Hurts to Love You: Forbidden Hearts by Alisha Rai Being bad never felt so good, in the third novel in Alisha Rai’s sexy Forbidden Hearts series! Well-behaved women don’t lust after men who love to misbehave. Heiress Evangeline Chandler knows how to keep a secret . . . like her life-long crush on the tattooed hottie who just happens to be her big brother’s friend. She’s a Chandler, after all, and Chandlers don’t hook up with the help. Then again, they also don’t disobey their fathers Continue Reading
Audio Excerpt: Getting Played by Emma Chase
Audible recently released the second standalone romance title in New York Times best-selling author Emma Chase’s Audible Original Getting Some series! Getting Played is available exclusively from Audible, allowing listeners to hear fan-favorite narrators Andi Arndt and Zachary Webber bring this story of a one-night stand turned oh-so-complicated romance to life. Getting Played Dean Walker is all about keeping life simple. He’s effortlessly talented and intelligent - spending his summers Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up
Here's what happened on Smexy this week: New Release Monday Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts- Give Up the Ghost by Jenn Burke and TBR update Release Day Excerpt: Waiting For Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey Guest Post: Queer Romance Recs for your Pride Month Reading by Layla Reyne Once Upon a Wedding- Guest Post by Barbara Samuel Kini’s Friday Kisses From Kini: What's Happening in Romancelandia? I went on a road trip last week to visit my family in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Midwest is Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren - If you think you can handle a tough premise, school shooting survivors, I highly recommend this book and the series. It's been twelve years since tragedy struck the senior class of Long Acre High School. Only a few students survived that fateful night—a group the media dubbed The Ones Who Got Away. Liv Arias thought she'd never return to Long Acre—until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
I feel like it has been forever since I talked about what I was reading! I looked back and it has been a few weeks, but I am back now. Here’s what I read recently. What Matters More by Liora Blake- I picked this up because I have read and enjoyed all of her previous books. For the most part I found this book boring and lacking emotional connection. Too much emotional stuff happened off page. That is annoying to me. There was a fair amount of sex though if that is something you are Continue Reading
Once Upon a Wedding- Guest Post by Barbara Samuel
Author Barbara Samuel stopped by to give us some info on her contribution to the Once Upon a Wedding anthology, out June 11th. I LOVE second chance romance and can't wait to read this. I love reunion romances. I mean, really. Who doesn’t wonder what if about some old sweetheart? Awhile back, I read a statistic that said that if a pair of former boyfriend/girlfriends meet many years later and both are single, they have a very high probability of getting Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
Bittersweet by Sarina Bowen- This is a new cover for a great book. I have enjoyed this whole series. The last person Griffin Shipley expects to find stuck in a ditch on his Vermont country road is his ex-hookup. Five years ago they’d shared a couple of steamy nights together. But that was a lifetime ago. At twenty-seven, Griff is now the accidental patriarch of his family farm. Even his enormous shoulders feel the strain of supporting his mother, three siblings and a dotty Continue Reading
Guest Post: Queer Romance Recs for your Pride Month Reading by Layla Reyne
Author Layla Reyne is back on Smexy for some recs for Pride month! Out this week, PRINCE OF KILLERS is book one of my new male/male romantic suspense trilogy, FOG CITY. Usually, when my writing brain is in romantic suspense mode, I’m reading a different genre. While working on Fog City, I’ve been binge-reading contemporary romance. These are just a few of my recent favorites that I’d recommend for your Pride Month reading. Top Shelf – Allison Temple – A cover with character, and a Continue Reading
Interview with Annabeth Albert
https://amzn.to/318yJAp Annabeth's new book Arctic Wild released on June 3. Here is part of the blurb and it sounds amazing- When a plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, the best place to land is in the arms of a younger man… Hi! Thank you so much for having me today! I was delighted to be asked to do this interview as I celebrate the release of ARCTIC WILD, second in my Alaska set series. In the book, workaholic corporate attorney rediscovers the simple joy of slowing down after a Continue Reading
Guest post: Five Ghostly M/M Reads by Jenn Burke
Give a great Smexy welcome to Jenn Burke who is here today with some ghostly reads. Jenn's new book, Give Up the Ghost released on June 3. If you’re looking for more of that sensation in your m/m reads, check out these five spooky stories. They’re some of my favourites! Who doesn’t love a spooky, ghost-laden story once in a while? When I was writing Give Up the Ghost, I knew I wanted it to hit some of the notes traditional, around-the-campfire ghost stories do. I wanted my readers to Continue Reading