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Release Blitz: Shopping For A Billionaire’s Baby by Julia Kent

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Title: Shopping for a Billionaire’s Baby
Series: Shopping for a Billionaire #13
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: April 24, 2018

 

Blurb
You know what’s even better than marrying a billionaire? Having his baby.
We’re ready. We’ve studied and planned, read all the birth and labor
books, researched parenting classes, consulted our schedules, and it’s time.
And by we I mean me.
Declan’s just ready for the “have lots of sex” part. More than
ready.
But there’s just one problem: my husband and his brother have this little
obsession with competition.
And by little, I mean stupid.
That’s right.
We’re not just about to try to bring a new human being into the world.
We have to do it better, Faster, Stronger.
Harder.
McCormick men don’t just have babies.
They engage in competitive billionaire Babythons.
I thought the hardest part about getting pregnant would be dealing with
my grandchild-crazed mother, who will go nuts shopping for a billionaire’s
baby.
Wrong.
Between conception issues, my mother’s desire to talk to the baby through
a hoo-haw cam, a childbirth class led by a drill sergeant and a father-in-law
determined to sign the kid up for prep school before Declan even pulls out, my
pregnancy has turned out to be one ordeal after the other.
But it’s nothing — nothing —
compared to the actual birth.
Shopping for a
Billionaire’s Baby is the newest book in Julia Kent’s New York Times
bestselling romantic comedy series and is a 400+ page full-length novel.

 

 

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“Just
because other people can’t get their act together as parents doesn’t mean we
can’t,” I explain. “There is no process that can’t be project managed into a
well-oiled machine, babies included.”
Andrew
snorts. “You really believe that.”
“A baby is
like a disruptive new technology. But our first deliverable is still eight
months to a year away. That leaves us plenty of time to update our practices
and diversify into new areas. Find the best people, incentivize them, and keep
them in their swim lanes.”
I’m getting
major raised eyebrows here.
“Optimization
protocols, testing, fine tuning, and putting together the right team is all it
takes. Drill down to the essentials, find people who are the absolute best at
what we need, and that’s it–we build a life based on optimal outcomes.”
“You sound
like you’re making a robotic dog, Dec. Not a human.”
“This baby
will have a hands-on father. Plenty of love. And with a mother like Shannon,
how could we go wrong?” Mother. Calling Shannon a mother does something
to my gut. A tug, hard and emotional, destabilizes me for a second.




Author Bio
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent
writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult
rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she
writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for
a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a
men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire). She lives in New England with
her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever,
down.

 

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Now Live: Lies & Secrets by Fiona Keane

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Title: Lies & Secrets
Author: Fiona Keane
Genre: Adult Romance
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Cover Designer: Deranged Doctor Designs
Publication Date: April 24th, 2018
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Blurb:
Bits and pieces. That’s all I remember.
Flashes and dreams plague my mind, yet I have no idea whether any of it is real. But the more I dream, the more I start to wonder if it’s all part of a puzzle…a puzzle which leads me straight to him.
The man in the suit.
I have no idea what he wants with me. All I know is that with each puzzle piece I manage to put in place, I feel more drawn to him. As if there’s a connection between us I can’t explain.
But there’s a prickle of warning in the back of my mind telling me this is all a dangerous
game filled with lies and deceit—a game which forces me to trust him…
…the man in the suit.


Fueled by coffee and rainy days, shelves of books consuming her home in the Pacific Northwest, and a vivid imagination, Fiona writes about love because she believes the world needs more of it. She could spend eternity lost in a story, taken into someone’s thoughts while she is left lingering there long after the pages have turned. Fiona works to meld themes in the current world and spin them into stories of longing, determination, and hope. Her characters are relatable and relevant, as they battle their own fictional version of existence.

