tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61088023075919764592024-03-17T09:10:49.516-05:00'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176779982011399096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3658125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108802307591976459.post-17935647381751954762024-03-15T10:23:00.000-05:002024-03-15T10:23:40.812-05:00Free-Fire Zone: An OPS Protector Romance (Owens Protective Services Book 17) by Giulia Lagomarsino Release blitz with Cat's Review @EJBookPromos @crzybookladyluv @TTCBooksandmore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_cqvSbSwLOfi7spX11zaOATgOApS05PnE3VZ4pB00tviDSYi6jxRBuOneXdLOGy1FrpLMEH805BTcBx6j_LRtJBRiRmfZzs7DHv9CHKLdVNHEJD17cV-s3g2cXnLkzSpN8QBVkffSmRtVwt0rYd0Ffo-T-Jb4vtvJhoyfetWzmw_ffAanOYnFDEzD7E/s828/Free-Fire%20Zone_release%20banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="828" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_cqvSbSwLOfi7spX11zaOATgOApS05PnE3VZ4pB00tviDSYi6jxRBuOneXdLOGy1FrpLMEH805BTcBx6j_LRtJBRiRmfZzs7DHv9CHKLdVNHEJD17cV-s3g2cXnLkzSpN8QBVkffSmRtVwt0rYd0Ffo-T-Jb4vtvJhoyfetWzmw_ffAanOYnFDEzD7E/w640-h244/Free-Fire%20Zone_release%20banner.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Title: Free-Fire Zone: An OPS Protector Romance</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Series: Owens Protective Services Book 17</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Author: Giulia Lagomarsino</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Genre: Romantic Suspense/Protector Romance</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Release Date: February 26, 2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cover Design: T.E. Black Designs</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Photographer: Reggie Deanching</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cover Model: Scott Holliday</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="224" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B0sCIAvWuZ8/WmAIybAnL2I/AAAAAAAB03I/38xexKnvUTIouvwMaO5o3bugYBNM-HbXgCLcBGAs/s1600/blog_buy%2Bnow.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://bit.ly/47RdLHd"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eYTtlwpfYGg/VYrtbNLTpQI/AAAAAAAAPBQ/EOnAl-7yS4E/s1600/AMAZON.png" /></a><a href="https://bit.ly/3uarJWO"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A-zIbhbgbvI/VYrtbI5JrnI/AAAAAAAAPB8/rvT0SStMEnk/s1600/amazon%2Bca.png" /></a><a href="https://bit.ly/47UDcrB"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1v3CndxIwuA/VYrtbsn3d5I/AAAAAAAAPBU/Mfb-gt9DX5s/s1600/amazon%2Buk.png" /></a><a href="https://bit.ly/3Si2Pwp"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N7-tRSavCeQ/VYrtbDltOmI/AAAAAAAAPBM/a7udO38DWOo/s1600/amazon%2Bau.png" /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="657" height="89" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOYwj3OHuOw/WmALGirTy1I/AAAAAAAB04Y/0hlK_F4P2ucu-hgasCT3U8vRee-vetvPwCLcBGAs/s320/ku_available.png" width="320" /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span></div><div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="224" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9In5dVd7cM/WmAIt5dPU5I/AAAAAAAB03E/o8EZYW06QC85hXPMXjgVmZnX_EzRwzd9wCLcBGAs/s1600/blog_synopsis.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggw2udaA1iIqsNUvANVmfU1y5VXjzLTEMJhpXa_FJejI9S4oPZh7ksfK0kz3RkNprLhyphenhyphenu6R9D1pgYi7PKeK_dT-W3-QzEZy57RISHO-j19uRGeQilmGUdiUWe5fl7-nN9HAEelCMaYXqlgGduvaO4fxdjhlfVyA25tmlwv5ERAr3T8TXpN5EUzGxXtwF8/s2775/Free-Fire%20Zone%20-%20Giulia%20Lagomarsino%20-%20E-Cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1856" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggw2udaA1iIqsNUvANVmfU1y5VXjzLTEMJhpXa_FJejI9S4oPZh7ksfK0kz3RkNprLhyphenhyphenu6R9D1pgYi7PKeK_dT-W3-QzEZy57RISHO-j19uRGeQilmGUdiUWe5fl7-nN9HAEelCMaYXqlgGduvaO4fxdjhlfVyA25tmlwv5ERAr3T8TXpN5EUzGxXtwF8/w268-h400/Free-Fire%20Zone%20-%20Giulia%20Lagomarsino%20-%20E-Cover.jpg" width="268" /></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>She’s amazing.</b></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div><br /></div><div>I know that sounds cliche, but it’s one hundred percent true.</div><div><br /></div><div>She’s so funny and smart and beautiful and…<b>amazing.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I have it so bad for her, and I thought for a moment she liked me too.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I realized what I thought was a sign of her liking me was actually a sign she was sliding me into the dreaded friend zone.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>I fu@king hate the friend zone.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I was so close to winning her over, and then that roughneck came along, pushing me even further into the zone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just like a mechanic, he has qualities I could never possess—like working with a wrench. I could hold a wrench for a photograph and no woman would drool over me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Alas, that’s the life of a protection agent. Sure, I have rippling muscles and can kill a guy with my bare hands, but I could never compete with this illusion women have about greasy men.</div><div><br /></div><div>And to make matters worse, I said she could stay with me.</div><div><br /></div><div>That’s right. I am officially the stupidest man ever.</div><div><br /></div><div>I’ve doomed myself to a life of fantasies that will never be fulfilled, all because I can’t stop picturing that beautiful, thick hair cascading over her shoulders like a waterfall.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like I said…</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>I have it bad, and there’s no way out for me.</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3OlwJP8"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ai37zJZgc-8/VYjq38ODKII/AAAAAAAAO7o/-hSSxSq9ORA/s1600/goodreads-button.png" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b><i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Cat gives this book 4 meows and 4 purr heat Index...</span></i></b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hi Ya'll! Come join me while I tell you about this book I just read.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The title is Free Fire Zone by. Guilia Lagomarsino. It's book. In....series. You should read this in order because other characters show up in each book and some storyline reocurr through the series.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The cover is sexy as usual. The summary drew me in because, well honestly, I wait impatiently every month for the next in this series and... friend zoned? </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My favorite main character was Dash because this was his story, but Brock came close to stealing.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a secondary character I loved. Lee and Edith both were pretty ...I'll say out there. Lee all doom and gloom and Edith a funny cougar. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The story starts with a tornado and was a bit funny how Dash rescues Laura. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are a couple of plot twists. Of course the main one being the romance. It's a slow burn but there is lots of sex anyways. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are a couple action twists with Dash's job and the appearance of a few team mates. This book was just Dash and Laura's POV so easier to follow. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is lots of humor as well.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ending is happy and I wonder who is next? BRING IT ON! Oh, Guilia, now Andrew will need a story. And Brett.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recommend this if you like protector romance, firefighters, oil riggers, friends to lovers, forced proximity, one bed, miscommunication and lots of heat and humor.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2b227fe5-7fff-f8c0-39c8-1061023c0a88"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“What are you grinning about?” Brock asked as I plopped down in my chair with a beer.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I think I have a real chance with Laura.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah? Even after she flashed you multiple times, then ran upstairs like her hair was on fire?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Relax. I got the signal. It’s all good.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“What’s the signal?” he questioned.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“She punched my shoulder.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Ah, the punch the shoulder routine. That’s a classic.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I know, which is why I know it’s all good.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He nodded at me with a huge grin on his face. “It is a classic, but you have this all wrong.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I was about to take another drink when I paused. “What do you mean? She punched me. That’s the signal.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Right, the signal that you’re just friends.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“What? No, that’s not right. A punch is affectionate.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“A punch is like saying, yeah, I like you, but it’s not going any further.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“No, I swear. The punch is a sign she likes me. It’s the go-ahead signal.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Brock snorted in amusement, but I didn’t find it very funny. “Yeah, it’s the signal that seven year old boys give to girls on the playground. You’re not seven and this isn’t the playground. She’s not into you like that.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I frowned, thinking over the way she blushed when I told her that I couldn’t unsee what was under that curtain. There’s no way she was faking her reaction. “Okay, if she doesn’t like me, then tell me why her heart rate kicks up whenever I get close to her, or why she blushes from head to toe when I wink at her.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Uh…one, because you saw her naked when she was vulnerable. Of course she’s going to blush! And her heart rate kicks up because you’re boxing her in and making her uncomfortable.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Shoot,” I said in realization. “You think so?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It’s not rocket science. You misread the signals.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I took another pull of my beer, wondering how I managed to do that. I really thought she was into me. Now…now things were just awkward. She was up in my shower, about to get in my clothes! How was I supposed to handle her prancing around my house wearing nothing but my t-shirt?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You give her sweatpants,” Brock said, drinking his own beer.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Sorry, what?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You were doing that thing where you think out loud.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I don’t do that,” I grumbled.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Then how do I know that you’re wondering how you’re not gonna get a chubby while she’s here?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I didn’t have an answer for that. But now I was totally screwed. I thought this was gonna go somewhere. Now...</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Well, hell. I really thought she liked me.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You could still go for it,” he shrugged. “What’s the worst that could happen?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“She could punch me in the face instead of the shoulder,” I grumbled.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah, that could be bad.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And then I thought of something even worse than that. “Man, we only have two beds.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Your point?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Where are we supposed to let them sleep?” I asked, getting up and kicking my damn chair. “It would be rude of us to make them sleep on the floor.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You think?” He said sarcastically. “I don’t know about you, but I’m taking the fatalistic one to bed.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Seriously? Even after all the doom and gloom talk?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I dig it,” he grinned. “Well, I’m mostly horny since Miranda won’t sleep with me. What’s with that?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Well, getting interrupted twice isn’t a coincidence. That’s a sign from the stars,” I said, just to piss him off as payback for him ruining my mood.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Fu@k you very much. I guess this means neither of us gets the woman we want.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah, well, I should have known. She said this guy was coming into town. What was I thinking?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“That you’d rescued her and she’d fall to her knees and suck your co@k,” he pointed out.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Right, I thought with the wrong head,” I nodded. “Screwed the whole thing up.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Face it, she put you firmly in the friend-zone. There’s no getting out of it now.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Fu@k.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I hated the friend-zone. “And she’s actually nice, someone I might get along with in real life. You know, aside from my fake life as a construction worker.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Aside from that,” he agreed. “You know, it’s probably for the best. I mean, really, what’s a woman like that going to do with a guy like you?”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You mean, aside from pleasure me all night long?” I asked sarcastically.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Hey, I’m just saying, she’s not exactly the type to go out with a guy like you. You’re too…brutish.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Brutish? I don’t think I’ve ever been called that.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Well, compared to a normal guy,” he said. “You know, like a teacher or a banker.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I rolled my eyes at the comparison. “Hey, I can be just as normal as a teacher or a banker. I have normal guy qualities.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Name one,” he said, staring over at me expectantly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I sat there for a few minutes, trying to come up with something. “Okay, what about this…I like pool.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He stared at me for a moment, then shook his head. “Ooh, you’re right. How did I miss that?”</span></p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Genre: Psychological Suspense</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Tropes: College Romance/Surprise Baby</b></span></div>
