Saturday, November 23, 2019

Featured Book - Alpha Bully - Renee Rose



I have to say this book took me completely by surprise and blew me away.  There are only a couple type of stories that I really refuse to read, I’m not into historical (I prefer to lose myself in the here and now, you know a fiction book that could actually happen as I don’t have to catch a ride with The Doctor), ghost romances (umm, hello!  Who wants to fall in love with someone that you have to die to really be with?  Seriously!  You have to have an actual physical body to really do the smut justice), and I usually avoid the teenage academy books that seem to be all the rage right now (I’m an adult and never want to relive the aloneness of high school). That being said, Ms Rose has created this little gem of a world and I can’t wait to see where she takes all of the characters in it. She took her BDSM flair and brought it to the WRH (don’t worry!  This couple are over the age of 18) she then added this complex story full of pain, fear, anger, hate, and love and really drove home these real-world issues that most wouldn’t dream of tackling. The best part is that she did it in such a way that it really is just a part of the story.

I fell in love with these characters and the struggles they face as they are making their way to adulthood. (I need to know what happens with Cole’s sister and Pink’s bestie) I hope Ms Rose plans to continue with this storyline because I can’t wait to see what happens next within the walls of WRH.

Click on any of the pictures or links below to head over to Amazon and pick up your copy today. You are not going to want to miss it!

Happy Reading
Sydney




Alpha Bully (Wolf Ridge High book 1)
Published to Amazon on September 4, 2019
Author Renee Rose




SHE RUINED EVERYTHING... I WILL MAKE HER PAY.
Her mom robbed my dad of his job. Destroyed his life.
Now I have to look at her every day.
The girl next door. A human. A hot little nerd.
She doesn’t belong here—not in Wolf Ridge,
not at our high school, definitely not in my life.
She doesn’t know what I am.
Which makes it all the easier to take revenge.
I will bring her to her knees. Pierce her heart.
Make her bleed. For me.
All for me.




Official published review:
Taking all the blame
This book is a fantastic example of how this author is such a versatile writer. She took what would have been a teenage high story and added all the elements that brought it to the next level of wonderful. I enjoyed the way these enemies became lovers, the alpha dominance of Cole and the tender forgiving nature of Pink, and when you factor in the seriousness of every aspect of the actual story it makes for a book you won’t want to put down and will find yourself reading again. I don’t know how she is going to top this book with another one, but I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
5 stars
A GR BB





USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR RENEE ROSE loves a dominant, dirty-talking alpha hero! She's sold over a half million copies of steamy romance with varying levels of kink. Her books have been featured in USA Today's Happily Ever After and Popsugar. Named Eroticon USA's Next Top Erotic Author in 2013, she has also won Spunky and Sassy's Favorite Sci-Fi and Anthology author, The Romance Reviews Best Historical Romance, and Spanking Romance Reviews' Best Sci-fi, Paranormal, Historical, Erotic, Ageplay and favorite couple and author. She's hit the USA Today list five times with various anthologies.

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Friday, November 22, 2019

Featured Series - Stonefire Dragons Shorts - Jessie Donovan



We have a great little series spinoff today as our featured series.  This series is perfect for all ages, even those little ones you just know would love to read about dragons, but are not yet of age for the smut we know and love. 

Have you read any of Ms Donovan’s books yet?  They are full of action, adventure, romance, heat and well dragons. I had to put dragons last, so you weren’t distracted and finished reading the sentence. Anyway, as a part of her series, she has created these adorable little short stories about some dragon and human kids. I’m not usually one for cliffhangers, but these books are just too cute and funny to not get drawn in. It may also be because it would just be weird if she rushed them to adulthood. I hope she gives us more of them as I am enjoying reading about dragons from a child’s perspective.  I would love to see if these two end up being true mates though, they just seem perfectly suited for each other.

To really get a feel for the story though, you are going to have to read them for yourselves. Just click on the pictures or links below to be taken to Amazon. If you love them or loath them leave a comment to let me know.

Happy Reading
Sydney




Meeting the Humans (Stonefire Dragons Shorts book 1)
Published to Amazon on April 18, 2019
Author Jessie Donovan



Ten-year-old Daisy Chadwick wins an essay contest, and the prize is her entire class gets to visit Clan Stonefire. Even if her best friend can’t come because her mom is afraid of dragon-shifters, Daisy is still excited. She’s determined to see a dragon up close and pet him.

Freddie Atherton can’t wait to meet some humans his own age. At least, until he’s paired with a strange one. And not just any strange one, but a girl who may get into more trouble than even him, and that’s saying something.

