New Release: Halftime Husband by Erin McCarthy + Review!

 

Halftime Husband, an all-new sexy and hilarious standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy is available now!

Running into a man once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times makes it fate... right?

Unless he is now your grumpy boss who holds the future of your fading dance career in his hands. And you hooked up with him when he was just a mysterious stranger rescuing you…

My life is a hot mess. I’m Dakota Tanner and I speak before I think, I spend before I earn, and I live totally in the moment. Which is why I’m down and out in need of a major life makeover. Cue the hot guy who has it all together and makes my toes curl in bed. Who then disappears before I wake up. When he reappears five months later as head coach of a pro football team he wants a secret romance (aka a no-one-can-ever-know bangfest) while I’m a nanny for his wild-child daughters.

I should say no. But he just might be my one true love … or my biggest mistake yet.

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Review:

3.25 stars

***

 Halftime Husband is a standalone book set in the same world as Forty Day Fiance and Who's the Boss?, both books I really enjoyed. While I did enjoy this book, I didn't quite find it as an enjoyable as those previous books.

This book is Dakota and Brandon's story. Dakota is best friends with the women in the previous books. She is a professional dancer, working in music videos and as a previous NFL pro-cheerleader. She meets single dad Brandon by chance when her then-boyfriend plans a surprise wedding that she runs away from in terror. Brandon is a stranger she meets on the street who helps her escape. They have a moment, sharing a carriage ride and a kiss, but they part, not expecting to see each other again. Several months later, they meet again at a New Years Eve party. They have a connection and share a wild, hot night together. Neither of them really want a relationship, but they do want to see each other again. However, a miscommunication leads tmen to part for months. But fate has other plans, when Brandon turns out to be the new coach of the local NFL team and Dakota gets a job as a fill-in cheerleader. She is desperate for a job and about to be evicted. So desperate that she accepts a job as a nanny for Brandon's two daughters on the spur of the moment. Of course, lines get blurred as now they are living together. She and Brandon still want to hookup, but neither of them feel like they can fit a relationship into their lives. Everything gets messy and lines are crossed. Will Brandon and Dakota find love between them in these unusual circumstances?

I did like this story. However, I did feel like this book lacked the charm and chemistry that I felt in the other books I have read by Ms. McCarthy. I did feel like Dakota and Brandon were physically hot for each other, but I never felt love growing between them. Almost to the very end, they hid their relationship and acting like secret friends with benefits, with very little talk of romantic feelings. I didn't feel like they tried very hard to be together or opened up to each other very much. I had a hard time loving Dakota's character as well. She just didn't feel very responsible and she treated Brandon's daughters more like buddies. But the book had some pluses. The story was pretty fun and an easy read. Brandon's daughters were cute. There were some enjoyable moments.

Overall, I did like the book, but it wasn't my favorite by this author. However, I still enjoy the books set in this world and I look forward to more from her in the future.

About Erin McCarthy

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has since written over seventy-five novels and novellas in the romance and mystery genres. Erin has a special weakness for high-heeled boots, martinis, and Frank Sinatra. She lives with her renovation-addicted husband (he built her a bar, so it’s all good!) and their blended family of kids and rescue dogs.

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Cover Reveal: Hot Stuff by Max Monroe

 

Hot Stuff, an all-new hilarious and sexy fireman rom com from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe is coming February 20th and we have the hot cover!

Have you ever seen a fireman who’s so insanely sexy you’d actually consider DIY-ing a little at-home arson just so he’d show up at your front door?

Dramatic, I know, but hear me out.

Chiseled hot body, bright blue eyes, and the sexiest smile I’ve ever seen, the first time I saw Garrett Alexander in my exam room, it took everything inside me not to do something crazy like mount him during his yearly physical.

Not only is he a total babe, but he’s charming, hilarious, and the kind of single dad that would make your ovaries explode—the total freaking package.

