LATEST NEW RELEASES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & PRE-ORDERS — Week of June 20, 2016

JUST FINISHED READING: Full Tilt by Emma Scott (Read my Review)  
*** CRYING *** Oh WOW!!!! I just finished reading this GORGEOUS upcoming book!!! My gosh, those FEELS were epic! Honestly, I thought I was handling my emotions pretty well for most of the 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! I really love finding books that can deliver this kind of raw, emotional intensity. It’s an unconventional love story and I would most highly recommended it for fans of Me Before You. It has ALL THE FEELS!! And luckily, it releases in just a few days away so be sure to pre-order!!

 
NEW TOP RECOMMENDATION: Say You’ll Stay by Corinne Michaels (Read my Review)
SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!! OMG. OMG!!!! This was one of the SWOONIEST second chance romances I’ve ever read!!! The hero and heroine had fallen in love as teens and were reunited after seventeen years apart! It had all the emotional intensity of a passionately reunited love, mixed in with deep feels that made me tear up, and even hilarious moments that made me laugh out loud too. It was SEXY, ADDICTIVE, and totally unputdownable!! I also absolutely LOVED that this couple genuinely TALKED through their issues. Everything they went though, even their mistakes, made SENSE and their story was such a joy to read. Oh, and THE EPILOGUE WAS PERFECT!!!!!!

 
ARC REVIEW & RECOMMENDATION: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover (Read my Review)  
WOW. WOW. WOW!!! This is one of those books that everyone should read. A beautifully inspiring story and one of the most POWERFUL books of 2016!! It wasn’t anything like what I expected, but it delivered SO MUCH more than I ever hoped for. It’s the kind of story that I want to give to every woman and be like… READ THIS BOOK. NOW. Come to think of it, men should read it too. EVERYONE should read it. It’s a story of unshakable LOVE and finding the STRENGTH to make the right choice. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been PROUDER of a heroine. I love this author’s books because she always writes UNIQUE stories… and this one left a lasting mark on my heart. It’s one of those profoundly unforgettable stories that will stay with me for a long time! Be sure to pre-order a copy!

 
JUST ANNOUNCED: Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley

“From Kristen Ashley, comes the long-awaited story of Daisy and Marcus.
A prequel to the Rock Chick series, Rock Chick Reawakening shares the tale of the devastating event that nearly broke Daisy, an event that set Marcus Sloane—one of Denver’s most respected businessmen and one of the Denver underground’s most feared crime bosses—into finally making his move to win the heart of the woman who stole his.”

 
JUST ANNOUNCED: All-New Kindle E-reader – White, 6″ Glare-Free Touchscreen Display, Wi-Fi
Ooh!! Amazon announced an ALL-NEW KINDLE today and… it’s WHITE!!! Okay, technically, it’s available in your choice of black or white but this is the first one like this I’ve seen that has a white option. How pretty!!! This new design is thinner and lighter. It’s easy on your eyes because the touchscreen display reads like real paper. There’s no screen glare, even in bright sunlight. A single battery charge lasts for week, and it holds thousands of books! Check out the new design!! — Want to see others models to compare? Here are all Kindle eReaders.

WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP

• Say You’ll Stay by Corinne Michaels (TOP FAVORITE!!! — second chance romance standalone)
• Yours by Jasinda Wilder (her husband is killed and she falls in love with the man who received his heart)
• Always by Nina Lane (final book in amazing Spiral of Bliss series, passionate romance/beautiful writing)
• A Bird on a Windowsill by Laura Miller (second chance small-town romance standalone)
• Unbreak My Heart by Lorelei James (bad boy romance, standalone spin-off of Rough Riders series)
• A Measure of Love by Sophie Jackson (second chance romance standalone in A Pound of Flesh series)
• Easy Kisses by Kristen Proby (standalone romance, The Boudreaux Series series)
• Stripped Bare by Emma Hart (‘He was supposed to be my one night stand… not my new client’)
• Dirty Sexy Cuffed by Carly Phillips (sexy cop romance standalone, Dirty Sexy series)
• Ramsay by Mia Sheridan (angsty romance standalone)
• Tapping Her by Max Monroe (fun romance novella sequel to Tapping The Billionaire)
• To See You by Rachel Blaufeld (‘It’s a random encounter on an airplane; it couldn’t mean anything, right?’)
• Hero by Julia Sykes (BDSM romantic suspense standalone)
• Diablo Lake: Moonstruck by Lauren Dane (paranormal romance)
• Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde (biker romance re-release, SAME book as original version slightly edited)
• The Words We Leave Unspoken by L.D. Cedergreen (Women’s Fiction standalone)
• A Midsummer Night’s Fling by Eliza Walker (sexy romantic comedy, can standalone)
• Into the Fire by Meredith Wild (playboy firefighter falls in love, Bridge series standalone)
• Yours and Mine by Lacey Silks (childhood friend-to-lovers/second chance romance standalone)
• Mr. Romantic by J.A. Huss (workplace romance standalone in The Mister Series)
• Bad Boys After Dark: Mick by Melissa Foster (she discovers the man she’s made out with is her off-limits boss)
• Stay Until We Break by Mercy Brown (rock star romance, A Hub City Romance standalone)
• The Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake by Jessica Clare (surprise pregnancy, Billionaires and Bridesmaids series)
• Stealing His Thunder by Sparrow Beckett (she steals a car from the tattooed hero but he falls in love with her)
• Inseverable by Cecy Robson (unexpected love, former military hero — can standalone)
• Never Ever by Sara Saedi (YA fairy-tale adaptation — Peter Pan)
• Born of Legend by Sherrilyn Kenyon (sexy sci-fi romance, The League series)

DETAILED LIST: NEW RELEASES

 

Say You’ll Stay by Corinne Michaels — New Release!!

TOP FAVORITE! Standalone: “Stay. It was all he had to do. Instead, he got on that bus and took my heart with him. That was seventeen years ago.

I moved on. Marriage. Kids. White picket fence. Everything I ever wanted, but my husband betrayed me and I was left once again. Alone, penniless, and with two boys, I had no choice but to return to Tennessee. He wasn’t supposed to be there… However, fate has a way of stepping in. This time around, the tables are turned. It’s my decision. Second chances do exist, but I don’t know if we can repair what’s already been broken…”

 

Yours by Jasinda Wilder — New Release!!

Standalone: “When my husband died, my life ended. My purpose, my passion, my everything bled out with him on the side of the Pacific Coast Highway. He was an organ donor. His eyes, his brain, his lungs, his heart…parts of my husband went out and saved lives.

Then his heart, beating in another man’s chest, found its way back to me, and I found myself faced with an impossible choice: hold on to the pain and beauty of the past and the memory of the man I loved, or reach for a bold new future, knowing each heartbeat will be a reminder of all I’ve lost.”

 

Always by Nina Lane — New Release!!

Spiral of Bliss finale: Without darkness, there can be no light.
Dean has always been Liv’s white knight. Not once has he retreated from battle. Not once has he failed to keep his wife safe. Not once has he broken his promise to slay monsters for her.

Then Dean encounters a monster he can’t destroy. A monster he can’t even face. And for the first time ever, there is nothing he can do to protect the woman who owns his heart.

 

A Bird on a Windowsill by Laura Miller — New Release!!

Standalone: “They’ve known each other since childhood, and nearly every memory they each hold, they share together. But when she tells him that her family is moving only days into their sophomore year of high school, he’s devastated. … They vow to spend the rest of her time together, rewinding the last ten years of their young lives, until one day, he wakes up, and she’s gone.

But that’s not the last time their paths cross… Life continues to intertwine their stories, until one sunny afternoon, he walks into their hometown’s newspaper office and looks up to a familiar face. It’s her, and she’s just the same as the last time he saw her. The only problem is, he’s not…”

Based in small-town Missouri, this tells the story of a boy and a girl who share one past. And now, having spent the last six years apart, they both must navigate the delicate line of loving and letting go, until they’re each faced with a choice that could change their future—and their story…”

 

Unbreak My Heart by Lorelei James — New Release!!

Can standalone: “Seven years have passed since I fell for him. The brooding bad boy. We were friends, even when I secretly wanted more, but I settled for what he offered. After he left town—and me—I grew up. Moved on. Or so I believed. Until he blew back into my life with the scorching force of a desert wind.

I’m not that innocent sixteen-year-old girl anymore—I’m a businesswoman who swore never to settle again. But this older, wiser, hotter version of him unsettles me. How am I supposed to resist his megawatt smile and his built army-strong body? Especially when he’s inserting himself into every aspect of my life? Now he’s determined to prove he can offer me everything that he couldn’t before… and he’s the only man that can fix the heart that he broke.”

