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August 10, 2024: Our Sweet Romance Book Bargains New Book Listing is Sponsored By: Jess Mastorakos

August 10, 2024: Our Sweet Romance Book Bargains New Book Listing is Sponsored By:  Jess Mastorakos

August 10, 2024: Our Sweet Romance Book Bargains New Book Listing is Sponsored By:  Jess Mastorakos

Jess Mastorakos

Today, for only $.99 cents (US currency), you can pick up a copy of Jess Mastorakos's "Treasured in Turtle Bay: A Sweet, Small-Town, Fake Relationship, Military Romance, Book 1, Kailua Marines  |  Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Treasured-Turtle-Bay-Relationship-Military-ebook/dp/B08NXY3M51?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RYQhvY4uVCchkS1rndp4VUYfTTKBMKPVbEO_LR12hzM6eEKReS9eAn1XoSjHxhDzgAMtlCvH_6pzJXgj9aSv6SlzH3eI6Lg80RIdGuFQ-

 

Here are Sweet Romance Book Bargains New Book Listings (we share them on Sweet books.us so you know what we have for paperbacks in our sweet clean fiction table and section at Peacock Books our sister store.

 

 

Release Date: August 9, 2024
Author: Jovie Grace
Title & Link: Going All In: Sweet Historical Christian Romance (Brides of Cedar Falls Book 6) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Going-All-Historical-Christian-Romance-ebook/dp/B0D5PVMYW1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZSXFMU5VMBNO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-mlQpMHzsuonSc9U6UO_wA.qcbktecemrOHuQDV4wE9MsqDkhr1yhMFSfHx01Izvg4&dib_tag=se&keywords=B0D5PVMYW1&qid=1723272663&sprefix=b0d5pvmyw1%2Caps%2C1052&sr=8-1&link_list=6492555

Peacock Books Collections 

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SweetBooks.Us Collections:

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Release Date: August 2, 2024
Author: Suzette Hollingsworth
Title & Links: The Race to Rainhill: A Dawn of the Railways Romance (Romancing the Rails) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Race-Rainhill-Railways-Romance-Romancing-ebook/dp/B0DC3PVLZY?ref_=ast_author_mpb&link_list=6492555

SweetBooks.us at Peacock Books Paperback Link: 

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Sorcha O'Shea is a poor factory artisan who has the opportunity to be present at an event which changes the course of history: the race for dominance of the first passenger steam locomotive. The winner of the Rainhill Trials will build the steam locomotives for the Manchester-Liverpool line, the first passenger rail line in history. The year is 1829.

While Sorcha is at the Rainhill Trials watching history unfold, she meets Robert Stephenson, the engineer who built the entry Rocket, as well as Thaddeus Fulbright, a newspaper reporter for The Liverpool Mercury who annoyingly turns up at every corner.

Lawrence Davenport, Sorcha's employer, has less than honorable designs on Sorcha, whose family depends on her income. Lawrence holds Sorcha's family's survival over her head.

Still living in an historical period containing all the elements of a Regency romance, "The Race to Rainhill" has carriages, horses, ball gowns, theatre, class hierarchy and aristocrats while on the cusp of the next phase of British life: the rail, which transformed travel, work, leisure, and even home life.

Experience the romance of the rail as history unfolds and Sorcha finds true love.

A traditional Georgian Romance.

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Release Date: July 26, 2024
Author: Jo Grafford
Book Title: PenPal Hero: Hometown Heros A-Z — Sweet, Small-Town Romantic Suspense (Born In Texas Book 16)
Kindle Edition & Paperback Link:
https://www.amazon.com/PenPal-Hero-Hometown-Z-Small-Town-ebook/dp/B0CW1HQCSC/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4EiyUsSOaltMXN87NQJehA.INLDxvJpXXfldy1477wQ4LoWysgnqBPHyxpU9YIdGCQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=B0CW1HQCSC&qid=1723273463&sr=8-1&link_list=6492555

Sweet Books at Peacock Books Paperback Link: https://sweetbooks.us/products/penpal-hero-hometown-heros-a-z-sweet-small-town-romantic-suspense-born-in-texas-book-16?link_list=7806824

A covert investigator and a bubbly realtor in training fight crime together in this penpal, secret crush romance.

