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Published February 17, 2014 by bookbesties

That’s right! we are turning(turned) ONE today and ind honor of that we(me) are giving away some books!(I just love giving away books). What books am I giving away you ask?

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Consequences of Deception by Ella Fox is live!

Published February 17, 2014 by bookbesties

Blurb:

Once upon a time, girl met boy and a love story began.

Their future was assured until tragedy struck and deceptions were made.

There are consequences to every action, and the Consequences of Deception are always the most punishing.

Sloane Evans lost nearly everyone that she’s ever loved, but losing Killian Brandt left a scar that never healed.

Four and a half years after turning his back on her, Killian steps back into Sloane’s life in the most shocking of ways, giving her no choice but to abandon her life and go with him.

Why would a man buy a woman that he hates?

Not everything is as it appears.

Love is beautiful, revenge is ugly, and lies destroy lives.

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About The Author:

When she’s not writing, Ella indulges the gypsy in her blood and travels the country. Ella loves reading, movies, music, buying make-up, reading TMZ, Twitter and pedicures… not necessarily in that order. She has a wild sense of humor and loves to laugh. Her favorite thing in the world is hanging out with her family and watching comedy movies.

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On The Rocks(Last Call #1) by Sawyer Bennett

Published February 17, 2014 by bookbesties

NEW SERIES

BY USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

SAWYER BENNETT

ON THE ROCKS

Last Call, #1

Adult Contemporary Romance

Releasing February 17^th, 2014

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He left to travel the world for fame and glory, but only after spurning Gabby Ward and crushing her young heart. Now Hunter Markham has come back home to the sand and salty breeze of the North Carolina Outer Banks so he can open up Last Call, a beach bar nestled among the dunes of the Atlantic.

Gabby Ward is not happy that Hunter has returned. Bitter over his rebuff years before, she’s content to stay far away from him and his dangerously charming ways.

Gabby’s well-schemed plans to ignore Hunter go up in flames when he presents an offer to her that she simply can’t refuse, throwing them together in a common quest to each reach their goals. Working together day in and day out proves to be problematic for Gabby, who soon realizes that the feelings she had for him are still very much alive. Hunter struggles to reach through to Gabby’s cold heart, all while starting a new career away from his life as a top ranked, professional surfer.

What starts out as a mutual business arrangement soon turns into a passion that neither of them can continue to deny.

Hard choices lay ahead for both of them when Hunter is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to return to the pro surfing tour.

Choices that could destroy what they have built or take them further than they ever had dared to hope.

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USA Today Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn’t have many weaknesses but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.

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Cover Reveal For Toxic by Rachel Van Dyken

Published February 16, 2014 by bookbesties

Everyone has a secret…

Gabe Hyde is on borrowed time. He’s been hiding his identity for over four years-hidden from the world that used to adore him–obsess over him–driven to the edge of insanity by one poor choice.

But that one choice, altered the course of his life forever.

Pretending isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially when pretending means hiding your real self from the people that care about you the most. But if anyone ever discovered the truth it wouldn’t just be his life at risk–but hers.

Saylor doesn’t hate men.

Just Gabe.

Only Gabe.

He’s a reckless, happy-go-lucky, silver spoon fed pain in her ass. Everything about him makes her more and more confused. Unfortunately they both donate time at the same Group Home. If she wasn’t afraid of flunking, she’d be long gone. She hates that she’s attracted to him almost as much as he hates that he’s attracted to her–and she can tell, especially since their first encounter ended up making her knees so weak she couldn’t form coherent sentences for weeks afterwards. But the closer she gets to him, the more confused she becomes. He isn’t who he says he is, and he’s hiding something big.

What happen when two worlds collide? Two worlds that never should have met in the first place? Some secrets are too big to be hidden forever–the only question? Will his destroy everyone he loves? Or finally bring about the redemption he’s been craving for the past four years?

Everyone has a secret…What’s yours?

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The Problem with Crazy by Lauren McKellar Release Day Blitz!

