Review: Axel by Harper Sloan

Title: Axel (Corps Security, #1)
Author: Harper Sloan
Release Date: Out Now
Source: Bought (Paperback, ebook)
Goodreads Description:

Note from the author--This book is intended for a mature reading audience and isn't suitable for younger readers. 
Fate hasn’t always been friends with Isabelle West. In fact, fate has been a downright bitch. Isabelle has learned the hard way how hard life can be when fate isn’t by your side. It can hand you dreams on silver platters, but it can snatch them right back and hand you nightmares. One thing Isabelle knew for sure fate was consistent with was taking away everything she ever loved. For the last two years Isabelle has been slowly clearing the clouds of her past. Happiness is finally on the horizon. She has a thriving business, great friends, and her life back. All she has to do is jump over the last hurdle…her ex-husband. When problems start causing her to fear her new life, and memories that are better left forgotten start rushing to the surface the last thing she needs is a ghost from her past to come knocking on her door. Axel never thought he would look into the eyes of Isabelle West again, and he wasn’t sure he wanted to now. He’s carried his anger for so long he isn’t sure he can just turn it off, but when he is faced with protecting her and an unexpected desire to have her again, life gets a little more complicated. How will Axel and Isabelle deal when all their cards are put on the table and everything they thought was true blows up in their faces?


*Review*

I read this book when it first came out and LOVED it. I didn't write review's back then, but I do now.

With being said that I LOVED this book, I Actually Freaking LOVED it. Axel is a very hott alpha male that usually gets his way. I loved that about him. Axel and Izzy were high school sweethearts. I love Stories about how they get their second chance. This book is one of them. I loved the story line. It has action, Romance and suspense. 

I loved all the character's. I loved both Izzy and Dee in this. They had me laughing my butt off. I also Love SWAY. I wish a had me a sway.

This book was a five star read for me. Its a awesome book. Go buy it, Seriously.


*5 Holt Axel Reid Alpha Male Stars* 



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Cover Reveal for Cooper by Harper Sloan

Cover Reveal For Cooper by Harper Sloan!

Goodreads Description:

Book 4 in the Corps Security series.

Asher & Chelcie's story - Coming Spring 2014


*About the Author*

Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husbands chagrin. Harper has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!

Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.

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*This book is intended for a mature reading audience and isn't suitable for younger readers*
*Available in paperback and ebook

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• Cage  Amazon US / Barnes & Noble
• Beck  Amazon US / Barnes & Noble

Review For Risking it all for Her Boss by Shannon MCClellan

Review for Risking it All For Her Boss By Sharron McClellan

                                             
                                                 
                                                 

Tile: Risking It All For Her Boss
Author: Sharron McClellan
Release Date: February 24th, 2014
Source: *eARC from Entangled Publishing*
Goodreads Description: 


Heroes for Hire: Big Risk. Big Reward. No Regrets.

 When High Risk Securities (HRS) agent, Eva Torres, botches an undercover job by failing to rescue both of the kidnap victims she was sent to retrieve, Quinn Blackwood—her former lover and the man who broke her heart—pulls her and one of the victims out of harm’s way. As a penalty for her sins, she’s offered the dull job of escorting a former bio-chemical warfare scientist to Washington D.C. to reunite with his daughter. Much to her displeasure, the job of monitoring her assignment is given to Quinn.  Quinn isn’t thrilled with the situation either. He taught Eva everything he knew about secrets, sex, and lies—but the biggest lie of all was the one he’d told himself: that his missions for HRS were more important than anything, including his relationship with Eva. Because now that they’re working together again, the urge to put his hands on her, to feel her beneath him, is killing him.  Things only get worse when their current operation goes wrong, and the scientist they’re guarding is kidnapped mid-air. Now, Eva and Quinn have to work together to find him before he is forced to create a monstrous weapon that could destroy entire cities. A hard task made more difficult when they find themselves fighting both the enemy and their building desire for each other. Can they work together for the sake of the mission without reigniting the passion between them—or will passion be the salvation of them all?


*Review*


This is my first book by Sharron McClellan and I half to say I'm impressed. This was a very enjoying book. From the action,suspense, and romance.From the start to the finish this book held my attention. I really couldn't put it down.

I really liked Eva. She was fearless and sometimes hardheaded, but that's what I liked about her. When she set her mind to do it, she did it no question asked (well maybe a few). I liked that she didn't let what Quinn's breaking them up affect her that much. She was still pretty professional.

Quinn, in my opinion was awesome.I liked that he still cared what happen to Eva, even after he broke up with her. He was so protective and you could still tell he loved her. But I wish he could of seen it sooner.

The only problem that I had with the book was that it need more romance in it. I'm all for a suspense book, but I also love romance. 

