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Sunny Shelly’s Review: A Very Vegas St. Patrick’s Day by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

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You might think the problem would be waking up in Vegas, hungover,

next to a beautiful woman whoโ€™s wearing your boxer briefs

and finding out ya married her in the middle of an epic drunken night of festivities.

But youโ€™d be wrong.

I, Nolan Cassidy, international charmer and maker of mischief have fallen head over heels for Cora Delaney.

I want to be married to the lass.

So you might think the problem would be that she wants an annulment.

But again youโ€™d be wrongโ€”stop getting it so wrong.

I, Nolan Cassidy, with my devil tongue and Irish accent, will no doubt change her mind.

Does the problem lie in that she has a son who doesn’t like me and is as clever and crafty as I?

Or that Iโ€™ve only got one monthโ€”until St. Patrickโ€™s Dayโ€”to prove to my one true love

that I can be a good husband and father?

Cโ€™mere and Iโ€™ll tell yaโ€ฆ

None of that is the problem.

Iโ€™m a problem.

My boxing days may be behind me

but the fight never left me.

When I see something I want, I get it.

And nothing is going to stand in my way.

Not my new wifeโ€™s hesitation nor her sonโ€™s doubts.

So buckle up, strap in.

Because Iโ€™m no longer in the business of wanting.

Iโ€™m in the business of having.

Which is gonna make for one wild Paddyโ€™s Day.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars


A sexy fling turns into an accidental marriage, which leads to a charming happily ever after for Cora and Nolan in A Very Vegas St. Patrick’s Day. There are some twists and turns along the way โ€” namely that Cora wants a divorce and her son can’t stand Nolan โ€” but Nolan isn’t about to let Cora go without a fight. This sexy romcom is full of fun.

Cora and Nolan clicked right away for me. I love their witty banter, and they had sizzling chemistry. Nolan takes his time trying to get Ashton to like him. A new relationship can be difficult for the child of a single parent to adjust to, and I really enjoyed how the journey between Nolan and Ashton went a much as I like the development of Nolan and Cora’s romance.

This book is part of Loring’s Very Holiday series. There are crossover characters, but this is a true standalone. I haven’t read the others in the series, and was easily able to follow along. Great job on the co-writing collaboration with Connor Crais! This is the second book I’ve read co-written by the two of them, and I look forward to many more!

Now I want to listen to this on audio to hear Connor Crais do Nolan’s Irish accent! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT KAYLEY LORING

Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn’t allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now sheโ€™s an Amazon Top 25 bestselling author who is breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. Itโ€™s an adjustment sheโ€™s happily getting used to.

Rest assured that her funny sexy sweet romances have no cheating or cliffhangers, and always have HEAs!

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ABOUT CONNOR CRAIS

Connor Crais is a classically trained actor living in the Midwest with his wife, two kids, and rescue greyhound. He has been both a stage and television actor, and before plunging into the romance genre, he had been narrating commercials, audiobooks, and explainers for well over a decade from his home studio. From alphas to bosses to cocky sports stars (a particular favorite), he loves sparring with beautiful, sassy heroines (and their talented narrators) but also loves winning them over and reaching that happily ever after. He is excited to now create those stories as an author.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: No Match For Her by Stacy Travis

โ€œI decided it wasnโ€™t smart for me to gamble my heart on you.โ€


No Match for Her, an all-new swoon-worthy slow burn romance from bestselling author Stacy Travis is available now!

I need a date to my brotherโ€™s wedding in six weeks, and Charlie Walgrove owns a tux. Billionaires are like that.

Heโ€™s also my sisterโ€™s boss, and I agree to let her set me up with the awkward genius, who apparently has even less luck in the dating game than a struggling artist, aka me.

Weโ€™re total opposites, but the date goes okay. We agree to be friends, the kind who wonโ€™t become lovers.

Famous last words.

On a series of โ€œfriend datesโ€ involving bar snacks, acrylic paint and hedgehogs, I discover that Charlie is nothing like what I expected. Under his hoodie and glasses, heโ€™s handsome and down-to-earth, stuck in a job he hates and afraid to disappoint people by walking away. His heart is as gorgeous as his hidden face.

