LATEST NEW RELEASES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & PRE-ORDERS — Week of September 6, 2016

FEATURE FAVORITE & ANNOUNCEMENT: Full Tilt by Emma Scott (Read my Review)
Full Tilt was one of my favorite books this year, and the sequel All In was just announced!! The first book can be read as a standalone, but trust me you’ll be wanting the next book once you’re done! My gosh, those FEELS were epic! Honestly, I thought I was handling my emotions pretty well for most of the first book, but then this one sentence just did me right in and the TEARS started flowing. The writing was captivating, the romance was heart-breakingly, achingly beautiful, and I absolutely LOVED the story! It’s wonderful to find books that deliver this kind of raw, emotional intensity. It’s an unconventional love story and I’d especially recommended it for fans of Me Before You. It has ALL THE FEELS!! If you’ve already read Full Tilt, be sure to pre-order All In!!

BOOKWORM NEWS:

My Lucky Days by SD Hendrickson was just announced!! This is a new standalone second chance romance novel by the author of two of my other top favorite standalones: The Mason List (review) and Waiting For Wyatt (review). — “He was an up-and-coming country singer. She was the last girl you’d ever see in a bar. But one night, under those neon lights, they found each other. … Beginnings are always exciting. Always fun. Always hopeful. She was in her last year of college. He was still playing local stages. She fell for his voice. She fell for his words. They fell in love. It was beautiful. But time changed their world. She was alone. He was on the road. Life happened. And that love was torn apart. Endings are always painful. Always heart wrenching. But not always final. One day, he came back to her. And this is their story.”

Fire In You by Jennifer L Armentrout was just announced!! — “Her whole world was destroyed in a span of a few hours. The same night her childhood love, Brock ‘the Beast’ Mitchell, broke her heart, her life was irrevocably altered by the hand of a stranger with a gun. It takes six years to slowly glue together the shattered pieces of her life, but she is finally ready to stop existing in a past full of pain and regret… She never expected him to be a part of her life again. But he’s firmly back in her life, and not only is he older, he’s impossibly more handsome, more teasing… And when he sees her, he’s no longer capable of thinking of her as the little girl who was his shadow growing up. He sees the woman who’d always been there for him, the one person who believed in him no matter what…”

Sweet Dreams by Nina Lane was just announced! This is a sexy new standalone romance by the author of the beautiful and intensely passionate Spiral of Bliss series (my review)! —“Sugar Rush Candy Company CEO Luke Stone is a devoted businessman who doesn’t do relationships. He does short-term affairs with clearly defined rules. Polly Lockhart is horrified when she wakes the morning after her twenty-third birthday to realize she made a fool of herself with a sinfully delicious man. She tells herself she doesn’t have time for romance anyway, as she’s fighting to finish her culinary studies. That all changes when her class tours the famed Sugar Rush headquarters, and Polly collides with her dream man again.”

Beard Science by Penny Reid was just announced!! This is a standalone romantic comedy in the Winston Brothers series! — She wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient daughter, she’s buckling under the weight of her social media celebrity, her mother’s ambitions, and her father’s puritanical mandates. She is officially desperate. And desperate times call for Cletus Winston…

Get In The Car, Jupiter by Fisher Amelie was just announced! — “I’m weird. This isn’t news to me or anything. I have lived in a UFO my entire life. This wasn’t a coincidence. My parents believe in extraterrestrial life. So it wasn’t a surprise, when after getting accepted to UW and expressing my desire to actually attend, they lamented that college is “just another ploy for the government to keep tabs on you, man.” In other words, we won’t be helping you out. That’s fine, though, because we found a way up there and it was in the form of a longtime crush and a kickin’ set of wheels. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”

Wilder by Rebecca Yarros was recently announced!! This is a standalone sports romance from a favorite author! — He’s Paxton Wilder. Twenty-two-year-old, tattooed, smoking-hot leader of the Renegades. Five time X Games medalist. The world is his playground—especially this year—and for the next nine months I’m stuck as his tutor on the Study at Sea program. He’s too busy staging worldwide stunts for his documentary to get to class. But if I can’t get him to take academics seriously, I’ll lose my scholarship…if I don’t lose my heart first…

Blush For Me by Kristen Proby was just announced! This is a standalone in the Fusion series and there are already 2 other standalones available: Listen To Me and Close To You! —She isn’t afraid of anything. Well, almost anything: she hates to fly. When she’s forced to travel on a death trap with wings, the turbulence from hell has her reaching for any safe haven—including the incredibly handsome guy sitting next to her… He hasn’t been able to get his sexy seatmate out of his head. He’s determined to discover what else they have in common besides fine wine and the inability to keep their hands off each other. But what will it take for two stubborn people to realize that what they have is so much more than a hot chemistry and to admit to falling in love…

WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP

The Protector by Jodi Ellen Malpas (her bodyguard falls in love with her, can standalone)
Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen (second chance hockey romance, can standalone)
The One Real Thing by Samantha Young (she visits a small town and falls in love with a divorced bartender)
Viewing Room by L.P. Dover (forbidden romance, standalone in Society X series)
Banking Her by Max Monroe (Bad Boy Billionaires novella, read after Banking The Billionaire)
Change of Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn (enemies-to-lovers forbidden romance, can standalone)
Winning It All by Victoria Denault (hockey romance, standalone in Hometown Players series)
Fighting to Be Free by Kirsty Moseley (bad boy romance, first in a duet)
Too Wild to Tame by Tessa Bailey (sexy romance – he falls for his boss’ daughter, can standalone)
My Song for You by Stina Lindenblatt (rock star suddenly finds out he’s a dad to a deaf son, can standalone)
Just A Kiss by Denise Hunter (military romance with an injured hero, can standalone)
The Rainbow Rowell Collection by Rainbow Rowell (includes Elanor & Part, Landline, Carry On, and Fangirl)
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists by J.K. Rowling
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies by J.K. Rowling
Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide by J.K. Rowling
Leave Me: A Novel by Gayle Forman (Women’s Fiction standalone)
Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb (crime solving/suspense, In Death series)
Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre (psychological thriller/suspense standalone)
Sacking the Quarterback by Samantha Towle (football sports romance, can standalone)
Unthinkable by Nina Croft (paranormal romance, first in new series)
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas (YA fantasy, Throne Of Glass Series)
Love Warrior: A Memoir by Glennon Doyle Melton (Oprah 2016 Selection)
Because I’m Watching by Christina Dodd (romantic suspense in Virtue Falls series)
Seducing My Assistant by J. S. Cooper, Helen Cooper (sequel to Falling For My Boss)

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DETAILED LIST: NEW RELEASES

The One Real Thing by Samantha Young — New Release!!

Can standalone: “When she comes across a set of old love letters in the prison’s library and visits [a small town] to deliver them to their intended recipient, she finds herself unable to resist the town’s charm—and her attraction to the sexy owner of a local bar proves equally hard to deny.

Since his divorce from his unfaithful ex-wife, he’s focused on what really matters: his family and the boardwalk pub they’ve owned for generations. But the first time she steps into his bar, he’s beyond tempted to risk his heart on her…”

The Protector by Jodi Ellen Malpas — New Release!!

Standalone: “Nothing could prepare her for the ex-SAS sniper who crashes into her life. He resides in his own personal hell. He was distracted from duty once before, and the consequences were devastating—both personally and professionally. He vowed never to let that happen again. Accepting the job of her bodyguard isn’t the kind of distraction he should take, yet protecting the heiress seems the lesser of two evils. But he soon discovers that she isn’t the woman she’s perceived to be. She’s warm, compassionate, her presence settling, and his duty to protect her soon goes deeper than a well-paid job, no matter how hard he fights it. He needs absolution. He comes to need her. But he knows he can’t have both.”

Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen — New Release!!

Can standalone: In high school they were the perfect couple—until the day she left him… — Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL. But on the first day he’s called up to the team, he gets checked on both sides, first by the team’s coach—who has a long simmering grudge, and then by their sexy, icy publicist—his former girlfriend. Saying goodbye to him was one of the hardest things she ever had to do and she’s determined to keep their relationship strictly professional, but when a press conference microphone catches him declaring his feelings for her, things get personal really fast…

Viewing Room by L.P. Dover — New Release!!

Can standalone: The rules are simple… break them and you’re out.
Rule #1 — No names.
It doesn’t matter if you want to know, it’s forbidden.
Rule #2 — No exchanging numbers.
It doesn’t matter if you want to call, it’s forbidden.
Rule #3 — Everything is to remain strictly anonymous.
It doesn’t matter if you want to tell, it’s forbidden.

Whatever your desire.
Whatever your fantasy.
The Viewing Room will make it happen.

For her, it’s an escape.
For him, entering the Viewing Room means he’s been selected.
What you witness in the viewing room will have you asking for more…

Banking Her by Max Monroe — New Release!!

Follow up to Banking The Billionaire: They have finally found their perfect balance of good and sweet, crazy and playful, and most importantly, hot and insatiable. But what happens when they’re faced with a surprise neither of them plotted or schemed?

While she seems to be taking everything in stride, he can’t stop himself from worrying about every little thing revolving around the woman he loves. How does a man handle that kind of anxiety? Doing the only thing he can to ease his mind without pushing away the woman he loves, he proves that once again, when it comes to them, you’ll never see what’s coming…

Change of Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn — New Release!!

