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Three Shades by JD Grubb-a review

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Three Shades by JD Grubb-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date April 2, 2023

We venture forth, adding color to this mysterious, ever-changing world.

A Sky Rider, a sage, and a spirit-forced together, they must find a way to navigate barriers of language, race, and time. Each needs the other to succeed, yet each has a distinct reason for doing so.

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REVIEW: I’ll be perfectly honest, I didn’t have a clue as to what I was going to be reading. The blurb wasn’t helpful, and the cover wasn’t exactly eye catching. But after reading the first page, I realised I wouldn’t be putting this book down until the last page.

Ashe/Raez/Thian all have their own stories and they do converge and mingle, it gets clearer the further you get into the book. You’d think it would be repetitive reading three points of view of the same thing….. But funnily enough it wasn’t, each point of view added another layer to the story.

Ashe is our fearless sky rider, and my favourite character. She speakers her mind and isn’t afraid to leap into the unknown. After being asked by her lover to stay and be his emissary (which she wasn’t keen on doing) Ashe is ready for an adventure, to see more of the world, and she definitely gets that…..

It’s a beautifully written book, I don’t want to give too much away, I’d advise you to go in blind (don’t read the reviews) I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
And at 336 pages long, it feels like a short read, probably because I read it in a day ? but it packs plenty of action and adventure, a little romance, and a couple of moments that will make you think ?

How the three meet and move on with their lives after connecting, had me smiling…. It was like ships that pass in the night, but the passing left a profound mark on all three of the characters….

The ending does leave you wondering if there would be a second book. ?

I really liked it and would be happy to read more, or this one again and again ?

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Reviewed by Julie B 

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PROTECTOR DADDY (Crescent Cove 14) by Taryn Quinn-review

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PROTECTOR DADDY (Crescent Cove 14) by Taryn Quinn-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 25, 2023

It’s been a very long time since I’ve been with a woman.

By choice. Even as my brother and my fellow cops have paired off and started families, I’ve focused on policing Crescent Cove.

It’s a good small town filled with great businesses, wonderful families, and babies. Many, many babies.

But I’m not about that life.

Until we hire a new dispatcher after Bonnie retires.

She’s younger than I am. Beautiful. The sunshine to the worst of my grumpiness.

Hooking up with her is off-limits. I shouldn’t do it. And yet how am I supposed to resist the first woman who’s made me want to…well…not be so much of a d!ck?

She doesn’t know about my past. But now she and the baby she’s carrying are my future…

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REVIEW: PROTECTOR DADDY is the fourteenth instalment in Taryn Quinn’s contemporary, adult CRESCENT COVE erotic, romance series. This is thirty-six year old Crescent Cove police officer Christian Masterson, and twenty-four year old dispatcher Honey McNeill’s story line. PROTECTOR DADDY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary

Told from dual first person perspectives (Christian and Honey) PROTECTOR DADDY follows the age-gap relationship between thirty-six year old Crescent Cove police officer Christian Masterson, and twenty-four year old dispatcher Honey McNeill. Honey McNeill is struggling with a direction in life. Having applied for a dispatcher position at the Crescent Cove police station Honey comes face to face with officer Christian Masterson, the man who is about to star in all of her fantasies and dreams but Christian’s boss is Honey’s brother, and our couple find themselves in a secret relationship where the end result is another Crescent Cove baby but Christian has another secret that is about to be exposed, a secret that no one ever some coming.

The relationship between Christian and Honey has been building but Honey’s brothers work with our story line hero, and Christian is about to cross a line in which the entire town of Crescent Cove becomes involved in his and Honey’s personal life. The baby explosion is real, and Christian and Honey are about to jump head first into the mix. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and busy secondary and supporting characters. Both Honey and Christian’s extended families are deeply involved in everyone’s life, an involvement that is protective yet interfering and smothering, at the same time.

PROTECTOR DADDY looks at the ever expanding population of Crescent Cove. The expression ‘something in the water’ holds true for our story line couples, and each successive instalment jokingly questions what’s happening and why. The premise is entertaining and pleasing; the romance is heart warming and fated; the characters are sassy and dynamic

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Reviewed by Sandy

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COLD SNAP(Cold Justice-Most Wanted 3) by Toni Anderson

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COLD SNAP (Cold Justice-Most Wanted 3) by Toni Anderson-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2023

Grady Steel returns to the insular community of Deception Cove, Maine, where he spent his troubled youth unfairly labeled the town’s bad boy. Now a member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, Grady is on a risky undercover mission, hunting one of the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitives.

