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Everyone hates part of their job, and I hate Luke Bennet.

Coming Up Roses, an all-new must read enemies to lovers romantic comedy from Staci Hart is available now!

Everyone hates parts of their job.

Maybe it’s the paperwork. Maybe it’s the day-to-day grind. Maybe it’s that client who never knows what they want, or the guy who always cooks fish in the microwave.

But not me. I love every corner of the Longbourne Flower Shop, every flower, every petal, every stem. I love the greenhouse, and I love Mrs. Bennet, my boss. I love creating, and I love being a florist. I don’t hate anything at all.

Except for Luke Bennet.

The Bennet brothers have come home to help their mom save the flower shop, and Luke is at the helm. His smile tells a tale of lust, loose and easy. He moves with the grace of a predator, feral and wild. A thing unbridled, without rules or constraint.

When he comes home to save Longbourne, I almost can’t be mad at him.

Almost.

He doesn’t remember that night I’ll never forget. That kiss, touched with whiskey and fire. It branded me like a red-hot iron. But it meant nothing to him.

Everyone hates part of their job, and I hate Luke Bennet.

Because if I don’t, I’ll fall in love with him.

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Excerpt:

I wanted to kiss Tess Monroe.

I’d wanted to kiss her the second she walked into the shop a couple days ago, wearing overalls and a Cure T-shirt. I’d wanted to kiss her as I watched her scrub the wall with her little face wrinkled up in concentration. I’d wanted to kiss her when she fell off the ladder and into my arms. And all day today while we painted the shop, I only thought about one thing.

I wanted to kiss her. And I was accustomed to getting what I wanted.

“Did you hear me?” Kash asked impatiently.

“Hmm?”

He rolled his eyes, his long body stretched out on the bottom bunk in our old room. “Man, what’s with you?”

“I’ve been scrubbing and painting the shop for two days. I’m tired.”

“Right,” he said, “and the redhead in the overall shorts has nothing to do with it.”

I leaned back in the wooden desk chair I’d taken up residence in, the hinge squeaking. “As if Tess Monroe would willingly give me the time of day.”

He shrugged. “Seems to me like she’s given you the time every hour, on the hour, for two days. What’s with her? She was different today.”

It was true. This morning, she’d walked into the shop, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to work with a smile on her face. She’d only insulted me seven times, and one of those was a backhanded compliment. My stats were down: the day before, it’d been twenty-three insults and a jab with a broom handle that I couldn’t be sure was accidental.

Not that I was counting.

“I dunno what’s gotten into her, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth. I’m just taking the boon and moving on.”

“Man, she looked so cute with that bandana in her hair and paint on her nose. And her ass in those overalls…” He whistled up at my old bunk.

I fought the urge to chuck my Batman paperweight at him.

“So are you going after her or what?” Kash asked, smirking.

“I just got her to quit treating me like a dog. Pretty sure anything more is off the table.”

“Maybe I’ll go after her then. Think I’ve got a shot?”

I snorted to cover my immediate fury at the thought. “She’s a girl with standards, Kash. If I don’t have a shot, you’ve got none in hell.”

“Maybe she just needs somebody older. More mature.”

“We were born in the same year, asshole.”

“I’m just saying. Maybe she’s looking for stability. Everybody knows you’re about as stable as uranium.”

“And you’re running your mouth like you want a foot in Uranus.”

Kash laughed. “I’d love to see you try.”

I eyed him. “You don’t actually like her, do you?”

“Nah,” he said, smiling. “I just want you to admit you do.”

A sigh of concession blew out of me, the pause filled with my thoughts. “We almost kissed yesterday,” I admitted.

Kash sat up so fast, he thunked his head on the bottom bunk. “Goddammit—” He rubbed at his forehead “—Warn a guy before you go saying things like, I almost kissed Tess.”

I laughed openly at his misfortune, hoping it left a mark. “She fell off a ladder in storage, and I caught her. Topless.”

His eyes bulged, hand still pressed to his forehead. “Tess was topless in storage?”

“No, I was.”

He rolled his eyes, chucking a pillow at me. I caught it midair and chucked it right back at him.

“I’m surprised she didn’t deck you,” he said, fluffing the pillow before leaning back again.

