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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Love Harder: Cover Reveal

I have to tell you a few things about this book. I was with Monica when she met one of the characters she wrote about in the second book of her memoir Love Harder.  I believe I make a cameo appearance (with a nickname) unless I got edited out 🤣  We shared a lot of wine and laughs over that long weekend. You need to read Love Hard first. Fun fact: Monica has great feet; you'll know what I'm talking about if you read Love Hard. That is all.  Oh, check out the cover and synopsis.  Monica and her unicorn are the models on the cover!


LAST ITEM: Come chat with Monica, her unicorn boyfriend, and me this Friday at 8 pm EST on Monica's Insta! It's going to be fun. https://www.instagram.com/

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Title: Love Harder

Author: Monica James

Genre: Creative Non-Fiction

Cover Design: Sommer Stein

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Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Models: Monica James & The Unicorn

Release Date: October 23, 2024

 

BLURB

 

LOVE.

O

V

E

 

Once upon a time, I looked at love through rose-tinted glasses because love is meant to conquer all, right?

 

However, was I just a hopeless romantic at heart, chasing the proverbial happily ever after?

 

Being a romance author, one may think I know what I’m doing when it comes to love. But I hate to spoil the ending for you, dear reader; love and me, we aren’t friends. And we haven’t been for quite some time.

 

That’s not because I don’t believe in love.

 

On the contrary.

 

And that’s the reason we are here…again.

 

We all have that one person.

 

For me, he caught me unaware, and that’s when life usually screams KEEP UP!

 

And most times, we can’t.

 

If you’ve read Love Hard, then you know how love and I were no longer on speaking terms. But I wrote something which was a sign from the heavens. Or perhaps, hell…

 

I’ve learned that good men are like unicorns. Everyone talks about them, but no one actually sees them.

 

How I’m eating my words because I’ve found my unicorn. But does that mean I’ve finally learned my lessons in love? Is your beloved narrator about to get her HEA after all?

 

Buckle up, bestie, things are about to get wild.

 

Love hits you when you least expect it…and we are never ready for the fall.

 

 

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AUTHOR BIO

 

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare, and Emily Dickinson.

 

When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two. She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt, and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers. She draws her inspiration from life.

 

She is a bestselling author in the U.S.A., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the U.K.

 

Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals. She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks, and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends. 

 

 

AUTHOR LINKS

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormonicajames

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1948025312080306

Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicajames81

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6937440.Monica_James

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Website: https://authormonicajames.com

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Review: Tempest by Alison Rhymes is now LIVE!

Tempest (Seattle Blades Book 3) by Alison Rhymes is now LIVE! Don’t miss this second chance, hockey romance!  Check out my spoiler-free review.  Tempest is available on Kindle Unlimited.

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What to expect:

💜Second Chance

💜Single Dad

💜Hockey Romance

💜Spicy



Blurb: 

You can fall in love in a matter of days.


It can take years to recover from the loss of it. I know that all too well. When I fell for Gavin Vaughn, I never expected to watch him marry someone else. The experience changed me, shaped the woman I became.


Now he’s divorced and wanting to reconnect after twenty years. As if that same shattered heart doesn’t still beat inside me.


He’s as charming as he ever was, better looking, too. And a star player for the NHL team in the city I just relocated to.

I’m not that same girl who loved him and watched him leave. I’m a woman who built her own empire from scraps. I’m also the woman who will be mentoring his daughter to do the same.


I’m the woman who can still be brought to her knees by the only man she ever cared about. But it’s going to take more than sly smiles and bouquets of flowers to convince me he’s worth my time. Or my heart.


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Spoiler-free Review: 

Tempest (Seattle Blades Book 3)Tempest by Alison Rhymes
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 Tempest by Alison Rhymes is the third book in the Seattle Blades series of standalone sports romances. I enjoyed Flurry and couldn’t wait to read Tempest, a second-chance romance between Gavin and Odette.  
Gavin is a divorced, single dad and hockey player living in Seattle.  He runs into Odette, a fashion designer who he fell for twenty years ago.  Her heart never recovered from their sudden breakup.  Odette wouldn’t let Gavin puck around with her heart again, until she did. Their story flawlessly unravels from past to present, with a HEA ending worthy of the NHL Stanley Cup!

Monday, August 26, 2024

Review: The Rocker's Muse by Penelope Ward is LIVE!

The Rocker's Muse by Penelope Ward is live! Check out my spoiler-free review. This incredible book is currently at #19 in the Kindle store. Get it at the release-week sale price before it goes up to $4.99. 

What you can expect:

●   ROCKSTAR

●   15-YEAR AGE GAP

●   SMALL TOWN

●   FOUND FAMILY

●   SLOW BURN

●   FORBIDDEN

 

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Title: The Rocker’s Muse

Author: Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Rockstar/15-Year Age Gap/Small Town

Found Family/Slow Burn/Forbidden

Release Date: August 26, 2024


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Synopsis:


From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE novel…


No one but me knew why I was actually in the California desert that day.


Nestled deep within the desolate, rocky area was a recording studio.


When a door suddenly opened, a man mistook me for someone he was supposed to be interviewing for a job.


The next thing I knew, I was whisked inside.


The position? An assistant on the upcoming tour for one of America’s most famous rock bands.


Pretty exciting opportunity for a twenty-two-year-old, just out of college.


Not surprisingly, I bombed the interview.


When I ended up mistakenly walking into the men’s room on my way out, I struck up a conversation with a stranger—not realizing it was the lead singer, Tristan Daltrey.


He seemed to like the fact that I had no idea who he was, that I saw him as a normal person.


That night, I got a call offering me the job.


So began my complicated story with Tristan.


Millions of women loved him.


Yet for some reason, after the shows, he only wanted to hang out with me.


Late-night talks. Casual dinners in his hotel room.


I wasn’t supposed to be fraternizing with the band’s frontman.


Despite our fifteen-year age difference, Tristan and I had a connection.


But I had a secret.


One that would eventually lead to my leaving the tour.


And one that would lead Tristan and the band straight to the small town where I came from.

Spoiler-free Review 

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hop on the tour bus and get ready to ride into the feels with the boys from the Delirious Jones band in The Rocker’s Muse by Penelope Ward. This one-of-a-kind rockstar romance is one of my top reads of the year!   Tristian and Emily’s combustible connection made me fall for both characters hard.  I was captivated from the first to the last page.  When I hit the end, I hugged my Kindle. It was that good—Chef’s kiss Penelope. 

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AUTHOR BIO:

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Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.

 

She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.

 

With over two million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over thirty books. Her novels have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.

 

 

AUTHOR LINKS

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/penelopewardauthor

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PenelopesPeeps

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