💜 SLAP SHOT SURPRISE by Melanie Harlow — an opposites attract, steamy, small-town hockey romance — is AVAILABLE NOW💜

In my defense, I thought the plane was going to crash.

Otherwise, I never would have blurted out those embarrassing things to a perfect stranger.

Did I mention he turned out to be a scorching hot superstar of professional hockey?

But wait, there’s more.

When the plane lands safely, I rush off, praying I’ll never have to face him again. My luck holds out for less than twenty-four hours, when I realize he’s a groomsman at the wedding I’m attending.

We end up having a drink and a good laugh about my panicked confessions, and when he invites me up to his room for some no-strings-attached fun, I say yes. After all, a headboard rattling one-night stand with a guy who knows how to put the puck in deep isn’t something a bookworm like me ever thought she’d experience.

Neither are those two little pink lines.

Now what’s crashing are all the plans Joe Lupo and I had for our lives–separately.

After all, we’re totally wrong for each other. He’s commitment-phobic and completely focused on his career. And I want to plant roots in my small town–with someone who chooses me.

Love? It’s out of the question.

Until Joe Lupo lines up his shot and aims straight for my heart.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗹𝗮𝗽 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆! 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱!
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

A rainy weekend day was the perfect time to curl up with a blanket and binge Slap Shot Surprise! I loved this crossover between Mabel Buckley of Cherry Tree Harbor and Joey Lupo (son of Nick and Coco from Forked). From Mabel’s awkward word vomit when she thought their plane was going to crash to their steamy one-night stand the night of the wedding, I was hooked on these characters!

The relationship between Mabel and Joe develops nicely through text messages and phone calls as she lives in Minnesota and he’s a pro hockey player in Chicago. They don’t really “date” in the traditional sense, but the few times they get together, it’s electric and sparks fly. Despite Mabel’s best efforts to keep Joe in the friend zone, she lets him back into her bed… and he eventually sets up camp in her heart. Meanwhile, Joe is a a bit of a self-centered playboy who doesn’t want to be tied down — my favorite kind of book boyfriend to see fall hard and fast for a woman!

I really loved the throwback to Giannie and Elle’s accidental pregnancy in Taste, and how Joey called his big brother for advice. I thought it was a sweet moment and a great connection between the two series. The ultrasound scene in Taste stood out to me long after I read that book, and I felt like Joey had a lot to live up to with Mabel’s accidental pregnancy… and Melanie Harlow did not disappoint!

Slap Shot Surprise is set a few years after the events of the other Cherry Tree Harbor books, so I loved getting to see where the Buckley siblings are in their relationships.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT MELANIE HARLOW

USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melanie Harlow writes sweet, sexy, feel-good romance. She likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. If she’s not writing or reading, she’s probably at Orangetheory or watching Schitt’s Creek again. She lifts her glass to readers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

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FOREVER STARTS TONIGHT by Karla Sorensen is AVAILABLE NOW!

Blurb:

It’s no secret that I’ve been in love with Jax Cartwright for half my life. A terrible decision, really, and not just because he’s my brother’s best friend or he’s ten years older than me.

Thanks to an overprotective family, he’s ignored me for years, but still, I can’t get his grumpy a** out of my head. And in a wine-fueled, post-bad date funk, I make another terrible decision: show up at his cabin to ask why he’s never given me a chance.

The storm that got me stuck there overnight was a total fluke, but I’m no fool. While Jax is perfectly clear about not wanting a family or love or any of the happily-ever-afters I’ve dreamed of, what’s the harm in asking for just one night? The worst thing he can say is no.

He doesn’t though, and I was saying yes, yes, yes a whole lot after that.

Best. Decision. Ever.

One night is enough to feel like I can move on, and we agree to let it be a secret kept safe between us.

But you know what makes it hard to keep a one-night secret about my not-so-secret crush?

A positive pregnancy test.

Oh baby, things are about to get interesting.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Yay! Poppy and Jax get their long-awaited HEA in Forever Starts Tonight! From the start of this series, we have seen Poppy pining for Jax, her brother Cameron’s best friend. And with their 10-year age difference, he never saw her as anything other than Cameron’s little sister. Except…. except…

It’s been Poppy all along! Jax just thought he deserved to be a lone wolf and couldn’t admit it to himself!

I have always loved the big, rowdy Wilder family, and they rally around Poppy when she learns she’s pregnant from a one-night stand. And then when Jax gets back to town after a three-month hiking trip and they find out that *he* is the babydaddy… WHOA!

This book was perfect! It’s a slow burn, full of so much angst. I loved how Jax’s feelings just hit him all of a sudden, but then he is placed in the friend zone by Poppy and experiences what she’d felt for all those years. That swoony Big Moment between them had me in tears as they finally, finally got together!

