Monday, March 18, 2024

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

  

 Hosted by The Book Date 

New week new stack of books. I'm a huge mood reader so I'm kind of all over for reading but it keeps me from being burned out. 

A bunch but I need to write reviews and I'm determined to catch up on reviews as I've gotten so behind on them. I feel like I've hit a overwhelmed slump which is why I needed to refocus. Do you ever feel a little overwhelmed? 

Finished Last Week 

New Week with all new books on my TBR list. In the last few weeks I've started to get overwhelmed so I'm taking more of a casual selection. 



I've got a few more on my list if I can finish off this stack. 

What are you reading this week? 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

RELEASE BLITZ - Broken Wings by Erika Ashby




Title: Broken Wings
10th Anniversary Edition
Series: Broken & Mended #1
Author: Erika Ashby
Genre: Military Romance
Tropes: Second Chance/Close Proximity
Friends to Lovers
Release Date: March 9, 2024

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Lynsie Fox has what she considers to be a perfect life. Married to Lincoln, a military pilot, she's living the Army life she's always loved. Being a sucker for great love stories, Lynsie makes it her mission to find Lincoln's best friend and copilot, Dax Adams, a good woman.

Losing the one woman he's ever loved, Dax attempts to be a good sport by playing along in Lynsie's matchmaking scheme. However, Dax is certain he will never get the woman of his dreams.

But life doesn't always fly smoothly. When turbulence strikes, Lynsie watches her world crash and burn around her, leaving her empty with broken wings. Despite her grief, can she mend the pieces back together and learn to fly again?



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AUTHOR BIO
Erika Ashby grew up an Army Brat, spending most of her childhood in Oklahoma, where she finally put roots down. She currently lives in Edmond, OK where she faithfully attends North Church with her kids. She's a blessed mom of 4 who loves Jesus and serving others. Her hobbies include attending dirt track races and concerts, reading, DIY, and making red dirt shirts. It wasn’t until the ripe age of 27 when she realized she had a hidden passion for reading. Up until that point in her life, she claimed to have hated it. Shortly after, she was hit with another revelation: the desire to tell stories. Knowing she had failed all writing assignments in school, she set out on this journey mainly to prove to herself she could do it. So, here she is today, proving it. Erika wants to encourage anyone with a dream to go for it.


Happy Tuesday!

 Happy Tuesday! 

I’ve was lucky enough to receive the very talented Rebecca Kenney’s upcoming release!


It’s been ages since I’ve read the Great Gatsby. So of course I need to read the book before diving into Beautiful Villain. I also plan to watch the move again for like the 10th time because I feel like it’s a must. 


Beautiful Villain by Rebecca Kenney

Releasing July 16th 2024 so be sure to re-order your copy I know it’s going to be amazing all of her books are. 

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It’s a dark & Spicy Modern Jay Gatsby story. 


Synopsis 

Seven years ago, I lost him for good. Now he's back, but is he still the Jay Gatsby I used to know…or is he something more? Something…darker.


Daisy Finnegan is looking forward to the endless golden freedom of summer. No more college, no more pressure, no more worries. But when her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy is all too ready to confront the mysterious host…only to discover the wealthy recluse is Jay Gatsby, her childhood sweetheart―now sinfully hot and impossible to deny.


She could never resist him, and it isn't long before she's entangled in a web of wealth and lies and obsession, culminating in a shocking act of violence that shatters the summer haze and threatens to drown them all.


But it isn't until Gatsby is shot through the heart―and survives―that Daisy discovers the truth of how he clawed his way up in the world: by selling the secret of immortality to the highest bidder. Now with her friends' lives at stake, her own dizzying new powers still volatile, and an unimaginable threat closing in, Daisy will have to face an impossible choice: Side with the man who claimed her body and soul? Or with the monsters who would see him lost to her forever?


An addictive and truly original spicy New Adult retelling of The Great Gatsby with a magical twist.

Teaser Tuesday!

    

I'm currently finishing up Light After Dark by Marie Force. This is my first book by her but this series is a standalone interconnecting characters. I picked this one up for my scavenger hunt. 


