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Welcome to Friday! We’re going to take some time to talk about upcoming events!

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The Romance Reviews is hosting an Erotic Romance Madness Hop.

The date is approaching fast – May 10th to 14th.  Put this on your calendar and stay tuned for more details. Events on The Romance Reviews are always fun and filled with great prizes! I’m not participating in this hop as a blogger/host, but I’m planning on winning some cool prizes and books!  For more information click HERE.

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Now on to books to be released soon….I guess I need to hope for a late season snowstorm to allow me enough time to read….

On May 29th, I’ll be sitting waiting for the bookstore to open to get:

sugarbeat's books romance books romance novel reviews historical contemporary eroticaAnne Wynter might not be who she says she is…

But she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge— in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy— no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman.

Daniel Smythe-Smith Might be in mortal danger…

But that’s not going to stop the young earl from falling in love. And when he spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten-year-old who thinks she’s a unicorn. But Daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. And when Anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending…

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May 22nd is D Day for the next in Karen Hawkin’s series.

The fourth book in the Hurst Amulet Series

A DETERMINED EXPLORER

When famed Egyptologist Michael Hurst discovers that the infamous Hurst Amulet is hidden in Scotland, he insists his trusted assistant, Miss Jane Smythe-Haughton, accompany him north. Strangely, the usually unflappable Jane seems perturbed by their destination—the mysterious Isle of Barra. A fascinated Michael watches as his staid assistant transforms, revealing intriguing layers of mystery and vulnerability. Could he be about to uncover not one, but two, precious treasures?

A DAUNTLESS PRINCESS

Once her clan’s princess, Jane fled Barra years ago to avoid a forced marriage. Since then, she has made her living as efficient Miss Smythe-Haughton—the perfect (and highly paid) assistant. Now she must confront her secrets . . . including her feelings for her irascible employer, too-handsome-for-his-own-good Michael Hurst.

A PERILOUS PLEASURE

Others are also searching for the missing amulet, however. Can Jane and Michael learn to trust each other in time to solve two riddles: the location of the Hurst Amulet, and the meaning of the vivid passion flaring between them?

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And on May 29th, the highly anticipated book from Elizabeth Boyle!  Check out this blurb:

Along Came A Duke

The Duke of Preston is about to take a Bride . . . or so he thinks
The Duke of Preston has ruined more young ladies than Society can tolerate and turns their collective back to him and his family. In order to retake their place in Society, his aunt insists he take a bride to regain their respectability.

What Preston never imagines is that he will fall in love with the most unlikely of ladies–Miss Tabitha Timmons, a vicar’s daughter who is cursed in love and vowed never to marry. Now it is up to the notorious duke to change her mind and teach her lesson in love–before the infamous Kempton curse catches up with them.

 

With 2 books being released on the same day, I guess we know where I’ll be for the next few days after that!

 

What’s new on your Friday?

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Tony’s Haven by Dominique Eastwick

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Tony’s Haven by Dominique Eastwick
ISBN: 978-1-60168-395-3
Publisher : Apen Mountain
Source : I received a copy of this book to read and review from TRR

Tony Sherman may be a modern day Adonis and a well-know ladies man, but hiding beneath his carefree, playboy persona is a man who knows how to be discrete. He keeps his desire to protect all those he loves from being seen by anyone, particularly his family. Fate intervenes when he uses his charm to beg a favor from a co-worker, a women who is unaffected by his charisma as she is by his looks.

Haven Pelletier is anything but the kind of woman usually found on Tony’s arm or in his bed. She’s mousy and rubenesque, and unmoved by his Adonis appearance. But when circumstances bring them together, she sees right through his tarnished armor—to the true man underneath.

As Haven learns more about Tony, she discovers secrets hidden deep in his past and a Man who might just steal her heart if she lets him. When life throws obstacles in their way, can Tony be the Knight in Shining Armor Haven needs both in and out of the bedroom?

