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Release Date: 08.30.2016 Synopsis: Turning thirty is a big deal. Getting married is also a big deal. Karyn’s about to do both, and she’s freaking out about it. From the outside looking in, anyone would think she’s got it all going on. Amazing fiancé who adores her, job as the top reporter in town, amazing group of friends… seriously, the list goes on and on. But, Karyn had dreams as a kid. She had these amazing, huge goals. She was so close to achieving them, too. However, like life has a tendency to do, it took a detour. And now she’s turning thirty, and getting married, and it turns out that she is nowhere near where she thought she would be at this point in her life. So now, she is turning thirty, and getting married, and asking herself the question: ‘If I could go back and change direction… would I?’ Would she willingly change everything if only to have a chance at making her original dreams come true? Review: This was a good...

Release Date: 03.30.2016 Synopsis: Once upon a time Mitchell Walker fell in love...and trusted the wrong woman. That one mistake nearly cost him his future. His older brother, Derek, stepped in to take the fall. Mitchell has never forgiven himself for that day, and vowed to never trust another woman.  Now he is a young, successful surgeon. Women throw themselves at his feet, and he gives them what they want, as long as they don't ask for his heart. The strategy is working well for him until he meets freelance reporter Jessica Finley.  She's smart, she makes him laugh, and she sees right through his playboy persona. When Mitchell finds out she has links to the past he's tried so hard to forget, his life implodes, and Jessica is at the center of the detonation.  Jessica's fire may burn hot enough to keep him up all night, but will her love be strong enough to burn away the ghosts of his past and melt the ice around his heart?   Rev...

Release Date: 08.13.2016 Synopsis: Sometimes unexpected miracles can shift your life off course. A year ago, Amelia, Annie, and Charlotte found second loves in unexpected places. Now, everyone’s life seems to have fallen into place… until a late night knock on Charlotte’s door shakes up everything. Love rarely goes as planned… Unexpected news leaves Amelia confused and worried. She loves Owen but is not sure what her future holds, especially with them living the tour life. As the months pass by and Amelia begins to question everything, she wonders if her relationship with Owen can truly last forever. Sometimes a first love creeps back in… While helping Amelia sort out her life, Annie finds new problems of her own. A visitor from her past threatens to overturn her relationship with Joe. Annie must make some difficult choices. As the three women face new complexities in the sequel to Then Comes Love, they learn the fairy tale can fade, leaving y...

Release Date: 08.24.2006 Synopsis: AN AMBITIOUS BOMBSHELL IS ABOUT TO BRING THE KING OF WALL STREET TO HIS KNEES. I keep my two worlds separate. At work, I’m King of Wall Street. The heaviest hitters in Manhattan come to me to make money. They do whatever I say because I’m always right. I’m shrewd. Exacting. Some say ruthless. At home, I’m a single dad trying to keep his fourteen year old daughter a kid for as long as possible. If my daughter does what I say, somewhere there’s a snowball surviving in hell. And nothing I say is ever right. When Harper Jayne starts as a junior researcher at my firm, the barriers between my worlds begin to dissolve. She’s the most infuriating woman I’ve ever worked with. I don’t like the way she bends over the photocopier—it makes my mouth water. I hate the way she’s so eager to do a good job—it makes my dick twitch. And I can’t stand the way she wears her hair up exposing her long neck. It makes me want to str...

Release Date:  09.03.2015 Synopsis: Sometimes the best friends can be found where you least expect them …  Still grieving after the loss of her beloved husband, Lily Mortimer is determined to do something with the time she has left.  After the end of her fairytale marriage, thirty-something Kate is trying hard to mend her broken heart.  Chloe, a young woman with the world at her feet, is struggling to know what to do with her life.  When Lily embarks on a new venture in the picturesque town of Somerley, the three women come together to open The Coffee Stop, the most charming café for miles around.  But opening a coffee shop is never as simple as it seems, especially when you add neighbouring competition, local heart throbs and heartbreak to the mix.  When tragedy strikes, can the three women pull together to make the new business fly, or will Lily’s last chance disappear down the drain along with yesterday’s coffee grinds? Review: ...

