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* Review * HOLIDAY SPICE by Samantha Chase

October 10, 2017 1 Comment

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* Review * HOLIDAY SPICE by Samantha Chase

Holiday Spice by Samantha Chase
Series: The Shaughnessy Brothers #6
Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca on October 3, 2017
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As soon as the mistletoe goes up, that's when life gets really interesting

Darcy Shaughnessy has gotten used to her overbearing brothers chasing away any man she wants to date. But a chance meeting with a brooding – and deliciously handsome – artist is about to make this holiday season one to remember.

There's only one thing Benjamin Tanner loves more than his woodcarving: solitude. Then he gets snowed in with Darcy in his cozy cabin in the woods, and their heated feelings begin to melt the icy barrier between them.

With Ben's need for privacy and Darcy's love of family and social life, will opposites still attract once the snow clears and the holiday festivities come to an end?

A bittersweet ending to The Shaughnessy Brothers series! If you are like me, you have adored this series and this family from the very first book. They are the close-knit family we only dream of having … always there to help when needed, full of unconditional love no matter what you may say or do in anger, and loyal to a fault. We have gone through the journey of healing and the finding of love with all of the brothers, and this book brings us the final sibling’s story … little sister Darcy. She’s been spoiled and has gotten her way all of her life with all of these warm and compassionate brothers and father that she grew up with, and now it’s time for her to meet the man that teaches her that life isn’t always going to go your way! She and Ben are a bit like oil and water on one hand, and yet destined to be together on the other. I enjoyed catching up with everyone again!

Darcy Shaughnessy is still working on figuring out what she wants to do with her life when she’s asked to do a favor and go meet with an artist that could use some help on a project having to do with his work. She’s happy to help, but when she arrives and the guy doesn’t seem all too happy to have the help that was requested, she’s a bit irritated!

Benjamin Tanner prefers his solitude in his cabin in the woods in Washington. He loves his work, but he doesn’t love the jobs of promoting and interacting with the real world outside of his uninterrupted bubble. When Darcy shows up with her enthusiasm and peppy attitude, he seriously doesn’t know what to make of her. At first they clash and get off on bad terms with each other … but when things calm down and they end up getting snowed in together, they find out they like each other a little too much!

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* Review * TANGLED UP IN TINSEL by Candis Terry

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Tangled Up in Tinsel by Candis Terry
Series: Sunshine Creek Vinyard
Published by Avon on September 26, 2017
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Meet the Kincade brothers: they’ll go to any lengths to protect their legacy—

but what happens when love gets in the way...?

As if the holidays weren’t stressful enough, Parker Kincade has a restaurant to open. The fact that his Groomzilla brother wants the place for his perfect Christmas wedding doesn’t help. Then there’s the stunning woman who appoints herself his new chef before he’s ready to hire one. But one look at Gabriella Montani has Parker reassessing needs vs. wants. And that’s before he tastes what she has to offer…

Gabriella doesn’t need to get tangled up with a sexy man. What she needs is a job and a chance to prove herself. A place in Parker’s kitchen could give her the opportunity she’s been waiting for. The heat between them is sizzling, but a place in his bed could be downright dangerous. Neither Christmas nor men have ever lived up to her expectations, but Parker has soulmate written all over him. Should Gabi let herself be swept up in his holiday magic, or will it disappear before Christmas Day?

Another delightful trip back to Sunshine Valley! If you’ve read any of the previous books in the Sunshine Creek Vineyard series, you will recognize the Kincade family and know about some of the ups and downs they’ve experienced in recent times. This book brings us Parker’s story, and also brings us some long awaited answers of what really happened in their parents life together. This family is a great blend of love, strife and an unbending connection to each other and make for a really deep foundation for each story. I loved the chemistry between Gabi and Parker from the very start and loved watching their relationship develop and soar!

