The Pleasures of Spring (Pleasures #4) by Evie Hunter

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466 Pages


He picked up her hand where it grasped the water glass, felt her pulse and looked into her eyes. 'You don't want a man with manners. You want someone who will let you walk on the wild side, who knows what you're really like ...'

Roz Spring is an actress and a chameleon, the kind of woman who always lands on her feet. But even Roz can't talk her way out of witnessing a murder, and she must go into hiding before the murderer comes for her.

Andy McTavish has turned his back on a life of privilege to prove himself in the world of international security. Tall, dark and dangerous, Andy is the ultimate seducer who has never met a woman who can tame him.

Roz needs his protection and, to get his family off his back, Andy needs a fake fiancée. The solution is obvious: pretend to be a couple. Getting up close and personal won't be hard, as the chemistry between them is electrifying.

As two practiced charmers drive each other beyond the limits of sensual endurance, they find their usual defences are no good. When the barriers come crashing down, a raw passion emerges that neither wants to admit.

They know that when the murderer shows his hand, they will face a fight for life and freedom. And if they survive, what will happen when the need to pretend is over?

The Pleasures of Spring is the latest sizzling standalone novel from Evie Hunter whose trademark combination is an addictive erotic story and a page-turning plot. If you're an Evie fan, you won't be disappointed. And if you're new to Evie, well, you're in for quite the delicious treat...

What a great read.
This book never has a dull moment with suspense, humour and just the right amount of kink to keep you turning the pages.
Ex Domme and thief, Roz Spring is witness to a murder. Andy McTavish is trying to get her to go into protective custody before the murderer, Ex navy seal turn bad, Hall, gets his evil hands on her. But Roz has other ideas as she tries to raise the money to help her low life dad pay off the bad guys so after he is released from prison they don't put him six feet under.

4 Stars

Misbehaving by Tiffany Reisz

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ebook, 108 pages

Published February 11th 2014 by Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin 

 Wanted: Adventurous, open-minded man willing to try anything…

As a popular sex blogger, Beatriz gets paid to have orgasms. So being on deadline the week of her sister’s wedding isn’t as rough as it sounds. There’s just one hitch: Bea’s assignment is to write a review of a sex position manual, but she doesn’t have a plus one to play with.

The good news: Ben, the one who got away back in college, is also attending stag--and he's as temptingly gorgeous as ever.

The bad news: Ben turned down Bea’s offer of graduation night sex five years ago.

The best news: He’s not planning on making the same mistake twice.


A red-hot retelling of Much Ado About Nothing for people who love Shakespeare but thought his plays could use a few more sex scenes.

A Cosmo Red-Hot Read



Short but sweet, naughty and nice, and sooooo funny, Tiffany Reisz has done it again with the latest erotica novella. A brilliant read for an afternoon, and it's really easy to get along with, its as if you already know the characters.

Such a thoughtful wedding pressie from a character from another book ( sorry, I am not giving it away ;-))

I love the Bell hop, I think I might need more of him x

5 STARS

Savage Secrets (Titan #6) by Cristin Harber

Published February 24th 2014 by Mill Creek Press
298 pages
ebook £3.09 from Amazon UK


**Adult audiences: book includes violent scenes**

Savage Secrets is the newest title in the USA Today Bestselling Series!

When the past is impossible to ignore, love may be the only way to survive.

Caterina Cruz has no home. No loyalties. No objection to exacting torturous revenge. Her life’s mission is to destroy the terrorist who murdered her family. Then she steps into an elaborate game of charades alongside a Titan Group operative posing as an arms dealer—and her newlywed husband. The sexy distraction may be more than she can handle.

Attacked with a psychedelic drug weeks before, Rocco Savage is plagued with hallucinations that threaten his new rank as Titan’s second-in-command. No one knows and he wants to keep it that way. Throwing him further off his game, he now has a wife with her own secrets he can’t crack and an agenda he can’t control.

Their mission—an elaborate deception of heated glances and passionate kisses—spins out of control. With Rocco's mind already compromised, can he keep his secret and his distance? And with Caterina's tragic past controlling her every move, can she keep the con up long enough to secure her revenge? Or will both go down in flames?


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A Must Read, Wow
This has to be the BEST book in the series so far.  Absolutely fantastic military romance.  This book is set in London, Virginia, and Spain and as the title suggests Rocco Savage has a secret but then so does Mi6 interrogator Caterina Cruz.  The chemistry between the pair of them is super hot and I love the way Cat gets Rocco going by talking Spanish to him and the way she handles a weapon whether it be a gun or a super large knife held between her teeth. If big hot guys with big guns who pull out all the stops to save the girl is your cup of tea then this is defiantly for you.