 

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He was lenient, divulging details in an actual conversation, and technically he never threatened my life before our conversation. Unless he was killing me by looking so gorgeous in his pajamas. Liam’s grin returned, his head shaking slightly while he laughed.
“You’re cute, Aideen.” His chuckle was soft. “I like you a lot.”
“Great.” My eyes rolled, mocking him. “Let’s be best friends.”
“That sounds like a wonderful plan, actually. Best friends tell each other secrets, right? They do that sort of stuff?”
I narrowed my eyes, studying Liam suspiciously as he grinned. “Depends on what secrets, I suppose. If you’re about to tell me who you killed last night, I don’t want the burden of that secret. If it’s that you finished you brother’s wine, then you better have kept a bottle for me.”
“That’s what I’m talking about,” he sighed. “You’re too funny for Julian. He’s so tightly wound and overprotective. Want to know a secret?” Liam stood from the kitchen table, my body mindlessly mirroring his posture. His hands fell atop my shoulders while he studied my face, his gaze stopping at my eyes.
“You’re a smart girl, Aideen. Do the research. It will surely tell you more than Julian,” Liam whispered in my ear. He spun away, my shoulders shivering with the loss of touch, and walked toward the kitchen sink while still mumbling something. I couldn’t hear Liam; my mind was distracted by the familiar heightened sense of goose bumps that trailed along my neck.
“What’s going on?” Julian interrupted, his right hand rubbing sleep from his faded eyes. What do I do?


 

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Excerpt Reveal: Deleted — Jackson & Maggie by Tess Thompson

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True love can survive almost any test.
Deleted: Jackson & Maggie by Tess Thompson goes LIVE May 7th!

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Maggie

Maggie paced in front of the window of Zane’s apartment, alternating her gaze between the street below and the gentle slope above town where the Waller’s house seemed to cling to the hillside. From here, she could see a patch of gray-shingled roof. Zane had been gone too long. Why was it taking this much time? He’d left minutes after they shared coffee and toast, both bleary-eyed from talking half the night.

The sound of heavy footsteps coming up the stairs snatched her from the window. She stumbled into the side table and smacked her shin. Breakfast churned in her stomach. When the front door creaked and opened, she froze, almost blinded with fear and nerves.

Jackson filled the doorway. They stared at each other from across the room. This was Jackson. The adult Jackson. His facial features, delicate when they were young, had hardened into sexy contours. His body was more substantial, thick and muscular.

An invisible hand wrapped around her heart and squeezed until the pain was nearly unbearable.

“Jackson,” she whispered. Tears burned her cheeks.

His face contorted into a dozen spasms. “Is it really you?”

She nodded, sobbing now.

He crossed the room with his arms outstretched. She moved toward him through the blurry fog of her tears.

When they reached each other, he grabbed her and pulled her against his firm chest. They trembled as they clung to each other. “I’m so sorry. I’m so, so sorry.” He dropped his face into her hair. “I’ve wanted to tell you for twelve years how sorry I was. I never thought I’d have the chance. There was nothing worse than to think you left the world without knowing how much I loved you—how wrong I was to do what I did.”

“We were young and silly,” she said.

“I was young and horribly stupid. So careless and selfish. I’m sorry.”

“It was so long ago.” She brushed the side of his face with her fingertips.

He held her away from him for a moment, searching her face. “It was both a second ago and a lifetime ago.”

She lost all sense of time as she stared into his blue eyes and breathed in the scent of his skin. Had his lashes always been so thick and black?

“Here, let’s sit,” he said.

“Good, yes. I feel like I might faint.”

“I’m not feeling too hot myself.” When they were seated, he held her hands. “Your eyes are the same.” He grazed her cheekbones with the tips of his fingers.

Her stomach dipped like it used to when she rode the surf. “Yours too.”

He caressed her cheeks with his thumbs. “Freckles like a starry night.”

She resisted the urge to rest her cheek in the palm of his hand. “That metaphor was always all wrong. Stars aren’t the color of nutmeg.”

“They should be,” he said.

Maggie flushed. Could he see how her heart pounded inside her chest? She traced the tiny lines at the edges of his eyes that made a roadmap to his hairline. “You have crow’s feet.”

“Medical school.”