Teaser

 “Don’t sweat it. Better me than someone who would sue Daddy Warbucks. 

“Ha! That’s true. It’s getting fixed today. I called Alex to take care of it.” 

“Are you really so far gone that you can’t fix a hole in your own yard yourself? 

“I Nah, I just have better things to do today.”

“Such as?”

“Drive my big brother around and make sure he’s got everything he needs, such as breakfast. Did you eat yet?” 

“Not yet” 

“Let’s hit the diner on the way to the office.” 


This one is cute and I thought the exchanges between the brothers was cute. 



Synopsis 

Find out why more than 5 million readers have landed on Gansett Island and never want to leave!


It’s a summer of new beginnings and maybe even love.


Mallory Vaughn is at a crossroads in her life. A year after learning that Big Mac McCarthy is her father, she’s spending more and more time on Gansett Island, surrounded by the large and boisterous McCarthy family. When she’s laid off from her longtime job, Mallory goes to visit her family on Gansett and tries to figure out the next chapter. An unexpected job offer will have her packing up her home in Providence to move to the island for at least the summer, if not longer. She decides to make this the “Summer of Mallory,” full of new adventures, new people and new opportunities. Will a new love also be part of the Summer of Mallory? Anything is possible on Gansett Island, especially true love.


Take the ferry back to Gansett to catch up with the McCarthy family and their friends. Be on hand as Laura and Owen welcome their twins and the family comes back together for another summer of love and adventure on Gansett Island.


"No one tells a love story like Marie Force or makes characters come alive for the readers. She has an incredible ability to pull you into the story and long after you finish the book the scenes still play out in your head and your heart. The McCarthys of Gansett Island sets a very high standard for all other series." Desiree Holt, author of the Phoenix Agency and Naked Cowboys series.

What are you currently reading?

Friday, March 8, 2024

Happy Friday!

 

I ordered from Rebecca F Kenney's etsy store and my new books arrived with some beautiful artwork. I haven't read them yet but I'm excited to. Highly recommend checking out her shop lots of great deals. 

I'm currently starting Fated Under The Moon by Abby McCarthy it fits my scavenger hunt challenge this week. 

What are you reading? 

RELEASE BLITZ - Heartbreaker Handoff by Lex Martin




Title: Heartbreaker Handoff
Series: Varsity Dads #5
Author: Lex Martin
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Fake Dating, Small Town
Football Player/Cheerleader, Coach's Daughter
Release Date: March 8, 2024

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Billy’s not my baby daddy, but he doesn’t mind pretending to be…

I’m a Division 1 cheerleader with hopes of becoming a sports broadcaster. None of my plans for college include getting knocked up by a cheating ex who just got engaged to another girl.

When my father finds out I’m pregnant, he goes ballistic. That’s when my BFF, bad boy Billy Babcock, comes to my rescue and agrees to “take responsibility.”

Billy and I solidify our contract on a napkin—he’ll pretend to be my baby’s father, and I’ll help him clean up his image. The only problem is my father, the football coach, hates Billy. He warned me off dating players a long time ago, and he thinks Billy’s the biggest player out there.

Now that we’re in a “relationship,” Billy thinks we should spend some quality naked time together, but I’m worried about crossing that line. Because athletic guys with big muscles, intricate tattoos, and sexy smirks are my biggest weakness, and Billy ticks off all those boxes.

Can my football player “boyfriend” walk the straight and narrow for me?

Or did I just get handed off from one heartbreaker to another?

Heartbreaker Handoff is an angsty, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance featuring a sassy cheerleader, who’s about to be a single mother, and a criminally charming football player determined to prove he’s the man for her, one sizzling kiss at a time. Heartbreaker Handoff is a dual POV standalone in the USA Today-bestselling series Varsity Dads.

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AUTHOR BIO
Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of The Varsity Dad Dilemma, the Texas Nights series, and the Dearest series, books she hopes readers love but her parents avoid. A former high school English teacher and freelance journalist, she resides in Texas with her husband, twin daughters, and a bunny named Dandelion.

