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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Girl In The Love Song, by Emma Scott

At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys…

The Girl in the Love Song, book one in the Lost Boys, an interconnected coming-of-age series of standalones, from USA Today bestselling author Emma Scott, is live!

Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He’s putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice. 

Until Violet. 

No one expects to meet the love of their life at age thirteen. But the spunky rich girl steals Miller’s heart and refuses to give it back. 

Violet McNamara’s life hasn’t been as simple as it looks. Her picture-perfect family is not so perfect after all. Her best friend Miller is her one constant and she is determined not to ruin their friendship with romantic complications. 

But the heart wants what it wants. As Miller’s star begins to rise to stratospheric heights, what will it take for Violet to realize that she’s the girl in all of his love songs?

The Girl in the Love Song features two original songs written by Emma herself.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Girl In The Love Song is a fantastic start to a new series by Emma Scott! Set at a high school in Santa Cruz, this story is a emotional first-love story between Have Violet and Have-Not Miller.

I was expecting a majority of this story to be one of unrequited love, but it’s not. Miller and Violet pretty much fall in love with one another at 13, but since they are both so young, they don’t know what to do with that. There is a lot of miscommunication on both parts as they begin high school as neither one of them wants to ruin the friendship by admitting that they’ve caught feelings — and firmly believe that the other has placed them in the friend-zone. Once Miller and Violet get on the same page, they are committed for life. And I LOVED that. But their road to HEA was not without bumps.

Miller and Vi were the sweetest couple. They just had such a pure love, and their relationship was magical. I really liked each of them as individuals, and I loved them as a couple. I loved that they kept true to each other even when they were separated by distance and their financial roles were reversed. They had such great love for one another, and that leapt off the page.

Emma Scott expertly weaves in a very real medical issue for Miller amongst the trials and tribulations of teenage heartbreak, following your dreams, parental issues, domestic abuse, neglect and a host of other topics. She writes it all so beautifully, and I could not wait to see what each chapter brought not only for Vi and Miller, but their ragtag crew.

I am so intrigued by Hunter and Ronan, and can’t wait to see what their books bring! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Emma:



Emma Scott is an internationally bestselling author whose books have been featured in Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, New York Daily News and USA Today’s Happy Ever After. She writes emotional, character-driven romances in which art and love intertwine to heal, and in which love always wins. If you enjoy emotionally-charged stories that rip your heart out and put it back together again, with diverse characters and heroes with a heart of gold, you will enjoy her novels.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: One-Click Love, by T. Gephart

 

ONE CLICK LOVE by T. Gephart
Release Date: June 5th

 

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Blurb:
Want a man who is not only hot but knows how to handle a blaze?
Well ladies, it’s your lucky day.

John “Mack” McPherson is 6’3” of fine with a six-pack that makes men half his
age question their gym regimen. Teddy-bear brown eyes with brown hair, his graying
temples let you flirt with just enough silver fox so you know you’ve got yourself a real
man. But don’t let the body and face fool you, he’s incredibly smart, with medals for
days and won’t think twice about putting his own life on the line to save someone else.

Brave, dependable, and needing someone equally awesome,
Mack is ready to be
snapped up by a feisty female who isn’t scared to play with fire.

 

John,

Not sure how feisty I am now, but I’m fighting my way back. Little scares me
though, and I’m not someone who breaks easily. Not interested in playing mind games,
so if your idea of a good time is heading to a club where we pretend to be into the scene, then it’s probably for the best we don’t meet. I expect honesty and a half-way decent orgasm I don’t have to give myself. Other than that, open to negotiation.

Let me know if you’re game,
Hayden.

 

 

 

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

One-Click Love is the second book in T. Gephart’s Hot In The City series about a group of FDNY firefighters. We got to know Mack – aka Chief – in Riley and Quinn’s book. Now, the happy couple has created a dating profile for Riley’s surrogate dad, and Mack falls head over heels for Hayden.

I loved that Mack and Hayden are both divorced 40somethings. They are both carrying around baggage from their prior marriages, and those scars impact how they deal with one another. Hayden is a curvy girl and after a loveless marriage, her self-esteem is shot. She’s not looking for anything more than an a one-night stand when she meets Mack. But he’s a romantic at heart, and pulls out all the stops to show Hayden how much he appreciates her and how beautiful she is. But when Hayden declares that she wants a baby, will Mack’s past history help or hurt that endeavor?

