✱✱Book Review✱✱ Trick: Special Edition by Laramie Briscoe

 

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes a special edition of a heartfelt second-chance romance featuring a swoon-worthy man, a single-mom, and an adorably cute little girl.

I loved this one by Laramie Briscoe. Action packed and a strong damsel in distress. This was a page turner and had such a great sigh-worthy ending. Definitely recommend! - USA Today bestselling author Susan Stoker

This edition of Trick features Trick, Unwrap Me, the Trick & Hadley text messages, and the first chapter of their son, Declan's book.

A forced sentence leads to a reckless passion…

Hadley

When my husband walked out on me over a year ago, it devastated me. When the divorce papers came, it wrecked me. When we had to sell our house, it broke me.

But then he moved in with his new flavor of the month and told our daughter his new woman wasn’t into children. That pissed me off.

Now Riley feels abandoned, and I can’t make it better; no matter how hard I try. I’m desperate to help her adjust to the loss of a male figure in her life. The Companion Program that matches adults up with children who have loneliness and abandonment issues is my last hope.

The counselors tell me he’s doing community service hours, and I ask to sit in on his meetings with Riley. The minute I see him astride the matte black Harley, I know neither my nor Riley’s life will ever be the same again.

Trick

Community Service. Two words I should be thankful for, but I’m not. I resent the hours away from building my business. The two previous kids I'd been paired up with didn’t work out because their mothers were more interested in getting in my bed than making sure their child was taken care of. This next match with a little girl is my last hope. Unless this kid works out, I’m destined to serve time.

When they push her into the room wearing pink converse with a black dress, her crazy curls barely held back by the barrette in her hair, and studious glasses on her face, I can tell she’s scared - of new people, of change, of being pushed aside. Something inside of me breaks, and I want this girl to feel wanted again.

What I’m unprepared for is meeting her mom. The second our hands touch, I see fireworks, bright lights, and a picture of the future I could one day have. The future I’ve never allowed myself to wish for.

Community service becomes more than a chore, more than the precious hours I have to give up. In the months that follow, I realize Riley and Hadley are just like me; they’ve been abandoned, left behind by the world, forgotten by those who should love them.

Thanks to the one last hope in both our lives - we found the light in the darkness we’d been searching for.


Unwrap Me

Life gets a little crazy sometimes, especially when you've got two kids, two businesses, and you are two parents who are very hands on.

But when Trick's gift doesn't get here in time for Christmas, I have to improvise. They say variety is the spice of life. To keep my man happy, marriage on track, and our sanity, I decide to give him what he craves most in the world.

Me. With a bow on top.

Patrick Tennyson won't know what hit him. It'll be the surprise of his life, and all he'll have to do is follow the instructions.

Trick,
Your gift got a little delayed. Instead, I've improvised. Follow the snowflakes to the bedroom. When you get here, unwrap me, and I'm yours.
Hadley

Christmas is about to get so hot we'll be melting the eight inches expected tonight. ;)

Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐

I love the premise of this one, and the chemistry between Trick and Hadley is off the charts. There's just something about a big, tough guy turning into a marshmallow with the kiddos, and the way Trick is with Riley is totally precious. As with anything by Laramie Briscoe, the book is well written, and the story is totally swoony. If you like stories of redemption and finding your person, this is a must-read.

In this special edition, we also get Unwrap Me, which is a quick Christmas story featuring this terrific couple. It's a great combination of fun and sexy, and it's nice to get to see what came next for the couple after reading their beginning story. On top of that, there are Trick and Hadley's text messages, which are entertaining and can get suggestively steamy.

Everything included in this special edition is a great mix of sweet and sexy. So, bring your oohs and ahhs, and be prepared to swoon. 

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✱✱Audio Book Review✱✱ Falling for the Beast by Skye Warren

 

Falling for the Beast

A Modern Fairy Tale Duet, Book 2

By: Skye Warren

Narrated by: Stephen Dexter & Lia Langola

He can never turn back into a prince.

