It’s my second book haul of 2024!
This month I received quite a few advanced copies.. I may have gone a tad bit overboard on my requesting, but what can I say, there were some great releases this month!! I also added a few books to my kindle and there’s a few adjustments to my kindle unlimited library! So let’s get started with my February book haul!
eBooks I added to my kindle:
My Soul To Keep
(The Soul Trilogy, Book One)
By: Kennedy Ryan
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3UNoRKk
Synopsis:
It seems the things worth keeping are often the hardest to hold…
KAI
I had two things in life that mattered. My mother and my music. Mama was taken from me too soon, and now music is all I have left. It’s the thing that’s pushed me right out of backwoods Georgia into Los Angeles, where the line between fantasy and reality shimmers and blurs. I’m finally making my way, making my mark. I can’t afford to fall for one of music’s brightest stars. Not now. Music is all I have left, and I’m holding on tight with both hands. I won’t let go, not even for Rhyson Gray.
RHYSON
I had one thing in my life that mattered – music. The only constant, it’s taken me to heights most people only dream about; a gift dropped in my lap at birth. I thought it was enough. I thought it was everything until I met Kai. Now she’s all I think about, like a song I can’t get out of my head. If I have to chase her, if I have to give up everything – I will. And once she’s mine, I won’t let go.
Brutal Obsession
(Hockey Gods Series, Book One)
By: S. Massery
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3SQaN0l
Synopsis:
He shattered my leg, and now he wants to ruin the rest of me.
Greyson Devereux is a menace–but only to me.
To everyone else, he’s charismatic.
He’s the son of a senator and the star of the university’s hockey team.
When all I want is to be invisible, he drags me into the spotlight.
He wants my blood, my fear, my attention.
Resisting him only worsens his obsession.
Fighting solidifies it.
He’s brutal, and he draws out a sick darkness in me that enjoys it.
But I’ll be damned if I let him become my downfall.
Sweet Sunshine
(The Pembrooke Series, Book One)
By: Jessica Prince
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3I5RoTQ
Synopsis:
She’s a romantic at heart.
Chloe Delaney had three very specific wishes, growing up. She wished to stay settled in the small mountain town of Pembrooke, where she grew up, to one day be her own boss, and to fall in love with a man who would be willing to go to the ends of the earth for her. With her roots firmly planted in Pembrooke’s soil and her bakery, Sinful Sweets, thriving, two of her wishes have already come true. When a handsome single father moves to town, she’s certain she’s found the man to fill the role of wish number three. The only problem is, you can’t force a frog to turn into a prince.
He isn’t the Prince Charming type.
When Derrick Anderson moved from Jackson Hole to the small town of Pembrooke, he did it determined to wipe the slate clean. After eight years spent trapped in a miserable marriage, he’s made a vow to never take the plunge again. He wants to be untethered, not tangled up in the strings that come with a committed relationship. He has his daughter, his career, and an ex-wife hell bent on making his life unbearable. His plate is already full. The only problem is, he didn’t have a plan in place to protect his heart from her.
Neither of them were prepared for the course their lives would take. But once a rollercoaster begins to move, you can’t just climb off, now can you?
The only thing they can do is strap in, hold on tight, and enjoy the ride.
**Sweet Sunshine is Chloe and Derrick’s story. It is book 1 in a spin off series for characters introduced in Wildflower.
Inked Persuasion
(Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins Series, Book One)
By: Carrie Ann Ryan
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bIs04l
Synopsis:
Years ago, Annabelle Montgomery married not for love but for a promise of hope. When she lost him weeks later, she told herself she never needed those sentiments again. Only when she discovers years later that her new neighbor is her late husband’s brother, Annabelle finds she can’t quite shake the emotions she’s long since buried.
Jacob Queen vowed he’d never set eyes on Annabelle again. When they’re forced into each other’s lives once more, they realize that no matter how far they run, no distance can keep them apart forever. More than ghosts lay between them, and when they finally give in to temptation, walking away whole may no longer be an option.
Love Me Today
(Time River Series, Book One)
By: A.L. Jackson
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3wrCEML
Synopsis:
A jaded single dad. A woman returning to her small-town roots. Neither was prepared for their paths to collide…
I should have known I was in trouble when I backed my old, beat-up truck into the shiny Range Rover.
The driver looked like a gorgeous fallen angel – one who’d been booted right out of paradise for being a giant prick.
Good thing I’ll never have to see him again.
Except when I show up for my new job to teach a little girl how to ride her horse, I find the same icy blue eyes glaring back at me.
Paisley Dae is completely reckless. She’s also the best trainer in this small town. And Evelyn gets the best.
Protecting the little girl is my one focus.
Only the sassy trainer in her cut-offs and cowgirl boots quickly gets under my skin. Distractions are dangerous, but she soon becomes everything I crave.
