[New Post] ARC Review: Forbidden Flame by Lea Coll

May 10, 2024May 9, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Forbidden Flame

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 288

Published: April 16th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Christmas Romance

Received: From the Publisher/Author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

Why do forbidden flames always seem to burn brightest?
Daphne Calloway is off limits. Our families have been bitter rivals for years. I shouldn’t want her.
But I do.

Which is why I bid on her at the bachelorette auction. Letting some other guy get his hands on her was…unthinkable.
Then she suggested our date take place in a hot tub and everything got harder. Literally.

See, as a single mom with a new business, Daphne was in desperate need of a fun, sexy, one-night stand—and I was more than happy to deliver. That should’ve been the end of it.

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.

Because now that I know how amazing she truly is, now that I’ve started fantasizing about being there for her and her daughter in a happily-ever-after kind of way, I have a huge problem.

Choosing Daphne could cost me everything I’ve been working so hard for. What remains to be seen is whether any of it will be worth a damn thing if I lose her…

This is the last of the brothers that we got to meet, Lea has saved the best for last. Cole and Daphne have instant chemistry that we get to see in the previous books. They are from the opposite sides of the track having a Romeo and Juliet vibe to their story having their family’s being both against them being together. Despite the odds and certain circumstances, they had faced along the way. One of the things that I loved about them together they were always wanting to have the best for one another and having to make things work. I can’t wait to see the next books that Lea releases.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Endless Hope by Lea Coll

May 1, 2024April 15, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Endless Hope

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 284

Published: March 12th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Christmas Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

It takes more than endless hope to get to a happily ever after in this small town…

Signing up for the fund-raising bachelorette auction seemed like the right thing to do. Sure, it’d be awkward and embarrassing. But it was for a good cause, right?

I never thought my high school sweetheart—my first love, my first everything—would bid on me. But he did.

Talon is grumpy. Borderline antisocial. Far too sexy for my peace of mind.

And he wants more than just one date. I probably should’ve refused. But I couldn’t. Now, spending time with him is making me want things I know we can’t have. Because the truth is that I don’t deserve a second chance.I don’t deserve him.

All I can do is hope I don’t break his heart—again—when he finally figures that out…

Endless Hope is a spicy, emotional, Christmas/holiday contemporary romance featuring a heroine with secrets, and the broody hero who steals her heart for the second (and final) time. Download today and get ready to escape to a magical place with Talon and Holly.

Holly and Talon were teens and were madly in love until tragedy strikes and Holly make the gut-wrenching choice to break things off with Talon thinking that it was going to be for the better. Fast forward to now when Holly is part of a bachelorette auction and when Talon sees Holly, he knows that he needs to win so that he can get the closer that he needs. When they reunite the chemistry was still as strong as it was when they were teens, but will Talon and Holly be able to move on from the past? Or will it be too late? One of the things that I loved is the family dynamic with the Monroe family is fantastic with support for the both of them.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Trusting Forever by Lea Coll

April 17, 2024March 26, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Trusting Forever

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 258

Published: February 13th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Christmas Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

This Christmas, I might finally find my way out of the friend-zone and into my best friend’s heart. Sebastian and I have been best friends forever. He knows everything about me, except that I’ve secretly crushed on him for years. When Sebastian finds himself without a nanny over the holidays, he makes me an offer I can’t refuse. Move into his cabin on the family’s Christmas tree farm and be a nanny to his little girl. I’d love to step out of the friend-zone and into his arms, but it’s time I accepted that Sebastian will always look at me as his faithful friend. Determined to change my single status (and tired of the pitying comments from our families), I jump at the opportunity to participate in the Christmas tree farm’s bachelorette auction. I might not find Mr. Forever, but I might just find Mr. Fun-For-The-Holidays instead. Imagine my surprise when Sebastian outbids everyone to win a date with me. I would’ve considered it a pity date, until I arrive at the ice-rink covered with fairy lights and enough mistletoe to make even Scrooge a romantic. I’m swept out of the friend-zone and into a hot and steamy night with my best friend. Just when I’m sure that my Christmas wish has been granted and Sebastian and his daughter start to feel like family, his ex shows up threatening to destroy everything we’ve built. Will he choose me, or will I be pushed back into the friend-zone?

Sebastian and Hanna have been friends forever, since grade school. She as always had the schoolgirl crush that everyone gets with that one person in their school. Sebastian is a single dad that always puts his kid first, he hears that Hanna has some plans to get back in the dating game, Sebastian comes to the realization that maybe Hanna is the one for him, but will he be able to make it in time? This is a Christmas book but even though it’s past, this book still gives me the warm Christmas feels that we all know and love about a Christmas read. I can’t wait to re read this series as it gets closer to Christmas to get into the spirit.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Reviving Hearts by Lea Coll

January 18, 2024March 26, 2024 LatteandbookzLeave a comment

Title: Reviving Hearts

Author: Lea Coll

Page count: 270

Published: January 9th, 2024

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

This Christmas, I’d better not fall in love with my brother’s best friend… again.A long time ago I fell in love with my brother’s best friend, Heath. We kept our relationship a secret, knowing my brother would never approve. I had faith that in time we would come clean and declare our love to the world, but Heath broke things off before that could ever happen. I fled from my hometown and vowed never to return.

Now I’ve inherited my grandmother’s Inn and I have no choice but to go back. It’s not as simple as just selling the property, it needs to be renovated first. When the realtor said he knew just the guy, I never suspected it would be Heath. The moment he steps back into my life, I can’t deny that the attraction is even greater than it was all those years ago.

While renovating the Inn, Heath is determined to remind me of everything I loved about my grandmother’s property and his family’s Christmas tree farm. Nothing has ever felt more like home, than when I’m with Heath. Could these feelings be real or is it the magic of the holidays fooling me into falling in love with Heath again?

This was a beautiful second chance at romance with Heath and Marley, who had dated in secret back in high school but broke up when things got to be too much for Heath. They went to separate ways and Marley went away to college because she was completely devastated and never wanted to look back. 10 years have passed, and Marley needs to return home due to a passing in the family. When she bumps into Heath again when she gets back to town, Heath is just as attracted to her as he was all those years ago, he feels bad about how things ended with Marley and wants to make things right and to get there they had some struggles, When Heath asked Marley to stay a little bit longer shocked me in the best way because I knew then that Heath was going to do whatever it took to win her back. The title of the book truly fits the story perfectly.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Confessions of a Christmasholic by Joss Wood

January 11, 2024March 26, 2024 Latteandbookz1 Comment

Title: Confessions of a Christmasholic

Author: Joss Wood

Page count: 237

Published: October 19th, 2023

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Christmas Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 2/5

Sutton Alsop hates Christmas. So much so, when confronted with a house that looks like Santa himself vomited Christmas all over it, she accidentally (drunkenly) destroys every fairy light, fake reindeer and candy cane in sight. Unfortunately for Sutton, this house belongs to none other than Gus Langston, single dad and owner of the village’s year-round Christmas shop – aka Mr Christmas himself. But Mr Christmas has a secret only Sutton knows… With the two of them forced together for the holidays, the sparks between them are hot enough to melt even the coldest of hearts!

I like the idea of this book because it’s a female grinch Sutton and a single dad Gus who loves Christmas but at the heart of the story it is more Sutton becomes the nanny after an incident. The story was a cute Christmas story I didn’t have a connection with the book like I thought that I was going to.