Heather Miller Bookophile

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is book #4, a  spinoff of the Frozen Fate trilogy by Pam Godwin. You can read as a standalone. Although I would read the previous books. I’ve read the book trilogy and just love them.. Wolfson Strakh one of the captives from the Frozen Fate trilogy books was 'lost'. No one knew what happened to him once he went over the side of the cliff. The brothers didn't know if he survived or not.  Wolfson did survive, but, he was held captive after that and finally escaped making his way back to his family.  Wolfson works at a tattoo shop in Sitka, and lives on the island property with his family. One day he is walking in town and sees a woman in a wedding dress running straight for him. All he can think about is that Cinderella finally escaped and she's going to lose her shoes! When Wolfson finally catches up to the woman, he realizes that she is running from someone, her step-brother who has been stalking her.  Dove Rath blows into Sitka thin...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Grumpy × Sunshine × Lightning,  Motorcycle Club Romance,  Hurt/Comfort,  Touch Her (or Him) & Die,  Age Gap,  Why Choose / MMF / Closed triad,  Established MM,  Love Worth Waiting For,  MMF.  You can read this book as a stand-alone. Each book in the series explains who is who.  Isla use to be a club girl with the Iron Outlaws, but, for the past four months, she's been living on her own, holding down a regular job. She wanted out of the club life, and now she's on her own. She would rather do everything herself, but, she finds she does need help. Isla's grandmother passed away and she left the house to Isla in her will. Her uncle and his son keep  harassing   her about the house and how she doesn't have rights to it. Isla is now very afraid of those in leather cuts, and bikes. She doesn't want to throw her body around, she doesn't want to be used any more. Now, her new neighbors, S...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  Sweet small town, baseball romance, second chance romance. Brooks Callahan  plays  AAA baseball team for the  Sweetwater Mavericks. He's hoping to get called up to the professional team during his first seasons in AAA. Brooks had a one night stand a few times with a local. She got pregnant and never told Brooks. One night he received a package at his front door, his new 3 month old baby girl. Brooks has zero idea on how to care for a baby. He met Lindsey one night in the grocery store while he was look for diapers for his new baby, he was struggling to find a size that she should be in. With Lindsey's help he was able to find the right size and not feel totally alone. Lindsey Blackwood is a local of Sweetwater. Her dad was the local high school baseball coach and the Mavericks coach for awhile. Lindsey has twin boys, who are four years old, turning five. She is currently   separated   from her husband and living back h...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  secret relationship, unplanned pregnancy, forbidden romance, he falls first.  This is the third book is the Chicago Railers Hockey Series Oliver Van Dore has played NHL hockey for the Chicago Railers, and loves playing for the team. He has siblings, and a mom he loves. They lost his dad when he was a teenager and his older brother took over the role of the 'father' after theirs past. He has fallen for Rina, but, she doesn't trust men due to her mother's beliefs. Will Oliver be able to put his trust out there for Rina to see how much he cares for her and how much he loves her? Or will she just push him away?  Rina is the NHL Chicago Railers Hockey Team Public  R elations   manager. She has been working for the team 4 years and  absolutely   loves working for them. Rina and Oliver 'The Big O' have always had a hate / hate relationship. Until recently. The past 2 years Oliver has been going out of his way to mak...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope:  Mafia Romance,  Stolen hand in Marriage,  Enemies to Lovers,  Forced Proximity, R evenge Plot,  Slow Burn,  Age Gap Stella Runner is engaged to Lucio Agostini as a payment for a debt. Lucio threatens Stella if she makes any wrong sort of move / noise / statements to embarras him she will regret it.  Matteo De Silva is a rival of Lucio's. Once he sees Stella he can't forget her, and he wants her. He can't figure out why is she with Lucio to begin with? Matteo finds out that Stella is to marry Lucio. He goes to the wedding, interupts in the middle of the ceremony, forcing Stella away from Lucio and staking a claim that he is making Stella his wife! Matteo knows that Lucio wants Stella, and this is something he can take outright from him. Did Stella just become a pawn in the mafia war between Matteo and Lucio? When Matteo steals and marries Stella in front of Lucio he knows he’s just started a mafia war. What...

  Book Rating:   Book Trope:  Fake girlfriend,  billionaire,  small-town romance Lena is a animal nurse at a struggling veterinary clinic, Pawsome Hearts, and works under Dr. Ezzie. Pawsome Hearts is struggling to stay afloat, they've cut costs just about everywhere. Dr. Ezzie is looking to partner with a firm to help with the costs. Lena's ex Harry steps up to offer a partnership with his company, must to the dismay of Lena, who wants nothing to do with him. Lena knows that if Dr. Ezzie goes in with Harry he will more than likely hold it over her / hold something against her down the road.  Brady Pruitt grew up in a wealthy family. He has a driver. He is use to buying out venue's so he and family / friends are the only one's at the venue. His parents are trying to set him up with a horrible woman, Nancy, they are friends with her parents. Brady doesn't go in and throw his money around, he will do it on the sly. Nancy is one that demands people bend to...

