The second book I have gotten for my kids by Lois Wickstrom and I LOVE it! Always the cutest stories and the illustrations on them are beautiful! My oldest (5yrs) loves unicorns so I had to get this one for her and it ended up being such a big hit with both of my girls. It is such an easy read and perfect for kids. This is definitely a silly book that will get your kiddos giggling.
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This is a 4 book set. Each book is a stand-alone and has its own tropes. Four different stories, four different adventures in 1 book. Quick easy reads that will make it hard for you to put the book down.
Book 1- Fools Gold (Roped) : After Rafe saves Sarah they are stuck together for the rest of the winter. Months later Sarah was in love and they were getting married. After finding a note on their wedding night with a shocking message on it she ran off. She came back months later wanting to help fix his reputation, but he doesn’t plan on letting her go again and ropes her into staying longer than planned. The MCs are drawn together, so how could there not be a second chance and correcting misunderstandings… right?
Book 2- Her Heart’s Desire ( Rescued): Samantha is a runaway bride. Jake is the hot guy her family hired who secretly has it bad for Samantha. After catching her soon-to-be husband cheating she runs away to her family cabin where Jake is on “vacation”. She agrees to stay there for 2 weeks with Jake and a lot of trouble happens during that time. While dealing with her ex-fiance, Jake, and all the things going on she finds out who her heart desires.
Book 3- Serena’s Web (Risked) : Serena is a single mom who gets worried when she doesn’t hear from her father. After going to his house she notices it’s been broken into and things are missing. At first, she thinks it’s her abusive ex-husband but finds out it is someone different. She tries to get help from the police, but that only makes things worse and her house is broken into and things stolen. After reading a very disturbing text, she decides to take matters into her own hands and that the police won’t be any help, but that only leads to disaster. Even though Mark, an FBI agent, wants nothing to do with Serena he helps her while still working on his case against a dangerous man. Not only do they have to worry about the dangerous man, but also the ex-husband. This book will keep you at the edge of your seat wondering what was going to happen next and hoping for the best outcome.
Book 4- It Had to Be You (Romance): What was only supposed to be a one-night thing at their high school reunion turned into more. Candace just wanted her business to grow and Greg wanted to try his shot at being with her. When a rumor is spread she is forced to decide between making the rumor seem true or her business crashing. With the issues of the past colliding with the future she has planned out, can love blossom?
Such a cute book. It was like reading a Hallmark movie and I loved it. Fun and lovable characters with an interesting storyline. This is book 2 of a series, but I did not read book 1 prior to this one. I didn’t feel like I missed out on anything by reading this as a stand alone book. Lots of layers to the story and I really enjoyed it. There are elements of grief, friendship, falling in love, Christmas magic (though it’s not a Christmas story), and some mystery. I would definitely read more from this series and this author.
5 Stars Healing Hearts: Gene & Amanda’s Story (The Echo Series) by C.R. Alam
Healing Hearts: Gene & Amanda’s Story is the prequel to The Echo Series. This is a Contemporary Romance that I absolutely loved reading. Once I started there was no stopping until I finished. This is a novella but it’s packed with drama,angst, and so much more. This is Gene and Amanda’s story. Amanda is a local baker and Gene just returned to his hometown and is working in a clinic. When Amanda is in an accident Gene helps out. These two have definitely got chemistry between. I highly recommend reading this book to find out what happens next with these two. I’m looking forward to reading more from this Author.