“You did it. I saw the sign on the office,” she said. “Doctor Waller and Doctor Waller.”

“It took a long time, but yes. I’m here for good now.”

“I’ve wondered…how you were…if you’d gone to medical school. If you were married and had children.” She looked away, willing herself not to blabber and sob. Strong. Remain strong. Set him free.

“There was never a day I didn’t think of you,” he said.

“Oh, Jackson,” she whispered.

“There wasn’t one day that I didn’t miss you like hell. Not one single day.”

“For years my prayer was to wake without any memory of you. What a relief it would’ve been. Like a strong painkiller.” She smiled to take the edge off her words, but it didn’t matter. From the mournful look in his eyes, she knew he understood it to be an absolute truth.

“I couldn’t even look at photographs of us,” he said.

“I burned all mine.” She swallowed as a dull knife twisted in her stomach.

They both looked away. Suffering between two people was palpable. Pain molecules hovered in a charged mass between them. At any moment, the mass could unleash and spill agony all over Zane’s clean floor.

“There were a lot of good times,” he said. “They were almost all good when we were together.”

“Until we weren’t.”

BLURB:

Jackson Waller has loved Maggie Keene since they were six years old, but their dueling dreams ultimately tore them apart. First love—true love—wasn’t enough to overcome their individual desires to pursue dreams on opposite coasts. When Jackson learns of Maggie’s tragic death on her way to college on the east coast, his heartbreak, compounded by grief, renews his focus on his own future. He vows to do nothing but work toward his goal of becoming a doctor, and maybe enjoy the companionship of his new college buddies, The Dogs.

Maggie Keene left Cliffside Bay with two things: a broken heart and her ambition. For twelve years she relentlessly pursues her dream of a musical theater career in New York City, but when she learns her father is dying, she returns home to find the truth about her family’s ugly past. There, she discovers two things that will change everything: one, the bitter old man has spread a wild rumor that she has been dead for over a decade; and two, Doctor Jackson Waller is also back in Cliffside Bay—with his brand-new fiancée.

The second installment of The Cliffside Bay Series by bestselling author Tess Thompson follows the interwoven stories of five best friends, the beach community they love, and the women who captivate them. Prepare to get lost in a wave of small town charm, men you would love to take home to your mother, and smart, resilient heroines you wished lived next door.

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He’s the best quarterback in the AFL. She’s a young woman desperately in need of a fresh start. Neither expects to fall for the other. Will he finally put love ahead of his career? More importantly, can she trust him with secrets so deep her very life depends on them?

About Tess

Like most of her characters, Tess Thompson hails from a small town and will always feel like a small town girl, despite the fact she’s lived in Seattle for over twenty-five years. She loves music and dancing, books and bubble baths, cooking and wine, movies and snuggling. She cries at sappy commercials and thinks kissing in the rain should be done whenever possible. Although she tries to act like a lady, there may or may not have been a few times in the last several years when she’s gotten slightly carried away watching the Seattle Seahawks play, but that could also just be a nasty rumor.

She currently lives in a suburb of Seattle, Washington with her brand new husband, the hero of her own love story, and their Brady Bunch clan of two sons, two daughters and five cats, all of whom keep her too busy, often confused, but always amazed. Yes, that’s four kids and five cats. Pray for her.

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Now Live: On The Line by Keyanna Butler

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Title: On The Line
Author: Keyanna Butler
Genre: Young Adult Romance
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Blurb

 

On one ordinary day in Philadelphia, Mila and Kaleb meet on a train ride to school. One day turns into more, and their friendship evolves to first love.

 

 

 
When they realize not everyone is OK with this budding relationship, their love is shadowed, and their bond is threatened. Unaware of the impossible predicaments they each face in their lives, too many secrets threaten to tear their young lives apart.
 
With their hearts on the line and their worlds changing too quickly for them to catch up, Mila and Kaleb must decide who and what is most important. And they learn they’ll need more than just love to survive.
 
