To Woo a Wicked Widow
To Woo a Wicked Widow by Jenna Jaxon is 99c! This is the first book in The Widows’ Club and some of the subsequent books are also 99c. This has a heroine who is trying to avoid getting married again. Readers seemed divided on the heroine. Some enjoyed her independence, while others couldn’t really connect with her.
The war years are behind them.
The future is before them.
And one by one, the widows of Lyttlefield Park are getting restless…
Lady Charlotte Cavendish is still the spirited girl who tried to elope in the name of love. That dream was thwarted by her father who trapped her into a loveless, passionless marriage. But now widowed, Charlotte is free to reenter the giddy world of the ton—and pursue her desires. For hardly your typical widow, she remains innocent to the pleasures of the flesh. Yet her life is finally her own, and she intends to keep it that way.Nash, the twelfth Earl of Wrotham, is beguiled by Charlotte at first sight—and the feeling is mutual. When he receives her intriguing invitation to a house party, the marriage-minded lord plans to further their acquaintance. But even he cannot sway her aversion to matrimony, and only with great restraint does he resist her most tempting offer. For unbeknownst to Charlotte, the misadventures of the past are revisiting them both, and bedding her could cost him everything—or give him everything he ever wanted.
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The Hookup by Kristen Ashley is $1.99! This is the first book in her Moonlight and Motor Oil contemporary romance series. Fans of Ashley say this might be one of the best books she’s written. However, others found the heroine too twee and perfect. Have you read this one?
When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.
Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.
Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.
Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.
He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.
Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.
And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips though his fingers.
But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape danger that’s been swirling around her.
And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.
That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.
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Room Service by Rochelle Alers is $1.99! This is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals, which also included some other romances. Elyse mentioned this in a previous Hide Your Wallet because it sounded “delightful.” I think this can be read on its own without reading the previous two books in the Innkeepers series.
Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .
New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African-American stunner is tackling a lifetime opportunity: co-managing her friend’s new luxury inn about to open in the Garden District. The last thing Jasmine needs is romance. New Orleans’ most eligible bachelor, investment banker Cameron Singleton, begs to differ.
Cameron challenges Jasmine’s cautious ways, teases her back into having real fun—and makes one sexy, utterly irresistible Mr. Right Now. But their passionate nights soon result in a surprise bonus. . . . Even though Cameron insists on being there for Jasmine, can she really believe his love is the real thing? Can she shake the past and design a completely new life? And is there really only one way to find out?
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A Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot is $2.49 at Amazon! This is the first book in the Mercy Kilpatrick series and it’s a romantic suspense. I’m really interested in this series because the heroine is trying to hide the fact that she grew up in a family of severe doomsday preppers. Apparently this has been optioned for a TV series, which is kind of exciting.
FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the land—and off the grid—in rural Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a possible domestic terrorism event. But the crime scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy’s past.
Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to Eagle’s Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave man’s latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might not survive the fallout…
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There is a LOT going on in the blurb for The Hookup. It sounds like about 4 different books globbed together. I don’t know if it’s a good book or not, but the blurb isn’t winning me over.
I really enjoyed the Mercy Kilpatrick series and loved the little details about preppers and survivalists. The books are a bit addicting!
I will second the Mercy Kilpatrick one. Read and enjoyed. Of course, cults are one of my catnip. But this was well done and coherent. I liked the heroine.
I loved the Mercy Kilpatrick series when I read them. I had no idea there was such a subculture. The romance is lovely but hinted at, no details.
@Lauren that description of the blurb basically is how I feel about Ashley’s books in general. There’s a lot going on. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn’t. It’s usually all interesting enough to keep my attention but I often end the book still trying to decide if it was a good book or not.
I read a sample of the Johnny Gamble one and found the repetition of “Johnny Gamble” hilarious – it sounds like the name of someone in a 50s anti-drug/sex teen warning movie.
Wait… in that Kristen Ashley book … the heroine makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder? A literal canary? That’s not a euphemism?
@TinaNoir: No euphemism, it’s a real live canary.
Okay, WHICH KA fans think The Hookup is her best book. Seriously, who? Can anyone explain the appeal of this book at all? I read it and found annoyingly boring and white-bread which is NOT a problem I ever thought I would have with a KA book…
Any one read an Rochelle Alers book? I only read one of her book – A Winning Season (awesome cover) – and it was all stilted dialogues & info dump narrative that gave the characters the charm of robots on autopilot, with both MCs being Gary/Mary Sues. I just wanted to know if this was her usual style or if I was just unlucky and picked her lemon, because her blurbs often soumd cute.
I did not even make it halfway through The Hookup due to the author’s need to constantly remind the reader that the hero’s ridiculous name is Johnny Gamble. @TinaNoir It is a LITERAL canary. I didn’t believe it either.
@Arijo – I haven’t read this Ahlers book but I have read a few and unfortunately that last couple books that I’d read (a few years ago) suffered from a lot of what you describe, imo: Mary Sue heroines, stilted dialogue, and a lot of tell vs. show. It is too bad because the set up and plots and settings are often promising.
Ridiculous names can work for me. Either as a) a comic device, tongue-in-cheek like, or b) a way where the name is accepted by the characters and treated normally so that after a while it will seem totally normal for me as a reader too.
But on repeat, using the full name so often? That does not work for me.
And in the case of The Hookup, what’s the point? Are there three Johnny’s in the book, all involved with the woman, making it impossible for the reader to keep track? I suppose that could have been funny if done well, although from the comments here I gather that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I’m already annoyed from the blurb alone and there is enough annoying stuff happening in the real world; I don’t need it from books.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if this name-thing is something the author does in all her books? Or is it just a one-off?