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We love sharing our thoughts even though we aren't poetic or long winded, we like to think we are somewhat interesting! ;) Thanks for joining us on our crazy journey...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18366914550959919494noreply@blogger.comBlogger705125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-69884989098678218072018-11-20T06:14:00.000-08:002018-11-20T06:14:08.250-08:00New Release ~ Driven to Distraction by Lori Foster
When desire gets this hot, you’d better buckle up…
Mary Daniels doesn’t let anything get in the way of her job acquiring rare artifacts for her wealthy boss. But this particular obstacle—huge, hard-muscled, unashamedly masculine—is impossible to ignore. Stuck in a cramped car with Brodie Crews for hours en route to their new assignment, Mary feels her carefully crafted persona—and her Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-15198092543717481652018-10-18T07:39:00.000-07:002018-10-18T07:39:00.939-07:00New Release ~ Consumed by J.R. Ward
Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed...By her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a firefighter, by her obsession with department bad-boy Danny McGuire, and by a new case that pits her against a fiery killer.Strong-willed Anne was fearless and loved the thrill of fighting fires, pushing herself to be the best. But when one risky decision at a warehouse fire changes her life forever, Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-83315222263087055602018-10-16T05:58:00.000-07:002018-10-16T05:58:02.567-07:00New Release ~ Rough & Ready by Tracy Wolff
Sparks fly between a football pro and an ex-WNBA player. But he needs to prove that he’s more than a sports hero if he wants it all in this steamy standalone from the New York Timesbestselling author of Down & Dirty and Hot & Heavy.Tanner: I may be a baller, but I’ve always tried to do the right thing. Maybe it’s because I’ve been in charge of my four younger Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-22374513701780834612018-09-04T06:09:00.000-07:002018-09-04T06:09:08.930-07:00New Release ~ Hard Sell by Lauren Layne
He’s a Wall Street wolf. She’s been hired to tame him. From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes a wildly sexy novel of business and pleasure.
Twenty-eight and filthy rich, Matt Cannon is the youngest broker on Wall Street. He may be a “boy wonder,” but he’s every inch a man. Ask any woman—any night. But when Matt’s latest fling makes scandalous headlines, his Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-52563148995559190242018-09-04T03:30:00.000-07:002018-09-04T03:30:02.582-07:00New Release ~ Avoiding the Badge by Dorothy F. Shaw
Rayna Michaels may be a veterinarian, but she knows a little something about the human heart—especially when it comes to worried pet owners. Law enforcement’s bonds with their K9 partners are legendary, and Derek Hansen is a perfect example—he’s had his dog Axle in more times than she can count in the last few months. And Derek’s sculpted muscles and heart-stopping smile would be truly Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-12263204029085128212018-08-28T03:00:00.000-07:002018-08-28T03:00:20.429-07:00New Release ~*~ Face Off by Brenda Novak
From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak comes Face Off, the next installment of Dr. Evelyn Talbot and her murderous home for psychopaths.
SHE VOWED NEVER TO BE A VICTIM AGAIN. BUT NOW A KILLER HAS HER IN HIS SIGHT. . .
Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life’s work—studying the disturbing Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-64479241410860175502018-08-16T06:11:00.000-07:002018-08-16T06:11:16.957-07:00New Release ~ Bishop by Sawyer Bennett
Meet the Arizona Vengeance, hockey’s hottest new team. They’re burning up the ice—until a one-night-stand with the coach’s daughter freezes one player in his skates.
