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#BookReview: A Long Time Coming (Cane Brothers, #3) by @AuthorMegQuinn @Read_Bloom

Synopsis: "Have you ever heard of a man-in-waiting?" Yeah, not many have, Breaker Cane included. But his best friend, Lia Fairweather-Fern, can't get married without some extra help. That's why she's recruited him to take on the snarling beast that's her soon-to-be monster-in-law, Mrs. Beaver. For some reason, the groom's mother seems to have never heard the phrase, "What the bride wants, the bride gets." Lucky for Lia, Breaker has, and he accepts the challenge. After all, how much trouble can one woman cause? The problem is, it isn't Mrs. Beaver giving Breaker the most grief―it's actually Lia. Because with every second her wedding draws closer, he's starting to see her in a different light. She's always been beautiful, but now, he finds himself staring a touch too long, his hand lingering for one more minute, and when she's upset? Allowing her to sleep in his bed. Before he knows it, it hits him like a ton of he's fallen in love with his best friend. Nothing is snapping him out of it. Not the girl he tries to date during the wedding planning. Not Lia's increasingly suspicious fiancé. Not even the looming deadline of her upcoming nuptials. Which means there's only one thing left to prove to Lia he's the one she should be with instead. And it's going to be a lot harder than he thinks.

#BookBlitz: Playing to Win by Lynn Mapp @RABTBookTours

 

A Chandler Billionaire Romance, Book 1

Contemporary Romance

Date Published:  March 2024

 

Every male in the family has scaled the marriage mountain only to take catastrophic tumbles.

They’ve dubbed it The Chandler Curse.

Angel Harris has been sitting on the sidelines since her husband’s death three years ago. Her long-held dream of having a family of her own is slipping away because grief left her frozen in time.

Winston Chandler will do anything for his friend and business partner’s widow. By helping her move forward, perhaps the survivor’s guilt he suffers because of his friend’s death will ease. He believes a makeover will show both Angel and others an external transformation has taken place.

Trouble is, he’s too good at the job. Win is drawn to Angel 2.0. They cross the friend line, but Winn isn’t the man to complete the perfect life she envisions. Chandlers and romance are a volatile mix that end in one way. Disaster.

What will it take for Winn to challenge his family’s legacy of failure and conquer The Chandler Curse?

Celebrating family, friendships, and the power of love. Stories with heart, heat, and humor.

 

#BookReview: Their Divine Fires by @wendychenart @AlgonquinBooks

Synopsis: A family saga that begins at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution and spans 100 years to trace the intricate lives of four generations of Chinese and Chinese American women 

In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls in love with the son of a wealthy landlord--but on the night of her wedding, her brother destroys the marriage before it has lasted even a day. Yunhong’s daughter Yuexin will never know her father. She passes that sorrow on to her daughters Hongxing and Yonghong, who come of age in the years following Mao’s death, battling the push and pull of political forces as they forge their own paths. Each generation guards its secrets, leaving Emily, living in contemporary America, to piece together what actually happened between her mother and her sister, and to understand the weight of their shared history.

#BookBlitz: Darkness Falls by @AuthAEFaulkner @XpressoTours $20 Amazon gift card

Darkness Falls
A.E. Faulkner
(Nature’s Fury, #1)
Publication date: March 31st 2019
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

Our family trip to the beach ended before it even began. Mother Nature made sure of that.

Our parents…gone in an instant. It’s just me and my sister. 100 miles from home. No car. No phones. No money. Down to our last crumbs of food.

But just when we figure out what to do, she vanishes.

Mother Nature reached her breaking point and everyone’s paying the price. I have a feeling she isn’t done just yet.

But guess what? Neither am I.

Can Quinn survive the dark side of humanity and outrun nature’s fury? Click Buy Now to find out.

#BookReview: Of Blood and Aether (Harbingers, #1) by @harperhawthorne

Synopsis: A rare conduit of Light, drawn to the Shadows. A spymaster who can’t seem to stay away. 

For as long as she can remember, Arken Asher has been searching for answers—driven by an insatiable hunger, a need to understand the meaning behind her dangerous arcane secrets. She’s finally taken that leap into the unknown, leaving her simple life behind to attend the Arcane Studium: a prestigious college of magickal arts & sciences nestled in the heart of Sophrosyne: the City of the Gods.

As the Scouting & Reconnaissance Captain of the Elder Guard, Kieran Vistarii deals in Shadows, blood and subterfuge. Scarred by his past but dedicated to safeguarding Sophrosyne’s future, Kieran’s self-imposed isolation is easily masked by charm and cocksure energy. Strange disappearances have kept his cadre busy as of late, and yet the captain finds himself sidetracked, distracted by the inexplicable allure of a certain golden-eyed Conduit and her curious mind.

They both know better than to get involved, but the Fates have other plans. The dark threads of prophecy were woven long ago, and the ties that bind just might be what it takes to mend these broken, star-crossed souls… or what forges a deadly bond that could damn them all.

#ReleaseBlitz for Rogue's Cross by Andi Rhodes & Lacy Rose @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rogue's Cross

Series: Saints Purgatory MC #5

Authors: Andi Rhodes & Lacy Rose

Genre: MC Romance

Tropes: Workplace Romance/Opposites Attract

Release Date: April 26, 2024

BLURB

There isn’t a person in the world who hasn’t committed a sin. Some sins are worse than others, but seven of them are deadly. But those seven worst of the worst? They’re what drive Saints Purgatory MC to keep fighting.

Skye…

Life has never been easy for me. I struggled in school due to a learning disorder, and it earned me a relentless amount of teasing. It took years and a few false starts, but I finally got my crap together and started bartending at Purgatory. There isn’t a night without some sort of drama, which can be distracting for everyone. But working in a biker bar is bound to come with a little chaos.

I love it! Sure, it doesn’t hurt that one of the owners is sexy as hell, but he’s my boss and off-limits. Or is he? When money goes missing, all the evidence points directly at me. Accusations fly, and I’m fully prepared to walk out, but after hearing me out, he says he believes that I’m innocent.

Will his faith in me remain, or will he inevitably start believing all the vicious lies being told?

Rogue…

Before I was a patched member of Saints Purgatory MC, I was a certified public accountant. I put on a suit five days a week and worked until I was tired all the way to my bones. Life was boring and predictable, but I was good with numbers, and the salary was great.

Then my cousin came to me with a proposition I couldn’t pass up. I quit my job, joined the MC, and became their money guy. Boring and predictable were no longer words in my vocabulary. And that was even more true once she started working at the bar. She’s the best bartender we’ve ever had which is why I vow to prove her innocence when she’s accused of stealing cash.

Helping her becomes my sole focus, my reason for getting up in the morning, and it doesn’t take long before I’m doing whatever it takes to keep her in my life as more than a valued employee.

I am Saints Purgatory, and I’m a sinner who takes out the sinful.