tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54276891586842416332024-03-14T02:46:27.025+00:00The Romance CoverA book blog covering Romance booksAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00936882281241330356noreply@blogger.comBlogger2940125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-42064343582402914912019-02-14T14:05:00.000+00:002019-02-14T16:09:46.932+00:00Review ~ The Eddie Flynn Series by Steve Cavanagh<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">One of my favourite crime series ever! From a lawyer's POV, suspense, intrigue, twists aplenty!</span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Book Description: The Defense ~ Eddie Flynn #1</span></u></b></div>
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Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different.</div>
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It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and win - if he wants to save his daughter.</div>
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Under the scrutiny of the media and the FBI, Eddie must use his razor-sharp wit and every con-artist trick in the book to defend his 'client' and ensure Amy's safety. With the timer on his back ticking away, can Eddie convince the jury of the impossible?</div>
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**Featuring an extract from Steve Cavanagh's new thriller, The Plea**</div>
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When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to persuade him to testify against the firm.</div>
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Eddie is not someone who is easily coerced, but when the FBI reveal that they have incriminating files on his wife, he knows he has no choice.</div>
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But Eddie is convinced the man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. With the FBI putting pressure on him to secure the deal, Eddie must find a way to prove his client's innocence.</div>
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But the stakes are high - his wife is in danger. And not just from the FBI . . .</div>
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<b>***WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2018***</b></div>
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<b>A MISSING GIRL. A DESPERATE FATHER.</b></div>
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<b>'Plotting that takes the breath away' Ian Rankin</b></div>
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<b>'A fantastic thriller writer' Mark Billingham</b></div>
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Leonard Howell's worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. He can't rely on the cops, so Howell calls the only man he trusts to get her back.</div>
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Eddie Flynn knows what it's like to lose a daughter and vows to bring Caroline home safe. Once a con artist, now a hotshot criminal attorney, Flynn is no stranger to the shady New York underworld.</div>
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However, as he steps back into his old life, Flynn realizes that the rules of the game have changed - and that he is being played. But who is pulling the strings? And is anyone in this twisted case telling the truth...?</div>
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<b>THE SERIAL KILLER ISN'T ON TRIAL.</b></div>
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Murder wasn't the hard part. It was just the start of the game.</div>
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Joshua Kane has been preparing for this moment his whole life. He's done it before. But this is the big one.</div>
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This is the murder trial of the century. And Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house.</div>
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But there's someone on his tail. Someone who suspects that the killer isn't the man on trial.</div>
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Kane knows time is running out - he just needs to get to the conviction without being discovered.</div>
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Amazon US: <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ifec7H">https://amzn.to/2Ifec7H</a> (pre-order)</div>
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<b>The Defense ~ 4.5 stars<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The Plea ~ 4.5 stars<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The Liar ~ 4.5 stars<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Th1rt3en ~ 5 stars</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>I read Twisted by Steve Cavanagh after a recommendation in the group Crime Fiction Addicts and absolutely loved it. This led me to look at other books by this author, and so the Steve Cavanagh marathon began, I could not put this series down. Four books devoured in three days and they weren’t short! Early starts and late nights were the order of the day with my earbuds permanently fixed, and I soon realised I had found another favourite crime author. </div>
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I love legal dramas and add the crime aspect into it, and I had the best dessert with a cherry on top. This was the perfect blend of both with serial killers, suspense and intrigue and one of the most lovable lawyers ever. Eddie Flynn was not your usual lawyer; bad boy turned good with the right guidance from one of the good guys, who is now a senior judge. Eddie was a con-man, and when up in court in front of said Judge Harry Ford, using his gift of the gab, he got himself off the charges The judge was impressed and told Eddie he had the gift and should think about law school. Under the judges’ tutelage, Eddie turned his life around until he became disenchanted with lawyer life. Now forced out of his self-imposed retirement, Eddie returns when a slew of cases come his way. Only defending the innocent, Eddie is tested to his limits over these four books with police and FBI impeding and helping in various guises. </div>
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Eddie was definitely a natural and I loved the way the author put Eddie front and centre in these cases. Going above and beyond, proving his client's innocence, immersing himself into the investigations and solving them before the relative authorities. Eddie’s old con-man life helps in many ways and being able to think like a criminal only aids his case building and solving. </div>
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Each book is different and unique and as this series progresses the plots just get twistier and more developed as Steve Cavanagh hits his stride and the gem that is Th1rt3en is testament to that. The in-court drama is what really brings this book to life as some others I have read centre on what happens outside. However, Steve Cavanagh takes you through the trials, with the opening arguments, cross-examinations and summations and even jury selection at some points. Steve Cavanagh brings the courtroom to life, and you are just as enthralled inside as you are out. </div>
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With fantastic side characters, this series has something for everyone, and there is definitely never a dull moment. Eddie’s moral character and personality are what drives this series, and his stalwart, tenacious attitude both in and out of the courtroom are what cements him as a firm favourite of mine. With plot twists I never saw coming, every single one of these books kept me on my toes, adrenaline pumping. Not once did I guess the twists, each book had my jaw hitting the floor, each book had me second guessing everything. The relationship between Eddie and Judge Harry Ford is perfection and only adds to this series. Fast paced, action packed and taughtly written, this is one series that held me from the first page of the first book to the last page of the last. Now I feel bereft, Eddie Flynn is missing from my life, and I can only hope that Steve Cavanagh writes quick because I need my next Eddie fix.</div>
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The Romance Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578391212538599812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-42147462894701558092019-02-05T12:17:00.000+00:002019-02-05T12:17:35.411+00:00Review ~ Twisted by Steve Cavanagh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>BEFORE YOU READ THIS BOOK</b></div>
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1. The police are looking to charge me with<b> murder.</b></div>
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2. No one knows who I am. Or how <b>I did it.</b></div>
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3. If you think you've found me. I'm coming for <b>you next.</b></div>
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After you've read this book, you'll know: the truth is far more twisted...</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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I am still on my crime thriller kick and to be honest, I cannot get enough them, and this one ticked all my boxes. Set around the literary world, this one had me hooked from first to last page, and I couldn’t put it down. I tend to listen to my thrillers rather than read them, enjoying the narration as the narrators get into character and give that suspenseful edge, and in this case, the narrator did just that. The author does a fantastic job, and the book certainly lives up to its title, the ending I never saw coming and the overall “winner,” if you can call the person that, left a bitter taste. But alas, conniving is the name of the game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Steve Cavanagh gently brings the characters to life in the beginning, but when the story really gets into its own, the hits just keep coming. I had to rewind a few times just to make sure I understood what was said which often left the jaw-dropping at the most inopportune times. My brain was running a mile a minute as I tried to piece together the clues and just when you thought you had it sussed, Steve Cavanagh spins it in another direction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twisted was certainly an entertaining read, sick and twisted with plenty of suspense and intrigue and a fast-paced plot that won’t let you get off the ride. My earbuds were permanently cemented into my ears until the last dulcet tone of the narrator had wormed its way into my psyche and the jigsaw pieces that had been missing throughout, finally slotted into place. Trust no-one, trust nothing you read and you’re good to go. I will definitely be reading more from this author, and if this is anything to go by, I am in for a treat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Romance Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578391212538599812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-90759647058588956972019-01-24T13:11:00.001+00:002019-01-24T13:11:19.647+00:00Review ~ Birthday Suit by Lauren Blakely<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is no rule in the Man Code as unbreakable as this: no matter how beautiful, smart, clever, and witty she is,<b> do not—under any circumstances—fall in love with your best friend’s woman.</b> </div>
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Yeah. So there’s that. Look, it’s not like I didn’t know I screwed up by falling for her. </div>
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Also, for the record, unrequited love sucks big time.</div>
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And, I might have cut myself some slack by now, given everything that went down in the last few years, but Lulu just walked back into my life in a big way.</div>
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There are three things I've never been able to resist—<b>my friends, my family, and chocolate.</b></div>
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Leo Hennessy? He was nowhere on that list. He's been a true friend—a friend who walked through hell and back with me.</div>
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Now, I'm stepping into my new future. I didn't expect it to include a riddle-filled, race-against-the-clock scavenger hunt across New York City.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4 stars</b></div>
