2023 | January Book Haul

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Barnes & Noble Book Haul:

It has been a long time since the last time I bought a book at full price. Well, I received a gift card, from my sister, as a Christmas gift and you best believe I put it to good use! I bought three books I have had my sights on for the longest time.

Misconduct
By: Penelope Douglas

Synopsis:

Former tennis player Easton Bradbury is trying to be the best teacher she can be, trying to reach her bored students, trying to forget her past. What brought her to this stage in her life isn’t important. She can’t let it be. But now one parent-teacher meeting may be her undoing…

Meeting Tyler Marek for the first time makes it easy for Easton to see why his son is having trouble in school. The man knows how to manage businesses and wealth, not a living, breathing teenage boy. Or a young teacher, for that matter, though he tries to. And yet…there is something about him that draws Easton in—a hint of vulnerability, a flash of attraction, a spark that might burn.

Wanting him is taboo. Needing him is undeniable. And his long-awaited touch will weaken Easton’s resolve—and reveal what should stay hidden…

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Ji2ibh
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/misconductpd

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Sinner (Priest Series, Book Two)
By: Sierra Simone

Synopsis:

He leads a life of sin, and she’s committed to a life of virtue.

Sean Bell is not a good man, and he’s never pretended to be. He doesn’t believe in goodness, God, or any happy ending that isn’t paid for in advance. There are words for men like him: playboy. Womanizer. Skirt-chaser. Sinner. When he meets a gorgeous college girl at a fundraiser, he has no problem telling her exactly what filthy things he wants to do to her―until he realizes she’s his best friend’s little sister, Zenobia “Zenny” Iverson, all grown up. Worse than that…she’s also about to become a nun.

Zenny, though, isn’t looking to play it safe during her final month of freedom. She wants to make sure choosing God is the right path, and to do that, she propositions Sean to show her every carnal temptation she’s leaving behind. Unable to refuse, Sean finds himself falling for her, body and soul, and questioning not just the morals he’s dodged for years, but his relationship with the God Zenny has pledged herself to. The only problem is…what if Sean wants Zenny to choose him instead of Him?

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ZPuDLw
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/sinnerss

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Saint (Priest Series, Book Three)
By: Sierra Simone

Synopsis:

It would take a saint to resist Elijah Iverson.

Aiden was the last person in the world anyone expected to become a monk. But the decision to become a monk saved his life, and he’s determined to do it right, even if it’s taken him from his millionaire party-boy lifestyle…and the love of his life, Elijah Iverson. Four-plus years haven’t made letting Elijah go any easier, but at least Aiden hasn’t had to come face-to-face with those whiskey eyes and soft mouth since he left. That is, until Elijah shows up on his doorstep, assigned to accompany Aiden on a European monastery road trip for an article he’s writing.

The pull is still there between them, but Aiden knows he can’t have Elijah back. He broke his heart when he left, and now Elijah’s engaged to someone else. Aiden chose God. He chose his vows. Except, between whispered confessions and stolen kisses and moments bent over an ancient altar, those vows are feeling flimsier by the day. Vows or not, it would take a saint to resist Elijah…and Aiden’s sure as hell no saint.

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3kmjDVL
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/saintss

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Used Book Haul:

Cowboy Casanova (Rough Riders Series, Book Twelve)
By: Lorelei James

Synopsis:

His rough touch makes her lose control…

In Sundance, Wyoming, you can’t throw a boot without hitting a McKay cowboy, so Ben McKay is used to fading into the background. Except at The Rawhide Club, he’s known as Bennett, an imposing Dom surrounded by female subs eager for the attention of his long…whip.

Ainsley Hamilton is amazed by how well Bennett read her every secret yearning—and she’s stunned when they come face to face in Sundance. Now Ben’s urging her to explore her submissive side outside the club, and there’s something in his commanding gaze that makes it too easy to let him take the reins—of her fantasies and her pleasure.

Can Ben help Ainsley overcome her fear that a relationship built on dark sexual appetites won’t survive the light of day?

