SALES, NEW RELEASES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & PRE-ORDERS — Week of March 29, 2016

 
NEW TOP FAVORITE: So Much More by Kim Holden (Read my Review) 
WOAH!! This book was absolutely beautiful! I’ve been meaning to read one of this author’s books for ages so when she announced this one, I couldn’t resist and… HOLY FEELS!! I went from swooning in love to literally shaking with anger to shedding tears and back to swooning. The writing was gorgeous and the story was captivating. I highlighted 64 favorite quotes!! It tackles, with stunning insight, topics such as marriage, divorce, love, loss, family… and at the story’s heart is the overwhelmingly powerful depth of a father’s devotion to his children. I guarantee that you will fall in love with this hero. It’s impossible not to. He will straight-up steal your heart forever. It’s finally live so do grab a copy!

 
NEW TOP FAVORITE: Feels Like Summertime by Tammy Falkner (Read my Review)
SQUEEEEE!!!! Ahhh!!! You guys!!! This was the ultimate feel-good, fun, sexy, light-hearted romance that had me laughing, swooooooooning, smiling, and falling in love the whole way through!! It’s a second chance romance — the heroine is a single mom of four kids, and the hero is a guy she’d fallen in love with when they were younger… and eighteen years later, they’re reunited and fall in love again!! OMG the way he just accepted her children was so heart-warming. Pure swoon material!!! The banter was fantastic, the romance was gorgeous, and I even cried happy tears in the epilogue (I love letters!!!). Totally loved it!!!!! It’s a standalone romance so be sure to grab a copy!!

 
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*** WEEKLY NEW RELEASES RECAP ***

 
HOT NEW RELEASES (NOW LIVE):  

• So Much More by Kim Holden (gorgeous post-divorce romance standalone — TOP FAVORITE!)
• Feels like Summertime by Tammy Falkner (second chance romance standalone — TOP FAVORITE!)
• Unseen Messages by Pepper Winters (a survival romance standalone — plane crash)
• Forever Pucked by Helena Hunting (fun, sexy hockey romance, sequel to Pucked)
• Hardball by CD Reiss (sexy sports romance standalone)
• Breaking Her by RK Lilley (angsty romance, sequel to Breaking Him)
• This is Love, Baby by K Webster (dark romance sequel to This Is War, Baby)
• Logan Kade by Tijan (OMG, just read this blurb!!! standalone romance)
• Rushing the Goal by Toni Aleo (single mom/hockey player romance, can standalone)
• Sinful Love by Lauren Blakely (steamy, sexy, suspenseful romance standalone, Sinful Nights series)
• Dare Me by Rebecca Shea (Five coworkers. Four drinks. One dare. — standalone romance)
• The Best I Could by RK Ryals (raw and sexy New Adult romance standalone)
• In Your Dreams by Ginger Scott (standalone rock star-ish romance, The Falling Series)
• Cuff Me by Lauren Layne (contemporary romance, hero is a cop)
• Heartbreaker by Melody Grace (sexy, heart-felt rock star romance standalone)
• Scarred Souls by Tillie Cole (raw, gritty romance bundle of 2 highly-rated standalones)
• Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis (Special Forces officer finds a woman living on a boat at his dock)
• As Good As New by Jennifer Dawson (second chance bad boy/sports romance standalone)
• Intent by AD Justice (opposites attract romance)
• Down To My Soul by Kennedy Ryan (contemporary romance sequel to My Soul To Keep)
• Finn by Ahren Sanders (former military hero falls for the girl next door)
• Casting Stones by LM Carr (friends to lovers romance, Duet #1)
• Say You Love Me by JS Cooper (she falls for her best friend’s brother, standalone romance)
• Love Will by Lori Otto (she shows him how to believe in love again)
• Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry (YA biker romance standalone, Thunder Road series)
• Damaged Pieces by Allie Able (military romance standalone, Cape Isle series)
• Edge of Surrender by Laura Griffin (action romance, sequel to At The Edge)
• The Do-Over by L.E. Bross (he’s helping her rebuild her house and falls for her)
• Darkness by Karen Robards (romantic suspense: she rescues him from a plane crash in Alaska)
• Trust Me by Sophie Holloway (conclusion to Lessons In Seduction serial)
• Guilty Needs by Shiloh Walker (he falls for his late wife’s best friend)
• Saving This by Hadley Quinn (final book in the McCallans series)
• Love & Lies by Julie Johnson (bundle of 2 standalone romances from a fav author)
• A Keeper’s Truth by Dee Willson (is she going crazy?)
• The Darkest Angel by Gena Showalter (paranormal romance, Lords of the Underworld)

 

So Much More by Kim Holden — New Release!!

