Both characters left me feeling a bit disconnected and I don't know why. I should note though that Quinn was more interesting/relatable than Baxter from Sugar Rush by leaps & bounds, probably due to the POVs.Unexpectedly dialogue heavy -- A lot of discussing where each party stood with the other ...
I didn't realize when I started the book that it was the second in the series, but it didn't affect my enjoyment at all. I thought it was a good book, a sweet romance with just enough heat to make it interesting. Riley came to Sugarberry Island to recover from a romance gone bad. What she foun...
* I received this book through goodreads first reads giveaway in exchange for an honest review*This book is certainly better than the first in the series. The plot was much more apple along and the writing more appealing. I still struggled at times because it was a little slow for me, but I still...
How do people fall in forever love in 2 days? Much less 3 couples? The short stories/novellas were well done for their length, but it was like the last 10 pages came and all of the sudden we needed to have them be in a love.I buy novellas all the time. But for this to work for me there has to be ...
Kit Bellamy grew up in a pie baking family. Now the business is gone and she has moved to Sugarberry island. She becomes part of the cupcake club. She is accepted and welcomed so quickly. She meets a hunk of a lawyer. His family is responsible for her family's business loss. He has moved awa...
This was a pretty good book. I liked two out of three of the stories. The characters and plots were good. The first one was ok, but didn't really pull me in, the second and last one did. I liked the tempers and emotions, the personalities, humor, and pretty much the whole feel of those ones. I sm...
This is three short stories combined. The book is about a group of three friends so the beginning and end of the book is an intro and closing. Three different authors write their short story focusing on one of the friends. Kate Angell's "The Gingerbread Man" was my favorite, I would have given th...
I won this book from a contest on Goodreads.Forty-three year old Delia O'Reilly runs the very popular local diner in Blueberry Cove, Maine and has since her Grandmother passed away. The diner was not just Delia's livelihood, it was a part of her as much as her family before her who had establish...
It was an okay read.The first story, about Ethan and Rosie was my least favorite. There's hardly even a rescue here and Rosie irritated the hell out of me. It's one thing to be straightforward about liking a guy, but its another to be so pushy about it. And how long has she been obsessing about t...
For thousands of years, tales of the fabled Dark Pearl were told and retold. Then the stories faded with the passage of time, leaving behind the stuff of myths and magic--until fate brought together the only two people in the world who can breathe life back into the...Legend of the Sorcerer. Scu...
Touching her was tempting fate--and tempting him to risk it all....Her note read, "fin in trouble," and John McShane sensed the desperation in Cali Ellis's plea for help. He'd flown to the Caribbean on a rescue mission, but the woman whose defiant beauty still heated his blood refused to leave wi...
A rogue warrior who challenged her to taste the pleasures of surrender. . .He was her mission, a midnight capture she'd trained for, but Logan Blackstone sensed her presence in the isolated cabin--and pinned agent Scottie Giardi to the bed! Utterly primitive, stark naked, and dangerous in every w...
Mad. Bad. (Barely) in Plaid.You know those Scottish bad boys...they don't wear anything under their kilts, and who would want them to? Now, USA Today bestselling author Donna Kauffman introduces the Chisholm brothers, three of the sexiest lads ever to leave a woman hungry for moor...Bottoms UPRas...
Three centuries ago in Scotland a curse was born of the long-standing feud between the Claren and the MacKinnon clans. Now, generations later, destiny has decreed that three women, the last of the Claren line, be granted one final chance to set things right.Maggie, Cailean, and Delaney Claren are...
In "Bad Boys in Kilts, USA Today" bestselling author Donna Kauffman introduced the divinely sexy Chisholm brothers. Now, get ready for oldest brother Dylan, a man whose duty to his heritage will not be upended by anything--or anyone. But passion has a way of throwing everything off-kilter. . . Lo...
Can a down-on-her-luck princess really have it all?A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world’s top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is getting her first taste of mortality – thanks to n...
At twenty-eight, elementary-school teacher Lucy Harper still feels more like a wallflower than the sex goddess she knows is trapped inside her. In fact, she can barely remember the last time she actually had sex. She claims she�s content with her life, but she doesn�t even realize she�s sli...
Surfer Josie Griffin recovers a chest from the ocean and inside is a jeweled amulet. She can’t help putting the necklace on, and that’s when a mysterious dwarf appears, visible only to her. He claims it’s her destiny to marry the MacNeil, leader of the clan in Scotland. But when she goes overseas...
"For every soul there is one true mate."So says Sebastien Valentin, a former privateer destined to spend eternity bringing soul mates together. Hexed by a voodoo priestess nearly two centuries ago, he is summoned by anyone who unsheathes the Sword of Hearts ...Former powerboat racing champion Jam...
Ready to risk it all....Three men come face-to-face with physical danger....Their courage, their choices, will make these men heroes. Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton Wulf's career ambitions cost him the one woman he ever wanted--Liv Avery.Now he's determined to win back her love. . .even if it means ...
Hired to locate a runaway wife, Kane Hawthorne found Elizabeth Lawson and immediately wanted her for his own. She was a desperate woman who tried to protect him from her enemies. But could she cherish her savage hero until his own ghosts were silenced?
The proposal: Get together whenever their heavy travel schedules overlap Natalie Holcomb's impulsive - and uncharacteristic - night of steamy sex with a gorgeous stranger was supposed to be a onetime-only affair. But straitlaced Natalie is determined to play by the rules and get more of what her...
Charlotte said as she rolled out the dough on Lani’s kitchen counter. “Cross-country trip. Long flight. Very good.” “But ... traveling together. All the way to the West Coast and back. I don’t know, Char. Maybe I should have said no. If I stayed here by myself for two days, it would give me a cha...
