Review: Beautiful Imperfection - Kathryn J. Blain - September 2013 It wasn't until I started reading that I realized that this book was a Christian fiction novel as due to the content it was quite an edgy read. The book starts with our main character Teddy going out on a blind date with her friends as she has finally been cleared and in remission from her breast cancer after she had a mastectomy. Her friends believe this is what she needs to make herself feel beautiful again. Unfortunately, the night will end in disaster and tragedy as the club they picked ends up being the scene of a mass shooting. Her friend Linda's husband ends up being among the casualties. Teddy and a fellow Marine have been hailed as heroes as they managed to stop the shooter Jack Sprague. It is here that Teddy will meet a blast from her past - Detective Sloan Michaels who was Teddy's first love and the guy whom she never got over after he dumped her without explanation. Sloan has...

Review: 200 Harley Street - Surgeon in a Tux - Book #1 200 Harley Street - Carol Marinelli - April 2014 Lizzie Birch has been given the opportunity of a lifetime after helping Ethan Hunter recuperate after his war accident, he put in a good word for her at his family's hospital situated at 200 Harley Street. Leo Hunter took over the family business and has now got a great reputation as a cosmetic surgeon but also as a playboy who goes through woman faster than his prescription pad. Lizzie arrives after being hired on the spot as Head Nurse. Her first impression of Leo does nothing but reassure her of his playboy status as standing in his office is his current fling in her red lacy underwear. As the book goes on, Leo starts to realize that Lizzie isn't like the girls he normally falls for and he is starting to think he might have a chance at a proper relationship. What will happen though when Lizzie isn't the type to roll over and jump every time Leo...

  Review : Open Hearts - Erin Hayes - February 2016 Imagine one day waking up to discover that you need a new heart otherwise you will die? Would you stop living your life or would you try and live it to the full? Six months ago Rebecca aka Becks finally received a new heart and had a transplant. For the last few months, she has been getting through day by day taking her anti-rejection pills, trying to live her life with the knowledge she has been given a second chance. Rhys had had a hard life growing up, ever since his father left when he was five years old. It has just been him, and she and his mother weren't the best example or role model for him. When Rhys learns that his father has died and that he has an autistic half-sister, he heads to Alabama to live with his Grandfather and help when needed. During a gas stop, Rhys meets Becks, and she ends up naming his motorcycle Belle. As a fan of Beauty and the Beast, I loved this part. The two start...

My heart isn’t my own. And I don’t mean romantically. Six months ago, I had a heart transplant. Now I’m learning to live again with someone else’s heart beating in my chest. My scars both inside and out haunt my every waking moment. Then I meet Rhys, the tattooed Yank that finds himself transplanted to my Southern hometown. Even though he’s haunted by his own scars, he’s determined to show me how to embrace my second chance at life. I’m not sure if I can give someone my heart when it wasn’t mine to begin with. And neither of our hearts will survive rejection. ~~~~ A standalone NA contemporary romance coming February 2016. AMAZON * AMAZON UK  AMAZON CA * AMAZON AU Sci-fi junkie, video game nerd, and wannabe manga artist Erin Hayes writes a lot of things. Sometimes she writes books, like the fantasy mystery novel Death is but a Dream, the sci-fi middle grade book Jacob Smith is Incredibly Average, and the Her Wolf paranormal series. She w...