A swoon-worthy romance from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!

An ex-military pilot and a sunshiney barista take opposites attract to the next level.

I’m blaming it on the porcupine who broke into Cammi’s coffee truck. If that didn’t happen, I never would’ve kissed her.

I’ve spent years ignoring the spark that flares any time I get close to Cammi. I don’t do romance, and I don’t lose control. Ever.

One kiss will never be enough though. Not with Cammi. I can’t stay away from her. She’s sultry, sassy and a little sweet. In more ways than one.  

But I’m not the guy for her. I’m cynical and jaded, and I came to Alaska to escape the ghosts of my past. I’m not planning to fall for a girl who’s looking for a fairy tale.

Except my plans don’t seem to matter anymore. Only winning her heart matters. 

 

*A full-length, standalone romance.

 

What to Expect

✔️ A grumpy ex-military pilot

✔️ A sunshiney barista

✔️ Opposites attract

✔️ Swoony romance with all the feels

✔️ Small town shenanigans

✔️ A porcupine burglar

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 Stars

 

USA Today Bestselling Author J. H. Croix lives in a small town in the historical farmlands of Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. 

 

Croix writes steamy contemporary romance with sassy women and rugged alpha men who aren’t afraid to show some emotion. Her love for quirky small-towns and the characters that inhabit them shines through in her writing. 

 

Take a walk on the wild side of romance with her bestselling novels!

Pushing You Away

Noah & Katie duet, #1

Ex-Con Duet Series

Pushing You Away is now available on all retailers!

I’ve been in love with my best friend Katie Walker for as long as I can remember. We may have shared our deepest, darkest secrets but that one I’ve kept to myself. Before I got the courage to confess my true feelings, my cousin Gabe moved to town and swept Katie off her feet.

I should’ve admitted how I felt but I couldn’t—especially once they got married.

When I caught Gabe cheating on his pregnant wife, I snapped. A deadly fight erupted and before I could comprehend what happened, I was charged with his murder and sent to prison.

The day I’m released, I go straight to Katie’s house. But after pushing her away for a decade while I was behind bars—she slams the door in my face—wanting nothing to do with me.

While she’s determined to pretend I don’t exist, this time I’m not going anywhere.

PUSHING YOU AWAY is a slow burn, angsty friends to lovers romance with lots of small-town, Southern drama. It’s book 1 in the Noah & Katie duet and must be read in order.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Ah! The beginning of Noah and Katie’s story was well worth the wait! Pushing You Away is the first book in a duet and ends in a cliffhanger, so reader beware.

But don’t let that cliffy stop you from reading this wonderful best friends romance. I wasn’t sure how this book was going to go since Noah has been in love with Katie for 15 years, is fresh out of a 10year prison stint and the reason that Katie was widowed before her son was even born. But Kennedy Fox did a bang-up job in telling this story.

There is hurt and anger on Katie’s part, not because she blamed him for Gabe’s death, but because he was her best friend and he pushed her away when he went to prison. All Noah wants to do is set things right with the girl who was once his everything. It does take some time before he makes headway, and there is a really tender scene when he finally gets to tell Katie why he pushed her away when he was in prison. Soon after, they admit their true feelings, and they can’t help but wonder if they’d shared those truths back in high school, how would things have been different?

I really like the friendship that is developing with Noah and Katie’s son, so I just know that is going to go to hell once Owen learns the truth! And like all the other KF duet books, there is a bit of a mystery that leads to the cliffhanger… I did not see that involvement coming and can’t wait to find out what the depth of that connection and revenge is about!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

For Your Love by Kate McBrien is now live!

Her brothers call her a princess, but he tells her she’s a queen. His queen.

She’s the girl with three brothers. The scholarly one. The one with big dreams and a dark secret.

He’s her brother’s best friend. And the rich playboy who broke her heart.

Finn O’Connor taught Colleen Murphy what it felt like to be in love–and to have her heart broken and bruised.

When Finn appears at a family event a decade later, it all rushes back, and Colleen must fight to resist the pull to the wealthy bad boy she’d been reading about in the tabloids all those years.

Finn tells her he’s changed–but can Colleen trust him not to break her heart again?

And will Finn unlock Colleen’s secret? The one that’s kept her from ever letting anyone too close, including him?