“Me too, if I’m being honest. She hates me. Hated me. Maybe still hates me a little.”

“What’d you do to her?” he asked. At this point, the question was rhetorical—neither of us knew, no matter how many times we’d asked.

“Who knows? But I think the last couple of days have helped my case. All I had to do was show up and not fuck up.”

“Don’t worry. There’s still time,” he reassured me.

“Trust me, I’m aware. I’ve been working on the installation for her in the back, and I’m both convinced I’m going to disappoint her and that I’ll knock her socks off.”

“Or her bra. Think you can knock that off?”

“If she were anybody else, I’d guarantee it. But Tess?” I made a resigned noise.77

He watched me for a second in that way he had about him, the quiet assessment that ran under his outward charm. It was a mask— that much I knew for a fact—armor to protect his soft spots. Everyone thought he was nothing but a girl-crazy flirt, just like me. But that was just how we liked it. Let them think we were empty.

There was comfort in being underestimated. We were constantly set to impress everyone.

About Staci

Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life — a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can’t forget that. She’s also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She’s been a wife, though she’s certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She’s also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she’s been drinking whiskey.

From roots in Houston to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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Penn

They say revenge is a dish best served cold.

I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced.

I took her first kiss. 

She took the only thing I loved.

I was poor.

She was rich.

The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.

Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project. 

Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.

Yeah, baby girl, say it—I’m your foster brother. 

There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears.

Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.

Daria

Everyone loves a good old unapologetic punk.

But being a bitch? Oh, you get slammed for every snarky comment, cynical eye roll, and foot you put in your adversaries’ way.

The thing about stiletto heels is that they make a hell of a dent when you walk all over the people who try to hurt you.

In Penn Scully’s case, I pierced his heart until he bled out, then left it in a trash can on a bright summer day. 

Four years ago, he asked me to save all my firsts for him.

Now he lives across the hall, and I want nothing more than to be his last everything.

His parting words when he gave me his heart were that nothing in this world is free.

Now? Now he is making me pay.

PLAYING FOR KEEPS

Hot Jocks, Book 1

By Kendall Ryan

Release Day: August 13th

About the Book

I’ve never been so stupid in my entire life.

Elise Parrish, my teammate’s incredibly sweet and gorgeous younger sister, should have been off-limits, but my hockey stick didn’t get the memo.

After our team won the championship, our flirting turned physical, and I took her to bed. Then shame sent her running the next morning from our catastrophic mistake.

She thinks I don’t remember that night – but every detail is burned into my brain so deeply, I’ll never forget. The feel of her in my arms, the soft whimpers of pleasure I coaxed from her perfect lips….

And now I’ve spent three months trying to get her out of my head, but I’m starting to understand she’s the only girl I’ll ever want. 

I have one shot to show her I can be exactly what she needs, but Elise won’t be easily convinced. 

That’s okay, because I’m good under pressure, and this time, I’m playing for keeps.

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Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️++

“‘I’m yours,’ I said against her lips before taking them. Forever was written in that kiss.”

Staci Hart is new to me. This is only the second book from her that I have read, the first being Well-Suited, the fourth book of her Red Lipstick Coalition series. With that book, I appreciated her story and loved the characters, but there was something missing for me. Part of it was its voice. It lacked some level of flow for me. However, in the end, I realized how much I appreciated and respected Hart’s storytelling. 

When I read the blurb for Hart’s newest book, Coming Up Roses, I was drawn to three things: the enemies-to-lovers trope (LOVE IT!), a playboy-level, seemingly irresponsible hero, and an “inspired by Jane Austen” level story. I was all in after reading those qualities. Add to that a beautiful cover, and this book had to be mine. 

And Coming Up Roses did not disappoint in the least. To begin, the voice of this book changed from Well-Suited. From the outset, the words and sentiments on the page flowed, so much so that I could not put this book down. In fact, I read it from front to back in one sitting. It captured me, clobbered me over the head with its humor and sweet story. 

It is a bit deceiving in the realm of enemies-to-lovers. There are two main characters, Tess and Luke. Tess sees Luke as an enemy due to a moment in their past. From the outset, Luke recognizes Tess’s virtues, and he’s puzzled by her animosity towards him. As far as he’s concerned, he has never affronted her. We, the readers, know the issue, but Luke is clueless. This story isn’t like a true enemies-to-lovers story wherein the hero and heroine both hold disdain for each other. In this case, it is very one-sided, and it makes for some good story-telling as the “playboy” learns Tess’s truth. It also offers some sweet sensitive moments.