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Healing Hearts is book #0.5 in The Echo series by C.R. Alam. This is a contemporary romance all about the healing power of love. It is a very enjoyable, novella length story- which makes for a quick and easy read. It is Gene Rowland and Amanda Garner’s story- Gene is Dean Rowland’s older brother (whom we meet when he had his own story, back in Book #1). This has some mystery, drama, angst, chemistry, spice, tension, banter, intrigue, emotion, a hunky doctor, and a ‘damsel in distress’ element- all woven into a wonderful, ‘finding love unexpectedly’ romance. As each book in the series focuses on its own ‘couple’ they can be read as standalones if you wanted. But you might just find that one isn’t enough and go hunting for more. Happy Reading…
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Margot Keating has a dangerous secret about her birth, which no one in polite society can ever find out.��On entering the ton as a vicar’s daughter and spinster, Miss Keating tries her best to keep out of mischief. This is easier said than done, since she is almost immediately thrown into a mystery, surrounding the murder of a prominent duke, some infamous missing diamonds, and – worst of all – Lord Langley, the most tempting rake in London.��Lord Silvester Beresford, Earl of Langley, is famed for his beauty, his charm, his orgies, and for never falling in love.��Thrown together in the most unconventional of ways, can these two opposites work together to uncover the truth about the duke’s death, where the diamonds might be, and whether they actually have more in common than they previously ever thought possible?
Ava Bond has been a fan of regency romances since discovering Georgette Heyer on her grandma’s bookshelf–before moving onto Johanna Lindsey, Lisa Kleypas and Beverly Jenkins as well as dozens of Mills and Boon novels during her teens.
She studied Literature at university and has been writing since her early twenties. Ava lives in Scotland with her family and small cat, Gwendolen.
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Goodreads – A Song of Salt and Secrets (Mythic Academy Collection) by Amanda Marin
Bookbub – A Song of Salt and Secrets (Mythic Academy Collection) by Amanda Marin
For Corisande Phillips, being a siren has meant living a cursed life, a lonely life – a life plagued by the fear of hurting someone with her deadly song. At Magwitch Academy, she has learned to control her urge to sing … for the most part, anyway.
But when a moment of weakness gets the best of her, Corisande accidentally causes Noah, a student at a nearby prep school, to crash his sailboat, unleashing the fury of the sea – and an ancient goddess who will not be robbed of her revenge. Only Noah’s love has the power to save Corisande, but how can he ever learn to care for a monster like her?
A Song of Salt and Secrets is a standalone novella-length story.
When Amanda was a child, her father traveled frequently for business, always bringing back a book as a present for her. Whether she was getting lost in the pages of a tale about faraway knights, girls with supernatural powers, or kindly giants, she was quickly hooked on stories.
Nowadays, Amanda writes books of her own. A USA Today bestselling author, she also works in scholarly publishing. Her favorite things include Starbucks lattes, lazy summer afternoons at the beach, and stories with characters that make you go “awww.” She lives in New England with her family and furbaby, Snickers the Poodle.
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At the age of nine years old, TINA EDWARDS finds her mother MARY JANE EDWARDS smoking a cigarette, sitting across from her beloved dead father JONATHAN EDWARDS. Tina adored her father, embracing the time he spent with her building fairy villages under the pecan trees in their backyard. Her mother disappears after selling her family home in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains and leaves Tina with her father’s sister, her wheelchair-bound AUNT LIDDY EDWARDS. Tina leaves for college, majors in Art History, and specializes in creating dollhouse-sized replicas of historic rooms in homage to her beloved father. All the while, Tina believes her mother has something to do with her father’s death.
Tina establishes her niche business in the world of miniatures with her best friend NISSA, Tina’s own Jiminy Cricket. When Mary Jane shows up with family secrets after 22 years of absence and dying of lung cancer. Tina reluctantly allows her mother to move in during her treatments and Mary Jane brings along BELLA, her caregiver and companion.
Tina believes she has betrayed the memory of her father and avoids Mary Jane when handsome businessman/restaurateur Mr. JAKE MARTIN hires Tina to replicate the original rooms of his family’s mansion turned B&B. Tina discovers more than the businessman cares to know about his family. Having been fueled by tales from the past, he believes he must accept his lineage, but chooses to ignore it. When Nissa discovers family unknown to Jake and his mother, they find out the stories from the past were unfounded and become reunited with that side of the family, proving that miscommunications passed down through families create unwarranted, painful separations, echoing Tina’s life story.