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Lauren Blakely never fails to deliver and Birthday Suit is no exception. This was a great friends to lovers read with a touch of the forbidden romance thrown in. Lauren Blakely’s characters are always relatable, and these two will capture your heart from the very beginning. Mancode is always written in stone, and our hero took a step back when he realised the woman that he was falling for was more interested in his best friend. Over a decade of unrequited love seriously hurts, but when circumstances and fate throw these two together once again, can they think of their future rather than their past?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes timing sucks, and it never sucked harder for Leo. The girl that he had been crushing on and chatting to on the regular meets his best friend for the first time, and the sparks fly. The trio become the three amigos and standing on the sidelines while your best friend gets the girl of your dreams was no mean feat. It hurt, and hurt bad. Being both their best friend for over a decade only ingrains that hurt and makes it fester. Leo was such a great friend to both of them, always there, reliable and only had their best interests at heart even if that meant his own fell by the wayside.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Leo was swoon-worthy with a capital S, and I dare anyone not to fall for his heart of gold and his effortless charm. LuLu was a character that had learned from her mistakes and to see her take her life back by the horns was fantastic. With some great secondary characters there was nothing I didn’t love, and by the end, I didn’t want to leave these two. Such a cute read.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bennett Fox walked into my life on one hell of a crappy Monday morning.<br />
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I was late for the first day at my new job—a job I’d now have to compete for even though I’d already worked <i>eight</i> years to earn it, because of an unexpected merger. <span style="color: black;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span>While I lugged my belongings up to my new office, a meter maid wrote me a parking summons.<br />
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She’d ticketed a long line of cars—except for the Audi parked in front of me, which happened to be the same make and model as mine.<br />
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Annoyed, I decided to <i>regift</i> my ticket to the car that had evaded a fine. Chances were, the owner would pay it and be none the wiser.<span style="color: black;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: merriweather, georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span>Except, I <i>accidentally</i> broke the windshield wiper while slipping the ticket onto the car’s window.<br />
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Things started to perk up when I ran into a gorgeous man in the elevator. We had one of those brief moments that only happened in movies.<br />
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You know the deal…your body lights up, fireworks go off, and the air around you crackles with electricity.<br />
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His heated stare left me flush when I stepped off the elevator.<br />
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Until I walked into my new boss’s office and met my competition.<br />
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The gorgeous man from the elevator was now my nemesis. His heated stare wasn’t because of any mutual attraction. It was because he’d seen me vandalize his car. And now he couldn’t wait to annihilate his rival.<br />
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There’s a fine line between love and hate—and we shouldn’t cross it.<br />
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We <i>shouldn’t</i>—but straddling that line could be so much fun.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars</b></div>
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Vi Keeland merges two of my favourite tropes with a delicious office romance inter-laced with a hilarious at times enemies to lovers. The banter between these two was fantastic and a great catalyst to a slow burn from hate to like to love. This book though has a good dose of the feels, and it is this emotion together with the character connection that really cemented this book as another winner. Vi Keeland has this knack of delivering relatable, swoon-worthy characters that embed themselves into your heart and soul and Annalise and Bennett are no different. My heart definitely melted into a puddle of goo with these two.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Annalise has just come out of an eight-year relationship and is rather jaded with love, the complete opposite to her usual hopeless romantic. Add to the fact that the ad company that she has worked so hard for is merging with another and her job is on the line, her life is nothing but crises. Going head to head with Bennett is not what she anticipated and with the loser being transferred to Texas, she is not going to go down without a fight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bennett was incredibly handsome, smart and successful in his job, a job he had done for a long time. Finding out that this is now on the line, Bennett prepares himself for the biggest fight of his career and it doesn’t help that his nemesis is a little spit-fire and drop dead gorgeous. Bennett has to dig deep in more ways than one, but nothing could have prepared him for the hellion that shows us a totally different side to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Beast syndrome is when a man constantly roars at you to scare you away. Perhaps he was less than magnanimous in his early days, which he thinks defines who he’s forever banished to be. So he tries to keep people from getting too close. But he’s not really the villain he thinks he is, and every once in a while, a peek of the prince underneath shines through.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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At times I was laughing, others sighing, the rest swooning—the perfect recipe for a contemporary romance. As I said above, the banter was perfect, the move from hate to love intoxicating, the chemistry was hot, hot, hot, the character connection on point and add a dose of emotion and it is perfect. Vi Keeland drew me into this story hook, line and sinker and the characters didn’t let me go until the end. Seeing the other side of Bennett and really understanding his back story was the biggest highlight and only endeared him to me even more. There is something for everyone in this book, and I can see this being another winner. Bring on the next one Vi Keeland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vi Keeland is a #1 <i>New York Times</i>, #1 <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, and <i>USA Today</i> Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in two dozen languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six. Sign up for Vi’s mailing list now and be the first one notified when books go live! ➜<a href="https://www.subscribepage.com/i6h3o5"> https://www.subscribepage.com/i6h3o5</a> </div>
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<span class="None"><i><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Ugh.</span></i></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"> He wasn’t just good looking; he knew it, too. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“That would be Foster, Burnett and </span></span><span class="None"><i><span lang="DA" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: DA; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Wren, </span></i></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">as of a few weeks ago, right?” I iced my subtle reminder that this was now </span></span><span class="None"><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">our </span></i></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">place of employment with a smile, suddenly thankful my parents had made me wear braces until I was nearly sixteen. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“Of course.” My new nemesis smiled just as brightly. Apparently his parents had sprung for orthodontic care, too. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Bennett Fox was also tall. I once read an article that said the average height of a man in the US was five-foot-nine-and-a-half inches; less than fifteen percent of men stood taller than six feet. Yet the average height of more than sixty-eight percent of Fortune 500 CEOs was over six feet. Subconsciously, we related size to power in more ways than just brawn. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Andrew was six foot two. I’d guess this guy was about the same.</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Bennett pulled out the guest chair next to him. “Please, have a seat.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Tall and with gentlemanly manners. I disliked him already.</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">During the ensuing twenty-minute pep talk given by Jonas Stern—in which he attempted to convince us we weren’t vying for the same position, but instead forging the way as leaders of the now-largest ad agency in the United States—I stole glances at Bennett Fox. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Shoes: definitely expensive. Conservative, oxford in style, but with a modern edge of topstitching. Ferragamo would be my guess. <i>Big feet, too</i></span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Suit: dark navy, tailored to fit his tall, broad frame. The kind of understated luxury that said he had money, but didn’t need to flaunt it to impress you. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">He had one long leg casually crossed over the other knee, as if we were discussing the weather rather than being told everything we’d worked twelve hours a day, six days a week for was suddenly at risk of being in vain.</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">At one point, Jonas had said something we both agreed with, and we looked at each other, nodding. Given the opportunity for a closer inspection, my eyes roamed his handsome face. Strong jaw, daringly straight, perfect nose—the type of bone structure passed down from generation to generation that was better and more useful than any monetary inheritance. But his eyes were the showstopper: a deep, penetrating green that popped from his smooth, tanned skin. Those were currently staring right at me.</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">I looked away, returning my attention to Jonas. “So what happens at the end of the ninety-day integration period? Will there be <i>two </i>Creative Directors of West Coast Marketing?”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Jonas looked back and forth between us and sighed. “No. But no one is going to lose his or her job. I was just about to tell Bennett the news. Rob Gatts announced he’ll be retiring in a few months. So there will be a position opening up for a creative director to replace him.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">I had no idea what that meant. But apparently Bennett did. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“So one of us gets shipped off to Dallas to replace Rob in the southwest region?” he asked.</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Jonas</span></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">’s face told me Bennett wouldn’t be happy about the prospect of heading to Texas. “</span></span><span class="None"><span lang="PT" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: PT; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Yes.</span></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">All three of us let that sink in for a moment. The possibility of having to relocate to Texas shifted my mind back into gear, though. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“Who will make the decision?” I asked. “Because obviously you’ve been working with Bennett…”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Jonas shook his head and waved off what I was beginning to question. “Decisions like this—where two senior management positions are being merged into one office—the board will oversee and make the final determination of who gets first pick.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Bennett was just as confused as me. “The board members don’t work with us on a daily basis.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“No, they don’t. So they’ve come up with a method of making their decision.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“Which is?” </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“It’ll be based on three major client pitches. You’ll both come up with campaigns on your own and present them. The clients will pick which they like best.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Bennett looked rattled for the first time. His perfect composure and self-assuredness took a hit as he leaned forward and raked long fingers through his hair. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“You’ve got to be kidding me. More than ten years, and my job here comes down to a few pitches? I’ve landed half-a-billion dollars of ad accounts for this company.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">I</span></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">’m sorry, Bennett. I really am. But one of the conditions of the Wren merger was that due consideration be given to the Wren employees in positions that might be eliminated because of duplicity. The deal almost didn’t go through because Mrs. Wren was so insistent that she not sell her husband’s company, only to have the new organization strip away all of Wren’s hard-working employees.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">That made me smile. Mr. Wren was taking care of his employees even after he was gone. </span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">“</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">I</span></span><span class="None"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">’m up for the challenge.” I looked at Bennett, who was clearly pissed off. “May the best woman win.”</span></span><span class="None"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bennett Fox walked into my life on one hell of a crappy Monday morning.<br />
