May 12, 2015
REVIEW: The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred
TITLE: THE SWEET GUM TREE
AUTHOR: KATHERINE ALLRED
GENRE: CONTEMPORARY
PUBLISHED: NOV 1 2005
Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans—everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination, Alix treats the raw evidence of a recent beating that mars his back, an act that changes both of their lives forever.
Through childhood disasters and teenage woes they cling together as friendship turns to love. The future looks rosy until the fateful night when Frank Anderson, Nick's abusive father, is shot to death in his filthy trailer.
Suddenly, Nick is gone—leaving Alix alone, confused and pregnant. For the next fifteen years she wrestles with the pain of Nick's abandonment, a bad marriage, her family and friends. But finally, she's starting to get her life back together. Her divorce is almost final, her business is booming, and she's content if not happy—until the day she looks up and sees Nick standing across the counter. He's back…and he's not alone.
Once again Alix is plunged into turmoil and pain as Nick tries to win her love, something she resists with all her strength. Only one thing might break the protective wall she's built around her emotions—the truth about Frank Anderson's death. But when that truth comes out and those walls crumble, neither Alix nor Nick is prepared for the emotional explosion that could destroy as well as heal.
May 10, 2015
REVIEW: Resplendent by M.J. Abraham
TITLE: RESPLENDENT
AUTHOR: M.J. ABRAHAM
GENRE: CONTEMPORARY
PUBLISHED: JULY 28 2013
Savannah Martinez and Andres Rivera have been friends since high school.
She knew him better than anyone else, and he was the only one she ever confided in.Their friendship was the one brilliant thing they each cherished that wasn’t tarnished by outside forces that wanted them apart. But fate wasn’t on their side. When she gave him the chance to turn their relationship into something more, he let her go.Heartbroken and alone, she kept her distance in more waysthan one. Now, years later, Savannah is back in town for good and Andres realizes just how empty his life has been without her.
When a secret comes to light, forcing a deeper wedge between them, Andres finds himself fighting for the only woman he has ever loved. Determined to fix the past and make things right, he will go to any length to prove to Savannah that they were meant to be together.
Will fate give them a second chance? Or will those secrets and betrayals ruin the one last chance Andres has of being with the woman of his dreams?
May 2, 2015
REVIEW: Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley
Get ready
to ride . . .
Tyra Masters has had enough drama to last a lifetime. Now,
she's back on track and looking forward to her new, quiet life. Until she meets
the man of her dreams. The tattooed, muscled biker plies her with tequila-and
the best sex of her life. She knows it isn't the tequila and hot sex talking.
He's the kind of man she's always wanted. Unfortunately, he's also her new boss
. . .
Kane "Tack" Allen has a rule. He doesn't employ
someone he's slept with. So when he learns he spent last night in bed with his
new office manager, he quickly fires Tyra. Yet when Tyra stands up to him and
fights for her job, Tack is intrigued. He tells her she can keep her job on one
condition: no more sex. Ever. But as things heat up between them, Tack finds
that he'll be the one breaking all the rules...
“We don’t transport
drugs. We don’t offer enforcement. We don’t sell tail. We don’t sell guns. We
build cars and sell auto supplies.”
But Tack was different than the stereotype as well . . .
“You take my hand
again like you did that night, I’ll guide you through the nightmare. We’ll make
it to the other side and I promise, along the way, you’ll enjoy the ride.”
It may not be for everyone, Tack is
after all the biker boss to end all biker bosses, rude, bossy, swears a lot,
has a short fuse, drinks tequila like it is water, and eats more pork than one
man should. But he is a man, who loves life and enjoys it.
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