LATEST NEW RELEASES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & PRE-ORDERS — Week of August 9, 2016

NEW TOP RECOMMENDATION: Swear On This Life by Renee Carlino (Read my Review) 
WOW!! What a stunning book! From the first few pages, I was captivated by the story and I could not put it down even for a minute. It was a unique, intense, all-consuming second chance romance story, and easily one of the very best reading experiences I’ve had all year. I absolutely loved every word and highly recommend it to everyone! After only a few chapters, I immediately cancelled all my plans just so that I could keep reading. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. The way the story developed just kept pulling at my heartstrings until every part of me was right there needing to know what happened next and desperate to see how it would end. As as I got closer to that ending, I’ll admit that I was seriously freaking out but then BOOM — I read this one particular line and just started SOBBING!!!! Happy tears!!!! THE FEELS!!! MY HEART WAS RACING!!!! And it was just so beautiful and fulfilling that I was overwhelmed with emotion. This book was everything I was searching for. I highly recommend it!

 
LATEST BOOKWORM NEWS:  

• Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas was announced! Pen pals meet to find they hate each other! — n gone.” — I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school [and] in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone… And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us. Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it? Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name’s Ryen, loves Gallo’s pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances? F*ck it. I need to meet her. I just don’t expect to hate what I find.



• The Goal by Elle Kennedy, next standalone in the Off Campus series, was just announced!! It’s about an unexpected pregnancy with a hockey star! — She has her whole future planned out… Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn’t include a gorgeous hockey player who believes in love at first sight. One night of sizzling heat and surprising tenderness is all she’s willing to give him, but sometimes, one night is all it takes for your entire life to change…When it comes to becoming a daddy at the age of twenty-two, he refuses to be a bench warmer. It doesn’t hurt that the soon-to-be mother of his child is beautiful, smart, and keeps him on his toes. The problem is, her heart is locked up tight… If he wants a life with the woman of his dreams, he’ll have to convince her that some goals can only be made with an assist.



• Retrieval by Aly Martinez and it’s sequel Transfer (duet) were announced!! — One story. Two couples… I proposed on our first date. She laughed and told me I was insane. Less than a day later, she said yes. It was a whirlwind, but we were happy. Until we got greedy and wanted a family… It was a life I couldn’t give her, not for lack of trying. Fertility just wasn’t on our side. We sought out doctors and treatments. Spent money we didn’t have. Lied to our families. Smiled for our friends. Put on a brave face for a world that didn’t understand. Finally, we were successful… Until we were forced to bury our son. We were left broken, battered, and destroyed. They say love is in the details, but it was the details that ruined us. This is the story of how I took back what had always been mine. The retrieval of my wife and our family.



• The Chosen by JR Ward, next book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, was announced!! This new book is Xcor and Layla’s book If you’re a fan of paranormal romance and especially of badass, sexy, protective, possessive, vampire Alpha males, then this series is one of the very best ever written! It’s hot, action-packed, with great banter, loveable characters, amazing world-building, and generally addictive storylines. Each book builds on the last so even though each book is focused on a different couple, all the previous couples are in nearly every book as side characters so if you’re new to the series, definitely start at the beginning and read them in order.

WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP

• Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino (TOP FAVORITE: second chance romance standalone)
• Close to You by Kristen Proby (fighter pilot falls for little sister’s best friend, standalone in Fusion series)
• Burn Down the Night by M. O’Keefe (a beautiful con woman takes a bad-boy biker hostage)
• Reaper’s Fire by Joanna Wylde (biker romance, standalone in Reapers Motorcycle Club series)
• Hard Rules by Lisa Renee Jones (“Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy”, first book in Dirty Money series)
• The Best Friend Bargain by Robin Beilman (fun, sexy romantic comedy standalone)
• Ruthless by Lexi Blake (romantic suspense, revenge plot)
• Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris (psychological thriller standalone: The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?)
• The Girl Before by Rena Olsen ( psychological suspense standalone)
• Results May Vary by Bethany Chase (Women’s Fiction standalone: Can you really know the person you love?)
• All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood (taboo love in twisted underground world, standalone)
• Where Love Lies by Julie Cohen (love triangle romance/Women’s Fiction standalone)

DETAILED LIST: NEW RELEASES

 

Swear on This Life by Renee Carlino — New Release!!

TOP FAVORITE, standalone: “When a novel from mysterious author J.Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it… Yet from the very first page, she’s entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love… That’s because the novel is patterned on her own dark and desperate childhood, which means that “J. Colby” must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasn’t seen in over a decade. Far from being flattered that he wrote the novel from her perspective, she is furious that he co-opted her painful past and took some dramatic creative liberties with the ending… The only way she can put her mind at ease is to find and confront “J. Colby,” but is she prepared to learn the truth behind the fiction?”

 

Close to You by Kristen Proby — New Release!!