One reckless night of giving in, and Caleb and I spiral into a web of passion.
But when I begin to unravel the secrets hiding in this place, I find there is more riding on this job than I thought.
Caleb and Evelyn are worth any sacrifice – only Caleb has to decide what he will sacrifice for me…
The Score
(Single In Seattle Series, Book Three)
By: Kristen Proby
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3T5e2Cj
Synopsis:
I have millions of followers on social media, and it has absolutely nothing to do with my last name. It’s because I’m good at what I do. I work hard, and it has paid off. I’m not a trainer who only talks the talk, either. I walk the walk—or rather, I run the run. It was actually during one of those jogs through the park that I ran into him.
Of course, at the time, I didn’t realize it was the Isaiah “Ike” Harrison, Seattle’s hot new quarterback. All I knew was that I was suddenly pinned under some solid, sexy body, unable to breathe.
But even now, I keep running into Ike in the most unexpected places.
And he’s doing everything in his power to convince me that he’s not just a player—in any form of the word. It’s so much more than that.
But I’ve been there, done that. I have the mended broken heart to prove it and have no intention of doing it again.
Except the frustrating man is convincing, and my walls are quickly lowering—especially when I feel responsible for possibly upending his career.
Is letting him in a mistake? Or will it be the best thing I’ve ever done?
Always Mine
(Honey Mountain Series, Book One)
By: Laura Pavlov
Available with kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3OPLs5a
Synopsis:
He fights fires for a living, but the flames building between us may be too big to extinguish.
Niko West is the most beautiful man I’ve ever laid eyes on.
Six feet, four inches of broody, chiseled Greek god in a firefighter suit.
He’s also been my best friend since kindergarten.
He always says the only solid thing in his life is our friendship.
He’s Honey Mountain’s favorite player and I’m what you’d call a relationship girl.
But when I find myself single for the first time in more than a decade, I make Niko an offer he can’t refuse.
Who better to show me what I’ve been missing?
But now that we’ve crossed that line, I don’t know if friendship is enough for me.
Guitars and Mistakes
(Trouble Next Door Series, Book Two)
By: Quinn Marlowe
Amazon: https://amzn.to/42KXrH0
Synopsis:
A rock star who doesn’t know his own mind. A rising star who wants to save him. And a secret that will either save them… or tear them apart.
RIVERS
Lila Potter. Sunshine Girl. Rising star. And as of this week, my agent’s new favorite project—and one, I’ll add, that replaces her old favorite project, which was me. The agent—and for all I know, the record label and my publicist, too—have decided that I’m no longer worth their time. I’m too broken. Too dark. Too damaged.
The sad thing is, they’re right. And Lila is a better option for all of them. She’s gorgeous and talented and sunny. The bright light to my darkness.
The sunshine to my broken soul.
And the only balm that can make me feel better. I’m in love with the girl and everything about her… but I also know that she’s too good for me. She’s too bright, too beautiful, and I’m willing to sell my entire life’s work to save her from anyone who might hurt her.
Even if that someone is me.
LILA
Rivers Shine. Famous rockstar. Playboy. Angstiest musician around.
And also a lost boy, not that anyone else has ever bothered to notice. But I saw it the first time I met him, even though he puts on a good show with his grunge, loud music, and ice-cold stares. I’ve never been able to stop seeing it. Rivers Shine is a good man who’s built a bad reputation just to keep himself protected from the world around him. He doesn’t want anyone seeing the real him, though he’s never told me why that is.
The thing is, I do see the real him. I see the laughter. I see the wry sense of humor and the fact that he’d sell his own soul for the people he loves. I’ve even seen the teddy bear he doesn’t want anyone to know about.
I also know he’s planning to sacrifice himself for the good of his band.
And I’ll be damned if I’ll let him do that.
Because I love him too much to allow it. Even if he’s the most dangerous—and possibly deadly—thing that’s ever happened to me.
Guitars and Mistakes is the second in the Rivers and Lila duo of the Trouble Next Door series, and promises angsty rock stars, damaged heroes, and a girl who’s too stubborn to quit. HEA and heartbreak both guaranteed in this stunning conclusion to this duo! Watch for the next book in the Trouble Next Door series, Smoke and Mirrors, coming in fall 2024.
Falls Boys
(Hellbent Series, Book One)
By: Penelope Douglas
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/49x4GF9
Synopsis:
The HELLBENT Series, a spin-off to the Fall Away series, is coming!
“The kids are growing up—different from their parents but the same in so many ways…”
ARO
Hawken Trent. So polite. So sweet. Such an upstanding young man.
A virgin, too, I hear. He never gets naughty with a girl. Probably because Jesus told him not to.
And now here he is, trying to be the hero by protecting another girl from me.
He calls me a bully. Irrational. Unreasonable. A criminal. He can call me anything he wants, I’ve heard worse.
