Free and bargain romances in May

[Britomart]

Off to a good start!

Lynne Connolly's first volume in the Richard and Rose series, Yorkshire, has already been mentioned in one of ATDrake's threads. I enjoyed it highly and recommend getting the freebie to see if you might be interested in the series.

Free for Kindle:

Almost Married US DE by Carol Grace. The other novels mentioned below were freebies earlier, so you might be interested in adding to the series.

Wanna-Be mom meets confirmed bachelor at the world's most romantic spot - Niagara Falls. She's baby-sitting, he's working, but fate steps in when the baby throws her car keys over the falls. What to do? Dive in or ask a sexy stranger for a ride home? Bachelor Right and Would-Be Mom end up picking apples together and falling in love while baby is all smiles. Who wouldn't be?

ALMOST MARRIED is part of the Miramar Beach series along with LONELY MILLIONAIRE and WANTED: HUSBAND.

By Leaps and Bounds US DE by Jacqueline Diamond was originally published as a Harlequin American Romance in 1990.

At the height of her success, Kerry Guthrie’s career was cut short by an accident. Now she’s on her feet again, teaching young dancers and hoping for a comeback…until she butts heads with the father of her 15-year-old star student, and feels a spark that’s new to her.

A police officer, Chris Layne comes from a different world. Can they work together to make his daughter’s dreams come true, especially since he and his daughter are increasingly at odds? Along the way, Kerry must find her balance through an evolving emotional landscape.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by Britomart

Lynne Connolly's first volume in the Richard and Rose series, Yorkshire, has already been mentioned in one of ATDrake's threads. I enjoyed it highly and recommend getting the freebie to see if you might be interested in the series.

Good series.

[mikaelalind]

Thank you Britomart for maintaining this thread. I downloaded the Lynne Connolly book which I plan to read instead of Grace Burrowes new release. ( Adobes servers refuse to cooperate with me.*grr*) ( And yes, it is the servers. I downloaded a book from my Harlequin library, and got the same error)

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by Britomart

Off to a good start!

Lynne Connolly's first volume in the Richard and Rose series, Yorkshire, has already been mentioned in one of ATDrake's threads. I enjoyed it highly and recommend getting the freebie to see if you might be interested in the series.

Good to know; I was dithering on whether to get it

(And thanks for starting up this new thread!)

[ATDrake]

White Tigress by Jade Lee, historical interracial romance, 1st in The Way of the Tigress series @ iTunes (available to Canadians).

This is an ex-Dorchester book which was an official freebie a couple of years ago before they collapsed. Lee is also a Harlequin author.

Englishwoman Lydia Smith sailed to the Orient seeking her fiancé and found treachery, instead.
In seedy Shanghai, she is drugged, sold, and made a slave—to a dark-eyed dragon of a man. Her captor does not demand her virginity but her Yin—the essence of her ecstasy.

What harm can come from allowing him to pleasure her, to teach her, to explore the path of becoming the White Tigress, until she can flee?

I'll have to try the Connolly series. With a bunch of books focusing on the same couple, hopefully they'll spread out the relationship drama instead of concentrating it all in the single allotted volume, and have some good historical mystery plots as well.

[mikaelalind]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

White Tigress by Jade Lee, historical interracial romance, 1st in The Way of the Tigress series @ iTunes (available to Canadians).

This one sounds interesting, but I think I will wait a couple of days and see if Amazon price match.

[Blossom]

for the books.

For my May selection on DANL I went with the Catherine Mann book. I would of have bought it anyway as I bought the others.

[chilady1]

Originally Posted by Blossom

for the books.

For my May selection on DANL I went with the Catherine Mann book. I would of have bought it anyway as I bought the others.

Me 2 Blossom, I picked this one up as well. I have the first 2 and was waiting for this one to hit for May.

[booklover6]

I got the Catherine Mann book, too!

[library addict]

I'll be getting the Catherine Mann one, too. Especially since I bought the first two twice—separately and in the bundle

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by library addict

I'll be getting the Catherine Mann one, too. Especially since I bought the first two twice—separately and in the bundle

I've done that before as we all know. Even though I keep them all in Calibre sometimes I just forget to check before buying.

It doesn't look like there are too many new releases this month from Sourcebooks. I may have to go through the site again to see if I missed anything.

[ATDrake]

DANL added a bunch of stuff slated for June release, but it turns out you can't pre-order in advance, otherwise I'd have put that just-released Roberta Gellis historical in the cart yesterday when I decided to get the Burrowes book and bundle from the May selections with the discover15 discount coupon (and their Wishlist function is at present non-functional). All 6 of the May releases seem to be listed on the front of the shop area.

They have added a couple of new older books to at least the Historical Fiction section, which is an encouraging sign, and at some point they put up a Books for International Readers subsection for the stuff they have the rights to distribute worldwide, which is nice as it helps keep people outside the US/maybe-Canada from doing the hover-over and finding out all the books they want are geo-restricted.

Oh, and they have a freebie, in case anyone considering the club want to see how the DRM-free MultiFormat bundle thing works: Summons, paranormal romance tie-in novella by Shona Husk.

I think I'll see if they preannounce anything good for next month's selections as a sneak peek. Out of the current lot, the Galen spy thing looks the most interesting, but her other books seem… somewhat unrealistic*.

* What upper-middle-class Brit twit seriously-for-serious names their daughter Raeven? People will think she's a) a low-class trashy proto-Goth who's been written into the wrong sort of book, and b) has illiterate parents who can't spell a simple 5-letter phonetically-pronounced bird's name. Or that she's using the Napoleonic War Era equivalent of whatever a stripper alias was back in the day.

[Venus]

Thank you for all the wonderful books that you have added to my reading life.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by Britomart

Off to a good start!

Lynne Connolly's first volume in the Richard and Rose series, Yorkshire, has already been mentioned in one of ATDrake's threads. I enjoyed it highly and recommend getting the freebie to see if you might be interested in the series.

Now free at Sony too

[melmac]

I ended up getting Lord and Lady Spy from DANL as my selection but I also purchased the Catherine Mann one on discount