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Boy Toy
Boy Toy by Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby is 99c! This a romantic comedy with an age difference where the heroine is five years older than the hero (34 to his 29). Though this will work as a standalone, readers say you get additional insight into the heroine and her backstory in previous books.
A brand new romantic comedy from your favorite snort-laughing duo!
Liam
The moment Sadie Matthews walks through the daycare center door, I feel my world tilt in her direction. Again. I fell for her when I was fourteen, and I’m still not over her. Problem: she still thinks of me as a teen she used to babysit. But I’ve learned a few things about pleasing a woman in the last fifteen years. I can’t wait to show her how good it could be. I need to move quickly before I lose her again. This is more than a game to me, but I still plan to win.
Sadie
I’ve just survived the worst year of my life. As a single mom of twin toddlers, I don’t have time for a man. I barely have time to finish a thought. Who knew that Liam McAllister would grow up to be so devastating? He’s everything my husband was not: tall, built, and willing to have a tea party with my girls.
I can’t possibly get involved with him. He’s too young for me. Too handsome. But he’s so persuasive…
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A Hundred Summers
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams is $1.99! Williams often writes historical fiction with romantic elements and this one is set in Rhode Island. There was a review I read that described Williams’ books as “schmaltzy” and that you really have to lean into it. I completely agree and sometimes, we need some schmaltz.
As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of The Summer Wives and The Golden Hour.
Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer.
But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald—Lily’s former best friend and former fiancé—have arrived, too, and Seaview’s elite are abuzz. Under Budgie’s glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing.
As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever…
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Kiss of Pride
Kiss of Pride by Sandra Hill is $2.99! Now, hear me out – the hero is a viking, he’s a vampire, and he’s also an angel. I’m not sure how you combine all three, but maybe that’s explained in the book. Several reviewers weren’t really convinced on the romance between the hero and heroine, while others loved this heaping helping of crazysauce. Has anyone read this?
SOME MEN ARE TOO BAD TO BE TRUE…
Is he really a Viking with a vampire’s bite? An angel with the body of a thunder god? A lone wolf with love on his mind? Alexandra Kelly, his prey, thinks Vikar Sigurdsson is either flat-out crazy or he’s trying to maneuver her into his bed–which is hardly where a professional reporter should conduct an interview, tempting as that prospect might be.
SOME MEN ARE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE…
Until Vikar does something a teensy bit unexpected, and Alex begins to wonder whether her mystery man could really be everything he says he is: a Viking Vampire Angel on a thousand-year-long mission with his pack of sinful brothers—and a man who’s finally found the woman of his dreams. By then, Vikar is already wrapping his chiseled arms around Alex’s body…and sinking his wicked fangs right into her neck. If this is sin, why does it feel so good?
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The Rogue of Fifth Avenue
The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe is $1.99! This is the first book in Shupe’s Uptown Girls series and I gave this one a B. I loved the heroine, but felt the sexism and patriarchy in this one hit too close to home when I read it. I am, however, very excited about the next book.
Silver-tongued lawyer.
Keeper of secrets.
Breaker of hearts.He can solve any problem…
In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There’s no issue he cannot fix…except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn’t seem to understand the word danger.
She’s not looking for a hero…
Excitement lay just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it—while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way. What she doesn’t need is her father’s lawyer dogging her every step and threatening her efforts to help struggling families in the tenements.
However, she doesn’t count on Frank’s persistence…or the sparks that fly between them. When fate upends all her plans, Mamie must decide if she’s willing to risk it all on a rogue…
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All of these are pretty great picks; and yes! LET US LIFT SANDRA HILL FROM THE MEME PILE INTO WHICH SHE’S FALLEN AND PRAISE HER CRAZYSAUCE PLOTS!
I want to like the Sandra Hill series so much, because I have a love for crazysause paranormals, but I’ve found that her writing style is too lighthearted for my tastes.
The whole Sarina Bowen/Tanya Eby series is a lot of fun – the newest one comes out tomorrow!
Ok, two things: five years isn’t much of an age difference – maybe that’s just my perspective after decades of books with 18yos being paired with love interests in their 30s.
And he needed a babysitter when he was FOURTEEN? Why!?!? My brother babysat us when he was 13, and I started earning money babysitting when I was 12.
I do think weird things can happen to your brain when you’ve known someone since a few years’ age difference would have mattered. Like, I wouldn’t bat an eye at dating someone five years younger right now if I just met them, but I would be completely irrationally freaked out if I ran into someone I had known when they were too young and found them attractive, even if the age difference was otherwise unobjectionable.
The back story is that she was the sitter for his younger siblings.
The age difference itself isn’t so much the conflict as is the heroine feeling like they’re in 2 different places in their life – she’s a mom to twin pre-k age girls, just coming off a divorce, and the hero has an opportunity that would involve some world travel that the heroine doesn’t think he should pass up.
Five years isn’t a huge age gap! If the genders were swapped it wouldn’t be a big deal! I agree though that they’re at different points in their lives. Tried a sample of the Sandra Hill, I hated it, thought making events in history (9/11 and Holocaust) a demon war in a supposedly light hearted novel is in very poor taste. However, that’s my opinion and I don’t really like the Angels and demons trope.
…I just realize that I was the sitter hired for the younger siblings of a kid who was also kind of a friend – similar age gap – and whoa, a little freaked out. (There was a discussion about whether my younger sister would initiate him, several years later…)
(Hee, we used to watch anime together when that was a lot more fringe and none of it was translated… we both had some Japanese, but it was pretty hilarious at times.)