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Reel
Reel by Kennedy Ryan is $2.49! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet. I love this cover and the color palette they chose! This is a romance set in Hollywood, if that happens to be your catnip.
Award-Winning Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Kennedy Ryan launches a brand new series with a Hollywood tale of wild ambition, artistic obsession, and unrelenting love.
One moment in the spotlight.
For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings,
preparing for my time to shine.
I never imagined he would watch in the audience that night.
Canon Holt.
Famous film director.
Fascinating. Talented. Fine.
Before I could catch my breath, everything changed.
I went from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood.
From being unknown, to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone’s lips.
Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic,
catapulting me into another stratosphere.But stars shine brightest in the dead of night.
Forbidden attraction, scandal and circumstances beyond my control jeopardize my dream.
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The Kiss Curse
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling is $1.99! This is book two in The Ex Hex series. Small town vibes with some witchy, enemies to lovers. I personally find the series a bit too twee for me, but for those who love it, I’d love to hear you sound off in the comments.
Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom, and her cousin have formed a new and powerful coven; she’s running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she’s started mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches, there’s only one problem—Llewellyn “Wells” Penhallow.
Wells has come to Graves Glen to re-establish his family’s connection to the town they founded as well as to make a new life for himself after years of being the dutiful son in Wales. When he opens up a shop of his own, Penhallow’s, just across the street from Something Wicked, he quickly learns he’s gotten more than he bargained for in going up against Gwyn.
When their professional competition leads to a very personal—and very hot—kiss, both Wells and Gwyn are determined to stay away from each other, convinced the kiss was just a magical fluke. But when a mysterious new coven of witches come to town and Gwyn’s powers begin fading, she and Wells must work together to figure out just what these new witches want and how to restore Gwyn’s magic before it’s too late.
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Serpent & Dove
PODCAST RECOMMENDED: Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin is $2.99 and a Kindle Daily Deal! This was recommended on one of our podcast episodes with Sarah J. Maas. It’s a YA/NA fantasy with a marriage of convenience between a secret witch and a witch hunter. (I enjoyed it!)
For her sixteenth birthday, Louise le Blanc’s mother gave her three things: a sacrificial altar, a ritual knife, and a wicked scar.
Lou’s death would have ended the ancient war between the Church and witches, but Lou refuses to become a martyr. Forsaking her coven, she escapes to the gloomy city of Cesarine and hides her magic as a thief in the criminal underworld. But life in Cesarine has its own dangers. Huntsmen roam the city revered as holy men. Witches burn without trial. And the Archbishop, the Church’s austere patriarch, revels in violence.
As a huntsman, Reid Diggory lives by one verse: thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
He’s devoted his entire life to eradicating the occult and making his surrogate father, the Archbishop, proud. Finally given the chance to capture a witch of his own, Reid is devastated when a foul-mouthed thief thwarts him—and doubly devastated when she too disappears. Hell-bent on bringing her to justice, Reid vows she won’t escape again. But when Lou tricks him into public scandal trying to avoid capture, the two are forced into an impossible situation—marriage.
Marriage to a huntsman could provide real protection from the witches—if Lou can convince Reid she isn’t one herself. The secret proves difficult to keep as Lou begins practicing magic in secret within the heart of the Church, determined to prepare for her mother’s inevitable return. As time passes, however, Lou discovers yet another danger lurking: her own growing feelings for her husband. But Reid is still dangerous. He’s just as likely to tie her to the stake as defend her if he learns her true identity. With enemies closing in—and more than her own life at stake—Lou must decide who she can trust before it’s too late…and she’s not the only one with a secret.
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Begin Again
Begin Again by Emma Lord is $2.99! This is another KDD. This one came out in January and Aarya mentioned it in HYW:
Not my favorite Lord, but still a fun read. Always here for more college-set books.
As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and maintain her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure despite the nerves that have recently thrown her for a loop. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm to pull it all together.
