Category Archives: friends to lovers

Romantic Suspense Book Review!! ~ Won’t Back Down (Wayward Sons Book 1) by Jackson Harper

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I drowned when I was sixteen.

My brother’s best friend brought me back, but nothing was the same. I can’t remember what happened. My parents dragged me away from my island home in the name of keeping me safe, and thrust me into hell instead.

I came back to Hatterwick to rebuild my life and–hopefully–my memory.

Now a new inheritance threatens to expose those long buried secrets, and someone will stop at nothing to ensure I never remember what really happened that fateful night.

The only thing standing between me and whoever wants to hurt me is a marriage of protection with the boy who saved me–now a man grown and determined to keep me safe at all costs.

But what began as protection turns into more. Because he’s the key to unlocking what hides in the shadows of my mind, which will either save or damn us both.

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Romance Book Review! ~ The Two Week Roommate: A Grumpy / Sunshine Romance (Wildwood Society Romance Book 2)  by Roxie Noir

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We used to be best friends. Now we’re snowed in together.

There are probably worse things than being stuck in a remote cabin with the rugged-yet-grumpy forest ranger who saved my life in a blizzard. Getting mauled by a bear, for example, though I might prefer that to eating breakfast with Gideon Bell, the guy who nearly ruined my life when we were kids.

It was twenty years ago. We haven’t spoken since. Our families still hate each other, and our lives are completely different. I’m not sure we’ve got anything in common besides childhood memories.

But when it’s just the two of us for a couple of weeks, none of that really matters.

What matters is the way Gideon grumbles, but makes my tea exactly the way I like it. What matters is how he always gives me the spot on the couch closest to the fireplace. What matters is how he looks at me when he thinks I’m not paying attention.

And those childhood memories? He’s in all my favorites.

Up here, in the cabin, it’s easy to look past all that because it feels so good to kiss him. It’s easy to spend a wild night in front of the fireplace and wake up still wrapped together. But back in the real world, where everything that drove us apart is still alive and kicking? It’s a lot harder.

Can Gideon and I fix what broke twenty years ago, or does what happens in the cabin have to stay in the cabin?

The Two Week Roommate is the second book in the Wildwood Society series, and can be read as a total standalone. It’s for fans of high heat forced proximity romantic comedies, and features childhood friends-to-enemies-to-lovers who get snowed in together, a quirky, charming small town, a grumpy former military hero, a sunshine heroine who melts his heart, and plenty of steamy scenes. Of course, there’s an HEA.

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The Two Week Roommate was a good romance with a surprising backstory that I really enjoyed. Gideon was all set to enjoy a holiday by himself in a tiny cabin on top of a mountain but a squirrel and a woman tied to a tree intervened and changed his plans.

From that moment forward, this story really takes off. The woman stuck to a tree in protest is none other than the former-best friend that he’d betrayed in a truly horrible way. It leads to many moments of awkwardness but it doesn’t stay that way for long.

I loved the friendship that existed between Gideon and Andi before everything went wrong and the way they were able to recapture it while stuck together on the mountain was really nice. I can admit that I had a hard time with Gideon at first, not solely because of what he did back then because he was a kid, but his struggle with the brainwashing he endured really kept him tied up in knots.

But his determination was and is worthy of admiration. He loved his siblings and he wanted a life different from how he was raised and–eventually–he went after it. This was the slowest of slow burns and it didn’t bother me at all. This was a surprising read that I really enjoyed.

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Romance Book Review!! ~ The Secret Hook-Up by Pippa Grant

Watching too many women settle for mediocre men has made me lose my taste for relationships, but when I see Duncan Lavoie again after all this time, suddenly I’m starving.

An awkward chance encounter with my secret former fling in an upscale dressing room should’ve been the beginning and the end of having the green-eyed, curly-haired, dimple-cheeked, hot AF hockey captain back in my life, but it’s not.

Because he’s just bid an unspeakable sum of money to win me in a charity auction. We’re talking this woman is mine money. No one else can have her money. Touch her and die money.

News flash, Lavoie: I’m not for sale, and that bid doesn’t come with favors.


But after the auction, the entire city is shipping us. Strangers are giving me knowing winks. My bosses want to use the publicity of our “Are they, aren’t they?” gossip coverage for the benefit of the team.

Which is the other problem. If I go along with this, I’m no longer professional baseball coach Addie Bloom. Now I’m just that girl dating a hockey player.

Duncan asked me to choose between him before my career once before. Now he says he’s never gotten over me. He says he wants to try again. He says this time is different.

But is it? Or will taking another chance, this time a public chance, with him put my career—and my heart—on the bench forever?

The Secret Hook-Up is a laugh-out-loud romcom featuring the hot-as-sin hockey captain of the Copper Valley Thrusters, the Copper Valley Fireballs’ lady baseball coach he never got over, and a misbehaving formal gown. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after.

The Secret Hook-Up

This was such a fun story! I loved the way the met up again inside the dress store. It was perfectly embarrassing and hilarious and face-palming, which is pretty much what I expect from Pippa Grant.

I was happy to see that Duncan finally got his own story and it did not disappoint. When he got his second chance with Addie, he matured and really thought about what would get him what he wanted…her. It was a fun and steamy story and I couldn’t read the words fast enough.

Addie was the exact kind of heroine you want to root for. She has plenty of reasons to avoid relationships, which were totally understandable, but she was also able to see what was happening and how good it was for herself. This is what I’d call a ‘grown folks’ romance because they were adults about pretty much everything and it was such a fun, heartfelt and humorous read.

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New Romance Series Trope REVEAL!!!

Hey there, Book Lovers!

