From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Probst comes a new story in her Marriage to a Billionaire series. The Book of Spells returns in this sparkling addition to the series! She had run from her demons… Caterina Victoria Windsor fled her family winery after a humiliating broken engagement, and spent the past year in Italy rebuilding her world. But when Ripley Savage shows up with a plan to bring her back home, and an outrageous demand for her to marry him, she has no choice but to return to face her past. But when simple attraction begins to run deeper, Cat has to decide if she’s strong enough to trust again…and strong enough to stay… He vowed to bring her back home to be his wife… Rip Savage saved Windsor Winery, but the only way to make it truly his is to marry into the family. He’s not about to walk away from the only thing he’s ever wanted, even if he has to tame the spoiled brat who left her legacy and her father behind without a care. When he convinces her to agree to a marriage arrangement and return home, he never counted on the fierce sexual attraction between them to grow into something more. But when deeper emotions emerge, Rip has to fight for something he wants even more than Winsor Winery: his future wife.

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The Marriage Arrangement by Jennifer Probst

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 

Oh my goodness! Sometimes when i pick up a book and get right into it, i don't pay attention on whether or not i read the previous instalments to a series. All i know is that 1) i love the author. 2) it's part of another series. 3) pretty covers!!!!

So here's my problem: 1) i still love the author (i even bought some of her books off of Book Outlet and can't wait to get my hands on them to read them, so chances are they go with part 2). 2) it's not only part of the 1001 Dark Nights (which was why i got my grubby little hands on this book), but it's also part of the Marriage To A Billionaire series. And 3) holy pretty cover, which is not surprising since it comes from the 1001 Dark Nights line up. So where is the true problem? I've never read any of the books from the Marriage To A Billionaire series!!! I can't believe i missed this entire series until now! Gah!!!

Even with all that, in true 1001 Dark Nights fashion, it didn't really impact on how i enjoyed the book. Yes i missed some of the history, and yes, some of the recurring characters were a total mystery to me, but it still made sense. It still made me curious enough to want to go back and start the series from the very beginning (hence point 1). The way that Jennifer Probst brings her characters to life makes it really interesting - there's everything that you would expect from real life: frustration, anger, humor, sadness and happiness. I can't wait to find out what else this author will be writing in the future just so that i can enjoy another story from her!


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Jennifer Probst - Bio: Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again. She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean. She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.

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A cupcake baker with magical abilities suddenly finds herself competing with the unfortunately handsome owner of the fancy new bakery across the street in Golden Heart® Winner Tara Sheets's magical romantic comedy releasing April 24th, 2018.

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About Don’t Call Me Cupcake:

Title: Don’t Call Me Cupcake

Author: Tara Sheets

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 24, 2018

Publisher: Zebra Shout – Kensington Publishing

Series: The Holloway Girls

Format: Digital eBook / Print

Digital ISBN: 1420146264

Print ISBN: 9781420146264

Synopsis:

There’s a very special kind of sweetness to life on Pine Cove Island …

Most families have a favorite recipe or two, handed down through generations. The Holloway women are a little different. Emma Holloway, like her grandmother before her, bakes charms into her delicious cupcakes, granting the recipient comfort, sweet dreams, or any number of good things. It’s a strange gift, but it brings only happiness. Until gorgeous, smooth-talking newcomer Hunter Kane strolls into her shop, Fairy Cakes—and Emma makes the mistake of selling him not one, but three Sweet Success cupcakes.

Hunter, it turns out, is opening a fancy new restaurant and bakery right on the waterfront—Emma’s competition. To make matters worse, the town committee has decided to split the upcoming summer festival contract between the two, forcing Emma to work with her nemesis. But she can’t afford to split her profits. The solution: create a recipe that will make Hunter leave town permanently.

The Holloway charms are powerful. But there are other kinds of magic in the world—like red-hot first kisses, secret glances, and the feeling that comes with falling truly, madly, inconveniently in love . . .

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Excerpt:

Copyright© 2018 Don’t Call Me Cupcake

Tara Sheets

That half smile ghosted across his face again and he crossed his arms. It was a simple gesture of relaxed ease, but Emma didn’t buy it. There was a hunger in his dark green gaze that she remembered all too well. The lion was on high alert.

“What did you want to talk about?” he asked.

“It was wrong,” she blurted.

