Books I Plan to Read November 8-14 and last week's results

 

Halo (hello in Indonesian)

The weather here is getting chillier, though we did have a couple days bounce up into the 70's. Tonight, we actually are hitting the 40's. The sun has begun playing peek-a-boo with the rain. I haven't let the weather keep me from packing up my house. Currently, I am emptying out a storage unit, and running between rain drops is not fun. I hope to be done by the end of next weekend. Fingers crossed.

As for my reading this week, I did not get to Hold the Line (I think for the second week) but hope to get to it this week. I switched out Bitter's Sweet with Eternal Embrace (which is a series that I am trying to keep up with. Bitter's Sweet is up on my Kindle now.

Last week's results;

Ebooks: 

Guarded by Eden Sloane - 5 stars

Ravage by L. Wilder - 5 stars

Savage Deceiver by Julie Johnstone - 5 stars

Eternal Embrace by Vanessa Fewings - 4 1/2 stars

Audiobook:

Enigma by Laramie Briscoe - 4 1/2 stars

Planned for November 8-14:

Ebooks:

Audiobook: 

Well, this is it for this week. At least, I got it out on Saturday this time. Take it easy, take time to enjoy a favorite pastime, and give those around you a hug, a kiss, or a compliment. Spread happiness everywhere you go.

Selamat Tinggal (Goodbye in Indonesian).

Audiobook Review: Enigma (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team #3) by Laramie Briscoe

 

Blurb: 

It’s not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us…

Karsyn Fallaway

Tucker didn’t stop my car as it drove away from his house that summer night, and the sting of rejection hasn't gone away.

Over a year has gone by, and I find myself looking for him in all the places he’d been before. It doesn’t help, he’s still an enigma I have yet to figure out.
 My friends are the only thing holding me together. Work is the one thing keeping my mind busy.


Until my life threatens to tear completely apart.


Tucker Williams

She drove away and my pride wouldn’t allow me to stop her. A year later, regret keeps me up at night, forcing me to replay the moment in my head.

Working with the K-9’s is the only thing keeping me going. Becoming close with the former MTF is a perk I hadn’t counted on.


When a child is kidnapped, all the hard feelings have to be put aside to save a life. 
Secrets are unearthed, and this time as Karsyn threatens to break, I know I’m the one to put her back together.

Amazon: Enigma (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Book 3) - Kindle edition by Briscoe, Laramie. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Audible: Enigma Audiobook by Laramie Briscoe

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B&N: Enigma | Barnes & Noble®

Kobo: Enigma Audiobook by Laramie Briscoe - Listen Free | Rakuten Kobo United States

Google: Savage Deceiver by Julie Johnston - Books on Google Play

Bookbub: Enigma (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Book 3) by Laramie Briscoe - BookBub

Goodreads: Enigma (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team #3) by Laramie Briscoe | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. This was an entertaining story. Karsyn and Tucker had a relationship until Tucker held back his feelings. I loved how he worked at getting Karsyn back. With the help of his friends, he came to realize her true importance in his life. Karsyn never truly gave up but made him grovel. The aspects of his job and her event planning added to the story.
Ariel Royce and Christopher Rourke did a wonderful job once again, adding nuances to the story one does not always pick up. I am also enjoying the continuity of the same narrators for this series so far.

This is my unsolicited review.

Ebook Review: Savage Deceiver (Savage Sinners Prequel) by Julie Johnstone

Blurb: 

From USA Today bestselling author Julie Johnstone comes a dark mafia romance featuring a forbidden love between an FBI agent and a morally gray mafia fixer who will do anything to protect the woman he loves.
I promised to protect my wife. I never promised she’d forgive me for it.

Victor
The first time I meet FBI Special Agent Layla Fuentes, she has a gun pointed at my chest.
I like her immediately.
She believes in the law. I believe in loyalty. She hunts men like the ones I call family, and getting involved with me could destroy everything she’s spent her life building.
I know I should stay away.
I don’t.
One drink becomes one night. One night becomes something neither of us can walk away from.
And before I know it, the woman who should have been completely off-limits is my wife.
For the first time in my life, I have everything I never knew I wanted.
Until my enemies discover the one weakness I can’t hide.
Her.
Now the woman I would kill to protect is in danger because she belongs to me.
And keeping Layla safe may require the one thing I swore I’d never do.
Let her go.

