🌟 REVIEW BLITZ 🌟 You're The One by Layla Hagen

You're The One by Layla Hagen

Release Date: February 4th 2020

Genres: Very Irresistible Bachelors #1

Pages: 314

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

It all starts as pretend…

My best friend, and one of the most powerful men in New York, needs my help.
Our first kiss is unexpected—but it still makes my skin sizzle, my knees go weak.

The next one is in front of his tight-knit family. We have to be convincing. But it’s so wicked hot, it almost fools me too.

On our first night together, he tells me that I have to keep us both in check, because he doesn’t know how to keep the lines from blurring… He touches me like I’m precious, and holds me close… barely stopping his fingers from pushing down the straps of my dress…

Our second night is sexy as hell. Intense. Alluring. How am I supposed to not fall in love? 

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My Review:

Hagen delivers an incredibly swoon worthy story that will leave your heart melting and wanting for more.

Hunter Caldwell and Jossie Gallagher have known each other for fifteen years. They have similar backgrounds and met while attending a private school as scholarship students. When Jossie was bullied for not having the money to buy better clothes, Hunter was there to rescue her and ever since then the’ve been really close friends. They saw each other go through ups and downs over the years. Hunter became the owner of the largest real estate development company in the country. Jossie became a sought after lawyer who is working incredibly hard to become partner at the firm she works for. It’s no surprise that they would do anything for one another, so when Hunter gets a letter from immigration telling him that he might not be able to renew his visa, Jossie is ready to help. A marriage of convenience between the two should his problem, but things quickly start to change between the two of them and they will have to decide if they are better off as friends in the end or they have what it takes to make their marriage work.

I absolutely loved reading this book! Not only were the characters relatable, but the story as a whole was enjoyable to read as well. The fact that they are friends and put in a situation that they are not used to made things a lot more interesting. It’s clear that Hunter doesn’t want to settle down, he has worked so hard to have the career that he has that he is not ready to take the next step yet. While Jossie is a career woman, she happens to want to have a family of her own. As the two start to spend more time together, they soon realize that they might just be perfect for one another until their doubts start to change their dynamic and relationship as well. All in all, the story is a definite must read! It’s steamy and utterly romantic. I would highly recommend checking it out as well as other books by the author. :)

**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title in exchange for an honest review**

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About the Author:

Welcome! My name is Layla Hagen and I am a Contemporary Romance author.

I fell in love with books when I was nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years later. I write romantic stories and can't wait to share them with the world. And I drink coffee. Lots of it :-D

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Darkness Awakened 
by Stephanie Rowe
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Series: Order of the Blade #1
Pages: 449
Genres: Paranormal, Romance
Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook

The Calydons are a race of ancient immortals cursed with a dark side. Each Calydon is destined to meet his soul mate, to be so drawn to her that he is unable to resist bonding with her through the rituals of his race...

...but their destiny is to destroy each other and all they care about the moment their bond is complete.

Quinn Masters will stop at nothing to rescue his rogue teammate. To save his blood brother and ensure his brand of justice triumphs, Quinn will break every rule of his kind and partner with the sensuous, courageous woman destined to be his ultimate destruction.

Haunted by a brutal past, Illusionist Grace Matthews will risk everything to save her kidnapped sister, including putting her life in the sinfully capable hands of an immortal warrior whose ravaging kisses and intense passion propel her ruthlessly toward a fateful destiny she can't afford to believe in.
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Monday Night Guy 

by Liz Lovelock

Release Date: June 21st 2018

Series: My Guy #1

Pages: 249

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Author's Links: Goodreads, Website, Twitter, Facebook

She's a brainy college sophomore. He’s a basketball captain with charm and popularity. Will her vow to stop dating jerks have to take a time out?

