The Black Lily
RECOMMENDED: The Black Lily by Juliette Cross is 99c! Despite the nips-on-display cover, I really enjoyed this book. Vampires are the ruling class and the heroine is the leader of a human uprising. She first meets the vampire prince hero when she infiltrates a masked ball and tries to assassinate him. It’s Cinderella-esque and the rest of the series has fairy tale influences. You can grab all the books in the series for less than $7!
Cinderella like you’ve never seen before…
With the threat of the vampire monarchy becoming stronger every day, the Black Lily must take drastic measures. As the leader of the underground resistance, Arabelle concocts the perfect idea to gain the attention of the Glass Tower. Her plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball and kill him. Fortunately for Prince Marius, her assassination goes awry, and Arabelle flees, leaving behind only her dagger.
Marius is desperate to find the woman whose kiss turned into attempted murder, hunting for the mysterious assassin he can’t push out of his mind. But what he uncovers could change the course of his life forever…
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The Inheritance by Rochelle Alers is $2.99! This contemporary romance is set in New Orleans and features a friends to lovers romance. The heroine is also in her 50s! Some readers described this romance as being very calm and soothing and lovely, while others wished the pace had picked up.
In bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ passionate, uplifting new series, four friends from very different backgrounds find new beginnings amid the sultry beauty of New Orleans…
Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire—just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there’s no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
Nestled in the stunning Garden District, the DuPont House has been in Hannah’s family for two centuries. With its eighteen rooms and two guesthouses, it’s far more home than widowed Hannah needs. Still, it could make a wonderful inn, especially if she can convince her friends and former coworkers Tonya, Jasmine, and Nydia to join in the venture. But in the meantime, Hannah has a high school reunion to attend…
College Professor St. John McNair, Hannah’s one-time classmate, is still the finest guy in any room. Between Hannah’s willowy, blonde beauty, and his uncanny resemblance to Marvin Gaye, they make a striking pair. And gradually, their rekindled friendship moves toward romance. Still, Hannah is too bruised by her late husband’s infidelities to trust a man again. But her friends’ arrival and encouragement just might show her a path through uncertainty—straight to a vibrant, joyful new life…
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Night Magic by Karen Robards is 99c! This is a standalone romantic suspense that was originally published in the late 80s. You know this one is going to be bonkers. I’m not quite sure if this one will hold up, but if you’ve read it recently or have an opinion, let us know in the comments!
Romance writer Clara Winston dedicates her newest book to her cat, Puff, without knowing what havoc she is about to unloose on her placid (boring?) life. Because there’s a rogue CIA agent out there whose code name is Puff, and some very bad guys want to kill him.
When the bad guys show up at mild-mannered Clara’s house, thinking that she can lead them to the man they’re hunting, she is rescued by that man, disgraced CIA agent Jack McClain. Jack is green-eyed, black-haired, infuriatingly macho—and every bit as sexy as the romantic heroes she’s always writing about. Clara hates him on sight, but if she wants to survive he is the only game in town.
With Puff very reluctantly in tow, they go on the run for their lives, battling each other until the sizzling chemistry between them explodes into red-hot passion.
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Bad Bachelors Bundle by Stefanie London is $4.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and contains all three books in the Bad Bachelors series. I’ve enjoyed this series and was really anticipating the last book. I’ve reviewed the first one on the site and gave it a B-. However, three books for less than five bucks is a great deal.
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Thanks for these daily deals. I’ve had my Kindle for less than a year and I’m pretty new to historical romance. Is there a way to find out what e-books will be on sale for Kindle at any given time? I don’t fully understand how it works. I know there are daily and monthly Kindle deals, but are some deals random? When it comes to series, I can’t go higher than $3.99, but I’m often tempted. However, I paid about $4.99 for a book that went on sale the next day for $1.99 and I’m trying to avoid that. Currently reading Courtney Milan, Sarah Maclean, Alyssa Cole, Tessa Dare, Lisa Kleypas and Beverly Jenkins. And only reading reviews and comments from this site for my recommendations.
