REVIEW - Rich in Your Love (Tickled Pink #2) by Pippa Grant

The Book

Release Date: 13 December 2022

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A sweet, lighthearted romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Pippa Grant about one social media influencer’s dream of going off the grid and the IRL love she finds along the way.

Secrets always catch up with you. The world knows me as Tavi Lightly, sugar-free social media influencer. But my true purpose lies in secretly restoring a cacao farm in Costa Rica. Unfortunately, to save the farm, I need access to the trust fund that my grandmother has frozen. She’s requiring me to do charity work in Tickled Pink, Wisconsin, and until I meet her ultimatum—no trust fund. So to Tickled Pink I go.

My first grandmother-approved charity project? Helping local reformed bad boy Dylan Wright. He has secrets too, like how he’s hung up on his married best friend. Kick-starting his dating life is as easy as making him famous through association with me.

Not so easy is the fact that we’re falling for each other. He belongs in Tickled Pink, and I belong on my farm. We might share our secrets with one another, but can we really share our lives too?

My Review     5 STARS

**My thanks to Netgalley and Montlake Romance for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

This is the second book in this series and is just as good as the first.  I would recommend that you read the first book before this one.

Tavi is already a good egg, but her media personality she what she hides behind and she gives her earnings to charity.  Three years ago she bought a Cacao farm in Costa Rica giving people jobs, however with her Grandmother blackmailing her with her trust fund, she is stuck in Tickled Pink, where she finds Dylan, a man who has a hard past where he wasn't very nice.

Dylan is now a nice man and helps out where he can, but where people see him, but know his past, Tavi just sees him for who he is now.  Both help each other out, but end up falling hard and fast for each other, but Tavi has her own secret.

Eventually they come together with Dylan making trip out to see Tavi confirming that she is the woman for him.

I really enjoyed the relationships between all of the characters and that all of the Leightlys end up becoming better people and noticing that there was nothing really wrong with Tavi before.

A really good story, hot chemistry and strong characters.

REVIEW - Take me I'm Yours by Lili Valente

The BookRelease Date: 22 March 2023

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He’s my ex-boyfriend’s father, my dad’s former business partner, and probably the most forbidden man on earth…at least as far as I’m concerned.  But when we first meet, Gideon is just a heroic pilot saving three sweet puppies from a kill shelter, and I’m the lucky women who keeps him safe from the storm one night.

A night that turns into the hottest of my life…Losing my virginity to a sexy older man who seems to instinctively know how much I love to be called his “good girl,” isn’t on my summer Bingo card, but I’m so grateful for the memory.Memories are all I’ll ever have of Gideon. Our lives are going in different directions, and I doubt I’ll ever see him again.

But Fate has other plans…Just a month later, I run into Gideon at my ex-boyfriend’s fundraising party. Only he isn’t there as a donor. He’s there as a supportive parent.We realize our scandalous connection and swear to stay away from each other while he’s in town on business.

Only we can’t seem to keep our hands to ourselves, no matter how hard we try.Soon, I’m spending my nights in his penthouse, falling deeper under his erotic spell, and perhaps even more dangerously…losing my heart to this magnetic man.

But what happens when the real word comes crashing in all around us? Will the man I love still want to call me His?

My Review    5 STARS

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

Oh. My. Gosh.  This book is panty melting and I totally fell in love with Gideon and Sydney.  Both characters are smart, go for what they want and Sydney certainly is an old soul in a young body.

Gideon may be fifteen years older than Sydney with a son her age, but never has he found a connection like what he finds very quickly with the young woman who picks him up from the airport one night in the rain.

Sydney has a lovely group of friends around her, even her ex Aides who turns out to be Gideon son, however when Aiden finds out about the pair, he is more supportive and sweet than I thought he would be.

I loved who the characters were not afraid to go for what they wanted, had a grownup relationship without shying away and avoiding the hard topics and were there to support and encourage each other as individuals and their wants and needs.  The chemistry between them certainly heated up the pages.

I really enjoyed this book and would certainly recommend for those who like a streamier read.

REVIEW - Once Touched (Silver Creek #3) by Laura Moore

The Book

Release Date: 24 November 2015

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For fans of Linda Lael Miller and Diana Palmer comes Laura Moore’s breathtaking final installment in her Silver Creek contemporary romance series.

The youngest of the three Knowles siblings, Quinn has in her blood the love of the land and its beautiful creatures. Raising enough money to build an animal sanctuary is a dream Quinn lives every day—while fending off her family’s well-intentioned matchmaking schemes. Though harboring secret fears about intimacy, Quinn soon realizes she cannot fight her growing attraction to a man who has suddenly entered her life.

Scarred by his months in Afghanistan and the violence he witnessed there through his camera lens, photojournalist Ethan Saunders throws himself into hard ranching work as a prescription for healing. But falling for Quinn has given him the one thing he thought he’d lost forever: hope. Ethan discovers that Quinn, like the innocent animals she rescues, is shy, and afraid of entrusting her heart to a man. Passion soon awakens Ethan’s strength, and his tender seduction may be just what Quinn needs to believe in herself—and in his love.

My Review   4 STARS

**My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Quinn loves her animals and very much has the heart to help in rescuing animals like her horse Tucker who is skittish around men and with Quinns soft touch responds only to her.

Ethan having been in an accident in Afghanistan needs to recover in a place that is not around his concerned parents and chooses to go back to Whisper Creek, a place he loved as a child.  Here he meets bubbly and sunny Quinn who with her special ways reaches Ethan in a way no other can.

