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New Release: The Bachelor Contract, by Rachel Van Dyken

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The Bachelor Contract, an all-new sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller Rachel Van Dyken is LIVE!!

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The Bachelor Contract by Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: November 28th

Genre: Contemporary Romance

A second-chance romance from the #1 NYT bestseller of The Bet, Matchmaker and Elite series!

She’s everywhere.

Ex-wife.

Love of his life.

The last person in the world he wanted to see…ever.

And now that he’s working beside her every day, he can’t escape her. Her scent, glimpses of her smile, even the tension in the air that makes his body hum with the kind of need he’d only experienced with one person-all of it is driving him over the edge.

Brant Wellington was certain of three things:

Alcohol wasn’t going to solve this.

He really was losing his F-ing mind.

And his gorgeous ex-wife was going to be the death of him.

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Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Shallow, by Cora Kenborn

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Title: Shallow
Author: Cora Kenborn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Blurb
 
Shiloh

Only the good die young. But I’ve never been good.
I’ve lived a life most people only dream about. Famous men,
expensive booze, and the finest drugs money could buy. But every vice has its
price, and living a life of excess has finally dragged me down, forcing me back
to the one place I swore I’d never return.
We met in high school, but we were far from sweethearts. I
ruined his life and then walked away. Losing everything is bad enough, but
crawling back to people who wish you were dead is a nightmare. 
Some say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Not always. You either forgive and forget, or fracture and
finish.
Cary



Seven years ago, Shiloh West was my world. I gave up my
future for her. Then, I spent every waking moment hating her for it. I’ve
followed her train wreck of a career in the tabloids since she drove out of
town with her nose in the air. The woman is toxic.

The fact that a judge has court ordered her back to town
means nothing to me—except maybe the payback I’ve waited a lifetime to collect.
I’m going to build her up and tear her down.
A better man would walk away. I’m not a better man. She
thinks she has the upper hand. Think again, Starshine.
Beauty is only skin deep, but revenge goes straight to the
bone.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

There’s a fine line between love and hate, and Shallow not only walks that line in the way that Cary feels for Shiloh — the girl he loved as a teenager, who ruined his life — but in the way Shy feels about herself. This book is certainly not a happy-go-lucky, light romance where the nerd becomes a pierced and tatted-up fighter who then gets the girl of his dreams.

For as much as Shiloh ruined Cary’s life with her selfishness all those years ago, she’s also completely obliterated her own life, and now she’s at his mercy as part of her prison probation release. At first, Cary takes Shiloh — aka Shallow — at face value, and views her having to work for him as his long-awaited chance for revenge. But while Cary starts out seeking vengeance, he finds himself falling in love with her all over again. This story was so intense and one hell of an emotional roller-coaster, but after Cary and Shiloh tear each other apart, the redemption that they find within each other and themselves is a beautiful HEA.

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I rip off
my drenched clothes on my way into the locker room while cursing her name. With
every slam of my fist into the shower tile, I hear a telltale cracking sound,
letting me know I’ve gone too far. Closing my eyes, I brace both palms against
the fractured material as water pelts me from overhead and try to control
myself. I’m in debt enough. I’d be an idiot to willingly destroy property I
can’t afford to repair. Admitting that to myself pisses me off even more,
causing me to want to rip down every piece and smash it against the concrete
floor with my bare hands.
Within
thirty seconds of standing there, my senses go into overload. As usual, I smell
her before I see her. Fucking rain and sunshine. One whiff and my cock stands
at attention, curling into my stomach as if nudging me toward her. 
“If
you’re gonna be in here, Starshine, you’re gonna be naked.” I don’t have
to turn around to know she’s scowling. I feel the fury vibrating off her, and
it makes me smile. Choosing to ignore her, I continue to lather myself, making
an unnecessary production of soaping my chest and biceps. 
“I—I
should go,” she finally stammers. When she makes no move to leave, I know
I’ve got her. 
“What’s
your hurry, sweetheart? You’ve got another half hour on the clock. Leaving
before your assigned time is over and without my signature puts you in breach
of contract.” I glance down, making sure to drag her eyes along with mine.
“And it appears I have no place to hide a pen on me, does it?”
The old
Carrick was self-conscious about his body, hiding it behind layers of
sweltering clothes. However, the new Cary is well aware that hours in the ring
has transformed it. Men grab their women and women grab something to steady
themselves when I’m around. I’m far from shy now and making Shiloh sweat a
little is an added perk of my game. 
Besides, I
want her to look. I already know her almond-shaped eyes are glued to my ass,
but I need more. There’s a raging fire in my veins that needs her so enthralled
with me that she forgets to breathe. 
“Cary…”
She tries one last time, but I’m done pretending. My name is name barely out of
her mouth when I turn to face her, fighting the smirk that’s dying to betray
me.
As I
expect, her eyes drop then widen as she scans what I have to offer. I fight the
urge to give it a few strokes just to fuck with her.  
“You’re
naked,” she says, her voice barely above a whisper. 
“Yeah,
see that seems to be the problem here, Shy.”
“Problem?”
“I
told you, we have house rules around here. The first one is that if you’re in
the locker room while someone else is naked and showering, you’d better be
naked and showering too.” I don’t realize I’m moving until she takes a
step backward, her palms shooting out in front of her in battle ready stance. 
“I’m
not taking my clothes off, Cary.”
“Fair
enough.” I stalk her like prey, guiding her into a useless half circle
until she realizes too late she’s backed against the chipped blue shower tile.
“I’ll do it for you.”

