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Hate Crush Lush Money #2 by Angelina M. Lopez ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 This book had everything I love in a good modern romance! Rockstars, princesses, young love, second chances and all the hate and angst you could ever want! I found reading this book that I quickly fell in love with both Aish and Sofia from the start. Author Angelina M. Lopez did an amazing job layering these characters, making very relatable and real. I was definitely on team #Aishia from the get go, even knowing that they had A LOT of work to do to make this happen. The third character of the book, Bodega Sofia, Princess Sophia’s new winery was fascinating to read about. I enjoy a glass or two of vino here and there… and now after all the details and scenes at the winery I feel like I know so much more of the process- I love when I learn something new! Overall this book grabbed onto my heart form the start and took me through an emotional roller coaster ride. At one point I was questioned if I could handle ...

About a Rogue Desperately Seeking Duke #1 by Caroline Linden ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 This new series from Caroline Linden starts with the search for a Ducal heir… there are three men in the running; a gambler, a Captain and a Frenchman. The gambler and the Captain are invited to meet with the duchess to learn of their good fortune. She also bestows upon them a living , so that they may start learning and acting the part of a refined gentleman. Maximilian St. James can’t believe his luck! With this new connection and the living he now has, he can finally make his dreams come true. To do this he needs a wife… not any wife, a wife that will make him a partner in a business. He proposes to Cathy Tate, the pottery heiress and starts to plan his new business venture… Too bad Miss Cathy has other plans… like running away the night before the wedding! Her father is instanced! He has no male heir, so bringing Max into the family was going to the solution to all his problems. But wait! He...

Just Like That Albin Academy #1 by Cole McCade ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 When Summer Hemlock finished high school he left his small town to find himself… 7 years later he is returning to that same town and school with no better idea of who he really is.  Professor Fox Iseya is not impressed that the shy, quiet and fearful Mr. Hemlock, his former student, is the man hired to be his TA and whom he is supposed to train to be his replacement. How will this timid creature ever step in front of the classroom to deliver a lesson? This calls for some lessons bravery. Professor Iseya challenges Summer to one act of bravery a day. Summer accepts, but decides his acts of bravery deserve their own daily award; a kiss, freely given by the Professor himself! This May-December romance was really sweet. I wasn’t sure how this would go, but these two made a perfect pair. I loved watching them both support and push the other to become a better version of themselves without changing who they...

The Rebel Wears Plaid Prince Charlie’s Angels #1 by Eliza Knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Sometimes when I  read a historical romance set during the Jacobite uprising, I fear that it can become too depressing knowing how history is payed out. In this first book of Eliza Knight’s new series, there is a lot of fighting, but we do not get to the end of the rebellion, so we are left on a. Definitive high note, which I enjoyed. In this series we see the stories of three women who swear their allegiance to Prince Charlie as youths following in the footsteps of their rebellious forefathers. They call themselves “Prince Charlie’s Angels”. All three women bring a special skill to the rebel force: a leader of men, a healer and a messenger. Jenny Mackintosh works hard day and night. By day she is the fill in laird, while her brother is in London allying with the English, by night she travels the countryside recruiting for her rebel army. On one such recruiting mission her party come...

A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby Rogues and Remarkable Women - Book 1 by Vanessa Riley ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 The Widows Grace, an underground group of widows working together to fight back against legal injustices put upon them due to their widowhood has found Patience Jordan and taken up her plight. When Patience was been widowed with a small babe, her husbands’ uncle swooped in and seized control… that’s not the worst of it, he banishes her to Bedlam and keeps her baby boy hostage! After the Widows Grace gets her released from Bedlam, Patients clandestinely reenters her home to ensure her son’s safety and feeding. She is enlisted into service by the Duke of Repington as he storms the home with his troops to rescue the baby, his ward. Now Patience must keep up her ruse to be with her son. She dreams of returning to her homeland in the West Indies where she will be respected and she and her son will be free of English rules… that is until she starts to get closer to the Duke and f...

A Good Duke Is Hard to Find Isle of Synne series - Book 1 by Christina Britton ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 ***WANTED*** *Large Viking like man returns to the Ilse of Synne to enact revenge on the family that denied him years ago. Could you be the one to help me bring down my vengeance? *Three time fiancee is looking for a new groom who will choose her for her… not what her father can give them. Fourth times the charm! *** What interesting characters! An Americanized Brit with viking ancestry is our delicious hero, Peter Ashford. He has arrived not heIsle to pay a debt to his aunt and inform his uncle of his plans for vengeance. Our Heroine, Lenora Hartley has lost three fiancees and has come to the Isle to lick her wounds, while her father attempts to find her another groom. She bumps into Peter upon her arrival and he takes up much of her time and thoughts onward. This first book in Christina Brittion’s new series starts off great; captivating characters, intriguing land...