But is is only Ethan who is able to help Quinn with a problem she has wanted to get over, being a 24 year old virgin is hard and she finds it hard to get near doing the deed with any other man.  But Ethan has a soft sure way about him that not only turns Quinn on, but that she trusts him.

The supporting family is strong, the friendships Quinn has formed is strong and ultimately, Quinn gives Ethan the biggest push in order to recover and he in turn shows her that she is the only one he could ever want.

REVIEW - Meant to Be (Whisper Creek #5) by Maggie McGinnis

The Book

Release Date: 14 March 2017

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At twenty-five, Shelby Quinn is a has-been, and she’s more relieved than devastated. The one-time pop sensation’s latest album just debuted with a whimper, and her tour’s cancellation means she has her first chance to relax since . . . well, ever. But when her beloved father passes away, Shelby’s vacation suddenly becomes a time for soul searching. Alone and broken-hearted, she certainly doesn’t expect to meet a man who understands her in a way no one else ever has. 

Gabe Sullivan was one of the NYPD’s top detectives—until his partner made off with his wife and his reputation. Now he’s wrangling horses and guests at Whisper Creek Ranch, while keeping one eye firmly on a super-secret VIP holed up in a private cabin—a beautiful, soulful singer who knows what it’s like to lose everything. Gabe and Shelby both have ample reason to guard their hearts. But if they can learn to trust each other, something magical waits for them under the big skies and bright stars.

My Review   4 STARS

**My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Pop sensation Tara aka Shelby has recently lost her father and after the funeral is sent off to Whisper Creek for a month in order to decompress as the waining poster is a little on the edge and struggling with her grief.

Cooper is spending time at Whisper Creek after being on trial after having blown the whistle on some shady cop colleagues and one was a relative.  Cooper is put on look after the special VIP task and finds that it is not as bad as he thought it would be, and his spicy senses soon ferret out her secrets and he finds himself wanting to help the star, meanwhile falling for the woman.

But the past catches up to our characters, for Cooper he faces morbid press as the case is reopened after new information is found and Shelbys management bring her back after someone has posted her and Cooper together and she has to deny knowing him.

But three weeks was enough for this couple to have a strong connection, for Shelby to have made real friends and for Cooper sister to help him realise that it is Shelby that her really wants now.

I enjoyed this book and the sweet coming together of two people who make each others lives whole.

REVIEW - Kind of a Hot Mess (The McGuire Brothers #5) by Lili Valente

The Book

Release Date: 5 February 2024

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She's a hot mess single mom with no time for players…or anything else.

He's a wounded NHL star stuck in the home town he's fought to escape.

She needs a babysitter.

He needs a safe place to heal away from his overbearing family.

The problem?

They hate each other (and lust after each other) in equal measure.

Being roomies is going to be…interesting.

AARON and MELISSA'S story arrives winter 2024!

My Review    5 STARS

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

Mel is a single mum with a busy business and not enough time in her life.  Her ex-husband is happily shacked up with his boyfriend and Mel hates having to give up her child and is lonely.

Aaron is an older Rookie in the NHL and after just three games gets a nasty injury that means he needs to sit out until he heals fully after having been sent to the hospital.

With his elderly aunt and her boyfriend having relations that strain his want to live there, Mel offers to let him recover at hers if he helps her with her son every now and then.

Mel was teased by Aaron when they were teenagers, but Aaron gets to show Mel that he is not that boy anymore.

I really enjoyed the chemistry between this pair and the relationship moves at a fast pace all while Aaron proves that he is solid, dependable and will do anything for the people that he loves.

REVIEW - Once Upon a Cowboy (Whisper Creek #3) by Maggie McGinnis

The Book

Release Date: 30 June 2015

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In this sexy Whisper Creek romance for readers of Kristan Higgins, Susan Mallery, and Molly O’Keefe, a red-hot cowboy uses some Montana magic to give a reclusive beauty her happily ever after.

Yoga instructor Jessalyn Alcott radiates peace, calm, and serenity—on the outside. Inside, she still feels like the broken, desperate girl from the trailer park. She’s got dark secrets she can’t share, which is why she never lets her relationships go beyond the third date. But when she travels to the Whisper Creek dude ranch for a friend’s wedding, Jess is enchanted by a cowboy whose deep blue eyes, dimpled smile, and rock-hard body make it tough to remember why she keeps running scared.

Cole Driscoll has struggled to find his place on a family ranch where he’s always played second fiddle. His future might be uncertain, but he’s sure of one thing: He wants Jess by his side. Easier said than done. When it comes to getting close, she’s full of excuses, and he longs to fix the hurt he sees in her eyes. Now that she’s at Whisper Creek, there’s nothing he wants more than to break down the walls around her heart and heal her pain with the power of love.

My Review    4 STARS

**My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Jess has been going to Whisper Creek for two years and is back again for the wedding of her friend and the second wedding at Whisper Creek for her friend group of three.  She and one of the owners Cole have both fancied each other but done nothing with the attraction.

Jess has a secret that she has told no-one, not even her best friend, but when a letter arrives from her past, not only does this spook her, she is very much reminded of a past she has tried so hard to put behind her.

Cole is good at reading horses, children and adults.  When he sees Jess back at Whisper Creek, he knows that she is different, afraid of something.  He knows that he needs to tread carefully with her.

Both find themselves getting closer to each other, but it is not before another blast from her past spooks her even further that everything changes for Jess.  Not only does her past blast wide open, but Not only does her friendship with her two friends get closer, but Cole really finds out that Jess is the woman for him.

This is more of a slow burn, but well worth the read.