Breaching The Billionaire: Althea's Redemption by Ruth Cardello

Alethea is at a crossroad. For as long as she could remember, it was her and her best friend, Lil, against the world. Now that Lil has met Prince "I have my own helicopter" Charming and reconnected with her family, Alethea is on the outside looking in, justifying who she's always been to people who have never understood her. When she uncovers a looming threat to Lil's family, she's determined to save them, even after they tell her not to get involved and assign their best man to stop her. 

Marc Stone has been watching Alethea ever since she waltzed through his security system and right into his late night fantasies. As a decorated Marine, he's seen war, but nothing could prepare him for this wild redhead. Strong. Beautiful. Flawed, and fiercely protective. Hard to love, and impossible to deny. 

If she'll stop fighting him long enough, he'll show her just how perfect they are for each other. That is, if she doesn't get them both killed first.

Review by Layla

5 stars

First off let me just say that Ruth Cardello has gone above and beyond my expectations for this book. As a fan of the Legacy Collection I have enjoyed each book in this series yet I'd have to say Breaching the Billionaire has been my all time favorite. Alethea, headstong and protective to a fault has not had the easiest time being understood by her best friend Lil's family and is determined to spend her life alone and always on guard looking danger and security breaches everywhere she goes, to the dismay of those she cares about. However can one man change that? Marc Stone ex soldier and  head of security for Corsisi Enterprises sees her in a new light and is determined to help her with her relationship with Lil and her family. He is also headstrong and respects Alethea and is going to do everything he can to help her stay out of trouble and get her to learn to trust. Can these two find common ground while trying to protect the Corisi family from a dangerous threat and will Aletha find herself learning to trust and let go of control for once on her life? If you like a story with action, drama, and romance then this is definitely a book you will enjoy!

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Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

The mysterious Cy Davies is coming home. He’s not coming alone either. Having rescued Gemma Perry, a sassy investigative reporter for a gossip magazine, he takes her to the one place he knows he can keep her safe. Keeneston.

Review by Layla

Fun Sexy and Dangerous 5 stars

In this installment of the bluegrass brothers we discover sexy mysterious Cy Davies professions and why he has led such a secret life and only made quick visits to Keeneston.  After deciding to retire and head home to his family and friends Cy literally runs into Gemma Perry, gossip journalist. Gemma having just found out her twin sister was murdered and bad people are looking for files and proof her sister has hidden finds herself in the middle of a dangerous situation . Cy discovers that they may have a common link and convinces Gemma to trust him to help her. Being together and dangerous and intense situations bring these two characters lives  colliding together. Can they stay alive long enough to explore their mutual attraction or will they lose everything to the trouble that's chasing them? Read to find out.

 Well written storyline, Kathleen does a beautiful job of describing scenes and characters while  making you feel at home in Keeneston. Fast paced and  thrilling book that will keep you on the edge of your seat and rooting for the hero and heroine. And as always the presence of all the Keeneston family who of course pop in and out throughout the story.  This is a must read and I recommend it to anyone who likes romantic suspense.

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Sex, Lies & Pearls (A Moonlight and Magnolias Novel Book 3)

When FBI Agent, Leo Xanthus invites the beautiful and beguiling Polly Benson to his family home in New Orleans, he does so knowing an introduction to his concealed life could change hers forever. As his plans to sweep her off her feet unfold, Leo learns that every family has secrets – some more deadly than others.


With ties to a high-profile Mafia family and the FBI, Leo and Polly’s worlds collide in and out of the bedroom and their insatiable need for one another will blur the lines between what is right, what is wrong and what is impossible to resist.


Can Leo and Polly’s love be real, if their life is a lie?




Review by Layla


5 Stars


Polly Benson has lived with a terrible secret since the age of thirteen. She's not who everyone thinks she is; yet she's made the best of the life she was dealt. When she heads to New Orleans to Jackson House, she's finds herself unable to let go because of everything she had been through.

Dr. Leonidas Xanthus, known also as Z in the previous books, has been living a double life; the FBI agent has ties to the Marcello crime family. He's playing with fire and things are about to get really hot. When secrets are revealed he makes a choice to protect the woman he loves at all costs.

This riveting story is filled with sex, lies, pearls and so much more. Danger is always lurking but this extraordinary couple has fallen too hard to look back now, it's fight or flight time. Through everything Leo will not give up on his love for Polly even when she spooks and runs from him. He’s determined to keep them both safe and find the notorious Shadow and live a happy and safe life with Polly.

