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✍🏻 It’s Release Day for Logan Chance! The NewlyFEDS is LIVE! ✍🏻

The NewlyFEDS

By Logan Chance

Release Date: May 9th

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Blurb:

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Logan Chance, comes a laugh-out-loud
fake relationship, enemies-to-lovers standalone romantic comedy.

How deep undercover will these two go to catch the bad guy?

Special Agent Vin Mills has everything he’s ever wanted. Sweet job. Rock
hard abs. An ass you can bounce a coin off of. And a money laundering mob
boss who’s about to go down.

The only thing standing in his way is fresh off the desk bombshell in
heels, Special Agent Addison Buckley. She’s just destined to screw
everything up.

Addison Buckley has one thing she wants—a promotion. The only thing
standing in her way is egotistical and tattooed hottie, Vin Mills. The
department wants them to pose as newlyweds and blend with the residents in
one of the most prestigious and nosy neighborhoods in Colorado. A few
touches, a few kisses, no problem.

Saying and doing are two different things, and this is one game of
espionage these two rivals never bargained for.

Will these NewlyFEDS be able to catch the bad guys, or get caught under
cover first?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Logan Chance is a USA Today and Top 20 Amazon Bestselling Author with a
quick wit and penchant for the simple things in life: Star Wars, music, and
smart girls who love to read. He was nominated best debut author for the
Goodreads Choice Awards in 2016. His works can be classified as Dramedies
(Drama+Comedies), featuring a ton of laughs and many swoon worthy,
heartfelt moments.

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✍🏻 Book SALE! Shayla Black and Lexi Blake Their Virgin Captive is $.99 NOW! ✍🏻

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Brothers Gavin, Slade, and Dex, fall hard for Gavin’s new secretary, beautiful Hannah Craig. The oil executives know they must give her time to get to know them before she can choose one . . . who will seduce the virgin and keep her for his own. But when a dangerous predator begins stalking the small-town beauty, they work together to protect her, abducting Hannah and spiriting her to an isolated hideaway. Once alone with her, none of them can contain their burning desire. Though Slade and Dex don’t mind sharing, Gavin’s tragic past has put distance between him and his brothers. Now, they’re hoping that not only will Hannah love them back . . . but may be mend their fractured family.

After overcoming her initial fears, the men teach her wild pleasure she’s never imagined. She grows closer to each, their devotion melting her inhibitions. Hannah finds herself embracing love with all three men—and hoping she can heal Gavin’s wounded soul. But her new found happiness turns to terror when her stalker finds her. Will Gavin, Slade and Dex lose their woman to a menace that threatens everything they hold dear, or will they finally unite to make Hannah theirs forever?

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✍🏻 It’s Cover Reveal Day for Aly Martinez! The Regret Duet ✍🏻

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The Regret Duet, an all-new emotional duet from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez, is coming May 23rd and we have the gorgeous covers!

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Written With Regret

Releasing May 23rd

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Every little girl dreams of the fairytale. The one where the white knight rushes in to save her from the clutches of evil. They fall in love, have babies, and live happily ever after.

By that definition, my life should have been a fairytale too.

When I was eight years old, Caven Hunt saved me from the worst kind of evil to walk the Earth. It didn’t matter that I was a kid. I fell in love with him all the same.

But that was where my fairytale ended.

Years later, a one-night stand during the darkest time imaginable gave us a little girl. It was nothing compared to the pitch black that consumed me when I was forced to leave her with Caven for good.

At the end of every fairytale, the happily-ever-after is the one thing that remains consistent. It wasn’t going to be mine, but there hadn’t been a night that passed where I hadn’t prayed that it would be hers.

I owed Caven my life.

However, I owed that innocent child more.

And that included ripping the heart from my chest and facing her father again.

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Written With You

Releasing June 13th

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When I was fifteen, a single bullet changed my life. I spent the next decade trying to outrun the devastation of my past, building an empire that would shield me from whatever life could throw at me.

But all the money in the world couldn’t help me when I found a screaming newborn abandoned on my doorstep.

I’d never wanted to be a father. Passing the sludge that ran through my veins down to an innocent child seemed like a tragedy. But there she was—pink cheeks, red hair, and mine.

Somehow, against all logic, that little girl became the best thing that ever happened to me. It was impossible to stay lost in the past when I was the only one who could protect her future.