Recovering from a broken marriage, Brynn Webster comes home to the sleepy small town—where nothing ever happens—to help her parents run their seaside cafe during her mother’s illness. After diving into the frigid waters of the winter harbor to rescue a dead man, Brynn begins to realize that the ocean isn’t the only place swirling with dangerous undercurrents.

Grady befriends the pretty manager of the local cafe in an effort to unearth the town’s closely guarded secrets. Deceiving Brynn isn’t easy, though, especially when he starts to fall for her. Then, when decades-old crimes lead to modern-day murder, Grady’s mission becomes a race against time as he strives to catch a ruthless killer—before Brynn becomes the next victim.

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REVIEW: COLD SNAP is the third instalment in Toni Anderson’s contemporary, adult COLD JUSTICE-MOST WANTED erotic, romantic suspense series- a spin off, set in the author’s Cold Justice series. This is FBI Operator Grady Steel, and graphic designer/café owner Brynn Webster’s story line. COLD SNAP can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives including Brynn and Grady COLD SNAP focuses on the hunt for an FBI fugitive who has been missing for twenty-seven years, a fugitive whose finger prints have been found in Grady’s home town of Deception Cove, Maine. Undercover as a disgrace FBI agent, Grady returns home only to discover his sister has rented out his home to the woman with whom he will fall in love. Enter graphic designer turned café owner Brynn Webster. Brynn Webster has taken a six month leave of absence to help her parents in the wake of her mother’s cancer diagnosis but Brynn never suspected the small town of Deception Cover, Maine would become the epicenter of murder, Russian spies and the former KGB, animal abuse, and bank robberies, all blamed on our story line hero. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Brynn and Grady, and the potential fall-out as Brynn discovers everything about her life, Deception Cove, and the man the she loves has been predicated upon a number of lies.

Grady Steel never wanted to return to Deception Cove having escaped a life of abuse and pain but when one of the FBI’s most wanted is suspected of living in his home town, Grady must go undercover to search for the truth. All does not go according to plan as Grady becomes the number one suspect in a bank robbery, a string of murders, and a fire meant to hide suspicions of abuse. Grady’s father’s reputation has tainted our hero, and the sheriff is determined to take him down. Meanwhile Brynn Webster is struggling with the impending death of her mother, and her attraction to a man that may be a serial killer but Brynn’s world is about to be upended when she discovers that everything about her life is a lie.

The relationship between Brynn and Grady is one of mutual attraction but their time in Deception Cove comes with a deadline. Grady is working undercover, and Brynn has been pulled into an undercover operation that may or may not get both of them killed. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and questionable secondary and supporting characters most play a significant role in the story line progress: FBI Agents Payne Novak, Ryan Sullivan, Megan Donnelly, Aaronn Nash, Cowboy, Will Griffin, Kelly Ropero, Noel Dobson and Seth Hopper We are introduced to Brynn’s parents Paul and Gwen Webster, Sheriff Darrell York, security guard Saul Jones, veterinarian KalpaVilamitjana, and widower and temporary bank manager/owner Edith Bodurek. The requisite evil has many faces.

COLD SNAP is a story of secrets and lies, murder and deception, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, forgiveness, acceptance and love. The premise is intriguing, captivating and twisted; the characters are animated and energetic; the romance is seductive and provocative.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Cold Silence
Cold Deceit

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

Toni Anderson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, RITA® finalist, science nerd, professional tourist, dog lover, gardener, mom. Originally from a small town in England, Toni studied Marine Biology at University of Liverpool (B.Sc.) and University of St. Andrews (Ph.D.) with the intention she’d never be far from the ocean. Well, that plan backfired and she ended up in the Canadian prairies with her biology professor husband, two kids, a rescue dog, and a laid-back leopard gecko.

Toni started writing while pregnant with her first child and never stopped. Her greatest achievements are mastering the Tokyo subway, climbing Ben Lomond, snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, and surviving fourteen Winnipeg winters (fingers crossed). She loves to travel for research purposes and was lucky enough to visit the Strategic Information and Operations Center inside FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2016, and she also got to shove another car off the road during pursuit training at the Writer’s Police Academy in Wisconsin. Watch out world!

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Fortune (Steel Brothers 26) by Helen Hardt-review tour

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Fortune (Steel Brothers 26) by Helen Hardt-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2023

Falling in love…and discovering the past…

As Ava Steel prepares to help her parents, Ryan and Ruby Steel, celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, the tarot cards she draws and cryptic messages from an unknown source mar her concentration. Her life is changing…and she’s convinced her parents have kept her in the dark about something important.

