Hero: Jude Laurant. A widower and veteran whose wife and children were killed by a drunk driver. He shut down years ago but meeting the local bartender is making him feel again. Heroine: Ryanne has fallen for Jude. She's made it her mission to seduce and tease Jude back into the world of the living. She’d never tried to seduce a man before...But honestly? Over the years, she’d seen other women go all out, so she knew what to do—and soon she grew to love the chase. Also, she Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… A review – Most of All You by Mia Sheridan (contemporary/mandi) B+ review – Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt (historical/mandi) B+ review – Joint Review-Act Your Age by Eve Dangerfield (contemporary/tori & mandi) B review – Once A Charmer by Sharla Lovelace (contemporary/tori) C review – Play Dates by Maggie Wells (contemporary/kini) C review – The Scott Beds His Wife by Kerrigan Bryne (historical/sheena) Cover Reveal: Follow by Tessa Bailey A Chat with Continue Reading
Review: The Scot Beds His Wife by Kerrigan Byrne
The Scot Beds His Wife by Kerrigan Byrne Series:Victorian Rebel's #5 Historical Romance Released: October 3, 2017 St. Martin's Press Reviewed by Sheena Gavin St. James, Earl of Thorne, is a notorious Highlander and an unrelenting Lothario who uses his slightly menacing charm to get what he wants—including too many women married to other men. But now, Gavin wants to put his shady past behind him...more or less. When a fiery lass who is the heiress to the land he wishes to possess drops Continue Reading
Cover Reveal: Follow by Tessa Bailey
Blurb: He wants her soul. Too bad she already sold it. Family is everything to gambling den darling, Teresa Valentini. Blood comes first, especially before men. So when her brother lands himself in hot water, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to save him. And showing up topless in her unwitting savior’s motel room is turning out to be the furthest thing from a hardship… Will Caruso is the bad boy of New York’s financial scene…and he just found out the very thing that drives his Continue Reading
A Chat with Graceley Knox – and Giveaway!
I (Helyce) am so excited to bring to our Smexy Books readers this interview and exclusive excerpt from Graceley Knox, author of the Wicked Kingdoms series. Mark of Truth and Crown of Betrayal are available now with Throne of Secrets releasing on October 24. I have enjoyed this series so much I wanted to make sure that everyone who loves the fantasy romance genre can put this on their list of must read books! Ms. Knox has brilliantly crafted a story with such interesting characters in a Continue Reading
Review: Play Dates by Maggie Wells
Play Dates by Maggie Wells Play Dates #1 Contemporary Romance October 3, 2017 Lyrical Shine Reviewed by Kini Favorite Quote: He yelped when she yanked, pulling his hair until she could look him in the eye. “Come.” One word and the woman completely unraveled him. Biting his lip, he closed his eyes and emptied every bit of loneliness and longing built up over the week into her. I stumbled upon this author earlier this year when I joined a Facebook group for Seasoned Romance, aka romance Continue Reading
Sale Alert! $.99 Halloween Book Sales
Grab these deals before they end on 10/31! Each book is $.99! Seal Wolf Undercover by Terry Spear Never be so foolish as to fall for the enemy... Special wolf agent Jillian Matthews has joined the jaguar-run United Shifter Force to track down a deadly criminal. She's even willing to work with PI Vaughn Greystroke—until the hot, growly SEAL wolf makes the mistake of getting in her way. Naturally, she shoots him. Who could blame her? Vaughn Greystroke has always Continue Reading
Review: Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt
Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #12) Released: October 17, 2017 Historical Romance Grand Central Reviewed by Mandi If you are current with this series, you know all about the Lords of Chaos and their dark, horrible, abusive ways. If you are new or not up to date with this series, you can easily read this one as a stand alone. The Lords of Chaos are a clandestine group of men, who wear masks and torture, rape, kill and abuse women and children. They are after power and Continue Reading
Review: Once A Charmer by Sharla Lovelace
Once a Charmer by Sharla Lovelace Series: Charmed in Texas, #3 Romance Contemporary October 17, 2017 Lyrical Shine Reviewed by Tori By day, Allie Greene stays busy with her family diner, and keeping tabs on her teenage daughter. What’s really exhausting Allie, however, are the nights. Not that she minds Bash Anderson unbuttoning her naughty desires—if only in her dreams. But what was he doing there at all? He’s her best friend, and a father figure to her girl. Talk about awkward. Talk Continue Reading
Review: Most of All You by Mia Sheridan
Most of All You by Mia Sheridan Released: October 17, 2017 Contemporary Romance Forever Reviewed by Mandi This book pretty much gutted me - and I'm not one to use that term a lot. The author deceives you into thinking she is giving you a very broken hero, and a heroine who is going to help him find himself. Instead, you start to learn how absolutely vulnerable the heroine is, and this book is more her journey of rising out of the black pit of despair, and enjoying the sunsets and Continue Reading