WILDFLOWERS AND WIDE RECEIVERS by Kathryn Andrews is AVAILABLE NOW!

Blurb:

Wildflower and Wide Receivers is a second-chance, contemporary sports romance about our hero who unexpectedly becomes a single guardian over his five-year-old niece and the one who got away.

When fate throws a second chance . . . catch it.

Jonah Dallmann

Over two years ago, I met a woman on New Year’s Eve, and it was the best night of my life. That is until the next morning when it became the worst.

One voice message. One swerve over a double yellow line. One little girl, my niece, that’s now mine.

It hasn’t been easy, these things never are, but we’re trying. Now, I’m twenty-six, and determined to be the best wide receiver on our team, while she’s seven and spends her days reading books and dancing ballet.

Only, I haven’t just grieved the loss of my brother, but her too. My heart has ached for what could have been, and what I had to let go. I know what I did to her was wrong, unfortunately, I never had an opportunity to explain that at the time I thought I was right. But as the door opens and she steps in wearing green scrubs and a long white coat, shock ripples through me and hope that I might finally get the chance.

Sophie Black

I always wondered if this day would come, but I never expected to see him here, with her, in one of my patient rooms. He’s even better looking than I remember and giving off single dad vibes, too, as he cares for his adorable niece. A niece I didn’t know he had.

I was surprised when he asked if he could see me again, but I instantly declined. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Only now we keep running into each other, and I’m confused. Is fate throwing us a second chance, and if so, should I catch it?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I could not have loved Wildflowers and Wide Receivers more!

Jonah and Sophie meet at a New Year’s Eve party hosted by mutual friends. They have an instant connection, share an amazing night together, and he leaves the next morning planning on returning later for more. But unbeknownst to Jonah, his brother and sister-in-law were killed that night, leaving him the guardian of his 5-year-old niece, Vivi. Somehow they never again cross paths until Vivi has an accident and it turns out that Sophie is the orthopedic doctor Jonah takes her to.

From there, this story evolves into a wonderful second-chance romance that also deals with the many delicate layers of grief and mourning. Jonah is such a cinnamon roll hero. I adored how gentle he was with Vivi; the death of her parents impacted them both tremendously. I also loved how affectionate he was with Sophie, not wanting to waste the second chance he’d been given with Sophie, the one that got away. He wasn’t afraid to be vulnerable or show emotion; I loved that about him.

Meanwhile, Sophie had a plan for her life and career. Reconnecting with Jonah, and falling in love with him and Vivi, definitely has her rethinking what she thought she wanted out of life. Sometimes, you have to embrace the unexpected, because it’s exactly what you need!

And then… And then… the meaning behind Wildflowers and Wide Receivers! Oh, Jonah!

I am looking forward to getting to know the rest of the Tampa Tarpon guys!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kathryn Andrews:

Kathryn Andrews is a #1 Inspirational Romance Bestselling Author who loves stories that end with a happily ever after. She started writing at age seven and never stopped. Kathryn is known for Chasing Clouds, the Starving for Southern series, and her much loved Hale Brothers series. Her stories are sweet, southern, and fall into the genres of chi-lit, contemporary romance, sports romance, and southern fiction.

Kathryn graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She spends her days as a sales director for a medical device company and her nights lost in her love of fictional characters.

When Kathryn is not crafting beautiful worlds that incorporate some of her most favorite real life places, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two young sons, while drinking iced coffee and enjoying the sun.

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DINING FOR LOVE by Valerie Pepper is AVAILABLE NOW!

Blurb:

She’s not expecting love. He’s not planning to stay.

Willa Dash’s sheltered life is perfectly wonderful, thank you very much. She loves cooking at her family’s diner and enjoying everything her tiny beach side town has to offer—despite her mother insisting her talents would be better showcased at a Michelin-starred restaurant far away from home.

Big city cop Reid MacKinnon decamps to Lucky after his undercover sting goes bust. His plan is simple: help his police chief uncle by patrolling the town, and lay low while the D.A. builds a case against the bad guys back home.

All his plans go up in flames when he comes face to face with adorably klutzy Willa, who stammers and tries to hide from him every time they meet. Considering he’s her new neighbor, that’s…a lot. It’s not long before making her blush is his new favorite pastime, and this small town? It’s beginning to feel a lot like home. Now he needs to convince Willa to give their relationship a real chance—and not be taken out by the hitman sent to finish him.

Buy Link:

Lucky In Love

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I am so glad I took a chance on reading author Valerie Pepper for the first time, because Dining For Love was adorable! A quirky diner waitress and an undercover detective from Miami hiding out in a small beach town…. I loved Reid and “Just Willa” so much!