On The Line is a young adult novel with mature themes. It is recommended for readers 16 and up.
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Keyanna is a simple girl living in mostly fantasy worlds. She’s been
writing since she was 13 years old, jotting down full length stories on
construction paper and reading them to her childhood friends for entertainment.
She’s a self-proclaimed dork extraordinaire and a library card carrying book
nerd taking mental residence in the Wizarding World, coffee in an IV,
collecting movie stubs like memories, and constantly contemplating what life
would be like if she were one of the Avengers. Her hobbies include TV, sushi,
Facebook, and incorporating movie quotes into everyday conversation.
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Release Blitz: When With Rome by Natalie Gayle

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Title: When With Rome

Series: Perfect Gentlemen #1
Author: Natalie Gayle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 23, 2018

Blurb
I’ve fallen
in love in love with an escort.
I want him
in my life.
But a
future with him is just not possible.
He’s opened
my eyes and my heart to so many things.
I never
knew a life with passion until I met Rome.
I never
knew a man could do such wicked things to me.
And I
certainly never knew love like I feel now.
Two weeks
with Rome, and I’m ruined for all other men.
He’s
worldly. Handsome. Passionate.
He’s the
perfect gentleman.
My eyes are
wide open to a life with all its brilliant colors.
And I want
that life with him.
But here’s
the thing…
Rome is an
escort and love isn’t an option in his world.
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Author Bio
I’m a
confessed readaholic and romantic junkie. In between staring at a computer
screen and wrangling rambunctious character, I enjoy living the Gold Coast life
with my very tolerant husband and two school aged children. (I’m often in
trouble for spending way too much time at my computer!).
I love
nothing more than spending time with family and friends, all water sports,
cooking, working out and curling up with a good book. I don’t even mind a round
of golf with the girls! My pet hates are cleaning and anything else that can be
considered “domestic dullness”. If I could have one wish it would be to be able
to fit 48 hours into 24.
I tend to
write what I like to read, books that have the following characteristics:
  • Strong characters with lots of development
  • Hot romance
  • Deep storylines
  • Interesting settings
  • Real life problems and sensible solutions
  • Happily Ever Afters (massive sucker for a
    good HEA)
Above all,
I like to be immersed in the story. Therefore, I want my books to give you the
same feeling, when you read them. I want you to experience the rollercoaster
emotions but end up feeling better and entertained for reading the book. I want
you to be happy!
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Reading
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Release Blitz: Sunny Shelly Reviews The Invisible Thread by Lisa Suzanne

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Title: The Invisible Thread
Series: The Unbreakable Thread #2
Author: Lisa Suzanne
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 23, 2018

 

Blurb

It’s love against revenge in the highly anticipated
conclusion of Lisa Suzanne’s #1 bestselling rock star romance series.

One decision was all it took for Ethan Fuller’s life to be
flipped upside down and for Maci Dane’s twenty-year plan to fall off the rails.

 

Ethan tells Maci about the invisible thread that links two people destined to
be together. The road isn’t always smooth, but eventually the two people
holding the thread will find their way to each other.
They found their way together, yet they keep finding themselves apart. Mistake
after mistake, lie after lie, grudge after grudge…it may be too much for two
people to overcome.
Are Maci and Ethan tied by the invisible thread, or will their thread break
before they can find their way to happiness?

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Invisible Thread picks up exactly where The Power To Break left off — so read it second, people. It is the completion of a duet.

Maci kept something huge from Ethan, and once he learns what it was, he kind of goes off the rails. For as much as he claimed he wanted to be a better man for Maci, and wanted her back in his life, I kind of expected a more mature response from him. And Maci was just so insecure about so much where Ethan is concerned, I felt like they kept repeating the same things over and over again. In the end, I enjoyed Ethan and Maci’s story, but not as much as I devoured Reese and Mark’s story in the A Little Like Destiny trio. I can’t quite put my finger on why, because The Unbreakable Thread duet is part of the same Vail world. I think that the deceit and immaturity on both their parts is maybe why I didn’t fall in love with Ethan and Maci as a couple the way I did with Mark and Reese. They are both so insecure on so many levels and have a lot of fear and doubts about themselves and the other to work through. But that said, I still enjoyed this duet very much and hope that this isn’t the last of the Vail gang.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Lisa Suzanne is a romance author who resides in Arizona with
her husband and baby boy. She’s a former high school English teacher and
college composition instructor. When she’s not cuddling baby Mason, she can be
found working on her latest book or watching reruns of Friends.

