5 STARS!

Great new book by Adrienne Giordano centering around the Vegas casino world!  The story and characters draw you into their story quickly and you keep devouring page after page to see what’s going to happen.  Lots of excitement and a sexy romance … and the interactions between some of the characters has you chuckling out loud every so often!

Former FBI Special Agent Kate Daniels is now a Consultant working with casinos to catch cheaters.  She’s been hired by one of Vegas’s biggest names to come into his newest casino and give him feedback on how his well his security is set up to protect his interests.  She doesn’t expect to run into shady dealings and danger right off the bat!

Ross Cooper has been with the company for years and is a top notch VP of operations there at the casino.  He’s got an eye for the ladies, and runs into Kate on the casino floor even before he realizes she’s working there.  Will the chemistry between them be an issue in them doing their jobs?

Several unusual happenings catch their attention quickly and they set out to find out who is up to no good while trying to stay safe themselves!

ARC received via Author

4 STARS!

A sweet & sassy novella in the Dare to Love Kindle World!

Jake Hudgins is a totally broke former NFL player who is a step away from rock bottom when he’s offered a job by his former college roommate.  He wants him to help him develop and deploy a program that will help teach athletes how to transition at the end of their playing careers.  He jumps at the chance even though it means he’s living a lie and pretending he’s still on top of the world!

Aggie Hermann is so tired of men that overlook her just because she’s curvier than the girl next door and has a major chip on her shoulder about working with another one of these athletes who think they are God’s gift and will expect her to do all the work!

Working closely together fires an attraction that they can’t ignore, but when Jake’s lie is exposed, will it derail their fledgling romance?

Received ARC via Author

4 1/2 STARS!

As the first book of an exciting new series by author Julie Miller, APB: BABY knocked it out of the park!  The first scene is a happy family scene, and then terror strikes!  When another mystery is introduced shortly after, we know we are in for an all out nail biter!  I really enjoyed the depth of the characters and the great family backdrop … the only thing I would have loved to see just a little more of, was romance between the main characters.  I’m looking forward to Book 2 in the The Precinct: Bachelors in Blue series!

Kansas City Medical Examiner Niall Watson is emotionally watching his little sister marry her soulmate one minute, then the next there’s a shooting taking place!  He arrives home exhausted after hours of stress to find an abandoned baby screaming his head off at his neighbor’s apartment.

Social worker Lucy McKane has had a crush on her neighbor Niall for ages, but he’s one of these nerdy scientist types that is oblivious to people around him, so she doesn’t think he hardly even knows she’s alive, much less that she likes him.  When she arrives home and he tells her about the baby he found at her house, they set out to find out who he belongs to and how to keep him safe when danger seems to find her everywhere she goes!

3 1/2 STARS!

An emotionally wrenching book!  There’s a backstory of unforgotten love that is reintroducing into the present again, but there’s so much more going on in addition.  She’s a broken person who tries to piece herself back together little by little by blindly stumbling through life and using alcohol to numb the despair to a point that she can shove herself through it.  On one hand you feel really sorry for her, and on the other hand you are cringing at every turn when she’s pushing him away and wishing you could scream at her to stop derailing her chance at a happily ever after!  I enjoyed the book, but I also felt angry at her a good bit … she’s definitely hard to love!

Maya Jacobs regrets the decision she made 5 years ago with every bone in her body, and she became a shell of herself because of her hatred for herself and her heartache at what she threw away.  She numbs herself my partying long and hard just to make it through life and through the stress of her emotionally draining job.  When the past walks in front of her one day, she doesn’t know how to deal with it!

Cameron Bridge has spent the last 5 years living for the Army and putting himself out there as much as possible to try to forget what could have been.  He has finally come back from overseas and settled into life in New York City and thinks he’s fairly happy … until his sister runs into Maya and tells him she saw her.  He tries to pretend it doesn’t mean anything to him, but he can’t resist going to see her for himself.

