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DRIVE BY KATE STEWART

9/19/2020

What everyone was saying about Drive was right. This is one epic romance! I think it may even be one of my favorite romances ever written! I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Genre: New Adult Romance. Epic Romance.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 412 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.

2017 Nominee for Best Contemporary Romance-GOODREADS
Named one of the Top 10 hottest romance reads of 2017 by Huffington Post and New York Daily News!

Music . . . the heart’s greatest librarian.

The average song is three and a half minutes long; those three and a half minutes could lead to a slow blink, a glimpse of the past, or catapult the soul into heart-shattering nostalgia.

At the height of my career, I had the life I wanted, the life I’d always envisioned. I’d found my tempo, my rhythm. Then I received a phone call that left me off key.

You see, my favorite songs had a way of playing simultaneously. I was in love with one man’s beats and another’s lyrics. But when it

THE SETUP BY MEGHAN QUINN

9/8/2020

The Setup by Meghan Quinn is a quirky friends to lovers, college romance and I loved it to pieces! As with most of Meghan's books, you get a cast of sensational characters and a plot that will make you smile HARD! I highly recommend it!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: September 10, 2020
Genre: College Romance. Friends to Lovers.
Series: Part of a greater series. Can Stand Alone.
Pages: 312 pages
Format: eBook. Arc.

I’ve fallen victim to a heinous act.

An act so vile, so downright dirty, that I’m not sure as a twenty-year-old man I'll ever recover. Brace yourself, because what I’m about to tell you might have you gasping in secondhand horror.
Ready? Here it goes . . .

I’ve recently become the pawn of a meddling mom.

Yes . . . A MEDDLING MOM--who's been trying to set me up all summer.

Now, I understand it’s not a crime for a mother to want her child to fall in love, but when she makes it her relentless MISSION, the heinous act should be classified as a misdemeanor at least.

Of course, my mom, the evil matriarch in the devil’s leggings, made

YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER BY SARAH HOGLE

8/3/2020

A hilarious novel about the complications of miscommunication! I devoured this book and loved every minute of it. I recommend it to all readers who want a good laugh!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Chick Lit.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 367 pages
Format: Paperback. Purchased.

When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut.

Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him.

Naomi wants out, but there's a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of pranks, sabotage, and all-out emotional warfare.

HOOK SHOT BY KENNEDY RYAN

7/16/2020

Kennedy Ryan has made a clear path to my heart and I am officially addicted to her words. Her novels as deeply emotional, poised, and some of the most romantic reads I have ever come across.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Genre: Contemporary Romance. Single Dad. Sports.
Series: The Hoops series #3 (can stand alone).
Pages: 435 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.

A deeply emotional standalone romance set in the worlds of professional basketball and high fashion.

Divorced. Single dad. Traded to a losing squad. Cheated on, betrayed, exposed.
My perfect life blew up in my face and I'm still picking up the pieces.
The last thing I need is her.
A wildflower. A storm. A woman I can't resist.
Lotus DuPree is a kick to my gut and a wrench in my plans
from the moment our eyes meet.
I promised myself I wouldn't trust a woman again,
but I've never wanted anyone the way I want Lo.
She's not the plan I made, but she's the risk I have to take.

A warrior. A baller. The one they call Gladiator. Kenan Ross charged into my life smelling all good, looking even better and snatching my breath from the moment we met.

AGONY BY KAYLEE RYAN

6/18/2020

Agony is the first book in the Entangled Hearts duet and is aptly named! WOW. This book is such a roller coaster ride and I couldn't get enough of it! Highly recommended.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 17, 2020
Genre: New Adult. College. Sports Romance. Duet.
Series: The Entangled Hearts duet #1
Pages: 281 pages
Format: eBook. ARC.

Reese
Cooper Reeves was the boy-next-door. Every milestone, every memory of my youth was entangled with his.

We were inseparable... until college.
It wasn’t his friends, girls or even sports that came between us— it was me.

Tired of being in the friend zone, I finally made a move. Turns out it was the wrong one.

Cooper walked away to play his first year of professional football and left me behind with a broken heart.

