Snowed Inn for Christmas Anthology {a review}

Snowed Inn for Christmas is now live! Reader friends, you do not want to miss this anthology set at Christmastime. So let's head to Winter Falls and see what sort of matchmaking skills Santa has. Because yes, that jolly old elf is playing cupid, and messing with the weather.

Okay full disclosure my reader friends: I don't typically like anthologies. I don't, and I can't fully express as to why that is. That being said, Snowed Inn at Christmas was so dang fantastic that I gave it 5 stars. Which if you know me, I rarely give 5 stars. Yet this anthology had me wanting to visit Winter Falls, and befriend all of the characters.

In this anthology you will get 8 wonderful stories. The characters are absolutely fabulous. The setting is stunning. I loved how the stories flowed nicely together. It didn't really feel like you were reading 8 novellas. It felt like an interconnected series, and I loved it. Then there was the intro to the story, and how that set the stage for how the anthology would work. Once those romances were told, we had the wrap-up, and were able to see all our characters together again.

I'm sure you'd love to hear about the stories themselves, and my takeaways. It's hard to break them all down though. The majority are very insta-love. There are a few stories where the female main character is a virgin. The men are pretty much all alphas. The females are amazing, strong, intelligent, and not putting up with any crap. Oh, also the stories are STEAMY!  

By the way, the 8th novella may have been my favorite. I loved the dating app storyline, and how all that transpired.

To me, this is a must read holiday romance. I have been recommending it left and right. So please click the purchase links down below. (currently it's $1 for the e-book! such a steal!)

Go read this anthology, fall in love with Winter Falls, and of course also fall for the characters. I know I did.

Thank you for stopping by to read about my love of this anthology.

Laura

A record-breaking blizzard is on the way to Winter Falls...and close quarters sometimes make for strange bedfellows.

Led by their mayor, the citizens of Winter Falls rally together to keep everyone safe during the storm. Falling in love wasn't part of the plan, but cuddling next to the fire and kissing under the mistletoe leads to a whole lot of romance for these nine couples.

Spend this holiday season with nine of your favorite romance authors as they introduce you to a ski town where love is in the air. This collection includes all new stories that are hot enough to melt all the snow headed for Winter Falls.

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Meet the Authors

 

BrynneAsher.com





https://www.ellechristensenauthor.com



Lucy Darling
https://authorlucydarling.com





http://www.fionadavenport.com




https://authorhopeford.com/






https://laylafrostwrites.com



Ella Goode
http://www.ellagoode.com




www.frankielove.net




www.rochellepaige.com

Thank you to all the authors who worked together on this anthology, and Grey's Promotions, for providing me with an advanced copy of Snowed Inn for Christmas.

Inevitable Ella by VH Nicolson {a review}

 

Inevitable Ella by VH Nicolson is NOW AVAILABLE! Trust me when I say you're going to fall for Ella and Fraser in this second chance romance. Now head over to Amazon, and download this book! 

Ella and Fraser had been high school sweethearts. They were making plans for the future, and part of that plan had Fraser going to America to play in the PGA. Then when the time came, Ella would relocate, and they would start their lives together. Those plans fell apart though once Fraser went to the states, and he started making gains on the golf circuit. You see he ended up marrying someone else, and that devastated Ella. Their plans went out the window. That is until years later when they see each other at a party. It is there that Fraser tells Ella a few things. She pushes it aside because he is a married man. Jump forward a bit, and Ella's sister just had triplets! Ella is there helping out when Fraser walks in the door. From that point on, Fraser is determined to win Ella back. First though, he needs to explain everything that happened since he signed with Nate (his agent). Will Ella listen? Can these two reconnect, and rebuild what they once had? What about the situation that Fraser has himself in? How can that be resolved?