 

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Blog Tour: My Life As A Pop Album and My Life As A Country Album, by LJ Evans

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Title: My Life as a Country Album ~ My Life as a Pop Album
Series: My Life as an Album
Author: LJ Evans
Genre: Coming of Age Romance

 

Tomboy Cam Swayne is determined that football hero Jake Phillips keep his eyes firmly on her. After all, she’s been his since before she was born. 

 

Cam has grown up literally next to Jake. They live next door and share a treehouse. They’ve played together on the street and at the lake since she could walk. Plus, they’ve saved each other in some pretty miraculous ways that even their parents find hard to believe. So, it’s only natural that when hormones kick in, Cam feels like Jake belongs only to her. And heaven help anyone that stands in Cam’s way.
Jake doesn’t admit it to anyone, but he’s only himself when the girl next door is at his side. Even though he’s three years older than her and there’s a whole string of reasons for them not to be together, he can’t seem to walk away from the one girl who makes him feel whole.
What does get in their way? Different schools and different sports as they grow into their teen years. His long line of “gaggling geese” that follow him like he’s a boyband superstar. And the illness Jake hides from everyone until his devotion to Cam makes it an impossibility. Will Cam and Jake ever get their happily ever after?

 

Inspired by Taylor Swift songs, this is a story of aching love and loss and learning to live through life in all its pain and glory.

 

What if you are my dream?

 


 

From award winning author, LJ Evans, comes a novel inspired by Ed Sheeran love songs about forgiveness, love, and healing.

 

Good Girl Mia feels guilty for her brother’s death and four years later she still isn’t really living life. But then a soulful musician enters her world and she inexplicably sets aside everything for an adventure she never saw coming. For some reason, she wants this gorgeous man to know her story. The story of a girl who gave up a body part to save a brother who everyone wanted to survive more than the girl herself. And how that hadn’t worked out.

 


 

Derek Waters and his band have just signed on with a major record label and are touring the country. He has his own set of baggage that he hides behind a huge smile and a famous Johnny Cash quote. He definitely isn’t looking for any kind of female distraction. But once Derek walks into Mia’s life, he finds he can’t leave unless she comes with him.

 


 

Will Derek and Mia be able to find a path to forgiveness and healing? Or will they be left with hearts more torn apart than before?


LJ Evans lives in California’s Central Valley with her husband, daughter, and the three terrors called cats. She’s been writing almost as a compulsion since she was a little girl where she was both inspired and spurred on by her older sister. While she currently spends her days teaching 1st grade in a local public school, she spends her personal time writing, of course, as well as being a voracious reader, binge watching original shows like The Crown, Stranger Things, and Downton Abbey, and traveling with her family. She is the author of several completed screenplays that have gone to the quarter and semi-finals of such contests as The BlueCat Screenplay Competition, The International Screen Writing Awards, and the Writer’s Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition.
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Release Blitz: Sunny Shelly Reviews When Stars Burn Out, by Carrie Aarons

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Title: When Stars Burn Out
Author: Carrie Aarons
Genre: Contemporary Adult
Release Date: April 22, 2018
Blurb
Stars die in one of two ways.So slowly that each layer burning out feels like agony … or suddenly, exploding
into a million pieces before the universe even has a grasp of what is happening.

When Paxton Shaw left Demi Rosen without so much as a goodbye, he stole her
shine in both manners.

Now, eight years later, he’s trying to pull her back into his orbit. The
nation’s most beloved football player, a tight end with a seriously tight end,
has finally realized Demi is the one who got away.

