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✍🏻 Woo hoo! It’s time for more of Kristen Ashley’s Dream Maker series. Dream Spinner is LIVE. Grab this one FAST. ✍🏻

“A sexy, high-octane thriller.”– Publishers Weekly

Dream Spinner, an all new fast paced and sexy standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley is now live!

In this steamy and emotional contemporary romance from a New York Times bestselling author, two damaged souls must overcome the pain of their pasts to have the love they’ve always dreamed of.

After years with no one but herself to rely on, Hattie Yates has finally met the man of her dreams. But she was taught from a young age that it was hopeless to dream. There was only success, failure was not an option and it had terrible consequences. Now, the thought of another disappointment petrifies her. But when a suspicious phone call leads to more trouble than she can handle, there’s only one man Hattie trusts to help . . .

Axl Pantera knows Hattie is the only woman for him—and so does Hattie. Yet despite the attraction burning between them, Hattie refuses to let Axl in. The former soldier is determined to woo Hattie into letting down her walls, yet when danger comes calling, he finds himself battling for more than her heart. Axl will do anything to prove to Hattie that they’re meant to be, but first, he’ll need to keep her safe.

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About Kristen Ashley

Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.


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✍🏻 The second book to T.K. Leigh’s Royal Games is HERE. Tangled Games, the next book of The Dating Games series, is LIVE. ✍🏻

Title: Tangled Games
Series: Dating Games #5
Author: T.K. Leigh
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 25, 2021
BLURB
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your Queen to protect the King…
When I met Anderson North, I fell in love with the man, not the title. With his heart, not the crown.
But as I step foot in the Nation of Belmont for the first time as the Crown Prince’s fiancée, I’m reminded of exactly who he is outside of the bubble we built around ourselves.
I’m reminded of exactly who I’ll need to become if I’m to survive this tangled web of antiquated rules, constant media attention, and negative publicity from a country that hates the idea of an American marrying their future king.
This may be a life of privilege and excess, but I soon learn that with notoriety comes jealousy.
With fame comes enemies.
With a crown comes a gilded cage.
I’ve waited years to finally find my happily ever after.
I didn’t realize it would come at a price.
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EXCERPT
“Is it possible to pull a muscle in your face? Because I’m pretty sure I have.”
“How so?” I ask, stealing a glance at her.
“From smiling all day for the cameras. If this is to become a regular thing, I may have to work face exercises into my workout routine.”
“I can think of a few ways to stretch those face muscles.” I mischievously waggle my brows.
“I bet you can.”
“We’ll start when we get home, if you’d like.”
“Is that right?”
“You’re the one who said your face muscles could use a workout. I’m simply offering my services. Consider me your…personal trainer.”
Her lips pinch together into a tight line. “I wouldn’t want to burden you. Shouldn’t you check with your private secretary first to make sure you have room in your schedule for what I can only assume could be a rather time-consuming task?”
I dip my head toward her, my mouth a breath away from her neck. “I’ll make the time to feel your lips on my c*ck.” I linger there for a beat. I don’t even need to look at her to know her expression is flushed, her breaths coming quicker. Then I pull away, confirming my original suspicions. “I think two hours a day is a good start.” I lean back in the seat, extending my legs as far in front of me as possible and place my hands behind my head, the picture of relaxation. “Feel free to start now.”
“Such an opportunist.”
“Like I said, I’m simply offering to help.”
She curves toward me, trailing her fingers down my t-shirt. As her hand approaches my belt, she stops. “Baby, you wouldn’t be able to last two minutes.”
I raise a brow. “Don’t think so?”
“I know so. If memory serves correctly, last time I sucked you off, you went quick.”
I graze my lips against hers, a lightness in my chest at our easy banter and conversation. It reminds me of the people we were back in New York. Gives me hope we’ll still be those people, despite the uncertain road we’re about to embark on.
“What can I say? You give damn good head, gorgeous.”
She seals her mouth over mine, her tongue teasing, giving me a taste of exactly what she can do with that tongue on other parts of my body. “Likewise…” Pulling back, she smirks. “Gorgeous,” she adds, mimicking my accent to the best of her ability.
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T.K. Leigh is the USA Today Bestselling author of romance ranging from fun and flirty to sexy and suspenseful. Originally from New England, she now resides in sunny Southern California with her husband, beautiful daughter, rescued special needs dog, and three cats. When she’s not writing, she can be found training for her next marathon (of which she has run over twenty fulls and far too many halfs to recall) or chasing her daughter around the house.
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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 4.5 ⭐️ Review: Claire Hastings’s Cakewalk, a Busy Bean story ✍🏻

Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

“She was bringing him back to the world he’d known before, one that he’d thought was lost forever.”