PenPal Hero: Hometown Heros A-Z — Sweet, Small-Town Romantic Suspense (Born In Texas Book 16)

A covert investigator and a bubbly realtor in training fight crime together in this penpal, secret crush romance.

Holt Winchester is the nicest guy. Everyone in town likes and trusts the friendly auto detailer by day and cowboy by night, which makes him the perfect candidate for K&G Security’s new covert ops program. Few people understand he’s not entirely at the top of his game after a recent abduction.

Because of what happened to her before moving to town, Bonnie Yates is one of those few people. Fortunately, she has five overprotective brothers to keep her safe from now on. The downside is they scare away every prospective boyfriend. Hoping to turn her friendship with Holt into more, she asks him to be her penpal, never dreaming their letters would lead to a crime fighting partnership of sorts. As it turns out, two heads are better than one. She can only hope and pray that two hearts will also prove to be stronger than one, as their case takes a deadly turn.

Grab your copy of PENPAL HERO and be immersed in another one of Jo Grafford's gripping small-town romantic suspense page turners!
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Release Date: June 28, 2024:
Author: Jo Grafford
Book Title: Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas: Sweet Western Christian Romance (A Very Country Christmas Wish Book 9) Kindle Edition
Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Accidentally-Hitched-Christmas-Christian-ebook/dp/B0CPHV66ND/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JI_GzmHqsoYL4GKkMKFNoQ.M5ISHF-dWOglPbVyFsJN9twxrDB_ADj6GYlTohl5JJU&dib_tag=se&keywords=B0CPHV66ND&qid=1723270447&sr=8-1&link_list=6492555

SweetBooks.us Paperback Link:  https://sweetbooks.us/products/cowboy-accidentally-hitched-for-christmas-sweet-western-christian-romance-a-very-country-christmas-wish-book-9?link_list=6492555 

 

Author:Jo Grafford
Book Title: Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas

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Anxious to make it home for Christmas, a rodeo star hits the road in a hurry, only to discover he’s hitched his truck to the wrong trailer!

In his defense, it’s the same model and color as his. Plus, it’s dark outside. Not to mention he’s trying to beat a snowstorm out of town.

At the next truck stop, he finds himself face-to-face with the trailer's very lovely, very angry (and slightly terrified) rightful owner…and soon finds himself offering to make it up to her by posing as her husband for the remainder of the road trip. Yeah, she has her reasons for begging that kind of favor. Good reasons. And though he’s always been a sucker for damsels in distress, her situation feels like more than that— a whole lot more, at least where his feelings are concerned.

Grab your copy of Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas and be swept into this sweet & swoon-worthy snow-covered, hot-chocolate-scented, joy-filled fake marriage romance!

Books in A Very Country Christmas Wish Series:
1. Cowboy Angel in Disguise for Christmas
2. Cowboy Foreman in Love for Christmas
3. Cowboy Blind Date Mix-Up for Christmas
4. Cowboy On-the-Job Boyfriend for Christmas
5. Cowboy Single Dad Crush for Christmas
6. Cowboy Grumpy Boss for Christmas
7. Cowboy Friend Zone for Christmas
8. Cowboy Stolen Kiss for Christmas
9. Cowboy Accidentally Hitched for Christmas


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Release Date: June 20, 2024
Author: Kristeen Groth
Title & Link: Pushed: A Sweet, Small Town, Enemies-to-Lovers Romantic Comedy (Moonlit Lake Matchmaker Book 3) Kindle Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Pushed-Enemies-Lovers-Romantic-Matchmaker-ebook/dp/B0CWN4XT7J?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.R6k1EdbeGhL4rGFLKk_B8_EFsVSIlkgZSV-1dj5ZejCpoznEd7clDgFEbCPPjV_TGRWL4gqWh7WPa5EFmqhnQT2Cga9Am9HhTBQdCyecnx0.L0ou_L3uM-TfLOP1jYG44kTgJqN30GBuU_D_s2A34Yg&dib_tag=AUTHOR&link_list=6492555

Whoever said all was fair in love and war... was full of it!


