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Whiskey Beach
RECOMMENDED: Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts is $1.99! This is a standalone romantic suspense. I know Elyse frequently turns to Roberts’ books for comfort or to help get out of a slump. However, some found this book rather boring and wouldn’t recommend the audio version. Have you read this one?
For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore – and its secrets.
To summer tourists, it’s the crown jewel of the town’s stunning scenery. To the residents of Whiskey Beach, it’s landmark and legend. To Eli Landon, it’s home…
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigation after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He need sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.
While Eli’s beloved grandmother is in Boston, recuperating from a nasty fall, Abra Walsh has cared for Bluff House, among her other jobs as yoga instructor, jewelry maker, and massage therapist. She is a woman with an open heart and a wide embrace, and no one is safe from her special, some would say over-bearing, brand of nurturing – including Eli.
He begins to count on Abra for far more than her cooking, cleaning, and massage skills, and starts to feel less like a victim – and more like the kind of man who can finally solve the murder of his wife and clear his name. But Bluff House’s many mysteries are a siren song to someone intent on destroying Eli and reaping the rewards. He and Abra will become entangled in a centuries-old net of rumors and half-truths that could pull them under the thunderous waters of Whiskey Beach…
Passion and obsession, humor and heart flow together in a novel about two people opening themselves up to the truth – and to each other.
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We Sold Our Souls
RECOMMENDED: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix is $1.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and the books on sale today include some romances! Carrie read this one and gave it an A-:
It’s a fantastic celebration of music, it has great characters, it’s funny and sad and awful and terrifying and hurrah and feminist, and it is all about how our passions can save our souls.
A new novel of supernatural horror (and pop culture) from the author of Horrorstor, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and Paperbacks from Hell.
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success — but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania.
Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western – she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when she discovers a shocking secret from her heavy metal past: Turns out that Terry’s meteoric rise to success may have come at the price of Kris’s very soul.
This revelation prompts Kris to hit the road, reunite with the rest of her bandmates, and confront the man who ruined her life. It’s a journey that will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a Satanic rehab center and finally to a Las Vegas music festival that’s darker than any Mordor Tolkien could imagine. A furious power ballad about never giving up, even in the face of overwhelming odds, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul…where only a girl with a guitar can save us all.
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One Scandalous Kiss
One Scandalous Kiss by Christy Carlyle is $1.99! This is the first book in the Accidental Heirs series and features a suffragette heroine who owns a bookstore. Some readers found the book a bit slow, while others loved the writing. It also looks like all three books in the series are on sale!
When a scheming marquess’ daughter offers her one hundred pounds to publicly kiss a nobleman, a desperate Jessamin Wright agrees. She believes the money will save her failing bookstore and finally free her from her father’s debts. But when Jess bursts into an aristocratic party and shocks the entire ton, she never expects to enjoy the outrageous embrace she shares with a grim viscount.
Lucius Crawford, Viscount Grimsby, has never met, or kissed, anyone like the beautiful suffragette who unsettles him with a single touch. He has always strived for control and avoided passion at all costs. Lucius is determined to protect his title and restore the estate he’s unexpectedly inherited, but Jess’ appearance in his life poses a threat to his plans and his heart. After a country house party brings them together once more, neither can resist temptation, and both find that one scandalous kiss just isn’t enough.
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Blood in the Water
Blood in the Water by Cynthia Rayne is 99c at Amazon! I’m very curious about this book and I’ll share my thought process with you. One, I’m very glad the serial killer is not the love interest. Two, I like the addition of a neurodivergent heroine and a hint of class differences. But three, the “Dixie Mafia.” Really? REALLY?!
Jane Hunter is in over her head.
Growing up on the Autism spectrum in a neurotypical world, Jane has always been an outsider, even in her own family. Her father, Jed Hunter, is a federal judge, and she’s never measured up to his high expectations. After law school, Jane joined a prestigious Dallas firm and built a stellar reputation. The moral quandaries never bothered her, as long as the cases were interesting…until Oscar Valentine.
After Valentine’s grand jury doesn’t indict him, Jane discovers his horrifying secret. To make matters worse, Oscar confesses his feelings for her. Jane’s would-be lover wants to take her breath away. Literally.
