NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new grumpy-sunshine standalone holiday romance
Blakely
When my boss tells me I’m taking over the planning of the annual Christmas gala, I can barely contain my excitement. Not only is it a huge opportunity, but I also love all things Christmas.
I’m on cloud nine until I realize I have to work closely with the grumpy doctor, who is my opposite in every way. He loathes the holidays. At least that’s what he says. His eyes tell me a different story.
That’s why I make it my mission to make him fall in love with Christmas. That’s our family motto after all. I’ll make him love the holidays harder than ever before. How hard can it be?
Oliver
My contract states I have to serve on a committee. When I fail to submit which committee I’d like to work on, I’m assigned the Christmas gala. Me… the guy who detests the holiday.
In years past, I let the marketing manager handle it all. I was there if she needed me. She never did. I expected more of the same this year, but it turns out, I get more than I bargained for. I didn’t anticipate her. Miss Ray of Sunshine, assistant manager.
That’s how I find myself attending holiday events and attaching myself to her any way I can. She’s trying to make me fall in love with Christmas. Instead, I’m falling in love with her.
Having watched Blakely Kincaid grow up in the Kincaid Bros. series, I was so excited to see her as a young woman who finds her own person in Merry With Me!
Oliver is a fantastic grumpy hero. He was badly burned by a past relationship and has hated Christmas for the past four years as a result. When they are paired together to work on a fundraiser for the hospital where they both work (along with Uncle Brooks!), Blake makes it her mission to restore Oliver’s faith in the season and the magic of Christmastime. Oliver resists, of course, which just makes it all the more enjoyable to see him soften as Blakeley breaks down his walls.
There are some great winks to the OG Kincaid series in here, like Blake’s references to her childhood “weiner pants” and Oliver’s arm p@rn. There are also some great cameos from all of Blakeley’s aunts and uncles, who naturally give Oliver a hard time.
This book gave me hope that the next generation, Blakeley’s cousins and siblings, will get a spinoff series of their own! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
AUTHOR BIO
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
Six years ago, he was her one-night stand, and now they’re sharing a villa for the holidays.
I thought I was over him. That his good looks and British accent couldn’t affect me anymore. But the minute our eyes lock across the elevator, all those feelings come roaring back to life.
Then I find out we’re competing for the same job.
Next comes the realization that we have to spend a week together on a ski vacation because of some six-degree-of-separation nonsense.
The real kicker is when I find out the two of us have to share a villa. A very small, very cozy villa.
Needless to say, this Christmas getaway is starting off rockier than the mountains we’ll be skiing down.
I’ve stayed away for years, what’s one week? But I forgot how much easier it is to ignore him with an ocean separating us—especially when he’s determined to win me back.
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Another adorable holiday romcom from Piper Rayne! Merry Kissmas is packed with so much Christmas goodness!
Six years ago, Brynn and Pierce had a steamy weekend together in London, where she was studying abroad, only for it to all fall apart the next day when they realized that he was the TA in her college class. Years later they reconnect when they are both up for the same job, and then through a weird twist of fate, end up spending Christmas week together in a one-bed villa with her family. At first, Brynn is still upset, hurt, and humiliated over how Pierce blew her off all those years ago. But as they spend time together participating in all of her family’s Christmas activities, she begins to soften toward him.
I loved Pierce’s determination to win her back. I loved getting to know his backstory. He’s been so lonely for so long. He fit in seamlessly with her family and all of their wacky Christmas traditions. There was such a great connection between the two of them right from the start. The witty banter and sizzling chemistry is exactly what I love about Piper Rayne’s books.
I can’t believe it took me until Chapter 20 to realize that this book is connected to Piper Rayne’s other holiday books! Pierce is Andrew’s cousin (Single & Ready to Jingle) and Brynn is Tre’s sister (Claus & Effect).
The book is narrated in duet by Shane East and Stella Hunter, both of whom did an amazing job. I could listen to Shane East and his British accent all day long. I really enjoyed listening to the audio in tandem with reading the ebook.
Well done! I look forward to next year’s Christmas book! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
PRETTY HEARTACHE by Brittany Taylor is AVAILABLE NOW!
Blurb:
Micah Harding has always been known to cause heartache.
He didn’t know it, but he broke my heart the summer I turned eleven.
Humiliated and embarrassed, I didn’t speak to him again after he claimed to have rescued me.
