🔖 REVIEW BLITZ 🔖 Just a Little Promise by Carly Phillips

Just a Little Promise by Carly Phillips 

Release Date: January 23, 2024

Series: Dare Crossover Series #3

Pages: 242

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

He’s the one she’s never forgotten.

She’s the one he regrets letting go.

Now they have a second chance to get it right.

When Skye Tremont runs into her sexy former flame, Tripp Daniels, she’s reminded of the baby pact they’d made years ago. . . If she was single and childless by the age of thirty, he’d step in and be her baby daddy and fulfill her dream of having a child.

Now, after a bitter divorce that has left her guarding her heart, and wanting only one thing, Skye is ready to take Tripp up on his promise. When he’s one of the bachelors up for bid at a charity auction, it’s the perfect opportunity to have him all to herself for a weekend of baby making fun, as long as he agrees to her terms.

Tripp is on board to fulfill the promise he made to Skye. If he’s going to have a baby with anyone, it’s going to be the one woman he’d foolishly let slip through his fingers. But not this time because he’s all in. Skye is even more beautiful than he remembers, and the chemistry between them is hotter than ever, but while she gives him free reign with her body, she’s made it clear her heart is off limits.

Now, with a second chance within his grasp, Tripp is prepared to do whatever it takes to win the woman he loves and give them both the family they’ve always craved. 

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My Review:

As the third book in the Dare Crossover Series, Phillips and Wilde deliver a second chance romance in Just a Little Promise. This steamy story is about new beginnings that will leave you wanting for more!

At the beginning of the book we are introduced to Skye Abbott, who has recently gone through a tremendous divorce. Leaving her vulnerable and making it hard to trust again. But it’s been months since she moved to New York from Boston and Skye has managed to rebuild her confidence while being in a good mental head space. As the assistant event coordinator at the Meridian Hotel, Skye has worked really hard to start over and move into the apartment/area that she can finally feel save in.

Yet, the clock is ticking and there is something that Skye has always wanted more than anything, to be a mother. It did not work with her ex, but she is willing to be a single mother. Until she runs into Tripp Daniels, the man who broke her heart with his inability to to be more than friends with benefits. Reminding Skye of the promise that he made to her all those year ago, that if she was still childless and single by the age of thirty, he’ll give her the baby that she’s always dream of having. Skye is aware that she can’t get emotionally attached to Tripp this time around, but he is determined to win her over again no matter what.

At thirty-six, Tripp has managed to open a family practice with two of his friends/business partners. His dream and hard work to get into pediatrics has paid off. Yet, no matter how successful he is, his biggest regret was to let Skye go all those years ago. Bumping into her again felt like fate and he’s been given a second chance to make things right with her. But she has made it clear that there can’t be anything more between them and Tripp will work hard to give them a chance. Little do they know that their lives are about to change forever.

I throughly enjoyed reading Just a Little Promise, the chemistry is off the charts between Skye and Tripp. Though they have history, they are able to pick up where they left off right away. Only this time around the tables have turned and Skye doesn’t want to give Tripp her heart. So it’s on Tripp to win her over once again and prove that he is worthy of a second chance. But it won’t be easy and they’ll have unite in order to be together. I loved the ending and how the authors gives us a glimpse of the next book in the series. I cannot wait to read it, I would highly recommend checking out this book/series as well. :)

***I received an advanced copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own.***

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Meet Carly Phillips: 

Carly Phillips is the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over eighty sexy contemporary romances featuring hot men, strong women, and emotionally compelling stories her readers have come to expect and love. She is happily married to her college sweetheart and lives in Westchester County, NY. She is the mother of two adult daughters and three crazy dogs who star on her Facebook and Instagram pages. She loves social media and is always around to interact with her readers. Way back in 2002, Carly’s book, The Bachelor, was chosen by Kelly Ripa and was the first romance on a nationally televised book club. Carly loves social media and interacting with her readers. For more information on upcoming releases, sign up for her newsletter (below) and receive two free books!

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Meet Erika Wilde: 

Erika Wilde is a Bestselling author and is best known for her super sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series, and has also co-written multiple series with Carly Phillips, her best friend and writing buddy for the past twenty years. She lives in Oregon with her husband, and when she's not writing you can find her exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming releases, please sign up for her newsletter (below).

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🔖 RELEASE BLITZ 🔖 Own by Sienna Snow {REVIEW}

Own by Sienna Snow

Release Date: January 4, 2024

Series: Violent Delights #3

Pages: 221

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Damon Pierce is a man haunted by his own darkness and knows he’s dangerous to the woman he loves. This is why he must stay away. He needs to focus on his buildings. On success. On things he can control.

