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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Reason I Married Him by Meghan Quinn

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From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a new marriage of convenience romantic comedy. This steamy, laugh out loud, enemies-to-lovers small town standalone delivers the perfect happily ever after. One-click your copy of THE REASON I MARRIED HIM today!

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About THE REASON I MARRIED HIM:

He proposed . . . and I said yes.
Normally a jovial occasion for a couple in love, but this proposal has a very different feel.
Because the man that I’ll be calling my husband blew into town with one thing on his mind . . . to make my life a living nightmare.

So why did I say yes?

Well, because we both need something from each other.

Namely, I want the farm land he currently owns, and he needs a wife in order to inherit his family cabin in his grandfather’s will.

So as he so eloquently put it, my hand, for his land.

At first, I thought the idea was nuts.
Who really gets married out of convenience?
Apparently, I do.

And now we have to sell our relationship to the town. Meaning, we’re holding hands, he’s pinching my cheeks . . . upper and lower. We’re even forced to share the one-bedroom guest house on the farm where his monstrous body is taking up a large percentage of the bed.

But we’re so persuasive about our farse, that now I’m starting to think he actually might like me. Especially when he grabs me by the wrist and teases the shell of my ear as he whispers, “Mine.”

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Meghan Quinn delivers another fantastic swoony, steamy, small-town book — complete with a gut-punch breakup and well-deserved HEA — in The Reason I Married Him.

Aubree is not the happy-go-lucky gal that her sister Hattie is. She is closed off and guarded, as a result of the abuse she suffered at the hands of their dad as a kid. It’s hard for her to trust people, and she has a lot of lingering self-esteem issues. Jilted the night before his wedding, Wyatt (who is her late brother-in-law’s brother) swoops into town to offer Aubree a deal: Marry him for a year so he can get his family’s cabin, and he will sign over his part of the farm left to him by his late brother.

Wyatt knows how to press all of Aubree’s buttons, and their banter is hilarious as this enemies-to-lovers romcom begins. But little by little, Wyatt breaks down Aubree’s walls, and they develop a genuine friendship. It shocks Aubree when she realizes that she *gasp* likes her fake husband! But just as Wyatt and Aubree decide to give their relationship a real chance, Wyatt’s past threatens to ruin any chance of their future together. Will be be able to convince Aubree that she’s the one meant for him?

Narrators Aaron Shedlock and Stella Hunter are *chef’s kiss* as they tell Wyatt and Aubree’s story in duet narration. The story arc that these characters go on was well-written, and perfectly-paced, and Shedlock and Hunter brought it all to life magnificently as they took Wyatt and Aubree from a bickering twosome at the start of the book to a couple head over heels in love by the end.

The second book in the Almond Bay series, The Reason I Married Him also delivers several MQ Easter Eggs. I love that Wyatt’s family cabin is in Canoodle, the setting of Runaway Groomsman, and I did not realize how much I missed Keiko from the teachers series until she showed up!

Is anyone else hoping that the last remaining Rowley finds his match in a certain beekeeper? Just me?

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: Something Like Love by Piper Rayne

Something Like Love by Piper Rayne is now live! 

I want to.

I can’t.

I’ve been friends with Cooper Rice from the moment we met. He was just as famous a decade ago on our college campus as he is now being the star quarterback for the Chicago Grizzlies.

But he’s not only talented on the field, he’s also the gorgeous football star women fawn over, posing in underwear and razor ads.

Here’s a secret those women don’t know—Cooper Rice isn’t a playboy. He’s the kind of man who wants to settle down with a family. He’s content ordering pizza and massaging my feet after my long shift as an emergency room doctor. He listens to me as if he’s as invested as I am in my patients. He has never let me down.

This is exactly why I refuse to live without Cooper in my life. Eight years ago, I made him promise me that we’d never cross that line. And just like I knew Cooper would, he’s held to that promise.

