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Brock by Dani René
My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is perfect. I love this series and couldn’t wait to see what Brocks deal was. When I saw it was a MMF book instead of just M/M I was a little disappointed but then I read it. Y’all this is written so well. It’s not one of those ménage books that about nothing thing but sex. No, this is about love. Three people who are pulled together by a feeling. It’s absolutely wonderful and a great addition to one crazy, mind blowing series. View all my reviews
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Hayden by J.D. Hollyfield
My rating: 5 of 5 stars This series is so freaking good!! And it gets better and better. I love how they feed off each other, the authors do a wonderful job bringing all this together. Hayden is a cut throat jerk just like his father but then he shows his inner self and you totally fall in love with him. This story is so twisted. One minute I was screaming then the next crying. Geez this stuff is good. You gotta read these books1 View all my reviews
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Dirty Sexy Player by Laurelin Paige
My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I saw this was Weston’s story I couldn’t help but get excited. I fell in love with him in Dirty Sexy Men and now we get him all to ourselves. Weston and Elizabeth enter into a fake relationship and marriage to help her get her fathers company. We get lots of fighting and yes lots of sexy time. What goes from fake turns into true feelings but each is to stubborn to tell the other. I love these two. The fighting had me laughing at how ridiculous they were to each other. They are absolutely perfect for each other. One minute I’m laughing then I am crying, then BOOM! Cliffhanger. Why oh why? So if those aren’t your thing you are warned.... for me? I loved it! View all my reviews
Samantha: I had the perfect life; a husband who loved me, and two kids who were my world. Until someone else answered his phone and my perfect life shattered. When he died, I was left with answers he couldn't give me and a box full of lies. He left me broken. Blake: I fell in love when I was fifteen, knowing she was the one. For five years, she was my everything—my every breath, every heartbeat, every thought. She made me promise to move on, promise to find love again, but I broke those promises because I can't move on. Two broken souls brought together by tragedy and heartbreak. Can a broken love story be fixed? Amazon | iBooks | B&N | Kobo Samantha Standing in front of the full-length mirror in my room, I smooth down my black skirt. My blond hair is tied up in a ponytail, my cheeks are sunken in more than normal, and the blackness around my eyes indicates I haven’t slept well since this whole thing happened. Since I found out that not only did my husband die, but that he also married someone else. I sit on the made bed and look down at my wedding band. My thumb of my right hand touches it, and the lone tear that falls out of my eye lands straight on it. “Mommy.” I look back at Lizzie, who is standing in the doorway wearing a black one-piece dress similar to mine with ballerina flats. My mother-in-law went shopping yesterday and bought us all new outfits for today. “We need to put our best foot forward,” she said as I watched her walk in with the six bags. “We can’t let people talk.” I turned around and walked out of the room, going upstairs. Shutting myself in my bathroom with my back against the door, I cried quietly, trying to hide my sobs. “We can’t let people talk,” I whispered to myself. The hatred I had begun feeling when I remembered my husband. Lizzie walks to the side of my bed and sits next to me. “I hate this dress,” she says when I put my hand around her shoulder and bring her to me, kissing her head. “I know, baby,” I whisper, “but after today, it’s going to be all over.” “That’s what Grandpa A said.” She mentions the name she calls my father-in-law. Grandpa A because you can’t get better than an A. “Is everyone ready?” I hear Ethan yell from downstairs. “The limo is picking us up in twenty.” “Let’s go, baby,” I tell her, getting up and holding her hand while we walk downstairs. My in-laws are both sitting in the kitchen. My mother-in-law in a black skirt and top while my father-in-law has on a black suit. “Where is Daisy?” I ask them. “Elliot is upstairs changing her. She spilled milk on her dress,” Judy tells me, looking at Lizzie. “You look like such a big girl.” She blinks her tears away. Elliot comes down the stairs with Daisy on his hip, smiling at me when he walks in. “Okay, you girls go sit in the living room while us grown-ups talk,” my father-in-law says, and the girls both know to leave the room. When he knows they are both out of earshot, he starts. “Today is going to be tough, tough for us all, but we have to stand together. We have to be the family that we are.” I lean against the counter while he talks. “The situation with the other one has been taken care of, and she has been served papers.” I look at him and then at Elliot and Ethan, both of them looking down when our eyes meet. It’s almost as if they feel guilty for meeting this woman. My father-in-law continues, “After all this is done today, we are meeting with the lawyers in person, so we can go over the will, start the paperwork for the insurance, and make sure she doesn’t touch a thing that belongs to him.” I stop