We start this week with a New York Times bestseller – The Cowboy’s Secret Bride by Cora Seton. It’s the first book in a two-book series which makes this a pretty generous giveaway from the author. She’s also ticked our preference for beginning at the beginning rather than at the end or the middle. As you might expect this is a cowboy romance novel. So, if you don’t lust after the “manly men” of yesteryear, it might leave you cold. But for those that fancy a simpler American life this could be …
Romance
Unforgettable (The New American Royals)
The first book to break our Golden Rule about giveaways this week is Unforgettable by Eva Charles. This is the 4th book in the 5 book series, The New American Royals and to be honest, I was a bit reluctant to pick it up because of that. However, it does stand pretty much on its own and as such it’s our freebie of the day. Gabe Innocenti has left a trail of broken hearts behind him but is Helena the woman to turn him around and bring love to his life? She’s a good girl and has always kept …
The Haunting Of A Duke (A Dark Regency Novel)
Chasity Bowlin had me as soon as I realized that The Haunting of A Duke is the first novel in her The Dark Regency series. This is a love story with a very fiery romance underpinning it. It’s also got plenty of murder and mystery to keep things interesting as our couple try to get things hot and steamy together. Emme Walters is a spiritualist and can, seemingly, speak to the dead and now she’s in danger and it appears that she may be the next one to end up dead. The dark, brooding and quite …
The Handfasters (A Lowland Romance)
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 …
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 …