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As I said yesterday, today is a very special day! I bring you my tour stop for ACTING ON IMPULSE, one of my favorite romances this year. I want everyone to read this one because one. it's super fun and the romance is epic, but also because we all need to support Latinx authors and more so than ever because it's Hispanic Heritage Month! One-click!


Title: Acting on Impulse
Series: Love on Cue
Author: Mia Sosa
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Release date: September 19, 2017

Synopsis:

After a very public breakup with a media-hungry politician, fitness trainer Tori Alvarez escapes to Aruba for rest, relaxation, and copious amounts of sex on the beach—the cocktail, that is. She vows to keep her vacation a man-free zone but when a cute guy is seated next to her on the plane, Tori can’t resist a little harmless flirting. 

Hollywood heartthrob Carter Stone underwent a dramatic physical transformation for his latest role and it’s clear his stunning seat mate doesn’t recognize the man beneath the shaggy beard and extra lean frame. Now Carter needs help rebuilding his buff physique and Tori is perfect for the job. It doesn’t hurt that she makes his pulse pound in more ways than one. 

Sparks are flying, until a pesky paparazzo reveals Carter’s identity. Tori is hurt and pissed. She wants nothing to do with another man in the limelight, but she’s still got to whip him into shape. Can Carter convince Tori he’s worth the threat to her privacy that comes with dating a famous actor, or will Tori chisel him down to nothing before he even gets the chance? 

Grab the popcorn…


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Acting on Impulse was the perfect mix of romance and lovable characters with a side of fabulous dialogue. Mia Sosa is such an amazing writer that she made me fall in love with Tori and Carter from the very first paragraph. When I first found out Mia was going to release this new series with Avon, I was OVER. THE. MOON. I am so happy Avon is publishing more and more authors of color and their stories need to be told!

What I love most about Tori and Carter's relationship and about this book is that they have such a gooood relationship, like such a good dynamic between them. They get along so well and are sassy together and they have the same humor that Tori even think it's perfect. My heart swoons so hard for these two. Even though they are flawed characters, they actually made a good perfect. 

Acting on Impulse should be in every romance list out there, should be in every romance lover TBR. It is a book that definitely feels so refreshing and new and so light and soft at the same time. It has the summer-y vibe if you are still missing summer because fall is upon us. It has a nice island getaway where two very different people meet and have a very good stay. One is a celebrity trying not to get noticed by the paps and the other is a fitness trainer who just got brokenhearted by a past relationship. Both are looking for that something /else/. I'm so pleased to say that this book is an adventure that will leave you wanting for more and craving this new world Mia Sosa created.

Thank you Edelweiss and Avon Impulse for the review copy in exchange for my honest opinion. All my thoughts are my own.


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Mia Sosa is an award-winning contemporary romance writer and 2015 Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® Finalist. Her books have received praise and recognition from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, The Washington Post, Book Riot, Bustle, and more.

A former First Amendment and media lawyer, Mia practiced for more than a decade before trading her suits for loungewear (okay, okay, they’re sweatpants). Now she strives to write fun and flirty stories about imperfect characters finding their perfect match.

Mia lives in Maryland with her husband, their two daughters, and an adorable puppy that finally sleeps through the night. For more information about Mia and her books, visit www.miasosa.com.



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Hello, wonderful people. Can't believe I'm posting something new? You can believe it. Because I aaaaam. Today is a good day. Also wait for tomorrow because I have something fun as well to share with you all. 

Today I bring you a new romance novel, a little tease so you all can go a buy it. If you love F/F romances with celebrities and some sweet romance, you can bet you can be interested of this one. 


Title: Perfect Rhythm
Author: Jae
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Release date: September 20, 2017

Synopsis:

Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. What women want is her image, not the real her. When her father has a stroke, she flees the spotlight and returns to her tiny Missouri hometown. 

In her childhood home, she meets small-town nurse Holly Drummond, who isn’t impressed by Leo’s fame at all. That isn’t the only thing that makes Holly different from other women. She’s also asexual. For her, dating is a minefield of expectations that she has decided to avoid. 

Can the tentative friendship between a burned-out pop star and a woman not interested in sex develop into something more despite their diverse expectations? 

A lesbian romance about achieving the perfect rhythm between two very different people—and finding happiness where they least expect it.


