Jenn Avery - Romance Lover

ABOUT THE BOOK For the Abbott siblings, the Green Mountain state has always been an idyllic place to call home. But it isn’t until they open themselves up to love that they’ll truly discover how fulfilling life can be… Almost seven years after losing her husband in Iraq, Hannah Abbott Guthrie isn’t sure she’s ready—or able—to move on, but the attentions of a lifelong friend are making her think about it for the first time. The memory of the sweet kiss she shared with Nolan Roberts hasn’t strayed far from her thoughts, but she also fears that pursuing something with him would mean betraying her husband’s memory. Nolan has loved Hannah for years, but he’d been giving her the space she needed to heal from her devastating loss. Now, when an opportunity arises to show her how he feels, Nolan can’t resist, but he knows earning her love will take more than a kiss. Somehow he has to prove to Hannah that finding love twice in a lifetime is possible—and well worth risking her he...

ABOUT THE BOOK A super-sexy judge has to declare his love for the lawyer of his dreams before he’s even met her. Jack “Blackjack” McIntyre, Philly’s superhero judge, meets his match when Elise Carroll appears. Trouble is, she’s a lawyer in his courtroom. Stating his feelings for the court record isn’t the way to start a relationship… particularly with a woman who thinks “love at first sight” is as real as the tooth fairy. Elise wants nothing to do with Blackjack’s potent charm and alleged romantic feelings. Still, men leave when they’ve gotten what they want… and they all want sex. So she offers to skip the candlelit dinners and go straight upstairs to unwrap him like a birthday present. Jack and Elise negotiate a deal—they’ll alternate his romantic dates with her “sex only” dates. The contract works… until both of them get more than they bargained for. As Jack puts it, “falling in love isn’t for the faint of heart!” Can two legal eagles make this relationship work? REVIE...

ABOUT THE BOOK Stacy Easter has seen better days. Being a librarian is a labor of love—if only paying her bills were half as much fun. What’s a single, bookish beauty in sleepy Nodaway Falls, New York, supposed to do? To make ends meet, Stacy decides to develop her special…powers. Everyone can use a touch of magic now and then, right? Soon she’s got clients lining up to receive her signature potions—until a few of them go awry. Meanwhile, her own life has just taken a storybook turn: Leo North, the official One Who Got Away, is back in town. Stacy’s best friends Peach and Liv are more concerned about the state of her heart than the side effects of a few rogue magic spells. But someone with dark intentions is crossing magical wires all over Nodaway Falls, and those closest to Stacy are at risk. Can Stacy conjure up a way out of this mess with her life—and maybe even her love life—intact? MY REVIEW That Touch of Magic is a true page turner and on par with what I have co...

Exclusively Yours (The Kowalskis) by Shannon Stacey This is the first book in The Kowalskis series.  I admit, I purchased it for free over a year ago based on a recommendation from another author, but I never got around to actually reading the book.  I was sitting on a plane, trying to figure out what book I wanted to read to pass time, and happened to open this one up.  I was hooked by the end of the second page, and couldn’t believe I hadn’t read this sooner.  The author’s humor comes through immediately, and I was constantly laughing out loud at the characters thoughts, and sometimes the characters openness.  Keri and Joe were high school sweethearts, and she left town after high school graduation to start her own career.  Twenty years later, her editor finds out that Kari had dated the now reclusive author Joe, and forces her to go back to her home town and get an interview with him.  For  most authors, this would have been the ma...

Kayla Ashby is bound by her terrifying past, but what haunts her most is her dreams. Can Kayla's dreams be real? In her dreams, she can fulfill all her erotic desires; she has no boundaries, and can be anyone or anything she wants. She often finds herself with erotic clothing and using a whip and handcuffs. Kayla has a problem in real life dealing with her demons but at night, while she is sleeping she is no longer the scared little girl she once was. Are her dreams telling her who she really is? And can she break away from her fears to become that person or will she be forever bound by her past? Her heart is bound to another. She has loved him from the very beginning, but is she worthy of him and his love? Is it possible to overcome all those thoughts and dreams that hold her back and move on? Can Kayla overcome her abandonment issues and discover what it is like to truly love? Garrett Winters holds his feelings close to his heart. Keeping his true feelings deep insid...

