COVER REVEAL - Lies and Lullabies (Hush Note #1) by Sarina Bowen

Coming September 22, 2020

Summer nights and star-crossed lovers! From USA Today bestselling author Sarina Bowen.

Once upon a time, he gave me a summer of friendship, followed by one perfect night. We shared a lot during our short time together. But he skipped a few crucial details. 

I didn’t know he was a rock star.

I didn’t know his real name.

Neither of us knew I’d get pregnant.

And I sure never expected to see him again.

Five years later, his tour bus pulls up in Nest Lake, Maine. My little world is about to be shattered by loud music and the pounding of my own foolish heart.

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Review - Bachelor at Her Bidding (Montana Born Bachelor Auction #2) by Kate Hardy

The Book
Release Date: 27 February 2015
Goodreads Link

Your date with Parisian-trained chef Ryan Henderson promises you’ll get the best meal of your life cooked especially for you. His Red Velvet cheesecake is to die for – but we know he has even better desserts up his sleeve…

How to win a girl in ten cakes…

When Dr. Rachel Cassidy comes back to Marietta with a broken heart and a divorce under her belt, going to a Bachelor Auction fund-raiser doesn’t sound like her idea of a good time – and when her sister and friends “buy” her a dinner date with sexy Parisian-trained pastry chefRyan Henderson, that sounds even worse.

Ryan doesn’t have time for dating – he’s put his dreams to one side and come back to Marietta to look after his sick grandmother. But when he agrees to help a charity fundraiser by offering to cook a special meal to one lucky bidder, he gets more than he bargains for and discovers a woman he might just dare to let himself fall in love with.

Then tragedy strikes, just when Rachel and Ryan think they might have a future, opening up old scars and pushing them apart.

And if they’re to stand a chance of getting back together, then Ryan’s going to have to be seriously inventive. Can he win the love of his life with ten cakes?

My Review  3 STARS
**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Tule publishing for an honest review**

This book happens in the same timeline as the previous book in the series, however they can be read as a stand alone book.

This is a slow burn read and the story happens slowly, however the ending feels far too rushed for me.  It was almost as if the writer had used up her word allowance, then suddenly realised that she needed to finish the book.

Rachel is a community doctor who was bought a fancy dinner with a local chef who trained in paris and is known locally for his better than sex deserts.  Both have been burned by past relationships and are not looking for anything, however the attraction is there from the beginning.

Ryan came back home to look after his ailing grandmother who looked after him when his parents died.  Cajoled into getting into the bachelor auction by Lily Taylor, he is constantly reminded of his ex and how she labeled him as selfish for going back home to look after his grandmother.

Its a good story, i'm just upset that the ending seemed rushed giving me whiplash.

REVIEW - Bound to the Bachelor (Montana Born Bachelor Auction #1) by Sarah Mayberry

The Book
Release Date: 20 February 2015
Goodreads Link

Your date with Marietta local Beau Bennett includes a day on the slopes at Big Sky Resort, complete with a sumptuous meal in the Resort’s fanciest fine dining restaurant and door-to-door transport. Dig deep to secure the attentions of one of Montana’s most eligible – and elusive – bachelors.

Lily Taylor knows Beau Bennett dislikes her, but that won’t stop her from asking him to volunteer for the Bachelor Auction she’s organized to help her friend Molly provide for her tragically injured son, Josh. If Beau’s gorgeous face, piercing blue eyes and chiseled body inspires the women of Marietta to dig into their pockets for a good cause, then Lily will do whatever it takes to secure his participation.

Beau Bennett isn’t sure how he wound up on the auction block being eyed up by hundreds of eager women, but he knows who to blame for it – Lily Taylor, the sexy, distracting, off-limits best friend of his kid sister. As far as he’s concerned, the sooner this nightmare is over, the better.

The last thing either of them expects is for Lily to wind up bidding on – and winning – Beau, or that their date will lead to Beau stepping in to save Lily when her past comes back to haunt her. As Beau does his best to keep Lily safe, they discover that maybe they don’t dislike each other quite as much as they thought.

In fact, maybe it’s just the opposite…

My Review  4 STARS
**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Tule publishing for an honest review**

We are back in Marietta Montana again with this series and it focuses on Lily Taylor and Beau Bennett.

