-
The Queen’s Bargain
The Queen’s Bargain by Anne Bishop is $1.99! This book was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet and is part of the Black Jewels series. I didn’t keep up with the series as a whole, so I’m unsure how this fits in. I think it focuses on secondary characters now, but correct me I’m wrong?
POWER HAS A PRICE. SO DOES LOVE.
Return to the dark, sensual, and powerful world of the Black Jewels in this long-awaited new story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga
After a youthful mistake, Lord Dillon’s reputation is in tatters,
leaving him vulnerable to aristo girls looking for a bit of fun. To
restore his reputation and honor, he needs a handfast—a one-year contract of marriage. He sets his sights on Jillian, a young Eyrien witch from Ebon Rih, who he believes has only a flimsy connection to the noble society that spurned him. Unfortunately for Dillon, he is unaware of Jillian’s true connections until he finds himself facing Lucivar Yaslana, the volatile Warlord Prince of Ebon Rih.Meanwhile, Surreal SaDiablo’s marriage is crumbling. Daemon Sadi, the Warlord Prince of Dhemlan, recognizes there is something wrong between him and Surreal, but he doesn’t realize that his attempt to suppress his own nature in order to spare his wife is causing his mind to splinter. To save Daemon, and the Realm of Kaeleer if he breaks, help must be sought from someone who no longer exists in any of the Realms—the only
Queen powerful enough to control Daemon Sadi. The Queen known as Witch.As Jillian rides the winds of first love with Dillon, Daemon and Surreal struggle to survive the wounds of a marriage turned stormy—and Lucivar has to find a way to keep everyone in his family safe…even from each other.
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks! -
If I Never Met You
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane is $1.99! Catherine reviewed this one and gave it a C, giving a warning to temper your expectations:
Friends, this is not a romance novel, and it certainly isn’t romantic comedy. I suspect it’s somewhere in the realm of women’s fiction with strong romantic elements and lots of humour, but honestly, the main themes are around grief and betrayal and recovering from these things.
If faking love is this easy… how do you know when it’s real?
When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling—not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When news of her ex’s pregnant girlfriend hits the office grapevine, taking the humiliation lying down is not an option. Then a chance encounter in a broken-down elevator with the office playboy opens up a new possibility.
Jamie Carter doesn’t believe in love, but he needs a respectable, steady girlfriend to impress their bosses. Laurie wants a hot new man to give the rumor mill something else to talk about. It’s the perfect proposition: a fauxmance played out on social media, with strategically staged photographs and a specific end date in mind. With the plan hatched, Laurie and Jamie begin to flaunt their new couple status, to the astonishment—and jealousy—of their friends and colleagues. But there’s a fine line between pretending to be in love and actually falling for your charming, handsome fake boyfriend…
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks! -
Seven Years to Sin
Seven Years to Sin by Sylvia Day is $1.99! This is another erotic historical romance and the book actually inspired Day’s other romance Bared to You ( A | BN | K | G | AB ). Though readers mention the first half is a little slow, they enjoyed the chemistry between the hero and heroine.
Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a scene so scandalous she could not erase it from her memory. Shocked, yet strangely titillated, she nevertheless walked down the aisle into a life serene yet unremarkable. But what she kept hidden fueled wildly imaginative and very illicit dreams. . .
Alistair Caulfield ran far from the temptation of the prim debutante–all the way to the West Indies. As a successful merchant, he has little in common with the rakehell youth Jessica once knew. But when newly widowed Jessica steps aboard his ship for a transatlantic passage, seven years’ worth of denied pleasures are held in check by nothing more than a few layers of silk–and the certainty that surrender will consume them both. . .
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks! -
The Virgin and the Rogue
The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan is $1.99! This is book six in The Rogue Files series. Elyse was excited about this one, but was let down. Ultimately, she gave it a D. Did you have a different experience? Or do you feel the same?
