Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating:   Sabrina just found out her soon to be groom has been seeing someone else behind her back. She plays the recording of him at her wedding, of course her parents don't believe her that he's a cheater. Her parents side with the groom, Sabrina leaves, not sure what to do next.  Sabrina is a ice skating coach to little kids, and loves working with them. One of her students, Luna is daughter to Tyler Falcon, one of the NHL players. Luna loves learning about ice skating.  Sabrina knows that Luna's nanny has retired and gone back to her family in LA. Soon, Sabrina is asked by Luna's grandmother about being a nanny for Luna and her brother, Parker. She would still have time to do her day job of ice skating coach. Sabrina is now living in a small apartment that she can't stand. She knows that with the nanny job she would have a large room, living with the Falcon family if she accepts. Of course Sabrina accepts the job offer. She's had a crush on the kids d...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the next book in the series. You don’t need to read the previous books they are mostly stand-alone. They are inter connected though.  Tanner is the short stop on the MLB team. He loves playing on the team with the guys and being part of the team. He has been in love with Millie since he first saw her a year ago. But Millie just pushes him away. They all hang out together with the friend group, but if Tanner moves close to her she always pulls away.  Millie is aware of Tanner and knows he likes her. She just doesn’t want to be his next notch on his bed post. Millie wants Tanner to see her and be with her. She’s worried about all the girls that are always around that he will pick one of them. But Millie doesn’t see that Tanner just has eyes for her.  Mille and Tanner hook up towards the beginning of the book but then Millie freaks out and kicks him out of her dorm room. When she finds out she is pregnant she doesn’t know what to do. She ...

  Book Rating:  This is the 3rd book in the series. You do need to read the books in the series. Each pick up where the previous leaves off. Peyton, has re-learned how to walk, and ride her horse. She is almost back to normal after her spinal injury. She still gets cramping sometimes but it able to make the cramps stop. Peyton isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She wants to help the cheer team at her old high school the same one her dad coaches at. She knows coaching the cheer team isn't the same as being on the cheer team, like when she was doing it. She wants to be helpful in her community and have meaning in her life.  Wyatt Stone, is an assistant football coach at the high school, helping his father in law, Reed. Until he gets a invite for a try out for a NFL team up in Oregon. Once Wyatt and his friend Whiskey have their try out, he receive news that they want him for 1 yr. Peyton and him agree they can do it for 1 yr. Wyatt will live in Oregon a short di...

  Book Rating:  Gemma, her best friend and boss is Belle who runs a interior design firm.  Gemma, makes a plan with Belle to take a different guy to the Bears home games, so she can move on after her loss. Gemma and her college boyfriend fell in love and got married. But, Gemma finds out he's cheating on her, but, something else happens, and now Gemma is at a loss on how to confront him if she should confront him at all.  Zach, is the first guy Gemma, takes to the Bears home opener football game. Zach is a bartender and told Gemma he would be her 'trial run date' no pressure no expectations. Zach is very close with his family. His younger brother had a cancer diagnoses when he was younger. Now he is in remission. Zach gave up college and football so he could be around his brother, and be able to help with his parents taking him back and forth to the Dr's, and being there for the family.  Gemma wants to date around and see what 'type' she likes to date. But, afte...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope:  Enemies to Lovers,   Small Town Romance / Vacation Romances,  Quirky Animals, &   Meddling family  Dakota is 33. She owns a T-shirt shop in their small town. She is just recently divorced. She wants to be more adventurous in the bedroom as her ex said she was boring. Since she’s been married she has gained weight and she isn’t her size 6 any more, more like a size 12. She isn’t happy with her body, especially since her ex told her how awful she looks and now she has zero self confidence.  Calder Fletcher is 35. He works with his brothers building eco friendly houses. However he also does live building custom furniture. He wants to break away from the family business and work on his furniture but thinks he will be dishonoring his father’s memory if he does.  Calder is more of a hot head around town. Always a grump, never really connecting with anyone other than his family. Calder is a member of a s...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cara Collins is one of the best spies in the world. Her family doesn’t know what she does or how good she actually is at her job.  Grant Sinclair is also a spy. He is  actually Cara’s dad’s best friend and Cara’s arch nemesis. Grants friends don’t know what he actually does.  When the Director of the Agency tasks them with catching one of the most elusive criminals out there they need to get married to make this union look real. They are so against each other at the beginning of the book. Towards the end of the book it’s very love you,  love you a complete 180 degree turn.  They have to figure a way into the suburban crime ring and figure a way out of the same crime ring.  Will they be able to put aside their hateful comments towards each other?  I did receive a free ARC book copy. I am freely leaving an honest book review. 

  Book Rating:  Book  Tropes:  He falls first,  Summer fling?  Age gap,  Football player hero,  Strong heroine,  Small town,  Vacation romance,  Damon Diamond first fell for Ainsley when he was 15 and she was 19. Now that he's 18, his plan for the reunion is to show Ainsley he has huge feelings for her. Damon is headed to college to follow in his father's footsteps by playing football. Ainsley Archibald just finished her freshman year at Notre Dame but has also transferred to Kansas State. She is going for a degree in Interior Design, she wanted to go for Engineering but too much math she said. Ainsley has recently broken up with her boyfriend, she isn't interested in getting involved with anyone right now. She wants to be free for the summer and see what happens next in her life.  Now that Damon and Ainsley are together for the summer will harmless flirting turn into much more? Damon wants Ainsley's heart, not just a summ...

