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THE MATCH BY SARAH ADAMS

3/29/2022

The Match is a perfectly sweet romantic comedy with delightful characters and a plot that will put a smile on your face! This is an absolute must read!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 30, 2020
Genre: Sweet Romantic Comedy
Series: It Happened in Charleston #1
Pages: 284 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Sometimes, love finds you when you least expect it...

Having worked for Southern Service Paws for a few years now, I like to think I’m prepared for just about any client meeting under the sun. I am dead wrong.

The day I meet with single dad, Jacob Broaden, about potentially matching his daughter with one of our service dogs, I learn a few valuable lessons.

1) Always set my alarm clock.
2) Single dads are way hotter than I previously thought.
3) It is possible to go from fantasizing about kissing someone to wishing they would be run over by a truck in a matter of two minutes.

Unfortunately, I don’t hold that opinion of him for very long. Not when he shows me a different side of himself—one that’s sweet as

THE AMENDMENT BY KIERSTEN MODGLIN

3/26/2022

The Amendment is the perfect follow up to The Arrangement and I read it in one sitting! If you’re a fan of twisted psychological thrillers, then you won’t want to miss these books!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: February 1, 2022
Genre: Twisted Domestic Thriller
Series: The Amendment series #2
Pages: 214 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

The dark, scandalous, and completely twisted sequel to Kiersten Modglin’s #1 bestselling domestic thriller, THE ARRANGEMENT…

First, there was the arrangement.

A simple, yet salacious fix to the problems looming in their marriage.

But when things took a tragic turn, Peter’s and Ainsley’s lives quickly fell into disarray.

Now, their secrets have been exposed.

They know the truth—about each other and their marriage.

As they struggle to move on from their past and the damage they’ve caused, new problems begin to surface.

Someone they love is hiding a catastrophic secret. The fragile

THE RECOVERY AGENT BY JANET EVANOVICH

3/22/2022

I wasn’t sure if Janet Evanovich would write a series that I would love just as much as the Stephanie Plum series, but she did! The Recovery Agent is a must-read book for fans of humor, action, and adventure!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 22, 2022
Genre: Humor. Action & Adventure.
Series: Gabriela Rose #1
Pages: 320 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Publisher.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich returns with the launch of a blockbuster new series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor, proving once again why she’s “the most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times).

Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast.

Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of

PINT OF NO RETURN BY DANA MENTINK

3/19/2022

If you’re a fan of culinary cozies, then look no further because this Shake Shop mystery is a must read! This is a delicious cozy with sweets galore! I wouldn’t mind trying one of these shakes!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 25, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: Ice Cream Shop Mystery #1
Pages: 290 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The first in new dessert cozy mystery series! A murder in town is bound to shake things up...

After her divorce from her thrice-married embezzler husband, Trinidad Jones is finally ready for a fresh start. So when she's left one of ex's businesses in Upper Sprocket, Oregon, she decides to pack up her dog, cash in her settlement, and open her dream business: the Shimmy and Shake Shop, introducing the world to her monster milkshakes. And even with a couple sticky situations underway, namely that the other two ex-wives also call Sprocket home, Trinidad's life seems to be churning along smoothly.

That is, until she discovers her neighbor, the Popcorn King, head down in his giant popcorn kettle. When one of Trinidad's fellow ex-wives is accused of the murder and Upper Sprocket descends into mayhem, it's going to take a supersized scoop of courage to flush out the killer.

YOGA PANT NATION BY LAURIE GELMAN

3/15/2022

Laurie Gelman pens another hilarious book in the Class Mom series! If you enjoy books with a ton of humor and the trials and tribulations of motherhood, then this series is a must read!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Women's Fiction / Chick Lit
Series: Class Mom #3
Pages: 256 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Purchased.

From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Yoga Pant Nation--a novel about one mom's challenges through parenting and life, keeping her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants.

Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas—fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters—is used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever (again), to taking care of her two-year-old granddaughter. But when the PTA president throws her a mandate to raise $10,000 for the fifth-grade class, even unflappable Jen is going to need more than her regular spin class to get her through this final year at William Taft Elementary School.

In the midst of new complications—organizing the class overnight to Topeka, an unexpected spin class fan in the form of her

HELL IN THE HEARTLAND BY JAX MILLER

3/12/2022

While this case is frustrating in a sense that the answers we seek were never completely given, it’s a fascinating and well written true crime account of the Freeman/Bible case from 1999.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: July 28, 2020
Genre: True Crime.
Series: None.
Pages: 335 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, possible police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth...

On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing.

While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found.

In 2015, crime writer Jax Miller--who had been haunted by the case--decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really

LUCKY LEAP DAY BY ANN MARIE WALKER

3/8/2022

A fun take on the Irish Leap Day tradition! This one was sweet, funny, and had so many swoon worthy moments! I smiled a lot thorough it.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: January 18, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 287 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Friends becoming something much more in this hilarious romantic comedy from author Ann Marie Walker. A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses—not a husband you only just met!

After one-too-many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else’s script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. She thought she might have dreamt everything, until she wakes the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger. Her flight is in four hours, her clothes are all over the room, and she has the most important meeting of her career in exactly two days—and on top of everything else, her husband has a dog who thinks Cara is a perfect surrogate mother, despite the fact that she has never been much of an animal lover…

Deciding to work things out stateside, Finn and her new fur baby

SAVE ME BY ASHLEY N. ROSTEK

3/5/2022

Save Me is the second book in the WITSEC series. If you enjoy a reverse harem romance with suspense thrown in, then you may want to read this series!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: December 30, 2021
Genre: Reverse Harem / Dark Romantic Suspense
Series: WITSEC #2 (must read in order)
Pages: 244 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Save me from my past.
Save me from my fear.
Save me from my pain.
Save me from myself.

The Stone brothers are the reason I can smile again. They are my only light in the drowning darkness. What started as friendship between them and me has become something more. They want me and I want them, too. But that won’t happen with my grief tearing me apart.

Will I succumb to my grief and let it destroy me? Or will my guys be able to save me?

***WARNING This is a reverse harem romance. Contains violence, graphic killing, foul language, and sexual content. Some parts may be triggering.***

THE REUNION BY KIERSTEN MODGLIN

3/2/2022

The Reunion is a well written who-dun-it by one of my (new) favorite thriller authors, Kiersten Modglin! I recommend this one if you enjoy mysteries and suspense!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: December 28, 2021
Genre: Mystery/Suspense
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 348 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Kindle Unlimited.

Hotel Lilith holds terrible memories for Cait Du Bois.
The darkest night of her life happened within its walls.

Once, she vowed never to return to the place that reminds her of the horror she experienced. But when the hotel is chosen as the location for her high school reunion, Cait finds herself unable to resist the appeal of showing off her new life to the people who once made her existence miserable.

Cait is no stranger to being noticed in public, especially as a bestselling author with an enthusiastic fan base, but back at Hotel Lilith, she was once recognized for a completely different reason. With all eyes on her as she returns to the town she’s spent years running from, Cait finds it increasingly difficult to discern between her fans and foes.

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