Archives for July 2019

* Review * SECURITY RISK by Janie Crouch

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* Review * SECURITY RISK by Janie CrouchSecurity Risk by Janie Crouch
Series: The Risk Series: A Bree and Tanner Thriller #2
Published by Harlequin Intrigue on August 1, 2019
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four-stars

Risking it all—again.

Now his past is threatening both of them.

Deputy Tanner Dempsey paid a high price for an undercover op gone wrong. Nobody understands a dangerous past better than Bree Daniels. Together they have to take on those real-life demons in order to stay alive. Keeping one step ahead of ruthless killers is their only option and risk is their constant companion.

 

Fast paced and action packed! With the next story in the Bree and Tanner Thriller series, the story line picks up just a few weeks after Book One ended, and life has settled down a bit. At least they think it has until trouble comes knocking from Tanner’s past this time! Lots of intrigue, excitement and surprises around every corner. Looking forward to the next two segments of their story!

Tanner Dempsey thinks it’s finally time for a breather and to settle in to paving his future with the new love of his life when the past comes back to haunt him. Still suffering from the remnants of an undercover op gone wrong three years ago, Tanner is stumped as to who would be trying to frame him now.

Bree Daniels has never shied away from standing up for what she believed in, and right now that is Tanner. She won’t sit by meekly and allow him to be railroaded just because someone decides they want to underhandedly have a beef with him. One way or another, she’ll be standing by her man!

four-stars

* Review * RIDE DEEP by Laura Kaye

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* Review * RIDE DEEP by Laura KayeRide Deep by Laura Kaye
Series: Raven Riders #6
Published by Wicked Words Publishing, LLC on July 16, 2019
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three-stars

Bad Boy Alpha Alert!

Twenty of your favorite MC authors come together to bring you brand new, never released stories from some of your favorite motorcycle clubs.

Love-
Life with a biker is an adventure full of twists and turns. When love is involved, MC men never back down from what they want--they fight for it.

Loyalty-
Loyalty is the foundation in any motorcycle club. Break it, they break you. There isn't a line they won't cross to protect who or what they claim as their own.

Mayhem-
These men live a life made by their own set of rules. Chaos tends to always find them. You cross them, the consequences are swift.

Hold on for the ride as this talented group of authors come together to bring you an anthology like no other.

Your favorite clubs, new clubs, and everything in between can be found in this collection filled with suspense, action, adventure, romance and so much more!

Participating Authors Include:
Amo Jones
Autumn Jones Lake
Avelyn Paige
Bink Cummings
Chelsea Camaron
Glenna Maynard
Kristen Hope Mazzola
L. Wilder
Laramie Briscoe
Laura Kaye
M. Robinson
MariaLisa deMora
Mary Martel
Nicole Jacquelyn
Nicole James
Nina Levine
Ryan Michele
Sapphire Knight
Terri Anne Browning
Winter Travers

**All profits from the Love, Loyalty & Mayhem: A Motorcycle Club Romance Anthology will be donated to Bikers Against Bullies USA.

BAB USA is a national not-for-profit organization created by bikers to raise awareness and empower the community to fight the terrible effects of bullying on young people through education, community outreach and fundraising.**

 

** Only Reviewing RIDE DEEP by Laura Kaye **
Part of Love, Loyalty and Mayhem: A Motorcyle Club Romance Anthology

As an avid fan of Laura Kaye’s Raven Riders Motorcycle Club series, I was super pumped to hear that a new novella was coming … and I loved reading it! … right up until it abruptly ended that is. We get the story of how they met, a little about them, a good set up for some suspense and one sex scene … and it ends. We are left wondering what becomes of the two of them and most importantly, who just tried to kill her! I truly would have five-starred it because it was going GREAT … until we were left with an incomplete story. There’s a note at the end that it will be added to and re-released as an individual story later in the fall … but c’mon, a cliffhanger with NO warning? This was nothing like the previous two novellas in this series. Disappointing!!

three-stars

* Review * MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR by Lynne Marshall

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* Review * MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR by Lynne MarshallMore Than He Bargained For by Lynne Marshall
Series: Santa Barbara Sunsets #2
on July 17, 2019
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five-stars

The contract was straight forward, no obligations. But there was something he hadn't planned on...

