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- [ARC Review: The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2025/07/14/arc-review-the-irresistible-urge-to-fall-for-your-enemy-by-brigitte-knightley/) - The first in the Dearly Beloathed duology brings us romance with an assassin hero and healer heroine featuring my favourite tropes of enemies to lovers so I had to get my hands on this one. Osric Mordaunt is a member of Fyren Order who are assassin and a series of injuries had led to current predicament
- [ARC Review: Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2025/06/16/arc-review-sounds-like-love-by-ashley-poston/) - ARC Review: Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston Joni Lark and Sebastian Fell's story...what a fascinating concept; telepathy and a ear worm tune stuck in their heads.
- [ARC review: Love and Other Paradoxes by Catriona Silvey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2025/06/05/arc-review-love-and-other-paradoxes-by-catriona-silvey/) - I was super excited to read this. I mean time travel, falling in love with the wrong person and not the person you’re meant to fall in love with. It had so much potential! Especially that blurb. Unfortunately this did not live up to my expectations. I also really struggled with the Joe Greene's (MMC)
- [Review: God of War by Rina Kent](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2024/07/19/review-god-of-war-by-rina-kent/) - I have waiting for Ava and Eli's book since the Royal Elite epilogue. Admittedly, I thought at that time their story would be a lot different to what God of War actually was but nevertheless they were worth the wait. Ava King (Née Nash) wakes up to a new reality, one she had never imagined. Her
- [Review: Loverboy by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/12/13/review-loverboy-by-sarina-bowen/) - In the second book of the light romantic suspense book series, The Company, we get Gunner and Posy's story. Gunnar is the VP of a private security company called 'the company' ?? If you've read the first book in the series, you might be familiar with the concept of the company but its revisited here
- [Review and Excerpt: Rifts and Refrains by Devney Perry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/10/02/review-and-excerpt-rifts-and-refrains-by-devney-perry/) - Almost 4 stars. The second book in the Hush Note series brings us the the story of the drummer, Quinn Montgomery. She didn't leave a particularly good impression in the last book so I was interested to see what was the reasoning behind her behaviour. 18 years old Quinn left her small town life. She
- [Review & Excerpt: When You Come Back To Me by Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/09/29/review-excerpt-when-you-come-back-to-me-by-emma-scott/) - Following up from The Girl in the Love Song, Lost Boys book 2 brings us the story of Holden Parish and River Whitmore. Whom we met in the first book and since then I'd been eagerly waiting for Holden's book. Holden was a mess in the first book but a very fascinating one. From the
- [Q&A with Author Lorriane Heath](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/09/28/qa-with-author-lorriane-heath/) - Many thanks for Lorriane Heath to take time to chat with us about her upcoming release Beauty Tempts the Beast!! ---- Q. 3 words to describe the heroine & Hero? Lorraine: Hero: Strong, protective, compassionate Heroine: Daring, determined, independent Q. Which celebrities/actors would you cast for Beauty Tempts the Beast’s protagonists? Lorraine: Beast: Jason Mamoa
- [Release Blitz: When You Come Back To Me by Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/09/27/release-blitz-when-you-come-back-to-me-by-emma-scott/) - When You Come Back To Me by Emma Scott is now live! Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited Amazon
- [Review: Lies & Lullabies by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/09/24/review-lies-lullabies-by-sarina-bowen/) - Rating~ 3.5 - 3.75 stars Hush Note series is about different members of the band and their love stories written by three different authors. Sarina Bowen brings us with a second chance romance with surprise baby to a rock star in Lies and Lullabies (book 1). Jonas and Kira met 5 years ago, became friends
- [Review: Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/25/review-emerald-blaze-by-ilona-andrews/) - Emerald Blaze is the second book with Catalina Baylor as lead and the fifth book in the Hidden Legacy series. It picks up six months after the events of Sapphire Flames, Catalina is settling in her role as Head of House Baylor. She's becoming more assertive, a leader and a fighter. She's less shy and
- [Excerpt & Giveaway: Season of the Wolf by Maria Vale](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/25/excerpt-giveaway-season-of-the-wolf-by-maria-vale/) - “You know what I wished for on your eyelash?” “My guard hair,” she reminds me. “No, you didn’t say.” I take a deep breath and launch myself into the void. “I wanted to understand how wolves flirt.” “Flirt?” “It’s the things you say and do to show that you’re interested but want to pretend you
- [Review: A Touch of Stone and Snow by Milla Vane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/20/review-a-touch-of-stone-and-snow-by-milla-vane/) - TW: violence, blood and mentions of rape (For full list visit here) I loved this!!! A Touch of Stone and Snow is the second book in the gathering of the dragon series by Milla Vane. Introducing us to a different couple from a different territory in the Western realms, the island of Koth. Lizzan of
- [Release Blitz: A Guy Walks Into My Bar by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/19/release-blitz-a-guy-walks-into-my-bar-by-lauren-blakely/) - A GUY WALKS INTO MY BAR by Lauren Blakely Releasing in Audio August 17th and eBook August 19th From #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely, comes an all-new sexy and IRRESISTIBLE M/M stand-alone romance. NOW AVAILABLE on Audio and Ebook!! Get ready to fall in love with a sexy, witty British bartender and
- [Review: Fish & chips by Abigail Roux and Madeline Urban](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/19/review-fish-chips-by-abigail-roux-and-madeline-urban/) - Its beens 900+ pages of Ty and Zane now that I’ve read and its still frustrating to see that after everything they have been through, they have issues with communication and being actually honest and vulnerable around each other. Even though they might not have admitted their love to each other in last book, they
- [Review: Sticks & Stones by Abigail Roux and Madeline Urban](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/19/review-sticks-stones-by-abigail-roux-and-madeline-urban/) - In sticks and Stones we have Ty and Zane coming to Ty’s hometown for vacation that is ‘suggested’ by their director. Ty and Zane are continuing to have issues with the events from the Cut and Run and ofcourse their relationship. They are dealing with the way most people do, by avoiding talking about it.
- [Review: Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/22/review-cut-run-by-madeleine-urban-and-abigail-roux/) - I was just scrolling down my library ebooks to find something, honestly been a pitiful days of reading happening and over the years I had seen very good reviews/response of Cut and Run series ones so I thought why not give it a try. Ty Grady and Zane Garrett are FBI agents, who are now
- [Review: The Truest Thing by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/18/review-the-truest-thing-by-samantha-young/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars After reading the first book in the Hart’s boardwalk series, I had wanted Emery’s book (you can see that in my review for the first book) so I was pretty excited for that. Less so when I realised who the Hero was, I’d forgotten who Jack was and what he done but
- [✶Blog Tour✶ Review: Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/07/blog-tour-review-seven-devils-by-elizabeth-may-and-laura-lam/) - What a thrilling ride Seven devils is! TW: Violence, death, torture, xenophobia, all sorts of abuse (for the full list please visit here). I started this going just a few chapters before I go to sleep and before I knew I’d finished it and it was morning. Thank god it was the weekend. Seven Devils
- [New Romance Book Releases: 4-6th August](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/04/new-romance-book-releases-4-6th-august/) - Here are the New romance book releases for the first week of August! Enjoy <3 Releasing: 4th August 2020 Contemporary Romance You Had Me at Hola by Alexis DariaRITA® Award Winning author Alexis Daria brings readers an unforgettable, hilarious rom-com set in the drama-filled world of telenovelas—perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin and The Kiss Quotient.Leading Ladies
- [✶Blog Tour✶ Review: When the Time is Right by Aly Martinez and M. Mabie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/04/blog-tour-review-when-the-time-is-right-by-aly-martinez-and-m-mabie/) - Rating~ 3.5-3.75 stars When the Time is Right is set in the same world as When the Walls Come Down, in fact the heroine works for the couple from that book. Alexis ‘Lex’ Lawson suffered a big loss 6 years ago, at the age of 22, her fiancé died and Lex was lost for a
- [✶Blog Tour✶ Review and Excerpt: The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/08/07/blog-tour-review-and-excerpt-the-secret-of-you-and-me-by-melissa-lenhardt/) - TW: Homophobia, alcohol addiction, racism, islamophobia and cheating (quite a lot). Brief mentions of PTSD as heroine was in the military. Generally, I don’t go out of my way to read cheating stories but occasionally I’ve come across some done really well and because the blurb promised some angst and pining I wanted to give
- [✶Blog Tour✶ Review: Engagement and Espionage by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/31/✶blog-tour✶-review-engagement-and-espionage-by-penny-reid/) - This takes place pretty much after Beard’s Science epilogue. Beard Science is my favourite of the Winstons brothers series book and Cletus is my favourite Winston brother so I was pretty psyched to read this. I haven’t read cozy mysteries before though, just mystery/thriller or romantic suspense so this was new subgenera to try out.
- [New Romance Book Releases: 28th-31st July](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/28/new-romance-book-releases-28th-31st-july/) - Here are the New romance book releases for the last week of July! Enjoy <3 Releasing: 28th July 2020 Contemporary Romance Man Down (A Rookie Rebels Novel) by Kate MeaderI've been texting the wife I lost, the woman I loved beyond measure . . . Now someone else has answered back.Gunnar Bond is broken.Three years
- [Audibooks Review: The Rising books 2-4 by Kirsten Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/27/audibooks-review-the-rising-books-2-4-by-kirsten-ashley/) - Check out my review for the first book, The beginning of Everything in the series since the below reviews don't rehash stuff I've already mentioned or go into details about the story. More just random thoughts. I listened to these when they came out, earlier this year but didn't get around to posting reviews. Overall:
- [Review: The What If Guy by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/24/review-the-what-if-guy-by-lauren-blakely/) - Elizabeth 'Bryn' Hawthorne is VP of content for The Dating Pool site. Logan Clarke is in media finance and has now acquired The Dating Pool site. A divorced father to a little girl, Logan hasn't really dated more recently, similarly Bryn after her break up with her cheating ex hasn't either. They meet at a
- [Review: A Sweet Mess by Jayci Lee](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/23/review-a-sweet-mess-by-jayci-lee/) - Rating~ 3.5-3.75 stars I was super excited to read A Sweet Mess! A quick glance on the blurb, its had everything that would hit my spots. Aubrey Choi is a baker, she runs her bakery comfort zone in a small town. Landon Kim is renounced food critic, who works for a magazine. Landon ends up
- [Review: The A.I Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/20/review-the-a-i-who-loved-me-by-alyssa-cole/) - Alyssa Cole brings us an A.I and human romance in the A.I Who Loved Me! I really liked the narration, it was done superbly. It made for a super easy listen. I didn't realise when I started that this is more of a novella than a full book, just fyi for anyone wanting to start
- [Review: Hard to Handle by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/08/review-hard-to-handle-by-k-bromberg/) - Almost but not quite 3 stars I really struggled with this one, which is such a disappointment to me because I was really looking forward to reading it. K. Bromberg can can really write engrossing reads which is still the the case here. I did enjoy the early 25% of the book and the after
- [Excerpt: Hard to Handle by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/07/02/excerpt-hard-to-handle-by-k-bromberg/) - I stare at Hunter. At his shirt plastered with sweat and how it clings to his body, despite the chill of the ice his skates are standing on. He has his warm-up pants on and is without a helmet, his hair curling at the ends from the sweat. And all I see in his eyes
- [Review: Dear Sexy Ex Boyfriend by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/29/review-dear-sexy-ex-boyfriend-by-lauren-blakely/) - 3.75 stars Summer Clarke is a determined individual who wants to achieve her dream of having her own specialty gym for over 50s by herself. Currently working at an assisted living, she almost there in her monetary goal. She doesn't want to be beholden to anyone, least of all her family. She's spunky, sweet, can
- [Cover Reveal: The Truest Thing by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/22/cover-reveal-the-truest-thing-by-samantha-young/) - We are excited to share with you all the cover of the upcoming contemporary by Samantha Young! She made him believe in the legend… The Truest Thing, Book Four in the USA Today bestselling Hart's Boardwalk Series by Samantha Young, releases August 18, 2020! Pre-order Today! Amazon Worldwide | Apple Books | Nook| Kobo Cover Artist:
- [ARC Review: Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/19/arc-review-take-a-hint-dani-brown-by-talia-hibbert/) - Loveeed it!! This was my first time reading Talia Hibbert's books and I adored the writing, the characters. Ugh everything worked really well. As always when I love the book, I find it very difficult to write review, so bear with me. #DrRugbae for life!! Danika Brown, bisexual PhD student, teaching english lit at university.
- [Dianne Duvall Shares Top 10 Favorite Quotes from the Immortal Guardians series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/15/dianne-duvall-shares-top-10-favorite-quotes-from-the-immortal-guardians-series/) - Top 10 Favorite Quotes from the Immortal Guardians series Hello! Thank you for joining us. I’m very excited to be here today, celebrating the release of BROKEN DAWN, an exciting new stand-alone novel in my Immortal Guardians series. If you like powerful immortal heroes, strong heroines, and lots of action, passion, humor, and romance, then
- [New Release: The Change Up by Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/12/new-release-the-change-up-by-meghan-quinn/) - The Change Up by Meghan Quinn is Out Now, Free on Kindle Unlimited. Check out excerpt from The Change Up below!! Prologue: **MADDOX** Have you ever said something you regret? Something you haven’t forgotten about an hour later? Something that sits with you, stews deep in your belly, and then seeps into your bones, burying
- [Review and Excerpt: When the Walls Come Down by Aly Martinez and M. Mabie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/10/review-and-excerpt-when-the-walls-come-down-by-aly-martinez-and-m-mabie/) - 4.25 stars I adored this one! Aly Martinez usually writes angsty and twisty books so I was wondering how'd a rom com would be from her and it was great! M. Mabie isn't an author I'd known about before but I will definitely be checking her stuff out now. Shane Warren gets the rugged pulled
- [ARC Review: Alpha Night by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/08/arc-review-alpha-night-by-nalini-singh/) - An Alpha Wolf and her zaichik! I love this series, its literally my all time favourite PNR so I’m not exactly objective but regardless of that I think Alpha Night stands really well on its own! Ever since in Hawke’s book (kiss of snow) when he mentioned his parents mated at first sight, I’d wanted
- [Free anthology: Summer Fling Out Now!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/08/free-anthology-summer-fling-out-now/) - All new summer anthology featuring your your favourite authors is now live and FREE!! SUMMER IS HEATING UP! Six FREE standalone summer themed short stories! For a Good Time Call by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward Ever see For a good time call scribbled on the bathroom wall of a bar? Sure you have. Ever wonder what would happen if you had a few too many
- [Review: The Girl in the Love Song by Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/07/review-the-girl-in-the-love-song-by-emma-scott/) - I don’t often read YA, only a selected few authors do it for me. I adore Emma Scotts writing so I had to give this one a go and I’m so glad I did. Finishing the book gave me warm fuzzies! How often is that a person find the love of their life at 13
- [Excerpt: The Summer Deal by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/06/excerpt-the-summer-deal-by-jill-shalvis/) - Brynn Turner had always wanted to be the girl who had her life together, but so far her talents hadn’t led her in that direction—although not for lack of trying. Mentally recapping the week she’d just endured, she let out a stuttered breath. Okay, so her life skills needed some serious work, but as far
- [Release Day: When the Walls Come Down by Aly Martinez and M. Mabie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/06/04/release-day-when-the-walls-come-down-by-aly-martinez-and-m-mabie/) - A genius collaboration! All the stars for this quick-witted, sexy, and endearing cast of characters. Aly and M. Mabie delivered rom-com perfection! - Jewel E. Ann, USA Today Bestselling Author When the Walls Come Down, an all-new, not-to-be-missed, witty workplace romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez and M. Mabie is available now! I
- [ARC Review: Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/26/arc-review-queen-move-by-kennedy-ryan/) - 4- 4.5 stars This is Kimba's book, Who we’ve already met in her best friend and business partner Lennix’s books (All the King's Men Duet) but Queen Move can be read as a standalone. Kimba ‘Tru’ Allen, is a campaign manager and political adviser, that got their current president elected. Ezra Stern founded and runs
- [Review: Sure Shot by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/19/review-sure-shot-by-sarina-bowen/) - 4-4.5 stars Bess Beringer, kickass sports agent getting those fab contracts, sponsorships and managing those easily hurt player egos. Mark “Tank” Tankiewicz, great player newly traded to Brooklyn bruisers and in the process of getting divorced. Bess and Tank have a history, a lil affair back when they were both young and starting out in
- [Review: Love the One You Hate by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/17/review-love-the-one-you-hate-by-r-s-grey/) - 2.5-3 stars stars I was pretty excited for Love the One You Hate, I mean the blurb, just read it?!! Maren Mitchell is an orphan, bouncing around in foster homes till she grew up. Her past with the law makes it difficult for to achieve her dreams so she’s currently working in a care facility
- [Cover Reveal: Break Up With Him, For Me by Whitney G.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/15/cover-reveal-break-up-with-him-for-me-by-whitney-g/) - We are super excited to share the Cover Reveal of the upcoming Whitney G. novel! BREAK UP WITH HIM, FOR ME by Whitney G. Releasing in June 2020 Blurb Please leave your message at the sound of the beep… Penelope, I know that it’s three o’clock in the morning, but I have to get this
- [First Look: Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/14/first-look-queen-move-by-kennedy-ryan/) - Queen Move, an all-new powerful second chance standalone from Wall Street Journal bestselling and RITA® Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan, is coming May 26th and we have your FIRST LOOK! Make sure to enter on Kennedy’s site to win a QUEEN BOX, stuffed with a signed paperback and all the things you’ll need to treat yourself
- [Excerpt and giveaway: A Duke Too Far by Jane Ashford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/11/excerpt-and-giveaway-a-duke-too-far-by-jane-ashford/) - Check out the Excerpt and giveaway of the new release by Jane Ashford, A Duke Too Far! That night, at last, Ada had a different dream. It was just as vivid as the disturbing ones, but the mood was something else entirely. She was at a wedding -- her wedding. She was pacing down the
- [Review: Love on Beach Avenue by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/08/review-love-on-beach-avenue-by-jennifer-probst/) - I haven’t written a review for a while yet or actually read a book on impulse in a while but I really enjoy Jennifer Probst's writing and her books so I had to give this a way. Me throughout the book: Avery fan no.1 President of the I hate Carter club Premise: Avery, our heroine
- [Blog barrage: Possessed by a Dark Warrior by Felicity Heaton + giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/18/possessed-by-a-dark-warrior-by-felicity-heaton/) - Possessed by a Dark Warrior, the ninth book in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release of Bleu and Taryn’s long romance novel, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY and sharing sneak peeks of the book. Enter the Possessed by
- [Cover Reveal: The What if Guy by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/08/cover-reveal-the-what-if-guy-by-lauren-blakely/) - Super excited to share the Cover Reveal for The What if Guy an all-new sexy romantic comedy standalone by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Blakely is releasing July 24th!! THE WHAT IF GUY is a sexy standalone you can escape into! Blurb: It sounded like the stuff of romantic legends -- that whole “their
- [Release Blitz: Love the One You Hate by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/07/release-blitz-love-the-one-you-hate-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey’s new standalone romance, Love the One You Hate is out now! Check it out and grab your copy today! Free on Kindle Unlimited. Get Your Copy Today!
- [Cover Reveal: When the Walls Come Down by Aly Martinez and M. Mabie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/06/cover-reveal-when-the-walls-come-down-by-aly-martinez-and-m-mabie/) - When the Walls Come Down, an all-new neighbors to lovers romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez and M. Mabie is coming June 4th and we have the gorgeous cover! Blurb Did you ever hear the joke about the guy whose wife cheated on him with his best friend? So he quit his
- [Cover Reveal: The Girl in the Love Song by Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/05/04/cover-reveal-the-girl-in-the-love-song-by-emma-scott/) - The Girl in the Love Song, book one in the Lost Boys, an interconnected coming-of-age series of standalones, from USA Today Bestselling author Emma Scott releases on June 7, 2020! At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys…
- [Release Blitz: My Favourite Souvenir by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/27/release-blitz-my-favourite-souvenir-by-penelope-ward-and-vi-keeland/) - All New standalone by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland, MY FAVOURITE SOUVENIR IS NOW LIVE! Buy My Favourite Souvenir Now! ~Free on Kindle Unlimited ~ Amazon | Audio | Paperback Sign up for Penelope & Vi’s mailing list now and be the first one notified when it goes live! è https://www.subscribepage.com/2FreeBooks
- [Review: Provoke by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/22/review-provoke-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - Rating~3.75 stars I really enjoy Rachel Van Dyken's seaside series, I don't know something about the celebrity cast of characters, the atmosphere and the writing really works for me! So this wasn't any different. Branden, at the young age of sixteen known for his youtube music videos gets signed on and his career takes off.
- [Excerpt: My Favorite Souvenir by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/22/excerpt-my-favorite-souvenir-by-penelope-ward-vi-keeland/) - My Favorite Souvenir by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland releases 27th April!! Enjoy the Excerpt below. Chapter 1 “Good afternoon. You’ve reached the Four Seasons Resort, Vail, Colorado. How may I direct your call?” I took a deep breath. “Hi. I checked out early this morning. My reservation was for ten days, but I only
- [Release Blitz: The Lasaran by Dianna Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/21/release-blitz-the-lasaran-by-dianna-duvall/) - We are beyond excited to be celebrate this release from Dianne Duvall with you today by participating in the release day blitz! THE LASARAN is the first novel in a thrilling new sci-fi romance series full of action, intrigue, humor, and happily-ever-afters! Keep reading to find out more about the title below. Click here to
- [Dianne Duvall shares her Top 5 Reasons to Love Taelon from The Lasaran](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/16/dianne-duvall-shares-her-top-5-reasons-to-love-taelon-from-the-lasaran/) - Top 5 Reasons to Love Taelon from The Lasaran Hello! Thank you for joining me! I’m very excited to be here, celebrating the release of the first book in my Aldebarian Alliance series—THE LASARAN. If you like sci-fi and paranormal romance books that are full of action, passion, humor, and happily-ever-afters, then I think you’ll
- [Cover Reveal: Love The One You Hate by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/20/cover-reveal-love-the-one-you-hate-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey’s new standalone romance, Love the One You Hate is coming May 7th! Check out the gorgeous cover and find out more today! Blurb Nicholas Hunt is the man I hate. For good reason. His opinion of me is tainted by prejudice even before my arrival at his grandmother’s estate, and my first impression
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Starbreaker by Amanda Bouchet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/19/excerpt-and-giveaway-starbreaker-by-amanda-bouchet/) - Starbreaker (Endeavor#2) by Amanda Bouchet releases 28th April. I'm super excited to share an excerpt and giveaway for this one with you guys! Can't wait to read this one 😊 I toyed with my soup to look busy, little surges of adrenaline spiking inside me and keeping me on edge. I’d been here for an
- [ARC Review: The Gypsy King by Devney Perry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/05/arc-review-the-gypsy-king-by-devney-perry/) - Rating: 3.5+ stars (Almost but not quite 4 stars) Lets do this again, I already wrote a review for this but unfortunately I broke my laptop so I couldn't use it (its still broken so :///) which is why the reviews are late, I was hoping it would be fixed and I wouldn't have to
- [Review: Overnight Service by Lauren Blakley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/05/review-overnight-service-by-lauren-blakley/) - ~Just a short review, will update with the proper one when my laptop is fixed!!~ Just what the doctor ordered, a light hearted rom com by Lauren Blakley! They are just so easy to read and get lost into. It doesn't hurt that the characters are lovely and the romance is great. Josh Summers and
- [Review: Moonlighter by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/10/review-moonlighter-by-sarina-bowen/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars I reeallly enjoy Sarina Bowen's contemporaries, I think its cause there's so easy to slip into, the characters, the world building etc. Very easy to get lost into so even though, this is slightly different to what Sarina Bowen generally writes, with this having some suspense. I was very eager to try
- [Cover Reveal: Release by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/11/cover-reveal-release-by-aly-martinez/) - “Aly Martinez is one of the best in the business. You have to read her books.” --Meghan March, New York Times Bestselling author Release, an all-new emotional, second chance romance standalone from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is coming January 5th and we have the incredible cover! Blurb Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my
- [Release Blitz: All Wrapped Up for the Holidays anthology](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/30/release-blitz-all-wrapped-up-for-the-holidays-anthology/) - Surprise!!! FREE holiday short stories from your favourite authors are now live!! It’s the season for gift giving! Six FREE standalone holiday short stories! The Merry Mistake by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward Note to self: Ask Santa for glasses this year. When I accidentally mistook a gorgeous man resting outside my building for a
- [Cover Reveal: Kings of Carrion by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/18/cover-reveal-kings-of-carrion-by-keri-lake/) - The Conclusion to Calithea and Valdys Kings of Carrion (Book 3 in the Juniper Unravelling series) will release on 3rd December 2019!! Check out the fabulous cover and enter to win its ARC below!! BLURB Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the
- [Excerpt: The Rebel King by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/21/excerpt-the-rebel-king-by-kennedy-ryan/) - “This is the future of romance.” -- Adriana Herrera, author of the Dreamers series The Rebel King, the powerful conclusion to the All The King’s Men Duet, from USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan, is available now! Her words break on a sob, and the elegant line of her shoulders trembles. “No one like you.”
- [Cover Reveal: Reverend of Silence by Pamela Sparkman](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/11/22/cover-reveal-reverend-of-silence-by-pamela-sparkman/) - From the author of Back to Yesterday comes a coming of age story about faith, love, and overcoming society's prejudices about the Deaf during the American Antebellum period. Reverend of Silence by Pamela Sparkman releases 14th Jan 2020 Blurb In 1810, Lucy Hallison suffered from a severe illness at the age of three, and later
- [Audiobook Reviews: Molly Harper's Mystic Bayou Series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/18/audiobook-reviews-molly-harpers-mystic-bayou-series/) - This was really nice, I liked the narration for most part as well! Ingrid Asher is the newest addition to the Mystic Bayou, she's coming there to open her ice-cream/creamery shop. Ingrid is far from her home, where the other tree nymphs live due to her past with a human. She has spend the better
- [Review: Beard Necessities by Penny Reid.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/21/review-beard-necessities-by-penny-reid/) - Preface: Super sad to see this series (kinda end), I have reading this series for years now so I feel very nostalgic and up in my feels that the final brother got his book. Overall, we get so a lot of the Winston brothers, their relationships with each other and their significant others, they all
- [Audiobook Review: The beginning of Everything by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/23/audiobook-review-the-beginning-of-everything-by-kristen-ashley/) - Narration gets 5 stars!! but....the rest well, I struggled quite a lot...I'd give the actual story of the beginning of everything 2.5, because of the little plot and its progression through book 1. First of all, I had hoped that this would follow a similar pattern of the fantasyland books by Kristen Ashley where one
- [Review: King of Carrion by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/23/review-king-of-carrion-by-keri-lake/) - Honestly I'm super sad and disappointed that I didn't enjoy this. I don't wanna hash this too much, but basically the quibbles I had for Calico descending were multiplied. There was just too much of Calithea and Camdus for my taste, seeing as I already didn't like them together, having a lot of it in
- [Blog Tour: Release by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/01/07/blog-tour-release-by-aly-martinez/) - Release, an all-new “mesmerizing” and “captivating” standalone romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez, is available now! Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited! Amazon | Amazon Worldwide It was funny. I’d spent almost half my life surrounded by the biggest, baddest criminals the state of Georgia had been able to capture.
- [Blog Tour: The Bishop by Skye Warren](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/01/23/blog-tour-the-bishop-by-skye-warren/) - Dr. Anders Sorenson wants to auction off the family heirloom, the Bishop a very expensive and old chess piece. Anders has more plans than just auctioning off the chess piece and its all going to plan when someone steals the piece. Natalie Lhuirs is the thief, the enchanting woman he met the night before. Now
- [ARC Review: Headliners by Lucy Parker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/01/19/arc-review-headliners-by-lucy-parker/) - This was sooo so good!! My first read of 2020 and its a win! I’d have read some of the other books in the series but when I saw the blurb, I wanted to read this bad. Cause we all know I adore a good enemies to lovers/hate to love trope book. In Lucy Parker’s
- [Review: All the King's Men Duet by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/12/23/review-all-the-kings-men-duet-by-kennedy-ryan/) - 4+ stars I had been really looking forward to the All the King's Men Duet, because not only did it promise delicious angst due who the Hero and Heroine are too each other and how their family, their beliefs, their goals effects their current life but also because Kennedy Ryan. I have come to really
- [Review: Heartland by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/01/29/review-heartland-by-sarina-bowen/) - Rating~ 3.5 - 3.75ish stars The 7th addition to the true north series brings us Dylan Shipley and Chastity's story. Dylan is the youngest in the family and is now at 20 at college. Chastity who we introduced to in Zack's book (keepsake) is the member of the cult that escaped on her own and
- [Review: Then You Happened by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/02/10/review-then-you-happened-by-k-bromberg/) - Then You Happened by K. Bromberg introduces us to Tatum Knox, a widow and owner of a ranch in a small town where everybody hates her. Enter Jack Sutton, the new ranch manager to answer her problems, except he's the one thats adding to her problems. Have to be honest, I struggled with this at
- [ARC Review: Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/02/17/arc-review-chasing-cassandra-by-lisa-kleypas/) - LOVE LOVE LOVE! In the new Ravenel series release, we get Lady Cassandra Ravenel and Tom Severin's story. Tom, a railway magnate was introduced as a cold hearted, profit chasing, lacking empathy, genius only logic kinda man in the first book. With later books adding more to him as character but at the same time
- [Cover Reveal: Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/06/cover-reveal-queen-move-by-kennedy-ryan/) - Queen Move, an all-new beautiful and unforgettable second chance romance from RITA® Award-winning and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kennedy Ryan, is coming May 26th and we have the stunning cover! Blurb The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have… Dig a little and you'll find photos of me
- [Review: Love Hard by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/07/review-love-hard-by-nalini-singh/) - This is super late, because I was so busy last two months I didn't get to review the stuff I read back in feb. I'm gonna try and review these titles now so starting off with my favourite. This is the third book in the Hard play series, about the single dad rugby player, Jacob
- [Cover Reveal: Dear Sexy Ex-boyfriend by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/10/cover-reveal-dear-sexy-ex-boyfriend-by-lauren-blakely/) - Dear Sexy Ex-Boyfriend, an all-new sexy, fake fiancé, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy standalone by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Blakely is releasing June 25th!! Blurb Let me just say -- none of this was supposed to happen. I didn't expect the letter to go viral. I didn't think anyone would figure out who Dear
- [Cover Reveal: Lies & Lullabies by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/15/cover-reveal-lies-lullabies-by-sarina-bowen/) - Sarina Bowen, Devney Perry, and Rebecca Yarros have teamed up to bring you three stand-alone love stories this fall. While each book follows the band, they are all stand-alone stories that can be enjoyed all on their own. Lies & Lullabies by Sarina Bowen releases 22nd September 2020 Blurb Summer nights and star-crossed lovers! From
- [Cover Reveal: Muses and Melodies by Rebecca Yarros](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/15/cover-reveal-muses-and-melodies-by-rebecca-yarros/) - Sarina Bowen, Devney Perry, and Rebecca Yarros have teamed up to bring you three stand-alone love stories this fall. While each book follows the band, they are all stand-alone stories that can be enjoyed all on their own. Muses and Melodies by Rebecca Yarros releases 6th October 2020 Blurb If I can keep Hush Note’s
- [Cover Reveal: Rifts and Refrains by Devney Perry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/15/cover-reveal-rifts-and-refrains-by-devney-perry/) - Sarina Bowen, Devney Perry, and Rebecca Yarros have teamed up to bring you three stand-alone love stories this fall. While each book follows the band, they are all stand-alone stories that can be enjoyed all on their own. Rifts and Refrains by Devney Perry releases 29th September 2020 Blurb From the moment Quinn Montgomery sat
- [Cover Reveal: Sure Shot by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2020/04/02/cover-reveal-sure-shot-by-sarina-bowen/) - Sure Shot by Sarina Bowen, the new standalone in the Brooklyn Bruisers series will be released on 12th May! Blurb A new stand-alone hockey romance from USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, successful sports agent Bess Beringer is ready to make some changes. Armed with a five-year plan—indexed and
- [Release Day: Calico Descending by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/29/release-day-calico-descending-by-keri-lake/) - Rating ~ 3.75 stars Calico descending takes us back to the dark, dangerous and the dystopian world where zombies, human's infected with viruses might not be the most dangerous and evil creatures out there, it might be the humans that seem to take joy in making other humans suffer in the all name of finding
- [Release Blitz: The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/28/release-blitz-the-kingmaker-by-kennedy-ryan/) - “A dazzling, thought-provoking, layered romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. One of the best books of 2019." -- L.J. Shen, USA Today bestselling author The Kingmaker, the first in the all-new powerful and emotional All The King’s Men Duet, from RITA ® Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan, is available now!
- [Blog Tour: Bishop's Queen by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/27/blog-tour-bishops-queen-by-katie-reus/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars Bishop’s queen is about Evan and Isla, the two people who were in love before the tragedy happened in the book 1 of the series, leaving Evan with physical and mental scars and him pushing away from everyone, including breaking off his engagement with Isla. Now with Isla in danger, Evan can’t
- [Cover Reveal: His Royal Highness by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/21/cover-reveal-his-royal-highness-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey's next romantic comedy, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, releases November 14th! See the gorgeous cover below and find out more about HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS! Blurb I’ve spent eight years wishing I’d fall out of love with Derek Knightley. Blowing out birthday candles, chasing after shooting stars, making it rain spare change into mall fountains—every time
- [Excerpt: The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/07/excerpt-the-kingmaker-by-kennedy-ryan/) - All The King’s Men Duet, an all-new powerful and emotional duet from RITA ® Award winning author Kennedy Ryan, is coming October 28th, and we have the first sneak peek! A fat raindrop plops on my nose, sliding down the bridge, followed by another and then a wet succession. “Aw, hell.” I pull my jacket
- [Teaser: Bishop's Queen by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/10/teaser-bishops-queen-by-katie-reus/) - Katie Reus is back with the next book in her bestselling Endgame Trilogy. BISHOP'S QUEEN will be out on October 22nd - check out the brand new teaser and pre-order your copy today! Pre-order your copy of BISHOP'S QUEEN today! Amazon | Apple | Nook | Kobo
- [Review: Beard With Me by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/05/review-beard-with-me-by-penny-reid/) - Rating ~ 3 - 3.5 stars I have been waiting for Billy's story since he was introduced in Beauty and the Mustache and we found out that the Winston brothers would be getting their own stories. Over the course of the series we have been getting glimpses of Billy and Claire so I was beyond
- [Cover Reveal: Never Got Over You by Whitney G.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/10/03/cover-reveal-never-got-over-you-by-whitney-g/) - We are delighted to present the cover for the all new standalone contemporary by Whitney G. Never Got Over You releases October 24!! Blurb Nine and a half years ago, you married a man who wasn’t me. He wasn’t even half of me… Nine and a half hours ago, you walked through the doors of
- [Review: Archangel's War by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/27/review-archangels-war-by-nalini-singh/) - *Spoiler Free* LOVEEED IT!! I know there were mixed reviews and opinions about the last book (which I didn’t read) but I honestly enjoyed it and was eagerly waiting for Archangel’s War and it really delivered. This is the 12th book in the series, seems it just started yesterday…. Archangel's War starts of where Archangel's
- [Cover Reveal: Calico Descending by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/27/cover-reveal-calico-descending-by-keri-lake/) - Super Excited for this one, the second book in the Juniper Unraveling Series by Keri Lake, Calico Descending will be out 29th Oct!! And don't forget to enter the giveaway! BLURB I was fourteen when I was sold to the men in black uniforms. Too young to understand I served a purpose beyond that of
- [Review: Team Player 2 Anthology](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/26/review-team-player-2-anthology/) - I was eagerly awaiting the release of Team Player 2 anthology, it has stories from 8 contemporary authors, some of whom I absolutely adore and some who are new to me. Fast Break by Kennedy Ryan 4+ stars This is Quinn and Ean Jagger’s book. Quinn who we met in Block Shot (book #2) and
- [Review: The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/23/review-the-friend-zone-by-abby-jimenez/) - I guess this is another case of me having high expectations because I saw high rating/people really hyping this up (should have stuck to my guns about not reading hyped books when they get released but reading them in my own time), unfortunately maybe because of that, along with the issues I’ll mention below this
- [Cover Reveal: Team Player 2 Anthology](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/16/cover-reveal-team-player-2-anthology/) - Team Player 2 Anthology by your favourite authors will be out Sep 23!! Blurb: Our love of hot jocks is never-ending. Muscular football players. Passionate tennis pros. Sexy soccer stars. All sorts of alpha hotties, on the field and off. Have no fear! The team is back again, and this time...it's thicker. You'll get
- [Audiobook Review: Never Have I Ever by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/02/audiobook-review-never-have-i-ever-by-lauren-blakely/) - This is my first ever audiobook review! Last time I tired an audiobook was when it was just starting out and I didn't really enjoy it and I stopped after hearing a few mins so I decided to give it another go and what do you know, I had a lot of fun. I will
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Handle with Care by Marie Harte](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/09/01/excerpt-and-giveaway-handle-with-care-by-marie-harte/) - Read the excerpt below for Handle with Care by Marie Harte and enter the giveaway to win Smooth Moves! Funny, he’d said. Evan had been set up. Again. Daniel Sykes needed some discipline, something the Corps, or a foot up his butt, might just provide. Then again, should Evan be upset at another opportunity to
- [Excerpt: How to Cross a Marquess by Jane Ashford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/30/excerpt-how-to-cross-a-marquess-by-jane-ashford/) - Enjoy the except of the latest release by Jane Ashford, "How to Cross a Marquess" and enter the giveaway for a chance to win "A Lord Apart" below!! The warmth in his expression left Fenella shaken. She’d been braced for blame. She knew how to dismiss unjust accusations, taught by those her father had been
- [Release Day Blitz: Handle With Care by Helena Hunting](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/27/release-day-blitz-handle-with-care-by-helena-hunting/) - “Lincoln and Wren had me flipping through the pages frantically, begging for more. Their chemistry was explosive, their love story both hilarious and tender.”- L.J. Shen, USA Today bestselling author Handle With Care, an all-new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting is available now! Buy NOW!! Amazon | AppleBooks | Nook | Kobo
- [Review: Hold My Breath by Ginger Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/24/review-hold-my-breath-by-ginger-scott/) - My first book by Ginger Scott!!!! Astrid’s being telling me for years to read her books. However I’m just very selective about NA and especially NA’s that are contemporary and from new authors is something that I rarely do. I really enjoyed this book though, maybe its sort of the mood I’m. And somehow I
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Death of Darkness by Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/22/excerpt-and-giveaway-death-of-darkness-by-dianne-duvall/) - Check out the excerpt of Death of Darkness and enter to win signed books by Dianne Duvall below!! Seth entered Little Gifts, using telekinesis to silence the bell overhead so it wouldn’t ding and alert Leah to his presence. Her back still to him, she stretched up to hang some little blouses on another rack.
- [Release Day and Giveaway: Death of Darkness by Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/20/release-day-death-of-darkness-by-dianne-duvall/) - Delve into the most eagerly anticipated book in New York Times bestselling author Dianne Duvall’s Immortal Guardians series - Death of Darkness is now available! Buy Now!! Kindle | Nook | Kobo | iTunes | Audible AmazonUK | AmazonAU | AmazonCA | AmazonDE | AmazonFR Tour-Wide Giveaway: 1 — $50 Amazon Gift Card 1 — $25 Amazon Gift Card 1 — Immortal
- [Excerpt: The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/08/12/excerpt-the-wallflower-wager-by-tessa-dare/) - The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare Releases Tomorrow!! Enjoy the little excerpt below of whats to come!! She circled back, standing before him. “There now. Better?” He gave a reluctant nod. “Can you move your arm in all directions?” He rolled his shoulder to prove it. “Yes.” “What about your grip? “My grip is strong.”
- [Review: Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/07/22/review-brazen-and-the-beast-by-sarah-maclean/) - Will preface this with saying I generally really love Sarah MacLean’s books and her writing. She is one of my favourite historical romance authors and I’ve reread some of book multiple times. I didn’t really enjoy the first one of the series, but I wanted give this series another shot. I think I’m in the
- [Excerpt: Say No To The Duke by Eloisa James](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/07/08/excerpt-say-no-to-the-duke-by-eloisa-james/) - The all new historical, Say No To The Duke by Eloisa James is out Now! Enjoy a short excerpt below. They moved toward each other as if they were following the steps of a very slow, very grand country dance. One that was danced by kings and queens and countryfolk alike. When they were beside
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Wolf Instinct By Paige Tyler](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/07/11/excerpt-and-giveaway-wolf-instinct-by-paige-tyler/) - Check out an all new excerpt and enter the giveaway below!! “Are you?” he asked. “Happy being an FBI agent, I mean.” “Yeah.” She smiled. “The pay isn’t the greatest and I practically live in hotels, but I love what I do.” “That’s what’s important.” Zane leaned forward, resting his forearms on the table. “I
- [Cover Reveal: Lies by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/27/cover-reveal-lies-by-kylie-scott/) - Lies, a fast paced and sexy standalone filled with the perfect blend of heat and humor from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott, is coming July 21st and we have the sexy cover! Blurb Betty Dawsey knows that breaking things off with Thom Lange is for the best. He’s nice, but boring, and their
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Kingdom of Exiles By Maxym M. Martineau](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/28/excerpt-and-giveaway-kingdom-of-exiles-by-maxym-m-martineau/) - Beast Taming Leena Outstretched wings coated in vibrant teals and emeralds went taut, and [the Myad] tilted his nose upward to sniff the air. Built like an oversize black panther, the lithe jungle beast exhaled, shaking his mane from left to right. The peacock streak running the length of his spine and tail shimmered in
- [Review: Down to You by Jayne Frost](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/24/review-down-to-you-by-jayne-frost/) - I have been stalking people’s 5 star/favourites shelves to find new authors recently and I came across this, it was recommended me on GR as well and since I was still in the mood for contemporary plus enemies to lovers is like catnip to me. I want it as soon as I sniff it. Victoria
- [ARC Review: Superfan by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/24/arc-review-superfan-by-sarina-bowen/) - Delilah Spark is a famous singer/songwriter, she's stuck in a horrible contract with her managing company with an equally horrible ex and isn't really in a place to start a relationship. Silas Kelly is the goalie for Brooklyn bruisers. He also happens to be a SUPERFAN of Delilah, which is the source of constant teasing
- [Review: The Regret Duet by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/23/review-the-regret-duet-by-aly-martinez/) - I had only read the blurb and Astrids review of book of the duet and decided to give it a go. I’m decidedly pro standolnes and not duets and trilogies because a) the dreaded cliffangers b). not a fan of waiting to complete a couples story and when’s it contemporary I’m even more reluctant to
- [Excerpt: Handle With Care by Helena Hunting](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/21/except-handle-with-care-by-helena-hunting/) - Handle With Care, an all-new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting is coming August 27th, and we have a sneak peek! Chapter One What Have I Gotten Myself into? Wren I slip onto the empty bar stool beside the lumberjack mountain man who looks like he tried to squeeze himself into
- [Review: Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/12/review-wolf-rain-by-nalini-singh/) - Wolf Rain is the 18th book in the PsyChangeling Series by Nalini Singh. One of my all time favourite PNR series to date. There is such a comfort and warm feeling in coming back to this series and especially going back to visit the SnowDancers. I adore the wolves and I really adored this book!
- [ARC Review: Rebel Hard by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/18/arc-review-rebel-hard-by-nalini-singh/) - Love Love Love!! I know I sound like a broken record when I talk about Nalini's Singh's book but seriously I love her writing. Her stories whether simple or extremely intricate are just touching and you get lost in whatever world, whether contemporary or fantasy setting she creates. Nayna Sharma is the friend of Isa
- [Review: A Torch in his Heart by Anna Belfrage](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/12/review-a-torch-in-his-heart-by-anna-belfrage/) - Rating ~3.75 stars. When I first read the blurb of A Torch in his Heart, I was very interested, even though I like to avoid love triangles and hate them with a passion of a thousand suns but the premise seemed fascinating enough (along with the supernatural element) that I decided to give it a
- [Release Day Blitz: Coldhearted Boss by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/06/release-day-blitz-coldhearted-boss-by-r-s-grey/) - Nothing burns like the cold. The New enemies to lovers romantic Comedy by R.S Grey is Out now! Grab your copy of COLDHEARTED BOSS today, FREE On Kindle Unlimited AMAZON Add COLDHEARTED BOSS to your Bookshelf:
- [Release Blitz: Pretty Scars by CD Reiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/06/release-blitz-pretty-scars-by-cd-reiss/) - “A gripping, sensual and darkly romantic masterpiece."-- Frolic Pretty Scars, Carrie Drazen’s long awaited love story by the New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss, is available now! Download Pretty Scars today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited! Amazon | Amazon Paperback Add Pretty Scars by CD Reiss to your bookshelf!
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: SEAL Wolf Surrender by Terry Spear](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/04/excerpt-and-giveaway-seal-wolf-surrender-by-terry-spear/) - Enjoy an excerpt from the all new SEAL Wolf series release, SEAL Wolf Surrender by Terry Spear and don't forget to enter the giveaway below! She took hold of Brock’s free hand and pulled at him. “Come on, honey. We need to get back to the celebration.” Brock looked down at her and smiled and
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Smooth Moves by Marie Harte](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/06/02/excerpt-and-giveaway-smooth-moves-by-marie-harte/) - Enjoy an excerpt from Smooth Moves, the second book in the Veteran Movers Series by Marie Harte and enter the giveaway below! 5 Copies of The Whole Package a Rafflecopter giveaway In the front yard, away from the mess, the boys and their dog played. Thank God at least the kids stayed away, frolicking in
- [Review: Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/31/review-nightchaser-by-amanda-bouchet/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars. This book had somehow slipped my mind, I remember being very excited about it last year when it was announced that Amanda Bouchet would be writing more fantasy. I previously really liked her kingmaker chronicles so I was looking forward to this a lot!! Captain Tess Bailey of the spaceship Endeavour and
- [Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Superfan by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/28/cover-reveal-and-giveaway-superfan-by-sarina-bowen/) - Book #3 in the Brooklyn Series by Sarina Bowen SUPERFAN will release 25 Jun. 2019! And we are delighted to reveal the cover of it today! Be Sure to enter the giveaway below to win a signed copy early copy of Superfan. BLURB Sometimes lady luck shakes your hand, and sometimes she smacks your face.
- [Cover Reveal: Instant Gratification by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/23/cover-reveal-instant-gratification-by-lauren-blakely/) - INSTANT GRATIFICATION by Lauren Blakely Releases 3rd September!!! Blurb Snagging a date? Not a problem. But one that meets my special requirements? As the premier best-man-for hire in all of Manhattan, I promise discretion, so when I need a plus one for a couple of “I dos,” she needs to be A-Plus in reliability. Fortunately,
- [Cover Reveal: Coldhearted Boss by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/15/cover-reveal-coldhearted-boss-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey's next romantic comedy, COLDHEARTED BOSS, releases June 6th! See the gorgeous cover below and find out more about COLDHEARTED BOSS! Blurb I’m desperate and destitute when Lockwood Construction rolls into my small town with an offer too good to pass up: high wages to any able-bodied man willing to join their crew. Say
- [Review: Requiem & Reverie by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/13/review-requiem-reverie-by-keri-lake/) - We continue on with Voss and Nola, their relationship is very getting complicated and steamier. The Sandman is still out and about and now theres a missing child. Tensions are rising, stakes are higher and Voss is determined to protect Nola and put a stop to Sandman once and for all. Then of course theres
- [ARC Review: Marriage For One by Ella Maise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/09/arc-review-marriage-for-one-by-ella-maise/) - Marriage for One is about the Rose Coleson sorry Rose Hawthorne and Jack Hawthorne. I had been waiting for this since I knew it was in the works last year so I was pretty excited to get my hands on it. As anyone can guess from the blurb its a marriage of connivence story (which
- [Release Blitz: The Lying Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/09/release-blitz-the-lying-hours-by-sara-ney/) - The Lying Hours by Sara Ney, Book 5 in the How to Date a Douchebag series is OUT NOW!!
- [Cover Reveal: The Regret Duet by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/08/cover-reveal-the-regret-duet-by-aly-martinez/) - The Regret Duet, an all-new emotional duet from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez, is coming May 23rd and we have the gorgeous covers! Written With Regret Releasing May 23rd Every little girl dreams of the fairytale. The one where the white knight rushes in to save her from the clutches of evil. They fall
- [Cover Reveal: Requiem and Reverie by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/05/06/cover-reveal-requiem-and-reverie-by-keri-lake/) - Requiem and Reverie by Keri Lake, the second book in the Sandman Duet releases 13th May!! Release Date: May 13, 2019 Blurb It takes a killer to catch a killer. And no one understands the motives of ruthless murderer, The Sandman, quite like Rhett Voss. Having spent his childhood in the shadows of the deranged
- [Release Day and Review: Nocturnes & Nightmares by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/29/release-day-and-review-nocturnes-nightmares-by-keri-lake/) - Nightmares and Monsters are real and no one knows this better than Voss, Nola and her son Oliver. Keri Lake brings in her A game with an extremely disturbing serial killer, slightly less scary anti hero and a single mother who has experienced too many tragedies but is a wonderful parent. Rhett Voss and Nola
- [Blog Tour: Time by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/25/blog-tour-time-by-penny-reid/) - We are back for the third and final part of Mona and Abram's story with Time!! Following the events of Space, Mona and Abram are now in a relationship, but as things are they are struggling with their long distance relationship, missing each other. Navigating the world of long distance relationship isn't easy even when
- [Cover Reveal: The Lying Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/17/cover-reveal-the-lying-hours-by-sara-ney/) - The Lying Hours by Sara Ney, the fifth book in the How to Date a Douchebag series releases May 9! Blurb ABRAHAM DAVIS—Honest Abe to his friends—IS IN OVER HIS HEAD... He’s a fixer and a do good-er. The all-knowing, resident "grandfather" on the wrestling team who everyone relies on to fix their problems. His
- [Cover Reveal: Nocturnes & Nightmares by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/22/cover-reveal-nocturnes-nightmares-by-keri-lake/) - We are super excited to reveal the cover for Keri Lake's book #1 Nocturnes & Nightmares in her upcoming The Sandman Duet! Nocturnes & Nightmares releases April 29th! Blurb The most terrifying monsters aren’t found in dreams … Four young socialites have gone missing in the Chicago area. Two found dead, bearing the signature marks
- [Blog Tour: When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/13/blog-tour-when-we-left-cuba-by-chanel-cleeton/) - I had been looking forward to this book since reading Next year in Havana!! Which if you haven't read you should!! Beatriz Perez is a very interesting character. She’s strong, independent and has a clear goal in mind. She’s a go getter which I liked. She loves her country and she’s fearless. She has been
- [Cover Reveal: Concerto by Skye Warren](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/11/cover-reveal-concerto-by-skye-warren/) - Concerto, the highly anticipated second book in the North Security Series from New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, is coming May 14th and we have the beautiful cover for you! Samantha Brooks stands onstage as the curtain rises. Her dreams are coming true. She doesn’t know that her nightmare is coming, too. CONCERTO is
- [Release Day: Cipher by Larissa Ione](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/09/release-day-cipher-by-larissa-ione/) - In the war between good and evil, sometimes the biggest battles take place inside the soul…and the heart. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Larissa Ione, comes CIPHER, a passionate and spellbinding novella from the Demonica Underworld Series, brought to you by 1,001 Dark Nights! Be sure you grab your copy today!
