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COVER REVEAL: LISTEN PITCH ( There’s No Crying In Baseball #3 ) by Lani Lynn Vale

LISTEN PITCH

Series: There’s No Crying In Baseball #3

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: October 16th, 2018

Cover Model: Jake WIlson

Photographer: Furiousfotog

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Rhys Rivera is the star short-stop for the Longview Lumberjacks. Many know him, even more love him. He has a pretty face, a quick smile, and an air of danger about him that everyone seems to adore.

He’s not known as the bad boy of baseball for nothing.
It all started with his father, who decided to be a criminal mob boss, then die.
Fortunately for his uncle, Rhys wants absolutely nothing to do with the family business and runs before anyone can figure out which way is up.

By the time his uncle, the successor to his father’s criminal empire, thinks to look for him, Rhys has made too big of a name for himself to be taken out quietly, and he wants to keep it that way.
Fast forward eight years, and Rhys is living life one breath at a time, just waiting for the other shoe to drop. That shoe coming in the form of a nosy neighbor who has no idea just how hot she is in her mail carrier uniform.

Her sweet little body and positive outlook on life make him want to laugh at how naïve she is when it comes to the way of the world.

The harder he tries to stay away, the weaker he seems to get, until one day he decides to put his morals on hold long enough to satisfy his cravings.

One time is all he needs—or so he tells himself.

But then two pink lines change everything, and all of a sudden, he doesn’t have just himself to worry about anymore.

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QUIT YOUT PITCHIN’ (There’s No Crying In Baseball #2)

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Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles.  She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.

When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.

Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.

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RELEASE BLITZ + REVIEW: QUIT YOUR PITCHIN’ ( There’s No Crying In Baseball #2 ) by Lani Lynn Vale

QUIT YOUR PITCHIN’

Series: There’s No Crying In Baseball #2

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: July 20th, 2018

Cover Model: Chase Ketron

Photographer: Furiousfotog

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What’s wrong with my butt?
She means those words to be directed toward the woman beside her, not him. But he can’t stop himself from answering. Not when her ass is the most magnificent thing he’s seen in his life.
Apparently, answering her with ‘not a damn thing’ wasn’t what she was expecting.
She likely wasn’t expecting the baseball she took to the face at his next at bat, either.
All it takes is one ill-fated foul ball, and George Hoffman, Lumberjacks center fielder, falls head over heels in love with Wrigley Field—and yes, that is her real name.
From that point forward, George and Wrigley fall into a fast whirlwind love that ends with them eloping to Vegas. And he has his potty mouth, titty bar owning, pain in the ass grandmother to thank for it.
Not that he’s complaining or anything.
Who wouldn’t want to be married to a woman that made his heart race like he was in the final game of the World Series?
The only problem is trying to convince her of that.

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Oh my Lord, the ANGST!!! Lani Lynn Vale put my heart through the wringer with this one!

Everyone that knows and follows me, also knows of my addiction to all things LLV, and I have to say that after the perfection of that first book in this series, Pitch Please – if you haven’t read that you need to, STAT – I’ve been anxiously and impatiently waiting for this book. Well, I can say that George and  Wrigley sure surprised each and myself right along with them!

“Hello,” I smiled. “I’m sorry.” 
She smiled back. “Sorry for what?” 
I pressed lightly on her forehead, right above where the swelling was starting, and said, “For hitting you in the face with a ball.” 
She moaned. “That’s gonna suck the next few weeks.” she frowned. “I’d say I’d take your balls to my face any time you want but…I have a class for battered women tomorrow. This is going to be hard for them to look at.”

With the most unconventional – but surely impactful – first meeting, these two’s love story was a whirlwind of emotion and angst filled events. Wrigley Fields – yes, that’s her name, and wait until you read her siblings’, lol – ,not a fan of baseball, is dragged by her younger sister to watch the Lumberjacks game, where Furious George is playing. From the moment they locked eyes they were attracted, what they didn’t expect was the George’s odd ball would be the first thing to make contact with her.

He was beautiful, kind, thoughtful, and overall a really great guy. Plus, he had a beard.

I’d witnessed my first home run ever, and I was officially addicted to baseball. 
Or maybe it was the man. 
I didn’t know. 
But addiction was in there somewhere.

With a smoking hot bearded ginger giant I’d be hooked for life too. Specially with those tight baseball pants! Who can resist a handsome man in those?!

I loved how George was so open about wanting her and wooing Wrigley from the get go, and from that moment it was full speed ahead, marriage and baby, and what it seemed to be an HEA.

 He was my hero. 
Seriously, all I did was worry, and all he did was reassure me. 
We were a match made in heaven.

But no, something happens and we find these two divorced for eight months, but still very much in love. So we have a time jump, and normally I don’t mind them, but here it should make the story Arc a bit strange – specially given we jump the separation and are just told what happened – and it seemed very un-LLV. George is alone, away from his love and his baby boy, and I hurt for him SO bad. I could feel his pain, his frustration, his helplessness, and was seriously mad at Wrigley for allowing the past event and her stubbornness and pride, to keep them apart.