 

Author Bio
Cora Kenborn writes twisted romance novels about bad boys
and damsels NOT in distress while shocking readers with unpredictable plot
twists.



A true Southern girl from Eastern North Carolina, Cora grew
up on sweet tea and front porches, and knows the real meaning of “bless your
heart.” She’s the mother of three hyperactive and occasionally adorable
children and the wife to a husband who she’s conned into believing Hot Pockets
are a perfectly acceptable family dinner.



Cora can usually be found taking notes during true crime
shows, effectively freaking out everyone in the room. She proudly admits to
being a domestic rebel and plans to pen future self-help books including:
“Microwave Dinners For Dummies,” “Allergic To Laundry and Other Common Household
Dangers,” and “When Hot Glue Guns Attack: A Mother’s Nightmare.”

 

Oh, and she and autocorrect are mortal enemies.

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Available Now: Millions, by Pepper Winters

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Millions, Book Five in the Dollar Series by Pepper Winters, is LIVE!!

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Millions by Pepper Winters
Publication Date: November 28th, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance

 

Tragedy, turmoil, and the ultimate sacrifice. It’s not a question of what I’m willing to sacrifice but who to deserve her…

Can love truly conquer all? Even when so many truths say no?

The last book in the USA Today Bestselling Dollar Series.

 

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Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller.

After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 19 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-six times in three years.

Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.

Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2017.

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The Plan by Ella James is Now Live!

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The Plan by Ella James

Release Date: November 27th

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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SYNOPSIS

You’ve heard this story before. Woman feels her biological clock ticking and gets someone to knock her up.

Not for love, for baby.

Crazy, right?

That’s what I thought.

Then I found out my fiancé had a vasectomy. The life I thought I had? Nope. Suddenly I’m 33, and I don’t even have a kissing buddy.

When my mom’s health takes a turn and I wind up back in my hometown of Fate, Alabama, I tell myself to leave things up to…well, you know.

Then I see Gabriel McKellan. He’s Fate’s most famous son, a bestselling author who is beautiful, complicated, and living just below me. In addition to his plus-sized brain, Gabe’s well-endowed in other ways, and great in bed to boot. I would know. He’s my ex husband.

When I suggest The Plan, I don’t imagine that he’ll take the bait. It’s been ten years, and we don’t work. But Fate has other plans for both of us.

 

 

 

 

 

EXCERPT

I veer into the bushes, heading across the lawn toward the home’s rear right, where there’s supposed to be a staircase tacked onto the house’s back side.



“Not your walkway,” he says coolly.



“Figured that out,” I snap over my shoulder.



Hurt stings my cheeks and neck, prickles tears in my eyes. I whirl. “You are such an asshole! Always were. The biggest jerk in our class!”



“What was it, then, Marley?” He takes a long stride down the walkway toward me. “Oh, wait, I remember.” He looks pointedly down, and then back up at me with those electric eyes—and I know what he’s meaning.


“Jesus—you’re a pig!”

He smirks. “Only for you.”



“Fuck off.”



With those ungraceful words, I march toward the house I’m sharing with my ex-husband.

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ella James is the USA Today and Amazon Top 10 bestselling author of more than twenty love stories. She’s an angst-a-holic who loves exploring difficult situations and the emotions of the people caught up in them. Also, smut. But always, always romance.