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I was late for the first day at my new job—a job I’d now have to compete for even though I’d already worked <i>eight</i> years to earn it, because of an unexpected merger. <span style="color: black;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span>While I lugged my belongings up to my new office, a meter maid wrote me a parking summons.<br />
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She’d ticketed a long line of cars—except for the Audi parked in front of me, which happened to be the same make and model as mine.<br />
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Annoyed, I decided to <i>regift</i> my ticket to the car that had evaded a fine. Chances were, the owner would pay it and be none the wiser.<span style="color: black;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /></span>Except, I <i>accidentally</i> broke the windshield wiper while slipping the ticket onto the car’s window.<br />
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Seriously, my day couldn’t get any worse.<br />
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Things started to perk up when I ran into a gorgeous man in the elevator. We had one of those brief moments that only happened in movies.<br />
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You know the deal…your body lights up, fireworks go off, and the air around you crackles with electricity.<br />
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His heated stare left me flush when I stepped off the elevator.<br />
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Maybe things here wouldn’t be so bad after all.<br />
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<i>Or so I thought.</i><br />
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Until I walked into my new boss’s office and met my competition.<br />
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The gorgeous man from the elevator was now my nemesis. His heated stare wasn’t because of any mutual attraction. It was because he’d seen me vandalize his car. And now he couldn’t wait to annihilate his rival.<br />
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There’s a fine line between love and hate—and we shouldn’t cross it.<br />
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We <i>shouldn’t</i>—but straddling that line could be so much fun.</div>
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It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time.</div>
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Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm.</div>
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Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day.</div>
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Both are mine.</div>
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If you think this story is about a cheater, you couldn’t be more wrong.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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<b><i>“When ashes fall… That was the end.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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I first read this book about four months ago and having now read it again those first impressions, emotions, thoughts, and feelings just came flooding back…tenfold. I have been a huge fan of Marni Mann from more or less the beginning of her career when I stumbled across her book on Amazon, and I haven’t looked back since. Having read every book she has published I have to say that this is my new favourite book of hers, the raw, intense emotions and honesty that she has conveyed through her words will tug at every heartstring, will bring lumps to your throat and cause plentiful tears. But, despite the emotional wringer that this book puts you through, you cannot help but be affected, impacted and emotionally stirred by the profound story that this author delivers. You can tell that this book was written from the heart, you feel and experience EVERYTHING. Love is such a powerful emotion, one that you are lucky to experience once in a lifetime, some maybe twice, none are ever the same, but each leaves their mark. This is not a cheating book, far from it, but read this as the author intended, blind. Let her take you on this ride, it is one that you will never, ever forget.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“You’re asking to see my storm.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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We all want sunny days, the days where the sun on your face warms your soul and your heart, however, there are always storms too, and it is on those days that you keep your nearest and dearest with you. Life is full of moments, to learn by, to cherish, to love, they may be insignificant, they may be monumental, but they make up your map, your map is your own, and you never know when life is going to make you change direction. This is all about those directions, those left, and rights, some you anticipate and others you don’t, but they are there for a reason. It is how you cope and deal with them that determines your end destination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Marni Mann delivers an extremely poignant, heartfelt, heart-destroying, heart-warming, raw, honest, extremely moving love story that will have you captivated from start to finish. The story grabs you from the very beginning and doesn’t let you go even after the very last words. This is a book that I will be thinking about for a very long time and one that I will definitely be re-reading. This is one of those stories that makes you think long and hard, both at what you have just read and about the characters. The journey that Alix, Dylan, and Smith embark on will have your heart in your mouth one minute, your heart fit to burst the next, tears aplenty and the cheesiest grins. This was a rollercoaster, and as your brain frantically tries to read between the lines, you can only sit back and admire how well the author has layered this story. This book was like an onion, every chapter was a layer and as each layer was devoured the possibilities got smaller and smaller. The author delivers the crux of this story with brutal honesty, and I dare anyone not to bawl their eyes out. Intense, yet beautiful for its innocence, no unnecessary drama, no angst for angst sake, just one incredibly unforgettable story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Alix and I weren’t perfect. We had cracks. And, as the months passed, I learned some deepened while others got filled in. I also learned that wasn’t the last night I’d sleep alone.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Best-selling Author Marni Mann knew she was going to be a writer since middle school. While other girls her age were daydreaming about teenage pop stars, Mann was fantasizing about penning her first novel. She crafts sexy, titillating stories that weave together her love of darkness, mystery, passion, and human emotion. A New Englander at heart, she now lives in Sarasota, Florida with her husband and their two dogs who subsequently have been characters in her books. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop working on her next novel, she’s scouring for chocolate, sipping wine, traveling to new locations, and devouring fabulous books.</div>
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The Romance Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578391212538599812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-52725188314779218112019-01-15T12:02:00.000+00:002019-01-15T12:02:38.097+00:00Release Day Blitz & Review ~ When Ashes Fall by Marni Mann<div style="text-align: center;">
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It’s been said that you can’t love two men at the same time.</div>
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You can’t split your heart, soul, and body in half.</div>
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Dylan Cole is like ice, sharp and unpredictable, the thunder inside a tumultuous storm.</div>
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Smith Reid is warmth, soft and gentle, perfect like a sunny day.</div>
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Both are mine.</div>
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If you think this story is about a cheater, you couldn’t be more wrong.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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<b><i>“When ashes fall… That was the end.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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I first read this book about four months ago and having now read it again those first impressions, emotions, thoughts, and feelings just came flooding back…tenfold. I have been a huge fan of Marni Mann from more or less the beginning of her career when I stumbled across her book on Amazon, and I haven’t looked back since. Having read every book she has published I have to say that this is my new favourite book of hers, the raw, intense emotions and honesty that she has conveyed through her words will tug at every heartstring, will bring lumps to your throat and cause plentiful tears. But, despite the emotional wringer that this book puts you through, you cannot help but be affected, impacted and emotionally stirred by the profound story that this author delivers. You can tell that this book was written from the heart, you feel and experience EVERYTHING. Love is such a powerful emotion, one that you are lucky to experience once in a lifetime, some maybe twice, none are ever the same, but each leaves their mark. This is not a cheating book, far from it, but read this as the author intended, blind. Let her take you on this ride, it is one that you will never, ever forget.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We all want sunny days, the days where the sun on your face warms your soul and your heart, however, there are always storms too, and it is on those days that you keep your nearest and dearest with you. Life is full of moments, to learn by, to cherish, to love, they may be insignificant, they may be monumental, but they make up your map, your map is your own, and you never know when life is going to make you change direction. This is all about those directions, those left, and rights, some you anticipate and others you don’t, but they are there for a reason. It is how you cope and deal with them that determines your end destination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“No, I don’t want to run… Unless it’s towards you, and then my answer is yes.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Marni Mann delivers an extremely poignant, heartfelt, heart-destroying, heart-warming, raw, honest, extremely moving love story that will have you captivated from start to finish. The story grabs you from the very beginning and doesn’t let you go even after the very last words. This is a book that I will be thinking about for a very long time and one that I will definitely be re-reading. This is one of those stories that makes you think long and hard, both at what you have just read and about the characters. The journey that Alix, Dylan, and Smith embark on will have your heart in your mouth one minute, your heart fit to burst the next, tears aplenty and the cheesiest grins. This was a rollercoaster, and as your brain frantically tries to read between the lines, you can only sit back and admire how well the author has layered this story. This book was like an onion, every chapter was a layer and as each layer was devoured the possibilities got smaller and smaller. The author delivers the crux of this story with brutal honesty, and I dare anyone not to bawl their eyes out. Intense, yet beautiful for its innocence, no unnecessary drama, no angst for angst sake, just one incredibly unforgettable story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Alix and I weren’t perfect. We had cracks. And, as the months passed, I learned some deepened while others got filled in. I also learned that wasn’t the last night I’d sleep alone.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Every character had their purpose, nothing superfluous, nothing artificial. Every character well defined and the character connection was on point. You will take these characters into your heart and soul as love takes centre stage. Alix is cut open for the world to see and her love, emotions, and pain were agonizingly honest. It is this honesty that embraces Alix into your heart and soul as she undertakes the hardest journey of her life. We all need a best friend like Rose, Rose was Alix’s rock, she centered Alix, was her confidante and always had her back. She had been through the rough and the smooth, and she always had Alix’s best interests at heart. Both the men in this book were extremely lovable, total opposites and yet congruous in their love for Alix. I will reiterate that there is NO cheating in this book, just two loves in one lifetime. I cannot say any more, I want to keep this review spoiler free, but all I will say is read this book. You won’t regret it, and you definitely won’t forget it. Marni Mann, take a bow. I sincerely hope that this book gets the recognition it deserves. You deserve it, these characters deserve it, and the blood, sweat, and tears you poured into it deserve it. This will definitely be one of my top reads of the year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Best-selling Author Marni Mann knew she was going to be a writer since middle school. While other girls her age were daydreaming about teenage pop stars, Mann was fantasizing about penning her first novel. She crafts sexy, titillating stories that weave together her love of darkness, mystery, passion, and human emotion. A New Englander at heart, she now lives in Sarasota, Florida with her husband and their two dogs who subsequently have been characters in her books. When she’s not nose deep in her laptop working on her next novel, she’s scouring for chocolate, sipping wine, traveling to new locations, and devouring fabulous books.</div>