There is little drama in this story, aside from some manipulation from his crazy ex-wife and Hayden being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That incident gives Mack the chance to play Knight In Shining Armor, leading to a wonderful HEA.

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About the Author:
T Gephart is a USA Today and International bestselling author from Melbourne, Australia.

With an approach to life that is somewhat unconventional, she prefers to fly by the seat of her pants rather than adhere to some rigid roadmap. Her lack of “plan” has resulted in a rather interesting and eclectic resume, which reads more like the fiction she writes than an actual employment history. She’d tell you all about it, but the statute of limitations hasn’t expired yet. But all those crazy twists and turns have led her to a career she loves—writing romantic comedy.

When she isn’t filling pages with sassy and sexy characters with attitude, she’s living her own reality show in the ‘burbs of Melbourne with her American husband, two teenage children, and her fur child—Woodley.

She loves adventure, to laugh, travel, and strives to live her life to the fullest.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Silver Mayor, by L.B. Dunbar

 

 

Release Date: June 4
Charlie Harrington is a respectable man. Mayor to his small, mountain town. Successful attorney. Dotting single father. After one mishap in the past, he avoids scandal. Making everyone happy is his goal. He’s nothing but content…and a bit boring. Then one morning, he finds a beautiful woman in his bedroom, and his world turns upside down. His good guy side suddenly wants to be a little bad.
Janessa Cruz has been both a have and a have-not. Ex-wife to someone famous, she’s now a single mother in hiding. She just wants to go unnoticed. Quietly starting over in her forties is the plan. Only she isn’t certain what she wants. When a misunderstanding brings her face-to-face with the sexy town mayor, she can’t seem to avoid him, and being a little reckless never felt so right. 
 
Another Harrington brother bites the dust, and he’s looking forward to getting all kinds of dirty.
 

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

Silver Mayor is #3 in the Silver Foxes Of Blue Ridge Series, and focuses on brother Charlie, the mayor of the small Georgia town. I’ve really liked the other books in this series as well as the series before it, but Silver Mayor was a bit of a clunker for me.

I just never felt that Charlie and Janessa connected in any real way. Their entire relationship seemed more like a friends with benefits situation. Which is totally fine — they are both divorced, single parents, and I liked that they found comfort and companionship in one another. There are some added complications to their affair since he’s the mayor, she works for the town, and her parents are his housekeeper/groundsman. I just never felt that they connected on a soulmate level, and their relationship seemed to be all about sex. For instance: She’s clearly upset about something, and not having any idea what has her in tears on the floor, he takes that as an invitation to initiate sex in his office while consoling her?

Janessa has some massive walls up — and once her story unfolds, the reasons are explained why she’s so secretive about her past. But Charlie seems to fall head over heels with her before he knows much about her. I just didn’t feel it. That said, I thought that Charlie and Janessa did have a very nice connection as companions. They both understand what it’s like to be married to a public figure, and that stress didn’t only impact them but their 10 year old daughters as well.

This book was well-written, as are all of LB Dunbar’s books that I’ve read. I just didn’t click with Janessa and Charlie as a couple I wanted to root for, and that made all the difference in my 3-star rating versus a 4-star.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet L.B. Dunbar
I’ve been accused of having an over-active imagination. To my benefit, this imagination has created over twenty novels, including the creation of a small-town world (Sensations Collection), rock star mayhem (Legendary Rock Star series), MMA chaos (Paradise Stories), rom-com for the over forty (The Sex Education of M.E.), and a suspenseful island for redemption (The Island Duet). My alter ego, elda lore, creates magical romance through mythological retellings (Modern Descendants). My life revolves around a deep love of reading about fairy tales, medieval knights, regency debauchery, and strong alpha males. I love a deep belly laugh, a strong hug, and an occasional margarita. My other loves include being mother to four grown children and wife to the one and only.
 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Asher, by Carian Cole

 

