Dog-Eared Daydreams

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author via Give Me Books Promotions. Best Friend Temptation is the fourth full-length novel in Carrie Ann Ryan's Montgomery Ink Legacy  series, and this is the first story in the aforementioned series to feature an MMF triad--but most certainly not the first in the Montgomery Ink book universe. Noah Montgomery-Gallagher may be the oldest child of the original Montgomery triad--Maya Montgomery, Jake Gallagher, and Border Gentry from Ink Enduring , Montgomery Ink #5--but he's never seen himself as having what it takes to have two people commit themselves to him, especially when those two people happen to be his best friend and the woman they both want. But maybe if Noah simply opened his eyes and saw what was right in front of him, he'd realize that Ford Cage and Greer Cassidy may be far more ready and willing to share with him everything Noah had never wholly thought possible. I've never made a secret of my bein...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. A holiday romance set the week of Christmas and involves Cupid and is published a couple of days post-Halloween and right on All Souls Day? Why the heck not?! Christmas Cupid is penned by Ilsa Madden-Mills, one of my go-to authors, and I've yet to go wrong having her newest book in my Kindle. This was a cute read involving an injured hockey player and a boot designer who just happens to be younger sister of the hockey player's team captain and close friend who don't get off on the right foot but are stuck together in one secluded but cutesy cabin in the middle of a historic snowstorm. Kyler Blanchette and Iris Miller, both twenty-eight, both need a break from the reality of the current state of their respective lives. Time away in a cabin right before Christmas sounds like a pretty good deal, especially since everything was already taken care of in advance. Of course, Kyler assumed he was going to be alone,...

You Beautiful Thing, You (Bad Boys of Bardstown #1) by Saffron A. Kent Release Date: October 29, 2023 About You Beautiful Thing, You Nineteen-year-old Tempest Jackson wants a baby. No, her biological clock isn’t ticking, but she’s desperate for unconditional love. Rejected by all except her brother and soon to be married off by her father for financial gain, she aches for someone to hold close and call hers. Enter Ledger Thorne. Soccer god, devastatingly handsome and her brother’s rival. Once upon a time they had a thing. A beautiful thing. But while Tempest thought she was madly in love, Ledger was only using her for petty revenge. So Tempest has a plan: seduce the sexy jerk who broke her heart, use him to get pregnant and then leave him in the dust like he left her, to marry a stranger. Only the problem with making babies is that it doesn’t feel like revenge. It feels a lot like that thing they used to have: Hot and stormy, and intense and intimate. But Tempest isn...

A Fall of Light by L.J. Greene Date Released: September 4, 2023 About A Fall of Light LJ Greene brings to life one of her most compelling characters: the intensely creative bass guitarist, Greg Van de Meer. A Fall of Light weaves together the strands of Greg’s private and public lives—a shattering personal history, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and family bonds that are stretched to their breaking point. It’s been fifteen years since Greg was outed by his fundamentalist father at age sixteen and sent from home, with devastating consequences for both he and his younger brother, Asher. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. With his band’s success on the world stage, Greg’s life takes a complicated turn when he develops a friendship with Louis Angel, an ex-Marine with a secret of his own, and finds himself facing familiar threats from an unexpected source. Strained loyalties, a private affair, and Greg’s own guarded history collide dangerously ...

How It All Began (Timber Falls #1) by Fiona West Date Released: October 24, 2023 About How It All Began Trust is like car keys: easy to lose and hard to get anywhere without it… Evan only intended to strike up a casual conversation with the stunning blonde with Goldie Hawn looks–now he finds himself trying to cross paths with her on campus every chance he gets. But his water polo teammate appears to have damaged his chances with Farrah before he could even ask her out. Farrah’s been out with players from the water polo team before–and it’s always ended in tears. The handsome medical student who wants to help her get revenge says he’s not like them…but there’s only one way to know for sure. Will a trip to his hometown seal the deal or prove this player’s all washed up? Add How It All Began on BookBub and Goodreads . Purchase Links Amazon | Apple Books |  B&N | Kobo About Fiona West Fiona West lives in the Pacific Northwest. Writing romance...

Watch Your Mouth (Kings of the Ice #2) by Kandi Steiner Release Date: October 27, 2023 About Watch Your Mouth My brother’s teammates know not to touch me—but that doesn’t stop me from daring Jaxson Brittain to be the first to break the rule. After one steamy night in Austin, I’m all too aware of the hot, broody defenseman with icy blue eyes and ink sprawling his muscular arms. He was the one my brother assigned to keep me safe—and I had far too much fun tempting him to be the one to put me in danger. It was just one night of tip-toeing the line, of teasing and flirting and messing around knowing nothing would ever come of it. But when the universe throws me back into his lap two weeks later and we end up on a secret road trip together, all bets are off. I can’t help but touch him. I can’t help but pray for him to touch me. And I can’t resist the temptation to test him at every turn. Jaxson is smart and doesn’t have a death wish. So, like a gentleman, he keeps his hands to himsel...

Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams by Ashley James Release Date: October 27, 2023 About Whiskey Nights and Neon Dreams The memory of Josiah DeMille has haunted me for close to a decade.  The way he looked. The way he smelled. The way his lips felt pressed against mine, even when they shouldn’t have been. The one person I’ve never been able to get over. The one singular part of my past I’ve never been able to move on from. In every lyric sung into the microphone, in every chord strummed on the guitar, in the bottom of every single whiskey bottle, he’s there. His memory has me in a chokehold His absence a gaping hole in my chest. I gave up years ago wondering if I’d ever stop thinking about him. Josiah DeMille is the ghost of my past. A past I left behind after my rock bottom. Now he’s back, and he’s everything I remember him to be and more. As mesmerizing as ever, a malt perfectly aged in an oak barrel. But there are dark secrets and shameful lies between us, blu...