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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Mountain Beauty by Lola Finn

MOUNTAIN BEAUTY by Lola Finn

RELEASES: October 20th

I’m the one they call the Beast. Dangerous. Alpha. Ruthless.

This is my mountain…at least it’s supposed to be.

Only when my father dies, I find out he played a little game with my inheritance. Now I have thirty days to find a wife or I’ll lose everything.

That’s where she comes in. Honor Channing. Dark hair, emerald eyes, and the poutiest, sassiest mouth.

She’s meant for a fairytale, not a cold, calculating, ruthless man like me. But when her family is desperate, I make them a deal.

I’ll buy their businesses. Keep them afloat. All I want in return is her.

Because the moment I stepped foot back into Thorne Ridge, this Beauty was mine.

She just doesn’t know it yet.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Mountain Beauty is a super steamy reimagining of Beauty & The Beast. Short enough to binge read, and sexy enough to keep your attention as Jett and Honor navigate an engagement of convenience, family drama, and a growing attraction between them.

Beauty & The Beast is my favorite Disney princess movie, and I loved all the correlations in this book. Honor has to marry Jett to save her destitute family. Her one brother is the Gaston-type villain of this story… Jett builds her a library… she finds the sweet soul behind the man everyone calls The Beast… This story had lots of angry heat and a hero with a really dirty mouth!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Lola Finn!
Dirty-minded, wine-drinking procrastinators extraordinaire, and writers of the sexy words. Lola Finn is an 8/9 enneagram author duo, ready to let out their wild sides.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: A Little Too Close by Rebecca Yarros

A LITTLE TOO CLOSE by Rebecca Yarros

Release Date: October 11th

Genre/Tropes: Single Parent Romance/Small Town Romance

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From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a small town, single parent romance.

Nine years ago, Weston Madigan saved me. I came to Colorado penniless, heartbroken, and pregnant, searching for a fresh start. Weston gave me a job at his family’s resort, then left the next day and never returned, not even to visit.

Then I stumble in on Weston cooking breakfast shirtless—gloriously, inappropriately shirtless—in the shared kitchen of my duplex in employee housing. Given the shock on both our faces, he wasn’t expecting a roommate either, let alone two.

The growly pilot is only home to start his family’s new heli-skiing operation. I can handle being his temporary roommate, right? Chemistry and attraction aren’t impossible to ignore when you agree on ground rules. Besides, even with those gorgeous, brooding brown eyes, the guy is a walking thundercloud…until my daughter, Sutton, makes him laugh and he smiles at me. Then everything changes. Cue inconvenient heart flip.

This is only temporary.

I can’t fall for Weston.

Will. Not. Fall. For. Weston.

But rules go out the window when you’re a little too close.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This story hit all the right notes for a forced proximity/roommates romance. Callie and Weston tried to stick to the rules they set forth as roommates and her being a single mom, but it wasn’t long before they began breaking every one of them.

Weston is such a great grumpy hero! Especially since being around Callie and her daughter being him so much happiness. I adored the friendship that he and Sutton developed all on their own, and how she knew they were an item when he and Callie thought they were being so slick!

Weston has a lot of family baggage, and that all comes into play nicely. Callie has issues with her parents as well, and i loved that she didn’t judge Weston for not forgiving his dad or brother, but just silently supported him in how he felt he needed to handle things.

Alas, this couple eventually split up because Weston doesn’t think he’s capable of love, when the truth is he was everything Callie and Sutton needed. And once he realizes how miserable he is without his girls… we’ll, a big grand gesture or two solves that problem!

I only read this book in the Madigan Mountain series, and it is a standalone. But I am really curious about Reed and Crew so I will definitely check out the other two books!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About the Author:

Rebecca Yarros is the USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, including The Things We Leave Unfinished and The Last Letter. “A gifted storyteller” (Kirkus), she is also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.

Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for over twenty years. She’s the mother of six children, and is currently surviving the teenage years with three of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time while guzzling coffee. She and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a Maine Coon kitten named Artemis, who rules them all.

Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter who is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she co-founded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission to better the lives of kids in foster care, visit www.oneoctober.org.