I know you’re probably wondering, What in the heck are you waiting for, girl? Go get yourself a fireman!

But, see, there’s one teeny-tiny (read: huge) problem—if we got together, we’d have to keep our relationship a secret.

I know. Who even am I? Some heroine in a freaking forbidden romance novel?

Let me guess, now you’re probably thinking...Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Don’t do it, girl. Don’t fall for the sexy, off-limits man. It’s not worth it.

Well, too late. I already went and did it.

And I have a feeling this fire of ours is going to go up in a big, mushroom-cloud-worthy, ball of figurative smoke.

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About Max Monroe

A duo of romance authors team up under the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling pseudonym Max Monroe to bring you sexy, laugh-out-loud reads.

Max Monroe is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of more than ten contemporary romance titles. Favorite writing partners and long time friends, Max and Monroe strive to live and write all the fun, sexy swoon so often missing from their Facebook newsfeed. Sarcastic by nature, their two writing souls feel like they’ve found their other half. This is their most favorite adventure thus far.

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Blog Tour: Still Standing by Kristen Ashley + Excerpt & Review!

 

Still Standing, an all-new emotional and fiery MC romance from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, is available now!

When Clara Delany walks into the Aces High Motorcycle Club’s hangout, she’s hit rock bottom. She’s hiding her car from the repo man, she has less than two dollars in her bank account and the only employment she can get is delivering messages for a criminal.

All because of a man. Therefore, she’s sworn off them.

And then she meets West “Buck” Hardy, president of the Aces High MC.

Buck also meets her, and the minute he does, he makes it clear (to everyone but Clara) that they’re starting something. Since Clara doesn’t get that message, she decides to leave Buck and sort out her life in order to come back to him clean.

She’s not gone but hours before life hits Clara with another blow. Which means Buck and his boys have to ride in and save the day. After that, Buck makes no bones about where they stand.

But does he?

Welcome to the first novel in the Wild West MC series which will tell the stories of the brothers of the Aces High MC, the Resurrection MC and the Chaos MC…and the women who love them.

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Review: 

3 stars

                                             ***

 Still Standing is the first book of a brand new MC series by Kristen Ashley! I found this an interesting book. I thought it felt very different than any other KA book. It had a different tone and did not feel like a KA book for some reason. In some ways, it lacked KA's usual depth of feeling and signature something special. Still, I found it intriguing in it's differences and I did enjoy the story. That made me rate it higher, despite a few things I didn't love.

This is Buck and Clara's book. Clara is down on her luck. Her rich, ex-husband humiliated her and ruined their lives together. He bilked hundreds of people out of their fortunes, flaunted numerous prostitutes in public, and left Clara broke and jobless when he was arrested, dragging them through the press. Clara's best friend, Tia, has a criminal boss husband who abuses her. To protect her friend, Clara has been doing favors for Tia's husband in exchange for him leaving her alone. One of those favors is for Clara to walk into a motorcycle clubhouse and deliver a message from him to the president, Buck. When Buck meets Clara, he is intrigued and likes her. But after they part at the end of the night, Tia's husband's goons attack her, leaving her battered. Buck steps in and moves her in with him so he can protect her.

Buck and Clara's relationship was near insta-relationship. I felt it lacked an emotional buildup. Both of them were only okay characters for me. Buck had moments where I really did not like his behavior and Clara came off like a doormat at times. It was hard not to compare them to KA's First Couple of Chaos, Tyra and Tack. Neither Buck nor Clara had strong personalities to make me love them. I didn't really understand what was so special about either of them. But at least neither of them were clones of other KA characters. Buck was very demanding and forceful at times. What he said was law. I did think he crossed the line several times and I can see some readers really not liking him. He walked over Clara at times and she let him. (view spoiler) The two fought a good bit and there were some miscommunications that lasted throughout the book, only to be cleared up at the end. None of those things were quite dealbreakers for me personally and I was hopeful that the couple do better in the future, maybe with some counseling or something.