Title: Asher
Series: Ashes & Embers #6
Author: Carian Cole
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 3, 2020
Blurb
I should have died.
I should have been
forgotten.
But I didn’t, and I
wasn’t.
Living the life most women only dream about, I was madly in
love with my soulmate—Asher Valentine—amazing husband, loving father, and
rock’s favorite kick-ass front man. A man who loved me every day, in every way,
since we first met as teens. We were blessed with a beautiful
daughter who was the light of our life. My all-female rock band was tearing up
the charts.
Then tragedy struck, and I lost it all.
Now all I have is a stack of journals, an antique key, and a
big black void where my memories should be.
Used to be.
And I have him—this man with wild hair, tattoos from head to
toe, a soft voice, and an even softer touch that gives me butterflies. He’s
clearly hopelessly in love with his wife.
I’m told that’s me.
But that wife is gone, and she took everything they once
had, leaving me in her place.
A broken replacement. A new version that doesn’t quite fit.
I’m slowly falling in love with him, but will he ever truly
love me? Or will he forever be in love
with her, the phantom woman who
haunts us both?
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I first signed up to read and review Asher a year or so ago, and the release date changed several times. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely! I devoured this book in a day, and it’s taken me a few days to collect my thoughts about Asher and Ember. It was fantastic. And then some.

The prologue absolutely gutted me. Asher literally watches the love of his life plummet to her near-death. The fact that he was not able to prevent her fall has plagued him for the past 8 years while Ember has been in a coma. Every single day, Asher visits his wife, hoping and praying that she will return to him.

Well, she does. But since she has amnesia and doesn’t remember who Asher is or anything about their life together, it’s not pretty. Ember’s recovery is hard on both of them. She feels like a stranger in what everyone is telling her is her life, and Asher is so desperately clinging on to the hope that he his wife will fully return to him.

This story is raw and hard to read at times. Asher has the patience of a saint, and he never gives up on Ember. While I expected her journey to be difficult, I was surprised by how equally difficult Asher’s journey is. All of the memories that she can’t remember are the ones that he can’t forget. The ones that he has been hanging on to, and the only thing that has gotten him through this dark time. But is he in love with a ghost? Can he accept the “new” Ember? And will she fall in love with the tatted, long-haired rock god again?

Having not read any of the other books in this series, I had no frame of reference for Asher and Ember’s situation. There are a few things that I thought were kind of glossed over or could have used more of an explanation (like his family background and parents being famous, for example). But that ultimately didn’t affect how I feel about this book. And Asher and Ember’s story definitely made me want to read Tor, which is about their daughter, Kenzi, and Ash’s best friend Toren.

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Carian Cole
has a passion for the bad boys, those covered in tattoos, sexy smirks, ripped
jeans, fast cars, motorcycles and of course, the sweet girls who try to tame
them and win their hearts.
Born and raised a Jersey girl, Carian now resides in beautiful New Hampshire
with her husband and their multitude of furry pets. She spends most of her time
writing, reading, and vacuuming.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: We Were Once, by S.L. Scott

Release Date: May 28
We were never supposed to fall in love.
 
New York Times bestselling author, S.L. Scott, crafts her signature heartfelt style into a brand new emotional, second chance, standalone romance.  
I have three goals: graduate from an Ivy League university, get into medical school, and follow in my father’s well-established footsteps. Everything was going exactly as planned until the local bad boy was delivered to my doorstep. Literally.
From the moment we meet, my old life becomes unrecognizable, but I have no regrets. I’m utterly captivated by him. His smirk. His heart. His sharp wit. He pushes me to live, to be wild, to pursue the dream I’ve always hidden inside.
To the rest of the world, we make no sense.
Me, the girl from the gilded New England coast.
Joshua, from the small city of New Haven.
To us, we’re destiny.
Together, we had it all. Desperately. Madly. In love.
Until we didn’t.
One tragic night changed everything.



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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Chase-The-Moon Stars
We Were Once is full of emotion. Chloe and Joshua have so much riding against them, get they are so, so connected that nothing else matters.

When these two meet, it is opposite-attract instalove. She’s a well-off student, he’s a townie even though he is also studying at Yale. There is nothing about Joshua and Chloe that makes sense, yet everything about them does. She grounds him and he helps her drift — much like their half-anchor tattoos represent. They fall hard and fast, but they are ripped apart after a tragedy.

