Month: August 2019

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New Release: Coached in Love by A.M. Williams



Title: Coached In Love
Author: A.M. Williams

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 Series: Boys of Summer; Prequel
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Hot men, baseball, and … love?

 Emma Carlisle never expected to find love in her workplace, and she did. But she sure did try and avoid it and him.

 Chase Anderson has a chip on his shoulder and a need to prove he’s still the best since the injury that took him off the pitcher’s mound.

 They both fight the attraction between them, neither wanting to give in to the inevitable. Will they allow themselves to drop the pretense?





Coached in Love is the prequel to A.M. Williams newest series, The Boys of Summer. It’s a short introduction to the Somerville Spartans. If you like men in tight baseball pants, sizzling chemistry, and a happily every after, this is the book for you.


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 A.M. Williams is just a simple girl from the south that found herself abroad. When she’s not annoying her cat or reading, she’s spending time with her husband and traveling as much as possible. She has a serious case of wanderlust and wants to go as many places as possible while she can. She loves Cheerwine, sweet tea, and North Carolina (eastern style) BBQ as well as those crystal clear waters on the North Carolina coast.


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Blog Tour w/Review: Heat Stroke by Skye Turner

Sometimes novellas are fully realized, and you get a whole story packed into a short amount of time. Others skate over points of the story to get to the end. Heat Stroke by Skye Turner started as the former but unfortunately ended up more like the latter.

I was intrigued at the beginning. I mean, how can you not get behind a gal who works at a lumber mill and isn’t afraid to jump in to get dirty work done? That was one of my favorite aspects of the entire plot. It was a unique setting, and Wren was comfortable in it. It seemed as if the lumber mill gave Wren a lot of confidence and strength.

She needs that strength when the bane of her high school existence, Blaze Carrington, shows up in the mill and the two get thrown together to work on a project. And herein lies the main issue I had with the book.

The fact that Blaze and his friends made Wren’s life a living hell in high school is a significant point, and both characters refer to this several times. However, there is never a lot of detail given as to what exactly they did (except make her feel bad). I would have liked some more specific examples to provide the animosity with some depth.  

As it was, Wren mentions it quite a few times but says in chapter four that she is over it. She sure mentions it a lot of times if she is actually over it.

I also made notes that there seemed to be a bizarre obsession with Wren’s hair – she refers to the weight and thickness of it often. It was weird. All that aside, the chemistry between Blaze and Wren is palpable, and their HEA is enjoyable. I do just wish that there had been a more in-depth backstory to give their reconciliation a boost. But if you know that it’s a quick read, you should like this book.

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Teaser Reveal: Explosive Encounter by K.L. Donn



Title: Explosive Encounter
Author: K.L. Donn

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Series: Task Force 779; Book 2
Genre: Military Romance



Foster Halsey has been burned by life, by love.

Recruited to the Task Force 779 elite team after a nasty divorce, Foster only wants to serve his country. He has no interest in anything except the art of explosives and saving lives. After nearly losing a team mate, and witnessing the pain his family went through, Foster is more determined than ever to remain unattached. 

Until a mission sends his team to Mexico to rescue the estranged daughter of a CIA official.

Their attraction is explosive.
But she’s been burned worse than him.

Everett Gaines was searching for answers.

After finishing college, Everett only wanted some R&R after a troubling discovery. She wanted to lay back on the beaches of Porta Vallarta and enjoy some time alone. Life has a way of kicking her when she’s already down though and soon she becomes the victim of a kidnapping.

Acts so violent and gruesome that she never imagined are forced upon her until a savior explodes through her prison door. After a failed escape, Foster vows to protect her at all costs. With risk to his own life, Everett see’s something in the solitary man. 

A longing to be someone’s everything at a time when she needs him most.

One Explosive Encounter leaves them breathless and Foster wants more.
But Everett pushes him away. Refusing to hear him out and why they could be more. Foster won’t let go though and when sinister forces come rushing back, Everett is forced to rely on Task Force 779 to keep her safe.

After the pain ends and secrets come to light, will Everett still be alive to make the choice her heart desire’s or will Foster be left an empty shell from a lost love?


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Blog Tour: Master of Revenge by Sienna Snow

Title: Master of Revenge
Author: Sienna Snow

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Series: Gods of Vegas: Book 3
Genre: Dark Romance / Contemporary



We are rivals. Sworn enemies. And he is the only man to ignite a fire in my soul.

I walk a fine line between control and chaos, defined by my past and driven by my future. Nothing can stop me from protecting those I love.

Zack Lykaios is cunning and dangerous. He wants to destroy everything I’ve built on his ruthless march to the top.

All that I am, or ever will be, says I should avoid him.

Still, I’ve been tempted. One card game. One night of all-consuming passion. One craving I can’t deny. One need I can never quench.

Wanting him can only lead to disaster. Loving him is guaranteed to destroy my world.