Although she resists, Colleen is starting to wonder if Finn alone sees her for who she really is.

And though her brothers called her princess, Finn keeps telling her she’s a queen.

His queen.

Note to readers: This book contains scenes that​ may be triggering to survivors of childhood sexual abuse.  The scenes are described as past events. No abuse occurs on the page.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

For Your Love is a really heartwarming second-chance romance about Colleen, the only girl in an Irish American family of boys, and her brother’s best friend. She fell in love with Finn when she was 18, but he essentially blew her off as soon as they shared their first kiss and didn’t see each other for 10 years.

At Colleen’s father’s funeral, those old feelings that they’d both tried to bury come rushing back. A few weeks later, Colleen moves from California to New York, where Finn and her brother live, to take on a new job, and the stage is set for a reunion.

Their reconciliation is really sweet, and Finn is a pretty perfect boyfriend. He’s been in love with Colleen as long as she’s been in love with him, and there is a nice development between them as they get to know one another again and start dating.

This is the first book I’ve read by Kate McBrien and I really enjoyed it. I also thought she wrote the secondary story about Colleen’s sexual abuse really well. This story not just became about Colleen’s overcoming her past and facing her abuser but how it affected her relationship with Finn, how he handled it and how they moved forward as a couple. Meanwhile, Finn’s been through so much in the past decade following his father’s Bernie Madoff-type scandal, and it kind of colors every move he makes. When there’s an issue with the press, Finn really goes all out to protect Colleen and make her a priority.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kate

Kate McBrien writes sexy and witty contemporary romance. She has an MA in art history and has taught art history at a local college. For many years, Kate has worked as a dental hygienist, courageously offering encouragement to her non-flossing patients.

She has always enjoyed writing but became more serious after being encouraged by a friend to participate in National Novel Writing Month. She began writing historical fiction but soon realized that the romance was taking over the history.

Kate is a San Francisco Bay Area native who lives near the beach with her husband and Lola, their spoiled Labrador Retriever. When not writing, she enjoys cooking, music, movies, reading, and fangirling over Jamie Dornan.

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𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱’𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗯, 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗼’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹?

No, I hadn’t heard that Ryan Prince was staying at the very resort I had just started working at.

If I had, maybe I would have called in sick.

On second thought, maybe I wouldn’t have, because I really needed that paycheck. Being a single mother and having a lapse in child support had made me that desperate.

Still, I would have rather avoided the circus that rolled into Hawk Tail Resort and the man who sauntered in with it.

All these years later and he was still that same gorgeous football player I left behind in college.

Except now he wasn’t gracing the gridiron unless it was for a movie role.

I assumed he wouldn’t even recognize me, not with the actress on his arm and the crowd pressing in around him.

Ryan Prince didn’t just recognize me; the angry tilt of those lips on that too perfect face told me he remembered exactly what I did when I left.

I thought maybe this was a gift, a way to put the past to rest…but the look on his face told me he had plans to dig up everything that was unfinished between us.

The summer was about to end, but it felt like my penance for the last decade was about to begin.

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GIVEAWAY

To celebrate the release of the Only Once, Ashley Munoz is giving away a signed paperback and $25 Amazon gift card! Stop by her Facebook page to enter: http://bit.ly/2LxktNK

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Only Once is phenomenal. Emotional, heartfelt, tugs-on-the-heartstrings, had me on the edge of tears kind of phenomenal. From the first moment that Bexley runs into Ryan ten years after they split up to the very last page, I was hooked and couldn’t wait to see these two reconcile their past and get a happily ever after.

Ryan and Bex both have their insecurities when it comes to their relationship. I loved seeing how empty Ryan felt even though he was one of the most successful and popular stars in Hollywood. But when it comes to Bex, he always feels like he’s waiting for the other shoe to drop, like she’s going to break his heart all over again. He can’t help but feel jealous that some other guy made a family with Bexley when that was their dream together. And Bex has lived her entire life feeling like she was never anyone’s first choice, starting from when she was a little girl. When her relationship with Ryan was really put to the test back in college, she felt like he was picking his football career over her, and walked away — breaking both of their hearts in the process.

There is a really nice arc of growth on both their parts in this story as they come to terms with their past and figure out how to move forward. Ryan and Bex never got over the other and I loved how attached he was to her kids right from the start, making their relationship as much a family one as a romantic one.