Sophia Morelli is never going to be a sweet little submissive. Her rebellious nature runs too strong and deep. Which means she’ll never back down without a fight.

She’ll confront his demons, even if it means finally facing her own.

OWN is the breathtaking, scorching conclusion to the Violent Delights Trilogy. Find out what happens when desire burns hotter than fire.

"Sienna Snow knows how to bring the heat to a story. With fascinating characters, she builds worlds I’m thrilled to spend hours in." - New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake

Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty... The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors. This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk...

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My Review:

Snow delivers a sizzling and suspenseful conclusion to the Violent Delights Trilogy. Own, will leave you rooting for the characters until the very end!

For once, Damon Pierce agrees with his critics when they describe his buildings as cold and lifeless, just like his existence. Ever since he destroyed the trust of the only woman he’s ever loved, Damon has been plagued with thoughts of how he ended things with her. Everything good in his life is gone, there is no control only chaos surrounding him. But just when Damon thought that everything was over, he is given a second chance to make things right. And this time around, he will not stop until he gets Sophia to forgive him and give them another shot. He will soon have to face his demons and close the chapter of his past for good. 

Sophia Morelli has always been the wild child and she takes pride for being herself. She has been working really hard to make a name for herself in the fashion world and won’t let the pain that she’s been feeling ever since Damon walked away from her distract her from her future. Needless to say, there will always be connection between them and a part of her will always love him. Yet, getting her to forgive him will not be easy. Sophia has her own past to overcome and she might discover new things in the process to finally heal and finally start her new life.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Own. Snow did a great job bringing everyone together for the final book in the trilogy. I like how Sophia stands up for herself and won’t back down a fight. She is perfect for Damon and as they go through their separate paths, they always seem to come back together. Damon thinking that he is not good for Sophia decides to walk away, but that doesn’t long when he is forced to face why she is the one meant for him. Damon will not give up until he makes Sophia his for good. If you love steamy suspenseful romances, then I would highly recommend checking out this trilogy. You will not regret it! :)

***I received an advanced copy from the publisher. All opinions are my own.***

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Meet Sienna

Inspired by her years working in corporate America, Sienna loves to serve up stories woven around confident and successful women who know what they want and how to get it, both in—and out—of the bedroom.

Her heroines are fresh, well-educated, and often find love and romance through atypical circumstances. Sienna treats her readers to enticing slices of hot romance infused with empowerment and indulgent satisfaction.

Sienna loves the life of travel and adventure. She plans to visit even the farthest corners of the world and delight in experiencing the variety of cultures along the way. When she isn't writing or traveling, Sienna is working on her "happily ever after" with her husband and children.

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🌟 My Top TEN Most Anticipated Books of 2024! 🌟

I can't believe 2024 is already here! With lots of exciting books on the horizon, here is a list of some of my most anticipated reads. 📚

Make sure to check out My Top TEN Reads of 2023 post if you want to know what I absolutely loved last year! 😀

***In no particular order here are My Top TEN Most Anticipated Books of 2024.***

A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

Release Date: January 2, 2024

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.

Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Avaland.

But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more—until an anonymous columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family’s secrets. The rot at the heart of Avaland runs deep, but exposing it could risk a future she never let herself dream of, and a love she never thought possible.

Transporting readers to a Regency England-inspired fantasy world, A Fragile Enchantment is a sweeping romance threaded with intrigue, unforgettable characters, and a love story for the ages.

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Release Date: January 16, 2024

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.

Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore—she just wrote the world’s first comprehensive of encylopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Folk on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival, Wendell Bambleby.

Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, and in search of a door back to his realm. So despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage. Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and danger.

And she also has a new project to focus a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by Bambleby’s mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambley’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.

But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.

 The Getaway List by Emma Lord

Release Date: January 23, 2024

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid for her mom that she has no idea who she really is anymore, and two, she has no idea what she wants because of it. The solution? Pack her bags and move to New York for the summer, where her childhood best friend Tom and co-creator of The Getaway List ― a list of all the adventures they’ve wanted to do together since he moved away ― will hopefully help her get in touch with her old adventurous self, and pave the road to a new future.

Riley isn’t sure what to expect from Tom, who has been distant since his famous mom’s scriptwriting career pulled him away. But when Riley arrives in the city, their reconnection is as effortless as it was when they were young―except with one, unexpected complication that will pull Riley’s feelings in a direction she didn’t know they could take. As she, Tom, and their newfound friends work their way through the delightfully chaotic items on The Getaway List, Riley learns that sometimes the biggest adventure is not one you take, but one you feel in your heart.

Inescapably romantic and brimming with Emma Lord’s signature cheer, The Getaway List is an uplifting and romantic read that will settle into your heart and never leave.