Bookworm Addison James has vowed to crush it in her second year in college. Avoiding guys who'll break her heart is at the top of her to-do list. But when a smoking hot jerk makes her Monday night shift part of his weekly routine, she wonders if her resolution will even last until midterms…

Parker Kent knows he’s at the top of the popularity food chain and loves playing it to the max. While he enjoys the looks he gets from showing off his sport-sculpted, tattoo-covered body, it's the witty banter with Addison that truly draws him to her. Unfortunately, he can’t seem to persuade the gorgeous geek to let down her defenses.

When Addison discovers a grand betrayal involving Parker's current squeeze, she's ready to swear off dating for good. But the basketball captain persists in showing up with plenty of reasons for her to change her mind. Can Addison let go of the wall around her heart to chance love with Parker or will another relationship land out of bounds?

Monday Night Guy is the first book in the My Guy series of New Adult sweet college romances. If you like snappy dialogue, delicious characters, and swoon-worthy moments, then you'll love Liz Lovelock's feel-good novel. 

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)

         

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🌟 BOOK BLITZ 🌟 Carter by A.M. Salinger {EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!}

Carter by A.M. Salinger

Release Date: January 31st 2020 by A.M. Salinger

Series: Twilight Falls #2

Pages: 176

Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Carter’s carefree, movie star lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when he becomes the guardian to a little girl he has never met before. Will his hot new neighbor Elijah prove to be the one thing he and Maisie need to make their family whole?

Carter Wilson has it all. A dazzling career, fame, fortune, and women falling at his feet. All that changes the day he becomes the guardian to his newly orphaned niece. When he moves to his hometown of Twilight Falls to give Maisie the stable life she deserves, the last thing Carter expects is a sexy neighbor who is soon making him wish for things he has never wanted before. 

After abandoning a promising career in Europe to fulfill the vow he made to his grandmother, pastry chef Elijah Davis is determined to make his new bakery business a success. What he doesn’t need is a distraction in the shape of the hunky movie star next door and the little girl who is fast worming her way into his heart. 

But when an old flame chases Elijah to Twilight Falls and a bitter movie producer threatens to expose Carter’s secret bisexuality, both Elijah and Carter realize they will have to fight dirty if they want their relationship to survive. 

Discover Carter and Elijah’s story in the bewitching second novel in Twilight Falls, the new series by the author of the bestselling, contemporary romance series Nights.

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Elijah Davis finished polishing the shiny, new stainless-steel work tables in the center of the kitchen and took off his apron. He turned in a slow circle and studied the industrial-sized ovens, the commercial proofer, the chiller, the walk-in freezer, the shelves holding trays, tins, pans, and racks, and the professional mixers sitting on a counter with a critical eye.

A slow grin split his face. He’d finally done it.

The swing door opened. A young woman with short, pink and blue hair and half a dozen piercings strolled in, a tired smile on her face.

“I think we’re ready,” Sam Harris said with a confident dip of her chin.

She joined Elijah and stared around the lovingly restored kitchen. The butcher’s block they’d bought for a bargain at a garage sale a month ago had come up beautifully after some sanding and took pride of place between the metal tables in the middle of the room. They’d spent one weekend stripping decades of greased-up paint from the cabinets and cupboards before whitewashing them and applying thick coats of cream and duck egg blue. The colors matched the bakery’s new facade and the shop’s gaily decorated interior.

La Petite Bouche Gourmande was officially opening for business tomorrow.

“Bet you’re excited,” Sam told Elijah with a grin, exposing a slightly crooked tooth.

“So much so I don’t think I’m gonna sleep tonight,” Elijah admitted fervently.

“Well, I’d offer to help you with that, but you like dicks and I like pussies, so our work affair is unfortunately doomed before it can even begin.”

Elijah chuckled at her deadpan expression.

It still surprised him how completely wrong his first impression of Sam had been. When he’d first laid eyes on her on the day she came to interview for the position of his bakery manager, he’d already resigned himself to hiring somebody out of town for the job.

Although Twilight Falls wasn’t exactly famous for producing pâtissiers, he’d hoped to at least find someone competent enough to handle a basic kitchen and a cake shop.

