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Role Model
RECOMMENDED: Role Model by Rachel Reid is $2.99! Thank you to everyone who let us know about this sale! Lara wrote a Lightning Review for this one and gave it a B:
If you haven’t read the others, you’ll be fine. And if you need an afternoon of quiet smiling into a book that hums with emotional sincerity and growth, then this is the book for you.
Troy Barrett has been freshly traded to Ottawa after calling out Dallas Kent during a team practice. He wants to be a better person, and the weird, scrappy energy of the struggling Ottawa team seems like the place to…well. It seems like the only place that will have Troy right now.
Fortunately the Ottawa team includes Ilya Rozanov and Wyatt Hayes, and also includes an adorable social media manager, Harris Drover. Harris is the opposite of Troy in every way: friendly, cheerful, chatty, and goofy with a booming voice, a startlingly loud laugh, and Pride pins all over his denim jacket. Definitely not the sort of person Troy would normally associate with, and yet…
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A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman is 99c! This is book in the A Countess of Harleigh Mystery series. If you’ve exhausted all of your historical mystery with romantic subplot options, try this one. It was also mentioned in the comments of The Rec League: Mysteries with Romance Crossover Appeal.
In this exciting historical mystery debut set in Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures—and scandalous pitfalls—of a London social season . . .
Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. With her young daughter in tow, Frances rents a home in Belgravia and prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York—for her first London season.No sooner has Frances begun her new life than the ghosts of her old one make an unwelcome appearance. The Metropolitan police receive an anonymous letter implicating Frances in her husband’s death. Frances assures Inspector Delaney of her innocence, but she’s also keen to keep him from learning the scandalous circumstances of Reggie’s demise. As fate would have it, her dashing new neighbor, George Hazelton, is one of only two other people aware of the full story.
While busy with social engagements on Lily’s behalf, and worrying if Reggie really was murdered, Frances learns of mysterious burglaries plaguing London’s elite. The investigation brings death to her doorstep, and Frances rallies her wits, a circle of gossips, and the ever-chivalrous Mr. Hazelton to uncover the truth. A killer is in their midst, perhaps even among her sister’s suitors. And Frances must unmask the villain before Lily’s season—and their lives—come to a most unseemly end . . .
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Magnolia Mystic
Magnolia Mystic by Lisa Kessler is FREE! This paranormal romance is the first in a series and features an immortal pirate hero and a psychic heroine. I am super curious about this one, especially because it has a 4-star rating on Goodreads. Have you read this one?
Skye Olson is a psychic like her mother, and her grandmother before her, but a bad break up with the man she thought was her soulmate has left her confidence in her abilities shaken. While she’s in crisis, a real estate tycoon from Atlanta swoops in with his eyes on her shop.
Colton Hayes spent his mortal life plundering royal ships with his pirate crew, but one holy relic changed everything. Now he and the rest of the crew protect the port of Savannah from their captain who traded his cutlass for a fountain pen.
When Colton discovers the captain wants to build a hotel in the heart of historic Savannah, he sets out to stop him, but nothing could prepare him for the sexy smile and violet eyes of the Magnolia Mystic.
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The Governess Affair
The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan is FREE! Sarah reviewed this one and gave it a B-. She loved the time she spent with this novella, but felt like she wanted more from everything (characters, setting, conflict, etc).
She will not give up…
Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. Unable to find new work, she’s demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. But it’s not the duke she fears. It’s his merciless man of business—the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke’s dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn’t stand a chance. But she can’t stop trying—not with her entire future at stake.
He cannot give in…
Hugo Marshall is a man of ruthless ambition—a characteristic that has served him well, elevating the coal miner’s son to the right hand man of a duke. When his employer orders him to get rid of the pestering governess by fair means or foul, it’s just another day at the office. Unfortunately, fair means don’t work on Serena, and as he comes to know her, he discovers that he can’t bear to use foul ones. But everything he has worked for depends upon seeing her gone. He’ll have to choose between the life that he needs, and the woman he is coming to love…
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Jennifer Hartmann’s heartbreaking, painful, but ultimately hopeful STILL BEATING is a KDD for 99-cents today. It’s about the aftermath of an abduction—a woman and her sister’s fiancé are held captive for several weeks by a serial killer. The first third of the story is, admittedly, difficult to read and includes many triggers (cw/tw: abduction, captivity, rape, abuse, violent death). But the rest of the book details how the h&h cope—in ways both healthy and not so much—with what happened to them. I haven’t read a romance since Heather Orgeron’s & Kate Stewart’s HEARTBREAK WARFARE that so clearly delineates the “before” and “after” of a traumatic event and how it changes the people who experience it. If you feel the triggers will not be too much, I highly recommend STILL BEATING.
Free right now: RAZOR WIRE by Lauren Gallagher, an f/f romantic suspense
Content warnings for sexual violence. This is about two military officers, one a survivor of rape during her service. It has a 3.91 rating on Goodreads and I’ve been meaning to read it for awhile. I think it was mentioned in a comments thread here at one point?
I was underwhelmed with MAGNOLIA MYSTIC. YMMV, but the world building was below average, it ended pretty abruptly, and at 100 pages it’s barely a novella.
@Hannah Bloom – thanks for the heads up. Razor Wire has low key been on my wishlist for years. Finally got it – hard to resist free.
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Christmas Love by Brenda Clemons
A Baby for Christmas by Joan Kilby
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A Cowboy for Forever by Jewel Allen
Rugged Cowboy by Elena Johnson
Giving Thanks by Susanne Ashe
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The entire San Diego Diego Marine series is free through Friday 11/26 on Amazonm
The first one is back to you That’s 7 books free
Also Harlequin is having a buy 2 get 2 sale with the code FRIB2G2 Newsletter subscribers getthe code early so I am passing it on to you
I really liked Role Model. And I seem to be in the minority that it’s the first one in her Gamechangers series that I actually liked. I hated Heated Rivalry (I didn’t connect enough to either character to care about them or their angry sex).
CW for rape and misogyny. The blurb definitely undersells that – Troy Barrett called out his teammate / former best friend /certified a-hole after he (former bff) is accused of rape and he (Troy) gets traded for his stance. How much you enjoy book may depend on whether or not you buy Troy’s redemption arc and that Troy was just hanging out with an a-hole to hide his sexuality and really wasn’t actually complicit.
It worked for me – a nice fluffy, low conflict romance although it touches on some tough subjects. Very emotionally satisfying.
I just finished and quite enjoyed Role Model. I’ve liked all the books in the series, some more than others.
@cleo, I thought Troy’s redemption was very believable because
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he’d always been taught that the way to be a man was to be a misogynistic jerkface, as modeled by his father, his father’s friends, etc, and the biggest indicator of his growth to me was him realizing that perpetuating toxic masculinity is a choice and he could choose to be (and do) better and have friends who reflect that.
THIS is why publishers and authors give away free books – now that I’ve read The Governess Affair, I NEED to buy and read the rest of the series! <3 <3 <3