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WHERE THE LITTLE BIRDS ARE BY B. CELESTE

1/30/2020

Where the Little Birds Are is the second book in the Little Bird duet. You must read these books in order. If you enjoy angsty, emotional romances then you won't want to miss this series.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 29, 2020
Genre: Hollywood Romance. Forbidden.
Series: Little Bird duet #2 (must be read in order)
Pages: 251 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

A Small Town Romance Turned World Wide Scandal. Read the exclusive here:

When pictures of bestselling author Kinley Thomas and America's Most Desired Man Corbin Callum surface in the media, their entire lives are thrown into the world of spotlight and scandal.

Now facing public criticism over their reported affair, both Kinley and Corbin must embrace the ghosts of their pasts to figure out what their futures hold.

If there's one thing they know for certain, it's that even the hardest loves get happy ever afters.

BASTARD BACHELOR SOCIETY BY SARA NEY

1/28/2020

Get ready ladies because Sara Ney has a new romcom series out that is going to leave you giggling! I absolutely loved this book! It's a neighbors to lovers romcom and a standalone in a brand new series. Make sure to check this one out!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Neighbors to lovers.
Series: Bastard Bachelor Society #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 283 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

What is the Bastard Bachelor Society?

It’s a gentleman’s club—like the dignified men of the past used to have.

Except, we’re not gentleman, and we’re not dignified.

We’re ineligible bachelors; bored, jaded and not looking for relationships. Quite the opposite actually…

We’re so committed to being single, we’ve created a high stakes bet to see who can remain single the longest. Rules are involved. Prizes.

Laugh it up, but I’m no loser.

Enemy number one to my single status? My irresistible neighbor,

EVEN IF IT HURTS BY MARNI MANN

1/25/2020

This is an emotionally riveting and gorgeously told love story! Grab your tissues ladies because this one is going to take you on an emotional roller coaster.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Genre: Emotional Romance
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 289 pages
Format: Paperback. ARC.

From USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann comes Even If It Hurts, an emotionally charged contemporary romance. When you have a perfect marriage, only an impossible reconnection could make you risk it all.

OLIVER
When I met her, I couldn’t take my eyes off her.
We were so young and so passionate.
We studied business in the day and each other’s bodies at night.
We always knew it would end with the semester, so we loved hard with no regrets.

LANCE
When I met her, I couldn’t get her off my mind.
We were fresh out of college and ready to take on the world.
We fit each other like missing puzzle pieces.
And just when I thought my life was perfect, it got better. She

THE OTHER PEOPLE BY C.J. TUDOR

1/25/2020

WHAT A BOOK! Wow. Just processing this one is giving me major tingles across my body! C.J. Tudor KNOWS how to write a psychological thriller that will CONSUME you.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Genre: Psychological Thriller. Psychological Horror.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 324 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

Q: Why are you called the Other People?
A: We are people just like you. People to whom terrible things have happened. We’ve found solace not in forgiveness or forgetting. But in helping each other find justice.

Driving home one night, Gabe is stuck behind a rusty old car. He sees a little girl’s face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again.

Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights traveling up and down the highway, searching for the car that took his daughter, refusing to give up hope, even though most people believe she’s dead.

When the car that he saw escape with his little girl is found abandoned with a body inside, Gabe must confront not just the day

BOSS MAN BRIDEGROOM BY MEGHAN QUINN

1/23/2020

If you're a fan of laugh lout loud romantic comedies, office romances, and/or marriage of conveniences then this book is a must read for you! I absolutely loved this one! I can see a re-read in the near future.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 23, 2020
Genre: Office Romance. Romantic Comedy.
Series: Stand alone.
Pages: 400 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

"Will you do me the greatest honor of all time and be my bridegroom?” she asks, hope in her eyes . . .

How did I get here? My assistant, bent on one knee, holding my hand, her expectant face waiting for an answer.

Just . . . how?

How did I go from being insulted by Charlee Cox to hiring her to be my assistant? How is it that she’s chaos in color - making me crazy and my life better at the same time?