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3XpqPPy
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/cowboycasanovalj

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Shutout (The Scoring Series, Book One)
By: Jami Davenport

Synopsis:

Easton:
Hockey isn’t forever.
The money, excitement, and glory of being a professional hockey player meant more to me than a family, a home, and a forever. Another man has my forever, and I have hockey. I thought making the big bucks and playing against the best in the world would feel better than this. Instead I’m empty and hollow, like a big piece of my heart was hacked off. There’s something missing. Something big. Something I can never get back.

Caroline:
I loved him, but he wasn’t the love of my life.
My husband died too young, too suddenly, too tragically. I was unprepared with no education, no job skills, and no future plans. When a DNA test reveals my twins’ true parentage, I have no choice but to do the right thing. I turn to the one man who’d turned his back on me all those years ago. I’d been shutout from his life, and I’d shut him out from mine. Can two strangers make a family? Do we have what it takes to forgive and move on?

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Ww57Ze
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/shutoutjd

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Down To You (Bad Boys Series, Book One)
By: M. Leighton

Synopsis:

One girl. Twin brothers. An uncommon triangle.

When college student Olivia Townsend returned home to help her father run his business, she never imagined a complication like Cash and Nash Davenport—twin brothers different in so many ways but with one thing in common: an uncontrollable desire for Olivia.

Cash is dangerous, sexy, and bad to the bone—a man whose kisses make Olivia forget she is playing with fire. Nash is successful, reliable and intensely passionate—and already taken. But all it takes is one soft stroke to make Olivia forget he belongs to someone else.

However, Olivia is in for a surprise. These boys have a secret that should make her run away as far and as fast as she can. If only it wasn’t too late. A sensual game between three players has begun, and it’s about to spin deliriously out of control.

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3krQgld
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/downtoyouml

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Charged (Saints of Denver Series, Book Two)
By: Jay Crownover

Synopsis:

Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Ever. Quaid is a high powered criminal attorney as slick as he is handsome. Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the wrong men.

When Avett lands in a sea of hot water because of one terrible mistake, the only person who can get her out of it is the insanely sexy lawyer. The last thing on earth she wants to do is rely on the no-nonsense attorney who thinks of her as nothing more than a nuisance. He literally has her fate in his hands. Yet there is something about him that makes her want to convince him to loosen his tie and have a little fun…with her.

Quaid never takes on clients like the impulsive young woman with a Technicolor dye job. She could stand to learn a hard lesson or two, but something about her guileless hazel eyes intrigues him. Still, he’s determined to keep their relationship strictly business. But doing so is becoming more impossible with each day he spends with her.

As they work side-by-side, they’ll have to figure out a way to get along and keep their hands off each other—because the chemistry between them is beyond charged.

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3J45jLZ
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/chargedjc

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The Professional (The Game Maker Series, Book One)
By: Kresley Cole

Synopsis:

Meet the Professional.
Mafiya enforcer Aleksandr “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss is unwavering, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy, tantalizing redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksandr will do anything to possess her as well–on his own wicked terms.

He makes the rules.
Grad student Natalie Porter has barely recovered from her first encounter with the dark and breathtaking Siberian when he whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures. Every day under his protection she falls deeper under his masterful spell.

In the game of obsession,
two players are better than one.
Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach, Aleksandr spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-rich in Paris, the two lovers tempt each other’s boundaries to discover whether their darkest–and most forbidden–fantasies really can come true….

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3XM3xDv
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/theprofessionalkc

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The Vincent Boys (The Vincent Boys Series, Book One)
By: Abbi Glines

Synopsis:

There was something wicked about Beau that drew me to him. What was wrong with me? Why did I want to sin so badly?

Ashton is getting tired of being good, of impressing her parents and playing ideal girlfriend to Sawyer Vincent. Sawyer is perfect, a regular Prince Charming, but when he leaves town for the summer, it’s his cousin Beau who catches Ashton’s eye. Beau is the sexiest guy she’s ever seen, and even though he’s dangerous, Ashton is drawn to him.

Beau loves his cousin like a brother, so the last thing he wants to do is make a move on Sawyer’s girl. Ashton is off-limits, absolutely. That’s why he does his best to keep his distance, even though he’s been in love with her forever. When Ashton wants to rekindle their childhood friendship in Sawyer’s absence, Beau knows he should say no.

