DAILY DEALS: An assortment of smart and interesting books, I hope!
Personal Assets by Kelsey Browning $ 0.99
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Sex therapist Allie Shelby has the professional credentials, but she could use a bit more practical experience. Finding the right man to bring out her inner bad girl is tough in a population-challenged Texas town. So when sinfully sexy Cameron Wright rolls back into Shelbyville, Allie wastes no time inviting him to join her in some hands-on research.
Cameron has come home to fulfill his dream of restoring classic cars. Back in high school, he knew the town princess, Allie Shelby, was way out of his league. Today he has even less in common with Allie, so he’s shocked as hell when she propositions him. Still, he’s only human, so he accepts her offer–and with each encounter, she shows him another, wilder side. Before long, he’s thinking about more than just sex.
But while her personal life heats up, Allie’s business is about to crash and burn. And she has to convince Cameron that she’s one princess who’s not looking for a prince to ride to her rescue.
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“Cameron and Allie end up with really nice chemistry together. All Allie wants is sex to liven up her life so she isn’t a hypocrite when she gives clients advice, but what she discovers is Cameron is not only amazing in bed, but he is a pretty good guy. They are both hard workers and at similar points in their lives. Cameron is pretty protective of Allie from the beginning and wants to solve all her problems for her. But Allie is stubborn and can fend for herself, which I liked about her.”
Mind Games by Carolyn Crane $ 0.99
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JUSTINE KNOWS SHE’S GOING TO DIE. ANY SECOND NOW.
Justine Jones has a secret. A hardcore hypochondriac, she’s convinced a blood vessel is about to burst in her brain. Then, out of the blue, a startlingly handsome man named Packard peers into Justine’s soul and invites her to join his private crime-fighting team. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime deal. With a little of Packard’s hands-on training, Justine can weaponize her neurosis, turning it outward on Midcity’s worst criminals, and finally get the freedom from fear she’s always craved. End of problem.
Or is it? In Midcity, a dashing police chief is fighting a unique breed of outlaw with more than human powers. And while Justine’s first missions, including one against a nymphomaniac husband-killer, are thrilling successes, there is more to Packard than meets the eye. Soon, while battling her attraction to two very different men, Justine is plunging deeper into a world of wizardry, eroticism, and cosmic secrets. With Packard’s help, Justine has freed herself from her madness—only to discover a reality more frightening than anyone’s worst fears.
Stray by Andrea K Höst $ FREE
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On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive.
The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she’s being watched?
Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people’s skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a ‘stray’, a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow.
Can Cass ever find her way home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected value, will they be willing to let her leave?
I need to read this author.
The Daedalus Incident by Michael Martinez $ 1.99
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Mars is supposed to be dead…
a fact Lt. Shaila Jain of the Joint Space Command is beginning to doubt in a bad way.
Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll—seemingly of their own volition—carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.
Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majesty’s Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man of modest beginnings, doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus, a frigate sailing the high seas between continents…and the immense Void between the Known Worlds. Across the Solar System and among its colonies—rife with plunder and alien slave trade—through dire battles fraught with strange alchemy, nothing much can shake his resolve. But events are transpiring to change all that.
With the aid of his fierce captain, a drug-addled alchemist, and a servant girl with a remarkable past, Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic, who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planets—the consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System, threatening the very fabric of space itself.
Set sail among the stars with this uncanny tale, where adventure awaits, and dimensions collide!
Andrea K. Höst is a terrific writer, I’ve enjoyed everything of hers that I’ve read. Every time I tell someone I don’t like YA books, I have to stop and correct myself because of her books. I started with AND ALL THE STARS and went on to the TOUCHSTONE trilogy.
Yay .. Mind Games by Carolyn Crane was free at Kobo! I don’t think that I have read any of her books before and Mind Games sounds interesting.
FWIW, I really liked Mind Games. Weird and imaginative. Not much romance, but so well-written and witty and quirky and character-driven.
I really enjoyed the first two books in the Touchstone trilogy. (I had some issues with the third book).
I agree with the Booksmugglers- I think one’s enjoyment of Stray does depend on how well you connect with Cass- personally, I thought she was a very interesting protagonist. However, I did suggest this book to my YA book club to very mixed results. The people in the group who disliked the book- and there were more than a few- seemed to have strong issues with Cass. Also, they thought it was confusing.
I owned Personal Assets by Kelsey Browning for a while before I read it, I tend to do that with books I think I am going to like. I was not wrong in doing so. I really liked this book so much so that days after I finished it parts would pop in to my head and make me smile. I now have the rest of the series as samples, of which I know I will purchase the complete book, waiting for me when I need a reason to smile.
These are characters that get under your skin and stay there for a while. I highly recommend this book, the entire series and anything written by Kelsey.
Personal Assets is a great deal at 99 cents! It is smart, sassy, sexy and witty. When I first read this book, it felt similar to Jill Shalvis’s Lucky Harbor style with the amount of humor, fun characters and sexy scenes. Highly recommended. Still one of my favorite contemporary romance series to date. The rest of the series proved to be just as entertaining as well.
loved Personal Assets. A book that I could not put down. Plenty of humor and romance!
I love Personal Assets by Kelsey Browning. It is such a fun book. It literally had me laughing out loud. The rest of the books in this series are just as great as this one.
If you don’t have Personal Assets, you totally need to pick it up! An amazing deal for 99cents. It is one of my all time favorites. Sassy, sexy, Southern contemporary romance. Lots of smexiness and laugh-out-loud fun. :)