- [Release Day and Giveaway: When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/04/09/release-day-and-giveaway-when-we-left-cuba-by-chanel-cleeton/) - When We Left Cuba is Available Now! Buy Now! Amazon| Barnes & Noble| iBooks| IndieBound| Kobo| Learn more about When We Left Cuba including downloading the book club guide and more at: http://www.chanelcleeton.com/when-we-left-cuba Praise for When We Left Cuba: A thrilling story about love, loss, and what we will do to go home again. Utterly un-put-down-able. —PopSugar
- [Cover Reveal: Marriage For One by Ella Maise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/02/28/cover-reveal-marriage-for-one-by-ella-maise/) - Today we are revealing the gorgeous cover for Ella Maise's new contemporary romance book coming this May ~Marriage for One Blurb Coming Soon! Note to My Past Self : Do NOT get married to the handsome stranger. Releases 9th May 2019 Cover Designer: Ella Maise Photographer: Rafa Gallar Model: Jason Morgan
- [Blog Tour: Space by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/03/15/blog-tour-space-by-penny-reid/) - 3.5~4 stars If you haven’t read the first book Motion in the trilogy then I suggest you do that before starting Space! Onwards to the review. We met Mona and Abram in the last book we were all waiting for the fall out that would once happen when Abram finds out that Mona has been
- [ARC Review: Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/02/19/arc-review-devils-daughter-by-lisa-kleypas/) - I love Lisa Kleypas’s writing and her historicals are always such a treat to read. She’s my favourite historical author (actually one of my favourites in general as well). She just somehow makes it all work, from gamblers to lady doctors. This is a book I had been eagerly waiting for. West was introduced in
- [Cover Reveal: Make Me Bad by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/02/18/cover-reveal-make-me-bad-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey's next romantic comedy, MAKE ME BAD, releases March 7th! Check out the cover and find out more about MAKE ME BAD below! Blurb I was issued a warning: stay away from Ben Rosenberg. As Clifton Cove’s resident “king”, he thinks he’s entitled to anyone and anything. The trouble is, I’ve spent my whole
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Motion by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/02/16/blog-tour-and-giveaway-motion-by-penny-reid/) - I’ve been waiting for this book since reading elements of chemistry. Admittedly I didn’t know it was going to be a twin swap story, I tend to shy away from those so I was very hesitant to start but since its Penny Reid (I adore her and her writing), I had to give it a
- [Cover Reveal: Things We Never Said by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/02/12/cover-reveal-things-we-never-said-by-samantha-young/) - Today we are revealing the cover for Things We Never Said by Samantha Young will release 7th May 2019. Things We Never Said by Samantha Young (Hart's Boardwalk #3) Blurb Local metalsmith and gift shop owner, Dahlia McGuire, likes her quiet life in Hartwell, Delaware. It's the perfect place to hide from her family and
- [Review: Playing For Keeps by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2019/01/22/review-playing-for-keeps-by-jill-shalvis/) - Please bear with me, this is my first review after months of break from blogging so it might be all over the place and what the reviews used to be. It has been some times since I read a Jill shalvis book (in actuality probably just months but it felts like ages)…One thing is that
- [Review: Love Sincerely Yours by Sara Ney and Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/10/10/review-love-sincerely-yours-by-sara-ney-and-meghan-quinn/) - Love Sincerely Yours is a slow burn, office romance with comedic moments, written by Sara Ney and Meghan Quinn. I'm a fan of both of their writing so when I found out that they'd be writing something together, I was extremely excited to read this one especially you know after reading the blurb. Our heroine,
- [Review: Strong by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/10/05/review-strong-by-kylie-scott/) - Anyone who has read the stage dive series would already be aware of who Martha is and how much of a messed up character she was. She's one who those characters love to hate character. It has been some time since I reread the stage dive series, which I adored so I was very excited
- [Review and Giveaway: Hunting Danger by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/29/review-and-giveaway-hunting-danger-by-katie-reus/) - Hunting Danger is Nova and Gage's story, introduced in the book prior to this one. They are finally getting their own story while they are in the other books in the series, they aren't any special/prominent scenes of them together so you can read this one as a standalone without missing anything. When one of
- [Review: Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/14/review-block-shot-by-kennedy-ryan/) - Well well well. This was my first read by Kennedy Ryan and I went into this book just reading the blurb and I had no idea about certain things that might have stopped me from making that horrified face I made when I realised what was going to happen. Regardless of that shock, I enjoyed
- [Review and Excerpt: If We Fly by Nina Lane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/13/review-and-excerpt-if-we-fly-by-nina-lane/) - We continue where we left off in If We Fall, and without given away anything, I wanna say I really enjoyed reading this duet (and the novella) as this was first time reading Nina Lane. I will certainly be checking out more books by her. We get to learn hidden truths and the secrets that
- [Review and Excerpt: Fighting For What's His by Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/11/review-and-excerpt-fighting-for-whats-his-by-laura-kaye/) - Billy Parrish is a private investigator and Shayna Curtis is his now roommate, his best friend’s little sister who’s a photojournalist. Fighting for What’s His falls under the forbidden/roommates to lovers romance tropes that I know a lot of people adore (ME TOO!) but Laura Kaye takes a bit further as our characters are hurt
- [Review and Giveaway: The Christmas Sister by Sarah Morgan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/19/review-and-giveaway-the-christmas-sister-by-sarah-morgan/) - Sarah Morgan writes such beautiful tales of romance, this one though is slightly different as it focuses on a family rather just one couple and their romance. It’s about a mum and her three adopted daughters. It is still no less heartwarming and the Christmas vibes of the book and the hope and love themes
- [Cover Reveal: Royally Yours by Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/19/cover-reveal-royally-yours-by-emma-chase/) - ROYALLY YOURS will be available on October 30th Blurb Princess Lenora Celeste Beatrice Arabella Pembrook had an unusual childhood. She was raised to be a Queen—the first Queen of Wessco. It’s a big deal. When she’s crowned at just nineteen, the beautiful young monarch is prepared to rule. She’s charming, clever, confident and cunning. What
- [Blog Tour: The Truth About Us by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/14/blog-tour-the-truth-about-us-by-aly-martinez/) - The conclusion to the heart-stopping Truth Duet by Aly Martinez just went live! Today we are celebrating the release of the second book in The Truth Duet by Aly Martinez. The Truth About Us is now available! The first book in the duet, The Truth About Lies, is available too and both titles can be
- [Review and Excerpt: Once Upon A Real Good Time by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/10/review-and-giveaway-once-upon-a-real-good-time-by-lauren-blakely/) - Mackenzie is a single mother who loves trivia at one of her non mom nights and does trivias at a local pub where she meets a musician 'guitar hero' as she thinks of him. Campbell was a teen idol when he used to perform with his brothers as a trio called heartbreakers. Now he’s music teacher
- [Release Day and giveaway: Block Shot by Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/10/release-day-and-giveaway-block-shot-by-kennedy-ryan/) - “Kennedy Ryan’s writing continues to amaze and inspire. She is a genius wordsmith and a prose poet. And in Banner Morales, she has created the perfect heroine for this day and age. Don’t miss this read. It’s everything.” — Emma Scott, Bestselling Author Block Shot, Kennedy Ryan’s enemies-to-lovers, second-chance standalone romance is LIVE and FREE
- [New Cover and excerpt: On Dublin Street by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/07/new-cover-and-excerpt-on-dublin-street-by-samantha-young/) - Check out the new cover for On Dublin Street by Samantha Young and read the excerpt from chapter 1 below !!! Chapter 1 – from Braden’s POV Sighing, Braden shrugged his shoulders back and looked up at the sky, squinting against the sunlight. Decked out in a three-piece suit on a hot day like this
- [The three best things about being a romance author with Tessa Dare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/07/the-three-best-things-about-being-a-romance-author-with-tessa-dare/) - The three best things about being a romance author Number 1: Flexibility No, not the sexual-acrobatics-love-scene sort of flexibility! I’m talking about pajamas-with-elastic-waistbands flexibility. The kind of flexibility that lets me work from home, at whatever hours I choose. Of course, this flexibility can come back to bite me when a deadline is staring me
- [Release Day: Flirting With Forever by Kendall Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/03/release-day-flirting-with-forever-by-kendall-ryan/) - AVAILABLE NOW Amazon | iBooks | Nook | Kobo | Audible ➜ READ a sneak preview
- [Review and Excerpt: If We Fall by Nina Lane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/09/01/review-and-excerpt-if-we-fall-by-nina-lane/) - I don’t want to give away so I’ll try keep it vague and short. This is first read by Nina Lane, well technically the prequel was but its part of this so. I think it would be better if you go in blind and fully immerse yourself in the tale. Firstly, I suggest everyone to
- [Review: The Perfect Duet by Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/31/review-the-perfect-duet-by-meghan-quinn/) - I don't even know where to start. I was going to review the books separately but I can't, I'm a mess. This was my first time reading Meghan Quinn but it certainly won't be the last. This is gonna be so jumbled up and I'm not going to be able to do these books justice
- [Cover Reveal: UnZipped by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/29/cover-reveal-unzipped-by-lauren-blakely/) - Everything he knows about women is about to get turned upside down… Available in audio first, a brilliantly funny, scorchingly sexy new romance from #1 New York Times best-selling author Lauren Blakely! UNZIPPED will be releasing through Audible on October 30, 2018, with the eBook and paperback releasing on December 14, 2018! Cover Design by
- [Release Day: Memento Mori by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/28/release-day-memento-mori-by-lexi-blake/) - Memento Mori by Lexi Blake is now LIVE!!
- [Release Day: Love Online by Penelope Ward](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/27/release-day-love-online-by-penelope-ward/) - A Standalone Contemporary Romance Novel By Penelope Ward is NOW LIVE!! LOVE ONLINE is live early on Amazon and on a limited-time release sale for $3.99! (Changing SOON to $4.99. This will be the ONLY sale ever.) A fun, sexy, refreshing STANDALONE romance!
- [Blog tour: Hold You Close by Corinne Michaels and Melanie Harlow](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/27/blog-tour-hold-you-close-by-corinne-michaels-and-melanie-harlow/) - Hold You Close, an all-new second chance standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels and USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow, is available now! Check out the excerpt below. “Ian,” my bartender, Toby, calls with his hand out. “What’s up?” “You have a call.” He pushes the phone toward me. No one
- [Excerpt: The Left Side of Perfect by Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/24/excerpt-the-left-side-of-perfect-by-meghan-quinn/) - Her hands rest on her hips, the navy-blue Grecian-style dress draped down the length of her body, a small slit on the side that barely reaches her knee. “You’re really fixated on this, aren’t you?” “Nah, didn’t care too much. A homemade dinner would have been nice, though.” “I can’t cook.” “Neither can I,”
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Infinite by Cecy Robson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/24/blog-tour-and-giveaway-infinite-by-cecy-robson/) - I shut the TV off when she turns to answer the next question. Not because I don’t want to keep watching, but because I do. Jesus Christ in heaven. When the hell am I going to get over this woman? “Did you turn it off?” Sean asks. There’s enough sound coming from his end of the line
- [Release Day: The Truth About Lies by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/23/release-day-the-truth-about-lies-by-aly-martinez/) - Today we are celebrating the release of the first book in The Truth Duet by Aly Martinez. The Truth About Lies is now live and on sale for just $2.99 for today only! The second title in the duet, The Truth About Us, will be releasing on September 13th! You can pre-order it from Amazon
- [Review and Excerpt: The Prince by Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/21/review-and-excerpt-the-prince-by-jennifer-l-armentrout/) - Brighton Jussier is a girl on a mission, wanting revenge for the death of my mother. She's longer the girl she used to be. Prince Caden committed atrocities under the control of the evil fae Queen but remembers each act and wants nothing more than to find the person responsible that caused him to be
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: A Wolf Apart by Maria Vale](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/21/excerpt-and-giveaway-a-wolf-apart-by-maria-vale/) - Scroll below to enter the giveaway and check out the excerpt for this cool book!! Here Elijah visits Thea’s isolated cabin. He comes to the realization that his usual posturing isn’t going to work on her and he decides to try something else. “Here’s the truth. I didn’t do anything. The letter you wrote
- [Review and Giveaway: Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/17/review-and-giveaway-dr-strange-beard-by-penny-reid/) - Roscoe Winston is the quieter youngest brother of the Winston brothers. The sweet and thoughtful Veterinarian. All the winston brothers are different from each other but what makes Roscoe different from the rest is his ability to retain memories and conversations. This has caused him a lot of grief over the years and contributed a
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Brave New Earl by Jane Ashford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/20/excerpt-and-giveaway-brave-new-earl-by-jane-ashford/) - Jean searched the parlors on either side of front hall, calling softly and beginning to feel foolish. This was obviously a futile quest. She had given up and turned back when she noticed a line of light under the library door. She went in, finding the chamber still warm, the coals of a fire still
- [Release Day: Bring Down the Stars by Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/20/release-day-bring-down-the-stars-by-emma-scott/) - Bring Down the Stars, Book in the Beautiful Hearts duet is NOW LIVE!!! And its FREE ON KU!! Later that night, Connor lay sprawled on the couch with SportsCenter blaring, scrolling his phone. I sat at the kitchen table, tapping my pen against an empty page in my notebook and contemplating running as my
- [Exclusive Excerpt: Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter by Katie MacAlister](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/16/exclusive-excerpt-memoirs-of-a-dragon-hunter-by-katie-macalister/) - “Ian, we need to have a talk—oomph!” Ian waited until Veronica was in his room and the door was closed before he did what he’d been wanting to do all day—take her in his arms and kiss every last breath out of her lungs. She resisted for about two seconds before she melted against him,
- [Excerpt: Fighting for Whats His by Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/15/excerpt-fighting-for-whats-his-by-laura-kaye/) - From New York Times bestselling author Laura Kaye, comes the second standalone title in her brand, new Warrior Fight Club series, FIGHTING FOR WHAT’S HIS. Preorder your copy of FIGHTING FOR WHAT’S HIS, and join the Warrior Fight Club world today! A note from Laura Kaye: I’m so excited to share Fighting for What’s
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Respect by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/15/excerpt-and-giveaway-respect-by-jay-crownover/) - ~Booker~ I didn’t lie. I had waited for her long enough. She crossed her arms over her chest and I noticed how much she had changed in the four years she’d been gone. She still had the long-legged, lean look that always brought to mind Taylor Swift. Something I’d overheard others say, so assumed was
- [Release Day: Richer Than Sin by Meghan March](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/14/release-day-richer-than-sin-by-meghan-march/) - Book 3 in the Sin Trilogy by Meghan March; Richer Than Sin is NOW LIVE!! Grab your Copy 👇🏻 iBooks | Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon AU | Amazon CA | Kobo | BN | Audible Get the Sin Trilogy 👇🏻
- [Excerpt: Boy Toy by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/14/excerpt-boy-toy-by-sarina-bowen/) - It's release Day for Boy Toy (Man Hands Book #3) A funny and sweet romance between a single mum and her nanny (or manny as it's the case). Check out the Excerpt below!! I messed up. Big time. These are my thoughts as I rush into the bathroom for the world’s fastest shower. The hot
- [Release Day Blitz: Unbreak My Heart by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/13/release-day-blitz-unbreak-my-heart-by-lauren-blakely/) - A romance that will break your heart and stitch it back together again… Every now and then a romance comes along that defies expectations. Get lost and found in UNBREAK MY HEART--the brand-new second chance romance from #1 NYT bestseller Lauren Blakely! ~Andrew~ “What else did you do while you were here?” “You want me
- [Review: As Dust Dances by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/11/review-as-dust-dances-by-samantha-young/) - Check out the Excerpt and Giveaway below!! ~Review~ As Dust Dances is about a girl who lost her way having achieved her dream of being a musician. Told from Skylar's POV, the book is very raw and emotional as Skylar learns to accept what had already happened and learns to live again instead of just
- [Review: Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/09/review-not-so-nice-guy-by-r-s-grey/) - In R.S Grey’s hilarious and sweet Not So Nice Guy, two best friends finally give in to their mutual attraction and love. Samantha Loring and Ian Fletcher are teachers at the Oak Hill High School, they became best friends when they met at the teachers orientation three years ago and have been inseparable since. Everyone
- [Release Day: As Dust Dances by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/07/release-day-as-dust-dances-by-samantha-young/) - The New York Times Bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series and PLAY ON returns to the world of the arts in this intense and emotional standalone romance about love, sacrifice, and surviving both. When I finished, O’Dea was sitting on the chair, his elbows braced on his knees. He was staring at
- [Cover Reveal: Love Sincerely Yours by Sara Ney and Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/08/cover-reveal-love-sincerely-yours-by-sara-ney-and-meghan-quinn/) - A sexy, smart, and heart-swooning romance about a girl who has nothing to lose when it comes to flirting with her boss. This seductive contemporary romance from bestselling authors Meghan Quinn and Sara Ney will keep you on the edge of your seat as you fall in love with the first novel from this dynamic
- [Cover Reveal: The Truth About Lies by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/08/cover-reveal-the-truth-about-lies-by-aly-martinez/) - Check out the incredible cover for the first book in The Truth Duet by Aly Martinez.The Truth About Lies releases August 23rd! The second title in the duet, The Truth About Us, will be releasing on September 13th! Be sure to follow Aly's newsletter to be notified when the books are live. The Truth About Lies
- [Cover Reveal: What If Duet by Nina Lane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/08/cover-reveal-what-if-duet-by-nina-lane/) - Book 1 in The "What If" Duet, If We Fall Release 30th August and Book 2 If We Fly releases Sept 13!! Cover photography: @Sara Eirew Photographer Cover design: @Concierge Literary Designs & Photography We fell in love. Then our world fell apart. I wished so hard for Cole Danforth. And one day, he came true.
- [Review: HOT SEAL Target by Lynn Raye Harris](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/07/review-hot-seal-target-by-lynn-raye-harris/) - HOT SEAL Target is the sixth book in the HOT SEAL Team series Lynn Raye Harries and its the story of Adam Garrison aka Blade and Quinn Halliday. I have and continue to really enjoy Lynn raye Harris HOT series and while I haven’t read the last 1-2 books in the HOT SEAL Team Series, these
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: Respect by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/07/release-blitz-and-giveaway-respect-by-jay-crownover/) - The third book in Jay Crownover's The Breaking Point romantic suspense series, RESPECT is now LIVE! Don’t miss the amazing excerpt and giveaway below, and order your copy today! ~Karsen~ I had no plans to leave the Point. It was ugly, mean, hard, and unforgiving, but these streets were home and I couldn’t imagine being
- [Review: Forget You, Ethan by Whitney G.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/04/review-forget-you-ethan-by-whitney-g/) - Who doesn't love enemies to Lovers romance, it is one of my favourite tropes to read in romance. In Whitney G.'s Forget You, Ethan; Ethan and Rachel have been enemies since they met when they were both 7 and a half years old. Ethan and Rachel are now all grown up and seniors in college,
- [Playlist For The Protector by HelenKay Dimon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/04/playlist-for-the-protector-by-helenkay-dimon/) - Author HelenKay Dimon shares her playlist for The Protector, Book 4 in her Games People Play Series!! Also Enter the giveaway to win previous books in the series Below. PLAYLIST “Where’s My Love” by SYML “Fix You” by Coldplay “Just Give Me A Reason” by P!nk “Long Time Traveler” by The Wallin’ Jennys “Make You Feel
- [Excerpt: Hitman Wedding by Eve Langlais](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/08/03/excerpt-hitman-wedding-by-eve-langlais/) - “Keep away.” Francesca snarled the warning, her gun aimed at Kacy’s face. The petite Latina with a cool composure probably inherited from a cat, didn’t look daunted at all to be facing down the barrel of a gun. “I’m not here to kill you. Just making sure you aren’t planning to shoot Darren.” Darren being
- [Release Day: The Protector by HelenKay Dimon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/31/release-day-the-protector-by-helenkay-dimon/) - Today we have the release day blitz for The Protector by HelenKay Dimon! Check out an exclusive excerpt below Cate Pendleton dumped her grocery bags on the kitchen counter and glanced around the living room area of her small one-bedroom condo. Flattened pillows. Magazines spread across the coffee table. A blanket in a ball on the
- [Review: Grin and Beard it by Penny Reid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/17/review-grin-beard-it-penny-reid-giveaway/) - Rating~ 4.25 stars Sienna Diaz is an actor, a comedian and a writer. She also has very bad sense of direction (it matches mine really). She's also impulsive and a workaholic in need of a break. Jethro Winston is the oldest of the Winston. He let down his family in the past and messed up
- [Release Day: Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/30/release-day-dr-strange-beard-by-penny-reid/) - Dr. Strange Beard, an all-new standalone in the bestselling, romantic comedy Winston Brothers Series by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Penny Reid, is NOW LIVE! Trust me I've already read this one, you don't want to miss Roscoe and Simone's story!!! Download your copy today! Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon Universal
- [Cover Reveal: Fighting the Fire by Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/25/cover-reveal-fighting-the-fire-by-laura-kaye/) - From New York Times bestselling author Laura Kaye, comes the next standalone title in her Warrior Fight Club series, FIGHTING THE FIRE. Check out Laura’s note below and the beautiful cover! Then join the Warrior Fight Club world today! A note from Laura Kaye: I love enemies-to-lovers stories because they’re so much fun to write
- [Excerpt: Envy by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/27/excerpt-envy-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - I tasted his fear. It mingled with his lust. His desire. I wanted him. So I took him. Because waiting for him to snap was like watching someone slowly burn from within until they lash out at everything around them. He felt the attraction. We were heat, we were untamed, we were greedy. He
- [Release Day Blitz: Envy by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/24/release-day-blitz-envy-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - I tried not to judge. It was hard. They were mafia bosses—I got it. Or at least I thought I understood it since I had grown up around it. But my upbringing wasn’t as severe. My dad was a Nicolasi and always kept things quiet around us. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I
- [Interview with Kat Cantrell and giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/20/interview-with-kat-cantrell-and-giveaway/) - Izy: Do you listen to music while you write? And if so, what did you listen to while writing A lot Like Perfect? Kat: I am one of those weird people who can’t listen to music. I have to have complete silence! But I did listen to a lot of blues for research because that’s
- [Cover Reveal: The Heartbreakers Series by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/18/cover-reveal-the-heartbreakers-series-by-lauren-blakely/) - Three brothers. Three rock stars. Three standalones. #1 New York Times bestseller Lauren Blakely brings us The Heartbreakers Series—full-length, standalone romantic comedies with no cliffhangers releasing within one month so you can binge read these sexy novels! You can indulge in three delicious romances -- a sexy one night stand with an off-limits woman, a
- [Release Day Blitz: Motive by Kennedy Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/17/release-day-blitz-motive-by-kennedy-layne/) - MOTIVE book #2 in Kennedy Layne's sexy, suspenseful Office Roulette series is now Live! Read a little Excerpt below Grace had needed Rye to stay across the room. She was able to think better when he wasn’t touching her, but then again, he knew that. Well, if he was going to go down that road,
- [Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Dragon Unchained by N.J. Walters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/17/cover-reveal-and-giveaway-dragon-unchained-by-n-j-walters/) - Dragon Unchained (Blood of The Drakon #4) Releases August 27th !! Blurb Victoria Marshall is living a lie. She works for a member of the Knights of the Dragon, a secret society that traps and uses dragons for their own gain. As a child, she made an unlikely friend—a drakon. He went missing, and she’s
- [Review: Drakon's Prey by N.J. Walters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/24/review-drakons-prey-n-j-walters/) - Rating~ 4.25 stars More Dragonssss!!! This one picks from where we left in the last book with our protagonist going to find a Drakon (dragon shifter) to warn him about her sisters plan. This is kind of a hate to love story (mostly just on the heroes end). Let's down to business... Valeriya Azarov is
- [Cover Reveal: Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/16/cover-reveal-not-so-nice-guy-by-r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey's next romantic comedy, NOT SO NICE GUY, releases August 9th! Check out the cover and blurb below! About NOT SO NICE GUY ~ releasing 9th August “Oh my god. Who is that?” I get asked this question a lot. “Oh him?” I reply. “That’s just Ian.” Just Ian is the biggest understatement of
- [Release Day and Giveaway: A Lot Like Perfect by Kat Cantrell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/16/release-day-and-giveaway-a-lot-like-perfect-by-kat-cantrell/) - From USA Today Bestseller Kat Cantrell comes a sweet small-town romance series with a touch of magic. A LOT LIKE PERFECT is now Live! Read Book 1 in the SEALS of Superstition Springs NOW Amazon | iBooks | Nook | Kobo | Google a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Cover Reveal: Richer Than Sin by Meghan March](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/12/cover-reveal-richer-than-sin-by-meghan-march/) - Richer Than Sin, Book 1 in the Sin Trilogy Releases August 14!!! Blurb From New York Times bestselling author Meghan March comes a brand new saga of forbidden love and second chances. A Riscoff and a Gable can never live happily ever after. Our family feud is the stuff of legends. Ten years ago, Whitney
- [Cover Reveal: Respect by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/11/cover-reveal-respect-by-jay-crownover/) - From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jay Crownover, comes the next title in her The Breaking Point romantic suspense series, RESPECT. Don’t miss the amazing cover below, and pre-order your copy today! Cover designed By Hang Le Blurb Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who called a corrupt kingdom
- [Release Day Blitz: The Real Deal by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/10/release-day-blitz-the-real-deal-by-lauren-blakely/) - ~THEO~ I can be anyone you want. I can transform into the boss you’re banging, your hot nerdy coworker who’s only a friend, your best friend’s brother you’ve had it bad for since he danced with you at prom way back when, the guy next door everyone adores since he mows your lawn, fixes your
- [Summer Q&A with Author J. Daniels and a Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/10/summer-qa-with-author-j-daniels-and-a-giveaway/) - Forever Summer Reading Q&A with Author J. Daniels Favorite summer activity? Taking my kids to Deep Creek Lake Do you read more or less during summer? More, unless I’m on deadline. Favourite ice cream? Mint chocolate chip If you could only take 1 book with you on vacation, which book would it be? The Hating
- [Q and A with Author R.C. Ryan and a giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/06/14/q-and-a-with-author-r-c-ryan-and-a-giveaway/) - Summer Q&A with R.C. Ryan All-time favorite beach read? R.C.: Bridget Jones’s Diary. Pure fun. Sun bather or a shade dweller? R.C.: Shade. I garden in the mornings, before the sun gets too high. In the heat of the day I write, often under an umbrella on the patio. What is your favorite food to
- [Rare18 Rome](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/10/rare18-rome/) - Romance Author and Reader Event 2018 I'm back home now and wanted to share my experience at the Romance Authors and Reader Event 2018 in Rome which took place on 23rd June. This was my second time attending RARE. To those who don't know what RARE is, it's a romance book convention allowing readers (mostly
- [Review: Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/06/28/review-rainy-day-friends-by-jill-shalvis/) - Rainy Day Friends is the second book in the Wildstone book series, a women's fiction series by Jill Shalvis but they can each be read as standalones. Lanie Jacobs still getting over her dead husband's betrayal decides to take a job at the Capriotti Winery to redesign their brand. Hoping to somehow get her life back together,
- [Review and Giveaway: The Varlet and the voyeur by Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/06/27/review-and-giveaway-the-varlet-and-the-voyeur-by-penny-reid-and-l-h-cosway/) - I loved Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway individually and their books together. They write such beautifully unique couples, funny and lovely romance that you can't help but adore. I was really excited to read the next book in their rugby (and sadly the last) while I did enjoy it, it wasn't the love I felt
- [Cover Reveal: Burn In Your Blood by Lili St. Germain](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/07/05/cover-reveal-burn-in-your-blood-by-lili-st-germain/) - Blurb Sometimes, we lose ourselves in the devastation of love. But sometimes, we find ourselves there, too. ROME Avery Capulet. The forbidden fruit. The apple of her Daddy’s eye. The newly-minted Queen of California’s criminal underworld. And now, the missing girl nobody can find. I know where she is, though. Kneeling before me with her
- [Release Day: The Varlet and the Voyeur by Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/06/14/release-day-the-varlet-and-the-voyeur-by-penny-reid-and-l-h-cosway/) - The Varlet and the Voyeur, an all-new standalone in the USA Today bestselling Rugby Series from Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway is LIVE! Download your copy today or read FREE in Kindle Unlimited! Amazon : https://amzn.to/2l89gDn Add to GoodReads: https://bit.ly/2jqFMiU Enter the giveaway to win a signed paperback of The Varlet and the Voyeur! a
- [Release Day: Order of Protection by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/06/05/release-day-order-of-protection-by-lexi-blake/)
- [Release Day: Rebel Heart by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/22/release-day-rebel-heart-by-penelope-ward-and-vi-keeland/) - Rebel Heart is the second book in the Rush Series Duet. Book One, Rebel Heir, is available for sale now !! REBEL HEART AVAILABLE NOW Amazon ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) | iBooks ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) | B&N ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) | Kobo ➜ Rebel Heart (Book Two) | Google Play
- [Excerpt: Order of Protection by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/25/excerpt-order-of-protection-by-lexi-blake/) - If Henry gave her a minute, they would be back to polite. He wouldn’t find out if she could want him in an honest way. “Win, I’m an alcoholic. I’m divorced, and it wasn’t some thoughtful conscious uncoupling. It was nasty and ugly. I’m a lawyer who doesn’t give a shit if his clients are
- [Review: Arrogant Devil by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/10/review-arrogant-devil-by-r-s-grey/) - Meredith Avery one night decides enough is enough and just with the clothes on her back leaves her abusive husband behind. Meredith married very young, her husband for all intents and purposes to the outside world is the perfect husband and they have a perfect marriage. Her family, friends, especially her sister think she's some
- [Cover Reveal: The Varlet and the Voyeur by Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/10/cover-reveal-the-varlet-and-the-voyeur-by-penny-reid-and-l-h-cosway/) - The Varlet and the Voyeur, an all-new standalone in the USA Today bestselling Rugby Series from Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway releases June 14th! He kept his salacious secret for years. But soon, everyone is going to be reading about it in their morning paper… THE VARLET (and the VOYEUR) William Moore is a long
- [Re-reveal: CORPS Security by Harper Sloan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/04/re-reveal-corps-security-by-harper-sloan/) - WE ARE THRILLED TO BRING YOU ALL NEW COVERS FOR THE CORP SECURITY SERIES FROM HARPER SLOAN! ALL ARE AVAILABLE NOW! AXEL **The Corps Security series (Should be read in order)** Fate hasn’t always been friends with Isabelle West. In fact, fate has been a downright bitch. Isabelle has learned the hard way how hard
- [Cover Reveal: Unbreak my Heart by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/04/cover-reveal-unbreak-my-heart-by-lauren-blakely/) - An angsty, emotional second chance romance, UNBREAK MY HEART is a complete standalone romance like you’ve never seen from Lauren Blakely before. Filled with raw emotion, heartbreak, hope, and humor too, this story explores how to heal, how to live, and how to love. Available on all retailers on August 13, 2018! AND HERE’S THE
- [Review: The Marriage Arrangement by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/02/review-the-marriage-arrangement-by-jennifer-probst/) - Caterina Windsor left her home and her family winery after finding out her fiancé was cheating on her. She moved to Italy because she no longer knew who she was or what she wanted. Rip Savage worked ass of for the Windsor Winery just to find out that he'd have to marry a woman who
- [Review and Giveaway: The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/03/review-and-giveaway-the-good-luck-sister-by-jill-shalvis/) - Tilly and Dylan were high school sweethearts, Tilly dreamt that her and Dylan would be together forever, after all they were in love and would achieve their dreams together of being a famous artist (Tilly) and an astronaut (Dylan). But things go awry, Dylan breaks her heart and leaves without telling her. For the next
- [Release Day: The Marriage Arrangement by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/05/01/release-day-the-marriage-arrangement-by-jennifer-probst/) - Today we are celebrating the release of THE MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENT by Jennifer Probst. This is a novella in the Marriage to a Billionaire series and it is part of 1001 Dark Nights. If you'd like a glimpse inside the story, check out the book trailer and excerpt below. Watch the Book Trailer: “You have
- [Mass paperback Release: Maid For Love by Marie Force](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/24/mass-paperback-release-maid-for-love-by-marie-force/) - Today we are celebrating the mass market paperback release of MAID FOR LOVE by Marie Force. This is the first title in her bestselling Gansett Island series. Check out the links for the book below, along with other books in the series coming out in mass market paperback this year. PURCHASE IT NOW! Amazon |
- [Review: Undercover attraction by Katee Robert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/11/28/review-undercover-attraction-by-katee-robert/) - I hadn't read the previous books in the series but regardless of that I still ended up enjoying it! Charlotte Finch or now Charlie March and Aiden O'Malley come from VERY different backgrounds, she is a ex-cop and her a mafia leader. Aiden needs Charlottes help in taking down their common enemy Dmitri Romanov, Charlie
- [Review: The Hardest Fall by Ella Maise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/20/review-the-hardest-fall-by-ella-maise/) - I had been waiting for Ella Maise to release a book ever since reading To Hate Adam Connor back in 2016 and while I'm not a huge fan of NA romance I wanted to read this one as soon as I read the blurb and this book didn't disappoint at all! I really don't want
- [Release Day: The Hardest Fall by Ella Maise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/18/release-day-the-hardest-fall-by-ella-maise/) - My review of this book will be out soon but I really enjoyed this one!! I had been waiting for Ella Maise to release a book after reading To Hate Adam Connor and this one did not disappoint at all!!! Zoe and Dylan were adorable together :D It's available FREE on kindle Unlimited!!
- [Cover Reveal: Arrogant Devil by R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/18/cover-reveal-arrogant-devil-by-r-s-grey/) - About ARROGANT DEVIL - Out May 10th Everyone in Cedar Creek, Texas, knows Jack McNight is an arrogant devil. Physically, I get it: he’s tan and fit, with coal-black hair that’s clearly been scorched by hellfire. Oh, and his personality? It burns just as hot. When I show up on the doorstep of Blue Stone
- [The Confessional: The Cheating Issue](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/17/the-confessional-the-cheating-issue/) - Welcome to my rant of the week #2 where I share my grievances with you and confess about whatever issue is bugging me. Today I'm talking about the most fun topic *NOT* in romancelandia 'Cheating'. This is one of the behaviour that results in grovelling, actually what this needs is not to be in romance books.... According
- [Teaser: The Marriage Arrangement by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/17/teaser-the-marriage-arrangement-by-jennifer-probst/) - THE MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENT by Jennifer Probst releases May 1st. This is a novella in the Marriage to a Billionaire series!! PRE-ORDER THE MARRIAGE ARRANGEMENT Amazon
- [Release Day: Everwylde by Donna Grant](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/16/release-day-everwylde-by-donna-grant/) - The second book Everwylde in the thrilling historical paranormal romance series by Donna Grant is OUT Today!!
- [Best of Genre: Historical Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/09/best-of-genre-historical-romance/) - I LOVE LOVE historical romance and so I thought we should start this new feauture on the blog with this sub-genre of romance. Below are my favourite historical romance authors and books in no particular that I adore. In my opinion, these author have some of the best written books ever and anyone looking to
- [The Confessional: The Grovel Issue](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/04/09/the-confessional-the-grovel-issue/) - Welcome to a new feature on the blog: The Confessional: Rant/Rave of the Week!!! Where I'll be discussing the more of what sometimes leads to lower book ratings, tears of frustration and anger while reading and urge to throw away my kindle and later I hope the complete opposite, raving about whatever I loved that
- [Happy Holidays Everyone!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/24/happy-holidays-everyone/) - From Me to you! Love xoxo
- [Blog Update: Reviews!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/08/blog-update-reviews/) - I will be extremely busy in the next few days with work, home stuff and the holidays coming so I will be posting shorter reviews for books. Though this means I will posting more reviews they will just be shorter than normal. I also have loads of giveaways coming in the next two weeks so
- [Review: Hunter Reborn by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/15/review-hunter-reborn-katie-reus/) - Aiden Nicholl is a wolf shifter from the Armstrong-Cordanna pack. He is the one who turned Kat (Jayce mate, from the book Mating Instinct). For the last sixty years he has been mourning the loss of his bondmate privately, to the outside world he has been flirting and acting happy. He also likes to annoy his packmates
- [Book Tour: Montana Actually by Fiona Lowe + GIVEAWAY](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/09/book-tour-montana-actually-fiona-lowe-giveaway/) - Excerpt: Just as they reached the door of a squat, flat-roofed building, Floyd’s phone started ringing. He checked the screen and with an apologetic smile said, “I’m sorry. I have to take this but you go right on ahead. They’re expecting you.” Josh took that to mean his staff and he pushed open the door,
- [Too Hot to Handle by Katie Rose Review + GIVEAWAY!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/13/hot-handle-katie-rose-review-giveaway/) - Review Nikki Chase is the new PR for the baseball team of New Jersey. Nikki doesn't know much about baseball (like me but the reason for me baseball isn't a big thing in the UK) but since she considered the best in field. She is given the job of cleaning up the image of the team.
- [Happy New year Everybody!!!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/31/happy-new-year-everybody/) - Hope everyone has a great 2015 and may we find loads of books to love and cherish :P
- [Blog barrage: Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton + 2 Giveaways!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/17/blog-barrage-hunted-jaguar-felicity-heaton-2-giveaways/) - Hunted by a Jaguar, the fourth book in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website and sharing sneak peeks of the book. To enter the Hunted by a Jaguar international giveaway
- [On Tour: Dangerous by Patricia Rosemoor + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/23/tour-dangerous-patricia-rosemoor-giveaway/) - Review Camille Martel is first and foremost a cop. Her current case involves tracking down a sexual predator going with alias of 'Angel'. When the case turns difficult, Camille goes to her former mentor to help. Drago Nance ex-con turned PI is the brother of Camille's mentor. He doesn't trust cops but he does believe
- [Release Day: King of Hearts by L. H. Cosway + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/16/release-day-king-of-hearts-by-l-h-cosway/) - Happy Release Day to L.H. Cosway and her new book King of Hearts! Below is an Excerpt for you to enjoy and make sure to enter the giveaway! What he said made me curious, so I went on, “What do you do to deal with the stress?” He gave me a wan smile, and there was
- [Cover Reveal: To the Stars by Molly McAdams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/12/cover-reveal-to-the-stars-by-molly-mcadams/) - We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Cover Reveal for Molly McAdams' TO THE STARS! TO THE STARS is a Contemporary Romance and is the 2nd book in the Thatch Series, published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. It is due to be released on November 17th, 2015! Pre-order your copy today!
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway! Defy by L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/03/defy-lj-shen-release/) - Title: Defy Series: Sinners of Saints #0.5 Author: L.J Shen Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: February 3, 2017 My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple orgasms. In multiple positions. I slept with
- [Cover Reveal and Excerpt: Three Wishes by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/24/cover-reveal-three-wishes-kristen-ashley/) - Nate didn’t know what he wanted but whatever it was, it certainly was not Georgia. He was saved from answering Victor when he spied a youth wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, the hood worn up even though it was a warm day. The boy was slouching down the pavement, head bowed, hands in the
- [Review: A War Like Ours by Saffron A. Kent](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/05/saffrona-kent-war-like-ours-review/) - Warning: This book is dark. There are a lot of topics in this book that are extremely sensitive including non-consensual sex and self-harm. To read this book you have to be extremely open minded. Even with the warning, I loved this book. I was blown away by the story, the history of the characters and
- [Release Day: Damnable Grace by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/17/release-day-damnable-grace-tillie-cole/) - It's here!! Get this beautiful book now!!
- [Teaser: SOMEHOW, SOME WAY by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/17/teaser-somehow-way-jennifer-probst/) - Release Day: 30th May 2017 PRE-ORDER IT NOW AMAZON ENTER THE PRE-ORDER GIVEAWAY! CLICK HERE to enter to win one of these incredible prize packs!
- [Excerpt: Wicked Favor by Sawyer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/02/excerpt-wicked-favor-sawyer-bennett/) - We’re at a table with six other people who Jerico knows. It hits me suddenly that he’s not just a hermit who hides in The Wicked Horse, but a real businessman. He owns a prominent security-consulting company and is probably very involved with the community if he’s attending functions like this.I sit quietly, feeling like
- [New Paperback Editions of The Gamble, Sweet Dreams, and Lady Luck by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/20/new-paperback-editions-gamble-sweet-dreams-lady-luck-kristen-ashley/) - a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Cover Reveal: Drunk Dial by Penelope Ward](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/21/cover-reveal-drunk-dial-penelope-ward/) - Drunk Dial by Penelope Ward, a new standalone releases August 21st! Pre-Order Now!! Releases 21st August iBooks | Amazon
- [ARC Review: The Day of the Duchess by Sarah Maclean](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/27/arc-review-day-duchess-sarah-maclean/) - SPOILER FREE!! Also a mess but then again when are they not when I have too many feelings. I LOVEEEDD THIS SO MUCH!!! What's it about: Seraphina, Duchess of Haven left her husband Malcom the Duke of Haven two years, seven months ago. She left without a trace and Malcom has spent this time searching for
- [Release Day: Blade of Darkness by Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/19/release-day-blade-darkness-dianne-duvall/) - Happy Release Day!! a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Release Day: The Learning Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/26/release-day-learning-hours-sara-ney/) - The Learning Hours is Live Now!! Amazon | Amazon UK | iBooks | B&N | KOBO
- [Review: The Learning Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/27/review-learning-hours-sara-ney/) - The third book in the how to date a douchebag series, introduces a new douchebag not the one I was expecting (or anyone probably was) to be sure. I thought it would be someone we previously knew from the other books and the couple would be from the characters we knew in the series but
- [Q and A with Dianne Duvall and a giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/11/q-dianne-duvall-giveaway/) - We have author Dianne Duvall here with us today, she will sharing more details about her upcoming release Blade of Darkness , releases September 19th! Hi, Izy. Thanks so much for letting me visit and for helping me celebrate the upcoming release of BLADE OF DARKNESS! Q. What was the first romance novel that you ever
- [Review and Giveaway: Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2018/02/27/review-giveaway-hello-stranger-lisa-kleypas/) - This book gave me such happy feelings, Garett and Ethan made me extremely soft and sappy with their story!! Firstly I want to mention that Lisa Kleypas writes very beautiful, she makes everything vivid. Her writing is also has this lyrical quality that makes historicals also seem very fairytale like which I love. She often
- [Excerpt: Highland Dragon Warrior by Isabel Cooper](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/05/excerpt-highland-dragon-warrior-isabel-cooper/) - Carrying a passenger was a new experience for Cathal, made doubly tense by the urgency of their errand and triply so because it was Sophia astride his back. He climbed above the clouds as smoothly as he could, and as quickly, since hesitation wouldn’t be useful. When he leveled out and felt Sophia’s weight still
- [Review: Oh, Henry by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/16/review-ohhenry-mimi-jean-pamfiloff/) - More than 5 stars Holy...crap. Swoon For the fans of nerds and jocks, this story is totally, without a doubt for you. Oh, Henry will rock your freaking world. Holy crap I loved every second of that book from beginning to end. The OHellNo world is hilarious, intelligent and full of emotions. It’s a world
- [Review and Excerpt: Crazy B*tch by Jamie Begley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/18/review-excerpt-crazy-btch-jamie-begley/) - Gaah. Jamie Begley never ever disappoints. I had no idea how good Crazy B*itch and Calder’s story would be. These two were a surprising couple for me, I didn’t even realise there was history between them. Either I have been living under a rock whilst being immersed in this world or I’m just freaking blind...
- [Cover Reveal: Scandalous by LJ Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/18/cover-reveal-scandalous-lj-shen/) - Holy Freaking.... Trent Rexroth. I'm dead. Who is waiting for September 29th!?
- [Release Blitz: Love Profound by Kelly Elliot](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/23/release-blitz-love-profound-kelly-elliot/) - This is out now!!
- [Cover Reveal: Bountiful by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/25/cover-reveal-bountiful-sarina-bowen/) - Bountiful, the fourth book in the True North series by Sarina Bowen releases in 20th Oct!! No last names. No life stories. Those were the rules. Once upon a time a cocky, copper-haired tourist sauntered into Zara’s bar. And even though she knew better, Zara indulged in a cure for the small-town blues. It was
- [Excerpt: Sick Fux by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/27/excerpt-sick-fux-tillie-cole/) - Holy Moses. This one is coming soon. I already have chills. Please note : this is excerpt is unedited and subject to change. I placed the foot of my cane on the floor and looked to the left. The sound of light breathing came from around the corner. I made to move, but my heart
- [Excerpt: Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas by Terry Spear](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/10/10/excerpt-dreaming-white-wolf-christmas-terry-spear/) - Candice had been writing for two days straight, working on her publisher’s book deadline, when she wrote the ending, smiled, and set the book aside. She would start proofing it tomorrow after she’d given her brain a break. Now she’d do what she always did when she finished a book or reached a good stopping
- [Blog Tour: Heart on Fire by Amanda Bouchet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/10/10/blog-tour-heart-fire-amanda-bouchet/) - Readers of The Kingmaker Chronicles are already well-acquainted with Griffin, but never before have we had the chance to see the world of Thalyria—and Cat—through his eyes. In anticipation of the final instalment of the series, Heart on Fire, Amanda Bouchet has written this companion piece from Griffin’s POV. What Happened in Velos Stays in
- [Cover Reveal and Excerpt: Cherish Hard by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/10/11/cover-reveal-excerpt-cherish-hard-nalini-singh/) - GAHH I'm so excited for this one....Can't wait!! For those who haven't read you can read Sailor's brother's story Rock Hard before this one releases next month!! CHERISH HARD A Hard Play Novel by Nalini Singh Releases 14th Nov 2017! New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh kicks off her new Hard Play contemporary romance
- [Review: Duke of Desire by Elizabeth Hoyt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/10/17/review-duke-desire-elizabeth-hoyt/) - Anyone who doesn’t know, I love the maiden lane series! It’s such a beautifully written series with characters that aren’t only nobility but from various classes and who have different childhood experiences. Anyways it has great stories so if you haven’t you should go read it! READ THEM ALL!!! Lady Iris Jordan returning from the
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Twisted Truths by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/10/19/excerpt-giveaway-twisted-truths-rebecca-zanetti/) - Twisted Truths Releases 14th Nov!! She was leading a team, an untrained, totally vulnerable team, to chase after a dangerous gang member. And she was a lotion and candle maker, for God’s sakes. What the hell was she thinking? It had been so long since she’d seen him, and within seconds, her entire body had
- [Excerpt and Playlist: Twisted Truths by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/11/13/excerpt-playlist-twisted-truths-rebecca-zanetti/) - Slowly, numbly, she shrugged. “I knew you were dangerous and relentless in pursuing somebody,” she whispered. But a killer? Her search for him had held a romantic element, and she knew it. This guy was all edge—no romance. “Am I in danger?” Her voice quivered, but she had to know. “Yes.” He didn’t move. Didn’t
- [Review: Cherish Hard by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/11/14/review-cherish-hard-nalini-singh/) - This was such a sweet and adorable romance! I had been eagerly waiting for the next Esera/Bishop book ever since reading Rock Hard which is one of favourite contemporaries, it's just so beautifully written and the couple is amazing so when I heard that Sailor would be getting his book next my excitement couldn't be
- [Review: Scandalous by LJ Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/26/review-scandalous-ljshen/) - Ride the rexroth wave. What a thrill. Trent delivers exactly what he said he would. A rough ride. Scandalous is mother f-ing hot and an overall good read. I am sooo so so glad Trent got his HEA. Trent and Edie had me from the beginning. Their story is rough but it is all theirs.
- [Review: Hooked by Karla Sorensen & Whitney Barbetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/23/review-hooked-karla-sorensen-whitney-barbetti/) - 4 Stars This book was different. It took a little while to really get into X and Lucy’s story however I am glad I read it. I really loved the idea and plot of this story even though the plot was a little extreme. This story is new and refreshing which made it for an
- [Short Review: Monster in the Closet by Karen Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/05/short-review-monster-closet-karen-rose/) - Monster in the closet is a different from the other books in the series, not only the protagonist a lot younger than those in the previous books, they are also not actually in law and enforcement sector. I really enjoyed it, it was different it focused a bit more on the human aspect, the relationships
- [ARC Review: Closer than you think by Karen Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/31/arc-review-closer-than-you-think-by-karen-rose/) - Book Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Your Back and Did You Miss Me comes the newest novel by “the queen of romantic suspense” (Crime and Punishment). Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who’s made her life a nightmare for the past year—desperate enough to run to the
- [Excerpt: Can't Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/09/02/cant-hardly-breathe-excerpt/) - Jazz Connors had been a master at manipulation. He’d cajoled and charmed…and then he’d cheated. Holly had no idea. To this day, she idolized him and blamed Dorothea for the split. And that was the way Dorothea preferred it. The girl distrusted too many men already. Starting with their snake of a dad! When Joe
- [Paperback Blitz: The Playboy Bachelor by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/30/paperback-blitz-playboy-bachelor-rachel-van-dyken/) - “I’m writing a kissing scene!” she blurted, mentally kicking herself for screaming it in his face. “And the guy’s a complete jackass. Since my only experience with jackasses is you…” Her voice was shaky, just like her body. Could he tell how much she wanted him? How much she hated that her response was this—raw.