TOP FAVORITE!! Gorgeous post-divorce romance standalone! (Read my Review)
— “Love is strange. It comes out of nowhere. There’s no logic to it. It’s not methodical. It’s not scientific. It’s pure emotion and passion. And emotion and passion can be dangerous because they fuel love… and hate.

When I fell in love with her, it was swift and blind. She was the person I’d elevated to mythical status in my head, in my dreams. Here’s the thing about dreams, they’re smoke. They’re spun as thoughts until they become something we think we want. Something we think we need… That was her. She was smoke. I thought I wanted her. I thought I needed her. Over time reality crept in and slowly dissected and disemboweled my dreams like a predator, leaving behind a rotting carcass.

Reality can be a fierce bitch.
So can she.

And I can be a fool…
who believes in dreams.
And people.
And love.

 

Feels like Summertime by Tammy Falkner — New Release!!

TOP FAVORITE!!! Second chance romance standalone! Read my Review
— “She was the first girl I ever loved… We spent one summer together at Lake Fisher when we were sixteen and then I never saw her again. My life is shit, my job is gone, and my dad had a stroke, so I find myself back at Lake Fisher once again. And so does she… She’s married with three kids and one more on the way, but when she shows up with her kids, danger trails her all the way there. I could do a lot of things. I could leave and go home. I could stay and deal with it. But what I want most of all is just to take care of her. If I concentrate on her, maybe I won’t have to face my own problems. Yeah, that’s it. Fix her…”

 

Unseen Messages by Pepper Winters — New Release!!

A survival romance standalone! — “There is a message for everything. From handwritten to verbal, seen and unseen. Messages exist all around us… But what if you don’t see? What if, by ignoring the message, your life is never the same again?

Two strangers. One plane. Multiple unseen messages… From sky to island, they find neither fame nor skills can save them. Stripped from society and left alone to survive the elements, the very task of staying alive outweighs all other needs. Until survival turns to desire. And desire turns to danger.”

 

Forever Pucked by Helena Hunting — New Release!!

Fun, sexy hockey romance, sequel to Pucked!
— “Being engaged to the highest paid NHL player in the league is awesome. How could it not be? In addition to being an amazing hockey player, he’s an incurable romantic with an XL heart, and an XXL hockey stick in his pants. And he knows how to use it. Incredibly, orgasmically well. He’s the whole package and more. Literally. Like his package is insane. Total world record holder material… So it makes complete sense that she can’t wait to nail him down to the matrimonial mattress. It’s so romantic. She’s totally stoked to set a date. Eventually. At some point. Likely before the next millennium. Or when she stops getting hives every time someone brings up the wedding, and their mothers stop colluding on stadium sized venues. Whichever comes first.”

 

Hardball by CD Reiss — New Release!!

Steamy, sexy sports romance standalone!
— “Perfect ass. Perfect arms. Perfect swagger. He’s the hottest commodity in baseball and in the bedroom. When he runs the bases, every woman’s eyes are glued to his stunning body and a smile that puts the night lights to shame… I’m a regular girl with a regular job. I just watch him on TV and from the bleachers, season after season. Girls like me grab a guy like that one in a million times… But there’s not a woman in the world who can distract him from the game. Not for a moment. Not even me. Until the night I do. And everything changes…”

 

Breaking Her by RK Lilley — New Release!!

Angsty romance, conclusion to story that began in Breaking Him!
— Our love was cursed from the start.
She didn’t know it, but I did.
All she knew was that I’d lied to her, betrayed her. Done unforgivable things. Unavoidable things. Yes, I had broken promises as surely as I had broken her heart. But, just as every war has casualties, and every lie has consequences–every bastard has his reasons.

 

This is Love, Baby by K Webster — New Release!!

Dark romance sequel to This Is War, Baby!
— My war was over and I had lost. My captor reminded me I was nothing more than his pawn. His strategy never changed…it was always me. But what he didn’t know was that love always wins. In my war, I’d found not only peace, but love as well. I’d been through a battlefield with my war and love was what brought us to the other side. Our love was beautiful and pure.

My captor thinks he has won this war. That I will love him. What he doesn’t know is this time, I’m the one with a strategy. I’m always thinking several moves ahead of him, my war taught me that. I will outsmart him and find peace again. This is a war I will win. My love will conquer all.

 

Logan Kade by Tijan — New Release!!

Contemporary romance. Can be read as a standalone!
— You think you know me? Manwhore. Partier. Fighter. You know what? You’re right. I’m all those things. Fuck with mine and I’ll fuck you ten times harder… So yeah, I may fit the bad boy image, but there’s so much more you don’t know… I’m loyal to a damned fault. I’ll never leave your side. The real me isn’t a manwhore. When I love, I love hard and completely.

