Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Book Review for The Score by Kristen Proby

 

An all-new meet-cute sports romance from New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kristen Proby, featuring Sophie Montgomery!

The Score by Kristen Proby is now live!

I have millions of followers on social media, and it has absolutely nothing to do with my last name. It's because I'm good at what I do. I work hard, and it has paid off.
I'm not a trainer who only talks the talk, either. I walk the walk—or rather, I run the run. It was actually during one of those jogs through the park that I ran into him.


Of course, at the time, I didn't realize it was the Isaiah "Ike" Harrison, Seattle's hot new quarterback. All I knew was that I was suddenly pinned under some solid, sexy body, unable to breathe.


But even now, I keep running into Ike in the most unexpected places.
And he's doing everything in his power to convince me that he's not just a player—in any form of the word.
It's so much more than that.
But I've been there, done that. I have the mended broken heart to prove it and have no intention of doing it again.
Except the frustrating man is convincing, and my walls are quickly lowering—especially when I feel responsible for possibly upending his career.


Is letting him in a mistake? Or will it be the best thing I've ever done?


My Thoughts:  Fun, sexy, sweet, and romantic.   All that I hope for when I pick up a Kristen Proby book.   The Score is book three in this series and each book is a standalone.  

In this book we follow Sophie and Ike as they crash into their relationship and never slow down.  From their very first collision the sparks fly.  From there it only gets hotter.  While Ike  is a young athlete living his best life, he stays grounded and does not let his fame go to his head.  He knows what he wants and he wants Sophie.    Sophie wants him too so that is not a problem for either of them.  

This couple is perfect together.   There is very little drama, lots of fun and family, and even more flirting.   The Score was super fun to read and very quick.  


 

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Meet Kristen


Kristen Proby has published more than forty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion and Romancing Manhattan Series.

Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two cats and dog.

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Book Review for Save Me by Samantha Chase

 

 

Save Me by Samantha Chase is now live!

 

Pretending to date the town's bad boy seemed like a good idea.
But who knew that being bad could feel so good...

A small town, fake dating, opposites attract standalone romance from NY Times Bestselling Author Samantha Chase

Ryleigh Donovan has been unsuccessfully dodging her mother's matchmaking attempts for far too long. In an act of desperation, she finds the one guy in her small town who is guaranteed to shock everyone to be her fake boyfriend. It doesn't need to be for long, she just needs to buy herself enough time to recover from her mother's last disastrous fix-up. It's really a fool-proof plan. But when a few staged kisses lead to some very real feelings, she realizes she might be in over her head.
Ryker Masella has been patiently waiting for the perfect opportunity to get Ryleigh to take him—and his numerous attempts at asking her out—seriously. When she grabs him and kisses him in front of her family to prove a point, he's more than on board. But when she proposes a fake—and temporary—relationship, he's 100% on board. After all, she might be all about pretending, but he sees it as a way for Ryleigh to truly see the real him.
Fake flirting and orchestrated dates quickly bring on real feelings. For Ryker, they've always been there and he'll be as patient as he needs to be. She might have asked him to save her from her family, but what he wants is to save her from herself.

*Each book in the Donovans series can be read as a standalone*


My Thoughts:  Ryleigh Donavon does not want her mom to set her up with any more boring men.  Ryker has his sights set on Ryleigh but she will not give him the time of day but he is the answer to get her mom off her back.   It was obvious from the very first parking lot kiss that there was going to be more to these fake dates then Ryleigh expected.  I really enjoyed watching Ryleigh and Ryker become a couple.  She did not even realize that it was happening, and Ryker was enjoying showing her how wonderful they could be together. 

 

The Donavon family and friends play a huge part in this book.  I enjoy watching them all come around Ryleigh, support her and want to protect her from heartbreak.  Most of all I enjoy watching them stand up to their mom, showing her how hurtful her actions and words are.   Then the twist of what she was hoping to happen and how it all came together made me smile and shake my head.    You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.

 

The Donavon Series is a fun, sweet, and sexy series of romance stories.   I look forward to more from this series.

 

 

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Narrated by: Carly Robins

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Meet Samantha

Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance that's hotter than sweet, sweeter than hot. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than seventy titles under her belt - including THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE which was a Hallmark Christmas movie in 2017! She's a Disney enthusiast who still happily listens to 80's rock. When she's not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene...oh, and spending time with her husband of 30 years and their two sons in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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Book Review for Blindsided by Marguerite Ashton with a GIVEAWAY

 



Blindsided 
by Marguerite Ashton

(The Forgotten Daughter, #1)
Publication date: July 13th 2020
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Diagnosed with depression, Lexi Archer prefers to continue outpatient treatment. But someone else has other plans.

