My Review:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

Nero Gallo is the wild child, the danger seeker, the one to go off the rails and not think about consequences or anyone else around him. He’s not the good guy, the thoughtful one, or the caring one. He lives life by his own rules and has no regrets about it. He is smart though and he’s a planner. He is also loyal to his family.

Camille Rivera has always been the outcast. She was never the girly one. Her family worked for everything they have and worked hard. She’s a mechanic at her father’s garage and she knows her way around a car engine. She’s protective of her little brother and her father. She has dreams, but they are so far packed away that she doesn’t even know what they are anymore. When she finds herself in a bad situation after trying to rescue her little brother from himself and his friends, she only has one person she can turn to and she hates to ask for help.

Nero and Camille are perfect for each other. Neither one of them live the norm of society. Nero is the rich boy that takes what he wants with no thought to the consequences or very little thought to them, and Camille lives by the rules of society, but she is a female mechanic that can even show Nero a thing or two about cars and he takes pride in his collection and the work he does on his own cars. The danger these two find themselves in leads to an attraction neither one of them saw coming. However, once they figure it out, they are loyal to each other and will do whatever it takes to protect the other. I love Sophie Lark’s books and Nero was everything I had hoped for and more. I give this story a 5-star review and look forward to more of the Brutal Birthright Books.

My Review:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

Cristina isn’t sure who she can trust or who will harm her. She wants to take solace in Damian, but she’s not sure if she can trust him or believe he is trying to protect her. There are so many things happening and she is afraid to believe Damian, but when she finds herself in danger more than once, Damian is always there to protect her and save her.

Damian has to convince Cristina that he is the better of two evils in the house. He may seem cruel, but he is only trying to protect her and keep her from harm. He’s fighting the draw he has to her and trying to keep the fact that she is his weakness from getting out. His most ruthless enemy knows though and is already planning to use her.

I enjoyed this conclusion to Cristina and Damian’s story. It is dark, twisted, and full of suspense and danger. Cristina has been a pawn since she was eleven years old. The heir to The Valentina Foundation, but she has no idea the trouble the Foundation is in due to her father’s dirty dealings and now Damian wants to take control of it for her. She will be the name on the contracts, but Damian will run the company to protect Cristina so that the wolves that are part of the Foundation won’t try to hurt her. The DiSanto family is divided and they are fighting amongst themselves. The suspense, action, betrayal and darkness of this story kept the pages turning and I loved every bit of it. I give this story a 5-star review and look forward to more books by Natasha Knight. I love her dark stories and loved to devour them.

Killing the Story

An accidental death that was no accident…

For the record, Estelle Crane, the gutsy editor of The Observer newspaper, died after a hard fall on ice. But years later, her son discovers a cryptic note hinting her death might not have been an accident after all.

Was Estelle pursuing a big story that put her life in danger?

That’s what Isabel Long — along with her 93-year-old mother, Maria, her ‘Watson’ — agrees to investigate in Dillard, a town whose best days are in the past.

A former journalist, Isabel follows leads and interviews sources, new and familiar. She quickly finds a formidable threat in Police Chief James Hawthorne, who makes it clear Isabel is not welcome in his town — and who warns her against poking her nose into Estelle’s death.

Of course, that’s after Isabel has discovered the chief’s questionable policing and a troubled history with Estelle that goes way back.

Killing the story means dropping it because there aren’t enough facts to back it up. But Isabel won’t make that mistake. She’ll see this one through to the very end.

Can she uncover the plot that led to Estelle’s murder?

Killing the Story is the fourth in the popular Isabel Long Mystery Series. 

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Author Bio – Joan Livingston is the author of novels for adult and young readers. Killing the Story, published by Darkstroke Books, is the fourth in her Isabel Long Mystery Series, featuring a longtime journalist who becomes an amateur P.I. solving cold cases in rural New England.

