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Wrapped Up in You
Wrapped Up In You by Jill Shalvis is $1.99! This is the eighth book in the Heartbreaker Bay contemporary romance series. It’s also a small town holiday romance. Shalvis is an autobuy for a lot of readers and I know Elyse has had good experiences with her holiday romances specifically.
It’s love. Trust me.
After a lifetime on the move, Ivy Snow is an expert in all things temporary—schools, friends, and way too many Mr. Wrongs. Now that she owns a successful taco truck in San Francisco and an apartment to call home, Ivy’s reinvented life is on solid ground. And she’s guarded against anything that can rock it. Like the realities of a past she’s worked hard to cover up. And especially Kel O’Donnell. Too hot not to set off alarms, he screams temporary. If only his whispers weren’t so delightfully naughty and irresistible.
Kel, an Idaho sheriff and ranch owner, is on vacay, but Ivy’s a spicy reason to give his short-terms plans a second thought. Best of all, she’s a tonic for his untrusting heart, burned once and still in repair. But when Ivy’s past intrudes on a perfect romance, Kel fears that everything she’s told him has been a perfect lie. Now, if only Ivy’s willing to share, Kel will fight for a true love story.
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The Fortune Hunter
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin is $1.99! This is historical fiction with some romantic elements. Readers say that Goodwin’s writing is beautiful and detailed, but that it can bog down the forward momentum of the story at times. Have you read this one?
In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies.
Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything – except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride her. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay has everything to lose by falling for a woman who can never be his. But Bay and the Empress are as reckless as each other, and their mutual attraction is a force that cannot be denied.
Full of passion and drama, THE FORTUNE HUNTER tells the true story of a nineteenth century Queen of Hearts and a cavalry captain, and the struggle between love and duty.
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Seduction in Session
Seduction in Session by Shayla Black and Lexi Blake is $1.99! This is the second book in the series and Elyse read and enjoyed the first. This one has a bodyguard element and is a blend of erotic romance and romantic suspense.
The second Perfect Gentlemen novel from the New York Timesbestselling authors of the Masters of Ménage series.
Privileged, wealthy, and wild: they are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy. But the threat of a scandal has one of them employing his most deceptive—and seductive—talents…
Recruited into the CIA at a young age, Connor Sparks knows how dirty the world can be. Only when he’s with his friends can he find some peace. So when an anonymous journalist threatens one of the Perfect Gentlemen, Connor vows to take down the person behind the computer, by whatever means necessary—even if it means posing as his target’s bodyguard.
Publishing a tabloid revealing Washington’s most subversive scandals has earned Lara Anderson the ire of the political scene—and a slew of death threats. To keep herself from ending up a headline, Lara hires a bodyguard, a man as handsome as he is lethal.
When the bullets start to fly, Lara is surprised to find herself in Connor’s arms. But as they begin to unravel a mystery that just might bring down the White House, Lara is devastated when she discovers Connor’s true identity—and finds herself at the mercy of forces who will stop at nothing to advance their deadly agenda.
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One and Only
One and Only by Jenny Holiday is 99c! This is the first book in the Bridesmaids Behaving Badly series. I found the book to be pretty cute and the heroine is an adorable nerd. However, the heroine is described as being a little unhappy with her weight and trying to lose some before her friend’s wedding. Be warned if you’re sensitive to food issues, dieting, etc.
In this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy, USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday proves that when opposites attract, sparks fly.
Miss Responsibility meets Mr. RecklessWith her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape–even if it means babysitting the groom’s troublemaker brother before the wedding. It should be a piece of cake, except the “cake” is a sarcastic former soldier who is 100% wicked hotness and absolutely off-limits.
Cameron MacKinnon is ready to let loose after returning from his deployment. But first he’ll have to sweet talk the ultra-responsible Jane into taking a walk on the wild side. Turns out, riling her up is the best time he’s had in years. But what happens when the fun and games start to turn into something real?
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Lauren Blakely’s erotic romance, ONE NIGHT ONLY, is a KDD today for $1.49. The heroine owns a hotel in Vegas, the hero is her bodyguard. The book also features an M/F/M ménage. A solid little gem of erotic romance.
Ever notice that every MC/h (*cough* =woman) who gets involved with a MC/h with a history with special ops, CIA, FBI, SEALs, etc. in a contemporary romance ends up in a death-defying situation? And has to be protected? (*gag*) Perhaps one should think very hard in romanceland before getting involved with a former or current special ops, CIA, FBI, SEAL, etc. and then just say no.
