Welcome to our new group!!
Bistro Book Babes SUNDAYS!!
We are now meeting the Every Sunday 10-11am
at Inklings Book Shoppe before we open!!
Each book will be under 300 pages.
Thursday, May 02, 2024
#ReleaseBlitz for HEA: Happily Ever After by @lucylennoxMM and @GiveMeBooksPR
Title: HEA: Happily Ever After
Series: After Oscar #5
Authors: Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox
Genre: MM Romance
Tropes: One Night Stand/Lovers to Friends to Lovers
Always the Groomsman, Never the Groom
Billionaire, Fake Dating
Release Date: May 2, 2024
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Have you heard the expression “twelve times a groomsman, never a groom”? Neither had I… until it suddenly became clear that every man I dated found their One True Love in the person they dated after me.
Now I’m writing Best Man speeches for my former boyfriends twice a month, the “After Oscar” thing has become a legend, and I have finally accepted that Oscar Overton is nobody’s Happily Ever After.
Which is fine.
Between running my investment company, providing for Frank, my emotional support hedgehog, and keeping my enthusiastic family from getting in my business, my life is plenty busy. The last thing on my mind is a relationship.
Until Hugh Linzee.
One hot night with the gorgeous wedding photographer somehow turns into a text conversation I just can’t quit, but I’m determined to keep my distance. Hugh has ideas… ideas about romance and fireworks and capital-L love… and I care about him too much to let him get those ideas about me.
Fate keeps throwing us together, though. After an accidental all-night phone call and a convenient wedding run-in, suddenly I find myself agreeing to be his fake boyfriend, and distance quickly becomes a thing of the past.
But how long until Hugh figures out he’ll only get his HEA… After Oscar?
#ReleaseBlitz for Midlife Gumbo by Reggi Dupree @GiveMeBooksPR
Title: Midlife Gumbo
Series: Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo #3
Author: Reggi Dupree
Genre: Paranormal Women's Fiction
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Fated Mates
Sibling's Ex, Grumpy/Violent Sunshine
Release Date: May 2, 2024
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When you think life can’t get worse, the universe says: hold my beer.
Anastasia
This forty-five-year-old honey badger shifter is newly single and ready to mingle.
And freaking tired of playing small.
The fantastic news? I’m no longer alone. I have a sister and an entire birth family in Hoodoo, Texas. But with some new unexplainable powers, I may be too big of a freak for even my vampire aunt to accept.
The bad news? The sadistic honey badger clan I fled twenty-five years ago has found me. Someone else is trying to kill me. And if their threats of kidnapping, forced mating, and death weren’t enough…
I’m going into heat. Of course, the only viable candidate to offer a... helping hand is my escort to Texas–a grumpy werewolf who doesn’t even like me.
Carlos
I’m in San Diego to make the long-lost sister of my former high school sweetheart disappear—by any means possible. Instead, I discover that not only is the sister her identical twin, but my fated mate.
Now, my mission is to get the violent ball of sunshine to Hoodoo, where she’ll become someone else’s problem. That should be easy enough because I’m a wolf with a plane, a plan, and a purpose. What could go wrong?
How about everything?
Midlife Gumbo is the third book in the Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo series. While it’s part of the larger world, this full-length paranormal romance is a stand-alone.
If you love road trips, laughter, and grumpy sunshine stories, then you’ll love Midlife Gumbo. This novel is high in humor and medium in spice and perfect for fans of Darynda Jones, Mandy Roth, and Shelly Laurenston.
#ReleaseBlitz for Pucking Hearts Collide by Maggie Alabaster @GiveMeBooksPR
Title: Pucking Hearts Collide
Series: Pucking Dark Hearts #1
Author: Maggie Alabaster
Genre: Dark Sports Romance
Tropes: Reverse Harem/Hockey Romance
Release Date: May 2, 2024
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Ice racing was the only thing on my radar. My goal? To return from a knee injury and make the Winter Olympic team.
My problem? Having to share my practice rink with up-and-coming hockey team, the Opal Springs Ghouls.
All they want is to turn professional and put the town on the hockey map.
Their problem? They don't want to share the ice with me either, and they don't mind letting me and everyone else know. Three of them in particular have made it their mission to make my life h*ll, by any means necessary.
Even if they break me.
Good luck with that, I won't be broken that easily, but fighting both them and my attraction to them might just shatter me forever.
**This is a RH/why choose hockey romance with darker themes and a hot pink boa.**
#ReleaseBlitz for Kinks of a Billionaire by @EvaWinners and @GiveMeBooksPR
Title: Kinks of a Billionaire
Author: Eva Winners
Genre: Billionaire Romance
Tropes: Friends to Lovers/Who Did This To You
Release Date: April 26, 2024
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Royce Ashford.
The hottest man I’d ever met.
The first man I’d fallen for.
I’ve had a crush on my best friend’s older brother for as long as I could remember. His charm and sex appeal could seduce a saint, never mind a sex-crazed woman.
With his cocky grin, those broad shoulders, and that filthy mouth, he was a heartbreaker in a leather jacket. And a leading man in every single one of my naughty fantasies.
The first time I kissed him, we ended up locked in the friend zone forever. Apparently my smooching skills left much to be desired. In my defense, I was too young and inexperienced.
But I grew up and totally got over him.
Until my engagement fell apart and Royce swooped in like a prince charming, saving me.
One tiny problem.
I was falling for him all over again. My lustful imagination, raging hormones and accidental glimpses of Royce’s nakedness weren’t helping. Neither were the rumors of Royce’s kinky tendencies.
But I refuse to be a footnote in Royce’s life. If we were doing this, we’d do it all.
We’d go all the way.
Kinks of a Billionaire is a complete STANDALONE. No other books need to be read prior to this.
#ReleaseBlitz for Obeying the Owner by Jacob Chance @GiveMeBooksPR
Title: Obeying the Owner
Series: Charleston Coyotes #6
Author: Jacob Chance
Genre: Sports Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Hockey Team Owner, Single Father
Billionaire, Boss/Employee, Age Gap
Release Date: April 24, 2024
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When my dad retires, I take over as the new owner of the Charleston Coyotes hockey team.
As a businessman and father of a teenage daughter, I’m prepared for the challenges of the game, but Maeve, the stunning blonde I meet on a dating app—not so much.
Despite the large age gap, the connection between us is electric, and our one-night hookup quickly spirals into something deeper.
But life checks me harder than a hockey player when I discover Maeve is the executive assistant my dad raved about—which means she now works for me.
Suddenly, our steamy affair is put on ice, and navigating the delicate balance between boss and ex-lover becomes a high-stakes game with no playbook to follow.
Cue the awkward office encounters and the never-ending struggle to keep my hands off her.
Spoiler alert: I’m failing spectacularly.
It seems the harder I work at remaining professional, the more I long for her to once again obey this owner.
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
#TeaserTuesday: Lord of Storms by Alice Gaines @RABTBookTours
Dark Fantasy, Capture Fantasy, Action Adventure
Date Published: May 3, 2024
Advertising executive by day and novelist by night Gray Stewart has retreated to the country for a much-needed vacation. She’s at the top of a mountain when lightning threatens to fry her to a crisp. She finds shelter with a mysterious man who goes only by Rowan.
Rowan is the Lord of Storms, a super-human being who has power to minimize the damage of dangerous storms. He works in secret, and his female visitor is a threat to that secrecy. She’s also a threat to his equilibrium because as long as she’s around, his thoughts keep straying to sex… and love.
