There are a whole bunch of awesome-sounding new releases and sales happening right now so I’ve made a quick recap post of a bunch of them here for you. Happy reading, everyone!! 🙂
CRASHED by K. Bromberg — New Release
I just finished this last night and LOVED it!!!! This is the conclusion to the amazing Driven Trilogy which I started reading last week!! From the blurb: “Whoever said love is patient and love is kind, never met the two of us. We know our love is worth it.” <— eeeep!!!! Here’s the reading order: #1 Driven, #2 Fueled, #3 Crashed.
EMI LOST & FOUND SERIES by Lori Otto — Series Bundle
I recently finished this series and was blown away by it!! What an AMAZING story. SO powerful. SO emotional. A one-of-a-kind, atypical romance. I truly FELT this journey the whole way through. It’s a complete series set includes the prequel, all 3 full-length novels and also 2 bonus short stories (they must be read in order).
I’ve written a long series review with 2 parts – a spoiler-free one, and also a hidden section that explains the story a little for anyone who doesn’t want to go in blind. But for now, know that I LOVED it and that this story will stay in my heart forever. Here’s my full series review.
TOXIC by Rachel Van Dyken — $0.99 New Release
Only $0.99 for a limited time!! This is the sequel to Ruin (one of my favs of 2013) and tells Gabe’s story! And then, Fearless is a Wes & Kiersten novella is coming in a few days. While Ruin is a standalone, you do meet Gabe in it so it’s recommended to read it before. Reading order: #1 Ruin, #2 Toxic, #3 Fearless.
SWEET LITTLE THING by Renee Carlino — New Release
This is a new novella that takes place after Sweet Thing. “Sometimes happily ever after is one giant leap of faith away. With the help of good music, good friends, and one eccentric old lady, they overcome a few of life’s little bumps to find the sweetest thing of all.”
THE SWAN AND THE JACKAL by J.A. Redmerski — New Release
This is the third book in the “dangerous and boundary-pushing crime and suspense series, In the Company of Killers” – And if you’re new to the series, the first book is only $0.99!! Reading order: #1 Killing Sarai, #2 Reviving Izabel, #3 The Swan and The Jackal
BAD THINGS by R.K. Lilley — Price Drop
To celebrate the upcoming release of the final book in the Tristan & Danika trilogy, the first book is on sale for $2.99 (reg. $5.99). I LOVE this series and can’t WAIT for the last one to come out next week!! Reading order: #1 Bad Things, #2 Rock Bottom, #3 Lovely Trigger (March 11).
SOME LIKE IT WILD by M. Leighton — New Release
This is the next book in the Wild Ones series. From the blurb: “How far will a good girl go for the bad boy she loves?… Laney Holt is a preacher’s daughter. A good girl. [When her dreams come crashing down] she’s left with an empty space she doesn’t know how to fill. Until she meets Jake Theopolis, a daredevil with a death wish who has heartbreaker written all over him.” Reading order: #1 The Wild Ones, #1.5 Wild Child, #2 Some Like It Wild.
FOUR YEARS LATER by Monica Murphy — New Release
This is the last book in the One Week Girlfriend series and tells a “sexy story of two college kids with nothing in common but a bunch of baggage and a burning attraction.” I haven’t read these but here’s the reading order: #1 One Week Girlfriend, #2 Second Chance Boyfriend, #3 Three Broken Promises, #3.5 Drew + Fable Forever, #4 Four Years Later.
DESTROYED by Pepper Winters — New Release
The author of Tears of Tess has just released this new standalone (no cliffhanger) and she calls it “a complicated love story between a man with a terrible past and a woman who holds his cure. A man who finds redemption in love and a woman who loses her heart and reason for living.”
SINNERS AT THE ALTAR by Olivia Cunning — New Release
This is meant to be read after the SINNERS ON TOUR (click for reading order) series by Olivia Cunning and it includes 4 complete wedding stories, each about a different member of the band. Each story is an epilogue to a different book in the series. Enjoy!! PS – This is a discount sale price. It’ll go up after March 18.
LOVE HACKED: A RELUCTANT ROMANCE by Penny Reid — New Release
This is the third book in the Knitting in the City series. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone and I’ve heard they’re really funny, smart romantic comedies (plus, they have great ratings)!! I can’t wait to read them. Here are all the books: #1 Neanderthal Meets Human, #2 Friends Without Benefits, #3 Love Hacked.
