Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: best friend’s older brother, enemies to lovers.  Jameson (Jamie) Murphy plays for a NFL team in Philadelphia, PA. He has known Ashton for forever with being his younger brother Finn's best friend, they were always together growing up in Kroydon Hills. Jamie, Finn and Ryker live together now in Kroydon Hills.  Ashton (Ace) Carmichael is best friends with Finn, who is Jamie's younger brother. Ashton's mom is a train wreck, she's in jail, for another DUI. Her father is the NFL Line Coach for the Philadelphia Kings - Jamie's team. Ashton now lives in Chicago, and is a professional ballerina. Now it seems Ashton will be uprooting her life and moving to Philadelphia. Ashton and Jamie have had feelings for each other since high school. But never acted on anything towards each other. Now that they are adults and meeting again they seem to have a hate / like for each other. Ashton is sooooo angry with Jamie for something when they were t...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Dark Romance,  Forbidden, opposites attract/ bad boy / spoiled American Princess, Steamy, Slow Burn.  I haven’t read any of the Crowne Point series yet, but this book definitely directing me to read the other books in the series.  Gemma Crowne - America’s Princess. Her life has never been her own. Her life has been pre-planned for her since she was born. Gemma comes from upper New York wealth. She needs for nothing. She wants for everything. She has no true friends, all the girls who still surround her will sell her out in a minute if given the chance. Gemma never knows who to trust. Her mother is trying to set her up with a wealthy many to marry. But most of the 'suitor's' know about Gemma and her link to the Four Horsemen, and many of those who come around her never stay alive for long.   Gemma Quote: I f Grim is your reaper, then you're his fucking reckoning. He knows you're going to kill him, and he refuses to let you g...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  single mom,  fake marriage,  grumpy x sunshine,  second chance romance,  small town,  and  secret society. This is book #5 in the series, you don't have to read the previous books in the series to enjoy this you'll see previous characters.  We do have dueling points of view with Daisy and Cash. And dueling flashbacks from their teenage years.  Daisy Adair and her sister Hadley, were in the foster care system while they were growing up. They were placed with a woman who lived a few houses down from Cash and his family when they were teenagers. Daisy and Cash were fast friends, at the time. Daisy found herself in a pickle. Her husband has been laundering money it looks like and she wants to get her and their 3 kids to safety. Daisy had found the area she thought Cash was located in. So, she sets her sights on traveling to where he is and hopes he can keep her and the kids safe.  Cash Cunningham has b...

  Book Rating:  The final book in Rise of The De Langes an interconnected standalone mafia romance Louis De Lange is trying to figure out who killed his brother. But, to do so, we must marry into the family who is his enemy. Louis had dated Tempest's twin sister,  Raven Alfero  who he drugged and got information out of. Louis has his sights set on Tempest. He knows he needs to marry into the Alfero family.  Tempest  Alfero is all bottled up rage and hate it seems. Tempest rivals her father Dante Alfero and his men. Tempest knows she needs to marry Louis in order to gain access into the Syndicate. But, will marrying this man be the end of her? Will it be the end of her family? Tempest knows Louis was with her sister, and knows he drugged her to get information out of her. But, what secrets does Louis know?  Tempest works with Cassian to get drugs, that she needs to drug her now husband, to build up his tolerance so he can survive whatever the Syndicate ...

  Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Trope: Arranged marriage. Enemies to lovers.  Dark Irish Mafia Romance.  Bully.  Neurodivergent Hero/Heroine.  Dual First Person POV Cavin McCart hy always thought Erin was a stuck up snobby girl in school. She would always tattle to the teachers / principal who was the main ring leader getting him in trouble at school and at home. Cain just spent the past 6 months in jail / prison, and he knows he doesn't want to ever go back, he wants to get on the straight and narrow, but, isn't sure how. He needs to change his ways from 'fighting' to 'talking' and resolving things through talking instead of fighting. Now that they are both grown, Cavin is seeing her in a different light. He sees how special she is. Cavin knows she has 'ticks' and knows certains things set her into stress mode.  Both Cavin and Erin are from Mafia families.  Now both families need each other and have proposed Cavin and Erin get married so the families wi...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope: Young College love. Second chance romance. Sports Romance.  Family legacy drama.  Slow burn. Cliffhanger.  Griffin (Fin) Graham - 36, is considered ‘old’ in the NFL world he is in. Fin left the University of Kentucky after he and Vee had been dating. Once he was at the new college he found out she was The NFL Coopers heiress. Fin was upset that Vee never told him who her family was. But, when she was a student at University of Kentucky Vee never told anyone who her family was. Fin and Vee haven't been in contact in over 15 years, but, he's always known she was the one who got away. He's always had relationships, but, nothing has ever lasted. He's never wanted anyone like how he wants Vee.  Maeve  (Vee) Cooper went to University of Kentucky for college where she met Fin the year she interned on the football team.  Now 15 yrs later he’s on her dad’s football team for temporary position for a year. Her Dad and family have ...