I also appreciated that Karla Sorensen wrote Poppy as a strong, independent heroine. As the baby of the family, we have seen her kind of coddled throughout the series by her siblings. Yes, she’s always been in love with Jax, but she sets out that night to get him out of her system so she can finally move on. And even after she learned she was pregnant, she had her ducks in a row and didn’t fall apart and need the protection that her siblings assumed she’d need.

Well done, Karla! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Karla Sorensen:

Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 10 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring Dramione fan fiction or avoiding the laundry, you can find her binding books, and watching football (British & American) or HGTV. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.

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Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann is now live! 

A small-town, forbidden, standalone, new adult romance with Footloose meets A Star is Born vibes from USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Jewel E. Ann

Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.

Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher.

But Sarah’s not sure he’s her future husband, especially when his older brother, Isaac, returns home after serving six years in the Army. He has tattoos on his arms and bad habits that are not “father-approved.”

When he’s not working on the ranch or roping at the rodeo, Isaac hangs out in the barn, playing his guitar. He’s trouble, but Sarah’s music-loving heart gravitates toward him.

Isaac loves consuming Sarah’s mind, crawling under her skin, backing her into corners, and whispering inappropriate things in her innocent ears.

After weeks of playful banter and guitar lessons blurring the line between right and wrong, Issac makes Sarah a proposition she can’t refuse.

But when the unthinkable happens, and everything she knows is destroyed, will Sarah make the right choice?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

“We were either the bad kind of right or the good kind of wrong. It was hard to distinguish the two.”

This book! I read Sunday Morning in less than 24 hours. It was addictive, entertaining, angsty, swoony, and I could not put it down! Jewel E. Ann packs a punch with this story about a preacher’s daughter and the two brothers she is torn between.

Sweet, good girl Sarah is weeks away from her high school graduation when her boyfriend Matt’s older brother, Isaac, returns to their small town after serving in the military for the past six years. It’s Easter Sunday when Sarah sees bad boy Isaac again, and it sparks something in her that she hasn’t felt in her comfortable romance with Matt. And Sarah hates the way Isaac (aka Satan) makes her feel, especially when he calls her “Sunday Morning.”

While nothing happens between Sarah and Isaac until after she’s broken up with Matt, this story still has all the forbidden vibes. They keep their relationship a secret at first because both sets of parents expect Sarah and Matt to marry, and Sarah has so much guilt tied up in “doing the right thing” by her family. As the oldest daughter, so much is resting on her shoulders and is expected of her. It’s refreshing that Isaac sees Sarah for the young woman she is and not the person she presents to the world because that’s who she thinks she is supposed to be.

I loved watching Sarah blossom into who she is while with Isaac. There is so much tension between them leading up to them finally getting together, and I was shipping this couple hard. Isaac has quite a reputation around their small town, and Sunday Morning is a wonderful reminder that you shouldn’t always believe the gossip. I have to admit, the revelation about Isaac’s past caught me by surprise in the best way!

There are only a handful of chapters from Isaac’s POV, and those were my favorite! I loved getting inside his head –finally! — after seeing so much of their relationship develop from Sarah’s POV. He didn’t want to fall in love with his little brother’s girlfriend, but the heart wants what the heart wants.

There is a TW of loss/car accident. I did appreciate that there is no cheating. And this book is set in the 80s — I LOVED the playlist and how fitting the song titles at the top of each chapter fit what happens in the following pages.

Sunday Morning was a beautiful, heartfelt story! And I can’t wait to see what the rest of this series brings! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet  Jewel E. Ann

Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance. 

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Buy A Boyfriend by Everly Ashton is now live! 

It wasn’t my expectation to fall into bed with the woman who won me at the bachelor auction.

I was only doing my grandma a favor, not looking for more than a shared dinner with the winner. Then again, I wasn’t expecting someone as hot as Isla to be my date.

She makes it clear that she’s down for a night in the sheets but bolts, leaving me holding my junk—literally. Which I figure, in the end, is all fine and good because love burned me before, and I have no plans to repeat that soul-crushing heartbreak.

I took a much-needed vacation from the handyman business I own with my brothers, Rent A Husband, only to return to find out they’d hired Isla, making me her boss.

And now I have to see her every day, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not still drawn to her. But I burned that bridge the night she was briefly in my bed, and any lust she had for me has turned to hatred.

Which is for the best because she has a new boyfriend, which is all the motivation I need to stay away from her. Until it’s not.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I am so glad that Everly Ashton returned to the Abbott Brothers series! I really loved Lucas and Cami’s story, and it’s been a few years — I wasn’t sure if we would see the other Rent-A-Husband guys find love, but here we are!

