Loving Lilly (Geary Brothers #2) by Grace Harper

My Rating: 4 Stars

Series: Yes, Geary Brothers #2.

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Finding what you love and build your life around it.

Synopsis

Lillian Harrison is trapped in a life she doesn't really enjoy. From the outside everything looks rosy. She has had a successful career for a decade as a lawyer, money in the bank and her own home. She is lonely and worse still is addicted to Elijah Geary.

Elijah Geary owns a popular bar in the center of Edinburgh, he is ex military and wants to settle down. The highlight of his day is the forty minutes when he speaks to the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

Loving Lilly tells the story of Elijah and Lilly and how they dance around each other to find out if they are meant to be together or stay as customer and bar tender. Elijah brings out Lilly's passion she never knew she had.

Happily ever after was never meant to be easy.

Loving Lilly is a steamy, passionate tale, for readers over the age of 18.

My Review

I got this book by the author as a gift and I enjoyed it just as much as the first one!

In this second book in the series we get to read about Elijah’s life and if we were already falling for him on the first book, this one settles it, he is AMAZING!

We then meet Lilly, she seems like a weak small character at first but she definitely surprised me, she was so much stronger and determined that what she led on.

Their story felt natural and beautiful to me, he had some secrets that were not that bad at all and after he lets go of them they are in a perfect place together.

Elijah’s story was a complicated one and it was what made him who he is, he wants to save the people he loves, from little things and from bigger and scarier and that was the thing I loved the most about him.

Everyone loved him, because he had that amazing energy around him that just made you want to spend time with him.

Cute and simple love story, it’s a must read !

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Excerpt

The following day, Elijah watched as Lilly Harrison walked into Blue’s, with the same look, which graced her beautiful face every day. Desolation. He couldn’t work out why she kept doing the job she did if she felt so unhappy there. He had watched her spend her lunch break in his bar for too long and listened as she complained about the job she had and the people she worked alongside. She worked with the biggest set of bitches he had met, they were regulars in his bar on a Friday and Saturday night. Hanging out and looking for their next rich man so that they could give up their jobs.

 Elijah was leaning against the tall wine refrigerator and he pushed himself off the glass front and walked towards the dark headed beauty that was Lilly. Lilly pulled herself onto the tall bar stool and laid her arms on the metal pole that ran along the bar edge. Her head rested on her forearms and she massaged her head on her forearm, moving it from side to side like she is ridding the ache in her head.

 Elijah had only ever seen her in Blue’s so had no idea what she did for fun. At this moment in time he didn’t think she ever had fun. Moving towards her, he picked up a glass and poured her the drink she ordered every time. Lilly always ordered, lime and soda water, with plenty of ice.

 Standing in front of her, Elijah placed the glass on a coaster and stroked the back of her head. Smoothing down the stray strands of hair that had come loose from the bun she wore at the back of her head.

 “Are you ok Lilly?” Elijah asked her.

 Lilly raised her head in slight confusion and beamed a broad smile as she looked at Elijah’s face. That look she gave him made his heart thud, hard. To be responsible for making someone else smile was a great feeling. When Elijah made Lilly smile, it made his day.

 “No different from yesterday Elijah, but I’m fine now I have seen your face, thanks for the drink.” She answered.

 Elijah tilted his head to the side in question and raised an eyebrow at Lilly. She mimicked his action and smiled back.

 “I’m ok Elijah, the bitches are keeping themselves to themselves today.”

 “Why do you stay in the job? You don’t enjoy it and do it under sufferance.”

 “I do it because I owe it to my parents, they schooled me to be a lawyer and have high hopes for me. I couldn’t possibly leave, they would never forgive me, and I would never hear the end of it. They would go on about how much money they spent on me. What else would I do with my life?” Lilly said and resumed her position of rolling her head from side to side on her arm. It was the most she had ever revealed to him about why she stayed in the job, and he was delighted that she had shared with him the confidence. This meant he had something to work with, he hoped that his scene with Elaine yesterday meant that she would open up more to him.