Jon Becker, divorced father of teenage daughters, is dedicated to his job and looking forward to a sabbatical.

René Munro longs for a baby. Thirty-five and single, her options are limited. Except…her colleague and trusted friend, Jon, seems ideal genetic material! Dare she ask him to help make her baby dream come true?

On paper Jon agrees to René’s proposition and is prepared to offer moral support through the experience. But his straight-forward plans to keep the agreement strictly clinical get derailed when he finds the radiantly pregnant doctor irresistible. Is he ready to be a father again? A husband?

 

Quick to grab my attention, Lynne Marshall’s latest is superb! A sweet story of going after your dreams, but being open to change along the way. With her descriptive, authentic voice carrying you through, you will feel like you are in the scene with the characters around each turn. Great depth to the story line made for a fast-paced enjoyable read. The ending was slightly abrupt, but I have faith we will hear a little more from this couple in the next book in the Santa Barbara Sunsets series. Looking forward to it!

Divorced cardiologist Jon Becker is counting down the days until his teenage daughters are both on their way into the big world of higher education. He’s dreaming of his plans for a year-long sabbatical to travel the world and explore different medical cultures. He’s not looking to be tied down to anything ever again.

Obstetrician Rene Munro is ready to move forward with her future, regardless of if she has found the man of her dreams yet. Her true destiny is to be a mother and she’s ready to make that move on her own. She knows her friend and colleague Jon has big plans for his future, but she’s hoping she might be able to convince him to help make all of her dreams come true before he walks off into the sunset!

five-stars

* Release Blast/Review * HELL ON WHEELS by Penny Dee

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* Release Blast/Review * HELL ON WHEELS by Penny DeeHell on Wheels by Penny Dee
Series: Kings of Mayhem #4
on July 16, 2019
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five-stars

I left here a man but came back a beast

CHANCE

A shoulder-fired missile broke my body.

But betrayal obliterated my heart.

For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed.

Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out.

Then she comes to town like a summer breeze and makes me feel things I didn’t know existed.

She has the voice of an angel and the body of a goddess.

But she is running from her own demons. From the Devil himself.

He's coming to town.

But I've walked through hell and survived, and I'll walk through it again to protect her.

CASSIDY

I’ve spent years running from my past.

Town to town.

State to state.

Never putting down roots.

I wish I could but I can’t. Because I am running from the Devil and if he finds me, he will drag me down to hell again.

Then I meet a beautiful, scarred beast of man who makes me feel something for the first time in my life.

Hope.

He makes me want to stay but it’s impossible.

Because the Devil is coming and when he arrives I won't stand a chance.

Hell on Wheels is book four in the Kings of Mayhem MC series

Note: For mature audiences, ages18 and older. This book deals with sensitive topics that may be triggers for some readers.

 

Full of intrigue, emotion and blinding passion! With the next book in the Kings of Mayhem MC series, we get Chance’s story and man was it a great one! I was quickly drawn in to the drama of the story line and quick to turn page after page to see what was going to happen. The characters were emotionally gripping, both with complex backgrounds that added depth to the story. I have loved this entire series and hope this isn’t the last we will see of the Kings of Mayhem!

Chance Calley is back home in Destiny, but he’s a shell of the man he used to be. Badly injured physically, but even more scarred emotionally, he’s just going through the paces of getting out of bed day after day … until he meets a reason to come alive again.

Cassidy is running away from the devil himself. She’s lived a hard life from the start, but her life on the run is taking a toll and leaves her wishing she could shelter in the arms of the sexy biker who took an interest in her the moment he heard her sing. It doesn’t take long after meeting him for her to realize her cover has been blown and her past is on her tail with a vengeance. She’s ready to run, but Chance sets out to teach her that the Kings protect what’s theirs … and he’s ready to stake his claim!