As the pair bond over a mini-adventure, Freddie learns that humans can be fun. He only hopes their sneaking away doesn’t keep the humans from ever coming back.
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NOTE: This is a story for all ages. So if you have a younger one you'd like to share some dragon-shifters with, this story is perfect!


Official published review:
Friends come from all places
If you have fallen in love with this author’s dragons, you are going to enjoy this short glimpse into their youth. These two trouble finders are the perfect partners is that maybe a sign of their future. Only time will tell, but in the meantime I can see them going on many adventures to answer all of their questions. I hope the author continues to give us looks into their childhood and I am always routing for the HEA.
5 stars
A GR BB


The Dragon Camp (Stonefire Dragons Shorts book 2)
Published to Amazon on July 23, 2019

Author Jessie Donovan


Daisy Chadwick and her class are the first humans to visit the new human-dragon camp near Clan Stonefire, in the Lake District. While meeting dragon-shifters is brilliant, she's more excited to see her friend Freddie again. He even has a surprise for her. Too bad something threatens everyone, and they have to practice safety drills. Will they be able to have their whole camp time so Daisy can spend time with her friend? Or, will the bad things make them all go home for good?

NOTE: This is a story for all ages! It's highly suggested to read the first Freddie and Daisy short (Meeting the Humans) before this one.


Official published review:
Young love?
Freddie and Daisy are so adorable!  They may not be rule followers, but it’s all harmless fun and they are never unkind. Look how they took Emily under their wings and included her. The author has done an amazing job with these short little stories that are going to make you laugh and start guessing at the possibilities. Will Freddie and Daisy end up being fated mates?  Will they find a friend for Emily? Will Daisy’s mom find her HEA?  So many questions from just a few short pages. I can’t wait to see what the author comes up with next!
5 stars
A GR BB


About the author
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Jessie Donovan has sold over half a million books, has given away hundreds of thousands more to readers for free, and has even hit the NY Times and USA Today bestseller lists. She is best known for her dragon-shifter series, but also writes about magic users, aliens, and even has a crazy romantic comedy series set in Scotland. When not reading a book, attempting to tame her yard, or traipsing around some foreign country on a shoestring, she can often be found interacting with her readers on Facebook. She lives near Seattle, where, yes, it rains a lot but it also makes everything green.
Author Website:  https://jessiedonovan.com/


Freebie Alert - Wicked Grind - J. Kenner



It feels so damn good to be bad…

Wicked Grind, a steamy, second chance romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. Kenner is FREE for a limited time only! 

Don’t miss your chance to grab this FREE read! 




Bad boy photographer Wyatt Royce’s career is on the verge of exploding. His sexy, controversial show has everyone buzzing. All he needs is one perfect model to be his centerpiece.

Then Kelsey Draper walks in. Stunning. Vibrant. And far too fragile for a project like this. Wyatt should know—after all, he remembers only too well how their relationship ended all those years ago. 

Desperate for cash and to lose her good girl persona, Kelsey sets her sights on Wyatt’s show. But only the show. She knows all too well that Wyatt Royce is a danger to her heart.

Wyatt agrees to give her the show on one condition. He has complete control of his muse—on camera and in his bed. As business and pleasure blur, Kelsey can’t help but wonder if she’s in too deep. Could a good girl like her ever be enough for a man like Wyatt?

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Featured New Release - Bullied by Her Mafia Man - Sam Crescent




 I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love this new book by Sam Crescent. Okay, obviously I can as I am writing about it, but it was just that good that I’m still living in the story.  (Is there a way to leave a 10 star review?) I have been super busy the last couple of weeks, getting 40 driving hours in with my oldest (who knew it was so tiring sitting in the passenger seat) and a whirlwind trip to Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA for dance auditions for my youngest (6 more hours each way in the car, only I had to be behind the wheel and 2 nights in a hotel) add to that a full time job and a ton of dance costumes due by December 1st and it’s all I can do to breathe let alone keep up with my ARC schedule. I haven’t had time to think about the books I want to read from my TBR folder.


That changed last night. Wednesday my oldest got her driver’s license (yikes!  Look out world) and yesterday we received the word that my youngest got accepted into the dance program, with a merit scholarship, (woohoo!) so I decided to celebrate with a few hours with a new book. (Probably not the best decision to start reading it at 10:30 PM)  OMG!  I couldn’t have picked a better book!  This author is always pushing the envelope and yet never lets me down by going to far over the line. I can’t believe I’m saying it, but she really outdid herself this time. This book has all of those real life emotions that really make the characters jump out of the pages.

You will not want to miss this story. I already want to re-read it and I’m still living in the moment. Just click on the pictures or links below to grab your copy from Amazon.

