Thursday, November 2, 2023

Preorder: Confined Space (Prominence Point Rescue #1) by E.M. Shue

Confined Space


Series: Prominence Point Rescue Book 1


by E.M. Shue


Release Date: November 14, 2023


Genre/Tropes: Romantic Suspense/Single mom, firefighter, heroine with dark past, he falls first, small town romance, protector romance, instalove, trapped, hero and action/adventure


Cover Design: Mountain Rose Press

Photograph: Lindee Robinson 

Cover Models: Trisha and Drew


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Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/confined-space-prominence-point-rescue-book-1-by-e-m-shue





Blurb:

From award-winning author E.M. Shue comes a brand-new rescue series.


In need of a fresh start, Coral Pierce packs up her newborn son and sets out for Prominence Point, Arizona. Things are looking up until Coral and her son are involved in a serious accident. She finds herself entrapped within not only the car but the eyes of the firefighter helping her. She shouldn’t want more with him. She shouldn’t think about him every time her eyes close, not with her recent past looming in the distance.


Scorned by love, tall, muscular, and independent Rowdy Murphy isn’t into relationships. Every girl is after his name and his family. But he can’t ignore the beautiful eyes staring back at him from the shattered windshield of the wrecked car. Her raw vulnerability calls to him. He wants the stranger and her son under his roof and protection for the remainder of his days.


Rowdy is ready to give Coral the world, but her past soon hunts her down. With the clock ticking and time running out, Coral will have to claw her way out of the darkness, freeing herself from her tormentor’s restraint once and for all.


Previously published in the KB Everyday Heroes World, Confined Space now contains new content and is the first book in the Prominence Point Rescue series.





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Author Bio:

E.M. Shue is an Alaskan award-winning romance author. She is proudly featured in K Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes World, Aurora Rose Reynolds’ Happily Ever Alpha World, KL Donn’s Mafia Made Series, Susan Stoker’s Special Forces Operation Alpha World, and the soon to be released Devil’s Handmaidens MC Collection.

She published her first book in 2017 after having a dream that later became the Beverley Award winning, Sniper’s Kiss. Since then, she has gone on to win this award three more times with different books and has published over thirty titles.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Teaser: The Do-Over (Lake Bittersweet Series) by Jennifer Bernard



The Do-Over by Jennifer Bernard releases on November 17th!
- small town, forced proximity, second chance, romantic suspense -

Available on All Platforms

Blurb:

A Lake Bittersweet winter storm gives them a second chance to heat things back up…

Baseball star Billy Cooper’s marriage might have crashed and burned, but he’s knocking it out of the park when it comes to co-parenting. When an opportunity for a huge new contract comes along, Billy knows Jenna will have his back. All they have to do is demonstrate that he’s not the same wild “Billy Club” who partied too much back in the day. Rehabilitate his reputation? Shouldn’t be a problem. He's changed; but does Jenna realize it?

Jenna Scarlett Cooper couldn’t ask for a better ex than Billy. It’s almost as if, now that they’re older, more mature… No, she can’t think about him that way, no matter how tempting it is. Sexual chemistry was never their problem. Neither was compatibility, or love, or fun, or… nope, she can’t go there. Definitely not. Not with kids and work deadlines and family issues…

When a winter storm buries Lake Bittersweet, suddenly things get real for Billy and Jenna. But someone doesn’t want them back together, someone with sabotage in mind. Can two exes who never really fell out of love overcome doubts, fears—even a possible stalker—and find their way back to each other for the ultimate do-over?



 

Teaser: Merry Pucking Christmas (Bears Hockey II) by Kelly Jamieson



Merry Pucking Christmas by Kelly Jamieson releases on November 14th!
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Blurb:

Harley Reid
My holiday plans? Boxed wine, flannel pajamas, and Netflix minus the “chill”. I hadn’t planned on getting off my apathy until after New Years—until I accidentally crash into my ex’s new girlfriend’s car. But it’s the motivation I need to flee to my Aunt Nora’s place in NYC for Christmas.

Colliding with a typically grouchy New Yorker isn’t my best foot forward. But sweet Jesus on a cracker, he’s a lickable, Viking-size hunk of hotness. As we somehow keep running into each other, I begin to believe I can shed the hurt and humiliation and be fearless.


Nils Axelsson

My holiday plans? Spending my hockey team’s break alone. My friend Nora, however, won’t let me escape her vortex of holiday cheer, and I find myself agreeing to take her niece to a Rockettes show.

I was expecting an awkward teenager in braces, but it’s the same woman who plowed into me in the elevator. A knock-me-sideways stunning blonde whose beauty and kindness hits me like a puck to the chest. The more time I spend with her, the more I want as much as I can get before she has to go back home. Unless I can give her a reason to stay. 