Ella is an Alabama native who makes her home in Colorado with her husband, three young children, and hyperactive dog. When she’s not writing, she can be found hiking the foothills, taking nature photos for her Instagram account, or swilling vanilla cream soda.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Trading Yesterday, by Kahlen Aymes

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Something inside me snapped.

“Chase, I need you. Please, come.”

Teagan’s words screamed from the screen of my phone. My heart started pounding and I started to sweat. I felt like I might pass out as I was sucked into a vortex of emotions and memories I’d tried desperately to forget.

Teagan Tessler was the love of my life. My professional soccer career was a big part of the future we planned to have together, but an offer with Arsenal, one of England’s premier soccer teams, sent me to London a year ahead of schedule. Just months after I left, Teagan betrayed me with my best friend without an explanation. I was completely and utterly destroyed.

Six years later, I can finally breathe again and my professional and personal life is in a good place; but, now this. I’d have to be insane to even consider ripping open those old wounds, but whatever she needed, it had to be huge.

The truth of my feelings resonated: I should shut off the phone and forget her forever, but my traitorous heart told me to get on a plane, no questions asked.

One decision can ruin your life… Maybe another one can save it.

From USA Today bestselling author, Kahlen Aymes, Trading Yesterday is a sexy roller coaster of emotion, ultimate loss, desperate longing, betrayal and forgiveness that will restore your faith in unconditional love. You’ll be left gasping for more! The Remembrance Trilogy readers will love this book.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and get a do-over when it comes to the biggest mistake you’ve ever made? That you could trade yesterday for something better, something right? This was the first book I’ve read by Kahlen Aymes and I was BLOWN AWAY. This book was a rip-your-heart-out kind of rollercoaster ride between Chase, Teagen and Jensen.
Sexy passionate couple kissing on bed, lovers at night in hotel roomWithout getting into the storyline and spoiling it — because this book was just that good — I’ll say this: Teagen made a horrible choice six years ago, but it was done with the best of intentions. What I loved about the way this story was written was how Jensen and Chase also made decisions that forever affected the three of them. Now, faced with an unspeakable tragedy, the three of them need to learn how to deal with the decisions they’ve all made in order to put the past behind them.
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I absolutely loved Chase as the hero. He’s an international soccer star, but this athlete showed incredible vulnerability when he and Teagen talk about their past, the secret she kept from him, and how gutted he was by her and Jensen’s betrayal when his own relationship with Teagen crumbled. And even as much as I wanted Chase and Teagen to get their second chance at love, my heart hurt for Jensen, who was only trying to do the right thing in the choice that he made all those years ago. I’m so glad that Jensen will be getting his own story, and a chance to find his HEA!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Second Best, by Noelle Adams

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Title: Second Best
Author: Noelle Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Blurb
We meet every other Wednesday night in a
downtown hotel. No dates. No commitments. No hearts and flowers. Just his body
and mine.
Maybe I’m his second best. He’s definitely
mine.
But second best has never felt so good.

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I often find the friends-with-benefits trope to be hit or miss; there’s a delicate balance to making the romance that develops feel real to the reader and not forced just because it should be there as a side effect of the couple being no-strings-attached friends with benefits. But Noelle Adams definitely put together a hit with Second Best.

Sean and Ashley go into their “contract” fully aware of what to expect from the other. They each have their reasons for not wanting to date around, so the “I’ll rub your back if you rub mine” deal that they strike up fits both their needs. Until it doesn’t any more.

I was so cheering for these two to get together. Their connection jumps off the page, and they are such richly, fully developed, relatable characters, which made me ship them even more. I am keeping Second Best on my re-read list!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

 

