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Title: Quality Candy

Author: Ava Catori

Narrator: Janine Hegarty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-13-13

Publisher: Ava Catori Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Candace Brown had a past, one that she kept well hidden. Now that she had snagged a promotion at work, she was feeling pretty good about herself - that is until Ryan enters the pictures. Ryan Gentry knows Candy's past. In fact, she's the one who took his virginity ten years ago. Only seeing her unexpectedly throws him off of his game, and he finds himself attracted to the girl he once knew.

Avoiding Ryan becomes Candace's goal, until he lands smack in her office. Can she continue to push him away when chemistry starts to brew? Accepting Ryan into her world means accepting her past, and that's one thing she's still running from. How far would you run to escape your past, and what would you sacrifice to keep a firm grip on your future? Candace Brown is about to find out.

Members Reviews:

Incredible! Quality writing

One thing is for sure. After reading this book, I am now a huge Ava Catori fan. I just can't find anything not to like about this book.

Candice has a bit of an unpleasant past that she would like to keep buried, but things don't go as she has planned. When a man from her past shows up in her present, it will be a test of her willpower to forget the trauma of her youth and move forward with her present.

This was just an excellent book all the way around. The character development is wonderful. Candy is amazing and dimensional. When you first meet her, she seems a bit guarded, but she is funny and they type of character that brings a lot of personality to a book. She has made her life exactly what she wants it to be and is ready to leave all her demons buried. I enjoyed reading her internal thoughts on the situations she found herself in and felt this gave me an opportunity to really understand where her character was coming from.

The relationship between the two main characters had a good amount of tension and although at the beginning I didn't like the male character very much, he grew to be someone a reader can respect and was supportive of the main character.

The sex scenes were steamy but not overly explicit and they never seemed too pushed.The pacing was natural and the pages turned quickly without me having to push myself to read.

What made me love this book more than anything else was the growth I saw in the characters by the end of the story. They all manage to learn something and transform into the type of people that make you happy you have read the book to begin with.

In the end, this was a great way to spend a couple of hours and I look forward to seeing what else this author has in store for her readers. I would recommend this to anyone that likes a romance with more depth than you can expect from most.

This review is based on a Digital ARC from Netgalley.

Light Steamy Novella

Ms. Catori has written a light, steamy romance novella. The pacing is a bit uneven, but the storyline runs true throughout. The female lead character can be difficult to warm up to, but I believe that's how she was written, to portray the hard shell she has gained over the years. The romance seemed genuine, the love scenes appropriately placed and just enough - not over the top. I did become emotionally invested in the outcome, just a bit confused by the pacing of the story - at times it went along like a novel then sped up to an abrupt finish, becoming a novella in my opinion.

I rated it 3 stars because of the pacing issues, but would like to read more from Ms.

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Title: Hunting Heartbreak

Author: Marie Hampton

Narrator: Kelley Hazen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-13

Publisher: Vanilla Heart Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

On the flashy Las Vegas strip, Kasumi Yoshida tracks down her marks assassinating gamblers who pay their loans with their lives. Business becomes scarce when a past lover and fellow Yakuza member betrays the honor system and rescues Kasumi's future clients.

Her boss insists she works with Ryan, a hired gun, to find the cause, but Kasumi becomes distracted by his arrogant charm, and soon her adrenaline-filled world of death and motorcycle racing is muddied by her obsession with the past and her uncontrollable attraction to her partner. Kidnapping, torture, and betrayal allow the enemy to capture Kasumi, and she is forced to trust in friendship and love to free her from guilt so she can take her revenge.

Members Reviews:

A fresh story

Any additional comments?

This audiobook is unexpected. I really liked how powerful and lethal the lead character is yet also vulnerable. There is room for growth in both the character and the writing. It is a young fresh story.

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Title: The Only Heir

Author: Mary H. Collins

Narrator: Molly Elston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-13

Publisher: Melissa Miller

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Kimberly landed the job at Bovines Boutiques in New York City, she packed up and left Knoxville, Tennessee in a rush, thinking her dreams had come true. After only a week, Michael came into her life. "We're destined to be together," she told her sister over the phone. Little did she know... after only one night in her bed, he'd disappear.

When the Yarboroughs found out Kimberly was having Mike's baby, they lavished her with gifts, a new car, a new home, and a business of her own. She couldn't ask for a better life. That is until Kristal Yarborough set her up as an unfit parent and took baby Michael away. Kimberly turned to her parent's for help, they'd always been there for her until now...she'd brought shame to their family name. Did Kimberly make the biggest mistake of her life by moving to New York? Will she find her dreams there or will she end up back in Knoxville, watching her dreams die?

Members Reviews:

Sweet romance, impossible to put down.