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

RELEASE BLITZ - Mr. Important by Lucy Lennox & May Archer




Title: Mr. Important
Series: Honeybridge #2
Authors: Lucy Lennox & May Archer
Genre: Contemporary MM Romance
Tropes: Age Gap/Father's Best Friend
Enemies to Lovers/Boss-Employee
Direct Release Date: March 7, 2024
Amazon Release Date: March 14, 2024

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One New Year’s masquerade. One anonymous hookup. One billionaire-sized mistake.

Once upon a time, someone looked at my scrawny, quiet eight-year-old self and nicknamed me Mr. Important… and I believed them.

That was my first mistake.

Two decades, a dozen failed careers, and a thousand meaningless hookups later, I’ve made more mistakes than I can count. My parents have decided I’m purely decorative, my brother thinks I need pep talks, and the gorgeous billionaire who hired me as a favor to my dad? He’s forgotten I exist.

So I’m done with mistakes.

Call it my New Year’s resolution. From now on, I’m going after what I want… starting with the mysterious silver fox in the Roman warrior mask who approached me at the charity gala and offered me a scorching, anonymous one-night-stand.

Unfortunately, when our masks come off I realize mistakes are not done with me.

Because the bossy guy who blew my mind? He’d thought I was someone else. Worse than that, he’s my father’s friend. A supposedly-straight workaholic. The person I’m stuck on a road trip with for the next two weeks. And, oh yeah, my actual boss.

The farther we get from New York, the closer we become, and the harder it is to pretend I’m not falling for him. But I can’t see how someone as brilliant, controlled, and successful as Thatcher Pennington would risk everything to be with someone like me… even if he makes me feel like I’m finally Mr. Important.





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LUCY LENNOX
Lucy Lennox is a USA Today bestselling author and winner of the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award.

After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day. She writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!


MAY ARCHER
May is an M/M author who lives in Boston. She spends her days raising three incredibly sarcastic children, alternating eating Jax and Tostitos, planning beach vacations, avoiding the gym, reading M/M romance, and occasionally writing it.



RELEASE BLITZ - Mercy in Betrayal by Vi Carter & E.R. Whyte




Title: Mercy in Betrayal
Dark Mafia Romance
Series: Sons of the Mafia #4
Authors: Vi Carter & E.R. Whyte
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
Trope: Arranged Marriage
Release Date: March 7, 2024

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She is my prize and my penance…my obsession and possession.
I want to shake the hand of the person who gunned down my father. He was a rotten b*stard.
It’s just a pity I didn’t get to take his life myself.
Now, with my father gone, I am the new Don of the Scarpetta family.
A don’s murder requires retribution, though, and when I take my rightful place, the means presents itself.
She’s small, innocent, and kept locked away by her brother Cassidy.
I’m all about force and brutality, and I like to take what is mine. But even I can’t just snatch the Princess from the head of the Irish mafia.
No. I must woo her out of her cage, only to trap her in one of my own.
This little bird wants to fly…and for some reason I want to show her all the sky has to offer.
Even if it causes war between every mafia family in NYC.

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VI CARTER
When Vi Carter isn't writing contemporary & dark romance books, that feature the mafia, are filled with suspense, and take you on a fast paced ride, you can find her reading her favorite authors, baking, taking photos or watching Netflix. 

Married with three children, Vi divides her time between motherhood and all the other hats she wears as an Author. 

She has declared herself a coffee & chocolate addict! Do not judge.


E.R. WHYTE
E.R. Whyte is a multi-genre author, writing contemporary and new adult romance under E.R. Whyte, reverse harem romance under Evie Rae, and sweet romance under Elle Rae Whyte. Although it would no doubt make life easier to simply choose a genre, she loves romance in all its forms too much to ever do that.

She's a simple girl at heart, living in a teeny-tiny Virginia town and spending her time finding herself, catering to various fur babies, and indulging her reading, writing, and photography habits. She loves being alone, bananas foster, and Pepsi.

Whyte worked as a high school English teacher for around a decade before she decided she really wanted more time to devote to her family and other fun stuff. Now she thinks up new ways to make tacos on Tuesday, explores the Marvel universe with childish enthusiasm, and spends entirely too much time on the computer.
Life is good.