09 Saturday Mar 2019
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Beautiful Encounter |
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Lindsey Hart |
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July 24th 2018 |
| A modern-day retelling of The Little Mermaid with a guaranteed HEA.
Owen Maren This is a full length stand-alone steamy romance novel. No cheating. No cliff-hanger. And HEA all the way!! |
08 Friday Mar 2019
The Show
John A. Heldt
Northwest Passage #3
Seattle, 1941. Grace Vandenberg, 21, is having a bad day. Minutes after Pearl Harbor is attacked, she learns that her boyfriend is a time traveler from 2000 who has abandoned her for a future he insists they cannot share. Determined to save their love, she follows him into the new century. But just when happiness is within her grasp, she accidentally enters a second time portal and exits in 1918. Distraught and heartbroken, Grace starts a new life in the age of Woodrow Wilson, silent movies, and the Spanish flu. She meets her parents as young, single adults and befriends a handsome, wounded Army captain just back from the war. In THE SHOW, the sequel to THE MINE, Grace finds love and friendship in the ashes of tragedy as she endures the trial of her life.
I am really excited to finally be able to read the story about Grace and Joel. The best thing about coming back? I
t fels like meeting old friends.
08 Friday Mar 2019
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Bad Boy Rich |
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Kat T. Masen |
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July 24th 2018 |
| He called himself Bad Boy Rich. The baddest boy in town. Not my town, but the land of Hollywood. A place where dreams come true, or—become your nightmare. I was stuck somewhere in the middle.After losing her job and forced to provide for her sick mother, Milana is offered the role of a lifetime—PA to the famous Emerson Chase—and dives head first into the world of the Rich… Wesley Rich. A self-proclaimed bad boy. Driven by sex, jealously and mind games, they form an obsessive love. |
07 Thursday Mar 2019
Love Me Like That
Marie James
N/A
Two strangers trapped together in a blizzard.One running from the past; one with no future.Two destinies collide.London Sykes is on her own for the first time in her life after a sequence of betrayal and abuse. One man rescues her only to destroy her himself. An unfortunate accident lands her in a ditch only to be rescued by the most closed-off man sheâs ever met, albeit undeniably handsome. Kadin Cole is at the cabin in the woods for the very first and the very last time. Since his grief doesnât allow for him to return home to a life heâs no longer able to live alone, heâs finally made what has been the hardest decision of his life. His plans change drastically when a beautiful woman in a little red car crashes into his life.How can she trust another man? How could he ever love again?Will happenstance and ensuing sexual attraction be enough to heal two hearts enough that they can see in themselves what the other sees?
07 Thursday Mar 2019
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Julia Sykes |
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July 18th 2018 |
| It’s supposed to be one wild night in Nashville. Another night flirting with strangers; another night pretending I’m not desperately lonely.
Then, I meet a man with pain in his eyes and lies on his lips. A man even more isolated and damaged than I am. He lives a life of secrets and solitude, but the connection between us is undeniable. I know I’ll never see him again, but for one passionate night, we’ll hold together the broken pieces of each other’s souls. Note: Wounded Hero is the prequel to Wounded Hearts. |
06 Wednesday Mar 2019
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06 Wednesday Mar 2019
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Wounded Hearts |
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Men in Blue #5 |
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Jayne Rylon |
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June 2nd 2015 |
| Attraction, fear, danger—an unlikely recipe for healing scars.
