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the latest harlequin dare from katee robert, make me need , finds trish livingstone starting life in the city with a job her brother got her in an apartment her brother helps her pay for and she kind of feels like a loser. her first day of work she meets her brother's surly business partner cameron and she's smitten while aware that there is no way she should go there. cameron is her brother's best friend. and he's an insensitive jerk. or at least that's what he appears to be. he's probably borderline on the spectrum, super smart with no ability to read social cues. but the livingstone siblings figure out how to read him. cameron realizes early on that he's in trouble with trish. that she's someone he should stay away from but can't. and that once he makes the choice to be with her, he is all in. and trish kind of has to play catch up. this is an enjoyable, quick read. sexy and with just the right of emotional depth to let you really fall for t...

the cavensham series continues with rogue most wanted , and will cavensham, the eternally jilted is up to find his true love. he meets theodora worth, the current countess of eanruig, who's title is under question as her third cousin, the duke of ferr-colby is out to subsume it under his titles by claiming the charter was mistaken in allowing female heirs. to succeed in the suit, will's great aunt stella, thea's neighbor, suggests that she marry. and offers will up as her perfect match. neither will or thea is interested in marriage, but the more time they spend together the more they regret their initial anti-marriage position. the thing is, there is so much meddling here, the cavenshams are full of opinions. and while that kind of family closeness can be charming, it's literally my worst nightmare and every time i read books with this kind of nosy, opinionated family stuff i want to murder someone on the main character's behalf. will has plenty of people i...

when lindsay morris's twin sister goes missing in deadlock , at first she thinks it's just lena being lena. flighty and irresponsible. but a mysterious text finds lindsay reconnecting with a figure from their past, someone lena wronged and who lindsay always felt something for. jace has plenty of reasons to hold a grudge, but when lena's disappearance appears to wrap into a larger mystery that jace is in the midst of investigating, lindsay finds herself in the middle. neither of them fully trusts the other, but the intense chemistry between them is too hard to ignore. and as the fallout of everything that is happening becomes clear, this is set to spin off to a larger mystery. **deadlock will publish on june 25, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (amara) in exchange for an honest review. 

when emmaline katz ends up in absolution, montana in devil's way out  she has no idea that she's found her home. on the run from a monster who has kept her hostage since she was a teenager, she can't trust anyone with her truth because there's no telling who it puts in more danger. marshall boyer doesn't expect to be enchanted by the disheveled young woman he pulls out of the river. but from the moment he meets her there is connection. he has the sense that he knows her, that there is something between them that feels unnameable in that moment. as the danger surrounding emma comes to absolution, marshall learns more about what makes this woman special, and what makes her his dream come true. the suspense and emotional depth of the story lend it the right amount of weight to balance some of the more mystical elements. **devil's way out will publish on june 24, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (amara) in ex...

book 3 in the forbidden lovers series, for his pleasure , finds dreama agosto trying to reclaim her life after a violent attack. the first day on the job she meets cash turner, a recent parolee on her caseload. if only he wasn't the first person to spike awareness and desire in her. if only she weren't terrified of being touched by a man. if only that wasn't at odds with her submissive, masochistic nature. cash recognizes that need for submission in dreama. he knows it's impossible to act on it. but when they run into each other at a sex club all bets are off. he knows that he's the perfect dominant to soothe dreama's broken soul and bring her to the perfect state of submission her body needs. when dreama notices discrepancies in cash's file, they both start asking questions in order to figure out why cash was railroaded into a plea deal, and suddenly they find themselves in real danger. but figuring out whether it's dreama's past or cash's...

so i read part 1, a love like yours , and this is supposed to function as a duet. and it does, a story like ours  literally picks up where the first book left off. and lucy and sam continue their journey to happily ever after. but i guess my question is, was it necessary for this to be told in two books? do we need to know what happened after they decided they'd be together and work things out? there is something to be said for having the opportunity to spend more time with characters you love. but i'm not sure i felt strongly enough about sam and lucy to feel like it was so necessary. in the end, i felt like their story felt resolved in the first 30 pages of this book and all the rest of it was bonus content. it wasn't necessary for me to enjoy their romance, but others may have fallen in love with the couple to want to know all the details. **a story like ours will publish on june 18, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/grand central publ...

