ItaPixie's Book Corner

      Synopsis:   He’s the hot, tattooed bad boy that I traded insults with...and now he wants my help? Knox Holland is in a jam. After an incredible first year on the pro motocross circuit, he should be on top of the world. Instead, his bad reputation has landed him without a team. He’s untouchable and desperate to turn it around. Which is how he ends up at my gym asking me to train him. As a college gymnast with two Olympic medals to my name, I know a thing or two about the pressure to succeed. Last season I choked and then injured myself before I could show the world that I’m not a twenty-year-old has-been. Focused on the future, I can’t afford to get distracted. But I recognize the desperation in Knox’s eyes, and I can’t say no to him, either. It should have been an easy task, but nothing about Knox is easy. One minute we’re arguing, and the next I’m enjoying his shirtless handstands a little too much. Falling for him would be a mistake…     Review:    Burnout tells t

        Synopsis: I was supposed to be bumping shoulders with the best and brightest in chemistry at a London University. Instead, I’m bumping into the shoulder pads of Tiff U’s star football player. And I’m his tutor. I’ve never had many friends. The only one I thought I could count on ended up stealing my scholarship—and then my boyfriend. Now, instead of spending my fall semester abroad, I’m stuck here in Iowa, with zero funds and even less hope that I’ll get to study abroad at all before I graduate this spring. Even worse? My mentor asked me to take on the impossible—tutoring arrogant running back Logan Ford and helping him finally pass Chem 101. Apparently, the team needs him, and the governing board is cracking down on letting grades slide for athletes. Normally, I’m all for accountability. Except now getting him to pass is my problem. And everyone on campus is looking to me—Rachel Edwards, chemistry genius, bonafide introvert—to get it done. I’m about to give up before I start.

      Synopsis:   Unexpected fatherhood, a newborn daughter and a nanny in the next bedroom he can't stop fantasizing about. When a one-night stand announces I just became a father to a baby girl, my world is thrown into turmoil. My choice: single fatherhood or sign adoption papers. The decision is easy. Within hours, I'm on a plane to collect my daughter. I’m in over my head. I barely know one end of a baby from the other. Luckily, I have the perfect plan. I’ll hire live-in help, have limited involvement with the kid, and keep my life just the same as it’s always been. I finally find a nanny who lives up to my exacting standards. But the only problem is, every time I look at her, the future I thought I wanted starts to crumble. Nothing in my life is going according to plan… and the wriggling poo machine in my arms is unexpectedly worming her way into my heart. Life was ordered and logical until I got myself two roommates and started falling in love with both of them.  

      Synopsis: A betrothal bargain With the Highlander from her past When Susanna Cameron needs to thwart her brothers’ plan to marry her off, she turns to her childhood sweetheart, Laird Rowan Campbell, with a daring proposal—to be her pretend betrothed! In exchange, she’ll help the now-hardened Rowan get revenge on the man who killed his family. The only flaw in Susanna’s plan—their returning attraction!   Review:    The Lady's Proposal For The Laird was a good and satisfying story that held my interest until the end. This is the second book in the Secrets Of Clan Cameron series, I suggest you to read the first novel before to start it to grasp every detail of this story. Susanna Cameron secretly meets Laird Rowan Campbell to request the vow his clan have with her to be honored, in few words, she asks him to fake courting her in order to discover her brothers' secrets. Rowan doesn't easily give in at her request because he was hurt by Susanna in the past, bu

        Synopsis: The start of an exciting new trilogy (within the Little Duck Pond Café series) about three sisters struggling to get past the events of their childhood. When middle sister Aurora (Rori) escaped a bad relationship and fled to Sunnybrook, she was crossing her fingers for a brand new start. Meeting the gorgeous Kurt has put some sparkle back in her life. But now the past has come back to haunt her. Scary things keep happening and it's becoming impossible to know who she can trust. Someone wants to keep her in fear, but where and how will it all end? With the help of her new friends at the Little Duck Pond Café, can Rori solve the mystery before it's too late?   Review:     This was another good story to add to the Little Duck Pond Café series, even if Aurora is the first in a kind of spin off trilogy. Rori ran away from her aggressive boyfriend and she found cover in Sunnybrook, where she was helped by Milo and the ladies at the Café. She started anew