Tony’s Haven by Dominique Eastwick is unexpected page-turner with super hot sex and a tear worthy happily every after.  This author has produced an outstanding story about real people in realistic situations.  A book that everyone can identify with!

Tony’s Haven is an outstanding story about Haven, an overweight single mother of one daughter, and Tony Sherman, the playboy of her workplace. Haven has had a hard live.  She left university and married the man she thought she loved only to have her marriage fall apart when she became pregnant.  He husband left her while she was delivering their daughter.  She came home from the hospital to a foreclosure sign on their house and her belongings in the driveway.  She has pulled her life together in the intervening years.  She and her daughter live in a small apartment, and she has a job where she is proving her worth.  She has applied for a new job, and the person who has come to talk to her about the job is Tony Sherman, the golden boy at her workplace.  Not only is he stunning, but he brings in more accounts than any of the other executives combined.  Tony takes it upon himself to help Haven work to complete the requirements so that she would qualify for a promotion the next time around.  The only thing he asks of her is to pretend to be his girlfriend for a weekend of skiing with his family.  She agrees.

The time that Tony and Haven spend together allows them to develop their friendship.  Tony starts to see Haven as a person of talent, rather than the full figured woman that gets snickers behind her back.  He takes her shopping for new clothes and suddenly sees a new, more confident Haven – someone he is attracted to!

This story is a page-turner.  Ms. Eastwick has developed an outstanding cast of characters.  Like any office environment, the story has the workers, the gossipers, the unfair bosses. There are a collection of family members – all well meaning, but too close to see the forest for the trees.  There are alot of unfair assumptions made, and people are judged by their surface, not what is underneath.

At first glance this story is a love story between unlikely lovers.  This story is like a fairy tale where the hero gets his princess and the wicked witch gets poisoned by her own apple.  Frankly I like stories like this that have me in tears one minute and then cheering then next.  This story, in reality, is like an onion, you just keep peeling back layers to find more layers underneath.  I thoroughly enjoyed peeling back the layers of this story and I encourage you to give this story a go also!

Amazon purchase link for Tony’s Haven (Sherman Series)

Her Snowbound Knight by Kasey Moone

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Today the book being featured is a little erotic one that I reviewed for The Romance Reviews.  The Romance Reviews is hosting a Sizzling Summer Reads event this summer.  The Romance side of this site had a huge giveaway happening in June.  This month is the Erotic & GLBT side’s turn.  There are over $5000.00 in prizes up for grabs – including a pair of tickets to RomCon 2011.  Drop by and see what there is to win!

Her Snowbound Knight by Kasey Moone
ISBN: 978-1-606659582-4
Publisher: Phaze Books
Release Dec 10, 2010
Source: I received a copy of this book from TRR to read and review. Please find my copy of my review HERE.

The last thing Anelle Franklin needed was to be stuck in a snowstorm with a busted car–in the country nonetheless. Just when she thinks her day can’t get any stranger, she’s rescued by a hot snow truck driver with a wicked tongue. The plan: freeze to death or stay in his cabin until the storm clears. What’s a girl to do?

Hot sex, romance, feisty characters, beautiful snowbound setting all combine in Her Snowbound Knight to produce a must read of this winter season! I think this cute, sexy little short story burns up the pages and will heat up your heart.

Anelle Franklin finds herself with a broken down car in the middle of nowhere surrounded by snow. No cell service and no one in sight to rescue her. Along comes Jasper Madison at the end of a long shift driving a snow plow to save her. Anelle is initially apprehensive of this studly snow plow driver, but quickly warms up to him.

The chemistry between Anelle and Jasper is hot and almost instantaneous. They try to fight the attraction for a bit, but in the end, the clothes fly and the windows steam up!

This quick moving little short story is quite well written. It is written as an erotic story as well as a love story. The sex is hot, and this interracial love story will warm your heart. A spicy little short story for a cold winter night.

Her Snowbound Knight Amazon Buy Link