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the extended lyndon family and assorted other residents of last chance, are still looking and finding love in the bride next door . matt lyndon has a playboy reputation, even if he actually started out as less than smooth with the ladies. courtney knows that matt is a player and based on her male classification system this means that he's not worth the effort. when matt and courtney are actually spending time together and she puts down her walls, there's a lot to enjoy about their relationship. the problem is that there is so much baggage that poot matt is carrying around, everyone makes these terrible assumptions about his character. it's really bad. i spent most of the book feeling sorry for matt and hoping he could escape back to d.c. away from his horrible family. and even courtney at times. because she's a super jerk to him too a lot of the itme. the only other characters worth spending any time with were arwen and rory. and maybe the hints of ryan and joni. ...

when ryder meets jane he is enchanted from the get-go. but then she disappears after a night of hot sex and he suspects that she stole his code. after all, she works for the enemy. when they meet again at his brother's wedding to her biological mother, he learns two things. one, she's not the villainess he's been painting her as in his thoughts. and two, she's had his baby in the year since he last saw her. his to claim  doesn't waste time getting ryder and jane back together. it's the realization that everything they've been working so hard on in their careers can put everything they hold dear in danger that has them floundering. but even as they are figuring things out they have crazy hot sex all over the place. it's super impressive especially given the fact that she has a three-month-old. but hey, these books are all about the fantasy. **his to claim will publish on april 10, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/grand...

katee robert kicks off a new series set in texas, where instead of boston mobsters, in the last king   you've got texas oilmen (and women) facing off. the king family is fractured. and it all began when lydia king was cast aside by her father in favor of her brother. she's built a rival business, but she still wants morningstar. and she will do anything and everything to get it. beckett king has just lost his father. losing his family home is a cut too deep. everything about this is wrong. and he knows that lydia is somehow behind this. even worse, he knows that lydia knows that he feels more than he's willing to admit for her sexy employee samara mallick. samara has had to fight and scrap her way to the top. there were no silver spoons. she doesn't have the power and leverage that the king family name provides. her loyalty should belong to lydia. but the longer she's in the middle, the more she sees that all is not right with her boss. when the danger gets too ...

it happened in the highlands  is a second-chance at love story that addresses some real issues like adoption and identity and race. wynne melton and jo pennington had been engaged once, when they were young and innocent. he was going off to war and she was overwhelmed by a society that didn't quite know where to place her. he broke her heart. and he nearly died for it. and sixteen years later they meet again. this time when a patient at the mental hospital he helps manage draws images that bear her likeness. there is a mystery afoot. and it might reveal the secrets of jo's birth and her circumstances. wynne has never forgotten her. he's never forgiven himself for how he handled things. but jo doesn't want to dwell on the past. she wants to move forward. except neither of them can forget the hold they had on each other's hearts back then. it's a hold that is still evident in the present. and so they find their way back to each other. and they learn about ...

in kiss me back ,  fox has had his eye on lola since she started working at panic, but she's rebuffed his every move. it's not that she isn't interested. it's that she has plans and a goal and falling for a ridiculously hot bouncer isn't one of them. when fox figures out her secret, she's terrified that he's going to rat her out. or even worse, lose interest in her. but he proves her wrong at every turn. he's supportive and accepting and tries so hard to understand and learn about her wants and needs. the problem is that lola has a very specific end date for her job as a bartender and that end date coincides with her leaving the country. so what is the point of starting something up with fox when there is no future for it. the last thing she needs is someone giving her a reason to stay, not when all she has ever wanted to do is go. what fox and lola need to realize is that dreams can shift and change. and sometimes what you think you want isn...

jason stone has basically accomplished everything he ever dreamed of during his nfl career. but now he has a chance of bringing the lombardi trophy to his hometown. he's focused on the here and now. playing the game one day at a time, not thinking about what tomorrow will bring. because he's pretty sure that he's walking away after this season. when savannah's father asks her to take a special interest in stone and manage his pr appearances for the team as well as encourage him to sign another contract for a couple of years, she's conflicted. it's bad business . because she's spent one incredible night in jason's arms and she can't stay away from him. but his future plans affect her too. at least those involved with whether or not they're spending their lives together do. which takes them a long time to admit, but they are pretty much all in from the get-go. i like that when savannah admits that her father asked her to get close to him, sto...

for a while, vampires were all the rage in paranormal stories, but then they weren't. they might be making a comeback, and that's a-ok by me because i always enjoy a good vampire story. the vampires in risen  aren't your normal vamps. their origin story involves three clans of vampires, with very different abilities, and different ways of treating humans. when charlie's aunt is taken by monsters, and she's left behind with one of them, she's not sure that she'll survive. but when they touch sebastian realizes there's more to charlie than meets the eye, and he's not going to dispose of her until he figures out why she seems to be the key to unlocking the memories of his past.  on a road trip of sorts, charlie learns that there is so much more happening in the shadows than she ever realized, and she learns to fight and who not to trust. as she and sebastian get closer to unlocking the secrets that connect them, the attraction that (li...

temperance ransom has done her best to leave her bad girl roots behind. but sometimes it feels so good to be bad. the intimate, erotic moments she shares with a stranger are driving her wild. she wants to know who he is. but he lives in a dangerous world. he is secrets and sex and lust and blood. she knows the square of his jaw. the piercing blue of his eyes. the weight of his body on hers. the feel of him inside her. but she doesn’t know his name. and we don’t either for the whole of savage prince . and that mystery continues on to iron princess . we do get to see our friends from the beneath series again. particularly, rix and valentina and ariel and yve. obviously, lachlan and kiera are present here too. and it’s clear that temperance will find herself drawn further into the dark side of new orleans as the series continues. and i can’t wait to see how dark and twisty this road will get. this ends on a cliffhanger that kicks up the suspense and mystery up a level and no...

there are quite a few things i really enjoyed about the pursuit of mrs. pennyworth : one, that 's not merely a romance, it's actually a pretty good mystery (even if i figured out who the culprit was about halfway through. i still wasn't sure until the end.) two, while the characters are respectable members of society, this isn't a books about dukes and duchesses and i find that so refreshing. this all starts when charlotte pennyworth seeks mr. eliot baker for some advice on a deranged gift giver who seems to be obsessed with her. as she and eliot get close during the course of the investigation their attraction to one another builds. and soon it’s difficult to imagine life without each other. there are secrets and lies, twists and turns and these two characters are delightful throughout.   **the pursuit of mrs. pennyworth will publish on march 26, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (amara) in exchange for my hones...

the last tate brother continues the tangle with the de santis family, this time kidnapping youngest daughter olivia in the name of completing his mission. in  the undercover billionaire , wolf discovers that everything he’s ever been told is a lie and the mission he’s on isn’t as noble as he imagined it to be. for all the suspense and sex, these books are surprisingly cerebral. and i enjoy that we get a full sense of where the characters are emotionally, even if it’s all going on in their heads. because we are allowed to understand them. we get why they tick. and how they fall or maybe how they realize how far they’ve fallen, oh-so-long ago. **the undercover billionaire will publish on march 27, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/st. martin's press   in exchange for my honest review.