Brendan Murphy sees the woman he’s fallen in love with struggling, and though he wants to help, he doesn’t know how. After all, he’s received the same messages, which may mean he and his family have some connection to the Steels. Brendan’s father thinks it somehow relates to his uncle’s untimely death at a Steel wedding half a century earlier, but Brendan isn’t so sure.

When Ava finally unburies some of her family’s secrets, she questions who she is and where she belongs, while Brendan discovers how he and the Steels may be linked. The two confess their love, but they’re still troubled, as these ghosts from the past may spell danger for everyone around them.

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REVIEW:She’s back at it again with the Steel Brothers series. This is by far one of the longest running books series that I have not only read, but truly waited for with baited breath for.

Fortune takes us back to Ava and Brendan and how their relationship has progressed. For new readers, beware that this is a continuation of a very long series, and this book along with a few others starts to move on to the younger generations of the family. As always Helen Hardt delivers a suspenseful drama filled with secrets, lies, love and more questions than what they started with.

So much happens in this book, past events coming to light, new discoveries and Ava, who feels like she is stuck right in the middle without a clue of who she really is. When both Ava and Brendan start to receive creepy, unknown messages from a sender neither of them know, the families start to act differently, more secretive than ever. As the plot thickens, and more and more is revealed, Ava starts to feel that her connection and relationship with Brendan is the only thing keeping her grounded.

Helen Hardt and her crazy, beautiful mind leaves us again with a brutal cliffhanger, leaving us all screaming and throwing our Kindles across the room. Brendan and Ava’s story is full of spicy bits, loving family moments and mind gripping, nail biting secrets that readers just can’t wait to solve.

 

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Ravenous
Insatiable
Fate
Legacy
Descent
Awakened
Cherished
Blaze
Smolder
Flare
Chance

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Reviewed by Sarah

 

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Palazzo by Danielle Steel – a Review

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Palazzo by Danielle Steel – a Review

 

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After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables.

Cosima navigates her personal and professional challenges with a wisdom beyond her years, but her success has come at a cost: Her needs are always secondary. She’s married to the business, and her free time is given to those who rely on her . . . until she meets Olivier Bayard, the founder of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company. A brief conversation on her palazzo’s terrace turns into a tour of the Saverio workshop, and, fifteen years after her parents’ deaths, Cosima has found a confidant.

Now the business is financially stable and generating enough income for the Saverios to live comfortably. Then Luca loses a hefty sum at the casino, and his debt must be repaid with money or his life. Cosima, forced to bail him out, is given an impossible choice: List the palazzo, sell a third of the family business, or let Luca fend for himself. But is there another way to save everything she has fought for before it goes up in flames?

 

 

 

Review:

Palazzo by Danielle Steel is another one of her wonderful family-oriented novels.  This is the story of the Saverio family, who are considered one of the top two haute couture elite Italian leather brand in Europe; owning two very successful stores in Venice and Rome. We meet Cosima Saverio, who after the tragic death of her parents, becomes the head of the business at the age of 23; with her taking care of her 14-year-old sister, Allegra, who was severely injured in that accident, must use a wheelchair to get around; her brother, Luca who was 18, has no interest in the business. Though Cosima runs the business, all three have their own share financially. 

Now 15 years later, Cosima the business continue to thrive, especially due to her devotion and business savvy. Allegra, learns to manage her disability and using a computer to become a fabulous purse designer. She is close to Cosima, and faces all challenges, not letting her disability stop her; enjoying her life.

Luca, who has never worked, only cares about gambling, enjoying woman, being a playboy and enjoying his lavish life, spending his share of the money. When Luca incurs a very high gambling debt, he expects Cosima to bail him out.  Cosmia does not have the funds available, and decides to sell their Palazzo Saverio estate in Venice to pay off Luca’s debt; the estate is not being used, as the family works from Rome. She warns Luca that she will no longer support his terrible expenses, beyond his normal allowance.

Olivier Bayard, our hero, owns his own successful business, as France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company.  When Olivier attends an elite party run by an American couple, who are arranging to buy the Palazzo, he meets Cosima, and they become friends. He also faces issues with his grownup boys, one similar to Luc (Max), and the other is a good son (Basile), who will eventually fall in love with Allegra. Olivier begins to have feelings for Cosmia, but she is so buried in her business, and prefers to remain as friends. Though in time, Cosima enjoys his company, and his always supporting her, with suggestions. They made such a great couple.

