He’s been the bane of my existence since the day we met, so how did I wind up wearing his ring?
Charlie Jones is living her dream as the drummer for Steelwolf, one of the top rock bands in the country. But as the newest member of the band, and a woman, the scrutiny is endless. Steelwolf has had more than enough drama over the years and she’s not planning to add to it, so she focuses solely on her career, pouring her heart into every beat.
Josh Harrison has everything he’s ever wanted. He’s been Steelwolf’s manager since the beginning and they’ve been through it all. But he epically screwed up a few months ago. To get back in the band’s good graces, he’s agreed to do whatever they want, including being their lackey for the rest of the tour. Which means he’ll be on a bus with the woman who’s gotten under his skin since she walked into the studio two years ago.
She thinks he sees her as a gimmick to sell albums. His cockiness grates on her nerves. He thinks she’s amazing. He craves her. But he has one rule: no hooking up with musicians, especially not a client. Now—somehow—she’s in his bed, in Vegas, with a ring on her finger. And she’s agreeing to stay married to him until the end of the tour.
When their fake marriage starts to look—and feel—all too real, Charlie must decide. Will she listen to her head and run? Or has the man who drives her crazy finally snared her heart?
USA Today Bestselling Author, Stephanie Kay has always loved a good romance, and she got hooked on the dirty ones at the tender age of 14, when she told her mother that if the cover wasn’t a bodice ripper, then there was no sex in the book. As an avid mystery reader, her mother never checked to see if Stephanie was lying. Twenty plus years later, Stephanie’s most prized possession is her Kindle, and she may have a Hallmark movie obsession.
She has called California and Maryland her home, but now lives in New England with her husband where she asks him incessant questions until he escapes to go hiking in the mountains. That’s the only time she can get him out of the house so she can get her writing in. Married couples shouldn’t both work from home!
Sports were never her thing, but after beta reading for another hockey author and buying NHL Game Center within one month of watching her first hockey game a few years ago, she dove into learning everything she could about the sport and the hot men that play it. Now she spends her spare time visiting hockey arenas in the name of research and loving every second of it.
Sneaking Around with the Player by Rebecca Jenshak is a fun winter read! Beau and Stella meet of all places on an airplane. Stella is trying to avoid her ex and starts talking with Beau. One thing leads to another and the two have exchanged phone numbers. They are both athletes in college and don’t plan on ever seeing each other again. After all, they are attending schools far away from each other. But somehow their airplane connection proves stronger than either one realizes. They continue texting and facetiming and soon they have the chance to see each other again.
Too bad there are some obstacles in their path, particularly Stella’s brother who happens to be a sports rival to Beau.
The cover attracted me to this story. I love all the pink and winter of it all. Fortunately, the book ended up being quite cute too. It’s novella length so the author works hard to get just enough emotional connection into the story without bogging it down with long plotlines that don’t have time to develop.
I found the “sneaking around” aspect quite sexy after first but much like Stella, I was ready for these two to bring their relationship out into the open. Beau has fallen hard for Stella but he doesn’t want to come between her and her brother. But Stella isn’t going to wilt away from the chance to fall in love. She gives it her all even when she doesn’t expect the relationship to play out the way it does.
Sneaking Around with the Player is a cozy winter romance. It’s fun and sweet, just what I want in my current reading life!
It was supposed to be a quick conversation with a cute boy at the airport while I dodged my ex and his new girlfriend. We weren’t supposed to trade numbers. He wasn’t supposed to be a football player. And I definitely wasn’t supposed to fall for him since he’s attending a college a thousand miles away. I saw past his jersey. And he saw past my last name. Now it’s semester break, and by some Christmas miracle, he’s going to be close. So close. I want to meet him again, but there’s just one problem. My older brother can’t, under any circumstances, find out I’m dating his rival.
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Rebecca Jenshak is a USA Today bestselling author of new adult and sports romance. She writes sexy, feel-good stories with lots of swoon-worthy moments.
Rebecca lives in Arizona. When she isn’t writing, you can find her cheering on local sports teams, hanging out with friends and family, or curled up with a good book.
An unlucky witch and her know-it-all nemesis must team up in the first of a new, spicy romantic comedy series from USA Today bestselling author Avery Flynn.