 

 

 

 

Title: Hell on Wheels
Series: Kings of Mayhem MC #4
Author: Penny Dee
Genre: MC Romance/Ex-Navy SEAL
Release Date: July 16, 2019

 

BLURB

I left here a man but came back a beast 

CHANCE

A shoulder-fired missile broke my body.
But betrayal obliterated my heart.
For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed.
Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. They think I am ok. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out.
Then she comes into town like a summer breeze and makes me feel things I didn’t know existed.
She has the voice of an angel and the body of a goddess.
But she is running from her own demons. From the Devil himself.
He’s coming to town and she’s scared. But I’ve walked through hell and survived.
And I’ll walk through it again to protect her.

CASSIDY 

I’ve spent years running from my past.
Town to town.
State to state.
Never putting down roots.
Then I meet a beautiful, scarred beast of man who makes me feel something for the first time of my life…hope.
He makes me want to stay but it’s an impossibility.
Because the Devil is coming for me and when he arrives I won’t stand a chance.

Hell on Wheels is book four in the Kings of Mayhem MC series.

Hell on
Wheels is book four in the Kings of Mayhem MC series.

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Author Bio

Penny Dee writes contemporary romance about rockstars, bikers, hockey players and everyone in-between. She believes true love never runs smoothly, and her characters realize this too, with a boatload of drama and a whole lot of steam.

She found her happily ever after in Australia where she lives with her husband, daughter and a dog named Bindi.

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five-stars

* Release Blast/Review * FALLING WITH YOU by Carrie Ann Ryan

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* Release Blast/Review * FALLING WITH YOU by Carrie Ann RyanFalling With You by Carrie Ann Ryan
Series: Fractured Connections #3
Published by Carrie Ann Ryan on July 16, 2019
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four-half-stars

The day I lost my best friend was the day I realized that I'd been living in the past. I've tried to find a way to heal, to mend that break. Somehow, I came through it partially whole. But I know I couldn't have done that without Aiden Connolly.

The problem is, he once loved my best friend. And now she's gone, and I refuse to be in that shadow, or worse, a replacement for someone we both loved.

~~

I left them all behind.

My brother.

My family.

My best friend.

And her.

Only Sienna Knight doesn't realize what she means to me. But before I can make sure she knows, I need to figure out exactly what that is.

 

Emotional and full of turmoil! With the third book in Carrie Ann Ryan’s Fractured Connections series, we get Sienna and Aiden’s story. They are both riddled with questions and guilt surrounding Allison’s death, and fighting their attraction to each other with every breath in their body. This story line has a powerful edge, yet the camaraderie of this close group of friends brings a light-hearted aspect to the dialogue as well. The back story is fairly well developed and while the hint of intrigue falls a bit flat, the human emotion is spot on and carries the story well. Really enjoying this entire series!

Sienna Knight is attempting to heal her broken heart over the loss of her best friend, but the emotional turmoil of it all has taken it’s toll. Being around Aiden is bittersweet. She needs him close to make herself feel like she’s coming full-circle in her emotional well-being, but she’s torn because he’s supposed to be forbidden.

Aiden Connolly is finally putting in an effort to heal the rift that has been festering in his family for years, and it’s bittersweet. He’s enjoying time with his brother’s more than he can say, but it’s putting into perspective for him that he has done a lot wrong in life and should have been there more. When an unexpected happening makes him admit how much Sienna means to him, life starts on a whole new type of roller coaster as they finally open their eyes and decide to let themselves live.

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Falling With You
Series: Fractured Connections #3
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Blurb

The day I lost my best friend was the day I realized that I’d been living in the past. I’ve tried to find a way to heal, to mend that break. Somehow, I came through it partially whole. But I know I couldn’t have done that without Aiden Connolly.

The problem is, he once loved my best friend. And now she’s gone, and I refuse to be in that shadow, or worse, a replacement for someone we both loved.