SweetBooks.us Paperback Link:
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Whoever said all was fair in love and war... was full of it!

It all started when I met a handsome stranger at a fundraising gala, and had fun pretending we were engaged to get an obsessed woman off his back. It was just one evening, and nobody else would ever hear about it.

Then he shows up at my restaurant and says he plans to buy it, but he'll let me continue as the head chef—I lose it, along with scoops of mashed potatoes flying at his face!

How dare this arrogant jerk come in here and try to yank my dream out from under me? This is WAR!

But then the restaurant owners hear the rumors of our engagement and force us to partner together to make the restaurant a success, or they'll sell to a franchise and we'll lose the whole thing.

This is surely a recipe for disaster and heartbreak. There's no way it can work. Is there?

Pushed is a sweet, enemies to lovers, fake relationship romcom. Loaded with witty banter, outrageous pranks, a meddling matchmaker, swoony kisses, and small-town charm. All the fun and feels, without the spice or swears. For lovers of Emma St. Clair, Cindy Steel, and Sariah Wilson.

         

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The Race to Rainhill: A Dawn of the Railways Romance (Romancing the Rails) Kindle Edition

The Race to Rainhill: A Dawn of the Railways Romance (Romancing the Rails) Kindle Edition

The romance and mystery of the rail ignites Irish immigrant Sorcha O'Shea's personal romance in 'The Race to Rainhill".

Sorcha O'Shea is a poor factory artisan who has the opportunity to be present at an event which changes the course of history: the race for dominance of the first passenger steam locomotive. The winner of the Rainhill Trials will build the steam locomotives for the Manchester-Liverpool line, the first passenger rail line in history. The year is 1829.

While Sorcha is at the Rainhill Trials watching history unfold, she meets Robert Stephenson, the engineer who built the entry 
Rocket, as well as Thaddeus Fulbright, a newspaper reporter for The Liverpool Mercury who annoyingly turns up at every corner.

Lawrence Davenport, Sorcha's employer, has less than honorable designs on Sorcha, whose family depends on her income. Lawrence holds Sorcha's family's survival over her head.

Still living in an historical period containing all the elements of a Regency romance, "The Race to Rainhill" has carriages, horses, ball gowns, theatre, class hierarchy and aristocrats while on the cusp of the next phase of British life: the rail, which transformed travel, work, leisure, and even home life.

Experience the romance of the rail as history unfolds and Sorcha finds true love.

A traditional Georgian Romance.

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8/7/2024: Love Covers, Book 1, Leaving Lennhurst by Jullia A. David is Free Today!

2 August 7 Free today: Love Covers by Julia A. David on Amazon!

8/7/2024: Love Covers, Book 1, Leaving Lennhurst by Jullia A. David is Free Today!

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August 7, 2024

I'm happy to share a new book with you called, "Love Covers" it's the first book in the "Love Covers, Book 1, Leaving Lennhurst. It's available for free today.  I already bought my copy! Go get yours...

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Two strangers hiding their own life-long secrets. Can pretending to be married...be that hard?

The town of Greenlock shuns the daughter of the mortician. Day after day, Lauren begrudgingly has to take over her father's duties creating despondence in her tender heart. Then a voice speaks from the morgue basement. A rough and tumble outlaw who's supposed to be dead is still alive!

For some unfathomable reason, Lauren agrees to help him stay dead.

Elias was raised at Lennhurst Asylum. Since he had no family or future, he jumped a half-served prison sentence and enlisted in the recent Civil War to wield explosives. From running and surviving all his life, all Elias promised anyone was loyalty. Love was out of the question. When Lauren mentions her longing to see her mother and sister in Colorado, for loyalty’s sake, he offers to take her on the arduous wagon train journey. Of course, it wouldn't be proper not to be married while traveling together.

