Hannah Walker and Igor Finley have everything they need – family, friends, and a strong future together. Instead of happy and easy “I do’s,” there is last minute wedding drama and an uninvited and unexpected guest threatening to ruin it all. Will Hannah become Mrs. Igor Finley? Or will this be the end of Hannah and Finley?
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.
Title: Taking a Gamble Author: Britni Hill Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: June 6, 2017 Hosted by:Buoni Amici Press, LLC.
Taking a Gamble is a flirty and funny romantic comedy about what happens when your life takes a turn and your best friend’s twin starts hitting on you.
Who knew a weekend in Vegas could change everything about your life?
Not me. I went to there to get married.
Kind of.
That was the plan. Until it wasn’t anymore.
I had the perfect dress, an awesome venue, and my closest friends with me.
What was missing?
My groom. That’s right. He bailed.
It’s all going to be okay. Some things are just meant to be. What better city than Vegas to leave it to chance?
Maybe that’s how I woke up as Gabby Thomas and went to bed Mrs. Brennan …
I received this book from the author for an honest review.
Shut up already! I loved this sweet and sexy read!! I loved Luke and Gabby’s fun and untraditional romance.
Gabby is going to Vegas with her friends and family to marry her long-term boyfriend Trevor buuuut wakes up not married to Trevor!! OH SNAP!!! We don’t know the person she is married too until a few chapters later buuuut come on you totally can see the chemistry between Luke and Gabby as do their friends.
Luke has loved Gabby from afar for so long and now that he has a chance with her, he will not blow it. Luke gets and understands Gabby because they have grown up together and are good friends. Best friends even you might say. So when he asks her to take a chance…..YES YES YES!!!
I totally hope we get more books from the side characters. Ian and Brock plus Lila and the other girls are fun characters and I want to know more especially with the morning after scene we were witness too…..LOL Ian is a scream!!!
I received a copy of this book for an honest review.
What is a girl to do when everyone has plans to go to your wedding in Vegas but you know there will be no groom? Well you have everyone come and try to make it a party. That is exactly what Gabby did.
Gabby was determined to have fun in Vegas what she didn’t plan on was leaving Married. You see her best friends twin brother, Luke, has had feelings for her for a while but Gabby was unavailable. So what is a guy to do when they find out the girl is not getting married and they are in Vegas? That’s right he went out on a limb and hoped she would meet him.
I enjoyed Gabby and Luke’s chemistry you could tell from the get go they shared a special something. This was a fun, sexy, light read with a great bunch of friends. I hope there will be more I enjoyed all the characters and would love to know more about all of them.
Review by Jordan
Review provided by the author
Witty, sexy, and all around hilarious. I was pulled in immediately and could not put this book down. I could see this story playing out like I was watching a movie screen. The characters came to life and are full of personality. The only downside is that I wanted more.
What was meant to be a wedding weekend turned into something that no one could have predicted. I was instantly drawn in and left wanting more. You won’t be sorry you picked up this book!
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Britni Hill is a new adult and contemporary romance author. She spends her days as a hair stylist, and her nights with the characters in her head striving to write real, page turning romance.
Britni lives in Indiana where she was born and raised. She has a rescue pup she adores and an unhealthy love of binge-watching cheesy, teenage dramas. If she isn’t writing, she’s reading or watching horror flicks.
The actions from the past are still dwelling, hovering on the surface, waiting to strike.
Broken. Traumatized. Consumed.
Delani Delvecchio has danced with the devil, battled the evil in the drug world, and came out swinging. But her victory is short lived.
She’s slipping—slipping from reality and fearing everything around her.
Nightmares are trying to control her mind. The foundation of her emotions is rocky and uncertain, forcing her to pull more into herself than she ever has before.
Loyal. Determined. Faithful.
Brody Russell saved Delani from hell, only to be faced with a hell of his own.
Delani isn’t healing, and try as he might to bring his sassy, bright-eyed girl back to the surface, nothing seems to be working.
He’s struggling – struggling to hold her in his grasp while facing a trial determined to test every ounce of control he has. Emotions run high, boundaries are pushed, and the odds stacked against them become a race against time.
They thought the storm was over, but they had only reached the eye, and things are about to get Unsteady.