Can there ever be a way to go back?  They’ve spent 5 years going through the misery they felt over losing the other one, and soon after spending time together now, have to admit they never stopped loving each other.  They are both different people, but especially Maya.  Can they find their way back to what they were and have that future together in the end?

5 STARS!

Really loved this continuation of Janie Crouch’s Omega Sector: Critical Response series!  We are pulled into the intrigue immediately, and it only gets deeper when a second case is introduced.

At 19, Andrea Gordon’s life was turned around when she was instrumental in stopping a bank heist and recruited to be an Omega Sector agent.  She keeps her head down and does her job and doesn’t interact much with the outside world … or even her fellow agents … until Brandon Han.

Brandon is a super smart profiler, and prefers to work alone, but an order is an order.  Once he spends the first couple of days working with Andrea on a new serial killer case, he finds that she’s not the cold fish everyone thinks she is.  And he actually likes her … which is helpful since he’s been attracted to her for years!

Will they be able to track down this killer before he strikes again?  And when danger from her past arises, will Brandon be there to save the day?

ARC received via Tasty Book Tours

Man of Action
Omega Sector: Critical Response #4
By: Janie Crouch

Releasing June 21, 2016
Harlequin Intrigue

BLURB:

He was a man of action—especially when it came to protecting his new undercover partner…

At nineteen, Andrea Gordon’s life was forever changed. After proving herself instrumental in a bank hostage crisis, she became one of Omega Sector’s top agents. Four years later, her skill at reading people is unrivaled—until she meets fellow profiler Brandon Han. Paired together to track a serial killer who has been targeting at-risk women, the two become entangled beyond the case. Their mutual attraction deepens as they get closer to the truth. But when Andrea’s own sordid past surfaces, they will both be forced to question everything about the assignment…and each other.

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EXCERPT:

This whole thing was a terrible idea. Going back to Buckeye? Terrible. Going back with the likes of Brandon Han? Even worse. The plane hit some turbulence at thirty-five thousand feet, as if nodding in agreement with Andrea’s conclusion.

Brandon didn’t want to work with her on the case. He’d made that abundantly clear in Steve’s office. She wanted to assume it was her fault, that he knew about her shortcomings and lack of education as an Omega consultant, but forced herself to stop. He’d mentioned liking to work alone. She could understand that, too. Andrea liked working alone, but for different reasons.

Brandon’s irritation had been pretty tangible when she’d sat down next to him at the airport. It had just grown as they waited for their flight, first when she’d mentioned him being complicated, then when they were both looking through the case files.

By the time they got on the plane, about an hour after their scheduled departure time, Brandon was hardly even talking to her. He was mad—she had no idea why—and she was awkward—as usual around someone she was so attracted to. Good times.

Andrea tried to pretend she was reading the files when he handed them to her, but she wasn’t. She knew better than to even try. Her dyslexia made reading simple books difficult, although she had learned some exercises to help with that. But reading handwritten notes and case files often written in different fonts and sizes—that pretty much just led to a headache and frustration.

She’d had an extra hour at her apartment so she’d used the special software on her computer to scan a few pages so they could be converted into audio clips. She’d found that listening worked much better for her than trying to read. Unfortunately she hadn’t had enough time to scan all the files as she normally would.

Listening to the files on audio clips had just made Brandon more irritated. Andrea had no idea what to do about that, so she ignored it. She would listen to the clips she had, then spend this evening—all night if she had to—reading through the files in her room, when she was alone and it was quiet. She refused to go into that meeting with the local police tomorrow unprepared.

She didn’t want to go back there at all. If it wasn’t for Steve asking her to go, Andrea wouldn’t have done it, serial killer or not.

Maybe they wouldn’t run into anyone she knew. Or maybe the people in Buckeye wouldn’t recognize her. She’d gone to great lengths to look nothing like the girl who had worked at Jaguar’s. Her blond hair was shorter, cut in a flattering bob; her makeup was tasteful. She’d learned how to dress and present herself in a professional manner.