Now, ten years later, I find myself on his doorstep, heartbroken yet again.
Only this time, I’m an unemployed model, running from the life I’ve tried so hard to create, about to be thrust back into the one I escaped.
Although he’s the same billionaire I knew all those years ago, Micah’s changed.
I see the pain he holds in his blue-gray eyes, desperate to forget his reality and the secrets he holds within them.
My childhood feelings for him were kept under lock and key—they had to be—but now that we’re older and living together, the feelings I once had for him are no longer reduced to a meaningless crush. They’re real. And the more time we spend together, the more difficult they are to dismiss.
But as temptation consumes us, we realize our pasts aren’t the only facts we’re running from.
I’m twenty-one.
He’s thirty-three.
And my older brother’s best friend.
I never believed there was beauty in heartache… until I fell for him.
Damaged is drawn to damaged, and in Pretty Heartache, Micah and Addy heal each other’s broken pieces.
This book seemed a little darker than the other books in the Harding Brothers series, and it was just as good as the other two. Micah and Addy have both had a really rough go of it in life. She was abused by her father and neglected/ignored by her mother. After getting out of her parent’s clutches, she’s made a name for herself as a model in Los Angeles, but an incident puts her in danger and sends her running back home where her older brother’s best friend takes her in. Meanwhile, Micah has always felt like the odd man out with his brothers, since he was the product of an affair between their dad and a stripper. He was always made to feel a little less-than by their late dad, and that continues to mess with his mind even after his father’s death. Micah spent some time in prison, and the reasons around that, decisions he made and the truth of what really went down, continue to haunt him as he’s trying to rebuild his life.
There are so many secrets surrounding both Addy and Micah. It takes them a while to get to a place where they feel comfortable removing the masks they present to the world. And once they reveal their authentic selves to the other, a beautiful love develops. They just *see* each other in ways that nobody else does.
It’s an intense and heartbreaking story, but Addy and Micah get a great HEA in the end that makes it all worth it!
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Meet Brittany Taylor:
Brittany is a New Adult, Contemporary romance author best known for writing steamy, heart-clenching love stories, pulling out all the feels. The more angst, the better.
Brittany’s book collection and reading addiction began at an early age. It wasn’t long before she found herself wanting to be the one writing stories instead of reading them.
Though she was born in California, Brittany grew up in many places throughout the world. She spent most of her childhood living in England, Virginia, and Texas where she eventually met her husband. After her husband joined the Navy, they moved to Connecticut where they lived for fourteen years.
She currently resides in Maine with her husband, two sons, two cats, and one dog.
She is a self-proclaimed Outlander fanatic and Starbucks addict.
From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a new undeniably funny and always spicy winter holiday, enemies-to-lovers romance. HOW MY NEIGHBOR STOLE CHRISTMAS is now available in all formats! Check out the excerpt below and one-click your copy of this steamy, hilarious romance today!
A new winter holiday, enemies-to-lovers romance, from the undeniably funny and always spicy, USA Today bestselling author, Meghan Quinn.
Living in a year around Christmas town has it’s drawbacks. The caroling, the decorations, the insanely cheery spirit, it never disappears. It’s why I like to hibernate away in my cave–I mean house–keeping a healthy distance from the holly jolly spirits.
And all was going according to plan until my nemesis, Storee Taylor, moved in next door to care for her Aunt Cindy. Without blinking, she turned my simple world into a real nightmare-before-Christmas, especially when she decided to enter the town Christmas Kringle contest – which she was determine to win.
Well guess what? Over my cold-hearted body.
There was no way I was going to let her win, not after the history we’d shared.
So despite my promise to myself of never participating in the sickening Christmas season, I entered the competition as well. That’s right, I planned on beating Storee at her own game by pretending this grump’s heart grew three sizes this season.
And it was working until feelings between us started heating up. We pretended to date. We kissed. And well, sparks flew from there.
Which led to one explosive night involving Christmas lights, the competition, and a ladder. Don’t let me convince you who stole Christmas, I think you need to find out for yourself . . .
