**Note - I have no idea how long these will remain free**
Title: Now and Then (Now #1)
Author: Brenda Rothert
Now Emmaline Carson is a
sharp, settled graphic designer who loves painting, cooking and girls’
night out with her older sister Layla. But then – in the years before
she went to art school in Paris – she was a shy, awkward teenager with
frizzy hair, a flat chest and a massive crush on the boy across the
street, Cole Marlowe. Too bad her incredibly hot neighbor only had eyes
for Layla.
Cole is now a confident, laid-back attorney who’s even
hotter than he used to be. He’s planning to stay single while working
his way up the corporate ladder – until he’s knocked off course by a
chance run-in with Emma.
Everything is different between Cole and
Emma now. He finally sees her in a way she only dreamed of, and their
hot chemistry is fueled by a growing friendship. But Emma’s deception of
her sister – who wants Cole for herself – and the secret Cole’s been
keeping for more than a decade threaten to tear apart what’s only just
begun. Because sometimes the only thing standing in the way of now is
then.
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Title: Broken at Love (Whitman University #1)
Author: Lyla Payne
When a knee injury ends
twenty-year-old Quinn Rowland’s pro tennis career, he’s not only dumped
by his hot Russian girlfriend but ordered to attend college by his
disinterested billionaire father. A rich kid who’s not used to being
disappointed by life, Quinn and his sociopathic half-brother Sebastian
create a frat house game intended to treat girls how they see them—as
simple game pieces to be manipulated for their pleasure.
College
sophomore Emilie Swanson knows Quinn’s reputation—after all, he did send
one of her sorority sisters into therapy earlier in the semester—but
the game and his charm bring them closer together and soon she starts to
believe there’s more to Quinn than people think.
But what if the more is something darker than a game of toying with emotions and breaking hearts?
Quinn
and Emilie might be falling for each other, but there are secrets he’s
not ready to tell—and lifestyle changes he’s reluctant to make. She
willingly stepped on the court, but if Emilie finds out she started out
as nothing as a pawn in Quinn and Sebastian’s twisted game, she might
never forgive him.
To his surprise, Quinn finds that he might
finally care about someone more than he cares about himself…even if that
means letting Emilie walk away for good.
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Title: Blood Faerie (Caledonia Fae #1)
Author: India Drummond
Sentenced to death,
Eilidh ran—away from faerie lands, to the streets of Perth, Scotland.
Just as she has grown accustomed to exile, local police discover a
mutilated body outside the abandoned church where she lives. Recognising
the murder as the work of one of her own kind, Eilidh must choose:
flee, or learn to tap into the forbidden magic that cost her everything.
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Title: Last Chance to Run (Slye Temp #1)
Author: Dianna Love
To an undercover agent, she’s a Person of Interest. He’s interested.
Escaping
the compound of a deadly international felon--with a fortune in rare,
stolen coins hidden on her body--elite athlete Angel Farentino has to
make the most important run of her life. Literally. With her father in
prison, where he belongs, and a prior undeserved conviction hanging over
her head, she has nowhere to turn and no one to trust. Definitely not
law enforcement who railroaded her through a judicial nightmare. One
step ahead of lethal men and dogs on her trail, she runs into the arms
of a dark stranger willing to help her if she’d let him. But that would
only get the sexy pilot killed.
Between figuring out who’s
sabotaging his undercover work for the DEA and trying to save his baby
sister from herself, Zane Jackson has enough on his plate. The last
thing he needs is to get entangled with a woman who’s treading on the
wrong side of the law. But when the long-legged distraction races into
the middle of his operation and stows away on his plane, a primal need
to protect forces Zane to risk everything, starting with his heart.
Note
- This book was originally released as Worth Every Risk. When Dianna
received the rights back she revised the story to the much larger
romantic thriller version she'd always envisioned, which includes more
romance and plenty of action.
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Title: Barrenlands (Changespell Saga 0)
Author: Doranna Durgin
Before there was Dun Lady’s Jess…
Magic,
betrayal, and a twice-cursed exile–only one man’s determination can
untangle the deadly intrigue that binds them together.
When
Ehren’s sovereign and friend was killed, Ehren, First of the King’s
Guard, was far away — sent on a wild goose chase by the First Level
Ministry, whose number he now believes must contain at least one
traitor.
When a First Level wizard orders him to stop searching
for the assassins and instead to find and neutralize the dead king’s
distant family, his suspicions deepen to near certainty.
And Ehren is determined to find those exiles – if only so that he may guard them with his life.
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Title: Blissful 1 (Blissful #1)
Author: Clarissa Wild
Sweet and sexy, Blissful will melt your heart!
Unlucky
is my middle name. My life as a singer-songwriter in a band I started
with my best friend isn't getting anywhere. I'm curvy and being thin is
apparently important for a musical career. When my high school
sweetheart and I get married, I find him kissing my best friend. Of
course I didn't put up with it.
Broken and depressed, I run away from everything I know, but even my car breaks down. Like I said ... luck is not on my side.
Until I meet Jack ...
Maintaining
a ranch isn't easy. I've got more work than time. Spare time is a
luxury I can't afford and won't give into. When I spend one moment alone
with my thoughts, I'm done for. Alcohol becomes my friend, because I
can't bear to feel the misery inside my heart.
