✯Release Review✯The Heart of Us (Love in Isolation #4) by Kennedy Fox

The Heart of Us

Love in Isolation, #4

   

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What happens when you’re on the run from your psycho ex-husband and your sexy younger boss goes into hiding with you to keep you safe? You slowly remember what it’s like to fall in love and hope he feels it too.

The Heart of Us is an age gap, close proximity standalone romance.

         

✯✯5 Tatum & Easton Filled Stars!!!✯✯

OMG I knew that when I was reading The End of Us that I needed more Easton!!! I’m so glad we got it Bc he’s everything. 

Easton owns the surf shop he works at. It’s his baby and he’s worked hard to make it the success it is today. When Tatum came in for an interview with interest in the empty second apartment above the shop Easton hired her. He was instantly attracted to her but being her boss he never crossed those lines. 

Tatum ran away from her her abusive husband the first chance she got. When she ended up in Florida she was glad to see a help wanted sign that had an apartment that was looking for somebody to rent it. She’s always thought Easton was good looking and nice but he’s younger than she is and she’s still not divorced yet. Even though her and Easton flirt that’s all it’s been. 

When Tatum’s ex show’s up at her job she’s forced to tell Easton about him. Easton promises to not tell him she’s here and that he’ll keep her safe when she thinks of running away again. That night they wake up to their apartments filled with smoke.  The surf shop was on fire and they both know who set it. 

Easton takes his gerbil and Tatum and go to his parents beach house. 

Since Easton and Tatum are stuck together in such close quarter’s until her ex is caught they start getting to really know each other. They realize that they like each other more and more every day. 

But, Easton knows what Tatum’s gone thru by the hands of her abusive ex so even though he can see it written all over Tatum that she wants him as much as he wants her he’s in no rush and can’t wait until she’s ready. 

Tatum wants Easton more everyday. Her sister is definitely team Easton as well.  She gets more comfortable with him everyday until she gives into what they both want and OMG these two were hot!

Tatum has only been with her husband since high school and she’s never been wined and dined. Easton decides to wine and dine her everyday showing her what she’s missed and what she’ll get everyday from him. Except by doing that their guards are down and Tatum’s ex shows he hasn’t been far away from them. 

This was such a good book! I couldn’t put it down. I loved it when Tatum’s sister Oakley or Piper were pushing them both to make a move. I’m sure they could be bestie’s LOL. 

I’m looking forward to seeing Oakley’s book Bc I wanna see her get her HEA. 

 

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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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✯Release Review✯The Seduction of Pretty Lies (The Boys of Clermont Bay #5) by Holly Renee

He was leaving regardless, and I couldn’t hang on tight enough for the both of us.

The Seduction of Pretty Lies, the first book of an all-new emotionally charged duet from Holly Renee is available now!

Devoted. Loyal. Shameless. The Boys of Clermont Bay had been my protectors for as long as I could remember.

And Olly Warner took the job to heart.

He was intense and all-consuming, and I had been in love with him for years.

Alarmingly handsome and recklessly charming, he attempted to deny there was ever anything between us.

But we slipped over that invisible line, and the moment we gave in, something fractured.

He was leaving regardless, and I couldn’t hang on tight enough for the both of us.

Olly had always been the boy I could never have, but I couldn’t help losing myself in him.

A searing affair, the guarantee of a broken heart, and the desperation of careless promises.

Olly and I were never meant to be, and we had become nothing more than a pretty lie.

✯✯5 Olly & Frankie Filled Stars!!!!✯✯ 

OMG I’ve been waiting for Frankie and Olly’s story since the beginning of this series!!! And, I’m telling you the wait for them ESP Olly was SO worth it. 

Frankie trusted the wrong guy a few years ago. Since then she feels like her brother and his friends look at her like she’s the girl who was assaulted and nothing more than that and she wants to move past that. ESP since Frankie wants Olly in way’s she knows her brother will never allow and she’s tired of waiting so she’s taking matters or Olly into her own hands. 

Olly has always had a crush on Frankie. Even before Lucas took advantage of her. Since then he’s super protective of her. Though the more time he spends with her the closer they’re becoming and the harder it is to not cross that line. His life at home with his parents aren’t too good and if he ever went for Frankie his best friend, her brother Beck would destroy him and Olly doesn’t wanna upset him. 

When Frankie finally lets Olly know that she wants him and doesn’t care about what her brother wants Olly gives into what they’ve both wanted for awhile. Except now that he’s had his taste of Frankie he doesn’t wanna stop at once. He’s just hoping Beck doesn’t find out. 

