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Seventeen Wishes by Erica Alexander If knowing the truth could leave you more broken than believing the lies, would you still want to know it? We’ve been friends out entire lives, Lilly and me. But I have not always being truthful. There are lies we tell ourselves so we can hold on to hope. And lies we tell those we love to save them the pain. There are truths that are too big and too final. And truths that give us a reason to keep going. This is where I live. Between the lies and the truths. Between hope and finality. This is the place I’ve created for us. For Lilly and me. A place without expiration dates. A place where I can be me and where the promise of tomorrow exists, even if it’s a lie I tell myself. Our time is limited, so I’ll make the most of it and hope she’ll forgive me for the lies I told us both. ***Previously a part of Between Hearts: A Romance Anthology*** *Stand Alone Novella. *Not recommended for readers younger than 18. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted

Deliver by Pam Godwin His name was Joshua Carter. Now it's whatever she wants it to be. She is a Deliverer. She lures young men and delivers them to be sold. She delivers the strikes that enforce their obedience. She delivers the sexual training that determines their purchase price. As long as she delivers, the arrangement that protects her family will hold. Delivering is all she knows. The one thing she can't deliver is a captive from slavery. Until him. And her stubborn slave thinks he can deliver her...from herself. DELIVER series (HEAs with no cliffhangers - must be read in order): Deliver #1 Vanquish #2 Disclaim #3 Devastate #4 Take #5 Manipulate #6 Unshackle #7 Dominate #8 Complicate #9 My Review: Mood?  dark   emotional   mysterious   tense Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?  Plot Strong character development?  Yes Loveable characters?  It's complicated Diverse cast of characters?  N/A Flaws of characters a main focus?  Yes My rating: 3 of 5 star

Push the Envelope by Rochelle Paige Alexa is just your average college junior, attending classes and piloting Mile High Club charter flights.  Boys haven't been on her radar for a couple years after a disastrous breakup with her high school sweetheart. Her plans to focus on school hit a bit of a snag when she meets bad-boy Drake Bennett, and he sets his sights on making her his own. Drake transferred to Blythe College for the rugby team, not for a new assortment of college girls.  He's sexy and cocky, and he attracts women like moths to a flame. When he meets Alexa, Drake knows he's met his match. She tries to resist him, but Drake isn't used to taking no for an answer. This does not have a cliffhanger. Warning: 18+ due to sexual content My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes M

Poker Face by Maggie C. Gates Every girl dreams about meeting her celebrity crush–Running into them on the street and snapping a selfie. Maybe even being saved like a gorgeous damsel and having said celebrity crush sweep her off of her feet. Me personally? Let’s just say that me and the Hemsworth boys have had our fair share of imaginary meet-cutes. I’m not picky. I’d take any of them. The thing is, every girl dreams about what she would do if she got to meet her celebrity crush, but no one dreams about what they’d do if they met their celebrity nemesis. Let me tell you–I have a celebrity nemesis. And he was sitting in front of me wearing a scowl that could be seen from space. And ten hours earlier I had been sitting on his lap, clinging to him like a koala while his tongue was down my throat. Pastry chef Madeline Dorsey only hates a few things: people who think that charcuterie boards are an acceptable substitution for dinner, last call at the bar, idiots who don’t retur

My Twist of Fortune by Piper Rayne Two aching hearts. A meddling small town. A second chance. It’s not a new story. Wife finds out husband’s been cheating on her and she packs up her four kids and heads back to her hometown, Sunrise Bay, Alaska. Yeah, not a fresh start, but thousands of miles away from my ex will do just fine. I’m prepared for the cold weather, the early snowfalls, and dark days and nights. What I’m not prepared for is coming face to face with my ex’s cousin and for the same feelings from twenty years ago to ignite like the flame never went out. It doesn’t take long before people are whispering about the widowed Hank Greene and me. But we both have children to think of this time around. Then again, Hank knows what it’s like to be a single parent and sometimes those damn dimples of his make it hard to remember why we can’t be together.   My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?  fast Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Lov

Craving by Helen Hardt Your Escape Into A World of Dark Mysteries & Spicy Romance. After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend’s ranch on the Colorado western slope. Her humiliation still ripe, she doesn't expect to be attracted to her friend’s reticent brother, but when the gorgeous cowboy kisses her, all bets are off. Talon Steel is broken. Having never fully healed from a horrific childhood trauma, he simply exists, taking from women what is offered and giving nothing in return...until Jade Roberts catapults into his life. She is beautiful, sweet, and giving, and his desire for her becomes a craving he fears he'll never be able to satisfy. Passion sizzles between the two lovers...but long-buried secrets haunt them both and may eventually tear them apart. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   Medium Plot- or character-driven?  A mix Strong character development?  It's complicated Loveable characters?  Yes Diverse cast of

The Contract by Alexia Chase Can a football player win on and off the field? Jenna My brother's best friend. He was my first love.... and my first heartbreak. After my high school graduation, his pickup was our Hilton. Everything was perfect…. or so I thought. Until the prick told his friends that I was a lousy lay. He can go screw himself. Tony I’m the guy who had it all…. for one night. And then I lost her with no explanation. Not just lost her, she hates me now. So, I fought back with indifference until an argument between us went viral, and the next thing I knew we were stuck together until my next contract is signed. Good thing I'm not going to fall for our fake engagement. Famous last words. Told in dual pov's. The Contract is a standalone enemies-to-lovers romance set in the Alexia Chase’s Sinfully Addictive World. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   medium Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?