Happy Reading
Sydney



Bullied by Her Mafia Man
Published to Amazon on November 20, 2019
Author Sam Crescent




Laura Davis hates Marcus Giovanni. For as long as she’s known him, he has hurt her and gone out of his way to humiliate her. There was no way she was ever going to marry him. But forced down the aisle, she has no choice. The mafia won’t take no for an answer, and any fight she shows is ignored. She is now a Giovanni and at his mercy.

Marcus never wanted to marry Laura. Why would he? She’s nothing like the placid, submissive women of his world. She’s a fighter—and now he has to get her pregnant. To make sure her family’s fortune returns to the mafia’s control, he has to have a son with Laura.

Only, Laura has gotten under his skin, and when he looks at her, he no longer sees a problem but a beautiful woman—and Laura sees there is more to Marcus than the mafia bully she remembers. All this time, he’d pushed her away, and she was right there, in front of him.

When his newfound happiness is threatened, Marcus has no choice but to protect the girl he once bullied and pushed aside. Will he make it in time?




Official published review:
Is it hate or is it love
This has to be one of my favorite books by this author!  She has filled the pages with so many emotional highs and lows and even thrown in a dash or two of excitement and danger. I don’t even think you can really call this a from enemies to lovers story, more like a from surface emotions to true emotions story. Regardless, she had me enthralled from the first page and, even now, at the end, I wish there was more to read. I can’t say enough, how much I truly enjoyed this book, I can only hope her next offering is just as amazing.
5 stars
A GR





Sam Crescent is a USA Today Bestselling author who is obsessed with romance in all forms. She writes about real women with real problems, with the occasional day dream mixed in.

She resides in the UK, and loves creating new exciting characters that take her on a journey she never expected, after all, she's on a journey she only ever imagined in her wildest fantasies.

When she's not causing chaos in a word document, or arguing with a character (they live inside her head), she can be found causing just as much destruction in her kitchen! She totally needs a personal cleaner.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Surprise Cover Reveal - Tease Me - J. Kenner



From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Kenner comes a new story in her Stark International series…



Tease Me, an all-new steamy, full length standalone in the Stark World from New York Times and #1 International bestselling author J. Kenner, is coming March 10th!

Entertainment reporter Jamie Archer knew it would be hard when her husband, Stark Security Chief Ryan Hunter, was called away for a long-term project in London. The distance is difficult to endure, but Jamie trusts the deep and passionate love that has always burned between them. At least until a mysterious woman from Ryan’s past shows up at his doorstep, her very presence threatening to destroy everything that Jamie holds dear.

Ryan never expected to see Felicia Randall again, a woman with whom he shared a dark past and a dangerous secret. The first and only woman he ever truly failed.


Desperate and on the run, Felicia’s come to plead for his help. But while Ryan knows that helping her is the only way to heal old wounds, he also knows that the mission will not only endanger the life of the woman he holds most dear, but will brutally test the deep trust that binds Jamie and Ryan together.


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About J. Kenner

J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly,  Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over one hundred novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.

Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy,  and paranormal mommy lit.

JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them.” A six time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy) and in 2017 for Wicked Dirty in the same category. Her Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (as Julie Kenner) is currently in development as a television show.

Her books have sold over three million copies and are published in over twenty languages.

In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas.  She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.


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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Cover Reveal - Wild Card - Renee Rose




Synopsis 

“YOU’RE IN BIG TROUBLE, DOLL”
The little hacker stole from the Family--hundred fifty grand. 
We Tacones don’t take kindly to thieves.
Not even when they come in a package as cute as hers.
Not even after she shows me how high her freak flag flies.
Now there will be hell to pay for my sexy geek.
And I’m the one coming to collect.
But when she ends up in jail for the transaction I ordered her to make
I decide to bail her out. Because she’s a wildfire.
A force of nature too bright to be put out.
And I don’t need the money.  
I’d rather have her.




About the author

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR RENEE ROSE loves a dominant, dirty-talking alpha hero! She's sold over a half million copies of steamy romance with varying levels of kink. Her books have been featured in USA Today's Happily Ever After and Popsugar. Named Eroticon USA's Next Top Erotic Author in 2013, she has also won Spunky and Sassy's Favorite Sci-Fi and Anthology author, The Romance Reviews Best Historical Romance, and Spanking Romance Reviews' Best Sci-fi, Paranormal, Historical, Erotic, Ageplay and favorite couple and author. She's hit the USA Today list five times with various anthologies.