 

A Measure of Love by Sophie Jackson — New Release!!

Can standalone: “Life in New York for ex-con Riley Moore is pretty damn good, until a call from his mother shatters the calm… Leaving everything behind, he flies home for the first time in five years [and] tries not to think about the only girl he ever truly cared about, and who broke his heart… When they inevitably meet, memories of their love make him yearn to reconnect, despite the pain they both suffered. Though she’s wary, and has a secret she’s hidden from him for five years, she has little willpower when it comes to him and she agrees. Besides, after all that has gone before, she owes it to both of them to find out if they can love each other again…”

 

Easy Kisses by Kristen Proby — New Release!!

Can standalone: “Handsome, witty and wealthy, he seemingly has everything a man could want. But appearances can be deceiving… When it comes to his own love life, he’s a giant, sexy mess. Divorced, and convinced that he’ll never love again, the very last thing he expects is her… She has her life together. Great career, amazing family, nice home, and loyal friends. So what if she doesn’t have a man? She doesn’t need one. If she’s learned anything in her almost thirty years, it’s that men are more trouble than they’re worth. And they have a nasty habit of breaking your heart into a million tiny pieces. Except [when] he smiles at her, the butterflies are ridiculous…”

 

Stripped Bare by Emma Hart — New Release!!

Standalone: What do you get when you mix a bachelorette party, the queen of dating disasters, and a stripper so hot he was forged from the fires of hell? Screwed. You get screwed….

Cocky. Commanding. Powerful. Relentless. Those four words all summed up West Rykman perfectly. So did filthy, dirty, sexy, and addictive. He was supposed to be my one night stand…not my new marketing client. He was definitely not supposed to be back inside my pants, not that anybody told him that. I knew one thing: What West Rykman wanted, West Rykman got. And he wanted me.

 

Dirty Sexy Cuffed by Carly Phillips — New Release!!

Can standalone: Are you ready to get cuffed? — “As a cop, he’s all about discipline and control … in the bedroom, and out of it, and he’s always been very careful about choosing women who abide by his rules. Hot sex and intense pleasure? No problem. Emotional commitment and forever promises? No way. But he never anticipates falling for a blue eyed angel who makes him want to cuff her to his bed and do dirty, sexy things to her. And that control of his? It doesn’t stand a chance against the one woman he can’t resist…”

 

Ramsay by Mia Sheridan — New Release!!

Standalone: “She is shocked when he suddenly reappears in her life. Several years before, he was the son of her family’s gardener, and the boy she hurt and betrayed. But he’s no longer the quiet, sensitive boy she remembers. Now he’s a man—gorgeous, powerful… and seeking vengeance.

He can’t let go of the memory of her tricking him cruelly, leaving his heart shattered and his family penniless. And now he’s back to destroy her family the way his was destroyed. There’s only one problem… the girl who wounded him so badly years ago is now a woman who still has the power to render him breathless…”

 

To See You by Rachel Blaufeld — New Release!!

Standalone: “What is it about this guy?

On paper, he’s one hundred percent wrong for me. His e-mails are equal parts annoying and funny. Okay, more funny than annoying. More like refreshing. Different. Exciting. But as I stand next to him now, he’s giving me head-to-toe tingles…

She has everything except happiness until the day she meets him. It’s a random encounter on an airplane; it couldn’t mean anything, right?”

 

Hero by Julia Sykes — New Release!!

Standalone: Dex…“After losing the love of my life, I don’t have a heart left to give anyone. So when my friend tries to set me up with BDSM romance author Chloe Martin, the only answer I can give is “hell no.” Unfortunately for me, Chloe is also a journalist working a story, and my boss orders me to protect her while she carries out her research. But she’s so reckless, I’m going to have my hands full keeping her alive, let alone keeping her in line.”

Chloe… “Dex Scott is sexy as sin and completely off-limits. After what my bastard ex-husband put me through, I’m not interested in intimacy of any kind. But the chemistry between us is undeniable, and when Dex makes it clear that he wants to help with my research in the field and in the bedroom, I can’t resist.”

 

The Words We Leave Unspoken by L.D. Cedergreen — New Release!!

Women’s Fiction: At thirty-six, Gwen Porter has always done the right thing. A selfless pillar of strength, devoted wife and mother of two, she thrives on caring for those she loves. When Gwen learns a shattering, life-changing truth, her deepest concern is telling her husband, John. She finds herself on a destructive path of deceit and when her strength is tested, she turns to the most unlikely person.