And he can try to stand between me and my money, but he’s never had to fight for food. That rich, clean, school boy doesn’t have what it takes.
HAWKE
I surprised her. You should’ve seen her face.
Just because I don’t have a record, honey, doesn’t mean I’m clean. It just means I’m better at not getting caught.
That is until I realize I might’ve actually gone too far this time.
She’s there. I’m there. The scene of the crime.
It’s dark. The police show up.
We have no choice. We run. Down High Street, into Quinn’s bake shop, and I pull her through the entrance to the old speakeasy that everyone forgot was here decades ago.
The door locks, the cops circle the building, never knowing we’re right here, and I’m hidden in plain sight, indefinitely, with someone’s who’s awful.
Mean. Rough. Dirty.
A thief. A delinquent.
Until one night, lost in all of these rooms together, I don’t see any of those things anymore.
She’s smart. Daring. Soft.
Hot…
Everything’s changing. It’s this place. It does something to people.
We have a silly urban legend in Shelburne Falls about mirrors. They’re a gateway. Don’t lean back into them.
But we came through front first.
I don’t care what the county records say. This was never a speakeasy.
It’s Carnival Tower.
*FALLS BOYS is a standalone, new adult romance suitable for readers 18+. It contains harsh language, violence, and sexual situations. Reading the Fall Away series prior to this is helpful, but not necessary.
ARCs I Received For Review Purposes:
Butter My Biscuit
(Valentine Texas Series, Book Three)
By: Lyra Parish
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SxQjub
My Review: https://wp.me/p7rFfT-h0I
Synopsis:
My bestie was off-limits until he kissed me and changed everything…
Harrison Valentine is my best friend and the king of one-night stands.
And hi—nice to meet you—I’m the queen of failed relationships.
Commitment issues are something we have in common, or so I thought.
Then the devil delivers his kiss of death, and it puts me in a chokehold.
I expect a f*ck boy, but he wants forever.
And it scares me.
When I finally see the magic we made together, it’s too late.
Because he’s now engaged.
To someone else.
Butter My Biscuit is a SPICY childhood friends-to-lovers, small-town Southern romance with a hero who falls first and knows exactly what he’s always wanted. Each book in the Valentine Texas series is a stand-alone and can be read in any order. There is tension and angst, but trust the process. If I ever break you, I will always put you back together. With an X over my heart.
Stay With Me
(Sugarland Creek Series, Book Two)
By: Brooke Montgomery
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3vXwNOM
My Review: https://wp.me/p7rFfT-h1c
Synopsis:
A best friend’s brother stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a girl who falls pregnant by the wrong man and the cowboy who takes her in…
I’ve crushed on my best friend’s brother for years.
He’s a six-foot-three, dark-haired cowboy who works on his family’s ranch and sends butterflies to my stomach anytime he looks at me. But he’s never made a move, so I need to get over it.
Except, when he reads a text message about me liking a mysterious guy, he snaps and demands answers. Little does he know, it’s my code name for him.
When he finally confesses he likes me too, I find out I’m pregnant. With my ex-boyfriend’s baby.
After spending three weeks together in secret, my world turns upside down when that little white stick reveals a positive sign from the one-night stand I had before him.
Now everything’s a mess and my life’s spiraling out of control.
I can’t expect him to date me anymore, so I insist we return to being friends. The last thing he needs is a girl who’s carrying another man’s baby and about to be a first-time mom.
But when my apartment gets broken into, and there’s a suspected criminal on the loose, he insists I move in with him to keep me safe.
Staying platonic proves to be harder with each passing day as he goes with me to my appointments, takes me baby shopping, and stocks the kitchen with all my weird cravings. He’s so involved that everyone assumes he’s the father. And I don’t correct them.
But the truth always comes out in a Southern small town.
Stay With Me is book 2 in the Sugarland Creek series. Each book in this Southern, small town series is a stand-alone and ends in a happily ever after.
Sweet Southern Memories
(Magnolia Grove Series, Book Two)
By: C.A. Harms
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/47QeAzV
My Review: https://wp.me/p7rFfT-h2Y
Synopsis:
Zoey
Life doesn’t always go according to plan, a lesson I learned the hard way during my divorce. My first love returns home just in time to watch me pick up the pieces, and the moment I lay eyes on him every memory rushes back.
Jayson Lincoln, the man who still makes my heart beat fast, after all these years. But he’s Doctor Lincoln now and I’m a far cry from the carefree girl he left behind.
I’m learning to navigate life as a single mother of twin girls and he’s reluctantly home to take over the family practice. We may be back in the same small town, but we’re still worlds apart.
Jayson
It’s always been her. No one could ever measure up to Zoey Harding.
And I’ll always regret walking away from her and our hometown, for the big city to chase my dreams.