On entering Claire Hastings’s Cakewalk, a Busy Bean story, I sighed with content. It has been a few months since we were introduced to the first few stories of this new series out of the World of True North universe, and I had missed this essential hub in Colebury. With Audrey, Zara, and Roderick as the anchors for this story, I jumped in. And what I found is a story that tugs at your heart as its hero, Holden, and heroine, Gigi, must overcome the tragic circumstances of their pasts to find a future together. 

In Hastings’s Cakewalk, you are met with Holden whose tragic past has left him simply existing, not living abundantly. A victim to his routine, he spurns regular contact with the world to live in his pain. Concurrently, Gigi is running from her life. A Southern Belle from an affluent family, she’s been a victim to its grasp, and she leaves Georgia to find a new life. Not expecting to land in Colebury, she finds herself stranded there due to car issues. While her car is being fixed, she happens upon the Busy Bean where a strange string of events point to Colebury being the place for her to live. With a new job for which she’s ill-prepared, Gigi’s beginning feels fraught with complications; however, when Holden enters her life and he offers her a place to live, she feels a strange tug to him. As Holden and Gigi engage in each other’s lives, she feels a strong connection that grows deeper as they navigate lives that seem to be changing and expanding. However, will their pasts catch up to them? Are they destined for a future together?

From the first chapter, as Gigi flees her life, I was hooked. I have this habit of prioritizing my reads based on release dates, the more recent release dates requiring the earliest read. As I order my ARCs, I read a page of the stories so they will move within my Kindle app. Every time I entered Cakewalk, I didn’t want to stop reading because Gigi’s flight hints at trauma, and Hastings compels you further into her story. She very early leads us into Holden’s trauma which also hooks you to her story. Hastings’s capacity to develop their chemistry in a way that feels reasonable and believable makes you want more for them. Hastings’s deft pacing also guides the reader forward, falling deeper into Gigi and Holden’s story. 

What you find further into Cakewalk is its insistence on proffering the message that we have to live abundantly in the moment, no matter the past. It’s clear that Holden’s life has been placed on hold, keeping him frozen from living life. Similarly, Gigi’s life has kept her suspended. While they each have different motivations for this, Hastings suggests through their experiences that we must live in the moment, allowing love to guide our lives. As this message is revealed, the adoration between Gigi and Holden transforms the story, and their relationship moves from something that feels strained and contentious to something that will make you want to weep. That transition, in my opinion, is the best part of Cakewalk

An added bonus to this story is the ancillary characters that play a part in Holden’s life as wizened guides. I love how Hastings weaves a literary tradition into her romance in a variety of ways especially because this reader teaches English. Even more, I love a good personal evolution story as characters makeover themselves, and Gigi’s journey fulfills that interest in this book. 

For the newest book in the Busy Bean world, Claire Hastings has baked up a delicious treat with Cakewalk. If you haven’t yet jumped into this series, Cakewalk is a perfect guide in. 

In love and romance, 

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5 ⭐️ Review: Melanie Harlow’s Tie Me Down ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

“It was a way to show you cared. To show you were grateful for them. To show up for them. That’s what mattered. More than blood. More than just loving someone. My mother had probably loved us, but she’d still made the choice to leave. 

Loved mattered, but loyalty was just as important.” 

And therein lies the underlying challenge of Melanie Harlow’s Tie Me Down. As its name says, tying one down means to stay and work through whatever comes your way. This is the struggle with Harlow’s captivating couple, Beckett and Maddie, a couple who never really started in high school as life and circumstances dragged them apart. Now, in the present, they have an opportunity to acknowledge and live the truth of their attraction. The question becomes…will they accept that opportunity or let the other get away?

What is there to love about Melanie Harlow’s Tie Me Down?