The first part of this duet is legit smoking, smoking hot!! Olly and Frankie are fire. Unlike the first two couples this first part doesn’t end with a cliffhanger that left me shocked and speechless Bc I didn’t see that coming. My heart was broken for these two Bc they really are best friends in love and yet Bc of other people they can’t be together and they are drowning. I’m hoping Olly and Frankie can find a way to get back together. 

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Prologue
Olly

Two Years Earlier

God, she was so pretty. 

I clenched my hand at my side to avoid reaching out and touching her. 

She was also too young for me and she was my best friend’s little sister, but neither of those things seemed to matter when I was looking at her. 

I was always looking at her, but she was looking at him. 

Lucas grinned at her from across the table, and a soft blush bloomed across her cheeks. He was one of my best friends too, but I wanted to kill him when he looked at her like that. My stomach hardened as I watched them. I knew I didn’t have the right. She wasn’t mine, but for some reason, she felt like it. 

She had felt like it for far longer than I liked to admit. 

“What are you up to today, Frankie?” 

She pulled her attention away from Lucas long enough to look over at me. “Not a whole lot. I thought I might go for a swim before the party tonight. You’re going, right?” 

“Yeah.” I nodded. “I’ll be there.” 

“Good.” She smiled at me as she leaned against her hand. “What about you, Lucas? Are you going to be there?” 

I clenched my teeth as I waited for his response. He always treated Frankie as if she wasn’t important. He treated her like she wasn’t the most important person in the room even though she looked at him like he was the most crucial thing in her life. 

“Of course.” He rubbed his hands together as he talked, but he was barely looking at her. “I need to get fucked up or laid tonight.” 

Frankie’s shoulder slumped the smallest bit, and she looked away before either of us could see her face. 

A face I knew she was attempting to school to hide her hurt. 

“Real classy, Lucas.” I rolled my eyes because even though I had been friends with Lucas for what felt like forever, I still didn’t see what Frankie saw in him. I was beginning to wonder why I was friends with him at all. “Come on, Frankie. Let’s go hit the beach before the party.”

“Okay.” She nodded and stood from her seat. “Let me grab my suit.” 

As soon as she left the kitchen, Lucas leaned back in his chair and chuckled. 

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” I glared at him. 

“What’s wrong with you?” He laughed harder. “You look like a lovesick puppy over Beck’s little sister when you can get any pussy you want in the entire school. Don’t let a piece of ass make you look so pathetic.” 

“Don’t fucking talk about her like that.” My pulse was racing as I clenched my fists at my sides. “You have no idea…” 

“What are you assholes talking about?” Beck interrupted us as he walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple off the island. 

“Trying to get Olly laid.” Lucas smirked, and my fingers tingled with the urge to knock it off his face. 

“It’s about damn time.” Beck wrapped an arm over my shoulder and laughed. “You’ve been a little tense.” 

“Fuck you both.” I shrugged Beck off me just as Frankie came back around the corner. She was wearing a simple black bikini, but I couldn’t look away. 

“Hey, you ready?” She held a towel against her stomach, and I watched as her eyes flashed over to Lucas before looking back at me. 

“Yeah. Let’s go.” I opened the back door and waited for her to walk through. This was Frankie’s house, but I felt like I knew it as well as my own. I practically lived here most days. Frankie walked in front of me, and I stared at the soft slope of her back as she pushed through the back gate and out onto the sand.

About Holly
I’m Holly Renee, a small-town east Tennessee girl who is obsessed with all things romance. I love bringing flawed, sassy, and real characters to life in a way that makes you feel like you’ve been best friends with them for years. No two Holly Renee books are the same, but if you love real, relatable, fun female characters and swoon-worthy heroes, I’m your girl.
When I’m not writing or reading, you can find me momming so hard, being disgustingly in love with my husband, or chilling in the middle of a lake with my sunglasses and a float. #lakelife
I have a 2-year-old adorable little man who is as wild and sweet as they come and a baby girl on the way.

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✯Release Review✯The Sacrifice (The 4 Horsemen #3) by Elena Monroe

Title: The Sacrifice
Series: The 4Horsemen #3
Author: Elena Monroe
Genre: Dark Forbidden Romance

Release Date: February 4, 2021

BLURB

KHAOS 

I’m not living under any kind of false pretenses here. I know I’m basically a rapper’s attitude with R&B feelings and a pop star’s bank account. 

There were a lot of ways to describe my unconventional lifestyle of part time cult member and full time showman. 

Risk taker. 

Exuberant. 

And my personal favorite adjective: undomesticated. 