**WARNING** This story has a violent sexual scene and Cristin Harber has done a great job of portraying the horror of the attack without making it overly graphic and I would also join Cristin in saying that...

"Rape is a crime.  Talking about it isn't.  There are many resources out there, Including After Silence to help in the healing process"

Point of No Return by Rita Henuber

Fans of thrilling military romances will love Rita Henuber’s books.

Marine Major Honey Thornton is nobody’s fool, so when she’s brought in for an off-the-books mission by a manipulative two-star general, she has to wonder why. When it turns out Honey’s mission is to investigate a military contractor tied to the recent kidnappings of innocent children, she signs on immediately. Little did she know one of the first people she’d have to question was her sometime lover, Jack O’Brien.

Jack O’Brien left the CIA bitter and disillusioned and now hires himself out as a contract spy. When his brother and sister-in-law are mysteriously killed and the young daughter they left behind is targeted for kidnapping, he smells a cover-up and goes underground to find out who’s behind it all. Not sure who he can trust, the situation grows more tense when the sexy Honey starts asking questions he’s not sure he wants to answer.

With suspicion flaring on all sides and passion burning between them, Jack and Honey have to decide whether they can trust each other and bring down the people responsible, no matter how high up the chain of command it goes. Because when you’re navigating the murky political waters of the Pentagon, the CIA, and private armies, it’s hard to know who’s got your back, who’s on your side, and who’s lying to your face—and sometimes the only thing you can trust is what you know in your heart.

About the Author:

Rita Henuber is the author of Under Fire, Under Fire: The Admiral, and No Holding Back. Her heroes and heroines are either in the military or government service because she writes what she knows—her father was in the Coast Guard and immediate family members served in every branch of the service, ranking from private to admiral and working as desk jockeys, grunts, pilots, and everything in between. Retired from government service herself, Rita now lives on the barrier island where she grew up.

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Military romance seems to be my favorite thing to read at the moment.  I love sexy alpha males and hot 'hold their own' heroines and this book does not disappoint.  I enjoyed the technical details that seem to bring a scene to life and there's no shortage of steamy bits too.  This fast became a book I couldn't put down.

Only one issue I had with this book and that was the phrase 'flaming fish balls' , once or twice I could have handled but it's constantly cropping up, I thought it was because the author wanted a substitute for the 'F word' , nope, I was wrong because ' f''king flaming fish balls' was in it too.  This did detract from my enjoyment and so I give this book a 3.5 Stars instead of a 4.  I would certainly read others by this author and I would recommend this book.

3.5 Stars

The Inside Out Trilogy by Lisa Renee Jones, also includes the add on Novellas

OK so I'm going to start from the beginning of the series with 'If I Were You' which I was very lucky to win a signed copy, but that aside I would always have read this series any way as I'm a big fan of Lisa Renee Jones.

When Sara McMillan finds a stack of journals in a storage unit, she’s shocked and enthralled by the erotic life the writer led. Unable to stop reading, she vicariously lives out dark fantasies through Rebecca, the writer—until the terrifying final entry.

Certain something sinister has happened, Sara sets out to discover the facts, immersing herself in Rebecca’s life. Soon she’s working at the art gallery Rebecca worked at and meeting Rebecca’s friends. Finding herself drawn to two dangerously sexy men, the manager of the gallery and a famed artist, Sara realizes she’s going down the same path Rebecca took. But with the promise of her dark needs being met by a man with confident good looks and a desire for control, she’s not sure anything else matters. Just the burn for more


 A great start to the series, nicely written with suspense and passion.  Sara , after reading the journals Rebecca has written, lands her self a job at Mark Compton's art gallery in the hope of finding out what happened to Rebecca only to be slowly sucked into the world of BDSM herself.  The saying curiosity killed the cat is a worrying thought that I can't shake as I continue to read. An Excellent read.  Warning, cliff hanger ahead x

5 Stars

 Kept under lock and key, discovered by chance, dangerous new secrets and scintillating adventures lie within Rebecca’s private diaries—searing scenes from a passionate journey inside a world where pain is pleasure, pleasure is pain, and where every limit she once had is no more.

The Seduction
Rebecca’s daring first encounter with the Master . . .

The Contract
Once she is his, there’s no turning back . . .

His Submissive
Passion and torment become one . . .