Both have been sniping at each other for the last five years, but being her best friends brother there is no way that they can avoid each other.  Adding to the fact that she needs to get Beau onboard for a bachelor auction in order to raise funds for her disabled godson, then things are going to change.

Lily has had a bit of a hard life after running away from home when she was sixteen, when she arrived at Marietta all those years ago and people found out that she had been a stripper for a while, a lot of noses had turned and some men wanted more from her, hence her now three year dry spell.

When a letter from an attorney saying she has inherited some money from a man in her past comes her world changes.  Being the strong person she is she copes well, even if Beau ends up coming to the rescue.

The connection between the pair is great and the connection once it happens goes very fast.  Glad this pair get a decent HEA and that we see six months down the line.

REVIEW - Beach Wedding (Butler Cove #4) by Natasha Boyd

The Book
Release Date: 28 March 2017
Goodreads Link

It’s been four years since movie star, Jack Eversea, won Keri Ann Butler’s heart.
 
Keri Ann has finished college and launched her artistic career, and she's let Jack know that she might finally be ready to tie the knot. But four years was a long time to make Jack wait. Jack’s just finished filming one of the most emotionally taxing projects he’s ever worked on and now he’s questioning his suitability for marriage.

Unforseen circumstances are causing rifts in their relationship, pitting the future against the past and love against responsibility, and conspiring to make the lovers take a good long look at their future.

It’s always been a rocky road for these two, can Keri Ann’s steadfast love smooth the way to their BEACH WEDDING?

My Review  5 STARS
I am so happy that this book got told, even though in their last book they had a happy after.

This book shows that every couple has its ups and downs and by coping with a problem yourself, others may not only get the wrong idea, but once the problem is shared this become so much less of a problem.

There is a great deal of an emotional rollercoaster, but in the best way.  We get to see to see most of the previous Butler Cove residents along with three new characters.  I really hope that Nicole and Cooper get a book together someday.

I will admit however that the ending is quite emotional.

A brilliant read.

COVER REVEAL - Sure Shot (Brooklyn #4) by Sarina Bowen

The Book

Release Date: 12 May 2020

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A new stand-alone hockey romance from USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen.

On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, successful sports agent Bess Beringer is ready to make some changes. Armed with a five-year plan—indexed and color coded—she’ll tackle a few goals in her personal life.

A big, tall, ripped hunk of hockey player who’s just been traded to the Brooklyn Bruisers is not a part of that five year plan. Mark “Tank” Tankiewicz has a lot of baggage. He’s a ride-or-die loner. He’s on the rebound. He’s also the sexiest thing on two legs, and for some crazy reason it’s Bess that he wants.

She knows better. But then she falls stupid in love with him anyway. And for a while it seems like maybe he’ll do the same.

Until she asks him for the one thing he can never give her…

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REVIEW - According to Joey (Butler Cove #3.5) by Natasha Boyd

The Book
Release Date: 2016
Goodreads Link

This is a 'companion short' to All That Jazz from Joey's POV that is not available for sale. It is not a full length book. It is six chapters detailing several scenes from All That Jazz in Joey's point of view that was compiled to ePub for easier reading than reading from a Website. It was written for Natasha Boyd's newsletter subscribers as a gift not for wide distribution. It can be read by subscribing to her All That Jazz bonus material list run by mailchimp http://eepurl.com/bTTB-1 where a return confirmation email will send you the link.

My Review  4 STARS
This is a 74 page short from the author told from Joey's point of view from the day of Jazz's eighteenth birthday and a small amount from the present day to why he moved back home.

We get to see how Joey's truly feels about Jazz and the deep regret and emotion that he feels not only about her, but about how he handles the situation between them.  It is certainly worth reading, but only after you have read All That Jazz.

REVIEW - All that Jazz (Butler Cove #3) by Natasha Boyd

The Book
Release Date: 22 March 2016
Goodreads Link

There's something totally inconvenient about falling for your best friend's brother. Especially when he's a pompous, arrogant, albeit annoyingly sexy a-hole that you'd like to punch or kiss to death at any given moment. 

("Sexy, romantic, heartbreaking, humorous ... I absolutely gobbled it up!" ~ J. KENNER)

Joey Butler has always had that way about him, and Jazz fell hard for her best friend's brother.

Until he did the unforgivable, the summer of her senior year of high school. 

