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Review: Escaping Monsters by Rita Stradling & Alexa B. James

Length: 321 pages

Published: July 2, 2020

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Synopsis

First comes love…

Then comes marriage…

…and then comes my con-artist husband selling me to werewolves on our honeymoon.

On the run from my cruel captors, I stumble into Grayhaven. This secret supernatural settlement is packed with biker demons, fae royals, and witches dealing in death-magic. Their small town could be my salvation… or doom.

But when the Grayhaven werewolf pack tracks me down, I feel the noose of impending capture tightening around my throat. I’m an omega, the least dominant werewolf in the supernatural world. If I’m given an order—any order—I’m powerless to refuse.

The five dominant werewolves could enslave me with a word. Instead, they take me in, protect me, and call me their mate. I want to believe that they are mine… that I’m safe.

Yet, there is a malevolent darkness hunting me and it won’t stop until it’s claimed me once more, body and soul.

If you love sexy-as-hell alpha werewolves, feisty heroines, fated mates, and dominant shifters who would do anything to protect their mate, get ready to devour this medium/fast burn reverse harem romance!

Escaping Monsters is the first book in this steamy new Why Choose werewolf series by Alexa B James and Rita Stradling. This book is for 18 and over only please.

My thoughts 💭

I enjoyed this book! Once I started reading I couldn’t stop! Teagan is on the run and ends up in a magical town she didn’t think was possible. She finds that she’s not the only one who hates the husband she’s hiding from. Jasper, Lucas, Ace, Declan and even Chad wants her to stay with them since she’s their mate. There’s some kidnapping and rescuing and plenty of steam. I can’t wait to read the next one!

Release Blitz: The Swan And The Sergeant by Alana Albertson

The Swan and the Sergeant

by Alana Albertson
Publication Date: August 20, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

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$50,000 to appear on Dancing with the Stars.
$50,000 to humiliate myself on national television, lose my privacy, and become the laughingstock of the Marine Corps. But I can’t say no. Not even if it means I have to face the woman who once destroyed me.
Ten years ago, reality star Selena Martinez was my dance partner and my girl. Though the self-professed ugly duckling is now a beautiful swan, the girl I fell in love with is long gone. Consumed with being a celebrity, her inner beauty has been replaced by an ugly lust for fame. When our coach offers me $5,000 a week to appear on TV’s hot ballroom dance reality show, I have no desire to relive my painful past with Selena, but I made a promise to my buddy that I’d take care of his wife and kids if he died on the battlefield.
One season, ten weeks, a small sacrifice to make for the man who saved my life.
Hand me my dance shoes.
I’m in.

About Alana Albertson


Alana Albertson is an award winning Latina author, the former President of Romance Writers of America’s Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit, and Young Adult chapters. She holds a Masters of Education from Harvard and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford. A recovering professional ballroom dancer, Alana currently writes new adult romantic suspense, young adult, and contemporary romance. She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, two sons, and five dogs. When she’s not spending her time needlepointing, dancing, or saving dogs from high kill shelters through her rescue Pugs N Roses, she can be found watching episodes of House Hunters, Homeland, or Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.

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Release Blitz: Birdie’s Biker by Misty Walker

Birdie’s Biker

by Misty Walker
Publication Date: August 25, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Dark Romance

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Vegas is where good people go to sin. Reno is where the bad ones go.

Amidst the drugs, weapons, and trafficking, a murder-for-hire market has emerged. And my motorcycle club is right in the thick of it.

If you can pay, we have a million different ways to solve your problem. You want someone to vanish without a trace? The Great Basin Desert is almost two hundred thousand square miles of “nobody will ever find you.” You want to make a statement? We’ve been known to hang bodies from the Reno Arch.

If you’re paying, we’re killing. No witnesses, no evidence, and no questions asked.

That is until we’re hired to locate and kill a group threatening biological warfare by exposing our city to a deadly virus they stole. It’s the big payday we need. But in order to take the job, we have to also agree to protect the spoiled brat who saw everything.

Small. Frail. Innocent. Frightened. I made her my little birdie, but she always wants to fly away. Too bad for her I’ve clipped her wings and locked her in my cage.

