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Sunny Shelly’s Review: From Asher, With Love by Brittany Taylor

From Asher, With Love by Brittany Taylor is NOW LIVE

He set my heart on fire… then destroyed it.

Ten years ago, I left the ashes of my past behind, determined to fulfill my dream of owning a flower shop in the largest city in the world.

With business now booming, I need to expand my storefront, and I’m desperate for help. So, when my best friend sets me up on a blind date disguised as a business meeting, with the billionaire CEO of the city’s most elite real estate firm, I cave.

What I don’t expect is the billionaire blind date turning out to be my ex-boyfriend.

Though one look is all it takes to know Asher Egan is no longer the boy I once knew from the wrong side of the tracks. He’s an ambitious, insanely wealthy businessman who knows exactly what and who he wants…

Me.

And the longer we work together, the faster the embers of our youthful love begin to reignite.

It’s a shame the pain isn’t as easily forgotten.

Fearing he’ll lose me again, he’s suddenly asking for a future we both walked away from all those years ago.

But will I be able to sift through the ashes of our past and find it in my heart to love him again… or will our second chance at a happy ending threaten to destroy us once and for all?

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

From Asher, With Love is a glowup of Brittany Taylor’s 2021 book Paper Hearts. It has been updated and expanded a bit, but the core story between Asher and Charleigh is still the same phenomenal enemies-to-lovers, second-chance romance that I loved back then.

Ten years after Asher ghosted her when they were seniors in high school, Charliegh is shocked to run into him in NYC. And even more shocked that their best friends are siblings, and they never happened to mention the other. Asher is now one of the best realtors in the city, and Charleigh is looking to expand her floral shop. Although she begins working with Asher’s rival, he gets her to take a chance on working with him — which just brings up old hurts and bad memories for both of them.

The story is told in a dual timeline, unfolding between past and present chapters. Asher’s life fell apart the night that their secret teenage romance was exposed. Although he is a successful executive today, back then, they were from opposite sides of the track and Asher didn’t have much going for him in his life. When his life literally went up in flames, he had no choice but to leave Charleigh behind. He never looked back, and assumed she was still living a charmed life all these years, but something was irrevocably broken in Charleigh that night and her relationship with her parents never recovered.

In present day, Asher and Charleigh face their past hurts and address the issues between them and where things went wrong. There are a few twists and turns in this story that I was not expecting. I also loved that the heart-shaped paper notes that Asher left for Charliegh in high school were still a part of this updated story, always signed “From Asher, With Love.” Asher and Charleigh realize that they never stopped loving one another.

Asher and Charleigh’s story is heartbreaking, and their journey back together is full of tears but so beautiful! A marvelous, emotional, second-chance story! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: All My Love by Morgan Elizabeth

All My Love by Morgan Elizabeth is NOW IN AUDIO!

From #1 Best-Selling Amazon author, this Noah Kahan-coded, The Notebook meets Sweet Home Alabama, contemporary romance is bound to give you all the feels.

Riggins has been in love with Stella for as long as he can remember. As kids, they’d sneak out and spend long nights under the stars writing songs together, sharing their deepest confessions, and dreaming about getting out of their small town. When his band gets a record deal and a headlining tour, he convinces her to come see the world with him, and she agrees.

It doesn’t take long before Riggins gets too far into the rockstar lifestyle, and everything begins to fall apart, including his relationship. When she leaves without a word and never looks back, it leaves him shattered, spiraling, and confused.

Until he finds out why…

Seven years ago, Stella went on tour with her childhood love. When things fell apart, it broke her, and she’s spent every moment since putting herself back together, crafting a facade that will please everyone around her while forcing herself to survive. It’s going well until one day, Riggins shows up at her house in their small town of Ashford, New Jersey, and blows her safe little world apart. Now they’re stuck piecing together their versions of the past and seeing if they can move forward.

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🎧 🎧🎧🎧 Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars 🎧🎧🎧

“I’m sorry I took your sun away, Little Star.”

This was such a heartfelt, emotional, second-chance romance. I loved how Riggins and Stella’s story unfolded in the past and present chapters, from when they were little kids to how they fell in love and then fell apart. This couple goes through so many highs and lows over the course of the book. I thought that Morgan Elizabeth beautifully handled Stella’s struggles with depression and anxiety as well as Riggins’s alcoholism.

