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GRACE:

Things I never thought would happen:

1. Meeting my boyfriend’s secret wife.
2. Finding out I’m pregnant with his baby.
3. Having my best friend tell my family he’s the father.

FINN:

Things I never thought would happen:

1. Becoming best friends with a woman the total opposite of me.
2. Pretending to be her baby daddy.
3. Falling in love with her.

The more we fake it, the more we forget it’s only temporary.

If only we had known it would change everything.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

When life hands Grace and Finn lemons in Chaser, they make the sweetest lemonade! Chaser is #4 in the Twisted Fox series, and while this group of friends overlap in the interconnected series, each book is a standalone.

There have been little breadcrumbs dropped about these two in the previous three Twisted Fox books, so I was really looking forward to their story to find out what their deal is. They are best friends. They are clearly into one another. But neither one of them has made a move. Why? And how does Grace wind up pregnant with another guy’s baby?

This best friends/fake romance is a super sweet, fake relationship, slow-burn romance. Finn and Grace are both complex characters with some heavy baggage. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like they would have hit it off, but they are truly each other’s person long before they even hook up. I really liked how Finn steps up to be Grace’s support system when her babydaddy proves to be a Grade-A jerk. And the scene where they finally admit exactly what they mean to one another was epic! I was so invested in them as a couple at that point, and the payoff with that first kiss was worth the wait.

From the previous books, we know that Grace has an issue with being alone at night, and that Finn rarely discusses his personal/family life. Both of those aspects are handled quite nicely in Chaser. I love the respect Finn got from both Grace and her parents regarding his troubled past and upbringing, and how he became a secure place for Grace to land when it came to her fears of being alone. The drama with Grace’s ex was a bit dragged out, I thought, but overall, I loved everything about Finn and Grace’s story.

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Sexy firefighter Logan Bailey is an expert at putting the wet stuff on the hot stuff—on and off duty. But he just did the unthinkable, and it wasn’t trading in his tube socks. He slept with his nemesis. His mortal enemy. The crazy redhead he loves to hate. Cara Goulding. And no matter how much he wants to lie to himself, he has to admit, it was mind-blowing.

Cara will not be tempted by the one night she spent with prince dickhead—even if her traitorous body remembers every earth-shattering moment. It was a mistake and she’s stronger than that. She’ll just keep avoiding him and pretend it didn’t happen.But the feuding small town of Tilikum might not be big enough for the both of them. Avoiding each other isn’t working. And with every moment they’re forced to spend together, the sparks get hotter, the flames grow brighter, and the tension borders on unbearable.

Until they both reach their breaking point and their fiery relationship explodes.

Author’s note: a sexy firefighter and the sassy redhead who drives him crazy. All the banter, delicious tension, a heartwarming family, and Kindle-melting steam. Enemies to lovers is as hot as it gets and these two are FIRE.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

“She’d gone from the woman I love to hate to the most important person on the planet.”

I finished Chasing Her Fire two days ago, and am still wrapping my head around how much I loved Logan and Cara’s story! I knew these two were going to be fire. I knew I was going to love Logan’s story the most, the same way I knew that Leo Miles would be my favorite hero in that family’s series. And I knew that it *had* to be Cara who Logan fell for. But I was not prepared for the fire that is Logan and Cara together!

The epilogue/prologue chapter was just a hint of how intense these two are together. And I thought I was prepared for their accidental pregnancy story, but I really wasn’t! This book has All. The. Feels. The snark and name-calling that has gone on for years between these two is twisted foreplay…. and when they finally have sober sex (after that night if drunken sex!) it is off the walls hot!

Cara is batsh$t crazy, and Logan soothes all her rough edges. He grounds her in a beautiful way, and gives that scared girl who never felt safe or loved a strong and secure place to land. It takes Cara a REALLY long time to accept that Logan isn’t going to walk away, and that scene where they finally profess their love is everything!!

As always, Claire Kingsley brings the heat and the heart. There are so many tender moments between Logan and Cara — and I had tears in my eyes when Cara had her conversation with Gram and got her fated-mate nickname!! So beautiful!!

