Willa Peet (Ginger's younger sister from Protecting What's His) isn't nice, and she's done pretending to try. She left her first and only boyfriend Evan, a nice guy, because she knew he was just waiting for her to figure her shit out. To fix herself, or let him fix her. Evan didn't understand that Willa doesn't want to be fixed, so Willa had to leave.

Thankfully, the photography contest Willa entered sends her off to Ireland for a month, a glorious chance to distance herself from her comfort zone. Too bad the sexy, sexy pub/inn owner sent to pick her up from the airport immediately shatters all of her expectations.

Shane, on a brief stint home from his Grand Prix racing career to sort out a sale of his family's pub and inn, cannot believe his visceral and immediate attraction to the whip smart and prickly Willa. Girl even ditches him at the airport. Hell.

Two broken souls may just found out there broken pieces fit perfectly together, despite how desperately the both try to tell themselves their affair is temporary.

Oh wow, a glorious audio book. Loved the Irish accents. SUPER steamy, but definitely more of a slow-burn than Bailey's other books I've recently read, and boy did it burn good. I did miss her normal dual POV, as this is entirely in Willa's, but whatever. One of my favorites. Enemies to lovers, car racing, family, misty Irish meadow sexy-times, and realistic drama. My catnip.

Callie Carpenter is forced to leave the promotion she just landed and return to her New Jersey hometown to take care of her parents after they are injured in a car accident (from road head no less, go septuagenarians). Returning home means she's also returning to the orbit of her first love, Garrett Daniels.

Garrett, sexy history teacher and lead football coach, was devastated when he lost Callie. And now, she's back and its like those fourteen years never happened. Plus, she's a newly minted emergency substitute drama teacher and he'll see her every day. Just like high school all over again. Hormones and all.

They immediately jump back into a sexual charged relationship, falling ever so quickly back into love. But, Callie is going back to California in ten months. And Garrett doensn't want to leave home.

This was my first Emma Chase, and I adored her character development. And man, I love a good second chance romance, and this had such great bones. Garrett (and the audio narrator, cuz damn) was so sexy, and I loved his combination of smarts, protectiveness, and just all around great guy, besides being sexy AF. Callie was also great, and I loved her immediate connection with her students, her joy for teaching, and her passion for her career.

My main issues came from the kind of lack of tension in their relationship? They just fell so easily back into what they had and I just wanted more sexual tension. A bit more of "we shouldn't" instead of YES, let's be bf/gf. Also, there were a lot of plot points, but not all of them were necessary, or would seem important than would fizzle out.

Still, I'm glad I read this because Chase did a great job of making high school lovers who became awesome adults so very sweet (and sexy).

Read with Bernie! She loved the story and especially the giant's made up words.

Calvin inherited his grandfather's beloved but going under bookstore in Big Sur. Despite his attachment to the store and the community of poetic, hippie community of Big Sur, Calvin's brain knows selling it is the right thing to do.

Before he finalizes a sale, Calvin does keep the store open to accommodate a high-end fashion shoot set to take place over a week, a booking that will help bolster the store's failing finances.

What Calvin isn't expecting is his immediate and intense attraction to the uber-famous fashion model Lucia Bell. Of course she is beautiful, but there's just something about Lucia, something that is making it pretty clear nerdy Calvin may be a gentlemen in the streets but is definitely a controlling alpha-in-the-sheets. It doesn't hurt Lucia is also into poetry and all of the nerdy things Calvin enjoyed growing up in the bookstore.

Lucia is also stunned by this connection but isn't sure where it will go. Both are set in their lives and neither seem to want to change.

A fun read, very sexy and poetic. I didn't really enjoy Calvin's character as I read this too soon after hearing about a IRL famous nerd being outed for shameful behavior. I was more intrigued by the secondary characters and was pleased to find out they have their own book!

Holy hotness! A fantastic collaboration between two authors that pushes your boundaries in the best ways.

