Hello! Happy Thursday. It’s chilly here which is nice. Starting to feel that wintery joy! And speaking of joy–here are today’s Steals and Deals!

Readers love Kingsley and the price is right on this one. Here’s the blurb:

Hardworking Isabelle Cook has a serious problem. Her family farm, site of Tilikum’s Christmas Village, is in trouble. Big trouble. And worst of all? The man trying to buy it is none other than the grumpiest, grinchiest man of them all—Elias Stoneheart.

That’s a big nope. She’s not letting him get involved. Not with his heart made of coal.

Elias Stoneheart is in the business of making money, not friends. Especially when his boss is promising a long-awaited promotion. All he has to do is convince one struggling family to sell their farm.

The problem? It’s Cook Family Farm. And Isabelle Cook is his ex.

He might have history with Isabelle, but this is just business. A Christmas-loving farm girl is not going to come between him and his ambition.

And Christmas? He hates it. Christmas Village needs to go.

But as Elias spends time in the small town, holiday spirit—and Isabelle—get under his skin. And she might be the only one who can melt the ice around his heart.

It’s at Amazon for 0.99 here.

We gave this one a DIK.

It Happened One Fight is just the sort of snappy screwball romantic comedy that the romance world has been waiting for. It pays a fine tribute to the 1930s romantic comedies it’s clearly based upon, and provides the reader with one heck of a rollicking ride.

Joan Davis and Dashiell (Dash) Howard make beautiful music onscreen; it’s offscreen that’s the big problem. A fight at the Coconut Grove during an fake date between them becomes a disaster when someone tips off the paparazzi, and Joan – who is already struggling to forge an identity for herself outside of the popular movies she and Dash make together – is fit to be tied and blames him. Dash is incorrigible like that, and Joan is just as fiery.

Months later, when Joan becomes engaged to fellow actor Monty Smythe, no one knows that she’s simply and cheerfully bearding for a close friend, but Joan doesn’t mind putting friendship before love. Then she learns something terrible when gossip maven Leda Price calls her after news of her and Monty’s engagement breaks – one of Dash’s onset pranks has backfired, and the two of them are now legally married! Leda threatens to break the news of Joan’s marriage to Dash as revenge for Joan not telling her first about her engagement to Monty.

A tête-à-tête with studio heads results in a brainstorm; Dash and Joan will film their next – and last, Joan hopes – picture together, At Long Last Love, in Reno, obtain a quickie divorce while there and move on with their lives. Enter love, farce, and some pretty memorable love confession scenes.

You don’t have to be a movie buff to guess that Dash is based on Clark Gable and Joan (partially) on both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. But it’s what Lenker does with their romance that makes the story fun, and it’s hard to deny that It Happened One Fight definitely is that. I mean, our hero and heroine get into a fishing competition. He puts a skunk in her dressing room. She turns the tables. It’s really all you need in this kind of romance.

It’s on sale for 2.99 here.

YMMV with this one. Our reviewer didn’t love it but acknowledges her expectations may have been too high.

The St. Leger family live in Cornwall in Castle St. Leger, an impressively gloomy pile that always seems to be surrounded by wind, rain, and lightning. The castle’s current owner and head of the family is Anatole St. Leger, who also always seems to be surrounded by wind, rain, and lighting. The St. Leger family had its origin in Prospero St. Leger who was burned at the stake for witchcraft. All of Prospero’s descendants are gifted (or cursed) with powers. Anatole is telekinetic, can sense the presence of another long before he can see or hear the person, and has visions foretelling future tragedies, but he cannot prevent them.

The St. Leger men rely on the services of a family Bride Finder to get them wives. Anatole gives the current Bride Finder, Reverend Fitzleger a list of characteristics he wants in a wife. She must be tall and robust, she must love horses and hate books and above all – not have red hair. Anatole has had a vision warning him about a tragedy connected with a flame-haired lady.

Reverend Fitzleger brings him Madeline Breton. She is small, slender, bookish, not a horsewoman, and has bright red-gold hair. Since Reverend Fitzleger insists Madeline is the one destined for Anatole (and Madeline’s feckless family has already spent her marriage settlement), the marriage takes place. Madeline is a sensible, rational woman and Anatole does not tell her of his paranormal powers. Anatole has always hated his powers, since his mother rejected him as soon as they manifested – he fears that Madeline will have the same reaction. On her part, Madeline finds Anatole attractive in his dark and brooding way, but senses that he is keeping something from her.

Madeline and Anatole grow closer, but just as things are beginning to run smoothly for them, Madeline is thrust into a family feud involving Anatole’s cousin, Roman St. Leger. This feud not only threatens their happiness, but threatens Anatole’s life. The book comes to a climax (in a thunderstorm) involving family secrets, the identity of the flame-haired lady in the vision, Anatole’s reconciliation with Madeline, and her acceptance of his St. Leger gifts.

It’s on sale at Amazon for 2.49 here.

Do you have all the In Death books? If not, here’s a good one for you. (Our B+ review is here.)

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is at the theater with her husband, Roarke, watching an Agatha Christie play when the mystery turns very real. A prop knife replaced with a real blade has left an actor dead. Eve quickly moves into cop mode and begins investigating.

Eve and Roarke never let me down. Their scenes inevitably make me smile and think how perfectly suited they are for each other. I love the way Roarke always knows exactly what Eve needs and how to get her to accept it. They have an almost perfect marriage.

While Eve and Roarke’s relationship is always exciting, it is also beginning to become a bit predictable. The love scenes are starting to sound the same: they’re all quick, sensual and melting with drugging kisses. Roarke always helps Eve with the case on the sly, and she always eventually accepts it. While long-time readers of this series might think author Robb has gotten a bit complacent, she certainly eased my mind when, roughly midway through Witness, she started to develop something new regarding Eve and her history.

Robb delves more into Eve’s psyche this time, while Roarke is mainly along for the ride. Eve’s mother, or lack thereof, is explored through fleeting memories. Two suspects in the case are revealed to have a family bond that triggers Eve’s thoughts of her mother. It’s an interesting area that I can’t wait to see Robb explore further. Eve also begins to realize that certain areas of her relationship with Roarke are more one-sided and takes steps to rectify that.

It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

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