LATEST NEW RELEASES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & PRE-ORDERS — WEEK OF January 30, 2016

TOP RECOMMENDATION: Mists of the Serengeti by Leylah Attar (Read my Review) 
RARE 6 STAR RATING!!! If you’ve been looking for a story that will sweep you away, one that you will feel with all of your heart and soul, one that will take on a journey unlike any you’ve been on, one that’ll break your heart and then put it back together, then this is the book for you!!! From the moment I heard about it, I knew I had to read it. And now, having finished it, I can say that THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Leylah Attar’s breathtaking writing depicts vivid imagery with evocative prose that immerses you in the story and makes you feel every moment in your heart. Reading this book was a reaffirmation in everything that makes me love reading. It is a profoundly beautiful and unparalleled reading experience that I can’t recommend highly enough! It’s a standalone romance and IT. IS. OUTSTANDING! It’s also now live so you can get a copy here!!

 
AMAZING BOOK ON RARE SALE: The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (Read my Review) 
OMG!!!!!!!!! This is actually my absolute #1 FAVORITE BOOK in the whole wide world (above every other book ever)!!!!! It is the most WELL-WRITTEN, most INTENSE, most achingly BEAUTIFUL, PASSIONATE and heart-wrenching yet heart warming *******EPIC LOVE STORY****** ever told. I truly mean that. It. is. BREATHTAKING!!! Most other readers I’ve talked to who have read this book are just CHANGED after reading it. This book CONSUMES you. It’s overpoweringly STUNNING and a must read!!! My general rating standard is out of 5 stars (perfection to me) and once or twice a year, I will give a special book a 6 star rating (see above) but THIS book series is the ONLY ONE that I will ever give a 10 STAR RATING to. I do that to separate it from all other books and so that I don’t have to compare it to any others because it is… incomparable in my eyes. It is also usually $11.99 so this is a very RARE SALE so be sure to grab a copy on sale!!! Oh, and also, it has a movie deal!!!

 
BOOKWORM NEWS:

• God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo is rereleasing in a special edition soon! This book comes highly recommended by Colleen Hoover! — “If your intentions are pure, I am seeking a friend for the end of the world.” — When Beatrice Jordan meets the unpredictable Jacob Grace, the two wild souls become instant allies. Together they discover an escape in each other’s creativity and insecurities, while running from secrets they cannot seem to shake – or a fate that could throw them to the ground… This 15th Anniversary reissue of this classic love story introduces a new audience of dreamers to a quintessentially real and raw vision of spirit, and inspires everyone to live — and love — as vividly as possible.”

WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP

 
HOT NEW RELEASES (NOW LIVE):  

• Mists of the Serengeti by Leylah Attar (TOP FAVORITE!!! unique love story set in Africa, standalone)
• Good Boy by Sarina Bowen (hockey-themed romantic comedy standalone)
• Infini by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie (best friend-to-lovers romance in a circus, can standalone)
• How to Date a Douchebag: The Failing Hours by Sara Ney (romantic comedy standalone, standalone sequel to How To Date A Douchebag: The Studying Hours)
• The Someday Girl by Julie Johnson (Hollywood romance, final book in The Girl Duet)
• Long Way Home by Katie McGarry (YA biker romance in Thunder Road Series)
• The Knight by Skye Warren (dark romance sequel to The Pawn)
• New York Nights: A Collection of Steamy, Alpha-Male Romances by Whitney G.
• Almost A Bride by Jo Watson (romantic comedy standalone, “That awkward moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested #chargesdropped”)
• Tell Me Not To Go by Victoria De La O (he’s determined not to fall in love with his sister’s best friend)
• On Second Thought by Kristan Higgins (Women’s Fiction/Contemporary Romance standalone)
• Heartbreaker: A Filthy Dirty Love Novel by Stacey Kennedy (sexy standalone romance with a cop hero)
• Hard Rhythm by Cecilia Tan (rock star romance, can standalone)
• The Do-Over by Julie A Richman (second chance romance standalone)
• Ruthless by Gina L. Maxwell (lawyers in love and he’s her boss, standalone in Playboys in Love series)
• The List by Tawna Fenske (fun, sexy contemporary romance standalone)
• Crown of Lies by Pepper Winters (dark captivity themed romance in new series)
• Becoming Mrs. Lockwood by K.I. Lynn (she’s married to a stranger…)
• Plus One by M.N. Forgy & Missy Blake (pretend relationship romance… with twins!)
• Make Me by CM Owens (second chance romance standalone in Sterling Shore Series)
• Falling for the Highlander by Lynsay Sands (historical romance standalone, warrier vows to protect a runaway)
• Seven Minutes in Heaven by Eloisa James (historical romance standalone, he’ll stop at nothing to have her)
• Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner (murder mystery/crime thriller standalone)
• At Close Range by Laura Griffin (murder mystery/romantic suspense, can standalone)
• Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti (post-apocalyptic romance in The Scorpius Syndrome Series)
• Carnival by Stephanie Garber (“Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or a performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find to magic in this world…”)
• Fatal Harmony by Anne Malcom (paranormal romance, first book in The Vein Chronicles)
• The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu (‘Any boy they love is certain to die too soon’, standalone)
• I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi (Women’s Fiction standalone, unique twist)
• Snowblind: A Thriller by Ragnar Jonasson (murder mystery thriller set in a remote town, standalone)
• The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles (For the perfect love, what would you be willing to lose?)

