Royal Escape - Royally Pickled Trilogy #3 - by JJ Knight (Jesse and Princess Lili)

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The hot mess everyone knows as Princess Lili is falling in love with one man and having wild monkey business with another. Yeah, I mean me. I’m the hot mess.

Don’t judge me. Not yet. There’s some back story.

First, I ran away from my royal duties.

I escaped to America, party hopping as the wild, red-haired lifestyle influencer Indigo Flame. I peddle everything from blue eye shadow to flavored pickles to get by.

Don’t judge me!

Then, I met the kind, sensitive artist Jesse Adams while looking like the real me — princess me. This is a problem. Huge. I can only see him in secret or the jig is up.

But then I discovered the Masked Man. I met him at a vampire ball dressed as Indigo. Within ten minutes, we were locking the door of the dressing room and things got hot.

I planned to lead a double life all along. I have to if I want to be free of my royal shackles.

But now I have a triple life? Quadruple?

All I know is that Jesse opens my heart, and the Masked Man opens ... everything else.

And if I don’t get my act together, I’m going to lose everything.

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Royal Escape is a hot, hot, hot romantic comedy about a princess pretending to be an influencer pretending to be a princess, a man who can’t keep his hands off her (as long as he’s wearing a mask), a meddling Pickle family who opens a castle in Colorado without realizing the pretend princess is a real princess, and a triple-double twist that everybody sees coming — except the donkeys.

Royal Escape is the final book in the Royally Pickled trilogy, but can totally be read as a standalone.

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I pause in front of an unexpected door. Does this hotel room have another room?

I twist the deadbolt and try to open it, but it doesn’t budge. I jerk and shake it, then realize there is another latch that drops into the floor. I bend down and lift it.

The door opens to reveal — another door. But this one doesn’t have a knob. That’s odd.

This door rattles. I press my ear against the wood to listen.

Then suddenly, the door flies open, and I fall onto the floor on the other side!

My face smashes into orange carpet. It smells like an orange, too. I lift my head. “What in thunder?”

There’s a mandarin duvet on the bed. Orange walls, textured to look like the inside of a peel.

Then, right by my cheek, two feet.

Man feet. Square nails.

Pants, no cuffs. The hem lands exactly where it should, custom tailored.

I rise to my hands and knees, shaking off my fall as I lift my head. The pant legs are tapered and crisply ironed. The belt is Italian leather. The shirt is pale green, the cuffs rolled up to reveal strong, tan forearms.

The neck is unbuttoned.

Then I see his face.

Good Lord. He’s gorgeous and blue-eyed with sandy hair. He must be a model, comped a stay by the hotel. I’d comp him anything he asked for.

He stares at me with an odd expression of amusement. “Falling for me already?”

Worst opening line ever.

But yes, yes, I am.

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JJ Knight is the USA Today and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic comedy including Tasty Mango and Big Pickle.

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This is a stand-alone story but part of a series. I have never read this author before or any of the books in the series, so I pretty much read this story blind. It was an interesting plot and sounded like a fun romp and I happy to say it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the characters.

In this story we meet Lili aka Ellie aka Aria who also has a secret identity of Indigo Flame. She is a virgin, princess on the lam who also has a secret identity as a sexy, blogger and she is in NYC ready to experience sex and life.

She meets artist Jesse as he is her next-door neighbor at the hotel he is staying at. Jesse falls hard for her very fast. There is a insta love/lust aspect to this story.

This is also an age gap romance as Lili is 21 and Jesse is 29.  This story also has a love triangle of sorts. It's really just Lili and Jesse but for a majority of the story Lili thinks she knows two guys Jesse and Z and she is drawn to both for different reasons, so in her head she is in this love triangle.

This is a very erotic story with lots of wild sex so if you don't like sext scenes then you might not love this story. I really enjoyed the sex scenes. They were very hot!!

