After
a really terrible week in reality, all I wanted to do was escape into a good
book. But picking one was a challenge all of its own. I kept switching back and
forth between wanting something dark and angsty or something light and fluffy.
I even pulled up a heap of options and a random number generator before I
decided I needed something happy. And that always describes a Lauren Blakely
novel.
First
thing I want to say is I was expecting a laugh out loud room com with a heap of
steam. I wasn't expecting all the feels. From the start I really connected with
Trina and watching her figure herself out and overcome her own self-doubts was
great. I loved her quirky, book obsessed self and seeing her get there was
perfect.
Now
the whole two guy thing. I didn't expect them to have such complex and
understandable issues. They were so open and mature and communicated
beautifully even when they were communicating their mistakes. And yes, the
steam factor was through the roof.
I
really enjoyed this book, and it was the perfect escape from reality. I don't
know that I'm going to race out and read the next one but I'm definitely adding
it to my TBR for those days I need something steamy and all consuming.
THE ALMOST ROMANTIC
BY LAUREN BLAKELY
Release date:
March 14th
Series:
How to Date - Book 3 standalone
Tropes:
Fake Fiancé / Single Dad / My Wife / Marriage of Convenience / Found Family /
Possessive Hero / Confident Outgoing Heroine
Cover Designer: Qamber Designs Media
https://www.qamberdesignsmedia.com/
Get ready for an epic fake
engagement-turned-into-marriage of convenience romance!
Introducing the cover reveal of The Almost Romantic by
Lauren Blakely!
Brace yourselves for a tale of a fake engagement
turned marriage of convenience, unexpected love, and a dash of corporate
rivalry. Will our heroine fall for her pretend hubby, or will she walk away
from this marriage of convenience?
Stay tuned for the release in all formats and free to
read in Kindle Unlimited on March 14th!
Blurb
The best way to save my little shop? Marry my fake
fiancé for real...
When a sexy single dad walks into my shop and buys
every box of chocolate just to ask me out, I say yes. By the end of a
smoldering night, I’m saying oh yes.
And in the morning I’m saying yes, yes, yes to an idea
that can save both our businesses so long as Gage and I pretend to be engaged
and wildly in love. But since my messy life is riding on this new venture, we
agree that our one night was our only night.
Except, all our fake kisses quickly melt my resolve.
Gage says he has no room in his life for romance, but he touches me like he
can’t get enough. Tells me he can’t resist me. And gets down on one knee in the
most romantic fake proposal ever.
But when my vindictive corporate rival threatens to
expose the lie of us, my protective fiancé steps up and declares I’m his wife.
Looks like I just walked into a marriage of
convenience.
At the end of the year, I’ll walk out of it…as long as
I don’t fall for my husband.
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About Lauren Blakely
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street
Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known
for her contemporary romance style that’s cute but spicy. Lauren likes dogs,
cake, and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
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Indulge in a forbidden romance of desire and secrets that will leave you breathless. The Tease is a rollercoaster of emotions, spice, and forbidden love spanning New York and Paris! Get ready for this single-dad hero to steal your heart.
I didn’t go to the exclusive, after-hours masquerade to kiss my dad’s best friend. I didn’t even know who the masked man was when he touched me like I was his every fantasy.
But when I learn exactly how off-limits my new lover is, I do my best to avoid him the next time. Except, he has his sinful sights set on me, even when he discovers who I am. Just one time, he whispers. Then we’ll pretend this never happened.
Seems the enigmatic, gorgeous single dad I’ve known by day is a very dirty man after dark.
But one night turns into a stolen weekend, giving me a taste of so much more. When it ends, we vow to stay apart.
We could never work.
He’s focused on raising his young son, and I can’t let my already damaged family break more. But the caring, possessive man keeps coming back to me, and these secret nights tangled up together are turning into tender moments that make my heart thunder.
