Book Review

Sunny Shelly’s Review: All For You by Renee Harless

ALL FOR YOU by Renee Harless is NOW LIVE

Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🔥Childhood rivals-to-lovers

🔥Jilted Groom

🔥Sports/Baseball

🔥Fake Dating

🔥Virgin Heroine

🔥He Falls First

🔥Small Town

Blurb:

Taking over the family farm in our small town was the only future I knew. But the never ending work left me with no social life and my virginity intact. Until my childhood rival graced us with his presence and was convinced he could help me with my…problem.

Owen Ramsey was an elite professional baseball player that left Ashfield without a backward glance. But when he was left at the altar, he sought refuge back in our town. I hated how he could simultaneously make my heart race and my hands fist. And I really despised how good he looked in a pair of baseball pants.

He needed my help just as much as I needed his. If I agreed to fake date him, he would help me snag the man I had my eye on and I would help convince his ex that he wasn’t heartbroken.

But with his return to baseball looming, we realized maybe the hate we felt was really something more like love.

The fear of disappointing my family was too great, even though I craved something different for the first time ever. Owen was used to hitting balls out of the park, but I wasn’t sure I was meant to be his home run.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

All For You was the perfect book to binge on a rainy Sunday. This enemies-to-lovers, small-town, fake relationship romance between pro baseball player Owen and farmer Aspen was a perfect escape on a dreary day.

It’s been years since Owen has been home to Ashfield. The town may be idyllic, but it holds nothing but bad memories for the pro baseball player. But when he catches his wife cheating just moments before their wedding ceremony, he heads home to Tennessee to lay low for a while… and immediately resumes his bickering with his old rival, Aspen. While he’s in town, Owen comes up with a proposal that they should fake date so his ex-fiancee will stop calling him and Aspen gets the relationship experience she’s looking for so she feels more confident around her crush.

While I wish some conversations had been shown, not told (like Owen talking to Aspen after learning that his mom had sold his family’s land), I thought this story was very well done. Both characters were developed nicely, and I really felt that I got to see them fall for one another as they “fake-dated” while he was in town.

Owen and Aspen have sizzling chemistry, and their spicy lessons are sizzling hot. But there is also a very sweet side to Owen, and he takes care of Aspen in a way that nobody else ever has. As the youngest in her family, she’s often been pushed aside by her siblings, and the responsibilities of the family farm have fallen on her, leaving little room for Aspen to have any kind of personal life. I loved how she helped Owen deal with the demons of his traumatic past, and he helped her realize that it is okay to want more for herself than what she’s responsible for around the farm.

All For You was chock full of emotions, and a satisfying small-town romance! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Renee Harless:

Renee Harless is a USA TODAY bestselling author with an affinity for wine and a passion for telling a good story. 
 

Renee Harless, her husband, and children live in Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She studied Communication, specifically Public Relations, at Radford University.

Growing up, Renee always found a way to pursue her creativity. It began by watching endless runs of White Christmas – yes even in the summer – and learning every word and dance from the movie. She could still sing “Sister Sister” if requested. In high school she joined the show choir and a community theatre group, The Troubadours. After marrying the man of her dreams and moving from her hometown, she sought out a different artistic outlet – writing.

To say that Renee is a romance addict would be an understatement. When she isn’t chasing her kids around the house, working her day job, or writing, she jumps head first into a romance novel.

Represented by Stephanie at SBR Media for Foreign and Audio Rights.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Sinner by Marni Mann

The Sinner by Marni Mann is now live! 

A scorching hot, he-falls-first, touch-her-and-die, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …


The first time I saw her, I wanted her.
The second time I saw her, I knew she had to be mine.
Beautiful blonde hair. Cornflower-blue eyes. Body to die for.
All things I knew I couldn’t live without.
But after one night, she ghosted me, leaving me desperate for another taste.
I was usually the one to walk out the door before the morning light came.
This time, it was her, but not without becoming my obsession in the process.
Lily was a mystery.
She had a past shrouded in secrets she was unwilling to divulge.
She was running from something, and I was determined to find out what it was.
And once I did, I’d do anything to protect her.
They called me the sinner for a reason.
Because I wouldn’t hesitate to burn down the world or cross any line to save her.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Sinner is Book #3 in the Spade Hotel series by Marni Mann, and I loved Brady and Lily’s story. I’m a sucker for a good story where a playboy falls head over heels for a woman for the first time in his life, and that was executed brilliantly in The Sinner.