AFTERSHOCK by Sylvia Day — New Release
This is the finale to the series set than began with Afterburn. From the blurb: “I loved Jax enough that it was impossible to give up. Jax loved me enough that giving up was the only end he’d consider. He didn’t think I could swim with the sharks. It was entirely my pleasure to show him that I’d already dived in…”
PRETTY LITTLE THINGS by Teressa Mummert — New Release
This is a standalone novel by and I was just talking to someone who explained the plot to me a little and it sounds like a really unique story! “”I was young enough not to understand that my life was different. Colin became the one person that I could count on to protect me. He suffered for the both of us by carrying the burden of our secret…”
BEYOND JEALOUSY by Kit Rocha — New Release
This is Book #4 in the Beyond series. I haven’t read them but they’re set in a dark, gritty, futuristic world and I hear they’re H.O.T.!!! This new book is a menage ➜ “She’s been looking for the perfect man. She found two. A saint… and a sinner.” Reading order: #1 Beyond Pain ($0.99), #2 Beyond Shame, #3 Beyond Control, #4 Beyond Jealousy.
CLIPPED WINGS by Helena Hunting — New Release
The blurb calls this an “emotional love story continues between Hayden and Tenley; two young people who desperately want to love and be loved but are afraid to completely let go of their pasts.” I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard it has a slight cliffhanger. Here’s the reading order: #0 Cupcakes & Ink, #1 Clipped Wings, #2 Inked Armor.
THE SWEET GUM TREE by Katherine Allred — $1.49 Recommendation
I try and post about this book every once in a while in hopes that each time, a few more people will read it… It’s one of the best STANDALONE romances I’ve ever read. It’s beautifully written and highly emotional – one of those hidden gems with an unforgettable story!! Also, it’s only $1.49 so really it’s just a total steal 😉
UNTIL LILY by Aurora Rose Reynolds — New Release
Several readers have recommended this series to me over the last while and this latest one just went live early!! This is a series of interconnected standalones (should be read in order) and I’ve added them to my TBR: #1 Until November, #2 Until Trevor, #3 Until Lily.
DELIVER by Pam Godwin — Recent Release
This is a standalone romantic thriller (it has no cliffhanger). From the blurb — “She lures young men and delivers them to be sold. She delivers the strikes that enforce their obedience. She delivers the sexual training that determines their purchase price. As long as she delivers, the arrangement that protects her family will hold. Delivering is all she knows. The one thing she can’t deliver is a captive from slavery. Until him. And her stubborn slave thinks he can deliver her…from herself.”
SEX ON A BEACH SERIES — $0.99 New Releases
These three books are interconnected 150 page standalones but were each written by different authors. “Three books. Three authors. One series. Three best friends. Three guys. A week in paradise they’ll never forget!” Click covers to purchase.
RARE & PRECIOUS THINGS by Raine Miller — Recent Release
This is the conclusion to the Blackstone Affair series!! It’s “the story of two people who both need the other in order to be complete, but learn just how “rare” their brand of love is when they have to risk everything in order to hold onto it.” I really love this series!! Reading order: #1 Naked, #2 All In, #3 Eyes Wide Open, #4 Rare and Precious Things.
TAKE A CHANCE by Abbi Glines — Recent Release
This is the newest Rosemary Beach series book by Abbi Glines and it’s Grant & Harlow’s story. I highly recommend reading this series in order as the characters are all very interconnected… “Grant is desperate to redeem himself in Harlow’s eyes, but did he ruin his chances before he even met her?”
SHAME ON YOU by Tara Sivec — Recent Release
This one sounds funny!! The heroine starts Fool Me Once Investigations with her two best friends after her husband cheats on her. “After all, there’s no better bounty hunter than a woman scorned… Enter the last man on the planet she’d willingly choose as a partner: her cheating ex-husband’s best friend, Griffin Crawford…”
HARD AS YOU CAN by Laura Kaye — Recent Release
This is the latest Hard Ink novel. “Ever since hard-bodied, drop-dead-charming Shane McCallan strolled into the dance club where Crystal Dean works, he’s shown a knack for getting beneath her defenses.” And, in case you missed the first book in the series, here is the link: HARD AS IT GETS.
WHITE HOT KISS by Jennifer Armentrout — Recent Release
This is the first full length novel in The Dark Elements Series – a YA paranormal romance. There is also a prequel novella available. From the blurb – “One kiss could be the last…. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal — fit in at school, and go out on a real date with the gorgeous Zayne, whom she’s crushed on since forever. Trouble is, Zayne treats Layla like a sister—and Layla is anything but normal. She’s half demon, half gargoyle, with abilities no one else possesses. And … Layla’s kiss will kill anything with a soul —including him.”
