Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-20-13

Witch Song

By Amber Argyle / Genre: Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy, Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (98 reviews)

Witch Song

The Witch Hunters have come for Brusenna, for she is the last. All the others have been captured by the Dark Witch. And without their magical songs to control nature, the world is dying.
Though young and untrained, Brusenna must succeed where every other Witch has failed. Find the Dark Witch. Fight her. Defeat her. If Brusenna fails, there will be nothing left to save–for the Witches, for mankind, or for the young Guardian who has committed his life to protecting hers.

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Learning to Live

By R.D. Cole / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (65 reviews)

Learning to Live

Being alive and living are not always the same.

Trudy Love is used to being on her own and has rarely been shown affection. Between growing up in foster care and her abusive boyfriend she has no idea what life can be. At 19 she goes through something no one should ever experience and is left alone once again. Six months later she moves to Mobile, Alabama where she meets someone whose eyes bring back memories of the one person she misses everyday. Too late she finds herself caught in a storm of emotions that are unwanted, but she’s determined to fight them off.

Jaxon Coleman has a good life, and for him to attend one of the finest Med schools in the country and follow in his dad’s foot steps is a dream come true. However, dreams can change in life and when he meets Trudy he knows his will never be the same. Jax knows she has secrets she is unwilling to share, but he’s never given up on something he wants and he wants Tru.

Can Trudy stop resisting her feelings and welcome the chance to live a different life than she pictured or will her defiance and haunted past eventually take her out of Jax’s reach?

After tragedy living is not easy, but with the right person it can be learned.

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Humpty Dumpty: The killer wants us to put him back together again (Book 1 of the Nursery Rhyme Murders Series)

By Carolyn McCray / Genre: Police Procedurals, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (141 reviews)

Humpty Dumpty: The killer wants us to put him back together again (Book 1 of the Nursery Rhyme Murders Series)

With a vicious serial killer on the loose, distributing body parts all around the country, the FBI must turn to a disgraced agent and an untested rookie to capture the madman before anyone else is dismembered.

Full of the twists and turns you expect from McCray and Hopkin, Humpty Dumpty is a page turning thriller for mystery fans.

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Irresistible Lines (Blurred Lines Volume 5)

By Breena Wilde / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

Irresistible Lines (Blurred Lines Volume 5)

Cadence is a hooker. But she’s a hooker with heart. At least that’s what she’s always believed. Zane is the owner of a movie production company. He’s smart, totally hot, and totally kinky. John Cruze is an actor. He’s been named the “Hottest Man on the Planet.” The title fits. And then some. John is also caring and knows his way around a woman’s body – especially the prostitute, Cadence.
The three of them have been pulled together by a strange twist of luck. The outcome is anyone’s guess.
What we know for sure is there will be plenty of raunchy sex along with some mystery and romance.
The big question: Will Cadence choose to follow her heart or follow the rules?

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The Bargain (Plain City Peace)

By Stephanie Reed / Genre: Romance, Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (34 reviews)

The Bargain (Plain City Peace)

It’s 1971, and Betsie Troyer’s peaceful and predictable life is about to become anything but.When their parents flee the Amish, nineteen-year-old Betsie and her seventeen-year-old sister Sadie are distraught. Under the dubious guidance of a doting aunt, the girls struggle to keep the secret, praying their parents will return before anyone learns the truth—a truth that may end all hopes of Betsie’s marriage to Charley Yoder.Worse still, Betsie must learn a trade while she boards with a dysfunctional Englisher family: Sheila, a twelve-year-old desperately searching for a friend and in dire need of her mother; the free-spirited mother, who runs off to “find herself” on the stage; the angry father whose structured life crumbles; and Michael, a troubled college dropout nearly killed in the Kent State Massacre.Thrust into the English world, Betsie must grapple with the realities of war and miniskirts, pot parties and police brutality, protests and desertion. Can she help the Sullivan family and find peace in her new surroundings, or must she forget the bargain she made and seek refuge back in Plain City with protective and reliable Charley?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-19-13

A Song for Julia (Thompson Sisters)

By Charles Sheehan-Miles / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (185 reviews)

A Song for Julia (Thompson Sisters)

Everyone should have something to rebel against.

Crank Wilson left his South Boston home at sixteen to start a punk band and burn out his rage at the world. Six years later, he’s still at odds with his father, a Boston cop, and doesn’t ever speak to his mother. The only relationship that really matters is with his younger brother, but watching out for Sean can be a full-time job.

