Saturday, December 18, 2021

Blog Tour: Where's Gary by JC Valentine


WHERE’S GARY?

by J.C. Valentine A Haunted Real Estate Novel Publication Date: October 29, 2021 Genres: Adult, Mystery Romance, Small Town, Ghost Story

 

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SYNOPSIS

When a distant relative dies, Claire Montgomery inherits an ages old house with a storied past. Intending to flip it for profit, she travels to a quaint burrow in the middle of nowhere and becomes the talk of the town. Or maybe it has more to do with the house that everyone claims is haunted by a history that’s even more mysterious than Claire could ever imagine. Can she finish the renovations and get out of Dodge before the quest for a profit kills her?

About the Author

J.C. Valentine is the USA Today and International bestselling author of the Night Calls and Wayward Fighters Series and the Forbidden Trilogy. Her vivid imagination and love of words and romance had her penning her own romance stories from an early age, which, despite being poorly edited and written longhand, she forced friends and family members to read. No, she isn’t sorry.

Living in the Northwest, she has three amazing children and far too many pets. Among the many hats she wears, J.C. is an entrepreneur. Having graduated with honors, she holds a Bachelor’s in English and when she isn’t writing, you can find her editing for fellow authors.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

New Release & Review: The End of Us by Kennedy Fox

The End of Us

Love in Isolation, #3

      

The End of Us is now available on all retailers!

What happens when a stalker threatens your life and you’re flown to a private beach house with your sexy new bodyguard? You break the rules and hope he falls madly in love with you.

The End of Us is an age gap, forced proximity standalone romance.

         
 
 
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My Review: 
The End of Us (Love in Isolation, #3)The End of Us by Kennedy Fox
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Piper has worked hard to build her online brand as an influencer, something her family wishes she wouldn’t do since they are wealthy. I love that Piper doesn’t take her family’s money for granted and wants to build a career for herself. What she doesn’t expect is to have a stalker fan that puts her life at risk. Tristan is the strong, silent type in his role as Piper’s bodyguard. He knows he can’t mix business with pleasure because if he loses focus, it could cost Piper her life. When her stalker, Jack, gets too close at her sister’s wedding, Tristan takes extreme measures by taking her to his family’s beach house to hide out. Suddenly being together around the clock allows this duo to get honest and open up to each other. There are so many fun moments as they learn to navigate sharing a house while the threat of Jack looms in the background. Getting to peel back each other’s layers and walls gave me a wonderfully sexy romance for this amazing couple. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

 

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Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

New Release & Review: My Summer in Seoul by Rachel Van Dyken


 My Summer In Seoul by Rachel Van Dyken is now live!
 

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a standalone new adult romance set in the competitive world of K-pop.
It's not all K-dramas and happily ever afters.
Intern with Korea's number one record label? Yes, please.
Find out there's a huge scandal I need to help "manage"... not so much.
Add in the fact that I don't recognize the "superstars" of the label and think they're interns...
And my dream job quickly becomes more of a nightmare.
But I'm in Seoul, the one place that is beginning to feel more and more like home...
Except it isn't home, and the drama surrounding the biggest K-pop group in the world, SWT, is consuming my every moment.
Spoiler alert. They hate me.
Everything I do is wrong: wrong clothes, wrong honorifics, wrong manners.
Till the leader of SWT takes pity on me.
But pity is dangerous when it comes from someone as beautiful as him.
Every SWT member is gorgeous, perfect, and cultivated to be an idol... lethal to a girl's heart.
And sanity.
But fame plus a perfect face and voice don't equal an easy life. As their comeback nears, the stakes rise higher.
Suicide watch...
Angry fans...
Threats...
All I want to do is survive.
But the price for survival might mean losing my heart.
And like a character in a K-drama, I'm not sure if there will be an actual happily ever after...
Or simply a lesson learned.

