​Welcome my #CMCon18 author feature series. Showcasing several of the talented authors that will be in attendance at the upcoming Coastal Magic Convention in Florida.

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​Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing | Hachette Audio
Release Date: October 13, 2015 | October 15, 2015
Format: Audio CDs
Pages: Hardcover: 486 pages | Audio Length: 14 hours 23 mins
Narrator: Christopher Ryan Grant​
Source: Publisher
Genre: Romance, Contemporary Romance
​Rating: 4 bookmarks

​Synopsis: Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious relationship.

Maria Sanchez, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants, is the picture of conventional success. With a degree from Duke Law School and a job at a prestigious firm in Wilmington, she is a dark-haired beauty with a seemingly flawless professional track record. And yet Maria has a traumatic history of her own, one that compelled her to return to her hometown and left her questioning so much of what she once believed.

A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the course of both Colin and Maria's lives, challenging deeply held assumptions about each other and ultimately, themselves. As love unexpectedly takes hold between them, they dare to envision what a future together could possibly look like . . . until menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface.

As a series of threatening incidents wreaks chaos in Maria's life, Maria and Colin will be tested in increasingly terrifying ways. Will demons from their past destroy the tenuous relationship they've begun to build, or will their love protect them, even in the darkest hour?

Rich in emotion and fueled with suspense, SEE ME reminds us that love is sometimes forged in the crises that threaten to shatter us . . . and that those who see us for who we truly are may not always be the ones easiest to recognize. 

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

​I was really honored to help Tamara with this review of the Nicholas Sparks story "See Me." I have been quite a Nicholas Sparks fan since my emotional high school days pouring over "A Walk to Remember". In the last couple years I have lost track I am sad to realize he has 18 novels in total now! I have become quite behind on his books so I jumped in with fresh "eyes". 

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing | Blackstone Audio
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Format: Audio CDs
Pages: Hardcover: 368 pages | Audio Length: 11 hours 42 mins
Narrators: Alan Smyth , Bronson Pinchot , Suzanne Toren
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thriller
​Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis: The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "I'm sorry--S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her.

Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate--and to a woman, Estelle, who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before.

To get answers, Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah. He must do things of which he never thought himself capable. And he must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground ...

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

​Adam Dunne and his girlfriend, Sarah, have been dating for 10 years. He is a screen writer who hasn’t held a steady job throughout their relationship. He is about to sell his first screenplay and receive a nice sum of money that will be deposited to his bank account, but first he needs to do a rewrite of the script. During this time, Sarah announces she has to take a trip to Barcelona for work for a few days which will give Adam plenty of free and uninterrupted time to work on script. Adam wants to go with her, but she insists he cannot afford it, the trip is work related and that he should really focus on the rewrite.

While Sarah is gone, he is bored and not as focused as he should be and decides to send Sarah a text through the WhatsApp app, but she doesn’t respond. He’s not worried at first because she is probably busy with business
meetings. But the plot thickens when Sarah’s parents call to inquire about her whereabouts, her best friend Rose reveals some truths, and she doesn’t show up at the airport gate when Adam arrives to pick her up.

Publisher: Park Row Books
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Source: Publicist
Genre: Womens Fiction
Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis: Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she's able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes.

After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street…just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him. 

Meg can't help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy's family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own family—and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy's father, Andrew.

Soon Meg's picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she's been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?

* This book was provided by BookSparks in exchange for an honest review.

​A working mom goes to pick her daughter up from school. A classmate is waiting to cross the street; Mom goes ahead and waves him across. In that one decision, lives will irrevocably change.

So begins the story of “In This Moment”, by Karma Brown. This is Ms. Brown’s third novel, the second I’ve read, and in my opinion, it’s her best one yet. The story is told from the viewpoint of Meg, the mother, who is just a normal working mom, trying to make all of the dots connect for her and her family in their work, school, and home lives. She makes the decision to take a couple of extra seconds to let the young man pass, and that one moment changes the lives of everyone in her orbit.

​Welcome my #CMCon18 author feature series. Showcasing several of the talented authors that will be in attendance at the upcoming Coastal Magic Convention in Florida.

​Determined to bring a new edge to romance, Artist continues to develop intriguing plots, sensual love scenes, racy characters and fresh dialogue—thus keeping the readers on their toes!

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​Publisher: Gallery Books | Simon & Schuster Audio​
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Paperback: 350 pages | Audio Length: 9 hours 39 mins
Narrators: Shayna Thibodeaux , Deacon Lee
Source: Audiobook Publisher
Genre: Contemporary Fiction​, Romance
​Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis: ​Despite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire.

But when their two agencies merge—causing the pair to vie for the same position—all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals—so why can’t they act like it?

Can Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you will get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, raucous, and hilarious romance style at its finest.

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

When I first saw the synopsis of this audiobook, I knew I just had to listen to it. I’m so glad that my instincts were correct. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  I usually don’t go for books with multiple authors, but they pulled this off. The story was told from alternating point of views which likely helped to the easy digestion of the two authors writing. 

I feel Evie's pain. While I never have dated someone I that I had to work with, I know the feeling of working in an competitive corporate world where the woman always gets undercut. I understand not wanting to argue with your boss and be deemed a complaining woman....seeing the guy get the edge, get the better customers, the better projects, having an unfair advantage just because he's in the good ole' boys club, not because he's better at this job.

​Meet new platonic friends, in person and online using on Patook! I know that many of us book nerds are also introverts but that doesn’t mean that you don’t want to have lots of friends. We may not be the light of the party, or at the part at all because we’d rather be home reading, but when I saw this app I decided to give it a try. One can never have too many bookish friends!  I’ve been using the app for about a week now and I really like it. I've already met a really cool book nerd that's coming to my next local book club meeting.

​As the community grows and the app is updated with even more features it’ll be even more fun.  When you think about it, it’s almost like a ‘Tinder for friends’  -- it works in a similar manner minus the flirting and hookup requests. I’ve never been on Tinder, but I’ve heard plenty about the swipe right vs swipe left. The app version functions in a similar way when matches are made, but instead of looking for a hook up or a date, this is literally looking for friends. Seriously.  “NO flirting allowed” is their mantra. Let me tell you more.