Title: Murder on the Sapphire Bay

Author: Alice J. Black

Page count: Less than 100

Published: January 15, 2019

Publisher: The Parliament House Press

Genre: YA / Teen / Horror

Received: From Kindle Unlimited

Rating:   4/5

Summary:

After securing her first few cases with her new business, Soul Seekers, Peyton decides she needs a mini-break. Bringing her best friend, Olivia, on for a murder mystery tour on a moving train, she thinks she’s found a way to relax. Yet it doesn’t seem like relaxing was meant to be. As she finds herself trying to figure out how the woman in the compartment met her end in a grisly twist of events as well as battling for her life, her only salvation may be in the shape of a blast from the past…

My Thoughts:

Payton and Olivia take a vacation from there ghost hunting. They go on a murder mystery train and end up dealing with a horrible ghost. I loved that an old character re made an appearance in this one. I hope to see them stick around. 

I am loving the adventures that Payton is going on. I can’t wait to see where her and Olivia end up next.

Title: Badd Daddy

Author: Jasinda Wilder

Page count: 350

Published: June 5^th, 2019

Publisher: Jasinda Wilder

Genre: Contemporary

Received: from the Author in exchange for an honest review

Rating:   4/5

Summary:

Lucas Badd…the Baddest of them all, he’s patriarch of the clan, a man with the size and temperament of a grizzly bear whose past holds the keys to not only his own future, but also the way everyone connected to him will move forward as a family. 

Who can tame a man this wild? 

Olivia Goode. A widow, a mother, and a woman who is Lucas’s opposite in every way imaginable. If anyone can, it would be her, but the real question is whether she can move past her own tragedy to see the man beneath the grizzly bear exterior, and whether Lucas has the courage to face his demons and become the man he’s spent the last forty years pretending not to be.

My Thoughts:

This is the 12^th book in the series and I’m completely invested, and I can’t get enough of the Badd Family.

This is one of the more emotional books in the series and I loved every minute of it. I was dreading the end because I didn’t know what was going to happen.

In the previous books we find out that Lucas is an alcoholic and very stubborn to say the least. He wasn’t much of a father to is 3 boys Roman, Remington, Ramsey. The history between Lucas and his twin brother has kept him away from Ketchikan Alaska, until now. He’s been sober a year plus and is hoping that he can make amends with his sons for all the time that he has lost. He works at a hardware store that keeps him busy. In Badd Daddy we see a new side to him. He suffered a terrible accident and he is still dealing with that.

Olivia is an interior designer that moved to Ketchikan to have a fresh start after her husband died. Her 5 daughters are all grown and living on there own all over the US. Lucas comes into her life one day when she is at the hardware while he is completely clueless on what paint he wants to get and making “fun” of the names. So, she offers to help him pick a colour.

The moment that Olivia and Lucas meet I knew that it was going to an amazing read. They had an instant connection and I loved every minute if this book. Lucas maybe a grizzly bear on the outside but on the inside, he is just a teddy bear at heart. Olivia is the perfect match for him, she’s got this sweetness to her but also firm when she needs to be.

These books can be read as a standalone, but I recommend reading them all because the Badd men are ones you definitely want to read about.

Title: His Demand

Author: Lisa Renee Jones

Page count:  235

Published:  Feb 10, 2019

Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing

Genre: Romance Suspense

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating:   4/5

Summary:

Gabe Maxwell is a powerhouse in the boardroom, a man with a dark past he’s buried under success and power. He’s not a white picket fence and forever kind of guy and he’s definitely not into redheads. That is until one corners him, kisses him and thanks him for waking her up. Right before she walks away and leaves him. She’s gone and he’s obsessed.

Then she walks into his office and back into his life, and he has to have her. It doesn’t matter that she’s the kind of woman you marry. It doesn’t matter that she’s everything he avoids because she’s everything he wants. 

Only Abbie isn’t the good girl she seems. She has secrets and a past and soon, she’ll pull Gabe into her bed, her life, and that spells more than obsession. It spells danger. ​

Book one in the Dirtier Duet.

My Thoughts:

This is the first book that I have read by thus author and I really enjoyed it. I’m Defiantly going to have to look into her other work.

Gabe is a hot and mysterious lawyer. I fell in love with this character, there are things in his past that he just wants to leave there but there is a woman that he sees at a bar. They have an encounter that is pretty steamy.

Abigale (Abbie) used to be a lawyer but now she is helping her mom out at a farm taking care of dogs. She is also looking for Reid’s brother to help her with some serious/dangerous legal trouble. With him unavailable Gabe is the one that helps her out.

One of the things that got a tad on my nerves was all the times that Abbie wanted to run from Gabe. I mean I understand because of things in her past, but on the other hand how could you want to leave Gabe, he’s so hot and sexy and wanted to protect her by any means possible. I feel like if they just told one another in the beginning the secrets they both had that it wouldn’t have happened. But then it wouldn’t have made a good story. So, in retrospect I understand that. I just hated they were keeping such big secrets from one another.

Book 2 is Gabe’s POV and I can’t wait to dive into that one next. I also received that one as an ARC and my review for that one will be up in a few days.