ItaPixie's Book Corner

  Release Date: 10.16.2020 Synopsis: It’s the most magical time of year, and anything can happen… Nia Maddison has always believed that wishes come true on Nutcracker Lane. So, when she gets the opportunity to run her own Christmas gift shop on the most magical street in town, it feels like her wishes have been finally granted. But working late one night, Nia discovers yet another boyfriend has cheated on her. As she trudges home – alone, again – she passes the (supposedly) magical nutcracker and half-joking thinks a wish can’t hurt. Cracking a nut in its mouth, she wishes to find Prince Charming. The next day Nia gets to work to find another decoration shop has opened directly across the lane from her own, and she can’t resist having a nose around. Whilst there, she accidentally backs into a human-sized Nutcracker, knocking it over and breaking it. Mortified, she flees from the store but when she gathers her resolve to go back and apologise, she stumbles across the gorgeous shop o...

  Release Date: 10.20.2020 Synopsis: What if you could go back in time and fix the biggest mistake of your life? Two years ago, Maisie’s best friend walked out of her life and she hasn’t heard from him since. When she wakes up in 1994, she naturally assumes she’s dreaming. But when she finds herself in the past again the next night and her actions in the dream alter her present-day life, she begins to wonder if she’s somehow hopping back in time. And if she is time-travelling, can she save her friendship with Jonas? When Maisie is forced to relive Christmases of the past, will she face up to her mistakes, or make them all over again? Review: Once again I went into this book without reading the blurb and I was pleasantly surprised, I think I was as much surprised as our heroine. Maisie, Lily and Jonas were the best of friends until Maisie cracked her and Jonas friendship. Now they haven’t talked in two years but maybe Lily’s wedding is her best shot to make up with him, but before t...

  Release Date: 10.20.2020 Synopsis: Miller  They called me the pretty boy on and off the ice. Hockey’s most eligible bachelor.  When my teammate asked me to donate one date to his charity, I figured why not. Worst case, I’d spend the night with a fan. Best-case scenario, she would be hot. What I wasn’t expecting was for my dream girl to be the highest bidder. For years, she brushed me off, and now, I finally had a chance to take her out and show her who I really was.  With only one shot at this, I really hoped I didn’t mess it up.  Layla  At the top of my career, I was riding the wave of my sports talk show having the best rating on the radio.  I also made it a rule to never date any sports players.  It was my one rule, and I was sticking to it until I bid on the only man who gets under my skin.  All it takes is one touch, one night, one kiss, and only one chance. Review: Only One Chance was such a good read with a beautiful group of charact...

  Release Date: 10.19.2020 Synopsis: Secretly hooking up with the team captain's sister was a bad idea. In my defense, the first time I saw her I didn't know who she was. Kind, gorgeous, a little naïve. Ginny brightened my world from day one. I knew I was no good for her. She was just out of a relationship and I had a reputation for having a new girl in my bed every weekend. I tried to do the right thing. Honest. I'm the one who insisted we should be just friends. That lasted about as long as you'd expect. But Ginny? She's the best - best friend, best everything. So yeah, hooking up with the team captain's sister wasn't a great idea. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat. Review: Welcome back to the Velley U!! Rebecca Jenshak brings us back to the campus where we previously fell in love with a bunch of beautiful and funny jocks. Now we meet another group of friends and I can assure you they have nothing to envy to the old ones who in the meantime have graduate...

  Release Date: 10.15.2020 Synopsis: @𝗨𝗼𝗳𝗝𝟰𝟭𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 @𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗮𝟴𝟳? #𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲#𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗧𝗗𝘀 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍—𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍. Kay. My Skittles...𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘. Then a blitz from the past flattened me like a linebacker. Time for a new playbook. 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒂 𝒊𝒔...𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒉! I told myself to stay away. Warned my heart 𝘯𝘰𝘵 to fall for him. Did it listen? 𝗡𝗢𝗣𝗘. Now it feels like it’s crushed under a fallen cheer pyramid. Sorry to tell you, but 𝘺𝘰𝘶 are 𝗡𝗢𝗧 a game changer. **Thi s book 2 in the U of J Series and cannot be read as a stand-alone.** Review: I was kind of itching to get back in the UofJ world to find out if Kayla and Mason still have a future as a couple. Game Changer starts where Looking To Score ended. We see how Mason understands he made a mistake breaking up with Kayla and tries to make ammend and to win her back. I adored how cute and funny our hero is, and...

