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Catch Me A Cowboy by Jacquie Underdown

Posted November 20, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Catch Me A Cowboy
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Author: Jacquie Underdown
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: August 25, 2016
Publisher: Escape Publishing
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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Emily Wolfe, real estate agent to the elite, is tired of being alone. So when she gets a chance to compete on a reality dating show she decides to risk it all for love in the biggest game of her life.

The city girl is surprised how much she enjoys switching her high heels for cowboy boots and pedicures for mud treatments—and not the kind you find at a day spa. And she’s falling hard for Wil Parker, the sexy, rugged farmer at the center of the show.

Amidst the chaos, tantrums and editing tape, the heat and passion between Emily and Wil reaches boiling point. But can they survive the imminent explosion, let alone the fallout?

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Psyche Unbound by Zenobia Neil

Posted November 20, 2016 by Marsha in This one's a Keeper / 0 Comments

Title: Psyche Unbound
Series:
Author: Zenobia Neil
Genre: Erotica
Published: August 30, 2016
Publisher: Tule Publishing – Eros
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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The celebrated beauty of Roman princess Psyche has enraged Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. As punishment, Psyche is left naked on the beach to be sacrificed to a monster. When Cupid, the God of Love, swoops her up and flies her to the monster’s palace, Psyche mistakenly wraps her legs around his waist, looks into his eyes, and falls in love.

Blindfolded and tied to a bed, Psyche awaits the monster, vowing to be brave as she faces death. Yet when the monster arrives, he marries her on the condition she never see his face. As she grows to love her shadow husband, she can’t stop thinking about the God of Love. Consumed by curiosity, Psyche breaks her promise by lighting a lamp. Awaking in a rage, and furious with her betrayal, her husband banishes her from the palace.

Psyche begs Venus for another chance at love. Unmoved, Venus demands Psyche perform three impossible tasks. If Psyche succeeds, her husband will return. If she fails, she will be condemned to death.

Can Psyche satisfy Venus and win back her true love?

Mature Contend – Readers Over 18+

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My Fair Princess by Vanessa Kelly

Posted November 20, 2016 by Marsha in Series / 0 Comments

Title: My Fair Princess
Series: The Improper Princesses #1
Author: Vanessa Kelly
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Romance
Published: August 30, 2016
Publisher: Kensington Books – Zebra
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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Despite being the illegitimate daughter of a prince, Gillian Dryden is happily ignorant of all social graces. After growing up wild in Italy, Gillian has been ordered home to England to find a suitable husband. And Charles Valentine Penley, the excessively proper, distractingly handsome Duke of Leverton, has agreed to help transform her from a willful tomboy to a blushing debutante.

Powerful and sophisticated, Charles can make or break reputations with a well-placed word. But his new protegee, with her habit of hunting bandits and punching earls, is a walking scandal. The ton is aghast . . . but Charles is thoroughly intrigued. Tasked with taking the hoyden in hand, he longs to take her in his arms instead. Can such an outrageous attraction possibly lead to a fairy-tale ending?

Titles in this series include: My Fair Princess (so far)

Gone Too Deep by Katie Ruggle

Posted November 19, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 2 Comments

Title: Gone Too Deep
Series: Search and Rescue #3
Author: Katie Ruggle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: August 2, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder…

George Holloway has spent his life alone, exploring the treacherous beauty of the Colorado Rockies. He’s the best survival expert Search and Rescue has, which makes him the obvious choice to lead Ellie Price through deadly terrain to find her missing father. There’s just one problem-Ellie’s everything George isn’t. She’s a city girl, charming, gregarious, delicate, small. And when she looks up at him with those big, dark eyes, he swears he would tear the world apart to keep her safe.

With a killer on the loose, he may have no choice.

Ellie’s determined to find her father no matter the cost. But as she and her gorgeous mountain of a guide fight their way through an unforgiving wilderness, they find themselves in the cross-hairs of a dangerous man in search of revenge. And they are now his prey…

Titles in this series include: Hold Your Breath – Fan The Flames – Gone Too Deep – In Safe Hands

As Rich As A Rogue by Jade Lee

Posted November 19, 2016 by Marsha in Series / 0 Comments

Title: As Rich As A Rogue
Series: Rakes and Rogues #3
Author: Jade Lee
Genre: Regency Romance, Historical Romance
Published: August 2, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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Mari Powel’s fiery Welsh temper is up. Peter Norwood, Lord Whitly, is back in town after six years romping around India making his fortune. Mari blames him for her social downfall and has spent all this time clawing her way back into the ton’s good graces.

How dare he show up on his first day back and publicly embroil her in a bet involving long-awaited apologies, illicit kisses, and Lady Illston’s unruly parakeet? Mari is outraged, and is going to show him-and everyone else-what she’s made of.

Little does she know, the unrepentant Lord Whitly has been dreaming of her all this time. Now he’ll do anything to win the wager-along with Mari’s heart.

