** Book Review ** NASHVILLE BY HEART by Tina Ann Forkner

Nashville by Heart

4 STARS!

A fun filled easy read centering on following your dreams, but always being ready to face your past when you have to!

Small town girl Gillian Heart left home for Nashville 3 years ago in pursuit of a record deal.  She is working as hard as she has to in order to pay the rent and eat until she gets her big break.  When she gets noticed by music agent Will Adams, she thinks she’s finally on her way!

Will is blown away by Gillian’s talent and is excited to become her agent and try to get her noticed as a major up and coming artist, and no matter how much he tries, he also can’t deny the crazy attraction he feels towards her!

Working together brings them closer and they eventually decide it’s a waste of time to try to fight their feelings and start dating.  When Will takes the liberty of using some info from her past in order to get her signed to a contract, she feels really sad and disappointed in him, and it forces her to take a long, hard look at her past and decide if she’s ready to face her biggest regret.  Will this be the end of them, or will him forcing her hand to deal with her past bring them closer together?

ARC received via NetGalley

** Book Review ** DREAMING UP A DARE by Catherine Gayle

Dreaming Up a Dare

4 STARS!

A sweet “friends to lovers” novella in the Dare to Love Kindle World!

Hockey star Jackson Maddox has been best friends with gymnast Pepper Winters since they were kids.  They’ve been through thick and thin together and always have each other’s backs.  When Pepper comes to be with Jackson in Miami, he’s happy to have her there to go to an industry party with him, and after a career ending injury, she’s ready for some fun relaxation!

When a drunken game of Truth or Dare reveals that they both have wanted more than friendship for years, will they be able to survive it with their friendship in tact?  Or better yet, progress to a full fledged relationship?

ARC received via the Author

** Book Review ** THE BRIDESMAID’S BABY BUMP by Kandy Shepherd

The Bridesmaid's Baby Bump

4 STARS!

Instant attraction leads to some soul searching in this third book in Kandy Shepherd’s Sydney Brides series!

When party planner Eliza Dunne first meets Jake Marlowe at a friend’s wedding, she can’t deny the draw she feels towards him, but he’s not available, so they simply enjoy chatting and getting to know each other for the evening.

Once Jake is free, they finally have their opportunity to give in to their attraction.  Their time together is magical, but neither wants anything serious so they part ways.  When they run into each other again, Eliza shocks Jake with the news that she’s pregnant.  He won’t take no for an answer in how he will be in his child’s life, and his hard headed behavior causes tension between them.

Will Jake figure how to get through to Eliza so they can be together, or will they raise their child as strangers?

ARC received via Author/VA

** Blog Tour / Book Review ** BAD BOYS AFTER DARK: MICK by Melissa Foster

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5 STARS!

SIZZLING!  As the first book in the Bad Boys series, this was first foray into Melissa Foster’s “After Dark” world, and it will NOT be my last.  She writes her characters with such a realness to them. You can feel their emotions as you read, you find yourself smiling when they interact, and you can feel the tension as they go through the ups and downs of figuring out what they are to each other. Looking forward to reading the rest of the Bad brother’s stories!

Paralegal Amanda Jenner is bored!  She’s tired of being the good girl and putting up with the boring men that she seems to draw like a magnet.  She wants more … she wants hot sex!  She’s dolled up and ready to try out her new vixen moves at a masquerade bar crawl!

Entertainment attorney Mick Bad is having a bad week and just wants to unwind with a hot woman!  He sees a sexy blonde across the room and decides he has to have her.  After partly ravishing her at the party, Mick sees something that clues him in to the fact that the woman in his arms is his employee!

Amanda has been crushing on Mick for three years, but he never mixes business with pleasure and is nothing but professional with her … until now!  After realizing who each other is, they agree to have a very short term fling since they’ve already been this far with each other.  Will Amanda be the person that can tear down the barriers Mick’s past has made him erect around himself?

ARC received via Tasty Book Tours

 

 

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Bad Boys After Dark: Mick
Bad Boys After Dark #1
By: Melissa Foster

Releasing June 22, 2016
World Literary Press


BLURB:

Indulge your inner vixen…

Meet the Bad Boys… Four sinfully sexy, fiercely loyal, uber alpha brothers about to fall head over heels for their leading ladies. If dirty talk, cursing, or raw, passionate sex turns you off, the After Dark books are not for you, because everything’s naughtier after dark.

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Amanda Jenner is done being a boring-man magnet and has finally taken control of her love life. As any smart paralegal would, she’s researched the hell out of how to seduce a man. She’s waxed, primped, and ready to put her newfound skills into action—and a masquerade bar crawl is the perfect venue for her solo coming-out party.