Published February 13, 2014 by bookbesties

Title: The Problem With CrazyAuthor: Lauren K McKellar

Genre: NA Contemporary Romance

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Release Date: February 13, 2014

The problem with crazy is that crazy, by itself, has no context. It can be good crazy, bad crazy . . . or crazy crazy—like it was when my ex-boyfriend sung about me on the radio.
Eighteen-year-old Kate couldn’t be more excited about finishing high school and spending the summer on tour with her boyfriend’s band. Her dad showing up drunk at graduation, however, is not exactly kicking things off on the right foot—and that’s before she finds out about his mystery illness, certain to end in death.A mystery illness she is likely to inherit.

When your whole life goes from adventure and ecstasy to sad and suicidal, what’s the point? Not knowing who to love, and who to trust . . . where does it end?

The Problem With Crazy is a story about love and life; about overcoming obstacles, choosing to trust, and learning how to make the choices that will change your life forever.

*A portion of sales from this book will be donated to a Huntington’s disease-related charity (details TBC)

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FIVE FACTS WITH
LAUREN K. MCKELLAR

Where did you get
your inspiration? I was inspired to write this story when I met a friend of
mine’s father, who unfortunately, has the disease. I didn’t go through the
struggle with him when he got tested, or anything, but meeting someone who
suffered from such an obviously horrible illness was really sad.

My cousin suffers from a mental illness, and one of the
things I dislike most is the special treatment, and the frequent use of the
term ‘crazy’. And so, The Problem With
Crazy was born.

Was writing about
such a horrible illness difficult? I think writing about any illness is
difficult. When you create fiction about something that not only alters
people’s lives, but can kill them, you’re treading on sensitive ground.

That’s why I did a lot of research; I interviewed victims, spoke to state
bodies, and observed people who weren’t affected, but who knew people who were.
I hope this means I’ve done the subject matter justice.

Why New Adult?
This illness is all about change in life, and for me, New Adult, or Upper YA,
is one of the biggest change periods a person will go through. It’s coming of
age, it’s defining life moments, and I couldn’t think of a time when people are
more socially aware and conscious, and yet still at a period when life- and
person-making choices are made. For me, eighteen years was the ultimate age to
set this story with maximum impact.

So is the moral to
the story to not get Huntington’s disease? No. This disease isn’t
contagious. It’s hereditary, which is horrid enough.

However, the moral isn’t to do with this particular illness. It’s twofold; it’s
partly to do with the literal use of the term ‘crazy’, and, more importantly,
to do with living life to the fullest. To not knowing when or where you could
die, but to living life anyway. To trying, and persevering, and working, and
laughing, and smiling, and loving, and living—it’s to being. To being as if each day is your last—and in spite of the
fact.

So, heavy stuff.
Let’s talk about romance. Is there some lovin’ in this book? Well, you know
what? Love is a central theme, as it is in most of our lives. Loving, however …
well, let’s just say, it’s certainly not an erotic romance. Still, I don’t know
that I could write and not include love to help bind the elements together.

For me, love has always been a part of my life. I’d dream of
finding ‘the one’ when I was younger; and now that I’ve finally found him, it’s
everything I could have wanted, and more. To write a story and not incorporate
a part of that, a fragment of something I probably feel strongest about—I don’t
know that I could do it.

Finally,
the dedication. Tell us about that.

Well, I dedicated this book to the person who inspired me to write it. I wanted
to raise awareness about something that struck someone so cruelly.

Also, that person is someone’s father. While my father never had Huntington’s,
he did pass away from cancer when I was in my late teens, and I feel like the
altering of a father figure is something that’s personal. This book is being
released on the anniversary of my father’s death; so it’s for dads everywhere.
Happy, healthy, loving, paternal, diseased, and healthy. Because who can argue
with that?

I raised my hands
to my sides and lifted up my T-shirt, throwing it over my head and letting it
land on the floor next to me. Swaying my hips to the side, I threw my hands out
in a ta-da movement, like I was the host on a game show.

“And the jeans.” Dave nodded and
took a few steps back to the bed, sitting down and crossing his arms. His face
was blank, and his eyebrows were raised. I’d never seen him look so
unimpressed.