Jane only knows one man ruthless enough to protect her, Byron Beauregard. Beauregard is a notorious former hitman and a mob boss in the Dixie Mafia. Can one killer safeguard her from another?
The devil’s advocate.
The head of the infamous Beauregard family, Byron only cares about power and profit. While he hired Jane to protect his assets, he’s more interested in hers. Unfortunately, she rebuffs his advances. Now, Jane’s in need of his protection, so he’ll exploit the situation, and then move on.
Yet Jane intrigues him–she tells him the truth, no matter how harsh. He finds himself fascinated, possessive, and playing the hero, for once in his life. Byron wonders if he might become a better man with Jane at his side.
And together, they’ll stop a serial killer. Or die trying.
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Sure, the Dixie Mafia is great, but have you tried the AMISH Mafia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Mafia
Cover model with chest tattoo that echoes the Confederate flag? Ummm, no thanks.
@DiscoDollyDeb: The series is called Lone Star Mobsters and I believe is sent in Texas. Not that Texas doesn’t have its own Confederate flag waving residents, but that’s more how I interpreted the tats.
Ha, it does kind of look like the Dallas Cowboys star
@Amanda: I live in an area where some people, with absolutely no sense of irony, fly the American and Confederate flags side-by-side, so I may be predisposed to see something in the tattoo that’s not there…but reference to “Dixie Mafia” makes me think the design may be skating close to that pattern. Sorry if I opened a political can of worms.
@DiscoDollyDeb: Oh no worries at all! I grew up in North Florida in a community that was most definitely a “sundown town.” I can totally understand the connection you made.
I have lived in the south for many years. I personally don’t see that tat as anything but Texas. Lone star and guns, lol. I lived in Texas too and have family there. Hubby 27 year service retired Marine. Georgia, Alabama Texas, Hawaii, and Florida, though I’m a displaced yankee. 🙂
Book 3 of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper series is a Kindle daily deal for $1.99. The first book is also $1.99, but not a KDD. I really like that series and am eagerly awaiting the fourth book.
I checked out the audiobook for Whiskey Beach. It gave me the Danish version of the audio book. Interesting narration, it took me a while to figure out why I couldn’t understand a word! It’s been a long and tiring week.
So, the first book in the “Dixie Mafia” series is free on Amazon. Against my better judgement, I took the plunge. One thing that annoys me is if the author is going for more of a Texas mobster thing, WHY call it the “Dixie” mafia? As someone from Texas, I can tell you that most of Texas never was, and certainly isn’t today, part of the “deep South,” despite being part of the Confederacy. It just seems like an odd choice…
Ok, I one clicked Blood in the Water, because I just had to check out a mobster called Byron. Byron … really?
@Veronica: That’s so interesting because I would lump Texas in with the “deep South,” but I am most certainly not a Texan.
Texas is where the West starts. In the lower states at least.
@Veronica: I’m the child of Texans and I was always told that Dallas and everything east of that is the south; Fort Worth is where the west begins.
@cbackson. That makes sense. I grew up in West Texas, and I’ve lived in West and South Texas, and just recently moved to Houston. When I was growing up, I gave serious side eye to anyone (especially girls) who claimed to be “Southern,” mostly because the idea that some growing up in BFE West Texas was a “Southern belle” was laughable, and also that any educated girl in the 21st century wanted to be a “Southern belle” with all that was implied was cringe worthy.
As for the book, after reading it last night, I am happy to report that they refer to it as the “Lonestar” mafia. However, the hero used the term “cotton-picking,” so I’m done with that series.
@Veronica: You might get a kick out of this. I texted one of my very good friends, who is a lifelong Texan, on whether she considers Texas to be part of the West or Deep South.
Her response: “Texas belongs to nobody.”
After reading these recaps, what I want is:
1. She chooses someone else
2. ABC to makes him the next bachelor
3. All of the women, one by one say something like “I’m not going to accept this rose, because your behavior and attitudes are toxic, abusive, and controlling and i am better than that. So are all other women.” Or “Fuck this shit.” Whichever.
4. They use part of their money for appearing on the show to start and run a DV nonprofit.
This is probably unlikely.