- [Review: Mercy by Debra Anastasia](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/22/review-mercy-debra-anastasia/) - Undecided. That is how I really feel about Mercy. It gave me conflicted feelings from beginning to end. Mercy by Debra Anastasia is about Fenix and Rebecca. These two have their first encounter when they are both very young and their story starts there. This story is about forgiveness, redemption and the full on, all
- [Review and giveaway: Beard in Mind by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/18/review-giveaway-beard-mind-penny-reid/) - Rating~ 4.75 stars! I love the Winston Brother series by Penny Reid, not only are the characters all fascinating and very different to each other, their stories are unique and completely suited to their characters! This one is no different. Beau Winston is the nicer twin, the more charming twin in town, except now his
- [Blog Tour and giveaway: Tamed by a Tiger by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/18/blog-tour-giveaway-tamed-tiger-felicity-heaton/) - Review The 13th book in the eternal mates series is about Maya (Talon's sister) and August (Cavanagh's cousion). Maya is a hellcat while August is the alpha of a snow leopard pack. Maya from a young age had to been promised to the alpha of pack in Siberia and even though the man is a
- [Guest Post with Author of SEAL Wolf Undercover, Terry Spear SEAL and giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/17/seal-wolf-undercover-terry-spear-giveaway/) - Setting the Mood to Write - Terry Spear Sometimes, I’ll write without any music or sound whatsoever. But lately, I’ve been listening to music scores. It feels like I’m writing movie scenes then, with the music providing the rich, cinematic backdrop. With that said, my favorite music can be anything fantasy and thriller or adventure-related.
- [Blog Tour and giveaway: The Beauty Of Us by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/14/blog-tour-giveaway-beauty-us-kristen-proby/) - The Beauty Of Us by Kristen Proby releases 22nd August! ~TREVOR~ “Hi.” I offer her a smile and motion for her to join me. She sits, sets her iPad aside, and squares her shoulders. I love a woman with grit. “Why are you here?” she asks. “I’m having lunch,” I reply, and gesture to the
- [Excerpt: Irresistible You by Kate Meader and giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/14/excerpt-irresistible-kate-meader-giveaway/) - He looked uncomfortable standing there, balancing on his skates, ready to spring for the door. But she knew he wouldn’t sit while she stood because his mother had raised him to respect women. Something fluttered in her chest at that notion. DuPre might be a lot of things—ladies’ man, good ol’ boy, thorn in her
- [Review: Blade by Laura Wright and Alexandra Ivy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/11/review-blade-laura-wright-alexandra-ivy/) - Rating ~ 3.75 stars! The new Bayou Heat novella tells the story of Blade, a suit that was previously taken captive by the Benson company and later used in their experiments to make super-soldiers. Previously, we see him being rescued and taken back to Wildlands to recover. While he would prefer not to talk and
- [Cover Reveal & Excerpt: The Learning Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/11/cover-reveal-excerpt-learning-hours-sara-ney/) - He’s not a douchebag; but that doesn’t stop his friends from turning him into one. PRE - ORDER NOW Amazon | Amazon UK | iBooks | B&N | KOBO He’s seated at a table in the far corner when I spot him from the door. He’s not hard to miss—not with his purple
- [Release Day: Palm South University Season 3 by Kandi Steiner](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/10/release-day-palm-south-university-season-3-kandi-steiner/) - Palm South University: Season 3 by Kandi Steiner is Now live and FREE on Kindle Unlimited
- [Q&A and Giveaway: Branded As Trouble by Delores Fossen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/09/qa-giveaway-branded-trouble-delores-fossen/) - Describe your book in one sentence. Bad-boy cowboy, Roman Granger, finds love and redemption where he least expects it—in the arms of Mila Banchini, his good-girl opposite. What makes your two main characters, Roman and Mila, such a great match? Roman and Mila are opposites, but it’s the thing they have in common that make
- [Cover Reveal: Hooked by Karla Sorensen & Whitney Barbetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/09/cover-reveal-hooked-karla-sorensen-whitney-barbetti/) - This intriguing book comes out August 23rd, 2017!
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Tougher in Texas by Kari Lynn Dell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/08/excerpt-giveaway-tougher-texas-kari-lynn-dell/) - My Favorite Fictional Cowboys – For the Love of a Difficult Woman - Kari Lynn Dell I adore difficult women...and the cowboys who love them because of it, not in spite. You don't get much more difficult than Shawnee Pickett in Tougher in Texas. And as Cole Jacobs learns, it only gets harder the closer you
- [Natali’s Bohemian Style!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/02/natalis-bohemian-style/) - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur laoreet cursus volutpat. Aliquam sit amet ligula et justo tincidunt laoreet non vitae lorem. Aliquam porttitor tellus enim, eget commodo augue porta ut. Maecenas lobortis ligula vel tellus sagittis ullamcorper. Vestibulum pellentesque cursus risus, in ultrices odio. Morbi dui metus, fringilla quis urna vitae, fringilla tristique
- [Excerpt: An Earl by Any Other Name by Lauren Smith](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/01/excerpt-earl-name-lauren-smith/) - Without so much as another word, he bent his head. When their mouths were an inch apart, he captured her gaze, and something wild and hot passed between them as he slanted his mouth over hers. All worries and fears were destroyed in the wake of pleasure and fire. Heat and light burned through at
- [Release Day Blitz: Beard in Mind by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/08/01/release-day-blitz-beard-mind-penny-reid/) - Beard in Mind, Beau's story is HERE!!! a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Review and Giveaway: Before the Dawn by Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/31/review-giveaway-dawn-cynthia-eden/) - As always with Cynthia Eden's romantic suspense, this one is wild ride with evil and sadistic serial Killers, a strong woman and a possessive hero along with a story to keep you glued to your kindle. Tucker Frost is former SEAL and currently a FBI agent and part of BAU under Samantha Dark's command (After
- [Review: All or Nothing by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/27/review-nothing-jennifer-probst/) - Sydney Greene has loved Tristan since she was eight years old and for a brief moment in time she thought he might have felt the same but he left her to move on to bigger things in life. While Sydney was left behind with their baby. Tristan Pierce has always considered Sydney hers, coming home
- [Release: Ripple Effect by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/25/release-keri-lake-ripple-effect/)
- [Release & Excerpt: Fatal Threat by Marie Force](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/25/release-excerpt-fatal-threat-marie-force/) - “Thank you, Brant,” Sam said to the agent in charge of Nick’s Secret Service detail. “You’re welcome.” Brant paused before he added, “I know we’ve had this conversation before, Mrs. Cappuano, but I really recommend that you have a detail until we’re certain we’ve contained this threat.” “I appreciate the recommendation, but I’ll be
- [Review: Call to Engage by Tawny Weber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/24/review-call-engage-tawny-weber/) - What's it about: Lieutenant Elijah Prescott has had a few difficult months, not only was him and his SEAL team betrayed by one of their own, he was injured quite badly in the explosion by said betrayer. While the injury has healed and he physically capable of being a part of his team, his mental
- [Teaser and Giveaway: The Forbidden by Jodi Ellen Malpas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/15/teaser-and-giveaway-the-forbidden-by-jodi-ellen-malpas/) - Keeping his eyes on mine, he calls to the barman. “Two tequilas, please.” “Tequila,” I muse, looking over my shoulder when the salt and lemon land behind me. “Is that my challenge?” “Crying off?” he goads, reaching into his pocket and pulling out some notes. “Never,” I scoff, turning into the bar. I don’t know
- [Cover Reveal and giveaway: Ripple Effect by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/13/cover-reveal-giveaway-ripple-effect-keri-lake/) - Pre-Order Now!! Releases July 25 Amazon US | Amazon UK | iBooks | Kobo | B&N Win a signed paperback of Ripple Effect, a $25 Amazon gift card and Keri Lake swag (3 winners) a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Sale Blitz: books by Abbie Roads](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/19/sale-blitz-books-abbie-roads/) - SALE ALRET: All three books; Race the Darkness, Hunt the Dawn, and Saving Mercy are on sale for 99¢ (reg $6.15) RACE THE DARKNESS Series: Fatal Dreams Series, Book 1 Cursed with a terrible gift... Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn't have to question you-he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a
- [Review: Undeserving by Madeline Sheehan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/11/review-undeserving-madeline-sheehan/) - “At the end, we should all go back to the beginning, if only to remind ourselves we once lived.” ~ Damon “ Preacher” Fox I get butterflies in my stomach just by reading that quote… I couldn’t tell you the day, month or year I added Undeserving to my TBR. It has been sweet torture
- [Review: A Seal’s Courage by JM Stewart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/11/review-seals-courage-jm-stewart/) - Lauren Hayes is lonely, she's never been with anyone, never been in a relationship but has in love with her best friend's brother for quite sometime. Thinking that it's finally time to move on, she and her friends sign up for a matchmaking agency for military men. After all, Lauren has a thing for men
- [Review and Giveaway: Resurrection by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/11/review-giveaway-resurrection-katie-reus/) - Rating~ 3.75- 4 stars Colt Stuart lost the woman he loved but if there's a chance that his best friend's wife is alive he will exhaust every source he has before admitting defeat. Skye Arévalo faked her death to protect Colt, his family and friends. Finding out that someone he considers a sister is gone
- [Meet the 2017 RITA 'Best First Book' Finalists and a giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/10/meet-2017-rita-best-first-book-finalists-giveaway/) - Meet the 2017 RITA 'Best First Book' Finalists and their fab books! Scroll down to enter the giveaway! PARTICIPATING AUTHORS ALTERATIONS by Stephanie Scott Book Blurb: If anyone saw the prom boards Amelia Blanco makes on her favorite fashion app, they'd think Ethan Laurenti was her boyfriend. They wouldn't know that all the plans
- [Review: Steal by Rachel van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/07/review-steal-rachel-van-dyken/) - Rating~ 4 - 4.5 stars This book had such a hollywood movie vibe to it that I adored!! At the end of the last book in the series we find out that Will has taken Angelica as his client and with that these two individuals who have so much history and were once in love and now
- [On Tour: Fuel for Fire by Julie Ann Walker and a giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/07/tour-fuel-fire-julie-ann-walker-giveaway/) - Tell us!” Surry demanded again, giving her head a hard shake. Her brain banged around inside her skull, making her see stars. Since she was tied with a length of electrical cord to one of the chairs in front of Morrison’s desk, her hands duct-taped behind her back, there was little she could do to
- [Cover Reveal: Sick Fux by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/06/cover-reveal-sick-fux-tillie-cole/) - EEK!! I'm so excited for this one
- [Interview with Amy Sands and Elizabeth Michels and a big giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/03/interview-amy-sands-elizabeth-michels-big-giveaway/) - Amy Sands Interviewing Elizabeth Michels! Amy: If you could be a character in any movie, which movie and what character would you want to be? Elizabeth: Without a doubt I would want to be Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries! She gets to learn to be a princess. I mean, twist my arm, right? Torture
- [Release Day Blitz: Steal by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/03/release-day-blitz-steal-rachel-van-dyken/)
- [Review: Hunted by Elisabeth Naughton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/07/01/review-hunted-elisabeth-naughton/) - Erebus is the trainer of Siren under Zeus command, after his previous owner Hades lost a bet and him to the Olympian God. He is told to return a siren after she fails her last test and decides to run. Seraphine is a siren, deadly and beautiful. Sera found out the truth of her forgotten
- [Release and Excerpt: Easy Nights by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/30/release-excerpt-easy-nights-kristen-proby/) - We turn a corner and there it is, my favorite tree. It’s at least four hundred years old, with branches so big and heavy that they rest on the ground. And under it is a portable swing with a red blanket spread in front of it. “Oh,
- [Release Blitz: The Catch by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/29/release-blitz-thecatch-kbromberg/)
- [Release and Giveaway: Blue Velvet by Natalie Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/29/release-blue-velvet-natalie-bennett/) - a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Review: #Nerd by Cambria Hebert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/29/review-nerd-cambria-hebert/) - WOW!! For the last two weeks, this series has been my life. This series is extremely captivating to me. I am not sure about the rest of you out there, but I couldn’t put a single book down. With exams around the corner my procrastination levels were at an all-time high thanks to this goddamn
- [Cover Reveal: The Darkest Sunrise Duet by Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/28/cover-reveal-thedarkest-sunrise-duet/) - The Darkest Sunrise (The Darkest Sunrise Duet, #1) Coming July 13 The Brightest Sunset (The Darkest Sunrise Duet, #2) Coming July 27th
- [Interview and Giveaway: A Most Unlikely Duke by Sophie Barnes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/27/interview-giveaway-unlikely-duke-sophie-barnes/) - What is their favorite place to visit? Denmark. It’s where I’m from. My parents have a summerhouse by the beach in the southern part and a house near Copenhagen. I love it there plus I get to see the rest of my family. What are 5 things you must have with you when you write?
- [Review and Giveaway: Soul Redeemed by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/27/review-and-giveaway-soul-redeemed-keri-lake/) - Rating~ 4.25 stars! I was so excited for this!! There aren't many great new pnr series on the level that sons of wrath is so it was wonderful being back in the world of Sons of Wrath!! This time it's Ava and Calix story (I've tired to keep it as spoiler free as I can.).
- [Release and Excerpt: The Knocked Up Plan by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/23/release-excerpt-knocked-plan-lauren-blakely/) - “How does it work?” I ask. “The whole donation process.” She stabs a carrot slice, chews, and swallows. “Well, there’s this thing guys do when they’re horny. It’s called”—she glances furtively from side to side—“jacking off.” “I’m well aware of how the protein shake is made. What I mean is, are we talking about one
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: The Impossible Vastness of Us by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/21/excerpt-impossible-vastness-excerpt-samantha-young/) - “You’re a great photographer, Finn.” He leaned against the counter by the sink, seeming surprised by the compliment. “Thank you.” “You’re welcome.” Silence stretched as we could do nothing but stare at each other, and my skin started to feel tight and hot, as if I was seconds from bursting out of it. “Uh.” I
- [Review: Stay by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/19/review-stay-sarina-bowen-elle-kennedy/) - Really enjoyed this one! This is the second book in the Wags series by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy and it’s just as funny as the first book. Matthew Eriksson “Snipes” is the Toronto team’s hockey star and he happens to be the client of one Hailey Taylor Emery “Hottie” company called Fetch. Fetch is
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Salvaged by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/20/excerpt-and-giveaway-salvaged-jay-crownover/) - I didn’t want her to be scared of anything ever again.Things at home had been rocky, rougher than class-five rapids in winter, but I was paddling for my life and prepared to ride it out. I couldn’t let go. I wouldn’t let go. I saw Poppy the day she walked through my shop and I
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: Sons of Wrath Box Set by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/20/release-blitz-giveaway-sons-wrath-box-set-keri-lake/) - Teaser for Book #3 a Rafflecopter giveaway Soul Redeemed (Sons of Wrath #4) Get Notified when it’s live on June 27, 2017 http://eepurl.com/b0CYIb Pre-Order: Amazon US | Amazon UK
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Run to Ground by Katie Ruggle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/22/excerpt-giveaway-run-ground-katie-ruggle/) - Her shoulders lifting and dropping again in a sigh, Jules stiffened her spine. She just needed to be confident. She also needed to not let the cop’s air of authority—as well as his muscled forearms and pretty dark-brown eyes—reduce her to the babbling idiot she’d become the last time he’d been at the diner. For
- [Teaser: Steal by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/16/teaser-steal-rachel-van-dyken/) - Steal Releases July 3rd!!! Pre-Order @ Amazon US
- [Short Review: Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/23/short-review-shield-of-winter-by-nalini-singh/) - I know as with many fans of the series we were all eagerly waiting for Vasic's book to be released (ever since he said he was tired, and seemed suicidal and some of us were greatly disappointed that he wasn't going to end up with Aden). SoW is mainly about Vasic an arrow and
- [Review: Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh (New Cover + Giveaway)](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/25/review-slave-to-sensation-by-nalini-singh-new-cover-giveaway/) - Slave to sensation has a pretty new Cover, I of course loved the previous one as well but this one goes more with the setting of the story <3. I love this series, it's my top favourite series of all time along with Dark Hunters, so if you have not already read or started the
- [Review: Silver Silence by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/16/review-silver-silence-nalini-singh/) - Where shall I start?? As everyone and their mother probably knows by now, I love Nalini Singh's books and her Psy/Changeling series happens to be my current favourite pnr/fantasy series so it was no surprise to anyone that I was eagerly awaiting the release of Silver Silence, book 1 in the second season of the
- [Review and Giveaway: Hearts on Air by L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/19/review-and-giveaway-hearts-air-l-h-cosway/) - Another five star read from the talented L.H Cosway. Honestly this woman can write a love story about ramen noodles and it would still be an amazing and unique piece of work! The story is about the final Cross brother Trevor (a parkour enthusiast) and his shy but talented best friend Reya with whom he’s
- [Excerpt: Revenge by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/19/excerpt-revenge-lexi-blake/) - Shelby brushed her lips against his, her whole body seeming to come to life. His lips were soft, his hands tight. He was enveloping her and she was completely defenseless against him. She wrapped her arms around him as the kiss deepened, and suddenly she didn’t want to play it safe anymore. She’d been in
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: A Sky Full of Stars by Samantha Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/15/excerpt-and-giveaway-sky-full-stars-samantha-chase/) - “That was…interesting.” “I never thought I’d see those two mediums used together.” “I may have to stab my own eyes out to make sure I never see it again,” Brooke said and then shuddered. They had just left the art gallery, and she waited until they were at the corner before looking at Owen. “I
- [Cover Reveal: Destiny Disgraced by Carrie Ann Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/14/cover-reveal-destiny-disgraced-carrie-ann-ryan/) - DESTINY DISGRACED releases September 12, 2017 blurb The Talon Pack continues with a new twist to the Packs and a revelation no one was prepared for. Mitchell Brentwood is aware that others think he’s the harsh taskmaster Beta trying to keep his Pack alive, but they only see what he wants them to know. He’d
- [Review: Deadmen Walking by Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/12/review-deadmen-walking-sherrilyn-kenyon/) - Deadmen Walking is the first book in the Deadmen's Cross triology, a historical spin off from Dark-Hunter and the hell-hounds universe and Oh my this was such a great read and a fantastic start to the trilogy! Captain Devyl Bane used to be an evil warlord and is currently the dead Captain of the ship, sailing
- [Excerpt: The Knocked Up Plan by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/12/excerpt-knocked-plan-lauren-blakely/) - “Ooh, look! A new one just was added to the database,” Penny coos in excitement as she points to the screen.We’re gathered around my iPad at Speakeasy, our favorite Midtown haunt, perusing the latest offerings on a bank I’ve been in touch with in Manhattan.“He’s five-foot-nine. College educated. Plays the violin. And he has red
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Royal Treatment by Parker Swift](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/11/excerpt-giveaway-royal-treatment-parker-swift/) - For the past five months, I’d taken my mission to heart: Put yourself first. Enjoy the freedom of life out of the spotlight. Get your career off the ground before it competes with running an ancient estate and being on your husband’s arm. For five months, I’d said yes to all things. Late nights dancing
- [Special Announcement by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/09/special-announcement-jill-shalvis/) - Passionflix and New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis are thrilled to announce the option of THE TROUBLE WITH MISTLETOE, a standalone novel in the Heartbreaker Bay series. Passionflix, a studio and streaming platform launching this September, is dedicated to turning romance novels into movies and series, and cannot wait to bring this heartwarming holiday romance to life on-screen
- [Review and giveaway: The Story of Us by Tara Sivec](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/11/review-giveaway-story-us-tara-sivec/) - What a ride!! This is such a tear jerker, playing at sorts of emotions book and I loved it...I usually tend to stick to less ansty and painful contemporaries but this story caught my attention from the blurb and it didn't let go till the end. Eli James, a marine has been in a hell
- [Review: Wicked Favor by Sawyer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/07/review-wicked-favor-sawyer-bennett/) - I just wasn’t feeling it. This book really wasn’t doing it for me. I’m super sad to say that because I know that Sawyer Bennett is an amazing writer but this book is for specific sort of person. I found it to be too erotic, and somewhat lacking substance. For me there was not really
- [Cover Reveal: Love Another Day by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/07/cover-reveal-love-another-day-lexi-blake/) - Masters and Mercenaries Book 14: Love Another Day Releases 22nd August! Blurb A man born to protect After a major loss, Brody Carter found a home with the London office of McKay-Taggart. A former soldier, he believes his job is to take the bullets and follow orders. He’s happy to take on the job of
- [Review: Buns by Alice Clayton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/07/review-buns-alice-clayton/) - Rating~ 4 - 4.5 stars This new instalment in the Hudson Valley series is about Clara Morgan and Archie Bryant. Clara Morgan loves her job, rebranding hotels and giving them new life gives her the warm fuzzies anyone can wish with their job. Clara prefers running from one job to another, never really setting, she
- [Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Soul Redeemed by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/06/cover-reveal-giveaway-soul-redeemed-keri-lake/) - Soul Redeemed (Sons of Wrath #4) by Keri Lake Releases 27th June 2017!! Blurb Being half incubus sucks sometimes. Sure, the sex is great, but getting hounded by females gets old pretty fast. Especially when the only one Calix cares about has gone missing, propelling him into a downward spiral of depression and abstinence. Trapped
- [Series Spotlight: Sons of Wrath Series by Keri Lake.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/20/series-spotlight-sons-of-wrath-by-keri-lake/) - This is a new segment on the blog where I post a series or book/s that I think people should READ. I'll tell a bit of what it's about, books genre, trope, similar books to it or people who have read particular series would enjoy it more. To start it off, I thought I'd share
- [ARC Review: Soul Enslaved by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/02/arc-review-soul-enslaved-keri-lake/) - Rating~ 4.75 Stars ARC was generously provided by the author Keri Lake in exchange for an honest review. This is one of those reads that you can't give away information because it would spoil the book. So I'm going to try and keep this as spoiler free as I can and yes this review will
- [Excerpt: Datingish by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/06/excerpt-datingish-by-penny-reid/) - He was quiet for bit, we both were, and I felt myself relax more and more. His palm took a detour every so often, dutifully skipping my hip and sliding along my side, and then back to my leg. Soon, I was so relaxed I felt drowsy. I felt fingers in my hair, moving the
- [Review: Somehow, Some way by Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/05/review-somehow-way-jennifer-probst/) - Who doesn’t like enemies to lovers especially when it’s about co-workers who can’t stand each other?! Charlotte Grayson loves her job, renovating and working for the Pierce Brothers Construction is simply put a dream come true for her and she also loves the people she works for all apart from the giant uptight architect, Brady.
- [Review: Riveted Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/14/review-riveted-jay-crownover/) - Riveted is about a woman who waited so long to find the right one and when the right one came along she wasn't sure if she would ever be the right one for him. Dixie Carmichael has always believed in love, she has this bubbly happy personality and she wants everyone around her to be
- [Sworn to Protect by Diana Gardin Review, Excerpt and Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/04/sworn-protect-diana-gardin-review-excerpt-giveaway/) - Rating~ 3.75- 4 stars I quite enjoyed this one! This was my first book by Diana Girdin and certainly won't be the last! What's is about: Rayne Alexander left her hometown and her family behind at 17, pregnant and alone. Betrayed by her family, the guy she loved and his family she was devastated. But all
- [Review: Ruckus by LJ Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/02/review-ruckus-lj-shen/) - I think we’ve all read a series that stays close to our minds as we go through our daily lives. LJ Shen’s Sinners of Saint are those types of books for me. And Ruckus proved that a million times over. Ruckus is perfect. It is a combination of sweet, gritty, painful and perfect. L.J. Shen
- [Cover Reveal: Notice by K.Webster](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/02/cover-reveal-notice-kwebster/) - Notice by K. Webster releases June 6th 2017 Synposis I didn’t notice her before…but now I do. The shiny strands of gold in her silky brown hair. Tiny crinkles between her eyebrows when she frowns. Her passion for neatness. Once I focus on her, I can’t take my eyes from my newest obsession. Ever. I need
- [Cover Reveal: The Catch by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/06/01/cover-reveal-catch-k-bromberg/) - The Catch (Book #2 The Player Duet) by K. Bromberg Releases June 29th Blurb After an unexpected twist of fate, All-Star catcher Easton Wylder is left questioning the loyalty of everyone around him. Even the woman who shares his bed, Scout Dalton. But if Easton thought being uprooted to the last place he expected was
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: It's Me Again, Baby by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/17/release-blitz-meagain-katie-reus/) - He took a few steps forward, trying not to notice her long, toned legs and how incredible she looked in the formfitting blue and white dress. “I was supposed to meet my Realtor here. Sam?” She cleared her throat, nodded once. “That’s me. My mom asked me to meet a friend of… Oh, your mom’s.
- [Blog Tour: Trigger by J.L. Drake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/19/blog-tour-trigger-jl-drake/) - I only ever want to tell the truth about the books I read. Having read many MC romance books, I was let down by this book. I feel like it was ok… Trigger is about a woman, Tess and thepresident of the Devil’s Reach MC, Trigger. Both of them have horrid stories. We get a
- [Series Review: Kiss and Make up by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/18/series-review-kiss-make-sara-ney/) - Weston McGarth is a ice hockey Player and the most popular guy in the school. Molly Wakefield is a studious student who isn't really into the whole party and boy's scene. Weston and Molly share a moment in the school library and after which he shows up at the same restaurant as her, they get
- [Review: Blaze by Donna Grant](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/31/review-blaze-donna-grant/) - It was really nice going back to the Dark Kings world, I don't why but I kind of stopped reading them around book 4 I think, anyways reading this one made me really want to go back and read the ones I didn't and read the Druids series (Dark Sword/Dark Warrior) because I realised I had
- [Review: The Watcher by Bella Jewel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/31/review-thewatcher-bella-jewel/) - WOW… The Watcher is a bone chilling story. I literally dove for my covers mid-way through the book. There is something so fantastic about Bella Jewel’s psychological thrillers. They are both haunting stories with splendid characters. Combine that with her ability to scare you until you’re shaking, we have a winner. This book is fantastic
- [Cover Reveal: Beautiful Mistake by Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/31/cover-reveal-beautiful-mistake-vi-keeland/) - Beautiful Mistake Releases 17th July!! Blurb The first time I met Caine West was in a bar. He noticed me looking his way and mistakenly read my scowling as checking him out. When he attempted to talk to me, I set him straight—telling him what I thought of his lying, cheating, egomaniacal ass. You see,
- [Guest Post with Author Paige Tyler and a Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/30/guest-post-author-paige-tyler-giveaway/) - Who would play the characters from Wolf Hunt in a movie adaptation? That’s easy. When I start putting a story together for the first time, one of the things I do to get the characters firmly established in my mind is find actors or models that sort of fit the vision I already have in
- [Review: From the Start by Cheryl Etchison](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/29/review-start-cheryl-etchison/) - Ranger Battalion Surgeon Michael MacGregor (boy that’s a mouthful) first meets Kacie Morgan at her sister’s bachelorette party. Kacie is reluctant to start anything with anyone especially with a guy who not only has her ex’s name but also is in the military. Michael on the other hand can’t get Kacie out of his head
- [Cover Reveal: Blue Velvet by Natalie Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/28/cover-reveal-blue-velvet-natalie-bennett/) - Blue Velvet Releases June 28, 2017 synopsis Blue Velvet Noun-Slang -An illicit drug taken by vein. Secrets. Deceit. Lust. And bloodshed. This is their happily ever after. *A/N* Blue Velvet is book two of two in the UltraViolence duet. This is a full-length novel.
- [Release Blitz: Ruckus by LJ Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/27/release-blitz-ruckus-ljshen/)
- [Excerpt: From The Start by Cheryl Etchison](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/24/excerpt-start-cheryl-etchison/) - I'm very excited to read this one so check around by the end of this week for this one's review!! Below is an excerpt of this one for your enjoyment! :) May 2013 Kacie Morgan raised the cloudy glass tumbler to her lips and licked the course salt from its rim, all the while surveying the
- [Interview with Maya Banks and a giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/23/interview-maya-banks-giveaway/) - Describe yourself in five words or less. Unorganized, melt-down prone, laid back, despise drama & conflict! If you had a theme song, what would it be? My Give A Damn is Broken. Name one thing you won’t leave home without. A cup of crushed ice. What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
- [Review: The Untamed Vampire by Kate Baxter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/22/review-untamed-vampire-kate-baxter/) - Rating ~ 4.25 Stars This review was supposed to be up on release day but I didn’t get much free time in the last few weeks to post it so without further ado here it is. If anyone isn’t aware PNR romance was first love so every time I find a great PNR book/series these
- [Cover Reveal: The Beauty of Us by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/19/cover-reveal-beauty-us-kristen-proby/) - The Beauty of Us Releases 22nd August 2017 Blurb: New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby delivers another sizzling novel in her delectable and sexy Fusion series. Riley Gibson is over the moon at the prospect of having her restaurant, Seduction, on the Best Bites TV network. This could be the big break she’s been waiting
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: Dating-ish by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/16/release-blitz-giveaway-dating-ish-by-penny-reid/) - a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Release Day: The Wright Boss by K.A. Linde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/16/release-day-wright-boss-k-linde/)
- [Q and A with Rebecca Zanetti Author of Lethal Lies + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/15/q-rebecca-zanetti-author-lethal-lies-giveaway/) - Can you tell us a bit more about lethal lies and what inspired you to have a serial killer plot in this book? I’ve always wanted to write a serial killer plot, and this book just lent itself to that, considering it was set up in the first book. I liked the idea of the
- [Blog Tour: The Perfect Illusion by Winter Renshaw](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/12/blog-tour-perfect-illusion-winter-renshaw/) - Nawww! This book is so freaking sweet. Well, the ending is. The rest of the book is sorta twisted. I am genuinely surprised by how fantastic this book was. The Perfect Illusion is a great read for a pick me up. It grabs your attention from the first chapter right to the last. I enjoyed
- [Review: Tangled by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/11/review-tangled-rebecca-zanetti/) - Rating ~ 3.5- 4 stars Ginny O’Toole is a thief, she's on the run trying to save herself and the only remaining family she has. Theo Reese never brought the sweet and helpless act Ginny presented to the world and now she's disappeared with the flash drive that would cause a lot harm to his family. Finding
- [Cover Reveal: Ruckus by L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/12/cover-reveal-ruckus-lj-shen/) - RUCKUS BY L.J. SHEN RELEASES MAY 26th 2017 SYNOPSIS They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right. No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking. He is my forbidden, shiny apple. The striking fallacy
- [Review: Deadly Silence by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/03/review-deadly-silence-rebecca-zanetti/) - I was really excited to read this one, Sin brothers happens to be one of my favourite romantic series and Rebecca Zanetti is a phenomenal writer so there was no question about picking this one up. He and his brothers have banded together, after a difficult childhood (an understatement) they help people in need. Ryder
- [Review: Fire In you by J. Lynn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/10/review-fire-j-lynn/) - Jillian Lima’s entire life changed six years ago when a gun shot led to her moving miles away from her family and no longer living but existing in a void. Losing herself was hard enough but losing her childhood best friend Brock Mitchell and the person she had loved with all her heart made it
- [Short Review: Her Darkest Nightmare by Brenda Novak](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/18/short-review-darkest-nightmare-brenda-novak/) - An enjoyable light suspense/thriller read with a great protagonist Evelyn. The romance between her and Amaroke was done well and I really liked them together. Though the constant age difference talk in the later half got a bit on my nerves. I hadn’t read the prequel of the book (didn’t realise there was one when
- [Review: Mad for the Plaid by Karen Hawkins](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/10/review-mad-plaid-karen-hawkins/) - Almost four stars I really enjoyed this one! Lady Alisa MacKenize is the Lard of the Castle Loed. After all her father is too busy with politics and her sisters married off with her loving grandmother to keep her company manages the castle and the people. Prince Nikolai of Oxenburg is not what he seems.
- [Series Review: Luna (New Moon and Wolf Moon) by Ian McDonald](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/15/series-review-luna-new-moon-wolf-moon-ian-mcdonald/) - 3.5 stars Avg. Luna New moon introduces us to a new family empire *dragon* on the Moon (Luna) which makes a total of 5 dragons on Luna. Think of it all a turf wars between different gangs except this is on the Moon and they are dealing with power and resources on it. The new
- [Review: From Darkest Skies by Sam Peters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/26/review-darkest-skies-sam-peters/) - From darkest skies is about a grieving husband, an AI trying to solve her *own* murder and a crime team to investigating a new version of a drug. Keon Rouse, a government agent after the death of his wife Alysha, left his planet Magenta. He returns home after being accused of theft and is immediately involved
- [Review: When Danger Bites by Heather Long](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/08/review-danger-bites-heather-long/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars I was very excited to start this, I mean not only is series about Marines they are SHIFTER marines, a highly specialised/classified group which helps the government and protects people. When Corporal Kaitlyn Amador, newly assigned to the Bravo team 1 meets Captain Jax Raymond on the site of the road which ends
- [Chapter Reveal: Trigger by J. L. Drake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/08/chapter-reveal-trigger-by-jl-drake/) - Prologue I used to watch them play in the streets, kick the ball between the cones, and toss their hands in the air. They’d high five, laugh, and stop for ice cream when the truck came around the corner at the same time every Saturday. They’d sit in the shade, pick at the grass, and
- [Review: The Bandit by B.B. Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/06/review-thebandit-bb-reid/) - Wow! This book was hot. And messy. My favourite :P I’ve loved B.B Reid ever since the Broken Love series and The Stolen Duet sounds like it is going to be one hell of a ride. So we start The Stolen Duet with the first book, The Bandit. The title doesn’t make sense until you
- [Review: I Do, Babe by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/05/review-ido-babe-tillie-cole/) - EEEK! Tillie Cole, you have broken my heart once again. Only this time there is no pain, only beautiful pieces. I Do, Babe is a Hades Hangmen novella that leaves you flying. This novella makes me want squeal and do happy dances. It is the perfect wedding story for our River and Salome Nash. I
- [Cover Reveal: Trust by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/05/cover-reveal-trust-kylie-scott/) - Trust by Kylie Scott releases July 18th 2017 Blurb Being young is all about the experiences: the first time you skip school, the first time you fall in love…the first time someone holds a gun to your head. After being held hostage during a robbery at the local convenience store, seventeen year old Edie finds
- [Teaser, Giveaway and a free Novella for Katie Ruggle Fans.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/03/teaser-giveaway-and-a-free-novella-for-katie-ruggle-fans/) - Have you missed Katie Ruggle’s Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue crew? As a treat to the fans Katie just released a FREE epilogue novella, After the End, that features all of your favorites! You can download it for free at most online retailers! You can also enter in to win an autographed set of the
- [Review and Excerpt: Arranged by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/03/review-and-excerpt-arranged-lexi-blake/) - Kashmir "Kash" Kamdar is the King of Loa Mali. After his lab and life's work was destroyed five years, he has spend his time womanizing and partying. Kash being the second son never wanted to be king to begin with and after he loses his lab, he's lost in grief, pain and just doesn't want to
- [Excerpt: The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/02/excerpt-marriage-bureau-penrose-halson/) - In 1938, farmer’s daughter Audrey Parsons was staying with her uncle, a tea planter who managed a remote plantation in the hills of Assam. Audrey was twenty-four, pretty, petite and fragile-looking, with a pink and white complexion, dark hair, big brown eyes and an infectious laugh. Six years earlier, after a whirlwind romance in England,
- [Release Day and Giveaway: Joy Ride by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/05/01/release-day-and-giveaway-joy-ride-by-lauren-blakely/) - Henley Rose and a hot car go together like peaches and cream, like fine Scotch and a long, dirty night. Which means working with her was like walking into the Garden of Eden every single day. It was a test of willpower because the woman could craft a car as if it were an erotic
- [Review and Giveaway: Aces Wild by Emmy Curtis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/30/review-giveaway-aces-wild-emmy-curtis/) - Rating ~ 4.25 stars Flight Lieutenant Dexter 'Dex' Stone is a British pilot with something to prove after crashing his plane on his last mission and what better way to then beating the aggressor squadron at the Red Flags. Dex wants to prove it to himself crash wasn't the end of his career. Major Eleanor Daniels
- [Review and Giveaway: Riot Street by Tyler King](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/30/review-and-giveaway-riot-street-tyler-king/) - Rating ~3.5 - 4 stars Avery "Echo" Avalon is newly graduated journalist, now working for Riot street. Avery's childhood had marked in a way that even after all these years she still has to deal with anxiety attacks and nightmares. She has always felt alone and has a difficult time connecting to people (which is
- [Cover Reveal: Royally Endowed by Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/28/cover-reveal-royally-endowed-emma-chase/) - Book 3 in the Royally Series- Royally Endowed Releases August 14th Blurb Logan St. James is a smoldering, sexy beast. Sure, he can be a little broody at times—but Ellie Hammond’s willing to overlook that. Because, have you seen him?? Sexy. As. Hell. And Ellie’s perky enough for both of them. For years, she’s had
- [Cover Reveal: Easy Nights by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/28/cover-reveal-easy-nights-kristen-proby/) - Easy Magic by Kristen Proby releases 27th June Blurb The Boudreaux Series—Sexy. Intriguing. Easy. No one said change was easy… Savannah Boudreaux knows what it is to hurt. To bleed. To be afraid that the man she’s promised to be true to until “death do us part” might in fact separate them far sooner than
- [Release Day: The Perfect Illusion by Winter Renshaw](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/28/release-day-perfect-illusion-winter-renshaw/) - Chapter One Mari Dear Mr. Rutherford, I humbly request that you accept this as my two-weeks’ notice. As of Friday, May 26th, I will be stepping down from my position as your personal assistant. I’ll do my best to ensure this is a smooth transition for the company. Sincerely, Maribel Collins I press my pen
- [Cover Reveal: Imperfect Love Kindle World by Kendall Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/28/cover-reveal-imperfect-love-kindle-world/) - Announcing the IMPERFECT LOVE Kindle World, a fabulous new series featuring strong alpha heroes who get knocked sideways when they suddenly begin noticing the heroine in a whole new light. In partnership with Kendall Ryan & these amazing bestselling authors: Kelly Elliott, Adriana Locke, Mandi Beck, T. Gephart, Kim Karr, Rachel Brookes, Cora Kenborn, Magan
- [Release Day: Ride Rough by Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/25/release-day-rough-ride-laura-kaye/) - “What am I going to do? My entire life is wrapped up in him. My job. Where I live. My car. Where Mom lives. Everything. Oh, God. This is going to be a nightmare, isn’t it?”Maverick grasped Alexa’s hands. “One thing at a time. You’re out. You can stay here as long as you need
- [Release Blitz: I Do, Babe by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/23/release-blitz-ido-babe-tillie-cole/) - It's here!! EEK!! This very special novella is now available!! Buy Now @ Nook | Kobo | iBooks “Mae,” Bella whispered as I walked from the changing room and stood on the elevated plinth opposite my friends and sisters. The mirror was behind me, but I did not yet dare look at my reflection. I
- [Life Is Adventure](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/23/food-must-look-delicious-2/) - Dras eget elit convallis est condimentum congue non id sem. Proin metus dui, eleifend id mollis quis, pulvinar in metus. Nulla pharetra sapien ultricies dui blandit, eget condimentum tortor rhoncus. Donec gravida leo neque, ac consequat diam dignissim ut. In ligula felis, tempus vel est ut, pellentesque fermentum ligula. Proin at dui sagittis, rutrum velit
- [10 ways to tell if your date is a vampire with Juliet Lyons, Author of Dating the Undead](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/25/10-ways-to-tell-if-your-date-is-a-vampire-with-juliet-lyons-author-of-dating-the-undead/) - 10 ways to tell if your date is actually a vampire 1. They only want to meet at night, using the excuse that they’re not ‘a morning person’. 2. On a date to the beach, you catch them harassing the lady in the mini mart to check the stock room for Hawaiian Tropics factor 500.
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Nothing Like a Duke by Jane Ashford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/25/blog-tour-and-giveaway-nothing-like-a-duke-by-jane-ashford/) - entally, because that was impossible. DzGo fetch help,dz commanded Flora. The dog didn’t move. DzSome clever gardeners. A footman from the house. Anyone. Go!dzDzPlato? Where are you, you dratted animal?dz called a voice nearby. DzLord Robert?dz she called. There was a short silence. DzFlora?dzDzYes. I’ve, ah, become entangled in some brambles. Plato doesn’t appear to
- [Blog Tour: Damnable Grace by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/19/blog-tour-tillie-cole-damnable-grace/) - Gaaah. This is too much. Tillie Cole has done it once again. She has taken the dark world of the Hades Hangmen and turned it into something astounding. Damnable Grace is the fifth book in the Hades Hangmen series and is the utterly beautiful story of AK and Phebe. This book will break your heart.
- [Teaser and giveaway: Lethal Lies by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/20/teaser-giveaway-lethal-lies-rebecca-zanetti/) - “All the more reason to get you out of town,” Heath said quietly. She shook her head. “No. I’m staying.” Her words were brave, but her chest hurt. No way could she deal with a serial killer all on her own. She could train every day for the rest of her life and not end
- [Blog tour: The Hot Shot by Kristen Callihan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/20/blog-tour-hot-shot-kristen-callihan/) - CHESS Grumbling, I toss on some black lounge pants and my oversized Tulane t-shirt and head to the drugstore. My head throbs by the time I get there, and my insides are writhing. I rest my hand against my lower stomach and grab a basket before calling James to complain. “I swear,” I tell him
- [Sale Alert: Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/18/sale-alert-accidentally-purpose-jill-shalvis/) - ~This is such a fantastic read so if you haven't read it yet, NOW is the chance!! You can check out my review! His hand caught her, long fingers wrapping around her elbow and causing all sorts of unwelcome sensations as he pulled her back around.“What?” she asked. “Waiting for my apology.” “Sure,” she said
- [Release Day: The House Mate by Kendall Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/17/release-day-house-mate-kendall-ryan/) - Buy Now!
- [Release Blitz: The Player by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/17/release-blitz-player-k-bromberg/) - Trailer: Buy Now @ Amazon | iBooks | B&N
- [Review: Saving Mercy by Abbie Roads](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/17/review-saving-mercy-abbie-roads/) - Rating~ 4.25 stars This was my first time reading Abbie Roads and I honestly can't wait to read more from her. I don't want to give away anything because trust me it's better to go in blind then knowing all the spoilers, it made the book so much better for me! Cain Killion is the
- [Cover Reveal: I Do, Babe by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/16/cover-reveal-ido-babe-tillie-cole/) - I Do, Babe by tillie cole RELEASES 23 APRIL 2017 Synopsis WHEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT COMBINE, DESTINED SOULS WILL IGNITE . . . Connected since childhood. Two souls: one dark and one pure. Bracing to take the greatest step of all. River ‘Styx’ Nash loves his woman. Ever since he met Mae at the fence
- [Review: Devil In Spring by Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/13/review-devil-spring-lisa-kleypas/) - HUGE five stars!! So Devil in Winter has been an all time fav historicals of my mine (and why the paperback i have looks really ugly now). So the moment this book landed on my kindle I was all over it…and didn’t even move the 4-5 hours it took me to read it Lady Pandora
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Ripple Effect #4 by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/12/blog-tour-giveaway-ripple-effect-4-keri-lake/) - Dylan Pressure and a nip of my skin recoils my muscles. A pinprick at my left arm tells me Randy’s shoved a needle into my veins, and the warmth that floods every muscle in my body, like a fireplace at Christmastime, has me clinging to my reality. It’s nauseating and soothing, curling my toes at
- [Review: Razr by Larissa Ione](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/12/review-razr-larissa-ione/) - It was so great being back to the Demonica world and getting to see so many familiar faces. Razr is an angel. After being subjected to the binding of his wings and the placement of an Azdai glyph (which basically means he has to be tortured whenever it lights up), followed by banishment to the
- [New Cover Reveals For: Kiss and Make Up Series by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/11/new-cover-reveals-for-kiss-and-make-up-series-by-sara-ney/) - KISSING IN CARS (Book #1) This novel, along with all others in this series, is a standalone with no cliffhanger. You're welcome. WILL SHE, OR WON'T SHE... Studious and (mostly) sensible, the only thing Molly Wakefield wants to do is get through Senior Year and graduate. Well, that and hit the beach in her spare
- [Review: Razer's Ride by Jamie Begley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/11/razers-ride-jamie-begley-review/) - It’s funny when you go back to the start. You don’t realize how much you missed. Well, how much you forgot. Jamie Begley has once again consumed my world. Her Last Riders are a force to be reckoned with. Razer’s Ride is book about love, loyalty and … open-mindedness. If you haven’t already figured out
- [Release Day: No Jock Rule by Ashley Erin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/11/release-day-no-jock-rule-ashley-erin/) - BNA3668: Where are those tickets hidden? CTJ2176: I’m not telling you. BNA3668: No one has been able to find them yet, and I desperately want to go. CTJ2176: They haven’t been hidden that long. BNA3668: One clue. CTJ2176: Okay, let’s make a deal, the concert is mid-September and it’s sold out. If I give you
- [Surprise Release and giveaway: The Playboy Bachelor by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/11/surprise-release-and-giveaway-the-playboy-bachelor-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - “I’m writing a kissing scene!” she blurted, mentally kicking herself for screaming it in his face. “And the guy’s a complete jackass. Since my only experience with jackasses is you…” Her voice was shaky, just like her body. Could he tell how much she wanted him? How much she hated that her response was this—raw.
- [Review: Inflict by Bethany-Kris](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/08/review-bethany-kris-inflict/) - A Love worth living for!! Inflict is my first mob read for a couple of years. So, it was an interesting one to read. This book has some fantastic twists. One that are very dark and surprising. If you are into the dark stuff, the gory and the twisted, this is a book for you
- [Review: 72 Hours by Bella Jewel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/09/72-hours-bella-jewel-review/) - Oh my freaking god. This book is amazing. The story of 72 Hours is chilling. Each page is gripping and the plot will take you on such a unique ride. I hope you will be just as stunned as I was. Bella Jewel, in all honesty, came out with a romantic suspense novel that has
- [Release Day: Mister Moneybags by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/10/release-day-mister-moneybags-vi-keeland-penelope-ward/) - For a limited time buy the book for $3.99!! Read the First Chapter
- [Release Day and giveaway: Ripple Effect #4 by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/07/release-day-and-giveaway-ripple-effect-4-keri-lake/) - Dylan “Look, I know it doesn’t mean anything to you. I get that you don’t like the hero stuff. But I really do appreciate what you did.” I run my finger along his perfectly trimmed hairline and bend forward to kiss the back of his neck. I can’t help it. It’s the first time I’ve
- [Cover Reveal: Chaser by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/07/cover-reveal-chaser-kylie-scott/) - CHASER (Dive Bar #3) By Kylie Scott Releases 17 April 2018 Blurb Given his well-earned bad boy reputation, Eric is having a tough time scoring.. When single Jean moves to town, she seems heaven sent by the sex gods. Only problem is, she not only wants nothing to do with him, but it turns out
- [Excerpt: ONLY series by Cristin Harber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/05/excerpt-series-cristin-harber/) - “We’re done ignoring us.” His hand cups my face, fingers stroking my cheeks down to my chin. When my lips part, his eyes drop to my mouth, focusing on my lips. I’ve been kissed. Dates. Dares. However they’ve happened, I’ve had a few solid moments of “PG-rated hookups. Nothing I have ever experienced has anything
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: Easy Magic by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/06/release-blitz-giveaway-easy-magic-kristen-proby/) - I pull my phone out of my pocket to call Beau Boudreaux, who also happens to be my landlord.Of course, there is no answer.The man lives upstairs, directly above this shop. Can’t he hear the water? Does he sleep like the dead?Or maybe he’s not home. I frown and open my mind, searching the building.
- [Excerpt: Mister Moneybags by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/05/excerpt-mister-moneybags-vi-keeland-penelope-ward/) - MEET BIANCAI sighed audibly. Are we even moving? It was seriously the slowest elevator I’d ever taken. Frustrated, and maybe a bit anxious to get the interview over with, I took another shot at the elevator panel. Again, pressing the button repeatedly, I groaned, “Come on. I’m already freakin’ late.” I breathed a sigh of
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay by Jill Mansell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/03/excerpt-giveaway-meet-beachcomber-bay-jill-mansell/) - Sometimes it only takes a split second for a state of absolute calm to turn to one of horror and panic.“Oh dear, poor thing.” Clemency turned to watch as a purple-faced businessman in a too-tight suit hurtled across the concourse at Malaga airport in the direction of the departure gates, panting and grunting as he
- [Release Day and Giveaway: Royal Disaster by Parker Swift](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/04/02/release-day-and-giveaway-royal-disaster-by-parker-swift/) - Dylan urged me through the door to his bedroom, his palm spread widely across my lower back. “In you go,” he said firmly. I stepped into the dark room, lit only by the light coming from the bathroom door. Dylan moved behind me, to the side, and stood me in front of a leather club
- [Excerpt: Damnable Grace by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/31/tillie-cole-damnable-grace-excerpt/) - Releasing April 18th 2017!! “Well?” Ky asked.Tanner ran his hand over his head. The brother hadn’t attended one of our cookouts or slutfests in weeks. Not that he ever entertained himself with sluts—still too hard for his piece of pussy down in Mexico. He’d been busy trying to track down Meister. Unlike most of the
- [Review and Giveaway: Finding our Forever by Brenda Novak](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/31/review-and-giveaway-finding-our-forever-by-brenda-novak/) - Cora Kelly is a art teacher, she was adopted by the Kellys as a new born and while she loves her family she always wanted to know more about her birth parents especially her mother which leads to accepting her a job in a school run by her birth mother Aiyanna, in New Horizons Boys Ranch.
- [Cover Reveal: The Knight by B.B. Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/24/bbreid-theknight-cover-reveal/) - The KNIGHT Release Date: May 9th Synopsis The Parties: Angeles Knight Mian Ross The Order: Angeles Knight orders the liberation of Mian Ross. He’ll tear down their enemies, forsake his throne, and give his life to keep her safe. All Mian must do is forgive his betrayal and put her heart on the line.
- [Guest Post with Author Gina L. Maxwell and Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/30/guest-post-author-gina-l-maxwell-and-giveaway/) - My Favorite Kind of Hero ~ Gina L. Maxwell I have a friend who will buy any romance book that has a CEO hero. If the acronym is in the title, she won’t even bother reading the blurb or judging the cover. She one-clicks. I have another who does the same thing with billionaire heroes.
