Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Submitting to the Darkness (Island Tales: Book Three) Author: K.C. Wells Publisher: Island Tales Press Pages/Word Count: 278 Pages At a Glance: This is an emotional journey of learning to live with blindness, and how love can help you see the way. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Three weeks after being diagnosed with acute glaucoma,... Continue Reading →
Title: Brewing (Beer and Clay: Book Four) Author: Sean Michael Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages At a Glance: We finally get to the HEA for Toby and Damon in this fourth installment of the story, and I recommend this series. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: As the love between Toby and Damon deepens, the... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Sleeping Dogs (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries) Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 208 Pages At a Glance: If you like period appropriate verbiage and staging, REALLY GOOD mysteries, and colorful and witty characters, then this series is for you. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Cambridge, 1921 When amateur sleuth Jonty Stewart comes... Continue Reading →
Title: Better Than Safe (A Better Than Story) Author: Lane Hayes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 244 Pages At a Glance: The Better Than series just gets better and better! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Paul Fallon is a fashion advertising guru. He’s a genius at dealing with difficult editors, art directors, and designers alike. He... Continue Reading →
Title: His Captive’s Heart Author: Meredith O’Reilly Publisher: Stormy Night Publications Pages/Word Count: 79 Pages At a Glance: I would recommend this book if you’re looking for light BDSM and a sweet romance. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Twenty-nine-year-old lawyer Marcus Bradberry has fantasized for years about finding a firm-handed man who would not hesitate to... Continue Reading →
Title: Air Bear Author: A.J. Llewellyn Publisher: Amber Allure Pages/Word Count: 38000 Words At a Glance: Air Bear is an incredibly well thought out book for being an extended novella. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Kappy and Jason are happily newlywed men relocating from a military base in Massachusetts to Kappy's childhood home of Honolulu. For... Continue Reading →
Title: Feat of Clay (Men of London: Book Four) Author: Susan Mac Nicol Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages At a Glance: Grabbed. I was grabbed by this book… Tate and Clay are amazing characters and they have an amazing story to tell. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Imprisoned and tortured, undercover cop Tate... Continue Reading →
Title: Terror of the Frozen North Author: Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks Publisher: Amber Allure Pages/Word Count: 202 Pages At a Glance: Check your reality at the door and immerse yourself in a really good book – this one! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: War is hell, but coming home is even harder. Edward Kilsby, Lord... Continue Reading →
Title: Finding the Way Home Author: Sean Michael Publisher: Amber Allure Pages/Word Count: 16000 Words At a Glance: The characters of Jim and Horse were well done, but I wish they’d had more of a story to tell. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: When he arrives home from a long stint in the hospital after losing... Continue Reading →
Title: Base Instincts (A Demonica Story) Author: Larissa Ione Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 150 Pages At a Glance: Larissa Ione has once again turned our ideas of good and evil on an axis and challenged our thinking about what love means. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: As a Seminus demon, Raze’s life literally depends on... Continue Reading →
Title: Three's Company (2nd Edition) Author: N.R. Walker Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages At a Glance: Three's Company is a successful re-release of what was already great book. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: When he started looking for someone to help heal his broken heart, Wilson Curtis never dreamed he’d find two someones. Love... Continue Reading →
Title: Breathe Deep (St. Hawk's Medical: Book Three) Author: Willa Okati Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 114 Pages At a Glance: In my opinion, this is the best book of the series. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: A golden-hearted mountain man. A nursing tech with a secret. Life and death are on the line—and they’re running... Continue Reading →
Title: Winter’s Wolf (Tales of the Harker Pack: Book Three Author: Tara Lain Narrator:: Max Lehnen Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours and 31 Minutes At a Glance: The twists and turns in this book keep you guessing in a good way. No matter whether you are reading, or being read to, Winter’s Wolf... Continue Reading →
Title: Double Cross Author: Shannon West Publisher: Dark Hollows Press Pages/Word Count: 107 Pages At a Glance: Double Cross is a little different from West’s usual work, subject-wise, but still follows her writing style, which is always spot on. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: When F.B.I. agent Ryan Tucker gets the job of escorting a federal... Continue Reading →
Title: Empty Nests (Nested Hearts: Book One) Author: Ada Maria Soto Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages At a Glance: Empty Nests fell a little flat for me. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Neither James nor Gabe has ever had a real relationship. They might make a connection if they can get past their differences—and... Continue Reading →
Title: In-Decision (Left at the Crossroad: Book Two) Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 141 Pages At a Glance: This was a sweet light read in a friends-to-lovers story set in Little Mowbury, the quiet little English village where those who need can find respite. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Little Mowbury is a sleepy... Continue Reading →
Title: The Layered Mask Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 108 Pages At a Glance: I would love to have a whole Gentleman’s Club series… Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: 2nd Edition Threatened by his father with disinheritance, Lord Edwin Nash arrives in London with a sole purpose: to find a wife. A more... Continue Reading →
Title: The Sangre Series Author: Alex Carreras Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 201 Pages At a Glance: Read this book, enjoy this book, but don’t take this book too seriously – enjoy it with a smile. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: THREE STORIES - ONE BOOK In the city of Sangre, Florida, vampires and humans... Continue Reading →
Title: Secrets from the Edge Author: S.C. Wynne Publisher: Loose Id Pages/Word Count: 142 Pages At a Glance: This was a great book, the characters well written, and the scenes solid. I highly recommend it for a hot summer day. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Keith Williams is twenty-two and struggling to feel normal again. Once... Continue Reading →
Title: The New Hire (The Hard Hat Series: Book Two) Author: J.T. Hall Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 30 Pages At a Glance: J.T. Hall has created two men with a lot of promise as characters, and I look forward to the next part of the story. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Gary’s got a problem... Continue Reading →
Title: Love Found on Lindisfarne Author: JL Merrow Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 35 Pages At a Glance: Who wouldn’t like a lovable dad, a precocious almost-teen, and a Viking? Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: When single father Chris meets a Viking re-enactor on Lindisfarne, he thinks it’s the perfect recipe for a holiday fling --... Continue Reading →
Title: Nothing Ventured Author: Jay Northcote Narrator:: Matthew Lloyd Davies Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 4 Hours and 39 Minutes At a Glance: This was a great audiobook and I really enjoyed listening to it. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: When Aiden agrees to run the Mad Mucker—a twelve-mile muddy slog over an obstacle course—he’s expecting... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Idle Tongues Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 247 Pages At a Glance: Just when you think you might have it all figured out… That would be a no. I love it! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Cambridge, 1910 Amateur detectives Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith seem to have nothing more... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Steel Chain Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages At a Glance: This book challenges you to reconsider how you feel about love and companionship, your needs versus your wants in a partner and soulmate. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: At sixteen, Aidan Swift was swept off his feet by a... Continue Reading →
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