They say free birds sing, and caged birds pray. Her cries sound the same to me.

*Birdie’s Biker is a dark romance in the second run of the Royal Bastards MC. It’s sexy as sin, thrilling, gritty, and dirty. If you love tortured heroes and a heroine who learns her strength in the most depraved way, then you’ll love Birdie’s Biker.

* Welcome to the Royal Bastards where loyalty is KING and CODE is the only way to survive. This club is not for the weak-minded or easily disturbed. These 1%ers are vicious, ride hard, and love raw. Our stories are dark, cold-blooded, and created to trigger the best of you.

If you dare travel down our dark twisted roads, hold on tight!

You can see the full lineup here: https://www.royalbastardsmc.com/

About Misty Walker

Misty Walker has been writing stories, articles, and poems since junior high. Preferring to stay behind the scenes until now, she has been an avid romance reader, a blogger, and an audiobook proofer for the last fifteen years. Growing up in a nomadic household, Misty has lived all up and down the western USA, but recently settled in Reno, Nevada. Misty is a mom to two kids who are slowly trying to kill her, but they are cute, so she will keep them. She just celebrated her sixteen-year anniversary with her computer geek husband and has two dogs, Dunkin and Dutch, that are her constant companions while she happily reads and writes her life away.

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Review: Spineless by Autumn Reed

Length: 326 pages

Published: July 9, 2020

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Synopsis

Eight years ago, I believed I’d finally found a place to call home. My mother’s marriage to Vincent Sharpe meant security and three stepbrothers who were already my best friends.

 

But Mom’s mysterious death one week before the wedding turned my world upside down. The day of her funeral, I was whisked away to live with my aunt in Kansas, and I never heard from the Sharpes again…

 

Until a devastating tornado leaves me destitute.

 

Now, Vincent is offering me the opportunity of a lifetime—he’ll pay for my tuition and expenses at an exclusive university. All I have to do is move back in with him and his sons.

 

Knowing this is my one chance to discover what really happened to my mother, I grudgingly accept. But if I thought living in the same house with a potential murderer was going to be my biggest obstacle, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

 

Leo, Hayle, and Tristin Sharpe are no longer the boys I remember. They’re all grown up, with the adult attitudes, tensions, and sex appeal to prove it. They aren’t my problem anymore. Yet, somehow, they keep drawing me into their web of drama.

 

I might be the only person who can fix what’s broken between them. But I don’t trust that they won’t shatter me in the process.

 

 

*The Lonely Souls trilogy is a contemporary reverse harem series inspired by the main characters in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…except, this version of Dorothy and her friends is a little twisted.

My thoughts 💭

This was an okay read for me. Thea is supposed to be finding out why her mom was murdered by her soon to be husband but she’s not. Vincent was barely in the story but to be an ass but she still didn’t try to find any info or anything. She was more interested in trying to fix Leo, Tristian and Hayle relationship with each other or save Tristan from being set up. I’m not sure if I’ll read the next one.

Review: Lilly: The Complete Locke Series by Tiya Rayne

Length: 907 pages

Published: July 12, 2020

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Assassin

In my world, you need to be the biggest and baddest in order to survive and I’m the biggest and baddest there is. Men fear me as if I am death himself and women want me as if I am a gift from the gods. I am the great elf Assassin and the last of my kind. So, what’s my secret to surviving in the Locke? It’s simple: don’t form attachments and never get involved in other people’s problems. I’ve lived by those rules for centuries. But, one chance meeting with a doe-eyed little girl changes everything. One decision sets me on a cataclysmic journey.

Lilly

Safe, predictable, boring Lilly. That’s what my friend calls me. She also says I’m the last living twenty year old virgin. She may be right. But all of that changes when I get one night with a handsome stranger. What could go wrong?

One Decision alters their future.

One Decision sets their path.

One Decision may save their world.

This is the complete story.

This book contains sex and strong language and is not recommended for readers under 18.

My thoughts 💭

I enjoyed this book! It had the drama, villain, Love, betrayal and a woman nobody deserved. Lilly was a sweetheart and I absolutely loved her. I definitely recommend this book, it gave me all the feels!