Iโ€™ve always felt like the flaky sister in my family, but Charlie sees me as the artist I want to be. As our friendship deepens, so do my feelings for him. Maybe Iโ€™m even falling in love.

But gambling with my heart feels dangerous when all my relationships end in failureโ€“especially if heโ€™s only looking for a friend.

Is it only princesses that get a Happy Ever After? Or is there hope for a hot mess like me?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

No Match For Her is absolutely adorkable! After meeting Tatum’s boss, Charlie, in Playing For You, I never would have thought that he would be such a swoony book boyfriend!

Tatum’s sister, Cherry, needs a date for their brother Finn’s wedding, so Tatum sets her up with Charlie. The date is a disaster, but when they run into each other on their own, things go so much better between them. Charlie agrees to be Cherry’s wedding date, and they get to know each other through weekly “friend dates” leading up to the wedding. While Charlie has actually had a crush on Cherry for a few years already, it’s not long before she starts to see him in a different light as well.

I loved this story so, so much! There is such a genuine friendship that forms between Cherry and Charlie before things turn romantic, and I loved how Stacy Travis wrote that. These two characters are both quirky and kinda geeky, and even though they are total opposites, they are so perfect for each other!

I loved getting to know all the siblings in the Berkeley Heights series, and it was so nice to get a little catch-up with them all. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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About Stacy Travis
Itโ€™s a rough world out there, and we all sometimes need a good, romantic beach read, even if we canโ€™t make it to the beach. Iโ€™ve spent many lazy days walking the streets of Paris and other gorgeous European cities, and if Iโ€™m doing it right, Iโ€™m bringing you a dash of romance and a vacay fantasy.
I canโ€™t sit still, so when Iโ€™m not hiking, biking or running, Iโ€™m playing a very average game of tennis. Background music for writing undoubtedly features some U2, Lizzo, Billy Joel, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Led Zeppelin. Not necessarily in that order. And if I could only eat one food group, it would be cheese. Or wine. Or bread. Are those food groups? Whatever.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Heart of Us, by Kennedy Fox

The Heart of Us

Love in Isolation, #4

The Heart of Us is now available on all retailers!

What happens when youโ€™re on the run from your psycho ex-husband and your sexy younger boss goes into hiding with you to keep you safe? You slowly remember what itโ€™s like to fall in love and hope he feels it too.

The Heart of Us is an age gap, close proximity standalone romance.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I spent Super Bowl Sunday reading The Heart of Us, and have zero regrets about my choice. I loved Tatum and Easton’s story so much. We met Easton in the previous book, The End of Us, as he is Tristan’s brother and kept Tristan and Piper well-stocked while they were in hiding. Now it is Easton’s turn to spend some time at his family’s magical beach cabin when his employee, Tatum, is on the run from her psycho ex-husband.

I thought this book was so well done. Tatum’s situation is so delicate, and the authors did a great job of writing this flawed heroine and really showing how strong she was despite the crap she’d gone through with her ex. Tristan was so kind and patient, and really lifted her up and showed her all that she deserved, all that she’d been missing out. He treated Tatum like a queen, and I loved him so much for it.

There are some appearances by Tristan and Piper sprinkled throughout The Heart of Us, and we got a nice glimpse into that couple’s future. Overall, The Heart of Us was so well done! And I loved that tease at the end for the next book with Tatum’s sister, Oakley!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they arenโ€™t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters thatโ€™ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The End of Us by Kennedy Fox

The End of Us

Love in Isolation, #3

The End of Us is now available on all retailers!

What happens when a stalker threatens your life and youโ€™re flown to a private beach house with your sexy new bodyguard? You break the rules and hope he falls madly in love with you.

The End of Us is an age gap, forced proximity standalone romance.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

I was really looking forward to Piper and Tristanโ€™s story. The End of Us has all the right elements for a great forced proximity/age gap/bodyguard romance. But Piper just whined so much.

