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Lost Lake
Update: Deal no longer valid.
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen is $2.99! I can’t recommended Allen’s books highly enough and I love the magical realism she incorporates. However, some readers wished they could have identified more with the characters. Are you fan of Allen’s writing?
From the author of New York Times bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever…
The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future.
That was half a life ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby’s past. Her husband George is long passed. Most of her demanding extended family are gone. All that’s left is a once-charming collection of lakeside cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and an assortment of faithful misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires.
It’s a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer with cash in hand, and calling this her final summer at the lake. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door.
Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her last best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Now she’s all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter Devin, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her own childhood for just a little longer… and maybe Kate herself can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers so long ago.
One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren’t sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, peace, a mystery solved, a heart mended. Can they find what they need before it’s too late?
At once atmospheric and enchanting, Lost Lake shows Sarah Addison Allen at her finest, illuminating the secret longings and the everyday magic that wait to be discovered in the unlikeliest of places.
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A Little Night Mischief by Emily Greenwood is $1.99! This is book one in the Mischief series and I believe was Greenwood’s debut romance. There’s a forced proximity element, which readers enjoyed, but found the heroine got on their nerves.
Will she haunt his heart the way she haunts his home?
Every Prize Comes with Complications…
A game of chance saves James Collington from the prospect of debtors’ prison, and grants him ownership to Tethering estate. Little does he know that his winnings come with serious complications—not least of which is a beautiful but impoverished young lady who insists his new manor belongs to her.
If He Can’t Stop Her, He Might as Well Join Her
Felicity Wilcox is determined to run Mr. Collington off her land, Though James’s charm and devilish good looks are a serious distraction. What she doesn’t know is that she may be haunting him right back.
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Never Resist a Rake by Mia Marlowe is $1.99! The book starts with the heroine being kidnapped, which is something readers were surprised by given there’s no mention of it on the jacket copy. However, other readers loved the hero and his quest for redemption.
Can he fool his new family?
John Fitzhugh Barrett, surprised to learn he is heir to a marquessate, is determined his new status won’t mean giving up his freedom. But as families from all over England descend upon Somerfield Park for the shooting season, their unmarried daughters are lining up to bag the newest trophy buck-him.Or is he only fooling himself?
John’s instinct for self-preservation inspires him to divide his attentions between a scandalous young widow, and the safely ineligible Rebecca Kearsey, daughter of a destitute baron.The charade gives John the illusion of controlling the game but when he loses his heart to the beautiful Rebecca, all bets are off.
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In Rides Trouble by Julie Ann Walker is $1.99! This is book two in Walker’s Black Knights Inc.series, which is romantic suspense with a motorcycles. Lots and lots of motorcycles. The heroine owns a motorcycle shop, which I think is pretty neat. Many readers mentioned that this book picks up right where the previous one ends, so it may be beneficial to read them in order.
Rebel with a Cause
Becky “Rebel” Reichert never actually goes looking for trouble. It just has a tendency to find her. Like the day Frank Knight showed up at her door, wanting to use her motorcycle shop as a cover for his elite special ops team. But Becky prides herself on being able to hang with the big boys-she can weld, drive, and shoot just as well as any of them.
Man with a Mission
Munitions, missiles, and mayhem are Frank’s way of life. The last thing the ex-SEAL wants is for one brash blonde to come within fifty feet of anything that goes boom. Yet it’s just his rotten luck when she ends up in a hostage situation at sea. Come hell or high water, he will get her back-whether she says she needs him or not.
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The first three books in the Julie Ann Walker series are available to read free with Kindle Unlimited. The Black Knights are a black ops group using the custom motorcycle shop as their cover. It’s a lot of fun if that’s your catnip.
I love Julie Ann Walker’s Deep Six books (dying for the next one!). They’re fast-paced, hot, and funny, with rugged heroes who manage to steer clear of alphahole territory. Seems like a good time to try her MC series!
I’m a MAJOR Sarah Addison Allen fan. Lost Lake wasn’t my favorite. Garden Spells and First Frost, which are companion volumes, are my very favorite, keeper shelf squees of excellence. I do love her writing in every one of her books, but Lost Lake, like Girl Who Chased the Moon, felt rather bleak to me. YMMV
@Lora I’m absolutely crazy for Sarah Addison Allen and Lost Lake wasn’t my at the top of my list either–my favorites are Garden Spells and Sugar Queen (I swear no one agrees with me on that one, but as you said, YMMV).
Lost Lake didn’t feel bleak to me as much as disappointing. The setting is lush and mysterious and beautifully rendered, but I didn’t feel the emotional story did the background justice. Nevertheless, I’m still haunting her website waiting for news of her next book!
FYI: Darynda Jones’s Eleventh Grave in Midnight (Charley Davidson) is $2.99 at Amazon. (I took a break from the series after book #7 so I can’t vouch for it, but that’s a good price.)