BlindSided tells the story of Lexi Archer, an eighteen-year-old woman who wakes up in a hospital bed, handcuffed to the rail, and realizes she doesn’t remember what happened the night before.

After being released from the hospital, Lexi’s transferred to the Milwaukee County Jail, where she’s informed about her pending charges for first-degree murder.

Intent on proving she’s innocent, Lexi places a phone call to her stepsister asking for her help. As Lexi gets closer to the truth, she unravels ugly secrets about her dead mother that will change her life forever.


My Thoughts:  I just read a high school girls journal.   Her story is one that many live through, although I have been lucky to not have lived that life.    Lexi grew up with parents that fought.   When they finally divorced, her mother manipulated her to go against her father.  Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder was diagnosed.   All Lexi wanted was to live a high schooler’s life. 

 

Lexi is very likable but everyone else in this book let her down.  I wanted to take Lexi into my imperfect but safe house and show her what a family should be, how unconditional love works, and give her the high school years that she deserves. 

 

There was nothing easy about this book.   Blindsided is a book with many triggers, but it is a real book.   This is the life many live.   Mental health is a real thing and Lexi is a great example of someone who needed more support than she was offered.

 

I could not put the book down, although there were times I wanted to, it was a tough read.  

 






AUTHOR BIO:
When Marguerite Ashton was in her twenties, she took up acting but realized she preferred to work behind the camera, writing crime fiction. A few years later, she married an IT Geek and settled down with her role as wife, mom, and writer!

Her blog, Criminal Lines: Settled Writer Past 40 is her outlet while building dollhouses and plotting out her next book.

Marguerite lives in Wisconsin and enjoys RVing.

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Monday, January 30, 2023

Release Blitz for Promise Me Always by A.L. Jackson

Promise Me Always by A.L. Jackson is now live!

I should know better than to let Tessa McDaniels pretend to be my fiancée.

I'm a dark, dangerous disaster who leaves destruction in his wake.

But when she offers to pretend to marry me to help me get my kids back, I can't refuse. They are the one thing I have left to fight for.


Milo Hendricks found me at my lowest.

Battered and broken by my ex with no place to call home. When he insists I stay at his cabin with him, he sparks the feelings I've tried to suppress.

He's only supposed to be my friend, but every time he comes in the room, he makes my knees weak.

This gorgeous, tatted, mountain-of-a-man who's riddled with secrets.


Tessa is everything I crave but can't have.

I shouldn't touch her.

Shouldn't make it real.

But she's a red-headed flame I can't resist, and I can't help but take her to my bed.


Now we're falling into an abyss of passion and need.

Loving her is easy.

Only we're tied in ways we don't know.

I'll do anything to protect her, but it's my past that might destroy her in the end…

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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.

If she's not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.

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Promise Me Always by A.L. Jackson is now live!

I should know better than to let Tessa McDaniels pretend to be my fiancée.

I'm a dark, dangerous disaster who leaves destruction in his wake.

But when she offers to pretend to marry me to help me get my kids back, I can't refuse. They are the one thing I have left to fight for.


Milo Hendricks found me at my lowest.

Battered and broken by my ex with no place to call home. When he insists I stay at his cabin with him, he sparks the feelings I've tried to suppress.

He's only supposed to be my friend, but every time he comes in the room, he makes my knees weak.

This gorgeous, tatted, mountain-of-a-man who's riddled with secrets.


Tessa is everything I crave but can't have.

I shouldn't touch her.

Shouldn't make it real.

But she's a red-headed flame I can't resist, and I can't help but take her to my bed.


Now we're falling into an abyss of passion and need.

Loving her is easy.

Only we're tied in ways we don't know.

I'll do anything to protect her, but it's my past that might destroy her in the end…

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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.

If she's not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.

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Book Blitz for The Worst Woman in London by Julia Bennet with a GIVEAWAY


 

The Worst Woman in London by Julia Bennet

Publication date: February 2nd, 2023
Genres: Adult, Historical, Historical Romance

Synopsis:

A defiant Victorian wife fights to escape a bad marriage but her love for a forbidden man jeopardizes her chance at freedom.

James Standish knows how to play society’s game. He’ll follow the rules, marry a virginal debutante, and inherit a massive fortune. At least, that’s the plan until he meets Francesca Thorne. She’s not the sort of woman a respectable gentleman like James could ever marry—not least because, strictly speaking, she’s married already.