Hart has constructed Luke to be more than just a playboy. This is seemingly so at first glance, but Luke is much more layered in his development. Yes, he loves women, and he connects with them in the way that most men like. However, he is sensitive, thoughtful, caring, and sacrificial. We see this from the start in that he leaves California to come home to care for his family’s business. While there is more to the decision, it still shows that he is more than just a playboy out to bed women. He cares deeply for those he loves. Luke, very quickly in the story, moves from being a lothario to emotionally intelligent. I loved his evolution, and as a reader, fell deeply in love with Hart’s rendering of him. 

“He was kind and giving to measures of absolute certainty. He sacrificed himself for others, even when it cost him dearly. He shouldered responsibility for things that were not his to be responsible for. He was steady and sure in ways I never thought he could be, in ways that had brought Wendy across the country strictly to seek safety in him…Even now, even having endured what she’d put him through, I believe he would try to help her, do what he could to ensure her security. And if I gave him the chance, he would do the same for me. More, if I let him. I wanted to let him. And I wanted to give him everything he had given to me.”

Conversely, Tess is your typical cerebral heroine. She thinks before she acts. Her head rules her heart, and she can be annoying to the reader because her internal struggle keeps her away from the hero. However, Tess is any woman who has ever feared jumping first, thinking later. While she is more cerebral than some heroines, her chest holds a deep and caring heart. In fact, she chooses the happiness and care of others over her own. Through Tess, Hart shows her readers the necessity for self-care and living one’s life, not just simply existing in it. Much like reading Luke’s evolution, there is something deeply satisfying in Tess’s changes. 

Together, Luke and Tess make a whole. He pushes her towards adventure and spontaneity, while Tess grounds Luke more than even his family. It’s this wholeness that makes this story a beautiful read. There is some angst in the book, but really Luke and Tess’s story is more beautiful than destructive. As they work together to make the flower shop successful, I looked forward to each new change. In each new change, their relationship moved from the physical to the emotional and there inlaid the beauty of the story. 

“We went up like a torch in a twist, a tangle of arms, our bodies locked and seeking the other. There was no space — the flame had devoured the distance, the air, her and me. Consumed.”

I think Staci Hart won me over even more with Coming Up Roses, the first in a new series. From the other family members who made me laugh out loud and love them for the ways they loved each other to Tess and Luke’s coupling, this book brought a light to my day. Having read some heavy, angsty romances lately, Staci Hart’s newest book breathed fresh air into my day and my heart. 

“But looking at my parents, looking at what I had with Tess, I realized love was more than that. It was equality. Respect. Trust.”

In love and romance,

Professor A

Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+++++

“It’s a ritual without meaning…If we can’t assign meaning to what we’re doing, then how will we know if we’re doing it right?”

Have you ever put a puzzle together, striving for the final moments when you can finally see the picture before you? Each piece provides a part of this bigger picture, this greater being. Everyone believes the finish is the most important. However, each piece and its placement is as important as the final product. This is the feel behind Sierra Simone’s Thornchapel series. You cannot see the finished portrait, rendering, story. Instead, each of these books, Feast of Sparks, her newest book, included, is the piece towards the end. And it’s this realization while reading it that both excites and frustrates you, much like putting a puzzle together. 

