Your Romance Book Bargains for July 12, 2021

Falling in love with Lenny should have been the end to all her troubles. For Anita, it’s only the beginning, when family secrets start unravelling. His ex-wife, Natasha, is succumbing to a mysterious disease. How can Anita compete with her shadow? How can she find a voice of her own?
And when his estranged son, Ben, comes back and lives in the same small apartment, can she keep the balance between the two men, whose desire for her is marred by guilt and blame?

Cade Bradbury. Billionaire island owner, at your service.
I’m not used to people giving me the finger.
Especially people I’ve just met.
Especially when I’m standing in front of my own island resort.
So I’m more than intrigued when cute but feisty Emma Clarke does just that…right after dumping a suitcase full of lingerie onto my sidewalk.
Questionable lingerie.
If this girl is who I think she is, then she’s in big trouble.
I won’t even bother going to the police to report someone soliciting…er…clients in my resort.
I’ll run Emma off the island, and enjoy every second of it.
Which is what I tell myself until I actually spend time with her.
Now I’m thinking I might have made a mistake.
I don’t want Emma off my island. I want her in my bed.
Which makes me wonder if she planned this every step of the way.
Me chasing her.
Me catching her.
Me falling in love with every inch of her…right down to that naughty finger.

Category: Romantic Comedy

It’s been two years since Kate Evans unexpectedly lost her husband and one year since her aunt Cassandra stepped in and moved Kate and her son back to Colorado to start a new life.
Just when Kate is starting to get comfortable in her new reality, three very different men enter her life. Alec is young, easygoing, and up for anything. Nate is a divorced dad who is steady, reliable, and everything Kate should want. Jess is quite literally the boy next door, not to mention a real-life movie star straight from every girl’s dreams.

Is she really ready to jump into the dating scene again? Or does she stay in the same safe place free from heartache? In between braving water slides to cheating at croquet, Kate is forced to confront things she’d rather leave buried, along with the possibility of a new love that is exactly what she needs.

Category: Clean & Wholesome Romance

He’s brutal, cold and dangerous. She’s a naïve virgin who doesn’t know how to follow his rules.

Ella

I’ve been groomed my whole life to become his wife.
He’s brutal, cold and dangerous.
The rules are set in his home. Rules we must obey.
Each time I break them, I draw his attention.

He sends fear pulsing through my body, but also a desire that I don’t understand.

I decide I no longer want to become his wife.

He decides that I will become his obsession instead.

It’s a deadly obsession, one I fear I won’t survive.

Lucas

She’s a naïve virgin who doesn’t know how to follow the rules.

I want to hurt her and claim her.
She becomes my every thought and I know that’s dangerous.

I can’t lose focus on what’s important. I have an empire to rule.

But each time she crosses me, I want to punish her.

I want her in my bed; I want her to be mine.
But claiming her comes with a price that just might cost me my throne.

***This is book one in The Obsessed Duet. This book ends on a cliffhanger.

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Category: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Romance

“Do you want to be perfect?”

That’s what Danny asked Celia the night he turned her into a vampire. Three months have passed since, and immortality didn’t transform her into the glamorous, sexy vamp she was expecting, but left her awkward, lonely, and working at a Florida gas station. On top of that, she’s a giant screw-up of an immortal, because the only blood she consumes is from illegally obtained hospital blood bags.

What she needs to do–according to her moody vampire friend Imogene–is just … bite somebody. But Celia wants her first bite to be special, and she has yet to meet Mr. Right Bite. Then, Ian moves in next door. His scent creeps through her kitchen wall and makes her nose tingle, but insecure Celia can’t bring herself to meet the guy face-to-face.

When she finally gets a look at Ian’s cyclist physique, curly black hair, and sun-kissed skin, other parts of Celia tingle, as well. Could he be the first bite she’s been waiting for to complete her vampire transformation? His kisses certainly have a way of making her fangs throb.

Just when Celia starts to believe Ian may be the fairy tale ending she always wanted, her jerk of a creator returns to town, which spells nothing but trouble for everyone involved.

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Category: Paranormal Romance

Imogene helped her newbie vampire friend Celia hook up with an adorable human, but now Celia has dropped an atomic bomb of surprise: she has a possibly blood-sucking baby on the way. Imogene is not pleased, especially when a mysterious, ancient, and annoyingly gorgeous vampire historian shows up to monitor Celia’s unprecedented pregnancy.

Lord Nicholas Christopher Cuthbert III is everything Imogene hates: posh, mannerly, and totally uninterested in her. Plus, she thinks he’s hiding something. So what if he smells like a fresh garden and looks like a rich boarding school kid just begging to be debauched?

As Celia’s pregnancy progresses at a freakishly fast pace, Imogene and Nicholas play an ever-escalating game of will they or won’t they, until his sexy maker shows up on Admiral Key, forcing Nicholas to reveal his true intentions toward Celia’s soon-to-arrive infant.

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The last time I saw Landon Nash, he was leaving town with a target on his back and my heart in his hands.
Fifteen years later, fate brought him back into town and stupidity brought him back into my bed.

It’s hard not to admit that life is passing me by.
It seems like all of my friends boarded the happily ever after train and somehow, I was left twiddling my thumbs when it left the station.
Still pinning for the same man who broke my heart.

Landon and I weren’t just high school sweethearts.
He was it for me, my twin flame.
My everything.
So when he skipped town with only a note, it was like time stood still for me from that day forward.

But now he’s back and the mysteries surrounding his disappearance are no clearer.
It feels like everyone in this dead-end town knows something I don’t.
My brothers still hate him.
I still love him.

I’m pretty sure there’s some cliché phrase about history repeating itself when it comes to love but clearly, I never listened.
I thought he was my second chance at forever.
I thought he wouldn’t break my heart all over again.

Instead, I mistook all the warning signs for butterflies.

Category: Contemporary Romance