4 Smooches

Synopsis

*** Part 1 of a 3 part serial ***

Cory James has never known a life where she wasn’t running. Running from the cops, her home, her past. Running from love. The only time she’s free is when she throws on her hood and takes to the roofs to become a part of New York, to climb to a place in the city where she doesn’t feel alone.

Stealing is nothing, lying inevitable, byproducts of survival. A way for Cory to provide for herself and for her younger sister, Jill, give her the life Cory couldn’t have. For five years, Cory set up a long line of teetering dominos, one by one, choice by choice.

Meeting Van is the first domino to fall, and once they crash into each other, it’s only a matter of time before her whole world is in danger of falling apart. She can tell herself over and again that she doesn’t care, but it’s a lie. She knows it from the first time she says his name, but she can’t let him in, not when she has a job to do, a job that could rip her life apart at the seams. One that she’ll have to betray Van to finish.

He’ll follow however high she can climb, but she can only run for so long before she has to choose.

Review

“‘What are you running from’ My answer: Everything.”

Hardcore: Part 1 is my first time reading Staci Hart and I have to say I am defineately intrigued and looking forward to reading more from her. This story is the first part in a serial that takes place in New York City revolving around Cory, a sexy bike messenger/ thief and Van a rich photographer who happens to share a love with Cory, extreme running (known as Parkour.) Cory and Van meet after he chases her one night when she is on the run and from the moment they connect he knows he needs to see her again, one problem he doesn’t know her name.

“Don’t run from me. Run with me.”

There were so many elements in this story that captivated me. I love when the characters live a lifestyle so far-fetched than my own and the life of a youth running around new York rooftops and robbing electronics stores is something I have never quite experienced. Cory is exciting and a bit dangerous. She has secrets and regrets and when she realizes that she could actually feel things for Van she knows it’s best for him to stay away . . .but can she?

“Van was living in a way I didn’t know existed in the context of real life. He was a hot match in a cold, dark room. Being near him was like being able to see for the first time.”

Hardcore: Vol 1 was well-written and very exciting with it’s fast paced story, sexy characters and dangerous lifestyles. I absolutely cannot wait to continue Van and Cory’s story and see how far Cory is willing to go to protect those she loves.

 ~miranda

**sidenote: This serial did have a f/f scene I wasn’t expecting. While personally I am ok with this I do know it is not for everyone and  thought it should be mentioned.

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5 Smooches!

Synopsis

Dirt poor. Hillbilly. Backwoods hick. Mountain folk. 

Tenleigh Falyn struggles each day to survive in a small, poverty-stricken, coal mining town where she lives with her sister and mentally ill mother. Her dream of winning the college scholarship given to one student by the local coal company and escaping the harshness of her life, keeps her going.

Kyland Barrett lives in the hills, too, and has worked tirelessly—through near starvation, through deep loneliness, against all odds—to win the Tyton Coal Scholarship and leave the town that is full of so much pain.

They’re both determined not to form any attachments, but one moment changes everything. What happens when only one person gets to win? When only one person gets to leave? And what happens to the one left behind? 

Kyland is a story of desperation and hope, loss and sacrifice, pain and forgiveness, but ultimately, a story of deep and unending love.

THIS IS A STAND-ALONE SIGN OF LOVE NOVEL, INSPIRED BY TAURUS. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

Review

Well, I have been reading a lot of Mia Sheridan and while I LOVE all of her books, Archer’s Voice has always stood out to me as the very best of her work.  Surprisingly enough, a certain new book boyfriend might have just nudged sweet Archer over and said “Make room for me, dude” and his name is Kyland.  Whew.  Kyland and this amazingly and beautifully written story blew me away.

You pierce my soul.  I am half agony, half hope.

Tenleigh and Kyland’s story is such a hard one that had me in tears almost non-stop.  Tenleigh and Kyland are both dirt poor seniors in highschool.  Literally.  They barely have enough food to eat.  Working their fingers to the bone just to make ends meet.  No heat or electricity sometimes in the cold of winter in the mountains.  This is the life they were raised in and all they know; all their small town knows.

And I had to wonder, should a seventeen-year-old girl be so tired?  Just tired down to my bones…weary in my very soul?

They want out badly.  They walk miles and miles to school and home everyday in the hopes of being the very best students and winning the Tyton Coal Scholarship.  What happens when Kyland and Tenleigh become friends, maybe become more than friends and there is only one scholarship; one way to make it out of this poor town and become something?

“I’m leaving this place behind when I go.  Everything about this place.  Even you.”

Go ahead and get your tissues and wine because this one will completely break you apart and then piece you slowly back together.  Kyland and Tenleigh’s relationship is so romantic and beautiful yet devastating.  You know whats coming but you can’t seem to look away; stop reading.  They draw you in; Tenleigh with her unwavering faith in love

Someday, when I’m living my dreams, I’m going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I’m going to be thankful for them.

and Kyland with his determination and sacrifice.

“I do go to hell.  Every day.  For you.”

Kyland won me over just like Archer did.  He makes all the wrong mistakes for the right reasons and I simply fell in love with him.  He and Tenleigh are ridiculously sexy and heartwarming.  You will be rooting for them from the beginning of this book until the very end.

But what I knew in that moment was that the size of your home, your car, your wallet, doesn’t have one single thing to do with the size of your life.  And my life…my life felt big, filled with love and with meaning.

~Amie

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4 Smooches!

Synopsis

Spies, vengeance, and one seriously well-dressed man

“If Bourne dressed like Bond and acted like Grey, you’d have Jax De Luca.” 
An addictive new romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy/JJ Knight 

Mia trembles as she reads the letter that arrives from Ridley Prison. 

Seduction. Bondage ropes. Descriptions of things Mia has never experienced or known. 

The man’s words are desperately passionate. He longs for a woman who must have given him a fake address. Mia’s address. 

She plans to send the letter back. He’s a convicted felon. 

But his words gnaw at her. She’s never done anything dangerous. And no man has ever talked to her like this. 

So Mia writes him, pretending to be the woman he desires. 

It’s her one dark thrill in her dull, solitary small-town life. 

The man is in prison for another fifteen years. 

It’s harmless. She is safe enough. 

Until he escapes.

Review

Beauty. Power. Bondage. I enjoy all three. 

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