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Falling for your best friend's sister has never felt so bad yet so damn right. </div>
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From USA Today Bestselling author BJ Harvey comes the third and final standalone in the Chance series, this time it's the much anticipated story of Drew and Ashley.</div>
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I have a long history of acting first and thinking it through later. In fact, I'm the definition of a screw up. </div>
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My biggest secret is falling for my best friend’s sister twelve years ago.</div>
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My biggest mistake is thinking I could live without her.</div>
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And now my biggest regret is the look on her face the moment I tell everyone I’m already married to the woman they hate most.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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BJ Harvey waited 4 years for a five-star review from me, and now she has had two on the trot. I absolutely adored Second Chance, but she blew it out the water for me with Third Strike, my new favourite of this series. This is testament to how her writing has grown in leaps and bounds and as she adds layers, depth, builds the angst, her character connection and a huge dose of emotion she has crafted a winning series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My heart was put through the wringer in this book, every ounce of compassion, love and anger were expertly extracted as the tears fell, the frustration built and the anger bubbled to uncontrollable levels. If you have read this series you are well aware of she who shall not be named, and she is back to her vile best in Third Strike. This book was pure torture at times, but those are often the best kinds of books, infuriating, heart-breaking, heart-warming, stunningly beautiful, emotional and down-right tragic at times.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Romance Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578391212538599812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-13056187015027772482019-01-04T18:57:00.001+00:002019-01-04T18:57:51.720+00:00Review ~ The Kiss Thief by LJ Shen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">What a start to 2019 and this stunning book releases on January 9th. You are not going to want to miss this one.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">You can add it to your TBR here: <a href="http://bit.ly/2F8O1wd">http://bit.ly/2F8O1wd</a></span></b></div>
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They say your first kiss should be earned. </div>
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Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky.</div>
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Mine were broken before we left church.</div>
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Mine split and bled for two rivals who fought for it until the bitter end.</div>
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I was promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to one of the most powerful families in the Chicago Outfit.</div>
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Then taken by Senator Wolfe Keaton, who held my father’s sins over his head to force me into marriage. </div>
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I, Francesca Rossi, found myself erasing and rewriting mine until the very last chapter.</div>
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One kiss.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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<b><i>“You said I taste like a villain, but you taste like the victim.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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So, my first book of 2019 was a winner, winner chicken dinner and after a three-month romance book funk was just the book the doctor, in this case, LJ Shen ordered. No one writes an alphahole like LJ Shen, and the author pulls out all the stops with Senator Wolfe Keaton. There is something for everyone in this book, from the mob to arranged marriages, to younger woman/older man and one of the best virginal brides I have ever read. Everything about this book was delicious, so much so I pulled my first all-nighter in a very long time. Starting this book in bed was definitely a bad idea because once I started, I devoured it, couldn’t put it down and saw a little light peak through the curtains before I’d even had an ounce of sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Francesca Rossi is the only child of a mobster, heir apparent and a woman that has wanted for nothing. Francesca has been groomed by her parents, and the only thing on her parent's mind is a kept woman and trophy wife. Sent to boarding school for the best education she is now back, and her appearance on the social scene has got men's heads turning. However, Francesca’s head has only been turned by one man and one man only, Angelo Bandini, her childhood best friend. Francesca is not your typical heroine, although she is young, she is independent, fierce, protective, loyal, brave, fearless and a romantic at heart. I absolutely adored her. The life she had dreamt of her whole life was taken away in a heartbeat, and she took it on the chin and made the best of a bad situation while keeping her integrity and her backbone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“My heart has room for him, he just needs to claim it.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Senator Wolfe Keaton will melt your hearts although in the first instance you’ll want to rip his out. Wolfe is a force to be reckoned with, hell-bent on revenge and yet the proverbial white knight. Wolfe uses his political career and connections to rid the state of those that have caused him the most harm and continue to do so to others. The way he goes about it isn’t necessarily legal and morally unethical but it gets the job the done and that is always his end goal, but his heart is in the right place, you just have to dig deep to find it. Wolfe keeps his emotions to himself, his heart is nowhere near his sleeve, but you see little glimpses. The more and more Francesca batters his emotional fortress, you can see the moat he has built around himself slowly begin to dry up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When these two first meet at a social gathering, the tension is palpable. Each have made their minds up about the other based on first impressions, assumptions and generalisations and neither of them are correct. Hate would be a tad strong, but not far from it. Leigh Shen though nails that character building, the character connection is on point and that gradual change from hate, to lust to love was an incredibly delectable journey. I shed quite a few tears, my heart was in my mouth many times, I screamed at my kindle, came close to throwing it a few times, but the more I read, the more I fell down the rabbit hole and didn’t want to leave these characters alone. I lived and breathed their story, and when that final page was turned, I was exhausted but had the biggest smile from ear to ear. Emotionally spent, but totally in love with two characters that stole my heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Romance Coverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578391212538599812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5427689158684241633.post-8164520080973241462019-01-01T18:57:00.001+00:002019-01-01T19:43:31.003+00:002018 Round Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2018 has been a tough reading year for me, well at least the last three months. Not sure if it was the biggest book funk I have ever been in or blogger burn out, but I just could not read for love or money. My head was in totally the wrong place and every book I picked up just couldn't keep my attention. My inclination to read evaporated and so I spent the last three months listening to Crime Thriller audiobooks, my second reading passion and just a few books that really caught my attention or what friends told me would get me out of my funk.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Despite hardly reading for the last three months, I still hit my reduced reading challenge of 300 books, finishing my last book around 10pm on New Years Eve, that was cutting it close, but I was desperate to hit it. I re-read all my unicorn books in December and even they couldn't help me.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Anywho, I'm not going to dwell on my reading annus horriblis (as the Queen would say) and I'm hoping to start 2019 off with a bang and plunge myself back into blogging and just taking it at my own pace, still reading for pleasure and fun while promoting the authors and books that I love.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">In 2018 I had 39 five star reads, by 27 different authors. My favourites of the year, with three five star books a piece was Monica James, Kate Stewart, Ella Frank and Jewel E Ann. These ladies really wrote their socks off this year. Monica James with Forgetting You, Remembering Me and her Sins of the Heart Duet. Kate Stewart with The Real, Someone Else's Ocean and her collaboration with Heather M Orgeron with Heartbreak Warfare. Ella Frank with her Confessions series, one of the best M/M series I have ever read and finally Jewel E Ann, with Look the Part and her epic Transcend Duet.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I have read many, many new to me authors this year as well as debut authors and some of them have hit my five star list this year. I love finding hidden talent and cannot wait to expand my author horizons even further going forward.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">1) Heartbreak Warfare by Kate Stewart and Heather M Orgeron</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2) All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">3) Danes Storm by Mia Sheridan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">4) Misadventures of a College Girl by Lauren Rowe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">5) The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller) by JD Barker </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">6) Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7) Dying Truth (DI Kim Stone Series) by Angela Marsons</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">8) Epoch and Transcend by Jewel E Ann</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">9) Cinq a Sept by MJ Fields</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Smallest Part by Amy Harmon</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Confessions: Robbie by Ella Frank</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Confessions: Julien by Ella Frank</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Disgrace by Brittainy C Cherry</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Second Chance by BJ Harvey</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sweet Insanity by Desiree Adele</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Confessions: Priest by Ella Frank</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">No Tomorrow by Carian Cole</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Beautiful Chaos by Riley Hart</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I hope that you have all had a great reading year too and would love to know our favourites so that I can add to mine. Here's to another year filled with amazing words, amazing books and the amazing authors that keeps our hobby going and going and going.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the authors that pour their blood, sweat and tears into these books, I truly appreciate every single one of them. You all matter!</span></b></div>
