The Outback Bachelor Ball series is three stories with three different HEAs. The set-up: Three unlucky-in-love girlfriends make a road trip to the Outback Bachelor & Spinster Ball, a highlight of rural Australian life. One's looking to move on, one's thumbing her nose at romance, and one's looking to slip away and hide. None of them are looking for love... Three women are about to meet their match in a cowboy, a soldier and a country rock star. One magical night. One less than Continue Reading
Review: Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O’Keefe
Everything I Left Unsaid by Molly O'Keefe (#1) Released: October 13, 2015 Erotic Contemporary Random House Reviewed by Mandi Back in May when I went to Dallas for the RT Convention, I heard Molly O'Keefe speak about her upcoming book called Everything I Left Unsaid. All she would say is that it's a dark erotic book about a girl who answers a cell phone. I was hooked. And oddly enough, when I got home from RT, there was a paperback advanced copy waiting for me. I picked it up immediately Continue Reading
Review: Everybody Talks by Kitty James
Everybody Talks by Kitty James Series: Kitty James Mystery, #2 Romance Suspense August 15, 2015 Self Published Reviewed by Tori Daphne Arden has been trying to live down her mother’s wild antics for years but it’s hard when the gossip grapevine, nicknamed the beast, lives and breathes in her very own business, SPAkles Salon. Having been raised by her grandmother after her mother, Jolie, disappeared over 20 years ago, Daphne’s childhood was a mixture of speculation and innuendos. Having Continue Reading
Jade (Violet Series #3) by M.L. Med
Review: Jade (Violet Series #3) by M.L. Med Paranormal Romance Released: September 1, 2015 Smashwords Reviewed by Sheena Vampires and Demons have never got along. The centuries old feud continued with no end in sight, until now... Dominic has always been a bit of a ladies man…ok lets face it. He’s a man whore. Seeing his friends around him find their mates one after another has only made him more aware of what he can’t have. That is, until he wakes in a hotel room with the most Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Hero: Charlie. A police officer whose very dirty mouth & high handed ways have the heroine begging to be frisked. Heroine: Erin. A dance instructor whose equally delighted and appalled that her latest crush is her former childhood nemesis. Charlie wants to be just friends with benefits, claiming he is NOT relationship material, but he seems to be having trouble sticking to his own rules. "Hi,” I said, my insides tense with excitement. “Hi.” “Are you the burglar?” His lips tipped Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy... A review - Hidden in the Stars by Sadie Grubor (helyce) B+ review - Hard to Break by Bella Jewel (sheena) B+ review - Shadow Fall by Laura Griffin (mandi) B review - Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner (mandi) B review - Autumn Moon by Jan DeLima (tori) B review - Some Like it Scot by Suzanne Enoch (may) D review - Accidentally Hers by Jamie Beck (helyce) Feature: Blue Blooded by Shelly Bell Tori's October Mini Reviews Smexy's Top Ten News from Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten – October 16
10. Yesterday was National Red Wine Day. I hope you all celebrated appropriately. 9. I just finished The Fifteenth Minute by Sarina Bowen this morning. She is one of my favorite authors and in this one, as in her others, she brings up a difficult topic. This time the hero has been accused of non-consensual sex prior to the book starting. He is innocent, but the college may take action depending upon an upcoming hearing. I think the author handles this topic well and I like how it all plays Continue Reading
Review: Some Like it Scot by Suzanne Enoch
Some Like It Scot by Suzanne Enoch Historical Romance Released: October 6, 2015 St. Martins Reviewed by May “Ye put a tent in a man’s kilt, Catriona.” Lord Munro MacLawry is the last of the siblings to find true love and happiness, and with all his siblings and their wee babies making the family home into such a domestic place Munro (aka Bear) finds himself restless and feeling out of place. His older brother has ideas for him, but he really isn’t interested. He’s far more interested in Continue Reading
Review: Accidentally Hers by Jamie Beck
Accidentally Hers by Jamie Beck (Sterling Canyon #1) Contemporary Romance October 6, 2015 Montlake Romance Reviewed by Helyce When ruggedly sexy backcountry guide Grey Lowell moves to Sterling Canyon, Colorado, after buying the ski-expedition company Backtrax, his plans don’t include romance. Still, it’s fun to look—especially across a crowded restaurant at a beauty he dubs “Bambi.” But all his plans change later that night when he’s injured by a drunk driver. Physical therapist Continue Reading
Review: Autumn Moon by Jan DeLima
Autumn Moon by Jan DeLima Series: Celtic Wolves, #3 Paranormal Romance Released: September 28, 2015 Ace Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “He’d waited centuries for her. Was it too much that she wait a few months for him to be worthy of her?” Cormack has spent centuries trapped in his wolf form, unable to shift. Shunned by humans and shifters alike, his only salvation was with a young woman named Elen. Elen, also shunned because of her unusual magic, welcomes Cormack into her life Continue Reading