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Power of Attraction (Blackstone Haven 1) by Taige Crenshaw

A man will come to you in the darkest moon. The trees will shade and protect your union of the soul. Before the final step to merge your body is taken, a choice must be made.

Peyton Blackstone, a natural born witch, knew from the prophecy that accompanied her birth that a man would come to her. Yet, when the man who is set to be her’s arrives, Peyton isn’t ready for him or the ramifications his coming will cause. This man who deals with reality has a few secrets of his own - secrets that could very well destroy them both.

Wesley McCarty believes the woman he meets under the moonlight is not real. Suffering from unexplained blackouts, he believes he is losing his mind. When he sees her again, he realises not only is his fantasy woman real, but she is within his reach. He must have her, no matter the cost. Nothing will stop him. Not his blackouts, or any legacies or prophecies. He will have this woman who sets his blood on fire and completes his soul.

Legacies, destiny, and prophecy can not withstand this power of attraction.

Review by Cherri-Anne

My rating = 5 stars

Open your senses and embrace - Blackstone Haven.  

WOW!  Talk about your Power of Attraction!  He was a sexual master who had her at his mercy.  “You’re a dangerous man to my senses, Wesley”  Even though this story started off in an odd way, I was fully pulled in!  I LOVE the creativity and almost what you could call bizarreness to the first half or so, but then once the fog starts lifting, WOW! Just WOW!!  And yes, even though it was a touch crazy in the beginning and I was feeling a little lost, the story was very intriguing and made me want to keep reading to find out what was going on!  I actually went back to read the beginning chapter+ and it gave me a whole new perspective to, of and for the story.  I did find that some questions were left unanswered, the odd part or two that was never really addressed.  However I have a feeling that future books will expand, enhance and build on this one while also pulling us deeper into all that is The Blackstone Legend & Prophecy.  I definitely want to know all there is to know about it and see it further explored.  This is only my second book of Taige's but I am thoroughly enjoying her different writing styles between the two series I have read books in, and the books themselves and am looking forward to reading my way through them all!  This book has a great mix of humor, magic, power, mystery, romance, intrigue, hot wild sex, prophecy & legends, friends & family and more!  The story does flow pretty fluidly giving history while moving forward at the same time.  I was impressed with the characters, finding myself drawn to them from the start.  I love how Taige takes a popular paranormal in natural born witch Peyton and recreates it until it becomes a whole new kind of witch - Taige style!!  And then for that near-the-end part with Wesley??  CRAZY!!!  And more than a little creepy if I do say so myself!  LOL  Of course I LOVE Newton!  In fact I almost stopped reading when I thought that she had...whew!  Sorry!  I almost gave a spoiler!  All in all, this book is worth the read!  With Taige's amazing writing style and obvious wealth of talent, you can never go wrong with any of her books!!

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Solo Tu (Only You) by Mandy M. Roth

Paranormal Romance Novella

A witch by birth, Francy Montgomery feels she's merely a fledgling in the eyes of the supernatural world. Only one man believed in her abilities, a man who ignited a magical fire within her that burns for his touch, despite his rejection. Now she has to face him again, and tell him of her intent to marry another rather than wasting her life wanting what she can never have.

Dante Guerrasio's patience has just run out. The mate he's waited centuries to find is now at a point in her life that's she's ready to be claimed as his. In fact, she'd be his already if some meddling magic hadn't interfered and kept him at bay when she was eighteen. The wolf inside him needed her then, but the man he is knew that Francy needed to taste her freedom before he could taste her. How did his suggestion that she experience life for herself lead her into the arms of another man—his sworn enemy.

Review by Cherri-Anne

My rating = 5 stars

She was his true mate.

