** Review ** DIRTY GIRL Meghan March

** Review **  DIRTY GIRL  Meghan MarchDirty Girl by Meghan March
Series: Dirty Girl Duet Book 1
Published by Red Dress Press on May 17, 2016
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four-stars

From USA Today bestselling author Meghan March comes a sexy new spin-off duet from the Dirty Billionaire Trilogy. Are you ready to get dirty again?

Desperately seeking rich, famous, single guy with a giant cock to make my lying, cheating, should’ve-been-born-dickless ex-boyfriend realize what he’s just lost.
Oh, and I give great head. Just sayin’.

No man in his right mind would answer that ad.

Except thousands did.
My name is Greer Karas, and I should never be allowed near another bottle of booze again. Because when I drink, my friend and I do stupid things. Like take a page out of my older brother Creighton’s playbook and post something completely asinine on the Internet. Waking up with a giant hangover to find my humiliating personal ad has gone viral is not my finest moment.

Cue my look of shock when one of Hollywood’s hottest new bad boys, Cavanaugh Westman, comes knocking at my door and drops his pants to prove that he does indeed have a giant cock.
What he doesn’t have is an explanation for why he disappeared from my life without a word three years ago, only to show up on the big screen two years later, killing bad guys in action flicks.

Now he wants me again.

What the hell do I do now?


Steamy, hot and FILTHY … yes please!  If you read the Dirty Billionaire Trilogy by Meghan March you will recognize Crighton’s sister Greer as the main character in this duet.  As was true with that trilogy, this book starts off a story line and leaves us with a cliffhanger that will conclude in the second half, DIRTY LOVE.  There’s humor, there’s angst, and there’s a sexy, hot man who likes to get his way!

What’s a rich girl to do when she catches her man screwing someone else??  Greer Karas decided to get drunk with her BFF Banner and try going the route of her big bro Crey and place a hilariously blunt personals ad on the internet!  Not her finest moment, and something she regrets the moment she sobers up and realizes what she did!

Imagine her surprise when who should appear at her front door but Hollywood hottie, Cavanaugh Westman volunteering his services!  She hasn’t heard from him in 3 years, since he stood her up for a date and disappeared with no explanation or goodbye, only to show up on the big screen as an action hero a couple of years later.  Should she send him on his way, or take a ride on the Cav train and ask questions later??

four-stars

** Review ** THE LAST DI SIONE CLAIMS HIS PRIZE Maisey Yates

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** Review **  THE LAST DI SIONE CLAIMS HIS PRIZE  Maisey YatesThe Last Di Sione Claims His Prize by Maisey Yates
Series: The Billionaire's Legacy
Published by Harlequin Presents on February 1, 2017
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"I want that painting. It is my last Lost Mistress. My Lost Love."

Alessandro Di Sione is renowned for being cold and unsentimental, but even he can't deny his grandfather's dream of retrieving a painting steeped in royal scandal. Yet the key to its return is the outspoken Princess Gabriella.

While traveling together to Isola D'Oro to locate the mysterious painting, Gabby is drawn to the man tortured by guilt from his past. Her innocence makes her untouchable, as Alex is convinced his Di Sione blood is tainted. But could their passion be his salvation?


A satisfying conclusion to The Billionaire’s Legacy series!  We’ve been seeing all of Giovonni Di Sione’s grandchildren be sent off to hunt for one of his “lost mistresses”, a sentimental object that meant a great deal to him that he wanted to see one last time before he dies.  With this story, Maisey Yates brings us the story of the last grandson, Alex and we get to learn the story behind it all finally.  Alex and Gabby had a fun depth to their relationship when they first met with neither hesitating to speak their mind, therefore bringing a good bit of humor to the plot.

Alessandro Di Sione is the last of Giovonni’s grandchildren to be asked to hunt a treasure down for him.  He knows what’s been tasked to his siblings, so he’s been expecting his time to come.  Now he’s being asked to find a painting that is only rumored to exist, and is beneath a shroud of royal scandal.