5 Candy Canes for Meghan Quinn’s hilarious, heartfelt new holiday romcom inspired by The Grinch!
From the prologue to the epilogue, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas was absolute perfection! I really don’t know how Meghan Quinn continues to surprise me with her romcoms, but this is one of the best. And I’ve read just about everything she’s published. And I often say that *this* book may be one of her best yet, only for her to outdo herself with the next one! Well, I think Meghan has outdone herself…
My heart broke for Cole, and how lonely he’s been since his parents died. Storee has also been feeling lonely and isolated, and they really do bring each other back to life over the course of this book. It starts with a spark of healthy competition during the Kringle Christmas contest, and as they spend time fake dating (so the townspeople think they are getting along), they pick up the friendship that was cast aside a decade ago. I really liked how the worst night of Cole’s life coincided with a night that Storee was completely humiliated.
And then there is the reverse-fake-dating (I didn’t even know that was a micro-trope!) where Storee and Cole begin to really fall in love. The spice level is high in How My Neighbor Stole Christmas… and I will never be able to look at a candy cane the same way again.
Listening to this book on audio was seriously an elevated experience! It was narrated by a full cast, with JF Harding and Vanessa Edwin perfectly playing Cole and Storee’s rivalry, fighting feelings, and falling in love. Robert Hatchet was hilarious as Cole’s best friend and sidekick, Max, with Emma Wilder bringing snarky sister Taran to life. But I really think Shane East steals the show as The Narrator. The way his British accent wraps around those Dr. Seuss-style rhymes… I seriously could have listened to him tell this entire story!
You’d have to be a real Grinch to not fall in love with Storee and Cole in How My Neighbor Stole Christmas! I received an advance copy via NetGalley and Bloom Books and voluntarily left a review.
Narrated in duet by Vanessa Edwin and JF Harding, with a full cast including Shane East, Robert Hatchet, and Emma Wilder, HOW MY NEIGHBOR STOLE CHRISTMAS is now available on Audible!
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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💜 SLAP SHOT SURPRISE by Melanie Harlow — an opposites attract, steamy, small-town hockey romance — is AVAILABLE NOW💜
In my defense, I thought the plane was going to crash.
Otherwise, I never would have blurted out those embarrassing things to a perfect stranger.
Did I mention he turned out to be a scorching hot superstar of professional hockey?
But wait, there’s more.
When the plane lands safely, I rush off, praying I’ll never have to face him again. My luck holds out for less than twenty-four hours, when I realize he’s a groomsman at the wedding I’m attending.
We end up having a drink and a good laugh about my panicked confessions, and when he invites me up to his room for some no-strings-attached fun, I say yes. After all, a headboard rattling one-night stand with a guy who knows how to put the puck in deep isn’t something a bookworm like me ever thought she’d experience.
Neither are those two little pink lines.
Now what’s crashing are all the plans Joe Lupo and I had for our lives–separately.
After all, we’re totally wrong for each other. He’s commitment-phobic and completely focused on his career. And I want to plant roots in my small town–with someone who chooses me.
Love? It’s out of the question.
Until Joe Lupo lines up his shot and aims straight for my heart.
A rainy weekend day was the perfect time to curl up with a blanket and binge Slap Shot Surprise! I loved this crossover between Mabel Buckley of Cherry Tree Harbor and Joey Lupo (son of Nick and Coco from Forked). From Mabel’s awkward word vomit when she thought their plane was going to crash to their steamy one-night stand the night of the wedding, I was hooked on these characters!
The relationship between Mabel and Joe develops nicely through text messages and phone calls as she lives in Minnesota and he’s a pro hockey player in Chicago. They don’t really “date” in the traditional sense, but the few times they get together, it’s electric and sparks fly. Despite Mabel’s best efforts to keep Joe in the friend zone, she lets him back into her bed… and he eventually sets up camp in her heart. Meanwhile, Joe is a a bit of a self-centered playboy who doesn’t want to be tied down — my favorite kind of book boyfriend to see fall hard and fast for a woman!
I really loved the throwback to Giannie and Elle’s accidental pregnancy in Taste, and how Joey called his big brother for advice. I thought it was a sweet moment and a great connection between the two series. The ultrasound scene in Taste stood out to me long after I read that book, and I felt like Joey had a lot to live up to with Mabel’s accidental pregnancy… and Melanie Harlow did not disappoint!
Slap Shot Surprise is set a few years after the events of the other Cherry Tree Harbor books, so I loved getting to see where the Buckley siblings are in their relationships.
