A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story.LibraryReads Pick Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it's been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants more out of life. Stacey vows Continue Reading
Review: Totally Engaged by Mina V. Esguerra
Totally Engaged by Mina V. EsguerraContemporary RomanceMay 14, 2021, Self PublishedARC Review by Melinda I think Mina V. Esguerra is such a talented writer and generally I pick up anything she writes. But this book is really up there with one of my favorites of hers. Rose is a fashion entrepreneur who is pretty happy with her life and what she has. However, her mother is not as happy about any of it. Rose's entire immediate family immigrated to the United States, but Rose had aged out of Continue Reading
New Releases: Week of May 17-21, 2021
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Winner Bakes All Book 1) by Alexis Hall AMZ * BN * K * Audible The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren AMZ * BN * K * Audible Fake by Kylie Scott AMZ * BN * K * Audible Elementary Romantic Calculus: An Opposites Attract Small Town Romance (Chemistry Lessons Book 6) by Susannah Nix AMZ * BN * K * Audible Happy Endings: A Novel by Thien-Kim Lam AMZ * BN * K * Audible Chasing Her Fire: A Small Town Family Romance (The Bailey Brothers Book 5) by Claire Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
From Wall Street Journal, USA Today Bestselling and RITA® Award-winning Author Kennedy Ryan, comes a captivating second chance romance like only she can deliver... The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have… Dig a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern.Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old.Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular Continue Reading
Review: All Fired Up by Jenn Burke
All Fired Up by Jenn BurkeAshes & Dust #1LGBTQ Paranormal RomanceMay 18, 2021, by Carina PressReview by Angela Jenn Burke has been an auto-buy author for me since reading her Chaos Station series, written with Kelly Jensen. I think I've read pretty much everything she's written. All Fired Up is a spin-off from her Not Dead Yet series, and features a character I fell in love with as soon as he was introduced. It's been a while since the events of the last series and Evan Fournier is Continue Reading
Sunday Smexy Deals!
A PopSugar Must-Read for October!In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen.Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn’t be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve up mouthwatering Filipino dishes to hungry beach goers, but she didn’t expect the Maui food truck scene to be so eat-or-be-eaten—or the competition to be so smoking hot. But Tiva’s Filipina Kusina has faced bigger road bumps than the arrival of Callum Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
An Instant Indie BestsellerPublic radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon's sparkling romantic comedy debut. Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who's fresh off a journalism master's program and convinced he knows everything about public radio. When the struggling station Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
Angela’s Minis- Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire and Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells Take My Books Giveaway Winners! New Releases: Week of May 10-14, 2021 Review: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry #RomBkLove 2021 Day 12: Weird and Wonderful Powers' Jen’s Mini Audible Reviews: Reviews for Books by Amy Harmon, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Kerri Maniscalco, Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy and Kylie Scott Review: The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell This Week on Continue Reading
This Week on TikTok
Happy Weekend! It’s TikTok time. Have you watched Shadow and Bone on Netflix? I binged through it this week and LOVED it. Then, found myself lost in Ben Barnes TikToks. In celebration of my newfound love for all things Ben Barnes, I kick off this week’s Top 5 TikToks with an homage to the darkling. #5 #4 He's not wrong. #ThirstTrap #3 Who else does this? Signed, Mom of Sparky, now called Doodles. #2 Exhibit 1 on why men should read romance Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
Inside a drop-dead sexy, hard-partying rock star lies a good heart...and a dark secret. Twenty-something Kat Reid is loving life as an in-demand Hollywood makeup artist. She has absolutely no interest in rock 'n' roll, but in order to pay the mortgage, she agrees to work on the set of a rock video for the world-famous rockers known as Bad Habit...which brings her face-to-face with Nico Nyx, lead singer of Bad Habit and Adonis in the flesh. However, the fiercely independent Kat isn't Continue Reading