Can standalone: They’ve spent their lives pushing each other away, but what will happen when they need each other most? She doesn’t expect much from life. Growing up on the street, bouncing from one foster home to another, she learned to rely only on herself. Even after she finally found a loving family to take her in, she was still an outsider — something one of the family’s older sons, never let her forget. He doesn’t know how she always manages to get under his skin, only that’s she’s been doing it since they were teens. She’s gorgeous. But he’s never met anyone as pissed off at the world as her.

For fifteen years, they have agreed on exactly one thing: they can’t stand each other — until one night when their anger gives way to passion…

Winning It All by Victoria Denault — New Release!!

Can standalone: “She’s so over hockey. It ruined her parents’ marriage. It spoiled her brother’s dreams. And let’s not even talk about her college boyfriend… So when he walks into her brother’s gym, she has no idea who he is. All she knows is that he’s one gorgeous man with the sexiest accent she’s ever heard. And since she never has to see him again, she lets him give her the best orgasm of her life right on top of the gym’s dryer… But he isn’t going to let this one-night stand get away so easily. He fights for what he wants, even if it takes fighting a little dirty…”

Fighting to Be Free by Kirsty Moseley — Live at midnight!!

First in duet: All his life, people have told him that he was born bad. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But that doesn’t matter now. Because after a lifetime of demons, he has finally found an angel… She learned the hard way that boys can’t be trusted. But the night she meets him, something shifts. He’s different: brooding, a bit dark, determined to change. The connection they share is intense, compelling. She tries to resist, but with each breathtaking kiss, she can’t help falling deeper… When fate goes horribly wrong, his only hope of saving his family is to strike a deal with the devil. Most of all, he wants to prove he’s the person she believes him to be. But if she learns just how much he’s been hiding, she won’t be able to believe anything he has ever told her..

My Song for You by Stina Lindenblatt — New Release!!

Can standalone: At twenty-one, he had been prepared to give up the life of a touring musician to be a father after getting his girlfriend pregnant. When she told him that she’d gotten an abortion, he was devastated.

She hasn’t seen her sister’s ex since high school. But after she bumps into him while she’s grocery shopping with four-year-old Logan, there’s a spark that wasn’t there before. He quickly realizes that her deaf “son” is the same age his own child would have been. When he demands to know more about Logan, she panics. There are things she just can’t tell him… Trouble is, he refuses to be pushed away, and the more quality time he spends with Logan, the more he hopes that the three of them have what it takes to become a real family…

Just A Kiss by Denise Hunter — New Release!!

Can standalone: When his tour is up, he intends to confess his feelings to her and win his best friend’s heart once and for all… But all that changes when an IED takes the life of a comrade and leaves him an amputee. Now he’s heading home, injured and troubled. His plans to win her are a distant dream. But upon his return he discovers his family has arranged for him to stay with her.

She’s happy to take care of her best buddy. By all appearances he’s adjusting miraculously well to his disability. But as the days pass, she begins to see that the smiles and laughter are just a mask for the pain he’s hiding. As the weeks wear on with the two in such close proximity, her feelings for him begin to shift into unchartered territory. Will he let his heart heal so he can let her in?

Leave Me: A Novel by Gayle Forman — New Release!!

Standalone: Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention—meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn’t even realize she’s had a heart attack [and] she does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is often the case, once we get where we’re going we see our lives from a different perspective. Far from the demands of family and career and with the help of liberating new friendships, she able to own up to secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves…. This novel confronts the ambivalence of modern motherhood head on and asks, what happens when a grown woman runs away from home?

Too Wild to Tame by Tessa Bailey — New Release!!

Can standalone: By day, he suits up, shakes hands, and acts the perfect gentleman. But at night, behind bedroom doors, the tie comes off and the real him comes out to play. Mixing business with pleasure got him fired, so if he wants to work for the country’s most powerful senator, he’ll have to keep his eye on the prize. That’s easier said than done when he meets the senator’s daughter, who’s wild, gorgeous, and 100 percent trouble…

She’s the black sheep of her conservative family. Yet while his presence reminds her of a past she’d rather forget, something in his eyes keeps drawing her in. Or maybe it’s because deep down inside, the ultra-smooth, polished guy might be more than even she can handle …

Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre — New Release!!

Standalone: Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she’d said and done, too. And when she was detained by the police for shoplifting, a crime she didn’t remember committing, the confusion and blackouts that had begun to plague her took on a more sinister cast. Her marriage started to come apart at the seams.

Now Sophie is in much deeper water: the young boy she nannies is dead while in her care, a tragedy of which she has no memory. Afraid for her sanity and of what the police will do to her when the body is discovered, Sophie goes on the run, changing her identity and appearance to evade the law. Forced to lead a very different kind of life, one on the margins of society, Sophie wonders where everything went wrong…

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists by J.K. Rowling

Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies by J.K. Rowling

Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide by J.K. Rowling

A collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on pottermore.com with some exclusive new additions. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J.K. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters’ lives and surprises from the wizarding world.