Three years later Jazz will try everything she can to protect her heart and not fall back in love with Joey. But when Joey finally admits that Jazz is the one he's always wanted, all bets are off. 

Now they'll have to relive the last summer of their love before it all fell apart, and work out if there can ever be a second chance at first love? 

This is a standalone, sexy, contemporary romance that is a spinoff from the Butler Cove/Eversea series. In the series order it appears as book 4.

My Review  5 STARS
Having seen both Joey and Jessica (Jazz) verbally spare with each other in previous books i was pretty giddy to read their story and it was even better than i could have hoped for.

This pair are perfect for each other, however being young they let their fears get in the way of them making it before adulthood.

We get a little bit of the present day before we are sent back to the time where things really changed just before Jazz's eighteenth birthday.  A time that changes them both in many ways, however we see how much Jazz had to cope with in such a short time.

when we come back to the present, Joey has finally decided what he wants and lets Jazz know, unfortunately things do not go quite as planned and there is an extended trip away before Jazz comes back and they can finally be together as they should have been all along.

I really loved this book and their story together.

REVIEW - My Star, My Love (Butler Cove #2.5) by Natasha Boyd

The Book
Release Date: 4 October 2015
Goodreads Link

This novella was previously released in the Mistletoe & Hollywood anthology. 

Movie star, Jack Eversea, has decided to brave his history with England and take the love of his life, Keri Ann Butler, home to meet his mother for Christmas. 

But Jolly Old England does weird things to Jack. And despite his super sweet “twelve days of Christmas” gift-giving, Keri Ann can’t quite work out if he’s about to propose or regrets bringing her home. Is he still questioning whether she can handle a few paparazzi, or is he doubting Keri Ann’s commitment to their future? 

The magnetic couple is back in a fun, sometimes poignant, but super sexy story about acceptance, building a future, and how to make love quietly in a creaky old house with one’s mother down the hall. 

This novella is an extension of the Eversea Series and should be enjoyed after reading books 1 and 2!

My Review  4 STARS
I enjoyed this short story featuring Jack and Keri Ann, when Jack takes Kerri Ann to England for the holidays and to meet his family.

A misunderstanding does happen between the pair, but that is only because Kerri Ann is reluctant to talk about the future, which hurts Jack.

It's a lovely festive read thats not too long and gives us another glimpse as to how insecure both of our characters really are.

REVIEW - Playing With Fire (Phoenix Fire #3) by Cynthia Eden

The Book
Release Date: 26 August 2014
Goodreads Link

An Old Flame

Cassie Armstrong has plenty to atone for. The daughter of the most immoral researcher ever to pick up a scalpel, she's determined to use her own brilliance in genetics to repair the damage her family has done to the paranormals. Especially Dante, the first of the phoenixes, the one they call the Immortal. He's been haunting her dreams since she was a little girl, and she's been trying to ease his pain for almost as long. If only he remembered any of it. . .

Dante doesn't know what Cassie's story is. He almost doesn't care. The minute he sees her, all he can think is mine. But there's more to the pretty little doctor than meets the eye. And Dante isn't the only one to notice. He can't trust her, but he can't stay away—and if he wants to learn her secrets, he's going to have to fight like hell to keep them both alive. . .

My Review  3.5 STARS
**My thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

In some ways i struggled with this book.  More often than not the book would suddenly be told from someone else point of view without warning and it was often jarring.  I usually love books by this author but this one fall short for me.

This book is full of paranormal antics, government organisations/agents gone rogue and a woman who wants to fix the wrongs that her father created.

Cassie is a scientist on a mission, used as an experiment by her father and now trying her best to fix the damage he has done to humans and paranormals in the world the only way that she know how.  Dante, a man she first met when she was only eight has always played a part in her life.  She finds him in a cage and tries to free him, however she is caught by her father and her life progresses from there.

Fast forward until she is a woman and Cassie is chasing Dante, believing that he is the cure that she needs to complete her work.  Being a phoenix however can cause problems, especially as he does not remember her her time and time again when he rises from the ashes.

So much happens in this book, so many chases, so many near missing, love, revenge, death, intentional hurting.  You almost have to take a breath when the book is finished.

The story itself was good, but i think it would have been better if the book had only been told from two point of view, Cassie and Dante.