 Elijah walked around the bar and stood next to Lilly and tapped her on the shoulder. He waited for her to sit up and slide around on the seat to face him. Elijah was tall and able to trap her knees between his thighs. He rested his large hands on her shoulders and bent slightly so that his eyes were level with hers. His green eyes were looking into her green eyes.

 “Now, you listen to me and listen well. Life is far too short to be miserable. You need to do what you want to do. You have spent the last six months complaining about your job and how much you hate it. I have seen you lose weight and become unhappy. I promise you that if you continue to work in that job, with those snobby bitches any longer you will make yourself ill. I’m not prepared to watch that happen. Are you listening to me?” Elijah asked and shook her to emphasise his point.

 Elijah swept his eyes over her face, looking at the dark shadows under her beautiful eyes and wished she would leave for a happier job. His beseeching look startled Lilly, who sat there wide-eyed, unblinking into Elijah’s face.

 “I’ll think about it Elijah, I know what you’re saying is right but I don’t think I have the courage to leave. What would I do instead? I have no idea what I want to do with my life; I have never known what I wanted to do when I was in school as a career. Mum and dad decided for me, and I went with what they said I should do.” Lilly answered, her voice started to falter and Elijah thought she might get upset. To rescue the situation he blurted out the first thing that he could think of.

 “Work here, I’ll give you a job,” Elijah said. He didn’t know where the notion had come from but now he had said it, he went with it. He always offered help without thinking. H told himself he must stop doing this as that got him into trouble time and time again. He had just ended his relationship with Elaine after helping her out with a commission.

 “You can work behind the bar until you decide what you want to do. The wages are not great, but the tips are good and we are a good team and have fun.” He said, he couldn’t believe the words that were tumbling out of his mouth, he couldn’t stop them pouring out.

 “Work here? I don’t know how to pull a pint let alone make a cocktail.”

 “I’ll teach you, please consider it Lilly. I don’t know how much longer I can watch you fade away and become a shadow of your former self.”

 “That’s a bit dramatic Elijah, I’m not that bad.” Lilly replied.

 “You don’t see what I see, please consider it.” Elijah pleaded.

 “Ok, I will think about it.” Lilly said, resigning herself to the possibility that she might have to face the fact that she needed to change the direction of her life.

 “Good,” Elijah said, grinning from ear to ear.

 “I said I would think about it so stop grinning, I haven’t made any decisions yet. Tell me about Elaine, it looked like you had an argument yesterday?” Lilly asked to change the focus from her life.

 “It was more of a discussion really, our relationship, if you could call it that has ended. I should never have started it, but I wanted to help her and then started dating her without realising. I won’t make that mistake twice.” Elijah said with conviction.

 “I will remember that Elijah, it’s good to know you don’t want to date the people you help.” Lilly replied, her hurt feelings filtering through her words.

 “I didn’t mean it like that Lilly, I’d like to help you and wouldn’t object to dating you either.” Elijah said, cursing himself for his careless words.

 “Wouldn’t object to dating me? Is that your romantic side coming out there?” Lilly said, keeping her face straight and her tone flat.

 “No need for sarcasm, you know I am digging myself into a deep pit, I’ll stop talking now.”

 “Oh, don’t be so sensitive, I’m just teasing you.” Lilly said and pinched his cheek.

 “I’m such an idiot, sorry for being crass, let’s get back to your job and not my appalling romantic skills.” Elijah said and rubbed his cheek.

 Elijah could have kicked himself, he was finally single in the presence of Lilly, and he made a total arse of himself. It was a good job Mickey wasn’t here to witness it, or he would never hear the end of it. Lilly completely floored him when he was near her and anything he planned to say flew out of the window.

 “Do we have to talk about my work? We always talk about that.” Lilly asked, desperate to change the subject.

 “Yes we do, now, tell me Lilly do you love your job?”

 “I’m excellent at it.” Lilly said proudly.