Elijah’s heart had sunk when Sam had walked into the office above the bakery and sat down on the other side of the desk, a faintly mutinous expression on her flushed face. He’d told himself he would indulge her since she was the last interviewee of the day and had nearly fallen out of his chair after she correctly told him the steps required to make macarons five minutes later.

It was afterward that Sam told him she was so used to people assuming she was unreliable because of her appearance that she normally went in with all guns blazing.

Elijah had given her the job on the spot.

“It still feels strange, you know,” Sam mused. “When I first saw your ad, I didn’t believe my eyes for a second. Why would a renowned pastry chef leave a Michelin-star restaurant and a successful career in Paris to open a bakery in the back end of nowhere?” A teasing light warmed her face. “And not just any pastry chef, but a hot one, with a body like Adonis.”

Elijah pressed a hand to his heart with an expression of fake shock. “You think I’m hot? And that I look like Adonis?”

Sam rolled her eyes. “I take it back. Your ego doesn’t need any more inflating.”

They closed up shop a short while later.

“Be careful,” Elijah told Sam as she climbed on her moped.

She saluted and headed off in the night. Elijah watched her until she disappeared and turned to gaze at the bakery’s facade. A melancholic feeling swirled through him as he studied the freshly painted shop sign.

La Petite Bouche Gourmande had been one of his favorite children’s books. His most vivid memories of his maternal, French grandmother were of her reading it to him during the long summers his family spent in France when he was growing up.

“Because I made a promise to someone very important to me,” Elijah said quietly, finally answering the question Sam had asked him.

Elijah’s grandmother had come to Twilight Falls only once, when he was fifteen. She had immediately fallen in love with the picturesque town, which was as different from the sleepy French village she had spent most of her life in as night was from day. It was during that trip that they’d spoken of his future and Elijah had first told her his dreams of going to Paris to study to be a professional pâtissier, a dream he had so far hidden from his own parents. His grandmother had been quiet for some time as they strolled through the town. Then, she’d stopped and pointed out a charming coffee shop.

“Like that,” she’d said in her heavily accented English. “You should come back and open a bakery here just like that, in this beautiful place.” She’d gazed at the forested valley draped in autumnal colors that surrounded Twilight Falls, before beaming at him. “You will be happy here. I can feel it.”

She had planned to visit again but had fallen ill shortly after his seventeenth birthday and passed away on the night Elijah and his mother arrived in France to see her. They’d spent a couple of weeks after her funeral organizing her affairs before returning to Twilight Falls with a box full of her personal items. Among them had been the book she had read to Elijah when he was still a boy and the one thing of hers he’d taken with him when he’d left for Paris a few years later.

It was close to eleven by the time Elijah got home. His parents were away on their long-awaited world cruise and had given him the keys to their house while he settled back into town and looked for his own place. He parked his vintage, pea-green Citroën DS on the driveway at the end of the cul-de-sac where they’d moved to and was climbing the steps to the front porch when a child’s faint cry reached him.

Elijah turned and was surprised to see lights in the pretty, white clapboard house across the way. His father had given him the impression the place was empty. Not that it bothered Elijah to have neighbors. The properties on the estate had generous plots and were mostly occupied by retired folks.

A shadow moved across a window on the second floor.

From the distance, Elijah made out the figure of a man rocking a little girl with blonde hair in his arms. The man stopped and turned to look straight at him.

Elijah flushed at being caught staring. He realized belatedly that the guy probably couldn’t see him where he stood in the dark. He twisted on his heels and headed inside his parents’ house, curious as to who it was who’d moved in opposite him. 

AUTHOR BIO:

Ava Marie Salinger is the pen name of an Amazon bestselling author who has always wanted to write scorching hot contemporary romance. In 2018, she finally decided to venture to the steamy side. NIGHTS is the first of several sizzling series featuring sweet, sexy men with dark pasts and a whole lot of love to give to the ones brave enough to fight for their hearts. When she’s not dreaming up hotties to write about, you’ll find Ava creating kickass music playlists to write to, spying on the wildlife in her garden, drooling over gadgets, and eating Chinese.

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