In His Hands
In His Hands by Adriana Anders is $1.99! This is book three in the Blank Canvas series and I highly recommend the entire series. The books are on the darker side (content warning themes of abuse, isolation, violence), but Anders does a great job with slow burn romances. And, if you want all of the books, the first book is FREE and the second book is only 88c!
The rules are simple:
Never speak to outsiders.
Never yearn for something more.
And never, ever seek the pleasure of a stolen kiss…or a whispered promise that with him, she can finally be free.Abby Merkley has been a member of the Church of the Apocalyptic Faith since she was a child, and there’s no way out…until her darkly handsome, brooding neighbor defies the rules and takes her into the safety of his arms.
He should frighten her, but everything inside Abby thrills at Luc Stanek’s rough manners and shockingly gentle touch. He excites her, ignites her, leaves her shaken and wanting more. But evil men follow in her footsteps, and it may take more than one fierce beauty to defend her loving beast.
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Jade City by Fonda Lee is $2.99! I originally thought this was YA fantasy, but I think I’m wrong and it’s adult fantasy instead. It’s also incredibly violent, according to reviews. But readers loved the worldbuilding and threads of mythology weaved into the story. To be honest, the book sounds intense and awesome. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
JADE CITY is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu.
The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates that control the island of Kekon. It’s the only place in the world that produces rare magical jade, which grants those with the right training and heritage superhuman abilities.
The Green Bone clans of honorable jade-wearing warriors once protected the island from foreign invasion–but nowadays, in a bustling post-war metropolis full of fast cars and foreign money, Green Bone families like the Kauls are primarily involved in commerce, construction, and the everyday upkeep of the districts under their protection.
When the simmering tension between the Kauls and their greatest rivals erupts into open violence in the streets, the outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones and the future of Kekon itself.
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Once Upon a Kiss by Jayne Fresina is $1.99! This is book one in the Book Club Belles series.In the book, the club is reading Pride and Prejudice! Readers loved the setting of a book club, though some were divided on their enjoyment of the heroine. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads.
In the sleepy village of Hawcombe Prior, the five young ladies of the Book Club Belles Society are looking for their own leading men.
The Perfect Hero
When handsome, mysterious Darius Wainwright strolls into town, the Book Club Belles are instantly smitten with his brooding good looks and prideful demeanor. It’s as if he walked out of the pages of their favorite new novel, a scandalous romance called Pride and Prejudice. But Justina Penny can’t understand why her fellow Belles are starry-eyed in the newcomer’s arrogant presence—surely a wicked Wickham would be infinitely more fun…
An Unlikely Leading Lady
Justina is the opposite of Darius’s ideal woman—not that he’s looking for romance. But when he discovers her stealing apples from his uncle’s orchard, he can’t resist his own thieving impulse. A stolen kiss from the mischievous Miss Penny leaves Darius wanting much, much more. If it’s a dashing villain she desires, Darius is more than willing to play the part…
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Cold Hearts by Sharon Sala is $1.99! This is a romantic suspense that seems to have an I Know What You Did Last Summer vibe. It’s the second in a series, but can be read on its own. Readers said Sala’s pacing is great and the couple had a good emotional connection. However, others said they experienced difficulties staying engaged with the romance.
There’s only one way to keep secrets buried…
If only it had been something else that brought Lissa Sherman and Mack Jackson back in touch after so many years. Something—anything—other than the murder of Mack’s father. Even worse, Lissa’s car had been used as the murder weapon.
Thirty-five years ago, four friends went out joyriding and ended up in a terrible accident that left one dead and the others with no memory of that awful night. Now two more people, including Mack’s father, have been murdered, and if the lone survivor knows why they’re being targeted, she’s not talking.
Even as Lissa and Mack find themselves drawn together in the midst of tragedy, the mystery deepens when someone comes after Lissa, too. Is the danger to her tied to the other deaths, or are two killers at work in town? Now Mack has to fight an unknown attacker as well as his feelings for Lissa, but it may be that he can’t win either battle.
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Jade City sounds really interesting and was just published in hardback a month ago, so this price is a substantial savings. Whereas sales ebooks used to be mostly older or independent releases I’m seeing more and more newer traditionally published books like this on sale.
The first book in the Blank Canvas series turned Adriana Anders into a must read for me. I’m off to gobble up the whole series now since I scored an Amazon gift card at the Christmas party. YAY!!
I’ve heard good things about Adriana Anders. I guess for 3 books for under $3, I can mentally edit out an overabundance of heroic facial hair. I survived a Molly O’Keefe beardo. I can do it again in small, controlled doses.
@Ren I like to pretend the heroine saves the hero from both his demons and his facial hair. Even if it’s not written into the text, I assume he shaves it off as an expression of his newfound happiness.
@Rose: I was reading one of the samples and imagining he went straight home after they met and shaved it off in his eagerness to make a better second impression.
The genre has drifted away from lavish physical descriptions every five pages, so the reader can apply an attractive-to-me filter most of the time, but sooner or later, I know somebody’s going to TOUCH that beard and ruin my clean-jawed illusion on visual, tactile, and psychological levels…
I loved the first Blank Canvas book, the second a bit less, and barely got through the third. The ‘escape from cult and fall right into everlasting love’ plot really didn’t grab me, and the heroine is just so young. It felt like she was jumping from one controlling situation to another. Not that the hero is controlling, he isn’t, but the girl needs some real world life experience. Your mileage may vary, of course.
I will, however, be happy to snatch up that first book.
Ah! I picked up UNDER HER SKIN and JADE CITY! I’ve heard good things about JADE CITY on the Book Riot family of podcasts, and loved Godfather as a teen so, yay!
@Ren you have blown my mind. Maybe the genre has moved away from those twelve-adjective-per-sentence descriptions BECAUSE facial hair has arrived on the scene, and deep down no one would really believe a heroine waxing rhapsodic about her hero’s bristly, scratchy, itchy, sweaty, half-oily-half-frizzy, rife-with-old-food-crumbs, patchy-in-places, lantern-jaw-obscuring face fuzz. Bring back the smooth-chinned highwaymen of yore and I will read the hell out of a three-paragraph description of him every six pages.
I loved the Blank Canvas series! Adriana Anders has a fan for life in me. I’m looking forward to seeing what she does next!
If the title is In His Hands, why are hers the ones that are visible on the cover?
While we are on the hairy subject. I find it the descriptor of ” parting her springy curls” in historical romances (Lisa Kleypas Wallflower series, I am looking at you) very off putting. I don’t care how historically accurate it is! I don’t want that image in my head. Making them soft, doesn’t help. At. All. Ugh. Thankfully they don’t mention the hero picking soft springy hairs out of his mouth or the heroine’s hairy legs or his man bush.
Let’s just leave the body hair out of the romance please!
So, when I was in college back in the Dark Ages, I finally scored a date with the tall, blond, handsome, devilish, witty, mustachioed heartthrob of the campus and etc. There were are driving to the mountains for an afternoon of frolic in the snow and talking about downhill skiing which we both loved. As we drove, he shared with me that sometimes it was so cold that his nose ran and his mustache turned into a giant snot popsicle. At which point, my massive crush disappeared, never to return. We had a great afternoon and I turned him down after that. Which is one of the things that comes to my mind with the recent influx of facial-haired heroes.