Category: Contemporary Romance

It Must Be Christmas by Jennifer Crusie, Mandy Baxter, Donna Alward

Posted November 29, 2016 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: It Must Be Christmas
Series: -Anthology-
Author: Jennifer Crusie, Mandy Baxter, Donna Alward
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: St Martin’s Paperbacks
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

t’s the most wonderful time of the year, when love is in the cold and frosty air—and desire reaches the boiling point. . .

Hot Toy
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Crusie comes a hilarious, sexy story about a determined shopper who grabs the last action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged into the arms of a sexy secret agent. Mayhem under the mistletoe ensues. Business as usual this Christmas season…right?

Christmas with the Billionaire Rancher
Nate wants to stay away from all the women who want his money in Mandy Baxter’s story set deep in the heart of Texas. But when gorgeous do-gooder Chloe Benson comes knocking at his door—in search of funds for her charity—Nate can’t ignore the passion he feels for her. Maybe love is priceless after all?

Christmas at Seashell Cottage
’Tis the season in Jewell Cove when local doctor Charlie Yang finds her quiet, steady life disrupted by both an abandoned baby in the nativity manger and ex-SEAL Dave Ricker. Are these turn of events too good to be true? Or is Christmas working its magic—for real— Donna Alward’s heartwarming holiday story?

Anthology

Explosive Forces by D. D. Ayres

Posted November 28, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Explosive Forces
Series: K-9 Rescue #5
Author: D. D. Ayres
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
Published: November 1, 2016
Publisher: St Martin’s Paperbacks
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

When Carly Reese’s beloved fashion boutique catches fire, she sees her dreams go up in smoke. The good news is that Carly was saved from the flames by a barking dog nearby. She soon discovers the heroic pooch is a trained K-9 who’s guarding his unconscious partner …a gorgeous firefighter who ends up in Carly’s arms.

Noah Glover and his K-9 are a fearless duo, and Noah has clearly met his match with the brave, beautiful Carly. Soon they team up to track down the arsonist behind the blast – a psychotic criminal who’s intent on framing Noah. Meanwhile, the sparks between Noah and and Carly could ignite a five-alarm fire. Should they smother their feelings in the name of justice…or fan the flames of passion?

Titles in this series include: Irresistible Force – Force of Attraction – Primal Force – Rival Forces – Explosive Forces – Physical Forces (May 2017) – (links are to reviews on Keeper Bookshelf)

True-Blue Cowboy Christmas by Nicole Helm

Posted November 28, 2016 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: True-Blue Cowboy Christmas
Series: Big Sky Cowboys #3
Author: Nicole Helm
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Christmas Romance
Published: October 4 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Thack Lane has his hands full. For the past seven years, he’s been struggling to move on from his wife’s tragic death and raise a daughter all by his lonesome. He doesn’t have time for himself, much less a cheerful new neighbor with a smile that can light up the ranch.

Christmas spirit? Bah, humbug.

With Christmas right around the corner, Summer Shaw is searching for somewhere to belong. When her neighbor’s young daughter takes a shine to her, she is thrilled. But Thack is something else altogether. He’s got walls around his heart that no amount of holiday wishes can scale. Yet as joy comes creeping back to the lonely homestead, Summer and Thack may just find their happily ever after before the last of the Christmas miracles are through…

Titles in this series include: Rebel Cowboy – Outlaw Cowboy – True Blue Christmas Cowboy (links are to reviews on Keeper Bookshelf)

In Safe Hands by Katie Ruggle

Posted November 25, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Series / 2 Comments

Title: In Safe Hands
Series: Search & Rescue #4
Author: Katie Ruggle
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

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…

It’s all come down to this…

Daisy Little has lived in agoraphobic terror for over eight years. Trapped within a prison of her own making, she watches time pass through her bedroom window. Daisy knows she’ll never be a part of the world…until the day she becomes the sole witness of a terrible crime that may finally tear the Search and Rescue brotherhood apart for good.

