Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 06-21-2024

LIVE & #4 ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE!! FAKE GIRLFRIEND WITH THE FAMOUS QUARTERBACK!

“...I didn’t come here planning to sneak into a private party and meet a handsome stranger. I definitely didn’t come here expecting for that stranger to be Preston Rhodes—billionaire and superstar quarterback for the Manhattan Mambas.

And that’s not even the crazy part. He asked me to be his pretend girlfriend for a week while his family is in town...”

LIVE!! SHE’S IN NEED OF MONEY & BECOMES HIS ASSISTANT (and he’s always had a crush on her)…

“…Noah Belacourt is a billionaire with a newly acquired anxiety diagnosis and a one-way ticket to Sunset Harbor for the summer, courtesy of his company’s board of directors. Being on the island he grew up on for a forced sabbatical has a major perk when he runs into the girl he’s harbored a crush on since they were teens. She’s still the same old Cat, except now she’s in some major financial trouble. Noah wants to help her, but Cat is stubborn. She holds onto past biases about his family and takes some convincing.

When Cat agrees to work as Noah’s personal assistant for the summer, she doesn’t realize she’s signing up for a lot more than debt relief...”

PSYCH-THRILLER SUPER-BARGAIN!!

“…Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer—traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family’s sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa’s past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina....”

Maria: It is SO good!!!!

Julie: I liked this book and definitely could see it as a movie….

Michelle G: Pretty Things is definitely still my fave by her.

SUPER-BARGAIN PSYCH THRILLER!! Oh this sounds SOOOOO GOOOD!!

“...It’s been ten years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie’s case was unearthed. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a café, no one is more surprised than Laurel at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters—and his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurel’s breath away.

Because looking at Poppy is like looking at Ellie...”

Linda: Stayed up way to late last night to finish a fantastic read!! Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewel. Couldn’t read fast enough!!! Kept me totally engaged even though an uncomfortable storyline for me. *****

Donna: Loved it!

Kat: I read this!!! And really enjoyed it

THE ROCK STAR THAT’S INTO HER!!

“...Tyler Robertson is a music manager. Cary Kingston is the biggest rock star in the world. She’s sworn off dating musicians. And he’s a confirmed bachelor.

But when their working relationship turns into something more, she wonders if she’s falling for the rock star or the person...”

BARGAIN FIND!! MARITAL STRIFE!! THEY ARE HAPPILY MARRIED & DON’T WANT CHILDREN… until one of them suddenly does…

“...she’s never wanted to become a mother–which she discovers is a major hurdle to marriage, something she desperately wants. Then she meets her soul mate Ben who, miraculously, feels the same way about parenthood. The two fall in love and marry, committed to one another and their life of adventure and discovery. All’s well until one of them has a change of heart. Someone wants a baby after all...”

RECENT RELEASE & NANCY 5 STAR LOVED IT!

Nancy: YOU BEAUTIFUL THING, YOU by Saffron A. Kent Author, just finished reading yesterday. It is 468 pages of Bad-Boy!

…She has written a lot of characters that are bad boys, but there has never been one as awful as Ledger Thorne. He earns the title of the worst bad boy “hero?” character of them all! The girl heroine who is stalking him, is not an angel either.

…I won’t tell anymore of the story as I think it is better to go in blind. It is definitely adult reading!

LIVE & #7 ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE!! MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE W/ A HOCKEY STAR !! A fake marriage with a single dad wasn’t on my dance card but there are worse ways to start the summer.

“...Our story didn’t begin the night I agreed to marry Deacon Kane to help him keep his daughter. It started ten years ago, with a hotshot hockey player I couldn’t wait to see each summer. He was big, broad, and filled out his board shorts so damn nicely. But holy hell… The memories of teenage Deacon don’t hold a candle to the man he is now, the one who makes me melt each time he says, “my wife.”

What was supposed to be a marriage of convenience quickly spirals into something else...” 

LIVE!! A FAKE AGREEMENT WITH A HOCKEY STAR THAT GOT HER PREGNANT!

“…Pickle number one: I’m unexpectedly pregnant by an NHL star, who just so happens to be my big brother’s best friend—and no, we weren’t exactly dating. For reasons that totally make sense (trust me for now), I never told him about the baby.

Pickle number two: I’m about to lose my family’s charming bed and breakfast unless I can get hitched within six months, thanks to an ancient deed and a ridiculous family feud. So I made a deal with the baby’s dad, Jake Summers—the dashing captain of the Vermont Vandals hockey team….”

LIVE!! HER STEPSISTER’S BILLIONAIRE EX…

“…when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.