DETAILED LIST: NEW RELEASES

 

Mists of the Serengeti by Leylah Attar — New Release!!

TOP FAVORITE!! Standalone: Once in Africa, I kissed a king…

“And just like that, in an old red barn at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, I discovered the elusive magic I had only ever glimpsed between the pages of great love stories. It fluttered around me like a newly born butterfly and settled in a corner of my heart. I held my breath, afraid to exhale for fear it would slip out, never to be found again.”

When a bomb explodes in a mall in East Africa, its aftershocks send two strangers on a collision course that neither one sees coming.

Jack Warden, a divorced coffee farmer in Tanzania, loses his only daughter. An ocean away, in the English countryside, Rodel Emerson loses her only sibling.

Two ordinary people, bound by a tragic afternoon, set out to achieve the extraordinary, as they make three stops to rescue three children across the vast plains of the Serengeti—children who are worth more dead than alive.

But even if they beat the odds, another challenge looms at the end of the line. Can they survive yet another loss—this time of a love that’s bound to slip through their fingers, like the mists that dissipate in the light of the sun?

“Sometimes you come across a rainbow story—one that spans your heart. You might not be able to grasp it or hold on to it, but you can never be sorry for the color and magic it brought.”

 

Good Boy by Sarina Bowen — New Release!!

Standalone: “She can’t afford to fail. And nobody (nobody!) can learn of the colossal mistake she made with the best man during a weak moment last spring. It was wrong, and there will not be a repeat. Absolutely not. Even if he is the sexiest thing on two legs.

He sees the wedding as fate’s gift to him. She’s the maid of honor and he’s the best man? Let the games begin. So what if he’s facing a little (fine, a lot) of resistance? He just needs to convince the stubborn blonde that he’s really a good boy with a bad rap. Luckily, every professional hockey player knows that you’ve got to make an effort if you want to score.

But she has more pressing issues to deal with than sexy-times with a giant man-child. Such as: Will the ceremony start on time, even though someone got grandma drunk? Does glitter ever belong at a wedding? And is it wrong to murder the best man?”

Caution: May cause accidental aspiration of tea or coffee. Do not read in a public place where loud laughter is inappropriate. Contains hot but hilarious hockey players, puppy cuddling and a snarky pair of underwear.

 

Infini by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie — New Release!!

Can standalone: “Don’t have a best friend that’s a girl” — this was the advice from my older cousin. I didn’t take it. Because he followed with, “friends don’t f*ck friends. And you’ll want to f*ck her.”

It was terrible advice. My cousin should’ve told me that being best friends with her — since she was twelve — would be the best and worst decision of my life. He should have told me to protect her from what was coming. He should have told me that when a darkness crawled towards us, there’d be no safety net… Now I’ve signed back on to the same Vegas acrobatic show as her, working together for the first time in years. And she tells me that she’s having trouble in a certain “area” of her life — because of our past.

“You can help me fix it,” she says.
And then she hands me a list.

 

How to Date a Douchebag: The Failing Hours by Sara Ney — New Release!!