Francesca is determined to flout convention and divorce her philandering husband. When James sweet talks his way into her life tasked with convincing her to abandon her dream of freedom, she’s unprepared for the passion that flares between them.

Torn apart by conflicting desires, James and Francesca must choose whether to keep chasing the lives they’ve always wanted or take a chance on a new and forbidden love.







AUTHOR BIO:
Julia writes historical romance with passion, intrigue, dark humor and the occasional animal sidekick. A tea-sodden English woman, she’s the only girl in a house of boys and yearns for all things pink and fluffy. If she isn’t writing, she’s probably reading everything she can get her hands on, spending time with her boys or procrastinating on the internet.
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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Book Blitz for Rescue Me by Kelly Collins with a GIVEAWAY




 Rescue Me by Kelly Collins


(A Frazier Falls Small Town Novel, #1)
Publication date: December 5th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Her company is failing. His plan could save it. Will their partnership move from business to pleasure?

Carla “Carl” Stevenson takes a special joy in running the local timber mill. But when the economy takes a downturn, selling the family business may be her only heartbreaking option. After a prospective buyer takes an interest, she’s horrified by his plans to raze the Frazier forest to make room for cheap cattle farming. To protect her home, she reluctantly turns to the town’s most notorious player…

Owen Cooper can’t believe Carl’s mill is for sale. But the construction company owner is even more shocked that “Carl” is actually a beautiful woman. Moved by feelings he never saw coming, Owen drafts an ambitious plan to save the mill owner’s livelihood… and maybe even win her heart.

Rallying their community around the audacious idea, Owen and Carl find their fates delightfully intertwined. But both their chemistry and the project hang in the balance when he suddenly walks away…

With the whole town at stake, will Carl and Owen save the mill and find their way to true love?

Rescue Me is the heartwarming first novel in the Frazier Falls romance series. If you like strong women, honorable men, and small-town love, then you’ll adore Kelly Collins’ charming tale. Buy Rescue Me to build a foundation of passion today!



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International bestselling author of more than thirty novels, Kelly Collins writes with the intention of keeping love alive. Always a romantic, she blends real-life events with her vivid imagination to create characters and stories that lovers of contemporary romance, new adult, and romantic suspense will return to again and again.

Kelly has sold more than a quarter of a million books worldwide, and in 2021 she was awarded a Readers' Favorite Award Gold Medal in the Contemporary Romance category for A Tablespoon of Temptation.

You can learn more about Kelly at www.authorkellycollins.com.

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Book Review for The Marriage Auction: Season One, Volume One by Audrey Carlan

 


The Marriage Auction: Season One, Volume One by  Audrey Carlan 

What would you do for three million dollars?

Four young women enter into a clandestine auction to be married to the highest bidders. For no less than a million dollars a year, for three years, each woman will do what it takes to secure her future. Entangled in a high-stakes game of money, lust, power, and the hope for absolution, this group of women becomes a sisterhood unlike any other.

Once chosen by a man she’s never met and agrees to marry sight unseen…there is no going back. Hidden secrets, wicked desires, fiery couplings and intense family drama are all part of the deal when you willingly enter into The Marriage Auction.

You may now kiss the bride…

 

My Thoughts:  The Marriage Auction reads like a 4 romance books in one.    Their stories are intertwined but each woman has her own future to worry about.   The women are all looking to escape their current lives and secure their futures for different reasons.   They can escape by marrying the highest bidder at a Marriage Auction.  

Each woman was someone I could relate to for different reasons.   I cannot imagine the lives that they are leaving and am excited to see what their futures hold.   These women are strong.  They are doing what they have to do to get away from what is holding them back while also setting themselves up for a future that they can be self-reliant and financially secure. 

The Marriage Auction is steamy but also has humor, friendships, love, and compassion.  I am excited to read Volume Two. 

 

Thank you GetRedPR for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

 

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Meet Audrey Carlan (Taken from her website):  Audrey Carlan is a No. 1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author. She writes stories that help the reader find themselves while falling in love. Some of her works include the worldwide phenomenon Calendar Girl serial, Trinity series and the International Guy series. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages across the globe.

She lives in the California Valley, where she enjoys her two children and the love of her life. When she’s not writing, you can find her teaching yoga, sipping wine with her “soul sisters,” or with her nose stuck in a sexy romance novel.

 

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

Release Blitz for Wild by Micalea Smeltzer

 

Wild by Micalea Smeltzer is now live!

Cover Design: Emily Wittig

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

My band, The Wild, has finally had its big break. It's what we've always wanted--what we have always dreamed of--and nothing will stand in the way of achieving success.