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Inspired by her years working in corporate America, Sienna loves to serve up stories woven around confident and successful women who know what they want and how to get it, both in – and out – of the bedroom. 

Her heroines are fresh, well-educated, and often find love and romance through atypical circumstances. Sienna treats her readers to enticing slices of hot romance infused with empowerment and indulgent satisfaction.

Sienna loves the life of travel and adventure. She plans to visit even the farthest corners of the world and delight in experiencing the variety of cultures along the way.

When she is not writing or traveling, Sienna is working on her “happily ever after” with her husband and children.
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New Release: Alternate Endings



Alternate Endings by Brittany Anne


Genre: Contemporary Romance


They both want to run, but they want each other more.

Charlotte was not living the life she’d dreamed of. Dead end job, tiny apartment, no family left, and forever trapped in the small town where she lost it all… that was her life, until the man she’d spent ten years working to forget walks in as if he’d never left. Owen ignites her like no one else, but can she really trust him again? Charlotte had been burned by him before, and she knows in her heart that she will not survive saying goodbye a second time…

When she looks at him, does she see the man she loved, or the man she left?

Owen worked hard to build a life for himself in the Navy, but ten years later, fate calls him back to the little town where he lost everything. When he sees the woman he’d spent a decade running from, he finds himself at war in his own mind. Sparks begin flying, and he finds the wall he built around his heart slowly crumbling down. He wants to forget the past, but he doesn’t know how to see beyond her betrayal… or trust that she won’t do it again.

Can true love really get a second chance, or was their romance always doomed to end in tragedy?






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Brittany Anne is a hopeless romantic and an unrelenting dreamer, forever shoving logic aside for the sake of love and “happily every after.”

She is a writer of romance dabbling in multiple sub-genres which include but are not limited to contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense. Her stories typically center around flawed but lovable alpha heroes and strong, compassionate heroines.

When she isn’t writing, you can find Brittany Anne reading steamy romance novels, studying history, spending time outdoors in nature, and loving life with her very own alpha hero.



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Blog Tour w/Review: Riverflow

I was eager to read this book because I live in a state where fracking is prevalent, and there are always conversations regarding its benefits and detractions. Never having read any of the author’s books before, I wasn’t sure how the topic would be addressed, so I approached with caution – I just hoped it wouldn’t turn into a diatribe (spoiler alert: it didn’t).

I will admit that the beginning seemed very slow to me. I understand that the author had to lay the foundation and let the reader get to know the characters, but it felt like it was too methodical and took too long. I kept wanting the action to kick off.

As I read further, I realized that the author was weaving a very dense web of character relations that would have an impact later in the book. I appreciated the beginning more when I realized it, but still made for a slow start.

The action did pick up some, as the main characters (Bede and Elin) got caught up in the fervor surrounding the fracking. I liked having to figure out what was personal and what could be related to the protests.

I found that Bede’s love/hate relationship to the river made his character most interesting. The river had claimed his uncle’s life (hate), but he and Elin enjoyed being near it and didn’t want the pollution of the fracking (love). His paranoia (or was it?) and actions seemed real, as did his reactions to the events that occurred.

I think this was a perfect example of many peoples’ attitudes toward environmentalism. How far will people go to protect what they love and at what expenses? How does one find a balance between the two? And how does one deal when long-buried secrets come to light, changing everything? There were more than a few twists along the way that kept answers to those questions from being addressed too quickly.

The book ended up being a pretty good read. I would have liked it to move a little bit faster, but I thought the author did a great job of building the tension to the climax of the story (you know me, I don’t like to give away plot points).

Give this one a try – stick with the slow beginning. You’ll be glad you did.

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Cover Reveal: Collision
Collision by Nicole Banks

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Series: Shattered Hearts; Book 3
Genre: Romantic Suspense/Contemporary Romance



Eight years was a long time to be gone.
I changed and I knew the people I was going home to changed as well.
I never wanted to leave her, but circumstances forced me to walk away and I chose not to look back.
But I’m finally home and ready to reclaim all that I lost with Kris.
I hoped the decisions I made in my past didn’t come back to haunt me.

He’s been gone for eight years.
Left without ever saying goodbye to me.
He chose to walk away from us, never letting me decide whether I wanted to live my life with him.
I had to learn how to move on and mourn the loss of what could have been.
Eight years was a long time to be gone.
Too bad my heart didn’t understand the concept of time.


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Creatively living through music, writing and yoga.

I love the arts and how they move you and make you feel.

Reading has always been a great love of mine right after my love of music. Each song written is a story waiting to be told. Which, along with my over active imagination fueled by desire to write about the chaos that goes on in my head.

I love stringing words together. I love making people get lost in a story and connecting with fictional characters that remind them of someone they know.