Can standalone: He’s an asshole. A total and complete jerk, he keeps people at a distance. He has no interest in relationships—most assholes don’t. Dating? Being part of a couple? Nope. Not for him. He’s never given any thought to what he wants in a girlfriend, because he’s never had any intention of having one. Shit, he barely has a relationship with his family, and they’re related; his own friends don’t even like him. So why does he keep thinking about her? Sweet, quiet Violet—his opposite in every sense of the word. The light to his dark, even her damn name sounds like rays of sunshine and happiness and shit… And that pisses him off, too.

 

Long Way Home by Katie McGarry — New Release!!

She has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving. It’s the code her father, a member of a motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out their business, she knows it’s up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club—including the boy she’s known and loved her whole life….

But when a rival club comes after her, exposing old secrets, she’s forced to question what she thought she knew about her father, which means reevaluating everything: love, family, friends… and forgiveness. Caught in the crosshairs between loyalty and freedom, she must decide whether old friends can be trusted—and if she’s strong enough to be the one person to save them all.

 

The Knight by Skye Warren — New Release!!

Sequel to The Pawn: The power of pleasure…

He took everything from me. My family. My innocence. My home.
The only thing I have left is the determination to get back what’s mine.
He thinks he’s beaten me. He thinks he’s won. What he doesn’t realize is that every pawn has the chance to become a queen.

And the game has only just begun.

 

Crown of Lies by Pepper Winters — New Release!!

New series: “I met the boy I wanted. But then he vanished and a new man claimed me instead. My father approved, my colleagues congratulated, and behind closed doors, I was bedded by a stranger.”

She lived a fairy-tale life: a doting father, a powerful job, and a future blessed with financial security. However, two meetings with two men changed her happy existence forever. First, she met the boy who made her heart sing. Second, she met the man who made her blood quiver. Her freedom was no longer hers. It belonged to the man her father believed was the perfect match. The man who pulled his lies over everyone he touched. Including her.

Seduced and manipulated, she lives two lives. The one everyone sees on the outside and the one no one sees on the inside. The lies he spins, the truth he hides, the mystery he webs—it’s all enough to slowly erode the woman she’d been and turn her into something else.

Until her past collides with her present.
And it’s her turn to lie.
To everyone… including herself.

 

Almost A Bride by Jo Watson — New Release!!

Standalone: That awkward moment you catch your boyfriend in bed with another woman and then mistakenly get arrested #chargesdropped

Annie knows life isn’t always fair. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you get mistaken for a crazed intruder when you come home early and find your boyfriend wearing nipple clamps with a coworker on the night you thought he was going to propose to you… The important thing is to move on, and for Annie that means treating herself to a tropical vacation. But when she runs into her ex and his new woman staying at the same resort, reason is washed out to sea. Caught off guard, Annie pretends she’s with Chris, a cute screenwriter she meets on the beach. With his own writing blocked, Chris is happy to help Annie craft a story to save face. Soon Annie isn’t just getting over her ex, she’s getting under Chris. As her fictional feelings grow increasingly real, Annie has to decide if she’s ready to risk her heart on a new relationship.

 

Tell Me Not To Go by Victoria De La O — New Release!!

Standalone: Jeff Price is in a long-term relationship rut – nothing a move from Utah to Silicon Valley can’t solve. But when he meets Samantha, his sister’s best friend, his newfound freedom is threatened by their attraction. Headed for med school, and still gun shy from her last relationship, Sam’s not in the market for love, either.

The answer is simple: a ninety-day, no-strings-attached affair. What can possibly go wrong for two people determined not to fall in love?

 

Heartbreaker by Stacey Kennedy — New Release!!

Standalone: Veteran cop, Maddox Hunt, is all about the job. Until a one-night stand from his past, rookie Joss O’Neil is assigned to his division. Suddenly, all he can think about is her. The scent of her. The taste of her… Fresh out of field training, Joss has thrown herself into her job, determined to kick-start her career. And while police work has its thrills, her gorgeous new boss is what really gets her pulse pounding. Too bad he’s nothing but a distraction. Especially since he’s as devastatingly handsome as she remembers, and his sexy smile arrests her heart.

Now that Joss is back in Maddox’s life, he has a plan: satisfy her fantasies and fulfill his every dark desire. [But] despite his best attempts to keep his distance and have things remain only about the pleasure, Maddox soon finds himself breaking the only law he’s set for himself. Don’t fall in love.

