Breakable by Tammara Webber (Contours of the Heart #2) New Adult Romance May 6, 2014 Penguin Berkley Reviewed by Helyce Note: If rape is a trigger of any kind for you, this may not be a story for you. Last year I fell into the New Adult craze and when Easy was all over Twitter and Goodreads I read it and really liked it. So when Breakable came to my attention I had to read it. It was only after the book was in my possession that I realized that Breakable was actually the same story as Continue Reading
Review: Nobody by Sarah M. Anderson
Nobody by Sarah M. Anderson (Men of the White Sandy #3) March 8, 2014 Contemporary Romance Self-Published Reviewed by Helyce From Goodreads: Nobody Bodine came from a nobody and will always be a nobody. He can disappear into the shadows—no one can see him if he doesn’t want them to. He exists on the edge, in neither the white man’s world nor the tribe’s, dispensing vigilante justice when he sees fit. There’s no other place for a man like him in this world. Until Melinda Mitchell shows Continue Reading
Review: Copper King by Vivian Arend
Copper King by Vivian Arend (Takhini Shifters #1) Paranormal Novella April 1, 2014 (part of Alpha’s After Dark boxed set) May 1, 2014 (solo release) Self Published Reviewed by Helyce Last year I read Diamond Dust from this author’s Takhini Wolves series which introduced us to Jim Halcyon and his wife Lillie, so I was thrilled to take a step back in time and read the story of how they met. In Copper King, Jim and Lillie are in Vegas for similar reasons. Jim and his wolf shifter friend Continue Reading
Review: Spencer by JP Barnaby
Spencer by J.P. Barnaby (Survivor Stories #3) M/M Romance March 21, 2014 Dreamspinner Reviewed by Helyce I remember thinking at the end of the first book, Aaron, that the author left things so open-ended that a sequel must be planned so when I happened upon Spencer I had to read it. In the first book, the focus is on Aaron and the aftermath of the brutal attack on him and his friend Juliette, where they were kidnapped, tortured and raped and left for dead. Juliette dies, but Aaron Continue Reading
Review: Rising Assets by Rebecca Zanetti
Rising Assets by Rebecca Zanetti (Maverick Montana #3) Contemporary Romance March 31, 2014 Entangled-Brazen Reviewed by Helyce Goodreads Blurb: Melanie Jacobs is in trouble. With three jobs—including running her ranch—and dwindling funds, she’s exhausted. Not to mention desperately trying to hide a secret. Unfortunately, her best friend Colton Freeze knows all too well that’s something is going on, and he won’t give up until he knows exactly what he needs to fix. Then Colton learns the Continue Reading
Review: Bad Influence by K.A. Mitchell
Bad Influence by K.A. Mitchell (Bad In Baltimore #4) M/M Romance April 15, 2014 Samhain Reviewed by Helyce Jordan Barrett disappeared the night that his parents found out he was gay, made him go to a conversion camp where he could have died from their methods and upon seeking help from the one person he thought he could trust, gets the door slammed in his face. Out of that supreme disappointment in people who claimed to care about him, rises Silver-a street smart young man who falls into Continue Reading
Review: Tough Love by Heidi Cullinan
Tough Love by Heidi Cullinan (Special Delivery #3) M/M Erotic Romance April 8, 2014 Samhain Reviewed by Helyce Before moving forward with this review, I feel like I need to make a disclaimer of sorts because, I really love Heidi Cullinan’s work. I have not read all of her extensive backlist but what I have read I have always enjoyed and have often been strongly moved on an emotional level. I read and enjoyed the first two books in this series, so it was a no brainer to accept Tough Love Continue Reading
Review: Dash of Peril by Lori Foster
Dash of Peril by Lori Foster (Love Undercover #4) Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce From Goodreads: To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margaret "Margo" Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is 6'4" of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life—and women—to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her Continue Reading
Review: Four Friends by Robyn Carr
Four Friends by Robyn Carr Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Harlequin Reviewed by Helyce Warning: there is infidelity in this book. It affects two of the woman featured. There is also drug abuse and domestic violence-though that’s told in the form of memories. If you are uncomfortable with any these things, this story may not be for you. In Four Friends, we meet four, everyday- but no less extraordinary women who live in the affluent town of Mill Valley, California. Some are Continue Reading
Review: Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton
Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton (Hope #2) Contemporary Romance March 25, 2014 Jove Reviewed by Helyce Favorite quote: Des figured he must have PMS-penis malfunction syndrome. Because he was acting like a dick. Logan McCormack is a man pretty set in his ways. He’s a cattle rancher, and it’s a life he’s chosen for himself. He loves the ranch, loves the land and is not afraid of hard work. But his world gets turned upside down when he leases out a small portion of his 45,000 acres to a Continue Reading