I went into this story knowing it was a second chance romance. And that had me excited. I love that trope. I love seeing former couples come back together to get their long awaited HEA. When Fraser told Ella his story, and everything that had transpired since he left, my jaw hit the ground. I figured there as some drama for why he ended things with Ella and then suddenly married someone else. But what was revealed? NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS did I see that coming. Damn. Oh my word. Then watching as plans were made, plans were foiled, and then how things ultimately worked out in Fraser's way. It was all so dang good. Seeing Fraser and Ella get their HEA, and then witnessing Anna find her HEA as well? YES! Also, that setup for Eva's story? Um, I need that now. NOW!

Romance readers, I sincerely hope that you will give Inevitable Ella a read. It was such a good story that was intense at moments. It was one of those books that just draws you in, and suddenly hours have passed because you've just been so engrossed in the story.

Thank you for taking time to read my thoughts on Inevitable Ella. VH Nicolson was a new-to-me author, and I look forward to reading more from them.

Laura

Seven years ago my soulmate got married. 

To someone else.

Fraser Farmer broke me. Made me incapable of loving again.

Seven years later he’s back, whispering I love you. 

He’s gorgeous, magnetic, successful, an athlete at the peak of his game.  

But behind his picture perfect life and family, lies a precarious path of deceit and anguish and a vicious sports agent on the warpath to destroy him. 

He’s a prisoner in his own life. Held captive. 

He still belongs to someone else.

Can I help set him free? 

And can he be the one to uncage and heal my dying heart? 

I have two options. 

Fight alongside him, or have my heart broken again.

Do I even have a choice, or were we always inevitable?

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Inevitable Ella is a standalone steamy second chance sports romance full of twists and turns. It features Ella, a feisty ice-blond bombshell dancer and Fraser, a sexy powerhouse pro golfer. It’s an intricate love story involving scandal and extortion. It’s a perfectly blended full-length romance filled with heat, emotion, and a Happy Ever After, with no cliffhanger. 

Inevitable Ella is Book 2 in The Triple Trouble Series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but have cross over characters.  

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Meet VH Nicolson

VH Nicolson is an emerging author of contemporary romance and wrote her first book during lockdown, and is now completely smitten with writing love stories with happily ever afters. 

VH Nicolson was born and raised along the breathtaking coastline in North East Fife in Scotland. 

For more than two decades she’s worked throughout the UK and abroad within the creative marketing and design industry, as a branding strategist and stylist, editor of a magazine and sub-editor of a newspaper. 

Married to her high school crush, they have one son. 

She has a weakness for buying too many quirky sparkly jumpers, eating Belgium buns, and walking the endless beaches that surround her beautiful Scottish hometown she’s now moved back to.

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Thank you to VH Nicolson, and Wildfire Marketing Solutions, for providing me with an advanced copy of Inevitable Ella.

Say what now Kim Loraine?

 

Are you in the Loraine Lovers group on Facebook? If so then you've probably heard the news!

If you're not in that group, but have enjoyed the books focused around the Rykers, Wildes, and Langstons, then listen up!

Chances are you've been waiting on Maverick Wilde's story, and maybe you read the teaser for it at the end of An Irresistible Chance (like I did), well there's a little change headed our way.

Wild Proposition is getting a title change and will be introducing a whole new series. The new title of the book is The Baby Proposition.

Here is what Kim Loraine has to say:

He's still the same cowboy we love, and this is set on Wilde Horse Ranch, but things are a-changing, and this was too good of an opportunity to NOT give you a new world with swoony heroes and smart, sassy heroines to fall for.

Also, can we take a minute to appreciate this cover?

The book is updating on all platforms and if you preordered, you don't have to do anything!

 

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster
Cover design: T.E. Black Designs

 

**BLURB**(subject to change)

My best friend wants a baby, and I’m going to give her one.

I wanted Clara the first time I saw her two years ago, but as soon as I figured out we’d be working together, I knew I had to stay far away.

And the friend zone has been working just fine.

Well, mostly.

The night she tells me she’s ready to get knocked up by some random donor changes everything.

Not on my watch.

I might not be partner material -- running the family business and my new hockey team keeps me so busy I barely have time to talk to a woman, let alone fall in love. But, there’s no way I’m letting my friend pick Donor #257, or anyone besides me.