She saw that side of me. Inside of me. She saw my darkness and pain, and the second she did, she owned me. You may think you know me…but she’s the only one who sees me.

 

Rushing the Goal by Toni Aleo — New Release!!

Single mom/hockey player romance, can be read as a standalone!
— “She grew up with three younger brothers, met a bad boy, got pregnant by him, married him, and then suffered through a nasty divorce from him… Through it all, she survived. All she cared about was making sure her daughter was happy and taken care of. Despite an ex-husband hell-bent on ruining her life, she’s gotten to the point that she’s okay with being just okay. She never cared about herself because she never had the time… but that all changed when [the hero] offered to help her daughter on the ice…”

 

Sinful Love by Lauren Blakely — New Release!!

Steamy, sexy, suspenseful romance standalone in the Sinful Nights series!
— “Intense. Devoted. Protective. He is all of the above, with a hard tough edge to boot. He’s not the guy he used to be. Years ago, before all the shit went down, he was laidback, carefree, and even happy-go-lucky. Life changed him. Hardened him… There’s one woman though who can break down his walls. Someone who knew him then. Who can reach inside to that heart he protects fiercely… because she’s the only one he ever gave it to.”

 

Dare Me by Rebecca Shea — New Release!!

Contemporary romance standalone.
— Five coworkers. Four drinks.
Three glances. Two fleeting smiles.
One dare. A dare that will change my life.

That’s all it takes to send me plummeting into the arms of the mysterious Holt Hamilton. Behind his crystal blue eyes is a secret, one that screams danger but calls to me anyway. My name is Saige Phillips. I never walk away from a dare.

 

Heartbreaker by Melody Grace — New Release!!

A sexy, heart-felt rock star romance standalone!
— “They say that time heals a broken heart, but you try moving on when your ex is the most famous man on the planet. At least, that’s what it feels like every time I see a magazine cover or billboard plastered with his gorgeous face… Now he’s a drop-dead sexy rock star, but when I knew him, he was just the boy from the wrong side of the tracks – and the first guy I ever loved. He broke my heart into a hundred pieces when he skipped town without saying goodbye – but now he’s back… And he wants me.”

 

The Best I Could by RK Ryals — New Release!!

A raw and sexy New Adult romance standalone!

— I met him on the roof of a hospital the day my father died.
He was smoking a cigarette, and I was lost.
It was an abysmal beginning.
It was the start of something huge.

 

 

In Your Dreams by Ginger Scott — New Release!!

Rock star romance standalone in The Falling Series!
— “He’s downright irresistible. Just-right stubble on his chin, body of a boxer and a smirk that stimulates all the right nerves—women have never been a problem. They flock to his swagger and fall for his charm…fast. All except for this one. She’s a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll. And her and him? They have history. He can’t remember it, but she wrote a song about him—and it’s not exactly a love song…”

 

Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis — New Release!!

Contemporary romance standalone! — After an overseas mission goes wrong, Army Special Forces officer Jacob Kincaid knows where he must go: back home. All he needs to scrub away his painful past is fresh mountain air, a lakeside cabin, and quiet solitude. But what he discovers is a gorgeous woman living on a boat at his dock… She has nowhere else to go. She’s broke, intermittently seasick, and fighting a serious attraction to the brooding, dishy, I’m-too-sexy-for-myself guy who’s now claiming her dock. Something about his dark intensity makes her want to tease beyond measure. Neither one wants to give any ground… until they realize the only true home they have is with each other.

 

Scarred Souls by Tillie Cole — New Release!!

Two highly rated dark romance standalones (Reap & Raze)bundled together.
— One man stripped of his freedom, conditioned in captivity to maim, to kill and to slaughter… Violence is all he knows. After years of incarceration in an underground hell, only one thought occupies his mind: revenge… bloody, slow and violent revenge. Revenge on the man who wronged him.

She’s the only daughter of the head of New York’s Russian Bratva. [When] she stumbles across a tattooed, scarred, but stunningly beautiful homeless man on the streets, something about him stirs feelings deep within her. He doesn’t talk. Doesn’t communicate with anyone. He’s a man beyond saving. But she becomes obsessed with him. Yearns for him. Craves his touch. Needs to possess this mysterious man…

 

Damaged Pieces by Allie Able — New Release!!

Military romance standalone in the Cape Isle series!
— “When I was left to raise my daughter alone, I decided dating just wasn’t worth it. I never wanted her to experience the kind of heartbreak only a man can give you and I didn’t have the time, until he came walking into my life with his charming smile and his mischievous eyes. I just wish I would have known how it was going to end.”