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Would double if I could! </span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wow wow wow. What can I say? This book is simply amazing. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But warning it's Dark, Dark , DARK! If you have trigger warnings... there is mental illness and lots of violence... however the violence is not graphic and on page.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I give Jaci Wheeler kudos for style and getting her point across without all the on page gore, violence or sex and not losing a shade of the darkness.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You are actually getting multiple stories in one, the book is in at least 4 different POV, but pretty easy to distinguish who is speaking. You even get the killers POV without being easy to guess who it is. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">1. Is the profiler POV and his story. With a twist in his life.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">2. You have the killer and a priest they confess to daily. I loved how this was distinguished with Bible verse.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">3. Then there were two college students views and stories.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">4. 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</div>TTC Books and morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521968112293865063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108802307591976459.post-28915105826343341392024-03-11T08:57:00.000-05:002024-03-11T08:57:34.826-05:00Cat's Audiobook Review of Drama Oz (A Nicky and Noah Mystery Book 14) Written by Joe Cosentino Narrated by Brian Cheney @JoeCosen @TTCBooksandmore<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPiFPYtG8L_UbDKK2ntaw55qRV7PZlCaTLcgwZVHgJWdPtwnCt3jtfciKykeM_aKQwebp1otYtytv9FXU-ZXHJglXpuSDb2dGPx13snAbaLFz_yLLtcaBqQf5HJagxTyJYb0cyhPe5R3tFuTlLzDth2Q3fZn4KRzgMB9SGINjttfEbTEk0zzxGxFLDlg/s500/51SVLGF-cDL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPiFPYtG8L_UbDKK2ntaw55qRV7PZlCaTLcgwZVHgJWdPtwnCt3jtfciKykeM_aKQwebp1otYtytv9FXU-ZXHJglXpuSDb2dGPx13snAbaLFz_yLLtcaBqQf5HJagxTyJYb0cyhPe5R3tFuTlLzDth2Q3fZn4KRzgMB9SGINjttfEbTEk0zzxGxFLDlg/s320/51SVLGF-cDL.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Treemeadow College theatre crew stage an original musical adaptation of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">The</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Wizard of Oz</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, entitled </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Friends of Dorothy</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, at a summer theme park in Key West. Quickly cast and crew members melt away like a witch submerged in water. Nicky, as the Wizard on stage and off, must save the show and figure out whodunit. Once again, our favorite thespians will need to use their drama skills to catch the killer before a witch’s fireball sends them up in smoke. You will be applauding and shouting Bravo for Joe Cosentino’s fast-paced, side-splittingly funny, edge-of-your-seat entertaining fourteenth novel in this delightful series. It’s a scorcher! So follow the yellow brick road. The stage lights are coming up in Oz on a girl with a dog who is one hot bitch, a wicked witch who would kill for a new pair of shoes, a sexy Wizard, a Scarecrow sitting on a big pole, a Tinman with a giant can of lube, a Lion with a long tail between his legs, plenty of monkey business, and murder!<br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Grab your copy today from <a href="https://amzn.to/3wHMCJS" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives Audiobook 5 Meows overall...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div dir="auto"><i>5 Meows for the story </i></div><div dir="auto"><i>5 Meows for the performance </i></div><div dir="auto"><i>5 Meows overall</i></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I love this series and read them all but have to say the narration is even better. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I especially like this narrator as he adds extra to each character and even sings, bringing the book to life.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I love all the characters and that we have an established couple. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">usually I'd say Taavi steaks the show as a secondary... and he does but I loved the addition of Asterix and the voice of Drew... Heeellllooo! </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">if you like cozy Mystery, humor, cute teens, dogs, loving parents, established couples, amateur sleuths, and the Wizard of Oz, you will love this.</div></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p dir="auto" style="border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p dir="auto" style="border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlY-7yRI-JbZzAzHOxYoiFn8gC6Qft6UfBw0LadywTHXm5C6dBQMYUFcck5qchJxVel4B22cRMXhm7dTo4_zq5LGX2fEzkycHySySx7xVNpWfsroIThtiUYh_lx5VV3AOSHpVsN-Cr9WIHuF5QOQPMuGttVKEPdUMdKuPSJMV2nzkHBFK7K-jukRtO/s400/abouttheauthor.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="400" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlY-7yRI-JbZzAzHOxYoiFn8gC6Qft6UfBw0LadywTHXm5C6dBQMYUFcck5qchJxVel4B22cRMXhm7dTo4_zq5LGX2fEzkycHySySx7xVNpWfsroIThtiUYh_lx5VV3AOSHpVsN-Cr9WIHuF5QOQPMuGttVKEPdUMdKuPSJMV2nzkHBFK7K-jukRtO/s320/abouttheauthor.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="auto" style="border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Joe Cosentino: Romance, Humor and Mystery... </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">JOE COSENTINO was voted Favorite MM Mystery, Humorous, and Contemporary Author of the Year by the readers of </span><em style="background-color: transparent; position: relative;">Divine Magazine</em><span style="background-color: transparent;"> for </span><em style="background-color: transparent; position: relative;">Drama Queen</em><span style="background-color: transparent;">, the first Nicky and Noah mystery novel. 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I possessed a voice, as sure as any other. It was simply not the same as any other I had met." </span></i><p></p><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The year is 1838. Queen Victoria has ascended the throne. And within the United Kingdom lies Nightland: a sprawling forest filled with darkness and danger.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Beatrice has always been different. She has not spoken since childhood, communicates through drawings, and hates to be touched. And she is a grey: half-English and half-Nightlander.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When she is forced into servitude across the border, she hatches a plan to escape with siblings Anselm and Gretchen. But gaining her freedom will be no simple task, for first, she must unravel the secrets of her master, Prince Edward. A man rumoured to have murdered his wife - and who shares Beatrice's ability to see people's souls.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pre-order your copy <i><a href="https://amzn.to/49NMKpT" target="_blank">HERE</a></i> today! <i>The Shade Between Shadows releases April 9th.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uSi0IGzqaytb6sP6vLfKFc5K7VUdSLh9Ud9nB93xoy61w33MrYiPOOQTrG5BzuXWMdpc8ETjFkePUcV4vxqxj2X81nAyOI7DNPrND8I8KCWoj86SoSFBChXKBGvKX-RpvfXql18sMici4c6DWsGwXvXQO3WXjsC2L93ew7H-2cUMWg5cminyVoe1aTQ/s400/abouttheauthor.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="400" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uSi0IGzqaytb6sP6vLfKFc5K7VUdSLh9Ud9nB93xoy61w33MrYiPOOQTrG5BzuXWMdpc8ETjFkePUcV4vxqxj2X81nAyOI7DNPrND8I8KCWoj86SoSFBChXKBGvKX-RpvfXql18sMici4c6DWsGwXvXQO3WXjsC2L93ew7H-2cUMWg5cminyVoe1aTQ/s320/abouttheauthor.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><b>Author E.C. 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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Fiona’s Fury</strong><br /><strong>Roxy Blue</strong><br />Publication date: March 12th 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This chilling but hysterically sardonic thrill-ride is hard to put down. Smart, sexy, and deeply revelatory, it will send you on an enthralling emotional journey you won’t forget.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Fiona Turner, CEO of Fiona’s Flowers floral shop, hasn’t the time nor inclination to bother with men until she finally meets the face on the other end of the phone. Having remained friends, she never suspected her ex-husband, Quade, would morph into a terrifying, controlling, law-bending monster. When Fiona exhibits the first signs of wanting to move on in life, he threatens to take everything from her. A long weekend at a conference answers all of Fiona’s questions about floral supplier, Bo Thompson, except how she can possibly have him. She’ll never know what she’s missing unless she risks everything for love.</span></p>
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</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Inspiration Behind the Book </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona’s Fury </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">was a very surprising baby for me because it’s not based on my life, or anyone’s whom I personally know. It’s actually the second of the </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Finding Love Again </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">trilogy, all stand-alones, and so was created out of two side characters from my first novel, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some Kind of Angel</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, whom I just happened to find immensely interesting. My decision to publish </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">first was due to it being a romantic suspense that will appeal to such a broad audience, whereas </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Angel </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-indent: 0.704002pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">does not include suspense and is in fact quite a bit on the literary side. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7bfd13b0-7fff-ff49-fd0d-60d858f7e4cb" style="font-family: helvetica;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.32186; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.17600250244140625pt; margin-right: 2.68157958984375pt; margin-top: 15.13848876953125pt; margin: 15.1385pt 2.68158pt 0pt 0.176003pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.0329971pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.0329971pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All my characters are inspired by traits and personality types I’ve observed in real people, some whom I’ve known well and others that I’ve barely met. But Fiona Turner doesn’t have the personality or background you’d probably find in my closest circle of friends, so I find her particularly fascinating. I do, nonetheless, identify with many moments of personal torment she experiences, especially when raging at inanimate objects due to underlying frustrations she’s not able to escape from. At one point Fiona has a panic attack without even being conscious of the causes of tension in her life that have led her to such severe distress. My elucidation of a complete physical panic attack is taken from direct experience. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.32186; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.307999pt; margin-top: 15.1385pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.704002pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bo Thompson is a more familiar character for me, as he’s somewhat of a cross between my father, one of my father’s best friends, and another close friend of mine from Texas…then romanticized, idealized, and sculpted into a man who’d probably appeal to most any woman that isn’t into the fast-paced, materialistic, city-life type. Bo is the epitome of down-to-earth, a sort of shaman alpha hick extraordinaire. He’s cool under fire, solid as a brick, and confident in any situation. I’m fortunate to have had similar male influences in my life. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.32186; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.9239959716796875pt; margin-right: 3.10577392578125pt; margin-top: 15.13848876953125pt; margin: 15.1385pt 3.10577pt 0pt 0.923996pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.187004pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona’s award winning floral designer, Maxine, is the star of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some Kind of Angel</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and is closely representative of me in most ways. She has a bit part in </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona’s Fury</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, but generally portrays my personality and outlook on life…during the recent decade in which both books take place. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.32187; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.24199676513671875pt; margin-right: 14.4306640625pt; margin-top: 15.138427734375pt; margin: 15.1384pt 14.4307pt 0pt 0.241997pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.220001pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The entire plot of </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fiona’s Fury</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, including each scene, was unplanned, unexpected, and came way out of left field every time I sat down to write.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">Follow the blog facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TamsBookBlog" style="text-align: -webkit-center;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> and check the giveaway tab for all the current promo posts with giveaways, thanks for stopping by y'all!</span></i></span></p><p></p>TTC Books and morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521968112293865063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108802307591976459.post-44802194758620243032024-03-11T00:00:00.048-05:002024-03-11T00:00:00.339-05:00A Seduction of Dreams and Nightmares by A.J. 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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>A Seduction of Dreams and Nightmares</strong><br /><strong>A.J. Locke</strong><br />Publication date: March 26th 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They say humans are dreams and Fiends are nightmares. For though Fiends have magic, beauty, and power, their immortal lives are restricted. Vampires must sate their blood lust. Wytches will crumble to dust when their magic runs out. Shapeshifting Haunts must keep their vicious beasts caged. Incubi and succubi cannot indulge in carnal pleasure without dire consequences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Novari is a human who bartends for Luccero, an alluring incubus and the star of her fantasies. She can’t have Luc, but she does have Keo, who also wouldn’t mind Luc’s touch. Keo, who loathes being a vampire, is in pursuit of a fabled cure that will turn Fiends human. A cure highly in demand as many Fiends crave freedom from their burdened lives.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When an unexpected discovery about the cure’s location puts Novari and Keo in danger, they take refuge in Luccero’s sprawling manor. There, they contemplate how to stay safe … and succumb to each other’s seduction.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Cursed,” came Luc’s soft voice. “As Fiends we consider ourselves cursed, nightmares. Humans, fragile and finite as they may be, are the dreams. They are born, they grow, they change, they have choices we will never have about who they want to be and what feeds their appetites. But we, everlasting and unchanging until the moment of our demise, have little choice. I can never travel far by myself lest I have no means to sate my Lust. I came into existence as an incubus with a specific way I must live, and that is all I can ever be.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">His words reminded me of the conversation with Keo last night and the way he’d questioned his urges because he couldn’t stop wondering if everything about him was decided before he even existed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I don’t think I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about things from your perspective. I feel bad about that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Luc chuckled. “Humans are selfish beings; I do not fault you for it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I’m not—”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I meant it not as an insult,” he cut in, “you are selfish because you know your time is limited. That there is an inevitable end you cannot avoid, and though you wish for the years to take you into old age, you live with no idea if your next day will be your last. Thus, you focus on yourselves, your pursuits, your pleasures. You can pick up jobs, hobbies, lovers, and discard them as your mood fits because ‘life is short,’ no?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“You try to pull as much life from the world as you can because when you die, there is no coming back. Fiends can walk through centuries; we do not think of time the same way. Were two hundred of your friends to ask you to keep something of theirs in your care for the rest of your life you would say there was no way you could dedicate your life to taking care of things that do not belong to you. Things that would impede your ability to live your life on your terms.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He raised his hand to indicate the greenhouse. “But for me? I said yes every single time a Fleurisse came to me. Because it was of no consequence to hold on to things that would remain as long as I. All I have is time, and thus, we endure the long years together.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Luccero was far more perceptive and empathetic than I would have ever thought he was. In a few short hours I’d learned more about him than I’d ever known. Because all I’d seen when I looked at him was his beauty, all I’d felt was his charm and his lusty aura. But he was so much more than a creature of seduction. I was sure his long life was full of amazing stories. He could tell me something about every Fleurisse here, was probably knowledgeable about things I wouldn’t know the first thing about.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I badly wanted to know this side of him more.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3jZq6mfSMxnDoQ3SBVyguvJBZI5bIYC3YBEszhyphenhyphen9VhQqem6Npk-GDVBLkw8otTSMB_-mpajbJoW6hM4zp13WyJuldubg6XbAbR5oeAmVsYbi6KbrT0SyNET558WIaPK2K8Y_WhJ3cpFJWLJv-KngaXxbyq_eFqq90OlDeZFzakegnGkV6DnMz9Ce_eo/s828/Broken%20Wins_release%20banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="828" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3jZq6mfSMxnDoQ3SBVyguvJBZI5bIYC3YBEszhyphenhyphen9VhQqem6Npk-GDVBLkw8otTSMB_-mpajbJoW6hM4zp13WyJuldubg6XbAbR5oeAmVsYbi6KbrT0SyNET558WIaPK2K8Y_WhJ3cpFJWLJv-KngaXxbyq_eFqq90OlDeZFzakegnGkV6DnMz9Ce_eo/w640-h244/Broken%20Wins_release%20banner.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Title: Broken Wings (10th Anniversary Edition)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Series: Broken & Mended Book 1</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Author: Erika Ashby</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Genre/Tropes: Contemporary; Military Romance; Second Chance at Love; Close Proximity; Friends-to-Lovers </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Release Date: March 9, 2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cover Design: Sommer Stein at Perfect Pear Creative Covers</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Graphics by: Devin McCain at Studio 5 Twenty-Five</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="224" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B0sCIAvWuZ8/WmAIybAnL2I/AAAAAAAB03I/38xexKnvUTIouvwMaO5o3bugYBNM-HbXgCLcBGAs/s1600/blog_buy%2Bnow.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdLCuyfqcUlBdlU_7WPIYHqCu8kHQCDnSkC13pPwHx8Onqb_P7uppWJMH5G6PNeWD6Hx9AlqXwVnMZZYtc0DUJPgYtEaFOdqBnZoQRH8gCuUoubNeFoDqTLIxn2CTszhOX9Do1UhbJZhPFce7SddC3lo-yDTllQ5Wz1wDgE0Pen1D0l4sq6t8n7nSP0_w/s1640/BW3%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Married to Lincoln, a military pilot, she's living the Army life she's always loved. Being a sucker for great love stories, Lynsie makes it her mission to find Lincoln's best friend and copilot, Dax Adams, a good woman.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Losing the one woman he's ever loved, Dax attempts to be a good sport by playing along in Lynsie's matchmaking scheme. However, Dax is certain he will never get the woman of his dreams.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>But life doesn't always fly smoothly. When turbulence strikes, Lynsie watches her world crash and burn around her, leaving her empty with broken wings. Despite her grief, can she mend the pieces back together and learn to fly again?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205428875-broken-wings" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ai37zJZgc-8/VYjq38ODKII/AAAAAAAAO7o/-hSSxSq9ORA/s1600/goodreads-button.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Cat gives this book 4 Meows with a 2 purr heat index...</span></i></b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Warning! This is a tear jerker so grab tissues. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This one is a bit hard to review without any spoilers, so I'll make it short and sweet.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The characters are all easy to relate to. There are a few things going on and the story is heavy but also sweet at the same time.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There us sexual tension but any sex is off page so it's a fairly clean story. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm looking forward to the next.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like military, friends to lovers, great characters and clean romance this is for you. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="224" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TJfDWjKb-v8/WmAJO7mZ7kI/AAAAAAAB03Y/zUEPX69tT9gJ-ZE10oF3Lq_0-tKsUjJsQCLcBGAs/s1600/blog_read%2Bexcerpt.jpg" /></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-07c68500-7fff-a11c-4d4e-1786472e3a61"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 21.75pt;"><span><b>Prologue</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 21.75pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 21.75pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>Lincoln</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Summer 2007</b></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Dude, this sucks.” I sigh, plopping down on Dax’s bed. Two years of fixed-wing pilot training together and my best friend is getting assigned to another base, states away.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Such is life, man,” he replies, seemingly unbothered, but I know better.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Glad you’re just as heartbroken as me,” I mutter, and he drills me clean in the face with a balled-up T-shirt. The force of the blow catches me off guard, and I fall back on his bed. Like a ninja, I roll to my side, retrieving the dirty laundry, and sling it back, missing Dax as it makes a thud hitting the wall behind him. “Lucky throw on your part.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah, that’s exactly what it was.” He snorts.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“God, I’m gonna miss you. You’re like my yang.” I place my hand over my heart, clenching it into a fist. “You keep me balanced and from losing my shit. How am I going to keep from losing it without you?” I’m being slightly dramatic, but moments like these call for such antics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I have a feeling you’ll manage just fine.” His words are reassuring as always.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“But what about you? How are you going to survive without meeee?” I drag the last word out with a high pitch. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dax zips his suitcase shut, sits down beside me, and lets out the longest sigh I’ve ever heard. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Tell me how you really feel.” I cross my leg and pretend to doodle on a notepad, putting my imaginary shrink hat on. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He shakes his head, laughing, and pushes my shoulder…hard. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Hey, you made me drop my notebook.” I bend over, acting like I’m picking it up, and he pushes me all the way off the bed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“There you go.” He laughs. “Maybe you can find it better down there.