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Still Falling (Crystal Walton) – Review

~ About the Book ~ She’s trying to uproot the past. He’s trying to safeguard the future. But neither’s ready for the assignment about to jeopardize both. Landing a prominent chair in the Philharmonic Orchestra is part of Bree Ramirez’s determined plans to avoid her old life. Falling smack into her ex-fiancé’s path again? Nowhere close. But with a gang hit targeting her and her brother as loose ends, the pressure to get them out of Queens ushers her straight into the very arms she’s spent the last four years pretending aren’t still home.

24 May 2017

The Message in a Bottle Romance Collection – Review

~ About the Book ~ Join the journey as one word etched in Latin on an ancient bronze bottle travels through the centuries to reach five young women who are struggling to maintain their faith in God and love. An Irish princess, a Scottish story weaver, a Post-Colonial nurse, a cotton mill worker, and a maid who nearly drowned each receive a message from the bottle just when they need their hope restored. But will the bottle also bring them each to a man whose love will endure?

4 March 2017

One Enchanted Eve (Melissa Tagg) – Review

Publisher’s Description: After years of mistakes and regret, Colin Renwycke finally has a plan: Hone his baking talent at the Denver Culinary Institute and embark on a new career as a pastry chef. If he’s lucky, he might even manage to earn back his family’s respect. But despite his skills in the kitchen, Colin’s a mess in the classroom and his ongoing disasters are proving too much for his prickly instructor. If he loses his spot at the school, he’s out of backup plans. Culinary school instructor Rylan Jefferson has the chance to reclaim her dream of running her

22 November 2016

Christmas Love!

I haven’t typically been a ‘seasonal’ reader in the past – reading Christmas themed stories, for example, at Christmas – but this year it has been a little difficult to resist, because there are just so many fantastic Christmas novellas releasing! So over the next couple of weeks I’m going to do some blog posts spotlighting some of these Christmas novellas. Coming up later in the month, I will have Melissa Tagg’s One Enchanted Eve – which I have been warned might just have the best kiss ever! – and there will also be Eva Marie Everson’s God Bless Us

10 November 2016

Austen in Austin Vol. 2 – Review

Publisher’s Description: Discover four heroines in historical Austin, TX, as they find love–Jane Austen style. Volume 2 includes: Simply Lila by Suzie Johnson, based on Lady Susan Yearning to find a real-life hero, a wallflower must learn to live outside the pages of an Austen novel. Fully Persuaded by Niki Turner, based on Persuasion A brokenhearted artist struggles with the shame of her family’s bankruptcy and the return of her first love whose proposal she’d spurned because he was poor. Mansford Ranch by Dina L. Sleiman, based on Mansfield Park An aspiring novelist with a keen eye for character

5 October 2016

The Warrior’s Seal (Ronie Kendig) – Review

Publisher’s Description: A Special Forces team is thrust into a war with the past to save the president after an artifact unleashes a deadly toxin. Special Forces operative Cole “Tox” Russell and his team are tasked in a search-and-rescue–the U.S. president has been kidnapped during a goodwill tour. The mission nosedives when an ancient biblical artifact and a deadly toxin wipe out villages. Tox must stop the terrorists and the toxin to save the president. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tzivia’s phone vibrated, dancing across her desk. Though she didn’t recognize the number, she answered, grateful – desperate? – for a distraction. “Hello?”

4 October 2016