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PROVOKE by Ava Harrison (Charles and Raven)

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From USA Today bestseller Ava Harrison comes a grumpy/sunshine workplace romance.

The first time I met Charles Cavendish, I accidentally locked myself in a closet with him.

 

The second time, he’s my new boss.

My very grumpy new boss.

 

No matter how I much I try, I can’t forget what his lips feel like.

The way his arms wrap around me.

 

I need to keep my distance. 

But when the company lands a new account, I’m forced to work side by side with this man.

 

The handsome devil who makes me forget all rational thought.

But the thing about the devil is . . . he can lure even the greatest of saints.

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Ava Harrison is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author. 

When she’s not journaling her life, you can find her window shopping, cooking dinner for her family, or curled up on her couch reading a book.

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This was my first time reading a book by this author but I love work related romances and so I was really excited to check this book out. 

Provoke is a story with two characters, Charles and Raven (Rae), who end up working together but who also fell into lust at first sight when they met earlier at a dance club. 

Then she ends up being his new hire for a really important new client so they both have to fight their lust for each other while trying to keep this new client happy.

In the middle of this hot and sexy romance we also have a bit of intrigue and drama as the companies ideas keep getting stolen by their competitor. In addition there is also drama with Charles father as the two are very much estranged.

This story was as I mentioned very hot and sexy and forbidden as Rae didn't want her fellow employees to think she slept her way to a job and Charles has some bad history with dating a fellow employee. But it was also a very intriguing story as there is intrigue on the job as their ideas keep getting stolen by their competitor. 

I really enjoyed this story and I loved all the different plot points that come out as you read the story and find out who is trying to destroy Charles relationship with his client. 

PROTECTIVE HEART - Starlight Cove #2 - by Brighton Walsh (Everly and Beck)

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I’ve lied to myself for years about being in love with my best friend.

Everly Bowman and I don’t make sense. She’s sunshine personified and I hate everyone. Well, everyone but her. It’s been easy to keep up the farce and pretend like she isn’t my whole world. Or it was until she needs a place to stay, and my apartment is her only option.

Suddenly, she's everywhere I turn. Even her scent is branded into my sheets. And thanks to our unofficial romance book club, I’ve also amassed an encyclopedia titled Everly’s Pleasure Buttons. Each week, it gets harder to ignore how much I want to make her fantasies come true. Especially when we crawl into my bed every night.

But I won’t jeopardize what we have for anything, so I’m fine with lying to myself and pretending like I don’t dream of calling her mine.

At least, I was until I see her with him.

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USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brighton Walsh spent a decade as a professional photographer before taking her storytelling in a different direction and reconnecting with her first love—writing. 

She likes her books how she likes her tea—steamy and satisfying—and adores strong-willed heroines and the protective heroes who fall head over heels for them. 

Brighton lives in the Midwest with her real life hero of a husband, her two kids—one who’s already taller than her and one who’s catching up too fast—and her dog who thinks she’s a queen. Her boy-filled house is the setting for dirty socks galore, frequent dance parties (okay, so it’s mostly her, by herself, while her children look on in horror), and more laughter than she thought possible.

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This is the my first time reading a book in the series and I felt this book easily stands alone. It is part of a series about a family of siblings whose mother died when they were all teens and whose father became a drunk and abandoned them. They all own and help run an Inn in the small town of Starlight Cove.

This book stars Beck who runs a bakery/cafe in town and he is best friends with the town Veterinarian, Every, who came to town when her aunt died and left her a house and clinic. She is a happy person and Beck is very grumpy. 

These two have known each other for two years and are best friends. When she gets a visitor, that's when Beck finds out that he never wants to lose her, and he needs to let her know how he feels. And then a tragedy happens, and he can lose Everly forever. 

This was an awesome story that I could not put down. Everly and Beck have such an awesome friendship that their feelings you can feel through the pages of this story. I loved him and I loved her and together you can just feel the love and friendship they share between them.