Featured Series - Sylvan City Alphas - Reina Torres



Have you read any of this author’s amazing books yet?  If not, I highly recommend you start with the Sylvan City Alphas series.  These books take those hot alpha males that we love to drool over (Come on admit it, you know you drool over these guys.  Okay, I know I drool over these guys) and highlights their soft gooey centers.  You know the one that we hope to find in every gorgeous single guy we meet.  (Or is it just me???)  Ms Torres brings a real mashup with these books, as they include some of our favorite collections.  There is a Howls Romance, oh yeah, you know this could happen in real life, well minus the shifter part, (Darn!  That is one of the best parts!), two from Milly Taiden’s PDA world, I just love Gerri, classy and strong with a undeniable knack for matching couples up perfectly, and one from the BAD Alpha Dads, I always love to see these hard alpha males turn to mush when it comes to their kids.  I am not sure of the release date, Ms Torres has only teased us with the thought that they will be releasing in 2020, but she is actually going to be adding two more books, from the BAD Alpha Dads collection, to this series.  I can’t wait!!! 

You guys are going to want to start this series from the beginning before those new books hit the Kindle.  Just click on any of the images or links below to go out to Amazon and grab your copy today!

Happy Reading
Sydney




The Tiger’s Innocent Bride:  Howls Romance (Sylvan City Alphas book 1)
Published to Amazon on January 9, 2018
Author Reina Torres




When he saw his mate for the first time, her life was in danger. Keeping his Tiger a secret was no longer an option.

Every day was a struggle for Tiger Shifter, Devlin Kerr. Booted from one Police Department due to his ‘questionable attitude,’ he’d landed in Sylvan City determined to give the career another go. What was an Alpha to do?
Three weeks of even more bull and inside politics was already souring him on law enforcement all together when his Captain suckers him into working extra security at a society event.
A society event that ends in gunfire and blood.
And smack dab in the middle of the crosshairs? His mate.
Secrets be damned, Devlin did what it took to save her and suddenly danger is coming at them from everywhere.
Death, he could handle. Mayhem? Sure, just another walk in the park.
People going after his mate? That wasn’t going to fly. He was going to do whatever it took to keep her safe from danger…
…but who was going to keep Paige Lundin safe from him? Less than a day after they’d met, she was The Tiger’s Innocent Bride.

*This is Book 1 of the Sylvan City Alphas Series. As the series goes on you'll meet Alphas of a number of different species who will find their mates amongst the citizens of this city, complete with lush woods and fields as well as a concrete jungle. These hard-edged heroes and their lusciously-curvy mates are turning this island into a shifter paradise filled with Happy Ever Afters. *




The safety of a mate
What an amazing start to a series!  The author put together this exciting beginning and slowly began to introduce characters we are sure to find in future stories. I love the close knit community, the willingness to rally together and the ability for them to change. I loved this book all of the way to the HEA and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
4 stars
A GR BB


This book is part of the Howls Romance collection





Too Much Too Bear:  Paranormal Dating Agency (Sylvan City Alphas book 2)
Published to Amazon on July 18, 2018
Author Reina Torres




Boone Wayland was a shifter, a problem solver, and a protector, not always in that order. When he decided he wanted to find his mate, there was only one place to go… the Paranormal Dating Agency masterfully run by Gerri Wilder. He’d visited the website in the few minutes that he’d managed to wrest control of his computer from the teenaged shifters he fostered and read a number of her reviews… okay, all of the reviews. He contacted the Agency because it was the boys that he’d been thinking of.

Mostly.

Partly.

Okay, not really.

He wanted a mate.

Hungered to hold her to him, make her smile, lose himself in her eyes and her body for the rest of his life.

But, finding a mate when he had a store to run and a houseful of boys to raise made the traditional model of ‘dating’ nearly impossible.

It seemed like a Hail Mary pass one might make in a sporting game, but if there was one thing Boone didn’t have in his life it was time. So, he picked up the phone and asked Gerri for her special brand of help.


Willa Barnes wanted a family so bad she could almost taste it. The future would be as sweet as the fruit pies that she was known for at her boyfriend’s Diner, and it was all within her grasp.

But that was before Charlie ran off with the hostess at the diner, leaving Willa to watch the shop while he was on his honeymoon in Las Vegas.

Hearing her woeful story, her favorite customer has a crazy idea. It turns out he knows a matchmaker and that feisty matchmaker just might know the perfect man for Willa.

Only, he’s not just a man.

Willa’s fascinated by the idea of meeting a bear shifter, but it’s not just becoming a wife that’s the offer on the table. He’s got a whole bunch of teenaged shifters that are waiting for her too.

