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.

REVIEW - Rachel, Out of Office by Christina Hovland

The Book

Release Date: 25 January 2021

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Single mom Rachel Gibson seriously needs a break. Between an absent ex-husband, rowdy twin boys, and running her own work-from-home business, her candle isn't just burning at both ends, it's a full-blown puddle of wax. She's the go-to girl for other entrepreneurs, handling all the tasks they dread. Social media posts? She's got it. Website updates? She's on it. Light bookkeeping? She loves it.

Thank goodness Rachel’s about to get a reprieve, as her former in-laws plan to whisk her boys away for a summer of fun at the family lake house. But when her ex backs out at the last minute, she finds herself in a pickle. Even though she's drowning in to-dos, she's horrible at saying no—especially when it comes to providing some stability for her kids.

Once Rachel arrives at the lake house, she struggles to keep up with work and balance the demands of family, all the while fending off pesky new feelings for her ex-brother-in-law. Which makes her wonder...is falling for her ex-husband's brother just one more messy complication added to the dumpster fire of her life? Or is anything possible when she's out of office…?

My Review  5 STARS

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

I really enjoyed this book and having twins myself i know what little tornados they can be and how they can be best friends and the worst of enemies.

The book is told from dual point of view, Rachel and Travis and we see as they navigate their feelings towards each other along with the fact that her ex husband is also Travis's brother.  The boys mother has also forbid Rachel and Travis having anything to do with each other as she believes that Rachel and her ex husband Colin will get back together (no happening).

Both navigate everything with composure and as adults and when things blow up all at the same time, Rachel shows her strength and Travis his support and love.  When it really matters they stand up for each other and the love that is blooming between them.

I am really hoping that Colin will get a book and some of Rachels friends, especially Molly.

REVIEW - Good With His Hands (Good in Bed #1) by Lauren Blakely & Lili Valente

The Book

Release Date: 18 December 2020

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A sexy best friend's brother romance from bestselling authors Lauren Blakely and Lili Valente! 

I'm the wrong guy for her.

She's sunshine, and cherry pie. I'm whiskey and fast cars. I'm also keeping one hell of a secret from the woman I've wanted for years.

But when I find a list my sister left behind for Ruby, I've got no choice but to offer the sexy, big-hearted girl next door both a road trip and a chance.

A chance to discover how big she can dream. 

And if some of those dreams play out in the bedroom? Well, there’s nothing wrong with a few -- okay, several -- hot nights together as we hit the beach, visit old stomping grounds, and test all sorts of limits, in and out of the sheets.

Seven days, then I'm off, moving across the country, far away from her.

No way can things get complicated in a week. Ruby and I aren’t the kind of dream that has a shot of coming true.

Especially once she learns what I’ve done.

GOOD WITH HIS HANDS is a sexy standalone romance in the Good in Bed series!

My Review  5 STARS

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

It has certainly been a hectic month for me, but whenever i managed to find a spare moment i was so glad that i had this book to read on my kindle.

These are too authors that go together like chocolate and marshmallows, the writing is sweet, dirty and just oh so right.

Ruby has just finished two years of physical therapy after a car accident that had her in a coma and took the life of her very best friend.  It is Claire's brother Jesse that provides a way to get her old self back by providing a list of things to do that her best friend had written for her to do.  Little do they both know that the closeness that they had before is going to get even closer and grow into something they both want and need.

There are lots of sexy times, lots of speaking the truth and good supporting friends and family for the pair when they need it.

I loved the whole book and the epilogues including the tidbit that gives us a clue into the fact that it is the wonderful Gigi that has her happy ending next.

I am really looking forward to the next collaboration that these two authors come up with.

REVIEW - Mr. Mitchell: Billionaires' Club Book 2 (Billionaires' Club #2) by Raylin Marks

The Book

Release Date: 29 September 2020

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The billionaire always gets what he wants. This time, he wants me…

My trip to London was the first lucky break I’ve had in years. It came at just the right time, allowing me to escape my sad reality for a bit. And the guy I met on the flight?

Perfection.

The short week we spent together was filled with raw, unbridled, and passionate nights. But it couldn’t last. I’m a single mom with a troubled past and a shady ex. Romance just isn’t in the cards for me.

Which is why I walked away from Jim and didn’t look back.

That was before I landed my new job. Before I met the boss.

Before I discovered that Mr. James Mitchell, CEO, was my Jim—my unforgettable Jim from our week together in England.

Judging by the smile on his face when he sees me, he remembers everything.

And now he wants more.

He wants me. 

The timing is terrible. My life’s a mess, and I just know my ex will do something to ruin me. Again.

But none of that matters when I’m in Jim’s arms. 

So, what are the odds that I’m finally due for my very own happily ever after?

With my luck?

Not bloody likely.

Mr. Mitchell, a sexy contemporary romance, is book 2 in the Billionaires’ Club series, but can be read as a standalone. It features an alpha male hero with a heart of gold, and the feisty, resilient heroine who easily runs away with his heart. Download today to start binge reading!

My Review  5 STARS

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

In this book we have the James (Jim) Mitchell, the brother of Dr Jake Mitchell and the main man when he finally finds a woman that challenges his and takes him away from working all the time. 

Avery is a strong woman who has overcome a hard past in some ways, but also carries the scars.  She is pretty much a single mum to her daughter Addison, who she fiercely protects.

Both Jim and Avery have pasts that have shaped them and hold on to baggage they do not realise they are still holding.

