Mystery surrounds Lucky Stables. Many, like Emily Lane’s parents, fell in love there. After tragedy struck, Emily ran far away, believing the Stables were cursed. In Emily’s absence, Shane Patterson stepped in to help Emily’s aging father. When Emily returns home, will Shane help her believe in love and luck again?

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I enjoyed Shane and Emily but Emily’s animals walked away with my heart. Shane is a sweet hard working lovable man. Emily is a strong willed independent soft hearted woman.

The stables have a magic about it Emily’s parents fell in love there but Emily was convinced the stables were not magic but cursed. She left never planning on returning but when her dad needed help she returned. She found Shane who was there helping while she was gone.

Shane came to help out Emily’s dad he had his own story of the lucky stables. When he saw Emily he wanted to find out if the stables actually had Magic. Will Emily and Shane find their magic or will their real life get in the way and prove the stables are cursed.

This was a quick read and enjoyable. I liked getting to know all the characters. Emily was such a strong female that I enjoyed reading about her. Shane was a good hearted kind soul that loved to help others.  The interactions between Emily and her dad and Hank and Charlotte were great. What I loved the most was when Johnny and Stevie were with Emily and Shane.

I really want more of this series there where so many great characters and I want to get to know all of them more.

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What a fun, quick yet hawt read from Ashley.  I was super excited to see some of my old friends from her other series in the story. Even a quick glimpse made me happy!

Emily and Shane are an insta-love couple but I liked the “magic” behind it so it didn’t really bother me.  No when I say magic, no this is not a paranormal novel but the theme of finding love at Emily’s family stables was a fun one.

Emily moved home after finishing veterinarian school to be struck stupid by the hottie cowboy who is helping her father out.  Shane has seen pictures of young Emily, not grown adult Emily so when he sees her, he is a mess of nerves.  This hot very self-assured cowboy is a mess around our strong willed feisty female.

The story is about them both healing from their pasts and hoping that the magic will not let them down.  When the couple start to explore things, drama ensues and we wonder if they have been cursed against love.

I loved Lee because he made Shane step up his A game but he also brought some comic relief to the storyline at one point.  LOL

Ashley Hampton works as a Licensed Psychologist in private practice during the day. When she leaves work, she puts on her writer and photographer hats and enjoys living in the worlds created in her mind. She lives near her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama with her cat, Gemma. Ashley wanted to find a creative way to meld her love for music and psychology with writing, and the Southern Rock Lyrics series was born. With other series planned, Ashley wants to write in the romance, erotica, and psychological thriller genres.

Lies. Deception. Betrayal.

Within less than twenty-four hours of proposing to the love of Gray’s life, Liva disappeared. No note. No trace. No explanation. Nothing. Now, five years later, she’s resurfaced and Gray will stop at nothing to make Livia his again. But is love enough to forgive an unforgivable wrong?

Livia had less than sixty seconds to make a decision that would change her life forever. She sacrificed. She suffered. She survived. Now that she’s back, she’s determined that no one ever discover her shameful secret – especially the only man she’s ever loved. But will hiding the past destroy her future?

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I had to start this one after I finished Finding Gray. I had to find out what happened to Livia and what made her run on what should have been the happiest day of her life. The roller-coaster ride I was about to get on was one I was not prepared for I had no idea the twist, turns, and loops I was about to encounter.

Gray found the love of his life and thought she felt the same way but Livia left Gray the same night she agreed to be his wife. He was never the same man just ask his brothers. Livia crushed and ruined him without a second glance.

Livia’s life was finally turning around she has the love of her life who just purposed and she was getting married. But one phone call, one big betrayal and one desperate last minute decision changed Livia’s life from fairytale to nightmares.

Forward five years later Livia finds herself in a new town, new life and face to face with the person she never thought she would ever see again, Gray Colloway her first and only true love. Gray is determined more than ever to snag Livia and never let her out of his sights or let her run again. With the secret Livia is hiding will it be too much to overcome and forgive to make this work can love heal all or will it be too much to handle.