I flipped the button and undid my
fly, slowly pulling my skinny jeans over my thighs, my knees, my calves, and
finally my ankles and feet. There was no way to do it and be sexy, so I settled
for not falling over. I stepped out of my pants and stood up straight, in only
my underwear.

Dave checked his cell for messages.

I
felt sick.

Lauren K. McKellar is a writer and editor of fact and fiction. She has worked in publishing for more than eight years, and recently returned to her first love: writing books that make you feel.

Lauren loves to write for the Young and New Adult markets, and blogs with Aussie Owned and Read, as well as vlogging with the YA Rebels.

In her free time, Lauren enjoys long walks on the beach with her two super-cute dogs and her partner-in-crime/fiancé.

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WRITING ABOUT ILLNESS

Writing about illness and disease is
obviously dancing with danger. After all, when you’re talking about a condition
that can change, and eventually, strip someone of their life, it’s important to
treat the topic with sensitivity and do it justice. Stuffing up things like
symptoms, treatment and other conditional specifications can not only leave you
labeled a liar, but also leave you responsible for potentially causing a sufferer
insult and/or injury.

The Problem With Crazy deals with
Huntington’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that results in a loss of
brain function and, approximately 15-20 years after onset, death. And that’s
putting it in simple terms.

When writing about this disease, I
wanted to keep as close to the facts as I could. Being a lesser-known condition
than, say, cancer, or Parkinson’s, it was difficult at first to gather facts.

Eventually, I approached a few
organisations, state bodies for sufferers of this illness, to fact check and
gather information. This was difficult as a writer; asking people to give up
their time for something that may never be published is hard, especially when
you’re asking such personal questions. Still, I was lucky enough to speak with
a person at the Huntington’s foundation in Victoria, and they helped me a lot.

I also learnt a lot from talking with
sufferers and relatives of sufferers. They showed me a unique angle to the
disease I hadn’t at that point considered: a compassion, and positive focus I
may not have been aware of otherwise.

In the end, I asked another state body to read through the book for any
factual errors. At the end of the day, this illness isn’t my story to
tell–it’s theirs, and I don’t want to misrepresent it. Still, I do expect
there to be an element or two of information that perhaps isn’t quite accurate.
When it comes down to it, I haven’t suffered from this illness, nor has anyone
in my family, thank goodness. It is for this reason that I hope you, as a
reader, understand that this is a work of fiction, and for more information on
this disease

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Unmaking Merchant by Ella James is out now!!

Published February 12, 2014 by bookbesties

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Marchant Radcliffe, owner of the exclusive Love Inc. brothel outside Vegas, is no stranger to darkness. He lost his sister in childhood and his parents in college. Since his best friend helped him finance the Love Inc. ranch almost ten years ago, Marchant has drowned himself in business—and he’s thrived, despite the heavy secret that has plagued him since his parents’ deaths.

Then, after ten years of good fortune, Marchant’s skeletons start to peek out of the closet, tossing him down a trail of ruin that begins with arson and could end with murder. Because he’s kept his struggles private, he has no one to pull him back from the brink.

Except for Suri Dalton.

After a breakup with her longtime fiancé, Suri, the daughter of one of Silicon Valley’s tech tycoons, has nowhere to go except her BFF’s new penthouse in Las Vegas. The last thing Suri is looking for is a man, but after drowning her woes in wine on the flight over, she stumbles into a torrid make out session with a beautiful stranger—who just so happens to be Marchant Radcliffe, a playboy and a literal pimp.

Despite an immediate attraction, Suri writes Marchant off as exactly the sort of guy she should avoid. Until Love Inc. goes up in flames, Marchant winds up at the bottom of a swimming pool, and Suri is the only one around to pull him out.

What happens when what you see isn’t what you get? What do you do when destiny is too alluring to resist and too dangerous to survive?

About Ella James

Ella James is a Colorado author who writes teen and adult romance. She is happily married to a man who knows how to wield a red pen, and together they are raising a feisty two-year-old who will probably grow up believing everyone’s parents go to war over the placement of a comma.

