ItaPixie's Book Corner

  Synopsis: I 'm the star defensemen for the Portland Icehawks and the guy everyone loves to hate. Not that I don’t deserve their hatred. After all, how can you like a guy who doesn't even like himself? Michella is the one woman I can't let go, yet I can't be with her either. We're like a drug to each other, and addictions aren't a good thing. I've messed up a relationship before and destroyed the one person I loved. I can't do the same to Michella. I'm ready to walk away one final time when a child of the street in need of rescuing forces us back together. To make matters worse, Michella's new job with a private investigative agency puts her in the crosshairs of Portland's elusive serial killer. I have to protect her and this child, even if staying causes more destruction than leaving. Review: Briggs doesn't want to play for the Portland Icehawks, he doesn't want to make friends, he only is interested in the beautiful Michella, but n...

  Synopsis: A one-night stand with a sexy stranger has me in over my head and calling time out… Most of my team celebrated our Monday Night Football win with family and a few drinks. I celebrated mine with a smoking hot brunette. One wild night of passion, with chemistry off the charts, we had our fun. In the morning, just when I was thinking of asking her for one more night—she bolted faster than I can score a touchdown. It’s my rookie year. I’m breaking records and our team is gearing up to head to the playoffs. A Championship win is the only thing I’m focused on. Until my one-night stand shows up at my doorstep on Christmas Eve and drops a present in my lap that turns my whole word upside down. Maggie’s pregnant. And the baby is mine. My teammate’s think she’s after my multi-million-dollar contract, but I believe her. Either way, I’m not the kind of guy who walks away from his responsibilities. Now Maggie’s living under my roof and getting under my skin. I want her close so I ca...

  Synopsis: People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they needed... Esme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life. From her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely... without her husband; Niamh, the city professional with a life-changing decision to make; and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her. Esme's guests provide the colour that helps her keep her grip on the world. All of them have something they want to escape – or to hold on to. But can Esme can help them find their way before the summer is over? Review: The Guest House By The Sea was a nice, comforting read. Some ...

  Synopsis: Taken hostage by terrorists, an archaeologist must risk everything when a SEAL attempts to rescue her too soon… Archaeologist Diana Edwards is on a mission to uncover the link between artifact trafficking and terrorism. Just when she’s making progress, she’s kidnapped and forced to work for the very people she’s trying to stop. The nightmare deepens when she discovers the man who arranged her abduction is a terrorist everyone believes to be dead. A team of SEALs is sent in to save her, forcing her to make an impossible choice if she wants to stop looted artifacts from being used to fund brutal attacks across the globe. Navy SEAL Chris Flyte has one job to do, but the hostage won’t cooperate, endangering him and everyone on his team. After he completes the mission and Diana is safely on American soil, her story of abduction and being forced to dig becomes suspect. But when she shows up on his doorstep saying she’s seen one of her abductors, Chris has to wonder if the arc...

  Synopsis: After solving two cold case murders during her sophomore year—not to mention getting expelled, arrested, and nearly killed—Izzy Brown longs for a normal teenage summer. A summer that, at a bare minimum, won’t involve a murderous psycho holding her at gunpoint. Seeking a fresh start, Izzy moves north with her family to Ashes in the Pines, a resort town in the Appalachian Mountains. There she lands a job at Fuller Farms, the luxury summer camp of choice for children of the uber-rich. A camp that Izzy’s best friend, Elton Jones-Davies, happens to be attending. But then Izzy learns she wasn’t hired to serve meals in the Fuller Farms dining hall. She was hired to solve the murder of a camp counselor seventeen years earlier. Izzy and Elton try to unravel the camp’s deadly secrets but are thwarted at every step by those who want to hide the truth. So much for a normal teenage summer. Set in 2009 during the Great Recession and the first wave of the opioid epidemic, Ashes in the...

  Synopsis: Former Met police officer Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is working a trial period as an auxiliary Detective Sergeant with the Penstowan police force. But living and working alongside DCI Nathan Withers – while still trying to grow her catering company – brings its own challenges, especially when Jodie’s attention is quickly taken up by the suspicious drowning of a local fisherman.  While tourists and locals alike are falling under the spell of the annual mermaid festival with its captivating legends of Sirens luring fishermen to their deaths, Jodie and Nathan fear they may have found themselves in the middle of a very real – and very dangerous – turf war. As the casualties start to stack up, they must face the likelihood that something sinister has been going on under their noses for some time... Review: A Cornish Seaside Murder sees Jodie busy with the legend of an evil siren and the death of a fisherman. In this sixth installment Jodie left her amateur sleuthing to accept...

  Synopsis: He’s the town doctor. But a mysterious young widow might be his prescription for true love. When Dr. Kellan Webb is offered the opportunity to trade in his job at a fancy city hospital and take over the small practice in his hometown, he’s overjoyed. Working one-on-one with patients and raising his son close to his family will more than make up for the pay cut. And Kellan always has a plan for the future. Sure, his brothers might tease him for being so serious all the time, but Kellan knows there’s nothing funny about shouldering his responsibilities like a man. Then a beautiful young pregnant woman arrives at his house in the middle of the night with a terrified look on her face and snow in her hair, and Kellan’s whole world is turned upside down. Suddenly, Daisy is working as a receptionist for his practice, winning over his most obstinate new patients to his way of doing things, and turning every meal into a laugh-fest with his lovestruck seven-year-old son. Though s...

  Synopsis: Gabriella Stone Moving to LA was my dream since I was thirteen. By the time I was twenty, I was sought out by some of the most beautiful people in the world to take their pictures. No one cared that I came from a hockey dynasty. Everything was perfect. Then I met him. It was supposed to be a one-time thing. But it ended up being more. So much more. Until he betrayed me. Romeo Beckett Growing up in LA, everyone knew I came from Hollywood royalty. Following in my father's legendary footsteps, I learned early on not to fall for the shallow shine of this city. When I met her, I didn't know she was what I'd been looking for. In one night, I ruined everything. She left without a second thought. I've spent every day since becoming the man she deserves. She thinks it's over. She's wrong. It's time to win her back. Review: Hockey Royalty meets Hollywood Royalty, fireworks and giggles are guaranteed. Made For Romeo is a nice, easy to read novel with likeab...