I read Night Magic! Probably 15 years ago or so. I remember really enjoying it at the time, but yeah there would be some odd elements now. I’m pretty sure the heroine is described in a way to make her unattractive like extra weight, paleness, glasses etc but by the end of the book all her running around with the hero has caused her to look more conventionally attractive. I remember liking her increased confidence but finding the value placed on her body a little off.
Kay, I tend to add books I like to my shopping list, then check once in a while for reductions, not brilliant but only way I can do it. Would be great if Amazon could post notifications when a book on your list gets reduced though.
@Kay: There are tons of sale emails you can sign up for. Bookbub is the only one I’ve kept because they’re the least spammy (and I know from advertising with them they have tough standards for the few books they accept). Pick as many genres as you want, they’ll send you an email every day, most genres with a paid (0.99-2.99) book and a free book.
What I do for “books I want but not at that price” is use Amazon’s “Add to List” button and check the list every day, sorted by price, to catch any price drops.
Thank you for the help! I check Amazon everyday and type in the authors I’m interested in, but it’s become tedious. I didn’t’t know Amazon had a way to create a list so I’ll do that now. I’ll also check out Bookbub. Great help.
Everyone who uses a Kindle should know about Ereaderiq. https://www.ereaderiq.com/
You can use their free service to set up watch lists of ebooks from Amazon and then they send you notifications when the price drops below a certain amount. You can set the amount, search their database, sort your watch list by current price, and a number of other options. It’s very very useful to watch for price drops. Also you have the ability to return an ebook for a refund with 7 days after purchase. So if you buy at $4.99 and it drops to $1.99 the next day, you can return the book for a refund, wait a few minutes and then repurchase at the lower price. You don’t want to do this too often because Amazon can lock this feature down on you, but then all you have to do is call the number they provide you and you have a service provider do the same thing. You can do this within the Content and devices feature in your Account. Click on the little box next to the title and you will see a range of option offered along with the price you purchased the ebook, and so on. For the first 7 days after you purchased the ebook, there will be the option, “Return for a Refund.” If you click on this you get a dialogue box, where you say why you need to return the book, make your selection, and you can click through. After about 30 minutes, you should get an email telling you that the refund has gone through. I love my e-ink Kindle and have probably spent far too much money loading it with the many romance authors and books I’ve read about here on Smart Bitches! Enjoy!
@Kay, if you have a local library, it may be worth checking their digital offerings if you haven’t already. My library has Hoopla and Overdrive (both apps/services have been covered on Smartbitches). I have been pleasantly surprised by how many e-books, audio books, and movies I can send right to my devices for free. Every time I start a new book, I hope it’s a keeper, but sadly, most of the books I finish do not make it to keeper/future re-read status! Getting books from the library takes some of the financial sting out of a well-developed reading habit.
I don’t remember a lot about Night Moves/i> other than it having a strong aroma of Romancing The Stone, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
I sometimes get sale notices from Goodreads when books I listed as want to read are on sale. I believe Amazon now owns/ runs goodreads, so I assume that is only amazon sales, but who knows?
Ereaderiq is great. You can set up notifications for authors so every time any book by a particular author goes on sale you get an email, or you can set up notifications for specific books and get an email if/when that book drops to a certain price.
@Kay If you add a book you want to read to your Goodreads list, Goodreads will send you an email when that book goes on sale. Bookbub has a similar feature for authors you ‘follow’
I have what might be be an unpopular PSA here, I work in book publishing, and ask that we all keep in mind that $3.99 or $4.99 is already a STEEPLY discounted price for a full length book. I also mostly only buy ebooks on sale—but this is part of the problem.
We can most of us likely remember when we could only get romance novels for $7.99 or $15.00 at the bookstore before ebooks came along. It’s no secret that the industry —especially in romance—has really struggled over the last few years partially as a result of steeply discounted ebooks. This is true for self-published authors, and traditionally published authors. I honestly don’t know what our business will even look like in 10 years.
I am not trying to call anyone out, or shame anyone, as I said I buy when on sale too.