I really can't wait for the next books in the series!

*4 Stars* Book Recommended. 


*About the Author*

I always planned to be a writer of some sort. However, when I went to college, I took journalism and creative writing and sadly, the teacher’s sucked the love of writing out of me. So I turned to my next love–science. At first, I wanted to be a marine biologist, but there was the whole shark issue. Frankly, they freak me out.

Instead, I discovered the joys of playing in the dirt-a profession more commonly known as archaeology. For years, I focused on excavating ancient sites that included projectile points, burn pits and the occasional burial.

My focus returned to writing when I took a position during the archaeological off-season and ended up answering phones for Princess cruise line AKA The Love Boat. Which, when you consider I write romance, is somewhat ironic. It was during that time that I took to reading romance. It wasn’t long before I fell in love with the genre and returned to my first love-writing.

Five years later, I sold to Silhouette.Five years after that, I landed at Entangled Publishing–Huzzah!

Today, I live in San Diego, also known as the City of Perfect Weather. I have an awesome husband who supports my passion for the written word in every way possible.   We both love to travel so don’t be surprised to find locales I’ve visited appearing in my books and pictures popping up on the website. It’s a big world—both in my head and out there!

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Review for Hearts Under Seige by Natalie J. Damchroder

Title: Hearts Under Siege
Author: Natalie J. Damschoder
Release Date: February 24th, 2014
Source: *eARC From Entangled Publishing*
Goodreads Description:

Brady Fitzpatrick has spent a decade burying the pain of a broken heart while working for SIEGE, an information-gathering spy agency. That it kept him away from his family as well as his best friend Molly has been an unfortunate side effect. But when his brother, also an agent, is killed during a foreign op, Brady is drawn into a web of intrigue that threatens the lives of everyone he loves… 

Molly Byrnes has loved Brady forever. As his best friend and a de facto member of the Fitzpatrick family, she holds them together in their crushing grief. But as a member SIEGE’s ground team, she doesn't buy the official line about Brady’s brother’s “accidental” death and launches her own investigation—only to uncover a shocking secret that she and Brady must get to the bottom of before their target finds them.

Tangled emotions land them in bed together, opening Brady’s eyes to the incredible, fearless woman who’s been there for him all his life. But after a lifetime of disappointment, how can Molly trust the possibility of a future with him…or if they can count on any future at all?

*Review*

I really liked this book for the most part. I loved the whole bestfriend turns romance part of the book. I liked Molly and Brady together, but I still had iffy feelings about the whole Jessica Thing. I really didn't like her that much. I really wanted to smack Brady and tell him he's an idiot for not seeing what's in front of him. For the first part of the book he was "In love with Jessica" but then he suddenly isn't. I really needed more convincing that he was over her because for so long it was Jessica. Jessica this, Jessica that. Molly on the other hand, was a very likable character. I really felt sorry for her. She was in love with Brady for so long only to find out he was "In love with someone else". Brady and Molly Needed more time together for them. Yes, they have know each other all their life, but it was never anything more of friend or Family.

*4 Stars*



*About the Author*

Natalie J. Damschroder is an award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance, with an emphasis on romantic adventure. Her 11 novels, 7 novellas, and 15 short stories have been published by Avid Press, Echelon Press, and Amber Quill Press. She currently publishes romantic adventure with Carina Press and urban fantasy romance with Entangled Publishing. Her paranormal romance series, The Soul Series, is self-published.

Natalie grew up in Massachusetts, and loves the New England Patriots more than anything. (Except her family. And writing and reading. And popcorn.) When she’s not writing, she does freelance editing and works part time as a chiropractic assistant. She and her husband have two daughters they’ve dubbed “the anti-teenagers,” one of whom is also a novelist. (The other one prefers math. Smart kid. Practical.)

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Between the Sheets Review by Genie Davis

Title : Between The Sheets
Author : Genie Davis & Linda Marr
Release Date : February 24th, 2014
Source : *eARC from Entangled Publishing*
Goodreads Description :

Erotic romance writer Jenna Brooks lives an ordinary life in a quiet Oregon town, putting her sensual heart into her fiction rather than her everyday life. Deeply involved in her latest story about glamorous lovers on the run, she laughs off a carnival gypsy’s prediction that she’ll find everything she desires “between the sheets”—apparently those her DeskJet is printing. Because suddenly, Jenna finds herself drawn into her own stories, literally. When the seductive, mysterious Riley Stone rescues her from an attempted hit and run, she’s plunged into a reckless, wild relationship unlike anything she’s ever experienced—except on paper.