Despite our best efforts, our relationship is evolving, shifting into new territory and I find myself unsure if I want Cooper to keep that promise. Ignoring the obvious could tear us apart, but so could giving in, meaning there’s a chance I’ll lose Cooper forever no matter what decision I make.

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Something like Love is a football, friends to lovers story and is the third and final book in Piper Rayne’s Chicago Grizzlies series.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

OOOH I have been waiting for Cooper and Ellery’s story from the first moment I met them at the start of the Chicago Grizzlies series, and their story was the perfect way to close out this series!

Having been best friends since college, there is so much history between Cooper and Elle. They are the perfect match; they balance each other out, complete each other’s sentences, and all that jazz. Now that Elle is dating Cooper’s teammate, their relationship is strained. And there is a line drawn in the sand of their friendship that neither one of them will cross — despite the growing feelings between them — because of a promise Cooper made Ellery eight years ago.

Piper Rayne did a fantastic job in telling this epic best friends romance. The journey that Cooper and Elle take from best friends to admitting that they are soul mates is a wonderful slow burn, written with a delicious push-and-pull, a hint of angst, and a whole lot of sizzle.

I’m sorry to see this series come to a close, but I’m excited that The Grizzlies’ “Den” is now changing hands to become “The Nest” for a new group of athletes for PR’s upcoming hockey series. And hopefully we will finally, finally, get Tweetie’s story!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Piper Rayne

Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write “heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle” about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they’re married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they’re both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Turn of the Tides by Jessica Prince

Title: Turn of the Tides
Author: Jessica Prince
Series: Whitecap

Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance

When Beau Wade left his small hometown of Whitecap, Oregon, he swore to himself he’d never go back. But when his NFL career goes up in smoke, that’s exactly what he finds himself doing.

Not much has changed in the ten years he’s been gone. Gossip still spreads through town like wildfire, Dropped Anchor is still the local’s favorite bar, and the woman he’s been secretly in love with most of his life still hates his guts.

Presley Fields is even more beautiful than he remembered. Her smile has the power to light up a room and that bubbly personality of hers is still as strong as ever. For everyone but Beau, anyway, and that’s the least he deserves for making her high school years a nightmare.

He isn’t the same stupid kid he was back then, and after watching her slip through his fingers too many times, the tides have finally turned in his favor. It’ll take a miracle, and every ounce of charm he has, but he’s determined to win her heart. And this time, he intends to keep it.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Turn of the Tides was not what I was expecting — and wow, did I love Beau and Bubbles!

Jessica Prince did a great job of building the tension between Beau and Presley in this hate-to-love second-chance romance, and dropping little breadcrumbs about their shared history. I loved getting Beau’s backstory — all that glitters is not gold. Presley made assumptions about the popular jock, and why wouldn’t she? But I loved getting his side of the story and learning just how much Presley meant to him even when he couldn’t show it!

This book is a standalone in the Whitecap series and has that great small-town feel that I’ve come to love in Jessica Prince’s books.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Born and raised around Houston Texas, Jessica spent most of her life complaining about the heat, humidity, and all around pain in the ass weather. It was only as an adult that she quickly realized the cost of living in Houston made up for not being able to breathe when she stepped outside. That’s why God created central air, after all.

Jessica is the mother of a perfect little boy–she refuses to accept that he inherited her attitude and sarcastic nature no matter what her husband says.

In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a wino, a coffee addict, and an avid lover of all types of books–romances still being her all time favs. Her husband likes to claim that reading is her obsession but she just says it’s a passion…there’s a difference. Not that she’d expect a boy to understand.

Jessica has been writing since she was a little girl, but thankfully grew out of drawing her own pictures for her stories before ever publishing her first book. Because an artist she is not.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Surprised & Sacked by Gina Azzi

SURPRISED AND SACKED

Gina Azzi

Release Date: February 5

Knoxville Coyotes rookie West Crawford is a celebrated, lightning-fast football god on the field. Off the field? He’s my ex-boyfriend and greatest heartache.