      Synopsis: Awakening magical powers? Yes! Solving a murder, sure. But turning into a cat? Who, me?  On the weirdest day of my life, my cat starts talking, my car kidnaps me to a charming hidden village, and I inherit a mystical library. Plus, I discover I have superpowers!  As an orphan who grew up in foster care, I had no idea I came from an enchanted land full of furry shapeshifters, including—surprise!—me. Or that I had a gifted grandmother, who’s been murdered.  Now it’s up to me, with the help of a handsome, otherworldly detective and my know-it-all cat, to uncover the truth... if someone doesn’t kill me first.   Review:   A Cat's Garden of Secrets was a very good read for a fan of paranormal cozy mystery like me. When Chess was made redundant, and she found out her boyfriend cheated on her, she thought she had to start again to make up her life, but she could never expect the drastic changes she would have to face. A new life in a new world, will it be the rig

      Synopsis:   A month to work on a berry farm with the one woman he shouldn’t want…  Billionaire Henry Davenport lives a life of luxury. He enjoys helping others find true love with matchmaking mischief and sending them on adventures full of cupid-inspired hijinks, but he has no plans to marry.Until his friends decide to pay him back for his antics by sending Henry on an adventure of his own, one where he can’t rely on his wealth to succeed.The stakes? If Henry lasts, he wins a lifetime of matchmaking privileges. If he quits, he must stop interfering in people’s love lives…forever.His friends arrange for Henry to work at Elisabeth Wheeler’s struggling berry farm. She needs the help and thinks he needs work. Win-win, right?Except she doesn’t know Henry’s keeping secrets from her.   Review:    The Payback Adventure was an amazing novel, beautifully written by Melissa McClone. Henry is a billionaire who likes to play matchmaker with his friends, but when one of said frie

      Synopsis: His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in Highgate. Man in caped coat. Milky way and red streaks. I’m being followed.” Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma Tate, tracks down troubled police inspector Sebastian Bell to unravel the truth. Sebastian has enough pressure to solve the murder of an aristocratic heiress without Gemma meddling in his case. But the cryptic sentences she brings him from her brother’s notebook could be a crucial lead. If only they knew what “milky way” meant. But as the trail of clues takes them away from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobility and into the dangerous slums of London, how far will their partnership be tested on the quest for justice, and will they both emerge unscathed?   Review:    The Highgate Cemetery Murder was such a good read. George Tate discovers the bo

      Synopsis:   Ryleigh Growing up in Hollywood, I was surrounded by liars and phonies. So when I got my law degree, I knew I wanted to work as a district attorney. Busy days turned to long nights—I was on my way up the ladder. Then he happened. Bullied his way into my life as if there was no choice. Suddenly everything I thought I wanted wasn’t as important. Stone I had one thing on my mind and that was never going to change: The game. The only goal I had was beating the records set by my family. I didn’t have time for anything else. Until she walked in the room. The earth shifted, just like the stories said it would. I said it wouldn’t happen—not to me. I didn’t have the time, but now she was the only thing on my mind. I knew it was her. Now I had to convince her.   Review:        Stone and Ryleigh live in different states, in cities very far from each other, and they have two demanding careers, so it's easily imaginable that when they give in to their deep attraction the p

