Daily Deals: Sheikhs, Time Travel, Genies, and Rock Stars
Sheikh’s Desert Duty by Maisey Yates. $ .99
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A Chatsfield Scandal!
Journalist Sophie Parsons needs a scoop to stop the sale of her friend’s hotel chain. And she’s found it! But being abducted by a sheikh goes way beyond the call of duty?
Sheikh Zayn Al-Ahmar has a wedding to arrange, a sister to protect and a country to rule. He’s not going to let one woman bring it all down with a headline! Kidnapping Sophie seemed like a good idea, but soon her delectable company puts everything he values at risk.
Only one mistress can rule Zayn’s heart—will it be Sophie, or his duty?
Welcome to The Chatsfield, New York!
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Broken Wings by Sylvie Kurtz. $ FREE at Amazon | Apple
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One last chance. That’s all Colin Castle has to prove he isn’t a total failure. But something goes terribly wrong on his routine flight in a replica war plane. Now Colin stands in another time, facing a beautiful woman who will forever haunt his dreams.
One final hope. That’s all Liesl Erhardt has to make good on a promise to fulfill her murdered husband’s dream. The mysterious Colin with his miraculous plane may be the answer to her prayers. But dare she risk her heart to a gift from the sky?
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I Wish by Elizabeth Langston. $ 0.99
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What Lacey needs is a miracle. What she gets is a genie–with rules.
Lacey Linden is hiding the truth of her life–a depressed mom, a crumbling house, and bills too big to pay. While her high school classmates see a girl with a ready smile and good grades, Lacey spends her evenings seeking ways to save her family. On a get-cash-quick trip to the flea market, Lacey stumbles over a music box that seemingly begs her to take it home. She does, only to find that it’s inhabited by a gorgeous genie. He offers her a month of wishes, one per day, but there’s a catch. Each wish must be humanly possible.
Grant belongs to a league of supernatural beings, dedicated to serving humans in need. After two years of fulfilling the boring wishes of conventional teens, he is one assignment away from promotion to a challenging new role with more daring cases. Yet his month with Lacey is everything that he expects and nothing like he imagines. Lacey and Grant soon discover that the most difficult task of all might be saying goodbye.
The book has diversity themes. Lacey’s mother has a mental illness. Lacey’s best friend is disabled (and will be the MC of the second book.)
There is no cliffhanger, but the ending leaves several questions open. From School Library Journal’s review: “…the denouement offers enough twists and unresolved questions to have readers wishing the next book was already available.”
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Fan Girl by Brandace Morrow. $ 0.99 Cents
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**Intended for readers 18+**
Little more than a girl when Ali meets him, his voice resonates with her in a time when she needs it most. As an adult, Deklan has the potential to devastate her.
Deklan Thomas catches Ali Pierce’s attention at a young age. Not that he notices. His band Rolling Bridges provides Ali the escape she desperately needs from her home life. Music. It’s during this journey that she is confronted with what she has attempted to suppress all along. Her discontent with herself.
Refusing to settle for mediocrity, Ali sets off on a mission. Moving to the Big Apple, she gains a new outlook on life, a snarky online friend, a college degree, and a unique internship others would kill to have.
Though she grows leaps and bounds, her first love remains the same. Nothing can keep her from the music—music that will lead her down a road of passion and predicament that even the new Ali is unsure she can handle.
Is Deklan ready to give up his rocker lifestyle? And does Ali really want to be put in the spotlight after so many years in the shadows?
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There’s a Sarah Morgan sheikh book where the heroine is constantly making sheikh/shake puns. An American friend of mine who also pronounced it sheek didn’t get it at all!
Sheikh Zayn Al-Ahmar has a wedding to arrange, a sister to protect and a country to rule.
I read that and immediately thought of this:
I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I’m swamped.
I totally botched the quotes tags on that…and the bottom one is from the Princess Bride. :)
@Heather Greye: and it totally made my boring work afternoon much better, thank you!
Also, I’m grabbing I Wish right. this. second.
I thought it was “sheek” until I heard an RWA recording a few years back. Even then I told myself it was because the editor was out of the UK office, but then I heard an American say “shake” and realized it might be me, not them. Oops.
@Heather Greye: Even without the attribution, your PB citation was dead on. Thanks for the laugh.
@Heather Greye:
Mine too! Thanks for the giggle. :) If you haven’t read Cary Elwes’s memoir about the making of the movie, I highly recommend it. I listened to the audio version and it’s so much fun!
I was amused at the genie named Grant, but the Princess Bride reference made me giggle!
It’s movie night with my 12 year-old daughter, and she’s chosen The Princess Bride (for at least the 15th time). Have fun stormin’ the castle…