#Spotlight on Never Let Me Go by Kianna Alexander + #Giveaway

 

Never Let Me Go
(The Southern Gentlemen #3)
by Kianna Alexander 
Paperback, 352 pages
Expected publication: February 23rd 2021 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN1492647047 

Tender, emotional contemporary romance--you'll fall in love with this band-of-brothers and the strong women they're determined to win.

Architect Maxwell Devers is laser-focused on winning the contract to build a new cultural arts center--his biggest project yet. But as a single dad of a beautiful baby girl, he has to find some help if he's going to stay on track.

Yvonne Markham is thrilled to get her first nanny assignment. She knows the high-paying job will speed her progress toward owning a child care center of her own. Maxwell's daughter is a delight, and she quickly comes to love the bouncing baby girl. Falling for her handsome new boss, however, was not part of the plan...

Hang on to your heartstrings: This multicultural romance features a single father, a sweet baby daughter, and the nanny who falls in love with them both.

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#Spotlight on A Tail for Two by Mara Wells + #Giveaway

 

A Tail for Two
(Fur Haven Dog Park #2)
by Mara Wells
Paperback, 384 pages
Published September 29th 2020 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN149269861X

Second in a delightful romantic comedy series set around a bustling Miami Beach dog park

Lance Donovan agreed to dog sit only to help out his younger brother. Little does he know that an encounter with his ex-wife at the local dog park is going to turn his life upside down...

Carrie Burns has a successful business, a young son, and an energetic pup. She doesn't have time for much more in her busy schedule, but her friends say she needs to get back into the dating scene or she'll never find a new Mr. Right. Between her demanding job and 3-year-old Oliver, dating is starting to be another chore.

Carrie especially doesn't have time for her ex-husband, Lance Donovan. But when Lance meets Oliver, he's determined to connect with the son he didn't know he had, and the love he thought he'd lost.

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#Giveaway of Purple Lotus by Veena Rao

 

Purple Lotus
by Veena Rao 
Paperback, 312 pages
Expected publication: September 29th 2020 by She Writes Press
ISBN1631527614 

Tara moves to the American South three years after her arranged marriage to tech executive Sanjay. Ignored and lonely, Tara finds herself regressing back to childhood memories that have scarred her for life. When she was eight, her parents had left her behind with her aging grandparents and a schizophrenic uncle in Mangalore, while taking her baby brother with them to make a new life for the family in Dubai.

Tara’s memories of abandonment and isolation mirror her present life of loneliness and escalating abuse at the hands of her husband. She accepts the help of kind-hearted American strangers to fight Sanjay, only to be pressured by her patriarchal family to make peace with her circumstances. Then, in a moment of truth, she discovers the importance of self-worth—a revelation that gives her the courage to break free, gently rebuild her life, and even risk being shunned by her community when she marries her childhood love, Cyrus Saldanha.

Life with Cyrus is beautiful, until old fears come knocking. Ultimately, Tara must face these fears to save her relationship with Cyrus—and to confront the victim-shaming society she was raised within.
Intimate and deeply moving, Purple Lotus is the story of one woman’s ascension from the dark depths of desolation toward the light of freedom.

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🍷🍷🍷🍷 #Review of Not Like the Movies by Kerry Winfrey

Title: Not Like the Movies

Series: Waiting for Tom Hanks #2

Author: Kerry Winfrey

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Format: ebook/paperback

Published: July 7th, 2020 by Berkley Jove

Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N

Source: my library

Reviewer: Lexi

Rating: 4 wines

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What happens when your life is a rom-com...but you don't even believe in true love? 

Chloe Sanderson is an optimist, and not because her life is easy. As the sole caregiver for her father, who has early onset Alzheimer's, she's pretty much responsible for everything. She has no time—or interest—in getting swept up in some dazzling romance. Not like her best friend Annie, who literally wrote a rom-com that's about to premiere in theaters across America...and happens to be inspired by Chloe and Nick Velez, Chloe's cute but no-nonsense boss. 

As the buzz for the movie grows, Chloe reads one too many listicles about why Nick is the perfect man, and now she can't see him as anything but Reason #2: The Scruffy-Bearded Hunk Who's Always There When You Need Him. But unlike the romance Annie has written for them, Chloe isn't so sure her own story will end in a Happily Ever After.

Lexi’s Thoughts:

Pop that popcorn and grab a cuddly blanket—Annie’s rom com based on her bestie and her very attractive, coffee shop boss is about to show! 

Read an #Excerpt from Burning Ash by N.J. Walters

Burning Ash
(Forgotten Brotherhood #3)
by N.J. Walters 
ebook, 400 pages
Published September 21st 2020 by Entangled: Amara
ISBN1649370547

No one is more surprised than Asher, one of the oldest vampires on Earth, that he's attracted to vamp hunter Jo Radcliffe. She's smart, a talented slayer, and she's gorgeous. Something about her pulls at him, like no one ever has before. For a man, whose name strikes fear in everyone—this is something new and intriguing. And quite possibly deadly, if she discovers his secret.

Jo has two things in common with the handsome Asher—they are both slayers and someone is messing with them in a very-much-trying-to-kill-them way. She's not so happy about joining forces with a dude she doesn't know. But he's sexy as hell and really good at his job as one of the Forgotten Brotherhood, whose business it is to execute misbehaving paranormals.

She knows she's bait in a larger plot to harm Asher and the Brotherhood. And there is nothing he won't do, no line he won't cross, to keep her safe—which may be the weakness that destroys them both.

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Read an #Excerpt from The People We Meet Along the Way by Beth Rinyu

 

The People We Meet Along the Way
by Beth Rinyu
ebook, 200 pages
Published September 17th 2020

Would you be able to grant the same forgiveness that you’re so desperately seeking yourself?

Jillian O’Rourke’s marriage died long before her husband’s tragic accident. Years of battling with infertility and demanding careers melted their once solid relationship. Bearing the burden of guilt over his death, Jillian gets lost in despair and a series of "what-ifs". But one chance encounter with a stranger, changes everything. Now being faced with newfound knowledge and a painful decision, Jillian must push past her anger, learn to forgive and open her heart in ways she never could’ve imagined. As she comes to grips with the devastation of her past, she learns to embrace the possibility of a future she never thought possible. A bittersweet story of love, forgiveness, and the unexpected destiny that is sometimes handed to us in life from the people we meet along the way. 

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