Could it possibly get any worse than having absolutely no magical abilities when you’re a member of the most powerful family of witches ever? It used to be that I’d say no, but then I keep getting set up on dates with Gil Connolly whose hotness is only matched by his ego. Seriously. I can’t stand him. Even if I also can’t stop thinking about him (specifically kissing him) but we’re going to pretend I never told you that part.
So yeah, my life isn’t the greatest right now, but then it goes straight to the absolute worst hell when I accidentally make my sister’s spell glitch and curse my whole family. And the only person who can help non-magical me break the spell? You guessed it. Gil the super hot jerk.
Now we have to work together to save my family and outmaneuver some evil-minded nefarious forces bent on world domination. Oh yeah, and we have to do all that while fighting against the attraction building between us because I may not be magical, but what’s happening between Gil and I sure feels like it.
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When Avery Flynn isn’t writing about alpha heroes and the women who tame them, she is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. She has three slightly wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband, and has a slight shoe addiction. Find out more about Avery on her website, follow her on Twitter, like her on her Facebook page, or friend her on her Facebook profile. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the internet, she’ll be your best friend for life.
I don’t read a lot of holiday themed books despite my immense love for all things Christmas. But this title intrigued me so I wanted to give it a try and I’m glad I did. It proved to be a fun and super sexy Christmas romance.
Kenzie is a party planner looking for her big break. It’s why she goes above and beyond for the events she plans, like dressing up as an elf for a recent event. Unfortunately, she also forgot her after work date clothes so she races to the location where the date is being held dressed as an elf. Her date is not impressed. In fact, he’s kind of a jerk about it. Andrew can’t believe this woman thought it was appropriate to show up in her elf clothes. When he learns that Kenzie is the sister of his best friend, well, let’s just say both want to pretend the date never happened. Good thing Kenzie gives him a piece of her mind!
However, when Andrew learns that one of the partner’s at his law firm is in search of an event planner for the office’s holiday party, well, he throws Kenzie’s name into the ring. And this brings them back together and soon, where there was simmering distrust there is romance. Unfortunately, neither Kenzie or Andrew are without their baggage.
Single and Ready to Jingle is a really fun read to get you in the spirit of the holidays! Kenzie’s enthusiasm for her job and for Christmas is really sweet. Maybe I just relate to her too much as I too love Christmas but this was one of the best parts of her character. I also really liked seeing Kenzie get to know her older brother. They’ve never had a close relationship but something different this holiday season is bringing them closer together as adults.
The romance is also really good! Andrew and Kenzie have a bit of a frenemies vibe in the beginning but that does change as they work together and get to know each other better. The sex scenes are nice and spicy too which I appreciate. While I like Hallmark movies, I definitely appreciate a bit more spice to my reading. Piper Rayne does not go lightly on the spice factor!
All in all, Single and Ready to Jingle proved to be a very fun read that went all too quickly for my tastes!
The girl who loves Christmas falls for the Grinch—it’s a Christmas miracle.
What started as a dumpster fire of a blind date turns into a deal.
In truth, it probably didn’t help that I showed up dressed like an elf but that’s a story for another time. Our start was rocky at best which is why it’s so frustrating that I can’t stop thinking about his sexy British accent. Or the way his chest and arms fill out his suit. Or his perfect hair with that single streak of grey at the front.
Santa likes lists and so do I, so here’s all the reasons why Andrew and I aren’t right for each other:
He’s my brother’s best friend
He’s the biggest grump I’ve ever met.
He hates Christmas.
That last one is big for a girl like me who thinks that the entire month of December should be a national holiday. So, when he calls for my help in planning his firm’s holiday party, I can’t pass up the opportunity to grow my small business. Bonus, we make a deal, and he agrees to attend three holiday events with me so I can make him fall in love with Christmas. As if I’d pass up an opportunity to make a Grinch’s heart grow three times its size.
It isn’t long until I discover Andrew has a very real reason to hate Christmas and I start to see him in a different light. That’s when the Christmas miracle begins.
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Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write “heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle” about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they’re married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they’re both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!
I have always enjoyed movies, tv shows and books set in space or somehow revolving around space as an idea. One of my current favorite tv shows is Apple TV’s For All Mankind. I highly recommend it! So when I saw this book by Samantha Young coming out, I really wanted to try it. I have enjoyed a few of her other books in the past so combine a theme I like with an author I like? Seems like a win!
