5 Kiss ARC Review: The Apartment (The Apartment Novels #1) by Amanda Black

Lily has spent a lifetime putting everyone else’s needs before her own.
Ethan is struggling to find a place in the home he left behind.
When the two meet by chance in an empty apartment, everything changes. Drawn together by an inexplicable desire, Lily and Ethan discover a passion neither knew existed. And so, they make a pact: Nothing from their outside lives will enter the apartment—not even their names.

3.5 Kiss ARC Review: Capturing Cora (Romps & Rakehells #1) by Madelynne Ellis

Branwell “Tinker” Locke believes in grand gestures . However, when his marriage proposal to Miss Cora Reeve is dismissed as a jape, Bran has to find another way to persuade Cora of his utmost sincerity, even if it means using his tongue for something other than pretty words.
Cora believes Bran is simply set upon helping her win a wager , even though she longs for his love.

4 Kiss ARC Review & Giveaway–Too Rough For Love (Steel Veins MC #1) by Adair Rymer

Attendant at her family's gas station and chased by dead-end boys, Star ached for an escape from her tedious routine. She was desperately looking for something she couldn't quite place.
Then the deadly Steel Veins bikers rolled in, and she got more than she bargained for.
Her past now a smoldering wreckage, Star's only salvation from the vicious gang lies in the ruggedly handsome, hard-case Remy Daniels. Despite all the horror and carnage, he keeps pulling her out of the flames. She needs to know why. Even if it means wagering with her life.

4 Kiss ARC Review & Giveaway: Stay (The Command #1) by Karyn Lawrence

A gunshot rings out and interrupts Laurel Hayward’s first steps on stage as a professional dancer, and witnessing an assassination is just the beginning of her horrific night. The ruthless killer is determined to either have her or to silence her, landing Laurel in the protective custody of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jason Dunn.
His cocky, indifferent attitude gets under her skin, but worse yet, there’s undeniable attraction. Jason can claim he’s not interested in her all he wants but once he’s got her tucked away in a safe house his actions say otherwise.

ARC Review & Giveaway–Dog With a Bone (Black Dog #1) by Hailey Edwards

Half-bloods with Thierry’s skill set are given two options. They can join the conclave’s marshal program, or they can pack their bags. Turn down the job offer, and you’ve just shredded your residency pass for the mortal realm and booked yourself a one-way ticket to Faerie.
Texas is the only home Thierry has ever known, and she’s not going anywhere. Even if it means following in her notorious father’s footsteps as a peacekeeper. But pinning on the badge opens her eyes to the fact sometimes fae need protection

ARC Review & Giveaway: Torrent (Condemned #1) by Gemma James

She sent an innocent man to prison. Now, eight years later, he's returning the favor...
I’ve been obsessed with Rafe Mason since I was thirteen. The twisted part of this story is that I still want him, even now.
Now that he's holding me captive on an island.
Rafe has his reasons for doing what he's doing, and if I'm honest, I can't blame him. I’m the girl who sent him to prison for a heinous crime he didn't commit.
But now he's free and the tables have turned...now he's the one driven by obsession.

ARC Review: Lash (Broken Angel #1) by L.G. Castillo

Decades after being banished from Heaven for saving a life he shouldn’t have, Lash is given a chance to redeem himself. His mission: protect Naomi Duran, a young woman who has lost her faith. The assignment proves to be anything but simple when his superiors, the Archangels, withhold key information about Naomi and refuse to restore Lash’s powers. When an unexpected source reveals centuries-old secrets, his trust is shaken to the core, and he begins to doubt those whom he had once considered to be his greatest allies.

ARC Review & Giveaway: Strapped by Nina Jones

By all appearances, Shyla Ball has an enviable life: a loyal boyfriend, a great job, and family that loves her. She doesn't realize how deeply unsatisfied she is until she has an embarrassing encounter with a handsome stranger at a coffee shop. Taylor Holden, a successful businessman, takes a sudden special interest in her and offers her a job she cannot refuse. Soon after, she learns there is much more to this intensely private man than meets the eye. He is hiding many painful secrets, including why it is that he has seemingly plucked her out of obscurity for such a lucrative position.