I loved Tristan, his internal struggle, trying to stifle his desire for his much-younger client. But I just couldnโ€™t get behind Piper being so petulant about Tristan doing his job to keep her safe from her stalker. This book was definitely enjoyable, and Kennedy Fox did a great job in writing the build-up between these two characters. By the time they finally do the deed, the anticipation was worth the payoff.

Had I not found Piper to be so immature and shallow โ€” and I get that sheโ€™s only 21, but I thought she could have had some more depth โ€” I would have given this book 4 stars. She grew on be more as the story went on, but by then I’d kind of already formed my opinion.

Andi Arndt and Sebastian York did a bang-up job with the narration, though! Sebastian’s deep voice helped create a burly version of Tristan in my head.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Kennedy Fox
Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym, Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they arenโ€™t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters thatโ€™ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed!


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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Dear Heart, I Hate You by Eliah Greenwood

Release Date: February 11
It all started with an ad.
“House sitter needed for the summer, room and board provided.โ€
Guess I missed the part about the cocky basketball player sleeping down the hallโ€ฆ
Finn Richards is hot, cruel, broken beyond repair. Oh, and did I mentionย hell-bentย on making me quit?
Whatever. It’s not like his charms work on me. Iโ€™m immune to his deep hazel eyes, and I’m not even a little bit curious about what happenedย thatย nightโ€ฆ
Itโ€™s just two months.
I can definitely go two months without ripping his head off.
Only problem is,
Iโ€™m not sure the same goes for hisย clothes.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I wish I knew that Dear Heart, I Hate You was the first book in a duet because I was not expecting it to just end as it did! Wow! Full of angst. Tortured hero. Forced proximity. I need more!

Bully romances can be a tricky thing if the hero is not redeemable — and Eliah Greenwood did a great job in showing Finn’s vulnerable side and making him a guy worth rooting for in the end. When he confessed to Dia why he doesn’t like her kindness and light and innocence, my heart softened toward him. And then when he finally has his emotional breakdown after keeping all those feelings and grief inside for so many years… I cried. I admit it.

There is so much more left to explore for this couple. What do Dia’s adoptive parents not want her to know? And what Dia sees at the very end of the book โ€” obviously it happened, but when? I don’t think it took place when she’s led to believe it took place, and I can’t wait to find out why someone is manipulating her like that, and who it is.

This book is part of the Easton High series, and takes place partially during the same timeline as Dear Love, I Hate You (Xander and Aveena’s story). There are overlapping scenes and references, but DH is a standalone that spans two and a half months, whereas DL spanned into X and Vee at college.

May can’t come soon enough, because I need to know what happens next for Dia and Finn! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Eliah Greenwood

Eliah Greenwood is a Canadianย author, proudย Wattpad Star, Fiction Awards 2018 Winner, coffee addict and clichรฉ with a twist lover!

She started her writingย journey on a website calledย Wattpadย at the age ofย fifteen. She wrote the majority of her first book Unwritten Rules onย the bus on herย way home from school. When her debut gatheredย 31,000,000ย reads on the platform, sheย decided to self-publish the trilogy thatย set so many hearts, including hers, on fire.ย 

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When she’s not writing and screaming at her computer screen, you can find herย binge watching her favourite TV shows on repeat or reading in a warm blanket.ย 

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She is currently working on her fifth book. It is expected to come out inย 2021.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Plan by Karla Sorensen

Release Date: February 9

Have you ever fake dated your bodyguard? I don’t recommend it.ย 

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Especially if he’s anything like Erik Wilder: former football player, world class know-it-all and unapologetic grump.ย 

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To be clear, I didn’t want a bodyguard (hence the fake dating idea). Most days, I canโ€™t figure out why he wants the job either. We drive each other insane, probably because weโ€™re as opposite as two people can be.ย 

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Heโ€™s suspicious, never talks about his past and has the comfort skills of a cactus. Iโ€™m a happily ever after kinda girl who knows exactly what she wants out of life.ย 

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Erikโ€™s words might say that the lines have to stay firm between us, but those dark eyes of his? They tell another story when he looks at me.ย 

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Heโ€™s just as stubborn as I am, but when our fake dating plan starts to feel a lot more real, it’s only a matter of time before his professional walls come crashing down.ย ย 

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I just have to hope my heart doesn’t get buried in the rubble.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
Oh, I am so happy that Karla Sorensen continued the Washington Wolves series with the next generation of kids! I devoured The Plan in a single day, and loved every page of it!