Which is exactly why, when her mother came back four years later, I was ready for battle.

If only I could stop myself from falling in love with her during the war.

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Photography by Wander Aguiar

About Aly

Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children.

Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and olives. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.

She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.

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✍🏻 Blog Tour: Ilsa Madden-Mills’s Boyfriend Bargain ✍🏻

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“Who can turn down a sexy hockey star with a big . . . stick? Zack is hot hot hot, and Sugar is the perfect blend of sweet and sassy! Their chemistry sizzles in Boyfriend Bargain!”

— Melanie Harlow, USA Today bestselling author

Boyfriend Bargain, an all-new sexy and emotional sports romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills, is available now!

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Wanted: one hot guy with rock-hard abs and a big stick

Broke and desperate, Sugar Ryan has no use for arrogant, bad boy athletes . . . until she’s forced to bargain with the cockiest of them all.

If only he knew she was alive.

Her mission? Get on this hockey player’s radar any way possible.

Zack Morgan is the king of the ice and the bedroom—but nothing prepares him for the mystery girl who shows up everywhere he does—frat parties, his favorite bar, and finally his front door with an offer he can’t refuse. The only rule in her boyfriend bargain: no falling in love.

But after one (um, two) smoking-hot hookups, he’s done with pretending and vows to make their fake relationship real. Too bad she can’t trust a player with a reputation for breaking hearts.

Will this hockey star score his forever girl or will their Boyfriend Bargain end in heartbreak?

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Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

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Excerpt:

“We should kiss, just get it out of the way and move on,” I say, sure of the crazy idea as each second passes.

There’s a hitch in Z’s breath, and his eyes go straight to my lips. “Works for me.”

“But just one. None of that fancy tongue work.”

“Afraid of falling in love with me?” He grins.

Well. My eyes take in the broad shoulders and the dragon tattoo on his muscled chest. He’s definitely my type: pure, grade A male hotness—exactly what I don’t need. “I won’t fall in love.”

Another grin. “Liar.”


About Ilsa Madden-Mills

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her contemporary romances ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.

Seven of her ten novels have placed in the Amazon US Store Top Six Best-seller List: Dirty English hit #1; Fake Fiancée and I Dare You hit #2; I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things all placed #6 in the Amazon US Store.

The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, hit #4.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.
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✍🏻5-Star Review: Ilsa Madden-Mills’s Boyfriend Bargain ✍🏻

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You know that line from Field of Dreams: “If you build it, he will come”? For some reason, when I think of Ilsa Madden-Mills, I think “if she writes it, I will buy.” It is second nature for me to get excited for her books and covet them. She has this way of infusing humor and angst and characters with complicated pasts into her stories that you simply cannot stop reading. It’s like driving past an accident, you know you have to look. When Ilsa Madden-Mills writes a book, it has to go instantly into your Kindle library to read immediately. At least that’s the case with me.

Boyfriend Bargain is no different. I’m actually excited for the possibilities for any future books, as she has written a story rife with character stories that need to find purchase in other books. I’m talking specifically of the ancillary characters to Sugar and Zack (or Z), the stars of this book.

Like the ancillary characters, Sugar and Z are complicated and multi-dimensional. They bring such depth to this story of opposites attracting. Both are college students in their senior year. Sugar’s life is difficult. Her mother died when she was younger; she has a guardian, but she has had to work very hard for every penny to attend college. She carries with her “daddy issues” because he abandoned her, leaving a wake of hurt. Her sole purpose is proving that she is “good enough,” when she grew up feeling like an afterthought.

I felt myself in her story. Like Sugar, I too have “daddy issues” growing up feeling abandoned. In reading her pain on the page and understanding her initial reticence towards Z, I understood. I felt her feelings and knew her thoughts because I have felt and thought as she did. Madden-Mills captures her angst and fear beautifully on the page.

Z comes from a wealthy family, and it has been seemingly easy. He is the star hockey player at the university, a top draft pick destined for the NHL. However, he carries anxiety over high expectations for himself and guilt from a trauma in his teens. His story is a story for today, a time when mental health issues are receiving focus in the media for important reasons. With his story, Madden-Mills connects us to this timely topic, and his story reminds us of the importance of dealing with our feelings in meaningful and clinical ways.