Cooper
It’s always been her. Even before I really knew what love was,

BE MY BRAYSHAW BY MEAGAN BRANDY

6/1/2020

Meagan Brandy captures Captain's tortured soul with so much clarity readers can feel his struggles. I loved this man and I never wanted the story to end!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 3, 2020
Genre: Enemies to Lovers. Slow Burn. New Adult.
Series: Brayshaw series #1 (should be read in order)
Pages: 400 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

“Cross one, cross all.”

That’s the Brayshaw way.

She should have realized this before sliding into our world with secrets too big to bury.
She didn’t and now the target is on her back.

The day her lies came crashing down, I should have forced her out.
Instead, I locked her in, and with the promise I would never be hers.

I resisted, fought against us.
I caved.

I tasted what became my newfound favorite flavor and fell hard for the little liar.

WICKED HEARTS BY AMBER KELLY

5/20/2020

Gah! I can't get enough of this series! It's seriously one of my favorite series of all time! Small town romance with the sweetest characters is this book in a nutshell and it's a must read!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: May 14, 2020
Genre: Brother's Best Friend. Small Town. Southern.
Series: The Poplar Falls series #3 (can stand alone).
Pages: 300 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

A new friends-to-lovers small town romance from Amber Kelly…

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

My big brother and I landed in the care of my aunt and her husband after my parents died in a tragic accident when I was three-years-old. I grew up smothered by love from a family that knows what the bitter sting of loss feels like.

Living under that umbrella afforded me the ability to grow up with the security needed to try my every whim… and I have, now it’s time to figure out who I want to be.

My family would love for me to settle down with someone grounded and successful like the sexy new vet in town.

I like him, but I am restless.

LONG SHOT BY KENNEDY RYAN

5/16/2020

Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan is one of the most gorgeous and emotional books that I have ever read. I don't want to give anything away but I will say this: you need this book in your life!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Genre: Sports Romance. Forbidden. Emotional.
Series: The Hoops series #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 460 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.

A FORBIDDEN LOVE SET IN THE EXPLOSIVE WORLD OF THE NBA...

Think you know what it's like being a baller's girl?
You don't.
My fairy tale is upside down.
A happily never after.
I kissed the prince and he turned into a fraud.
I was a fool, and his love - fool's gold.
Now there's a new player in the game, August West.
One of the NBA's brightest stars.
Fine. Forbidden.
He wants me. I want him.
But my past, my fraudulent prince, just won't let me go

*Contains domestic abuse not involving the hero. Read reviews for guidance.

ALWAYS ENOUGH BY KELLY ELLIOT

4/30/2020

Always Enough is a wonderful addition to the Meet Me in Montana series! With each book I read the hearts and my eyes get bigger and bigger. Kelly Elliot knows how to make her readers swoon!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Genre: Western Romance. Slow burn.
Series: The Meet Me in Montana series #2 (can stand alone)
Pages: 300 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott’s Meet Me in Montana series turns up the emotion with a story about finding true love and healing broken hearts.

Grieving the loss of her fiancé two years ago, Kaylee longs for a fresh start. When she follows her best friend from Atlanta to Hamilton, Montana, Kaylee looks forward to the wild terrain and a new town to help her forget the memories and dreams of a life that will never be hers.

After a tragic car accident, Ty Shaw is told he may never walk again. But Ty doesn’t easily accept defeat, and through grit, determination, and more physical therapy than any man should ever endure, he beats the odds. Even though he’ll never ride again, Ty longs to feel alive—the way he did on the Professional Bull Riders circuit.

WHEN SHADOWS FOLLOW BY CALLIE RAE

4/26/2020

When Shadows Follow by Callie Rae is an amazing debut and I can't wait for the second book! This is not a standalone so expect a cliffhanger.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: March 19, 2020
Genre: New Adult. Romantic Suspense.
Series: The Cherry Creek series #1 (not a standalone)
Pages: 213 pages
Format: eBook. Purchased.

Blend in. Stay quiet. Survive.

Fallon Blake is starting her senior year in a new town with the goal of sliding through to graduation unseen. Despite her attempts to lay low, she makes a snap decision to act when the king of Cherry Creek High School, Jesse Callaway, gets jumped at a party.