Parker Kincade thought he was overloaded just trying to convert a treasured barn into his dream restaurant on the family vineyard, but when his brother announces he wants to have a big Christmas wedding there, the pressure is really on! He’s the good time guy, the reformed black sheep … can he really make all of this happen in time??

When sexy chef Gabriella Montani shows up declaring she’s the chef he’s been looking for when he’s not even near ready to hire one yet, it doesn’t take him long to realize the potential she brings to the table. With a body made for sin, and a sassy flare she just might be exactly what he wasn’t looking for all his life!

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* Review * LITTLE SECRETS: SECRETLY PREGNANT by Andrea Laurence

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Secretly Pregnant by Andrea Laurence
Series: Little Secrets
Published by Harlequin Desire on October 1, 2017
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Secret Identity. Secret Baby.

They'd worn masks! So after one wild night with a fellow Mardi Gras party guest, accountant Emma Dempsey never expects to see her mysterious seducer again. Her only reminders are a tattoo…and a positive pregnancy test.

CEO Jonah Flynn feels a strange connection to his beautiful new auditor. Her tattoo—identical to his own—explains why. They vow to keep things professional, even as desire tempts them away from their good intentions. But when everyone's secrets are revealed, will Jonah have to choose between his business, his lover and his baby?

One plus one equals … three?? She’s keeping secrets … and when he exposes them, the fireworks will be electrifying! A fun connection between the characters has us pulling for a happy ending with these mismatched lovers! The plot is fast paced and delivers that happily ever after before we know it.

Accountant Emma Dempsey never expected the one night she decided to let her hair down and go wild at a masked Mardi Gra celebration to come back to haunt her … but here she is, pregnant … with not even a name to help her track down the mystery daddy! Then one day she shows up for her next temp assignment of auditing the books for a perspective deal, and there it is … the tattoo … it’s him!

Millionaire Jonah Flynn has spent his life working hard to achieve all of his dreams, and getting everything that he wants … so the fact that he can’t find his mystery woman from a few months ago is driving him crazy! He knew when he first touched her that the connection was strong … and the matching tattoos were meant to lead her back to him … and it does! Only it’s the auditor that can currently make or break an important deal for his company!

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* Review * UNTIL THE RIDE STOPS by Amie Denman

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Until the Ride Stops by Amie Denman
Series: Starlight Point Stories
Published by Harlequin Heartwarming on October 1, 2017
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She won't stop until she finds the truth

Caroline Bennett is not looking for a summer romance. As a police officer at Starlight Point amusement park, she's got more important things to worry about, like solving a cold case involving a girl's mysterious death thirty years ago. Construction engineer Matt Dunbar is one of the few people who'll talk about the incident, but even he's not eager to dig up the past. Matt's working on a new state-of-the-art roller coaster—a project that could make or break his career—yet he still finds time for Caroline. As the end of summer approaches, her investigation implicates Matt's company, and she has to choose: justice or the funny, charming man she's falling for.

Curiosity leads to more than she ever expected! When Caroline Bennett learns of a connection to a young girl’s mysterious death thirty years ago at the very amusement park she works at, she feels compelled to find answers. Her investigation leads to discoveries she never expected, and her quest for answers will have her questioning right from wrong many times over. The mystery was an interesting aspect of the plot and kept us intrigued. Her connection with Matt was fun to watch develop!

Police officer Caroline Bennett wasn’t looking for love this summer, but the chemistry she is striking up with the sexy construction boss for the new ride they are building at Starlight Point just might change that! She is enjoying getting to know Matt, but she won’t let it get in her way of finding answers on what happened that night on this very site!

Matt Dunbar is feeling the pressure of taking over his family’s construction business and needs this new roller coaster job to turn out perfectly. He’s not sure why Caroline is so obsessed over the accident from all of those years ago, but it’s always been a sore subject in his family so he’s not eager to talk about it. When her investigation starts to point fingers at his family business, he has no other option than to figure out what happened … and support Caroline’s desire for justice!