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

Want Me, Cowboy by Sinclair Jayne

Posted November 25, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Want Me, Cowboy
Series: 78th Copper Mountain Rodeo #3 AND The Wilder Brothers #2
Author: Sinclair Jayne
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Cowboy Romance
Published: September 22, 2016
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Cowboy Luke Wilder only wanted a beer at Grey’s Saloon. Instead he ends up in a fight with a brother he never knew and dumped by a fiery red headed bull breeder he only asked to dance. So much for keeping a low profile. But Luke Wilder is stubborn, and no woman’s ever said no to him twice, in business or pleasure.

Tanner McTavish is more focused on breeding champion bucking bulls than in making out with cowboys, unless that cowboy’s Luke Wilder. She’s had a crush on him for years, and the Copper Mountain Rodeo could be her chance for a little romance except she needs Luke on her side for a new business opportunity. Flirting and kissing are off limits. Too bad Tanner’s never played by the rules…

Titles in the 78th Copper Mountain Rodeo include: Catch Me, Cowboy by Jeannie Moon – Protect Me, Cowboy by Shelli Stevens – Want Me, Cowboy by Sinclair Jayne – Love Me, Cowgirl by Eve Gaddy AND in The Wilder Brothers series written by Sinclair Jayne:: Seducing the Bachelor – Want Me, Cowboy – The Christmas Challenge (Tule Publishing often has titles that are part of more than one series.)

Safe From Harm by Kate SeRine

Posted November 24, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Safe From Harm
Series: Protect & Serve #2
Author: Kate SeRine
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Deputy Gabe Dawson has had his eye on prosecuting attorney Elle McCoy for years. But the smart, sassy redhead is immune to his legendary charm and good looks—until Gabe is shot on the courthouse steps protecting Elle from a vengeful domestic terrorist.

Elle McCoy has been protecting her heart from the cocky playboy cop. But it’s hard not to notice a guy when he takes a bullet for you and seems determined to turn his life around. With the extremists still at large and Elle a target, Gabe and his law enforcement brothers kick into high gear to take down the threat. And as they work together, Elle realizes she’s losing her heart to a man who will risk it all to keep her safe from harm.

Titles in this series include: Stop At Nothing – Safe From Harm

Mistletoe Between Friends / The Snowflake Inn by Samantha Chase

Posted November 24, 2016 by Marsha in Christmas Romance, Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Mistletoe Between Friends – The Snowflake Inn
Series:
Author: Samantha Chase
Genre: Christmas Contemporary Romance
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

The holidays don’t have to be fraught with tension, as lifelong friends Lily Cavanaugh and Cameron Greene discover in Mistletoe Between Friends when they cook up a scheme to fool their family and friends.

The Snowflake Inn shows rivals Grace Brodie and Riley Walsh that Christmas is a time when dreams come true-even if you’ve given up on those dreams long ago.

This is a combination of two earlier novels by Samantha Chase… a more detailed cover description for each is below:

MISTLETOE BETWEEN FRIENDS

All lifelong friends Lily Cavanaugh and Cameron Greene want is a chance to enjoy the Christmas season. What’s stopping them? Their matchmaking parents who seem determined to set the two of them up on some of the worst blind dates in the history of dating.

They’ve identified the problem and have come up with the perfect solution – they will pretend to be dating in order to get their parents off of their backs and finally have a chance to enjoy a peaceful Christmas.

It was a simple concept; spend some extra time together pretending to like one another. But neither of them expected long-hidden desires to come to the surface or that a pretend relationship could suddenly feel very real.

THE SNOWFLAKE INN

A home for the holidays…

Grace thought she had finally found a place to belong. Coming off of ten years of tragedy and disappointments, her arrival at The Snowflake Inn finally gives her a reason to have hope for her future and the possibility of her forever-home. Until one man arrives with the power to take it all away.

Versus NOT wanting to be home for the holidays…

Riley’s world has been turned upside down. He’s back at the one place that he never wanted to return to and it looks like he may be staying longer than he had planned. Taking over The Snowflake Inn was never his dream, it was his family’s dream for him, and all Riley wants to do is cut his losses and leave. But one fiery red-head has him rethinking everything he had planned.

Both Grace and Riley had very different plans for their time at The Snowflake Inn but with the magic of Christmas all around them, and an attraction that they can’t seem to ignore, this could be the perfect time and place for everyone’s dream to come true.

