Happy Hump Day! It's that time again, and I've come to share with you the quotes this week that made me swoon and swoosh! This week's read was the sexy military collab romp, Off Base, by Tessa Bailey and Sophie Jordan. Kenna and Beck By Tessa Bailey When Kenna Sutton is tasked with driving home newly returned Beck “True Blue” Collier, she expects the strategic Army mastermind to be a pasty number cruncher. Never at a loss for words, Kenna is nonetheless rendered speechless by the Continue Reading
The Winner of the 2018 NERFA is…
For two years I have been honored by being asked to be a final round judge in The First Coast Romance Writers prestigious NERFA, (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award), contest. This year my catogory was Best First Book. My choices were; Hearts Unleashed by Paris Wynters Her Texas Rebel by LeAnne Bristow His Perfect Partner by Priscilla Oliveras It was very hard as all three participants are extremely talented authors whose stories not only exemplified what I feel romance Continue Reading
Smexy Snapshot: Law of Attraction by Alison Bliss
Law of Attraction by Alison Biss Series: Tangled in Texas, 3 Entangled Publishing June 25, 2018 Favorite Quote: "At this point, I knew only two things for sure. Having sex with Seth had just returned me to the world of sexually active woman. But unfortunately, he had just ruined me for all other men." For single mom Bobbie Jo Weston, finding a husband is not on her to-do list. She's focused on turning a run-down chicken farm into a Bed & Breakfast. She agrees to let a friend’s Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday
Baby you're a fireeeeworrrk! HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! If its anywhere near as sweltering where you are as it is where I am, I hope you too are able to find some AC or a cool breeze and get your heat from a hot novel, just as I intend to today. I have no intention of journeying out into the fires of 1,000 suns until the heat index isn't off the charts! Besides, I much prefer smexy times to keep me hot! Today's wistful/wanton quotes come from a novel near and dear to me, One Foot in the Continue Reading
Guest Post: Hawaii and Romance Books by Vina Arno
You’ve probably seen pictures or heard the news about the volcanic eruption on the Big Island in Hawaii. My contemporary, new adult romance novel, Finder Keeper of My Heart, is set on the Big Island. Of all the Hawaiian islands, it’s my favorite. I love the Big Island’s rugged and singular beauty born out of its volcanic origins. The eruption of Kilauea Volcano is truly humbling, a reminder of how precarious nature can be. In Finder Keeper, Emma Munroe, an aspiring Broadway actress, Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
Coming up in July! I didn’t have a new release read for this week, so let’s take a look at what I’m reading in July! In June I read a romantic suspense/mystery book, a genre that I hadn’t read in a long time, even though I used to read them all the time. I really enjoyed it. I forgot how much fun it is to get into the nitty-gritty details of the story and try to read between the lines for clues to figure out what happened or who the bad guy was. So first up is a Mystery/Thriller by a new Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!
Happy Wednesday! Time to get humpin! This week's quote are from an oldie but goodie, Desolation by Bella Jewel. Desolation is the fourth book in Jewel's Joker's Wrath series, a particularly cracky MC series from a few years ago. Heroine, Pippa, sold into human trafficking and forced to work at a remote labor farm, Pippa has had almost everything stripped from her. Chained to a fellow laborer and forced to witness all manners of abuse and atrocity, she's desperate to escape as she knows she Continue Reading
Tori’s Tuesday Teasers
Here's what I'm reading to share with you next Tuesday... Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle. July 1, 2018 When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, Ethan, is missing—vanished from the cabin where he’d been on an overnight field trip with his class. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground where he was last seen. But she’s too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Continue Reading
Mandi’s Monday Musings
We've about reached the halfway mark in 2018, and I just glimpsed at some of my review books coming up and I thought I'd highlight some that look exciting: Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall, he’s captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Since retiring from the Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Heroine: Lady Euphemia Marlington. Held hostage in a harem for seventeen years, she is back in England and her embarrassed father is forcing her to marry. Hero: Adam de Courtney aka The Murdering Marquess doesn't want to get married again but is in need of an heir. Can these two outcasts find a place with one another? Adam was not accustomed to women wanting to make love in the broad light of day. In general, most of the females he’d bedded had squawked in terror at the first Continue Reading