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IT’S DOUBLE COVER REVEAL DAY!
Books 2 and 3 in the Bad Boys Abroad Series by JC Jaye are releasing back-to-back!

Naughty In Nice: Coming August 24
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Steamy in Saint-Tropez: Coming September 28
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COVER DETAILS:
Cover Designer: CT Cover Creations
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READ Book 1: Ravenous on the Riviera
Available on Kindle Unlimited!
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The man’s on a mission. But that’s about to get derailed, bigtime.

Gruff ʼn tough pipeline worker Frank ‘Oil Can’ Frazier has saved up his hard-earned cash, jetting from Anchorage to the Riviera to mend a bitter rift with a buddy—or get a busted jaw for his efforts. Little does he dream that an overdue olive branch will have him falling hard for the dark-eyed beauty seated beside him with a tale of her own. When an in-flight emergency detours the plane to the middle of nowhere, an overnighter with Little Miss 14B beckons, and O.C.’s hot fantasies become reality. Looks like this bad boy’s rewriting his travel plans…

A grief-filled escape turns into a delicious adventure before her seatbelt is fastened.

Newly orphaned traveler Reina Vasava is sticking pins on a map, hopscotching around the globe in an all-out attempt to bury her sorrow. Her solo status upgrades to a most do-able double after she buckles in next to a burly mountain brooding in the window seat. This foulmouthed beardie is her alpha king personified, and an awkward flirtation swiftly morphs into what feels like the real deal. All’s fun in and out of the Mediterranean sun until an unsavory secret is revealed, and the merde hits the fan with a ‘splat!’

Can mistakes from the past be forgiven? Or will a perfect passion face the guillotine?

Naughty In Nice: Coming August 24
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They don’t come moodier than this muscly brute straining his chef’s whites…

Sébastien Devaux enjoys a rep as one of the finest chefs on the Côte d’Azur. Too bad his prowess behind the burners doesn’t extend to his people skills. Taciturn and hot-tempered, the loner lords over his staff, hiding his past as an American punk with a rap sheet as long as his tatted arm. Yeah, this man of mystery has long fooled everyone into believing he’s all-Français, just without the charm. His world’s just the way he wants it until a luscious lady in shorty-shorts struts onto the scene and into his head—the tormentress hellbent on uncovering his secrets and making him human again.

She’s all about going for the good times. But a hunky grump might be her Waterloo…

Leaving loads of angst and family drama back in NYC, Danica ‘Danny’ Randolph trades the gloom of Gotham for the mesmerizing Med and an extended French residency, happily creating floral masterpieces and making new friends. A laughably nonexistent love life is the only bummer in her new normal until she spies a sumptuous chef she wants to gobble like a five-course meal. Crappy thing is, the man in the jacket’s not making it easy, not even sorta. No matter—this minx has plenty of tricks up her sleeve, and her gal pals don’t call her persistent AF for nothing!

Flames flare between a growly thundercloud and a sunny optimist. C’est impossible?

Steamy in Saint-Tropez: Coming September 28
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MEET THE AUTHOR: JC JAYE

It’s all Rhett and Scarlett’s fault.
(Talkin’ the grand staircase scene, people.)

Stung by the literary lovebug at a tender young age, JC has been devouring steamy romantic fiction ever since. Seriously… What could possibly be more delectable at the end of a rough day than a big, bad, moody male brought to his alphalicious knees by a gorgeous, sassy-talking heroine? Well, besides Tom Hardy showing up shirtless on your doorstep with car trouble.

Penning “I wish” fantasies while slogging through the woefully Rhett-scarce world, JC invites readers to indulge in decadent escape through her foul-mouthed and passion-saturated tales.

Uh. You did hear foul-mouthed, right?

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Title: Dirty Talking Rival

Author: Pippa Grant

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Trope: Friends to Enemies to Lovers
Cover Design: Najla Qamber

Release Date: June 27, 2019

BLURB 

Despite growing up in rival towns, Grady Rock and I were high school best friends.

But now?

Now, he’s my biggest enemy. My dirty-talking, master-baking, grudge-holding, hot-as-sin enemy.

All I wanted was to help my mom run her bakery after a family emergency left her unable to do it herself.

Never mind that I can’t bake. Or that I never wanted to move home again. Or that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I could use a friend right now.

All Grady freaking Rock cares about now is that I’m his competition.

It’s town against town. Bakery against bakery. Old friend against old friend.

Until Grady finds out why I’m back home.

And suddenly, Mr. Get Out of My Way is more like the boy I knew in high school. But older. Wiser. And infinitely more irresistible.

I resisted his charm in high school for the sake of my future. But if I give in to it now, am I sleeping with the enemy?

Dirty Talking Rival is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.

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Free in Kindle Unlimited

Also available in audio

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AUTHOR BIO 

Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she’s not reading, writing or sleeping, she’s being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.

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Author Katy Birchall must have met hubby and me when she wrote The Last Word, because there were so many times while listening to this audiobook that I could not stop laughing at the similarities between us and Harper and Ryan.

Including at the end, when they are traveling together and Harper is tearing apart her apartment looking for the match to the sandal she is holding. Ryan walks in carrying the matching shoe says to her she would be able to find her shoes if she would take them off and put them away when she came home, rather than just kicking them off, she wouldn’t have to search for them all the time.