If you haven't started reading the series, you can start now in preperation for the release.  The first book, Maid for the Billionaire is FREE . ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ruth Cardello lives on a small farm in Northern Rhode Island with her husband, three kids, two dogs, two horses, and one cat. If there is a happier place on Earth, she hasn't found it. Her newest book, Breaching the Billionaire: Alethea's Redemption can be pre-ordered now. It will be released on January 13th, 2014. Subscribe to updates via her newsletter by visiting her website at: www.RuthCardello.com You can find her on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/RuthCardello Follow her at Twitter @RuthieCardello If you'd like to email her directly, you may contact her at Minouri@aol.com The Legacy Collection Maid for the Billionaire (Book 1) (Legacy Collection) For Love or Legacy (Book 2) (Legacy Collection) Bedding the Billionaire (Book 3) (Legacy Collection) Saving the Sheikh (Book 4) (Legacy...

Synopsis It is 1995, four years after Ukraine has declared independence.  Lena Petrenko cares little about her country or her miserable life. As the daughter of a racketeer, she has seen enough violence and has shut the whole world out. She lives in her bedroom with her baby doll and immerses herself in fairy tales, creating her own happy endings.  When her father forces her to attend his cage fights, Lena finds herself caught up in the brutality when she is claimed as the winner's trophy. Her terrifying champion is nothing like the prince of her stories. He is every bit the beast and she is hardly a beauty.  Lena soon learns that there is more to this stranger than his hard exterior. He has a dark history and an agenda that somehow involves her, but behind all the muscle beats a tender heart. As she begins to face her own terrible past, she finds him to be an unlikely ally, evoking everything she has buried deep inside, including her passion. ...

Catherine Bybee is one of my favorite romance writers.  I have particularly loved her Weekday Brides series and how the characters that she has created are so memorable and easy to relate with.  While I’m not sure I’ll ever love another book couple in any series as much as I love Carter and Eliza, Karen and Zach in Single by Saturday did not disappoint me in the least.  I have learned to love Karen ever since she was introduced in the first book in the series.  She has been looking for a marriage of convenience in order for her to fulfill her dream of opening a home for kids in trouble.  In the previous books she had met her perfect match in Michael, a very closeted Hollywood leading man.  In the match they found their best friend and have been happily living their “on paper only” marriage for the past year.  Zach is Michael’s older brother, that has been sent by the family to do reconnaissance on the wife they never met.  They all ...

Melissa Foster  Love in Bloom: Snow Sisters and Love in Bloom: The Bradens So far there are Eight books in the Love in Bloom series, that is divided into two families.  Melissa Foster has teased an additional five books with The Remingtons, who were introduced in Bursting with Love.  This series was a heartwarming look at love, and each couple deals with real life situations that readers can easily identify with.  Aside from the common commitment phobic characters, the characters in these books range from being hurt by their own divorce, their parents’ divorce, their own parent’s death, or a former spouse’s death.   While the characters in The Braden set of novels are all dealing with having lost their Mother when they were young, Foster does a great job of showing how it affected each of the children differently in their adult lives. While Foster is not afraid to take on serious topics, her books are still feel good romances, and are easy read...

I received a free copy of Begin Again , the first book in the Crimson Romance series by Christy Newton, in exchange for an honest review.  I honestly loved this book and these characters.  I was able to read the book in one setting during a 5 hour flight, and was grateful that I never had to put it down.  Christy Newton has written a wonder novel about two strong characters who find their way to each other, in spite of their past baggage they each bring to the relationship. Ryan is a rare hero who is a unique combination of being a good guy who stands up for what he believes in. He means well, but doesn't always do exactly the right thing at the right time. In short, he's a real life guy that doesn't leave unrealistic expectations of men for single ladies out there, and reminds the reader that good guys do still exist. Maisie is a broken woman just trying to get through each day without the painful reminders of her past. She isn't looking for love and instead ...