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I quickly jump up onto the bed and pull out one of our famous wrestling moves from our childhood, putting him in a chokehold from behind.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Tell me you’re going to miss me, too.” His hands grab at my arms, but I refuse defeat. He will show weakness. “It’s okay to be sad,” I coo, gently patting the top of his head. He relaxes his body, and I take the chance to give him a good going away noogie, dragging my knuckles back and forth quickly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You win. You win.” He slaps his hand three times on the bed, and I release my hold.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I plop down beside him and expel the sigh I’ve been holding. “In all seriousness, I am going to miss you. We’ve been inseparable our entire lives, and now it’s our passion pulling us apart.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah, I think we’ve been in denial about the inevitable.” He shrugs. “But I think it’ll be good for us. Maybe the distance will bring growth and give us the ability to fully spread our wings.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Tell me more, oh knowledgeable one.” I laugh.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He glances down at his watch and stands. “Time for me to hit the road.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yeah, I know.” I push myself off the bed, standing beside Dax. I tilt my head back, looking up at him as he towers over me. It’s not by much, but he’s always felt like a giant in comparison. He’s got his normal Dax façade in place, and I can tell this isn’t as easy for him as he’s making it out to be. He has a girlfriend back home whom he’s refused to let go of, and I get the impression this transition will also greatly interfere with that. The realization makes me feel like an ass for being so selfish.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Dax, I’m sorry.” I admit, placing a hand on his shoulder, gripping it tightly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His hazel eyes finally connect with mine. “For what?” He raises a brow in confusion. Normally, I’d take this time to make a condescending joke, but I’ve done enough of that already.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I’ve been thinking about how much this is going to suck for me. Haven’t really considered everything you’re giving up in the process, as well. And I’m not referring to me.” I smirk. “How does this move affect things with Amber?” I usually don’t like discussing his girlfriend because I don’t particularly care for her. It’s not because she’s any sort of threat to our friendship. He just seems to have blinders on when it comes to her, and I can’t figure out why. But he’s my best friend, and just because I’ve avoided love to focus on my career, I can’t hold his lack of abstaining over his head.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">His shoulders slump, and he lets out an exasperated sigh, running his hand through his hair.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Do I need to get my notebook back out?” I raise my brow.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He laughs and shakes his head, then looks away as if he’s trying to piece together an acceptable answer. When his gaze meets mine, indecisiveness heavily weighs him down. “Honestly, I don’t know. I’m supposed to stop by her apartment on my way to see my parents before continuing my trek up the coast.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I nod and offer a smile as some sort of reassurance. “It’ll all work itself out the way it’s supposed to. I have faith.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Thanks, man.” Dax pulls me in for a hug. “I’m going to miss you too, Lincoln.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He finally releases the words I’ve been trying to pull out of him. Victory is mine!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 21.75pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">****</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.75pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I THROW MY flight suit on, eager to get a head start on making a good first impression and personally introduce myself to my new commanding officer. On my way to the front door, I stop to take in the silence that surrounds me. I know it’s temporary, but I already feel lonely.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Suck it up, buttercup,” I mumble, using the words I know Dax would say. He’s right. This is an opportunity for each of us to fully immerse ourselves in our careers without our friendship possibly holding us back. I shut the door behind me, deciding not to be sad and lame, but to make the best of the situation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The sun beats down on me as I walk to my truck. Almost as if it’s a laser and I’m its target. I rest my hand around my door handle and lean my head back, reveling in the heat, letting it recharge me. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here’s to new beginnings.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I make the short drive from the barracks across base to the hangar I will be reporting to daily. As I turn onto the mass of concrete sprawled out in front of me that leads to the enormous metal building, an overwhelming sense of emotion hits me. This is it. This is what I’ve dreamed of ever since I was a little boy. I’m a pilot—an aviation warrant officer. Life can’t get any better than this.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I park my truck and walk in through the massive, lifted doors where mechanics work on a couple planes. These men and women are the true heroes. They work behind the scenes, making sure us pilots are operating safe flying apparatuses. I nod at those I pass, making my way to the offices on the adjacent wall. A nameplate reading Maj. Clark marks the third door down the corridor. Light shines through the half-cracked door and voices spill out as I inch closer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A familiar voice says, “I think working at the salon in the PX will be a great start.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I can’t help but wonder who Major Clark is talking to. Curiosity gets the best of me as I sidle up to the door.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A female voice replies, “Me too, Dad.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The conversation seems to be coming to an end, and I take the opportunity to knock, stepping into the doorway. Major Clark’s eyes dart in my direction from behind his desk, and the brunette keeps her back to me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Sir.” I clear my throat. “I hope this isn’t bad timing.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">He shifts his gaze from me to his daughter, then back to me.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Not at all,” the female says, standing. “I was just leaving.” She glances over her shoulder at me and smiles. She rounds his desk and bends over, giving him a hug, then kisses his forehead. “Bye, Dad. I love you.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Bye, honey. I’ll see you at dinner.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I try not to keep my eyes trained on her, but I can’t peel them off of her for the life of me as her petite stature saunters toward the doorway I’m standing in. She stops in front of me and glances down to my badge. Her green eyes slowly rise back to mine, and a smile tugs at the corner of her mouth.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Fox.” She drags the three-letter word through her pouty lips as if she’s practicing it as her last name.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yes, ma’am.” I smile with a nod. “Lincoln Fox.” I stick my hand out, and she quickly accepts the gesture.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Lynsie Clark.” She smiles back.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The scraping of a chair jerks our heads toward her dad’s desk as he stands. “Officer Fox, I’ve heard a lot about you.” His tone is even.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Sir, all good things, I hope.” I chance a peek at Lynsie. She looks up and smiles, and I realize I have her blocked in. I shift to the left, offering her the space she needs to leave, and she mouths ‘good luck’ before walking past me out the door.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I straighten my stance and give my full attention to my commanding officer. I’m convinced I’ve just blown that good first impression I was after. Major Clark takes a few steps toward me, then crosses his arms and leans against the edge of his desk.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Yes, all good things.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Redemption swarms within me. Maybe I haven’t ruined it, after all. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“And how about we keep it that way?” he warns, raising a brow, and I don’t have to ask what he’s referring to.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I gulp. “Yes, sir.” Clearly, his daughter is off-limits. Which is a shame since my career indicates that I like to push them.</span></p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="224" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1L6UWb0Vrkc/WmAJVLXZ9fI/AAAAAAAB03s/9dl9IUufhzc2mfOTaoF47RNgL4KaCKJgACLcBGAs/s1600/blog_meet%2Bthe%2Bauthor.jpg" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Erika Ashby grew up an Army Brat, spending most of her childhood in Oklahoma, where she finally put roots down. She currently lives in Edmond, OK where she faithfully attends North Church with her kids. She's a blessed mom of 4 who loves Jesus and serving others. Her hobbies include attending dirt track races, concerts, reading, DIY, and making red dirt shirts. It wasn’t until the ripe age of 27 when she realized she had a hidden passion for reading. Up until that point in her life, she claimed to have hated it. Shortly after, she was hit with another revelation: the desire to tell stories. Knowing she had failed all writing assignments in school, she set out on this journey mainly to prove to herself she could do it. So, here she is today, proving it. Erika wants to encourage anyone with a dream to go for it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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After everything he and the team went through, he promised himself he’d walk away from football. But before he can retire, the team is sold to the last person he ever expected to see again.<br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Deacon stays because the Condors are going into major rebuilding mode. New owner. New coach. New players. New rules.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But one rule hasn’t changed: </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">don’t fall in love with the owner of your football team.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Grant might be brilliant and a billionaire, but Deacon only remembers Grant as his tutor in college—and as the one who got away.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In all his dreams about reconnecting, he never imagined that Grant would end up as his boss. Both his downfall, and also his salvation.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Or that they’d be forced into confronting the Condors’ most difficult challenge yet—but that they’d face it together, hand in hand, tackling their critics and proving once and for all that love doesn’t take sides.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Buy links: <a href="https://amzn.to/48KmZWj" target="_blank">Amazon US</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/49FBjRa" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></b></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives this Book 6, woops, I mean 5 Meows with a 4 purr heat index...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is Book 5 and the finale of the Condors series. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I've waited a while for Deacon and Mr. G'S book and it was worth it. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However, you do need to read these books in order so you understand the recurring characters and some other things happening as these books run along side each other.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think I loved Mr. G even better than Coach Dawson in the Piranahs (another amazing series.) </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like well developed characters that's enough reason to start this series.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Beth Bolden has some of the best, relatable and complex guys. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If sports... especially football is your thing... then again here ya go! Very interesting, well put together and even if you're not a big sports fan you can easily follow along. Snd everything is blended so you stay invested in all aspects of the story. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was so intrigued to find out how Mr G, And Deacon knew each other. That was a cool twist I didn't see coming. 