The Plan follows Allie and Luke’s other daughter, Lydia, a social media influencer who is recovering from a bad accident at the hands of the paparazzi. (We got that accident in her sister Faith’s book, The Lie.) Because Lydia has kind of turned into a recluse, Allie and Luke have hired former Wolves player Erik Wilder to be her bodyguard.

Broody, grumpy, and a bit of an a-hole, Erik has been carrying around a crap-ton of baggage ever since he left the Wolves after an injury. The injury wasn’t career-ending, but it happened at the same time that his marriage imploded, and Erik hasn’t been the same since. He and Lydia don’t quite get off on the right note, but the more time they spend together, it becomes quite clear to Erik that she isn’t the spoiled rich girl he assumed she was. And she has an uncanny way of seeing right through the walls that Erik has built up.

Their fake relationship starts off as a one-off date when he pretends to be her new boyfriend at a social event that Lydia doesn’t really even want to go to. A photo of them at the event goes public days before he’s supposed to return home for the first time in years for his parents’ anniversary party, and his mom guilts Erik into bringing his “new girlfriend” with him. Lydia happily returns the favor, hoping that she’ll be able to convince Erik that what is brewing between them is worth taking a chance on.

Erik is such a deliciously tortured hero. But underneath all that grump is a sweet soul who is kind and protective, and Lydia wants nothing more than for him to stop running from his feelings. Lydia has so much more depth to her than her vapid friend Jill, and I loved how she didn’t take any crap from her big, burly bodyguard! Erik and Lydia’s breakup was heartbreaking because you could tell they are just so perfect for one another — and his grovel to make things right and explain why he acted the way that he did was perfectly penned.

I wish there wasn’t the loose end of why Erik doesn’t get along with his stepbrother, Ian — so I can only hope that one day, we’ll get the reasons why when Ian gets a book of his own! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Karla Sorensen

Well, letโ€™s see … Iโ€™m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone’s face, then I’ve done my job.

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I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). Iโ€™m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob.ย 

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If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies.ย 

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I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I’ll love you forever.ย 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: It Went Viral by Stacy Stone

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Release Date: February 8

Sheโ€™s about to work with the man who ruined her college yearsโ€ฆ

Event manager Isla James still burns with shame over her college infamy. . Climbing naked out of the window, just to have it filmed by some fratbrothers was embarrassing to say the least. The fact that the video went viral made it so much worse. And though her professional star has risen since reinventing herself in a new town, returning to her old stomping grounds is not on her bucket list. But when her best friend asks her to promote her familyโ€™s charity ball, she relents despite fearing sheโ€™ll get stuck working with the last man she ever wants to see again.

โ€ฆbut heโ€™s determined to change her mind.

Bryan Hunterโ€™s biggest mistake was letting Isla go that fateful day. He was a stupid college boy back then, but heโ€™s a changed man now. Heโ€™ll do whatever it takes to win her back. Now he just has to convince Isla that she can trust and maybe even love him.

She fled humiliation. Heโ€™s a changed man. Can they make a happy ending out of a bad beginning and get a second chance at love?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Stacy Stone is a new-to-me author, so I wasn’t sure what I’d be getting in It Went Viral. What I read was a captivating, steamy, enemies-to-lovers/sister’s best friend romance that was absolutely charming.

