Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Single Dad, Fake Dating, Small Town, Brother's Best Friend   This is book #5 in the series. You can read each as a standalone. The characters from each book carry over into each other.    Markie St. James, is very competitive. She wants to win at pickle ball and most of all things she does. Markie does a lot of little jobs in the small town. She is also Mira's sister and very close with Astrid, Audrey, Gianna, Nettie and their grandmother Lolly.    Jory Plath, her brother’s best friend, a single dad, and a professional rugby player. Jorry has an active 11 yr old - Gus who will run the world one day. They are both new in the small town of Sugar Creek. Jory knows a few guys from the Rugby team. He doesn't realize those how small town gossip works.    Markie talks Jory into being her partner for the pickle ball tournament. Markie and Jory go from pickleball partners to fake dating. And the more time she spends with h...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Enemies to lovers,  Forced Marriage,  Slow Burn,  Magical System, Spicy,  Plot Twist,  One Bed,  Monsters, Touch her and Die. The Guardian (Ransom) - is always next to Zavier. Everyone says he is 2nd in command, but, Princess Odessa isn't sure.  When The Guardian & Zavier is in the realm Odessa is, they agree to kill the sea monsters that are plagueing the land. They kill 7 sea monsters. Now, for the payment he wants for killing the monsters is Odessa's hand in marriage. Not her sisters like it was arranged. The Guardian is usually close to Odessa. He usually is a few steps behind her. He doesn't know let he out of his sight much. He stays in the same room with her, but, sleeps on the floor.  Prince Zavier (Dray) - Never really speaks. But, he has spoken a few words to Princess Odessa. Zavier states he wants to marry Odessa not her sister like was arranged. The Prince never talks with Odessa let alo...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Single Dad, Daughter’s Dance Teacher X Grumpy Goalie, Emotional Scars, Love and Healing After Loss, Spicy Slow Burn Luna is a dancer. She lived in New York for awhile, and then moved back to her small town in Florida to be back near her family. She opened up a dance studio - which is right next to her mom's yoga studio. Luna loves teaching the little girls the beginning dance moves for ballet and dance. She loves seeing them in their little tutu's running around the studio. What she doesn't realize is how lonely she's been without dating someone.  Cayden is a top NHL goalie. He lost his wife 2 yrs ago, however, his 2 1/2 yr old daughter is the light of his life. He has sworn off love / relationships since his wife's passing. But, that has just left him angry and hurt. He has been having pain in his hips and the teams physical therapist suggested he see a yoga instructor and they may be able to open up his hips and make him relax doin...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Accidental pregnancy,  Surprise baby,  Secret hookups,  Forbidden love,  Found family,  Friends to lovers,  Hurt/comfort,  Irish hero,  Virgin heroine , secret hookups.  Bridget  Kavanagh , is Erin’s sister who is engaged to Calvin. Bridget has sick, has  Aplastic anemia. She is currently working with experimental treatments that are somewhat helping.  She gets bad flare up and winds up in the hospital a lot.  Declan McCarthy is best friends with Calvin. He likes being around Bridget. They start being text message buddies. Calvin did tell Declan to watch over Bridget, he is being a good friend. They text a lot and he usually goes to the hospital when she isn't feeling well to cheer her up.  Declan gets moved to the US, has to go to Boston for a few months, and they still text but not as often.  Bridget has moved into the same house with her sister, Erin and Calvin. But...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Age gap, Graphic violence, Blood and injury detail, Murder and attempted murder, Kidnapping / captivity, Restraint / confinement, Forced marriage / coercive marriage setup, Sexual coercion / dub-con power dynamics, Explicit sexual content, Obsessive and possessive relationship behavior, Stalking / surveillance, Emotional abuse, Blackmail, Psychological manipulation, Gaslighting, Brainwashing / conditioning, Memory tampering / false memory implantation, Torture / interrogation, Trauma responses, Toxic family dynamics, Death of loved ones / grief. This is a dark romance. Not grey. Read the trigger warnings before reading.  Asher Delacroix & Ivy's ( Ivyana )  story picks up right where we left off in book 1, Playhouse.  Asher and Ivy are individually a force to be reckoned with, but together? Untouchable. Ivy doesn’t know what happened to Asher since she saw him a year ago. She hadn’t hear from anyone that he knew in that t...

  Book Rating:    Book Tropes:  Hockey Romance,  Brother’s Best Friend,  Forbidden Romance Second Chance / Missed Connection NHL Team Captain,  He Falls Hard NHL Expansion Team.  Ryan Lindqvist, 32, was recently traded from the Minnesota NHL Hockey team to the new Phoenix Sidewinders Team. Ryan grew up in the Minnesota area. He loves the ice, cold, and wind. He knows going to Phoenix will be great for his career but, he isn't sure about the heat and the desert.  Ryan's best friend is  Griffin Callahan, goalie who was also traded to the Phoenix Sidewinders teams. Griffin has a sister, Maren, 27, who is in sports medicine. She has also been offered a job with the Phoenix Sidewinders team as the new Director of Sports Medicine for the team. She will be making sure the team stays functional, injury prevention, rehab, coordinating with the Dr's., day to day maintaince. Ryan had met Maren years ago when she was 18, a senior in high school, but...