Archives for July 1, 2016

** Book Review ** ALWAYS MY GIRL by Samantha Chase

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4 STARS!

In Book 3 of Samantha Chase’s The Shaughnessy Brothers series, she brings us Quinn’s story.  I love this family!  They are always there for each other through thick and thin.  I found it hard to love Quinn quite as much as I did Hugh when I read Book 2, but I still enjoyed the story a lot!

Quinn Shaughnessy has always been sure of himself and what he wants out of life and he enjoys having a good time.  He’s happy for his older brothers that they have found love and seem happy, but it’s not for him!

Anna Hannigan has been best friends with Quinn since they were 5 years old.  They tell each other everything, always have each others backs and have no secrets … well, except that Anna has been in love with him for years!  She finally decides she has wasted too much time life waiting around on him and makes some changes in her life.  Quinn isn’t happy to see Anna distancing herself or changing how she dresses, and he hates the possibility of her dating someone even less!

Happenstance gets them to take a chance on each other and become more than friends, but will they be able to make it last despite their differences?

ARC received via NetGalley

** Blog Tour / Book Review ** DRIVE YOU WILD by Jennifer Bernard

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4 1/2 STARS!

In the third book in her Love Between the Bases series, Jennifer Bernard brings us the sweet story of bad boy Trevor Stark meeting his match!  This series as a whole has great characters and she brings them to life in such a fun filled way that you devour the book quickly, smile often and leave feeling happy!

Left-fielder for the Kilby Catfish, Trevor Stark loves the game!  He is a no nonsense type of player who focuses on winning.  He should be playing in the major league, but every time the San Diego Friars are just about to come calling, he sabotages himself.

Paige Taylor returns to Kilby, Texas to drown her sorrows in something different for a change.  She’s newly divorced and wants to reconnect with her dad, Catfish owner Crush Taylor.  She doesn’t expect to make a connection with bad boy Trevor Stark right off the bat!

When secrets are exposed, and danger is near, will Trevor be able to live up to his potential for the first time in his life instead of holding himself back for the benefit of others?  Has Paige finally found the athlete of her dreams?

** ARC received via Tasty Book Tours **

 

 

 

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Drive You Wild
Love Between the Bases #3
By: Jennifer Bernard

Releasing June 28, 2016
Avon

 

BLURB:

It’s game on for love in the third novel of USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Bernard’s sexy, baseball-themed series.

Kilby Catfish left-fielder Trevor Stark is a ballpark legend. With his good looks, hitting records, and played-for-the-fans arrogance, Trevor makes women lose their minds and men lose their cool. But every time the major league team comes calling, Trevor purposely keeps himself in the tiny Texas town. Why is heart-tuggingly top secret. Until the team owner’s daughter comes to Kilby . . . trying everything up her sexy sleeve to make Trevor talk.
Divorced and disillusioned at twenty-four, Paige Mattingly Austin Taylor is suddenly starting fresh as an intern at Catfish Stadium. She should want nothing to do with the sinfully hot ballplayer her dad warned her to stay away from. But when she discovers what Trevor is hiding from everyone, she realizes there’s much more to him than his face and multi-million-dollar arm. There’s a heart she seriously hopes to win.

 

 

Link to Follow Tour: http://www.tastybooktours.com/2016/05/drive-you-wild-love-between-bases-3-by.html

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161181-drive-you-wild

Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/136342-love-between-the-bases

 

Buy Links:     Amazon | B & N | Google | iTunes | Kobo

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062372203/

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drive-you-wild-jennifer-bernard/1123457507

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Jennifer_Bernard
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drive-you-wild/id1046759400?mt=11

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/drive-you-wild
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AUTHOR INFO:

Jennifer Bernard is a graduate of Harvard and a former news promo producer. The child of academics, she confounded her family by preferring romance novels to … well, any other books. She left big city life for true love in Alaska, where she now lives with her husband and stepdaughters. She’s no stranger to book success, as she also writes erotic novellas under a naughty secret name not to be mentioned at family gatherings.

 

Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

Website: http://jenniferbernard.net/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferBernardBooks

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jen_bernard

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5263027.Jennifer_Bernard

 

EXCERPT:

“Are you afraid of the mighty Crush Taylor?” She took another step closer. “He’s not as bad as he seems, you know.”

“I’m not afraid of him.” He placed his hands on her shoulders to keep her from coming any closer. Her warmth carried into his skin, into his being, as if it was igniting him from within.

“And I’m not afraid of you.” She ducked underneath his hands in a quick move right out of the NBA. He took a step back and his calves hit the bench situated next to the lockers. She reached out in apology and suddenly they were right smack against each other, chest-to-chest.

Fire flashed down his spine, hot and urgent. He hauled her against him—oh, sweet Lord, she felt good. Soft and firm and shapely and alive and fresh and . . . then her mouth was under his, her lips parting, her breath warm, her flesh lush and sweet. It wasn’t a kiss so much as a head rush.

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Paige posted the first series of “Baseball’s Hottest Outfield” photos on the team’s Facebook page the next day. A few hours later a thousand people had clicked Like. Not only that, but the viewership of the page soared. It was shared all over the Internet, on Pinterest, on Twitter, on Instagram. It wasn’t just that the three men were criminally gorgeous. A big part of the appeal came from their racial mix and the blend of personalities. Trevor the stone-cold badass, Dwight the dynamic charmer, and Shizuko, the soulful rock star.

Paige knew it was all a crock, of course. Trevor wasn’t stone cold, Dwight wasn’t playful all the time, and Shizuko could outcrude most of the clubhouse, and that was saying something. But once those identities became set, people loved them. They were like cartoon characters instead of real people.

At the next game, the crowd roared when the outfielders took their positions on the field. Fans held up even more signs than they normally did. From the owner’s box, Paige scanned the crowd with her binoculars and read the signs out loud to Crush.

“ ‘Kilby Hearts Baseball’s Hottest Outfield.’ Thank you very much, we heart you too! ‘We make ’em hot in Kilby, Texas.’ That might be taking a little too much credit. None of them are from here.”

 

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** Release Day Blitz ** GUNSLINGER by Angi Morgan

 

Gunslinger
by Angi Morgan
Series: Texas Rangers: Elite Troop, #3
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Mass Market Paperback Release Date: June 21, 2016
Digital Release Date: July 1, 2016

 

 

A Texas Ranger with everything to lose… 

Going undercover to keep the former wife of a Texas crime boss alive is risky business for Texas Ranger Bryce Johnson. Kylie Scott may have evidence that could put her ex-husband’s family away forever. If she lives long enough to testify.

For five years, Kylie managed to stay off the mob’s radar. With her cover blown, the former model is forced to flee the close-knit community that had embraced her. On the run again—this time with the seductive lawman who’s risking his career to protect her—Kylie battles her powerful desire for Bryce. If they survive, do they stand a snowball’s chance at a future together?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANGI MORGAN loves her cowboy covers but if you ask her she’ll tell you she writes Texans in Texas. Her  work is a multiple contest finalist and Publisher’s Weekly best seller. She drags her dogs –and husband– around Texas for research road trips so she can write off her camera. They now have a map with highlighted roads they’ve traveled. Every detour somehow makes it into a book.