I didn’t think long-distance would break us when West was drafted to Tennessee, and I was called home to Paris for a family emergency. But it did.

Fast-forward six months and West is playing in the Superbowl, I’m rooting for him to win, and our worlds re-collide.

Celebrating West’s success is supposed to be a one-night, free-for-all that ends with closure. Instead, it births a new beginning. Literally.

I’m having a baby with my ex, our lives are still thousands of miles apart, and nothing has changed. I mean, except the obvious.

Between West’s flourishing career, my familial responsibilities abroad, and a positive pregnancy test that surprises us both, our relationship is bound to be sacked before it has the chance to soar.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Surprised & Sacked is the second book in the Knoxville Coyotes series, and is a second-chance, surprise pregnancy romance for West and Nova. They reconnect for one night after the Coyotes win the Super Bowl, and while it’s clear they still love one another, their lives are in different places now. But fate has other plans for them when Nova discovers she is pregnant…

I enjoyed West and Nova’s reunion. It was clear that she wanted more than just to be West’s WAG, and he went above and beyond to prove to Nova how much she meant to him. West didn’t have the best childhood, so he has some concerns about whether or not he has what it takes to be a good dad; I really enjoyed that added dimension to his character.

I had an issue with this story, however. Their breakup happened several months before the Super Bowl; they just kind of grew apart when Nova went back home to Paris to help with her family’s vineyard after her father got ill. I wish that that had been a “show” rather than a “tell” because I felt like I was missing backstory.

But overall, I enjoyed this story. It’s pretty low angst, and I read it easily on a rainy afternoon. West is one of Cohen’s teammates from book 1, so there is that connection, and although I haven’t read Gina Azzi’s rockstar series, Nova is friends with the band from those books.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Gina Azzi:

Hey Lovelies!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’m Gina Azzi, a book-obsessed, coffee-drinking, globetrotting, mama of three! I write steamy Contemporary and Sports Romance books with heartwarming happily-ever-afters.

A Jersey girl at heart, I spent my twenties living and working abroad before settling down in Ontario, Canada with my family. When I’m not dreaming up storylines or writing all the words, you can find me hanging with my littles, attempting to bake, or planning my next adventure.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Written in the Scars by Adriana Locke

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Falling in love is easy.

Falling out of love is the hardest thing in the world.

And Elin and Ty Whitt are terrible at it.

Life’s not always easy. Love’s not for the faint of heart. But with life comes lessons and Ty and Elin have the scars to prove it. But it’s their love written in those scars that will hold them together … or break them apart.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This book was a doozy! Ty and Elin’s story was a rollercoaster of epic proportions. It was emotional, raw, and hauntingly beautiful as Adriana Locke explores how this couple grew apart and then repaired their relationship.

If you are looking for a light and fluffy read, Written in the Scars is not it. If you want a story that is going to elicit some big emotions, have you crying and yearning for the main characters to just work things out… then this is it. Ty and Elin have so much love for each other, but something was broken in their marriage. And it is a long, hard road that they travel in trying to repair it.

Narrators Emma Wilder and Lance Greenfield did a beautiful job in bringing this story to life.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Promise Me This by Hannah Bird

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🍀 Broody single dad

🍀”It’s always been you”

🍀 Small town setting in Ireland

🍀 ”I want you to beg”

🍀 Second chance at love

🍀 Healing from grief over pregnancy loss

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“Promise Me This brims with beautiful emotion and depth… This is a poignant story that will stay with you long after it’s done.” -Jessica Joyce, USA Today Bestselling author of You, With a View

Forever wasn’t supposed to look like this.

When Leona Granger studied abroad in Ireland, she spent a lot more time falling in love with Callum Walsh than she did in the classroom. On the eve of her return to the States, she promised to come back for him when she finished college. They said goodbye under the stars, sealing their promise with more than just a kiss.

