Oh, Fudge (Hot Cakes 5) by Erin Nicholas-Review & Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: release Date November 24, 2020
Paige Asher likes her men the way she likes her coffee: hot, slightly sweet, and only to-go.
The hot friend-of-a-friend she had a scorching single night with was just about perfect — tall, rugged, with a sexy drawl… and on the road out of town by six a.m. the next morning. Long before her mom could start picking out wedding flowers.
But now she can’t stop thinking about the Louisiana boy. His texts make her smile and she suddenly has a craving for gumbo all the time… hot and spicy and far from home.
Mitch Landry had no idea Iowa would be so hospitable to a visitor. He knew the Midwest had a reputation for friendliness but his welcome gift — a sassy, sweet blond who is as no-strings-attached as he is — was a dream come true six months ago.
But why is he still texting her? And why did he jump at the chance to come back to Iowa? And why is he so annoyed by her phobia to commitment this time? And why is he pretty sure leaving Paige this time is going to be one of the hardest things he’s ever done?
Damn, is this what falling in love feels like?
Oh, fu… fudge.
* a cross-over between the Hot Cakes & Boys of the Bayou series
* a prequel to Boys of the Bayou Book 6
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REVIEW: OH, FUDGE is the fifth instalment in Erin Nicholas’ contemporary, adult HOT CAKES erotic, romance series. This is yoga instructor Paige Asher, and handyman Mitch Landry’s story line. HOT CAKES can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. OH, FUDGE crosses over with the author’s Boys of the Bayou Series.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Paige and Mitch) OH, FUDGE follow the building romance and relationship between twenty-two year old yoga instructor Paige Asher, and twenty-seven year old, handyman Mitch Landry. Six months earlier Paige and Mitch spent one glorious night together but our heroine walked away the next morning without any promises for the future. Fast forward to present day wherein New Orleans born Mitch Landry walks into Paige’s Iowan yoga studio in the hopes of a second chance or at the very least a second glorious night together but Paige doesn’t do relationships or believe in happily ever afters, and battles between head and heart when her nosey family begins to circle like a vulture on roadkill. In an effort to keep the family at bay, Paige tells everyone Mitch is her cousin’s fiancé but in the ensuing aftermath, secrets are revealed, and Mitch hopes for something more.
OH, FUDGE is a quick read; a fun, sexy and fast paced novella that reveals some of the back ground between Mitch and Paige, as feisty Paige struggles with keeping her independence or wanting something more. The character driven premise is inviting; the $ex scenes are spicy and seductive; the characters are fun, colorful and energetic-the back and forth between characters is flirty and fun. OH, FUDGE ends on a cliff hanger-Paige and Mitch’s story line continues in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A SWAMP BOAT TOUR book six in the author’s Boys of the Bayou series.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Sugar Coated
Forking Around
Making Whoopie
Semi-Sweet on You
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
“You’ll do anything I want?” he asked, his voice rough and his eyes hot.
“Definitely.”
“How hot is the fudge?”
Her eyes widened. “Hot. Too hot for smearing on body parts,” she said, reading his mind.
One side of his mouth curled. “Damn.”
“But,” she said, “I have some fudge we could heat up a little.”
“You have some already made?” he asked. “Why was I waiting for you to stir that up?”
“The fudge I’ve already got is for you.” She felt her cheeks get a little pink. She was shy about this? She was naked at the moment, and he’d done a lot of intimate things to her already, but admitting she’d made him fudge made her blush?
“You made me fudge?”
Dammit. He looked pleased by that. He was so going to get the wrong idea. Especially when she told him the whole story. She sighed. “Yeah. I made it around Christmas. I was going to mail it to you but then… I changed my mind.”
“You were going to send me fudge for Christmas?” he asked, his grin growing. He lifted a hand to her cheek.
“Yes. But then I realized that you’d think it meant I liked you and was thinking about you,” she said with an eye roll.
“Oh, sweetheart,” he said, his voice dropping and that drawl becoming more pronounced. “I know you like me and have been thinking of me.”
He was cocky. A little. Not overly. Not obnoxiously. But enough to be… hot. She did like confident men. “Well, you can not think that the fact that it’s chipotle fudge means anything,” she said.
His grin definitely grew with that. “You made me spicy fudge?”
“Spicy and sweet go together really well.”
He nodded, his grin turning into an almost smirk. “They sure do.”
“But it was just something I wanted to try, and since you eat all that crazy spicy food I thought you were someone I could send it to.”
“But then you realized that I’d think it meant you liked me.”
She blew out a breath. “Yeah.”
“Do you normally make chipotle fudge?”
“No.”
“Huh.”
“You’re thinking it, aren’t you?”
“That you like me? Yeah, I’m thinking it.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy, contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,” “steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and happily ever afters.
Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time with her husband (who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books), her kids (who will never read the sex scenes in her books), and her family and friends (who claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).
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