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THE CHOICE #1 & THE CONSEQUENCE #2 (Star-crossed Lovers Duet) by Ashley Jade

Release Dates:

The Choice #1: January 19th, 2023

The Consequence #2: January 26th, 2023

GENRE/TROPES: Second-Chance/Enemies-to-Lovers/Off Limits/Rockstar Romance

Cover Designer: Lori Jackson

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The Star-crossed Lovers Duet from USA Today bestselling author Ashley Jade is coming January 2023!! The Choice, book 1, is releasing January 19th and book 2, The Consequence only one week later on January 26th!

Get ready to dive back into the world of Sharp Objects, featuring guitarist, Memphis, in this angsty, gritty, off-limits, second chance romance!

The world thought I belonged to another man…

they were wrong.

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The Star-crossed Lovers Duet

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ashley Jade comes a gritty, off-limits romance about mistakes, choices, and love conquering all.

He was the mysterious dark knight always swooping in to save me when I needed it most.

I was the troubled girl with scars and a bleeding heart.

He was the gifted guitarist destined for big things.

I was the small-town girl battling her demons.

He was my earth….always keeping me grounded.

And I was his sky…always just out of his reach.

Our love was everything I wished for.

Until I destroyed it.

I never thought I’d see Memphis Payne again after I broke his heart, but the stars had other plans.

Because here he is…needing me to clean up his mess this time.

Only problem is…

Doing so will break both our hearts.

They say only the strongest love can survive an apocalypse.

That if two people are meant to be, they’ll find their way back to each other.

I hope they’re right.

About the Author:

Ashley Jade is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and top 20 bestselling Amazon author who craves tackling different genres and tropes within romance. Her first loves are New Adult Romance, Contemporary Romance, and Romantic Suspense, but she also writes everything in between including erotica and dark romance.

Her characters are flawed and complex, and chances are you will hate them before you fall head over heels in love with them.

She’s a die-hard lover of oxford commas, em-dashes, music, coffee, and anything thought-provoking…except for math.

Books make her heart beat faster and writing makes her soul come alive.

If she’s not paying off student loan debt, working, or writing a novel—you can usually find her listening to music, hanging out with her readers online, and pondering the meaning of life.

Check out her Amazon page and Facebook page for future novels.

She loves connecting with her readers—they make her world go ’round.

~Happy Reading~

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The Brawl by Willa Nash is now live!

On Ronan Thatcher’s first week in Montana, he spots the most beautiful woman in the world. Love at first sight? Nah. He doesn’t believe in love. But he wouldn’t mind a date or two with the local beauty. Ronan is the type of man who gets what he wants, and he wants Larke Hale.

Except Calamity’s sweetheart has sworn off men. The last time Ronan was rejected was, well . . . never. Yet Larke dismisses him without even batting those pretty brown eyes.

Bruised ego in check, he’s about to walk away when a teenager marches into his office and asks to hire Ronan as her lawyer. Something about a bad grade and a ruined grade point average that will inevitably destroy her future. He’s about to lecture the kid for being melodramatic until he learns that the teacher she wants to sue is Larke.

Suddenly this frivolous lawsuit seems like a bright idea. Ronan wants Larke’s attention and this is guaranteed to snag it. So let the brawl begin.

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 Meet Willa

Willa Nash is USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Devney Perry’s alter ego, writing contemporary romance stories for Kindle Unlimited. Lover of Swedish Fish, hater of laundry, she lives in Washington State with her husband and two sons. She was born and raised in Montana and has a passion for writing books in the state she calls home.

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Lost Track, an all new friends to lovers slow burn romance from Heidi Hutchinson, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited!

Sabine Debois likes her wine pink and her life predictable. As a private tutor for the rich and famous, she doesn’t get starstruck. But when a tattooed espresso fiend saves her from death by sweater, she’s a little bit… grateful. That’s all. Just grateful.

Sunshine Capone just had the best album of his career, and then his girlfriend burned down his house. Well, his ex-girlfriend now. So he moved to Chicago to focus on his music and avoid the drama of relationships.

He should not be creating any excuse to hang out with the sweet teacher with the hazel eyes and bright smile. She doesn’t need his kind of confusion in her life.

But Sabine’s about to teach this superstar a thing or two about peace, love, and understanding.

Lost Track is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #5 in the Common Threads series, Seduction in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

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About Heidi Hutchinson

Heidi Hutchinson creates funny, clever, slow burn romance for readers looking for a guaranteed happily ever after.

She hopes the stories she writes inspire her readers to take their hearts on one more adventure.

She lives in the Black Hills with her alarmingly handsome husband, their fearless child, and a rather large and spoiled dog. 

She is fueled by her unwavering and perfectly normal devotion to Dave Grohl and coffee. 

And a whole lotta love. 