But the moment Andie arrives, the rest of her plans go off the rails. Her rocky relationship with her boyfriend Connor only gets more complicated when she discovers he transferred out of Blue Ridge to her community college. Her roommate Shay needs a major, and despite Andie’s impressive track record of being The Fixer, she’s stumped on how to help. And Milo, her coffee-guzzling grump of an R.A. with seafoam green eyes, is somehow disrupting all her ideas about love and relationships one sleep-deprived wisecrack at a time.
But sometimes, when all your plans are in rubble at your feet, you find out what you’re made of. And when Andie starts to find the power of her voice as the anonymous Squire on the school’s legendary pirate radio station–the same one her mom founded, years before she passed away–Andie learns that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones.
Filled with a friend group that feels like family, an empowering journey of finding your own way, and a Just Kiss Already! romance, Begin Again is an unforgettable novel of love and starting again.
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On sale for 99 cents:
Charming the Billionaire Cowboy. Who wouldn’t want to be a billionaire? Turns out winning the lottery causes as many problems as it solves. https://tulepublishing.com/series/the-accidental-billionaire-cowboys/
Christmas Cookies at the Cat Café: Christmas isn’t the same since Diane’s kids grew up and her husband died – so when her high school sweetheart comes back to town, maybe it’s time for some cozy new holiday traditions. https://tinyurl.com/yjrd5hps
Valley of Gems (Southwest Treasure Hunters series): Rebecca Westin’s grandfather left a buried treasure, and a complex series of clues. Her half-siblings are determined to reach the treasure first. Good thing Rebecca has Sam, making their desert adventure sexy and fun. But a treacherous enemy also wants that treasure – and revenge. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MKJKSG5
The Ryan cover is seriously amazing in colour and composition. I love her gloved hand cupping his head, his big hand cupping her knee.
Free:
– Sergeant Delicious: A Gay Foodie Romance by Annabeth Albert
– Small Town Romance: First in Series Collection by Ellie Rhodes, Kait Nolan, Abbey Easton, Katie O’Connor, H.M. Shander, Kelly Moran
– A Gentleman’s Game (Romance of the Turf Book 1) by Theresa Romain
– The Viscount’s Inconvenient Temptation (Holiday Pleasures Book 1) by Theresa Romain
– High Bar: A Billionaire Mafia Romance (Sin City Suits Book 1) by Ivy Nelson
$.99:
KDD for On the Ice (Stick Side Book 1) by Amy Aislin — recommended by @Loramir and others in the B*tchery
$1.99:
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by Randall Munroe
I spotted THE KISS CURSE 125 pages, then flipped to the back, read the last five chapters and decided that was good enough. (Yay for paper books!)
Also, @flchen1, thanks for posting those additional books—I’m going to snag the Romain. I think she’s consistently underrated as an HR author.
Echoing @FashionablyEvil, always appreciate it when @flchen1 adds some good (especially free!) reads. There’s usually something I want to try and today I also picked up the two Theresa Romain books.
Heads up, Amazon has Valerie Bowman’s Footman’s Club boxed set books 4-6 on sale for $0.99. I picked up the set of books 1-3 awhile back after it was mentioned here, but I have not gotten around to reading any of them yet.
I like the setting and the atmosphere of the Ex Hex series but found both heroines absolutely insufferable. Gwyn (the heroine of “The Kiss Curse”) is honestly the more annoying of the two but at least she is consistent and has a personality (“I like polka dots” is not a personality trait, Vivi). I liked the heroes way better but to me it seemed like the author really wanted them to do all the grovelling no matter what (the hero of “The Ex Hex” has a literal death curse put on him but “he deserved it because he broke the heroine’s heart in the past”, really?!?). The plot and overarching mystery in both books is fun and your mileage may vary when it comes to the heroines so it might be worth a shot. There’s a third book coming out next year and I’ll probably still pick it up since it features the third brother (the heroes are all brothers) who already appeared in the second book and a heroine who is thankfully not related to the other two heroines who are cousins.