I LOVED THIS BOOK. I think that successfully pulling off a romance that's about people getting back together is always difficult, in my mind it requires three things:1. you need to convince me there was a valid reason the couple split up in the first place2. you need to convince me that these two...
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. The premise of a repressed good girl hooking up with a misunderstood bad boy is tried and true and the author is deft with characterization. But so much of this book fell flat for me.Shelby was annoying to the nth degree and even "understanding" (...
Ashley Montgomery, daughter of a well-known and powerful political family, was kidnapped by Somali pirates while volunteering at a refugee camp in Kenya. Brody Baxter, a former marine who was now working as a body guard, is contracted by Ashley's brother to rescue her. Brody has a bad history wit...
Book Review- Indecent Proposal by Molly O’KeefeRyan is tending bar when the attractive man they nicknamed Ken Doll arrives for the third day in a row. This time is different though. He seems incredibly sad. Ryan is drawn to Ken, aka Harry, and his melancholy. She finds he is having trouble wi...
So straight. That was Annie…. Anne. She preferred to be called Anne now. Annie was a little girl’s name. She’d left the name behind when she left his clearing. She was not a little girl. Anne was an arrow. He shook out his hands, as if to rid himself of the sensation of ha...
He didn’t like the idea of sneaking around, but he didn’t need the front-desk staff guessing why he was going up to Monica’s room all the time.He took a deep breath and then knocked on her door.Behind the door he heard the squeak of the bed, and he smiled. She was home. She was here. He was total...
The compounds had been built up. More than before, despite the cease-fire. Going back next month wasn’t going to be easy.As if it was ever easy.Mustering up enthusiasm was impossible.“Jack?”“Hmm?” he said, distracted by the desk full of papers. Christ, if Oliver could just do this meet and greet ...
“They’re going to keep him overnight,” she said to Celeste, who was flipping through a two-year-old Vogue and looking as fresh and elegant as if she hadn’t been sitting around a hospital for five hours. Victoria was a wrinkled paper sack. That smelled bad. “I … ah … better get home.” Celeste snif...
Cynthia and Larry Bilkhead were going to be seventy this year, too old to care for the boys full-time. They never contested Annie and Connor’s will, even when it was obvious that Jeremiah had no freaking clue what he was doing when it came to parenting. But they came when ...
He hauled her close and high against his body, taking her weight in his arms, pressing her hard against every part of himself.She arched her hips against his, her teeth bit into his lips and he growled, low and menacing, feeling so close to out of control he was freaked.“Savannah,” he said, betwe...
Cole whispered, leaning against a fallen pine, the worn leather of his saddle against his back. The stars were scattershot across the dark sky and it had been a long two hours of thinking about how ashamed of him his mother would be. Duke huffed a deep breath into Cole’s e...
He leaped off the stage and crossed the empty dance floor, stalking her like some kind of jungle animal. His khaki pants hung low, his white tank top was damp and stretched at the bottom, like he’d been wiping his face with it all night. Beneath his beat-up fedora, his eyes burned holes through h...
The clatter and minor destruction startled then thrilled him. He clapped, laughing and looking to her to join in the fun.She applauded and started to rebuild, but her heart was a million miles away.It was Wednesday morning and a week had gone by since she’d started her job search. She’d applied t...
Gloria, Carter’s receptionist, said as Carter stormed past her desk early Wednesday morning.“He’s in already?” he asked, wishing he’d had a bit more time for damage control this morning before meeting with Bill. On the front page of today’s paper, Jim Blackwell had done his best to make the donat...
The fashion industry was all about blank slates. But the barn wasn’t blank. It was full of cats and hay, saddles and bridles, equipment and generations of hardware. It was the opposite of blank. And she just couldn’t see past the reality to the possibility.So, she called in some help.“Hey, Celest...