To catch up on Rebecca’s latest releases and upcoming novels visit www.RebeccaYarros.com.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Troubles With Heartbreak by Brittany Taylor

The Trouble with Heartbreak by Brittany Taylor
Release Date: October 14th

Trouble #1:
Levi Hawkins. Always….

Levi Hawkins has been trouble since the first time I saw him through the lens of my camera our senior year of high school.

He was the star quarterback.
I was the yearbook photographer.

Although Levi’s hatred for me was no secret, I spent the entire school year fighting my feelings for him, counting down to the day of graduation.

When that day finally came, I foolishly thought I’d seen the last of him. Until five years later, when he walked into the same newspaper I worked for. Only now, he was no longer a football star. He’s the paper’s newest reporter.

Disguised by a grand opening of a hotel on the shores of South Padre Island, Levi dragged me on an assignment. His college football reunion.

But just when I thought he’d roped me in enough trouble, he asked for one more favor.

Pretend to be his fiancé… for the entire reunion.

I knew he had dragged me along to get a story, but it wasn’t long before I realized there was more written between the lines.

And then I remembered… Levi Hawkins has always been trouble.

*This is the final book in the Heartbreak Series.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

There’s a fine line between love and hate…. Cassidy and Levi’s story brings the Heartbreak series to an end. This one is a forced-proximity, fake engagement, enemies-to-lovers story with a lot of steam, loads of vulnerability from the hero, and some pretty heated barbs exchanged between Cassidy and Levi that are actually just covering up their true feelings for one another.

While I enjoyed this story very much, I didn’t think it had the punch that the first book in this series did. Once everything was all out on the table between Levi and Cassidy, I felt like I was expecting more for his reasons why he hated her. The way he used her as part of a revenge plot to one-up his college rival was crappy, but he did do some good groveling to win her back. Ultimately, Levi came around from a hero I didn’t really like much at the start, which is a testament to Brittany Taylor’s writing.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Brittany Taylor:

Brittany Taylor grew up all over the world including places such as California, England and Texas. Today she resides in Connecticut with her husband, son and two cats. She loves reading, but loves writing even more. Her favorite things in life are her family, binge watching Netflix, and tacos. 

Brittany Taylor has been obsessed with reading since kindergarten. She followed her lifelong dream in 2017 when she published her first novel, Without You. Ever since, she’s been hooked and can’t write the stories in her head fast enough. 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Runaway Groomsman by Meghan Quinn

“He runs from the altar—and finds love in the place he least expects.”

RUNAWAY GROOMSMAN, a brand new, heartfelt romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn about new beginnings and finding the romanticized happily ever after in the most unlikely of places, is Now Available in all formats! Dive into this slow burn romance with “a healthy dose of humor and heart” (Library Journal). One-click your copy today!

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About RUNAWAY GROOMSMAN:

Hollywood screenwriter Sawyer Walsh knows a good love story when he sees it. But when it comes to real life romance, he’s a mess. That’s how he finds himself standing at the altar…as his ex-girlfriend ties the knot with his very famous best friend. The pressure, the resentment, the media coverage—it’s all too much—and before he knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s making a run for it, leaving a shocked congregation and flashing cameras in his wake.

Needing to lie low amid the media fallout, Sawyer lands in the charming town of Canoodle, California, where he crosses paths with Fallon Long, who runs the Canoodle Cove Cabins, a family-owned business and Sawyer’s new short-term residence. Overwhelmed with renovations and her long list of responsibilities, Fallon is struggling to make ends meet while attempting to bring the cabins back to their original glory. So when Sawyer arrives, she is grateful for the income, but immediately writes him off as just another vapid Hollywood hack, until he begins to prove her wrong at every turn.

As Fallon comes closer to saving the family business, an undeniable bond forms between her and the handsome screenwriter. But the pressures of her family obligations and Sawyer’s notoriety might prove to be too much for anyone to handle. Could Canoodle be the setting for a new romance—or is true love just a Hollywood cliché?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Slow-burn perfection! Runaway Groomsman is full of laughs and lots of heart, the yummy kind of story that you can just envision watching on “Lifemark” or “Movieflix.” (IYKYK!!)