- [Excerpt: Twist by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/29/excerpt-twist-by-kylie-scott/) - I watched the streetlights cast shadows on the angle of his cheekbone, the furrow of his brow. Strange how his manly beauty had grown on me, redefining or rather stretching my usual boundaries. Perhaps some people’s allure came from the inside out. A good thing. Their ways and their words did the wooing instead of
- [Review: The Hard Truth about Sunshine by Sawyer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/28/review-hard-truth-about-sunshine-sawyer-bennett/) - “This. This right here. It’s the hard truth.” This book is beyond beautiful. It’s heart wrenching, blunt and unique. There is something about people with scars both mental and physical finding comfort and love on their journey that will twist you in special ways. This book is exactly that. There are so many parts in
- [Giveaway and Excerpt: Hunt the Dawn by Abbie Roads](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/17/giveaway-excerpt-hunt-dawn-abbie-roads/) - Lathan laid Honey in his bed. Her body was dead weight and awkward, so he adjusted her arms, her legs, her head as if she were a life-sized ragdoll, until she looked comfortable. He tore off his gloves, pressed his fingers to her neck, and concentrated on finding her pulse. The steady pressure of her
- [Chapter Reveal: The Perfect Illusion by Winter Renshaw](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/24/winter-rendhaw-perfect-illusion-chapter/) - Coming April 27th!! Chapter One Mari Dear Mr. Rutherford, I humbly request that you accept this as my two-weeks’ notice. As of Friday, May 26th, I will be stepping down from my position as your personal assistant. I’ll do my best to ensure this is a smooth transition for the company. Sincerely, Maribel Collins I
- [Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Inflict by Bethany-Kris](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/20/cover-reveal-inflict-bethany-kris/) - COMING APRIL 3RD!! This sounds like an intriguing story :) SYNOPSIS As the son of an Irish mobster, Connor O’Neil spent his boyhood hiding from the horrors of his own home. His one reprieve was a girl he knew only as Evelyn, but even she was taken away. As a man, Connor is determined to
- [Review: Riot by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/17/review-riot-tillie-cole/) - Wow. Um. Just.. Wow. If I could have one wish, it would be that Riot would never end. I would wish for Tillie Cole not to end this series and keep Raze, the Bratva brothers and theirs loves alive and well. Yes, it is the most absurd request, but I’ll make it, crazy be damned.
- [Review: Hot for the Fireman by Gina L. Maxwell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/27/review-hot-fireman-by-gina-l-maxwell/) - A series about current firefighters and former military heroes, who wouldn't want to read that!! Lieutenant Erik Grady, after a recent fire that re-awakes his PTSD from his military days is making his current job difficult....Erik has always felt responsible for the death of the men in his team when he was in active duty
- [Jeans is Always Trendy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/20/jeans-is-always-trendy-2/) - Cras eget elit convallis est condimentum congue non id sem. Proin metus dui, eleifend id mollis quis, pulvinar in metus. Nulla pharetra sapien ultricies dui blandit, eget condimentum tortor rhoncus. Donec gravida leo neque, ac consequat diam dignissim ut. In ligula felis, tempus vel est ut, pellentesque fermentum ligula. Proin at dui sagittis, rutrum velit
- [Review: Every Little Thing by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/15/review-every-little-thing-samantha-young/) - Every Little Thing is the second book in the Hart's boardwalk series and is about Bailey and Vaughn, both of whom we met in the first book "The One Real Thing" where we see them arguing and mostly trying to ignore their attraction towards each other. I had been waiting for this book ever since
- [Blog Tour: The Cad and the Co-ed by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/14/blog-tour-cad-co-ed-l-h-cosway-penny-reid/) - This book is about Eilish Cassidy (we met her in the Player and the Pixie), she is Sean Cassidy's cousin, and a one night mistake with someone she thought was amazing who turned out to be a complete douche changed her entire life. Now years later, Eilish, a single mother with her son from US.
- [Cover Reveal: The Perfect Illusion by Winter Renshaw](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/13/cover-reveal-perfect-illusion-winter-renshaw/) - Coming April 4th!! SYNOPSIS It’s only pretend… And it’s only three months. I’m in the midst of scrawling “I QUIT!” onto his fancy cardstock letterhead when my boss corners me. He needs a favor, he says. And then he asks how well I can act … Hudson Rutherford needs a fiancée. With his old-moneyed
- [Cover Reveal: The Player by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/10/cover-reveal-player-k-bromberg/) - THE PLAYER By K.Bromberg Releases 17th April 2017 Blurb: Baseball has never been sexier in an all-new novel by New York Times Bestselling Author, K. Bromberg. Easton Wylder is baseball royalty. The game is his life. His passion. His everything. So, when an injury threatens to end Easton’s season early, the team calls in renowned physical therapist,
- [Review: Holden by Delores Fossen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/10/review-holden-delores-fossen/) - This was my first book by Delores Fossen, I have read quite a few of romantic suspense from the Harlequin intrigue line but hadn't yet had the pleasure to read Delores Fossens books. Nikcy Hart is an investigative reporter and her current assignment has landed her in dark and dangerous waters. While looking into the disappearance
- [Release Day and Excerpt : Riot by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/07/release-day-excerpt-riot-tillie-cole/) - LUKA “The real world isn’t ready to handle our reality. How could they accept that the gulags, the drugs, and the Blood Pit are real? It is the stuff of nightmares. How could they believe that males are being raised as killers, for sport and greed? “Worse, it would surely implicate the Bratva and my
- [Excerpt: The Deep End by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/08/excerpt-deep-end-kristen-ashley/) - “Here you go, Leigh.”Mirabelle was extending her phone, which was good and bad.Good because Amélie had not managed to unobtrusively deep breathe, her shallow breaths making her feel light-headed, and she needed something else to focus on.Bad because what she was focusing on would be the profile of that beast. She took Mirabelle’s phone and
- [Review and Giveaway: Sparking the Fire by Kate Meader](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/06/review-and-giveaway-sparking-the-fire-by-kate-meader/) - 3.5-4 stars Wyatt Fox the former Marine and current firefighter spend an intense and very passionate week with the actress Molly Cade five years ago, neither have really forgotten each other and regret that it didn’t go further than just that week. Meeting now, when Molly is going to be playing the heroine in a
- [Release Day: What I Need by J. Daniels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/05/release-day-i-need-j-daniels/) - Buy Now!! Amazon US | Amazon UK | iBOOKS | KOBO | B&N
- [Blog Tour: Mister Wrong by Nicole Williams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/04/blog-tour-mister-wrong-nicole-williams/) - "You’re not the kind of woman who needs to make anything easy for a man. You’re the kind of woman who should make a man work for it. Make him work to earn your anything.” ~ Matt, Mister Wrong by Nicole Williams WARNING: This books crosses lines. It’s messy, wild but a good read
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Ripple Effect by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/03/02/blog-tour-giveaway-ripple-effect-keri-lake/) - Review Ripple Effect episode one introduces us to Ripley and Dylan. Ripley (Rip) the anti-hero/psychopath hitman and Dylan the young woman who ends up on the streets taking care of two individuals. Dylan has become slightly more than obsessed with the guy (Rip) she sees from her bedroom window, finding out who he actually is
- [Review and Giveaway: Chain Reaction by Tara Wyatt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/28/review-giveaway-chain-reaction-tara-wyatt/) - Being a part of Hollywood royalty has done Alexa Fairfax no favours. Growing up with her family was filled loneliness and emotional abuse. Finding out that her father is possibly in something dodgy shatters any remaining illusion she had of her family. Zack De Luca, is a MMA fighter and part of the Virtus bodyguard group. His
- [Review: Sweet Rivalry by K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/28/review-sweet-rivalry-k-bromberg/) - This was my first time reading K. Bromberg's book and it certainly will not be the last! Ryder and Harper were college rivals....or so it seems since there last conservation before graduation ends with a unforgettable kiss for them both. Now years later Harper is back to her hometown and determined to win the account
- [Release Day and Review: Mayhem by Alexis Noelle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/27/release-day-review-mayhem-alexis-noelle/) - The fifth book in the Deathstalkers MC series is a book with lots of drama. It’s good drama I will tell you now. Lots of crazy sh*t happens to the hero and heroine in a short amount of time. This novel is really fast paced and you can’t stop turning the pages. Mayhem tells the
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: The Hot One by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/27/excerpt-and-giveaway-the-hot-one-by-lauren-blakely/) - Technically, I didn't drop my drawers the first time I saw her again. Just my balls. The ones in my hands. Juggling balls. Here’s how it went down. Picture a Sunday morning in Central Park. A perfect summer day. The grass was green, the breeze was warm, and I’d just spent the last few hours
- [Review: The Hot One by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/26/review-the-hot-one-by-lauren-blakely/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars Tyler Nichols is an entertainment lawyer, working with his cousin Clay at their firm. Delany Stewart is the owner of Nirvana, a spa company. They went to law school together and were madly in love till Tyler broke Delany's heart and cut her entirely out of his life. Seeing him juggling for a
- [Release Day and Giveaway: Ripple Effect #1 by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/24/release-day-and-giveaway-ripple-effect-1-by-keri-lake/) - Prologue Ripley Ripple effect: noun 1. a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event“Do you want to live?” The barrel of the gun presses into my temple, still warm from the bullets that were shot into my stepmother, who now lies in a lifeless heap in the corner. “This
- [Review: The Wingman by Natasha Anders](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/22/review-wingman-natasha-anders/) - This book was so much fun to read. The banter, the confusion, the mixed signals. It was all so messy, but so enjoyable. I loved every second of it. The Wingman covers topics like self-worth and bullying in society, topics which are so relevant these days. The Wingman is about Daisy McGregor, a third of
- [Cover Reveal: Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/22/cover-reveal-chasing-christmas-eve-jill-shalvis/) - Chasing Christmas Eve (Heartbreaker Bay #4) by Jill Shalvis Releases 26th September 2017!! Blurb Meet cute... Run for the hills—temporarily. That’s Colbie Albright’s plan when she flees New York for San Francisco. Wrangling her crazy family by day and writing a bestselling YA fantasy series by night has taken its toll. In short, Colbie’s so
- [Cover Reveal: Preppy, Part Three by T.M. Frazier](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/17/cover-reveal-preppy-part-three-t-m-frazier/) - Release Day: April 26th 2017 The bow tie is BACK! Dre was just a beautiful stranger when Preppy saved her the first time around. Now, he has to save her again, but she's no longer some stranger, she's family, and he has no idea who or what he's up against. What he does know is
- [Chapter Reveal: Mister Wrong By Nicole Williams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/17/chapter-reveal-mister-wrong-nicole-williams/) - MISTER WRONG BY NICOLE WILLIAMS COMING FEBRUARY 27TH CHAPTER ONE Matt He was wrong for her. That was the only thought running through my head as I rechecked every inch of the church. So completely wrong for her. This latest disappearing act, the most recent proof. He’d skipped out on her before, but today was
- [Release Day: Royally Matched by Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/21/release-day-royally-matched-by-emma-chase/) - Sarah stands up and presses her lips against mine. And it’s so unexpected, so surprising—I freeze up. But only for a moment. As her mouth gently moves over mine, I begin to thaw. She’s so fucking soft, her taste so very sweet. The kiss is almost chaste—at least it’s the most chaste I’ve ever had.
- [Review and Giveaway: At Close Range by Laura Griffin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/30/review-and-giveaway-at-close-range-by-laura-griffin/) - Rating~ 3.75- 4 stars​ Daniele Harper is detective and gets her first case as the lead detective on a double homicide of two researchers from the university. Scott Black is a former SEAL and currently one of the tracers, a firearm specialist for the Delphi crime centre. Tracers help the police with their investigations. Scott
- [Review and Excerpt: Full Package by Lauren Blakely + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/09/review-and-excerpt-full-package-by-lauren-blakely-giveaway/) - Perfectly ruined for anyone else. ~Chase Summers Chase Summers, Dr. McHottie according to Josie is in need of a place to live. He has recently moved back to NY after being away for doctors without borders and now has had the worst luck in finding an apartment. Josie Hammer is a baker, sister of Wyatt
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: The Cad and the Co-ed](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/14/release-blitz-penny-reid-cad-coed/) - The Cad and The Co-Ed, an all-new romantic comedy from Penny Reid & L.H. Cosway is LIVE Add to GoodReads: https://goo.gl/AN7tIK Enter to win the Rafflecopter Giveaway! http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/ee2f7e8629/?
- [Chapter Reveal: Ripple Effect #1 by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/13/chapter-reveal-ripple-effect-keri-lake/) - Ripple Effect Episode 1 releases 24th Feb 2017 Shells are made to be cracked. I stare down at the tiny white egg, wedged between the ashtray filled with cigarette butts and the empty bottle of Jack Daniels on the balcony. Hardly broken in two halves, the busted center reveals an underdeveloped bird inside, nearly devoured
- [Release Day and Review: A Thousand Letters by Staci Hart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/09/release-day-review-thousand-letters-staci-hart/) - 4.5 Love lost and loved again stars!! Wow. That was an utterly beautiful end to a heart breaking story. A Thousand Letters begins with a lot of sadness. There has been a loss of love for both Elliot and Wade who were once together through their last two years of high school. Wade decided he
- [Blog Tour: Defy by L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/09/blogtour-ljshen-defy/) - Title: Defy Series: Sinners of Saints #0.5 Author: L.J Shen Genre: Contemporary Romance Published: February 3, 2017 To see our review of Defy, click on the Review icon below. My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple
- [Review and Giveaway: Breathless by Beverly Jenkins + a special note from Beverly Jenkins](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/09/review-breathless-beverly-jenkins/) - Such a great read! Portia ‘Duchess’ Carmichael is the manger of the Fontaine Hotel. Portia had a very difficult childhood which was further made difficult when her mother decides to abandon her sister and her to their aunt. It took a long time for Portia to pare her deep distrust of men that her mother was
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Final Exit by Lena Diaz](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/07/excerpt-lena-diaz-final-exit/) - Friday, 11:55 p.m. It was a perfect night to catch a killer. A warm breeze blew out of the south at about six miles per hour. Rain-heavy clouds covered the half-moon, plunging the cliff where Special Agent Kade Quinn stood into darkness. He was betting on the old cliché, third time’s a charm. And also
- [Review: Defy by L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/03/lj-shen-defy-review/) - Hot. Super steamy goodness. That pretty much explains everything in this Sinners of Saints novella. Defy follows Melody Greene and her forbidden relationship with her student Jaime Followhill after she hit his SUV. Jaime Followhill is one of the four Hotholes, Todos Santos’s most arrogant and spoilt men. The novella is the story of how
- [Cover Reveal: Damnable Grace by Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/06/cover-reveal-damnable-grace-tillie-cole/) - For all the Hades Hangmen fans. This is for you!! Mark your calendar for April 18th. We are going to go on a damn good ride :P Here is the cover for Damnable Grace, Book 5 in the Hades Hangmen series Releasing April 18th About the Author, Tillie Cole Facebook Twitter Instagram
- [Review: Lucca by Sarah Brianne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/05/review-lucca-sarah-brianne/) - 5 Blooming Love Stars!! Have you ever read a book which you have anticipated for months? I can’t even give a specific amount of months, all I know is there was a long waiting period. For 31 days there were teasers. So many freaking teasers I was about to burst. Then the release day for
- [Review: Playing the Player by Amy Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/02/review-playing-player-amy-andrews/) - Em Newman is taking a break from men after her last relationship ended up pretty badly and Lincoln Quinn has been one night only kinda guy. Lincoln and Quinn are both extremely attracted to each other from the first time they met but all Linc's flirtaions get him a glare and a shot down which
- [Review and Giveaway: How to Date a Douchebag: The Failing Hours by Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/02/review-giveaway-date-douchebag-failing-hours-sara-ney/) - Rating~4.5- 4.75 stars One of my newer favourite type of heroes are douchebags not just that but the very self aware ones and Zeke definitely falls into that category. I really enjoyed the first book in the series so it was no brainer that I wanted to try this since Zeke promised to be ever
- [Review: Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/02/01/review-accidentally-purpose-jill-shalvis/) - Rating~ 4-4.5 stars This might be my favourite of the series, it has a bit different style to the rest of the books in the series. Maybe it was because of who Archer Hunt was a person; he was different that other heroes I’ve read from Jill Shalvis more rough and alpha or the suspense/side
- [Release Day: The Heart Series Boxset by L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/31/release-day-the-heart-series-boxset-by-l-h-cosway/) - “So, what do you do when you’re not scrubbing dishes for my brother, Iris?” The way he said my name made my pores tingle again. It felt luxurious somehow, like a caress. “I talk to my cat. I read. I wander.” Talk to Bowie. “You wander?” “Yeah, I like to choose a starting point and
- [Release Day: Thief of Hearts by L H Cosway, Excerpt and Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/04/release-day-thief-hearts-l-h-cosway-excerpt-giveaway/) - I organised my things and opened my laptop, pulling up the morning’s lesson plan when I heard the friendly chatter quieten down. Glancing up, I saw our new student had arrived, and I had to take a second to catch my breath. Stuart Cross looked dangerous, in a James Dean, careless male beauty, leather
- [Review and Giveaway: Thief of Hearts by L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/07/review-thief-hearts-l-h-cosway/) - Ahhhh yet another amazing book by L.H Cosway. I swear this woman must have wires hooked to readers and just delivers exactly what we want. Having met Stu in previous books, I wasn’t really all that eager to read his story because, to be perfectly candid, he seemed too dim-witted and just plain boring, so
- [Cover Reveal: Cross My Heart by L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/23/cover-reveal-cross-heart-l-h-cosway/) - Cross My Heart by L.H. Cosway Releases 31st January 2017 ***Special pre-order price of just 99c!*** Get the first four books in L.H. Cosway’s Hearts series, plus the BRAND NEW bonus novella, Cross My Heart. The Hearts Boxset Bundle includes: Six of Hearts (book #1) Hearts of Fire (book #2) King of Hearts (book #3)
- [Review: Egomaniac by Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/29/review-egomaniac-vi-keeland/) - HOLY HOTNESS!! Word after word in this book is full of sass. Super, saucy, sass… Seriously, this book will make you smile. Egomaniac is both sweet and so addictive, there was no way I could stop reading this without finishing it. The beginning of this book is very different. I mean Vi Keeland is a
- [Review: Vicious by L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/25/review-vicious-l-j-shen/) - 5+++ stars!! A read to remember. A warning to all : This book will claim you. The story, the characters, everything was perfectly flawed and devastatingly messed up. These things all added to perfection. I am sure Vicious is one of my favourite books of the year and the year just began. “My Grandma once told
- [Cover Reveal: Mayhem by Alexis Noelle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/30/4722/) - Mayhem by Alexis Noelle Releases February 27, 2017 I had to step up, take over, Save her from herself, From him. He doesn't deserve her. But I sure as Hell don't either She's too sweet, too soft, too kind. A broken shell of the woman she once was. But now, there's more on the line, She's
- [Release Day: The Room Mate by Kendall Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/24/release-day-the-room-mate-by-kendall-ryan/)
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/24/excerpt-and-giveaway-accidentally-on-purpose-by-jill-shalvis/) - His hand caught her, long fingers wrapping around her elbow and causing all sorts of unwelcome sensations as he pulled her back around.“What?” she asked. “Waiting for my apology.” “Sure,” she said agreeably. “When hell freezes over.” She lifted her chin, grateful for her four-inch heels so that she could almost, kind of, not quite
- [Release Day Blitz: Egomaniac by Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/16/release-day-blitz-egomaniac-by-vi-keeland/) - Buy Now! ➜ iBooks | B&N | Kobo |Google Play
- [Release Boast and Giveaway: Worth the Wait by Claudia Connor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/13/release-boast-worth-wait-claudia-connor/) - Buy Now! Amazon US | Amazon UK | iBooks | B&N | Kobo GIVEAWAY a Rafflecopter giveaway Check out the EXCERPT of the book!
- [Release Blitz and Giveaway: Lethal Game by Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/13/release-blitz-lethal-game-katie-reus/) - “Don’t give me that look,” Graysen snarled as he slid into the seat across from Harrison. He’d been waiting for that CEO to leave. Harrison had started to respond when the bartender who’d been serving Graysen earlier approached the table. “You leaving the bar?” “Yeah, joining a friend.” He tried not to snarl at her,
- [Review: On Broken Wings by Chanel Cleeton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/09/review-on-broken-wings-by-chanel-cleeton/) - Such an emotional book and I loved every second of it! My first 5 star read of the year. Alex 'Easy' Rogers is a part of the Wild Aces squadron and has been in love with Dani ever since he lay eyes on her years ago. Finding out thats she's married, he tired to be
- [Excerpt: Claiming the Billionaire by JM Stewart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/10/excerpt-claiming-the-billionaire-by-jm-stewart/) - As she stepped up to the lane again, he should’ve tossed another cocky taunt at her, some barely disguised innuendo, but he could only watch. Despite her protests regarding bowling, they were having a good time. His head had been quiet so far. Not once in the last hour and a half had he thought
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Worth the Wait by Claudia Connor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/10/excerpt-giveaway-worth-wait-claudia-connor/) - ~twenty-four years ago Nick pressed two fingers into the sleep deprived headache pounding in his temple and tried to concentrate on professor Jenkins’s explanation of ideal gas law. He circled a line of notes, ignored the knock on the auditorium door until he heard the familiar cry. Hannah, who he’d left in the university daycare
- [Review: A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/09/review-promise-fire-amanda-bouchet/) - Rating~ 4- 4.5 stars Catalia "Cat" Fisa, is a kingmaker. Disguising herself as a clairvoyant in circus to hide her identity from her family. In the last 8 years after escaping the horror show that was her family, she has managed to make a place for herself flying under radar at the circus. She finally has friends
- [Excerpt: Accidentally on Purpose by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/08/excerpt-accidentally-on-purpose-by-jill-shalvis/) - Releasing Jan 24th “Hey, honey,” Trudy said in her been-smoking-for-three-decades voice. “Need anything?”“Nope, I’m good.” Good plus mad, but although she adored Trudy, the woman couldn’t keep a secret to save her life. “Just taking in the nice morning.”“Oh, that’s a disappointment,” Trudy said. “I thought maybe you were looking for that hottie with the
- [Review: Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/07/review-hard-hitter-by-sarina-bowen/) - Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen is about the grumpy Hockey Captain of the Brooklyn Bruisers, Patrick, we met in the last book and the yoga teacher/message therapist of the team, Arianna. Patrick had a pretty difficult childhood and hence prefers his solitude. He also doesn't like people touching him which is understandable and so are
- [Release Day: On Broken Wings by Chanel Cleeton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2017/01/03/release-day-broken-wings-chanel-cleeton/) - On Broken Wings is Out everywhere today! Buy Now! Amazon US | Amazon UK | Kobo | itunes | B&N
- [2016 Favourite Books](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/29/2016-favourite-books/) - Here's a list of my favourite books I read in 2016! With some honourable mentions at the bottom. Each of these is amazing and worth checking out. Do you Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare. This was an amazing historical. I loved all the characters and the couple; Charlotte and Piers. Their story
- [short review: Out of Bounds by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/23/short-review-bounds-lauren-blakely/) - Rating~ 3.25 stars Dani Paige is a corporate lawyer for the footabll team "Los Angeles Knights" and Drew Erickson is the new quaterback joining said football team. Dani and Drew meet on a beach where Dani doesn't tell Drew that she recognizes him as a football player. They spend an evening together, exchanging flirty banter and
- [Review: Steadfast by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/23/review-steadfast-by-sarina-bowen/) - So its three for three for me with Sarina Bowen (I read the books out of order though they can be read as standalones). Though all the books I have read from Sarina Bowen have dealt with different issues and have completely different character types and plot what doesn't change is the pretty great writing,
- [Review: Keepsake by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/14/review-keepsake-sarina-bowen/) - Rating ~4.75 Stars I LOVED THIS ONE!! Excuse this mess of a review because I don't really know how or where to start from. Zachariah "Zach" is such a lovely hero, he is sweet, hard working and with his insecurities which only endeared him to me more and made him completely swoon worthy. His heroine
- [Q&A and Excerpt: One For The Rogue by Charis Micheals + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/21/qa-excerpt-one-rogue-charis-micheals-giveaway/) - Q&A with Charis Micheals Can you tell us a little about your book? Well, this is sort of a reverse My-Fair-Lady story. The heroine is a young dowager duchess who has been trained since girlhood in manners and decorum. Through a series of hopeless circumstances, she is is charged with giving lessons on how to
- [Review: Troublemaker by Linda Howard](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/20/review-troublemaker-by-linda-howard/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars Morgan Yancy is relocated to a secure-ish location by his boss after the attempted murder on his life near his home. As a team leader in a paramilitary group, this makes everything worse since Morgan has no idea who found out about his identity let alone his home. Morgan was seriously injured
- [Review: Drakon's Promise by N.J. Walters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/20/review-drakons-promise-n-j-walters/) - Alert: Review containing GIFS. Who doesn’t love some dragon shifters! I’m always in search of books with dragon shifters so when I saw this, I knew I had to read it and since I have read some pnr books by N.J. walters previously I knew it would be good and it was. I really liked
- [Review and Excerpt: Hit the Spot by J. Daniels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/12/review-excerpt-hit-spot-j-daniels/) - Tori Rivera has recently had a bad break up and isn't looking to get involved. She also happens to be a waitress in a restaurant/bar where Jamie frequents a lot. After Jamie and Tori's first disastrous meet, she serves him what she has named the loser special. Jamie McCade is a professional surfer and also a loser according
- [Review: The Trouble with Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/19/review-the-trouble-with-mistletoe-by-jill-shalvis/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars I enjoyed this one! This makes for a good winter read especially with Christmas and hopeful vibe it has. I'll start of by saying that it took me quite a few chapters to warm upto Willia (I actually think this might be the one heroine I didn't instantly connect to by Jill
- [Teaser Reveal: Girl Breaker by Harper Kincaid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/19/teaser-reveal-girl-breaker-harper-kincaid/) - Pre-Order Now! Amazon US | Amazon UK | iBooks | Kobo | B&N
- [Excerpt: Rule Breaker by Harper Kincaid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/13/excerpt-rule-breaker-by-harper-kincaid-giveaway/) - Excerpt By the pool table were a bunch of rough-as-leather motorcycle riders, getting loud and throwing down bets on the pool table. There were more than a couple of hookups going on in the darkened corners with the occasional flash of flesh making an appearance. Even though I was surprised by the blatant PDA, I
- [Guest Post with Harper Kincaid Author of Rule Breaker.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/12/guest-post-with-harper-kincaid-author-of-rule-beaker/) - Everyone Please welcome Harper Kincaid Author of 'Rule Breaker' Hi everyone! Thanks for letting me invade the ‘fortress’ for today! Just like you, books are my passion. If I’m not writing them, I’m reading them. A good story can feel like you’re going on a vacation – without the lost luggage or complaining kids in
- [Review: Taken by Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/19/review-taken-cynthia-eden/) - Surviving the abduction and the near death experience at the hands of the serial killer Death Angel, Bailey Jones is still healing from the mental and physical scars but the disappearance of the woman who she helped escape haunts her. Everyone seems to be telling Bailey that she must have imagined the woman and to find
- [Review: Dark Surrender by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/15/review-dark-surrender-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - I was quite looking forward to this release because Alex, I mean the guy is a male siren and he decides to volunteer so that his friend doesn't have to because he wasn't ready yet. Alex has been a very intriguing character from book 1 in the series so I really wanted to know about
- [Review and Excerpt: The Only One by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/09/review-excerpt-one-lauren-blakely/) - Rating~ 3- 3.5 Stars. Penelope 'Penny' Jones is the owner of Little friends shop, an animal rescue she runs with her friend. She has been a minor character in some of the previous contemporaries by Lauren Blakely. When Penny caterer cancels at the last minute for a charity event she is planning for her animal
- [Cover Reveal: Easy Magic by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/09/cover-reveal-easy-magic-kristen-proby/) - Easy Magic, 5th book in The Boudreaux Series releases February 21, 2017 Blurb The Boudreaux Series. Sexy. Intriguing. Easy. Family. Responsibility. Stability. As the co-CEO of Bayou Enterprises, and the eldest of the Boudreaux clan, Beau is the epitome of these. Now that his baby sister Gabby is happily settled down, Beau has moved into the
- [Short Review: The Sexy One by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/24/short-review-sexy-one-lauren-blakely/) - Rating ~ 4.25 Stars This was so adorable! Anyone looking for a extremely low on angst, romantic comedy with a good happy buzz should try it. From Well Hung near the end of it we find out about Simon and Abby (Harper's friend from Mister O) and that they might have something going on and
- [Cover Reveal: Until It Fades by K.A. Tucker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/08/cover-reveal-fades-k-tucker/) - UNTIL IT FADES is a contemporary romance novel featuring K.A. Tucker’s signature heart-stopping suspense releases May 2nd, 2017! Blurb A sexy new romance about a small-town woman who saves the life of a mysterious man, and finds herself unexpectedly thrown into a whirlwind love affair, featuring bestselling author K. A. Tucker’s signature “well-constructed, pulse-pounding suspense”
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Ares by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/05/excerpt-and-giveaway-ares-by-felicity-heaton/) - The world came back but it wasn’t the alley where the man had grabbed Megan. It was the balcony of an apartment. Had they somehow teleported? The Frenchman had disappeared in the blink of an eye too. It was incredible. And a little terrifying. Cold wind gusted against her back and light rain splattered on
- [Cover Reveal: The Darkest Promise by Gena Showalter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/07/cover-reveal-darkest-promise-gena-showalter/) - The next book in the Lords of the Underworld series, The Darkest Promise releases June 13th, 2017! Blurb New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter returns with a sizzling Lords of the Underworld story about an iron-willed sovereign and the somber beauty who melts him with a glance… Possessed by the demon of Misery, Cameo isn't allowed to
- [Cover Reveal: Salvaged by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/08/cover-reveal-salvaged-jay-crownover/) - SALVAGED BY JAY CROWNOVER, BOOK 4 IN THE SAINTS OF DENVER SERIES RELEASES 20TH JUNE 2017! BLURB Hudson Wheeler is a nice guy. Everyone knows it, including his fiancée who left him with a canceled wedding and a baby on the way. He’s tired of finishing last and is ready to start living in the
- [Review and Giveaway: Ares by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/12/05/review-giveaway-ares-felicity-heaton/) - Ares is the first book in the guardians of Hades series, introducing gods, weird and strong demons, prophecies and oh a little bit of the apocalypse approaching fast. Ares is the son of Hades, he along with his brothers were sent to earth to guard the portals/gates to the underworld and after centuries of protecting
- [Excerpt: Perfectly Paired by Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/30/excerpt-perfectly-paired-by-lexi-blake/) - Damn but she was a beautiful woman. She was also something he needed to keep his hands off of. No matter what Big Tag said, he did not date women he worked with. He didn’t really date anyone. He played with subs. When the need got too great, he found a partner for a brief
- [Review: Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/29/review-duke-pleasure-by-elizabeth-hoyt/) - This was such a fun book! Filled with hidden identities, masquerade balls, an evil cult, adorable children and two great protagonists. Duke of Kyle, Hugh Fitzroy, has returned from abroad five months ago after the death of his wife to take care of his children (Kit and Peter) and as a agent under the King,
- [Review: Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/23/review-every-dark-corner-by-karen-rose/) - Karen Rose's Every Dark Corner deals with some pretty horrific things such as child pornography and human/child trafficking along with issues of drug abuse/dependence. Side Note: We met both the protagonists of the book in the last book "Alone in the Dark" but it was towards the end so you don't actually need to read
- [Reviews: Big Rock, Mister O and Well Hung by Lauren Blakley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/03/reviews-big-rock-mister-o-well-hung-lauren-blakley/) - So sometime around September I found myself binge reading Lauren Blakely's contemporaries and I never got around to fully reviewing them, I decided to write smaller reviews for each of them because they were all pretty great reads! From standalones Well Hung was the first book I read by Lauren Blakely and I really enjoyed this
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Out of Bounds by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/22/excerpt-and-giveaway-bounds-lauren-blakely/) - Ready to be swept off your feet? Meet the witty, sexy, dirty-talking quarterback Drew in OUT OF BOUNDS! Now available everywhere! “Be on your best behavior, Drew,” he says, a teasing tone in his voice. “I always am,” I reply, and the fact is, that’s true. Clean-cut is my nickname. “And text if
- [Cover Reveal: Ares by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/15/cover-reveal-ares-felicity-heaton/) - Ares (book 1 in the Guardians of Hades series) by Felicity Heaton Releases Nov 26! Prince of the Underworld and Lord of Fire, Ares was banished from his home by his father, Hades, two centuries ago and given a new duty and purpose—to keep our world and his from colliding in a calamity foreseen by
- [Review: Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/19/review-rookie-move-by-sarina-bowen/) - This was my first book by Sarina Bowen and it certainly won't be the last. From what I know, both the protagonists had part in other book/s from the author but this can certainly be read as a standalone since I hadn't read any previous books and it didn't hinder my enjoyment at all. This
- [Cover Reveal: The Hot One Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/11/cover-reveal-hot-one-lauren-blakelt/) - The HOT ONE by Lauren Blakely Releases March 24! THE HOT ONE will bring readers more of the swoony romance and passion they’ve come to love from Lauren Blakely, as well as plenty of witty humor and clever banter. Check out this fantastic cover created by Helen Williams with photography by Wander Aguiar. At first
- [Release Day: Love Between the Lines by Christina Collie + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/08/release-day-love-between-the-lines-giveaway/) - Teaser Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens Go Enter the Giveaway to win 1 in 10 copies of the Colouring Book!.
- [Review: Mistletoe on 34th Street by Lisa Dickenson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/07/review-mistletoe-34th-street-lisa-dickenson/) - The book has such a great feel to it, the whole Christmas vibe especially the snowy Christimas holiday magic was pretty enjoyable! Olivia along with her colleagues are stranded in New York during Christmas time where they were attending a conference. Olivia loves New York so for her being in New York especially with her friend
- [Review: Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/04/review-archangels-heart-nalini-singh/) - Rambly review alert! After 2 years of the events from the Archangel’s Legion. Archangel’s heart introduces a new sector of the Angels, the Luminata. With Cadre of Ten now having 11 Archangel’s which has never been seen in the world of Guild Hunter, the world is changing and so are the Archangels. The Cascade is
- [Pre-Release Blitz and Giveaway: Someone like You by Lauren Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/02/release-blitz-giveaway-someone-like-lauren-layne/) - Giveaway (Win an Audio Book Set of IRRESISTIBLY YOURS and I WISH YOU WERE MINE) a Rafflecopter giveaway Teaser
- [Guest Post With Jessica Lemmon + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/11/01/guest-post-jessica-lemmon-giveaway/) - Top 5 Ways To Frustrate An Alpha Billionaire Bad Boy In my new release The Billionaire Bachelor, our hero Tag Crane is having one heck of a time getting heroine Rachel Foster to comply. His tried-and-true tricks simply don’t *quite* break down this particular woman’s defenses. Which means Tag shrugs and wanders off to find
- [Review: Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/28/review-miracle-5th-avenue-sarah-morgan/) - I've read quite a few of Sarah Morgan's older HQ books so I knew this was going to be good and it was! Sarah Morgan hits all the right spot for me with this one. This is the third book in the series, the series follows the three best friends who opened a event planning
- [Review: Tricked by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/26/review-tricked-rebecca-zanetti/) - In teased we met Chalton Reese and his mate Olivia, in that we find out about Olivia's sister like best friend Ronni Alexander dying due to a heart condition and Chalton's brother Jared who agrees to mate Ronni to save her life. Jared Reese is a former pirate. Long ago when he was young and
- [Review and Giveaway: Beard Science by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/24/review-giveaway-beard-science-penny-reid/) - Rating~ 4.75 stars So I've been waiting for Cleutus's book since the beauty and the moustache and the more we got to know him and his shenanigans through the Winton Brothers 1 and 2. The more I wanted his book and I think one my favourite in the series (as of now). Cletus Winston is
- [Character Interview with Seth by Author Dianne Duvall + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/21/character-interview-with-seth-by-author-dianne-duvall-giveaway/) - CHARACTER INTERVIEW Thank you for joining me! I’m very happy to be here at A Fortress of Books, celebrating the release of my time travel romance RENDEZVOUS WITH YESTERDAY, the second book in my new series The Gifted Ones. Often when I release a new book, I like to introduce readers to the characters they’ll
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Honor by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/20/excerpt-giveaway-honor-jay-crownover/) - KEELYN Maybe if I hadn’t spent the last six months slinging pancakes and greasy hash to hungover hipsters and avoiding the too-curious eyes of the cops who like to hit up the diner for early-morning breakfast, I would have noticed the ominous shift in the air. Before I came to Denver six months ago, my
- [Release Week: The Sexy One by Lauren Blakely + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/19/release-week-sexy-one-lauren-blakely-giveaway/) - “I want to talk to you about the other day.” He sounds so serious. All of a sudden, the weight of my mistake crashes down. “Are you firing me?” I blurt out. His jaw drops. “What?” “I’m sorry,” I say, and the wild anxieties consume me once more. “I love this job, and I love
- [Excerpt: Royally Screwed by Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/18/excerpt-royally-screwed-emma-chase/) - “I have a plan.” We’re in the library of the suite. Nicholas is behind the desk, his hair falling still damp over his forehead from a recent shower, while James and Tommy stand near the windows. “Take off your clothes,” I say, dropping a stuffed backpack at my feet. He stands, giving me a curious,
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: To Love and To Cherish by Lauren Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/17/excerpt-giveaway-love-cherish-lauren-layne/) - “Hello.” The sexy British accented startled Alexis out of her thoughts, and she glanced up, both alarmed and intrigued to find that the face that awaited her was every bit as appealing as the voice. The man was about her age—early, maybe midtwenties—and ridiculously cute. His hair was dark and maybe just a touch too
- [Review and Giveaway: Getting Dirty With the CEO by Mia Sosa](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/16/review-giveaway-getting-dirty-ceo-mia-sosa/) - Rating ~ 3.75 stars Daniel Vargas is the CEO of an architectural firm, Cambridge group. Daniel always present this facade to the world of happy, always looking immaculate and satisfied individual while the truth is a bit more complicated than that. Mimi Pennington is a publicist and an excellent one at that. She's been working her way
- [Review: Midnight Untamed by Lara Adrian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/12/review-midnight-untamed-lara-adrian/) - Such a cute, fluffy and sweet short story! The story follows Ettore 'Savage' Selvaggio and Arabella 'Bella' Genova. Three years ago, they were young and deeply in love when something makes Ettore leave Bella. Now circumstances have put Bella in a difficult position. Ettore is about to go ahead with his mission for the order
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: The Bachelor Auction by Rachel van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/11/excerpt-giveaway-bachelor-auction-rachel-van-dyken/) - Jane was pressed so tightly against the wall she would have sworn her body was starting to blend into the wallpaper. Most people didn’t give her a second glance. Then again, she wouldn’t give herself a second glance either. Women with fake boobs and injected lips mocked her while rich men in three-piece suits completely
- [Review and Giveaway: Bedmates by Nichole Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/05/review-and-giveaway-bedmates-by-nichole-chase/) - Maddie McGuire one mistake leads her ending up in her getting arrested. Maddie is an animal lover, a kind of an activist and her latest judgment in rescusing the animals leads her getting arrested and being forced to do community service with the guy who she really despises even though she is very much attracted
- [Excerpt: Renegade Dragon by Lolita Lopez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/04/excerpt-renegade-dragon-by-lolita-lopez/) - My woman.It was a primitive thought and one Nico should be ashamed for thinking…but he wasn't. He didn't even know her name, but he knew that she was his. After all the years of secretly hoping that someday his mate might cross his path, he didn't dare believe his luck that she was so beautiful.
- [Release Day Blitz and Giveaway: Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/04/release-day-blitz-giveaway-two-two-nicholas-sparks/) - Two by Two is now available! Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Q&A with Rebecca Zanetti and a giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/10/03/qa-rebecca-zanetti-giveaway/) - Q & A with Author of 'Deadly Silence' Rebecca Zanetti. Q: What was the most challenging part of writing Deadly Silence? Even though Deadly Silence is the first book in a spinoff series from the Sin Brother series, it needed to stand on its own for accounts as well as new readers. So the challenge
- [Review and Giveaway: The Perks of Loving A Scoundrel by Jennifer McQuiston](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/30/review-and-giveaway-the-perks-of-loving-a-scoundrel-by-jennifer-mcquiston/) - Review Miss Mary Channing is visiting her pregnant sister in London, little does she know that coming to London would lead to adventures that she has only read about. Geoffrey ‘West’ Westmore years ago, had quite a few dreams of being an architect but that was before the navy. Even though he had managed to save some lives,
- [Cover Reveal: Riveted by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/29/cover-reveal-riveted-by-jay-crownover/) - Jay Crownover’s RIVETED (Saints of Denver #3) is coming February 14, 2017! From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the next installment in the Saints of Denver series. Everyone else in Dixie Carmichael’s life has made falling in love look easy, and now she is ready for her own chance at
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Playboy Pilot by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/22/excerpt-giveaway-playboy-pilot-penelope-ward-vi-keeland/) - “Carter? What are you doing?” Shit. I laughed under my breath and banged the back of my head against the wood. “Praying?” “Do you always breathe like that when you’re praying?” “It’s an intense prayer.” “What are you really doing?” “I think you might know what I’m really doing, Kendall.” “Can I come in?” Still
- [Cover Reveal: The Explosive Series by Tessa Teevan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/21/cover-reveal-explosive-series-tessa-teevan/) - The Complete Explosive Series by Tessa Teevan. Releases Oct 18, 2016! Blurb For the first time ever, all five stories in the Explosive series have been packaged into one hot box set and will only be available for a limited time. Pre-Order for just 99 cents! The price will increase on release day, so don’t
- [Excerpt & Giveaway: The Bookshop On The Corner by Jenny Colgan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/20/excerpt-giveaway-the-bookshop-on-the-corner-by-jenny-colgan/) - The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn’t it, whenever you’re going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, “Don’t worry, it’s completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I
- [Review and Giveaway: Playing it Cool by Amy Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/19/review-giveaway-playing-cool-amy-andrews/) - Rating~ 3.5-3.75 stars I liked it a lot Dex is completely devoted to rugby, he sees everything including a relationship else as a distraction and something that he doesn't want, not till he's managed to achieve his goal. When he first sees Harper is extremely attracted to her but since he views women as distraction it
- [Excerpt: The Bear Who Loved Me by Kathy Lyons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/13/excerpt-the-bear-who-loved-me-by-kathy-lyons/) - Alan Carman was so happy he was singing. Rarely in life was everything exactly perfect. The sun was shining. He’d just been paid, pitiful an amount though that might be. And now he was headed home, flying down the freeway on a beautiful late summer day to tell his brother the most amazing news. Which
- [Q&A and Giveaway: The Wallflower Weddings Series by Vivienne Lorret](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/12/qa-and-giveaway-the-wallflower-weddings-series-by-vivienne-lorret/) - Q and A with Vivienne Lorret Q: Vivienne, where had you gotten the idea for the Wallflower Weddings Series? Strangely enough, the Wallflower Wedding Series began as an afterthought. I wrote a Christmas novella (Tempting Mr. Weatherstone) and submitted it to an Avon “call for submissions.” When the novella was well received, my editor at
- [Cover Reveal: Royally Matched by Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/08/cover-reveal-royally-matched-emma-chase/) - ROYALLY MATCHED By Emma Chase Release Date: January 10, 2017 Blurb: Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Henry Charles Albert Edgar Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap. He’s not handling it well. Hoping to force her grandson to rise
- [Cover Reveal: Blush For Me by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/08/cover-reveal-blush-for-me-by-kristen-proby/) - Kristen Proby is known for writing heartfelt characters with deep connections and sizzling passion. In her Fusion Series from William Morrow, she seduces readers’ senses with the sexy, contemporary romance in which five best friends open a hot new restaurant together. Releasing March 21, 2017, BLUSH FOR ME is the third standalone novel in Kristen’s
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Unthinkable by Nina Croft](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/07/excerpt-and-giveaway-unthinkable-by-nina-croft/) - It was only a kiss. But nothing had ever felt this good. She never wanted it to end, and her own arms came up to grip the hardness of his broad shoulders, her nails digging into the skin. His hands left her face and slid down her back to cup her bottom. She could
- [Review: The One Real Thing by Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/09/06/review-the-one-real-thing-by-samantha-young/) - Rating~ 3.5- 4 stars "If you're destined for true love, you'll find it on the boardwalk..." ~Hartwell legend. Dr. Jessica Huntington while working on her shift as a prison doctor finds letters love letters addressed to the man of the writer's affections, she feels a connection to the writer. Her heartbreak and story bring out
- [Review: A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/31/review-scot-dark-sarah-maclean/) - Alec, the very reluctant Scottish Duke of Warnick doesn’t care much for his title or England’s society. Realising that not only did he inherit a title but he has also inherited a ward was a shock as well finding out that he had to go save her from scandal to England. Alec's childhood and later years
- [Review: Frost Line by Linda Howard and Linda Jones](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/30/review-frost-line-linda-howard-linda-jones/) - Rating ~ 3.5 - 4 stars Lenna is the physical representation of the tarot card, strength. She's living a peaceful life, studying warfare in her library in Aeonia when she suddenly finds herself transported to a different world. Lenna can't be out of Aeonia, separate from the rest of the tarot cards. It's forbidden and
- [Review and Giveaway: Shadow Falling by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/29/review-giveaway-shadow-falling-rebecca-zanetti/) - This was a great follow up to Mercury Striking! Vivienne Kennedy used to one of the best profilers in FBI, helping track down sociopath/serial killers was just a normal day for her but that was before Scorpius Syndrome destroyed almost all of the population leaving a few survivors, even fewer sane ones. After being kidnapped
- [ARC Review: If I Only Had A Duke by Lenora Bell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/26/arc-review-i-duke-lenora-bell/) - Rating ~ 4-4.5 stars This was my first read by the new historical romance author Lenora Bell but it's definitely won't be the last. I had a blast reading this one. I am really looking forward to the next book in this series and as I write this I'm already starting the first book in
- [Review: Worked Up by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/26/review-worked-tessa-bailey/) - DNF at 41% I’m going to keep it simple. I tired guys I really did. I read the first two chapters stopped because I wasn’t feeling it and forced myself again a few days later when I felt like I was in a good mood unfortunately it still wasn’t working for me. I have enjoyed
- [Review: Wild Embrace by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/25/review-wild-embrace-by-nalini-singh/) - If there was one anthology that I could take with me to a desert island, it would be this one. All four books have very different vibe to each other which is I guess is what makes it a great anthology, you get all different types of tropes. All the couples and their stories are uniquely
- [Review and Giveaway: With Every Breath by Maya Banks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/24/review-and-giveaway-with-every-breath-by-maya-banks/) - Eliza Cummings is a member of the DSS (Devereaux Security Services), well respected among her co-workers and a strong confident woman who has a past no one knows about. She’s been through some pretty tough shit and has come out stronger and better and nothing could faze her until that phone call from Cavalry telling
- [Cover Reveal and Giveaway: Full Package and Joy Stick by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/24/cover-reveal-giveawayfull-package-joy-stick-lauren-blakely/) - Readers will find witty dialogue, smoking hot sex scenes, and heartfelt moments in these side-splitting romantic comedies, mixed with the dirty-talking, gifted heroes we’ve come to love from Lauren Blakely! FULL PACKAGE is set to release on January 9, 2017, and JOY STICK is coming your way in May 2017! Check out these fantastic covers
- [Review and Giveaway: Hero of Mine by Codi Gary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/23/review-giveaway-hero-mine-codi-gary/) - Review Dani Hill doesn’t have time to get involved with anyone, as a single mom with 2 jobs she doesn’t have much time to socialise let alone get involved with a man. Enter Sergeant Tyler Best, a dog trainer at Alpha Dog training facility. He doesn’t do relationships at all that is until he sees a pint sized
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Worked Up by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/22/excerpt-giveaway-worked-tessa-bailey/) - Unbelievable. First, Duke couldn’t get a damn moment of peace in his house, now his only refuge, The Third Shift, had been invaded. Was it so much to ask in life for a sporting event to go uninterrupted by a woman? Granted, the doe-eyed brunette hadn’t asked for his assistance—and she was a far cry
- [Highland Guard by Hannah Howell Excerpt + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/06/highland-guard-by-hannah-howell-review-giveaway/) - Excerpt Harcourt looked at Annys and his heart actually skipped a beat. He would have laughed if he was not so filled with conflicting emotions. Such happenings were the stuff of bad poetry, the sort of thing he had always made jest of. Yet, there he stood, rooted to the spot, frantically thinking of what
- [Teaser Review: Do You Want To Start A Scandal by Tessa Dare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/16/teaser-review-do-you-want-to-start-a-scandal-by-tessa-dare/) - I couldn't help myself, I still have quite a few books to read for August but when this landed on my kindle it become very difficult to resist so I didn't. The prince and the Sea monster ~ Charlotte So what happens when a jaded spy meets his match in a young, all too seeing
- [Review and Giveaway: Midnight Soul by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/15/review-giveaway-midnight-soul-kristen-ashley/) - This is the last instalment of the fantasyland series by Kristen, a long awaited one. I'm just sad to finish this book and the series.😭😭😭 We met 'this world' Noctorno Hawthorne in book three, a counter part of that books hero prince Noctorno of the other world. I was pretty excited to read his story
- [Review: Alexandra Ivy and Laura Wright's KAYDEN/SIMON](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/11/review-alexandra-ivy-and-laura-wrights-kaydensimon/) - I enjoy these short novellas, they do have the insta love and mate thing but I think that just helps the story. Ivy and Wright's couples have a great chemistry with the overall plot/arc moving forward a bit in each book. Kayden ~ 3 stars Kayden is looking for the man who kidnapped and murdered
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: The Matchmaker's Replacement by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/10/excerpt-giveaway-matchmakers-replacement-rachel-van-dyken/) - Exclusive EPIC news about this AMAZING RELEASE HERE Check out my review! “So,” a familiar voice said above the music. “New job?” Damn it! “I didn’t even say your name three times!” I whined, turning around to face Lex. He was wearing a tight vintage black T-shirt with low-slung jeans on his hips and the
- [Review: The Matchmaker's Replacement by Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/09/review-the-matchmakers-replacement-by-rachel-van-dyken/) - Gabrielle Sava was making me soulless.~Lex "Luthor". So I mentioned reading the Matchmaker's Playbook in my monthly round up and I really enjoyed that one but this one...I loved it! Maybe its because of the enemies to lovers trope which I happen to love or because of how freaking adorable they both were. I finished
- [Release Day Blitz: Reaper's Fire by Joanna Wylde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/09/release-day-blitz-reapers-fire-by-joanna-wylde/) - Reaper's Fire by Joanna Wylde Releases Today! Have you heard? Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde has a NEW COVER! Meet Horse & Marie for ONLY $3.99 (normally $7.99) Author’s Note: This book was originally released through a small publisher in 2013. This independent edition has been lightly edited, and contains a bonus short, “Sticky Sweet”
- [Books I'm Looking Forward To: August 2016](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/05/books-im-looking-forward-august-2016/) - Here are the books I'm really looking forward to reading in August 2016. Another month, another book shopping list.
