** Book Review ** REVEALING HER SEAL by Kat Cantrell

Revealing her SEAL

5 STARS!

In Book 4 of the ASSIGNMENT: Caribbean Nights series, Kat Cantrell is back to weave an intoxicating story about a wounded soldier who doesn’t feel like he deserves anything more than to just exist anymore.

Evan Silva is a strong, silent former SEAL who came back from war as a changed man. In his mind, he dug himself a hole to hide away from the world as he watches life pass him by.  He is there for his SEAL brothers, and they accept him just the way he is.

Sexy lawyer, Rachel Blume came to the Bahamas on vacation with her best friend, but ended up deciding to stay.  She’s working with the guys to try to save the island they run their adventure excursions to from being taken over by a big mogul around the area.  She has her eyes set on Evan and refuses to accept his silence as a road block!  Will she finally be what he needs to break down the barriers he erected around his heart and soul?

**  Received free in exchange for an honest review – Author  **

** Book Review ** STARFISH MOON by Donna Kauffman

Starfish Moon

4 STARS!

Book 3 in Donna Kauffman’s The Brides of Blueberry Cove series brings us Kerry McCrae’s story.  She came home previously to attend a family wedding, then ended up staying to help Uncle Gus after his stroke.  Now, more than a year later, her wanderlust still has not pulled her away, when a blast from the past shows up to proposition her!

Cooper Jax and his family own a major cattle station in Australia that Kerry worked at for a year before she came home to Maine.  She had never stayed in one place that long, but she loved the work and the family wormed their way into her heart.  Cooper is there to tell her that it isn’t the same without her, and to see if she will take a chance on whatever this thing is between the two of them.

Kerry has never been the settling down type, and she doesn’t even stick around for her own family, so she’s terrified of taking a chance and failing.  Will Cooper be able to show her the way to love that will still let her feel free?

**  Received free in exchange for an honest review – NetGalley **

** Blog Tour / Giveaway ** RETURN OF THE BAD BOY by Jessica Lemmon

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Return of the Bad Boy
Second Chance #4
By: Jessica Lemmon

Releasing April 26, 2016
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He’s a mess…

Asher Knight has three constants in his life: music, beautiful women, and a bottle of Jack. He lives for the next gig, the next city, and dreams only of a life spent in front of an arena full of screaming fans. But Asher’s nomad ways come to a sudden stop when he learns he’s the father of a three-year-old from a past relationship and suddenly this rock star bad boy is forced to put down roots.

Only she can clean up

Gloria Shields is no one’s fool. Sure, the sexual chemistry between her and Asher has always been intense, but she’d never risk giving her heart to a man who has a perfect record for breaking them. Except the man desperate to make things right with his newfound son is nothing like the rock god she’s guarded her heart against for years. And it isn’t long before she starts to wonder if life with this bad boy might be the best thing that’s ever happened to her.

 

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EXCERPT:

“Listen, Asher”—she cleared her throat and tore her eyes away from his biceps, which were absolutely delicious and testing the limits of his T-shirt in the most distracting way possible—“I don’t know what you think you’re doing—”

“No, you listen.” He palmed her hip much like Brice had earlier, but unlike Brice, when Asher touched her, her nipples perked up and every inch of her grew warm. Asher’s nearness, one hand gripping her firmly as he looked down at her with dark hunger in his eyes, was so hot she couldn’t think.

The crowd milling around them were having loud, drunken conversations, so he lowered his face to her ear to speak.

“I’m coming for you, Sarge.” His hand moved from her hip to her lower back, his fingers splaying wide and slipping beneath the material of her shirt. “Bet you’ve never had anyone come for you, have you?” His nose moved along her ear, warm breath tickling her skin. “Bet you were a rebellious teen with a nose ring and a bad attitude and all you wanted was to feel good.”

No nose ring, but the rest was scarily accurate.

“Well, guess what, honey?” he continued, his fingertips sizzling on her bare skin. “I’m going to make you feel good. I’m the only one who can.”

He pulled his face away and she had to will her mouth to close. Her teeth clacked together as her brain scrambled to figure out what part she should argue with first. Wrenching a fist around his T-shirt, she tugged him close. A small smile played on his mouth, and his hand went higher beneath her shirt. He was anticipating a kiss, but she wasn’t going to kiss him.

