Review: Winging It

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Title: 

Winging It

Author: 

Sandra Sookoo

Release Date:

July 20, 2011

Publisher:

Purple Sword Publications

Word Count:

approx. 53,600

Purchase Links: 

Purple Sword Publications

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://sandrasookoo.com/

Description: 

Joy and despair, light and dark, you can’t have one without the other.

Devlin Addams has recently returned home from Afghanistan.  Haunted by memories that he survived the fighting while his buddies didn't, as well as chased by the knowledge his mom is crazy, he’s having trouble acclimating himself to civilian life. Now, armed with a dog and a therapist, he constantly battles the urge to end it all.

Lia Farry—because her Fae name is a mouthful—has tumbled into the Mortal Realm through the Veil between worlds by mysterious circumstances.  Thrust into a new and harsh human existence, finding anything to be happy about is hard. If she can’t go home, she’ll have to make it work.

Forced to interact, Dev’s protective instincts kick in, but he’s unprepared for the onslaught of lust Lia represents.  He wants a normal life but not at the expense of getting involved.  Lia knows she soothes his torment yet she’s battling her own problems. Desiring Dev is a dangerous prospect.  Add in a meddling Fae queen and suddenly life as they know it will change forever.  Love is at stake.  A leap of faith is all they have to depend on.

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Review: When We Were Amazing

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Title: 

When We Were Amazing

Author: 

Christine London

Release Date:

November 11, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 80,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://www.christinelondon.com/

Description:  

Aussie wine heir Bryan Lassiter wanted nothing more than to be a self made man. When online love Carrie Sorrell flies half way round the globe to visit him, she’d no idea his magnetism would erase both their fourteen-year age difference and her common sense. As fate and a powerful family collide to tear them apart, will she have the strength to let him go or will it be the secret she’s so carefully protected that destroys?

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Review: A Love Rekindled

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Title: 

A Love Rekindled

Author: 

Myne Whitman

Release Date:

March 2011

Word Count:

approx. 72,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://www.mynewhitmanwrites.com/

Description:  

When Efe Sagay receives a transfer to the branch of a prestigious hotel chain in the Nigerian capital, she accepts it, happy to return home to family after years in the United States. Also, Nigeria is a big place, right? There should be nothing about her new city, Abuja, to remind her of the heartbreak of her relationship with ex-fiancé, Kevwe Mukoro.

However, Efe is facing Kevwe across an office seven months later, swamped by emotions she’d thought were dead. When Kevwe claims he’s never stopped loving her, and asks why she abandoned him, Efe stomps off, incensed! Wasn’t it the other way around?

But they are unable to stay away from each other, and buried desire flares. Ultimately, passion is no match for the bitter memories of broken promises. Efe and Kevwe have to resolve the traumatic events of the past before love can be rekindled.

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Review: Deep-Seated Passion

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Title: 

Deep-Seated Passion

Author: 

Tierney O'Malley

Release Date:

September 1, 2011

Publisher:

eXtasy Books

Word Count:

approx. 75,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://tierneyomalley.com/

Description:  

Aaron Hawke is a successful engineer, an overachiever, fiercely independent and cautious man. After eight years of being away, he comes home only to learn that his ex-fiancée who stabs his heart and left love’s bitter taste in his mouth is living and working in his grandfather’s mansion. Aaron quickly decided that she must leave. However, his grandfather’s will has made things complicated—Bronwyn can only leave when she has paid her debt.

Bronwyn Flaherty, a down-to-earth, honest, faithful chatelaine and utterly broke, is miserable. Aaron wants her to pay her debt or start packing. With her hands tied behind her back, she comes up with a solution—sex. Bronwyn’s bold offer shocks Aaron, but he accepts it. He will use her whenever he gets a chance. Payback time. But two weeks into their agreed one month contract, he’s become entangled in his own seductive game.