I really liked how Harper and Ryan’s backstory is presented to the reader little by little, rather than an “info dump” when the reader first meets Ryan. The tension between these two feels like work nemeses who debate and clash over every detail of working together. 

If you like the enemies to lovers trope, witty banter, and a romcom that is laugh out loud funny, definitely pick up The Last Word!

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audio review copy of The Last Word.

“There are always challenges, she told me. In every generation – yours, mines, the ones who came before and the ones who will come after – there are those who want things to be different and those who want things to stay the same.”

—Venom and Vow

Anna-Marie McLemore has done it again. They have written a world so detailed, so lush, that I was totally and utterly sucked into completely, and won’t forget any time soon. Beyond the world building, though, Valencia and Cade are heroes that you want to win, even when they are fighting one another. 

I am not typically one for fantasy without romance, especially not YA fantasy, however, Venom and Vow was fast paced with enough intrigue and action to keep me engaged. 

Oh, and the representation in this book! Latinx inspired, with a good amount of Spanish words sprinkled throughout; Cade, a transgender prince and Valencia, a bigender dama to the princess. Oh, and they are both disabled! The overwhelming message throughout this book is to be true to yourself.

Thank you to Turn the Page Tours for including me on this tour! 

“Asking for all of me to be acknowledged like this seems like asking him for the moon and all the accompanying stars.”

—Venom and Vow

Title: Venom & Vow

Author: Anna-Marie McLemore, Elliott McLemore

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends

Release Date: May 16, 2023

Genre(s): YA Fantasy

Buy Link: https://amzn.to/44e6jFB

SYNOPSIS: 

Keep your enemy closer.

Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother.

Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana.

Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect.

Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.

Cade doesn’t know that Gael and Valencia are the same person.

Valencia doesn’t know that every time she thinks she’s fighting Patrick, she’s fighting Cade.

And when Cade and Valencia blame each other for a devastating enchantment that takes both their families, neither of them realizes that they have far more dangerous enemies.

“I know the way only others like us can know each other.”

—Venom and Vow

Los trovadores sing of how their people are as pale as the winter moon and as deep as the clearest summer night, and every shade of wheat and sand and earth brown in between.

—Venom and Vow

Whenever you see someone, it’s foolish to assume they haven’t seen you.

—Venom and Vow

Lucky Leap Day was such a cute romcom, and perfect for February!

A Leap Day tradition in Ireland is called Ladies’ Privilege, where women can propose to men. After a few too many whiskies, Cara proposes and marries Finn while visiting Dublin on vacation.

The chemistry between Cara and Finn was fantastic and the addition of the doggy made for a fun read. Oh and Penelope was the perfect side character to give some comic relief and wise advise.

This was a lovely clean romance, with all of the steamy scenes closed door and fade to black

Thank you to Sourcebooks Casablanca and NetGalley for the review copy of Lucky Leap Day!

Imagine the Empire State Building removed from New York City. Imagine that building reconstructed brick-by-brick on your father’s private island-the trappings of the past stolen from the public to indulge unfettered hypocrisy. This is James’s defeated and ravaged landscape when his father, Fep Anglish, successfully monopolizes all forms of industry into one perfect company called U atop the collapse of the old world.

Ownership becomes a thing of the past. Now, anyone can have anything-temporarily. Is this hosanna? Maybe on paper. But to James, the “rent and move on” lifestyle is a total hell. And in this hell, his impossible dream of becoming something fuels his transience and passivity.

This is reality until one strange day, when the whole thing comes tumbling down on itself and James finally gets the opportunity to break away. In a U space shuttle, he travels to the ultimate unknown in boundless space.

Freedom, finally? The real hosanna?

Written By Kip Langton

Once Upon a Royal Christmas was the perfect was to kick off the holidays and my marathon of holiday romcoms.

Gracie is a children’s party princess who wins a contest to bring her Princess Snowflake to the country of San Glacera during their Christmas festivities.

The grumpy-sunshine relationship between Gracie and Prince Nikolas of San Glacera was everything I wanted in a romcom. I especially loved reading as Nikolas slowly melts from the abominable snow prince as he gets to know Gracie.

The scene in the Christmas Tree Maze was by far my favorite in this book, and for once I didn’t mind that the author included and epilogue because I definitely wanted to know what happened to these two after the final chapter.

I listened to Once Upon a Royal Christmas as an audiobook, and the narrator, Brittany Pressley, did a fantastic job keeping my attention throughout the book.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media, Hallmark Publishing and NetGalley for the advanced audiobook copy of this book.

Winter in Montana. Hot cowboys. Small towns.

If I haven’t sold you already, then the 🔥🔥🔥 Santa scene is definitely a reason for you to pick up Snowy Montana Nights.

I picked this up because of the setting – Gardiner, MT, a town on the Northside of Yellowstone National Park. I loved visiting Montana and this small town definitely brought me right back to Big Sky Country.

I really liked the tension between Wendy and Zane, as well as the building relationship between them. The side characters in this really made the story come alive!

This is book three in the Dallas Debutantes series, but can be read as a standalone.