Book Review: Faceoff

Series: Northbrook Hockey Elite: Book 1

Publisher: Mirror Press

Release Date: November 12, 2019

Genre: Clean Sports Romance

She isn’t supposed to want him. He isn’t supposed to want her. But wanting each other is inevitable.

Clint McCarthy has finally achieved his dream of playing for a professional hockey program, and is eager to make his mark with his new team. While getting settled in his new city, he happens across Bree Stone, whom he has known for years, with their respective brothers both being in the famed Belltown Six Pack. But for the life of him, he can’t remember Bree ever looking so attractive. Or being so captivating. Or taking over his every waking thought.

In the middle of her graduate degree, Bree has no time or desire for working on her dating life, or lack thereof, but the impossibly handsome Clint McCarthy coming back into her life makes everything complicated. She shouldn’t be focusing on him, or on them, not when her professional future hangs in the balance. But once she hears about Clint’s past with the Northbrook Hockey Elite program, and where that program stands now, Bree just might find a way to make her career, and a future with Clint, come to life.

Welcome to Northbrook Hockey Elite!

Six professional hockey players used to play on an elite club team together, but have all separated and now play in the pro-hockey leagues. Not all of them were friends, yet circumstances bring them together, and for the greater good, maybe they can put aside their differences.

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Book Review: Falling for Lucy

Publisher: Mirror Press

Release Date: November 20, 2018

Genre: Clean Contemporary Romance

Lucy Morley’s older sister is perfect, and her younger brother is nearly there, too.  Yet Lucy can’t even hold down a job, let alone stick with something like college.  She drops out and floats from job to job.  After yet another disastrous firing, she lands an interview at a bookstore—her dream job—and it doesn’t hurt that her new boss, Adam Parks, is pretty much her dream man.  But if Lucy is good at one thing, it’s guarding her personal life and more importantly her heart.  Adam has other plans in mind, though, and they include finding a way into Lucy’s heart.

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Reviewer Tour: All in Good Time

Publisher: Multa Verba Publishing

Release Date: October 20, 2019

Genre: Christian Romance

With three rambunctious, young children, Melanie Lombardi can't see beyond the day-to-day struggle to maintain her home and her sanity since her husband's sudden death. A second chance at romance isn't on her radar.

Brian Perella is done with dating, resigned to being the fun uncle and never the dad. Until he meets Melanie and her brood of lively kids on the sidelines of a Little League game.

But when Brian uncovers a co-worker's secret, it re-ignites a temptation that Melanie can't know about. It's his secret to keep until an unexpected diagnosis brings everything to the surface, jeopardizing his future with Melanie and her children, who, when threatened by an unknown stalker, may need him now more than ever.

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Book Review: Smoke Screen

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Release Date: November 5, 2019

Genre: Christian Mystery & Suspense

One father was murdered. Another was convicted of his death. All because their children fell in love.

Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back now that his father has been released from prison, but it isn’t until he’s sidelined by an injury that he’s forced to return and face his past. But that means facing Brenna too.

Fourteen years ago, Nate was in love with the preacher’s daughter. When Pastor Strickland discovered Brenna defied him to sneak out with Nate, the fight between Strickland and Nate’s drunken dad was loud—and very public. Strickland was found murdered later that night, and everyone accused Roy Beckett. When the church burned down not long after, people assumed Nate set the fire to get even for his father’s conviction. He let the rumors fly and left town without looking back.

Brenna is stunned to learn that the man convicted of murdering her father has been pardoned. The events of that night set her life on a bad course, and now she’s fighting a brutal custody battle with her ex and his new wife where he’s using lies and his family’s money to sway the judge. Brenna is barely hanging on, and she’s turned to alcohol to cope. Shame and fear consume her.

As Nate and Brenna deal with the present—including new information about that fateful night and a wildfire that’s threatening their town—the past keeps igniting. Nate is the steady force Brenna has so desperately needed. But she’ll have to learn to trust him again first.

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Book Review: For the Love of Funyuns and Second Chances

Series: Strawberry Lake Estates Mystery

Release Date: November 12, 2019

Genre: Cozy Mystery

It’s been five years since Cecilee Monroe walked away from the love of her life, but she still hasn’t met anyone who makes her heart sizzle and pop like Troy did.  She has, however, convinced herself she’s moved on.  After all, she hasn’t thought about him in at least a minute.  That is until one of her clients is murdered, leaving behind a trail of clues that throws Troy back into her life.

Troy Allen hasn’t heard from Cecilee since she left without an explanation or a goodbye.  So, when he finds out his name is mixed with hers in a multi-million-dollar murder mystery, his pride takes a backseat to his curiosity.  In this conclusion to the Strawberry Lake Estates series, Troy and Cecilee must work together.  They join the quirky residents of Walden, Montana to wade through a mixture of new threats and old feelings, finding that, even with their lives in jeopardy, love may turn out to be better the second time around.

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