The Outback Bachelor Ball series is three stories with three different HEAs. The set-up: Three unlucky-in-love girlfriends make a road trip to the Outback Bachelor & Spinster Ball, a highlight of rural Australian life. One's looking to move on, one's thumbing her nose at romance, and one's looking to slip away and hide. None of them are looking for love... Three women are about to meet their match in a cowboy, a soldier and a country rock star. One magical night. One less than Continue Reading
Review: Everybody Talks by Kitty James
Everybody Talks by Kitty James Series: Kitty James Mystery, #2 Romance Suspense August 15, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Daphne Arden has been trying to live down her mother’s wild antics for years but it’s hard when the gossip grapevine, nicknamed the beast, lives and breathes in her very own business, SPAkles Salon. Having been raised by her grandmother after her mother, Jolie, disappeared over 20 years ago, Daphne’s childhood was a mixture of speculation and innuendos. Having Continue Reading
Review: Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner
Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner Historical Romance (1960's) Released: October 14, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi When Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner submitted this for review, I was so happy. The premise - a 1960's romance starring an astronaut hero who falls for his newly divorced neighbor? Sign me up! Anne-Marie Smith is newly divorced, and can feel the stares and judgment all around her. But she will take all that snobbery for not having to spend another Continue Reading
Review: Hidden in the Stars by Sadie Grubor
Hidden In The Stars by Sadie Grubor (Falling Stars #2) Contemporary Romance Released: August 13, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Helyce After an embarrassing and very public breakup with his long time girlfriend Laney, rock star Jackson Shaw of The Forgotten has become the very image of a Rock Star cliché. He is drinking too much, having way too much sex with multiple partners and has started doing a lot of cocaine. When he’s asked to go out to Los Angeles to judge a new reality show Continue Reading
Review: Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh
Review: Rock Redemption (Rock Kiss #3) by Nalini Singh Contemporary Romance Released October 6, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Sheena Kit Devigny could have loved rock guitarist Noah St. John. Their friendship burned with the promise of intense passion and searing tenderness…until the night Noah deliberately shattered her heart. Noah knows he destroyed something precious the night he chose to betray Kit, but he’d rather she hate him than learn his darkest secret. All he has left is Continue Reading
Review: Valor on the Move by Keira Andrews
Valor on the Move by Keira Andrews M/M Contemporary Romance Released: September 9, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Rafael Castillo or Rafa, has spent the past eight years in the White House. The youngest of four kids, his father is almost done serving his two terms as president. Rafa's parents are conservative Hispanic republicans, and Rafa has always tried to do his duty. Putting on a smile when needed and speaking at events now that he is in his early twenties. Rafa is gay, but Continue Reading
Review: Her Treasure Hunter Ex by Zara Keane
Her Treasure Hunter Ex by Zara Keane Series: Ballybeg Bad Boys, #1 Romance Suspense Released: September 10, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Underwater photographer Katy Ryan needs a large windfall fast and as fate would have it, she is given one when she is offered a job to be part of a team exploring the wreck of the RMS Lusitania. The only catch? Her ex will also be part of the team. Declan “Dex” Fitzgerald is a treasure hunter and the chance to explore the RMS Lusitania is Continue Reading
Review: Craving Flight by Tamsen Parker
Craving Flight by Tamsen Parker BDSM Romance Released: September 2015 Self Published Tzipporah Berger is thirty-seven and single, which is practically unheard of in the Orthodox Jewish community she now calls home. Her increasing religiosity and need for kink may have broken up her first marriage, but she’s decided it’s time to try again. And the rabbi’s wife has just the man in mind. Elan Klein is the neighborhood butcher whose intimidating size and gruff manner hint at a deliciously Continue Reading
Review: If the Key Fits by Stephanie Blakeman
If the Key Fits by Stephanie Blakeman Contemporary Romance August 4, 2015 Self published Reviewed by Helyce This story starts off by setting a really dark tone as we meet our heroine in a flashback scene where she’s soaking in a tub, trying to recover after being gang raped and beaten by club members on the instructions of her boyfriend Frank Bishop, aka Slayer. It’s not the first time, but it’s bad and she is so close to letting the blackness take her over when strong hands pull her Continue Reading
Review: Stripped Raw by Rebecca Moon
Stripped Raw by Rebecca Moon New Adult Released January 20, 2015 Self-Published Reviewed by Sheena Erin Stancliffe has had a troubled past and moves to Bailiff to give herself and her son a fresh start. She is captivated by the old town charm and the friendly people in it, especially when her new job at the district hospital brings her face to face with Jason Cunningham, a bronzed, muscle bound man with a boyish face. Renowned as the town slut, Jason is forced to reassess his life Continue Reading