DAILY DEALS: Contemporaries for the weekend
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Beg Me by M Malone $ 3.99
From the Jacket Copy:
A USA TODAY bestseller!
The universe clearly hates me.
I work hard and I like to win. So of course, the only woman that gets me going these days is the one woman I need to avoid like the plague. My co-worker. Rival, she-devil and my competition for the biggest ad account this side of the Atlantic.
If we want to win over the hottest wedding designer in the world, we have to prove we understand his business. Love. Passion. Marriage. But it turns out Mya isn’t familiar with any of the above. When I find out she’s never taken a trip to O-town, we make a little wager. Not only will I win the client, but I’ll prove to her that multiple O’s are not a myth.
We work together all day and fight between the sheets all night. But somewhere along the way I discover that winning isn’t enough.
I don’t just want to win.
I don’t just want her body.
I want her to … beg me.
BEG ME is a standalone romantic comedy that will make you look at inter-office relations in a whole new way!
Accidental Tryst by Natasha Boyd $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
*A USA Today Bestseller!*
Two strangers accidentally switch cell phones in a busy airport in this edgier You’ve Got Mail, sexy romance for the smart-phone era …
Emmy
What a disaster! I only just made my flight to New York to help my uncle, and the phone I’m holding is not mine! It seems to belong to some commitment-phobic serial dater who’s never made it past four dates (according to the constant notifications he’s getting from his fake dating profile…) And worse? I have a sinking feeling it’s that hot suit-monkey with the arctic grey eyes I just had a run-in with at the airport. Somehow, I have to persuade him not to get a new phone until I get back. My whole life is on that phone. I knew I should have backed it up. It’s only a few days. Surely, we can handle it.
Trystan
This is a joke, right? My life could not get more f*cked up. I’m in the middle of selling my company and on my way to a funeral and that hot mess hippie-chick stole my freaking phone. I’m not sure how she convinced me not to immediately walk into a smart phone store and get a new one, but now she’s going to have to play stand in and distract me while I deal with my long-avoided and estranged family. I don’t have my dating apps after all, and frankly she’s pretty funny. And sexy. And why can’t I stop texting her? And now we’re talking. And … look, I’ll admit that I usually run for the hills the morning after, but the morning after phone sex? That’s not really real, right?
The Story of Us by Tara Sivec $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
From the USA Today bestselling author of Fisher’s Light comes a “heartbreaking and hopeful” (AL Jackson) standalone romance about first love and second chances.
How much can a man take before he breaks?
1,843 days. That’s how long I survived in that hellhole. They tried to break me, but I resisted. And I owe it all to the memory of warm summer nights, the scent of peaches, and the one woman who loved me more than I ever deserved to be loved. Now, I’ll do anything to get back to her.
Only Shelby Eubanks isn’t the girl I left behind all those years ago. She’s someone else, a stranger. My Shelby-my little green-eyed firecracker-would never give up her dreams, would never disappear into her mother’s ambitions. But I won’t give up on her. On us. I may be broken, and scarred, and not the man I used to be, but I will do whatever it takes to remind her of the story of us.
Merciless by W Winters $ 0.99
From the Jacket Copy:
From USA Today bestselling author Willow Winters comes a heart-wrenching, edge-of-your-seat gripping, romantic suspense.
I should’ve known she would ruin me the moment I saw her.
Women like her are made to destroy men like me.
I couldn’t resist her though.
“I used to love secret baby stories and then I had my own”
At first I read this as you had your own *secret baby*, and it was the best thing ever. Now I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t wait until the baby was ten years old before you accidentally run into your first love, and he recognizes the child that looks JUST LIKE HIM as his own, and he forces you into a marriage of convenience (for the child’s sake, of course) while all the while praying he can win your heart, which was shattered by his abandonment after the terrible misunderstanding that originally tore you apart.
I think I’ve read one office romance since #MeToo started and yeah, I wasn’t sure it was going to work for me. It was completely consensual, so I was able to suspend disbelief, mostly – but I was a little distracted by how obnoxious the main couple would have been to work with.
I did have a lot of fun mentally composing letters to Ask A Manager on behalf of the poor other co-workers having to deal with first the workplace flirting and then the workplace pouting. (Not to mention the fact that both the CEO and CFO went to the same BDSM sex party. They didn’t have sex with each other, so that’s totally ok, right?)
@Meljean: ROTFL. I had the same thought! Too many Harlequin Presents for me.
I do have more difficulty reading certain power imbalances since #MeToo. There’s an author I really enjoy but she’s writing some professor/student stuff that, while she’s careful to negotiate the imbalances in the story, still feel hugely icky to me.