This book is a standalone, but there is an ongoing thread of a mystery in town that is weaved throughout the books. So really, start at the beginning of the Bailey books and read through! We get a few more details about Eliza Bailey (but not much!), and the Haven/Bailey feud is at an all-time high, just in time for Levi’s story!

Logan was the Bailey brother whose story I was most looking forward to, and I was not disappointed! But after reading Levi’s epilogue, I feel like the story with him is going to be crazy good!

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Dirt Queen by Nora Blake is now live!

I love you. Always.

Sarah–We hadn’t spoken in years, and more often than not, he was on my mind. When I moved back to town he reached out. I stalked him enough times on Facebook to know he had a wife and two kids. I didn’t want to get my hopes up, but the pull I felt inside couldn’t be ignored. 

Aaron–She was back. I thought I’d never see her again, but there she was. Within my reach. She agreed to meet up at the dirt track when I sent her a message. What would she think of me being a dad? Did she even know?

The unspoken feelings she tried to leave in the past forced her to  keep him at arm’s length.  He was in the middle of a divorce and had two boys they both needed to consider. He was all in but she was questioning everything.

But sometimes…you have to follow your heart and let yourself fall–no matter how things might end. It’d be worth it. Always.

This book is based on a true story.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Dirt Queen is the debut novel by Nora Blake and I was blown away. Make sure you have tissues ready, because this is not your typical second-chance romance! I was not expecting Aaron and Sarah’s story to end the way that it did, and discovering in the dedication at the end of the book that it is based on a true story broke my heart all over again!

It’s been 11 years since best friends Sarah and Aaron lost touch. She moved away when they were teenagers, and while they were both in love with the other, neither one of them ever confessed how they felt. As time went on and they drifted apart, Aaron got married and had two kids, but Sarah was always the one his heart beats for. Now, she’s moved back to their small town and they reconnect on Facebook and strike up their friendship again.

It’s not long before they finally FINALLY confess that they loved each other long ago and still feel the same way, and Aaron and Sarah fall into an easy routine of going from reconnecting after years apart to being best friends again, to being a real couple. They pick up where they left off, and then some, both of them wishing that they hadn’t wasted so much time being apart.

And that’s the kicker, because this book takes a turn that I wasn’t expecting and it makes you realize that you need to seize the day, not hold back, and appreciate what you have. I was sobbing by the time I got to the last 80% or so of this book. Big, fat, ugly tears. This story didn’t end the way I thought it would based on the blurb and the fact that it was a second-chance romance. But it was raw and gritty and someone’s actual love tale, and that made it feel all too real. True love is always worth the risk!

Take a chance on this new author. You won’t be disappointed!

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Meet Nora Blake

Nora Blake is a lover of nature and getting lost in her made-up worlds. When she isn’t writing or spending time with her amazing family, she is horseback riding or reading. She has a passion for literature and her goal is to promote the importance of reading while engaging readers in her stories. Her debut novel, Dirt Queen, is set to release in May and is based on a true story.

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Release Date: May 18

Waking up next to a stranger wearing a wedding ring was not on the itinerary.

 

I came to Las Vegas for a quick girl’s trip, but somehow ended up a married woman. What I thought would stay in Vegas followed me back to my small town of Sunrise Bay, Alaska.

 

Of course, my new husband—MMA champion fighter, Logan Stone—couldn’t find me alone at my house to tell me he wants to give our impromptu nuptials a shot. He has to tell me in front of my entire family and half the town.

The two of us couldn’t be more opposite, but he offers me a deal I can’t refuse which involves me pretending we’re happily married for three months. Yeah, a lot of things can change in that short amount of time, most importantly catching feelings for a man whose lifestyle I despise.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

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The Wedding Dilemma by Mariah Ankenman is now live! 

My life has always been pretty predictable. Run into burning buildings, save those in distress, be a hero. Shoot the shit with my fireman buddies, come home, and do it all again tomorrow. Little did I know that a random SOS call from a woman stuck in a plaster cast with nothing underneath (I swear I only caught a flash of skin) would throw me for a complete loop.

