Cover Reveal :Never Let Me Go by Kianna Alexander

COVER REVEAL! Look at the gorgeous cover of @KiannaWrites’s #NeverLetMeGo (out 9.1)! This book’s got it all:

💐 Single dad

💐 Adorable baby girl

💐 The nanny who falls in love with them both

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About Never Let Me Go:

Tender, emotional contemporary romance—you’ll fall in love with this band-of-brothers and the strong women they’re determined to win.

 

Architect Maxwell Devers is laser-focused on winning the contract to build a new cultural arts center--his biggest project yet. But as a single dad of a beautiful baby girl, he has to find some help if he’s going to stay on track.

 

Yvonne Markham is thrilled to get her first nanny assignment. She knows the high-paying job will speed her progress toward owning a child care center of her own. Maxwell’s daughter is a delight, and she quickly comes to love the bouncing baby girl. Falling for her handsome new boss, however, was not part of the plan…

 

Hang on to your heartstrings: This multicultural romance features a single father, a sweet baby daughter, and the nanny who falls in love with them both.

 

About Kianna:

Like any good Southern belle, Kianna Alexander wears many hats: loving wife, doting mama, advice-dispensing sister, and gabbing girlfriend. She's a voracious reader, an amateur seamstress and occasional painter in oils. Chocolate, American history, sweet tea and Idris Elba are a few of her favorite things. A native of the TarHeel state, Kianna still lives there with her husband, two kids, and a collection of well-loved vintage 80's Barbie dolls. For more about Kianna and her books, visit her website at: http://authorkiannaalexander.com/

 

Currently Loving: The Footman and I (The Footmen's Club #1) by Valerie Bowman

Shattered Pieces Series: Shattered #1 Author: Rebekah Vasick

Book info

Title: Shattered Pieces

Series: Shattered #1

Author: Rebekah Vasick

Genre: M/M Romance

Publishing date: May 11th, 2020

Summary

Taylor

Hi, I’m Taylor and I’m a drug addict. Oh, wait. This isn’t NA, is it? Then I’m just Taylor, a Brit living in America.

Secrets. My family has many. My dad’s an abusive alcoholic. My mom finds her solace in her boss’s bed. But me? My secret’s the worst of all: I’m gay.

I was raised to believe that it’s wrong to feel this way about men.

But then I met Alex, the sexy bartender with the Southern twang. And no matter how hard I try, I can’t fight my attraction to him.

How can something so wrong feel so right? And how can I keep fighting it when he keeps lending me his strength so I can live to fight another day?

Alex

The plan was simple.

Move to Cresthill, New York.

Open my bar.

Recover from the relationship I wish I could forget.

And then he walked in. Hot British Dude. Even covered in bruises, he took my breath away.

The more I get to know Taylor, the sweet Brit who has as many demons as I do, the more I feel the need to keep him safe from everything that’s hurting him.

Maybe I’ll never be whole again. Maybe Taylor won’t either. But maybe, just maybe, together, we can be the glue that puts all our shattered pieces together again.

Trigger Warning: This book deals with the subjects of substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and suicide.

Read now on Amazon

Enjoy a fragment

“How was your night?” Mum asks.

I make a little sandwich on the end of my fork, a little bit of everything on a square of fried bread. The combined flavors explode in my mouth, and I groan internally. This is exactly what I need to fight off a drug-induced hangover. Chewing slowly, I wade through the foggy memories of last night. A gaming session with Elle, sneaking out of the house, lots of coke and…him.

A night of drink and drugs leaves me with fragments of memories. Like, I went to the new bar, but I couldn’t tell you what it looked like. They had a band, but the only song I remember them playing was “Rocket Man.”

But him? The bartender? That memory is crystal clear. His diamond-shaped face, the dark stubble that I wanted to graze my lips over. Chocolate-colored eyes filled with warmth that fixed on me, staring into my soul. Even his touch that sent bolts of electricity through me, jolting me back to life. He made me feel things; things I keep locked away, deep within me, never wanting them to see the light of day.

In that moment, I needed a bump to numb the awakening desires, but it didn’t help. I still couldn’t pry my eyes off him. Though we didn’t talk exactly, I could hear his southern accent, my weakness. Why did he have to be a southerner?

The connection we had was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before. The words played on my tongue, the insane need to ask if he was interested in me.

But I’m not gay! I snogged the first slapper who came my way. But even as I kissed her, I watched him, wondering if his full lips would feel as soft as they looked.

Iron bands tighten around my chest, crushing all the air from my lungs. A frozen hand grasps my heart, squeezing it, while a legion of demons crowds me, taunting me.

You’re sick, Taylor. You’re not right in the head. You’re unclean, despicable, an abomination, for thinking of a man in this way.

Avoiding Mum’s stare, I collect my mug and wash down my mouthful with the milky coffee. “It was all right.”

“What did you do?”

Fantasized about kissing a bloke. “Nothing, really. Just stayed out of Dad’s way.”

She sighs and reaches out a cold hand—her hands are always cold—to clutch my fingers. “I’m sorry I left you last night.”

She looks older today. A new wrinkle cracks the skin between her thin, blonde eyebrows. Another crease slices across her forehead, while dark circles pool under her eyes.

She searches my gaze, maybe begging me to forgive her?

“Just couldn’t take it anymore.” Her voice breaks as a tear slithers down her cheek. “But I knew you could handle your own. You always have, ever since you were a little boy.”

“Why do you stay with him?” I don’t recognize my own voice.