HERO by Leighton Del Mia — Recent Release
This is a new dark standalone with captivity themes. I haven’t read it yet but here’s a big from the blurb — “Calvin Parish – They call me Hero. I defend. I protect. I ask for nothing in return, and that makes me good. Doesn’t it? … That which makes me the ultimate predator also feeds dark impulses I’ve learned to control…”
DONNERS OF THE DEAD by Karina Halle — Recent Release
ZOMBIE ALERT!!!! This is a historical horror romance set in the Old West of 1851. The warning says it has sex, adult themes, and gore, because, you know, zombies. From the blurb – “Jake McGraw was unlike anyone I’d ever known. He was brash, rude, unapologetic and arrogant; chauvinistic, close-minded, and terribly stubborn… I was pretty sure I hated him. And I know he hated me. But among the flesh-eating monsters in these snow-capped mountains, he was the only thing keeping me alive.”
TALL, TATTED, AND TEMPTING by Tammy Falkner — $0.99 Sale
I read this book a few weeks ago and loved it!! It was sweet, sexy, and fun – and it’s only $0.99!! From the blurb – “Logan Reed is tall, tatted and tempting. Kit’s a woman with a mean right hook and a secret. Kit wants a tattoo, but Logan sees more than she intends to share in the drawing of the tat she wants. He sees her in ways no one ever has. Logan’s not disabled; but he hasn’t spoken in eight years. He hasn’t needed to. Until he meets Kit…”
THE PASSION OF DARIUS by Raine Miller — $0.99 Sale
This is a historical romance prequel to the Blackstone Affair series. The author says: This is the story of Darius Rourke and his love for Marianne. They live in Somerset at a house called Stonewell Court. Ringing any bells? (This is Ethan and Brynne’s house in the country) Well, there will be some tie-ins to Rare and Precious Things so you should get it and read it if you have not already. Will be fun when you read Rare and Precious Things in a couple days.”
KNIGHT AND PLAY by Kitty French — $0.99 Sale
This is the first book of the Knight Trilogy. Also, there’s a boxed set of the completed trilogy also available for purchase!! I haven’t read them all but I’ve heard that they are H.O.T. !! From the blurb – “CEO of Knight Inc. Lucien Knight is catch-your-breath gorgeous and damaged by his troubled past… No one knows the dark childhood secrets that have given Lucien a backbone of steel and a heart encased in ice. No one until Sophie Black, that is…”
BOUND by Brenda Rothert — $0.99 Sale
I haven’t read this book but several readers have told me they loved it. It can be read as a standalone but there is also a sequel out that continues the story. In the first book, the heroine is pregnant and alone in her last year of college when tragedy strikes. And then she meets the hero (a pro hockey player) who is recovering from the loss of his wife. “Bound by a grief that haunts them both, they must rely on one another to survive heartbreak.”
BEFORE YOU BREAK by Christina Lee — Recent Release
Alice Clayton (author of Wallbanger) recommended this book calling it: “The perfect blend of sizzling sexual tension and deliciously steamy scenes that jump off of the page.” From the blurb – A college baseball star… hiding a guilty past so dark…. she receives an anonymous call while working a suicide helpline…. Soon Ella and Quinn’s physical connection heats up… but Ella realizes that her seductive jock and her sensitive caller are the same guy….
CRAVING REDEMPTION by Nicole Jacquelyn — Recent Release
Biker fans!! This is the new book in The Aces MC series. I haven’t read it but author Madeline Sheehan calls it “Heart wrenching and heartwarming. Sexy as sin.” From the blurb – “He was an Ace, raised in the club and loyal to it above all else. She was a high school student… They should have never crossed paths. But when, their lives collide. He saves her, and she mesmerizes him. They part believing they’ll never see each other again. Neither could have predicted the chain of events they’d put in motion…” PS – this technically the second book in the series but can be read as a standalone. It’s about a different couple than the first book.
MOORE THAN FOREVER by Julie Richman — Recent Release
This is the third and final book in the NEEDING MOORE trilogy. The first 2 books have cliffhangers but this one has a resolved ending. I haven’t read them yet but they have very high ratings & are a second chance romance. Reading order: #1 Searching For Moore ($0.99), #2 Moore To Lose, #3 Moore Than Forever.
UNRAVEL by Calia Reed — Recent Release
“Six months ago, I was happy. I was simply Naomi Carradine. One month ago, I was admitted into a psych ward. Yesterday, Lachlan visited me. Kissed me. And told me that I’m starting to lose my mind. Hours later, Max haunted my thoughts, reminding me I’m not crazy and that he needs my help. A few minutes ago, I drifted further from reality, trying to unravel the past. And now……everyone thinks I’m insane. But, I know he’s real, and I know he needs me. Do you believe me?” Here’s my review.