Until I see the flighty artist again. At my mom’s engagement party. To her dad.

Suddenly the unpredictable woman I couldn’t stop thinking about is my soon-to-be-stepsister. Yeah, the same one I mortified when I accidentally saw her a tiny bit naked. This should make family gatherings way more interesting.

Except when your mom’s as loaded as mine is, you can never fully let your guard down when a guy comes sniffing around. So I can’t help but be suspicious, even though his daughter’s the perfect blend of beautiful and wild. As we spend more time together, prepping for our parents’ wedding, we both agree that maybe there’s nothing wrong with having a little bit of fun in the meantime. But if she knew I was investigating her dad on the side, she would never forgive me…

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

An awkward meet-cute between hunky firefighter Parker and free-spirited artist Tamsen leads to a charming romance in The Wedding Dilemma — unbeknownst to either of them, her dad is engaged to his mom. There was an instant spark between Parker and Tamsen, and that only grows as they spend more time together.

I hesitate to say that this is a “forbidden” romance because both Tamsen and Parker are grown adults living lives of their own — it’s not like they are teenagers. But there is an undercurrent of “forbidden” in the sense that Parker is investigating Tamsen’s dad and keeping that a secret. His mom is rather wealthy and hasn’t always made the best choices in her love life. So while Parker is trying to protect his mom, his investigation has the potential to blow up his and Tamsen’s relationship when she discovers what he’s been doing behind her back.

This story is charming and sweet, with a few laugh-out-loud moments and adorable characters. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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The Stars Duet Boxed Set, including the complete The Stars Series including the bonus story Christmas Beneath the Stars from Amie Knight, is available now!

Beneath His Stars
I met Adam Nova under the twinkling lights of a nighttime sky.
He was hiding, but that gorgeous boy didn’t belong in the dark.
Nevertheless it was where he lived; a different world than mine.
I was Livingston Montgomery, Southern debutante.
With the world at my fingertips, I was well on my way to being another spoiled socialite.
But I didn’t want money.
I didn’t want social status.
I wanted him; tattoos, sarcastic smirk, bad boy reputation and all.
It didn’t matter that he was from the wrong side of the tracks.
It didn’t matter that my family forbade me from seeing him.
I just wanted to be Beneath His Stars.

In Her Space
I was reunited with Livingston Montgomery in the broad sunshine of a Carolina morning, right where she belonged; in the light.
It’d been too long since I’d seen her face.
She had changed, but so had I.
I was Adam Nova, reformed bad boy. Now, successful business man.
I had it all, except for the one person I’d always wanted, and now I was back to claim her.
She was living in the shadows, just a shell of the former girl I knew.
But it didn’t matter that she tried to hide from me in the dark.
I’d follow her into the deepest depths of hell.
I just wanted to be In Her Space.

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Excerpt from Beneath His Stars

“Are you smoking?” Her lip curled in disgust.

            I nodded.

            It was her turn to look disgusted this time. “Do you even speak?”

            I nodded again and she shook her head in disbelief before reaching over the space between us and snatching the cigarette out of my mouth so fast I didn’t see it coming. I stood there dumbfounded. People didn’t snatch shit away from me. People were scared of me. Not this brave girl. I should have known.

            “Smoking is disgusting.” She said it quietly like it didn’t matter, but I could tell it did to her. She bent over and put the butt out on the driveway before standing up again and shoving it in her pocket.

I smirked. “You gonna keep that?”

Her eyes ignited with anger. “No, I’m going to throw it in the trash because I’m not a litterbug.”

Shaking my head, I muttered under my breath, “Fucking litterbug.” She was being cute. The girl with the too long legs and too big mouth that I couldn’t get out of my mind was fucking cute, too. I was screwed.

I wanted to full-on smile at her cuteness, but I held my happiness close to my chest. God knew it always came with a price. And I was done paying.

“You kiss your momma with that smoke mouth?” she asked snarkily, clearly pissed off about my smirk.

