Summer Love: A Secret Romance Collection by Carrie Ann Ryan

 

Summer Love: A Secret Romance Collection by Carrie Ann Ryan

Blurb:

That moment you find the perfect person.

But the world can never know.

Forbidden. Tempting. Forever in secret.

Are they worth the risk?

Includes:

Harder than Words: A Montgomery Ink Romance

Far From Destined: A Promise Me Romance

Accidentally Forever: A Montgomery Ink Legacy Romance

 

My review:

Harder Than Words

Everyone knows someone like Meghan Montgomery-Warren.  A bright beautiful girl who married too young and is now divorced with two kids and low self-esteem.  But a year after the divorce she is slowly coming back and getting on her feet. 

When Meghan got married before he could find the courage to express his love for his oblivious best friend Luc had to bail.  He left because though he wanted her to be happy what he really wanted was for her to be happy with him. 

Luc is back after 10 years and Meghan is single again.  Can he take a chance with the woman she has become as the man he is today?  Will she give him the chance or is she too damaged to try to love again?

This book made me laugh and cry and yell a lot.  This book will take you on an emotional roller coaster ride. I found myself relating to Meghan.

 

Far From Destined

Veterinarian Macon Brady is broken. He’s survived being shot but it has changed him. Coffee house owner Dakota Bristol is broken too. Her ex did a number on her ego and her heart. These two may just be what the other needs.
This is an engaging and endearing tale that is sure to tug at your heartstrings.

 

Accidentally Forever

Aria and Crew are hot, hot, hot! This book like no other proves that communication is a unique construct that is individual to each group involved. And oh so necessary for interpersonal relationships. Aria and Crew have been sniping at each other and anyone looking at them from the outside might think they didn’t like each other. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Like all of Carrie Ann Ryan’s work this story will make you cry, laugh, sigh and think. A fantastic read.

 

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Street (Devil Daddies MC) by Pepper North

 

 

Blurb:

Helping a drugged Devil Daddy wasn’t the only risky move Rosa had ever taken.

The newest member of the Devil Daddies MC, Street works hard to prove himself. Who knew his attempt to spy on the Ravagers’ plans would end with a slip of a woman driving his beloved motorcycle? Now, his rescuer needs protecting and Street will do everything in his power to keep her safe.

Rosa Serrano has survived on her own since she was fourteen. Staying under the radar has forced her to work crappy jobs where they don’t ask questions. She should have stayed quiet, but the last guy the Ravagers targeted met a bad end. Can she truly trust the tough biker whose caring Daddy dominance calls to the woman she’s buried deep inside?
The members of the Devil Daddies MC will risk all to secure two things: special acquisitions and women with a Little side.

 

My review:

Street and Rosa will melt your heart. Street got rufied while undercover at the Ravargers club. Rosa noticed and got him safely away but lost her job by doing it. Following their story will put a smile on your face and in your heart.

 

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Wolf Revealed (SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team) by Paige Tyler

 

 

Blurb:

He watched his family die…

Ten years ago, werewolf shifter Mike Taylor watched his home explode, killing his fiancée, Lark, and their infant son, Kal. Back then, Mike was undercover DEA, deeply infiltrated in the cartel. When his cover was blown, his family paid the price––or so he thought.

When SWAT is called to a hostage situation, Mike’s life goes sideways. Lark is back, desperate for help. Kal has been kidnapped by the very cartel that tried to kill them ten years ago. They think Mike has a sensitive flash drive and they want it back––or Kal dies. No mistakes this time. Mike and Lark have another chance at happiness, and working together to save their son shows them that their love––and their attraction––never faded.

Mike will risk everything to have his family back, but it will take the entire Pack to take down the cartel for good. And when a traitor is revealed, the precious time it costs the Pack could mean life or death.

 

My review:

Wolf Revealed is the exciting conclusion to the SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team. Mike was under the impression that he’d lost his chance at happiness as his “One” had died years ago. But now she’s back and she’s brought a passle of trouble to his door. This tale is filled with action, terror and a second chance at love and happiness.

 

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Knife Volume 2 (Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club Book 16) by Candace Blevins

Knife Volume 2  (Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club Book 16) by Candace Blevins

 

Blurb:

She didn’t ask permission. She took action.