Rule #6: You Can't Fall for Your Fake Summer Fling by Anne-Marie Meyer The Rules of Love Romance series contains full length, standalone romances that are full of happily ever afters. Get your copy today! I thought I was strong enough to go along with the plan. Fake dating the heart throb, Cayden Rivers, seemed simple enough. Apparently not. I am just trying to survive. Spending the summer with my loosey-goosey Dad in Hollywood, CA is just enough to send my OCD tendencies into superdrive. But Mom thinks it’s good for me. And my best friend Michelle has agreed to come along. I should have known better than to get on the plane. First Dad drops his soon-to-be wife on me. Then I run into Cayden Rivers, the player of Hollywood. He seems just as trapped in his life as I feel in mine. Which is weird. And the more I get to know him, the more I find out, maybe we’re not that different. So when he asks me to fake date him to help his image, I stupidly agree. Everything goes according

Dear Spencer by Danielle Keil Everyone at Ryder High knows what it means to have a teal envelope taped to their locker on the first day of the month. Spencer Matthews assumes the Secret Admirers game is on pause, since it’s June and school is out for summer. Then a teal envelope with her name on it arrives in the mail. Spencer is eager to play, but her Secret Admirer makes her work for her clues by playing a trivia game app he created. Her spreadsheet of suspects is color coded, and Spencer is confident she knows who her admirer is after only the first two clues. But something goes wrong, threatening the future of the game. Will Spencer be able to continue playing? And if so, will her guesses still be right? My Review: Mood? lighthearted Pace?    medium  Plot- or character-driven? a mix Strong character development?  yes Loveable characters?  yes Diverse cast of characters?     It's complicated Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love this

Lovely Baker by Alexa Riley Jenna has been running the bakery for a while now and she doesn't need her grouchy boss telling her what to do. No matter how big his muscles are or how dark those eyes can be when he's staring into her soul. Wait, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, she's busy taking care of her little brother whom she's raised since he was a baby, and she doesn't have time for men. No matter how sexy they are. Reed has been playing the long game with Jenna because he knows she has a responsibility to her son. But from the first time he saw her, he's been counting down the seconds until he can make her his. Her time of playing games is over, and a weekend away at a friend's wedding is just the opportunity he needs. Warning: He's pressing his luck and she likes the way it feels against her. Hot and dirty at the speed of happily ever after. What more could you want? Epilogues? Good thing the ebook has plenty! My Review: Mood?  li

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family". But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disa

Always and Forever by Julia Jarrett He’s my childhood best friend’s older brother, a man I haven’t seen in eighteen years. But while I was gone, Ethan Monroe went from the boy I knew to the seriously hot mayor of our small town. I’m talking plaid-wearing, scruff-bearing, panty-melting gorgeous. The thing is, I didn’t come back to Dogwood Cove to date. I’m only here to deal with my estranged father’s will and figure out what to do with the run-down beachfront resort he decided to leave me. The resort needs a lot of work, and Ethan offers to help. He makes a tool belt look good and watching him lift heavy loads is making me wish we were more than just friends. And if the looks he gives me are any indication, that attraction goes both ways. Except I’ve got trust issues that can’t be repaired with a hammer and nails, and my wounded heart is only just beginning to heal. Coming back to Dogwood Cove is exactly what I didn’t know I needed. Risking my new life for a man, for love,

Sugarcoated by Erin Nicholas A hot, funny brother’s best friend rom com… with sugar on top! She's his best friend's little sister. He's known her all his life. He's practically part of the family. There is nothing either of them could do to surprise the other at this point. Then she showed up in his bedroom in lingerie and asked him to take her V-card. Okay, that was a surprise. Aiden is pretty sure Zoe was equally surprised when he told her no. To say that he didn't handle it well would be a massive understatement. Almost as massive as the amount of work he's going to have to do now to convince her that he wants her. Forever. Right after he tells her that he's bought the company that's her bakery’s biggest competitor. Maybe if he tells her he’s in love with her first, that will help sugarcoat the whole we're-rivals-in-business-now thing. So, first "I'm in love with you", then "take off your clothes", then "

Catch by Evelyn Montgomery Hunter One look. One touch. One sound of her beautiful voice, and I’m hooked. Like a dream I never want to wake up from, she pulls me in and wraps me around her. Consumed. Driven with need. Fueled by an unrelenting desire to make her mine. One night, I take more than she has ever given before, which only leaves me wanting more. Needing more. Craving more. She’s the one I’ve waited for my whole life. I’ll be damned if I let anyone, including our families, stand in our way. She trusts me. Hungers for me, just like I want only to covet her. Forever. But, there is one twist neither of us see coming. A curveball, no one could ever have ever expected. Still, I hold on tight to her light. She’s my Angel. Something about her, us, makes me feel like I found heaven on earth. She’s my best Catch, and I’m not letting her go. Ever! My Review :  Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   fast Plot- or character-driven?   A mix Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable

Sugar Rush by Erin Nicholas He’s been her brother’s best friend all her life. He’s always been there for her, no matter what she needed. He's loaned her money, let her borrow his car, and told her the truth about her bad haircuts. Surely, he do her this one favor. Yeah, it’s a big one. But she really needs to get rid of her V-card and she can’t ask just anyone to help her with that. She needs one night and a little coaching from a guy she trusts. Heck, she'll take twenty minutes if that's all he's got. She’s got the chocolate pie and the pink lingerie and…she really hopes he can take it from there. And that this isn’t the worst idea she’s ever had. A prequel to  Sugarcoated , book one in the  Hot Cakes  series. My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?   fast Plot- or character-driven?   Character Strong character development?    Yes   Loveable characters?   Yes Diverse cast of characters?   N/a Flaws of characters a main focus?   Yes My rating: 5 of 5 stars