It Had to Be Them by Tamra Baumann

Posted November 23, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: It Had To Be Them
Series: It had To Be #4
Author: Tamra Baumann
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: October 1, 2016
Publisher: Montlake Romance
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Kline Grant has traveled the world for more than a decade to avoid going back home—and to make sure she doesn’t see Ben, her former fiancé. But her mother’s recent health troubles make it impossible for Kline to stay away. She plans to check on her mom, avoid Ben, and then get back on the road again. But the quirky town locals of Anderson Butte, a private little celebrity hideaway in the picturesque mountains of Colorado, have a very different plan.

Ben Anderson, the town’s handsome and beloved doctor, once broke Kline’s heart for reasons he’s never explained. When he figures out her mother’s scheme to trick her into coming home, he enlists the meddling townspeople’s help to make things right again with Kline. Then Ben plans to win her back. But as the former flames come face-to-face, old wounds ache, hurtful secrets emerge, and sparks fly with the heat between them that’s never cooled. Will the truth be enough to heal two broken hearts, or will it keep them apart forever?

Titles in this series include: It Had To Be Him – It Had To Be love – It Had To Be Fate – It had To Be Them

Protect Me, Cowboy by Shelli Stevens

Posted November 23, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Protect Me, Cowboy
Series: 78th Copper Mountain Rodeo #2
Author: Shelli Stevens
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: September 15, 2016
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

With his competing days behind him, Wyatt Marshall has settled into ranching life in Marietta, Montana. But with the Copper Mountain Rodeo, his only exception, just around the corner, the last thing he needs is a distraction – especially one in the form of a pretty, yet vaguely familiar country singer.

For Claire Miller, it’s been almost a year since she fled Las Vegas with only her purse and the clothes on her back, and she’s been laying low in Montana with a new image. When she and her country band travel to perform in the small town of Marietta, she doesn’t plan on getting stranded there for several days. Or for an innocent offer to stay at a nearby ranch to turn out to be more than she bargained for: she recognizes its owner to be the same sexy cowboy she got hot and heavy with – then stood up – in Vegas.

With the passion flaring between them and Wyatt getting closer to putting the pieces together, Claire is ready to run again, not knowing the danger that sent her fleeing in the first place is close on her heels.

Titles in this series include: Catch Me, Cowboy – Protect Me, Cowboy – Want me, Cowboy – Love Me, Cowgirl

Picture Perfect Wedding by Lynnette Austin

Posted November 23, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Picture Perfect Wedding
Series: Magnolia Brides #3
Author: Lynnette Austin
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: November 1, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

One mistake can change everything…forever

Beck Elliot and Tansy Calhoun were inseparable-until Tansy left Misty Bottoms, Georgia, promising to come back after she finished school. Beck stayed behind to save the family business, dreaming of the day when Tansy would return. Instead, his trust and his heart were broken when she inexplicably married another man and bore his child.

Five years later, Tansy comes home, a sadder and wiser woman. Despite his anger, Beck finds it hard to avoid her and her adorable little daughter-especially with all the busybodies of Misty Bottoms going out of their way to throw him and Tansy together, hoping a lingering spark will reignite their enduring flame…

Titles in this series include: The Best Laid Wedding Plans – Every Bride Has Her Day – Picture Perfect Wedding

Saving Jake by Sharon Sala

Posted November 22, 2016 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance, Series / 0 Comments

Title: Saving Jake
Series: Blessings, Georgia #3
Author: Sharon Sala
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: October 4, 2016
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

There is always hope…
After eight years in the Marines, Jacob Lorde returns to Blessings, Georgia, with no plans other than to hole up in his empty house and heal what’s left of his soul. But with a charming next door neighbor and a town full of friendly people, keeping to himself is easier said than done.

As long as you can come home…
Laurel Payne understands far too well what Jake is going through, after witnessing her late husband experience similar problems. She’s in no hurry to jump into another relationship with a complicated guy, but their attraction is undeniable-and perhaps exactly what both of them need.

Titles in this series include: Color me Bad – The Curl Up & Dye – I’ll Stand By You – Saving Jake