The Sunday Post #36 (8.17.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 15

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August Another week has come and gone! It wasn’t quite as busy as last week and I was able to get in my walks each day. I also decided to do some inside walking while catching up on my DVR instead of just sitting on the couch – might as well be productive while watching…

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Review: The Collector by Nora Roberts (audio)

Title: The Collector    Author: Nora Roberts    Narrator: Julia Whelan   Published:  April 2014, Brilliance Audio  Length: 15 hours 44 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart . . . When…

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Blog Tour & Review: Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech

Title: Season of the Dragonflies    Author: Sarah Creech      Published: August 2014, William Morrow    Format: ARC Paperback, 224 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   As beguiling as the novels of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani, Aimee Bender, and Sarah Addison Allen, Season of the Dragonflies is a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets, and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains For…

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Review: Butternut Summer by Mary McNear

Title: Butternut Summer    Author: Mary McNear     Series: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #2 Published: August 2014, William Morrow Paperbacks    Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages    Source: Publisher   Return to the golden beauty of Minnesota’s Butternut Lake in this emotional story that vividly captures the joy and pain of first love, as a mother and daughter each come to terms with the desires of her heart. Summer…

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The Sunday Post #35 (8.10.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Review: The Perfect Score by Beth Albright

Title: The Perfect Score    Author: Beth Albright      Published: May 2014, Tule Publishing Group   Format: E-book, 138 pages    Source: Personal copy   Ginny Bloom Hunnicutt is crawling back home to Cottonwood Cove Alabama, her promising CNN news-reporting career in shambles when an on-air flub cost her the job and cost CNN a lawsuit. Putting ego aside, she takes a position at the Chatterbox, the local weekly…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 8

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August This week work was super busy and my schedule was jammed packed. I ended up working nights this week, which totally throws my schedule off track. I did manage to get some walks in each morning, but they were quick ones – mainly just to get the dogs out for a bit. Next week,…

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Review: Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella (audio)

Title: Wedding Night    Author: Sophie Kinsella    Narrator: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Mark Bramhall   Published: April 2013, Random House Audio   Length: 13 hours   Source: Library  Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old…

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Review: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Title: Big Little Lies    Author: Liane Moriarty     Published: July 2014, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam   Format: ARC Paperback, 480 pages    Source: Publisher   A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what? Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned…

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The Sunday Post #34 (8.3.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Month in Review: July 2014

Hello August! Summer is flying by and work has crazy busy which means I’m not getting in as much reading time as I would like. I’m hoping that I can sneak in some more reading time here and there during these upcoming weeks as summer winds down before the fall is upon us as – there as so many good books that have just come out and I want to…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in August 1

#BookBlogWalkers is being hosted by Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About for the month of August I did it!!! I walked my second 1/2 marathon and had a great time doing it! Walking a half marathon in NYC at night with my mom, my sister and about 3,000 other women and some men in our bras was quite an experience…and I cannot wait to do it again. It’s always been…

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Review: Gone by James Patterson

Title: Gone    Author: James Patterson     Series: Michael Bennett, #6       Published: September 2013, Little, Brown & Company   Format: Hardcover, 416 pages    Source: Personal copy   A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn’t fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit.…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Sweet Spot by Stephanie Evanovich

Title: The Sweet Spot    Author: Stephanie Evanovich      Published: July 2014, William Morrow   Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   The amazing Stephanie Evanovich returns with The Sweet Spot, the sizzling story of everyone’s favorite couple from her New York Times bestseller Big Girl Panties: hunky professional baseball player Chase Walker and his sassy wife Amanda When pro baseball player Chase…

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The Sunday Post #33 (7.27.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Review: Waiting On You by Kristan Higgins (audio)

Title: Waiting On You      Author: Kristan Higgins    Series: Blue Heron, #3    Narrator: Amy Rubinate   Published: March 2014, Blackstone Audio   Length: 12 hours, 21 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible  Does being nobody’s fool mean that you’re nobody’s love? Colleen O’Rourke is in love with love… just not when it comes to herself. Most nights, she can be found behind the bar at the…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in July 25

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Tomorrow is the big day, or rather, big night!!! I will be walking the Walk the Walk America’s MoonWalkNYC benefiting Breast Cancer. I’m doing the 1/2 marathon as this is my first time participating in the event, but there is an option to do a full marathon (maybe next year I’ll do that!). I’m doing the walk with my mom…

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Blog Tour & Guest Post: Barbara Kyle (and Giveaway, too!!! – CLOSED)

Please join me in welcoming Barbara Kyle, author of The Queen’s Exile to Always With a Book! If you missed my review, you can read it here. Today Barbara guest blogs about one special email from a reader. Enjoy and be sure to enter the giveaway below! THE ACORN AND THE PINE CONE by Barbara Kyle    I welcome every letter and email I get from readers, but there’s one…