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MEET LEONTYNE BLAKE

Being a pop star isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. My fans see only the celebrity, not the real me. My manager encourages me to show some skin because “sex sells.” After a year-long world tour, I’m burned out and need a break, but a visit in my tiny hometown in Missouri really isn’t what I had in mind. I thought I had escaped for good when I left for the big city fourteen years ago. 

But as soon as I go back home, I meet Holly, my father’s nurse. At first, we don’t even like each other. She thinks I’m a spoiled celebrity, and I think she’s just another narrow-minded small- town girl. But as I get to know her better, I realize how wrong that first impression was. 

Holly is so very different from all the women I’ve met before. She couldn’t care less about my money or my fame or my sex appeal. And she’s homoromantic and asexual. After a night-long Google search, I know it means that while she’s romantically drawn to women, she doesn’t experience sexual attraction. 

Does that mean I should cut my losses and move on? That’s easier said than done. Between trips to the local bakery, late-night conversations up on the roof, and a date at the vet’s office, I think I have fallen in love with Holly. Now I have to convince her that although we’re two very different women, we can still create a perfect rhythm together.


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Hi! I finally got the urge to write a new blog post and you might have seen me talking about some blog ideas if you follow me on Twitter. One of these ideas is to do a blog post with book recommendations that have historical romances published by small pubs or that have been self published. If you're very familiar with historical romances, you know that one of the biggest pubs aka Harper publishes a lot of them under the Avon imprint. I absolutely love that imprint so much and all their books are fabulous. 

But there are also historical romances that are not being published by the big pubs. And sometimes people forget them, I guess? If they're not published by Avon it doesn't mean they are bad. This concerns obviously all the other different genres and stuff - if it isn't published by the big 5 it doesn't mean the book is bad. They might be more amazing tbh. 

Here are some books I have had in my TBR for a while or some I've already read. Hope you all pick them up!

A Taste of Honey by Rose Lerner is actually my current read right now and I'm enjoying it so much. If you're into the baking thing + a virgin shy hero and some cute moments, I definitely recommend it. It recently released and it's currently $2.99. 

Fire and ice cream... 
Robert Moon risked everything, including his father’s hardwon legacy, to open his beloved Honey Moon Confectionery on the busiest street in Lively St. Lemeston. Now he’s facing bankruptcy and debtor’s prison. 

When a huge catering order comes in, he agrees to close the sweet-shop for a week to fill it. There’s only one problem: his apprentice is out of town, so his beautiful shop-girl Betsy Piper must help Robert in the kitchen.  

Betsy’s spent the last year trying to make her single-minded boss look up from his pastries and notice that she would be the perfect wife. Now the two of them are alone in a kitchen full of sweet things. With just one week to get him to fall in love with her, she’d better get this seduction started... 

She soon discovers that Robert brings the same meticulous, eager-to-please attitude to lovemaking that he does to baking, but can kisses—no matter how sweet—compete with the Honey Moon in his heart?

Amazon | iBooks


KJ Charles is someone I really have wanted to pick up her books. If you have the chance to read one her books, I recommend you all to take the chance and just do it. I really think you won't regret it.

London 1805. Jobbing writer, proprietor of the Matrimonial Advertiser lonely hearts gazette, and all-round weasel Theo Swann is just trying to get by when Martin St. Vincent turns up. Martin is a merchant, tasked with putting a stop to a wealthy young heiress’s romantic correspondence in the Advertiser. And when she and her swain make a dash for Gretna, Martin drags Theo after him on a breakneck high-speed (fourteen miles an hour!) chase up the country to catch the lovers before it’s too late. The question is, as entanglements, deceptions, and revelations come thick and fast, will any of them be the same again?




Amazon | Riptide | Kobo 


A Summer for Scandal by Lydia San Andres is one of my number one favorite historical romances. I can't believe I lived my life without reading her books and if you are in this predicament too, I really want you all to read them. This one is her full novel but she has another one, The Infamous Miss Rodriguez, that is a novella, but highly recommend it because I adore it too.

When Emilia Cruz agreed to accompany her sister to a boating party, she had no idea that the darling of the literary world would be in assistance—or that he would take such pleasure in disparaging the deliciously sinful serial she writes under a pseudonym. No one save her sister knows she’s the author and to be found out would mean certain scandal.

