I went a little nuts today.  At this posting, these books are free in the USA.  I don’t know about other places.  I did check for Nook… and no, none are available for nook. 

Poetic Justice, a Traditional Regency Romance (Regency Escapades)

Susanna and the Spy

To Tempt A Knight (Brotherhood of the Scottish Templars)

Play Fling (Stupid Cupid Book One)

Love Lust (Vegas ParaRealm)

The Mancode: Exposed

The Sweetest Fling (A Stupid Cupid Book)

The Frenchman’s Revenge (The Grandmaster’s Legacy)
 

The Frenchman’s Woman (The Grandmaster’s Legacy)

Catch Me If You Can (Romantic suspense, New Orleans Trilogy book 1)
 

Nearly Departed in Deadwood (Deadwood Mystery Series)

Dance of the Winnebagos (Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series)
 

Something Secret This Way Comes: Secret McQueen, Book 1

On Wednesday, Shana Galen’s third book in her Sons of the Revolution Trilogy came out. The Rogue Pirate’s Bride. Doesn’t it have a lovely cover?

Passionate, action-packed Regency romance by RT Reviewer’s Choice award-winning author Shana Galen features the swashbuckling Sebastien Harcourt, Marquis de Valere, and the nautical genius heroine destined to best him. After escaping France on a privateer’s ship, Sebastian becomes the notorious privateer Captain Cutlass. His reputation as a rogue precedes him and he’s undefeated in battle, until he crosses swords with the beautiful daughter of a British admiral. Raeven Russell is out for revenge, but now she’s not so sure she wants the dashing captain to change his wicked ways.

The original cover and title

The book was originally suppose to come out last year, with a different cover and title.  While the original cover and title (The Making of a Rogue) matches the other books in the series – The Making of a Duchess and The Making of a Gentleman- I like the second cover better (and I’m kinda partial to the color blue.)  I know Shana -and I remember joking that she should have put it in her contract that she gets the dresses from her covers – cause the dresses are so awesome!  Both covers have awesome dresses in my opinion.

Meanwhile… I feel kinda bad.  I read this one without reading the others first. I need to go back and do so. I tend to read on impulse. I got a copy, and read it. Love it! It made me want to read more sea-faring books. (Yes, made me want to go back and read the others… have I done this… no) If you like a little adventure in your Regency, I suggest you pick this one up. You will love Raeven and Sebastian.

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And if you have any Piraty books (arrrrr) to suggest to me – tell me! I’m in a piraty mood, matey.

Whilst I was in the piraty mood- I read Tides of Love and Tides of Passion by Tracy Sumner.  Not piraty books, not really seafaring, more like sea side.  The two books (originally released in 2000 and 2002) are the first two books in what I hope will eventually be a three book series.  They are set in a small town on the coast of North Carolina in the 1890′s, and centers around the Garrett brothers – Zack, Noah and Caleb.

Tides of Love is a homecoming/reunion book of sorts, featuring Noah and Elle, a childhood friend and friend of the family.

He left all he loved behind…

Will he be able to return and win her heart?

Elle Beaumont has learned life’s lessons the hard way–by foolishly exposing her youthful heart to love, only to have it broken when her true love fled Pilot Island, North Carolina. Now Noah Garrett is back, rekindling dreams she’d given up for lost, and turning her world upside down. Elle’s girlish yearning for him has become something more powerful than she’d ever imagined.

A man dedicated to science and rational judgment, Noah rejects all notions of romance…until the girl who used to cling to him like a shadow begins haunting his every thought. But even as he struggles to resist Elle’s sensuous beauty and the wildfire attraction erupting between them, Noah cannot deny that their passion is as irresistible and endless as the tides of love.

Tides of Passion is a … how can I describe it… sex arrangement (cause that always works out well) that turns into love, featuring Zack and Savannah, friend of Elle and suffragette.

She is his greatest temptation.
He is her forbidden desire.
A battle of wills leads to love.

Spirited Savannah Conner is passionately committed to stamping out social injustice. Yet when she arrives in the seaside town of Pilot Isle, North Carolina, ready to take up a new cause, she quickly finds herself on the outs with the town constable. Zachariah Garrett is the most arrogant, infuriating, maddeningly attractive man it’s ever been her misfortune to meet. And suddenly, Savannah is fighting a whole new battle – this one against her own yearning for a man who is impossible to resist.

