It’s July, which means Smashwords’ Summer/Winter sale is in full swing. This is the time of year where you can pick up indie ebooks at dramatically slashed prices, including ones discounted 100%. Here are Lover’s Quarrel’s top picks for the Summer/Winter sale of 2020.
Duality by Chloe Spencer
Genre: Science Fiction, LGBTQ+
Get Duality 25 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
A dead-end job, a slob for a boyfriend, and neglectful friends: this is Kat Wallace’s life. Ever since her best friend got married, Kat has been struggling to find happiness.
All that changes when she meets Melody Adebayo, a field agent with the mysterious transdimensional company Clockwork & Associates. Melody’s job is to send the consciousness of others to a scarier dimension in order to make them kinder and more grateful for their lives, which, in theory, will influence them to do good.
But when Kat is sent to B-215, she awakes in a world beyond her wildest dreams. She’s wealthy, well-liked, and has a successful career. Kat realizes she doesn’t need to find happiness in her own world … she can just steal it from her other self.
Because of a certain (ahem) incident, Melody owes a lot of money to her evil ex-girlfriend, and Kat works out a deal with her in order to keep visiting B-215. With each visit, a sinister plot unfolds. Kat discovers her life is at risk, and she isn’t alone in this dimension.
To eliminate the threat, she must team up with Melody, but can the two uncover the truth before Kat loses her life? More important, will they be able to move on from the mistakes they made in the past and find love with each other?
Love in the Fast Lane by Rose Francis
Genre: Contemporary
Get Love in the Fast Lane 25 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
When an adventurous, thrill-seeking billionaire is assigned a steadfast young woman to help rein in his reckless tendencies, sparks begin to fly!
Abby’s job as Dan’s personal coach is to help tame the bad boy’s passion for extremely fast cars, and it’s not an easy task.
But she also begins taming his soul, and they both find themselves falling for someone outside of their usual comfort zones.
Racial and lifestyles differences work against them, but will their unexpected love conquer all?
The Billionaire Deal by Rose Francis
Genre: Contemporary
Get The Billionaire Deal 25 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
When Judy’s longtime crush asks her for a HUGE favor—to help him get out of a PR nightmare by pretending to be his fiancée—she can barely contain her joy.
She thinks she finally has a chance to get him to see her in a different light—as something more than his best friend’s little sister—but it soon becomes apparent her playboy crush has no plans to settle down soon, and certainly not with someone like her.
Once the storm blows over and they part ways, Judy tries to move on from the heartbreak, but Scott takes a sudden interest in her again.
After being burned once, can she trust her old crush has finally seen what’s been in front of him the whole time?
The Little Library by Kim Fielding
Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Get The Little Library 50 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
Elliott Thompson was once a historian with a promising academic future, but his involvement in a scandal meant a lost job, public shame, and a ruined love life. He took shelter in his rural California hometown, where he teaches online classes, hoards books, and despairs of his future.
Simon Odisho has lost a job as well—to a bullet that sidelined his career in law enforcement. While his shattered knee recovers, he rethinks his job prospects and searches for the courage to come out to his close-knit but conservative extended family.
In an attempt to manage his overflowing book collection, Elliott builds a miniature neighborhood library in his front yard. The project puts him in touch with his neighbors—for better and worse—and introduces him to handsome, charming Simon. While romance blooms quickly between them, Elliott’s not willing to live in the closet, and his best career prospects might take him far away. His books have plenty to tell him about history, but they give him no clues about a future with Simon.
Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story by Charles Weinblatt
Genre: Historical
Get Jacob’s Courage 50 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
Jacob’s Courage is a tender coming of age love story of two young adults during the Holocaust. This historical novel explores the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are murdered. From despair, to unforgettable moments of chaste beauty, Jacob’s Courage examines a constellation of emotions during a time of incomprehensible brutality.
To The Stars and Back by Camilla Isley
Genre: Contemporary
Get To The Stars and Back 75 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
When Hollywood’s sexiest bachelor meets the girl next door, their relationship doesn’t follow the script…
On-screen, Christian Slade is America’s favorite heartthrob. Off-screen, letting romance into his life isn’t as easy. The women he dates all seem to want a piece of his glamorous life rather than his heart, and trust doesn’t come easy for him.
Then along comes Lana. A beautiful rocket scientist who’s also sweet, smart, sexy, and has absolutely no idea who he is. But what will happen when she finds out?
Will their worlds prove too far apart or could love really be like in the movies?
Burns by Erin O’Quinn
Genre: Contemporary, LGTBQ+
Get Burns 75 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
These four novellas, although each complete in itself, do tell a story and form a novel: What if two men, running from themselves, were to meet? Would the clash of their collision make them ironically whole again? Or would their subtle but serious differences finally send them careening off each other, lost and splintered and running once more?
Hold Tight by Laura Harner
Genre: Contemporary, LGBTQ+
Get Hold Tight by Laura Harner 75 percent off before July 31st, 2020.
Sheriff Holden Titus had organized his fresh start down to the last detail. Except for the part about the bomb that blew his plans all to hell. Now he’s running out of time, without a job, without a home, and struggling to get back on his feet. Literally.
Despite the impolite rejection, Drew knows he didn’t have the wrong impression months ago when he asked the sheriff to dance, but he never expected to have Holden’s life in his hands. Literally.
Thanks to some meddlesome matchmaking, the two men are now temporary housemates at the Willow Springs Ranch and Drew is determined to help Holden heal, both physically and emotionally. Even if it means he has to drag the other man kicking and screaming to physical therapy…and out of the closet. In fact, that might be kind of fun.
The problem is, Holden doesn’t consider himself in the closet…but not all secrets are created equal.
Brides of the Kindred by Evangeline Anderson
Genre: Science Fiction
Get Brides of the Kindred for FREE before July 31, 2020.
Claimed:
A race of Genetic Traders from beyond the stars.
Three very different types of Alpha males
all focused on one thing…claiming their brides
In all their years of travel the Kindred have come across only three worlds with
species close enough to their own to initiate a trade.
Earth is the fourth.
Olivia Waterhouse is about to be Claimed.
Hunted:
A desperate girl on the run
with nowhere to hide…
A warrior who has made a vow
never to claim a bride…
Sophia Waterhouse is being Hunted
and the only man who can save her
is the one she fears the most…
Sought:
One woman…Two hot guys…A galaxy of problems
Kat O’Connor is no pushover. She’s a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. But there’s nothing common about what’s happening to her lately…
Kat is being Sought by two Kindred warriors at once–how will she ever survive?
Found:
A warrior with a scarred heart who doesn’t know how to love. And the woman who must teach him how before it’s too late…Can Lauren and Xairn, the abused and wounded son of the All-Father come together in time to avert catastrophe?
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