At times, I grew frustrated with Stella for sticking around and not saving herself as Riggins fell deeper into his addiction. How did he not remember that they were married?!?!? I suspended disbelief and just went along with it, figuring that she had blinders on and he was really good at hiding his addiction from her. Both turned out to be true. My heart ached for these two characters, and I really could not wait to find out why he just reappeared again in her life after 7 years, how he finally found out that they were married, and what had happened that led to the miscommunication between them after his father’s funeral that prevented any kind of reconciliation then.

Stephen Dexter and Emma Wilder did a wonderful job in playing Riggins and Stella. They hit all the high highs and all the low lows in bringing this story to life. All My Love is full of some dark moments, but there is also a lot of healing and tender moments as Stella and Riggins piece together the past, let go of old hurts, and forge a new beginning together.

I received a complimentary 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.

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.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Best Bad Decision by S. Sidney

A𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 NOW

The Best Bad Decision by @ssidneywritesbooks is now live on Amazon and KU!

What to expect:

✈️ Pilot x Flight Attendant

🥰 Age Gap

🛌 One Night Stand

😳 Surprise Baby

🧡 Friends to Lovers

🎗️ Mental Health Rep

❤️‍🔥 Slow Burn

💞 Mutual Pining

📚 BLURB 📚

Some layovers are for hiding out in hotel rooms. Some are for adventure. A New Year’s Eve layover in Singapore? For airline captain Camden Whitehouse, that was for meeting Amie, the gorgeous flight attendant from London who he hasn’t been able to get out of his head for almost four years. He still can’t rinse the taste of her skin from his memory. But she snuck out in the middle of the night, and Cam woke up to face the new year alone.

Three years and nine months ago, Amie Caine’s life was turned upside down—by a pilot, of all people. After a few too many Singapore Slings and the most incredible sex of her life with the hottest man she’s ever met, she snuck out of his hotel room without a trace. He left a trace, though, and now that trace is three years old and she looks just like him.

They’ve thought of each other every day—but between the fears, secrets, and lies, and the thousands of miles between them, can they go the distance?

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I thought that The Best Bad Decision was a solid debut novel from S. Sidney. I found Cam and Amie to be relatable characters and their overall story heartwarming.

The prologue is told in third person, when Cam and Amie have a one-night stand during a layover in Singapore. She’s a flight attendant, and he is a pilot (for different airlines), and they both find themselves in the city on New Year’s Eve. They spend a wild night together, never exchanging last names or many details about themselves, and Amie sneaks out of his hotel room before dawn. The rest of the book picks up four years later: Cam hasn’t been able to get his mystery woman out of his mind, and Amie is now a single mom to a precocious three-year-old little girl, Maisie. It has been four years, but fate intervenes and puts Cam and Amie together when they run into each other at the same hotel during a layover in Santiago, Chile. Cam can’t believe his good luck that he’s found his NYE woman again, and Amie realizes that the time is now to tell Cam what she couldn’t previously because she had no idea how to get in touch with him.

After the initial shock that he has a toddler daughter wears off, Cam jumps into Daddy Mode. Sidney did a great job in writing this family, not just the relationship that Cam built with his daughter, but the mutual pining between Cam and Amie over their long-distance friendship. It’s so clear they both have deep feelings for each other, but when she lives in London and he’s in Phoenix, how can they make that work? Which one of them will have to uproot their life for them to give it a go? I really liked the way the author handled that obstacle. The progression of Cam and Amie’s relationship from friendship to everything else felt natural and I loved seeing how they found common ground in their parenting and romance.

I look forward to more from S. Sidney with Amie’s friends! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Sincerely, Your Enemy by Eliah Greenwood

 

 
 
Release Date: March 22
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 It all started with a phone call.

I was trying to reach my sister. So, you can imagine my surprise when a deep, ridiculously sexy voice answered the phone…

Mathias Jacobs embodies all that is wrong with basketball players. He’s arrogant, hotter than hell, and the worst part? He’s my new dating coach.

He says I lack confidence. And if anyone can help me land the man of my dreams, it’s him.

All I have to do in exchange is tutor him in math before his grades get him kicked off the team. Piece of cake.

And it would be, if it weren’t for the massive lie he tells my crush to make him jealous.

The next thing I know, TJ is my fake boyfriend, and I’m toeing the line between hating his guts and craving something real.

He might not care if it ends in disaster, but I’d rather die than let a basketball god set my world on fire.

And if I have to go down weaving a web of lies and deceit? 

 

He’s going down with me.

