REVIEW Hope for Christmas by Becky McGraw

SYNOPSIS

Cowboys are a different breed...
They work hard, play hard and love harder.
It's all about the ride, until the right woman
makes them fall.

Cord Dixon, Mr. Laramie in the world of western clothing modeling, loses his job because he refuses to sleep with his female boss. Christmas is coming, and his bills are due, so he takes the only job he can find. A mall Santa. Socialite wedding photographer, Hope Carlisle’s life disintegrates when she ruins the wedding of the year. In one fell swoop, she loses her best friend, her business partner and her fiancé. Unemployed and needing a job fast, Hope takes a job as an elf photographer at the local mall. She is not looking forward to her new job, until she meets her sexy Santa. Individually, Hope and Cord’s lives seem to be a hopeless mess. 

But with the magic of Christmas in the air, they work together to reclaim their lives and find love in the process.

Hope For Christmas was originally included in the holiday anthology Santa Wore Spurs. This novella launches The Cowboy Way series.

REVIEW

I started and finished this book in one day because I could not put it down. This is the first book that I have read by Becky McGraw and it will not be my last.

Cowboys, socialite, models, mishaps and Santa all lead to a fabulous story of about guilt, family, loyalty, jealousy, love, and learning to trust.

Cord Dixon left his family ranch home to become a model for Laramie Jeans and due to him saying no to a certain proposition he finds himself jobless and dressed in a Santa suit and not sure if he would be welcome back home. Hope Carlisle meets said Santa as she is his elf photographer because of a certain mishap in her past. On Hope's first day Cord loses it and decides to quit which leaves Hope without a job till she has a brainwave and makes her own offer to Cord - which he accepts.

This story held me captive with the ups and downs of Cord making amends with his family, the budding romance/attraction between Cord and Hope, both frightened to say how they felt and what they wanted. The show of friendship from Cords friends to help him repair his family home, throw this all together and it all lead to an amazing love story that give you that feel good factor after finishing a book. Congrats Becky McGraw - LOVED it. 5 stars.

ABOUT BECKY

A Jill of many trades, NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author Becky McGraw has been an optician, a beautician, a legal secretary, a real estate broker, web designer, graphic artist, and romance writer. She knows just enough to make her dangerous, and her humor-laced contemporary western cowboy, and military, police procedural romantic suspense novels varied and interesting. Becky resides in Florida with her husband of thirty-three years and her dog Abby. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America Published Authors Network.

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RELEASE DAY & REVIEW for The Irresistible Rogue by Valerie Bowman

SYNOPSIS

A PROPOSAL FROM A SCOUNDREL
Daphne Swift has not laid eyes on her devilishly charming husband, Captain Rafferty Cavendish, in quite some time. As a matter of fact, she wants the rogue to annul their brief marriage so that she can marry the reliable and estimable Lord Fitzwell. But the breathtakingly handsome Rafe is not interested in letting Daphne go-at least not without paying his scandalous price...

THE SEDUCTION OF HIS WIFE
Rafe prefers to face the dangers of spying alone, but this time he needs his innocent, fiery wife to uncover the information he seeks. He has even agreed to release her from their marriage if she submits completely to his plan. However, Daphne's alluring combination of courage and curves makes her a dangerous distraction, and it is not long before Rafe is trading subterfuge for seduction in order to prove that Daphne is meant to be his and his alone...

I loved this book about Rafe and Daphne. The story starts with Daphne maybe getting engaged to a the very boring Lord Fitzwell - that is if she can get an annulment to her marriage of convenience to Captain Rafe Cavendish (who she has loved for awhile), they got married so Daphne (who craves adventure) could accompany him on a mission for the war office - as his cabin boy, if she got found out as being a woman then her reputation would not be destroyed as she is already married to him. After the mission Rafe left and Daphne has not seen him since.

This is where the fun begins because Rafe knows that Daphne is wanting to get engaged and he does not like her choice of gentleman so Rafe says he will only grant Daphne an annulment if she accompanies him on another mission to find out who killed her brother. Daphne agrees to assist him one more time and leaves to go on his ship.

This story keeps you entertained the whole way through, I loved Daphne's cousin Delilah and Aunt Willie, these two characters together cause a lot of mischief and I loved it, along with the attraction between Daphne and Rafe and both of them fighting it.

This is one of my MUST READS if you like historical romances. I will be putting Valerie Bowman on my authors not to be missed list.

MEET THE AUTHOR

 

Valerie Bowman is an award-winning author who writes Regency-set historical romance novels aka Racy Regency Romps!

Valerie’s debut novel was published in 2012. Since then, her books have received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus. She’s been an RT Reviewers’ Choice nominee for Best First Historical Romance and Best Historical Romance Love and Laughter. Two of her books have been nominated for the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

Valerie grew up in Illinois with six sisters (she’s number seven) and a huge supply of historical romance novels. After a cold and snowy stint earning a degree in English Language and Literature with a minor in history at Smith College, she moved to Florida the first chance she got. Valerie now lives in Jacksonville with her family including her rascally rescue dog, Roo. When she’s not writing, she keeps busy reading, traveling, or vacillating between watching crazy reality TV and PBS.


Visit Valerie on the web at www.ValerieBowmanBooks.com.

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ValerieGBowman

GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5414544.Valerie_Bowman

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ValerieBowmanAuthor/?fref=ts

 

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Review If I Seem Dangerous by ROSE SAWYER

 

He's preparing for the fight of his life.

Title: If I Seem Dangerous

Author: Rose Sawyer

Genre: MMA Romance

Release Date: October 20, 2015

Series: Standalone

Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing

Cover Designer:Claire Smith

 

Darkness shrouds Noah James’ past. Drugs, alcohol, abuse—they cloud the few memories he has and threaten to eat away at his future. The only brightness in his life is Caitlyn Hale. She came crashing into his world the day he met with her father, the sports agent who could possibly give him a new start. That day, he left the agent's office with a professional fighting career ahead of him and the image of a hazel-eyed beauty imprinted in his soul.

 

Rarely does life offer a glimpse of happiness without snatching it away. Just like he's always feared, the monster that haunts him comes roaring back. His entire life shatters, threatening to return him to the darkness he came from. The light-heavyweight champion is about to face the fight of a lifetime. He can only hope to make it through each round without losing the few things he has left.

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Noah James has had a bad start to his life with his father leaving him and his mum to fend for themselves after taking all their money. So Noah becomes a fighter to help get money to help them survive, at first he fights in the illegal rings until Lee Hale takes him under his wing and introduces him to the professional fighting arena.  At the first meeting with Lee, Noah meets Lee's daughter Caitlyn and he realises straight away the she is the woman he wants.
After a prize fight Noah is accused of taking drugs and he has the title away from him, he knows he is clean and that someone must have tampered with the results and he knows exactly who!!! and sets out to prove it, at first though he takes the wrong route but with the help of his friends he starts down the right track to prove his innocence.
This story is about betrayal, revenge, friendship, love and fighting. This is the first book I have read by Rose Sawyer and I enjoyed her writing style. I will be looking out for her again.

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Rose Sawyer currently lives on campus full time while working on her undergraduate degree in Biblical and Religious studies with an emphasis on Religion and Sociology in California, where she was born and raised. On weekends, she travels home to see her parents and the gaggle of cats, dogs, horses and other four-legged animals that she loves.

 

At 19, she has written seven romance novels, is currently writing two more and has another two in the process of being published. The majority of her novels can be found at Wattpad.com, where they are available to read for free.

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