Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Mr. H.O.A. - Fake It #1- by Carina Taylor







Blurb

Bane Fox knows exactly what he wants in life: financial stability.

He does not want to be homeless.
He does not want to be the president of an HOA.

It’s rather unfortunate he is both of those things. 

Oh, and did I forget to mention he has a fake wife?
Yeah, that’s me







Purchase Links

$2.99 for a limited time!

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited





Excerpt

I started to pull away from Nola, but she stopped me with a hand on my waist. "Carol's still watching."
I didn't bother pointing out her lie. No one stood in Carol’s window, and Nola hadn't bothered to look over her shoulder to check. 
I studied the face in front of me. Her fake smile had been replaced with a soft look as she gazed back into my eyes.
"Okay," I said with a smile. I wrapped an arm around her waist, tugging her closer, our hips brushing against each other.
"How was the little wife's day at work?"
Nola arched a smooth brow. "Little wife? Hmm, I think you're going to have to pick something different."
"How about Mrs. HOA?"
She scrunched her face up as she thought about it. "No, I don't think so. I think I prefer 'Your Highness.'"
She screeched when I ran my fingers up the side of her ribs. She leapt back, smacking at my reaching hand, laughing loudly. "Stop that!"
I made one more half-hearted grab for her. She glared at me. "If you tickle me, I won't share my pizza!"
I held both hands in the air in surrender. "When you say pizza, you mean..."
She narrowed her eyes at me as she opened the minivan door. "I mean pepperoni and cheese."
I shrugged. "Can't blame a guy for trying."
She passed the pizza to me, shut the car door, then smacked my butt as she jogged by.
I really wished our relationship was real. Maybe it could be.





Author Bio

Carina Taylor writes zany romantic comedies that make you ugly laugh.
When she's not writing, you can find her chasing after three little boys, ignoring her laundry pile, pretending to work out, drinking large amounts of coffee, and consuming as many cinnamon rolls as possible.


Author Links





This is the first time I am reading this author and I really enjoyed this story. It had a lot of humor, fun and good times with a couple that I liked a lot. That said I did not feel it should be listed as a romance. I felt it was very chick-lit rather than a romance.
Nola and Bane live ina  crappy set of apartments when they are condemned and they are forced to move. These two start out as ex neighbors and end up as friends as they run into each other and try and find a solution to their homelessness.
Nola knows of an empty house in a very nice neighborhood while she continues to live at the condemned apartment. So she offers the empty house to Bane. He ends up squatting there and when she is forced to move, they end up cohabitating.
The house they end up living in has a very involved HOA and so the neighbors think they are married and so they become fake husband and wife. But Nola has a BIG secret that she is keeping from Bane and how will he react?
I loved this story and I loved their relationship. But Nola's lie is really BIG and then later she conspired to keep something even bigger from Bane so I had issues with her. Bane and Nola play that they are married and so they never really date and before the book ends they are in love.

I did love them as a couple and together but I also felt they went from I love you to a marriage proposal way too fast. And I wanted less fake marriage and more real romance since I was reading a romance.
at No comments:

Slip Up - Taking Chances #3- by TC Matson






Blurb

Book three of Taking Chances, a standalone series.

What was supposed to be a fun birthday trip to Sin City,
Ended up being a whole lot more than I bargained for.
A night filled with drinks leads to an incredible, unforgettable one-night stand.
With. A. Hot. Racecar. Driver.
But the morning after, he disappears and I’m forced to leave with nothing but the memory of his kiss on my lips, an ache between my legs, and a friggin’ wedding ring on my finger.

For months I try to find him while hoping he contacts me,
But nothing but silence follows and I’m left alone and forgotten.
Until out of the blue he shows up at my door, insisting what happened in Vegas is worth pursuing.
We get lost in each other while his PR team handles everything else.
And just when I think things can’t get any better, we get news that rocks us to our core.
It promises us a future we never considered.
Falling madly in love with my husband has never felt so great.
That’s until tragedy hits and it destroys everything we’ve built.
It wrecks me and sends me fleeing.
But the man I married doesn’t give up so easily.
He proves that nothing will stand in the way of us and shows that I’m his forever.






Purchase Links

$2.99 for a limited time!

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Only available at the following 
retailers for a limited time

B&N / KOBO / APPLE BOOKS






Also Available


AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited



AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited






Author Bio


TC Matson loves to let her character’s voices be heard. With a head full of stories, she puts her keyboard through a beating daily. Matson sets her sights on writing stores relatable and real. And having an understanding that love isn’t always instant and full of flowers—her writing mirrors it. She isn’t afraid to push the envelope and touch bases of uncomfortable situation.
She’s a romance junkie at heart and an avid reader. Add those two together and she will devour books within hours, getting lost in the world the author creates.
Matson resides in the peaceful Piedmont area of NC with her husband and two boys, where staying hopped up on caffeine is the key to her sanity. Chaos is indefinite and a sense of humor is an absolute must. 