 

 

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Sincerely, Your Enemy is a spinoff of Eliah Greenwood’s Easton High series and follows former rich girl Lacey, who is now a struggling college student and guardian to her two younger half-siblings. Even though Lacey has a lot on her plate, she reluctantly begins tutoring TJ, one of the guys in her extended friend group (who also happens to be friends/teammates with her high school fling, Theo) in exchange for dating lessons in order to catch another guy’s attention. Eventually, TJ and Lacey even start a fake relationship, but real feelings get involved and the line starts to blur between what is real and what is pretend.

And unbeknownst to Lacey, TJ has ulterior motives in sparking up a friendship with her.

This book is full of several twists and turns that I was not expecting. I really liked TJ as the hero, and as I was reading the story, could not figure out why it was titled “Sincerely, Your Enemy.” And then there is a subplot with missing young women that I felt was unrelated and I wasn’t sure how that would play into the bigger picture. Once it all clicked into place, I enjoyed the overall story Eiah Greenwood was telling, and how Lacey and TJ’s pasts converged in the present.

Both TJ and Lacey had been supporting characters in previous books, and I really liked seeing her shine as the main character here. I thought the relationship that she had with her younger siblings was sweet, even as she grappled with trying to figure out how to parent them after their father’s death. I don’t remember much about TJ from the previous books, but I will say that his character surprised me. I thought he was kind of a cocky jerk at first, but he proved to have multiple layers and was actually dealing with quite a bit as far as his homelife goes, none of which is an easy subject for him to speak about with his friends.

Once the awful truth comes out, it’s crushing for Lacey because she truly was blindsided. And EG had written TJ in such a great way that I really felt badly for him because what he perceived to be was not at all reality. He has a long way to go to grovel, and his Grand Gesture was absolutely perfect.

Having read the Easton High books a few years back, I was thrilled to get updates on Aveena and Xavier, and Finn and Dia. (The timeline of this book is shortly after the Dear Heart duet because Vee and X are still expecting their baby.)

Overall, this book was a pretty surprising story that packed an emotional punch. I really hope that Theo & Vee’s sister get a story soon!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Meet Eliah Greenwood
 

 

 

Eliah Greenwood is an Amazon Top 10 Bestselling author who loves writing stories where opposites attract. She lives in Canada with her golden doodle and her cat. When she’s not writing and screaming at her computer, you can find her binge watching her favorite TV shows on repeat or reading in a warm blanket. She is currently working on her ninth book.

 

 
 

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner

Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner is now live! 

THIS JUST IN: HOCKEY BAD BOY AND POP STAR EXTRAORDINAIRE ENGAGED!

That was the headline we’d wanted. If only I’d known the cost to get it.

Aleksander Suter has been my best friend since high school—and the only man who’s ever been able to truly get under my skin. With his reputation for trouble and a smirk that could melt ice, he’s also the NHL’s favorite bad boy.

When my publicist’s plan to fix my image collides with his need to clean up his own, we find ourselves in a fake engagement that feels too real from the start.

Now, I’m releasing my new album, putting on a show for the paparazzi I usually try to dodge, and falling too fast for a man who never falls for anyone. Every stolen glance, every heated touch blurs the lines between us until I’m wondering where the lies end and the truth begins.

And when a hurricane traps us together in his high-rise condo, all my carefully built walls collapse, and resisting the pull between us becomes a losing game.

Suddenly, the stakes are higher than just headlines, and the risks feel more personal than ever.

But as our past resurfaces and old feelings reignite, I realize the biggest risk isn’t losing my career—it’s losing my heart to the one person I thought would never be mine.

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TROPES:

Pro Hockey Romance
Fake Engagement
Athlete & Pop Star
Childhood Friends to Lovers
Forced Proximity
Unrequited Love (or so they think)
Opposites Attract
Slow Burn

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Save Your Breath is book four in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Save Your Breath is the latest installment in Kandi Steiner’s Kings of the Ice series. This time around, we have Aleks, who needs a reputation rehab, and his high school best friend, pop star Mia, who also needs to fix the media’s opinion of her ahead of her next album release. And so we have a fake relationship between two best friends who have secretly been in love with one another. And the “fake” feelings end up not being very fake at all.

This book was a wonderful slow burn, feel-good romance. There is so much mutual pining between Aleks and Mia, with each of them afraid to tell the other how they really feel. She’s afraid of being hurt again, after he turned her down back in high school, and for Aleks, Mia has always been “it.” Their story draws upon the rich history between them, and there’s this simmering sexual tension that just grows and grows until it combusts.