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<b>The Devil is a prelude novel that is part of the Cards of Love Collection. You do NOT need to read any other books in the collection to read The Devil. </b></div>
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After getting canned from her dream job this morning and played in spectacular fashion by her boyfriend this afternoon, Savannah “Savvy” Valentine is having a truly awful day. Which is why she’s currently drowning her sorrows in whiskey and self-pity in a shabby bar along the route to Las Vegas.</div>
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In light of today’s double whammy, Savvy isn’t sure why she’s still heading in the direction of her five-year high school reunion. The only reason she’d wanted to attend the reunion in Vegas in the first place was to show the captain of the football team, the guy who took her virginity and then promptly rejected her, that the captain of the math team grew up to have all enviable hot things: hot body, hot boyfriend, and hot career. Now, the only “hot” thing about Savvy Valentine is her mess.</div>
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But when a gorgeous stranger with sandy hair, a leather jacket, and motorcycle helmet walks into the bar, Savvy’s awful day suddenly looks a whole lot brighter. The man is perfection. Sexy and mysterious. And he’s heading to Las Vegas, too.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4 stars</b></div>
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Savannah Valentine is currently in a job she loves, she works hard, and has huge aspirations and yet as she goes into work at the beginning of this book, her life changes when she is let go. Upset and worried for her financial future, Savannah goes home and then finds her boyfriend is doing the dirty on her. Could this day get any worse? Savannah was a fantastic heroine, incredibly clever, a little naïve and low on the street smarts, but this only made her more endearing. Down on her luck, and upset, Savannah takes off to her high school reunion in Las Vegas, even though it is the last place she wants to be, but it takes her away from her current situation and at least will bring a little respite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aiden was perfection for Savannah; neither was looking for it and yet it landed in their laps anyways. Fate has a way of bringing people together, and fate certainly knew what it was doing with these two. It was once these two hit Las Vegas that the real shenanigans began. Lauren Rowe goes Oceans 11’esque in this book, and it was this that really brought a different dynamic for our number crunching heroine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maeve is over the moon: life is good and she's about to get married to Peter. But when she loses her job and gets jilted at the altar, her world crumbles and she runs into her momma's arms.</div>
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She's back in her small hometown for a week, and she has a plan - make Peter insanely jealous and win him back. Enter Blake Taylor, the boy who broke her heart. She'd rather avoid him at all costs, but with his 'bad boy' good looks and their shared history, Blake is the perfect man for the job, as long as she can stand him long enough - it's just one week, after all.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Confessions: The Princess, The Prick, and The Priest, a fun, flirty story in the contemporary MMM Confessions Series from <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Ella Frank is available NOW!</span></b></div>
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Everyone said our love wouldn’t work.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars</b></div>
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I have absolutely adored this series by Ella Frank, and in this book Ella Frank delivers the ultimate happy ever after, the cherry on top, the love lottery win and this reader had a smile from ear to ear throughout the whole book. These three stole my heart in book one, and by book four, these three had cemented their place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I loved everything about this book, from the Bianchi family, to a new Priest, to a threesome destined from the beginning. Ella Frank really opens the reader's eyes to the innermost feelings of all three of these men, how they are all on the same wavelength and each has each other's best interests at heart. How there is no two, just a three and everything revolves around that three.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Make sure Robbie knows that he’s just as important to the both of you as the piece of paper you share with Priest.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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The Bianchi’s are a cool family, and their love and acceptance of this trio was there for all to see. This family open their hearts to this unusual dynamic, and Robbie’s dad summed it up beautifully… <b><i>“we wish you luck. It’s probably good there’s two of you, anyway. That boy is a handful.”</i></b> Open-minded, hearts full of love, this family didn’t care about the who’s, all they cared about was that their boy was happy. Someone as gregarious as Robbie was never going to settle with just one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was the little things in this book that made all the difference, the attention to detail, the little nuances, things that seem small and yet meant so much. I don’t want to spoil anything but there was this one thing that melted my heart, and it seems our Prick and Priest melted something else too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As I said above, the change in Priest was extremely significant, such a momentous occasion and one that brought a tear to my eye. Finally comfortable, free and utterly in love with two men, this Priest was a joy to behold, and that comfortable feeling only filtered through to the two men that loved him more than life itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six Months Later…</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“LOVERS, I’M HOME,” Robbie Bianchi called out to his boyfriends, as he juggled several shopping bags in one hand and kicked the front door shut behind him. He stuffed his car keys into the pocket of his shorts, and as he evened out what he was carrying, he took the stairs that led him up to the first floor of their new home.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">With the same smile on his face that he’d left with that morning, Robbie headed across the hardwood floors past the dining room, and into the kitchen, where he spotted a note waiting for him: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re upstairs, princesse. Come find us when you get home.</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie grinned at the messy crown drawn above the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">i </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">princesse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but then quickly did as he was told. With one hand on the steel rail, he took the stairs two at a time, and as he reached the second floor where the bedroom was located, he walked inside to find it empty except for the fish swimming around the tank that lined the wall facing their bed. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dropping his shopping bags on the end of the mattress, Robbie headed up to the final floor, where he knew his men were waiting for him. He opened up the glass door that led to the penthouse deck, and when he stepped outside and the warm rays washed over him, Robbie took in a breath of fresh air. </span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ah</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, he’d always loved summer. Everything about it. The sun, the smell of the freshly cut grass, and the clothes—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">or lack thereof</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Robbie thought, as he reached for the edge of his white tank top and drew it over his head.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">As he tucked it into the back of his shorts, Robbie scanned the wide deck, his eyes roaming over the wooden slat floor, the hot tub over in the corner, and the glistening water of the lap pool surrounded by the potted greenery bordering their rooftop oasis.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This space had been the final selling point with all three of them when they’d made the decision to leave the condo after what had happened there with Jimmy. It was the perfect place for Julien to relax and do his yoga, for Priest, who loved a good soak to clear his mind, and for Robbie, for whom it was all about the calm he got from finally seeing his men happy and at peace. And </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">that </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was exactly how he found one of them right now. There, stretched out on one of the sun loungers, was the brand-</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">new </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reason that Robbie loved summer—an almost-naked Julien Thornton. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dressed in tight, black, barely there swim shorts that left little—</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">okay, nothing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—to the imagination, the only other thing Julien was wearing was a pair of Aviator sunglasses. His rich, olive-colored skin was glistening with water droplets as he lay sprawled out with his hands behind his head, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">oh my God </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">was he a feast for the eyes. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">As Robbie walked to the end of the lounger, his eyes roamed up Julien’s toned legs to his muscular thighs, and ended at the bulge that tight material was cupping like a glove. </span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh yes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, this was hands down the best part about summer now, and luckily for Robbie and Priest, tanning was a favorite pastime of their seriously sexy Frenchman.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bonjour, princesse</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Julien’s honey-toned voice wrapped around Robbie, informing him that he’d been caught staring. But he didn’t care—not one little bit. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“One second, please. I’m concentrating here,”Robbie said, his gaze trailing up all he could see to finally land on Julien’s face. “Now, sorry, what were you saying?”</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Julien chuckled as Robbie walked alongside him. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Bonjour, princesse.”</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Oh, yes,” Robbie said, and bent down to brush a kiss across Julien’s lips. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Bonjour, Jules.” </span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Robbie went to straighten, but before he got too far away, Julien took hold of the back of his neck and craned up for a deeper kiss. Robbie’s lips parted, and Julien slipped his tongue inside, making Robbie’s cock jerk to attention, as he braced his hand on the back of the lounger and sank into the deliciousness that was all Julien.</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Confessions: The Princess, The Prick, and The Priest, a fun, flirty story in the Confessions Series from <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Ella Frank is LIVE!</span></b></div>
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Everyone said our love wouldn’t work.</div>
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Ella Frank is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite contemporary romance, Sex Addict. Her Exquisite series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!” Some of her favorite authors include Tiffany Reisz, Kresley Cole, Riley Hart, J.R. Ward, Erika Wilde, Gena Showalter, and Carly Phillips.</div>
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<b>How far would you go to protect your darkest secrets?</b></div>
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When teenager <b>Sadie Winter</b> jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide – a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to <b>Detective Kim Stone</b> that these deaths are not tragic accidents.</div>
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With more children’s lives at risk, Kim has to consider the unthinkable - whether a fellow pupil could be responsible for the murders. Investigating the psychology of children that kill brings the detective into contact with her former adversary, <b>Dr Alex Thorne</b> – the sociopath who has made it her life’s work to destroy Kim. </div>
