4 Smooches

Synopsis

Alpha-male, dirty-talking, MMA Light-Heavyweight Champion Josh North has only three days until the wedding to prove to single mother and greatest-love-of-his-life Sophie Garner that he is the only man she’ll ever need!
As the wedding day approaches and Sophie begins to get cold feet, Josh comes up with a romantic scheme to prove his love and devotion–and employs all his brothers as Cupid’s messengers!

See Josh North, the North men and the Brothers of Ink and Steel like you never have before in this sweet, sexy and wildly romantic wedding novella!

Sophie Garner answered yes in front of the entire world when Josh popped the question and the diamond ring dangled from his title belt, but is she really ready to take the plunge?
She’s been a single mother for almost three years, and she’s set in her ways, not used to sharing her life with anyone but her daughter, Charlie. Plus, she doesn’t know that she can ever escape the shadow of a past that still haunts her.
Sophie and Charlie are everything Josh wants in the world – but the heartthrob bachelor is learning that commitment and fatherhood are both tougher than training for the title fight! And even though he’d give his life for either of his girls, he’s not so sure he’s got what it takes to be a husband and daddy.
Will Josh win the roughest fight of his life, or will he go down for the count?

Review

‘HOLY GOD, HE’S ON ONE KNEE’

Dare You Forever is a novella that follows Josh and Sophie from the Book Dare. In my opinion to truly enjoy it you need to read Dare first. Sophie and Josh are recently engaged and planning the wedding. The only problem is that with Sophie’s history with her abusive ex she is skittish and scared about getting married again. She loves and trust Josh but for some reason she is having trouble overcoming it. To help her along Josh plans an elaborate series of events to help her learn to love, to trust and to take giant leaps.

“I’m going to love you, like you’ve never seen Darlin’ I’m the only man that you’re going to need.”

For a tattooed sexy fighter, Josh is eternally sweet and understanding. I already loved him for how he loved and treated Sophie’s daughter, Charlie. But after this novella I am head over heels in love with him. I will say that Sophie frustrated me through a lot of this story. I know she was scared but it seems like she didn’t trust Josh at all even after all they went through in the previous book. I had a bit of a hard time with her but in the end I loved their story.

“How is a hangover on your wedding a good thing?” I groan. “It hurts too much to run.”

Allie did a good job once again of mixing humor with drama to create a story that was easy to read in one sitting. I love this series and look forward to getting even more from this cast of characters in the next book, Defy.

~miranda

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4 Smooches!

Synopsis

I have one rule: Don’t shit where you eat.

Several of the women in the condo complex I own would love some one-on-one playtime, and why wouldn’t they? I’m young, fit, attractive, and loaded. Not to mention I’m packing a sizable bulge below the belt. It’s a combination that drops panties on a regular basis.

Yay, me, right?

But my cock, troublemaker that he is, has been confined to my trousers by my business partner. A concession I agreed to, and one that’s never been hard to enforce until Emery moves in across the hall. She’s smart, young, determined, and sexy as hell. I want a taste. I won’t stop until I’m buried deep inside the succulent new-in-town brunette.

After being warned about my past, she does her best to steer clear, but I’m about to show her that underneath it all, I’m a guy with a heart of gold and a cock of steel.

My name is Hayden Oliver, and this is my story.

SCREWED is standalone romantic comedy by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Kendall Ryan.

Review

I love me a good Kendall Ryan fun read and that is exactly what Screwed is.  I didn’t really read the synopsis before checking this book out, well, because I trust Kendall to give me what I need.  So, I was pleasantly surprised that this book was damned hilarious!

“You fucked and then left before their pussies were even dry.”

So very crass but so funny too.  See, Hayden Oliver has been warned by his friend and business partner to quit sleeping with their willing female tenants.  It is bad for business and some of them hold a very horrible grudge.  Hayden agrees and instead befriends Emery, his newest tenant, even though he wants her like mad.

‘Shit.  Have I just been rambling on about how much I love pussy?’

The sparks fly between these two and the snarkiness back and forth was just amazing.  The sexual tension is off the charts and somehow this all channels to complete shenanigans and funny times.

“Blow jobs are my spirit animal.”

If you are a fan of sexy and funny text back and forth between the hero and heroine, then this one will definitely check all of your boxes.  I happen to love that in my romance novels.  I can always count on Kendall for a good read.  Whether, sexy and dark or a funny romcom, she never lets me down.

~Amie

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

The danger in pretending is it becoming real…

Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap sheet about ten miles long, escaped to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused.

Not find more of it.

The moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to something that went deeper.

Darker.

Their relationship was built on secrets; their love built on lies.

Sebastian never imagined how deep her secrets went.

When the past and present collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending.

Now, holding the truth in his hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to protect Shea and his family.

Two pasts intertwined.

Two lives bound.

Will their demons drown them or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe?

Drowning to Breathe is Book 2 in Sebastian and Shea’s two-part duet. Their story begins in A Stone in the Sea.

Review

Drowning to Breathe is the amazing, intense and suspenseful conclusion to Shea and Sebastian’s dramatic love story. If a Stone in the Sea was setting the scene and hosting the complications for two lost souls to find each other and fall in love, then Drowning to Breathe is the cataclysmic force that tests how deep and unfathomable their love for one another actually is as more secrets are uncovered and past sins collide with the uncertainty of the future bringing together one of the best written stories I’ve read recently with a set of completely mesmerising characters whether they were Baz and Shea, the rest of the guys in the band or the ultimate book villain, A.L Jackson is a superb story teller.