The one thing Crank wants in life is to be left the hell alone to write his music and drive his band to success.

Julia Thompson left a secret behind in Beijing that exploded into scandal in Washington, DC, threatening her father’s career and dominating her family’s life. Now, in her senior year at Harvard, she’s haunted by a voice from her past and refuses to ever lose control of her emotions again, especially when it comes to a guy.

When Julia and Crank meet at an anti-war protest in Washington in the fall of 2002, the connection between them is so powerful it threatens to tear everything apart.

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Bury Me with My Pearls (Humor & Entertainment, Comedy)

By Jane Jenkins Herlong / Genre: Comedy, Humor, Humor & Entertainment / Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (89 reviews)

Bury Me with My Pearls (Humor & Entertainment, Comedy)

Bury Me with My Pearls is a real-life, roller-coaster ride of laughter, tears, and stomach-churning truths by a professional speaker, humorist, and singer who, as Miss South Carolina, represented her state in the Miss America pageant and has been singing, speaking, and writing ever since. Incorporating the analogy of pearls, this book uses humor and spiritual principles to bravely address difficult issues many in her audiences encounter within changing roles, self-actualization, and families.

Bury Me with My Pearls addresses the importance of how to guard the countless gifts given by our Lord and that doing the right thing is the right thing, regardless of our feelings or circumstances. It is about trusting God in all things and how he can turn our irritants into to pearls. Bury Me with My Pearls encourages us to develop our pearls, protect our jewels, carefully wear them next to our hearts, and share with others. All of this with a good splash of humor.

Explore how to walk in love while pruning the family tree in an environment filled with difficult people and how God’s power is released when learning to trust Him, to embrace the lessons being taught, and to grow spiritually no matter how painful. Like the process of the pearl, so many women need to find and embrace their buried treasures.

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Blue Coyote Motel (Coyote Series)

By Dianne Harman / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (79 reviews)

Blue Coyote Motel (Coyote Series)

Blue Coyote Motel is a suspenseful love story which begins in the barrios of Southern California and spans the globe in such diverse locations as Provence, South America, and the Himalayas. The beautiful Latina, Maria, and her husband, Jeffrey, a scientist fired from a prestigious laboratory, struggle to build a new life in a remote Southern California desert area as owners of the motel.

Along with the anti-aging hormone, Jeffrey invents a “feel-good” wonder drug to help Maria with her depression. As Jeffrey becomes insane, he begins to experiment with the wonder drug. Six wayward travelers, including an alcoholic priest, a couple who own gold mines in Brazil, a depressed widow, a struggling salesman, and a Native American pediatrician, find themselves spending the night at the small motel. The next morning they wake up feeling better than ever. Has Jeffrey’s miracle drug delivered? Or is the nightmare of addiction only beginning?

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Parallel Attraction (The Parallel Series, Book One)

By Deidre Knight / Genre: Werewolves & Shifters, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 3.9 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

Parallel Attraction (The Parallel Series, Book One)

An unexpectedly sensual connection…

Finding a mate is the farthest thing from alien warrior Jared Bennett’s mind. After years of exile on Earth, the king is close to developing a weapon that will alter the fabric of time and hopefully bring peace to his own people. But a chance encounter with scientist Kelsey Wells ignites a scorching desire far more consuming than talks of rebellion.

To Kelsey, Jared’s heritage is exotic and alarming – nothing like the logical, scientific facts of her own world. But despite her fears, she can’t deny the heated response of her body every time the magnetic leader comes near.

A dangerous allure…

As the bond between them grows, Jared struggles with a shocking family secret that keeps him from claiming Kelsey as his own. And a visitor from the future escalates Jared’s battle for his people’s freedom to a fever pitch, forcing the lovers to face one inescapable fact: Time can save them, as much as it can destroy them.

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The Daring Heart (The Highland Heather and Hearts Scottish Romance Series)

By Carmen Caine / Genre: Scottish, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (44 reviews)

The Daring Heart (The Highland Heather and Hearts Scottish Romance Series)

(Scotland, 1482) – To the scandalous Lord Julian Gray, marriage is a malady and nothing more.

How can a man even court a lass longer than a fortnight when there are so many pouting lips to kiss?