I surrounded myself with people who liked a good time but left after they served their purpose of making sure I felt nothing but top shelf feelings. 

I wasn’t about to be like my brothers who let the darkness eat away at their vindication. The only crime I had ever committed was waving the glory of being invited, of saying I came and conquered around like a badge of honor. 

Spoiler alert: None of that earned me respect. 

There’s only one girl who managed to rob me of my fake smile...and my watch. 

GRACE 

I was a throw away, street trash, a child abandoned and scooped up by the bad people you only hear about after they get caught. 

I was hard in a way people found uncomfortable and determined too much work to rehabilitate into society again. I was found guilty over and over enough to let the bad things become who I am, blurring the lines between freedom and a jail sentence. 

Fraud. 

Thief. 

And my least favorite: fake girlfriend to a scary ass kingpin. 

Forced out of a childhood I was surrounded by darkness, evil, and the kind of cutthroat loyalty that landed your body so mutilated they wouldn’t be able to tell who you were if you fell out of obedience. 

They accepted me like family and there’s no quitting your family. 

I had the respect to match my rap sheet. 

There’s only one guy who managed to exonerate me… and my invisible wings.

✯✯5 Romeo & Juliet Filled Stars!!✯✯

Elena Monroe is three for three for me!! This is the 3rd book of hers that I’ve read and I promise you I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon!!

In the previous 2 book’s Khaos is the Happy go lucky one outta the 4Horseman. He’s got a skate ramp in both his office and backyard. You have to pick a hand and you’re either getting a starburst or a riddle. You never know with Khaos. 

We learn Khaos isn’t what meets the eye. He’s definitely putting up a front so nobody will know what scars he’s hiding behind. 

After his high school girlfriend who crushed his heart he won’t let himself fall and get hurt all over again. It’s why he has 25 girlfriend’s on retainer. One for every letter of the alphabet with the exception of G. 

When Birdy walked into Khaos’s life his world started to spin off its axis. Khaos has lived by his own rules for so long and never wanted to change. Birdy is making it where he’s breaking all his own rules and he isn’t even sorry about it. 

Grace AKA Birdy hasn’t had an easy life. Going from group home to group home. She ended up living on the streets and started pick pocketing to earn cash to survive.  

Birdy ended up in juvenile detention until Dove got her out Bc her stealing abilities was something he wanted to use that for himself. 

Dove didn’t have an issue laying his hands on Birdy when he didn’t get what he wanted outta her. Whenever he got to ruff she’d go to her friend Justice and her husband Vic. 

Birdy was just given a new target by Dove. Khaos. Dove wasn’t expecting Birdy to fall for Khaos and to not do her job to to his standard’s. 

Birdy can’t help herself. Khaos makes her feel thing’s she’s never felt in her entire life. Birdy will do anything to save Khaos from Dove. 

Khaos is in a cult and Birdy’s in a gang. These two shouldn’t work but they really do and will fight other’s and their inner demons in order to keep the other safe and to stay together. 

There wasn’t much cult ad the first two book’s but it was just as good!! My heart hurt Khaos with him and his anxiety and panic attack’s. The same with Birdy dealing with the beating’s she received. These two are everything. 

I’m SO looking forward to Bowen’s story next!!!

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“You don’t know me. You’ve never known me because you chalked me up to be some useless brat you constantly fix mistakes for. I let you all define me. I’ve always just been whatever the fuck you all needed: funny Khaos, quiet Khaos, the Khaos that pushes you right into love when you’re too fucking blind. You don’t see how much she means to me because you don’t fucking see me. No one sees me except her.” My fingers were fisting the material so hard I wondered if I ripped his shirt when he cracked a smile.
His smirk bothered me instantly when he said, “I was testing a theory. Either way you’re becoming a blood donor tonight.”
Letting go of his shirt, I slumped down in the chair still riddled with anxiety and anger. I let myself fold over trying to get centered even though this wasn’t my adult tree house or a bathroom floor like I preferred.
“You’re a fucking psychopath.”
Vic folded his arms over his broad chest, “I had to make sure she meant something and wasn’t just part of your fucking antics... she’s a good person, not part of your fucking reverse harem plot.” A small pause between thoughts he spoke again, “Clave knows that video exists even though we buried it by giving Rodriguez a raid. She's the new price of you missing an event, dumbass. That’s DuPonte’s only rule and you broke it.”
He wasn’t wrong. The Clave doesn’t do well with broken rules and if you’re lucky enough to survive the punishment then it means you lost crucial parts of your life.
Loved ones mostly.
Considering I was the most unattached, the Clave would find a way to hurt me and being caught on tape with the girl I love was as good as me forking over the truth on a silver platter for them.
Hurt me here, please.
We both joked around the idea of us being forbidden because of who we belong to but nothing was more honest.
Star crossed lovers doomed by our loyalties.
“What do you want me to do, Vic? Get on my knees and beg you to make it better? Keep smiling because it’s easier for you guys? I fucked up but I can clean up after myself.”

