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[New Post] ARC Review: One More Truth by Stina Lindenblatt

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Title: One More Truth

Author: Stina Lindenblatt

Page count: 532

Published: May 30th, 2024

Publisher: Wildfire Marketing

Genre: Romance Suspense

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Jessica and Troy’s gripping story concludes with the third book of the HIDDEN SECRETS TRILOGY as passion and danger collide . . .

After everything she’s been through over the past ten years, Jess should be focusing on her healing. She should be figuring out where her future will take her. And she should be finding herself after her abusive husband ripped away her identity.

Too bad someone else has different plans.

After a national newspaper article reveals to everyone in Maple Ridge about her past and her shame, Jess’s life and plans are put in jeopardy. Prejudices in the town run strong against her—prejudices because of where she spent the last five years.

But it’s not only her life that is at risk. Everything that matters to Troy, the man she’s falling in love with, will be ruined…unless she finds a way to stop it all from crumbling before it’s too late.

Stop it before the truth destroys Jess and all that she loves…

The dual timeline story is the final novel in Hidden Secrets trilogy. The books in the trilogy must be read in order. All other books in the Carson Brother series are standalone.

This has left me with my feelings all over the place. Jess has been though the ringer with her past and soon comes calling her back. This read has it all romance, love, humor, tragedy and suspense plus more. I have read other books by this author, but this one is one that had me the most emotional with everything that happens for Troy and Jess to get there happy ending they both deserve.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Cross My Heart by Lea Coll

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Title: Cross My Heart

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 264

Published: May 14th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

I broke my promise to her once. I won’t make that mistake again. Cross my heart…
Fiona was my first love. She was everything to me. And I broke her heart.

But that was a long time ago. Now, my military career is over. I’m back in our small town, running my family’s inn, hoping for a second chance with the one that got away.

Too bad Fiona no longer believes in second chances. Or love.

Getting snowed in together only made everything more complicated. Because our chemistry?

Hotter than ever.

I’m falling deeper in love with her by the day, and I have no idea where she stands.

I have one last shot to win back the love of my life, to prove to her that I’m in this for the happily ever after.

All I have to do is not screw it all up. Again…

Adian is retired from the military and moves back home to help his siter renovate the Inn that was their grandmothers. While being back he’s happy to be with his sister but has always felt like there was a missing piece that he wanted to find let alone did he think that it was going to walk in the front door. Fiona is back in town to visit family for the holidays she heads to the Inn. When arriving there she never thought that she was going to see Adian again let alone at the front desk. Now they have a second chance at love it was about self discovery, forgiveness and leaving you with a gut wrenching beautiful love story that I love Coll can do when writing a story. That’s why she’s one of my favourite authors.

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[New Post] ARC Review: The Spider and The Storm by Kelsey Kingsley

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Title: The Spider and The Storm

Author: Kelsey Kingsley

Page count: 691

Published: July 19th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Dark Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

From the bestselling author of Saving Rain comes a bittersweet, heartbreaking story about a broken cemetery caretaker and the woman who gave him shelter from life’s constant storm.

Along came The Spider …

They called me a freak.
They called me a loser.

They tormented me and made my life a living nightmare when all I had ever wanted was to be left alone.

And five years ago, after a lifetime of being bullied and harassed, of enduring more pain and trauma than any man could handle, that’s exactly what I set out to do.

I left the only home I’d ever known to lock myself behind the cemetery gates and care for the only people who have ever given me the peace I craved—the dead.

But just as I’d started to feel comfortable, an unexpected stranger broke into my house and fell into my web of reclusive safety, and somehow, opened my eyes to love and the possibility that I just might have the strength to weather the storm after all …

Charlie has a rough up bringing with losses and cruelty that he had to endure for so long it was hell. My heart broke for him. I just wanted to be able to tell him that its going to be ok and its going to get better. When he leaves town, he moves to Salem. He’s loving his new life working at a cemetery, he doesn’t want to connect with people, that is until he meets Stormy. While reading this there were times where I felt like I had got kicked in the gut others where I was just tearing out of no where. It was a beautiful portrayal of grief, mental health, trauma but it also showed love and hope. This was a top 2024 read for me.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Northern Twilight by Samantha Young

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Title: Northern Twilight

Author: Samantha Young

Page count: 354

Published: August 8th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

She’s the girl he left behind. He’s the boy she tried to forget. But after seven years apart, one passionately reckless night will tie them together forever …

As teenagers, Callie Ironside and Lewis Adair were inseparable. So much so, Lewis still can’t work out where it all went horribly wrong, or why he’s spent the last seven years in London away from the love of his life.

Callie knows exactly where it all went wrong and while she tried to move on—learning pastry techniques in Paris and dating French men—returning home to Ardnoch to work in her mother’s bakery only reminds her of the future she lost with Lewis.

But when a visit to London brings them unexpectedly together, the passion, pain and animosity between them leads to a one-night stand. For Lewis, it’s the beginning of winning Callie and his life in Ardnoch back. For Callie, it’s a mistake that’s shaken up the devastating heartbreak she fought hard to forget. However, Lewis is determined to fight for her, and proves it when their night together results in more than just unresolved feelings.

As they come to grips with impending parenthood and the mistakes they’ve both made, Callie and Lewis will not only have to decide to fight for a love that has endured so many years apart, but a mysterious adversary who seems intent on destroying the future they’re building together.

Oh, I just love going to Scotland reading these books. Callie moves to a small village in the Highlands when she was a kid. When she got to high school, she met Lewis they were madly in love until their not. Callie moves to Paris to learn more about desserts. Coming home from Paris to help her mom with the bakery. When Lewis bumps into her he realizes the mistake he had made all those years ago and wants to make things right but will Callie be able to forgive him? Watching these two has been an emotional, friends to lovers, small town and so much more.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Three Night Stand by Roxie Noir

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Title: Three Night Stand

Author: Roxie Noir

Page count: 432

Published: September 17th, 2024

Publisher: The Author Agency

Genre: Mental Health Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

She’s the one night stand I never forgot.
And now her dad is about to marry my mom.

It has to be some kind of cosmic joke, right? For once, I feel like I’ve got my life together—good job, great friends, a fresh start in a new place. I’ve been on my best behavior for ages. At last, everything’s coming up Javier.

Until the moment I walk into my stepdad’s house and meet his daughter.

I should say: I meet her again. Madeline and I have already met. It was one night, two years ago. A quick, casual hookup that had no right to be as mind-blowing as it was. I haven’t stopped thinking about it–or her–ever since.

But our parents are getting married, so under no circumstances should we sleep together again.

Or… again. Or one more time after that, just to get it out of our systems.

Madeline’s funny, fiery, and so gorgeous with her pink hair and nerdy tattoos that I can barely look at her without breaking into a sweat. But she has too much going on to be interested in commitment, and God knows I’m a bad boyfriend candidate.

Once the wedding’s over, we’ll be normal stepsiblings who don’t have sex with each other, and Thanksgiving won’t be awkward at all.

Right?

This book starts of with some steamy goodness of a one night stand. Javi is a sweet dirty talker. Madeline is a nerd with badassary when it comes to her job in a man’s world. Javi and Madeline never expected see one another again, a few years later they do, never expected it to be because their parents are getting married. About to be step siblings is a little awkward and they both agree that they can’t be together. Will they be able to move past it and give into their connection and attraction/or will they have to end things because it’s awkward? The banter they have is hilarious the chemistry they have is electric and addictive to know how everything turns out. I can’t wait to read Wyatt and Lainey story in 2025.

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