- [Monthly Round Up: July 2016](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/06/monthly-book-stats-july-2016/) - Introducing a new feature. These days I don't get to review every book I read so I thought at the start of a new month, I would recap and rate all the books I've read over the past month and didn't have time to review. Some of these might be fully reviewed in a later
- [Teaser: Reaper's Fire by Joanna Wylde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/05/teaser-reapers-fire-by-joanna-wylde/) - Are you ready for Gage and Tinker’s story? Reaper’s Fire releases on August 9th! Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2aN7mB6 Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2aFezsl iBooks: http://apple.co/1JUbzxl Nook: http://bit.ly/1mzrJaD Kobo: http://bit.ly/1Uu6bXu Google Play: http://bit.ly/1SxRDaQ
- [Review and Giveaway: Why Do Dukes Fall in Love? by Megan Frampton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/04/review-giveaway-dukes-fall-love-megan-frampton/) - I really enjoyed this one! *dreamy sigh* Duke of Hadlow, Michael has no time for stupid people. All he wants is an efficient sectary to help him as he handles his ever growing business and wealth. He is very intelligent, analytical and would really like it if people were to follow logic as he does.
- [Guest Post with Author Megan Frampton + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/04/guest-post-with-author-megan-frampton-giveaway/) - Author Megan Frampton Talks about writing Dukes. It’s hard out here for a pimp duke. Writing duke heroes over the course of four books, as I have in the Dukes Behaving Badly series, is hard. Not because the heroes aren’t all distinctive in their own way; they are, from Matthew’s confused bemusement about inheriting the
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Dare to Stay by Jen McLaughlin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/02/excerpt-giveaway-dare-stay-jen-mclaughlin/) - Today we are celebrating the release of DARE TO STAY by Jen McLaughlin. This is the 2nd book in the Sons of Steel Row series. Check out the fantastic excerpt below, and grab your copy now! Visit more sites participating in the release day launch to read more of chapter 1! LUCAS The smells of
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Here and Now by Cheryl Etchison](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/08/01/excerpt-and-giveaway-here-and-now-by-cheryl-etchison/) - June 2006 Even though he knew it was coming, Lucky James flinched at the first volley of gunfire. He remained steady for the next two volleys, the loud crack giving way to the mournful sound of the bugle. During his five years with the 75th Ranger Regiment, he’d never attended a stateside service for a
- [Cover Reveal: The Sexy One by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/28/cover-reveal-sexy-one-lauren-blakely/) - Releasing October 17th, THE SEXY ONE by Lauren Blakely will bring readers more of Simon, the hot single dad you met in MISTER O. Blurb: Let me count the ways why falling into forbidden love is not my wisest move… She works with me every single day. Did I mention she's gorgeous, sweet, kind and
- [Excerpt and Giveaway: Don't Tempt Me by Lori Foster](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/28/excerpt-and-giveaway-dont-tempt-me-by-lori-foster/) - Needing a new focus, he returned to the window. Earlier, Honor had been painting. Two at a time she’d carried in cans of paint from her car, getting soaked in the process. At this rate, the whole house probably had a fresh coat. He wondered at her color choices. Was she a bold primary kind
- [Review and Giveaway: Playing by Her Rules by Amy Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/27/review-giveaway-playing-rules-amy-andrews/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars. This was a very fun, quick book with a good plot and an entertaining couple with great chemistry. I really enjoyed the couple together, their banter to their sweet moments and how much the both wanted the best for each other when they were younger. Matilda 'Tilly' Kent wants to be taken
- [Promo Post and Giveaway: To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/25/promo-post-giveaway-hold-lauren-layne/) - First book in the new series by Lauren Layne 'Wedding Belles RELEASES 26th July 2016! Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Review and giveaway: Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/21/review-rock-wedding-nalini-singh/) - This is a second chance romance about two people who loved each other very much but broke apart.... Sometimes you love so much that you get sucked in by everything about them and you don't care about anything other than being with that person that's how Sarah Smith felt when she first married Abe. Then
- [Excerpt: Close to you by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/21/excerpt-close-kristen-proby/) - CLOSE TO YOU by Kristen Proby, Releases August 9. 2016 Get a FREE short story of Will and Meg from Play With Me when you Pre-Order and fill in the form: https://a.pgtb.me/PxZwn4
- [Excerpt: Torn by Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/19/release-day-torn-jennifer-l-armentrout/) - "You need this book. You need this series. It's paranormal at its best. It's New Adult at its best...Can I give this book more than 5 stars? I would if I could." ~Valerie, Stuck in Books I lifted my right hand, reaching for my iron stake out of instinct, even though I knew it
- [Review and giveaway: The Sapphire Affair by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/19/review-sapphire-affair-lauren-blakely/) - Rating~ 3.75 stars Jake Harlowe is a former military captain and current bounty hunter of sorts. He finds or steals back the stolen objects and in some cases people that need to found. His current assignment involves finding the money embezzled by a man living in Caymans. Steph 'Ariel' Anderson is a diver and tour guide whose
- [Cover Reveal: I see you by Molly McAdams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/08/cover-reveal-i-see-you-by-molly-mcadams/) - I See You by Molly McAdams Releases November 1st Blurb: Futures are uncertain, unpredictable-like ink spilled across the purest surface. Nearly imperceptible ripples move and flow until a unique stain is formed. The ink is permanently embedded in the surface… During one wild night in college, Jentry Michaels is a tidal wave of ink that
- [Cover Reveal: Long Way Home by Katie McGarry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/06/cover-reveal-long-way-home-katie-mcgarry/) - Being released on January 31st, 2017, the highly anticipated third book in Katie McGarry's Thunder Road Series has a cover that we can't wait to share with you! LONG WAY HOME is a Young Adult Contemporary Romance being published by Harlequin Teen! Pre-order your copy of the next book in this emotionally charged series, and don't miss
- [Guest Post with Author Charis Michaels + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/07/05/guest-post-with-author-charis-michaels-giveaway/) - Crafting a Book Title with a Title: How The Virgin and the Viscount Got Its Name by Charis Michaels The Virgin and the Viscount was the very first romance manuscript I ever wrote, way back in 2004, twelve years before it would reach the hands of readers. Back then, it had a working title of,
- [Guest Post with Author Jessica Lemmon + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/28/3476/) - TOP 5 THINGS THAT MAKE THE MAN: REESE CRANE By Jessica Lemmon Curious about what makes Reese Crane, billionaire bachelor, the man? Lucky for us, I was able to get my latest (stubborn) hero to open up about 5 things that make him, well, him. #5 ~ Beard trimmer. Reese is never without a sexy
- [Release Day: Forevermore by Kristen Callahan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/28/release-day-forevermore-kristen-callahan/) - Happy Release Day to Forevermore by Kristen Callahan Blurb: Isolate and alone, Sin Evernight is one of the most powerful supernatural creatures in heaven and on earth. As an angel of vengeance, he hunts down the darkest evil, but when his long-lost friend, Layla Starling, needs him, he vows to become her protector. Even though
- [Excerpt and giveaway: Easy Kisses by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/23/easy-kisses-by-kristen-proby-excerpt-giveaway/) - “Tired?” Simon asks with a knowing smile. “A bit,” I reply with a nod. “And the view is incredible.” “No kidding,” Shelly says with an annoying giggle, and I realize she thinks I’m talking about Simon. For fuck sake. “Actually, I was talking about the mountains,” I add, stifling a laugh when Heidi knocks her
- [Shirley Jump Shares reasons to love beach romance + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/25/shirley-jump-shares-reasons-love-beach-romance-giveaway/) - Six Reasons to Love Beach Romances By Shirley Jump Ever since I saw that super hot kiss scene in From Here to Eternity, I have loved beach romances. It helped that I grew up in Massachusetts, a half hour from the beach. I even purposely picked a college on the water just so I could
- [Cover Reveal: Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/24/cover-reveal-archangels-heart-nalini-singh/) - Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh Releases November 1st! Look at this Gorgeous Cover!! Blurb: One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to Sleep the long sleep of an immortal. But with her lands falling into chaos under a rising tide of
- [On Tour: Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake by Jessica Clare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/24/tour-billionaires-favorite-mistake-jessica-clare/) - When the group started to disperse into partying again, he got out of his chair and moved toward Greer’s table, stalking her. He saw her heading off with one of the waitstaff and jogged to catch up. “Greer!” She turned and her face paled at the sight of him. Her mouth firmed into an angry
- [Review: Pieces of Him by Alice Tribue](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/23/review-pieces-alice-tribue/) - Max likes to keep his life uncomplicated and free on any commitment. Max's life takes a complete turn when the mother of his child doesn't survive childbirth. Max didn't want to be a father to begin with let alone being a single father when he doesn't know the first thing about parenthood. He just doesn't
- [Review: Unchained by Elisabeth Naughton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/21/review-unchained-elisabeth-naughton/) - Review It was very nice to return to the world of eternal guardians, it's been quite some times since I read from this series. This is review is going to be short since the novella is quite short and I don't want to giveaway too much. Prometheus now finally free from the torture of Zeus
- [Author Cecy Robson Shares Romance Songs that give her Feels + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/21/author-cecy-robson-shares-romance-songs-that-give-her-feels-giveaway/) - Romance Songs that Bring on Cecy’s Feels We all have those songs—the ones that make us stop when we hear them, that bring on memories of special nights, or stir emotions you’ll never forget. Most of mine relate to gut-wrenching heartache or swoon-worthy kisses. Being a romance author, I know this *cough, cough*, probably shocks
- [Cover Reveal: Torn by Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/21/cover-reveal-torn-jennifer-l-armentrout/) - Book 2 in the Wicked Trilogy: TORN by Jennifer L. Armentrout releases 19th July 2016 Here's the pretty Cover!! TORN Synopsis: Torn between duty and survival, nothing can be the same. Everything Ivy Morgan thought she knew has been turned on its head. After being betrayed and then nearly killed by the Prince of the
- [Review: Signs of Attraction by Laura Brown](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/20/review-signs-attraction-laura-brown/) - Carli is a senior at university and is learning to be a teacher. She's hard of hearing. All her life her father/her family to an extend has treated her like she was a freak. They made her feel like she didn't belong with them. Which is why Carli never learned ASL or got any other
- [Cover Reveal: Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/17/cover-reveal-rock-wedding-nalini-singh/) - Look at this gorgeous cover! Rock Wedding releases 21 July! Blurb: New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh continues her Rock Kiss series with a hot, sweet, emotional contemporary romance about love and forgiveness… After a lifetime of longing for a real family, Sarah Smith thought she’d finally found her home with rock star Abe
- [Review: Rock Hard by Nalini Singh + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/10/review-rock-hard-by-nalini-singh-giveaway/) - Review Warning: If you know me then you know I love Nalini Singh’s books and her so this review is a tiny bit biased. Charlotte Baird aka Mouse is a painfully shy woman especially after what happened to her during her college years. She carries scars both inside and out. She is also extremely intelligent
- [Review: Backfire by Keri Lake + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/15/review-backfire-by-keri-lake-giveaway/) - Review So I'm writing this having finished the book couple of hours ago, I'm still in kind of that place where your semi aware of your real life and than the other part is still thinking about the book. I'm not sure why exactly but this book felt even darker than the last. I'm going
- [Excerpt: Billionaire’s Favorite Mistake by Jessica Clare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/15/excerpt-billionaires-favorite-mistake-by-jessica-clare/) - Greer smiled and approached, keeping her hands at her side so she didn’t hide the fantastic low cleavage of her dress. If she knew anything about men, it was that they could be diverted from anything with a nice pair of boobs. As if determined to prove her theory right, Asher paused mid-conversation and stepped
- [Review: The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/16/review-problem-forever-jennifer-l-armentrout/) - Rating ~ 3.5 - 4 stars I havn't read YA in more than a year if not longer, but when I saw that JLA had written this book I had to give it a try. Mallory "Mouse" Dodge has been homeschooled for the past few years and has now decided to join her local public school as
- [Review: Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/14/review-marrying-winterborne-lisa-kleypas/) - Rating ~ 4 - 4.5 stars. This book reminded me why I love Lisa Kleypas's writing as well as why the wallflower series by her is one of my favourite historical romance series. I just can't help it, all of the books I really enjoy end up having waffly and rambly reviews I just get
- [Early Review: Allegiance of Honour by Nalini Singh + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/13/early-review-allegiance-honour-nalini-singh-giveaway/) - Let me start of by saying that I’m decidedly biased when it comes to this series because it has become my favourite pnr series in the last few years and one of my all time fav book is heart of obsidian. Now that’s out of the way. I’m going to try and keep this as
- [Excerpt: Angel Wore Fangs Blog by Sandra Hill and Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/10/3314/) - Weight Watchers, where art thou? . . . Cnut Sigurdsson was a big man. A really big man! He was taller than the average man, of course, being a Viking, but more than that, he was . . . well . . . truth to tell . . . fat. Obesity was a highly
- [Short Review: Night Shift Anthology by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews,  Lisa Shearin and Milla Vane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/28/short-review-night-shift-anthology-nalini-singh-ilona-andrews-lisa-shearin-milla-vane/) - Secrets at Midnight by Nalini Singh Rating~4.5 Stars This book is part of the Psy-changeling series by Nalini Singh. We return to the Dark River (a leopard pack). The story is about Bastien (also known as Frenchie) a leopord changeling and Kirby, a seemingly human though she does smell awful lot like a cat shifter.
- [Review: Blood Lust by Alexandra Ivy + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/09/review-blood-lust-alexandra-ivy-giveaway/) - I was really intrigued by Bas's character by the end of the last book and left with several questions about him and Myst so I pretty excited to find out more about them in this book and it didn't disappoint. Bas is an sentinel outlaw who had done quite well for himself by using dubious
- [Release Day: Backfire by Keri Lake + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/09/release-day-backfire-keri-lake/) - Happy Release Day to BACKFIRE BY Keri Lake! Playlist: Trailer Giveaway: Prize #1: A $50 Amazon gift card AND a tote filled with Backfire swag! a Rafflecopter giveaway Prize #2: Leave an honest review on Amazon or Barnes & Noble and enter the form below for a chance to win: ***SIGNED PAPERBACK COPY OF BACKFIRE
- [Review: Barely Breathing by Pamela Clare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/07/review-barely-breathing-pamela-clare/) - Rating ~ 3.5 - 4 stars I am a huge fan of Pamela Clare's writing and her I-team series. When I heard she was starting a new series I was over the moon. This is slightly different to her I-team series which was a lot more action and suspense based but the writing, the romance
- [Excerpts: Crossing the Line Series by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/08/excerpts-crossing-the-line-series-by-tessa-bailey/) - “Listen to me, if I wanted to fuck you, I’d end anyone or anything who got in my way. Nothing would stop me. Not a locked door. Not some lowlife. Nothing.” “If?” she repeated, embarrassment cooling her desire. “You don’t want to?” His laughter was harsh. “Want to? Want to?” One of his hands
- [ARC Review: Wicked Burn by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/06/arc-review-wicked-burn-rebecca-zanetti/) - When I first found out that we would be getting a spin-off for the Dark Protectors series I really hoped that we would start of by getting Simone and Nick's especially because in Marked it was quite obvious they still had feelings for each other especially from Nick's end but while that didn't happen and
- [Review: From This Day Forward by Lauren Layne + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/06/06/review-day-forward-lauren-layne-giveaway/) - Leah McHale is a wedding photographer who does believe in happy ever after, however it and the right man seems to elude her. Jason Rhodes is also a photographer who due to his childhood and past is a man that finds it difficult to believe in the happy ever after for him because no one
- [Happy Release Day: 31 May 2016](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/31/happy-release-day-31-may-2016/) - Loads of Fabulous New Releases Today!!! Here are the ones I'm looking forward to the most. I've been waiting eagerly for the release of these all!! Having read the ARC of Blood Lust and Grin and Beard it, I can definitely recommend them... they are both fantastics stories (4+ Stars). I will be reviewing these
- [Excerpt: The Darkest Torment by Gena Showalter + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/31/excerpt-the-darkest-torment-by-gena-showalter-giveaway/) - Katarina wasn’t afraid of Baden. Not anymore. He took a step to the side, intending to move around her. Oh, no. She flattened her hands on his shoulders, keeping him in place. “I want to know what’s wrong with you.” She said. “Tell me.” He snapped his teeth at her in a show of dominance.
- [Excerpt: Easy for Keeps by Kirsten Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/30/easy-for-keeps-by-kristen-proby/) - The next afternoon, I’m stocking bottled beer behind the bar, lost in thought. At this time of day, business is slow, so my mind wanders. And lately, it’s been wandering to a certain beautiful brunette. “Why are you so chipper?” My head whirls around at Callie’s voice. “I’m not chipper.” “You’re whistling,” she says with
- [Review: Showmance by L. H. Cosway + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/26/review-showmance-l-h-cosway/) - Rating ~ 3.75 stars As everyone and their mother probably knows I really enjoy L. H. Cosways books. Her stories are different and they are all unique not only in their characters but in their storyline as well which is certainly the case here as well. Rose Taylor is a choreographer’s assistant working at theatre, doing
- [Review: Charged by Jay Crownover + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/26/review-charged-jay-crownover/) - Rating~ 3.5 - 4 stars Avett Walker is a walking talking magnet for trouble and not the good kind. Her kind of trouble lands her in prison. Avett despite having loving parents had troubling teenage years filled with mistakes that left her feeling that she deserved every pain and hurt and punishment in her life.
- [Guest Post with Author Lara Adrian + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/25/guest-post-lara-adrian/) - Happy Release Day to "For 100 Days" by Lara Adrian!! Below an exclusive note from the Author. Thank you for inviting me to guest post on your blog today! Avery and Nick have been living in my mind for a quite some time now, waiting (not so patiently) for their turn on the page.
- [Excerpt: Deep Dark by Laura Griffin + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/24/deep-dark-laura-griffin/) - Reed watched her, and she had that frustrated look in her eyes again. Every time she started to open up to him, he did something to tick her off. She shook her head and glanced away. “Laney?” “What?” “I’m a detective. It’s my job to ask questions. To push.” She looked at him again and
- [Excerpt: Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/21/3120/) - Jasper braced a hand on the frame and leaned close to Rita, looking down at her body through the narrow separation between them. “Stop rubbing your thighs together,” he growled. Those pointed tits started to heave up and down in a hypnotic movement, a mere centimeter from his chest. “I’m not. I’m just not used
- [Excerpt: The problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/19/the-problem-with-forever-by-jennifer-l-armentrout-giveaway/) - From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER - a young adult title about friendship, survival, and finding your voice. This incredible book is available today! Read more about this stunning new novel below and be sure to order your copy today to receive an amazing FREE fan pack
- [Interview with Lori Wilde + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/05/18/interview-lori-wild/) - Interview with Lori Wilde Author of 'Love of the Game' Q. Lori, thanks for taking the time to chat with us today! Your new release, LOVE OF THE GAME is the third in the Stardust, Texas Series, which features some very handsome baseball playing heroes. What kind of research goes into writing a new series,
- [Review: Z by Larissa Ione](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/27/review-z-larissa-ione/) - Review This is the story of Zhubaal also known as Z and the reincarnated return of his soul mate but who is completely different now called Vex. Zhubaal is a fallen angel that we met couple of books ago, he is the right hand of the grim reaper and lives in sheoul. While Vex who was in her
- [Teaser Tuesday: Showmance by L. H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/26/teaser-tuesday-showmance-l-h-cosway-2/) - SHOWMANCE RELEASES 05.16.16!!
- [Review and Giveaway: The player and the Pixie by L. H. Cosway and Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/22/review-the-player-and-the-pixie-by-l-h-cosway-and-penny-reid/) - Review This is one of those books that is just fun to read! You know those feel good kind of books that leave a huge smile on your face. One thing you can always count on from these lovely authors is that their books are unique and the characters are fantastic, complex individuals. Who
- [The Hooker and the Hermit by Penny Reid & L. H. Cosway Review + Giveaway!!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/11/hooker-hermit-penny-reid-l-h-cosway-review-giveaway/) - Review Annie Catrel aka the hermit in the story, by day she works for a Media marketing company helping celebrities with their public image and by night she is the anonymous infotainment blogger known as Socialmedialite who blogs about celebrities and she happens to be pretty good at this in her online life. In real life, Annie's completely
- [ARC Review: King of Hearts by L. H. Cosway + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/20/arc-review-king-of-hearts-by-l-h-cosway-giveaway/) - One of my bestest real life book buddy suggested L. H. Cosway about an year ago and having read a few of her books since; I have come to love her writing, her intelligent, independent heroines and the men they fall in love with. Alexis Clark with her administration diploma applies for a job in
- [Excerpt And Giveaway: His Scandalous Kiss by Sophie Barnes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/26/excerpt-giveaway-scandalous-kiss-sophie-barns/) - And as silence settled between them, he allowed his gaze to sweep across the terrace in silent observation until it finally found one singular lady who stood like a beacon in the night due to her lack of embellishments. “Who is that?” Richard murmured close to Lady Duncaster’s ear. “Who is who?” she asked, searching
- [Excerpt: Dirty by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/21/3048/) - “Once upon a time,” he began, voice low and measured. “There was a princess. A beautiful, occasionally annoying princess.” “What was her name?” “Ah, Notlydia.” I frowned. “Her name is Notlydia?” “You wanted a story, I’m giving you one. Shut up.” “Whatever.” An even heavier sigh from the man. “Anyhoo, Notlydia was all set up
- [Excerpt: Ride Hard by Laura Kaye + giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/20/3040/) - Laura Kaye has something hot and fun and new to share with you today – a scene from her upcoming book, Ride Hard, the first in her Raven Riders Motorcycle Club series about a new kind of MC with a protective mission. You might’ve first met the Ravens in the Hard Ink world, but this
- [Release Day: Dirty by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/19/release-day-dirty-kylie-scott/) - Happy Release Day to Dirty by Kylie Scott!! Book 1 in the new Dive Bar series AVAILABLE NOW AMAZON US | AMAZON UK | iBooks | Kobo | B&N
- [Teaser Tuesday: Showmance by L. H. Cosway + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/19/teaser-tuesday-showmance-l-h-cosway/) - SHOWMANCE RELEASES 05.16.16!! And theres a giveaway happening at L.H. Cosway's Facebook page.
- [Excerpt: Cuff Me by Lauren Layne + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/03/29/cuff-lauren-layne/) - There’s something wrong with a man that grins like that at a crime scene.” Detective Vincent Moretti glanced up from where he’d been studying the gunshot wound of the vic and glared at the officer who’d been shadowing him for the past three months. “I wasn’t grinning.” Detective Tyler Dansen never paused in scribbling in
- [Release Day Blitz: The Player and the Pixie by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/12/release-day-blitztpatp/) - HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO The Player and the Pixie by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid!! Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Release day: Listen to me by Kristen Proby + giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/04/14/release-day-listen-kristen-proby-giveaway/) - Addison It’s quiet in here now, and the silence is too loud. He’s staring down at his drink, his eyes a deep green in the low light of the bar. A crease forms between his eyebrows in a frown, and then he shakes his head, just a tiny bit. Jake sips his drink, and I
- [Excerpt: Dark Alpha's Embrace by Donna Grant](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/17/2885/) - River’s gaze was locked with Kyran. She’d seen many Fae over the years, but there was something fascinating and absorbing about this Dark that made her heart race – from something other than fear. If only she could lay her finger on what it was. She knew what the Dark Fae did to humans, how
- [Spotloght: Vulnerable by Mary Burton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/03/22/spotloght-vulnerable-mary-burton/) - EXCERPT FROM MARYBURTON.COM: Homicide Detective Jake Bishop smiled at the determined clip-clop of Georgia’s feet moving down the carpeted hallway of the homicide department. She always moved as if the demons of hell nipped at her feet. Never relaxed. Never smiling. Buttoned up tight. She was a live wire of determination, drive, and shouldering a
- [Exclusive Excerpt: The Enforcer by Kele Moon + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/03/22/2947/) - “Who are we hiding from?” Brianna asked as she tossed her bag on the chair by the bed. “Everyone,” Tino said as he locked the door behind them. He had a briefcase with him, but there were no clothes in it. Just cash and firearms, neither of which she’d been surprised by when he pulled
- [Excerpt: Reunited with the Rebel Billionaire by Catherine Mann + giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/03/21/excerpt-reunited-rebel-billionaire-catherine-mann-giveaway/) - Fiona looked around at the packed event, a total success. Anyone would think she had a full life. Except she couldn’t bring herself to have sex with husband. She’d been so certain the surgery was the right decision. She’d gone to counseling before and after. Her husband had been completely supportive. And still the distance
- [Cover Reveal: Backfire by Keri Lake + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/03/03/cover-reveal-backfire-by-keri-lake-giveaway/) - Cover Reveal: Backfire by Keri Lake RELEASES: June 2016 BLURB: No matter how unbreakable he may seem, every man has a weakness. A year ago, my home became a bloodstained crime scene. That night marked the beginning of my hell—the same night I was tortured by my enemies and tossed into an underground prison to die.
- [Review: Ricochet by Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/13/review-ricochet-by-keri-lake/) - Where to start…This was my first ever dark contemporary romance. I have been shying away from this genre for a quite a while now, so when I found out that Keri was writing Ricochet obviously as a fan of her I decided when it comes out I’ll give this genre a go. I don’t want
- [Exclusive Excerpt: America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/29/exclusive-excerpt-americas-first-daughter-by-stephanie-dray-laura-kamoie-giveaway/) - We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Blog Tour for Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie’s AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER, a historical fiction novel is published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and releasing March 1, 2016! AMERICA’S FIRST DAUGHTER is a compelling, richly researched novel by bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. Drawing from
- [Q&A with Katherine Ashe author of The Rogue + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/23/qa-with-katherine-ashe-author-of-the-rogue-giveaway/) - Author of The Rogue Katherine Ashe talks about Devils due series, the rogues character and more! Q: Your new Devil’s Duke series kicks off with a bang in The Rogue; there’s plenty of intrigue, action, and some cameos from Falcon Club members of your previous novels. Yet you’re also telling a very deep love story that
- [Spotlight: Searching for Mine by  Jennifer Probst + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/15/spotlight-searching-for-mine-by-jennifer-probst-giveaway/) - Buy Now: Amazon US | Amazon UK GIVEAWAY: Win a "Searching for Mine" necklace (5 winners). a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Excerpt: I Wish You Were Mine by Lauren Layne + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/02/excerpt-i-wish-you-were-mine-by-lauren-layne-giveaway/) - Jackson took a sip. Perfection. Although what did it mean that Jackson’s life had turned into one where the highlight of his day was a well-made cocktail? It wasn’t that Jackson needed the booze. He enjoyed it, certainly. Had relied on it more than he probably should have in those first few days when he’d
- [Cover Reveal: The Player and the Pixie  by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/14/cover-reveal-the-player-and-the-pixie/) - Cover Reveal: The Player and the Pixie by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid Publication Date: March 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Sports, Humor Preorder: iBooks Add to Goodreads THE PIXIE Lucy Fitzpatrick doesn’t like rugby. As the little sister of Ireland’s most infamous rugby player, Lucy can’t seem to escape the championship-sized shadow cast by her big
- [Song Release: Listen to me by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/12/listen-to-me-by-kristen-proby/) - Kristen Proby is known for writing heartfelt characters with deep connections and sizzling passion. This April, she will seduce readers’ senses with a brand new series, Fusion, from William Morrow Paperbacks, in which five best friends open a hot new restaurant together. Today, we are thrilled to bring you a song written exclusively for LISTEN
- [Review: Happily Ever Ninja by Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/02/01/review-happily-ever-ninja-by-penny-reid/) - Review Having read the previous knitting in the city books, I was really looking forward to Fiona and Greg’s story. And overall it didn’t disappoint. Penny Reid started the book by making me chuckle out loud when Fiona was discussing her husband Greg’s parenting techniques, like by teaching their son and daughter to respond to
- [Review & Excerpt: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/11/review-excerpt-the-rogue-not-taken-by-sarah-maclean-giveaway/) - Review Rating~ 4.25 stars This was a very fun and exciting read! I loved Sophie's narration of events. Lady Sophie Barns: The most scandalous Talbot sister yet. As the youngest of the talbot sisters, Sophie has come to extremely dislike the society in the years after her father is made an Earl. She yearns for
- [ARC review: Mercury Striking by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/26/arc-review-mercury-striking-by-rebecca-zanetti/) - I might be (ok alot biased) since I really enjoy and love Ms. Zanettis books that I had to request for an ARC. And I read this book while I was on my flight to my holiday destination which made it a hell of a interesting flight. I would suggest everyone read the anthology On the Hunt because
- [Excerpt: My American Duchess by Eloisa James + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/28/excerpt-my-american-duchess-by-eloisa-james-giveaway/) - English ladies never spoke to strangers, so he probably expected her to cower like a chambermaid. In that case, she would disappoint him. No American flinched before an Englishman, noble or otherwise. Head high, she met his eyes straight on, and sure enough, a distinct flash of surprise crossed his face. “Please forgive me for
- [Book Blast and Giveaway: Hot Pursuit by Susan Dayley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/18/book-blast-and-giveaway-hot-pursuit-by-susan-dayley/) - Book Blurb: When Kennady thought she’d found the perfect summer escape–working at a resort in Jackson Hole. But then Atticus, whom she once loved, comes to town, an international conference threatens world finances, and a Mexican cartel shows up to stop the conspirators. When Kennady’s friend Chelo gets entangled with a handsome and possibly dangerous man,
- [Book Spotlight and GIVEAWAY: Archangel's shadows by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/28/archangels-shadows-by-nalini-singh-giveaway/) - Archange'sl shadows is the seventh book in the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh Releases 28th October Book blurb: Return to New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s sensual and painfully beautiful Guild Hunter world in her new novel of sacrifice, loyalty, and the choices of love that can shatter the heart. In the wake
- [Book Tour: Until you Find Me by Amber Hart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/10/book-tour-until-you-find-me-by-amber-hart/) - Until You Find Me Until You Find Me # 1 By: Amber Hart Releasing November 11th, 2014 Loveswept: Flirt Blurb Amber Hart pushes contemporary romance to its wildest limits in this heart-pounding novel, the story of a girl who travels to Africa to protect the legacy of one man . . . and stays for
- [GIVEAWAY: Thankful for Cash $250 giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/18/giveaway-thankful-for-cash-250-giveaway/) - An Amazing Group of Authors & Bloggers have joined together to bring you 1 fabulous prize 1 lucky winner will receive $250 Cash! SPONSOR LIST I Am A Reader eBooksforReview Librarian Lavender Unshelfish The Discerning Reader Camelia Miron Skiba Kimber Leigh Wheaton Ask Away Barefoot by the Sea Addicted Readers Sarah Ballance MoreThanaReview Aubrey Wynne:
- [Blog Barrage: Craved by an Alpha by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/04/blog-barrage-craved-by-an-alpha-by-felicity-heaton/) - Find out how to enter the Craved by an Alpha international giveaway (ends February 8th) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 5 chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/craved-by-an-alpha-paranormal-romance-novel.phpCraved by an Alpha is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo
- [Excerpt: Better When He's Brave by Jay Crownover + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/11/excerpt-better-when-hes-brave-by-jay-crownover-giveaway/) - It hit me like a ton of bricks. So heavy and hard it almost took me to my knees. Roark had been going after the thing that mattered most to me from the very beginning. I cared about the people that still had a shot to make it out of the Point. I fought for
- [Best of 2014: Romance Books](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/31/best-2014-romance-books/) - My Favorite BOOKS for 2014 Please note: Not all the books that are displayed were released/published in 2014, I read them in 2014. You can buy the books from HERE. Tell me your favorite books for 2014 in comment box. Happy Reading!
- [Pre-Order Alert: Silver Bastard by Joanna Wylde + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/19/pre-order-alert-silver-bastard-by-joanna-wylde-giveaway/) - Releasing April 7th PRE-Order: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Enter to Win a paperback ARC of Silver Bastard a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Release Day Blitz: Attraction by Penny Reid (EOC#1) + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/09/release-day-blitz-attraction-by-penny-reid-eoc1-giveaway/) - Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Excerpt Reveal: Sloth by Ella James](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/19/excerpt-reveal-sloth-by-ella-james/) - About the Author: Ella James Ella James is a USA Today bestselling romance author. Her books have appeared on numerous bestseller lists, including the Movers & Shakers list and the Amazon Top 25 overall; two were listed among Amazon's Top 100 Bestselling Young Adult Ebooks in 2012. To find out more about Ella's projects and
- [Promo: Worth it by Linda Kage & Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/25/promo-worth-it-by-linda-kage-giveaway/) - GIVEAWAY Blitz-wide giveaway (INTL) $20.00 Amazon Gift Card 3x Paperback + Swag copies of Worth It 5x Ebooks of Worth It Swag Only package Paste this code in your post's HTML to share the grand prize giveaway - ends September 3rd: a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Short review: Angels Fall by Nora Roberts](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/13/short-review-angels-fall-by-nora-roberts/) - Short Review Rating 2.5- 3 stars. Hmm the whole small town which should have come across as quaint and wholesome didn't...instead it came off across as a small town with a very idyllic view but extremely unempathetic people. I really don't understand why anyone would prefer to live there but Reece and Brody did clearly.
- [Happily Ever Ninja by Penny Reid: Release Day + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/21/release-day-giveaway-excerpt-happily-ever-ninja-by-penny-reid/) - Happy Release Day to Happily Ever Ninja! Now available everywhere. ‘Ninja at First Sight’ ~ prequel to ‘Happily Ever Ninja’ It's about when Fiona and Greg first met. (currently FREE everywhere) Amazon US | Amazon UK |Nook | Kobo | iTunes Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway
- [Book Tour and Giveaway: Never judge a Lady by her cover by Sarah Maclean](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/29/book-tour-never-judge-a-lady-by-her-cover/) - Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes | iTunes | Kobo My Review: Rating~ 3.75 stars This is fourth and final book of the Rules of Scoundrels series. Many people including myself were well shocked to say the least when in end of the last book No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (Rules of Scoundrels) it is revealed that Chase is a women.
- [Review: Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/08/rock-addiction-by-nalini-singh-review/) - A bad boy wrapped in a sexy, muscled, grown-up package might be worth a little risk… Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media's harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then
- [Review: I'll be watching you by Beverly Barton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/09/06/review-ill-be-watching-you-by-beverly-barton/) - Ella, sweet Ella, you were meant to be mine. You can’t begin to imagine all the things I want to do to you. When the time is right, I will come for you . . . A series of hand-delivered letters leaves Ella scared for her life. Someone is watching her. Wanting her. Someone promising
- [Review: Mine To Have by Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/07/mine-to-have/) - Is he a hero…or the villain? When Elizabeth Ward sees Saxon Black rushing into the backroom of The Blade—a low end bar in Miami—she isn’t sure if he’s there to save the day…or just to raise some hell. But she’s being held hostage, and he’s her best hope of survival. Within minutes, she’s away from
- [Review: Broken by Lauren Layne.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/06/review-broken-by-lauren-layne/) - Lauren Layne’s New Adult novel tells the story of a girl with secrets, a guy with scars, and a love that could save them both... or destroy them. When Olivia Middleton abandons the glamour of Park Avenue for a remote, coastal town in Maine, everyone assumes she’s being the kind do-gooder she’s always been. But
- [Review: Crave the Night by Lara Adrian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/07/crave-the-night-by-lara-adrian/) - She has no choice but to seek shelter in his arms... Ice-cold breed warrior Nathan is on a mission for the Order to expose the members of a secret cabal called Opus Nostrum, comprised of both human and Breed members. But Nathan's allegiance to the Order is challenged when his pursuit leads him to Martin
- [Review: Rock Courtship by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/08/rock-courtship-by-nalini-singh-review/) - What happens when the Gentleman of Rock decides to play dirty? A drummer for the hottest rock band on the planet, David has a single, powerful weakness: Thea, the band's publicist and the woman who steals his breath away with her every move. Only problem is, Thea doesn't date clients--or musicians. Emotionally scarred by a
- [Review: If he's Daring by Hannah Howell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/09/review-if-hes-daring-by-hannah-howell/) - In a dazzling new novel in the Wherlocke family saga, New York Timesbestselling author Hannah Howell creates an unforgettable story of intrigue, jeopardy, and desire. . . Stealing a stranger's carriage is the second most reckless thing Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene has ever done. The first is succumbing to her powerful attraction to the
- [Review: Out of Control by Alexandra Ivy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/09/review-out-of-control-by-alexandra-ivy/) - Book Blurb New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy quenches your thirst for illicit desire with this seductive tale of the Sentinels—outcast humans with the ability to tread the line between life and death—and pleasure and pain… Ph.D student Angela Locke has a crush on her sexy professor, Dr. Nikolo Bartrev. When she learns he’s
- [Short Review: Son of No One by Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/11/short-review-son-of-no-one-by-sherrilyn-kenyon/) - Book Blurb: It’s not easy being life’s own personal joke, but Josette Landry has made an unstable peace with the beast. Life will continue to throw every bad thing it has at her, and she will continue to not put her head in an oven. But that’s okay. That which doesn’t kill her will just
- [Review: Lead by Kylie Scott.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/10/review-lead-by-kylie-scott/) - Book Blurb The lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it whether it's booze or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wake-up call about his life and lands him in rehab, he finds himself stuck with a new assistant hired by the record
- [Review: On the Growl Anthology.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/13/review-on-the-growl-anthology/) - Book Blurb: From a pack of your favorite NYT and USAT best-selling paranormal romance authors comes a collection of ALL NEW novellas that will make you howl, scratch and bite… and leave you roaring for more! Love comes in all shapes and sizes. No surprise there, right? Passionate, wild, hungry, dripping, salty, sweaty, steamy; falling
- [Review: The Ultimate Revenge by Victoria Parker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/12/review-the-ultimate-revenge-by-victoria-parker/) - Book Blurb: I will annihilate your world. As you destroyed mine. For over a decade Nicandro Santos, heir to a legendary diamond legacy, has lived with one unrelenting purpose: to infiltrate the ultraprestigious Q Virtus gentleman's club and bring it, and its leader, Zeus, down. What he doesn't know is that Olympia Merisi, the daughter
- [Review: Caressed by Shadows by Amanda J. Greene](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/14/review-caressed-by-shadows-by-amanda-j-greene/) - Book Blurb Black Knight, Falcon Kenwrec is powerful, relentless, and fiercely loyal, his only allegiance – to his king. But he is torn between duty and desire when the war between the vampire clans and the Red Order hunters escalates and the enemy captures the one woman he longs to claim as his own, Sonya
- [Review: Masters of Seduction Collection](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/16/review-masters-of-seduction-collection/) - Book Blurb: In the realm of the Incubi Masters, pleasure is to die for and love is the deadliest game of all . . . Surrender to sinful pleasures and forbidden passions with Masters of Seduction, the sizzling new paranormal romance novella series from New York Times and internationally bestselling authors Lara Adrian, Donna Grant,
- [Review: (ARC)  Alex by Sawyer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/20/review-arc-alex-by-sawyer-bennett/) - Book Blurb Hockey star Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the rink. Pushed into the sport by an alcoholic father, Alex isn’t afraid to give fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to hate. Management, however, isn’t so amused. Now Alex has a
- [ARC Review: Cover your Eyes by Mary Burton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/25/cover-your-eyes-arc-review/) - Book Blurb: Don't Look At first, they struggle to escape. Then a torrent of blows rains down upon their bodies until their eyes cloud over in final agony. The killer shows no remorse--just a twisted need to witness each victim's last terrified moments. Don't Speak Public defender Rachel Wainwright is struggling to reopen a decades-old
- [Review: Baby, It's Cold Outside Anthology](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/14/review-baby-its-cold-outside-anthology/) - Book Blurb: New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling indie authors Jennifer Probst, Emma Chase, Kristen Proby, Melody Anne, and debut author Kate Meader come together to write a sizzling romance anthology. Outside it may be frosty, so turn the heat way up with these stories of desire! Can a determined woman executive and a
- [ARC Review: Playing with the Drummer by Robin Convington](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/28/arc-review-playing-drummer-robin-convington/) - Lita Matthews and Rocky Cardano have a history unknown to their friends. They had an affair four years ago which ended badly to say the least, it left both parties heart broken and feeling betrayed. Lita Matthews is a journalist, who is so close to getting own Television show. She's covering her best friends's sisters wedding as
- [The Loving Daylights by Lynsay Sands: Review + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/30/loving-daylights-lynsay-sands-review-giveaway/) - Review: Jane's whole family has been in the spy business and she is no different. Jane Spyrus is a developer for B.L.I.SS, she makes all the spy gadgets that the agents can use. Her inventions are mostly for women agents. The blurb describes her as shy, I don't think she was at all shy, she was
- [ARC Review: Hunted by a Jaguar by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/05/arc-review-hunted-jaguar-felicity-heaton/) - Warning: Spoiler-y review ahead! Kyter is a half breed with a really strong jaguar side. He is the owner of the nightclub 'Underworld', first introduced in the Eternal Mates Book 1. His mother recent death has left him with just one motive to get revenge for her murder from the man responsible, who just happens to
- [Blog Tour and Giveaway: Can't Wait by Jennifer Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/26/blog-tour-cant-wait-jennifer-ryan/) - Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes | iTunes Excerpt Lost in the rhythmic stroke of the brush over the horse in front of him, he didn’t hear her come up behind him. “Caleb.” Her tentative voice made his heart ache. It shouldn’t be like this. Not between friends. Braced to face her, he held back a
- [ARC Review: Snowbound with the Surgeon by Annie Claydon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/08/arc-review-snowbound-surgeon/) - ARC generously provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Mills and Boon Medical books are more often than not are sweet and have a soft/heart tending romance. This one was like that. It was a light contemporary focused on the two protagonist who had both emotional scars and a damaged
- [Book Tour and Giveaway: The Winner takes it all by Jennifer Dawson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/11/book-tour-the-winner-takes-it-all-by-jennifer-dawson-review/) - Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes | iBooks | Kobo Review: ARC generously provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Everyone has a dream as a child of what they want to be when they grow up Cecilia Riley's was different then anyone elses, she didn't want to be a princess or a world famous rock star. She wanted
- [ARC Review: Blood Moon by Lisa Kessler](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/13/arc-review-blood-moon-lisa-kessler/) - ARC generously provided by Entangled publishing in exchange for an honest review This is my first time reading a book by Lisa Kessler and though this is the third book in the series Moon, I think it can be read as a standalone since the background information is provided. Nadya Dalca was bitten by a enhanced
- [ARC Review: Make me take me by Amanda Usen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/14/arc-review-make-take-amanda-usen/) - ARC generously provided by Entangled publishing in exchange for an honest review. Betsy Mouton is a chef and she works with her family in the Last Call Cafe. She had a difficult childhood and finds it difficult to get close to people so she pushed them away instead. All she ever wanted was to make
- [Book Tour and Giveaway: Running Hot by Helenkay Dimon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/16/book-tour-giveaway-running-hot-helenkay-dimon/) - Excerpt: Her gaze bounced away from his face then returned. “You’re not as smooth as you think you are.” “I refuse to believe that’s true.” But just in case he stopped fiddling behind his back. “You’re not as attractive as you think either.” She took another step. “Come on now. Take that back.” He judged
- [Review: Dragon her back by Susannah Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/17/review-dragon-back-susannah-scott/) - ARC generously provided by Entangled publishing for an honest review. This is going to be short because while I wanted to like this book I just couldn't: Darius Dachien has been making plans and strategies for almost six years now so that he and his mate could be together, unfortunately Mei Chen refuses to be
- [Book Tour: Revenant by Larissa Ione Review + GIVEAWAYS](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/21/blog-tour-giveaway-revenant-larissa-ione/) - Review: Warning: The review contains some spoilers and a lot of raving! I loved this *sigh* just writing this review makes me want to go reread it again! Revenant is a shadow angel, the most powerful being apart from the Satan himself in Sheoul (hell). He also happens to be one of the most cocky,
- [Review: The Game Plan (Neighbor From Hell #5) by R. L. Mattewson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/12/27/review-game-plan-neighbor-hell-5-r-l-mattewson/) - I had been waiting for this book ever since the previous book Truce was released last year. Sad to say I'm disappointed after reading this one. Jodi is really down on her luck and is living in one of Trevor's apartment building and her neighbor is none other than Danny Bradford. Danny can't help but tormenting pretty
- [Series Spotlight: Sins Brothers by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/25/series-spotlight-sins-brothers-rebecca-zanetti/) - This week I'm recommending a Romantic suspense series! Series: SINS BROTHERS BY REBECCA ZANETTI BOOK 1: FORGOTTEN SINS BOOK Published: July 2nd 2013 His Secrets Can Destroy Her From the moment Josie laid eyes on sexy, mysterious Shane Dean, she was in love. Their desire ignited a passionate affair, and within weeks, Shane had slipped
- [Short Review: The Do-over by M.K. Schiller](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/22/short-review-m-k-schiller/) - This is the kind of book you want to read when your traveling, on holiday or really need a break from all the angsty and emotional roller coaster books. Even though the blurb makes it sound like there will be alot of angst with regards to Laine being in love with her sisters boyfriend and
- [Short Review: Unbound by Sara Humphreys](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/20/short-review-unbound-sara-humphreys/) - This is a novella in the Amoveo Legend series, this time it's Zachary Mackenna's turn to get his mate. This book quite short hence my review is short, I don't want to give away much. Zachary has been a secondary character in the past couple of books I believe. He was injured in the previous book
- [On Tour: Love Me If You Dare by Toni Blake Review + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/22/tour-love-dare-toni-blake-review-giveaway/) - Review: Camille Thompson aka Tinkerbell is negotiator from a real estate company. She is extremely good at her job. Having had a difficult childhood, Camille considers her work as family and holds her job above everything else. She is very independent, strong and beautiful woman who hides a vulnerable side that shows the scars her
- [ARC Review: Watch Me by Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/25/arc-review-watch-cynthia-eden/) - Gwen Hawthorne is a heiress and Chance Valentine used to be father's bodyguard. Now he's a partner in a security agency, when Gwen's father hires him to be Gwen's bodyguard for a while. Gwen and Chance both have in love with each other for years back when Chance still used to work for Gwen's father. Chance's rejection led Gwen into an
- [On Tour: Blood Assassin by Alexandra Ivy Review + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/29/tour-blood-assassin-alexandra-ivy-review-giveaway/) - Review Sentinels also called freaks by the ordinary human population are humans with extra abilities. Fane is a guardian, he used to be guardian for a high-blood Callie (heroine of Born in Blood) which involves sharing a bond but when she found love the bond ended. Fane feels a bit adrift and he decides that since
- [Book Tour: Her Highland Fling by Jennifer McQuiston Review + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/30/book-tour-highland-fling-jennifer-mcquiston-review-giveaway/) - Review William MacKenzie is the heir to the Kilmartie earldom and as such is protective and proud of his village 'Moraig'. He comes up with a plan to help his village and it's economy by allowing a journalist to cover the Highland games and show him the beauty of Moraig. Unfortunately for William, the reporter is
- [Book Tour: Once Loved Cecy Robson Review + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/02/book-tour-loved-cecy-robson-review-giveaway-2/) - Review Lety Tres Santoshad a difficult childhood, a victim of physical and emotional abuse by her father and a mother who refused to get any help. Which is why she grew up to be independent, a bit cynical and insecure about her worth as a human being and as a woman deserving of love.
- [The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy Review + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/04/secrets-sir-richard-kenworthy-review-giveaway/) - Please note: This review is going to be short because my laptop crashed and with it went the reviews amongst other things I had written, I'm writing this from my kindle. I'm told that I can get all my data from the hard drive or something anyhoo since I'll get that hopefully by tomorrow and
- [Worth the Risk by Claudia Connor Review + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/06/worth-risk-claudia-connor-review-giveaway/) - Review Stephen McKinney works to forget. He distanced himself from his family after the murder of his fiancee and become a workaholic millionaire. Some say he's a playboy, he doesn't see it that way. He wants work, play a little and try not let his family find out about nightmares and demons he faces every night.