Together, Z and Sugar fight against each other. I’ll be honest. There was a moment in their relationship when I didn’t know if I’d survive them. My heart hurt for their struggles, but I realized that this is life. Madden-Mills shows us, through their story, that we have to accept ourselves, make peace with our pasts, and live for today because this is all that we have.

Boyfriend Bargain is a poignant story of letting go to find love. Z and Sugar’s story is engaging and fiery and heartfelt. Ilsa Madden-Mills “built” a beautiful love story with her book, and this reader “came” to read and connect with the genius of a complicated, but satisfying story of opposites finding love and each other.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻Blog Tour: Well Suited by Staci Hart Buy This Book Now ✍🏻

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Well Suited, the final standalone in the Red Lipstick Coalition Series from Staci Hart, is available now!

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Chemistry is my love language.

I’ve always been able to separate feelings from chemosignals. A shot of dopamine, a dash of serotonin, and a sprinkle of oxytocin—and bam. You’re in love.

And when egg meets sperm, you’re pregnant.

I couldn’t even be surprised as I stared down at the little blue plus sign, because I knew exactly when and how, and with whom it happened.

When: approximately five weeks ago.
Who: one night stand.
How: prophylactic malfunction.

The upside? I don’t have to go looking for a suitable mate.

Genetically, he’s the cream of the crop. His musculature is a study in symmetry and strength, his height imposing and dominant. He is a man who thrives on control and command, a man who survives on intelligence and resourcefulness. A perfect male specimen.

And the whole package is wrapped up in a flawlessly tailored suit.

I’m having this baby, and he insists we’re well-suited to have it together. And what’s worse? He wants more, in the way of love and marriage.

But love isn’t real. It’s just a product of chemistry.

And if he changes my mind about that, we’re both in trouble.

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About the Author

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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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✍🏻 Happy Official Release Day, Ilsa Madden-Mills! Boyfriend Bargain is OUT & It’s a MUST READ!

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“Who can turn down a sexy hockey star with a big . . . stick? Zack is hot hot hot, and Sugar is the perfect blend of sweet and sassy! Their chemistry sizzles in Boyfriend Bargain!”

— Melanie Harlow, USA Today bestselling author

Boyfriend Bargain, an all-new sexy and emotional sports romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills, is available now!

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Wanted: one hot guy with rock-hard abs and a big stick

Broke and desperate, Sugar Ryan has no use for arrogant, bad boy athletes . . . until she’s forced to bargain with the cockiest of them all.

If only he knew she was alive.

Her mission? Get on this hockey player’s radar any way possible.

Zack Morgan is the king of the ice and the bedroom—but nothing prepares him for the mystery girl who shows up everywhere he does—frat parties, his favorite bar, and finally his front door with an offer he can’t refuse. The only rule in her boyfriend bargain: no falling in love.

But after one (um, two) smoking-hot hookups, he’s done with pretending and vows to make their fake relationship real. Too bad she can’t trust a player with a reputation for breaking hearts.

Will this hockey star score his forever girl or will their Boyfriend Bargain end in heartbreak?

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Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2DMnEuO

Amazon Worldwide: http://mybook.to/BoyfriendBargain

Add to GoodReads: http://bit.ly/2ISsCe9

About Ilsa Madden-Mills

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills is best known for her contemporary romances ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.

Seven of her ten novels have placed in the Amazon US Store Top Six Best-seller List: Dirty English hit #1; Fake Fiancée and I Dare You hit #2; I Bet You, Filthy English, and Very Bad Things all placed #6 in the Amazon US Store.

The Last Guy, her collaboration with Tia Louise, hit #4.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.
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❤︎❤︎ It’s LIVE! It’s LIVE EARLY! ❤︎❤︎ Ilsa Madden-Mills’s Boyfriend Bargain is AVAILABLE!


I finished this this morning, and it was EVERYTHING! Zack ❤️ Sugar are my new favorite couple.

✮ ✮ ✮ LIVE EARLY ✮ ✮ ✮
The #1 rule in this bargain: no falling in love.

Boyfriend Bargain, an all-new sexy sports romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills, is live EARLY!


Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2DMnEuO

Amazon Worldwide: http://mybook.to/BoyfriendBargain

Broke and desperate, Sugar Ryan has no use for arrogant, bad boy athletes . . . until she’s forced to bargain with the cockiest of them all. If only he knew she was alive. Her mission? Get on this hockey player’s radar any way possible. Zack Morgan is the king of the ice and the bedroom—but nothing prepares him for the mystery girl who shows up everywhere he does—frat parties, his favorite bar, and finally his front door with an offer he can’t refuse. The only rule in her boyfriend bargain: no falling in love. But after one (um, two) smoking-hot hookups, he’s done with pretending and vows to make their fake relationship real. Too bad she can’t trust a player with a reputation for breaking hearts. Will this hockey star score his forever girl or will their Boyfriend Bargain end in heartbreak?

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🖋 Release Boost: Julia Kent’s Fluffy. Available now! 🖋

Title: Fluffy
Author: Julia Kent
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Blurb
An all-new STANDALONE from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent
It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.
I’m a professional fluffer. It’s NOT what you think. I stage homes for a
living. Real estate agents love me, and my work stands on its own merits.
Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I’ll wait.
See? That’s the problem. My career has used the term “fluffer” for
decades. I didn’t even know there was a more… lascivious definition of the
term.
Until it was too late.
The ad for a “professional fluffer” on Craigslist seemed like divine
intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent
was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day.
The perfect job!
Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies
in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a “fluffer” doesn’t arrange
decorative pillows on a couch.
They arrange other soft, round-ish objects.
The job isn’t hard. Er, I mean, it is — it’s about being hard. Or, well…
helping other people to be hard.
Oh, man…
And that’s the other problem. A man. No, not one of the stars on the
movie set. Will Lotham – my high school crush. The owner of the house where
we’re filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.
By the time the cops show up, what I thought was just a great house
staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with a naked star,
Will rescuing me from an arrest, and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.
My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know
what’s easier than I ever imagined?
Having all my dreams come true.
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Excerpt
“I can’t tonight. I have a date,” I blurt out, remembering David. The dating app. The
asshole who isn’t an asshole.
Yet. I haven’t met him, so that judgment remains withheld.
“A date?” Will asks, intrigued.
“Yes. A date. You know, that thing where you go out with someone who has no intention of really getting to know you and you spend the entire time eating bread that doesn’t taste as good as your date claims and trying to decide whether to
initiate rescue-text sequences with your mom.”
“That’s your idea of a date?”
“That is my actual experience of every date I’ve had since college.”
“You’re dating the wrong guys.” He holds my gaze for just a little too long. I look
away.
“I have to keep fishing in the pond if I ever want to catch a different one.”
“If that’s the way you talk to your dates, I am beginning to understand why they all turn out so badly.”
“Hey!”
“What?”
“Don’t accuse me of being a bad date. I’m a great date! I Google the guy in advance and read his LinkedIn profile. I make sure I don’t wear super-tall heels in
case he lied about his height on his dating profile. I pretend to care about
all his hobbies and don’t reveal that I’m secretly tallying all the
micro-aggressions he’s sending my way during appetizers and wine. And if he
makes it to dessert, well–” I falter.
“You never make it to dessert, do you?” Will asks, eyebrows up. He drops them quickly, wincing.
“I–well–it’s not that I don’t. He doesn’t!”
“He ditches you?”
“No! No! It’s just that he always has a thing.”
“A thing?”
“A work emergency. Or a dog with a twisted bowel. Or a grandma in the ER.”
“How many guys used the twisted-canine-intestine thing?”
“Three.” I sit down and sag against his teenage desk, elbows sliding forward, fingers deep in my hair. “I looked it up. There’s an entire subreddit devoted to inventive ways to get out of a bad date.”
“And yet here you are.” He leans against the edge of his desk. “Trying again.”
“I’m a masochist.”
His eyes gleam. “Maybe you should start your dates with that line. ‘Hi. I’m Mallory
Monahan. I’m a masochist.’ You’d definitely make it to dessert.”
Author Bio
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent
writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult
rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she
writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for
a Billionaire
, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a
men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire). She lives in New England with
her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever,
down.
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✍🏻 4.5 Star Review: Staci Hart’s Well Suited ✍🏻

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+

I think if you look at my prior reviews you will notice how often I need to confess in my reviews. So here goes…Confession: This is my first Staci Hart book. I didn’t read the first three books in this series, and I know what I’ll be doing when I remove myself from ARC City and read my very full Kindle library. That being said, Well Suited reads easily as a standalone. You do not need to read the three other books to read this one. It will make you want to read those immediately, at least it did for me.

