✯Release Review✯Give Me a Reason (Redemption Hills #1) by A.L. Jackson

Give Me a Reason

A Single-Dad, Enemies-to-Lovers Romance from A.L. Jackson

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"Sexy and heart wrenching, with twists and turns that will have you gasping and begging for more. Give Me a Reason is an unputdownable rollercoaster ride of epic feels."

-Catherine Cowles, author of the Wrecked series

"What a ride! Dark, gritty and undeniably sexy, this romance stole my heart and didn’t let go until the very end."

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From NYT and USA Today bestselling author A.L. Jackson comes a single-dad, enemies-to-lovers stand-alone romance about a jaded club owner and his son’s teacher…

Eden Murphy came into my club looking to make some extra cash.

A girl like her didn't belong in a place like this.

She'd get ripped to shreds.

Most likely by me.

There's nothing but sweetness dripping from her sexy little body, and I'm the monster who's salivating to get a taste.

Trent Lawson is the last man I should want.

Dark.

Dangerous.

So wickedly gorgeous he makes my knees weak.

He's also an arrogant jerk who happens to be my new boss.

When I discover his adorable son is also in my kindergarten class, I know I have to keep my distance.

 

But neither of us can ignore the attraction that flames.

One glance, and our hearts race.

One touch, and we’re aching for what we can’t have.

One night, and we’re falling fast.

 

Dragging her into my sordid world is wrong. 

It doesn’t matter.

Eden Murphy is mine.

                 ✯✯5 Warrior & Kitten Filled Stars!!✯✯

OMG I’ve been wanting Eden and Trent’s since A. L. Jackson first announced it. I love her stories and characters and everyone blows me away more than before. 

Trent has been running for awhile now. Six years to be exact. Him and his brother’s Jud and Logan ran away and been looking over their shoulders ever since. They do it for one reason. Their reason. Trent’s son Gage. Trent will takeout anyone who looks at his son the wrong way. 

Trent owns and operates the club Absolution and he’s known for being grouchy and unfriendly. Not that he cares. One night he walks in to see the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen waiting on him for an interview. 

Trent tried getting rid of her but Eden Murphy isn’t having it. Trent knows if she’s around him he’ll ruin her and he’s been on a mission to keep Gage safe. Trent agrees to hire her even though it’s doing something to him inside he can’t quite figure out. 

Eden is a kindergarten and Sunday school teacher at the school her dad owns and preaches at. She’s only looking to get a job at Absolution Bc her estranged sister came to town and took all the money to cover the school, church and their dad’s house. 

Eden’s husband passed away six years ago and since then she’s barely surviving. When she meets Trent Lawson he makes her feel sparks she’s never felt before. Not even from her first husband. 

After a first terrible night of work Eden goes to her teaching job, where she can’t get Trent off her mind. 

Needless to say they’re both speechless to see Eden is Gage’s kindergarten teacher and with Trent being for boss at the club they both know that they can’t cross their imaginary lines that they’ve created for themselves. 

They share moment’s here and there but that’s it. When Eden goes to leave one night she sees somebody’s made an attack. Trent knows immediately the threat was towards him but they’ll use Eden Bc she’s his weak link. 

Trent practically throws Eden over his shoulder and moves Eden in with him and Gage. And, instantly their walls are gone and they’re giving into what they both want. 

Things don’t stay smooth for long. Trent’s fighting for safety for Gage, trying to keep Eden as pure and innocent as she is. His first and only instinct is to take Gage away somewhere. He hopes his brothers would come but he’d understand if they didn’t. 

Eden refuses to give up on Trent, his brother’s and Gage and the family they’ve become. Eden’s world is rocked when she gets a letter explaining everything and that Trent’s being set up again. Eden doesn’t think twice she knows she’ll fight for them. 

I’ve loved every lead male and female A.L. Jackson has written but Trent and Eden have pushed everyone back one Bc OMG these two were everything!!

I’m dying for Jud and Logan’s books next!!! These brothers are everything. 

