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Sunny Shelly’s Review: I’ll Be Your Santa Tonight, by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

๐ŸŽ…๐ŸŽ„ ๏ผจ๏ผฏ๏ผด ๏ผฎ๏ผฅ๏ผท ๏ผฒ๏ผฅ๏ผฌ๏ผฅ๏ผก๏ผณ๏ผฅ ๐ŸŽ„ ๐ŸŽ…

๐˜โ€™๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข ๐˜›๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜‹๐˜ณ. ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ข ๐˜š๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜“๐˜๐˜๐˜Œ!! ๐˜‹๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ’๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜บ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ!

#๐˜–๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ-๐˜ค๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ!

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From bestselling author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a hot holiday romcom that’s the perfect blend of naughty and nice…

Holly Jolly hates Christmasโ€”๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค, ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด.

But she canโ€™t turn down the opportunity to create San Franciscoโ€™s legendary, life-size gingerbread house. Surrounded by tinsled trees and merry mistletoe, Holly steps into her own nightmare before Christmas. ๐˜Œ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜บ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜•๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ.

Saint Nicholsen never expected his new pastry chef to hate his favorite holidayโ€”๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ. And when one conversation makes it clear thereโ€™s more to her story than the gorgeous grinch is letting on, Saint decides to grant her every missed Christmas wish.

Unfortunately for him, Holly doesnโ€™t trust the holiday thatโ€™s only proved disastrous. Sheโ€™s already taken out Santa, overdosed on eggnog, and almost toppled the treeโ€”๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ.

But somewhere between presents and tree trimming, the magic of their attraction begins to melt her candy-coated confidence and open her hurt-wrapped heart.

When Christmas Eve rolls around with more than a kiss from her Christmas list, ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ค?

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GIVEAWAY

To celebrate Iโ€™ll Be Your Santa Tonightโ€™s release, Rebecca Sharp is giving away a $25 Amazon gift card. Stop by her Facebook page to enter!

http://www.facebook.com/drrebeccasharp

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I’ll Be Your Santa Tonight is the perfect Christmas workplace office romcom. If you are a sucker for Hallmark Christmas movies, this one is right up your alley. Although, way sexier. There are over-the-top Christmas references, a heroine named Holly Jolly (come on!) who hates the holiday, and a hero named Saint Nicholsen. Brilliant!

Holly was raised in a family that did not celebrate Christmas, so much about the holiday is lost on her. She’s a bit of a grinch. When she’s hired as a pastry chef at a prestigious hotel to build a life-sized gingerbread house for the Christmas season, meeting her Christmas-loving boss, Saint, and all that goes along with it is like living her worst nightmare. But of course, Saint also shows Holly that there is plenty to love about the season… and him.

This book has so many laugh-out-loud moments. I love the antics between Holly and Saint. It’s fun and steamy, and has all the feels that an opposites-attract romcom should have.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Rebecca Sharp, while using a pen name, is actually a doctor living in Pennsylvania with her husband – the love of her life.

She enjoys working in her practice with her father as well as letting her creativity run free as an author. Growing up she’s always loved a good love story and finally decided to give writing one of her own a go.

After graduating with her doctoral degree, she now enjoys spending that thing called free time traveling with her husband, cooking, and knitting.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Romantic Pact, by Meghan Quinn

THE ROMANTIC PACT by Meghan Quinn
Release Date: December 10th

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Blurb:
I haven’t seen her in three years.

I haven’t talked to her since the kiss.

So why am I on a plane, flying across the world to spend a week with her in Germany?

One word: Pops.

My lifeโ€™s a mess.
My possible football career is hanging on by a thread.
I’m driving the roads of Germany in honor of Pops with the one girl I can never have.
And Iโ€™m sharing a bed with her, the girl I’ve measured everyone else up to, while desperately trying to not to touch her.

We made a pact growing up, never to get romantic with each other – never fall in love.

And I’m about to break that pact. For good.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Romantic Pact is Meghan Quinn’s installment in the Kings Of Football collab with Ilsa Madden-Mills and Adriana Locke. The series is about three college football players, best friends, and each book is a standalone.