Let me make you mine forever.  Ummm, let me think on that for a sec NOT!  Yes, Yes, YES!!!  Only Dante made her feel so alive.  Only Dante made her body ache.  She was created for him.  Holy shite!!!  What a fantabulously hot & sexy story!!!   SOLO TU Mandy, SOLO TU!!  ONLY YOU could write such a fantastically hot & sexy story like this!!!  I am utterly blown away!!  I cannot believe just how much story Mandy packed into this one short!!  Seriously!  There is a LOT of story that is made up in part by friendship, mystery, love, hot sex and some shocking moments, just to name a few.  And just when I thought I had figured something out, BAM!!  Mandy blindsides me again!  The best part?  All of this is written so perfectly & beautifully that is one pawsome & furrific story!!  I love how Mandy is so creative with her paranormal people!  For example, with each vampire, you will find that they have different talents, powers, abilities, history, etc. in each book or series you read.  Same with the shifters.  It adds an extra quality and charm so if, or rather WHEN, you go on a 'Mandy reading bender' you will constantly be captivated, mesmerized, enchanted, spellbound and blown away over & over again!  Of course, that is exactly why Mandy is a NY TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!!  Or in my opinion, THE ONE & ONLY NY TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!  I have read so many of her books and I have loved EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. and this one is no exception!  With her phenomenal talent and abundance of creativity, you know that you will love every short, every novella, every full length book & every series, time & again, for many, many years to come!  Because, Solo Tu, Only You, Mandy, can write the very kind of romance books that I live for!  And in this case, size truly does NOT matter! 

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Highland Wolf Pact: Compromising Positions (Highland Wolf Pact 2) bySelena Kitt

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Kirstin has never been out of her den before, but now one of her pack is seriously injured—he may even be dying. Desperate to help, she races straight to Middle March, the borderland between Scotland and England, and falls right into a dangerous trap.

As the new laird of his clan, Donal MacFalon has made it clear that he, unlike his brother before him, will honor the wolf pact, an agreement their father made with England’s King Henry VII to protect Scotland’s wolf shifters, the wulvers, who most believe to be only the stuff of legend.

Wulvers, though, are very real. Kirstin knows. She’s one of them.

When Donal MacFalon turns those steel blue-grey eyes her way, she realizes she’s facing something far more dangerous in this man than any trap.

This man, already promised to another, has a power over her no man or wulver has ever had before. When he opens his castle and his heart to her, she finds herself willing to risk not only her own heart, but everything she’s ever known, just to be with him.

Kirstin will find herself caught-—between the man she loves and his intended bride, between her pack and a human world frightened of her kind, between nations whose hatred runs deep.

Kirstin will be forced to make choices no woman, or wulver, should ever have to make. All for one man, whose love goes beyond borders, nations, or legends, whose heart beats only for her.

Review by Cherri-Anne

My rating = 5 stars
He’s yer one true mate. 
Yer the man I’ve been waitin’ a lifetime fer. Yer me one true mate.  Yer a thousand times brighter and more beautiful than any star, m’love.  WHEW!!  Who knew Highlanders could be so sweet & romantic!  HOLY WULVERS BATMAN!!  What an amazingly awesome story!!  I thoroughly enjoyed the first book so when I heard that Selena was doing a second book, I was super excited & couldn't wait for it to come out!  In fact, between looking forward to this book and the fact that this story is so awesome, I read almost the entire book in one go!  Selena sure knows how to write them!  I was captivated from the very start, heck even from the cover, and it didn't let me go until long after I read the stuff on book 3 that is at the end of  this story!  This one is about Kirstin & Donal and is their romance interlaced with a furtastic storyline involving The Pack, The MacFalon people and of course some bad guys.  I have to admit that I was a little surprised at Kirstin & Donal's romance and how it played out!  Of course, I loved it, but still!  What a roller coaster of emotions and adventures!  I don't think that this story lacked for anything!!  You name it, it’s in here.  Everything from romance, hot, HOT scenes & moments, tenderness, mystery, intrigue, deception, love, hate, resentment...and the list goes on & on.  I love how this story flows, you are 'kept busy' but all in a good way.  There is always something going on, but yet it isn't too busy nor does it feel like Selena tried to tackle or include too many parts & pieces, thereby making it an awkward story.  In fact, it is quite the opposite!!  I think it is more than long overdue to say that Selena is a phenomenally gifted author who blows me away with every one of her paranormal stories that I read!  You are taken on this marvellous, magnificent & fantabulous adventure that has so many qualities in it, as well as a lot going on at any given time, that it just pulls you in from the very start and holds you captive throughout, until the very, very end.  I cannot wait for the next one!!  Good thing it will be out in just about 3 weeks or so!!

Dragon Blues (Immortal Dragons 1) by Ophelia Bell

They weren’t dragons. They weren’t even human. But she wanted them both more than anything in the thousands of years she’d lived.

One of only six immortal dragons—truly immortal in every sense of the word—the Blue Dragon Belah only seeks one more chance at love after a heartbreak that took millennia to recover from. Wary of humans after the last man she loved nearly destroyed her entire race centuries ago, she takes the chance, leaving her sanctuary to find a worthy human mate.