He is at his absolute lowest After The Accident, and even though Chloe is trying her best to help him, her dad is continuing to manipulate them. When Joshua pushes her away, Chloe has no choice but to go even though she feels in every fiber of her being that it is wrong.

For years afterwards, she feels a black hole in her soul. But a chance meeting in Manhattan turns everything around. Has too much time passed, or are these two still the anchors of one another’s souls? Can they chase the moon and find a second chance?


This book was wonderful. Full of heart, emotional, Hope and salvation. I kind of wish that the After The Accident part of the story would have dealt a little more with Joshua’s time in prison. It changed him, but I would have liked to have known more about his struggles. But I still enjoyed this story so very much, and loved how both Chloe and Joshua grew during to come back even stronger when they get their second chance.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet S.L. Scott
New York Times and USA Bestselling Author, S. L. Scott, was always interested in the arts. She grew up painting, writing poetry and short stories, and wiling her days away lost in a good book and the movies.
With a degree in Journalism, she continued her love of the written word by reading American authors like Salinger and Fitzgerald. She was intrigued by their flawed characters living in picture perfect worlds, but could still debate that the worlds those characters lived in were actually the flawed ones. This dynamic of leaving the reader invested in the words, inspired Scott to start writing with emotion while interjecting an underlying passion into her own stories.
 
Living in the capital of Texas with her family, Scott loves traveling and avocados, beaches, and cooking with her kids. She’s obsessed with epic romances and loves a good plot twist. She dreams of seeing one of her own books made into a movie one day as well as returning to Europe. Her favorite color is blue, but she likens it more toward the sky than the emotion. Her home is filled with the welcoming symbol of the pineapple and finds surfing a challenge though she likes to think she’s a pro.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The First Score, by Amie Knight

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There was something about that first score, and not just on the football field.

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I loved all of life’s firsts, which was why I’d been saving mine for one girl, my older sister’s best friend—Hazel Jones.

She was tough and sarcastic with walls around her heart as tall as a football stadium, but I knew she was the one for me.

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I’d have done anything to make her mine.

Like create a fake online persona.

Lie about my age.

Pretend I wasn’t some naive virgin.

And catfish the hell out of the love of my life.

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“Thanks so much for taking her home, Hazel.” Ollie nudged me to get my attention and I turned to look at him, not having much choice in the matter now. I couldn’t be rude. It was a mistake. The green of his eyes was deeper today, less brown. I knew it was the jersey. It was always that way. A bead of sweat slid down the side of his face and he ran a hand through his hair like he always did. I knew it was a habit of his, just like I knew so many other things about him.

“You owe me.” I tried lightening the mood like I had with Scarlett. I nudged his shoulder but only came into contact with a pad.

Dragging his bottom lip into his mouth, he raked his teeth over the fullness and his eyes heated. He leaned his face close to mine. “You name it and it’s yours, brat.”

My face flamed and my mouth watered. Lord, he was a terrible flirt and by terrible I meant amazing. I swallowed the saliva pooling in my mouth and stepped back.

“Cut it out, Olls. Quit giving her a hard time. She came all this way so your ass would have a way home tonight.” Scarlett attempted to save me.

He eyed me. “Oh, I haven’t even started giving her a hard time yet,” he said before walking backward down the stadium steps, hot eyes still on me. I was thanking whatever gods were listening that he was walking backward. Please, God. Spare me that ass. I couldn’t handle it after his damn lip trick.

“You’re shameless, Oliver Knox,” Scarlett called down to him.

She wasn’t wrong. Oliver flirted with all the women. I never could tell if he had a preference for a certain kind of girl. If it walked and had tits and a vagina, he flirted.

“Bye, ladies,” Oliver said loudly and jangled Scarlett’s keys over his head before doing the most awful thing in the world to me—he spun around and gave me his ass. And God, was it a marvelous ass. Immediately my eyes ate it up. Was there anything better than a hot ass in some football pants? It was round and firm and high and I bet I could have bounced fifty quarters off of it. But I didn’t have any change. Damn. That was just my luck.