Kimberly Landers leaves Knoxville, Tennessee for New York City, to begin her dream job. There she meets a wonderful guy, but loses him in an avalanche over the Christmas holidays. To her dismay, she finds herself pregnant, and her conservative parents cut her out of their lives. All is not bad, or so she believes, when her guy's parents take the place of hers, until they decide she's not a good enough mother for their only heir. Can Kimberly find happiness in a new relationship without her son? Will she find the courage to stand up against people with power and money?

Mary H. Collins writes a delightful love in many forms - family, sibling, boyfriend, child, and a husband - that the reader can empathize with. The ups and downs are as normal as most of our lives. Single and working mothers will understand the choices Kimberly faces, and will cheer for her as she becomes a strong yet gentle woman. I found this story impossible to put down and recommend for all who enjoy a sweet romance.

Not enough

it seemed like it was going everywhere at once. My mind kept on wandering off, because I couldn't find a solid story line to follow.

Some parts had merit and I liked those parts. The story just needs some tweaking.

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Title: The Baker's Daughter

Author: Anne Forsyth

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-13

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1952. Raised by her father Angus and her Aunt Lizzie, Rona Maclaren is a flighty young woman, with dreams of becoming a model and no plans to continue in the family business. But when she is sacked from her job as a companion, she is set to work in the bakery. Inspired by the coronation, she sets out to improve the bakery and begins to promote the family business. When her Auntie Lizzie leaves, Rona finds herself thrown into looking after the house as well. Although not the life she dreamed of, she resigns herself to looking after her father and brother. But can Callum Scott offer her a better life?

Members Reviews:

The bakers DAUGHTER

It was a bit boring. She leads a good life and knows all the right people and is a good person but nothing interesting. It was a memoir.

Boring....

Maybe a book for young teen, but not for anyone who has done much reading.

Not much to say about the storyline.

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Title: Wild Child

Author: Suzanne Forster

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sent to reform school years before by Blake Wheeler, the now grown up Cat D'Angelo returns to her Oregon hometown to tell District Attorney Wheeler a thing or two, but working together on a criminal case leads them to conversation of the pillow variety.

Members Reviews:

predictable reunion story

I swear, these two have so many visions/flashbacks/hallucinations that they need psychiatric care.

And every conversation has l o n g pauses in it while the characters reminisce and go off on tangents in their heads.

Other than that, it's a pretty predictable reunion story (and to think I normally love reunion stories--shows there are exceptions to every rule) about the town bad girl coming home and the district attorney who, as a young prosecutor, had put her in jail at age 16.

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Title: Wishes and Tears

Author: Dee Williams

Narrator: June Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When a naive encounter at a Coronation party leaves 16-year-old Janet Slater pregnant there's no question in her scandalised parents' mind of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for unmarried mothers in South London, Janet is about to face the hardest moment of her sheltered life alone. Forced to give her tiny daughter up for adoption, Janet promises her that one day, come what may, she'll find her.

In the years that follow it seems it is a promise that will be impossible to keep. Nonetheless, she builds her life around her secret and Paula, her lost daughter, is never far from her thoughts. And one day, her searching pays off - the road to their longed-for reunion seems clear. But then a new shadow falls across the fragile happiness of both their lives...

Members Reviews:

a really lovely book

wasn't sure at first but soon got into it and found I couldn't put it down. the characters were realistic and interesting. would definitely recommend

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Title: An Uncommon Affair

Author: Leigh Michaels

Narrator: Shawna M. Washabaugh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-13

Publisher: LeAnn Lemberger

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Torey Farrell and Marsh Endicott have each inherited half a house. Each of them wants it all - and neither is willing to budge an inch. They're reluctant housemates, stuck together by common ownership - and they're also a man and a woman who are uncommonly attracted to each other.

A Springhill series book. Leigh Michaels is the author of more than 90 books, including 80 contemporary romance novels. She also writes single-title historical romance set in Regency England. Her website is www.leighmichaels.com

Members Reviews:

Cute Story

It was a cute story, but would have been more enjoyable if the narrator could have read with more feeling.

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Title: Morgan's Chase, Books 4-6: Triple Threat

Author: Lucy St. John

Narrator: Christy Lynn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-13

Publisher: Lucy St. John

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's all been leading up to this! The biggest, sexiest, most suspenseful & satisfying Morgan's Chase trilogy yet!

Just when you thought Morgan's chase might be heading to a happy ending...explosive and shocking plot twists throughout this three-book trilogy will send listeners reeling.

More to the point, the fall-out will keep Morgan running on her elusive quest for balance and peace in her personal and professional lives.

