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How To Deceive a Duke Rebels with a Cause, Book 2 by Samara Parish 🎧Audiobook narrated by Christy Woods ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 /5 In Samara Parish’s follow up novel she brings back two characters we have already met and dives into their history and corresponding animosity towards each other. Hint: it revolves around unrequited love and broken promises! Fiona McTavish is a scientist with a breakthrough idea - friction matches! She is in London to find investors… the only problem is that she’s a woman, whom men do not want to work with and she has also been mistaken as a treasonous activist! That’s ok- because she goes way back with the Duke of Wildeford. A duke can solve any problem! But… she has a history with him and doesn’t actually want anything to do with him… she’ll accept his help with her legal issues, but Fiona insists on letting her invention and work speak for itself. Oh boy! This book was a wild ride! I loved the intelligent and motivated Fiona, but the strong willed, idealisti...

Mr. Donahue’s Total Surrender Enterprising Scoundrels, Book 1 by Sophie Barnes ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 A delightfully sweet Cinderella retelling! Calista Faulkner had such high hopes of saving her family from ruin by attaining an advantageous match across the pond in England, only to have her hopes dashed upon arrival. With no fiancee, she finds herself in need of funds to book passage and return to her family in America. A practical miss, Calista looks for employment. Too bad she is too genteel or lacks references for any job she applies. Desperate hand destitute her luck takes a turn when she is hired as a scullery maid at the Hotel Imperial… Mr. Donahue takes prides in his hardworking that has taken his inheritance and created the luxurious Hotel Imperial. He provides top notch service and treats his employees better than other establishments… or at least he believed he did. He found a genteel woman working as a scullery maid in his kitchens being treated terrible by his staff! He is boun...

Texas Homecoming The Ryan Family, Book 2 By Carolyn Brown 🎧 Audiobook narration by Chelsea Hatfield ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Former high school sweethearts finally reunite when a snow storm traps them together and forces them to face their issues! Dr. Cody Ryan has come home to help his ailing father and the family ranch. This is the first time since high school that he is free from pressures and obligations that his medical career and Doctors Without Borders placed on him…  Dr. Stephanie O’Dell has been home in Honey Grove, Texas since her mother was diagnosed with cancer… now that she’s gone, Dr. Stevie doesn’t know where home is anymore. She needs to keep her heard down and work on starting her new local veterinarian practice and avoid the man who broke her heart; the man she has compared everyone to moving forward. This becomes difficult when she’s stranded with him during the snow storm. Can she forgive him for breaking her heart? Will she finally be able to move on? What perfect ...

Under His Lover’s Wing by Merry Farmer After the War, Book #4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 The differences that separate them from society unit them! Lord Spencer Brightling has returned fro serving in the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars a man separated from the world. He has lost most of his hearing and is now isolated from the world that he has come home to. Spencer is taking a break from his life for the summer at his friends country house party before h has to deal with the realities of his new circumstances. Declan Sheltonn has never belonged, but he has made a home and life for himself as the gamekeeper of Wodehouse Abbey. He has always been more connected with the animals of the grounds than any people, until he comes across Lord Spencer Brightling in a clearing… These two have a lot of differences, age gap, master/ servant, experienced/ virgin, worldly/ naive, country/ city, but with all of they manage to balancing each other! I loved how Declan became Spencer’s ears, and how Spencer b...

Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Food competition romances are all the rage right now, but it is difficult to find a book that does justice to the completion plot and delivers a satisfying romance… but this one does just that! This story was delicious from its’s slow burn start where we are introduced to Dahalia Woodson, whom is at the Chef’s Special completion to kickstart her new life. Recently divorced and out of. Job due to the show, Dahalia wants to find who she is or wants to be now in this new stage of her life. Soon London Parker hits the page and just like Dahlia, we are in immediately intrigued by the quiet charisma exuded by London. London is not with out their struggles, they have come onto the show to showcase their “new" self as well and takes this opportunity to introduce their pronouns (they/them) to the world and be the first non-binary contestant on the show. Dahlia and London soon bond through the competition and by spending their dow...

The Siren of Sussex Belles of London, Book #1 by Mimi Matthews ⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5 Mimi Matthews is a master at writing HISTORICAL romances. Here attention to detail is top notch and creates a truly immersive reading experience. The Siren of Sussex kicks of a new Victorian romance that takes place in London a period of time after the Prince Consort’s death. Evelyn Maltravers has traveled to town from her country home with all the hopes of her sisters pinned upon her shoulders. She needs to mack a match in this season of morning in order to safeguard her sisters futures. Good thing she has a plan to stand out in front of the limited Batchelor supply- she intends to make her match on Rotten Row, instead of in the ballroom, where where horsemanship skills are easily flaunted… now to make sure she is seen, she needs the help of London’s best habit maker… London’s best habit maker, the half-Indian tailor Ahmad Malik doesn’t want his fashions on just anyone, they must be worn by the fashion mak...