A tiny Aussie veterinarian ex-pat living in NYC has been obsessed with her grumpy, ginormous, and secretly sexy landlord since she moved into her apartment.

So now that her terrible, cheating ex has left the building, Autumn has been indulging in her secret fantasy of having her landlord stalk her, kidnap her, use her...by drawing erotic comics of him doing so.

When landlord Blake accidentally gets his hands on one of these comics, he's stunned, bewildered, and turned on. He can't believe the beautifully blonde, eternally sunny, and seemingly innocent Autumn is into his own personal kinks.

But, Autumn definitely is into it, and Blake agrees to make her fantasies come to life, as long as she also goes on three dates with him.

Chock full of so naughty scenes you'll never forget (Stairwell! Closet!), this is not a book to be missed in 2018. Plus, there is a fun cast of supporting characters, Aussie lingo, and hilarious stand-up comedy!

The best parts of all are the fully consensual nature of Autumn and Blake's play. Blake is insistent on Autumn's full participation (as he should be) and always makes sure they are 100% equals.

So, while the kink is not really my cup of tea, but it was for the time I was reading the book....;)

A short, tiny novel chock full of squeamish, squirm inducing scenes involving young people (barely twenty) who fuck each other bodies and minds. I truly do not like the cover, as it really doesn't fit with the story.

Free copy received in exchange for a fair review!

If you're going pull a ridiculous and very public surprise proposal to someone on the Dodger's Jumbo-tron, you could at least spell their name right...

Nik cannot even believe her casual boyfriend of a few months pulled a stunt proposal at a Dodger's game. Even more surprising is his completely inappropriate and frankly scary behavior after she tells him no. Thankfully, a really cute pediatrician and his sister see Nik's shock and get her out of the stadium before the media hounds can descend, escorting her safely to her friends.

Thus starts a really great friendship between Nik and Carlos, a friendship that slowly starts to include benefits. Both have super busy lives, Nik with her writing, Carlos with the hospital, so they both think their arrangement is perfect. Both also have a ton of baggage around love, intimacy, and relationships.

What follows is a lovely friends to lovers to HEA tale with realistic problems, family issues, and a awesome dose of feminism.

This was more like a 4.5 star for me, because I just loved The Wedding Date so very much and "friends-to-lovers" isn't one of my fav tropes.

Wow. Bowen Driscoll. Thank you for your dirty-talking Brooklyn accent. Certainly made my commutes and my chores fly by while I listened to this one!

I read the Crossing the Line Series in reverse order, kind of on accident, but then kept up with it once I realized what I did. So, it was super fun to see how Bowen and Sera get together in New York, ending up in Chicago with the beginnings of their squad.

May be one of my favorites, although I was a bit squicked out when Bowen put out a cigarette on his body to prove he would never touch another one for Sera. Yeah, don't do that.

Oh wow. You are all in for it come October 2nd. Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss+ for the ARC!

ALSO. Do NOT read this until you've read Strange the Dreamer. Don't even read the description. Seriously. You've been warned.

Lazlo has discovered his parentage, Sarai is a ghost controlled by the whims of a vengeful godling, the City of Weep is in ruins. This is where we left off, but this is not where Taylor starts our journey.

Instead we meet two sisters who we slowly learn about throughout the tale, until the resounding finale that will leave you breathless.

I shan't say much more, but Taylor is an epic wordsmith. I'm definitely going to be listening to these two books on audio come October so I can more slowly absorb the magnificence.

A powerful set of essays. It took me a very long time to read this book, as I wanted to give myself both the time to think about each essay and the time to recover from reading each one. The theme of "not that bad" was reflected on in most of the essays, with a resounding rejoinder that every sexual assault, every rape, is that bad.

Gabrielle Union's essay in particular stood out to me. Union unpacks her conflict of emotion over being able to portray an important character in a film, a film she was very proud of, only to have the director be accused of sexual assault.

Highly recommend.