This is by far one of my favorite stories so far the twists were jaw dropping and gut wrenching. I cried for Livia and what she endured to save a life. My heart broke for Gray. I loved how protective Gray’s brothers were of him. I also loved Gray’s mother’s ability to forgive and love was amazing. I had so many emotions going on while reading this I cried, there was anger, there was surprise, and there was a few NO WAY didn’t see that coming AT ALL. I cannot wait to continue this series I want to learn more about these Colloway Brothers.

As a USA Today Bestselling author, I write stories that are deeply emotional with flawed characters, because humans ARE flawed and if we read about perfect characters living in their perfect world, first of all, snoozer, but secondly, we never experience the gratification of redemption.

Outside of writing, I’m just a regular ol’ Midwest girl who likes Game of Thrones and am obsessed with Modern Family and The Goldbergs. I run, I eat, I run, I eat. It’s a vicous cycle. I love carbs, but there’s love-hate relationship with my ass and thighs. Mostly hate. I like a good cocktail (oh hell…who am I kidding? I love any cocktail). I’m a huge creature of habit, but I’ll tell you I’m flexible. I read every single day and if I don’t get a chance…watch the hell out. My iPad and me: BFFs. I’m direct and I make no apologies for it. I swear too much. I love alternative music and in my next life I want to be a bad-ass female rocker. I hate, hate, hate spiders, telemarketers, liver, acne, winter and loose hairs that fall down my shirt (don’t ask, it’s a thing).

Finding Gray is a Colloway Brothers short intro to Forsaking Gray. Get a peak into Gray and Livia’s story and see how they first fell in love.

Cocksure. Suave. Untouchable.

Gray Colloway is the very definition of these. He’s also sweet, drop dead gorgeous, and relentless in his pursuit of me. But I don’t let people in my inner bubble. That only leads to heartbreak. After I turn down his initial proposition for a date, he shows up where I work day after day until he finally wears me down and I give. I want to let him in. I do, but will Gray be able to truly break down barriers it took others a lifetime to shape?

Livia Kingsley is the entire sexy package. Outside of swimming curves and that angel’s face, she’s smart as hell, witty, and all fucking mine. I knew it the moment I laid eyes on her. Her resistance to give me a chance is cute and weak. And straight up futile. The harder she pushes me away, the harder I push back. But she gives in and our chemistry is off the charts hot, just as I knew it would be. And three years later when she agrees to be my wife, I am the happiest man alive.

Until she ruins me.

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I picked this up as a freebie thinking this sounds like a good book that will be a quick read. Was I right this was a great quick read what I was not expecting was the amazing love story it was going to tell and the jaw dropping cliffhanger at the end.  If you do pick this up you will also want to get Forsaking Gray trust me you will be so sucked in by Gray and Livia you will want to know more.

Livia have a rough life her mother left her and her sister to deal with their alcoholic father. Livia worked at the pizza joint to make ends meet when her father failed. Little did she know her world was going to change when Gray walked through the door and sat in her section.

Gray knew there was something special about Livia when he first saw her knew she had to be his. He was persistent never gave up and finally broke Livia down and got her to agree to a date. After all Gray’s persistence and the best years of his life he asked Livia to be his wife. What happens next just floored me. I couldn’t figure out what went wrong why was this happening?

The chemistry between these two was off the charts. This was an amazing story I had to get Forsaking Gray and start it immediately I had to find out more about Gray and Livia. Great started to a series and way to hook me right from the start.

As a USA Today Bestselling author, I write stories that are deeply emotional with flawed characters, because humans ARE flawed and if we read about perfect characters living in their perfect world, first of all, snoozer, but secondly, we never experience the gratification of redemption.