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Review: Still Taking Chances

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Title: 

Still Taking Chances

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

October 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:
approx. 24,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:
http://www.rozlee.net/

Description: 

After a mission in a South American jungle goes wrong, DEA Agent Elgin ‘Hud’ Huddleston returns to his boyhood home to lick his wounds. Despite his better judgment, Hud is drawn to the woman across the street, a petite Dominatrix with a freeze your balls off name.

Mary Beth Winters packed away her toys and put the BDSM lifestyle behind her years ago when she realized the men she dominated didn’t need her as much as she needed them. But when a troubled bad-boy, Elgin ‘Hud’ Huddleston, moves in across the street, she dusts off her toy box and risks her heart to help him heal.

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Review: Now and Forever 2: The Book of Danny

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Title:
Now and Forever 2: The Book of Danny

Author: 

Jean C. Joachim

Release Date:
November 8, 2011

Publisher:
Secret Cravings Publishing

Word Count:
approx. 71,000

Purchase Links: 
Secret Cravings Publishing
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
All Romance

Author's Website:
http://jeanjoachim.blogspot.com/

Description: 

Now and Forever 2, the Book of Danny is the second in the Now and Forever series. In the first book, Now and Forever 1, a Love Story, you met Callie Richards and Mac Caldwell and watched their love story evolve. This second book is the story of Danny Maine, brother to Callie’s fiancé lost in Iraq as well as the continuing story of Callie and Mac. Now and Forever 2 is a stand-alone book and can be read and understood without reading the first in the series.


Captain Danny Maine leaves the Army after becoming an expert sharp shooter, killer and womanizer. He gets a job teaching English at Kensington State University where he seeks out his brother’s fiancée, Callie Richards, the sister he never had. 

He meets Eliza Baines, a beautiful widow and is smitten immediately. Danny struggles to overcome post-traumatic stress syndrome and make a new life. He strives to leave his violent past behind and forge a new path that includes love, success and having his own family but dark forces and emotional obstacles block his way. Now and Forever 2, the Book of Danny is an heartfelt story of love, loss and ultimate triumph that will touch your heart.

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Review: Between Seasons

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Title: 

Between Seasons

Author: 

Aida Brassington

Release Date:

October 30, 2011

Publisher:

Word Count:

approx. 69,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

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Author's Website:

http://aidabrassington.wordpress.com

Description:  

There are things Patrick Boyle will never forget: the sound of his own neck breaking at the moment of his death in the fall of 1970, the sweet taste of his mother's chocolate cake, and the awful day his parents abandoned him in his childhood house-turned prison.

Nineteen-year-old Patrick wonders for decades if God has forgotten all about him or if he's being punished for some terrible crime or sin over a lovely forty years trapped in an empty home. But when Sara Oswald, a strange woman with a mysterious past, buys his house, old feelings reawaken, and a new optimism convinces him that she's the answer to his prayers.

Things are never simple, though, especially when she begins channeling the memories of his life and death in her writing.

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Review: The Way They Were

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Title: 

The Way They Were

Author: 

Mary Campisi

Release Date:

October 30, 2011

Word Count:

approx. 73,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

www.marycampisi.com

 

Description:  

He hasn’t spoken her name in fourteen years. She keeps a journal hidden in the back of her closet and permits herself to write about him once a year—on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love. They promised to love one another forever, but tragedy tore them apart. Now, destiny may just bring them back together.

At eighteen, Rourke Flannigan and Kate Redmond thought they’d spend the rest of their lives together, until a family tragedy tore them apart. Fourteen years have passed and they’ve both carved out separate lives hundreds of miles apart – hers as a wife and mother, his as a successful, driven businessman. But once a year, on the anniversary of her daughter’s birth, Kate pulls out a red velvet journal and writes a letter, which she’ll never send, to the man who still owns her heart. Once a year, on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love, Rourke permits himself to read the annual investigative report detailing an ordinary day in Kate’s life.