- [Review: The Playboy of Rome by Jennifer Faye + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/09/review-the-playboy-of-rome-by-jennifer-faye-giveaway/) - Review Lizzie Addler has always wanted to be a chef and now she is getting her dream come true by working with a famous chef on a reality tv cooking show in Rome. The only problem is that the Chef is no longer capable of taking part due to the stroke he suffered. Dante DeFiore is in
- [On Tour: One Kiss more by Mandy Baxter + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/10/on-tour-one-kiss-more-by-mandy-baxter-giveaway/) - Review Emma Ruiz is the on print party girl, hanging out with her athlete friends at various clubs but the real Emma is a lonely girl who wants to find a way to prove her father is innocent and get him out of jail. Emma is also a computer wiz and makes unhackable security systems
- [ARC Review: Broken by Cynthia Eden + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/31/arc-review-broken-by-cynthia-eden-giveaway/) - Review Rating: 4.25 stars Gabe Spencer is the founder of LOST and an ex-Seal. He is a pure Cynthia eden hero, by that I mean he's possessive, protective and not to mention badass. Gabe and his team find missing people, doesn't matter how long it has been since they disappeared. Gabe found LOST after the death
- [ARC Review: Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/31/arc-review-total-surrender-by-rebecca-zanetti/) - Review Jory Dean has been missing and thought dead for more than two years. Jory is the youngest of Dean brothers, who along with his brothers escaped their military compound prior to the start of the series. His brothers recently found out that Jory survived a bullet wound to the chest at the end of
- [Review: Four Nights With The Duke by Eloisa James  + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/03/review-four-nights-with-the-duke-by-eloisa-james-giveaway/) - Review Emilia 'Mia' Gwendolyn Carrington is going to do something none of her heroines do, she is going to ask the duke to marry well, technically she's going to blackmail him but lets not go there. Mia at the age of fiffteen had a crush on Vander, which ended up pretty badly to say the
- [Review: Crushed by Lauren Layne + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/13/review-crushed-by-lauren-layne-giveaway/) - Review Michael St. Claire used to have it all together, he had two wonderful best friends, parents who he loved and a bright future. Now, he broke up his two best friends relationship and found out his whole life had been a lie and is in Texas working as personal trainer and bartender at a
- [Review: Silver Bastard by Joanna Wylde + Giveaway.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/15/review-silver-bastard-by-joanna-wylde-giveaway/) - Review I tried to keep this as spoiler free as I could but I failed so it has some spoilers, you have been warned. The book introduces us to the club Silver Bastards. It's start of a spin-off from Joanna Wylde's Reaper's MC series. Puck Redhouse is the youngest member of Silver Bastards. Five years
- [Review: Attraction (EOC #1) by Penny Reid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/16/review-attraction-eoc-1-by-penny-reid-giveaway/) - Review This is the review of Part 1: Attraction from the three part book called Elements of Chemistry. It is the story of Kaitlyn Parker and her Lab partner Martin Sandeke. Warning: Gushing ahead! Kaitlyn Parker is the girl, who doesn't like standing out. Martin Sandeke on the other hand is the golden (bad) boy, is
- [Short Review: Bear Attraction by Jennifer Ashely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/04/short-review-bear-attraction-by-jennifer-ashely/) - Review I really enjoy this series, who doesn't love a good shifter story? This is novella length book about Walker Danielson (Human, military liaison between the human Shifter Bureau and Shiftertown) and Rebecca (an alpha bear-shifter). Both the characters have been previously part of the other books in the series as secondary characters. Though it's a novella
- [Review & Giveaway: When Darkness Ends by Alexandra Ivy.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/11/review-giveaway-when-darkness-ends-by-alexandra-ivy/) - Review Rating~ 4-4.25 Stars. So here we are, at the last book of the Guardians of eternity series (a spin-off is coming soon though :D Burned by Darkness ), I really have enjoyed the series a lot, some books more than others as is the nature of book series. Cyn is the vampire clan chief
- [Early review: Wicked Ride by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/21/early-review-wicked-ride-by-rebecca-zanetti/) - Review This is a pretty strong start to a new series Realm Enforcers, a spin-off from Dark protectors series. In short, it's kind of a mixture of motorcycle gangs with cops, magic and paranormal creatures thrown in. What's not to like about that? After two decades of fighting, the paranormal world has reached peace with it's different races
- [Review: Midnight Secrets by Lisa Marie Rice](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/22/midnight-secrets-by-lisa-marie-rice/) - Joe Harris is a former navy SEAL, currently recovering from his last mission which resulted in him getting blown up by an IED and multiple surgeries to fix his leg. He is also now part of the ASI which has most of his BUD/S friends and is headed by John (hero of Midnight Man) which is
- [Review: The Trouble With Love by Lauren Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/06/review-the-trouble-with-love-by-lauren-layne/) - Review I was rereading this the other day and I realised that I never reviewed this, better late than never I guess. Emma Sinclair is a writer for the magazine Stiletto and Alex Cassidy is the editor in chief of the men’s equivalent of the magazine Stiletto, Oxford. Emma and Cassidy used to be engaged
- [Review: Cat's Lair by Christine Feehan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/04/review-cats-lair-by-christine-feehan/) - Please note: This is not a spoiler free review, infact I think it's literally filled with all sorts of spoilers. I'm unsure as to how to rate this book, but I'm going to go with 2-2.5 stars. I do love Christine Feehan's books and I have reread quite a few and will continue to do so
- [Review: Off The Edge by Carolyn Crane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/08/review-off-the-edge-by-carolyn-crane/) - My binge reading of romantic suspense continues. I read two Carolyn Crane’s books from her the Associates series. I started from the second book because it had kind of a nerdy hero which is what I was looking for at the time. Peter Macmillan is an agent from the Associates, he used to a be
- [Review: Mate Bond by Jennifer Ashely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/07/review-mate-bond-by-jennifer-ashely/) - This will be a short review because this was my first DNF for the year. I was looking forward to this book, unfortunately it was less than steller or maybe it was just me. My main issue was that both the hero Bowman O’Donnell and heroine Kenzie are mates, they became mates out of convenience
- [Review: A sorceress of his own by Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/14/review-a-sorceress-of-his-own-by-dianne-duvall/) - This book is the start of the prequel series of the Gifted ones, if you like me are a fan Dianne Duvall’s Immortal guardians then I’m sure you would like to know more about the beginnings of the gifted ones or just more about them. The book obviously has a lot of romance in it
- [Review & Excerpt: Rage and Killian by Alexandra Ivy and Laura Wright.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/21/review-excerpt-rage-and-killian-by-alexandra-ivy-and-laura-wright/) - Review Both novellas in this book are different which in my opinion makes the read interesting. One is childhood enemies to lovers (Rage) while the other is hatred to love (Killian). Rage is about Lucie and Rage; both thought that the other disliked the other. Lucie was a wild child no preferred spending her time
- [Kristen Proby's Love Under the Big Sky Series Gets a New Look!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/25/kristen-probys-love-under-the-big-sky-series-gets-a-new-look/) - We are so excited to bring you the Cover Reveal for Kristen Proby's Love Under the Big Sky Series! The Love Under the Big Sky Series is a Contemporary Erotic Romance series made up of three full-length, standalone novels and one novella published by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster! Grab your copy of
- [New Release: Forever With You by Jennifer L. Armentrout + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/29/new-release-forever-with-you-by-jennifer-l-armentrout-giveaway/) - We are so excited to bring you the Release Week Blitz for Jennifer L. Armentrout's FOREVER WITH YOU! FOREVER WITH YOU is a standalone New Adult contemporary romance being released on September 29th, and is the fifth book in the Wait For You Series, published by Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Grab your copy
- [Excerpt: The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/29/excerpt-the-legend-of-lyon-redmond-by-julie-anne-long-giveaway/) - He’d last seen Pennyroyal Green in the dead of night almost five years ago. His trajectory since then had been as swift and mindless as if he’d been shot from a cannon. And it wasn’t just because of what Olivia had said to him in the garden after midnight, in the pouring rain. Though after
- [Pre-Order Alert: The Harder You Fall by Gena Showalter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/30/pre-order-alert-the-harder-you-fall-by-gena-showalter/) - Gena Showalter’s THE HARDER YOU FALL is coming! Being released on November 24th, this fantastic contemporary romance in the Original Heartbreakers series is a scorching tale featuring an aloof bad boy and the rowdy Southern belle who rocks his world, published by HarlequinHQN! Pre-order THE HARDER YOU FALL from the links below for an sneak
- [Excerpt: Last Hope by Jen Frederick and Jessica Clare + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/01/excerpt-last-hope-by-jen-frederick-and-jessica-clare-giveaway/) - The ricochet of the bullet has swollen my eye shut. I might be slightly concussed from the free fall from six thousand feet into the jungle. I’ve no clue where we are and we have no supplies, but I’ve never been happier than when Ava stuck her tits into my face. Those babies felt like
- [Cover Reveal: Sinful Longing by Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/02/cover-reveal-sinful-longing-by-lauren-blakely/) - We are thrilled to bring you the Cover Reveal for Lauren Blakely’s SINFUL LONGING! SINFUL LONGING, the third title in Lauren’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling erotic romance Sinful Nights series, releases November 17th! SINFUL LONGING follows a new couple in the series! Yes, technically it can be read as a standalone, but
- [Review: The Name of the Game by Jennifer Dawson + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/05/review-the-name-of-the-game-by-jennifer-dawson-giveaway/) - Review I really enjoyed this book. I had been wanting to read this book ever since I read the second book in the series; The Winner Takes it all. The couple had such great banter and chemistry back then which was extrapolated in this book. Professor James Donovan and Gracie Roberts both have very strong personalities.
- [Release Day Alert: Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh & $50 giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/06/release-day-alert-rock-redemption-by-nalini-singh-50-giveaway/) - Kit groaned at the sound of her phone. Reaching out blindly toward the nightstand, she hurled mental curses upon herself for forgetting to turn it off so she could catch some uninterrupted sleep before her four-a.m. makeup call. It’d be fun and great for her career, her agent had said when recommending Kit take the
- [Review: Stroke of Midnight by Lara Adrian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/19/review-stroke-of-midnight-by-lara-adrian/) - Review I'm really enjoying all the short stories coming out 1001 Dark Knights series. As a huge fan of Lara Adrain's Midnight Breed series, I had been looking forward to this novella ever since it was announced. Not only does the novella have a new setting (Morocco), it also introduces a new element of the
- [Blog Barrage: Marked by an Assassin by Felicity Heaton + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/11/03/blog-barrage-marked-by-an-assassin-by-felicity-heaton-giveaway/) - Marked by an Assassin, the eighth book in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website and sharing sneak peeks of the book. Check out the Excerpt and giveaway below! Aya’s back
- [Review: Walk through Fire by Kristen Ashely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/11/16/review-walk-through-fire-by-kristen-ashely/) - What can I say about this book? It wasn’t…awful. That is literally the only thing I thought when I finished it. For those whom have read Kristen Ashley books probably agree with me on this. For those who haven’t I can sum up the vast majority of her books with: Submissive heroines that pretend to
- [Excerpt: Boiling Point by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/22/excerpt-boiling-point-by-tessa-bailey/) - “All yours. You’ve been its cruel keeper for months.” He tilted his hips, presenting himself to her in a way that should have been crude, but on Austin, it was all animal grace. “At any time at all, you could have demanded me. Sent me to my knees to lick you off with one word.
- [A Duke to Remember: An Avon FanLit Novella](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/12/01/a-duke-to-remember-an-avon-fanlit-novella/) - Authors Eve Marie Perry writes both witty books and dry academic papers from her home in Central Texas. There she lives with her professor husband, an overgrown German Shepherd, and a gigantic collection of Nancy Drew novels. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads Anne-Marie Rivers is an avid Gators fan, former celebrity publicist, passionate animal advocate,
- [Review: Steal Me by Lauren Layne + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/11/30/review-steal-me-by-lauren-layne-giveaway/) - Review So I’m trying a new way of reviewing which starts off with first impressions of the protagonists of the book from the first two chapters, which is from the first two chapters I believe: I still havn’t posted the review I wrote for the first book but lets just say I didn’t enjoy the
- [Review: Teased by Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/12/09/review-teased-by-rebecca-zanetti/) - Short Review It was great to return to the world of Dark Protectors and see some familiar faces. This is a fairly short review because I didn't want to spoil The novella has a bit of action/fights, some sexual tension, some adorableness along with a happy ending. What is not to like? Chalton Reese is
- [ARC Review: Charming the Beast by Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/10/27/arc-review-charming-the-beast-by-cynthia/) - Book Blurb: He’s a man with a beast inside… Connor Marrok never intended to work for the Seattle Para Unit. He’s not one of the good guys—he’s a real monster, and the beast he carries doesn’t exactly play nicely. But now he finds himself being blackmailed into a new assignment. It’s supposed to be his
- [ARC Review: Love at first roar by Celia Kyle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/02/arc-review-love-at-first-roar-by-celia-kyle/) - Book Blurb: What happens when a half-blind weremole girl falls for a scarred werebear guy? A match made in furry, dirt-caked heaven. Mostly. Weremole Kira Kolanowski has spent twenty-nine-ish years of her life half-blind and occasionally half-dead. (Her family isn’t exactly loving.) In an effort to remain fully alive, she moves to Grayslake, Georgia, with
- [Review: Rocky Mountain Miracle by Christine Feehan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/04/review-rocky-mountain-miracle-by-christine-feehan/) - Book Blurb: No Christmas will ever be the same after Cole and Maia meet on a snowy western ranch… Find out why in #1 New York Timesbestselling author Christine Feehan’s romantic holiday e-novella! When Cole Steele, a womanizer rumored to have killed his father, meets Maia Armstrong, a veterinarian rumored to practice magic, the sizzling
- [Short Review: Tempted by midnight by Lara Adrian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/06/short-review-tempted-by-midnight-by-lara-adrian/) - Book Blurb: Once, they lived in secret alongside mankind. Now, emerged from the shadows, the Breed faces enemies on both sides—human and vampire alike. No one knows that better than Lazaro Archer, one of the eldest, most powerful of his kind. His beloved Breedmate and family massacred by a madman twenty years ago, Lazaro refuses
- [Review: Archangel's Shadows by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/08/review-archangels-shadows/) - Book Blurb: In the wake of a brutal war, the archangel Raphael and his hunter consort, Elena, are dealing with the treacherously shifting tides of archangelic politics and the people of a battered but not broken city. The last thing their city needs is more death, especially not a death that bears the eerie signature
- [ARC Review: Resisting Her Rival by Sonya Weiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/12/arc-review-resisting-her-rival-by-sonya-wesis-2/) - Book Blurb: All’s fair in love and war… Abby Snyder finally has the opportunity to expand her diner now that the building next door is available. Unfortunately, she must compete with Nick Coleman to get it. Abby—usually über-responsible—shared one night of intense passion with the playboy, and she's been trying to forget it ever since.
- [Review: Heart fire by Robin D. Owens.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/16/review-hearts-fire-by-robin-d-owens/) - Book Blurb: On the planet Celta, accepting a HeartMate can be the greatest challenge in the universe… Antenn, an architect hired to build a cathedral in Druida City, dares not think of his HeartMate. Even though he yearns for her, he’s taken steps to ensure she will be forever unknown to him. After all, how
- [Book Tour & Review: Tempting Mr. Weatherstone by Vivienne Lorret](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/21/book-tour-review-tempting-mr-weatherstone-by-vivienne-lorret/) - BOOK Blurb: Penelope Rutledge longs for passion, but only with the man of her dreams: the brilliant, dashing Ethan Weatherstone. If only her longtime neighbor would open his eyes and realize how much she loves him. If only they weren’t best friends with so much at stake. Penelope knows her future - and their friendship
- [Review: Winning Appeal by N.M.Silber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2014/11/30/review-winning-appeal-n-m-silber/) - My Beth and Mark: Beth Pierce is a in charge of fund raising for brother non-profit legal aid. She's had a crush on her brother's best friend for years now and whenever he seems to be around she turns into a complete klutz every unlike her usual confident
- [Guest Post with Author Cynthia Sax + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/19/guest-post-author-cynthia-sax-giveaway/) - Author Info Cynthia Sax lives in a world filled with magic and romance. Although her heroes may not always say, "I love you," they will do anything for the women they adore. They live passionately. They play hard. They love the same women forever. Cynthia has loved the same wonderful man forever. Her supportive hubby
- [Review: Sealed with a Hiss by E.A Price](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/12/review-sealed-with-a-hiss-by-e-a-price/) - Review An excellent, dazzling five stars for Sealed with a Hiss! This somewhat unconventional paranormal shifter book is the fourth book in E.A’s Supernatural Enforcer Agency (SEA) series and is definitely a book you cannot put down! So high fives forver Ms. Price!! The story begins with Gerry who is a python shifter (a nice
- [Review: The Baller by Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/22/review-the-baller-by-vi-keeland/) - : The Baller by Vi Keeland Review Rating~ 2.5 - 3 stars So I decided to give this a go even though nowadays I rarely take the risk of reading new to me contemporary romance authors. Mainly because of Arabella’s fab review which got me really interested. Brody Easton and Delilah’s story is about having a
- [Review: Heat (EOC #2) by Penny Reid + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/04/review-attraction-eoc-1-by-penny-reid-giveaway-2/) - Review This is the review of Part 2: Heat from the three part book called Elements of Chemistry. It is the story of Kaitlyn Parker and her Lab partner Martin Sandeke. This book starts off from the cliffhanger from the last book. I've kept this short and spoiler free cause one reaallly has to experience this book on
- [Review: Capture (EOC #3) by Penny Reid + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/22/review-capture-eoc-3-by-penny-reid-giveaway/) - Review Rating ~3.75- 4 stars. This is the review of Part 3: Capture from the three part book called Elements of Chemistry. It is the story of Kaitlyn Parker and her Lab partner Martin Sandeke. This book starts off from the cliffhanger from the last book you know where everything went to hell and I wanted to scream
- [Review: Games of the Heart by Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2016/01/15/review-games-heart-kristen-ashley/) - Review This along with The Will are possibly my fav contemporary romance by KA. Maybe it's because they felt different then the rest of the books by KA. It still has drama, angst, guy being a prick to the girl at the start etc but I think it's because Dusty was a good protagonist, she
- [Excerpt: Easy Melody by Kristen Proby + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/11/10/excerpt-easy-melody-by-kristen-proby-giveaway/) - Here goes nothing. It’s still early in the evening, but it’s not a typical busy night, and I’m hoping I’ll be able to get Callie alone, even if it’s just for a few moments so I can talk to her. I don’t want to wait until later tonight to walk her to her car. I
- [Cover Reveal: Marked by an Assassin by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/19/cover-reveal-marked-by-an-assassin-by-felicity-heaton/) - It’s time for the cover reveal of the next Eternal Mates series book, Marked by an Assassin. If you haven’t had a chance to step into this passionate and action-packed world of dark elves, fae, demons, vampires, shifters and hunters, then you can take the leap with the first book in the series, Kissed by
- [Author Lauren Layne shares her dream cast for Irresistibly Yours! + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/10/02/author-lauren-layne-shares-her-dream-cast-for-irresistibly-yours-giveaway/) - IRRESISTIBLY YOURS // Dream Cast by Laure Layne One of the most common questions we authors get when we start chatting up a new release is who our dream cast would be . . . ie, who did we have in mind when we started writing the characters. Honestly? Most of the time this question
- [Release Week Blitz: Sinful Desire by Lauren Blakely + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/22/release-week-blitz-sinful-desire-by-lauren-blakely-giveaway/) - We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Release Week Blitz for SINFUL DESIRE by Lauren Blakely, the second full-length, standalone novel from her bestselling Erotic Romance Series, Sinful Nights! This new series is a new erotic romance series written in the high-heat, high-stakes, high-glamour style of the Seductive Nights series that readers know and
- [Cover Reveal: Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/09/08/cover-reveal-rock-redemption-by-nalini-singh/) - Kit and Noah’s rock star romance is finally here in the newest addition to Nalini Singh’s Rock Kiss Series!! ROCK REDEMPTION (Rock Kiss Series #3) Releasing: October 6th From New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh comes the next contemporary romance in the Rock Kiss series... Kit Devigny could have loved rock guitarist
- [Release blitz: 9 ways to fall anthology and giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/31/release-blitz-9-ways-to-fall-anthology-and-giveaway/) - 9 WAYS TO FALL (An Exclusive Collection of NINE Red-Hot Romances by bestselling authors, featuring Alpha Males, Fighters, Rock-Stars, Movie Stars, Sexy Bad Boys and more) by Lexi Ryan, Kaylee Ryan, HJ Bellus, Cambria Hebert, Aly Martinez, Erin Noelle, Tessa Teevan, Ilsa Madden-Mills, and Tia Louise What's unique about this anthology? Well....most of these titles
- [Excerpt: Scotsman of My Dreams by Karen Ranney and Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/25/excerpt-scotsman-of-my-dreams-by-karen-ranney-and-giveaway/) - “Are you afraid?” he asked. “Of course not. I just don’t want to kiss you.” “Not at all?” “Not one little bit. Not an iota.” “No curiosity about what it might be like to kiss the man Queen Victoria said was most certainly the worst rake in all of London?” “No.” “You’re fibbing, Minerva.” “I’m
- [Cover Reveal: Boiling Point by Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/18/cover-reveal-boiling-point-by-tessa-bailey/) - Get ready for Boiling Point! The next installment in Tessa Bailey's thrilling Crossing the Line series. We hope you love the cover as much as we do! Release date: January 26, 2016 About Boiling Point: Falling for a con man is the most dangerous game of all... Con artist Austin Shaw's been in disguise
- [Excerpt: When An Omega Snaps by Eve Langlais + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/18/excerpt-when-an-omega-snaps-by-eve-langlais-giveaway/) - Leo was just minding his own business when he heard someone shout, “Heads up! Or is that heads down?” Thunk. Either way it didn’t matter. Leo caught the Frisbee with his noggin, which, given he was in the lobby of the condo complex he lived in, didn’t impress him one bit. Some might have acted
- [Cover Reveal & Exclusive Excerpt: Build by Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/17/cover-reveal-exclusive-excerpt-build-by-jay-crownover/) - We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Cover Reveal and Prologue for BUILT by Jay Crownover! BUILT is the first novel in her upcoming Saints of Denver Series, a spinoff of her Marked Men Series, published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. BUILT is releasing on January 5, 2016! This is a definite
- [Guest Post with Blurred Lines Author; Lauren Layne!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/18/guest-post-with-blurred-lines-author-lauren-layne/) - Blurred Lines | The Playlist I have an author friend that won’t start working on a book until she has the perfect character names picked out. If the name’s not one-hundred percent right, she can’t start. The words don’t come. Me? I’ve written half a manuscript with the hero’s name being THEGUY, and then just
- [Review: Highlander Takes a Bride by Lynsay Sands + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/08/05/review-highlander-takes-a-bride-by-lynsay-sands-giveaway/) - Review The new Lynsay Sands historical book comes with a funny, romantic comedy along with a murder mystery, Who doesn't love that? Saidh Buchanan the only sister to seven brothers, isn't your everyday female character. Though she is a lady be birth, she is not a lady in any other aspect of her life. She like
- [Review: If He's Noble by Hannah Howell + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/31/review-if-hes-noble-by-hannah-howell-giveaway/) - Review I had fun returning to the world of Wherlocke’s and visiting the lovely family of Wherlocke’s and the Vaughn’s. Really love the family dynamic and the little known fact that everyone knows about them, that if someone comes after one of them, they are coming after all of them. Sir Bened Vaughn had been a
- [Excerpt: Every Last Breath by Jennifer L. Armentrout + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/30/excerpt-every-last-breath-by-jennifer-l-armentrout-giveaway/) - The Epic Finale in Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Dark Elements Series...Who Will She Choose? Every choice has consequences—but seventeen-year-old Layla faces tougher choices than most. Light or darkness. Wickedly sexy demon prince Roth, or Zayne, the gorgeous, protective Warden she never thought could be hers. Hardest of all, Layla has to decide which side of herself
- [Guest Post with Author Lauren Layne: Playlist for Frisk Me by Lauren Layne.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/27/guest-post-with-author-lauren-layne-playlist-for-frisk-me-by-lauren-layne/) - FRISK ME // The Playlist by Lauren Layne I know so many authors that like to write in complete silence. I also know so many writers who thrive on the hustle and bustle and “people noise” of working at Starbucks. Me? I’m neither of these. When I’m working on a story, it’s all about the
- [Cover Reveal: Hearts of Blue by L. H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/26/cover-reveal-hearts-of-blue-by-l-h-cosway/) - Today is the final day of the Release Week Event for L.H. Cosway's King of Hearts and what better way to celebrate as we reveal the cover for HEARTS OF BLUE, book 4 in the Hearts series releasing in November 2015! She upholds the law. He breaks it. Two blue hearts, both alike in bravery
- [Interview with Vivienne Lorret, Author of  'The Maddening Lord Montwood'.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/21/interview-with-vivienne-lorret-author-of-the-maddening-lord-montwood/) - Interview With Vivienne Lorret I: Hey Vivienne, thank you for being here! V: Hi! Thank you for having me here today! I:Do you remember the first romance book you read? Which one was it and what were your reactions after reading it? V: The first romance that I read, cover to cover, was Nightwalker, a
- [Release Day Blitz: Ricochet by Keri Lake (Loved this book!) + 2 Giveaways](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/09/release-day-blitz-ricochet-by-keri-lake-loved-this-book-2-giveaways/) - Excerpt With my right hand, I pinned her flailing fist, then released her throat and seized the other. She stilled, flat against the wall, with my body pressed into hers. “You had everything to do with it.” I pushed harder, my muscles steeled. “He didn’t just wrong me, he annihilated me. And there you were,
- [Excerpt: How to Marry a Royal Highlander by Vanessa Kelly + Giveaway.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/07/09/excerpt-how-to-marry-a-royal-highlander-by-vanessa-kelly-giveaway/) - Excerpt A moment later, Dailey ushered Evelyn Endicott into the room. She halted when she saw Aden, but smoothly recovered, a warm smile curving her lush mouth. Alec got a jolt, both to his brain and to his groin. The latter was an unerring barometer when it came to one person in particular. Goddammit. The
- [Reviews: Nora Roberts' Birthright, The Witness and Chasing Fire.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/24/nora-roberts-birthright-the-witness-and-chasing-fire/) - So I'm currently on a romantic suspense binge and since the new UBB has a feature of having multiple books per post what better way to use it then when I'm bingeing. I have to say this, I really loved the female leads in these books, I mean the guys/love interest were great but the
- [Excerpt: Up in Smoke by Tessa Bailey + 2 $100 Gift Card Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/23/excerpt-up-in-smoke-by-tessa-bailey-2-100-gift-card-giveaway/) - Excerpt As if her thoughts had made him appear, Connor strode into the courthouse. Her pulse started beating double time, her stomach muscles tightening. Good Lord, the man was a fucking panty dropper. She’d only been away from him for a few hours and it felt like years since she’d experienced his presence. In jeans
- [Excerpt: Scorched by  Jennifer L. Armentrout + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/18/excerpt-scorched-by-jennifer-l-armentrout-giveaway/) - Excerpt “You’ve been avoiding me all day.” “Have not.” He cocked his head to the side and raised both brows. “You practically hid in your room or attached yourself to Syd all day.” “I was…I was spending girl-time with her,” I said. “And napping.” “Andrea…” He’d been right. I had avoided him. Apparently, I wasn’t
- [Cover Reveal: The power by Jennifer L. Armentrout.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/10/cover-reveal-the-power-by-jennifer-l-armentrout/) - Introducing the cover for 2nd book in the Titan Series, 'The Power' from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout. Seth will be BACK on February 23rd 2016!! THE POWER Synopsis: Official Description To Come… “You don’t know what I’m capable of.” If you havn't yet, check out the first book in the
- [The Return by Jennifer L. Armentrout EXCERPT + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/16/return-jennifer-l-armentrout-excerpt-giveaway/) - Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway About Jennifer L. Armentrout: # 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to
- [EXCERPT: Ravaged by Elisabeth Naughton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/09/ravaged-by-elisabeth-naughton/) - Excerpt “Better.” Sappheire, Athena’s right-hand Siren and the leader of Zeus’s female warrior army, nodded at Daphne’s side. “You keep practicing and you’ll get there.” Daphne wasn’t so sure. All Sirens went through rigorous training in a variety of different areas—combat, seduction, warfare, strategy—and she’d passed each section with high marks from her trainers. But
- [Excerpt: Risk it by Jennifer Chance.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/03/excerpt-risk-it-by-jennifer-chance/) - Excerpt From the tousled curls of his jet-black hair, and his sculpted lips and cheekbones, to the drape of the One-Percenter suit beneath his gorgeous wool coat, everything about Rand Sterling Winston IV was icy perfection. Even the sidewalk salt on his shoes looked like decorator frosting. Still, Dani would bet serious money that the
- [Review: The Winter King by C.L. Wilson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/06/02/review-the-winter-king-by-c-l-wilson/) - I really enjoyed C. L. Wilson's Fading lands/ Tairen Soul Series books so it was no brainer that when I saw this, I immediately wanted to read it. It's a decision I certainly do not regret. This is the story of Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and Wynter Atrialan, the King of Wintercraig. Khamsin is the youngest daughter
- [New Releases I'm looking Forward to: June 2015](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/29/june-releases-2015/) - I thought I'd share the books I'm really looking forward to this month; I love both of these authors so much and their work. Psy/Changeling has been a favourite series of mine for quite a lot of years (though I love all Nalini's series/works) and I can't wait to read Aiden's story. I also love Julie
- [Favourite lines from Once Pure with Author Cecy Robson + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/28/favourite-lines-from-once-pure-with-author-cecy-robson-giveaway/) - Favorite Lines from Once Pure Thank you for inviting me to your blog and for featuring Once Pure. I think what makes Once Pure one of my most favorite novels is the emotion that captures the Sofia and Killian’s journey. Below is a list of some of my favorite lines in the novel to give
- [Excerpt: Shuttergirl by CD Reiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/28/excerpt-shuttergirl-by-cd-reiss/) - Excerpt I stroked his hair, waist deep in peace, all worry gone for the moment, and floating in no more than an ocean of gratitude. I must have been more vulnerable than I realized, or he’d reopened some wound with his kindness, because though my sweet reverie stayed, as the minutes passed, a layer of
- [Review: Hades (1001 Dark Nights/Demonica) by Larissa Ione.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/26/review-hades-1001-dark-nightsdemonica-by-larissa-ione/) - Review I never thought that someone can actually make me like or even have sympathy for Hades, I mean the guy is called the Lord of the Dead amongst other not so nice things. Cataclysm aka Cat was just recently kicked out of Heaven, now a fallen angel she works for Azagoth in Sheoul-gra (hell).
- [Excerpt: The Harlot Countess by Joanna Shupe + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/14/excerpt-the-harlot-countess-by-joanna-shupe-giveaway/) - Excerpt After what seemed an eternity, Simon saw his opening. The group around Maggie thinned so he moved in to hover at her elbow. She glanced up, the green gaze sharpening behind the mask, and he saw her shoulders stiffen. Blue peacock feathers twitched and bounced as she turned to excuse herself. When her companions
- [Excerpt: The Daring Exploits of a Runaway Heiress by Victoria Alexander + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/10/excerpt-the-daring-exploits-of-a-runaway-heiress-by-victoria-alexander-giveaway/) - Excerpt When the family had finished dinner, his mother drew a deep breath. “Cameron, your father has something he wishes to discuss with you.” Father’s brow furrowed. “I had planned to have that discussion privately.” “Absolutely not.” Mother shook her head. “I do not intend to take sides, but I will not be left out
- [Cure for Diabetes Anthologies + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/08/cure-for-diabetes-anthologies-giveaway/) - I hope that you guys considering buying and spreading the word for the books, it's for a great cause. xo Izy. Letter from Lee Child I’m a thriller writer, and a thriller reader, and hence a sucker for the classic thriller plot, where an ordinary man or an ordinary woman slowly becomes aware of a looming
- [New Releases I'm looking Forward to: May 2015](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/05/01/new-releases-im-looking-forward-to-week-30-march-05-april-3/) - I thought I'd share the books I'm really looking forward to this month; When Darkness Ends by Alexandra Ivy. (Guardians of Eternity #12) Blurb The Guardians of Eternity are facing a final battle to save their world—but battles of the heart may be the most difficult to fight… Cyn, the vampire clan chief of Ireland, is
- [Excerpt: Third Debt by Pepper Winters + Giveaway.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/29/excerpt-third-debt-by-pepper-winters-giveaway/) - Excerpt HOW HAD THIS happened? Where did it all go so wrong? Jethro was supposed to love me. I was supposed to love him. Yet he’d given me over to his family. He’d bound the ropes, blindfolded my eyes, and gifted me to his kin. “Know what time it is, Nila Weaver?” Daniel breathed
- [Guest Post with Vivienne Lorret Author of 'The Devilish Mr. Danvers' + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/25/guest-post-with-vivienne-lorret-author-of-the-devilish-mr-danvers-giveaway/) - Q&A What are you working on now? What is your next project? Vivienne: Right now, I’m working on edits for book 3 of The Rakes of Fallow Hall, THE MADDENING LORD MONTWOOD. In addition, I’m putting together a proposal for a new series, researching locations, and compiling historical data. For me, this is the fun
- [Review: The Duke and the Lady in Red by Lorraine Heath & giveaway.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/27/review-the-duke-and-the-lady-in-red-by-lorraine-heath-giveaway/) - Review Rating~ 4.75 Stars Warning: This review contains spoilers and gifs. This review is slightly different because this book book made me go through a rollercoaster of emotions which can only be properly expressed through gifs. It started of very lovely, beautiful with sparks flying and tangible chemistry when our protagionst Rosalind Sharpe and the Duke
- [Review: Twisted by Cynthia Eden & Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/23/review-twisted-cynthia-eden-giveaway/) - Review This is the second book in the new series by Cynthia Eden 'LOST'. You can check a guest post by the author here and my review of the first book in the series here. Dean Bannon is a former FBI agent. He now works at LOST which an agency that finds missing people. He
- [Guest Post: Cynthia Eden Author of 'Twisted' + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/23/guest-post-cynthia-eden-author-of-twisted-giveaway-2/) - Romantic Suspense – More Please. I love romance. I love suspense. And when I have the opportunity to blend the two together—oh, but I am an insanely happy woman. Thrills, chills, and attraction. Need, desire—and a deadly killer waiting in the wings. To me, there is nothing more heart pounding than a romantic suspense novel.
- [Excerpt: Bad for Me by Codi Gary + Giveaway.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/17/excerpt-bad-for-me-by-codi-gary-giveaway/) - Excerpt “I’ve almost got it.” “Thank you. This was really nice of you, especially when I haven’t given you a reason to be.” Everett looked up at her, wiping the rain off his face so he could meet her gaze. “You seem to assume that just because people are kind to you, they want something.
- [Excerpt: Until July by Aurora Rose Reynolds + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/21/excerpt-until-july-by-aurora-rose-reynolds-giveaway/) - Excerpt I sit up when I see a few bikes in the distance. I don’t recognize their patches, but that doesn’t surprise me. Tennessee has a huge MC community, and there are always new clubs popping up all over the state. I slow down as I close the distance between us. The closer I get,
- [Guest Post with Linda Kage Author of 'A Perfect Ten' + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/09/guest-post-with-linda-kage-author-of-a-perfect-ten/) - Model Casting for A Perfect Ten by Linda Kage. Oren Tenning – Nick Bateman https://www.pinterest.com/pin/472737292109897314/ Caroline Gamble – Katrina Bowden https://www.pinterest.com/pin/139682025916375533/ Quinn Hamilton – Derek Theler https://www.pinterest.com/pin/278449189431928336/ Noel Gamble – Brant Daugherty https://www.pinterest.com/pin/489555421965319845/ Aspen Gamble – Lucy Hale https://www.pinterest.com/pin/102527328986615606/ Zoey Blakeland - Teresa Palmer https://www.pinterest.com/pin/238550111484418830/ Pick Ryan – Alex Pettyfer https://www.pinterest.com/pin/123778689733290396/ Eva Mercer - Emma
- [Pre-Release Blitz: Silver Bastard by Joanna Wylde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/04/02/pre-release-blitz-silver-bastard-by-joanna-wylde/) - Releases April 7th Excerpt “The Longnecks—they’re the MC my stepdad hung around with—they kept a lot of club whores around. Do the Silver Bastards do that, too?” “Yup,” she replied. “It’s a free country and the brothers bring guests here all the time. Some of them stick around, some of them don’t. Some find they
- [New Releases I'm looking Forward to:  Week 30 March-05 April](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/29/new-releases-im-looking-forward-to-week-30-march-05-april/) - I thought I'd share the books I'm really looking forward to this week; quite a few books by amazing authors are releasing this week so I'm only including the ones I have not yet read. Coincidently they are all releasing on same day, March 31! The Closer you come (the original Heartbreakers #1) by Gena
- [Pre-Release Blitz: Deep by Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/27/pre-release-blitz-deep-by-kylie-scott/) - DEEP RELEASES 31 MARCH! Excerpt “Where have you been?” My sister rushed forward, catching me up in a tight hug. “I’ve been trying to call you all day. We checked everywhere and couldn’t find you.” “Sorry. I just needed some alone time.” I squeezed her back, unable to stop from smiling. The thought of
- [Interview with Sarah Hegger Author of Nobody's Angel!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/26/interview-with-sarah-hegger-author-of-nobodys-angel/) - Interview With Sarah Hegger Izy: What made you become a writer? SH:A love affair with words that began the moment they taught me to read. Writing has always formed some part of my working life, whatever I was doing at the time. It seemed a natural progression into writing novels. Izy:When you are not writing or
- [Guest post with Author Cynthia Sax Author of Sinful Rewards 9 + GIVEAWAY!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/24/guest-post-with-author-cynthia-sax-author-of-sinful-rewards-9/) - When Characters Dream Cynthia Sax Dreams have always been my refuge from the judgmental world. They’re nightly pockets of happiness I anticipate during the day and cling to every morning. Tonight is different. Nightmares chase me, my visions gruesome and dark, filled with explosions and flying shrapnel and images of Hawke in increasingly intense levels
- [Release Day Blitz: Easy With You by Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/24/release-day-blitz-easy-with-you-by-kristen-proby/) - We are absolutely thrilled to be able to bring you the Release Day Launch for Kristen Proby's EASY WITH YOU!! EASY WITH YOU is an Adult Erotic Romance novella filled with suspense in Kristen’s With Me in Seattle Series!! Kristen's beloved characters, sexy situations, and suspense!? Run, don't walk, to Amazon and one click this
- [What's Going On?](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/22/whats-going-on/) - Hey everyone! I thought I'd share what's been going on my life and why the posts have been so sparse lately. Currently my life is pretty hectic, with a few deadlines to meet, University exams upcoming up soon. I don't have a lot of time to read so for the next two months most of
- [Release Day: The Monsters in the Dark Box Set by Pepper Winters + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/18/release-day-the-monsters-in-the-dark-box-set-by-pepper-winters-giveaway/) - Excerpt from Quintessentially Q Q’s face twisted; he captured my cheeks between hot hands. “What are you?” he clipped, face hard and unreadable. The question anchored me and I looked into his pale ferocious eyes. I knew the answer he wanted. “I’m yours.” He sucked in a heavy breath, body jerking. “Say it again, but
- [Blog Barrage: Taken by a Dragon by Felicity Heaton + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/14/blog-barrage-taken-by-a-dragon-by-felicity-heaton-giveaway/) - Taken by a Dragon, the seventh book in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website and sharing sneak peeks of the book. Find out how to enter the Taken by a
- [Review: Best Man for the Bridesmaid by Jennifer Faye + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/09/review-best-man-for-the-bridesmaid-by-jennifer-faye-giveaway/) - Review Jules Lane is the sister of Lizzie (the heroine in the previous book), she comes to Italy to visit her sister when she finds out that Lizzie and her fiancé Dante have decided to have the wedding in two months time instead of next spring. Stefano DeFiore is the brother of the groom, he believes that
- [On Tour: Tempt the Night by Dixie Lee Brown](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/04/on-tour-tempt-the-night-by-dixie-lee-brown/) - Review Samantha McCallister aka Mac is a dispatcher for state troopers. On a ride-along with her best friend Pady who is a state trooper which ends up in his death and her being on run as a suspect for murder. Mac is down on her luck. Jim Brady is former navy seal and currently trying to
- [On Tour: Back In the Game by Lori Wilde + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/03/02/on-tour-back-in-the-game-by-lori-wilde-giveaway/) - Review Rowdy Blanton is the Gunslingers team's ex-pitcher. After a horrible attack from a jealous husband (or so everyone thinks) his career is over. Now he has decided that a little payback is in order for the person responsible for ending his career by writing a all tell autobiography written by a ghostwriter since Rowdy is
- [Tour: Paranormal Picks from Lyrical Press](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/27/tour-paranormal-picks-from-lyrical-press/) - Releasing February, 2015 Lyrical Press Enchanter’s Echo by Anise Rae Mayflower Mages # 2 Blurb Aurora Firenze lives a quiet life hiding in a junkyard. Her repair shop is the last hope for gadgets and gizmos before they get tossed onto the trash towers. Fortunately, Aurora can fix almost anything, including mages, though repairing people
- [Blog Barrage: Bitten by a Hellcat by Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/27/blog-barrage-bitten-by-a-hellcat-by-felicity-heaton/) - Bitten by a Hellcat, the sixth book in New York Times best-seller Felicity Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website and sharing sneak peeks of the book. This book works as a standalone, so it’s perfect
- [Review: The Immortal Who Loved Me by Lynsay Sands](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/25/review-the-immortal-who-loved-me-by-lynsay-sands/) - This review is going to be a bit of a mess, I just finished reading it and I usually take a day or two before I write the review just to get everything in perspective. Anyways moving along.... Basileios Argeneau is a 3,538 year old immortal who is now a lawyer. I guess he's vampire in more
- [Interview with Lauren Layne Author of "The Trouble With Love" + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/24/interview-with-lauren-layne-author-of-the-trouble-with-love-giveaway/) - Interview Izy: Who is more likely to (Emma or Cassidy): ∞Be more affectionate in public? Lauren: Oh gosh … neither! These are two pretty private people. They’d be in mutual agreement that what they have together is between them and only them. ∞Forget important dates? Lauren: Also Emma; Alex Cassidy is like a machine. Number-oriented, organized
- [Guest Post with Mira Lyn Kelly, Author of TOUCH & GO + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/26/guest-post-with-mira-lyn-kelly-author-of-touch-go-giveaway/) - Guest Post With Mira Lyn Kelly Hi Everyone! Thanks so much for having me over and helping me celebrate the release of TOUCH & GO which hit the cybershelves on February 17th—YAY! Okay, so in a nutshell, TOUCH & GO is the second in my Dare to Love series and features Sam and Ava as
- [On Tour: When Good Earls Go Bad by Meghan Frampton + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/20/on-tour-when-good-earls-go-bad-by-meghan-frampton-giveaway/) - Excerpt “What is Scotland like? I’ve never been, at least not that I know of.” Miss Tyne rested her elbows on the wooden table, her eyes the brightest spark in the dimly lit pub. Conversation had stopped when the food arrived. Both he and Miss Tyne were apparently starving, since they spent the first fifteen
- [On Tour: Playing Dirty by HelenKay Dimon Review + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/18/on-tour-playing-dirty-by-helenkay-dimon-review-giveaway/) - Review Ford Decker/Adam Ford is on a undercover mission to find the man that has a stolen a deadly toxin with no cure. He is the leader for the team Barvo of the Alliance agency. Ford left the CIA and joined the Alliance after his partner was murdered. Her really doesn't like the boundaries messing
- [Review: Garrett by Swayer Bennett + GIVEAWAY!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/18/review-garrett-by-swayer-bennett-giveaway/) - Review Garrett Samuelson is the star hockey player and the king of one-night stands. He doesn't even go on a date with a girl for more than three times. His life is pretty much revolves around partying and playing hockey. "I love women and love fucking them. But they take a backseat to hockey...my one
- [Cover Reveal: Rock Hard by Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/10/cover-reveal-rock-hard-nalini-singh/) - Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the book Cover of Rock Hard 2nd book in the Series Rock Kiss by Nalini Singh!! Releasing: March 10th, 2015 Blurb In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a
- [Fire me up by Kimberly Kincaid Excerpt + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/02/03/fire-kimberly-kincaid-excerpt-giveaway/) - Rafflecopter Giveaway (3 Print copies of FIRE ME UP ) a Rafflecopter giveaway Author Info Kimberly Kincaid writes contemporary romance that splits the difference between sexy and sweet. When she's not sitting cross-legged in an ancient desk chair known as "The Pleather Bomber", she can be found practicing obscene amounts of yoga, whipping up anything
- [On Tour: In Your Wildest Scottish Dreams by Karen Ranney + Giveaway!](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/27/tour-wildest-scottish-dreams-karen-ranney-giveaway/) - Rafflecopter Giveaway ($50.00 eGift Card to Choice Retailer) a Rafflecopter giveaway Author Info Karen Ranney began writing when she was five. Her first published work was The Maple Leaf, read over the school intercom when she was in the first grade. In addition to wanting to be a violinist (her parents had a special violin
- [The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy by Julia Quinn Excerpt + Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/21/secrets-sir-richard-kenworthy-julia-quinn-excerpt-giveaway/) - Rafflecopter Giveaway (A Print Bundle of the Smythe-Smith Quartet, including A NIGHT LIKE THIS, JUST LIKE HEAVEN and THE SUM OF ALL KISSES) a Rafflecopter giveaway Author Info JULIA QUINN started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since. The New York Times bestselling
- [I Do! by Rachel Gibson is on Tour + GIVEAWAY](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/15/rachel-gibson-tour-giveaway/) - ~ Giveaway ~ Rafflecopter Giveaway (Print Book Bundle including: DAISY'S BACK IN TOWN, RESCUE ME, RUN TO ME and WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOU) a Rafflecopter giveaway ~ Author Info ~ Rachel Gibson lives in Idaho with her husband, three kids, two cats and a dog of mysterious origin. She began her fiction career at
- [Cover Reveal: Hard To Be Good by Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/2015/01/14/cover-reveal-hard-good-laura-kaye/) - Laura Kaye's dark romantic suspense series, The Hard Ink Series, keeps readers on the edge of their seat. Today, we are thrilled to share with you the cover for the upcoming novella, HARD TO BE GOOD. But that's not all we have! Check out the cover for the next novel in the series, HARD TO
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## Authors

- [Nalini Singh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nalini-singh/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling, Guild Hunter, and Rock Kiss series Nalini Singh usually writes about hot shapeshifters and dangerous angels. This time around, she decided to write about a beautiful, charismatic guitarist with a dark past. If you’re seeing a theme here, you’re not wrong. Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing. If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series. Also, don’t forget to swing by the site to check out the special behind-the-scenes page for the Rock Kiss series, complete with photos of many of the locations used in the books.
- [MK Schiller](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mk-schiller/)
- [Jennifer Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-ryan/)
- [Ilona Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ilona-andrews/)
- [Lisa Shearin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-shearin/)
- [Milla Vane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/milla-vane/)
- [Sarah MacLean](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sarah-maclean/) - Sarah MacLean grew up in Rhode Island, obsessed with historical romance and bemoaning the fact that she was born far too late for her own season. Her love of all things historical helped to earn her degrees from Smith College and Harvard University before she finally set pen to paper and wrote her first book. Sarah now lives in New York City with her husband, baby daughter, their dog, and a ridiculously large collection of romance novels. She loves to hear from readers. Please visit her at www.macleanspace.com
- [N.M. Silber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/n-m-silber/)
- [Jennifer Chance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-chance/)
- [Jennifer Dawson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-dawson/) - Jennifer Dawson grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from DePaul University with a degree in psychology. She met her husband at the public library while they were studying. To this day she still maintains she was NOT checking him out. Now, over twenty years later, they’re married and living in a suburb right outside of Chicago with two awesome kids and a crazy dog. Despite going through a light FM, poem writing phase in high school, Jennifer never grew up wanting to be a writer (she had more practical aspirations of being an international super spy). Then one day, suffering from boredom and disgruntled with a book she’d been reading, she decided to put pen to paper. The rest, as they say, is history. These days Jennifer can be found sitting behind her computer, writing her next novel, chasing after her kids, keeping an ever watchful eye on her ever growing to-do list, and NOT checking out her husband.
- [Annie Claydon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/annie-claydon/)
- [Penny Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/penny-reid/) - SEX! It all started with sex, between my parents. Personally I don’t like thinking about it, but whatever works for you is a-ok with me. No judgment. The sex happened in California and much of my life also occurred in that state until I moved from the land of nuts (almonds), wine, silicon… boobs, and heavy traffic to the southeast US. Like most writers I like to write, but let’s get back to sex. Eventually I married and gave birth to 2 small people-children (boy-6, girl-4 as of this writing). By day I’m a biomedical researcher with focus on rare diseases. By night I’m a knitter, sewer, lino block carver, fabric printer, soap maker, and general crafter. By the wee hours of the morning or when I’m intoxicated I love to listen to the voices in my head and let them tell me stories. I hope you enjoy their stories.
- [Shelley Noble](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/shelley-noble/)
- [Lisa Kessler](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-kessler/)
- [Felicity Heaton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/felicity-heaton/) - Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you’re a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too. If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates series.
- [Amanda Usen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/amanda-usen/)
- [HelenKay Dimon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/helenkay-dimon/)
- [Cynthia Sax](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cynthia-sax/)
- [Julie Brannagh](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/julie-brannagh/)
- [Wendy S. Marcus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/wendy-s-marcus/)
- [Larissa Ione](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/larissa-ione/) - Larissa Ione is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An Air Force veteran, she traded in a career as a meteorologist to pursue her passion of writing. She now spends her days in pajamas with her computer, strong coffee, and supernatural worlds. She believes in celebrating everything, and would never be caught without a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge…just in case. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her U.S. Coast Guard husband, her teenage son, a rescue cat named Vegas, and her very own hellhound, a King Shepherd named Hexe.
- [Karen Harper](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/karen-harper/)
- [Karen Ranney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/karen-ranney/) - Karen Ranney began writing when she was five. Her first published work was The Maple Leaf, read over the school intercom when she was in the first grade. In addition to wanting to be a violinist (her parents had a special violin crafted for her when she was seven), she wanted to be a lawyer, a teacher, and, most of all, a writer. Though the violin was discarded early, she still admits to a fascination with the law, and she volunteers as a teacher whenever needed. Writing, however, has remained the overwhelming love of her life.
- [Susannah Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/susannah-scott/)
- [Cynthia Eden](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cynthia-eden/) - Award-winning author CYNTHIA EDEN writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader best-seller. Cynthia is also a two-time finalist for the RITA® award (she was a finalist both in the romantic suspense category and in the paranormal romance category). Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over thirty novels and novellas. Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast. She loves romance novels, horror movies, and chocolate. Her favorite hobbies include hiking in the mountains (searching for waterfalls) and spelunking.
- [Rebecca Zanetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rebecca-zanetti/) - New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Rebecca Zanetti has worked as an art curator, Senate aide, lawyer, college professor, and a hearing examiner – only to culminate it all in stories about Alpha males and the women who claim them. She writes dark paranormals, romantic suspense, and sexy contemporary romances. Growing up amid the glorious backdrops and winter wonderlands of the Pacific Northwest has given Rebecca fantastic scenery and adventures to weave into her stories. She resides in the wild north with her husband, children, and extended family who inspire her every day–or at the very least give her plenty of characters to write about.
- [R. L. Mattewson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/r-l-mattewson/)
- [Robin Covington](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/robin-covington/)
- [Lynsay Sands](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lynsay-sands/) - LYNSAY SANDS is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She’s been writing stories since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there’s occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that’s just a big bonus. Please visit her on the web at www.lynsaysands.net.
- [Marie Harte](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-harte/) - Caffeine addict, boy referee, and romance aficionado, NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Harte has over 100 books published with more constantly on the way. She’s a confessed bibliophile and devotee of action movies. Whether hiking in Central Oregon, biking around town, or hanging at the local tea shop, she’s constantly plotting to give everyone a happily ever after.