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A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.

Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, BLEEDING STARS, FIGHT FOR ME, CONFESSIONS OF THE HEART, and FALLING STARS novels. Grab her latest stand-alone, GIVE ME A REASON, now!

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✯Cover Reveal✯Quiet Secrets(Quiet Mafia#2) by J.L. Drake

Title: Quiet Secrets

Series: Quiet Mafia #2

Author: J.L. Drake

Genre: Mafia Romance

Cover Design: Doctor Deranged Designs

Release Date: October 21, 2021

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Some secrets are better left untouched.

Sienna

I’m seeing a war unfold before my eyes. My past and future have now collided, and my heart is split in two.

As the battle rages on, secrets surface and truths circle the drain, threatening to suck me under.

Elio promised we had the rest of our lives together, but now he’s questioning my history and doubting my loyalty.

Elio

Love and family are all that matter, so I keep a careful eye on our new visitors who have awoken the hornets’ nest and revealed the snakes that have lain dormant for years.

As I try to protect Sienna from her own past, betrayals are surfacing, and my paranoia is intensifying.

One secret is discovered that will undoubtably change everything.

**May contain triggers, intended for a mature audience 18+. Does end on a cliffhanger-ish. Sneak peek of book 3, Quiet Power, at the end. I promise all will be okay.**

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Elio Capri

I headed around the side of the hedge and dipped under into a small hollowed-out spot that Niccola and Vinni had made to hide in when they were boys. Twinkle lights were woven through the branches and provided a soft glow, but you were completely hidden from view. As soon as she was close enough, I reached out and pulled her through the soft branches.

“Oh, my goodness!” She yelped but sagged into my arms and let me nuzzle her neck. “My heart nearly leapt out of my chest, Elio.”

“You’re not playing fair, Sienna,” I growled, running a hand down her side. “I can’t tell the world you’re mine, yet you wear something like this,” I fisted the fabric near her hip, “and I’m expected to behave?”

“Never behave with me, Elio.” She tilted her head and kissed my jaw line.

“Sienna,” I warned and moved the fabric out of the way to stroke across her silky skin, “your company will be arriving—”

“You never did finish what you started in the closet at the last party.” She ground her backside into the painful erection that had suddenly developed, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head.

I stroked the back of my hand down her shoulder and pressed my lips to the nape of her neck, sucking ever so softly. Lapping, I drank in the fresh scent of her shampoo and resisted the urge to sink my teeth into her delicate skin.

“Mm,” I moaned from the bottom of my chest, “ten years I dreamed of this.”

“We have a lot of time to make up for.”

“We do,” I whispered, sending my hot breath over her sensitive shoulder, and watched with fascination as goosebumps burst down her arm.

With both hands moving quickly to her hips, I whirled her around, holding her chin as I sucked in a sharp breath, trying to control my animal instincts. The desire to feed on this woman positively consumed me.

My gaze plummeted to her chest that heaved and strained against the fabric of her dress.

“Seeing all those men around you—”

“But yet, here I am, with you.” She freed the button on my pants and stoked my erection while I groaned with a curse. “Offering my body to you.”

She barely had time to think before I had her panties moved aside. Careful of her dress, I pushed inside her. I hooked her leg over my hip and covered her mouth to muffle her gasps. I stared into her gorgeous eyes as they clouded over with need.

“This is mine, Sienna,” I dragged my gaze down her gorgeous body. “I don’t like them looking at what’s mine.” I watched as her pupils dilated. She always loved it when I became possessive of her. It made her feel wanted and loved.

“Elio,” she huffed as my hand brushed her lips.

“Shh,” I warned, knowing that if we outed ourselves now, we would have lost our only leverage with Mariano. “You’re here with me, like a gift from God, and I hate that no one knows it,” I whispered, leaning back to better balance us and to make sure our shoes wouldn’t scuff the gravel.