I was being mesmerized by the twin all white globes when they stopped just barely and my eyes diverted up to see Oliver looking over his shoulder and smiling. Damn him. He gave me a slow wink before continuing down the steps at a trot.

The tease. The bastard. He knew how good-looking he was. It didn’t matter a bit that he was my best friend’s brother or that he was a year and a half younger than me. Oliver Winston Knox was fine on a regular day, but in a football uniform he was the stuff dreams were made of. My dreams to be exact.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The First Score is such a sweet story! It is a stand-alone, but is a spin-off of The Red Zone. I remember when I read TRZ that I loved Hazel and Oliver, and hoped that they would get a story. It was so worth the wait!

Ollie has always had a crush on Hazel, his sister’s best friend. He and Hazel develop their own special kind of friendship, but Ollie wants more. So one day, he decides to catfish the love of his life in a video game.

Thankfully, that doesn’t backfire on him. But it does open up Hazel to admit that she has feelings for him as well. Unfortunately, she is so messed up as a result of her abusive childhood, she feels like she can’t be in a relationship. He was so devoted to her, and has the patience of a saint when Hazel, who is going through some personal drama with her mom, tells him that she needs time to figure things out.

Team Hollie all the way! Once these two finally get on the same page, their relationship is magic. He is the ultimate supportive boyfriend, and knows exactly what Hazel needs even when she doesn’t know herself.

If you have read TRZ, TFS takes place kind of at the same time. It was great to get a catch-up with Luk and Lettie, too. I hope Mason’s story comes soon!

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Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn’t reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to ’90s R&B, country, and showtunes. Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can’t imagine living anywhere other than the South.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Sweet Spot, by Rebecca Jenshak

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A hot-headed college golfer falls for her swing coach in this fun and sexy sports romance.

Lincoln Reeves may be a pro golfer and revered swing coach, but when I meet him, he is just one more person telling me I’m not good enough.
So, I do what any girl in my position would do. I tell him to get lost and take his arrogant, annoying smirk with him. I never expect to see him again. I certainly don’t expect to run into him that same night after one too many tequila shots.
Turns out that he’s kind of a big deal. Okay, fine, a really big deal. In fact, he might be the one person who can take my game to the next level.
Convincing him to help will be difficult.
Not throwing my club at his handsome face when he makes me work harder than I thought humanly possible will be excruciating.
But not falling for him will be the hardest thing of all.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Sweet Spot is an absolutely sweet romance set in Rebecca Jenshak’s Valley U world. Keira is a college golf player, who isn’t getting the recognition she deserves because her coach has it out for her. She’s damn good, and eats, breathes and sleeps golf. But still, she’s not getting a spot to play in the tournaments. So when an opportunity arises to get golf pro-turned-coach Lincoln Reeves to personally train her, Keira dives even deeper into her training.

And along the way, falls head over heels with her coach. Their relationship starts out as a casual fling, but both of them begin to want more as he trains her for the PGA circuit. But having already been married and divorced, Lincoln is afraid to bring his selfish behavior (being married to his job) to another relationship. But is their shared love of golf enough to get both Keira and Lincoln to the sweet spot?

This story is a low-angsty, lighthearted read. Keira and Lincoln have a playful connection with lotsof witty banter and fun flirting. There is an age gap between them, but this story is not a forbidden romance. So there isn’t a lot of drama, and these two likable characters just keep chugging along until Keira realizes that she needs more than Lincoln is willing to give. And when Lincoln decides to fight for their relationship, he really brings his A Game at an intense moment for Keira’s golf career.

Although Sweet Spot takes place at Valley University where the Smart Jocks series was set, this is a standalone. There are some ties to the Smart Jocks — Zeke makes an appearance, and Nathan’s brother, Heath, is one of Lincoln’s employees.

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: Fighting For Us, by Claire Kingsley

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Author: Claire Kingsley
Release Date: May 28, 2020

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Synopsis
How long would you wait for the love of your life?

The Asher Bailey who comes home to his quirky small town isn’t the same man who put a ring on Grace’s finger. He’s bigger, harder, haunted. Forced to give up Grace and everything else that was good in his life for a prison sentence he barely survived.

Now that he’s home, he finds himself aggressively welcomed by his brothers and gleefully gossiped about by his neighbors. He’d counted on both.