A troubling revelation puts Blake’s newfound career in jeopardy—and even worse, puts Erin’s impending graduation at risk. He can’t risk her future, no matter how much he wants her.

She will never have a happily ever after…

A dark legacy threatens everything they've worked to build. When old debt comes between them, both Blake and Erin must fight to protect each other--and their love.

Since their forbidden beginning, Erin and Blake's relationship has been marked by deep sensuality and intense emotion. The couple is tested at every turn. They’re running out of time. Blake and Erin will have to trust each other to forge their own sexy ending.

Momma Says: 4 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐

Falling for the Beast. What a perfect title for this second in the duet, and not just because of the Beauty and the Beast retelling. We get to see the darker side of Blake in this one along with how Erin responds to that darkness. At the same time, the angst isn't what I expected, especially after everything that happened in the first book. That's not to say this one doesn't have its share of angst. It's just different than I expected. If it feels like I'm talking in circles, there's a good reason for that - I'm doing my best to stay away from spoiler territory. This book does have its secrets, but I think I'll let them stay secret until each listener discovers them for themselves. Narration by Stephen Dexter and Lia Langola is just as good as it was in the first. These narrators do such a good job of bringing out the emotion. All in all, this second in the duet is a nice finish and it's another reason I need to add more Skye Warren to my TBR. 

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The Divine and Deadly by Taylen Carver Virtual Book Tour

The Divine and Deadly

Magorian and Jones

Book Five 

Taylen Carver

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy

Publisher:  Stories Rule Press

Date of Publication:  April 18, 2024

ISBN: Amazon 9781779432049

ASIN: B0CQ98S9GK

Number of pages:  220 

Word Count:  81,000 words

Cover Artist:  Dar Albert

Book Description:

The old gods have arrived, ready to punish humans and Old Ones with tribulations that resemble hell on Earth.  

Magorian, the world’s first modern wizard, and Dr. Michael Jones, failed to stop the Siren, Aurelius, from summoning the old gods.  Now the world is reeling from the destruction that Agrona, God of Slaughter and Carnage, is hailing down upon every mortal, no matter what their race.

Magorian and Jones must find a way to send the old gods back to where they came from before their ways crack open the world and destroy everyone upon it, both human and Old Ones.

The Divine and Deadly is the final book in the urban fantasy series, Magorian & Jones, by Taylen Carver.

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Praise for the Magorian & Jones Series:

1.0: The Memory of Water

2.0: The Triumph of Felix

3.0: The Shield of Agrona

3.1: The Wizard Must be Stopped!

4.0: The Rivers Ran Red

5.0: The Divine and Deadly

Plenty of exciting twists and turns.

Feel the tingling of danger, the aha's of escaping death, and the excitement of magic.

I loved this and will continue on with the series.

I’m a sucker for wounded, conflicted heroes, and Jones was just that.

I loved it; a magnificent first book in this really different new series.

Will definitely look for further books by this author and series.

Fast paced, exciting reads you won't want to put down!

I'm overjoyed to be back in this amazing world building series

I highly recommend this series to all who love fantasy with a twist, adventure, surprises, and the occasional human, aside from one of our human heroes of course

story manages to be more intimate than ever

This book gets dark and gritty right from the beginning and does not shy away

the kind of story that will drag you in and keep you reading

Well paced, good balance between action and character development

Such is the joy of reading the works of an excellent writer with a great imagination and the ability to tell an absolutely fascinating story.

Excerpt: Chapter One

I have watched hundreds of humans suffer through their transformation from human to Old One.  Some say I am an expert in this, but I would dispute that.  I don’t think there are any experts.  Too little is known about the transformation process for anyone to claim the status.  The experience I have lets me ease my patients’ agony a little, and avoids harming them in the process. But no skill of mine changes the course of the transformation by a single micron.