Having watched as precious things were nearly taken away, Morgan Chase rises to fight like never before. The battle wages both inside the corporate boardroom and in the murky world of off-the-books revenge - where enough money and malice can make anyone disappear.

The gloves are off. And Morgan won't hold ex-Navy SEAL Travis Walker back from doing what he must to protect her family and save the Ballentine Empire. The wily Walker has a plan. But Morgan's firefighter father, the explosive, bare-knuckles Al Chase, has no use for cerebral strategy. He longs to strike back at all the family's enemies in one bold but bloody attack.

And just when you thought Morgan's chase might have reached a happy ending, something so shocking occurs, it has the power to change everything - and everyone. The wide-spread fall-out will have Morgan and her family dealing with life-and-death "trials and tribulations" throughout the third and final Morgan's Chase trilogy. Don't miss these fantastic, final installments!

Members Reviews:

Love the series

Love this series but the hero and heroine need a little more alone time.... really come on; they deserve it.

Storyline is good.

The storyline is good but I am not a fan of the heavily explicit sexual descriptions. I would like to finish the series but I feel that I won't because of the explicit sex details.

Loved this , can not wait for the next book. Never know what will happen next. Could put this book down.

Very well written, had a hard time putting the book down. the characters are very interesting. Can not wait for the next book, write fast.

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Title: Love for a Soldier

Author: Mary Jane Staples

Narrator: Anne Dover

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-13

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

France, 1918. Sophia, the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general, is on her way to the town of Douai to elope. On her way, she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane and under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side.

She has no choice but to assist him, and he joins her in the family car she has stolen, trailed by both the German Army and a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophia's father to bring her home. With their pursuers hot on their heels, how will Sophia explain her behaviour? And after sharing so many adventures, will she be able to turn the pilot in when the time comes?

Members Reviews:

disappointing

I love Mary Jane Staples so I was prepared to fall in love with her characters. She's still a good writer, and I liked the secondary couple who are after our so-called hero and heroine. The hero is all right but doesn't have the usual droll sense of humor that her male protagonists generally have. The heroine struck me as completely irritating. I get the feeling she's a it's my way or the highway, near narcissist. And the pursuit seemed endless, circular, and boring. On the plus side the German major and his sidekick were completely charming.

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Title: Traveling for Love

Subtitle: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love

Author: Becky Due

Narrator: Anne Johnstonbrown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-13

Publisher: Due Publications

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When her husband tells her, he wants a divorce, Amanda realizes she no longer knows who she is - her life revolved around her husband. At forty, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Amanda starts dating, finds employment as a travel agent, and begins the search of finding herself and - with a little luck - the right man.

Members Reviews:

Traveling for Love

After fourteen years of marriage, forty year old Amanda has lost herself in the marriage, she doesn't know who she is anymore. Through the years she had given in and went along with everything that her husband Nick liked and wanted, somewhere along the way she had let herself go, but now that they are getting divorced Amanda knows what she doesn't like, and it's time to find herself again!

Traveling for Love is the charming story of one woman's journey of self-discovery while searching to find herself and true love. Author Becky Due weaves an engaging tale written in the first person narrative that follows Amanda's quest to find herself after her divorce.

Amanda's journey is filled with stepping stones of growth and independence that allows her to redefine and figure out who she is and what she wants in her life. As a full-time travel agent, Amanda's travels takes her to places that have new meaning in her life, and as a token of each place she visits, she gets a new necklace as a symbol of her new life. Along the way, Amanda dates men who provide a different aspect in her life that she wants and needs. Sam is her first post-divorce relationship, he's mysterious and intrigues Amanda, but it is a short-lived romance that didn't have much depth to it. Then there is John, who she has an enjoyable fling with, and although he treats her right, he is not the one who captures her heart. Only after discovering that she can enjoy her own company and live with or without a man, Amanda meets Grant, the right man for her.

Traveling for Love is an enjoyable feel good story, it is easy to relate to Amanda and the growth and transformation that her life takes after her divorce. Written in a light and fun style, Amanda's journey is filled with self-discovery mixed with some intimate romance scenes that keeps the reader engaged and turning the pages. I really enjoyed following Amanda on her journey, especially how each guy that she dated was in a sense a stepping stone to rediscovering the woman that she always was, only better the second time around.

If you're looking for an enjoyable quick read on a lazy summer day that leave you smiling, then Traveling for Love is the book for you.

Four Stars

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Smooth Romance

This is a novel about one woman's journey to regain herself after her marriage ends. Nick, Amanda's husband, accused her of being worthless, and so Amanda began to believe him. Once on her own, she begins a spiritual and emotional journey to find herself and true happiness. While I found the story a bit slow, the characters are interesting, and the plot is well developed. This novel doesn't have a real climax and resolution, though.