listening at this point, turning to look out the window at the backyard. The swing set that he built in one day to make sure the kids could use it when he left the next day. The patio set he had delivered to us, so I could have somewhere to sit while I watched the girls while he was living with another woman. I shake my head, walking out of the room. I sit on the couch, and the girls come to sit next to me, one on each side. “Today is going to be really hard,” I whisper to them, “but we have to be strong for Daddy.” They both look at me, their eyes exactly like their father’s. “But, if at any time, you need to leave or you need me… I don’t care who is talking to me or who is around; you come and get me.” “Grandpa A said we had to sit and wait,” Daisy whispers just as Elliot comes into the room and kneels in front of us. “What is this meeting about?” he asks, smiling at us. The circles around his eyes are just as black as ours. He hasn’t left our house since this happened. “Mommy said if we need her that we can go to her,” Daisy says, looking at him and then me, “even if Grandpa A said no.” He leans in, whispering, “You can come to me too, and I’ll make sure that you get Mommy.” “Okay,” Lizzie and Daisy both whisper at the same time, and then the doorbell rings. We get up, put our jackets on, and one by one file into the black limo that has come to take us to the funeral home. We arrive before everyone else. “We get an hour with him, and then they will open the door,” Adrian says as Judy grabs her tissue and dabs her eyes. I look around the funeral home. I’m not sure what I’m looking for, not sure where he is. I haven’t seen him since he kissed me goodbye four days earlier. His last words to me were, “Call you when I can.” That phone call never came.
I follow my in-laws to the big brown door that is closed. “I want to go in before the girls.” Everyone turns to look at me. “We can keep them in the lobby,” says the lady who greeted us at the door. She told me her name, but I just didn’t listen. I nod at her as she turns to ask the girls if they want hot chocolate. Daisy’s eyes get big as Lizzie turns to look at me. I nod my head, giving her permission, so she can go with the woman. The doors open, and I don’t even know what to expect. I’ve never been to a funeral. Never known anyone well enough to pay my last respects. Judy and Adrian walk in first, followed by Ethan, and Elliot waits with me. I step foot into the room, and it’s so cold that I shiver. The smell of flowers hits me right away, making me turn my head. The number of flowers and wreaths shocks me; the whole room is almost full. Some wreaths blocking others. Rows and rows of brown chairs line the room, all facing toward the front of the room. My eyes land on the brown wooden casket at the front of the room. The open half showing you the white satin inside. I walk down the aisle toward him, and then my eyes land on him. Eric. I can’t take another step forward because my knees give out, and I fall. Elliot isn’t fast enough to hold me up, and my knee lands with a thud. But the pain doesn’t matter because nothing could take the place of the pain in my heart. The sound of wailing fills the room as I look up at my dead husband. I feel arms around me; I feel myself lifted; I feel myself almost floating. He isn’t the Eric who kissed me goodbye; he isn’t the Eric who I made promises to; he isn’t the Eric who made all my dreams come true. This isn’t him. The man with makeup caked on his face isn’t my Eric. My sobs overtake my body as I look at him, expecting him to open his eyes. Expecting something, anything but this. “I want the casket closed,” I say, my voice soft. “I want it closed.” “Samantha,” my father-in-law starts, “it’s—” I shake my head. “I don’t want the kids to see him like that,” I say softly. I know that for me they wouldn’t even consider it, but for the girls, they would move heaven and earth. “They need to remember him alive and smiling, not like that,” I say, pointing at the casket. “Dad,” Ethan says after me, “I agree.” “Me too,” Elliot says from beside me. “Close it.” He just nods at us, then walks to the man standing in the corner. The man looks at him as they have a hushed conversation and then just nods his head. “Do you need some water?” Ethan says to me, and I nod. I don’t bother listening to what else he says; instead, I get up and go to the casket. Standing before the brown box, I look at him, really look at him. You see some bruising under the makeup, and his nose is a little swollen. His hands are folded over his stomach, resting on his black suit. The suit he wore when we got married. Why? I ask him in my own head. Why did you do it? I ask him, hoping I can hear him whisper something to me, whisper anything back. To answer my questions, to give me something; anything to make me understand why he did what he did. Why he left me with so many fucking questions and not one answer. The man comes over to close the casket. Eric’s face disappears slowly, the shadow filling his face till the casket finally shuts. “I’m sorry for your loss,” the man says, nodding at me. “If at any time you want it open, we can open it back up.” I turn around now, looking at the chairs that will fill up as soon as the people start coming in. Ethan consoles my mother-in-law, and Elliot stands where we were just sitting, his hands in his pockets. “I’m getting the girls,” I tell them and then walk out with my head held high but my shoulders slumped. Defeated is a