Dog-Eared Daydreams

Note: This ARC was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. I've read a number of Harper Bliss's books, and I do believe that I've found myself a new favorite with her latest release, Seasons of Love . This was such a beautifully told story about fifty-one-year-old Alice McAllister, a solicitor who co-owns a self-started business with her best friend, and twenty-nine-year-old Joy Perkins, Alice's best friend's daughter. At the insistence of her best friend Miranda Jones, Alice takes a two-week vacation in Portugal but the solitude she thought she would have is soon lost upon the arrival of Miranda's daughter Joy. Alice and Joy are opposites, but Joy constantly prods at Alice and Alice's own curiosity of the young woman who surprises her by admitting that she's a lesbian is at an all-time high. The vacation in Portugal changes their relationship to more, but it is Alice who undergoes the greatest change. Seasons of Love is Alic

Hard Ever After (Hard Ink #5) by Laura Kaye Release Date: February 2, 2016 Avon Impulse About Hard Ever After You are invited to the Wedding of the Year... Justice served. Honor restored. Team reunited. After a long battle to discover the truth, the men and women of Hard Ink have a lot to celebrate, especially the wedding of two of their own—Nick Rixey and Becca Merritt, whose hard-fought love deserves a happy ending. As Nick and the team shift from crisis mode to building their new security consulting firm, Becca heads back to work at the ER. But amid the everyday chaos of demanding jobs and their upcoming nuptials, an old menace they thought long gone reemerges, threatening the peace they’ve only just found. Now, for one last time, Nick and Becca must fight for their always and forever, because they know that when true love overcomes all the odds it lasts hard ever after. Read my five-plus-starred review of Hard Ever After . Add Hard Ever

Note: This ARC was provided by Avon Impulse via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. "I love you with everything that I am, and everything I want to be. Please do me the greatest honor of my life and say you'll be my wife, my partner, my best friend, my companion. Becca Merritt, will you marry me?" "Only you. Always you. Forever you, Nick. Yes." I've been anxious to read Hard Ever After ever since it was announced last year, and now that I'm done reading it, suffice it to say that it was worth waiting for. This was the perfect end (and yes, I know that there's another novella in the Hard Ink series) to the story Nick Rixey and Becca Merritt. They started the ball rolling with Hard as It Gets , so I think that it's only fitting that it's their happily-ever-after that closes out the story of the men and women of Hard Ink. And did you notice how the acronym for the book's title and "happily ever after" are t

Break Me Like a Promise (Promises #1) by Aria Grace & Kyan Christopher Release Date: January 30, 2016 M/M & M/F Contemporary Romance About Break Me Like a Promise An M/M and M/F Contemporary Romance Series. Written from the perspectives of both male and female, gay and straight characters.  80% M/M, 20% M/F  For brothers Brent and Tad, opening up their gym, Sculpt, is a dream come true. Struggling to gain recognition in the fitness world, they enlist the help of a well-known advertising agency to help market their full service fitness center. When Brent meets his new account manager, he feels an automatic attraction to Luke. However, another employee in the gym has his eyes set on Brent and will stop at nothing to keep the boss to himself.  Tad is married to his high school sweetheart. With a wife and two adorable children, his life couldn’t get any better. Then his happily ever after is cut short by a tragic accident. Tad gives up on love, expectin

Note: This ARC was provided by Enticing Journey Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review. Aria Grace and Kyan Christopher have gotten together for a brand new series set in a gym called Sculpt and the people who work and work out there called Promises , with series starter Break Me Like a Promise introducing readers to four central characters, each of whom told the story from their respective points of view: brothers and Sculpt owners Tad and Brent Thomas, advertising executive Luke Baker, and Sculpt employee Marissa (whose last name I don't recall being mentioned). Another supporting character, accountant Beverly, also tells the story from her viewpoint, but she's the main antagonist in the story, and every bit the unlikable person she's portrayed to be. This was a really fast-paced story, one that was able to hold my interest and brought with it the creative touch of having more than the usual number of POVs. Tad and Brent are fulfilling their dream of

Note: This ARC was provided by Less Than Three Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Yes, Chef is a novella set in the always fascinating (at least as far I'm concerned) world of professional kitchens and was written by Alex Cohen. Here we have Diego Ramirez, a forty-two-year-old executive chef in a successful and popular restaurant in Michigan known as The Local Dish, and Ben Walsh, a newly acquired twenty-nine-year-old (though that's only my educated guess based on the information about him in the story) pastry chef and the restaurant owner's nephew. Diego is wary of Ben, not only because of the nepotism involved in his hiring, but because of his attraction to this man who is much younger than him. The acrimonious end of his decade-long relationship has also left Diego jaded, so he keeps his distance from Ben, even though the attraction is quite mutual. Will it be too late before Diego comes to his senses? Even though the story did drag for a

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author A.L. Jackson is back with the third novel in her Bleeding Stars series and I've got the wickedly gorgeous cover for Where Lightning Strikes to share with all of you: Where Lightning Strikes (Bleeding Stars #3) by A.L. Jackson Release Date: March 22, 2016 About Where Lightning Strikes Do you know what it feels like right before lightning strikes? How you can feel the current running through your veins? The trembles of warning that ripple through the air? It was a thrill Tamar King chased all her life until it became the very thing she had to escape.  For the last four years, Tamar King has hidden herself in an isolated world she created. She was safe. No one could touch her. Until Lyrik West walked through her door.  He’s the lead guitarist for Sunder and everything she can never have. The dark and beautiful rock star becomes everything she craves.  Lyrik’s life has been devoted to his band and that su

I am beyond excited to be one of the bloggers participating in the cover reveal for the much awaited sequel to the Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy bestseller, Him ! Slated for a March 8 release, Us is a book that many a fan has been anticipating ever since plans for a sequel were announced. The official blurb already has me bouncing on my seat! Without further ado, here's the cover for Us ... Us (Him #2) by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy Release Date: March 8, 2016 About Us Can your favorite hockey players finish their first season together undefeated? Five months in, NHL forward Ryan Wesley is having a record-breaking rookie season. He's living his dream of playing pro hockey and coming home every night to the man he loves–Jamie Canning, his longtime best friend turned boyfriend. There's just one problem: the most important relationship of his life is one he needs to keep hidden, or else face a media storm that will eclipse his success on

Reckless (Rescue Squad #1) by Kimberly Kincaid Release Date: January 26, 2016 Zebra About Reckless Someone's bound to get burned... Zoe Westin may be a fire captain’s daughter, but feeding the people in her hometown of Fairview is her number one priority. Running a soup kitchen is also the perfect way to prove to her dad that helping people doesn’t always mean risking life and limb. But when she's saddled with a gorgeous firefighter doing community service after yet another daredevil stunt, the kitchen has never been so hot. Alex Donovan thrives on adrenaline, and stirring a pot of soup doesn’t exactly qualify. He’s not an expert at following the rules either, not even when they come from the stubborn, sexy daughter of the man who's not only his boss, but his mentor. Determined to show Zoe that not every risk ends in catastrophe, Alex challenges her both in the kitchen and out. One reckless step leads to another, but will falling for each other be a r