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Happy Release Day to Lexi Blake's The Man From Sanctum!

Happy Release Day to Lexi Blake’s The Man From Sanctum!

A painful pastAn unexpected reunionA dangerous future The Man From Sanctum, an all-new second chance romance with suspenseful twists and turns from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is available now! A painful past Deke Murphy and Maddie Hall should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her.…

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5 Stars for Lexi Blake's Treasured!

5 Stars for Lexi Blake's Treasured! #lexiblake #newrelease #mastersandmercenaries #treasured #bookreview #amreading

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake comes a new story in her Masters and Mercenaries series… David Hawthorne has a great life. His job as a professor at a prestigious Dallas college is everything he hoped for. Now that his brother is back from the Navy, life seems to be settling down. All he needs to do is finish the book he’s working on and his tenure will be…

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4 Stars for Jennifer Probst's Our Italian Summer

4 Stars for Jennifer Probst’s Our Italian Summer

⭐⭐⭐⭐ OUR ITALIAN SUMMER was an absolute joy to read. The family dynamics were organic and easy to relate to, the descriptions of towns and cities in Italy transported this reader across the ocean, and the food (THE FOOD!!) was a character in of itself. Truly, there is much to love about OUR ITALIAN SUMMER. It’s an easy read, but character-driven which sometimes added a bit of heaviness to the…

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5 Stars for Tiffany Reisz's The Pearl

5 Stars for Tiffany Reisz’s The Pearl

When Lord Arthur Godwick learns his younger brother is up to his bollocks in debt to Regan Ferry, owner of The Pearl Hotel, he agrees to work off the tab…in her bed. Soon the handsome but troubled Arthur discovers he’s a pawn in an erotic game of revenge–and nothing, including his lover, is what it seems.…

THE PEARL, by Tiffany Reisz, is easily one of the best books I’ve read this year…

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4 Stars for Sarina Bowen's Loverboy!

4 Stars for Sarina Bowen’s Loverboy!

Secrets, desires, and exquisite pie. It’s all in a day’s work at The Company. Growing up, I was the rough guy from the wrong neighborhood who couldn’t catch a break. Posy was the pampered girl I tried to impress. But I managed to steal only a single kiss before I had to skip town. Now I’m back, and the tables are turned. Posy runs a struggling pie shop. I’m the VP of a secretive billion dollar…

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5 Stars for JR Ward's A Warm Heart in Winter

5 Stars for JR Ward’s A Warm Heart in Winter

Featuring one of the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s most iconic couples, Blay and Qhuinn find themselves looking forward to their official mating ceremony. When tragedy strikes just before the happy event, all hope seems lost—and everyone in the Black Dagger Brotherhood rallies around the two of them. Will a freak winter storm bring the unthinkable, or will a warm heart in winter ensure that true…

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Check Out This Excerpt from Audrey Carlan's New Release, Wild Child!

Check Out This Excerpt from Audrey Carlan’s New Release, Wild Child!

Wild Child, an all-new must-read romance that with off the walls chemistry and heart from #1 New York Times bestselling author Audrey Carlan is available now!

Twice my life changed in a single day.

The first was when I lost my parents. Hand in hand I walked with my big sister up the steps of Kerrighan House, a foster home for girls. We were lucky to be met with open arms and a house…

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4 "Christmassy" Stars for Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze

4 “Christmassy” Stars for Christina Lauren’s In a Holidaze

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Picture Groundhog Day (the movie, not the day) except at Christmas.

I love it when a book sneaks up and surprises the heck out of me. IN A HOLIDAZE, from writing duo Christina Lauren, is one of the best holiday romance books I’ve read. Like the best presents under the tree, IN A HOLIDAZE filled with so much to love! There’s:

a bit of a fantasy/sci-fi (TIME…

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COVER REVEAL FOR LEXI BLAKE'S SUBMISSION IMPOSSIBLE

COVER REVEAL FOR LEXI BLAKE’S SUBMISSION IMPOSSIBLE

He loves the sweet life She’s ready for the future A twist they never saw coming

Submission Impossible, the first in the new Masters and Mercenaries: Reloaded series from New York TImes bestselling author Lexi Blake is coming February 16th, 2021, and we have the irresistible cover!