Layla
Victor Moretti is everything I should know better than to want.
He’s dangerous. Morally gray. Fiercely loyal to one of New York’s most powerful mafia families.
He’s also infuriating, protective, unexpectedly tender—and the first man who’s ever made me question the lines I thought I’d never cross.
I know loving him could cost me the career I fought my entire life to build.
I marry him anyway.
Because beneath the violence and secrets, I trust Victor with the one thing I’ve always protected most fiercely.
Myself.
I just never considered what would happen if loving me forced Victor to choose between holding on...
And keeping me safe.

Readers, please note: Savage Deceiver is a Savage Sinners prequel novel and the beginning of Victor and Layla’s love story. Their story does not end with a happily ever after in this book. Their relationship continues in Savage Heir, Book One of the Savage Sinners series, where Victor and Layla receive their happy ending.

Amazon: Amazon.com: Savage Deceiver (Savage Sinners) eBook : Johnstone, Julie: Kindle Store

B&N: Savage Deceiver | Barnes & Noble®

Kobo: Savage Deceiver eBook by Julie Johnstone - EPUB | Rakuten Kobo United States

Google: Savage Deceiver by Julie Johnston - Books on Google Play

Bookbub: Savage Deceiver (Savage Sinners) by Julie Johnstone - BookBub

Goodreads: Savage Deceiver (Savage Sinners) by Julie Johnstone | Goodreads

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

I loved this story even though Layla and Victor did not get an HEA. I enjoyed Layla's spirit, determination, and ability to keep her job separate from her marriage. Victor tried to keep his professional life separate as well, but the secrets between them were too much. They did have a steamy connection, but the happiness together became strained and that also disappeared. An entertaining beginning to a new series. I look forward to book one.

I received a copy through the author, and this is my unsolicited review.

 

Ebook Review: Ravage (Satan's Fury MC: Kansas City #1) by L. Wilder

Blurb: 

WSJ and USA Today bestseller L. Wilder is back with a new chapter in the Satan’s Fury MC series.

Emery is in love with her uncle’s best friend.

Cole ‘Ravage’ Malone is tall, dark, dangerous, and completely off-limits. He’s a member of Satan’s Fury, a single dad, and has had experiences she’s only dreamed of.

But that doesn’t stop her from asking him an unexpected favor.

He agrees, but he has rules.
No feelings. No crossing lines.
It seems simple enough, until those lines start to blur. And with a threat knocking at Fury’s door, the timing couldn’t be worse.

They’re about to discover just how much they stand to lose.

Ravage is book one in the Satan’s Fury Kansas City chapter.
New Brothers. New Chapter. Same irresistible men who will burn the world down for the women they’re destined to claim. And they will claim them. Every. Single. Time. This is a standalone romance with no cheating and an HEA.

Amazon: Amazon.com: Ravage: Satan's Fury MC- Kansas City eBook : Wilder, L., Cover Creations, Mayhem, Aguiar, Wander: Kindle Store

Bookbub: Ravage: Satan’s Fury MC- Kansas City by L. Wilder - BookBub

Goodreads: Ravage: Satan's Fury MC- Kansas City by L. Wilder | Goodreads

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

Quite a story. Emery had strong feelings for Ravage/Cole. He had begun to notice that she had grown into a beautiful woman, and his heart fell quickly. Such a steamy connection between them despite the age difference. Feelings got damaged as their secret relationship came out. With danger surrounding them, Emery knew what was expected, but her heart almost stopped when Ravage returned injured. A wonderful introduction to the Kansas City chapter.

I received a copy through Enticing Journey Book Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.

 

Ebook Review: Guarded (The Boston Renegades #1) by Eden Sloane

 

Blurb: 

NHL goalie Sebastian Voss can stop a hundred-mile-an-hour slapshot. Convincing a judge he deserves custody of his daughter? That’s proving considerably harder.