My Master
It’s Rebecca’s turn to take control . . .

And told from his point of view,
The Master Undone
Shattered after Rebecca walks away, he questions his need to control. But when a challenging new woman revives him and then disappears, he knows one thing: he must have more. . . .

5 Novellas in this book, 4 to be read straight after 'If I were you' and 1 to be savored later after 'Being Me' book 2.  Rebecca's journals are an incite into her emotional life as the BDSM lifestyle begins to blur into her day to day life and the struggle to keep it separate. 
I thought this was going to be more erotic than it was but it was still a good read and by the end of 'My Master I am reduced to tears by the heartbreaking decision Rebecca feels she has to take.

5 Stars 
 

 

Fascinated by the dark fantasies in the journals she’s discovered, and the two men who have now found a place in her life, Sara McMillan finds herself torn between her new life and her past. Now, more than ever, Sara identifies with the lost journal writer, Rebecca, and is certain that something sinister has happened.

In the arms of the sexy, tormented artist Chris Merit, Sara seeks answers about Rebecca and ends up discovering things about herself she never knew existed. Chris forces Sara to reconsider who she is and what she truly wants from life, but not before his dark desires threaten to tear them apart. Her boss, Mark Compton, offers her the shelter to understand just what those needs mean to her, and what they might have meant to Rebecca, but can she trust him to lead her to a final conclusion to Rebecca’s story?

Another great read.  You finally find out what happens to Rebecca thanks to the boys from Walker Security (read the Tall, Dark and Deadly series to catch up with those sexy boys) I love it when two series collide, its like catching up with old friends.  

The only thing I would say is considering everyone in the book seems to be evolved in the BDSM scene, it all seems a bit vanilla.

4 STARS 

*** The Master Undone is a part of the Inside Out trilogy, and is told from his POV. ***

I told him goodbye, and I will not call him. I know if I do, it will be my undoing, and I'll once again be caught up in his spell. I will once again be...lost.

In her private journals, Rebecca laid bare her soul, revealing her obsession for the one man whose erotic demands captivated her imagination--and enslaved her forever. Now, with Rebecca no longer in his life he is lost, questioning everything he thought he knew about himself and about control he holds in such high regard. One women will reach out to heal him and then turn away, leaving him haunted. She is nothing he thought he wanted and somehow everything he needs. He tells himself to forget her but he cannot escape his desire for her. He has to have more.. 

  Out of all the novellas so far in this series this one has to be my favorite. Mark goes home to be with his parents after discovering what happened to Rebecca. His mother is having surgery for breast cancer and Mark discovers Crystal can be a welcome distraction. An excellent quick read.

4 STARS 

 You've discovered Rebecca's secrets. You've discovered Sara's secrets. Now Sara will discover "his" deepest, darkest secrets...but will those secrets bind them together--or tear them apart?

After reading some of the reviews on Goodreads I was beginning to worry about the book, was worried it wouldn't be as good as the others but O how I was wrong, nothing to fear here, it was fabulous.
The erotica is just that little bit more spicy and there's quite a bit more suspense. OMG the end! for all those who DNF, I feel sorry for you, I thought the epilogue was the best bit. I'm biting my nails in anticipation of book 4. 

5 STARS 

In a world where my only escape has been my art, Sara has been the light in my darkness. And there is darkness, the kind of inky black that can bleed from my life to hers.

She doesn't see it. She doesn't understand what I've shown her. And my biggest fear is that soon...she will.

This novella is Chris Merit's POV and it begins straight after Revealing Us ends.

 The story continues in Paris, You learn what happened to Chris and you get an inkling into what makes him tick.  Sara gets to see the painted dragons and the real dragons in Chris's Paris life.  I Loved this but it was over far to quick for me and I just want more...

5 STARS

Deadly Beginnings (Kinncaid Brothers) by Jaycee Clark

Jaycee Clark is best known for her Deadly books, a series of romantic suspense novels featuring the very sexy Kinncaid brothers. But before Aiden, Ian, Brayden, Gavin, and Quinlan there was Jock Kinncaid, the charismatic patriarch to the Kinncaid family, and Kaitlyn O’Reilly, the woman who captured his heart forever.

Kaitlyn O’Reilly, an RN, believed she’d found love with the charming and well-liked surgeon she’d met at work. Landon Goldburg was kind, attentive, and she thought they had so much in common. Now engaged, the good doctor has quickly become the man of her nightmares. As he grows more controlling and violent, Kaitlyn wants her freedom.