Do not wander over to the Kindle Daily Deal today. I have already one-clicked three times. Mary Jo Putney’s Not Always a Saint? $1.99? Click. A Game of Birds and Wolves (smart women defeating Nazis in the 40s)? $3.99 but I wants it! Click. Long Way Home (four women on a road trip)? $1.99? Click. I am only on the first page. Stop me now! Please.
Someone please tell me: in the Shalvis, at the end, does the Idaho sheriff sell his ranch and move to San Francisco because he recognizes that the heroine has never had roots and that she loves where she lives and he doesn’t want to uproot her yet again in order for them to be together?
Because, honestly, if that’s the case I would seriously consider reading it.
So often it seems like if the hero and heroine don’t live in the same town, it’s on her to move to be with him. Nevermind that she’s leaving behind her own digs, her friends/family, her job, her favorite restaurants and the park she likes to take walks in, etc, his house and job and life are always the more important of the two.
@HeatherS: Yes, he does, in a manner of speaking – they buy a ranch in Sonoma, although she continues to run her food truck in SanFran [of course, that comes after his public grovel after he breaks the heroine’s heart by jumping to conclusions about her involvement in a crime her brother committed).
I’m sorry – I tried to wrap that last comment in spoiler tags for those who haven’t read it, but it didn’t work. 🙁
@Jenny: I can never make it work either. @Sarah & Amanda: A quick vid/explanation of how to correctly use the Spoiler tags would be most welcome!
Also would like to know how to use HTML tags and attributes.
I really like the Holiday on this list!
I read the Holiday trilogy recently. There were a lot of things I really loved about it, particularly the sex-positivity and the strong female friendships. Also, it’s revealed at the end of the trilogy that the book one couple intends to be childless by choice! and it’s the heroes who move for the relationships in this book where that’s needed, not the heroines.
The ending of the book completely pissed me off, though. Since it’s the ending, I can’t quite explain why? except that… there’s this thing that happens in fiction, for some reason quite often in romance, where basically the leads are allowed to behave completely inappropriately. You know what I mean? Like, if the scenario were written as an AITA post, almost all the responses would be a resounding “yes YTA, what’s wrong with you,” but the behavivour is supported or even applauded by the author and by all Sympathetic Characters in the text? I find this completely infuriating, and this book (and in fact the others in the trilogy too, but I thought it was most egregious in this one) does that pretty hard.
@Star Yes! I haven’t read the Holiday book so I’m not sure of the specific context but I totally get what you mean and I hate it. Oh, use your best man speech to announce your love to the heroine so she forgives for whatever and you make up? Everyone cries? NO YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE YOU JUST HIJACKED A WEDDING. Your best friend just gave birth and for some reason both you and her brother are in the hospital suite with all their family and instead of paying attention to new mom and baby you and best friend’s brother announce your secret relationship? Everyone gushes and you’re welcomed to the family? NO YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE you just hijacked your best friend’s birth.
It’s right up there in my pet peeves with the heroine (sometimes the hero, but typically the heroine) behaving completely irrationally to avoid an awkward situation which OF COURSE gets her caught, but when she explains everyone is like “oh, that completely makes sense” instead of being like, nope, still weird you ended up trapped under the restaurant table you ducked under for half an hour or whatever. I once rage quit a book where the heroine was about to try to crawl out of a lecture hall to avoid her ex(? Or nemesis? honestly, can’t remember who she was avoiding). WHO DOES THAT?
@Courtney M Yes!!! Yes yes yes exactly that! The Holiday trilogy is wedding-themed, so every single book features a wedding getting hijacked, and this is apparently somehow supposed to be a testiment to the women’s friendships or something. By the third book, they’re all laughing about it like it’s a running gag. Look, if you and your new boyfriend of several days are having relationship drama, I’m very sorry, but for the love of all that’s holy, sit on that until after your friend’s wedding, okay? I promise it will keep!
And I’m totally with you about the condoning of irrational behaviour by the heroine too. It’s interesting, both the hero and the heroine are often allowed to behave badly with full support of the narrative, but in the hero’s case it’s almost always about a toxic masculine behaviour that we’re supposed to see as romantic, whereas in the heroine’s case, it’s usually just inexplicably bizarre. I am in no way condoning the bad hero behaviour (it is another thing that makes me rage-quit books), but at least I understand what’s going on there? Whereas in the other case, I’m left wondering what the hell I just read. There was one book where the leads have sex in a barn on the hero’s property and spend the night there, and then the next morning, when he has to go take care of something important (and says good-bye to her and everything), she starts freaking out because he left her in a barn, and her friends are like “omg how DARE he, don’t let him off easy for this omg omg omg,” which… like, girl, he left you in a non-random barn on his own property with appropriate farewell after spending the night because he has a life with things to do? and you could have just left with him? What?