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Navy Love: The Complete Series by JC Santo Release Date: August 30, 2017 Cover Design: T.E. Black Designs About Navy Love: The Complete Series The entire Navy Love series in one place! The Navy brought them together, eight friends each with a different background, creating a unique family of friends – truly Resilient relationships. These four novels follow the lives of four couples as they navigate through the Unexpected twists and turns of life in the Navy, and the changes love brings. Although it may not always be easy, sometimes things are Inevitable. And they will find out that love is always worth it. You’ll feel their pain and experience their joys. Follow them as love is Revealed to them all. The box set includes  Inevitable Love , Love Unexpected , Resilient Love , and  Love Revealed  plus bonus scenes, and it is intended for mature audiences (18 and up). It does contain explicit language and detailed sexual scenes. ...

Suddenly Engaged (Lake Haven #3) by Julia London Date Released: July 25, 2017 Montlake Romance About Suddenly Engaged Single mother Kyra Kokinos spends her days waiting tables, her nights working on her real estate license, and every spare moment with her precocious six-year-old daughter, Ruby—especially when Ruby won’t stop pestering their grumpy next-door neighbor. At first glance, Dax Bishop seems like the kind of gruff, solitary guy who’d be unlikely to offer a cup of sugar, let alone a marriage proposal. But that’s exactly what happens when Ruby needs life-saving surgery. Dax showed up in East Beach a year ago, fresh from a painful divorce and looking for a place where he could make furniture and avoid people. Suddenly his life is invaded by an inquisitive munchkin in sparkly cowboy boots—and her frazzled, too-tempting mother. So he presents a practical plan: his insurance will help Ruby, and then they can divorce—zero strings attached. But soon Kyra and D...

Leave the Night On (Cottonbloom #4) by Laura Trentham Release Date: August 1, 2017 St. Martin's Paperbacks About Leave the Night On Love, betrayal, and sweet revenge—life in Cottonbloom is about to get a whole lot hotter. . . Sutton Mize is known for lavishing attention on the customers who flock to her boutique on the wealthy side of her Mississippi town. So when she finds a lace thong in her fiancé’s classic cherry-red Camaro, she knows just who she sold it to: her own best friend. In an instant, Sutton’s whole world goes up in flames. . . Wyatt Abbott has harbored a crush on Sutton since he was a young kid from the other side of the tracks. He witnessed Sutton’s shocking discovery in the Camaro at his family-owned garage—and it made him angry. What kind of man could take lovely, gorgeous Sutton for granted? But then Sutton comes up with an idea: Why not give her betrothed a taste of his own medicine and pretend that she’s got a lover of her own? Wyatt is m...

Note: This ARC was provided by St. Martin's Press in exchange for an honest review. One of my favorite series from 2016 is back, and Laura Trentham proves once again why she's my go-to author when it comes to small-town romance. Leave the Night On is the fourth full-length novel and the sixth addition to the Cottonbloom series, which is set in both Mississippi and Louisiana. The town of Cottonbloom is separated physically by the Mississippi River as well as by the preconceived notions people have about the more upper-crust townsfolk who live in Mississippi and the far more salt-of-the-earth citizens over on the Louisiana side. With the Fournette siblings getting their stories told in the first three novels, Trentham is giving readers a whole new set of siblings to fall in love with: the Abbott brothers. I'm not entirely sure if all four--Mack, Ford, and twins Jackson and Wyatt--will be getting their own books, especially since, after having read this book, I don...

Wicked Envy (Wicked Horse: Vegas #3) by Sawyer Bennett Release Date: October 27, 2017 About Wicked Envy The best of friends. Two men. One woman. A sinful playground called The Wicked Horse. Entrepreneur turned millionaire Dane Hawthorne has been known to get his kicks at The Wicked Horse Vegas, and he has no shortage of beautiful women waiting for a shot at him. Driven to succeed, no matter if he’s in the boardroom or the bedroom, Dane never backs down from a challenge. Avril Carrigan isn’t the type of woman to take risks in her personal life but after a broken heart and too much liquid courage, Avril decides to best way to get over one man, is to get under another. Looking to experience all the debauchery she’s heard about from her best friend and business partner, Dane, she requests one thing of him—take her to The Wicked Horse. The request seems simple. One friend helping another in her time of need. But now that they’ve crossed the threshold, thin...

Cocky Chef by J.D. Hawkins Release Date: July 31, 2017 Cover Design: Letitia Hasser ( RBA Designs ) Model:  Christian Hogue About Cocky Chef You can call me arrogant as much as you want. But when you're the best at what you do and have the hottest restaurant on the west coast, with enough Michelin stars to make Gordon Ramsay's head spin, you've earned the right to your confidence. When I give an instruction in the kitchen, it's not a suggestion--it's an order. So when a new chef thinks she can do things her way, and dares to say so to my face, even her sharp wit and gorgeous pouty lips don't make it okay.  But I have to admit, she's got talent. She's creative in the kitchen and not even that double-breasted chef jacket can hide her perfect body. As I get to know her, I can't help wanting to know everything she thinks. I've never met a more talented chef. And I've never met a sassier and sexier woman in my life. Th...