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Blog Tour Guest Post & Giveaway: His Very Own Girl – Carrie Lofty
We have Carrie Lofty back with us today chatting about cockney slang and how that fits into her release His Very Own Girl. Β Help me in welcoming Carrie back to Cocktails and Books. Cockney Slang By Carrie Lofty By the end of this post, you’ll be able to talk about a midday craving for gin […]
Blog Tour Review: The Taming of the Thief – Heather Long
One Treasureβ¦ Some would kill to know what Sophie Kingston knows. Rich and powerful people will do anything to possess the secret, but not even Sophie realizes how much danger she is inβor how far they will go to hunt her down and take it from her. But when she sees a murder no one […]
Review: A Dangerous Liaison with Detective Lewis – Jillian Stone
From the author of the well-reviewed An Affair with Mr. Kennedy comes a thrilling new romance in the Gentlemen of Scotland Yard series, featuring Rafe Lewis and his jilted former fiancΓ©e, Fanny, as they embark on a high-speed race against the clock to evade a madman hell-bent on murdering industrialists and inventors. Special Inspector Rafael […]
Guest Review: The Good Woman – Jane Porter
Is it possible to leave it all behind?The firstborn of a large Irish-American family, Meg Brennan Roberts is a successful publicist, faithful wife, and doting mother who prides herself on always making the right decisions. But years of being βthe good womanβ have taken a toll and though her winery career thrives, Meg feels burned […]
Review: Call Me Wild – Robin Kaye
Unemployed New York Times sports reporter, Jessica James gives up her big city life and moves into a borrowed house in Boise, Idaho. She’s determined to become a great romance writer, and she only has one obstacle: she doesn’t believe in love. Writing quickly becomes a challenge, so Jessica decides to go out and find […]
Guest Review: Men of Smithfield: Mark & Tony – L.B. Gregg
Coming home from work to find my boyfriend banging our hairy, married landlordβin our bedβwas bad enough. Discovering Jamie had also cleaned out my bank accounts made it officially the worst day of my life. I think I can be forgiven for wanting revenge, even if a few little laws (and possibly Jamie’s nose) got […]
Review: Fool for Love – Beth Ciotta
SHEβS CRAVING A SWEET NEW LIFEβ¦ Call her a fool, but chef-in-training Chloe Madison wants to have her cake and eat it too. So when her boyfriend dumps her for some French tart, she decides to start over from scratchβwith a new life and job in Sugar Creek, Vermont. What could be sweeter than cooking […]
Guest Review: Essence of Time – Liz Crowe
For years, Rob Frietag has resisted anything resembling a true emotional connection, preferring instead to explore life, and his own desires, without committing to anyone for very long. The reason remains known only to a few, among them Jack Gordon, his college cohort in female conquests, and life-long friend. At thirty-seven, while he is close […]
Guest Review: Wolf Lines – Vivian Arend
Into the best-laid plans a little chaos must fallβ¦Jaredβs not sure how his quiet morning coffee near the harbour ended with him on a cruise ship impersonating one of his pack mates. Well, it might have something to do with a woman, but who can blame him? The female of the species was made to […]
Guest Review: Leaving Sophie Dean – Alexandra Whitaker
Adam and Sophie Dean’s good-enough marriage could easily have lasted forever. But Adam succumbs to pressure from his mistress to leave Sophie, and in the course of his carefully prepared farewell speech, Sophie has a revelation: unless she leaves him in the family home in the role of primary caregiver, he’ll have a severely diminished […]
Review: Blame it on Texas – Christie Craig
Zoe Adams has always been content with her quiet nights at home, watching TV alone-until her life turns into a real-life episode of Unsolved Mystery Hunters. The story of a kidnapped girl triggers unexplained memories, and Zoe is dead-set on figuring out why. Her search leads her to one of the Lone Star State’s richest […]
Guest Review: Midnight’s Lover – Donna Grant
Driven by the fierce god within him, highlander Ian Kerr is sworn to fight for the land he lovesβand the brother he lost. But when heβs transported four centuries into the future, he finds himself fighting his own desiresβfor a beautiful, bewitching woman who could hold a warrior spellboundβ¦ Danielle Buchanan has heard the legends. […]
Guest Review: Silver Mine – Vivian Arend
If a tree falls in the forest, duckβ¦ Takhini Wolves, Book 2 Life in isolation is the safest place for Chase Johnson, a crossbreed who doesnβt know which form heβll assume nextβcougar or wolf. Once a year, his unelected position as spokesman for the Yukon outcasts forces him to visit civilization. This time he runs […]
Guest Review: Nadia Knows Best – Jill Mansell
When Nadia Kinsella meets Jay Tiernan, she’s tempted. Of course she is. Stranded together in a remote Cotswold pub, with a snowstorm raging outsideβletβs face it, who would ever know? But Nadiaβs already met The One. She and Laurie have been together for yearsβtheyβre practically childhood sweethearts, and she still gets goosebumps at the sight […]