Author Links






Amelia is in Vegas and meets Declan and they fall hard for each other and end up hitched. But he disappears on her and she goes back home. She wants to get an annulment and tries to contact him but he is a famous race car driver and so his manager keeps them apart.

Until he finds out she is looking for him and he realises he wants her and so they start dating each other. I absolutely loved this story. For me it was very much like a fairytale. He is rich and the prince of racing. He is very much in lust with his missing wife and when he finds her nothing will stop him from winning her heart.

I LOVED Declan. He was such a sweetheart and he is all in with Amelia. Amelia is a sweetheart and she has such a really great heart. I kinda hated the manager  and how he treats Amelia. But I adored this story. It was absolutely wonderful.
at No comments:

The Perfect Billionaire - Cooper's Cove #2 - by Lily Prescott & Rose Everhart






Blurb

Eliza

"Date for a Cause: Auction nominees receive $2000"

That was the headline for the Cooper's Cove charity auction, and here I was, newly single and down to almost my last penny. I signed up, not even thinking that my friend, and local billionaire, Hayden Anderson, might actually bid on me. 

Until he didn’t.

Hayden

My entire life had been spent dodging women who only wanted me because I was wealthy. Except Eliza Shepard. She didn’t care that I was rich. When it came time for the auction, I didn’t want to muddy the waters of our friendship with money. Especially because what I felt for her went beyond friends. 

Had I ruined everything?






Purchase Links

$2.99 for a limited time!

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited





Excerpt

I meandered through the crowd, saying hello to several people I knew, until I came to an abrupt halt. Across the room, standing alone against a window, was the woman who rarely left my mind. Eliza was absolutely stunning. The royal blue dress hugged her every curve. The neckline was modest and it nearly reached her ankles, but the color was perfect on her and only made her beautiful eyes pop with color. I could count on one hand the number of times I’d ever seen her hair down. Tonight, it spilled over her shoulders in soft waves. 
As though sensing my gaze, her eyes locked on mine and my heart stuttered inside my chest at the wide smile she sent my way. My feet led me over to her. 
“Good evening. You look…wow.” My eyes continued to take her in. 
A bright pink dashed across Eliza’s cheeks. “Aren’t you the flatterer.” She nervously smoothed her dress down her stomach. “Are you sure I look okay? Ava and I went panic shopping today, because I didn’t have anything suitable in my closet. I didn’t want to be underdressed, but I also didn’t want to go too extravagant.” 
Catching her fingers in my hand, I brushed my lips across her knuckles staring into her eyes. “You’re absolutely perfect.”






Also Available


AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited






Lily Prescott

Lily Prescott has been an avid reader since childhood and could always be found with a book in her hand. These days, when she isn’t reading, she spends her time writing clean contemporary romance with swoon-worthy heroes and strong heroines. Residing in South Carolina, you can almost always find her snuggled up with her fur baby, Penny, or hanging out in Starbucks with an ice cold chai tea latte in hand. 




Rose Everhart

Rose Everhart has been a daydreamer since an early age. Throughout her teenage years, she used her imagination to come up with vivid stories to keep herself entertained on rainy days. Now, she writes sweet, contemporary and young adult romance to share with the world. She lives in Northern Mississippi, and in her free time, she prefers to hike, fish, and camp. You can find her at various campsites all over the US during the year, relaxing under a tree with her laptop open to capture the perfect love story.


FACEBOOK
FACEBOOK GROUP
NEWSLETTER




Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway



This was a new author and series for me. The story easily stands alone and it was well written. It stars Hayden and Eliza who are friends and who have best friends in common and so they spend time together. They both have crushes on each other.

Eliza is broke and needs money so she decides to enter an auction for charity. Hayden is VERY wealthy and is tired of women using him for his wealth and so he refuses to bid on Eliza in the auction. But he likes her a lot, but ge does not want to pay for the date.

This story was quite tame and it had likeable characters. But it is a clean story and as I said very tame. I did not feel the attraction or the love or even the romance. It was a pleasant story with likeable characters but I did not really see this couple as being deeply in love. The book really didn't delve too deeply into the characters and so I had a arder time connecting to them.
at No comments:

Hard to Handle by K. Bromberg


Hard to Handle, book one in the Play Hard series, an all new series of standalone books by New York Times bestselling author, K. Bromberg, is LIVE!

