Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Review - Sweets Salvation, (Love & Legacy #5), by Bella Matthews Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: enemies to lovers, hockey romance, sports romance, small town romance, single dad, marriage of convenience.   Olivia is a sports lawyer / agent. She works her butt off. Her bosses keep telling her she is in the running for a partner position but have been dangling that carrot in front of her for a year now. She found out one of her bosses is retiring in 6 months but of course no one let her know. They did say that she wouldn’t make partner due to her lack of being married and not having any kids. They couldn’t tell how she would handle personal life and work life. Oi!!!   Logan is a single dad who is trying to get full custody of his 1 yr old. He is the captain on a hockey team in New Jersey. He and his younger brother both play on the team. His grandfather - Pops and his sister and older brother work on a 6,000 acre ranch the family has. He is there wh...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: MM Romance, Friends to Lovers, Sports Romance, Football Romance, Grief Lucas is the younger brother to  Ellis. Ellis and Hunter were best friends growing up. Then they became boyfriends. Since his brother Ellis past away Lucas has always had this empty feeling in his chest. Now with him being in LA the same town as Hunter, he knew they would run into each other eventually. Lucas is a photographer, and has opened his own studio in LA. Lucas has always had a crush on Hunter, but never acted on anything as his brother Ellis and Hunter were always together. But now that his brother Ellis  past away three years ago will Hunter want to be with him? Is is weird to be with your brother's boyfriend after he passes away? Hunter King has always loved football he was always the talented kid who Coach Blake saw potential in. He went to summer camps with Hunter and Ellis's dad as his football coach. He's always been with the Blake family. Now that E...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: small town, midwest, community secrets, missing girls, physical attack, sexual attack, search for truth This is a POV from Jillian but also has POV from a true crime podcast that is also going on listing the crimes that Jillian is in town investigating.   Jillian Thorne, is from Blue Gil, a small town in Michigan. Once she graduated high school she left, she didn't return. Now that one of her classmates has died, she is back in the small town to find out how he died. Jillian lives out in California and works on a few Hollywood Crime Shows with researching how the crime occured.  Craig Gilbert , Blue Gil high school teacher, and beloved football coach recently passed away. But, was it by accident? Or did someone kill Craig on purpose? Who was Craig involved with? Was he messing around with high school girls? Was he not happily married? Growing up in Blue Gil, Jillian remembers there being a few 'missing' from the town. When she was y...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: Grumpy MC, Bikers, Brother’s Nemesis, Enemies to Lovers, Small Town, Band of Brothers, Secret Society Brinley Webber has been dropped at the gates of the  Crimson Tides MC  club by her brother Dereck. What has he gotten himself into now? Why is he giving her to these men? What danger is her brother in or is she in? Brinley doesn’t understand what is going on other than her brother just delivered her to these bikers in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Usually Brinley can clean up her brother’s messes without too much trouble. But now she isn’t sure.  Silas Mercer is the president of the Crimson Tides MC. He has told the men about Brinley coming to stay with them and they are to stay away from her and that she’s off limits. That’s all the information he gives out to the men. Silas knows Dereck works both sides - he can’t ever seem to tell the truth. On the MC property Silas has the clubhouse for the guys and the g...

  Book Trope: Grumpy vs Sunshine. Single Dad. Cowboy / Cowgirl. Small Town. Rival Families. Forbidden Romance. Enemies to Lovers.  Tristan Stone is a widower with 12 yr old daughter, who drives him crazy most days. He runs his family’s ranch now that his dad is older. He has three sisters who also work the ranch with him. When he sees a truck in the rain he wants to help whoever may be in trouble. Of course when he sees is Lark he can’t believe his luck. His family hates hers but when she gets into his truck and he takes a good look at her he can’t seem to remember why they hate each other. He shouldn’t like Lark but he can stop thinking about her.  Lark Gatlin - is a member of the Gatlin family. She is a horse trainer on their ranch. She has 4 brothers, 2 that help run the ranch with her and her parents. Lark has dated some but has never found anyone she wants to stay with. One night during a rain storm she runs off the road in her truck. Her boyfriend doesn’t come to he...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: childhood friends, forced proximity, friends to lovers, heroine in danger, student athletes, football, sports romance.  Dallas Rivers is a star Quarterback back at the New England University. His adoptive father is a retired NFL player. His adoptive parents are best friends with Haven’s parents and they have known each other since he was 11 and she was 12. Dallas’s real parents were not much of actual parents to him. His adoptive parents have always made sure he feels safe and loved with them.  Haven King is the star shortstop on the woman’s softball team. She loves playing and being involved with the team and the school. Her dad is the head football coach so she is often going over to watch him coach. Her brother is also on the football team and Dallas is also on the team. Haven has been seeing a boy on the football team but it was just casual and he is wanting more. Haven breaks things off with him and thinks they won’t have anything...