There is so much that swirls in my head in the shadow of reading this book. As I was sitting down to put my thoughts together on Simone’s book, my head swirled with thoughts. What should I include in my review? Should I focus again on Simone’s use of polyamory or varied coupling in the book to underscore the idea of love? Yet, she’s done this before in The American Camelot series. Should I focus on belief or the God factor and its influence over the choices of the characters? No. That discussion has happened in Priest. Time and again in this book, my focus was drawn to the nature of Thornchapel and its surroundings because Simone draws that for us time and again in Feast of Sparks (and the prior one, A Lesson in Thorns). What I know about Simone’s stories is her intentionality in her choices. There is a reason that nature, the wild of this place, is crafted for us. Even more, there is a collective consciousness in this story, a connection through ritual between the past and the present…and I imagine, the future. The six (Auden, Saint, Proserpina, Rebecca, Delphine, and Becket) are connected to their ancestors and their parents through their study and use of the rituals. There is something big here…and I’m not sure I have it fully worked out in my head, to be honest. But it excites me, and I think Simone is pointing us to the idea that our rituals build our mythology and connect us to our past as a way to absolve our future or maybe it’s to question our beliefs in our families, in a religion, in our self. If you simply focus on this alone, what you find is the genius of Sierra Simone and the reason I will always read her books. Feast of Sparks is a reminder of the depth of Simone’s storytelling, of the careful crafting of her characters, and of the headiness of her thinking as she pours this trauma-filled, love-driven erotic story on the page. And it’s magnificent to say the least.

While this book is seemingly St. Sebastian’s story (and it is heavily favored towards him), it is actually everyone’s story, just as A Lesson in Thorns. Each character is given chapters like the first book in the series. However, St. Sebastian’s story consumes more of this book. You will find out the trouble between St. Sebastian and Auden. I’ll be honest. Reading that story on the page grew my anticipatory anxiety the most. I want them to forgive each other and move forward in their relationship with Poe; however, Simone makes you patiently wait on their story. I found myself taking more breaks in reading this book than any Sierra Simone book before me (well, except maybe for Priest). She has a way of crafting Feast of Sparks that there were crescendo moments that the story builds to, and waves of discomfort wash over you until the resolution. I personally love those moments, but they make me nervous for the characters because I want a specific resolution for them…and I’m never sure if my resolution matches the author’s (in this case Simone’s). This emotional unraveling is my love for Sierra Simone. I want to feel deeply, as I do here, when I read. That should be an author’s intent, and Feast of Sparks pulled so many emotions out of me that I had to stop and relish those feelings before moving forward into the story. That’s delicious to me. That’s my biggest warning with this book: it will make you feel a myriad of emotions and feelings, and you’ll need to find a way to deal with that menagerie of angst, joy, and lust.

On the feeling of lust, as any Sierra Simone reader knows, she has a corner on erotica. Anything goes in a Simone book, and Feast of Sparks in no different. In fact, in my opinion, this book is steamier than A Lesson in Thorns. Even more, the $exiness begins fairly early in this book. And it doesn’t disappoint. While dealing with the theme of open love, this book, as was suggested in the first book of the series, is also focused on Dom/sub relationships. Notice the plural as this is the case with this book. If you struggle to read a Simone book given her language and depth of ideas, you can count on, especially in this book, reading $ex at its most tangible and erotic.

Additionally, I believe Simone is using the rituals in this book to highlight the situation of the relationships in the story. In A Lesson in Thorns, the Thornchapel six engage in Imbolc, and it highlights the change from innocence, specifically Poe’s innocence. In Feast of Sparks, the ritual is Beltane, a spring ritual meant for new beginnings and the start of spring. In this story, new beginnings abound: Auden and St. Sebastian, Auden/St. Sebastian/Poe, Rebecca/Delphine, Becket and his understanding of his relationship to his priestly vows, etc. Even more, it’s the beginning of understanding themselves as both individuals and as a group. Truth in identity runs like a ribbon through this book. As the six engage in a ritual, it acts as a metaphor for their personal growth in the story. Again, it’s the genius of Simone’s writing. Everything is intentionally created to highlight or underscore the significance of the people in the story. 

For relationships to occur, however, one needs characters. Feast of Sparks provides more development of these characters in its progression of the story. Simone gives us 6 (I’d actually argue 7, as Thornchapel/Thornhill/nature is a character in this story) characters, and they are so varied that you can find yourself, the reader, in at least one of them (or at least parts of yourself). When you spy yourself in some part of a character, you empathize, you connect with them, and the story becomes more palpable. 

