Lighting the Flames
Lighting the Flames by Sarah Wendell is 99c at Amazon and $2.99 elsewhere! This is a Hanukkah romance written by our very own fearless leader. You can read an excerpt here, as well as get a peek behind the romance’s inception. We’ve heard it’s a pretty sweet book, not that we’re biased!
Genevieve and Jeremy have known each other since they were seven, and have been summertime best friends at Camp Meira, a Jewish overnight camp in the mountains. As campers, and then as staff, their friendship was a constant, something neither wanted to change, no matter how tempting those changes might be.
Then, last year, with little warning, Jeremy left camp early. After that summer, Gen left the country on a graduate fellowship.
Now, a little over a year since they were last at Meira, Gen and Jeremy are back together to help run a special Winter Camp during Hanukkah. Any water under the bridge is frozen this time of year, and with so much left unspoken and unexplained, this week may be their chance to rekindle their friendship, or turn it into something new.
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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson is $1.99! This book released in January and I bought it in a huge YA book haul, though I haven’t gotten to read it yet. Readers love the mystery and the setting, but warn that the ending feels like a cliffhanger. The next book is due out in January. Have you read this one?
Something is wrong at Ellingham Academy: Its murderous past won’t stay in the past.
Ellingham Academy is an American institution. Students can’t buy admission, they have to earn it: these are the brightest of their generation, the thinkers, inventors, artists, dreamers, and schemers who will change the world. Ellingham is the brainchild of philanthropist and tycoon Edward J. Ellingham, who happened on a remote, idyllic spot outside of Burlington, Vermont in the 1920s, the perfect setting for his “dream school of the future.” For Ellingham, the dream ended a decade later, when his wife and child were kidnapped, then murdered, in what would become the crime of the century. Ellingham pledged everything to find the killer—he ended up giving his life.
It was an empty sacrifice: For years, the killer remained at large. He taunted the police, signing his letters Truly, Devious. Eventually, someone was caught, found guilty, and executed for the heinous crimes… but questions lingered. Why, for example, did Ellingham write these words on the day he died?
Where do you look for someone
who’s never really there?
Always on a staircase
but never on a stair.
Every institution has its ghost stories; every school imagines itself haunted. Ellingham Academy is, officially, beyond such silliness: it is devoted to greatness, and everyone accepted achieves it.
This includes Stevie Bell, who gained her fame by solving a murder when she was thirteen years old. Clever murders don’t happen along very often, and Stevie has been struggling to find her place in the competitive atmosphere of Ellingham. Then she finds out about the decades-old Ellingham riddle: Problem solved. She’ll solve the riddle, name the real killer, and prove herself exceptional. True Ellingham material.
Her investigation into the cold case is interrupted by a fresh one. When one of her classmates, internet superstar Hayes Major, turns up dead, Stevie is the first to question the official explanation. An accident? Really? Everyone else is convinced that Ellingham’s murderous past is just that, which leaves justice up to Stevie.
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Unwrapping Her Perfect Match by Kat Latham is 99c! This is a holiday novella and made it two rounds in the 2015 DABWAHA Tournament! It was also recommended in our Tall Heroines Rec League. The hero is a single father rugby player who’s always had a thing for the heroine. Readers definitely recommend this for a great Christmas read. However, others weren’t a fan of the hero until the very end.
’Twas a week before Christmas, and at the auction house…
At six foot one, Gwen Chambers has felt like a giant her whole life. She’s a calm, capable nurse saving lives in a busy London hospital, but healthy men give her heart palpitations. When larger-than-life rugby player “Little” John Sheldon convinces her to bid on him in his team’s fundraising auction, she discovers how pleasurable heart palpitations can be.
A rugby player was stirring, with desire no one could douse…
John has wanted Gwen since he first saw her, but when he’s injured in a match just before Christmas he suddenly needs her too. Not only can the sexy nurse help him recover, but she might be able to help him look after his daughter—a shy ten-year-old who speaks only French.