 Stuck on his long-awaited second book, Ruben Torres has begun to edit in secret a gossip paper whose literary reviews are as cruel as they are clever. The more he writes about the mysterious author of a popular serial, the more papers he sells…and the more he is determined to find out her identity before anyone else can.

Amazon 



Brothers Sinister series is a biiiig thing in romance world. Courtney Milan writes some of my favorite tropes in romanceland and her historicals are so good you won't see it coming when they become your favorites.

Sometimes love is an accident.
This time, it’s a strategy.

Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly--so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don't get trampled. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention.

But that is precisely what she gets. 

Because Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, is not fooled. When Minnie figures out what he’s up to, he realizes there is more to her than her spectacles and her quiet ways. And he’s determined to lay her every secret bare before she can discover his. But this time, one shy miss may prove to be more than his match…

Amazon | iBooks | B&N | Kobo | Google Play 


Alyssa has written some of my favorite historicals too. I haven't actually picked up this one but I've read Let It Shine, An Extraordinary Union and Agnes Moor's Wild Knight, both very beautiful.

A rebellious cabaret owner and her stubborn chef pursue, life, liberty, and happiness in 1917 Harlem...and find love where they least expect it.

After spending half her life pretending to be something she’s not, performance is second nature for cabaret owner Bertha Hines. With the election drawing near and women’s voting rights on the ballot, Bertha decides to use her persuasive skills to push the men of New York City in the right direction.

Chef Amir Chowdhury jumped ship in New York to get a taste of the American Dream, only to discover he’s an unwanted ingredient. When ornery Amir reluctantly takes a job at The Cashmere, he thinks he’s hit the bottom of the barrel; however, working at the club reignites his dream of being a force for change. His boss, Bertha, ignites something else in him.

Bertha and Amir clash from the start, but her knowledge of politics and his knowledge of dance force them into a detente that fans the flames of latent desire. But Bertha has the vice squad on her tail, and news from home may end Amir’s dream before it comes to fruition. With their pasts and futures stacked against them, can Amir and Bertha hold on to their growing love? 

 Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | B&N


I'm obsessed with Rebecca Paula's contemporary romances, but I haven't actually picked up her historicals. I have had this one in my TBR for a while and it sounds pretty amazing.

Clara Dawson always followed the rules, until one terrifying night when her inheritance is stolen and the man responsible is left for dead. Desperate to outrun her troubles, she accepts a governess position at the crumbling gothic manor of the mysterious Ravensdale family. Caring for three orphaned children gives her a purpose, but her vulgar employer, Bly Ravensdale, holds dangerous secrets that may shatter Clara's newfound safe haven. Yet this stubborn brute compels Clara to abandon her etiquette at every turn, and she can't stay away.

Disowned by his family, Bly Ravensdale travels the globe as an explorer and agent of the British Crown until his brother’s passing leaves him saddled with three young wards. Charged with returning them to the family's vacant ancestral seat in the English countryside—the one place he wishes to avoid at all costs—Bly quits the role of spy to play family man. But a man nicknamed Devil rarely gets a clean start in life, even with the aid of the prudish yet lovely governess, Clara. Despite her cold exterior, Bly finds himself drawn to her, even as an enemy from his deadly past resurfaces seeking vengeance. Can he protect all that he has suddenly come to hold dear?

Amazon | B&N | iBooks | Kobo


I got recommended Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe by a friend of mine and to be honest I'm so excited to get to it hopefully soon. Also to pick up every Kayla book there is in the world as well.

Katriona Sparrow, dubbed the Mad Heiress by most of London's upper class, is the deceptively fragile ward of a foreign nobleman. She can't stand making small talk with strangers, but she's unparalleled when it comes to deciphering the dead.

On a routine investigation, though, something goes horribly wrong, leaving Katriona catatonic in an upscale hospital and a serial killer with an artistic bent stalking London's most vulnerable.

Enter Anthea Garlant, a young witch and academic ostracized from polite society for traveling the world without a chaperone. She devises magical accommodations to protect Katriona from the side effects of her abilities- but as she grows more and more attached to the other woman, her professional façade begins to slip.

Will they be able to stop the man who turns beautiful dead women into works of art- the man who is closer to Katriona than anyone suspects?

