Category: Contemporary Romance

Review: Terms of Surrender by Sheila Seabrook

Posted July 16, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 3 Comments

Title: Terms of Surrender
Series: Rocky Mountain Romance #2
Author: Sheila Seabrook
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: October 2, 2013
Publisher:
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

A woman in need…
ER nurse Harley Jane Davis has dedicated her life to helping others. Now she’s the one in trouble, and the only person she can rely on is Gage Toryn—the man she’s secretly been in love with for years.

A man on the edge…
Gage would do anything for Harley, except give in to the hungry passion that sparks between them. He’s hiding a terrible secret, one guaranteed to destroy any chance at a relationship. And even though Harley haunts his dreams and makes him want to be a better man, he knows she could never love him if she learned about his ugly past.

Family, future, forever…
When a situation with Gage’s brother endangers Harley and his nieces, Gage offers them refuge in his home—and the battered pieces of his heart. But can he overcome his fear of commitment and open up about the past? Or will his secret destroy his last chance to have a relationship—and a real family—with the only woman he’s ever loved?

Read on for my thoughts on Terms of Surrender. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Barefoot in White by Roxanne St. Claire

Posted July 16, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Barefoot in White
Series: Barefoot Bay Brides #1
Author: Roxanne St. Claire
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: May 2014
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: Owned
From the Cover:

Destination wedding consultant Willow Ambrose has fought a battle with the scale for much of her life, but she has finally won the war. By putting her past behind her and cutting off all contact with anyone who knew her before and, of course, controlling everything she can, Willow has carved out a new body and a new life. But when she comes face to face with someone who left an indelible mark on her heart years before, all that threatens to crumble.

Navy SEAL Nick Hershey is on medical leave, doing a friend a favor as a stand in “man of honor” at a beach wedding. He might not be that interested in the nuptials, but the wedding planner catches his eye the minute they meet. When he realizes Willow is really a girl he knew in college—and a girl he unintentionally hurt to the core—he knows he has some making up to do.

Willow has learned how to beat every temptation…but Nick’s sweet-as-candy kisses just might be the one thing she can’t resist. But the closer they get, the more the past threatens to tear them apart. Can they finally let go of a painful past in order to find a forever future?

Read on for my thoughts on Barefoot in White. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Outlaw’s Bride by Nicole Snow

Posted July 16, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Outlaw’s Bride
Series: Grizzlies MC Romance #3
Author: Nicole Snow
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotica
Published: June 29, 2015
Publisher: Ice Lips Press
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

SALLY

He’s going to kill me when he finds out. I should’ve left Roman behind after our unforgettable fling two summers ago. I wasn’t supposed to end up having his kid, always looking over my shoulder for the last man in the world meant to be a father.

But danger has a funny way of betraying a woman’s best kept secrets, and reigniting old flames that should’ve died on a hot summer night.

Now, he’s hellbent on claiming me in all the explosive ways that make my heart stop and my head spin. I’m losing it, or maybe just my panties. Every single pair.

An arranged marriage with the Grizzlies MC’s biggest badass? I shouldn’t want this so bad…

ROMAN

Forgive and forget? F*ck no.

I tried like hell to push her away, spent every waking minute on whores and booze. Then I found out what she’d hidden, and I lost my damned mind.

Sally’s lies stole more years off my life than prison did. She owes me big. I’m taking her for payment, and I don’t care what she’s got to say about wearing my brand.

No chick makes a fool outta me. And I’m not fooling when I tell her I’ll get my perfect wife, even if we’re faking it all the way to the altar.

Give me a week. I’ll conquer her spitfire tongue and remind her what it’s like to ache desire. I’m not stopping ’til her lips are on mine, making her squirm the way she used to, begging me for more…

The Outlaw Love books are stand alone romance novels featuring unique lovers and happy endings. No cliffhangers! This is Roman and Sally’s story in the Grizzlies MC series. This novel is for 18+ readers, mature content ahead.

Read on for my thoughts on Outlaw’s Bride. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: His Love by Jennifer Gracen

Posted July 15, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: His Love
Series: Summer in New York #3
Author: Jennifer Gracen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 14, 2015
Publisher: Tule Publishing
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Toni Westmore doesn’t do relationships. She has a demanding boss at her high end Soho art gallery job and an even more difficult and critical mother – who needs the mess of a relationship?

