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Review: Pained - Book #2 Bullied Series - Vera Holins - March 2020 At the end of Book #1, we saw Sarah making a hard choice to leave Hayden Black and started dating Matteo.  Book #2 starts with a past scene of Sarah and her mother Patricia being beaten up by her mother's boyfriend Brad at the time. The book then jumps to three years later which is the present time. Sarah is trying to move on with her life and wishing that her feelings will develop for Matteo but she can't help loving Hayden despite his bullying and treating her terribly. We remember from Book #1 that Hayden has BPD aka Borderline Personality Disorder and Pained focuses more on the emotional level of both Sarah and Hayden. Just as Sarah is getting used to Hayden ignoring her, the bullying starts back up and couldn't have come at the worst time as Brad who turns out to be Coach Benner's brother has turned up in Enfield and wants Sarah's mother back and will do anything to finish ...

  Review: Saving Mercy - Book #1 Fatal Truths Series - Abbie Roads - April 2017 Mixing up my reading genres, I move from a romance to a mystery. A few years back I read a book by Abbie Roads called Hunt the Dawn where the main character had special abilities and enjoyed the book. Saving Mercy starts with us meeting Cain Killion aka the son of a famous serial killer called The Triple K. Cain can see through the killer's eyes by playing with their blood - it has to be clean through and not tampered with. His adoptive dad Mac works for the FBI and calls Cain to help him with a murder scene. It turns out that the scene is similar to a murder his father committed twenty years ago, down to a symbol on the wall painted with blood. Twenty years ago, Cain's father killed the Killion family and left Mercy Killion - the young daughter alive. He also carved a symbol into her over her heart. Cain feels connected with her as he too has a symbol carved on his heart among his n...

Review: Throne Away - Leddy Harper - April 2020 One of my favorite tropes is Royalty Fiction and that's what drew me to Leddy Harper's new book "Throne Away". Normally the royal type stories that we read are the guy is the Prince or King and the female is the commoner that they fall in love. Throne Away by Leddy Harper is a reversal of roles as the male is the commoner - Ryan and the royal figure is Princess Moira. The book starts with Moira who has managed to escape her security for her last night in the US and is standing on the pier. From the outside, it looks like she is about to jump which is where Ryan comes in as he tries to save her. The pair then go off for a coffee and there is a connection as Ryan doesn't know she is Royalty. The next day Moira goes back to her real life and Ryan's ex-wife turns up. The book then jumps to weeks later and Ryan and his sister-in-law Mandy and his stepdaughter Amara are on the trip of a lifetime in Illumbra. T...

Title: Pained Series: Bullied #2 Author: Vera Hollins Genre: Dark High School Romance Release Date: March 31, 2020 Blurb Two months have passed since the day I pushed Hayden away. Two months since I found out he loved me and wanted to be with me. I’ve been trying to move on and forget about him, but my heart refuses to listen. Hayden had almost died saving me. Half of me wants to forgive him for everything and give him another chance. The other half prevents me from doing so, distrusting him and ignoring my heart's desires. Hayden is dark and complicated, and as the days pass, he gets further away from me, ignoring me whenever our paths cross. I have less than a year before I go to college, and I won't see him ever again. I have to believe I will get over him and move on with my life. I have to believe in my future without him.  Unless he didn't really move on, and our masks are about to fall. ADD TO GOODREADS ...

Been There Done That, an all-new second-chance romantic standalone by debut author Hope Ellis, is LIVE! Theirs was a forever kind of love, until it was stolen. ZORA LEFFERSBEE’S once perfect life is no longer perfect. Her tenure at the University is in question, funding for her employees uncertain, and her faux-fiancé, Jackson James’s unpredictability is wearing on her last nerve. Just when Zora is convinced things can’t get more complicated, life proves her wrong. What the heck is he doing here? NICK ROSSI’s complicated life is still extremely complicated. He’s used to fighting for everything he has, but he’s also used to winning. Now a man of power and influence, his return to Green Valley after so many years hasn’t gone according to plan, especially with the woman he’s always wanted. She can’t know why I left, or why I’m back. A powerful woman intent on righting the wrongs of the world, Zora doesn’t have time or energy to deal with the man who broke her young hea...

“I was all in with this slow burn romance that had me laughing and swooning from cover to cover” --Author Andrea Johnston Beef Cake, an all-new small town contemporary romance from Jiffy Kate, is available now! If opposites do actually attract, then Gunnar Erickson and Frankie Reeves take the cake. Frankie Reeves is complicated, even though she won’t admit it. She fills her days working as an ER nurse, taking care of her mom, and searching for the father she never knew. Anything else has no place in her perfectly compartmentalized, purposefully simple life. Attachments? No thank you. She has no time for that. Gunnar Erickson recently moved to Green Valley to train at Viking MMA with his brother Cage. Being the youngest of the Erickson clan, he’s always felt like he has something to prove, and now that he’s finished with college, it’s his time to shine. But before he can step into the ring, a freak accident sends him to the ER and into the care of one Frankie Reeves. Whi...

The Resurrection of Us Albany Nightingale Duet, Book 2 by Rachel M. Raithby Publication Date: March 27, 2020 Genres: Mature Young Adult, Bully Romance Read for FREE in KindleUnlimited: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU The crown is mine. Revenge was dealt. But at what cost? I've destroyed those who have wronged me, but lost a piece of myself along the way. The boy I love, hates me and I hate him. We've both done things that can't be forgiven and as much as the connection between us burns, I'm not sure it's enough to fix what we broke. I'm a broken queen, in a tainted kingdom and maybe I got what I deserved... The Destruction of Rose Albany Nightingale Duet, Book 1 by Rachel M. Raithby Publication Date: January 11, 2020 Genres: Mature Young Adult, Bully Romance Read for FREE in KindleUnlimited (99¢ LIMITED TIME ONLY!) Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU If I’d known then what I know now, I’d never have tried to reclaim my crown. ...