The longer I’m back, the more the echoes of our past whisper what could have been. But it’s not just about us, and her daughters steal my heart and mend what’s been broken for far too long.
Zoey’s afraid to trust me, but I’m determined to heal the fractures of her heart and prove that this time I’m not going anywhere.
Thorns of Malice
(Wilted Kingdom Duet, Book Two)
By: Maggie Cole
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3Sxon9P
My Review: https://wp.me/p7rFfT-h3N
Synopsis:
From International bestselling author Maggie Cole comes the mind-blowing conclusion of the Wilted Kingdom dark romance duet.
For ten years she’s been under my skin and out of my grasp.
The last time I saw her, I decimated her and everything she valued.
Not a day passes that I don’t crave one more dose of her.
And Ivy Ford’s everything I remember.
Beautiful. Graceful. Seemingly innocent.
I wish that were the case.
There’s only one reason she’s reinserted herself into my life.
Revenge.
It’s nothing new in my world except for one thing.
Ivy learned from the best.
Me.
It’s clear there’s no longer anything naive about her.
She’s an uncontrollable stalk of poison spreading all over me.
Thorns of Malice is book two of the Wilted Kingdom duet. It’s a dark college bully romance between the rich kid and the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Dax and Ivy’s story begins in Book one of the Wilted Kingdom duet, Seeds of Malice. See author website for trigger warnings.
Meant For Stone
(Meant For Series, Book One)
By: Natasha Madison
kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3OOZ2Ga
My Review: https://wp.me/p7rFfT-h5N
Synopsis:
From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new sports romance.
A spin-off from the Hollywood Playboy & This Is Crazy.
Ryleigh
Growing up in Hollywood, I was surrounded by liars and phonies.
So when I got my law degree, I knew I wanted to work as a district attorney.
Busy days turned to long nights—I was on my way up the ladder.
Then he happened.
Bullied his way into my life as if there was no choice.
Suddenly everything I thought I wanted wasn’t as important.
Stone
I had one thing on my mind and that was never going to change: The game.
The only goal I had was beating the records set by my family.
I didn’t have time for anything else.
Until she walked in the room.
The earth shifted, just like the stories said it would.
I said it wouldn’t happen—not to me.
I didn’t have the time, but now she was the only thing on my mind.
I knew it was her.
Now I had to convince her.
Line Change
(Northport U Series, Book One)
By: Heidi McLaughlin
Line Change will be releasing on March 19th, 2024
PreOrder Today: https://amzn.to/3OZiSOW
Synopsis:
Thea Jenson has her future meticulously planned out. Graduate from college. Get a job. Marry her high school sweetheart and have two beautiful children. When she decides to transfer schools, her brother suggests she move in with him and his unruly hockey roommates. Everything in her life is going according to her plan . . .
. . . until she bumps into Kyler in their kitchen and sparks fly.
Kyler Rose, the starting center for the Northport University hockey team, is done for the moment he lays his eyes on Thea. But he can’t allow her to become a distraction. He’s determined to make it to the NHL. That’s if he doesn’t get booted for failing grades first. And even though he’s on scholarship, it doesn’t pay his bills or provide for his family. Neither do the tips he earns from his bartending gig. When an offer to make some fast cash falls in his lap, he takes it, thinking no one will care if he gets hurt . . .
. . . except Thea does care.
But just as Kyler finds a way to navigate his feelings for Thea, an unexpected link to his family comes to light and he finds himself in the fight of his life to protect those he loves the most – his family.
My kindleunlimited Library:
TIJAN – My Anti-Hero | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3Thwvvi
Melanie Harlow – Hideaway Heart | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3S8WYd3
Melanie Harlow – Make-Believe Match | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4b5gobm
K. Bromberg – Off The Grid | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3UeG3bk
K. Bromberg – On The Edge | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3OcAJS9
Brighton Walsh – Defiant Heart | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/47LY3gt
Brighton Walsh – Protective Heart | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3HAEI7r
Brighton Walsh – Fearless Heart | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/42gG1C6
Brighton Walsh – Reckless Heart | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3UlpzOG
Bink Cummings – 23 Hours | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3UeGGSe
A.L. Jackson – Don’t Forget Me Tomorrow | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/48Edsk5
Adriana Locke – Like You Love Me | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/494vPPf
Victoria Ashley – Beautiful Savage | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3SueSZ1
Lucia Franco – You’re Mine Tonight | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/49hAqxL
Lucia Franco – You’ll Think Of Me | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/4bHWh39
Lucia Franco – Hold On To Me | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3wlIteu
Lucia Franco – Hush Hush | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3wlICyy
Lucia Franco – Say Yes | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/42LZcDK
Lucia Franco – Tell Me What You Want | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3T2K2qC
Ashley Munoz – Where We Belong | kindleunlimited: https://amzn.to/3Thh3zF
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