REVIEW - Prince of my Panties (Royal Package) by Lili Valente

The Book

Release Date: 29 January 2021

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Prince Jeffrey is a bossy, smug, overprotective grouch and the last man I want anywhere near my V-Card.

Would I like to know what all the sexy times fuss is about? Heck yes.

Do I want to lose my virginity to a prince out to ruin my plans? Or risk breaking the heart of a man I’ll have to leave behind? Hell. No.

I'm already living on borrowed time. If the firstborn curse on my family is real, I only have six months to ensure my twin sister lives happily ever after. But Jeffrey wants to slam the brakes on my sister's romance with his brother and force me to stay in bed until I recover from a touch of pneumonia.

But I don't have time to stay in bed! And I certainly don't have time to fall madly in love with this man who holds me like I'm something precious, kisses me until my bones melt, and promises to protect me at all costs.

But he can't protect me from Fate. Can he?

Or is Jeffrey Von Bergen keeping secrets too?

Secrets that might change…everything.

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My Review  5 STARS

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This is the second book in the series and can certainly be read as a stand alone, you just get more about the characters they talk about, (Andrew and Sabrina) who are their respective siblings.

Elizabeth, known as Lizzy is in hiding and trying to finish her underwear collection, whilst also sending her sister Sabrina in her place as the finale to Andew.  Knowing that they should be a perfect match, she work hard, but does not recon on Andrews brother Prince Jeffrey finding her, following her when she runs and then looking after her as she becomes really, really ill.

Elizabeth has been harbouring a secret for years and Elizabeth in her illness tells Jeffrey all about it.  He decides eventually to help track down the woman involved and set the record straight, however what he uncovers has the sceptic changing his mind.

The chemistry between the pair simmers right until they finally give into each other when it explodes and they find more than they bargained for.  Jeffery proves to be the dependable type and is there and supportive when it really matters, he is also very good at listening to Elizabeth and being an all round good companion.

Really looking forward to the next book in the series when the last two siblings Nick and Zan get their story.

REVIEW - Tucked Away (Hearts of Montana #1) by Jennie Marts

The Book

Release Date: 28 April 2015

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Sometimes you find what you need in the most unlikely places...

Charlie Ryan's cheating fiancé left her with a broken heart and even broker bank account. She's hit rock bottom, but everything is about to change. Suddenly, she's inherited a Montana farm named Tucked Away from a grandmother she never knew existed. A fresh start is just what she needs - and no men in her future this time, even if the local vet is as hot as a Montana summer.

Zack Cooper is content with his simple life. Running his veterinary practice and raising his daughter are enough to keep him busy, and he doesn't need a high-maintenance city girl like his ex who plans to sell her grandma's ranch and split faster than a setting sun. So why can't he stop thinking about Charlie and her hot-pink cowboy boots...and the way her eyes say she wants to stay while her lips tease him with plans of leaving?

Just when both start to believe love might be worth the risk...one night will change everything.

My Review  3 STARS

**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Entangled Publishing, LLC for an honest review**

Although this was a fairly decent storyline, i honestly felt like the author had put everything she could think of into this story.

Death of unknown grandparent, inherited farmhouse in Montana, leaves cheating fiancé  Railroad want to buy land, forms relationship with a teenager, likes the Vet, feels spirit of grandmother, gets together with vet, mother arrives unannounced, finds out teenage is vets daughter, grandmother may have been murdered, estranged father turns up, boyfriends ex-wife turns up, acts badly, gets injured, goes out to rescue  teenager and gets in a fight, vet rescues them, fire at the farm, railroad guy implicated.

The only thing that does not seem to happen is that the ex-fiance never turns up, seriously, ho much can be thrown into one book?

Charlie was an ok character, butte never really had a moment to breathe and get over something before something else was shoved in her face.  Zack the vet was a good character, protected his daughter, however things happen very quickly with him and i find it strange that in around 11 years Charlie is the only one that has tempted him as a partner since his wife left.

An ok story if you want LOTS to happen, just too far fetched for me.

REVIEW - Property of The Mountain Man (The Montana Mountain Men #1) by Gemma Weir

The Book

Release Date: 14 January 2021

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Tall, dark and muscled like a god, Beau Barnett is great with an axe. Every woman in Rockhead Point wants a taste of the mountain man. Including me. 
Except he doesn’t even know my name. I’m just the girl behind the counter filling his coffee, while he grunts and grumbles, barely making eye contact. 
Then a newcomer with a charming smile and a fancy suit shows up in Rockhead Point, and refuses to take no for an answer when he asks me to dinner. 
That’s when I find out Mr. Mountain Man not only knows my name… he thinks I’m his property.

