Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Summer Escapades by Barb Shuler & KA Graham

 

Title: Summer Escapades
Series: Summers in Seaside Collection #14
Authors: Barb Shuler & KA Graham
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 9, 2022


If she won’t offer to bury a body for you, is she really your best friend?

Mara Applegate thought she had it all: A high-end, lucrative career she loved and a handsome man who loved her.

It was the start of a happily ever after until it all fell apart and slipped between her fingers. It’s one thing to find out her fiancรฉ never loved her. It’s another to have him throw that misplaced love in her face. His choices were now her fault.

Needing a safe place to recollect herself, Mara calls her long-time best friend and takes a road trip to Oregon. Brenna was now the only person she had in the world. The one person that, no matter what, would never abandon her.

Two friends, once separated by distance and life, set out on a new adventure. They’re on a search to find themselves and maybe, just maybe, find happiness.

Can the men they encounter handle their brand of crazy, or are they doomed to be a passing fling?


REVIEW
Rating: ☆☆☆☆

Mara is getting out of town as her life has just fallen apart. The man she loved, she caught cheating. No second chances here. She heads to her best friend Brenna and a trip to Seaside for girl time. Whilst these two find a couple of pretty gorgeous men whilst there, the focus of this was really on the friendship between the two girls.

These two will do anything for each other and the obvious place for Mara to go when things go wrong. Brenna was willing to go to battle and does go to battle when the ex doesn't take a hint and leave her alone.

I loved the relationship between these two girls and this is what made this one of my favourite's in the collection so far. The strength of friendship can help overcome the obstacles of life.









Welcome to Summers in Seaside, a small town located along the Oregon Coast and home of the Seaside Festival. This brand new series of short contemporary romance stories is filled with sun, sand and summer adventures that will tug at your heart strings.


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Barb is a Carolina girl by right and a Texan by birth. By day she’s a desk jockey for a rural transportation company and a book lover, reading through as many books as she can. At night, though, she turns into her alter ego: a writer—cape optional, depending on her mood.

Her stories are a mix of real-life events, personal experiences, and the craziness of her own imagination and those of her best friends. And when their imaginations blend together, it can be crazy. Barb writes in multiple genres, encounters new adventures, creates new worlds, and has a fantastic time breathing life into new stories, creating something she hopes inspires anyone who reads to fall in love with them as she has.

Barb lives by one little rule: tomorrow is never guaranteed, so make sure you live each day to its fullest.



KA Graham grew up in a small town in Oregon. Through the years, her love for writing and poetry turned into something she had only dreamt of – writing her own book. She's faced many obstacles in her life, but the love and devotion of her parents have always kept her grounded. She is an avid reader, blogger and does PA work for a few authors, which keeps her quite busy. She's a hard rock music lover and horror movie buff with a love and appreciation for tattoos. Her addictions include copious amounts of caffeine, Chinese food, and Haribos.



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Booked for the Summer by Monica Misho-Grems

 

Title: Booked for the Summer
Series: Summers in Seaside Collection #13
Author: Monica Misho-Grems
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 8, 2022


She needs to finish her book. He needs to balance his out.

Maddie, a budding romance author - whose first book made the whole author thing seem easy - is stuck. The words won’t come to her, and the page remains empty after months. With a pushy ex-boyfriend for an agent, Maddie feels the pressure as her new deadline quickly approaches. Having run out of ideas to get over her writer’s block, Maddie books a summer stay at a cute, quaint, little ranch on the Oregon coast. Positive that a change of scenery will do the trick, she sets off to do the one thing she’d never expected to do: become the protagonist in her own romance novel.

Lifelong rancher Jason Harper is struggling to keep his family’s ranch afloat. With the livestock industry hitting a rough patch, he is forced to dip his toes into another industry he knows very little about. With one final hail mary to save the generations’ worth of Harper blood, sweat, and tears, Jason decides to rent out his ranch for the summer, with hopes that Seaside’s thriving tourist industry can keep him on his feet. He had no idea that this decision would lead to everything he needed…and more.

Can these two desperate strangers find the help they’ve been in dire need of? Or will the sparks of a summer romance cause everything they’re working towards to crumble into the sea?

Buy Booked for the Summer now to get immersed in a forced proximity romance from the Summers in Seaside collection.


REVIEW
Rating: ☆☆☆☆


After a relatively successful first book, Maddie has to deliver a second to her ex-boyfriend agent, who keeps changing the goal posts on her. She has a severe case of writer's block. In attempt to get her mojo back, she decides to take a writing vacation on a ranch. This is Jason's ranch. The surly, introverted rancher is the last person you would expect to be taking guests on his ranch but money is tight and he has a developer who is out for his ranch.

Being at the ranch gets her writing going again which is down to the inspiration of the location but more likely Jason. She and Jason grow closer but Jason continues to push her away at every turn causing heart ache.

I loved Maddie who grows in confidence in her time at the ranch. She takes control back of her life and her writing career. Jason starts to let go really slowly but is focussed on saving his ranch. Jason's constant change in temperature did give me constant whiplash but it was necessary for his journey.





Welcome to Summers in Seaside, a small town located along the Oregon Coast and home of the Seaside Festival. This brand new series of short contemporary romance stories is filled with sun, sand and summer adventures that will tug at your heart strings.


Join the Summers in Seaside ๐’๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐Š๐” ๐‘๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž!
Running July 11 - September 15, 2022

Enter for your chance(s) to win a Kindle Fire + an Amazon.com gift card to fill it with, a set of signed paperbacks, and more!
* Read books
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Read as many or as little books as you want, but the more you read, the bigger your chances are of winning!

PLEASE NOTE: reviews on Goodreads, BookBub, & Amazon are OPTIONAL but also very much appreciated by the authors.

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Hi! I’m Monica. I write romance, not just any romance, though. I write romance that feels real and deep and has other fun and exciting elements to it. I love including other genres in my romance stories like action, suspense, and crime.

It all started with my love of reading. My mom used to read to me every night. I can’t remember a time in my childhood when she didn’t, until I became a rebellious teenager of course! This love of reading eventually morphed into wanting to create my own stories. I fell in love with writing at a young age. I started with fanfiction at the age of 12 and have been writing ever since.

As I’ve read other’s stories and have written my own, I’ve found it can be easy to let characters fall into societal stereotypes. I feel this is especially easy with female characters. They can so often fall into the Mary-Sue type and be perfect with no flaws or sharp edges or, you know, real personalities. Here’s what I aim to bring to you. Real, messed up, flawed, angry, hurt, traumatized characters.

As a victim of trauma myself, I aim to bring a real-life feel to my characters and stories. While this all may sound sad or morbid, that’s not all I bring to the table I assure you. These characters are also strong and independent despite their pasts, like so many of us are. Take a look at my work and see if you can relate or be inspired by the words on the pages, because you are strong and amazing and a survivor too!

Come on in and join a fantastic community focused on love, support, and equality. Your comments help keep me inspired and motivated! So, if you’ve got anything to say, say it! Thank you so much for being part of everything here. There are plenty of ways that you can become more involved. You can add me on Facebook and follow me on TikTok @monicamishogrems_author. Make sure to come say hi, I promise to respond!



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