“Listen up, you arrogant bastard.” Anger vibrated through her arms and a charge shot from her toes to the crown of her head. “You don’t get to claim me. I’m not your property. I can do whatever I want.” Because she wanted to wipe that stupid smirk off his face, she added, “And I can do whomever I want.”

His lips flinched, but he didn’t back away, stepping even closer and touching the tip of her nose with his. Her vision was now swimming in dark hair, dark eyes, and the sexiest smirk she’d ever seen.

It’s not sexy. It’s stupid, remember?

But it wasn’t. And the rest of her knew it. Her nipples tightened, her body tingled, and the hand she’d wrapped around his shirt began to sweat…

“You do me, Sarge. No one else,” he said.

“I’m not”—she had to swallow around a very dry throat to finish—“doing you.”

“Brice McGuire doesn’t know how to make your body sing. I do.” He slid his nose along hers and moved his hand from her back to her hair. She shivered. “Want me to make your body sing, Sarge?”

 

Jessica Lemmon

AUTHOR INFO:

A former job-hopper, Jessica Lemmon resides in Ohio with her husband and rescue dog. She holds a degree in graphic design currently gathering dust in an impressive frame. When she’s not writing super-sexy heroes, she can be found cooking, drawing, drinking coffee (okay, wine), and eating potato chips. She firmly believes God gifts us with talents for a purpose, and with His help, you can create the life you want.
Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads | Pinterest

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** Book Review ** THE MOST SCANDALOUS RAVENSDALE by Melanie Milburne

The Most Scandalous Ravensdale

5 STARS!

Melanie Milburne saved the best for last with this fourth and final book in the Ravensdale Scandals series!  Leading up to this one, we saw the three Ravensdale children find true love and start their happily-ever-afters, and in this book, we get to meet the secret love-child of their father that we’ve heard so much about.

Kat Winwood wants nothing to do with her father, whose identity she only recently learned. She doesn’t trust him or anyone associated with him, but unfortunately his hotshot lawyer won’t take no for an answer!

Flynn Carlyon is not only the Ravensdale family’s trusted lawyer, but also a dear family friend.  He’s determined to bring Kat into the family fold … but he also has his own reasons for not walking away when she rejects his overtures.  The sizzling attraction that has been between them since they first met burns hot!  Will he be able to convince her to give in to it?

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** Book Review ** SWEET FOR A SEAL by Anne Marsh

Sweet for a SEAL

4 1 /2 STARS!

Book 3 in the ASSIGNMENT: Caribbean Nights series is brought to us by Anne Marsh.  She introduces us to bad boy Finn Callahan and turns him lose to charm us with his life story and quirky attitude before she has him stumble across his damsel in distress!

Finn Callahan is a former Navy SEAL, all-around good guy and a sexy player!  He’s partnering with a couple of former teammates in a business off the Florida Keys and is enjoying life.  He loves women, and they love him … but only for a few hours, and then he’s off to the next adventure!

Valentina Fuentes is all for living life to it’s fullest and when she is rescued from a little car trouble by a sexy hunk of a man, she’s only too ready to climb him like a tree!  She can tell just from talking to him that he’s a love ’em and leave ’em type, and that’s just fine with her.

When Finn actually wants more than a one night stand for a change, will he be able to convince Vali that he’s worth keeping around?

** Book Review ** RETURN OF THE BAD BOY by Jessica Lemmon

Return of the Bad Boy

5 STARS!

Book 4 of the Second Chance series by Jessica Lemmon is HOT!  A group of friends that grew up spending summers at the lake together continue to share the ups and downs of life with each other.  They are sexy bad boys, but one by one, love is reforming them!

Asher Knight is a die hard rock star, but he’s taming his ways since he found out he’s a dad to a 3 year old son from a past fling.  He buys a house in Evergreen Cove and settles in to get to know his boy.  He’s determined to win back Gloria Shields while he’s at it!

Glo isn’t thrilled that Asher is in town.  She’s been guarding herself against him for years, but to see this new side to him just might be what it takes to send those walls crumbling!