~~

I left them all behind.

My brother.

My family.

My best friend.

And her.

Only Sienna Knight doesn’t realize what she means to me. But before I can make sure she knows, I need to figure out exactly what that is.

 

 

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Author Bio
Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.
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four-half-stars

* Cover Reveal/Excerpt * BETWEEN ME AND YOU by Kimberly Kincaid

 

 

Releasing August 13
Book 3 in Kimberly Kincaid’s Remington Medical series!

From USA Today best-seller Kimberly Kincaid comes an enemies-to-lovers story full of emotion and heat. This full-length romance features a muscle-bound veteran flight medic and a smart, tart female CEO finding happily ever after…the hard way.

He hates the corporate world.

She’s all business.

Now they have to work together
on the one job that could
make or break them both…

Connor became a flight medic
for one reason, and
one reason only.

To help people.

If he can keep his head down
and his past in the past while he’s at it?

Even better.

Until Harlow appears to upend his world
with an offer he can’t refuse.

She’s calculating. Composed.

Scalpel-sharp.

And she’ll stop at nothing to make
her father’s business successful.

Even if that means teaming up with Connor
to turn around a failing clinic.

He shouldn’t like her.

He definitely shouldn’t want her.

But the more they work together
the less he’s able to resist.

But Connor’s secrets run deep.

Will Harlow’s ambition ruin him,
or will she be his salvation?

 

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⭐️⭐️ PREORDER BONUS CONTENT SPECIAL ⭐️⭐️

Because this was so popular with the last book, I’m going to do it again! Everyone who preorders BETWEEN ME & YOU and signs up with this form will get a bonus scene via email!

✅ Use this form to sign up. http://bit.ly/BetweenPreorderDeal If you don’t fill this out, you won’t get the scene! So make sure you do.

✅ Please note: I can’t double check this for you later, to see if you signed up or to make sure you typed your email address in properly, so please make sure you keep track of that and double check your sign-ups before clicking submit!

✅ Bonus material will NOT be available to anyone else–ONLY preorder people–and it won’t be released at any time in 2019, or possibly beyond. I try really hard to keep exclusive stuff, well…exclusive. So, if you want it? Sign up now! You may not get another chance to get this scene (DIFFERENT than the last bonus scene!)

Who’s ready for Connor and Harlow?!

 

Excerpt:

Connor hadn’t even made it more than a few steps over the threshold of the clinic before he’d run into a crush of people in various states of injury or illness. Most of the waiting room chairs were occupied, and after getting one woman an ice pack she should’ve received when she’d been triaged and sending a badly bleeding teenager directly to the ED to get the gash in his arm tended to by a surgeon, Connor finally moved past the intake desk and headed to the office in the back of the building.

The door was shut, but the blinds on the window beside it weren’t, allowing him to see inside. Harlow sat primly behind the sleek, walnut desk, a pair of red-framed glasses perched on the bridge of her nose as she pored over something on the laptop screen in front of her.

Her chin was tilted slightly downward, her gaze focused and serious, and for one bright, impulsive instant, Connor wondered what she looked like when she laughed. With her hair all mussed from sleep. When she was caught up in a moment of pure, hot pleasure, and Jesus H. Christ on a Pop-Tart, was he insane? Of all the times to think with his dick, now was probably the most inopportune. He needed to be completely on guard around this woman, not get all gee-I-wonder about what she looked like halfway to orgasm.

Damn, he’d bet she was really fucking pretty when she laughed, though.

Clearing his throat, Connor forced his spine to full attention and his cock to stand down, then placed a sharp trio of knocks on the door in front of him. Harlow’s ice-blue eyes widened as she looked up from her desk, but only by a fraction, and by the time she’d waved him over the threshold, any traces of surprise had disappeared as if they’d never existed.

“Mr. Bradshaw,” she said, and oh yeah, no. They had to nip that in the bud right freaking now.

“No mister,” he corrected. Guard up. “It’s not really my thing.”