But she’s a different woman than the weak girl who used to come running
whenever he called in the middle of the night. Strong, successful, her life’s
mission being to grant the wishes of children whose flames have all but been
extinguished.

And untouchable, as dark and cold as a midnight sky with no moon in sight.

When one special child forces their star-crossed paths to collide, it’s
impossible to keep the feelings of their past buried. Paxton had been her
Halley’s Comet; the once in a lifetime love that scorched Demi’s heart in the
most spectacular of fashions.

She promised herself she would never make that mistake again. But, how can she
forget the dreams of love she once had, when Paxton wants to make them come
true?

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

When Stars Burn Out is the third book I’ve read by Carrie Aarons, and for me, this one fell in between one I adored (Melt) and one that was just Meh (Elite). There is a lot of growth between Pax and Demi in this story, both as a couple and as individuals. To be honest. I didn’t really like college Pax much — he was a bit of an arrogant jerk — but he absolutely redeemed himself when he meets Demi again eight years after he ghosted her.

There is a nice connection between the characters, and their journey is about them dealing with the past and putting it behind them; there is no drama here related to exes or other people. As far as second chance romances go, When Stars Burn out is a pretty solid one. I read an advance copy and voluntarily left a review.

 

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Author of romance
novels such as Red Card and All the Frogs in Manhattan, Carrie Aarons writes
sexy, swoon-worthy, sarcastic characters who won’t get out of her head until
she puts them down on a page.Carrie has wanted to be an author since the first time she opened a book, and
can’t imagine a better or more maddening profession.

A lover of good manicures, Riesling and the beach, she enjoys chasing her puppy
through the dog parks of New Jersey, or trying to make her husband binge watch
the latest Netflix craze.

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Release Blitz: Lyrical Lights by Maria La Serra

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Title: Lyrical Lights
Author: Maria La Serra
Genre: New Adult Romance

 Release Date: April 19, 2018

Blurb
I came to the city with a modeling dream; they say if I make
it here I’ll make it anywhere. Only I’m hard of hearing, and designers don’t
think there is room for me on the runways.A night at a bar.

A stolen purse.

I would expect no one to come to my rescue, but there he was, he’d come with a
gorgeous smile and without a doubt, I knew I was in for some trouble.

He went right; I went left.

Lies and secrets kept us apart.

The lights are blinding, who knows what will become of us…

 

 

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Maria La Serra lives in Montreal. Before becoming a writer,
she worked as a fashion designer. She will try everything at least once, except
for skiing, hiking or camping- okay anything relating to activities done in the
great outdoors.



When she’s not working on her next book, you could find spending time with
family. Lyrical Lights is her second book.

 

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Blog Tour: Sunny Shelly Reviews Something So Unscripted, by Natasha Madison

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Title: Something So Unscripted
Author: Natasha Madison
Genre: Sports Romance
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Cover Design: Melissa Gill at MGBookCovers

One of the most EMOTIONAL romances I’ve read this year! Natasha Madison continues to AMAZE ME with every new release! – Shayna Renee 


Something so Unscripted is so much more than a love story, it is an all-encompassing, engrossing and engaging novel about, love, life and all the moments that make life special. – Denise Shh Mom’s Reading


Something So Unscripted is positively the most amazing book I’ve read. It gives the most heart wrenching story that will leave breathless. – Book Haven Book Blog

Zack

Finding my teammate in bed with my wife made the decision I had been fighting with for years easier.

It’s time to move on. 

A fresh start and a new NHL team in a big city. Most importantly, it’s my son Jack’s best shot. 

It would be both of our best shots. 
Denise

After a bad childhood, I made sure I would succeed, so I lived for my job. 

The problem is I die a little with each patient I lose. It’s part of my career at Hudson Children’s Oncology Hospital, but it doesn’t make the sting of loss any easier. 

Seeking anything other than a life saved isn’t on my agenda until a NHL player walks into my hospital with his son. 

We’re officially off script the moment we meet. 