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* Release Blitz * GAME ON by Victoria Denault

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GAME ON by Victoria Denault
(October 10, 2017; Forever Yours eBook; $3.99; Hometown Players Series Book 6)

“I don’t break hearts. I break headboards…”

When it comes to scoring in the pro hockey league, Alex Larue is crushing it—with the hot puck bunnies. He’s the life of the party, the guy with all the jokes… and the one whose Party Guy mast keeps the real him well hidden. The last thing he needs is anyone finding out about his troubled past, or the nightmares that haunt him still.

Brie Bennett is less than impressed by Alex from the moment she meets him. And even though he insists on volunteering at the charity she runs, she doesn’t trust him. He’s hiding something…but so is she. She’s not just the rich privileged New York princess he thinks she is. The animosity between them is undeniably addictive and as their worlds keep colliding it becomes supercharges with something else—attraction. But if they stop playing games and let each other in, they both might lose.

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Excerpt

I look around at Alex’s sparse apartment. There’s a sectional, an ottoman, but no chairs, bookcases or pictures. The nook for his bedroom only contains one three-drawer dresser. His bedside lamp is on the floor beside the bed because it doesn’t have night tables. “You don’t seem to like things.”

He shrugs, and those deep blue eyes find mine. “I don’t have a lot of things from my past worth holding on to.”

Oh, this man… I reach up and gently cup the side of his face. He grasps my hand and I think he’s going to pull it away, but he doesn’t. He holds it to his face and pushes into it. He’s like a puppy looking for love, and I want desperately to give it to him. But he won’t let me.

“And you seem to want to throw away things now that are worth holding on to.” I force myself to step back and start walking toward the front door because if I don’t leave now I’ll let things happen that are going to mean more to me than they should. Than he wants them to. But his words stop me in my tracks.

“I don’t know how to be a boyfriend, Brie.” The look of pure confusion on his face would be comical if we were still talking about his inability to run a dishwasher. But we’re talking about feelings here. “The only thing I’ve ever committed to was hockey and even it tried to reject me. Hell, in a way every time I get traded, I feel like it still is. But it’s a thing, not a person. Hockey doesn’t have a choice, but you do.”

I start to walk back into the kitchen as he turns away from me to look out the window. “People who have had the choice to keep me in their lives never have.”

Thank God he’s turned away because I actually press my palm to my heart to keep it from cracking. Holy shit. I have no idea how anyone would walk away from him – the man and his big, broken heart –because what I want to do is run to him. “Give me that choice and I’ll change your track record.”

He grunts and turns back to face me. “You’re this amazing, stubborn, gorgeous woman who wants more than the one thing I know I can give. And as much as I suddenly, for the first time in my life, want to try and give more, I’m so fucking clueless as to how.”

I walk right up to him so we’re toe to toe. “You want to know how? You just do it. You let me in. You take the chance, like you do every time you step onto the ice. You don’t know if you’ll win or lose, but you play the game anyway and you take the shots on net even if you don’t know if you’re going to score. So tell me you want this. Take the shot.”

He nuzzles my hand and but then turns his face and kisses my palm. When he turns back to me he looks so serious it’s startling. “I want this.”

I smile. It’s not big, but I feel it inside me from my toes to the roots of my hair. “Game on?”

He smiles back, raw but darkly playful. “Game on.”

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Victoria Denault loves long walks on the beach, cinnamon dolce lattes and writing angst-filed romance. She lives in LA but grew up in Montreal, which is why she is fluent in English, French, and hockey.

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* Release Blitz * MISADVENTURES WITH A SUPER HERO by Angel Payne

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Misadventures with a Super Hero
by
Angel Payne

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Working the night shift at a five-star hotel in downtown Los Angeles, I get my fair share of weirdos. But none of them prepared me for the night I met Bolt. He saved my life.Now, he

’s my super hero, the hunk I’m yearning to thank in more creative ways than a damn kiss on the cheek. Too bad he’s actually Reece Richards, my full-on nerd of a real-life boss.He

’s got some commitment issues thanks to his evil ex and global empire and from having to save the city from a maniac out to destroy everything he loves.But there

’s something that just may interfere with all those plans. My heart.