Harlow nodded. “Lieutenant, then.”

Oh, the shit Declan and the rest of the guys in his unit would give him for that would last days on end. “No lieutenant, either.” Connor shook his head. “Retired military personnel don’t usually go by their rank. It’s kind of considered bad form.”

“I apologize.” Her voice softened by the smallest degree. “I didn’t mean any disrespect.”

“None taken. Connor is fine.”

Just like that, Harlow’s all-business demeanor settled right back into place. “But what will you have the staff call you, then?”

Connor blinked. “Well, my first name has worked up ’til now with everyone in the ICU and ED. I don’t really see a reason to change that,” he said. In fact, he hadn’t even given it a thought.

“You want everyone to call you by your first name,” Harlow said slowly, as if he’d just suggested the earth was flat and they should all go cannonballing over the edge. “The medical staff, the patients. The members of the board?”

He bit back the temptation to tell her he didn’t want to be anything-Bradshaw, especially with the members of the board. He wasn’t some uptight VP who needed to lord his power over other people. “Sure. Why not?”

If the look on Harlow’s face was anything to go by, the answer to Connor’s question was about to arrive adamantly and in list form. “Well, for one, you’re a director now.”

“It’s just a title, like mister or lieutenant,” Connor argued. He knew he should at least try to keep the heat in his veins away from his voice—if he made a big deal about his name, her radar would surely start to ping, full-bore. But come on. Was she seriously trying to tell him how to have his own staff address him? “What people call me isn’t going to affect how I do the job.”

“The title still matters,” she replied. That she’d controlled her words with near-surgical precision didn’t make them any less of an argument. She gestured to the hallway over his shoulder, leading out to the clinic beyond. “All those physician’s assistants and nurses and staff members out there? You’re their boss now.”

Oh, here we fucking go. “So? That doesn’t make me better than they are.”

Harlow surprised him by conceding. Sort of. “No, it doesn’t. But you’re still in a position of power. Business hierarchies exist for a reason, and titles are part of that. How your staff perceives you is going to have a direct impact on your ability to manage them.”

Finally, one (and only one) thing on which they could agree. “I know I’m kind of new to this side of things, but I promise, my ability to manage the staff will be just fine. And since they are mine to manage as the director of ops”—he made sure his tone turned it into enough of a riiiiight? to make it a point and not flat-out provocation before adding—“Connor it is.”

He gestured to the center of the scrubs he purposely hadn’t changed out of, and after a beat, Harlow sat back against her office chair.

“Suit yourself, I suppose. At any rate, I didn’t expect to see you down here so soon.”

“What can I say?” Connor shrugged amiably. “I’m full of surprises.”

That is an understatement.”

 

Previous books in the series (books one and two stand alone, but book 3 contains some series spoilers, so all are best read in order!)

BACK TO YOU (start here!) https://kimberlykincaid.com/back-to-you/

BETTER THAN ME (then here!) https://kimberlykincaid.com/better-than-me/

 

 

 

About Kimberly:

Kimberly Kincaid writes contemporary romance that splits the difference between sexy and sweet and hot and edgy romantic suspense. When she’s not sitting cross-legged in an ancient desk chair known as “The Pleather Bomber”, she can be found practicing obscene amounts of yoga, whipping up anything from enchiladas to éclairs in her kitchen, or curled up with her nose in a book. Kimberly is a USA Today best-selling author and a 2016 and 2015 RWA RITA® finalist and 2014 Bookseller’s Best nominee who lives (and writes!) by the mantra that food is love. Kimberly resides in Virginia with her wildly patient husband and their three daughters.

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* DOUBLE COVER REVEAL * Lani Lynn Vale’s SINNERS ARE WINNERS and IF YOU SAY SO

 

 

 

 

SINNERS ARE WINNERS
Release Day – Oct 8
He saw her from across a crowded ballpark and knew she was about to change his life.

Yes, he realizes just how cliché that really is, but the moment his eyes locked on her, he knew that she was the one.