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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>A Blessing and a Curse</strong><br /><strong>Anna Campbell</strong><br />Publication date: October 31st 2023<br />Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Blessing Savage barely remembers who she was before the unexpected death of her father, Pastor Savage. These days she clings desperately to the party girl persona she’s created for her second year of college, living with a new group of friends, joining their sorority, and partying non-stop. There’s only one thing that can kill her perpetual buzz, and his name is Camden Holbrook, the boy she’s pined for for nearly a decade.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Camden credits Blessing’s father for saving him when he was a child, giving him a place to stay when his mother abandoned him and setting him back on the right track. So when Pastor Savage asked a promise of Camden before dying – to look out for Blessing – he made a vow and meant it. Protecting Blessing has always come easily. Loving her has not. Not for someone who’s learned time and time again that love and loss are intricately interwoven.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After years of Camden keeping her at arm’s length, the last thing Blessing wants is him barging into her life. But new Blessing refuses to let Cam play knight-in-shining-armor, not when she knows – from one starry summer’s night slip-up – how he really feels about her. This time around, Blessing’s intent on pushing Camden’s limits, and she’s got some sexy new tricks up her sleeve to take him past them. Then maybe he’ll admit the truth of his feelings. Maybe the person who’s always known her best can help her find a way back to herself. Maybe she can prove to Camden that love doesn’t always destroy a person. Sometimes, it’s the only thing that can start putting them back together.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200646819-a-blessing-and-a-curse" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> / <a href="https://amzn.to/3TabGCb" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat Gives book 4 meows with a 3 purr heat index...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a very good story. It does bounce from YA to NA through the story and goes from then to now every few chapters. Also, in both characters views. Though the headings are clearly labeled helping you not be totally lost.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You are essentially getting both Blessing and Camden's stories plus a combination romance. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I think I liked Camden's story part and the romance best. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Camden had a crap life growing up but meets Blessing on one of his moms' stints of trying to improve in Blessing's dads' church. They become kind of friends. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Cam thinks he owes her dad for saving him years ago and promises to take care of her. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Blessing life turns in college and makes Cam's promise hard. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a beautiful story with a few very sad moments so grab some tissue. Don't worry, it's a Happy Ever After! </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yfc1cWTcGFv9FYw8Y_e3dpoPDOypZHV18ea919KcKCTg8p8ENPgdujS6IYu17heSUl0aIE2UE24vd39PNy3SZbcuDu2a9bYTFHFSZY3t4yIgXG51khghnMR6hGomaBXOYOnAN3VkpId2R3L-gPZpVTiHWDlgDFAF29qGb02xNsR0eJNj0PFZc3YWs40/s400/abouttheauthor.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="400" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yfc1cWTcGFv9FYw8Y_e3dpoPDOypZHV18ea919KcKCTg8p8ENPgdujS6IYu17heSUl0aIE2UE24vd39PNy3SZbcuDu2a9bYTFHFSZY3t4yIgXG51khghnMR6hGomaBXOYOnAN3VkpId2R3L-gPZpVTiHWDlgDFAF29qGb02xNsR0eJNj0PFZc3YWs40/s320/abouttheauthor.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tyler Lomax met Lucien, supposedly the oldest haemophile in existence, on a dark night in the depths of winter. Tyler was protesting against Baron Emory Von Magnusson taking possession of a human child. He thought he’d been doing the right thing—fighting against evil, against fear.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It had been the same every night for weeks. As soon as he switched the light off, he was back on Askham Moor. Hands stronger than iron crushed his body. Adrenaline coursed through his veins like venom. The smell of his own urine was sharp in his nostrils.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tyler threw his pillow across the room. It knocked a hi-fi speaker flying. It crashed to the floor with the sickening sound of splintering wood. He sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands, breathing hard, until the red mist swirling before his eyes faded.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“DI Walker,” he barked at the harried-looking desk officer. She held up a finger and continued her conversation on the phone. “Oi, lady. I said I want to see Walker. Now.”</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The woman’s face tightened. “DI Walker is engaged. If you want to leave your number, I will be sure he contacts you. Yes, I’m still here,” she spoke again into the phone. “We need extra techs to go over the CCTV as soon as possible. Yes. Scene photographers, too—”</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However, building a relationship with an undead blood-drinker was never going to be straightforward, especially when that undead blood-drinker reveals he wants a family.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><i><b>Cat gives both books in this series 5 meows with a 4 purr heat index...</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Overall: this is a spicy, thrilling, dark romance. A Vampire series at its best.</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BOOK 1 A Touch in the night.</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jesse has issues and needs rough sex to feel. The more pain the better.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He loves his nephew, but he and his brother don't get along well.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A Haemophile (vampire) has moved to town to take over the family mansion. He is independent. No clan and registered. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> An upstanding citizen wanting to make the town better. The Mayor is working with him to do this.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jesse has a bleak past and is good at cyber hacking. His friend Trixie hires him to break into Emory 's sleeping quarters and they are captured. But is this the end for Jesse, or the beginning? </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I really liked Jesse and Emory. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There're many twists and turns in the story.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's very page turning with a happy ending.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>BOOK 2 Bleed into the Night</b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was hoping for Kelly and Tom's story but I was pleasantly surprised.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thought book 1 was good, but this book was even better. Just wow.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tyler met Lucien in book one (you do need to read it to really understand this). In book 1 Tyler wasn't exactly a good guy. I was so shocked to see this was his book, but I warmed up to him.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lucien is old and even the other Haemophile are trying to shut him down so he doesn't ruin what they've built. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But is Lucien really evil?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tyler is having trouble sleeping, the law not helping so he goes outside the law and hires a hunter Damon to help him. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Oh wow! The twists in this book. Another page turner and what a shocking end. Can't call this HEA though so maybe HFN. I do hope there is a book 3 in the works. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like vampires, dark romance, lots of spice and something different, this is for you. </span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Their Shattered Hearts</strong><br /><strong>Angie Cole</strong><br />(Cardinal Creek)<br />Publication date: March 1st 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A story of love, loss, and redemption unfolds in the rustic charm of Cardinal Creek, Texas. Will Deluca, a stoic firefighter and ranch owner, bears the weight of his wife’s untimely demise. His world once filled with warmth, now echoes with the silent grief of his two children and the unyielding Texas plains.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Enter Anna Samuels, a heart that’s seen its share of sorrow. Leaving Missouri’s memories behind, she hopes to find solace and new beginnings in the small Texas town. As a dedicated palliative care nurse, she embarks on a mission to bring comfort to families grappling with illness. Destiny leads her to Rockin’ D Ranch, where her path crosses with Will, a man whose rugged charm and piercing blue eyes hide a world of pain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amidst the rolling hills of Cardinal Creek, Will and Anna find their lives intricately entwined, linked by a forgotten encounter from their youth. Anna’s arrival sparks a glimmer of hope in Will’s heart, inspiring him to fulfill a promise to his late wife: to create a sanctuary for children with autism. Together, they begin to weave dreams of a brighter future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But shadows linger in the corners of their newfound happiness. Anna grapples with a dark secret that threatens to destroy the life she has built in Cardinal Creek. As Will confronts his own fears, he risks losing the one person who could help him heal. In the face of adversity, will they find the strength to conquer their demons and embrace a second chance at love?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In Their Shattered Hearts fate, passion, and dark secrets collide. Join Will and Anna as they journey through the complexities of the heart, learning that sometimes, the path to happiness is paved with the courage to face the ghosts of the past.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Will Deluca: “Every star in the Texas sky reminds me of what I’ve lost… and what I still hope to find.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anna Samuels: “Healing others is my calling, but healing my own heart? That’s a journey I didn’t expect to take.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Will Deluca: “They say time heals all wounds, but here in Cardinal Creek, it’s love that does the healing.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Anna Samuels: “In every patient’s smile, I see a piece of my grandfather’s legacy… and a part of my heart healing.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Will Deluca: “I never thought I’d find love again. Turns out, it was waiting for me in the last place I expected.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My journey as a romance author is deeply rooted in my personal experiences of love, loss, and resilience. The profound impact of the losses I have endured, including the passing of my grandparents and my parents, has shaped my perspective on life and love.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My own love story is one of healing and finding joy after heartache, and it mirrors the themes I explore in my novels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As a survivor of grief and a believer in the power of love, I channel my experiences into crafting stories that resonate with the complexities and triumphs of the human heart. My writing is a testament to the idea that love can emerge from the most unexpected places, offering hope and healing. The one thing that can be learned from grief is that it's a very personal experience and isn't the same for every person. </span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men like them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br />It's their first case together, investigating mysterious disappearances—including the two agents who preceded them. Grim evidence leads them to look for a darker purpose. Old ghosts haunt the railroad line, zombie rise, signs point to ritual sacrifice, and they suspect someone is trying to open the gates of hell.<br /><br />Can Calvin and Owen stop the mayhem, thwart the vampires, and find true love, or will everything go up in smoke?<br /><br />Peacemaker is a high-stakes steampunk MM romance thrill ride filled with found family, paranormal Pinkertons, intrepid reporters, mysterious disappearances, nefarious land brokers, hellhounds, zombies, vengeful spirits, dark spells, absinthe magic, a ruthless vampire railroad baron and a love that won't be denied.<br /><br />Before Colt and Winchester, there was Sharps & Springfield!</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives this Audiobook 5 Meows overall...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I enjoyed this story. It's a little different than most others I've read because it's set in the past. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are horse-drawn carriages, a few gas cars, they are staying in a train sleeper car instead of hotel. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Just lots of fun and uniqueness. Still intriguing characters with supernatural powers. One is a medium one reads objects.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They have to hide their being way and that's a big part of the story. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It's also slow burn.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is magic, Mayhem, intrigue, shifters, witches, you name it and it's probably here.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is an Audio review and Jon Solo is always good. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I love the different voices for each man and the emotions come through well. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like s</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">low burn, lawmen, supernatural, and an allover great story, I highly recommend this. </span></div><p><br /><br /></p>
