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  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a short novella length book.  Holly works for a party planning business. She has met some great contacts client wise and catering/florists.  One of her popular clients is having a huge party but Holly keeps getting threatening letters. Her client pays for a security company to help protect Holly even though she keeps stating she’s fine.  Noel is a hired security agent assigned to Holly for her protection. He isn’t sure where the threat is coming from. If it’s a past client or someone she knows - through her contacts with her party planning business.  Can Noel protect Holly without falling for her? Can Noel find who is threatening her?  I did receive a free ARC book copy of this book. I am freely leaving a honest book review.  Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240451714

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tyler Griffin has always been all about hockey since he was a small boy. He has a twin sister Skye who has a daughter - Zoey. Tyler and Skye are super close only having each other to rely on. Tyler knows something is terribly wrong and asks to be traded to his home town hockey team as soon as possible. Tyler wants to be on winning hockey teams and he knows asking for a trade is going to hurt his career but he needs to be by Skye and Zoey.  Rain grew up in the town next to Tyler’s. Her older brothers always played against him in all the hockey leagues. They have always been rivals. When Tyler sees her for the first time, he knows there is something familiar about her but he can’t place what it is. Rain is a Sports Psychologist and has been hired by the Minnesota hockey team to help the players become better players on the ice. She is to help unlock their mental blocks.  Rain tells Tyler who she really is and Tyler can’t believe it. He walks away fro...

  Book Rating:  Although this is book tenth in the That Boy series, the trilogy of  That Crush / That Girl / That Someday  can be read as a standalone series featuring Damon and Ainsley. This is the next book with Ainsley and Damon. We left off with them breaking for the summer so Ainsley could go do an internship and Damon was off to football camp for the college. They are going to do the long distance relationship with Ainsley is finishing her degree at another college in a different state than Damon, who is starting his freshman year.  Ainsley is hiding a secret from Damon. But, should she? Ainsley doesn't want to burden or bring down Damon with her news. But, Damon seems like he would be excited for anything Ainsley told / shared him.  I did receive a free   Advanced Reader Copy from Grey's Promotions   Copy of this book. I am freely leaving a honest book review. 

  Book Rating:  Poppy owns her own hair salon studio. She knows she has to work hard and stay open longer hours and more weekends to actually earn any money but she's willing to put in the work and the time. Her sister also works for her. Her husband passed away about 8 years ago. She has been single ever since, not wanting to put her heart out there.  Phantom has 2 daughters, Holly and Daisy, their mom - Shayla and Phantom haven't been together in awhile but it seems that he is also fixing her messes. His daughters call one day in a panic needing his help. Phantom drops everything he is doing to go help the girls. When he arrives at the hair salon with his daughters inside, he isn't sure what to think. The girls tell him their mom - his ex-wife Shayla left them! She skipped out on the bill and wanted them to do the same. The girls knew that was wrong and stayed and called their dad. Phantom didn't know what to think. But after seeing Poppy and how kind she was to the g...

  Book Rating:  This is a short novella length book. Dark Romance. Lily Archer  is celebrating her 15th wedding anniversary with a husband Anderson who is less than thrilled to be celebrating it with her. He cares more about working than being with his wife. Right before the trip though her husband cancels to stay at home to work. Lily goes on her own. She planed the trip. She wanted to go on the trip. One night during dinner she receives a glass of wine from a stranger. Who she starts talking with. Is having wine and talking with a stranger a sin? What if said stranger takes you back to his place and blindfolds you and does whatever he wants to you and your body? After living such a dull life for the past 15 - 20 yrs is Lily up for a new bedroom adventure? What will happen to Lily at the end of her trip? Will she stay in Italy? Or will she go back home to be used as a doormat?  I did receive a free ARC book copy. I am freely leaving an honest review. 

  Book Rating:  This book #3 is longer than the previous books. There is not any tie in with the previous ch aracters that we met like what we had in Book #2.  Each book can be read as a standalone.   Tilda is 29 is from Las Vegas. Her Great Uncle Jack just passed away leaving her his mountain cabin. Tilda is more city girl and not really cut out for being on her own. She hasn't ever owned her own house. She's always been in a apartment. Tilda isn't sure of the town, she isn't sure what there is / isn't in town. She gets really bad social anxiety being around others. She made it to the local grocery store, but when they asked about her re-useable bags she froze and wasn't sure what to do.   Ethan is 39 and a Park Ranger at the local Lonely Peak State Park. The State Park boarders Jack's land. When Ethan sees Tilda from a distance going in and out of Jack's house he isn't sure who she is. He thinks she may be a squatter trying to find a empty house. A...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Enemies to lovers.  Grumpy vs Sunshine. Phoenix Thorne owns and runs  Maple Valley  brewery. The family has the orchards and shops also on their property that needs looking after. Usually his other siblings and father run the orchard. Phoenix went to college for 1 year, but then his dad needed him back home to help with the kids and the business.  Elyna has a younger brother Luc Chabot who we met in Tempting the Goalie. Luc is dating Phoenix's younger sister - Izzy who has always been great with Elyna and suggested she go for a job at the brewery. Elyna has returned to their hometown Val-Du-Lys in Canada. She has a 6 month old baby boy, and no where else to live, so they are back living in her childhood home with her alcoholic father. Elyna applies for a job at Maple Valley  brewery   with Phoenix as her boss.  Phoenix and Elyna grew up together as their mom's were best friends, and they lived in the same nei...