At least, the one that royally screwed him over. The one responsible for his demotion and the subsequent disciplinary action taken against him before he’d even gotten out of the probationary period with Kilgore Police Department.

It all started with a kiss.

***

Saylor Rae Spada tried to mind her business. She also tried to not get involved in petty disputes.

However, from the moment she saw him sitting next to her at a professional baseball game, a game she didn’t even want to be at but was dragged to by her blind date, she couldn’t look away.

Then the kiss cam came on, featuring none other than her and the handsome stranger.

Without missing a beat, he kissed her.

Then her blind date decided to pull a knife and try to stab him.

From that point forward, she’s done nothing but cause him trouble.

Trouble that he’s starting to find increasingly adorable.

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IF YOU SAY SO
Release Day – NOV 12
Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III and Francesca Leandra Solomon were meant to be. They were so in love that everybody prayed for what they had.

Everything was glorious. They would get married, have children and live a perfect life. She would be a doctor in the emergency room once she finished her doctorate, and he would be a badass Navy SEAL and save people for a living.

But then Luca is deployed across the world, and per military regulations, Frankie isn’t allowed to follow.

They’ve overcome a lot in their short relationship, and they can overcome this, too. Two years was a piece of cake. She’d finish her schooling and wait for him. And when he finally returned home, they would marry.

But two months into Luca’s deployment, the unthinkable happens, and Frankie is left alone and heartbroken, knowing that she’ll have to face the rest of life without Luca at her side.

***

Fast forward two years, and Frankie is exactly where her fiancé’s father left her, in a pit of despair that she has no hope of ever finding her way out of.

She lives life one second at a time, depressed and alone, hoping tomorrow won’t hurt like today.

She finds a job, moves, and hopes that the nightmares won’t swallow her whole.

But just as she thinks that she’s getting better, one of her nightmares walks through the doors of her ER, and that nightmare has a name.

Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III. In the flesh.

Also healthy and whole, and definitely no longer missing.

Sadly, it only takes her a half a second to realize that the man that left her isn’t the same man that returned.

The old one wanted her. The new one? Well, he’s definitely not interested anymore.

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Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.

When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.

Lani is married with three children and lives in the Great State of Texas.

* Release Blast/Review * DAX by Sawyer Bennett

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* Release Blast/Review * DAX by Sawyer BennettDax by Sawyer Bennett
Series: Arizona Vengeance #4
Published by Big Dog Books, LLC on July 9, 2019
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four-half-stars

My name is Dax Monahan and hockey is my passion. And if you want to succeed in this sport you have to bust your ass 24/7. I’ve never had a hard time focusing on my career, but when my past comes knocking, no amount of training can prepare me for what lies on the other side of the door.

Regan Miles was always like a sister to me. When a shared tragedy brings us face to face after several years, I’m shocked to see just how much she’s changed. Gone is the shy, awkward little girl that always used to chase me and her brother around. Instead, I’m faced with a gorgeous woman who makes it damn hard to concentrate on anything but her.

Turns out, she’s in trouble, and the only way out is to get married.

I surprise myself when I tell her to marry me. Order her, actually. And most shocking of all, she doesn’t even hesitate before saying yes.

So it’s settled. We’re getting hitched and she’s moving to Arizona with me. All platonic, of course.

The catch?
I never knew I’d fall so hard for my best friend’s little sister.

 

The guys that Sawyer Bennett writes just keep getting better and better! We’re all in for this hot hockey stud, and then he turns around and melts our heart time and again … gotta love ’em! Dax isn’t shy about demanding that Regan let him take a huge burden off of her shoulders, and when attraction is quick to flare between them, it’s about to get real! Great characters, lots of sweet and sexy times and just a downright joy of a series to read. I’ve got my heart on my sleeve for Tacker’s story coming up next!!

Arizona Vengeance star Dax Monahan isn’t shy about getting what he wants in life. He has worked hard to achieve the hockey success he has, and he doesn’t hesitate to play hard as well. When he realizes Regan needs help, he’s quick to come up with a plan to get it for her … even if it requires him to hang up his bachelor shoes and marry her!