My Review  5 STARS

Holy Smokes.  I saw a recommendation for this book in a reading group that i am in on facebook called Jealous/Possessive Hero Book Group  and i knew that i just had to read it after all the comments.

Well i certainly was not disappointed.  Beau Barnett was most certainly a major possessive, all consuming man that once he had made up his mind about Bonnie, that he wanted her, that was it.  He went for her and told her he was possessive, jealous and would not tolorate a moment of space between them, even with the nearly 2o year age gap between them.

21 year old Bonnie has had crush on Beau since she was 13.  With an older brother who is a bout his age she thought he would be nothing more than a fantasy, until another man came sniffing around and asked her out.  That turns out to be a catalyst to make Beau lose his mind.

Cora is a little immature in ways, but in others she has good ethics and is helping he elderly father after the death of her mother and has an older, overbearing brother who tries to act more like a father.  When Beau takes her home and she meets his six brothers, she feels more at home and accepted their that she thought possible.

The heat certainly leaps off the pages with this book, with Beau certainly showing us that he has a softer side when needed and laying down his laws, that mostly get challenged by Bonnie who shows she is no pushover and only capulates when she is ready.

I cannot wait until the next book comes out and we can see another Barnett brother find happy ever after.

REVIEW - Fearless (Forever #7) by Priscilla West

The Book

Release Date: 13 November 2014

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A Contemporary Romance Novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Priscilla West 

Reckless should be read before reading this book. 

"What are you doing?" Jax struggled. 

My heart breaking for him, I raised his bruised hand to my mouth and kissed it tenderly. "Burning away the past." 

Beaten, bruised, and broken, I made a desperate move that would change our lives forever. 

Just when I thought the worst was behind us, cracks appeared, secrets surfaced, and lies unraveled. 

With threats closing in from all sides and our very lives hanging in the balance, I was faced with the most difficult decision of my life. 

My Review  5 STARS

This book starts where the other book for this couple left off and it keeps you so gripped up by the story that you simply cannot put it down until it is finished.

Jax certainly has his issues and they get easier to see as you experience how he had to grow up, however with many triggers and going to see a therapist as per Riley's suggestion, things get worse before they get better.

Riley shows a lot of patience with Jax, but eventually JAx pushes her away and they are both miserable.  It is only on finding something the Riley gave him do things make a little more sense, he is more open to talking and they are able to work things out.

This pair certainly have the chemistry, the book and story has all the feels and you cannot help but root for the characters to have a happy ending. 

REVIEW - Reckless (Forever #6) by Priscilla West

The Book

Release Date: 4 August 2014

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Everything about him warned me to stay away.

I’d seen bad boys before, but he had it all and more. The rippling muscles covered in tatts, the piercing eyes hiding dark secrets, the silky voice that could make a girl come with just a whisper . . . 

He was exactly the type of guy that would get me in trouble, but when he jumped off the stage, inked skin glistening with sweat and breathed his seductive words into my ear, I couldn’t resist the temptation.

It was supposed to be the best one-night stand of my life, but fate didn’t let it play out that way. Things happened. I got upset. I got hasty. And worst of all, I got reckless.

After that disaster, I thought it was the last I’d see of him. But what I didn’t know was that I’d started something.

Something that could shatter the very thing I had worked so hard to protect.

I should have known back then that the most seductive things in life are also the most dangerous.
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Reckless - Book One of Two
Reckless 2- Book Two of Two (Coming Fall 2014)

My Review  5 STARS

**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Blackbird Publishing for an honest review**

Oh my goodness, why has this book been sitting on my kindle for so long?  I am seriously kicking myself right now, the book was so captivating and gripping that i could hardly put it down.

Jax is the front singer in a band called The Hitchcocks and we first see him mentioned as the band called The Cocks.  

Riley is an accountant that likes to live on the edge a little, especially as she was so hurt by a former boyfriend who almost destroyed her.  Seeing Jax has her so captivated by hum and the chemistry between them, but after leaving him with blue balls never expects to see him again.

When her firm sends her to work with a band for two weeks on the road and to make them cut costs, she does not realise the the HC stands for the Hitchcocks, until Jax carries her onboard the extravagant bus after an altercation outside.

