Heather Miller Bookophile

    Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend⁠, Grumpy x Sunshine⁠, Forbidden⁠, Age Gap⁠, Bodyguard⁠, Roommates to Lovers⁠, It’s Always Been You⁠, Small Town⁠,  Secret Society⁠, Band of Brothers⁠   Trevan grew up across the street from Silas & Elena's house. The three of them were always together growing up, on wild adventures, or playing baseball. Trevan grew up with his alcoholic  abusive mother. When she kicked him out when he was a teenager, he didn't know where to go. A year after he left home, he found his way back to Sila and Elena's, and they have been in each other’s lives since.    Elena is Silas' younger sister who we met in Book 1 Forged in the Fire. Silas is the President of the Crimson Crows. Elena is 'off' limits to all the members of Crimson Crows - he made that quite clear when she turned 18. Sila has always told Trevan to watch over Elena, that he is the only one he trusts t...

                                       Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Steamy Sports Romance, Friends With Benefits for Two Years, Best Friends Brother, Fake(ish) Fiancée, Down Bad Green Flag MMC, Black Cat x Golden Retriever, Relationship Trauma, Forced Proximity, First Act Breakup   In Book 1, End Game (Lucky #11) Branch Best & Layla Miller are dating, even though Finn told his sister not to. Layla's best friend is Poppy who has been dating Layla's brother Finn. Poppy Quinn & Finn Miller have been friends with benefits for a few years. Finn wants to date only Poppy make that move with her, but, Poppy scares easily and she runs when things get hard for her she bolts. Layla likes being friends with Finn, they work great together.    Finn gets interviewed by a magazine at the sports arena one day, and w...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Second Chance, Stalker Masked MMC, Childhood Celeb Crush Found Family, Sports, Skater Boy / Skater Girl, Close Quarters   Tweetie (Reagan) was a teenager when her father died. She lived on the streets for a year before King took her in and gave her a home at the Patchwork House. King, Flip & Daniel were the founders of Patchwork house. Taking in those kids off the street who needed help and a home. Tweetie is a girl, trying to make it in the boys skateboarding world. She works hard but she keeps coming up short in her competitions. She lets her head get the better of her. Tweetie left 2 yrs ago from the house. Where did she go? How did she survived?  Where was she?     Flip (Nate) has been on his own most of his life. He started hanging out with King and Daniel when he was younger. They came up with the Patchwork house, and vowed to keep it running and working with how many kids that t...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: best friend's widow, forbidden romance, grief & healing, love after loss, friends to lovers, forbidden, small town, firefighter mmc   This is book #2 in the series. You can read the series as a standalone, as they explain who is who.    Collins is a widow of 18 months, her husband Caleb died while on duty with the fire department. She's been stuck in this routine, get up, go to work, go home. She doesn't do anything for herself. She keeps to herself now. There is no light in her life any more. She has forgotten how to live since she lost Caleb.    Ansel, was Caleb best friend since they were in mid school. They grew up together, and were also serving together at the fire station. Ansel was with him when they went into the house that killed Caleb. Ansel knows Collins is just a shell of her former self. She isn't living. Ansel talks with Collins about going out and doing things together. At first Collins isn't sure about ...

  Book Tropes: Dark cowboy romance, FMC on the run, Town with a serial killer problem, Dark Cowboy × Serial Killer, Obsessive & Possessive MMC, Stalking & Forced Proximity, Feisty FMC, Small Town Romantic Suspense, Found Family Sienna left Boston, and was headed for California for a new place to live, when she crashes in Blackwood, Montana. She knows no one in the town. But, everyone is very nice and kind to her. Small towns are full of gossips so, the day after she crashes her car in town the whole town knows about it and her. Sienna left Boston after her divorce. Now that she is on her own she isn't 100% sure where she should go / wind up. But, Montana wasn't on her radar. Sterling lives in Blackwood, Montana which is named the serial killer capital of the world. They seem to have a serial killer problem but Sterling and his friends can never seem to capture whoever is doing it. Sterling and his friends are with the Sheriff's department, so, some of what they do i...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Second chance  romance,  Enemies to lovers,  Forced proximity,  One bed, A ge-gap, B est friend's brother,  Mind games and amnesia,  Morally gray The second book in this dark academia romance series picks up where The Dean's List ends the story continues with the aftermath of what happened with Charlie and Axel. Charlie is innocent. She just happens to be someone daughter who is part of the same society Axel is in. Now that her father threw her out there the society needs to protect her. But, from what exactly? How innocent in all of this is Charlie? Charlie has always dreamed of Axel, but, he seems colder now.  Axel, (Proctor) at the end of book 1, The Dean's List, we saw Axel get shot and go into the hospital. Axel is still recovering from that wound. Aexl is living two lives, in one he is reckless, in the other he wears a mask. As  Convocation approaches  Axel has 18 days to figure out who is...