Review: Love Deep - Book #2 Colorado Club Billionaires - Louise Bay - October 2025 There's something deeply comforting about picking up a Louise Bay novel. It's like wrapping yourself in a soft blanket with a cup of tea , you know exactly what you're getting, and that predictability is precisely the point. Love Deep, Book #2 in the Colorado Club Billionaires series, delivered exactly what I needed: pure romance escapism without the emotional gymnastics. Let me start with my cover crush because yes, this matters. The cover perfectly captures that small-town-meets-sophistication vibe that runs through the entire story. It promised me warmth, and it delivered. Juniper is a single mom to eight-year-old Riley, working hard and creating art in whatever spare moments she can steal. When her old high school friend Byron opens a billionaire resort in their small town of Star Falls, he offers her the opportunity to showcase her artwork. Enter Fisher, a music producer with serious c...

Review: One of Those Faces - Elle Grawl - December 2022 Have you ever finished a book and sat there thinking "What on earth did I just read?" That's exactly how I felt after turning the final page of Elle Grawl's psychological thriller "One of Those Faces." This novel had all the ingredients for a gripping, edge-of-your-seat read - a traumatic childhood, a twin's death, mistaken identities, and a string of murders. Yet somehow, these elements never quite come together in a satisfying way. The story follows Harper Mallen, a children's book illustrator living in Chicago who's haunted by her past. When Harper was ten, her twin sister Issie died, and her father forced her to assume Issie's identity - a psychological trauma that sent her running from home. Now, Harper exists in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation, plagued by nightmares of her sister. The plot thickens when women start turning up dead across Chicago - women who all bear an unc...

Diary of an Artist in Love The Muse Frequency Publication date: August 15th 2023 Genres: Adult, Poetry A slender, beautifully illustrated volume of 30 poems, enumerating love in all its configurations and crucibles: through enchantment, presence, magnetism, illusion, nature, restlessness, wonder, and memories that rise from our past, and follow us into our future. Readers will be immersed in a series of 15 poems called “Love is” I through XV, with 15 additional poems that sit between them, threading the eye of the needle that we call love, with topics that seem to successively build on one another and chronicle the different phases of this intangible marvel that rules our lives. These poems include: · “We Start Here” · “Stay With Me” · “Wondering” · “Beautiful Things” · “Limitless” For seekers, artists, lovers, moon-gazers, anyone that dares to glimpse the beating heart within, this collection is a goldmine of inspiration and magical fairy dust. On Audible Diary of a...

Painted to Death Sarah Vernon Publication date: January 10th 2023 Genres: Adult, Cozy Mystery Sam Green is an art student with some pretty creative habits when it comes to solving mysteries, in this new series from author and artist Sarah Vernon. It’s the coldest part of a Boston winter when her friend Catherine is found dead in the painting studios one evening. The police are quick to rule her death a suicide, but Sam knows that something doesn’t seem right. Despite the protests of her friends Rebecca and Stephanie (although — happily — with the help of her crush Arun), Sam starts to poke around the old art department building. Peering into the dark corners of studios and underneath piles of musty art supplies, Sam soon uncovers some surprising suspects and motives behind Catherine’s death, in an art department simmering with artistic jealousy, resentment, and more relationship drama than a daytime talk show could handle. The only question is, will Sam be able to find out who...

Review: The Art of Letting Go - #Broken Roses Series - Esme Wolfe-  March 2021 This is a series; I have slowly been getting through in between reading lots of other books as you do. Like the others in this series, The Art of Letting Go is a quick read as it is written as a novella. The book starts with our female artist Aimee who has lost everything in a fire when her now ex-husband tried to kill her when he locked her in their house and set it on fire. Wanting a fresh start away and going where no one knows her, she settles into a small town and a house away from the world. The house is perfect as came furnished and belonged to a former artist of the town. This is a chance for Aimee, to release her pain -the only way she knows how - on a fresh piece of canvas. Through her journey, Aimee will not only find her way back to her love of painting but also strip away the persona she had created for her ex-husband - Aimee will finally be the person she was before him and in doing so, w...

Sweet Mercy Amelia Wilde Publication date: January 18th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Daphne Morelli is trapped in a gilded cage. She fought to escape her family, only to be caught by a billionaire. Possessive. Commanding. And determined to keep her. Emerson LeBlanc wants to own the little painter. She’s become more than his obsession. She’s part of his collection now. Except she’s more perceptive than he’d like. Her artist’s eye sees the shadows in him. She paints his pain on stretched canvas. He’s determined to own her. She’s determined to escape. In the end only one of them can truly be free. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play Author Bio: Amelia Wilde is a USA TODAY bestselling author of steamy contemporary romance and loves it a little too much. She lives in Michigan with her husband and daughters. She spends most of her time typing furiously on an iPad and appreciating the natural splendor of her home state...

Find You There Brianna Bennett Publication date: August 31st 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Lyric Meadows is used to being overlooked. Lovingly called Peanut for as long as she can remember, she uses ceramics to escape the high expectations of her parents. It also keeps her from having to tell them that she’s asexual, thereby disappointing them twice because she has no intention to work in music like they want or give them grandchildren. It’s not easy to conceal a part of who she is, but she’ll do it if it means maintaining some privacy. Luca Sherwood is used to having his privacy invaded. As the son of controversial politician Richard (Dick) Sherwood, the paparazzi is always up in his business, just waiting for a scandal to blast all over the social media. Unfortunately, Luca’s brother Rider does have something to hide, and it is something that could destroy their father’s career if the public ever learned of it. Lyric and Luca are an unlikely duo with ...

Review: The Safe Room - Whitney Zahar - June 2021 I have been enjoying this series of overcoming brokenness and finding a purpose in life, for two twin sisters both had creative outlets but lived very different lives. One was broken on the inside and outside whilst the other was broken on the inside. One chose to show the world her demons whereas the other chose to hide behind a camera and pretend to live a normal life. In The Safe Room, we meet twins April and Tam. Tam has spent her life in and out of the mental institutions/rehab as she has had many failed suicide attempts and feels safer in these four walls. April has dedicated her life to photographing old abandoned buildings and showing her feelings through her photography and art. One day, April receives a phone call from her sister giving her passwords to her blog The Safe Room. Little does she know it will be the last time she hears from her sister. As the rest of the book moves on, April starts to look into Eugenics and the...