When a subcontractor at one of his holding companies is killed, Rourke decides to pay the widow a visit and offer condolences, never dreaming the widow will be Kate. As they embark on a cautious journey of rediscovery, one far greater than they could have imagined, secrets and lies threaten to destroy their new found closeness – forever.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Four of Hearts

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Title: 

Four of Hearts

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

November 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 61,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing 

Amazon 

Barnes & Noble

Author's Website:

http://www.rozlee.net/

Description:  

Marriage hasn’t tamed Candace Callahan’s sexual curiosity, something her husband Ryan is grateful for, but when she asks him to tie her up for her anniversary present, he knows he’s going to need the help of their friends, Richard Wolfe and his wife, Fallon. 

Dr. Fallon Enright is the resident sex therapist aboard the Lothario - the cruise ship co-owned by her husband and Ryan Callahan. When Ryan asks to participate in one of their couple’s rope bondage classes, Richard isn’t sure it’s a good idea, but Fallon assures him all will be well.

What begins as innocent curiosity, blossoms into a polyamorous relationship none of them could have expected, but they are powerless to ignore. When the tabloids expose their new lifestyle, the foursome must choose between the love they feel for each other, or accepting society’s moral constraints.

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Marriage List

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Title: 

The Marriage List

Author: 

Jean C. Joachim

Release Date:

November 7, 2011

Publisher:

Moonlight Books

Word Count:

approx. 37,000

Purchase Links: 

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Author's Website:

www.jeanjoachimbooks.com

Description:  

Can happily ever after start with a list? Grey Andrews thinks so. After ten years of working, saving and investing, Grey finally achieved a level of wealth that allows him to do what he wants with his life. He needs a woman to share it with, but not any woman, the perfect woman. A woman who has the three essential qualities on his marriage list. But after three years of searching he isn’t any closer to finding her than he was when he started out.

Carrie Tucker, an aspiring mystery writer and divorcée struggling to make it in the world of advertising, turned her focus from men to her career after dating too many creeps and losers. She’s finally earned her big break, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the first female creative director in a hot New York ad agency. So what if it means working nights and weekends? It’s not like she has a social life anyway.

Is the marriage list a failure or will a chance meeting at a fiction-writing conference prove the list to be the key to Grey’s happiness after all?

Joey’s Review:

Review: For Everything

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Title: 

For Everything

Author: 

Rae Spencer

Release Date:

August 8, 2011

Publisher:

Lazy Day Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 51,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://raespencer.com/

Description:  

Clay Savage, the ebony haired lead guitarist of the rock band Distracted, has wanted dusky eyed Lily Travis since the moment he met her over a year ago. No matter what he said or how hard he tried, Lily insisted on keeping their relationship as nothing more than causal friendship. Weary of her excuses and only wanting a chance, Clay resorts to manipulation and cons Lily into being his weeklong date. Now that Lily can no longer avoid him or conceal herself as a wallflower, Clay determinedly pursues her only to stumble upon the horrific secret she conceals. Faced with trauma of her past and the shame she wrongfully bears, Clay must now prove to Lily he can protect her and convince her they have a chance For Everything.

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Love Me Twice

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Title: 

Love Me Twice

Author: 

Roz Lee

Release Date:

August 1, 2011

Publisher:

Red Sage Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 57,000

Purchase Links:  

Red Sage Publishing 

Amazon

All Romance

Author's Website:

http://www.rozlee.net/

Description:  

Sean Callahan came aboard the Lothario to do his brother Ryan a favor, and ended up the man in charge when both Ryan and Richard left the ship with the women they love. The last thing he needs is a complication, and Celeste is definitely a complication. Once upon a time Celeste had been part of his team as well as his lover, but after a disaster of a mission, and the realization that the other member of his team, Drew was in love with her too, she'd disappeared. Now she’s back, and it’s high time she choose.

Some women have all the luck. Celeste just isn't one of them. All the luck she seems to have is the bad kind. How else can you explain ending up on a ship with the two men she's tried to forget for the last five years? Even worse, not a thing has changed. She still loves them both. Leaving them behind only postponed the decision she knows she has to make, and they aren’t helping any. In fact, they’re both doing everything they can to convince her to choose them. But, Celeste isn’t choosing anyone until she understands how their ménage a trios turned into a ménage gone wrong.

