Thursday, February 13, 2025

Lucky Shot by K. Bromberg - ARC Review & Release Blitz



๐€ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ฒ ๐›๐š๐ ๐›๐จ๐ฒ/๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ, ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐˜๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ, ๐Š. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ 

Our first meeting? He stood me up.
Our second chance encounter? I told him exactly what I thought of him.
Our third? It came with a bet (he lost) and an understanding that we’re stuck with one another.

It doesn’t matter that he’s Alexander Hardy—British soccer star extraordinaire, world-famous in every way, and a certified sex symbol. We come from two different worlds and live in two different realities. But all we need is one month.

The bet: Help him rehab his reputation to the media and the masses, and in exchange, he’ll help my soccer academy and the underprivileged kids who idolize him.

That doesn’t mean I have to like him. Not his delicious accent, his sexy smirk or those storm cloud gray eyes. Not his incredibly fit body or his sinfully dirty mouth. Not even the way he shows up day after day for the kids or the way he looks at me like he wants to devour me.

He looks at time spent in my world as a penance, while I look at it as a way to leverage his star power to help my academy survive.

But as the days turn to weeks, it seems we’re not as different as I once thought. The man who cares about no one, has fixed his sights on me. With his time at my academy up and his obligations back home calling, do we have a lucky shot of working out?


Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden Mills - ARC Review & Release Blitz

  

THE KISS LOTTERY by Ilsa Madden-Mills

Valentine’s Day Romance from Montlake / Small Town / Quirky friends 

Make sure to grab this all-new steamy, small town, Valentine’s Day romance TODAY! 




From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy novella about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine’s Day tradition…and the boy who broke her heart. 

Roses are red, violets are blue—someone in Rose has feelings for you… 

Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn’t leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It’s been ten years, but you don’t forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway. 

Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose—and he’s never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she’s not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect? 

When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they’ve needed all along.


I was in the mood for a Valentine's story and was looking forward to this one.  I enjoyed it, but it also took a minute to really capture my attention.  I am not sure why, there was a connection between Beckett and Everly, but the connection took a while to start working for me.

I liked the setting of the story, and the characters, and as the story got moving, I found myself becoming more and more engaged with them as a couple.  It's a shorter story (I think it's called a long novella) so there is less time to develop their relationship, and I think I wanted this one to be longer, but at the end, it worked for me.

I enjoyed and recommend this title.


 

         

About the Author:   

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her angsty new adult romances and romantic comedies. Fourteen of her Eighteen novels have placed in the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller List: Dirty English #1; Not My Romeo #1; The Revenge Pact #1; Dear Ava, Fake Fiancรฉe, I Dare You, and I Promise You #2; I Hate You #5; Not My Match, I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things #6; Boyfriend Bargain #8; The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, #4. A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero. She's addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females.   

Connect with Ilsa:   

Website: www.IlsaMaddenMills.com   

  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorilsamaddenmills   

  Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ilsasunicorngirls   

  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ilsamaddenmills   

  Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ILAvAU   

  Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ilsa-madden-mills   

  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ilsamaddenmills   

  Instagram: https://instagram.com/ilsamaddenmills/   

  Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ilsamaddenmills/ 

  Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7059622.Ilsa_Madden_Mills

Saturday, February 8, 2025

Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey - ARC Review



A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the manic pixie dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realize that their parents are engaged—in an all-new rom-com by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.

When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne.

Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged.

Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister.

Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more…

 

Friday, February 7, 2025

The Hero + Vegas = No Regrets by Louise Bay - ARC Review & Release Blitz



๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’NOW AVAILABLE ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’–

The Hero + Vegas = No Regrets by USA Today bestselling author Louise Bay is now available!

Grab this steamy secret marriage, billionaire romance!

What to expect:

๐Ÿ’–He falls first
๐Ÿ’Secret marriage
๐Ÿ’–Unlikely pairing
๐Ÿ’Alpha MMC in the bedroom
๐Ÿ’–He has a big ๐Ÿ†
๐Ÿ’Vegas Wedding
๐Ÿ’–Billionaire Romance




Loyal, hardworking, and trustworthy, I’m used to putting everyone’s needs before my own.

I’m the ultimate good guy. But when Sophia Jones walks into my life, everything changes.

Beautiful, guarded, and completely off-limits, she’s all I can see. Even though she’s being set
up with one of my best friends, I want her for myself.

I try to fight my feelings but soon realize it’s futile. Thrown together at our friends’ wedding
in Vegas, the more I spend time with her, the greedier I am for longer.

Vegas has a way of turning rules upside down, and one night changes everything. Between
stolen glances and secret moments, I do the unthinkable—I ask her to marry me. Maybe it’s
the drinks. Maybe it’s the city. Or maybe it’s because she feels the same connection I do, but
she says yes.

Sophia’s hiding something—I can see it in her eyes—but it doesn’t matter. She’s mine now.
And I’ll do whatever it takes to convince her this isn’t just a mistake. This is the beginning of
forever.