Sawyer is a screenwriter who makes his living writing feel-good romcoms, but his life is more like a Greek tragedy lately. And when his ex-girlfriend (an actress) marries his ex-best friend (an actor), the dude has a meltdown of epic proportions. During the ceremony. At the altar. As his double-finger kiss-off becomes a viral gif, Sawyer ends up hiding out in the quirky mountain town of Canoodle to bury his head in the sand as he’s become a bit of a laughingstock back in Hollywood.

One of the first people Sawyer meets in Canoodle is Fallon — a former nurse with whom he had one horrible blind date a year ago. At the time, Sawyer was drowning in sadness and anger because his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, but all Fallon remembers from that date was what a jerk the guy was. And to make matters worse, Sawyer has zero recollection of who Fallon is when they first cross paths. Still, she takes pity on the drunk fool and lets him stay in one of the cabins at her grandfather’s crumbling resort.

But Fallon has a lot more to worry about than a guy she had one date with not remembering her. She’s the caretaker for her grandfather, Sully, who has Alzheimer’s, and she’s desperately trying to renovate the resort so she can continue her grandparents’ legacy. While Sawyer is hiding out and trying to come up with a new movie concept to save his career, he begins spending lots of time with Sully and unbeknownst to Fallon, begins doing renovations at the resort under her grandfather’s watchful eye. And the more time he spends “not being friends” with Fallon, the more Sawyer realizes he blew his chance with a fabulous girl… because she now has a boyfriend, Peter.

As Fallon and Sawyer become more than “not friends,” it’s clear that there is so much electricity between them. Fallon is broken up with Peter before anything happens between her and Sawyer, but you have to read through more than half of the book to get there! And because Sawyer doesn’t want to ruin the second chance he’s been given, he becomes the swooniest of book boyfriends as he courts Fallon. Along the way, Sawyer finds his muse again and discovers that the best thing that ever could have happened to him was running away from Hollywood.

There are so many wonderful Easter eggs sprinkled throughout this book that I loved as a long-time reader of Meghan Quinn’s. I loved all of the side characters, especially Fallon’s sarcastic BFF, Jazlyn. I know there is a story coming for Jaz and Sawyer’s brother, and I can’t wait to see how their romance unfolds! This book is a Montlake release and definitely does not have the spice level that MQ’s indie books like Royally Not Ready has, but it is a super sweet and heartfelt story about love, inner peace, acceptance, and family.

I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley 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: Merging Wright by LB Dunbar

It takes a village, or in the case of this jaded silver fox, he needs a wife to save one. 

MERGING WRIGHT

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“I need you to marry me.”

Jane Fox

My boss cannot be serious. The ridiculously handsome man I hate-to-crush on has just proposed I pretend to be his wife for a funeral. A funeral! Only, when he dangles a much-coveted position in exchange for my time, I can’t refuse. Who am I kidding, though? I seem to have a habit of not saying no to Mr. Wright.

Machlan Wright

Things spiral out of control the second we reach my small town. A place I swore I’d never return has suddenly become my inheritance. As in, I’ve inherited an entire town! Only, there’s one condition: my hot, top executive pretending to be my wife must marry me for real. What could possibly go wrong? <insert sarcasm>

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Join Jane and Mach as they road trip to a lovely mountain town where memories haunt and relationships build. And it takes (the restoration of) a village for this marriage of convenience to question the past and change the future.

L.B. Dunbar brings you a second standalone in Road Trips & Romance. 

**Note, the Fox sisters are siblings of Garrett Fox from Wine&Dine, an original #sexysilverfox. 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I love LB Dunbar’s stories and her more mature characters. Merging Wright is book #2 in the Roadtrips & Romance series, and features Mae’s sister, Jane, as the heroine and her boss Machlan.

Jane thinks Mach is out of his mind when he asks her to go to his hometown with him for a funeral with him and pretend to be his wife. He dangles the promotion she’s been hoping for as a carrot, and Jane reluctantly says yes. Never mind the fact that Jane’s had feelings for Mach for quite some time and thinks that she must really be the crazy one for going through with this farce.

But Jane and Mach’s fake relationship soon turns into so much more in this heartfelt story. There are a lot of big emotions in this book, as both characters have muddy pasts that they need to work through in order to find their path together. Especially Mach, because going back to the town he swore he’d never step foot in again takes a toll on him emotionally. But as he repairs burned bridges from his past, he really becomes a different person. And as he begins to see himself in a different light as well, this serial dater realizes that the perfect mate for him has been on the other side of the office all along.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Did Not Finish by Nicola Marsh

Did Not Finish by Nicola Marsh is now live! 