But I do think as a consumer, it can’t hurt to think about this if you have an author you love, or something that gives you hours of entertainment value, $3.99 is comparatively little to pay for it.
@LM – “We can most of us likely remember when we could only get romance novels for $7.99 or $15.00 at the bookstore before ebooks came along.”
The thing is I rarely bought new books in those days. I mostly bought from used book stores. Now that option is largely gone for me, but my budget for books hasn’t increased so I have to wait for sales.
I definitely understand the problem and try to buy my fave authors at full price (until my fave authors move to hardback or trade paperback) but the money just isn’t there.
@Francene, I just joined BookBub, but thanks for letting me know about Ereaderriq and thanks for the detailed help. I will definitely check this site out.
@Melissa,for some reason I didn’t think Kindle linked to libraries. I don’t know why since I was aware the Nook has that feature. Thanks. I’ll probably do that for books I know I don’t want to own.
@QOTU, I had no idea about Goodreads. Thanks for the heads up. Amazon does own Goodreads now and I had noticed they list book prices and links under each title, but didn’t know they send alerts.
Thank you, @MaryK
@LM, I agree and thank you for the reminder. I’ve been a dedicated book buyer for many years, but as I get older, I feel overwhelmed by the number of hardcovers and paperbacks in my apartment, as well as the amount of money I spent on them. I can no longer afford to buy books the way I used to. I bought my first Kindle late last year and my first purchase was the Ilona Andrews Innkeeper series at full price (the books went on sale a few days later). Your comment, however, makes me feel more likely to purchase a couple of books I really want for $4.99, since I agree it’s a great price for a novel that will probably make me happy.
Thanks again, everyone!
@MaryK, I understand and I promise I am not trying to make anyone feel bad. Bookmakers would be nowhere without the readers. My book shopping behavior sounds much the same as yours, honestly, libraries, sales, used books etc. So I do try to remind myself from time to time that I actually often spend more money on coffee than I do on ebooks. That is my spending, of course not true for everyone.
@Kay thank you! And I know how you feel about the book budget, and apartment space.
@Kay: I’ll second and third the other comments about using a Kindle wish list to keep track of specific books you’d like to buy some day, as well as eReaderIQ for tracking authors. Getting a price drop email from eReader or seeing the same in my wish list is sometimes the highlight of my day, which is probably sadder than I realize.
For your public library Kindle books, the Libby app will be your friend. I swear, the books all seem to become available at once and that’s a happy problem for sure.
@Kay, I’m also highly recommending that you check out ereaderiq.com. It’s the best service out there for keeping track of price drops on kindle books.
Also regarding library books, when you set up an Overdrive account through your library, you can link it to your Amazon kindle account. Then, when you check out the book, you just choose to read it on kindle and it immediately directs you to an Amazon page where you can download the book. It will even show up in your Amazon digital cloud while it’s checked out to you and you can read it on multiple devices (ie, kindle, phone, tablet, computer, etc.) as long as it’s checked out to you. It’s basically seamless.
I have used ereaderiq.com for years and recommend. I purchase books from my Bookbub daily emails, every single day. UGH. Both sites, I highly recommend but they can really hurt your wallet so be warned.
I try to never regret buying favorite authors at full price, and the only times I have… were when I didn’t read immediately and the book went on sale before I got around to reading it. Which made me feel wasteful and shiftless. Because if I had already read it I’d have no regrets.
So, on the premise that a book I don’t own is more alluring than a book that’s buried in one of my TBRs, I have an Amazon wishlist titled “Buy When Ready To Read” populated with books I am happy to pay full price for but don’t want to have vanish into my kindle library. If a book on the list goes on sale in the meantime, I will of course snap it up, but I have less guilt about not reading my less-than-full-price books immediately. (As my kindle library will attest.)
@Kay, if you check the price on the same books on Amazon every day, try checking your “Browsing History” for a short cut. It doesn’t show you if you own the book (except when you hover over it), but it does show price. (You can find it right under the search bar. On the website on a computer, anyway. Don’t know about phone or tablet layout—I’m An Old and more Luddite every day.)