In The Romantic Pact, we get a second-chance (of sorts) romance between Crew and his childhood best friend, Hazel. They’d lost touch over the years when his sole focus became football. But Crew is suffering in the wake of his grandfather’s death, and for closure, he’s sent off on a road trip to Germany. Planned by his Pops. With Hazel as his travel companion. Hazel and Crew had made a romantic pact to never fall for one another, but after a short kiss a few years back, Crew got freaked out, took off and hasn’t spoken to her since.

This book is filled with hysterical moments as Crew and Hazel fix their friendship and travel around Germany together. There is flirting and sexy banter, lots of sexual tension, and all that awkwardness that goes along with crossing the line from friends to lovers. Pops just knew that his grandson and unofficial granddaughter were meant to be together. And by the end of the week, Hazel and Crew are head over heels with one another. But with their lives on divergent paths, wanting to be together and making it actually happen are two very different things.

Will one of them have to give up their dream in order to make their relationship work? Is their love worth sacrificing everything that Crew thought he wanted out of life? Or is he realizing that what he really wants is something altogether different?

This is the point where I have to admit that while I’ve read every one of Meghan Quinn’s books in the past 3-4 years, I have not read much of her older catalog of work… Like The Mother Road. Crew is the son of that book’s couple, Porter and Marley, and the roadtrip that Crew and Hazel go in is a throwback to the roadtrip that his parents had gone on with Pops twenty-odd years earlier. It is now being bumped up on my TBR list!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Meghan Quinn:
USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Layla, by Colleen Hoover


From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love.

When Leeds meets Layla, heโ€™s convinced heโ€™ll spend the rest of his life with herโ€”until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Laylaโ€™s behavior takes a bizarre turn. And thatโ€™s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.

Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willowโ€”another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Laylaโ€™s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he canโ€™t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental forย allย of them.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

I’ve read and loved several CoHo books over the years. I think she is brilliant when it comes to writing contemporary romance. Paranormal romance isn’t my jam, but I figured it was Colleen Hoover… why not? Well, Layla was a bit of a disappointment.

Layla is a twisted, twisted story between Layla and Leeds, his obsessive ex and a ghost. I had a hard time connecting with Leeds from the start. Then he completely lost me once he and Layla go back to the B&B and Willow gets involved. It just wasn’t working for me. He was trying to reconnect with Layla, but he’s falling for this ghost?

This story was interesting and twisted, and once the big reveal is made, things kind of click into place. But even then, I just didn’t like Leeds and his actions. That said… the conclusion is quite captivating, and I think the epilogue was my favorite part of the story. The book is well-written and CoHo does a great job with telling Leeds and Layla’s story…. it just wasn’t my jam. I took a chance and ultimately, I didn’t love it.

I received an advanced copy from Montlake via NetGalley and voluntarily left a review.

Author Biography



Colleen Hoover is the #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author of several novels, including the bestselling womenโ€™s fiction novelย It Ends with Usย and the bestselling psychological thrillerย Verity. She has won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance three years in a rowโ€”forย Confessย (2015),ย It Ends with Usย (2016), andย Without Meritย (2017).ย Confessย was adapted into a seven-episode online series. In 2015, Hoover and her family founded the Bookworm Box, a bookstore and monthly subscription service that offers signed novels donated by authors. All profits go to various charities each month to help those in need. Hoover lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys.



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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Fall To Pieces, by Shari J. Ryan


RELEASE BLITZ
FALL TO PIECES by Shari J. Ryan

Release Date: December 7, 2020

Cover Design: MadHat Studios
Photographer:ย Reggie Deanching – R+M Photography
Models: Cody Smith & Elizabeth Babcock

Genre: Women’s Fiction


SYNOPSIS

In an instant the wordย painย was redefined…

August Taylor thought she could manage the weight of the world on her shoulders. Forcing a smile, she hid the secrets of the man she loved and pretended everything was okay. Until she found him unconscious, having chosen his addiction over her … one last, fatal time.

Unable to understand the sickness that consumed him, grief rivets through Augustโ€™s body. As she spirals into self-destructive behavior, she finds her life mirroring what she despises.

Chance Miller wants to make a difference. After witnessing the death of his parents at a young age, he longs to help others as he was helped. He thought that path was leading him to adopt a child, but heโ€™s not sure his heart can take another rejection.

