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seriously romantic: playing her secret crush by casey griffin

katie has been in love with her best friend alex forever, it seems, in playing her secret crush . now it's senior year and she's going to do something about it. step one is taking all the advice from magazines on how to hook your guy. step two, then, will be putting herself forward and making sure he sees her. what katie doesn't know is that alex has liked her always. but he believes that she is his dead brother's girl. so he's permanently put their relationship in the friend zone out of respect for his brother. not realizing that he has it all wrong. when katie's new neighbor shows up and alex decides that she will be his new girlfriend, he ropes katie into helping him do it by getting her to recruit lexi to their gaming group. as the relationship roller coaster between katie and alex rises and falls, the story also covers how their group of five goes about trying to win it all. **playing her secret crush will publish on july 2,...

seriously romantic: counterfeit boyfriend by cindi madsen

when evan convinces his twin brother ethan to take his place on a road trip while switching places on his girlfriend in the counterfeit boyfriend , it's a totally insane plan. and ethan doesn't want to go along with it. except when he meets gwen, it's like fireworks. he can't let her down when she is counting on company to her friend's wedding. and he just wants to spend time with her. even though he knows it's wrong. except evan doesn't even want to date her. so maybe she's not that off-limits? ethan does a lot of lawyering to wriggle himself out of the sticking points. gwen doesn't pick up on the clues, even though once she learns the truth it's so obvious from the get-go. when they met for coffee to discuss the road trip plans, she'd been on the verge of calling the whole thing off. but there was something different about evan that day. she felt that missing connection click. it makes sense that it happened to be that her boyfrien...

something from the archives: another sunset - part 12

surprisingly this wraps up in another two parts...here liz celebrates her birthday and prom...

seriously romantic: one for the rogue by manda collins

the last book in the studies in scandal series, one for the rogue , features a couple that was strongly hinted at in the previous book. with gemma hastings connecting with cameron lisle. both geologists, they find themselves at odds over finds and published papers. but that antagonism over their work spills over into sparks when they kiss. thrust together to avoid scandal, gemma and cam find that it's too difficult to keep their hands off each other. but with gemma's life in danger and cam wanting to protect her at all costs, there's plenty standing in their way before they get to that happy ending that they never knew they wanted with each other. **one for the rogue will publish on june 26, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/st. martin's press in exchange for my honest review. 

simply all about the couterfeit boyfriend by cindi madsen

ABOUT THE BOOK My twin brother’s talked me into a lot of crazy things, but taking his place on a road trip with his girlfriend so he can party with his friends is a whole new level of insanity. What’s even more insane is I somehow find myself agreeing to it—thanks, alcohol, guilt, and bribery. I’m determined to undo the arrangement, but then I meet Gwen, this sexy redheaded hurricane of energy and brains. And then she kisses me. Just like that, I’m driving her up the coast, on our way to a wedding with a mess of complications. With each hour and each stop, I’m falling harder and harder for a woman who doesn’t know my actual name. I’m trying to do the right thing. Or the lesser of the wrong things. All my life I’ve had to clean up my brother’s messes, but for the first time ever, I’ve landed the upper hand in one of our switcheroo schemes. Now I’ve just got to come clean and convince Gwen that I’m the brother she should be with. BUY THE BOOK Amazon ABOUT THE AUTHOR Cin...

seriously romantic: six weeks with a lord by eve pendle

in six weeks with a lord , grace alnott needs to marry to access her fortune, and she must do so quickly to protect her young brother from the guardian her late father appointed. a man she was supposed to marry, but who she finds terrible. her father requires her to marry an aristrocrat, but her previous dealings with the lords trawling society give her a poor opinion. but she's desperate and decides to let it be known that she's willing to marry in exchange for half her dowry, but the catch will be that once her fortune is acquired, the marriage will be annulled and she will be allowed to go off to france where she plans to raise her brother. everett, earl of westbury is in need of a rich wife. and how delightful that the heiress looking to marry a desperate aristocrat is the one woman who catches his eye across a full ballroom. he agrees to grace's terms even as they run counter to his interests, but he also demands that she spend six weeks with him, hoping to se...

something from the archives: another sunset - part 11

liz asks michael to prom, not knowing she might already have a date...

seriously romantic: highland temptation by lori ann bailey

the latest book in the highland pride series, highland temptation  has kirstie cameron crossing paths with her childhood (and current) crush alan mackenzie. raised together in the same clan, alan feels a sense of duty and responsibility to the cameron's and doesn't believe himself worthy of kirstie's heart. but the more they are thrust together by kirstie's impulsive and ill-thought out plans it becomes harder for alan to resist the real feelings he has always had for her. when she confessed her love in the past he told her she was like a sister to him. but that was never true. and the more time they spend together, the more he realizes that she's the woman he wants to be with. and that the connection they share is worth fighting for. **highland temptation  will publish on june 25, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/entangled publishing (amara) in exchange for my honest review. 

seriously romantic: him by sarina bowen and elle kennedy & us by sarina bowen and elle kennedy

i don't read a ton of m/m romance, but i kept hearing about how good these two books were and decided to take a chance and check them out. well, talk about a #bingeread. in him ,  hockey players jamie canning and ryan wesley reconnect after 4 years of no contact. the last time they were together, wes pushed at the bounds of an attraction he felt for jamie that he was certain wasn't reciprocated. after all, jamie was straight. and wes was gay. and getting your best friend drunk and giving him a blow job wasn't the best way to maintain a friendship. except that wes cut himself out of jamie's life before he could be cut. and maybe they needed time to figure out what they needed and wanted out of life. but the truth was that jamie would have never cut himself from wes. not even if he had known wes was gay. when they find each other, wes comes out and apologizes for his behavior. but jamie finds that he is curious. and that he...

seriously romantic: improper proposal by cathryn fox

the last of the dossier novellas,  improper proposal , ends with the story of the girl who started it all. harper clark is thrilled to finally get her turn for a weekend of epic sex. she's not the type to believe in love and happily ever afters. but she's not quite sure she's at the right address. but when the girl who grew up with no family is welcomed into the scottish castle and told by a family that they've been waiting for her. she's delighted, confused, and pretty sure that they have the wrong girl. they believe that she's a surprise from their cousin/son/nephew/grandson george. given that harper hasn't met greorge she's certain that's not it. but then she meets their american cousin will thomas. and she can't stop thinking of him. and when he proposes that they have all the sex. she can't stop herself from giving in. except things get turned on their head and everyone is up in arms before will can get a handle on the situation....