Today’s Steals and Deals at AAR…..
We haven’t reviewed this one by Miller but it is one of her most heralded books. It has a 4.6 rating at Amazon and was called by Good Morning America a must read. Here’s the blurb:
It’s on sale for 2.99 here.
I am so excited Edward’s books are finally going on sale. I hope they find a new generation of readers! This is the first in the series and it is smokin’ hot with flawed but fun leads. Here’s the blurb:
When Lilah Jane Tunkle fled her dull life in Virginia for the bright lights of New York City, she didn’t expect to wind up a nanny to a gorgeous celebrity chef’s ten-year-old son. Working for the delectable Devon Sparks is a sure-fire recipe for disaster, especially after Lilah gets a tantalizing taste of his perfectly seasoned kisses …
Devon’s not sure he can handle one more surprise ingredient in his life—he quit his popular TV show, his culinary reputation is on the line, and now the son he barely knows is back for seconds. Lilah’s Southern sass is supposed to keep the boy in line, but soon enough she’s teaching Devon a thing or two about homespun food…and turning up the heat.
It’s on sale for 2.99 here.
If you haven’t picked this up before, you’re missing out. We loved it and it has a 4.3 rating from almost fifteen hundred Amazon readers. In our review, we wrote:
Fans of historical fiction are in for a treat with Wild Women and the Blues, a dual timeline novel about Jazz Age Chicago with its beautiful, fun but dark and dangerous world of juice joints, dance girls and racketeering, and a young man searching for redemption in twenty-first century America.
Sawyer Hayes’ life changed in an instant. He was driving during the car accident in which his sister Azizi died and has been haunted by guilt – and her ghost – for the past year. He’s tired of mourning and longs for a return to normality. Since he’s a documentary filmmaker/student, normal for him would be to tell an important story of black history. He believes his grandmother’s memory box contains the key to doing just that, because within it he found pictures and a film reel which link 110-year-old Honoree Dalcour to the legendary black director/producer Oscar Micheaux. He’s not sure what the relationship between Honoree and his grandmother is but he knows his grandmother pays for Honoree’s care, which means he knows where she’s at, how to get access to her and that she’s still sharp as a tack. He’s hoping Honoree can fill in some of the gaps in the great man’s history and give Sawyer a thesis that will help him launch his career. All he has to do is get Honoree to agree to an interview.
It’s on sale for 1.99 here.
The Mayans were wild, to say the least. (There is a recent discovery about their sacrifices that is fascinating!) This book, written in 2010, uses the Mayans as the backdrop for an interesting romantic suspense novel. In our B+ review, we wrote:
What most people know about the Maya begins and ends with the facts that they lived in Central America, they had bloody sacrifices, and the world will end in December. Beautiful Sacrifice takes the apocalyptic paranoia and turns it into a fast paced and interesting mystery surrounding violent human sacrifices, missing artifacts, and the mysterious cult of a Mayan god.
Dr. Lina Taylor is a respected expert on Maya history and artifacts, and also part Maya herself; she is descended from a royal bloodline that pre-dates the Spanish Conquest. When a number of highly valuable and rare artifacts go missing from a government evidence storage facility, Hunter Johnston – the friend of the agent whose job is on the line for the loss – goes to Lina to get advice and help. Hunter is a casual student in one of her classes, with whom she has had coffee and conversation, but both are interested in more.
Things get dangerous really quickly when they find nearly a dozen bodies and a bloody sacrifice room, and a kidnapping attempt on Lina nearly kills Hunter’s friend. The two end up going to Mexico to her family’s land, after the artifacts are linked to the ruins there, and must figure out who the mysterious “El Maya” is before midnight on the 21st of December, when the final sacrifice will be made.
With the exception of a massive info dump at the beginning, the book was a great suspense read. It had a unique plot, well-paced action, and a strong romance. Lina and Hunter had great chemistry together, and their feelings were believable. When one fears the other dead and admits they love the other, it does not feel sudden or like a crisis epiphany that won’t hold up against real life; it is something they both knew, just hadn’t vocalized.
It’s on sale for 0.99 here.