Can standalone: “She was five-years-old when she first fell in love with him. Everyone told her the puppy love would fade [and] when he left after graduation without a backward glance, she was heartbroken. But she grew up, moved on, and became part-owner of a wildly popular restaurant…

After spending the last twelve years as a Navy fighter pilot, he returns to take over the family construction business. When he catches a glimpse of her, he realizes he’s always had a soft spot for his little sister’s best friend… He isn’t going to pass up the chance to make the girl-next-door his. She’s never been one for romance, but he’s just the one to change her mind…

 

Burn Down the Night by M. O’Keefe — New Release!!

Can standalone: The only thing that matters to me is rescuing my sister. I’ve run cons my whole life, and he’s the last connection I have to that world, the one person reckless enough to get involved. Besides, now that his brothers have turned on him, he needs me too… The deal was supposed to be simple: a place to hide in exchange for rescuing my sister. Now he’s my prisoner. Totally at my mercy. But I’m the one captivated. Enthralled. Doing everything he asks of me until I’m not sure who’s in control. We both crave the heat. The more it hurts, the better. But what if he wants a different life now, to leave the game… to love me? I thought I knew better than to get burned. Now I’m in too deep to pull away. And the crazy thing is… I don’t want to.

 

Reaper’s Fire by Joanna Wylde — New Release!!

Can standalone: The club comes first. I’ve lived by those words my whole life and I never had a problem with that. My brothers took my back and I took theirs and it was enough. Then I met her… She’s beautiful, she’s loyal, and she works so damned hard it scares me sometimes. She deserves a good man—one better than me. I can’t take her yet because the club still needs me.

Now she’ll learn I’ve been lying to her all along. None of it’s real. Not my name, not my job, not even the clothes I wear. She thinks I’m nice. She pretends we’re just friends, that I’ve still got a soul… Mine’s been dead for years. Now I’m on fire for this woman, and a man can only burn for so long before he destroys everything around him. I’m coming for you. Soon.

 

Hard Rules by Lisa Renee Jones — New Release!!

New series: How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, he’s ready to take his family’s business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother wants to keep [the company] cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder he fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes the only thing anchoring him between good and evil… She’s consumed by him, pushed sexually in ways she never dreamed of. She trusts him. He trusts her, but she has a secret that could that destroy them both.

 

The Best Friend Bargain by Julie Beilman — New Release!!

Standalone: “She has a plan guaranteed to get her life back on track. A plan that involves her best friend, Danny. And he’s on board, too…until she blurts out that they’re engaged and expecting a baby, and the news spreads. The problem? He doesn’t do marriage. Or family. And everyone knows it, including her.

As irritated as he might be, protecting her is what he does. But put best friends under one roof, add house rules begging to be broken, accidental nakedness, and pancakes in bed, and what started as a marriage between friends threatens to turn into the real deal…”

 

Ruthless by Lexi Blake — New Release!!

New series: The Lawless siblings are bound by vengeance. They believe the CEO of StratCast orchestrated their parents’ murder twenty years ago to steal their father’s software program. And there’s only one way Riley can find some solid evidence… Heir to the StratCast legacy, Ellie Stratton hires a new attorney to handle a delicate business matter—and she’s shocked by her attraction to him. Over the course of a few weeks, Riley becomes her lover, her friend, her everything. But when her life is threatened, Ellie discovers that Riley is more obsessed with settling an old score than in the love she thought they were building. And Riley must choose between a revenge he’s prepared for all his life and the woman he’s sure he can’t live without…

 

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris — New Release!!

Standalone: The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?
— Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart… Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows…

 

The Girl Before by Rena Olsen — New Release!!

Standalone: Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband yells to her is to say nothing… In chapters that alternate between past and present, the novel slowly unpeels the layers of her fractured life. We see her growing up, falling desperately in love with the forbidden son of her adoptive parents. We see her now, sequestered in an institution, questioned by [people] who call her a different name and who accuse her husband of unspeakable crimes. As recollections of her past collide with new revelations, she must question everything she thought she knew…

 

Results May Vary by Bethany Chase — New Release!!

Standalone: Can you ever really know the person you love?
— She never saw it coming. Without even a shiver of suspicion to warn her, she discovers that her husband is having an affair with a man—a revelation that forces her to question their entire history together, from their early days as high school sweethearts through their ten years as a happily married couple. In her now upside-down world, she begins envisioning her life without the relationship that has defined it… She always thought she knew her own love story, but as her husband’s other secrets emerge, she must decide whether that story’s ending will mean forgiving the man she’s loved for half her life, or facing her future without him.

 

Where Love Lies by Julie Cohen — New Release!!

Standalone: When Felicity steps off the train on the way to meet her husband, she is so sure of everything in her life. Where she is headed, what she will order at the restaurant, the first words her husband will say to her when she arrives, their happy future together.

But then she catches a scent of perfume in the air, and suddenly she is overcome by forgotten emotions-passionate memories of another man she loved many years ago.

As the feelings continue to surface again and again, Felicity begins to question the life she thought she knew so well. She doesn’t doubt that she loves her husband, but does she owe it to herself to explore these overwhelming emotions that have taken hold of her? Or is her mind simply playing tricks on her heart? How can she know where love truly lies? And when she finds out, will it be too late?

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