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Review: Marriage and Murder - #Book 2 - Solving For Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries - Marcj 2021 As a big fan of Penny Reid's Winston Brothers series, I was so excited for her new book in the Cletus and Jenn Mysteries. Out of all the Winston Family, Cletus is my favorite of the brothers - In this book, we start with Cletus and Jenn's engagement party which is being hosted in the barn and Jenn's evil Daddy arrives and makes a big scene.

I can’t believe my ass completely didn’t notice that Sally and Becks from Adorkable, which I read and loved years ago, actually grew up and Wallflower was about their kid Viola . Wallflower was just as cute, featuring an adorable romance involving a fake relationship while plotting just a little revenge when Viola finds out her father intentionally had her drive Dare to school As much as I loved Sally and Becks’ relationship in Adorkable and the references to the book, O’Gorman strikes a perfect balance so it doesn’t overshadow Viola’s and It’s a light and fluffy read that’s perfect if you’re looking for a quick young adult contemporary book to read, which is something I enjoy from all of O’Gorman’s novels I’ve read thus far.

April Ross, the first and only female history major at the University of Delaware, is commissioned by the owner of Ellerslie to research the estate’s history for a potential sale. Against her better judgement, April eventually accepts that the woman is a ghost and realizes that her true purpose is to find out who this woman is, or was, and what happened to her in real life. I’m sure Mr. Sellers will let you break it when you tell him that Ellerslie is haunted. So Mr. Sellers told you about the lady ghost before you moved in but you signed the lease anyway?”

This book had captured my attention as I love those stories of #nerd meets and falls in love with a #jock as it can show that opposites truly do exist and also that you can never judge a person by their looks and that under a plain girl will be the "forever" one and that under pretty looks are "easy girls". In this book, we see the bullies call Viola "dog girl", I have to admit I didn't like this as it got me a bit confused as I had just last week read a book called "Dog Girl" which was also about an #nerd who worked at a dog shelter and this is also what the bullies called her she puts on her Slytherin hat and decides to get revenge on her dad by fake dating Dare and then the rest is history as we all know what happens with fake romances. As this book is a YA high school romance and published by Swoon Romance, it is also a clean romance and suitable for girls aged 12 - 16+.

Until someone tried to steal it all. Scarred and broken, I emerged from the flames

Ruby Donovan is a lot of things—paramedic, single mom, Legacy witch. He pushed overgrown black curls out of his face to reveal familiar brown eyes, blood along one cheek to mirror a scar on the other, and a beard covering the cleft on his chin. Or at least she’d called him Crash when she’d been a lovestruck teenager with a crush as dizzying as these staggering cliffs on a boy from East Los Angeles. A survivor of traumatic brain injury with steel body parts, she lives in SoCal with her combat veteran husband and their two-pound terror of a rescue pup.

When Rachel’s late husband’s childhood best friend, Nicolas, reappears in her life and brings a handsome friend along with him, Rachel forgets the cards. She takes a chance on Blake even though she can’t stop thinking about Nicolas. She hadn’t been able to decide whether it was Nicolas or Blake who was staring at her. What he’d studied, the profession he’d chosen, the beliefs he’d adopted after he’d left evangelicalism behind.

I had a suspicion that my magic faded with age, like estrogen, draining youth and power from my body, turning me into an old crone soaked in wine, and leaving me with an excessive amount of bitter baggage. I’d stupidly wasted my youth on a man who put off marrying me for so long, only to dump me at the altar and banish me from his life and his kingdom, all in a matter of minutes. My voice rang out as it had years ago when my magic was strong and powerful enough to command an army of squirrels, nibbling the ankles of all my enemies. I spun around the clearing, singing my heart out and skipping through the mud until—as my luck would have it—a man, not a beastly creature under my command, walked into my life.

Ivy Nelson is an emerging contemporary romance author, hopeful romantic, and passionate advocate who is versed in all things steamy, sultry, and sensual. Most recently, Ivy completed the "D.C. Power Games" series and the prequel to her forthcoming "Diamond Doms series" titled "Hard" (currently available for pre-order). In a not-so-distant past, she was a student affairs professional at a university and earned her political science degree, which explains her politically-driven romance debut. When she isn't penning steamy scenes or attending writing conferences, you can find this contest-winning karaoke singer and bookworm passionately supporting human rights or growing her Sims 4 empire.

Lathering soap over my body, I cringe when soap stings the small scratches on my shins. My room is closer to the reception area than the previous one, and it picks up the Wi-Fi, albeit slow. While I’m waiting for the little blue line to cross the top of my screen, I open the last message I sent to my father. A slight breeze carries his freshly showered scent into my room, and it jolts my memory of us together in Ilheus.