Finding Summer by Cassandra Cripps

 

Title: Finding Summer

Series: Summers in Seaside Collection #12

Author: Cassandra Cripps

Genre: Enemies to Lovers/MFM

Release Date: August 5, 2022

I’m not normal.

I’ll never be normal.

But spending my life hiding behind closed curtains just doesn’t work anymore. I want to live, really live. Like feel warm sand beneath my toes, the sun on my face, and laughter inside my heart, live.

Stepping outside was the hard part.

Falling for my neighbor, easier than I thought. But finding out my neighbor has a twin brother that wants me too?

I’m not sure I’m ready for both of them, but I can’t give either of them up.

What happens when they find out how broken I am? That I’ll never be normal?

REVIEW

Rating: ☆☆☆☆

Whilst this was a MFM read, with sexy twins it was so much more than that.

Asra is a complex character who has been diagnosed with a chronic illness that can be brought on by alcohol, stress or the sun. Most people don't understand and she lives a lonely life because of this. Her days are turned upside down for the most part so she can avoid most of the sun in the day. As a book cover designer she can work as flexibly as she needs to.

When Breckin and Brendan move in next door, her life becomes even more as she is attracted to them but they do things that annoy her greatly. So much so that they become borderline enemies. But the men want Asra in their lives, in their hearts and in their beds. When they find out about Asra's condition they are incredible - we need more Brekin and Brendan's in the world. They were kind, considering, caring and protective but they were equally keen to show Asra at every opportunity how they felt for her both inside and outside the bedroom. They found ways to give her experiences that didn't trigger her illness but most importantly they didn't treat her any less and instead they treated her some more.

Whilst this was an MFM read and there is plenty of heat and sizzle coming out but this was more than that. This was a sweet and mature read.

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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We all live in the illusions of our own realities. Cassandra's reality lies between the quiet bridge of complex and chaotic. A single mother to two amazing boys, graphic artist, author, avid home gardener, baker, reader, and introvert, her hats are many. A refined goth, she's obsessed with tattoos, shoes, hair dye, chocolate, metal and hip-hop music, and all things dark and creepy except bugs, those are too creepy. Each of her books contains a piece of her reality. Tiny fragments laced with forbidden romance, defining miniature slices of her truths.

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Coming Home by C.B. Noy

 

Title: Coming Home

Series: Mountain Grove Book 1

Author: C.B. Noy

Genre: Romantic Suspense, Small Town Romance, Instalove Romance

Release Date: September 6, 2022

Cover Design: Jena Bignola

Hayden

What happened to my perfect life? Ok perfect wasn’t the right word, but I was happy…ish. When my world imploded, I decided to go back to the place my parents had once called home. Mountain Grove, Maryland. I needed to feel some kind of a connection to them, to find the missing pieces of my shattered existence. So I packed up my meager possessions and left Miami in the dust. Everything was going according to plan until one accident and one pair of incredible green eyes managed to calm the raging storm that surrounded me. I was in so much trouble.

Caleb

Being the Chief of Police in Mountain Grove had its ups and downs. I had a great family, a job I loved, and a town full of people to safeguard. But I was coasting through life, searching for something I didn’t know existed. Until that night. The moment I saw those beautiful blues, my world shifted on its axis. She was mine. Loving her was the easiest thing I’d ever done, and keeping her safe was a challenge I didn’t hesitate to accept.

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C.B.Noy was born and raised in Northern Maryland and decided it was a great place to raise a family. She and her husband live ten minutes from the house she grew up in with the two youngest of their five kids. Rounding out the family are their two dogs and two cats. For nine years, she was a nurse in the ICU and then transitioned to home health nursing five years ago. She is an avid reader of romance and had an idea for a book one weekend. With the help of some seriously awesome and amazing friends, and the support of her family, the Mountain Grove series was born.

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A Girl Named Charlie by Micki Fredericks

 

Title: A Girl Named Charlie

Author: Micki Fredericks

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Release Date: July 1, 2022

 

★★★★★ Amazon Review - “This was such a cute and fun and heartwarming story about journeys and destinations and real life situations.”

“If life was regulated by star ratings, I would be a one… maybe one and a half star.”

Single mom, Charlie, is trying to make it to the end of the week without another major catastrophe. Her day-to-day life is nothing what she expected it to be, and she doesn’t have time to figure out where everything went wrong. Keeping her head above water has proven to be harder than avoiding her ex-husband and his new girlfriend.

Topping the list of things she doesn’t have time for: laundry, balancing her bank account, and love.

But when dreamy Reid Fletcher, a handsome doctor from the city, moves into her little hometown of Blueberry Pointe, Charlie wonders if maybe her list is too long.

It seems the sexy doctor is determined to find a way into Charlie’s life, even if that means jumping into the eye of the storm and making her struggles his own.

Until life happens, tragedy strikes, and everything takes an all too familiar nose dive.

Can Charlie see through her brokenness and find her way back to happiness? Or will she do what she’s always done and put everyone else’s happiness before her own?

No one knows exactly how this will turn out, especially not… A girl named Charlie.

Micki is a small-town Iowa girl with a flair for the dramatics. Her favorite thing to do is people watch and make up romantic scenarios in her head. She loves her family, coffee and tacos.

When not reading, writing or watching Korean zombie movies, you can usually find her supporting one one of her five kids as they sing, dance or act on a stage somewhere. While her kids were born with stars in their eyes, the idea of being the center of attention makes Micki want to pass out.

Her other hobbies include wrestling with her two American Bulldog rescues, Ozzy and Luna, or begging her cat, Cora, for attention.

Micki is obsessed with growly alphas and the strong women who set them free.

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