Every Saturday I run a feature for the 99 Cent Club, and below are the ebook picks for this week that caught my eye and are currently ONLY 99 cents on Amazon, with many on Barnes and Noble as well. I don’t know if these are permanent prices, so please don’t shoot the messenger, and double check pricing before pressing the buy button. Enjoy! (If you could help give these authors some love by spreading the word, that would be epic.)
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Love After Dark by Heather Hildenbrand, Quinn Loftis, Ella James, Brina Courtney, Alivia Anders, Julia Crane, A.O Peart, Melissa Pearl, and Anna Cruise.
NINE FULL-LENGTH PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVELS
Reveal: Meet Hugh Raven, driven and goal oriented, he’s going to be a successful career man. But when your eyes glow gold, you’re built like a champion, and destiny is staring you in the face with eyes exactly like yours, sometimes goals have to step aside to let love in.Here: Meet Nick, a hot amnesiac with a big heart and an entourage of Men in Black. He’s sure to drive you out of this world.Elfin: Meet Triktapic, the most skilled assassin of the dark elves. He kills without mercy, takes pleasure where he will, and apologizes for nothing…until he meets her.Anna: Meet Tommy Sanders, a Special Forces soldier with icy blue eyes, sexy blond hair begging to be touched, and an enticing southern drawl that can’t be ignored.Dirty Blood: Meet Wesley St. John- Being an orphaned werewolf has made Wesley St. John quick-tempered and slow to trust. With so much of his life working against him, it’s no wonder he’s drawn to the beautifully flawed Tara Godfrey. Enemies do make the best of friends…Forged by Greed: A teenage shapeshifter, a Royal blood, and the Protector of the ancient Amulet. Meet Jatred Bianchi, a level-headed, Winter Race Prince who can shift into a gigantic, powerful wolf in a matter of seconds. Dating a guy like Jatred is every teenage girl’s dream. He would take care of her, protect, and respect her. And when he falls in love, it’s forever–just like the wolf in him: his mate is for life.Illumine: Meet Kayden, a demon made up of 50% mystery, 50% mischief, and 100% pure smolder. One look into his endless, dark caramel gaze is all it takes.Golden Blood: Meet Harrison Granger: Meeting mysterious Gemma Hart sparks something inside of this determined junior. He’s not willing to walk away, even when he finds out her secret. With persistent devotion he breaks down this time traveller’s walls, igniting a love story that transcends time.
Set In Stone: Meet Noel Flannery- Dark-haired and mysterious, he shows up at Valerie Ramsey’s school unannounced and with a single mission: to take back what belongs to him.
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Sins and Secrets by Jessica Sorenson
Lies. Betrayal. A double life.
Lola Anders isn’t who she seems. Two years ago she ran away from the dangerous life she’d been living in order to stay alive and to escape the pain of losing someone close to her. She changed her name and reinvented herself into a good girl… at least part of the time anyway. A secretary by day and an escort by night, Lola lives a double life in order to maintain balance and survive. And things are going well until someone from her past shows up out of nowhere–someone Lola thought was dead.
Sexy and dangerous Layton Everett enters Lola’s life again without warning. Not only does Layton know who Lola really is but he also used to work for her family’s sworn enemy. Lola worries he’s shown up to finish the hit put on her two years ago, but having no other choice she has to let Layton into her life. Plus, she’s attracted to him more than she likes to admit.
The closer Lola gets to Layton, the more her secrets are revealed. Ultimately she’s pulled into the dangerous world she ran away from.
**Adult Romance Suspense. Mature Content Warning** 17+ for language and sexual content.**
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A Beautiful Mess by T.K. Leigh
What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?
Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn Olivia’s world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?
A Beautiful Mess is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.
Recommended for ages 18 and up due to sexual situations, language, and mild violence.
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Carved in Cherry by Elizabeth Kirke
One thing set Lydia Shaw and her store apart from the other antique shops in town…
Lydia’s collection was plagued by curses, and it was her duty to break them.
Rachel, Angie, and Jo knew nothing about their aunt’s secret life. In fact, they didn’t even know she owned an antique shop, until they inherited it. Unfortunately for them, Lydia passed down more than just her store. The sisters are the proud new owners of countless deadly curses, buried under centuries of dust.
Lydia also left behind her apprentice, Peter. He does everything he can to protect the girls, as they explore their new store, unaware of the dangers it hides. In spite of his efforts, Rachel finds herself obsessed with opening a strange trunk, Angie has vivid dreams, haunted by a man who claims he needs her help, and Jo’s imagination starts to run wild.
When one of them falls victim to a curse, it’s up to Peter and her sisters to save her. But, if Peter can’t teach them to wield a magic, that he barely understands himself, she’ll be the first one to die.