Meanwhile, Riley is feeling pretty upended himself. A specialist consultant with the FBI, he’s on a mission to derail a drug king-pin whose wealth and extensive real estate is managed by Jenna’s neighbor, he’d planned to ingratiate himself with Jenna just enough to gain access to her neighbor’s apartment so he can keep a close eye on his comings and goings. Instead, he finds himself not only drawn to Jenna, but falling for her, hard. On the heels of this realization comes the discovery that her new neighbor didn’t move in next door by chance: her father is the last hold-out against a drug-money fueled billion dollar development scheme and her neighbor plans to take and hold Jenna hostage until the necessary papers are signed.

As Riley struggles to keep Jenna safe, the romance they’ve woven could force them to pay the ultimate price: admitting they’ve fallen in love—for real.

*Review*

The book was OK to me. It had a good story line but I felt it lacked in some area's. The romance between Jenna and Riley was lacking. They were obviously attracted to each other but she keep comparing him to the guys in the romance novels she writes. That was cute at the beginning but after awhile it got aggravating. They were moving things way to fast.

Jenna was a very trusting naive girl. I found that in some parts of the book I just wanted to punch her and tell her how big of an idiot she was being. Other times I actually did like her. I liked her most at the end of the book. She was actually  willing to fight and I like that she didn't just set on her butt and do nothing.

Riley, was an enjoyable character. I didn't love him, but I also didn't hate him. I liked that he wanted to save Jenna. I also thought that Jenna could cut him some slack about him lying to her. He did save her life.


 *3 Stars*



*About the Author*

Genie Davis is a multi-published novelist and produced screen and television writer. New releases include the mystery thriller Marathon, the romantic suspense of Executive Impulse, and, co-written with Linda Marr, more romantic suspense inBetween the Sheets. Past releases: the noir flavored romantic suspense of The Model Man received the Road to Romance Reviewer's Choice Award; a second humor infused mystery, Five O'Clock Shadow, was released both in the U.S. and in multi-country foreign markets. Her erotic romance novella Rodeo Man, written under the name Nikki Alton in The Cowboy anthology, won a Romance Writer's of America Passionate Plume award. Her first novel was a literary noir, Dreamtown.

In film, her screen work spans a variety of genres from supernatural thriller to romantic drama, family, teen, and comedy. A member of the Writer's Guild of America, she's written on staff for ABC-TV's Port Charles; written, produced, and directed reality programming and documentaries for TLC, Lifetime, PBS, and HGTV, as well as numerous television commercials and corporate videos, and the independent film, Losing Hope.

She's also written hundreds of articles on travel, love, writing, child-rearing, cooking, real estate, security, technology and more; ghostwrites novels, non-fiction, and scripts; and teaches writing and film-making workshops.

Genie grew up in Maryland, but considers herself a Southern California native. She has two great and mostly grown kids. Favorite activities: road trips all across the country, hanging out at the beach, long walks, watching her cats destroy the furniture, working on great books together with talented television and film writer Linda Marr.

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Branded Cover RE-reveal by Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki

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Fifty years ago the Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. He created the Hole where sinners are branded according to their sins and might survive a few years. At best. Now LUST wraps around my neck like blue fingers strangling me. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit and now the Hole is my new home.

 Darkness. Death. Violence. Pain.

 Now every day is a fight for survival. But I won’t die. I won’t let them win.

 The Hole can’t keep me. The Hole can’t break me.
I am more than my brand. I’m a fighter.
My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story.

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About Abi and Missy

  Abi and Missy met in the summer of 1999 at college orientation and have been best friends ever since. After college, they added jobs, husbands and kids to their lives, but they still found time for their friendship. Instead of hanging out on weekends, they went to dinner once a month and reviewed books. What started out as an enjoyable hobby has now become an incredible adventure.

Abigail Ketner

Is a registered nurse with a passion for novels, the beaches of St. John, and her Philadelphia Phillies. A talented singer, Abi loves to go running and spend lots of time with her family. She currently resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her husband, triplet daughters and two very spoiled dogs.

Melissa Kalicicki

Received her bachelor’s degree from Millersville University in 2003. She married, had two boys and currently lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Aside from reading and writing, her interests include running and mixed martial arts. She also remains an avid Cleveland sports fan.

Tycoon Reunion by Candace Havens & Shannon Leigh

Title: Tycoon Reunion

Author: Candace Havens & Shannon Leigh

Release Date: Out Now

Goodreads Description:


Sparks fly when a project brings a heartbreaker back to town and into the path of the woman he left behind. He’s determined to win her over in the boardroom … and the bedroom!




*eARC Copy From Entangled Publishing*



This was a cute story about high school sweethearts, who get a second chance. Jake, one of the main characters breaks up with Annabelle at their high school graduation to go to china to start his career. It is a once in a life time opportunity. 