Olivier expresses to Cosima that he loves the Saverio leather, and in a short time, he recognizes that Allegra’s bag designs are fabulous, and Allegra begins to design a new line in her name, for the Bayer bags. Luc and Max become dangerous friends, both filled with greed and gambling; leading to possible disaster along the way.

Palazzo is a terrific story of a family, with Cosima facing her loyalties and making hard choices; to keep the business safe; as well as recognizing her feelings for Olivier. Palazzo was a wonderful story of family, love, family issues, tragedy and success.  Danielle Steel once again gives us another fantastic read.  I also loved the wonderful background of seeing Venice, Rome and Paris.  Very enjoyable read.

Reviewed by Barb

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Lunamare (The Luna Duet 1) by Pepper Winters -review tour

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Lunamare (The Luna Duet 1) by Pepper Winters -review tour

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“Is it true…that you pulled a lion from the ocean and fell in love with him?”

ASLAN

The sixteen-year-old boy named after a lion.
A boy with his entire life ahead of him.
A boy running from a terrible secret.
All it takes is one awful night to change everything.
One secret, one smuggler, one boat, one storm.
And he wakes in an entirely different existence.
Staring into the ocean-blue eyes of his twelve-year-old rescuer.

NERIDA

The twelve-year-old girl named after a sea nymph.
A girl with lofty dreams and absolute faith that she’ll achieve them.
All it takes is a bright, sunny morning to change everything.
One boy clinging to wreckage, one sea cradling him close, one chance at keeping him safe.
He’s illegal and unwanted.
She’s stubborn and so sure.
He’s lost absolutely everything.
And she’s found the only thing she ever wanted.

They begin as rescued and rescuer.
Slowly growing from twelve and sixteen.
He’s not allowed to touch her.
She’s convinced he is the one.
But as each day dawns on his illegal existence, Aslans’s secrets creep ever closer, the death he ran from hunts ever faster, and the darkness that he can’t get free of finally finds him.
And it costs him…
everything.

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REVIEW: LUNAMARE is the first instalment in Pepper Winter’s adult THE LUNA DUET coming of age story line focusing on the love affair between Nerida Taylor and Aslan Avci.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives including memories from the past and an interview between Neri and two journalists Margot and Dylan, LUNAMARE covering approximately six years in real time, follows in the aftermath of the rescue of Turkish born Aslan Avci by our heroine Nerida ‘Neri’ Taylor. At the age of twelve, Neri Taylor rescued sixteen year old Aslan Avci from the oceans surrounding her home near Australia. The boat on which Aslan was travelling was caught in a storm, and our hero was the only survivor. Living with the Taylor’s meant keeping his past a secret, a secret that could destroy his life going forward. Falling for Neri Taylor was forbidden but fall he did, a fall that would ultimately destroy our story line couple.

LUNAMARE is an intense and angst-ridden love story between two lost souls who have bonded over loss, love, family and revelations but LUNAMARE is also a story of secrets and lies, discovery and exploration, soul mates forever tied by death and the sea. Akin to James Cameron’s retelling of the TITANIC™, LUNAMARE is the retelling of fated mates tied to one another through desperation and sins, desperation that is about to pull our couple apart.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller.

After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 Apple Books bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Romance Thriller.

Pepper currently has close to 40 books released in nine languages. She’s hit best-seller lists almost 40 times, is a self-confessed hermit, yoga convert, has a house rabbit, six horses, and a long suffering husband.

To learn more about Pepper please visit: www.pepperwinters.com where she regularly posts videos of behind the scenes writing, horses, books, and more.

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Hideaway by the Sea (Oak Island 1) by LP Dover-review tour

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Hideaway by the Sea (Oak Island 1) by LP Dover-review tour

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 27, 2023

Everleigh Abbott – born and bred in Oak Island, N.C. – always had a dream of going off to college and making a difference in the world.

Presented with the opportunity to attend the university with the top surgical program in the country, she couldn’t pass it up. Even though it meant leaving her family and Jensen McLean – the man she loved – behind. The couple knew the distance would come between them, yet Jensen had no choice but to stay in Oak Island and take over his family’s business.

Twelve years later, Everleigh’s a well-respected neurosurgeon in Boston and living the life she’s always wanted. However, when her grandmother passes, Everleigh learns she’s been left everything, including the beach house. What she soon realizes is that there are secrets hidden within the house, secrets that could change everything. It all leads to a tragic past that brings Everleigh face to face with her only regret.