Entertainment attorney Mick Bad lives by two hard and fast rules. He never mixes business with pleasure, and he doesn’t do relationships, which makes the anonymity of a masquerade bar crawl the perfect place for a onetime hookup.

Amanda thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she bags a tall, dark, and sinfully delicious masked man—until she discovers the man she’s made out with is her off-limits boss. Mick’s already crossed a line he can never uncross, and one taste of sweet and sexy Amanda has only whet his appetite. When Mick offers to give Amanda a lesson in seduction—no strings, no regrets, and for goodness’ sake, come Monday, no quitting—the tables turn, and Mick’s totally unprepared for the lessons this sweet temptress provides.

 

Link to Follow Tour: http://www.tastybooktours.com/2016/04/bad-boys-after-dark-mick-bad-boys-2-by.html

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24779631-bad-boys-after-dark

Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/146134-bad-boys-after-dark

 

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

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Boys-After-Dark-Mick/dp/1941480403

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bad-boys-after-dark-melissa-foster/1123162563?ean=9781941480403

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Melissa_Foster
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/bad-boys-after-dark-mick/id1063338005?mt=11

Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/bad-boys-after-dark-mick

 

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AUTHOR INFO:


Melissa Foster is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance, and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa’s emotional journeys are lovingly erotic, perfect beach reads, and always family oriented.

 

Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

Website: http://www.melissafoster.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MelissaFosterAuthor

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Melissa_Foster

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3023973.Melissa_Foster

 

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EXCERPT:

LURED BY THE pulse of sex and anonymity, Amanda Jenner moved through the dusky bar, brushing against silk, satin, cotton, and flesh, each graze feeding the adrenaline coursing through her veins. Blue lights misted over sweaty strangers lost in the seductive bump and grind of foreplay and hoping for a night of erotic pleasure. If Amanda tried hard enough, she could smell tomorrow’s scent du jour—regret. Tonight she had no room for the confidence-crushing worry of what tomorrow would bring. She scanned the crowd, as she had in the previous three bars, immediately dismissing anyone who wasn’t in costume. Her world was full of boring men who excelled at wining, dining, and boring her to sleep. Ten years of romance novels and movies had led her astray, sending her on a search for the elusive needle in a haystack. She’d led herself astray, always the careful thinker, careful dresser. Or as her younger sister, Ally, would say, Careful kisser, careful lover. Ally, however, had taken charge of her sex life—and she’d found the perfect man.

Now it’s my turn.

 

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** Book Review ** SAYING YES TO THE BOSS by Andrea Laurence

Saying Yes to the Boss

4 STARS!

Kicking off the new multi-author series Dynasties: The Newports, Andrea Laurence brings us the story of sexy Carson Newport!  I enjoyed the building of the characters and storyline and can’t wait to see what the future books in the series hold!

Successful real estate CEO Carson Newport wants to honor his mother by investing in a charity that was dear to her heart by building a children’s hospital.  They’ve been searching for the perfect piece of property for months now, and he’s thrilled when his PR director tells him she’s found it!

Georgia Adams is glad she got a tip on the property they needed, and sets out to help Carson make sure he can close the deal to get the hospital on it’s way to being built.  As they handle roadblocks going up around them, they stumble across family secrets, past indiscretions, and the possibility of big changes in the future.  Will the distractions be enough to make them keep fighting the attraction they feel for each other, or will they add another dynamic to their boss/employee relationship?

ARC received via the Author

** Book Review ** TEXAS HUNT by Barb Han

Texas Hunt

4 STARS!

In this third book in her Mason Ridge series, Barb Han continues to lead us through the mystery surrounding what’s been going on in this town for fifteen plus years.  They thought they caught the person who had been kidnapping kids, then more continued to happen that led them to another doorstep, and now we’re finding out secrets that have been buried and people willing to kill for them! Can’t wait to read the conclusion in Book 4!

Ryan Hunt has loved his childhood friend Lisa Moore for years, but she never seemed to reciprocate his feelings, so they remained just friends.  When she’s all of a sudden in a terrifying situation after being brutally attacked by a man who hurt her in the past, she only trusts Ryan and calls him for his help.

While trying to keep Lisa and her family safe, they stumbled across more and more info that implicates this man who attacked her, yet he keeps coming back trying again.  Will Ryan be able to keep her safe and finally bring this man to justice?

** Book Review ** THE CATTLEMAN’S PROPOSAL by Helen Lacey

The Cattleman's Proposal

4 STARS!

A feisty yet sweet introduction to Helen Lacey’s Men of Mulhany Crossing series!  Great characters … I look forward to seeing more of them as the series continues!