Both characters tease each other and on up each other until there is nothing else for it but get even closer together.

The bandmates are mostly on the outskirts of the story, with Sky being the closest to Jax otherwise as a kind of sister like figure.

The book ends on a cliff hanger so i was glad that i could immediately get the second book to their story.

REVIEW - A Hero for Hailey (Love will OUT, #1) by D.E. Haggerty

The Book

Release Date: 9 October 2020

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I do not need some man to come riding in on a stupid white horse to save me, thank you very much. 

When I run into a teensy weensy bit of trouble, who should show up but Aiden – my high school nemesis. Unfortunately, Aiden doesn’t realize he’s my high school nemesis. Nope. He doesn’t even remember who I am. Gee, thanks. 

Suddenly Aiden is everywhere, claiming he’ll protect me. Do I look like I need protecting? But when Aiden speaks to me in that deep, sultry savior voice, my knees wobble and I forget my name. 

I better get to solving this trouble I’m in, so Aiden will move right on out of my life. Only he says he doesn’t want to move on. He wants to stick by my side forever. Not happening. 

But like my pops always says Love will OUT. 

A Hero for Hailey is book 1 of the romantic comedy series Love will OUT but can be read as a standalone.

My Review  4 STARS

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

This is a new to me author and i very much enjoyed this little taste into her world of writing.

Hailey is a PI who tends to only investigate insurance scams and as her company "You Cheat, We Eat" suggests, they also look into potential cheaters after, usually the wives, come in and ask for help.

Aiden is a local detective and was the boy at school of which Hailey had a major crush and was teased about b his friends at school.  When they first bump into each other when she is taking pictures for a case, Aiden does not recognise her.  However he soon starts posing up and wants to prove to her that she has changed and he wants to get to know her.

Hailey has her best friend Suzie who does not apologise for being nosey and she is also very much a clutz.  Lots of laughs come from this character.  We also get to meet phoebe, who remains very much a mysterious character, but will have her story in the next book.

Hailey and Aiden get close fast, but Hailey is a little reserved and Aiden is persistent, he knows what he wants.  He is also another Alpha male along with her father and her father's former army buddies who are her hoary uncles.  Her mother left her when she was little which has also left issues for her and her father.

As the mystery to the break ins and written notes intestines, Aiden and her family step up to protect her.

I really enjoyed the telling of this story and look forward to seeing what secrets that Phone is hiding in the next book.

REVIEW - Island Keeper: Romantic Mystery in the Florida Keys by Cyndi Raye

The Book

Release Date: 8 June 2014

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Annie Foster finds the perfect place to hide from her step-brother. Her cover as the Island Keeper of Serenity Island, a remote private island off of Key West, hides her away until she can find a way to save her Father's company. 

But all alone with no one to help her, Annie almost gives up, until Jesse Storm finds her. Afraid her brother sent him to kill her, she doesn't know if she can trust him. She never was able to forget him, even if he worked for her evil brother. He is like a drug, seductive, making her want him with one look from those intense, sexy blue eyes. 

Would Jesse Storm be the death of her or can she find a way to save the Foster Company? First, she has to save herself from Jesse Storm. 

Other books by Cyndi Raye: 
What Tomorrow Brings Tomorrow series #1 
Where Tomorrow Leads-Tomorrow series #2 
When Tomorrow Ends-Tomorrow series #3 
Nothing Waits Forever-Forever series #1 
Nothing Lasts Forever-Forever series #2 

Key West Wild-Escape series #1 

Cyndi Raye books are about the adventures in a place where romance, 
love, mystery, adventure and moonlit nights run rampant. Along with 
alpha males, sexy romances and spies at every turn, you'll find some of 
the characters in other books from the romance series.

My Review  3 STARS

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

This book has been on my kindle for a while so i finally managed to pick it up as i'm trying to get through all my oldest ARC's to be read.

This book links in with another of the authors series and we get to meet a few characters from that series.

Annie Foster is living on an island that only a small amount of people have visited within the last eighteen months that she has been living and hiding on.  However, when Jessie Storm arrives, her world is turned into chaos.

Jessie has liked Annie from the moment that he first saw her.  Annie had also liked Jessie, however, Jessie was hired to protect her and has mostly been behind the scenes.