Lily has a bit of a traumatic past; she’d lost both her parents, and prefers to spend as much time as she can working as a flight attendant because she feels less lonely when she’s in the air. Oh yeah, and she comes to this situation with a stalker ex! I loved seeing Brady in protector mode, and I really felt Lily’s concern in getting involved with Brady to begin with, and exposing him to her dangerous ex.

The chemistry between these two characters was sizzling, and the suspense element of the story was intriguing. Marni did a great job in writing the romantic side of their relationship as well as the danger elements.

I look forward to seeing the Cole brothers find their partners as this series continues! 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?

Connect with Marni

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: So This Is War by Meghan Quinn

When it comes to Wylie Wood, I’m in a whole lot of trouble.

SO THIS IS WAR, a brand-new standalone romance from USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn, is Now Available in all formats!

🏒 Hockey
🏅 Coach’s Daughter
📝 Boss/Assistant
🏠 Roomies-to-Lovers
🔟 Age Gap
🔥 They Fight Fire with Fire
🛏 Forced Proximity
🚫 Forbidden
💙 He Falls First

Don’t miss this all new coach’s daughter, workplace, forbidden standalone sports romance featuring the hockey men you can’t get enough of. This steamy, roommates-to-lovers romantic comedy will bring all the laughs while burning up the pages at the same time.

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About SO THIS IS WAR (Coming 6/25/2024):

Did I think I was going to fall for my coach’s daughter?

The answer would be no. 

I’m still unclear on how I got into this predicament in the first place. A year ago, I was a man with one thought on his mind, the redhead I met at a hotel bar. Twelve months later, I found her. 

Unfortunately for me, she not only happens to be my very off-limits coach’s daughter, but also . . . my new assistant and roommate. 

I don’t even need an assistant, but Coach Wood doesn’t take no for an answer. Add in him writing up tasks for his daughter, Wylie, to complete for me? Well, it’s his own form of sweet torture. We are talking tasks that I would never ask her to do. 

Tasks that make her despise me. 

Hate me. 

That make her utter four words that cause a shiver to crawl up my spine . . . Posey, this is war. 

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Teddy Hamilton and Emma Wilder narrate this sexy, boss/assistant, forced proximity romance in duet with a full cast including Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Vanessa Edwin, JF Harding, Stella Hunter, Erin Mallon, and Kelsey Navarro-Foster!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Bologna Sandwiches

Oh my goodness. This has to be one of the funniest and sexiest books Meghan Quinn has ever presented to the world. I don’t know where she comes up with this stuff but So This Is War is pure gold! We have gotten to know bologna-loving Levi throughout this series and all of its donkeys and apples (Oy! IYKYK). But nothing prepared me for how much I would fall in love with Levi Posey as he falls in love with his coach’s daughter, Wylie!

What made the simmering tension between Wylie and Levi even more delicious was that they met a year earlier, and he’s been trying to find her ever since. He had no idea that his dream girl was his coach’s daughter. And now that he knows, and he’s been blackmailed by his coach to have Wylie be his personal assistant, she is strictly off limits. Yeah… that only lasts for so long.

Actually, it does last a really long time. Because this story is one heck of a slow burn. Meghan really sets up the frustration and tension and desire and lust between these two characters, and it is PERFECTLY narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Emma Wilder. Listening to Teddy sing the woodland creatures diddy was hilarious… and Oh My Gosh, when Teddy-as-Posey gets going with the spicy stuff, it is not to be missed. The audio also has a full cast of characters with returns from the other Agitators (Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, Vanessa Edwin, JF Harding, Stella Hunter, Erin Mallon & Kelsey Navarro Foster), which was just *chef’s kiss*

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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ABOUT MEGHAN QUINN:

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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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Lovely Return by Carian Cole

What if love can transcend time and death?