When Alex shows up asking about the painting, the Queen sends her granddaughter Gabriella D’Oro to accompany him on his search for it to their old estate on Isolo D’Oro.  Alex is the cold, uncaring member of the family and he doesn’t hesitate to show Gabby that side of him during their journey, but she gives attitude right back to him and amused, he actually likes it.  Can she get him to see that the past that haunts him isn’t the man he is today or will he continue to punish himself and withhold any happiness from his future?

four-stars

** Review ** MR. DANGEROUSLY SEXY Stefanie London

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** Review **  MR. DANGEROUSLY SEXY  Stefanie LondonMr. Dangerously Sexy by Stefanie London
Series: The Dangerous Bachelors Club
Published by Harlequin Blaze on February 1, 2017
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five-stars

He'll keep her safe…but can he keep his distance?

When Addison Cobalt learns she has a potentially volatile stalker, she tries to hide it from her business partner, Logan Dane. The hyperprotective, supersexy cohead of their security company will only try to take control of the situation—and her.

Which is exactly what Logan does when he finds out about the stalker. Addison craves the safety of Logan's body, but that doesn't mean she's willing to give up her independence, or all of her secrets, for him. She has a few ways to shake Logan's iron control, but it's a wicked and risky game. Because the only thing more dangerous than her stalker is Mr. Dangerously Sexy himself!


An intriguingly sexy delve into the boss’s story!  We’ve met several of Cobalt & Dane’s security specialists in Stefanie London’s “The Dangerous Bachelor’s Club” series and now it’s time to get the scoop on what made Cobalt & Dane!  It’s an exciting read as they take us on a ride to track down a stalker, all while fighting the attraction they feel at the same time!

Addison Cobalt wants no part in telling her business partner Logan Dane that she has attracted herself a stalker!  She forbids her IT guy from breathing a word to him.  He’ll just rush in and take charge without listening to a word she says … like usual.  She’s so done with men thinking they know what’s best for the little woman in her!

Logan Dane won’t admit to the feelings he has for Addi, but he will do anything to protect her!  Against her wishes, he finds out about the email she received and takes it upon himself to not leave her side.  She appreciates his concern, but she has some secrets that she’s not ready for him to find out about yet, so she really needs him to back off.  Will their investigation lead them to the person behind it all before Addi is put into danger again?

five-stars

** Review ** GONE Elisabeth Naughton

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** Review **  GONE  Elisabeth NaughtonGone by Elisabeth Naughton
Series: Deadly Secrets
Published by Montlake Romance on January 10, 2017
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Three years ago, Alec McClane and Raegan Devereaux lived every parent’s worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage.

Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found wandering a local park. Alec and Raegan are heartbroken to discover she’s not their daughter but are newly motivated to find closure…and each secretly feels desperate to be in the other’s presence again.

Alec suspects his vengeful biological father is behind Emma’s disappearance. But as Raegan investigates other abductions in the area, she sees a pattern—and begins to wonder if Emma’s kidnapping is actually linked to something more sinister.

As Alec and Raegan race to uncover the truth, a long-burning spark rekindles into smoldering passion, and they realize they need each other now more than ever.


With a second book in this powerful series of uncovered secrets, Elisabeth Naughton brings us the heartbreaking story of a kidnapped child and the fallout for the parents afterward.  It’s sad, it’s powerful and it’s intense.  Great characters and story line!

Alec McClane and Raegan Devereaux were living the happy family life until tragedy took it all away from them over 3 years ago.  Their one year old daughter went missing from the park, never to be found and Alec’s guilt ate him alive and made him end their marriage, abandoning Raegan just when she needed him most.

More than three long years have passed, and they’ve existed separately, with each still secretly yearning for the other.  When the FBI calls each of them notifying them a 4 year old matching their daughters description has been found, they each rush to the scene, only to be heartbroken again when they discover it’s not her.