I lost all sounds while I pulsed myself in and out of the woman I loved, each stroke bringing us closer and closer to the edge. Though nothing mattered while I was inside that woman, I did keep one ear open for visitors. Our eyes locked again, and I saw her desperate need for release. I lowered my guard and gave her everything. She was the only one who could ever love and destroy me at the same time.

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Author J.L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she lives with her husband and two children. 

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✯Release Review✯Real Players Never Lose (The Boys #3) by Micalea Smeltzer

Real Players Never Lose by Micalea Smeltzer is now live!



I've heard the whispers on campus of what a player Teddy McCallister is. Most girls on campus are vying to be the one, but guys like him don't settle down.

When he overhears that my tuition has been pulled and I'm going to basically be a college reject he makes me an offer I can't refuse.

Be his fake girlfriend until graduation so he can get his inheritance.

It seems simple enough. I need the money and he needs someone to make him look committed.

If one thing is certain, it's that I won't be falling for him. But no one warned me about what happens when my fake boyfriends starts to fall for me.

✯✯5 Teddy & Vanessa Filled Stars!!!✯✯

Argh I’ve been waiting for Teddy’s book for forever!!! When reading Nice Guys Don’t Win every time he called Zoey and Cole mom and dad he had me LOL. I was ready for this book!!

All last book Teddy kept mentioning he needed to behave or he’d loose his inheritance but he never mentioned anything else. 

Teddy’s family comes from old money that they want for nothing. He spent his life away at boarding school. His father used him as a punching bag for most of his life and his mom keeps her head down. 

He’s lived a lonely life. Since he’s gone to college and made friends, who’ve become the family he’s always wanted. 

Teddy has six months left to graduate and he can finally walk away from his father. After another argument with his dad Teddy lies and tells him he has a girlfriend. Now Teddy’s got to find a girlfriend and be at his parent’s house for dinner that weekend. 

Vanessa’s life hasn’t been easy. Her sister and her boyfriend made her high school years terrible and her parents overlooked it. 

Vanessa’s going to college on a full scholarship. She’s writing hard so she doesn’t have to go back home after graduation. 

After break Vanessa heads back to her dorm. She had six months left to graduate. When she gets back she finds out that her scholarship has been revoked. 

Vanessa’s not sure what she’s gonna do next. Unfortunately for her the schools playboy Teddy McCallister was standing behind her and heard everything so she runs off. 

Teddy stops Vanessa from running off. Teddy tells Vanessa he can help her.  He’ll pay the last six months of her school if she’ll pretend to be his girlfriend both on campus and around his parents. They need each other so it’s a win-win for them both. 

Neither Vanessa or Teddy were prepared to not only become such good friends but to fall in love with the other one. 

Teddy wasn’t afraid to tell her that he fell for her and wanted everything with her. Vanessa couldn’t understand her feeling’s the way that he did. She didn’t have any friend’s other than him. 

Teddy continued to show her his feeling’s for her every time he could. 

While they were in Greece on a mandatory vacation with his parents everything changed. Vanessa finally took her blindfold off and saw how Teddy really felt about her and she didn’t hold back her feelings for him. 

Just when they thought they were in the next step of their relationship thing’s changed.  Vanessa has no choice but to give up Teddy and their happiness. She won’t let him loose what they were fighting for him to keep. Teddy doesn’t know what made her runaway so quickly. But, he won’t give up on Vanessa so easily. 

I legit loved Teddy in Zoey and Cole’s book. But, OMG he took my heart in this book and I swear he can keep it. 

I wish Vanessa would’ve opened up earlier to him about her true feeling’s but she really did love him and proved it by making sure if she couldn’t have him that he’d get what he rightfully deserved. 

Teddy legit wore his heart on his sleeve. Between his joking and goofing around to hide the hurt got to me. I love how he baked when stressed LOL. 

It was great catching up with mom and dad aka Zoey and Cole as well as getting more of Mascen. 