When I was three years old, I started drawing a house with a red door. Next to the house I drew a happy family—a husband, a wife, a baby, and their dog. For years I cried every night, clutching the drawings, begging my mother to take me home to my real family.

I was labeled odd—a talented child with an overactive imagination.

But one day I wandered straight to that house with the red door, and I found the man and the dog I had been drawing.

Alex Fox was quiet. A sexy, brooding artist. A recluse hiding behind an eye patch and shaggy hair. A grieving widower, suspended in time, never moving forward. Waiting for his love to return.

As I grew up we developed an unlikely but easy friendship, bonding over our mutual love of art. He felt familiar, his home felt like home. But as the years passed I found it harder and harder to ignore not only my growing feelings for him, but the odd visions that played through my mind every time I got too close to him, or spent time in his house.

Or more accurately, when I touched his late wife’s things. Like her wedding gown. And her husband’s lips.

Dreams, reality, and sanity began to blur until I came to a startling revelation. I wasn’t having visions, and I wasn’t delusional. I was having memories. Alex’s late wife’s memories, to be exact.

Alex fights our undeniable connection, believing I’m off limits and too young for him. He tries desperately to do what’s right—pushing away the one and only thing he’s been wishing for since that tragic day when he lost everything. Or so he thinks.

He was mine, once upon a time, in a prior life.
And I’m going to make him mine again.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

The Lovely Return is the kind of gripping emotional story that will stay with you long after that beautiful epilogue. The story of Alex Fox and Penny Rose is unconventional, but so hauntingly beautiful. There were so many twists and turns in the story, and Carian Cole did a brilliant job of crafting this epic, heartbreaking romance.

As the story unfolds over 20+ years, these characters go through so much on their way to their happily ever after. The day that his wife went into labor was a life-changing moment for Alex Fox, but not in the way he expected it to be. He was consumed by grief and depression, and lived in the shadows until a little girl named Penny Rose entered his life six years later. The connection between them was clear from the start, and a lovely friendship grew between the artist and his student, even though they both felt that their relationship had a more profound meaning.

There are so many ups and downs in Alex and Penny’s story. On top of the forbidden romance between these two characters, Carian Cole explores grief, forgiveness, recovery, mental health, and reincarnation in telling this lovely tale of a lovely return.

This story is one that will stick with me for a long, long, time, and I’m sure it will have a spot on my “reread often” shelf.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Carian Cole:

I have a passion for the bad boys–those covered in tattoos, sexy smirks, ripped jeans, fast cars, motorcycles and of course, the sweet girls who try to tame them and win their hearts. 

Born and raised a Jersey girl, I now reside in the mountains of beautiful New Hampshire with my husband and our multitude of furry pets. I spend most of my time writing, reading, and vacuuming.

I started to read at a very young age and began to write as soon as I could hold a crayon and put sentences together. My mom saved most of my writings, and I have them now. Of course back then, my stories were about cute puppies chasing butterflies. Now they’re about hot guys chasing after pretty girls.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Midnight Whispers by P. Rayne

Midnight Whispers by P. Rayne is now live! 

A dark, contemporary, billionaire romance featuring anti-hero, secret society and close proximity tropes from USA Today Bestselling duo P. Rayne.

I spend my nights slinging drinks at Black Magic Bar or taking my clothes off at the local strip club. After my father passed, my stepmother gave me no other choice.

But when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.

I shouldn’t give in to temptation, he is my stepsister’s ex-fiancé after all, but the pull toward him grows stronger by the day. I fight, but I’m losing the battle.

Nero is keeping secrets, though.

What he doesn’t know is that I’m keeping secrets, too.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Wow, I think Nero may be my favorite Voss brother so far! I don’t know what it was about the youngest brother and his stalker tendencies, but I loved Nero and Cinder’s romance in this Cinderella reimagining.

