Jess—aka Reviews by Jess—is a sassy, top-ranked Goodreads reviewer who reads a little of everything. From steamy romance to dark fantasy, plus stories featuring mental health, hidden disabilities, and LGBTQ+ rep, she brings bold, unfiltered reviews readers can trust. Expect sass, sparkle, and a TBR that’s about to explode.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Firecracker Release



Will you give in to the spark?
Firecracker by Kelly Jamieson is now available!

Arden Lennox’s charmed life may be in pieces, but she’d sooner get her hoohaw bleached than move back in with her parents. She’s no longer the prom-queen princess married to the football star. She’s a broke, penniless widow, and it’s time she stood on her own two feet.

An under-construction unit in a quaint Chicago brownstone is cheap (free), but it comes with an unexpected surprise. Tyler Ramirez, her brother’s gawky high school best friend, is now a smoking hot firefighter who spends most of his spare time in her unit hammering, drilling, and screwing. Usually with his shirt off—a temptation she has no intention of indulging. 

Tyler can’t believe his high school crush is living right across the hall, or how fast his fierce lust for her comes blazing back. She’s still gorgeous—a little sadder, a little quieter, but still with the amazing smile and sweet body that fueled his awkward teenage fantasies. 

 Despite her best intentions, Arden can’t resist grown up Tyler but the sparks between them send her into full retreat. And by the time she realizes the heat between them could last a lifetime, it could be too late to tell him…

 

  About Kelly Jamieson 
 Kelly Jamieson is a USA Today bestselling author of over 40 romance novels and novellas. Her writing has been described as “emotionally complex”, “sweet and satisfying” and “blisteringly sexy”. She likes black coffee, white wine and high heels…and of course cheering on her Winnipeg Jets during hockey season! Connect with Kelly

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Murder on the Mountain Cover Reveal


Title: Murder on the Mountain
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 2, 2020
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design

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 Available for preorder 
 
She trusts him with her life, but can she trust him with her heart?

Emma Thomas hasn’t been home in years. Only back in Staunton for a few months, she plans to put her investigative reporter skills to use in exposing the trafficking group using her peaceful, idyllic hometown to move drugs. But when she stumbles onto more than drugs, bullets start flying and she has to ask the one person she left Virginia to avoid for help. 

Detective Adam Marshall has been working this cartel case for months. On the precipice of breaking the organization wide open, he can’t believe the one woman he’d never been able to get over now holds the key to closing his case. His head warns him to steer clear, but his heart won’t let him walk away when Emma’s life is on the line. 

Thrown together by chance after so many years, Adam and Emma work together to break the biggest case of both of their careers and heal some old wounds in the process. Falling in love wasn’t on the docket for either of them, but things don’t always go as planned. 


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Science teacher by day, writer and baseball mom by night, Carolyn LaRoche lives near the ocean with her husband, two boys, rescue puppy and four cats. She loves crocheting, books, food videos and trying new recipes.

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His Runaway Goal Release



His Runaway Goal  by Angela Nicole


Series: Game Winner; Book 2
Genre: Sports Romance / Friends to Lovers

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Jaded by love, Brenda views relationships as nothing more than a prelude to heartbreak and disappointment. When she met Chris, she thought she made her feelings quite clear: hot sex with no strings attached. But finding out she was pregnant with another mans's child quickly rerouted her plans. More than anything, Chris wants to be there for her and the baby But is the stability for family possible for someone that believes it's a fictional concept?

Brenda is the sexist woman Chris has ever seen. With a glance, she can bring him to his knees. Behind closed doors, she takes what she wants in a way that leaves him breathless. Outside of the bedroom, she keeps him at an arms distance to avoid getting too close. Despite being jealous as hell when he learns of her pregnancy, Chris refuses to let that stand in his way. He's willing to make their unconventional family work ... if he can just convince her.

Is it possible for a friends with benefits agreement to turn into the love of a lifetime?