Because Tina gradually learns the truth about her father’s death, she must let go of all her childhood beliefs and perceptions. Johnathan had a heart attack while informing Mary Jane that he was filling for divorce, moving to DC, and planning on taking Tina with him. Mary Jane was not going to allow Jonathan to take Tina away from Aunt Liddy and threatened to tell the world his secret- that he is the one ultimately responsible for putting Liddy in her wheelchair as well as the death of Tina’s birth father. Tina reels from the news that Jonathan was not her father but her Uncle and Mary Jane, the mother she grew up despising, is not her mother but her aunt who actually sacrificed everything to keep Tina with her rightful birth mother, Liddy. Tina forfeits all her childhood beliefs, the ones she has based every one of her adult choices on, to become as strong as the women who raised her when she realizes the decisions made by her mother, father, and aunt throughout her childhood were all made, and held in secrecy, in the name of love and protection.
Kyle Ann, the author of WHITE PICKET FENCES and NOT SO LITTLE THINGS, writes contemporary women’s fiction that sinks its teeth into families’ miscommunications, misperceptions, and the chaos they cause, even in the name of love. She’s also the creator of Journaling for Fiction Writers and Embrace Your Muse Creative Writing Workshops. She enjoys traveling to visit her 4 children and 7 grandchildren and currently resides in southwest Florida with her husband and Bichon-poo Mia.
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Erica Parker has barely been a bride nine months when two thugs show up at her apartment while her husband is away on one of his infamous business trips, claiming he owes their boss a large gambling debt. Frightened, and without any other options, she heads for her childhood Long Island home she escaped three years ago. And swore never to return.
The aunts who raised her are as interfering and controlling as ever, but soon as the family attorney advances the rest of her trust from her parents’ life insurance, she can return to normalcy. Except he refuses, instead spouting nonsense about how she will soon inherit millions. On her twenty-fifth birthday. In two weeks.
Problem is, someone doesn’t want her to live that long.
Her aunts are harboring secrets, people are turning up dead, her husband is nowhere to be found, and attempts are being made on her life. It appears you can go home again, but sometimes, you shouldn’t.
Tropes: coming home, lies, on the run, damsel in distress, no one to trust, secret heir
A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and novels for young readers. Her Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series was a King Rivers Life Magazine’s “Best of 2014,” and on Book Town’s 2014 Summer Mystery Reading List. She’s an Agatha nominee, a Library Journal “Pick of the Month,” on Goodreads’s list of the 200 “Most Popular Books Published in 2017,” a Suspense Magazine Best Indie, and was on Book Town’s Summer (and) Fall Reading Lists. She also writes under Allison Brooks. Marilyn loves traveling, reading, knitting, doing Sudoku, and visiting with her grandchildren. She is co-founder and past president of the Long Island chapter of Sisters in Crime. She resides in New York with her family.www.marilynlevinson.com
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I’m Jaru Fane, imp, and former contract companion who puts up a good front, but inside I feel like I’m falling apart.
With the support of my Juniper Lake family, I finally know what I want to do with my life – start a business. Unfortunately, running a business doesn’t leave me a lot of time for my best friend, Larkspur.
Lonely, Lark decides to take matters into his own hands and remind me that he exists. The result is the start of something between us I never considered before. As things are starting to get good, like usual, my life goes to crap.
When disaster strikes, I know I’m not cut out to be what Lark needs. He needs someone like my bodyguard, Soren. I’m not strong. I’m not powerful. I’m always going to need someone to save me from myself. Setting Lark up with Soren seems like the best answer, but if I make the decision that will keep Lark safe, I may lose him forever.
Naomi Valkyrie, often called a Firebrand Provocateur, brings her unique Autistic perspectives and curiosities to life by weaving tales of deep connection, mystery, and romance. She is inspired by being able to spontaneously create a thought that takes on a life of its own, opening up new adventures for her readers.
The Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy realms are particular areas of interest for Naomi as they allow for the vast exploration of magic, adventure, and the impossible while creating diverse characters that her readers connect with on an emotional level.
When she isn’t attending to familial connections, Naomi loves a dark, comfy reading space surrounded by the symbolism of her spiritual archetypes and her daemon/familiars, while she sips her tea and immerses herself in imagination.