Then, he saw August. From a distance Chance watched the sweet woman transition into a shadow of her former self. Now, despite her resistance, he feels compelled to step in and pull her back from the precipice of pain and darkness.

Can August and Chance find a way to help each other put their lives back together? Or are the scattered pieces of their broken hearts shattered beyond repair?


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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Another masterpiece by Shari J. Ryan!

This book is not your typical romance. It’s gut-wrenching and emotional and raw and inspiring and scary and happy.

I love when August says she’s not suffering from addiction, but suffering *from* addiction — being Keegan’s caretaker took everything out of her, and even though their relationship had devolved into them being roommates (at least on her part) at the end, she’s carrying so much guilt because of it. Chance sees a fellow damaged soul, another wounded bird, when August sidles up next to him on that barstool. She saves him from a lifetime of loneliness, and he saves her from further downward spiraling.

Without saying any more… Fall To Pieces if phenomenal. The ending of this book is so damn sweet, and is a magnificent HEA for these two characters who were just shattered pieces before becoming whole thanks to the love of the other.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shari J. Ryan is USA Today bestselling author. She lives in Massachusetts with her wicked awesome husband, and two wild sons who fill her life with non-stop comedy.

With a life full of love, writing, drawing, TV binging, reading, and Starbucks, Shari is living her best life.


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Sunny Shelly’s Review: No Commitment, by Lisa Suzanne

ย Release Date: December 10

No commitment.ย 

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That was my deal with Tyler from the start, at least until his tour was over and we could be together. But thirty days filming a reality show here, two years overseas with his band there…ย 
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Is it really any wonder why I didnโ€™t tell him about the baby?
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He comes looking for me once heโ€™s back in the country, but he runs into the man I married instead. Eventually I agree to meet him so I can put the past truly behind me. When I see him, though, every feeling I held inside comes rushing back.
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My husband and I vowed to raise this baby together. But as I find myself drifting away from the husband who stole my job and gravitating toward the rock star who stole my heart, I realize he deserves the truth.
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I just have no idea how this rock star who doesnโ€™t make commitments is going to react to the fact that heโ€™s a father.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Holy Moly. Another fantastic love triangle from Lisa Suzanne.

We first met Tyler in The Replacement War, and No Commitment starts just as he’s about to go into the house to film the reality show. That career decision doesn’t sit well with Danielle, who has been waiting for his tour to end to tell him that she’s pregnant. Knowing that telling him about the baby would be a bad move at that moment one way or the other, she keeps quiet and blocks Tyler’s number.

Two years later, Tyler is finally has a few days to track Dani down and tell her that he’s madly in love with her… and gets the shock of his life to find out that she’d gotten married. What happens next is a rollercoaster of emotions for both of them. Disappointment, yearning, regret, heartache, love, loss… it’s just so much! And that’s before Tyler even finds out that he’s a father!

This book is all kinds of angst. I get why Danielle felt such loyalty to Ford, but she had always been honest with him abut her feelings for Tyler. She is faced with an impossible choice, and she’s going to hurt one of them.

No Commitment was brilliantly written. It had me on the edge of my seat, anxiously reading chapter after chapter to see where this story was going to go! We also got to know the other Capital Kingsman band members, as this is a series starter for their books.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Lisa Suzanne

Lisa Suzanne is a romance author who resides in Arizona with her husband and two kids.ย 

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Sheโ€™s a former high school English teacher and college composition instructor.ย 
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When she’s not chasing her kids, she can be found working on her latest book or watching reruns ofย Friends.ย ย 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Floored, by Karla Sorensen

Title: Floored

Author: Karla Sorensen
Genre: Sports Romance
Release Date: December 9, 2020
Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs

If you’ve ever had a steamy one-night stand with a British football player and then find yourself pregnant with his baby, you know how Lia Ward feels.
To be fair, Lia didn’t know who Jude McAllister was when they met.
Studying abroad for her master’s program, all she knows is that she’s a little lonely and he’s very charming, even as they have an epically sexy argument about which type of football is superior.
In Jude’s mind, shagging the feisty American girl is exactly what he needs. Heโ€™s been fighting the clock of his long-standing football career and the younger players primed to take his position. Proving that he can feel like his old self againโ€”something he’s been trying to do with everyone in his lifeโ€”should be easier after blowing off steam with Lia.
But oh baby, when a plus sign pops up on Lia’s pregnancy test, that ‘one night’ becomes a whole lot more.
Now Lia and Jude have to navigate their impossible-to-ignore chemistry, and prepare for the parenting game, something neither of them know how to play.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Another great story from Karla Sorensen! Seriously, when is it not? Floored is another Ward Sisters book, and this time we have Lia, the wild twin, overseas in London studying for a semester. Since she’s American, she has no clue that the hot, tatted guy she’s flirting with is one of Britain’s great football stars.

Both Lia and Jude are feeling a little down on their luck when they meet in the pub that afternoon. One thing leads to another… leads to another… and leads to a surprise baby. Oops! The majority of this story is how Jude and Lia navigate becoming parents-to-be amid their cultural differences, geographical differences, and boatload of emotional baggage that they are each carting around. It’s done brilliantly, and I was shipping this couple so hard.

I love, love, love the soccer vs. football conversations between Jude and Lia. Especially since Lia’s brother Logan was one of America’s great football stars. We get lots of crazy from the Ward family in Floored, and I loved catching up with the crazy clan. Bring on Isabel’s story!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Well, letโ€™s see … Iโ€™m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone’s face, then I’ve done my job. I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). Iโ€™m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob. If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I’ll love you forever.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Pass, by Rebecca Jenshak

๐Ÿ€ โ„๐•†๐•‹ โ„•๐”ผ๐•Ž โ„๐”ผ๐•ƒ๐”ผ๐”ธ๐•Š๐”ผ ๐Ÿ€

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ ๐‘๐ž๐›๐ž๐œ๐œ๐š ๐‰๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„!!

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I’ve been in love with her for two years.

The first time around I screwed things up. I hesitated and the moment was gone.

I passed when I shouldn’t have.

Not a total loss. I gained a best friend instead of whatever we might have been.

Sydney is hands down the best thing that’s ever happened to me, and I’ll do anything to keep her in my life. Even bury my feelings deep inside.

But one hot summer together at the lake filled with lots of teeny-tiny bikinis and I’m ready to risk it all for a second chance.

It’s time to take my shot.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Go back to Valley U for Shaw’s story!

Sydney and Tanner (I never even knew that was Shaw’s name!) are best friends. They try to date, but Tanner kind of missed his chance and then got friend-zoned. He’s been totally hung up on Sydney from the start, and there is definitely sexual chemistry between them, but they decide that they are better off as friends.

Until everything changes at the lakehouse. (BTW, I love that the major setting of this book is not at the college itself, but at the lake! Gives this installment a fresh spin!)

This book is swoony and sweet. Tanner is quite the charmer! And I love the flip on this second-chance/unrequited love romance, where the hero is the one all hung up on the girl rather than vice versa. And there is a history between Sydney and Shaw that comes into play brilliantly, so we really get that they know each other so, so well.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Rebecca Jenshak is a self-proclaimed margarita addict, college basketball fanatic, and Hallmark channel devotee. A Midwest native transplanted to the desert, she likes being outdoors (drinking on patios) and singing (in the shower) when she isn’t writing books about hot guys and the girls who love them.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Rival Hearts, by Brenda St. John Brown

Release Date: December 7
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Britain’s most-eligible bachelor has met the girl of his dreams. Too bad he’s her worst nightmare.ย 
Stefan Cane has snogged and shagged his fair share of gorgeous women. Yet he’s spent the last three months trying to forget the woman he shared a fleeting kiss with at the Jingle Ball last year.
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Now he’s back in the tiny English village, staying across the street from her pub, The Blue Dog. The same pub he’s about to put out of business.
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Possibly.
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Probably.
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According to his endless spreadsheets, bloody definitely.
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That’s not the goal of the pub renovation reality show he produces, but the truth is, his job depends on him getting his project done, on time and on budget. Even though the village isn’t big enough to sustain two pubs and Stefan knows it.
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Lucy Maclaren knows it, too. She told him that at the Jingle Ball. Right before that kiss he hasn’t been able to forget. The one he desperately wants to repeat.
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How is he supposed to do his job when he’s more worried about his so-called rival? Worse, how is he ever going to win her heart when the only thing she wants to see is his backside leaving town – preferably as soon as possible?
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

A small British village. Two rivals. A kiss he can’t forget. The woman who wishes he would just leave her the hell alone. Rival Hearts is a cute, swoony enemies-to-lovers romance.