Synopsis:

Well Suited is the fourth (and I believe, final) book in The Red Lipstick Coalition series. It tells the story of Theodore (Theo) and Katherine (Kate) . Theo is the brother of Tommy, a character in Hart’s Work in Progress, and Kate is the friend to the girls in the other books in the series. Kate is a buttoned-up librarian who eschews feelings, namely love. Logic and science are her friends. Theo believes in love, and he hopes to one day marry and start a family. One night, they go dancing with their friends, and Theo and Kate feel an undeniable chemistry. Theo is drawn to Kate, while Kate feels the same connection. They engage in a seemingly steamy one-night stand, but Theo wants more after the night. Unfortunately, while Kate is attracted to him, she relies on logic to help her avoid him, wanting to avoid her attraction to him which are grounded in “feelings”. Until she finds out she is pregnant. Once Kate realizes she’s pregnant, she contacts Theo to inform him of her pregnancy and offer to allow him to be a part of the baby’s life. Believing he will decide to relinquish his responsibility, Kate is surprised when Theo is thrilled, asking Kate to move in with him and his family so he can participate in the pregnancy and child-rearing. Kate agrees; however, she is intent on keeping the relationship platonic/friendly, which is unfortunately difficult as she feels a connection/attraction to him. Their friendship grows into deeper feelings, yet Kate doesn’t “do” feelings and the situation becomes complicated. Therein lies the struggle of this story.

What I Loved about Well Suited

  • First and foremost, Theodore. I loved him. From the start, he endears himself to the reader because he is just. so. amazing. He really “sees” Kate in a way that her friends and, definitely, her family do not. It is this level of attention that allows him to anticipate her needs and wants throughout the story. He makes only one error in caring for her, but it is such that your heart actually breaks for him instead of Kate. He is chivalrous, caring, and thoughtful. He is the type of man who allows the h to be herself while offering more support. I was sold on him “hook, line, and sinker.” “The upside to my unforeseen path was that I didn’t have to wait to find a suitable mate. I’d already found one.”
  • The other characters. Kate’s friends, Amelia, Val, and Rin, represent the possibilities of relationships for Kate. They become her foils, illustrating her disdain for relationships and feelings through their experiences. They balance her and become her “voices of reason” at times. These four together embody all that is right with womanhood. They support, trust, and love each other, leaving cattiness out of their relationship. Additionally, Tommy and Theo and Tommy’s mother, Sarah, provide more of Theo’s story. They represent his support and his past and present. Without them, he cannot be the caring hero, as he provides support for them just as he does for Kate. He practiced his caring nature on them before Kate. Lastly, Kate’s parents provide the comic relief along with the strife of the story. They are everything Kate refuses to be, and the contrast between the two provide some of the comical moments of the story. However, Kate’s mother also underscores Kate’s need for order and logic.
  • The story. Staci Hart fleshes out Kate and Theo’s story well. She draws us in month by month until the end, and the reader cannot put the story down because there is a HEA to be had. There are so many moments in this story when there is peace between Theo and Kate, but just around the corner, “winter is coming” because the H/h have different goals. As the reader, you anticipate this, and it pulls you along.

My Struggle with Well-Suited

  • Katherine/Kate. I love a strong woman heroine. When a heroine is confident in herself, I swoon, just as I do for a strong hero. But Kate, quite honestly, reads like she has Asperger’s. I struggled to connect with her because she is too stubborn. Believe me, I understand her past and the waves it creates in her present, but she creates struggles in her life when they aren’t necessary. Yes, I know this is a romance, and this is necessary for the development of the story, but I wanted to like her more. Quite honestly, I thought she was fairly mean to Theo, and he patiently loved her through it (which leads me back to the first bullet point of my list above). Maybe if I had read her in the first three books, my view of her would be different, but in this book, her character made it difficult to read at times.

Katherine and Theodore are not opposites. They are simply two sides of the same coin. Through their story, Staci Hart’s Well Suited suggests that we can oftentimes miss the blessing in front of us because we cannot move beyond our fears. Katherine almost misses on finding her HEA because her fear of love blinds her to her soulmate. Thankfully, she realizes it before the book ends, reminding us that it is never too late to open our hearts.

In love and romance,

Professor A