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Elena Monroe grew up in Florida scribbling down stories from a very young age. These stories were really just wavy lines filling the paper, but she knew each word, each emotion, each character's name, and there was no tricking her into forgetting what each line signified. Just like her unconventional way of writing as a toddler Elena is setting her own rules and just telling stories. 

Much like her debut novel, The Best Years, life certainly imitated art. Transplanting from the South to the East Coast, Elena currently lives in Connecticut with husband, reformed bad boy. 

Find her on her social media through Twitter at @elenamonroe, Instagram at @elenamonroewrites, Facebook at @elenamonroewrites, and more

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✯Release Review✯Explosive (The Houston Defiance MC Series #1) by K.E. Osborn

Title: Explosive

Series: The Houston Defiance MC Series #1

Author: KE Osborn

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: August 24, 2020

Cover Design: Designs by Dana Cover Model: Kevin Creekman

I couldn’t walk away.

It’s not who I am.

The moment I saw Rayne broken and bloodied, I knew I wasn’t leaving without her.

As the president of the Houston Defiance MC, my job is to protect. And there’s no taming the rage building inside my body, screaming at me to shield her from the husband who’s beating her day in and day out.

Taking her was never in my plans, but plans change.

I don’t care if she’s married.

Or that her husband’s a cop.

Our connection is explosive, it’s dangerous, it’s intoxicating.

And I’m fast being swept up in her storm.

It’s something I can’t ignore.

I thought the enemy was clear, and I was ready to fight.

But maybe there’s a threat we didn’t see coming?

Maybe there’s someone closer to us than we ever could have imagined.

Someone who could be the destruction of us both. 

✯✯5 Zero & Cherry Bomb Filled Stars!!!✯✯ 

OMG what a way to start a spin-off series to one of my favorite series. Chicago a Defiance MC Series had me hooked, line and sinker since the very first cover reveal. It’s legit in my top 3 favorite series covers. Plus, from reading that series we’ve been introduced to Zero and his guys a bunch of times and Zero definitely had my attention from the beginning. 

We start off with Zero the VP of the Houston Defiance with his dad the President. Zero will takeover after his dad has groomed him and showed him all the ways to be a good President. 

Zero learns that time isn’t on his side. The club is at a stand still with the militia. They’re trying to come to a truce that both sides will accept. Then, the militia barrels into the clubhouse and they’re not looking to talk. 

The militia showed up with a mission. Zero watched his parents die right in front of his eyes. Zero took out the guy who ended his parents, the guy in charge of the militia. 

Change is coming for Houston Defiance. Zero will do whatever he has too to make his dad proud.  Minutes later Zero’s life gets another zap. His sister Prinie grabs their younger brother Koda and runs away from Zero and the Defiance MC. 

Rayne’s life isn’t all that she wants. She’s in a loveless marriage to a guy her parents chose and he uses his hands on her everyday. Her father made her go to school to become a pharmacist. Rayne absolutely loves being a pharmacist. 

One night Rayne‘s husband got mad at her while they were out to eat and he takes her out to the back ally and beats the life outta her and leaves her there.  He’s a cop so she can’t call anybody to help. 

When her Uber driver pulls up and finds her beaten pretty bad she offers to help her. Meeting the Uber driver, Prinie ended up saving Rayne. They’ve become best friends and Rayne’s not sure what she’ll ever do without Prinie. 

It’s been a year since Zero lost both his parents and siblings. Zero has done a lot to make things safe enough that his sister will feel safe enough to comeback with their brother. He’s had eyes on them the whole time. It helps that they ran away to Chicago and are actually living in the Chicago Defiance clubhouse. 

Zero and his brothers get there just in time as Chicago needs them as their clubhouse is being ambushed. If you read that series you’ll remember that scene playing out lol. 

Zero convinced Prinie and Koda to comeback to Houston with him. But, Prinie insists on saying goodbye to her best friend. 

Zero was unprepared for what was going to happen when they showed up at Rayne’s house. 

Zero walks into Rayne’s house and she’s beaten to a pulp. Seeing Rayne’s house destroyed from her being thrown around and one look in her eyes and Zero knows he can’t leave Rayne at that house with that husband of hers. 