- [Fiona Lowe](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/fiona-lowe/)
- [Chelsey Krause](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/chelsey-krause/)
- [Rachel Gibson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rachel-gibson/)
- [Julia Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/julia-quinn/)
- [Sara Humphreys](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sara-humphreys/)
- [Toni Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/toni-blake/)
- [Patricia Rosemoor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/patricia-rosemoor/)
- [Alexandra Ivy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/alexandra-ivy/) - Alexandra Ivy is a New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author. From Alexandra: “I’m not exactly sure when I fell in love with books. Probably on my mother’s knee listening to her read Dr. Seuss to me. I do remember that I was barely old enough to cross the street by myself when I discovered the delights of the local library. Could anything be more wonderful than spending summer days surrounded by stacks of Nancy Drew mysteries? Over the years I fell in love with Victoria Holt, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and J.R.R. Tolkien just to name a few. I read poetry, essays, biographies, and plays. In fact, I read anything I could get my hands on. Years later (no, I’m not admitting how many) I’m still an avid reader, and my tastes are still as varied as they were in my youth, which I suppose helps to explain why I enjoy writing regency historicals under the name of Deborah Raleigh, as well as my contemporary paranormals as Alexandra Ivy. For now that is enough to keep me busy, but who knows what the future might hold! I do have a few other loves in my life besides reading and writing, the most important being my unbelievably patient husband, David, and my two sons, Chance and Alexander. Without their constant support and belief in me, I never could have been able to follow my dreams. They are truly my heroes.
- [Jennifer McQuiston](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-mcquiston/) - A veterinarian and infectious disease researcher by training, Jennifer McQuiston has always preferred reading romance to scientific textbooks. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, their two girls, and an odd assortment of pets, including the pony she promised her children if mommy ever got a book deal.
- [Cecy Robson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cecy-robson/) - Cecy Robson is a new adult and contemporary author of the Shattered Past series, the O’Brien Family novels and upcoming Carolina Beach novels, as well as the award-winning author of the Weird Girls urban fantasy romance series. A 2016 double nominated RITA®finalist for Once Pure and Once Kissed, Cecy is a recovering Jersey girl living in the South who enjoys carbs way too much, and exercise way too little. Gifted and cursed with an overactive imagination, you can typically find her on her laptop silencing the yappy characters in her head by telling their stories.
- [Kimberly Kincaid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kimberly-kincaid/)
- [Claudia Connor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/claudia-connor/) - Claudia Connor is the author of the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series, The McKinney Brothers. Her debut novel, WORTH THE FALL, hit the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2014 and received numerous Best Contemporary Romance of 2014 accolades. Claudia attended Auburn University, where she received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in early childhood education. After teaching kindergarten and first grade for ten years, she retired to be a full-time mom to her three daughters. Always a lover of books, and always one to have stories playing in her mind, she decided to try her hand at writing. It took seven years to finish her first novel and a new love was born. Claudia lives near Memphis, Tennessee with her husband, three daughters, two cats, and a singer-songwriter Siberian Husky. She continues to write warm, heartfelt, and emotional romances with a bit of steam, a lot of family and always a happily ever after.
- [Katie Reus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katie-reus/) - Katie Reus is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Red Stone Security series, the Darkness series and the Deadly Ops series. She fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it. However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After changing majors many times, she finally graduated summa cum laude with a degree in psychology. Not long after that she discovered a new love. Writing. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense.
- [Katie Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katie-rose/)
- [Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-l-armentrout/) - # 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
- [Swayer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/swayer-bennett/)
- [Ella James](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ella-james/)
- [Joanna Wylde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/joanna-wylde/) - Joanna Wylde is a New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Reapers Motorcycle Club series. She currently lives in Idaho.
- [Meghan Frampton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/meghan-frampton/)
- [Lauren Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lauren-layne/) - Lauren Layne is a snarky cynic with a serious weakness for happily ever afters. Marrying her high school sweetheart was a good start. *cue Disney soundtrack.* But Lauren wanted all romance, all the time. Now she writes fictional happy endings, and considers her job done well if you swoon while reading her books. Don’t worry. You will. Once upon a time she lived in a Manhattan high-rise, but now she’s on the laid-back train in the Seattle area. If you ever find yourself in Issaquah, she’ll probably buy you a drink. Maybe.
- [Mira Lyn Kelly](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mira-lyn-kelly/)
- [Lori Wilde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lori-wilde/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lori Wilde has sold seventy-eight works of fiction to four major New York Publishing houses. Her first NYT bestseller, the third book in her Twilight, Texas series, The First Love Cookie Club has been optioned for a television movie. The town of Granbury, Texas, upon which her fictional town of Twilight, Texas is loosely based, honors Lori with an annual Twilight, Texas weekend each Christmas. A popular writing instructor, Lori is a two time RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. She’s won the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Wisconsin Write Touch Award, The Golden Quill, the Lories, and The More than Magic.
- [Dixie Lee Brown](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/dixie-lee-brown/)
- [Hannah Howell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/hannah-howell/) - Hannah D. Howell is a highly regarded and prolific romance writer. Since Amber Flame, her first historical romance, was released in February 1988, she has published 25 novels and short stories, with more on the way. Her writing has been repeatedly recognized for its excellence and has “made Waldenbooks Romance Bestseller list a time or two” as well as was nominated twice by Romantic Times for Best Medieval Romance (Promised Passion and Elfking’s Lady). She has also won Romantic Times’ Best British Isles Historical Romance for Beauty and the Beast; and, in 1991-92 she received Romantic Times’ Career Achievement Award for Historical Storyteller of the Year. Hannah was born and raised in Massachusetts (the maternal side of her family has been there since the 1630’s). She has been married to her husband Stephen for 28 years, who she met in England while visiting relatives, and decided to import him. They have two sons Samuel, 27, and Keir, 24. She is addicted to crocheting, reads and plays piano, attempts to garden, and collects things like dolls, faerie and cat figurines, and music boxes. She also seems to collect cats, as she now has four of them, Clousseau, Banshee, Spooky, and Oliver Cromwell.
- [Jennifer Faye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-faye/)
- [Mandy Baxter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mandy-baxter/)
- [Harper Kincaid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/harper-kincaid/) - A woman with the heart of a revolutionary, The mind of a pragmatist, And the inappropriate humor of your tipsy BFF… Born in California and raised in South Florida, I’ve moved around like a gypsy with a bounty on my head ever since. Along the way, I’ve worked as a community organizer, a professional matchmaker, an art teacher, a popular blogger, and a crisis counselor (to name a few). All the while, longing to have the guts and follow-through to do what I really wanted: to write and become a published author. That wish has finally come true and tickled pink with glitter over this good piece of fortune. What else? Hmm…I love indie, lo-fi, complaint rock played on vinyl, wearing black because it’s slimming, the theater, well-informed optimism, happy endings (both kinds),and making those close to me laugh ’til they snort. I’m a self-admitted change junkie, loving new experiences and places, but have now happily settled in the cutest lil’ town, Vienna, Virginia.
- [Pepper Winters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/pepper-winters/)
- [Kristen Proby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kristen-proby/) - New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby is the author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps.
- [Sarah Hegger](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sarah-hegger/)
- [Kylie Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kylie-scott/) - Kylie is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year, 2013 & 2014, by the Australian Romance Writer’s Association and her books have been translated into eleven different languages. She is a long time fan of romance, rock music, and B-grade horror films. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet. 
- [Eloisa James](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/eloisa-james/) - A New York Times bestselling author, Eloisa James is a professor of English literature who lives with her family in New York, but who can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. (Her husband is an honest to goodness Italian knight!) Eloisa’s website offers short stories, extra chapters, and even a guide to shopping in Florence.
- [Linda Kage](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/linda-kage/) - Linda is a contemporary romance author from the midwestern USA, where she lives with her wonderful husband, daughter, and nine cuckoo clocks. The eighth and final child of dairy farmers, she was forced into having a vivid imagination if she ever wanted to do something one of her siblings hadn’t already tried. Feel free to visit her at her website: www.LindaKage.com
- [Codi Gary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/codi-gary/) - An obsessive bookworm, Codi Gary likes to write sexy contemporary romances with humor, grand gestures, and blush-worthy moments. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading her favorite authors, squealing over her must-watch shows, and playing with her children. She lives in Idaho with her family.
- [Aurora Rose Reynolds](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/aurora-rose-reynolds/)
- [Vivienne Lorret](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/vivienne-lorret/) - USA Today bestselling author VIVIENNE LORRET loves romance novels, her pink laptop, her husband, and her two sons (not necessarily in that order … but there are days). Transforming copious amounts of tea into words, she is proud to be an Avon Impulse author of works including: “Tempting Mr. Weatherstone”, The Wallflower Wedding Series, and the Rakes of Fallow Hall series.
- [Lorraine Heath](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lorraine-heath/)
- [Victoria Alexander](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/victoria-alexander/)
- [Joanna Shupe](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/joanna-shupe/)
- [CD Reiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cd-reiss/) - CD Reiss is a New York Times bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn’t pick up she’s at the well hauling buckets. Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels. She’s frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn’t ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood. If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
- [C. L. Wilson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/c-l-wilson/)
- [Donna Grant](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/donna-grant/) - Donna Grant is the New York Timesand USA Today bestselling author of the sizzling Dark King series featuring dragons, immortal Highlanders, and the Fae. She was born and raised in Texas but loves to travel. Her adventures have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Jamaica, Mexico, and Scotland. Growing up on the Texas/Louisiana border, Donna’s Cajun side of the family taught her the “spicy” side of life while her Texas roots gave her two-steppin’ and bareback riding. Despite deadlines and voracious reading, Donna still manages to keep up with her two children, four cats, and one long haired Chihuahua.
- [Laura Wright](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-wright/) - Laura Wright is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. From Laura: “Unlike many of my peers in the writing world, I wasn’t a writer or a reader until I left high school. During my youth I was into theater, song and dance, commercials and boys. I loved romance surely, but I had never read a romance novel until my late teens. With that said, I remember the day I did like it was a moment ago – my aunt gave me the Jude Deveraux novel, Knight in Shining Armor and I couldn’t put it down until the very last word. Then I went straight to the library and got another – then another until I’d read everything she’d ever written. After that, it was McNaught, Howard, Schone, Kleypas, and the Silhouette line, Desire. I instantly loved those emotional, sexy reads, so much so that I began to carve out ideas for my own stories, themes that were unique to me and moved me. In 1997 I enrolled in UCLA extension writing classes, met my mentor and critique partners and since have never stopped writing. I was committed then and I still am now; the need to tell my own romantic stories a full on obsession. My first manuscript was rejected, and though the second one was as well the editor who’d rejected it wanted to see something else from me. I had something (note to authors; always keep working, even after you’ve sent in a proposal) and sent it right away. The day I got the call telling me Desire wanted to buy Cinderella and the Playboy was the best day of my life. That is until I married my husband, and had my two beautiful children. But I must say, writing is much like motherhood – tough, grueling, surprising, delicious and for me, a dream come true.”
- [Jennifer Ashely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-ashely/) - New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer Ashley has lived and traveled all over the world, and now lives in the Southwest. She writes historical, paranormal, and contemporary romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. Jennifer’s/Allyson’s/Ashley’s more than 83 novels and novellas have won RWA’s RITA award, the Golden Quill, RT Reviewer’s Choice awards, and the Prism award, among others. Jennifer’s novels have been also been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Norwegian, Hungarian, Italian, Thai, and other languages. Jennifer enjoys writing and reading above all else, but her hobbies include cooking, hiking, playing flute and guitar, painting, and building miniature rooms and dollhouses.
- [Elisabeth Naughton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/elisabeth-naughton/) - Elisabeth Naughton is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. From Elisabeth: “I was never one of those people who knew they wanted to be an author at the age of six. I didn’t have imaginary friends. I didn’t write stories in my journal or entertain my relatives by firelight after Thanksgiving dinner. For the most part, I was just a normal, everyday kid. I liked to read, but I wasn’t exceptional at it. And when my teachers complimented me on my writing abilities, I brushed them off. I did, however, always have a penchant for the unique and absurd. And as my mother told me all throughout my childhood, I should have been an actress—I was a drama queen before my time.
- [Kate Baxter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kate-baxter/) - Kate Baxter is the author of the Last True Vampire series. She’s a die-hard romantic with a thing for Shakespeare. She lives in the great northwest where she hides away to write about all things fanged, furry, and undead.
- [Nora Roberts](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nora-roberts/) - Nora Roberts is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels and there are 300 million copies of her books in print. Under the pen name J. D. Robb, she is author of the New York Times bestselling futuristic suspense series, which features Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.
- [Lisa Marie Rice](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-marie-rice/) - Lisa Marie Rice is eternally 30 years old and will never age. She is tall and willowy and beautiful. Men drop at her feet like ripe pears. She has won every major book prize in the world. She is a black belt with advanced degrees in archaeology, nuclear physics, and Tibetan literature. She is a concert pianist. Did I mention her Nobel Prize? Of course, Lisa Marie Rice is a virtual woman and exists only at the keyboard when writing erotic romance. She disappears when the monitor winks off.
- [Tessa Bailey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tessa-bailey/) - Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention. She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eight years and four-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.
- [Christine Feehan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/christine-feehan/) - Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author multiple times over with her portfolio including over 50 published novels, including five series; Dark Series, Ghostwalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, & the Sisters of the Heart Series. All five series hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestselling list as well. Her debut novel Dark Prince received 3 of the 9 Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature (PEARL) in 1999. Since then she has been published by various publishing houses including Leisure Books, Pocket Books, and currently is writing for Berkley/Jove. She also has earned 7 more PEARL awards since Dark Prince.
- [Carolyn Crane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/carolyn-crane/) - After spending her youth thoroughly obsessed with Nancy Drew and Harriet the Spy and convinced that her suburban neighborhood was awash in dangerous secrets, Carolyn Crane grew up to become a RITA-nominated author of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and other tales of adventure and love; she also writes erotic romance about bank robbers as Annika Martin. Her books have been published by Random House and Samhain; these days, this perfectionistic control-freak of an author likes to indie publish. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats and works a straight job as a freelance marketing writer. During rare moments when she’s not at her computer, she can be found reading in bed, running, or helping animals.
- [Keri Lake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/keri-lake/) - Keri Lake is a married mother of two living in Michigan. By day, she tries to make use of the degrees she’s earned in science. By night, she writes dark contemporary and paranormal romance. Though novels tend to be her focus, she also writes short stories and flash fiction on the many occasions when distraction sucks her in to the Land of Shiny Things. She loves hearing from readers …
- [Vanessa Kelly](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/vanessa-kelly/) - Vanessa Kelly is an award-winning author who was named by Booklist, the review journal of the American Library Association, as one of the “New Stars of Historical Romance.” Her Regency-set historical romances have been nominated for awards in a number of contests, and her second book, Sex and The Single Earl, won the prestigious Maggie Medallion for Best Historical Romance. Her current series, The Renegade Royals is a national bestseller. Vanessa also writes USA Today bestselling contemporary romance with her husband, under the pen name of VK Sykes.
- [Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/dianne-duvall/) - Dianne Duvall is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Immortal Guardians paranormal romance series. Her debut novel Darkness Dawns, Book 1, was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance by RT Book Reviews and for Best Paranormal Romance – Vampire by The Romance Reviews. Night Reigns, Book 2, was declared an “utterly addictive” Top Pick by RT Book Reviews and was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance 2011 by The Romance Reviews. Phantom Shadows, Book 3, was named a Top Pick by both The Romance Reviews and Night Owl Reviews. Her Immortal Guardians novella “In Still Darkness” was released in the Predatory Anthology in May 2013. Darkness Rises, Book 4, was also nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance. Night Unbound, Book 5 in the series, will be released on September 2, 2014.
- [L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lhcosway/) - L.H. Cosway has a BA in English Literature and Greek and Roman Civilisation, and an MA in Postcolonial Literature. She lives in Dublin city. Her inspiration to write comes from music. Her favourite things in life include writing stories, vintage clothing, dark cabaret music, food, musical comedy, and of course, books.
- [Jay Crownover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jay-crownover/) - Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she’ll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.
- [Molly McAdams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/molly-mcadams/) - Molly grew up in California but now lives in the oh-so-amazing state of Texas with her husband, daughter, and fur babies. When she’s not diving into the world of her characters, some of her hobbies include hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and long walks on the beach … which roughly translates to being a homebody with her hubby and dishing out movie quotes. She has a weakness for crude-humored movies and fried pickles, and loves curling up in a fluffy comforter during a thunderstorm … or under one in a bathtub if there are tornados. That way she can pretend they aren’t really happening.
- [Eve Langlais](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/eve-langlais/) - New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Eve Langlais is a Canadian author who loves to write hot romance. She likes to blame her twisted imagination for her sarcastic sense of humor which tends to heavily influence her stories. She loves to write, and while she might not always know what her mind is going to come up with next, she does promise it will be fun, probably humorous and most of all romantic, because she believes in a happily ever after.
- [Lexi Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lexi-ryan/)
- [Kaylee Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kaylee-ryan/)
- [H.J. Bellus](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/h-j-bellus/)
- [Cambria Hebert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cambria-hebert/) - Cambria Hebert is a latte sipping author of the Heven & Hell series, the Death Escorts series, and the Take It Off series. She loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens (yes, chickens). She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and children (both human and furry) where she is plotting her next book.
- [Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/aly-martinez/) - Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Aly Martinez is a stay-at-home mom to four crazy kids under the age of five- including a set of twins. Currently living in South Carolina, she passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a glass of wine at her side.
- [Erin Noelle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/erin-noelle/)
- [Tessa Teevan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tessa-teevan/) - Tessa is a twenty-something book junkie who’s obsessed with sports and cycling. She’s been married to her own book boyfriend for nearly ten years whose traits often show up in her books. If she’s not writing or looking through tons of photos of hot men, all in the name of research, then you can probably find her curled up with my Kindle, ignoring the rest of the world. She loves my sports almost as much as she loves her books. Her other obsessions include red wine, hot men, country music, and all things Grace Potter.
- [Ilsa Madden-Mills](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ilsa-madden-mills/)
- [Tia Louise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tia-louise/)
- [Lauren Blakely](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lauren-blakely/) - Since self-publishing her debut romance novel CAUGHT UP IN US three years ago, Lauren Blakely has sold more than 1 million books. She is known for her sexy contemporary romance style that’s full of heat, heart and humor. A devout fan of cake and canines, Lauren has plotted entire novels while walking her four-legged friends. She lives in California with her family. With ten New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than fifty times. Her bestselling series include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and Fighting Fire as well as standalone romantic comedies like BIG ROCK and MISTER O, which were both instant New York Times Bestsellers. In the fall she’ll release WELL HUNG, another romantic comedy.
- [Julie Anne Long](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/julie-anne-long/) - Julie Anne Long originally set out to be a rock star when she grew up, and she has the guitars and the questionable wardrobe stuffed in the back of her closet t prove it. When playing to indifferent crowds at midnight in dank clubs lost its, ahem, charm, she realized she could incorporate all of the best things about being in a band—namely, drama, passion and men with unruly hair—into novels, while at the same time indulging her love of history and research. So she made the move from guitar to keyboard (the computer variety) and embarked on a considerably more civilized, if not much more peaceful, career as a novelist. Julie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with a fat orange cat. (Little known fact: they issue you a cat the minute you become a romance novelist.)
- [Gena Showalter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/gena-showalter/) - Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the spellbinding Lords of the Underworld and Angels of the Dark series, two young adult series–Everlife and the White Rabbit Chronicles–and the highly addictive Original Heartbreakers series. In addition to being a National Reader’s Choice and two time RITA nominee, her romance novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan (Red Hot Read) and Seventeen magazine, she’s appeared onNightline and been mentioned in Orange is the New Black–if you ask her about it, she’ll talk for hours…hours! Her books have been translated in multiple languages. She’s hard at work on her next novel, a tale featuring an alpha male with a dark side and the strong woman who brings him to his knees. You can learn more about Gena, her menagerie of rescue dogs, and all her upcoming books atgenashowalter.com or Facebook.com/genashowalterfan
- [Jen Frederick](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jen-frederick/) - Jen Frederick lives with her husband, child, and one rambunctious dog. She’s been reading stories all her life but never imagined writing one of her own. Jen loves to hear from readers so drop her a line at jensfrederick@gmail.com.
- [Jessica Clare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jessica-clare/) - This is a pen name for Jill Myles. Jill Myles has been an incurable romantic since childhood. She reads all the ‘naughty parts’ of books first, looks for a dirty joke in just about everything, and thinks to this day that the Little House on the Prairie books should have been steamier. After devouring hundreds of paperback romances, mythology books, and archaeological tomes, she decided to write a few books of her own – stories with a wild adventure, sharp banter, and lots of super-sexy situations. She prefers her heroes alpha and half-dressed, her heroines witty, and she loves nothing more than watching them overcome adversity to fall into bed together.
- [Lara Adrian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lara-adrain/) - Lara Adrian is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Midnight Breed vampire romance series and seven award-winning, historical romances, previously released under the pen name Tina St. John. Lara’s Midnight Breed series is available in hardcover, mass market paperback and e-book through Random House, and in limited edition through Doubleday Book Club, Rhapsody Book Club, Book of The Month, and the Science Fiction Book Club. Unabridged audio editions are available through Tantor Media, Random House Audio, Amazon, iTunes, etc. Lara’s new releases regularly appear on all of the key bestseller lists including including theNew York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Indiebound, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc. There are more than 2 million copies of the Midnight Breed novels in print in the United States.
- [Kristen Ashley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kristen-ashley/) - Kristen Ashley grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana, and has lived in Denver, Colorado, and the West Country of England. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multigenerational family. They lived on a very small farm in a small town in the heartland, and Kristen grew up listening to the strains of Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon, and Whitesnake. Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music and love was a good way to grow up. And as she keeps growing up, it keeps getting better. – See more at: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kristen-ashley/walk-through-fire/9781455533244/#sthash.7sjI0R71.dpuf
- [Susannah Erwin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/susannah-erwin/)
- [Eve Marie Perry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/eve-marie-perry/)
- [Liana De la Rosa](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/liana-de-la-rosa/)
- [Anne-Marie Rivers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/anne-marie-rivers/)
- [Cheryl Tapper](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cheryl-tapper/)
- [E.A. Price](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/e-a-price/) - Under the name E A Price I write short novellas about shifters and supernatural beings, with a little bit of romance, a tiny smidge of mystery and a healthy dose of steaminess! I’m self-published on Amazon Kindle, and write in my spare time. For anyone who would like to find out about new releases please sign up for my newsletter (the link is above), and if you have any comments or questions please do feel free to fill in the form below and I will reply toot sweet! Included on my site is the list of all titles currently available from Amazon as well as info on novellas I have planned for the future.
- [Vi Keeland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/vi-keeland/) - Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. With more than a million books sold, her titles have appeared in over fifty Bestseller lists and are currently translated in ten languages. She lives in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.
- [Jennifer Probst](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jennifer-probst/) - Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again. She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean. She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon’s Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.
- [Katharine Ashe](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katharine-ashe/) - Katharine Ashe is the award-winning author of historical romances that reviewers call “intensely lush” and “sensationally intelligent,” including How to Be a Proper Lady, an Amazon Editors’ Choice for the 10 Best Books of the Year in Romance, and My Lady, My Lord and How to Marry a Highlander, 2015 and 2014 finalists for the prestigious RITA® Award of the Romance Writers of America. Her books are recommended by Publishers Weekly, Women’s World Magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Barnes & Noble, and many others, and translated into languages across the world. Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A professor of European History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. For more about Katharine’s books, please visit www.KatharineAshe.com or write to her at PO Box 51702, Durham, NC 27717.
- [Stephanie Dray](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/stephanie-dray/) - STEPHANIE DRAY is an award-winning, bestselling and two-time RITA award nominated author of historical women’s fiction. Her critically acclaimed series about Cleopatra’s daughter has been translated into eight different languages and won NJRW’s Golden Leaf. As Stephanie Draven, she is a national bestselling author of genre fiction and American-set historical women’s fiction. She is a frequent panelist and presenter at national writing conventions and lives near the nation’s capital. Before she became a novelist, she was a lawyer, a game designer, and a teacher. Now she uses the stories of women in history to inspire the young women of today.
- [Laura Kamoie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-kamoie/) - Laura Kamoie has always been fascinated by the people, stories, and physical presence of the past, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary, published two non-fiction books on early America, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction as the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books, Laura Kaye. Her debut historical novel, America’s First Daughter, co-authored with Stephanie Dray, allowed her the exciting opportunity to combine her love of history with her passion for storytelling. Laura lives among the colonial charm of Annapolis, Maryland with her husband and two daughters.
- [Catherine Mann](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/catherine-mann/) - USA Today bestseller and RITA Award winning author Catherine Mann writes contemporary romance for Berkley, Harlequin, Sourcebooks and Tule. With over sixty books released in more than twenty countries, she has also celebrated six RITA finals, an RT Reviewer’s Award finalist, three Maggie Award of Excellence finals and a Bookseller’s Best win. Catherine and her flyboy husband live on the Florida coast where they brought up their 4 children – and still have 5 four-legged, furry “children” (aka pets). Catherine is an active volunteer with an animal rescue, serving on their Board of Directors and fostering over 200 puppies, ill dogs, and dogs with service/working potential.
- [Kele Moon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kele-moon/) - A freckle-faced redhead born and raised in Hawaii, Kele Moon has always been a bit of a sore thumb and has come to enjoy the novelty of it. She thrives on pushing the envelope and finding ways to make the impossible work in her story telling. With a mad passion for romance, she adores the art of falling in love. The only rules she believes in is that, in love, there are no rules and true love knows no bounds. So obsessed is she with the beauty of romance and the novelty of creating it, she’s lost in her own wonder world most of the time. Thankfully she married her own dark, handsome, brooding hero who has infinite patience for her airy ways and attempts to keep her grounded. When she leaves her keys in the refrigerator or her cell phone in the oven, he’s usually there to save her from herself. The two of them now reside in Florida with their three beautiful children, who make their lives both fun and challenging in equal parts—they wouldn’t have it any other way.
- [Mary Burton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mary-burton/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling suspense author Mary Burton’s work has been compared to the works of Steig Larson*, Lisa Gardner**, and Lisa Jackson***. Her latest books, I’ll Never Let You Go, Cover Your Eyes, and Be Afraid, all feature Nashville’s preeminent law enforcement family, the Morgan’s. 2016’s Vulnerable completes the quartet. Her earlier, highly praised novels include The Seventh Victim, No Escape and You’re Not Safe.. The author of twenty-seven published novels and five novellas, Mary is a member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Novelists, Inc., and Romance Writers of America. A Richmond native, Mary has made her home there for most of her life. She is also writes contemporary women’s fiction as Mary Ellen Taylor.
- [Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-kaye/) - Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense, including the Hard Ink and upcoming Raven Riders series. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.
- [Sophie Barnes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sophie-barnes/) - Born in Denmark, Sophie Barnes spent her youth traveling with her parents to wonderful places all around the world. She’s lived in five different countries, on three different continents, and speaks Danish, English, French, Spanish and Romanian. She has studied design in Paris and New York and has a bachelor’s degree from Parsons. But, most impressive of all, she’s been married to the same man three times—in three different countries and in three different dresses. While living in Africa, Sophie turned to her lifelong passion: writing. When she’s not busy dreaming up her next romance novel, Sophie enjoys spending time with her family, swimming, cooking, gardening, watching romantic comedies and, of course, reading. She currently lives on the East Coast.
- [Laura Griffin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-griffin/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author LAURA GRIFFIN started her career in journalism before venturing into the world of romantic suspense. She is a two-time RITA Award winner as well as the recipient of the Daphne du Maurier Award. Laura currently lives in Austin, where she is working on her next book.
- [Pamela Clare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/pamela-clare/) - USA Today best-selling author Pamela Clare began her writing career as a columnist and investigative reporter and eventually became the first woman editor-in-chief of two different newspapers. Along the way, she and her team won numerous state and national honors, including the First Amendment Award and the National Journalism Award for Public Service. In 2011, she was honored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists with their Keeper of the Flame Lifetime Achievement Award for her work. A single mother with two grown sons and two cats, she writes historical romance and contemporary romantic suspense within view of Colorado’s beautiful Rocky Mountains. She is a two-time RITA finalist (Surrender, Defiant) and a three-time Daphne du Maurier finalist (I-Team series). She loves history, having studied archaeology in college, and has traveled extensively, living for almost three years in Denmark, which feels like home to her. She attributes her love of historical romance with the years she spent visiting ruins and castles in Europe.
- [Julie Belfield](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/julie-belfield/)
- [Sandra Hill](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sandra-hill/) - Sandra Hill is a graduate of Penn State and worked for more than 10 years as a features writer and education editor for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Writing about serious issues taught her the merits of seeking the lighter side of even the darkest stories. She is the wife of a stockbroker and the mother of four sons
- [Lisa Kleypas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-kleypas/) - New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas graduated from Wellesley College with a political science degree. She is a RITA award winning author of both historical romance and contemporary women’s fiction. Her novels are published in fourteen different languages and are bestsellers all over the world. She lives in Washington State with her husband Gregory and their two children.
- [Laura Brown](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-brown/) - Laura Brown lives in Massachusetts with her quirky abnormal family. Her husband’s put up with her since high school, her young son keeps her on her toes, and her three cats think they deserve more scratches. Hearing loss is a big part of who she is, from her own Hard of Hearing ears, to the characters she creates.
- [Alice Montalvo-Tribue](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/alice-montalvo-tribue/)
- [Shirley Jump](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/shirley-jump/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shirley Jump spends her days writing romance and women’s fiction to feed her shoe addiction and avoid cleaning the toilets. She cleverly finds writing time by feeding her kids junk food, allowing them to dress in the clothes they find on the floor and encouraging the dogs to double as vacuum cleaners. Look for her Sweet and Savory Romance series, including the USA Today bestselling book, THE BRIDE WORE CHOCOLATE, on Amazon and Nook, and her new Sweetheart Club series for Berkley, starting with THE SWEETHEART BARGAIN. Visit her website at www.shirleyjump.com or read recipes and life adventures at www.eating-my-words.com.
- [Jessica Lemmon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jessica-lemmon/) - A former job-hopper, Jessica Lemmon resides in Ohio with her husband and rescue dog. She holds a degree in graphic design currently gathering dust in an impressive frame. When she’s not writing super-sexy heroes, she can be found cooking, drawing, drinking coffee (okay, wine), and eating potato chips. She firmly believes God gifts us with talents for a purpose, and with His help, you can create the life you want.
- [Kristen Callihan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kristen-callihan/) - Kristen Callihan is an author because there is nothing else she’d rather be. She is a three-time RITA nominee and winner of two RT Reviewer’s Choice awards. Her novels have garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and the Library Journal, as well as being awarded top picks by many reviewers. Her debut book FIRELIGHT received RT Magazine’s Seal of Excellence, was named a best book of the year by Library Journal, best book of Spring 2012 by Publisher’s Weekly, and was named the best romance book of 2012 by ALA RUSA. When she is not writing, she is reading.
- [Charis Michaels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/charis-michaels/) - Charis Michaels is thrilled to be making her debut with Avon Impulse. Prior to writing romance, she studied Journalism at Texas A&M and managed PR for a trade association. She has also worked as a tour guide at Disney World, harvested peaches on her family’s farm, and entertained children as the “Story Godmother” at birthday parties. She has lived in Texas, Florida, and London, England. She now makes her home in the Washington, D.C.-metro area.
- [Katie McGarry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katie-mcgarry/) - Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
- [Amy Andrews](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/amy-andrews/) - my is an award-winning, best-selling Aussie author who has written fifty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. She is a USA Today best-seller and has sold in excess of one million books featuring lots of sex and kissing. She likes to make her readers tingle, laugh and sigh. She loves good books and great booze although she’ll take mediocre booze if there’s nothing else. At sixteen she met a guy she knew she was going to marry and she did. They’re still married and have two grown kids who never stay away long enough to be missed. She lives on acreage on the outskirts of Brisbane with a gorgeous mountain view but secretly wishes it was the hillsides of Tuscany.
- [Lori Foster](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lori-foster/) - Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN.
- [Cheryl Etchison](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cheryl-etchison/) - Cheryl Etchison graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in journalism and news communications and has worked as a newspaper reporter, marketing coordinator and in public relations for a MLB and NHL team. Currently, she lives in Austin, Texas and is a stay at home mom to three girls. ONCE AND FOR ALL is her first novel.
- [Jen McLaughlin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jen-mclaughlin/) - Jen McLaughlin is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of sexy books with Penguin Random House. Under her pen name, Diane Alberts, she is also a USA TODAY bestselling author of Contemporary Romance with Entangled Publishing. Her first release as Jen McLaughlin, Out of Line, hit the New York Times, USA TODAY and Wall Street Journal lists. She was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency. Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal-clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, and four cats. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.
- [Megan Frampton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/megan-frampton/) - Megan Frampton writes historical romance under her own name and romantic women’s fiction as Megan Caldwell. She likes the color black, gin, dark-haired British men, and huge earrings, not in that order. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and son.
- [Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rachel-van-dyken/) - Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor. She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers!
- [Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lexi-blake/) - NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog int eh world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.
- [Karen Hawkins](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/karen-hawkins/)
- [Lenora Bell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lenora-bell/) - Lenora Bell is a third generation Alaskan and her hometown still has no traffic lights or fast food, but the public library is going strong! An English teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing, Lenora has traveled the globe using music to bring smiles to classrooms. She currently lives in Switzerland with her carpenter husband and two naughty tiger-striped kitties named Dorian Gray and Percy Shelley. In 2014 she won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for Best Historical. She’s thrilled to be debuting with Avon Books in 2016!
- [Tessa Dare](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tessa-dare/) - Tessa Dare is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen historical romance novels and four novellas. Her books have won numerous accolades, including Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® award and multiple RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Booklist magazine named her one of the “new stars of historical romance,” and her books have been contracted for translation in more than a dozen languages. Mixing wit, sensuality, and emotion, Tessa writes Regency-set romance novels that feel relatable to modern readers. With her bestselling “Spindle Cove” and “Castles Ever After” series, she has had great fun creating heroines who defy the conventions of their time—engaging in “unladylike” pursuits that range from paleontology to beer-making—and dreaming up the strong-willed, sexy heroes who find their hearts ensnared by them. A librarian by training and a booklover at heart, Tessa makes her home in Southern California, where she lives with her husband, their two children, and a trio of cosmic kitties.
- [Ella Fox](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ella-fox/) - Ella Fox writes like a woman possessed whenever she gets the chance! She is the author of The Hart Family Series, The Renegade Saints Series and The Catch Series. 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.
- [Maya Banks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/maya-banks/) - Maya Banks is the #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today and international bestselling author of over 50 novels. Maya Banks lives in Texas with her husband, three children and assortment of pets. When she’s not writing, she can be found hunting, fishing or playing poker.
- [Linda Howard](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/linda-howard/) - Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.
- [Linda Jones](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/linda-jones/) - INDA JONES is the acclaimed USA Today bestselling author of more than seventy novels, including Untouchable, 22 Nights, and Bride by Command. She lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
- [Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/samantha-young/) - Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author from Stirlingshire, Scotland. She’s been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Author and Best Romance for her international bestselling novel On Dublin Street. On Dublin Street was Samantha’s first adult contemporary romance and has been sold in twenty five countries.
- [Nina Croft](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nina-croft/) - Growing up in the cold, wet, north of England, Nina Croft spent a lot of time dreaming of faraway sunnier places and ponies. When she discovered both, along with a whole load of other things, could be found between the covers of a book, her life changed forever. Later, she headed south, picked up the perfect husband along the way, and together they volunteered to work in Africa. There they discovered a love of exotic places and a dislike of 9-5 work. Afterward they spent a number of years travelling (whenever possible) intermingled with working (whenever necessary.) Eventually they stumbled upon a remote area in the mountains of southern Spain and the small almond farm they now call home. Nina spends her days reading, writing and riding her mare, Gencianna, under the blue Spanish skies—sunshine and ponies. She reckons this is proof that dreams really can come true if you want them enough.
- [Emma Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/emma-chase/) - Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.
- [Kathy Lyons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kathy-lyons/) - Kathy Lyons is the wild, adventurous half of USA TODAY bestselling author Jade Lee. A lover of all things fantastical, Kathy spent much of her childhood in Narnia, Middle Earth, Amber, and Earthsea, just to name a few. There is nothing she adores more than turning an ordinary day into something magical, which is what happens all the time in her books. Winner of several industry awards including the Prism-Best of the Best, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice, and Fresh Fiction’s Steamiest Read, Kathy has published over fifty romance novels, and she’s just getting started. Check out her latest news at KathyLyons.com.
- [Jenny Colgan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jenny-colgan/) - Jenny Colgan is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, includingLittle Beach Street Bakery, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop, and Christmas at the Cupcake Café, all international bestsellers. Jenny is married with three children and lives in London and Scotland.
- [Penelope Ward](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/penelope-ward/) - Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven novels. Her books have placed on the New York Times bestseller list fourteen times. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 11-year-old girl with autism (the inspiration for the character Callie in Gemini) and a 10-year-old boy. Penelope, her husband and kids reside in Rhode Island.
- [Nicholas Sparks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nicholas-sparks/) - With over 100 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. His novels include 12 #1 New York Times bestsellers. All his books have been New York Times and international bestsellers, and were translated into more than 50 languages. Ten Sparks novels have been adapted into major motion pictures, with The Choice coming in February 2016.
- [Lolita Lopez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lolita-lopez/) - While browsing bookstore shelves as a teenager, Lo discovered the erotic writings of Anaïs Nin and A.N. Roquelaure. Certain her mother would not approve, Lo smuggled the books home and squirreled them away in the most likely of places: under her bed. Late at night, she delved into the sensual worlds both writers created. As a co-ed studying biochemistry and genetics at Texas A&M University, Lo dabbled in creating naughty tales to entertain her friends. Study for a midterm or pen a deliciously dirty story to delight her small band of fans? Not surprisingly, Lo is now on an extended sabbatical from college. Luckily, Lo stumbled onto the world of erotic romance publishers. She realized there were other readers and writers who loved and craved breathtaking romance with the spiciest of love scenes. She took a chance and submitted her first novella. The rest is history. Lo lives in Texas with her husband, daughter and big blubbering Great Dane with mommy issues.
- [Nichole Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nichole-chase/) - Nichole Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Suddenly Royal, The Accidental Assassin, Flukes, The Dark Betrayal Trilogy, The American Royalty Series and several short stories. Nichole lives in Georgia with her husband, energetic daughter, two rescue dogs, Sulcata tortoise, and two cats. When not writing, you may find her reading, painting, crafting, or chasing her daughter around the house while making monster noises.
- [Mia Sosa](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mia-sosa/) - Mia Sosa is an award-winning writer and 2015 Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® Finalist. She writes contemporary romances that are funny, flirty, and a little dirty. Ahem. Although she once dreamed of being a professional singer, the pesky need to generate steady income led Mia to take the law school admissions test instead. She practiced First Amendment and media law in the nation’s capital for ten years before returning to her creative roots. Now she spends most of her days writing love stories about smart women and the complicated men who love them. Okay, let’s be real here: she wears PJs all day and watches more reality television than a network television censor—all in the name of research, of course.
- [Sarah Morgan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sarah-morgan/) - USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes contemporary romance and her trademark humour and sensuality have gained her fans across the globe. Described as ‘a magician with words’ by RT Book Reviews, she has been nominated four years in succession for the prestigious RITA© Award from the Romance Writers of America and won the award twice; in 2012 for her book ‘Doukakis’s Apprentice’ and 2013 for ‘A Night of No Return’. She also won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award in 2012 and has made numerous appearances in their ‘Top Pick’ slot. Sarah lives near London with her husband and children, and when she isn’t reading or writing she loves being outdoors, preferably on vacation so she can forget the house needs tidying.
- [Lisa Dickenson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-dickenson/) - Lisa Dickenson is the pseudonym for Beyoncé. OK, FINE, THAT’S NOT TRUE. Lisa lives by the Devon seaside, stuffing cream teas in the gobs of anyone who comes to visit, and writing stuff down that she hopes is funny. Her first novel was the copyright-infringing Sweet Valley Twins: The Twins Holiday Horror, which she wrote in primary school and gave up on after five pages. Twenty-ish years later Lisa went on to be a *real author* and wrote the Novelicious Debut of the Year, The Twelve Dates of Christmas. In summer 2016 out popped You Had Me at Merlot. She’s now keeping her fingers crossed that everyone will like her third paperback, Mistletoe on 34th Street, and that New York City gives her a free apartment near Central Park as a ‘well done’.
- [Christina Collie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/christina-collie/) - Christina Collie is a twenty-eight-year-old Tennessee native who began doodling images inspired by her favorite books almost four years ago before launching Doodles by Christina. Since then she has doodled over 50 images and has sold prints around the globe. Outside of being a huge bookworm, she enjoys watching LSU football, playing with her dog Nola, and hanging out on her best friend’s farm. This is her first coloring book.
- [Sarina Bowen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sarina-bowen/) - Sarina Bowen is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. She lives in Vermont’s Green Mountains with her family, six chickens and too much ski gear and hockey equipment. In 2016, Sarina became a Rita Award winner! The Romance Writers of America honored HIM by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy with Best Contemporary Romance, Mid-Length.
- [Karen Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/karen-rose/) - “Karen Rose was born in Maryland and was introduced to suspense and horror at the tender age of eight when she accidentally read Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum.” “After marrying her childhood sweetheart, Karen worked as a chemical engineer (she holds two patents) and a teacher, before taking up a full-time writing career when the characters in her head refused to be silenced. Now Karen is more than happy to share space in her head with her characters and her writing has been rewarded with a series of bestsellers in the UK, the US and beyond. Karen now lives in sunny Florida with her family.”
- [Elizabeth Hoyt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/elizabeth-hoyt/) - Elizabeth Hoyt is the New York Times bestselling author of over seventeen lush historical romances including the Maiden Lane series. Publishers Weekly has called her writing “mesmerizing.” She also pens deliciously fun contemporary romances under the name Julia Harper. Elizabeth lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with three untrained dogs, a garden in constant need of weeding, and the long-suffering Mr. Hoyt.
- [K.A. Tucker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/k-a-tucker/) - K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge. She is the USA Today bestselling author of 14 books, including Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water, and her latest Adult Suspense novel, He Will Be My Ruin. Her books have been featured in national publications including USA Today, Globe & Mail, Suspense Magazine, and Publisher’s Weekly. K.A. Tucker currently resides in a quaint town outside of Toronto with her husband, two beautiful girls, and a Chug.
- [J. Daniels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jdaniels/) - J. Daniels is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sweet Addiction series, the Alabama Summer series, and the Dirty Deeds series. She would rather bake than cook, she listens to music entirely too loud, and loves writing stories her children will never read. Her husband and children are her greatest loves, with cupcakes coming in at a close second. J grew up in Baltimore and resides in Maryland with her family.
- [Jill Shalvis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jill-shalvis/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
- [N.J. Walters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/n-j-walters/) - Once upon a time N.J. had the idea that she would like to quit her job at the bookstore, sell everything she owned, leave her hometown, and write romance novels in a place where no one knew her. And she did. Two years later, she went back to the bookstore and her hometown and settled in for another seven years. One day she gave notice at her job on a Friday morning. On Sunday afternoon, she received a tentative acceptance for her first erotic romance novel and life would never be the same. N.J. has always been a voracious reader, and now she spends her days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers, seductive handymen, and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks—all vie for her attention. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.
- [Chanel Cleeton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/chanel-cleeton/) - After years spent studying international politics in London and a stint in law school, Chanel Cleeton found her passion crafting smart and sexy contemporary romances and thrillers. An avid reader and hopeless romantic, she’s happiest curled up with a book, her three dogs lounging beside her. Chanel is a lover of big sunglasses, irresistible handbags, food covered in sprinkles, and pint-sized pups with larger-than-life personalities. She is published by Harlequin and Penguin and is the author of the International School, Capital Confessions, Assassins, and Wild Aces series.
- [Amanda Bouchet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/amanda-bouchet/) - Award-winning debut author Amanda Bouchet grew up in New England and studied French at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The manuscript for book one of the Kingmaker Chronicles won several RWA chapter contests, including the Orange Rose Contest and the Paranormal Category of the prestigious Golden Pen. She moved to Paris, France, in 2001 and has been there ever since with her French husband and two wonderful children.
- [J.M. Stewart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/j-m-stewart/)
- [Jessica Royer Ocken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jessica-royer-ocken/)
- [L.J. Shen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/l-j-shen/) - “L.J. Shen is a #1 Best-selling author of contemporary romance books. She lives in California with her husband, son and lazy cat. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading a good book with a glass of wine and catching up on her favorite HBO and Netflix shows.” Some titles she has written include: Tyed, Blood to Dust, Vicious, and Sparrow She is an extremely talented author, writing romance novels with twists. Check her out on Goodreads and her other social media.
- [Kendall Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kendall-ryan/) - A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than two dozen titles, Kendall Ryan has sold over 1.5 million books and her books have been translated into several languages in countries around the world. She’s a traditionally published author with Simon & Schuster and Harper Collins UK, as well as an independently published author. Since she first began self-publishing in 2012, she’s appeared at #1 on Barnes & Noble and iBooks charts around the world. Her books have also appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists more than three dozen times. Ryan has been featured in such publications as USA Today, Newsweek, and InTouch Magazine.
- [Alexis Noelle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/alexis-noelle/) - Alexis Noelle lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband, and three kids. On top a writing career, she is a full-time student and a full-time mom. She loves spending time with her kids, although she has to hide the computer from them when she is writing! She love being active and being outdoors, especially if it involves any kind of shopping.She has always been passionate about writing. She loves to read romance books and feels like being able to lose yourself in a book is one of the more exciting aspects. The books she loves to read and write will be ones that make you feel for the characters. Ashley believes that you should have an opinion on every character in a book whether you love them, hate them, or think they are up to something.She also believes that the most important critic is your reader, so she loves to hear from the readers. She want her fans to be open & talk to her about what they want for the characters in the story, and what they would like to see happen.
- [Sara Ney](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sara-ney/) - Purveyor of all things witty & romantic, I love: iced latte’s, traveling, and bright, bold colors. On any given day, you can find me in my office, lovingly gazing at my bookshelf or shuffling my Bic felt-tip pen collection. I love hand writing letters, and sarcasm. I live in the midwest, but “Will Write for Travel,” and believe everyone should follow their dreams, no matter how big or small. My favorite authors include Cindy Miles, S Walden, Suzanne Enoch, Tessa Dare (to name a few). I am a glutton for Historical, RomCom, Sports and MC romance. One husband. Two daughters. Plenty of chaos.
- [Sarah Brianne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sarah-brianne/)
- [Tillie Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tillie-cole/) - Tillie Cole hails from a small town in the North-East of England. She grew up on a farm with her English mother, Scottish father and older sister and a multitude of rescue animals. As soon as she could, Tillie left her rural roots for the bright lights of the big city. After graduating from Newcastle University with a BA Hons in Religious Studies, Tillie followed her Professional Rugby player husband around the world for a decade, becoming a teacher in between and thoroughly enjoyed teaching High School students Social Studies before putting pen to paper, and finishing her first novel. Tillie has now settled in Austin, Texas, where she is finally able to sit down and write, throwing herself into fantasy worlds and the fabulous minds of her characters. Tillie is both an independent and traditionally published author, and writes many genres including: Contemporary Romance, Dark Romance, Young Adult and New Adult novels. When she is not writing, Tillie enjoys nothing more than curling up on her couch watching movies, drinking far too much coffee, while convincing herself that she really doesn’t need that extra square of chocolate.
- [Lena Diaz](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lena-diaz/) - Originally from Kentucky, romantic suspense author Lena Diaz also lived in California and Louisiana before settling in Northeast Florida with her husband, two children, and a Shetland Sheepdog named Sparky. A Romance Writers of America Golden Heart® finalist, she’s won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense and has been a finalist for the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award. She loves to watch action movies, garden, and hike in the beautiful Tennessee Smoky Mountains.
- [Beverly Jenkins](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/beverly-jenkins/) - BEVERLY JENKINS has received numerous awards, including five Waldenbooks/Borders Group Best Sellers Awards, two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Magazine, and a Golden Pen Award from the Black Writer’s Guild. Ms Jenkins was named one of the Top Fifty Favorite African-American writers of the 20th Century by AABLC, the nation’s largest on-line African-American book club. She was recently nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature.
- [Staci Hart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/staci-hart/) - Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life: a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can’t forget that. She’s also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She’s been a wife, even though she’s certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She’s also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she’s been drinking whiskey. Her favorite word starts with f and ends with k. From roots in Houston, to a seven year stint in Southern California, Staci and her family ended up settling somewhere in between and equally north, in Denver. They are new enough that snow is still magical. When she’s not writing, she’s sleeping, cleaning, or designing graphics.
- [T.M. Frazier](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/t-m-frazier/) - T.M. Frazier is a USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR best known for her KING SERIES. She was born on Long Island, NY. When she was eight years old she moved with her mom, dad, and older sister to sunny Southwest Florida where she still lives today with her husband and daughter. When she was in middle school she was in a club called AUTHORS CLUB with a group of other young girls interested in creative writing. Little did she know that years later life would come full circle. After graduating high school, she attended Florida Gulf Coast University and had every intention of becoming a news reporter when she got sucked into real estate where she worked in sales for over ten years. Throughout the years T.M. never gave up the dream of writing and with her husband’s encouragement, and a lot of sleepless nights, she realized her dream and released her first novel, The Dark Light of Day, in 2013. She hit the USA TODAY bestsellers list for the first time with Tyrant in 2015 and her book Preppy Part One, was a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award finalist for best romance.
- [Nicole Williams](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nicole-williams/) - Nicole Williams is the New York Times and USATODAY bestselling author of contemporary and young adult romance, including the Crash and Lost & Found series. Her books have been published by HarperTeen and Simon & Schuster in both domestic and foreign markets, while she continues to self-publish additional titles. She is working on a new YA series with Crown Books (a division of Random House) as well. She loves romance, from the sweet to the steamy, and writes stories about characters in search of their happily even after. She grew up surrounded by books and plans on writing until the day she dies, even if it’s just for her own personal enjoyment. She still buys paperbacks because she’s all nostalgic like that, but her kindle never goes neglected for too long. When not writing, she spends her time with her husband and daughter, and whatever time’s left over she’s forced to fit too many hobbies into too little time.
- [Natasha Anders](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/natasha-anders/) - Since making her publishing debut in 2012, Natasha Anders has been drawing praise and attention as a new voice in romance. The Unwanted Wife, which became a self-published bestseller, is the first title in Anders’s forthcoming Unwanted series. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Anders spent nine years as an associate English teacher in Niigata, Japan, where she became a legendary karaoke diva. Anders currently lives in Cape Town.