But will it be a Happy Christmas for all, and for all a good night?
From decorating the Christmas tree to ice skating at the Tower of London, Gwen helps father and daughter open up and bond with each other—and she bonds right along with them. But when John’s agent calls with a life-changing offer, Gwen has to decide how far she’s willing to go for her perfect match. Will their first Noël also be their last?Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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Wyvern’s Mate by Deborah Cooke is 99c at Amazon! This is a paranormal/fantasy romance and the first in a series. I’m definitely interested in this set up, but there does seem to be a focus on matehood and producing an heir. I know that’s not everyone’s bag.
Once, in the Kingdom of Incendium, there were twelve princesses of the realm, each a dragon shifter. Each fiery and passionate. Each possessed of an appetite for pleasure that only her destined mate can satisfy. Twelve men are expected in Incendium, each with special powers of his own, each with the gift to claim one dragon princess’s heart forever.
Troy will do whatever is necessary to earn his freedom from solitary confinement on the penal colony of Xanto, even assassinate a princess of Incendium. Being a MindBender, he has a serious advantage as a predator and thinks the princess in question doesn’t have a chance. Only one of them can survive and Troy knows who it will be—until he meets Drakina.
Royal dragon shifter Drakina has a quest of her own, to seduce her destined mate and conceive the crown prince of Incendium. Her father will free her from all other responsibilities if she completes this one task. Drakina craves her independence enough to seduce the unattractive Terran who is the Carrier of the Seed. She’s sure it will be a quick seduction—until she meets Troy.
Worlds collide when Troy and Drakina meet, and passion flares. The attraction is so powerful that they both choose to put their goals aside for one night of passion together. When their respective secrets are revealed, will the truth turn one against the other? Or will destiny allow this star-crossed pair to save each other and their unborn son?
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Lighting the Flames is excellent! And that’s a truly unbiased opinion.
UNWRAPPING HER PERFECT MATCH has the exact same cover as LEARNING TO LOVE by Jennifer Wilck—where heroine is curvy not tall. Cover model doesn’t appear to be either.
I really loathe the trope of a man who finds himself responsible for a child being inherently clueless about parenting, while ANY woman he calls upon will of course instinctively be a perfect mommy. Good parenting is not instinct. People of either gender have to learn, and not every female person does, or wants to, and some men put in the effort to be outstanding dads without relying on a female crutch. (Sorry if I sound cranky.)
“Lighting the Flames” – read it, liked it, recommend it. 🙂
“Wyvern’s Mate” – not really interested in the genre, but I dig the typography in the title!
I enjoyed Truly, Devious quite a bit. It’s not so much a cliff hanger as the historical murder is not the one that gets solved. I imagine it will be an overarching plot point for the series.
I liked Unwrapping Her Perfect Match up until they have sex while he’s recovering from a concussion. She’s a nurse and he was allowed to go home and not be admitted for observation only because she was a qualified person available to look after him. It seemed unprofessional and reckless to me as if her being a nurse was just a plot device for the beginning of the story and was set aside once they got together.
I’m not a medical professional so my opinion about the appropriateness of sex with a concussion victim is based mostly on details within the story itself. There were a lot of warnings about how he needed rest and quiet which should’ve given pause to a lay person and she was a nurse.
I have strong feelings about that story.
@Alissa Also… does HE speak French?? Where did this daughter spring from? An affair with a French actress, like Rochester?
Goodbye Paradise (m/m, book 1 of Hello Goodbye series)by Sarina Bowen is $.99 today at amazon
@ Ms. M – It’s been a bit since I’ve read it, but the daughter’s mother is French. I can’t remember if mom and dad were only dating, or if they were married and have divorced. He speaks a very tiny amount of French, but it trying to learn, I believe.
It was a cute holiday read for me, and I put the rest of the series on my to-read list … but still haven’t read them. I also enjoy the volume of knitwear on the cover models! That’s a very cute hat she’s wearing.