“Kit?” There were no saws buzzing, no hammers pounding, no music pumping, but it was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so he wasn’t surprised. Actually, it was because no workers would be in the place that he and Lilly were there. He opened the door and shuffled the two of them inside, closing the...
The combination of the stress of the past few weeks, nailing down funding for the race, and the sudden new relationship in his life, combined with the attendant drama there, had all apparently caught up with him. It wasn’t even that late, but he was fighting the fatigue already.“It’s bad when the...
She waited until Finn had settled across from her and the driver had closed the door before she spoke.“I think we should check her studio out first, before the shipping docks. It would take some time to convert that satyr.”“I think we should follow Reese. This whole thing isn’t feeling right to m...
Crossing the compound to the side entrance, April glanced around at the expanse of lawn, which was empty but for a few guests. It was hard to believe the wedding had taken place here less than a week ago. Her mind automatically turned to Jack. She couldn’t repress the smile that touched her lips ...
Grace unwrapped herself from Brodie, all but springing backward in fact, one hand flying to her mouth, the other to the front of her shirt. She stumbled, her knees like jelly, and would have probably fallen if Brodie hadn’t moved immediately toward her. He took her gently by the elbows, pulling h...
His mouth was on hers, hot, hard, and needy, and she simply responded. His hands moved up and down her back, wove into her hair, traced her ears, cupped her cheeks. His mouth moved over hers possessively, taking not asking, giving without waiting to be invited. Dara’s head swam, her heart pounded...
His ancient truck. Sweat formed on her upper lip and across her forehead. She didn’t have to look at the dash to know there would be no air-conditioning. She closed the rattling door and yanked the seat belt across her lap. “At least something works in here,” she grumbled....
Why not just confront the guy and find out what he wants?” Elena asked.“Always better to go into any battle with more information than your opponent. As of now, all you know is that he’s an insurance investigator—or says he is—and he’s hot on your tail because of some renewed interest supposedly ...
“I dunno. Twelve, thirteen. Old enough to know what was what and that I didn’t have any.” “Oh, Reese.” The ache in her voice, the pain. He knew—knew—she understood. And the knowledge hurt him more than it soothed him. But he had to get it out. “By the time I was fifteen, I didn’t think anything o...
Julianna froze, silhouetted by the moonlight against the back wall, the sudden noise stealing her breath away. “Unless you care to be shot this evening, I wouldn’t move from where you’re standing.” The deep voice was quiet but firm and it came from ...
But given he was the one sponsoring both the bed she was about to sleep in, and the very delicious-smelling meal she was about to eat, she thought better of giving him a piece of her mind right then and there. But she made no promises for later. Their room was on the top floor and more long and n...
He’d tempted every Transport Agent in the monarchy with his warp-speed drive here, but he had no idea who might know of Talia’s presence and felt it was best to get her under castle guard as quickly as possible. As he sped toward the large gate in the outer wall that surrounded the castle he only...
She’d thought having him drive her literally up the wall in the shower had been pretty damn intense, but there was something even more primal in feeling him on top of her.A spoon clattered to the floor as she gripped the front of his shirt and pulled him closer, praying the table wouldn’t splinte...
She even closed the door quietly. Then she leaned back against it, and slid all the way down until she was sitting on the entrance floor of the empty foyer landing. “Holy shit,” she murmured, touching her mouth with her fingertips, as if trying to determine whether or not what had just happened h...
Willa gasped, her lips parting slightly. That did it. Nick lost the tenuous hold on his control and gave in to the urge to touch her. Lifting his hand, he toyed first with a wisp of her hair. Her eyes dilated at his brief touch and he continued, running his fingertip across her lower lip and wond...
Robbery.” Lainey looked at the selection of orange roughy again. Maybe she’d go with the flounder. Aunt Minnie wouldn’t be thrilled. “Five-ninety-nine,” Sam corrected, then raised his hands at her arched brow. “But for you I can maybe make a special. Five-fifty.” &nb...
Calder told Owen Hartley. “And the history lesson.” He leaned his hip on the hardware store counter, thinking he could have saved himself a lot of time and energy if he’d just talked to Hartley first. Brodie had mentioned him as a good source on all the goings-on and he’d been spot-on about that....
He was like this giant jungle feline, all tawny and sleek and powerful, intent on his prey and knowing exactly how to go about ensnaring it. And Lord but she was willing to be the big cat’s supper. But then he’d do something so disconcertingly tender, so… for lack of a better word, romantic, that...
She stalked over to the cabinet next to the stove and yanked out the coffee canister, then dumped twice as much coffee as she normally did into her automatic coffeemaker. God knew, she needed it. “I hope he pulls every hair out of his perfectly shaped chest ripping the rest of that tape off.” She...
I wondered when it would get here.” John snagged her arm before she could open the door. He tugged her back. “I thought you said no one knew you were here?” His fierce whisper was hot in her ear. Cali frowned at him. “Hush, I’ll explain later. I don’t want Eudora in this. The woman doesn’t miss a...
“Why in the hell does Jarrett have to live so far out in the boonies?” she grumbled for the millionth time since leaving the mountain cabin. Hurt and betrayal began to creep in on the anger again. The tears she refused to shed stung her eyes. “Damn him,” she whispered raggedly. She was such an id...
Logan rubbed his jaw and worked hard to keep her in focus as lights winked in his peripheral vision. She’d administered a chin jab you didn’t learn from a training manual, but he’d be damned before he let her know how effective it had been. Hell, if he was honest, he’d admit she’d already had his...