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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: Wild Dreams by Lea Coll

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Title: Wild Dreams

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 230

Published: December 10th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher/author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Sometimes it’s the wild dreams that are the most worth fighting for…
I’ve known Marigold for years. But I never saw her as anything other than my sister’s best friend and the world’s sweetest librarian.

Until now.

Asking her to help me form a men’s book club forced me to realize how sexy she is. How sunny.

How much I want her.

Not that it matters. Being our small town’s sheriff doesn’t leave room for attachments of the happily ever after variety. So, engaging in a hot holiday fling with her would be an epically bad idea.

But I did it anyway.

Now, the more time I spend with her, the harder it gets to remember all the reasons why we shouldn’t be together. Soon, I’ll need to walk away. I know I’m not the kind of guy she deserves.

No matter how much she makes me wish I was…

Wild Dreams is a spicy, grumpy/sunshine, forbidden contemporary romance. Download today and get ready for a wild ride.

Marigold is someone that wants to have a relationship, kids, marriage everything. One problem is that she doesn’t want to have a one-night stand. She knows what she wants and won’t settle. Chance is the town sheriff and doesn’t have time for a relationship or anything else. Marigold is best friends with Chance’s sister, so they have known one another their whole lives. It adds a different dynamic to the story that I love. It wasn’t until recently that he as started to notice an attraction. Marigold and Chase both have insecurities that think they both are set up to have a long-term relationship. So maybe it isn’t in their wildest dreams to have a relationship and can make it a reality. As I was reading it felt like I was right along with them in this raw and emotional read I fell as their fly on the wall getting to watch everything and rooting for them.

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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: 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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