Dog-Eared Daydreams

Unzipped by Lauren Blakely narrated by Joe Arden & Andi Arndt Release Date: October 30, 2018 Audible Studios About Unzipped Wanted: Dating coach to help hot nerd win back the woman of his dreams… Picture this—I’m ready to win back the love of my life, and I’m going big this time. We’re talking boom box, sing her name in the rain, let the whole damn neighborhood know I'm good and ready this time around. After all, if you're going to grand gesture the ever-loving hell out of a second chance, you need to pull out all the stops. There’s only one little problem. My college girlfriend isn't the one who shows up when I play my "I'll do anything to win you back" tune. The woman who flings open the second-floor window tells me my ex doesn’t live here anymore. But she'll help me win her back. Anything for romance, anything for a guy so willing to go big for love. And that's what I want at first. Until I get to know my new “ro...

Eagle (Linear Tactical #2) by Janie Crouch Release Date: October 30, 2018 About Eagle Finn Bollinger. Military codename: EAGLE. A single dad, a warrior, a hero. For Charlotte Devereux he's also the man whose heart she broke years before. And now, he's her only chance for survival. When former Special Forces soldier Finn Bollinger is asked to help with an undercover mission, he's up for the task. His job teaching survival skills to civilians at Linear Tactical keeps him sharp, and he can still handle himself in the field.  But the Army damn well didn't teach Finn how to handle Charlotte Devereux. She's back and she's all sorts of bad news.  Charlotte can't change the past. Can't change the choices she made or the fact that they cost her everything. All she can do is endure the fallout. Even if that means putting her future in the hands of Finn, the man who has every right to want to destroy her. And can in so many more...

Note: An advanced reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author via Give Me Books Promotions. Janie Crouch is fast becoming one of my favorite re-discoveries this year. Yep, you read that right: rediscovery. I take note of her writing when I first read it a couple or so years ago, but that was as part of multi-authored effort. Now, she's front and center, and while I know I've missed out on a whole lot of books that she's written in the past, I'm just glad that I was able to start this newest series of hers and am now happily addicted to all things Linear Tactical . The first novel, Cyclone , impressed me immensely, and this second effort lived up to all my expectations. Eagle is a second chance love story with the kind of romantic suspense that the author is known for. It kicks off with the return of Charlotte Deveraux to the one place she considered home--Oak Creek, Colorado. It's been eight years since she left the town and everyone in it behind as the b...

Death of a Bachelor (Cherrywood Grove #1) by M.A. Hinkle Date Released: October 29, 2018 NineStar Press About Death of a Bachelor Cathal Kinnery is an arrogant, overeducated jerk, and Damon Eglamore is not afraid to tell him so. But Damon married Cathal’s best friend, so they have an uneasy truce. Then she passes away. Now they’re stuck together in close quarters, trying to honor her memory without shouting at each other all the time. At first, they have no idea how to move forward. Damon is a chef, but all his favorite recipes remind him of his late wife. Cathal would love to start tomcatting around town again, except for that annoying promise he made to his best friend about looking after Damon. Then Damon’s son comes to them for help, convinced the only way to win over his first crush is a gender-bending Shakespeare production. After that, Cathal talks Damon into taking up baking as a new way to use his talents. Next thing they know, they’ve begun a new life...

Trusted (Until You #3) by Karrie Roman Date Released: October 29, 2018 NineStar Press About Trusted Zach Piper has escaped his father’s cult only to find himself in a world he doesn’t understand. Abused and neglected, he’s grown up an outcast among outcasts. He has no business trusting anybody after what he’s been through, but when Cameron Cronin takes him in and shows him a world he never knew, he willingly hands over his trust. In Cameron he finds honor and decency—someone who cares. Cameron lives without love and he prefers it that way. He never wants to fall in love again. The last man he loved shattered Cameron’s heart as surely as his trust. When he takes in much-younger Zach, who recently emerged from his own hell, he hears the familiar whisper of long-dead feelings. But he doesn’t want to love. He cannot trust he won’t be broken again if he does. As time passes and the two men get to know each other, Cameron’s feelings for Zach deepen whether he wants i...

The Boy I Grew Up With by Tijan Release Date: October 29, 2018 About The Boy I Grew Up With I have loved Channing Monroe all my life.  In first grade, he asked for my Trapper Keeper.  I hit him in the head with it.  Third grade, we were best friends. We kissed in seventh grade.  Eighth grade, he turned into a bad boy and the rest was a tumultuous storm.  Growing up, the problem was never love for us.  Bad times. Good times. There were times when I felt our love in every inch of my body, vibrating, making me feel like it could bring me back to life.  The problem was us.  The problem is that we’re from two different worlds now.  Fallen Crest and its millionaires for me. Roussou and their criminals for him. I was thriving in mine and he was running his.  But… But there were nights I felt we couldn’t be further apart than we were, and there were nights I felt we shared the same heartbeat.  ...