Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: grumpy vs sunshine. Age gap. She’s wealthy / spoiled princess.  Rachel Henderson is  twenty-two-years-old. She comes from a NY uppper east side wealthy family who summers in the Hamton's and collect homes.  Her wealthy British boyfriend just left her for a wealthy British woman. Rachel is besides herself; she doesn't know what to do, who to hang out with. She left the Hamton's due to people gossiping about her right in front of her face. She flew out to California to stay in the lake house for at least a week to get away from everyone. However, within her first few days she is relaxing in the bathtub, a mini spa retreat, and knocks over a candle, which lights the curtains on fire, now the house has smoke damage and water damage from the firefighters. Her dad is super upset with her. Now Rachel doesn't know what to do with herself.  Rachel finds herself alone in the small town after the fire, he father cuts her off financially. R...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes: Small town romance, Meddling grandma, Second Chance, it's always been you, Marriage of convenience, Forced proximity.   We met Hartley in the previous books. But we never really learned why Hartley and Mira broke up and went their separate ways.    Hartley lives in the small town of Sugar Creek, TN. Hartley is a rancher he works the land his family have owned for generations. He loves the small town and being in a close-knit community. He has always loved Mira, even when she left him. He doesn't want to be with anyone else; he wants Mira. They dated when they were younger in high school, but broke apart. Neither Hartley or Mira have dated anyone 'seriously' through the years. They've always been 'open' to dating but really only dating each other.     Mira St. James grew up in the small town of Sugar Creek, TN, but left and recently came back to the small town. Her grandmother wants to leave her...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Bad Boy / Good Girl,  Small Town,  MMA Fighter,  Brother’s Nemesis He Falls First,  One Bed Situation This is the 3rd book in the series. You can read as a standalone, or in book order. I love seeing the back stories of all the characters throughout the multiple books.  Brooks Dempsey grew up with Grey Adler, who is dating Astrid - who is one of Audrey's best friends, who we met in Play Me, book # 1. Brooks and Grey both grew up in Sugar Creek, TN. One small town and two extraordinary athletes came out of that small town. Brook is a boxer, has been fighting for a while. But, lately after his shoulder injury, he's not sure if being in the ring is what he wants any more. We don't know much about Brooks's past life in the ring. He is back in the small-town healing from a shoulder injury. He has a fat orange cat - Otis, who seems like he would rival Garfield in chubbiness! Audrey Van has escaped the rush of the city life ...

  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...