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Caught Up In Me (Susan Wade Saga) By: Virginia Gray  - Available Now! Women’s Fiction/Contemporary Romance With over 150 reviews and 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon this is must for your summer or beach read! When a job transfer takes Susan Wade back to Havelock — the hometown she swore she’d forsaken — she finds herself immediately at odds with old nemesis Pete Walsh. When they finally see eye-to-eye, can she find love in the unlikeliest of places? – as featured on Bookbub June 2019 Can two lost souls find love? A promotion is the only thing Susan is thinking of when her friend convinces her to take a shortcut transfer. But she should have paid more attention to the fine print. North Carolina, the state where her nightmares began, is the one place she’s been trying to avoid since she left for college nearly a decade ago. Now a Northern sophisticate, complete with the right clothes, the right car, and the right accent, she enjoys all the things the small coastal town of H

I was lucky enough to be given a copy of The Missing Wife by Sam Carrington in exchange for my honest review.  The Missing Wife will be released on 06/27/19 by Avon Books UK.  As always, thank you to NetGalley for letting me sneak a peak at it early! (From Goodreads) Imagine turning up to your own party, and recognizing no one. Your best friend has just created your worst nightmare. Louisa  is an exhausted, sleep-deprived new mother and, approaching her fortieth birthday, the very last thing she wants to do is celebrate. But when her best friend  Tiff  organises a surprise party, inviting the entire list of Lou’s Facebook friends, she’s faced with a new source of anxiety altogether: a room full of old college classmates who she hasn’t spoken to in twenty years. And one person in particular she never expected to see again is there – her ex-boyfriend from college, the handsome and charismatic  Oliver Dunmore . When Oliver’s wife  Melissa  goes missing after the party, ever

My sincerest apologies-this should have been featured on my blog last week, but I'm still getting used to running a Gmail account instead of Yahoo! and it was lost in a folder I've never used!  I know, I know.  Shame on me.  I'm so sorry! 🙈 MaryAnn Clark Scott A FORGED AFFAIR Release Date: June 14 Women's Fiction/Contemporary Romance About the book: New from MaryAnn Clarke Scott, Award-winning author of The Art of Enchantment. She welcomes any risk, as long as it doesn’t involve her own carefully guarded heart. Adrenaline junkie, Niki Ballantyne is a risk-taker at work and at play. Haunted by guilt over her brother’s tragic death, she’s devoted to saving others in trouble. While on an adventure holiday in the south of France, she meets handsome and charming traveler Luc and his shy friend, the gentle giant Didier. Helping the bullied blacksmith win the love of another woman is not a typical rescue project for Niki, but she’s driven by compassion for her lone

The Mother's Mistake by Ruth Heald was published by Bookouture on 06/11/19.  I was lucky enough to obtain a copy from NetGalley in exchange for my review. Claire has a loving husband, newborn daughter, and a home in the country...sounds like the dream life, right?  That couldn't be farther from the truth for Claire.  Her life is actually falling apart.  When a note turns up in her mailbox declaring that she doesn't deserve her daughter, Claire might just have this "perfect life" destroyed right in front of her very eyes. I read this book so fast.  The pace of the book demanded it.  It was so suspenseful.  It made me think of Sleeping with the Enemy.  When Julia Roberts' character runs away and starts her new life, she's always looking directly behind her for her past.  Claire is doing the same thing. I had a bookstagram friend who read the book shortly before I did keep telling me to hurry up and finish because the book would blow my mind.

Blake Crouch's latest book Recursion was released on 06/11/19 by Crown Publishing.  I was lucky enough to get an early copy from NetGalley in exchange for my review. New York City cop Barry Sutton is investigating a universal problem the media is calling False Memory Syndrome—it's giving people memories of lifetimes they've never lived. Scientist Helena Smith has dedicated her life to trying to find a scientific way to preserve memories.  Instead of losing them all to something like Alzheimer's, people can store and relive their memories over and over.   Barry and Helena eventually collide, discovering that their partnership is the only way to save the world and life as they know it...but can they really do it when it feels like the fabric of life is constantly changing and crumbling around them? This book was AWESOME.  It was mind bending, full of twists and interesting plot turns.  It was impossible to stop reading it.  Overall I finished this book in about 5-6