She doubted her own aunt and uncle would recognize her. Not that she planned to drop in on them. She hadn’t seen them since the last time her uncle, in a drunken stupor again, had awakened her with a backhand that had sent her sprawling from her bed to the floor when she was seventeen. Another punch had sent her hurling into a glass table. She’d gotten away from him and hidden that night, wrapping her cut arm in a T-shirt.

The next morning she’d told her aunt, who’d looked the other way again during all the commotion, that she was going to school.

Andrea hadn’t gone to school. And she hadn’t gone back home. Ever again.

She hadn’t gone far, just to the other side of the town she’d only ever known as home, but they hadn’t come looking for her. Had probably been relieved that she’d left.

So yeah, no joyous homecoming in Buckeye.

AUTHOR INFO:

Nominated for the 2014 & 2015 Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award, and a finalist in multiple other Romance literary awards, Janie Crouch loves to read – almost exclusively romance – and has been doing so since middle school. She cut her teeth on Harlequin (Mills & Boon) Romances when she lived in Wales, UK as a preteen, then moved on to a passion for romantic suspense as an adult.

Janie recently relocated with her husband and four children to Germany (due to her husband’s job as support for the U.S. Military), after living in Virginia for nearly 20 years.  When she’s not listening to the voices in her head (and even when she is), she enjoys traveling, long-distance running, movie-watching, knitting and adventure (obstacle) racing.

She teaches online communication classes for an American college part time, and writes full time. Most of all, she loves to laugh and smile and count her blessings. And her blessings are many.

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5 STARS!

He’s cocky … she’s feisty … and together they ignite!  Such a fun read!  I smiled, I chuckled, I awwww’ed, and most of all, I devoured every word and lived their hook up right along with them!

Who would have thought a rehab center would be the it place in town to find romance?  Prima ballerina Noelle Nelson and hotshot pro baseball player Jace Monroe certainly didn’t go there looking, but they had fun warming up the sheets one they stumbled across each other!

Noelle is doing everything her physical therapist tells her to do in order to be able to get back to dancing as soon as possible.  She certainly doesn’t need any distractions, but she can’t resist sexy bad boy Jace Monroe when he arrives to rehab his elbow!

Will they get enough motion back to return to their careers?  And if they do, that’s across the country from each other … will their romance survive or was it just a temporary fling?

ARC received via Author

4 STARS!

The latest in Eve Duncan novels does not disappoint!  It’s filled with lots of mystery, danger and intrigue, with a dash of romance as Eve and Joe do best!

In the prior book, Eve reconstructed a skull of a missing child that led them to discover that child’s little sister, still on the run trying not to be killed too.  Eve vowed to protect Cara Delaney and take her home with her and Joe.  This book picks up with a whole lot more danger headed Cara’s way and Eve and Joe trying to figure out how to keep her safe.  They decide that Eve and Cara should join their adopted daughter, Jane, on a treasure recovery expedition in the remote Scottish Highlands, but danger soon follows.

Will Joe be able to figure out a way to get them all safely out of there when they are being hunted through the woods?

4 1/2 STARS!

In Book #2 of her Mason Ridge series, Barb Han continues to weave a spell of intrigue around us!  We thought we had it figured out in Book #1, but now there are doubts about the culprit we saw brought down, and we have to start wondering and suspecting everyone around them again.  A great read filled with lots of excitement and mystery along with great comfort from the closeness of this group of friends and their extended back up of family and more!

Security expert, Dylan Jacobs is asked to look into the strange behavior and disappearance of childhood friend Samantha Turner.  He tracks her down and finds out that she’s convinced The Mason Ridge Abductor is still alive and is stalking her!

Trying to find answers is momentarily put on the back burner when his precious little daughter comes up missing.  Once they figure out that both things are intertwined, they set out to figure out who is playing games with them and get back his little girl!

Will they figure out who the bad guys really are and keep everyone safe?