From its outset, Beckett Weaver is the eponymous small town good guy. There is nothing to dislike about the handsome, hard-working, patient, and long-suffering Beckett except his reticence to be true to his feelings for Maddie. This is a man who has missed all his shots because he never plucked his arrow. Hiding behind a multitude of excuses, Beckett spends much of Tie Me Down not “shooting his shot.” His loyal friends, Griffin, Cole, and Enzo, act as his advisors only to have him push aside their advice. What does this do for the story? It keeps you entranced with it as you wait for Beckett to finally allow his overwhelming interest in Maddie to take over. Don’t worry (and this isn’t spoilery as most readers know they have a happy ending) it eventually works itself out. But Harlow’s choice to have Beckett withhold his feelings makes for a story that holds you a prisoner to its thrall. 

This leads us to Maddie, the heroine who has endured much. Her characterization is so important for Harlow’s Tie Me Down in a few ways. She’s been raised without a father; her relationship with her mother prior to her mother’s death was contentious at best, setting Maddie up for failure with her inflated expectations. Without the correct steering, Maddie has a poor people picker for her romantic entanglements because she uses her mind to choose rather than her heart. As Maddie progresses through the story, she’s enfolded into the Bellamy Creek family, and she finds people who provide the insight and wisdom she needs. This allows Maddie to make better choices, and Harlow uses Maddie’s journey to highlight her message about following your heart and making choices from that place instead of one’s expectations. 

Through Maddie and Beckett’s story, Melanie Harlow does something that I don’t remember reading in her Cloverleigh Farms stories (I have yet to read the stories prior to that series). Harlow intentionally crafts characters to focus on some keen social topics, namely gender biases and sexuality and the issue of Alzheimer’s. Both Maddie and Beckett have challenges at varying levels. As they fall deeply in love, they both must negotiate those challenges, finding acceptance in the end. And I loved this part of Tie Me Down. Harlow’s insistence on creating a character like Maddie’s son, Elliott, steals your heart and challenges your thinking in a way that I had not yet read in a Harlow story. It made me want to applaud this turn. If she has done it in stories before Cloverleigh Farms, then I’ve missed it. To end the Bellamy Creek series with this intention adds gravity that is more about humanity and less about genre and tropes.

And in the end, Tie Me Down brings a beautiful end to the Bellamy Creek series. In the last few books, we’ve been treated to the future of this group of friends, the brotherhood so deftly crafted by Harlow, and each book has given us further hints into their happily-ever-afters. Beautifully wrought, Melanie Harlow’s epilogue and bonus epilogues show her detail, her ability to make connections to her past stories and her present ones. Look, if you want to get lost in a book, Tie Me Down is just the ticket to do it. I know I did. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 The Busy Bean stories in the World of True North are BACK! Ready for a hero who is closed off from the world and an unassuming heroine on the run? Run and grab Claire Hasting’s Cakewalk now. ✍🏻

CAKEWALK BY CLAIRE HASTINGS

Release Date: May 24, 2021

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Blurb:

Love isn’t always a cakewalk

Gigi Hawthorne is starting from scratch. She just didn’t realize until her crappy car broke down that she was going to be doing it in a small town in Vermont. With an eye for design and some serious decorating skills, she’s managed to land a job making delectable treats for the patrons of the Busy Bean. Now she’s up to her elbows in sugar and flour, but her thoughts are never far from her gorgeous, brooding landlord.

Holden St. James swears he isn’t a recluse. He goes to the local coffee shop three times a week, doesn’t he? Yeah, maybe he never actually talks to anyone, but with a backstory of loss, pain, and regret like his, he’s pretty sure he wouldn’t be very good company anyway. Yet something about his new tenant makes him wonder if maybe it’s time to let someone open the oven door and release a little heat into his closed-off world. 

But both are hiding secrets as dark as an espresso mocha cupcake and they’re not sure if they can trust each other. Will the truth break their delicate relationship into sad, sweet crumbs–or will it turn out to be the key ingredient in the recipe for a new life? 

Excerpt:

Sneaking another glance at him, she smiled to herself noticing a scone on his plate. He hadn’t taken a bite yet, and her chest filled with nerves as she thought about him trying it for the first time. She wanted everyone to like the goodies she was making for the café, but she really, really wanted Holden to like them. Maybe even like them so much that he’d ask her to make some just for him, at home. An image of the two of them in the kitchen together, covered in ingredients as he pressed her up against the blue cabinets, flitted across her mind, making the nerves in her chest morph into something else entirely. Was that…lust? 