Callum has spent the last twelve years trying not to wonder why Leona, and everyone else for that matter, finds it so easy to leave him behind. Now a single father, all he wants is to give his beautiful daughter the best life he can. Nothing, not even Leona showing up after a decade of radio silence, will get in the way of that.

But Leona had her reasons for not returning. When the just-good-enough life she built in the wake of losing the baby she never told Callum about falls apart, she realizes it’s time to come clean. It might be too late to keep her promise to Callum, but for the child they lost, she has to try.

Faced with feelings they long thought buried, Callum and Leona have to decide if it’s worth exposing all their hidden scars for a second chance at the promise of forever with the one that never should’ve gotten away.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Somehow, I totally missed the fact that this second-chance romance was built around a lost baby. Miscarriage is my trigger, and by the time I realized it, I was far too invested in Callum and Leona’s story to give up. And I am so glad I pushed past my own issues and the pain of my own pregnancy loss, because this story was beautifully written.

This is the first book I’ve read by Hannah Bird, and she crafted a lovely tale of grief, longing, regret, anger, and forgiveness. Callum was so hurt when Leo ghosted him 12 years ago, going radio silent and never returning to Ireland so they could reunite and live out the life they planned for together. Unbeknownst to him, Leo was dealing with a mother’s worst nightmare and never forgave herself for failing their child. God, I got that! It’s a hurt that never goes away.

It is a long, painful road for Leo and Callum to get on the same page. So many stops and starts. But their love for one another is still so strong and they are thankfully able to work through the pain and come out the other side stronger together. I appreciated Leo’s reluctance to get close to Callum’s daughter just because it hurt SO much. But even that ended up being a lovely relationship on its own.

This book ended with the sweetest epilogue, a wonderful HEA for this pair. I was so happy I took a chance on this story; despite the ugly tears I cried, it was lovely.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT HANNAH BIRD 

Hannah’s accolades include a 2nd grade teacher who said her story about bats had “very good potential” and enough accelerated reading medals to sink a body at sea. Her goals in life are to write novels that will make you cry and to check everything off the bucket list she wrote at seventeen. Hannah resides among the rolling hills of Tennessee with her other half and their clingy golden retriever. When she is not writing, she is trying to outrun her sweet tooth in the gym.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Sizzle by Carrie Aarons

Sizzle by Carrie Aarons is now live!

Everyone knows that if there was an award for biggest small town grump, Liam Ashton would win for Hope Crest, Pennsylvania no questions asked.
 
The reclusive, brooding farmer might be part of the family business and do anything for those closest to him, but his bark keeps almost everyone else away. Perhaps that’s what happens when you fall in love at first sight but aren’t allowed to be with the soulmate you didn’t realize you were looking for.
 
When the forbidden woman of his dreams blows back into town, he might finally get a shot to convince her they’re destined to be together. Only, her denials and refusals won’t let him get anywhere near her.
 
Gabrielle Murphy swore she’d never return to the town where she took her first teaching job. She’d done the right thing, once upon a time, and there is no room to question what if.
 
But when the only woman who ever understood her passes and leaves her to clean up the pieces, she can’t exactly say no. Get in, fulfill her grandmother’s wishes, and get out. That’s the plan. Until Liam confronts her and they give in to the unmatched inferno that’s been blazing between them forever.
 
Even though there is nothing standing in the way of a happily ever after this time, Gabrielle still can’t let this surly version of the Liam she once knew love her completely.
 
Until a surprise binds them to each other for the foreseeable future, and they have to forgive enough to move forward. But just as the ice around their hearts starts to thaw, darker outside forces threaten to ruin their chance before it’s even taken.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Sizzle is another great story in Carrie Aarons’ Ashton family series, and can be read as a standalone. I loved the idea behind Liam falling in love at first sight with Gabrielle a dozen years ago. But their relationship was forbidden because even though he was 19 and only 3 years younger than her, she was one of his high school teachers. Liam thought they’d have a chance to explore the pull between them after he graduated, but instead Gabrielle left town and it broke his heart.