He loves the sweet life

Greg Hutchins is reluctantly adulting these days. He’s settled in his job,…

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4 "Fan Fiction Rocks" Stars for Olivia Dade's Spoiler Alert

4 “Fan Fiction Rocks” Stars for Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert

What it’s about: Superstar and secret fan fiction writer falls in love with an overweight fan of his show–who just so happens to be his anonymous writing partner. Hijinks ensue and the beginning of an unlikely romance when identities are revealed.

Going into SPOILER ALERT,Olivia Dade’s newest novel, I knew that the potential for me to love the book was high. I mean, as a fan fiction…

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4 Stars for Bill Clegg's The End of Day

4 Stars for Bill Clegg’s The End of Day

What it’s about: THE END OF DAY, by Bill Clegg, is a beautiful, sweeping look into a group of people and how, with secrets and betrayals, their lives are inexplicably changed. Across the hours of one day, all comes to light in a series of flashbacks interwoven effortlessly into the story.

It’s absence of love that shapes the individual characters of THE END OF DAY, whether it was love…

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5 "This book totally rocks" Stars for Lexi Blake's No Love Lost

5 “This book totally rocks” Stars for Lexi Blake’s No Love Lost

What’s the book about: Lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers. Confused yet? Ezra and Solo divorced 10 years ago but have continued to circle the other’s orbit. When Solo is targeted by a very bad person, Ezra rushes to her side, setting the stage for a reconciliation, but he’s got to work hard to make it happen. (After my review there’s an excerpt-so keep reading!)

I’m a huge fan of Lexi Blake’s…

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4 Stars for Janice Kay Johnson's Turning Home

4 Stars for Janice Kay Johnson’s Turning Home

In this tender Amish romance, an Amish man who is returning to his community and faith is drawn to a young woman who is still reeling from past wounds.

At the heart of Turning Home, by Janice Kay Johnson, is Luke Bowman, who has recently returned to the Amish and baptized fully into their traditional Christian fellowship, and Julia Durant, a devout Christian woman carrying the weight of an…

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It's Release Day for Sarina Bowen's Lies and Lullabies!

It’s Release Day for Sarina Bowen’s Lies and Lullabies!

Once upon a time, he gave me a summer of friendship, followed by one perfect night. We shared a lot during our short time together. But he skipped a few crucial details.  I didn’t know he was a rock star. I didn’t know his real name. Neither of us knew I’d get pregnant. And I sure never expected to see him again. Five years later, his tour bus pulls up in Nest Lake, Maine. My little world is about to…

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5 Stars For The Beat Match by Kelly Siskind

5 Stars For The Beat Match by Kelly Siskind

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Kelly Siskind never fails to amaze me with her writing and the stories she tells. More often than not, Siskind centers her plot around something unique, like magic or being an Elvis impersonator. In THE BEAT MATCH, the third book in Siskind’s Showmen series, she does it again, drawing readers into the world of professional DJing.

There is so much to love about THE BEAT MATCH. As…

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5 Stars for Michelle Hazen's Breathe the Sky

5 Stars for Michelle Hazen’s Breathe the Sky

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Wonderful from start to finish! From Michelle Hazen’s raw, realistic, beautiful prose to Brittany Pressley’s spot on narration, BREATHE THE SKY is a story not easily forgotten. Long after your headphones are tucked away, Jack and Mari will linger; their second chance at life and having the strength to grab ahold of happiness and hope will fill readers’ hearts. From the Mojave Desert…

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4 Stars for JR Ward's The Jackal

4 Stars for JR Ward’s The Jackal

THE JACKAL, book one of the Prison Camp series from JR Ward, is set in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series and takes readers underground, introducing a world of incarcerated vampires that not many know exists. I’ve had such a strange reaction to THE JACKAL, equally bored at times and believing that The Jackal (yes, that’s the character’s name as well as the name of the book) and…

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