I used to be tame. I used to be able to control my temper…I used to be happy. 
Now, I wasn’t. 
Now, I was worse than before I’d met her. 
I was lost. 
I was broken. 
I was alone. 
And worst of all, I didn’t want to be found. 
Not by anyone but her. 
I was simply existing.

I was going to have her back. 
In my home. In my bed. In my life. And I was going to get back into her heart.

George was absolutely perfect in this first half of the book, he had the patience of a saint during those eight months but then all of the sudden BAM, he had the most idiotic, and one of my personal peeves regarding separated couples that it’s clear that still very much in love – I couldn’t believe not only his approach and how he dealt with it and the series of events and media repercussion – but also his carelessness of how much it would her Wrigley. True, the separation and divorce was her fault, but with the way he went that it completely made me forget her blame and become seriously raging mad at him, and it’s a shame because I had such high hopes for him (with the perfection that was Hancock and how spectacular George was on the first half). 

“You’re beautiful, and not a day will go by that I don’t find every single inch of you captivating.”

“I’ve regretted my decisions for a really long time now. It would make me the happiest woman alive if you allowed me the chance to rectify my poor choices.”

In between that initial media and OW drama, and horrifying disaster that had me crying , they ended up supporting each other, and finding his way back together, but the media, and George mistake snowballed in a way, that had me fuming at him! Wrigley had all the right to be beyond mad, and that last OW drama scene – that seemed out of the blue, and made no sense, and contradicted the whole background of both characters, more like a plot inconsistency/error, that I hoped it was fixed – , as well as his explanation, sadly tainted the whole story for me. Even more so because his senseless explanation and its close proximity to their ending, I felt a bit disheartened, because I truly adored the first half and their story had such great potential, with all their background and the motive for their separation, as well as their families, they had a LOT going on, so the unnecessary OW drama just  a step too much. Fortunately, after all this rollercoaster we got to see their beautiful and much anticipated HEA.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Lani Lynn Vale truly pulls to all my emotions, that is for sure. I laughed, I cried (yes, I was literally gripping my seat when the disaster happened and I was transported to Shock Advise’s heartbreak), I swooned, I raged, and I just soaked in all the words from start to finish. Ms. Vale has the gift of gripping us in from the get go, and making us live through all the feelings the main characters are going through. And with the amazing cast that we have in these Lumberjack’s team – btw, I ADORED the tiny bits we got of Hancock and Sway! – and  I wonder who she will gift us with next. Maybe Gentry?! Manny?! Gunner?! I don’t know, I just know I need it NOW!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

“I think we’re two peas in a fucked-up pod.”

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About the Author


LaniLynnVale

Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles.  She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.

When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.

Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.

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REVIEW: WILD HUNGER (The Phoenix Pack #7) by Suzanne Wright

WILD HUNGER

Series: The Phoenix Pack #7

Author: Suzanne Wright

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Release Date: May 29, 2018

 

Synopsis

When half–wolf shifter Frankie Newman receives an e-mail from a family member she didn’t know existed, a secret is revealed: as a child, Frankie witnessed her father killing her mother…and then himself. Frankie was torn from her pack by her mother’s human relatives, and the trauma was erased from her memory. Realizing that she’s been lied to her entire life, she’s never felt more alone. Until she catches the scent of an old friend—warmly familiar and intoxicating.

Trick Hardy, enforcer of the Phoenix Pack, can sense the rush of mutual attraction when he sees Frankie again. He knows immediately that she’s his true mate. But he also knows that, given her fragile state, he needs to tread with care—no matter how fierce his surging desires.

As aroused as Frankie is by Trick’s darkly dominant air and simmering desire, her priority right now is her past—not her future, no matter how tempting. But as more secrets emerge and Frankie’s life is threatened, Trick must do everything he can to keep her close and safe. After all, it’s their destiny.

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Another kickass, spectacular work and addition to the Phoenix Pack series by Suzanne Wright!

Suzanne Wright really can’t do no wrong with her story, like all the precedent, Wild Hunger hooked me from the very first page and kept in enthralled to the very end and always wishing for more.
Trick and Frankie were such a PERFECT match! I adored that they both almost instantly – a bit longer than that on Frankie’s side – knew of their Fate, as fated mated, and made no big fuss and pushing away, like the rest of the pack said themselves it was refreshing and amazing.
We all the standing elements of snarky humor, delicious banter, über hot shifter sexy scenes and some delicious suspense that grip me right along with their love story!
Can’t believe that we are only missing Dominic’s book to end this EPIC series, I’m both anxiously awaiting and wanting to delay it, to have more of these guys. Ok, who am I kidding I need this book STAT! LOL

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FERAL SINS (The Phoenix Pack #1)

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WICKED CRAVINGS (The Phoenix Pack #2)

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CARNAL SECRETS (The Phoenix Pack #3)

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DARK INSTINCTS (The Phoenix Pack #4)

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SAVAGE URGES (The Phoenix Pack #5)

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FIERCE OBSESSION (The Phoenix Pack #6)

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About the Author

suzanne-wrightSuzanne Wright lives in England with her husband and two children. When she’s not spending time with her family, she’s writing, reading or doing her version of housework – sweeping the house with a look.

