Indie Spotlight on Romance is a biweekly peek at my picks for Indie Romance. The next few posts will feature 2018 InD’tale Rone finalists. So — I may not have read them, but All finalists have received 4 1/5 or 5 Star reviews from InD’tale’s professional reviewers.
Changing it up from my beloved Science Fiction Romance, this post presents the 2018 Rone Finalists in the Contemporary Steamy category.
Marriage and happily-ever-after are for suckers…
Joe Whelan was fooled once on the way to the altar, and the Irish doctor isn’t about to be an eejit over a woman again. Especially not one who witnessed his broken-hearted humiliation years ago. He won’t be swayed by the sparks that fly whenever his eyes meet MacKenna’s or distracted by her sweet kisses. The only thing Joe cares about is preventing his sister from making the biggest marital mistake of her life.
MacKenna Jones loves a good wedding—so long as she’s sewing the bride’s gown, not walking down the aisle herself. Falling for Joe Whelan’s sexy bedside manner wasn’t on the cards, neither was a seven-day road trip with him to Las Vegas, the Marriage Capital of the World. When the stakes are so high, will these two gun-shy cynics ever say I Do?
$3.99 Purchase Links
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Saying-Do-Roma…
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sayi…
Nook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sayi…
Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sayi…
When your heart is broken, sometimes all you need is a gentle smile.
Grace Davidson didn’t have the smoothest childhood, but now, years later, she’s ready to start her new life with her amazing new husband—until she discovers his infidelity…with her best friend. Hurt and betrayed, Grace takes off alone for the exotic resort where she should be spending her honeymoon, only to realize it’s as lonely as it sounds. Until her hunky next-door neighbor says hello.
Leo was just a man Grace met while enjoying her un-honeymoon. They became friends, but that’s it. Yet even after she returns home, she can’t get him out of her head. Too bad she’ll never see him again.
Starting over in a new town after finding her dream job, Grace suddenly runs in to Leo in the last place she expects. But is he the man she believes him to be? Or is her heart in danger of being broken wide open?
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01…
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/brok…
Nook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brok…
Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/brok…
Sixteen years ago their lives were ripped apart…
Whisked away from her beloved home as a child and raised by her elderly relatives on the Pacific Coast, Kendall Aasgaard has learned to roll with the punches. She’s strong, resilient, and independent. But when Kendall finds herself in more trouble than she can handle, her survival instincts tell her to run. She turns to the person she trusts the most-Ben Montgomery.Ben has it all-a thriving construction business, all the toys a bachelor could want, and a steady stream of brunettes to warm his bed. Love, however, is something Ben has permanently relegated to his past.
When playful, unreserved Kendall lands on his doorstep-or more accurately, in his bed-Ben realizes that his heart has no intention of following some arbitrary rule he’d instituted sixteen years ago. And if Kendall gets her way, she’d abolish that rule altogether to claim Ben’s heart for herself.
But as the threat to Kendall intensifies, Ben is faced with an adversary of his own who is determined to destroy Montgomery Construction.
Together, they’ll fight for a future that is more than the tragedy that binds them.
$2.99 Purchase Links
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Chased-Changin…
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/chas…
Nook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chas…
Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/chas…
Melody Clutterbuck has her eyes on the prize, and that prize is handsome, uptight engineer, Will Darling. As part-owner of the local flower shop, people expect her notoriously sunny disposition and esoteric way of doing things to shine, but when the town gets wrapped up in an orienteering competition, Melody’s competitive nature comes out. She plans to win both the wilderness event and the man, and nothing will get in her way. Not even Will himself.
Will Darling is nothing if not a fierce competitor. He is focused, determined, and driven. So when he finds himself falling for Melody and her chaotic, flighty, sexy ways, it seriously threatens his regimented world. And when they’re paired together for the orienteering competition and dropped into the middle of the Shoshone National Forest alone, more than one kind of sparks fly.
Can Will hold onto his organized world or will the fire between him and Melody take over and spread chaos in its wake?
Freebie Links
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06…
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/chao…
Nook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chao…
Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/chao…
Sometimes there’s a moment when you know you’ve screwed up. For Camden Skinner, it’s the night a dead pop star walks into his pub.
As one-half of Skin, an agency which specializes in cleaning up behind the ultra-rich and infamous, Cam has gotten used to getting his hands dirty. A little too used to it. After the young singer at the center of a client’s controversy is found dead, Cam decides he’s out. He walks away from Skin in search of a simpler life. Maybe even a shot at redemption.
Redemption arrives in the form of Yara Bujold.
The singer’s meteoric rise to the top surprised no one more than Yara herself. All she ever wanted was to make music. Caught up in the dark underbelly of the industry, Yara is forced to fake her own death. But she can’t hide forever.
Yara tracks down one of the principals at Skin, the very people that helped to tear her down. She’ll force Camden Skinner to make it right, whatever it takes. What she doesn’t expect is remorse from the man that helped to ruin her. And she certainly doesn’t expect to lose herself in him.
Cam finds himself sucked right back into a world he’d hoped never to step foot in again, but he can’t walk away. He has to fix this. Not only for himself, but for her. For Yara. Because she might just be everything he didn’t know he needed. She just might be everything.
$3.99 Purchase Links
Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Camden-Xio-Axe…
Kobo:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/camd…
Nook:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/camd…
Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/camd…
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