Annie has a step brother that wants her dead in order for him to inherit a business that her father has built, but he wants it to hide his crimes.  Tony Foster is a nasty piece of work and with her father suffering from dementia and in a home, things do not link good.  It is Jessie Storm and a big relvlation that she was adopted, and finding out she has other brothers, that sets into motion something her father had somewhat already planned for.

the writing was ok, but the emotions of the characters was a little lack lustre and i struggled to connect with the characters and did not therefore feel for the story much.

RELEASE BLITZ - The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob by Pippa Grant

Title: The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob

Series: Bro Code #4

Author: Pippa Grant

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Release Date: January 7, 2021

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You don’t know me, but you do know me. I’m your neighborhood hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his nose, which is exactly what he’s doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star god, world’s sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks into my bookstore. 

Related: I’m writing this from beyond the grave, because I’ve died of mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe. 

I have to be. 

Because Levi Wilson came back. 

And we had a moment. 

Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure isn’t all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don’t interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time shower. 

So when he proposes a no-strings fling? 

Count. Me. In. 

Thrill of a lifetime, right? 

Surely, nothing will go wrong… 

The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a rockin’ fun, sexy romantic comedy featuring a celebrity panty-melter who doesn’t know what he’s been missing, a sassy single mom hanging on by a string, three adorable children who would never burst in on a woman when she’s on a toilet (ha!), and shameless ovary-busting moments between a guy who never thought he’d be a dad and a family who thought they got along just fine without him. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after (though you’d never go wrong to read the other Bro Code series books first).

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One day. I would like to go one single day without someone in my orbit making a poor life decision. 

“Stop squirming,” I order my four-year-old son, who should be at preschool, but who’s been banished for the week because of lice. 

Yep. 

Lice. 

Heaven forbid we have one issue at a time. 

Adding to my list of issues? Being that mom who can’t get her shit together while Levi Flipping Wilson is watching. And not only watching, but actively engaging in trying to help. “Hey, bud, I bet I can hold still longer than you can. Wanna see?” 

I know my agenda on any given day will include interruption for something my children do that I never would’ve expected in a million years, but that’s a lot easier to deal with when I don’t have an audience. 

Especially an audience made up of one famous man whose songs get me through the day—and night—when I don’t have enough free focus to read or listen to an audiobook, and who keeps stealing glances at me like he’s trying to figure out what kind of rabid creature I am. Normally, customers aren’t allowed back in the stockroom with me, which is where I dragged Hudson when I realized what he’d done to his nose, but leaving Levi out there with the customers who’d figured out who he was seemed like a bad idea. 

Especially when his date skewered me with a look that clearly said get him out of here or I’ll burn this place down. 

It’s a bookstore. 

Highly flammable. 

Not taking chances. 

Especially if there was a reason they were looking at maternity and early childhood development books. His date doesn’t look pregnant, but god knows that’s when pregnancy is hardest. 

Hudson finally stills, and I manage to smear a little more Vaseline gently around his nostril. “How did you get a marble in your nose?” 

“I pushed hard.” He beams. “I gots stars in there too.” 

I squeeze my eyes shut and count to two, because I know if I get as high as three, he’ll find a way to suck the marbles deeper into his sinus cavities, and I don’t know how a doctor will get that out without having to cut his nose open, and oh my god, he’s four and he’s about to be disfigured for life because I thought he’d actually sit still and listen to Yasmin reading books for neighborhood storytime while I re-stocked a few shelves. 

“How many stars?” I inquire through clenched teeth. 

“Four. Or maybe seven. Or maybe one. I forgets.” 

“You are so lucky you’re cute.” 

“Do you have a vacuum?” Levi asks. 

I twist my head to gape at him. 

He shoots a help? look at his date, then shrugs at me. “If he won’t blow it out, maybe you can suck it out. Like with one of those sucky tools the dentist uses.” 

“That’s…possibly not a terrible idea.” 

“Happens on occasion.” He grins, which makes my heart basically stop because he’s stupidly gorgeous. 

I could stare at him all day, but I have a preschooler with marbles up his nose to attend to. 

“Mama,” Hudson says, “look.” 

He scrunches his nose, which makes his nostrils swell, closes his mouth, and blows, and one shoots out and lands on Levi’s shoe. 

My son has just snotted my favorite musician’s Italian leather loafers. 

“I win! I holded still!” He breaks into his preschool dance routine, but the poor kid got his moves from me, which means to a casual observer, he probably looks like he’s having a seizure while choking on a piece of gum and tripping over barbed wire. 

