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Best of 2016!

Well, you could be forgiven for thinking I have dropped off the face of the earth over Christmas. I may live in Australia, but December definitely snowballed on me this year. Please accept my belated wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year. 🎄🎉 Amidst all of the December busyness, I have been giving thought to my favourite reads over the year. Let me tell you, it is a daunting business, coming up with a blog post about your favourite reads for the year. For starters I read around 250 books this year 😳 Secondly, different books stick

30 December 2016

Christmas with Melissa Tagg!

Hello readers! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, for those of you who celebrate it. I’ve been getting into the Christmas spirit with some fantastic Christmas novellas that have released over the last couple of weeks, and I’m super excited to have Melissa Tagg sharing a bit of Christmas spirit with me on my blog today! She writes some of my favourite contemporary romances and, in case you missed it, her second Christmas novella released earlier this week. (You can read my review for that here). When I asked Melissa what Christmas snack she might want to share

28 November 2016

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

Keep Holding On (Melissa Tagg) – Review

Publisher’s Description: Beckett Walker hasn’t stepped foot in Maple Valley in years. There’s no getting past the painful memories, and there’s every chance he’ll be arrested as soon as he shows his face. Which is exactly what happens when he finally returns. Suddenly his dream of adventure as a military lawyer comes skidding to a halt. Horticulturist Kit Danby has spent too much time missing home and her childhood best friend–Beckett Walker. Now she might have a shot at reclaiming both. After years of living abroad, she returns to run her family’s apple orchard. She has one season to

23 September 2016

Like Never Before (Melissa Tagg) – Review

Publisher’s Description Maple Valley became Amelia Bentley’s haven after her heart and her dreams of a family were shattered. But her new life as a newspaper editor is shaken when the small-town paper is in danger of closing. Her one hope: A lead on an intriguing story that just might impress the new publisher…if only she knew who he was. After his biggest campaign success yet, widowed speechwriter Logan Walker now has the chance of a lifetime–a spot on a presidential campaign. But his plans are interrupted when he finds out he’s inherited his hometown newspaper. He travels home

18 March 2016

One Enchanted Christmas (Melissa Tagg) – Review

“Aren’t there electric sanders that can make jobs like this go a lot faster?” He placed the paper against the wood and started rubbing. “Yeah, but it’s not nearly as relaxing.” “Relaxing, huh? You might need to prove it.” He shrugged, tore his own piece of sandpaper in half and handed it to her. She held it up to the wood and Drew scooted closer. “You want to go in a back and forth patterns with the grain of the wood. If you go against the grain, any kind of scratch or unevenness will show up more after

9 December 2015