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Review: Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf

Title: Little Mercies    Author: Heather Gudenkauf      Published: June 2014, Harlequin MIRA   Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages    Source: Publisher   In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences… Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity; the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Queen’s Exiles by Barbara Kyle

Title: The Queen’s Exiles    Author: Barbara Kyle     Series: Thornleigh, #6      Published: May 2014, Kensington   Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages    Source: Publisher via Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours   1572. Europe is in turmoil. In the Netherlands the streets are red with the blood of those who dare to oppose the brutal Spanish occupation. A vengeful faction of exiled English Catholics is plotting to…

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The Sunday Post #32 (7.20.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.       I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in July 18

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I can’t believe that my next 1/2 marathon is next weekend! Good thing I’m not planning on doing this one for time as I really haven’t done much training for it between my back injury and then the heat. Since this one is for charity (Walk the Walk MoonWalk New York City benefitting Breast Cancer) and I’m doing it with…

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Review: Live to See Tomorrow by Iris Johansen (audio)

Title: Live to See Tomorrow    Author: Iris Johansen    Series: Catherine Ling, #3    Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers   Published: April 2014, Brilliance Audio   Length: 12 hours, 11 minutes    Source: Personal copy via Audible  Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the unforgiving streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of 14, already having accumulated more insight…

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Review: The Promise by Robyn Carr

Title: The Promise    Author: Robyn Carr     Series: Thunder Point, #5      Published: June 2014, Harlequin MIRA  Format: ARC e-copy, 363 pages    Source: Netgalley   #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to Thunder Point with an uplifting story about overcoming loss and finding unexpected love Scott Grant has a bustling family practice in the small Oregon community of Thunder Point. The town and…

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Blog Tour, Review, Guest Post: The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane by Sheila Roberts

Title: The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane Author: Sheila Roberts     Series: Life in Icicle Falls, #5 Published: June 2014, St. Martin’s Press    Format: ARC e-book,      Source:  Netgalley via publisher  When it comes to men, sisters don’t share! After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Bailey Sterling’s dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. Now Bailey’s face is in…

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Review: That Night by Chevy Stevens (audio)

Title: That Night    Author: Chevy Stevens       Narrator: Jorjeana Marie   Published: June 2014, Blackstone Audio/St. Martin’s Press Length: 11 Hours 16 Minutes   Source: Audio copy via Audible/ Print copy via Publisher/She Reads As a teenager, Toni Murphy had a life full of typical adolescent complications: a boyfriend she adored, a younger sister she couldn’t relate to, a strained relationship with her parents, and classmates who seemed…

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The Sunday Post #31 (7.13.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.     I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share…

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Review: Little Lies by Heather Gudenkauf

Title: Little Lies     Author: Heather Gudenkauf      Published: March 2014, Harlequin   Format: E-book, 45 pages    Source: Personal copy  In this riveting prequel to her novel Little Mercies, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores how even the smallest lies can have far-reaching consequences. When the body of a woman is discovered in a local park—with her bewildered four-year-old son sitting beside her—veteran social worker…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in July 11

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I got some good walks in this week – despite the heat! As long as I go first thing in the morning or after dinner, it’s not too bad. My mom came up to visit Thursday, so I had a walking partner for 2 days of walking, which was nice! Usually I end up walking by myself, but as long…

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Review: Before We Kiss by Susan Mallery (audio)

Title: Before We Kiss     Author: Susan Mallery    Series: Fool’s Gold, #14    Narrator: Tanya Eby   Published: 2014, Brilliance Audio   Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes   Source: Library  New York Times bestselling sensation Susan Mallery returns to Fool’s Gold, California, where it’s true that sometimes you have to kiss a few frogs… Former pro-football kicker Sam Ridge has notoriously bad luck with women—from cheaters to fame…

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Blog Tour, Review & Author Q&A: Until We Touch by Susan Mallery

Title: Until We Touch     Author: Susan Mallery     Series: Fool’s Gold, #15       Published: June 2014, Harlequin HQN   Format: ARC e-copy, 384 pages     Source: Netgalley via Publicist    From New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes the story of secret desires finally fulfilled… After a family tragedy, former football hero Jack McGarry keeps the world at arm’s length—a challenge now that his PR…

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Blog Tour & Review: Eyes on You by Kate White

Title: Eyes on You     Author: Kate White        Published: June 2014, Harper   Format: ARC Paperback     Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours     From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a riveting psychological suspense in which a media star must battle a malevolent enemy who may be disturbingly close to her. After losing her on-air job two years ago, television host Robin Trainer…

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The Sunday Post #30 (7.6.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in July 4

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Ah…it’s always so hard to get back to your routines after a vacation. And it didn’t help that the holiday weekend fell so quickly after we got home. It seems as if it won’t be until next week that everything resumes to normal!  *For part of this past week I was still on vacation – we got home July 1.…