Travis and Isla first meet when their grandmothers set them up at a bachelor auction (aka the Buy a Boyfriend title). Not wanting the bidders to know his true identity, Travis goes by his middle name, Eddie, for the auction, and that his hobby of carpentry is his job. The two go on a great first date, but then as things get hot and heavy back at Eddie’s house, Isla bolts… leaving Eddie, who is already feeling a little insecure about returning to the dating scene again after a bad breakup, dejected and rejected.

The following week, Isla starts a new job as the admin at Rent A Husband handyman service, but the third Abbott brother is out of town on vacation. So when Travis returns to the office, they are both *shocked* to see the other one. Add in her having a boyfriend when he returns months later from setting up the company’s second office, and Travis and Isla get off to a rocky start!

I thought the reason why Isla bolted from Travis’ apartment that first night was kind of lame (it was embarrassing, but nothing I think necessitated that kind of swift exit without an explanation). But I get that led to Travis being a grade-A jerk to Isla when they cross paths again in the office. Once they were able to get past that, this was actually quite a sweet second-chance romance. It’s relatively low-angst, with no third-act breakup. Travis gets caught up inside his head there for a while, and there are some strained weeks between them, but it’s resolved with a sweet gesture that ties up the story with a pretty bow at the end.

As I was reading Buy a Boyfriend, I went back and forth between the ebook and the audio, perfectly narrated in duet by Lee Samuels and Vanessa Edwin.

One thing that I would have liked to have seen more of was the grandmothers. They had such a strong part in setting up Travis and Isla in the beginning and then just… disappeared? Travis’ grandmother showed up a few times later on in the book, but Isla’s grandmother was nowhere to be found. She was briefly mentioned once as being part of the senior center where Isla is part of the book club (the same center that the auction was held for), but when discussing her family background with Travis, she didn’t even mention her grandmother. It was a plot hole that I thought could have been better filled. And I think there was a missed opportunity for the grandmas to meddle before Travis and Isla got together again.

There were a few other points that I thought could have been explored more (like the run-in with his ex and the suddenness of the epilogue), but overall, I thought this was a entertaining story with solid characters, a cute secret relationship/second-chance romance, and an entertaining cast of secondary characters.

I can’t wait to learn what’s going on with Josh and Nova! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Everly Ashton

Everly Ashton is the pseudonym for a USA Today Bestselling Author duo writing sexy rom-coms for Kindle Unlimited. Head to her website at EverlyAshtonAuthor.com to join her newsletter for access to exclusive giveaways, bonus scenes and other fun stuff!!

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All Too Well by Corinne Michaels is now live! 

For as long as I can remember, Lachlan West has been my brother’s best friend and the love of my life. Trouble is, he kissed me four years ago and then never spoke to me again.

I was doing great pretending he doesn’t exist until I was assigned to write an article about former college athletes and I learn that the sexy single-dad is my first interview.

Determined to wow my editor with an amazing sportsball piece. (Have I mentioned I know nothing about sports?) I head to Ember Falls, ready to face my fears—and the man I love.

The grumpy quarterback turned fireman wants nothing to do with me or my article. Yet, somehow I persuade him to let me follow him around for a few weeks, and even if he said yes just to get rid of me, I’ll take it.

But the longer I stay in his small town, the more complicated our story gets. The boundaries we set fall to the ground—along with our clothes.

He holds me like I matter, touches me like I’m cherished and kisses me like he loves me.

We both know I have to leave Ember Falls, and he’ll never follow—I only wish I could write a different ending to our story.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I loved everything about Lachlan and Ainsley’s secret crush, always-been-you romance! It was full of heart, heat, and emotions, yearning and longing, and a short-term fling that you just know is going to ruin both of these characters when Ainsley’s time in town comes to an end! There is such a rich history between Lachlan and Ainsley, and I really got the sense of who they were to each other as friends once upon a time, before they shared a kiss four years ago and stopped speaking.

Lachlan is a troubled character — he’d given up his dreams of playing pro football to raise his daughter, Rose, because he is so terribly insecure after all the women in his life left him. After much push and pull, he and Ainsley stop dancing around their secret feelings for one another and agree to a situationship while she’s in town working on a story about Lach and his Ultimate Frisbee teammates. (Seriously? That, as a sport, was awesome!)

But when you are madly in love with someone who lives eight hours away, is there any hope for continuing a relationship? Well, because this book has a HEA, yes. Yes, there is. And it was lovely to see Lachlan and Ainsley get to that place! I look forward to finding the rest of the Disc Jocks find love in the Ember Falls 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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