  Release Date: 10.08.2020 Synopsis: Hollis Taylor is allowed to break the rules. She’s coach’s little girl. And she’s good. If that means she gets to bump one of the guys for the starting catcher’s job on the Public High baseball team, then the others on the squad better suck it up and deal. But breaking rules has taken Cannon Jennings far in life. One of the nation’s top pitching prospects, he came here to throw to his cousin and show college recruiters everything he could do on the mound. Taking his signs from a girl was not part of his blueprint, especially one that screwed over his favorite relative and best friend. Too bad he broke the biggest rule of all before he knew exactly who she was. It was just a New Year’s kiss. Totally forgettable. Especially under the circumstances. So why can’t he stop thinking about it? Review: Varsity Rulebreaker was a very good read. Cannon is new to the Public High, he trasferred to play baseball with his cousin. Hollis's just transferred to...

  Release Date: 10.06.2020 Synopsis: If I can keep Hush Note’s leading guitarist, Nixon Winters, on the straight and narrow for the next six months, I’ll finally get my own band to manage—assuming we don’t kill each other first. The egotistical, irritating rock star is fresh out of rehab, but it’s obvious his demons followed him home—and now I’m sleeping down the hall. I’ve watched him self-destruct every summer, and with album deadlines and tour dates looming, I can’t let it happen again. My career is in his hands. But tattoos can’t cover every scar, and I’m starting to see through his trademark, irresistible charm to the damage beneath. Everyone wants the rock star. I’m falling for the man. If he doesn’t let me in, he’ll never break the cycle— And when these six months are up, I might be the one left broken. Review: Muses & Melodies is Nixon’s story the third member of the Hush Note band. We have seen Nix struggling with addiction in the previous books in the series and I was...

  Release Date: 10.07.2020 Synopsis: The woman who haunts his dreams Secret agent Phil Cullen is upset when he discovers that the young woman he rescued from Mrs Newbody’s establishment has absconded from his housekeeper’s care without a word. Thinking he has been deceived, he resolves to forget about her… something easier said than done. The man she wants to forget Sophia Turner is horrified when she is duped into entering a notorious house of ill-repute. Then a handsome stranger comes to her aid. Desperate that no one learns of this scandalous episode, Sophia flees to the one friend she knows she can trust. With luck, she will never see her mysterious rescuer again. But fate has other plans… Months later, Phil is on the trail of an elusive French agent and Sophia is a respectable lady’s companion when fate again intervenes, taking their lives on a collision course. Traitors, spies, and shameful family secrets - will these bring Sophia and Phil together… or drive them apart? Revie...

  Release Date: 09.25.2020 Synopsis: Former TOPGUN pilot Clint Davenport is the newly-crowned prince of public radio now that he’s hosting America’s most popular drive-time show. The ladies can't get enough of this Flying Ace, but he's all out of runway for the fairer sex because of a tragedy that haunts him. But life is perfect, or at least that’s what he keeps saying. Until he finds himself on the ropes (literally) at a company retreat and the only person who can bring him in for a safe landing is his office frenemy, who seems as comfortable in a climbing harness as he used to be in an F-18. At twenty-eight, Erin Hung was still living with her parents in Honolulu, so when her favorite cousin invited her to move to glittering Los Angeles, she made the leap. After four years, this late bloomer has blossomed. She owns her own condo in gorgeous Pasadena, has the love of a good male—her Shiba Inu, Atticus—and is the badass marketing manager for America’s #1 radio show. But she sti...