 

Carnival by Stephanie Garber — New Release!!

Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or a performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find to magic in this world…

Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over… But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

 

The Someday Girl by Julie Johnson — New Release!!

Sequel to The Monday Girl : The movie has wrapped, but the drama is just getting started…

Katharine Firestone finally has everything she’s ever wanted — new house, new car, new status as a Hollywood A-lister. And yet, she’s never felt more isolated. As the movie premiere creeps closer, Kat spends her days playing an infatuated co-star for the press tour cameras, and her nights wondering what the hell she’s going to do to fix the mess she’s made out of her personal life.

One broken girl. Two heart-stopping men. One impossible decision.

Torn between the heartbreaker she tried to avoid and the man she never saw coming, Kat will be forced to answer the ultimate question: Do we get a say when it comes to choosing our soulmate? Love. Lust. Passion. Paparazzi. The road to fame and fortune is never easy. And, in the City of Angels, the only place they guarantee a happily-ever-after is in the movies…

 

The Do-Over by Julie A Richman — New Release!!

Standalone: He was sex on a stick. We’d been circling one another our entire lives, mingling at the same clubs, attending the same events, [yet] we’d never actually met. Until we both boarded a cruise [and] it was like meeting my long, lost best friend for the first time. I hadn’t ever connected with a guy that way before. But he had a girlfriend. So, when the week was over, he walked off the ship, unknowingly taking a piece of my heart with him.

Now, over a decade later, newly divorced… I had a hot one-night stand with a really handsome guy I met online who didn’t even know my real name. Turned out Mr. Fling is a big shot for my company’s newest client. And just my luck, that client’s CEO is none other than… him.

 

Ruthless by Gina L. Maxwell — New Release!!

Can standalone: “People call me ruthless for a reason. Whether I’m in the court room or in the bedroom, my reputation is well-earned. I’m either working hard, working out, or working my way into some woman’s panties. But none of them share my particular kink, and I walk away feeling unsatisfied. Until I met her.

She’s a friend of a friend, which makes her off-limits in my book. But then temptation had me by the balls and I had her up against a wall. She literally fucked my world off its axis, but it can’t happen again. My plan was avoidance, but that got blown to shit when my firm hired her as a new junior attorney. Now I’m her boss, and I’m supposed to act like I don’t want to bend her over my desk every five minutes…”

 

The List by Tawna Fenske — New Release!!

Standalone: As the millionaire owner of a chain of computer shops, he isn’t normally hands-on with mundane repairs. But when a fretful brunette shows up with her fried laptop, he makes an exception. And as it turns out, she needs more hands-on help than he imagined… To make herself more interesting, she invented stories about her wild sex life — stories she’s expected to retell in vivid detail at a bachelorette party. Her attempt to catalog her biggest whoppers goes awry when she spills wine on her laptop and lands in his shop with her sexy list frozen on the screen. But his interest is piqued, and the two strike a deal to make her make-believe sexploits a reality…

 

Becoming Mrs. Lockwood by K.I. Lynn — New Release!!

Every girl has dreams of meeting Prince Charming, or at least I know I did. A fairy tale-like meeting of love at first sight.

Real life and fairy tales are very different. I’m just a small town Indiana girl that had a chance encounter with one of Hollywood’s golden boys.

You may think you know where this story goes—not even close. Life is different. Marriage is hard. It’s even worse when you’re strangers.

 

Plus One by M.N. Forgy & Missy Blake — New Release!!

Standalone: No feelings.
No lies of calling the next day, and no empty promises …
If I could act like I’ve never met a set of twins I screwed on the same night, thinking they were the same person, then I could do this. It was the perfect set up for a fake relationship and it was simple. We faked our smiles, we faked our laughs; hell, we even faked our love. It wasn’t real. But that kiss was anything but fake, and the orgasm was anything but pretend…. Somehow my plus one had become more, and now I’m standing here wondering what in the hell to do next.

 

Falling for the Highlander by Lynsay Sands — New Release!!

Standalone: A gallant warrior vows to protect a beautiful runaway… She has known her share of bad luck. But when her debt-ridden half brother tries to sell her off in exchange for a few Scottish horses, it’s the final straw. If keeping her freedom means escaping through harsh countryside alone, so be it. She has barely begun her journey when she lands an unlikely escort—the brawny Highlander who just refused to buy her virtue.