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** Book Review ** BEST FRIENDS WITH THE BILLIONAIRE by Coleen Kwan

Best Friends with the Billionaire

5 STARS!

If pulling on my heartstrings was Coleen Kwan’s goal when writing this book, she succeeded!  It’s your typical sweet “friends to lovers” trope, but there are several emotional pulls throughout this story that made it go the extra mile for me … the awkwardness a lot of us have felt in life about not fitting in, the sadness of seeing how her family treats her, the strength she had to have to pursue her own life after her dreams were shattered, etc.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and pulled for Cassie the whole way!

Cassie Cooper returns to town for a family function, and takes the opportunity to reconnect with her best friend from college, Kirk Rochester.  They were as close as could be for years and years, until he got married and she moved away.  Now they keep in touch, but it’s more awkward than it used to be.

Kirk came from family money, but he never flaunted it and lived a normal life when they were roommates in college.  Now he’s working for the family business and has a big deal he wants to close, but he has one little problem … he needs a fake girlfriend to make it happen!  He has lived a carefree life since his not-so-happy marriage ended, so he doesn’t have anyone on the horizon to fill the card, so when Cassie comes to town, he asks her!

Cassie has wanted Kirk to notice that she’s a woman instead of “just one of the guys” for years, so she reluctantly agrees to help him.  Will seeing her in girlfriend mode make him wake up and see what’s been right in front of his face for all these years?

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** Book Review ** A VERY EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT by Andrea Laurence

A Very Exclusive Engagement

5 STARS!

In this fifth book in the Daughters of Power: The Capital series, Andrea Laurence takes us on a whirlwind journey with a high-powered media mogul and one of the VP’s he inherits when he buys a company.

Liam Crowe is determined to turn around the scandal-plagued news network he just bought and make it successful and reputable again.  Butting heads with one of his fiery tempered employees might not be the best way to accomplish that!

Francesca Orr throws insults at her new boss under her breath in a foreign language one minute and then is kissing him while stuck in an elevator together the next!  Will she agree to a fake … or maybe real … engagement with him if it means helping the network succeed?

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** Book Review ** THE GROWING SEASON, PT 2: A TIME TO SOW by Leigh Duncan

The Growing Season Part 2

4 1/2 STARS!

In Part 2 of The Growing Season series Leigh Duncan continues to take us on a journey of how a group of siblings continue on after losing their beloved Mother to breast cancer.

Chuck returns to school and attempts to work on his relationship with Tina and actually take her complaint that he shuts her out of his life seriously.

Ann buries her head in compiling her big photography submission and tries to shut out everything else.  After repeated bouts of friction with Cass, she finally decides to cut her lose and stop trying to take care of her for their mother.

Cass continues her downward spiral and finds herself lower than she’s ever been in life.

Can’t wait for Part 3 to release and find how everything plays out.

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** Blog Tour /Book Review ** CALLING IT by Jen Doyle

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4 1/2 STARS!

An explosive debut book by Jen Doyle!  It’s sweet, it’s fun, it’s way sexy!  I laughed out loud on more than one occasion, totally enjoyed it, and will definitely pick up another book by this author when it comes out.

When MLB catcher Nate Hawkins finds himself in the middle of a media scandal while trying to recover from a serious car-accident, he decides he needs to get away from the madness and heads home to Iowa.  He’s got three weeks to try to achieve some calmness in his life before he has to report back to Chicago for spring training with his team.

Librarian Dorie Donelli has had a huge crush on Nate since she was 13 years old, but never expected him to show up unexpectedly at her apartment.  Once the initial mix-up is straightened out, neither of them can ignore the major attraction flaring between them.

Can Nate convince Dorie that this is not just a temporary fling between them?

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Calling It
By: Jennifer Doyle

Releasing April 11, 2016
Carina Press

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 Baseball player Nathan Hawkins needs to get away from Chicago. After a near career-ending car accident and with paparazzi surrounding his penthouse, Nate can only think of one place to go: home. But when he finds his old apartment occupied by a half-naked woman wielding a baseball bat, he’s not sure what to think…except that maybe his luck has finally changed for the better.

Librarian Dorie Donelli never thought she’d get to meet her fantasy man in person—much less while she’s wearing her bathrobe. To her surprise, her nearly naked run-in with Nate leads to more unclothed encounters. But Dorie is sure their fling is only temporary. As long as she remembers he’ll be gone once his life gets back on track, she won’t get hurt. In the meantime, she throws herself into enjoying their three weeks together before he has to report for spring training and go back to his old life.