Release Blitz: The Biker And The Professor by S. Ann Cole


Title: The Biker and the Professor
Series: The Oil and Water Series
Author: S. Ann Cole
Genre: Contemporary Romance Novella
Release Date: August 20, 2020

Raw, scorned, and finally free from my disastrous marriage, I flee the lies, humiliation, and manipulation of my old life like a bat out of hell, leaving it all in my rearview mirror.

Seduced by the sunny, diverse, laid-back Denver, Colorado, I settle in and set up a new life.

New job. New house. New friends… Freedom.

The idea was to start over. Fresh. Anew. But I didn’t anticipate starting over with my twenty-year-old student.

Nero Gunnar might be twelve years my junior, but he’s the manliest man I’ve ever met. He has his sights set on me and he’s not letting up.

It’s wrong. Forbidden. A disaster waiting to happen.

But sinful wrongs have never tasted so, so sweet.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a dark romance. This is not an erotica. The Biker and the Professor is a sexy, unconventional contemporary romance novella at approximately 43k words. Written in first-person present tense. Contains mature content.

 
S. Ann Cole is an exaggerator, a laugher, sometimes overly chatty, sometimes overly shy. She’s afraid of cats, dogs, snakes—heck, she’s only tolerable to gold fishes in a tank.
She hates fireworks, schmaltz and arrogance.
She loves carbs, full moons and humility.
She lives nowhere and everywhere.
Jokey people are her favorite people to be around, as laughter is the way to her heart.
When Ann’s not abusing her computer keyboard, you can find her nosing a novel, watching anything on television that makes her laugh until she breaks into hiccups (loves Disney, TBS, and Impractical Jokers!) studying the Bible, or sipping red wine.
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Review: Riding For A Fall by Sam Hall

Length: 266 pages

Published: July 11, 2020

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Synopsis

Freed from her neurological condition and the suffocating attention of her parents, Kira is a whole new woman, literally. And now she’s on tour with her favourite band, travelling across foreign countries and recording what she sees with the gorgeous Marlow by her side. So, it all should be smooth sailing, right?

Instead she’s thrust into a complex political world where everything is about power and a misstep could be your last. Kira’s no closer to discovering what the mysterious Aen is, or why he’s so interested in her. The tawny Johnno brings with him his own baggage: his band, with every single one of them focussed on one thing: her. She’s gone from fragile human to resilient, somehow powerful fae, but why does everyone want a bite?

So, who does she let close?

Join Kira as she navigates this brand new world and in the process of discovering the fae world and how it works, discovers a whole lot more than she bargained for about herself.

This is book two in a brand new steamy reverse harem series from the author of the Pack Heat series. If you love hot, why choose romance with sexy fae men and a bit of MM, you’ll love Riding for a Fall.

My thoughts 💭

Well I wasn’t expecting that kind of cliffhanger. I’m definitely feeling some type of way but I’m still interested in Kira’s journey…at this point I only love Aen and he better help her wreck stuff because I just can’t with the other guys. Off with their heads! 😩

Book Announcement: The After Another Trilogy by Bethany-Kris

THE AFTER ANOTHER TRILOGY

by Bethany-Kris
Publication Date(s): (September, October, November)
Genres: Adult, Mafia Romance, Crime Thriller, Romantic Suspense

ONE STEP AFTER ANOTHER

by Bethany-Kris
The After Another Trilogy, Book One
Publication Date: September 14, 2020
Genres: Adult, Mafia Romance, Crime Thriller, Romantic Suspense

FULL BLURB COMING AUGUST 24th!

He finds the unfindable, but she’s terribly good at hiding …

One can only play with monsters for so long before they start to notice you’re not the same. In this world, predators can just as easily become prey.

Note: One Step After Another is book one of the After Another trilogy following the same couple. The books should be read in order. The trilogy discusses triggering topics that may be uncomfortable for some. Please be advised and read at your own discretion.

ONE BREATH AFTER ANOTHER

by Bethany-Kris
The After Another Trilogy, Book Two
Publication Date: October 5, 2020
Genres: Adult, Mafia Romance, Crime Thriller, Romantic Suspense

BLURB COMING SOON!

