Ready to Burn
Ready to Burn by Tracey Alvarez is 99c! This cover really caught my eye because it’s so cute. And it features foodie characters and a small town in New Zealand. While readers loved the couple’s chemistry, others didn’t enjoy them as individuals. It has a 4.2-star rating on Goodreads and the other books in the series are FREE or on sale!
Love small-town romance with an unforgettable cast of characters? The Due South series will transport you to an unspoilt, wild island of the coast of New Zealand. Meet Shaye and Del…
Take one sassy Harland girl…
Shaye Harland, sous chef de-awesome, desperately wants the role of Due South’s head chef. Though a little out of her depth, she can totally cope with the extra demands if she can resist her future brother-in-law when he muscles in on her kitchen. The Hollywood wannabe is nothing but a troublesome distraction and he fries her sex-ometer to a crisp. But as far as romance? Forget it. Love, when she finds Mr. Perfect, will be as sweet as her to-die-for cookies.
Add a bad-boy from LA…
Del Westlake swore he’d never again set foot on the island he calls the “ass end of New Zealand.” With his reputation as a sous chef in one of LA’s hottest restaurants trashed, and his estranged father’s restaurant needing a head chef, Del wants nothing more than to go in, get the job done, and get out. Except his feisty second-in-command carves herself a spot in his heart and completely incinerates his plans.
Watch the sparks fly as they burn it up in the kitchen…
Winning a spot on a TV reality show is just what Del needs to jumpstart his career back in the States. Nothing can get in the way of him winning—not even the woman whose trust he’d destroy if she discovers his secrets. But with a film crew capturing the explosive kitchen chemistry between them, will his bad-boy ways rear up and ruin his shot at becoming Shaye’s Mr. Perfect?
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The Derby Girl by Tamara Morgan is 99c! This is an opposites attract romance between a derby girl (whose derby name is Honey Badger!) and a doctor. Readers loved how different the characters seemed, but some say that nothing really happened in the book. This is the second book in the Getting Physical series and you can grab all three books for around $7.
Roller derby girl Gretchen “Honey Badger” Badgerton lives in the moment, no apologies. Like every woman in Pleasant Park with a pulse, she finds Dr. Jared Fine irresistible, but she’s taken by surprise when her unattainable new neighbor asks her out.
On paper, Jared is the perfect man: gorgeous, wealthy and charitable. But his golden image is just that, and opening an upstate practice is a welcome chance to start a new life. When Gretchen stops to help him with a flat tire, he’s intrigued by her feisty attitude—and her sexy body art. There’s something refreshing about being with a take-charge woman who doesn’t expect him to be anything but himself.
Though Gretchen is hesitant to shatter Jared’s “bad girl” illusion of her, she has to face facts: she’s fallen for the good doctor. She’s used to putting everyone else’s needs before hers, but as their relationship heats up, can she handle having someone take care of her for a change?
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A Study in Scoundrels by Christy Carlyle is $1.99! I’m not sure if this is a sale price, but it’s not bad for a book that just came out. Also, there’s something about the cover that looks odd to me. But, the heroine is a secret author and the hero is an actor. This is the second book in the Romancing the Rules series, but can be read as a standalone.
Sophia Ruthven is the epitome of proper behavior. On paper at least, as long as that paper isn’t from one of the lady detective stories she secretly pens. She certainly isn’t interested in associating with the dashing Jasper Grey, the wayward heir to the Earl of Stanhope, and one of the stage’s leading men. But when she learns Grey’s younger sister Liddy has gone missing, she can’t deny her desire to solve the mystery…or her attraction to the incorrigible scoundrel.
Responsibility isn’t something Grey is very familiar with. On the boards and in the bedroom, he lives exactly how he wants to, shunning all the trappings of respectability and society. Grey knows he should avoid the bewitching Sophia, but he’s never been able to say no to what he wants. And having Sophia in his arms and his bed is quickly becoming the thing he wants the most.
As Sophia and Grey’s search for Liddy continues across the English countryside, can this scoundrel convince a proper lady that he’s actually perfect for her or will their adventure leave them both heartbroken?
