The Way Home by Cindy Gerard (One-Eyed Jacks #2) Released: October 29, 2013 Contemporary Romance Gallery Reviewed by May When Jess Albert learned the devastating news that her husband, Jeff, was killed in action in Afghanistan, a painful void entered her life. The more time passed, the more acutely she felt that emptiness. But four years later, when Tyler Brown, former military hero and all-around alpha male, shows up, Jess gradually begins to realize there is one thing that can make her Continue Reading
Review: The Sweetest Scent by Susan Laine
The Sweetest Scent by Susan Laine (Senses and Sensations #4) M/M Young Adult September 23, 2013 Dreamspinner Press From Goodreads: Bro Sumner loves his girlfriend, Lacey Adair, who underneath her pretty dress is in fact a boy, and she loves him right back. They are an exclusive item in high school, but they face some dangerous opposition, including a bullying fellow jock on Bro’s football team and Lacey’s violent alcoholic father. Lacey gets some martial arts training from an ally, Continue Reading
Review: Heating up the Holidays Anthology
Heating up the Holidays Anthology Released: October 28, 2013 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Play With Me by Lisa Renee Jones I DNF’d this story. Hero is this cold businessman. Heroine is hired as his assistant. I did not like at all. I wish this story wasn’t the first in the anthology. Oh well. Snowfall by Mary Ann Rivers. Blurb: Jenny Wright can’t get enough of her erotic conversations with someone she knows only as “C.” Flirting online helps Jenny Continue Reading
Review: The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins
The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2) by Kristan Higgins Romance Contemporary Releasing: October 29 , 2013 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “This was...what was the word for it? Hell. Yes. This was hell.” Honor Holland has been in love with her best friend Brogan since high school. Her best friend with benefits. When her gynecologist makes some off hand remarks about her age, motherhood, and the fact her eggs aren’t getting in younger, she makes the decision to ask her Continue Reading
Review: Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning
Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning Released: September 9, 2013 Contemporary Romance Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Mandi This book has a super broody hero and a heroine who likes to give him a hard time. The author executes it quite nicely. Mason’s infant daughter died years ago, devastating him and ending his marriage. He has never quite recovered from the guilt he felt and has submerged himself in work. He flips houses into retreats for high-end clients and his next Continue Reading
Review: The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes
The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes Erotic Romance/Contemporary Paperback, 320 pages October 1, 2013 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Lola Cook never expected to spend her summer watching her nephews while their mother vacations in Europe. Busy with her career, Lola decides to sign them up for football camp in order to get a few hours of peace and quiet every day. Gray Barnett, CEO and divorced father, teaches summer football camp as a way to give back to the community and rebuild Continue Reading
Review: After the Kiss by Lauren Layne
After the Kiss by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love & Stiletto #1) Released: August 26, 2013 Contemporary Romance LoveSwept Reviewed by May Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling. It was movie-worthy. It was laughable. Julie Greene doesn’t do relationships. She is all about the first date. The parties. The glamour. The high off of a first kiss or being so enticing to a man he just must have that second date. What Continue Reading
Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy
Sweet (True Believers #2) by Erin McCarthy NA Romantic Contemporary October 15, 2013 Intermix Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.” Jessica Sweet doesn’t want to go home to her uber religious parents for the summer but her sublet won’t be available for her to move into for a week. When she is unable to stay with a friend, her nemesis, the sexy cocky Riley Mann, offers her a place to stay with him. Riley has enough going on with Continue Reading
Review: Unbound by Cara McKenna
Unbound by Cara McKenna Released: October 16, 2013 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said this countless times on this blog but I love Cara McKenna’s voice. She always gives me something different in her stories, and many times they are filled with characters who are not super rich or have wealthy backgrounds or families. They are just people, usually one of them struggling with something quite dark, and we get to see them fall in love and realize what they are Continue Reading
Review: Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean
Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen, #6) by Sierra Dean Urban Fantasy E book, 343 pages October 15, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I wanted questions going unanswered, I could just watch Lost.” Never has a book been so aptly titled than Secret Unleashed. Number six in Sierra Dean’s dark and wickedly sexy urban fantasy Secret McQueen series. In this installment, Secret learns some secrets that will leave her and readers reeling from the implications. Recap from book Continue Reading