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[New Post] ARC Review: The Heartbreaker by Marni Mann

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Title: The Heartbreaker

Author: Marni Mann

Page count: 379

Published: September 12th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

A sizzling and swoony single dad, forbidden, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Man…

Captivated.
Addicted.
Mesmerized.

All the things I felt the minute I saw Addison Lark.
The last thing I’d expected was to fall in love at a strip club.
But Addison was the woman of my dreams.
It didn’t matter that I spent an obscene amount of money just to talk to her.
The fiery redhead made me feel things I’d never felt before.

But she didn’t want anything to do with me.
And she left without a backward glance.
Making me crave her even more.

Imagine my shock when we unexpectedly met again, presenting the most unexpected problem—Addison Lark was forbidden.

But did that stop me?
Did that stop us?

I’d made a promise to start living my life, and I wasn’t going to let that woman walk away for a second time.

Ridge is a billionaire fantastic father to his daughter she is the cutest. Addison is strong and independent with being the sweetest, she is wanting to pay her sister, pay her school loans and a trip, so she decides that she is going to become a stripper to make some extra cash. Ridge and Addison have a unique meet when they do they have an electric connection that will keep you glued to your kindle to the last page. I can’t wait to see what’s next.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Held Against You by Season Vining

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Title: Held Against You

Author: Season Vining

Page count: 285

Published: June 3rd, 2024

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: New Adult

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Accused of a horrific crime and on the run, Kat has been rejected by everyone she loves. She’s a fugitive from her past, flitting from town to town with nothing but the clothes on her back―until she meets a man who literally stops her in her tracks.

A notorious bounty hunter with powerful instincts, he never fails to capture his prey. But there’s something about Kat that gets under his skin. Behind his ice-cold demeanor, he has his own darkness… and now his lively, vulnerable captive is about to crack him wide open.

As they travel across the country together, the two are unable to deny the spark of attraction between them. But dangerous secrets and hidden agendas threaten to tear them apart.

Kat is out on bail for committing a serious crime and ends up on bail and decides the best thing to do is run because that being better than jail. While on the run there only been one person that has been able to find her and that’s a handsome man named Steel. Steel is wanting to retire after he gets his last bounty Kat. There is a little bit of an age gap and that doesn’t stop them because they are one another missing piece. They both have good chemistry I will say that I did have a have a heard time connecting to the book and wasn’t able to till about the last 60%.

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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: 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 Book Review: Alone With You by Aly Martinez

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Title: Alone With You

Author: Aly Martinez

Page count: 379

Published: August 22nd, 2024

Publisher: The Author Agency

Genre: Romance Suspense

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Pain trapped me in this house. Can love set me free?

Death had been chasing me my entire life. I survived the horrors of war, but it was the aftermath that truly destroyed me.

People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn’t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house.

For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine. Once a week, I forced myself to walk to the diner at the end of the block—a ritual I despised but relied on as my last anchor to the real world.

Until the day a “Closed” sign on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the new owner was the most haunting ghost from my past.

It had been years since I’d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me—and rightly so. But when a film crew arrived in town to dig into my past, she became my only ally.

With my secrets threatened, I leaned on Gwen, forging a connection neither of us could deny. But with a past as dark as ours, I feared it would eclipse any hope for a future.

I always said that when Death finally came for me, I would be ready, eager, and alone.
Always alone.

But for Gwen, maybe I could face the world again as long as it meant I could be alone—with her.

I went into this book completely blind just knew it was going to be an emotional one. After reading, I’m completely floored. Truett and Gwen take you on a baffling emotional journey that I didn’t think that would have such an affect on me. Truett has a huge weight that no one should carry. Gwen was a fantastic help to him when he needed it the most. I felt like I was going along with them with everything they were doing. Aly has this amazing talent to write a book with such feeling and emotion that you didn’t think were possible. Grief is hard for everyone and we don’t really know how someone is truly suffering.

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