Jock Kinncaid can’t stop thinking about the quietly beautiful—and engaged—redhead he met at a fund-raising gala months ago. He knows a spitfire lurks beneath the surface of this woman who’s invaded his dreams, and he knows she’s exactly what’s been missing from his otherwise ideal life. When a chance meeting throws the two of them together again, Jock swears he won’t let her get away this time.

But even as Jock vows to protect the woman he loves and Kaitlyn struggles to trust Jock and the passion between them, the deranged doctor is bent on destroying them both, even if it means killing the only thing he loves.


 Excellent.
Just my kind of book. Weirdo has the girl, good guy gets the girl and lives happily ever after. This is an excellent one to start with if your like me and haven't read the deadly series, also listed as 0.5 in the series it was released after the other 5. The story centres around Jock Kinncaid and how he saves Kaitlyn O’Reilly and the birth of Aiden ( Aidens story, first 1 of the series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... )

I must read for romantic thriller lovers.

Just the right amount scary moments and steamy scenes. I'm sure am going to love the rest of the series, I've just started book 1

Westin's Chase. A Titan Novel 3 by Cristin Harber

Description

THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH
Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible.
And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it.
SHE’S NOT WILLING TO LET HER HEART FALL
Ousted undercover ATF agent Lilly Chase only answers to “Sugar.” Jared is the only man who can see past her leather-and-lipstick demeanor, and that revelation is terrifying. She was fired for helping Titan on a questionable arrest she should’ve ignored, then partnered with Jared’s rival on an assignment in Afghanistan.
Distance and danger do nothing to change her feelings. When she’s left on the side of a mountain to die, an unexpected ally comes forward, and might open her heart.
THE STAKES COULDN’T BE HIGHER
Saving Sugar isn’t a normal rescue operation. It pits Titan against its rival, Jared against his nemesis. Chasing Sugar’s heart isn’t a simple task, either. She fights him, fights them, always ready to run. When she becomes a pawn in a game of collateral damage, Jared must risk his life to save her—the woman whose bravado and surprising sweetness has given him the one thing he never had. Love.


 Book 3 in the Titan series and this one is just as good as the others.

 Jared has met his match with Sugar, trying to keep her safe from a rival company and then to discover a traitor in the Titan camp is nearly too much for Jared to handle.

This has to be my favourite so far, 

Sugar loves pushing 'boss mans' buttons and she's driving him crazy with her running away routine. 

It's an all action read from the first page and you can't put it down till your finished

Brilliant, action packed 5 stars

Domino Effect by Jill Elaine Hughes

Peter Rostovich is an enigmatic international artist with ties to the Russian mafia. He manipulates everyone he comes in contract with and nobody can figure him out—not even himself. More than that, he has a taste for bondage, which he infuses into his art.
Virginal Nancy Delaney is an aspiring reporter who tries to crack Peter’s shell. His work is like nothing she’s ever seen—complete with a live sculpture that gets the exhibit shut down by the police.
Peter hates reporters, but Nancy captivates him to the point where he makes her part of his exhibit within seconds of meeting her. He introduces her to the world of BDSM, but his involvement in the criminal underworld puts Nancy in the sights of his fiercest enemy.

 A quick fast paced read with never a boring moment to be found but could have been better if more thought had gone into some of the smaller details.  There were a few contradictions in the story and the fact that Nancy has gone from Virgin to Dominatrix in just a matter of a few days was just unbelievable and the fact that there is no real emotion to being taken against her will into the sex trade was disappointing.  I also thought Julian the Navy Seal Concierge would have helped Peter save the day but sadly not, seems so far he's destine to be stuck behind a desk at The Ritz !

Knight Takes Queen (The Knight Trilogy) By CC Gibbs.

 

Pub Date   Dec 5 2013

Kate knows the irrestistible attraction she feels for Dominic Knight could forfeit her chance at happiness, but she's finding it impossible to stay away...
Knight Takes Queen is the final instalment in a trilogy featuring the clever and sensitive Katherine Hart and her indomitable billionaire lover, Dominic Knight.


The wait is finally over, If you're like me you could barely wait to find out what happened next.  I think it could have been a little more than it was,  I thought the ex-wife would have caused more trouble and the mafia boss too but I was left wanting even the stay at his "Hotel" was a let down.  Only thing I would say is I love the end, maybe the story begins again? 

