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Stars Collide
Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey is $2.49 at Amazon! This is a lesbian romance between two musicians and I’m inferring a bit of an age difference. I know the Bitchery has enjoyed Lacey’s books before.
Eden Sands has been a star for twenty years, but it’s lonely at the top. Her mediocre marriage just ended, and her inner circle is smaller than ever. The stage is the only place she’s ever felt like she truly belonged, and yet, her last album flopped, and her upcoming tour hasn’t sold out. Eden’s desperate for her star to shine bright again, but when her team suggests a collaboration with an up-and-coming young star to give her a boost, she balks.
Anna Moss is pop music’s rising star. She’s idolized Eden Sands for most of her life—so it’s a dream come true when she’s invited to perform with her at the Grammys. Anna’s tired of being defined by her bubbly persona. She wants to be taken seriously as an artist, and a duet with Eden could be just what she needs.
As Anna and Eden rehearse, they soon realize they have more in common than their musical talents. Now they just have to decide if what is between them is a one-hit wonder or the making of a romance worthy of one of the greatest love songs of all time.
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The Thread Collectors
The Thread Collectors by Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman is $2.99! This is an American historical fiction split between two narratives of a Black woman in New Orleans and a Jewish woman in New York City.
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
Meanwhile, in New York City, a Jewish woman stitches a quilt for her husband, who is stationed in Louisiana with the Union Army. Between abolitionist meetings, Lily rolls bandages and crafts quilts with her sewing circle for other soldiers, too, hoping for their safe return home. But when months go by without word from her husband, Lily resolves to make the perilous journey South to search for him.
As these two women risk everything for love and freedom during the brutal Civil War, their paths converge in New Orleans, where an unexpected encounter leads them to discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us. Loosely inspired by the authors’ family histories, this stunning novel will stay with readers for a long time.
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The New Guy
The New Guy by Sarina Bowen is 99c! This is book one in the Hockey Guys series and is a M/M romance. Bowen has so many hockey romances now. Are they all loosely connected?
My name is Hudson Newgate, but my teammates call me New Guy.
That was my nickname in Chicago, too. And Vancouver. That’s what happens when you keep getting traded. Brooklyn is my last chance, especially after my poor performance last season.
But I can make this work. The new guy knows to keep his head down and shoot the puck. The new guy puts the game first.
What he doesn’t do is hook up with the other new guy—a hot athletic trainer who lives in my building. Gavin needs this job with my team. He’s a single dad with responsibilities.
We can’t be a couple. My arrogant agent–who’s also my father–will lose his mind if I’m dating a dude. And my team needs me to score goals, not whip up a media circus.
Too bad Gavin and I are terrible at resisting each other…
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The Thief
The Thief by Michele Hauf is 99c! Elyse mentioned this on a previous Hide Your Wallet and was interested in the hero and heroine being thieves after the same score. It is on the shorter side though, clocking in at a little less than 200 pages.
The Elite Crimes Unit works behind the scenes of Interpol—and employs some of the world’s most talented criminal minds. Because as everyone knows, it takes a thief to catch a thief—or to seduce one . . .
The old farmhouse in the French countryside is a refuge for former jewel thief Josephine Deveraux. Admittedly, there aren’t many men in the vicinity, but she has her cat to cuddle up with. It’s a far cry from her former life, constantly running from the law, and she’s enjoying her peace . . . until the intruder in the three-piece suit tackles her. He wants her back in the game, helping with a heist—and he’s not above making threats to get his way.
Little does Josephine know that notorious—and notoriously charming—thief, Xavier Lambert, is after the very same 180-carat prize she’s being blackmailed to steal. To his chagrin, he’s doing it not as a free agent, but as a member of the Elite Crimes Unit—the team he was forced to join when his brilliant career came to a sudden end. And little does Xavier know that his comeback is about to include a stranger’s kiss, a stinging slap, and a hunt for missing treasure—along with the infuriatingly sexy woman who’s outfoxing him . . .
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The Bowen hockey romances are all interconnected – first through the college Ivy Years series, and then starting with the pro Brooklyn Bruisers series, which then expanded into Brooklyn Hockey when she incorporated books about a pro women’s hockey team. All her books seem to exist in the same universe, so there’s some overlap with her True North series as well as her new private security/bodyguard series The Company (the hero in the first book of that series was a former hockey player). The M/M hockey books are based in the Brooklyn Hockey universe as well. I’m pretty sure all her books can be read as standalones, but honestly half the fun is seeing all the interconnected characters and getting little updates on their lives – I’ve found some of the later books in her series have diminishing returns, and I’m not sure I would have enjoyed them much without already having a fondness for characters and world Bowen has created.
I did find this Bowen story to be more captivating, even though I am not a big fan of workplace romances. I loved the details about being an athletic trainer, and the third act twist was a surprise I did not see coming.
I liked THE NEW GUY but felt that one MC was far too young to have done everything he had done in his life. Iirc, he’s 26, but he was married for five years, became a parent, then widowed, and still managed to get a plum assignment as an athletic trainer with a professional sports team. Make him a decade older, and the story would have been so much more believable.
The God of Good Looks is a KDD, and yes, I bought it for the cover, but it sounds really enticing. Trinidadian heroine who wants to be a writer but is working for a beauty magazine.
I really enjoyed “Stars Collide”. Rachel Lacey is becoming a favorite author – I loved “Read Between The Lines”, thought “No Rings Allowed” was “eh” (too much InstaLove, not enough time for believable feelings to develop, imo), and “Stars Collide” was lovely. I actually like this illustrated cover, too.
THE NEW GUY didn’t do it for me. But I think the next in the series is coming out soon, and I’ll probably read it. With an open mind!
The first three books in Rosalind James’s Escape to New Zealand rugby series are currently free:
– Just This Once
– Just Good Friends
– Just for Now