Having failed at multiple service industry jobs, Jessie Robinson decides to make one more last-ditch attempt at saving her crashing life by applying to work at a bakery. Even though she doesn’t have any experience as a baker. Well, she had no experience as a waitress or grocery bagger, either, and her favourite childhood memories…
Sparking the Fire is a sparkling, sexy, second-chance romance between Wyatt Fox and Molly Cade and is the latest (possibly last?) installment of Ms. Meader’s Hot in Chicago series about a family of firefighters. It’s a story of fighting for yourself and your family in a world where privacy is often a tenuous concept, of…
Small town romances tend to have certain elements in common that appeal to their readers. Shops with cute names; seniors coffee or craft circles where the latest gossip is discussed; best friends who’ve known each other since kindergarten; fundraisers for a neighbor needing a hand; etc. Erin Nicholas is no stranger to this subgenre of…
This book is nominated for a 2016 RITA. The lighthearted look at the reality of romance continues in Falling for Mister Wrong. Filming of the latest season of Marrying Mister Perfect has just wrapped and the winning suitorette Caitlyn Gregg is trying to lay low back in her home town until the series begins broadcasting….
I don’t have much experience with firefighters; most of my family and friends seem to fall into the industries of education, finance, and healthcare. The nice thing about reading, though, is that it allows you to move beyond your own experiences and imagine what could be. This week I settled down to spend some time…
With Heat Exchange, Shannon Stacey kicks off a new series based around Boston firefighters. If they’re all going to be as good as this installment, I’m definitely coming back for more! I first encountered Stacey with her Kowalski series. I enjoyed her writing because while her stories contain some of the time-honored sweetness of small-town…
I liked this book, so it’s really unfortunate that I chose it not realizing it was the third title in a series. This was unfortunate because Rush could have been a great book if I hadn’t spent so much time confused and wishing I’d read the two preceding titles in the proper order. Five years…
Anne Marsh’s Slow Burn is the second book in her Smoke Jumpers series. The writing is even paced and the plot is believable. The hero is a great big loveable teddy bear and the storyline was interesting enough to keep me entertained for over three hundred pages. The most disappointing part of the book for…
The St. Nacho’s gay series is set in a small coastal California town where a group of interesting individuals live and for the most part get along peacefully. While there’s a little prejudice and bias, the laid-back community mostly accepts any and all who settle there. In Maxfield’s Jacob’s Ladder, Yasha (AKA Jake) and his…
This book was a hard one for me to grade. For the first half of Sex and the Single Fireman, I had a love/hate relationship – I neither loved anything about it nor did I hate anything about it. By the end of the book, my opinion had improved. While I wouldn’t put this on…