Lauren and Elias, so vastly opposite; their charade should be easy and yet they never expected it to threaten their very lives.

Loyalty versus love. Can Love Cover a multitude of sin or destroy a future?

PG-All my romances are standalone, happy endings, and clean with a touch of pepper. :) JD

 

Julia A David

About the author

Julia David is an Amazon #1 ranked inspirational romance author, serial DIY'er, and certified life coach. Addicted to Hallmark movies and baking, she believes it's crucial to have some predictable things in life. Her tagline' escape to an era where true love prevails' was from her own reason for reading stacks of books.

Married and mother to five, she also ministers to pregnant and parenting teens.

Find more at www.juliadwrites.com

 

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Wildlife, Loppers & Chainsaws: 1988 Vegetation Crew: My Wild, Rare, and Untold Adventures Working for the Minnesota Conservation Corps Kindle Edition by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

8/5/2024: #1 Release in Science Essays & Commentary Lisa Loucks-Christenson This ebook is exclusively sold on available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7RNKKHB/ref=zg_bs_g_3045861_d_sccl_1/147-5443011-9931101?psc=1 True-Life Adventures Books & Pictures Wildlife-Loppers-&-Chainsaws Memoir

Wildlife, Loppers & Chainsaws: 1988 Vegetation Crew: My Wild, Rare, and Untold Adventures Working for the Minnesota Conservation Corps Kindle Edition by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

 The Kindle edition is sold on Amazon and will be automatically added to your library on 9/28/2024. Click the link below to purchase through Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7RNKKHB/ref=zg_bs_g_3045861_d_sccl_1/147-5443011-9931101?psc=1

The PDF Format is sold exclusively through the Lisa Loucks-Christenson Network. Peacock Books & Wildlife Art is licensed to sell this book. All books are sold for your personal reading enjoyment and can not be used in any way without express written permission. You will own a permanent copy of the PDF file that can't be shared, resold, or given away. 

 

In 1988, I stepped out of my comfort zone and changed my life. I had accepted a job working on the Vegetation Crew for the Minnesota Conservation Corps. It was a seasonal position, run, then, by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

It was like God had heard my battle cry, and suddenly, my life and my faith had changed. This was the year I lopped, sawed, preened, and cut my path to my future. I was not alone. I had the help of my crew, two men, both of whom had become stealth guardians of my heart, brother-like co-workers that became my safety net from the storms we weathered while we worked.

This is a record of my wild adventures. An unveiling of experiences as my crew traversed and cleared goat prairies at O.L. Kipp State Park (now called “Great River Bluffs State Park”); how we helped measure the second cave at Mystery Caves in Forestville State Park; what grasses we gathered at Carlos Avery Management Area; our tree projects at Frontenac State Park, the controlled burn at Helmer-Meyer State Park (now called “Meyer-Big Island State Park”); our cutting and lopping at Sakatah Lake State Park, the “singing hills” as given by the Dakota Indians. It was the place I found a mimic among us, an orange spicebush caterpillar. It was here that we sang along to Tracy Chapman’s new release, “Fast Car” between bites of our lunch.

Our journey went fast, but we drove trucks, not cars. Our lives changed with each season. Our strength had become a three-fold cord intertwined with each other’s thoughts. Surreptitiously, we had become shields around each other’s souls. Inside this story you’ll discover a grandfather figure that had spiritually hitched a ride with us. How and how his words became our mantra once we realized that things really did work out for the best in the end. It was his gift of words that helped us shudder our storms.

This story shares the seasons of new friendships, rare animal findings, banding the rare Henslow’s sparrow, to finding a state endangered species the Common Five-lined Skink, stepping on and over six-foot timber rattlesnake sheds on the south facing goat prairies—where they liked to sunbathe and had their dens. It shares our bee and hornet stings, as well as losing another MCC member we had worked with.