word that you use so many times not really understanding what can actually defeat you. I know now, my husband dying, him cheating on me, my kids without a father, my dreams of growing old with him gone. Beaten straight down to my core, straight down to my bones. I walk over to them as they look up. “Let’s go, girls,” I tell them as they both get up and walk to me. Lizzie takes one hand, Daisy takes the other, and we walk back into the room that holds a piece of our hearts. The room where their father lies, with no answers and no tomorrow. We stand in that room for four hours while people come up to me and give me their condolences. I nod my head and play the part of the grieving wife. I am the grieving wife, but I’m also the wife whose husband didn’t love her enough to just be with her. The wife who knew her husband was slipping away but couldn’t catch it in time. The wife he said he would love and protect. The wife who stands here between his girls wishing that for one second he suffered horribly. The wife who has to pick up the fucking pieces and lie to her girls about what a great guy he was. The wife who, at the end of the day, just wasn’t good enough. We listen as people tell us how amazing he was, how much he loved his family, and how much he loved his girls. The whole time, I’m yelling on the inside, ready to stand in the middle of the room, throw my head back, and yell at the top of my lungs. But I don’t do what I want. I don’t tell them what a fraud my husband was. I don’t tell them that it was almost all lies. I don’t tell them that the day he died, they called his other wife and not me. I don’t tell them that I wasn’t the one with him when he died. I stand here thinking about this other person—his other wife—and wonder how she would handle this. How she would be with my in-laws. Would she just let them control her and do everything for her? Would she want it to be open and weep for him beside the casket instead of standing next to it? I look around the room at all the people who came to pay their respects, and my eyes find someone I’ve never met before. Someone I’ve never seen before, and our eyes connect. His green eyes stare into mine as I watch him nod to me and turn to walk out. As he walks out of the crowded room, I strain my neck to watch his back. I don’t have long to think because Elliot comes up and whispers, “It’s time.” When her nose isn't buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she's in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It's a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn't listen to her... FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK READER GROUP FOLLOW ON AMAZON | FOLLOW ON BOOKBUB | SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER
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Broken Love Story by Natasha Madison
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absolutely perfect! I have fallen in love with each book in this series and although they are all wonderful this one is definitely my favorite. I totally love Blake and his story. He pulled on my heart strings and I am so happy for him to get his own book. Two broken people come together and help each other heal and find love again. Both Blake and Samantha are so deserving, you will laugh, you will cry and you will fall hopelessly in love with these characters. This is part of a series but they do standalone but believe me you will want to check the whole series out. This author has a way with her words that will keep you begging for more. Five beautiful stars! View all my reviews
Fixed Forever (Fixed book #5) by Laurelin Paige
Release Date: June 25th 2018
Fixed Forever by Laurelin Paige
My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is such a breathtaking read!! The love that Hudson and Alayna have for one another is such an awe-inspiring love story. It's the kind of love story that movies are made from. I didn't even read the synopsis to know that I was grabbing this book up and devouring it as soon as I could get my hands on it. So going into Fixed Forever I really didn't know what to expect. Everything about this book was more than I could have expected. I was kept on the edge of my seat with all the fast paced suspense. I have loved these two from the very beginning and this book just makes me love them even more. They will always be my favorite couple. Laurelin did an amazing job on the continuance of Hudson and Alayna's story. She never fails to draw me into her books and makes me fall in love with the characters. I highly, highly recommend her books. Happy Reading Everyone!! View all my reviews
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Thea Landry has always known her place in modern-day society. It’s somewhere just above the trash can her mother dumped her in as a newborn but below the class where much comes easy. With her tattered shoes and bargain-bin clothes, her life has never been full of glamour. So when a rich and charismatic man takes interest, she doesn’t fool herself into thinking their encounter is anything more than a one-night stand. Months later, she’s kicking herself for not getting his phone number. Or his last name. She’s given up hope of seeing him ever again. Until one day, years later, Logan Kendrick waltzes into her life once more and turns everything she’s built upside down. This time around, she won’t make the same mistake. She’s going to fight to keep him in her life—not for herself. But for their daughter.
