Blood might be thicker than water, but venom is stronger than just about anything … It was supposed to be a nice, quiet, simple dinner with friends—but nothing is ever nice, quiet, or simple when you’re Gin Blanco, the Spider, notorious assassin and current queen of the Ashland underworld. This time around, someone seems to be targeting Stuart Mosley, the president of First Trust bank. Lots of people have grudges against Mosley, but the more I investigate, the more Mosley’s problems seem Continue Reading
Top Ten August 23
10. Keanu and crew will be back for Matrix 4. My movie secret shame is that I have never seen any of the Matrix movies. I tried to watch the first one, on VHS no less, and about 15 minutes in I had no idea what was going on and had to turn it off. But I know many, many folks like Keanu. 9. Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich- Have y’all seen folks on the interwebz talking about this? Well Popeye’s launched a chicken sandwich. WaPo says it’s excellent. Kini says it’s just fine and needed less pickles Continue Reading
Guest Post: Divorce in Historical Romance by Felicia Grossman
Marriage (and its flipside, divorce), besides being “what brings us together, today” is one of those odd topics where civil law and religion often blend. Fitting, because I’m both a lawyer and a fairly observant Jew. Even more fitting because I wrote a historical romance featuring a twice divorced Jewish heroine called Dalliances & Devotion. And while my books don’t talk a ton about religion (I mean where’s the space? This is the book has like ten tropes: second chance, bodyguard, Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap- Up
New Releases: Week of August 19-23, 2019 Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: Amy Harmon, Hailey Edwards, and Lorraine Heath Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!- The Alien’s Seduction by Zoey Draven Guest Post: It ain’t heavy, it’s my romance by Ainslie Paton Guest Post: Divorce in Historical Romance by Felicia Grossman Top Ten August 23 Angela: I've had the BEST week of reading. First I read The Blacksmith Queen by GA Aiken and, of course, it was exactly what I needed. Zany, fun, Continue Reading
Smexy Deals
With two million dollars' worth of diamonds on the line, she can't afford to fall for her husband. Penelope Blue has the perfect life, and the perfect husband. Well, except for the fact that he works for the FBI...and she's a thief. What's the saying? Keep your friends close...and your husband closer. Being married to a federal agent certainly has its perks. This way a savvy jewel thief always knows what the enemy is up to. Plus, who doesn't love the way a G-man looks in a suit? Penelope Continue Reading
Guest Post: It ain’t heavy, it’s my romance by Ainslie Paton
Some romances are designed to read like sunshine and lollipops, some to please with sass and snark, or comic situations and big laughs. Some show the storm clouds. Like a lot of authors, I write romance in part to explore issues that interest me. Sometimes that means showing the darker underbelly of storm clouds. I’ve written a mentally ill hero who was homeless, a male nanny, a female executive in a male dominated industry, a tech titan who got sacked from his own company for being a Continue Reading
Hump Day Smexy Deals!
"With their beat-up ship and eclectic group, comparisons with the fan favorite TV show Firefly are inevitable, but in more of the way of homage, since Burke and Jensen's characters take center stage all on their own." —Library JournalDiscover intergalactic romance and out-of-this-world stakes in the first book of the critically acclaimed Chaos Station series. "You're not real. Felix Ingesson is dead." The war with the alien stin is over, but Felix Ingesson has given up on seeing his lover, Continue Reading
Sheena’s Wistful/Wanton Wednesday!- The Alien’s Seduction by Zoey Draven
Happy Hump Day! You know why I'm here. I know what you came for. We both deserve it. And on this ordinary mid-week day, I bring news of an extra-ordinary, extraterrestrial treat! To my alien, Sci-fi romance aficionados, we are well and truly favored because Zoey Draven saw fit to release, for our smutty pleasure, The Alien's Seduction! It is lucky novel #7 in the series, but new readers should find this world is very easily acclimated. Series loyalists are certainly in for a treat, ready Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her shape-shifting lodger find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets. Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others--vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget.... After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday ARC Reviews: Amy Harmon, Hailey Edwards, and Lorraine Heath
The First Girl Child by Amy HarmonFantasyAugust 20, 2019 by 47NorthARC This was a very different book than the previous fantasy releases I've read by this author. I would say that I was expecting more of a romance based fantasy and what I got was more of an epic fantasy with romance woven in. Still overwhelmingly lovely and beautifully written, just not exactly what I was expecting. The First Girl Child is a story of love, power, greed, selflessness, and honor. When a young battle Continue Reading