Now that she’s back, it’s like something has zinged him back to life. But Gabrielle is still so worried about the optics and won’t let herself feel what she does for him. Liam refuses to give up on something he knows is destiny, and he shows her over and over again just how much she can depend on him.

Once Gabrielle lets down her walks, she finds the family she’s always longed for in the Ashtons. It was lovely to see her blossom from a skittish woman who wouldn’t let herself have what she’s wanted to a vibrant partner and friend thanks to Liam’s love.

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

Meet Carrie Aarons


Author of romance novels such as Fleeting and Love at First Fight, Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic. Her stories are fueled by vanilla lattes, meloncholy music, and copious amounts of candles.

When she isn’t writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in farm country with her husband, two children and ninety-pound rescue pup.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Lying Game by Sara Jane Woodley

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Getting trapped in a rundown motel with a grumpy stranger wasn’t how this night was supposed to end, but at least I’ll never have to see him again. Until he becomes my new roommate…

When a dating disaster leaves me heartbroken, muddy, and stranded on the side of the road in the pouring rain, the last thing I expect is for an impossibly hot (and impossibly grouchy) man to offer me a ride home.

I say yes. Because this day can’t get any worse, right?

Wrong.

One flooded highway, a surprise bed-sharing incident, and an impromptu lying game later, I’m still not home. And now, I can’t help but be intrigued by the mysterious big-city man who’s visiting my tiny town on the Washington coast.

But I know better than anyone that a guy like Lachlan Chase won’t stay in Cascade Point for long. I need to stop thinking about him—and how his arms felt around me that night—and stay far, far away.

I thought it would be easy… until I’m forced to move in with him.

As Lachlan and I spend more time together, the more he surprises me. He’s sweet. Funny. Thoughtful. Hot. And though we’re polar opposites, the sizzling chemistry between us is undeniable.

But can two strangers-turned-roommates ever really fall in love when their relationship started with a game of lies?

The Lying Game is a sweet grumpy/sunshine, roommates romcom filled with banter and tension, sizzling chemistry without any explicit content, a cast of characters to make you laugh out loud, and an HEA that will give you ALL the feels.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Lying Game is a sizzling, yet sweet, small-town, forced proximity romcom. Normally, sweet romances aren’t my thing but I very much enjoyed grumpy, cinnamon roll Lachlan and sunny Lucy’s story.

I do enjoy a rough, gruff, jerk of a hero who turns out to be a big softie, and that is exactly what we got with Lachlan. Lucy had a complex backstory, having been raised by a single mom who passed away. I loved that she didn’t let her history dampen her cheery outlook on life. She was a delightful character and I loved how she pushed back and needled Lachlan. Their banter made me laugh.

The Lying Game is a charming romance! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

ABOUT SARA JANE WOODLEY

Sara Jane Woodley writes sweet romances with guaranteed Happily Ever Afters. 

Inspired by the mountains, Sara Jane’s stories are set in the beautiful nature she loves to spend time in. She’s a hopeless romantic at heart, and her romance books always feature sassy, strong female heroines and fun-filled, playful relationships.

Sara Jane’s latest project is a sweet, small town romcom series – the Brighton Brothers.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Head Over Heels by Karla Sorensen

HEAD OVER HEELS

Karla Sorensen

Release Date: January 24

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There’s only one course of action when your dad wants you to marry a clammy-handed wimp to make one of his board members happy—you get yourself stuck in an elevator with a hot stranger and have the steamiest make-out session of your life. Years of etiquette lessons went out the window thanks to Cameron Wilder, who managed to unleash my hidden bad girl with naught but his talented mouth and deliciously rough hands.

Afterwards, he went back to his small-town life, and I marched home to inform my dad there would be no business-centric nuptials. As punishment, he shipped me off to Sisters, Oregon and demanded I turn a healthy profit on a not-so-healthy property.