It isn’t all sunshine and rainbows as these two hash out their issues. But the way it all comes together in the end is simply wonderful, heartfelt and full of promise.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ashley was born in Nebraska, but raised in Oregon where she lives with her four children and husband.

If she’s not helping her husband with DIY projects around the house, she’s writing or sneaking off to a corner to read.

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From USA Bestseller Natasha Madison comes a brand new Hockey series The Only One.

Nico

When I inherited the Dallas Oilers from my father , I became one of the youngest owners in hockey history. Even though the team was at the bottom of the hockey standings,

I had big plans to change that and bring the Cup to Dallas.

Falling in love was something I never believed would happen to me.

You’d think I was getting everything I ever wanted with the girl and the winning record, but I still have a promise to fulfill to my childhood best friend.

Becca

Never let them see you sweat has been my life motto since I decided to make a name for myself as the most-sought-after sport agent.

I know what it takes to close a deal, and only want one thing—to be the best.

Until I felt his touch one night, and everything I thought I knew was forgotten. Nico is everything I’ve never let myself want.

But all my cards came crashing down the minute I read the headlines.

It takes only one touch to change everything!

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

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When We Met by Marni Mann is now live!

If you knew beyond all doubt that one chance encounter would change the course of your future, what would you choose?

There’s nothing like a spring day in Boston to make your heart sing. I’m out with my girls, having drinks in a bar, enjoying the bright pulse of our beautiful city, when I see Caleb. The second my eyes meet his, I know this is the moment when everything will change. All I have to do is choose him.

I meet Whitney on the worst day of my life. I’ve always been an adrenaline junkie, but I never knew how fast things could change. Her soft gaze melts my cynicism, makes me forget the bitter man I was becoming. She makes me want to be the version of myself that I see in her eyes. All she has to do is choose this life.

When We Met takes Whitney and Caleb on the ride of their lives, hitting every note on the scale of beauty and tragedy along the way. USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann will make you question everything you thought you knew about love and fate, and this unforgettable story will leave you certain that destiny always finds a way.

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Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Savannah Peachwood, and Ava Erickson

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This book. Holy crap. I read this instead of watching the Superbowl and I didn’t care. It was fantastic. When We Met is a fantastic exploration of how one moment, one choice, can change your life. If you knew that one encounter was going to change your life forever, for good or for bad, what would you opt to do?

This book is told in dual POVS — one part from Caleb’s POV and one part from Whitney’s — with Whitney’s best friend/roommate Emily bookending it with the prologue and epilogue from her POV. I wasn’t sure where the story was going to go when I read the prologue, but I was there for the ride. Both parts of this book are equally amazing, although they tell very different stories with Caleb and Whitney’s journey. And then I got to the end of Part 2, and gasped. Was that it? Impossible.

The epilogue tied it all back together, and it’s one of those chapters that leaves you really thinking over what you just read.

Whitney and Caleb are wonderful characters. There’s an immediate connection, they bring out the best in one another, and change each other for the better. He’s a workaholic before meeting her, a financial whiz and adrenaline junkie who only escapes the office when he goes off exploring the world. She’s a hospital nurse who works herself to the bone in memory of her brother, who she could not save. She’s miserable and feels like she’s lost herself in the hospital, but being with Caleb shows her that there is so much more she can do with her life.

Don’t read too many reviews about When We Met. Go into it blind, because it is phenomenal. It is set in April 2013 around the Boston Marathon bombing, so that could be a trigger for some readers. But Caleb and Whitney’s journey is a marvelous one that I won’t soon forget.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Marni

USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann knew she was going to be a writer since middle school. While other girls her age were daydreaming about teenage pop stars, Marni was fantasizing about penning her first novel. She crafts unique stories that weave together her love of darkness, mystery, passion, and human emotions. A New Englander at heart, she now lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her husband and their yellow Lab. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop, working on her next novel, she’s scouring for chocolate, sipping wine, traveling, or devouring fabulous books.

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Between The Lines by T. Gephart is now live!

Justin Tibbs— Bailing and heading to Tessa’s apartment. If you don’t hear from me in twenty-four hours, she’s probably killed and tossed me in the Hudson. Tell everyone it was a good way to go, and I’m not even sorry. Enjoy the rest of your night, I know I sure will be.