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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Bound Cover Reveal


Bound by Eva Charles releases on February 20th! 
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Cover Designer: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs
Photographer: Golden Czermak, Furious Fotog
Model: Mav Willett 

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Father Creighton and Smith Sinclair. 
Two dangerous men inexplicably drawn to me. 
One bound by a holy vow, the other by duty and honor. 
 One emphatically covets my soul. 
The other, despite his regrets, desires my heart. 
Each demands I surrender my body to his control. 
 A priest and a soldier. 
A demon and a knight. 
An eternity in darkness, or a lifetime of love and light. 
 In the end, I have only seconds to decide.




About the Author:
A confirmed city-girl, EVA CHARLES moved to rural Western Massachusetts in 2014. She found herself living in the woods with no job, no friends (unless you count the turkey, deer, and coyote roaming the backyard), and no children underfoot, wondering what on earth she had been thinking. But as it turned out, it was the perfect setting to take all those yarns spinning in her head and weave them into steamy love stories. 

A romantic at heart, Eva looks forward to date night all week. The perfect evening includes well-crafted cocktails, a fabulous perfume, Cherry Garcia ice cream, and her husband, of course. If you add good friends, live jazz, and impossible shoes, she will follow you anywhere. 

Eva holds a BA from Boston College, and a JD from the Washington College of Law. She spent a career working in domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and civil rights. Aspects of this work often find their way into her books. 

When she's not writing sexy stories, trying to squeeze information out of her tight-lipped sons, or playing with the two cutest dogs you've ever seen, Eva's creating chapters in her own love story.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

My Hell Cover Reveal




My Hell
A Twist of Fate Book 1
by J. Haney
Contemporary Romance 




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One night. One kiss and my world went to shit. Shane Hellion or Hell as I’ve come to call him has been my best friend for three years. It started off as a working relationship, then evolved into a partnership. Now? Christ, what am I gonna do? I have a little girl to think about. I can’t just- do whatever.

Between the ex breathing down my back and my house falling apart, how am I supposed to navigate what he wants? What do I want? I want something that can help me escape, my hell.




J. Haney was born and raised in Kentucky. Residing in Greenup County, Kentucky with her family. She’s a single momma to a daughter, Jessalyn Kristine. And also helps to take care of, advocate for and homeschool her autistic cousin, Aiden Sean. She loves photography and seeing what she can capture through the lens! Probably the biggest book whore, she knows. She love books of all genres except Horror… She’s a big Chicken! Getting excited when introduced to a new author. She has been likened to a kid in a candy shop.

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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Priceless by Miranda Silver Release & Giveaway




Title: Priceless
Author: Miranda Silver
Genre: Erotic Romance/New Adult
Release Date: January 9, 2020



Blurb

Are you afraid of the dark, Christina? I don't need the lights on to read you like a book.


The first time I meet the wolf’s cold eyes, we’re at a college party.

Maybe you like the dark more than you think.

I just quit the cheer squad. I’m about to dump my musician boyfriend. I’m partying harder than ever. I let money run through my fingers because I’m done reaching for standards I’ll never meet.

Soon, I’m broke. And I don’t want anyone to know.

The more you hide your true self, the more you’re going to let it out with me.

I'm bubbly and outgoing. He's icy and alone. I stay away. I touch myself, thinking of him.

When I finally seek out Patrick Caruthers, he has a proposition.

Mind games. Humiliation. Control. Schedules. Him. Me.

I think you’re going to be the perfect playmate.

I'm not perfect. I'm not stunning or noble. I’m not a heroine.

You’re priceless.

I'm just a girl . . .

You were made for me.

And he’s a cold bastard

Who is paying me for sex.








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Miranda Silver writes steamy novels with a twist. She's happy to have an excuse to put her English degree to use, along with her love of drama, secrets, and words. Miranda lives on the West Coast with her family, where she spends time outdoors whenever possible.


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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Bad at Love by B.L. Olson Cover Reveal



Bad at Love by B.L. Olson

Available for Pre-Order!

Genre: Contemporary Romance


Beneath the stars of the Nebraskan sky, Bo Sutton and I made promises to each other that we swore never to break.

Then I did.

Now five years later, I am forced to return to the very spot where I broke both my vow and my heart, with our daughter in tow.

I never regretted my decision to protect my daughter from the same heartbreak I felt all those years ago.

Then I did.

