DAILY DEALS: Series starters and a double RITA nominee
Take the Lead by Alexis Daria $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
The first in a sizzling new series about finding love on and off the dance floor from #OwnVoices author Alexis Daria.
Gina Morales wants to win. It’s her fifth season on The Dance Off, a top-rated network TV celebrity dance competition, and she’s never even made it to the finals. When she meets her latest partner, she sees her chance. He’s handsome, rippling with muscles, and he stars on the popular Alaskan wilderness reality show Living Wild. With his sexy physique and name recognition, she thinks he’s her ticket to the finals—until she realizes they’re being set up.
Stone Nielson hates Los Angeles, he hates reality TV, and he hates that fact that he had to join the cast of the The Dance Off because of family obligations. He can’t wait to get back to Alaska, but he also can’t deny his growing attraction to his bubbly Puerto Rican dance partner. Neither of them are looking for romantic entanglements, and Stone can’t risk revealing his secrets, but as they heat up the dance floor, it’s only a matter of time until he feels an overwhelming urge to take the lead.
When the tabloids catch on to their developing romance, the spotlight threatens to ruin not just their relationship, but their careers and their shot at the trophy. Gina and Stone will have to decide if their priorities lie with fame, fortune, or the chance at a future together.
The Turncoat by Donna Thorland $ 2.99
From the Jacket Copy:
They are lovers on opposite sides of a brutal war, with everything at stake and no possibility of retreat. They can trust no one—especially not each other.
Major Lord Peter Tremayne is the last man rebel bluestocking Kate Grey should fall in love with, but when the handsome British viscount commandeers her home, Kate throws caution to the wind and responds to his seduction. She is on the verge of surrender when a spy in her own household seizes the opportunity to steal the military dispatches Tremayne carries, ensuring his disgrace—and implicating Kate in high treason. Painfully awakened to the risks of war, Kate determines to put duty ahead of desire, and offers General Washington her services as an undercover agent in the City of Brotherly Love.
Months later, having narrowly escaped court martial and hanging, Tremayne returns to decadent, British-occupied Philadelphia with no stomach for his current assignment—to capture the woman he believes betrayed him. Nor does he relish the glittering entertainments being held for General Howe’s idle officers. Worse, the glamorous woman in the midst of this social whirl, the fiancée of his own dissolute cousin, is none other than Kate Grey herself. And so begins their dangerous dance, between passion and patriotism, between certain death and the promise of a brave new future together.
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey $ 2.99
From the Jacket Copy:
The first book in the landmark Expanse series, now a major television series from Syfy!
Leviathan Wakes is James S. A. Corey’s first novel in the epic, New York Times bestselling series the Expanse, a modern masterwork of science fiction where humanity has colonized the solar system.
Two hundred years after migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When a reluctant ship’s captain and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing girl, what they discover brings our solar system to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Slow Horses by Mick Herron $ 1.99
From the Jacket Copy:
London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there?even if it means having to collaborate with one another.
River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what’s the kidnappers’ connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone has his own agenda.
Annika Martin’s oh-so-good MOST ELIGIBLE BILLIONAIRE (originally published as MOST ELIGIBLE BASTARD) is free in the kindle store right now.
@DiscoDollyDeb: Thanks for posting that! I’ve heard lots of good word of mouth on it.
I absolutely loved SLOW HORSES and have read three in the series so far. The characters are awkward, angry and complicated, not always likeable. But what great thrillers and tension. Highly recommended.
@DiscoDollyDeb: I loved this one! I saw the new title and didn’t realise that I already had it – it was only when I went to add it to Goodreads that I worked it out. I wish it had been made clear that the book was retitled but it didn’t cost me anything so no big deal I guess. :)
@Darlynne: I’ve only read the first one (I’m spacing them out to make them last) but TheHusband has read the first three and he has the same opinion as you. He’s forcing himself not to gobble them up.
@kaetrin: I know! And it had a new cover too! I actually like the amended title…I’m not a fan of using “Bastard” in romance titles.
@DiscoDollyDeb: I would have said the same but “billionaire” is a dirty word now too I think ;)