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Book Review and New Release: One Night at the Spa by Kathy Lyons

  Title: One Night at the Spa Author: Kathy Lyons Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 Pages: 74 Format read: ebook Rating: C+ One Night at the Spa is a short, steamy (pun absolutely intended), friends-to-lovers story. Kathy Lyons (who also writes as Jade Lee) is a new-to-me author, and I’ll definitely be reading more from her in the future. Kim Castillo managed a gym, since an ACL injury has sidelined her career as a pro racquetball player. The loss of her sports career is only part of her current problem, though. All the years of excessive exercise have put her libido on ice,…

Book Review and New Release: Risky Surrender by Robin Bielman (Risk It #2)

  Title: Risky Surrender Author:  Robin Bielman Series: Risk It Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 Pages: 109 Format read: ebook Rating: C+ Risky Surrender is one of three novellas being released by Entangled’s Ever After line on August 26th as part of their “August Ever After” promotion. Having loved Robin’s Kissing the Maid of Honor, I was really looking forward to this book. In the end it was an enjoyable read, but felt a bit uneven. Lucy Davenport is an archaeologist on a mission. She’s leery of love, because she feels that everyone she’s ever loved has died and left her–including her archaeologist husband and…

Book Review and New Release: Gamble in Gold by Natalie Anderson (Flirting to Win #3)

  Title: Gamble in Gold Author:  Natalie Anderson Series: Flirting to Win Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 (originally part of anthology Flirting to Win, published 2012) Pages: 97 Format read: ebook Rating: C+ Gamble in Gold is the third novella in a series set in London during the recent summer Olympics there. It’s a cute, quick read–though it’s one I definitely wish had been longer. Both the characters and the plot could have used more…though that is one of the dangers of a novella. Still, it was an enjoyable read with fun characters…and a dog named Mango. Lexie Peterson has always been shy and quiet. An…

Book Review and New Release: A Curse of Passion by Melissa Bourbon Ramirez (Book two of the Deadly Legends series)

Title: A Curse of Passion Author: Melissa Bourbon Ramierez Series: Deadly Legends Genre: romantic suspense Published: 2013 Pages: 250 Format read: ebook Rating: C Can I just start by saying that no high school principal I’ve ever seen looks like the guy on the cover of this book? Granted, given the excessive hormones flying around any place that teenagers congregate, this is probably a very good thing, but still…. When Johanna Rios was eleven and her younger sister Carmen nine, their mother drowned herself in the San Julio River. First, though, she tried to drown her two daughters. The ghost of…

Book Review and New Release: Something’s Cooking by Meg Lacey

Title: Something’s Cooking Author: Meg Lacey Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 Pages: 182 Format read: ebook Rating: C Tess Banyon has made a name for herself in the kitchen. She’s become, almost overnight, a “Martha Stewart”-esque personage (minus the pesky jail time, of course) across the country. When the “diva of domesticity” takes over half the space that was supposed to be devoted to his newspaper column and is on the verge of getting her own television show, investigative reporter Josh Faraday decides it’s time to strike back. Josh has been trying to pitch his own hard-hitting news program to…

Book Review: Love, Technically by Lynne Silver

Title: Love, Technically Author: Lynne Silver Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 Rating: 3 stars Michelle Kolson has moved from small-town Iowa to Chicago to follow her dreams. Little does she know that her job is about to be outsourced overseas and that the geeky but cute help center guy she’s just met and is crushing over is actually the CEO and founder of the company. Will the truth be enough to send her back home forever? Noah “Sark” Frellish, discouraged by all the women who look at him and only see dollar signs, is hesitant to correct Michelle’s misconception. But…

Come and Get It by Keira Cole (Book one of the Bonifay Family)

Title: Come and Get It Author: Keira Cole Series: Bonifay Family Genre: contemporary romance Published: 2013 Rating: 3 stars Dixie Rose Bonifay hasn’t had an easy life. Her parents died while she was still in college, so she dropped out to raise her four siblings and had to finish her degree online. She met the love of her life at twenty-two—Garrett—but lost him soon after when he was killed in Iraq. Dixie bounced back once again, using his insurance money to start up a mobile catering business. She loves her job and her family, and feels pretty content with her…

Freefall by Jill Sorenson (Book two in the Aftershock series)

Title: Freefall Author: Jill Sorenson Series: Aftershock Genre: Contemporary romantic suspense Published: 2013 Rating: 3 stars Somehow I totally missed the fact that this book was related to Aftershock when I requested it from NetGalley. I’m not sure how that happened—I even thought to myself, Hey! She’s the one who wrote Aftershock! I liked that one, when I hit the button, but it wasn’t until the hero mentioned being trapped and in a coma during the LA earthquake that I made the connection. Once again proving that yes, the blonde really is natural. 😉 Anyway…. Park ranger Hope Banning is looking forward to a relaxing…