Saturday, September 24, 2016

Review ~ HOWL SASSY by Tamara Hoffa

Howl Sassy (Animal in Me Series, #4)
by: Tamara Hoffa
Series:  Animal in Me
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Source: Author


Sebastian Von Drake is determined to turn his Sassy mate’s howls of resistance into cries of passion.

Most shifters are lucky to find one true mate in life. A hundred years after the murder of his first mate, the Goddess gifts Sebastian Von Drake with a second match. However, his sassy mate resists their union. Her past hold secrets she doesn’t want to share.

Alice Miller is drawn to the stick in the mud wolf like no one she’s ever met before, but she can’t mate him and risk everything. Why won’t he take no for an answer?

Danger, intrigue, traitors, spies, and secrets…combined with the irresistible passion of a shifter for his mate. Bastian will claim Alice, come hell or high water. No matter how much the sassy wolf howls.

Review ~ IN THE BARREN GROUND by Loreth Anne White


Sunday, September 18, 2016

Review ~ BANG by Avery Flynn

Bang (B-Squad, #2)
by: Avery Flynn
Series: B-Squad
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Source: Author


Freelance investigator Isaac Camacho has a weakness for bitchy blondes, and no one fits the bill quite like former beauty queen and gold digger Tamara Post. She’s sexy, feisty and on the run from a cult leader. Complicated women? Oh he loves them almost as much as he loves watching Tamara act like a total ice queen when he knows she burns white hot.

Calculating opportunist Tamara Post never cared what anyone thought about her—except for her sister. But when her sister dies, it’s up to Tamara to hide her teenage niece so the girl’s dictatorial father can’t marry her off to one of his disciples. The last thing Tamara has time for is Isaac—a man who flirts as well as he fills out a pair of worn jeans and whose stubborn determination to help makes it hard to act as if she’s really as cold as she appears.

When the bad guys find her, there’s only one person Tamara can depend on to help keep her alive until her niece is safe. But once the life and death chase is on, it’s not just their lives Tamara and Isaac are risking…but their hearts.

Saturday, September 17, 2016

Review ~ GRIEVOUS by Nancy Haviland


Review ~ OUTSIDE THE LINES by Sheila Lowe

Outside the Lines (A Forensic Handwriting Mystery, #6)
by: Sheila Lowe
Series: Forensic Handwriting Mystery
Genre: Mystery Suspense
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Publisher: Suspense Publishing


What should have been a routine afternoon on the witness stand for Forensic Handwriting Expert Claudia Rose turns into a shocking assault that leaves her bruised and bloodied. Following on the heels of a series of other traumatic events, the attack sends Claudia to the brink of a breakdown.

Her fiancé, L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Joel Jovanic, learns of the attack while leading a homicide investigation into a mailbox bomb. An innocent housekeeper in the tony Venice neighborhood is dead and the homeowner is the CEO of a major pesticide-producing corporation that has been targeted in the past. When a notebook found in a geocache near the crime scene leads to the protest group People for Safe Food, Jovanic needs Claudia to identify the handwriting of a suspected eco-terrorist.

Though she may have recovered physically from the assault, weeks later Claudia’s fears continue to plague her. Desperate to get away, she accepts an invitation to lecture in the UK, but her trip turns into a nightmare when she runs afoul of both the FBI and New Scotland Yard. Jovanic’s homicide case has followed her to London where she finds herself unexpectedly allied with the chief suspect.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Review ~ THE 48-HOUR HOOKUP by Sarah Ballance

The 48-Hour Hookup (Chase Brothers, #4)
by: Sarah Ballance
Series: Chase Brothers
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Publisher/Source: Entangled ~ Lovestruck via NetGalley


Who knew a sweaty photo would be good for business?

Now unwanted booty calls are coming in as fast as work orders, and Liam Chase needs to get away. Cue a job upstate. His new client is hot as hell, but he left NYC to escape attention, not to hook up with the city’s “Runaway Bride”.

With three disastrous relationships under her belt, it’s clear Claire Stevens’s judgment sucks. And what’s she’s feeling for America’s newest sex god? Obviously another hormone-fueled mistake.

But when she accidentally fells a tree on his truck, leaving them stranded in a winter storm with a chocolate-snatching raccoon, there’s something to be said for body heat.