Bryan and Isla have a really sticky past stemming back to a mortifying walk of shame she was forced to do after they slept with each other back in college. When she’s hired to plan his family company’s big social event, they both get a second chance to right a wrong. There are several issues that they have to work through before they stop hating each other and realize just how perfect they are for one another, however. The road is rocky, but it’s a lovely journey as they go from sparring partners to forever.

It Went Viral was a sweet surprise! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Stacy Stone

Stacy Stone made her debut in Belgium with
her Verlangen series under her Dutch name Stefanie Van Mol.

ย She loved writing so much, she kept writing. Say You Want Me, the first book of her Full Moon series.

ย She won the Brave New Book of the year Award in the Netherlands in 2016 and decided to translate the book to English.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: A Chance For Us, by Corinne Michaels

A Chance for Us by Corinne Michaels is now live!

My marriage started as a lie.

But some lies are worth telling.

My father’s dying wish was to walk me down the aisle, and I’d do anything for him.

Even marry a man I don’t love.

So when my fiance jilts me only days before the ceremony, I turn to my college friend, Oliver Parkerson, and convince him to marry me.

My family hasn’t met either man, so I’m confident we can pull this off.

But the feelings, our touches, the way my heart beats for him… none of it feels pretend. The way he holds me at night and carries me through loss tells me he’s not acting either.

I didn’t mean to fall for my fake husband, but real love was the one thing I couldn’t predict.

Except, nothing built on lies can last–I know that better than anyone.

But the truth might tear us apart forever.

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ย Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Corinne Michaels brings the Willow Creek Valley series to an end with Oliver Parkerson and A Chance For Us, a fake marriage romance. Oliver and Maren’s romance isn’t exactly conventional, but these two legitimately fall in love as they are pretending to be married for the sake of her dying father. A Chance For Us is a beautiful story of sacrifice, family love, and finding love when you least expect (or want!) it.

Both Maren and Oliver have some baggage going into this fake marriage. She got dumped by her fiance two weeks before the wedding and her dad is dying, and he is tired of being second-best or the last option, and has no desire to really be married. So when real feelings get involved, they decide to give a long-distance relationship a real chance. When Maren goes big to show Ollie that he’s actually her first choice, it backfires horribly. Add to that a twist in Oliver’s personal life, and their long-distance marriage implodes.

But because Corrine Michaels has to give us a happy ending, there is a lovely kiss and make-up between Maren and Oliver.

Random thoughts: Maren’s stepmonster is a horrible person! I adored Oliver’s relationship with his nieces, and I loved how close the siblings are. I wish that we would have gotten more backstory about Oliver’s HS girlfriend who he was engaged to. We got the background of his breakup with Deveny, Maren’s best friend in A Chance For Us, but I already knew how that played out since I read The One For Me (Devney and Sean’s story in the Arrowood Series).

Not only are the other Parkerson siblings heavily involved in Maren and Oliver’s story — it is mostly set at their resort — but there are crossovers by characters from other CM books. Maren works for Cole Security, so we see quite a bit of Mark from the Salvation series. And we first met Oliver in the Arrowood Series when he was living in Sugarloaf. So Devney and Sean are around quite a bit in A Chance For Us. I’m still holding out hope that Alex, the last Parkerson sibling left, will get his story told one day, or CM will write a bonus epilogue where we see the siblings years in the future, successfully running their resort. But until then, I think that this was a nice wrap-up to the series.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.


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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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Final Play by Amie Knight

The Final Play isnโ€™t always the end.
Sometimes, itโ€™s the beginning of something far more beautiful.

The Final Play, an all-new enemies-to-lovers sports romance from Amie Knight, is available now!

As a professional linebacker, I lived and breathed football.
The only thing I loved as much as the game was my twin brother, Max, who kept me almost as busy cleaning up his messes.
The most recent of which landed him behind bars.

So, it shouldnโ€™t have surprised me when a beautiful woman showed up on my doorstep, claiming to be pregnant with Maxโ€™s baby.

Glory was unexpected, infuriating, and flat-out crazy most of the time.
But no matter how hard I tried to deny it, that tiny spitfire slammed into my boring life with the strength of a Category 5 hurricane, blowing through my defenses until sheโ€™d carved her name in my heartโ€”permanently.

