Sweetest Awareness (Cruelest Oblivion 2) by MA Heard-Review Tour

Sweetest Awareness (Cruelest Oblivion 2) by MA Heard-Review Tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 19, 2022

Over the past four decades, the dome over our Ecocity has protected us from the deviants living in the forbidden territory. Since the great war ended, our lives have consisted of virtue and order.

Once a year, seven people are sent out to the forbidden lands to see if there are any deviants worth saving. None have returned, only increasing people’s fear of what lies beyond the safe border of the dome.

When I’m chosen as a crusader, the world, as I know it, is ripped from under my feet. In the forbidden territory, I learn things I never dreamed existed – a world I’ve been totally oblivious to. I meet people who freely show emotion and affection. People who dare make their own choices.

It’s frightening and the opposite of everything I’ve ever known.

Suddenly, I have to fight for my life. I’m thrown into chaos where time is running out to become a skilled fighter who will be an asset for the coming war. But my mind’s bombarded with questions – who’s right and who’s wrong? Which side should I fight on?
I don’t belong in this world filled with cruelty and depravity.

Then there’s Chance, my reluctant trainer. The man is the definition of deadly and so attractive I struggle to think straight around him. I’m also pretty sure he would love nothing more than to snap my neck. Cruel, impatient, and harsh, he’s a brute who seems annoyed by my existence.

Honestly, I’m not sure I will survive living with the deviants, never mind fighting in a war. Unless I find my courage and learn to fight for myself, I fear this new world will crush me.

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REVIEW: Sweetest Awareness is book two in the dystopian romance series by M.A. Heard.

Book one left us on the edge of our seats with an amazing cliff-hanger.

This book continues the story of Chance Daniels and Jasper “Jai” Matthias.

In book one Jai was cast out into the forbidden territory where she met Chance. Chance became the one person she could trust and the one person that protected her. This story continues with Jai and Chance entering the main ward. Their purpose of going there was to continue their training for war. But the war comes to them. The ward falls under attack by the insensates (a person who has been genetically modified not to feel any emotions and obey the commands of the emissaries) sent to kill them all. The loss and devastation of the attack is too much for Jai to handle and she decides to leave the ward and the love of her life, to return to the ecocity and take down the emissaries. This is the only way she knows that she can protect the ones she has come to love within her ward. On her way back to the ecocity she realizes her ally Kenzo has followed her. There is no way Kenzo will allow her to take on the ecocity by herself. They enter the ecocity under the darkness of night and head straight to Jai’s old house. After a quick shower and change of clothes she soon realizes that Chance and all she has come to care for has followed them and they decide that this is the time to take on the emissaries. To declare war.

Jai heads straight to the lab where her father works creating the insensates, she hopes to kidnap him and take him with her back to the forbidden territory.And they seize the opportunity to take down the ecocity, They retrieve Jai’s father, who in turn shuts down all the insensates. After that they decide to take on the emissaries. Once the war is over, they all must decide how to rebuild the ecocity as they know it. No longer will there be the virtuous and the deviants. They must come together to create a new world, a better world. One where women have a voice and say.
One where they can all live in harmony. Will they be able to rebuild their lives in a new world?
I loved how quickly this story progressed. I could not put it down.

I had to know if they were able to defeat the emissaries and bring about a one nation of those who remain. The bonds of friendship ran deep in this book, making me truly care for the characters. The book ended too quickly, I wasn’t ready to leave. I hope somewhere down the line there will be more books in this dystopian world. Wonderful storytelling and world building. Highly recommend it.

Click HERE for Erin’s review of book one CRUELEST OBLIVION

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Reviewed by Erin K

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BLAST (Ben Blackshaw) by Robert Blake Whitehill-Review & Giveaway

BLAST (Ben Blackshaw 6) by Robert Blake Whitehill-Review and Giveaway


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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 24, 2022

Ben Blackshaw discovers a murdered woman’s corpse frozen in the Chesapeake Bay. All the signs point to her being crew on a massive Liquid Natural Gas transport ship that’s trapped in the channel ice. Blackshaw, his wife LuAnna, his friend Knocker Ellis, and a band of neighbors take different paths to solve the mystery before a thaw frees the ship to sail off with all the evidence, or destroy Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake fishery, in a single fiery blast