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Desperate to catch the killer, Kim finds a link between the recent murders and an initiation prank that happened at the school decades earlier. But saving these innocent lives comes at a cost – and one of Kim’s own might pay the ultimate price.</div>
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The utterly addictive new crime thriller from the Number One bestselling author – you will be gripped until the final shocking twist.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Authors: Heather M. Orgeron & Kate Stewart</span></b></div>
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Briggs,</div>
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Remember when I said we couldn’t speak after parting ways in Germany? It was the day I broke your heart. What you didn't know was that I was breaking mine too. </div>
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I thought they’d be enough–my husband and my son. That I’d get home and everything would go back to the way it was . . . </div>
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But, no matter how hard I try, I can’t erase the trauma we shared. I can’t seem to forget the way my heart beat in time with yours. </div>
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The truth is I’m lost without you. </div>
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I thought the nightmare was over when they pulled us from that hole in the ground, but nothing could have prepared me for the war I’d face at home.</div>
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I know it’s selfish of me to ask, but, please, I have to see you one last time. . . </div>
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Sometimes you read a book, and you know that you have just read one of those once in a lifetime reads. A book that will stay with you for the rest of your days, and one that, if you are brave enough, you will read time and time again. I have an all-time favourites shelf, I have read nearly 3,000 books, and there are only three books on there. Those three books are about to get a companion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heartbreak Warfare by Heather M. Orgeron and Kate Stewart will be on a lot of all-time favourites lists this year, it will be on most peoples Best of 2018 lists, it will get a lot of 6-star reviews because it is just that damn good. This book was EVERYTHING!!! A plot I have never seen done before, a book with so much emotion, passion, angst, and heartbreak that your heart will be left in a pile of mush by the end. Yet despite the agony, a book full of heart, promise and growth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This book is brutally honest, raw, gritty, devastating, unique and extraordinary. There are truly not enough superlatives that I could use that could adequately describe the story within the cover. My heart was left on those pages, weeks later I still have not been able to pick up another book, and my brain will not leave these characters alone. This book leaves an imprint on your heart and soul. Yes, it doesn’t hold back, but I appreciated it. It happens, life happens, love happens, and sometimes you don’t choose it, it chooses you. These characters were in an untenable situation and yet, love prevailed, the things we do for love, how love surfaces in many different guises and how ultimate sacrifices show just how much love the heart actually holds. This book was FLAWLESS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I need you to break my heart,” she declares, wringing her hands nervously. “Give me a reason to hate you, because wanting you this way is…it’s ruining me. It’s ruining my life.”</div>
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Lifting her chin, as if ready to take a blow, her turbulent eyes implore mine. “Tell me about them. Tell me about all of the women you’ve been with since Germany.”</div>
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“Oh, please, Briggs. How long did you wait? A few days?” She laughs sarcastically. “I bet you didn’t even make it a day.”</div>
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She’s coming out guns blazing, and I can see it’s physically killing her to do it.</div>
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“Are we playing the guessing game? Do I get to ask how many times you’ve fucked your husband?”</div>
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“Sure,” she says with a shrug. “We’ll trade. You go first.”</div>
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“Don’t do this, Scottie. You don’t really want to hear about that.”</div>
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“Humor me, Briggs.” Her eyes plead with mine. “I need to hear this.”</div>
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“Fine. You want the truth?”</div>
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“You want me to tell you all about how I have to drink myself stupid, till their faces blur enough that I can pretend…” I pause running a hand down my face. “So that I can pretend they’re you? You want to know how fucking miserable I am? How when I slide between their legs, I close my eyes, and it’s your face I see? How I’m always careful not to kiss them because their lips are all wrong. How every time I finish I want to fucking kill myself, because I can’t stand the pain of wanting the one woman I can never have.”</div>
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“Is that enough?” Her eyes snap to mine. “Hate me yet?”</div>
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“Come on, Scottie. Let’s not kid ourselves. I’m still the same prick you hated when we met. Nothing’s changed. I think we’ve romanticized this situation long enough, don’t you?”</div>
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“Stop,” she cries out painfully, “stop, I’m good,” she whispers before rocketing toward the door just as I reach for her, my fingers curling in the space she just left. Handle in hand, she looks back at me with the sweep of her eyes until they meet mine. That’s how we started, and it’s only fitting it’s how we should end. For the moment, we’re right back there in the place we created, where we are perfect. Where our souls line up without any visible smudge on the seams. In a place where there is still so much love, so much that I can’t stop the tear that slides out before batting it away with the back of my hand.</div>
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Heather M. Orgeron is a Cajun girl with a big heart and a passion for romance. She married her high school sweetheart two months after graduation and her life has been a fairytale ever since. She’s the queen of her castle, reigning over five sons and one bossy little princess who has made it her mission in life to steal her Momma’s throne. When she’s not writing, you will find her hidden beneath mounds of laundry and piles of dirty dishes or locked in her tower(aka the bathroom) soaking in the tub with a good book. She’s always been an avid reader and has recently discovered a love for cultivating romantic stories of her own.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It all started with a mysterious blue note sewn into a wedding dress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’d gone to sell my own unworn bridal gown at a vintage clothing store. That’s when I found another bride’s “something old.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Stitched into the lining of a fabulously feathered design was the loveliest message I’d ever read: Thank you for making all of my dreams come true. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The name embossed on the blue stationery: Reed Eastwood, obviously the most romantic man who ever lived. I also discovered he’s the most gorgeous. If only my true-love fantasies had stopped there. Because I’ve since found out something else about Mr. Starry-Eyed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But that story is nothing compared to the one unfolding between us. It’s getting hotter, sweeter, and more surprising than anything I could have imagined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Please Note: Because Hate Notes is published by Montlake Romance, a division of Amazon, the ebook and paperback will only be available on Amazon. If you are an Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited member, you should NOT pre-order the eBook. The Hate Notes ebook will be free for both Prime and KU members on release day!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">To read an excerpt of Hate Notes, click <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i-z-VYBIa1Xwvl9G4hj57xhxUETnHK3KbUn2WaQlQAo/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars</b><br />
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Once again Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward deliver a heart-warming, smile-inducing, enemies to lovers workplace romance that turned into an unputdownable read. The first book to keep my interest in more than two weeks. Both characters stole my heart as I navigated their path to love and forever. Both characters completely endearing, each with their very own opposite personalities and yet together, they just worked. Each complemented the other perfectly, they brought out the best in one and other, and each were what the other needed, yet never knew they wanted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I loved the meet cute, the circumstances were a novel introduction and out of a true romance book. A circumstance that melted my romance lovers heart. Charlotte goes to a boutique to sell her un-used wedding gown and while browsing stumbles upon another that catches her attention. Trying it on, Charlotte notices a blue note stitched into the gown from the groom, and in her romance novel addled brain Charlotte concocts a beautiful love story that she wished was her own. Charlotte ends up exchanging the dress for hers and a little internet stalking later, plus a bottle of wine, Charlotte finds herself face to face with the bridal gown romantic, only he is nothing like what she expected.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reed Eastwood was a real estate mogul in the family business, selling properties in the tens of millions and what most would deem living the life. On the outside, he was the consummate professional, and his aloof persona was an impenetrable wall that his family were desperate to crumble. Nobody could get through to Reed, but it seems Charlotte may just be his kryptonite.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Charlotte’s personality shone from the pages, and she was incredibly infectious. Having hit rock bottom, Charlotte was finally finding her feet thanks to a conversation with a complete stranger in a ladies rest-room. One that would change her life for the better. The chemistry that Reed and Charlotte have just oozed from the pages and Reed’s concerted effort to keep her at arm's length was comical and completely fruitless. The heart wants who the heart wants, and despite his best efforts and his meddling grandmother, Reed didn’t stand a chance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vi Keeland is a #1 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, #1 </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wall Street Journal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles have appeared in over a hundred Bestseller lists and are currently translated in two dozen languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.facebook.com/vi.keeland</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Vi-Keeland/435952616513958</span></a><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Website</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span><a href="http://www.vikeeland.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.vikeeland.com</span></a><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: @vikeeland</span><a href="https://twitter.com/ViKeeland"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/ViKeeland</span></a><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: @Vi_Keeland - </span><a href="http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://instagram.com/Vi_Keeland/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Goodreads</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6887119.Vi_Keeland</span></a>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Penelope Ward is a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times, USA Today </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> #1 Wall Street Journal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestselling author.</span></span> <span style="color: black; font-weight: 400;">She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism. </span> <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">With over 1.5 million books sold, she is a twenty-time </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestseller and the author of over twenty novels. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">@penelopewardauthor</span> <a href="http://instagram.com/PenelopeWardAuthor/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://instagram.com/PenelopeWardAuthor/</span></a><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Grabbing my laptop, I searched my history and called up the last website I’d visited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Eastwood Properties is one of the largest independent brokerage firms in the world. We connect the most prestigious and exclusive properties with qualified buyers, assuring the utmost privacy for both parties. Whether you’re in the market for a luxury New York City penthouse with a view of the park, a waterfront Hampton estate, or an enchanting chateau escape in the mountains, or you’re ready for your own private island, Eastwood is where your dreams begin.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There was a link to search properties, so I typed in the name of the place the woman had mentioned in the voice mail: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Millennium Tower</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. Sure enough, the penthouse popped up for sale. For only twelve million dollars, I could own an apartment on Columbus Avenue with sweeping views of Central Park. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Let me write you a check</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After drooling through a video and two dozen photos, I clicked on the button to make an appointment to view the property. An application popped up, the top of which read: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">For the privacy and safety of our sellers, all prospective buyers are required to complete an application to view properties. Only buyers that meet our stringent prequalification criteria will be contacted.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I snorted. Great</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"> prequalification criteria you have there, Eastwood.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> I wasn’t sure I had enough money to take the train uptown to get to that swanky place, much less buy it. God knows what I’d written that had qualified me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I closed the website and was just about to shut my laptop and go back to bed again when I decided to take one more peek at Mr. Romantic on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">God, he was gorgeous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Right here. It’d gotten me right damn here—hungover and unemployed, sitting in this crappy apartment. Maybe it was time I did the things I </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">shouldn’t</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> be doing for a change. I picked up my phone and let my finger hover over the “Call Back” button for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">No one would ever know. It could be fun—getting all dressed up and playing the part of a rich Upper West Sider while satisfying my curiosity about the man. What harm was there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">None that I could think of. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;">Still, you know what they say about curiosity</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The name embossed on the blue stationery: Reed Eastwood, obviously the most romantic man who ever lived. I also discovered he’s the most gorgeous. If only my true-love fantasies had stopped there. Because I’ve since found out something else about Mr. Starry-Eyed. </div>
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He’s arrogant, cynical, and demanding. I should know. Thanks to a twist of fate, he’s my new boss. But that’s not going to stop me from discovering the story behind his last love letter. A love letter that did not result in a happily ever after. </div>
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Remember when we parted ways in Germany? It was the day I broke your heart. What you didn't know was that I was breaking mine too.</div>
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The truth is I’m lost without you.</div>
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I thought the nightmare was over when they pulled us from that hole in the ground, but nothing could have prepared me for the war I’d face at home.</div>
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I know it’s selfish of me to ask, but, please, I have to see you one last time. . .</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Genre: Contemporary Military Romance</span></b></div>
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Briggs,</div>
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Remember when I said we couldn’t speak after parting ways in Germany? It was the day I broke your heart. What you didn't know was that I was breaking mine too. </div>
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I thought they’d be enough–my husband and my son. That I’d get home and everything would go back to the way it was . . . </div>
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The truth is I’m lost without you. </div>
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I thought the nightmare was over when they pulled us from that hole in the ground, but nothing could have prepared me for the war I’d face at home.</div>
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I know it’s selfish of me to ask, but, please, I have to see you one last time. . . </div>
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“I need you to break my heart,” she declares, wringing her hands nervously. “Give me a reason to hate you, because wanting you this way is…it’s ruining me. It’s ruining my life.”</div>
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Lifting her chin, as if ready to take a blow, her turbulent eyes implore mine. “Tell me about them. Tell me about all of the women you’ve been with since Germany.”</div>
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“No.” I shake my head. “Hell no.”</div>
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“Oh, please, Briggs. How long did you wait? A few days?” She laughs sarcastically. “I bet you didn’t even make it a day.”</div>
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She’s coming out guns blazing, and I can see it’s physically killing her to do it.</div>
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“Are we playing the guessing game? Do I get to ask how many times you’ve fucked your husband?”</div>
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“Sure,” she says with a shrug. “We’ll trade. You go first.”</div>
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She’s bluffing, and I’m calling her on it.</div>
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“Don’t do this, Scottie. You don’t really want to hear about that.”</div>
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“Humor me, Briggs.” Her eyes plead with mine. “I need to hear this.”</div>
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“Fine. You want the truth?”</div>
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I stalk back toward her, stopping inches away. “You really want to know that there have been so many that I’ve lost count? How they’re all blondes with blue eyes? But the blue, it’s never right, and their smiles—all wrong.” </div>
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In about forty-five seconds, my heart is going to implode. I start ticking them down.</div>
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“You want me to tell you all about how I have to drink myself stupid, till their faces blur enough that I can pretend…” I pause running a hand down my face. “So that I can pretend they’re you? You want to know how fucking miserable I am? How when I slide between their legs, I close my eyes, and it’s your face I see? How I’m always careful not to kiss them because their lips are all wrong. How every time I finish I want to fucking kill myself, because I can’t stand the pain of wanting the one woman I can never have.”</div>
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“Is that enough?” Her eyes snap to mine. “Hate me yet?”</div>
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“Come on, Scottie. Let’s not kid ourselves. I’m still the same prick you hated when we met. Nothing’s changed. I think we’ve romanticized this situation long enough, don’t you?”</div>
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Taking another step away from her, I tilt my head. “You’re a housewife,” I say snidely. “Someone else’s wife and I’m a career soldier. This isn’t exactly ideal.”</div>
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“Stop,” she cries out painfully, “stop, I’m good,” she whispers before rocketing toward the door just as I reach for her, my fingers curling in the space she just left. Handle in hand, she looks back at me with the sweep of her eyes until they meet mine. That’s how we started, and it’s only fitting it’s how we should end. For the moment, we’re right back there in the place we created, where we are perfect. Where our souls line up without any visible smudge on the seams. In a place where there is still so much love, so much that I can’t stop the tear that slides out before batting it away with the back of my hand.</div>
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I fell for Connor Drake. I didn’t want to; I fought against it, but I fell in love with him anyway. With his words. With his poetry. With him. The gentleness and beauty of his soul that speaks directly to mine. He writes as if he can feel my heart, hear its cadence and compose the exact right lyrics to accompany every beat and flow. </div>
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I’m in love with Connor…so why do I feel an inexplicable pull to his best friend, Weston? Grouchy, sullen, brooding Weston Turner, who could cut you down with a look. Fiercely intelligent with a razor sharp wit and acid tongue, he’s the exact opposite of Connor in every way, and yet there’s electricity in the air between us. The thorny barbs Weston wraps around himself can’t keep me away. </div>
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But the more time I spend with these men, the more tangled and confused my emotions become. When they both sign up for the Army Reserves during a time of increasing strife in the Middle East, I fear I’ll never unravel my own heart that sometimes feels as if it will tear straight down the middle…for both of them. </div>
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Bring Down the Stars is an emotional, angst-filled novel of unrequited love by bestselling author, Emma Scott, and is inspired by the classic tale, Cyrano de Bergerac. (Roxanne) It is Book I in the Beautiful Hearts Duet, coming this summer. Book II, Long Live the Beautiful Hearts, to be released a few weeks later. THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL LOVE TRIANGLE #confusedhearts #notamenage</div>
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Never again would I allow my heart to become the plaything of someone else. </div>
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Those were my vows, and after all that had happened with Connor and Weston, I was determined to keep them. To protect my heart. </div>
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Long Live the Beautiful Hearts is the emotional, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Beautiful Hearts Duet by bestselling author, Emma Scott, and is inspired by the classic tale, Cyrano de Bergerac. (Roxanne) THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL LOVE TRIANGLE #confusedhearts #notamenage </div>
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Emma Scott once again brings her lyrical prose to the hearts of the readers as you cannot help but be swept away in this stunningly beautiful duet. This author never fails to tug at every heartstring and evoke every single possible emotion as her poetic voice brings to life the story of Weston, Connor and Autumn. Three beautiful souls whose lives were intertwined and whose friendships would stand the test of time. Loyalty, friendship and love is the crux of this story, all tested, and all explored as Emma Scott regales the reader from college to the fields of war and the aftermath, tissues will be required.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weston was a character that called to me from the get-go. Quiet in his demeanour, a little nerdish with a penchant for poetry. Weston’s life was dictated by a traumatic event as a child and had used this event as his mantra going forward, even though it was incredibly unhealthy and made him the butt of jokes. Loyal to a fault, self-sacrificing and with a heart of gold, Weston put everyone's happiness before his own, even if that was the last thing he really wanted to do. However, there was one person that always stood by his side, and that was his best friend, Connor. These two were chalk and cheese, poor and rich, introvert and out-going and yet, these two were inseparable, and their opposites are what levelled the other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Connor was a character that all other men wanted to be and looked up to. Connor was drop-dead gorgeous, confident, rich and his personality just shone from the pages. It was that personality though that was his mask for a deeply unhappy man that really felt the pressures of parents expectations and their lack of belief in his abilities. Connor was a hard character to really understand, to really get under his skin and I would have loved that greater depth knowledge to really understand the man. However, I adored his friendship with Weston. These two were more like brothers than best friends, Connor always had Weston’s back, was his biggest supporter in the stands and was more often than not, Weston’s voice when he was unable to speak. Even though the tables turned eventually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This would have been a five star read for me and was so up until the last part of book two. I did find the ending predictable and found one element a little hard to swallow, but none the less, I adored these characters, they have buried themselves deep into my heart and soul, and their story will stay with me for a very long time. Once again, Emma Scott brought her ‘A’ game and didn’t disappoint. I love this author’s writing voice and cannot recommend her highly enough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For never was there a story of more woe than that of Holland Brooks and her Romeo...</div>