Jillian Anselmi resides on Long Island with her husband and teenage daughter. She studied pharmacy, but decided it wasn’t the right fit for her and instead pursued a degree in chemistry. After receiving her master’s in education, she pursued a career in teaching, but there was always something missing.
As a young girl, she read an incredible amount of books, devouring over a hundred during the summer of her third grade year. After that, she would write poetry or dabble in short stories. Now, she writes romantic fiction, with some small amount of truth hiding behind her words. If you want to make her happy, surprise her with dark chocolate, a Starbucks Caramel Macchiato, or a good Sauvignon Blanc.
“KL Kreig nailed it! The perfect heart-stopping ending to a fantastic duet, Found Underneath is everything you hope it will be and so much more!” ~ KL Grayson, USA Today Bestselling Author
That magic number that will get us to agree to do anything, be anything.
Don’t sit on your gold-plated high horse and say you don’t because you do. Everyone does. Each of us has something we covet enough that we’d sell ourselves to have it.
What’s my tipping point, you ask? Apparently a cool quarter mil will do the trick.
What does one do for 250 large, you wonder? Anything the infamous, gorgeous playboy of Seattle wants. For the next four months I’ll be Shaw Mercer’s arm candy, his beck and call girl, his faux girlfriend. I’ll be his to command, mold, push and pull in any direction he sees fit.
I’ll fight falling into bed with him. I’ll fight falling in love with him even harder. I’ll fail at both. And when my past and present collide in the most unexpected of ways, I’ll learn that while one man’s love for me has never died, the only man’s love I really want will never be mine.
Take a girlfriend. Divert the press from the fucked up mess that’s my family until my father is re-elected. Stage a public breakup. Move on.
Only that brilliant plan went straight south the moment I set eyes on Willow Blackwell.
I found her.
My center. My future. A soulmate with the will of a mule and the mouth of a harpy.
I now want things I never wanted before. Permanent kinds of things.
Only Fate—and her ex—have other plans for us.
In some sort of cosmic impossibility, our lives unknowingly intersected years before when tragedy befell both our families. Once the devastating truth is finally revealed, the future I’d found in her will come crashing down around us and for the first time in my life I’m completely helpless.
I may very well lose the only woman I’ve ever loved to a past neither of us saw coming.
*warning: 18+ only. Contains foul language, explicit sex and a hot alpha (or two, or three). NOTE: This is NOT a standalone. It’s the conclusion to LOST IN BETWEEN, which MUST be read first.
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).
Drakkar Dragoni, the only son of Princess Absinthe Dragoni, always believes what his mother tells him.
Humans are nothing more than cattle bred to nourish their kind, and her half brother, Jared Bonatelli, stole a kingdom which is rightfully hers. Drakkar vows to right this wrong, even if it means Jared dies by his hand.
But what if none of it is true?
What if this his mother’s biggest lie yet?
Who can he turn to?
Who will help him escape the prison within his own home?
I felt sorry for Drakkar from the beginning. The thought of the abuse and lack of love in the environment he was raised in. I thoroughly enjoyed Nick and Serenity. Talk about true friendships. And Britt rounded out the foursome. You could tell that deep down Drakkar wasn’t evil like Abs tried to brainwash him to be. Abs is one of those that you love to hate! You knew Serenity and Drakkar would be a couple and watching their relationship bloom was heartwarming. Abs wanted baby Annabell as she would secure her “rightful” position of Queen. Drakkar made his first attempt to snatch Anna and was able to get into Jared’s home even with the spell. It was when he failed but told Abs that he got in with the spell, the truth of his parents was tacticallly released by Abs. And….Giovanna was allowed to discover the truth. Abs used that and his feelings for Serenity to force him to steal baby Annabell and this time Drakkar could not fail. He had too much at risk. Drakkar, Nick, Serenity and Britt all plotted and planned how to pull off baby Anna’s heist. It worked…..but just a bit different than the foursome had planned. In the end, Drakkar was reunited with his father and shown what being loved and cared for was really like. Giovanna was saved and safely hidden because of Drakkar’s request.
Now….Abs was all hacked off and cut off of benefits at The Final Resting Place. Then….here comes a creature from the past, RIM…. And, the hinting of Giovanna’s responsibility in the Jared/Giovanna incident in the very beginning.
I look forward to the next chapter in the storyline.
