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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Noelle remained in the small town. That’s what she knows and loves. She’s now the towns baker and loves cooking and baking for everyone but she does get stressed out with all the orders. Her true love Nicholas left after they graduated high school. She’s never really dated since he left. But she knows she needs to go on with her life just without Nicholas.  Nicholas is the son and grandson of the richest families in the small town. He left when he was 18 and hasn’t been back since. His grandfather left something in his will for him but he has to go to the small town to find out what.  Once Noelle finds out Nicholas is in town again and renting the house next to hers she tries to make her  holiday spirit shine bright to overwhelm Nicholas and his grinch spirit.   So many innuendo’s in this book. Smutty holiday happiness. I did receive a free ARC book copy of this book. I am freely leaving an honest review.

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cece is a twin to Beau, who is the captain of the ice hockey team. Going to the same school as her brother their father thinks that will keep her in line and she will focus on school instead of parting and getting in trouble like she had been doing at her last school.  Devlin is a senior on the ice hockey team. He and Beau have been best friends for awhile. Devlin grew up in foster homes and is never sure where his next meal or clothing will come from. Being around Devlin who grew up with money is hard for him, as he makes every dollar count.  Devlin and Cece meet at a comic con event before school started and really hit things off. However neither knew who they were, just used first names. Once school starts and Cece has Beau come over to help move things into her new place Devlin comes along and they are both surprised to see each other again. They know they shouldn’t be around each other because of Beau and not wanting to hurt him / ruin the friendship. ...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 3 - Rule Breaker  The grumpy hockey player Dominick has been arrested at Christmas time. Dominick is worried that the Vipers coaches are going to trade him after they find out what happened. Dominick gets surprised that his punishment is community service to coach one of the junior hockey league teams. At first he doesn’t want to be around the kids and the parents but he also knows he needs this. One of the kids on his new team is Ben. Ben isn’t a good skater. He falls down most of the practice. But Ben has heart he wants to play hockey and he wants to learn. Ben’s mom is Holly, who is recently divorced. Her ex lives right next door and still controlling most of their life. Holly wants to move but knows she can’t afford it.  Dominick starts helping Ben more with his skating and his shots. Ben starts skating up right and less time on his rump on the ice. Dominick also sees Holly and wants to spend time with her but being around Ben and her ex h...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 2 - Dream Maker Garrett who we met in Book 1 has a younger sister - Gabby. Gabby just lost her job and found out her boyfriend had been cheating on her. Gabby moves out to Las Vegas to live with Garrett and Lizzie while she tries to find herself and find out what she wants to do with her life.  Joey is on the same hockey team with Garrett. Joey is more quiet not really into hanging out much. He is newly divorced and not sure if he wants to date or not. Joey and Gabby meet a few times and always wind up talking with each other and hanging out together when they are with the other players.  After the Las Vegas Vipers hockey team win the Stanley Cup, Joey and Gabby went out on their own to see the town. However, they wind up married. All Joey can think about is how Garrett will kill him. Holy moly what are they going to do?  Even though their marriage is a shame mostly Joey and Gabby do like each other and go off on a RV trip through the US st...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 1 - Game Changer This book continues from our Book 0.5 short novella - Final Shot with Garrett and Lizzie. Garrett has been traded to the Las Vegas Team and has left Chicago, where Lizzie is. Lizzie and Garrett have been in each others lives since college and have a same core group of friends.  Lizzie and Garrett spend the night together after they went to a friend’s weekend get away in South Carolina.  A few weeks later Lizzie finds out some news that she needs to share with Garrett but since she left him a few weeks ago will he want to talk with her?  Will Garrett want to stay in Las Vegas after the news or will Lizzie be able to leave her family and Chicago to move to Las Vegas? Or will a long distance relationship work for them?

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 0.5 - Final Shot - Novella A short introduction to the characters. Garrett and Lizzie have been friends of friends for awhile. They are always around each other with their friend group. Lizzie and Garrett do like each other but they keep side stepping each other. Garrett has been traded from the Chicago hockey team to the Las Vegas team. Lizzie isn’t sure what she is going to do without him in the same city. Will they be able to give each other a chance?

