Collection: Sun, Sand & A Ring On My Hand Authors: KV Rider, Mya O’Malley & Sandra Sookoo Genre: Contemporary Romance; Beach Read Today we have the gorgeous covers for the Sun, Sand & A Ring On My Hand collection from Blue Tulip Publishing, a collection of 3 standalone novellas. Get a head start on summer with these engaging contemporary romances! Cover Design: Jena Brignola Finally back home from her five years away, Elizabeth Wray took her lunches on the beach. Breathing in the fresh ocean air, she realized she should have come back much sooner. Her lunch hour was her time to reflect that she was in her element– when she had the ocean breeze and salty air on her skin. For the past six months she has been working as a PA for the CEO of a software design company. Doing everything and anything from making coffee, scheduling appointments, giving insights to the newest software program, holding luncheons, and her newest project… helpin...

Review: Loving Summer - Book #1 Loving Summer - Kailin Gow - May 2012 After reading Crushed which was a prequel to the Loving Summer series and it had been years since I read the Loving Summer series, so I decided to re-read the series. Loving Summer starts three years after the Donovans moved away in the middle of the night and it has been three years since Summer has laid eyes on the Donovan family. Gone is the young girl who had a bit of baby fat and braces and the young thirteen-year-old Summer who has now blossomed into the gorgeous stunning sixteen-year-old Summer.  Nate, Drew and Rachael has just moved back for the Summer and staying with Aunt Sookie. With their family demons, we have Nate who Summer is still head over heels for but has a girlfriend Christy and Drew who is a playboy and using sex to forget his emotions and Rachael is now a goth/emo with her black and purple streaked hair. Summer has also captured the attention of a newcomer Hollywood a...

Review: Crushed - Book #0 Loving Summer Series - Kailin Gow - October 2019 As a big fan of Kailin Gow's since 2010 with her book The Phantom Diaries, I have followed her career and her various series. Lately with the bullymance trope and seeing Crushed, I knew I had to read it as I had, had a little background knowledge of her Loving Summer series with Summer and the Donovan family. Crushed is the book that takes place three years before Loving Summer. It starts with Nate learning about his father's discretions, Summer coming to live with Aunt Sookie as her mother is deployed on a long-term mission. When Nate learns Summer is coming to their high-school for the elites, he and a few of the other Student council leaders have been tasked in getting her to leave and will do anything in their power to do so as in Nate's words "it's high school politics and elites rules" The other part that happens in the second half of the book is an attempted...