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
Wistful/Wanton Romance: Bound to the Battle God by Ruby Dixon
Lucky for me, one of my favorite authors has a release schedule that keeps fresh, fun material in my hands on a nearly monthly basis. Lucky for you, I can never wait to come share the latest release and lucky for us, we can all enjoy it together! Best known for her sci-fi, Alien super sexy trope, Ruby Dixon takes on epic fantasy and builds a world that fills the chasm between Gods and Mortals and we see exactly what happens when their worlds collide and they dare fall in Continue Reading
Four Meaningful Words by A.M. Gilliams- Release Day
BLURB Four words posed in a question started the beginning of our future. Will you marry me? Ten years of love and laughter, triumphs and failures, losses and gains later, and four words threatened to end it all. Everything has a beginning and an end. I just never saw mine coming. Especially when I finally thought we were getting it all. Until my husband and lifeline uttered…. I want a divorce. Only I had four words of my own. Words that should be said out of happiness and Continue Reading
Angela’s Tuesday Thoughts
Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLeanThe Bareknuckle Bastards #2Historical RomanceJuly 30, 2019 by AvonARC I loved this book. In every way. From the first word until the last had I heart eyes and a big ole smile on my face. My kindle copy has seven million highlights because Hattie and Whit had the most wonderful back and forth banter and I didn't want to forget a single word. Even the secondary characters are amazing. I think Nora, Hattie's sister of the heart, ride or die BFF, is one of my Continue Reading
Smexy Deals!
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author of the Resse Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick The Proposal.THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER#5 LibraryReads Pick“A swoony rom-com brimming with humor and charm.”—Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)“What a charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel....One of the best books I've read in a Continue Reading