Sandi Bischoff lives in the historic town of Cornwall, NY with her husband, son and a menagerie of Dragons all of whom have their own distinct personalities. She is a Pharmacist by profession but finally found her true calling in a simple twist of fate. A friend approached her to write for a character in a forum on a popular networking website and over the next five years her passion had found its niche. She then went on to compose a few poems and short stories which she would post on her homepage at the same networking site. Recently one of those poems was chosen to be published in a compilation called Collected Whispers.
Her first manuscript entitled Beyond the Sun was another short story gone wild. It has recently been picked up by Bayou Brew Publishing and was released on April 1st.
Ben Turner is back! After unsuccessfully faking his own death, he’s back home in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. With no plans for college or the future, and hated by the town that once loved him, Ben feels like he’s drowning. Until he meets the girl next door, a runaway like him, and she changes everything.
**New Adult Romance. This novel is the fourth book in the Kill Devil Hills series, however it can be read as a standalone. Recommended for 18+
I received this book from the author for an honest opinion.
GAH!! FINALLY, BEN!! I have been dying to know why he did what he did. I mean who fakes their death and hides from their family. A family who loved and adored him?? WHO?? The action he takes puts such a strain on his sister that her life is also changed forever. I mean WOW!!
We know what happened to everyone when Ben “Died” but the why of it was crazy. Why he hides and now how he is rebuilding his life is great. He feels cramped and suffocated in the small town he lives. He can’t wait to get back to California and live a life there where no one knows him or what he was…..the all American perfect son.
Juniper had to run. She had to escape the hell she is living in. She can’t believe she has let her life get THAT out of control but now that she is pregnant she can’t and will not let the abuse touch the innocents that grow inside of her.
Ben and Juniper meet and it’s a case of mistaken identity. Juniper is just hoping to keep hiding until she can figure ut her life. Ben is drawn to this person who he thinks is an old friend from childhood. They slowly start to build a friendship that soon turn to much much more. They both try to deny the attraction but once a “truce” is called they can’t fight it.
The push and pull between the characters is crazy good. The chemistry is so amazing and I was going CRAZY wanting MORE between them. It was soooo good to read. Once their pasts catch up they both have to fight what they are feeling and come clean with the other about what they want/need/desire.
I loved seeing all of the characters from the series and where they ended up in the series.
Sarah Darlington, a New Adult and contemporary romance author, lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. Best known for her Kill Devil Hills Series, she’s also a former flight attendant, with a degree in school counseling, who harbors a huge passion for traveling. She’s especially set on visiting all 50 states. Find Sarah Online:
Are you a hero yet?
Her words rang in my head.
I wanted to be.
For you, I want to be, I told her in my dream, the dream where she kissed me again.
A hero-worthy kiss.
Stay safe, she had said. Come back to me.
My lips tingled.
The brush of hers over mine a memory held in the blackest of night,
the hottest of desert days,
and the cold-evil hell of war against hidden enemies.
I wanted another chance to taste those lips,
melt them against mine,
and mold her body to me.
I wanted to live.
For Katie.
I received this book from the author for an honest review.
*Sigh* Oh the feels…the giant, huge, extra fluffy feels of this book. I will say one of my favorite things about this author is her ability to make you FEEL everything.
Now this book is about characters from her Sensation Collections but you don’t need to read it to understand the story at all….and TBH I hope we will get more from these characters and the side characters because come one Grant and Penelope need stories!!
Katie, we met and fell in love with her in parents HEA story. She is the little girl who no one thought would speak until Emily got it out of her. Well Katie is all grown up and has loved a town bad boy all her life. A few kisses from their youth had has a major impact on both her and Levi.
Levi has a terrible life in the small town that he and Katie grew up in so as soon as he could…boom he was gone but he never forgot the dreamy younger girl who had all this faith in HIM when no one else did.
When the two meet by chance in college, they are both stunned and wondering if the other remembers them but are both to scared to say…hey is that YOU?
They have a lot to over-come with his abandonment issues, being a single father, the return of baby momma and the occasional need to over drink alcohol to dull the ache of war. But the one thing I love abut Katie is the strength she draws from blood family or hand-picked “family”. These two climb many a mountain and deal with many issues but find that love can prevail if you just stand strong.
