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  • Temporary Wife Temptation

    Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee

    RECOMMENDED: Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee is $1.99! Lara recently wrote a Lightning Review of this one and gave it an A-:

    There’s a reason I’m mad about tropes. I like to follow a familiar groove, one that hits all the emotional high points that I need. While these old favourites feel slightly stiff in places, overall, it was just the kind of emotional rollercoaster I love being on.

    Much more than he bargained for…

    “You want me to find you a wife?”

    “No. I want you to be my wife.”

    Garrett Song is this close to taking the reins of his family’s LA fashion empire…until the Song matriarch insists he marry her handpicked bride first. To block her matchmaking, he recruits Natalie Sobol to pose as his wife. She needs a fake spouse as badly as he does. But when passion burns down their chaste agreement, the flames could destroy them all…

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  • Rebel Belle

    Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

    Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins is $2.99! This is the first book in a series of the same name. It’s giving me some heavy Buffy vibes, but with Southern debutantes. Also, do yourself a favor and check out our podcast episode with Rachel. It’s fantastic!

    Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper’s destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts.

    Just when life can’t get any more disastrously crazy, Harper finds out who she’s charged to protect: David Stark, school reporter, subject of a mysterious prophecy and possibly Harper’s least favorite person. But things get complicated when Harper starts falling for him–and discovers that David’s own fate could very well be to destroy Earth.

    With snappy banter, cotillion dresses, non-stop action and a touch of magic, this new young adult series from bestseller Rachel Hawkins is going to make y’all beg for more.

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  • An Untamed State

    An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

    An Untamed State by Roxane Gay is $2.99 at Amazon! It may be a previous KDD that’s about to expire. This is a highly recommended piece of contemporary fiction. It’s harrowing and emotional as it chronicles a woman’s kidnapping, rescue, and recovery. This is Gay’s debut novel and there are definitely some trigger warnings for this book. For those who have read it, what did you think?

    Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her an enthusiastic audience. In An Untamed State, she delivers an assured debut about a woman kidnapped for ransom, her captivity as her father refuses to pay and her husband fights for her release over thirteen days, and her struggle to come to terms with the ordeal in its aftermath.

    Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.

    An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed Stateestablishes Roxane Gay as a writer of prodigious, arresting talent.

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  • Wall Street Titan: The Complete Duet

    Wall Street Titan: The Complete Duet by Anna Zaires

    Wall Street Titan: The Complete Duet by Anna Zaires is $2.99! I mentioned the first book in a previous Hide Your Wallet, not knowing it was part of a duet. Well now you can grab both books for less than $3 and you won’t have to wait to marathon them in one sitting.

    The complete USA Today bestselling duet, available for a limited time in one convenient, discounted bundle. Over 600 pages of sizzling, laugh-out-loud funny, addictive romance!

    I achieve everything I set my mind to.
    Escape my childhood circumstances and come out on top? Check.
    Become one of the most powerful billionaires on Wall Street? Check.
    Meet the picture-perfect woman and make her my wife?
    Well, I might’ve hit a snag on that one.

    When an angry, curvy redhead crashes my blind date, I should just forget her and move on. After all, she’s the opposite of what I’m looking for: quirky, awkward, and completely uncharmed by my riches.

    Wait, and she has how many cats?!

    Problem is, I’ve never wanted anything as badly as I do her.

    Making Emma mine might be my greatest challenge yet, but I have no intention of giving up. Right woman or not, I need the stubborn redhead in my life, and I’m willing to pull out all the stops.

    Kitten… it’s game on.

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  1. Kit says:

    I didn’t know that Anna Zaires has written something other than dark romances. Probably because the UK version of these books has a typical billionaire romance cover (guy in suit with top short button undone and loosened tie) and I overlooked it!

  2. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    @Kit: I came here to say the same thing. I had to double-check the author’s name when I saw that cover! I haven’t read the Wall Street Titan duet, so can’t comment on it, but I’ve read plenty of Zaires’s other books (specifically, her Twisted trilogy and the Tormentor Mine series) and her work can get very dark. The original covers do not in anyway say “Rom-Com”—so, fair warning.

  3. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    Also, not sure where to put this—and apologies if it’s already been mentioned at SBTB—but a non-profit spearheaded by Stacey Abrams and dedicated to voting rights is hosting an auction with many items donated by romance authors. Some good stuff here for a really good cause:

    https://www.32auctions.com/loveoverhate

  4. Kara B. says:

    I loved Temporary Wife Temptation. Very well written. Kept me engaged through the whole story, so much so that I bought the next book in the series (the title eludes me just now).