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The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose is $2.99! This historical fantasy is set in late 19th century France. Readers love the gothic and suspense elements of the story. However, other readers really didn’t like the main character. This is the first book in the Daughters of La Lune series.
Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.
Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother’s Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds there is even more menacing. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insists it’s dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the forbidden occult underground and Sandrine’s deepest desires.
Among the bohemians and the demi-monde, Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Then darker influences threaten—her cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. She’s become possessed by La Lune: A witch, a legend, and a sixteenth-century courtesan, who opens up her life to a darkness that may become a gift or a curse.
This is Sandrine’s “wild night of the soul,” her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris, of art, love, and witchery.
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The font on the first one. Ugh. I was thinking “What does Ready to Bwin mean?”
For the Christy Carlyle book cover, it looks like she’s either falling out of her dress or her shoulder is dislocated.
Still looks like a cute book.
Derby Girl looks hella interesting! And it made my wonder something.
The critique says “nothing really happened.” When readers say that, could it be code for a book being ALL internal conflict/character dynamic? GOD I HOPE SO BECAUSE THAT SHIZNIT IS MY CHOCOLATE FLAVORED CRACK!
Yeah, for the Carlyle book I think it’s primarily her back. The way they show the spine, and the fact that the shoulder blades appear to pop out at the top of the back, um no. Plus the white necklace blending with the background makes the back pop out from the neck, and the fact that they gave her a tan?
I know they were probably going for muted, understated pastel cover, but it just kinda looks flat and rushed.
I was at the Boston Derby Dames recent bout and wondered about Roller Derby set Romances PLUS I loved Tamara Morgan’s “Stealing Mr Right” which was an Art Thief Heroine married to an FBI White Crimes Hero. Definitely giving this a shot!
@Jayne, some Shelly Laurenston’s shifter books involve roller derby. Lots of fun.
Until someone’s bone is sticking up through their skin. One of our patients was, actually is, a derby girl. Two surgeries and six months of rehab and she was right back on the track.
Me, I’m in need of a new culinary romance, so I’ll be looking into that Tracey Alvarez title.
I was looking for a book out of my comfort zone of romantic suspense, historicals & sci-fi erotica et voila – The Derby Girl! Clickety-click:-)
There’s something vaguely uncanny valley-ish about the Christy Carlyle one to me. Like she’s not actually a human being, but actually a robot, and one that’s running a buggy “seduction” program, to boot.
Perhaps they caught her while she was still in beta testing?And ugh, yes, what a font faux pas on that first one. Initially my eyes simply read it as “Ready To Win,” which made perfect sense to me until I realized there was a “B” there as well, pfft.
I was so hoping there was a roller derby coven. But hooray for the Derby Girl cover sporting an unconventionally lovely woman! We need more Bettie Page romance heroines.
@Olivia, all that plus she’s got some major sag going on in the front.
Love me some roller derby (my girlhood idol was the incomparable Joanie Weston) so I snapped that one right up. And, yes, Laurenston’s shifter roller derby scenes were a hoot.
@ Olivia: I think she’s supposed to be taking her dress off, as one does in a sunny rose garden.
@Rose: the model’s face reminds me of the work of Mel Odom, one of my favourite illustrators. Very sensual.
@hng23 oooh, yes! What gorgeous illustrations. The lush shading around the eyes looks very similar.
See, I find the face of the roller derby gal a little off. I love the styling and the tattoos (natch)(rawr) but somehow the face doesn’t match for me. It almost looks like the head isn’t from that body.
I mean, I’ll still read it because I’m in an intense “I want to be a roller derby girl SO BAD” phase. (My poor mister is desperate for me to get over this phase before signing up and killing myself – I’m quite clumsy, even on foot.)
A Study in Scoundrels’ ciover looks odd to me also. First thing I noticed is that she seems to be trying to push a tiny sleeve over a thick glove and that isn’t going to work. The second thing I noticed is that the dress is not undone enough in the back for her to get it off. The third thing I noticed is that she is in danger of getting a splinter in her left breast. The fourth I noticed was that a rose garden seems to be an odd place to undress and I wondered why she was doing that. But not enough to buy the book.