Avid drinker of Coca-Cola, L.B. Dunbar loves the sweet things in life. Her affair with all things romantic began with her first book at the tender age of six: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One can never forget her first! From there, the reading journey includes a deep love of fairy tales, medieval knights, regency debauchery, and alpha males. She loves a deep belly laugh and a strong hug. Occasionally, she has the energy of a Jack Russell terrier. Accused, yes, that’s the correct word, of having an over active imagination; to her benefit, such an imagination works well. Author of over a dozen novels, she’s created small town worlds, rock star mayhem, and MMA chaos. Her other duties in life include: mother to four growing children and wife to the one and only.
Christian Lancelot Du Lac was never one to take a situation seriously. Growing up he had always been the comedic relief to Jared Bonatelli’s brooding nature. Now, just as The Dark Order welcomes Jared as its new Prince, Du Lac is informed that he must become a first in command the future King can truly rely on. When he repeatedly fails in his attempts to prove himself, Lance is thrown back in time to where his life began, Camelot. What he finds there is more than he could have bargained for.
Drawn to the forest surrounding Camelot, Lady Elizabeth Payne searches for something that seems just out of her reach. Tormented by a pair glowing eyes in the mist she steals away in the middle of the night to find their owner. Thieves, a wolf and the most infuriating savior she has ever met turn her simple world upside down. But it’s the attraction she feels to the newcomer that truly takes her by surprise. Learning that he is Christian Du Lac, the long lost son of the First Knight himself peaks her curiosity even more.
Now on the cusp of meeting her betrothed for the first time, Elizabeth’s heart has been claimed by another. But even a betrothal written in blood is no match for fate.
For Lance and Elizabeth, the odds are stacked against them. Their worlds are destined to remain forever apart. Can time heal all wounds or will the fates change their course and let the star crossed lovers find each other once again?
I was given a copy of the book for an honest review.
I love Lance! His mouth in motion before his brain just makes me laugh. I knew something was up when he repeatedly was drawn to his and Beth’s spot. Sending him to Camelot was so perfect. I didn’t want to put my kindle down. Historicals are one of my favs. As the story is told, I thought no wonder many times. Knowing now why Lance’s mother gave up her powers. Wow. And RIM….he is horrific and no different than Abs. At least Jared was able to right the worst of Rim’s wrong doing. Evil man! The lengths that Merlin and his crew went to for Lance and Beth. I didn’t see that one coming! SO glad!
Drakkar……hmmmmm. Now that we have returned to the present day…I wonder when Abs will return as a threat. I know it’s coming or will Drakkar be her downfall?
Sandi Bischoff lives in the historic town of Cornwall, NY with her husband, son and a menagerie of Dragons all of whom have their own distinct personalities. She is a Pharmacist by profession but finally found her true calling in a simple twist of fate. A friend approached her to write for a character in a forum on a popular networking website and over the next five years her passion had found its niche. She then went on to compose a few poems and short stories which she would post on her homepage at the same networking site. Recently one of those poems was chosen to be published in a compilation called Collected Whispers.
Her first manuscript entitled Beyond the Sun was another short story gone wild. It has recently been picked up by Bayou Brew Publishing and was released on April 1st
One brunette bombshell with a devious mind and a potty mouth has thrust Kent smack dab in the middle of where he never wanted to be—his family. He’s spent most of his life avoiding his familial responsibilities, especially the one that required him to join the Ninth Circle Council—the demon society’s equivalent of judge, jury, and executioner. Then one lost bet with a little Amazon flips his entire life upside down. With worries about retaliation from the remnants of a rogue pack of wolves in Germany, he doesn’t have time to deal with his family, or his obsession with Chloe Demos.
And she’s the biggest risk he’ll ever take…
After her mother’s death, Chloe’s world crashes down around her. A secret Amazonian heritage. Aunts and a long lost brother she never knew about. Supernatural beings. With all of the sudden changes, she’s decided it’s time to step out from behind her façade of an air-headed, materialistic bimbo and show her sisters she truly does love them—she only hates their wardrobes. What better way to show she cares about her family than to help prove someone close to one of them is innocent of the bogus murder charges from some ridiculous council? Chloe has no scruples about calling in the marker the demon Kent owes her in order to do just that. It’s only too bad she’s underestimated Kent’s intelligence, and his playboy charm.
I received a copy of this book for an honest review.
