Readers love Center’s work. We’ve not reviewed this one but it’s got a 4.5 rating at Amazon.

Helen Carpenter can’t quite seem to bounce back. Newly divorced at thirty-two, her life has fallen apart beyond her ability to put it together again. So when her annoying younger brother, Duncan, convinces her to sign up for a hardcore wilderness survival course in the backwoods of Wyoming—she hopes it’ll be exactly what she needs.

Instead, it’s a disaster. It’s nothing like she wants, or expects, or anticipates. She doesn’t anticipate the surprise summer blizzard, for example—or the blisters, or the rutting elk, or the mean pack of sorority girls. And she especiallydoesn’t anticipate that her annoying brother’s even-more-annoying best friend, Jake, will show up for the exact same course—and distract her, derail her, and . . . kiss her.

But it turns out sometimes disaster can teach you exactly the things you need to learn. Like how to keep going, even when you think you can’t. How being scared can make you brave. And how sometimes getting really, really lost is your only hope of getting found.

You can get it for 1.99 here.

Looking for an angsty, sexy historical romance? Here you go! We gave this one a B+.

Sir Gideon Trevithick is returning from India to Cornwall and the family estate, Penrhyn. He is the man of the hour, the Hero of Rangapindi, but all the accolades give him no joy and all he wants to do is get back home and stay there. While at an inn, Gideon discovers a young woman hiding in the stable. She is badly bruised, her arm is so sore she can’t use it and she is all alone. He can’t abide seeing anyone in harm’s way and offers help, but the young woman is terrified and tries to run.

She is Lady Charis Weston, the heiress to a huge fortune. Her stepbrothers, who are her guardians, want her money and have beaten and threatened her in an attempt to force her to marry an odious man who is in collusion with them. They thought they had locked her up, but Charis escaped and ran with only the clothes on her back. Having no place to go and no resources at all, she reluctantly accepts Gideon’s help.

Gradually, Charis warms to Gideon, although she does not trust him enough to give him her real name. They begin to bond on the trip to Cornwall, and as they progress, she begins to fall in love with him. Gideon is a wonderfully handsome man who shows himself to be kind, gentle and chivalrous. However, there is an odd event, when he has what looks like a total breakdown – almost a fit of insanity. But that passes quickly.

At Penrhyn, Charis tells Gideon something of her circumstances (she is not yet of age which is why her stepbrothers want to force her into marriage) and he agrees to shelter her until she reaches her majority which is only a few weeks away. But when her stepbrothers come by looking for her (she and Gideon were seen in Portsmouth) the only way to keep Charis safe, is for Gideon to marry her and he plans to do just that. But he has issues – does he ever have issues!!

It’s at Amazon for 1.99 here.

We LOVED the first book in this series. This one sounds excellent as well.

Edwin is dead. That’s what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him searching her brother’s flat for clues. While the news is shocking, Annabel can’t say it’s wholly unexpected, given Edwin’s past as a dissolute risk-taker and art forger, although he swore he’d reformed. After years spent blaming his reckless behavior for their parents’ deaths, Annabel is now faced with the question of who murdered him—because Edwin’s death was both violent and deliberate. A valuable French painting he’d been restoring for an auction house is missing from his studio: find the painting, find the murderer. But the owner of the artwork claims it was destroyed in a warehouse fire years ago.

As a painter at the prestigious Slade School of Art and as Edwin’s closest relative, Annabel makes the case that she is crucial to Matthew’s investigation. But in their search for the painting, Matthew and Annabel trace a path of deceit and viciousness that reaches far beyond the elegant rooms of the auction house, into an underworld of politics, corruption, and secrets someone will kill to keep.

It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

The In Death books are legendarily grand. This one is on sale today.

New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two—but they’d been equally desperate.

Unfortunately, they didn’t get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured, terrified, and wandering the streets of New York, and Mina lies dead near the waterfront while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene.

Mina’s expensive, elegant clothes and beauty products convince Dallas that she was being groomed, literally and figuratively, for sex trafficking—and that whoever is investing in this high-overhead operation expects windfall profits. Her billionaire husband, Roarke, may be able to help, considering his ties to the city’s ultra-rich. But Roarke is also worried about the effect this case is having on Dallas, as it brings a rage to the surface she can barely control. No matter what, she must keep her head clear–because above all, she is desperate for justice and to take down those who prey on and torment the innocent.

You can purchase it here for 2.99.

This got a DIK from us.

Sabrina and Flynn have been best friends since college, along with pals Reid and Gage. The four now work for Flynn’s family company – Monarch Consulting – and Flynn has recently taken over ownership. Now, if that wasn’t stressful enough, he did so because his father died. Add to that Flynn’s recent divorce due to his (ex) wife sleeping with his brother (really, humans are the worst sometimes) and Flynn’s rope is a little short.

Reid and Gage and Sabrina – and everyone else at Monarch – force him to take a vacation, which he grudgingly does. Around the same time, Sabrina is forced out of her home because of plumbing drama and the two end up spending Flynn’s vacation in one of his family homes. The best friendship quickly turns into something more, but will they want to continue this evolution once the vacation bubble bursts and they head back to ‘real life’?

You know the answer as well as I do. Just like in Ms. Lemmon’s other novels, the dialogue is sparkling, the sexy times swoony, and I was delighted when these folks ended up with their happily ever after.

It’s on sale for 1.99 here.

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