ANNOUNCING THREE BEAUTIFUL NEW TRADE PAPERBACK EDITIONS FROM THE COLORADO MOUNTAIN SERIES. RELEASING TODAY! THE GAMBLE Life isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant to be lived . . . Nina Sheridan thought she'd found the perfect man who would become the perfect husband. She was wrong. When Nina realizes the man she planned to grow old with doesn't know her at all, it's time to rethink her idea of perfect. And what better place to get her life in order than a remote Continue Reading
Review: Touch of Frost by Jo Goodman
Touch of Frost Released: June 6, 2017 Historical Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi The hero's name is Remington Frost - what a great name. And he lives up to it - he starts off a little grumbly and mysterious and he turns into a lovely fellow who cares so much for the heroine. We start on a train, as our heroine, Phoebe is leaving New York and her theater career, to head west to be with her sister. Phoebe is very familiar with the theater, having worked behind and in front of the Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Garrett Strickland. Drives a big truck (not compensating for anything!) Country boy. Passionate about hunting. Tells it how it is. All around good guy. Heroine: Cara Cavanaugh. City girl. Journalist, visiting the country. Has an intimate encounter with a cow, rescued by Mr. Sexy Country. Likes to give massages...... And when her hands start to glide over my pecs, lingering the tips of her fingers over my nipples, I lose the fight with my sanity. When she does it again, but Continue Reading
Review: An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles
An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles (Sins of the Cities #2) Released: June 6, 2017 Historical M/M Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You - are the worst man - I have ever met." Lazarus's teeth scraped his shoulder. "And yet here you are, under me...." Guys, there is hot hate sex in this book. Do I need to say more? The Seer of London, Justin Lazarus, makes a living calling spirits from beyond the veil, gladly taking people's money to tell them what they want to Continue Reading
Guest Post and Sale Alert – Single Malt by Layla Reyne!
Anticipated Summer Reads Summer is upon us and so are all the good books! BARREL PROOF releases August 7, along with audiobook versions of SINGLE MALT and CASK STRENGTH. While you’re enjoying AGENTS IRISH AND WHISKEY, I’ll be checking out a few of these highly anticipated reads on my summer to-be-read list: On Point by Annabeth Albert – M/M Contemporary Romance (Carina Press, June 5, 2017) – Releasing this week, Annabeth’s Off Base series continues with SEAL teammates, Ben and Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – June 9th.
10. Have you ever texted from the shower? *shifty eyes* 9. Does anyone watch The Leftovers? The show ended after three seasons this past weekend and I loved it. The show was DEF weird at times! But the end actually gave me closure and a HEA for my little romantic heart <3 It's a complicated, dark, odd little show but I'm so glad we binged it! If you need a different kind of TV rec. (Plus Justin Theroux jogs in sweatpants in season 1, episode one - just putting that out there) 8. Continue Reading
Guest Post: Emma Barry and Sight Unseen
Emma Barry talks her new release, SIGHT UNSEEN Masquerade balls. Spy fantasies. “Let’s pretend to be strangers” moments. They all jump off from the same question: who can I be if I don’t have to be me? In one of my all-time favorite romances, Elizabeth Hoyt’s The Raven Prince, the widowed Anna wheedles her way into a secretary job only to fall hard for her employer, the gruff Earl of Swartingham. He’s brusque and snappish and obsessed with farming techniques…and she can’t have him. But Continue Reading
Mandi’s June To-Be-Read
It's still June, right? I'm only seven days late! Dating You Hating You by Christina Lauren - 6/6. This one is already out! I forgot about it. Has anyone read it?? Does it have the same kind of feel as their other books? Kindle l Goodreads The Knocked Up Plan by Lauren Blakely 6/23. I love to listen to Blakely's books - I put my ear buds in and hit the grocery store with some dirty words going directly into my ear holes. Good times. Kindle l Goodreads Silver Silence by Continue Reading
Review: North to You by Tif Marcelo
North to You by Tif Marcelo Contemporary Romance Released: June 6, 2017 Pocket Star Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "I don't think I can be a gentleman for much longer." I suck in a breath as her hands come forward to the buckle of my belt. "I don't think I asked you to be one." She jerks me closer. Debut author? Check. A heroine who owns a food truck? Check. A hero who is a super good guy and gets a second chance at wooing his girl? CHECK. Drew is in the army but home on Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday and ARC Giveaway!
Niall Lindsey, the Earl of Margrave, is forced to flee after killing a man in a duel, and he expects his secret love, Brilliana Trevor, to go with him, or at the very least wait for him. To his shock, she does neither and sends him off with no promise for the future. Forced to marry another man after Niall was exiled, the now widowed Brilliana wants nothing to do with the reckless rogue who she believes abandoned her to a dreary, loveless life. But, after being reunited, she finds it Continue Reading