For Charley Brant, Gwen’s carefree, younger sister, life is about surviving another dead-end job or her next train-wreck relationship. She lives in the moment, denying herself any hope for a future.

As Gwen faces her darkest fear and an uncertain future, Charley turns to the past, unraveling secrets that will change everything that has come to define her. And in the wake of a tragedy, each will come to recognize that sometimes the most important words are the hardest ones to say.

 

A Midsummer Night’s Fling by Eliza Walker — New Release!!

Sick of her vagabond life in a Broadway touring company, Nicola is ready to settle down. She wants nothing more than to leave her past firmly behind her. Too bad her past comes knocking on her door her first day home. All six-foot-three, beautiful man of her past named Max. Stupid Max. The mistake Nicola just can’t seem to stop making.

Max is in trouble. She will always be the one who got away. Three times. Which makes convincing her to play Titania to his Oberon a bit…awkward. Though she has zero desire to re-re-rekindle an old flame, Nicola can’t turn down the chance Max is offering: a lead role with the West Coast’s premiere Shakespeare company. But when their first rehearsal kiss disintegrates into a passionate liplock, she’s questioning her sanity and tempted to jump ship—before Max can break her heart again. Now it’s up to Max to convince her that the torch he’s been carrying is actually an eternal flame.

 

Into the Fire by Meredith Wild — New Release!!

Can standalone: “He’s living a bachelor’s dream. When he’s not running into burning buildings with his crew, he’s training the flavor of the week at his brother’s gym. Few women have ever been off limits…until her. She’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. Too bad he’s sworn to leave her alone.

Overworked with no end in sight, she hasn’t had a vacation in nearly two years. When [her friends’] destination wedding takes her out of the office for a much-needed break, she finds herself struggling to resist her attraction to the best man… But with everything else on her plate, she doesn’t have room in her life for a man, let alone a player. Can he find his way into her heart and convince her that he’s worth the risk?”

 

Yours and Mine by Lacey Silks — New Release!!

Standalone: “We share the same birthday and breathe the same air.

My best friend Nick, lives next door and our windows are only a foot apart. I know him better than he knows himself, but I can’t tell him that because well, he’s a boy… that is, until he grows up and becomes a man. A strong, handsome and persuasive man I would die for. He is the first person I see each morning, and the last person I see when I go to sleep at night. My life is his and his is mine and everything would have been perfect if he didn’t choose to leave…”

 

Stay Until We Break by Mercy Brown — New Release!!

Can standalone: “When she’s offered the job of tour manager for her best friend’s band, she jumps at the chance for some real life experience. When her number one crush, the bassist, jumps her the first night on tour, she hopes she’s in for three weeks of some hot backstage action, too. But he turns out to have more up his sleeve than she or anyone realized.

Nobody knows that he’s quitting his dream to take a more practical job and settle down. What he hadn’t planned was to fall in love with a girl he believes is out of his league. Will he play out the rock star fantasy he thinks she wants from him, or tell her the truth and take the chance that she’ll either break his heart or make an even bigger dream come true?

DETAILED LIST: MIDNIGHT RELEASES

 

Mr. Romantic by J.A. Huss — Live at midnight!!

Can standalone: Charm is the key to the world. Charisma, magnetism, sex appeal—that ‘it’ factor that can’t be described. Nolan Delaney has it is spades. The infamous Mr. Romantic. And maybe he is out of my league… But I’m going to give it the old college try anyway. Because I didn’t travel two thousand miles for a job interview at his request just to be put out like trash.

Don’t underestimate me, Mr. Delaney.
I’m really not as innocent as I look.

 

Bad Boys After Dark: Mick by Melissa Foster — Live at midnight!!

Can standalone: Entertainment attorney Mick Bad lives by two hard and fast rules. He never mixes business with pleasure, and he doesn’t do relationships, which makes the anonymity of a masquerade bar crawl the perfect place for a onetime hookup.

Amanda thinks she’s hit the jackpot when she bags a tall, dark, and sinfully delicious masked man–until she discovers the man she’s made out with is her off-limits boss. Mick’s already crossed a line he can never uncross, and one taste of sweet and sexy Amanda has only whet his appetite. When Mick offers to give Amanda a lesson in seduction–no strings, no regrets, and for goodness’ sake, come Monday, no quitting–the tables turn, and Mick’s totally unprepared for the lessons this sweet temptress provides.

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