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My Review:
My Summer in SeoulMy Summer in Seoul by Rachel Van Dyken
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I’ve been captivated by the K-pop world through this amazing story. Grace is graduating and her dream is work in the music industry but she is struggling to get her foot in the door anywhere. When her Uncle Sui calls and offers her an internship with his company in Seoul, she jumps at the chance. What she gets is a crazy, intense ride. From the moment she lands in Seoul, it’s a land of culture shock and full-on work. Everyone expected her to know the traditions and rules but her father didn’t teach her the Korean ways. As she works to keep one of the hottest K-pop bands on schedule and away from scandal as they prepare for their comeback, she has to learn the hard way how to navigate the rules. For Lucas, he knows how to hide what he’s really feeling as he pursues his passion for music. But even he struggles as he deals with a scandal and family pressure while living the K-pop dream. Meeting Grace rattles his resolve. He wants to hate her but there is something about this uncouth, unfiltered and bold American. I love how this story fully immersed me in the K-pop universe and allowed me to feel like I was part of the story as I rode every emotion these characters lived. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.


Meet Rachel


Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times Bestselling, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 90 books ranging from contemporary romance to paranormal. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs. For more information about her books and upcoming events, visit www.RachelVanDykenauthor.com


Wednesday, December 8, 2021

New Release & Review: Grand Escape by Rachel Blaufeld

 

Grand Escape by Rachel Blaufeld is now live!

With sultry beach vibes, Caribbean tunes playing in the background, and the smell of coconut and money all around, welcome to the Grand Escape.

Blond and beautiful Rylan needed to escape her life, so she ran off to a job in paradise. Surrounded by fresh salt air and the ocean waves lapping in the background, she now mixes drinks better than any other bartender at the Grand Escape.

It's the perfect situation for a commitment-phobic woman, who wants to be nothing like the family she was born into. Each week, guests check in, spend time at her bar, and then go home.

Until the day some heartsick jerk who checked in under just his initial and last name sits down at her bar.

With sad eyes and a gritty voice, A. Stern is more than Rylan bargained for, so it's a good thing she no longer gets tangled up with men. But this lawyer by day, alpha by night, keeps pushing his way through the barricade she's built around her heart.

Thinking she knows why he's heartbroken, she's determined not to be his next victim, but he continues to shatter all her misconceptions.

With only a week until his vacation ends, can she avoid falling for the guy at the end of her bar? And can he manage to capture the heart of the only woman who has made him want to try again?


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My Review:
Grand EscapeGrand Escape by Rachel Blaufeld
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Rylan has built a solid life for herself as a bartender in the Cayman Islands. She needed to break away from her parents preset path and obligations. What she doesn’t expect is for Adam to show up at her bar one day which has her bending her rules. Adam is all about his work and the guilt he carries about his sister’s death. Forced to take a vacation by his family, he ends up sitting down at Rylan’s bar. He encounters a super-sassy, funny and smart woman that wakes up feelings he had lost. But Rylan has her own rules and expectations and doesn’t believe there can be anything more than a temporary fling. Will Adam be able to convince her that love is possible? That she is worth fighting for? I loved the slow burn to their relationship. They both had to deal with the scars of their pasts before they could find a path to a future together. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

Meet Rachel Blaufeld


A recent poll of her readers described Rachel as insightful, generous, articulate, and spunky. Originally a social worker, Rachel creates broken yet redeeming characters. She's been known to turn up the angst like cranking up the heat in the dead of winter.

A devout coffee drinker and doughnut eater, Rachel spends way too many hours in local coffee shops, downing the aforementioned goodies while she plots her ideas. Her tales may all come with a side of angst and naughtiness, but end as lusciously as her treats.

Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her family and two beagles. Her obsessions include running, coffee, basketball, icing-filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.

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Monday, November 22, 2021

New Release & Review: A Very Grumpy Christmas by Jerica MacMillan


A Very Grumpy Christmas by
Jerica MacMillan is now live!