I feared we would never work. She was a single mom, my brotherโ€™s ex, and one more chance for me to fail yet another person I loved.

But if football was my church, then Glory was my heaven.

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He was the best man Iโ€™d ever known and I couldnโ€™t have him. I probably didnโ€™t deserve him, anyway. 

Tears flooded my eyes and I paid the cashier as fast as possible before practically running behind the buggy to get to my car. I loaded the groceries, tears trailing my cheeks. 

I didnโ€™t even bother to wipe them away. This whole situation was sad. It deserved my tears. Every damn one of them. Because Mason and Glory could never be.

 It would be weird and wrong. What the hell would we even tell people? How would we explain? And how would Max feel? I had a feeling it wasnโ€™t good at all. 

I climbed into the front seat of my car and held on to my steering wheel for dear life. And sobbed. And then when I was done sobbing , I beat the shit out of that steering wheel and then the dashboard. 

Because life wasnโ€™t fair. It just fucking wasnโ€™t and again and again it just kept throwing me punch after punch. How long was I supposed to still stay standing?

I felt like this might be the final punch and it was a knockout. Because I had a feeling that Mason Stark was my person. And I couldnโ€™t even have him.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Mason and Glory’s story in The Final Play was everything. It’s a forced proximity/single parent/brother’s ex romance full of heart, heat, inspiration, hope, a strong heroine and a swoony hero.

Glory wanted nothing more than to stand on her own two feet and provide for her baby. Life has to been easy for her, and she’s hesitant to accept Mason’s help, not wanting to take a handout or be pitied. But all Mason has ever wanted to do is take care of his twin brother, Max. After Max’s latest mess lands him in prison, a pregnant Glory shows up on Mason’s doorstep and he seizes the opportunity to take care of his brother’s… babymama.

While things could have been weird between Glory and Mason, they start off kinda hating each other before falling in love. Their first interactions are hilarious, and there’s a nice friendship that develops between them before either realizes they love the other. Aside from one super-steamy makeout session, they don’t even get together until well after the baby is born, well after they have fallen head over heels for each other. Then when Mason is faced with a life-changing incident, it’s Glory who rescues him when he retreats into himself, refusing to let him shut her out.

Amie Knight did a great job of writing Mason and Glory’s attraction to each other with their concerns about her past with his twin brother. I loved how Max turned his life around in the end, and how this trio made their own family with baby Sage by the end of the book. Mason is best friends with Luk from The Red Zone, so both he and Glory get lots of support from Luke and Scarlett, and Glory develops true friendships with Scarlett and Hazel. And sweet Ella! I adored Mason’s friendship with her!

The Final Play is a great example of how just when you think things may be over, things can turn around with one more play.

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Meet Amie
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 wonโ€™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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Book Review

Sunny Shelly’s Review: When You Least Expect It, by Jessica Prince

Title: When You Least Expect It
Series: Hope Valley
Author: Jessica Prince

Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance

The last thing Stella Ryan had time for was a man. With her family in trouble and looking to her to fix everything, romance and commitment were the furthest things from her mind. Until she ran into a man with a jawline that could cut granite and arms she wanted to lick like an ice cream cone. A man who made her forget the things that really mattered.

West Scott was one of the last bachelors standing. With all his Alpha Omega brothers settling down and popping out a bunch of kids, he had become the target for meddling women looking to fix him up. But there was one woman, in particular, he couldnโ€™t get out of his head. The one in the killer dress with a gift for picking pockets.

When fate puts Stella in his path again, heโ€™s determined to get to the cause of her desperation and help solve all her problems. If only the headstrong, stubborn woman would let him in. Sheโ€™s trying her hardest to keep her walls up, but heโ€™s dead set on showing her that the best things happen when you least expect it.