Release Date: 08.22.2016 Synopsis: I’m forty, flabby, and frustrated. Don’t get me wrong, I have a good home, a decent job, and great children. I had a loving marriage for twenty years where we had our ups and downs. It wasn’t perfect; but it wasn’t awful.  Then he died.  After the grief took its course, and the reality of my life set in, I grew frustrated. It wasn’t the bills or the strug-gle to keep my interest in my work. It was life without a man – the only man I’d been with for twenty years. And before you go all feminist on me, it isn’t that I can’t be an independent woman, but there are certain areas where a man is necessary.  You need a fuck buddy, my friend said.  I didn’t even know what that meant.  Is it friends with benefits?, I asked.  Better, you don’t even have to be friends, she offered.  Boy, did I need an education in the modern workings of dating, and sex. Review: I want to start thi...

Release Date: 05.10.2016 Synopsis: Annabeth is a hopeless romantic who believes in soul mates. In fact, she’s been writing to hers each year on her birthday since she was 16.  Now, at 34, she’s still holding out hope of finding Mr. Right even though he’d be fighting an uphill battle to gain her trust, thanks to a traumatic experience years before that’s left her unable to commit.  When Annabeth meets a handsome literature professor named Alex on her 34th birthday, she thinks her quest may finally be at an end. Things don’t quite go as planned, so Annabeth resolves to do everything she can over the next year to find the unknown recipient of her letters. But blind dates, Meetup events and online singles sites have nothing on what fate has in store for her when a co-worker unexpectedly quits and Annabeth finds herself working in close quarters with both Alex and her long ago ex, Nick. Fighting her attraction to one and loathing for the other, Annabet...

Release Date: 08.18.2016 Synopsis: Strong and independent, Wrong for each other in every way. But the heat, the passion, the pull. Undeniable. Irresistible. When we were together, The chaos turned to desire, Need. Bliss. I was his. He was mine. For the time-being. Different countries. Different worlds. Just sex. No strings attached. That's how Boyd Rivers wanted it. And exactly how I liked it. But sometimes, fate has other plans... Can it really be not about love? **Not About Love is the second book in the "This Love" series, but can be read as a standalone.** Review: I've really enjoyed this story.It is interesting and entertaining from beginning to end. I have to admit while I liked Ella and Lou's journey, I adored Boyd and Ally's even more...their phisical chemistry and funny bantering make their story a perfect summer read. Hilaria Alexander writing is so easy to read that you will finish this book in no time and it wil...

Release Date: 08.09.2016 Synopsis: For Lawrence “Viper” Finkle, hockey isn’t just a sport, it’s a way of life. Since the first time he stepped onto the ice at just eight years old, he knew what he was meant to do, and he does it well. When his career takes an unexpected hit, and his relationship is pushed to the breaking point, he’s left sidelined and wondering what his future holds.  Just when he’s sure things can’t get any worse…they do.  Can Viper pull himself together in time to save his career, his girl, and his sanity? Or will he be permanently benched? Review: Viper's story got a sequel and I'm so glad because I needed to read more about him. This novel was really beautiful and at times so honest you feel your heart breaking sentence after sentence. I cannot not to say thank you to Beth Ehemann because she gave these characters the journey they deserve. When hard times come is so much easier to run away, go back to your s...

Release Date: 08.01.2016 Synopsis: The moment everything changed didn’t happen in that cliché rockets-red-glare kind of way, it happened in the form of a waking nightmare. I caught my husband, my high-school sweetheart, the father of my children, balls deep in a sordid affair. That was when I gave up on men and love.  I didn’t count on the NHL’s golden boy, the beautiful, arrogant Cooper Stone turning my life and my hockey rink upside down. My kids are why I wake up in the morning. Hockey is what Cooper breathes for. We’re from different worlds and places in our lives but when our hearts collided something so wrong and different turned into something so right. Review: I'm reading a lot of debut novels lately and I'm really enjoying all of them,this was no exception. Natasha Madison writing reminded me of one of my favorite hockey romance author,not for the story contents but more for the similar feelings she gave me while reading it. I lik...