Laura’s Review:

Review: The Secret Dreams of Sarah-Jane Quinn

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Title: 

The Secret Dreams of Sarah-Jane Quinn

Author: 

Sharon Gerlach

Release Date:

July 2011

Publisher:

Running Ink Press, LLC

Word Count:

approx. 89,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Smashwords

Barnes & Noble

All Romance

Author's Website:
http://sharongerlach.wordpress.com/

Description:  

Sarah-Jane Quinn has many secret dreams: to own the bed-and-breakfast inn where she stayed as a child; to finally capture the elusive Coleridge “Collie” Tate, on whom she has an enormous crush; and most importantly, to be someone’s top priority for once in her life.

But Collie is a single father with a potential custody battle on his hands, and Sarah ranks roughly Number 917 on his list of concerns. So when Gus Haldemann, the sophisticated director of Human Resources, shows an interest in her, she finds it not only flattering (and mystifying), but tempting and irresistible.

And then Sarah is brutally attacked by a violent stalker. In the aftermath, she must re-evaluate her priorities and decide which man reaches deepest into her heart – and let the other go forever.

Joey’s Review:

Review: The Best Bad Date

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Title: 

The Best Bad Date

Author: 

Addison James

Release Date:

December 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

http://addisonjwriter.com/

Description:  

Susan Wells finds out when a bachelor auction leads to a date with handsome Doctor Roger Lane, and a night to remember. What could go wrong? Everything. Will love find a way through this comedy of errors? Absolutely.

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Review: Shakin' It for Daddy

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Title: 

Shakin' It for Daddy 
Author: 

Tigra-Luna LeMar 
Release Date:

November 4, 2011 
Publisher:

MuseItHot Publishing 
Word Count:

approx. 19,000 
Purchase Links:  

MuseItHot Publishing 
Author's Website:

tigraluna.webs.com/

Description:  

Mika Jamison's dream of becoming a Showgirl of Simora is over. Not only that, she lives in a crummy apartment, works a crappy job as a waitress in a small town where everyone hates her. How can life possibly get any worse?

Add Degan Moira to the mix and you get more than trouble.

Degan Moira is a man on a mission--find the only woman he's ever remotely felt human around, make her see that he's the only man that can love her the way she deserves to be loved and live happily ever after.

But will he still love Mika when he sees that she's grown into a bitter, angry woman with nothing to her name?

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Review: Hauntings of the Heart

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Title: 

Hauntings of the Heart

Author: 

Joselyn Vaughn

Release Date:

October 25, 2011

Publisher:

Astraea Press

Word Count:

approx. 65,000

Purchase Links: 

Astraea Press

Amazon

Barnes & Noble 

Author's Website:

http://joselynvaughn.com

Description:  

When lost love shows up on your doorstep, what do you do?  Minnie Schultz slams the door in his face. She and Gordon Anderson have a history—close to ancient history, given the fifty years since their last encounter. After all that time, it might seem like water under the bridge. But the water pours from the plumbing in Minnie’s bed and breakfast, the Lilac Bower, uncovering all the secrets and heartache between them. With the help of some paranormal investigators, an Elvis impersonator and a couple of nosey friends, can Minnie and Gordon find the future they were meant to have?

Joey’s Review:

Review: Ablaze

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Title: 

Ablaze

Author: 

Tierney O'Malley

Release Date:

August 1, 2011

Publisher:

eXtasy Books

Word Count:

approx. 56,000

Purchase Links:  

Amazon

Author's Website:

http://tierneyomalley.com/

Description:  

Dylan Band loves women, but after his ex-fiancée cheated on him, he has decided to create rules to avoid getting hurt again. He plans to stay commitment and pain-free. If he can have a wondrous one night with a woman, that’s good enough. When Frappuccino-addict Angel McCready comes to stay in the condo he shares with her grandpa, he knows how to keep his heart well-guarded from her charm and still flirt with her.