Tuesday walked into the Rolling Thunder MC’s restaurant on a Friday night, hollowed out and no longer powered by the magic of the pack. Hours earlier, she’d barely survived the agonizing, soul-deep trauma of having the enchanted, intimate connection ripped from her very being after asking for the blood bonds to be burned away. She was still weak, vulnerable, and raw, but she couldn’t wait weeks to regain her strength before finding out his reaction.

Knife breathed her in, realized she no longer smelled of pack, and he was furious. Seeing Tuesday stripped of her strength shreds the last of his rigid control. He had a plan. Three months, and he would have forsaken his brothers so she could keep everything she was. Instead, she’d walked away from what they had and then unilaterally decided to sever bonds forged in blood. She’d sacrificed her safety and security for him, something he’d never wanted her to do. He loves her for it, but can he forgive her?

What follows is the reckoning. The claiming, the integration, and the painstaking work of building a new life between two people who’d both walked away from the only communities they’d ever known. The supernatural politics are volatile, the MC rules are absolute, and the fallout of her choice is far-reaching.

But Knife doesn’t play games, he plays for keeps — and he challenges Tuesday to be his in ways she never dreamed of surrendering to.

Their explosive chemistry transforms into a powerful tool for healing. Knife can take her apart at the seams, but he’s also the only man capable of putting her back together.

Author’s Note: KNIFE: Volume 2 is the scorching high-heat conclusion of the Rolling Thunder MC paranormal romance duet, with a hard-won, fully-earned HEA. Perfect for readers who crave intense hurt/comfort dynamics, fierce lone-wolf-finding-community arcs, and angry, emotional reunion sex that deepens into absolute devotion. The finale delivers edge play with profound emotional depth, tender aftercare, and a fiercely protective hero who will burn the world down for his mate. It features primal shifter dynamics, outlaw biker grit, extreme power exchange, meticulous conditioning, lengthy stress bondage, all balanced by a profound caretaking where food is a love language. Set against a gritty Southern backdrop with deep Appalachian roots, this is a story of earning Ol’Lady status, being encircled and accepted by a ruthless found family to replace broken blood bonds, and two people building an unbreakable life together. Ends with a guaranteed, rock-solid HEA. 

For readers who need the destination as much as the journey: they get there. Every inch of it earned.

 

My review:

This book starts where Knife Volume 1 ended. Tuesday has made the painful decision to cut ties with the pack so she is free to be fully with Knife. He absolutely hates that she made that choice but is thrilled that they now have the chance to explore their love. The way they express their love may not be for everyone, but it works for them. I enjoyed seeing both the harsh and softer sides of Knife.

 

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Our Nanny is a Vampire by Lindsey Devin and Roxie Ray

 

Blurb:

Conrad Lawrence has lost nine nannies in three years.

There was Nanny Franny McFine (four days). Marie Von Fire, who claimed she'd once worked for a duke. Mrs. Corrinna Rainer, who lasted until Billie released crickets into her suitcase. Mademoiselle Joella Frosty, who called his kids "creatively hostile" and blocked his number before she reached the end of the driveway.

So when nanny #10 walked through the door, Conrad wasn't expecting much. Then Winnie shows up.

She's calm where his house is chaos. Patient where his kids are relentless. And she sees the grief he's been quietly carrying for three years without flinching from it — because she's been carrying centuries of her own.

Winnie has survived two hundred years by never staying long enough to be found. But this house, this impossible family, and this exhausted, good-hearted father are the first things she's wanted to keep in longer than she can remember.

She should have known better. Because the past doesn't let go that easily — and hers is coming to collect.

✨ Perfect for readers who love: grumpy widower x unbothered 200-year-old nanny energy, slow-burn nanny romance, found family with a coffin parked under the trees, and exes who show up mid-domesticity like they weren't already asked to leave

 

My review:

Our Nanny is a Vampire by Lindsey Devin and Roxie Ray is a heartwarming story of a widowed father of three precocious children just trying to make it through the day. This tale is filled with laugh out loud moments and loads of love. I truly enjoyed their tale.

 

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Knife Volume 1: A Motorcycle Club Paranormal Forbidden Romance (Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club Book 15) by Candace Blevins

 Knife Volume 1: A Motorcycle Club Paranormal Forbidden Romance (Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club Book 15) by Candace Blevins

 

Blurb:

 

He was the only man she’d ever met who could make a rope cage feel like home, and she was the one woman he wasn’t capable of setting free. But fate is a sadistic bitch.