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โ€œTell me you havenโ€™t been thinking about me,โ€ he insisted, bracing his palms on the wall on either side of my head. โ€œTell me it wasnโ€™t me you were looking for the moment you stepped in here tonight.โ€

โ€œI was casing the place,โ€ I lied. I hadnโ€™t done that until later. The initial scan Iโ€™d made when I entered The Tap Room was all for him.

โ€œLiar.โ€

Damn it! How did he know?

I clenched my teeth and gritted out, โ€œIโ€™m not lying.โ€ If I kept this up, I was going to be struck by lightning.

โ€œAll right. Then tell me you wouldnโ€™t want me to kiss you right now.โ€

God, what a presumptive asshole! So why did it suddenly feel like the heat had been cranked up in the building? โ€œI definitely donโ€™t want you to kiss me right now.โ€ Didnโ€™t I?

Those unique golden eyes glinted with something that looked almost like a dare. โ€œYeah?โ€

I tipped my chin back defiantly. โ€œAbsolutely.โ€

He smiled full on then, and I felt a clench low in my belly. โ€œThen why are you leaning into me like you want to fuse our bodies together, grift?โ€

Why was I what? Oh holy shit! He was right. Without realizing, Iโ€™d not only leaned so close the heat was radiating off his skin and warming my own, but Iโ€™d also reached up at some point to place my palms on his hard, solid chest. Now that it had been brought to my attention, there was no way to keep from noticing how firm and round his pecs were. The manโ€™s chest felt like it had been carved from marble, and I was dying to know what he looked like without that heather gray Henley on. I wondered if the rest of him would live up to what his chest felt like, and my lady parts were telling me it absolutely would.

Before I did something incredibly stupid, like drag the tips of my fingers down over his rippled abs so I could count how many were there, I dropped my arms and side-stepped his massive frame.

Once again, because of this man, I was leaving without everything my family needed from me. I couldnโ€™t help but feel like a failure, and that morphed into an overwhelming feeling of desperation that fueled my anger. โ€œKiss me. I dare you,โ€ I threatened. โ€œGive me a reason to plant my knee in your balls.โ€

His eyes scanned my face then. โ€œI donโ€™t know what I like better. When youโ€™re spouting ridiculous things, or when youโ€™re all worked up and mad like this.โ€

I had to get out of here. It was still relatively early; I could find another bar and work that one so this whole night wasnโ€™t a complete bust, but to do that, I had to escape Westโ€™s thrall.

โ€œToo bad for you, you arenโ€™t going to see either of them ever again.โ€ Hitching my purse higher, I gave him a snide look and finished with, โ€œHope to never see you around, Weston.โ€ Then I turned and started for the exit Iโ€™d spotted at the end of the hall, silently praying it would lead me right out into the parking lot.

The heavy metal door closed on his voice calling out, โ€œItโ€™s West. And something tells me this isnโ€™t the last time we cross paths.โ€

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Oh, West! With all of the books in the Hope Valley series, it amazes me that Jessica Prince can continually give me such a swoony hero, a strong heroine, and a great plotline that grips me from the beginning. West and Stella’s story had me hooked from the moment they met when he caught her pickpocketing at the bar.

I loved how conflicted Stella was throughout this book. She loves her family so fiercely, but hates being involved in the cons they run. All she wants is stability, a man she can love and loves her in return, a normal life. West is married to his job at Alpha Omega, so meeting his “grift” and falling so hard is the last thing he expected. I loved how West never looked down on Stella or her family, just accepted her for who she is.

More than that, West had this intense pull to save the Ryans, and that protective instinct was swoony.

There was a perfect blending of her particular skills with his and his by the end of the book, and I loved the ending!

I would love to see Serenity find a guy in Hope Valley! Pretty please?? I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Out of My League
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Come Back Home Again
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The Best of Me
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
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Stay With Me
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Out of the Darkness
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The Second Time Around
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Waiting for Forever
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Love to Hate You
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Playing for Keeps
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When You Least Expect It
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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. Thatโ€™s why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boyโ€“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, sheโ€™s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of booksโ€“romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says itโ€™s a passionโ€ฆthereโ€™s a difference. Not that sheโ€™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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