“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...

Review: Beef Cake - Book #4 Donner Bakery - Jiffy Kate - March 2020 When I saw the new wave of Smartypants Romance books being released, I was so excited and couldn't wait to read them, in the hopes of being reunited with familiar characters from other stories. In Beef Cake we meet Frankie Reeves who is an ER Nurse and looks after her mother who is an agoraphobic and Gunnar Erickson who is an MMA fighter and moved to Green Valley to train with his brother Cage whose partner is Tempest - we had their story in Stud Muffin. Frankie's hope is to one day find her father and in turn, possibly find the truth out about her scars and nightmares as she doesn't remember much of her life before she was seven and they moved to the women's shelter. Gunnar's whole life has been about becoming the best MMA fighter he can be and taking the world by storm. Gunnar meets Frankie in the ER and though there is attraction, it is shortlived when she finds out...

Review: Prose Before Bros - Book #3 Green Valley Library Series - Cathy Yardley - November 2019 Readers of The Phantom Paragrapher will know that I am in love with the SmartyPants romance publications, especially when it involves Green Valley and glimpses of either the Winston Brothers or Iron Wraiths as Penny Reid's Winston Brothers was one of my favorite series. Being a librarian myself, I also am a fan of the Green Valley Library series. This book starts with two best friends heading to Green Valley, Maddy Blount whose 7 months pregnant and her best friend/sidekick Thuy Nyguen. Maddy grew up in Green Valley and has returned home as her father Edward Blount has passed away. Maddy hasn't seen her brother since he left home at sixteen as he became a member of the Iron Wraiths. Razor is in jail and Darrell Winston has vanished - WITSEC program. Teddy Blount whose Iron Wraith's name is Drill is looking at being a contender for VP and he loves his fa...