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✍🏻 “You’re a wanderer with dreams too vast to walk a straight line…” Jewel E. Ann’s first book of her Sunday Morning series, Sunday Morning, is LIVE! This is required reading for your weekend. ✍🏻

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Sunday Morning by Jewel E. Ann is now live! 

A small-town, forbidden, standalone, new adult romance with Footloose meets A Star is Born vibes from USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Jewel E. Ann

Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s a sinful temptation.

Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s richest rancher.

But Sarah’s not sure he’s her future husband, especially when his older brother, Isaac, returns home after serving six years in the Army. He has tattoos on his arms and bad habits that are not “father-approved.”

When he’s not working on the ranch or roping at the rodeo, Isaac hangs out in the barn, playing his guitar. He’s trouble, but Sarah’s music-loving heart gravitates toward him.

Isaac loves consuming Sarah’s mind, crawling under her skin, backing her into corners, and whispering inappropriate things in her innocent ears.

After weeks of playful banter and guitar lessons blurring the line between right and wrong, Issac makes Sarah a proposition she can’t refuse.

But when the unthinkable happens, and everything she knows is destroyed, will Sarah make the right choice?

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Meet Jewel E. Ann

Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author 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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✍🏻 Devney Perry’s Crossroads IS one of my favorite reads this month as well as a top read for 2024. I could not put down Indya and West’s story, gobbling it in an afternoon of reading. It’s HERE! Jump into the Haven River Ranch series NOW! ✍🏻

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Crossroads by Devney Perry is now live! 

A sweeping small-town romance about love, loss, and a Montana legacy from USA Today bestselling author Devney Perry.

I met West Haven when I was eight years old. He taught me to play poker when I was nine, and we made paper airplanes together when I was eleven. He kissed me when I was sixteen. He was the best part about my family’s summer vacations to Montana. He was the boy who stole my heart. I was twenty-three when life ripped us apart.

Years later, I’m breaking my vow and returning to the ranch, not as a guest but its new owner. West might want me gone, but even he has to admit the only way to save his family’s legacy is with my help.

It’s not easy working side by side and facing those old memories. But this situation is only temporary. We’re at a crossroads. And as long as I don’t let myself fall in love with West Haven again, maybe this is our chance to put those ghosts to rest. Maybe this time we’ll finally be able to say goodbye.

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Excerpt/Sneak Peek

✍🏻 Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway for Kristen Ashley’s Avenging Angel, coming April 2nd ✍🏻

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I have an exclusive excerpt and a GIVEAWAY for Kristen Ashley next release, Avenging Angel! Peeps…I finished this yesterday, and it’s PERFECTION. 👠 💛

If you’re a KA fan, and you love her Rock Chicks/Hot Bunch, you should already have preordered it. If you haven’t, or if you’re new to Kristen Ashley, check out this exclusive excerpt here and preorder it NOW:

𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭

“Can I go now?”

When he leaned into his elbows on his desk, fingers linked, resting his chin on them, and penetrated me with his perfect jade stare, I figured that was a no.

“Do you know where you are?” he asked.

“No,” I answered.

“Do you know who we are?” he went on with a slight jerk of his head to Chris.

“Well, that’d be nice to know, considering we’re spending so much time together,” I told him.

“I’m Kai Mason.”

Why was that name familiar?

“And that’s Julien Jackson,” he continued on another slight jerk to Chris…or Julien.

I felt a strange, but far from unpleasant, electrical pulse jolt through me at learning his name.

Well then.

I ignored the pulse and focused on the fact that I liked his name. It was unusual, at least his first name was. It didn’t really look like him, but it also did, in an odd way.

“And considering you’re the Avenging Angel, you probably should know who the players are on the street,” Kai Mason carried on.

Uh-oh.

Seemed he knew more than just my name.

I sat back, clasped my hands in my lap and tried really hard not to suck my lips between my teeth in order to bite them, that being in order not to groan at my own stupidity.

Mental note: A girl can be sassy, but no one should be cocky.

“What are you talking about?” I asked.

Mason sat back too, in order to be more comfortable when he shared, “This is Nightingale Investigations and Security.”

“Okay,” I said slowly.

His lips quirked like he found me amusing.

The gall!

