The Naughty Corner by Jasmine Haynes Erotic Romance/Contemporary Paperback, 320 pages October 1, 2013 Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Lola Cook never expected to spend her summer watching her nephews while their mother vacations in Europe. Busy with her career, Lola decides to sign them up for football camp in order to get a few hours of peace and quiet every day. Gray Barnett, CEO and divorced father, teaches summer football camp as a way to give back to the community and rebuild Continue Reading
Review: After the Kiss by Lauren Layne
After the Kiss by Lauren Layne (Sex, Love & Stiletto #1) Released: August 26, 2013 Contemporary Romance LoveSwept Reviewed by May Here was a short-term kind of girl begging for a long-term relationship from a long-term kind of guy who wanted a fling. It was movie-worthy. It was laughable. Julie Greene doesn’t do relationships. She is all about the first date. The parties. The glamour. The high off of a first kiss or being so enticing to a man he just must have that second date. What Continue Reading
Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy
Sweet (True Believers #2) by Erin McCarthy NA Romantic Contemporary October 15, 2013 Intermix Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.” Jessica Sweet doesn’t want to go home to her uber religious parents for the summer but her sublet won’t be available for her to move into for a week. When she is unable to stay with a friend, her nemesis, the sexy cocky Riley Mann, offers her a place to stay with him. Riley has enough going on with Continue Reading
Review: The Counterfeit Mistress by Madeline Hunter
The Counterfeit Mistress by Madeline Hunter (Fairbourne Quartet #3) Released: September 24, 2013 Historical Romance Jove Reviewed by May Gavin Norwood aka Viscount Kendale suspects the woman he keeps following may be a spy, and he was once nearly killed because of a traitorous French woman. In fact he's on a vigilante style mission Marielle knows he’s watching her and thinks her a spy, but she is just a daughter trying to get justice for her father who is trapped back in France. Her Continue Reading
Brazen Halloween Blog Tour: Tessa Bailey shares an Original Scene
The Lovers Unmasked Anthology just released (read my review here) and Tessa Bailey’s contribution continues Derek and Ginger’s story. There full-length book, Protecting What’s His is really sexy and fun. I like these two, especially Derek’s dirty talking ways. Tessa Bailey is visiting Smexy today to give us an original scene featuring Derek and Ginger. Yay! Ginger wrinkled her nose at the stack of take-out menus fanned out on her desk. At three-months pregnant, she’d gotten used to being Continue Reading
Review: Unbound by Cara McKenna
Unbound by Cara McKenna Released: October 16, 2013 Contemporary Romance Penguin Reviewed by Mandi I’ve said this countless times on this blog but I love Cara McKenna’s voice. She always gives me something different in her stories, and many times they are filled with characters who are not super rich or have wealthy backgrounds or families. They are just people, usually one of them struggling with something quite dark, and we get to see them fall in love and realize what they are Continue Reading
Review: A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods
A Seaside Christmas by Sherryl Woods (Chesapeake Shores #10) Women's Fiction Septempber 24, 2013 Harlequin Reviewed by May As the only child of a single mom, Jenny Collins wanted nothing more than to be part of a large, rambunctious family like the O'Briens. Ironically, though, when her mother married into that family, Jenny found herself feeling more like an outsider than ever. Now, after years in Nashville as an established songwriter, Jenny's drawn back to Chesapeake Shores to Continue Reading
Mandi’s New Favorite Book–The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith
It was her last chance: Amber Bierce had nothing left except her sister and two tickets on Earth’s first colony-ship. She entered her Sleeper with a five-year contract and the promise of a better life, but awakened in wreckage on an unknown world. For the survivors, there is no rescue, no way home and no hope until they are found by Meoraq—a holy warrior more deadly than any hungering beast on this hostile new world…but whose eyes show a different sort of hunger when he looks at her. It was Continue Reading
Review: Secret Unleashed by Sierra Dean
Secret Unleashed (Secret McQueen, #6) by Sierra Dean Urban Fantasy E book, 343 pages October 15, 2013 Samhain Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “If I wanted questions going unanswered, I could just watch Lost.” Never has a book been so aptly titled than Secret Unleashed. Number six in Sierra Dean’s dark and wickedly sexy urban fantasy Secret McQueen series. In this installment, Secret learns some secrets that will leave her and readers reeling from the implications. Recap from book Continue Reading
Review: Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt
Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt (Maiden Lane #6) Releases: October 15, 2013 Historical Grand Central Reviewed by Mandi The Duke of Wakefield or Max is a dark and broody guy. Years ago he witnessed the murders of his parents on the streets of St. Giles and he blames himself. He has guilt and shame and now as an adult, he has taken to the streets at night as one of the Ghosts of St. Giles. A vigilante who rids St. Giles of the bad guys. He wears a mask and a cape and is a Continue Reading