But he never expected to see Grace still wearing his ring.

Grace’s fairy tale didn’t end. It was interrupted. She’s spent the last seven years living her life while waiting for one man. Now that he’s back, she’s got her work cut out for her. He’s scarred and angry, and stubbornly convinced they can’t be together. She’s more than happy to educate him otherwise.

Every beer, every prank, every kiss brings him closer to where he’s always belonged. In her life. In her arms. In her heart.

Asher fears the darkness inside him can’t be contained. But Grace won’t give up on him without a fight.

Author’s note: A brooding, wounded hero and the woman who won’t give up on him. A pack of unruly, prank-loving brothers. A wild neighborhood rumor mill. Spectacular BFF banter. This is a love story about soulmates that delivers the heat and all the feels. The Bailey Brothers series is meant to be read in order and Fighting for Us concludes Grace and Asher’s happily ever after.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I went right from reading Protecting You (Bailey Brothers #1) into Fighting For Us and I am so glad I was able to binge read because I could not put this book down! Technically, Fighting For Us is a standalone, but it’s so much better to read with the context of Grace and Asher’s origin story in Protecting You. Plus, you get to meet the wild Bailey brothers in Book #1, so there’s that. Trust me, you want to know these guys!

After seven years in prison, Asher is released from jail — and doesn’t know what to do with himself or his life. He’s had zero contact with his family — not even Grace. It broke his soul, but it was the only way he was able to survive being locked up. And Grace never gave up on their love, even when people thought she was insane for staying faithful to Asher.

Seven years ago, they had a fight… or was it a break-up?

I loved how even though these two came back together, but he was still holding back. Asher was so afraid that his demons (as a result of being in prison) would destroy Grace even worse than when he turned his back on her all those years ago. But her love for him is just so big, her faith in them as a couple is just so strong, it brings Asher through his darkest hour. And dirty-talker Asher is so freaking hot!

Another great aspect of this book was how Claire Kingsley shows how Asher’s prison sentence affected his whole family. It wasn’t just Asher who had to deal with being locked up. His brothers and Grace and even Gram suffered while he was gone. We saw some of what the brothers went through, but there will be more to come as the rest of the Bailey boys get their due. I legit screamed at the end of the epilogue with that tease for the next book to come!

I know how much of her own heart and soul Claire Kingsley put into Asher and Grace’s story, and it shows! This is an epic, tragic, heartfelt, healing love story, and a fantastic start to a new series by one of my favorite authors!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Claire Kingsley is an Amazon Top 10 bestselling author of sexy, heartfelt contemporary romance and romantic comedies. She writes books with sassy, quirky heroines, swoony heroes who love their women hard, panty-melting sexytimes, romantic happily ever afters, and lots of big feels.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Give Me The Weekend, by Weston Parker

 

GIVE ME THE WEEKEND by Weston Parker
Release Date: May 20th

 

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Blurb:
What do I look like, a baby machine?
I swear all my family wants from me is kids. Or at least my mother does.
But I’m the black sheep of the family. The one that left for bigger and better things.
No farm for me. I’m a self-made billionaire bad boy now.
Real Estate is the game and making money is my thing.
All is well in my bachelor-like world until I rent a cottage on my property to a beautiful school counselor.
Sweet. Curvy. Smart as hell.
This woman shouldn’t be out of my league, but it feels like she most certainly is.
Good thing she falls for me too. I need a fake girlfriend to take back home, and I’m hoping she’ll be up for the ruse.
Which she is not. Go figure.
Things don’t always work out the way I plan, especially when she’s hiding something from me.
A baby. One I didn’t think I wanted until it was inside of her.
She’s walking away and I’m begging. I don’t need forever to win her back.
Just give me the weekend.

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I haven’t read a Weston Parker book in a while, so I forgot how well he does the male romance writer thing. Give Me The Weekend is a sweet, slow-burn friends-to-lovers/fake relationship romance that doesn’t have a lot of drama and left me feeling all warm inside.