Roaming the courts of Europe, Julian appears to spend his time drinking wine, wagering gold, and dandling willing lasses upon his knee. But no one knows the man behind the mask. No one knows that he is Le Marin–Europe’s most daring and brazen spy.

But everything changes the night he finds a dagger pressed against his ribs and an alluring hazel-eyed minx in his bed.

Born into the Vindictam, the renowned Venetian family of assassins, Liselle dreams of the day she will be allowed to practice the family craft. And when she is sent to the Scottish court, her dream is finally realized. But is it an honor … or a curse?

As the threat of civil war looms over Scotland, and the king’s own brother conspires with the English to put himself on the Scottish throne, Julian can’t help but be distracted by the mysterious Venetian beauty and her many secrets.

But will it be his undoing?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-14-13

Never Miss a Chance

By Maureen Driscoll / Genre: Regency, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (49 reviews)

Never Miss a Chance (Kellington 2)

A duke’s daughter isn’t supposed to court scandal in Regency England. She isn’t supposed to involve herself in controversial causes. And she most especially isn’t supposed to expect love in a ton marriage. But Lady Elizabeth isn’t just any duke’s daughter. She’s a Kellington. And her expectations are somewhat higher than most people’s.

Marcus Redmond, the Marquess of Riverton, has been in love with his best friend’s sister for years. When Lizzie’s reputation is damaged, he offers her marriage, hoping she will come to care for him eventually. But can the upright, staid Riverton make a love match with the impulsive, passionate Lizzie – especially when there are those who are determined to come between them?

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Darc Murders Collection (The #1 Police Procedural/Hard Boiled Mystery Series)

By Ben Hopkin / Genre: Police Procedurals, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (107 reviews)

Darc Murders Collection (The #1 Police Procedural/Hard Boiled Mystery Series)

The collection includes…
Devious – the prequel short story to 9th Circle
Deceived*exclusive to the collection – another prequel short story to 9th Circle
9th Circle – the #1 Hard Boiled/Police Procedural, full-length novel that started it all
7th Sin*exclusive to the collection – the full-length sequel to 9th Circle
Carnal*exclusive to the collection – the bridge short story between 7th Sin and 5th Pentagram
5th Pentagram – the third book in the Darc Murders Collection
Sinister *exclusive to the collection- the “wrap-up” short story for the Darc Murders trilogy

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Ripped

By Shelly Dickson Carr / Genre: Historical, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (49 reviews)

Ripped

Can an American teen leave her i-Phone and Starbucks behind, travel back to 1888 London, and unmask the man who got away with murder again and again?

Jack the Ripper eviscerated his victims and sent body parts to Scotland Yard to taunt the inspectors. Katie has read about the Ripper. Visiting a Jack the Ripper exhibit, she learns the names of his victims and where they were killed. She’s watched her fair share of CSI; surely she knows enough to stop this maniac.

And, luckily, handsome nineteenth-century Toby agrees to help her. Can gutsy Katie and Toby do what Scotland Yard’s finest could not? If she intervenes and changes history, how will that affect her life and those around her? And when it’s time to go back to her own century, can Katie really leave Toby—the one who believed in her, helped her, and really understood her?

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Liberty Begins (The Liberty Series)

By Leigh James / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (47 reviews)

Liberty Begins (The Liberty Series)

“‘I need a favor,’ he said and smiled a big, fake smile. My stomach dropped. I was not into giving favors. Favors were free for the recipient, but they always cost the giver something. In Vegas, it was usually your dignity. I was hanging on real tight to the little bit I had left.”

Liberty Davis has moved to Las Vegas for a fresh start — and to get away from some seriously bad memories. Liberty is a good girl, but Vegas is starting to break her down. The only way she can make rent is by stripping, and her boss is trying to convince her that she needs to do more than just take her clothes off to make ends meet…

Enter John Quinn. He’s a handsome, seriously sexy business man who makes Liberty’s heart stop. She’s afraid of her attraction, afraid to lose control… and she’s PETRIFIED when she finds out what type of business John’s actually in.

Hint: he doesn’t sit at a desk, he employs ex-Navy SEALS, and it’s absolutely lethal to be on his bad side. John has his share of secrets, and one of them involves Liberty’s past. When he takes her to his compound and asks her to join him on assignment, Liberty finds herself drawn into his world, and it opens up a backlist of dark secrets for the both of them…

Dark secrets that will bring them together and tear them apart.