- [K. Bromberg](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/k-bromberg/) - New York Times Bestselling author K. Bromberg writes contemporary novels that contain a mixture of sweet, emotional, a whole lot of sexy, and a little bit of real. She likes to write strong heroines, and damaged heroes who we love to hate and hate to love. She’s a mixture of most of her female characters: sassy, intelligent, stubborn, reserved, outgoing, driven, emotional, strong, and wears her heart on her sleeve. All of which she displays daily with her husband and three children where they live in Southern California. On a whim, K. Bromberg decided to try her hand at this writing thing. Since then she has written The Driven Series (Driven, Fueled, Crashed, Raced, Aced), the standalone Driven Novels (Slow Burn, Sweet Ache, Hard Beat, and Down Shift), and a novella (UnRaveled). She is currently finishing up Sweet Cheeks a standalone novel out November 14th. Her plans for 2017 include a sports romance duet (2 books: The Player, The Catch) and the Everyday Heroes series (3 books: Cuffed, Combust, and Cockpit). She’s also writing a novella for the 1,001 Dark Night series that will be out in February 2017.
- [Tara Wyatt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tara-wyatt/) - Tara Wyatt has been making up love stories ever since she fell head over heels for the Backstreet Boys almost twenty years ago. Winner of the Unpublished Winter Rose Award, Linda Howard Award of Excellence and the Heart of the West Award, Tara lives in Hamilton, Ontario with the cutest dog in the world and a husband that makes all of her heroes look like chumps.
- [Kate Meader](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kate-meader/)
- [Delores Fossen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/delores-fossen/) - USA Today bestselling author, Delores Fossen, has sold over 70 novels with millions of copies of her books in print worldwide. She’s received the Booksellers’ Best Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award and was a finalist for the prestigious Rita ®. In addition, she’s had nearly a hundred short stories and articles published in national magazines.
- [Winter Renshaw](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/winter-renshaw-author/) - Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw is a bona fide daydream believer. She lives somewhere in the middle of the USA and can rarely be seen without her trusty Mead notebook and ultra portable laptop. When she’s not writing, she’s living the American dream with her husband, three kids, and the laziest puggle this side of the Mississippi. And if you’d like to be the first to know when a new book is coming out, please sign up for her private mailing list here —> http://eepurl.com/bfQU2j
- [Abbie Roads](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/abbie-roads/) - Abbie Roads is a mental health counselor known for her blunt, honest style of therapy. By night she writes dark, emotional novels always giving her characters the happy ending she wishes for all her clients. SAVING MERCY is the first book in her new Fatal Truth Series of dark, gritty, romantic suspense with a psychological twist.
- [Bethany-Kris](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/bethany-kris/) - Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to three young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
- [B.B. Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/b-b-reid/)
- [Sawyer Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sawyer-bennett/) - Since the release of her debut contemporary romance novel, Off Sides, in January 2013, Sawyer Bennett has released more than 30 books and has been featured on both the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists on multiple occasions. A reformed trial lawyer from North Carolina, Sawyer uses real life experience to create relatable, sexy stories that appeal to a wide array of readers. From new adult to erotic contemporary romance, Sawyer writes something for just about everyone. Sawyer likes her Bloody Marys strong, her martinis dirty, and her heroes a combination of the two. When not bringing fictional romance to life, Sawyer is a chauffeur, stylist, chef, maid, and personal assistant to a very active toddler, as well as full-time servant to two adorably naughty dogs. She believes in the good of others, and that a bad day can be cured with a great work-out, cake, or a combination of the two.
- [Gina L. Maxwell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/gina-l-maxwell/) - Gina L. Maxwell is a full-time writer, wife, and mother living in the upper Midwest, despite her scathing hatred of snow and cold weather. An avid romance novel addict, she began writing as an alternate way of enjoying the romance stories she loves to read. Her debut novel, Seducing Cinderella, hit both the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists in less than four weeks, and she’s been living her newfound dream ever since. When she’s not reading or writing steamy romance novels, she spends her time losing at Scrabble (and every other game) to her high school sweetheart, doing her best to hang out with their teenagers before they fly the coop, and dreaming about her move to sunny Florida once they do.
- [Brenda Novak](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/brenda-novak/) - It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s career as a bestselling author–she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home. “When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists and won many awards, including five Rita nominations, the Book Buyer’s Best, the Book Seller’s Best and the National Reader’s Choice Award. Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children–three girls and two boys. When she’s not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually raising funds for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). So far, Brenda has raised $2.5 million.
- [Parker Swift](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/parker-swift/) - Parker Swift grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and then grew up again in New York, London, and Minneapolis and currently lives in Connecticut. She has spent most of her adult life examining romantic relationships in an academic lab as a professor of social psychology. Now, she’s exploring the romantic lives of her fictional characters in the pages of her books. When she’s not writing, she spends her time with her bearded nautical husband and being told not to sing along to pop music in the car by her two sons.
- [Jill Mansell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jill-mansell/)
- [Cristin Harber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/cristin-harber-archives/) - Cristin Harber is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author. She writes sexy romantic suspense, military romance, and new adult. Fans voted her onto Amazon’s Top Picks for Debut Romance Authors in 2013, and her debut Titan series was both a #1 romantic suspense and #1 military romance bestseller
- [Saffron A. Kent](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/saffron-a-kent-archives/) - Romance Writer and Reader. Coffee Addict. White Russian Drinker. Imaginary Ballet Dancer and poetess. Aspiring Lana Del Ray of the book world. I’m a big believer in love (obviously). I believe in happily ever after, the butterflies and the tingling. But I also believe in edgy, rough and gutsy kind of love. I believe in pushing the boundaries, darker (sometimes morally ambiguous) emotions and imperfections. The kind of love I write about is flawed just like my characters. And I hope by the end of it, you’ll come to root for them just as much as me. Because love, no matter where it comes from, is always pure and beautiful.
- [Bella Jewel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/bella-jewel-archives/) - Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She’s been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell’s Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over ten novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. In 2015 she signed a three book worldwide deal with St Martin’s Press – and happily joined the Macmillan team to produce some scorching, sexy, amazing stories that will be presented to the world from August 2015 onwards. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future
- [Ashley Erin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ashley-erin/) - Ashley Erin lives in Alberta, Canada where winter and summer compete to take over. She wears flip flops as soon as it’s above freezing, because her hatred of socks outweighs her dislike of snow. Her boyfriend stays with her despite a penchant for adopting rescued cats and dogs without permission. Their two dogs and four cats are spoiled rotten. When Ashley isn’t writing, she is reading or working with horses. Ashley is a self-published author of contemporary and new adult romance. Follow her on Facebook to keep up with her current and upcoming releases.
- [Jamie Begley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jamie-begley/) - “I was born in a small town in Kentucky. My family began poor, but worked their way to owning a restaurant. My mother was one of the best cooks I have ever known, and she instilled in all her children the value of hard work, and education. Taking after my mother, I’ve always love to cook, and became pretty good if I do say so myself. I love to experiment and my unfortunate family has suffered through many. They now have learned to steer clear of those dishes. I absolutely love the holidays and my family puts up with my zany decorations. For now, my days are spent writing, writing, and writing. I have two children who both graduated this year from college. My daughter does my book covers, and my son just tries not to blush when someone asks him about my books. Currently I am writing five series of books- The Last Riders, The VIP Room, Predators MC, Biker Bitches, and The Dark Souls. All my books are written for one purpose- the enjoyment others find in them, and the expectations of my fans that inspire me to give it my best.”
- [Missy Borucki](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/missy-borucki/)
- [Jessica Grover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jessica-grover/)
- [Jane Ashford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jane-ashford/) - JANE ASHFORD, a beloved author of historical romances, has been published in Sweden, Italy, England, Denmark, France, Russia, Latvia, and Spain, as well as the United States. Jane has been nominated for a Career Achievement Award by RT Book Reviews. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
- [Juliet Lyons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/juliet-lyons/) - JULIET LYONS is a paranormal romance author from the UK. She holds a degree in Spanish and Latin American studies and works part-time in a local primary school where she spends far too much time discussing Harry Potter. Since joining global storytelling site Wattpad in 2014, her work has received millions of hits online and gained a legion of fans from all over the world. When she is not writing, Juliet enjoys reading and spending time with her family.
- [Tyler King](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tyler-king/) - Tyler King was born and raised in Orlando, Florida and graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Creative Writing. As a journalist, her work has appeared in Orlando magazine and Orlando Business Journal, among other publications. She is a proud army spouse currently living in Virginia with her husband.
- [Emmy Curtis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/emmy-curtis/) - Emmy Curtis is an editor and a romance writer. An ex-pat Brit, she quells her homesickness with Cadbury Flakes and Fray Bentos pies. She’s lived in London, Paris and New York, and has settled for the time being, in North Carolina. When not writing, Emmy loves to travel with her military husband and take long walks with their Lab. All things considered, her life is chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny. And if you get that reference…well, she already considers you kin.
- [Penrose Halson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/penrose-halson/) - When PENROSE HALSON was 25 and still unmarried, her mother sent her to the Katharine Allen Marriage & Advice Bureau. Twenty years later, after a career in teaching, writing and editing, she and her management consultant husband Bill took over that same Bureau. They additionally acquired The Marriage Bureau, which had been set up in 1939 by two 24-year-olds. As Bill had predicted, matchmaking suited Penrose down to the ground, and they remain happily in touch with many former clients who visit them in London.
- [Katie Ruggle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katie-ruggle/) - A fan of the old adage “write what you know”, Katie Ruggle lived in an off-grid, solar- and wind-powered house in the Rocky Mountains until her family lured her back to Minnesota. When she’s not writing, Katie rides horses, shoots guns (not while riding, although that would be awesome), cross-country skis (badly) and travels to warm places where she can scuba dive. A graduate of the Police Academy, Katie received her ice-rescue certification and can attest that the reservoirs in the Colorado mountains really are that cold. A fan of anything that makes her feel like a bad-ass, she has trained in Krav Maga, boxing and gymnastics.
- [J. L. Drake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/j-l-drake/) - Bestselling author J. L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she lives with her husband and two children. When she’s not writing, she loves to spend time with her family, travelling or just enjoying a night at home. One thing you might notice in her books is her love for the four seasons. Growing up on the east coast of Canada the change in the seasons is in her blood and is often mentioned in her writing. An avid reader of James Patterson, J.L. Drake has often found herself inspired by his many stories of mystery and intrigue. She hopes you will enjoy her stories as much as she has enjoyed writing them.
- [Heather Long](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/heather-long/)
- [Sam Peters](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sam-peters/)
- [Ian McDonald](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ian-mcdonald/)
- [J. Lynn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/j-lynn/)
- [K.A. Linde](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/k-a-linde/) - K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifteen novels including the Avoiding series and the Record series. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, geeking out over Star Wars, binge-watching Supernatural, and dancing in her spare time. She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super adorable puppies.
- [Natalie Bennett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/natalie-bennett/) - Natalie Bennett is the creator of erotic stories that always come with a warning label. She writes about depraved alpha a**holes and women that love to hate them. Her books don’t follow any specific tropes, have no set word counts, and tend to deviate from traditional HEA’s. When she isn’t in front of her computer she’s spending time with her husband and their three little boys. Natalie is an avid fan of caramel frappes, horror movies, Shameless, and of course, reading.
- [Paige Tyler](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/paige-tyler/) - PAIGE TYLER is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sexy, romantic fiction. Paige writes books about hunky alpha males and the kick-butt heroines they fall in love with. She lives with her very own military hero (a.k.a. her husband) and their adorable dog on the beautiful Florida coast.
- [K.Webster](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/k-webster/) - K Webster is the author of dozens romance books in many different genres including contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance, and erotic romance. When not spending time with her husband of twelve years and two adorable children, she’s active on social media connecting with her readers. Her other passions besides writing include reading and graphic design. K can always be found in front of her computer chasing her next idea and taking action. She looks forward to the day when she will see one of her titles on the big screen.
- [Diana Gardin](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/diana-gardin/) - Diana Gardin is a wife of one and a mom of two. Writing is her second full time job to that, and she loves it! Diana writes contemporary romance in the Young Adult and New Adult categories. She’s also a former Elementary school teacher. She loves steak, sugar cookies, and Coke and hates working out.
- [Alice Clayton](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/alice-clayton/) - Alice Clayton worked in the cosmetics industry for over a decade before picking up a pen (read laptop). She enjoys gardening but not weeding, baking but not cleaning up, and finally convinced her long-time boyfriend to marry her. Now, about that Bernese Mountain dog.
- [Tara Sivec](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tara-sivec/) - Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out. After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book and she was voted as Best Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards for 2014. In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets spare time.
- [Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - New York Times and international bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, is a regular at the #1 spot. With legions of fans known as Menyons (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. Since 2003, she had placed more than 75 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. Her current series are: Dark-Hunter, Chronicles of Nick, Lords of Avalon and The League, and her books are available in over 100 countries where eager fans impatiently wait for the next release. Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series are soon to be major motion pictures while Dark-Hunter, Lords of Avalon and The League are being developed for television.
- [Carrie Ann Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/carrie-ann-ryan/) - Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and paranormal romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Talon Pack, and Gallagher Brothers series, which have sold over 2.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over fifty novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not writing about bearded tattooed men or alpha wolves that need to find their mates, she’s reading as much as she can and exploring the world of baking and gourmet cooking.
- [Samantha Chase](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/samantha-chase/) - Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than forty titles under her belt! When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
- [Elle Kennedy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/elle-kennedy/) - A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager. Elle writes romantic suspense and erotic contemporary romance for various publishers. She loves strong heroines and sexy alpha heroes, and just enough heat and danger to keep things interesting!
- [Amy Sandas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/amy-sandas/) - USA Today Bestselling author Amy Sandas’s love of romance began one summer when she stumbled across one of her mother’s Barbara Cartland books. Her affinity for writing began with sappy preteen poems and led to a liberal arts degree from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She lives with her husband and children near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- [Elizabeth Michels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/elizabeth-michels/) - Elizabeth Michels is the award-winning author of the Tricks of the Ton series and the new Spare Heirsseries. She attended Park University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Interior Design. This Historical Romance author enjoys living in a lake-side town in North Carolina with her husband and son. Elizabeth is a lover of happily-ever-afters, laughter, and things that are sparkly. Tiara optional while reading, but highly recommended.
- [Julie Ann Walker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/julie-ann-walker/) - Julie Ann Walker is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of award-winning romantic suspense. Her books have been described as “alpha, edgy, and downright hot.” Most days you can find Julie on her bicycle along the lake shore in Chicago or blasting away at her keyboard, trying to wrangle her capricious imagination into submission.
- [Madeline Sheehan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/madeline-sheehan/)
- [Jodi Ellen Malpas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jodi-ellen-malpas/) - Jodi Ellen Malpas was born and raised in the Midlands’ town of Northampton, England, where she lives with her two boys. Working for her father’s construction business full-time, she tried to ignore the lingering idea of writing until it became impossible. She wrote in secret for a long time before finally finding the courage to unleash her creative streak, and in October 2012 she released This Man. She took a chance on a story with some intense characters and sparked incredible reactions from women all over the world. Writing powerful love stories and creating addictive characters have become her passion, a passion she now shares with her devoted readers.
- [Tawny Weber](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tawny-weber/) - New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling author of more than thirty books, Tawny Weber writes sassy, emotional romances with a dash of humor, featuring hot alpha heroes. It’s all about the sexy attitude! A fan of Johnny Depp, cupcakes, and her very own hero husband, Tawny enjoys scrapbooking, gardening, spending time with her family and dogs, and hanging out with readers on Facebook. Fans are invited to check out Tawny’s books at her website, www.tawnyweber.com. For extra fun, join her Red Hot Readers Club for goodies like free reads, complete first chapters, recipes, insider story info and much more. Her books are available in sixteen countries.
- [Marie Force](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/marie-force/) - Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 contemporary romances, including the Gansett Island Series, which has sold more than 2.3 million books, and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books, which has sold more than 1.2 million books. In addition, she is the author of the Green Mountain Series as well as the erotic romance Quantum Series, written under the slightly modified name of M.S. Force. All together, her books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide! Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
- [Lauren Smith](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lauren-smith/) - LAUREN SMITH, winner of the 2014 Historical International Digital Award, attended Oklahoma State University, where she earned a B.A. in both history and political science. Drawn to paintings and museums, Lauren is obsessed with antiques and satisfies her fascination with history by writing and exploring exotic, ancient lands. She is currently an attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- [Kari Lynn Dell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kari-lynn-dell/) - Kari Lynn Dell brings a lifetime of personal experience to writing western romance. She is a third-generation rancher and rodeo competitor who works on the family ranch in northern Montana, inside the Blackfeet Nation. She exists in a perpetual state of horse-induced poverty along with her husband, Max and Spike the (female) Cowdogs, a few hundred cows and a son who resides on the same general segment of the autism spectrum as Cole Jacobs and doesn’t believe names should be gender-limited.
- [Whitney Barbetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/whitney-barbetti/) - I am a wife to one and a mom to two humans and one cat. I have a deep and abiding love for nachos – especially the kind with the liquid cheese, like from Taco Bell (sorry). I run on less than four hours of sleep thanks to copious amounts of Diet Coke. (Note: this paragraph is not sponsored by anyone except my hungry stomach.) As a Navy brat, I grew up all over the country, from California and up the east coast from Florida to New England and Colorado. I currently live in Idaho, where we have lots of potatoes and windmills. I write character-driven contemporary romance novels, heavy on the emotional connection. I LOVE love. I love writing about broken characters who find their soul mates.
- [Karla Sorensen](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/karla-sorensen/) - Well, let’s see … I’m a wife and a mother. I’m a writer who wants to make people smile when they read my words. I own a dog that sheds roughly eighteen pounds of hair every day. I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I’m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob. If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I'll love you forever.
- [Kandi Steiner](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kandi-steiner/) - Kandi Steiner is a bestselling author and whiskey connoisseur living in Tampa, FL. Best known for writing “emotional rollercoaster” stories, she loves bringing flawed characters to life and writing about real, raw romance — in all its forms. No two Kandi Steiner books are the same, and if you’re a lover of angsty, emotional, and inspirational reads, she’s your gal. An alumna of the University of Central Florida, Kandi graduated with a double major in Creative Writing and Advertising/PR with a minor in Women’s Studies. She started writing back in the 4th grade after reading the first Harry Potter installment. In 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.” She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a die hard hopeless romantic, and likes to highlight all the challenges of love as well as the triumphs. When Kandi isn’t writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, talking with her extremely vocal cat, and spending time with her friends and family. She enjoys live music, traveling, anything heavy in carbs, beach days, movie marathons, craft beer and sweet wine — not necessarily in that order.
- [Terry Spear](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/terry-spear/) - USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has written over 35 paranormal romances featuring werewolf and jaguar shapeshifters. In 2008, Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry also creates award-winning teddy bears that have found homes all over the world and is raising two Havanese puppies. She lives in Spring, Texas.
- [Debra Anastasia](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/debra-anastasia/) - Debra Anastasia likes to write from her heart, her soul or her butt. The genres she dabbles in are examples of that. There are two paranormal romances in the Seraphim Series and now four contemporary romances in the Poughkeepsie Brotherhood Series and a stand alone in the same genre, Mercy. Fire Down Below and Fire in the Hole, Booty Camp Dating Service and Beast complete her comedy repertoire. The Revenger, a dark paranormal romance, is finally in the light, and the last, a novella called Late Night with Andres, is special because 100% of the proceeds go to breast cancer research. Debra lives in Maryland with her two kids, husband of twenty years and two dogs. The king of the house is clearly the tuxedo cat that is the size of a small donkey.
- [Whiteny Barbetti](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/whiteny-barbetti/)
- [Isabel Cooper](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/isabel-cooper/) - During the day, ISABEL COOPER maintains her guise as a mild-mannered project manager in legal publishing. In her spare time, she enjoys video games, ballroom dancing, various geeky hobbies, and figuring out what wine goes best with leftover egg rolls. Cooper lives with two thriving houseplants in Boston, Massachusetts.
- [Mimi Jean Pamfiloff](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mimi-jean-pamfiloff/) - Mimi lives with her hubby, two pirates-in-training (their boys), and the rat terrier duo, Snowflake and Mini Me, in Arizona. She hopes to make you laugh when you need it most and continues to pray daily that leather pants will make a big comeback for men
- [Kelly Elliott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kelly-elliott/) - Kelly Elliott is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author. Since finishing her bestselling Wanted series, Kelly continues to spread her wings while remaining true to her roots and giving readers stories rich with hot protective men, strong women and beautiful surroundings. Her bestselling works include, Wanted, Broken, Without You, and Unconditional Love, to name just a few. Kelly has been passionate about writing since she was fifteen. After years of filling journals with stories, she finally followed her dream and published her first novel, Wanted, in November of 2012. Kelly lives in central Texas with her husband, daughter, and two pups. When she’s not writing, Kelly enjoys reading and spending time with her family. She is down to earth and very in touch with her readers, both on social media and at signings.
- [Ella Maise](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ella-maise/) - I’m a big dreamer. And that’s how it all started for me, really. Reading and dreaming. I love nothing more than to escape real life to find those very few magical moments in a book. I love how it has the power of stealing your worries away, putting a smile on your face even when smiling is the last thing on your mind. Crushing on fictional characters is also another bonus. Through my words, if I can manage to make even one-person smile, it means I’ve done my job well. Writing became my world and I can’t imagine myself doing anything other than creating new characters and telling their stories. You know how some things simply makes your heart burst with happiness? A really good book, a puppy, hugging someone you’ve been missing like crazy? That’s what writing does to me. And all the hard work, all the sleepless nights, all the anxiety that comes with publishing…everything is worth it at the end.
- [R.S. Grey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/r-s-grey/) - R.S. Grey is the USA Today bestselling author of thirteen novels, including THE FOXE & THE HOUND. She lives in Texas with her husband and two dogs, and can be found reading, binge-watching reality TV, or practicing yoga!
- [Katee Robert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katee-robert/)
- [Harper Sloan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/harper-sloan/) - Harper is a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL and USA TODAY bestselling author residing in Georgia with her husband and three daughters. She has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books, hibachi, tattoos and Game of Thrones. When she isn’t writing you can almost always find her with a book in hand.
- [R.C. Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rcryan/) - About R.C. Ryan: New York Times bestselling author R.C. Ryan has written more than ninety novels, both contemporary and historical. R.C. Ryan is a pseudonym of New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ryan Langan. For more information on R.C. and her books, please visit RuthLangan.com.
- [Lili St. Germain](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lili-st-germain/) - Lili writes books about vengeful girls and villainous men. Her USA Today bestselling Gypsy Brothers series focuses on a morally bankrupt biker gang and the girl who seeks her vengeance upon them. The Cartel series is a prequel trilogy of full-length novels that explores the beginnings of the club, to be released worldwide in print and ebook in 2015 by HarperCollins. Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and so far is loving every minute of it. Her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband and beautiful daughter, good coffee, Tarantino movies and spending hours on Pinterest. She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write
- [Meghan March](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/meghan-march/) - A New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels, Meghan March has been known to wear camo face paint and tromp around in woods wearing mud-covered boots, all while sporting a perfect manicure. She’s also impulsive, easily entertained, and absolutely unapologetic about the fact that she loves to read and write smut. Her past lives include slinging auto parts, selling lingerie, making custom jewelry, and practicing corporate law. Writing books about dirty talking alpha males and the strong, sassy women who bring them to their knees is by far the most fabulous job she’s ever had.
- [Kat Cantrell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kat-cantell/) - USA Today Bestselling Author Kat Cantrell read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance? When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a taekwondo tournament, watching Big Bang Theory or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North Texas. She was a former Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a former RWA® Golden Heart® finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.
- [Kennedy Layne](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kennedy-layne/) - Kennedy Layne is a USA Today bestselling author. She draws inspiration for her military romantic suspense novels in part from her not-so-secret second life as a wife of a retired Marine Master Sergeant. He doubles as her critique partner, beta reader, and military consultant. They live in the Midwest with their teenage son and menagerie of pets. The loyal dogs and mischievous cats appreciate her writing days as much as she does, usually curled up in front of the fireplace. She loves hearing from readers–find out how to connect with her at www.kennedylayne.com.
- [Whitney G](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/whitney-g/) - Whitney G. is a twenty-eight-year-old optimist who is obsessed with travel, tea, and great coffee. She’s also a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of several contemporary novels, and the cofounder of The Indie Tea–an inspirational blog for indie romance authors. When she’s not chatting with readers on her Facebook Page, you can find her on her website at http://www.whitneygbooks.com or on instagram: @whitneyg.author. (If she’s not in either of those places, she’s probably locked away working on another crazy story.)
- [Lynn Raye Harris](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lynn-raye-harris/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynn Raye Harris burst onto the scene when she won a writing contest held by Harlequin. A former finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award and the National Readers Choice Award, Lynn lives in Alabama with her handsome former military husband and two crazy cats. Lynn writes about hot military heroes, sizzling international billionaires, and the women who dare to tame them. Her books have been called “exceptional and emotional,” “intense,” and “sizzling.” To date, Lynn’s books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
- [Meghan Quinn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/meghan-quinn/) - Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped. Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking. Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
- [Nina Lane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/nine-lane/) - New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Nina Lane writes hot, sexy romances about professors, bad boys, candy makers, and protective alpha males who find themselves consumed with love for one woman alone. Originally from California, Nina holds a PhD in Art History and an MA in Library and Information Studies, which means she loves both research and organization. She also enjoys traveling and thinks St. Petersburg, Russia is a city everyone should visit at least once. Although Nina would go back to college for another degree because she’s that much of a bookworm and a perpetual student, she now lives the happy life of a full-time writer.
- [Tanya Eby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/tanya-eby/)
- [Katie MacAlister](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/katie-macalister/) - With more than fifty books under her belt, Katie’s novels have been translated into numerous languages, been recorded as audiobooks, received several awards, and are regulars on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. A self-proclaimed gamer girl, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her dogs, and frequently can be found hanging around online.
- [Emma Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/emma-scott/) - Emma Scott is a bestselling author of emotional, character-driven romances in which art and love intertwine to heal, and in which love always wins. If you enjoy thoughtful, realistic stories with diverse characters and kind-hearted heroes, you will enjoy my novels.
- [1001 Dark Nights](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/1001-dark-nights/)
- [Maria Vale](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/maria-vale/) - MARIA VALE is a journalist who has worked for Publishers Weekly, Glamour magazine, Redbook, the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a logophile and a bibliovore and a worrier about the world. Trained as a medievalist, she tries to shoehorn the language of Beowulf into things that don’t really need it. She lives with her husband and two sons in New York.
- [Corinne Michaels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/corinne-michaels/) - New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Corinne Michaels is the author of nine romance novels. She’s an emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun loving mom of two beautiful children. Corinne is happily married to the man of her dreams and is a former Navy wife. After spending months away from her husband while he was deployed, reading and writing was her escape from the loneliness. She enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak and finding a way to heal them through their struggles. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love.
- [Melanie Harlow](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/melanie-harlow/) - USA Today Bestselling Author Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. When she’s not writing or reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and Homeland. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak. Melanie is the author of the AFTER WE FALL series, the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.
- [Kennedy Ryan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kennedy-ryan/) - A Top 30 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy Ryan writes about women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine and Frolic, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Atlanta Autism families, she has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for families living with autism.
- [Skye Warren](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/skye-warren/) - Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance. Her books have sold over one million copies. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.
- [C.D. Reiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/c-d-reiss/)
- [Anna Belfrage](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/anna-belfrage/) - Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a professional time-traveller. As such a profession does not exist, she settled for second best and became a financial professional with two absorbing interests, namely history and writing. These days, Anna combines an exciting day-job with a large family and her writing endeavours. Plus she always finds the time to try out new recipes, chase down obscure rose bushes and initiate a home renovation scheme or two. Her most recent release, A Torch in His Heart, is a step out of her comfort zone. Having previously published historical fiction & historical romance, with this first book about Jason and Helle Anna offers a dark and titillating contemporary romance, complete with a time-slip angle and hot & steamy scenes.
- [Helena Hunting](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/helena-hunting/) - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of PUCKED, Helena Hunting lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She’s writes contemporary romance ranging from new adult angst to romantic sports comedy.
- [Maxym M. Martineau](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/maxym-m-martineau/) - Maxym M. Martineau is an article and social media writer by day and a fantasy romance author by night. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Arizona State University, and lives with her husband and fur babies in Arizona.
- [Jayne Frost](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jayne-frost/) - Jayne Frost, author of the Sixth Street Bands Romance Series, grew up in California with a dream of moving to Seattle to become a rock star. When the grunge thing didn’t work out (she never even made it to the Washington border) Jayne set her sights on Austin, Texas. After quickly becoming immersed in the Sixth Street Music scene…and discovering she couldn’t actually sing, Jayne decided to do the next best thing–write kick ass romances about hot rockstars and the women that steal their hearts.
- [Ginger Scott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ginger-scott/) - Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling and Goodreads Choice and Rita Award-nominated author from Peoria, Arizona. She is the author of several young and new adult romances, including recent bestsellers The Hard Count, A Boy Like You, A Girl Like Me, Cry Baby, This Is Falling and Wild Reckless. A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. She has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for a hella long time. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns.
- [Abby Jimenez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/abby-jimenez/) - Abby Jimenez is a Food Network champion and USA Today best selling author with her hit debut novel The Friend Zone. Abby founded Nadia Cakes out of her home kitchen back in 2007. The bakery has since gone on to win numerous Food Network competitions and has amassed an international cult following. Her wry literary wit was spotlighted as the admin behind the hilarious viral comments on the now famous Nadia Cakes Vageode™ cake. Abby loves a good romance, coffee, doglets, and not leaving the house.
- [Charleigh Rose](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/charleigh-rose/)
- [Kate Stewart](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/kate-stewart/)
- [Mandi Beck](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mandi-beck/)
- [Rochelle Paige](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rochelle-paige/)
- [Teagan Hunter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/teagan-hunter/)
- [Devney Perry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/devney-perry/)
- [Pamela Sparkman](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/pamela-sparkman/) - Pamela Sparkman grew up in Alabama. She became an avid reader at a young age. The written word has always fascinated her and she wrote her first short story while still in elementary school. Inspiration for her stories always begins with a song. She believes music is the pulse of life and books are the heart of it.When she isn’t writing, however, she’s spending time with her family and taking one day at a time. 
- [Molly Harper](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/molly-harper/)
- [Lucy Parker](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/lucy-parker/) - Lucy Parker lives in the gorgeous Central Otago region of New Zealand, where she feels lucky every day to look out at mountains, lakes, and vineyards. She has a degree in Art History, loves museums and art galleries, and doodles unrecognizable flowers when she has writer’s block. When she’s not writing, working or sleeping, she happily tackles the towering pile of to-be-read books that never gets any smaller. Thankfully, there’s always another story waiting. Her interest in romantic fiction began with a pre-teen viewing of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Firth-style), which prompted her to read the book as well. A family friend introduced her to Georgette Heyer, and the rest was history.
- [Rebecca Yarros](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rebecca-yarros/) - Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and a lover of all things coffee, chocolate, and Paleo. She is the author of the Flight & Glory, Renegades, and Legacy series. She loves military heroes, and has been blissfully married to hers for fifteen years. With six kids, she’s an autism mom and a hockey mom, and can order a mean pizza. Just don’t ask her to cook. She lives in Colorado with the hottest Apache pilot ever and their rambunctious gaggle of kids.
- [M. Mabie](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/m-mabie/) - Mabie lives in Illinois with her husband. She writes everything from steamy romantic comedies to angst-filled, pull your hair out drama. She enjoys it all. With her unconventional love stories, she tries to embody “real-life romance.” She cares about politics, but will not discuss them in public. She uses the same fork at every meal, watches Wayne’s World while cleaning, and lets her dog sleep on her head. She has always been a writer. In fact, she was born with a pen in her hand, which almost never happens. Almost. Mabie usually doesn’t speak in third-person. She promises.
- [Talia Hibbert](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/talia-hibbert/) - Talia Hibbert is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who lives in a bedroom full of books. Supposedly, there is a world beyond that room, but she has yet to drum up enough interest to investigate. She writes steamy, diverse romance because she believes that people of marginalised identities need honest and positive representation. Her interests include makeup, junk food, and unnecessary sarcasm. Talia and her many books reside in the English Midlands.
- [Alyssa Cole](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/alyssa-cole/) - Alyssa Cole is an award-winning author of historical, contemporary, and sci-fi romance. Her Civil War-set espionage romance An Extraordinary Union was the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award’s Best Book of 2017 and the American Library Association’s RUSA Best Romance for 2018, and A Princess in Theory was one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2018. She’s contributed to publications including Bustle, Shondaland, The Toast, Vulture, RT Book Reviews, and Heroes and Heartbreakers, and her books have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Library Journal, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she’s not working, she can usually be found watching anime or wrangling her pets.
- [Regina Hall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/regina-hall/)
- [Mindy Kaling](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/mindy-kaling/)
- [Madeleine Urban](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/madeleine-urban/) - Madeleine Urban is a down-home Kentucky girl who’s been writing since she could hold a crayon. Although she has written and published on her own, she truly excels when writing with co-authors. She lives with her husband, who is very supportive of her work, and two canine kids who only allow her to hug them when she has food. She wants to live at Disney World, the home of fairy dust, because she believes that with hard work, a little luck, and beloved family and friends, dreams really can come true.
- [Abigail Roux](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/abigail-roux/) - Abigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year. Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of Call of Duty throughout the house, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.
- [Jayci Lee](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jayci-lee/) - Jayci Lee writes poignant, sexy, and laugh-out-loud romance every free second she can scavenge. She lives in sunny California with her tall-dark-and-handsome husband, two amazing boys with boundless energy, and a fluffy rescue whose cuteness is a major distraction. At times, she cannot accommodate real life because her brain is full of drool worthy heroes and badass heroines clamoring to come to life.Because of all the books demanding to be written, Jayci writes full-time now, and is semi-retired from her fifteen-year career as a defense litigator. She loves food, wine, and travelling, and incidentally so do her characters. Books have always helped her grow, dream, and heal, and she hopes her books will do the same for you.
- [Melissa Lenhardt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/melissa-lenhardt/) - Melissa Lenhardt is a women’s fiction, mystery, and historical fiction author. Her debut mystery, STILLWATER, was a finalist for the 2014 Whidbey Writers’ MFA Alumni Emerging Writers Contest, and SAWBONES, her historical fiction debut, was hailed as a “thoroughly original, smart and satisfying hybrid, perhaps a new sub-genre: the feminist Western” by Lone Star Literary Life. The New York Times called her sixth novel, HERESY, “An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West”. THE SECRET OF YOU AND ME, her seventh novel and her first contemporary women’s fiction novel, will be published on May 5, 2020. When Melissa isn’t writing, she’s thinking, “I really should be writing” and eating Nutella or peanut butter straight out of the jar. A lifelong Texan, she lives in the Dallas area with her husband, two sons, and two Golden Retrievers.
- [Laura Lam](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/laura-lam/) - Originally from sunny California, Laura Lam now lives in cloudy Scotland. She is the author of the near-future space thriller, Goldilocks, feminist space opera Seven Devils (co-written with Elizabeth May), BBC Radio 2 Book Club section False Hearts, the companion novel Shattered Minds, and the award-winning Micah Grey series: Pantomime, Shadowplay, and Masquerade. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in anthologies such as Nasty Women, Solaris Rising 3, Cranky Ladies of History, Scotland in Space, and more. Her romance alter ego is Laura Ambrose. She lectures part-time at Edinburgh Napier University on the Creative Writing MA.
- [Elizabeth May](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/elizabeth-may/) - Elizabeth May is the author of the YA fantasy trilogy The Falconer (The Falconer, The Vanishing Throne, The Fallen Kingdom), and short fiction published in the anthology Toil & Trouble. She was born and raised in California before moving to Scotland, where she earned her PhD at the University of St Andrews. She currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband and two cats. Elizabeth May writes romance under the pen name Katrina Kendrick
- [Rina Kent](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/rina-kent/)
- [Catriona Silvey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/catriona-silvey/)
- [Brigitte Knightley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/brigitte-knightley/)
- [Ashley Poston](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/authors/ashley-poston/)

## Narrators

- [Amanda Ronconi](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/amanda-ronconi/)
- [Jason Clarke](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/jason-clarke/)
- [Jonathan Davis](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/jonathan-davis/)
- [Liz Thompson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/liz-thompson/)
- [Dina Pearlman](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/dina-pearlman/)
- [Stella Bloom](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/stella-bloom/)
- [Joniece Abbott Pratt](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/joniece-abbott-pratt/)
- [Joniece Abbott](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/joniece-abbott/)
- [Esther Wane](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/esther-wane/)
- [Gemma Dawson](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/gemma-dawson/)
- [Robin Miles](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/robin-miles/)
- [Clara Francesca](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/clara-francesca/)
- [Lance Greenfield](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/lance-greenfield/)
- [Jakobi Diem](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/jakobi-diem/)
- [Ralph Lister](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/ralph-lister/)
- [John Hartley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/john-hartley/)
- [Rupert Channing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/rupert-channing/)
- [Sarah Coomes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/narrators/sarah-coomes/)

## Series

- [Rules of Scoundrels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/rules-of-scoundrels/)
- [A Breakwater Bay](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/a-breakwater-bay/)
- [Moon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/moon/)
- [Bad Boys Undercover # 0.5](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/bad-boys-undercover-0-5/)
- [Clan Sinclair](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/clan-sinclair/)
- [Demonica](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/demonica/)
- [Dark Protectors](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dark-protectors/)
- [Neighbors From Hell](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/neighbors-from-hell/)
- [Head over Heals](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/head-over-heals/)
- [Eternal Mates](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/eternal-mates/)
- [Lovett](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/lovett/)
- [Texas Novella](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/texas-novella/)
- [A Billionaires and Bikers Novella](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/a-billionaires-and-bikers-novella/)
- [Smythe-Smith Quartet](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/smythe-smith-quartet/)
- [The Amoveo Legend](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-amoveo-legend/)
- [Coral Cove](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/coral-cove/)
- [The MacIain Trilogy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-maciain-trilogy/)
- [Dark Obsession](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dark-obsession/)
- [The Sentinels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-sentinels/)
- [Second Sons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/second-sons/)
- [Shattered Past](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/shattered-past/)
- [The Mckinney Brothers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-mckinney-brothers/)
- [Moon Shifter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/moon-shifter/)
- [Cold Fury Hockey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/cold-fury-hockey/)
- [Bad Boys Undercover](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/bad-boys-undercover/)
- [Sinful Secrets](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/sinful-secrets/)
- [Silver Valley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/silver-valley/)
- [Dukes Behaving Badly #](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dukes-behaving-badly/)
- [Sex](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/sex/)
- [Love & Stiletto](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/love-stiletto/)
- [Dare to Love](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dare-to-love/)
- [Argeneau](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/argeneau/)
- [Stardust](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/stardust/)
- [Texas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/texas/)
- [The DeFiore Brothers Series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-defiore-brothers-series/)
- [U.S. Marshals](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/u-s-marshals/)
- [Break on Through](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/break-on-through/)
- [The Monsters in the Dark](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-monsters-in-the-dark/)
- [With Me in Seattle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/with-me-in-seattle/)
- [Stage Dive](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/stage-dive/)
- [Sin Brothers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/sin-brothers/)
- [Desperate Duchesses](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/desperate-duchesses/)
- [Forbidden Men](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/forbidden-men/)
- [Elements of Chemistry](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/elements-of-chemistry/)
- [Rock Canyon](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/rock-canyon/)
- [Until Her](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/until-her/)
- [The Rakes of Fallow Hall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-rakes-of-fallow-hall/)
- [Lost](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/lost/)
- [Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/scandalous-gentlemen-of-st-james/)
- [Indebted](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/indebted/)
- [Millworth Manor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/millworth-manor/)
- [Psy-Changeling](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/psy-changeling/)
- [Weathermages of Mystral](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/weathermages-of-mystral/)
- [Rule Breakers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/rule-breakers/)
- [Shifters Unbound](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/shifters-unbound/)
- [Eternal Guardians](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/eternal-guardians/)
- [Titan](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/titan/)
- [Guardians of Eternity](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/guardians-of-eternity/)
- [Realm Enforcers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/realm-enforcers/)
- [Frigid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/frigid/)
- [The last true vampire](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-last-true-vampire/)
- [Midnight](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/midnight/)
- [Men of Midnight](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/men-of-midnight/)
- [Crossing the Line](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/crossing-the-line/)
- [Leopard people](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/leopard-people/)
- [Undercover Associates](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/undercover-associates/)
- [The Renegade Royals](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-renegade-royals/)
- [Hearts](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/hearts/)
- [New York's Finest](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/new-yorks-finest/)
- [The Dark Elements](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-dark-elements/)
- [Wherlocke](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wherlocke/)
- [Bayou Heat](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/bayou-heat/)
- [Wait For you](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wait-for-you/)
- [Original Heartbreakers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/original-heartbreakers/)
- [Hitman](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/hitman/)
- [Oxford](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/oxford/)
- [Rock Kiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/rock-kiss/)
- [Midnight Breed](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/midnight-breed/)
- [The Boudreaux Series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-boudreaux-series/)
- [Chaos](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/chaos/)
- [Scandal & Scoundrel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/scandal-scoundrel/)
- [Supernatural Enforcers Agency](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/supernatural-enforcers-agency/)
- [Knitting in the City](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/knitting-in-the-city/)
- [The Scorpius Syndrome](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-scorpius-syndrome/)
- [Fusion](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/fusion/)
- [Rugby](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/rugby/)
- [Searching For](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/searching-for/)
- [Devil's Duke](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/devils-duke/)
- [Vigilantes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/vigilantes/)
- [Untamed Hearts Book](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/untamed-hearts-book/)
- [Morgans of Nashville](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/morgans-of-nashville/)
- [Dive Bar](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dive-bar/)
- [Raven Riders](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/raven-riders/)
- [Secrets at Thorncliff Manor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/secrets-at-thorncliff-manor/)
- [Stardust Texas](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/stardust-texas/)
- [Romancing the Clarksons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/romancing-the-clarksons/)
- [Tracers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/tracers/)
- [Saints of Denver](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/saints-of-denver/)
- [Lords of the Underworld](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/lords-of-the-underworld/)
- [Wedding Belles](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wedding-belles/)
- [Deadly Angels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/deadly-angels/)
- [The Ravenels](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-ravenels/)
- [Billionaires and Bridesmaids](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/billionaires-and-bridesmaids/)
- [Wicked trilogy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wicked-trilogy/)
- [Guild Hunter](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/guild-hunter/)
- [Fortune's Island](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/fortunes-island/)
- [A Wicked Saga](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/a-wicked-saga/)
- [Jewel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/jewel/)
- [The Wedding Belles](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-wedding-belles/)
- [Sydney Smoke Rugby Series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/sydney-smoke-rugby-series/)
- [Guthrie Brothers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/guthrie-brothers/)
- [American Valor](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/american-valor/)
- [The Sons of Steel Row](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-sons-of-steel-row/)
- [Wingmen Inc.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wingmen-inc/)
- [Fantasyland](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/fantasyland/)
- [Spindle Cove](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/spindle-cove/)
- [Made in Jersey](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/made-in-jersey/)
- [The Disgraceful Dukes](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/the-disgraceful-dukes/)
- [Men in Uniform](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/men-in-uniform/)
- [Slow Burn](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/slow-burn/)
- [Hart's Boardwalk](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/harts-boardwalk/)
- [Wallflower Weddings](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/wallflower-weddings/)
- [Grizzlies Gone Wild](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/grizzlies-gone-wild/)
- [Explosive Series](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/explosive-series/)
- [Seduction Diaries](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/seduction-diaries/)
- [Blood Brothers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/blood-brothers/)
- [Dragon Heat](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/dragon-heat/)
- [Suits Undone](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/suits-undone/)
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- [Sins for All Seasons](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/sins-for-all-seasons/)
- [Legacy of Gods](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/series/legacy-of-gods/)

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- [Forever Yours](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/forever-yours/)
- [KR Press, LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/kr-press-llc/)
- [L.H. Cosway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/l-h-cosway/)
- [Entangled Publishing LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/entangled-publishing-llc/)
- [Harlequin Intrigue](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/harlequin-intrigue/)
- [Entangled Publishing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/entangled-publishing/)
- [Sourcebooks Landmark](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/sourcebooks-landmark/)
- [Audible Studios](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/audible-studios/)
- [St. Martin's Paperbacks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/st-martins-paperbacks/)
- [Amazon Digital Services](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/amazon-digital-services/)
- [B.B. Reid](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/b-b-reid/)
- [Entangled Publishing, LLC (Otherworld)](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/entangled-publishing-llc-otherworld/)
- [Headline Book Publishing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/headline-book-publishing/)
- [Jennifer L. Armentrout](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/jennifer-l-armentrout/)
- [Gallery Books](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/gallery-books/)
- [Rachel Van Dyken](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/rachel-van-dyken/)
- [JKB Publishing, LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/jkb-publishing-llc/)
- [Amazon Childrens Publishing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/amazon-childrens-publishing/)
- [Sourcebooks](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/sourcebooks/)
- [Harlequin Books](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/harlequin-books/)
- [Pocket Star](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/pocket-star/)
- [DL Grant, LLC.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/dl-grant-llc/)
- [HJTB, Inc](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/hjtb-inc/)
- [Red Dress Press](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/red-dress-press/)
- [WGW Books LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/wgw-books-llc/)
- [Samantha Young](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/samantha-young/)
- [Blunderwoman Productions](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/blunderwoman-productions/)
- [Laura Kaye](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/laura-kaye/)
- [Lexi Blake](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/lexi-blake/)
- [Snow Queen Publishing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/snow-queen-publishing/)
- [Hot-Lanta Publishing, LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/hot-lanta-publishing-llc/)
- [Tuxbury Publishing LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/tuxbury-publishing-llc/)
- [Aly Martinez](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/aly-martinez/)
- [Scribechick Media, LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/scribechick-media-llc/)
- [Devney Perry LLC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/devney-perry-llc/)
- [Audible Original](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/audible-original/)
- [Dianne Duvall](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/dianne-duvall/)
- [C. Scott Publishing Corp.](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/c-scott-publishing-corp/)
- [Blue Box Press](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/blue-box-press/)
- [Little Dog Press](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/little-dog-press/)
- [Dreamspinner Press](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/dreamspinner-press/)
- [Blackthorn Books](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/blackthorn-books/)
- [HarperCollins UK](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/harpercollins-uk/)
- [HQ](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/hq/)

## Genres

- [Fantasy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fantasy/)
- [Fiction](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction/)
- [Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/romance/)
- [Contemporary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/contemporary/)
- [Western](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/western/)
- [General](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/general/)
- [Anthologies (multiple authors)](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/anthologies-multiple-authors/)
- [Urban](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/urban/)
- [Paranormal](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/paranormal/)
- [Historical](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/historical/)
- [Military](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/military/)
- [Contemporary Women](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/contemporary-women/)
- [New Adult](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/new-adult/)
- [Medical](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/medical/)
- [Suspense](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/suspense/)
- [Erotica](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/erotica/)
- [Sports](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/sports/)
- [Scottish](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/scottish/)
- [Regency](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/regency/)
- [Action & Adventure](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/action-adventure/)
- [Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fairy-tales-folk-tales-legends-mythology/)
- [Romantic Comedy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/romantic-comedy/)
- [Coming of Age](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/coming-of-age/)
- [Medieval](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/medieval/)
- [Dark](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/dark/)
- [bdsm](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/bdsm/)
- [Thrillers](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/thrillers/)
- [Science Fiction](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/science-fiction/)
- [Young adult](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/young-adult/)
- [Victorian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/victorian/)
- [Dystopian](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/dystopian/)
- [Post-Apocalyptic](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/post-apocalyptic/)
- [Family Life](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/family-life/)
- [Multicultural & Interracial](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/multicultural-interracial/)
- [Humorous](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/humorous/)
- [Holidays](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/holidays/)
- [Mystery & Detective](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/mystery-detective/)
- [Contemporary Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/contemporary-romance/)
- [MC Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/mc-romance/)
- [Abuse](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/abuse/)
- [Romantic Suspense](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/romantic-suspense/)
- [Adult](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/adult/)
- [Mob Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/mob-romance/)
- [Irish](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/irish/)
- [Biographies & Memoirs](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/biographies-memoirs/)
- [College Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/college-romance/)
- [Nerd and Jock Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/nerd-and-jock-romance/)
- [crime](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/crime/)
- [Women's fiction](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/womens-fiction/)
- [Dark romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/dark-romance/)
- [Cozy Mystery](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/cozy-mystery/)
- [Fiction / Romance / Contemporary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-contemporary/)
- [Fiction / Romance / Suspense](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-suspense/)
- [Fiction / Romance / New Adult](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-new-adult/)
- [Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-science-fiction-time-travel/)
- [Fiction / Literary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-literary/)
- [Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-romantic-comedy/)
- [Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-fantasy-contemporary/)
- [Fiction / Romance / General](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-general/)
- [Fiction / Romance / Fantasy](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-fantasy/)
- [Fiction / Science Fiction / General](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-science-fiction-general/)
- [Fiction / Fantasy / Romance](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-fantasy-romance/)
- [Fiction / Fantasy / Gaslamp](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-fantasy-gaslamp/)
- [Fiction / Alternative History](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-alternative-history/)
- [Fiction / Women](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-women/)
- [Fiction / Romance / Paranormal / General](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/fiction-romance-paranormal-general/)
- [Magical realism](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/genres/magical-realism/)

## Sources

- [Purchased](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/purchased/)
- [Netgalley](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/netgalley/)
- [Publishing company](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/publishing-company/)
- [Grand Central Publishing](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/grand-central-publishing/)
- [Edelweiss](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/edelweiss/)
- [Author](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/author/)
- [the Author](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/the-author/)
- [the publisher](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/the-publisher/)
- [Promotion Company](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/promotion-company/)
- [Library](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/library/)
- [Giveaway](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/sources/giveaway/)

## Formats

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- [eBook](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/ebook/)
- [Hardback](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/hardback/)
- [Paperback](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/paperback/)
- [ARC](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/arc/)
- [Kindle](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/kindle/)
- [Audiobook](https://www.afortressofbooks.com/reviews/formats/audiobook/)