I published my first book Shattered in 2013. It’s the first installment in the Shattered Hearts Series.
Shattered started out as an assignment for a college course I took at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. After I graduated college I went through my old papers and reconnected with the story morphing into so much more then what I wrote in my college course.

Now you can find me doing yoga, listening to music and working on getting out all the stories in m head, including dabbling in poetry. (Which I’ve always had a secret love affair with).



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Book Review: A Stranger on the Beach

A Stranger on the BeachA Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book! Through the first part of it, the author did an outstanding job of planting seeds that made me doubt who was telling the truth and who was lying. At any given moment, I could swing my “allegiance to the truth” between Aidan and Caroline. By Chapter 26, I was convinced that Aidan was a creepy stalker. By Chapter 42, my notes read, “Wth is going on?” and “What’s real and what isn’t?” And by 52, my notes were nothing but “Omg, no way!” (and variations thereof). I cannot stress what a fantastic book this was. It is an absolute page-turner and a perfect “end of summer” novel. I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and the author for a complimentary, pre-release digital ARC.

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Book Review: A Stranger on the Beach

You need to go grab this book…NOW!

It started as a reasonably straightforward plot; a woman (Caroline) finds out her husband (Jason) is cheating and finds solace in another man’s (Aidan’s) arms, then deals with the aftermath of the “affair.”

Or is that the truth of the matter?

It isn’t long before events start happening that make both the reader and Caroline question everything. Or should the reader believe Aidan?

The author deftly manipulates the action to keep the characters off-balance, and in turn, that keeps the reader off-balance as well. And that is the beauty of the book. I kept going back to re-read passages to see if I could figure out what was happening. By the time I got to the end, I wanted to read the whole thing over again to find possible clues.

As I mention in my Goodreads review (below), the twists come periodically at first. But roughly halfway through, the tension and the action speed up, and the hits and twist come fast and hard.

Reading this book was the absolute equivalent to a roller coaster. There is a slow build, but then holy hell, hold on to your seats for the rest of the ride.

It’s an excellent page-turner and a great way to spend a few days – especially if you need an escape from the coming school year or pressures of work. Lose yourself in this twisty thriller. You won’t be disappointed.

A Stranger on the BeachA Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book! Through the first part of it, the author did an outstanding job of planting seeds that made me doubt who was telling the truth and who was lying. At any given moment, I could swing my “allegiance to the truth” between Aidan and Caroline. By Chapter 26, I was convinced that Aidan was a creepy stalker. By Chapter 42, my notes read, “Wth is going on?” and “What’s real and what isn’t?” And by 52, my notes were nothing but “Omg, no way!” (and variations thereof). I cannot stress what a fantastic book this was. It is an absolute page-turner and a perfect “end of summer” novel. I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and the author for a complimentary, pre-release digital ARC.

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Blog Tour w/ Review: Southern Gentleman

I came to the Charleston Heat series in the second book, so of course, I had to go back and read the first one immediately. Then I was left waiting impatiently for the third one to be released.

I am happy to say that my wait is over, and I was not disappointed.

This time, it’s Julia and Greyson’s story. I loved that they had to work together in spite of butting heads with each other – which was just the adult equivalent of him pulling her pigtails at school because their chemistry is off the charts.

I liked Julia’s profession. I thought it gave the author the opportunity for some great insights into the romance genre. I also liked that her side passion was a nod to her father. That was a small but essential touch that added depth to her character.

I particularly related to Grey’s feelings about relationships and why he was reluctant to enter into anything permanent. I did think that he was a little bit over the top with how people were disappointed in him, but it made sense when evaluating his attitude towards work – he needed to be successful and didn’t like having to settle for anything less.

Also, I want to take a second to acknowledge the details that the author shared about Julia’s pregnancy. For those of us who will never experience it, I thought she did an admirable job of the “warts and all” aspects. I liked how both Julia and Greyson readily admitted that they had no clue about what to expect, but that they were strong enough to recognize what they wanted.

As always, the sexy scenes are incredibly hot – the author is one of the queens of building that tantalizing burn that gives you that swoop in your stomach as you realize the feelings between the characters.

This is another excellent read in a fantastic series. I hope she keeps finding couples to focus on for a while yet. I’m not ready to let these go.

Southern Gentleman (Charleston Heat, #3)Southern Gentleman by Jessica Peterson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love me the boys of Charleston Heat, and this book is no exception. I especially appreciated the depth of the characters and the events that shaped their relationship. While the unexpected pregnancy trope is popular (no spoilers, it’s right there in the title info), the author cuts right to the point. The “Oh no, what should I do” doesn’t take up half the book, which I appreciated. We got to jump right into how Julia and Grey were going to deal with the pregnancy and beyond. I also appreciated that the expected sexy times were as hot as always. Another winner from Jessica Peterson! For more thoughts on this 5-star read, visit my blog at Fireflies and Free Kicks Fiction Reviews. This review was written based on a complimentary, pre-release digital ARC of the book.

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