Tag Archives: Romance

Dreaming of Christmas by T.A. Williams ~ Christmas Romance @TAWilliamsBooks #NetGalley #DreamingofChristmas

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Author: T.A. Williams

Published: August 2018 by Canelo Escape

Category: Festive Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Book Review

It’s the dream Christmas: snow, mountains… and, er, an ex-boyfriend. But can Zoe still find love in the Alps?

Dumped on Christmas Eve by her long-term boyfriend, it’s been a rough year for Zoe Lumsley. But then she gets an invitation she can’t refuse: an all expenses paid skiing holiday with old university friends.

Zoë Lumsley had barely stepped into her flat after a few days spent with her parents when the phone rang.

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#BookReview ~ Take Me, I’m Yours by Lizzie Lamb ‘A Wisconsin Love Story’ @rararesources @lizzie_lamb #FridayReads

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I’m delighted to be joining the blog tour for Lizzie Lamb’s new book Take Me, I’m Yours, courtesy of Rachel’s Random Resources.

My Review

A long standing family feud between the Buchanans and the MacFarlanes is threatening to destroy India Buchanan’s plans to restore her great aunt’s house to it’s former glory and run a tasteful guest house.

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The Haunting of Hattie Hastings (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by @audbyname Mini #BookReviews #GhostStory

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I was in the mood for something different and this fit the bill perfectly. A serialised novel, it tells the story of Hattie who is happily married to Gary. They have a teenage son Johnny who sometimes tries Hattie’s patience, as teenagers tend to do. Cat, Hattie’s best friend since primary school, has thankfully ditched her controlling husband and is much happier. Her brother Jack is in a strong relationship with his partner, Ben. Hattie’s mother Rachel is an elegant lady with a few gentlemen friends who is about to face a frightening battle. 

All the novellas are now published so I was really pleased to be able to read them consecutively.

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Snowflakes Over Holly Cove by @LucyColemanAuth #BookReview #Extract #Giveaway @BrookCottageBks #TuesdayBookBlog

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I’m delighted to be joining the blog tour for Snowflakes Over Holly Cove, courtesy of Brook Cottage Books.

My Review

Tia Armstrong, journalist for a lifestyle magazine, is returning to work after compassionate leave following the death of her mother.  She’s given the chance of an assignment that will run in the November, December and January issues, covering different types of relationships.

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Finders, Not Keepers (The Not So Reluctant Detectives Book 1) by @denaehaggerty #CosyMystery #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: D.E. Haggerty

Kindle Edition

Category: Cosy Mystery, Murder, Romance, Book Review

What do you do with a diamond no one wants? You can’t keep it. Or can you?

Join Terri on her quest to find a home for the diamond, which may result in the unveiling of a murderer – if she survives long enough.

Terri is in the process of sorting through the boxes in the attic for something her ex husband wants, annoyed with herself for not forcing him to take his stuff when he moved out.

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A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 2) by @kendraelliot #Crime Fiction set in Oregon #TuesdayBookBlog

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Author: Kendra Elliot

Published: June 2017 by Montlake Romance

Category: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Romance, Murder, Mystery, Book Review

Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge—even the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she’s not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff’s deputies. Now, along with Police Chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an arsonist turned killer.

In the first book we learned about FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick’s background, how she was brought up in a family of survivalists and left home at eighteen, estranged from her family.

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The Daughter of River Valley by @VickieCornwall #HistFic #Romance in Cornwall @rararesources

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Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for The Daughter of River Valley. My thanks to Rachel (Rachel’s Random Resources) and Victoria Cornwall for an ecopy of the book. 

My Review

Since the death of her beloved grandfather, Beth Jago has continued to live in the small cottage they shared in River Valley, believing it was now hers.

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#ThrowbackThursday ~ Thicker Than Water (The Grayson Trilogy) by @GeorgiaRoseBook #RomanticFiction Drama #Suspense

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Renee at It’s Book Talk began this meme as a way to share old favourites, as well as books that have been waiting on the ‘to be read’ pile for however long, and are finally getting an airing.

Thicker Than Water is the third book of the trilogy and was published in 2015. Highly recommended if you’re a fan of contemporary drama and suspense with romance (and animals) 

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Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts ~ Powerful & Convincing #ContemporaryFiction #Romance #TuesdayBookBlog @NoraRobertsFans

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Author: Nora Roberts

Performed by January LaVoy

Released by Brilliance Audio in May 2018

Category: Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Romance, Book Review

It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived.

With a storyline that is unfortunately all too relevant, Shelter in Place opens with powerful, harrowing and convincingly described scenes of a mass shooting in a mall.

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The Little Tea Shop of Horrors by @janelovering Dark Edged #Romance with Flashes of Humour @ChocLit #FridayReads

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Author: Jane Lovering

Published: March 2017 by Choc Lit

Category: Romance, Humour, Book Review

Secrets, lies, carrot cake – and an owl called Skrillex! 

Amy Knowles has always been the plain sidekick to her pretty best friend Jules. And whilst the tea room they both work in on the Monkpark Hall estate in Yorkshire is not exactly awash with eligible bachelors, it’s obvious where the male attention is concentrated – and it’s not just on the cakes! 

The story focuses on Josh and Amy, with alternating chapters from each of their perspectives, two people with completely different backgrounds and experiences of life.

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