Review! Rules Of Protection, Tangled in Texas #1 Alison Bliss

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It’s rule breaker Emily Foster's birthday, and like everyone at The Jungle Room, she just wants to get some action. Unfortunately, she stumbles on the wrong kind, witnessing a mob hit. To protect her, she's entered into the Witness Protection Program with by-the-book Special Agent Jake Ward as her chaperone.

When the location of their safe house is compromised, Jake stashes Emily deep in the Texas backwoods. The city-girl might be safe from the Mafia, but she has to contend with a psychotic rooster, a narcoleptic dog, crazy cowboys, and the danger of losing her heart to the one man she can’t have.

Jake's as hot as he is infuriating, and she can't help but push all his buttons to loosen him up. Their mutual, sizzling sexual attraction poses a dilemma: Jake's determined to keep her safe and out of the wrong hands; she's determined to get into the right ones—his.

My Review...

I don’t even remember the last time I laughed so much while reading a book.

Emily and Jake meet in a club, they share once dance, two kisses, a few snarky remarks and it goes downhill from there.

She is strong, independent and she keeps everyone at arm’s length.

He is a man on a mission and his only focus is getting revenge on the man who took away everything from him.

He’s also an FBI agent and, when Emily finds herself stuck in protected custody and having to rely on Jake, well, let’s say that more than a few sparks will fly.

In her case it’s something like – how many stupid things can you do in a few days and the counting starts when she witnesses a murder.

Her bad temper, loud mouth and propensity for getting into trouble gets on Jake’s last nerve. He’s no more happy to be stuck with her than she is but Emily is his insurance ticket to finally achieve his goal.

What happens when a city girl finds herself in the middle of nowhere Texas with a crazy pair of old people as company and everything else that can be found around a farm?

One might think there’s no way she could create any more problems, right?

Jake certainly doesn’t think so. That until our girl decides to make his life a living hell by doing her best in trying to seduce him even when he swears he’ll never get involved with someone under his protection.

The banter between those two is insanely hilarious.

From the very first page you’ll find it impossible to keep a straight face.

Every single character in this book had a very specific role and, maybe for the first time, I loved each and every one of them.

Trust me, this is a book you don’t want to miss and I highly recommend it. I can’t wait to get my hands on the next volume.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant!

Happy Reading!

As the youngest of five girls, Alison Bliss has never turned down a challenge...or been called by the right name. Her writing career may have started out as a dare by one of her sisters, but Alison hasn't put her pen down since.

She grew up on a small island off the Texas Gulf Coast, where most of her childhood vacations consisted of camping or hunting trips to the deer lease. Although she'll always be a Texan at heart, Alison currently resides in the Midwest with her Iowa farm-boy husband and their two sons. With so much testosterone in her home, it's no wonder she writes "girl books."

She's an animal lover, a closet video game enthusiast, and believes the best way to know if someone is your soul mate is by canoeing with them because if you both make it back alive, it's obviously meant to be. Alison's an avid romance reader who enjoys penning the type of books she loves to read most: fun, steamy love stories with heart, heat, laughter, and usually a cowboy or two. As she calls it, "Romance...with a sense of humor."

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Sale Blitz! When We Collide by A.L. Jackson

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From the bestselling author of Pulled and Take This Regret comes a gripping new tale of loss and love.

 William has spent six years running from his past and the last eight months trying to rid his mind of the dreams that increasingly haunt his nights. Trapped in a world of false ambitions and feigned affections, William knows he's reached a breaking point and something's going to give. Maggie had lived her entire life without hope until one man showed her what it meant to be loved. He'd been her light in a lifetime of darkness. Six years ago, that darkness stole him away. Without him, she's surrendered herself to an existence she doesn't know how to escape. When the family William left behind is struck by tragedy, he is called back to the one place he's sworn to never return to again. In a moment that will change his life forever, William comes face to face with the girl who, with one look, captured his heart. He is unable to ignore the buried desires and the hope for the future they'd once believed they'd have. Now William is ready to fight to take back what had been stolen from him six years before. But he never imagined what that fight might cost him. A.L. Jackson gives you an intimate look into the lives of a family bound by an unseen connection in this new contemporary romance.

“You know him?” Amber asked. 

I glimpsed the confusion on her face. 

William. 

My secret, my heart. 

