Bountiful
Bountiful by Sarina Bowen is 99c at Amazon! Right now, it’s not being price-matched and is listed at $3.99 elsewhere. This is a small town romance with a secret baby. So many of my fellow romance readers love the True North series, and if you’re looking to start, the first book is free!
No last names. No life stories. Those were the rules.
Once upon a time a cocky, copper-haired tourist sauntered into Zara’s bar. And even though she knew better, Zara indulged in a cure for the small-town blues. It was supposed to be an uncomplicated fling—a few sizzling weeks before he went back to his life, and she moved on.
Until an accidental pregnancy changed her life.
Two years later, she’s made peace with the notion that Dave No-Last-Name will never be found. Until one summer day when he walks into her coffee shop, leveling her with the same hot smile that always renders her defenseless.
Dave Beringer has never forgotten the intense month he spent with prickly Zara. Their nights together were the first true intimacy he’d ever experienced. But the discovery of his child is the shock of a lifetime, and his ugly past puts relationships and family out of reach.
Or does it? Vermont’s countryside has a way of nurturing even tortured souls. The fields and the orchards—and hard won love—are Bountiful.
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Love Struck by Laurelin Paige and Kayti McGee is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance with a forced proximity element between two musicians. Readers really enjoyed the chemistry between the hero and heroine, while others felt the main characters acted rather immaturely.
Welcome to a seductive world where two solo artists combine their talents-and their hearts-to make beautiful music together…
SHE’S GETTING INTO THE GROOVE
Lacy Dawson is a young singer-songwriter with a record deal, a studio gig, and a serious case of writer’s block. After looking for love songs in all the wrong places, she finds inspiration at an online support group called Song Writers Anonymous. Thanks to one mysterious member who motivates her and inspires her, Lacy’s career is back on track. But is she ready to meet her sexy musical muse…face to face?HE MAKES HER HEART SKIP A BEAT
Eli is definitely interested in hooking up with Lacy, aka “LoveCoda.” But between writing her new album and his band’s success, they can’t find the time to face the music-or each other-about their burgeoning online romance. All that changes when Eli and Lucy get booked on tour together. In person, the attraction is all too real and explosive. They both should walk away, but once they are in each other’s arms, there is no turning back…Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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The Hike by Drew Magary is $1.99! This is a fantasy horror novel with a bit of humor, and I remember hearing about it everywhere when it first came out. I bought it on a recommendation of one of my local booksellers, though I haven’t read it yet. One of my friends on Goodreads said it had the best ending she’d read all year in 2016, but there is a heavy thread of WTF through the book.
From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tales and video games into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family
When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.
On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,” the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path.
At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival.
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The Royal Treatment by MaryJanice Davidson is $1.99 at Amazon! This was published in the early 2000s and I remember my mom loving this series and author. It’s the first book in the Alaskan Royal Family series. I can’t get into Davidson’s books; they’re a little too silly for me. But I know other readers who love her. Which camp are you in?
The New York Times–bestselling author sweeps readers away to an alternate Alaska where kings and queens rule—and love can take most unexpected turns . . .
In a world nearly identical to ours, except for the fact that Russia never sold Alaska to the United States, the eccentric Baranov family has a problem. The crown prince refuses to find a bride. And without a queen at his side, the kingdom of Alaska could fall into chaos. With no other choice, the Baranovs do the only thing possible in a situation like this: give a commoner a royal reeducation.
Christina, Her Future Royal Highness or whatever, gets a crash course in how to be a princess-to-be, including, but not limited to: don’t tell jokes you picked up from guys on the fishing boat; stifle your burps; don’t ask for cocktail sauce with your oysters; always remember that the most important word in “royal family” is family; and never forget that falling in love is a whole lot easier than it looks . . .
Queen of romance, snark, and wit MaryJanice Davidson gives readers a regal treat with this dazzling and delightfully wacky tale about a tough commoner and a stuck-up prince who discover that they are much more alike than they ever dreamed . . .
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I keep taking out the commas in the titles and get sub-genres that would be cool:
Creepy fantasy royals
Paranormal Christmas romance
Who doesn’t want to read those?
Copper haired? Secret baby? And his name is Dave? Oh, yes, this shall be mine.
@MirandaB, tbh that first one is exactly how I read the title of this post and I was intrigued, lol
And there is SO MUCH one could do for paranormal Christmas! I was just looking up a pattern for ornaments in The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year by Linda Raedisch and remembering how awesome that book is. Def plenty of story inspiration there, I should think. (I’m going to sew some sacrificial reindeer and if I start soon maybe I’ll have a good one by xmas!)
For more paranormal holiday romances, Terry Spear has a slew of shifter Christmas romances.
Also, there’s this compilation that came out last year – Christmas Paranormal Romance – with Thea Harrison, Grace Draven, Jeffe Kennedy, and Elizabeth somebody (she wrote an elemental vampire series, though this story was in her Irin/Irina world). Pretty good, though all were associated with pre-existing worlds.
Bountiful just got one-clicked here! A little visit to small-town Vermont will take the sting off a week of looking at org charts and forward thinking statements.
I loved the first 3 True North books. Unfortunately Bountiful isn’t on sale here in Canada so it will have to languish on my wish list a bit longer…
Usually I get annoyed at the Secret Baby trope because it involves one party deceiving the other. For me, there has to be a REALLY good reason why she doesn’t tell the father that yo, you are a father, step up. (And let’s be honest, most of those reasons would disqualify the dude as a romantic hero.) ‘Bountiful’ handles it really well though.
Yeah, the secret baby thing can be super problematic. I’d be livid to discover I’d missed out on the first few years of my child’s life because, oops, the other parent didn’t feel like bothering to tell me/made assumptions about my reaction/didn’t want to share/whatever. I’m not impressed by books in which the heroine manages hurt feelings about the hero by keeping him in the dark about a kid. I can’t think that’s a good long-term sign for relationship function.
I liked the True North book I read, so I’m glad this is a not-terrible secret baby!
@JJB Thanks for the Raedisch recommendation!
@MirandaB–Royalty is not so much my cup of tea, but creepy fantasy royals sounds like it could yield some amazing crazysauce. Would read!
The Alaskan story sounds awful, creepy and colonialist in the worst possible way.
Just no…
@MirandaB:
Why is “Creepy Fantasy Royals” not already a subgenre?! Two thumbs up; would read!
Thanks for the heads up on the Bountiful sale!! I’m slowly collecting the series as they go on sale.
My first thought when I saw the Mary Janice Davidson cover? THERE ARE NO PENGUINS IN ALASKA!! Sheesh people, get your Arctic/Antarctic wildlife right!
I really liked “Bountiful” but . . . yo . . . that cover . . . Is he naked? Walking through long grass? That’s Lyme disease country, dude!!