The Wedding Fling by Meg Maguire December 18, 2012 Contemporary Romance Harlequin Reviewed by Mandi Leigh Bailey is an actress who has had a few hit movies but really could care less about the Hollywood spotlight. While she used to deeply love her boyfriend and now fiancé, things have become strained between them. She chalks it up to wedding planning jitters and hopes to reconnect with Will on their honeymoon. But when they are done on a phone conversation and he clicks over to Continue Reading
Review: Rough Tumble by Keri Ford
Rough Tumble by Keri Ford (The Roughnecks #3) Contemporary Romance November 2012 Turquoise Morning Press Reviewed by Helyce Tonya and Trent have been friends for over a year now. While Trent’s two brothers and Tonya’s two best girlfriends have hooked up, moving forward with their lives and getting married, Trent and Tonya have remained solidly in the friend zone. Tonya has a boyfriend who is away in the military, and Trent totally respects that situation. Trent is carrying around a Continue Reading
Winner!!
The winner of the Wallbanger 12 Days of Christmas gift pack is Irene!!! Congrats Irene. An email has been sent. And a special thanks to Alice Clayton for including Smexybooks in her Wallbanger tour!! Continue Reading
Weekend Book Deals
Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning $.99 – Kindle l Nook t's been months since Brian Sinclair, lead guitarist for the famous rock band, Sinners, composed anything. Unable to write the music that once flowed so naturally, Brian is lost without his musical mojo. But when sexy psychology professor Myrna Evans comes on tour to study groupie mentality, Brian may have found the spark he needs to reignite his musical genius. When lust turns to love, will Brian be able to convince Myrna that Continue Reading
An On Dublin Street Christmas by Samantha Young
Earlier this year, I read and really enjoyed On Dublin Street by self published author Samantha Young (I wrote my Top Ten reasons to read it here). It’s super sexy and an overall great romance. Goodreads l Kindle l Nook Recently Samantha Young announced On Dublin Street and a second book have been picked up by Penguin. On December 31st, the trade paperback of On Dublin Street will be released! You can Pre-Order here. To celebrate, Samantha Young has written a special short story featuring Continue Reading
Smexy’s Top Ten–December 14th
In light of the tragic, tragic events in Connecticut, I have absolutely no desire to be funny this afternoon. We'll return tomorrow. Continue Reading
Review: The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #1) December 8, 2012 Historical Romance Self Published Reviewed by May Beside her, Mr. Charingford swallowed, the sound audible at this distance. “He is, of course, His Grace, the Duke of Clermont.” Minnie almost yanked her fingers back. A duke? A bloody duke had found her behind the curtains? No. No. Impossible. Minnie is living a lie. As a child a scandal rocked her world, and she took on a new identity and went to live with her Continue Reading
Giveaway!
Edited to Add: The winner of the giveaway is - Victoria! She has been contacted. Thanks! Melanie is having a bad day. She nearly set her kitchen on fire and who comes running to her rescue? Firefighter Andre Wellings, her brother's best friend and her long time crush. Now she has to take a fire safety course with him but something's up and she plans to get to the bottom of this. When Andre gets the call Mel is danger, he's scared to death of losing the woman he's always Continue Reading
Review: Fated by Carly Phillips
Fated by Carly Phillips (Serendipity 1.75) Contemporary Romance, Novella December 4, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by Helyce In Fated, we finally get the story of Nick Mancini and Kate Andrews who have been dancing around each other since book one. I was so excited to finally get their story having read all of the books in this series so far, but I was a little disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, it’s adorable, but I just wanted more! We met both of these characters in book one, Continue Reading
Interview with Leigh Evans
We are happy to have debut author, Leigh Evans at Smexy today to talk about her upcoming December 24th release, The Trouble with Fate. Will you tell us about The Trouble With Fate? Hedi Peacock’s life is simple—avoid the Weres and make enough money to keep her amulet and her 9/10′s batty aunt knee-deep in maple syrup. And that pretty much works, until the day the Alpha of Creemore kidnaps Lou, and Hedi is forced to steal another amulet to get her back. Only one wrinkle in the plan—that Continue Reading