With a pro athlete MC and pop star FMC, Save Your Breath definitely gives off some Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce vibes. It’s pretty low-angst (other than just wanting to scream at Aleks and Mia to get on the same page!) and a feel-good romance that is an easy read. Along with the ebook, I listened to the audio. Talia Wilkerson Grove and Walker Williams are both new-to-me narrators, but I very much enjoyed how they voiced Mia and Aleks.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kandi


Kandi Steiner is a USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling Author living in Tennessee. Best known for writing “emotional rollercoaster” stories, she loves bringing flawed characters to life and writing about real, raw romance — in all its forms. No two Kandi Steiner books are the same, and if you’re a lover of angsty, emotional, and inspirational reads, she’s your gal.

An alumna of the University of Central Florida, Kandi graduated with a double major in Creative Writing and Advertising/PR with a minor in Women’s Studies. Her love for writing started at the ripe age of 10, and in 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.”

She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a hopeless romantic and found herself bursting at the seams with love stories she was eager to tell.

When Kandi isn’t writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, planning her next adventure, or pole dancing (yes, you read that right). She enjoys live music, traveling, hiking, yoga, spending quality time with her family (fur babies included) and soaking up the sweetness of life.

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Sunny Shelly’s Audio Review: Catch Her Heart by Julia Jarrett

🎧🎧🎧 Catch Her Heart by Julia Jarrett is AVAILABLE NOW in AUDIO! 🎧🎧🎧

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I’m the oldest virgin in major league baseball. And I’m in love with a woman who’s about to marry someone else.

Listen. It’s not like I planned to still be a virgin at twenty-eight. Or to fall in love with the team trainer, who apparently would rather date a guy who wears polo shirts instead of baseball pants.

But life doesn’t always go according to plan.

When I first laid eyes on Lark Miller, I knew she was something special. Unfortunately, so did her boyfriend.

For years I kept my feelings hidden. I accepted my role as best guy friend, and focused on my career. My priority needs to be securing another contract with the Vancouver Tridents so I can help my parents retire. I can’t afford any distractions.

But then the day comes that Lark shows up at my door, and tells me she’s ended her engagement. Not only that, but she’s broken up with polo shirt guy.

And then she kisses me.

My fantasy becomes my reality. Lark wants me. Me. She’s perfect, we’re perfect, everything is perfect. I’ve got the woman of my dreams, and the best part is she understands how important baseball has to be for me right now.

But remember what I said about life not going according to plan?

My name is Dan “Monty” Montgomery: Formerly the oldest virgin in baseball, and now the newest expectant father.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

We are back with the Vancouver Tridents and catcher Dan “Monte” Montgomery and team trainer Lark. We have seen Monte pining for Lark throughout the first two books in this series, always keeping a proper distance since she had a boyfriend. Catch Her Heart opens with Lark telling Dan that she has gotten engaged. Of course, he is crushed, but he remains steadfast as her friend and support system… and then the day comes when Lark realizes that she can’t go through with the marriage. And Dan finally has his opening…

This was a really cute friends-to-lovers romance. I am a sucker for secret tattoos, so I squealed with glee when Lark noticed Dan’s bird tattoo. And the star! Oh my goodness, this man was swoony. Once Lark and Dan cross the line from friends/roommates to being romantically involved, things move super fast. But… i didn’t hate it. I loved how strong their friendship was, and it was a natural progression as they moved to dating and then expecting a baby when Lark unexpectedly gets pregnant.

Narrators Victoria Connelly and Tim Page did a great job with Lark and Dan’s story; I really liked the attention to detail Page gave with Dan’s Canadian accent!

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Loving You by Jami Rogers

Loving You by Jami Rogers is now live!

Never lie about having a boyfriend, and definitely don’t give them a name.

I honestly thought there was no harm last summer in naming Miles Asher as my boyfriend. I was convinced my friends from that part of my life would never meet him.

I mean, come on, I’m a travel influencer constantly moving from one beach to the next, and Miles is a small-town mechanic. He loves his family and friends, and he’s a nice guy. Or so they say. Miles has never cared for me.

But now I’m staying in his town of Lovers for the summer, and—surprise!—my vacation friends are too.

Luckily, after he tells me no twice, I persuade Miles to be my boyfriend.

Then I talk him into letting me rent the apartment next to his house.

Together, we convince the town that we are dating.

But … one touch leads to another, and then there’s a kiss, and it becomes very hard to resist a man who makes me want things I’ve never wanted before. Who looks at me as if I’m the only thing that matters.

