*** This giveaway has ended. A winner was chosen over the weekend. I'm a big Outlander fan, so when the publisher gave me the chance to give this Outlander-themed cookbook away, I thought it would be fun. Each recipe has a short excerpt from a book in the series as a companion. For example: It's really cute - I love cookbooks like this. This doesn't release until June 14, so the winner gets it early! I'll choose a winner on Saturday. Open to everyone - to Continue Reading
Review: Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas (The Ravenels #2) Released: May 31, 2016 Historical Romance Avon Reviewed by Mandi I enjoyed this book more than book one, so yay for that! We meet Rhys and Helen in book (although this can be read as a standalone). They fall in love in book one, they get engaged in book one. What's left for this book, right? Well, at the end of book one (omg I'll stop saying "book one") they have a fight and they break up. This is where book two starts. Rhys was Continue Reading
Feature: Gambled Away – A Historical Romance Anthology
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
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
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
Review: Make Me (Make Me #1-8) by Beth Kery
Make Me Forever (Make Me #1-8) by Beth Kery Series: Make Me Contemporary Romance Released: May 24, 2016 Intermix Reviewed by Sheena This is a review of the entire serial Make Me, which includes eight installments. Harper McFaddan has made her name as an investigative journalist by being both compassionate and fearless. After tragedy strikes her family, she moves to the shores of Lake Tahoe to find some peace. But when mysterious software mogul Jacob Latimer comes into her life, her 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
In the Market for a Book Cover, Swag or Branding? Meet Yellow Prelude
So you are rushing through the grocery store to get whatever you forgot to grab yesterday. Your mind is scattered in every direction – the dog is puking, the kids are driving you crazy and the husband is working late. Again. You are getting ready to roll up to the check out when you see it. THEM. Those books taunting you from the end cap of aisle 7…just begging you to stop and look. You decide a little peek certainly won’t hurt, right? It's not like you really are going to buy one, I mean you Continue Reading
DNF Wrap-Up
We all seemed to have a recent Did Not Finish read, so we have summarized below: Mandi: Bachelor for Hire by Charlene Sands - This book was too cookie-cutter for me. There seemed to be no spontaneity or any character or event that really stood out. The heroine is an Academy Award winning actress who goes back to her home town, but nothing about her felt Hollywood-ish. She could have been any profession. The characters and the story flow just didn't work for me at all. The Continue Reading
Winner!
The winner of the Legal Briefs series by Emma Chase is: Natasha Congrats! An email has been sent. Continue Reading







