Releasing tomorrow (5/31), Spanning centuries and continents, five brand-new novellas from beloved historical romance authors tell the stories of men and women who find themselves wagered in a game of chance and are forced to play for the highest stakes of all: love. Below are the blurbs and playlists the author used for each story. This is such a fun playlist because there are so many factors at work. First we had five different authors writing in five different worlds – from ancient Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Deep Dark by Laura Griffin (mandi) B review - Showmance by LH Cosway (tori) C+ review - Second Time's a Charm by Kay Blake (tori) C review - Thieves' Honor by Jamalia Brinkley (mandi) C review - Make Me by Beth Kery (sheena) C- review - Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett (mandi) C- review - A Minor Happy Ending by Shaan Ranae (sheena) Excerpt: Missed Connections by Tamara Mataya May Mini Reviews Smexy's Top Ten News from Mandi: Marrying Winterborne Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – May 27th
10. This will be me this Memorial Day Weekend. Except the only pool around is an inflatable kiddie pool. I still may ride on a blow up shark and yell this. 9. Kristen Ashley is coming out with a new erotic series next year. Called The Honey Series, here is the blurb for the first book, Deep End: Enter a decadent sensual world where gorgeous alpha males are pleasure slaves committed to fulfilling a woman's every desire. At the elite Honey club, no boundary will be left untested, and Continue Reading
Review: Thieves’ Honor by Jamaila Brinkley
Thieves' Honor by Jamaila Brinkley Paranormal Romance Released: May 4, 2016 Soul Mate Publishing Reviewed by Mandi Em Stackpole has the magical ability to create illusions. She can make herself look unmemorable, or almost undetected, or unrecognizable. Her uncle is a highly trained thief, and took Em under his wing growing up, creating a thieving team. When this book starts, Em is under a - don't pay attention to me - glamour, and but yet still gains the attention of a seedy man. When Continue Reading
Review: Deep Dark by Laura Griffin
Deep Dark by Laura Griffin (Tracers #10) Romantic Suspense Released: May 24, 2016 Pocket Books Reviewed by Mandi I'll say it again - I love this romantic suspense series by Laura Griffin. So well done. Deep Dark has a thirty-nine year old homicide detective hero and a twenty-four year old cybercrime hacker - and their chemistry is soooo good. When a girl who was just starting out in life is found horribly murdered in her home, police want to find the murderer fast. But there is no Continue Reading
Review: Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett
Sugar Daddy by Sawyer Bennett (Sugar Bowl #1) Released: May 24, 2016 Erotic Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Few things to note upfront: First, the heroine was raped when she was younger, and relives some of it through flashbacks during the book. She tries to exact revenge against her rapist throughout the book. Second, this has a cliffhanger, with the HEA coming in book three. Sela Halstead was drugged and raped at the age of sixteen. She doesn't remember everything, but she Continue Reading
Exclusive Excerpt from Missed Connections by Tamara Mataya
Exclusive Excerpt from MISSED CONNECTIONS I haven’t drunk enough to pretend it’s the liquor talking. While I could blame the situation or the music or my loneliness, really I just want him so badly it hurts. Not so badly I can’t think straight, because all I have are straight lines—Jack and me heading straight upstairs, straight to my bedroom, and getting him naked straight away. No, my mind is very clear about what I want. What I need. What I’ve been waiting to happen for Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Jacko. Navy SEAL now private security. Found the love of his life in Lauren. But now she is pregnant and he freaks out. Heroine: Lauren - was on the run until Jacko saved her. Now she has to convince him his past has nothing to do with his future. He was 240 pounds of pure muscle, and right now he felt very grown up. He could feel every single male hormone in his body. Okay. It was time. He’d been a good boy. He’d waited, they’d had a nice meal together—though Lauren had Continue Reading
Weeky Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Earth Bound by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner (mandi) B review - The Rule Book by Jennifer Blackwood (mandi) B review - Midnight Quest by Lisa Marie Rice (mandi) B- review - Divine Descendant by Jenna Black (tori) C- review - Stiletto Secrets by Bella J (sheena) C- review - Love and Learn by Ava Blackstone (mandi) C- review - Love, Alabama by Susan Sands (tori) D review - As You Wish by Isobel Starling (helyce) D review - Burned by a Kiss by Tina Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – May 20th
10. Did you just hear something? 9. Cover reveal for An Extraordinary Union by Aylssa Cole. WANT. Have to wait until 2017. *pouts* Go here for the blurb 8. More book news - JR Ward has a new website - and a newsletter (is that new? Maybe?). Also - there is a new maiden lane novella by Elizabeth Hoyt coming out - I loooove the Maiden Lane series. 7. Have you seen the Happy Chewbacca video?? Seriously, it will make you happy. It will make you giggle along with the woman. Go here to see Continue Reading