4 STARS

Beg by CD Reiss

Description

****WARNING - THIS BOOK IS FOR ADULTS*****

My name is Monica. I'm a singer born and raised in Los Angeles.
I've stopped dating. When I cut a record, or win a Grammy, maybe then I'll be with someone, but every man in my past has done everything he could to make me submit myself to him, and it's gotten in the way of my career. I won't do it again.

But there's Jonathan. He owns the high-rise hotel where I work, and he is gorgeous and charming. I refuse to fall in love with him, even though when he asks me to submit to him, I want nothing more.

And also, there's lots of CURSING and HOT SEX.
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If you loved Fifty Shades of Grey or Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, you'll love BEG - book one in Songs of Submission...
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This novella is the first in a series, and is about 100 pages long.
Boxed set of Sequence One, the first three novellas, Beg/Tease/Submit - Available on Amazon.

Well, here is my pet hate again, Novellas.  You just get into a book and it ends, then you have to wait weeks sometimes months before the next ones out, by which time you've read a further 10 books and now you have to go back and re read the first novella so that you can remember what the hell is going on before you read the new one. * And breathe* Well now thats over with I have to say this novella was great, and yes , if you enjoyed 50 shades or the crossfire series then these are for you.  This is hot and steamy but will Monica submit to the hansome and rich Johnathan?

4 Sexy Stars.

Do or Die, Reluctant Heroes Series by Suzanne Brockmann

Description

Suzanne Brockmann’s seamless blend of heroic military action and intense passion inspired USA Today to call her “a superstar of romantic suspense”—and for years her award-winning Troubleshooters books have been must-reads for fans of sizzling stories of action and adventure. Now the New York Times bestselling author shoots to thrill again with Do or Die, an electrifying new novel that is certain to win Brockmann new readers and delight devotees.

Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue in a big way when he turned his talents to a lawless life of jewel heists and con jobs. Or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, the former Special Ops warrior is still fighting for good, leading a small band of freelance covert operatives who take care of high-stakes business in highly unofficial ways. That makes Ian the hands-down choice when the U.S. government must breach a heavily guarded embassy and rescue a pair of children kidnapped by their own father, a sinister foreign national willing to turn his kids into casualties. Shockingly, Ian passes on the mission for reasons he will not—or cannot—reveal.

But saying no is not an option. Especially not for Phoebe Kruger, Ian’s beautiful and unexpectedly brash new attorney. Determined to see the abducted children set free, she not only gets Ian on board but insists on riding shotgun on his Mission: Impossible–style operation, whether he likes it or not.

Though Phoebe has a valuable knack for getting out of tight spots, there’s no denying the intensely intimate feelings growing between Ian and Phoebe as the team gears up for combat. But these are feelings they both must fight to control as they face an array of cold-blooded adversaries, including a vindictive mob boss who’s got Ian at the top of his hit list and a wealthy psychopath who loves murder as much as money. As they dodge death squads and play lethal games of deception, Ian and Phoebe will do whatever it takes to save the innocent and vanquish the guilty—or die trying.
 

Published Feb 2014 by Ballantine Books


This is the first time I'd read anything by Suzanne Brockmann and I loved it, couldn't put it down.  Ian and his team are out of hiding to do a job the US Government can't touch without an causing international incident and new attorney, Phoebe, is dropped in the deep end by being associated with Ian.  But in  the end, Murphys Law strikes, What can go wrong,  will go wrong!

4.5 Stars for me

Claimed (Club Sin) by Stacey Kennedy

 Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept

Pub Date: 5 Aug 2013

Product Description

A novel of erotic discovery and forbidden desire that goes beyond Fifty Shades of Grey.

Presley Flynn is ripe to experience her secret fantasies . . . and Dmitri Pratt wants nothing more than to fulfil them. Once inside the elite Club Sin in Las Vegas, Presley is nervous but excited—and determined to surrender to her every desire. Dmitri is her Master, and his touch is like fire. With each careful, calculated caress, he unleashes her wildest inhibitions, giving her unimagined pleasure.

Presley is different than the other submissives Dmitri has mastered. The BDSM lifestyle is new to her, and so are the games they play at Club Sin. From the start, Presley stirs emotions in Dmitri far beyond the raw purity between a dom and the perfect sub. For the ecstasy they share goes beyond the dungeon, igniting a passion that claims the very depths of the heart.

Claimed is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.
 