Even if I couldn’t bust open a door, I was kickass, not amusing!

At this point, Jackson moved. He lifted his hands and pretended to type on the keyboard.

He did this saying, “Look it up when you get home.”

ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴡɪɴ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴏғ ᴀᴠᴇɴɢɪɴɢ ᴀɴɢᴇʟ? ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇᴀᴡᴀʏ…

1) Tell me your fav Kristen Ashley book/character or one of her books you’d LOVE to read.

2) Tag a friend

3) Follow me!

I will select ONE person for a copy of this book. US residents only!

𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟓𝐭𝐡.

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 4 ⭐️ Review: Lexi Blake’s Start Us Up, book 1 of the Park Avenue Promise series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Tropes: band of sisters; standalone in an interconnected series; intelligent STEM heroine; golden retriever hero; rom-com; workplace romance; close proximity; grump/sunshine; starting over; office romance; found family; returning to hometown; insta-attraction

Lexi Blake’s Start Us Up reminds readers of her versatility as a romance writer. She pivots so easily from rom-com to romantic suspense to MFM to paranormal/fantasy romance to women’s fiction that she makes it look easy for her readers. Start Us Up shows the spark she has for writing as she details the journey of Ivy Jensen, her two best friends, Anika and Harper, and her hero, Heath Marino. There is much to like about this new story: a band of sisters/close friends which drives this new series, the Park Avenue Promise series; Heath’s general easiness with Ivy, who is strong and independent, but struggling with the imposition of failure; a found family that is diverse and progressively feminist; and a sweet story sprinkled with the angst of failure and parental strife. I love that Lexi Blake’s Start Us Up highlights women who are decided and tenacious in their career-chase, but messy in their lives. She has written main female characters who are likable and provoking, and she partners them with characters who hold the wisdom of age and the insight of having lived entangled lives. These make the romance intriguing and loveable. 

My biggest issue, however, lies with the believability of Heath and Ivy’s romance. Two issues complicate their chemistry: the one-person POV (Ivy’s) and the instant attraction. Coupling these together makes it difficult to “buy” how quickly Heath reads Ivy and endures her temperament so they can become romantic. If we had his POV, it would be more easier to accept them. If we had a dual POV with the instant attraction, again, it would be more acceptable for their pairing. My difficulty in believing their easy coupling is my reason for a 4-star review. 

Beyond that, I will absolutely be ready for Anika’s story, coming next in the series. If the synopsis at the end is any indication, I predict some exciting things for Anika and her besties in future stories. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 The Next Generation is coming! Lexi Blake’s Love The Way You Spy, the first book of her Masters & Mercenaries: New Recruits series, is coming September 19th! I’m so ready for the antics of this next generation with Papa Tag at the helm. ✍🏻

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Lexi Blake has revealed the gorgeous cover for Love the Way You Spy!

Releasing: September 19, 2023

Cover Designer: Frauke Spanuth

Tasha Taggart isn’t a spy. That’s her sisters’ job. Tasha’s support role is all about keeping them alive, playing referee when they fight amongst themselves, and soothing the toughest boss in the world. Working for the CIA isn’t as glamorous as she imagined, and she’s more than a little lonely. So when she meets a charming man in a bar the night before they start their latest op, she decides to give in to temptation. The night was perfect until she discovers she’s just slept with the target of their new investigation. Her sisters will never let her hear the end of this. Even worse, she has to explain the situation to her overprotective father, who also happens to be their boss.

Dare Nash knew exactly how his week in Sydney was going to go—attending boring conferences to represent his family’s business interests and eating hotel food alone. Until he falls under the spell of a stunning and mysterious American woman. Something in Tasha’s eyes raises his body temperature every time she looks at him. She’s captivating, and he’s committed to spending every minute he can with her on this trip, even if her two friends seem awfully intense. His father will be arriving in town soon, and he’s excited to introduce him to a woman he could imagine spending the rest of his life with.

When Dare discovers Tash isn’t who she seems, the dream turns into a nightmare. She isn’t the only one who deceived him, and now he’s in the crosshairs of adversaries way out of his league. He can’t trust her, but it might take Tasha and her family to save his life and uncover the truth.

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Meet Lexi


New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.

Connect with Lexi

Website: www.lexiblake.net

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