Jared Leighton – Tibbs, do NOT screw around. She is NYPD and a friend, have you completely lost your mind?

Justin Tibbs —Sorry, brother, I need to see this through. I haven’t been this intrigued by a woman in a very long time. Worth dying over. Been nice knowing you.

Jared Leighton— Tibbs, come back to the bar before it’s too late.

Jared Leighton—Tibbs!

Jared Leighton— Jesus Christ.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Justin and Tessa’s story was a great addition to the Hot in the City series! We’ve gotten to know Justin (aka Tibbs) as the playboy serial dater in the other books, and I love when that kind of guy is brought to his knees. And I appreciated that the woman who catches his eye at the bar that night is actually a colleague and someone he’s known for a while, but never saw in that light before the switch was flipped. And he fell hook, line and sinker.

Tessa is focused on her career and isn’t necessarily looking for a relationship either when she runs in to Justin that night at the bar. But some nights of hanging out turn into something deeper, and before either of them know it, lines have been blurred and crossed.

And then there’s a doozy of a plot twist. I honestly didn’t see it coming, and I really liked the way that T Gephart wrote that obstacle. It could have been a cliche, but Tessa and Justin find a workaround, and it was mature, respectful, and made everyone’s lives better in the end.

I really enjoyed this story! Between The Lines is part of a series with interconnected characters, but is a standalone. And having read the other books, it was nice to catch up a bit with some of those characters!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet T. Gephart

T Gephart is a USA Today and International bestselling author from Melbourne, Australia.
With an approach to life that is somewhat unconventional, she prefers to fly by the seat of her pants rather than adhere to some rigid roadmap. Her lack of “plan” has resulted in a rather interesting and eclectic resume, which reads more like the fiction she writes than an actual employment history. She’d tell you all about it, but the statute of limitations hasn’t expired yet. But all those crazy twists and turns have led her to a career she loves–writing romantic comedy.
When she isn’t filling pages with sassy and sexy characters with attitude, she’s living her own reality show in the ‘burbs of Melbourne with her American husband, two teenage children, and her fur child–Woodley.
She loves adventure, to laugh, travel, and strives to live her life to the fullest.

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The author of In an Instant delivers a heart-pounding and emotional roller-coaster ride of self-discovery in the tradition of Thelma and Louise.

Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can’t even kill a spider, Hadley soon finds herself pushed to the limits as she fights to protect her family.

Grace, new mother of baby Miles, desperately wants to put her rough past behind her for good, but she finds it impossible when her path crosses with Hadley’s, and her quest for a new start quickly spirals out of control and turns into a terrifying flight for survival.

Stronger together than apart, the two find their fates inextricably entwined, and as the danger closes in, each must decide how much she is willing to risk for the other.

A powerful story of self-discovery, Hadley and Grace is the heart-racing tale of two women facing insurmountable odds, racing to stay one step ahead of the trouble that is chasing them, and discovering new kinds of love and family along the way.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I loved this modern-day Thelma & Louise story!

Hadley and Grace are both such wonderful characters, and their journey together left me flipping the pages, reading just one more chapter, just one more chapter… These women are strangers, but with a common connection, and that sends them off on a road trip that neither of them will ever forget.

This book is one big comedy of errors as Hadley and Grace set out on a road trip — well, it’s more like run — with their three kids in tow. Through the ups and downs of their journey, Hadley and Grace form an unbreakable friendship, and the kids become a sort of blended family. This book is a wonderful story of friendship and strength.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union publishing for a copy of the book.

The plan was to move away and never look back. 

Get away from him, out from under my father’s disapproving stare, and start a new life in Willow Bay. 

It was supposed to be my fresh start, but instead my past followed me. 

The one thing I desired and couldn’t have. 

Weston Jackson. 

I hated how he made me feel things that I couldn’t give into without turning my world upside down.

I wanted to make him pay. 

For the way my father now looked at me. For the way I saw myself. 

But most of all… for wanting him the way I did.

This is a full-length high school and college enemies-to-lovers and new adult romance with high angst, suspense, and gutting emotion. It’s book one in the Willow Bay series that will have interlinking storylines. Away Game can be read as a standalone and starts off a four-book planned series. This is the only MM story. The others are MF.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars

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