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Blood Heir
Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews is $3.409! This is a spin-off of Andrews’ Kate Daniels series with the main character being Kate and Curran’s ward. Obviously this will be a more nuanced read if you’ve finished or are familiar with the prior series. I dropped off that train around book three.
From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate and Curran’s ward.
Atlanta was always a dangerous city. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it’s a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.
Eight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. Now she’s back with a new face, a new magic, and a new name—Aurelia Ryder—drawn by the urgent need to protect the family she left behind. An ancient power is stalking her adopted mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of horrifying murders is its opening gambit.
If Aurelia’s true identity is discovered, those closest to her will die. So her plan is simple: get in, solve the murders, prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled, and get out without being recognized. She expected danger, but she never anticipated that the only man she’d ever loved could threaten everything.
One small misstep could lead to disaster. But for Aurelia, facing disaster is easy; it’s relationships that are hard.
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Too Hot to Handle
Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey is 99c. I love Bailey’s writing so much. Her dialogue is realistic and fun, and her dirty talk between characters is top notch. I loved the setup of an estranged family’s cross-country road trip. But I will admit the chemistry between the hero and heroine wavered at times.
The first book in a brand new contemporary romance series from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey!
When Rita Clarkson’s Suburban takes its last breath on a New Mexico roadside, rescue roars up on a Harley in the form of smooth-talking honkey tonk owner, Jasper Ellis, a man as mysterious as he is charming. Rita’s cross-country journey to New York City–with her three estranged siblings in tow–is only beginning, but now that Jasper has found Rita, his plans do not include her leaving.
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In Bed with the Earl
In Bed with the Earl by Christi Caldwell is 99c! This is book one in the Lost Lords of London series and I’m super curious about it. It has amnesia, but the hero seems to have it prior to meeting the heroine. Also, the heroine is a reporter!
Christi Caldwell, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Wicked Wallflowers series, combs London’s underground and finds romance and danger for a missing lord and the lady who loves him.
To solve a mystery that’s become the talk of the ton, no clues run too deep for willful reporter Verity Lovelace. Not even in the sewers of London. That’s precisely where she finds happily self-sufficient scavenger Malcom North, lost heir to the Earl of Maxwell. Now that Verity’s made him front-page news, what will he make of her?
Kidnapped as a child, with no memories of his well-heeled past, Malcom prefers the grimy spoils of the culverts to the gilded riches of society. Damn the feisty beauty who exposed the contented tosher to a parade of fortune-hunting matchmakers. How to keep them at bay? Verity must pretend to be his wife. She owes him.
The intimacy of this necessary arrangement—Verity and Malcom thrust together in close quarters—soon sparks an irresistible heat. But when the charade ends, the danger begins. Will love be enough to protect them from a treacherous plot devised to ruin them?
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The Family Plot
The Family Plot by Cherie Priest is $2.99! Priest always writes some wonderfully weird books and I’m super interested in this one. It’s a modern Gothic ghost story featuring a salvage team in Tennessee. Readers say the last act is pretty scary, but the pacing could be stronger.
Music City Salvage is a family operation, owned and operated by Chuck Dutton: master stripper of doomed historic properties, and expert seller of all things old and crusty. But business is lean and times are tight, so he’s thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Withrow appears in his office, bearing an offer he really ought to refuse. She has a massive family estate to unload – lock, stock, and barrel. For a check and a handshake, it’s all his.
It’s a big check. It’s a firm handshake. And it’s enough of a gold mine that he assigns his daughter Dahlia to personally oversee the project.
Dahlia preps a couple of trucks, takes a small crew, and they caravan down to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the ancient Withrow house is waiting – and so is a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery that Augusta Withrow left out of the paperwork.
Augusta Withrow left out a lot of things.
The property is in unusually great shape for a condemned building. It’s empty, but it isn’t abandoned. Something in the Withrow mansion is angry and lost. This is its last chance to raise hell before the house is gone forever, and there’s still plenty of room in the strange little family plot.