“I knew she was it for me the moment I met her, but I had to leave. I had one more tour to do overseas and then I could come home to her for good. Little did we know, I wouldn’t come back the same man. I was damaged beyond repair, so I pushed them away and hurt them. It didn’t take me long to realize the mistake I had made. Now, I will stop at nothing to get them back in my life, but will she want my damaged pieces?”

 

As Good As New by Jennifer Dawson — New Release!!

Second chance romance standalone! — At the tender age of six, she fell for her best friend’s brother. By the time they were teenagers, they were having heart-to-hearts…and hot and heavy top secret make-out sessions. All that changed when his father suddenly died. Abruptly, she lost him to grief—and to his true love: football. But now an injury had ended his NFL career. The notorious bad boy was in a depression no one could penetrate, except maybe the one woman who still knew him best—and still wanted him most.

 

Say You Love Me by JS Cooper — New Release!!

Standalone romance!! — “He’s my best friend’s brother. I’ve known him for years. Fancied him for what seems like forever. And of course, he’s never noticed me. I’ve always been his sister’s annoying friend, but I’m about to change that. I’m going to make him mine. One way or another. The plan is fail proof. Well, not really. There are plenty of things that can go wrong. Plenty of ways that my own heart will get broken. But what’s the path to true love without some risk?”

 
 

Edge of Surrender by Laura Griffin — New Release!!

Action/adventure romantic suspense, sequel to At The Edge!
— He had one job: keep her safe at all costs. But after a night of passion, she takes off and he soon realizes he’s not the only one looking for her. Can he figure out who’s after her, and why, before she falls into the wrong hands…She fighting to get justice for her fallen comrades, but she can’t do it alone. She needs his help, but that means trusting him—and dealing with the desire blazing between them. Can there be any future for a marked woman and a man trained to kill? She hopes they live long enough to find out…

 

The Do-Over by L.E. Bross — New Release!!

Contemporary romance standalone. — Her cheating ex-husband destroyed her family’s company and left her with nothing but the run-down oceanfront cottage she inherited from her parents… Hot-as-hell carpenter Eli Stuart understands new beginnings. He’s willing to bet the feisty brunette in need of major home repairs has never lifted a tool heavier than a nail file—until she’s racing the clock to make her ramshackle home fit for winter and decides she can do it all herself. So he offers her a deal: if she helps him with the renovations, he’ll cut the bill in half… and before long, he can’t keep his hands off her, either…

 

Love Will by Lori Otto — New Release!!

Contemporary romance! — “He had a chance to experience real love for the first time when he was 16. He was smitten with his girlfriend–until he found out she’d been cheating on him. That was all it took to send him down a ruinous path of his own, disbelieving in this fairytale of love he’d almost bought into. Now an adult, he relies on his uncompromising discipline to commit to a new way of life… [and] meets a woman who inspires him and believes in second chances…”

 

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry — New Release!!

YA biker romance standalone in the Thunder Road series!
— One moment of recklessness will change their worlds.. Smart. Responsible. That’s her role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly behavior puts her into a vicious cyberbully’s line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas Turner into her life… He lives for the motorcycle club, and good girls like her just don’t belong. But when he learns she’s being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it’s time to step outside the rules.

 

Darkness by Karen Robards — New Release!!

This “heart-pumping romantic suspense novel” tells the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on a remote island in Alaska, fighting for her life—and that of a handsome stranger—before they’re swallowed up in darkness… — BOOM. That’s the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. A small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. There’s a sole survivor from the crash, and he needs her help. But it turns out that rescuing the stranger and getting them both out of the oncoming storm is just the beginning. Because the more she learns about James “Cal” Callahan, he of brooding eyes and muscled frame, the more she fears—for herself, and for him…

 

Saving This by Hadley Quinn — New Release!!

Final book in the McCallans series! — He is the epitome of a celebrity heartthrob. He’s the name everyone knows and the face everyone recognizes. He is adored, idolized, and acclaimed…but he’s also hated, mocked, and criticized. He grew up as the golden child in a Hollywood dynasty. After years of compliance to his father’s wishes, he’s beginning to shed his responsibilities once and for all. He has forgiveness to obtain, a new workload to balance, and a girl who just might fracture his ego a time too many. He has his own direction and his own goals, but is he willing to lose everything to make them happen?

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A Keeper’s Truth by Dee Willson — Live on Friday!!

“She thinks she’s going crazy when only she sees the naked man in the crowded café, comatose woman in his arms. The nightmares, the visions: something’s not right. But she’s entitled to moments of insanity. She’s the daughter of mental illness, suicide, and her husband was just killed in a car accident, leaving her an inept single mom at twenty-six… Then she meets an illusive bachelor who spins tales from ancient mythology with knowledge beyond his years. His truths intrigue her, pull her from the depths, and might just be what she needs to survive…”

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