When a not-quite-jilted bride turns her would-be honeymoon into a solo adventure, the last thing she expects is to fall for Paris or the broodingly handsome artist who shows her its secrets. As midnight kisses blur into something deeper, she must choose between the life she left behind and the future she never saw coming. One Night in Paris by N.D. Jackson is a heart-mending, spicy travel romance where art, passion, and second chances collide in the world’s most romantic city. It started as one night in Paris. It ended with forever on the line. Not quite a jilted bride, I still find myself on a first-class flight to Paris—solo. What was supposed to be a honeymoon has become my Great Parisian Adventure: art, food, and falling in love with the city. Then I met Lucien. Tall. Dark. French. Irresistibly artsy. He taught me how to see the city through his eyes. Its sounds, its colors, its passion. And somehow, somewhere between croissants, art galleries, and ...

Review: The Paris Widow - Kimberly Belle - June 2024 I've read a few of Kimberly Belle's books and looked forward to reading The Paris Widow as I love her mysteries. The Paris Widow starts with a female transporting goods and you get the view that this would be a smuggling book. The book then jumps to our couple Stella and Adam who are married and spending a honeymoon travel trip in France. Adam has some business to do and Stella is sightseeing. What happens though when they head to spend time in a small cafe only for a bomb to go off? Stella managed to get away but there was no sign of Adam. Is he among the dead, as she searches the death registers and rubble, there is no sign of her husband. What happens though when Stella gets a visit from the police who start mentioning Adam's business and she soon discovers that he is not who she thought he was. Can Stella get to the bottom of this and find Adam or will she find herself running for her own life when she discovers tha...

The Prince She Kissed in Paris Scarlett Clarke (Harlequin Romance) Publication date: June 25th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance What happens when an architect has to work with the far-too-tempting prince she shared one magical evening with in Paris? Find out in Scarlett Clarke’s debut for Harlequin Romance! ONE STARLIT NIGHT IN PARIS… Architect Maddie is still thinking about her steamy kiss with a stranger when she walks into her meeting the next morning… And finds her new client, Nicholai, is that stranger and a prince! No matter how incredible the attraction, he’s now completely off-limits. He’s her boss, a dutiful royal and she’s sworn off men. But when their inevitable second kiss is caught on camera, there’s only one solution to the impending scandal—faking their engagement! From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo — DEAR READER Dear Reader, THE PRINCE SHE ...

Almost Perfect Delaney Diamond (The Cordoba Agency, #4) Publication date: May 20th 2022 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense A cat burglar and an assassin run for their lives across Paris—and try not to get distracted by the sizzling attraction between them. Assistant antique dealer by day, cat burglar by night, Sable Devereaux has lived in the shadows for years. With one final heist, she can walk away from a life of crime and open her own antique store, retiring to the quiet existence she has always dreamed of. But during her last theft, she witnesses a murder and goes on the run to escape the cross-hairs of some very powerful people. Agent and master-of-disguise, Hunter Mitchell is intrigued when he has to subdue the sexy thief after she breaks into his Parisian apartment. Then he quickly learns he must protect her—and himself—from an organization hiding much more than a murder. The couple races across Paris in a fight to stay alive and stop one of the most powerful organizat...

Review: A Spy Like Me - Book #1 Circle of Spies - Laura Pauling - November 2013 Since I am no longer working at the library, it has given me the chance to finally start to clear up my kindle. One of my favorite tropes for YA books is spy novels which started with my love of Harriet the Spy back when I was 8/9 years old. In Circle of Spies, we meet Savannah aka Savvy Bennett. She is living in Paris with her father who runs a fun Spy Adventure company called Spy Games which has people running around the city acting like spies. She is still learning how to get on with her dad as up to a few months back, she lived with her mum. That was until her Mum vanished without a word. Now she is settling in with her dad and even found a potential boyfriend but of course, we are about to learn things aren't easy for Savvy as her perfect picnic date ends in bullets flying, and when she spots her mum briefly in France and her new best friend has vanished and Savvy just knows she has been abducted. ...

Review: The Other Nadia Bisset - Book #1 Dawn of Lilith Series - C.A Wittman - March 2021 Whenever I see a book about either twins or a child kidnapping, I just want to read it as the trope especially the whole "stolen at birth" etc has always fascinated me. The reason behind it could be that as a baby myself, I was taken twice by strangers and luckily my parents were very onto it and both times my parents got me back very quickly. In The Other Nadia Bisset, we meet a young mother Carla who lives with her French husband Jean-Claude. She is a lot younger than he is and has just had two twin daughters named Nadia and Lydia. As her husband is cheap and away traveling quite often which we later learn the reason behind, Carla is struggling to raise two twin daughters. That is until she meets her new next-door neighbour Krista Temple and the pair become fast and quick friends. They even start to have this illicit affair and joke about sharing children. Then tragedy strikes for Car...

Review: Heathens - Book #1 Heathens Series - Amanda Richardson - September 2017 Needing a dark romance to sink your teeth into? Lately, I have been stuck in a bit of a reading rut. I am finding it hard to get into books and find time to sit and read a book and get hooked on the story. I figured reading a dark romance would hook me. This book started with Evelyn whom we can see is a sex worker. Then the book jumps to Lilith aka Lily and we discover that years ago she and Evelyn (her best friend) were traveling and that they were kidnapped and trafficked. Lilith managed to escape but had to leave her friend Evelyn behind but to this day has not stopped searching for her. Evelyn is also a fighter and dreams of the day she can finally escape; she just has to find the right timing. Enter Salem Tempest - he had lost his path a few years ago and was headed on a downward spiral but the Catholic Church saved him and he decided to enrol in a seminary school and train to become a priest. That was...