From their first meet-cute to their vows of love and all the make-out sessions in between, this book was a gem! And it was so funny! Plus, there’s a bit of suspense in the mix with the case gone awry that Reid was working on back in Miami. Both characters show a lot of growth by the end of the book as well. Willa has led a rather sheltered life. A traumatic incident at culinary school has made her clam up. But throughout her relationship with the hot cop passing through town, Willa really comes into her own and learns to stand up for herself. Reid, meanwhile, was kind of anti-relationship, and never envisioned himself settling down in a small town. What starts out as a situationship with an expiration date turns into so much more for these two!

I would really love to see whatever is going on with Willa’s sister, Goldie, and best friend, Matt, explored in the next book!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Valerie Pepper:

Valerie Pepper is an incurable optimist and a firm believer in the girl getting the guy, or the guy getting the girl, or the girl getting the girl, or the guy getting the guy, or basically any way it needs to happen to make a real-life happily ever after, even if it takes more than one try.

When she’s not writing, you can find her reading, hiking, listening to whatever music suits her mood, and hanging out with her family. She’s fascinated with the idea of a capsule wardrobe, but loves clothes and shoes and boots far too much to make a real go of it.

She’s currently living out her own happily ever after with her husband, kids, and dogs, and maaaaaybe too many shoes. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the recipient of the Contemporary Romance Writer’s 2021 Stiletto Award.

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𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝, a small town, enemies to lovers, neighbors romance by Evey Lyon is LIVE on Amazon and available with Kindle Unlimited! This is the first book in a brand new series, Everhope Road.

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Amazon: https://geni.us/EIWEL

What to expect:

✔️Small town

✔️Neighbors

✔️Enemies to Lovers

✔️Forced Proximity

Blurb:

Keats is my enemy. And ending up in bed together presents an even bigger complication, considering he’s my grumpy next-door neighbor.

It started with my uptight neighbor being enemy number one. The cocky lawyer always seems to swagger my way with a disgruntled look and piercing eyes when my mail continues to get accidentally delivered to his house. Keats always makes me feisty and annoyed, too. Hence why we’re both always in a showdown where I want to rip his shirt into shreds and maybe his pants, too. Why? Because the attraction is too overbearing and lingers in the air.

And then we snap and give in.

We start the unimaginable. We unintentionally start a neighbors-with-benefits kind of thing. But I begin to see a different side of Keats, and it turns out he isn’t the kind of man I thought he was. The fact that he turns possessive or moves me right into his home due to my house complication tells me that he feels something, too. Our relationship development blindsides us, and neither one of us is sure where this will end. After all, we never planned on being everything I wanted…

Banter, steam, and low on angst, Everything I Wanted is the first in the Everhope Road series, a spin-off from the Lake Spark world. It can be read as a standalone. Readers who love small-town, enemies-to-lovers, next-door-neighbor romances with no third-act breakup will fall for Keats and Esme!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Evey Lyon kicks off a new series with Everything I Wanted, a delicious enemies-to-lovers romcom! Esme and Keats were hilarious (I loved how he called her “his demon”) with their mailbox arguments that led to hate-sex and then eventually so much more!

Workaholic lawyer Keats and free-spirited photographer Esme are as different as they come. They have different approaches to everything in life, and while that definitely causes many arguments between them at the start, it also helps them balance each other out. Their situationship changes when Esme’s house catches on fire, Keats becomes her white knight riding to her rescue.

The Everhope Road series is in the Lake Spark world — Keats is a lawyer for the Spinners, and is the brother of Summer (Should Have Been, Lake Spark Inn #3). I loved Summer’s visit with her brother and how she kind of lit a spark under Keats and got him to realize that the woman he loved sparring with keeps him on his toes in a way that nobody else has before.

I am looking forward to more from this series, especially after that tease with Hailey and Oliver in the end!

OF HEARTBREAK AND HARMONY by Brit Benson is NOW LIVE

Blurb:

He burned me once.

This time, I won’t be the one consumed by the flames.

Torren King is rock-and-roll’s broodiest bachelor.

Mysterious, moody, and coveted by nearly everyone.

But to me, he’s just the sad boy who set fire to my heart,

then reduced me to ashes in the desert.

For four sweltering nights, I burned for him,

and he conquered my heart one whispered lyric at a time.

But on the fifth night, he shattered me in the way only a flawless rock god can:

irreparably, and with devastating finesse.

Four years later, the last place I expect to be is sitting before him,

reading through a contact with a pen poised in my fingertips.

A favor for a favor, he says.

A US tour and a fake relationship in exchange for the answer to all my problems.

I hate him. I hate that I need him.

And what I hate the most?

He doesn’t remember me. At all.

But despite the burning chemistry between us,

the rapidly blurring lines and the suffocating attraction,
he’s still the rock star who ruined me,

and I refuse to let myself forget.