Regan Miles has had a hard couple of years. She’s trying to keep up with the motions as she copes with the loss of her brother, but it’s just the icing on the cake of a stressful time and Dax’s shoulder turns out to be too good to refuse when she needs an ear. She’s in a pickle and is grateful when he offers to marry her to get her the help she needs … but she’s not expecting it turn into more so hot and so fast!

 

 

 

 

 

Dax (Arizona Vengeance, Book #4)
Sawyer Bennett
Release Date: July 9, 2019

 

Synopsis:
The Arizona Vengeance is killing it on the ice. But one player can’t seem to keep his eye on the puck—all thanks to the woman he just married to save her life.

My name is Dax Monahan and hockey is my passion. And if you want to succeed in this sport you have to bust your ass 24/7. I’ve never had a hard time focusing on my career, but when my past comes knocking, no amount of training can prepare me for what lies on the other side of the door.

Regan Miles was always like a sister to me. When a shared tragedy brings us face to face after several years, I’m shocked to see just how much she’s changed. Gone is the shy, awkward little girl that always used to chase me and her brother around. Instead, I’m faced with a gorgeous woman who makes it damn hard to concentrate on anything but her.

Turns out, she’s in trouble, and the only way out is to get married.

I surprise myself when I tell her to marry me. Order her, actually. And most shocking of all, she doesn’t even hesitate before saying yes.

So it’s settled. We’re getting hitched and she’s moving to Arizona with me. All platonic, of course.

The catch?

I never knew I’d fall so hard for my best friend’s little sister.

 

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Since the release of her debut contemporary romance novel, Off Sides, in January 2013, Sawyer Bennett has released multiple books, many of which have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.

A reformed trial lawyer from North Carolina, Sawyer uses real life experience to create relatable, sexy stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From new adult to erotic contemporary romance, Sawyer writes something for just about everyone.

Sawyer likes her Bloody Marys strong, her martinis dirty, and her heroes a combination of the two. When not bringing fictional romance to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to a very active daughter, as well as full-time servant to her adorably naughty dogs. She believes in the good of others, and that a bad day can be cured with a great work-out, cake, or even better, both.

Sawyer also writes general and women’s fiction under the pen name S. Bennett and sweet romance under the name Juliette Poe.

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* Release Blast/Excerpt/Giveaway * SWEET HOME ALASKA by Beth Carpenter

 


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Sweet Home Alaska
(Northern Lights #5)
By Beth Carpenter
Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 368 Pages
July 1st 2019 by Harlequin Heartwarming

Some sparks last forever.

But once burned…

World traveler Dr. Scott Willingham is known for being calm and levelheaded—except where Volta Morgan is concerned. In the ten years since they parted, Scott still can’t forget her. Now he’s come to Alaska to find Volta and finally let her go, only to find their attraction is stronger than ever. Can Scott leave her behind one last time…or has he truly found a place to call home?

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He’d tried to forget her. After all, Scott was the one who broke it off. Few marriages survived the sort of life he’d chosen, and with his background, he was a particularly bad risk. Just like his father, Scott was the sort of man who focused on a job and forgot to eat and sleep and spend time with his family. Volta deserved so much better than that. Once he realized their relationship was beginning to feel serious, he’d pulled the plug, and he’d never seen Volta again.

Scott’s life had turned out exactly the way he’d planned. He’d been with DEMA for ten years now, one of only a handful of full-time doctors ready to go wherever and whenever he was needed. Most of their medical staff consisted of volunteers who took a week or two off from their regular practices to volunteer with DEMA, but Scott worked year-round delivering babies and performing surgeries. And yet, even after all this time, Volta still appeared in his dreams.