Outside of writing, I’m just a regular ol’ Midwest girl who likes Game of Thrones and am obsessed with Modern Family and The Goldbergs. I run, I eat, I run, I eat. It’s a vicous cycle. I love carbs, but there’s love-hate relationship with my ass and thighs. Mostly hate. I like a good cocktail (oh hell…who am I kidding? I love any cocktail). I’m a huge creature of habit, but I’ll tell you I’m flexible. I read every single day and if I don’t get a chance…watch the hell out. My iPad and me: BFFs. I’m direct and I make no apologies for it. I swear too much. I love alternative music and in my next life I want to be a bad-ass female rocker. I hate, hate, hate spiders, telemarketers, liver, acne, winter and loose hairs that fall down my shirt (don’t ask, it’s a thing).

Alpha male seeking his perfect mate. A sassy BBW, seeking a casual hookup. What happens when his mating instinct kindles true romance?

Rachel doesn’t want anything serious. Sassy and curvy, she loves the dating app. Shifter, but is only down for a one night stand. Broken hearted and stuck in a dry spell, she’s looking for an alpha male who will be her ultimate fantasy–the best hook up she’s ever had, but nothing more.

Gareth wants to mate for life. As the alpha of his pack of bear shifters, he has very little time to fulfill his mate challenge. Find a mate, or lose his position as the alpha.

When he sees Rachel on the dating app, his mating instinct goes wild. Rachel’s sassy lion eyes, her curves for miles, and her loving heart makes her a shifter he can’t resist. But can he and Rachel mate for life? Or will her past keep her from her fated mate?

This is a BBW paranormal romance ebook, featuring a fierce lion and a protective bear. It’s full of super hot shapeshifters, plenty of heart, and lots of sexy sex. 😉 If those don’t sound up your alley, stay away!

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IF you are looking for a quick insta-love shifter series you should pick this up. This is the third book in the series about Rachel, Jaz’s best friend, and a very alpha Bear, Gareth.

Gareth is the Alpha of hi clan who needs to find his mate before his next birthday or he could be challenged. He tries out the Date App as a last resort. He saw his one and his bear instantly knew.

Rachel gave her heart and it was crushed so she decided to give the Date App a shot to find hookups no strings attached but she found her match with Gareth. They had two different goals in mind.

I loved how Gareth was patient with Rachel to prove he was her one and only and how Rachel was fighting her heart to keep this a see how it goes day by day thing. I am curious to see what will happen next with the Power Shift. With them being anti-everything not only with mixed mating between shifter and human but also between shifter species.  It will be interesting to see who is behind it since they are infiltrating clans now trying to weaken them. It seems they may have other ulterior motives. I’m ready for the next book to find out more.

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Alma Black loves to write, and write and write. She is especially fond of sexy, paranormal stories where the hero has a penchant for growling and the sassy heroine doesn’t put up with any bark. These stories are fast reads and are funny, sexy, and very naughty.

Alma lives in Los Angeles, and wishes with all her heart that Shifter Date had eligible mates in Southern California. Until she can find a paranormal dating app, she uses regular dating sites to bring you these stories, inspired by her actual dating life.

When Alma isn’t writing about shifters, drinking coffee or hanging with her neices, she’s on facebook. You can find her there or visit her website for all her news!

Final exams and end of year parties don’t seem so important at your brother’s funeral.

Two short weeks, and Meg would have survived her senior year relatively unscathed. But when her best and only friend—her brother—dies in a questionable road accident, being the loner in her year doesn’t fit as well as it used to.

One act of kindness from the man her small town isolated amidst rumors and lies, and her hope for a day where pain won’t overwhelm her doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Brett Carver is trouble with a capital T, but he’s also the only person who can get Meg to let go and smile.

Some good things are never meant to last.

Arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, the man who finally found a way to bring light back to her dark days is ripped away when she needs him most. Determined not to lose the only good thing to have come out of her year from hell, Meg sets out to prove Brett isn’t guilty. But first, she must accept the ugly truth …

… that the people who can prove his innocence are the same people who will do all it takes to keep them apart.