  Book Rating:  * Walking in Darkness  is book two in the Darkness Duet. Please read the first book,  Visions of Darkness , before enjoying this one. This book picks up right where we left off with Aria and Pax fighting for their survival and to better understand the threat they face, a threat to not only themselves but also everyone they love.  As Pax & Aria begin to unfold the truth about their people, Lavens, they discover the fight is just beginning.  Aria and Pax start realizing that the people they have been fighting with in Laven are disappearing. That means in the real world, they are dying. How can they find everyone in the real human world, before the darkness finds everyone?  Ambrose is he controlling the Kruen during the day? Ambrose was able to pull Aria into a different realm, but how?  Aria has a vision that Dani is in trouble. She needs to get to Dani who is in Portland, OR. Dani helped Aria navigate the realms when she was you...

  Book Rating:  Ramsey Stewart &  Nora Stewart moved into the house next to Thea's when Ramsey was 11 yrs old. They met when Ramsey jumped out of a tree causing Thea to fall and break her leg, on the same day her mom died. Ramsey's little sister Nora was always tagging along wit him when he went out of the house. Their dad is a drunk and not a very nice alcoholic. Their dad is always blaming the kids that is their fault that the mom left them. Ramsey isn't sure what to believe other than the mom went out one day and never came back.  Thea hated that Ramsey hurt her on the day her mom died. Didn't he know she was already suffering? No, he couldn't know, they were new to the area.  Ramsey and Thea are in the same grade/class. It makes is easier for Ramsey to help her  or try to help her. Thea doesn't like that Ramsey is being nice to her after he broke her leg. She just wants to be left alone. But, Ramsey knows that Thea is meant for him. He wants to...

  Book Rating:  Sophie Lane is a piano teacher by day. But, a student at the BDSM club  Luxe Escape . Sophie has always been the shy timid wallflower girl. She doesn't want to stand out. She doesn't want to have anyone attention on her for too long. In book #1, Teasing Flames we saw her come out of her shell a little bit and be more open to what she wants from life. We saw her going  Luxe Escape   for the first time for the BDSM classes. Now in book #2, they are exploring the fantasies they are writing down in the books they are given during class. Will Sophie write what she wants? Will she be able to work through her struggles during the classes?  Sophie's best friend was in her own play / musical on Broadway but now that the main actress is back, her friend Gwen is no longer on stage for a 'main' part. Sophie doesn't like that Gwen is being pushed aside. But, what can either of them do?  Will Sophie be able to work on her trust issues through Luxe?...

  Book Rating:  This novella continues from the Brutal Vows series.  Liliana Ruiz was married to   Gerardo. She's been a widow now for 2 years and she's only 21 years old. She never saw herself getting remarried. She wasn't sure what man her father or the cartel leader, would force her to marry. Liliana has never been put first in her marriage, or growing up in her father's house. She wants to go to the local community college, but, she isn't sure if she needs to ask  Roríguez Cartel Dom  for permission, since she's a widow, or if she can just enroll. Liliana has a lot of self doubt. She doesn't believe herself worthy of consideration from the Dom or from anyone. She doesn't see her worth/value.  Nick Ruiz is one of the  top lieutenants  in the cartel. He is seeing his cousins / co-workers getting larger jobs / better titles than he is because they are married. Nick never saw himself being married, but, maybe he needs to start thinking of get...

Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Tropes:  Sports Romance - Athlete x Athlete - Famous NFL Player MMC- Rising Tennis Star FMC - One Night Stand - Secret Relationship - He Falls First (And Stalks Her Just A Little) - Dual POV Rori Reilly is an up and coming tennis star coming off an injury from the previous year. She has gone into the top 10 for tennis stars. She is always traveling / training. Something Landon and her have in common.  Landon Battle is a pro NFL football player. His parents divorced when he was younger, now He has taken on the responsibility of raising his younger siblings once their parents divorced. Landon and Rori meet one night in New York City at a sponser dinner/outting. They are instantly taken with each other. Rori doesn't want anything 'formal'. But, she likes being with Landon. Landon has never done relationships before, but, with Rori he only wants to be with her.  With their training schedules / and tennis events Rori and Landon are hardly in the same...

  Book Rating:  This is the 3rd book in the series. You can read each as a standalone as the characters are explained. You can read each in the series also.  Addison “Roe” Monroe works at the towns lumber yard her grandfather and father worked in. The trust for the lumbermill states that Addison has to be married for 1 yr in order for her to inherit it.  Addison is looking at random lumberjack Mountain men who she doesn't have feelings for and wants someone she could 'tolerate' for a week or two weeks a month. Addison doesn't sleep very well - more of a insomniac. She makes sourdough bread loaves when she doesn't sleep. She had a 1 bedroom apartment in town, so she doesn't drive that far to the lumber mill.  Luke  Fletcher is the youngest of the Fletcher brothers. He has a niece,  Everly  who is all about match making. Luke has liked his best friend Addison for a few years. Nothing has ever happened between them, as he doesn't want to lose her as ...