USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues the Red Starr series with a nail-biting mission that will leave you turning the pages well into the night... Dreams die... Daegan Murphy lives life the way it's meant to be lived...not a care in the world. With his motorcycle, sniper rifle, and career choice, some might think he has a death wish. But he's got a family who loves him, team members that count on him, and hostages to rescue. He wouldn't purposefully put himself in death's Continue Reading
Review: Fake Wife by Stacey Lynn
Fake Wife by Stacey Lynn (Crazy Love #1) Released: January 9, 2018 Contemporary Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Give me a present day marriage of convenience trope any day of the week! Corbin is a super wealthy, playboy guy who just lost his grandmother. She was important to him, as his father is a horrible man who has a family on the side and his mother is drinking herself to death. His grandmother left him her family estate - but with a condition. He must marry within six months Continue Reading
Review: Blood Fury by J.R. Ward
Blood Fury by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Legacy #3) Released: January 9, 2018 Paranormal Romance (m/f and m/m) Ballantine Books Reviewed by Mandi This spin-off series of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, is still BDB....just with a new crew of warriors. But the veterans are still roaming the halls, and making appearances. Blood Fury gives us two romances - Peyton and Novo, two trainees in the brotherhood fighting program, who start off the book more as enemies, and it takes a bit for them Continue Reading
Review: Cowboy SEAL Homecoming by Nicole Helm
Cowboy SEAL Homecoming by Nicole Helm (Navy SEAL Cowboys #1) Released: January 2, 2018 Contemporary Romance Sourcebooks Reviewed by Mandi A new series from Nicole Helm featuring Navy SEALs turned cowboys! I was a little unsure how this was all going to play out, but I actually really liked the set-up. Three guys who all served together overseas as SEALs, who all got injured in an explosion, come back to the states together to a ranch that Alex has inherited. Well, he inherited half a Continue Reading
Review: My Boo by Daaimah S. Poole
My Boo by Daaimah S. Poole Contemporary Romance Released: December 4, 2017 Pocket Star Reviewed by Sheena Note: My Boo was originally published in 2005 as part of the anthology Kiss the Year Goodbye Favorite Quote: "Tonight I was one of those women, looking for someone to say hi to me. I had cracked a smile at a few guys...but I still believe a man should approach a woman. Plus, I’ve got a boyfriend... I wish I could be with him right now, but since I can’t I’m waiting for a Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
The blurb sums up our hero and heroine well: Corbin: I loved my grandma, but I don’t need her money. All I care about is keeping the house—the only place that’s ever felt like home. That, and screwing over my dad, who wants to turn the property into a mall. There’s only one catch: To receive my inheritance, I have to get married within six months. Me, the guy who’s never dated a girl for more than six minutes. Now I need to find a woman I can trust. So when I’m rear-ended by a Prius, I figure Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… B+ review – A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev (contemporary/mandi) B review – Heart On Fire by Amanda Bouchet (contemporary fiction/sheena) B- review – United By Their Royal Baby Therese Beharrie (contemporary/mandi) C+ review – Dangerous Promise by Megan Hart (futuristic suspense/mandi) C+ review – Death Below Stairs by Jennifer Ashley (historical mystery/tori) C review – Dreaming of Manderley by Leah Marie Brown (contemporary/torid Smexy's Favorite Sex Scenes Continue Reading
Review: Dreaming of Manderley by Leah Marie Brown
Dreaming of Manderley by Leah Marie Brown Riches to Romance, #1 Contemporary Romance December 27, 2017 Lyrical Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote Talking to Siri: “Search the web for Xavier de Maloret.” “Here’s what I found for Xavier the Malaria.” “Xavier de Maloret!” “I’m sorry Olivia the Brilliant, I couldn’t find anything on the web for Savored the Mallory.” “Xavier. De. Maloret!” “Okay, here’s what I found for David and Valerie.” Manderley (Mandy) Continue Reading
Review: A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev
A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev Released: December 26, 2017 Contemporary Romance Kensington Reviewed by Mandi I have a love affair with Sonali Dev's books. She writes such good words. Words that usually completely break my heart (it's still broken after reading A Change of Heart) but she repairs it and gives us a shiny HEA at the end with all the smiles. The heroine in this book, Kimi, literally has a broken heart. A lifelong heart condition that keeps her sick most of her youth in Continue Reading
Review: Dangerous Promise by Megan Hart
Dangerous Promise by Megan Hart (The Protector #1) Released: January 2, 2017 Futuristic Suspense Swerve Reviewed by Mandi I find that Megan Hart writes such different things from book to book. I fell in love with her when she wrote Broken, Dirty etc.., and I've followed her work since then. When I saw her new series featuring a female bodyguard set in the future, I was definitely intrigued. First, and I didn't realize this, the entire series follows Nina and Ewan. I assumed book two Continue Reading