ARC Review: Honey Red by Liz Crowe

Two men suffering from visible and invisible wounds meet by chance circumstance.

Nick Traynor and Ian Donovan spend a lot of time and effort keeping it very hot, only physical, and purely superficial. But when their resolve starts to slip, a woman is tossed into their midst
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Hannah Williams wants nothing more than to do her job until something better comes along, but is forced to own up to her visceral reaction to Ian, her new boss, and later to Nick, his sometimes lover.

Lust has a funny way of turning into companionship, and eventually evolving into a deeper connection. Faced with the internal and external complications of their potential three-way relationship, they begin to heal and trust, to consider that it might work. Then life tosses them a hardball, forcing them back into their respective corners, where each must choose what is most important.

Blog Tour: Anne Calhoun’s Breath on Embers-ARC Review & Giveaway!

Hello, Fellow Readers! Please join me in welcoming Anne Calhoun to the blog. She brings FAQ with her and we gain a great insight into her creative process. Don’t forget to enter her giveaway and snag a copy of her amazing book, Breath on Embers which I’ve reviewed as well!

 

 

ARC Review: Forbidden (The World of Nightwalkers #1) by Jacquelyn Frank

From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank comes this first book in The World of the Nightwalkers—an exciting and sensual new spin-off series in which the Bodywalkers, an ancient race of the night, battles the evil forces who prey on them.

The unexpected happens in an instant. On her way to work, secretary Docia Waverley hurtles into a crashing crossroads, and she quickly begins to suspect that things will never be the same. Then, when a tall, blond, muscular stranger intervenes on her behalf, telling her it is his duty to protect her at all cost, what is just a feeling turns to proof positive. That is, as long as Docia’s savior doesn’t turn out to be a crazed kidnapper.

ARC Review: The Prince by Tiffany Reisz

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...preferably in bed.

That's always been Kingsley Edge's strategy with his associate, the notorious New York dominatrix Nora Sutherlin. But with Nora away in Kentucky, now it's Kingsley's chance to take her place at the feet of the only man he's ever wanted -- Søren, Nora's on-again, off-again lover -- until a new threat from an old enemy forces him to confront his past.

Review: Twice Shy by Patrick Freivald

Tied for 1st place in the 2012 JS writing contest.

Kirkus Reivews, "A compulsively readable and pleasantly different zombie tale, all the way to its pull-no-punches end."

High School Sucks. It’s worse when you’re dead.

Ohneka Falls is a small, Western New York town where everyone knows everyone and nothing of note happens. Ani Romero is a sixteen-year-old girl who wants to play sports, hang out, and kiss Mike, her middle-school crush. A childhood carrier of the zombie virus, she died at fourteen but didn’t become a mindless, brain-eating monster.

Review: Hidden Paradise by Janet Mullany

Louisa Connelly, a recently widowed Jane Austen scholar, needs some relief from her stifling world. When a friend calls to offer her a temporary escape from her Montana ranch, she is whisked into a dizzying world of sumptuous food, flowing wine…and endless temptation.

She's an honored guest at Paradise Hall, an English resort boasting the full experience of an authentic Georgian country-house weekend. Liveried servants tend to every need of houseguests clad in meticulous period costume: snug breeches, low-cut silken gowns and negligible undergarments.

ARC Review: The Virgin’s Revenge by Dee Tenorio & Giveaway!

Available July 3, 2012!

If you can’t beat ’em…seduce ’em.

A Rancho del Cielo Romance

Amanda Jackman’s love life is the stuff dreams are made of...which is fitting, because it’s all in her head. Thanks to six oversized, overbearing brothers who treat her like the family jewel, she’s lived in a padded little box.