Ever since his wife’s death two years ago, Zachariah Garrett has dedicated his life to keeping the peace. So when he sees the pretty newcomer atop a wobbly wooden crate stirring up the crowd, he doesn’t hesitate to haul her off to jail. But Savannah Connor isn’t any ordinary law-breaker. She’s a beguiling beauty with the power to awaken emotions he thought he’s never feel again, and the tenderness to help him forget his fears…and risk his heart once more.

The biggest refreshing thing to me about these two books… they have nothing to do with England. Nothing to do with Prinny. Nothing to do with France. Nothing to do with a war. Nothing to do with guns. Nothing to do with throwing the hero/heroine into some situation that I wouldn’t believe. No bigger than life villain.  No important historical events.

They are just about the people of this sleepy little seaside port who’s lives involve fishing and sailing, and only threat is weather and shipwrecks.  Yes, this is during a time when women are struggling for their rights, and its in there.  It’s in there without being center stage.  I would have to call them cozy, sexy reads, a great escape from the ordinary.

Tides of Passion from Amazon
Tides of Love from Amazon

Tides of Passion from Barnes and Noble;

some of these you might have heard about… some you might not..

Elizabeth Lowell’s Medieval Series for $1.99 each

Untamed for $1.99 for Kindle
Untamed for $1.99 for Nook

Returning home triumphant from the Crusades, Dominic le Sabre is determined to claim the bride promised to him by the king, but the high-born Celtic beauty is equally determined to resist him.

Forbidden for $1.99 for Kindle
Forbidden for $1.99 for Nook

They call her “Amber the Untouched” throughout the Disputed Lands — a chaste, golden-haired beauty who fears the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth . . . and the death that must inevitably follow. Now Duncan has come to her in darkness, as was foretold — a wounded warrior with no memory, seared by passion’s fire and irresistibly drawn to the innocent enchantress who divines truth with a touch. Their romance is legend in a time of war. But when Duncan’s memory returns, he sees Amber as his enemy. Still, he cannot forsake the lover who healed his body and heart. And he will defy to the death the dread forces that have proclaimed their love . . .

Enchanted for $1.99 for Kindle
Enchanted for $1.99 for Nook

Simon the loyal has vowed never to love, for love makes a warrior weak. His arranged marriage to a beautiful Norman heiress would be duty and no more. But more than duty stirs his blood when he first sees Ariane. She has known only coldness from men and a betrayal so deep it all but killed her soul. Wanting no man, trusting no man, speaking only through the sad songs she draws from her harp, Ariane comes to Simon an unwilling bride. They wed to bring peace to the disputed lands, but marriage alone is not enough. Simon must teach Ariane passion, she must teach him trust. And both must surrender to the sweet violence of love′s enchantment. . .or die.

50 Ways to Hex Your Lover – FREE!

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50 Ways to Hex Your Lover – Free for Nook

The sizzling love affair between Jazz and Nick has been off-again, on-again-for about 300 years. Mostly off, lately. But now Nick needs Jazz’s help, and while Jazz and Nick try to figure out their own hearts and resist their ever-increasing attraction, they must steer clear of a maniacal killer with super-supernatural powers. They are surrounded by a hilarious cast of oddball paranormal characters, including Irma, the chain-smoking ghost who haunts Jazz’s sports car, Dweezil, her ghoul of a boss, and Fluff and Puff, a pair of bunny slippers with sharp teeth and short tempers (watch your ankles)!

Spin-off… 99 cents for Kindle!

Wicked By Any Other Name for 99 cents for Kindle
Wicked by Any Other Name – $5.80 for Nook *frown*

Stasi Romanov uses just a little witch magic in her lingerie shop, running a brisk side business in love charms. A disgruntled customer threatening to sue over a failed love spell brings Trevor Barnes to town. Trevor’s the best attorney around, and he just happens to be a wizard. Everyone knows that witches and wizards make a volatile combination—sure enough, the sparks fly and almost everyone’s getting singed. Add to that Cupid playing a practical joke, a lunar eclipse that nearly precipitates a witch hunt, and some very mysterious goings on at the magical lake, and the feisty witch and gorgeous wizard have more than simply a possible lawsuit on their hands. Can they overcome their objections and settle out of court—and in the bedroom?

