I read a lot of Samhain books. Here are ten of my favorites, in no order than the random order in my library. Where I've picked a book other than the first in a series, I actually started with that book and found it a good place to start. For some reason, the first book I read by an author often remains my very favorite by them.
1.
Cat Johnson, Flanked. He's a bull rider with a not-so-teensy medical problem. She's smoking hot and has great medical insurance. Will their marriage of convenience stay…convenient?
2.
Vivi Andrews, The Exorcist. He's an exorcist tired of women summoning demons just so they can hire him. She's the office's new receptionist, who's not what he thinks she is.
3.
Kelly Jamieson, Jilted. This is part of a four-book, four author series about the groom, the bride, the maid of honor, and the best man—and who they wind up with. In this case, he's been left at the altar by his bride-to-be. She's the ex-girlfriend and former best friend of the now-vanished bride. Can they work past what drove them apart the first time?
4.
Lauren Gallagher, The Princess and the Porn Star. She's a pop star trying to stage a comeback, and her producers have hired a porn star, Buck Harder, to co-star in her next music video. What could possibly go wrong?
5.
Ruby McNally, Singe. Ruby likes one of my favorite tropes: where the h/h can't get far enough apart. In this case, they're both firefighters at the same station, trying to track down an arsonist. She's the chief's daughter, and he knows more than he should about arson.
6.
Jackie Ashenden, Living in Sin. She's a recovered cancer patient who had to sacrifice her ballet career. He's older and cynical. She's got a month to seduce him, but he's really good at saying no….
7.
Lou Harper, Secrets and Ink. He's a clerk at a gourmet grocery store, finally having found some stability after being a troubled teen. The other hero's a cop who has a crush on said grocery store clerk, coming into the store
far too regularly. Catch is, once they get their clothes off, the cop realizes he's arrested the guy before…back when he was a troubled teen.
8.
Sydney Somers, Trust Me. I remember texting a friend of mine funny dialogue from this while I was reading it, and we've used some of that as a running gag ever since. Sydney also wrote one of the books in the same series as
Jilted.
9.
Mary Hughes, Biting Me Softly. She's a programmer at a blood bank, because of course she is. He is (you're way ahead of me, I can tell) a vampire. This was the first Samhain title I read—way back when I thought there wasn't a market for humorous erotic romance vampire books. Lesson learned.
10.
Lauren Gallagher, The Virgin Cowboy Billionaire's Secret Baby. I'll admit that I'm not a fan of the "secret baby" trope, in part because it generally involves dishonesty on the part of the woman involved. That said, a
virgin secret baby trope is pretty cool.
There were sooooooo many writers and books I love but didn't include, like
Cat Grant, and Lauren Gallagher's M/M counterpart
L. A. Witt (recently finished reading
Not Safe for Work). Also didn't include
Lexxie Couper's Heart of Fame series. Or the fact that I'm addicted to
Erin Nicholas.
Maybe some other day.
I'm hoping everything will be fine, and the authors still get paid as this goes on...
