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The One I Didn't See Coming by Piper Rayne is now live!  It’s the classic story—girl returns to her hometown only to end up moving in with her high school crush, who she hates. Returning to Willowbrook was my only option after Chicago chewed me up and spit me out. Technically, it wasn’t Chicago’s fault. It was his fault—the man I thought I knew who turned out to be a liar. My older sister, always the one to swoop in and fix things, secured me a job as a yoga instructor on her fiancé’s family ranch. As my self-assigned protector, she’s keeping one eye on me and one eye on Emmett Noughton, her fiancé’s brother. He’s the charming, fun-loving, take-life-as-it-comes kind of guy, and once upon a time, his name was scribbled in my notebooks. Back then, I was invisible to him. Now, he’s looking at me like I’m the only thing in the room. But he lost his chance with me a long time ago. It’s easy to keep him at arm’s length and nurse the grudge I’ve held onto for years. Until the house ...

The One I Stood Beside by Piper Rayne is now live!  It’s the classic story—best friends since childhood agree to a fake marriage, thinking they can pretend to love each other without their relationship changing. Jude would do anything for me. He’s stood by my side since we were six, and I’ve done the same for him. When my father dies, leaving our family farm drowning in debt and on the brink of being auctioned, I’m not surprised Jude steps in to help. I just never dreamed he’d fall to bended knee and devise a plan for us to fool everyone into thinking there’s more than a lifelong friendship between us. Soon, I’m moving into his house, we’re planning a wedding on his family’s ranch, and we discover a new side to our relationship. I keep reminding myself it’s not real—it’s only to secure a loan to save the farm. I’ve secretly loved Jude all my life, and now that I know how good we are together, I’m not sure we can return to being just friends. ***4.5 Stars*** Even though this i...

Vamp by Jessica Prince is now live! He has the voice of an angel, the body of a God, and I hate the very ground he walks on.   After having her heart broken, Alma Rossi made a vow: no more relationships. All she wants now is a good time with a guy who won't try to cuddle afterward. She's content with the new life she's built for herself, even if all of her friends are starting their own happily ever afters. But when the man she's tried for years to forget shows up in her town, begging for another chance, he throws her new life off its axis.   From the outside, Roan Blackwell has it all: a shining career as a country music superstar, a house that would make anyone green with envy, and more money that he knows what to do with. But after losing the love of his life, none of that other stuff seemed to matter anymore.   He would happily give it all up just for one more shot with the one who got away. He just has to convince Alma he's worth a second chance. He's not ...

***4.5 Stars*** I do love me some Whiskey’s and Wicked’s and just the Dark Knights in general, so I should come as no surprise that I was all kinds of excited to get my hands on this baby and I thoroughly enjoyed being back on Redemption Ranch and watching Cowboy and Sully come together and get their HEA. I adored both Cowboy and Sully. Cowboy is a protector and at times, overprotective AF, but he comes by it honestly and openly admits it but he will bend - a little - when his overprotectiveness may actually be more harmful than not. Sully was a rockstar. She was in purgatory but didn’t lose who she was at her core and I loved watching as she fought to find out who she was and who she wanted to be.  Their journey to their HEA was definitely a journey. There was a bit of ‘insta’ in there, but I enjoyed watching as they both got to know each other and how they saw who the other was and truly liked each other. And while the one ‘bump’ in their journey is one of my least favorite thing...

Could Hutton French and I actually be right for each other, or is it all just one big tease? TEASE, an all new sizzling friends to lovers, fake engagement small town romantic comedy from USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melanie Harlow, is now available! I didn’t mean to say I was engaged to a hot billionaire–it just slipped out. In my defense, I’d had a really bad haircut, a really strong drink, and I was trying to save face in front of the Mean Girl at my high school reunion. Lucky for me, I happen to know a hot billionaire. Hutton French and I have been friends forever, and even though big social gatherings are not his thing, I called him from the coat closet and begged him for a favor–show up and play my fake fiancé for the night. Except that word of our engagement spreads like wildfire. Our families are ecstatic. We’re front page news. My little food blog is launched into the stratosphere. Of course, I offer to set the record straight righ...

  ***4.5 Stars*** A contemporary romance by a fav author set in her home state?!? Yeah, I made grabby hands at this baby and once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. I loved Bennett and Betty and all of the crazy and interesting folks that inhabit the town of Beauxville, including a very sneaky pig and goat! I adored Betty and Bennett. Betty is all kinds of feisty. She isn’t afraid to speak her mind and has a huge heart. Bennett is charming, sweet and when his alpha comes out…well, it makes him all kinda of everything. As for their journey to their HEA, it was a really fun ride. There was some eye rolling going on as Betty worked her way through her “issues” with Bennett, but mostly they had me grinning like a fool and totally enjoying their bantering and the chemistry between them as they get to know who each other really are. There aren’t too many crazy bumps in the road for them, but one does come up and it is something of a doozy and though there is one thing I wish had happe...

The world took everything from us. And we would stop at nothing until we took it all back—forever. The Difference Between Someday and Forever, the much anticipated and stunning conclusion to The Difference Trilogy from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is now live! The world took everything from us. As survivors of not only a plane crash, but two other impossible tragedies, we’d more than earned a life of peace. But time and time again, we were shown that fate had no intention of giving that to us. Remi and I were soulmates. Plain and simple. Our love should have died in the depths of our darkness, but the sun still exists even when it’s not shining. The secrets of our past threatened to destroy us at every turn, but for Remi, I would never stop fighting for our future. The world took everything from us. And we would stop at nothing until we took it all back—forever. ***4.5 Stars*** What a ride! Not that I was surprised, or that anyone else woul...

***4.5 Stars*** This was a fun read, not that I’m surprised by that, it’s just fact. I was hooked from the start and when I tried to “put it down” I couldn’t and instead found a way to read it while still doing that work thing. I ended up loving both Juliette and Davis in equal measure and I also found myself highly annoyed, but not at the main characters ~ strange, I know, but it’s the truth.And I found that I really didn’t want to say good-bye to Juliette and Davis (and am happy that I won’t have to…at least not fully). As I said already, I loved Juliette and Davis. Both are really good people, with big hearts, but where one is a bit more open to things, the other is a bit more wary. Both have their own brand of honesty and they give as good as they get. Their journey to their HEA was a fun and interesting one, considering the circumstances, but in the end, I really liked how everything worked out for them. This was a fun, light on the angst, with just enough craziness to keep things...

  Title: When You Least Expect It Series: Hope Valley Author: Jessica Prince Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance T he last thing Stella Ryan had time for was a man. With her family in trouble and looking to her to fix everything, romance and commitment were the furthest things from her mind. Until she ran into a man with a jawline that could cut granite and arms she wanted to lick like an ice cream cone. A man who made her forget the things that really mattered.  West Scott was one of the last bachelors standing. With all his Alpha Omega brothers settling down and popping out a bunch of kids, he had become the target for meddling women looking to fix him up. But there was one woman, in particular, he couldn’t get out of his head. The one in the killer dress with a gift for picking pockets.  When fate puts Stella in his path again, he’s determined to get to the cause of her desperation and help solve all her problems. If only the headstrong, stubborn woman would let h...