Elsie and Taydom have a ton of chemistry. They are both kind of broken people — she’s just lost her mom and best friend, and is just kind of floundering in life, while he is a real estate mogul but lives a very lonely existence, closed off and a workaholic. A chance meeting at an open house that Elsie visits changes both of their lives forever. Neither one of them is looking for love or any kind of commitment, but they just can’t stay away from one another. Before Taydom even knows what is happening, he is going above and beyond for Elsie, doing things to make sure she is secure and safe (and not homeless!) like he’s never done for anyone else.

I loved how, even though they were pretending to be in a relationship and didn’t have any labels on what was going on between them, the fact that they are indeed committed to one another kind of sneaks up on both of them.

Give Me The Weekend is a sizzling story, complete with a HEA that neither Taydom or Elsie ever expected to happen in their lives.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About the Author:
Hey there. I’m Weston.

Have we met? No? Well it’s time to end that tragedy.

I’m a former firefighter/EMS guy who’s picked up the proverbial pen and started writing bad boy romance stories. I co-write with my sister, Ali Parker, but live in Texas with my wife, my two little boys, a dog and a turtle.

Yep. A turtle. You read that right. Don’t be jealous.

You’re going to find Billionaires, Bad Boys, Military Guys and loads of sexiness. Something for everyone, hopefully.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Protecting You, by Claire Kingsley

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Title: Protecting You
Author: Claire Kingsley
Release Date: May 21, 2020

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Synopsis
One night brings them together. Another night tears them apart.

Grace Miles misses her easy friendship with Asher, but growing up means growing apart. And really, how could he fall for her when they spent their childhood getting muddy in the creek and splitting sticks of gum?

But this summer, something feels different. If Grace didn’t know better, she’d think Asher was flirting with her. Those dark eyes, hard body, and wicked smile make her insides swirl and her heart dare to hope for things she’s convinced herself she’ll never have.

Falling for your best friend shouldn’t be complicated, but for Asher Bailey, loving Grace is anything but simple. The road to romance isn’t smooth thanks to his pack of wild brothers who are protective of the girl next door, a take-no-sass grandmother, a small town where gossip is a spectator sport, and a feud that spans generations.

But Asher realizes his feelings are too big to ignore. Loving her isn’t the risk. Losing her would be.

And one night, one kiss, changes everything.

Finally admitting their feelings is the beginning of their happily ever after. Until their fairy tale love story is tragically interrupted, and neither of them will ever be the same.

Author’s note: Lifelong soulmates, ridiculous pranks, brother shenanigans, and a feuding town. Protecting You is the Bailey Brothers series origin story. Be there when it begins and fall in love with this wild band of unruly brothers. The series is meant to be read in order, and Grace and Asher’s story concludes in Fighting for Us.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Protecting You is a kick-ass start to the Bailey Brothers series by one of my favorite authors. It is the origin story of Grace Miles and Asher Bailey — and HOLY SMOKES, is it all kinds of small-town goodness.

The light-bulb moment when Asher realizes that he’s in love with Grace was one of my favorites; it’s pure simplicity made it so beautiful. These two experience so many firsts together, and they so easily slip into a wonderful romance after being friends for so long.

I have been a Claire Kingsley reader for a long time, so I was well-acquainted with Grace Miles thanks to the Miles Family series. I already knew the basics of Grace’s relationship with Asher. But reading how they were best friends as kids, fell in love as young adults and then were ripped apart in a tragic moment where he was protecting her was nothing I was prepared for. Everything about these two was just pure and sweet. They have such a deep, soul-crushing love. So when tragedy strikes and Asher turns his back on Grace — to protect himself as much as her — it was just heartbreaking!

I read this book in a day. I could not put it down. I stayed up way too late at night reading it to get to that heartbreaking cliffhanger ending, and then jumped right into Book #2 Fighting For Us (which is the conclusion to Asher and Grace’s story) the next morning because I NEEDED MORE!!

While Protecting You is the origin story for Asher and Grace, we also get to know the rest of the Bailey brothers — and they are a handful. Their Gram is a saint! I can’t wait to see what CK brings next in this series.

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I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ClaireKingsley
Claire Kingsley is an Amazon Top 10 bestselling author of sexy, heartfelt contemporary romance and romantic comedies. She writes books with sassy, quirky heroines, swoony heroes who love their women hard, panty-melting sexytimes, romantic happily ever afters, and lots of big feels.
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