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REVIEW: BLAST is the sixth instalment in Robert Blake Whitehill’s contemporary, adult BEN BLACKSHAW military, suspense, thriller series focusing on retired US Navy SEAL Ben Blackshaw, his wife, former Natural Resources police officer LuAnna, and his eclectic company of cloak and dagger investigators, former military personnel and first responders. BLAST can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from third person perspective, following numerous intersecting paths BLAST focuses on the discovery of several bodies encased in ice. Winter in Chesapeake Bay is dark and dangerous but Ben and his fellow residents including Vietnam veteran Knocker Ellis Hogan, have stumbled upon nine bodies, all frozen in the ice, all with apparent bullet wounds and injuries. Further investigation reveals a large tanker, trapped in the ice, a tanker whose cargo and location are too far off course. As Ben and Ellis begin a search for the truth including a clandestine exploration of the ice-jammed tanker, a group known as Faction takes aim at our story hero. From the FBI to rogue assassins and hired muscle, Ben, LuAnna and Ellis find themselves at the mercy of Mother Nature, and a potential bio-terrorist determined to take down the eco-system in Chesapeake Bay.

The large ensemble of secondary and supporting characters include FBI Special Agent Molly Wilde, and her husband Pershing Lowry, executive Assistant director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence; Sonny and Mary Wright; gun toting Reverend Mosby, as well as several members of different government agencies. The requisite evil has many faces.

BLAST is an intriguing, thrilling, and thought provoking yet cautionary tale of what ifs: of home-grown terrorism, power and control. The character driven premise is dramatic, detailed and intense; the characters are animated and unconventional-the camaraderie between the Smith Island residents is dynamic and incredible-they work together like the proverbial ‘well-oiled machine’.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Deadrise
Nitro Express
Tap Rack Bang
Geronimo Hotshot
Dog and Bitch Island

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Robert Blake WhitehillRobert Blake Whitehill was born into a Quaker family in Mardela Springs, just outside Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore peninsula. The family home lay next to the pond that powered a colonial-era relic, the Barren Creek Mill. He grew up sailing the Chesapeake Bay, and one of her most beautiful tributaries, the Chester River.

After graduating from Westtown School Whitehill stayed in Pennsylvania to earn his B.A. in creative writing at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. Later he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. As with David Mamet, exhaustive studies of the best English language drama for the stage and screen transformed an aspiring actor into a passionate writer.

An early focus on feature screenwriting earned Whitehill film festival wins at the Hudson Valley Film Festival, and the Hamptons International Film Festival where he also received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for his script U.X.O. (Unexploded Ordnance). His feature script Blue Rinse, co-written with Andrea Shane is currently under option with producer Bill Jarblum (Charley Bartlett, The Little Traitor, Cloudburst), with Olympia Dukakis to star, and Thom Fitzgerald slated to direct.

While writing many highly rated episodes of Discovery/Times Channel’s The New Detectives, Daring Capers, and The Bureau, he served as the Vice President of Independent Film Acquisitions for the groundbreaking Centerseat.com, developing and managing their Independent Film Channel.

His first thriller in the Ben Blackshaw series, Deadrise, was named by Cyrus Webb to the Conversations Book Club Top 100 Books of 2012. His second book in the series, Nitro Express, was named to the Conversations Book Club Top 50 Books of Fiction of 2013.

Movie studio HatLine Productions is optioning the first two books, as well as the third title in the series, Tap Rack Bang, for development into feature films.

Whitehill lives in New Jersey with his wife and son. For a number of years, he has worked with the Montclair Ambulance Unit as an emergency medical technician.

When not sailing, or knocking around the sky in a Cessna 152, Whitehill is a contributing writer to Chesapeake Bay Magazine

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Justice for Samara(Bluegrass Bravery)by Deanndra Hall-review tour

Justice for Samara (Police and Fire-Operation Alpha: Bluegrass Bravery 16) by Deanndra Hall-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 22, 2022

Demons of the past threaten the future …

Newly promoted Chief Deputy Michael Edwards is determined to prove his place in the Trigg County Sheriff’s Department. The young leader will do anything to protect the people of his town. But when he meets the new detective in charge of cold cases, everything changes.

