The Perfect Match (Blue Heron, #2) by Kristan Higgins Romance Contemporary Releasing: October 29 , 2013 Harlequin HQN Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “This was...what was the word for it? Hell. Yes. This was hell.” Honor Holland has been in love with her best friend Brogan since high school. Her best friend with benefits. When her gynecologist makes some off hand remarks about her age, motherhood, and the fact her eggs aren’t getting in younger, she makes the decision to ask her Continue Reading
Interview with Hayson Manning and Giveaway
Who is Hayson Manning? Give us the low down. Basically I’m terribly ordinary. My children (aka Thing 1 and Thing 2) would agree. I tried to think of ‘fun facts’ about me and came up with this rather pathetic list. I can make my eyes shake. How’s that for a party trick? No double-jointed Circque du Soleil yoga moves for me. Nope, I can make my eyes shake until people run screaming. My brother and I used to do this for hours. Clearly the smart gene didn’t roll the Manning way. I’ve watched Continue Reading
Review: Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning
Winning the Boss’s Heart by Hayson Manning Released: September 9, 2013 Contemporary Romance Entangled Publishing Reviewed by Mandi This book has a super broody hero and a heroine who likes to give him a hard time. The author executes it quite nicely. Mason’s infant daughter died years ago, devastating him and ending his marriage. He has never quite recovered from the guilt he felt and has submerged himself in work. He flips houses into retreats for high-end clients and his next Continue Reading
Upcoming Books from Serena Bell! Hooray!
Earlier this year I read a novella from Serena Bell in the Strangers on a Train anthology and I remember immediately going to Goodreads to look through her back list. Except, she didn’t have a back list because that novella was her first book. The horror!! So I am so excited to share her soon-to-be released books! We get three stories from her in the next few months. It’s wrong to play favorites, but I’ll confess that Brett Jordan is my favorite hero I’ve written so far. And not just because Continue Reading
Sarah Morgan Deals!
I love, love, love Sarah Morgan books and some are on sale right now. For Layla, princess of Tazkhan, her arranged marriage means one thing—a lifetime of cruelty and captivity. Such an unendurable prospect drives her to throw herself at the mercy of Sheikh Raz Al Zahki—her family's greatest enemy! Raz demands one thing in return for the safe haven Layla is seeking—this brooding desert king wants to make her his queen! Her freedom might be secured, but now her heart is at risk, for Continue Reading
Review: Friday Afternoon by Sylvia Ryan
Friday Afternoon by Sylvia Ryan Released: September 2, 2013 Erotic Lyrical Press Reviewed by Mandi Blurb: Before kids and the responsibility of life, Levi and I shared a spontaneous, erotic, and deliciously deviant marriage. Years transformed what we had into something comfortable and worn. It hurts me to think his desire for me has cooled. I miss that look of his. Slightly evil and totally hot, like he wanted to devour me. Haven’t seen it in ages. When I first married Mia, she Continue Reading
Guest Author Katie Porter: Gimme a Scarred Hero *Giveaway*
Gimme a Scarred Hero by Katie Porter Note: I had to double check that the title was “scarred” rather than “scared,” because I can’t imagine wanting a scared hero. Capt. Eric “Kisser” Donaghue survived a fighter jet plane crash at the end of book four of our “Vegas Top Guns” series, Hard Way. Now, in Bare Knuckle [http://katieporterbooks.com/books/vegas-top-guns/bare-knuckle/] he’s back to deal with the repercussions of facing death—and walking away with intimidating scars. Because his Continue Reading
Smex Scene Sunday
Every Sunday I sit down and look through the books I’ve read during the week and pick the sexiest book of the bunch and post a scene. But this week I’ve read nothing super sexy! Total fail. So I turn it over to you. Can you give us any good Smexy recs? If you’ve read something sexy/dirty leave a comment. Feel free to include a naughty quote or two if you’d like. I’ll do better next week, I swear! *wink* Continue Reading
Weekly Wrap-Up
This week at Smexy… B+ review – After the Kiss by Lauren Layne (contemporary) B+ review – The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes (erotic) B review – Red Hill by Jamie McGuire (horror) B review – Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean (pnr) B review – Unbound by Cara McKenna (erotic) B review- Sweet by Erin McCarthy (New Adult) C+ review – Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt (historical) C review –A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods (women’s fic) D+ review – The Counterfeit Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten– October 18th.
10. Blunt card is back with 50 new cards. I chose the most appropriate card I could find for Top Ten. Honest. 9. Carly Phillips has news – she is self publishing her next series! You can go to her site for more info and for the blurb. But I will copy/paste this: In the past my books have been sweet and sexy contemporaries with a small town setting, but with DARE TO LOVE I’m turning up the heat. The Dare to Love Series will be steamier, sexier and hotter than anything I’ve ever written. Continue Reading