Release with Review:: Stay With Me by K.L. Grayson

Stay With Me, an all-new standalone contemporary romance by USA Today bestselling author K.L. Grayson is live!

Stay with me.

Three simple words.

One impossible request.

I’ve loved Allie McCallister for as long as I can remember. Her happiness and well-being mean more to me than anything else, which is why when the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself, I had to take it. Three months was such a short amount of time to be apart to provide the financial stability we needed to start our lives.

It wasn’t supposed to catapult my band to stardom, and it sure as hell wasn’t supposed to set off the chain of events that pushed my relationship with Allie to the brink. Our hearts were shattered, our love tested, and when everything fell apart she begged me to leave.

Eight years ago, tragedy broke us. Now we’re back in the same little town where we once dreamed of building our future.

She’s a divorced, single mom.

I’m a damaged country music star.

There are a hundred reasons for us to stay apart.

But all it takes is one look, one touch, one kiss to know our story isn’t over. Now I have to convince her to let me stay.

Review:

I absolutely loved this love story. I loved the raw feelings, I loved that they were scared, and I loved that they were real with each other. It's so easy to be angry and not communicate. It's easy to ignore feelings, but these two hit it head on and continued their journey. 

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About K.L. Grayson

K.L. Grayson resides in a small town outside of St. Louis, MO. She is entertained

daily by her extraordinary husband, who will forever inspire every good quality she

writes in a man. Her entire life rests in the palms of six dirty little hands, and when the

day is over and those pint-sized cherubs have been washed and tucked into bed, you can find her typing away furiously on her computer. She has a love for alpha-males,

brownies, reading, tattoos, sunglasses, and happy endings…and not particularly in that

order.

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I like to Write:: Small Talk

I am so bad at small talk. I think today did it for me. It really brought it up to my face and yelled at me. Someone tried to talk to me and I just wasn't in the mood and I had answers for the questions but didn't continue the conversation. I didn't even try. Sometimes the whole fake thing gets on my nerves. I don't talk to you any other time why would I talk to you now? Now because we are in the same space. I am pretty happy with silence. Sometimes it is welcomed.
I guess I am bad at it because I don't see the point in it. I talk with a purpose, whether that purpose be to tell you something, ask you something, be nosy, or simply need something. If I am spoken to and I don't see any point in the conversation continuing I will politely answer the question or comment on whatever the subject is about, then I will just move on. I don't think this is rude. Other do. Others take offense to this. Others see this as being brushed off or maybe me being mean to them. No you may not be in the circle that I want to talk to about life or anything deep but we can certainly talk about the weather, kids, or maybe work a little. Although work is difficult because I have a difficult job. 
Small talk to me is just a filler for uncomfortable silence. Silence is uncomfortable as it may for the other person, isn't for me. I usually have a 100000000 random things on my mind, our home schedule, or thinking about an application that needs to be taken care of at work. Yep, while we are sitting next to each other and I am staring off into the distance, you are not bothering me, I might actually on a Saturday or Sunday be thinking about a military dude that is pushing my buttons with the paperwork he sent to me. Or maybe the thousand directions I am pushed during the day with our busy schedules, but I am not thinking 'man this person is horrible or why is this person sitting next to me trying to talk'. 
It's just small talk, and I am bad at it. If you want it to continue, please talk, engage, ask questions, I will follow through but I am horrible at follow up questions, I am horrible at making the conversation continue if I am just not in the mood. People overload is a big thing to me. If I have had a day or a few days that I am surrounded by people, I will slowly shutdown, waiting for my quiet time. I will begin thinking of bedtime and how quiet it will be without anyone around me. But today, today I was not in the mood. Until that is a conversation kept my attention and the people I was engaged with talked about subjects I was interested in and I was interested in doing the follow up and continuance of the conversation.
We are human, we are creatures of habit. I know who my people are and who my people aren't. And especially, if I feel I cannot trust you with what I say, I won't say much. And maybe today I felt like I couldn't trust this person with what I say. Maybe I felt like everything I say is taken the wrong way and I end up offending this person because we are not cut from the same cloth. Some of us enjoy life with others that don't always agree and some of us cannot hang with those with other sights of life. So maybe to keep myself from engaging to say something that might be taken wrong, I just kept my mouth shut. 
But small talk, I have never been good at small talk and sometimes am taken as rude. Please don't take those of us that just don't want to be fake as rude. Take us as honest people, as people that won't fake our way through life. Because sometimes you just don't feel like being around people. Sometimes the fake conversations of the weather and work are a lot of work. When a relationship is exhausting, then it probably isn't the relationship for you. 

Release with Review:: Rise Up by Alison Mello

Title: Rise Up

Series: A Coach's Love

Author: Alison Mello

Genre: Sports Romance/Second Chance Romance (Standalone)

Release Date: April 15, 2019

When my ex-wife told me she was leaving West Virginia, I was angry. Our marriage was over, it had been for a long time, but now she’s abandoning our son, and neither of us are happy about it.

My assistant, Amber, and I have been flirting for months. There’s a strong connection between us, and we both know it. Tapping into our mutual love for basketball, I bring Amber on to help coach my son’s team.