Forced to have contact again after all of these years makes a lot of feelings rise to the surface again.  When Raegan stops to look at the details of the little girl that was found, she sees some eerie similarities to other missing children cases.  Alec agrees to help her look into it to try to get some closure, but he’s still sure that his evil biological father was behind Emma disappearing, and is sure he killed her just to spite him.  Will they find the answers they are searching for?

five-stars

** Review ** THE BILLIONAIRE’S VIRGIN Jackie Ashenden

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** Review **  THE BILLIONAIRE’S VIRGIN  Jackie AshendenThe Billionaire's Virgin by Jackie Ashenden
Series: The Billionaire Fairy Tales
Published by Swerve on January 10, 2017
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three-stars

Book #1 in the intensely sexy Billionaire Fairytales by Jackie Ashenden where sometimes dark and tortured, sometimes bad boy and charming, but always dominant and sexy billionaires steal their heroines' breath away.

Xavier De Santis: Charming. Disgraced. Playboy.

The headlines are always shouting about the excesses of the so-called Prince Charming of the De Santis family. Problem is, Xavier is everything they say he is.

But now he’s gone too far, and he has has been ordered to clean up his image. Volunteering at a homeless shelter, Xavier sees a bright light amidst all the bleakness. An angel whose luminous face and tragic beauty call to him in ways he can’t explain.

Mia: Homeless. Vulnerable. Virgin.

When the shelter Mia calls home closes, she is left with nowhere to go. Nowhere except the luxurious, glorious palace of a home where Xavier De Santis has invited her to stay. This too-handsome billionaire is dark, dangerous…and also too good to be true.

Surely Mia can indulge in her fantasies and escape the hardness of her daily life for just one night?

As one night turns into two, Mia knows that eventually, the magic will end. She can't keep the beautiful clothes. She can't keep the soft bed. And most of all, she can't keep the hard, handsome man who makes her crave his touch with every breath she takes.

Mia doesn't belong in his world. But as Xavier tempts his rags-to-riches heroine with exquisite pleasure and heady desire, Mia may have no choice but to surrender to him completely.

Jackie Ashenden’s novels have been described as “Dark, explosive, and gritty, with a splash of dominance.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review on In Bed with the Billionaire) and The Billionaire’s Virgin delivers even more of that delicious combination.

Don’t miss the next book in the series: The Billionaire Beast.


A different take  on a billionaire story!  I enjoyed reading this book, but was left feeling like there was some depth missing.  I could relate to the characters, and liked them getting together, but I felt like we could have gotten more in touch with them had their stories been told in a different way.  Like instead of having them talk to themselves in their head all the time about their scars from their past, actually dig into it a bit more.  Instead of his money handing her the papers she wants about her past, actually have had them embark on the search for answers, etc.

Xavier De Santis is a fun-loving billionaire playboy who has just gotten away with this last exploit in his father’s eyes!  Ordered to clean up his act or else, he steps up to volunteer at the homeless shelter his dad sends him to.  He hates the mundane repetitiveness of serving the hopeless and downtrodden, but one night someone catches his eye.  She will barely look at him and has no reaction what-so-ever to his smile … but she intrigues him!

Mia has been on the streets long enough to know that no one is ever what they seem, so she keeps her head down and minds her own business.  She doesn’t want the attention that Xavier seems to want to give her, but one night when they run into each other outside the shelter to find it’s closed, she has to fight back her fear and pride to accept his offer of a place to stay for the night.  When one night turns into two, and two into three, neither one can ignore the attraction and draw they feel for each other.  Will he be able to get her to let her guard down enough to let him into her life?