Levi Wilson, however, is not fazed. He squats down to Hudson’s level. “Rematch.”

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REVIEW - The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob by Pippa Grant

The Book

Release Date: 7 January 2021

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A rock star / single mom / fairy tale romcom

You don’t know me, but you do know me. I’m your neighborhood hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his nose, which is exactly what he’s doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star god, world’s sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks into my bookstore.

Related: I’m writing this from beyond the grave, because I’ve died of mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe.

I have to be.

Because Levi Wilson came back.

And we had a moment.

Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure isn’t all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don’t interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time shower.

So when he proposes a no-strings fling?

Count. Me. In.

Thrill of a lifetime, right?

Surely, nothing will go wrong…

The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a rockin’ fun, sexy romantic comedy featuring a celebrity panty-melter who doesn’t know what he’s been missing, a sassy single mom hanging on by a string, three adorable children who would never burst in on a woman when she’s on a toilet (ha!), and shameless ovary-busting moments between a guy who never thought he’d be a dad and a family who thought they got along just fine without him. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after (though you’d never go wrong to read the other Bro Code series books first). 

My Review  5 STARS 

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Yet another brilliant book in the series and the authors arsenal.

I have not yet been able to find a book from this author that does not live up to expectation, have me spitting out coffee in laughter or have my heart warming as the characters wake up from their lives to find there is someone to make their lives complete.

We have met Levi in previous books and he is just as lovable as before, maybe even more so.  It is also lovely to see that Ingrid could quite possibly be the mum next door, or even myself as the hot mess mum, just trying her best to get through everyday with work and her kids in tow.

I love the interaction between the pair and the mess of moments that the kids go through with Ingrid in their wake and by extension Levi as he just walks into their lives and lives like this is all normal for him.  I also loved that he actually saw Ingrid for the superman that she was and just helped her, where no man had previously done for her and that the did the little things that help more than anything.

We see more of previous characters from the series and other series that link up along with a little more from his mother.  I am really looking forward to Cash and Davis having their books and seeing what types of strong women bring those men to their knees, along with what type of animals are going to ensure that things do not run smoothly.

Really loved this book and cannot wait to read more from this author.

REVIEW - Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire (Bro Code #3) by Pippa Grant

The Book

Release Date: 24 March 2020

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The lies will come back to bite you every time...

Never borrow pants from your brother. Especially if he’s a size smaller than you are, because all that pressure in the junk will short-circuit your brain.

And you’ll lie to a woman in a club about your real name.

Leave her unsatisfied after making out in a bathroom.

Then find out that she’s the one thing standing in the way of your dreams. And she very much doesn’t like being lied to.

Now I have to convince Lila Valentine—the woman I can’t stop thinking about, my biggest regret, and my new boss—that I’m what’s best for the baseball team she’s inherited.

If we can’t work together to save the Fireballs, the commissioner’s forcing a sale and moving them across the country.

I’ll do anything to save my home team.

But the one thing I can’t do?

Keep my hands to myself. 

Which would be fine, if she hadn’t been telling me lies this whole time too.

Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire is a rocking fun romance between a single dad obsessed with baseball, an heiress with secrets, baseball pants, a rundown team, and rabid ducks. It stands alone and comes with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

My Review  5 STARS

Why have i had this on my kindle for most of a year?  I know i like this author, so having this still feels like i have been neglecting my reading duties.

Tripp is a single dad, a former member of Bro Code and his wife died 2 years prior of the flu.  He is now a little OCD about germs and is petrified when his kids get sick.  He has been managing his kids with only a little help from others, but when they are sick, he looks after them himself.

Lila lost her parents when she was little and her uncle sent her off to boarding school as it was the lesser evil than living with him.  Her family has owned the baseball club for generations, but when uncle Al  dies, he has left it in a real mess that she wants to sort out as it was something of her mothers too.

Tripp and Lila butt heads a lot over their vision for the club, but this butting heads leads to other things as they navigate their feeling towards each other with the sizzling chemistry.  We also get to see other member of the club like Cooper Rock and other members of Bro Code like his ever helpful brother Levi.

Both have good supporting friends and with Lila an honorary family member who keeps her safe and informed.

I loved the whole package with this book.  Both were a little tortured in their own way and Lila used Grace and faced up to things and even gives Tripp the space he needs at one point.  I am glad things well in the end that they can both get a happy ending with each other.