Joley McBride doesn’t like Nate Garrigan when she meets him during a friend’s wedding festivities, and she tries really hard to deny the attraction she feels for him too!  She thinks he’s arrogant and used to getting his own way and doesn’t want any type of relationship with him.  When she finds out he’s bought into her family run Flight School, she’s furious!  She’ll do anything to get back control.

Nate Garrigan is drawn to Joley.  He’s been burned by an ex-wife and no longer believes in love and happily ever after, but he wants passion and a family.  He has set his sight on Joley being part of that future, so he uses her business over her to get her to agree to spend a month at his remote cattle station with him, learning his lifestyle.

As they spend time alone together, they both realize they like the other person a lot more than they expected.  And steering clear of love might just be too hard to do!

ARC received via Author/VA

** Blog Tour / Book Review ** DIRTY SEXY CUFFED by Carly Phillips and Erika Wilde

Dirty Sexy Cuffed

5 STARS!

In Book 3 of the Dirty Sexy series, we get Levi’s story, and even though I have loved them all, I think I have to deem him my favorite Kincaid brother!  He’s sweet, dependable and kind … and then his sexy, dirty side comes out and just knocks your socks off!  Great characters, a sweet “finally finding the one for you” story, and the ending … WOW, I was not expecting THAT!

Sexy cop, Levi Kincaid, is the solid, dependable brother, and he shows that side of him again when he helps Sarah Robins out of a sticky situation late one night!  When he turns his sexy flirting side loose on her and promises to claim her as his in every way, she’s not complaining one bit!

Has this confirmed bachelor met his match and the one that he won’t let get away this time?

ARC received via RockStar

 

 

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Dirty Sexy Cuffed
Dirty Sexy Series Book 3
June 21, 2016

 

BLURB:

As a cop, Levi Kincaid is all about discipline and control . . .in the bedroom, and out of it, and he’s always been very careful about choosing women who abide by his rules.  Hot sex and intense pleasure?  No problem.  Emotional commitment and forever promises?  No way.  But he never anticipates falling for a blue eyed angel who makes him want to cuff her to his bed and do dirty, sexy things to her.  And that control of his?  It doesn’t stand a chance against Sarah Robins, the one woman he can’t resist . . .

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29611090-dirty-sexy-cuffed

Buy links:

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iBooks: http://apple.co/1OuNfdz
Google Play: http://bit.ly/1XZOQeI

 

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

***About Carly Phillips***

Carly Phillips is the N.Y. Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of over 50 sexy contemporary romance novels featuring hot men, strong women and the emotionally compelling stories her readers have come to expect and love. Carly is happily married to her college sweetheart, the mother of two nearly adult daughters and three crazy dogs (two wheaten terriers and one mutant Havanese) who star on her Facebook Fan Page and website. Carly loves social media and is always around to interact with her readers. You can find out more about Carly at www.carlyphillips.com.

Website: http://www.carlyphillips.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10000.Carly_Phillips
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Carly-Phillips/e/B001I9W0MS
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarlyPhillipsFanPage
Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlyphillips

***About Erika Wilde***

Erika Wilde is the author of the sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two daughters, and when she’s not writing you can find her exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming releases, please visit website at www.erikawilde.com.

Website: http://www.erikawilde.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5357264.Erika_Wilde
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Erika-Wilde/e/B00CVE4WSO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ErikaWildeAuthorFanPage
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erikawilde1

 

 

More from the Dirty Sexy Series

Dirty Sexy Saint
Dirty Sexy Series, Book 1

Blurb:

Are you ready to get Dirty Sexy with a Saint?

Clay Kincaid knows he’s more a sinner than a saint.  Especially when it comes to women.  With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn’t do committed relationships.  But he does like sex—the hotter and harder, the better.  He likes it fast and filthy, which is why he refuses to even touch someone as sweet and guileless as Samantha Jamieson.  Until he discovers that she likes it just as down and dirty as he does.  Let the sinning begin . . .

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27258517-dirty-sexy-saint

Buy links:

Amazon Kindle: http://amzn.to/1Qcf3DQ
B&N Nook: http://smarturl.it/SaintNook
Kobo: http://smarturl.it/SaintKobo
iBooks: http://smarturl.it/SaintiBooks

 

Dirty Sexy Inked
Dirty Sexy Series, Book 2

Blurb:

Breaking hearts is what wild and rebellious Mason Kincaid does best. Hit it and quit it is his motto, and with his bad boy reputation and tattoos, he doesn’t lack for female companionship. Until one hot night with the one woman he swore he’d never touch becomes an all-consuming addiction he can’t kick. Katrina Sands has been his best friend for years, but now that he knows what she feels like, and tastes like, there is no going back to being just friends. Hot, dirty sex has never felt so good…or so right.


Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28499736-dirty-sexy-inked
Buy links:


Amazon Kindle: http://amzn.to/1V2tOFd
B&N Nook: http://smarturl.it/InkedNook
Kobo: http://smarturl.it/InkedKobo
iBooks: http://smarturl.it/InkediBks
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/InkedGooglePlay

** Book Review ** THE BILLIONAIRE BACHELOR by Jessica Lemmon

The Billionaire Bachelor

5 STARS!

Great first book of a new series by Jessica Lemmon!  I was hooked quickly, and really enjoyed getting to watch Reese and Merina fall hard when they least expected it.  The characters were great, the plot was fun, and the chemistry was off the charts!  Looking forward to seeing the other Crane brothers in the rest of the series.

Reese Crane is a billionaire playboy who doesn’t care what anyone thinks about him, but when his perceived reputation stands in the way of getting his legacy handed down to him, he won’t stand for it!

Merina Van Heusen can’t believe her parents have lost the boutique hotel that she adores!  She will do anything to get it back, even marry that ridiculously arrogant billionaire for 6 months!

Reese needs Merina to help him become dignified and settled in the board’s eyes, and he will use anything in his power to get his way.  They agree to a temporary marriage with the reason behind it remaining secret.  Once he gets his job, they will divorce and she will get her hotel.  Only neither of them take into consideration that they might actually fall for each other during all of their pretending!

ARC received via Publicist/NetGalley

** Blog Tour / Book Review ** INTO THE FIRE by Meredith Wild

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4 1/2 STARS!

Book 2 in The Bridge series really got under my skin!  I liked Cam’s story in the first book, but I just had trouble connecting with Maya.  In this book, it was totally different.  Vanessa was a joy to let in and I really enjoyed watching her find the strength to take a chance on Darren!  I’m not a huge fan of uppity Bridge sibling Olivia, but I hope to see a hunky man make her find that heart inside her chest in the final book in the series, coming later this year!

Hunky firefighter Darren Bridge loves life!  He loves his job, and in his down time, he loves hooking up with the flavor of the night, often someone he’s training at his brother’s gym!  He’s out at a bar with his buddy Ian one night and runs into Vanessa.  He had spent an evening with her months ago when they were out with Cam & Maya, but Cam made him promise not to put the moves on her, so the night ended innocently.  He hasn’t forgotten her, and now that she’s in front of him again, he can’t take his eyes off of her!

Vanessa Hawkins works super hard and when she finally gets to leave the office, she’s ready to have a good time!  She can’t deny the sparks that fly when she runs into Darren again, but it’s not long before he’s got another chick hanging onto his every word, so she heads out.  She’s maid-of-honor at her BFF Maya’s destination wedding to Cam, so she’s ready to hit the road for a much needed break!

Darren uses his charm to finagle some time with Vanessa and convinces her to give him a chance while they are on the island.  When they return to real life, will they be able to over come the obstacles from both of their lives to actually enjoy a relationship together?

ARC received via Bare Naked Words
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The Bridge Series follows Cameron, Darren, and Olivia Bridge, three siblings living in New York City. Desperate to break away from the crushing expectations of their wealthy and privileged and equally broken family, they carve out a new path together. But can they find real love along the way?

 

Each book follows a different sibling’s journey and can be read as a standalone.

 

Synopsis

Darren Bridge is living a bachelor’s dream. When he’s not running into burning buildings with his crew, he’s training the flavor of the week at his brother’s gym. Few women have ever been off limits…until Vanessa. Smart, beautiful, and legs for days, she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. Too bad he’s sworn to leave her alone.

Overworked with no end in sight, Vanessa Hawkins hasn’t had a vacation in nearly two years. When Cameron and Maya’s destination wedding takes her out of the office for a much-needed break, she finds herself struggling to resist her attraction to the best man. Darren is dangerously good-looking with enough charm to make any hot-blooded woman want to drop her panties and enjoy the ride, no matter how long it lasts.

When they return to the city, Darren realizes the single life has lost its glimmer. But with everything else on her plate, Vanessa doesn’t have room in her life for a man, let alone a player. Can Darren find his way into her heart and convince her that he’s worth the risk?

 

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BARNES & NOBLE

 

All buy links: http://www.meredithwild.com/book/into-the-fire/

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About the Author

Meredith Wild is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of romance. Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast with her husband and three children, she refers to herself as a techie, whiskey-appreciator, and hopeless romantic. When she isn’t living in the fantasy world of her characters, she can usually be found at www.facebook.com/meredithwild.

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Other Books in the series:

On My Knees (The Bridge Series #1)

All buy links: http://www.meredithwild.com/book/on-my-knees/