Zero and Rayne are extremely attracted to each other. Like they never have been before. Zero has such deep beliefs that bc she technically is married and from what she just lived through he wants to stay away. Rayne hates her husband. There’s no love lost. Zero makes her feel things she’s never felt before and just wants him to make a move and not hide. 

Zero wants to give Rayne everything even if he can’t give her him. With Rayne being a pharmacist and Chills being there and a Dr. Zero opens a pharmacy for Rayne to operate and it having a walk-in clinic that Chills will run. 

When Prinie goes and gets mad she crosses a line that nobody in the Houston Defiance should cross and it could cost everybody in Defiance with their lives. 

There is one thing the militia want that will make things even. But, Zero will need Rayne to cross a line. Use her chemistry and pharmacist skills in order for everybody to come out alive. Zero doesn’t know what Rayne will do since she was married to a cop. Rayne does care for the club and ESP about Prinie and Zero and she’ll do anything to help them. 

Zero knows he cares about Rayne more then he has about anybody. They know until they figure out what to do about her husband they’ll have to be careful to keep her safe and the MC off the radar of the cops. 

Zero and his brothers thought they knew who their allies were and who their enemies were. Then they see the side of somebody they thought they knew and their socks are knocked off. In order for Zero to make sure his brothers, siblings, the club and Rayne are all safe, secure and alive he’s gunna make a phone call he never thought he’d make. Zero’s hoping and praying he’s making the right decision for everybody he cares about. 

OMG this book is everything!!! I100% forgot Chains, Chills, baby Kobe, Luc and Ruby went to Houston but I’m loving seeing them and their story continue. 

Zero is even more then I’d imagined and trust me I imagined all about him lol. Rayne is the perfect match for my man Zero!!

I’m dying for a Prinie and Wraith’s story bc lemme tell y’all. These two have intense chemistry. Some frustrated chemistry that they need to bang out. I just hope they get it before Zero tears Wraith apart limb by limb lol. 

I start moving toward the exit. My chest heats so fucking much it’s like I’m on fire. I don’t know what the hell’s happening right now, but having Rayne in my arms, knowing while I’m holding her, and no fucking person in the world can touch her, it has my body flaming in adrenaline.

This woman is bad news.

Real bad fucking news.

Her eyes linger on me as I walk with her from the bedroom, down the hall, and outside to the waiting van. Having her right up against me like this is not doing my cock any favors. She smells like peaches and fucking sunsets.

How the fuck can someone smell like a sunset? It’s like I’m going out of my damn mind right now.

She’s invading my senses as I help her inside the van, placing her in the rear seat.

“I don’t understand why you’re helping me?” Her eyes lock onto mine.

My protector mode rears its head yet again as I lean over her grabbing at the seat belt to pull over her. Our faces come in line with each other.

Rayne scrunches up her face, reaching for the seat belt. “I can put on my own seat belt.”

I jerk my head back as she removes it from my grip while trying to gain control of the situation. I pull it back from her and click it into position. “I’m sure you can, but I need to ensure you’re taken care of. Can’t get you out of this situation and have you injured on the way into the club because you’re not buckled in properly.”

Her eyes widen. “There are so many things wrong with what you just said. One, you think I’m incapable of something as simple as doing up a seat belt. And two, you believe your driving is so bad I’m going to be injured on the way to wherever it is you’re taking me?”

“That’s not what I meant—”

“Then you need to think about how you word shit, ‘cause you’re coming across as an arrogant ass.”

I glare at her smug, insolent, beautiful face. “You have an attitude problem, cherry bomb.”

She snorts. “And you think you can control me because I get beaten up by my husband? He might walk all over me, but you…” she tilts her head smugly, “… not so much.”

Hmm. She has a feisty side.

I lean in closer. Her eyes widen, and her breathing hitches. She’s affected. “I like your fighting spirit, Rayne. You are a wild one.”

She leans in closer, we’re only an inch apart, the smell of peach surrounds me. It takes every ounce of strength I have not to rush forward pressing my lips to hers. My eyes stare into her incandescent emerald green eyes, they’re so alive, so alight with fire. She has so much fight in her. As she licks her bottom lip, my cock twitches when she whispers, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

A low hum vibrates from my chest as I exhale, backing away from Rayne slowly.

She’s trouble with a capital ‘I’m screwed.’ 

Australian author K E Osborn was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. With a background in graphic design and a flair for all things creative, she felt compelled to write the story brewing in her mind.

Writing gives her life purpose. It makes her feel, laugh, cry and get completely enveloped in the characters and their story lines. She feels completely at home when writing and wouldn’t consider doing anything else.

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