Detective Samara Futrell is hellbent on cracking the unsolved rape cases that have piled up in files of her new department. After all, she’s no stranger to assault; she can read a woman’s fearful body language at any time. Speaking to the victims and watching their reactions tell her everything she needs to know.

As Samara and Michael team up to delve into the cases, they discover an undeniable desire for one another. But someone doesn’t want Samara to uncover any further information on the cases. Suddenly, Samara’s life is in peril, and it’s up to Michael to rescue the woman who taught him how to love again. But can he find Justice for Samara before it’s too late and she’s just another statistic?

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REVIEW:JUSTICE FOR SAMARA is the sixteenth instalment in Deanndra Hall’s contemporary, adult BLUEGRASS BRAVERY erotic, romantic suspense series, a part of the multi-authored Police and Fire: Operation Alpha series with characters first introduced in author Susan Stoker’s series. This is twenty-seven year old Chief Deputy Michael Edwards, and thirty-five year old Detective Samara Futrell’s story line. JUSTICE FOR SAMARA can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

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

Told from dual third person perspectives (Samara and Michael) JUSTICE FOR SAMARA follows the search for a serial rapist. Michael Edwards’ first assignment as the new Chief Deputy in the Trigg County Sheriff’s Department is to hire two new detectives, and with a lack of racial and gender diversity in the department, Michael and Sheriff Carter Melton set their sites Detective Samara Futrell, a veteran police officer looking to make a move. Within days of arrival Samara and Michael begin to act on their attraction to one another but a deadly house fire pushes the couple together in an effort to take down a potential serial rapist. Samara and Michael suspect the person responsible is someone they may both know but Samara’s struggle to get information from a number of victims places everyone in the direct line of fire including our story line heroine. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Michael and Samara, and the potential fall-out when Samara’s past takes aim at our story line heroine.

Meanwhile, Samara and Michael’s interracial relationship becomes an issue when Michael’s mother, and Samara’s parents are unable to deal with their children’s choices but when Samara’s life hangs in the balance, Michael’s mother Marjorie is the first to take a stand in support of the woman Michael loves.

The relationship between Michael and Samara is one of immediate attraction that has the blessing of the Trigg County Sheriff. Michael’s relationship history has always been a black hole where it concerns his fellow officers, and Samara’s past is about to make like more difficult for everyone concerned. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense-our couple like to talk dirty in the bedroom.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful secondary and supporting characters, many of whom we have me in previous story line.

JUSTICE FOR SAMARA is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, discrimination and racism, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is captivating, dramatic and intriguing; the romance is seductive and provocative; the characters are energetic, determined and dynamic.

Previous Reviews

Shelter for Tanna
Justice for LIella
Fighting For Lorna
Justice for Maisey
Shelter For Nita
Justice forJoElla
Refuge for Flora
Fighting for Amethyst
Refuge for Phaedra
Refuge for Cherilyn
Refuge for Ailsa

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).

 

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Igniting Vic (On Call 8) by Freya Barker-review tour

Igniting Vic (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha-On Call 8) by Freya Barker-review tour

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 22, 2022

Victoria “Vic” Paige thought she was firmly back in the saddle since returning to her job as a firefighter after a three-year hiatus. These past twelve months with her new crew at Station 3 have rebuilt her confidence. That is until they are called to a motel fire where she stumbles onto the scene of a murder, which has her shaken to the core. But a pair of calm blue eyes and the deep composed voice of the first detective on the scene restores her equilibrium.

As a recent transplant from the Denver PD to the smaller Durango force, Detective Bill Evans is enjoying the slower pace. So when he is called to a motel fire, he doesn’t expect it to be the first in a series of gruesome murders, bringing back unwelcome memories. The only high point is finding the familiar, beautiful, blond-haired firefighter on the scene. Despite the heavy workload inevitable with a difficult case like this, he’s determined not to let that stroke of good luck go to waste.

However, when the killer turns the investigation personal, Evans finds himself reconnecting with his former partner, Quint Axton, as he scrambles to keep those he cares about safe.