 

Tuesday has spent her life moving between worlds — pack wolf, NFL nomad kid, culinary school overachiever. She’s built a life on her own terms: a high-powered consulting career with clients she chooses, and a careful distance from complications. Falling for a member of the Rolling Thunder MC qualifies as a complication. Falling for an extinct apex predator qualifies as something considerably more dangerous, but when she meets Knife, her human side is intrigued while her inner wolf instantly wants to roll over, show her belly, and submit to whatever he might want.

 

Knife doesn’t play games, and he doesn’t do messy. He certainly wasn’t expecting a pack wolf with a culinary degree and a Maserati to walk into his butcher shop on a Friday morning and see through him enough to tell him her safeword. From the moment they negotiate their boundaries, the rules are clear: edge play inside absolute power exchange without emotional entanglements. It's supposed to be purely physical, but Tuesday surrenders and trusts him with an intensity that floors him while he explores all his kinks and a few of hers in profound extremes.

 

Behind closed doors, their chemistry is explosive, pushing past every physical and psychological boundary they've ever known, but outside their private sanctuary, reality is a minefield. Tuesday’s alpha has absolute access to her every thought, and the MC’s rules strictly forbid romantic entanglements because the club survives by keeping their secrets hidden. He can’t be involved with someone bound to an alpha, and that makes Tuesday Robinson not just forbidden, but dangerous.

 

The deeper they sink into each other, the higher the stakes become, but sometimes, the heart doesn’t care about logic, rules, or consequences.

 

 

Author’s Note: KNIFE: Volume 1 begins a scorching paranormal motorcycle club duet featuring a fiercely independent pack wolf finding absolute surrender in the darkest corners of power exchange with a biker. Perfect for readers who crave dual shifter protagonists and alpha hero / competent heroine dynamics, edge play with profound emotional depth, rope bondage, sensory deprivation, and grueling endurance play balanced by intense, loving aftercare. Set against a gritty Southern backdrop of outlaw motorcycle clubs, pack politics, and foodie passion, this is a forbidden romance, friends-with-benefits-to-lovers story about found family and the ultimate sacrifice of identity for love. Volume 1 ends on a cliffhanger, but the duet concludes with a guaranteed HEA in KNIFE: Volume 2, available August 7, 2026.

 

My review:

Knife and Tuesday are perfect for each other. It’s like they were made for each other except he’s a member of the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club and they carry secrets no one outside the club is allowed to be privy to. Tuesday is a pack wolf and would have to answer to her alpha whether she wanted to or not. Can their developing love for each other survive their divided loyalties.

This is a kinky love story that has opposites filling the missing parts of the other. I enjoyed watching them discover each other and look forward to them getting their HEA in the next book.

 

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(Mostly) Human Resources (Entity Case Files #1) by Grace Viall

 

 

Blurb:

A debut slow-burn work-nemesis romance set in a world where cryptids and monsters are a part of life . . . and someone has to do the paperwork.

Working in human resources was not what Alexys had in mind when she joined Entity, the private company that categorizes and manages the world’s cryptids. But after her dad was killed on the job as a Warden in the Appalachian Mountains, she was filled with noble ideas of carrying on his legacy . . . from the safety of a desk. Alexys dreams of climbing the corporate ladder while managing the Appalachian Wardens and sparring with Nic, the frustrating (and annoyingly attractive) Director of Research and Cataloguing.

When one of Alexys’ new Wardens goes missing after inquiring about a mysterious and highly dangerous monster, her chances of promotion disappear along with him. Determined to save her career—and to shield the Warden’s family from the trauma she experienced after losing her father on the job—she marches off into the monster-infested wilderness to find him herself.

Meanwhile, Nic, with ambitions of becoming the youngest Entity employee to discover a new monster, follows Alexys on her hunt. But the work nemeses are about to discover why the Appalachian Mountains are the last place you want to find yourself after dark. Among mountains older than bones, the jackalopes and ghouls are the least of their worries . . .

 

My review:

Smart, sassy and super (Mostly) Human Resources (Entity Case Files #1) by Grace Viall takes us into the world of Alexys Keane. Alexys works in HR managing Wardens who keep track of the monsters that go bump in the night. This tale takes us into the Appalachian Mountains and the monsters that dwell there. Alexys’ adventures will make you think and laugh. I really enjoyed watching a city girl in the mountains. I look forward to future adventures in this world.

 

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