A Woman Alone by Nina Laurin ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 1984* meets Maximum Overdrive**. Wow- what a perfect psychological thriller for todays modern lifestyle. For a person who doesn’t want to leave the house without a charged iPhone and my Apple Watch- this book hit home! Told mainly from the perspective of Cecelia, the stay at home mom and wife who has recently moved in the the AI centre gated community for her safety, I felt her fear and confusion as the house and accompanying AI seems to turn on her and she begins to wonder who is actually watching her.  As a culture dependant on technology and a society constantly under the lens, her fear of her lack of privacy was very relatable. Is someone listening the we talk in range of our phones microphones? What are people hearing.. and still, what are they doing with all those secrets… I love my tech… my phone, watch and tablets… but I still have not plugged in and set up our Google home… and this book definitely has ma...

To Catch an Earl A Bow Street Bachelors Novel - Book 2 by Kate Bateman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Who’s trying to catch who? I definitely needed to catch an extra few Zzzz's after stay up late to see how this game of cat and mouse came out! Female cat burglar, Emmy was completing her father legacy when she steals from the wrong man… or should I say Royal? She’s taken a diamond from Prince George’s collection and now he’s brought in the big guns, Bow Streets finest… and most irresistible! Alex Harland is Bow Streets secret weapon, not only is he an Earl and rake, he lives for the law. There is a right and there is a wrong… until he come across the woman who stole his heart years ago. The daughter of thief and a man of the law could never work, but their opposites only make the attraction stronger. I enjoyed this second book in this series even more than the first. This book amped up the heat and suspense. I loved how it was hard to tell who was playing who. I was left on...

The Summer House by Jenny Hale ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Its summertime in the Carolinas and Callie Weaver could not be happier to be there! She is making on her dream come true- to own a B&B on the coast of North Carolina. She can hardly believe her luck! Now that she quit her day job and is working on renovations to he B&B, she can’t afford any distractions… especially those of the male variety!  So when local celebrity, Luke Sullivan bumps into her while on an errand and won’t take no for an answer, she realizes it’s going to take a lot to keep her heart out the whatever game playboy Luke is at. I have loved Jenny Hale’s Christmas romances in the past, so this was a fun twist, being a summer romance. As always, she creates such lovable hero! I just wanted to give Callie nudge a few times and say, “Girls, give him a chance… do NOT let this man get away!” Callie’s character was resistant but not in an obnoxious way… she guards her heart, but she also doles it out a littl...

Two Rogues Make a Right Seducing the Sedgewicks #3 by Cat Sebastian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Will and Martin have been best friends since childhood. They grew up as neighbours, but their life situations could not have been any more different. Martin’s Baron father doesn’t approve of their closeness and offers to buy a commission for young Will in the Navy. Eager for adventure and not willing to overlook this opportunity, Will cups at the chance. Little did they know that this would alter them forever and even bring them closer… After Will returns emotionally broken, it is Martin that finds him in Londons opium dens and nurses him back to health. So, it is unsurprising when Will is the one to rescue Martin when his chronic lung ailment flairs up again. They escape to the country where they can just be themselves. Martin doesn’t have to live up to the responsibilities of being the baron now and Will is able to see that his affection for Martin is more than just friendship, but love....

A Royal Second Chance Summer Little Shops on Heart Street book #3 by Viv Royce ⭐⭐⭐ /5 I was drawn to reading this by the fun cover after recently reading another cute contemporary summer romance.  A Royal Second Chance Summer tells the story of a secret wine heiress who was her own antique shop and the secret European Prince in town to find his grandfather’s lost family heirloom. They join together to find the heirloom and along the way they plan the towns’s big summer Fourth of July bash… also fall in love ❤️ . But… as always when their secrets are revealed they no longer trust each others emotions and the future of their romance does not look good… Nicholas does not know if love will be enough for a commoner to sustain their love when they must return to his obligations and join court life… Lizzie never wanted wealth and fame, just love. Why couldn’t Prince Nicholas just have been a regular guy? A surprise character orchestrates their happily e...