Amazon 


Elliot Cooper is someone I also have in my TBR. Prince and Pirate is just one of the books in it but also Rogue Wolf, but that one is more of a shifter romance, pirate story, across the galaxy kind of book, but still, if that also interests you * wink*

Prince Gavin is powerless to refuse when his father demands he secure an alliance with a distant kingdom. At first, he sees the journey as a chance to prove his worth and indulge in the grand adventures of his dreams. Yet nothing seems right about his father’s paranoid insistence he travel by merchant ship while disguised as a diplomat. Once out on the open sea, Gavin learns he’s been tricked into boarding an infamous pirate ship: the Ebon Drake.

Captain Marcas Drake is delighted to discover the courtier he’s kidnapped is really a prince. Acquiring such a hefty ransom will prove once and for all he’s a brilliant pirate in his own right, not riding the coattails of his father’s fame. And using his charms to seduce his prisoner makes for an entertaining pastime. But unfortunate events turn the Ebon Drake’s crew against their captain before the ransom can be carried out.

Marooned, Marcas and Gavin’s new equal footing turns the pirate’s sensual game into something else entirely. However, being stranded on a tiny island becomes the least of their worries when rescue arrives in the form of the bloodthirsty Crimson Queen, a pirate who’s been chasing Marcas for years. Working together to escape the queen is their only hope of freedom and a chance their growing love might outlast their misadventures.

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Hiiii. I am here to bring you a very special review of a very special book I recently read. It's my last read book to be honest for a while (because I haven't been reading and maybe it's Sanctuary fault because it was so GOOD that it left me in a slump). Here I am, sharing my feelings about this book, enjoy!

Title: Sanctuary
Series: Beards & Bondage #2
Author: Rebekah Weatherspoon
Release date: August 29, 2017

Synopsis:
When she needs a sanctuary…  
Targeted by a sadistic former client, attorney Liz Lewis needs a place to lay low. When a friend offers her his family farm as a safe house, she eagerly accepts, unaware that she’ll have to share the farm with her friend’s brawny, beautiful brother, Silas McInroy.
…she invades his…  
Weary of a world that doesn’t understand him, Silas just wants to be left alone to grow the best produce upstate New York has to offer. Still, he’s not going to toss a woman out when her safety is on the line. But the only way to explain her presence on his farm is to claim that they fell in love online…and the last thing he needs is a fake relationship that threatens to become more and more real every day. 
With her world turned upside down and danger on her trail, Liz knows that this temporary refuge can’t last forever…but leaving the comfort and ease of Silas’s arms and farm to face the reality of her life may be the hardest thing she’s ever had to do. 
*** WARNING: This book contains scenes of mild bondage and domination between a gorgeous lawyer and a sexy farmer who is terrible with women. And five farm dogs with varying degrees of loyalty to both the hero and heroine.***


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Rebekah is simply amazing. Sanctuary, believe it or not, is better than Haven. I love both of them, but Silas and Liz's story has a big spot in my heart now. It was such a wild ride since the beginning, starting with a murder scene, no joke. Rebekah really knows how to take my attention and make me love the book from the start. 

As you all probably know I absolutely adore dogs in romance books, especially if the hero owns them. And Silas owns FIVE OF THEM in Sanctuary. From uninterested pups to want to play always pups, Rebekah wrote them all. As I said it is a simply beautiful book with a small town, fake dating romance, with two souls that need a little bit of each other. 

Silas has become my ultimate favorite and seriously I recommend everyone to pick it up for him. But also for Liz, because what I love most about Rebekah's books, and especially Haven + Sanctuary, is that Rebekah writes heroines that know in their hearts they need to figure out stuff by themselves, they don't need the hero to do anything for them and they need to heal by themselves in order to feel like they can do it? I mean the heroes are always there for the heroines but I love me some fab strong and independent heroines. Liz has PTSD because of the attempt murder on her life and she doesn't yet know how to feel about that scene, but what she does know is that some day it will come crashing down.

I already said I'm a big fan of Rebekah Weatherpoon and her books but if you do not who she is or any of her work I really hope you do pick them up. Liz is a plus size black beautiful Dom heroine, while Silas is a biracial beard-y small town mountain man? They will make your day brighter and your life fuller, no jokeee.

I hope Brooklyn and Mason gets their stories next? I just want more! This series is my new favorite and will forever be.
happy release day @RdotSpoon! SANCTUARY is out today and it's amazing *all the hearts*https://t.co/oCEKZynb0e pic.twitter.com/h6pMRoYX9L
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