Review: All Her Little Lies - Becca Day - October 2022 After redundancy left me with unexpected free time and a desperate need for escapism, I found myself gravitating away from my usual romance reads toward something with more bite. Enter Becca Day's All Her Little Lies , a psychological thriller that delivers exactly the kind of dark family drama I was craving during this uncertain chapter of my life. The premise is deliciously twisted: when Alex discovers Hannah's body, her maternal instincts kick into overdrive—not to seek justice, but to protect her son Daniel at all costs. What follows is a masterclass in moral ambiguity as Alex makes the horrifying decision to clean up what she assumes is her son's crime scene and dispose of the body. It's the kind of split-second choice that makes you question what you'd do in her shoes, especially when unemployment has you contemplating your own capacity for desperate measures. Becca Day excels at crafting morally complex...

Review: The Pumpkin Spice Cafe - Book #1 Dream Harbour Series - Laurie Gilmore - August 2023 I had been so excited to read this series as it has been quite popular and also just screamed a cozy feel to it and OMG that's exactly what it was, this is the type of read that you can read without having to think too deeply about and was just a book version of a Hot Cocoa or in this case a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Jeanie was busy working in the city as a PA right until her boss had a heart attack. Jeanie realized that she had worked so hard and she had no friends, and if she died - nobody would come to find her until it was too late. This made her have an epiphany and headed to the small town where her Aunt Dorothy lived. Here in town, Aunt Dot owns The Pumpkin Spice Cafe and has decided to sell it to Jeanie while she goes off traveling. Strange things have been happening though with the cafe and when Jeanie talks to it at the town meeting, she is paired with the hot farmer aka Logan to do ...

Title: Miss the Shot Series: Road Trip Romance #7 Author: A.K. Evans Genre: Contemporary Romance  Release Date: September 1, 2020 Blurb Adele Copeland is a busy woman. Her dedication to teaching and volunteer work have left her single without much time to mingle. Thanks to her best friend, Adele is now an unwitting participant in a stranger photoshoot. Riggs Donovan likes a challenge. So, when his brothers signed him up for a romantic photo session with a stranger, he didn’t flinch. But Riggs never expected to walk off his family’s Pennsylvania farm and into a dream. From the very first click, sparks fly and responsibilities fade away. But when the shoot is finished, they return to their busy lives. Then the photos are published. Seeing them, Adele still feels the burn of that staged kiss on her lips. And Riggs realizes it might have started as a silly dare, but he’d be a fool to miss the shot with a woman like Adele. ADD TO GOODREADS ...

Love in Deed, an all-new standalone contemporary romance from L.B. Dunbar, is now available in Kindle Unlimited! Sometimes it takes an outsider to force us to see who we are. The real struggle is accepting what we learn. For Beverly Townsen, nothing could be closer to the truth. Virtually a shut-in, Beverly has pulled back from Green Valley’s community, preferring the isolation of her farmhouse and her daily routine of viewing home improvement television shows. When the opportunity arises for her own home improvement and a personal re-assessment, she’s not so excited about the reality of real life versus DIY programs. Jedd Flemming understands physical pain and personal loss, but it’s never stopped him from bucking forward in life. A former military man and rodeo star, his life as a nomad comes to an end with false accusations and a family matter back in the Valley. It’s been a long journey to find his way home and once there, there’s nothing he wants more than to reclaim wh...

Review: Love In Deed - Book #6 Green Valley Library Series - L.B Dunbar - May 2020 Hopping back into the Smartypants Romance world and the Green Valley Library series with Book #6 Love in Deed, we meet Naomi Winter's older sister Beverley Townsen. Those who read Naomi's book will remember that we saw a snippet of Beverley where she had been starting to fall in love and become herself again after all these years. Love in Deed is Beverley's story. Our book starts with Beverley in AA after an accident that caused her to crash and do harm to herself. The book then jumps to present times where it has been years since the accident and Beverley has turned into a recluse of sorts and has let herself go. Our male lead Jedd Flemming hasn't set foot in Green Valley for at least twenty years, when he was here last he had eyes for Beverley but she had married Howard at that stage. When Jedd arrives at the farm, he can't believe his eyes and that this was the same woma...