Enter Irish Doctor Gavin McKinnon, her friend’s brother, also known as the perfect summer fling: tall, muscled, smart, funny, definitely ready for a good time and stamped with an expiration date. He’ll go back to Ireland and his family medical practice in a few weeks and she’ll return to her real world and plan her next career move.

Gavin’s in town not only to visit his sister, but to try and heal his broken heart. He gets a little help when Toni, his sister’s friend and roommate, enters the picture. Inexplicably drawn to her, Gavin tries to remind himself to look but not touch, but Toni is hard to resist… and when she offers him a no strings fling, how could he say no?

But as Gavin’s departure date looms, Toni realizes that her sexy summer fling is anything but. And she was sure she could kiss Gavin goodbye with no regrets…

Will she attempt to break their no strings rule? Or will Gavin leave Long Island without looking back?

Read on for my thoughts on His Love. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Angels’ Share by Jennifer Bramseth

Posted July 15, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Angels’ Share
Series: Bourbon Springs #3
Author: Jennifer Bramseth
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 14, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

After the deaths of her parents and husband, high school history teacher Lila McNee inherits her family’s land and retreats to her childhood home in search of safety and solitude in Bourbon Springs, Kentucky. Yet instead of the peace she needs to heal, she discovers her neighbor to the north, Bo Davenport, the owner-distiller of Old Garnet Distillery, desperately wants a big chunk of her land along the property line which has been subject to dispute for years. Bo wants land to expand the distillery, one of his father’s last wishes, and sees the property as rightfully belonging to Old Garnet. But the land is Lila’s refuge against a world that has only brought her heartbreak, and is the home to her beloved and historic springs–the very spot from which Bourbon Springs derived its name over two centuries earlier.

After months of fruitless negotiations, Bo sues Lila. And she sues him back. Drawn together by conflict born of love of the same place, the two find themselves falling for each other. But if they can’t find a solution to the land dispute and figure out a way to share that which is most dear to them, they not only risk losing the lawsuit, they also risk losing their chance at love.

Read on for my thoughts on Angels’ Share. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Maggie’s Turn by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Posted July 15, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 2 Comments

Title: Maggie’s Turn
Series:
Author: Deanna Lynn Sletten
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Women’s Fiction
Published: July 14, 2015
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Maggie has always put her family’s needs in front of her own, until one day—without forethought—she drives away, leaving behind her indifferent husband and two sulking teenagers.

As she begins a quest of self-exploration, she meets new people, enjoys new adventures, and rediscovers long-neglected passions. For the first time in years, Maggie contemplates what she wants from life and soon realizes that her deteriorating marriage can no longer continue as it is. Can she and Andrew repair their broken relationship, or is their marriage over?

Left to his own devices, Andrew is forced to take over the household responsibilities and bridge the growing divide between himself and his children. Slowly, he begins to understand what drove Maggie away—and how he can’t bear to live without her. But is it too late? Will Andrew lose Maggie forever?

Read on for my thoughts on Maggie’s Turn. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Hittin’ It by Amie Stuart

Posted July 15, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Hittin’ It
Series: Marked for Love #2
Author: Amie Stuart
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 14, 2015 (original with 2 stories 2009)
Publisher:
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

As a professional hit man, Will Collier has more secrets than most. But on a sweltering Texas night, the lives he’s taken rank second place to the love he’d like to be making with a sensual Bohemian beauty.

Sabrina Walker is intimately familiar with the havoc Cupid can wreak. She’s determined that love will never seduce her again, until she meets Will Collier and discovers that some secrets are better when shared.

Warning: This book contains a spunky, plus-sized heroine, a sassy Beagle named Scamp, and a sexually frustrated hitman who can’t figure out what women want…Then again, what man can?