            I lowered my head and took a step back, running a hand through my dark hair. I wanted to tell this girl things. Things I had no business telling her, like that I didn’t kiss my momma with anything anymore. Instead, I asked the question that had been plaguing me since she’d seemed surprised it was me who had left the notes.

            “Who did you think it was?”

            Her face screwed up in confusion. “What?”

            I stood straighter and licked my lips before answering. “Who did you think left the notes?”

            I was feeling strangely vulnerable in that moment waiting for her answer and I didn’t like it one bit. Why did it matter to me who wrote her or didn’t? Or who else thought she was the most intriguing thing ever? For fuck’s sake, she was just another rich bitch from the island. Why did anything about what she was about to say matter to me at all?

            She bit her lip again and I still wanted to reach over and pull it from her teeth. It was sexy that lip bite, innocent even, and for some reason that made it all the more attractive.

            “I don’t know.” Her brow furrowed in thought and she looked away, almost like she didn’t want to tell me the answer to my question. But then her eyes landed on mine again. “I thought it was the other guy—”

            “Boone?” I interrupted loudly.

            A disgusted look crossed her face. “God, no. Not him. The blond. The other guy.”

            I let out a long breath accompanied by a sarcastic chuckle. “Grady?” That guy didn’t even graduate high school and she thought he knew anything about astronomy. I would have laughed if the whole thing hadn’t annoyed me so much.

            Her eyes brightened. “Is that his name?”

            I pulled out my pack of cigarettes again. “You like him or something?”

            “What? No!”

            I walked out into the street and lit my smoke far away from her.

            She started to follow me. “Where are you going?”

            “Home.”

            “But I don’t even know your name!” she yelled and stomped a foot.

I almost smiled again.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I read this duet when it first came out in 2018. I couldn’t wait to get the box set and read Adam and Liv’s bonus epilogue! Amie Knight has put together a masterpiece in this broken souls, immense longing, perfectly paired, opposites-attract YA romance! I was captivated by Adam and Liv’s story from the first page to the last.

This story is a marvelous example of how looks can be deceiving. Adam is hiding a sweet and tender soul under his tattoo armor, and Liv’s life looks picture-perfect but is anything but. Yet together, these characters are an amazing couple, with a love story for the ages.

Beneath His Stars ends with a shocking, abrupt scene, and In Her Space is the stunning conclusion to Adam and Liv’s story — set 10 years later. Liv and Adam were torn apart, and the time has changed both of them… and not necessarily for the better.

After serving time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Adam is now a successful businessman back with a revenge plan… as well as one to get Liv back. Even though they are still desperately in love with one another, the secrets of his past and truths he’s not willing to completely share threaten to tear them apart.

The Stars duet is an epic story of the boy from the wrong side of the tracks and the girl who stole his heart. Life has been cruel to them both, and they need to learn how to trust in one another again in order to get to the HEA that they both dreamed about under the stars.

I was pleasantly surprised at how Sebastian, Braden and Mel come back into the story all these years later, and the relationships that Liv develops with them. And… The Line was the first book of Amie’s that I’d read, so I was thrilled when Liv went to visit Everly and Cole at the peach farm! What a treat!

The Complete Duet offers a bonus novella — Christmas Beneath The Stars. It’s a Christmas Eve story, a few chapters long, and a lovely look at Adam and Liv’s life as a married couple. They have some struggles, like all married couples do, but they both set out this Christmas Eve to make it magical for the other. And it is a marvelous, bonus happily ever after for this endearing couple, who had gone through so much to make their life together under the stars.

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About the Amie
Amie Knight has been a reader for as long as she could remember and a romance lover since she could get her hands on her momma’s books. A dedicated wife and mother with a love of music and makeup, she won’t ever be seen leaving the house without her eyebrows and eyelashes done just right. When she isn’t reading and writing, you can catch her jamming out in the car with her two kids to ’90s R&B, country, and showtunes. Amie draws inspiration from her childhood in Columbia, South Carolina, and can’t imagine living anywhere other than the South.

