Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes: he falls first. Second chance romance. Baseball  Jayden Vargas is playing baseball for the minor league team in Sweetwater. He needs a bit of help with his hitting and he hasn’t been the best at listening to the coaches. He has an older brother playing at the professional level. He hopes he will one day be at that level of playing.  Colby Keesler is the new hitting coach for the minor league team Jayden is playing for. Bring a woman in a man’s world she needs to prove herself more and more. Being familiar with baseball from her dad being a high school coach she knows more about baseball from him. Colby also played softball throughout high school and college. She loves the game.  Jayden isn’t sure how things are going to go with Colby on the team with him. They haven’t been friends let alone in the same space for a few years now. Jayden wants her back in his life. He wants them to be more than friends. But is that something Colby w...

  Book rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Book Tropes: BDSM. Secret world.  This is the 3rd book in the series. You do need to read the two previous books.  We go back to Sophie and the training room in NYC. Sophie is getting better with her tolerance with what she is willing to do within the group. When she writes about a session she wants to participate in she knows what she wants. The classmates in the training center have been friendlier towards her. When she tells the the food is linked to where they are going on their weekly trips they don’t seem to believe her. Until they have the trip to Brazil. The instructors are welcoming in that she recognized the food is a hint on the trips.  Sophie pushes herself to go more outside of her normal routine. Her instructors have welcomed her in trying more things. We have a few familiar names from the Brie series show in this series. Master Tono comes to help Sophie with her fear of bondage and ropes. He makes her more comfortable with...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: dark mafia romance, obsessive anti-heroes, strong characters, touch her and die, spicy.   Book Warnings: Dark Romance, Childhood Trauma, Power Imbalance, Tracking/Stalking,  Dub/Non Con, Graphic Violence, Choking/Physical Restraint, Death and Grief, Torture/Descriptive Mutilation, Criminal Underworld, Human Trafficking, Prostitution,  Drug and Alcohol Use, Drug Overdose, Abuse of Power, No Cheating or Sharing   This was my first book by Maria Raye.   Tainted Embrace is a prequel to the Foundation series, but having prior insight into Maksym makes this story hit even deeper.   Kira Sokolova is Pakhan's daughter, a mafia princess, she's just a girl, just currency in the mafia world. She lives in a mansion, in a sheltered life. She is taken to and from the university in a private car. She doesn't have body guards on her when she's at school. She able to do a...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope: Sports Romance - Pro Football Romance - Basketball Romance - Fake Dating - Black Cat - Boy Obsessed - Banter - He Falls First - Athlete x Athlete - Dual POV - ADHD Representation - Contemporary Romance - New Adult Romance   AVERY is the number 1 woman’s WNBA Draft pick. She is looking forward to being in the WNBA and starting her career. Her father and her brother play in the NBA and she's always being compared to them. She hates that they over shadow her life. Avery has always had a stance of not dating a fellow sports player, as its too hard with her schedule and the other partners schedule to connect. She is worried that she will get cheated on again if she puts herself out there.    RAWLEY made the first round draft pick. Since he was drafted later, he's lost out on a lot of endorsement deals, but, he knows his agent will be able to get him new ads and new deals. The NFL Orlando team wants him to keep a clean image on an...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope: second chance romance, hockey romance, sports romance, surprise pregnancy, found family.   Leo is a star hockey player for the NHL Team The Grizzly's. He isn't into romance, relationships. He likes one and done. He like meet women at clubs / bars. He doesn't seem interested in the 'nice' girls. He and Harper met at one of the teammates baby showers she was catering. They both had a good time together and slept together. Two months later, Harper finds out she is pregnant. A short time later Leo finds her at her shop throwing up along with all the pregnancy sticks on the sink. Leo knows she hasn't been with anyone else, although he can't say the same.    Harper is a caterer and has slowly made friends with the girls from the Grizzlies guys, they’re becoming some of her closest friends. Harper grew up in a single mom household. Harper wants to keep the baby. But, she isn't sure how she can afford taking 6 weeks off from her busin...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: Small town romance, slow burn Hunter Calloway works his family's ranch, the Calloway Ranch. He is Colt's brother who we met in Book #1,  Cowboy Casual.  We don’t get any back story on Hunter. We know he lives on his family’s ranch and works it with his brothers. He does live with one brother McCoy, and he is fixing up a house he brought but it’s been a side project for 2 yrs now.  Maggie Dawson works in the bakery - Darlin' Delights in the small town. Her sister Ella was dating Hunter. But, her high school boyfriend Dean, came back into her life, and Ella left Hunter to go back with Dean, and they moved back to Alabama to the small down they were from. Ella and Dean have just gotten engaged, and Ella is guilting Maggie to move back home so they could be close and work the wedding planning together. Maggie stayed in the small town in Tennessee, as she said this small town felt more like home more than her parents place ever had...