And soon, this tease of a forbidden romance is making me want so much more than I can ever have…
Best friends to lovers
He falls first
Cinnamon roll hero turns alpha in the bedroom
Equal opportunity accidental nudity
Horny baking
Extra spicy!!
So I'm throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete where I envision I'll lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again.
What I actually do: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I'd really like to get back on the horse.
But what I truly don't expect is Carter's answer - he volunteers as tribute.
With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it'd be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don't want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert.
But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out.
Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I'm a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education.
The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions?
Especially since I'm suddenly longing for my best friend and there's nothing fake about my feelings…
Plays Well With Others by #1 NYT bestselling author Lauren Blakely, is coming July 12th!
Photographer: Wong Sim
Model: Lucas Bloms
Cover Designer: TE Black
Genre/Tropes: Forbidden Romance/Billionaire Romance/MM Romance/SportsRomance
Lately, I’ve been full of questions. Then one hot summer night I find all the answers when I kiss another guy for the first time. But all too soon, he disappears, leaving me wondering who my mystery man was.
Then I can’t stop thinking about him. Even on the ball field, I’m daydreaming about his hungry hands, and the filthy things he whispered in his posh British accent.
Somehow I still win one of the biggest games of my career, and afterward the man surprises me with an invitation: “Meet me in a private suite.”
When I RSVP, he makes me an offer – one chance to try all the things I’ve never experienced. Then we’ll walk away.
But once will never be enough. Soon I’m locked into an intense lessons-in-seduction game with the secretive billionaire who keeps love at a distance, all while he pushes the boundaries of my brand new desires.
And soon I learn that all my desires come with a terrible cost, as he breaks down the walls around my heart.
A Very Filthy Game is a lessons-in-seduction, first times, forbidden MM romance between a billionaire and an athlete...
With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 60 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
HERE COMES MY MAN
(The Hopelessly Bromantic Duet book 2) by Lauren Blakely
Release date: June 28th
From #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely comes a red-hot, enemies-to-lovers, fake boyfriend, second chance romance! HERE COMES MY MAN, the conclusion to the Hopelessly Bromantic Duet, is NOW LIVE!
Blurb:
A red-hot, enemies-to-lovers, fake boyfriend, second chance romance, and the conclusion to the Hopelessly Bromantic Duet!
Let me just say this -- fake dating the cocky movie star was not my idea. Especially since he’s my former roomie and, gulp, my secret ex.
But my agent tells me I have no choice since I’m ridiculously overdue with turning in the next big blockbuster love story to my publisher.
Not to mention, ahem, writing it.
Falling for the smooth-talking English hottie once upon a time -- fine, twice -- were huge mistakes that I shouldn’t repeat, but pretending to like the guy who broke my heart is my only chance at saving my job.
That is, as long as no one finds out that every date we go on, every smile we flash each other for the cameras, and every hot, desperate kiss on the streets of Manhattan is absolutely fake.
Except…it’s not. At least for me.
And he can never know…
Contents Include: Snarky banter, sexy dates, hate s-e-x, seduction by a wordsmith, and two strong, stubborn, clever men determined to resist each other at all costs.
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Teddy Hamilton and Shane East narrate in duet with a full cast!
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About Lauren Blakely
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, sweet, and witty. She also writes USA Today bestselling LGBTQ romance. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 60 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4.5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
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Look, when I met the sexy, witty Brit on the streets of London last night, I had no idea who he was. He was just that hot guy I wanted to have a drink with so I asked him out for my first evening in town.
One thing almost led to another. After a midnight kiss, we made plans for a whole lot more the next day.
But when I unlock the door to my rental in the morning, the English hottie is lounging on the couch like he lives here too. Great. For the next year I’ll be sharing a tiny flat with the sexiest guy I’ve ever known.
Time for a few simple rules --
don’t walk around the flat wearing only a towel, don’t spend our nights together exploring London, and don’t crack open my secrets for him.