 

three-stars

** Review ** SURRENDER Lisa Renee Jones

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** Review **  SURRENDER  Lisa Renee JonesSurrender by Lisa Renee Jones
Series: Careless Whispers
Published by Pocket Star on January 9, 2017
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four-half-stars

Passion burns fiercely hot between Ella Ferguson and Kayden Wilkens, the man who held secrets and lies in his hands, and then allowed them to fall into hers. But even though he has become her anchor--helping her recover from amnesia after finding her unconscious in an alley, and allowing her into his secret world--all is not what it seems. Kayden still has secrets, and pieces of Ella's past are still shrouded in the darkness of her mind, while the powerful man who hunts her will not stop until she is his. In this final, explosive novel in the Careless Whispers series, Ella discovers that while her life with Kayden didn't begin in that dark alley...it could easily end there.

With the stunning conclusion of the attention grabbing Careless Whisper series, Lisa Renee Jones brings us Book 3, SURRENDER.  You do need to have read book 1 and book 2 to fully comprehend this story.  It’s been a riveting read, and the conclusion was intense!

We’ve been on a roller coaster ride of discovery with Ella Ferguson in this entire series.  She was found unconscious in an alley by Kayden Wilkens with a horrible case of amnesia back in Book 1 and has fought tooth and nail to remember who she was and what danger she was blocking out of her memory.  She and Kayden have developed an intense love for one another, and as she goes deeper into his secret world, she finds pieces of herself that she thought were gone forever.

This book brings answers to some of our questions, as well as a peek into Ella’s friendship with Sara as Sara and Chris from Inside Out make an appearance.

four-half-stars

** Review ** PUSHING THE LIMITS Katherine Garbera

** Review **  PUSHING THE LIMITS  Katherine GarberaPushing the Limits by Katherine Garbera
Series: Space Cowboys
Published by Harlequin Blaze on January 1, 2017
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four-stars

"Houston, we have a hot-astronaut problem…"

Survival expert and control freak Jessie Odell has faced the most hazardous environments on earth. Training astronauts should be a cakewalk. Nope. Enter candidate Hemi "Thor" Barrett and his hot, ripped bod, and suddenly Jessie is breathless with raw excitement—something she hasn't felt for a long, long time—and it scares her to death.

Hemi isn't just some sexy distraction. Jessie actually likes the guy—and that makes him more treacherous than an Everest ascent. It also means Hemi's that much harder to resist. With every hungry, heat-fueled encounter, Jessie skirts closer to that dangerous edge. Falling for this space cowboy is definitely high stakes…but could the payoff be worth the risk?


Book two in Katherine Garbera’s Space Cowboys series is another fun one!  We delve a little further into the training they have to do for the upcoming space mission and get to see some of the characters from Book one again!

Survival expert Jessie Odell is a take-charge thrill seeker, but she decides to use the time after a personal tragedy to reflect on her life and what more she wants to do with it while throwing herself into a different experience of teaching a course at NASA.  She’s excited for the opportunity … and just when things are getting started, she meets one of her students who takes her breath away!

Astronaut Hemi “Thor” Barrett is all man.  He’s gorgeous, fit and adorably sure of himself and what a distraction he is!  Hemi is training for the mission of a lifetime, but that doesn’t stop him from falling for his gorgeous new teacher.  The differences they find attractive in each other, just might be their downfall when they try to make a relationship work.

four-stars

** Review ** DEVIL’S MARK Megan Crane

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** Review **  DEVIL’S MARK  Megan CraneDevil's Mark by Megan Crane
Series: The Devil's Keepers
Published by Loveswept on January 3, 2017
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four-stars

The bestselling author of Devil’s Honor returns with a deliciously sinful novel about a good girl who goes bad—and the notorious Louisiana biker who can’t resist the lure of forbidden fruit.

Holly Chambless is tired of being the squeaky clean daughter of Lagrange’s holier-than-thou mayor. When her father is charged with corruption, she realizes that her whole life’s been a lie. Now’s her chance to do all the things she never dared, like scoring a job at a bar where reputations go to die, or reconnecting with the biker who sparked a secret hunger in her all those years ago. Holly isn’t a wide-eyed girl anymore—and this time she wants a taste of what has always been denied.

