Today SmexyBooks is pleased to share a non-exclusive excerpt from The Angels' Share, J.R Ward's much anticipated second installment in her drama-licious Bourbon Kings series. Here is my mini review of The Bourbon Kings, book one, which I LOVED.   Excerpt from THE ANGELS’ SHARE by J. R. Ward Toyota trucks were not supposed to go seventy-five miles an hour. Especially when they were ten years old. At least the driver was wide awake, even though it was four a.m. Lizzie King had a Continue Reading

  Hero: Boone West. Sargent in the Army. Left Wyoming  7 years ago to make a better life for himself. Now he's come home and determined to claim the woman he's always loved. Heroine: Sierra McKay. A businesswoman in her father's company. When Boone told Sierra he had joined the Army 30 minutes before he left,  he broke her heart. She survived but she refuses to let him back into her life because this time when he leaves, she will shatter. Unbreak My Heart is the conclusion to Boone Continue Reading

Hero: Declan. A restaurant owner/chef whose ex wife did quite a number on him. When he meets a scared young woman in the alley, scourging for food for her dog, he is shocked by the intensity of his need to protect her. Heroine: Katrina (Trina). A trophy wife for whom the shine had been wearing off her marriage for a long time. When fists replace words, Trina runs and discovers that not man want to hurt.  Some are born to protect. This scene is short but is a powerful indication of the Continue Reading

  Lucas had had to chase Naya around the aerie at bedtime last night—her walk might still be a little shaky, but she was a rocket when it came to crawling. Dressed only in a diaper, she’d laughed uproariously and said a loud, firm “No” each time Lucas caught her and put her in her crib. After which she’d clamber out—she’d figured out how to escape a month earlier—and the game would begin again. Of course, since Lucas was a cat, he’d been having just as much fun as their daughter. Continue Reading

About Lovegame:   True Crime novelist Ian Sharpe has spent his career writing about serial killers for very personal reasons. For his latest exposé, he is taking on the sadistic madman known as the Red Ribbon Strangler, and when his research leads him to Hollywood’s most private and provocative actress, he will break every rule to uncover her truth.   The daughter of one of Hollywood’s golden couples, chased by paparazzi and treated as a commodity her entire life, Veronica Romero wields her Continue Reading

Hero: Ezekiel Steele. A security guard for the House of Payne. Feels dead inside and unable to love. Until he meets Essie. Heroine: Essie Santiago. Brutalized when she was sixteen. Eight years later she has defied the odds and is now competing in a reality tv contest to become a designer for the House of Payne. For the first time since she was attacked, a man interests her.   His smile was brilliant enough to light up the entire complex. Then, while she was still trying to recover Continue Reading

Hero: Jacko. Navy SEAL now private security. Found the love of his life in Lauren. But now she is pregnant and he freaks out. Heroine: Lauren - was on the run until Jacko saved her. Now she has to convince him his past has nothing to do with his future.   He was 240 pounds of pure muscle, and right now he felt very grown up. He could feel every single male hormone in his body. Okay. It was time. He’d been a good boy. He’d waited, they’d had a nice meal together—though Lauren had Continue Reading

Hero: Ryan. Enforcer for the Phoenix Pack. A grumpy, grunting, broody alpha. Content with his  life until he meets MaKenna Wray, she turns it and him upside down. Heroine: Makenna Wray. A lone wolf who works at a shelter to rehome other lone shifters. Enjoys teasing Ryan  and unlike most, isn't at all intimidated by him. Ryan is sure Makenna is his mate but MaKenna doesn't feel the mating bond and has severe abandonment issues.  Ryan decides that the best way to get MaKenna on board is to Continue Reading