She’s worked in a pharmaceutical company, at a Disney Store, at a primary school as a voluntary teaching assistant, at the RSCPA and has a First Class Honours degree in Psychology and Identity Studies.

 

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RELEASE BLITZ + REVIEW: WRANGLE ME by Gigi Thorne ( Rochelle Paige)

WRANGLE ME

Series: Standalone

Author: Rochelle Paige as Gigi Thorne

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 15th, 2018

 

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This bossy rancher is about to be brought to his knees by an innocent beauty. 

Alexandra Cooper is desperate to get away from home. A four-month gig as a cook at the Circle B Ranch is exactly what she needs. Except when she gets there, it feels like she jumped out of the pan and straight into the fire. 

Alexandra is nothing like Colton Booth expected when he hired her. If he’d realized “Alex” was a gorgeous eighteen-year-old girl, he never would have given her the job in the first place. But now that he has her on his ranch, he doesn’t plan to ever let Alexandra go. 

Wrangle Me is a steamy novella with a sexy cowboy who has a wicked sweet tooth and an innocent virgin who knows how to satisfy it. Written by bestselling author Rochelle Paige.

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What a deliciously sweet and HOT cowboy Romance! 

Rochelle Paige, writing as Gigi Thorne really gave us the insta cowboy smuttiness perfect for a quick ‘before bedtime’ read. 

Alexandra landed in Colton’s doorstep, after running from her oppressive household, and Colton Booth – smoking hot cowboy, through and through, was shocked beyond words when the young cook he hired turned out to be the gorgeous, sweet and innocent little woman in front of him. Clever man that he was, and knowing Fate when it landed in his lap, lol, Colton just needed to slowly and surely – he’s an Alpha after all – wrangle Alex in. 😉

I’d had my fair share of good luck over the years, but none of it compared to how fortunate I was to have had Alexandra land on my doorstep the way she had.

Wrangle Me was such an incredibly sweet, insta-love – though Colton conquers her slowly and patiently – little read. No angst, scorching HOT, and endearingly sweet love story that will leave you all warm – for more reasons than one, lol –  and fuzzy, and craving even more Cowboy romance, that Gigi Thorne’s next author will surely deliver with this month’s theme.  <3 <3 <3 <3

I knew deep down in my bones that I wasn’t just going to be her first and only, she was going to be my last.

“I hate that you had to live through what you did, but I’m damn happy that when you went runnin’ it brought you straight to me.”

 

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Gigi Thorne is a group of USA Today and NYT bestselling authors who came together under one name to write bite-sized romance for the naughty girl. 

We will bring you weekly releases in the shape of sexy, irresistible novellas you can devour in one sitting.

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Rochelle Paige is an Amazon bestselling author. She absolutely adores reading. Her friends growing up used to tease her when she trailed after them, trying to read and walk at the same time. She loves stories with alpha males, sassy heroines, hot sex and happily ever afters. She is a bit of a genre hopper in both her reading and her writing. So far she’s written books in several romance sub-genres including new adult, contemporary, paranormal and romantic suspense.

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REVIEW & GI’S FAV: DISRUPT by Ella Fox

DISRUPT

Series: Standalone

Author: Ella Fox

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 2, 2018

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Donovan Beckett is a recluse who wants no commitments or entanglements of any kind. He works hard to ensure no one can penetrate the wall he’s carefully constructed around himself—until the day his new neighbor stumbles into him. 

It isn’t anything like instant love. Far from it. 

Eden Avery doesn’t want to be curious about her neighbor. He’s the most infuriating and closed-off person she’s ever met—not to mention the rudest. She doesn’t want to find the uptight bastard irresistible and she shouldn’t be able to sense the minute he’s within spitting distance, but does. She really shouldn’t fantasize about his hands on her body, but that’s happening too. 

They can fight it all they want, but nothing can stop the mutual attraction that’s about to disrupt both of their lives.

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I collide with and immediately bounce off something huge and hard. My arms flail as I start to topple backward. I’m saved by a pair of strong hands that halt me before I land on my butt. I’m barely able to process that I’m upright before the hands are gone. 

Blinking in confusion, I slowly look up and take in a man who is easily a foot taller than my five foot one frame. He’s like an angel in black—tall and broad shouldered with large hands and rugged arms. His black t-shirt does nothing to hide his six-pack abs, and the black jeans and black work boots he’s got on only make him more roguishly appealing. Everything about him is sexy including his sporty, masculine scent. I’ve never come across someone so mesmerizing in all of my life. His longish dark hair, closely trimmed beard and sensual lips are straight up panty-melters, so I bet women throw themselves at him on the regular. The very thought of this bothers me far more than is reasonable or appropriate.

 My heart slams against my chest as my eyes meet his. Something strange passes between us, something I can’t put name to. I’m at a loss because I haven’t experienced anything remotely similar before. I feel my cheeks flush with color as I stare up at him. Biting my lip nervously, I blink up at him like an idiot as I try to force words out of my mouth. Questions are zinging through my head at high speed—things like who are youor where did you come from and finally, holy shit, has this kind of thing ever happened to you before? 