You see where I’m going with this—the buttoned-up city girl stuck in a small town hires a local builder to help her … and he’s the hot stranger from the elevator. Turns out, I have a weakness for the broad-shouldered nice guy who’s not so nice behind closed doors. Keeping things professional gets harder the longer I’m in town, until the only lesson I have left to learn is how to keep both our hearts from getting broken.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I loved Ivy and Cameron from the moment they were trapped in an elevator together! She is a city socialite, he’s a blue-collar construction worker. Yet despite their class differences and different upbringings, Ivy and Cameron were perfectly matched and this story — despite the sizzling attraction between them in the elevator — was a wonderful slow burn.

Cameron just may be one of my favorite Karla Sorensen heroes. He’s a total golden retriever, patient and kind and just biding his time because he knows there is something special about Ivy. She’s a bit of an ice queen, the black cat to his cinnamon roll hero. Whereas Cameron has a lot of family drama happening currently with his father’s illness, Ivy has a different kind of trauma stemming from the difficult relationship she has had with her father (and the need to keep up appearances) ever since her mother’s death. But Cameron waits out Ivy’s flip-floppping and she really becomes a different, better person, through his love.

The Wilder family books have a spectre hanging over them since the father’s illness plays such a heavy part in the siblings’ stories. But yet again, KS weaves a wonderfully emotional tale that delivers all the feels. This book is super emotional, but worth the tears!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Karla Sorensen:

Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 20 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring historical romance or avoiding the laundry, you can find her watching football (British AND American), HGTV or listening to Enneagram podcasts so she can psychoanalyze everyone in her life, in no particular order of importance. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 11:11 by Micaela Smeltzer

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He’s only supposed to be a one-night stand, but fate has other plans.

Eleven Eleven by Micalea Smeltzer is now live! 

After my divorce, I decide to move across the country away from family and friends for a new start.

What I don’t expect is him.

He’s only supposed to be a one-night stand, but fate has other plans.

The next time I see him it’s because I’m on a date with his dad.

I’ve always believed in wishing on elevens, but this time I get a little more than I bargained for by falling for a guy eleven years younger than me.

Reid is everything I shouldn’t want and everything I need.

The question is, am I willing to open my heart up to him? Or am I doomed to let my past hold me back?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

11:11 was an absolute delight! I absolutely adored everything about Via and Reid’s romance! Micaela Smeltzer executed this older woman/younger man story perfectly!

After a messy divorce, Via gives up her job as a lawyer and moves from California to Maine where she’s bought a building, sight unseen, and plans to open an art shop. Talk about wanting to start over somewhere new! Soon after she arrives in town, she reluctantly goes out to a bar where she meets Reid, a hot, bespectacled guy celebrating his 21st birthday. There’s an instant connection between them, but Via is 11 years older than Reid — can anything more come out of their meeting than a one-night stand? Well, at first she doesn’t think so, but it turns out that Reid (and her new life in Maine) is exactly what she needs in her life.

The journey to happily ever after for Via and Reid is a bit of a rocky road. She accidentally goes on a date with his dad (which could have been icky, but is not!), her ex stirs up some drama, and Reid has some family issues to deal with. Via also struggles A LOT with the age difference between them, and her fertility issues kind of hold her back from going all in with Reid. But Reid is so patient and unwavering in his confidence that they are meant to be together. Yet there are also some very tender scenes where they both show vulnerability.

11:11 was so well written, a beautiful story about finding yourself again. And I loved the tease at the end for Izzy and Derrick and I can’t wait to read their book! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Meet Micalea

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Micalea Smeltzer is a twenty-something author from Northern Virginia. She has four dogs, which is as crazy as it sounds. As a recent kidney transplant recipient she’s dedicated to raising awareness around the effects of kidney disease, dialysis, and transplant as well as educating people on living donation.When she’s not writing you can catch her with her nose buried in a book.

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