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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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[New Post] All My Kisses For You by Monica Murphy

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Title: All My Kisses For You

Author: Monica Murphy

Page count: 400

Published: June 4th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Sports Contemporary

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Monica Murphy goes back to Lancaster Prep with a new generation of Lancasters, kicking it off with the daughter of Crew and Wren from the BookTok sensation A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime…

Everyone loves Willow Lancaster, and every girl wants to be her. She’s the perfect student. Stylish, kind to all and always flashing that beautiful smile.

After spending her junior year studying in Europe, she returns to Lancaster Prep, eager to kick off being a senior with her friends and maybe even start something up with her old crush?

But everything has changed. Her supposed best friend is dating her crush, new cliques have formed and everyone is OBSESSED with the new guy on campus.

Rhett Bennett is gorgeous. Lethally charming. Absolutely full of himself. He’s also the star quarterback of the football team and suddenly everyone on campus is a sports fan.

He is everything Willow should never want yet…he’s all she can think about. And when she realizes Rhett might feel the same way about her, she’s desperate to throw away her good girl reputation and do bad things.

Only with him.

Getting to see Crew and Wren as parents oh my heart! Willow and Rhett are going into their senior year. Rhett is the new star quarterback and Willow had just gotten back from being abroad. The banter and connection they have is great. Willow is the typical good girl quiet and wants good grades, Rhett being popular and outgoing gave then a great dynamic to have a whirlwind of a ride that keeps you glued to your kindle.

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[New Post] ARC Review: The Player + The Pact = I Do by Louise Bay

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Title: The Player + The Pact = I Do

Author: Louise Bay

Page count: 326

Published: October 10th, 2024

Publisher: Wildfire Marketing

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

I hate my boss. Like, loathe him. Two years ago, he semi-broke my heart and he still doesn’t remember who I am. Okay so I was covered in electric blue body paint, and wearing a wig, but is that a good excuse to not remember the girl you said was your destiny?

Now I’m stuck working for the jerk because only he can give me the job I really want—manager of his hotel.

When he needs a fake fiancé for business reasons, there’s an easy solution—blackmail. He has to give me a trial run as hotel manager in return for wearing his ring.

It’s a perfect plan until he remembers when we first met.

Things suddenly shift and now he’s looking at me with eyes that see straight through to the real me, touching me with hands that make me weak and kissing me with a mouth that threatens to do things to me they don’t even talk about in movies.

There’s just one wrinkle. I don’t trust him not to break my heart again.

A standalone marriage pact romance from USA Today bestselling author Louise Bay.

Leo and Jules are a fantastic couple they have an instant connection and meet cute. They both need one another’s help; Leo needs a fake fiancée and Jules wants to be a hotel manager. They have a relationship that is a slow burn with wonderful banter that will keep you glued to your kindle to the last page.

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[New Post] ARC Book Review: Unbreakable Love by Stacy Lynn

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Title: Unbreakable Love

Author: Stacey Lynn

Page count: 300

Published: August 18th, 2024

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

A small town, single dad, forbidden romance from bestselling author, Stacey Lynn.

I don’t think anyone would’ve chosen to be a single dad before their driver’s license even arrived in the mail, but that was the curveball that life threw at me. While my classmates were partying it up at football games and Prom, I was dealing with ear infections and learning how to be the best kind of dad like my father was to me.

I all but gave up on trusting a woman again and finding love as I had more important
responsibilities: being a proud girl dad to Josie, helping my family out on their ranch, and starting my own construction business.

Then Penelope Pesco shows up and kills my resolve to remain alone. She’s not only the most alluring woman I’ve ever met, but a forbidden one too: She’s my daughter’s new teacher.

Gavin is a single parent at fifteen to his daughter Josie and wants nothing more then for her to be happy. When she goes back to school, she gets a new teacher named Penny. Gavin is fighting his attraction has much as he could because he is focusing on his daughter. Penny is the sweetest she’s had a tuff childhood, she was needing to grow up faster that she had needed and was taking care of everyone but herself, that is until she meets the adorable Josie. Gavin and Josie have wonderful chemistry and banter. I loved watching these two together and breaking down one another’s walls and have a roller coaster of emotions, The way the Kelley family have taken Penny under their wing is so amazing. I just love the Kelley family dynamic.

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