 Elijah took Lilly’s hand and stroked the back of it with his thumb, soothing her stresses and encouraging her to answer him. He bore holes into her face as she had dropped her head so he couldn’t see her eyes. He thought they were beautiful and lifted her chin so that he could see them. He had caught a flash of sadness before she put her mask back in place.

 “That’s not what I asked Lilly and you know it. Do you love your job, do you wake up in the morning and look forward to getting dressed and arriving for work? Do you stay late because you love your job enough to get the job done?” Elijah asked her softly.

 “No.” Lilly replied quietly.

 “Then why are you wasting your life there Lilly? I don’t understand.”

 “I’ve already explained, my parents have paid for my education and paid for me to go through law school.”

 “But you are a partner, you have paid them back tenfold, you’ve studied hard, best in your class and have won hundreds of cases, they should be proud.” Elijah argued.

 “They aren’t proud. They see that, until I am a senior partner with my name on the letterhead I have not paid them back. They have social circles that depend on this and I am failing in their eyes to them. I have been a lawyer over a decade and still haven’t managed it. If I left now, my parents would see me as a complete failure.” She said and straightened her jacket.

 “Lilly, this is your life to make the most of, why do you feel the need to make your parents happy?”

 This question stumped Lilly, she didn’t know the answer, and she assumed that all children needed to make their parents happy and proud. Elijah could see Lilly was struggling with the answer and asked a different one instead.

Lovegame by Tracy Wolff

My Rating: 4 Stars

Series: No.

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Finding your missing piece  and finally getting yourself back together.

Summary:

True Crime novelist Ian Sharpe has spent his career writing about serial killers for very personal reasons. For his latest exposé, he is taking on the sadistic madman known as the Red Ribbon Strangler, and when his research leads him to Hollywood’s most private and provocative actress, he will break every rule to uncover her truth.

The daughter of one of Hollywood’s golden couples, chased by paparazzi and treated as a commodity her entire life, Veronica Romero wields her sex appeal like a weapon. She expects Ian to be as easy to control as every other man she’s ever known. But from the beginning, he refuses to fall into line. Mysterious and cool, challenging and just a little bit dangerous, Ian somehow makes her feel safe—even as he digs into the deepest secrets of her life and pushes her to the breaking point.

As raw ecstasy gives way to agonized truths, their dark obsession exposes secrets that have been buried for far too long. Ian wants to tear down her walls and heal the sensual woman underneath. But if Veronica’s learned anything, it’s that the line between pleasure and pain is a narrow one—and when caught between them the only thing that matters is how you play the game.

Lovegame is intended for mature audiences. This ebook includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

My Review

I got this book for an honest review on Netgalley and I ate it up!

The story focus on Ian and Veronica, they are falling hard for each other from the start, but their relationship is tainted by lies and some of those may ruin everything when they surface.

The connection and chemistry between the main characters is off the charts and even though they are both hiding behind their carefully crafted walls of protection they seem to find their way inside and there's no shaking it off, they changed each other in a way that can't be undone.

A lot of mysteries and unsolved happenings make this story a thrilling read that keeps you to the edge of your seat.

The uncertainty about Veronica’s sanity was the best part for me, she is almost sure that she is going insane and that is breaking her almost to the point of shattering her little glass protection box she built years ago.

But Ian is there for her and he makes all the difference he heals her on a deeper level and that ties them together for ever.

The level of craziness and hotness on this book takes you to a higher level of reading, you get deep inside their madness and get lost in their sexual haze, they are so disturbingly good together. 

They drive each other to the edge, but luckily they are there to catch each other when they fall through the rabbit hole.

Amazing book!

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Excerpt:

I take picture after picture, with a vintage champagne glass in my hand or my face buried in a huge bouquet of dahlias. Toward the end, Marc has the stylist and his assistant wrap me up in a long string of artificial belladonna since the real stuff can cause problems if it touches the skin. Then they heap my gloved hands with a mountain of the poisonous black berries and Marc has me hold my hands out to the camera in a deadly macabre offering.

