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Review: Marriage of Inconvenience by Penny Reid
Marriage of Inconvenience by Penny Reid Knitting in the City, #7 Romance Comedy March 6, 2017 Self Published Reviewed By Tori Favorite Quote: “Trust me that I want every part of you.” “What if parts of me are messy? Or ugly?” “Parts of you are ugly and messy. I still want you. I want the ugly and the beautiful and everything in between. You don’t pick and choose the parts of a person you want.” Kat Turner aka Kathleen Tyson needs to marry and marry fast. A Continue Reading
Guest Author AJ Pine: Save a Horse and Ride a…Cowboy Who Runs a Vineyard!
Forever is celebrating The Year of the Cowboy! In their words: Here at Team Forever Romance, we truly believe that there is a cowboy (or two or three) for every reader. To fully satisfy your appetite for these rugged and romantic heroes, we officially welcome you to our Cowboy of the Month 2018 event. (Warning: it will get hot in here.) Each month of the year, you'll be introduced to our new cowboy heroes, experience exclusive excerpts and fun facts, and connect with the authors who have Continue Reading
Review: Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon Historical Romance/NA March 6, 2018 Harper Collins/Blink Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: Lesson one: Friends are just enemies in disguise. Olivia Brownlow is no stranger to danger. Orphaned at birth and raised in a workhouse as one of the boys, Olivia eventually made her way to the streets and was taken in by a gang of thieves. When a crime goes wrong and she’s caught, she and the intended mark are shocked to discover they're related and he takes Continue Reading
Feature: Exposed: A Romance Anthology
EXPOSED: A Romance Anthology Tamsen Parker THROWN OFF TRACK Teague has been License to Game’s bassist for over a decade, during which time he’s slept with almost everyone in his path. But it’s always felt like going through the motions. Until he sees his bandmate Christian naked at a charity photoshoot and suddenly, he knows what it is to want. All right, then. He can stay, he wants to stay, and I… How do people get anything done with all this wanting to have sex? I mean, I Continue Reading
Review: What a Highlander’s Got to Do by Sabrina York
What a Highlander's Got to Do by Sabrina York Untamed Highlanders #5 Historical Romance Released: March 6, 2018 Swerve Reviewed by Sheena Favorite Quote: Against her will, her frown tipped into a smile. And when he smiled back, she nearly swooned. Which was annoying. She was hardly a swooning sort. What a Highlander's Got to Do is the latest superb entry in the addictive Untamed Highlander's series. This is a very "new reader" friendly series and while knowledge of the earlier Continue Reading
Susan Cliff Talks Romance, Harlequins, Her New Release and a Giveaway!!
Hello Smexy Books! When did you start reading romance? For me it was the summer of ‘87. I was eleven years old, unattended and un-athletic but not unadventurous. I wanted excitement! Danger! Boys! I didn’t find any of these things in my sleepy neighborhood. My best discovery was made in the used bookstore across town. Harlequin paperbacks were five for a quarter. I don’t recall YA being a genre back then. There were children’s books and adult books, and I’d already graduated to adult. I Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: After ten months in bear form, Simon is struggling. He's not ready to deal with anyone, let alone the bold and gorgeous Alyssa. Mine, whispers his bear. But all hell has broken loose in the Detroit shifter community, and it's spreading to humans. Now Simon must face the darkest place of all: where bear and man become one. And the only way he can make it back to his humanity is by finding---and claiming---his mate. Heroine: Alyssa Nelson doesn't actually believe that Simon Gold Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... B review - From Exes to Expecting by Laurel Greer (contemporary/mandi) B review - Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs (urban fantasy/mandi) B- review - Lake Silence by Anne Bishop (urban fantasy/tori) C+ review - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (contemporary/Kini) C review - Dark Alpha's Night by Donna Grant (paranormal/sheena) C review- Thalgor's Witch by Nancy Holland (historical fantasy/tori) New Serial from Sarina Bowen! Guest Author K. Sterling and Boys of Continue Reading
Guest Author K. Sterling and Boys of Lake Cliff
Today we have K. Sterling at Smexy to talk about her series, Boys of Lake Cliff. Books one through five are now available in a bundle for $2.99! Book six, Find and Keep, just released, and she is here to give us a glimpse into this world. Welcome to Lake Cliff. Just about an hour outside of Chicago, this quiet yet inexplicably dangerous town is home to a celebrity forensic psychologist and the world’s greatest assassin. The adventure begins with Hide And Keep. Detective Lane West Continue Reading