Even as I smash all those rules, I try to resist falling for the cocky charmer. But after a taste of his lips, I give all the way in, telling myself one night and we won’t fall in love.
Too bad in the morning I discover that hiding my true feelings is the least of my worries, compared to a twist I never see coming.
Contents Include: One broody American, one charming Brit, and two libidos that can barely fit into the smallest flat in London. Translation – hot, angsty nights in the first novel in a scorching and emotional two-book epic MM romance!
Release Date: October 29th
❄️ Eight inches!
❄️ A dirty game of would you rather!
❄️ Deep thoughts about Paul Rudd!
❄️ A super awkward dinner party scene!
❄️ Hot tub shenanigans!
❄️ Two sexy, charming heroes!
...of snow that night at the cabin.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Friends don't bang friends.
I want my friends to stay in my life, especially that flirty, clever, outgoing best friend of mine.
It's a damn good thing Owen and I made a pact in college to never ever sleep together, or else I'd be tempted.
Trouble is, eight years later I've been wondering what his kisses taste like. And I've been curious if our chemistry would extend into the bedroom. If he might feel the same risky pull.
But I don't want to lose Owen, and history says there's no way a tryst between friends can end well.
So as long as I avoid the bedroom with him, I won't break that hard-as-steel rule. Except the snow has other plans…
The Bromance Zone is a deliciously flirty, red-hot sexy, friends-to-lovers MM romance about the charming guy next door who's sworn to never date a friend, the flirty hot nerd who's been secretly crushing on that friend forever, and one night snowed in in a cabin. This book comes fully equipped for your reading pleasure with sexy banter, a super awkward dinner party, and a scene in front of a fireplace that proves just how dangerous the friend zone is.
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Model: Jarryd Nurden
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With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 55 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4.5 million books. A Brown University graduate, Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
As a pro athlete, I have one unbreakable rule when it comes to men -- Don't date another baseball player.
Good thing I haven't been tempted once in four years in the majors.
Until the day a rising star walks into my locker room. Outgoing, affable, and sexy-as-sin, Grant has confidence and talent for miles. He seems to get me too, maybe because we each have our fair share of secrets and scars -- ones we'll both fight to protect.
But, I've got far too much trouble in my past to want to bring any into my present.
All the more reason to resist the kind of dirty deeds his lips and eyes promise.
Even after I plant a scorching, hot kiss on the rookie one night after a game.
Even after he sends me the world's sexiest selfie.
But when Grant reveals his biggest secret, I'm so damn ready to rip up the rulebook.
Turns out he's a virgin and he wants me to help him get around all the bases.
The only rule? Don't fall in love with him as we go.
Scoring with Him is book one in the utterly addictive Men of Summer series. This romance between two professional athletes spans five epic years and continues in Winning With Him.
With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 50 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4 million books. She likes dogs, cake and show tunes.
THE VIRGIN GAME PLAN, an all-new steamy, swoony standalone from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely is NOW LIVE! Grab this forbidden sports romance TODAY!
by Lauren Blakely
Release Date: June 9th
I had an excuse two years ago when I met her on campus. She interviewed me for a story on major league baseball's rising stars, and we shared a hot, passionate night that ended far too soon, and without a mention of who her father was.
Now I know the innocent but sexy woman I can't stop thinking about is the coach's daughter.
That means her dad is the guy who determines if I bat fourth in the starting lineup in every game, or ride the bench.
All the more reason to resist alluring, confident, brainy Reese every time I run into the reporter-turned-sports publicist.
That ought to be easy enough, until the time she confesses she's still carrying her V card, and she's been wanting me to cash it in since the day we met.
Staying away from her is going to be harder than resisting a fastball down the middle.
Especially since I'm pretty sure she's the one who got away, and letting her slip through my fingers again would be a rookie mistake.
With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 100 times, with more than 50 titles on the USA Today Bestsellers list alone. She’s sold more than 4 million books. She likes dogs, cake and show tunes.