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Confessions of a Predatory Lender

By Irma Fritz / Genre: American, Humor & Satire / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (17 reviews)

Confessions of a Predatory Lender

Meet Christy. She’s all about Palouse. She was born in the town of Palouse, in the Palouse region of Washington State. Her family name is Palus, and her father is a descendant of the Palouse tribe. Watered down to a few drops. Still, it’s something she is proud of. If someone had told her that she will become a predatory lender, betray her best friend, fall in love with a thief, and help her bosses bust up the bank she works for, she would have laughed out loud. This is the summer of 2006, and everyone knows you can make a killing in mortgage lending. Christy and her BFF Megan moved to the big city of Seattle to do just that. While Megan is already dreaming of hot cars and designer clothes, “good girl” Christy’s ambitions are more modest. At first! So how is it her fault that she lands in the world of subprime lending; you know, the stuff that lost families their homes and wrecked our economy? When Christy is accepted into loan officer training, she realizes quickly that she doesn’t have the job unless she can pass. But before the class ends, Big Lou turns everything upside down. A new day has come to mortgage banking, and every American family deserves to own a home. With the real estate market “hotter than a hot air balloon,” how can homeowners lose? Or the bank, for that matter? Hello, NINJA loans! Leaving Megan behind, Christy climbs the corporate ladder, all the way to her very own corner office. Watch her squirm, attempting to hold on to what’s right while being assaulted morally from every direction. And when the bubble bursts, her world comes crashing down! Is Christy the predatory lender?

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-13-13

Three Wishes (a romantic comedy)

By Stephanie Bond / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (401 reviews)

Three Wishes (a romantic comedy)

Be careful what you wish for… When a lowly antiques dealer who’s in love with the governor’s girlfriend releases a genie from a magic lamp, he unwittingly wishes himself into a hole the size of the Grand Canyon!

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Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure: A Thrilling Historical Family Saga of World War Two

By Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson / Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction / Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (271 reviews)

Mrs. Tuesday's Departure: A Thrilling Historical Family Saga of World War Two

A heart-wrenching historical novel spanning seventy years, two continents, and an undying love that holds the power to create a safe future for a young girl. This page-turning family saga soars to a breathtaking ending that redefines the meaning of love.
When Natalie and Anna, sisters and life-long rivals, hide an abandoned child from the Nazis, their struggle re-opens a star-crossed love triangle, threatening their safety and testing the bonds of their loyalty.
Hungary’s fragile alliance with Germany insured that Natalie, a best selling children’s book author, and her family would be safe as World War Two raged through Europe. The Holocaust that has only been whispered about until now becomes a terrible reality for every Jewish family or those who hide Jews.
Beautiful but troubled Anna, a poet and university professor is losing her tenuous hold on reality, re-igniting a dangerous sibling rivalry that began in childhood.

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Forever His: A Time-Travel Romance (Stolen Brides Series)

By Shelly Thacker / Genre: Medieval, Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (83 reviews)

Forever His: A Time-Travel Romance (Stolen Brides Series)

On New Year’s Eve, she tumbles 700 years back in time–and into the bed of a darkly dangerous knight.

Sir Gaston de Varennes wanted a docile bride who would fit into his plans for vengeance and justice, but a trick of time finds him married to a thoroughly modern American lady who turns his castle, his life, and his heart upside down. Will her desperate secret tear them apart after only a few bittersweet weeks of stolen passion–or will they conquer mistrust, treachery, and time itself to discover a love that spans the centuries?

The Stolen Brides Series: One falls through time and finds herself married to a dark stranger… one may never reach her royal wedding if she can’t resist her rugged protector… one is abducted by a mysterious swordsman and swept away to a secret island paradise. Three regal brides are about to discover that falling in love with a warrior is the most dangerous adventure of all.

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Illumine (The Illumine Series)

By Alivia Anders / Genre: Angels, Paranormal, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Illumine (The Illumine Series)

Every action comes with a price. Let the flames begin.

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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Last Chance To Run (Slye Temp)

By Dianna Love / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (80 reviews)

Last Chance To Run (Slye Temp)

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.