Before I can articulate even one of those things he blinks and the moment is over. I cringe when I realize whatever was in his eyes is gone, almost as if it never happened at all. Now, he’s pinning me with a look that could permanently freeze the tropics. Even still, his eyes make me weak in the knees, regardless of the fact that they’re now subarctic. Jet black lashes frame the most beautiful deep blue eyes I’ve ever seen, and right now they’re transmitting one message loud and clear—stay the hell back. I’ve never come across anyone less inviting in all my life.

“I—I’m sorry,” I sputter. “I didn’t mean—” 

His sensual lips form a flat line as he sidesteps me. “Pay attention to where you’re going,” he snaps.

 

5 ‘Sunshine To his Dark’ Stars

OH…WOW… What an emotional, heart breaking and hopeful healing story! One of my most anticipated and ended up being one of my fav reads this year! 

Eden Avery’s life has dealt her blow after blow in the last few months of her life – actually it has never been the same since her mother and grandmother deaths – so when an amazing opportunity shows up in her desperate situation, so holds on to it like a lifeline.

What she could never imagine is that in this new adventure in a charming Inn in the most adorable small town would bring her face to face with a man like she never met before.

Jet black lashes frame the most beautiful deep blue eyes I’ve ever seen, and right now they’re transmitting one message loud and clear—stay the hell back. I’ve never come across anyone less inviting in all my life.

It’s official. In addition to being crazy gorgeous, Donovan Beckett is the most infuriating man alive.

And what a first meeting it was! Donovan Beckett really left an impression!

Donovan showed all his growly and ‘keep away’ self. But there was something deep down that made Eden – and ourselves – look closer. She felt something in him calling to her, and she could she clear as day he was a broken man. A man that pushed everyone away so that they couldn’t look deeper and see his pain.

Donovan Beckett is a tidal force and for a second there he let me ride the wave. For reasons I can’t readily identify, that feels like a victory.

Eden, though, could see right trough him, and that is what scared him the most. This tiny beautiful woman, with one look, shook his world to the core, and he just didn’t know how to react to all she made him feel. It was not only the pull they instantly felt towards one another, he just knew she had the potential to change his all life. One that until now he wasn’t living, but barely surviving…

Keeping other people at arm’s length—fuck, well past that—is easy for me. So easy that it’s more than just my default—it’s become second nature. Except when it comes to Eden Avery. 
She’s single-handedly putting cracks in walls I need in place in order to survive.

I’m celibate and damn good at it because the idea of being touched makes me ill. Until now. Until her. I want to fuck, mark, protect, and claim her as mine.

Ever since then I’ve been far, far nicer to her than I should be because it feels like being an asshole to her is equivalent to kicking an angel.

I will not reveal his background, because that would be spoiling this extremely emotional journey for you, but from the start you – along Eden – can imagine he’s hiding something monumentally painful that shattered him to the reclusive and shadow living. 

Ella Fox truly outdid herself with this story, the emotional charge, and all the raw feelings we could feel in these two, cemented from the start that this two broken souls needed each other to heal. Two halves fated to become one.

Never in my life have I felt anything like the carnality and emotion of this, the sensation of being untethered to anything but him so extreme I briefly wonder if there’s an earthquake, then realize it’s not the earth shifting beneath me. It’s just Donovan.

All this emotions they brought up on one another, and the intensity of their attraction, and though that intrigued Eden, and like the bright sunshine that she was, she was compelled to get close to Donovan, and help his heal in some way, even if only in a friendly way, Donovan, the prickly man himself, tried his best to keep her away. He thought himself to broken beyond hope, and Eden too good and too pure to be tainted by the shadow of a man he was.

This tiny beautiful woman practically has a goddamn halo and I’m nothing but a broken-down husk of a man who shouldn’t be anywhere near her.

I never forget what I’ve lost—ever—but when my focus is on her, a big part of me wants to be better—to actually try living instead of just pretending to.

Not only is their love story, the stuff epic ROMANCES are made of, but I have to stand out the incredible secondary characters that I hoping – and begging – Ms. Fox will give us more inkling into, and maybe a book of their own for all that younger crew (specially Julie and Morrow) that like Maggie and Ron,  welcomed Eden into their fold, and became her family in every way. They gave the story the perfect lightness and fun to go along with the heavy emotional moments and made the book a journey through out the ALL the possible emotions, and something that I devoured from start to finish.

Once all was unveiled and Donovan allowed himself to feel, and heal his heart, with Eden’s help, I have to say, OH BOY… Was he the PERFECT ALPHA! His love and devotion to Eden was everything a girl dreams of, and a true confirmation of what we saw from the start. They were the definition of soulmate!

Deep, deep down in the depths of my soul, the very thing that makes me who and what I am, I feel him.

“What’s happening right now?” I ask softly. 
“What’s happening is I can’t fight it anymore. You’re fucking mine,” he answers, his voice deadly serious. “No more resistance, no more bullshit. We’re happening.”

I have no words to describe how much I ADORE this emotional and unforgettable journey Ms. Fox took us on, in Disrupt. Eden and Donovan, along with their amazing story are now on my top of favorite reads of this year. Their über emotional, sweet, complex, sexy and extraordinary tale is just as EPIC as her love, and will be forever branded in my heart. I can’t wait to see what Ella Fox will give us next! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

The man who spent so much time trying to get away from me somehow became my whole world.