His solution? A fake marriage to the woman he’s already falling for.

For three years, Sebastian has fought to keep the little girl who means everything to him. But a steady stream of headlines portraying him as hockey’s favorite womanizing disaster has left his reputation in tatters and his custody case hanging by a thread.

If Sebastian wants to prove he can offer his daughter the stable home she deserves, Kat Morrison is his best shot.

She’s smart, beautiful, inexplicably unimpressed by his charm, and the first woman in years who makes Sebastian want something for himself. Asking a woman he barely knows to become his wife is probably insane. Falling for her before she ever says yes is definitely worse.

But if putting a ring on Kat’s finger gives Sebastian a better chance at keeping his daughter, he’ll risk his heart without hesitation.

Kat knows saying yes is a mistake.

Not because she doesn’t love him.

Because she does.

For three years, Kat has been forced to write the lies destroying Sebastian’s reputation, blackmailed into obedience by the one man who holds her brother’s future in his hands.

But now Kat is living in his house, wearing his ring, loving his daughter, and falling deeper for the family she was supposed to help destroy. Somewhere between stolen kisses, tangled sheets, and building a life together, their fake marriage starts feeling dangerously like forever.

Except forever has an expiration date when it’s built on a secret.

And Kat knows that when Sebastian discovers the truth, she may lose the only man she’s ever loved.

Perfect for readers who love:

• Hockey Romance
• Fake Marriage
• He Falls First
• Devoted Single Dad
• Morally Gray Heroine
• Bookish Hero
• Found Family
• Steamy Romance with Emotional Depth

Guarded is a spicy contemporary hockey romance featuring fake marriage, a devoted single dad, a morally gray heroine, found family, secret betrayal, and a hero who falls first and hard.

Amazon: Amazon.com: Guarded: A Fake Marriage Hockey Romance (The Boston Renegades Book 1) eBook : Sloane, Eden: Kindle Store

Bookbub: Guarded: A Fake Marriage Hockey Romance (The Boston Renegades Book 1) by Eden Sloane - BookBub

Goodreads: Guarded: A Fake Marriage Hockey Romance by Eden Sloane | Goodreads

My Review - 5 of 5 stars - 

I enjoyed this story. Kat was caught between two tough choices. Her feelings for Sebastian were strong, but she had to survive her past. I felt for her as she tried to figure a way out of her predicament. She cared about Sebastian and his daughter and felt guilty for her part in his troubles. Sebastian loved his daughter with his whole being and needed to do what it took to help keep her. This was a fun and heart-warming story.

I received a copy through Enticing Journey Book Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.

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All I want for Christmas is a job!

(Okay, sure, also some snow, a chance to finish the book I've been writing, and maybe a decent winter coat?)

Turns out that being Maddie Foster, heiress to the Foster Christmas Figurine fortune isn't all it's cracked up to be—especially after my stepmom takes my inheritance and puts me out on the street.

But something leads me back to the small-town lodge in the Poconos where Dad and I used to spend every Christmas.

When I arrive, I don't exactly get the warm welcome I'm expecting. Especially when I meet Jake Stone, the grumpy new billionaire owner, who also happens to be a gorgeous single dad. But his adorable little boy needs my help, and before I know it, I've landed a nanny job keeping an eye on little Dylan and helping him write letters to Santa.

So what if I get butterflies whenever Jake's blue gaze falls on me?

I might be nearly penniless, sleeping in a broom closet, and dangerously close to falling for my boss, but at least I'm writing again!

Everything's coming up Maddie, until I find out why Jake is really here…

Now as Christmas approaches, I'm starting to wish for so many things I never knew I wanted—not just to help the cozy cast of characters at the lodge, who have become like family to me, but also for myself, for sweet Dylan, and yes, even for ruthless, brilliant, annoyingly handsome Jake Stone.

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Her mission was simple—blend in, keep small, go unnoticed. But a wicked rake caught her and gave her a choice – accept his discipline or have her secrets dragged into the light.

Debutante Miss Mary Wilson is on a mission to uncover a treasonous plot – all while avoiding her determined aunt's machinations to find her a husband. Her only clue leads her to the debaucherous secret Society of Sin, led by the devilishly handsome rake, the Marquess of Hartford.