Lucy and Stefan shared a kiss a year ago, and he hasn’t been able to get her out of his mind. Now his reality show has him rehabbing a pub across the street from hers in a small village that really doesn’t need two watering holes. Between their bickering and personal jabs are plenty of heated looks and a sizzling attraction. But can they find a common ground or will one of them have to give up their dream?

I really liked Lucy and Stefan as romantic leads. She’s feisty and takes no BS. He’s Britain’s most eligible bachelor who has dated around, but he’s got a soft spot for Lucy and when he falls for her, he falls hard. This story is executed well, with witty banter, lots of laugh-out-loud moments and two really adorable characters that I couldn’t help but root for. This would make a great Hallmark movie! It seems like this is the start to a new series, and I look forward to what comes next!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Brenda St John Brown

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Hi. I’m Brenda.ย  I’m a displaced New Yorker living in the UK. I lived in London for almost six years, but now I’m living in The North, in a tiny English village. We used to have sheep in our backyard! (Sheep!!) ย Now we have a new housing development, so I mostly avoid looking out the kitchen window.

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My novels are unabashedly romantic and run the gamut from angsty feels to make-you-smile swoons.ย Hitting the USA Today bestseller list has been the highlight of my career so far because – gah – #authorgoals! When I’m not reading or writing, I’m hanging out with The Boy, talking about random things and being overly strict about electronics.

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I like running and Doritos, not necessarily in that order. I also like libraries, old churches and Paris. One day I’m going to write a novel set in Paris, which will necessitate lots of trips for “research.”ย 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Upside Down, by A.M. Madden

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐‡๐Ž๐“ ๐๐„๐– ๐‘๐„๐‹๐„๐€๐’๐„ & ๐†๐ˆ๐•๐„๐€๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ผ๐‘บ๐‘จ ๐‘ป๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’”๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’“ ๐‘จ. ๐‘ด. ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’…๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’”๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐‘ซ๐’๐’˜๐’, ๐’‚ ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‚๐’˜๐’‚๐’Œ๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’-๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’“๐’†๐’”โ€”๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’‡๐’†-๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’“๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†.

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BLURB

๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™๐™Ž๐˜ผ ๐™๐™ค๐™™๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐˜ผ. ๐™ˆ. ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™™๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™จ ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™-๐™–๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š ๐™–๐™—๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃโ€™๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก-๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™™๐™š๐™จ๐™ž๐™ง๐™š๐™จโ€”๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™– ๐™ก๐™ž๐™›๐™š-๐™–๐™ก๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š.

Iโ€™ve always been known as the hopeless romantic โ€ฆ the nice guy โ€ฆ the sweetheart.

Everything in my life supported this persona. My students loved my easy personality. My colleagues admired the way I handled myself in the classroom.

But something was always missing.

Like so many relationships before it, my current attempt at love felt like a dead end. When she gave me an ultimatum, I couldnโ€™t promise to give her what she wanted.

So, she ended it.

Explaining another breakup to my family was the last thing I wanted. But doing it on a luxury yacht at my brotherโ€™s wedding lessened the hardship.

I never imagined that trip would change everything… and I certainly wasnโ€™t prepared for him to change everything.

Upside Down is a sisterโ€™s best friend, sexual awakening, m/m stand-alone romance that contains adult content.

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To celebrate the release of Upside Down, A.M. Madden is giving away a paperback and a $25 Amazon gift card. Stop by her Facebook page to enter:

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Upside Down is a standalone in AM Madden’s Breaking The Rules series, but I loved the supporting characters so much that I have put the first two books on my TBR list! The books have interconnected characters, and past events are talked about, but I didn’t feel like I was missing out for not having read them.