He was disgusted by [her brother’s] shameful offer, but she tempts him beyond measure. Even bedraggled and dusty, the lass glows with beauty and bravery. He wants to do more than just help her flee. He wants to protect her — if she’ll only let him…

 

Seven Minutes in Heaven by Eloisa James — New Release!!

Standalone: She has all society begging for one of her premiere governesses — except the powerful Edward Reeve, who bursts into her office with his arrogant demands. No question that she enjoys crossing wits with the brilliant inventor, but he wants far more than a governess. He wants her, and he’ll stop at nothing to have her — including kidnapping.

Will she lose her heart in the most reckless gamble of her life, or will she discover the sweetest pleasure she’s ever known? All it will take is seven minutes…

 

Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner — New Release!!

Standalone: Is he a hero? — Eight years ago, her older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, she has finally moved on. About to be adopted by a retired FBI profiler and his partner, she loves one thing best about her new family: They are all experts on monsters.

Is he a killer? — Then the call comes in. A double murder at a local gas station, followed by reports of an armed suspect shooting his way through the wilds of Oregon. As they race to assist, they are forced to confront mounting evidence: The shooter may very well be her older brother and it appears his killing spree has only just begun.

As the clock winds down on a massive hunt, they must answer two critical questions: Why after eight years has this young man started killing again? And what does this mean for her? Once upon a time, her big brother saved her life. Now, she has two questions of her own: Is her brother a hero or a killer? Because as she knows all too well, the biggest danger is the one standing right behind you…

 

At Close Range by Laura Griffin — New Release!!

Can standalone: When a lakeside tryst ends in a double murder, police detective Daniele Harper arrives on the scene determined to get answers. Clues are everywhere, but nothing adds up. Dani turns to the Delphi Center crime lab for help, but soon regrets it when her secret attraction to their chief firearms examiner threatens to distract her from the most important case of her career.

As a ballistics expert and former Navy SEAL, Scott Black knows firearms, and he knows he can help Dani unravel her case. Scott has managed to hide his interest in his best friend’s younger sister for years, but when her investigation brings them together, the sparks between them quickly burn out of control. Scott resolves to keep his hands off Dani and his eyes on the goal—identifying a killer. But when that killer zeroes in on her, all bets are off. There isn’t a line Scott won’t cross to convince Dani to trust him so that he can help her take down a ruthless murderer who has her in his sights.

 

Justice Ascending by Rebecca Zanetti — New Release!!

Before surviving the bacterium, he was a good ole Texas cowboy who served his country and loved his mama. After it, the world became dark, dangerous, and deadly—and so did he. The medic is stronger, faster, and smarter than before, but he’s lost the line between right and wrong. His passion is absolute, and when he focuses it on one woman, there’s no turning back for either of them…

She has been fighting to survive right alongside him, convincing the soldiers she’s one of them. In truth, she is a former hacker turned government agent who worked at The Bunker, where scientists stored both contaminants and cures. Only she knows the location, and she’s not telling. Yet when sexual fire explodes between them, she’ll face even that hell again to save him.

 

The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu — New Release!!

Standalone: The girls of Devonairre Street have always been told they’re cursed. Any boy they love is certain to die too soon. But this is Brooklyn, and the curse is less a terror and more a lifestyle accessory—something funky and quaint that makes [those] girls special. They wear their hair long and keys around their necks. People give them a second look and whisper “Devonairre” to their friends. But it’s not real. It won’t affect their futures.

Then Jack—their Jack, the one boy everyone loved—dies suddenly and violently. And now the curse seems not only real, but like the only thing that matters. All their bright futures have suddenly gone dark… This a disturbing and sensual story of the power of youth and the boundless mysteries of love…

 

I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi — New Release!!

Standalone: Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family… until she commits suicide, leaving her husband and teenage daughter heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason, from their lives? How they can possibly continue without her? As they sift through details of her last days, trying to understand the woman they thought they knew, they are forced to come to terms with unsettling truths.

Maddy, however, isn’t ready to leave her family forever. Watching from beyond, she tries to find the perfect replacement for herself…

 

Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson — New Release!!

Standalone: Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.

Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. He has a past that he’s unable to leave behind.

What: A young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed elderly writer falls to his death. Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life.

Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness—blinded by snow and with a killer on the loose.

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