Author: Aurora Rose Reynolds & Jessica Marin

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Designer: Sara Eirew Photography 

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5 ‘ Permanent Mark On My Heart’ Stars

Awwww…. Love At The Bluebird is the definition of sweetness and steamy romance personified! This ARR and JM collaboration gave us one of the most beautiful and ‘feel good’ love stories I’ve ever read. Truly a master combo and a must read!!! Loved every single second of it!

Gavin and Aly… Talk about destined soulmates! That insta connection, but the combo with the slow developing relationship, I adored all about it.

This woman has captivated me like no one else has ever before.

She’s my new drug of choice and her high is one I never want to come down from.

That first meeting at the Bluebird was just such a magical moment, I could feel I was right there with them both, in their own little bubble. It was that beautifully portrayed. 

Gavin’s desperation and anxiety to get to Aly, and ascertain that connection, was palpable, and knowing that she acknowledged it, and was open to discover what could come of it, just made the story much organic and endearing! 

She’s made a permanent mark on my heart and has the power to completely destroy it.

Love is magical, torturous, beautiful, and hard.

Even with the county music star theme, it’s incredible for me how I felt both of these characters were so relatable. Gavin and Aly were so adorably sweet and sexy together, I couldn’t get enough of their slowly developing love story. And specially with how enchanted they were with one another…

Good Lord, that man has cast a spell over me!

Something beautiful that just might last forever.

The relationship development, the amazing love story, all the steamy moments, an definite Alpha of a male character in Gavin, and an incredibly sweet and yet strong in Aly, and so many fantastic and potential filled secondary characters – omg, that Willow Mayson teaser left me DYING for her tale!!! -, Love At The Bluebird is now one of my favorite reads of this year, and one of the best author collaborations I’ve had the pleasure of devouring. I’m seriously stalking and hoping Ms. Reynolds and Ms. Marin won’t stop here with their duo and give us ALL the unforgettable love stories!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 

 

The connection we have is raw, hungry, passionate… meaningful.

Gavin McNeer better be mine to keep for the rest of my life, because he’s completely ruined me for anyone else.

I’ve never felt this connected with someone, mind, body, and soul.

ARC kindly provided by the authors via Give Me Books Promotions

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AURORA ROSE REYNOLDS

Aurora Rose Reynolds is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose wildly popular series include Until, Until Him, Until Her, Underground Kings and Shooting Stars.

Her writing career started in an attempt to get the outrageously alpha men who resided in her head to leave her alone and has blossomed into an opportunity to share her stories with readers all over the world.

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JESSICA MARIN

Jessica Marin began her love affair with books at a young age from the encouragement of her Grandma Shirley. She has always dreamed of being an author and finally made her dreams of writing happily ever after stories a reality. She currently resides in Tennessee with her husband, children and fur babies. When she’s not hanging out with her family, she loves watching a good movie, going dancing with the ladies, sniffing essential oils, daydreaming of warm beaches, and world peace.

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LOVE HER OR LOSE HER

Series: Hot and Hammered #2

Author: Tessa Bailey

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 14th, 2020

Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be anyway. Now Rosie’s lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Three words: marriage boot camp.

Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippy. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. But to her surprise, he’s all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. As they complete one ridiculous—yet surprisingly helpful—assignment after another, their remodeled relationship gets stronger than ever. Except just as they’re getting back on track, Rosie discovers Dom has a secret… and it could demolish everything.

5 ‘Love Language’ Stars

MIND BLOWN… Ok, not just simply blown, OBLITERATED is more like it! My heart, BODY and soul are in awe with Love Her or Lose Her. Tessa Bailey not only created an EPIC second chance romance, she set the bar to impossible heights when it comes to married couples’ Romance. It was from opening word to the very end of the Epilogue, PERFECTION! And who knew a marriage crisis’ book could have the most LEGENDARY of sexual chemistries?! Hot damnnnnnn… 😉

Sure, I knew – or at least expected, lol – that Dom and Rosie’s story was going to be monumental, but what Ms. Bailey gave us in this story is far beyond anything I could have anticipated!

Dominic and Rosie have been each other worlds from the moment the met, and got together in high school, the true epitome of ‘high school sweethearts’, all sticking together through tick and thin, even while Dom was in deployed their relationship was never in question. But after his return something changed and they have now for five years basically living in silence, while sharing a home and a weekly non verbally scheduled sexathon, because one thing is certain, raw sexual chemistry is INSANE, that that was never the issue. The problem was that everything else was, until Rosie had enough and left home, and now Dom need to prove to his wife their love and marriage deserves a second chance…

Understand how serious I am about bringing you back to me. Don’t doubt me when I say I’ll fight dirty to get you back through this door.”

 

“I’ll do anything you ask me to do,” he said in a gravelly voice. “Except walk away.”

What a journey!!!! This book, it touched me so deeply and intensely that I can honestly say it’s now my Tessa Bailey’s favorite, and I’m not saying it lightly because this woman’s work is one of my literary addictions!

