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Hot and Heavy by Erika Wilde

5 Stars / Contemporary / Review

Review: Hot and Heavy by Erika Wilde

26 June 2020

An Astonishing Match by Barbara Dunlop

4 Stars / Contemporary / Review

Review: An Astonishing Match by Barbara Dunlop

25 July 2017

Bad Boys Next Exit Anthology

2 Stars / Anthology / Contemporary / Review

Bad Boys Next Exit Anthology by Shannon McKenna, Donna Kauffman & E.C. Sheedy

18 April 2011

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Review: Reluctant Bride’s Baby Bombshell by Rachael Stewart
Review: Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws
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Review: Reluctant Bride’s Baby Bombshell by Rachael Stewart

12 April 2024

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Review: Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws

11 April 2024

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Review: Wild Card by Staci Hart

8 April 2024

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“The second I get you alone, Duchess, I’m gonn

“The second I get you alone, Duchess, I’m gonna f*cking wreck you. Get ready.” 🥵🥵🥵.
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Have you read @quirkybird's new small town romantic comedy? There’s spice. There’s sneaking around. One bed. Fake dating. It’s everything we love in a romance and more, and if you haven’t read it, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! Grab it in Kindle Unlimited!

Wild Card by Staci Hart NOW AVAILABLE!!
Kindle Unlimited: https://geni.us/wildcardromcom
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TROPES
⚾️Small Town
⚾️Alpha Hero
⚾️Playboy
⚾️Baseball
⚾️Fake Dating
⚾️Good girl
⚾️Bad Boy
⚾️One Bed
⚾️Opposites
⚾️Roommates

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The hot baseball player I’m forced to stay with for my best friend’s wedding is off limits.
Remy Winfield has more muscles than manners, and he’s on a mission to get me into bed by way of the filthiest mouth I’ve ever wanted to kiss. He doesn’t care about my long time crush or my certainty that we’re finally about to happen.
Remy's sure I’ll break first and kiss him, and he’ll tease me to the limit to make sure I do. I might be a Lady, but I can still play his dirty little game. It’s perfectly safe, totally harmless.
Until I fall for him.
Suddenly, Mr. Long-Time Crush doesn’t matter at all.
And my best friend can never know.
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💕🎥💍 Hott Take Is Here! Hott Take by @ser

💕🎥💍 Hott Take Is Here!

Hott Take by @serenabellbooks is now available on all ebook retailers and in paperback!

If you’ve read Serena Bell before, you first met Shane in Hott Shot, as Quinn’s delightfully maddening movie-star brother with a bad-boy reputation. Now it’s time for him to meet his match!

Blurb:
The hard part isn’t acting like we’re falling for each other. It’s pretending we’re not.

Shane: My grandfather’s will has me between a rock and a Hott place. If I don’t score a celebrity wedding, my sister will lose her wedding planning business—and our family’s land. As a playboy movie star, I know Hollywood’s ins and outs. But finding two celebrities in love is tougher than it looks.

Enter Ivy Scofield—the beautiful star of one of TV’s most beloved failures. She’s hiding from her past in Rush Creek, running a community theater for troubled kids. She needs my family’s wedding barn to save her program. So we make a deal: I give her the barn—she gives me her hand in fake marriage. Lights, camera, action—and cut—right?

Not so fast. Planning our fake wedding is way more personal than I was expecting. I’m learning Ivy’s quirks, preferences, and pet peeves—and that’s before I walk in on her enjoying my most infamous on-camera scene. Plus she’s slowly peeling back my layers—the ones I’ve built up to protect myself. If someone doesn’t do something soon, we might discover that the only thing fake about this wedding is the way we keep pushing each other away.

A spicy, movie star, marriage of convenience, fake relationship standalone romantic comedy set in the beloved small town of Rush Creek.
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It’s release day for this absolute beaut! Reluc

It’s release day for this absolute beaut!

Reluctant Bride’s Bombshell Baby by @rachaelstewart3 fills you up with every emotion possible and is another winner from this author. She just astounds me with every single book she writes. A certified queen of romance and all those lovely emotions.

UNWILLING BRIDE, UNEXPECTED BABY!

Returning to her family’s outback homestead, Eve feels like a fish out of water. She’s only in town to contest the ridiculous terms of her inheritance. Get married? As if! Finding a distraction in the arms of gorgeous stranger Nate is one thing. Discovering he’s the lawyer enforcing her father’s will is another… And the biggest bombshell of all is that their one night had consequences!

Grab it now: https://amzn.to/49B8fJH
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💜 COVER REVEAL It’s time to reveal this gorg

💜 COVER REVEAL

It’s time to reveal this gorgeous cover for JUST A LITTLE CHASE by @carlyphillips and @erikawilde1 coming October 15!

She’s in need of a fake, friendly boyfriend to charm her family.
He’s the last bachelor up for auction and a grumpy, last-minute stand-in.
Neither satisfies the other’s requirements but they might just be what each of them needs.

With Lauren Connelly’s ex marrying her sister, the last thing she wants is to show up at the wedding without a date. Which means finding a fake boyfriend ASAP. The charity bachelor auction provides a solution to her problem, except the man she bids on turns out to be a gorgeous but grumpy executive who scowls more than he smiles.

Chase Gossard wants nothing to do with Lauren’s plan to make him her plus-one at a destination wedding and pretend that he’s in love. He doesn’t do relationships, fake or otherwise—but she paid a lot of money for the privilege. So why does their touching, kissing, and sharing one bed feel all too real?

Lauren is smart and witty and sexy as hell. A down to earth combination that somehow softens his hard edges, and somewhere along the way, he’s falling hard for his fake date. But when the truth comes out and it’s time to part ways, can the confirmed bachelor convince his pretend girlfriend to make things real?
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Now Available - Wild Card by @quirkybird

And it’s utter perfection. I’m still having angsty hangover dreams days after I’ve finished reading. It’s the best romance I’ve read all year! Get ready to kick your feet and giggle your way through this spicy small town romantic comedy!

Kindle Unlimited: https://geni.us/wildcardromcom

TROPES
⚾️Small Town
⚾️Alpha Hero
⚾️Playboy
⚾️Baseball
⚾️Fake Dating
⚾️Good girl
⚾️Bad Boy
⚾️One Bed
⚾️Opposites
⚾️Roommates

***************

The hot baseball player I’m forced to stay with for my best friend’s wedding is off limits.
Remy Winfield has more muscles than manners, and he’s on a mission to get me into bed by way of the filthiest mouth I’ve ever wanted to kiss. He doesn’t care about my long time crush or my certainty that we’re finally about to happen.
Remy's sure I’ll break first and kiss him, and he’ll tease me to the limit to make sure I do. I might be a Lady, but I can still play his dirty little game. It’s perfectly safe, totally harmless.
Until I fall for him.
Suddenly, Mr. Long-Time Crush doesn’t matter at all.
And my best friend can never know.

#newrelease #outtoday #releaseday #availablenow #booklove
#romancenovels #romance #romancereads #romancebooks
#joreadsromance #ireadromance
#bookblogger #bookblog #romanceblogger
#bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booknerd
#romancestagramer #romancestagram #romancecommunity #romancebookstagram #romancebookreviews
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#contemporaryromance #contemporaryromancereads
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