Find Heidi online

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Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

Tropes: second chance romance; older sister single parent; small-town romance; love at first sight

About a week ago, a friend of mine who received an ARC for Karla Sorensen’s Worth the Wait, her final story in her A Love at First Sight series, messaged me while reading it. She said, “I always forget how much I love Karla’s romances.” I responded: “I know.” There is a quietude, a simplicity in Sorensen’s writing. Her romance creeps up on you like silent whispers, and before you know it, you’ve fallen deeply in love with her characters because they are people you want to know in real life. Yes, it’s fiction, but it doesn’t read as such. And yes, even though it reads like real life, you still find yourself lost in her stories. At least, that’s my estimation as to why book after book, Sorensen steals the hearts of her readers. 

And Worth the Wait, her newest story in the SmartyPants Romance universe, is more of the same. In fact, of the four books of this series, Hunter and Iris seem to take up the least amount of story space in the series. It’s hard to explain that to readers who I want to read this book. Let’s see if I can do that here:

It’s a given that Hunter and Iris love each other. From the start of this story, there is no doubt. However, there is an uneasiness in their love because Iris’s fatal flaw is her inability to trust and believe that she can be loved fully. When you are a character such as Hunter who loves deeply, who is quietly charming, who is willing to do anything to make Iris’s life easy, you would think it would be a given that Iris would reach out the hand he extends. But no. Sorensen makes us work for their happy ending. The struggle of Worth the Wait is Iris growing the capacity to accept she can be loved and cherished and Hunter learning to do that with stipulations if Iris requires them. 

That’s it. Yes, you can add her younger brother’s issues, Hunter’s return to Green Valley, and Iris’s mother to the mix of this story, but the basis of Worth the Wait is this idea of acceptance. Hunter and Iris reside in that small space, falling in love again with each other and throwing up complication after complication to keep you involved in their story. It doesn’t feel grand or over the top. It, again, feels real. Like I said at the beginning of this review, it whispers over you, and you realize that romances don’t need to scream love loudly. Instead, under the deft hand of a beloved author, love can take up a place in the small spaces too. 

Honestly, I was sad at the end of Worth the Wait because I loved Hunter and Iris and their sweet happy ending. But I also loved Joss and Levi, Grady and Magnolia, and Grace and Tucker. I hate leaving them behind. And yes, I know they are forever immortalized in my Kindle. But saying goodbye this time is difficult because Karla Sorensen has written them so well that it feels like saying goodbye to old friends. If you love the small-town romance, sweet love, and community of Penny Reid, you should be reading Karla Sorensen’s A Love at First Sight series. Now.

In love and romance, 

Professor A

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Tropes: second chance romance; teacher-student; broken hero; contemporary romance; small-town romance

Benson Bexley is an enigma. Well, not really. He has the soul of a wounded boy in the body of a man. What this does for K.K. Allen’s Heart of Stone is create a MMC who hides his emotional wounds behind traveling, creating art, and bedding women. At first glance, Benny is hard to love as a character. Allen has crafted in him a hero who hides his pain behind a cold, impenetrable exterior. It takes the implacable Brooklyn to challenge him. And challenge him she does. Allen’s Heart of Stone is a beautiful emotional journey of a man needing to forgive himself so that he can live the abundant life he deserves. 

At first, it is really hard to like Benny Bexley. Yes, he’s charming and gorgeous. He can be witty, but his charm feels overwrought at times. Even more, in my opinion, he objectifies Brooklyn. It takes her self-control and acerbic wit to put him in his place. It’s those moments that made the book a bit magical. Until Benny begins to accept his past, allow himself to be vulnerable, and stop running away from his problems, he is difficult to love even though you know his trauma. Allen intentionally draws this as it ramps up Brooklyn and Benny’s steam level when they eventually fall into bed together. 

While Brooklyn’s strength is impressive, her confusion over her hidden feelings for Benny added a layer of complication to Heart of Stone. Her friend, Olivia, doesn’t offer the best advice, and Brooklyn’s choices to hide information from him undermine the first impression of her inner strength. Honestly, Brooklyn hiding her relationship with Benny felt like a machination on Allen’s part to heighten the story’s drama, and it was my least favorite aspect of this romance. Benny’s loss and subsequent familial trauma served as enough angst for this story. Adding that layer felt like Allen was gilding the lily of her story’s angst. 

Now, by my estimation, Heart of Stone is Allen’s steamiest romance. At least from my recollection, Brooklyn and Benson’s chemistry is pure fire. They simply cannot stay away from each other, and Allen deftly amps up the inferno of their physicality as the story’s emotion grows. 

K.K. Allen’s Heart of Stone will turn the hardest heart soft as Benson and Brooklyn find their happy ending. To get there, you have to wade through the muck of the Bexley family drama. Thankfully, this reader knows how to put on her boots and use a shovel. 

In love and romance,

Professor A