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ABOUT MELANIE HARLOW
USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melanie Harlow writes sweet, sexy, feel-good romance. She likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. If she’s not writing or reading, she’s probably at Orangetheory or watching Schitt’s Creek again. She lifts her glass to readers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.
FOREVER STARTS TONIGHT by Karla Sorensen is AVAILABLE NOW!
Blurb:
It’s no secret that I’ve been in love with Jax Cartwright for half my life. A terrible decision, really, and not just because he’s my brother’s best friend or he’s ten years older than me.
Thanks to an overprotective family, he’s ignored me for years, but still, I can’t get his grumpy a** out of my head. And in a wine-fueled, post-bad date funk, I make another terrible decision: show up at his cabin to ask why he’s never given me a chance.
The storm that got me stuck there overnight was a total fluke, but I’m no fool. While Jax is perfectly clear about not wanting a family or love or any of the happily-ever-afters I’ve dreamed of, what’s the harm in asking for just one night? The worst thing he can say is no.
He doesn’t though, and I was saying yes, yes, yes a whole lot after that.
Best. Decision. Ever.
One night is enough to feel like I can move on, and we agree to let it be a secret kept safe between us.
But you know what makes it hard to keep a one-night secret about my not-so-secret crush?
Yay! Poppy and Jax get their long-awaited HEA in Forever Starts Tonight! From the start of this series, we have seen Poppy pining for Jax, her brother Cameron’s best friend. And with their 10-year age difference, he never saw her as anything other than Cameron’s little sister. Except…. except…
It’s been Poppy all along! Jax just thought he deserved to be a lone wolf and couldn’t admit it to himself!
I have always loved the big, rowdy Wilder family, and they rally around Poppy when she learns she’s pregnant from a one-night stand. And then when Jax gets back to town after a three-month hiking trip and they find out that *he* is the babydaddy… WHOA!
This book was perfect! It’s a slow burn, full of so much angst. I loved how Jax’s feelings just hit him all of a sudden, but then he is placed in the friend zone by Poppy and experiences what she’d felt for all those years. That swoony Big Moment between them had me in tears as they finally, finally got together!
I also appreciated that Karla Sorensen wrote Poppy as a strong, independent heroine. As the baby of the family, we have seen her kind of coddled throughout the series by her siblings. Yes, she’s always been in love with Jax, but she sets out that night to get him out of her system so she can finally move on. And even after she learned she was pregnant, she had her ducks in a row and didn’t fall apart and need the protection that her siblings assumed she’d need.
Well done, Karla! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Karla Sorensen:
Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 10 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring Dramione fan fiction or avoiding the laundry, you can find her binding books, and watching football (British & American) or HGTV. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.
A small-town, forbidden, standalone, new adult romance with Footloose meets A Star is Born vibes from USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Jewel E. Ann
Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.
Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher.
But Sarah’s not sure he’s her future husband, especially when his older brother, Isaac, returns home after serving six years in the Army. He has tattoos on his arms and bad habits that are not “father-approved.”
When he’s not working on the ranch or roping at the rodeo, Isaac hangs out in the barn, playing his guitar. He’s trouble, but Sarah’s music-loving heart gravitates toward him.
Isaac loves consuming Sarah’s mind, crawling under her skin, backing her into corners, and whispering inappropriate things in her innocent ears.
After weeks of playful banter and guitar lessons blurring the line between right and wrong, Issac makes Sarah a proposition she can’t refuse.
But when the unthinkable happens, and everything she knows is destroyed, will Sarah make the right choice?
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“We were either the bad kind of right or the good kind of wrong. It was hard to distinguish the two.”
This book! I read Sunday Morning in less than 24 hours. It was addictive, entertaining, angsty, swoony, and I could not put it down! Jewel E. Ann packs a punch with this story about a preacher’s daughter and the two brothers she is torn between.
Sweet, good girl Sarah is weeks away from her high school graduation when her boyfriend Matt’s older brother, Isaac, returns to their small town after serving in the military for the past six years. It’s Easter Sunday when Sarah sees bad boy Isaac again, and it sparks something in her that she hasn’t felt in her comfortable romance with Matt. And Sarah hates the way Isaac (aka Satan) makes her feel, especially when he calls her “Sunday Morning.”