Presley loves reading BDSM novels and is surprised when her friend Cora tells her she lives the lifestyle.  With permission from Master Dmitri, Cora takes Presley along to the dungeon so she can give it a try for herself.  She's loving the new lifestyle until her ex finds out.
Super hot page turner.  I couldn't put it down.  I will be reading the next book in the series due out next year

4 HOT STARS

The Dare. Chronicles of Katrina Book One by Karin Tabke

Description

THE DARE is a contemporary erotic romance with the signature Tabke hot cop.  ^_~

THE DARE

I dare you…

Dr. Katrina Winslow has always known who she is; an elite scientist, a certifiable genius and ultra-reserved when it comes to love and relationships. So when a simple game of truth or dare offers the cool doctor the opportunity to shed her lab coat and glasses and put on a pair of sexy stilettos, she accepts the dare.  But will shedding her inhibitions fulfil her every desire and help her discover if she can be truly daring or will it cost her everything?

Two men, one a sexy stranger, and a night of no holds barred passion…

What would you dare to do?

THE DARE: The Chronicles of Katrina (Book One) by Karin Tabke

ebook, 68 pages

Published July 3rd 2013 by Season Publishing 

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Katrina thinks she has a good relationship with Evan until he dares her to have a man in the bar join them for some fun in their room, little did she realise what she was missing out on by being with Evan!
I really enjoyed this erotica novella, I'm a sucker for hot cop romance and a can see that this is going to be exactly that.  I'm so going to have to buy book 2 in the series seeing as the author left me hanging and I'll proberly read all her other hot cop novels too x

4 HOT STARS

Netgalley review

This Man Confessed (This Man #3) by Jodi Ellen Malpas

THE STUNNING CONCLUSION TO THE THIS MAN TRILOGY!

The Manor, the very place where their passionate love affair began, fills with guests on what should be the happiest day of Ava and Jesse's lives. She has accepted that she'll never tame the fierceness in Jesse-and she doesn't want to. Their love is profound, their connection powerful, but just when she thinks that she's finally gotten beneath his guarded exterior, more questions arise, leading Ava to believe that Jesse Ward may not be the man she thinks he is. He knows too well how to take her to a place beyond ecstasy . . . but will he also drive her to the brink of despair? It's time for this man to confess.

Kindle Edition, 501 pages

Published July 2nd 2013 by Forever 

The long awaited continuing story of Ava and Jesse.  This is the last book in the 'This man' trilogy, the end of an amazing , funny, emotional, sometimes heart wrenching roller coaster of a novel by first time writer Jodi Ellen Malpas.  

The books start with Ava a confident, independent 26 year old who is carving a name for herself in the interior design business until arrogant, hot headed, insufferable lord of 'The Manor' Jesse tramples into her life.    Through the ups and downs they learn to live and love despite Jesse's past constantly rearing it ugly head.

I've waited for this book for months and I wasn't disappointed I thought it was just as good as the previous two and now I'm a little sad its all over.  Jodi has done an excellent job and I look forward to reading more from this great author.

“We’re not conventional, baby. But we’re special. What we have is really special. You belong to me, and I belong to you. It just is. It’s not natural for us to be apart, Ava.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, This Man Confessed

AN AMAZING 5 STARS ... END OF!!

Dark Secret by Marina Anderson

At 23, Harriet's steady job and safe engagement have become very dull—seems like the perfect time to inject a little excitement into her life


Harriet Radcliffe is bored with her life. Answering a job advertisement to assist a world-famous actress, Harriet finds herself plunged into an intense and secret world of sexual obsession—playing an unwitting part in a very private drama, but discovering in the process more about her own desires than she had ever dreamed possible

 Published November 1st 2012 by Little, Brown Book Group

(first published September 7th 1995) 

Well if your expecting a romance along the lines of 50 shades and Bared to you 

you'll be disappointed. (Maybe) If you love erotica then this is right up 

your street. This book won't make your heart feel as its being torn out of your 

chest with emotion and it won't make you ugly cry, it's just pure erotic filth!

I give it 4 HOT STARS

David Gandy

The very yummy David Gandy aka Professor Gabriel. O. Emmerson from the books by Silvain Reynard *swoons*

The Legacy Collection By Ruth Cardello

Book 1: Maid for the Billionaire 
 
Dominic Corisi knew instantly that Abigail Dartley was just the distraction he was looking for, especially since having her took a bit more persuading than he was used to. So when business forces him to fly to China, he decides to take her with him, but on his terms. No promises. No complications. Just sex.