I'm aware I'm bad at love, but when secrets come to light that reveal more than just my daughter's paternity, I know that I'm going to need to study up quickly to protect what is left of my heart.

Can Bo ever forgive me for my secrets and sins?

Can we rediscover the map we left in the stars and pick up right where we left off?



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Author B.L. Olson, or Brit to those she's not in trouble with, is a self-proclaimed hot mess who survives off a steady stream of coffee and pizza. She is a land mermaid forever swimming in the PNW rain, where she balances writing, some semblance of a social life, and psych courses for her degree.



We are Us by Tara Leigh Cover Reveal

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We Are Us, an all-new, angst-filled, second chance standalone romance from Tara Leigh is releasing February 27th, and we have the gorgeous cover along with the very first sneak peek!

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I fell in love with a beautiful, broken boy.
His whispered words of love were the sweetest of lies.
He gave me his heart and destroyed mine.
I am his.
I fell in love with the beautiful man who broke me.
His boldly spoken vow was the cruelest of cages.
He gave me his name and destroyed my soul.
He is mine.
The boy I once loved is now a man.
The man I once loved is now gone.
We are us.
I have been called many things.
Victim. Survivor. Daughter. Sister. Wife.
Now I am called something else.
Murderer.
Believe it or not, this is our love story.

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Excerpt
“Close your eyes.” I slant a curious look at Gavin, taking in his kiss-swollen lips and flushed skin, his untamable mop of hair and the blaze of excitement lighting up the blue of his corneas. Gavin squeezes my hand reassuringly as I do what he’s asked, then slowly walks me the remaining few steps toward our cave. Without vision, my other senses are heightened. The cry of birds sounds closer, like they are perched just overhead instead of on branches thirty or forty feet above. The bite of the breeze on my skin is sharper, each gust sending a chill racing along already sensitive nerve endings. The smell of ripe earth and rich evergreen and the clean, bracing scent of Gavin himself is downright intoxicating, my head swimming as I pull breaths deep into my lungs. Most of all, the moonstone pendant laying against my collarbone is making my chest tingle, my heart fluttering against my ribcage. “Okay, open them.” I do, immediately gasping in surprise at what Gavin’s done to our little cave. There are candles burning and scattered rose petals—no, poppy petals—and a basket filled with drinks and snacks. A pile of blankets and pillows. “You did all this for me?” I ask, my voice sounding whispery and weird. I feel whispery and weird. I’ve never had a birthday like this. I’ve never even imagined a birthday like this. First the necklace and now, seeing the lengths Gavin has gone for me… Beneath the surface of my skin, I’m a chaotic mess of emotions. I don’t know what to say, how to act. This is unchartered territory for me. “Of course,” he says, as if it’s nothing. But it’s not nothing. It’s everything. Before I dissolve into a teary puddle, Gavin reaches into his pocket and pulls out a deck of cards. “You taught me how to play gin rummy—how about I teach you to play poker?” A strangled laugh leaves my throat. “I think that’s fair.” We sit down and Gavin spends a few minutes going over the basics of the game before dealing out the cards. It’s not as easy as gin rummy, but I get the hang of it after a few rounds. And when Gavin lifts a mischievous brow and asks, “Want to make things interesting?” I know exactly what he’s doing. Not just poker. Strip poker. And that’s when I realize just how much planning went into tonight. Beyond buying me an expensive present. Beyond pimping out our cave. Gavin found a way to make my first time—our first time—a mix of old and new. An experience evoking our past and celebrating our future. I’ve imagined the night Gavin and I would finally go all the way a million times. But I’d only focused on the physical aspects. Would it hurt? Will there be blood? What if I do it wrong? It never crossed my mind that he would take such care with… everything. But, of course, it should have. Gavin Cross is one of a kind. And he’s mine.

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About Tara Leigh
Tara Leigh is a multi-published author of steamy contemporary romance. To keep in touch, click here! http://bit.ly/TaraLeighNwsltr. A former banker on Wall Street, she graduated from Washington University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, but she much prefers spending her days with fictional boyfriends than analyzing financial spreadsheets. Tara currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with her husband, children, and fur-baby, Pixie.