Again and again Marc shoots me like that, taking pictures from every possible angle. On his knees in front of me, looking up. From a ladder above me, looking down. Beside me. Behind me. Across the room. Up close. Again and again he points and clicks. Again and again, I smile and pout and make every other expression he asks for. I even take his suggestion to tilt my head back with my mouth open wide and hold one of the berries between my thumb and index finger as I pretend to be about to drop it in. As I do, I close my eyes and pretend not to be totally icked out.

When I open them two minutes and twenty shots later, the first person I see is Ian. He’s leaning back against one of the mirrored walls and for once his omnipresent notebook is nowhere to be seen. Instead he’s staring straight at me, a half-snarl on his normally calm face and his eyes burning with a mixture of contempt and desire.

It’s the first time I’ve seen anything but pleasant or puzzled interest from him and it has the tiny hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Has ice skating down my spine and a desert taking up residence in my mouth. Because, in that moment, as our eyes lock and his turn impossibly darker, impossibly blacker, I don’t know who he sees. Can’t tell who he wants.

Me or her?

Actress or murderer?

Sentient being or a character he helped create?

It’s just more fuel to add to the fire of my earlier doubts and in that one tense and electric moment, it comes to me. What the cover shot should be.

What I need it to be.

Marc backs off a little, has his assistant come forward with a trash bag for me to throw away the last of the berries and the gloves I’ve been wearing. As she pauses to tie up the bag in front of me, I ask her for a couple wipes.

She quickly returns with a box of baby wipes and I smile my thanks even as Marc instructs me back against the mirror for what he calls “the last series of shots.”

I do as he instructs, but as he’s fiddling with the lighting, I turn toward the mirror and swipe the wipe over the right half of my face.

“What are you doing?” my makeup artist squawks as he comes racing across the room at me.

“Trust me, Dalton,” I tell him as I continue to scrub.

“Stop doing that!” he orders as he grabs on to the end of the wipe and actually tries to wrestle it away from me.

“Just wait,” I instruct, refusing to let go no matter how hard he tugs.

“But—”

“What are you up to, Veronica?” Marc asks. He sounds more intrigued than annoyed.

“I’ll show you,” I tell him, pushing gently at Dalton’s hand until he finally lets go with a whimper.

And then, with the whole room—including Ian—watching me intently, I wipe the entire half side of my face clean of any and all makeup. I do it carefully, making sure that the line that runs down the center of my face is exact so that both sides are completely symmetrical.

When I’m done, I reach up and take off my right earring and hand it to Dalton who still looks slightly shell-shocked. Then I step back and stare at this new reflection of myself in the mirror.

Half me at my most natural, half her at her most armored, it’s a devastating look. Made even more so by the elaborate fifties makeup Dalton has me in—all red lips and thick black liner and long, long lashes.

There is a difference, I tell myself fiercely as I study myself. I am not her. I will never be her, no matter what it felt like four months ago.

In the background I’m aware of Marc cursing softly, of him snapping picture after picture. I don’t turn around, instead continuing to give him my back so that he gets both me and my reflection in each shot.

“Turn around,” he breathes after he’s taken at least three dozen pictures.

Reluctantly, I do as he requests, then follow his impatient gesture for me to move away from the mirror. I step forward and then the camera starts again, clicking away to get the shot from this angle as well.

At that moment, Ian moves and I make the mistake of glancing his way. Our gazes lock and heat slams through me at the look he’s giving me, has my eyes widening and my lips parting on a gasp as I struggle to draw air into lungs that have abruptly forgotten how to work.

“Fuck,” Marc breathes from where he’s narrowing in on my face. “That’s it. That’s the money shot.”

I drag my eyes away from Ian, but it’s too late. For the first time in a very, very long time, I feel vulnerable. And I hate every second of it.

About Tracy Wolff:

​New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Tracy Wolff collects books, English degrees and lipsticks and has been known to forget where—and sometimes who—she is when immersed in a great novel. At six she wrote her first short story—something with a rainbow and a prince—and at seven she forayed into the wonderful world of girls lit with her first Judy Blume novel. By ten she’d read everything in the young adult and classics sections of her local bookstore, so in desperation her mom started her on romance novels. And from the first page of the first book, Tracy knew she’d found her life-long love. Now an English professor at her local community college, she writes romances that run the gamut from sweet contemporary to erotica, from paranormal to Urban Fantasy and from young adult to new adult.