While nothing happens between Sarah and Isaac until after she’s broken up with Matt, this story still has all the forbidden vibes. They keep their relationship a secret at first because both sets of parents expect Sarah and Matt to marry, and Sarah has so much guilt tied up in “doing the right thing” by her family. As the oldest daughter, so much is resting on her shoulders and is expected of her. It’s refreshing that Isaac sees Sarah for the young woman she is and not the person she presents to the world because that’s who she thinks she is supposed to be.
I loved watching Sarah blossom into who she is while with Isaac. There is so much tension between them leading up to them finally getting together, and I was shipping this couple hard. Isaac has quite a reputation around their small town, and Sunday Morning is a wonderful reminder that you shouldn’t always believe the gossip. I have to admit, the revelation about Isaac’s past caught me by surprise in the best way!
There are only a handful of chapters from Isaac’s POV, and those were my favorite! I loved getting inside his head –finally! — after seeing so much of their relationship develop from Sarah’s POV. He didn’t want to fall in love with his little brother’s girlfriend, but the heart wants what the heart wants.
There is a TW of loss/car accident. I did appreciate that there is no cheating. And this book is set in the 80s — I LOVED the playlist and how fitting the song titles at the top of each chapter fit what happens in the following pages.
Sunday Morning was a beautiful, heartfelt story! And I can’t wait to see what the rest of this series brings! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Jewel E. Ann
Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance.
It wasn’t my expectation to fall into bed with the woman who won me at the bachelor auction.
I was only doing my grandma a favor, not looking for more than a shared dinner with the winner. Then again, I wasn’t expecting someone as hot as Isla to be my date.
She makes it clear that she’s down for a night in the sheets but bolts, leaving me holding my junk—literally. Which I figure, in the end, is all fine and good because love burned me before, and I have no plans to repeat that soul-crushing heartbreak.
I took a much-needed vacation from the handyman business I own with my brothers, Rent A Husband, only to return to find out they’d hired Isla, making me her boss.
And now I have to see her every day, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not still drawn to her. But I burned that bridge the night she was briefly in my bed, and any lust she had for me has turned to hatred.
Which is for the best because she has a new boyfriend, which is all the motivation I need to stay away from her. Until it’s not.
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I am so glad that Everly Ashton returned to the Abbott Brothers series! I really loved Lucas and Cami’s story, and it’s been a few years — I wasn’t sure if we would see the other Rent-A-Husband guys find love, but here we are!
Travis and Isla first meet when their grandmothers set them up at a bachelor auction (aka the Buy a Boyfriend title). Not wanting the bidders to know his true identity, Travis goes by his middle name, Eddie, for the auction, and that his hobby of carpentry is his job. The two go on a great first date, but then as things get hot and heavy back at Eddie’s house, Isla bolts… leaving Eddie, who is already feeling a little insecure about returning to the dating scene again after a bad breakup, dejected and rejected.
The following week, Isla starts a new job as the admin at Rent A Husband handyman service, but the third Abbott brother is out of town on vacation. So when Travis returns to the office, they are both *shocked* to see the other one. Add in her having a boyfriend when he returns months later from setting up the company’s second office, and Travis and Isla get off to a rocky start!
I thought the reason why Isla bolted from Travis’ apartment that first night was kind of lame (it was embarrassing, but nothing I think necessitated that kind of swift exit without an explanation). But I get that led to Travis being a grade-A jerk to Isla when they cross paths again in the office. Once they were able to get past that, this was actually quite a sweet second-chance romance. It’s relatively low-angst, with no third-act breakup. Travis gets caught up inside his head there for a while, and there are some strained weeks between them, but it’s resolved with a sweet gesture that ties up the story with a pretty bow at the end.
As I was reading Buy a Boyfriend, I went back and forth between the ebook and the audio, perfectly narrated in duet by Lee Samuels and Vanessa Edwin.
One thing that I would have liked to have seen more of was the grandmothers. They had such a strong part in setting up Travis and Isla in the beginning and then just… disappeared? Travis’ grandmother showed up a few times later on in the book, but Isla’s grandmother was nowhere to be found. She was briefly mentioned once as being part of the senior center where Isla is part of the book club (the same center that the auction was held for), but when discussing her family background with Travis, she didn’t even mention her grandmother. It was a plot hole that I thought could have been better filled. And I think there was a missed opportunity for the grandmas to meddle before Travis and Isla got together again.