She draws upon her own experience as a longtime journalist in Massachusetts and New Mexico to create Isabel Long, a sassy, savvy widow who uses the skills she acquired in the business to solve what appears to be impossible cases. She also relies on her deep knowledge of rural Western Massachusetts, where she lives, to create realistic characters and settings — from country bars (where Isabel works part-time) to a general store’s backroom where gossipy old men meet.

She credits her mother, Algerina — the inspiration for Maria, Isabel Long’s ‘Watson’ — for instilling in her a love of reading and the power of the written word.

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MY REVIEW:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

A Dead Editor

A Crooked Cop

What’s the Connection?

Isabel finds herself in danger again, but she will not stop searching or following leads until she is satisfied that she has done all she can for Emerson’s quest to find out the real story behind his mother’s death. Isabel will experience all kinds of characters to get to the bottom of the case, and her mother will be right there with her, maybe not always physically, but she is always asking Isabel for updates.

Killing The Story is fast paced and as all of Ms. Livingston’s books that I’ve read, full of great characters and a lot of danger and crazy situations. Isabel is always up for the adventures that she partakes in to find out the truth behind the cases she takes. She’s even up for the danger that always seems to find her. However, along with the danger comes the friendships, respect and support from the neighbors and community. This story was full of suspense, danger, and action. This case was a close to Isabel because Estelle Crane, Emerson’s mother, was a co-owner and operator of The Observer, and she was as tenacious, determined, and a reporter that didn’t have a problem reporting all of the news. Isabel is finding a kindred spirit with Estelle the more she delves into her death.

I love this story and the characters are always so interesting and entertaining. I love Isabel’s relationships that she makes and has with the towns folk as well as those that she ends up questioning. Ms. Livingston’s stories take place in Western Massachusetts and the description of the characters in the small townships around where Isabel lives as well as Conwell remind me of the small towns and countryside in Vermont. I love the Isabel Long stories. These stories always start off with suspense and adventures and this continues throughout the entire book. I give this story a 5-star review and look forward to more Isabel Long stories in the future.

MY REVIEW:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5

Bohdan decided to leave the Bratva along with is Pakhan, Konstantin Silvanov to make a better life for himself. Bohdan, Konstantin and Andrius, Konstantin’s friend, have decided to go into a legal business of well-trained security guards. As they are preparing to start up their business, Bohdan has decided that he needs to find a way to get close to Dasha, his first love. Bohdan is convinced that Dasha betrayed him and wants retribution, but when he discovers the danger that Dasha is already in, he decides that he needs to protect her and save her.

Dasha is in a loveless, abusive, domineering marriage and her only escape and joy is when she’s dancing. She is a prima ballerina and her husband is her manager, keeper, and abuser.  The one night that she saw Bohdan backstage keeps popping back up in her mind and she is noticing that when she thinks of him, she feels more alive than usual. She can’t forget how he betrayed her, but her heart doesn’t seem to care.

I loved this story. The characters are full of life, dangerous, loyal to those they care about, and want more out of life than what they’ve had. These stories are action packed from start to finish and the passion these characters have is hot. They love, protect, fight, and care fiercely and they won’t let anyone get in their way when they set their sights on the women that complete them. I am loving this series and cannot wait for Maxim’s story to come out. It looks to be another action packed, deadly, suspenseful story. I give this story a 5-star review and I just have to say that I love Bohdan and the way he accepts his broken nose as a good thing, he’s also pretty sexy.

Title: Within the Shadows
Author: T. L. Mahrt
Genre: Suspense Romance

Target Audience: Target avatar is readers of steamy suspenseful romance novel, mostly woman, ages rom 18-55.

Release Date: Preorders Released: May, 28 2020 and Release Date: August 28, 2020

Trigger Warnings: Mid violence, domestic assault and heavy sexual content. Profanity language used.

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Within the shadows:

Synopsis

Emma’s world is rocked as the real monster lurking in the shadows is unveiled. 