Except maybe me.

As soon as we sign with our new record label, our producer gives us one rule; stay away from his daughter.

I thought it would be easy to resist her, but Mia Hayes is under my skin. She is everything I never knew I wanted or needed.

But falling for Mia might cost us everything we've worked so hard for.

Do I sacrifice my band member's dreams and chase her, or will Mia be the one thing that is more important than any stage I have ever dreamed of?

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Micalea Smeltzer is a twenty-something author from Northern Virginia. She has four dogs, which is as crazy as it sounds. As a recent kidney transplant recipient she's dedicated to raising awareness around the effects of kidney disease, dialysis, and transplant as well as educating people on living donation.When she's not writing you can catch her with her nose buried in a book.

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Book Review for The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

Berkley Trade Paperback Original

January 24, 2023

Contemporary Romance; Magical Realism

 


The story:
 From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra’s stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade photographs of Mansion-modeled rooms, and swap theories about the enigmatic and reclusive author. Myra herself is tethered to the Mansion by mysteries she can’t understand—rooms that appear and disappear overnight, music that plays in its corridors.

 

Across the country, Alex Rakes, the scion of a custom furniture business, encounters two Mansion fans trying to recreate a room. The pair show him the Minuscule Mansion, and Alex is shocked to recognize a reflection of his own life mirrored back to him in minute scale. The room is his own bedroom, and the Mansion is his family’s home, handed down from the grandmother who disappeared mysteriously when Alex was a child. Searching for answers, Alex begins corresponding with Myra. Together, the two unwind the lonely paths of their twin worlds—big and small—and trace the stories that entwine them, setting the stage for a meeting rooted in loss, but defined by love.

 

My Thoughts:  I had no clue what I was going to be reading.   A grown woman who sets up a dollhouse and shares it on her blog.   What?   But this book was so intriguing.  Once I started reading, I could not stop.  I needed to know what Myra was going to do next, but even more important what was going to happen in The Mansion.  Which room would appear next?   Which room would disappear?  What accessories would change?  Most importantly, why?  

 

The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone is a quirky and unique story.  I read in quickly and enjoyed every word.  The story has magic, romance, and mystery.  It is a story of healing, of new relationships, and of redefining yourself.    This is Audrey Burges’ debut book and I look forward to more by her.  

 

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Meet Audrey Burges (Taken from her website):
 Audrey writes novels, humor, satire, and essays in Richmond, Virginia. Her debut novel, The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone, will be released January 24, 2023, by Berkley/PRH. Her second novel, A House Like an Accordion, will be released in 2024 by Berkley/PRH. Two anthologies also feature her stories, including Embrace the Merciless Joy: The McSweeney's Guide to Rearing Small, Medium, and Large Children, and If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative.



Audrey has stories published or forthcoming in McSweeney's, Pithead Chapel, Cease, CowsLost BalloonInto the Void, and numerous other outlets. Her work has been longlisted for the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50, as well as shortlisted in the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, the Slackjaw Humor Writing Challenge 2021, and the Fractured Lit Fractured Ghost, Fable, and Fractured Fairy Tale contest. Two of her stories placed in the 2020 Pen Parentis Fellowship for New Parents, and one received a Juror's Prize. You can also listen to her on the Greener Pastures podcast, which interviewed her about comedy writing in 2021.


You can find links to Audrey's writing on the Satire/Essays/Stories page of this site, as well as on the blog, and on Twitter at @audrey_burges. When Audrey isn't writing, she's being tolerated by her two rambunctious children and very patient husband.


Audrey was born and raised in Arizona by her linguist parents, which is a lot like being raised by wolves, but with better grammar. She moved to Virginia as an adult but still carries mountains and canyons in her heart, and sometimes, when she closes her eyes, she can still smell ponderosa pines in the sun. 


The settings where she grew up inspire both her writing and her other hobby, sketching botanical illustrations she is currently gathering for a coloring book. Examples of her sketches appear throughout this site. Certain images are encaustic paintings, also by Audrey.

 

Early Praise for THE MINUSCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE:

The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone is a refreshing and unique entry into the genre of mystical
realism. Quirky and scarred yet very authentic characters populate this richly told tale of friendship, family, and timeless love.”—Karen White, New York Times bestselling author

“This creative, engaging debut weaves together an unusual family legacy, a romance between two lonely souls, and a touch of magic in the form of a tiny mansion that seems to know what's best for everyone.” —Booklist

“This well-written novel with heart-warming characters is perfect for fans of magical realism by the likes of Sarah Addison Allen and Isabel Allende.”Library Journal