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Of Heartbreak and Harmony is the second standalone in The Hometown Heartless series. It has a guaranteed HEA. It is not necessary to read Between Never and Forever before reading Of Heartbreak and Harmony.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Brit Benson delivers another spectacularly angsty story in Of Heartbreak and Harmony, the second book in the Hometown Heartless series!

There’s an instant attraction between Torren and Callie when they first meet, and they spend a wild few days together. But then he pulls the rug out from underneath her, and everything comes crumbling down. Years later, Torren and Callie reconnect when he needs a favor. Specifically, a fake girlfriend. With little options at the time, Callie has no choice but to accept his proposition. Even though being so close with the guy who broke her heart on a tour bus is the last thing she wants.

BB wrote a story so full of angst and heartbreak. It is a delicious slow burn, and I loved seeing Torren unravel as the layers of this broody hero got peeled back. Because she was burned by Torren years ago, Callie enters their arrangement with nothing but hate for him… and I loved seeing her fall in love once again with the guy who broke her heart.

Torren is one of Savannah’s bandmates (Between Never and Forever). While this book goes back and forth between Callie and Torren’s past and present, the “present” timeline is set after BNAF. It is a standalone, but for the full experience, I would recommend reading BNAF first.

UPDATED FOR AUDIO: Stella Hunter and Stephen Dexter did a great job capturing the nuances of Callie and Torren. I read this book when it first came out, and these two narrators helped me fall in love with Torren and Callie all over again.

I can’t wait to read the rest of this series! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Brit Benson:

Brit Benson writes real, relatable romance. She likes outspoken, independent heroines, dirty talking, love-struck heroes, and plots that get you right in the feels.

Brit would almost always rather be reading or writing. When she’s not dreaming up her next swoony book boyfriend and fierce book bestie, she’s getting lost in someone else’s fictional world. When she’s not doing that, she’s probably marathoning a Netflix series or wandering aimlessly up and down the aisles in Homegoods, sniffing candles and touching things she’ll never buy.

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If This Was a Movie by Morgan Elizabeth is now live! 

A new holiday romantic comedy from best-selling author of Tis the Season for Revenge!

A year ago, Jules stumbled upon the man of her dreams in a bar on Christmas. After a lifetime of watching romantic comedies, she was sure she had found her soulmate. That is, until she finds out he has an entire family, and blocked him. 

A year later, she’s having the worst day she possibly could, leaving her stuck on the sidewalk outside her place in a ballet costume, watching firefighters condemn her house because of a water main break when a little girl grabs her hand and tells her she’s her Christmas wish. 

When Nate’s daughter tells Santa all she wants for Christmas is for her dad to marry the real-life version of her favorite doll, he dreads having to tell her the truth. When they run into the spitting image of the doll, ballerina costume and all minutes later, he’s floored to find that it’s his dream woman who disappeared from his life last Christmas. 

Nate’s meddling sisters offer his in-law suite and his contracting skills to Jules in exchange for watching his daughter, and he jumps on the opportunity. Now, he has just a few weeks to use Christmas magic to make her realize they are meant to be.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

If This Were a Movie is the kind of romcom that you know would make a great cable Christmas movie!

When Jules had an amazing one night stand with sexy Nate, she thought she found The One. He checked off all her boxes and was pretty darn perfect. But then she finds out that he has a family (or so she thinks) and blocks him. Fast forward a year, and Jules crosses paths with Nate on the worst day of her life. And their second meet-cute is absolutely adorable: his little girl, Sophie, has decided that Jules is the real-life ballerina her dad is meant to marry. And Nate is shocked to see the one who got away.

Conveniently, Nate needs a nanny, Jules needs a job, Nate has a guest cottage, and Jules needs a new place to live. With Jules back in his life again, Nate sets out to prove to her that they are meant to be.

This is the first book I’ve read by Morgan Elizabeth, so I didn’t know what to expect. And it was so cute! It has all the feel-good moments, some spice, and a heartwarming relationship between Jules and Sophie.

If This Was A Movie needs to become a movie!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Morgan Elizabeth

Morgan is a born and raised Jersey girl, living there with her two boys, toddler daughter, and mechanic husband. She’s addicted to iced espresso, barbecue chips, and Starburst jellybeans. She usually has headphones on, listening to some spicy audiobook or Taylor Swift. There is rarely an in between.
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Writing has been her calling for as long as she can remember. There’s a framed ‘page one’ of a book she wrote at seven hanging in her childhood home to prove the point. Her entire life she’s crafted stories in her mind, begging to be released but it wasn’t until recently she finally gave them the reigns.

I’m so grateful you’ve agreed to take this journey with me.

Connect with Morgan Elizabeth

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