Cooper is such a likable character. He is truly at a crossroads in his personal life when he attends his brother’s wedding. Immediately upon seeing his sister’s business partner, Ricky, again, sparks fly and they kind of catch Cooper off-guard. But not really: he experimented a bit in college, and always had difficulty fully committing to a girlfriend to take the next step. Ricky is super sweet and patient and supportive as Cooper grapples with the unexpected feelings and how his life is about to change.

AM Madden did a great job in telling this story. The journey that Cooper goes through in discovering his true identity and then coming out is a wonderful arc, from start to finish, and Ricky’s support meant everything. Ricky truly turns Cooper’s world upside down, but it’s a beautiful story of self-discovery with a lot of heart.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A USA Today bestselling, award-winning author, A. M. Madden is also a Jersey girl whose addiction to romance started at twelve after reading Judy Blumeโ€™s Forever.

As a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic, she truly believes that true love knows no bounds.

In her books, she aspires to write fun, sexy, realistic love stories that will stay with you long after you turn the last page. She creates realistic characters and believes thereโ€™s no better compliment than when readers feel they know the characters personally.

When not writing, sheโ€™s busy being a wife to her soul mate, and a mother to two boys who she believes are the most handsome men on earth. She loves to cook, hates to bake, and dreams about living at the beach someday.

AWARDS:

2016 eLit Gold Medalist – Best Romance Ebook – The Shortstop

2016 IPPY Silver Medalist – Best Romance Ebook – The Shortstop

2018 Book Excellence Finalist – Finding Mr. Wrong (co-written with Joanne Schwehm).

2019 Book Excellence Finalist – Scoring Mr. Romeo (co-written with Joanne Schwehm).

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Stay For Me, by Corinne Michaels

She’s the girl who might be worth staying for.

Stay For Me by Corinne Michaels is now live!

From New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes the final poignant love story in the Arrowood Brothers Series.

Hollywood taught me everything I know about relationships–except how to be in one. As an actor, I became an expert at faking it. Faking that I wasn’t affected by my childhood. Faking that I was okay. Faking that I knew how to save the day, the girl, the whole damn world.

But I’ve always known the truth–I’m no one’s hero.

Until I’m forced to move back to Sugarloaf for six months, and Brenna Allen offers me a chance to prove otherwise. She’s everything I never knew I wanted, but can’t have. Her broken heart, perfect face, and adorable children turn my world upside down. Instead of preparing for my next leading role, I’m directing a middle school play.

All to make her smile.

The more time I spend here, the more I want to stay. Build a life in this town that I swore I’d leave–for her.

But when the world comes crashing down around us, I’m forced to decide if staying for her is the right choice or if leaving is better for the woman I love.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Sigh. I was kind of dreading the Arrowood Brothers series coming to an end, because I have enjoyed this family so much! But Corinne Michaels did a great job with the final installment, Stay For Me! This time, it’s Hollywood action hero Jacob’s turn to spend his 6 months on the family farm in Sugarloaf, PA… He’s planning to do his time and then leave… He never expected to fall for the redheaded widow living in the house adjoining their property.

I loved everything about Jacob and Brenna’s story. I loved the slow burn between them. I loved how patient and sweet Jacob was not only with Brenna as she struggled in moving on after her husband’s death, but in how he interacted with her kids Sebastian and Melanie. (I could just imagine how excited those middle schoolers were to have an action star directing their performance of Grease!) I loved how open and honest they were with one another about where they were each coming from: She’d been second-best to her late husband’s career, he had a high-demand job that constantly kept him in the spotlight and he didn’t want to bring a romantic relationship into that. I loved how they both decided that the other was worth the risk… and I loved the fight that they had before tragedy strikes. It was raw, it was emotional, and it hit them both hard… and the words spoken in anger as well as those that went unsaid weighed heavily on both Jacob and Brenna in the aftermath. Is almost losing what they found in one another enough to make Jacob want to stay in Sugarloaf?

The conclusion of this series was all that I hoped it would be. It was swoony, sweet, and had a wonderful HEA for all of the brothers. And I loved the cameos by Eli Walsh and Noah Frazier from Corinne’s Second Time Around series!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Corinne

Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed–reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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