had to double check the Nora Roberts books because the description sounded so much like something else I’ve read by here but I think it was about three keys.
Lisa Renee Jones: Just gonna put it out there. I’ll not be reading anything by her again because, ***in my opinion,*** I felt manipulated by that who Inside Out series. While reading it, I also learned that it was being turned into a TV series and really felt ***to me*** that she was milking her series in order to provide episodes and the quality of her writing suffered. Plus every single book was a cliffhanger and if I had become the slightest bit interested or invested in the characters it felt ***to me*** like a slap in the face. What really did me in was the volume in the series from Chris’s POV which, ***in my opinion*** added nothing new to the story she was telling, repeated too much information and generally, ***I felt*** as if my money had been obtained under false pretenses.
I used the asterisks to emphasize that I am only talking about how I felt and from my own opinion. I have no idea what the author’s intentions or motives were. I only know that I felt like and thought.
Tempted by the Nora Roberts book, because I spent 2 idyllic weeks on Corfu many, many years ago.
Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen is 2.99 right now on amazon! And Man Candy by Melanie Harlow is free.
@GloriaMarie: I can’t handle cliffhangers. I get mad and quit reading. I want a whole story, preferably one that can be read as a stand alone.
@Lora, Exactly!! I have noticed a trend lately and I wouldn’t begin to guess if it is the author or the publisher, in which a novel is divided into 3 parts and each sold separately as part of a “series.” I have no idea who started that but I think it is bilking the consumer.
I got sucked into one recently and because I was enjoying the story and the characters, I bought 8 parts but after reading the 8th, which added nothing to the plot or the development of the characters but was just hot air, I am done. I reviewed it on Goodreads.
And, please, it is Gloriamarie, with only one capital letter, although i do really appreciate that you included the “marie.”
@Gloriamaria I feel similarly about the cliffhangers. I stopped reading Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate, which I liked on many levels after the third book because of the cliffhangers. It is annoying as a reader to wait months for resolution and it honestly feels manipulative. Believe me, if you write a series that I enjoy I will buy every book, probably on pre-order, I don’t need to feel coerced.
I also dislike cliffhangers so much that I don’t pick them up even when the first one is free! In fact, that’s the first thing I check with a free book: is it really short and does the next book feature the same characters continuing issues from the first book. If the answers are “yes,” then I don’t even bother. And I get really upset when it’s labelled a “series” when it should really be a “serial.” I have noticed it happens a lot in the YA/NA market that I’m not a big fan of anyway (they’re too young and I’m too old for all their angst) and maybe those readers like it. But I sure don’t.
Tracey Livesay’s contemporary books are on sale on Amazon right now. I just finished “Along Came Love,” which is sort of a generic title but the book is funny, sweet, and unique. There’s serious chemistry between the H/h, and she explores adoptive family and foster family dynamics with a lot of sensitivity. (Mary Balogh also does a lot of this, if historicals are more your thing.) I read that some readers find India, the protagonist, a little flakey. But IMO she has understandable trust issues that manifest as fear of commitment. Strongly recommend.
@LZ good to know Along Came Love is so good. It’s on my TBR list but I haven’t started it yet. I’m super annoyed by my current book so maybe I’ll jump ship early.
@Lizzy, @Karen H near Tampa
Thank you for letting me know I am not alone in feeling manipulated.
I was knitting yesterday and catching up in DVRed stuff, happened to be three episodes of Designated Survivor which I recorded before Christmas only to discover that the next episode will not air until March. Had I watched that before Christmas I might have been so disgusted, I might have canceled the series. But since I watched it yesterday and there are only two weeks…
But, yes, cliffhangers do feel completely dishonest and manipulative to me. The series I mentioned above could well be described as serials, @Karen H near Tampa, but the one I read was written for an adult audience and not the YA market.
@Berry I’m also enjoying book 1 in the series. Billionaire genius isn’t usually my cup of tea, but the characters are really sweet and have won me over.
Glad to hear about Rookie Move. I just finished re-reading The Fifteenth Minute and thinking I should get Rookie Move one of these days. Off to one-click.