I do not generally read supernatural or fantasy books, but this series has had me wanting more since the beginning.  Amber MacConnich has been forced to be separated from her family for her safety and in hopes of finding what will save her from death.   Time is running out when two other time travelers arrive unexpectedly.   As the solution becomes clear, choices have to be made about what can be sacrificed and tolerated to save her life. The latest in the MaCcoinnich Time Travel series was a great installment in the series and left me wanting to know more about what is going on with Cian!   I feel like I've been waiting forever for Amber's story, and Bybee did not disappoint me at all.   This is such a different feel from her Contemporary romance series', The Weekday Brides and Not Quite, but the romance is still there along with the time travel and highlander men!    In addition to Amber, we get to spend time with old favorites like Jake, Simon, H...

Meant for Love is book 10 of Marie Force’s The McCarthy’s of Gansett Island Series.  This series is one of my favorites, and Marie does such a wonderful job creating characters that are easy to love, but aren't so perfect that they make me hate them.  In this book, Force successfully balances the main story-line, which bringing in some of the earlier characters that I've grown to love.  My heart broke for both Jenny and Alex and what they were going through.  When I first read Jenny’s letter previously in the series, my heart broke for the woman who was still trying to pull her life together ten years after 9/11.  When Alex’s family was introduced, my heart again broke for him and what his family is going through in dealing with his mother’s dementia.  The journey they take together feels genuine and realistic.  Force also does a great job of telling a compelling love story involving a woman in her late 30’s.  So many books in the romance gen...

Catherine Bybee is probably better known for her amazing Weekday Bride series; however her Not Quite series is quickly becoming one of my favorites.  Each of the books in this series could easily be standalone books; however I had grown to like Monica so much in the previous two books in the series I was eagerly awaiting her book to be released.  I was not at all disappointed.  Not Quite Enough was an emotional book that I truly could not put down.  The book had plenty of romance in it, but it also had action and suspense that I was not expecting, but was very well done.  Not only was I able to connect emotionally with Monica the heroine, but with the hero Trent as well.  Rarely am I able to connect as much to what a hero is feeling and understand their motivations as I did in this story. The description of Jamaica as both a paradise vacation destination, a place full of poverty stricken natives, as well as post disaster conditions, was very well done...

This is the next book in the series I reviewed a couple of weeks ago.  While I really enjoyed the first book, I found I enjoyed this one even more. The book takes place in the same world as What Happens In Scotland, but this time David has gone down to Brighton for an extended holiday with his Mother.  This also happens to be the same place he had previously attempted to take his life 11 years earlier and had been saved by a local girl.  They meet again on the same beach, and strike-up a friendship knowing nothing more can happen because he is unwilling to fall in love again and she needs to find a husband with more financial security.  At least that is the plan. While this is the second book in the Avon series, this book stands alone well.  The same humor is there from What Happens in Scotland, but this book expands upon all of the elements that were present in the previous book and this time knocks them out of the park.  The humor is still there,...

This is the 10th, and I believe final, novel in the Laurel Heights series by Kate Perry.  KT and Chance are both quirky characters who begin a fake relationship that at some point stops feeling fake, and they have to figure out if they can make a real relationship work.  The side story is about KT's sister Bijou's budding relationship with musician/therapist Will, and her reluctance to date another relationship.  KT and Bijou grew up the children of world famous rock star parents, who are just as quirky and lovable as their children.  We also get to see glimpses of several of the previous characters in the Laurel Heights series.  If this is the end, I wish we could have seen just a bit more of the characters we had grown to love as some were completely omitted in the final book and I felt like I didn't have a chance to say goodbye. I think for a new reader who had not read the previous books, this would be easy to pick-up and not feel lost.  The ...

This book is best described as The Hangover meets Jane Austen.  This was a challenging task, but McQuiston absolutely hit it out of the park.  She had me on the first page.  I found myself reading half of it out loud to my less than appreciative husband because I was laughing so hard. Romance - 4 stars The romance in this book was good.  It felt a little rushed at times, and I wasn't always sure if the heroine was wanting a relationship or if she wasn't.  Neither did she, so that was probably the point, but sometimes the story felt a little wishy-washy because of it.  I was getting a little frustrated 1/3 of the way into the book when they main characters had not really met yet, but once they did there was no doubt that I wanted these two to get together in the end, and the way it happened was perfect. Plot - 5 stars The plot in this book was solid.  McQuiston did a great job putting several different smaller story-lines into play, and...