Read on for my thoughts on Hittin’ It. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Heart and Sole by Miranda Liasson

Posted July 14, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Heart and Sole
Series:
Author: Miranda Liasson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 14, 2015
Publisher: Entangled Indulgence
My Rating: 4 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

Getting even.
One step at a time…

Maddie Kingston just walked away from everything in order to take over her family’s struggling shoe business. And she’s in some serious trouble. The majority of the company’s shares have been bought out by none other than Maddie’s ex-boyfriend, self-made billionaire Nick Holter. Now Maddie needs his help…even if it means buying Nick from a charity bachelor auction.

After the Kingstons destroyed his grandfather’s career, Nick vowed to take over their company. He’s inches from victory when he finds himself bought and paid for…by his sexy ex-girlfriend who’s hell-bent on saving her family’s company. Between their families’ feud and their own unfinished business, tempers – and emotions – run hot. Too hot.

Because kissing with the enemy is a guaranteed shoe-in for trouble.

Read on for my thoughts on Heart and Sole. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Always Remember by Shelia Seabrook

Posted July 13, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 2 Comments

Title: Always Remember
Series: Rocky Mountain Romance #1
Author: Sheila Seabrook
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: August 9, 2013
Publisher:
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

A midnight summons from rancher Nate Coltrane brings singer Jessie Adams back to the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Seventeen years ago, Jessie gave up Nate’s child for adoption and she hasn’t been home since. How can she sit by her mother’s side, surrounded by constant reminders of all she loved and lost? How can she face Nate without telling him the truth about the child he never knew existed?

Nate doesn’t think Jessie has the guts to return home and face him, but when she does, he’s afraid of losing everything he loves…for the second time in his life. But he’s made a promise. Bring Jessie home. Give her mother one last opportunity to heal the rift with her daughter. Nate will do anything for Jessie’s mother because if not for her, he might never have known the love of his child.

But sometimes the truth turns out to be a lie.

Read on for my thoughts on Always Remember. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Friends & Fortune Cookies by Elizabeth Bemis

Posted July 11, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Title: Friends & Fortune Cookies
Series: The Mendoza Sisters #2
Author: Elizabeth Bemis
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: May 12, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:

When columnist Grace Mendoza is handed the dream assignment of a “Dating for Dummies” series, she knows it’s her ticket to national syndication. Too bad that when it comes to dating, she’s the biggest dummy of all. Jilted at the altar, abandoned by her best guy friend, Grace is about to hang up her keyboard for good until said best-friend lands back in town. He OWES her, and she’s determined to collect.

Rehabber Joe Baker is good at fixing things, but he can’t fix his emotions for Grace. When he realized he’d fallen for the quirky columnist right around the time he’d had to give her the bad news about her bastard of a bridegroom, he knew he had to split town, fast. Now he’s back and stuck on a job that may make or break his business. He can’t escape—especially when Grace demands that he tag along as a watch-dog for one disastrous date after another, all in the name of giving her avid readers what they want. Joe may be Grace’s biggest fan, but all he wants… is a second chance with her.

Read on for my thoughts on Friends & Fortune Cookies. No true spoilers, promise.

Review: Love & Oreos by Elizabeth Bemis

Posted July 11, 2015 by Marsha in Contemporary Romance / 0 Comments

Love and Oreos Title: Love & Oreos
Series: The Mendoza Sisters (A Sudden Falls Romance)
Author: Elizabeth Bemis
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: March 10, 2015
Publisher:
My Rating: 5 stars
Source: Owned, Kindle edition
Cover Description:

Katherine Mendoza is curvy PR exec whose passion for Oreos is tempered only by her workaholic lifestyle. But when an invitation to her high school reunion lands on her doorstep the same day she takes on the obscenely attractive owner of a chain of fitness centers as a client, she decides it’s a sign from the gods. Who better to get her backside into shape than the guy whose backside she’s about to save?

Fitness-master Quinn Mitchell is more than happy to help Katherine slim down, but keeping his hands off her curves is proving to be the bigger challenge. Unfortunately, he’s got oversized problems of his own: his fitness centers are coming under fire from a reporter with a vendetta, he’s behind schedule and losing backers, and his business partner insists that being seen with anyone who’s not model-thin is bad for business.

In an epic clash of wits, wagers–and Oreos–Katherine and Quinn put everything on the line to succeed… but can they win it all without losing their hearts?

Read on for my thoughts on Love & Oreos. No true spoilers, promise.