A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young
Hallie is a successful event planner. She is working on an engagement party for Charlotte and her fiancé, Matthias, two people in love with very different tastes. Hallie isn’t worried. She asks the two to send her some ideas of their ideas for the party to see how she can combine them. In the process of looking through Charlotte’s files, Hallie discovers personal videos to Charlotte from a past boyfriend, Christopher Ortiz, a NASA astronaut. She ends up watching them all but feeling very guilty and knowing she invaded both Christopher and Charlotte’s personal life. So, Hallie starts sending videos of her own to Christopher, the first one apologizing.
Christopher isn’t pleased when the first video from Hallie shows up. But soon he is involved in watching the videos she sends to the NASA account. These two have not met yet but they are connecting on a deep level.
A Cosmic Kind of Love is a really sweet romance. It is slightly soured by the very heavy parental issues both Hallie and Chris are dealing with. It just got to be a lot that weighed them down and at times, the storyline also. That aside, I really enjoyed seeing these two fall in love in a modern epistolatory style. These are not letters obviously but I think it’s a fun twist on that idea. Samantha Young has a really likeable writing style that resonates with me. My time reading A Cosmic Kind of Love flew by and I can’t say that happens a lot when I read anymore sadly.
A Cosmic Kind of Love proved to be a fun love story with some heavy elements along the way. Mostly I kept reading for Hallie and Chris. I was rooting for these two to fall in love!
Thank you to Valentine PR and the publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book.
A Cosmic Kind of Love by Samantha Young is now live!
Space is the last thing an event planner and an astronaut need in this charming new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young.
When event planner Hallie Goodman receives party-inspiration material from the bride of her latest wedding project, the last thing she expects to find in the files are digital videos from Darcy’s ex-boyfriend. Hallie knows it’s wrong to keep watching these personal videos, but this guy is cute, funny, and an astronaut on the International Space Station to boot. She’s only human. And it’s not long until she starts sending e-mails and video diaries to his discontinued NASA address. Since they’re bouncing back, there’s no way anyone will ever be able to see them…right?
Christopher Ortiz is readjusting to life on earth and being constantly in the shadow of his deceased older brother. When a friend from NASA’s IT department forwards him the e-mails and video messages Hallie has sent, he can’t help but notice how much her sense of humor and pink hair make his heart race.
Separated by screens, Hallie and Chris are falling in love with each other, one transmission at a time. But can they make their star-crossed romance work when they each learn the other’s baggage?
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Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She’s been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. Samantha writes adult contemporary and paranormal romance, YA urban fantasy and YA contemporary fiction and is currently published in 31 countries. She resides in Scotland.
It was supposed to be a weekend of holiday cheer. Just me and my twin sister, watching Christmas movies and baking cookies. My brother was absolutely not supposed to show up with half the football team. Including Teddy. My brother’s best friend and my secret crush. I’m the shy sister. The one with her nose stuck in a book and quoting every word of Elf, not the one getting attention from guys like Teddy. He’s cool and smart and so handsome I could die. The only thing that could make things worse is if I got snowed in with him. Alone.
Sneaking Around with the Player
It was supposed to be a quick conversation with a cute boy at the airport while I dodged my ex and his new girlfriend. We weren’t supposed to trade numbers. He wasn’t supposed to be a football player. And I definitely wasn’t supposed to fall for him since he’s attending a college a thousand miles away. I saw past his jersey. And he saw past my last name. Now it’s semester break, and by some Christmas miracle, he’s going to be close. So close. I want to meet him again, but there’s just one problem. My older brother can’t, under any circumstances, find out I’m dating his rival.
Rebecca Jenshak is a USA Today bestselling author of new adult and sports romance. She writes sexy, feel-good stories with lots of swoon-worthy moments.
Rebecca lives in Arizona. When she isn’t writing, you can find her cheering on local sports teams, hanging out with friends and family, or curled up with a good book.
Annika Martin’s Billionaires series is truly one of my current favorite series to read and re-read. To say I was thrilled about the publication of Butt-Dialing the Billionaire would be an understatement!