Now, fearing Fallon needs protection from the mess she threw herself into, Jesse refuses to let her recede back into the shadows. Little does he know, with each lingering glance, or brush of his hand, he is reigniting a fire within Fallon that burns her to the core. Every gentle touch scorches the scars on her fragile heart.

As sparks fly between them, Fallon fights to snuff them out. How can she trust her own judgment when it failed her horrifically before? But when the past catches up with her, Fallon is left with two options. Confide in Jesse... or run.

TELL ME PRETTY LIES BY CHARLEIGH ROSE

4/18/2020

Tell Me Pretty Lies is an angsty new adult romance with an enemies to lovers trope! I devoured this one. Charleigh Rose writes fantastic romances and that's no different with this one.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 5, 2020
Genre: New Adult. Enemies to Lovers Romance.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 289 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

Three things my mother acquired when she became engaged:

1. A brand new Tiffany's ring.
2. A lavish home on Heartbreak Hill.
3. Three privileged stepsons.

The last thing I expected was to fall for one of them, least of all Thayer Ames.
Beautiful, brooding, and untouchable.
I knew it was a bad idea. He warned me himself.
But he was a thunderstorm, and I never could resist the rain.
It was perfect…
Until it wasn’t.
One night was all it took for our world to crumble, leaving only secrets and lies between us.
Now, I have to face him again, but the boy I used to know has become the man who loves to hate me.

TENNESSEE TRUTHS BY ASHLEY MUNOZ

4/16/2020

Tennessee Truths is an angsty, standalone, enemies to lovers romance with all the feels! I loved this one. This is my first book by the author but I'll be reading many more based on this one.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: April 16, 2020
Genre: Enemies to Lovers. Second Chance Romance
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 325 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

Faith:
Our story was classic.
A typical fairytale.
Two young kids falling in love under an onyx sky, making vows they didn’t understand.
He was my dream …and I naively thought I was his.
Until he bartered our love and sold me a lie.

Now, I’m returning to the life I once knew…but not as the pathetic mess that left five years ago.
I’m a married woman, wed to the richest man in Nashville.
But it seems I wasn’t the only one who changed during my time away…

Hardened by life, Jace Walker’s glares drip with heat and derision.
He has war in his eyes and venom in his veins.

I thought I would be safe coming back home, but it seems I only ran from my present to be caught in the crosshairs of my past.

SOUTHERN STORMS BY BRITTAINY C. CHERRY

4/8/2020

Southern Storms is another memorizing and unforgettable read by Brittainy C. Cherry. I loved everything about this book and highly recommend it to all romance readers.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: April 6, 2020
Genre: Small Town. Childhood friends to Lovers.
Series: The Compass series #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 325 pages
Format: eBook. ARC

Even the town’s black sheep needed a friend sometimes

All I wanted to do was run away, I never expected to crash into his arms…

After leaving the city life behind to escape my loveless marriage, I moved to small town Havenbarrow for a fresh start.

What I didn’t expect was to find myself drawn to the town’s black sheep.

They called him troubled. Cold. A man with a dark past.

What everyone seemed to miss about Jax was the splashes of light in his eyes. The random acts of kindness he performed when no one was watching. The way he made me smile and laugh.

BOURBON LOVE NOTES BY SHARI J. RYAN

3/8/2020

Bourbon Love Notes is the first book in a brand new series by Shari J. Ryan. This is an emotional book, much more emotional than I anticipated and a very slow burn in terms of romance.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: January 13, 2020
Genre: Emotional Romance
Series: The Barrel House series #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 305 pages
Format: eBook. Borrowed from KU.

In a split second, life can steal a last breath ... and derail all future plans.

While flying home after a phone call that left me heartbroken, a row to myself would have been ideal. Instead, I was unknowingly sitting shoulder to shoulder with a strikingly attractive single dad and ex-Marine. I could have pretended not to notice the man, but there was something familiar about him.

It didn’t take long before I pieced together where I knew him from or why he was back in my life.

With chaos holding me hostage, I wanted to hide but couldn’t avoid Brett Pearson, our old family friend, and my teenage crush, because he kindly offered to help out with my family’s business—The Barrel House.

Handling my father’s distillery would be a distraction from my

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