I really enjoyed the connection between these two, and it was evident on the page right from their initial meeting at a masquerade ball. When Nero’s relationship with Cinder’s stepsister Maude falls apart, he fixates on the mysterious dancer at the local strip club, having no clue who she actually is. Nero swoops in like a gothic knight in expensive-suit-armour to rescue Cinder on the night that she finally decides she’s had enough of her stepmother’s tormenting. Both of these characters grow a lot during the time they spend together. Cinder realizes that she’s stronger than she thinks she is as she imagines a future for herself completely free of the shackles she’d been living in. And Nero ends up softening some of his edges, imagining a future life with a woman by his side for the first time ever. However, both of them are holding on to some secrets, which just may tear apart any happily ever after for Nero and his Princess.

I thought that Midnight Whispers was a great addition to the Midnight Manor series! I am looking forward to seeing how this series comes to an end with Sid’s book!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet P. Rayne


The darker side of USA Today Bestselling Author, Piper Rayne. 

Connect with P. Rayne 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Should Have Been Me by Jessica Prince


She’s a sunny, sassy photographer.

Should Have Been Me, an all-new fake dating, small town romance from bestselling author Jessica Prince, is NOW LIVE!

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She’s a sunny, sassy photographer.

Jolie Prescott has always been in love with love. She spent most of her life walking around with hearts in her eyes and immediately jumped at the chance to start a wedding planning company with her two best friends. So when her own fiancé called off their wedding and immediately started dating someone else, it was a major blow she never saw coming. The gossip about it finally starts to die down in her small town. Then her ex announced he’s engaged again. And his new fiancée just happens to be Jolie’s worst enemy. Which makes it really inconvenient that she can’t seem to stop thinking inappropriate thoughts about that woman’s moody half-brother. 

He is the ultimate grump.

Vaughn Cavanagh never thought he’d set foot back in Pembrooke, Wyoming after moving away when he was thirteen, but when his father gets sick, he uproots his life to try to repair their frayed relationship. The only thing standing in his way is his spoiled brat half-sister, her determination to throw the ultimate wedding, and her beef with a certain wedding photographer he can’t get out of his head. 

When one impulsive act leads to Vaughn announcing he and Jolie are dating, the two have no choice but to fake their relationship to save face. But when feelings enter the picture and lines start to blur, Vaughn has to decide if he’s willing to give up his quiet, solitary life and stay in Pembrooke for a woman he never intended to fall for, or if he’s going to risk losing everything because he’s too afraid to take that leap.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This book was so good! I love when a grumpy hero who doesn’t believe in love falls hard and fast, and that is exactly what happened with Vaughan when it came to Jolie. While he is a brilliant businessman, he is so emotionally stunted and just didn’t know how to handle the situation with his sick father or the feelings he has for Jolie. Vaughan showed so much growth over the course of this story, and I loved seeing the man he became thanks to Jolie’s influence.

I thought these two characters had a connection from the moment her cat attacked him, and the banter between Calamity Jane and City Slicker was hilarious.

I have read A LOT of Jessica Prince’s books, but not the Pembrooke series, so this quaint little town was new to me. But I loved that Jolie is Dalton’s sister from the Hope Valley series; I so enjoyed the cameos from Dalton and Charlotte! I am looking forward to Ryan and Tarryn’s books (hopefully!) in the future!

i received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Ice Cold Heart by Nikki Hall

🏒𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄🏒

𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓, the second book in the Beyond the Ice series by Nikki Hall, is LIVE!

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What to Expect :

✔️College hockey 

✔️He falls first 

✔️City girl/country boy 

✔️Coach’s daughter 

✔️”Use me” 

✔️Spicy banter 

✔️Found family 

✔️Unsolicited duck pics 

✔️Golden Retriever/black cat

Blurb: 

Cole 

Hockey is my life. I play hard, and I don’t lose. The Frozen Four is at my fingertips, but my eligibility is at risk thanks to one frustrating class. Enter Avery Dalton—beautiful, independent, and utterly off limits. She’s my coach’s daughter and his choice for a tutor. Too bad she isn’t interested… Until she offers me a secret deal her dad can never find out about. She’ll help me pass, and I’ll help her forget about her ex. Friends with very specific benefits. Except for one little problem—I can’t stop trying to win her heart.