As long as there is life, there’s a chance to make it right. I won’t ever lose sight of that.

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Ella Fox is the USA Today Bestselling Author of Consequences of Deception, The Hart Family series & many other sexy and exciting books.  

Ella is an avid reader, lover of music and all around goofball. She grew up loving to read. That’s not surprising considering the fact that her mom is USA Today Bestselling Author Suzanne Halliday!

In 2016 Ella began publishing insta-love novellas under the pen name Evie Harrison.

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BLOG TOUR & EXCERPT + REVIEW: KISSING JENNA (Big Sky #2) by Kristen Proby

KISSING JENNA

Series: Big Sky #2

Author: Kristen Proby

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 10th, 2018

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From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes the newest installment in her beloved Big Sky Series…

Jenna Hull owns and manages vacation rentals in her hometown of Cunningham Falls, Montana. She’s just completed the construction of her most exhausting project, the one she’s put her heart and soul into. The inviting, opulent Snow Wolf Cottages are the first ski in/ski out tree houses in the world.

Her biggest dream is about to come true, and she can’t let anything distract her.

Christian Wolfe is Hollywood’s it actor. If the magazines are to be believed, he’s the sexiest man on earth. He’s preparing for the biggest movie role of his life, and his agent has booked him in a hot new ski lodge in Montana, tucked away from crazy fans. He can’t wait for the break.

But what Christian isn’t prepared for is Jenna. With a face that could easily co-star with him in a movie and her ambition to put her stamp on Cunningham Falls, he can’t stay away. But even more intriguing than her beauty is the fact that she’s not at all impressed with his celebrity status, only turned on by the man behind the fame.

 

The love they’ve found is perfect—but time is running out before real life intrudes. Can they survive with both their dreams—and hearts—intact?

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“Come on in. This is your home away from home for the next four weeks.” I pause in the kitchen while he wanders through the space, looking outside, then taking in the blue kitchen cabinets, the large gas fireplace, and the comfortable furniture. “In the email correspondence, you asked for extra groceries to be stocked in the kitchen, and I’ve done that for you.”

“Thanks,” he says. “Where’s the closest Starbucks?”

I lean my hip on the counter and take a sip of my now lukewarm coffee. “In town.”

“Not on the mountain?”

“There’s a coffee shop up here, yes, but it doesn’t open until tomorrow when the season officially starts. I believe that’s the case for the restaurants up here, too.”

“So, no food up here?”

I shake my head. “No, but I’ll take pity on you and make you dinner tonight, if you like.”

His eyes narrow, suspicion written all over his face. “Why would you do that?”

I lean in as if I’m about to tell him a secret and whisper loudly, “Because I’m a nice person.”

He doesn’t smile.

“You can figure it out for yourself if you want to.” I shrug and lead him to the barn door that closes the small bedroom off the living space. “This is the bedroom on this level. There’s a bathroom here, too. I’ll show you the upstairs.”

I climb the stairs, certain that his eyes are on my ass, and hear him gasp when we reach the top.

“Cool, huh?”

“Beautiful,” he murmurs again, looking up.

4.25 ‘Finally found Home’ Stars

Awww, how sweet, sexy and ROMANTIC is this story!!! Impossible not to love it when for the Hollywood heartthrob falls as hard as Christian did for this small town girl, Jenna. What small town romance is all about! Swoon…

For those of you, KP fans like myself, we meet Jenna in the previous and first book os this spin off, Big Sky series, Charming Hannah, and the sassy, smart and beautiful, younger and only sister to the Hull brothers, Brad and Max.

A small town girl, that though enjoys traveling, loved her little little slice of peaceful heaven in the Montana mountains, and wants to share that beauty with the world in the best way she can, through the hospitality industry, and her luxury tree houses, her niche, just as one of a kind as herself.

Yes, this is where my heart is. This mountain. This town. These people.

And that is exactly what brings them together, when Christian Wolfe, the Hollywood heartthrob, shows up at her doorstep as one of her guests. Christian, with a lifetime on spotlight, as he was a child actor, is getting worn out with all that comes and is expected that comes along with the fame, so when Luke – yes, our LUKE, from the very first KP book and series, With Me in Seattle! – gives him a chance of new role, for which he goes to stay in the snowy Montana mountains, he never expected to find all his life was missing, love.

Staying in one place too long invites people into your bubble. 
Always stay on the move.

I’m not starved for attention. I’m starved for connection.

OMG, the instant chemistry and attraction is undeniable, so much so that when Jenna starts tearing his well constructed walls, and all the wariness that comes along with his profession, with her genuine and sassy personality, Christian can’t hold on to those feeling and uncovers all the passion she awakes in him. And in turn does the same to her.

Jesus, I feel the intensity of his touch down to the pit of my stomach. How can a simple touch ignite every nerve ending in my body?

