Bookish Girl’s Emergency Contact Is a Lycan King by Elara Hazeby & KA Iris

 

Bookish Girl’s Emergency Contact Is a Lycan King by Elara Hazeby & KA Iris

 

Blurb:

I put down the wrong number as my emergency contact,
and it summoned a 300-year-old Lycan wolf shifter to my hospital bed.

Now he acts like I already belong to him, and growling that I’m his fated mate.

I’m an anxious bookshop owner with panic attacks and a questionable addiction to spicy romance novels.

The last thing I needed was a brooding alpha alphabetizing my chaotic shelf, and laminating my anxiety checklists.

I called him pretty. To be fair, I was concussed.

Orion Halloran is built like a mountain, unbearably controlled, and certain I’m his.

He kisses like he's memorized me. Growls my name when I come apart under his mouth.

But his pack has ancient rules. A human can't be queen.

He thinks I'm worth fighting for. And for the first time in my life, it feels like someone understands me.

Maybe it's time I let him prove it.

 

My review:

I bought this book because of the title and the cover. I was pleasantly surprised that the story did them justice. Two neurodivergent beings finding love with someone who “gets” them. A delightful tale of love and acceptance.

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Pretend it's Forever (The Cage Family #5) by Carrie Ann Ryan

 

Blurb:

Sophia Cage doesn’t need a protector—she needs a night to pretend her world didn’t splinter. After her world burned, she found herself a single mom, a struggling dance studio owner, and unable to do the one thing that had brought her out of the darkness.

Dance.

When Carson walks into her life, all she can see is the broken person she’d been when they’d first met. She’s stronger than the ghosts of her past, at least that’s what she tells herself. Yet with each accidental encounter with the mysterious and dangerous man who’s inserted himself into the Cage family orbit, she’s finding it harder to walk away.

Carson Woods doesn’t trust people. He’s spent his life protecting his sister from their family and the world all while making sure his businesses are the best in their fields.

Then he meets her.

One wrong move with the shattered yet pieced together Sophia could not only fracture his working relationship with the only friends he has but harm the woman he tells himself he cannot crave.

 

My review:

Sophia is so strong. She’s survived the cutthroat world of professional ballerinas, the mess her fathers death left between two families and her own disastrous marriage. But the fates aren’t done with her yet.

Carson doesn’t believe in a lasting love. Despite his sister falling in love and several of friends in loving and committed relationships but after his parents loveless marriage he is convinced love is not for him. But Sophia makes him wish that maybe it could be.

Carson and Sophia are not perfect but they are perfect for each other.

 

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Broken Ride (Southwest Sinners #2) by Delta James

 

 

Blurb:

Everyone warned me Wade Ashcroft was trouble.
I just never expected him to become mine.

Champion saddle bronc rider. Bar fighter. Whiskey drinker. The cowboy mothers warn their daughters about.

After escaping an abusive ex-husband, I've spent fourteen months hiding on the professional rodeo circuit, treating horses, keeping my head down, and never staying anywhere long enough to be found.

Then the horses start dying.

The bloodwork doesn't make sense. The transport records don't match. And the questions I'm asking have made me the next target.

Every instinct tells me to run.

Wade has other ideas.

He doesn't try to control me. He simply makes one thing clear to the people hunting me—

If they want me, they'll have to go through him first.

As the bodies pile up and my past comes looking for me, I'll have to decide if I can trust the most dangerous man I've ever known.

Broken Ride is a scorching romantic suspense featuring a fiercely protective cowboy, a survivor heroine, forced proximity, touch-her-and-die, chosen family, emotional healing, and a hard-earned happily-ever-after.

 

My review:

Broken Ride shares the tale of two bent but not broken individuals that get caught up in a crime and each other. Laney and Wade can each read a horse for different reasons and transfer that skill to reading people too for vastly different reasons. Watching Laney and Wade heal each other while staying ahead of the bad guys will warm your heart. This is the second in the series but can be read stand alone.

 

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Frost and Venom by Christine Feehan

 

 

Blurb:

Surgical and trauma nurse Harlow Frye loves the small town of Knightly, where breathtaking views of the Sierra and a tight circle of female friends provides a refuge from her professional life. But lately, it’s Harlow’s personal life that’s causing all the chaos.