My neighbor is a Grinch. 

Since I run the Christmas Emporium and sometimes moonlight as an elf, that's kind of a problem for me. 

No surprise, though. When I brought over cookies to welcome him to the neighborhood this summer, he slammed the door in my face.

Until he brings his kid to visit Santa one of the days I'm working as an elf, and I realize there are key parts of their story I'm missing ...
• The little girl is his much younger sister, not his daughter.
• He's her guardian since their parents died in a tragic accident.

Now all of his handsome, broody glares make so much more sense. As one of Santa's elves, I make it my mission to make this Christmas as special for them as possible. Which somehow includes trespassing on his property to hang Christmas lights and braiding the little girl's hair regularly. 

Despite his glares and grumpiness, I discover the soft underbelly of the beast. Will this Grinch's heart grow three sizes as well? And if it does, will it have room for me?

A Very Grumpy Christmas is a standalone, small town, neighbors to lovers romance featuring a grumpy single dad and the sunshiny neighbor who's determined to make his Christmas better. Full of heat and heart with an HEA guaranteed!


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My Review:
A Very Grumpy ChristmasA Very Grumpy Christmas by Jerica MacMillan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Shane finds himself the guardian of his youngest sister Olivia and lives with the fear that everyone thinks he’s doing it wrong. I applaud his dedication to his sister but he is so determined to do it all on his own, that he blocks everyone else out of his life. Sarah is determined to bring joy to Olivia’s Christmas even though her new neighbor is grumpy. I don’t think Shane knew what was coming when Sarah took an interest in their lives. But he didn’t make it easy. For Olivia, having Sarah around seemed to be a calming influence since she could do some of the things her mom did that Shane struggles with. I loved how Shane kept trying to braid her hair but it was Sarah that helped him start simple and work his way up to more difficult braids. Such wonderful moments for all three of them. I had fun with this couple. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

Meet Jerica MacMillan

Jerica MacMillan has been reading romance since she stumbled into the paperback section of the library as a middle schooler. And it's been an ongoing love affair ever since!
You can frequently find her sipping coffee out of snarky mugs while dreaming up stories and trying to bring them to life on the page. Join her Book Club at www.jericamacmillan.com/book-club and get a free book!

Friday, November 19, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: Head Over Hooves by Erin Nicholas

You know in movies where the big city girl lands in a small town for the holidays and falls for the hunky guy who saves Christmas?

This isn’t that story.

But this guy does look fantastic in flannel. And out of flannel…

Finding true love with his one-and-only soul mate? Drew Ryan’s given up on that.

But a hot holiday fling in Louisiana, far from his responsibilities and good guy image back home, is now on the top of his list for Santa.

So when he’s knocked on his ass—literally—by a Christmas elf who’s stealing a sleigh full of gifts and using his reindeer to commit the crime, he definitely doesn’t expect to fall head over heels.

This holiday couldn’t get any worse for Rory Robins.

First, her hair wasn’t supposed to turn green. It’s not even Christmas green.

And the elf costume wasn’t supposed to be two sizes too small.

And her con-man father wasn’t supposed to show up and go all real-life-Grinch on her beloved new hometown.

And she definitely wasn’t supposed to run into anyone while trying to fix the problem. Especially not the hunky guy who already seems too good to be true.

But he does have a way of making her "cocoa" even hotter and a whole lot sweeter...

Still, he lives in Iowa. The only good thing her father ever gave her was a healthy distrust of men who are never around. She’s not doing a long-distance thing.

This little fling is only going to last as long as the temporary color of her hair.