But, overall, I liked the story and the series set-up. I didn't quite connect with the characters the way I have with my favorite KA books. But that was outweighed by the originality of this new series. I am curious about Tia's story and I look forward to more from the series. I enjoyed it in some ways because it felt new and different for KA. I was entertained and found the book to be an easy read. I look forward to more from the Wild West MC!

Excerpt

“Babe,” he growled.

A warning.

Definitely.

I’d gone too far.

I also didn’t care.

“Okay, so then does Tia have to sleep with one, or, say, all of your boys?”

“Don’t do that shit. You know that’s not what I’m talkin’ about.”

“So maybe you’ll explain what you’re talking about.”

“I would, you shut your trap.”

I shut my trap and stared at his shadowed head.

He stared at mine.

Then he muttered, “Christ, need my head examined.”

“You could get off me,” I reminded him.

“Is this shuttin’ your trap?”

I shut my trap again.

“You take of care my house and my business as well as me.”

“What does that mean?”

“That means you move outta the apartment before they kick your ass out. You move into my house. You keep it clean. You keep me fed, that is, when I’m not feedin’ you, and I like to cook, so mostly, I’ll be feedin’ you. You come to work with me and take care of the office, and you go home with me.”

Wow.

Was he serious?

That sounded like…it sounded like…

My God, it didn’t sound like a sex-for-safety arrangement.

It sounded like a relationship.

About Kristen Ashley

Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

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Cover Reveal: Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

 

Love returns to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou in a new small-town contemporary romance sure to charm hearts, from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.

Bayou Beauty is releasing July 27th and we have the beautiful cover!

Sylvie Martine was prepared to take Washington D.C. by storm, but she put that dream on hold when her beloved hometown of Papillon, Louisiana, needed her most. Now Sylvie's the mayor of the tiny town on the bayou that holds her heart. But for Sylvie, this can only be a pit stop on the way to bigger and better things. The last thing she needs is an old love to resurface and threaten her goals.

Rene Darois’s whole life has been about serving his family—no matter how much it hurts. He’s used to sacrificing for his large extended family and the company his grandfather created. But he can’t believe the latest demand: he needs to find a wife and quick or he could lose it all. It would be a horrible situation. But he has just the solution: his high school sweetheart. Sylvie is everything he wants in a wife—smart, funny, and caring—and he planned to woo her anyway.

Now he just has to convince Sylvie that their love is worth it all, or he and the bayou will lose her forever.

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About Lexi Blake

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places. Lexi believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome or foursome may seem.

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Cover Reveal: Halftime Husband by Erin McCarthy

 

Halftime Husband, an all-new hot boss rom com from New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy is coming February 15th and we have the awesome cover!

Running into a man once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times makes it fate... right?

Unless he is now your grumpy boss who holds the future of your fading dance career in his hands. And you hooked up with him when he was just a mysterious stranger rescuing you…

My life is a hot mess. I’m Dakota Tanner and I speak before I think, I spend before I earn, and I live totally in the moment. Which is why I’m down and out in need of a major life makeover. Cue the hot guy who has it all together and makes my toes curl in bed. Who then disappears before I wake up. When he reappears five months later as head coach of a pro football team he wants a secret romance (aka a no-one-can-ever-know bangfest) while I’m a nanny for his wild-child daughters.

I should say no. But he just might be my one true love … or my biggest mistake yet.

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                                                     Cover Designer: Hang Le

About Erin

USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has since written over seventy-five novels and novellas in the romance and mystery genres. Erin has a special weakness for high-heeled boots, martinis, and Frank Sinatra. She lives with her renovation- addicted husband (he built her a bar, so it’s all good!) and their blended family of kids and rescue dogs.

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Blog Tour: Swoony Billionaire boxset by Max Monroe + Review!

 

Meet the swooniest billionaire of all time in one awesome and hilarious romantic comedy collection (all for the price of one novella, too!)