The rawness of Dom and Rosie’s emotions, their struggles, their conflicts, and their love was so powerfully described I felt right there with them, not only in their heads, but their hearts. The craving and longing for one another was so REAL that made me teary eyed more than one, but when Rosie chip finally fell and she realized that she was just as much to blame, I was DEVASTATED right along with her. 

All this time, she’d blamed Dominic entirely for the decline of their relationship. But she’d been equally to blame.

That scene was heartbreaking! not only because of its perfect execution, but because it’s impossible to be in a marriage IRL and not feel what she felt, as well as take a deep introspective look into your own actions, the needs of your partner. It is help and healing power in writing! 

And talk about seeing things with new eyes, because much like Rosie, and though we know Dom has some big issues of his own to clear, we start to see the situation with another take, and Dom, OMG, only Tessa Bailey could make a man struggling this way, with such inner turmoils, into one of my most beloved book boyfriends EVER! Yep, just check out come of his quotes, and you’ll understand…

“Listen closely. If I can play ‘just the tip’ with your virgin pussy for a fucking year, I can play the long game to get my wife back. I’m getting you back. Don’t you think for a second that I won’t kill to make us right again.”

“Just tell me what to expect here, Rosie. My body hurts. It wants yours.”

His queen might be on her knees, but he was the one begging for that reward.

This man… His panic, his fear when Rosie said she was leaving, that their marriage was over…  His pain shattered my black little heart! Yes, he was all that we know and love of Ms. Bailey’s Alphas but this obsession, his love and his devotion – or dare I say WORSHIP – of his wife were a epic thing on its own. And not to forget, that deliciously fifty mouth *shivers*, and oh so naughty actions and teasing. That may have not been allowed to fulfill their cravings – crazy hippie therapist’s orders, lol – , but this man was LETHAL, and even with no actual sex for a big part of the book, LHoLH was not in any way less hotter or steamier than we are used to by the author. Au contraire, like I’ve mentioned the raw sexual chemistry of these two were UNPARALLELED, much like their therapist said, literally breathtaking. Every time their when near one another, or even with just one look, I felt like fanning myself, to say the least, ahahah. 😉

And talking about Dom, THE GROVEL, it was epic! The whole book is a beautifully and passionately fight from Dominic to get his Rosie back, no matter what he had to do, and what he had to show, he was winning to do anything for her, ANYTHING! And he proved it, over and over again throughout the story. His insecurities and cluelessness just made  him more perfect in my eyes, and now he’s right there at the top of my all time favs. And for a man of few words, he kill it, over and over! Swoon…. <3

“My heart. You get that, too. All of it. I’m begging you to take it back before it stops working. You’re my home. I need you with me, Rosie. Please.”

Dominic, I couldn’t stop loving you if they cut the heart out of my chest.”

Ms. Bailey has now left me even more transfixed with her work. In Love Her or Lose Her, we get romance, we get  love, we get friendship, we get sexiness, and the big surprise in this one, we get a incomparable introspection inside a marriage and the two sides of the whole that left me in awe with its accuracy, research and heart touching, soul healing therapeutic – even in the shape of a quirky high hippy therapist, lol – depth. I loved every word, every moment of this epic love story. Soulmate kind of love!

Dom and Rosie’s love and marriage was undoubtedly center piece, but I was so deliriously happy not only with the fantastic Just Us League interactions, Georgia and Travis’ – from Fix Her Up, the first book on the series –  adorable moments, and those addictive ‘male only scenes’ that left me craving even more for these oh so interesting male discussions, lol, but most of all for every single moment and word starting at that very first meeting, of Bethany and Wes! Ohhhh My Goooooood! I see the most delicious banter coming on, along with a single parent trope couple with enemies to lovers and I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT!!! Can’t freaking wait! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Most people didn’t find their soul mates during their lifetime. She’d found Dominic twice.

They were old love, committed love, and fresh, insatiable love all rolled into one.

They were best friends, soul mates . . . and perfectly, eternally flawed.

 

ARC kindly provided by the author via Avon / Harper Collins for an honest review

Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days.

Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.

She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eight years and four-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.

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Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: January 7th, 2020

Let’s do a calendar, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

Well, they—I.e. Kilgore Police Department’s public relations specialists—were wrong.

Now, every time Dax Tremaine walks around a corner, the women of Kilgore, Texas can’t help calling him Mr. January.

Mr. January, can you fix my flat tire? Mr. January, can you cuff me? Mr. January, can you sign my boob?

It goes from bad to worse when even on a SWAT call, the women won’t stay away.

***

It was the worst time of her life. Rowen Roberts had finally admitted to herself that the man she loved would never love her back. She was just fired from her job for violating client confidentiality, and to make matters worse, she’s held up at gunpoint in a convenience store where she only wanted some ice cream to help mask the pain.

The moment the gun is pressed to her forehead, she knows she has a decision to make. Follow the rules and maybe possibly live, or go down swinging where at least she can salvage just a little bit of her dignity.

And when Mr. January himself tells her to do what the gunman says, she’s had enough. Rowen has never really been a girl that does what she’s told. Mr. January won’t have to save her. She can dang well save herself.

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