‘I swallowed hard. “You want to know what I see when I look at you?” When the intensity in my voice hit her, Shea choked out a tiny sob. I took one step closer as I began to speak. “I see someone who’s so fucking sweet and kind that every time I look at her it just about knocks me from my feet, because I’ve had so much bad in my life I don’t know how to stand in her presence. I see someone who I know I don’t deserve, so every time I turn around, I’m runnin’ scared because I’m terrified of ruining everything she is.”’

Sebastian and Shea are a stunning couple, the connection and love and understanding they have for each other really makes this whole saga shine that little bit brighter but it’s also A.L Jackson’s ability to give her characters strong voices, a dialogue that would make Nora Roberts jealous and a plot that keeps momentum, delivering enough tragedy, drama and intrigue through the romance and deliciously hot sex scenes to keep each reader waiting with bated breath for the next sentence.

Drowning to Breathe is poetry in motion, it seems to me that A.L Jackson just gets better and better with every book she releases. She knows her players inside and out and manages to stay true to their natures, showcasing not only their immense strengths but also the flaws and ugly naked truths that haunt them but it’s through their love, strength and adoration for each other that this band of misfits have an unconventional family in each other and Sebastian and Shea and the lovely Kallie find a home together. This is a terrific series and I’m especially excited for Lyrik’s story next.

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5 Smooches

Synopsis

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
But what didn’t happen in Vegas seems to follow them everywhere.

Lola and Oliver like to congratulate themselves on having the good sense to not consummate their drunken Las Vegas wedding. If they’d doubled-down on that mistake, their Just Friends situation might not be half as great as it is now.

… Or so goes the official line.

In reality, Lola’s wanted Oliver since day one—and over time has only fallen harder for his sexy Aussie accent and easygoing ability to take her as she comes. More at home in her studio than in baring herself to people, Lola’s instinctive comfort around Oliver nearly seems too good to be true. So why ruin a good thing?

Even as geek girls fawn over him, Oliver can’t get his mind off what he didn’t do with Lola when he had the chance. He knows what he wants with her now … and it’s far outside the friend zone. When Lola’s graphic novel starts getting national acclaim—and is then fast-tracked for a major motion picture—Oliver steps up to be there for her whenever she needs him. After all, she’s not the kind of girl who likes all that attention, but maybe she’s the kind who’ll eventually like him.

Sometimes seeing what’s right in front of us takes a great leap of faith. And sometimes a dark wild night in Vegas isn’t just the end of a day, but the beginning of a bright new life…

Review

“Oliver is both my former husband and current crush, but it will forever remain unrequited”

I anticipate reading a Christina Lauren book like no other. When one arrives I quickly put aside all my work and whatever I am reading and completely lose myself in their captivating story until I reach the very last page. Dark Wild Night was no different. From the moment I started reading I became engrossed in the tale of these attractive, fun and yet still dorky characters and the complicated but still overwhelmingly witty, sexy and entertaining story they had for me.

“This all feels so sudden . . . but at the same time it seems I’ve waited an eternity for this. “

It all started in Vegas. How many great stories could we tell with just those words. Lola and Oliver was the love story that wasn’t from that fateful weekend that then resulted in the pairing of four of their friends. Drunkingly married and then quickly divorced Lola and Oliver soon formed a deep friendship based similar interest and a mutual respect for working hard to fulfill their destiny. Each has all their focus on their careers that they do not even have a moment to think about the desires they have formed out of their friendship. But the more time they spend together the harder and harder just being friends is becoming.

“Cock.

COCK.

It’s all I can see. It’s there beneath his boxers, half-hard, obviously uncut, following the line of his hip. My God, it’s thick. And if Oliver is a grow’er, he could knock a woman’s teeth out when he fucks her. “

Always hilarious and supremely sexy, Christina Lauren’s books have an element about them that I feel others just cannot replicate. Somehow you so quickly become in love with their characters and the pure fun wit that you don’t even see the drama building until you are at that point of no return. The point where your heart is breaking and all you want is for them to all come to their senses and work through their difficulties so they can have amazing sex once again.

“I am not okay. I’m drowning in what I feel for him. “

Lola thrives on stability and changes can seem overwhelming and scary. I understood her, I feel like I am her. Moving from friends to lovers changes everything and at a time where her comic is becoming a movie and her whole life is turned upside down. I could have a panic attack just thinking about all that then add that entering into a sexual relationship with your best friend, Lola doesn’t always make the “right” choice but I feel like she makes decisions that fit her as a character. Now, lets talk Oliver, oh my sexy, nerdy, cut and hot in glasses comic book store owner man! I loved him beyond words. Patient and sweet I easily fell for him and add that he was dirty talker in the bedroom and I was begging for more. He was everything I want in a book boyfriend. When Lola is scared he is there for her but never just rolls over and lets her run scared.

“The last eight months have been the slowest, most torturous foreplay, and there’s a fever beneath my skin that makes me impatient, “

Lola and Oliver had this real and geeky quality about them but what I loved the most were their flaws. They both felt all too real too me. So much of Lola I see in myself both the good and the bad. Plus, she has great taste in men, this coming from someone who married her won nerdy man in glasses. Her story gives me hope and by the end I felt like my heart was signing a happy song. Dark Wild Night is yet another hit for Christina Lauren. This is easily a book I can see myself reading again and again.

~miranda

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