The Dachshund Wears Prada by Stefanie LondonContemporary RomanceMay 3, 2022, by HQN Books Book Summary: How do you start over when the biggest mistake of your life has more than one million views? Forget diamonds; the internet is forever. Social media consultant Isla Thompson learned that lesson the hard way when she went viral for all the wrong reasons. A month later, Isla is still having nightmares about the moment she ruined a young starlet’s career and made herself the most Continue Reading
Review: With Love from Rose Bend by Naima Simone
With Love from Rose Bend by Naima SimoneRose Bend #3Contemporary Romance March 29, 2022, by HQN Books Review by Melanie I don’t know if this is the final book in this series but if it is, Naima Simone is ending on a very high note, capturing all the small town charm typically found in Hallmark movies and imbuing the series with her traditional brand of gut wrenching emotions and incredibly high heat and sexual tension. Leo, who helps run her family’s inn, and Owen, retired Continue Reading
Blog Tour and Excerpt: Sweet Home Cowboy Anthology
Sweet Home Cowboy AnthologyMarch 29, 2022, by HQN Books Summary: Four half sisters create the family they’ve always dreamed of in this enchanting quartet from bestselling authors Maisey Yates, Nicole Helm, Jackie Ashenden, and Caitlin Crews. The Hathaway sisters might have grown up apart, but when they agree to move to Jasper Creek, Oregon, to revitalize their grandfather’s farm, it seems a straightforward decision. Until they meet their neighborhood cowboys… Sweet-natured Teddy has Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Last Duke Standing by Julia London
THE LAST DUKE STANDING by Julia LondonFebruary 22, 2022Publisher: HQN Books Book Summary: When Crown Princess Justine of Wesloria is sent to England to learn the ropes of royalty, she falls under the tutelage of none other than Queen Victoria herself. She’s also in the market for a proper husband—one fit to marry the future Queen of Wesloria. Because he knows simply everyone, William, Lord Douglas (the notoriously rakish heir to the Duke of Hamilton seat in Scotland, and decidedly not Continue Reading
Blog Tour Excerpt: Meet Me in London by Georgia Toffolo
MEET ME IN LONDON by Georgia Toffolo Publication Date: September 28, 2021 Publisher: HQN Books Book Summary: What do you do when your fake engagement starts to feel too real? Aspiring clothes designer Victoria Scott spends her days working in a bar in Chelsea and her evenings designing vintage clothes, dreaming of one day opening her own boutique. But these aspirations are under threat from the new department store opening at the end of her road. She needs a Christmas Continue Reading
Review: The Road to Rose Bend by Naima Simone
The Road to Rose Bend by Naima SimoneContemporary RomanceApril 27, 2021, by HQN Books Review by Melanie You might suspect, upon glancing at this rather bucolic cover, that this is a quiet, peaceful, drama-free romance...and you’d be wrong. This series starter introduces us to the town of Rose Bend, a charming little town nestled in the Berkshires that has all of the small-town coziness of a Hallmark Channel movie. But that’s really where the similarities end. Unlike the aforementioned Continue Reading
Review: Careless Whispers by Synithia Williams
Careless Whispers by Synithia WilliamsContemporary RomanceMarch 30, 2021 Review by Melinda First of all, this series has the most beautiful covers, I can't stop staring at the forehead touch on this one! And the colors are so gorgeous and exactly how I imagine Elaina and Alex. I've been really looking forward to getting Elaina's story because we've seen glimmers of her in the first two books of the series and it was clear that there was so much going on there. She's been so career-driven Continue Reading
Mini-Reviews: Scandalous Secrets by Synithia Williams and Sweet on You by Carla de Guzman
Reviews by Melinda Scandalous Secrets by Synithia WilliamsJackson Falls #2Contemporary RomanceAugust 25, 2020 by HQN Books I have just really enjoyed this Jackson Falls series from Synithia Williams so far. It hits all of my soapy vibes that I need every once in a while. This one has a fun twist on the secret baby trope plus has a second chance romance, which I always love. Byron is running for Senate, and in this book, the political maneuvering takes more of the center stage than it did Continue Reading
Review: His Sinful Touch by Candace Camp
His Sinful Touch by Candace Camp The Mad Morelands, #5 Historical Romance/Paranormal January 30, 2018 HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I swear to you on everything I hold dear, I will not let him have you. You will not be his wife-even if I have to make you a widow” When a strange man comes bursting into the Moreland’s investigative agency, Alexander Moreland is shocked to discover the man is really a woman and she needs his help to recover her memory. Unable to remember Continue Reading
Review: Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins
Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins Contemporary Fiction/Family HQN Books December 26, 2017 Favorite Quote: “Nobody puts Nora in the corner.” Reviewed by Tori Nora Stuart left her small Maine island hometown fifteen years ago and never returned. Winning a full scholarship to Tufts gave her the freedom to leave and achieve her dreams. Now a specialist in gastroenterology, Nora finds herself longing for home after she is in an accident and awakens in the hospital to hear her Continue Reading