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</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy male/male paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and together with co-author hubby Larry N. Martin, steampunk and comedic horror, all of which have less romance, more explosions. Characters from her Gail books make frequent appearances in secondary roles in her Morgan books, and vice versa.</span></p>
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</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nathan doesn’t know how to stop dwelling on the failures and tragedies that have plagued him since he was a twenty-one-year-old happily in the arms of the handsome young doctor he had pined for since he was twelve. Many years later after the latest tragedy, who could mend Nathan’s heart? If not a handsome young doctor, would an ER nurse do? After a chance meeting with Mateo, a lot of Nathan’s reminiscing is now devoted to how that encounter made him feel. Will he seize the day or continue wallowing in the past, having lunch with his best girlfriend from high school, and writing poetry?</span></p><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives this Book 4 Meows with a 3 purr heat index...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a beautiful, poignant, albeit angsty story of love and loss.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is the tale of a man growing up in the 60's 70's 80's and beyond. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a lot of history that I was able to relate to having grown in the same Era. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I found the actual story touching and I retesting. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It does bounce around a lot from Nathan recalling, travels and lovers from the past. I do wish the chapters that did this had been labeled like x years ago or summer/fall etc of _ year. It would have made the book less jarring.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also never quite figured Nathan's exact age and though the age difference doesn't matter I just wanted to know.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There us so much going on and I really was intrigued by the past and the present romance. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ending I guess you could take as a HEA but for me I think more HFN. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like big age gaps, history, poets, nurses, teachers, hurt/comfort, lots of feels, some heat and an allover beautiful story this is for you.</span></div>
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</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“It’s kind of my job. Sometimes it is difficult to switch out of that mode when I leave work.” He lowered his eyes, making me realize I must have been staring intently. How could I have not? He was an amalgam of all the men I had been attracted to my entire life: Mediterranean, Black, Latino, shorter than me, rectangular solid frame, soulful eyes, thick hair. But with an added twist. A dusting of freckles graced his cheekbones and the bridge of his nose. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>The Science of Attraction</strong><br /><strong>Jay Hogan</strong><br />(A Mackenzie Country Story, #3)<br />Publication date: February 22nd 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am Mackenzie Country born and bred. Farming the high country runs in my blood, like my father, and his father, and my great grandfather before him. My future has been mapped out for me since the day I was born. Or at least it was, until Liam Skelton walks onto Lane Station, lights a fire in my heart, and turns my whole world upside down.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bossy, tatted, and out and proud, Liam is everything my father abhors.<br />
And I want him.<br />
Badly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But having a chance with Liam means risking everything. My family. My future. And my life in these mountains that I love.<br />
Still, the heart wants what it wants, and mine wants Liam.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With so many things against us, maybe we don’t have a chance.<br />
Maybe we’ll crash and burn.<br />
Or maybe we’ll find a way to have it all.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Julian Lane unsettled me in a way not many men did, and it was troubling, to say the least. I’d had a couple of long-term relationships in my life, but I’d never lived with anyone or wanted more. Being a fairly self-contained person, I liked my own company. I spent most days working intimately with people’s complex needs. It was intense, challenging work, and at the end of the day or the finish of a contract, my home was my sanctuary, and I guarded it with my life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The idea of a <em>man</em> cluttering up that space with their things, inconvenient demands, or just the mere fact of their presence sent horrifying chills racing down my spine. I rarely got flustered by a guy, and certainly not the way Julian unnerved me with his capable air, glittering grey eyes, and that profound sense of knowing his place in the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Julian had the air of a man who knew who he was and where he belonged. You wouldn’t need to jolly a man like Jules along to make him feel wanted, soothe an ego bent out of shape, or play down your success so as not to threaten his by comparison. Men like that were rare and held an intoxicating allure for someone like me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But Jules was also my client’s son, and that alone should’ve made him forbidden fruit even for a bit of harmless crushing. <em>Should’ve. </em>But there’d been something about his smile that first day. Something about the way I’d caught him looking at me when he didn’t think I was watching. And maybe the way <em>I </em>felt when he looked at me, as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The whole thing was fucking with my head.</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Heart, humour and keeping it real.</span></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jay is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Gay Romance and her book Off Balance was the 2021 New Zealand Romance Book of the Year.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She is a New Zealand author writing mm romance and romantic suspense, primarily set in New Zealand. She writes character driven romances with lots of humour, a good dose of reality and a splash of angst. She's travelled extensively, lived in many countries, and in a past life she was a critical care nurse, nurse educator and counsellor. Jay is owned by a huge Maine Coon cat and a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Find Jay in all the places:</strong> </span></p><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: helvetica;"><u>https://www.jayhoganauthor.com/landingpage.</u></span>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was an ordinary day, much like every other in my life. I awoke at seven without an alarm, my body tuned to the rhythms of my life. After a quick shower, followed by coffee and a bagel, I set off on my morning ritual five-mile walk through my neighborhood and around Milford Pond before returning home. </span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Hmmm, that’s interesting,” I said aloud to the empty room. “But it still doesn’t tell me who this trinket may belong to.” I shrugged, glancing at the small digital clock on my desk only to see it was later than I realized. “I’ll give this more thought later.” I opened the project management app on my iMac. “But now I really need to get to work.”</span></p>
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Lily’s a bubbly burst of sunshine who’s stuck in every guy’s friendzone, but Max is stuck in a prison of anxiety born from childhood trauma and a debilitating stutter. When Max’s brother Jake intervenes and presents him with a way to get to know Lily on his own terms, Max is terrified…and thrilled. But how can they ever truly be together if she doesn’t even know who he is?</span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This book is the first in a trilogy about the three Cruz brothers and their struggles to survive—and maybe even thrive—after the day their family detonated, leaving behind a debris field of pain and chaos. While the stories are connected, each one can be read as a standalone, and none of the books ends on a cliffhanger.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fans of stories in which pain, longing, angst, humor, and hope weave together to create an emotional journey with both laughter and tears will love this book!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cat gives this Book 3 Meows...</b></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><i>Hi Ya'll! Come join me while I tell you about this book I just read.</i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto">The title is The Distance Between Us by Anne Trowbridge and the summary drew me in because... Sunshiny neighbor and one with social anxiety really sounded good.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">BUT I never bonded with either main character. There is a secondary character I loved. I happened to like Mitch best and we got like one page of him but yeah, I really want his story. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">The plot was intriguing with the secret identity trope and neighbors to more. I even liked heat it's clean and sweet. Just for me, some things seemed repetitive and others rushed. 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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Step into the small & intriguing Midwestern town of Larton where Lloyd Wood struggles daily with reviving his failing restaurant while refusing to relinquish any control, even in his family life. When a business guru arrives and promises to set the restaurant right, Lloyd is tempted by the promise of a miraculous turnaround.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Meanwhile, Dawn, Lloyd's wife, finds solace in a new church where love is not just a sentiment but a commodity. Lost in her family's shadow, she embraces a new identity amidst her new church family whose intentions seem questionable at best.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">TOBY AND DAWN WAITED in the doctor’s office. She’d picked him up from Jonah’s that morning, and he had been quiet in the car and at the house, and then quiet again to the doctor’s office in town.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘How you feeling, hon?’ Dawn said. She had a magazine in her lap, and she was rubbing Toby’s back. ‘How’s your stomach? Want to describe it to me?’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘No.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘If you describe it to me, it’ll be easier to tell the doctor.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘It’s fine right now,’ Toby said. He was watching the TV on a stand tucked in the corner. The news was on. Another eyewitness had seen an angel outside town.”</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“A nurse came into the waiting room. She was in pink smocks and stood on thick soles. She said, ‘Toby Wood.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She examined Toby and made him describe the pain.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘It just hurts sometimes.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The nurse said the doctor will be right in.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Toby sat on the examination table. The sanitary paper crinkled no matter how he moved or how he settled.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He and Dawn waited for the doctor.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘Does it hurt now?’ Dawn said.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘No, Mom.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They waited, and sometime later, a knock announced the doctor. He was clean shaven with close-cropped hair white as bedsheets. His brows were thick and bushy. His skin was cream and pink and aged. He wore a button-up and tie under his white coat. His teeth and eyes were bright.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘Heya, Toby,’ he said. He didn’t look at Toby when he said it; he was reading Toby’s chart. He sat and scooted his stool close. ‘You’re having stomach pain.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘Out of ten, what would you say?’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘A two, one and a half. It’s really not that bad.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘It comes and goes, Mom.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘He doesn’t always come to me when it hurts. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what it is.’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The doctor’s tone was soft. ‘Well. Sometimes our bodies respond physically to factors within our environment, anxiety, stress, all these can stew in the body and hollow us out,’ the doctor said to Dawn.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She nodded intently.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘Are you studying too hard? Maybe big tests coming up? Staying up too late with the video games?’</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘I study too hard,’ Toby said. He said it very quickly, almost before the doctor had finished speaking. ‘That must be it, the stress of studying,’ Toby said. </span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">‘That’s what I said, I didn’t like the frequency of it. Didn’t I say, Toby?’ Dawn said.</span></p>