Ashton and Beau don’t want to hurt Sawyer. But the more they try to stay away from each other, the more intense their urges become. It’s getting way too hard to resist…

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3HiBpCD
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/vincentboysag

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Crush (Crash Series, Book Three)
By: Nicole Williams

Synopsis:

The conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Crash trilogy, never before published in any format!

A football fantasy. A giant diamond. The modern-day Romeo and Juliet are taking their relationship to the next level. . . . Jude and Lucy are happily engaged, but that doesn’t mean life’s a bed of roses.

Once again, the hottest couple around is torn apart, this time by football training and a summer job. Now it’s Jude with the trust issues.

Will Lucy’s life-changing news bring them back together or end their relationship for good? Can love triumph forever?

Find out in the best installment yet in Nicole Williams’s racy and romantic Crash trilogy!

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3kuOtvo
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/crushnw

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Nuts (The Hudson Valley Series, Book One)
By: Alice Clayton

Synopsis:

Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner.

When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell delivers her a lovely bunch of organic walnuts, Roxie wonders if a summer back home isn’t such a bad idea after all. Leo is heavily involved in the sustainable slow food movement, and he likes to take his time. In all things. Roxie is determined to head back to the west coast as soon as summer ends, but will the pull of lazy fireflies and her very own Almanzo Wilder be enough to keep her home for good?

Salty. Spicy. Sweet. Nuts. Go on, grab a handful.

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Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3ZPF01U
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/nutsaliceclayton

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Beautiful Redemption (Maddox Brothers Series, Book Two)
By: Jamie McGuire

Synopsis:

If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. But what if he didn’t love you, first?

No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. She loves her desk. She is committed to her laptop. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.

Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only savior is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.

Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all.

In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.

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Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3HhUrsL
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/beautifulredemptionjm

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Tangled (The Tangled Series, Book One)
By: Emma Chase

Synopsis:

When rich, handsome, and arrogant meets beautiful, brilliant, and ambitious, things are bound to get tangled…

Drew Evans makes multimillion-dollar business deals and seduces New York’s most beautiful women with just a smile. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed? He’ll tell you he has the flu, but we all know that’s not really true.

When Katherine Brooks is hired as the new associate at Drew’s father’s investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy’s life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating.

How can one woman turn a smooth-talking player into a broken, desperate man? By making the one thing he never wanted in life the only thing he can’t live without.

Read Today:
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3wiW0jP
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/tangledec

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Sun Kissed (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan Series, Book Seven)
By: Catherine Anderson

Synopsis:

Bestselling author Catherine Anderson, known for “blending sweetness and sensuality in a poignantly written story”(Booklist), delivers a contemporary-set romance that joins the Coulter and Harrigan families…

When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn’t expect to wind up in jail. But that’s precisely what happens when she tries to stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. At least she isn’t alone. Tucker Coulter, a handsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense–and is arrested too.

The charges are dropped, but Sam’s troubles have only started. Her champion quarter horses are falling ill and the culprit is poison. As the insurance beneficiary, Sam is the prime suspect. Unswayed by the rumors floating around town, Tucker offers to help prove her innocence. Sam, though, is uneasy about accepting his assistance–and about the way he makes her feel. If only she could believe in him the way he seems to believe in her…

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Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3wktWfG
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/sunkissedca

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Star Bright (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan Series, Book Nine)
By: Catherine Anderson

Synopsis:

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson presents an emotionally compelling story about the hard as nails, fiercely loyal Harrigan family…

Faking her own death to escape her murderous husband, Rainie Hall takes refuge in the rural community of Crystal Falls, Oregon, where she starts work as a bookkeeper on a horse ranch run by rugged, dangerously good-looking Parker Harrigan.

Parker’s word is his honor, and he can’t tolerate liars. When he realizes that Rainie hasn’t been truthful with him, he’s furious, then concerned. Clearly she’s a woman in trouble and if she’ll trust him, he’ll do right by her. But as their attraction blossoms into a deep and thrilling passion, Rainie fears that her mere presence could jeopardize everything the Harrigan family holds dear…

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Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3QPFYHq
Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/starbrightca

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