Continuing her bestselling Rogue Files series, Sophie Jordan brews up a scintillating romance about a timid wallflower who discovers a love potion and ends up falling for a dashing rogue.
A love potion…Charlotte Langley has always been the prudent middle sister, so her family is not surprised when she makes the safe choice and agrees to wed her childhood sweetheart. But when she finds herself under the weather and drinks a “healing” tonic, the potion provokes the most maddening desire…for someone other than her betrothed.
With the power…
Kingston’s rakehell ways are going to destroy him and he’s vowed to change. His stepbrother’s remote estate is just the place for a reformed rogue to hide. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by society, but when he gets stuck alone with a wallflower who is already betrothed… and she astonishes him with a fiery kiss, he forgets all about hiding.
To alter two destinies.
Although Charlotte appears meek, Kingston soon discovers there’s a vixen inside, yearning to break free. Unable to forget their illicit moment of passion, Kingston vows to relive the encounter, but Charlotte has sworn it will never happen again—no matter how earth-shattering it was. But will a devilish rogue tempt her to risk everything for a chance at true love?
Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
This book is on sale at:
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We also may use affiliate links in our posts, as well. Thanks!
Don't want to miss an ebook sale? Sign up for our newsletter, and you'll get the week's available deals each Friday.
A. S. Byatt’s brilliant & beautiful POSSESSION was a KDD for $1.99 yesterday, but when I checked this morning, it was still $1.99. It’s a dual-timeline story about two academics researching the previously unknown connection between two Victorian-era poets—and falling in love in the process. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been over 30 years since a friend thrust POSSESSION at me and said, “You’ve got to read this!” I did—and loved it so much, I bought my own copy (still in my shelves today). Highly recommended.
@discoDollydeb Possession is easily one of my favorite novels! I highly recommend Children’s Story and Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt as well. Neither are romance novels but both are unusual stories couched in beautiful prose. (Angels and Insects might be problematic for some people)
and another thing (LOL)–I have a low bar for getting my knickers in a wad over clutch covers created after 2000 but Jordan cover is subtle. The artist did a great job illustrating Charlotte’s surrender is overpowering desire and not being physically overpowered by a man.
The Dream Hunter by Laura Kinsale is 99 cents, & a bunch of other Kinsale titles are $1.99.
I know Kinsale has gotten a lot of love here, but I came to her via this Alexis Hall review of The Dream Hunter:
https://thebookpushers.com/2014/10/31/queer-romance-month-guest-post-4-with-alexis-hall/
Doesn’t that look like good value for 99 cents?
I’m another fan of Possession. I loved that it has a mystery as the contemporary characters try to figure out what went on in the past, a love story or two, and that it shows a time and people for whom words and literature were important.
Not quite on the same level, but I liked MacFarlane’s If I Never Met You, although I found the ending bittersweet. Not so much for the love story, but because I felt Jamie did not get treated quite fairly at the end. Not by Laurie but by the world. I did like that Laurie comes to see her father more clearly at the end and acts accordingly. I very much wanted a HEA for Laurie and Jamie because I came to care for them. The ending doesn’t rule it out by any means, but there are some challenges to be overcome.
The first three books in Skyla Dawn Cameron’s supernatural adventuress Livi Talbot series (SOLOMON’S SEAL, ODIN’S SPEAR, and EMPEROR’S TOMB) are 99 cents apiece in honor of the first book’s 5-year anniversary, sale good through September 22.
It’s a fresh price drop, so if it’s not in effect at your preferred seller, check tomorrow.
I found Possession really tricky to get into – alas, an academic hunting down references is a dry introduction – but oh, that epilogue. Whenever people are ranting about how epilogues are unnecessary, I think of the last line of Possession, and how it breaks my heart every time I read it.
@Tom, my copy is packed in a box buried in storage, what is the last line?
“And on the way home, she met her brothers, and there was a rough-and-tumble, and the lovely crown was broken, and she forgot the message, which was never delivered.”