4 Smooches!

Synopsis

Screw the ring.
The good life.
My selfish wife.
I have felt abandoned by her for years. Forgotten.
Belittled.
Neglected.
Unloved….

But all of that has changed.
I’ve met an incredible woman. I didn’t mean for anything to happen with her. We were only supposed to be doing business together. But that sassy mouth, fine ass, and those perky tits got to me. It was a spur of the moment thing – both of us blinded by lust.

Is it bad to crave a woman so badly that you’ll do practically anything to hold onto her? Like make sweet promises that you know damn well can’t be kept?

Don’t be fooled. This newfound “happiness” may only be a f*cking façade, and what’s worse is that I can’t let it go.
Not now.
Probably not ever.

Why? Because there is only so much rejection a man can take before he finally just… gives into temptation.

Review

This was one of these stories that I really had to take into consideration and look at objectively because the story matter of infidelity is something I tend to avoid like the plague in my books, and it isn’t due to some terrible past where I had my own heart broken and now I’m transferring that angst, it’s just something I find incredibly distasteful to dive into when I’m looking for a happy ever after feeling.  What sort of hero can be redeemed if he has a callous and cheating heart and mind?  Well, if you take a chance on Sudden Desires, you’re bound to find out.

Although to say that Griffin is callous, is not entirely accurate.  Griffin is suffering in a loveless, fairly demeaning and disintegrating marriage and it’s through this that he has lost the man he used to be, his drive, his passion and his sanity.  When he tells you that his wife is neglectful, unappreciative and selfish, he’s right on the money but this story has so many deep, hidden, scandalous layers to it that to leave the story there would be shameful.  What was really well done of this book was the fact that we get three points of view- Griffin, his wife Collette and the other woman, Angelina.  It is no black and white, right and wrong straightforward story, there are elements at work that are just touched upon, begging for us to question them, hooking us so we need to know more but as it’s a serial, you know you aren’t going to get all the answers you demand.

Sudden Desires has more anti-heroes than you can shake a stick at, so be prepared, there will be some moments you despise, others you will love and more that you will salivate over but just know that there is a lot of darkness, kink, infidelity everywhere and a gripping suspenseful storyline playing throughout and you will either love it or loathe it.

‘He’s hardly rubbed two words together since I came in the bedroom.  I’m tired of the bullshit.  Tired of the nonsense.  I need to know if he feels the same way as I do.  Is he fed up?  Is he also tired of this charade?  Tired of pretending.  Has he finally given up on all of this?  I need to know.  I mean, even though it won’t change much, it will help something.  If he does still feel something for me, then maybe this won’t be so bad.’

Shanora is a great storyteller, her characters are diverse and complex and realistic and with Sudden Desires, she will alienate some readers but there will be hoardes more that appreciate this book for what it is, a scandalous, sumptuous and downright provocative read.

~Nicole

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

Their love burned bright, white hot, and strikingly blue around the edges.

Some thought them careless.

Some thought them crazy.

No one approved.

Taylor Barrett was looking for answers in a universe that had abandoned him.

Jude Boehler flooded her dark world with charisma and mystery, drawing everyone into her hurricane.

It was a most captivating of love affairs. They were shooting stars, meteors in the sky, colliding to create a spectacularly wonderful reckless romance, leaving them breathless and tethered.

Their souls were exposed to the chaos, bare and vulnerable. Can these two star-crossed lovers survive the madness that is life?

Review

Every once in awhile a book comes along that reminds me exactly why I love reading so damn much; the beauty and the emotion that flows through each sentence, pours from the characters and dances across my mind and heart in complete awe and produces that giddy excitement when thinking about writing the review because you just NEED people to read this book…this is it.  Until I Met You is such a stunning and moving read, contrasting brilliantly between a sweet whimsical romance and a much more intense and overwrought one.

What starts out as one of the sweetest, most playful meetings between our hero and heroine at a ritzy glitzy society function, develops into something indefinable and oh so real within the space of one night, where your choice of ice cream could redefine the rest of your whole life.  Taylor and Jude share a soul deep connection almost instantaneously, as though one recognises the internal struggle and heartache in the other and they each cling to each other in safety, trying to obliterate the loneliness that their darker and more complex issues cause them.  It’s in this crazy, almost carefree introduction that the most unpredictable and all consuming friendship and love affair blooms and paves the way for one of several difficult fights they have, in order to work their way towards a happy ever after with each other.

This is my first S.L Scott novel and what a way to be introduced to her work.  Her writing is literally poetry in motion.  The wide scope of emotion and the depth of her words and the meaning behind them all,  took my breath away more than once, so much so that I had to bend my husband’s ear after I had read it because I had to share it with someone!

‘“One doesn’t stand before the ocean and call it handsome.  We didn’t stare at the stars last April and say it was a handsome night.  Love knows only the beauty of its power, not the intricacies of verses.  So no, Hazel, you’re not handsome.  You’re beautiful like the stars.  You’re beautiful like the ocean.  You’re beautiful like the love I feel for you.”

Powerful, visceral and completely epic, Until I Met You has got to be one of my top five reads for this year.  The characterisation is immaculate here, the complications and the pain, the sadness and the devastation all seep into you but then so too does the happiness, the strength of Taylor and Jude and the overwhelming love they have for each other.  As with any great romance there are outside elements that conspire to keep our fearless twosome apart as well as those that cannot be fought by most ordinary standards, but it is in this fight to be together, that we as the reader are given one of the greatest, most memorable and awe-inspiring romances of 2015.  S.L Scott has managed to tackle not one but two very sensitive subject matters in her protagonists, with much aplomb and intelligence, highlighting not only how serious each issue is but also how unbelievably strong and courageous you need to be to keep fighting your way out of the dark.  An absolutely sterling piece of writing.