Stranded…with my nemesis.

AXEL: It’s bad enough an unseasonal blizzard means I’m stuck with my PA’s annoying cat, but to make matters worse, Mia Samson and her poison pen are in my house too. The renowned reviewer has tanked enough books with her dreaded DNF and I need to teach her a lesson.
But my enemy is not what I expect and if I’m not careful, I’m in danger of revealing my secret to the one person who can use it against me.

MIA: I know people in publishing call me the career-wrecker behind my back. What they don’t know is, I’m writing a novel, and when I’m lucky enough to win a week-long retreat with bestselling Axel Low in quaint Sugar Plain, Nebraska, I’m thrilled.

Until I discover being snowed in with the reclusive grump is merely the first trope my life has turned into, and soon I’m sorely tempted to enact enemies to lovers…

Which one of us will lose the plot first?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

 

Don’t overlook Did Not Finish! In this witty, well-developed romance, Nicola Marsh somehow takes just about every single trope, mashes it all together, and spits out a wonderfully deep love story that is an appreciative nod to the romance genre. Axel and Mia are fabulous, relatable characters, and I was hooked on their story from the start.

Axel’s emotional pain and guilt were palpable at times. I thought that NM handled the delicate backstory with Axel’s sister, Paula, very well. His family situation is heartbreaking, as is Mia’s broken relationship with her mom. I was so happy to see these two work out their issues — and make the distance between them work.

I can’t wait for Rosie and Cole’s story next! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Nicola Marsh

USA TODAY bestselling author and multi-award winner Nicola Marsh writes page-turning fiction to keep you up all night.

She has published 80 novels and sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
She currently writes contemporary romance, domestic thrillers and small town women’s fiction..

She’s a Waldenbooks, Bookscan, Amazon, iBooks and Barnes & Noble bestseller, a RBY (Romantic Book of the Year) and National Readers’ Choice Award winner, and a multi-finalist for a number of other awards.

A physiotherapist for thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two dashing heroes, sharing fine food with family and friends, cheering on her beloved North Melbourne Kangaroos, and curling up with a good book!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Secret Roommate by Sara Ney

Release Date: October 3

 

All I need is a place to hide for a few weeks.

The paparazzi were on my ass 24/7 and I needed a bit of breathing room—an escape from the madness—before the media frenzy begins.

Sure, I could have gone to a secluded cabin in the woods—but I didn’t want to be bored out of my mind. I’d seen enough wide open spaces as a kid from Texas to last me a lifetime.

So instead, I let my agent hook me up with a modest house in the burbs where we didn’t think anyone would find me hiding in plain sight.

I’d have a roommate; but supposedly, she was going to give me space. Stay out of my way and respect my boundaries. According to my agent, I wouldn’t hear a peep from her.

Wrong. He was wrong about everything and now my life was never going to be the same.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Man, I thought that Posey and Duke were going to kill each other with their prank wars before they ever got it on! The Secret Roommate was hilarious. Even though Duke was described as a giant a-hole, he was a squishy marshmallow of a giant when it came to Posey.

Football star Duke needs a place to hide out until news breaks about his trade in teams, and Eli and Molly (from The Make Out Artist) convince Molly’s former roommie, Posey, to let him stay with her for two weeks. Naturally, the first meeting does not go off without a hitch, setting these two off on the wrong foot. The pranks escalate from there, and even though Posey finds Duke to be a big doofus, she eventually sees a sweeter, softer side to the brute. And she finds his Texas twang irresistible!

This book is super cute. No major drama, just some stupid decisions that cause tension between them. It’s a feel-good romcom that will leave you with a smile on your face!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Sara Ney

Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. 


Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced lattes, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British. 
 