Jim loves having Avery around and loves her daughter from the beginning, however when her discovers that she has been hiding a secret, that is what breaks them, that she cannot trust him with her secret, while he has been pushing her to open up.

Her, both parties realise, with help from their friends that they need to work on themselves and they both end up in therapy, working on getting their lives in a better place and becoming better in themselves.

A reunion at Ash's birthday party has the pair see each other again, but in a better place to commit to each other and to forge ahead with their relationship.

A wonderful story that also has a passage from the next book to get our minds on Collin as we find that his live interest Elena is going to be his new college and the daughter of the doctor he took over from.

I cannot wait to see what happens next in this series.

REVIEW - Soul Survivor (Hybrid Chronicles #1) by Michelle N. Files

The Book

Release Date: 4 August 2013

Goodreads Link

Hailee Mai Hart is just a simple, normal girl. Or so she thought. When she left her one-horse town for a college education in the big city, she never could've imagined what awaited her. She's quickly thrown into a world filled with angels, danger, and a curse...her curse. Come to find out, she's not so simple after all. She's actually the last of her kind, and the fate of the world rests on her shoulders. She has one chance to save Earth, and it all comes down to one choice: Light or Darkness. What is right and what is wrong is all a matter of perspective, which leaves her heart dangerously tangled. No matter which path she takes people will die, and that's just not an option. Will she be able to save everyone, or will she be the Soul Survivor?

My Review  5 STARS

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

This book has been sitting on my kindle for a while and i am finally trying to read some of the older books that have been there far too long.  I am now kicking myself for having this there so long, however it would appear that even though the author left an opening for more books, that something has prevented her from being able to do so.

This is a book where a teenager finds herself the only person on the earth that is capable of sending it into darkness or into the light.  Hailee May Hart is the seventh and last hybrid angel\human and the only one left alive.  It is only when two individuals come into her life when she is living in the city that her entire world changes.

In the city she meets Alex on a dark dangerous street, her protector and Seb the darkness, who cannot stay away from her.

Both do not like the other, but it is a curse that has them following her and falling for her.  

There are lies, there is decit and there is love, there is sacrifice and there is strength, above all, there is survival and loss and opinion losing those you care about.

This is an emotional book near the end which had me in tears, but the journey is certainly worth it.

I really hope that the author at some point is able to continue the journey for Hailee, Seb, Alex and Amitel.

REVIEW - Purchased Husband (Trophy Husbands #4) by Noelle Adams

 

The Book

Release Date: 8 December 2020

Goodreads Link

On a Wednesday afternoon, I ask Damian Winters to marry me. To be clear, it's not a proposal. It's a business transaction. I have a sticky family situation, and the simplest way to deal with it is to pay him to be my husband for six months.

Damian used to work as an escort so he knows how to keep things professional. We don't have to be friends. We don't even have to get along. I need someone fill a husband role, and he'll do just fine.

It doesn't matter if he's the hottest man I've ever met. Work takes up all my time and energy, so I don't have room in my life for complications. I'm not going to fall into bed with him. And I'm definitely not going to fall in love.

I hope. 

My Review  3 STARS

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

This was an enjoyable story and it was easy to see how Damian felt from the beginning after he had met Clarke.  He is a thoughtful man and you could really see him trying to figure her out and what she liked.

Clarke is a strong character in many way, but has little self worth, Damian was good at getting her to open up and face truths.

This is a book that you pick up and read fast without realising it and is good for a rainy day where you need a nice story where the characters are gentle and caring. 

REVIEW - Stroke of Luck by Opal Carew

The Book
Release Date: 1 December 2020
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The newest erotic romance from bestselling author Opal Carew.

Getting cheated on and left with a hotel bill that costs more than she makes in a year was not a part of the plan when Riana came to Las Vegas to marry her wealthy fiancé. Her plans also didn't include getting bailed out of this horrible situation by Quinn, the ex-boyfriend she hadn't planned to see ever again. For Quinn, Riana was the one that got away and he's never gotten over her, no matter how successful he became.

Riana insists on paying Quinn back, so he makes her an offer--spend the next month with him and his business partner Austin while they're on vacation. It's clear to him that Austin is attracted to her, too, and Quinn's always liked the idea of sharing a woman with him. It's something that Riana wants to do, and after a few glasses of champagne--only enough to stop denying herself what she wants--she voices her desire to be with both men.

But as the month comes to an end, Riana has to face the reality she's falling for Quinn and Austin...and the possibility that one crazy night in Vegas could cost her one--or both--men.

My Review  3 STARS
**My thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

When you spot your ex-girlfriend in a bad predicament and are completely loaded and are still in love with said girl, there is no way that you are not going to help her out.  And that is exactly what Quinn does.

Quinn is still angry with Riana, however his business partner and friend Austin cajoles him into more than just helping her and ends up falling for the girl too.

A bargain where Riana wants to pay back Quinn for the money he has helped her with ends up with her offering her body in payment to the both of them and this is where they end up struggling with their feelings towards each other and also end up coming together as a threesome happy and content.

Austin is the glue that keeps them together as he helps them all sort through their feelings and is very perceptive, Quinn can blunder through things and be a bit bossy, but Riana can hold her own.

After a miscommunication, Riana ends up back home without them, trying to divorce them both, but Quinn holds out with a very important clause that once has come to light, reunited the three of them for their happy ever after.

An interesting twist of events, but i feel that this genre has been done to death a bit recently.  Maybe i just need a break from them for a while lol.