SWEET THING by Renee Carlino — Big Price Drop
The price of this book is down to $3.79 (originally $7.59) and it’s a heartbreaking and romantic standalone novel that kept me up reading all night when I first read it. Oh, and the hero is bit of a rock star 😉 Read my review.
TRANSCENDENCE by Shay Savage — Recent Release
Caveman alert!!! This standalone romance was recently released and many readers have told me that they’ve really loved it and that it’s quite a sweet story. I can’t wait to read it!!! – The hero is a caveman and the story takes place in PREHISTORIC times!! OMG – how unique!! I’m definitely looking forward to reading it!
PAST IMPERFECT by Alison Bailey — Recent Release
This is the spin-off standalone sequel to Present Perfect following a different couple’s story. The first book can be read as a complete standalone but if you were wanting ‘more’, this is Brad’s book (we met him in the first book) and this is where we get to see him redeem himself.
FOR ALL YOU HAVE LEFT by Laura Miller — Recent Release
This is a new standalone from the author of Butterfly Weeds (one of the only books that has ever made my ugly cry). I haven’t read it yet but the blurb calls it a “love story with an unexpected twist” set in small-town Missouri
FULL MEASURES by Rebecca Yarros — Recent Release
This is a new standalone that’s getting great ratings. I haven’t read it but from the blurb – After soldiers being news of her dad’s death, Ember has to “singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart… Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor… He has a way of erasing the pain [and] she can’t deny their intense attraction. Until Josh’s secret shatters their world…”
THE PLAN by Qwen Salsbury. — Recent Release
Alice Clayton (author of Wallbanger) posted a recommendation for this book where she called “Unique. Sizzling. Funny. Off-the-charts steamy!” I haven’t read it yet, but thought I’d post the link in case you wanted to check it out!
TWIST ME by Anna Zaires — Recent Release
Here’s one to check out for fans of dark romance. I haven’t read it yet but the blurb says “Kidnapped. Taken to a private island…. My captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him – a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in. My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.”
NIGHT OWL by M. Pierce — Recent Re-Release
MATT SKY IS BACK!!!! The new eBook of NIGHT OWL is now available again and it’s priced at $2.99 for a limited time!! For anyone who read the indie version, this is the SAME book… and for anyone who hasn’t read it yet, you MUST MUST MUST read it!!!! It’s all kinds of awesome mixed with boatloads of hotness and kink. I absolutely LOVED it!!!
TRAGIC by J.A. Huss — $0.99 Sale
This is the first book a popular and well-rated New Adult romance series about models falling in love. I haven’t read it yet but I’m looking forward to starting the series! The reading order goes: #1 Tragic, #2 Manic, #3 Panic.
PART 1 and PART 2 by J.M. Sevilla — $0.99 Series Sale
This second book is actually a new release but they’re both on sale for $0.99. These 2 books comprise a 2-part series where the hero is a hitman! I haven’t read them yet but the first one (that’s been out a while) has great ratings!
❤ SALE BUNDLES & BOXED SETS ❤
KISS KISS: 12-BOOK SALE BUNDLE — 12 books for $2.99 !!!
For a limited time only, you can get 12 full length romance novels from several amazing authors bundled together for only for $2.99 in the Kiss Kiss Collection!! If you were to buy these books at regular price, they’d be worth over $40 (!!!) so don’t miss out!!
MAKE ME: 12 TALES OF DARK DESIRE — 12 books for $2.99 !!!
For fans of DARK ROMANCE, this is a EPIC bundle of 12 full length novels by some of the hottest names in edgy romance including some of my top favorite books and recommendations!! The sale is limited time and these books cost over $40 if bought separately so don’t miss out and preorder now. Release date is: March 3, 2014.
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These are the recent releases from the past few weeks. I’ve moved them to their own page because there were just SO many of them that this post was getting ridiculously long 😉
Jessie says
Thanks for the giveaway
Sara says
Hi Aestas! Just wanted to let you know all of Jay Crownover books are on sale for 4.99. Even Nash that’s on pre-order is on sale! 🙂
Jamie Pinson says
Great list. I have to say I’m really in awe of all your hard work. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to add books that I like that are on sale to my site and I’ve given myself one giant headache just thinking about it all. I have no idea how you do so much. /Bow
Ashley Ranbarger says
Crow’s Row by Julie Hockley is only $3.03 usually is $8.99