The Phantom Paragrapher

Lovebug, an all-new witty and emotional standalone romance from bestselling author Erin Mallon is available now! My name is Mabel, the girl who “wouldn’t hurt a fly.” Of course I wouldn’t. I’m an entomologist for goodness’ sake. I work in a nature center. Bugs are my jam. It’s the humans in my life who are starting to get me down. I’m used to them calling me sweet and innocent. I can even handle them calling me naive. But when they lie and keep secrets from me? That's when my proverbial pincers want to come out. Trouble is, I'm not the girl who fights back. Not until a handsome groundskeeper with a dirty mouth and secrets of his own shows up and lights all sorts of fires in me. In the bug world, the female is always the fiercest. The praying mantis doesn’t worry about being a “good girl.” Nope, she follows her instincts no matter how crass or crude they may seem to others. Turns out I could learn a thing or two from her. I’m not necessa...

Review: One Year Gone - Avery Bishop - August 2021 One of my favourite things about being a book reviewer is that we get the chance to read books before they are out in the public's view and I was in the mood for a bit of an edgy mystery read after reading a handful of chick-lit/ romances lately. One Year Gone by Avery Bishop isn't one of those happy-go-lucky mystery reads that end in sunshine and roses, so if you pick this one up expecting a happy reunion at the end - then put it back down. One Year Gone is a rocky road type of reading which will have you feeling like you just jumped on a rollercoaster filled with twists and turns and loopy-loos. The book starts with Jess receiving text messages one night from her daughter asking for help. This would have been an ordinary night but for Jess - this is the first time she has heard from her daughter in one year. A year ago, her daughter Bronwyn vanished into thin air and no-one has heard or seen her since. The texts claim that sh...

 

A Shadow in the Light Keary Taylor (Parallel Verse Guardians, #1) Publication date: April 20th 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance “You went and fell in love with an ultralight? That’s like a spider falling in love with a butterfly. They’re both arachnids, but the entire universe knows they don’t belong together.” I needed an out. I needed to be someone who wasn’t trapped in Las Vegas. I went to that club looking for nothing and everything, and there he was. Jaxon’s hands on my hips were just what I was looking for, and for just one night, it was easy to be someone I wasn’t. Then our signals went haywire. We’ve been looking for the gatekeeper for a long, long time so we can go home, and a new possibility just came up. It was my job to bring them in. Only it was him. Jaxon Gray. Turns out, he comes from one of the most dangerous crime families in Sin City. But I’m not the only one after him. There are others who want him just as bad, and they’ll kill me to get ...

The Mix-Up Melanie Munton (Southern Hearts Club, #3) Publication date: April 6th 2021 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance She thought she accidentally slept with her boss… Then she met his twin brother. Real talk: I slept with my boss. Back before he even was my boss. Back when I had no clue who he was. Real talk: My boss is an arrogant jerk. I hate him. If we didn’t work so well together, I would have told him exactly where he could shove his pompous attitude a long time ago. Turns out…my boss has a twin. Identical twin. Now I know why he’s always acted like our one night together never happened. Why he acted like he’d never met me before when I started working for him. It wasn’t him that night. It was his brother. A brother who’s just as gorgeous as my boss and a hell of a lot nicer. Real talk: I’m kind of…bothered that it wasn’t my boss that night. But that’s before certain revelations about that night come to light. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes ...

Until Tomorrow Comes Adelaide Forrest (Beauty in Lies, #1) Publication date: February 25th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Dark Romance, Romance Rafael I came for war. I left with an obsession. With one look, Isa captivated me. She consumed me, drawing me into her world without ever knowing the dangers of mine. I intend to make her mine, no matter what lies I need to tell to manipulate her into falling in love with El Diablo. It should be simple enough, but secrets lurk in the depths of her multicolored eyes, and I’ll do anything to understand what broke her before I had the chance. Because she’s mine to break. Isa Rafael Ibarra tore through my life like a raging inferno. Consuming every part of me he touches, he promises to show me passion and the real Ibiza. Though our tryst can never be anything but temporary, I never want to leave the man who makes me wish things were different. But there’s a nightmare hiding within his multicolored gaze, a phantom rattling at the...

The First Man Alex Kelly (From Connemara With Love #2) Publication date: February 25th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Shane Do you want to know what it means to live like me? It means being forced not to look at him, not to touch him, not to be left alone in the same room as him. Not to seek him out. Not to want him. Not to love him. Do you know how it feels to spend your entire life pretending to be someone else? Do you know what it’s like to love someone who doesn’t want to be loved? I’ll tell you how it feels. It feels as if you’re living in constant torment: you know which path you should follow, but you also know that, if you follow that path, you can never turn back. And I can’t do that to him. Every day I come back, because I know that he’s waiting for me. Every day I promise him that he will never have to live without me. Andy Do you know what it means to live like me? It means being forced not to touch him, not to kiss him, not to be ab...

Title: The Crush Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Release Date: February 22, 2021 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone, second-chance story of forbidden love…  It’s natural to want the one you can’t have. And for as long as I could remember, I’d secretly wanted my brother’s best friend, Jace.  He was six years older and always treated me like the sister he never had.  Fast forward a decade.  We were all in our twenties now. Jace had moved in with my brother, Nathan, and me to help us make ends meet after our parents died.  It was just the three of us—an odd family dynamic.  Living under our roof, Jace was as bossy and protective as ever.  But he certainly didn’t look at me like a sister anymore. That was what made things so complicated.  I was pretty much hot and bothered twenty-four-seven.  And he was torn.  The signs were subtle, at first. Like on m...

Title: False Start Series: Beautifully Brutal #1 Author: Casey Hagen Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance Release Date: February 16 BLURB I'm used to being an outsider, full of self-doubt, pain, and a longing to belong. Until I found this family, my own band of derby sisters. But when the most notorious coach in roller derby sets his sights on me, my life is thrust into chaos. He’s a perceptive, cocky hard-ass, who's made me his enemy, and his student. Despite being my adversary, he’s the only man I can trust when faced with insurmountable odds, even if I hate every second he tries to bend me to his will. Our proximity brings with it a forbidden attraction. One that can destroy everything my team has built. One that threatens to break me down, piece by piece I won't let Cain Bishop break me...at least not on the track. But maybe...I’ll let him break my bed. One night home and I’m obsessed with the track. Maybe not the track itself, but her. The most compellin...