Sleeping with your enemy is one thing. Needing him to write is another.
Cleo Sullivan is broke, blocked, and one missed deadline away from
tanking her writing career. Her plan: pet-sit in a remote Highland
cottage, finish her novel, and get back to the US.
Scottish singer/ songwriter Lucas Kincaid has no address. He also
hasn't written a tune in years. But if he doesn't finish an album in
three months, his label is going to drop him. So he drives to his late
gran's cottage for peace, quiet, and inspiration.
Hard fail.
Cleo is already there. She chases him with a toilet brush. He throws
her in the loch. It's hell. But neither of them is willing to leave.
Crammed into the cottage for one summer, their hatred turns into
reluctant attraction. Until a night by the bonfire leads to a hormonal
error in judgment – and a creative breakthrough. So they make sleeping
together a professional arrangement. Just to save their careers. Strict
boundaries. No feelings.
But as summer is ending, Cleo and Lucas have to decide: Is this love – or just the best work they've ever produced?
My 5 Star Review TITLED: More than I was expecting !!
26 year old Cleo Camille Sullivan is totally disillusioned after one failure after another; especially with boyfriends. Her last one was Epically the Worst yet ! Enter Lucas Aiden Kincaid, 31 year old rock star in Scotland; a song writer singer who is also not a fan of romance. Even though he writes them and sings them. Their first meeting at the cottage is hilarious !!! So is may encounters after ! Boy that girl's temper is epic when riled which Lucas does may times ! And her cursing at him is hilariously funny as well as brilliantly creative ! So is there, "solution" to writers/composing blocks ! Hilarious and Hot !
I loved that Lucas calls her, "Hellcat" and "Squatter" many times in anger until it becomes their form of bantering back and forth affectionately. Unfortunately both of them are "runners" when cornered. But Cleo has friends that just won't let her sit and vegetate when she runs home early. That causes a hilarious interruption in her home which being kept occupied until her return by Carl. one of her friends people. Lucas has a person or two who just won't let him as they say, "Sit on his arse about Cleo". I also loved Lucas's tattoo "Still here: and the reason why it was there.
The goat and the cat were delicious additions that she was sitting for and the cat had a surprise of it's own. I loved the conversions that Cleo had with the goat and sometimes called hm, "Satan" in one form or another. The cat loved her but the goat not so much !
There are trigger warnings about this book, most probably about the many spicy scenes. But I adored Cleo, her clumsiness, she spunk and her attitude of "Mess with me and although I'm short, I'm gonna mess with you in your face !"
I loved the whole book! Especially how things get figured out !
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SALT BAY: BILLIONAIRE'S BOSSES AND SMALL TOWN ROMANCE
The look on Alexander Hendrix’s
face when he saw my son told me one terrifying thing: he knew exactly
who the little boy belonged to.
Alexander. The billionaire who left Salt Bay behind without looking back. The man I swore I would never survive loving twice.
Then he walks into my restaurant, sees our little boy, and everything between us detonates.
Now we are sharing late nights above The Catch while the entire town watches us like a scandal waiting to happen.
I try to keep my distance.
Instead, he keeps showing up. And
somewhere between small-town rumors, stolen touches, and the way my son
already adores him, I fall straight back into the one mistake I never
recovered from.
Then I discover why Alexander really came back to Salt Bay.
And if Salt Bay finds out what he really came here to do, it won’t just destroy us.
It will destroy our son too.
Mature
216 pages
English
Contemporary Romance
Small Town Romance
billionaire
secret child vibes
second chance
small town gossip
emotional angst
possessive hero
protective alpha
single mom energy
slow burn tension
reunion romance
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---My 5 Star Review TITLED: Surprises are a coming !!!
Alexander Hendrix gets the surprise of his life when he comes back 3 years later and opens the door to The Catch. It's THE restaurant in Salt Bay. Maren Brooks is the woman that he left behind and she owns The Catch. And that little boy, Finley Owen is HIS son. One glance into that small face that he just KNOWS it ! Alexander has lost so many years with that little boy! But he's back now and you just know that he's not leaving. At least not for awhile !
There is a mysterious man who has been in Salt Bay for 3 weeks; claiming an alignment with Alexander. He doesn't have it. It's a good thing that Alexander figures out pretty quickly who it has to be. An ex-short term partner who had somehow got a hold of his notes on this town. He shouldn't even have been able to get them. His name is Zachary Ryan. Things are about to get sticky.
Maren doesn't trust Alexander anymore but when he goes to The Catch to tell her; her group of people who have supported her through everything from very young til now are there. Yikes ! But she listens and then Alexander tells her about the pretender and that he's after her restaurant. The gem that sits in the whole plan. One that Alexander had never planned to use against her ! But Ryan will try !
I loved how everyone came together. Especially her friends "The Six!" I loved that phrase & the people in that group of Maren's life long supporters.
Beautiful ending & sweet epilogue.