Even more Simone is working with the construct of queer in her book. Interestingly enough, two of the characters label themselves (or are labeled) as such: St. Sebastian and Rebecca. However, the other three never conceive that label for themselves, even though they engage in queer activities. This is interesting because it illustrates the flexibility within this term, as it suggests that labels are reductive to a certain degree. Even though Rebecca defines herself as gay, she readily kisses Aude (that’s no real spoiler), blurring the lines of labels. It’s this that I love about Sierra Simone. There are shadows of this truth in her other books. $exuality is constructed in a moment, she is suggesting, through her character’s actions. She might also be suggesting that $exual preference and one’s actions can only be defined by the person, not a societal definition. If I’ve lost you in my discussion of this aspect of the book, well, you’re in good company. But it’s ideas like this that elevate Simone’s stories, Feast of Sparks included, above other romances. As I noted at the beginning of this review, her books are intentional craftsmanship. That is the beauty of her writing. 

Even more, nature is its own character in this book. It’s represented in Thornchapel and Thornhill. It’s represented in Thorncombe, the surrounding area. And it is purposefully detailed. In early American literature, the wilderness represents unbridled, true human nature. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne removes to nature where her lust is fulfilled. It’s where her truth resides. In ordered society, she is spurned, made an exile. However, nature gives her a reprieve from that stricture. Much like Prynne, the characters of this book engage with this character, nature, to fulfill their truth. In the Thornchapel, in the house, in the graveyard, all places where Simone details the space, societal rules are removed, and the characters are able to explore their elemental being. Auden and St. Sebastian realize their relationship in the wilds of the graveyard. Beltane is performed in nature. This character acts to free the others from the confines of their daily lives, from its rules, so they can be free to live as themselves and together. When you understand how nature performs in this story, again, you can’t help but admire Sierra Simone’s story even more as it, once again, shows her intentionality, her storytelling. 

This story is incomplete. Feast of Sparks does not end the series and its overarching story; it simply presents another beginning towards its end, another piece of the puzzle. This book is also so much more than I’ve put forth here in this review. I could write a seminar paper on the imagery and metaphor, on the way in which Simone uses mythology to point to the truths of the characters in this story. Even more, this book holds greater truths about belief (or disbelief), identity, longing, respect for the past, collective memory with our ancestors, the difficulties of love, and power. Sierra Simone’s Thornhill series is much more than your average romance. Feast of Sparks and its siblings will challenge you; it will titillate you; above all, it will make you believe in a love without bounds, a love meant beyond space and time, a love meant, I think, to heal the wounds of the past; it’s a romance for the ages. And it will be one of my top reads of 2019.

In love and romance, 

Professor A

Cruel Prince (Royal Hearts Academy #1) by Ashley Jade
Release Date: August 20th

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Blurb:
Welcome to their kingdom…

I never thought I’d step foot in Royal Manor again.
But five years later, here I am…back to finish my senior year at Royal Hearts Academy.

And forced to face Jace Covington.
My first friend. First crush. First kiss.
The one I left behind.

Only—he isn’t the same boy I gave my heart to.

This new Jace is as cruel as he is gorgeous.
And he’s determined to make my life a living hell.
Along with the rest of his glorified family and crew of tyrants.

They expect me to worship the ground they walk on like everyone else, but I’d rather eat dirt.

If Jace Covington wants me gone…he’ll have to try harder.
Because I’ve never been the kind of girl to play by the rules.

WARNING: Royal Hearts Academy is a New Adult/High School series of standalones filled with drama, a touch of angst, and boys who are bad to the bone.

This series is recommended for mature readers due to graphic language and sexual content.

About the Author:
Ashley Jade loves to tackle different genres and tropes within romance. Her first loves are New Adult Romance and Romantic Suspense, but she also writes everything in between including: contemporary romance, 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. She’s always read books growing up and scribbled stories in her journal, and after having a strange dream one night; she decided to just go for it and publish her first series.

It was the best decision she ever made.

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.

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

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I told a judge I was engaged to my best friend.

Now we’re faking it.

How hard can it be?

Best Fake Fiance, an all-new sexy and hilarious single dad romance from Roxie Noir, is coming August 14th and we have the hot cover!

My life has room for exactly two women: my daughter Rusty and my best friend Charlotte — known to everyone as Charlie.

One is a feisty, tomboyish firecracker. The other is my seven-year-old. I can’t imagine life without either.

So when my ex springs a custody hearing on me, I find myself telling the judge that I’m engaged to Charlie.

The only problem? I’m not.

Time to fake an engagement.

Pretending we’re a couple will be no big deal.

