From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first novel in her critically acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy.Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Continue Reading
Sheena’s Thursday Tingles! Featuring: Dalliances & Devotion by Felicia Grossman
I'd love to greet you all and thank you for checking out this feature, but there is no time for that. No time! None! All of the minutes, seconds, nanoseconds I'm hording for the express purpose of sharing how FREAKING cute, bad ass, funny, sexy and enjoyable this book is! OHMYGOSHITSSODAMNFUN! First of all. Blurb. After two disastrous marriages, beauty columnist Amalia Truitt's life is finally her own—well, it will be if she can get herself back to Delaware and demand access to her share of Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
It’s true. I’m not what most people would call “pretty” and, well, high school was rough. Fast forward ten years and life is good… Until a bunch of jerks think it’s hilarious to put the “butterface” (AKA me) on a wedding Kiss Cam with the hottest guy ever—and that old humiliation hits hard. I recognize him immediately. The sexiest cop in Waterbury and totally out of my league. But then he kisses me. And we totally forget the room, the crowd, everything. Then he tells everyone we’ve Continue Reading
Smexy’s September TBR
Angela: I have so many books on my TBR this month I don't even have room to list them all. LOL. Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson 9/2- I saw someone tweet about this book months ago and knew I had to read it. A m/m fantasy romance put out by Carina Press, who quite frankly has published some of my favorite reads in the last few years. Here's a line from the blurb: In a world teeming with mages, ghosts and dark secrets, love blooms between the unlikely pair. But if they are to be Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
An Amazon Best Book of the Month "Full of razor-sharp intrigue, delicious characters, and a love story you never want to end."—DARYNDA JONES My heart wasn’t part of the deal when I bargained for my life, But assassins so rarely keep their word. Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts—an offense punishable by death—and now there’s a price on her head. With the realm’s most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore and Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie DunmoreA League of Extraordinary Women #1Historical Romance September 3, 2019 by BerkleyARC This was a pleasant surprise! I love it when a debut author exceeds my expectations and leaves me looking forward to the next release in the series. Bringing Down the Duke is set in the late 1800s, and features a heroine who has secured a scholarship to Oxford and is involved in the suffrage movement in England. She, quite by accident and without knowing his Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
New Releases: Week of August 26-30, 2019 Release Day: OFF LIMITS LOVERS BY REESE RYAN Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: The Blacksmith Queen by GA Aiken and Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews Q & A with Kerrigan Byrne Review: How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne Guest Review: Butterfly in Frost by Sylvia Day Excerpt: In Safe Keeping by Victoria Sue Review: Death of Darkness by Dianne Duvall (Helyce is back!) Kini’s Friday Kisses Smexy’s Top Ten- August Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten- August 30
10. Just want to make sure everyone gets a chance to see this Twitter thread because it's magnificent and I spent way too much time last weekend watching these videos. Omg pic.twitter.com/2dw28DxWDL— |L I Z Z O| (@lizzo) August 24, 2019 9. Oprah magazine released their 28 of the Best Romance Novels of 2019 That'll Instantly Have You Addicted. I've read 11 of them. How many have you read? 8. I promised Susan from last week's Top Ten that I would mention The 1st Annual Carroll Rom Com. Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
This week I have mini reviews for three books by new to me authors. The Blacksmith Queen by G.A. Aiken- I rarely read outside contemporary but when Jane, the Kensington publicist, told me about this book I felt compelled to read it. She described it as feminist and humorous with a kick ass heroine and a shifter/centaur hero. All of those things are correct. Seriously, a sure fire way to sell me on a book is to tell me that it is feminist. The heroine, Keeley is a magnificent blacksmith Continue Reading
Review: Death of Darkness by Dianne Duvall (Helyce is back!)
Review by Helyce - I’m back!Death of Darkness by Dianne DuvallImmortal Guardians #9Paranormal RomanceAugust 20, 2019 I have been waiting 8 years for Seth’s book. Since book one in 2011, and in each book released thereafter, Seth-the self-imposed leader of the Immortal Guardians has remained a mystery. One of a small group of beings referred to as The Others, Seth defected from them years and years ago when he fell in love with a human woman. In present day, he leads his Guardians to Continue Reading