I never thought I would be staring down at her bright blue eyes begging me to go along with this ridiculous scheme I suggested.

Yes, I suggested. Like the idiot I am, I thought hey, why not start an HR nightmare and have my assistant ask me to marry her?

ROCK STAR, UNBROKEN BY S.M. SHADE

1/22/2020

Now THIS is the way to end a duet! DAMN! Shannon Shade had me REELING with this book. The angst, the fighting, the emotional turmoil, and the SIZZLING CONNECTION had me in AWE!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Genre: Rock Star Romance
Series: Tragic Duet #2 (read in order)
Pages: 266 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

I knew better and I let it happen anyway.

I was drawn in by her kindness and the way she sees into people. The way she looks through their motivations, their fears, into the heart of them where the good waits. One glance and she’s stripped away the layers we wrap ourselves in to keep from being unique.

She saw into me.

Then used it to her advantage.

Now, my son is in danger and if she’s behind it, there won’t be a hole deep enough for her to hide in.

I broke my own rules for Naomi.

My son will not pay the price.

RIVEN KNIGHT BY DEVNEY PERRY

1/20/2020

Devney Perry delivers in yet another romantic suspense novel about family, revenge, and fighting for the truth. This book is precisely layered, breathtakingly romantic, and absolutely GRIPPING! I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 21, 2020
Genre: Romantic Suspense. Fake Relationship.
Series: Tin Gypsy series #2
Pages: 394 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

Genevieve Daylee didn’t expect to be standing in front of a judge on her twenty-seventh birthday. But ever since her life became entangled with a former motorcycle gang, she’s learned not to expect anything but trouble.

Her mother, a woman she once admired and adored, is gone, leaving behind a trail of secrets and lies. She’s living in a tiny apartment above a garage owned by her brother, a man who loathes her very existence. And the father she met beside her mother’s grave is as much of a stranger as Isaiah Reynolds, the broken man with soulless eyes standing beside her in front of the judge.

Isaiah is her protector from the murderer at large in Clifton Forge. Though he’s more like a riven knight in dented armor than a prince on a white stallion. She knows next to nothing about him, other

THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS BY LISA JEWELL

1/19/2020

Lisa Jewell has written a riveting family thriller in The Family Upstairs and I was glued to this book from beginning to end. I'm so glad I took a chance on a new to me author and grabbed this one in my Book of the Month box!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Genre: Domestic Thriller. Gothic Thriller.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 349 pages
Format: Hardcover. Book of the Month Club.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have

NO REGRETS BY AIMEE NOALANE

1/18/2020

No Regrets is the first book in the No Regrets trilogy. This series must be read in order and you start with this one. It's a new adult, friends to lovers, emotional romance!

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Genre: New Adult Romance.
Series: No Regrets series #1
Pages: 218 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.

If life ever taught me anything, it's that nothing should be taken for granted.

One moment is all it takes to break a promise.

Friendship turns into love.

One second is all it takes to end a life.

Love twists into pain.

One distraction is all it takes to change your destiny.
Pain transforms into hate.

One moment.
One second.
One distraction.
Hate becomes all consuming.
I'm in love with my best friend, and that one second is about to change everything.

LOVE ON LEXINGTON AVENUE BY LAUREN LAYNE

1/17/2020

Love on Lexington Avenue is the second book in the Central Park Pact series by Lauren Layne. This is an interconnected standalone and I personally recommend reading these books in order. They are all pretty spectacular!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Genre: Chick Lit
Series: The Central Park Pact series #2
Pages: 288 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes the second delightfully charming installment in the Central Park Pact series, following a young widow whose newfound cynicism about love is challenged by a sexy, rough-around-the-edges contractor.

There’s never a bad time to fall in love in the city, right? Wrong. According to the recently-widowed Claire Hayes, it’s very, very wrong. In fact, after finding out her late husband was a liar and a cheat, Claire’s convinced there’s never a good time for romantic notions. Determined to rid her home of anything that reminds her of her philandering husband, Claire sets out to redesign her entire Upper East Side brownstone and make it her own. But when she meets gruff and often-cantankerous contractor Scott Turner and realizes not all men are scumbags, Claire must decide if she’s ready to risk her heart again.