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a box set of books 1-3 in the Las Vegas Vipers box set collection by Stacey Lynn. Book 0.5 - Final Shot - Novella A short introduction to the characters. Garrett and Lizzie have been friends of friends for awhile. They are always around each other with their friend group. Lizzie and Garrett do like each other but they keep side stepping each other. Garrett has been traded from the Chicago hockey team to the Las Vegas team. Lizzie isn’t sure what she is going to do without him in the same city. Will they be able to give each other a chance? Book 1 - Game Changer This book continues from our Book 0.5 short novella - Final Shot with Garrett and Lizzie. Garrett has been traded to the Las Vegas Team and has left Chicago, where Lizzie is. Lizzie and Garrett have been in each others lives since college and have a same core group of friends.  Lizzie and Garrett spend the night together after they went to a friend’s weekend get away in South Carolina....

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Macklin and Hayden have been best friends forever. Hayden and Ruby are brother and sister and grew up across the hall from Macklin. Now Macklin and Hayden are on the same hockey team for the university.  Ruby we met in the previous book. Her dorm was flooded and now she and her roommate - are living at the hockey house with Ruby’s brother and his hockey team. Ruby and Charlie are on the track team. They love being female athletes.  Macklin has always liked Ruby but since being friends with her and her brother he never wanted to make a move on her as he didn’t want that friendship to end. Now that Ruby and Charlie are living in the hockey house Macklin can’t do much to avoid her. They try sneaking around and they didn’t do a good job of keeping that a secret. The big question is how will Ruby’s brother react?  I did receive a free ARC book copy of this book. I am freely leaving an honest review. 

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Second chance romance  Shane Feris, has been involved with music his whole life. Being in his band and traveling is something he loves to do something he is great at. Catalina ‘Cat’ is trying to get a new home. When she finds out through doing all the paperwork she is actually married and they - the realtor is requesting the spouses signature. However Cat has stated she has never been married and she isn’t sure how she is listed as being married when she never has been.  Cat finds out her ‘husband’ is Shane. They went to school together but haven’t spoken since they graduated together. How can she get ahold of Shane? Will he remember her?  Shane isn’t sure of what Cat found, how could they be married. Shane and Cat hang out a lot during his off time. But then have a misunderstanding and stop talking again for 10 months. Shane is trying to win her back as he know she’s the right one for him. But will she want him again after all that time?  I did...

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a short novella book.  In this book we have Hunter Lykoudis, who lives in the same building at Third Street Apartments. He often crosses paths with Rachel Morrigan who lives above Hunter’s apartment.  Rachel’s boyfriend comes over later one night. However instead of just getting into bed or laying on the couch like he usually does he starts attacking Rachel. Hunter hears all the noise of course and comes up to her rescue. However during the struggles Rachel sees Hunters eyes change color. She isn't sure what he is or if he is human  Hunter takes care of Rachel a few days in his apartment. They have wild chemistry together and are instantly connected with each other.  Hunter reveals his true self to Rachel and she knew he was already different she just didn’t image how different.  I didn’t like the instant sex they started having after talking for 10 minutes to each other. They barely know each other but let’s have wild sex.  I di...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: Age Gap, He falls first, Teammates little sister, Grumpy vs Sunshine  This is book 5 in the series. You can read each as a standalone. They are intertwined so you do see the same characters throughout each book. Jack is the Captain of the hockey team. He was in a car crash before the season ended last year so the team didn’t make it to the quarter finals like they should have.  Jack has been side lined over the summer with a broken leg and broken arm. He needs to focus on healing and recovery. Jack is super grumpy at everything and everyone it seems like. Everly is a ray of sunshine. She house sits for a lot of the players on the hockey team. Getting their mail, pet sitting, watering the plants. Everly is Tyler’s younger sister. All the hockey players grew up with her around since she was 17/18 yrs old. Everly isn’t sure if she should go for an internship with the interior design company. Or if she should think of another career path. S...

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the 2nd book in the series. But it’s also part of the Gallo Series family we all know and love.  This is a shorter book, on the novella side.  Tate works at a Men of Inked shop - she suggested to the Florida Gallo cousins they open a shop where she and her family live and they did! Now she’s one of the owners but also one of the tattoo artists. Tate was saved by the Gallo family 1 or 2 yrs ago from a MC crew that took a hit out on her. They thought she did something but she didn’t actually do it. She loves photography and thinks she’s just a ok tattoo artist. Her passion is photography.  Wylder is a single father to 2 teenager girls. He and Tate have been casual with dating and getting to know each other. One of Wylder’s siblings - Thumper is with the MC crew that tried to take out Tate. He still has issues with Tate. But since Wylder stated they are together he is trying to make an effort to be nice and like her.  I did receive a free A...