There were a few other points that I thought could have been explored more (like the run-in with his ex and the suddenness of the epilogue), but overall, I thought this was a entertaining story with solid characters, a cute secret relationship/second-chance romance, and an entertaining cast of secondary characters.
I can’t wait to learn what’s going on with Josh and Nova! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Everly Ashton
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For as long as I can remember, Lachlan West has been my brother’s best friend and the love of my life. Trouble is, he kissed me four years ago and then never spoke to me again.
I was doing great pretending he doesn’t exist until I was assigned to write an article about former college athletes and I learn that the sexy single-dad is my first interview.
Determined to wow my editor with an amazing sportsball piece. (Have I mentioned I know nothing about sports?) I head to Ember Falls, ready to face my fears—and the man I love.
The grumpy quarterback turned fireman wants nothing to do with me or my article. Yet, somehow I persuade him to let me follow him around for a few weeks, and even if he said yes just to get rid of me, I’ll take it.
But the longer I stay in his small town, the more complicated our story gets. The boundaries we set fall to the ground—along with our clothes.
He holds me like I matter, touches me like I’m cherished and kisses me like he loves me.
We both know I have to leave Ember Falls, and he’ll never follow—I only wish I could write a different ending to our story.
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I loved everything about Lachlan and Ainsley’s secret crush, always-been-you romance! It was full of heart, heat, and emotions, yearning and longing, and a short-term fling that you just know is going to ruin both of these characters when Ainsley’s time in town comes to an end! There is such a rich history between Lachlan and Ainsley, and I really got the sense of who they were to each other as friends once upon a time, before they shared a kiss four years ago and stopped speaking.
Lachlan is a troubled character — he’d given up his dreams of playing pro football to raise his daughter, Rose, because he is so terribly insecure after all the women in his life left him. After much push and pull, he and Ainsley stop dancing around their secret feelings for one another and agree to a situationship while she’s in town working on a story about Lach and his Ultimate Frisbee teammates. (Seriously? That, as a sport, was awesome!)
But when you are madly in love with someone who lives eight hours away, is there any hope for continuing a relationship? Well, because this book has a HEA, yes. Yes, there is. And it was lovely to see Lachlan and Ainsley get to that place! I look forward to finding the rest of the Disc Jocks find love in the Ember Falls series!!! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet Corinne
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.
A sizzling and swoony single dad, forbidden, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …
Captivated. Addicted. Mesmerized.
All the things I felt the minute I saw Addison Lark. The last thing I’d expected was to fall in love at a strip club. But Addison was the woman of my dreams. It didn’t matter that I spent an obscene amount of money just to talk to her. The fiery redhead made me feel things I’d never felt before.
But she didn’t want anything to do with me. And she left without a backward glance. Making me crave her even more.
Imagine my shock when we unexpectedly met again, presenting the most unexpected problem—Addison Lark was forbidden.
But did that stop me? Did that stop us?
I’d made a promise to start living my life, and I wasn’t going to let that woman walk away for a second time.
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Sizzle! I am so glad we got to meet Ridge Cole in The Heartbreaker, book #4 in the Spade Hotel series!
I equally loved seeing Ridge The Dad in scenes with his darling little girl, Daisy, and Ridge The Hot DILF in the scenes with Addy. Their meet-cute happens in a strip club (during a bachelor party, where Addison is working to make extra cash to pay off her student loans), but Ridge and Addison have an immediate connection at first sight that went beyond just a physical attraction to one another. She really didn’t see anything happening between them beyond that one night they spent together after going for ramen, but life had other plans for these two because her day job soon crossed paths with her nighttime side gig…
Even though she turned out to be the last person he should have been dating, Ridge relentlessly pursued Addison. It took a lot for her to agree to go out with him; I felt like she had much more on the line than he did. Addy had a great connection with Daisy, and I liked seeing that develop further. Ridge also had a lovely co-parenting relationship with Daisy’s mom, which was refreshing to see. There was enough for Addy and Ridge to work through without throwing in unnecessary ex drama.
Overall, The Heartbreaker was a wonderfully sexy, billionaire single dad forbidden romance that kept me captivated to the very end. 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 sexy, titillating stories that weave together her love of darkness, mystery, passion, and human emotions. A New Englander at heart, she now lives with her husband in Sarasota, Florida. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop, working on her next novel, she’s scouring for chocolate, sipping wine, traveling, boating, or devouring fabulous books. Want to get in touch?
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