~Nicole

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

Patience McKinnon has never even tried to live up to her unfortunate name. Her sisters would gladly point out that she’s impetuous, fickle, and stubborn to a fault. History has taught her that she’s the only one, besides those crazy sisters, that has her best interests at heart…and she’s not about to let down her guard and let herself get hurt. She did that once…and that was more than enough. Next time, she’s fairly certain that she’d rather just shoot first and ask questions later, thank you very much!

Enter Abel Turner. The suave town attorney has had Patience McKinnon in his sights for years. Sure, he strayed along the way, but he’s always come back to the beautiful blonde bartender that fills his dreams and drives him crazy at the same time. After all, he owes her…and he plans to rectify the bad impression he made in the past with a humdinger of a sensual night.

But that one night may just change both of their worlds…forever. Will Patience overcome her insecurities? And will Abel ever convince her to trust him again?

Join the entire town of Paradise and the intrepid McKinnon sisters in this humorous and poignant erotica romance! Standalone.

Review

“In my world, an empty womb is a happy womb.”

Twenty-three year old Patience McKinnon knows what she likes. She likes a good party, loud music and driving her Mustang with the top down. She likes dressing to kill in tight-fitting clothes, colorful streaks in her hair and dancing till dawn. She really likes her independence. Above all, she loves her sisters, she’s fiercely loyal and, like the rest of Paradise, she’s attack-dog protective over her little sister, Honor. She also knows what she doesn’t like. She doesn’t like relationships. She doesn’t like people telling her what she should or shouldn’t do. And she really doesn’t like Abel Turner. A commitment-phobe who doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body, you won’t catch Patience settling down to do the husband-kids-happily-ever-after thing.

“He had a body that screamed sin, and if she hadn’t been occupied planning his murder in her mind, she might have appreciated the scenery a whole lot more.”

Successful attorney, sought-after bachelor and recently reformed man-whore, Abel Turner has fucked up repeatedly where Patience McKinnon is concerned. Three years earlier, coming off a bad breakup in which his humiliation at the hands of his philandering former fiancée was public, he was drunk, hurting and not thinking clearly when Patience made him an offer he couldn’t, and didn’t, refuse. In his inebriated and emotional state, he left her wholly unsatisfied when he sloppily took her virginity in what Patience has frequently, vocally and very publicly referred to as an epic failure on his part. Having had his epiphany where Patience is concerned, he now knows what he wants, he now knows that she is meant to be his, and Abel, more than anything, now wants a chance to do-over that awful night in the hopes of winning over Patience and claiming her as his own.

Having had his fill of watching “his woman” openly flirting with, occasionally dating and generally being lusted over by the entirety of the single male population of Paradise, Abel sets about getting his do-over. This time, however, he’s sober and his head – heart – are in the right places. A man on a mission, he aims to show Patience not only how good they can be together, but also who she already belongs to if she’d just open her heart, mind and eyes to it. They belong together, damn it! Not being a stupid man, Abel also knows that while she may give into him tonight, the war for her heart is just beginning. Little do Abel and Patience know, however, that not only better memories for Patience are being left behind.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by domineering douchebags!”

Despite her precautions, three months after Abel got his do-over, Patience can no longer deny what she knows in heart to be true: hell has, in fact, frozen over, and she is pregnant. Abel, thinking he was doing the smart thing and giving her time to come to terms with their coupledom, was surprised and confounded by Patience’s evade and ignore tactics, and he was struggling to figure out how to get them on to the path towards a relationship. Having no choice but to let him in on her secret, Patience shows up at his office to share the news and drops in his lap just the perfect excuse that the good attorney needs to work his way in to her life and heart.

“How much deader can you be than dead?”

With the patience of a saint, and after much negotiation and pursuit, Abel finally convinces Patience to give a relationship with him a try. Heavily pregnant, hormonal, emotional and prone to unreasonable, irrational outbursts, Patience puts Abel through his paces when she lands on bed rest. Meanwhile, it’s not just another day in Paradise when threats are being made and a dead body shows up as Abel and Zeke are working on the Fuentes case. But are they related to the Fuentes case or to another horrible crime that Zeke and Abel are looking in to?

“He wanted to marry her. After everything she’d put them through, he still wanted to claim her as his wife.”

The immensely talented dynamic author duo known as Sarah O’Rourke has struck again! You know a book is going to be funny when, flipping through the pages to get to the start, the legal mumbo-jumbo at the beginning catches your eye and makes you laugh out loud. The third book in this fantastic series is well written, sexy and chock full of laugh-till-ya-cry antics, comments and moments. I think one of the marks of a truly talented author is the ability to not only keep the reader laughing but also effortlessly and naturally switching tones to serious – or seriously sexy – when the mood requires it. These two have done this over and over throughout not only this book, but also the entire series.

Incredibly talented, Sarah O’Rourke is an author who’s releases I eagerly anticipate. Their stories are always well written, well developed and rich in descriptive details. The characters they’ve created in this series are so endearing, you cannot help but get swept off your feet in their romances and their stories. It’s back to the edge of the seat for me as I patiently await the next release in this series.  #HangOnZekeYouAreNext

Five hilarious, heated and heartfelt smooches for his hellion, Patience, and Abel’s happily ever after!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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