I watched Henry Magorian writhe and twist on the bed I stood beside, reviewing my uselessness, and finding it ironic that I was so helpless.  Henry was Benjamin Magorian’s older brother, and a slimey wretch of a man.  Yet he was my patient. I was required to give him the best care possible.  His family had flown us out to Montreal from Toledo, Spain, on a private and very expensive jet, for this purpose.

Pain is pain.  I hated seeing the man claw at the expensive sheets, the tendons in his neck and wrists standing out like ships’ hawsers.   He wore only boxer briefs and his entire body was bathed in sweat.  He had been sweating for hours, now.  We had changed the sheets twice.
I made myself look away.  Watching him helped no one.  I put the stethascope on the tray table the family had thoughtfully provided and looked at Jaimie.

She held her hands out over Henry’s body, just above the thrashing shoulders, concentrating on whatever information travelled through her palms.  I wasn’t certain what she could detect, for the mystery of fae magic was not readily shared by any of them.  

Jaimie wore her thick pale hair up in a pony tail at the back of her head, which allowed her pointed ears to be seen.  Normally, she was careful to drape her hair over her ears when among humans, but we’d long since passed that consideration.  We’d been in this room for nearly thirty hours, and members of the family had stopped stepping in to check on their cousin/uncle.  

She held her flawless face in a stiff, neutral expression.  She was not allowing herself to show how worried she was.  But I’d had seen too many transitions.  I was worried myself.

“He’s fighting it,” I said.

Jaimie looked up, then back down at her patient.  “Yes.”  

It was the first time either of us had said it, although I think we’d both guessed as soon as we’d walked into the elegant pale blue and cream room.  The family had bundled all three of us, including Ben, onto a jet on standby at Toledo’s small private landing field, the moment Henry Magorian had shown the first signs of transition.  It had taken nine hours to reach Montreal, plus an hour at either end for local travel and ten minutes of lightning-speed packing.  

So we had first seen Henry over eleven hours after he had begun transitioning, and we’d been here, save for small cat naps in the bedroom next door, for thirty hours.  

Forty hours, more or less, and he still showed no physical changes.  

Henry kicked and moaned, then curled up into a tight ball.

“I can take away the pain. A little, at least,” Jaimie said.  Her voice was strained.  She had slept less than I.  Fae could reduce pain by breathing in bad humours—which was not a medieval conceit for them.  It wasn’t as effective as an angel breathing on the patient, but it did work.
“You know the danger in that.”  We’d both learned that reducing the pain too much let the patient relax.  The transition required that they move, so that the metabolism was elevated, allowing the organs to evolve.  The extreme fever was another function of the transition. It was the mechanism that changed the patient’s DNA expression, the key to the transition.  Lowering the body temperature could suspend the transition, too.  

Jaimie put her fingers to her temples.  She had no medical training in her human history. She had been a soldier in the British army.  It was only her transition to a fae that made health work feasible.  She was less used to watching a patient suffer than I, although she would always find it stressful, no matter how used to it she became.  We all did, despite a hardening of one’s empathy once exposed to too much of it.

“He should have changed by now.”  Her voice wavered.  “I don’t know of anyone taking this long.”

“I have seen some cases last this long,” I said grimly.  I didn’t add the remainder of that statement—that everyone who had fought their transition for this long did not survive.  Jaimie didn’t need that additional worry.   It was quite likely she was well aware of this statistic.  I just didn’t want to bring it to the forefront of her thoughts.

“Is there anything else we can do?” Her wonderful silvery eyes were red-rimmed, but still worth staring into.  Even after thirty hours of hard work and worry, even wearing the travel creased clothing she’d arrived in and slept in, she looked wonderful.  

I pushed away the betraying thought and tried to find an answer to her question, for the fear in her voice was real.  It wasn’t fear of death.  She had been a soldier and now was a fae who dispensed magical healing.  She was accustomed to death.

I knew the source of her fear.   This was Henry Magorian.  Ben’s brother.  Jaimie did not want to let Ben down.  She wanted to save Henry for him.  