Is this ‘insta-family’ just what Willa wants or will the reality of it be Too Much to Bear?




Her big ole teddy bear 
This author does just such a fantastic job of building her characters and making us fall in love with them. From her sweet teddy bear who takes in strays and gives them a new life, to the kind giving woman Gerri pairs him with. Together this pair is an unstoppable duo who build each other and their boys up into the family they are meant to be. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series. 
4 stars 
A GR BB


This book is part of Milly Taiden’s Paranormal Dating Agency world





The Fighter (BAD Alpha Dads) (Sylvan City Alphas book 3)
Published to Amazon on March 20, 2018
Author Reina Torres




The first rule about owning a fight club is it’s no place for kids. Even shifters.
Cage Gamble, a Jaguar Shifter in Sylvan City, owns the first licensed ‘fight club’ where men and shifters could fight in the ring or the cage. It was a good life, some work and a lot of play, until he was called to England to take custody of his best friend’s daughter. Her father’s sudden passing left her in Cage’s care. He could handle a berserk bear shifter or a gorilla full of rage with one hand, but a moody teenage lioness? Not so much.
Just when he was nearly ready to string himself up from the nearest light post and jump, his old commanding officer throws him a lifeline.
Maggie Fordice, the Colonel’s once rebellious daughter, is all grown up and moving home to Sylvan City. On paper she was just what he needed, a teen-whisperer. But up close and very personal, she was also what he didn’t need. Whip smart and voluptuous, she was a woman who could send him up in flames with a look or a wiggle.
Maggie was ready to light a match and burn his resistance to the ground, even when helping him brought danger to her doorstep. Was Cage going to fight what he felt for the fiery woman who lived across the street? Or was he going to fight for what they could have… everything?




Fighting to win
This book has so many layers, a woman who fought her way back from self-destruction, a girl fighting to come to terms with the loss of her parents, and the alpha male fighting to bring his family together. The author really surpassed the challenge of the Bad Alpha Dads and brought us this book that had so many realistic qualities that I could see the film play in my head. I loved the return of old characters and the introduction of new ones and the exciting story that brought us to the HEA. I can’t wait until the next time the author takes us back to Sylvan City, I’m sure it will be memorable.
5 stars
A GR BB


This book is part of the Bad Alpha Dads collection





Bear His Mark:  Paranormal Dating Agency (Sylvan City Alphas book 4)
Published to Amazon on July 23, 2019
Author Reina Torres




Hollis Kent has been the dutiful heir to the Black Hills Bears, but even her own father has decided that his patience is coming to an end. Hollis is a bear shifter unable to shift, and to keep her place in the line of succession with her clan, she must find her mate. She’s met more than her share of shifters who were eager to make a match, but no one came close to capturing her interest or stirring anything within her.

That’s when she went to the Paranormal Dating Agency and put her future into the hands of Gerri Wilder.

Conor Hill has seen other shifters around him find their mates and discover the happiness that seems just out of his reach. His neighbor, Boone Wayland, found his own mate through the Agency and lives an idyllic life. He’s been a soldier and shed more blood than he’d care to admit. Can he find a mate who would bind herself to him and soothe his wild soul?




You have to believe
If you have never taken a trip to Sylvan City this is a great book to go with. Every time this author takes us on a road trip to Sylvan City, we get to hook up with old friends and make new ones. I love this book! I love how she is sure that he is her mate, but is afraid that she isn’t enough for him. The author has made him equally as wonderful because she is all that he wants. With devotion like that you just know the HEA is going to be epic. I can’t wait to read what happens next in Sylvan City! When every book gets better and better you just know it’s going to be awesome.
5 stars
A GR BB


This book is part of Milly Taiden’s Paranormal Dating Agency world







Who would have thought that I'd start off as a painfully shy child writing stories and end up as a painfully shy adult writing books and publishing them for others to read? Crazy? That's me!!

When I was a little girl, I read every book I could get my hands on and if I didn't have one available to read, I'd get out my pencils and paper and write down stories and scenes. Waiting for my mom to finish working, I'd duck into the ladies' breakroom and use the typewriter. I'd feel like Jessica Fletcher, happily tap, tap, tapping away until I got to 'The End.' Couldn't quite get the flourish after that and end up tearing the paper, but it was cool and scary to sit down and read the book or give it to my friends to read.

Now my 'typewriter' doesn't clack the same way and the I don't even have paper to pull out of it with a nod of satisfaction, but I have the joy and excitement of sharing my characters and books with people all around the world!

I hope you'll enjoy reading my books, because I'm going to keep writing as long as the characters are feeling chatty!
Author’s Website:  https://reinatorres.com/




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