Best Man By Silla Webb & Kaden Layne / 5 chapters
Carter and Emersyn
New author for me. It's also part of the Under Construction Series which I have never read before. The story opens at a bar and Carter is celebrating his friend Liam's wedding when he meets bartender, Emersyn. They share one hot night.
This book or prequel I shall say was not my favorite. One is issue I had was that Liam is marrying a woman named Layla, and Carter's ex is Laney. I kept getting confused with both names so similar.
Second, this is a prequel to a book coming out in winter 2023 and looks like a love triangle with Carter and Laney and Emerson. I do not like love triangles at all.
Night Hawke By Gwyn McNamee / 6 chapters
Isaac and Jack
Isaac/Nolan meets Jack in a bar in Chicago and they share two very hot days. They are both at a crossroads as he is finished with law school and moving to New Orleans to work with his dad at the Hawkes MC. Jack is a bit of a mystery as we don't know a lot about her except that she has escaped for a few nights.
This is also a new author for me. It is a second-generation Hawke Family prequel. The story picks up on Feb 23 with Ruthless Hawke.
Leave You Breathless By A. M. Guilliams / prologue plus 7 chapters
Alora and Rhett
This was an awesome story I really loved it. I only wish that it was longer because I wanted to see more of Rhett and Alora.
Alora and Rhett meet in Miami and have two hot days and nights. They both leave and go home but their dreams are of each other. Then 4 months later Alora runs into Rhett and that's all I am spoiling.
This is a small town and second chance romance. I loved it so much. It was hot and sexy but also romantic.
More Than One Night By Ashley Cade / prologue plus 16 chapters and epilogue
Melody and Gavin
In this story we meet Melody, a divorced single mom and moving to Willow Brook Falls and her grandparents and great-grandparents to help them run their inn in their small town with her young son, Elijah.
We also meet Gavin who is the new assistant principal at the elementary school in his new town where his cousins and uncle live. He had a previous relationship with a single mom who went back to her ex-so he plans to stay away from single moms.
This was an awesome small-town romance with two people who have been burned by bad romances in their past and are new to town.
This is part of the Willow Brook Falls series. and also connected to the authors Wild Hearts Series as Gavin's ex is Abby from that series.
Plunged By Claire Wilder / 9 chapters
Winona and Mitchell
In this story we meet 32-year-old Winona who runs her own plumbing business. She gets hired to do a job at a big estate owned by billionaire recluse and author Mitchell. It's a hate thing until they decide to have a fling. Winona ends up being a muse for Mitch as he finishes his book and moves on. They lead very different lives, and she resents rich men because it reminds her of her mom being abused by her rich husband. But what happens when they fall for each other?
This is not my favorite book in the series. I didn't really like Winona. She is one very tough cookie, and I just never really liked her. I felt she kept people at a distance. Mitch was a good character, but I felt it was just a fling and didn't really understand why he was so into Winona.
Unexpected Encounter By Evan Grace / 11 chapters and an epilogue
Luna and Sebastien
This is a surprise baby romance with Luna who is an author and Sebastien a globetrotting photographer playboy. They have one night and then see other 6 months later in a totally unexpected way. She is a college graduate, and he is 35 so it's also an age gap, second chance and forbidden romance.
It was an interesting story and I really loved Luna. But Sebastien was a huge jerk in this book. It might have been a better story if it was expanded but it felt very rushed and we don't see them fall in love, just in lust. The story then includes an epilogue, ten years later and that's where we see them talk about falling in love.
The Hunkmate By Gail Haris / 20 chapters and an epilogue
Journi and Cruz
I have never read this author before and as the book begins, I was very iffy on it. The female character of Journi was a character I usually don't read books about. Why? well she is a bisexual and she discusses sleeping with men and women, in addition she says something about even sleeping with multi partners. But I kept reading and I was really happy I did because she is so funny and a huge riot.
She has a bestie named Jan and she states that both her parents are dead and her best friend is a married woman named Jan who is her family. Jan asks her to join her on a family vacation with a very hot doctor, named Cruz who is Jan's close family friend and other best friend. Cruz and Journi have never met until this little vacation.
This has a forbidden angle because Jan knows how Journi is with relationships and asks her not to flirt with Cruz because she loves them both and doesn't want to have to choose if it doesn't work out.
This book was hot, funny and really a super fun and romantic story. Its prob one of my favorite in this series.
Stuck with the Rock Star Georgia Coffman / 6 chapters and an epilogue
Pia and Elijah
This was a light read and it went by fast. I would have preferred this book to be longer.
Before Pia and Elijah get together there was more of a story. Once they do it goes by very fast. It's about a besties brother who is also a rock star and he even ends up as a roomie. They have a fling that leads to more.
I enjoyed it but I wanted to see more of them as a couple in the book than before they get together.
Ink Wars By Heather Dahlgren / prologue plus 11 chapters and an epilogue
Leah and Corbin
This was a really fun story. It stars Leah and Corbin, rival tattoo artists that have hated each other from day one and have known each other for over two years.
Things get tough when Hollywood asks them to design a tattoo for a movie and they end up as rivals and then partners which force them to work together.