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Review & Giveaway: One Plus One by Jojo Moyes (CLOSED)

Title: One Plus One    Author: Jojo Moyes        Published: July 2014, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking    Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages    Source: Publisher   One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted stateside, she has captivated readers and reviewers…

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Month in Review: June 2014

Hello July! Summer is here with a vengeance…the heat and humidity are here along with crazy thunderstorms. I’m hoping this summer brings lots of reading time…the spring ended up being super busy work-wise and I’m not too happy about that! There are just too many good books to read and not enough time in the day to get them all read. I’m back to training for another 1/2 marathon (walking…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in June 27 (a little late due to vacation!)

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog So, this post is a bit late, due to me being on vacation. We were in Mexico from June 24 until July 1 and had a great time!!! While I didn’t do any big fitness walks, I did spend quite a bit of time in the pool each day swimming around with my almost 1-year-old niece and hanging out with…

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Blog Tour: Book Spotlight & Guest Post: Magic in Dixie by Beth Albright (with Giveaway!!!) – CLOSED

Title:  Magic in Dixie   Author: Beth Albright     Series: In Dixie, #1      Published: June 2014 “ Honey, there are secrets in this town for sure but I couldn’t believe there were so many– all buried in one family. And of all places to start digging them up—a funeral.” ~Vivi McFadden Heart “I was born into a house full of secrets and bad behavior.” Rhonda Cartwright Bently…

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Author Q&A: Wendy Wax (with Giveaway!!!) – CLOSED

Today, I am pleased to welcome Wendy Wax to Always With a Book. Her latest book, The House on Mermaid Point, is the third book in her Beach series. It will be available July 1st. You can read my review of the book here. Please enjoy this Q&A and be sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of The House on Mermaid Point below! About…

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Review: The House on Mermaid Point by Wendy Wax

Title: The House on Mermaid Point    Author: Wendy Wax     Series: Beach #3      Published: July 2014, Berkley Trade   Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages    Source: Publicist    In this new novel from the author of Ten Beach Road and Ocean Beach, three unlikely friends who were thrown together by disaster get a do-over on life, love, and happiness . . . Maddie, Avery, and Nikki…

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The Sunday Post #29 (6.22.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in June 20

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog I’m happy to say my back is finally feeling better!!! I was able to take longer walks with the dogs this week – still at a slower pace, but with no pain. Next week, while I’m on vacation in Mexico, I plan to walk on the beach each morning. I’m not bringing my sneakers, but walking is walking, so I’ll…

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Review: The Fever by Megan Abbott (audio)

Title: The Fever    Author: Megan Abbott       Narrator: Caitlin Davies, Kirby Heyborne, & Joe Barrett   Published: June 2014, Little, Brown & Company   Length: 9 hours, 12 minutes   Source: Publisher  The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community. The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a…

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Review: The Glass Kitchen by Linda Francis Lee

Title: The Glass Kitchen    Author: Linda Francis Lee         Published:  June 2014, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC paperback, 366 pages    Source: Publisher   With The Glass Kitchen, Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courage it takes to follow your heart and be yourself. A true recipe for life.  Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run…

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Review: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Title: Elizabeth is Missing     Author: Emma Healey         Published: June 2014, Harper   Format: Hardcover, 320 pages    Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours   In this darkly riveting debut novel-a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging-an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and…

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Review: Island Girls by Nancy Thayer (audio)

Title: Island Girls    Author: Nancy Thayer       Narrator: Cassandra Campbell   Published: June 2013, Random House Audio    Length: 10 hours    Source:  Library New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer returns to her beloved Nantucket in a highly emotional, wholly entertaining tale of three sisters forced to confront the past over one event-filled summer on the island. Charming ladies’ man Rory Randall dies with one last trick…

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The Sunday Post #28 (6.15.14)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.   I’ve decided to try a new weekly meme – a place where I can do both a weekly wrap up and share what…

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Book Blog Walkers: Weekly Check-in June 13

  #BookBlogWalkers is hosted by Felicia @ The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog Well, this week certainly didn’t go as planned…I ended up going to the doctor on Tuesday because my lower back was still bothering me from my fall a week ago. The doctor put me on full bed rest for a few days and modified bed rest for at least a week. Let me tell you – it’s hard to be…

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Review: Kiss Me Like This by Bella Andre

Title: Kiss Me Like This    Author: Bella Andre      Series: The Morrisons, #1      Published:  June 2014, Oak Press, LLC  Format: ARC e-copy, 300 pages    Source: Author   Sean Morrison, one of six siblings and the top college baseball player in the country, is reeling from a heartbreakingly painful loss. Nothing seems to matter anymore…until the night Serena Britten unexpectedly ends up in his arms. Serena…

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