Sometimes you just can't resist playing with fire . . . By day, Aaron Clarkson suits up, shakes hands, and acts the perfect gentleman. But at night, behind bedroom doors, the tie comes off and the real Aaron comes out to play. Mixing business with pleasure got him fired, so Aaron knows that if he wants to work for the country's most powerful senator, he'll have to keep his eye on the prize. That's easier said than done when he meets the senator's daughter, who's wild, gorgeous, and 100 percent Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts: The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
The Right Swipe by Alisha RaiModern Love #1Contemporary RomanceAugust 6, 2019 by Avon ARC I love Alisha Rai romances. I love the diversity of her casts. I love that her main protagonists always have supportive and loving friends and family. I love that found families are frequently a theme within her stories. Her books are sex positive and feminist and filled with characters beautifully and perfectly flawed. Also, she can write the hell out of a sex scene. The Right Swipe had everything Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
The historical romance that began Joanna Bourne's spectacular spymaster series! She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit. The Spymaster's Lady (The Spymaster Series Book 1) by Joanna Continue Reading
Guest Post: Playlist for The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant
THE MARKED PRINCE by M.A. Grant (eBook August 5): Torn between two worlds, desperate to save one love. M.A. Grant continues her incredible world building with Sebastian having to choose between completing the mission and earning his place among the Unseelie who took him in, or risking his very life to ensure freedom for the man he loves. M.A. stopped by with her a playlist for The Marked Prince. Playlists are the first step of my writing process. Years later, a Continue Reading
Sunday Smexy Deals!
A friend's newspaper advertisement for a groom nets the most famous actor in London, Arthur Bex. Shy heiress Ester Croome proposes to elope with the handsome man, who she's secretly loved for two years, in order to escape an impending engagement arranged by her overbearing family. Trying to outlive the shadow of his villainous uncle, Bex needs to marry quickly--to a woman of good character. And smart, beautiful Ester fits the bill. But a harrowing trip to Gretna Green and dangerous abolition Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap Up (8/3)
New Releases: Week of July 29- August 2, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts Four Meaningful Words by A.M. Gilliams- Release Day Wistful/Wanton Romance: Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon Smexy’s August TBR Smexy’s Top Ten- August 2 Kini: I am still recovering from RWA. It was absolutely amazing to meet pocket friends in real life. But everything about NYC is exhausting. I am slowing recovering. I finished Down Too Deep by J. Daniels earlier this week. It was good. Widower Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten- August 2
10. The RWA convention was last weekend and from what I could tell on Twitter, a good time was had by all. I know Kini had a blast. For a complete list of RITA winners you can go here. While on the website I discovered this list of Romance Trailblazers. It's pretty cool. Bustle also had a nice article featuring all the winners complete with buy links. The 2019 RITA Award Winners Are The Best Romance Novels Of The Last Year #Lucifer Season 5 just got a HELL of a lot better — and bigger! Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren- This was one of my (kini) favorite books of 2018. The subject matter is heavy, but it worked really well for me. It's been twelve years since tragedy struck the senior class of Long Acre High School. Only a few students survived that fateful night—a group the media dubbed The Ones Who Got Away. Liv Arias thought she'd never return to Long Acre—until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, is Continue Reading
Smexy’s August TBR
Angela- I have tons of great ARCs for this month and I want to dig in to all of them right now. The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai 8/6- Alisha Rai is one of my go-to, must-have, auto-buy authors and I love her. This story about two rival dating app creators sounds amazing and I can't wait to read it this week. The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare 8/13- If this book is half as cute as the previous book in this series, The Governess Game, I know I'll be in heaven. The First Girl Child by Amy Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
In the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a world where technology can create beauty and youth, but passion and greed can destroy them... She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman’s man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her Continue Reading