Avery

I don’t date hockey players. I don’t befriend them or kiss them in the library either. No one told Cole Mathis that. His perfect good looks and golden boy reputation are everything I should avoid after my last disastrous ex, but when he needs my help, I offer him a deal. Staying detached should be easy, but my weakness is apparently a hockey playing country boy with a wicked sense of humor and a talented mouth. As we get closer, I cling to my rules and hope he doesn’t figure out the truth—he’s the one person who could break me.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3 stars

Ice Cold Heart is a quick, fun read. Cole is a total golden retriever marshmallow of a book boyfriend, and Avery is snarky black cat. She’s has some relationship trauma, and is hesitant to get involved when she begins tutoring Cole, but when they make a tutor/relationship pact, he begins to wear her down. I really liked that they had met on their own before her dad (Cole’s coach) connected them so Avery could tutor him. I felt like their relationship was built on those first interactions, and then the forbidden aspect of her being his coach’s daughter came later, so it really did put up an obstacle for them to move past.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: I Wish You Were Mine by Jessica Peterson

I Wish You Were Mine by Jessica Peterson is now live in Audio!

A smoking hot standalone romance in the small-town Harbour Village series, featuring a single dad, a nanny, and an accidental pregnancy…

I know Tuck Monroe is trouble the second I walk in to interview for the nanny position. Six-four and covered in tattoos, he’s distractingly hot. He’s also grumpy as hell. But I need to pay for school, so I take a job as his daughter’s live-in caretaker and move into the apartment above his garage.

I fall hard for Katie, his adorable four-year-old. But I never expected to fall for my new boss, who’s a decade older than I am. Turns out there’s a heart of gold beneath Tuck’s broody exterior, one I work to reveal bit by bit. Casual small talk leads to late-night conversations I can’t get enough of.

No surprise our simmering sexual tension explodes with one deep, toe-curling kiss.

He tells me I’m his good girl; I tell him I love the praise. We give ourselves one night, and one night only, to explore the fiery attraction between us.

It’s the best sex of my life. But when I wake up, Tuck is gone, and life goes back to normal. Or at least I think it does, until I start to feel nauseous. Turns out I was right: my boss is trouble. The kind that comes with one night I can’t forget and two pink lines that will change our lives forever.

I WISH YOU WERE MINE is a STANDALONE romance in the interconnected Harbour Village Series.

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Narrated by: Charlotte North & Austin Stone

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Tuck and Maren’s story was everything! There was so much heart and sizzle in this story, raw emotion, and real vulnerability. Both Maren and Tuck were so relatable, and I adored the relationship that they both had with his daughter, Katie, as well.

Because this is an age-gap, single dad, surprise pregnancy romance, Tuck has a lot of hangups when it came to his connection with Maren. I loved that she didn’t back down about their potential relationship and how great they could be together.

This book is part of the Harbour Village series, and it was full of summer vibes. Narrators Charlotte North and Austin Stone were fabulous, and I loved listening to them tell this story!

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Jessica

Jessica Peterson writes romance with heat, humor, and heart. Heroes with hot accents are her specialty. When she’s not writing, she can be found bellying up to a bar in the south’s best restaurants with her husband Ben, reading books with her adorable daughter Gracie, or snuggling up with her 70-pound lap dog, Martha.

A Carolina girl at heart, she fantasizes about splitting her time between Charleston and Asheville, but currently lives in Charlotte, NC.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: False Start by Kandi Steiner

False Start by Kandi Steiner is now live! 

Kyle Robbins: Seattle’s rookie tight end and the first boy to break my heart.

Oh, did I mention he’s also my new client… and fake boyfriend?

I thought I left Kyle and our complicated past behind me, but when he saunters up as my new client at a house showing, I’m quickly reminded how much he still haunts me.

I try to walk away, but the stubborn jerk isn’t having it. In fact, he doubles down on working with me, as if our tragic history doesn’t exist at all.

The commission from working with him is the key to a new life for me and my son. It’s worth putting up with the cocky athlete long enough to find him a house. But when Kyle sees the bruises left by my darling ex-husband, he thinks he can save me—and suddenly, he’s interested in much more than just being a client.