Hop on the tailgate of this photographic trip shared in this memoir and ride the back roads of our lives. The inside story of three new adults growing up, believing our old age was far beyond the bluffs in view. It was a time, we all relied on each other and formed an unbreakable bond.

This was our time to become stewards of the environment, a time to study and learn about rare and endangered species, hardly ever chipping my pink nails. We became the artists taking the “before” scenes and making them the “after” scenic views. In time, we’d learn to summon our faith and could tell any bluff to “move” and in some ways, it did.

Prior to this job, my life had felt like a series of coin tosses with heads or tails results that had led me nowhere and in every direction. One unnerving flip after the other, using dimes, nickels and quarters that only shimmered like mirages as they fell, giving spinning hints about my future. Luckily, the hat I wore now, unlike the head wear of my costly past, this cap, stamped with the Minnesota Conservation Corps logo, was given to me free.

Only God knew, then, the adventures He had planned for me, starting with the day I mustered up all the courage I had and walked through the doors of the Department of Natural Resources in Rochester, Minnesota.

Here is my collection of memories and reflections, and the experiences that shaped my young adult life into its own story. It’s the unfolding events about me working closely, with two men, John and Louis, both of whom had become my lifetime brothers, at least in my heart, forever stamped with “1988 MCC Brothers.”

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Rescued in Maple Bay By Brittney Joy

Brittney Joy Clean Books Paperback Rescued in Maple Bay

Rescued in Maple Bay By Brittney Joy

July 18, 2024

Today we are sharing a story set in Maple Bay, a  sweet novella by Brittney Joy. If you buy the Kindle Edition today, it's $.00, saving you $2.99 (USD). Click on the link below or on the book cover to connect to the sales page on Amazon. 

We're adding this title to our sister site, www.SweetBooks.us too because we love sweet books and offer them to our international store shoppers. (We sell the print versions of our favorite picks through the Peacock Books bookstore.

Rescued in Maple Bay: A Sweet Small Town Cowboy Romance (Kindle Edition)

Winner of 2023 Readers-Choice Swoony Award for Best Novella

His best friend's widow needs his help... But he's afraid she's stealing his heart as well.

It takes everything Lilah Davis has to be a single mom and run the animal rescue she started with her late husband. In fact, without Henry's parents and his best friend Trace checking in she's pretty sure everything would fall apart. When three abandoned horses are turned over to her care, Trace is the one she turns to for help. It has absolutely nothing to do with how he makes her feel... Besides, she's not ready for anything more than friendship.

Trace Cardona is honoring his best friend’s last wish—for him to watch over Lilah and the kids. So when Lilah ends up with a wild, dangerous horse that needs training, he's willing to step in to help her—and continue to ignore his growing feelings for his friend's widow.

Trace could never take Henry’s place... But the more time Lilah & Trace spend together, the stronger their connection grows. And ignoring their feelings seems impossible. Even if they both know they should.

♥ ♥ ♥

Rescued in Maple Bay is a heartwarming friends-to-lovers novella with a tough but tender cowboy. Be prepared to swoon, smile, and blissfully-sigh. Each book in the Maple Bay Series is set in the same small town with a guaranteed happily ever after.

Rescued in Maple Bay is the prequel to the Maple Bay Series and can be read as a standalone.

  • Rescued in Maple Bay
  • Starting Over in Maple Bay
  • Second Chance in Maple Bay
  • Country Stars in Maple Bay
  • Matched in Maple Bay

 

 

 

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About the author

Author of sweet stories full of hope, heart, and happily-ever-afters.

Brittney and her family live in their own piece of heaven in the Oregon countryside. They stay busy with their menagerie of silly horses, cackling chickens, wooly sheep, and two very naughty goats. When Brittney isn%u2019t writing, she%u2019s riding or reading. And she wishes she could do all three at the same time.

Visit Brittney Joy at brittneyjoybooks.com

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