REVIEW - The Best Man by Winter Renshaw

The Book
Release Date: 25 March 2020
Goodreads Link

I didn’t know her name, but I heard her laugh, tasted her lips, felt her warm skin as I held her in my arms. Together we watched our young children playing in the sand, the warm ocean lapping the shore behind them as the setting sun painted the sky. She was my soulmate and this was our life, our beautiful forever … 

Then I woke up—alone in a hospital room, connected to wires and machines. 

There was no wife. No kids. Not a single soul waiting for me. That life I dreamt of … never existed.

I’d been in a devastating wreck, a nurse told me when she rushed in. Comatose for weeks. I’d have a long road to recovery, but I was going to make it. 

From that moment on, the dream haunted me. I saw that woman’s face every time I closed my eyes, searched for her in every crowd, ached to be with a stranger I felt I’d known my entire life … and I swore that if I ever found her, I’d do anything to make her mine. 

Anything.

Then I found her.

And it was both the best and worst day of my life because the woman of my dreams … was about to marry my best friend.

My Review  5 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

I really did enjoy this book and it is quite different to anything that i have read before.

Cainan wakes up from a coma convinced that he has a wife and two children, but is confused when his sister tells him that he is not even married.  The then is consumed with the woman from his dreams, although he gets on with getting better and going back to work.

It is only when his shitty best friend announces that he is getting married and Cainan finally meets the woman, she is the woman from his dreams.  She is also the woman who saw his accident and saved his life.

Most of the book deals with both male and Brielle, and we find out sinister things are happening with Grant.  However Cainan and Brielle fight their attraction for each other.

It is only near the end do Brielle and Cainan get together and we get happily ever after, but only when she has broken up with Grant and Cainan can tell her more of the truth.

Each Winter Renshaw book seems to get better and better and i liked the way that this story panned out and that there was a little from tbeyond the grave mystery to it too.

REVIEW - Royal Package by Lili Valente

The Book
Release Date: 7 April 2020
Goodreads Link

The Royal Package is a legend in its own time, a pleasure-giving national treasure I’m far too generous to keep to myself.



But I have one rule: No good girls.

And they don’t get much nicer than sugar-and-spice Princess Elizabeth.



You’d think a woman who designs lingerie would be sexy and fun.


You would be wrong. 

My fiancée is a dreary little mouse, and I have no doubt we’ll make each other miserable if we go through with our arranged marriage.



But I can’t dishonor my grandfather’s dying wish.

 Which leaves me one choice—make my sweet fiancée so miserable during our engagement festivities that she calls it quits.



Operation Prince Charmless will get her out of my hair. And then I'm back to Sexy Single Ruler business as usual.



Or that’s the plan… 


But my fiancée is feistier than I remembered. Sexier, too. And she loves spur-of-the-moment adventures as much as I do. 

And did I mention that she hates my guts?


Looks like the Royal Package and I are in for more than we bargained for…


My Review  5 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

I really enjoyed reading this book and the chemistry that Sabrina and Andrew had together, even though Sabrina was pretending to be her twin Elizabeth and Andrew was being a turd.

Sabrina is a triplet, but has an identical twin sister Elizabeth.  Elizabeth has been betrothed to Andrew since the pair were little and have had regular phone calls.  Elizabeth designs and makes underwear and asks Sabrina to take her place for a month for the Engagement celebrations.  It ends up harder than Sabrina thinks, especially having to try and be her sister who stutters.

Andrew decides he wants Elizabeth to back out so tries to change her mind, meanwhile Sabrina keeps being more herself, but trying hard to keep everything on track.

When Sabrina realises whats happening, she takes matters into her own hands, when Andrew thinks that the twins have switched, her changes thing up.

In the end both end up somewhere they didn't expect and fall for each other hard.

I really enjoyed the story and the way these two played around with each other along with the respect for duty and others they have.  Both characters are well suited and will certainly bring the best out of each other.

Another really well written book by the author.

REVIEW - Unconventional by Krista Wolf

The Book
Release Date: 11 September 2019
Goodreads Link

They were three ripped, gorgeous studs. Drawn together by a common goal, and a willingness to share absolutely everything... including me. 

I never expected to end up in Scotland, renovating a castle of all things! But fate landed me here, just as it brought me two sizzling construction workers and a breathtaking, tattooed stonemason. Three fellow Americans hellbent on helping me keep the property from going back up for auction. 