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His boys need stability and his dad needs his help in the store.</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Now he needs her.</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Except, Chase has been the bane of Madison Kelly’s existence since high school.</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;">She just so happens to be the only available nanny in town.</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Besides, high school was ten years ago.</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;">People don’t hold grudges that long, right?</div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195024077-back-against-the-wall" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDTPupLi4ZE9z64liAkwcSaU0ado5h20nNYKpKmataVpa2LlBtqlFHvYpBkaSFy5NqZ3brnqvY07WPbv5ifOwvee6I05XBqeRqcerTthPTAys-s8RyyABquwHf4meciz2hLGYvSzb-Mg8/s1600/goodreads-button.png" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Cat gives this Book 4 Meows with a 3 purr heat index...</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Hi Ya'll! Come join me while I tell you about this book I just read.</i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The title is Back Against the Wall by Marie James and it's book 1 in the series Lindell series. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The cover is pretty, but I think one of those cartoon type covers would have been good too. The summary drew me in because burned ex Hockey player, cute twins, hometown romance. Yes please.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My favorite main character was Chase because I live single dads. I wish I loved Madison but for some reason she fell a bit short. She just seemed to run too much.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a secondary character I loved. Several actually. Addison, Cash and Walker at top of my list.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The plot was intriguing. I loved the waiting to see how Chase's issue comes out because you know that's not going smooth. I did not expect the twist there. There are a couple other twists too. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ending is HEA. And I loved it. I also liked the sneak peek of the next book BRING IT ON!</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recommend this if you like small town Romance, lots of meddling friends and family, two hurt main characters, ex Hockey players, boss/nanny, enemies to lovers and cute twins.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="font-family: "Roboto Slab"; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div></span></div>
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</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: -webkit-center;">Follow the blog facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TamsBookBlog" style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: -webkit-center;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family: helvetica; text-align: -webkit-center;"> and check the giveaway tab for all the current promo posts with giveaways, thanks for stopping by y'all!</span></p>TTC Books and morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521968112293865063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108802307591976459.post-12630040715861380162024-02-12T10:34:00.006-06:002024-02-12T10:34:45.440-06:00Cat's Audiobook Review of Drama TV: Nicky and Noah Mysteries, Book 13 @JoeCosen @TTCBooksandmore<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBTGEG-tBR7qkSHX0qlCyql0-W6vyxEOPH-AOa3NZBoH3PNHUhI_4xw81igpahY6J2hQYvQKaN1jAvU3-k6Qngxhc_DuJzYVyfaqFd_0BbZwNIFwiEWOb5ur595ce-xMsYbwz901r_K5V5AQ1OgfnyNMXRdsF3_UmqiqRPYQTHQORg9mXhWS24YE1M1A/s500/51nEdtmMyrL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBTGEG-tBR7qkSHX0qlCyql0-W6vyxEOPH-AOa3NZBoH3PNHUhI_4xw81igpahY6J2hQYvQKaN1jAvU3-k6Qngxhc_DuJzYVyfaqFd_0BbZwNIFwiEWOb5ur595ce-xMsYbwz901r_K5V5AQ1OgfnyNMXRdsF3_UmqiqRPYQTHQORg9mXhWS24YE1M1A/s320/51nEdtmMyrL.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It’s winter break at Treemeadow College, and theater professors and spouses Nicky<br /> Abbondanza and Noah Oliver, their best friends Martin and Ruben, and their sons, Taavi and Ty, are starring in a television pilot for the Nicky and Noah Mysteries series based on their first caper, <span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Drama Queen</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">More is shot than footage as cast members drop like giant, flat-screen TVs mounted by an intoxicated carpenter. Once again, our favorite thespians will need to use their drama skills to catch the killer before they get cancelled. You will be applauding and shouting Bravo for Joe Cosentino’s fast-paced, side-splittingly funny, edge-of-your-seat entertaining 13th (yikes!) novel in this delightful series.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So relax on the sofa and reach for the remote. The TV screen is exploding with sexy young heartthrobs, egotistical reality TV show contestants, a soap opera diva, a hot rap singer, and murder!</span></span></p></div><p></p><p></p></div></div></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Grab your copy today from <a href="https://amzn.to/49ujsfq" target="_blank">Amazon</a></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives Audiobook 5 Meows overall...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Drama TV is a </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nicky and Noah Mystery book 13. This series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> is best to read, or listen to, in order. Each book the Mystery is solved but there are so many recurring characters and occasional referrals to the past that you'd be a bit lost just picking one up in my opinion.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this one the duo is producing and acting a pilot for a TV series. The pilot is about Drama Queen their first case. So it's pretty important to have read or listened to that one. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As usual there are lots of twists and plenty humor.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The narrator does an excellent job. As a matter of fac, he's my favorite in this series. He does lots of emotion and even sings a bit, which I adore. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you like cozy Mystery, established couples, cute teens. 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Predictably, he gets pulled over.</i></b></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DjcW1B2Ms-wl2Bh6Aki-6Z5Yto-ZUNA3HSXm1OqHPygrYsDovS6PvFjP-u98K3wpwesMgl-suU9gGqvM7t-nrajWGctCCJaklss0pXYi_qZ7ujGctlxtK12fN22B1VUP3JD1SnQj-R3zJMf7NOlI55zRTGTPLLOambwvvJt_3DjbZZm_1j5vu2s5e1k/s445/61sclIk3D9L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="297" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DjcW1B2Ms-wl2Bh6Aki-6Z5Yto-ZUNA3HSXm1OqHPygrYsDovS6PvFjP-u98K3wpwesMgl-suU9gGqvM7t-nrajWGctCCJaklss0pXYi_qZ7ujGctlxtK12fN22B1VUP3JD1SnQj-R3zJMf7NOlI55zRTGTPLLOambwvvJt_3DjbZZm_1j5vu2s5e1k/w429-h640/61sclIk3D9L._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><br /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">State Trooper Fisher Bronson doesn’t know the handsome stranger in the rental car, but he does know the guy was driving way too fast. Still, Fisher takes </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">to protect and serve </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">seriously, so he helps Reynard find a hotel for the night.</span></div></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then the hotel catches fire.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Apparently Reynard hasn’t covered his tracks as well as he thought. But is it paparazzi on his tail, or someone much more deadly? Either way, when Fisher offers him a room for the night, he’s grateful for the refuge.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reynard is generous and kind, but Fisher knows he’s hiding something. Finally Reynard confesses the truth: as prince of Veronia, his life is structured and ordered for him, but as Reynard, in Carlisle with Fisher, he has the freedom to become a person he actually likes. To Reynard's surprise, Fisher likes him back—not for his title, but for the man he is. But duty, family expectations, and whoever is after Reynard could spell the end of their relationship before they get past </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">once upon a traffic stop</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></div></span></div></div></div></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Buy links: <a href="https://amzn.to/3OIfzvw" target="_blank">Amazon US</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3GBFvEh" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="im"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Cat gives this Book 5 Meows with a 2 purr heat index...</i></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">This is book three in the Carlisle Troopers series. You can read alone but it does mention characters from previous books, so you'd understand who they are better if you've red them. Plus, they're all really good.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Prince Franz has had enough being Prince. He just wants to be a man and be loved for himself not his title and money. At a conference he finds opportunity and flees. He gets stopped for speeding and meets Fisher a young trooper.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">They meet again soon and when Franz needs a place to stay Fisher invites him to his and his Grans.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">This is such a sweet story. I love the opposite attract theme. There's some lovely scenes... My favorite at Hershey park just because I'd be love to go there.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">As usual the book is full of feels, the sexual tension is there but it's mostly off page. This is a perfect book when you just want a feel-good romance. I highly recommend.</div></div></span></span></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrPyVlVdfoPnu2dPppQ2I67p1vpfoOvT8BTgD5Zwk-8IA1BWnVvgvFr9MQ_h845JKRQ5EFd1y8wP9hDvFTJ1qziS4dYsbSMaplusoN7K1MzCOuvDV1rZDq3D8JP_1pL64rADRis8WlDDxy6zoapPbBEnTanlBgtGUdDNwPg8zVfWZu9VbaD_TTFCn/s400/abouttheauthor.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: helvetica;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="400" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrPyVlVdfoPnu2dPppQ2I67p1vpfoOvT8BTgD5Zwk-8IA1BWnVvgvFr9MQ_h845JKRQ5EFd1y8wP9hDvFTJ1qziS4dYsbSMaplusoN7K1MzCOuvDV1rZDq3D8JP_1pL64rADRis8WlDDxy6zoapPbBEnTanlBgtGUdDNwPg8zVfWZu9VbaD_TTFCn/s320/abouttheauthor.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Andrew Grey is the author of over 100 works of Contemporary Gay Romantic fiction. After twenty-seven years in corporate America, he has now settled down in Central Pennsylvania with his husband, Dominic, and his laptop. An interesting ménage. Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">He is a recipient of the RWA Centennial Award, has a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and now writes full-time. Andrew’s hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when writing). He considers himself blessed with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world’s most supportive and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle, Pennsylvania.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;">Visit Andrew's web site at: www.andrewgreybooks.com</span></p></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> Follow the blog facebook page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TamsBookBlog" style="text-align: -webkit-center;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> and check the giveaway tab for all the current promo posts with giveaways, thanks for stopping by y'all!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><br /></span></span></div>TTC Books and morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15521968112293865063noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108802307591976459.post-15808397968044333762024-02-11T00:00:00.040-06:002024-02-11T00:00:00.178-06:00Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James blog tour with Cat's Review & Excerpt @GayBookPromo @ashlynkane @TTCBooksandmore<!--wp:paragraph {"align":"center"}-->