Stop it, Gigi…just because the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach doesn’t mean you need to make an attempt. Especially with that man. 

The sound of coughing pulled her attention back to the counter, where Officer Nelligan was still standing. When he finally swallowed, he took a long swig of his coffee, blinking harshly, like he was trying to forget a taste.  

“Miss Gigi, may I ask what you put in these?” 

“Ummmm, usual scone ingredients?” she floundered. “Flour, salt, cream, baking powder, orange zest, cranberries…” 

“I’m not much of a baker, but I think you might have mixed up your baking powder and your baking soda. A girl did that in my junior high home ec class, and it tasted much like this—kinda metallic,” Officer Nelligan said. 

“What?” Gigi said. All feelings of butterflies and lust were long gone now, replaced by sheer panic. She looked at Officer Nelligan in horror, taking in the scone he’d just bitten into. The apologetic look in his eye told her everything she needed to know—she’d screwed up. Big time. 

Georgia. I don’t know what possesses you to even try these things. It’s a well-established fact that you just are not capable of cooking. Please stop trying—you’re just making yourself look ridiculous,” Bradley’s voice said. She shook her head, trying to clear his words from her mind, as she turned and ran into the kitchen.  

Sure enough, the canisters labeled “baking powder” and “baking soda” were right next to each other. However, it was the baking soda whose lid was off and sitting in front of it. That was the one she’d used when measuring out her ingredients.  

“Sugar Honey Iced Tea!” she exclaimed, stomping her foot in frustration. She could feel Roderick looking at her, but she didn’t have the heart to turn around and see the expression on his face. 

“Uh oh,” she heard Roderick’s voice say over her shoulder. “That’s a bad day.” 

 Was she ever not going to screw this up? When would she learn that she couldn’t do this? No, what she couldn’t do was let Bradley’s words get to her.  

At least it was just Officer Nelligan. He was used to seeing her at her worst at this point. He and Holden.  

Holden. 

Holden had also ordered a scone. But he hadn’t eaten it yet. Right?  

Racing back up front, she skidded to a stop in front of his table to find him mid-bite into the inedible treat.  

“Nooo!” she cried. “Don’t eat that—it’s…” 

“A bit salty…” he responded, choking it down. 

Gigi could feel the tears starting to prick at her eyes, but she wasn’t going to let anyone here see her cry. It was no big deal. So she got the canisters mixed up. Happens to everyone at some point, right? 

“I’ll get you a muffin,” she told him, turning back to the counter. Looking between Holden and Officer Nelligan, she sighed. “At least it was just you two, right?” 

“And Mr. Hughes,” Kirk said, not looking up from the espresso machine. 

“Who?” 

“That older guy who bought six. Owns Hughes Hardware store up the street.” 

“Oh, for heaven’s sake!” she exclaimed before turning and running out the front door. She had to get to him before he let his employees have any of them. 

Deserting the café like this was probably not her best move, but she figured after this disaster, she was going to be lucky to even have a job. 

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✍🏻 It is FINALLY here! The last book of the Bellamy Creek series, Tie Me Down, by Melanie Harlow is LIVE. Beckett and Maddie’s story is so beautiful. ✍🏻

Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up.
But what if I want him to tie me down?

Tie Me Down, an all new smoldering second-chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow is now live!

Just friends.
That’s all Beckett Weaver and I have ever been.
Sure, he’s a hot cowboy who left Wall Street behind to take over his family’s ranch. Yes, I’ve had a secret crush on him since we were seventeen. And who wouldn’t appreciate those strong hands, that massive chest, and the way he fills out a pair of Levis?
He makes a girl sweat just looking at him . . . and I look. A lot.
But I’m a single mom trying to move on with my life, and he’s running that ranch single-handedly while taking care of his elderly father. We don’t even live in the same state. I only returned to my hometown of Bellamy Creek to sell my late mother’s house, and he just invited me and my son to stay with him because he’s got a big heart.
That’s not the only big thing he’s got–which I discover the night I finally sneak across the hall to his bedroom and shed my inhibitions right alongside my pajamas. And once we give into each other, we can’t stop.
The hayloft. The bed of his truck. The dock by the pond.
Nothing has ever felt so right, but his past has taught him not to believe in happily ever after, and every perfect night I spend in his arms brings us closer to goodbye.
Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up.
But what if I want him to tie me down?