For Nate, being with Dorie is the only time in months that he finds himself smiling. Laughing. And he has no intention of letting that go. He might even be falling in love…if only Dorie will let him say the words. What they have isn’t just a dream, but the start of a dream come true.

 

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It wasn’t until Nate looked down to turn off the phone that he remembered where he was—that the woman who lived here was down the hall. Hell, she’d probably barricaded herself in the bathroom in order to keep a locked door between her and the stranger who’d barged in on her in the middle of the night.

And ate her dinner, he thought with a quiet laugh.

He’d give her back her phone and let her know he was leaving. Nowhere to stay, but he had a very expensive tiny car he could sleep in.

He found her in the bedroom, changing the sheets, which he would have told her she didn’t have to do if his heart hadn’t just lodged itself directly into his throat, cutting off any possibility of speech. Her pajama pants and T-shirt weren’t nearly as revealing as the robe had been, but her bending over the bed and straightening out the corner stirred up something deep inside of him. And now the only thing running through his mind was how soft her hair would be when he wrapped it around his hand; how warm and wet she’d be when he buried himself inside her.

“Christ, woman,” he groaned. He grabbed the doorjamb above his head and he clutched it so hard he practically splintered the wood.

She gasped as she straightened up and spun around, her hand flying to her chest. “I was… I was just…”

She bit her lip and sank down until she was sitting on the edge of the bed. Her eyes met his, and he had to tell himself he couldn’t take her right here. He needed to focus on climbing out of this hole—he didn’t have the time to fall further in, no matter how enjoyable that might be.

But he couldn’t look away.

Her eyes were a deep dark brown, the same color as the hair piled on top of her head. He wanted to trace the golden skin along her collarbone to the hollow of her throat, wanted his tongue on every part of her. And the glasses she now wore almost undid him.

If she’d been wearing those with the robe? When she’d hiked that bat up over her shoulder?

Holy. Shit. Turned out he liked a woman who would take him on without even blinking an eye. Who knew?

He especially liked it when her interested gaze traveled down his chest, past his waist… He liked it too much, actually. Only the quickly summoned thought of David Ortiz slamming into him at home plate stopped him from embarrassing himself in a way he hadn’t since he was practically a kid.

Even that almost wasn’t enough when she said, “I, um, changed the sheets. So you can take the bed.”

All control vanished as the words just came pouring out of his mouth. “The only way I take the bed is if I take you in it with me.”

His heart nearly raced its way out of his chest in the seconds before she replied, “I bet you say that to all the girls.” Laughter danced in her eyes and a wicked grin came over her face when her eyes again dropped to his cock and then quickly came back up. She bit her bottom lip before whispering, “Hungry?”

Miguel Cabrera. Adrian Beltre. Derek fucking Jeter.

He gripped the doorjamb tighter.

“I could eat,” he answered as evenly as he could manage.

For a moment they just stayed where they were, staring.

When she stood and walked toward him, he almost blinked. This was a dream. It had to be. Or some elaborate setup that Pete had come up with in order to get Nate’s mind off everything else. Put this fantasy of a woman in front of him—feisty and looking so innocent and cute while she offered up anything he wanted to take—until he was so goddamn spent he could finally get over himself and start living his life again.

Except then she brushed past him as she walked out of the room, pausing only to whisper into his ear, “I think you need another minute.”

 

AUTHOR INFO:

A big believer in happily ever afters, Jen Doyle decided it was high time she started creating some. Jen is a member of the Romance Writers of America, as well as a member of the New England, New Jersey Romance Writers and Music City Romance Writer chapters of RWA. She is represented by Sarah E. Younger of the Nancy Yost Literary Agency. She has an M.S. in Library and Information Science and, in addition to her work as a librarian, has worked as a conference and events planner as well as a Communications and Enrollment administrator in both preschool and higher education environments (although some might say that there is very little difference between the two; Jen has no comment regarding whether she is one of the “some”).

CALLING IT is her first book, the first of two which will be published by Carina Press in 2016. It was the winner of The Beacon, the Finish the Damn Book, and the Melody of Love 2014 contests in the Contemporary Romance category, and was also the Contemporary Romance winner as well as the Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Gateway to the Best contest.

 

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