![]() ![]() ĭespite her better judgment, Taryn soon finds herself falling hard for Ryan. ![]() But Taryn isn't every other girl.Ī R e lationship That D oesn ' t F o llow the Script. At six foot two, with dirty blond hair, blue eyes, and an incredible body, Ryan has every girl in Seaport swooning. But when Ryan Christensen unexpectedly bursts through the front door of her pub, she can't help but be drawn in by his humor, charm, and undeniable good looks. Nursing a recent heartbreak, Taryn Mitchell believes men are best kept at a safe distance. While filming in Seaport, Rhode Island, Ryan ducks into a neighborhood bar for a quick escape from legions of screaming fans. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine a life where fans would chase him, paparazzi would stalk him, and Hollywood studios would want to own him. Ryan Christensen just wanted to be an actor. ![]()
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![]() Due to her illness, she is unable to leave her house, so her life is confined to her caretaker and her mother-if anyone else came into contact with her she could die. This story follows 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, who has been sick her entire life. ![]() The first book of hers that I read was “Everything, Everything,” which came out in 2015 and has since been adopted into a movie starring Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games” and “The Hate U Give”) and Nick Robinson (“Love, Simon”). ![]() She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband David Yoon (who co-authored the first book I talk about), and her daughter. Printz Award winner and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Yoon is a National Book Award finalist, Michael L. For the last book showcasing black authors during Black History Month, I chose to look at Nicola Yoon, who has written two of my favorite young adult (YA) books. ![]() ![]() But the biggest challenge is to Torak’s mind as he discovers women from other galaxies are more than they seem. When an assassin threatens Torak’s life, River has to show him even a circus performer can be a warrior when challenged. Worlds collide when the male-dominated world meets three circus performers who use their talents to fight for those they love. Smith is a New York Times, USA TODAY, International and Award-winning Bestselling author of Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy. Smith 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,280) Kindle Edition. The three women are believed to be the prophesied warriors sent to join forces to bring peace to the House of Kassis. Rivers Run: Science Fiction Romance (Lords of Kassis Book 1) S.E. Torak Ja Kel Coradon, leader of the House of Kassis and next ruler of the Kassis galaxy, has other plans when he sees the blue-eyed warrior woman-he wants her for himself. ![]() In a desperate attempt to save Jo and Star, River makes a deal with a group of other aliens who had also been captured: she’ll release them if they promise to return the three girls to their home. Sneaking aboard the shuttle in an attempt to rescue them, she finds herself on an unplanned vacation to the stars. Following them, she discovers their abductors are anything but human. ![]() When she travels up into the mountains of North Carolina to the cabin Star has rented for them, she is shocked when she finds the two sisters being abducted. ![]() River Knight was looking forward to a peaceful vacation in the mountains with her two best friends, Jo and Star, sisters of the heart. ![]() Smith presents another adventure- and suspense-filled story to transport listeners out of this world. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author S.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() This sort of deep-seated grief and despair is likely familiar to anyone who has lost a loved one, though perhaps not the extreme state of it that Beth is living in. She has been living a rather ghostlike existence since then, simply going through the motions of daily life while remaining dead and unfeeling to everything around her. All in all a rather satisfying book.īeth is mourning the deaths of her husband and son who died in a boating accident about a year previously. There's a bad guy to fight, and he gives rise to some worrying moments, but ultimately is handled with moderate ease and the happy couple swim off into the sunset at the end. Their story is told with a good deal of sexual tension that leads to some steamy sexy times, but also with a large dose humor that will often have you laughing out loud. Also included is a gorgeous, alpha hero who's loving and protective, but isn't an ass about it-at least for the most part. ![]() There's a strong heroine who isn't terribly inclined to sit back and wait to be rescued or to let someone else fight her battles, but who also has issues. ![]() This second installment in the Orkney Selkies series has many of Rosanna Leo's signature elements. Warning: This review contains possible mild spoilers, though I have endeavored to keep my comments with the realm of outcomes that can be reasonably expected given the genre. ![]() ![]() The Romanov family was executed in 1918 without trial during the Russian Revolution. In case you don’t know the story, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov was Tsar Nikolas Romanov’s youngest daughter. ![]() Thanks to 20th Century Fox, I’ve always been intrigued by Anastasia Romanov. She is just so sweet and so authentic! When I