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Foolproof Love (Foolproof Love #1) by Katee Robert

My Rating: 4 Stars

Series: Yes, Foolproof Love #1

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Letting the past go and opening your heart to a new path of life.
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: June 6, 2016
Publisher: Entangled Brazen
Print Length: 50,000 words
Format: Paperback and Digital

Synopsis: 

Bull rider Adam Meyer put Devil’s Falls in his rearview mirror years ago and hasn’t stopped running since. Now he’s back—temporarily, if he has any say about it. Restless, he finds himself kissing the sexiest girl in town…and agreeing to be the fake boyfriend in her little revenge scheme.

Jules Rodrigez isn’t interested in the role of town spinster. Being seen with a hell raiser like Adam is the perfect way to scandalize the residents, make her ex jealous, and prove she’s a sexy, desirable woman. And if their plan includes ridiculously hot sex—in public, of course—all the better.

But this thing between them has an expiration date. Putting down roots isn’t in Adam’s blood, and Jules’s roots in Devil’s Falls are bedrock deep. He’ll leave, even if it rips out his heart. But this time, he’s not sure he’ll survive it…

My review

I got this book for an honest review on Netgalley by the publisher.

It was an entertaining story and the characters were super cute!

Jules is this amazing girl who has suffered in the past with matters of the heart and now HE’s come back to ruin everything again, but she is determined to survive this time.

Here is where Adam comes to the picture; he is sexy, captivating and mysterious, but he is also damaged by his past and his choices. 

He is a runner and staying seems to be the hardest thing he has ever faced.

The storyline is funny and entertaining, they are so good together that their love story is effortless, they just make sense.

The author really translates their feelings for each other through the pages, you can feel her love and his fear; there’s also their chemistry, just WOW!  


Overall the story was really good; we get to see them learn to move on from their past and the mistakes they made to make room for the future, just beautiful.

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Fool Me Once August 1, 2016
Aubry Kaiser doesn’t like people—actually, that’s not right. She loathes people. Combine that with her crippling anxiety around crowds and she’s in a mess when she gets an exclusive invitation to play a demo of her favorite video game, Deathmatch…which will be held at a convention with five thousand other people. The only solution? Bring someone else with her to the con to act as a shield—and unfortunately the only person available is the one man she can’t stand. Quinn.

Quinn Baldwyn is in a mess of his own. He’s been dodging his family’s matchmaking attempts for years, but with his sister’s wedding on the horizon, he’s in need of a shield of his own. Who better to drive off any potential marriage-seeking women than the fire-breathing dragon known as Aubry?

Things start to go sideways almost immediately when Quinn’s truck breaks down, forcing them to spend a seriously hot night in a B&B. They might barely be able to hold down a civil conversation, but in bed those fireworks are only the good kind. The closer they get to Napa Valley and Quinn’s sister’s wedding, the more he realizes that he might actually…like Aubry. But can two polar opposite people from completely different worlds ever really connect outside of mind-blowing orgasms? 

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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert learned to tell her stories at her grandpa’s knee. She found romance novels at age twelve and it changed her life. When not writing sexy contemporary and speculative fiction romance novels, she spends her time playing imaginary games with her wee ones, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.  Connect with Katee at: Website | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads | Instagram | Tumblr | Youtube