Still, none of that changes the fact that when the summer is over, I’ll leave.

My life and my job are to travel. His isn’t.

Knowing how this ends was supposed to be the easy part.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Loving You was an adorable fake dating, feel good, small-town romance between travel influencer Quinn and mechanic Miles.

Quinn had no idea that a little white lie she told over a year ago that she was dating a guy from her grandma’s town would come back to bite her in the butt, but when her influencer friends end up visiting Lovers, she has to think and convince Miles to go along with her ruse. Miles gets something out of their fake relationship too — he wants a returnee tourist he’d hooked up with a few times to leave him alone — so they agree to fake date for a few weeks. Of course, feelings get involved, and it’s not long before Miles and Quinn agree to end their fake relationship in favor of a real one. But she’s still planning to leave at the end of the summer and return to her travels… are they destined to be a right person, wrong time kind of couple?

The banter between these two was so much fun, and I loved how their personalities balanced each other out. It was so easygoing between Quinn and Miles, and the slow burn had me rooting for this couple to work out their differences. And that ending? Perfect!

Loving You is a standalone, but takes place the summer after Hudson and Sadie (Promise Me), so there are references to that story. It was established in Promise Me that the Ashers live in the same world as the Love Or Bust guys — I loved the crossover with Tobias and Natalie from Always Been Write (he’s Quinn’s brother) and Grandma Betty.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Jami Rogers


My name is Jami Rogers and I write fun, fast, flirty romance with heat. I love love and want to share my passion for happily ever afters with the world. My favorite tropes to write are enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, roommates, and my best friend’s brother/sister. Writing a romantic comedy that makes you laugh out loud is what I aim for. Happy reading!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Beautiful Exile by Catherine Cowles

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑼𝑺𝑨 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓, 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆!

I should’ve known Lincoln Pierce was trouble from the moment I held my knife to his throat.

I’ve been running for most of my life, hiding away in a small town and hoping no one discovers who I truly am. The only problem is that I can never let anyone know the real me. Or at least that was true until my brother moved his best friend onto our shared property.

Now, I’m stuck trying to avoid the nosy billionaire’s probing questions and piercing stares. And it doesn’t help that I almost killed him the first time we met.

Oops.

But when all my carefully crafted lies come crashing down around me, it’s Linc stepping in to shield me. And when it looks like the person hunting me for all those years is back, Linc will do anything to keep me safe.

Only it’s not just my safety at risk. It’s my heart. Because when Linc touches me, I lose all sense. And when I truly get to know the broken billionaire, he’s so much more than a ruthless business tycoon. He’s the man showing me that it’s time to really live.

But I’m not the only one with secrets. Linc has them, too. And when the forces from our pasts emerge from the shadows, it’s with only one goal: to end the new life we’re building together. For good.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Book 4 in the Sparrow Falls series follows Coulson foster sister Arden and Lincoln, who is best friends with her brother Cope, and also the owner of Cope’s hockey team.

I knew going into this that Arden had some kind of traumatic past — and I was really interested in getting to know the reason why her guard dog Brutus is her constant companion. Catherine Cowles did not disappoint with the beautiful story she crafted with its strong heroine and stand-up hero. I loved Lincoln and Arden from their first meeting, how he helped her come out of her shell and learn to love again, all the way through the wonderful epilogue.

As with all of CC’s books, there is a thread of suspense throughout the book, and who I *thought* was the villain was not even close. There were two great plot twists that I did not see coming.

I read this book in tandem while listening to the audio with Sebastian York and Samantha Brentmoor. Those two narrators never disappoint, and they brought such a richness to Linc and Arden’s story.

Well done! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Catherine Cowles

Writer of words. Drinker of Diet Cokes. Lover of all things cute and furry, especially her dog. Catherine has had her nose in a book since the time she could read and finally decided to write down some of her own stories. When she’s not writing she can be found exploring her home state of Oregon, listening to true crime podcasts, or searching for her next book boyfriend.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Buried Dreams by Natasha Madison

BURIED DREAMS by Natasha Madison is AVAILABLE NOW

Blurb:

Everleigh

One night changed my whole life.

After the truth about that night came out, I left, taking my broken heart with me.

I knew the past was waiting to slice me open again.

But I was left with no choice but to go back.

Feelings and old emotions are like dandelions; no matter how many times you pull them out or try to get rid of them, they refuse to go away.

And he was that for me.

My everything until he was my nothing.

Brock

My father taught me about honor and integrity.