  5. Escapeologist says:

    Rachel Hawkins is hilarious, that podcast episode with her is solid gold.
    Rebel Belle didn’t grab me as much as Hex Hall or Prince Charming, but hey, different catnip for different folks.

  6. ReadKnitSnark says:

    I read part of the Wall Street Titan sample and the writing is compelling… so I’m leaning towards buying.

    Can someone who has read it confirm a satisfying ending? An HEA with mutual respect?

    Because it’s mid-2020, and I just don’t have the spoons to deal with disappointment. (Especially as they changed Ravelry on us, totally unexpectedly. Oh, they eventually gave us the option of using the old format, but people are commenting less. There’s a disruption.)(And let’s face it, the not-enough-sleep-because-midnight-sun isn’t helping either.)

  7. Kit says:

    Found the cover for duology and yeah it is the same cover, that will teach me for going off on one! Have Twist me trilogy on kindle and only read the first one, I think it depicts the dark side of Stockholm syndrome really well. As it’s a dark romance it’s very psychological (and trigger warnings galore) which you don’t get normally. Have not read the rest but only because I’ve not been in the mood lately.

  8. GradStudentEscapist says:

    Is anyone else running far away from billionaire/Wall Street/hot cops/FBI agent romances as possible? We’re living in a world where all these figures are clearly figures of oppression (economic exploitation, surveillance of marginalized groups, police brutality, etc). Just wondering if other romance readers can’t bring themselves to find billionaires/cops hot anymore.

  9. Blackjack says:

    The Roxane Gay book looks fascinating. I am a huge fan of her feminist theory books and am happy to see her venture into fiction. She is in my opinion one of the great voices out there right now on diversity and social justice.

  10. Deborah says:

    @GradStudentEscapist – I’ve never been a fan of law enforcement or military heroes (or cowboys or highlanders or rock stars…my list of turn-offs is endless), but the average billionaire romance is so far divorced from reality — so ungrounded in the reality of accumulating and wielding that degree of wealth and influence — that I continue to read them unaffected. Maybe in a few years, billionaire = evil will permeate to the point that I’ll pick one up and be as horrified as when I find a slave-owner as the hero in a vintage historical. (Historically accurate? Sure. Sexy guy deserving a happily ever after? Just no.)

  11. Ren Benton says:

    @GradStudentEscapist: Billionaires and law enforcement have been on my nope list for years, and on the rare occasions someone convinces me to give one a try, there’s a “And there’s why!” moment within the first five pages. I’ve spent a lot of time explaining to people who think my desire for safety and security makes me the ideal reader for this stuff that greedy, entitled, aggressive, oppressive, abusive men aren’t the solution to any problem. Suspension of disbelief is a luxury I don’t have in this case.

  12. Kit says:

    I think I went through a phase of billionaire romances but I think the trope is dying down a bit (probably due to the billionaire Trainwreck of a president and the #metoo movement) but the Cop/agent element depends on how well the main character is written, still not my first choice of romance novel and I pass very quickly over mafia/MC and military, the former is hard to root for when they have done questionable crimes against innocent people and the latter tends to feature female characters who lack any autonomy over their lives.

  13. Amy E. says:

    The only way I’d find a billionaire story appealing, is if they had inherited it from some obscure, unknown relative. Researched how the money was made, and decided to ethically invest / divest it. ….. Or, maybe a retelling / variation of the fairy-tale ‘Bearskin’?

  14. Critterbee says:

    I enjoyed Temporary Wife Temptation, and that cover is beautiful

  15. GradStudentEscapist says:

    wow, I love that we started an interesting thread here on the politics of romance! This was my first time posting although I am an avid follower of this website. Yeah, don’t get me started on law enforcement heroes. I’m a Muslim POC PhD student in the US, can’t ever see law enforcement heroes in a positive light and never have. And I didn’t say anything about the military because frankly many people see a distinction between military/police violence and I was worried I wouldn’t be received well. But since I’m coming from a country that has been utterly ravaged by the US military… it should suffice to say I am VERY particular about what kind of romances I read. And as a socialist, billionaires bore me to death, I just imagine some awful Elon Musk type egomaniac or a better looking Bezos who refuses to provide hazard pay to workers! Anyway, this is getting off track but I have SO many thoughts on this would love to do a blog post! I will say, I can handle rich lords in historical romances even though I can’t stand billionaires in contemporaries so I guess I too seek refuge in the unreal 🙂

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