#BookReview: The Warning 9The Warning #1) by Kristy Acevedo

Synopsis: The end is coming. There's no escape...or is there? The first in a compelling YA dystopian series for anyone who's ever felt like their life-their world-is on the brink of destruction.

Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder was enough to deal with before then mysterious holographic doors suddenly appeared throughout the world, heralding the end of the earth. The holograms claim to be humans from the future offering the promise of safety. A recording plays on loop: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety...or stay and be destroyed by a comet that is on a collision course with the planet. But without the ability to verify their story, Alex is forced to consider what is best for her friends, her family, and herself.

Stay or go: everyone must make their own choice. With the deadline of the hologram's prophecy fast approaching, Alex feels as though she's living on a ticking time bomb. But the truth is much, much worse. And every decision comes at a price.

#ReleaseBlitz for Infinitely Mine by @landisnikkiauth and @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Infinitely Mine

Series: Royal Bastards MC: Tonopah, NV #17

Author: Nikki Landis

Genres: Dark MC/Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Single Mom/Forced Proximity/Found Family

Release Date: February 23, 2024

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Mammoth:

As the V.P. for the Tonopah RBMC, I make it my job to protect the club, its secrets, and my pres, Grim.

I'm his right-hand man and the one he trusts above all others.

I take pride in my organizational skills and ability to wrangle my brothers, keeping things uncomplicated for Grim.

Everything is just how I want it.

Until I find a single mom and her young son broken down on the side of the road.

Rowen Casey and little Jacob are in trouble and need a protector.

I'm the best man for the job. I just have to convince Rowen.

But taking on this role and getting close to the single mom and her sweet son awakens a deep, primitive need inside me.

I don't just want to keep Rowen and Jacob safe. I have to make them mine.

And if I need to slash through every obstacle and threat, including the vicious threads of her past, I will.

The Reaper has claimed Rowen and no one is standing in our way.

Infinitely Mine can be read as a standalone, but the series is best enjoyed when read in order since ongoing storylines and characters appear throughout and overlap. There are steamy scenes, biker slang, violence, dark content, a paranormal REAPER twist, and, of course, an HEA. You'll find a single, determined mom and a possessive, alpha, six-foot-seven protector who finally meets his match.

#BookReview: The Chaperone by M. Hendrix

Synopsis: Like every young woman in New America, Stella knows the rules:

Deflect attention. 
Abstain from sin. 
Navigate the world with care. 
Give obedience. 
Embrace purity. 
Respect your chaperone. 

Stella can't go out by herself, or spend time with boys except at Visitations. Girls in New America must have chaperones at all times until they marry, so Stella's lucky that Sister Helen is like a friend to her. When Sister Helen dies suddenly, she's devastated, especially when the Constables assign Stella a new chaperone just days later.

Sister Laura is... different. She leaves Stella alone at the library (isn't that illegal?) and knows how to get into the "Hush Hush" parties where all kinds of forbidden things happen. As Stella spends more time with Sister Laura, she begins to question everything she's been taught. What if the Constables' rules don't actually protect girls? What if they were never meant to keep them safe?

Once Stella glimpses both real freedom and the dark truths behind New America, she has no choice but to fight back against the world she knows. She sets out on a dangerous journey across what was once the United States, risking everything.

#CoverReveal for Is This Love? by Kaylee Ryan @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Is This Love?

Series: Everlasting Ink #2

Author: Kaylee Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/Age Gap/Marriage of

Convenience/Fake Relationship/Only One Bed

Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs

Photographer: Rafa G Catala

Release Date: March 19, 2024

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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you the continuation of the stand-alone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. "Is This Love?” is an age gap, marriage of convenience, friends to lovers, small-town romance.

Legend

A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated.

Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn’t care less about the money. It’s not like I even knew my grandparents.

I wasn’t even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I’ve never let myself consider her as an option for me.

She’s been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.

Monroe

It’s not like I planned to marry one of my friends… or fall for him.

One minute I offer to be his fake wife, and the next, we’re going through the motions— saying, “I do,” and playing house.

Legend is the kind of guy fantasies are made of—tall, dark, and tattooed. Now I’m sharing his bed and his last name for the next year.

Everything looks good on paper, and while this may have started out as playing pretend, the way I feel for him is the realest thing I’ve ever known.

As the weeks pass by, it doesn’t take long before either of us begins to question if we’re just friends or if this is this love after all.

#BookReview: The Broken Hearts Club by Susan Bishop Crispell

Synopsis: When the perpetually single daughter of a magical matchmaker reconnects with the boy she’s pretended to be in a relationship with for over a year, she may finally have met her match.

Imogen Finch has never been in love... despite being the daughter of a matchmaker. Her only relationship to date was a fake one with a near stranger named August Tate that she made up to stop people from asking about her love life. To fill the void, she’s channeled her obsession with love into her passion for photography, using her ability to literally see the rose-gold glow of a person in love to capture stunning portraits.

But when her adviser says her photography portfolio is “one note”, she’s desperate to diversify. After hearing her forever crush, Ren, was recently dumped, she decides to photograph the broken-hearted, starting with him. Imogen is hopeful she’ll finally find love and get the right photos. So, the last thing she expects is for the real-life version of her fake boyfriend to show up in town asking why they “broke up”. Before she knows it she’s juggling August and Ren and falling for the first time in her life.

#BookBlitz: The Science of Attraction by Jay Hogan @XpressoTours

The Science of Attraction
Jay Hogan
(A Mackenzie Country Story, #3)
Publication date: February 22nd 2024
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance

I am Mackenzie Country born and bred. Farming the high country runs in my blood, like my father, and his father, and my great grandfather before him. My future has been mapped out for me since the day I was born. Or at least it was, until Liam Skelton walks onto Lane Station, lights a fire in my heart, and turns my whole world upside down.

Bossy, tatted, and out and proud, Liam is everything my father abhors.
And I want him.
Badly.

But having a chance with Liam means risking everything. My family. My future. And my life in these mountains that I love.
Still, the heart wants what it wants, and mine wants Liam.

With so many things against us, maybe we don’t have a chance.
Maybe we’ll crash and burn.
Or maybe we’ll find a way to have it all.