99 cent books from Avon

Still in My Heart for 99 cents for Kindle
Still in My Heart for 99 cent for Nook

 

My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great for 99 cents for Nook
My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great for 99 cents for Kindle

And Then He Kissed Her for 99 cents for Kindle
And Then He Kissed Her for 99 cents for Nook

In My Heart for 99 cents for Nook
In My Heart for 99 cents for Kindle

If you were wondering how I select the books (free or cheap) that I post on facebook…

It’s complicated.  Cause I look at a lot of things.

Have I read them?  No.  I read pretty slow.  Slower now that I have baby girl.

I do look at reviews.  How many there are.  What the average is.  What they are saying.

And I see if they are available for Kindle and Nook.  Sometimes that is the killer for me.  Kindle will have free items that Nook doesn’t have.  Kindle will have stuff that Nook just doesn’t even have!

I have to weigh those options.  Sometimes I’ll still post things that aren’t available equally on both devices.

I try to post good reads, not like other sites that seem to post ever single free book they find.  Yes, I’ll post lots of deals.   Birdies tweet in my ears, and I’ll post things they tell me.

To let yall know, I fell sad when I share something that not everyone can take apart in.

With Her Ladyship’s Companion by Joanna Bourne returning to print… I had to think about it.  What other hard to find books out there do I want to see back in print or e-print?

1.  The House Scorpio by Pat Wallace

I read The House Scorpio by Pat Wallace years ago.  I read a dog eared copy of my mother’s, and when I found a copy a couple of years later – yes, I snapped it up.  Good thing.

Reading around on the Internet – it looks that people are selling copies for $60.  For a paperback from the 70′s.  Alls fair in free trade – but this is crazy.

So, The House of Scorpio is the first book I will say that I would spend my time to trans-type to bring back into print.  (If I got paid – I would be even happier to do it.)

It is kinda hard to describe… kinda gothicy (it was the 70′s), romance, fantasy with the Zodiac woven in.

I would put a plea into the author – but I don’t know if she is still alive or what the state of her estate is – or if the copyright has been reverted to her.

2.  The Regency Companion by Sharon H. Laudermilk and Teresa L. Hamlin

Aspiring Regency writers would rejoice.   This book current goes for over $300.  I was able to get it for $75 a couple of years ago.  Last I heard, there was no plan for reprinting.

3.  Arnette Lamb’s books

Out of print for more than a decade, Pocket reprinted them in 2008.  Did they make them available in e-book?  No.  Of course, there wasn’t e-book rights with the big publishers in the 90′s (ebooks were just coming around then), so the rights to her e-books still might reside with her estate.   Lamb died in 1998 of cancer.

4.  Lady in Black by Christina Dodd

Her first contemporary released WAY back in the early 90′s from the long defunct Kismet line.  With others releasing their Kismets as e-books now, I just ask… why not?  Also – that novella from the Talk Dark and Dangerous anthology – only because that is the one Dodd I don’t have!

5.   Suzanne Barclay’s first Knight Trilogy

I still have my copies of Knights Dreams, Knight’s Lady and Knight’s Honor.   Harlequin has released others in the series – but not these first ones.  Barclay died in 1999 of cancer.

More to come as I think of them…

Meanwhile… Happy to have found:

1.  Cheri Scotch’s Voodoo Moon Trilogy (Kindle)

I read these back when they first came out in the mid 90′s.  They were urban fantasy before urban fantasy.   (The Werewolf’s Kiss, The Werewolf’s Touch, The Werewolf’s Sin)

2.  Roberta Gellis’ Tapestry of Dreams (Kindle, Nook) and Fires of Winter (Kindle, Nook)  (the Jernaeve pair)

While I haven’t read the classic Roselynde Chronicles, I read these two.  They are rich in detail and history, set during England’s Anarchy period.  Kudos to Gellis for getting many of her historicals back in print to new readers.

3.  Anne Stuart’s Shadow Dance (Kindle, Nook)

Best described as… “Valerian Romney, falsely accused of murdering his father, has no choice but to hide out in women’s clothes, posing as his brother’s wife, which makes falling in love with Sophie an admitted problem. In the meantime, his brother Phelan is falling for Juliette, who, disguised as a boy, is on the run from an abusive husband. Murders, mistaken identities, and true love are only some of the complications that abound.  An award-nominated romp of Shakespearean confusion. ”  Yes, a hoot!