The arrangement was perfect. I make my donation, she gets her baby, we go back to being friends. No strings. No messy heartbreak.

Until I decide it’ll be a lot more fun to make a direct deposit and get her pregnant the old fashioned way. That spark between us? Now it’s a blazing fire I have no desire to extinguish.

Our baby proposition just got a lot more complicated.

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What are your thoughts about the title change, and the announcement of a new series? Personally I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, hooray for a new series! On the other hand, couldn't there have been a ranch hand introduced (ahem: character from An Irresistible Chance) that could have kicked off the new series? As you can see I struggle a bit with change. 

What I do know, is that I'll read the book no matter what, and I'll continue reading all the cowboy/ranch romances that Kim Loraine releases. (along with any other contemporaries)

Also, there was a line that I totally skipped! HOCKEY? SAY WHAT NOW? OH MY NEED!

Waiting for Love by Lacey Black {a review}

Happy book release day to Lacey Black! Waiting for Love is the 11th book in The Love Vixen multi-author series, and it was such a cute read!

Not familiar with The Love Vixen? I wasn't either until this book. Here is what I have learned about this project/series.

Starting in January 2021 The Love Vixen series kicks off a year of LV books. Eleven amazing authors have been given the rights to develop Love Vixen inspired stories, each based on one of her most liked blog posts and to be released monthly.

Disclaimer: The Love Vixen concept, letters, posts, and advice are works of fiction. The LV is not a licensed doctor or trained professional, or even a real person. The guidance she gives should probably not be followed because everything is made up by the authors.

So, what is Waiting for Love about? Well it is about Penelope and Theo. They are both single, they are neighbors, the work from home, and there is some serious hate to love/enemies to lovers going on. Theo builds furniture, so naturally his job is quite noisy. Meanwhile Penelope has a desk job that she does remotely, and quite is always preferred. One thing that we learn early on, is that both Theo and Penelope are attracted to the other. Yet they don't speak on it. It isn't until they suddenly find themselves attending the same wedding that things begin happening. Let's back up a bit though. Penelope is sick of being single. She has 7 really good friends, and they are ALL married (or about to be). She's done. So what does she do? She writes to The Love Vixen for some advice. And eventually she hears back. This is the story of what happens from that point on, including everything that happens during the wedding weekend and on.

I said it before, and I'll say it again, this was a cute story. I loved the Love Vixen part of the book. It reminds me of the Delilah radio show. Which I totally listened to on a nightly basis back during my single days. Then there was the hate to love slash enemies to lovers aspect. I loved that there was that tension, that frustration, that attraction. Then when the wedding happened? Oh yes please. But prior to that we had to sit through some slow burn, but it was worth it for the passion that flowed out of Theo and Pen. Everything about this story was just enjoyable. The book was a quick, easy read, and it held my attention throughout. That moment of conflict for our characters, egads, what a great choice for the dramatic effect. Then there was that grand gesture...FANTASTIC! 

I really enjoyed this book from Lacey Black, and am curious about the other books in the Love Vixen series.

Thank you for taking time to read my thoughts. I greatly appreciate it.

Laura

Dear Love Vixen,

You know the saying “always a bridesmaid, never a bride?” That’s me. I’ve stood beside six best friends, with the seventh to marry the man of her dreams in less than a month. I’ve tried everything, from dating apps to websites that promise to find you deep, meaningful love, only to set you up with a dud who leaves you with the whole check. So, I’m done. Throwing in the towel. Over dating. I’m just going to sit here and wait for it to show up on my doorstep like pizza delivery. I’m… Ugh! Sorry, my neighbor is horrible! I wish you could hear how loud and annoying he is. He’s the worst, even if he is slightly gorgeous. The problem is… he knows it. Anyway, back to my issue. I’m tired of looking for love in all the wrong places! (Wow, cue Johnny Lee.) Help!

Sincerely,

Waiting in Washington

Dear Lady in Waiting,

You’re going about this all wrong. Don’t think of it as giving up. Think of it as the perfect time to do some inner soul-searching and find out exactly who you are and what you have to offer those you love. You know I always say, you’ll never find love until you find yourself.

