Hailey Turner's new release, All Souls Near & Nigh Soulbound II releases on March 19. This LGBTQ Urban Fantasy builds on the series plot and will keep readers wanting more! Hailey sent us an exclusive excerpt for All Souls Near & Nigh. “I don’t like this.” Jono looked up from tying his trainers—a pair he wouldn’t mind losing—to find Patrick staring at him from the short hallway that led to their bedroom and the still-damaged bathroom. Jono’s gaze slowly traveled up and down Continue Reading
Excerpt: The One I Love to Hate by Amanda Weaver
Amanda Weaver is here today with an exclusive excerpt of her new book, The One I Love to Hate, release date March 18th. But first, an intro to the book: Three Italian-American sisters and their family bar in Brooklyn are at the heart of The Romano Sisters series. The best part of writing this series was being able to incorporate so much of what I love about my home borough into the books. Romano’s Bar, the Brooklyn Daily Post, Ému Coffee and Tea…they’re all based in Brooklyn Continue Reading
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Lady Claire Is All That: Keeping Up with the Cavendishes by Maya Rodale In the third installment of Maya Rodale’s captivating, witty series, a marquess finds his fair lady—but must figure out how to keep her HER BRAINS… Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. Continue Reading
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Indecent Exposure by Tessa Bailey Is there a problem, Officer? Jack Garrett isn’t a police officer yet, but there’s already an emergency. His new firearms instructor—the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy gym—is the same sexy Irish stranger Jack locked lips with last night. The Olympic gold medalist and expert markswoman is now officially off-limits, but Jack’s never cared much for rules . . . Katie McCoy’s been cooped up in a shooting range for too long. A wild love affair Continue Reading
Giveaway: This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan
Harper Collins has generously offered to giveaway a copy of This Scot of Mine to two Smexy readers. Comment below with your favorite Marriage of Convenience romance, any genre, must have a HEA, and we will pick two winners at random. Comments from March 12 & 13, 2019 will be considered for the giveaway. US Only. This Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan releases today, March 12. This Scot of Mine is a story featuring a marriage of convenience. Lady Clara fakes a pregnancy to escape a Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday: Adonis Line by Dakota Gray
Adonis Line releases tomorrow, March 11 and is third in the The Filth Book series by Dakota Gray. Dakota was kind enough to send us a sexcerpt for your reading pleasure. “What else do you want to know?” I have to swallow down my past even though I want to know everything about his. I meet his gaze. “The obvious.” “Feels like ten inches in the right position.” I move over to my bed, pick up a pillow and throw it at him. He catches it, a bigger smile creasing his laugh lines. “Then Continue Reading
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We made it through another work week. As I type this it is snowing in Maryland. It's not going to be substantial, but I can not wait for winter to end. Here's some book deals to celebrate Friday! Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone (I feel like this was on sale recently, but it is again so I am including it. A double life with a single purpose: revenge. Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses Continue Reading
Kini’s Friday Kisses
Reading has been blah for me lately. Which is really disappointing. But it is what it is. I think in the first 2.5 months of 2019 I have DNF’ed more books than I did in all of 2018. I didn’t keep good records for 2018 so I don’t actually know how true that is but it feels like it. But for me, DNF isn’t always that it is a bad book but is usually because the book just isn’t working for me. This week it was Hired by Zoey Castile that I had to declare as a DNF. I really loved the first book, Continue Reading
Q&A with Holley Trent
Today we have Holley Trent with us and she's talking about how she started reading romance, her newest release Writing Her In, prickly heroines, and more. Thanks for joining us Holley! Writing Her In releases on March 11, 2019 What is the first romance you ever read/how'd you start reading romance? I honestly don’t know the title but it was definitely a category romance of some stripe! I found it in a dollar store bin when I was a teen. I think the story was set in Hawaii. The Continue Reading
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Rising Star by Susannah Nix Alice Carlisle has problems. Her sociology Ph.D. dissertation is going nowhere, she’s about to lose the TV extra job that’s been paying her bills, and her roommate is kicking her out. She needs to find a new place to live ASAP, so she can focus on finally finishing her doctorate. Enter Griffin, one of Hollywood’s rising stars, who offers to let her move into his guest room if she’ll dog sit for him. Four months rent free in a nice house with an Continue Reading