Abby has always been the responsible one. She doesn't believe in taking risks; especially when it comes to men - until she meets Dominic. He's both infuriating and intoxicating, a heady combination. Their trip to China revives a long forgotten side of Abby, but also reveals a threat to bring down Dominic's company. With no time to explain her actions, Abby must either influence the outcome of his latest venture and save his company or accept her role as his mistress and leave his fate to chance. Does she love him enough to risk losing him for good?

 Book 2: For Love or Legacy (Legacy Collection)

Nicole Corisi will lose her inheritance if she doesn't find a way around the terms of her father's will, but she will have to partner up with her estranged brother's rival to do it. As pretense becomes painfully real, Nicole will have to choose between Stephan and the family he is driven to destroy.

Stephan Andrade has been planning his revenge ever since Dominic Corisi unscrupulously took over his father's company. With Corisi Enterprises gambling its reputation on the success of a new software network for China, Stephan finally has his chance to take back his legacy. Dominic's younger sister, Nicole, asks Stephan for his help and provides him with an opportunity to exact his revenge on a personal level.

It all goes smoothly until he falls in love. 

 Book 3 Bedding the Billionaire.

 Lil Dartley's life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling diplomats or paparazzi.

Jake Walton knows a train wreck when he sees one. Lil was trouble from the first day he met her, but since her sister is marrying his best friend, he has no choice but to help her or this wedding will be in the news for all the wrong reasons. Teaching Lil how to fit into high society would be a whole lot easier if she didn't drive him insane both in and out of the bedroom.

 Book 4 Saving the Sheikh

 Rachid bin Amir al Hantan is fighting for the sovereignty of his small country. He needs to find some powerful allies - and fast. Attending the wedding of Dominic Corisi is as much about reconnecting with old friends as it is about celebrating nuptials. The last thing he needs right now is the distraction of a woman.

Zhang Yajun is a self-made billionaire who can’t believe she accepted her friend’s dare to kiss Sheikh Rachid before the end of the wedding.

When impulsive words lead to even more impulsive actions, these two will discover that sometimes the last thing you were looking for is the one thing that can save you.

 Rise of the Billionaire (Book 5 of the Legacy Collection)

Dreaming of Alethea gave Jeremy Kater the strength to survive a difficult childhood. Now that he has influential friends who owe him some big favors, he’s determined to become the kind of man Alethea would be interested in: rich and dangerous. Jeisa Borreto was hired to help Jeremy morph into that man. It’s a job she would enjoy, if it weren’t tearing her heart to pieces.

How can she help him change once she’s realized she’s fallen in love with the man he’s always been?

Books 1 to 3 I read last year and only read 4 and 5 this month.  I 've found all the characters easy to relate to, from moody billionaire Dominic Corisi to geeky computer wiz, risk taking  Jeremy Kater.
Quite a few scenes in the books made me laugh out loud especially if it involved Lil who always get herself into trouble. 
This is a comtempary romance with a few thrills along the way.  I like that although each book involves a different couple, the couples from previous books are also added into the next story instead of just a guest appearance, and yes there is a Book 6 due out at the end of the year.

I give it 4 STARS 

Entwined with you by Silvia Day

The 7 million copy global bestselling Crossfire series from Sylvia Day continues in Entwined with You as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires…

From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside - so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat.
No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become.
Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession…


Ok so its finally out and yesterday I started reading before I even got out of bed only to find that it have been so long between books I had totally forgotten what was going on so I then had to spend yesterday re-reading book 2.  I have to say now that i've started reading book 3 I'm hooked all over again and I know its going to be an emotional rollercoaster

 What can i say without giving anything away!
I loved the book, the last 48hrs with Gideon and Eva have been great.
Its not so much an emotional rollercoaster like the last two so you should finish the book with your sanity intact. 

I give it 4 STARS

The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, The Intimate Adventures of a Woman Who Can't Say No by Suzanne Portnoy

Random House UK, Ebury Publishing
Published 11th April 2013

Description

Suzanne's journey of self-discovery is anything but typical; her attitude towards sex and relationships even more unusual. The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker is a story that is shocking and heart-warming in equal measure. Freed from the restraints of marriage and monogamy, Suzanne takes pleasure without commitment and tells her story without a trace of shame. She's not looking for Prince Charming anymore, but fun. And she finds it.

 DISLIKE.... ALOT.

 Not sure if i'm going to finish it yet,  the third story nearly made me sick!!
I'm not a prude by any means and enjoy reading erotica but Yuck just Yuck!

Secrets Exposed (Tall, Dark & Deadly 0.5) by Lisa Renee Jones

A sizzling romantic suspense.

Her enemy is her passion, her passion is her enemy.

