Audiobook #Review: Meet the Earl at Midnight by Gina Conkle - 4.5 Wine Glasses

Title: Meet the Earl at Midnight 
Series: Midnight Meetings #1
Author: Gina Conkle 
Format: Unabridged Audiobook (Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages)
Published: May 6th 2014 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 1402294271
Narrated by: Marian Hussey
Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Audible | B&N 
Source: Author
Reviewer: Linda
Rating: 4.5/5

It's going to take a Beast to tame this Beauty 

Enigma Earl. The Phantom of London. That's what the gossip pages call Lord Edward Greenwich, a mysterious nobleman who doesn't show his face in London Society. With a reputation like that, no wonder Lydia Montgomery is horrified to be dragged from bed and packed off to live with him to save her mother from penury.

While Lydia has received all of the training a lady should endure, she's decidedly un-ladylike. She despises her corset and isn't interested in marriage. She'd prefer to remain unmarried and spend her time improving her art. But if she wants a chance at happiness, she'll have to set aside her fear of the earl and discover the man hiding behind the beast.

Will Edward and Lydia's greatest discovery be each other before time runs out?

Linda's Thoughts:

The warm wool blanket dropped to the floor, and Lydia set her hand in the earl’s firm grip. She stuck her foot outside, but awareness wasn’t with her. That cavernous black doorway claimed her attention, and therein was her problem. Trouble came in mere seconds, as it usually did for her. The step was slick. She slipped. The sole of her leather shoe slid off the step’s edge. “Oww!” she yelped as her foot banged the graveled drive hard. Legs buckling, down she went, like a graceless sack of flour. What’s worse, she slammed into the earl, her shoulder punching his midsection. 

“Ooomph!” Lord Sanford grunted but moved quickly to save her from falling all the way to the ground. Her face mashed against leather and linen. Strong hands held her arms. At least she didn’t knock the earl down. Grabbing for purchase, her fingers touched warm wool…buttons…skin. Her face pressed into fabric, she murmured, “I’m so very sorry.” Lydia tried to right herself, but relief turned to horror: she was a mortified eye level with the pewter buttons of Lord Sanford’s breeches. 

Most Anticipated Releases | January 2015

Here are the books I am looking forward to in January. Which book's release are you anticipating? ~Crystal

01/06/2015

#CoverReveal: When Fates Collide AND When Fate Isn't Enough by Isabelle Richards

Today we have the a double cover reveal, for Isabelle Richard’s When Fates Collide and When Fate Isn’t Enough. I’m so excited to share the covers with you today!!

When Fates Collide

by Isabelle Richards 

ebook, 250 pages

Expected publication: January 28th 2015

#CoverReveal: Domino Effect by Kristin Mayer (#Giveaway)

It’s the cover reveal for Domino Effect by Kristin Mayer and we am so excited share this with you!! Kristin is sharing an exclusive excerpt with the reveal, as well as hosting a fabulous giveaway. 

Domino Effect 

(Effect #2)

by Kristin Mayer 

Expected publication: February 2015

#Review: Dragon Her Back by Susannah Scott - 4.5 Wine Glasses

Title: Dragon Her Back 
Series: Las Vegas Dragons #3
Author: Susannah Scott
Format: ebook, 225 pages
Published: December 15th 2014 by Entangled: Covet (first published December 14th 2014)
ISBN: 1633751570
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Source: Netgalley
Reviewer: Linda
Rating: 4.5/5

A paranormal category romance from Entangled's Covet imprint… 

How To Claim Your Dragon...

As the head of security of Vegas's Crown Jewel casino―and its hidden dragonshifter sanctuary―ice dragon Darius Dachien commands respect. Unfortunately, that respect isn't always reciprocated. In fact, when it comes to the stunning Mei Chen, hostility might be a better word. Which makes things even harder for Darius, since Mei is his dragon mate. Without her, his dragon form is fading fast... and once lost, will be gone forever. 

Mei can't deny the fierce chemistry that simmers between them. If Darius were ever to discover who―or rather, what―she really is, she wouldn't just lose him, but her place with the dragonshifters. The moment Mei's past comes crashing into her present, she realizes her time for secrets has ended. Now she must reveal her true self... and risk both her life and her heart with the one man who could destroy her. 

Linda's Thoughts:
“She'd just gone ice princess on him. As an ice dragon himself, he knew something about frigid.
Mei made frigid look like a balmy day on the equator.” 

Following the Rules by Carolyn Brown of The Trouble with Texas Cowboys (#Giveaway)

Following the Rules by Carolyn Brown

Happy New Year’s everyone! It’s great to be spending the first day of the year talking about my newest cowboy romance The Trouble With Texas Cowboys. It was right after the New Year when heroine Jill Cleary and hero Sawyer O’Donnell met each other in a very abrupt way in the Fiddle Creek Ranch bunkhouse. She thought she’d be the only one living in the bunk house and he had no idea his new boss had a great niece or that she’d was coming to Burnt Boot, Texas to share the bunkhouse with him. Aunt Gladys made Jill put down the shotgun she had trained on Sawyer’s chest and they accepted the fact that they had to live together. But there were rules:

1) Jill would take her turn at cleaning the place, but she didn’t cook. Thank goodness, Sawyer knew his way around the kitchen. At least he wouldn’t be listening to that red head tell him how to make chili or lasagna or any one of a dozen other things he could stir up. Thank goodness she wasn’t his type even if there was something vulnerable in her eyes said that she needed a friend.