The secondary characters are so damn wonderful it’s no wonder that Kristen Proby transports us so completely to this small community that we fall in love with them just as much as with Christian and Jenna. Yes, with all that Christian’s sister did and said, I couldn’t manage to forgive her, because even though she tried to make emends by the end, it was not enough to make me forget the grade A B!tch she was before, but I hope with the coming books I’ll warm up to her a bit, lol. The girl posse was as kick @ss and fantastic as ever, and I just wanted to be right along with them for the girls night! And  Jenna’s brothers were absolutely amazing, and even when they weren’t,  Jenna made sure to stay strong and tell them how it was. She was fab! KNew just exactly how to deal with all this Alphas! 😉

“Oh, Lord.” I hang my head and scratch my cheek. “I’m surrounded by alpha men.”

And of course, I have to mention again the cameo and big importance of Luke and Natalie, from Come Away With Me, to this story. With so many similarities between their story – though I still prefer Luke’s choices on the fame matter, in regards to Christian’s here – these two were fundamental to Christian and Jenna’s love story. Luke gave some sound advice, and Natalie’s words of wisdom to Jenna were just what she needed to help her move forward in regards to this very public new world, and specially falling in love with a famous People ‘World’s Sexiest Man’. Who better to tell her about it?!

“I knew I loved Luke after the first week,” she says with a wink. “Time doesn’t matter, Jenna. Sometimes, you meet someone, and you just know. It’s like an instant recognition. Like your heart is saying, oh, there you are.”

I just adored Jenna so much! Her easy going, quick witted personality, coupled with with stunningly beautiful image that she always made sure to make focus point. Her effortlessly realistic and natural way she treated Christian as any other guest without any kind of fan girling was just as refreshing and charming to me as well as to Christian. The way she opened herself up and gave her heart away, made me love her even more.

My God, I’ve fallen in love with Christian Wolfe. Irrevocably, unequivocally in love with him.

Christian truly didn’t know what to expect from Jenna. From the no fuss, even dismissive approach on their first meeting, or the friendly should to lean on, Jenna is everything he never expected to find, and so desperately needed in his life. A breath of fresh air in every way.

I feel at home here, and I don’t know if I’ve ever truly felt that way anywhere before, aside from on a stage or a movie set. 
It seems that Jenna is what I’ve been searching for my whole life, and now that I’ve found her, how do I keep her?

“You were such a plot twist,” he murmurs against my lips before kissing me silly. I don’t even care that I’m partially out of the water, all I can feel is Christian. Under me and inside me, he’s all I can focus on. “You make me lose my mind.”

And that, along with that insane chemistry is what makes him fall in love with her as hard as did. Not only falls for her, and wants her as constant in his life, but also her small town, her Home. And that is something he needed as much as Jenna, some solid and stable ground to let himself be. Jenna indeed became that, his home.

She’s everything fresh and wonderful in my life.

If not for his job, that like I’ve mentioned, or hinted at in regards to his options and Luke’s choices, is one of my least fav to read about in romance, because I’m too possessive of my Hs in the hs behalf. I could never stand to endure what the actors/actress’ better half endure, lol. In this case, the only issues I had with the story were events and actions interconnected with his fame and public life. If he had taken a different approach, he would have been the perfect book boyfriend. Nonetheless, Christian was an absolutely swoon worthy, romantic, and oh so HOT hero! He was so smitten and in love with Jenna, that it was impossible not to fall along with her, specially with his thoughts, actions and words!

“It is my job,” he says softly as his eyes travel over my face. “And I love my job. But I don’t love it more than you.” 
“Christian—”

This series truly is building up to be just as fantastic as the series from which the spin off originated, Under the Big Sky, one of my all time KP fav. With this small town and intimate ‘little bubble’ romance feel, Kristen Proby has a winning formula I believe. The simple setting, but complex characters is the perfect dichotomy to get us wrapped up in the story, and loose in the romance and sexiness of the book. Kissing Jenna was all I was hoping for for Jenna’s story, and I am now anxiously awaiting for the novella about Brooke – that we got to meet in here – and specially with Max, and I’m hoping Willa’s story! Counting down the days! <3 <3 <3 <3 

“Jenna, I can’t do this life without you. I don’t think I started to breathe until the moment I first touched you.”

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Kristen was born and raised in a small resort town in her beloved Montana. In her mid-twenties, she decided to stretch her wings and move to the Pacific Northwest, where she made her home for more than a dozen years.

During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before the dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.

Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series.

Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two pugs and two cats.

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Series: Big Sky #2

Author: Kristen Proby

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 10th, 2018

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From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes the newest installment in her beloved Big Sky Series…

Jenna Hull owns and manages vacation rentals in her hometown of Cunningham Falls, Montana. She’s just completed the construction of her most exhausting project, the one she’s put her heart and soul into. The inviting, opulent Snow Wolf Cottages are the first ski in/ski out tree houses in the world.

Her biggest dream is about to come true, and she can’t let anything distract her.

Christian Wolfe is Hollywood’s it actor. If the magazines are to be believed, he’s the sexiest man on earth. He’s preparing for the biggest movie role of his life, and his agent has booked him in a hot new ski lodge in Montana, tucked away from crazy fans. He can’t wait for the break.

But what Christian isn’t prepared for is Jenna. With a face that could easily co-star with him in a movie and her ambition to put her stamp on Cunningham Falls, he can’t stay away. But even more intriguing than her beauty is the fact that she’s not at all impressed with his celebrity status, only turned on by the man behind the fame.