Ella’s books have been listed on numerous Amazon bestseller lists, including the Movers & Shakers list and the Amazon Top 100; two were listed among Amazon’s Top 100 Young Adult Ebooks of 2012.

To find out more about Ella’s projects and get dates on upcoming releases, find her on Facebook at facebook.com/ellajamesauthorpage and follow her blog, http://www.ellajamesbooks.com. Questions or comments? Tweet her at author_ellaj or e-mail her at ella_f_james@ymail.com.

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Oceans Submerged By M. A. DeOlmos

Published February 11, 2014 by bookbesties

I am super tight with M. DeOlmos and she allowed me and me only to read the 2nd book in her Oceans Collide series and but I was not disappointed!

Synopsis:

Twenty-seven year old Ocean Hawthorne thought he’d known loss and pain when his twin sister Stormie died. It was his fault the world would no longer see her beautiful smile or hear her captivating laughter. The former world champion in the vicious world of MMA fighting thought he’d been through the worst and has now carried that guilt and pain with him since.

Then he met Livie Acosta. The moment he laid his eyes on the exotic beauty, he was hooked. In that split second of looking into her wild and hurt eyes, his heart began to beat again. He knew then that he would never be able to let her go… but was that the right thing for him to do? Because yet again, Ocean found himself surrounded by a familiar darkness, a pain so strong that even breathing hurt, and living felt impossible. He’d pushed too far in the effort to love and help her, and now… now he didn’t know if he’d ever see her again.

Lawrence Hawthorne has been through the ringer when it came to hurt and disappointment, but nothing could have prepared him for the possibility of losing Livie. He’d just found her and now—well, now he didn’t know what to think. To him, Livie was more than just a girl, more than just a friend. To Law, Livie was someone he needed to help and protect, even from herself, and he’d failed that simple task.

Will the Hawthorne cousins who have sworn to protect Livie survive her selfish act, or will they crumble, yet again?

Review:

The way Oceans Collide left off with you know Livie going all ‘I cant take life anymore’ I was pumped to see what would happen, would she make it, would she not what if Ocean never forgave her, will she ever forgive herself? So many questions and while some were answered some where a nice Segway into the next book. Ocean looses himself in this book and while he is trying to deal with Liv and the aftermath of what she did he is also faced with old demons he thought long gone. Everything that happened with his sister brings a tremendous amount of guilt flooding to the surface after seeing Liv do what she did. while I don’t want to give too much away I will say that this book was a lot better (IMO) than the first, while the first kept me reading and wanting to know what happen this book kept me glued to the pages. I read and got so wrapped up in the characters lives that it was well into the late night before I put it down!

We also find that new love is blossoming as well as new battles to be fought with not just with Ocean and Live but with Law as well. I had very mixed feeling about Law in the first book I was very /Dude, why are you up Liv’s ASS all the time, that’s Oceans girl’ but mainly that was because I fell in love with Ocean right away. But in this book you see a whole new side to Law and that made me like him a lot more, not as much as Ocean but then well I love the Ocean. this book to me was a lot more into the feelings of each person and they all deal with the aftermath of what Liv did in different ways and as they try to come to grips with it are faced with new challenges. This book does have a ‘soft cliff hanger’ which means that it’s not as bad as the first one but you are still left like ‘OMG what is going to happen next?’

Melissa did a great job with this one and I can’t wait to read the third book!

**I was gifted this book in exchange for my honest and fair review****

4 out of 5 stars!

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Promiscuous By Missy Johnson!

Published February 8, 2014 by bookbesties

When you’re a twenty-year-old triple platinum singer you get an image.

Except mine was all wrong. On drugs; pregnant; fucking my manager.

But I wasn’t; it was all lies. I was a good girl.

But now I’m done being the good girl, because it has gotten me nowhere.

I spent the last year in love with a guy who I was paying to fuck me.

A guy who fell in love with someone else.

But now I’m over it. Now it’s about me.

If the world thinks I’m a bad girl, then hell, that’s what I’ll be.