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Sex and Other Shiny Objects Excerpt Reveal

     


 


SEX AND OTHER SHINY OBJECTS 
by Lauren Blakely 
Release Date: January 13th 
Genre: Contemporary Romance
 
NOW COMING TWO DAYS EARLY ON JANUARY 13TH!!
Preorder special! Price goes up on release day! 
Performed by Andi Arndt & Jason Clarke and special guest star Julia Whelan With additional voices by Joe Arden and Erin Mallon And cameos from Maxine Mitchell, Teddy Hamilton, Lili Valente and Kit Swann

   
   
COMING TWO DAYS EARLY ON 1/13!
Preorder special! Price goes up on release day! 
Performed by Andi Arndt & Jason Clarke and special guest star Julia Whelan With additional voices by Joe Arden and Erin Mallon And cameos from Maxine Mitchell, Teddy Hamilton, Lili Valente and Kit Swann
     
Blurb: 
The second the test-the-sexy-scenes offer landed in my lap, I said yes.
After all, I've been damn curious about a few things I've read in romance novels. Do buttons truly go flying across the floor when you rip off a guy's shirt? Is staircase sex hella hot or does it leave you with a big old bruise mark on your back? And don’t even get me started on all that panty shredding, and whether it even works.
Time to find out as I embark on Project Sexy Scenes Research, at the request of my hotshot book editor bestie.
All I need is a willing scene partner. Enter Tristan, my best guy friend. The witty, tell-it-like-it-is, bearded hottie volunteers for the experiment.
He's also the guy who gave me the most devastating, toe-curling kiss of my life ten years ago. But nothing has happened since then. And nothing will come between my panties and our friendship now since we have a plan to keep it PG. But once the buttons start flying, all bets are off…

   
   

  EXCERPT 
  Strong muscles, carved abs, that sprinkling of chest hair that’s the perfect amount of manliness.   My mouth waters. My stomach flips.   And I reprimand the hell out of my brain, the indecent wench.   Friends don’t picture friends in the buff.   “Let’s try it one more time,” I say with a crisp nod and a cool tone. “We’ll do it by the book.”   He clears his throat, his tone shifting. “Peyton, I have another idea.”   I blink. “You do?”   “I do.” He pauses, scrubbing a hand across his chin. “Do you trust me?”   The question is rhetorical. “Of course I do.”   He shakes his head, like that’s the wrong reply. “I know you trust me. But can you trust me right now? To take the lead?” His voice is gentle but somehow commanding at the same time. It’s soothing, and the question says he knows me, but he also needs me to let go. To give in to him.   Can I? Will I stumble if I do?   His eyes lock with mine, and the intensity in his gaze is reassuring, like the security he gave me at his restaurant the other night when he said, I’ve got you.   I give the only answer I can. “I trust you.”   “Good. Then let’s do it.”   “If you say so, Fred.”   His lips curve in a crooked grin. “I do say so, Gingersnap.”   He hits play on “Wicked Game” on his phone and sets it on the table at the bottom of the stairs, and the smooth, sultry strains of Chris Isaak float through the air.   The music pulses, low and sexy, like it’s playing in my body, beating inside me. The effect is heady. It sets the mood for the scene.   A scene we’re simply acting. That’s all this is. Acting and reenacting.   He arches a brow, glances at the stairs, then says in a rumbling, sexy voice, “Been thinking about you all day. Need to get you upstairs and get this off you.”    


About the Author: 
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's sweet, sexy and witty. She also writes red-hot love stories for her Lauren Blakely After Dark line.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Power Play by Toni Aleo Release




One Timer is available now!


 







About the Author:

My name is Toni Aleo and I’m a total dork.
I am a wife, mother of two and a bulldog, and also a hopeless romantic.
I am the biggest Shea Weber fan ever, and can be found during hockey season with my nose pressed against the Bridgestone Arena’s glass, watching my Nashville Predators play!
When my nose isn’t pressed against the glass, I enjoy going to my husband and son’s hockey games, my daughter’s dance competition, hanging with my best friends, taking pictures, scrapbooking, and reading the latest romance novel.
I have a slight Disney and Harry Potter obsession, I love things that sparkle, I love the color pink, I might have been a Disney Princess in a past life… probably Belle.
… and did I mention I love hockey?


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