He smiled to himself. She’d never liked the name her electrician dad had given her, but it suited her, with her electric-blue eyes and high-wattage smile. Not to mention the way his skin used to tingle when she touched him. He’d figured he would go to Alaska, get a good start on the assignment and then take a day or two off and find Volta. Once she looked him in the eye and told him she’d moved on and was happy, her memory would quit haunting him. At least, that was the plan.

But instead, she’d just walked into the room while he was in the middle of a delivery. In a tiny clinic in a tiny village in an enormous state. Volta. He followed her into the waiting room, quietly shutting the door behind him. She turned back to look at him, her bright blue eyes focused on his face. So many things he wanted to tell her. So many questions. What was she doing in emergency response instead of physical therapy? Did she ever think about their time together in Hawaii? Was she happy?

In fact, he didn’t ask any questions at all. Instead, he opened his arms. After only the slightest hesitation, she rushed into them. And suddenly it was years ago, he was holding Volta in his arms, and for a moment, all was right with the world.

 


About the Author

Once upon a time …

when Beth Carpenter was a little girl, she read everything she could get her hands on, and entertained herself on the school bus by making up stories in her head. Not a lot has changed. She’s still consuming books like M&Ms, and spends her days creating happily-ever-afters for her imaginary friends.

She lives in Alaska and Arizona with her husband and an aggressively affectionate fifty-pound lap dog. She loves to hear from readers.

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Reunited with the Cowboy
(Heroes of Shelter Creek #1)
By Claire McEwen
Adult Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 368 Pages
July 1st 2019 by Harlequin Heartwarming

She can save his ranch…

But can he forgive her?

Maya Burton knows she’s the last person rancher Caleb Dunne wants to see. After all, she survived the crash that killed his sister, and then left town. Now she has to convince the stubborn cowboy that she can help him save his ranch. But once she earns his trust—and his heart—will she be able to walk away?

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Maya Burton had always loved being alone in the wilderness. But after three hours of climbing through steep, dense, shadowy forest, it occurred to her that this nighttime hike through mountain lion territory might dim that love, just a bit.

It had felt like a good idea, back in Shelter Creek. The odds of meeting a mountain lion on the trail were low, and facing a lion seemed a lot less scary than facing the memories waiting in her hometown.

But Maya had forgotten that forests in this part of California were full of oak and bay trees that sent their branches arching right over the trail. And mountain lions loved to hang out on branches. Shining her flashlight to make sure she was safe still didn’t ease the prickly feeling on the back of her neck as she passed underneath.

When she finally reached the edge of the forest, stepping out onto the wide-open ridgetop was sheer relief. She loved studying mountain lions, but she was glad to be in a place where they couldn’t drop on her from above. Maya took in the full moon beaming in the sky, tinting the grassy meadows and scrubby slopes with silver. So much moonlight, she could put her flashlight away.

They were out here too though. Mountain lions, pumas, cougars, catamounts, ghost cats, panthers…maybe the big cats had so many names because they were so mysterious. Able to exist alongside people without anyone realizing they were even there.

Except lately the mountain lions in this area had been attacking livestock on local ranches. And people definitely noticed that.

That was why Maya was here, in the coastal hills surrounding her hometown of Shelter Creek, on a two-month assignment for the Department of Wildlife. She was going to try to find pumas. Photograph them. Count and classify them. Assess the population’s overall health and figure out why they were eating so many sheep.

But she’d rather not meet any big cats out here in the dark. “Okay, pumas,” she said to the shadowed spaces just past the moonlight. “If you’re out there, beat it. I’m coming into your territory and you are not allowed to bother me.”

She was being silly. Most big predators would prefer not to run into any humans. Usually people were a meal they didn’t have much appetite for, though once in a while…

Ugh. Don’t think about that.

 

About the Author

Claire McEwen writes stories about strong heroes and heroines who take big, emotional journeys to find their happily-ever-after. She lives by the ocean in Northern California with her family and a scruffy, mischievous terrier. When she’s not writing, Claire enjoys gardening, reading and discovering flea-market treasures. She loves to hear from readers! You can find her on most social media and at www.clairemcewen.com.

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