Killian “Uptown” Chenier has no time for stuck-up princesses. He likes fast bikes and wild sex. Sure, he remembers Holly. He sent her running with a wicked smile and a lesson about prying eyes. And sure, she’s grown up smoking-hot, with a body he’d like to personally desecrate. But Devil’s Keepers business is real and intense. Her daddy stole from the club, leaving his pretty blonde daughter a walking target. And when Uptown takes aim at what he wants, he never misses.


If you’re looking for a new  motorcycle club bad boy, this is a fun series to try out!  This one didn’t quite measure up to the first in the series, because Greeley & Merritt were a really hard act to follow. I did enjoy Killian and Holly, I just didn’t fall quite as in love as the first time.  Still loved reading the story and can’t wait for the next in the series!

Mayor’s daughter, Holly Chambless is back home from college and tired of being Daddy’s good girl … especially since he’s just been arrested for corruption after all these years of preaching what’s right and wrong to her!  She’s going to go after what she wants and what better place to start than at the bar hangout of the local bad boys??

Killian “Uptown” Chenier loves his life as a member of the Devil’s Keepers Motorcyle Club!  What more could he want out of life than a family of brother’s, fast bikes and endless hot sex for the taking?  When he runs across the reigning princess of Lagrange in his hangout, he steps forward to teach her a lesson of where good girls don’t want to hang out in town.  They have a past connection, and he would like nothing more than to get his revenge on her disgusting father than by defiling his baby girl!

four-stars

** Review ** THE BLACKEST CRIMSON Debra Webb

** Review **  THE BLACKEST CRIMSON  Debra WebbThe Blackest Crimson by Debra Webb
Series: Shades of Death
Published by MIRA on December 1, 2016
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five-stars

Detective Bobbie Gentry was psyched when she was offered the opportunity to work with the FBI on a special task force in the search for a heinous serial killer known as the Storyteller. What she didn't expect was for the serial killer to follow her home on Christmas Eve...

The Storyteller couldn't resist Bobbie no matter the risk. He murdered her husband and would have murdered her child but the little boy got away. Now Bobbie's fight for survival might just be more than he bargained for...

One of them must die.


A short novella prequel to Debra Webb’s newest series, Shades of Death.  We’re hooked from page one!

Detective Bobbie Gentry was thrilled to be working on a task force with the FBI to catch a crazed serial killer … until the Storyteller set his sites on her!  When he shows up at her house on Christmas Eve, killing her husband and kidnapping her, will she be his next victim, or will she be the first to live to tell about him?

 

five-stars

** Review ** DEADLY FALL Elle James

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** Review **  DEADLY FALL  Elle JamesDeadly Fall by Elle James
Published by Harlequin Romantic Suspense on January 1, 2017
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four-half-stars

In a Gothic mansion on a windy coast, former soldier Dixie Reeves and her client, billionaire Andrew Stratford, are in grave danger. The single dad has hired her to help him protect his daughter from a mysterious threat. As their enemy closes in, even tough-as-nails Dixie has to hold her nerve…and keep her guard up to stop herself from falling for Andrew and his adorable little girl. The long nights pass, and Dixie and her handsome boss can't deny they're barreling toward the kind of love that changes lives. That is, if they can somehow keep their instant family safe from the danger at the door!


An attention getting mystery from start to finish!  Quick to read, intriguing with a side of sweetness!

Former soldier Dixie Reeves is happy to take on a new job just when she needs the distraction most.  She’s set to be a bodyguard to a billionaire’s daughter.  When she arrives and meets the family, she’s immediately drawn in and is determined to keep them safe!

Andrew Stratford doesn’t understand what’s going on in his house, but he’s determined to keep his daughter safe.  When Dix arrives and is not what he was expecting, he doesn’t think he can trust her to get the job done, but when she puts him in his place and proves her worthiness, they agree to a truce.  When attraction flares, will they be able to work together to figure out who is out to get him?

four-half-stars