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NEW RELEASES: Week of November 11 and 18, 2019

Sorry about missing last week. I tried to include the romances that were out last week as well as this week. Happy buying!

Contemporary
Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher : $ 9.99
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Contemporary
Wall Street Titan by Anna Zaires, Dima Zales: $ 4.99
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Contemporary
Every Time a Bell Rings by Barbara Ankrum : $ 3.99
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Contemporary
Secrets of the Playboy by J. S. Cooper : $ 3.99
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Contemporary
Something Just Like This by Jennifer Probst : $ 2.99
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REVIEW: Band of Brothers: Standalone Sequel to The Marine by Cheryl Reavis

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Marine Sergeant Joshua Caven

Josh finally has his shattered personal life in some kind of order. He has found the family he never knew he had, and thanks to them, he can do his duty and complete his deployment in Afghanistan, knowing his baby daughter is safe. It should be smooth sailing . . . until Chris Young–the living, breathing reason his wife abandoned him and their baby–is assigned to his unit.

Corporal Danny Benton

Danny knows the Marine Corps basically saved his life, but he still feels guilty for...

JOINT REVIEW: Graveyard Shift by Jenn Burke

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Kaetrin: Graveyard Shift is book three in Jenn Burke’s Not Dead Yet series. Sirius and I have reviewed the previous two books together and thought we’d continue the tradition with this one.

Please note spoilers for the previous two books follow. If you haven’t read them, look away now!

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When Graveyard Shift begins, Wes and Hudson have moved to a larger property in upscale Toronto and are settling into their private investigation business with found-family members, Evan and Iskander. Wes’s BFF, Lexi, also is still in...

REVIEW x 2: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Physical and emotional abuse, chronic pain, near car accident.

Dear Talia Hibbert,

I’ve heard a lot of buzz about your books. You have many fans and since your new book, Get a Life, Chloe Brown is the first in a brand-new series, it seemed like the best place to see if I could jump on the fan bus.

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Chloe Brown is a survivor of a recent near-accident. After almost being run over, Chloe realizes that she hasn’t lived much in recent years. She makes a list of activities she’d like to do to “get a life,” eve...

REVIEW: Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

Dear Eve Pendle,

I decided to try Falling for a Rake, your 1870s-set historical romance, after hearing great things about it from an acquaintance whose recommendations I trust.

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Lady Emily Ravensthorpe is a fern collector. It is the perfect hobby for a young lady, and Emily is committed to maintaining her propriety and that of the other women in the Ladies’ Association of Fern Enthusiasts and Hunters, the fern-collectors’ group that she formed. Emily hides a painful secret and she’s convinced that being perfec...

REVIEW: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

[image error]Dear Talia Hibbert,

I was so happy to get the chance to read this book early. It did not disappoint. At all.  Well, there was one spot late in the piece where I was holding my breath and just about to say “oh no!” but then you went in a different direction than I was expecting and I was very happy about that.  So, not disappointed in the slightest.

Chloe Brown is an English Black woman, with her own website-building and SEO business, living with fibromyalgia. (I know from listening to interviews you’ve done th...

REVIEW: The Marine by Cheryl Reavis

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Semper Fi

Newly widowed Grace James knows she’s at a crossroads. Raised by her aunt, she spent her life playing the role of the perpetual ‘good girl’–never rocking the boat, always fitting in. And where did that get her? She had an unhappy marriage, and now she’s singlehandedly raising two strong-willed teenaged daughters who have Trouble written all over them. Just once, Grace wished she had a different life. What would it feel like to be irresponsible, free . . . wild?

Then she meets two men who...

REVIEW: The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas

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Disclosure: Sherry Thomas is my friend and critique partner and I critiqued this manuscript. — Janine

Dear Ms. Thomas:

In preparation for this review I reread my reviews of the previous three books in the series – I gave book one a B- and books two and three each a B+. The common thread running through all three reviews is the fact that I find these mysteries confusing. There are probably several reasons for this – one is that I’m not a regular mystery reader. Another, which I think just became clear to me with this book, is t...

REVIEW: Boyfriends of Christmas Past by Edie Grace

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A magical, modern-day Christmas Carol

Digital designer Emma Wallace is finally poised for her big break: kitchenware giant Johnson Cookware is looking to rebrand – and with Christmas around the corner, Emma’s long-held philosophy of work-before-play may just give her the edge she needs to win the account.

The only peppermint twist in her Scrooge-worthy plan? She’s promised her ever-patient, architect boyfriend Sam Cole that after spending the last three Christmases in her office instead of in his arms,...

JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Remember by Mary Balogh

[image error]Janine: In book six of Mary Balogh’s regency-set Westcott series, Someone to Honor, Matilda, the 56-year-old maiden aunt in the Westcott family, did something scandalous in calling on Viscount Dirkson with only her niece’s stepson, Bertrand, for company.

Matilda’s purpose was to inform the viscount that Gil, his illegitimate son, was in need of aid. We learned that Matilda and the viscount were romantically involved in their early twenties until something came between them. Now comes Someone to Remember, Matilda and Dirks...