The beautiful man I’d lain with for hours under the stars, our lives poured out in a torrent of stories and words. The way he held me while I shared the ones that hurt me the most. How he touched me, the way he made me feel incredibly safe. How that hold had escalated from safety to ecstasy as the soft pads of his fingers would dance across my lips when he locked himself to me, the perfect weight of his body, the expression on his face when he came. 

The heartbreak in his eyes when I told him goodbye. 

I knew it all. 

“Yeah.” My voice was soft. “I know him.”

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Take This Regret and Lost to You, as well as other contemporary romance titles, including Pulled, When We Collide, If Forever Comes, Come to Me Quietly, and Come to Me Softly.

She first found a love for writing during her days as a young mother and college student. She filled the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.

Years later, she shared a short story she’d been working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children. 

A Stone in the Sea, coming February 23, 2015

Come to Me Recklessly, coming April 7, 2015

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Sale Blitz! Ryker by Joanne Schwehm

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Sex, drums, and denial; three things that Ryker Jeffries excels at.

Ryker buries himself in music and insignificant women, all part of his plan to keep the woman who owns his heart free from his tainted past and his darkest secret. But pretending not to want her has never been easy.

Loyalty, honesty, and desire for Ryker; three things that Faith Bishop excels at.

Excited about her future, Faith looks forward to finally living life on her terms. Intelligent and realistic, she knows the women who steal Ryker’s attention are all of the things she will never be. But wanting him has never been a choice.

Will he be able to resist her, or will he finally cave to his desires? Will she be able to handle his past, or will it shatter her?

**Due to adult content - 18+ please**

Family and friends are the most important things to Joanne. She enjoys meeting new people, traveling, reading, relaxing on a beach and shopping. She has an addiction to Coffee and Diet Coke; you may want to stand clear if she hasn't had her daily intake!

Writing has been something that has been private and not shared until the day she decided to publish Unexpected Chance. Waking up one morning to the voices of Alex Logan and Aubrey Ryan changed everything!!

She is an avid sports fan especially when it comes to the New York Yankees & Dallas Cowboys. She also enjoys playing and watching golf.

She firmly believes when that unexpected chance comes, take it. Don't let it pass you by. You never know what you could be missing.

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Review! Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.

Never ask about the past.

Don’t expect a future.

They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.

Hearts get infiltrated.

Promises get broken.

Rules get shattered.

Love gets ugly.

My Review ...

I have a problem. Every time I open a new Colleen Hoover book I am a little bit afraid I won’t like it, or that I’ll like it so much it will turn me into a confused mess of emotions by the time I’m done with it (Slammed). 

It took me three days to convince myself to read this novel. For three days I kept wondering who Miles and Tate are and if I’ll like their story. 

Here I am now, grinning like a loon and wiping away the tears that won’t stop falling. I loved every single moment of it. 

Colleen’s books have always managed to get to me and make me feel more than I wanted to sometimes. You know why? Because there are no pretenses. The characters are never perfect and they don’t always have a solution for every problem. 

I’m certain a lot of people out there have read her books and identified with a character or have been in a similar situation at one point or another in life. 

Nothing is always perfect or easy in Colleen’s books. She never tries to embellish a situation just to make it easier for us to read through it and she never shies from putting too much strain on the characters. 

Ugly Love is no exception. I don’t know what you’ll think after reading the title and the synopsis. There’s no shady love story or something like that. What you’ll find in this book is a tender, emotional, beautiful story that will break your heart, make you cry, put a smile on your face just to make you cry all over again. 

It doesn’t always happen to me to actually “feel” the story while reading it so this is what makes this lady one of my favorite authors. This book is really good. No arguments there. 

Even more so because it was my turn to “know” exactly what it feels like.To remember. 

And, yes, love is never easy. To have the beautiful part you have to take the ugly also. But when it’s right, it’s always worth it in the end. What we have to keep in mind is that everything happens for a reason. It might be difficult to see it at that time but, later, it will all make sense. 

Life may throw many things your way but that’s okay as long as you don’t give up. Always get up and fight. Fall in love and allow yourselves to be loved in return because, while love can break you, if you allow it, it can also heal. There’s always a place for a second chance. 

Thank you, Colleen, for another wonderful book and for reminding me that it’s okay to remember and it’s never too late to forgive. 

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”

Happy Reading!!