Men in Blue, Book 5 In the year since Ellie escaped The Scientist’s ghastly dungeon, she still can’t stop looking over her shoulder. Or stop feeling guilty over the man who sacrificed so much to save her. He lost everything. His career, his aspirations—even part of his body. It’s no wonder he wants nothing to do with her. Too bad he’s the only man she can think about. Lucas has vowed to stay away from Ellie, but not for the reason she thinks. The woman he craves doesn’t need to waste her life taking care of a man with a missing leg, not when she needs to focus on her own healing. Despite the best matchmaking attempts of the Men in Blue—and their wives—the emotional and physical gap between them seems uncrossable. Until Ellie is threatened again, and the only choice is to work together until she’s safe. But to stay in the land of the living, they’ll both have to fight through their pain—and relive a few nightmares—to guarantee their demons won’t destroy her future. Warning: Contains an alpha male with a broken body, but whose best bits are in fine working order. And a woman who survived hell, and is determined to fit enough of their jagged edges together to make a whole. Vivid PTSD flashbacks of sexual violence could be disturbing for some readers. |
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
Pain
Amanda Mackey
N/A
Life is sweet in The Sanctuaryâuntil Lillian Harris is thrown the curveball of her life.Lillian is perfectly happy cocooned within the lofty perimeter fence of The Sanctuary. Her Sanctuaryâa vast oasis for rescued lions, tigers and elephants. The animals are her world. So when Lillianâs dad tells her a nineteen-year-old criminal whoâs fresh out of prison is coming to The Sanctuary as part of a rehabilitation program, Lillian is more than a little apprehensive. She interacts with animals more than humansâand definitely not criminals.Justice Armstrong is more arrogant than a Silverback, but something darker lurks behind his eyes…It isnât until Justice swaggers toward her from the parole officerâs carâpierced, confidant, and more than a little hotâLillian knows she has her work cut out for her. His stare has the power to rob her of all thought. His words, although crude and nefarious, bring a part of her to life she never knew existed. How is this criminal suddenly turning her world upside down?He has the power to drag her to the dark side….Painâhis drug of choice. A vice he canât survive without. Then he meets herâLillian Harris. Little miss hellcat. Fiery, strong, and all woman. She challenges him at every damn turn, and watching her tame those fierce big cats…well, it just makes his need for her that much stronger.He wants to do things to her…wicked things. She makes him crave pain in a whole new way. When a teen with a dark past bumps heads with the feisty rescue worker, will it be love over lustâor a matter of life and death?
Did anybody note the number plate of the truck that hit me while reading “PAIN” by Amanda Mackey ?
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
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The second he walked through the door, she could tell he was trouble.
Grace knows better than to fall for a Hollywood bad boy like Scott Deacon. An arrogant movie star with a troubled past and a big honking chip on his shoulder? No, thank you. He may be sex on wheels, but beneath the charming facade he’s just another cocky jackass destined to make her job more difficult.
Except…
The more time they spend together, the hotter the fire between them burns. With every flirtatious smile and brush of his hand, she feels her defenses crumbling.
She wants to hate him, but instead she’s in danger of losing all control.
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Tuesday they were shooting on location in Jackson Square all day. The call time was two hours before dawn, so they could wring every second of sunlight out of the day, and Grace could not stop yawning on the transport van to the location.
“Wakey, wakey,” Scott said, leaning over the back of his seat to shake a plastic tumbler filled with something thick and green and disgusting-looking in front of her face.
“Ugh,” Grace grumbled. “Get that away from me.” She couldn’t help but smile a little though, even through her sleep-deprived crankiness.
An hour later, as the first streaks of light were glimmering in the sky above the river, Scott showed up at the pop-up tent where video village had been set up, and presented Grace with a white paper bag and a tall styrofoam cup from Café du Monde.
“For me?” she asked, perking up considerably. “Did you seriously walk over there and buy me coffee?” He didn’t seem to have gotten anything for anyone else. Just her. Her brain filed this information away to obsess over and analyze later, when he wasn’t standing two feet away grinning at her.
“Café au lait,” Scott said smugly. “And beignets.”
Grace narrowed her eyes at him in suspicion. “Did you make one of the PAs do it?”
“As a matter of fact, I did it all by myself. And I had to take a picture with the employees, so I hope you appreciate it.”
“I do!” she said, beaming at him. “You’re officially my favorite person today.”
He blinked at her, his smirk fading into something else entirely. Whatever that expression on his face was, it sent Grace’s stomach tumbling into a free fall. Rather than examine it more closely, she focused her attention on the bag in her hand. Inside was a mountain of powdered sugar, and buried beneath it were three pillowy squares of fried dough. “Don’t inhale while you’re eating those,” Scott warned her.
“Not my first rodeo,” Grace told him, excavating a beignet. “Want one?”
“Noooo.” He held up his hands in a warding gesture. “I’m doing a water cut for that fight scene on Thursday.”
Right. He’d be shirtless, which meant the Abs of Glory would be on full display. Grace found herself looking forward to Thursday with a little more enthusiasm.
“Sucks for you,” she said, giving him a taunting grin as she bit into a beignet.