Sweetie, I wish I could tell you a timeline, but there isn’t one. Finding true love could take years or it could be closer than you think.

Good luck, hon!

The ♥️ Vixen

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USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.

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Thank you to Lacey Black, and Give Me Books PR, for providing me with an advanced copy of Waiting for Love.

King of Hearts by Ashley Munoz {a review}

King of Hearts, book 2 in the Rake Forge University series by Ashley Munoz is LIVE! Do not miss this arranged marriage romance! Just a heads up, it is recommended that you read Wild Card before reading King of Hearts. So please keep that in mind.

We originally met Taylor and Juan in Wild Card. Taylor is Mallory's sister, and Juan just happens to be Mallory's best friend. They all attended college together at Rake Forge University. Since Mallory, Decker, and Juan all graduated, things have changed. Taylor has changed, and her life is about to change in a major way on her 21st birthday. She needs to find a way to stop what is supposed to happen, while also protecting her baby. Because yes, she's pregnant. And alone. Then there is Juan. He graduated from Rake Forge, signed a contract with a local team, and when his connections were figured out, that contract was gone. So what now? Can he pursue his dreams, or is he destined to be pulled into the family business? What's going on with Taylor? Can he save her?

I went into King of Hearts thinking, oh this will be a cute little college, opposites attract, best friends sibling, sports romance. HAHAHAHAHAHA. NO. NO that is not what this is. What this book is though, is amazing. Yes, it is opposites attract. Yes it is falling for your best friend's sibling. It is also an arranged marriage (not between Taylor and Juan). It is also a mafia romance. And our main characters? Their family businesses are not what you'd expect. Turns out they both have a little darkness in their past. One thing I want to say before I gush about the book. I did not like the Juan the asshole aspect of the storyline. Yes, it helped fill the hate to love trope, but that just didn't seem to fit the Juan we had met in Wild Card. Honestly though, that was the only thing I didn't like. I loved how protective Juan was. I loved how he jumped back into the thing he didn't want in order to change what was planned. I loved how strong Taylor was. How determined she was. She too was protective. Then with how these two finally came together? Fabulous. Oh, and that big showdown? WHAT?!? FANTASTIC.  There is so much more that I want to say, but I don't want to ruin anything either.

I obviously loved the characters.

I also enjoyed the setting. Then there was that storyline that took me completely by surprise. I'm head over heels for that. I am now eagerly anticipating The Joker, because I need more of these characters. It will be interesting to see Mal, Decker, Taylor, and Juan as the side characters in that book, and to find out how they are involved in it all.

Thank you for taking time to read my thoughts on King of Hearts. You need to read this book. You just need to. I can't say any more than that. Read King of Hearts, and then find me so we can talk.

Laura

Failing out of college wasn’t on my dream board.

Neither was getting knocked up.

Just the same, here I am, ready to start another year at Rake Forge University, pregnant and currently homeless.

And it looks like I’m not the only one who’s returned.

Juan Hernandez, my sister’s best friend, saunters through campus with that granite jaw and those raven strands of hair kissing his brow, his whiskey eyes searing everyone to ash.

I’ve avoided him for months, but the second he sees me, the jig is up.

The first thing he does is steal my lips in a ravishing kiss.

A punishment.

The second thing he does is rescue me from sleeping in my car.

A lesson.

Living with him will never work, not with how brash his words are, how hot his constant stare, or how he touches me.

His fingers brand my skin as if he owns me, and on some level, I know he wants to.

What he doesn’t know is that I belong to another man…and come my twenty-first birthday, I’ll return to him whether I want to or not.

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Meet Ashley Munoz

Ashley was born in Nebraska, but raised in Oregon where she lives with her four children and husband. If she's not helping her husband with DIY projects around the house, she's writing or sneaking off to a corner to read.

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Thank you to Ashley Munoz, and Wildfire Marketing Solutions, for providing me with an advanced copy of King of Hearts.