She pulls her hand away and I mourn the softness of her skin. Wiping the tear from her cheek, she gazes at Penny, who is blissfully unaware of the deep, emotional moment unfolding before her.

“It’s complicated,” Mum says.

“Mum, I know you’re scared of him, but we can get out. You, me, and Penny.”

The blue of her irises darkens.

“And where would we go, Taylor?” she snaps. I recoil. “Where would I hide?” she continues. “He threatens to kill me if I ever leave him. But you can leave, though, Taylor. If you want to leave me and your sister here, alone, to deal with him.”

The cold hand of guilt slaps my face. How could she think I would leave her or Penny?

“I’m sorry, Mum,” I whisper. “I shouldn’t have said anything. And you know I’ll always stay here to protect you and Pen.”

She blows out a heavy breath, her face softening, and curls her fingers around my hand once again.

“No, I’m sorry, love. You’re too good to me.” She offers a smile. “I don’t know what I’d do without you. You’re so brave, so strong, to stand up to him. Not like me, all weak and fragile.”

Once again, she pulls back and collects her fork.

“Do you have plans tonight?” Her voice is suddenly upbeat.

I don’t question the oddity. “No, I can stay in.” My subtle way of saying I’ll shield her and Penny from the brute.

“Game’s on tonight,” Dad announces, startling me, but at least I know why she changed her tone.

Glancing over my shoulder, I watch him stagger in through the doorway. Clearly, he’s had his liquid breakfast. His hazy eyes search for me, not quite registering where I’m sitting.

“You going to be here to watch it?” he continues.

Just like Mum, I learned early on in life to fake everything around him.

Meet Rebekah Vasick

Rebekah Vasick originated from Essex, England and after a few years of travelling around England and spending five years in Holland, she eventually met her husband, Mike, and moved to New York to be with him. She used to work as a caregiver to adults with autism, but due to an eye condition, she’s unable to work anymore. She’s always had a love for writing, but it wasn’t until she settled in America that she felt she could live her dream.

Along with her husband, she lives with her two dogs, Patrick (Jack Russell) and Jake (Weimaraner). Patrick also moved from England since she couldn’t live without her pup.

When she’s not writing, Rebekah either has her face in a book or a PS4 controller in her hands. She also enjoys walking with her boys and husband or dreaming up her next novels. She enjoys watching movies, her favourite genre being horror. And she surprised herself when she found her love for writing romance. Though Twisted City isn’t her first novel, it is the first she’s ready to share with others and she is eager to finish the trilogy and work on the many other half-finished works squirrelled away in her laptop or the many she has developing in her mind.

If you’d like to find out more about Rebekah and what she’s up to, you can find her online in the following places: Facebook Fan Page | Instagram | Blog | Newsletter

Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

Great read and great audio!

The Beast of Beswick (Everleigh Sisters #1) by Amalie Howard

** spoiler alert ** I wanted to like this more than I actually did. 50% into the book and I was ready to be done. Two Stars

THE RAKESS by Scarlett Peckham

THE RAKESS

Society of Sirens

On Sale: 4/28/2020

Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS—three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve…

She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights…

Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning.

He’s not looking for a summer lover…

Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his passions buried with the losses of his past.

But one night changes everything...

What began as a fling soon forces them to confront painful secrets—and yearnings they thought they’d never have again. But when Seraphina discovers Adam’s future depends on the man she’s about to destroy, she must decide what to protect… her desire for justice, or her heart.

Scarlett Peckham writes steamy historical romances celebrating alpha heroines. Her USA Today bestselling debut novel, The Duke I Tempted, was named a Best Romance Novel of 2018 by BookPage and the Washington Post. Scarlett lives in Los Angeles, where she enjoys trying to think of new ways to say “wicked", collecting vintage romance clench covers, and dressing her cat up in bowties.

 

"THE RAKESS is the kind of story that leaves you buzzing, excitedly advertising it to your fellow romance readers at the gym/coffee shop/bookstore. Scarlett Peckham has an elegant and lyrical writing voice and a tremendous gift for emotional complexity, leavened by a wonderfully sophisticated, wry sense of humor... a lush, clever, erotic, truly adult love story, a romance between two brilliant, scarred souls who risk everything for each other."

   — Meredith Duran, USA Today Bestselling Author

 

“I devoured THE RAKESS by Scarlett Peckham, with its unique role reversals, passionate couple, and rule breaking. The strong, brooding heroine rejects Society’s restrictions on a woman and lives life boldly on her terms. The widowed upstanding hero fights the pull of desire in order to protect his business and children. But love can seldom be denied.”

   — Lorraine Heath, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

 

"Everything I want in a historical romance: smart, sexy and feminist."

   — Maya Rodale, USA Today bestselling author on The Rakess

 

"The Rakess is a triumph, delicately written and unflinching in scope.  The writing thrums with desire and conviction, and Seraphina and Adam will leave you aching for more of Peckham's passionate, progressive romances!"

   — Sierra Simone, USA Today Bestselling Author

 

"A new and soon to be iconic voice in the world of historical romance, Peckham distinguishes herself as a master of her craft."

   — Liz Carlyle, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author on THE RAKESS

 

"Passionate, powerful, and flat-out romantic as hell.”

   — Eva Leigh, author of My Fake Rake on The Rakess

  

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

cute story, kinda hard to get into.
The h/h are a little blah but Dare is a fun writer and her writing is funny.
Her wit kept me reading.
Three stars