Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Play It Safe: A Glasgow Lads Story Author: Avery Cockburn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages At a Glance: I just keep loving on these boys so hard. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: In this followup story to Playing for Keeps, Fergus and John must overcome bad advice, broken headboards, and the Doppelgänger from Hell... Continue Reading →
Title: Will and Patrick Do the Holidays (Wake Up Married: Episode Three) Author: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 117 Pages At a Glance: The soap opera fun continues for our bold, beautiful, young, and restless duo. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A couple’s first holiday season is always a special time. Thanksgiving,... Continue Reading →
Title: Deranged (Ivy Hollow Chronicles: Book One) Author: Niko McQueen Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 126 Pages At a Glance: Deranged needed a bit more storyline for me to buy into its romance. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Adam Rossmore is a rich party boy who doesn’t answer to anyone. He’s played the orphan card for too... Continue Reading →
Title: The Winter Spirit Author: Indra Vaughn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 125 Pages At a Glance: Indra Vaughn played me like twelve drummers drumming and eleven pipers piping, and I adored it down to the story’s final words. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Nathaniel O’Donnelly likes his life quiet, his guests happy, and his ghosts well-behaved.... Continue Reading →
Title: Sightings Author: Kari Gregg Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 42 Pages At a Glance: Sightings is a sweet romance with a nice little twist. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Quinn Laramie moved to Mill Valley to care for his sick Aunt Betsy. After her recovery, he invested hours once spent in hospitals hiking and exploring the... Continue Reading →
Title: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles: Volume Eight Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 258 Pages At a Glance: And the beat goes on… Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: The latest volume in the award-winning web serial about coming out and coming of age in the music business of the 1980s and 1990s. As the calendar moves... Continue Reading →
Title: Devil’s Jawbone Author: BJ Sheppard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 139 Pages At a Glance: This author’s creativity is not only impressive, but he's also just a bit disturbed in only the best possible way. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: As night descends on the town of Devil's Jawbone, no one is safe. The veil between... Continue Reading →
Title: The Inauspicious List (Chance Assassin: Book Three) Author: Nicole Castle Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages At a Glance: I have what could probably be described as an unhealthy love for this series, and The Inauspicious List only reaffirms it! Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: With a new handler and Silva's book of hits, Frank... Continue Reading →
Title: Will and Patrick Meet the Family (Wake Up Married: Episode Two) Author: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 117 Pages At a Glance: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of their lives… and woot! it’s fun. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Meeting the family is challenging for every new... Continue Reading →
Title: Memento (A PsyCop Short) Author: Jordan Castillo Price Publisher: JCP Books Pages/Word Count: 22 Pages At a Glance: If you love the PsyCop series, don’t miss Memento. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Seasons change, and so do fashion trends. But in this heartstring-tugging PsyCop short, what’s beneath the clothes matters most. Do clothes make the... Continue Reading →
Title: You Can Leave Your Boots On Author: Irene Preston Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 92 Pages At a Glance: You Can Leave Your Boots On is a short, sweet, and sexy little read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: In the heart of Texas... Liberal Austinite Travis Boyd recycles, shops local, and is partner in a successful... Continue Reading →
Title: Playing for Keeps & Playing to Win (Glasgow Lads: Books One and Two) Author: Avery Cockburn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 325 Pages/360 Pages At a Glance: I can conceive of no reason not to read these books! Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb Playing for Keeps: Rule One: No Drama! Fergus Taylor is damaged goods. Reeling... Continue Reading →
Title: Clique (Heartsville) Author: Jayden Brooks Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 78 Pages At a Glance: Funny, sweet, and sarcastic, Clique is a story about taking risks, hanging on, and fighting for something real. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Adam Locke’s youthful looks aren’t the blessing everyone seems to think. At twenty-eight, he’s a successful photographer with... Continue Reading →
Title: Unscripted (Heartsville) Author: Nico Jaye Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 80 Pages At a Glance: Fun, sweet, adorable, charming—Unscripted is all that and a little more. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Theater manager Teddy Carbone's life has gone pretty much according to script... until now. To his surprise, Teddy finds himself co-owner of the Oasis Theater... Continue Reading →
Title: The Merchant and the Clergyman Author: Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 186 Pages At a Glance: If you’re looking for well written historical romance, you can’t go wrong with these two authors. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A village clergyman Curate James Fletcher is content shepherding his parishioners through the good... Continue Reading →
Title: Stand and Deliver Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages/Word Count: 102 Pages At a Glance: A lusty and erotic guilty pleasure read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A tale of dark, dangerous highwaymen and the man they take captive. When Lucien Mayer, 14th Earl of Ravensberry is taken hostage by a gang of highwaymen,... Continue Reading →
Title: The Quartermaster and the Marquis’ Son Author: AE Kendall Publisher: Hermione Press Pages/Word Count: 466 Pages At a Glance: This is a fun, guilty pleasure, love and lust and danger on the high seas adventure. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A gorgeous pirate, a handsome nobleman. A clash at sea. Galen is the seasoned twenty-six... Continue Reading →
Title: Where Wishes Go Author: S.A. McAuley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 246 Pages At a Glance: We loved it. Check this one out, folks! Reviewed By: Jules and Lisa Blurb: Can you have a second chance at a first love? Nick Paine is just starting to return to normal after he told his wife... Continue Reading →
Title: The Altered 3 Author: Annabelle Jacobs Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages At a Glance: The Altered 3 is a suspenseful and romantic end to this series. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Matt is a single shifter living in a house full of couples. It’s not that he begrudges his friends their happiness—especially after everything... Continue Reading →
Title: The Rascal Author: Eric Arvin Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 61500 Words At a Glance: For fans of horror, The Rascal is a must read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Lana is a faded movie star who lives alone in a big house on a hill that overlooks the sea. She has lived this... Continue Reading →
Title: A Man’s Man Author: Genta Sebastian Publisher: Shadoe Publishing Pages/Word Count: 152 Pages At a Glance: With a narrator who isn’t always easy to like, let alone love, A Man’s Man gives its young narrator the room to discover what being a man’s man truly means. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: “It’s like this, see.... Continue Reading →
Title: Better the Devil You Know Author: Bey Deckard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 39000 Words At a Glance: Sick, twisted, brutal, filled with the unexpected, and I loved it. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Byron is tall, handsome, well spoken, wealthy, and has outstanding taste in wine and food. You’ll be impressed by his impeccable attire... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Paramour (Blue Ridge Saga: Volume One) Author: Ligon and Maine Publisher: Voir Media Publishing Group Pages/Word Count: 344 Pages At a Glance: Blue Paramour is the perfect example of a fine book that unfortunately didn’t work for me. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: When Brayden, a devastatingly handsome heir to a prominent Southern family,... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Nights of the Frangipani Hotel (The Actor’s Circle: Book Two) Author: Bey Deckard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 78 Pages At a Glance: Yet another lovely read from Bey Deckard Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: All James wanted was a little solitude at his favourite resort: bright sunshine overhead, soft, white sand underfoot, and... Continue Reading →
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