I’ll show them bad.

Let’s find out how promiscuous I can be.

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I was beginning to realize what this was: he wanted more of the party girl. He was here to see the Beth who stayed out all night drinking, and kissing random girls and making out with handsome men.

Not me. Well, not the real me, anyway.

I slipped a finger through the tie of my robe, letting it fall open. I arched my shoulders, letting the material float down my shoulders. Goosebumps hit my arms as I stood there confidently. Inside, I was a screaming mess.

What the hell am I doing? What if he touched me? What if I freaked out?

Sure, I’d had plenty of sex since the rape, but none sober. I hadn’t let anyone touch me without being completely smashed first.

He stared at me for a moment, his eyes wandering over my curves as time seemed to freeze. I couldn’t read his expression, but the longer he stood there, watching me, the more I began to panic. Without saying a thing, he bent down and retrieved the robe, threading my arms back
into it.

“I’m not here to fuck you, Beth.” He spoke softly, his hands running over the soft silk of my robe, down my arms to my fingers. I jumped back, both relieved and confused.

Well, this is embarrassing.

Missy lives in a small town in Central Victoria with her husband, and her confused pets (a dog who think she’s a cat, a cat who thinks he’s a dog…you get the picture).

When she’s not writing, she can usually be found looking for something to read.

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Flawed Perfection Cover Reveal!

Published February 7, 2014 by bookbesties

Flawed Perfection

Beautifully Flawed, #1

Cassandra Giovanni

Publisher: Show N’ot Tell Publishing

Cover Designer: Gio Design Studios

Release Date: March 7, 2014

Bobby Beckerson was the American All-Star hockey player–he was the spitting image of perfection to his family. Goofy, sweet and undeniably gorgeous, he had everything but the one girl he wanted: River Ahlers.

River Ahlers is successful in everything but love. She’s been in love with Adam Beckerson since they were kids. Worst of all she’s stuck right in the middle of the brother’s dueling over everything and anything, and she doesn’t even know she’s the ultimate prize.

Adam Beckerson was a boy with a guitar, a smile that sunk girl’s hearts and a stone wall around his own. He was anything but perfect, and no matter how hard he tried he was nothing compared to Bobby. Sweet, damaged, with boyish good-looks, nobody thought Adam loved anyone but himself.

Bobby loved River, River loved Adam and Adam only loved himself–or so everyone thought. Then one night everything changes, and as it threatens to destroy everyone involved a tragedy strikes that will break them all…

GENRE: New Adult Contemporary Romance

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Cassandra doesn’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. In fact, the first time she was published was when she was seven years old and won a contest to be published in an American Girl Doll novel. Since then Cassandra has written more novels than she can count and put just as many in the circular bin. Her personal goal with her writing is to show the reader the character’s stories through their dialogue and actions instead of just telling the reader what is happening. In 2012 she became a published Young Adult author, releasing In Between Seasons (The Fall, #1) and the Amazon bestselling thriller, Walking in the Shadows. In 2013 she branched out by using her artistic illustrating talents to publish her first Children’s novel, The Adventures of Skippy Von Flippy: Tales of Friendship (Skippy Tales, #1). Cassandra released her first New Adult novel, Love Exactly, which became an Amazon Bestseller overnight in June of 2013. She’s currently working on her new New Adult Contemporary Romance, Beautifully Flawed. The first novel in the series, Flawed Perfection is scheduled to be published on March 7, 2014.

Besides being a writer, Cassandra is a professional photographer known for her automotive, nature and architectural shots. She is the owner of Gio Design Studios Photography and Gio Design Studios Publication Marketing . She is currently studying to receive a degree in Marketing. Cassandra is happily married to the man of her dreams and they live in the rolling hills of New England with the other loves of her life their dogs, Bubski and Kanga.

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Toxic by Meghan Quinn blog tour

Published February 5, 2014 by bookbesties

Synopsis:

His life consists of his best friend, Jack Daniels, his favorite drug and women who give him what he wants and leave. Rook Tyler lives for performing at night and wasting the rest of his days washing away the pain from his childhood so he doesn’t have to feel anything…ever. The only people he trusts are his band mates from Shattered Souls and he wants to keep it that way. His life was completely under control and simple until he heard the voice of Maisy Madison filter through The Tavern speakers.