Wrangler’s Creek’s most eligible bad boy, Dylan Granger, has just become its most eligible single dad in this sexy new release from USA Today Bestselling Author Delores Fossen!

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About Lone Star Blues:

Title: Lone Star Blues

Author: Delores Fossen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: April 17th, 2018

Publisher: HQN

Series: Wrangler’s Creek

Format: Print

Print ISBN: 9781335631992

Digital ISBN: B075JH8W58

Synopsis:

Wrangler’s Creek’s most eligible bad boy has just become its most eligible single dad.

Dylan Granger could always count on his rebellious-cowboy charm to get his way—until the day his wife, Jordan, left him and joined the military. The realization that during a wild night he got her cousin pregnant is shocking enough. But the news that Jordan has come home to Texas to help raise the baby is the last thing he expects.

Raising a baby with Dylan in Wrangler’s Creek is a life Jordan might’ve had years ago, but she doesn’t want regrets. She wants what’s best for the child—and to find out if there’s something deeper between her and her ex than blazing-hot chemistry. Getting closer means letting down her guard to Dylan again, but will he be able to accept the emotional scars on her heart?

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Copyright© 2018 Lone Star Blues

Delores Fossen

Downing some more coffee, Dylan headed off the porch and toward the large detached garage for another vehicle. However, before he could even make it there, he saw something sparkly on the stone path. A silver purse that was smaller and flatter than the palm of his hand. It had some chew marks on it and was wet, possibly from dog slobber.

Since this likely belonged to the naked woman, he opened it to see if he could find her ID. And there it was—her driver’s license along with a credit card and some lipstick. There was also one of those stupid Dylan Granger Sex Bingo cards folded up inside.

Thankfully, it was blank.

He pulled out the license and looked at her birth date first. She was twenty-six. Way too young for him but at least she was legal. Then he read the name, and his stomach went to his ankles. Because it was Misty Turley, the same last name as the judge who was pissed at him. And with the way his morning was going, Dylan seriously doubted that was a coincidence. No, this was likely another of his daughters. One younger than Melanie.

Maybe he could send Walter Ray a whole case of scotch.

Dylan didn’t know exactly how many daughters the judge actually had. Walter Ray had gotten divorced years ago, and when his ex-wife had moved away, the girls only visited Wrangler’s Creek every now and then. Or at least that had been the case until Melanie had moved back after she’d finished college.

Fifteen years ago, three girls were thrown together because their brothers were best friends. Now 
they're all grown up, and their brothers are grown up too. The Tea for Two series tells their stories. 
Fans of New York Times Bestselling Author, Noelle Adams, will love this newest playful friends 
become lovers story featuring Carol and Patrick, releasing January 10, 2017.

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About Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend:

Title: Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend

 

Author: Noelle Adams

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 10, 2018

Publisher: Noelle Adams

Series: Tea for Two

Format: Digital eBook

Digital ISBN: 9781386624455

Synopsis:

After too many years being overlooked by men, Carol is ready to take action. She wants a man, and 
she knows which man she wants. Her brother’s best friend, Patrick Stevenson.

Patrick is funny and brainy and the sexiest man she’s ever known, but he has never looked at her as 
anything except his friend’s little sister. That’s going to change.

Carol isn’t good at flirting. Or seduction. Or anything that requires putting herself out there. But she’s 
going to make sure Patrick sees her as a desirable woman—and one he wants for more than one night
—even if it turns her whole world upside down. He already likes her a lot. He just needs to open his
 eyes to how good they’d be together.

After all, how stubborn can he be?

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She narrowed her eyes even more and gave him a cool glare. “You might as well just admit it. 
I know exactly what happened.”

He groaned softly. “All right. Fine. I couldn’t believe you’d be acting like… like that.”

“Like what?”

She was making this as hard as possible for him, and he couldn’t even blame her. “Like you… 
liked me.” It sounded ridiculous, immature, but he couldn’t think of any other way to put it.

“And you really can’t believe that I do?”

He wanted to be anywhere but here, put on the spot like this. He wanted to get up and leave, 
somehow escape everything he was feeling.

But, if he did, that would be it. He’d never have Carol in his life again. He might have messed 
this up completely, but he wasn’t prepared to lose her for good. So he told her the truth. “No. I
 really can’t.”

“Why the hell not?”