Emma Andrews’ last memory of her mother is seeing her bleeding to death on the bathroom floor. Several years later, Emma is kidnapped and forced to face the same monster that killed her mother. Quickly, Emma—a daydreamer with an inventive personality—must learn to separate her fantasies from reality in order to differentiate friend or foe.

As secrets unfold and the shadows emerge, Emma wonders if she can endure reliving the trauma of her past. One thing she does know for certain—she can’t do it alone.

Will Emma escape from this monster alive? Will Chance still love her after she reveals her past? Or, will someone new teach Emma the true strength hiding within her?

About the Author:

T. L. Mahrt is a former business owner, where she utilized her education in cosmetology, barbering and massage therapy for several years. She was raised on and is currently living on a farm in Nebraska, where you can find her running barefoot in the country side with her loving husband and inspiring children and massive dogs.

After having her son, who was born with Cerebral Palsy, she made the life altering decision to stay home to care for her two children and pursue her love for writing. She has a love for romance and poetry where, her overactive imagination, along with her adventures and up beat lifestyle drives her inspiration for her writing.

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MY REVIEW:

⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 out of 5

Emma has four men vying for her attention and love. She was orphaned when she was a young girl and grew up in the system for the most part. One of the men that wants her for his own is twisted and he found a way to keep himself in her life for a time while she was in the Foster System, but then Jarrett Gage lost track of her when he left the job as her counselor. One man wants to marry her and is in love with her, but she believes he is the man that abused her and hurt her when she was a little girl. Her belief that he was the shadow man, was never disputed by Rick. One man is in love with her, but his job is to make sure that nothing happens to her, track down missing people and observe from afar, until she becomes the person he needs to track down to save and protect. Andy is the man that saves Emma in her dreams, can he be the one to save her in real life? Can he save her from the Mr. JD after her memory begins to come back? Then there is the man that loves her and is her bodyguard. She believes she’s in love with Chance, but now that her memory has returned and she realizes everything that she pushed down deep in her psyche, she is no longer the woman that Chance fell in love with and she has realized that she is not in love with him.

This story is was the first book I read in this series by T.L. Mahrt, but it did not distract from the story, nor did I feel lost while reading it. It is full of action, suspense, danger and great characters that have a lot going on. There are some parts of this story that I wanted to read a few lines ahead because I was expecting someone to jump out of the shadows. The author did a great job of keeping me on my seat wondering if and when Jarrett would show up and reclaim Emma. It also had me wondering which character on the team was untrustworthy and questionable in protecting Emma. I give this story a 4-star review and hope to read more from T.L. Mahrt in the near future. More of Emma and the characters in Within The Shadows would be great.

MY REVIEW:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 out of 5. If I could add 5 more, I would!

My favorite so far, no doubt! I love the cover as well.

Skirt is a man that has done things that are not legal, he’s kept secrets from his Prez, and he can be a ruthless man, when need be. However, when it comes to sex and the heart, he is as pure as can be. He does not partake in the club girls he’s waiting to find the one woman that steals his heart and holds it captive. He’s Scottish and sexy. He’s funny, loyal, and deadly when he needs to be.

She’s stumbling through the dessert and falls in the middle of the road causing Skirt to wreck his bike to avoid hitting her. She’s been beaten and made to walk home in the hot dessert sun of Las Vegas by a man that she can’t seem to get away from. Her only thought is to find her son and protect and get him away from a man that would kill him and Dawn if he knew her secret.

I love Skirt. Of all of the Ruthless Kings he is my favorite so far. He has a heart of gold and yet, he can bring on the demon side when he needs to. His boyish like charms are sweet and endearing. He is a bada** biker, but his loyalty to the MC outshines everything. I love the Ruthless Kings the women they find to complete them are just as strong and lovable as they are. I can’t wait to read Pirate’s story he seems so broken. I give this book a 5-star review and if I could give it five more, I would. I could not put this book down and read it in one day. I highly recommend this book and the entire series to readers that love MC, strong women that know how to fight, and the men that will do anything to protect them and take care of them.