If she can find the perfect mate and conceive a child with him, she might just turn the tide against their mortal enemy.

Lukas and Iszak North have managed to stick to the fringes of the world for two hundred years. They would gladly leave the true work up to the dragons, and let their own race of falcon shifters have their peace. Tortured after their mortal enemy murdered their sister decades earlier, they finally hope to find happiness when when a beautiful female dragon walks into the jazz club Lukas’s band has a gig at. Dragons are renowned for their sexual appetites, and she’s apparently set her sights on them.

It doesn’t take long for them to learn who she really is—the dragon who was single-handedly responsible for unleashing an enemy on the world that’s tormented their race for more than a millennia, and their own family in very recent history. Centuries of buried animosity blaze forth when they learns Belah’s secrets, threatening to ruin the first true love they’ve found in several lifetimes of searching.

Truth might set them free, but it might also destroy them.

Last Alpha by Ruby Fielding

He never wanted to fall in love. She never planned to let him.

Jenny Layne has made a career out of investigating werewolf reports, but every case has only confirmed that shapeshifters are the stuff of legend or madness. Until now. Lured to a remote Scottish estate to meet a researcher working on the science behind the werewolf phenomenon, Jenny finds steadily mounting evidence that something strange is running wild in the hills.

Billy Stewart has traveled the world in pursuit of stories of shapeshifters and other strange phenomena, but the last thing he ever expected to find was love. Billy is not a man who falls easily, but when he does, it is a force of nature. When he meets Jenny he knows immediately that she is his soulmate, but Jenny is not so sure. Are his intense feelings for her just some kind of insanity, or is Jenny turning him away because that's exactly what she always does when a guy gets interested?

By turns passionate romance and gripping paranormal thriller, Last Alpha tells the story of two people whose paths collide with earth-shattering consequences. As love boils over and the dark secrets buried away in Jenny and Billy's past rise to the surface, a night of murder raises the stakes yet higher.

And as she fights for her own survival, Jenny must face perhaps the biggest question of them all. In matters of life, death and love, can Beauty ever really hope to tame the Beast?

Review by Cherri-Anne

My rating = 5 stars

I’m the real thing. A natural shifter.

As far as I know, the last of my kind.  What a scary thought!  Can you imagine being the very last of your kind??  Initial thoughts while starting in on the story is that Ruby starts off running & is very descriptive.  The fact that it is set in Scotland is awesome!!!  Definitely love the descriptions when it comes to any & everything Scottish!!!  Now that I am finished and trying to find the right words to do this review, I have to take a step back first.  Overall, I was firmly caught in Ruby's web, ensconced in this story, determined to figure out what was going on before the story revealed the answers.  Thankfully I was wrong most every time!  That is a great thing because it shows how original, how different & how unique the story is.  Now to think about the story on the deeper level...without ruining any single part of the story... The intensity level sure amps up quickly and often, which makes it a very furrific read!  ‘All I ever wanted was to find companionship in others like me, and I ended up falling in love.’  This isn't a romance story about shifters, this is a last wolf shifter story with a side of romance...until it becomes a romance, then shifts to a shifter romance.  ‘We don’t do all that. It has to be for life. A soul-mate.’  ‘He meant everything he said. He believed it.  That he was a werewolf, the last of his kind.  And that he was in love with Jenny.’   Ok, maybe in my 'real life' I would think a guy a nut job if he said all that to me, but since I prefer to live with my head - and heart - in paranormal romance books, I would LOVE to have that all said to me!!  That is actually one of the very cool parts to this story - how much it shifts, grows almost.  'Tender intimacy taking over from animal intensity.'  While this line describes something else (obviously! snicker), to me it describes the story perfectly!  This book ranges from the lightheartedness to highly intense, humor to solemn, and back again, making this story very hard to define, all in a good way though!  The psychosis of the wolf, of the man, of the woman, are all separate entities, even when they really aren't.  Trust me, after reading the book you will understand what I mean.  I can't find a way to say more about it without giving spoilers.  Because of these vastly different features this isn't a book that I would call a shifter story...until it is one!!  I love how you get sucked in and pulled through this amazing adventure!  Ruby has created such an innovative shifter story, where nothing is like any other shifter book that I have ever read!  And I have read a LOT!!!  And that ending?!?!  I was NOT expecting that at ALL!  FANGTASTIC!!!  Even though this is the first book that I have read of Ruby's, I can already see just how gifted of an author she is!  She has impressed me very much with this book and I cannot wait to experience her other stories! 

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