But something sinister has been showing up at night, out near the woods. And when outside forces start aligning against me, my three amazing saviors propose a very unorthodox, unconventional arrangement... involving the three of them, and me. 

First Julian, broad-shouldered and gargantuan, deliciously tattooed and alpha beyond my wildest dreams. Noah, the Brooklyn-raised transplant, shredded and beautiful yet harboring a mysterious past. Finally, Chase - Green-eyed and gorgeous, with model good looks. The jawline of a Greek god, and a smile that would set off an explosion of butterflies in any girl's stomach. 

Together we're an unstoppable team; an insatiable maelstrom of dripping hot chemistry, with me lost in a sea of rock-hard abs and rippling muscle. 

But Castle Westgate also hides its own forbidden secret. One so incredible, that if finally revealed, could intertwine all four of our lives forever... 

UNCONVENTIONAL is a sizzling, stand-alone reverse harem love story filled with humor, suspense, and molten hot action, in single and multiple partner scenes, hot enough to melt your kindle. HEA guaranteed! 

My Review  4 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

The story for this book is based in Scotland, however there are a couple of times that i can tell that it's an American author as at least once the word connection was not right.

Madison is originally from California, but moved to Scotland two years ago when her uncle became ill and needed her, when he dies, her leaves her a castle that needs to be fixed before a deadline or the castle will be sold to someone who will fix it as it is a heritage place.

Madison has slowly be letting go of hired employees to fix the castle as she is running out of funds.  There are just three people left, stonemason Julian, Chase and Noah and all three are men that Madison giggles and flirts with as she brings them lemonade once a day.  All three of the men work long hard hours to help fix the keep and castle.

All three men want Madison and it is only when she invites them for dinner once evening that everything changes as they decide that they want HER for desert.

Things also take on a suspense turn when supplies go missing, Madison sees strange things outside at night along with the fact that new additions keeps being added to the  list of improvements that HAVE to be done before she can keep the castle still within the time frame.  Someone also turns up who wants to buy the castle from her.

The guys through different circumstances end up staying with Madison and a new normal is begun.

It's a well written story with lots of smut and sexy timesaving with a keep you guessing story as to how they will get their happy ever after.  I also loved that at the end after the epilogue that you can download another epilogue further down the line t see how that they are all getting on.

REVIEW - Forever, Jack (Butler Cove #2) by Natasha Boyd

The Book

Release Date: 25 November 2013

Goodreads Link

A feisty small-town girl and the Hollywood star who broke her heart

An all-consuming love threatened by fame

One last chance at FOREVER

Keri Ann Butler's life changed on the night she met movie star, Jack Eversea. She thought she knew a Jack that was very different from the man adored by fans the world over. In the wake of his betrayal and abandonment, Keri Ann has had to pick up and move forward with the life she was supposed to live and has put off far too long. 

Suddenly Jack is back, and his explanations for why he left seem more and more plausible, and his declarations more seductive. But being Jack's latest tabloid accessory isn't on Keri Ann's career agenda, no matter how much she is attracted to him. And how can she can ever trust him again?

Jack knows he let the only 'real' thing that ever happened to him slip through his fingers. And his hands have been tied to try and stop it. Until Now.

Jack is now fighting to save his relationship with Keri Ann, even as his crazy life threatens to tear them apart. Again. The question is, can he convince her she can have it all? And have him? Forever?


Read how it all began in “Eversea “…

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Forever, Jack is the sequel to Eversea (released June 2013)

My Review  5 STARS
**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Headline Eternal for an honest review**

As usual when i have left a book on my kindle for too long and i finally get round to realigning it, i am now kicking myself for leaving it so long.

The book is told from dual point of view and it is really nice to be able to have Jack's voice as the relationship continues and Keri Ann and Jack get to know each other better, but to understand each others world a little more.

There is a lot of depth to the characters and the book has all the feels to it with the supporting characters being well rounded too.

Jack was certainly ready to fight to get Keri Ann back in life and would do what he needed to do for her to realise everything that he had done and would do to protect her and keep her in his life, whereas Keri Ann seemed to have a little push pull towards him, but wanted her own dreams too.  Keri Ann did annoy me a little but, overall, the pair really complimented each other.

Another really great instalment of this series.