At first, the request seemed simple—sign a new athlete to the agency. Then I found out the new athlete was none other than the most wanted man in hockey today: Hunter Maddox
Gifted. Sexy. At the top of his game. And the only man who has ever broken my heart. If signing him will help save our family business, I’ll swallow my pride and do what’s asked.
But when it becomes clear his uncharacteristic antics off the ice are a hint of something deeper, keeping things strictly professional between us becomes more than complicated.
But I know better than to cross that line.
I’ll never date a client. Not even for him.
*** Win the Stanley Cup and do it before time runs out.
Not a small feat, but it’s what’s motivated me since the start of my career.
And time is running out.
Enter Dekker Kincade.
Feisty. Dogged. Damn gorgeous. The one I let get away.
I have no idea why she’s traveling with the team, but hell if resisting her is going to be easy.
But I have a job to do, and I refuse to lose sight of that end game. Even if she confuses me. Even if she sees parts of me I’ve hidden from the world.
I can’t lose focus. Not even for her.

Download today!
 Google Play: https://bit.ly/36uLzf8 



Meet K. Bromberg:

New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary romance novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines and damaged heroes who we love to hate but can’t help to love.

A mom of three, she plots her novels in between school runs and soccer practices, more often than not with her laptop in tow and her mind scattered in too many different directions.

Since publishing her first book on a whim in 2013, Kristy has sold over one and a half million copies of her books across eighteen different countries and has landed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists over thirty times. Her Driven trilogy (Driven, Fueled, and Crashed) is currently being adapted for film by the streaming platform, Passionflix, with the first movie (Driven) out now.

With her imagination always in overdrive, she is currently scheming, plotting, and swooning over her latest hero. You can find out more about him or chat with Kristy on any of her social media accounts.

Connect with K. Bromberg:
Subscribe to her newsletter: http://bit.ly/254MWtI

This is my first time reading this author and this is a brand new series, To be honest I did not know what to expect but I love sports romances and this is very much a sports romance. But its also very emotional and I wasn't expecting that. I am quite honestly amazed at this story and the author's talent in telling such a deep and emotional story.

This story stars Dekker Kinkade. Her father owns a sports agency and his agents are his four daughters, Dekker, Chase, Brixton, and Lennox. The agency is in trouble as this agent, Preston, has been stealing their clients so Dekker is tasked with stealing his client, Hunter.

Dekker and Hunter had a casual sex only thing 3 years before but when they started catching feelings they broke up and have not had much to do with each other since. That is until Dekker gets this new assignment and travels with the team.

Hunter is a problem child for his team. He is out of control and wild and his team wants the Cup and he is not helping them do that. The truth is his family issues are hurting him and he is starting to hate hockey and the stress he is under is huge. He really needs Dekker and I loved watching Hunter and Dekker together. My favorite part of the story is when they both realise how much they mean to each other and they form a deep and real connection.

I absolutely adored both Dekker and Hunter and this story was amazing. If you love a good sports romance that is also emotional then you will love this story. It definitely is not light reading but a story with a lot of heart.
at No comments:

Monday, June 29, 2020

Departed: David & Sara by Tess Thompson


GRAB THE TISSUES! Departed: David & Sara by Tess Thompson has arrived.


#departed #davidandsara #cliffsidebay #contemporaryromance #tissuesrequiredromance

ABOUT THE BOOK


Recently widowed Sara Ness moves to Cliffside Bay to hide from her painful past and the scandal that cost her far too much. With a baby daughter to raise alone, the peaceful privacy of small town life, and the comfort of the local grief support group, are just what the heiress needs. But when her inheritance is jeopardized by her new marital status, Sara is forced to make a deal with the only suitable candidate available. And for the next year she's paying for the pleasure of pretending to be married to the one man in town she simply cannot stand.

In the wake of his wife's death, architect David Perry accepts a job at Wolf Enterprises and promptly moves his children to be near what's left of their family. Though work and the kids are more than enough to fill David's days, his quiet, lonely nights force him to seek the help of the local grief support group. And when the spoiled Sara Ness proposes a partnership that promises to be lucrative for them both, David agrees to her terms and discovers that his fake bride just might hold the key to his future happiness.

The final installment of the wildly popular Cliffside Bay Series weaves a heartwarming enemies-to-lovers meets marriage-of-convenience tale in the style readers have grown to expect from USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson, with richly developed characters, a setting to marvel at, and the ultimate life lesson about true love's never-ending ability to bridge the gaps that we frequently allow to divide us.