 

The love they’ve found is perfect—but time is running out before real life intrudes. Can they survive with both their dreams—and hearts—intact?

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During that time, Kristen wrote many romance novels and joined organizations such as RWA and other small writing groups. She spent countless hours in workshops, and more mornings than she can count up before the dawn so she could write before going to work. She submitted many manuscripts to agents and editors alike, but was always told no. In the summer of 2012, the self-publishing scene was new and thriving, and Kristen had one goal: to publish just one book. It was something she longed to cross off of her bucket list.

Not only did she publish one book, she’s since published close to thirty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion Series.

Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two pugs and two cats.

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Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

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Release Date: October 5th, 2018

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Linc has two very important things on his mind—professional football and his motorcycle club.
What he does not have on his mind is the woman that drives him crazy and makes him want to do stupid things, like throw caution to the wind.
Nope, not Linc.
At least, that’s the lie he tells everyone.
In reality, every time Conleigh’s name is mentioned, he squirms.
She’s everything that he wants, wrapped up in a cute little package that is stamped ‘hands freakin’ off.’
She’s four years younger than him, in school to be a doctor, and thinks football is stupid.
Even more, Linc and Conleigh get along like oil and water.
There’s not a single second that they’re in each other’s presence that they’re not at each other’s throats.
But all it takes is hearing that she’s in trouble for Linc to drop every single thing—football and MC duties alike—and head to her side.
A side that he’ll remain at until they either kill each other, or finally give into the heat between them.
Either way you look at it, he’s well and truly screwed.

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Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles.  She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.

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Author: Ella Fox

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: July 2, 2018

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Donovan Beckett is a recluse who wants no commitments or entanglements of any kind. He works hard to ensure no one can penetrate the wall he’s carefully constructed around himself—until the day his new neighbor stumbles into him. 

It isn’t anything like instant love. Far from it. 

Eden Avery doesn’t want to be curious about her neighbor. He’s the most infuriating and closed-off person she’s ever met—not to mention the rudest. She doesn’t want to find the uptight bastard irresistible and she shouldn’t be able to sense the minute he’s within spitting distance, but does. She really shouldn’t fantasize about his hands on her body, but that’s happening too. 

They can fight it all they want, but nothing can stop the mutual attraction that’s about to disrupt both of their lives.

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I collide with and immediately bounce off something huge and hard. My arms flail as I start to topple backward. I’m saved by a pair of strong hands that halt me before I land on my butt. I’m barely able to process that I’m upright before the hands are gone. 

Blinking in confusion, I slowly look up and take in a man who is easily a foot taller than my five foot one frame. He’s like an angel in black—tall and broad shouldered with large hands and rugged arms. His black t-shirt does nothing to hide his six-pack abs, and the black jeans and black work boots he’s got on only make him more roguishly appealing. Everything about him is sexy including his sporty, masculine scent. I’ve never come across someone so mesmerizing in all of my life. His longish dark hair, closely trimmed beard and sensual lips are straight up panty-melters, so I bet women throw themselves at him on the regular. The very thought of this bothers me far more than is reasonable or appropriate.

 My heart slams against my chest as my eyes meet his. Something strange passes between us, something I can’t put name to. I’m at a loss because I haven’t experienced anything remotely similar before. I feel my cheeks flush with color as I stare up at him. Biting my lip nervously, I blink up at him like an idiot as I try to force words out of my mouth. Questions are zinging through my head at high speed—things like who are youor where did you come from and finally, holy shit, has this kind of thing ever happened to you before? 

Before I can articulate even one of those things he blinks and the moment is over. I cringe when I realize whatever was in his eyes is gone, almost as if it never happened at all. Now, he’s pinning me with a look that could permanently freeze the tropics. Even still, his eyes make me weak in the knees, regardless of the fact that they’re now subarctic. Jet black lashes frame the most beautiful deep blue eyes I’ve ever seen, and right now they’re transmitting one message loud and clear—stay the hell back. I’ve never come across anyone less inviting in all my life.

“I—I’m sorry,” I sputter. “I didn’t mean—” 

His sensual lips form a flat line as he sidesteps me. “Pay attention to where you’re going,” he snaps.

 

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Ella Fox is the USA Today Bestselling Author of Consequences of Deception, The Hart Family series & many other sexy and exciting books.  

Ella is an avid reader, lover of music and all around goofball. She grew up loving to read. That’s not surprising considering the fact that her mom is USA Today Bestselling Author Suzanne Halliday!

In 2016 Ella began publishing insta-love novellas under the pen name Evie Harrison.

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Series: The Simple Man Series #4

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

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Release Date: July 6th, 2018

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Coke Solomon has lived a full life.

He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way.

And if he can’t have his way?
Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before…

At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell.

He finds out fast that Cora marches to the beat of her own drum, and a lot of times that drum takes her farther away rather than closer to where he feels she needs to be.

He can’t stand it.

He wants her, and he has to have her.

It doesn’t matter what she’s twenty years younger than him, and has a father that would rather see him dead than have his baby girl anywhere near him. Nor does it matter that his ex-wife is highly offended that she’s been replaced with a much younger woman.