California Dreaming by Bella Andre and Nicky Arden

Release Date: February 1, 2024

Meet the Davenport family! Six brothers and sisters who call picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea home. Successful, brilliant, and passionate, the only thing they all still need is the perfect partner in love and life. 



Hotshot movie star Archer Davenport has never met a stunt he couldn’t ace, a challenge he couldn’t overcome, or a woman he couldn’t have. When he breaks his leg during a dangerous stunt, the production company insists on hiring a live-in caretaker for him. He refuses the help…until he meets Tessa Taylor. She’s not only caring and beautiful, she’s also as tough on him as a drill sergeant.



Tessa knows all about confident men. She used to be married to one and that didn’t go well. Her only solace is her painting, even if she has no talent, as her late husband always claimed. Her biggest problem on this job, however, is that sexy, magnetic Archer makes her toes curl with desire every time he’s near. She does everything she can to try to remain professional. But it gets harder and harder every day as she starts to fall for him—and for his amazing family—even though she knows she’ll have to leave him for her next client as soon as he’s fully recovered. 



Arch, however, has no plans to let Tessa disappear once his leg is fully recovered. In fact, as the sparks between them grow hotter and hotter, he’s determined to show Tessa that she’s not only the most incredible and loving woman he’s ever known, she’s also the most talented.

THE DAVENPORTS Series
California Dreaming
California Waves
California Sunsets
*** More Davenports are coming soon! ***

Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

Release Date: April 9, 2024

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.

Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death.

When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won’t allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor return to a place where she’s already been.

From the scorched dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of an infinite underground library, we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to survive and ultimately, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s...

Fiercely independent and hopeful, yet full of longing, Aubry Tourvel is an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders to find a place she can call home. A spellbinding and inspiring story about discovering meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible, A Short Walk Through a Wide World reminds us that it’s not the destination, but rather the journey—no matter how long it lasts—that makes us who we are.

Mine to Keep by Natasha Madison

Release Date: January 5, 2024

Grace

It wasn’t hard for me to walk away from my family without looking back—the time had come for me to live for myself.
New city. New job.
My new boss? He’s gorgeous.
It’s too bad that handsome face is wasted on such a condescending prick.
He hates me, and the feeling is mutual.
The only reason he may not be the literal devil is because he’s a devoted single dad, making it clear Caine is, in fact, capable of human emotion.

Caine

I’m good at two things:
1. Raising my daughter to be strong and independent.
2. My job.
When my new assistant walks into the office, I become good at ignoring her. She’s sassy. Smart. Beautiful.
Much younger and off-limits for more reasons than I can count.
That doesn’t mean I want her any less.
She hates me—but as each day goes by, it’s harder and harder to remember why I hate her too.

Tangled Up in You by Christina Lauren

Release Date: June 25, 2024

A witty and deeply romantic modern reimagining of Disney’s Tangled, by the New York Times bestselling author duo Christina Lauren, part of the acclaimed and bestselling Meant to Be collection.

She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they’ll take a leap of faith.

Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.

Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: graduate from Corona at the top of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few months short from checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.

But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire on a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they've both been chasing have been sitting next to them the whole time.

Full Throttle by Melanie Moreland

Release Date: January 1, 2024

Book #5 of Reynolds Restoration

Bridesmaid for Hire by Meghan Quinn

Release Date: April 2, 2024

From USA Today and Amazon bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a hilarious new standalone about an event planner who is pulled into the wedding of the century and the man she falls for―if he doesn't tank her business first.

Draw Down the Moon by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Release Date: April 2, 2024

New York Times bestsellers P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast return with a new duology set in a dark and magickal world filled with incredible danger and irresistible romance.

Wren Nightingale isn't supposed to have any powers. Born of magickal parents but not under a moon sign, she was destined for life as a Mundane—right up until she starts glowing on her eighteenth birthday. In a heartbeat, Wren's life is turned upside down, and she's suddenly leaving her home for the mystical Academia de la Luna—a secret magickal school on a hidden island off the Seattle coast.

Lee Young has always known about his future at the Academia. He has one goal: pass the trials, impress the Moon Council, and uphold his family's reputation. But he wasn't expecting to be attending alongside the girl he's been secretly in love with for as long as he can remember.

As Wren and Lee are thrown into the Academie's gruelling trials, they quickly learn there's something different--and dangerous--about the school this year. Wren will have to navigate a web of secrets, prophecies--and murder. And Lee will have to decide who to protect--his family's legacy, or the girl he loves.

📖 And that concludes my list of the books that I cannot wait to read! What are some of your anticipated books of 2024? Let me know and don't forget to check out My Top TEN Books that I read in 2023. 🥳

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