Promise Me Always: A Single Dad, Fake Fiancée Romance (Redemption Hills Book 4) by A. L. Jackson

 I should know better than to let Tessa McDaniels pretend to be my fiancée.

I’m a dark, dangerous disaster who leaves destruction in his wake.

But when she offers to pretend to marry me to help me get my kids back, I can’t refuse. They are the one thing I have left to fight for.

Milo Hendricks found me at my lowest.

Battered and broken by my ex with no place to call home. When he insists I stay at his cabin with him, he sparks the feelings I’ve tried to suppress.

He’s only supposed to be my friend, but every time he comes in the room, he makes my knees weak.

This gorgeous, tatted, mountain-of-a-man who’s riddled with secrets.

Tessa is everything I crave but can’t have.

I shouldn’t touch her.

Shouldn’t make it real.

But she’s a red-headed flame I can’t resist, and I can’t help but take her to my bed.

Now we’re falling into an abyss of passion and need.

Loving her is easy.

Only we’re tied in ways we don’t know.

I’ll do anything to protect her, but it’s my past that might destroy her in the end…

My review minus Spoilers👇🏼

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.💫 Read by Me!💛💛

I absolutely loved this story. I loved the characters & the way the author writes. I was drawn in from the first page. I really enjoyed the characters of Milo & Tessa. They will definitely stick with me for quite awhile. This has spice, romance, & you will be left with so many emotions that you might even reread it again. Just a beautiful heartfelt and emotional roller coaster ride. 

Pretty Ugly Promises: A Mafia Romance By C.W. Farnsworth

 A steamy, standalone, second chance mafia romance.

When people choose to leave, you should let them.

That’s a lesson Lyla Peterson has learned over and over again. Abandoned more than once, her focus is on ensuring her son never experiences that familiar sting, not on lingering questions from the pain-filled past.

Until the opportunity arises to seek elusive answers and Lyla seizes it, opening old wounds and revealing dangerous secrets.

He chose to leave.

She should have let him.

My Review minus Spoilers 👇🏼

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read by ME! 

This book had me hooked from the first to the very last page. I really enjoy a good mafia romance. I really did enjoy the story of Nick & Lyla. It had so many 

Layers to it. I don’t want to give much away, but if you really like a good mafia story with romance, twists and turns ups and downs, laughter and tears, this book is for you. I didn’t want it to end and I really enjoyed the character development throughout the book.

Love After Duty: An Enemies to Lovers Romance (Balsam Ridge) Book 4 in Series.

 I’ve spent the last twenty years reinventing myself—shaking off the snotty rich girl facade for law school at Tulane University, only to pivot and obtain a Masters in Social Work, much to my parents' dismay. I settled in New Orleans and embedded myself in local politics fighting for the people with the least representation. That is until my mother’s illness called me home.

Balsam Ridge Tennessee is an oasis tucked into the Great Smokey Mountains. I missed it, and now that my mother is back on her feet I’m ready to forge a new path. With the long-time mayor retiring and my father’s prompting, I decide it is time to put my degree and experience to use for my hometown. Running unopposed, it seems I’ve finally found my purpose until an old nemesis re-emerges and tosses his hat into the arena.

Langford Tuttle is the proverbial prince of the valley. His father and mine have been locking horns for decades, and now it seems that we will be carrying the torch of familial rivalry. If he thinks that his broad shoulders, sexy smile, and devilish charm are enough to defeat me, he has another thing coming.

He better get ready because a fight is coming and I’m ready to spar.

This is Langford Tuttle's book.
*Small town, Family Saga, Enemies to lovers.

Now My Review by ME minus Spoilers 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.💫 Read!!🥰

This was a delight of a read. I’m a huge fan of Small Town Stories and the tropes for this one was so so good. 

I really liked the Characters of Langford & Isley. This story had just about everything you could ask for. It had heart. It had its ups and downs. This was a great story. Looking forward to coming back to Balsam Ridge. Pick this one up!!

Daisy Jones & The Six By Taylor Jenkins Reid

 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

🎧📚 Review. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 

My Husband & I listened to this Audiobook together so it’s my official Audiobook (Read) of 2023. This was his choice. Every other month or so he picks an Audiobook via Audible and he chose this. I also have the Book from BOTM and will re-read sometime. This definitely IMO was the way to “read” this book. The Audio Book for this was top notch. We both collectively love this book & this is not his type or style so it surprised me. 

I loved how this book was narrated. I loved the story. I know I’m a bit late to the game with this book, but better late then never. Truly a beautiful book. I am going to watch the mini series on Amazon Prime with my husband. We are curious to see if it will follow the book. I don’t want to spoil it but I laughed, cried, and even yelled when listening. Great book & my first one by this Author. If to choose a favorite character, it would be hands down Camila. Daisy Jones girl, I was rooting for you & all the rock n roll stars of this book. First read of the year & happy to share the audiobook/audible read with the hubby. ✌🏻🫶🏻

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