Swoony Billionaire, an all-new hilarious and sexy romantic comedy collection of Tapping the Billionaire, Tapping Her and the all new novella, Be My Billionaire Valentine from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe is available now!

This collection includes the following three books:
*New York Times bestseller Tapping the Billionaire
*Tapping Her*And a BRAND-NEW novella, Be My Billionaire Valentine!

This is the perfect indulgence for new and old readers alike!

A favorite book boyfriend of all time, Kline Brooks sets a different kind of standard.

If you’re the type of woman that prefers crotch selfies to small talk, this hero isn’t for you.

If you HATE laughing, this hero isn’t for you.

If you want your male leads to grunt, thrust like jack rabbits, and have one-track minds that prefer a nice pair of t*ts to brains every hour of every day for the rest of forever, well…then, this hero still isn’t for you.

But.

If you enjoy a good swoon, a hearty laugh, witty banter, some hot as f*@% f*@%ing, and an awesome HEA, then dive into this collection and never come up for air.

Kline Brooks isn’t the kind of man you regret.

Review:

3.5-4 stars

****

 The Swoony Billionaire: The Kline Brooks Collection is a boxset containing Tapping the Billionaire, Tapping Her, and a new novella, Be My Billionaire Valentine. This set follows Kline and Georgia's romantic journey in all it's swoony and witty glory. Kline and Georgia are sweet and sexy together. This set is a great way to meet them if you have not read their story before!

My review for Tapping the Billionaire: 3.5-3.75 star. This was a good book! It took me a while to get into it. The beginning is rocky. It seemed like the book was trying so hard to be funny. Like every single line was a joke. But that settled down after the first little bit (so if you start this and are unsure, give it a little time to calm down). Once it settled a bit, it turned out to be a really sweet romance. This is Georgia and Kline's story. Georgia is a marketing executive for a large company and Kline is her boss. Kline is handsome, but a perfectly polite, fair boss. He has never shown any interest in anyone at the office, including Georgia. Georgia is funny, smart and quirky though. Kline is a really good, nice guy (no manwhore here) and he is tired of his mom trying to set him up with airhead society women. One night, to get out of date that his mom has set up, he tells her that he has a date and he decides to ask Georgia out. He has started to notice Georgia for the great girl she is and he thinks she is adorable. They have instant chemistry and they begin to date. They really are perfect and totally sweet together. But in the meanwhile, Kline's company has created a dating app called TapNext and requires all of the company's single employees to use it and give feedback. Georgia, using her best friend's photo, has been chatting (as friends only) with a guy (Ruck) on there using the name Rose. This leads to some drama: (view spoiler) But everything works out the way it should. I really liked both Georgia and Kline. Kline was so sweet and totally head over heels for Georgia from their first date. I liked that their chemistry was instant but they took the physical side on a slow(ish) progression (especially since Georgia is a virgin). Georgia was strong, smart and funny. They were really cute together, with great banter and good dirty talk and sexy times. Overall, I really enjoyed how sweet they were together and really enjoyed this book! I look forward to more from the mysterious duo that is Max Monroe!

My review for Tapping Her: 4 stars! A cute, funny novella about Kline and Georgia's honeymoon and about Cassie and Thatch's cat-sitting adventures. Laugh out loud hilarious, sexy and sweet! I can't wait for Cass and Thatch's story next!

My review for Be My Billionaire Valentine: 3.5 stars. This was another cute novella from the couple. I did feel like it was a little repetitive to read directly after Tapping Her, as they are both tropical vacation settings and take place in the same time frame. I did wish for a further jump ahead story, where we see them juggling their kids and stuff. Still, it was cute and witty. I enjoyed getting more of the couple.

Overall, you can't go wrong with Kline and Georgia. They are adorable together and love each other so much! This collection is a great introduction to Max Monroe's work and such a fun read!

Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

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About Max Monroe

A duo of romance authors team up under the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling pseudonym Max Monroe to bring you sexy, laugh-out-loud reads.

Max Monroe is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of more than ten contemporary romance titles. Favorite writing partners and long time friends, Max and Monroe strive to live and write all the fun, sexy swoon so often missing from their Facebook newsfeed. Sarcastic by nature, their two writing souls feel like they’ve found their other half. This is their most favorite adventure thus far.

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New Release: Still Standing by Kristen Ashley + Review!

 

"Any hopeless romantic would devour everything Kristen Ashley has to offer!"

―Fresh Fiction

Still Standing, an all-new white-hot, high octane MC romance and the first standalone in the Wild West MC series from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley, is available now!

When Clara Delany walks into the Aces High Motorcycle Club’s hangout, she’s hit rock bottom. She’s hiding her car from the repo man, she has less than two dollars in her bank account and the only employment she can get is delivering messages for a criminal.

All because of a man. Therefore, she’s sworn off them.

And then she meets West “Buck” Hardy, president of the Aces High MC.

Buck also meets her, and the minute he does, he makes it clear (to everyone but Clara) that they’re starting something. Since Clara doesn’t get that message, she decides to leave Buck and sort out her life in order to come back to him clean.

She’s not gone but hours before life hits Clara with another blow. Which means Buck and his boys have to ride in and save the day. After that, Buck makes no bones about where they stand.

But does he?

Welcome to the first novel in the Wild West MC series which will tell the stories of the brothers of the Aces High MC, the Resurrection MC and the Chaos MC…and the women who love them.

Download your copy today!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3eXeWeh
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Review:

3.5 stars

***

 Still Standing is the first book of a brand new MC series by Kristen Ashley! I found this an interesting book. I thought it felt very different than any other KA book. It had a different tone and did not feel like a KA book for some reason. In some ways, it lacked KA's usual depth of feeling and signature something special. Still, I found it intriguing in it's differences and I did enjoy the story. That made me rate it higher, despite a few things I didn't love.

This is Buck and Clara's book. Clara is down on her luck. Her rich, ex-husband humiliated her and ruined their lives together. He bilked hundreds of people out of their fortunes, flaunted numerous prostitutes in public, and left Clara broke and jobless when he was arrested, dragging them through the press. Clara's best friend, Tia, has a criminal boss husband who abuses her. To protect her friend, Clara has been doing favors for Tia's husband in exchange for him leaving her alone. One of those favors is for Clara to walk into a motorcycle clubhouse and deliver a message from him to the president, Buck. When Buck meets Clara, he is intrigued and likes her. But after they part at the end of the night, Tia's husband's goons attack her, leaving her battered. Buck steps in and moves her in with him so he can protect her.

Buck and Clara's relationship was near insta-relationship. I felt it lacked an emotional buildup. Both of them were only okay characters for me. Buck had moments where I really did not like his behavior and Clara came off like a doormat at times. It was hard not to compare them to KA's First Couple of Chaos, Tyra and Tack. Neither Buck nor Clara had strong personalities to make me love them. I didn't really understand what was so special about either of them. But at least neither of them were clones of other KA characters. Buck was very demanding and forceful at times. What he said was law. I did think he crossed the line several times and I can see some readers really not liking him. He walked over Clara at times and she let him. (view spoiler) The two fought a good bit and there were some miscommunications that lasted throughout the book, only to be cleared up at the end. None of those things were quite dealbreakers for me personally and I was hopeful that the couple do better in the future, maybe with some counseling or something.

But, overall, I liked the story and the series set-up. I didn't quite connect with the characters the way I have with my favorite KA books. But that was outweighed by the originality of this new series. I am curious about Tia's story and I look forward to more from the series. I enjoyed it in some ways because it felt new and different for KA. I was entertained and found the book to be an easy read. I look forward to more from the Wild West MC!

About Kristen Ashley

Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

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