I read this book through Booksprout & I loved this sweet emotional romance.
How the hell do I end up fake-engaged to my billionaire boss... and helping raise the daughter he never knew he had?
Jake Hale is my brother's best friend, my infuriating boss, and the one man I've spent years refusing to want.
Then one argument goes viral.
One photo, and the whole city thinks we're engaged. The donors love it. So I put on the fake ring and set the rules: no feelings, no attachment, clean exit.
Then he starts showing up.
He remembers my coffee order. He keeps my hair ties in a drawer. The nights we spend tangled together stop feeling like pretend.
Just when wanting him stops being the problem, one phone call changes everything.
Jake has a four-year-old daughter he never knew existed. She has his eyes, nowhere else to go, and somehow she's reaching for me.
Suddenly the fake family is the realest thing I've ever had.
But when Jake's past threatens everything we've built, the truth catches up with me: Somewhere along the way, they became my whole world.
And if this falls apart, I lose them both.
Book 4 in the Hale Dynasty series. Each book can be read as a standalone.
Explicit
377 pages
English
Contemporary Romance
fake engagement
brother’s best friend
surprise daughter
single dad romance
found family
billionaire boss
fake relationship
workplace romance
forced proximity
accidental family
Fake engagement. Billionaire boss. Surprise daughter. One
accidental family too real to walk away from.
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My 5 Star Review TITLED: He falls first; hard !
I absolutely adored this story. It opens with Emilia waiting for Jake at a huge function and it she is trying to hold everything together as Jake is late as usual. He's the main speaker and his carelessness is getting on her last nerve. Her brother Mason owns the hotel where the event is being held. It's amazing how many people in her family and his are connected in getting this foundation more funding ! I loved the individuality of each of the people on both sides. of the family. And how they all meet for dinner on Sunday at 6pm each week; no excuses. And had been doing it for years. It's a group that are LOUD chaotic, and fun when they all get together. I love that it was said that when they gather No One uses inside voices. That made me laugh !
It soon becomes clear that charming, make a room lean into him Jake is terrified when he finds out her has a 4 year old daughter, Poppy. About those inside voices? When shy Poppy gets more comfortable with Jake and Emilia, they soon find she doesn't have one either!! I loved her. She fit right in with the chaos realm. Lol.
This story was emotional, Hot and Perfect ! Although I loved the ending I didn't want it to end !
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He’s my dangerously irresistible bodyguard. My shadow. My prison. And, all too soon, the father of our baby.
After threats against the Conti family turn deadly, my father hires a bodyguard to shadow me everywhere I go and keep me alive. Too bad Adrian Donato looks at me like he’d rather consume me than protect me.
He’s ex-military. Cold. Controlled. Violent in the terrifying way only truly dangerous men are. And now he never leaves my side.
My office. My home. My entire life.
I tell myself I hate him for it. But
as violence increases around my family, the more I realize Adrian may
be the only man standing between me and the people trying to destroy us.
And the closer the danger gets, the harder it becomes to ignore the tension burning between us.
The stolen touches. The heated arguments. The way his control slips every time another man looks at me too long.
Adrian says he would kill to keep me safe. The terrifying part?
I believe him. And now I love him.
As the enemies are closing in, betrayal is everywhere, and the man sworn to protect me has become the one thing I can’t resist. There’s just one little complication.
I’m carrying my bodyguard’s baby.
Mature
772 pages
English
Contemporary Romance
Romantic Suspense
Dark Romance
surprise pregnancy
mafia romance
enemies to lovers romance
italian family saga series
contemporary romance
spicy romance
My 5 Star Review TITLED: Family, Threats & Attraction !
Adrian has been concerned about his cousin Teresa every since he heard that she had been missing for weeks. She HAD been kidnapped while he was on a job, out of country and out of contact. Now he's back and wants to see for himself if her now husband Vito Conti coerced her. Is she being help against her will? Plus she asked for his help specifically about a threat against the Conti family ! She's especially worried about Caterina. Beautiful, stubborn, intelligent Caterina ! Adrian is only partially okay with how things are going with his cousin but is furious when he finds out that Caterina has NOT been told about him coming to safe guard her.
Things do NOT go well at Adrian and Caterina''s first meeting. But he reuses to lie to her about the danger ! She's furious of course which he knows will make things harder but tells her so but he's great at his job and although he's being paid by her family, he won't be controlled by them. She is the client. I loved that !
Things get really dicey, with dangers ramping up. I loved all the kids in the family. Adrian didn't dislike kids but saw their vulnerabilities within the family. And they are a loud group of MANY people that gathered in one place giving him an actual headache. I could see that.
The heat can't help but get hotter between Cat and Adrian. Although he does try to fight it; knowing it could place her in more danger. By dividing his focus.
It was a cleverly written story with intense but interesting people that I enjoyed reading about. And the mystery of who and what the real threat was about kept me reading on. That threat about the killer cutting of the branches of the Conti family was chilling in it's delivery.