I shouldn’t give in to temptation, he is my stepsister’s ex-fiancé after all...”

LIVE!! THINGS SEEMED PERFECT, and then…

“…After putting her would-be-murderer behind bars, Claire Hartley is determined to get back to planning elaborate marriage proposals and exploring her undefined relationship with grumpy filmmaker Luke. If she could just kick her new sleepwalking habit, everything would be perfect.

Unfortunately, perfect isn’t in the cards for Claire when her archnemesis slaps her with a lawsuit, someone from her past comes knocking, and she becomes the target of mysterious threats that feel oddly familiar…”

DARK WHY CHOOSE ROMANCE – THEY JOINED “THE HUNT”…

“…First he made me his. Now he’s going to share me.

As I screamed my surrender into the dirt and fallen leaves, I didn’t even know his name. He didn’t tell me he would come for me again. But instinct did.

And when he hunts me down this time, he won’t be doing it alone…”

LIVE!! SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!!

“...Ava Harrington, brilliant billionaire businesswoman, has conquered the world. And yet, scarred by a love lost fifteen years ago, she’s built a wall around her heart, swearing off love forever.

Ransom Yates’s culinary genius has taken him to the pinnacle of success as a magnetic celebrity chef. But that success came at a devastating price when he left behind the woman who held the key to his heart. Their reunion is anything but sweet when Ava must swallow her pride and seek Ransom’s help…”

NOT BOOK RELATED BUT… CROCS!!! SOOOOO CUTE! I BOUGHT THESE in pink and in black. I saw them in a Facebook ad (have you seen it?) – on the model, and I HAD to have them. Next, I’m buying the whitish-cream colored ones.

Super comfortable, low-profile, and feminine flip flops and I’m all about them!!!

P.S. These are my only crocs, but if they keep coming out with cute styles, I’m getting in!

HE’S ALWAYS HAD A CRUSH ON HER…

“...Noah Belacourt is a billionaire. He wants to help Cat, and not just because he’s harbored a crush on her since they were teens. But Cat is stubborn, and she takes some convincing.

When Cat agrees to work as Noah’s personal assistant for the summer, she doesn’t realize she’s signing up for a lot more than debt relief...” 

HER EX IS HER NEW BOSS! One new boss, one ex-boyfriend, one big dilemma…

“...Stevie Phillips has just landed her dream job working for a publishing company and it seems like this is page one of her new, improved life. But her first day throws more curveballs than she thinks she can handle: there’s been a takeover and the whole publicity team has been fired. And her new boss is the last face she expected to see.

Because Noah Anderson also happens to be her ex-boyfriend...”

HOCKEY STAR GOT HER PREGNANT!

“...Pickle number one: I’m unexpectedly pregnant by an NHL star, who just so happens to be my big brother’s best friend—and no, we weren’t exactly dating. For reasons that totally make sense (trust me for now), I never told him about the baby.

Pickle number two: I’m about to lose my family’s charming bed and breakfast unless I can get hitched within six months, thanks to an ancient deed and a ridiculous family feud.

So I made a deal with the baby’s dad, Jake Summers—the dashing forward and captain of the Vermont Vandals hockey team…”

FAKE GIRLFRIEND TO THE QUARTERBACK

“…As a single, unemployed, and unapologetic twenty-five-year-old mess, I came to the Hamptons this summer for one reason—to focus on myself and work out my quarter-life crisis. I didn’t come here planning to sneak into a private party and meet a handsome stranger.

I definitely didn’t come here expecting that stranger to be Preston Rhodes—billionaire and superstar quarterback...”

HER STEP-SISTER’S BILLIONAIRE EX…

“…when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.

I shouldn’t give in to temptation, he is my stepsister’s ex-fiancé after all…”

THINGS ARE LOOKING PERFECT UNTIL…

“...After putting her would-be-murderer behind bars, Claire Hartley is determined to get back to planning elaborate marriage proposals and exploring her undefined relationship with grumpy filmmaker Luke. If she could just kick her new sleepwalking habit, everything would be perfect.

Unfortunately, perfect isn’t in the cards for Claire...” 

M/M ROMANCE!!

“...I’m pretty sure the gods of baseball don’t care if I wear a suit on game day, but Franklin U and Coach do, so when mine rips, replacing it is an urgent mission. That’s how I meet Blaise Warner and my “I guess I could be bi” musings become full-blown “I wanna learn to handle a bat” demands. Blaise is smart, talented, and has goals… and he’s more than happy to teach me a new batting style.

But as we go from casual to more, the things I never mentioned—like my dads’ connections in the entertainment industry—become heavy secrets…”