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REVIEW:IGNITING VIC is the eight instalment in Freya Barker’s contemporary, adult ON CALL erotic, romantic suspense series, a part of the multi-authored Police and Fire: Operation Alpha series inspired by characters introduced by author Susan Stoker. This is fifty year old, police detective Bill Evans, and forty year old, firefighter Victoria ‘Vic’ Paige’s story. Line. IGNITING VIC can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Vic is Trin’s sister (Watching Trin #7).

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Vic and Bill) IGNITING VIC follows the search for a possible serial killer, a copycat case focusing on another killer fifteen years earlier. Detective Bill Evans finds himself investigating the case of a murdered young woman, circumstances similar to a case he closed years before. A violent assault against the victims and subsequent fire forces Bill to look back more than a dozen years, years in which he thought the killer had been found and convicted. Meeting firefighter Victoria Paige brings Bill up close and personal with the woman that will call to his heart but the killer is playing a game, a game involving our story line hero. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Bill and Vic, and the potential fall-out as Bill’s past take aim at our story line couple.

Victoria ‘Vic’ Paige is a forty year old firefighter who moved back to Durango to be closer to her ailing father but Vic never expected to find herself falling for a man whose own life was about to spiral out of control. Not only is a serial killer copying the murders from years before but someone is targeting our story line heroine, someone who is willing to cross the line of no return.

The relationship between Bill and Vic is one of immediate attraction predicated upon life as a first responder. Bill and Vic continue to cross paths but Bill is about to ensure their paths meet for pleasure as well. Vic is determined to not get involved having battled a stalker in the recent past but Bill is willing to accept Vic, protecting our heroine from the person taking aim at the woman he loves. 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 energetic secondary and supporting characters including the return of Vic’s sister and journalist Trin, her son Tucker and Trin’s boyfriend Bodhi (Watching Trin): detective Jay VanDyken, and coroner Dr. Meredith Carter (Dissecting Meredith 6), detective Jay VanDyken, and coroner Dr. Meredith Carter; forensic tech Dave Krajcek, and firefighter Lance Bruner; FBI Agents Damian Gomez and Jasper Green, and Bill’s daughter Maisy. The requisite evil has many faces.

IGNITING VIC is a story of obsession, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family, relationships, friendships and love. The premise is edgy, dramatic and intense; the romance is seductive; the characters are charismatic, determined and mature.

Previous Reviews

Dissecting Meredith
Watching Trin

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories. 

Driven to make her books about ‘real’ people; she creates characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy, but just as deserving of romance, thrills and chills in their lives.

Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We’ve Read All Year Award for “Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, and Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, Freya continues to add to her rapidly growing collection of published novels as she spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!

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RILED REIGN / RUTHLESS REIGN by Aleatha Romig -review tour

?RILED REIGN / RUTHLESS REIGN (Royal Reflections .5 & 1) by Aleatha Romig -review tour?

RILED REIGN
Royal Reflections .5
by Aleatha Romig
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 1, 2022

Demanding and aloof, the prince of Molave is the heir apparent to the sovereign state. Laden with secrets and responsibility, the future king has become a liability. After five years of marriage, even Princess Lucille is leery of her husband’s next move. To what lengths will the crown go to save the future of Molave?

Princess Lucille’s fairy tale dream has turned into a nightmare.
Is there hope for her marriage, her adopted country, and the future?
As the curtain rises in the production of life, not everyone is as they appear. As Lucille struggles, she no longer knows what is real and what is merely a reflection.

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REVIEW: RILED REIGN is the prequel novella in Aleatha Romig’s contemporary, adult ROYAL REFLECTIONS romance series focusing on thirty year old, Molavian Princess Lucille, and thirty-eight year old, American actor Oliver Honeywell.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lucille and Oliver) RILED REIGN follows in the wake of an economic disaster unfolding in the sovereign state of Molave. Lucille is an American with royal pedigree, and an arranged marriage with Crown Prince Roman Godfrey, a man ten years her senior, has never been a marriage of hearts and flowers, romance or love but rumors begin to swirl about civil unrest, in the face of economic disaster, and Lucille’s husband Crown Prince Roman Godfrey has been AWOL for weeks. A family birthday finds Lucille facing her husband, a man she no longer recognizes, as said man is not the same man to whom she is married.