This was one of the best friends to lovers romances I have read. In addition, the hot times were very sexy. I loved how there for Everly, Beck is and they have this really amazing relationship, attraction and connection. 

Boss to the Rescue - Billionaire Boss #2 - by Janie Grey (Jasmine and Ed)

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That time you need to make a brilliant first impression for a competitive internship, but accidentally arrive late and with an armful of soggy kittens…only to find that your new boss, Ed Malden - who needs to adore the crap out of you if you’re to secure your dream job - is not only one of New Zealand’s hottest billionaire heartthrobs, but he is *majorly* allergic to cats.

The sneezing begins.

The glares / orders / bosshole attitude / intolerable demands follow.

And while the other interns (the punctual ones without wet cats) are given achievable tasks with which to prove themselves worthy of the one covetable position available… I’m given an unthinkable challenge to overcome. I *need* this job, but property mogul Ed clearly doesn’t want me on his team.

It could be worse, I suppose.

I could end up spending time with the boss and falling for the cat-hating, ball-busting, ego-toting, potential-realising, oddly inspiring, actually sort of gooey inside, swoon-worthy, panty-melting jerk… damn it.

Boss to the Rescue is a standalone romance with an HEA. While it's part of a series, each book is a different couple and can be read on its own.

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Janie loves good coffee, bittersweet chocolate, and contemporary romance in all its forms. But while she loves many genres, billionaire romance is her favourite to write. Who doesn’t like a hot guy with buckets of money? Especially when he has to work hard to win the love of his life.

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 This is book 2 in the series but can easily stand alone. I did read the first book and both main characters are seen in the first book as they each have connections/friendships with characters in the first book, but they don't actually meet each other until this book begins.

This is a boss/intern romance with an age gap (he is 34 and she is I think 22) and also a slow burn romance. It's a really great story and I found Ed fascinating and the assignments, and the projects Ed has his interns and Jasmine working on.

I also really enjoyed the writers writing style and I found it a fun, easy read that was fast paced and I could not put it down. 

Ed is a very rich guy, and he runs his own real estate firm. He has 8 interns he usually accepts for 8 weeks and usually the best ones get a job offer at the end of 8 weeks. 

Jasmine ends up being a wonderful young and smart woman who charms Ed with her hard work and brain power. But she is also very dangerous for him as he only does one nighters and he does not believe and even want love.

This is very much about a guy who is not the most mature guy in the world. Jasmine is one tough woman, and she attempts to tame his heart. She is much younger than him, but she also knows what she wants and knows what she deserves, and she does not accept anything less. I absolutely loved her so much and truly she schooled Ed and really changed him and helped him grow up.

Because they work together and she is his intern, one that he will grade. They cannot be seen as anything but boss and intern. This is very much a forbidden romance, but they also share some friend connections and that makes it even harder for them to stay away from each other.

This story takes place in New Zealand, and I really enjoyed learning more about the country and how different it is than America and even the UK.  

 

Slapshot by Jami Davenport (Tia and Bryce)

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BRYCE:

I'm the guy the entire team loves to hate. Not only am I one of the Sockeyes' best players, but I make sure everyone knows it. No woman has ever held my heart until I meet Tia. She's everything I am, gorgeous, rude, arrogant with a capital 'TUDE, and we're both concealing soul-shattering pain. Together we're fire and ice, a combo I can't resist and one that has me worried I've finally succumbed to the worst four-letter word in the English language--LOVE.

TIA:

After my mother's tragic death, I've lashed out and driven away everyone who ever cared about me. The pain is so great, I feel I don’t deserve friendship or love. Along comes Bryce. We're kindred spirits. He's as damaged as I am. Out of our grief, something special begins to sprout, but our tendency to destroy anything good in our lives threatens the best thing that's ever happened to us. Only Bryce refuses to give up while I'm finding old habits die hard. Barricading my heart is easier than taking the risk of being hurt again.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Jami Davenport writes sexy contemporary and sports romances, including her Seattle Sockeyes, Seattle Steelheads, Gone Missing, and The Scoring Series.

Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland drool monster, and a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat.

Jami worked in IT for years and is also a former high school business teacher but recently achieved a life-long dream and is now a full-time author.  A horse lover since birth, Jami showed dressage horses for over thirty years. Now she gardens and goes glamping, along with other travelling adventures. She's a lifetime Seahawks and Mariners fan, a proud season ticket holder for the Seattle Kraken hockey team, and still misses her SuperSonics. An avid boater, Jami has spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books. In her opinion, it's the most beautiful place on earth.

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 This was kind of a sad story with some great suspense and a bit of a Cinderella story starring hockey player Bryce and spoiled rich girl and horse woman, Tia who we have met in previous books. In this story we get her whole reason for why she acts so badly. 

In this story Tia is our Cinderella and her father's mistress and now fiancée is the evil stepmother to be with her evil son and they are after Tia's fathers' wealth, and they want to destroy Tia.

Bryce plays Prince Charming in this story and from his first scene with Tia you can feel the magic between these two. What starts up as a hook up ends up meaning a lot more to two very broken people who end up really needing each other.

This is not a light read but it is full of hot scenes, lots of drama, suspense and a horrible villain and a chance for Bryce to save the day. It was a really different story in this series, but it was intense and highly entertaining.

Stunner - Whiskey Dolls Series #3 - By Jessica Prince (Owen and Asher)

 

Never in a million years did I think I’d be jilted on my wedding day.

Around the time Asher Rose was supposed to say “I do”, she was bellied up to a bar full of bikers, three sheets to the wind and feeling sorry for herself. The last person she expected to come to her rescue was Owen Shields.

He was tattooed, broody, and her ex-fiancé’s best friend. The arrogant jerk who was supposed to be the best man at her wedding was never supposed to be her knight in shining armor.

Falling for Owen was never part of the plan, but when the gorgeous town vet throws everything he has her way, including his adorable dog and angelic niece, Asher is in for the fight of her life.

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“Hi,” he said, low and gravelly.

I turned on him, making sure to narrow my eyes into slits, determined to gain my anger back after meeting the lovely Hazel, because I’d be damned if I let him get away with the silent treatment he’d been subjecting me to.

It wasn’t easy, especially not with the contrition swimming in those green eyes, but I held firm. “‘Hi’? Seriously? You’ve been ghosting me for three days and that’s how you’re going to start?”

He stepped in closer, his delicious smell making my head all fuzzy. “You look beautiful.”

Oh, he was good. Damn it! Stay strong, Asher! I silently scolded. I blew past the compliment like I hadn’t heard it, even while flutters erupted in my chest.

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Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That’s why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.

In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.

Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.

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This was an awesome story featuring Asher who we have met in other books in the series and it's her second chance romance, runaway bride romance with her exes best friend. 

It has HOT scenes, is full of romance and has two adorable dogs that save the day. There is some angst and some drama and even some suspense. Plus, some new characters I really loved. 

In this story we get to know Asher. She is a sweetheart, maybe a bit too sweet, kind and giving. She is also an awesome dancer and thats how she fits into this story as she is a dancer at the nightclub Whiskey Dolls. We meet her as she is pulling a runaway bride when her fiancée runs away and crawls thru a bathroom at her wedding's venue.

And that's when she ends up running into her ex's best friend, Owen who she always thought hated her. Owen sees his chance and decides they need to become friends and he hopes this will get her to finally see him. 

One of the biggest themes in this story is to not judge a book by its cover. Owen seems like this hot, tattooed guy who is a veterinarian but inside he is a huge nerd and doesn't really see that he is HOT and wonderful guy!

This was a really fun story and I really enjoyed watching Asher fall for her nerd and I adored the two dog heroes in this story. If you love runaway brides, second chances and falling in love then you will love Stunner!

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