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#WOTR25 #Novella #BlueCollar #NA – Her Best Shot, Hot & Nerdy book 1 by Shannyn Schroeder

Three childhood friends. One last spring break. What could go wrong?

Layla Sharpe’s life is going exactly according to plan. She’s just been offered her dream job as a cryptographer, and she’s supposed to spend spring break celebrating with her best friends. But then her car breaks down in Georgia, and she meets sexy pool shark Phin. While playing a game with Phin, her wallet is stolen and just as things look like they can’t get worse, Phin offers her a place to stay and one-on-one pool-playing lessons.

Phin Marks can’t seem to resist the math geek with a smart mouth, so he bends his own no-strings rules and offers to help Layla. When her anxiety over adulthood rears its ugly head, Layla is drawn to Phin’s free-wheeling lifestyle—no strings, no roots. Work a simple job during the day and hustle pool at night. Phin, however, has spent years working toward the life Layla has. He’s desperate to settle down, grow some roots, and walk away from his nomadic life.

Can he convince Layla to gamble on forever with him?

Originally published in 2014.

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Review by Twinsie Angie

I purchased this book.

I was looking for some quick reads and the author told me about this one.  I loved the fact the girl was nerdy and wore fun Star Wars shirts that people didn’t understand.  This is my husband 100%.

I love a good novella because we know there will be a HEA and most are pretty much “Boy and girl meet, have some laughs, and then fall in love.”  This book started pretty traditional and then switched a bit.  The characters meet and fall but then split and look out because a woman scorned is never a good thing.  LOL

Layla and Phin meet and have some attraction.  They both are not facing all the things in their lives and are kind of hiding while having fun with the other.  When things get a little too deep, Phin pushed Layla away in the most douche of ways…hence why she becomes a woman scorned.

Layla is not one to back down from a challenge and does all she can to prove that the things Phin said about her were not true.  So, when they see each other a few months later, she is hell bent on making him pay for breaking her heart.

I liked the story but would have liked to know more about Phin’s back story.  Because it was kinda wild what we did learn.

Shannyn is a part-time English teacher, part-time editor, and full-time mom (even though her kids are about grown).

She writes contemporary romances (almost all set in the city of Chicago) about family, friends, and love. Whether it’s a sprawling Irish American family with a ton of siblings or a group of friends who are found family, how everyone functions (or not) is often a core of her stories.

Shannyn is represented by Frances Black of Literary Counsel. Check out the O’Learys series, the For Your Love series, Daring Divorcees or Hot & Nerdy. Shannyn also writes heist romances under the name Sloane Steele https://www.amazon.com/Sloane-Steele/e/B08NFLHV9M

#WOTR24 #Review – Comma Kaze: A Neurodivergent Professor Romance (Nerd Love Book 1) by Mellanie Szereto

Loss brings them together. Will their pact help them find love and happily-ever-after?

English professor Elijah M. Clayton, Jr., (34) has promised his dying cousin he’ll raise her unborn daughter, but his search for a wife has failed miserably. Social awkwardness related to being on the autism spectrum leads to his only decent speed-dating prospect—Beatrix-35—calling him a pervert before the start of their first official date.
Plumber Beatrix Glouster (35) likes Elijah-34 and has high hopes she’s found a good guy until he asks questions that trigger painful memories of losing her premature son, her subsequent inability to have children, and her husband leaving her. An early morning plumbing emergency brings her face-to-cute-backside with last night’s disappointment.
Their lives are forever changed when a call from Elijah’s cousin summoning him to the hospital for the birth of her child interrupts an unexpectedly hot kiss. Only deep commitment will help Elijah and Beatrix avoid the prospective emotional risk of an impromptu marriage, his communication issues, and raising their orphaned newborn charge together.

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Review by Twinsie Kelly

OMG!! ALL THE FEELS!!!! If there is ever a book or story that makes you believe in fate or love at first sight, then this is it for me! Elijah and Beatrix meet at a speed dating mixer and decide to meet afterward. Not realizing that Elijah is on the spectrum, when he starts to ask some weird questions, she decides to cut her losses and just walk away. They are then thrown back into each other’s space when she, a plumber, ends up at Elijah’s house to fix his bathroom faucet. She is with Elijah when he gets the call that his cousin is about ready to pass and Beatrix accompanies him to the hospital. Chloe, his cousin, just knows that she is the one and these two are going to be the best parents for her child. The only problem is, these two literally just met! However, the chemistry, not just sexual, is there and it gets intense. They just calm each other…they just fit.

“Chloe was right. Fate had played a part in her introduction and subsequent meeting with Eli, but this child was the catalyst – not romance, love, or even sexual attraction. The interaction with him been a means to an end. Only Eve mattered – and Chloe passing from the world knowing someone would cherish her baby.”

“A plumber and an English professor walk into a marriage for the wrong reason. And baby makes three. There’s a bad joke if I ever heard one. A deep breath didn’t calm the butterflies in her stomach. And I’m gonna do it anyway.”

One takeaway I have from this story is that average is boring! Parenting means making sacrifices and falling in love has no guarantee of a happily-ever-after, but these two are truly meant to be. Life isn’t always fair but it doesn’t have to be. However, when your instinct takes over and you know you found your person, you will truly be happy.

Please pick up this book. It is an incredible story with ALL THE FEELS!

I received a copy of this book from Booksprout in exchange for an honest review.

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Mellanie Szereto is the USA Today Bestselling Author of over fifty romcoms and contemporary romances, most with characters who have plenty of life experience like herself. Whether you call them older, seasoned, mature, experienced, or later-in-life protagonists, they deserve love too! Her stories are often set in small towns with quirky main characters, fun secondary casts, and lots of humor. She enjoys gardening, cooking, and baking—as well as hiking to work off the fruits of her labor—and incorporates food into all of her stories. She lives in an old farmhouse in rural Indiana with her husband of thirty-seven years.

#WOTR22 #newRelease #ReleaseDay – Win My Heart by Lauren Helms

Win My Heart : A Nerdy Secret Relationship Romance (Gamer Boy Book 4) by [Lauren  Helms]

A nerdy gamer girl + a teammate’s older brother = a secret relationship that can’t stay hidden forever.

Bernie
When it comes to gaming,
I’m a pro.
When it comes to my love life?
That’s a different story.

I’ve been crushing on my best friend’s older brother forever.
In return, he’s kept me in the friend zone for way too long.
Then things change between us.
And I get to see a whole new,
And incredibly sexy side to him.

But, he wants to keep things between us a secret.

Wade
I made a promise to my brother.
One I refused to break.
Until now.

I’ve ignored my feelings for the girl for way too long.
And the more time we spend together,
The harder I find myself falling.

There’s just one problem,
I can’t let anyone know that I’ve made her mine.

Can I win her heart before its game-over for us both?

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Lauren Helms is a romance author her nerdy and flirty contemporary words. Lauren has forever been an avid reader from the beginning. After starting a book review website, that catapulted her fully into the book world, she knew that something was missing. While working for a video game strategy guide publisher, she decided to mix what she knew best–video games and romance. She decided to take the plunge and write her first novel, Level Me Up. Several published novels later, Lauren, with her book bestie, also formed PR company, Forever Write PR, to help other authors promote their books.

Lauren lives in Indianapolis, Indiana sharing her love of books and video games with her own Gamer Boy husband and three little kid nerds who will hopefully grow up to share the love of things that united Lauren and her husband on their own happily ever after.

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