Excerpt
“That’s really sweet, Grant. It was great seeing you, but my boyfriend is waiting for me.” 
He frowned. “Boyfriend?” 
“Oh, yeah, it’s a new thing. We haven’t exactly gone public with it—you know how Devil’s Falls can be—so you wouldn’t have heard.” She gave him a pat on his arm. “It was nice seeing you. So great. Really, we’ll have to catch up sometime soon.” And then she stepped around him, dragging Aubry behind her. 
“What are you doing?” Aubry whispered.
“Winging it.” She stopped by the trio of men, all too aware of Grant watching her. “Hi, Daniel. Quinn. Adam.” They raised their beers. 
Daniel looked over her shoulder with a frown. “Is that your piece-of-shit ex-boyfriend I see?” 
“The very one.” She disentangled her arm from Aubry’s. “Speaking of, I need a favor.” 
“Anything for you, kid.” 
She tried not to roll her eyes at him calling her kid. He was a whole seven years older than her. Not exactly ancient. “Actually, it’s not you I need the favor from.” Before she could talk herself out of it, she sidled up to Adam and put her arms around his neck. To his credit, he didn’t shove her on her butt in the dirt, merely raising his eyebrows. Jules kept her voice low so there was no chance of Grant overhearing. “So as you’ve noticed, my ex is watching me really closely right now, and I might have told him a tiny white lie about me dating someone in order to avoid a devastating dose of humiliation. And since I can’t date Daniel and no one would ever believe I’d date Quinn—” 
The man in question frowned. “You really know how to hit a man where it hurts, Jules.” 
“—that leaves you.” 
Adam’s face remained impassive. “I see.” 
There wasn’t a whole lot to work with in those words, but he also had let his free hand drift down to settle on her hip, so she just kept talking. “If you could just play along and maybe kiss me like you want to do filthy things to me in the bed of your truck, I’d really appreciate it.” 
If anything, his eyebrows rose higher. “That guy really got under your skin, didn’t he?” 
“You have no idea.” Next to them, Daniel made a sound suspiciously like a growl, but neither of them looked over. Adam’s hand pulsed on her hip, the heat of it shocking despite the warmth of the night. His calluses dragged over the sensitive skin bared by her T-shirt, and she shivered. Maybe this was a terrible idea. She didn’t have time to really reconsider, though, because he set down his beer, cupped the back of her neck, and dealt her the single most devastating kiss of her life. 
No, not a kiss. 
He took possession of her mouth, his tongue tracing the seam of her lips and then delving inside. He tasted of beer and something darker, something that hinted at exactly what she’d asked for—like he wanted to do filthy things to her in the bed of his truck. She closed her eyes, giving his tongue a tentative stroke, and had to fight down a moan at the way the move made her entire body go tight. More. 
He lifted his head, breaking the kiss and slamming her back into the real world. She blinked up at him, all too aware of her body pressed against the entirety of his, of how he was hard in all the places she was soft, of how goddamn good he smelled. “Wow.” 

There went that eyebrow again. “You think it was believable?”

Beautiful Disaster by Natasha Wessex

My Rating: 3 & 1/5 Stars

Series: No.

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Overcoming the hurt of losing someone and learning from past mistakes.

Synopsis

She's a hot mess... A beautiful disaster... And she keeps telling me she doesn't need saving. But that won't stop me from trying...

Beautiful Disaster" is the story of Alex Sinclair, the heir to his family's political dynasty, and Roslyn Sanborn, a young socialite whose self-destructive behavior after the death of her father threatens to be her undoing. 

When the pair is thrown together at a family gathering to welcome Roslyn's mother into the Sinclair clan upon her marriage to Alex's uncle, they despise each other at once. 

But as Roslyn turns Alex's neat and ordered life upside down with chaos he begins to realize there is more to her than the empty-headed party-girl she pretends to be.

 Alex has his own family secrets and when he begins to open up to Roslyn, he realizes they have more in common they either of them thought.

 But when Roslyn comes to him in crisis will Alex put his family name and political ambitions on the line to protect Roslyn from her past?"

My Review

I got this book for an honest review by the author and I enjoyed it! It was an interesting read.

The female lead of the book is hard to relate to because of her crazy ways of fighting her pain.

She is taking all the wrong decisions, and her life is just an endless parade of parties, drinking and drugs.

At first it was hard to tell what she was really like, she hid everything behind a wall of insults and recklessness; but from time to time, we get a glimpse of her true self and we see a hurt and damaged woman who just needs to find her way back home.

