Tina B.
Flawed human, okayest mom, depression fighter, and lover of coffee. Singing, reading, and baking keep me mostly sane.
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Cover Reveal: Peachy Keen by Kate Roth
Sun, sand and beautiful people. What more could you want in a resort experience? How about some steamy romance with a stranger? It is my privilege to introduce you to the newest installment of the the Desire Resort Series by the wonderful Kate Roth! You can look for gorgeous book in April. Georgia Trenton has always been lucky in lust but hasn’t ever been interested in love. She prefers quickies to courtships, never seeing the need for more than just sex. Years of listening to her best friend Danielle’s relationship woes had assured her she was right to avoid romance…
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Feel Good Friday
Picture of the day: Tea is my best friend this week. Lemon tea, orange tea, green tea… all of the teas! You see, it is the season of germs and silly me thought I could avoid catching the hubby’s cold. No such luck 🙁 It’s times like these that I would love to stay in bed with my cup of tea and read all day. Sadly adult responsibilities make that a near impossibility. Between work obligations and trying to keep the house at a tolerable level of clean, I’m in bed by 9 pm every night out of pure exhaustion.…
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Book Review: Thirty Days to Win His Wife by Andrea Laurence
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Thirty Days to Win His Wife Series: Brides and Belles #2 Author: Andrea Laurence Publisher: Harlequin Desire Pages: ebook; 192 Release Date: February 3, 2015 Source: Netgalley ——————————————— Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy strong stubborn characters and great chemistry Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Even with a baby on the way, Amelia’s holding out for the perfect husband. Tyler has thirty days to prove he’s the one. Best friends Tyler Dixon and Amelia Kennedy eloped to Vegas on a whim. But before they can deal with their quickie divorce, she confesses: she’s pregnant. Now there’s no way Tyler…
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Book Spotlight: The Blood of the Fifth Knight by E.M. Powell
It’s time for another book spotlight! Evil conspirators are trying to overthrow the King of England, and one man is trying to help, but at what cost. Let’s take a peek shall we? England, 1176. King Henry II has imprisoned his rebellious Queen for her failed attempt to overthrow him. But with her conspirators still at large and a failed assassination attempt on his beautiful mistress, Rosamund Clifford, the King must take action to preserve his reign. Desperate, Henry turns to the only man he trusts: a man whose skills have saved him once before. Sir Benedict Palmer answers the…
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Book Review: Flirting with Disaster by Victoria Dahl
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Flirting with Disaster *Series: Girls Night Out Book #2 Author: Victoria Dahl Publisher: HQN Books Pages: ebook, 384 Release Date: February 1, 2015 Source: Netgalley ——————————————- Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of hot sex scenes and eclectic small town characters Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Artist Isabelle West has good reasons for preferring a solitary life. Tucked away in a cabin in the woods, she has everything she needs . . . except a red-hot love life. That is, until a hard-bodied U.S. marshal threatens to unearth secrets she’s spent years protecting. But giving in to the sparks flying between them…
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Book Review: The Fairy King by Laura Gilfillan
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Fairy King Author: Laura Gilfillan Publisher: Gilfillan House Pages: ebook; 260 Release Date: July 31, 2013 Source: Author ——————————————– Genre: Young Adult Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy nature and fantasy creatures. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Elora has unwittingly attracted the attention of the fairy king because of her kindness to his subjects. Not that Elora was ever aware that the fairy king even existed. Or that there was really any such thing as magic. That sweet oblivion comes crashing to an end on what starts out as an ordinary day, spent working in her garden. A couple…
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Book Review: The Price of Love by Maggi Craft
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Price of Love Series: A Price Novel Book1 Author: Maggi Craft (Author), Laura Meehan (Editor), Kristin Thiel(Editor) Publisher: Swift Eleven Publishing Pages: ebook, 254 Release Date: January 13, 2015 Source: Author/MBM Book Publicity ——————————————- Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of romance Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Arden Simms—an average twenty-five-year-old med student—is headstrong, independent, and spends most of her time consumed by her studies. The last thing she wants is a romantic relationship that could cause her life to veer off track. Slayde Price is gorgeous, kind, and well on his way to fame and fortune. But the shallow people…
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Book Review: Kybernos by M.J.A Watney
Media Type: Paperback (ARC) Title: Kybernos Author: M.J.A Watney Publisher: Self Pages: paperback, 274 Release Date: January 5, 2015 Source: Author ——————————————- Genre: Adult Fiction/Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of thrillers with a theological element. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes The Willderschen, a shadowy alliance of some of the most powerful people on the planet, are dead, killed in an explosion. But why should that matter to Bertram, a lonely middle-aged Physics teacher, to Anita, an overweight schoolgirl escaping her bullies, or to Charles, a toff with more money than sense who thought he was just out on a boozy stag-week with his mates? And who…
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Book Review: The Trouble with Texas Cowboys by Carolyn Brown
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Trouble with Texas Cowboys *Series: Burnt Boot #2 Author: Carolyn Brown Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca Pages: ebook, 352 Release Date: January 6, 2015 Source: Netgalley ——————————————- Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of cowboys and fiery red heads Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes When Sawyer O’Donnell takes a ranch job on a whim, he lands smack dab in the middle of a Texas-sized feud! The Gallaghers and the Brennans are at each other’s throats to woo the red-headed spitfire, Jill Cleary, and stake a claim for the Fiddle Creek Ranch. Jill makes Sawyer’s blood boil. They argue, they banter, but Sawyer soon…
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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: The Trouble with Texas Cowboys by Carolyn Brown
It’s time for another bookish spotlight! This time we are focusing on one of my favorite types of book boyfriends, cowboys! This romance is full of sharp wit and the best of country living. Let’s take a peek shall we? Can a girl ever have too many cowboys? No sooner does pint-sized spitfire Jill Cleary set foot on Fiddle Creek Ranch than she finds herself in the middle of a hundred-year-old feud. Quaid Brennan and Tyrell Gallagher are both tall, handsome, and rich…and both are courting Jill to within an inch of her life. She’s doing her best to give…