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Royal Escape by JJ Knight

Title: Royal Escape
Series: Royally Pickled Trilogy #3
Author: JJ Knight
Genre: Standalone Romantic Comedy
Release Date: October 1, 2022
BLURB
The hot mess everyone knows as Princess Lili is falling in love with one man and having wild monkey business with another. Yeah, I mean me. I’m the hot mess.
Don’t judge me. Not yet. There’s some back story.
First, I ran away from my royal duties.
I escaped to America, party hopping as the wild, red-haired lifestyle influencer Indigo Flame. I peddle everything from blue eye shadow to flavored pickles to get by.
Don’t judge me!
Then, I met the kind, sensitive artist Jesse Adams while looking like the real me — princess me. This is a problem. Huge. I can only see him in secret or the jig is up.
But then I discovered the Masked Man. I met him at a vampire ball dressed as Indigo. Within ten minutes, we were locking the door of the dressing room and things got hot.
I planned to lead a double life all along. I have to if I want to be free of my royal shackles.
But now I have a triple life? Quadruple?
All I know is that Jesse opens my heart, and the Masked Man opens … everything else.
And if I don’t get my act together, I’m going to lose everything.
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Royal Escape is a hot, hot, hot romantic comedy about a princess pretending to be an influencer pretending to be a princess, a man who can’t keep his hands off her (as long as he’s wearing a mask), a meddling Pickle family who opens a castle in Colorado without realizing the pretend princess is a real princess, and a triple-double twist that everybody sees coming — except the donkeys.
Royal Escape is the final book in the Royally Pickled trilogy, but can totally be read as a standalone.
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EXCERPT
I pause in front of an unexpected door. Does this hotel room have another room?
I twist the deadbolt and try to open it, but it doesn’t budge. I jerk and shake it, then realize there is another latch that drops into the floor. I bend down and lift it.
The door opens to reveal — another door. But this one doesn’t have a knob. That’s odd.
This door rattles. I press my ear against the wood to listen.
Then suddenly, the door flies open, and I fall onto the floor on the other side!
My face smashes into orange carpet. It smells like an orange, too. I lift my head. “What in thunder?”
There’s a mandarin duvet on the bed. Orange walls, textured to look like the inside of a peel.
Then, right by my cheek, two feet.
Man feet. Square nails.
Pants, no cuffs. The hem lands exactly where it should, custom tailored.
I rise to my hands and knees, shaking off my fall as I lift my head. The pant legs are tapered and crisply ironed. The belt is Italian leather. The shirt is pale green, the cuffs rolled up to reveal strong, tan forearms.
The neck is unbuttoned.
Then I see his face.
Good Lord. He’s gorgeous and blue-eyed with sandy hair. He must be a model, comped a stay by the hotel. I’d comp him anything he asked for.
He stares at me with an odd expression of amusement. “Falling for me already?”
Worst opening line ever.
But yes, yes, I am.
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Princess Lilli escapes the royal palace during a royal birth and heads undetected to New York, where she’s living a double life as a social media influencer, lusting after the guy staying in the hotel room next door, and having steamy sex with a masked dude at a charity ball. That pretty much sums up the first few chapters of Royal Escape, and Lilli and Jesse’s story just snowballs from there!

Lilli — as Ellie/Indigo Flame — has a pretty good thing going for a while in New York. She just gets to be an ordinary girl when she’s with Jesse, and she treasures the freedom. I loved that she was able to find her way around Manhattan and fend for herself, and wasn’t this damsel in distress. But eventually, Lilli is discovered by her Pickle in-laws, and her grand escape plan comes to an end when she’s dragged back home in front of mom and dad, aka the King and Queen. But will Lilli and Jesse get their happy ending?

There are a lot of sweet moments between Lilli and Jesse as they get to know one another, and this book was definitely steamier than the other books in the Pickleverse. It’s a lot of fun, a little campy, and captures the zeitgeist with an inside look at the life of a social media influencer. Royal Escape also brings in the cast of characters that we’ve gotten to know — and all of the antics that come along with them.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

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JJ Knight is the USA Today and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic comedy including Tasty Mango and Big Pickle.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Stunner by Jessica Prince

Title: Stunner
Series: Whiskey Dolls
Author: Jessica Prince

Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance; RomCom; Best Friend’s Ex


Never in a million years did I think I’d be jilted on my wedding day.

Around the time Asher Rose was supposed to say “I do”, she was bellied up to a bar full of bikers, three sheets to the wind and feeling sorry for herself. The last person she expected to come to her rescue was Owen Shields.