Coming to Seattle, Angel expects to find a relaxing down time. To get away, to forget that she nearly married a man with horrible secrets. What she doesn’t expect is to find that’s she’ll be sharing the condo with a delicious tour guide who must have majored in flirtation, who reads to her to help her sleep and has made her forget about everything with a simple smile.

Their flirtation escalates to a mind-blowing erotic sex. In two short weeks, their time together becomes an addiction. Night and day, they share wondrous times together. Angel is an aphrodisiac Dylan begins to fall in love with. They’re perfect. But there is one problem. Dylan is not what he presents himself to be. 

Brandi’s Review:

Review: Hermes Online

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Title: 

Hermes Online

Author: 

Rose Anderson

Release Date:

March 16, 2011

Publisher:

Siren-BookStrand Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 37,000

Purchase Links:  

Siren-Bookstrand Publishing

Author's Website:

www.CalliopesWritingTablet.com

Description:  

Imagine meeting someone who thoroughly compliments you. You share likes and dislikes, views and outlooks and a soul connection unlike anything you've ever experienced before. It takes your breath, quickens your pulse and consumes your every thought. When you make love for the first time, it's as if every cell in your body confirms this is your twin flame. Now imagine the timing is horribly off. In my first novel, Hermes Online, Vivienne joyfully discovers such a love amid the ancient ruins of Greece - a love so complete and soul satisfying but one that just isn't meant to be.

As surely as seasons change, life moves on. Grieving the love she found and lost beside the impossible blue waters of the Mediterranean, Vivienne eventually takes another chance at happiness but unfortunately her next relationship turns out to be one of betrayal. Her faithless boyfriend intentionally administers a low blow to deflect the attention off of him and on to her - if she weren't so dull in bed he wouldn't have had to look elsewhere. Not being one to deliberately hurt someone herself, his unaccountable words become a yoke of self-doubt that spills over into every aspect of Vivienne's life. Hungering for a good word, on a whim she enters a short story written during happier times, to an adult literature site and makes a connection with a compelling man known only as S. The two soon embark upon the world of anonymous Internet communication where their suggestive emails lead her to try erotic chat, where cybersex leads to Skype, and C2C sends both into the arms of a love they'd believed lost forever.

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Review: Strings Attached

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Title: 

Strings Attached

Author: 

Anne Holly

Release Date:

May 2011

Publisher:

Wild Horse Press

Word Count:

approx. 56,000

Purchase Links: 

Amazon

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Author's Website:

http://www.anneholly.webs.com/

http://annehollystringsattached.weebly.com/index.html

Description:  

How do you relate to a man who doesn't want you to?

Josie Sergeant has learned one thing by carving out her living from the wilds of the Canadian north: perseverance, optimism and the willingness to do what has to be done can overcome even the harshest of obstacles. Life has taught Theo Sabich, a fellow rancher from Australia, that optimism is a fool's hope.

When their beloved siblings' impetuous marriage plans pit Josie and Theo against one another to defend their families, they find more than they bargain for. And when they start seeing each other as more than enemies, they face their greatest challenge - finding the courage to reach out for happiness.

Under the northern lights, their attraction ignites beyond their control... The trouble is a one-time "no strings attached" release of passion is easier said than done when love is hanging by a thread. 

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Review: Joy's Revelation

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Title: 

Joy's Revelation

Author: 

Ginger Simpson

Release Date:

September 16, 2011

Publisher:

MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:

approx. 7,000

Purchase Links:  

MuseItUp Publishing

Author's Website:

www.gingersimpson.com/

Description:  

Joy Garrett is preparing to marry the man of her dreams and needs her birth certificate in order to get a passport for her honeymoon.  For some reason her mother wants to avoid the issue and urges her to enjoy the good ol' USA.  While pilfering in her mother's things in the attic, Joy comes across a birth certificate, and although the date, hospital and doctor are a match with her, the paper certifies someone else's birth... What secret is her mother keeping?

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