First, a series of anonymous threatening letters are left in her mailbox. Then, Harlow is dealt a blow when her friend Lawyer dies after reacting to some sort of toxin. And to top it off, Harlow finds her secret obsession, CIA operative Hawkin Wilder, bleeding out on a mountain trail.

As Harlow turns her home into a makeshift hospital, her infuriating, attractive patient insists on distracting her. But even in the face of their increasing connection, there’s no way Harlow can ignore the escalating storm, when someone else close to her is struck down by the mysterious toxin.

With little more than intuition to go on, Harlow turns to the five friends who have proved themselves to be a better family than her own flesh and blood. As the women attempt to unravel the killings, they will need to rely on their instincts and their connection to each other—or else they’ll lose everything they’ve come to hold dear.

 

My review:

Strong female characters find themselves embroiled in a medical mystery and it will take the smarts and cooperation of the group of friends to find answers. This story is a well written and engrossing tale.

 

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Kuper's Hawke (Babes in Boots Book 1) by Cooper McKenzie

 

 

Blurb:

After being injured during the raid of a drug/sex house, Officer Sara Hawke talks her way out of the hospital, planning to spend the incoming blizzard at home alone. She is a strong woman who hates to ask for help. From anyone.

Detective Mack Kuper did everything he could to build a wall between them. Which held up until she was injured assisting with the raid he’d arranged. Kidnapping her and taking her home with him so he can care for her during the blizzard was his only option.

Can Sara and Mack come to an understanding during the blizzard? Will Mack convince her that they belong together? Will Sara’s strength keep her from admitting her feelings for Mack?

 

My review:

Kuper's Hawke is a sweet and steamy co-workers to lovers tale. Sara thinks Mack doesn’t like her and Mack can’t stop thinking about her. When Mack makes Sara come to stay with him so he can care for her broken leg during a blizzard they’re forced to talk to each other. This is a fast paced romp that will leave you sweating.

 

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Wedding the Werepanther (Ferndale Falls Forever #4) by Krista Luna

 

Wedding the Werepanther (Ferndale Falls Forever #4) by Krista Luna

 

Blurb:

One matchmaking sentient house + one gorgeous werepanther roommate = one helluva surprise wedding!

 

When I inherited the sprawling purple Victorian, I knew it used to be a wedding chapel. What I didn’t know is that my magic would make the house sentient... or that it longed for the days of bridal veils and tossed bouquets.

 

It locks me in with Shadow and refuses to set us free until I marry the gorgeous werepanther!

 

Okay, no prob. As a gamer girl, I know how to get out of sticky situations. We’ll wed to make the house happy and immediately annul.

 

Only, our magical marriage binds us together for a full month, and if we consummate, it’s permanent.

 

To make matters worse, the house keeps arranging romantic dates, and the irresistible Shadow plays along way too enthusiastically. If he touches me and growls, “My wife,” one more time, I might scream.

 

Or kiss him, or more…

 

– charming panther shifter, yearning for her for +1 yr

– sassy plus-size witch

– matchmaking sentient house

– fated mates

– roommate forced proximity

– knotting, primal chase, dirty talk, & more

– magical mishaps & humor

– adorable talking mini-dragon familiar

– found family & cozy small town

 

Wedding the Werepanther is a cozy spicy fantasy romance featuring a primal werepanther who’s too charming for his own good, a sassy witch who’s a gamer girl, a sweet mini-dragon familiar, and a mutual obsession with games all set in a matchmaking sentient house.

Welcome to Ferndale Falls, the magical small town full of mischievous imps and talking animal familiars, where heart-melting romance, toe-curling spice, humor, magic, and low-stakes adventure combine into stories you’ll devour.

 

My review:

Check your brain at the door and just enjoy this fun fantasy. Kayla is a purple haired gamer girl and witch who has social anxiety and a heart as big as Texas. Shadow is a hunky werepanther who is playing to win Kaylas heart. He is aided in his quest by a sentient house named Victoria. This story is filled with magic, fun and love.

Though it is part of a series it can be read standalone. I will be going back and reading the other books in this series.

 

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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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