Despite the odds stacking against them, he’ll fight for what he wants.
His ex-wife, her father, and their age difference be damned.

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Oh LA LA… Talk about a orgasmic voice! And the whole package – even some excess one, lol – that went along with it! Cora had ZERO chance to resist her new and silver fox neighbor!

Cora has recently moved to Hostel, and barely settled in, she has to deal with a apparent noisy neighbor. After gearing up for a confrontation, she was shell shocked, and speechless when faced with the handsome and raspy voiced that was Coke Solomon. 

“Cora?” 
I’d know that raspy, deep voice anywhere. 
Whether I was fully conscious or deeply asleep, awake or in my dreams, that voice was like a homing beacon…for my vagina.

Yep, the voice really was the deal breaker. After that initial meeting and the instant sizzling chemistry and bilateral attraction, they develop a easy – and special – somewhat of a friendship.

After the nightmare that was Coke’s more than seventeen year old marriage, and even after two years divorced the constant presence of his ex, and his new found solitude with his seventeen old daughter away at college, let’s just say that Cora is exactly the breath of fresh air he needed to uplift his life in more ways than one. He more than deserves his HEA!

Beatrice said, popping up at my side like a STD that just kept coming back regardless of what I did to get rid of it.

Unfortunately, a nagging ex-wife that you hated wasn’t one of the things that would warrant a restraining order. 
Bummer.

That’s right, he describes the level of insanity and clinginess of his ex wife, to the perfection. I have to say that if not for the EVER presence – even if not exactly physical – of this OTT insane woman all throughout the book, always causing problems and drama of some kind, I would have enjoyed the book even more and would definitely rate it higher. She just took too much of their love story, stealing too much of my attention, and distracting me from their connection. I just wished her presence and relevance had been toned down a bit. If you are a follower of my reviews, you know how I always prefer my OW drama in small doses, and that the angst comes from outside forces, but nonetheless, I think Coke really was worth all this baggage, the man was such a GOOD GUY!!!

Cora was just as brilliant! As an introvert at core like myself, I so deeply sympathize with her, and though – much like Coke – that she was incredible! Their instant attraction and their ever growing friendship, and blossoming feelings, truly sold me out! Not to talk about all the sexiness going on! 

“Fuck, baby.” 
I couldn’t agree more. 
Fuck was right. 
The man had rocked my world. If there was a way that everyone wanted losing their virginity to go, that was it.

Oh boy, with how much they craved each other, you can imagine the level of explosion that went on when they finally decided to give in to their desires. The sexy times were OFF THE CHARTS hot! One would never guess that we were talking about a virgin, and a not overly experienced man – I absolutely loved that he had been with only five women in his thirty five years old! – that’s right, they were THAT hot for one another!

Of course at some point events (and extremely awkward situations) happen that bring Cora’s insecurities and deep seated issues to light, and once again, I loved how real Ms. Vale portrayed Cora and the complexity of her character. Her doubts were palpable, and I was right there with her in her internal battle and rooting for her to pull trough and take a chance. To choose a chance of a HEA!

I also felt somewhat bad that I couldn’t hang with the big dogs in the crazy department—but I had enough crazy of my own. I didn’t need anybody else’s crazy to deal with, too…right?

Coke was bad for me. Coke was bad for me. 
Maybe if I kept repeating those words, one day I’d believe them.

Indeed she had valid points, but the man that was Coke Solomon, fought for her, but at the same time respected her issues, and supported her all the way throughout their love story.

Another relationship that I adored in this book was the ‘sisterly’ behavior of Janie (specially this one), Kayla and Cora. Like true sisters, the two former, really pushed Cora’s buttons, and got on her last introvert nerve, but you could see and feel that in the end, it all came from a place of love. They were ALWAYS there for her, even if it was the last thing Cora wanted. Very sisterly like indeed! LOL

Coke showed what fantastic person he was, even in the previous book, Get You Some, with how he dealt and helped June. I loved him then – even already knowing of the crazy ex, lol – but  added to that, being an amazing father, a spectacular alpha, he was without a doubt the very perfect match for Cora, (even if I wished that he had realized a bit sooner 😉 )so no wonder she feel for the man! Just check out come of the things he said and thought, totally swoon worthy material hero!  

I wanted…no, I needed her.

She was wrong about that. 
I didn’t like her. I loved her. 
Though similar, this love business felt like something that was going to rip its way out of my chest and cause my heart to explode.

I knew for a fact that I wanted to give her everything. 
I wanted to get married. I wanted to make her happy. I wanted her to outlive me. I wanted everything. And for her, I’d even be happy with kids.

Ain’t Doin’ It is another Lani Lynn Vale success, and an amazing addition to this that is now one of my all time favorite series of hers, SIMPLE MAN! Emotional, hilarious, suspense, romance and super steamy moments, we had it all. And now I’m literally counting down the days so we can get the fifth book of the series, Too Bad So Sad! Can’t wait! <3 <3 <3 <3

We’d take our lives together one step at a time, and eventually we’d fight those demons together. 
In the meantime, I was happy to be there for her just as she was thankful to be there for me. 
I’d found something special in my neighbor, and I would thank every single star in the sky for being handed such a gift.

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Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles.  She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.

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