About Tess

USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson writes small-town romances and historical romance. She started her writing career in fourth grade when she wrote a story about an orphan who opened a pizza restaurant. Oddly enough, her first novel, "Riversong" is about an adult orphan who opens a restaurant. Clearly, she's been obsessed with food and words for a long time now.

With a degree from the University of Southern California in theater, she’s spent her adult life studying story, word craft, and character. Since 2011, she’s published 24 novels and 5 novellas. Most days she spends at her desk chasing her daily word count or rewriting a terrible first draft.
She currently lives in a suburb of Seattle, Washington with her husband, the hero of her own love story, and their Brady Bunch clan of two sons, two daughters and five cats. Yes, that's four kids and five cats.

Tess loves to hear from you. Drop her a line at tess@tthompsonwrites.com or visit her website at https://tesswrites.com.


Find Tess Online! 
Instagram: http://bit.ly/2EumPrm 
I have absolutely LOVED this series and am so sorry to see it end. There are lots of new characters introduced in this story but they will be part of the authors new series. So we still get to see these characters in her new series.

That said we get to catch up with all the older characters in this series and see what their future holds. I loved that part of the book.  This is a essentially an enemies to lovers and fake marriage with kids on both sides romance. And it was awesome.

Sara is a heart broken woman as is David. They both have dead spouses who betrayed them in the worst ways and they are both so angry. Enter Ria, who starts a bereavement group and thats where they start talking.

David and Sara have known each other a while. Sara is Autumn's wealthy best friend with an infant who built a gorgeous mansion iin town. David, is the twin brother of Lisa whose wife was a drug dealer and who was murdered and left him with two young children. He is an architect and he designed Sara's house. They both don't liike each other because they have mistaken ideas about the other.

As they meet in the group they form a very slow friendship from mutual understanding. I loved how we get to see them start to open up to the other. This was a wonderful end to this story and I am so happy that David and Sara found a happily ever after after their painful past.
at No comments:

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Scandalous Scotsman by MJ Fields



COCKY HERO CLUB
Release Date: June 28, 2020


Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.




SCANDALOUS SCOTSMAN
BY MJ FIELDS

One trip down the stairs, caused by a lone Lego, while wrapped in a towel, spewing a plethora of profanities, and my cell phone went flying.
I landed on my ass, and then the ER.
Between those two occurrences was a FaceTime call, placed by a bouncing phone, to the number of a man I didn’t even truly look at, who had now seen more of my body than anyone had since my Tinder days, over a year ago.
Three declined calls later, I limped out the door to get myself to the ER before starting my hectic day.
The ER was packed, but when I saw Nurse Bridget, one of my students’ mothers, I pleaded my case, and she hurried me into an examination room.
An hour later, I left on crutches with a bruised ass, a fractured ankle, and an appointment to see an orthopedic surgeon at four p.m.
Arriving fifteen minutes late for that appointment, I heard the sexy yet very brash accent of a man who clearly had an obsession with punctuality and had, apparently, no bedside manner.
Dr. Ethan Stewart, tall, copper-haired, sinfully sexy … was a total ass.
After a tongue-lashing about how irresponsible I was to, first, leave the ER with such an injury, and second, be late, I put him in his place … or so I thought.
Turned off by his arrogant attitude, turned on by the roguish glint in his green eyes and the way he spoke, I left his office a hot … and wet mess.
Upon exiting, my phone rang again. It was the same number from before, and I couldn’t help answering to give the caller a piece of my mind.
Once in my car, I hung up, tossed my phone on the passenger seat, and then looked out the window to see him with his phone to his ear and a grin spread across his far too handsome face.
It couldn’t be …
Could it?
Purchase Links

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

Free in Kindle Unlimited

ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO


CONNECT WITH MJ FIELDS








Cocky Hero Club
This was an awesome story with some BIG surprises along the way to happy ever after and I am not spoiling ay of the surprises.



It stars Elizabeth who is a waitress and school teacher who had an awesome father. on his birthday every year she texts him a mssage to his old cell phone. One day she has an accident and ends up in the ER and Dr. Ethan is the doctor that repairs her leg.



The two form a adversary relationship as he is the doctor who wants her to heal and she is the patient that doesn't have time to heal. He ends up as her next door neighbor and they have a hot one night stand where she discovers he is a dad and his daughter is moving in with him, so he doesn't have time for more than one night.



But the heart wants what the heart wants and I really enjoyed watching Ethan and Elizabeth fall in love and all the challenges and surprises that happens along the way.
at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Hearty - Ashton Family Series #4 - by Carrie Aarons (Evan Ashton and August Percy)

  ABOUT THE BOOK They say you can always go home again, but for August Percy, that didn't apply even when she had to live there until he...