New from Cherie Priest, a modern master of supernatural fiction, The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the ages – atmospheric, scary, and strange, with a modern gothic sensibility that every bit as fresh as it is frightening.
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Beauties: Hockey’s Greatest Untold Stories (not romance, but some might be interested) is also 1.99
Ive read The Family Plot! 4 out of 5 stars
I finished a book early last night and meant to give a quick look to Too Hot to Handle. I was thinking ahead – what shall I read Friday? Heh. Big mistake. I barely managed to tear myself away in time to get enough sleep to function today.
@LML What book you were reading?
Sorry, I meant what book were you reading?
I read In Bed With the Early last fall and enjoyed it. He definitely lost his memory well before he met the heroine and the reason they meet is because she wants to expose him as the “lost earl.” I can’t remember if it due to illness or the trauma of being kidnapped (I believe he was orphaned during an outbreak of some kind, which lead to his kidnapping), but he has no memory of his privileged childhood and now lives very well by scrounging for treasures in the sewers. IIRC, once he’s exposed as the “lost earl,” he starts to remember pieces of his childhood, but I don’t think he ever fully regains his memory of that time. To be honest, I’m feeling the same way as I try to recall the plot of this story. While I definitely remember enjoying it and immediately reading the next book in the series, I don’t remember many specifics from the book. What I do remember are the scenes set in the sewers, which were fascinating and about as far from a ballroom as you could get!
I LOVED Blood Heir, but I binged the entire Kate Daniels series, including novellas , in about 3 weeks so I’m officially a superfan. Usually I’m on board for Tessa Bailey (she’s a master of alpha heroes I don’t want to neuter with a rusty spoon) but there was WAAAAY too much unmerited angst in Too Hot to Handle for me.
For Amazon UK readers, The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights Book 1) by T. L. Huchu is .99 today. A Zimbabwean teen ghostalker in alternate Scotland investigates the bewitching of children. And there’s a library. I haven’t read the book, but it’s been on my wishlist since it came out.
For those broke as s$$$ here are some freebies on Amazon
Burning for More by Kaye Kennedy
Friends to Forever by Kait Nolan
When All We Had Was Kites by Claire Keyes
Loved, loved, LOVED THE FAMILY PLOT. The whole book has an eerie, dreamy quality, it’s steeped in Southern Gothic, and the heroine is a very relatable and realistic badass. I believe the author has said it’s going to remain a standalone, but I dearly hope for a sequel someday because it’s a truly excellent horror novel.
Perfect for spooky season or any fan of a Southern ghost story.
I’ve read it twice and listed to the audiobook, so I can also say it holds up well!
Two Man Station by Lisa Henry is .99.
It’s the first in her Emergency Services series, set in the Australian outback and it’s fantastic – mm contemporary romance between two police officers, one a local and one transferred in from the city. It has a tremendous sense of place – it’s set in a small town in the middle of nowhere without being a “small town romance.”
Lisa Henry has a very wide range, from very dark dub-con BDSM to very light and fluffy. This is medium level LH – with some angst but absolutely no dub-con or non-con.
FREE for a short time in the US ~
Conspiracy Theory: MM Romantic Suspense (Veiled Intentions Book 1) by Elle Keaton
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07YR2KNLP/ref=ya_aw_dod_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Also FREE for US Kindle readers ~
Lore and Lust by Karla Nikole
https://www.amazon.com/Lore-Lust-Queer-Vampire-Romance-ebook/dp/B08GK77CD6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1633112016&sr=1-2
@cleo – thank you for the recommendation, Aussie m/m sounds good for me so I got Two Man Station and I am enjoying it a lot!
Thanks for the recommendation, @cleo–I got Two Man Station on your rec and quite enjoyed it!
The Family Plot is quite good overall (Priest’s worst is better than a lot of people’s best) but I felt let down by the ending which is kind of a horror cliche (if I can say that without following through, because of course the ending is a spoiler).
I just read The Family Plot and that was a little too terrifying for me. That horror cliche ending is a cliche for a reason! shudder
Fascinating book though. The salvage set up was well done – the dust and dirt and rat shit sure was real.