And in one split second, I ruined it all.

I lost the only dream I ever had and everything I ever wanted.

But I had no choice.

I tried to move on with my life.

I put all my focus on my daughter, never expecting to see the one woman I’d loved and lost.

They say time heals old wounds.

They were wrong.

Scars left from the past are easy to reopen.

I just hope I can survive the pain all over again.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Buried Dreams is #3 in the Dream series, which follows a group of friends whose lives were forever changed by a horrendous car accident. This story follows Everleigh and Brock, who split up shortly after the accident nine years ago. When Everleigh’s mom, town baker Maddie, has a heart attack, Everleigh comes back home to help with the bakery… and faces Brock again for the first time since she walked out on him after he made a really bad decision.

There is a lot of anger on both sides — Everleigh hasn’t been able to forgive or get over the decision Brock made all those years ago with Waylon’s family. Meanwhile, Brock knew Everleigh wouldn’t be happy with his decision, but he was hoping she would see that he was caught in between a rock and a hard place and did what he did to salvage their future. Now, they are both dealing with nine years of heartbreak and anger, unresolved questions… and the fact that Brock has a darling little girl that was the result of a one-night stand he had while trying to dull the pain of losing Everleigh.

Talk about a fine line between love and hate… Buried Dreams has some really spicy hate sex before Brock and Everleigh hash out the past and admit that they are both still desperately in love with one another. I thought those conversations were handled well, and I appreciated how honest they were with one another. Of course, there was still the lingering question of whether Everleigh would return to her life in Chicago once her mom recovered…. but this book has a HEA (and a great bonus epilogue), so rest assured that things all work out the way they should! Once they moved forward as a couple, I thought things were handled well with Brock’s daughter, Saige.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Natasha Madison:

When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: For Wrath & Redemption by Brit Benson

FOR WRATH AND REDEMPTION by Brit Benson is AVAILABLE NOW!

Blurb:

This temptation is my punishment.

His redemption is my penance.

Jonah Hendrix is the bad boy of the music industry.

As lead guitarist of The Hometown Heartless,

negative press follows him like a scorned lover,

And even his fans fuel the flames of his torched reputation.

Despite his permanent residence in the media,

He’s never been on my radar.

Not until my boss comes to me with a proposition:

Join The Hometown Heartless on tour to redeem Jonah in the public eye,

and finally get the promotion I’ve been working toward.

I’m not a PR specialist, and it’s not my career ambition,

but I’m determined to see this job through.

As long as I treat the surly rock star like a brand,

I’ll succeed in rehabbing his reputation and survive the tour with my sanity intact.

The problem?

Jonah and I have more in common than either of us realized.

And that desire for connection?

It’s proving to be irresistible.

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FWAR is the third book in The Hometown Heartless series and contains a crossover character from The Next Life series. FWAR DOES contain spoilers for The Next Life duet and The Hometown Heartless series.

Reading the The Next Life duet and The Hometown Heartless series prior to FWAR will enhance your appreciation of this story as well as provide a better understanding of the depth of the character dynamics, personalities, and backstories.

Available in KU

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

So, having read the Next Life books, I *really* didn’t know how Brit Benson was going to make me like Claire. Because the girl had done some pretty horrendous things, and I kinda fell in love with Macon and Lennon and despised Claire for the role she played in keeping those two apart.

But then…. But then…. along comes For Wrath and Redemption…. and BB absolutely SLAYS with this story. I was really looking forward to reading Jonah’s book after getting to know him in the other Hometown Heartless books, and wasn’t so sure how I would like him with Claire. But my gosh, these two broken souls get each other on a level that no one else ever has.

This story had me tangled up in knots because these two characters are just damaged. The road they travel is messy, chaotic, and heartbreaking as they both cut themselves open and bleed out for one another. Watching them go from enemies to being each other’s everything was truly a journey. They each are dealing with addiction, and feelings of abandonment, of being cast-aside and unwanted (especially Jonah!). It’s a long and twisted road, and they have to fight to get there, but they eventually find a beautiful, safe space in each other.

Narrators Jason Clarke and Mollie Stark were PHENOMENAL in telling this gutwrenching tale. The level of emotion they each brought to their characters was off the chart. The anguish, the pain, the anger, the tears, the joy… I felt it all as they brought this story to life.

And the bonus chapter was everything I could have asked for as Claire began to repair her relationship with her family.

For Wrath and Redemption far exceeded my expectations for Jonah and Claire! 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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