Titles in this series include: 50 Ways To Ruin A Rake – One Rogue AT A Time – As Rich As A Rogue

Dare You to Run by Dawn Ryder

Posted November 19, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Dare You To Run
Series: Unbroken Heroes #2
Author: Dawn Ryder
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Military Romance
Published: August 30, 2016
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
My Rating: 3 stars
Source: NetGalley
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Serve and protect
For Vitus Hale, only one mission has ever gone wrong. All he had to do was rescue a beautiful woman from her kidnappers. But falling hard into bed—and into love—with the stunning innocent was not part of the game plan, and when she leaves him in the dust, Vitus has nothing but a blemished record and a hardened heart. Now, after three long years, his beauty has finally come back into his life—and this time, failure is not an option…

Seduce and destroy
Damascus Ryland knew from their first steamy embrace that stoic warrior Vitus Hale is the only man for her, but when her power-hungry Congressman father offered her an ultimatum—sever ties with Vitus, or he dies—Damascus knew she had to walk away to save the man she loved. But now, three years later, a new threat is closing in on her—and tossing Vitus right back into her life. Damascus needs to keep her love for him locked in her heart if she is to keep him safe, but the old flame that burned between them is still as vibrant and hot as ever. Now, Damascus and Vitus must risk it all to find their freedom…and embrace their love…

Titles in this series include: Dangerous To Know – Dare You To Run – Deep Into Trouble

Redeeming her Montana Love by Vella Munn

Posted November 18, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Redeeming Her Montana Love
Series: Montana Lakeside #2
Author: Vella Munn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 8, 2016
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Alisha Hearne has come back to Lake Serene to decide whether to sell her family’s cabin or repair it. But the painful memories this cabin holds might prove too much for Alisha to bear – until a handsome, muscular man shows up.

Nate Quaid doesn’t stay in one place for long. Once his work at Lake Serene is finished, he’ll move on before his secrets can catch up to him. But when Nate realizes the lovely young woman needs more than his expertise, he might be tempted to stay.

Aisha and Nate long to reach out to each other, to trust again. But are they capable of revealing their deepest secrets? Do they dare risk falling in love?

Titles in this series include: Romancing The Montana Bride – Redeeming Her Montana Love – His Montana Rescue – Saved By The Montana Hero – Taming His Montana Heart

The Taste of Air by Gail Cleare

Posted November 16, 2016 by Marsha in Women's Fiction / 0 Comments

Title: The Taste of Air
Series:
Author: Gail Cleare
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Published: September 22, 2016
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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A simple phone call disrupts Nell Williams’s well-ordered life. Her mother, Mary, is in a hospital in Vermont. But her mother is supposed to be safely tucked away in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, so Nell can’t fathom why she would be so far from home.

After notifying her sister, Bridget, Nell hops on a plane and rushes to her mother’s side. There, she discovers that her mother has been living a second life. Mary has another home and a set of complex relationships with people her daughters have never met.

When Nell and Bridget delve deeper into their mother’s lakeside hideaway, they uncover a vault of family secrets and the gateway to change for all three women.

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The Rebel’s Return by Victoria James

Posted November 16, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: The Rebel’s Return
Series: Red River #4
Author: Victoria James
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: August 22, 2016
Publisher: Entangled – Bliss
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
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Natalia Puccini has spent her entire life playing by her overbearing but well-intentioned Italian family’s rules…except the one time she took a chance on a bad boy and fell hard. She’s worked to get her life back on track so when Aiden McCann comes sauntering back into town with his heart-stopping smile, Natalia vows not to fall for him again. There’s no way she’ll let him mess with her perfectly planned life…and there’s no way she’ll let him near her heart again…

Now reformed and a self-made success, Aiden is tormented by regrets and secrets. He left Red River years ago filled with anger and resentment and a promise to never come back. But when his ill father needs help, Aiden knows it’s time to face the mess he left behind, and face the one woman he never got over. It doesn’t matter how beautiful or intriguing she is, though, because he’ll never be able to give her what she needs. As soon as his father is healthy, Aiden is leaving Red River…for good.

Titles in this series (so far) include: A Risk Worth Taking – The Best man’s Baby – The Doctor’s Fake Fiancee – The Rebel’s Return

Tied to His Betrayal by Stacey Kennedy

Posted November 16, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Tied To His Betrayal
Series: Dirty Little Secrets #2
Author: Stacey Kennedy
Genre: Erotica, Contemporary Romance
Published: November 15, 2016
Publisher: Random House – Loveswept
My Rating: 3 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Darius Bennett can’t live without supreme control. A self-made billionaire, he’s rich enough to get anything—and any woman—he wants, yet he’s still haunted by a broken relationship. Five years ago, Darius let Taylor Erikson go because he knew he could never give her what she truly wanted: his heart. But the moment Taylor walks back into his life, bruised and beaten, Darius blames himself. To make good on his betrayal, he vows to help her heal—in and out of the sheets.

Once upon a time, Darius was Taylor’s world. Now his fierce embrace is exactly what she needs to get back on her feet. But Taylor pays a heavy price for her sizzling nights with Darius. As the emotional ties become stronger than ever and the paparazzi hunt her down for their next juicy story, Taylor must face some hard truths. They can’t go back. And to move forward, the key to loving Darius isn’t about keeping his secrets—it’s about exposing them.

Strong Sexual Content – over 18+ readers

Titles in this series include: Bound Beneath His Pain – Tied To His Betrayal – Restrained Under His Duty (April 2017)

Her Hopes and Dreams by Terri Osburn

Posted November 16, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Her Hopes and Dreams
Series: Ardent Springs #4
Author: Terri Osburn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: November 15, 2016
Publisher: Montlake Romance
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

As a newly single mother, Carrie Farmer isn’t quite ready to jump back into the dating pool in Ardent Springs—especially since her last marriage was such a disaster. But if anyone could entice her to wade in a bit, it would be her hunky neighbor, Noah Winchester. He’s the perfect man: strong, protective, and smoking hot. But her eyes have deceived her before, and she’s no longer willing to hand over her heart so easily.

After completing several tours in the Middle East, Noah returns to his hometown a very different man. The former soldier’s plan to rest and relax is soon waylaid by the intriguing woman next door and her heart-stealing little girl. Something—or someone—put shadows in Carrie’s lovely eyes, and he’s determined to clear them away. But when hidden demons can no longer be ignored, the couple gets a reminder from an unexpected source that love truly can conquer all.

Titles in this series include: His First and Last – Our Now and Forever – My One and Only – Her Hopes and Dreams