I’m here today to share with you a project I’ve been working on while writing the full-length follow up to Just One Night!

The idea came about while I was working on the follow-up because I am a romance author who loves romance and travel so the idea of a series that features both was too appealing and here we are.

Today we have the trope reveal for the first book in the One Night series, One Night in Amsterdam. This is Trish & Nate’s story.

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FREE THIS WEEK ONLY! ~ Mint Juleps & Moonlight Melodies by N.D. Jackson

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She was ready to become her own woman…
Passion.
It’s the one thing that’s been missing from Marilyn’s life.
After years of mediocre sex and a distinct lack of orgasms, she gets up in the middle of the deed, ending her relationship with the golden boy everyone thought she would marry.
A year later she’s ready to pursue her dreams.
And her passions.
When her cousin Dixie proposes a summer in New Orleans to work on their goals away from parental expectations, Marilyn eagerly agrees.
He wasn’t ready for the bombshell girl next door…
Zack likes his life just the way it is, especially now that his band books enough gigs to pay the bills.
When he needs an itch scratched there’s no end of willing women,
He hadn’t counted on the sweet southern belle next door,
Or those miles of smooth legs on display in those itty bitty shorts she favored.
When she approached him in that shy way of hers asking for lessons on passion, he thought she was crazy.
Then he thought she was the best damn thing that ever happened to him.
It was supposed to be temporary.
Fun.
Not forever.

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Broken. (A Green St. Girls Romance) – Friends to Lovers, summer romance with a hint of suspense

Have you gotten your hands on Broken. yet? It’s a friends to lovers romance, featuring Indigo & Gideon from book 1 in the Green St. Girls series, Bared.

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Runaway. Nerd. Girl genius.
Weirdo.
Victim.
I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, by a lot of different people.
But the name that meant the most to me?
Green Street Girls.
That’s what we called our little family, Me, Athena, Gwyn & Charlie.
Each of us, alone in the world until we found each other.
I’m Indigo and this is my story.
Gideon stormed into my life like a big, broad-shouldered guardian angel.
Quiet with kind eyes and a steady presence that made me feel at ease.
He was my friend.
My protector
My first…everything.
We were on the precipice of something great.
Something new and exciting.
Until a threat made me doubt myself, and everyone around me.
To win him back, I’ll have to be something no one ever accused me of being before.
Brave.
Friends to lovers, almost virgin, romance with a hint of suspense.

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Romance Book Review ~ The Problem with Players by Brittainy Cherry

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As a female coach, I’ve always lived by a simple mantra: throw hard, swing for the fences, and never, ever look back–especially when it comes to past flames.

So when my ex-boyfriend somehow manages to land the job as my new assistant coach, my life is flipped upside down. The game I thought I’d mastered is now being played with a whole new set of rules.

My ex is baseball’s all-star Nathan Pierce. He’s tall, dark, and undeniably handsome. He’s also all too eager to spend extra hours working together while flashing that familiar devilish smirk of his that still sends my heart racing.

Between playful teasing and lingering stares I discover that Nathan isn’t just here to work. He’s here to rewrite history. Our history.

And when fate throws another curveball involving me needing a place to stay, Nathan offers up his spare bedroom, which sends me spiraling into emotions I believed had long since faded.

Now I’m faced with the ultimate decision: keep it professional and continue fleeing from our past, or confront it head-on by playing the game he thinks we were meant to finish together.

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The Reviews Are In: Make Me Want To Love You is a GREAT read!

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Single Mom. Victim. Small Town Girl.
Those are just a few of the names I’ve been called.
Divorcee
That poor girl
Are just a few others
But when Burke storms into Emerald Creek all blond hair and perfect smile, he sees something else.
Smart.
Beautiful.
Interesting.
When he lays those blue-gray eyes on me, I feel like that woman
And worse?
Despite my past, despite my better judgment
It makes me want to love him.

She has no idea how amazing she is
And that’s its own kind of aphrodisiac
Shayna is superhero and she had no clue of her power
For some reason I want to be the man to show her
Most women are all about what they can get from me but Shayna doesn’t want anything.
Except my body.
She’s making me work for it and I am so willing to put in the work
Because she’s worth it
Because despite everything, I’m starting to fall
Hard.

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NEW RELEASE ALERT!!! ~ Make Me Want To Love You (Love in Emerald Creek) by N.D. Jackson

Hello, hello! Today is the day that you (finally) get to meet Burke & Shayna! If you love small towns, summer love, and too-charming-for-their-own-good millionaire businessmen, you’ll love this steamy summer romance.

If you haven’t read it yet, buy it here or sign up to be part of the book tour here.

Single Mom. Victim. Small Town Girl.
Those are just a few of the names I’ve been called.
Divorcee
That poor girl
Are just a few others
But when Burke storms into Emerald Creek all blond hair and perfect smile, he sees something else.
Smart.
Beautiful.
Interesting.
When he lays those blue-gray eyes on me, I feel like that woman
And worse?
Despite my past, despite my better judgment
It makes me want to love him.

She has no idea how amazing she is
And that’s its own kind of aphrodisiac
Shayna is superhero and she had no clue of her power
For some reason I want to be the man to show her
Most women are all about what they can get from me but Shayna doesn’t want anything.
Except my body.
She’s making me work for it and I am so willing to put in the work
Because she’s worth it
Because despite everything, I’m starting to fall
Hard.

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Burke & Shayna go LIVE TOMORROW!!! ~ Make Me Want To Love You by N.D. Jackson

Hey Lovelies!!! Just one more day until you can get your hands on Burke & Shayna’s love story

If you love small town romance, summer love, opposites attract then you will LOVE this story.

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