Only nothing seems to be fading. And she might be asking Santa for just one more thing…

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My Review:
Head Over Hooves (Boys of the Bayou #5)Head Over Hooves by Erin Nicholas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Such a fun holiday romance that allowed me to enjoy the wonderful family and friends in Autre! I’m starting to think the goats are the best matchmakers as another couples first meeting involves the goats as Rory tries to round them up in her elf costume just as Drew arrives with the reindeer for the petting zoo. Rory is searching for acceptance and is working hard to be part of the Autre community and Landry family. She takes on the task of creating a new holiday event at the petting zoo but finds herself behind. Drew is known as the nice guy and though his visit to Autre is to deliver reindeer and have some fun, well, he can’t resist helping Rory. I love how this couple connected and Rory allowed herself to be vulnerable to Drew and really open up about her fears and goals. I was pulled in and had a fabulous time getting to know them as they found friendship, love and family. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

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About Erin Nicholas
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy, contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,” “steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and happily ever afters.
Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her husband (who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books), her kids (who will never read the sex scenes in her books), and her family and friends (who claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

New Release & Review: Wanting You Close by Kennedy Fox

   

Wanting You Close

Archer & Everleigh duet, #2

Wanting You Close is now available on all retailers!

I never imagined my new roommate would be the man I’d actually fall for. Though I don’t get close to the people I sleep with, he’s been my exception. Archer acts emotionally unavailable while he focuses on starting over, but our connection is too strong to ignore. He’s rugged on the outside and sweet on the inside—the opposite of my usual type. I see the way his eyes gaze up and down my body, making it harder to keep my feelings in check. Knocking down his walls is no easy task, especially with my brother interfering, but I refuse to give up. When lines are crossed and emotions bubble over, trouble finds us. We both have pasts that have leaked into our present—now I’m scared it’ll destroy the one secret we’ve been keeping    
 
 
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My Review:
Wanting You Close (Archer & Everleigh, #2; Ex-Con Duet Series, #6)Wanting You Close by Kennedy Fox
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow, Archer and Everleigh don’t have an easy road as they each have a crazy woman that wants revenge on them. But they are a fabulous team as they face each challenge head on. Of course, the biggest challenge will be how Tyler handles the fact that his friend and sister have fallen in love. It was wonderful to watch Archer find the love of his life along with a family and community where that he can call home. Everleigh always kept me guessing with her spontaneous and fearless approach to life. Truly a fabulous conclusion to this couples journey. I voluntarily read an ARC of this book and this is my honest review.

Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!

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New Release: The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas

The Enigma by Jodi Ellen Malpas is now live!

A fatal blend of revenge and desire.

After leaving her fiancé at the altar and quitting her job as a Miami cop, Beau Hayley stumbles through life, feeling only resentment. Injustice. Loss. Her mom's death was called an accident. She's not convinced. Grieving, she becomes numb to everything except the constant, biting pain of heartbreak and hate. She can see no light. Until she meets James Kelly, a man who seems as damaged as she is, inside and out. And yet despite his twisted, cold façade, he stimulates feelings. Pleasure. He is a respite from her own flaws. A complete mystery.

And impossible to resist.

James Kelly has only one objective. Find the men who murdered his family and kill them all very slowly. But the web of crime and deceit leads him to Beau Hayley, the daughter of the notorious FBI agent who pursued him relentlessly until her death. Beau is not what James expected, and past the darkness that shrouds her, he finds a glimmer of light. Light is addictive. An escape. Beau might be the key to James's mercy mission, but with dire consequences. So he has to decide--leave her breathing and risk exposing himself, or kill her and continue his mission, still unknown.

Still The Enigma

Two tortured souls playing one deadly game. But who will survive? 

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Meet Jodi

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Jodi Ellen Malpas was born and raised in the Midlands town of Northampton, England, where she lives with her real-life man, her boys, and a beagle. She is a self-professed daydreamer and has a terrible weak spot for alpha males.

After writing in secret for too long, Jodi exploded onto the scene in 2012 with her debut novel This Man, starring the prolific Jesse Ward. Writing powerful love stories with fierce, memorable characters is her passion - a passion that has taken her on an amazing journey into the limelight of romantic fiction. Her work is now published in more than twenty-five languages across the world.

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