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About Melanie Harlow

USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. When she’s not writing or reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like Schitt’s Creek, Homeland, and Fleabag. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.

Melanie is the author of the CLOVERLEIGH FARMS series, the ONE & ONLY series, AFTER WE FALL series, the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

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✍🏻 This is the story you need right now. Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is live, and it’s beautiful and ugly in equal measure. This is my favorite story for May. ✍🏻

For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann is now live! 

From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a novel so heartfelt and real it redefines the meaning of love.

I’m the wrong guy in the right place the night I steal Tatum Bradshaw from another man. When she mistakes me for her blind date, I decide she deserves a man who shows up on time … like me. Emmett Riley, Mr. Punctual.

Once I confess my true identity and convince her I’m not a creep–just a thief–it’s only a matter of time before my sexy smile and quick wit claim her heart, her hand in marriage, and the perfect life.

Unfortunately, perfection is an illusion, like the promises of our wedding vows. No one can prepare for the unimaginable–the heartbreaking exception to all the rules in life.

When thirty seconds destroys everything, I have to find a new existence and keep my promise to always love our daughter, Lucy, the most.

For Lucy, I will keep a secret, and I will watch my wife drift into the arms of another man.

Given the chance … can I reclaim my wife and the pieces of our life?

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*This story contains sensitive subject matter.

 

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Meet  Jewel E. Ann


Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author a with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance. 

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5⭐️ Review: Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

By all accounts, Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is a quintessential JEA book. With its reticent hero, a storyline that points to the tip of the iceberg for much of its story without readily unveiling the entire iceberg, and a twist that leaves you emotionally drained and overwhelmed, For Lucy is everything you adore about Jewel E. Ann. 

As is the case with any of her books, the requirement for For Lucy should be a tissue box. In fact, I’m thinking she needs a cross-promotion with Kleenex. An emotionally wrought story that reveals itself incrementally, moving seamlessly between the past and present, this book feels like an emotional juggernaut for her. It will be easy to dislike the heroine of For Lucy because her hero, Emmett, shows a capacity for love beyond imagination. He is the definition of unconditional love in the way that he loves his heroine, Tatum, and his daughter, Lucy. But don’t be fooled, though. As you read this book, you must remember that it’s a singular point of view, more specifically Emmett’s. This automatically makes him an unreliable narrator. Therefore it’s impossible to fully “see” Tatum because we don’t get the fullness of her characterization beyond any kind of light other than the one that Emmett shines over her. There will be moments in For Lucy when you don’t like her. But remind yourself that you can’t know Tatum’s feelings, motivations, and complete thoughts without her point of view, and you won’t get it in this story. 

With that, what is most profound about For Lucy is Jewel E. Ann’s dual message about love and forgiveness. I felt challenged by Ann’s insistence at looking at the scope of love and forgiveness as they are intertwined in this story. Through the vessel of Tatum and Emmett’s journey, you’ll feel the slipperiness of love: how it can be diminished or incapacitated by the actions of others. And, honestly, it feels a bit ugly in your soul when you realize that this is a part of the human condition. This is Jewel E. Ann’s genius in For Lucy. She asks you to consider the depth of your love for another person and its limitations. 

Even more, there is a decided insistence in looking at the love of a parent. Which is a deeper love – the love for a child or the love for a spouse? As wave after wave of past memories add to Emmett’s journey, you see his almost inhuman capacity to love another flawed being, and it cuts at you. It’s in this where you, the reader, struggle to like Tatum. Yet, instead of looking at her with a growing disdain, Jewel E. Ann is asking us to look inward to question ourselves by placing ourselves in Emmett and Tatum’s shoes. In that struggle, you will or should find your own truths about your capacity to love others the face of the failings of humanity. I think what you find at the end of For Lucy is a better understanding of one’s ability to forgive, move on, and love another through it all. 

And in true Jewel E. Ann fashion, she writes an ending that reads as both didactic and entertaining. She brings you the perfect ending for Tatum, Emmett, and Lucy, and she reminds you in her quiet ways that the cut of trauma can find its salve with love and forgiveness.