Jensen McLean has devoted his life to making his family business the best on the North Carolina coast. When he finds out Everleigh is back in town, he refuses to waste the chance to see her again. More than anything he longs to show her what she’s missed and help her realize Oak Island is her true home. Little do either of them know, the mysteries hidden at the beach house will reveal truths that connect them in ways they never thought possible.

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REVIEW: HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA is the first instalment in LP Dover’s contemporary, adult OAK ISLAND romance series. This is thirty-four year olds, Neurosurgeon Everleigh Abbott, and charter boat operator Jensen McLean’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Everleigh and Jensen) HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA follows in the wake of the death of Everleigh Abbott’s beloved grandmother. Everleigh’s return to Oak Island NC, a place she hadn’t returned to in close to twelve years but Everleigh’s reasons included one very important person, the man whose heart she broken twelve years earlier. Enter Jensen McLean, the man Everleigh has never been able to forget. Everleigh’s return to Oak Island comes with memories from the past, not only her memories but the memories of another woman who had loved and lost. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Everleigh and Jensen, and the potential fall-out as Everleigh must come to a decision about her future, going forward.

Twelve years earlier, Jensen’s heart was destroy when the woman he loved walked out of his life, without looking back. Months and years would pass; Everleigh never came home, and Jensen moved on with his life but the death of Everleigh’s grandmother meant a second chance for our story line couple, a second chance for a new beginning or picking up where they left off. There are no $ex scenes.

We are introduced to Everleigh’s parents, as well as her best friend and fellow physician Dr. Nyla Clarke, and several citizens of Oak Island, North Carolina.

HIDEAWAY BY THE SEA is a story of second chances; a rekindling romance focusing on family and friendships, forgiveness and love. The premise is sweet and impassioned; the romance is tender but mostly implied.

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author L. P. Dover is a southern belle living in North Carolina with her husband and two beautiful girls. Before she began her literary journey she worked in periodontics, enjoying the wonderment of dental surgeries.

She loves to write, but she also loves to play tennis, go on mountain hikes and white water rafting, and has a passion for singing. Her two youngest fans expect a concert each and every night before bedtime, usually Christmas carols.

Dover has written countless novels, including her Forever Fae series, the Second Chances series, the Gloves Off series, the Armed & Dangerous series, the Royal Shifters series, the Society X series, the Circle of Justice series, and her standalone novel Love, Lies, and Deception. Her favorite genre to read and write is romantic suspense, but if she got to choose a setting in which to live, it would be with her faeries in the Land of the Fae.

L.P. Dover is represented by Marisa Corvisiero of Corvisiero Literary Agency and Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management for dramatic rights.

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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston – a Review

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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston – a Review

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Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.

And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.

Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.

 

 

Review:

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston is a unique standalone novel. We meet Clementine, our heroine, who is still grieving her aunt’s death, as she was extremely close to her aunt, who travelled a lot, and took Clementine on many trips.  She spent a lot of times at her aunt’s apartment, which Clementine learned that the stories her aunt told her were magical, but as she grew up, Clementine stopped believing the stories.  Now with her aunt’s passing, Clementine inherited the apartment, and after she moved into the apartment, she wakes up with a handsome stranger in her kitchen. Clementine remembers the stories that her aunt told her about the apartment moving in time on occasion, either seven years ahead or backwards.

Iwan, our hero, was the stranger, who was told that he could stay at her apartment, and Clementine realizes that the time frame is now 7 years ago.  Iwan was a great cook, and hoped to one day be a chef. In a short time, they both enjoyed each-others company, as Iwan was sweet, caring, understanding and great to be around; and Clementine knew she was falling in love with him. When Clementine went to work, she was in her own time, being a successful publicist, who was on track to replace the publisher for Strauss & Adder Publishers; she is good at her job, and has some good friends who work there.   She looks forward to going home and to see Iwan, as he cooks her fajitas, lemon cake, dances with her, gives her a kiss, and then one day when she rushes home, he is no longer there.

With her working hard at her job in the present time (only in the apartment magic did she see Iwan seven years previous); to her surprise, she discovers that her publishing house in trying to bid for the famous new chef’s book, which happens to be Iwan (now seven years later in the present time). To say too much more would spoil the book, and I suggest you read this from start to finish, in order to understand the story line.

The Seven Year Slip was an interesting and different story, with a bit of paranormal, as well as complex.  The Seven Year Slip was very well written by Ashley Poston. It was very heartwarming, witty second chance romance.  I suggest you read this book.

 

Reviewed by Barb

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