So did I, even though I had learned to loathe Henry not long after meeting him.  

I’d sent Ben out of the room hours ago.  His pacing and his unhelpful suggestions, along with his anxious questions every time Henry moaned or moved, had not helped either Jaimie or I concentrate.  As far as I knew, Ben was in the next room and, as it was two in the morning, Toledo time, he was probably sleeping, even though bright summer sunlight streamed through the windows.  

It was eight in the evening, Quebec time, on a blazingly hot day, but none of the external weather reached us, for this house had a controlled environment kept at a pleasant twenty-three degrees with just the right degree of humidity.  The window of the room we were in had remained closed and sealed against the heat outside. The view from the window was magnificent, for the house stood high upon the exlsuive Summit area, with a jaw-dropping view of the Old City and the St. Lawrence river twinkling on the horizon.

The Magorian family could afford the luxury of whole-house environmental controls, just as they could afford private transatlantic flights, and bribes to ease an Old One through two nations’ customs and immigration border checks.

Ben had insisted that they make the arrangements to bring Jaimie into the country.  He had argued that Jaimie could help Henry as much as I could. The family, desparate as they were, had complied, although I had no idea what it had taken to make it happen.  Canada was particular about who they let into their country, especially when it came to the Old Ones.  Unlike Spain, Canada had so far refused refugees, although there were many unofficial refugees flooding across the Canada/United Stated border.  Canada was not xenophobic, though.  It was the first country in the world to acknowledge the Old Ones legally.  

Here, Old Ones were not automatically considered “dead” after turning.  They were in a legal limbo, still, but the assets they’d held as a human, and might acquire as an Old One, were also held in legal stasis, rather than passed onto heirs.  It was a half-step toward giving Old Ones full citizenship, or at least residency, and the rights and obligations that came with it.  The government was still arguing the point in Ottawa.

 But Jaimie, despite a lack of indentity documentation, had merely received a nod of acknowledgement from the customs official who had stamped Ben’s and my passports.  I had spotted a photograph of Jaimie attached to his clipboard.

She stared at me now, hope showing in her eyes, as I appeared to be thinking of another way to save Henry Magorian.  

I desparately wanted to come up with a solution.  I wanted her to look at me with relief and gratitude.  I wanted her to….well, that was never going to happen.  But still, I wanted to please her.

So I made myself consider every single possibility.  What had we not done for this horrible man?  What else could we try?

I stared down at his curled up body.  If he continued to fight the transition, it would not end well.  Did he know that?  Did he resent the idea of becoming an Old One so passionately, that he was putting up this marathon resistance?

That gave me an idea.  I looked at Jaimie.  “It’s a long shot.”

“I don’t care.”

That was exactly what I had expected her to say.   “That thing Ben did, in New York, with the proto-wizard?”

“The mind meld?” She didn’t smile at the pop culture name we’d adopted for whatever it was that Ben had done to the man, as she usually did.  She was a huge Star Trek fan, which I found, well, illlogical, given her former profession.  Or perhaps that was exactly why she liked the show so much.  A professional soldier would appreciate a peaceful utopia.   “What of it?” she added.

“If he could reach Henry, he could tell him to stop fighting the transition.”
Jaimie looked down at Henry, who certainly couldn’t hear us now.  “Do you think he doesn’t already know that?”

“He quite likely does know that.  But Henry likes to get his own way.”  He’d fooled Ben into signing over his portion of the family inheritence because he didn’t like Ben’s choice of lifestyle.  “If Ben could appeal to him, let him see…”  I made myself say it.  “Let him see that if he doesn’t let this happen, he’ll die.  Henry’s sense of self-preservation might kick in.”

Jaimie pressed her lips together.  She hadn’t met Henry, but I’m sure Ben had shared with her the reason why he had to rely on his income as a wizard, when his family was so well off.