Focused on finding the perfect bride this Season, the Marquess of Hartford is astonished when he stumbles over an intruder to the Society of Sin. How is he the only one who sees her? Why did no one else notice this delectable little miss sneaking through the rooms of debauchery? And could his hunt for a wife be over?

As Mary tumbles into a new world of sin and pleasure, the Marquess is there to protect and guide her, but he doesn't know her secret mission… and with every secret you keep, a scandal is waiting around the corner.

 

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When a notorious rake becomes the guardian of a young lady he expects trouble, but he doesn't expect to have met his match...

When Wesley Spencer, Earl of Spencer, arrives in Bath, his first encounter with his new ward is out in the street where she's indecently dressed. His mother's letters had prepared him for a hoyden, what they hadn't prepared him for was the astonishingly beautiful and sensual young woman who surprises every one of his expectations when he disciplines her.

Cynthia Bryant loves to be told what not to do, because it always gives her the best ideas for mischief. She knows better than to kiss rakes, flirt with gentleman, or touch herself between her legs (even in private), but she does all of those things anyway because they're so much fun! Unfortunately the Earl isn't quite as easily put off as his mother, but Cynthia finds a whole new area of exploration when she has the most shocking reaction to his punishments.

While in Bath, Edwin and Eleanor find themselves reconnecting in a way they couldn't in London, and their relationship takes a gentler, warmer turn. Unfortunately Edwin still hasn't declared his feelings for her by the time she makes a life-altering discovery.

In London, Irene and Hugh have declared their love, but there's lingering tension with Lord Brooke, who seems to be on the verge of forcing a reconciliation with his estranged wife. 

Ebook Review: Eternal Embrace (Eternal Desires #4) by Vanessa Fewings

 

Blurb: 

A dark gothic vampire romance filled with forbidden desire, dangerous immortals, obsessive love, and seductive supernatural intrigue.

He was everything I should have feared.
And everything I could never resist.

I told myself I was stronger than this, that my work, my duty, my reason would keep me grounded. But Jadeon… he shattered every certainty I had. A creature of darkness. A lord among vampires. And yet, when he touched me, the world burned brighter than the rising sun.

He warned me to stay away.
I didn’t listen.

How could I? When every instinct, every reckless, aching part of me demanded I go to him, to understand him, to save him… or be ruined by him.

I am an investigator. I deal in truth, in evidence, in the cold clarity of justice. But there is nothing rational about what binds us. His world is a seductive abyss of velvet shadows and whispered sins. And the deeper I fall, the more I risk losing everything I once believed in.

Everything I am.

Because loving him is not just dangerous…
It is annihilation.

And now the balance has shifted. The hunter and the hunted. The mortal and the immortal. Lines blur. Power fractures. And somewhere in the darkness, a choice waits, one that could cost him eternity…

Or cost me my soul.

Eternal Embrace is a dark paranormal vampire romance perfect for readers who love dangerous immortal heroes, gothic obsession, forbidden love, and emotionally charged vampire fantasy in the vein of Interview with the Vampire, A Dowry of Blood, and Empire of the Vampire.

Amazon: Amazon.com: Eternal Embrace: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance (Eternal Desires Book 4) eBook : Fewings, Vanessa: Kindle Store

Bookbub: Eternal Embrace: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance (Eternal Desires Book 4) by Vanessa Fewings - BookBub

Goodreads: Eternal Embrace: A Seductive Gothic Vampire Romance by Vanessa Fewings | Goodreads

My Review - 4 1/2 of 5 stars - 

4 1/2 stars. I enjoyed following Ingrid as she worked, loved, lost, and rejoiced. I loved her determination to solve her cases, her respect for her coworkers, and her intelligence. There were moments I found that she needed to be more circumspect, but it lead to a surprising ending. The love between Ingrid and Jadeon was strong, spark inducing, and able to withstand outside influences. This story helped build upon the lives of all involved from the first book. Worth reading.

I received a copy through Enticing Journey Book Promotions, and this is my unsolicited review.

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