I swear I have been sick more in the past year.  I could blame this last nasty virus on Pax, but she’s wasn’t patient zero in the house this time.  It was Juan.

Meanwhile, Pax turned one Saturday.  Still can’t believe that it has been that long.  She is such a joy.  Happy birthday, baby girl.

[Left: day she was born, Right: 11 1/2 months old]

Since I was off yesterday (and sick in bed), I spent the afternoon reading Trouble at the Wedding by Laura Lee Guhrke, which – of course – I find out that it is apart of a series half way through it. Has it distracted me from the story – no… but I haven’t finished, so I don’t know how it will impact me if I haven’t read the others.

Trouble at the Wedding in many was the usual heiress and impoverished peer story – he needs the money, she wants the status upgrade. A little difference here. Annabel’s American New Money, a southern girl, and still viewed as white trash. Christian’s still a heavily in debt British peer, but he’s trying to stop her wedding to a different heavily in debt British peer (who will just spend all her money on mistresses). Annabel’s uncle hires him to talk her into postponing her wedding, cause her uncle doesn’t trust the guy she has her sights on to marry.

Heh… and they are forced to do a little back peddling when Christian stands up and Annabel’s wedding DRUNK saying that the bride and groom shouldn’t get married.

Yeah, that makes the whole situation look so good for Annabel’s reputation.  Not.

So, I hope I finish over the next couple of days.  I’m enjoying it.  So far it feels a little refreshing to read.  In a market where it seems that the hotter, the sexier, the better, it’s nice to read something where they have only kissed where I am at in the book (about 1/2 way).

Get Trouble at the Wedding at Amazon.com for $4.99

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Okay, so I have the usual -  eat less, move more, lose weight.

But I need a reading resolution!

So I have been thinking, there are books/authors that I have never read.  So hear goes. I have to read at least 12 books by authors I don’t read or have never read and probably SHOULD have read.  My list this thus far:

Jane Austen
Georgette Heyer
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Lavyrle Spencer
Victoria Holt
Sandra Brown
Debbie Macomber
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Jayne Ann Krentz
Barbara Cartland
Jude Devereaux
Judith McNaught
Tom and Sharon Curtis (specifically The Windflower)

I’m sure everyone is coming up with other authors, but the author has to be in print prior to 1992. My resolution, my list, my rules.

So if you can provide a specific book or specific author and tell me why, I’ll consider reading it.

I still haven’t read Jane Austen!   (Maybe I need to make my reading resolutions for the year…) But if you like the idea of spin-off novels from her classics… here are a few to look at.

What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown

Kindle Price: $4.96
Nook: $4.96

When a modern woman goes back to Jane Austen’s time, she needs to know…

Everything! Eleanor agrees to travel back in time to prevent a deadly duel, but she doesn’t know how to behave, what to say, and most importantly…

How to tell a villain from a rake

The captivating, infuriating, and mysterious Lord Shermont is a renowned rake and womanizer—but is he also a dangerous cutthroat and spy? Eleanor has to get up close and personal to find out…

Otherwise, she could fall into a most shocking scandal…

Thankfully, Miss Jane Austen herself arrives on the scene, with sage guidance and a twinkle in her eye, to help Eleanor navigate countryhouse society and the dangerous terrain of her own heart…

From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats with Jane Austen, and falls in love with a notorious rake.

Emma and the Vampires by Wayne Josephson

Kindle Price: $3.51
Nook: $10.19

What better place than pale England to hide a secret society of gentlemen vampires?

In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, screenwriter Wayne Josephson casts Mr. Knightley as one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of their presence, Emma, who imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking, attempts to arrange the affairs of her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she’s the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart-his (literal) undying love for her… A brilliant mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead.

Pemberley Ranch by Jack Caldwell

Kindle Price: $1.99
Nook: $9.89

When the smoke has cleared from the battlefields and the civil war has finally ended, fervent Union supporter Beth Bennet reluctantly moves with her family from their home in Meryton, Ohio, to the windswept plains of Rosings, Texas. Handsome, haughty Will Darcy, a Confederate officer back from the war, owns half the land around Rosings, and his even haughtier cousin, Cate Burroughs, owns the other half.

In a town as small as Rosings, Beth and Will inevitably cross paths. But as Will becomes enchanted with the fiery Yankee, Beth won’t allow herself to warm to the man who represents the one thing she hates most: the army that killed her only brother.