      Synopsis: It was supposed to be my year, but then he made a bet that I couldn’t refuse… A star senior on the Tiff U volleyball team, it’s been my goal to come back strong after an injury that nearly took me out of the game. But I’m Laney freaking Price, and I’m taking my shot to make it on the new pro women’s team, despite the lack of support from my father. The problem? Cutter McCreary. He is the Captain of the Tiff U hockey team, all-around loveable guy, and a total player. And did I mention a complete thorn in my side since freshman year? Yeah…that guy. His charms don’t tempt me. Until…a mix up with our housing situation forces us into a bit of a predicament. We were both promised a room. The same room. His proposal? A bet. We split the room in half—for now. Whoever falls in love with the other first has to move out. The winner gets to stay. But when strategic glances turn into late night talks, and fake kisses start to feel real, I’m finding myself without a game

        Synopsis: He’s keeping his fortune a secret and pretending to date his crush. But if this city kid-turned cowboy wants to land true love this holiday season, he might just have to lay all his cards on the table. Holly Fields loves her small town, her job at the local café, and even her gruff boss. But life has handed her a difficult year. Her big sister passed away, breaking her heart. And Holly now has custody of her beloved niece. Making sure the bright eight-year-old has love, support, and everything she needs is a privilege that is worth any challenge she might bump into along the way. But when Holly’s mom constantly voices her fears that it’s too much for a young woman to do alone, it feels a bit like she’s just waiting for Holly to mess up. In a moment of weakness, Holly hints that she’s seeing someone, even though dating is the last thing on her mind. And when a surprise holiday visit leaves her in the lurch, help arises from the most unexpected source. Ju

    Synopsis: Josh Carlyle is charming, sexy as hell, and the perfect destination wedding hookup... At least, that’s what I think when I touch down in paradise with four days to pull off a lavish ceremony fit for Hollywood royalty. The groomsman in the next cabana with baby blues and a chiseled jawline that could crack a coconut? He’s the cherry on top of my tropical cocktail, and exactly what I need to shake off my single status and get my head (and, um, other parts) back in the dating game.  Then Josh reveals the truth: he’s vowed to sabotage the big day and send the gold-digging bride running before his uncle even gets to ‘I do’. Suddenly, we’re on opposite sides of the great wedding war, and I refuse to let this happily-ever-after - or my career - go down without a fight.  But Josh plays dirty… and he talks it, too. Even as I scramble to keep his sabotage shenanigans from derailing the happy(ish) couple, I can’t deny the chemistry between us. Sleeping with the enemy i

        Synopsis: Two opposites must work together to survive after a plane crash.  Serena James had the perfect life designing wedding dresses and being engaged to someone she thought was The One, until she didn’t. Now she’s stuck on a plane with hot shot pilot, Kane Wiley.Serena thinks his bad reputation matches his bad attitude. He doesn’t think love or marriage is worth his time.Kane thinks she’s a spoiled rich girl with hearts in her eyes. Sure, she’s picky, but choosing Mr. Right should be done with care.When their plane crashes in Idaho, they’re forced to seek shelter in an old cabin in the woods. Having only one bed and trusting a person you can’t stand doesn’t make things easier when it comes to survival.Kane and Serena might be opposites, but they’ll need to learn to rely on each other to get out of this situation in one piece.The Wedding Bliss series features four friends who met during sorority recruitment and have kept their sisterhood strong over the years. R

    Synopsis:   Being traded from a contender to a basement dweller is bad enough, but now I'm working with the one who got away. She has an explosive secret, and I think it has something to do with me. I want to start where we left off, but she doesn't want anything to do with me. Eventually our mutual attraction steamrolls her resistance, but when her deception catches up to her and what she's been hiding is exposed, nothing will ever be the same for either of us. Will her truth be the anchor that strengthens our relationship, or the storm that obliterates it beyond repair? Review:    Jason Wilder has just been traded to the Portland Icehawks, his dissatisfaction is palpable, not only because he left a winning team for a new franchise with only one disastrous season behind them, but also because he has to work with Addison Barlowe, the woman he dated few years ago. There is still a lot of tension between them, which Addison tries to hide and Jason tries to brin