RILED REIGN is a fast paced, quick read that introduces some of the backstory to Aleatha Romig’s ROYAL REFLECTIONS series. A modern fairytale, akin to the movie DAVE, wherein an actor is hired to impersonate a person in power but no longer in control. RILED REIGN is an interesting and intriguing introduction to ROYAL REFLECTIONS.

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RUTHLESS REIGN
Royal Reflections 1
by Aleatha Romig
Genre: adult, contemporary, romance

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 22, 2022

I have a secret. I’m not who you think.

In this world, where gowns, castles, and crowns make for the perfect reflections, life isn’t always as it appears. Love is elusive, even when the most beautiful woman is right before you. Illusions distort visions, shadows lurk in the sunshine, and monsters tread behind smiles and chivalrous facades.

I, Roman Archibald Godfrey, swore an oath to Molave.
To the king.
And above all, to Princess Lucille.

Forget the fairytales you’ve heard. This world is ruthless.

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REVIEW:RUTHLESS REIGN is the first full-length instalment in Aleatha Romig’s contemporary, adult ROYAL REFLECTIONS romantic suspense series focusing on Princess Lucille, and the crown prince of Molave.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Lucille and the Crown Prince) RUTHLESS REIGN focuses on the Royal family of Molave, and the spiral for power and control.Lucille is an American princess, a pawn in a much larger battle for jurisdiction and assets, and as such is slow to realize that all is not as it appears to be. Her husband, the Crown prince of Molave is mostly absent, and the man to whom she was married, is no longer the man she believes him to be. The arrival of Oliver Honeswell refocuses Lucille’s attention, and brings with it the revelation of secrets, intrigue, obsession and control. As Lucille and Oliver’s relationship becomes something more, our couple will discover they are chess pieces, to be played and captured.

RUTHLESS REIGN is a story of money and power, control and madness, secrets and lies, domination, restriction, authority and mystery. The premise is intriguing and dramatic; the characters are determined, desperate and relentless in their search for the truth. RUTHLESS REIGN ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana, USA. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Aleatha has raised three children with her high school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time a with her family and friends. Her other pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams and bring your imagination to life!

Aleatha released her first novel, CONSEQUENCES, in August of 2011. CONSEQUENCES became a bestselling series with five novels and two companions released from 2011 through 2015. The compelling and epic story of Anthony and Claire Rawlings has graced more than half a million e-readers. Aleatha released the first of her series TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE, INSIDIOUS, in the fall of 2014. These stand alone thrillers continue Aleatha’s twisted style with an increase in heat.

In the fall of 2015, Aleatha moved head first into the world of dark romantic suspense with the release of BETRAYAL, the first of her five novel INFIDELITY series that has taken the reading world by storm. She also began her traditional publishing career with Thomas and Mercer. Her books INTO THE LIGHT and AWAY FROM THE DARK were published through this mystery/thriller publisher in 2016.

In the spring of 2017, Aleatha released her first stand-alone, fun, and sexy romantic comedy with PLUS ONE, followed by the sweet stand-alone, ONE NIGHT.

Aleatha is a “Published Author’s Network” member of the Romance Writers of America and PEN America.  She is represented by Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

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Bastard Boss (Tyler & Bella 1) by Lisa Renee Jones-review tour

Bastard Boss (Tyler & Bella 1) by Lisa Renee Jones-Review & Excerpt tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 21, 2022

A sexy, dirty talking alpha. The beautiful, sweet, and fiery Bella. Her boss. A contract that forces him to marry. An arrangement that will change them forever. Meet Tyler Hawk…

Tyler Hawk is a man with secrets and a dark past. A man who has known tragedy and betrayal. He wants for little, but what he wants is more power, a legacy that is his own, and not his father’s. There are obstacles in his way, one of which is the scandal his father left behind and a will with certain demands.

Behind the scenes he is a man on edge, and only one woman sees the truth hidden beneath his strong will and dominant rule. Bella is somehow demanding and submissive, fiery and yet sweet. She can give him everything he wants, she just doesn’t know it, not yet, but she will. If she’ll just say yes and sign on the dotted line.