This was a wonderful hate to love romance and I really loved it.
Chance By Hollis Wynn / 17 chapters
Kollyns and Xan
This was an interesting story. Its not my typical read but it was interesting, well written and I liked the characters. It stars Kollsyn who is one strong, independent woman but she is very alpha and wants to learn to let go.
Xan wants to help her open up I guess you can say. They end up living together while he trains her and that's when this book gets really exciting as we watch these two fall for each other,
Wildflower By Jennifer Rebecca / prologue plus 16 chapters and an epilogue
Court and Zelda
This was a really different story from any others in the series. It stars Zelda who is almost 40 and has three grown adult daughters and even a grandchild. She lives in the wilds of Alaska. She meets Court, a hot host of a tv show who is 45. And Court falls very fast for her, I would say insta love on his side.
Zelda is a victim of domestic abuse and is terrified of men. Court has to work hard to get her to give him a shot and not run away from him. He gets help from her daughter and the locals in town who love her.
I really enjoyed this story. I also loved hearing about Z's daughters who will have future books. The coming books about the girls sound really good and I am excited to read them.
Crush By Leaona Luxx / prologue plus 8 chapters
Hunter and Griggs
I LOVED this story but it sort of ends on a cliff hanger and says more will come in January 2023, which was HUGE bummer. I am so not a fan when authors do that in anthologies.
This is the story about Griggs who has always loved Hunter. But he is also best friends with her older brother, Raithe but Raithe has always made Hunter forbidden.
Ten years later Hunter has two kids and is a single mom and Griggs comes home to sell his parents' house and they connect I guess you can say.
This is a second chance romance, and I really liked it except for the ending. If you don't mind cliffs then this is a great story and you will love it,
Captured By Lynn Burke / 10 chapters
Leo and Nissa
After having read this story I am not sure what to think. The star in this book is Leo and he is a very messy guy. He has an ex he is just getting over when his newly married friends try and hook him up with the sister, Nissa.
This had A LOT of sex scenes. It also has insta lust. There is not much of a story and a majority of the book is them lusting for each other and sex scenes. They were well done and I enjoyed this couple.
Sweater Weather By Mandi Beck / 15 chapters
Levi and Saffie
This is a college romance I guess you can say. I honestly didn't feel like it was a romance. During the entire book and even up to the ending, which is sort of cliffy, Saffie, the female lead has a boyfriend at another college, and she is always telling Levi she has a boyfriend.
Levi, I have no words for. He is not a guy I was rooting for in relation to Saffie. He is actually pretty awful. He has many, many threesomes. He has this girl Nora who he treats awfully but she has sex with him all the time. He lives in a house with other teammates from his hockey team and they have sex parties all the time.
I did like Saffie a lot but not for Levi. She is way too good for him or any of his friends. She is at a new college, away from her mom and friends to be a baseball pitcher. Her dad just died, and her current boyfriend doesn't call her or answer her calls. She is on Levi's dad's baseball team and Levi ends up as her tutor. She also has a cousin at the college, and she plays baseball with two of Levi's sisters. All this means she ends up around Levi a lot. And she is attracted even though he really is the worst.
The story ends just as things get interesting but honestly not much happens romantically before the story ends and says there is a longer version of the book you can purchase to read. I did look the book up on Amazon and it's coming out in January.
Finding Love with the Unexpected By Rachel Lyn Adams / 9 chapters
Kayla and Blaine
This was a cute story. It stars two people who are having a very bad week. Kayla has just lost her boyfriend and dream job as a nurse in the city of San Diego. Blaine is a very hot movie star in Los Angeles who just punched out his co-star and the press is after his story.
They both end up in Santa Barbara and start hanging out which leads to romance. It was a cute story and I enjoyed it. It ends with a happy for now ending. I would love a more complete story because I really enjoyed it.
Professor Daddy By Rene Webb / 14 chapters and an epilogue
Violet and Etienne
I am not into the whole daddy and "littles" scene. In fact, I have never read a book with this theme ever. But I read this one and while it's not my thing, I felt it was well written and I enjoyed meeting the characters and them finding each other.
Violet and Etienne both work at the same college and so they work together. They feel an attraction but try to resist it because of their complicated work relationship. But they manage to find each other, and I enjoyed watching them come to mean something special to each other.
Hate the One You Lust Willow Aster & Laura Pavlov / 15 chapters
Mazie and Aidan
This was an awesome story. It was hot and sweet and romantic. Aidan is a total cutie and is so sweet and Mazie tries to resist him, but he is just so cute she cannot resist his hotness.
It is a story that primarily takes place at work when Mazie gets hired at his law firm. They become besties because she won't date him because they work together. It's a bit of insta lust/love on Aidan's side but he has to work hard to get her to give him a chance.
It takes place in the G.D. Taylor universe but many years after the books happened. We get to see Mya and Emma (and their husbands Jesse and Spence, plus Beck, Gus and Caden) a lot in this story as they are friends and work with Aidan and Mazie. It's a story that will make you laugh but also sigh because it's very romantic.
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