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“An emotional and thought-provoking romance fueled by a page-turning suspense.” – Jewel E. Ann, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author

All the Beautiful Things, the highly anticipated conclusion to the unforgettable Love & Lies Duet by Stacey Lynn is available now!

She’d been betrayed too many times to hand over her trust.
I’d lost too many people to love too easily.

Together, we were a mess. A constant struggle for peace. Yet it was in each other we found everything we were looking for.
Until tragedy struck and I feared the worst.
Pushing her away would have been the best. Kept us safe and unshaken.

But it was too late. My little fighter had determined what she wanted, and she was willing to go down swinging to finally earn her happily ever after.

It was her determination that kept us together, even through the worst of it.
If we finally made it to the other side, all the ugly things we’d survived could lead to something beautiful.

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Excerpt from All the Ugly Things:

She worked in a shithole diner and probably lived in a shithole place when she was the daughter of a state judge, probably grew up in private schools with a Mercedes gifted to her on her sixteenth birthday and more money than my own parents had. This shouldn’t be her life.
She’s better than this. Better than her circumstance and I believe her. She just needs someone to help.
The memory of Melissa’s pleading eyes made me squeeze my own eyes shut. “Fucking bleeding heart.”
Since she could walk, she had a calling to save everything from kittens and frogs and turtles in the road to classmates and children where she worked.
One last request. Promise me.
I’d wanted to throttle her slim, pale throat.
I gripped the door handle and scowled at the silver-plated handle, before I threw it open.
“Happy now?” I asked, and somehow, I knew she was.
Lilly was still in the back when I entered. Where Dad said she always stood, there was an old laptop with notebooks spread open. I took the seat at the far end and waited, snagging a menu from the counter on my way.
The food was cheap, basic diner food, perfect for the clientele a place like this brought in. Greasy, thick burgers, patty melts, and Reubens. Sandwiches and burgers and two salad options.
It was late enough none of it appealed to me. Probably why my dad came for the pies.
Fortunately for me, he’d said they were the best he’d ever tasted, and I’d inherited his sweet tooth.
The creak of old, squeaky door hinges rang out and I lifted my head.
Lilly came out carrying a tray stacked with food, focused on the four-top. I didn’t move for fear of distracting her. Not a great first impression to make if she ended up covered in grease and condiments.
The guys at the table did more shoulder-slapping, whooping and hollering like they were watching the Super Bowl and not their food being delivered. I kept my eyes on them, waiting for one to give me a reason to put an end to all of them. The dark-haired guy would be first. He sat at the outer edge of the booth and as Lilly leaned forward to deliver a tray to the guy next to him, his hand hovered inches from her backside.
The blond across the table egged him on with a nod but she stood back, put space between them, and barked, “Even think of touching me and none of you are leaving with your dicks still attached to your body.”
“Oohh. I’ll show you mine happily,” one said, hands dropping to his lap.
She glared at him, resting bitch face I was certain she learned in prison firmly in place. It didn’t look right on her. Too hard. Too forced.
What would she have been like as a smiling, happy teenager before life was stolen from her?
Damn it. I felt it then. That pull my dad had when he first saw her.
She’d lost too much.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

I am so glad that there wasn’t a long wait for the conclusion to this duet! The first book ended in one helluva cliffhanger, and the conclusion to Lilly and Hudson’s story was epic!

This picks up in the same scene where the first story ends — Lilly has found out just how deep Hudson’s family’s secrets run when it comes to their interest in her. Are lies of omission okay when you are trying to do a good deed? That is the crux of Lilly’s decision in whether or not to forgive Hudson. His family holds all she’s ever wanted; all she needs to do is accept it.

But just as she does, another shock hits them, and this time Hudson is the one who balks. Will Lilly let him push her away, or will she fight for everything she’s ever wanted?

This story was brilliantly written, hits all the emotional notes I expected it to, and kept me captivated from start to finish!

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Title: Bombshell
Series: Whiskey Dolls
Author: Jessica Prince

Contemporary Romance; Small Town Romance; Single Dad Romance

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

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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