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REVIEW: BASTARD BOSS is the first instalment in Lisa Renee Jones’ contemporary, adult BASTARD BOSS erotic, romance duet focusing on attorneys, thirty-four year old Tyler Hawk, and twenty-seven year old Bella Bailey. BASTARD BOSS is a spin off from the author’s THE NECKLACE TRILOGY focusing on author Dash Black. Bella is Dash Black’s half-sister.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Tyler and Bella) BASTARD BOSS follows the tempestuous relationship between attorneys, thirty-four year old Tyler Hawk, and twenty-seven year old Bella Bailey. Bella Bailey works as a contract attorney at Hawk Legal but months earlier, Tyler’s father, embittered and embroiled founder Jack Hawk murdered his girlfriend, and lost his own life in the fall-out. Fast forward three months, Tyler Hawk has yet to come to terms with the possible ramifications of what happened and why, when the reading of the will sends Tyler’s life into another unstoppable spiral. Conditions must be met, and if not, Tyler would lose everything he has accomplished including the woman he refuses to love. Enter attorney Bella Bailey, his best friend’s half-sister, and the woman he needs more than he could have ever imagined. What ensues is the back and forth, up and down relationship between Bella and Tyler, and the potential fall-out as jobs, lives and careers hang in the balance if Bella refuses to agree to Tyler’s demands.

Bella Bailey has always been attracted to her boss, her brother’s friend Tyler Hawk but Tyler’s demons run dangerous and dark, and he carries a burden of heavy guilt upon his shoulders-not the grief of a son losing his father but of a man who blames himself for the death of an innocent woman. When Bella offers ‘comfort’ Tyler’s outright refusal sends our heroine a message, a message she is about to take to heart but the terms of their friendship and work relationship are about to implode, and Bella is forced to run away with a broken heart.

The relationship between Bella and Tyler is a boss/employee, best friend’s sister, forbidden romance in which Tyler refuses to cross a line Dash Black has drawn in the proverbial sand but Tyler’s future and the future of everyone at Hawk Legal is spiralling the drain, unless Tyler can convince Bella to go along with his plans, in an effort to further curtail a scandal that could possibly end their lives. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate.

The secondary and supporting characters include Bella’s brother Dash and his fiance Allison Wright, attorney Gavin McCloud, and fixer Dierk Jordan.

BASTARD BOSS is a story of power and control, betrayal and vengeance, obsession and struggle. The character driven premise is captivating and riveting; the romance is erotic and intense; the characters are broken, determined, desperate and destroyed. BASTARD BOSS end on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

“You’re going to have to share your room with me, sweetheart,” he says, and he doesn’t allow me time to object or even savor that endearment, not that objection is on my mind. I’m thinking of nothing but his mouth and hands on my body and this time, mine on his.

He opens the door and enters the room, maneuvering me along with him. The door slams shut behind us, and he’s already kissing me again. This time when his fingers find my hair, he gives the long strands an erotic tug and drags my gaze to his. “Control in all things, Bella. It’s who I am. It’s what I need, not a want.”

“And as you remember,” I say, my fingers curling on his chest, “I don’t like what I can’t control, which I guess actually means I like control, too.”

“And you have it with me,” he promises. “Always. All you have to say is no, and we find what feels like a yes to you. You asked if I trust you. I’m asking you now, if you trust me.”

I consider the complexity of the question. Do I trust him to listen when I say no? Yes. Do I trust him not to break my heart? I’m pretty sure that’s signed, sealed, and delivered, so, no. Do I trust him to make tonight all about pleasure? The kind of pleasure I’ll remember long after he is married off to his future fiancée. Yes. That’s a brutal yes because of where this is headed, which is nowhere but right here, right now, but one I can’t walk away from, either. “Yes,” I say. “I trust you.”

“I don’t think you do, Bella,” he murmurs, and the way he uses my name—it’s as if he wants me to know I’m not just sex to him. Or maybe I just want to believe that—even need to believe that—to be here with him, to be this intimate with him. Because I’m still me. I’m still not the “sex is sex” kind of girl, even if he aspires to change that in me. “But I want you to trust me so damn badly it’s insane,” he adds roughly, an edge of frustration in him, as if this statement somehow contradicts the control he so values.