Growing up in the foster care system with her two other band mates from Twisted Perfection, Maisy finds herself doing pretty much anything to get her and her band noticed but nothing seems to be working. One lucky night, Shattered Souls, the most popular band in the country, decides to show up at their little concert and luckily signs them on the spot and books them for their tour but the arena venues and massive amount of fans isn’t what has Maisy shaking in her heels. It’s the deep baritone voice of Rook Tyler that haunted her dreams for years that has her wondering if she can actually go through with the tour.

The force is almost too strong. He can feel her everywhere he goes and no matter how much he tries to resist her, he finds himself gravitating towards Maisy, wanting to hold her, kiss her and fuck her. He knows he shouldn’t get involved. He knows no matter what, he will end up hurting her but he can’t help it, his soul is connected to hers and the pull is too strong for him to resist.

Rook warned her time and time again but she didn’t listen, she didn’t want to listen. She needed him and she didn’t care that she knew deep down in her heart that their relationship was going to end in disaster. She didn’t care that their jealousies, stubbornness and baggage were getting in the way of their relationship. She didn’t care that they constantly hurt each other and that no matter what they did, their love was toxic.

Toxic, book one of The Addiction Series, tells the story of Rook and Maisy’s relationship, how it develops into an undeniable love and then crumbles apart every chance it gets. Follow their twisted relationship as they fight off lies, temptations, addictions, users and try to overcome the toxic love they share.

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Sex, betrayal, longing, drugs and Rock-n-Roll all of that equals Toxic by Meghan Quinn.

We have two bands, one is pretty well-known and the other is an up in coming who happened to be a the right place at the right time. Twisted Perfection is Masiy, Kaid and Willow who all grew up together in different group homes and then you have Shattered Souls, Rook, Cruz, Landon and Grey who are a ragtag bunch of guys who treat each other like brothers. I loved that this was not a meet and fall in love story but a meet, hate you and then slowly have to have you type story. Lets start with Rook and Masiy, Rook is your typical rock star, girls booze and sex every night with a chip on his shoulder and an attitude to match. But when he meets Masiy all that changes.

“I’m not good at being in a relationship. I’ve actually never been in one so I most likely will fuck it up more times than make you happy but I can’t stay away from you….But I’m warning you, if you decide to be with me, I’m not perfect and I will most likely hurt you….I have issues and I’ll being them into our relationship…..if your willing to deal with that then I want you to be with me.”

Masiy the quiet but soulful singer of Twisted perfection just wants someone who will love her and not treat her like an object. I like that the book was not told in just one persons POV but rather it told ALL sides of the many different stories going on while they were both on tour.

Grey and Willow both have an undeniable attraction to each other and are both very much interested into seeing where the attraction goes, there is just one thing stopping them and that’s Quinn, Grey’s long time girlfriend and Willow’s new stylist and friend. I loved and hated this part of the story simply because I hate love triangles but the way Meghan wrote it kind of eased my mind in that aspect.

Landon and Quinn have been best friends since she started dating his brother Grey in high school and has been secretly in love with her ever since, he was there for her though all her self-image issues and thinks she walks on water, if only she would notice how much he longs for her.

I liked the way the stories were intertwined yet still had the feel as if they were each a different book. Through all the twist and turns I was on such a roller coaster, sometimes I got whiplash, in both a good and bad way. I had no idea going into that it would be a series and when I was 90 percent done with the book and realized there was far too much left undone for the number of ages I knew, crap there is another book.

I found the book a little long and some scenes I felt could have done without, there wasn’t enough of Cruz and Landon or Kaid for that matter and maybe they will be in the next. The ending really had me hating Meghan but I guess that was the intent, I went through all those feelings only to keep me coming back for the second and I will just to see what happens. Well played Meghan Quinn, well played indeed.

4 out of 5 stars

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