  Book Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Trope: slow burn,  contemporary romance,  emotional baggage,  slow burn,  career driven female,  awkward first dates, work travel romance.  Brianna Whitmore , travels 26 weeks a year, she  is wildly competent in her career. She can implement complex software systems without blinking.  She is constantly traveling for her. Her married best friend, Sara is worried about her, and proposes she goes on 12 dates with 12 different guys, and sets her up with a Tender profile to make these date connections. One man contacted her through the dating app and they met for a lunch / garden walk through in NYC. They had a connection and start texting on and off. They meet again in San Antonio for a movie date. He claims to be a hotel investor and claims to have a few hotels he is working.  Brianna had a heartbreak years ago and hasn't been 'out there' in the dating world since her heartbreak. She doesn't want to be 'seen'. Whe...

  Book Rating:  Kenna Nicole Rowan has served 5 years in prison. She's been released and isn't sure where to go. She knows the small town where her daughter Diem is may not be very welcoming to her, she struggles with if she should or should go there. She's saved up enough money to make the change from the busy Denver city life to the small town where her daughter is.  Kenna and Scotty had been dating awhile. When a night of drinking comes into play while driving down a gravel road. Both Kenna and Scotty had been drinking, although Kenna was not as drunk, so, she drove. She didn't know the curvy gravel roads that led back to the small town. She wrecked the car and flipped them over. Killing Scotty, or so she thought. She walked back to town as she couldn't find her phone in the wreckage. But, once she got back to town she passed out instead of calling for help or going to get help. She was arrested and placed in jail for the next 5 years. When she entered prison she...

  Book Trope: Mafia Romance. Age Gap. Multiple love interests. Versace Aratrika Arabella Versace, is heir to the House of Versace she had left her home 3 years ago and went to lead a normal life. But after her friend Sanaaya Khalighi was gunned down she has returned to take control of the empire she left behind and revenge her friend. Versace is  Bold, sharp-tongued, and fiercely independent. Versace will go into subconscious - where she thinks its reality, but, it's not, kinda like a dream state. She's never 100% sure if something is real or not. Day dreaming in a way.  Versace family has just entered into negotiations for an arranged marriage with Aurelio Laurent Kashani who is with the Moretti family.  Aurelio closest cousin is Dominic Cassian Moretti who is the Mafia King for his family. Dominic and Arabella knew each other years ago when he saved her. But, Dominic doesn't know that she witnessed him killing her best friend / cousin,...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  NHL Coach x GMs wife,  College sweethearts/ first loves,  Second chance,  Older MCs.    Shane McCabe is 41 yrs old and is the head coach of the NHL Tampa Bay Osprey's. Shane always remembers the girl who he let get away, Ari from college. He can't ever seem to move on from her. But, now, she back in his world, as the wife of the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Osprey's. How is he going to get through this season with his ex being around? Ariana (Ari) Ridley wanted to become a social worker. That is what her college degree is in. Help those who needed help. But, it seems she's the one who needs help now. She was raising & taking care of her younger brother, Georgie. She met her now husband, Nathan and she  thought the world of him. He treated both her and her brother Georgie very well. Once they were married Georgie was able to have things that her limited salary could never afford them. Nathan has gotten the...

  Book Rating:  Book Tropes:  Grumpy x sunshine,  Small-town romance,  Bodyguard x client,  Forced proximity,  Banter + forbidden tension. Ripley lives in the  small-town of Darling Springs. She runs / operates her own flower / lavender farm. She has an identical twin sister, Heaven, who has just recently broken into her acting career. Ripley has tattoo's all over her arms, and her twin Haven has 1 small tattoo, but people still often confuse them when they are together. Now that they are filming in Darling Springs, the  paparazzi   think it's Heaven they are taking pictures of but it's really Ripley. Haven wants to protect Ripley, so, she has Banks being her security shadow just in case someone tries to do something to Ripley thinking its actually Haven instead. Something Ripley is firmly against, but, she is trying to be accepting of what her sister is offering.   Banks Kendrick, is in the security business, he and his busine...

  Book Rating:  Book Trope:  slow burn, age gap, hockey, coaches daughter Flip (Phillip) Madden plays NHL for the  Toronto Terror hockey team. He is 29 almost 30 yrs old. He's had playboy ways in the past. But, the last two or three years he hasn't dated/hasn't 'hooked' up and he's been good, just going out with his friends.  Tally ( Tallulah )  Vander Zee   is the daughter of Toronto Terror's head Coach  Vander Zee  . She interned with the Terror group when she was a 12th grader in high school. She loves working for the team. She made a lot of friends within that group she was always around. Tally is 21 almost 22, she is finishing up her senior year at the university in Dance. She is hoping to get on with a Toronto dance trope after graduation. She and Flip are always together hanging out with the same friend group. Tally has had a crush on Flip since she was 16 yrs old. Nothing has ever happened between them  they are just friends...