It shakes me just how much I’m pleased that I’ve tormented him in some way, as if it’s selfish of me. I know this, but Lord also knows I’m tormented over this marriage agreement he’s obviously accepted. And if I think too hard about it, I will run. I will leave.

I don’t want to leave.

I press to my toes, desperate for his mouth and body, for that oblivion he’s shown me once that I crave once again.

His grip tightens gently round my hair, the act both arousing and brutal, as he denies me his mouth. “I’m going to make you trust me, Bella,” he declares, and then, thank you Lord, his mouth slants over my mouth, his tongue caressing my tongue. And it’s a toe-curling, deep, drugging kiss that leaves me breathless when his lips part mine. “Undress, baby,” he orders. “I want to watch.”

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.

In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling the bestselling DIRTY MONEY and WHITE LIES series. And will be publishing the first book in her Lilah Love suspense series with Amazon Publishing in March 2018.

Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on Twitter and Facebook daily.

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DON’T PARTY WITH A POLTERGEIST (Craven Manor 2) by Melody Raven

DON’T PARTY WITH A POLTERGEIST (Craven Manor 2) by Melody Raven-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 14, 2022

Okay, so I can admit that I have a crush on my ghost roommate/ handyman/ personal pest.

But I have a solution! Instead of dealing with my problems, I’m running off to the founder’s festival where Adam can’t follow me. I might be roped into judging a beauty pageant, but at least I’m not confronting my feelings!

Except when my best friend’s ex ends up murdered at the festival, Adam is determined to help any way he can. Is there any way we can investigate this together without my feelings making things more confusing than the state of his soul?

Follow Layla, Adam and the ever adorable kitten, Bubbles, as they face town gossip, steamy truths, and a beauty pageant to die for.

This is the second book in a trilogy that will be following Layla and Adam as they navigate through nosy townsfolk, inconvenient murders, family members that meddle from beyond the grave and an adorable kitten that has magic in her little toe beans. Prepare for steamy scenes and an HEA at the end of book 3!

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REVIEW: DON’T PARTY WITH A POLTERGEIST is the second instalment in Melody Raven’s contemporary, adult CRAVEN MANOR paranormal, romance series focusing on former Chicago accountant Layla Craven.

SOME BACKGROUND: Having recently inherited Craven Manor located in the small but magical town of Ashland Springs, from an aunt she never knew existed, Layla quickly discovers that all is not as it appears to be in Ashland Springs. From magic to mayhem, ghosts and potions, murder and mystery, Craven Manor begins revealing its’ secrets one supernatural entity at a time including a small kitten that may or may not be of the feline variety.

Told from first person perspective (Layla) DON’T PARTY WITH A POLTERGEIST follows in the wake of another murder in Ashland Springs. The Founders Festival is fast approaching and several out of town guests, workers and performers are slowly arriving but the man in charge of stage setup is found murdered within minutes of talking to our story line heroine, and Layla begins an investigation of her own with the reluctant acquiescence of her corporeal housemate. Not only did an innocent party admit to the murder but once again, Layla suspects magic is at play in the town of Ashland Springs. As a descendant of the founding families, Layla is expected to participate in the annual events, a participation that allows our heroine to get up close and personal with real murderer.

Meanwhile, Layla’s relationship with her permanent house guest Adam, quickly turns into something more. Adam struggles to remember events of the past, events that have led our hero to remain in a place he doesn’t belong.

The relationship between Layla and Adam begins as reluctant house mates but Adam is unable to leave, and Layla suspects Adam knows more than he is letting on. The $ex scenes are limited but passionate.

All of Ashland Springs townies return including handyman Adam, Layla’s neighbor Poppy, Mayor Dom West and his girlfriend Chessy, Carla and Sophie from Carla’s Café, as well as several visitors to Ashland Springs.

DON’T PARTY WITH A POLTERGEIST is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, desperation and deceit, acceptance and friendships. The premise is engaging and entertaining; the romance is unconventional and seductive; the characters are varied, energetic and captivating.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one DON’T ACCEPT GIFTS FROM GHOSTS

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Reviewed by Sandy

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ELIJAH’S NEED (Shark’s Edge 9) by Victoria Blue-a review

ELIJAH’S NEED (Shark’s Edge 9) by Victoria Blue-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 22, 2022

Is their love stronger than their secrets?