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For as long as I can remember, London Sinclair was the boy who was forbidden. It didn’t matter that he made my heart skip a beat. Our surnames fated us to be sworn enemies. But when the truth was finally revealed, my life changed forever. </div>
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Lies have shaped our past, leaving London and me to pick up the pieces. But through the chaos, one thing is certain—I love London, and he loves me, and we won’t allow anyone to tear us apart again. </div>
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As we attempt to make amends for the past ten years, we soon discover that the ghosts of our past will do anything to drive us apart. We are once again surrounded by deceit and betrayal, testing us in ways we never imagined. </div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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<b><i>“‘Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished. For never was a story more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.’”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Damn Monica James to hell. This book has been on my eagerly anticipating list for five months, five long, torturous months where every update, every teaser I have had to ignore because I didn’t want to know a thing. Absinthe of the Heart, the first book in this duet was one of my favourite reads of the year, and I wanted to go into this one blind, I wanted to get wrapped up in London and Holland’s story yet again, and Monica James didn’t disappoint.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A modern day Romeo and Juliet, London and Holland had the world and their families against them, but you don’t choose love, love chooses you, and these two chose each other when they were five years old. Hate and love are two very close emotions, and London always hid his true emotions when it came to Holland. London always put Holland first, even if it didn’t seem like it at the time and now that the stars have aligned for these two to finally be together it seems the world has other ideas. Will there ever be a right time?<o:p></o:p></div>
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These two characters have embedded themselves into my heart and soul, and if ever two characters deserved each other then London and Holland were it. With an ex that seriously needed to die and London’s mother who I desperately wished the same fate upon, Monica James tore me apart before she expertly pieced me back together. Damn, this book could have been such a tragedy, but this was where Monica James excelled and went against the grain. These characters TALKED!! Yes, that funny thing that partners do, they COMMUNICATED, and that is what made this book so much better, more believable. Monica James could have taken the cliché way out, but she didn’t, and that made this book much more interesting, even more, angsty and so much more emotional.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Both these characters wore their hearts on their sleeve, especially London. London loved Holland with every fibre of his being, and you only had to look at his eyes to see. His actions spoke louder than words, and this man would have walked into the depths of hell for Holland, and he very nearly did. This book was fast paced, action packed and unputdownable. My plan of action for the day totally thrown out of the window because I couldn’t leave these characters alone. My heart was in my mouth too many times to count and a PM the portal to my frustrations and emotions as I gave the person a blow by blow account.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This duet has been an epic journey, one fraught with obstacles, and yet at the end of the day true love shone through and brightened every page. The connection that these two had was enviable, as individuals, both characters were formidable, but together they were impenetrable. A love like that comes once a lifetime, and these two grasped that with both hands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This duet is Monica James’s best work yet. Spanning decades, she brings her A-Game, and I envy the people that can read these two books back to back. Love, hate, secrets, lies, deception, betrayals, revelations but most important, connection, chemistry and a relationship that is destined to stand the test of the time. Definitely one of my favourite duets to date. This has been quite the ride, Monica James.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My home is my sanctuary. Or is it my prison? Some days it's hard to tell.</div>
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I've confined myself behind these walls for protection. I have my reasons, but that doesn't change the profound loneliness I've discovered in the process.</div>
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It's wrong to want this as badly as I do, but I can't help myself. I crave him so desperately. It's hard to tell if what we're doing is going to make me lose my mind or change my entire world, but it's too late to turn back now...</div>
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I've never been quite right. Too high or too low. Pain is my constant companion...at the hands of my abusive ex, and often from myself. The sweet relief is only temporary, but in those moments, it's like I can finally breathe.</div>
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Then I meet him. Silas Rizner calms the chaotic storms inside me. He makes me feel loved, treasured, even when I don't deserve it. I cherish the moments we share--cooking, cuddling, and when Silas reads to me until I fall asleep. When he's inside me, it's the only time in my life I've ever felt complete.</div>
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We're a mess. We're broken, chaotic, beautiful; we're in love.</div>
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<i>*While the sexual situations depicted in Beautiful Chaos are imperative to the characters' development throughout the course of the novel, readers are advised to peruse the "Dear Reader" letter at the beginning of the book to help them make an informed decision about whether this particular story will be to their tastes. This letter can be viewed in the downloadable sample or by using the "Look Inside" feature found on the title's product page.</i></div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 5 stars</b></div>
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I was in need of a different read, my book funk was real, and a contemporary romance just wasn’t hitting the spot, and so I decided to read an M/M. Scouting Amazon for a read I came across this one and the blurb just called to me, and I’m so glad that I took that jump. This book was stunningly, heart-breakingly beautiful. These characters…I adored them, every beautiful, broken piece of them. These two will stay with me for a very long time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was championing these two along from the beginning, I wanted them to overcome their issues even though I knew deep down it was a tall order. This book covers some extremely sensitive subjects, and the authors dealt with them with sensitivity and care and so much emotion. My heart was decimated for the situation that these two found themselves in and yet the authors expertly give the reader that constant glimmer of hope that these two broken men could and would be each other's balm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the fifth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.</div>
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Huntley Von Allister’s cover is firmly in place. </div>
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She’s brilliantly completed her first four missions. </div>
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But she is done.</div>
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Done working for Black X.</div>
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Done trying to untangle the mystery of what got her mother killed. </div>
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She’s given herself a simple mission—to recover the precious memories of her final days with her mother by visiting the places in the photos left behind. </div>
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Well, that, and to discover who owns the emerald rings, like the one she found on Dupree. </div>
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And completely destroy their secret society.</div>
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<b>Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars</b></div>
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<b><i>“In most seafaring cultures, they say the captain should go down with his ship. I love my country, but I fear it’s sinking, and it will take me under.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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This series is so addictive, every time a new instalment comes out I am on it and read through at a rate of knots. As with all previous instalments, this book is action-packed, fast-paced, addictive and all-consuming and the attention to detail was phenomenal. The amount of research and effort is astonishing, and the reward is definitely for the reader to reap. Our amazing heroine goes rogue in this instalment as Huntley Von Allister gets closer and closer to getting the answers she desperately craves, but are the answers ones she wants to hear?<o:p></o:p></div>
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This series is now five books in, yet it doesn’t feel that way. This is a series that is worthy of a TV serial, and I would love to see it on screen. The possibilities are endless with a heroine such as Huntley. Huntley is a trained killing machine, but one thing she has been starved of is love and affection since the death of her parents. Huntley finds it hard to trust, rightly so, but the friendships that she makes throughout this series are ones to be cherished. Yet, it has got to that point where Huntley has to go back and assess everybody. Who can she really trust, who has their own agenda, who is really on her side?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Dauntless picks up where The Valiant left off, and the cliffhanger is answered quickly, thank god. Huntley resumes the trail of breadcrumbs that she has been left, still finding trouble wherever she goes that is answered as only Huntley knows how. Like I said above, the attention to detail and research is second to none and this all adds up to deliver one incredibly addictive story that I just couldn’t let go. Reading as fast I could while still digesting every word my heart was running a mile a minute as Huntley navigates her way around something is more than just a game.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Huntley’s relationship with Lorenzo is still up in the air, and I continue to champion these two along despite the hurdles they have still yet to jump. With the action ramping up to another epic cliff-hanger, that I never saw coming, Jillian Dodd certainly knows how to keep the reader's attention rapt and hanging off every single word.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>“Lorenzo is more. He brings more joy and beauty to my life. More love. More happiness. But with that, sadly, seems to come more rouble, more danger, more pain, and more heartbreak.”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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I cannot wait for The Phoenix to be released and it literally cannot come quick enough. Jillian Dodd is the queen of cliffhangers in this series and while this one was relatively tame compared to the others, what was revealed, was definitely not. Jaw meet floor. Absolutely adored it, bring on the next one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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