I read this book through Booksprout and this is my honest thoughts about it !
A convicted homicide detective gets involved in an investigation that is more personal than he ever thought imaginable.
Former Detective Martin Rhodes spent ten years in prison for murder.
Upon his release, he travels from town to town in search of employment
and a new life. An unexpected call takes him to the Town of Parish. His
ex-wife's current husband is charged with murder and she wants Rhodes to
help exonerate him of the crime. After all these years, Rhodes still
has feelings for his ex-wife but he must fight them in his pursuit of
the truth.
My 5 Star Rating TITLED: Worth every moment of reading
Martin Rhodes is reluctant to open that door when his ex-wife Angela now Fulton begs for his help. His best friend, Detective Tom Nolan is the only one that he has kept in touch with and it's' only so often that he reaches out to him. Now he's kind of sorry that he did. Nolan has agreed to pass Angela's message to Martin when he calls the next time. Martin has suffered so much in prison the last 10 years but at 6'4' tall and with a mean streak when he needs it, he survived. Martin is also smart and clever in his own way !He doesn't totally blame Angela for not hanging on for him although too late he sees he was never really there for her. Angela's husband Harold is a nice man; the total opposite of Martin. Martin knows that Harold will never survive prison if he doesn't help. Angela needs Harold and so do their 2 children.
Kevin Williams was the homeless man that got killed and just about everyone is convinced that Harold did it. This story was emotional without being sappy and after awhile I began to suspect someone who was the real killer. It was very satisfying to not only be right but the incredible twist on that person begin exposed. I never saw that coming and I loved that. Now I want to read more adventures of Martin Rhodes because now he has left that little town.
A missing baby. A buried secret. And an FBI cold case—definitely not what the Savannah Sleuths expected in retirement.
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When a hurricane topples an oak in Savannah’s Forsyth Park, Emma Lynn
Whitmore and her lifelong friend, Graham Boone, uncover a weather-beaten
diaper bag tangled in the roots. Inside are baby clothes, a stuffed
rabbit, and a mystery that has haunted the city for three years—the
unsolved Prescott kidnapping.
Emma Lynn has no desire to clash with federal agents, but Savannah has a
way of pulling her into puzzles she can’t ignore. With Margaret’s bossy
determination, Graham’s quirky charm, and Wren—Graham’s brilliant
niece, whose tech skills uncover digital trails no one else can see—the
Sleuths are drawn into a web of family secrets, Savannah scandals, and
lies weathered but not washed away.
Can three retirees and one sharp-eyed teenager solve the case the FBI
left behind—or will the past reach forward to claim them too?
Beside the Hollow Oak is a witty and heartwarming Southern cozy
mystery filled with friendship, small-town intrigue, and just enough
danger to keep you turning the pages. Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams,
Vicki Delany, and Ann Ross.
MY 5 STAR REVIEW TITLED: The Team does it again with a touch of romance
Emma Lynn is a widow of a man named Henry. She misses him and her grandmother who bequeathed her the cottage she lives in now. She's made updates to the place with the help of her friends. Graham has been in love with her for some time. Will he get a chance finally to make his move?
Emma has ghost written for others for many years and now it looks like a mystery is chasing her and not letting go. Although others think maybe she should. But it's grabbed here by the heart and she just can't let go. Especially when the grieving mother of the boy who was kidnapped visits and begs for their help. The mom is positive that her son Walker is still alive and it's not long before Emma is wondering too !
I loved the humor, emotions and connectives of this "family". And Graham and Wren are a hoot ! Even stern Margaret has her own charm.
Great twists, and turns . And even dead ends until the final great ending !
Finding a home in the Highlands and love with her
grumpy neighbour, Niall, seems like a fairy tale ending for Marla – even
in modern times. But not all is perfect...
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THE STORY:
Marla inherited Lady Hamilton's old castle – Hazelbrae House – in the
small rural town of Kilcranach in the Scottish Highlands. After
restoring and turning Hazelbrae into an official NHS retreat and local
bed-and-breakfast, she is finally ready for the grand opening event.
At least that's what she thought. Until one fiasco after another
descends upon the celebration – attacking seagulls are just the
beginning in a series of catastrophes.
Amid the chaos, Marla’s and Niall’s old wounds, fears, and doubts
make an unwelcome reappearance, threatening to unravel their
relationship. And when Niall’s estranged mother suddenly shows up,
tensions escalate.
Will Marla and Niall’s bond withstand this Scottish comedy of
errors – or will their hard earned happily ever after go up in peat
smoke?
(This story contains a bit of steam as well as some cursing. And maybe even a curse…)
My 4 Star Review TITLED: Surprising Grand Opening
I liked both Marla and Niall. They worked so hard together to make this a good, new castle to help others relax. They also both had some serious issues when it comes to their self worth and fear of being left behind !
he Grand opening of the castle was hilarious in the disasters that happened but also some really funny moments too !
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