found out she had written a book about Anastasia Romanov, I knew I just had to read it! Check out my honest review below! So I gave Nadine a follow, and she had become one of my favorite authors to follow. Many popular bookstagrammers featured her previous book, Fawkes, because it is just so beautiful. ![]() I discovered Nadine Brandes on Instagram through the bookstagram community. ![]() All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own. Disclosure: I received a copy of Romanov by Nadine Brandes for free from NetGalley to share my thoughts with my readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s always been the good girl, the one that pleased her parents and did everything that was asked of her. Marriage and kids were maybe 10-15 years down the track not now, not at 21. ![]() Study hard, become an architect, work even harder. David then offers to fly her to LA so that they can sort out this mess in private, without involving other people, an offer that Evelyn accepts.Įvelyn has always been the girl with ‘the plan’. And she has no recollection of doing so.ĭavid immediately offers her an annulment but when Evelyn lands back in her home town of Portland, Oregon it seems that news of their marriage has leaked to the paparazzi and she is besieged by reporters and photographers who harrass her at the airport and invade her family home. It seems that after many unwise tequila shots, Evelyn married David Ferris, guitarist for rock band Stage Dive. ![]() And a diamond on her finger the size of a golf ball. That way did not include waking up, sick as a dog with a tattooed stranger. Copy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalleyĮvelyn has big plans to celebrate her 21st birthday in Las Vegas in a special way. ![]() ![]() Hitler has summoned Faber to come brief him about the Allied invasion plans in person. The Needle manages to remain in Britain until the eve of D-Day in 1944, when he learns that the D-Day invasion is to take place on Normandy, and he discovers phony plywood "airplanes" intended to look, from the air, like Patton's invasion force, but it's a ruse to throw off the Germans. Perhaps none of these experiences fully explains his isolation and ruthlessness, but maybe it's just part of being a spy. ![]() He was raised by parents who did not love him, he was shipped off to boarding schools, and he spent parts of his childhood in America, where he learned English. He kills with a singular lack of passion, and will kill even the most innocent of bystanders if he thinks they might somehow threaten his objective, or just get in the way. He is known as the Needle because of his trademarked way of killing people by jabbing a stiletto into their rib cages. The Needle dropped out of sight in Germany in 1938 and now inhabits a series of drab bed-sitting-rooms in England while he spies on the British war effort. ![]() ![]() A man calling himself Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) is actually "the Needle," a German spy in England during World War II. ![]() ![]() This story, also one of my favorites, is that rarity-a romance with two love stories of equal value. ![]() Mary was first mentioned in A Counterfeit Betrothal as the supposed mistress of the hero of that book, though in reality they were just friends. She spurns his attempts to woo her at the same time as her heart inexplicably yearns toward him. His heroine, Mary Gregg, Lady Mornington, is an intelligent, refined widow, apparently his polar opposite. Now, more than twenty years later, you can fall in love with him all over again-or for the first time. It did not take me long to fall in love with him while I was creating him, and it did not take readers long to love him when they read his story. Edmond has earned his reputation, but he is also one of my most complex, troubled heroes. One of them, Lord Edmond Waite, appeared in an older book, The Notorious Rake, first published in 1992. ![]() ![]() When I ask people to name their favorites among the hundred or so heroes of my novels and novellas, certain names occur consistently. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. ![]() Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. ![]() There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.įor years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’ve read Live Wire (currently, the latest Myron installment at #10), then you know the Bolitar brothers’ complicated history you’ll also know more than Mickey about his extended family. ![]() ![]() Having grown up all over the world, his father is now buried in LA, his mother is in rehab, and he’s stuck living with Uncle Myron who is not exactly his favorite person in the world – for various reasons, Myron makes a perfect scapegoat for all of Mickey’s problems. ![]() Mickey (whose given name is actually Myron) is the new-kid-in-town sophomore, relocated to New Jersey under great duress. The Mickey Bolitar spin-off is actually targeted for younger readers, but the only details adult readers might find missing are … well, sex and strong language, which have been replaced by the complications of the 21st-century high school caste system. If you’re needing a Myron Bolitar fix – Harlan Coben, the first author to win an Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony (three of the top awards for mystery writers), seems to be taking a break from his most persistent protagonist after 10 volumes – then this new series starring Myron’s nephew Mickey is definitely for you. ![]() |