Too bad neither can trust their explosive chemistry…

Excerpt, Playlist & Giveaway ~ THE 48-HOUR HOOKUP by Sarah Ballance


Friday, September 9, 2016

Cozy Mystery Review ~ THE READAHOLICS AND THE GOTHIC GALA by Laura DiSilverio


Review ~ PAINT THE TOWN DEAD by Nancy Haddock

Paint the Town Dead (Silver Six Crafting Mystery, #2)
by: Nancy Haddock
Series: Silver Six Crafting Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Source: Publisher ~ Berkley Prime Crime


From the national bestselling author of Basket Case comes the second mystery starring the crafty and cantankerous Silver Six.

Leslee Stanton Nix—aka “Nixy”—thought moving to small-town Lilyvale, Arkansas, would be about as thrilling as watching paint dry. But keeping up with her retired Aunt Sherry and her troublemaking housemates—collectively known as the Silver Six—has proven to be as exciting as it is exasperating.
To kick off the grand opening of their craft shop, the Handcraft Emporium, Nixy and the Silver Six invite Doralee Gordon to teach a gourd painting class. Doralee’s spirit gets squashed when her ex crashes the class with his new fiancée, but things really get messy when the bride-to-be later turns up dead. Now it’s up to Nixy and the Silver Six to use their melons to find the killer—before someone else gets painted out of the picture...

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Review ~ THE SIXTH IDEA by P.J. Tracy

The Sixth Idea (Monkeewrench, #7)
by: P.J. Tracy
Series: Monkeewrench
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Publisher: GP Putnam’s Sons


The Monkeewrench crew returns in a twisty, heart-stopping new thriller.

The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth.

An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to their current cases, they suspect that she is a target, too. The same day, an elderly, terminally ill man is kidnapped from his home, an Alzheimer’s patient goes missing from his care facility, and a baffling link among all the crimes emerges.

This series of inexplicable events sends the detectives sixty years into the past to search for answers—and straight to Grace MacBride’s Monkeewrench, a group of eccentric computer geniuses who devote their time and resources to helping the cops solve the unsolvable. What they find is an unimaginable horror—a dormant Armageddon that might be activated at any moment unless Grace and her partners Annie, Roadrunner, and Harley Davidson, along with Leo and Gino, can find a way to stop it.

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Feature Spotlight & Giveaway ~ LAST KISS OF SUMMER by Marina Adair


Review ~ THE REBEL'S RETURN by Victoria James

The Rebel’s Return (Red River, #4)
by: Victoria James
Series: Red River
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Source: Entangled Bliss via NetGalley


She’s the only woman who can reform this rebel…

Natalia Puccini has spent her entire life playing by her overbearing but well-intentioned Italian family's rules...except the one time she took a chance on a bad boy and fell hard. She's worked to get her life back on track so when Aiden McCann comes sauntering back into town with his heart-stopping smile, Natalia vows not to fall for him again. There's no way she'll let him mess with her perfectly planned life...and there's no way she'll let him near her heart again...

Now reformed and a self-made success, Aiden is tormented by regrets and secrets. He left Red River years ago filled with anger and resentment and a promise to never come back. But when his ill father needs help, Aiden knows it's time to face the mess he left behind, and face the one woman he never got over. It doesn't matter how beautiful or intriguing she is, though, because he'll never be able to give her what she needs. As soon as his father is healthy, Aiden is leaving Red River...for good.

Review ~ THE BACHELOR'S PROMISE by Naima Simone

The Bachelor’s Promise (Bachelor Auction, #3)
by: Naima Simone
Series: Bachelor Auction
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Publisher: Entangled Publishing ~ Indulgence


He’ll never trust his enemy’s daughter…

Aiden Kent never expected to see Noelle Rana again. He’s determined to keep his distance from the beautiful enigma wrapped in denim and leather. He can’t trust anyone with the last name Rana. But he made a promise to his dying mother, and it isn't long before Noelle invades his personal space. He can't stop thinking about the exotic beauty's alluring curves.

He wants the daughter of his enemy, and he’s determined to have her…if only for one night.

If Noelle wants to move forward with her life, she must make a deal with the devastatingly gorgeous, broody millionaire Aiden. He made a promise years ago, and she’s come to collect—even if it means facing down the only man who ever broke her heart. And there's a really good chance he'll do it again.