But when carpetbagger George Whitehead arrives in Rosings, all that Beth thought to be true is turned on its head, and the only man who can save her home is the one she swore she’d never trust…

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud

Kindle Price: $1.99
Nook: $9.89

Darcy’s as hot as he is talented…

Fast music, powerful beats, and wild reputations-on and off stage-have made virtuoso guitarist Fitzwilliam Darcy’s band into rock’s newest bad boys. But they’ve lost their latest opening act, and their red-hot summer tour is on the fast track to disaster. Now Darcy and bandmates Charles Bingley and Richard Fitzwilliam are about to meet their match…

But she’s about to rock his world…

Enter Elizabeth Bennet, fiercely independent star of girl-band Long Borne Suffering. Elizabeth, her sister Jane, and friend Charlotte Lucas have talent to spare and jump at the opening band slot. Elizabeth is sure she’s seen the worst the music industry has to offer. But as the days and nights heat up, it becomes clear that everyone is in for a summer to remember.

I finally read Kismet’s Kiss recently.  I got it a while back.  Okay, last summer, after reading a blog post about her first year as an indie (self-published) author.   I’m old school.  I like the idea of a publisher, vetting processes, editing, etc… But I have to say… New York – you are missing out on a wonderful book here.

Cate Rowan finaled twice… TWICE… in the Golden Heart (Romance Writer’s of America’s Unpublished contest) with this  story – and she wasn’t able to sell it.

Why? There isn’t a flaw in it.  This is a wonderful fantasy romance about a healer and the sultan who need her help to save his children, wives, and servants from a mysterious and deadly sickness.  No, I didn’t mistype that… I said wives.  He has a harem of wives.

You’re thinking… “Sarah, the hero isn’t allow to have wives.   He’s not really married to them, right?”

Nope.  He’s married.  How so very naughty.  No, this isn’t an erotic romance.  There is no eight way orgy.  This is a wonderful fantasy romance, and in many ways it makes me think of some of the fantasy/futuristic romances I read years ago.  It’s unconventional with so many paranormals these days having the single mate thing going on (or I’ve been reading way too many werewolf books).   And Rowan really makes it work.  The book has this magical Arabian vibe to it.

In the desert realm of Kad, a deadly epidemic strikes the palace of Sultan Kuramos. Only a magical healer from an enemy land has the skill to save his royal household, but Kuramos never imagined the healer would be a woman.

Healer Varene finds her own surprises in Kad. She expects the sultan’s arrogance, but not his courage or his selfless care of the ill–or the possibility that the epidemic is the curse of a vengeful goddess.

Kuramos’s culture condemns Varene’s mystical talents. Her presence triggers an insurrection, yet as he and the healer toil for a cure, he loses his heart to her. She falls for him as well, but how can she relinquish her homeland and her principles–especially when he already has a harem and his family may be cursed?

Rowan has released a prequel to Kismet’s Kiss – The Source of Magic, and is planning more set in the same universe.    And as soon as I can get around to it (me and my slow reading brain…)  I’ll be getting The Source of Magic (even though what I really want to k now is what happens with the wives after the end of the book!).

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After Shana Galen reminded me that her book was on sale… I searched for other Sourcebooks deals on Amazon (Click on the images to get the books)… if Barnes and Noble had them on sale as well… I added those links.

Free!

Get The Summons for free from Barnes and Noble

99 cents

Get Wild Highland Magic for 99 cents from Barnes and Noble
Get Wicked by Any Other Name from Barnes and Noble for 99 cents

$1.99 (or $1.79 – from Amazon.com)

(Kilts)

Get The Highlander’s Sword from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Awaken the Highlander Warrior from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get The Return of Black Douglas from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Heart of the Highland Wolf from Barnes and Noble for $1.99

(Cowboys)

Get Love Drunk Cowboy from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Cowboy Trouble from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Cowboy Fever from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Tyler from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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(Paranormal)

Get In Over Her Head from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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Get Goblin King from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
Get Kiss at Your Own Risk from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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(Historical)

Get Making of a Duchess from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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Get A Duke to Die For (Rogues’ Dynasty Series #1) from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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Get Lessons in French from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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(Contemporary)

Get Romeo, Romeo from Barnes and Noble for $1.99
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Get Cover Me from Barnes and Noble for $1.99