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Best Free and Bargain Kindle Books: 12-10-13

Broken At Love (Whitman University)

By Lyla Payne / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (202 reviews)

Broken At Love (Whitman University)

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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Chasing China; A Daughter’s Quest for Truth

By Kay Bratt / Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (167 reviews)

Chasing China; A Daughter's Quest for Truth

Mia is a confused soul. After being adopted as a toddler, she’s led a life of comfort surrounded by loving parents and a pack of protective brothers. Now she’s in college with only a few years until obtaining a degree that will allow her to use her past to help others. Then why all of a sudden does she feel so unsettled? It all boils down to the reality that she was found wandering alone in a Chinese train station so long ago. Deciding she must face her past to embrace her future, Mia takes a journey to the mysterious land of her birth on a mission to find answers. As she follows the invisible red thread back through her motherland, she finds herself enamored by the history and culture of her heritage–strengthening her resolve to get to the truth, even as Chinese officials struggle to keep it buried. With her unwavering spirit of determination, Mia will battle the forces stacked against her and face mystery, danger, a dash of romance, and finally a conclusion that will change her life.

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Untraceable (The Nature of Grace, Book 1)

By S. R. Johannes / Genre: Teen & Young Adult / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (194 reviews)

Untraceable (The Nature of Grace, Book 1)

Grace has lived in the Smokies all her life, patrolling with her forest ranger father who taught her about wildlife, tracking, and wilderness survival. When her dad goes missing on a routine patrol, Grace refuses to believe he’s dead and fights the town authorities, tribal officials, and nature to find him.

One day, while out tracking clues, Grace is rescued from danger by Mo, a hot guy with an intoxicating accent and a secret. As her feelings between him and her ex-boyfriend get muddled, Grace travels deep into the wilderness to escape and find her father. 
Along the way, Grace learns terrible secrets that sever relationships and lives. Soon she’s enmeshed in a web of conspiracy, deception, and murder. And it’s going to take a lot more than a compass and a motorcycle (named Lucifer) for this kick-butting heroine to save everything she loves.

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Our Little Secrets (Montana Romance)

By Merry Farmer / Genre: Historical Romance, Romance / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (64 reviews)

Our Little Secrets (Montana Romance)

Michael West swore he would never fall in love again. So when the beautiful and wily Charlotte steps off the train looking for a new life he jumps at the business opportunity she presents. Engaged forty-five minutes after meeting, married the next day, Michael thinks he’s found everything a respectable man should have. Except that Michael is as far from respectable as they come. They agreed not to ask questions about each other’s pasts, but when the past seeps into their present Michael suspects his passionate new wife is not who she says she is. Too bad he’s already fallen in love with her.

Charlotte Baldwin has a secret. She fled Philadelphia to escape the sins of her past but someone is following her. What better way to hide than by marrying Michael West, Cold Springs, Montana’s enigmatic shopkeeper? A new name, a new life, and a passionate husband is exactly what she needs to leave her sins behind. But when it comes to keeping secrets Charlotte may have met her match in Michael. When a connection neither of them expects catches up with them, the shocking revelation means Charlotte may have run right into the arms of her enemy.

No sin stays a secret forever….

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All Access (Chasing Cross Book One)

By Karolyn James / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

All Access (Chasing Cross Book One) (A Brothers of Rock Novel) (rockstar contemporary romance)

Jess is caught off guard when a sexy stranger buys her a cup of coffee and asks her to sit with him. He’s mysterious, nice, and even though he says the right things at the right time, Jess can sense that there’s something hidden about him.

As Johnnie sits across from the beautiful woman, he can’t believe she doesn’t recognize him. Everyone does. It comes with the territory when you’re the lead singer of one of the hottest bands in the world, Chasing Cross. With one more show to go before taking a small break in touring, it feels like luck is on Johnnie’s side. That is, if he can find a way to tell Jess who he is, without scaring her off.

After her best friend begs her to come to a concert, Jess finds herself standing in the middle of a crowd. The lights are off, music begins, and the crowd erupts in cheers. She doesn’t know much about the band, but that’s all about to change. When the lights come on, Jess can’t believe her eyes. The lead singer of the band is the man from the café.

Plucked from the crowd during the show, Jess makes her way backstage. The encore may have ended on stage, but the real show is just about to begin. Johnnie’s passion quickly turns to romance but the more time he and Jess spend together, the more things get complicated. Johnnie has a big decision to make about himself and the band, testing his loyalty and love for the music, and when Jess’s dreams start to come true, she starts to realize that true love exists, but it’s not always an easy path to take.

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