I hate who I've
become. Sorrow eats me up, but I won't let anyone see. I need to keep on
living, keep on fighting, and do everything on my own. For her, my
little angel. She's all I have left.
Until I meet Amy ...
Lost in misery, love is our salvation
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Title: A Touch of Midnight (Midnight Breed #0.5)
Author: Lara Adrian
Savannah Dupree is
halfway across the country from her Louisiana bayou hometown, a freshman
studying at Boston University on a full scholarship. But academic
excellence is only one of Savannah’s gifts. She possesses something even
more remarkable than her quick mind and insatiable curiosity for
learning. With a simple touch, Savannah can see an object’s past—a skill
that puts her life in danger, when her studies bring her into contact
with a centuries-old English sword and the secret hidden within the
blade’s history: the vicious murders of twin boys by a group of fanged
creatures borne of the worst kind of nightmare.
In all his three
hundred years of living as one of the Breed, vampire warrior Gideon
never dreamed he’d see the blade again that spilled his young brothers’
lives ages ago on that blood-soaked night in London. Ever since the
boys’ deaths, Gideon’s been on a personal quest to rid the world of
Rogue vampires, but now he can’t help wondering if the brutal slayings
of his only kin was something more sinister—an act perpetrated by an
unknown enemy. An enemy who is apparently living in hiding somewhere in
Boston. There’s one certain way to prove Gideon’s suspicion, but it will
mean using innocent, gifted Savannah to help uncover the full truth—a
truth that will shatter everything she knows about herself and the world
around her. And with danger closing in from all sides, the passion that
ignites between Gideon and Savannah will tempt them to risk their
hearts and lives for a love that might just last an eternity…
This
novella, a prequel to the Midnight Breed series, was previously
published in its entirety in The Midnight Breed Series Companion (May
2013).
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Title: Illumine (Illumine #1)
Author: Alivia Anders
For the past five months
Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder
of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the
event she does anything she can to pretend she's like every other normal
girl in High School.
Only Essallie is far from normal. Able to
conjure blue fire and a shimmering silhouette of wings from her body,
she seeks the only known solace left to her name; her first home in
Belfast, Maine.
But she soon realizes that her return home is
only the beginning of a long and twisted road taking her as far from her
humanity as possible, with Kayden, the demon originally summoned to
slaughter her, leading the way. Unable to touch her but oddly curious,
he joins Essallie in her search to find out just what she is. But
neither of them were prepared for the secrets they've begun to unravel,
secrets that will change Essallie and everyone around her forever.
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Title: Few Are Angels (Few Are Angels #1)
Author: Inger Iversen
After a fatal hit and
run accident, Ella Monroe fears that she’s lost more than her beloved
parents. Horrifying visions of a past life and a disturbing voice in her
head have psychiatric professionals convinced that she’s lost her
sanity as well. But when Kale—a dark and handsome stranger with a
mysterious pastreveals the true meaning of her visions and the
tremendous power she wields through them, Ella must come to terms with
the devastating truths of her own past, while eluding an ancient Dark
Prince who seeks to control not only her future, but all of mankind’s,
by means of abilities that Ella is only beginning to understand.
Enter
the shrouded world of an age old battle between an ancient race known
as the Immortals and their bitter enemy Laurent, the so-called Dark
Prince, who commands an army of half-breed vampires known as Chorý. Both
sides have been desperately searching for the prophesied emergence of
the Arc, a clairvoyant with unparalleled power to recall the past and a
soothsayer with clear vision into the future.
The Council of
Immortals has sworn to protect the Arc, whom they have identified as
young Ella Monroe, a college freshman from Virginia living quietly and
unaware of her powers or her past. But a renegade Chorý has other plans
for the protection of a girl he has loved through the ages. Can Kale
convince Ella of who she is, what she is destined to become, and what he
once meant to her? Is he truly the best protector to shield the world
from the devastating misuse of her powers that Laurent is bent on
controlling? Or will the forbidden love they share and Kale’s cursed
condition as a retched and hated Chorý be used against them both?
This
paranormal romance told from the heroine’s perspective builds in
intensity and intrigue to a finale you won’t see coming. Heart pounding
action mixed with heartwarming friendships and heartbreaking romance
will leave you breathless and begging for more.
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Title: Gravity (Gravity #1)
Author: Abigail Boyd
A lost friend, a new
love, and a town full of secrets... One night in the town of Hell,
Ariel's best friend goes missing. Those around her believe Jenna ran
away, but when Ariel is tormented by nightmares and paranormal activity,
she realizes Jenna's disappearance was part of a bigger mystery.
Ariel's obsession with haunted houses and horror movies makes her the
perfect detective.
But to complicate matters, a handsome
newcomer named Henry Rhodes plagues her with unwanted attention. Though
he doesn't believe in the supernatural events, she enlists his help and
that of quirky nerd Theo. What is making the lights at school flicker?
And why did Ariel dream of the old abandoned Dexter orphanage? When
Ariel finally discovers the truth, it's much worse than she ever feared.
This is the segment where you learn a little more about who I am, so here's what I can tell you: I drink copious amounts of vitamin water placed precariously close to my laptop while writing. These are two healthy habits I have no intention of breaking. I'm a transplant living in the south, but I was born in the 70's to a military dad who moved us around the world.