Lindsey Paxton was once the number one defence attorney in New York. She fought for those who were innocent, but charged. Her instincts were her lifeline, never failing her, as they guided her in her choices of who to defend. Or so she thought. Until she won a case she would forever wish to have lost. Her client, an accused rapist, kills and rapes a woman only a day after being set free. Destroyed by her role in the woman's death, Lindsey blames her father's controlling ways for what she has become, and runs from her career and life. Years later - the past becomes the present . . . Her father has cancer, and Lindsey is forced to leave her career with the Washington branch of the FBI. She finds herself facing the responsibility of running her father's law firm with the reluctant help of hotshot attorney Mark Reeves, a man who sparks her temper while also managing to tempt her body, her mind, maybe even her heart. With his help she finds herself fighting the emotional battles of the past, tempted to trust both him and her instincts. Now, faced with a case inherited from her father so similar to her career-ending one, she now must decide if her instincts will lead her down the path to saving an innocent man or setting free another killer. But while she fights her own battles, someone watches, wanting from the past what he had failed to get the first time . . . Lindsey.

This is a prequel to the Tall, Dark, and Deadly romance series and has previously released as Hidden Instincts.  I hate when authors do that!!!

A nice book, good story which involves Lindsey having to get Mark to bail out her father law firm when he gets cancer but a serial killer is on the lose and its up to mark and Lindsey to solve the case ....and fall in love

I give it 3 STARS


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I've aready read book 1

Royce Walker, a former FBI Agent, who's opened a private security firm with his brothers, has always had the hots for the prim, proper Assistant District Attorney, but considered her hand's off because of a family connection. However, when danger threatens Lauren, he isn't willing to stand by and watch her get hurt. Now the passion for survival is only rivaled by the passion burning between them. And that passion, might just be the death of them both.

And I've also read DANGEROUS SECRETS which is book 2

 Being a divorce attorney for the rich and famous isn't all it's cracked up to be. Julie Harrison has learnt that love doesn't last, and she's sworn never to make the same mistakes as her mother, or her clients. She uses the games men play to keep them at a distance. The only man who managed to break down her walls was Luke Walker, a Navy SEAL who loved her and left her, and changed her forever.

When Luke arrives back in New York, running Walker Security with his brothers and having left his Navy SEAL days behind, he sets his sights on Julie, the woman he's always wanted and couldn't have. Except, she runs from him every time he gets close.

But now, one of Julie's clients, a powerful judge, gets involved with a dangerous cartel, and his soon-to-be-ex wife ends up dead. Julie's next on the list, and she finds herself on the run from those who believe she knows too much, and counting on Luke to keep her alive. In the deepest, darkest moments of the night, passion will bring them together while danger threatens to tear them apart. Can Julie and Luke trust each other and find their happy ending before they find ... the end?

Both are good books and worth a read, I hate it when I start a series without realising am really not at the beginning  and was a little narked to find that I should have started with Secrets Exposed.
 But you can't help but fall for the Walker boys, all muscle and guns to save the day and get the girl.

I Give the series so far 3.5 STARS

So, I'm off to read  Beneath the Secrets Book 3, Part1 ( this is another pet hate of mine, the series of short stories instead of waiting and publish  the book in one go, I'm sure its so the author can get more money out of you)

Good news is that all 4 are now available in 1 book and its a good read, I finished it in a day, had to know what happens next and then it leaves you with a cliff hanger at the end and I've just checked on the website for the next book and there's no info :-(

Part 1 contains One Dangerous night which gives you a run down on what has happened in Blakes life and then continues in Beneath the Secrets

PRELUDE: One Dangerous Night
Blake Walker left behind the ATF when the drug cartel he was hunting cost him the life of his fellow agent, and fiancee. Now, two years later, he's working with his brothers at Walker Security, but he's living fast, hard, and wild, until he reaches the ultimate high...revenge. And he's close, so close he can taste it. He's one meeting, one woman, away from being inside one of the money laundering shells the cartel operates.

One woman....
One dangerously hot night....

Beneath the Secrets, Part One

Two paths collide.
Two people who will do anything, including sleeping with the enemy, to avenge or save someone they love. But what if everything isn't as it seems and the enemy isn't the enemy at all? Can these two broken people drawn together by their sizzling hot attraction see beyond their pain and their need for vengeance and find the trust they will need to survive a vicious drug lord's wrath before it's too late?

If you love Romance/Suspense you'll love this series :-) 

Its got to be 4 STARS for me