NOTE:One Breath After Another is book 2 in the After Another trilogy. It follows the same couple – Luca and Penny – from present to past, and back again. The books must be read in order. Be warned, the trilogy discusses a subject that may be triggering.

ONE SECOND AFTER ANOTHER

by Bethany-Kris
The After Another Trilogy, Book THREE
Publication Date: November 9, 2020
Genres: Adult, Mafia Romance, Crime Thriller, Romantic Suspense

BLURB COMING SOON!

NOTE:One Second After Another is book 3 in the After Another trilogy. It follows the same couple – Luca and Penny – from present to past, and back again. The books must be read in order. Be warned, the trilogy discusses a subject that may be triggering.

CALLING ALL REVIEWERS, BLOGGERS, BOOKSTAGRAMMERS! YOU CAN NOW SIGNUP TO PARTICIPATE IN THE AFTER ANOTHER TRILOGY EVENTS!

One Step After Another: https://indiesage.com/one-stepbk/
One Breath After Another: https://indiesage.com/one-breathbk/
One Second After Another: https://indiesage.com/one-secondbk/

ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS

Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.

To keep up-to-date with new releases from Bethany-Kris, sign up to her New Release Newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/bf9lzD

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Release Blitz/ARC Review: One Crazy Bite by Cassandra Faye

One Crazy Bite

by Cassandra Faye
Publication Date: August 17, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Paranormal Romance

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“If you’re going to get stalked, at least make him hot and immortal.”

It’s always nice to feel wanted, but Grace wasn’t exactly looking for a boyfriend. Plus, getting stalked by a super hot vampire who’s invisible to everyone else just makes you look — and feel — crazy.

Not that her mental health is a high priority for the immortal.

Nic says they’re destined to be together. She’s pretty sure he’s a magical figment of her imagination… but he’s not taking no for an answer. He wants her body, her blood, and to make her his forever.

But does he have the magic wand to make her scream ‘yes?’

My thoughts 💭

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was an enjoyable read! Nic is finally freed from his curse and he’ll convince his plehara/mate that they’re meant to be. I liked Grace, she was very witty. This was a funny and easy read. I definitely recommend if you enjoy cursed vampires being saved by their mates.

About Cassandra Faye

Cassandra Faye lives in Texas where she’s done nothing but fantasize about other worlds her entire life. Constantly daydreaming about ancient powers, faerie realms, old gods, and how seriously dangerous unicorns would be if they existed, Cassandra writes the stories she’s always craved. Taking paranormal and fantasy worlds, mixing them in with modern day, and adding a dash of darkness.

So, if you enjoy those fairy tales that were a little more grimm, or if you ever wondered just how bad the villains could be as you held on for that happily-ever-after, then you might be just the person she’s writing for.

* * *

Cassandra also writes dark contemporary romance as Jennifer Bene. You can find her online throughout social media with username @jbeneauthor and on her website: http://www.jenniferbene.com

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Review: Den Of Vipers by K.A. Knight

Length: 646 pages

Published: July 10, 2020

Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Source: Kindle Unlimited

Synopsis

Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel—The Vipers.

They run this town and everyone in it. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses.

Yes, sold me.

They own me now.

I’m theirs in every sense of the word. But I’ve never been meek and compliant. These men, they look at me with longing. Their scarred, blood-stained hands holding me tight. They want everything I am, everything I have to give, and won’t stop until they get just that. They can own my body, but they will never have my heart.

The Vipers? I’m going to make them regret the day they took me.

This girl? She bites too.

*18+ Reverse Harem Romance. Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse/assault that some readers may find triggering. Along with graphic sex scenes and violence. This is a dark book*

My Thoughts 💭

This book was amazing! Their relationship starts off as a business deal but the more the guys got to know Roxy they realized she’s under their skin and they’ll never let her go. Roxy was a crazy and strong female and she had to be to take on the vipers! The guys are mean, cold and cruel but they loved her and she definitely loved them. This book was a page turner! I was hooked from beginning to end!