Bishop Scott, co-captain. Not too shabby, huh? It’s all part of my fresh start with the NHL’s latest expansion team, and that means new teammates, a new coach, a new city, and a big new contract. Basically, I cannot f***ing Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-77413242574413927202018-08-15T06:13:00.000-07:002018-08-15T06:13:13.687-07:00New Release ~ The Shape of You by Georgia Beers
Personal trainer Rebecca McCall is furious when her coworker is sidelined and she’s forced to teach the “Be Your Best Bride” class. As if being a size two for your wedding photos is all exercise is good for. Could the whole thing get more vain and sexist? The class is full of preening, giggling Bridezillas, but one woman stands out. The one who confesses she’s only there because her fiancée Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-22001637281779793792018-08-14T06:18:00.000-07:002018-08-14T06:18:06.838-07:00New Release ~ Infinite by Cecy Robson
Hale Wilder, aka the Anaconda of Wall Street, spent his childhood fighting to be the best to win his father’s love. He was the best student and the best athlete, who grew into a successful businessman and took the finance world by storm. Want to retire before you’re forty-five? He’s got you. Need your millions to be billions? He’s your man.
Young, rich, and powerful, Hale was Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-49425971870474698782018-08-14T03:00:00.000-07:002018-08-14T03:00:01.347-07:00New Release ~*~ Feared by Lisa Scottoline
In the new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Mary DiNunzio’s ruthless nemesis Nick Machiavelli is back...with a vengeance.
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination—claiming that they were not hired because they were men—Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-53563652500680814132018-08-13T06:56:00.000-07:002018-08-13T06:56:15.651-07:00New Release ~ Sliding Home by Kathy Lyons
Shy and reserved, good girl Ellie McDonald is determined to break out of her shell–and her relationship rut. First order of business, woman up and finally ask her longtime secret crush, Jake Armstrong on an old-fashioned date. She's not at all his type–which is great. Once Jake turns her down she can finally move on. Except he says yes...
MVP short-stop Jake Armstrong has tried to keep Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-6182728681594981222018-08-06T03:00:00.000-07:002018-08-06T03:00:07.139-07:00New Release ~ Going Rogue by Chantal Fernando
Love blossoms in the most unexpected of places in this sweet and steamy Cursed Ravens Motorcyle Club title featuring a hunky bad boy and a charming nurse.The men might tease Rogue and call him pretty behind his back, but no one is going to say that to his face. As the vice president of the Cursed Ravens—and with an unpredictable and unruly temper—respect is given to him at any cost.But Rogue Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-29192340146510063512018-08-03T06:52:00.000-07:002018-08-03T06:52:32.709-07:00Hitting It by Kathy Lyons
Making it to the Major Leagues is all rookie ballplayer, Rob Lee, has ever dreamed of. But now, he's a little overwhelmed with his new celebrity status. Everyone wants a piece of the new heavy hitter for the Indianapolis Bobcats. Still, he's worked hard for it, and he doesn't have many regrets. Although there is one...
If journalist Heidi Wong wants to keep her job, she needs to come up with Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-46255064329765586052018-08-02T06:29:00.000-07:002018-08-02T06:29:00.482-07:00Rx for Love by Michelle Hughes
I thought I knew where my life was going. Which goes to show that we don’t know anything. I had the perfect life. A husband who loved me, getting the promotion as the head of our cardiopulmonary department, and a life plan that gave me purpose. Then with one fell swoop, everything was destroyed. Finding your sister in bed with the love of your life puts things in a different perspective. Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-62079326748584862602018-08-01T06:49:00.000-07:002018-08-01T06:49:09.813-07:00New Release ~ A Measure of Darkness by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
t's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man--earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. And his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with him a great big basket of crazy.Then the call comes in the middle of the night. It's a bad one. A party in West Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-44528505579142516142018-07-31T03:00:00.000-07:002018-07-31T03:00:15.724-07:00New Release ~ Deep Cover by Scarlett Cole
ARE THEY IN TOO DEEP?