Scott needs a change of pace from the corporate offices and

KILL, SLEEP, REPEAT BY BRITNEY KING

1/15/2020

This just may be Britney King's darkest novel yet! And I am thrilled about it. Kill, Sleep, Repeat is a dark psychological thriller filled with murder and mayhem. If this sounds like your cup of tea then I highly recommend it!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 16, 2020
Genre: Dark Psychological Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 236 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes an intense and deadly provocative thriller which follows a woman who, in a fight for survival, realizes her job may cost more than it pays.

"This tale of seduction, obsession, and murder will resonate with fans of Patricia Highsmith. The pace is fast, the prose is smooth, and the plot genuinely twisty."

Several times a week, Charlotte Jones leaves suburbia behind and boards a chartered flight to parts unknown, where she wraps her hands around the necks of marks for just as long as she has to.

Then she goes back to domestic life with a paycheck, defense wounds, and the sense that she can handle anything.

CHRISTMAS SHOPAHOLIC BY SOPHIE KINSELLA

1/15/2020

The long-awaited next installment in the Shopaholic series is a HIT! I loved this book to pieces. It’s festive, hilarious, and everything I wanted! I highly recommend this book and series.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: October 15, 2019
Genre: Chick Lit. Christmas.
Series: Shopaholic series #9
Pages: 384 pages
Format: Hardcover. Purchased.

’Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift shop of Suze’s stately home. Life is good, especially now that Becky takes time every day for mindfulness—even if that only means listening to a meditation tape while hunting down online bargains.

But Becky still adores the traditions of Christmas: Her parents hosting, carols playing on repeat, her mother pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the neighbors coming ’round for sherry in their terrible holiday sweaters. Things are looking cheerier than ever, until Becky’s parents announce they’re moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch—unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocados—and ask Becky if she’ll host this year. What could possibly go wrong?

CONCEAL BY AVA HARRISON

1/13/2020

If you’re looking for a book with a super protective hero that will steal your heart, then you will WANT to meet Jax and Willow in Conceal. This book was GOOD.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: January 11, 2020
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Series: Standalone
Pages: 359 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

I ran.
Escaped the man who wanted to hurt me.

I got in my car and drove.
No destination. No direction. No help.

I hid in the one place I would never be found.
Now in New York with no job, I didn't know what to do.

Then I met him.
Jaxson Price.
The enigmatic devil who wasn't only above the law, but played it like a puppet.

He might be the answer to all my problems.
Too bad he's asking for something in return for his help....
My heart.

A LONGER FALL BY CHARLAINE HARRIS

1/12/2020

A Longer Fall is the second book in the Gunnie Rose series. This is an urban fantasy/alternate history novel. For the most part I liked this book. However, a lot of it dragged despite the action.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: January 14, 2020
Genre: Urban Fantasy. Alternate History.
Series: Gunnie Rose series #2
Pages: 304 pages
Format: Paperback. ARC.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful, that forces from across three territories want to possess it.

In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

WHERE THE LITTLE BIRDS GO BY B. CELESTE

1/11/2020

B. Celeste is an amazing writer and this is proven through her brilliant books. Where the Little Birds Go is the first in a brand new, forbidden romance duet and I highly recommend it! This is especially true if you enjoy Hollywood/Actor romances.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 10, 2020
Genre: Holly Romance
Series: Book 1 in the Duet
Pages: 212 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

When best selling author Kinley Thomas gets the deal of a lifetime to see her book turned into a movie, the last person she expects to be cast as the leading role is Corbin Callum.

After years of living the dreams that tore them apart, Hollywood will soon force them back together. Because before Corbin became America's biggest star, he was first Kinley's biggest mistake.

Too bad for them, they never learn.

** This is book 1 in the duet and the books must be read in order. The book is forbidden, there is cheating, but it's so worth it!

Book 2 releases on January 29th!

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