His eyes homed in on her mouth with laser beam focus. “That’s fine. I’ll just enjoy them vicariously by watching you eat.”
“Does this get you off?” she asked archly and took another bite.
Scott licked his lips. “Not gonna lie, it kind of does.”
Grace couldn’t help laughing at his retriever-staring-down-a-dog-treat expression, which led her to make the fatal mistake of inhaling with the beignet in front of her mouth. Coughing sugar out of her lungs, she clapped a hand over her mouth as a cloud of fine white powder billowed out in front of her.
Scott sidestepped the powdered sugar typhoon and patted her on the back, chuckling. “Told you not to inhale.”
About Susannah NixSusannah Nix is the author of quirky contemporary romances about smart women and swoony men, including the Chemistry Lessons series of romcoms featuring STEM heroines and the Starstruck series of movie star romances. She lives in Texas with her husband, two ornery cats, and a flatulent pit bull.
When she’s not writing, Susannah enjoys reading, cooking, knitting, watching too much television, and getting distracted by Tumblr. She is also a powerlifter who can deadlift as much as Captain America weighs.
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Today I read “Fallen Star” – the second book in the Starstruck Series by Susannah Nix. Two weeks ago or so I read the first book “Rising Star” and already liked the way this author develops her stories. This time she went even further. Fallen star is almost a cliché without being one – let’s see how do I explain this … This book is a lesson on prejudice and pride, a lesson on strength and vulnerability – a story of how they end up in misunderstandings when people do not communicate It should be a lecture for us to not judge people without knowing everything. To not condemn them for past mistakes unless they are unforgivable To give them a chance to redeem themselves if their mistakes are forgivable – especially if we have no idea what actually happened. I actually physically hurt for Scott because the way Susannah Nix presented the story is exactly the way it happens in reality. Not that I know anything about the life of people in Hollywood but lets be honest … WE ALL HAVE BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT – and I am more than relieved that I do NOT have wear that T-shirt. And it is only one step from real life that we know to the social media we also follow. We see things there that someone posted. Someone that might have received money for it or gained otherwise from it. The context in which it is posted might be right or it might be wrong – we are in no position to judge – yet we do it – automatically – either in quiet in our minds or out loud – but we do it. I bet from the plot you are expecting Scott to be a bad boy – and Grace to be the “innocent victim to his charm” – and maybe I am the odd one out there but for me Scott is actually the “victim” and Grace is the perfect mirror of our society. Taking the first line from the blurb – actually Grace SHOULD know better – because there is not only this one side to Hollywood – she should know there is also the other side – the one where appearance is everything and once you have a “name” you have it forever – in good times and in bad. But Grace is written in a way that shows a person can also change her mind believable and the reader can forgive her too for her prejudice. I really loved how the whole plot developed as it felt real – it never felt exaggerated in any way and I think every reader that likes the blurb will be able to step into the story and feel it. And maybe we can learn something from it – so we think twice before coming to an opinion the next time we see something on social media. |
05 Tuesday Mar 2019
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Scarred: Hudson & Callie |
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Oak Springs Book 2 |
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Lucy Rinald |
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July 19th 2018 |
| Callie: I’ve been a good person all my life. If anyone ever needed me I was there. Just as I was there for my best friend Emilee. I was there the day she was attacked, I saved her life, and the life of her young son. Did I honestly believe the monster who did it would break out of prison and come looking for us? No. But that’s exactly what happened. He escaped and I again saved Emilee’s life, along with the lives of my two younger sisters. I let him take his revenge out on me. That man did vile, sick, unimaginable things to me, and God knows how I survived it. But I did survive, and now I’m one mass of scars and memories I cannot forget. I’m trying to put my life back together, I’m getting there slowly, even if I do have to hide my face from everyone in town. There’s one person who won’t let me hide, though. One man I never thought I’d see again after he walked away from me three weeks before our wedding five years ago. Hudson Ryker. The love of my life still to this day, but if he thinks I’m going to make it easy for him, he’s very much mistaken. Hudson: When I walked away from Callie Harper five years ago, I did so for selfish reasons. I loved her, god I loved her fiercely. But my mother’s death affected me in ways I never imagined it could. I needed to get out. It took me five long years to move forward. Like the cocky SOB I am, I thought I could come home to Oak Springs and Callie Harper would just fall into my arms like I’d never been away. |