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This story tore my heart out in the beginning and shredded it at every turn. Talk about two kids that lead very different lives realizing they have more in common than they could every know.

Megan Andrews was one to march to her own drum. She didn’t conform to what others were doing. She wore different clothes and was a loner no one understood well except for her brother she could be herself around him he understood her.  One day, one split second, one accident everything is taken from Megan her world is shaken turned upside down and now she has to figure out how to pull through and move on at seventeen. On this night she finds herself next to the town bad boy and starts making decisions for herself.  All may not be good or the right ones but they are hers to make.

Brett Carver has a reputation the entire town knows about he is his father’s son is the general conception. Carver has never had a sunshine and flowers kind of life not when his dad is John Carver.

I love how quickly Brett and Tanya bond with Megan. They take her in and give her the moral support she needs. To see a side of Carver that most don’t get to see is heartwarming. My heart breaks for the say Megan is treated by her parents the ones that should love her unconditionally and support her through this hard time. The twists and turns this took me on it broke my heart, put some pieces together, broke it again, started putting it back together only to shatter it all over again.

Max is the author of dark, and highly emotional romance. Her Butcher Boys series is centered around a group of ex-street kids who have teamed up with an indebted motorcycle club to take down a notorious drug lord. Her newest series, the Fallen Aces MC, is a spin-off from this dark and dangerous world. Her writing has been described as ‘gripping’, and ‘addictive’, taking you on an ’emotional roller coaster ride’.

Originally born and bred in New Zealand, Max now resides with her family in beautiful and sunny Queensland, Australia. Life with two young children can be hectic at times, and although she may not write as often as she would like, Max wouldn’t change a thing. When she’s not engrossed in her dark and twisted fictional worlds, she can be found enjoying the outdoors while 4wd-ing with her family.

Ever feel like your entire life has been planned out for you before you were even born?

As the only girl in the Sutter family and daughter of an ‘almost Olympian’, my parents have always had goals for me. I never questioned them and always strived to be the best. I thought I knew what I wanted in life until I didn’t.

One mistake, and the straight path I had planned was suddenly crooked. Goals that I’d worked for since I was little didn’t seem so important anymore; And the one place I never thought I’d go back to was the only place I wanted to be… home, where I found comfort in the most unlikely place.

At six years my senior, Brock Foster has always been unattainable. He was the boy that filled my fantasies. I resigned myself years ago to never feel his touch, never know what his kisses were like, or to have him wrap me in his arms. I never thought when I came home that he would still be there, or that he’d remember me.

Sometimes the future that we think we want isn’t what we need. Sometimes those bumps and turns mold us into who we were always meant to be, and sometimes they lead us to who we should have always been with.

Brock Foster helped me to embrace my path. He taught me to stop and catch the raindrops, and open myself to love again.

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Oh boy Nick Sutter there is a new Alpha in town.  Who cares that he is a former student, good friend and trusted member of your football staff…he is going to become you enemy to the 100^th degree!!!  Ok it’s not THAT serious but when a man makes a play for your baby girl……daddy isn’t going to like it or him very much!!  Yeah can you tell I loved seeing Nick get so fired up and having Leah there to “talk him off the ledge” so to speak!!??

Emma Sutter loved Brock for as long as she can remember but given there was a 5 year age gap there was no way anything was going to happen plus it’s not like he thought of her that way.

Brock Stone always was drawn to Emma but she was hands off for 2 reasons : her age and her daddy!!

When Emma is in college but returns for the summer the two have a chance meeting.  He knew her right away but she wasn’t so sure.  The chemistry is there and crazy thick.  They start sneaking around behind old dad’s back.  Brock and Emma are falling fast and hard but the sneaking around is wearing Brock down.  When Emma is about to come clean to her folks about Brock, her past comes crashing down hard all around her.  Secrets she never wanted told are revealed and she is left drowning.  Brock is a mess and confused.