Alex is just a regular guy, he has his life scheduled and he seems happy about that, but he is not really living, he is surviving, under the shadow of his family, mostly his father.

Both of them are trapped on their unhappy reality and finding each other might be just what they need to be able to find their freedom.

This book is about pain and real life love, it’s not pretty, its hard and they have a lot of work to do before they can find the happiness they deserve.

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Wanted: A Monster Billionaire Romance by Jani Kay & Normandie Alleman

My Rating: 4 Stars

Series: No.

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Moving on, overcoming  the pain and hurt and learning to forgive.

Synopsis

FOSTER

I spent the last five years locked in a cage for a crime I didn’t commit. 

Crucified by the press and social media. Hated by all. 

But now that I’m a free man, I’m determined to prove I’m not the evil mastermind everyone thinks I am.

I just need someone to believe in me.

Someone like Addison James…

ADDISON

Foster Cruise is sexy as hell and worth billions. But he destroyed my family.

He may have gone to prison, but he hasn’t paid nearly enough for what I’ve lost. 

He has no idea who I am, but I’m determined to prove what the law failed to—and put him back behind bars where he belongs. 

I’ll offer him my body and sell my soul to that handsome-as-hell devil to make things right.

Trouble is, I’m afraid he’s already stolen my heart. 

Adult content suitable for 18+

Language and sexual situations.

My Review
I got this book for an honest review by the authors and as always, it was my pleasure!

Foster is a complicated man who has been through hell, but now he is back, and he wants to prove to everyone that he is not the man people think he is.

He was an intense character to say the least, he seemed like someone who would command the room he is in, it just filtered through the pages.  

I could imagine his stern and intense look and he is definitely something I would want to look at for long periods of my day!

Addison was a hard character to crack because she seemed so angry and set on destroying him, that at first I couldn’t tell if she was really into him of if maybe it was a trick, and it was impossible to know how deep these emotions she was talking about were.

But once she opens up we see the real her, the hurt and scared girl turn into a woman seeking for revenge for her family.

It was heartbreaking to watch both characters struggle with their beliefs of what was true and what their hearts told them.

Foster was the one who surprised me the most, he knew from the start what he wanted and nothing stood in his way.


I guess what this book is trying to teach us is that we all deserve forgiveness and in some point we need to open our hearts and forgive others too for their mistakes. We might find out that things were different to what we thought at first and if we just hold our grudge we might miss something amazing!

Excerpt

Sneaking closer to the sprawling mansion, I took a moment to assess my situation. Now that I knew where Foster lived, I needed to come up with a plan to become part of his life so I could find the information the detectives had clearly missed. I’d come this far, and frankly, I’d do anything to catch this thief and move on with my life. I was pushing twenty-five and I didn’t even have a steady boyfriend, never mind the whole happy-ever-after happening. All my friends were married or in the process of getting hitched, and some were even procreating already.
And me?

I was chasing after an impossibly handsome crook, hell-bent on making him pay back the money he’d stolen from my and other families. It consumed my every thought, and even when I’d gone on dates, I’d been preoccupied with images of Foster, always comparing the poor unassuming guy I was out with to the devilishly good-looking Mr. Cruise.
What was it about the man that captured my imagination? He wasn’t really my type, especially not with the beard, but I couldn’t stop wondering if it would tickle if he kissed me.

Focus, Addison.

A light went on inside the house. I sucked in a breath as Foster came into view. He stood in front of the window and stared out for a long while, giving me the opportunity to study him. But just as suddenly as he appeared, he pulled the blinds down, and a minute later, the light was turned out.

One by one, he went from room to room and turned on all the lights until the whole west side of the mansion was lit up. I’d ventured closer to the windows so I could see inside, but always took care to stay hidden behind a tree or thick, bushy plant.

Just as well because my heart leapt to my throat when Foster threw open the window of the last room he’d entered. He closed his eyes and took a few long, deep breaths.
God, the man was beautiful. A powerful and magnetic aura surrounded him, and I couldn’t stop staring. That was when something rubbed up against my leg and made me nearly jump out of my skin.