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Excerpt
After I
turned the water on to get hot, I pulled my hair back into a messy bun and
dropped my clothes onto the floor, feeling almost decadent—like I wasn’t just a
normal girl with a normal job living a normal life. I loved the specialty bath
wash the hotel provided—deliciously scented with lavender and honey—and I
scrubbed up and rinsed off at a leisurely pace.
I wondered
what Sean was doing.
He probably
had a meeting run late or else something urgent came up at work.
I was going
to be very disappointed if the front desk called up to tell me he wasn’t going
to be able to make it after all.
I’d been
waiting for two weeks for tonight. I didn’t want to miss out.
When I felt
an unexpected blast of cool air, I turned to see what caused it. I squealed
loudly when I saw a man getting into the shower with me. I raised my hands
instinctively to beat him off.
You
understand I wasn’t thinking through any of this. All I’d processed was the
sudden appearance of a man where I hadn’t been expecting one.
“Hey,” Sean
said, laughing as he grabbed at my flailing wrists. He was as naked as I was.
“I expected a warmer welcome than this.”
I relaxed
immediately, flushing with embarrassment and the aftermath of my shock. “You
scared the crap out of me!”
He was
still laughing. “I can see that. Who did you think was getting into the shower
with you?”
“I don’t
know. I thought you were running late.”
He moved so
he was completely under the shower spray, the water soaking his short brown
hair and streaming down his high cheekbones, strong chin, and sexy mouth. “I
was. But I rushed over so you wouldn’t start without me.”
“Start…
without…?”
I didn’t
finish the stilted question because he’d pulled me into a kiss.
I had no
objections to kissing him. In fact, it was one of my favorite activities. No
one kissed like Sean Doyle did—with those clever lips, agile tongue, and
dedicated skill. But I’d put my hair into the bun on purpose, and I didn’t want
him to pull my head under the water, so I backed away, saving my hair from
getting soaked like his.
He frowned
when I broke the kiss and reached for me again. “Why are you all standoffish?”
“I’m not.”
I giggled as I evaded his hands. “I just don’t want my hair to get wet.”
“Why not?”
I stared at
him through the steam-thickened air. “Why not? Do you have any idea what it’s
like to go around with wet hair as long as mine? It takes forever to dry and it
gets everything wet.”
He frowned
and stepped forward, pushing me back against the shower wall. “Fine. If you
insist on focusing on practicalities, how’s this then?” He kissed me again, and
this time I didn’t have any desire to pull away. My head was safely away from
the fall of water.
“Not bad,”
I murmured against his lips.
“Not bad?
That’s all you can say after two weeks without kissing me?”
“What did
you expect me to say? That your kiss is the most incredible thing I’ve ever
experienced in the universe.”
He nuzzled the
side of my face, his tongue darting out to taste my skin in little, unexpected
licks, each one causing a quick jolt of pleasure. “That wouldn’t be a bad
start.”

 

Author Bio

Noelle
handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was
twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different
states and currently resides in Virginia, where she reads any book she can get
her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
She loves
travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her
life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus
on writing contemporary romances.
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Available Now: The Roommate ‘dis’Agreement by Leddy Harper

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Title: The Roommate “dis”Agreement
Author: Leddy Harper
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Blurb
Item One: Divorced man seeks female roommate for
companionship. Cash Nicholson isn’t looking for a girlfriend, but he
wants to come home to someone after a bad day at work.
Item Two: Single mother needs apartment. Jade
Robertson is desperate, and her best friend’s couch just isn’t going to cut it
anymore.
Item Three: No surprises. Romance. Work. Pasts.
Agreements aren’t promises…
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Leddy Harper had to use her imagination often as a child. She grew up the only girl in a house full of boys. At the age of fourteen, she decided to use that imagination and wrote her first book, and never stopped.


She often calls writing her therapy, using it as a way to deal with issues through the eyes of her characters.She is now a mother of three girls, leaving her husband as the only man in a house full of females.

The decision to publish her first book was made as a way of showing her children to go after whatever it is they want to. Love what you do and do it well. Most importantly Leddy wanted to teach them what it means to overcome their fears.

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Cover Reveal: Behind The Bars, by Brittainy C. Cherry

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Behind the Bars, the first standalone in the all-new Music Street Series from Brittainy C. Cherry is coming December 7th!

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Behind the Bars by Brittainy C. Cherry

Release Date: December 7th, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Designer: Kandi Steiner

Photographer: Perrywinkle Photographer

When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops.

I was the awkward musician, and she was the high school queen.

The only things we had in common were our music and our loneliness.

Something in her eyes told me her smile wasn’t always the truth.

Something in her voice gave me a hope I always wished to find.

And in a flash, she was gone.

Years later, she was standing in front of me on a street in New Orleans.

She was different, but so was I. Life made us colder. Harder. Isolated.

Caged.

Even though we were different, the broken pieces of me recognized the sadness in her.

Now she was back, and I wouldn’t make the mistake of letting her go again.

When I first met Jasmine Greene, she came in as raindrops.

When we met again, she was the darkest storm.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Spider, by Ilsa Madden-Mills

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From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a new standalone romance about a flawed hero and the woman he can’t forget.