AVAILABLE NOWAmazon | iBooks | B&N | KoboHe stared at me for a long moment. “You’re sure she’s mine?” “She’s yours.” “Then that’s good enough.” “I—really?” I blinked. He didn’t want to verify paternity? He just . . . trusted me? He nodded. “Really.” “I swear, I tried to find you, Logan. On my life, I swear it. But the hotel wouldn’t give me your name no matter how much I begged. And you paid cash for your drinks and never mentioned your last name. I tried, but I just . . . didn’t know where to start.” “It’s not your fault. I believe you.” The sincerity in his voice made my throat burn. Goddamn it. I was going to cry. I’d worked so hard not to cry today. I’d fought to keep my emotions in check and my head from spinning out of control. But this was going to make me break. I wanted so badly for Logan to believe that I hadn’t kept Charlie from him intentionally. The fact that a man like him would trust someone like me without proof meant more than he’d ever know. “Thank you,” I choked out past the lump in my throat. “So, um, is Charlie inside with your husband? Or boyfriend?” The urge to cry disappeared and I barked out a laugh. “Smooth.” He chuckled. “It’s been a long day for me. Give me a break, will you? This morning I was in New York, then I came to Montana for a business meeting and discovered a daughter. I’m off my game.” Devney is the USA Today bestselling author of the Jamison Valley series. She lives in Montana with her husband and two children. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her kids. She loves reading and, after consuming hundreds of books, decided to share her own stories. Devney loves hearing from readers! Connect with her on social media. Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Newsletter
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Tattered by Devney Perry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love books like this. Sweet, intense, emotional reads. Books with meanings and that are written in a way that we hang on every word and all of our emotions bust out. Tattered is that. I absolutely loved it and the characters. Thea is one of those characters who we immediately love. She’s strong, fierce but alone. She’s had a terrible life and just when she’s getting it together and starting to feel like she belongs, a blast from the past shows up. When Logan stumbles across the one woman he’s thought about for years he is in complete surprise as to who is with her. Life as he knows it is over and that’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him. I really loved Tattered. It’s one of this books that warm your heart. I definitely recommend it. View all my reviews
The Professor by Luke Prescott
My rating: 5 of 5 stars SO Damn HOT!! More than a 5 Star Read!! MUST READ of 2018!! I was drawn into this Teacher/Student romance from page one and couldn't put it down. Drake and Emma have an amazing chemistry from the very beginning. The sexual tension between these two had sparks flying page by page. I couldn't read fast enough. I laughed, cried, and totally fell head over heels in love with these two. This book was absolutely perfect in every way. I think I was drawn in more knowing that this is a romance written by a man. Luke Prescott has done such an amazing job on this book and has now become my favorite male author. I will be stalking him and can not wait to read more of his books!! I am HIGHLY RECOMMENDING this book!! Happy Reading Everyone!!! View all my reviews
Xander: Part 2, The Present
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Xander: Part 2, The Present by Anne Mercier
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Y’all oh gosh, I don’t even know if I can leave a review good enough for how wonderful this is. I was expecting some emotions but I was not expecting anything close to what we are given. This book is everything! Everything! I think I cried through 80 percent of this. It’s beautiful. Xander is one of our favorite characters so finally getting the rest of his and Tera’s story was so worth the wait. And I loved that we get a lot of her, meaning her point of view and how she copes and handled everything. It’s heartbreaking and I honestly hope this book helps someone who maybe going through the same thing. I am in awe of you Anne. You gave us a wonderful beautiful book but next time warn us if we need a whole box of tissues. Ha. If you’ve loved these characters you will definitely want to read Xander and Teras story, it’s a must read. Loved it! View all my reviews
Title: Breakaway
Author: A.M. Johnson Genre: Sports Romance Release Date: March 15, 2018
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Breakaway by A.M. Johnson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is my first book by this author but it definitely won’t be the last. Mark and Stevie are wonderful characters with great chemistry. They have a chance meeting that neither forgets and when they see each other again the fireworks are still there. Both have issues with their past relationships, he’s learning to trust again and she is working on remembering who she is. Breakaway is cute, sexy and really has a great story. Loved the characters and the writing is wonderful. This is a definite must read and I highly recommend it. View all my reviews
Cartel Bitch: Almanza Crime Family Duet by Chelsea Camaron
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! This book drew me in from the very beginning and OMG has left me wanting more. This crime family is a very brutal and cut throat kind of family. The lies and deception with this family have no boundaries. They will kill anyone that gets in their way. Javi and Mari's story has so many layers that are peeled away to allow you to see where they come from and how they get to where they are now. Their story is nothing like I expected and I'm left hanging in the balance to see what will happen with these two next. Where is this journey going to take me? Mari has made it very clear that she is nobody's Cartel Bitch! I can't wait to get my hands on Cartel Queen. Happy Reading Everyone!! View all my reviews |
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