He was tattooed, broody, and her ex-fiancé’s best friend. The arrogant jerk who was supposed to be the best man at her wedding was never supposed to be her knight in shining armor.

Falling for Owen was never part of the plan, but when the gorgeous town vet throws everything he has her way, including his adorable dog and angelic niece, Asher is in for the fight of her life.

**Whiskey Dolls is a series of interconnected, standalone, small town romances.**

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“Hi,” he said, low and gravelly.

I turned on him, making sure to narrow my eyes into slits, determined to gain my anger back after meeting the lovely Hazel, because I’d be damned if I let him get away with the silent treatment he’d been subjecting me to.

It wasn’t easy, especially not with the contrition swimming in those green eyes, but I held firm. “‘Hi’? Seriously? You’ve been ghosting me for three days and that’s how you’re going to start?”

He stepped in closer, his delicious smell making my head all fuzzy. “You look beautiful.”

Oh, he was good. Damn it! Stay strong, Asher! I silently scolded. I blew past the compliment like I hadn’t heard it, even while flutters erupted in my chest.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I pretty much devoured Stunner. From the first chapter to the very last, I fell head over heels with Owen and Asher as a couple and could not for the life of me figure out why she wasn’t with him from the get-go!

All those nasty stares he’d been giving her for the past year? Yeah, Owen was half in love with her. And when she got jilted on her wedding day by his best friend (whose name is escaping me right now, so if that isn’t proof that he wasn’t the guy Asher was supposed to be with, I don’t know what is!) Owen saw an opening to be Asher’s friend. And when more grew out of that friendship, well, then that was just the icing on the cake! Drama arises when her ex wants her back, but everything works out exactly the way it is supposed to!

This book was swoony and sexy, complete with a broody, tatted hero who lets his niece give him makeovers. There was so much to love about Owen and Asher!

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet the Whiskey Dolls
a series of interconnected, standalone, small town romances

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Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That’s why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.

In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.

Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: My Brother’s Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne

My Brother’s Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne is now live!

I’ve gone from crushing on my brother’s best friend to wanting to crush him.

Cameron Baker and I have a few things in common. The first being that we were both born and raised in our small Alaskan town. Second, is that we hide our feelings and keep our hearts closed off from anyone who could break them.

But hiding my feelings is harder to do with Cam than most. When I was five years old, grieving the loss of my mother, he showed me how big his heart is, and I’ve never forgotten.

He comes from the richest family in town. Cam’s bad boy gorgeous, flirts like he has a Doctorate in charm, and he’s my brother’s best friend. That last part is where it gets tricky and the sole reason we’ve never crossed the line.

Now, his parents have cut him off to force him to prove himself. I never thought he’d open a competing business to mine. So, I do what I do best, shove all my feelings aside and ready myself to crush him. Game on.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Greene family series comes to a wonderful conclusion with Chevelle and Cameron’s story and it was so worth the wait! I have been not-so-patiently waiting for this brother’s best friend romance, and the story that Piper Rayne delivered checked every box!

There is a great use of the history between Chevelle and Cam in this story, and how their friendship (and her crush on him) was born the day of her mom’s funeral when she was swinging on a swing in the backyard wearing a purple dress. Their mother’s death impacted Chevelle in such a different way than it did the rest of her siblings — first, she was the youngest, and second, Laurie drowned trying to rescue her from falling through the ice. Chevelle has carried around that guilt for so very long, and Cam always *saw* her in a way that the rest of her family didn’t.

While Cam has a reputation for being a playboy, he was all in once he realized that he could no longer deny his feelings for Chevelle — and that she felt the same way even though she was afraid to acknowledge it and lose him the way that she lost her mother. Cam was so swoony as he set out to convince Chevelle that they should legitimately see where their attraction led them, and his meeting with Fisher and the rest of the brothers to ask their permission was just so sweet!

These two characters really bring out the best in one another. In Chevelle, Cam had the unwavering support he needed to make his secret dream a reality. And with Cam by her side, Chevelle was able to let go of the guilt she’s been carrying around for far too long and believe that she deserved to happiness.

I LOVED how the swing, the lake where Laurie Green drowned, and the color purple all tied into Cam and Chevelle’s happily ever after at the end of this book!

Well done, ladies! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

 

Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write “heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle” about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they’re married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they’re both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!

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