One suggestion: Be sure to have a box of tissue near you. Besides this being a 5-star read, For Lucy is a four hanky story. Once again, Jewel E. Ann finds a space to inhabit interrogating the human condition, and she leaves you changed.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5 ⭐️ Review: Max Monroe’s Grumpy Cowboy ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Max Monroe’s Grumpy Cowboy deserves a might “yee-haw.” It takes the sweetness and humor of the usual Max Monroe fare. It mixes in a cowboy angry with the direction of his life: taking on his family’s ranch in the shadow of his father, having to turn away from a future of rodeo riding, and handling his adorable daughter without her mama who would rather be a rodeo queen. Add to that a horrible accident that leaves him unable to adequately do his job. And add to that a heroine who is an up-and-coming orthopedist ready to kick his butt if he doesn’t take the proper care of himself. All of these elements work together to create a fantastic story with a sprinkling of slow-burn chemistry, opposites attracting, and a sweet happily ever after. Grumpy Cowboy is the perfect read for right now. 

Rhett is the type of character who is equal parts compelling and crotchety. It’s actually interesting how long it takes for him to recognize his interest in Leah. Much of the story is about him putting Leah through her paces. It’s in those moments when the humor you come to expect from Max Monroe is found. Rhett creates a gauntlet of sorts for Leah to run as a way to run her off. This portion of the book will make you chuckle as you can see their burgeoning attraction. 

Even better, the character of Leah is Rhett’s perfect foil and romantic partner. She keeps Rhett guessing and she challenges him in ways that no one else in the story can. As their interest grows, for me, their story feels more serious. There is still Max Monroe’s signature humor sprinkled in, but once Rhett fully sees Leah, the vulnerability of their interest in the other lends seriousness and adoration to the romance. 

Along with Rhett and Leah’s journey is the addition of Rhett’s daughter, Joey. Joey adds a sweetness to this tale, and Leah’s ready acceptance of her makes you love her character even more. 

In the end, this cowboy romance is exactly what you can expect from Max Monroe: funny, fierce, and fabulous. If you want a quick read for the weekend, order Grumpy Cowboy today.

In love and romance

Professor  A

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✍🏻 Happy Release Day to the queens of rom-com! Max Monroe’s Grumpy Cowboy is LIVE! Get ready to roam the range with Rhett! ✍🏻

He’s a real-life, blue-eyed, tough-as-nails, thirtysomething cowboy who is so darn strong he looks like he could lift a car just for the heck of it.
He’s also stubborn, rude, and we don’t get along…at all.

Grumpy Cowboy, an all new laugh out loud rom com from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe is available now!

ATTENTION: If you have been a victim of false advertising, you may be entitled to compensation. If you were ever hired to take care of a fourteen-year-old boy’s knee injury on a luxury ranch in the Middle of Nowhere, Utah, but that fourteen-year-old boy ended up being a tall, rough-and-tumble, muscular, one-hundred-percent all-man cowboy by the name of Rhett Jameson, you may have been put at risk for falling in love. Please seek counsel immediately.

Dear Counselor,

It was supposed to be simple favor for my very important boss, Frank Kaminsky of the Salt Lake Slammers professional basketball team—go to his good friend Tex Jameson’s luxury ranch and provide personal medical care for his recently injured teenage son.

I thought it’d be a working vacation of sorts—a chance for my city-girl self to experience something I would never otherwise do—but everything is upside down, and absolutely nothing is as I thought it would be.

For one, this patient is not a teenage boy.
He’s a real-life, blue-eyed, tough-as-nails, thirtysomething cowboy who is so darn strong he looks like he could lift a car just for the heck of it.

He’s also stubborn, rude, and we don’t get along…at all.

Add in the heart-melting vision of him as a single father to the cutest little girl on the planet, and I’ve found myself in a whole different dimension of trouble.

Lust. Feelings. A whole lot of enemies-to-lovers-style complication.

Please help me. My name is Dr. Leah Levee, I am a victim of false advertising, and if I’m not careful, this Grumpy Cowboy might just be the death of me.

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About Max Monroe
A duo of romance authors team up under the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling pseudonym Max Monroe to bring you sexy, laugh-out-loud reads.

Max Monroe is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of more than ten contemporary romance titles. Favorite writing partners and long time friends, Max and Monroe strive to live and write all the fun, sexy swoon so often missing from their Facebook newsfeed. Sarcastic by nature, their two writing souls feel like they’ve found their other half. This is their most favorite adventure thus far.

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