Teaser: No Pucks Lost Between Us (Rush Hockey Trilogy Book 3) by Elise Faber



No Pucks Lost Between Us by Elise Faber releases on November 14th!

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Blurb:

I had a love-hate relationship with hockey players.
They’d won over my protected, carefully-controlled heart, and I accepted that they had a place in my town.
And in my heart.
Mostly because Joel had waltzed right in and made himself at home.
And…I’d fallen for him. Deep.
But now the man had decided he was going to waltz back out…leaving a giant, hockey-player-sized hole in my soul and my heart shredded beneath his sharp skate blades.
The man had broken me. 
And he’d done it with a smile on his face. 


Teaser: Cheap Shot (Lauderdale Knights #7) by Kat Mizera



Cheap Shot by Kat Mizera releases on November 14th!

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Blurb:

Welcome to Fort Lauderdale… where the days are hot and the Knights are hotter!

Johan:

The last thing I need under my roof is a matchmaker… but that’s exactly what’s going to happen if my grandmother moves from Slovakia to Fort Lauderdale to live with me. She says it’s because she’s lonely, but I know better. She’s planning to find me a wife.

The problem is, I already have my eye on someone: my teammate’s sister. She’s gorgeous, sexy—and not staying in Florida. But now that I’ve had a taste, I don’t want her to leave. And I don’t know how to ask her to stay without risking it all.

Sloane:

I ran away when I was sixteen and I’ve never stopped. From the abuse of my childhood to the trauma of my failed marriage, it’s easier to keep moving. Until the search for my brother leads me to Fort Lauderdale.

Once I’m there I find a different kind of family—his team. Especially Johan. My brother warned everyone I’m off limits, but the Slovak hunk is known for breaking the rules both on and off the ice. 
I just hope he doesn’t break my heart. 


Cover Reveal and Preorder: Letting You Go by S.L. Sterling

Letting You Go


by S.L. Sterling


Release Date: November 20, 2023


Genre: Contemporary Romance, Slow Burn, Second Chance Romance 


Cover Design: Thunderstruck Cover Design


Goodreads: https://geni.us/LettingYouGoGR





Blurb: 

Bailey Scott had been my world from the time I was fifteen. I had always thought we could make it through whatever life threw at us. But I was wrong.


Five years ago, everything changed in an instant one weekend in December. Her brother had been shot and killed in the line of duty, and his killer had gotten away. I spent my days buried in work trying to track down his killer, while she sat at home not only blaming herself but everyone else for what had happened. Included in that everyone else, was me, her fiancée, and his partner. Unfortunately, that blame drove a rift between us that neither of us knew how to fix.


I was always told that time healed everything. It’s been five years. In that time, I spent my days at work, and my nights with women trying to release the hold Bailey still had on me. I’ve also been trying to release the guilt I’ve felt from that night.


I was doing pretty good until my best friend and partner tells me that he is getting married and he wants me to be his best man. Problem is, Bailey Scott, the girl who’d ripped my heart out is the brides to be maid of honor. She was finally returning, and I knew the moment I would lay eyes on her, I would do whatever it took to win her back.


S.L. Sterling’s, Letting You Go is a sexy, emotionally charged, slow burn second chance romance that will leave you swooning.





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Author Bio:

S.L. Sterling was born and raised in southern Ontario. She now lives in Northern Ontario Canada and is married to her best friend and soul mate and their two dogs. 


An avid reader all her life, S.L. Sterling dreamt of becoming an author. She decided to give writing a try after one of her favorite authors launched a course on how to write your novel. This course gave her the push she needed to put pen to paper and her debut novel "It Was Always You" was born. 


When S.L. Sterling isn't writing or plotting her next novel she can be found curled up with a cup of coffee, blanket and the newest romance novel from one of her favorite authors on her e-reader. Her favorite authors include Kendall Ryan, Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward, Lauren Blakely, Alessandra Torre and Willow Winters. 


In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, sunny destinations, spending quality time with family and friends and of course reading.  


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Cover Reveal and Preorder: Our Bubbly Christmas (The Fated Series) by H.L. Packer

Our Bubbly Christmas


Series: The Fated Series 


by H.L Packer


Release Date: November 15, 2023


Genre: Standalone Sexy Christmas Romance


Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201037686


Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/our-bubbly-christmas-by-hl-packer





Blurb: 

With her family away, a quiet Christmas at home was just what Vittoria had planned, until a certain someone drops a last-minute change in her lap.


They've never made anything official, and a sexy Christmas with her boyfriend could be fun, but what about the family he's avoiding for her?


PreOrder Links: 

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Author Bio:

H.L. Packer is, quite frankly, a busy bee.

