January is the month for New Beginnings, isn't it?
I'm beginning physical therapy at a mobility clinic, a different doctor and everything, next week to deal with problems left over from last year.
So it's a new beginning for me because I'm determined to see some significant improvement.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Today's Romancing the Weekend post is the last time this feature will appear on Thurday. Beginning next week, the feature on romance themes, or tropes, will publish on select Fridays.
Now, let's get to the New Beginnings in some capitvating romance novels from some great authors.
PREVIOUS ROMANCING THE WEEKEND POSTSIf you'd like to browse through previous Romancing the Weekend posts, I think you'll find some books you'll want to read. Here's a list of the previous posts.
Romancing the Weekend: Second Chance Romance
Romancing the Weekend: Opposites Attract
Romancing the Weekend: Later in Life
Romancing the Weekend: Single Parent
Romancing the Weekend: Holiday Episode #1
Romancing the Weekend: Holiday Episode #2
Romancing the Weekend: Holiday Episode #3
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This book also fits the Marriage of Convenience trope.
Her biggest dream’s offered on a platter, but the clincher is, she has to marry a perfect stranger.
When her employer offers the no-nonsense Shannon Nadjiwon the position of chauffeuring Séamus Daugherty, she jumps at the chance.
Her biggest dream’s offered on a platter, but the clincher is, she has to marry a perfect stranger.
When her employer offers the no-nonsense Shannon Nadjiwon the position of chauffeuring Séamus Daugherty, she jumps at the chance.
To work for one of Toronto’s most powerful families means she can make her biggest dream of owning a fleet of limos come true, something her female relations tooling away at her Ojibway community want badly for her, and she won’t let them down.
His reckless need for speed cost Séamus Daugherty his license. If he doesn’t marry, as demanded by his overbearing father, he will lose not only his lucrative job with the family business—the only positive aspect in Séamus’ gilded cage life—but everything Daugherty.
The unpretentious and gorgeous Shannon will make the perfect bride, and Séamus is ready to strike a deal with her, one that will ensure he keeps everything he holds dear if she puts a wedding ring on her finger. However, they face three big obstacles: his family, her family, and a marriage neither truly wants, leaving both wondering if the sizzling sexual chemistry and cozy rapport they share is enough to create a happily ever after.
His reckless need for speed cost Séamus Daugherty his license. If he doesn’t marry, as demanded by his overbearing father, he will lose not only his lucrative job with the family business—the only positive aspect in Séamus’ gilded cage life—but everything Daugherty.
The unpretentious and gorgeous Shannon will make the perfect bride, and Séamus is ready to strike a deal with her, one that will ensure he keeps everything he holds dear if she puts a wedding ring on her finger. However, they face three big obstacles: his family, her family, and a marriage neither truly wants, leaving both wondering if the sizzling sexual chemistry and cozy rapport they share is enough to create a happily ever after.
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This book also fits these tropes: Pregnant Heroine, Foodie Romance, Slow Burn Romance.
Cupid has lousy timing.
After kicking her cheating husband to the curb, nurse Anna Khoury discovers she’s pregnant.
When Bangers Tavern’s hunky chef makes heart eyes at her, she dismisses that delicious thrill as the last thing she needs. Single motherhood will take all her strength and focus. Anna’s battered heart can’t take another blow.
Chef Diego Vargas is aiming higher than burgers and tater tots. His dream—his own food truck, the Empanada Angel, but he’ll need his family’s support to pull it off. Meeting Anna leaves him thunderstruck, even though his attraction to her threatens all his plans. Call it fate, call him crazy, but he’s determined to prove he’s in it for keeps.
With a belligerent ex-husband and two overprotective families set on breaking them up, Anna and Diego will need more than red-hot passion to pull them through. His career and her baby’s future are on the line.
Come back to Bangers Tavern for a spicy tale of forbidden love that will warm your heart…and other parts…and make you hungry for empanadas!
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When Love Comes Home is Book 6 of Fitzpatrick Family, and it also fits these tropes: Second Chance, Sweet & Wholesome, Sweet Home Alabama with a twist. This book is a Kindle Unlimited selection.
Sometimes your heart knows what’s best.
Sammy Fitzpatrick and Tiffany Fischer eloped on prom night. The next day her father forced them to sign annulment papers then whisked her off to art school.
Sammy and Tiffany made secret plans to go to Guatemala with a mission group. She and her parents disappear without a trace.
Resigned to a life alone, Sammy heads to the mission field missing a chunk of his heart.
Ten years later, he learns the annulment papers were never filed. Tiffany is still legally his wife, but she doesn’t know it. She's engaged to someone else. His heart has never let him forget. But is he too late?
As secrets unravel, will they be able to find the love they once shared again?
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Sex in the City grows up!
Can newly-single Rachel Fontaine take her best friend’s advice and never turn down a sexy romp?
Such brazen behavior goes against her character. Or does it? Is sex-with-the-ex a mistake?
What about sex with the hot new TV host? Do younger men really like older women?
When did fifty become the new thirty? Hold on for the fun as Rachel reinvents herself and discovers life after fifty is fabulous!
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Once upon a time, their hearts beat as one…
Beating in Time is a New Release that's the latest in the Last Chance Beach Romance Series, and it's available for only 99¢ during this pre-order period. It publishes Feb. 5 so grab it today.
This book also fits these tropes: Rock and Roll Romance, Second Chance, Brother's Best Friend, Beach Romance.
Drummer Levi Cannon knows that all the platinum records in the world won’t fill the Remi-sized hole in his heart.
"I left Last Chance Beach and Remington Lawson behind when I took my shot at fame and fortune, but I had no idea what I was sacrificing. Now that a fundraiser has brought me home, I want more than anything to win her back. But it’s been eight years. There may be a bridge that connects the island to the mainland, but am I a fool to think that I can build something that will span the chasm of all those years?"
Remi Boyd knows that her love for her brother’s best friend has never died.
"But what kind of fool would I be to trust him again after he broke my heart? I was a child when he left. Now I’m a woman who’s been a wife and I’m also a mother to the most precious girl in the world. I can’t drag her through some torrid affair, and that is clearly all Levi can offer me."
Music took him away. Music brought him back. But is it too late to recapture what they once had? Or can Last Chance Beach work its magic for them?
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This book, a Kindle Unlimited selection, fits New Beginnings as well as these tropes: Second Chance Romance, Marriage of Convenience, Emotional Scars, and Misunderstood Heroine.
Maddie decides a marriage of convenience is the only answer. She turns to the one man in the world she can trust, her housekeeper’s son who always treated her like a little sister when they were growing up—until one disastrous night when she acted impetuously.
Jake Becker hasn’t seen Maddie since the night she tried to seduce him. Why should he help the woman who changed the course of his life? Simple. Revenge.
Or is it something else? Something that sizzles like steam heat between Maddie and Jake that neither can resist?
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TAKEAWAY TRUTH
The weekend is almost here. Pick a few New Beginnings romance novels to keep you company. Join me next week on Friday, January 20, for Part 3 of New Beginnings Romance.
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Thanks so much for featuring Delicious Heat!
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DeleteJoan, thank you so much for including Fabulous at Fifty. I hope all goes well with the new physical therapy regime. January really is fresh start time, as echoed by her heroine, Rachel on her fiftieth birthday.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, and thank you. I'm hoping for great things to result.
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