Carol almost never used to rough language—even something as mild as “hell.” It seemed to 
emphasize how upset she really was.

“I… I don’t even know.”

She stared at him for a full minute. He could see her chest rise and fall with her heaving 
breathing. Then she finally got up, muttering, “You’re a real idiot sometimes. You know that,
 right?” She went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

He hauled himself to his feet and followed her. “I know I’m an idiot. I know that. But I’m still
 here, trying to fix things.”

She was staring into her open refrigerator, like she’d forgotten what she’d come here for.

“Carol,” he said, touching her shoulder gently. She looked so hurt and wounded. He couldn’t
 believe he was important enough to her to make her feel this way.

She whirled around to face him. “Why shouldn’t I like you?” she demanded.

He blinked. “Because… because it seems pretty obvious that it’s just because the others have 
gotten together.”

“What does that even mean?”

“I mean Emma and Noah got together, and then Ginny and Ryan got together. So now we’re 
the only two left. I get it. I do. It would make sense for us to get paired up in the same way. But
 that doesn’t mean it’s… it’s real.”

She made a loud, throaty sound of naked frustration.

Patrick contorted his face as he was washed with self-consciousness and confusion. “I’m trying
 to be honest here.”

“I know you are. I know you are!”

She closed the refrigerator, having taken nothing out. “Why wouldn’t we be good together?”

“We’re totally different. If I wasn’t the last guy left in our little group, you’d choose someone 
totally different.” He knew this much for sure. He’d been rehearsing it over and over again—
for months now—reminding himself that any soft looks she’d given him had been based on 
something other than real attraction.

“How do you know that?”

“Carol, please. I know I act stupid sometimes, but I do have a functioning mind. And neither 
one of us deserves to be stuck with… whoever happens to be left.”

She gaped at him. Literally gaped. Then her cheeks paled even more. “You think I’m… just 
whoever happens to be left.”

“Not you,” he gasped, shocked that she’d ever even imagine he felt that way. “Not you. Me.
 I’m whoever is left.”

“You… you… you…” She was panting, couldn’t even get the words out.

“Me what?”

“You idiot!”

He was processing her uncontrolled outburst and so he wasn’t prepared for what she did next.

What she did was launch herself at him, grabbing his head and pulling it down into a kiss.

Since he wasn’t prepared, he couldn’t control his response. And he’d been wanting her too 
much, for too long, and not letting himself act on that desire.

So he didn’t stop it, even though he knew he should.

He didn’t push her away gently and explain that it couldn’t happen.

He kissed her back.

Copyright © 2018 Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend by Noelle Adams

Other Books in the Tea For Two series:

Falling For HerBrother’s Best Friend

 

After too many bad decisions in romance, Emma is going on a man-fast. For the next six months, she's 
fasting from men. No sex. No dating. No soulful gazes. No fond memories of her first crush. She's 
going to spend the time focusing on her career, getting in touch with herself, and helping her two best 
friends with the launch of their new tea room. No men.

And that includes her brother's best friend, Noah Hart, who has just returned to their hometown.

She doesn't want Noah anyway. He might be even hotter than he was before, but he's not a nice guy 
anymore. He's made a fortune by acting ruthless in business, and the last thing he's looking for is 
small-town domestic life. He doesn't even want to be in town again, but a sick grandmother guilted
 him into it. Then he has nerve to not even recognize Emma when he sees her again. Maybe it's been 
seven years, but a decent guy would remember his best friend's little sister.

Noah is not a decent guy. Anyway, Emma is on a man-fast. And she doesn't want Noah.

At all.

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Winning Her Brother’s Best Friend

 

Ginny Hart loves men. And she loves dating. She just doesn't want a serious relationship. She's tried it 
before--with her brother's best friend, Ryan--and it's clear she's not cut out for it. So she'll keep having
 fun and focusing on the new tea shop she recently opened with her best friend.

That's all she needs in her life.

She definitely doesn't need Ryan, who is always hanging around and has turned into a real player. 
When he challenges her to prove which of them is more popular with the opposite sex, she takes him 
up on the bet. One month. Four Saturday nights. She'll show him she's not still holding on to old feeling
s. It doesn't matter if she can't seem to keep her hands off him.

She's not about to let him win.

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About Noelle Adams:

Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she 
hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, 
where she reads any book she can get her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.
 

She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate
 school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.

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