“I’ll go and get him,” she said.  “A long shot is better than the nothing we’ve got without it.”

About the Author:

Taylen Carver is the pen name used by best-selling author Tracy Cooper-Posey. 

As Taylen Carver, she writes contemporary, epic and urban fantasy stories and novels.  As Tracy Cooper-Posey, she writes romantic suspense, historical, paranormal, fantasy and science fiction romance, plus women’s fiction. She also writes science fiction, including best-selling space opera, under the pen name of Cameron Cooper. 

 

She has published over 180 titles under all pen names since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award. She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 and came fourth in Hugh Howey’s SPSFC#2 in 2023. She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University. 

She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and fantasy and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

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The Litter Audio Book by Kevin R. Doyle Virtual Book Tour

 

When it comes to controlling characters and having them behave as I desire, it’s been quite a learning process. This is clearly shown by one of the main characters in The Litter.

At the time I began writing this book, a little over ten years ago, I had written five other novels, with only one of them seeing publication. Thus, I was definitely still feeling my way into some sort of process for putting a book together. My system (if you want to call it that) at the time was to get a basic starting point in my head, begin writing a first draft, and from there go seat of the pants. 

While this method did allow me to eventually (after eighteen months of effort) finish the book, it led to an awful lot of false starts, rewrites, and revisions until arriving at a finished product. This same basic system applied itself not only to the plot but to the characters within said plot.

The most obvious example, in terms of characterization, where I was still learning was Karen Bannister. Her essential premise came fairly easily. Young, female, social worker, do-gooder mentality. For most of the first draft, that’s all she was. Almost all surface, hardly any depth. By the time I completed that draft, this led to some serious problems with her character.

The big thing I noticed was that she was being motivated by the plot. What I mean is that at certain points she was a strong, independent young woman, but in others she was more of an old-fashioned “Scream Queen.” In short, Karen filled the role of whatever the plot required at any given moment.

As I began work on the second draft, I took a long look at Karen, focusing primarily on the “do-gooder” aspect of her personality. The “do-gooder” aspect explained why she spent so much time working at the homeless shelter and on the streets, so much so that she seemed to have no personal life at all. But the question that occurred to me was, why is she so driven? What is there about her work, other than the charitable aspect, that makes her go beyond any normal sense of commitment? 

After thinking it over for a while, I came up with a backstory that filled in those questions. (I won’t mention it here so as not to spoil anything for potential readers or listeners.) As I incorporated that backstory into the main story, it became a lot clearer, and I hope a lot more believable, as to why she does the things she does, and takes the risks she takes, rather than go out and live a normal young woman’s life. 

Once I got this particular aspect of her character fleshed out, it not only gave me some control in terms of Karen but also allowed me to draw a connection between her and another, slightly less important, character that required little more than a name change to fully connect. (Again, being vague so I don’t spoil too much.)

The big takeway, that I’m guessing most fiction writers figure out sooner or later (hopefully sooner than I did), is that you have to have reasons why characters act as they do beyond the fact of the plot requiring it. Once you get those reasons and motivations figured out, it becomes a whole lot easier to manage the characters.

There will still be times, as almost every fiction writer can attest, when they will veer off into unexpected directions and actions, necessitating a course correction for the manuscript overall, but those corrections will more likely make sense in terms of the characters driving the plot, rather than the other way around.

They kept to the shadows so no one would know they existed, and preyed on the nameless who no one would miss. Where did they come from, and who was protecting them? In a city that had seen every kind of savagery, they were something new, something more than murderous. And one woman who had thought she had lost everything there was to lose in life would soon find that nothing could possibly prepare her for what would come when she entered their world.

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A retired high-school teacher and former college instructor, Kevin R. Doyle is the author of four novels in the Sam Quinton mystery series, all published by Camel Press. He’s also written four crime thrillers, including And the Devil Walks Away and The Anchor, and one horror novel, The Litter, along with numerous short horror stories published in small magazines over the years. The first Quinton book, Squatter’s Rights, was nominated for the 2021 Shamus award for Best First PI Novel. A lifelong Midwesterner, Doyle currently resides in Missouri and has loosely based the city of Providence in the Quinton books on Columbia. 

