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***5 Stars*** Great start to a new series (I didn’t know about the prequel One Last Summer until finishing the book)! I’m a huge fan of small town romances and all the crazy it can bring to a story and lemme tell you this one has some real good stuff going on as Ben comes back home and finds himself face to face with the girl he’s never stopped loving. I adored Ben and Gillian. Gillian is a fighter, sweet and sassy. Ben is a sweetheart, a bit clueless (for obvious reasons) but a good guy who is trying to figure out what to do next with his life. Their second chance journey was a lot of fun. I was definitely Team Gillian but as she and Ben continue to collide, it was easy to see that there was still a spark between them from how easy their flow was, even as Gillian attempted to keep Ben at bay. I loved how they worked through their pasts and worked to make a future together. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved how the town as a whole rallied to get Ben and Gillian back in each ot

***5 Stars*** It took me a minute to realize/remember just who Clara was, but as I went back through my other reviews, I was all kinds of thrilled that one of the supporting characters I really wanted to know more about was getting her own HEA, and though there were moments of frustration, I loved Clara and Nick’s journey and how they finally got their HEA. With as much as Clara and Nick drove me batshitcrazy at times (which I fully understood why) I really did love them. Clara is a force. She is in a weird place in her life and working through quite a few issues and she can be a bit ragey but I loved how she got all She-hulk protective when someone she loved needed help. Nick is a sweetheart. He’s juggling kids, work and just life in general but is also charming and determined in the best of ways. Their journey to their HEA is filled with all kinds of push and pull and I’ll admit that there were times when the frustration levels with the both of them were high, but they both have t

New Release from Sawyer Bennett Callum (Pittsburgh Titans, Book #12) Synopsis:      Callum Derringer was hired by the Pittsburgh Titans to help rebuild the organization after a devastating plane crash left its future unknown. Now that he’s got the team back on track, it’s time to put some effort into his own life.    When I accepted the job of general manager with the Titans, it was just the opportunity I needed to prove myself to the sports world. Unfortunately, my career isn’t the only area in which I’ve previously made mistakes and the past is about to come back in a big way. Juniper Ryan is…complicated. Smart, funny and insanely gorgeous, she was my first love and my first heartbreak. But my loss was my stepbrother’s gain and she’s been his wife for five years now. I’ve done a decent job of putting her out of my mind but when I’m brought home for a family emergency and see the bruises on Juniper, I’m gutted to learn that she was pushed into the arms of a monster. Vowing to

THE LOVES WE LOST S. Cole Release Date: March 7 AVAILABLE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED     From USA Today best selling author, Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying MC, second chance and secret baby romance.   Viola  Once upon a time, I loved a man with my whole heart. But unlike the romance stories I write, it wasn't enough for a happily ever after when he chose the violent Iron Outlaws motorcycle club over me. Now, I write books, enjoy a quiet life, and look after the miracle we created, the little girl I never told him about. Except, suddenly, there are men at my door looking for him. And there is only one place I can go for help.  Bates  Viola broke my heart when she turned down the cut and engagement ring I offered and disappeared from my life. Now, she's turned our love story into a steamy bestseller, complete with the happily ever after she wouldn't give us. But that isn't the only secret she's been keeping from me. And now our biggest rivals

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

All Mixed Up, an all-new swoony second chance romance from Heidi Hutchinson, is available now in Kindle Unlimited! Nikki has a lot going on at the moment. She’s the best sound engineer and mixer at XY Records, she’s working on a super-secret project with a pop megastar, and holding the busier-than-usual studio together. The last thing she wants or needs is her ex-fiancé to start working in the studio over the summer. She’s over it—him. Obviously. Being ghosted has that effect. But working near someone she used to love has made her life that much more complicated. Andre has it all figured out. Two and half years ago he had no idea what he was doing when he walked away from the love of his life. But time has given him perspective, and he’s grown up. Which is why the paleontology professor is working part-time at his ex’s recording studio. Because he wants to make amends. And maybe win her back. Will Nikki give him the chance he thinks he’s ready for? Or will

All Mixed Up, an all-new swoony second chance romance from Heidi Hutchinson, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited! Nikki has a lot going on at the moment. She’s the best sound engineer and mixer at XY Records, she’s working on a super-secret project with a pop megastar, and holding the busier-than-usual studio together. The last thing she wants or needs is her ex-fiancé to start working in the studio over the summer. She’s over it—him. Obviously. Being ghosted has that effect. But working near someone she used to love has made her life that much more complicated. Andre has it all figured out. Two and half years ago he had no idea what he was doing when he walked away from the love of his life. But time has given him perspective, and he’s grown up. Which is why the paleontology professor is working part-time at his ex’s recording studio. Because he wants to make amends. And maybe win her back. Will Nikki give him the chance he thinks he’s ready for? Or will it be her

The Trouble with Runaway Brides by Piper Rayne is now live!  I should not still be hung up on my high school girlfriend. I’m a billionaire, with a penthouse in New York City, a private plane, and was recently crowned one of Manhattan’s most eligible bachelors. She’s engaged to my rival. A real prick of a guy whose family is about as famous as mine. So, pictures of the happy couple are plastered everywhere, and it’s driving me insane. The last time I spoke to her was my freshman year of college, and I never imagined I’d bump into her at a crowded restaurant in the busiest city in the world. But fate had other plans, and when I innocently suggest that the press wouldn’t bother with her wedding plans if she held it in our small Alaskan town where we grew up, I had no idea she’d take me seriously. Now, I find myself helping her plan the wedding at my dad’s luxury resort while the town’s gossip app follows our every move, afraid that their golden boy will get his heart broken twice

Letter Late Than Never, a second-chance small-town romance from Lauren Connolly, is now available in Kindle Unlimited! Can a hot paramedic resuscitate this mail woman’s flatlining spirit of adventure? Gwen Elsmere fell in love with Sebastian Kirkwood when she was sixteen, but a dead frog stole her chance to land the guy of her daydreams. Ten years later, when Gwen makes a desperate 9-1-1 call, Sebastian re-enters her life as the first paramedic on the scene. Unfortunately, she’s smeared in blood, and he’s engaged to another woman. The awkward rescue is far from the passionate reunion she’d secretly hoped for. Still, Gwen’s brief transformation from postal worker to neighborhood hero has her reevaluating her cautious nature. If she can save a woman’s life, why can’t she change her own? As Gwen challenges herself with adventures, big and small, she discovers an unlikely sidekick in her former crush. Sebastian reveals glimpses of the goofy teenager who first made