Ex-Navy SEAL Cabe Moss always comes when called to duty—at all costs. Even though the death of his fiancée nearly destroyed him, Cabe won’t let his past interfere with any work that has to get done. When his latest task pushes him to team up with FBI Agent Amy Murray, a fierce beauty with the undercover skills to match, Cabe must admit that, for the first time in years, Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-33639071125991345722018-07-30T06:21:00.000-07:002018-07-30T06:21:08.302-07:00Whiskey Sharp: Torn by Lauren Dane
Sometimes what you find isn’t what you were searching forBeau Petty has been searching his whole life. Searching for a place that fills all the empty spaces in him. Searching for a way to tame the restlessness. Searching for answers to the secret he’s never stopped trying to solve. What he wasn’t searching for was a woman to claim all of him, but when Cora Silvera walks back into his life, he’sStarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-60908513656113858362018-07-29T06:08:00.001-07:002018-07-29T06:08:08.349-07:00New Release ~ Hot & Heavy by Tracy Wolff
When a daredevil football stud tries to get into your yoga pants, you know class is about to get interesting. The New York Times bestselling author of Down & Dirty returns with Hot & Heavy. Sage: Although I come from a long line of free-spirited yoga teachers, sometimes I wish my life could be just a little more normal. More ordinary. More boring.Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-70684991439275349062018-07-24T03:00:00.000-07:002018-07-24T03:00:10.862-07:00Expose by Danielle Girard
With her vindictive ex-husband out of prison, San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman is trying harder than ever to move on with her life—by focusing on her job to speak for the victims who can’t. Summoned to a homicide in Golden Gate Park, she realizes that she’d seen the victim just hours before, alive and well in a parked Jeep with a small boy. Now, the woman has been stabbed Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-83543154021127371002018-07-23T08:26:00.000-07:002018-07-23T08:26:13.495-07:00New Release ~ Assassin Games by Sidney Bristol
Anderson Gratney does odd jobs that usually involve a gun and covert ops for the CIA. His latest assignment? Kidnap a CIA analyst in order to keep her safe. Easy. Except there’s nothing simple about the beautiful, careful Carol Sark, who tempts him the more he learns about her.
Coming face to face with a masked man in her home is the most terrifying experience of Carol’s life—until he kidnapsStarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-6501487502128647092018-07-18T07:18:00.000-07:002018-07-18T07:18:00.138-07:00New Release ~ Rock Legend by Tara Leigh
I'm no Prince Charming.Most people know me as the drummer for Nothing but Trouble. Depending who you ask, I'm also a playboy, a loner, the life of the party, a screw-up, or according to my fans, "The Sexiest Rock Star on the Planet." Apparently, I'm a legend. Am I surprised? Hell, no. It's a reputation I've earned behind my drum kit and behind closed doors. No one thought foster Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-8949992650562335172018-07-17T12:14:00.000-07:002018-07-17T12:14:27.432-07:00New Release ~ Landing Zone by Erin Dutton
Former U.S. Army pilot Lauren Henley and police training instructor Kim “Monty” Montgomery share a love of country, a sense of duty, and grief for a woman who left them too soon. That the woman they lost was a friend to one and a lover to the other should at least give Kim and Lauren something on which to build a friendship. But from the moment they met, they’ve been at odds. When Lauren Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-13787021398819066312018-07-16T07:24:00.000-07:002018-07-16T07:24:16.874-07:00New Release ~ Double Blind by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-54497978447235759272018-07-14T07:47:00.000-07:002018-07-14T07:47:09.621-07:00Tripwire by Traci Hunter Abramson
Jane Napierski is back at work at the job she loves—being a personal assistant to her friend Sienna Blake, a rising star actress. The duo is on location in Virginia Beach to film Sienna’s new TV series, along with costar Reed Forrester—the man with whom the world thinks Sienna is in love. Wrong.
Sienna’s heart actually belongs to her fiancé, Craig, a Navy Seal with the Saint Squad. Craig mustStarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5421815535707277608.post-23712710311486760482018-07-12T02:30:00.000-07:002018-07-12T02:30:05.711-07:00Her Last Word by Mary Burton
Fourteen years ago, Kaitlin Roe was the lone witness to the abduction of her cousin Gina. She still remembers that lonely Virginia road. She can still see the masked stranger and hear Gina’s screams. And she still suffers the guilt of running away in fear and resents being interrogated as a suspect in the immediate aftermath. Now Kaitlin has only one way to assuage the pain and nightmares—by Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09106157102024318577noreply@blogger.com0