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</span><p class="has-text-align-center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tropes: Friends to lovers, teammates to lovers, rookie/veteran, age gap, workaholic/slacker</span></p>
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</span><p class="has-text-align-center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Themes: Coming of age, learning to accept and ask for help, self-acceptance, independence, pressure on professional athletes, injury, romantic comedy</span></p>
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</span><p class="has-text-align-center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Length: 99 844 words/ 302 pages</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When Liam Belanger gets a professional tryout with the Miami Caimans, he’s hoping to land a roster spot that’ll keep him from bussing tables. If he can make the team and score a tryout in bed with Russ Lyons, the veteran defenseman who’s appointed himself Liam’s mentor, that would be the icing on the sweet hockey cake.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Liam starts the season in the minors, but it’s not long before he gets a shot at the Big Show. His year is shaping up to be a dream come true—even before Russ picks up on Liam’s passes and proves defensemen can score too. </span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Cat gives this book 3 Meows with a 4 purr heat index...</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Hi Ya'll! Come join me while I tell you about this book I just read.</i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The title is Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James. It's book 4 in the Hockey Ever After series. You don't need to read in order, but I think you would know some of the characters better if you did especially book 3. But not necessary at all. The story stands well on it's own and t</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">he cover is cute, but the summary drew me in because of the Hockey Romance, sounded like a big age gap and opposites attract.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My favorite main character was both Liam, because I loved his flirty nature, and Russ because I loved how he kinda grounded Liam.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is a secondary character I loved. Actually a few. Mo because he was funny, Baller and Gabe because Baller almost stole the story with his antics and I really want to go back and read their story. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The story had several settings, Russ's home, Liam's hotel, Mo's home, the home arena, and some away arenas and other places they visit.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The plot was ok. It was mostly just the men's careers and family. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What I liked was the relationship between Russ and Liam though for me it happened to far in the book.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For me there was just way too much detailed Hockey. Yes, I understand this is a Hockey Romance, but I was hoping for more on their relationship. And I think there was too much on each family. Yes, I loved when family was involved but this took major place and some parts especially Liam's brother, I just didn't get the connection. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I felt there was too much sex and not enough focus on Liam and Russ's Romance.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Having said that... it is a pretty good Hockey story with some Romance and humor. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recommend this if you like Hockey Romance, age gap, friends to lovers, teammates to lovers, coming out, opposites attract, good friends, humor, and lots of spice you will love this.<br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ending is HEA. I was hoping the next book was Hughesey or Sparky but I see it's from another team. This could be interesting!</span></div></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><strong>Drawn to Murder</strong><br /><strong>Sarah Vernon</strong><br />Publication date: January 31st 2024<br />Genres: Adult, Cozy Mystery</span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sam Green is a newly minted art school graduate, excited to attend her first artist residency. But the pretty, serene Vermont surroundings soon turn sinister.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After a few months spent looking for the right project, Sam has landed a dream opportunity: three blissful weeks of working at a beautiful artist residency program in remote northern Vermont. But almost as soon as the residency begins, strange things start happening. Eager to settle into her work and make new friends, Sam tries to ignore the vaguely sinister feelings trying to warn her that something is afoot. But when a body is discovered, Sam can’t ignore what’s going on any longer.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Sam, it’s your turn.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I jolted out of my daydreaming, looking up at the dark-eyed, even darker-haired man across from me at the table. From the intensity of his expectant stare, you’d think we were plotting world domination, not playing a simple getting-to-know-you game. If you could call revealing unexpected or odd facts about yourself a game. Everyone was just trying to one up each other in achievements, fame or outright weirdness – because this was a group of artists, after all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Uh, sure. I’m Sam. Samantha, but everyone calls me Sam,” I said, stumbling over my words and sure that my cheeks were as bright red as they felt. Whatever I had been planning to say was instantly forgotten. Was there anyone who actually enjoyed these kinds of introductions?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I’m here from Boston,” I continued. “I just graduated from school in the spring and I’m…taking a kind of gap year at the moment. I primarily work in ceramics and sculpture, especially miniatures.” I paused, willing anyone else to make a comment or ask a question, anything to save me from having to think of an interesting fact to share. What was there to say that was appropriate for this group? I grew up in New York? I have a cat named Paul? I once tripped over the body of a dead famous sculptor who’d been poisoned?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There were polite smiles around the table, which I returned, slightly nodding my head, signaling that I was done with my intro. I was saved from further humiliation-by-spotlight by the woman on my right, who moved her wheelchair closer to the table so everyone could see her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“I’m Tony. Tonya, but everyone calls me Tony,” she said, throwing a small smile my way. “I’m here from LA, where I make immersive installations that challenge viewers’ perceptions of their interactions with, and limitations within, the physical world.” Tony waited a beat, tilting her chin as if daring any of us to ask the obvious question. There were more polite smiles, although I noticed about half of our group were studiously avoiding eye contact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Unfortunately, only Eliot took the bait. “What inspired you towards that kind of work?” he asked with a kind of forced obliviousness. I didn’t think any of us needed more of an introduction to Eliot: over the course of the previous twenty-four hours since we’d gotten to the Winterbrook Artist Residency, he’d made himself known as the type of pompous, arrogant artist that gives the rest of us a bad name.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“Well, Eliot,” Tony said, returning his tone. “I’ve used a wheelchair since I was a kid, after a spinal injury. So after all these years experiencing a very different side of the physical world, I thought I’d give other people the chance to have a similar view.” The pair politely smiled at each other (although, one did have to admit – and admire – that Tony’s smile had more than a hint of crocodile to it) while the rest of us avoided engaging. “But if you’ll forgive me, I think I’ll actually head up to bed now,” Tony said, wheeling away from the table. “It was great to meet all</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">of you!” she called cheerily as she turned towards the door, her wheelchair making an unmistakable bumping motion over Eliot’s foot as she left. I couldn’t help but grin.<br />
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mercenary.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Being a breacher on the Teams wasn’t a job, it was my drug of choice. Detonating charges, the blast waves going through me, I lived for the rush of tactical explosive breaching. As long as I kept my brothers safe and didn’t eat a piece of frag, I never looked past my next mission… until I screwed up.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Miscalculating a blast zone, I took a hit. Then I was benched from active duty, told I’d taken one too many subconcussive blows, and forced into medical retirement.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The elevator stopped on the twenty-sixth floor of the fifty-two-story hotel, and the doors opened.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I didn’t look at Alpha.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I didn’t need to.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">We were both staring at the redhead as she barely glanced up and stepped onto the elevator.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Now I knew why the agent wanted to meet at the Four Seasons in Manhattan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The target’s mistress. In the flesh.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recalled that one line of intel I’d read.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Artist, depleted bank account, no recent address, born with dual citizenship, third acquired.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The elevator doors closed, and I did what that agent was incapable of.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I got real intel.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The smooth sheet of red hair was recently brushed. Her four-inch heels that were nothing more than a couple straps of thin leather were hurting her feet as she shifted from one foot to the other. The beige-colored dress, tight over her ass, was designer. The brand-name bag on her shoulder was more carry-all than purse, and she was fucking nervous.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Starving artists didn’t wear designer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">They also didn’t have perfect posture, smell like expensive perfume and look like they’d just walked off the runway of a fashion show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This woman was well-bred.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Too well-bred to be mixed up with an arms dealer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The doors opened. The noise of the lobby hit, and she slipped out, heading toward the restaurant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I glanced at Alpha. We didn’t need to speak. My gaze quickly cut to the redhead. His chin tipped toward the opposite direction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a coordinated move we’d done countless times, we flanked out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Alpha went right.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I moved left.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Heading away from the front entrance of the hotel, striding deeper into the crowd, my gaze was locked on her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Everyone’s gaze was locked on her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The crowd parted. Men stared. Women glared.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She looked past every one of them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Head held high, back straight, shoulders proud, her hips and that sheet of silk hair swayed with every step in those high heels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I closed the distance and hit her six.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then I scanned the lobby one more time before I made my move.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She reached for the glass door of the restaurant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I reached around her.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Covering her hand with mine, caging her in, I leaned down to her ear and issued an order. “Remember my voice.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">She flinched, her lush lips parted with a sharp inhale, and she lifted her head.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Amber eyes met mine in the reflection of the glass, and time fucking stopped.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Then she hit me with a soft, sexy voice. “Pardon?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">“You heard me.” Pulling the door open, I scanned the patrons in the restaurant before giving her the push she needed to start moving. “Walk inside.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Slow, as if she was afraid to look, she started to glance over her shoulder.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was already gone.<br />
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