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✱✱Book Review✱✱ Killer Kiss (Saint View Strip Book 3) by Elle Thorpe

 

Kiss. Marry. Kill…

Kill? That’s easy. My family runs a murder for hire business. I can end a man in my sleep without so much as taking off my eye mask.

Marry? If my mother has her way, I’ll be walking down the aisle with her rival’s psychopath son. But Riddick is more likely to stab me during his vows than love and cherish me for a lifetime.

Kiss? My history with men says I’m better off with a vibrator. But then Augie Mitchell looks at me with his ocean blue eyes and I want to let him prove he’s as talented with his tongue as he claims to be.

Shame he’s my missing sister’s best friend and number one on my suspect list. I’d stick with battery operated orgasms, but the man gets under my skin and worse, worms his way into my heart.

Until a new target is given to me.

Augie Mitchell must die.

And I’m the one who has to kill him.

Killer Kiss is a male/female dark romantic suspense story set in the Saint View world. Each book in this series has a new couple and a happily ever after. It can be read as a standalone. It contains dark themes that may be triggering for some readers.

Momma Says: 5 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

If anyone can take a character who seems completely irredeemable and not only show us some redeeming qualities but also make us fall in love with that character, it's Elle Thorpe. I would've said there was no way I'd even like Augie, let alone find him redeemable. I even felt bad for him a couple of times! I suppose this book is pretty much a redemption story for both Augie and Ophelia. Neither of them is innocent by any stretch of the imagination, so it's only fitting that they find each other and a chance for love with each other. We also get to catch up with several Saint View characters, which is always good. It's also a lot of fun, depending on which characters we're visiting. In this case, I got to visit with some favorites, and that, combined with a totally dark and gritty romance, made Killer Kiss one of my favorite trips to Saint View! That's really saying something, considering the company this book is in. So, to sum it up, Killer Kiss is everything dark and dangerous I love about Elle Thorpe's books, and I can't wait to visit again.

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✱✱Book Review✱✱ Roman by Melanie Moreland

 

I rescued her because I had to. I fell in love with her because she gave me no choice.

Roman Costas
Powerful. Intensely private.
Cold. Dangerous.
When he unwittingly puts an innocent woman in danger, he does something he never planned.
Becomes involved.
He didn’t anticipate the feelings Effie Warner brought out in him.
He didn’t expect the woman he rescued to become his world.
All he knows is that he’ll burn down the city to keep her safe
No matter the consequences.

The suspenseful finale in Men of the Falls duet by New York Times Bestselling author Melanie Moreland

Momma Says: 5 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was hooked from the first introduction to this duet when Aldo stole my heart. As much as I doubted Roman's ability to grab hold as tightly as Aldo, he exceeded all my expectations. He's so serious, but Effie isn't intimidated by that seriousness at all. And he is everything I look for in a morally gray character. He's just that side of things, but he's determined to protect those he cares about. The camaraderie between Roman and Aldio is another great element in this duet, especially once Aldo figures out what's going on with Roman and starts to tease.

This duet is a little darker than what I've come to expect from Melanie Moreland, but it's as well written, as pull-you-in-and-hold-on-tight interesting, and as full of great characters that I always expect from this author. She never disappoints, which is why she's an auto-read for me, regardless of trope.

Momma Says: 5 stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Now, take an already terrific story and put it in the hands of John Lane and Maxine Mitchell. These narrators are so good, and they prove that once again with this book. John Lane captures Roman's seriousness perfectly, and Maxine Mitchell brings out everything I imagined for Effie.

Whether you read or listen, Roman and the Men of the Falls duet are a must. 

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Pursuit of Innocence by Bethany Rosa Virtual Book Tour

What are four things you can’t live without?