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Very cute rhyming structure. Sure to get the kids listening and following along. The bright colorful illustrations are going to be a wonderful hit to children of all ages. Great theme about peanut butter sandwiches.
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Has Banks Bennet finally met his match? Banks and Kaitlyn are at it yet again. In this Rom-Com can’t put down hang on to your seat story, Kaitlyn meets a mystery man at the airport as she heads to meet a new client. They immediately hit it off. He tells her that his name is Ben. They have a great time together cause you know its a stranger and they will never meet again… or so they think. Enter the story of Banks and Kaitlyn the sports agent. A must read.
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What Eyes Can’t See is a story full of passion, embracing life, and finding your authentic self. Barbara’s fiancé cheated on her thus she gave her friend her destination wedding. This is where she is swept off her feet by Sebastian and her whole world changes with this one destined meeting. After returning from their vacation, it turns out that Sebastian has received her guaranteed promotion instead. Can their whirlwind romance survive off the island as well?
I love the romance between Barbara and Sebastian, they bring the best out of each other like true love deserves to do. I enjoyed this book because even this Barbara’s multiple life changes, she still stays positive and moves forward thus defining and shaping the women she is meant to become. It is a story about how love can bring the best out of us. This was the first of the Bold Journeys that I have read but it will not be the last.
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Murder on West Main was an amazing murder mystery. Daniel O’Halleran is on the case to discover who was behind the murder. It is no easy task, due to the large number of people that despised the murder victim, so there is a never-ending list of suspects is seems! Due to the incredible writing and storytelling, I was guessing the killer the whole time. It was nearly impossible to put the book down with the great cast of characters. I loved that the story was historically accurate! This made it even easier to get into the tale that was being spun. The interactions of the people in the story are much more proper, especially when it comes to the ladies’ interests, though this does not eliminate the gossip around town. I highly recommend reading Murder on West Main and I can’t wait to read more by I.M. Foster.
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I highly enjoyed Break Bone Fever! I accidentally read Breaking Apart (the second book) first and it may have ruined a few parts of the story. The story starts with the death of Dr. Gennifer Drake, a friend of Marnie and Louise. They refuse for Gen’s death to be the end of her research and progress. At first when I was reading the beginning with the narrative of the guilty parties, I thought it was too much of an open and shut case. With the discovery of the reasons behind Gen’s murder and the high implications it led to the ending of the book still being a fresh surprise. I enjoyed all the characters and setting since it felt like I was there in the thick of mystery. It made me want to check out the town of Galveston, Texas. It sounds breathtaking!
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I highly enjoyed Breaking Apart and cannot say enough good things about it! I accidentally read this book before the first book in the series, Break Bone Fever, but I was able to follow the story with no problem. The pacing and suspense were perfect. The characters are all fleshed out with backstories and felt real. I like that day-to-day occurrences were added to the narratives such as baseball games, hiking, running, and the 4th of July. The multiple points of view kept me guessing until the end what really happened with Josh’s death. It also touched on multiple difficult topics such as PTSD, suicide, and drug addiction. At the end of the book, I felt sad and hopeful yet that is life. I cannot wait to pick up the next book in the series since there is a nice little cliff hanger at the end.
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Dylan, Emily and their adorable dog Theodore are off on another adventure, with another mystery to solve. When Emily and Dylan join the neighborhood baseball team, and head to their first practice in the park, they are brought into a mystery. Upon arriving, they learn that the plates for the bases are missing! While the trio explores the park in search of the missing plates, they come across many obstacles to navigate. Sometimes the obstacles are as simple as talking to playground pirates, and sometimes they are more intricate. With Detective Dylan on the case, along with his sister Emily and trusty puppy Theodore, no mystery is too great! This is a great book for elementary kids, and while it is a part of a series, it can be read as a stand-alone book without any issues.
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Unicorn, Don’t Do That!: It’s okay if a Unicorn poops on your doorstep by Lois Wickstrom