If this love is anything, it’s unscripted.

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4 Stars

I sometimes have issues with stories involving sick children — like, would the parent really be thinking about dating someone new as their child is fighting cancer? But Zack and Denise were so likeable — and Jack so utterly adorable — in Something So Unscripted that it didn’t bother me as much as it has in some other books.

When Zack’s marriage crumbles, he takes his ill son, Jack, and moves across the country to New York — where one of the top pediatric oncologists works. Luckily for Zack, Denise happens to be the sister of his new teammate and he’s able to get his foot in the door with her quickly. Denise immediately bonds with sweet little Jack in a way that his own mother never could, and quickly wins over Zack’s heart as well.

I did think that there were some moments where Denise acted a bit unprofessionally, but the overall story had me hooked from the start. Denise’s friends and family are characters from other Natasha Madison stories, but reads as a true standalone. (I’ve not read those previous books, and did not feel as if I was missing backstory as a result.)

And the epilogue? That is what HEAs are made of.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

“Zack.” I hear her voice and just look at my wife. The woman who said she would love me in good times and in bad yet is currently holding a sheet to cover her naked body. The four-carat engagement with matching eternity wedding ring glistens in the light. “It’s just …” she starts to say, and I look over at the man in bed next to her. In our bed. 

“It’s over.” I say the two words I swore I wouldn’t say no matter how hard it got. No matter how much I saw her push me away, no matter that I always suspected she was cheating on me. Then I look over at the man who I called a brother, the man who stood by my side on and off the ice. “You’re scum.”

“It just happened,” Colton says, getting out of the bed. At least he’s wearing boxers. His knee is still wrapped from the operation he had last month, which is why he wasn’t on the road with us, which is how I surprised them.

We were on the road for the whole week and due back tomorrow, but I hightailed it out of there to get home to my family and my son. “It just so happened you walked into my house and slept with my wife?” I ask him, and I have to wonder why I’m not more pissed, why I’m not more angry with them. “You come here and sleep with my wife with my son under the same roof.”

“Zack,” my wife says, and I look over at her again. Tears are rolling down her cheeks, her perfectly made up face now streaked with the black mascara she always wears. “Please let’s …”

I shake my head, putting my hands in my pockets. “Let’s what? Let’s talk about this?” I throw my head back and laugh. “Let’s talk about the fact that our son is in his room dying. Let’s talk about the fact that instead of helping him, you’re just helping yourself. Let’s talk about the fucking fact that instead of being there by his side with me, you chose to escape the fucking reality that our son won’t make it to six years old.”

“No.” She shakes her head, and I know that I’ve about had it.

“I’ll give you an hour,” I tell them both. “One hour and I want you packed and at the door when I come back.”

“But—” she says.

“But nothing, Chantal. You did what you had to do for you, and now I’m doing what I need to do for our son.”

I turn and walk out of our bedroom, then down the winding staircase that leads to the big brass front doors. Once outside in the warm Arizona air, I take my phone out of my pocket and call the only person I know who has my back no matter what. My agent and best friend, Jamie.

He answers after one ring, and it doesn’t surprise me he sleeps with his phone in his hand. “What’s up?” he says, his voice sleepy since it’s four a.m. in New York.

“I want out of Arizona, make the trade. Call the powers that be; I want out,” I tell him, getting into my Range Rover.

“You can’t just demand that,” he says, and I hear sheets rustle.

“Just walked in on Colton fucking my wife, so you can bet your ass I can. Make it happen. Call New York because it’s the only place I’ll go. I don’t care if I take a pay cut.”

“That fucking scumbag,” he says. “I’ll call them now.”

“Jamie, there is a top-notch doctor who specializes in cancer in New York. Max Horton’s sister,” I tell him quietly and slowly drive out of my gate.

“I’ll make it happen,” he says softly. “I’ll let you know what they say.”

“Jamie, I’m leaving here in a week regardless of what they say,” I tell him and disconnect the call. 

“One week,” I say to myself. “One fucking week.”

 

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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