The Kindle app on my phone. My Tesla. It's not to save the world, folks; I just like to go fast. My house in Arizona. It’s my happy place with cactus and sunshine. Well, that leads me right to my fourth: sunshine. I feel like I was supposed to say my husband, which is also true, so give me a fifth, and we’ll call it good.

What is your favorite television show?

It’s a tie between Schitt’s Creek and Ted Lasso. They make me laugh and cry in a single episode. Two things I don’t do very often, which sounds terrible, but I’m just not a very animated person. It’s all in there somewhere, though. I think.

If you could be any character, from any literary work, who would you choose to be? Why?

Any character that meets a prince and falls in love with a happily ever after. Because who wouldn’t?

What have you got coming soon for us to look out for?

The Pursuit of Innocence audiobook will come out sometime in May. Book two in The Pursuit Series, Dangerous Pursuit, will be released by the end of the year.

What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?

Soooo many. 50 Shades of Gray was a huge influence. I think it was one of the first books that got people talking out loud about a genre that was previously kept silent. It also stuck to the romance formula so well. I love authors Rina Kent and Katee Robert, who go out of the box, stay there, and make it big. Their books are some of my all-time favorites. I love TL Swan, Vi Keeland, and Ana Huang. I could go on forever. There are just too many to name. There are days I ask myself why I’m writing when all I want to do is read…

“I’m done waiting around. You’re mine. No more games or pining over someone else when it’s me you want. You won’t remember his name after I get through with you.”

Lily knows exactly what she wants in life. To graduate, land a high-paying job, and forge her own way. Nothing will distract her. Until the ultimate playboy, billionaire Sebastian Dubree, barges in. Not to be overlooked, Lily’s longtime crush, Jackson, decides she’s worth the fight.

Reluctant to succumb to either, she quickly becomes a challenge to conquer.

Lily must decide between the familiarity of her childhood longing or the newly discovered  passion ignited by the dominant CEO. But can she surrender without losing herself in the process, or will someone take matters into his own hands?

Boundaries blur between desire and resistance in this gripping coming-of-age romance, leaving readers yearning for more.

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I hit a wall. A solid, warm wall that smells dreadfully sinful. Before I have time to process, two firm hands are on my shoulders to steady me. “Hey, watch where you’re going” comes the deepest, sexiest voice imaginable, which would be incredibly hot if the words spoken were anything other than rude and demanding. Looking up, which is crazy, considering I’m one step higher, I freeze as my eyes land on a dark, handsome god of a man who looks like he wants to commit murder. What is it with me and jerks tonight? 

His eyes get bigger, and his brows furrow as soon as my shocked gaze meets his. He has short black hair that’s longer on the top and styled perfectly. His menacing eyebrows are folded downward from scowling at me. The dark scruff that shadows his face is so sexy, trimmed razor straight, accentuating his perfectly chiseled jaw. Mentally slapping myself, I apologize. 

“Crap, I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you there.” He doesn’t release his hold. 

“That’s because your head was down. Your eyes should be looking forward.” His voice is hard and demanding. 

Flustered and—I reluctantly admit—slightly turned on by his strong, firm grip and penetrating stare, I stand there frozen in place. After what seems like minutes but I’m sure is only seconds, I snap out of it and apologize again. “Sorry, I’ll watch where I’m going from now on.” The words rush out as I pull away to leave, this time keeping my head up. I think I hear him say something else behind me, but I don’t stop. Running into one of the hottest guys I’ve seen in a while should’ve been the highlight of my night. Instead, I’m more irritated. Do all good-looking men have a license to be an ass?

Bethany Rosa raised four amazing daughters before fulfilling her dream to become a writer. Her goal is to ignite passion in readers through her erotically charged stories. When not immersed in writing, Bethany finds joy in life traveling the world alongside her husband of 25 years. Home is divided between the mountains of Montana and the Arizona sunshine.

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