Determined to get a life before she needs a padded little cell, she sets out to throw off the yoke and live on her own terms. Except she seriously underestimates the lengths to which her brothers will go to keep her safe and sound.

Cole Engstrom’s life might just be at an end. Cornered by all six of the massive Jackmans—men he normally considers his friends—he learns he’s their choice to marry their sister...or else. Make that first choice, but not the last.

Rather than watch Amanda’s brothers club their way through potential mates, Cole figures it’s best to just play along for a while and buy her some time to find a man of her own. It’s a good plan. Until Amanda figures it out—and decides he’s the one to relieve her of her “sheltered little virgin” status. One seduction at a time...
Warning: This sexy romp of a book contains a virgin, a man and a plan. Game. On.

My Review:

For ten years, Amanda Jackman has had a crush on Cole Engstrom, but she’s never acted on it because Cole is a commitment-phobe who goes through girls like they are giving them away for free. To make matters worse, Cole is friends with Amanda’s overprotective brothers, and there is no way he will risk life or limb to see her as anything other than the Jackman’s little untouchable sister.

Amanda’s tried everything to become independent from her brothers: getting a job at the local lingerie shop and moving out on her own. But that does little to attract anyone from Rancho del Cielo to take on her brothers and ask her out on a date.

Then everything changes when one day Amanda overhears her oldest (and most intimidating) brother, Locke, make a deal with Cole. Locke tells Cole the family has chosen him as Amanda’s husband and he has to marry her.

Cole can’t believe what he’s hearing and neither can Amanda. From that point on, The Virgin’s Revenge is filled with plans of seduction, love, and loads of humor that won’t let you put this wonderful feel-good book down!

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A warm kiss fluttered at the small of her back, gentle fingers settling over her bare waist. She raised her brows, pleasure seeping  through her senses. Another kiss, a nip almost, before those fingertips slid over her skin to stroke her belly.

“Cole?” she asked, loath to open her eyes. This was possibly the best way ever to wake up on a Monday morning. More kisses, more strokes. The flat of his palm roving up her ribs to find her breast and claim it in a firm clasp. All the while, his tongue drew deliciously hot patterns on her back.

She gasped, his fingers plucking at her nipples. Rolling the hardened tips with a lazy determination. Her body arched, legs tangling in the sheets. His mouth found the back of her neck, his teeth dragging erotically up one side and down the other. He never let go of her breasts, either, rubbing them against each other, continuing the plucking at the tips that was about to make her lose her mind.

“Touch yourself for me,” he whispered in that shiver-inducing tone. 

Oh, it would be so easy to do that. She was already parting her legs, the ache at her center growing slick and needy, but she’d had more than enough of touching herself. She wanted his hands on her. His mouth. His everything.

She moaned, scissoring her legs back and forth. Her wetness seemed to double at just the idea of his fingertips parting her, delving through her folds, finding the hard pebble of  her clit.

How long had she wondered what it would feel like to have his hands on her body? What his touch would be like as a lover? Would he be desperate? Out of his mind with passion? Or slow, using utmost control while turning her into a puddle of orgasmic bliss? Hadn’t she waited long enough to find out?

 

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ARC Review: Archer’s Lady (Bloodhounds #3) by Moira Rogers

 

She's looking for redemption. He doesn't believe in it.

Accused of betraying the Bloodhound Guild, Archer's only chance to regain the trust of his fellow hounds is to earn it--one dangerous job at a time. Crystal Springs may be the worst yet. The town has been deserted by all but the poor and the desperate, yet the vampires stalking the edges of the settlement haven't closed in for the kill. Question is, why?

Grace Linwood, professional liar, has been hiding under the guise of a border schoolteacher for so long, she's almost fallen for her own con. The frontier was supposed to be her chance at a respectable life, but now the cowardly part of her wants to flee. When Archer catches her considering a run for safety, she knows it's only a matter of time before he sees through her charade.