Almost every year for the last decade, I’ve released a Christmas novella and it’s a tradition I hope to continue for a long time. I love writing novellas and I love Christmas, so it hardly feels like work at all! (That’s not true. Writing novellas is hard.) This year’s novella, One Christmas Eve, is a fun and sexy holiday story about a bookstore owner who’s living life on her own terms since her divorce, and the sexy but a little uptight man who opens a business next door. Like many holiday Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
How the Duke Was Won: The Disgraceful Dukes by Lenora Bell- Angela says this book was good. Kindle The pleasure of your company is requested at Warbury Park. Four lovely ladies will arrive… but only one can become a duchess. James, the scandalously uncivilized Duke of Harland, requires a bride with a spotless reputation for a strictly business arrangement. Lust is prohibited and love is out of the question. Four ladies. Three days. What could go wrong? She is not like the Continue Reading
Review: What it Takes by Shannon Stacey
What it Takes by Shannon Stacey (Kowalski Family #10) Released: February 28, 2017 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi I've really enjoyed the Kowalski series over the years. I've not read the entire series, but several, especially those in the beginning. It's a nice contemporary series - it makes me laugh, and the heroes and heroines are nice and a little dirty. A good combination. This book has a stand alone romance but is also a reunion book. We meet Laney, whose Continue Reading
Review: Holiday with a Twist by Shannon Stacey
Holiday With a Twist by Shannon Stacey Holiday Novella Released: November 21, 2016 Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi When Leigh hears that her parents are going to sell the home she grew up in, she gets guilted into going home for three weeks over Christmas to help her parents organize and start to pack. Taking three weeks vacation time isn't hard because she just quit her job.....and broke up with her fiance. Knowing her sister has a baby and is getting divorced, and this sister is Continue Reading
Review: Heat Exchange by Shannon Stacey
Heat Exchange by Shannon Stacey (Boston Fire #1) Released: August 25, 2015 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Lydia escaped Boston and her overbearing firefighting family and finally feels like she has a life of her own. Even though she doesn't love being a waitress, she has an apartment and her own parking space. But when she gets a call from her sister Ashley, who tells her she has separated from her husband, she knows she is needed at home. Ashley works at the family Continue Reading
Review: Under the Lights by Shannon Stacey
Under the Lights by Shannon Stacey (Boys of Fall #1) Contemporary Romance Released: May 26, 2015 Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Chase Sanders was a high school football star who went on to leave his hometown of Stewart Mills, move to New Jersey and start a life working in construction and having a serious girlfriend. But then things go south. His business partner drained most of his money out of their business. His girlfriend fell in love with someone else. So when he gets a phone call from Continue Reading
Harlequin Holiday Reads Tour
Shannon Stacey is stopping by to say why she loves holiday romances so much... I don’t remember a time I didn’t love holiday romances. Even before I was reading actual romance novels, I knew Christmas and love were the perfect mix for me. A very young me sighed her way through Laura and Almanzo’s Christmas scenes in the Little House on the Prairie series (of books, though I grew up loving the television show, as well). And Christmas romance novel time is my favorite part of the reading Continue Reading
Release Day Giveaway: No Place to Hide by Shannon Stacey
Jack Donovan went through hell and back to save Isabelle once. Now she’s back in his life, hunted by an assassin so elusive some claim he’s only an urban legend. More than just a gun for hire, the killer is driven by a pathological need to take down his targets and, when Isabelle escapes the bullet meant for her, Jack knows he'll strike again. The only way to keep her alive is to keep her close, and Jack’s about to learn what hell really is. In the year since Jack rescued her from a Continue Reading
Review: Falling for Max by Shannon Stacey
Falling For Max by Shannon Stacey (Kowalski Family #9) Releases: July 29, 2014 Contemporary Romance Carina Press Reviewed by May Tori Burns knows that she never wants love or marriage – just look what it did to her parents! Name calling, fights, and a messy divorce left her soured on the whole institution. She’s content to work as a graphic designer and part-time waitress at the local diner. At least, this seems like enough until Max comes in. Max Crawford has a new to-do item on his Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–January 18th
10. Seriously. The media has me convinced if I leave my house I’ll get the flu. My children get off the bus with their hot, sticky hands and I recoil in horror until I can properly bathe them in lysol and bleach. Am I overreacting? I THINK NOT 9. Nalini SIngh is giving away four copies of her upcoming anthology, Wild Invitation. It has four Psy-Changeling stories in it, two never before seen. You can read more about it HERE. Go HERE to enter the contest. And remember January 31 she is Continue Reading