I was lucky enough to get a copy of Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey through NetGalley.  Berkley published this book on 06/11/19. 💜 Annie is 27 and obsessed with romantic comedies.  Because of her unrealistic expectations, her dating life has been pretty limited.  She's waiting for her very own Tom Hanks.  When a huge romantic comedy rolls into her town to film, Annie has to decide if she can remove the walls she's spent so long building, or risk losing the potential great love of her life. YOU GUYS.  I am NOT a romantic book fan.  I've said it several times.  That being said, I.LOVED.THIS.BOOK.  I was hooked from the first paragraph I read.  I actually found myself sending random paragraphs to my bookstagram friends who love romantic books because I just loved it so much.  It is so easy to related to Annie.  Because she lost her mother, her support system is made up of her best friend and her uncle.  They are so endearing.  I loved everything about them. 

The Honeymoon by Rona Halsall, published by Bookouture was released yesterday, 06/07/19. After knowing Dan for less time than I take to decide what book to read next, Chloe marries him.  It's her dream wedding, and she truly believes this is her forever.  As they relax on the beach for their honeymoon, Dan jokes that they should remain on the island forever.  Then he doesn't let her leave... This book was INSANE.  I couldn't put it down, and found myself sending texts every 20-30 minutes with my thoughts to a friend who read this before me.  Chloe met Dan, dated him for a month, and then MARRIED HIM.  Did she really expect things to be totally normal and for nothing to hit the fan?  Girl.  COME ON.  I felt myself cringing and silently screaming at her throughout the entirety of the book. As for Dan, I expected he was full of it right away.  Who shows up LATE to their own wedding?  God bless my fiance if he tries to do this. 😄  I won't say anything else a

A Face in the Crowd was written by Kerry Wilkinson, published by Bookouture on 06/06/19. What would you do if you got home from work to find an envelope full of thousands of pounds (or dollars for the US) stuffed in your bag?  This is the dilemma Lucy faces one Friday evening after coming home to her crappy apartment from her even crappier job.  Would you keep it, or turn it in?  This decision could end up costing Lucy more than she ever thought possible. Okay, we all know I love Bookouture.  I rave about them all the time.  This book was no different.  I've been Lucy.  I've been the poor kid at the dead end job eating rice for the one meal a day I can actually afford.  When she found the money, I wished someone would drop thousands of dollars into my bag....I'll even hold it open for you!  Wilkinson did a really good job of making you feel every single struggle that Lucy has as a poor college student.  In fact, all the characters felt sincere, and they played

A month or so ago, Riley Costello found me on social media and asked if I'd like a copy of her book, Waiting at Hayden's.  I read the description but was somewhat hesitant.  I'm not really a "girly book" type of gal.  I know I gravitate towards murder and mayhem...but this is my year of taking chances and changing my outlook.  I said yes.  I AM SO GLAD I DID.  This has been one of my favorite books of the year. 💜 This book came out 07/10/18 and was published by Sullivan & Shea Publishing. Childhood bffs Charli and Jack are madly in love throughout college and are faced with a major dilemma when Jack's path takes him to the west coast after graduation and Charli's path takes her to the east coast.  Neither wants to break up so they make a pact to reunite at their favorite restaurant Hayden's in five years. It also follows the restaurant's owner Gianna.  She is 37 and seems to have everything going for her, including her dreamboat

This book came to me through NetGalley from the publisher Bookouture💙.  The child before was released today, 06/05/19. The book begins with a cyclist discovering a murdered woman's body in a car not far from an abandoned village called Kelly's Forge.  When Detective Finnegan Beck arrives to investigate, he notices a baby seat in the car and no baby.  About 50 years ago, another baby girl went missing in almost the same location.  Detective Beck wonders if these two disappearances are linked.  Detective Beck wants to leave town to be with the woman he loves, but he's worried if he doesn't find baby  Róisín, she'll wind up dead like the last child. I liked the story and I thought it had a lot of potential.  I feel like something got lost in translation between the actual plot and the execution.  There were a lot of characters and it didn't seem like a lot of them were incredibly detailed.  I would have to read things more than once at times to keep tr