Meet the Author

USA Today bestselling romance author Angel Payne has been reading and writing her entire life, though her love for romances turned serious at Chapman University in Southern California, where she took departmental honors for English. She began getting a paycheck for her writing when composing record reviews for a Beverly Hills-based dance music magazine, and working in promotions at LA-based KROQ-FM. She was also a music industry PA, fashion ramp model, night club DJ, special events coordinator, tour guide, and hotel group sales manager before returning to the thing she loves the most: creating character-based romantic fiction.

Angel has written for four publishing houses, and is also independently published. She most enjoys focusing on high heat and high concepts starring memorable alpha men and the women who love them. She has numerous book series to her credit, including the Suited for Sin series, the Cimarron Saga, the Temptation Court series, the Secrets of Stone series (with Victoria Blue), the Lords of Sin historicals, and the popular WILD Boys of Special Forces series. She’s excited to be one of the inaugural authors for Waterhouse Press’s prestigious MISADVENTURES series.

Angel still lives in Southern California, where she is married to her soul mate and lives on a street that looks like Brigadoon, with their awesome daughter and Lady Claire, the dog with impeccable manners. When not writing, she is a proud cos play mom, and also enjoys reading, pop culture, alt rock, cute shoes, and being active in the outdoors.

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* Release Blast * DANCE WITH THE DEVIL by Katherine Garbera

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Katherine Garbera

Dance with the Devil
A Gods of War Novel
Release Date: Oct. 10, 2017

Blurb:

Kaylee Thomas escaped from Madrid, taking secrets with her that could get her killed. As an cyber operative for Grimaldi Global, Kaylee’s single-minded focus is on tracking down criminals who use the internet to hide their identity. A survivor of cyber bullying, she uses her skills to ensure that no one can hide on the internet.

Mick O’Halloran is a covert ops agent for Grimaldi Global and leader of the Ares team. Saving lives and protecting others is a way of life for him. But babysitting a computer geek sounds like a job better left for the boys back in the office until he meets Kaylee. Sparks fly between them as he takes her into protective custody until the facts she’s uncovered can be verified.

But some secrets can’t stay hidden and when an assassin comes calling Mick and Kaylee go on the hunt for the mole inside their group. It’ll take every bit of her computer savvy and his lethal skills to keep them alive. Releasing the information that Kaylee has uncovered threatens to burn the world down around them.

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About the Author:

USA Today bestselling author Katherine Garbera is a two-time Maggie winner who has written more than 90 books since making her first sale to Harlequin (Silhouette) Desire. Katherine is known for her sexy heroes, feisty heroines and sensual stories. A Florida native who grew up to travel the globe, Katherine now makes her home in the Midlands of the UK with her husband, two children and a very spoiled miniature dachshund.

Fast Facts:

Over 90 published novels

Over 3 Million books in print in over 20 languages

USA Today Best-Seller

Two-time Maggie Award Winner

Three-time Romantic Times nominee

Featured in COSMO magazine (Red-hot read)

Featured in REDBOOK magazine (Women Under 30 who do it all)

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Five Facts about Katherine:

Katherine is a USA Today bestselling author with more with other 3 million books in print in over 25 countries.
Katherine has been featured in national magazines such as COSMO (red-hot read 2010) and REDBOOK (Women Under 30 Who Do It All, 1998).
Katherine’s books have garnered numerous awards and nominations including two prestigious Maggie Awards.
Katherine worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL as a VIP tour guide and production page on The New Mickey Mouse Club keeping Britney, Christina, Justin and Ryan from being pestered by teenagers.
Katherine is a native Floridian who currently lives in the UK.

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