Fuck.


I wanted to scream. The thing attacked my leg, and I tried to kick it off without making a sound. Stepping away to distance myself from my attacker, the heel of my shoe snapped and I lost my balance, freefalling backward into a shrub.

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Long: A Secret Baby Sports Romance by B.B. Hamel

My Rating: 5 Stars

Series: No.

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: Finding love and overcoming the situation lifes puts in front of you.

Synopsis

I’m having that cocky jock’s baby, but he won’t have me.

Gibson Evans is the best college football quarterback in the country. He’s tall, broad, tattooed, and so incredibly handsome.

And he got me pregnant. It was supposed to be just one night, but a broken condom changed all of our plans forever.

People treat him like a hero, but I think he’s a total prick. Gibson gets whatever he wants, and now suddenly he wants me.

But I have enough to deal with. I have to stop daydreaming about his hands between my thighs and concentrate on having this baby while still managing to graduate on time.

He wants to make a deal. If I promise to spend time with him, he’ll help me with my final biology research. That means an entire semester of studying Gibson’s body.

I’m not sure I can do this. One second I can’t stand to be around him, and the next I’m touching his ripped muscles and trying to suppress my excitement.

I’m terrified he’ll ruin everything if I let this become more than just work.

My Review

I got this book by the author for an honest review and I loved it as always! her books are simply amazing and the characters have such depth that you feel like you know them right away and they stay with you.

Avery found herself in a tricky situation and now she need his help.

Gibson is the sexy quarterback, he is not the type to get attached but now things changed and he needs to figure out what to do with his life, is not just him anymore.

He surpised me A LOT, he was never the asshole I expected him to be, he just took the reins on the situation and became the men Avery needed.

She was such a cute character, she was responsible and trustworthy and she had a tiny lapse of judgment  that changed it all, but she accepted what had happened and just kept on going.

She ended up being the strongest character.

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Shut Out (Bayard Hockey #1) by Kelly Jamieson

My Rating: 4 Stars

Series: Bayard Hockey #1

Sex Scenes: Yes.

Subject: College experience and how your life can change in a second. 

Synopsis

The Bayard College hockey team isn’t where Jacob Flass thought he’d be a season ago. He was a rising star in the Canadian major junior league, cruising toward a spot on an NHL roster—until a single disastrous night on the town brought it all crashing down. Now he’s out of options, except for playing well, studying hard, and staying away from girls. He’s not supposed to be flirting with the hottest, sweetest chick he’s ever met. But how could he possibly stay away?

Skylar Lynwood knows that Jacob is out of her league. She’s just trying to go with the flow, which isn’t easy when six feet and four inches of total hockey hunkiness is making a play for her one moment, then giving her the cold shoulder the next. Skylar’s head tells her that this rugged athlete isn’t worth her time, but her body says something altogether different. Risking her heart for Jacob may be the craziest thing she’s ever done . . . but she won’t let him shut her out.

My Review
I got this book for an honest review on netgalley and it was lovely.

Jacob the super-hot hockey player starts over on Bayard College and his mind is set on getting back to the top so he can redeem himself.
He was an amazing character, sweet and funny, I loved him from the start.

Skylar is perfect too, and when they met they just made sense. 

Reading about their “arrangement” was hard, it was obvious they were going to fail, they were perfect for each other, and the chemistry was just crazy good.

The intimate scenes they share are steamy hot! Their connection was really intense and you can’t help but feel drawn to them.

But they both had demons that they kept hidden from each other and everyone else, and we know how that works, they eventually come out and ruin everything.

Trusting each other might be harder than they thought it would be, but in the end it will save them or ruin them.

Overall the book had a great storyline and lots of deep traumatic subjects that affect a lot of college woman and men, and I think that the message of the book was really good and inspiring. 

Jacob learned a lot and grew as a person with Skylar’s help and she was strong enough to face her fears and in securities, having his support changed everything for her.

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