An avid reader as a child, her love for all things written waned into adulthood, the excitement of real life things taking over. But when her life slowed down as she finished her office job for maternity leave, her husband purchased her an e-reader, and that obsession was rekindled.

Quickly she went from reader to reviewer, and then from reviewer to blogger; street teams and promo tours galore. When she began collating her own book boxes over at Romance Readers Book Box UK and had the opportunity to include her own words and worlds, the characters began talking.

Those cheeky characters quickly found themselves written down on the page, and her first series was in progress.

When she is not coordinating her worlds, you can find her running around after her free-spirited three children, and husband, or tending to the dogs, bearded dragons, and snakes that also reside with them.

A break can be found soaking in a bubble bath or enjoying a glass of wine, often still with a book in her hand.


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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Book Review: The Hotshot vs the Reporter (On the Track #2) by Nicole Dykes

 


Blurb: 

Royal
I’m the hotshot—both on and off the track. I know how to work the crowd and show off. And I’m good at it.
I’ve had to become very effective at putting on a show.
But my agent is not a fan of my over-the-top antics. So she did something I still can’t believe . . .
She called in the press—the media. Specifically, the reporter who hates everything I stand for. And now, he’s tasked with showing the world a different side of me.
Yeah . . . Good luck with that.

Soren
I’m a sports reporter, but I’m so much more than that.
My social media following has allowed me to be more. To do more. To try and help my corner of the world do better and be better.
I believe in accountability. I believe in integrity. And that sports professionals are obligated to be a moral compass to their fans.
I’m loud and outspoken about that point. Maybe more so with Royal Dutton—the loudmouth, crude racer with absolutely no morals.
And now, I’m supposed to find the redeeming side of him. I took this job to find something deeper within him. The good guy inside.
Yeah . . . This is going to be impossible.


Goodreads





My Review - 4 of 5 stars - 

Could a grumpy, conceited man find love with a reporter that hates him? Royal was definitely playing up his part as the Hotshot of the car racing world. It was hard to like him at the beginning. As his story came out, I softened, just like Soren. Soren tried his best to be honest in his reporting and social postings, in reporting what he saw. Time spent with Royal showed him that he also needed to be honest with himself and his motives. The two had an instant connection and held back for a bit before giving into the feelings. They helped each other heal from their pasts and move forward to a future together. I enjoyed the feeling of family from all the secondary characters.

I received a copy of this story through Chaotic Creatives, and this is my unsolicited review.



Book Review: Grandpa's Cabin (Book 1) by Ross Victory

 

Blurb: 

At eighty-four years old, widower and award-winning geneticist Bernie Crenshaw has reached the end of his life. Bernie gifts his only grandson, eighteen-year-old Inglewood high school senior Nova, his multimillion-dollar property located in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills.

Hours before his death, Bernie informs Nova that he did terrible deeds years ago. Bernie reveals that he never got caught because his freedom was contingent on an agreement he made with a "woman in the shadows" to keep the cabin in the family's bloodline. Nova promises his grandfather that he will never sell the property.

Years after Bernie's death, Nova hosts a wild twenty-first birthday party weekend filled with alcohol, music, and OnlyFans web cameras. After a handful of eerie encounters in the surrounding Los Angeles forest, Nova's friends allege that his grandpa's cabin is the burial ground for people who disappeared during their childhood.

The birthday weekend shifts from celebration to terror as the friends piece together that the man Nova knew as "Popsi" matches the profile of one of the most notorious wanted criminals in Los Angeles-"L.A. Love Hunter."

Will Nova preserve the Crenshaw family's sadistic legacy, or will he choose the rare and valuable gift of friendship?

Amazon: Grandpa's Cabin: Book 1 - Kindle edition by Victory, J. Ross. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

B&N: Grandpa's Cabin: Book 1 by J. Ross Victory | eBook | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Kobo: Grandpa's Cabin eBook by J. Ross Victory - EPUB Book | Rakuten Kobo United States

Bookbub: Grandpa’s Cabin: Book 1 by Ross Victory - BookBub

Goodreads: Grandpa's Cabin by Ross Victory | Goodreads





My Review - 4 of 5 stars - 

This was an interesting read, and it did not end here. There is a book 2. Nova Crenshaw was the beneficiary of his grandfather's home and more. His past held secrets that his mind had pushed to the back, protecting him. His three friends joined him at the mansion, and things got out of control. Hallucinations, memories, and surprises changed their lives completely. This story was not quite what I thought it would be, the actual events were definitely not something I would have considered. More explanation and adventures will continue in Grandpa's Cabin 2.

I received a copy through Goddess Fish Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.



Books I Plan to Read September 27 - October 3 and last week's results

  Shikamoo (Hello in Swahili) I hope everyone is doing fine. This weekend, we are being hit by a Nor'easter on and off. Some areas have ...