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[New Post] ARC Review: Wicked Scandal by Rachel Leigh

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Title: Wicked Scandal

Author: Rachel Leigh

Page count: 280

Published: June 14th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Dark Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Wilder Cromwell is pure temptation in a delicious package.
Gorgeous. Smart. Athletic.
He’s also my student.
The minute I saw him, I should have known better. 
But falling for him was as inevitable as breathing.  
He’s more than just a face in my class.
He’s the man who came to my rescue on one of my darkest nights.
Wilder has become a safe haven against my husband’s monstrous brutality.
Being with him is an escape from the cage my life has become.  
With him I’m adored and I’m safe—two feelings I’ve never felt before. 
But one mistake, on one unforgettable night, changes the course of my fate. 
Or maybe, it just put me on the path I was always meant to be on. 
Wilder and I might be wrong to the universe, but in his arms, nothing has ever felt so right.

This was heartbreakingly beautiful. Catherine and Wilder are student/teacher relationship. Cathrine has been through so much, my heart breaks for her. I was hoping that she was going to end up with someone fantastic, but she was able to get more, Wilder is her savior the true hero that she needed. Cathrine had built up some tall walls with her past relationship but that didn’t stop Wilder from trying to break them down. Wilder may be a young and charming guy, he’s also very mature for his age. The chemistry and banter are off the charts.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Twisted Knight by K. Bromberg

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Title: Twisted Knight

Author: K. Bromberg

Page count: 416

Published: September 24th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Kings of Sin meets Things We Left Behind in a gritty, heated romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg.

Holden
They thought they’d managed to get rid of me once and for all. They thought I’d just forget what they did to my brother. But I’m going to make sure that they never forget. If only I can stop thinking about her.

Rowan
No one sees me. Behind my brother, I’m a ghost, managing the family business that he claims to run. But I’m tired of second fiddle. I’m tired of pretending. I’m going to take what’s mine. The only problem? Well, he just came back to town.

Rowan is the face of the family business, she wants to have a more hands on approach when her family would rather her marry and leave the business to her brother. Rowan isn’t going to go down without a fight. Holden is dead set on revenge to make the ones that destroyed his family pay. He gets everything accounted for but the one thing that he didn’t expect was to see Rowan and how much she had changed. The chemistry, connection and heartache were intense. They start of as enemies, but you slowly see them notice that something else is there. This book does end on a cliffhanger that waiting for the next book is going to be torture.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Wild Promises by Lea Coll

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Title: Wild Promises

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 247

Published: February 11th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

It takes more than wild promises to get to happily ever after. Especiallyfor us…
I thought my best friend forgot about the marriage pact we made when we were kids.

She didn’t.

See, Tori needs to prove to her dad that she’s committed to staying in our small town and taking over his medical practice. What better way to do that than getting hitched here?

It would benefit me, too. After all, proving to mybrothers that I was committed to running the family business had become a struggle.

So, I agreed to a fake engagement of sorts. And now, I’m in trouble.

Big trouble.

Because being with her like this? It’s made me long to turn our fake relationship into a real one.

Tori is smart. Driven. Distractingly hot. She’s perfect. There’s really only one thing keeping us apart.

Too bad that one thing is me and the fact that I’ll never be good enough for her…

Reading a friends to lovers getting to reignite the spark they had it is the bread to my butter, peanut butter to jelly?. Tori is working in an emergency room in NYC and has lost herself along the way supporting her boyfriends’ goals. Something changes and Tori needs to return to her small town where she hopes to take over her dad’s business when he retires. Xander has the persona that he’s a player that doesn’t take anything serious. Xander has always had feelings for Tori and with her returning They are able to keep their pact from when they were teens might work in their favor. Reading this series has been amazing thus far. I can’t wait for the others and see what else Lea has in store. This was a beautiful story of two friends that truly meant to be.

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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: 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: Enchanted Enough by Kelly Elliot

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Title: Enchanted Enough

Author: Kelly Elliot

Page count: 322

Published: August 6th, 2024

Publisher: Grey’s Promo

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Finally returning home after years in Paris, ex-model Avery Littlewood never imagined a rerouted flight plan would land her on destiny’s runway. She’s seated next to a gorgeous stranger…and as he shares his story, it’s not long before she discovers why his arresting blue eyes look so familiar. There are several reasons why Beck should be off limits—he lives in Texas; he needs a friend, not a relationship; he’s practically family—but none of that overshadows Avery’s instant attraction for the man the moment she stepped foot on that plane.

Months after his mother’s death, old love letters have given Beck Dahlstrom the courage to seek out the Shaws, the family of the long-deceased father he never knew. He can’t believe his luck when the most gorgeous creature he’s ever seen sits beside him on the plane. When he discovers she’s not only heading to the same small Montana town, but she’s close to his father’s family, it’s more like fate. There are several reasons why Avery should be off limits—she’s considerably younger; they’re from different worlds; her father might kill him just for looking at her—but every glimpse into her stunning turquoise eyes just makes him fall deeper.

Montana, the Shaw family, Avery…all of them soon have Beck enchanted enough to consider big changes. But his life in Dallas also has considerable pull, including a person…or two…unwilling to give up Beck so easily.

Each book in the Love in Montana series can be read as a stand alone. The author highly suggests for a better reading experience you read the books in order.

This book may be love at first sight but its also so much more then that. Avery is returning home after modeling. Her flight back home got delayed and got detoured due to weather. On Avery’s last flight home, she gets seated beside a handsome man named Beck. Beck is instantly awestruck at Avery. During the flight they talk, have great banter. Beck is looking for his late father after just finding out who he was from his mom before she had passed. Avery mentions that she knows the family that he’s looking for and it changes both of their lives for the better. Beck never thought that he would get the chance to meet his family let alone fall in love with a model. While reading you go on an emotional journey that takes you on betrayal, forgiveness, acceptance and heartache.

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