i haven't read previous books by this author, and parental guidance kicks off a new series set in the same world as some of her other books, which had me wondering briefly if i was missing something. this story was fun and sexy, and just the perfect summer read. caleb stuckey is embroiled in a pr nightmare, and his hockey team will suffer consequences if he doesn't step up to the plate with some crazy pr scheme concocted by his mother and the ice knights' pr department. he's going to let his mom pick out a girl for him to date via an app and then agree to interviews about the whole thing. meanwhile, zara ambrose succumbs to her best friend's harassment and joins an online dating app in spite of her serious reservations. but she probably does need to date more, and maybe she'll find the one guy who can make her orgasm because so far she's been unlucky in that regard. the interactions between these two on their dates makes the book just a treat to rea...

the last book in the murphy brothers series finds rugby player sean on the hook for fulfilling his end of the bargain in the marriage requirement of his family's inheritance. one thing that has always been difficult for me in this series is rationalizing why the grandfather would have put a ridiculous codicil like this in his will, especially given that a family business was at stake. the plot of dirty irish  basically involved sean getting his brother's wife's friend, leah, on board with helping him organize his life and find him a wife. except from the get-go he's pretty clear that he wants to explore things with leah. and she doesn't want to for reasons. i don't know. there were some really amazing moments here between these two characters, but then out of left field everyone would be acting like a crazy person or in ways that didn't seem to fit the previous scene. anyway, so there's things that happen and in the end it's one of those books ...

this series is just purely perfect category tropeness, how to lose a fiancé takes on the trying to sabotage an arranged marriage and oops finding out the guy is actually the hero of your dreams trope and does an incredible job of it. dion and sophia are a perfect match, even when they are doing their best to fight it. it's old school harlequin at it's finest, but somehow still feels fresh and is light and frothy with just the right amount of emotional depth to make you feel fully invested in these characters. **how to lose a fiancé will publish on june 17, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (indulgence) in exchange for my honest review. 

caitlin and jonas have a friends with benefits arrangement that has been working for over a year, that is, until jonas decides he wants something more. and caitlin, who has a healthy fear of serious relationships is unwilling to give it to him. and so jonas decides to try to move on with someone who is interested. and caitlin finds herself regretting her inability to tell jonas that she wants the same thing he does. when caitlin's best friend convinces her to try his dating app for 28 dates , she soon realizes that meeting at neutral ground means hanging out at jonas's bar. she tries not to feel guilty about that, especially since she knows he's moving on. it's not his fault she can't forget him and everything they shared. but then she learns that he's dumped the girl he was seeing and she's getting a whole host of mixed signals. when jonas learns that caitlin is on the app, he finagles his way onto it. soon he's chatting with caitlin via the app an...

when daredevil dax cannon inadvertently picks up wild child annelise ansel in forever wild , he has no idea what he's in for. lissa is a free spirit that is impossible to contain, and dax, who is trying to walk the straight and narrow, finds himself drawn to her particular brand of trouble. the connection between these two is instant and undeniable. even though dax does his best to deny it. he doesn't want to like lissa. but her devil-may-care way of fumbling through life is something he finds irresistible. she's the kind of challenge that keeps him on his toes, and even as she cannonballs her way through his life, there is no way he is willing to let her go. **forever wild will publish june 11, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/kensington books (lyrical shine) in exchange for my honest review. 

naughty stranger kicks off the dangerous love series, and finds former nurse peyton moving across the country from seattle to the tiny town of stoney creek, maine. she wants to start over, especially given everything she's lost. her career, her husband, her joy. her first night in town she strolls into a bar. and ends up sharing a hot kiss with a sexy stranger. which is not at all what she meant to do. she's not interested in replacing her husband's memory. she's starting over, not moving on. but boone knight is hard to forget. even though peyton does her best to avoid him after that first night. when she finds a dead body in her lingerie shop, there's no more avoiding him. boone is a cop and there is no way he isn't going to protect the woman he hasn't been able to forget. as the danger swirls around peyton, boone is implacable with his need to protect her and figure out what is going on. as peyton opens up to boone, the connection between them str...