  Book Rating:  Emery is just visiting Moonlit Ridge. She and her mom, and her niece, Maci, are in town to see Kane. Emery's had a twin sister Emmalee who recently passed away. Emmalee left a letter stating who Maci's father is and where to find him. At first glance Emery can't believe that her twin sister went out with Kane. But, the more time she spends with him the more she realizes that he is just a big teddy bear himself.  Emery & Maci agree to stay at Kane's house for 4 weeks to see how Kane and Maci get along. Emery doesn't want to leave her niece, but, will Kane let her have a choice to take her or to leave her?  Kane is a member of Sovereign Sanctum with our other group we know, Otto, River, Theo & Cash. Kane and his brothers help women and children escape from men who have harmed them, or are in situations they shouldn't be involved in.  When Emery drops the bomb on Kane about   Maci being his, he doesn't even remember Emmalee, who ju...

  Book Rating:  Otto Hudson is about 34 / 35 yrs old, 9 yrs older than Raven. Otto and the other guys run a Sovereign Sanctum, a Safe Haven for women and children escaping from a violent relationship they don't want to be in any longer. Otto is one that helps them get from point A to point B or C, depending on how far they need to escape. Otto has always been close with River and Raven. Otto was always able to calm Raven's nightmares down when she would get them while growing up. When Raven turned 18 Otto noticed she was no longer the child she once was, she's come into her own as a woman. Otto's younger sister, Haddie and Raven were really close growing up. Haddie was the one who would often drag Raven into trouble. Haddie always had a wild streak in her.  Raven Tayte is 25 yrs old. She owns the flower shop in the small town. She is also River's little sister. We met River in book #1, From here to Eternity, River left home when he was a teenager, a nd Raven followe...

  Book Rating:  August Lancaster was the king of Lancaster Prep his senior year, well basically his whole high school career. Now in his senior year, who he says is pretty and popular is who makes the cut. If he deems girls ugly, or undesirable then the other guys wouldn't even talk to them. When he first sets his eyes on Sinclair, all he could see was braces, and long legs. She was only 14, but, he deemed her undesirable, and kept tormenting her the remainder of her freshman year of high school.   Sinclair was 14 when she started her freshman year of high school at Lancaster Prep. Her family was new to the area, and new to money. They weren't as rich as the Lancaster family, which was old money, but what wealth they had now was a lot more than they did have. Sinclair isn't sure who the Lancaster family is, what they are in the area. She figures out soon enough into her freshman year.  After she graduates from high school she gets into a private college, and who...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alek Orlov, his parents are Russian, and immigrated to America to give Alek a successful future. Alek was on the UCLA Ice hockey team but, he wanted to graduate a semester early so, he left the team, and threw himself into his studies. His father is a handy man, maintance man with the Haliday Hotel group. Alek has worked with him many summers and winter breaks with him at the Haliday Hotels. Alek and Rose run into each other at the hotel a year or so before they were in the same class together.  Rose Haliday grew up a hotel heiress. Her mother has built a Haliday Hotel group with a ton of hotels. Rose is supposed to take over when her mom retires, but, she wants to do events, not run the hotel empire. Rose is a very driven individual, she wants to go after her dream of having a successful company that her mom is proud of her for. But, will her mom be there to support her when she craves that support?  When Alek, and Rose were seniors at UCLA they wer...

  Book Rating:  Hugo De la Vega lives a quiet life in Olive Township, AZ. He is a fencing Olympian, and leads more of a quiet life now with his friends and family. Hugo's father was murdered a few years ago. There have never been any leads in the case.   Mallory Hawkins is a true crime podcaster. She is trying to work on who possibly killed Hugo's father. Hugo was against working with Mallory at first, but, she is growing on him. Mallory is about 16 weeks pregnant. She still forget to eat/drink/rest when she needs to. Mallory gets wrapped up in case or research, and she just wants to go and research, track down the next lead.    Mallory had a younger sister, who was murdered. The way her younger sister and Hugo's father were murdered are very similar, she thinks they may have the same killer.  Mallory moves into Hugo's ranch/farm as he has a larger property, this way he knows she's safe and he can watch out for her more than her being in town and him l...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Forbidden Romance,  Secret Crush,  Good Girl, Bad Boy,  Instant Attraction,  Slow-Burn Romance,  Age Gap,  Angst Rafe, is a member of the Evil Dead MC crew. His father has been a member forever, and he and his family have always been around the MC. He has a twin brother, Kyle, they don't get along very well.  He has 2 sisters also, one of the sisters, Fiona, who always seems to be getting into trouble.  Rafe has been in and out of work for a few months. He winds up saving a man's life on the side of a road, because he stepped in to help. The man, Raymond Sawyer, owns Sawyer Lumber, a large mill in the area and offers Rafe a job.    Tori, has been living with her mother back east, she took a year off from high school to college, a gap year, she is now headed to the college close to her father's mill, one that is very hard to get into and costs more than it should for the upper class families. T...