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Kilt Trip
Kilt Trip by Alexandra Kiley is $1.99! This is a standalone contemporary romance with a heroine who works as a travel consultant. Have any of you read this one?
Ready or Scot…
Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world—anywhere but Scotland. But when she’s sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands—and save her own job—Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm.
Rugged as the land he loves, Logan Sutherland’s greatest joy is sharing the beauty of Scotland’s hidden gems…even if it means a wee bit of red ink on the company’s bottom line. The last thing Logan wants is some American “expert” pushing tourist traps and perpetuating myths about the Loch Ness Monster—especially when Addie never leaves her desk to experience the country for herself.
As they wage an office war, Logan discovers Addie’s secret connection to Scotland: a handful of faded Polaroids of her late mother. Hoping for a truce, he creates a private tour to the places in the pictures to help Addie find closure and appreciate the enchantment in less-traveled destinations, never expecting the off-limits attraction sparking between them. But Addie’s contract is almost up, and magic won’t pay the bills. They can’t afford distractions, but how can Addie do her job if she hasn’t explored all Scotland—and Logan—have to offer?
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So We Meet Again
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance and was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet. As an aside, I’ve done a few events with Park for their books and she is a damn delight.
When up-and-coming investment banker Jess Kim is passed over for a promotion, laid off in a virtual meeting, and then overhears why (“she’s already being overpaid anyway for a woman” and “Asians are worker bees, not someone who can drum up new deals”) she delivers an “eff you guys” speech and storms out of the building. Not sure what’s next, she moves back home to Tennessee with her domineering Korean mom, who tries to set her up with her pastor’s son Daniel Choi, an M&A lawyer by day and a successful video game streamer by night. Turns out he’s swoony and smart, not the awkward preacher’s kid she remembers. With his help, Jess launches a Korean cooking YouTube channel focused on easy meal prep for busy professionals.
All is going well until her mom walks on the show mid-live recording and argues about cooking technique. While she hates being berated by her mother in front of the world, it actually works in their favor—they go viral!
Soon her cooking channel becomes an actual media company and brand. When a client is suddenly interested in buying Jess out, she finds herself sitting across the table from the very investment firm she quit not so long ago. But there’s just one other problem: Daniel, the guy whose been helping her and that she’s been falling for, is the firm’s new general counsel.
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London’s Greatest Lovers
London’s Greatest Lovers by Lorraine Heath is $1.99! This set collects all three books in the London’s Greatest Lovers historical romance series. Not bad for less than $2!
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath comes three tales of passion, pleasure, and love.
Passions of a Wicked Earl—The first romantic adventure involving the titled and rakish sons of a scandalous Dowager Duchess and their tales of passion, pleasure, and love, Passions of a Wicked Earl concerns the innocent and unfairly disgraced young wife of the first brother and her brazen attempts to win back the dashing rogue’s heart…by any means necessary.
Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman—Victorian England is the setting for this captivating historical romance, as the rakish sons of a scandalous Dowager Duchess find passion, pleasure, and, ultimately, love. In Pleasures of a Notorious Gentleman, the black sheep second son back from war is confronted by a beautiful angel of mercy with a baby in her arms.
Waking Up With the Duke—Perfect for Lisa Kleypas and Liz Carlyle fans, Waking Up With the Duke transports readers back to Victorian England, where a dangerous passion is born when a handsome rogue nobleman is approached with a most unusual request…
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Hot and Hammered: Volume One
Hot and Hammered: Volume One by Tessa Bailey is $3.99! This collection contains books 1-3 in the Hot and Hammered series. The first two books received middling reviews on the site. However, if you’re interested and wanted to take a try at a discount, now is your chance.
The fan-favorite, HGTV-inspired rom-com trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, now in a single volume!
This bundle includes the following Hot & Hammered novels:
FIX HER UP: A bad-boy professional baseball’s player agrees to fake a relationship with his best friend’s younger sister in order to rehab both their reputations, but their feelings get all too real…
LOVE HER OR LOSE HER: A young married couple signs up for relationship boot camp in order to rehab their rocky romance and finds a second chance at love.
TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT: Two enemies team up to flip a house and the sparks between them are so hot, they’ll either set the place on fire or ignite a passion that neither expected.
With a wonderful, hilarious cast of characters, small-town charm, and tons of spice, this series is not to be missed!
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I’ve read two of the three by Bailey and I always feel so weird about her books. In the moment, they are compulsively readable so I finish them in a few sittings, and she’s great at writing chemistry between her leads. But as soon as I close the last page of the book, I invariably realize that there are so many problematic things about the story. The top negative reviews for Fix Her Uphere at goodreads are a good example. And oftentimes her heroines have no friends and/or there’s really disparate power dynamics between the H and h, which are two of my pet peeves but for whatever reason the way she writes I let this slide as I’m reading. So now I stop myself from reading her books because I know I’m going to read it but be so annoyed at the story AND myself afterwards.
Does anybody have a term for this sort of book? It’s not quite a hate read, and it’s not a potato chip book. I need a pithy phrase for it, HABO. 🙂
@egged, maybe a Morning After book? Read of Shame? (Because afterwards you feel like the “Walk of Shame” after an ill-advised hookup.)
Kilt Trip interests me because I used to work in that industry. But I’m a little worried it will throw me out of the book. I just had to nope out of a book because part of the premise was that a new teacher hadn’t walked into a high school until the first day of classes, and I could not suspend my disbelief that far.
@Egged: Reader’s remorse, maybe? I started as a big Bailey fan and I feel like your feelings echo mine now.
@Egged, @Amanda, I do have very mixed feelings and admit that I’ve only read half of her most recent releases. Her books are SO readable (I was pretty surprised at how quickly I fell into It Happened One Summer because in real life, I keep lots of distance between me and SM “influencers”, but man, I couldn’t read that fast enough and also enjoyed the sequel immensely…) but looking more objectively there are definitely some really…interesting dynamics. I borrowed Fangirl Down from the library but haven’t had a chance to read it yet… I might also be in the wrong frame of mind for the setup for these latest, so…
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@egged, I’ve always thought the phrase “book hangover” should be what you’re talking about, but isn’t. A hangover means you had a really great time last night, but now you feel queasy and kind of gross and just really regret all your choices. And that pretty much sums up exactly how I feel after reading recent Tessa Bailey (and also, the most recent Eve Dangerfield).
But since that’s already taken, I support “reader’s remorse”.
Digging for Gold by Sean Michael is on sale for $.99 — m/m beach volleyball
@Ely: Do you mean the new Silver Ink book?! Would love to hear your thoughts!
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SWEET HONESTY by Joan Vassar. It’s a black m/m historical romance which has a 4.7 star rating on Goodreads and 4.9 star rating on Amazon. Pretty impressive.
I like reader remorse without the passive ‘s. But both are good and I have the same Tessa Bailey experience.
@Amanda ok! I’ll try to do this without being too spoiler-y. Please delete this comment if I’m giving too much away! Towards the end of the book, when a side character says to the MMC “you’ve been letting her do self-harm by proxy”, my heart just sank. Partly, I think it’s because the main trope just isn’t my thing at all, so I found the power dynamics to be pretty iffy to start with.
So putting that kind of perspective on it – that the FMC was allowing herself to be hurt physically and emotionally, bc she felt she deserved it – just completely took away any enjoyment I might have felt. I know that’s probably not the truth of their relationship, but I can’t unfeel that. And the MMC was so oblivious that he thought all of this was the start of a relationship. That just makes me so squicked out and sad.
Also, I’m pretty firmly in camp “no other partners after the main characters have met”, so chapter 4 is all kinds of rage.
Finally, there was just so much heartache going on for the whole darn family. Like, I just needed a happy moment earlier than the epilogue. Please. One night of watching The Bachelor while everyone eats ice cream or something.
I read some of the earlier Baileys and thought some of them were great and some of them were too problematic for me, and then at some point, the misses sufficiently outnumbered the hits that I gave up. She is the only author I’ve ever had such a chaotic love/hate relationship with, and I wish I understood why.