Helen Susan Swift is the writer in our prestigious freebie of the day slot here on Mom Reads as we usher in the New Year. Happy New Year to all of our readers; we’ve had a great 2018 with you and we think 2019 will be even better. Certainly, The Handfasters is an excellent romance novel to get the year rolling nicely. This piece is set in Scotland in the 19th century and it’s steeped in history and mystery. Stealing kisses is scandalous and our heroine begins by being driven out of a polite …
Romance
Deal Takers (A Dealing With Love Book)
This one’s not for the children and there’s a lot of strong language involved, so please don’t click through to the Amazon page at work – it’s really not something you want to explain to your boss. However, if you don’t mind that then Deal Takers by Laura Lee isn’t bad at all. It’s the second part of the series but works well enough as a standalone that I’m not going to whine about that. It’s a sort of “hard-boiled romance” I guess. It wasn’t entirely my cup of tea but I confess that it …
The Little Bookshop Of Lonely Hearts
It’s nice to start at the beginning, it feels right when we talk about stories and, indeed, life in general. So, that’s where Annie Darling’s generously discounted work takes us today and we find ourselves in Posy Moorland’s bookshop where many stories will begin and all will be well told. Here we have romance, humor and a devilish business man determined to ruin Posy’s day and her business to boot. Will things turn out OK? It’s a cozy novel, so you can probably work that out but it’s a good …
The Kate Regnery Christmas Collection
Kate Regnery’s a big name in the mass-produced romance sector and she’s hoping to become even bigger with this charming Christmas collection of romances which constitutes three of her novels for the price of none. You can’t say fairer than free on Christmas Day, right? This might be the perfect way to spend the afternoon following a large Christmas lunch. I found these tales to be enjoyable without being ground breaking. You’re not going to spend months thinking about these but you will be …
The First Time I Said Goodbye
The First Time I Said Goodbye was described by Woman’s Way as “Like a hug in a book!” and that’s pretty much how I felt about it too. It answers the question; “Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye [to someone you love] forever?” In 1959, this is the choice that Stella Hegarty finds herself facing when she falls in love with a US Marine and then everything goes wrong. She’s confronted with the idea that she may have said goodbye to him for both the first and last time. …
A Wonderful Christmas (The Escapist Christmas Collection)
Melissa Hill is a USA Today bestselling author and she’s so happy that it’s nearly Christmas that she’s giving away an entire box set of her novels to anybody who wants them, this week. That’s quite an incredible deal and one that I heartily recommend that our bookworms take up. You’ll be pleased to know that the content is all thoroughly uplifting and sweet romances. You’re not going to run into any 50 Shades-bestselling content here. In fact, I’d be happy for my daughter to read them (if …
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake’s World War 2 New York Times bestseller, The Postmistress, is our featured discount title today and it’s one of the most thought-provoking works that I’ve encountered this year which is pretty impressive given how many titles that I’ve worked through in 2018. Iris James, the Postmistress of the title, takes care of the people of Franklin, Massachusetts and she keeps their secrets well. In fact, it may be too well. One day, she takes a letter from the delivery office, reads it and …
To Madden A Marquess (A Lords Of London Book)
Tamara Gill’s offering a free introduction to her Lords of London series this week in the form of To Madden A Marquess. Sadly, it’s the second book in the series and as you know, I’d prefer that authors donate the first, but I didn’t feel like I’d missed out on anything by starting a little way into the series and that’s a good thing. Cecilia Smith is a proper lady and the Marquess of Aaron is almost a proper Lord, except for his horrendous alcoholism. The question is can he turn it around …
Clover Park (Box Set – Books 1- 3)
It must be Christmas in a few weeks because many of our featured free authors this week aren’t giving away a book but rather boxed sets full of books, instead! That’s a great deal for hungry readers and Kylie Gilmore’s generosity knows no bounds as she’s handing out the first three books in her Clover Park series at the moment. These are sweet and slightly racy romance novels. They do follow on from each other but each one deals with a separate romance. I only read the first one, The …