In the present day, which is 10 years or so later, they meet at a restaurant and Annabelle is on a blind date. The Guys that are with Jake want him to get her to come over and join them. He secedes and they start taking about business. Jake want to do away with some old historic building and build new ones. Annabelle doesn't want that because she likes the history and stuff that go along with them. There are also old people who have lived in their places for 80 or so years and they don't want to move.

Annabelle presents her concerns, but in order to find out what happens read it. The book really isn't that long 80 pages or so.


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About the Author(S):

Bestselling author Candace Havens has written multiple novels for Berkley, Entangled and Harlequin. Her books have received nominations for the RITA's, Holt Medallion and Write Touch Reader Awards. She is the author of the biography Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffyand a contributor to several anthologies. She is also one of the nation's leading entertainment journalists and has interviewed countless celebrities including Tom Hanks, Nicolas Cage, Tom Cruise, George Clooney and many more. Her entertainment columns can be read in more than 600 newspapers across the country. And she is the Editorial Director for the Covet, Edge and Select lines at Entangled Publishing. Candace also runs a free online writing workshop for more than 2200 writers, and teachescomprehensive writing class. She does film reviews with the Hawkeye & Dorsey on 96.3, and is a former President of the Television Critics Association.

                                                       
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Cover Reveal for Break by Amanda Stone

Cover Reveal for Break by Amanda Stone!

Title: Break

Author: Amanda Stone

Release: Spring 2014

Cover: Sarah Hansen - Okay Creations 

Genre: New Adult

Synopsis: 

There are paths we take in life that lead us to where we are supposed to be—where we are meant to be all along. I didn't know that my journey, which had been filled with so much pain and so much all-consuming rage, would lead me to her.

She is my salvation. My undoing. My reason for breaking…

Storm Messer has just graduated college. But instead of spending the summer traveling, like she had intended, she finds herself dumped by her boyfriend and working for her parents at their family’s prestigious restaurant.

Ryker Noakes had every intention of going away to college until he lost the one person who kept him grounded. Now five years later he finds himself spending his days working as a mechanic, and his nights working off his aggression over things he cannot change as an underground MMA fighter.

Neither could have known that a chance meeting would spark up a friendship that would lead to an undeniable romance. But when they find out their pasts collide, it threatens to destroy any future they may have together.

Breaking isn't always a bad thing. — As long as you have the right person to put you back together.

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Ryker guided me backward, pushing me until my back was flush against the cool wood siding of the house. He leaned in closer, his scent engulfing me—consuming me. “Storm,” he huskily whispered. “Close your eyes.”

As if I had no control over myself, my body did as he commanded and my eyes drifted shut. I heard the creak of wood giving as he placed each of his hands on either side of my head. Even with my eyes closed I knew how close he was to me. His breaths were softly blowing against my lips. Out of habit, my tongue slipped from between my lips, moistening them in anticipation. I heard a low growl rumble up from Ryker’s chest and he placed forehead against mine.

“Ryke…” I began, but he silenced me by gently placing his finger against my lips.

“I don’t know why you fight this, Storm.” He huffed and pulled his face away from mine. “I know you feel it. You feel how right this is.” He tenderly grasped my chin in his hand, turning my head to the side, giving him better access to my neck. He ran his lips over my burning skin before placing a soft kiss where my shoulder and neck meet. My body shivered at his touch and he pulled away again. “You see, your body knows what it wants. Damn, Storm, even your heart knows what it wants. But you let your head get in the way of all that. You let your head lead you, and, baby, its leading you the wrong way.”

He leaned closer to my ear. “Just stop thinking. Stop thinking and feel. Feel how your breathing becomes erratic when I do this.” He ran his tongue along my earlobe. “Feel how your heart speeds up when I tell you how unbelievably sexy you are, and how you have me in pain just thinking about being inside you again.” He paused, and I stayed quiet, listening to his uneven breaths. “Feel how your skin tingles when I touch you.” He ran his hand down my side, his fingers leaving a trail of fire in their wake. “I do that to you. Me. Why fight this? Why fight something that feels so undeniably right? You know you want me,” he growled against my lips. “And deep down, you know you’re already mine.”

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    About the Author:

Amanda Stone is the author of the USA Today Bestselling book, Breathe into Me. She was born and raised in the foothills of eastern Kentucky. She loves being from, and living in, this beautiful state so much that she decided to move to a small little town that is—no pun intended—called, Lovely.

Amanda is currently living out her, happily ever after, with her reformed bad boy hubby, their two wild little kidlets, and a house full of critters. (Technically, its two dogs and a cat, but if it was up to her husband, those numbers would be drastically larger.)

                                             

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