I have wanted to know Kent’s back story for a while. The way he looked after his partner and the dedication to his job I knew there was good in the Demon.
Kent was the playboy that never hung around long enough to fall for a woman. He was also dodging his duty as a Demon. That is until a certain Amazon walked in taught him a lesson and could turn the world as he knew it upside down.
Chloe was the fashion diva and portrayed the roll of the airhead. But when secrets come out about her family and one is in trouble she knows it’s time to let the real Chloe out. She uses her whit to get Kent to help her not realizing what it will cost Kent in the end.
The chemistry between Kent and Chloe is great with Chloe pushing to protect her heart and Kent pulling trying to show Chloe his isn’t what she and everyone else thinks they know. Can I say I can relate to Chloe’s sister Elena I find myself acting similar to her when spiders come around only I which I had a flamethrower lol. I did have tears when Chloe, Elena and Gage went to see the psychic and learned what was coming their way. I loved how Jessie incorporated all the past characters of the Big Bad Bite Series.
Jessie Lane is a best-selling author of Paranormal and Contemporary Romance, as well as, Upper YA Paranormal Romance/Fantasy.
She lives in Kentucky with her two little Rock Chicks in-the-making and her over protective alpha husband that she’s pretty sure is a latent grizzly bear shifter. She has a passionate love for reading and writing naughty romance, cliff hanging suspense, and out-of-this-world characters that demand your attention, or threaten to slap you around until you do pay attention to them.
She’s also a proud member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA).
Fifteen years ago Jared Bonatelli had it all. The youngest son of one of the founding families in the Conservatorship of The Dark Order he lived a life you only thought existed in novels and nightmares. He had just graduated from Oxford University and became engaged to his childhood sweetheart when he lost it all in one violent act. The very next day he found himself shipped off to New Orleans with only the money in his pocket and whatever he could fit in one suitcase. Since that night he has suffered reliving his fiancé’s murder repeatedly in his dreams. It isn’t until he finds himself summoned back to New York for an emergency meeting of the Conservatorship that the comfortable world he lives in begins to crumble around him.
Alexandra Toscano has been searching for the one assignment that could catapult her journalistic career. When her editor Gene O’Hanlon drops a manila folder in her lap, Alex is immediately skeptical. At first glance the information he hands her seems like a publicity piece that is till she comes across an article he wrote some fifteen years ago about Vampires murdering a young woman in Central Park. She is ready to laugh it off as a work of fiction until he points out he was an eyewitness to the whole thing. But that wasn’t all. The girl’s boyfriend was a member of a prominent Italian family who vanished the very next day.
Now as Alex begins to dig deeper into Jared’s life she begins to question her own past. Could the answer she seeks be found in the glowing eyes of the one person she is sworn to expose? Or will they both find themselves torn apart by a world Beyond the Sun?
I was given a copy of the book for an honest review.
What started out romantic for Jared and Giovanna ended up utterly tragic. Tony took care of Giovanna, or so I thought. The lies that are weaved….. Jared was finally called back home and not told why. Gene, the old timer reporter who witnessed Giovanna’s tragic ending, was now Alex’s boss. Alex’s new assignment was to get close to Jared and uncover the secrets. The magnetism between Jared and Alex was undeniable. Alex was naive in love yet she gave her heart to Jared without him even knowing it. The story weaves through the connections….and then there is Absinthe. What an evil bitch! Of course, you just have to have one. Her hatred of Jared had no boundaries. Abs is banging Zephyr. Zephyr is Jared’s Conservator and Alex’s father. Holy crap!!
We know Jared and Alex are special and meant for each other. No spoiler but the character touched on at the end…man can’t wait to see how this evolves!!
Sandi lives in the historic town of Cornwall, NY with her husband, son and a menagerie of Dragons all of whom have their own distinct personalities. She is a Pharmacist by profession but finally found her true calling in a simple twist of fate. A friend approached her to write for a character in a forum on a popular networking website and over the next five years her passion had found its niche. She then went on to compose a few poems and short stories which she would post on her homepage at the same networking site. Recently one of those poems was chosen to be published in a compilation called Collected Whispers.
Her first manuscript entitled Beyond the Sun was another short story gone wild. It has recently been picked up by Bayou Brew Publishing and was released on April 1st.
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