Now my ex is back and making demands. I know I should always trust my gut. When I don’t, things go wrong, and it leaves us with a lesson…

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish ... rise up!

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Review:

This was cute story of a man that has a horrible ex and gets to meet someone that makes his heart full. I loved the relationship built between Amber and his son. I loved the friendship that turns into something more. 

Alison is a full-time author. She was born and raised in Massachusetts where she met her husband while serving in the Massachusetts Army National Guard. Her husband is now retired from the military. Following their dream, they’re now living in sunny Florida with their son.

Alison has a love for reading, writing and Taekwondo. After a few years of studying Martial Arts, her son asked her to join with him and so she did. They take class and compete in tournaments together. This is the only place he out ranks her.

Though Alison has written many novels, she is most known for her Club Thrive Series, Shattered Souls, and A Coach’s Love. She has a love for writing strong females and close friends. She’s also known for intertwining her characters throughout a series.

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Release with Review:: Man of Matrimony by Thea Dawson

Title: Man of Matrimony

Series: The Gentlemen, Inc. Series

Author: Thea Dawson

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 2, 2019

Liam McGuire.

Annoyingly laid back. Hopelessly unambitious.

Cocky, irreverent, impossible.

My polar opposite.

My husband.

All my life, I’ve been the golden girl. Ivy League, MBA, the youngest executive at my company. The world lay at my feet.

Then the company I put my heart and soul into collapsed in scandal.

My so-called friends have deserted me.

I’m left with mounting debts and a shattered reputation, in danger of losing everything.

When a handsome stranger proposes a helping hand, I jump at the chance. I know it’s crazy, but all I have to do is stay married to him until he gets his green card, and he’ll support me until I’m back on my feet.

It’s the perfect marriage of convenience … except for the inconvenient way I’m starting to fall for him.

Brianna Winter.

Aggravatingly organized. Perpetually prim.

Stuck-up. Straitlaced.

Sex on a stick with a candy coating of complete indifference.

My wife.

I thought it would be easy. One year of marriage, and I’d be able to stay in sunny California for the rest of my life.

But one kiss changed everything.

Now, living at close quarters with the beautiful Miss B—with that toned body, that perfect skin, and that brilliant mind—I’m slowly going insane.

The memory of that kiss plays out over and over again in my mind in a kind of carnal loop of lust, but she shows no sign that she feels even the slightest bit of heat between us.

I may not survive my marriage long enough to get divorced.

MAN OF MATRIMONY is a steamy, standalone romance with heat, humor, and a sexy Irish hero! Happy reading!

Brianna “I’m sorry,” I whisper.
“For what?” he says, not moving.
“I should let you get to bed,” I reply, also not moving.
“I suppose you should.”
Neither of us moves away. Instead, I feel his arms tighten gently around me and one hand comes slowly up to stroke my hair.
Slowly, I tilt my face up to his to see those grey eyes, more serious than I’ve ever seen them, staring into mine.
A foreign emotion … I think it’s shyness … makes me look down again, but then Liam’s hand is on my cheek, tilting my face up toward his, and his lips are on mine, and I’m melting into him.
Our proposal kiss was surprising. Our wedding kiss was awkward. Our grope-on-the-couch kiss was hot.
This kiss … This isn’t like any of those.
His lips are so warm, so soft, so gentle and yet so confident that for a while, the sensation of kissing him is the only thing that exists. The ache in my back and the soreness in my feet disappear. Thoughts of that hot bath melt away—because why would I need it when I can sink into these arms, these lips, the deliciously clean smell of him instead?
Slowly, the sweet, serious kisses start to amp up, getting bolder, braver … hotter. The hand that was stroking my hair is now fisting it, the arm around my waist pulls me against the solid wall of his body and I can feel his arousal pressing into me. My brain cedes control to my loudly purring girl parts, which in turn license my hands to roam those broad shoulders, that hard chest. I run my hands all over him, unable to get enough of the soft cotton of his dress shirt and the firm muscles beneath it.
“I thought you were tired,” I murmur into his mouth. I’d thought I was tired, too, but that’s gone, replaced with a sparking, electric energy that makes my heart beat faster and my breath come quicker.
“I think I’ve found my second wind,” he mumbles, nuzzling my neck. I tilt my head back and he trails the length of my throat with his lips. I shiver, that sparking energy starting to coalesce deep within me.
“Liam …” It’s a question, a statement, a declaration.
A commitment.
“Take me to bed.”

                                      

Review:

This book kept me on my toes and was as funny as it was sweet. I really enjoyed the characters and the author made everything fun. This fake marriage that slowly turned into real feelings will have you laughing out loud and also maybe a little teary eyed.

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Thea Dawson is a world traveler, vegetarian, salsa dancer, film fanatic, and lover of happy endings. In an alternate steampunk universe, she travels by dirigible and gets in sword fights with dashing villains.

In this one, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband/salsa partner, three antic children, and an agenda-driven cat. She writes at the intersection of smart, sweet and steamy; her goal with every book is to melt your heart and brighten your day.

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