Finally coming clean with his best friends and girlfriend, Elijah Banks should feel a huge burden lifted from his conscience. But his persistent ex keeps turning up to threaten his future plans for happiness.

Hannah Farsey is determined to be the captain o f her life’s ship. No more putting others’ needs in front of her own , and no more making decisions out of anxiety and fear . Now that Hannah knows Elijah’s darkest secret, should she follow her head and run for the hills , or follow her heart and stand by he r man?

After a rushed marriage proposal coupled with an impromptu trip to Las Vegas with all their friends, she goes into panic mode.

Are they really ready to make a lifelong commitment , or is he acting out of fear of losing her? How far is the gorgeous, successful businessman willing to go to lock down his beautiful, feisty chef?

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REVIEW: ELIJAH’S NEED is the ninth instalment in Victoria Blue’s contemporary, adult SHARK’S EDGE erotic, romantic suspense series, and the third in Elijah and Hannah’s story. ELIJAH’S NEED is the continuing story of caterer/chef Hannah Farsey, and billionaire businessman / security specialist Elijah Banks’, and should not be read as a stand alone as it picks up immediately after book eight ELIJAH’S WHIM.

SOME BACKGROUND: Elijah Banks is the third member of a business triangle co-owned with Grant Twombley and Sebastian Shark. With the partners, and their significant others and friends, targeted by any number of desperate individuals, Elijah Banks has set into motion a plan to protect our story line heroine and her family but Elijah’s past refuses to let go, and secrets reveals a heart breaking darkness.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Hannah and Elijah) ELIJAH’S NEED picks up immediately after the events of book two, and Hannah struggles with the revelations of secrets from the man that she loves. Elijah’s past is dark, dangerous and heart breaking but it is his most recent past that refuses to let go .A night of celebration with family and friends ends in a proclamation of love, and the possibility of their own happily ever after. What ensues is the continuing romance and relationship between Hannah and Elijah, and the potential fall-out as Hannah battles between head and heart as issues of trust continue to build.

The relationship between Hannah and Elijah struggles in the face of secrets and lies, and the demons from the past that continue to circle. Elijah and Hannah are living together in an effort to protect Hannah from her own dangerous past but living together means up close and personal with one another’s foibles and furies. Elijah is desperately in love with a woman who has the capability of breaking his heart but Hannah continues to struggle with a man whose alpha persona wants control both in and out of the bedroom. The $ex scenes are intimate erotic and intense but I dislike the use of a certain four-letter word in my romance story lines.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and familiar secondary and supporting characters: Hannah’s boss and Grant’s love Rio Gibson; Elijah’s business partners Grant Twombley, Sebastian Shark and Abbi Gibson; Sebastian’s executive assistant Carmen; Hannah’s parents Lisa and Dave, her sisters-Agatha and Clemson, as well as Elijah’s ex Hensley Pritchett, and driver/security specialist Lorenzo; architect Jake Cole, and Pia aka Cassiopeia, and her daughter Vela. There may be something developing between Carmen and Agatha. Pia and Jake’s story is next.

ELIJAH’S NEED is a story of family and friendships, relationships and love, revelations and acceptance. The fast paced premise is intriguing and entertaining but does little to resolve the ongoing conflict-Elijah’s ex is still on the prowl, and there may be a traitor working at Shark Enterprises. The romance is seductive and provocative; the characters are determined and charismatic. ELIJAH’S NEED ends on a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

Reading order and previous reviews
Shark’s Edge
Shark’s Pride
Shark’s Rise
Grant’s Heat
Grant’s Flame
Grant’s Blaze
Elijah’s Whim
Elijah’s Want

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Reviewed by Sandy

Victoria Blue lives in her own portion of the galaxy known as Southern California. There she finds the love and life sustaining power of one amazing sun, two unique and awe inspiring planets and three indifferent, yet comforting moons.

Life is fantastic and challenging and everyday brings new adventures to be discovered. She looks forward to seeing what’s next!

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