I’m really hoping Jude gets a book Bc my goodness. He’s got a serious heartbreak and if he doesn’t find his  HEA I’m afraid he’ll catch an STD from all the girls he’s sleeping with.  

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✯Release Review✯Winning the Cowboy (Circle B Ranch #6)by Kennedy Fox

 

Winning the Cowboy

Circle B Ranch, #6

   

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Working on the ranch and settling down is all Grayson’s ever wanted in life. When he meets the woman who could make that a reality, he learns she hates him with every fiber of her being.  He knows she’s being unreasonable since their bickering is the hottest foreplay he’s ever had.  Mackenzie Bishop’s an elementary school teacher and can tolerate a lot, until it comes to Grayson. He may act like he doesn’t remember what he did, but Kenzie will never forget. Not when the memory of that night still lingers in her mind years later. She denies her attraction, but she can’t hide it forever, especially when there’s no escaping him.  Although she refuses to give him the time of day, they form a truce and everything changes—just not in the way he expected.

**Winning the Cowboy is a complete stand-alone and can be read without reading any of the other books or spin-off series, but if you prefer to read in order, start with Hitching the Cowboy as the characters and families do interconnect.**

✯✯5 Grayson & Kenzie Filled Stars!!!✯✯ 

I’ve been waiting for awhile to get Grayson and Kenzie’s story since the beginning of the Circle B Ranch stories. Every book you see these two going back and forth. But, nobody knows why Kenzie hates Grayson. Not even Grayson. 

We start off with Grayson six years earlier. His than fiancé and brother had crushed his heart into a million pieces. He has a one-night stand which was interrupted. Grayson knew that he had to move. 

Once he found the Circle B Ranch and the Bishop family he knew he found home. He wanted Kenzie from the instant he saw her but all she saw was red. She’s told him multiple times she hates him and isn’t afraid to show it.  She’s made comment’s here and there that have Grayson confused but she refuses to tell him why she hates him. Grayson plans on wearing her down. 

Kenzie is definitely a woman scorned. The fact Grayson doesn’t remember her hurts more than she’ll admit. It doesn’t matter how much her body reacts to him and their arguments Bc she won’t give in. 

These two start pranking each other and OMG everyone was better than the previous one. 

After Kenzie’s last one Grayson plans on getting her back even though she won’t admit she did it. Even though both them and everybody on the ranch knows she did LOL. 

Grayson comes up with a compromise for Kenzie. If she bids on him at the annual auction and go with him to his parent’s house for the weekend he won’t retaliate. Kenzie reluctantly agrees if Grayson helps her at the school she teaches at for the fall festival. They shake on it and agree to try and be friends. 

Kenzie can’t stand it Bc it’s proven harder to stay hating him for what he did to her all those years ago. Grayson’s hoping that she’ll finally tell him why she hates him so he can fix it and move on to the next level he knows they both want to go to anyway. 

When Grayson and Kenzie get to his families house everything unfolds. The past is now in the present and Kenzie can’t runaway from it anymore. 

Grayson knew he was attracted to Kenzie in a way he couldn’t understand and he can’t believe what she’s telling him. He can but he’s so mad at them both. Kenzie’s mad at herself for not telling him why she hated him earlier. 

These two definitely wasted a lot of time fighting. But, it definitely wasn’t their time six years ago. They’re in the right place now mentally, physically and emotionally to do it right. 

I finished this in one day Bc it was that good!!! I’m super excited to finally get into the Knox, Kane and Haleigh love triangle. Who will stay friends, who’ll be more or will they all walk away. Eek I’m ready!!!

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 Brooke Cumberland and Lyra Parish are a duo of romance authors who teamed up under the USA Today pseudonym,   Kennedy Fox. They share a love of Hallmark movies, overpriced coffee, and making TikToks. When they aren’t bonding over romantic comedies, they like to brainstorm new book ideas. One day in 2016, they decided to collaborate under a pseudonym and have some fun creating new characters that’ll make you blush and your heart melt. Happily ever afters guaranteed! 

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