Jada has been a minor character in the previous books, one of the friend group who supports the main female character. It’s now her turn to shine. Jade takes her job at SportGoCo very seriously as head designer. Unfortunately, it seems like someone wants the company to fail. Her boss, Bert, is doing everything in his power to make sure sales tank. Then he has the audacity to hire one of the most lazy men Jada has ever met. Jack Smith is insolent and doesn’t seem to care about his job at all. It’s one more sign in Jada’s mind that something is going wrong at the company.
“Jack Smith” is not just any lazy employee. He is actually the billionaire owner of the company and he is determined to figure out who mocked him on a company-wide call. Jaxon doesn’t have a lot of positives in his life. His parents just died but he isn’t mourning. They were not good people. His racing career is over because of a fight. Now, basically for giggles, he is going to find out who mocked him and fire this person. He knows it isn’t Jada though. She is too stodgy and by the book to ever break a rule.
Jada is in fact the person who mocked Jack on the phone call. He was supposed to have already hung up! SportyGoCo used to be a super fun place to work. She was just trying to bring a little joy back to her fellow coworkers, people she considers family. She definitely didn’t expect to meet Jack. She is not impressed…at first. As Jada shows Jack every day, theirs really is a family and a company worth saving. Even hard-hearted Jack is starting to see that. But with his disguise still firmly in place, how will he tell Jada the truth about his initial intentions without losing her permanently?
Annika Martin always makes me laugh. Her new book is both strong in laughs and heart. It was really nice to see more of Jada and what drives her. She is passionate about clothing work. I really enjoyed seeing her in action with her coworkers as they worked with different zippers for their Unicorn Wonderbag. It was very frustrating to see Bert step in and ruin things so often!
I loved the chemistry between Jada and Jack. He thinks she is a boring rule-follower. He soon discovers that Jada is passionate about her work and the people she works with. She is earnest about showing him the good things in the company even if he is unwilling to appreciate them. But soon even Jack is caught up in trying to help SportyGoCo succeed, not realizing just how deeply the rot extends to its potential failure.
Jack begins as somewhat of a stereotypical bad boy rebel who did everything to annoy his parents. They were not nice people as you’ll see when you read. He wanted to cause them annoyance and well, he succeeded. But with them gone, now he just wants to sell off the company. Unfortunately, it isn’t as easy as it seems to do that. And then he meets Jada who he connects with. Theirs is a very sexy and very fun relationship. I wanted to see them happy together even though I knew some heartbreak had to be coming.
Butt-Dialing the Billionaire reads very easily as a stand-alone title, but I have a feeling once you read this you’ll want to read more of the series if you haven’t yet. With her signature humor and sexy love scenes, Annika Martin has another delicious romance romp on her hands that will please readers from beginning to end.
Butt-dialing the Billionaire by Annika Martin is now live!
It was just some silly fun. A goofy imitation of the faceless mega-billionaire who owns our faceless international mega-corporation.
And yes, there was laughter. Possibly a few hoots and screams.
How was I to know that Dave from accounting had sat on the speakerphone, butt-dialing said mega-billionaire? Or that he’d listen to me make fun of him for ten straight minutes.
Ummm…he could’ve announced himself!
They say he’s a notorious rake. A paparazzi-punching scoundrel. An international jet-set bad boy.
And now I hear he’s determined to track down the jokester. Me.
Eep!
But we’re tight like family in this office—no way will my co-workers rat me out, in spite of the pressure from the top. Plus, who brings the cookies? Moi!
Things die down after a few months, and I’m pretty sure I’m safe.
Thank goodness, because I have my hands full with our lazy, arrogant new office gopher. He has the worst work ethic I’ve ever seen—how did he even get hired? He doesn’t know how to work a vending machine, and he’s baffled when we send around a card to be signed for somebody’s birthday. It’s as if he’s never set foot in a place of business in his life.
But little by little, we’re drawing closer. He’s funny. Sexy. Wicked. Still, he’s all wrong for me. I like respectable men with a work ethic.
Also, I can’t shake the feeling that he’s hiding something…
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Annika Martin is a NYT bestselling author who loves reading fun, steamy books, doing yoga, taking pictures of my cats, rocking out to 90’s music, taking long baths, consuming See’s chocolate suckers, mooning over heroes’ hands, and helping animals. She can be found hanging out in Minneapolis coffee shops with her awesome writer husband and tending her crazy bee-friendly garden. She has also written as RITA award-winning author Carolyn Crane.
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