Before I know it, I’m wrangled into a scheme so crazy it just might work. Kyle pretends to be my fake boyfriend so he can keep my ex in line until I get the commission from this house sale and get the hell out of Seattle for good.

But with a past as thick with chemistry and tension as ours is, it’s not long before those fake touches feel all too real. Every brush of his hand against my back has me spinning back to that night. Every kiss has me dizzy with the love I felt at eighteen. And every day that passes without me finding him a house has me wondering how much longer I can survive this game we’re playing.

Fake-dating each other was supposed to be for my safety.

But I can’t help thinking my heart is more at risk now than ever before.

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Audio Narrated by: Wesley Mercer & Heather Schroeder

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

False Start was such a wonderful, emotional romance!

Years after she was his babysitter of sorts back in high school (there’s only an age gap of a year or two), realtor Madelyn and football rookie Kyle reconnect when he contacts her to help him look for a home. A lot has happened in the decade that they’ve been apart, and there are hurt feelings on both sides. As it turns out, that was because of a wild misunderstanding, but it sets the scene for an enemies-to-lovers, fake relationship, second-chance, single-parent romance.

This story has some real depth to it as well. There are several TWs to this story, and Kandi Steiner handles the delicate situations with grace and her talent for crafting an emotional, gut-wrenching tale. There are also some really fun and light-hearted moments in this story as well, but I was absolutely hooked on Kyle and Maddie’s relationship and the vulnerability they showed with each other as they confronted the hurts of their shared past, dealt with her abusive ex, and forged ahead with a future together.

Kyle was such a softie when it came to Madelyn and Sebastian. I loved how he just went all-in on being a father figure and proving to Maddie that she deserved to be treated like a queen.

I read this book in tandem while listening to the duet narration of Heather Schroeder and Wesley Mercer. Both narrators are new to me, and I very much enjoyed listening to them tell Madelyn and Kyle’s story!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kandi


Kandi Steiner is a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author and whiskey connoisseur 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 die hard hopeless romantic, and likes to highlight all the challenges of love as well as the triumphs.

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, playing with her fur babies and soaking up the sweetness of life.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Forgotten Desires by Corinne Michaels

Forgotten Desires by Corinne Michaels is now live!

He’s a billionaire in need of a wife …

And I’m his ex who can’t say no to him.

Ten years ago Carson Knight was my one great love, but he abandoned me without a trace.

Now he’s a billionaire single-dad in need of a temporary wife.

And he’s at my house on one knee with a proposal…

Marry him, so he’s more likely to win full custody of his daughter, keeping her safe from her unstable mother. In return, he’ll take care of the medical expenses for a surgery my father needs to survive.

Reluctantly, I agree to tie the knot, on one condition. Once those custody papers are signed, we go our separate ways. Because he’s even more gorgeous, charming, and sweeter than he was back then, and I don’t trust myself not to fall for my fake husband.

Especially when I hear him say “my wife.”

Or feel his hands on my skin. Taste his kiss or see the way he looks at me with those blue eyes and know that our carefully crafted rules will shatter.

Right alongside my heart.

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    Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Stella Hunter

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Brynlee Whitlock got her HEA and OMG I loved this book so much! The tease that Corinne Michaels left at the end of the last book (Tempting Promises) left me itching to get Bree and Crew’s story and it did not disappoint!

Ten years ago, Bryn and Carson fell in love while on spring break. But with his entire future mapped out for him, Carson ghosted her, leaving her heartbroken. So Brynlee gets quite a shock when her brother’s friend, Crew, turns out to be the same guy who ditched her all those years ago!

Presented with a chance meeting with the one that got away, Crew offers Bryn a marriage of convenience: Help him gain custody of his daughter and he will pay for her father’s surgery. It all seems simple enough, but as it turns out, they both still love each other and Crew won’t let her slip through his fingers a second time.

Crew is super swoony! Bryn puts up a good fight in trying to keep him at an emotional distance, but Crew just bulldozed them all down. (I just wish I had a chance to listen to this one in audio because I love Teddy Hamilton and want to hear him bring Carson/Crew to life!)

While I’m sad to see the Whitlock Family series come to an end, I think Corinne Michaels did it by saving the best romance for last!

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.

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