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My Paper Heart by Magan Vernon
There are worse things in life than failing out of college- such as having your parents receive the letter that you’ve been kicked out.
Now to appease her parents self-proclaimed sorority princess Libby Gentry is packing up her Prada bag and heading to work for her great aunt’s antique store in tiny Elsbury, Louisiana. She’s pretty sure she can tackle the swamp and deal with her great aunt and tom boy of a little cousin, but what she doesn’t know is if she can handle the local town playboy, Blaine Crabtree.
As Libby’s feelings for Blaine grow, so does her need for acceptance and all of the insecurities she has kept inside are coming out. She may have survived the Louisiana swamp, but she may not survive Blaine’s reluctance to say the ‘L’ word. When Blaine finally commits to the three words Libby’s been waiting for, she only hopes they haven’t come too late.
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Unfamiliar by Erica Cope
Hailey Peters has always held onto the familiar. From the way she wears her hair, to dating her childhood friend-turned high school sweetheart–she sticks with what she knows, and she’s convinced herself that this is what makes her happy.
Chase Lancaster doesn’t play by the rules. He’s a classically trained pianist who rocks out in a punk rock band every weekend, and isn’t afraid of taking chances.
When they are assigned to co-write a song for their college music class, Hailey can’t imagine anyone she has anything less in common with than Chase. She is a sweater-wearing, neat freak, and he is disheveled and rough around the edges. As they spend time together, they both find a place in each other’s lives—a place where they challenge each other to be different and to embrace the unfamiliar.
Hailey never planned for a Chase Lancaster in her life, and she is about to find out that this walking contradiction will change her forever.
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Melting Away the Ice by Mary Smith
Sara Smith, a hard working lawyer, thought she found her true love. Unfortunately, that was a huge mistake. Now she goes home at night and avoids people. Until one day her best friend forces her to go to a hockey game.
Lucas Sharp, the Captain of the Chicago Eagles, has focused on one thing, winning the Cup. It was not until a meet and greet after the game that he saw Sara.
After finally going on a few dates Lucas knows that she is hiding something, but Sara won’t talk about it.
Will Lucas be able to melt away the ice on her heart and still win the Cup? Or will Sara keep her true-self frozen away from finding happiness?
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Breakaway by Lindsay Paige and Mary Smith
Levi Carr is captain of the Roxboro University Lions hockey team. His rival is James Wayne University and their captain, Trevor McCarthy. After an incident in high school and his mother’s death, Levi does whatever he can to make McCarthy’s life a little harder. When leaving the rivaling campus one night, Levi meets one person who can unknowingly help him mess with McCarthy.
“My one job in this is to mess with McCarthy’s head and all it has done is mess with mine.”
Presley McCarthy lives in the shadow of her twin brother, Trevor. After being separated when their parents divorced, all Presley heard about was Levi Carr being a bully to Trevor. Now in college, Presley is trying to be her own person, but when she meets Levi Carr, it all changes. But will the changes be good or bad?
“He is nothing like my brother described. Maybe I’ve been wrong all along.”
*This book is intended for mature audiences.*
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Life’s What You Make It by Theresa Troutman
“She’s everything I’m not and everything I want to be.”
Sebastian Iron’s life is spiraling out of control. Over the course of one week, Sebastian witnesses death, runs away with his best friend’s girl, gets kicked out of his English prep school, and is banished to America by his domineering mother to repeat his senior year of high school.
In America, Sebastian struggles to find self-discipline and a purpose to turn his life around. He meets Tess Hamilton, the only person to show him any kindness in his new school. Little does he know, she is the savior tutor hired by his mother to help him improve his grades. The two slowly begin to build a friendship.
As their friendship blossoms, Sebastian begins to have romantic feelings for Tess. She claims to only want a platonic relationship, but Sebastian feels the undeniable spark that sizzles between them every time they are together.
Forces beyond their control will either bring Sebastian and Tess closer together or tear them apart.
Will Sebastian return to his old habits or find the strength to be the person worthy of Tess’ love?
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Tempting the Bodyguard by J. Lynn
A sexy category romance from Entangled’s Brazen imprint…
He can protect her from everyone except himself.
Alana Gore is in danger. A take-no-prisoners publicist, her way with people has made her more than a few enemies over the years, but a creepy stalker is an entirely different matter. She needs a bodyguard, and the only man she can ask is not only ridiculously hot, but reputed to have taste for women that goes beyond adventurous.
Chandler Gamble has one rule: don’t protect anyone you want to screw. But with Alana, he’s caught between his job and his increasingly hard libido. On one hand, Alana needs his help. On the other, Chandler wants nothing more than to take the hot volcano of a woman in hand. To make her writhe in pleasure, until she’s at his complete mercy.
She needs protection. He needs satisfaction. And the moment the line is crossed, all hell will break loose…
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