Terra, daughter to the Alpha of her pack, left the controlling and unloving influence of her father at seventeen. Living packless in a big city, she has had to subdue her wolf in order to survive. Her father never let her go, he had people watching her all of these years. Now, he needs her to search out the nephew she never knew she had and bring him back to her pack or her freedom is gone. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Shiftless (Wolf Rampant book 1) by Aimee Easterling”
Gone Too Deep continues the underlying storyline about who killed the headless man found in the first book, Hold Your Breath. Baxter Price, Ellie’s father, calls his daughter out of the blue rambling about people being after him. Her father has a history of mental illness, and Ellie is concerned that he may become lost or hurt in the Colorado wilderness, unable to take care of himself. She leaves work in Chicago and travels to Simpson, Colorado to try to find him. She enlists the aid of George Holloway, a member of Search and Rescue to take her on a three day hike through the wilderness to her grandfathers cabin. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Gone Too Deep (Search and Rescue #3) by Katie Ruggle”
Rhys Winterborne, born in Wales and raised in the labor class, has taken his family’s grocer business and grown it into the most successful department store in London. He meets Lady Helen Ravenal while visiting her brother on his estate where she nurses him back to health after an accident. He decides she’s the one for him and they become engaged. This premise sounds pretty normal, right? I thought so too, but was surprised at a couple things that made this novel original. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas”
Blood of the Earth is a paranormal mystery set in a land full of were-animals, vampires and “other” species. Faith Hunter has developed this world in her popular Jane Yellowrock series where we were first introduced to the main character Nell Ingram. Nell, an ex member of a local cult, signs on as a consultant to PsyLED, a paranormal government agency that explores and investigates what the normal agencies can not explain. PsyLED believes that some kidnappings of young women may be tied to her family’s church group (cult), and as an ex member who still has access through her family, her involvement becomes the key to their success. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Blood of the Earth (A Soulwood Novel) by Faith Hunter”
I read and reviewed Katie Ruggle’s first book in the Search and Rescue series, Hold Your Breath, giving that book ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Fan the Flames only cemented my love for Katie Ruggle’s style of writing. Again, don’t let the cover fool you. Yes, Ian Walsh, nicknamed Beauty by his fellow firefighters, is gorgeous. But, he is a character with many layers, and the author, through the eyes of Rory, gives us all of those layers to unwrap. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Fan the Flames (Search and Rescue #2) by Katie Ruggle”
Three Blonde Mice is a tongue in cheek self proclaimed nickname for friends Elaine, Jackie and Pat. They met each other as each of them were going through a divorce, and have become fast friends. We were introduced to these characters in Jane Heller’s Princess Charming, when they went on their first group vacation, a cruise. This novel follows them on their second vacation to Connecticut for Cultivate Your Bounty week, a farm to table festival Continue reading “This Chick Read: Three Blonde Mice by Jane Heller”
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast is a paranormal steampunk novel. We are introduced to Lucy Pickett as she travels by dirigible to visit her newly married cousin Kate. Kate was swept off her feet by the younger brother of the Lord of the Manor, and has written to Lucy about her mysterious illness. Lucy, a botanist, rushes to her side. What she finds is more than a mysterious illness. She encounters a ghost who seems to be trying to deliver a message to her and an irritable, yet handsome Lord who needs her help. This steampunk version of England where humans exist alongside mechanical beings, vampires and werewolves was fascinating, and the mystery well written. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Beauty and the Clockwork Beast by Nancy Campbell Allen”
I am definitely in summer beach read mode. I keep hovering over mysteries and fantasy novels, but keep picking up some romances that I’ve had on the back burner. It is that time of year for fun, love and adventure. Laura Kaye is always a must read, as her romances have grit and their men have issues that just need a good woman to help them overcome. Nick Rixey is exactly that man. He is ex military and his last mission went bad and half his squad died. He was leading that mission and blamed himself for those men dying. When Becca Merritt seeks him out, he doesn’t want anything to do with her, after all, it was her father who served over him, and who led them into that trap where his men died. Becca, not knowing his feelings over her father, and actually not knowing that truth, needs help finding her brother, who has disappeared. The last time she and her brother had talked, he had mentioned that he’d found information that led him to believe that her father was not the man that they thought he was, and she refused to listen. Now, she has come to Nick, to help her on her search.
Nick reaches out to his old team, who even though they separated on bad terms, come to he and Becca’s aid. The interaction between he and his team was tense with unresolved emotions and the scenes between those guys were very well written. As this is the first in the series, I look forward to reading a book about each of them. Nick tried so hard to be ambivalent to Becca, but his protective instincts overcame any other instinct he had to shut down what he was feeling for her. His character was dark, his voice raspy, his psyche injured, and he needed a little light in his world. Becca became his light. Becca was a layered character, not just a woman in need, although she certainly was that. Her elder brother died from a drug overdose, her father was dead, and her surviving brother had disappeared. She was a nurse, so was a nurturer, and even with her brothers disappearance, she could see that there was something special about Nick, beyond the intense attraction she had to him, and she wanted to help him heal.
I picked up Hard as it Gets looking for a light romance and got a well crafted, layered romantic action adventure. There are a lot of books in this series, so I’m looking forward to picking up the next one!
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Reading a Ballroom Dance romance is definitely not the norm for me, however, I received an ebook copy for free and decided to give it a try. I will confess, part of my curiosity was because it was about Ballroom Dance. I’m a fan of Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, and have even tried Ballroom Dance lessons with my husband and had a ton of fun, so I thought, what the hell! The story is about Rory, a young lawyer by trade, an ex ballerina, who while at a work function with her boyfriend watches the entertainment, a couple of professional dancers. She is enraptured by their grace, and the male dancers good looks (of course!). Continue reading “This Chick Read: Fever (A Ballroom Romance books 1-3) by Tonya Plank”
Lady Midnight is the first novel in the Dark Artifices series, which follows Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn of the LA Institute. We were introduced to the Blackthorns, and Emma in the City of Heavenly Fire. As children, they watched their parents fall to Sebastian’s evil machinations, leaving Julian, at twelve years old, to raise his four younger siblings. Even though Julian and Emma are only 17 in this book, it feels much more adult because they were forced to be parents to his brothers and sisters. Continue reading “This Chick Read: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare”
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