Spider, a sexy and forbidden new standalone, is LIVE!

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Title: Spider
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Publication Date: November 13th, 2017

He calls himself Spider.

I just know him as the sinfully gorgeous guy with eyes of fire that fate places next to me on the airplane.

I didn’t who he really was . . . future rock star . . . my stepbrother.

He kissed me because he thought he’d never see me again. He would.

Everyone warned me about him.

They told me he was careless and ruthless and screwed up.

They said he’d leave me with a hole in my heart.

Maybe I should have listened.

Maybe I should have built a fortress to keep him out.

But I crumbled instead.

They say an unbreakable thread connects those who are destined to meet. If that’s true, then the moment he sat next to me, we were bound together forever.

He just had to figure it out before it’s too late…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Rose & Spider Stars

An epic romance! I love a broken hero, and stepbrother romances are a favorite trope of mine. IMM beautifully combines them in an emotional, angsty tale of first love, soulmates and forever.

The prologue gave me chills, and I couldn’t imagine how that connection would come into play in the heart of the book, but I should have known better than to even wonder, because IMM sets up the perfect first meeting with 11 yr old Rose and the mysterious boy who flirted into her life like a butterfly.

In several other IMM books, Spider is a cocky, womanizing secondary character, but when the reader gets into just how broken this man actually is, my heart was broken wide open for him! He is a hot mess, to put it lightly, and walks away from the one good thing in his life because he knows Tode deserves someone with their act together.

Well, once he had his act together, Spider is out to get his girl back and does it in an epically majestic way. The ups and downs that these two go through serve the story’s purpose of how lost he truly feels until he figures out his ish; the rollercoaster ride is full af angst, but all of that plays into the bigger picture of their epic love.

Spider and his rose tattoos gave me all the feels. You won’t be disappointed!

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About the Author


New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills writes about strong heroines and sexy alpha males that sometimes you just want to slap.

She’s addicted to dystopian books and all things fantasy, including unicorns and sword-wielding females. Other fascinations include frothy coffee beverages, dark chocolate, Instagram, Ian Somerhalder (seriously hot), astronomy (she’s a Gemini), and tattoos.

She has a degree in English and a Master’s in Education.

When she’s not pecking away on her computer, she shops for cool magnets and paints old furniture.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Unexpected Arrivals, by Stephie Walls

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Title: Unexpected Arrivals
Author: Stephie Walls
Genre: Coming of Age/Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Blurb
It had to
be a joke.
Any minute
now, a van would drive up and Ashton Kutcher would slide the door open,
laughing hysterically at my melodramatic performance on the front porch.
But nothing
happened.
The words
on the page jumbled into a toxic mess my brain refused to comprehend, much less
accept.
Please consider this letter as a formal request
to arrange a paternity test (DNA).
I barely
remembered Chelsea Airy.
That wasn’t
true—we’d gone out once, and we’d been friends for a while after. But I hadn’t
heard so much as a peep from her since I’d gotten married. I’d reached out a
handful of times, but she’d quit responding and fell off the face of the earth.
There hadn’t been a text, an email, a phone call, not even a Facebook message,
much less a stork in the last five years.
My wife
could forgive a lot, but she’d never wanted children—much less another woman’s.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Unexpected Arrivals was an amazing non-traditional love triangle book. The myriad of connections that Stephie Walls created amongst these characters was spectacular.

The way Walls described James and Cora’s relationship from the moment they met through all of their ups and downs, their split and their reconciliation really made me root for them as a couple. And yet, I still appreciated James’ friendship with Chelsea during the years that he and Cora were apart.

I wasn’t sure how I was going to like the three POVs, but it worked so much better than I ever could have anticipated. I wasn’t sure how Cora was going to react when James learned that he’d fathered a child, but the way these two handled Legend’s sudden appearance in their life was true teamwork. And how that little boy allowed Cora to heal her own fractured past relationships left me in tears.

And I loved, loved, loved the wink to Jade and Aria from another recently-released book, The Roommate ‘dis’Agreement by Walls’ sometime-writing partner, Leddy Harper. I hope that means that we’ll see a romance between Legend and Aria some day!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Author Bio

Stephie Walls is a literary whore – she loves words in all forms and will read anything put in front of her. She has an affinity for British Literature and Romance novels and an overall love of writing. She currently has six novels out, four short stories, and two collections; all provocatively written to elicit your imagination and spice up your world.

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