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Fake Bride Wanted
Fake Bride Wanted by Holly Rayner is 99c at Amazon! This is a contemporary romance released last week and seems to be bursting with catnip. Royalty! Fake relationships! Characters with history! It has a 4.1-star rating on Goodreads and has really positive reviews.
Julian Meijer is a man who has everything—almost. A billionaire bachelor, and the youngest, hottest member of a long line of Dutch nobility, there’s just one thing that eludes him: the Meijer Ruby, a priceless family heirloom that’s been lost for generations. After a tip-off leads him to the vaults of an ancient bank, Julian thinks his quest for the ring is over, but a revelation stops him in his tracks: in order to inherit it, he must use it to propose to his future bride!
Shelby Bright has loved Julian since their schooldays together, but the two haven’t spoken in fifteen years. When a new job role lands her working at his company, she’s hoping only that he’ll remember who she is. Little does she know, he has much bigger plans in store for her!
It’s not long before Julian presents his offer: a sham marriage, in exchange for a cash sum large enough to change her life forever. Unable to resist the billionaire’s indecent proposal, Shelby finds herself falling head over heels for Julian all over again, even as it becomes clear that her old friend is not the sweet, kind boy she once fell for.
Can Shelby put her feelings aside for the sake of the deal? Will Julian ever realize that the true value of his quest, lies not in a priceless jewel, but in a very real, very fake fiancée?
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The Bees
RECOMMENDED: The Bees by Laline Paull is $1.99! I LOVED this book. Margaret Atwood tweeted about the book, calling it a mix between a Cinderella story and an Arthurian tale. On GoodReads, I gave it a 4-star rating and a mini review:
This book was unlike anything I’ve read before, and I found it both unique and mesmerizing. However, the last fifty pages seemed to lack the care and craft of the ones before it. The ending was over in a rush and I felt Flora’s story should have continued on with more detail. Regardless, I was impressed with Paull’s storytelling and her ability to make bee life
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous.
But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen’s fertility—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even deeper desire, a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society—and lead her to unthinkable deeds.
Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window.
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Flirting with the Frenemy
Flirting with the Frenemy by Pippa Grant is 99c! Two people mentioned this new release in March’s Whatcha Reading and said it was cute and had some great banter. It also seems to be bursting with catnip. Have you read any of Grant’s romances? What do you think?
Mission: Survive my best friend’s wedding, where I must play nice with my ex and his perfect new girlfriend.
Strategy: Bring the hottest fake boyfriend on the planet.
Target: Grady Rock. Master Baker. Dimples. Muscles. The unicorn of fake boyfriends.
Complication: Wyatt Morgan. My brother’s best friend. My sworn enemy. Military man. Sexy as hell single dad. The man I let into my panties for one night of hot hate sex after my ex dumped me.
And the man who just scared off that perfect fake boyfriend.
By pretending to be my real boyfriend.
I can roll with this though. What’s the harm in Flirting with the Frenemy if it helps me get the job done?
Complete my mission and move on.
Or so I thought.
Until Wyatt kisses me again and I start feeling things I shouldn’t.
The thing about weddings…nothing ever goes as planned.
Flirting with the Frenemy is a rollicking fun romantic comedy featuring a single dad military man, an irritatingly attractive blast from his past, pirates, cursing parrots, and a wedding gone wild. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
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Ivory
Ivory by Lola Dodge is $1.99! I love all the cover designs in this superhero romance series. All the books out are currently priced at $1.99. This is more of a novella at less than 200 pages and I’m unsure if this is its normal price or not. However, I thought everyone needed to be aware these books existed.
An ice princess. A jaguar shifter.
She’s a flight attendant who wants nothing to do with super heroes. Hiding her ice powers. Hiding from her family. Hiding is a full-time job, but Ivory can only suppress her inner warrior if she wants to keep the normal life she’s built from nothing.
He’s a career hero and a member of the legendary Manhattan Ten. Tall, dark, and shifter, the concrete jungle is his playground. Jag takes nothing seriously until Ivory tempts his inner predator.
Can he melt the stone-cold goddess?
It’s love at first fight in the first volume of the Manhattan Ten Series.
[A novella-length superhero romance of 30K words. Rated 18+ for adult language and some sexual content. Perfect reading for fans of Jennifer Estep’s Bigtime series and Lexi Dunne’s Superheroes Anonymous.]
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“Flirting with the Frenemy” is fun. I’ve read all of Grant’s books recently (there are a couple of linked and overlapping series). They are light and quirky (this one is built around a pirate-themed wedding), but the relationships have some depth.
I love Pippa Grant! Her books are light, quirky & fun. They’re all interconnected in at least a tenuous way, definitely a good read for when you need to laugh or unwind. My favorite is still “Stud in the Stacks”, though, because who can resist a romance-reading librarian hero?!
Marie Lu’s Legend Trilogy is on sale for $5.96 today. Really great dystopian YA.
The boxed set containing Fake Bride Wanted by Holly Rayner and the next 2 books in the series is also 99c at Amazon as is the 2nd set with books 4-6.
Amazon is showing the 9 book series “Billionaires of Europe” by Holly Rayner for $22.91.
I have read all of Pippa Grant’s books because, for me, they are a feel good time. Some may find her humor a little quirky and it can be; but when I want to step away from the serious world, her books can give me a nice escape.
I listened to the audiobook of The Bees and really enjoyed it, but it was definitely bittersweet.
The Restorer, the first book in Amanda Stevens’s Graveyard Queen series, is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon. (I’m not sure, but I think it’s a monthly sale. But I wouldn’t wait if you’ve thought of trying it…which you should.) The second book, The Kingdom, is also on sale, but it’s $3.99. Although I wasn’t 100% thrilled with the final book and how things were wrapped up, it was a terrific series and I wish Stevens would write something new in the genre.
Several books in Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series are also on sale at Amazon. I have to admit that I found the series, and Aurora herself, to be highly problematic but YMMV.
At first glance I thought that title was Farting with the Enemy. I suppose if you have to spend time with an enemy, that’s a good way to make your feelings known.
I was thinking about buying “Flirting with the Frenemy” when I read Ruth L’s remark about the pirate themed wedding and that sort of rung a bell.
Did I already read this?
Turns out: yes. Yes, I did.
And Amazon even tells me it was less than a year ago…
The guy on the cover of Fake Bride Wanted kind of looks like he’s staring at something in the sky, wondering if it’s a UFO.