We’ve been friends for years. We used to sneak cigarettes behind the bleachers. We turned cans of hairspray into flamethrowers. We got drunk on stolen malt liquor.

She’s beautiful, vivacious, spontaneous, and she loves my daughter to death. It’s the perfect answer: we fake it for a few months, then go back to our lives.

Until we touch, and sparks fly. Until I can’t take my eyes off her. Until I can’t stop thinking about what she’s got on under her coveralls.

It takes one kiss.

One touch.

One shared secret and suddenly, I’m not pretending anymore. I want her, I need her in ways I didn’t know I could.

But there’s a lifetime of friendship between us, and falling in love with Charlie could risk everything.

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About Roxie

I love writing sexy, alpha men and the headstrong women they fall for.

My weaknesses include: beards, whiskey, nice abs with treasure trails, sarcasm, cats, prowess in the kitchen, prowess in the bedroom, forearm tattoos, and gummi bears.

I live in California with my very own sexy, bearded, whiskey-loving husband and two hell-raising cats.

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Everyone hates part of their job, and I hate Luke Bennet.

Coming Up Roses, an all-new must read enemies to lovers romantic comedy from Staci Hart is available now!

Everyone hates parts of their job.

Maybe it’s the paperwork. Maybe it’s the day-to-day grind. Maybe it’s that client who never knows what they want, or the guy who always cooks fish in the microwave.

But not me. I love every corner of the Longbourne Flower Shop, every flower, every petal, every stem. I love the greenhouse, and I love Mrs. Bennet, my boss. I love creating, and I love being a florist. I don’t hate anything at all.

Except for Luke Bennet.

The Bennet brothers have come home to help their mom save the flower shop, and Luke is at the helm. His smile tells a tale of lust, loose and easy. He moves with the grace of a predator, feral and wild. A thing unbridled, without rules or constraint.

When he comes home to save Longbourne, I almost can’t be mad at him.

Almost.

He doesn’t remember that night I’ll never forget. That kiss, touched with whiskey and fire. It branded me like a red-hot iron. But it meant nothing to him.

Everyone hates part of their job, and I hate Luke Bennet.

Because if I don’t, I’ll fall in love with him.

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Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life — a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can’t forget that. She’s also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She’s been a wife, though she’s certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She’s also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she’s been drinking whiskey.

From roots in Houston to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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FEAST OF SPARKS (Thornchapel #2) by Sierra Simone
Release Date: August 1st
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A LESSON IN THORNS (Thornchapel #1)
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Blurb:
I’m an outcast and a loner, named for death itself. Fate wasn’t supposed to have plans for me.

But then she came back—the girl I once kissed in a thorn-covered chapel in the woods. She came back, and I could no more resist her than I could pry out my own heart. And by some trick of fate, she wants me as much as I want her. The only problem? She also wants the man who owns Thornchapel, Auden Guest.

And so do I.

Eight years ago, I did something to Auden, something terrible. He hurt me back the only way he knew how, and so here we are: our hatred seasoned with pain and my loneliness seasoned with longing. The only thing we can agree on is Proserpina Markham, and she wants us to find a way to be together—all three of us.

If Auden wants to earn her as his submissive, then he has to earn me as well.

But with the discovery of bones behind the altar and the carnal revel of Beltane fast approaching, it’s becoming clear that Thornchapel’s secrets are much deeper and older than any of us could have ever guessed. And no matter how bright and merry a feast of sparks may be, it’s always followed by ashes.

And darkness.

Excerpt:
Shame, hot and prickling, needles everywhere at my face and chest and belly as I begin to bend down to the floor. The cool air that caresses my p***y is now everywhere as the position begins to expose my most secret flesh, and there’s no pretending away the reality of what I’m doing. I’m doing something I’ve never done before, I’m offering up the filthiest part of me for inspection, and despite everything the three of us have shared in the past twenty-four hours, I’m flooded with shame. It’s real shame now, not play-shame, and my safe word floats to the top of my mind, a buoy in the clear waters.

Convivificat.

I don’t want to safe out right now, I’m nowhere near the edge, but it’s nice to have it there all the same. Reassuring. There’s nothing they can do that I can’t stop.

And anyway, this is who I am—who I’ve been growing into ever since I found the words to define it.

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Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

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