This book makes my heart so happy but I am left confused….do I stay with Team Nick or do I jump on to Team Brock?  Any fan of the Shattered Series will be as excited as I was to read this book.  I loved revisiting all of my old favorites, plus seeing their kids grown up.  I can’t wait for Aaron and Ryan’s books because those boys…..especially Aaron are trying my nerves!!!!  Kick his butt Mel!!!

My favorite scenes : The letter Leah gives to Em…teary I tell ya annnd the Epilogue.  OMG Nick Sutter you are a trouble maker!!!

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I loved the Sutter family so to be able to see their children grow and watch their parents struggle with the children’s decisions was amazing.  They are my family I feel what they feel.

Emma went away to college but is now home on summer break. Something happened that changed her but she is not saying what. She is keeping that secret locked up close to her heart. Emma wanted to get away forget the past go back to what she knows and loves her family. What she doesn’t expect it to fall for a man let a lone Brock Foster her first crush.

Brock Foster is back in his home town working for Nick Sutter when he runs into Emma Sutter his world is shifted.  He has feelings for Emma but with her age and her dad being Nick she has always been OFF LIMITS and even though they are older same rules apply since he now works for Nick. This has trouble written all over it.

I am Team Brock all the way he stole my heart after reading this one. I loved seeing Nick deal with his daughter and her issues. I also enjoyed meeting Emma’s best friend Melinda and cannot wait to see what is in store for her.  There were some great scenes in this book that had me crying and laughing. nick has not changed I don’t think he ever will, he will always be a kid at heart. I am so excited to read more about these Sutter kids. I have a feeling I will want to do harm to Aaron when his book comes out but somehow I think Mel will turn him around.

eather D’Agostino is an avid reader turned Bestselling Author of the Contemporary Romance Series The Broken Series, The Shattered Series, The Second Chances Series, The Cook Brothers Series, and Romantic Suspense series The Witness Series.

She attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Elementary Education with a minor in Mathematics.

She currently lives in Central New York with her husband, two children, two dogs, and three cats. When she’s not writing she can usually be found at the dance studio, soccer field, or one of the many other places that she plays ‘Supermom’.

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Grady shouldn’t make my body quiver. He’s my father’s best friend and everywhere.
A misunderstanding taught me one hard lesson in love.
Coming home is supposed to help me clear my head. With Grady around, I can’t turn off my mind or my body.
He’s decided to set me straight on the past and rewrite our future. I’m in more trouble than I ever thought possible.
**This is a short story which contains insta-everything. If you’re not in the mood for a short, fast, hot read, this isn’t the book for you. For the rest of you, enjoy Grady—he’s hot.**

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If you are looking for a quick read that has insta-love between an older man and younger woman you will probably enjoy this one. There are hot scenes a little drama that makes this a good read.

Emma is on a break from school and headed home. This should be an enjoyable down time for her but she will have to see her dad’s best friend Grady.  Emma has had feelings for him for a long time and before school started she poured her heart out to him only to have her heart crushed.

Grady has seen all of Emma’s firsts as he watched her grow up. He knows he shouldn’t have feelings for her but he can no longer ignore his heart. Can they make this work? What will become of his relationship with his best friend?

I enjoyed this quick read. Grady and Emma were great although I wanted to give them both a good shake at times. Grady for letting a girl speak to and put down Emma the way she did. Emma for running away instead of talking to Grady. The insta attraction lust and love was burning hot. I enjoyed Emma and Grady’s story.

Ryan Michele found her passion in bringing fictional characters to life. She loves being in an imaginative world where anything is possible, and she has a knack for special twists readers don’t see coming.

She writes MC, Contemporary, Erotic, Paranormal, New Adult, Inspirational, and other romance-based genres. Whether it’s bikers, wolf-shifters, mafia, etc., Ryan spends her time making sure her heroes are strong and her heroines match them at every turn.

When she isn’t writing, Ryan is a mom and wife living in rural Illinois and reading by her pond in the warm sun.

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