book 2 in the daring divorcees series finds trevor booth dealing with the sudden death of his ex-wife, lisa, and wrangling his two teenaged children. a recovering alcoholic, most everyone is expecting him to relapse and mess up somehow, but trevor is determined to be the best version of himself he could be. when callie shows up, she's devastated by her best friend's death, and is determined to be there for her kids, the kids she's been there for since their parents' divorce. but she also has to figure out how to navigate things with her best friend's ex , she used to be friends with trevor too, but when his relationship with lisa fell apart things between them grew distant. it's not easy to handle grief. and callie and trevor have a lot of ups and downs to deal with as they deal with the repercussions of everything that has rocked their world since lisa died. and the connection that grows, the one that was always there, is impossible to ignore. but there i...

when isla bennett finds herself in nashville after her estranged grandfather passes away in covering all the bases , she is in dire need of a friend. at a crossroads, she walks into a bar called salvation. and well, it's life-changing. the instant connection that she feels with liam cruz, the bartender/bar owner/secret baseball superstar, is too hard to resist. especially since he is intent on being a perfect gentleman and helping her out and also completely willing to do anything to get in her pants. but let's rewind a second, and go back to the secret baseball superstar thing. because little does isla know, she'd on the verge of inheriting a baseball team and liam happens to be one of her players. and things are going to be super complicated, but letting go of the spark of what could be between them proves to be impossible. and also worth fighting for. **covering all the bases will publish on june 10, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/ent...

i'm not quite sure what to think about my summer of love , i thought it would be a sweet summer romance about a geeky boy and the jock he'd never thought he'd have in his arms. and i suppose it is partly that. but it ended up feeling like a super stalkery borderline abusive relationship. the prose here is also done in journal style, which is not my particular favorite so that made it even harder to feel fully engaged with the story. i guess in the end, this wasn't quite for me. but different strokes for different folks. **my summer of love will publish june 10, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/ninestar press in exchange for my honest review. 

in no heartbreaker required starr taylor is ready to think the worst of spencer kensington, especially when she overhears a call with a lady friend that doesn't paint him in the best light. unfortunately, he's also a key member of her brother's wedding and after he is waylaid in reno, her unwanted houseguest. spencer has baggage, and starr manages to stir it all up, and he both hates it and needs it so badly. the more time they spend together, the walls and assumptions they made about one another fall away, and the connection between them grows beautifully. this is a sweet read, and a lovely second book in this series. **no heartbreaker required will publish on june 10, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (bliss) in exchange for my honest review. 

i am enjoying this series so much, i can't even tell you guys. arctic wild , is book 2 in the frozen hearts series. and in this one we have the young, adventurous pilot, tobias kooly finding something special in the arms of his workaholic, non-outdoorsy passenger reuben graham. the attraction between them is there from the moment they meet, but when they survive a plane crash everything changes. reuben reassesses his outlook on life, and tobias needs him. tobias has been the primary breadwinner/caregiver for his family, and the injuries he sustains in the crash will make it difficult to survive the months it will take him to recover properly. there's some injured pride and tobias has his self-reliance threatened, but i loved the may/december aspects of this romance. and also how this isn't just a case of instalust and love, yes the characters are attracted to each other from the start, but they take their time to get to know each other and you feel the depth of the em...

book 2 in the not dead yet series, picks up not long after book 1 ends. in give up the ghost , wes and hudson are making a go of things, except that wes is keeping a very big secret from his vampire lover. there were aftereffects to the events that occurred in book 1, and i would recommend to anyone interested in picking this book up, start there. this is decidedly a continuation of the story, even though book 1 functioned as a standalone. you continue to spend time with the crew of people we met, and a few new friends too. but this story really just continues to immerse us in this world, and i loved every second of it. **give up the ghost will publish on june 3, 2019. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/carina press in exchange for my honest review.