Dog-Eared Daydreams

Penalty Box (Beautifully Brutal #0.5) by Casey Hagen Release Date: October 31, 2021 About Penalty Box I’m the bad boy who will stain his soul to keep her safe. She’s a runner. Always has been...at least, she’s always run from me. Our history repeats relentlessly. Longing. Secret trysts. Pounding hearts. Fiery stolen kisses. Her retreating back. Now she’s home, hunted by someone sinister. The lesser of two evils, I’m the unlikely lifeline she reaches for. Becoming her salvation means plunging my hard-won, respectable life into ruin. But I’ve never had the strength to turn away from her hold on me. I’ve always been hers. She’s always been mine. Savannah Bryant has run away from me—from us—for the last time. Add Penalty Box  on Goodreads . Purchase Links Amazon | Apple Books | B&N | Eden Books |  Google Play |  Kobo About Casey Hagen Casey Hagen pens her snarky, passionate stories from the salty air of Kennebunk, Mai...

Ground Zero (Birch County Fire #1) by April Canavan Release Date: October 31, 2021 About Ground Zero Ground Zero: The center or origin of rapid, intense, or violent activity I carried her lifeless body out of a burning building. One that collapsed on top of us, forcing us to fight for survival. Where she gave her life so that I could live. That nightmare wasn’t the happy ending I thought I’d find in the flames. Turns out, it wasn’t our ending at all. It was the beginning of our story. The one where I fell in love without knowing what was happening. Or the destruction she would thrust into my path. Add Ground Zero on Goodreads . Purchase Links Amazon | Apple Books | B&N | Google Play | Kobo About April Canavan USA Today bestselling author by day and superhero by night,  April spends her time craving tacos, singing to herself, and writing romance novels. While she writes across genres, her heart lives with romance about heroes that will t...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author via Wildfire Marketing Solutions. Ground Zero is the first book in April Canavan's new Birch County Fire series, which is a spin-off of her Birch Police Department series (which, in turn, is a spin-off of the Birch County Blue trilogy). With so many ties shared, I highly recommend you read the previous books because there are a lot of characters from there that show up in this book (and I'm guessing the rest of the books to come). I only had the opportunity to read the first and last Birch Police Department books and I confess that I was a tad lost because there were mentions of events in the books in between, and again, I'm experiencing that bit of cluelessness with this new series starter. But hey, if you want to dive straight in (because I totally get not having enough hours in the day to read everything you want), I'm not going to stop you. There will be enough hints to help you along the way. This i...

Bad at Love by Aimee Nicole Walker Release Date: October 14, 2021 About Bad at Love Bad at making decisions or bad at love? Either way, Kendall Blakemore doesn’t trust his judgment. He falls too hard, too fast, and always for the wrong guy. Needing a major shakeup, Kendall moves into his own place for the first time and seizes a new career opportunity. But everything he thought he wanted turns out to be the last thing he needs. When loneliness threatens to derail Kendall’s good behavior, he decides to rent out his spare bedroom. What could go wrong? Try a tenant who’s temptation incarnate. Bad at commitment or born to roam? Either way, US Deputy Marshal Kurt Dandridge feels trapped. Maybe staying in one place for too long is the source of his unhappiness, or maybe it’s because he’s engaged to the wrong person. Finding his fiancé in bed with another man takes care of one problem but creates another. Ridge needs a place to live. He’d leave Savannah altogether if not for his vow...

You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith Release Date: November 2, 2021 Inkyard Press About You Can Go Your Own Way “A sweetly charming love story that leaves the reader with a lasting sense of hope.” —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star No one ever said love would be easy…but did they mention it would be freezing? Adam Stillwater is in over his head. At least, that’s what his best friend would say. And his mom. And the guy who runs the hardware store down the street. But this pinball arcade is the only piece of his dad that Adam has left, and he’s determined to protect it from Philadelphia’s newest tech mogul, who wants to turn it into another one of his cold, lifeless gaming cafés. Whitney Mitchell doesn’t know how she got here. Her parents split up. Her boyfriend dumped her. Her friends seem to have changed overnight. And now she’s spending her senior year running social media for her dad’s chain of sup...

My Christmas Wish (Compass Cove #1) by Jeannie Moon Release Date: November 3, 2021 Tule Publishing About My Christmas Wish It’s Christmastime in Compass Cove and love is in the air… With her well-connected Long Island family, an exciting job as a London art dealer, and a brilliant, attentive boyfriend, Natalie Miller’s life was golden. Until it wasn’t. No one knows about the anxiety that drives her, the loyalty forcing her to make impossible choices, or the secrets consuming her. Now back in Compass Cove, Natalie is fielding questions from her family about what brought her home and longs for the life—and the love—she left behind. University professor and aristocrat James Phillips prides himself on understanding people, so it mystifies him when the love of his life leaves London—and him—without explanation. When an opportunity to work at a small college in Natalie’s backyard arises, James jumps at the chance to move across the pond, willing to do whatever it takes to win bac...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the publisher via Buoni Amici Press. I can't believe it's been nearly six years since I last read something by Jeannie Moon! While I prefer reading books in order, I couldn't resist reading her latest book, which happens to be the fourth in her Compass Cove  series. My Christmas Wish begins in London, with thirty-two-year-old American Natalie Miller abruptly leaves behind her job in a gallery and ends her relationship with forty-year-old Englishman, university professor, and member of the peerage James Phillips. She returns to her hometown of Compass Cove on Long Island, New York. The artist never gave an explanation to why she left, but when James learns the truth, he decides to accept an invitation to be the interim department head of a small college on Long Island. He wants nothing more than an opportunity to show Natalie their relationship is worth fighting for, but will she let him? This book was a reminder of why ...