Friday Feature: The Key to Forever by Kelly Cain

Do you love a good romance? Then you might like today’s Friday Feature!

Title: The Key to Forever by Kelly Cain
Secret Ties Book Three
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Length: 276 pages

Summary:

She doesn’t need a man, but she does want a family.

Tori Matheny comes from a family of strong women who are all close and happily single. She plans to live the same way—an occasional fling, but never settling down. What’s the need? She is, however, curious about her birth family despite her adoptive mom and aunts strongly discouraging her search. Tori’s always known she was adopted and has never been able to shake her lifelong curiosity. When she runs into a childhood friend with plenty of time on his hands, he seems like the ideal candidate to help with her search.

After a nomadic lifestyle serving for years in the Veterinarians Without Borders program, Ethan Borden is permanently home and finally ready to settle down—buy a home, marry, and have children. He’s always had a crush on Tori, so when she asks him for help, he’s hopeful it’s the beginning of so much more.

Ethan is happy to help Tori find her birth family, but when Tori learns Ethan is hiding a deep family secret, can their budding relationship survive the generational betrayals?

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Thrifty Thursday: Lake Road, Last House by David Lee Holcomb

Do you love gay romances? Are you looking for a book that costs less than $5.00? Then you might want to check out:

Title: Lake Road, Last House by David Lee Holcomb
Publisher: David Holcomb
Genre: Contemporary, Gay, Romance
Length: 271 pages

Summary:

Jacob Carlyle has been living his best life as a successful political commentator and social media influencer. His comfortable existence goes into meltdown, however, when right-wing activists go public with a hidden-camera video of Jacob in a hotel room with the married son of an ultra-conservative politician.

Suddenly Jacob is the target of attacks from both ends of the political spectrum. He retreats to his late grandfather’s remote farmhouse to sort out the mess.

He finds an ally in childhood friend Benny Stokes, and with Benny’s quiet encouragement Jacob finally begins work on his long-delayed novel as he tries to adjust to life in the backwoods — although not without distractions from invading wildlife, a hostile barn cat, suspicious locals, eccentric contractors, and his evolving feelings for Benny.

Jacob soon realizes that he can’t build a future without first coming to grips with the past.

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eBook Contest 9/20

Here are the eBooks for this week’s Winning Wednesday contest:

Title: Picture Perfect Autumn by Shelley Noble
Publisher: Avon
Genre: Contemporary, Women’s Fiction, Romance
Length: 378 pages

Summary:

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble.

Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani is loving every minute of her sudden popularity, but has no idea how she got there, or a clue as to how to stay. On a shoot at an antiques barn, she discovers an envelope of old photos and sees in them what her photos are missing. Her search for their source leads Dani to a small Rhode Island town, a dilapidated American Gothic beach house—and Lawrence Sinclair.

Reclusive and bitter, the last thing eighty-year-old Lawrence wants to think about is photography—the thing that inadvertently led to his son’s death and tore his family apart. But Dani is determined and persuasive, and Lawrence can’t help but be intrigued by the girl with spiky hair who wants to learn from him, when almost everyone else just wants to relieve him of his substantial fortune.

Dani and Lawrence’s mentorship blossoms unexpectedly, but everything is put in jeopardy by the appearance of Lawrence’s estranged grandson, Peter. Peter is determined to spend some time reconnecting with his grandfather and to get rid of the supposed fortune hunter after Lawrence’s money. But Dani is not what he was expecting, and he soon discovers that they have more things in common than not.

Brought together by fortune, fate, and the ties that bind, all three embark on journeys of discovery and love.


Title: Marry Me Please, Cowboy by Sinclair Jayne
The 85th Copper Mountain Rodeo Book Three
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Length: 285 pages

Summary:

She has her eye on the prize. He has his eyes on her.

Former soldier, now rodeo cowboy, Huck Jones doesn’t believe in love or marriage. Still, a promise is a promise, and he’s prepared to honor his fallen team leader’s wish to walk his sister down the aisle in Marietta, Montana. When the groom bolts moments before the ceremony, Huck offers himself as her alternative groom.

Barrel racer Willow McBride hates the cowboy code, and the soldier code is even more annoying. She’s pregnant, not helpless, so when her late brother’s sexy friend offers himself as a sacrificial husband, the answer is a resounding no. She wants love not duty. Plus, the 85th Copper Mountain Rodeo is looking to be her last as a competitor, and she intends to win.

Huck may no longer be a soldier, but he still believes no man—or woman—should be left behind. He’ll need to woo the beautiful, stubbornly independent cowgirl and change her mind. Failure is never an option.


Title: The Leaving Kind by Kelly Jensen
Hearts & Crafts Book Three
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Genre: Contemporary, Gay, Romance
Length: 350 pages

Summary:

Without heart, there is no art.

Cameron has been running for years—from responsibility, disappointment, war, and loss. Despite his fatigue, his body and mind refuse to rest. Returning home and supporting his younger brother helped, until Nick proved he no longer needed Cam’s care. But before Cam can decide to move on again, he meets someone else who could use a little help.

Victor is done with love. He’s done with men. He’s also done, apparently, with being a brilliant, if temperamental, artist. Now he’s just temperamental and would rather watch his gorgeous handyman dig in the garden than paint. It doesn’t take long, however, before Cam’s face—replete with stories—has Victor itching to pick up a brush again. If only painting people wasn’t fraught with sad memories.

Neither plans for more than friendship, but it quickly turns to sex, and then feelings intense enough to send them both running. Only by risking their hearts and sharing the pain of the past can they turn this love into the staying kind.

This is part of the Hearts & Crafts series and can be read on its own but is best enjoyed as part of the series.

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Teen Tuesday: The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie

Teenage or adult readers who like Young Adult novels might enjoy this week’s spotlight:

Title: The Only Girl in Town by Ally Condie
Publisher: Dutton for Young Readers
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Mystery
Length: 329 pages

Summary:

What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault?

For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year.

Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run, and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam. Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with his touch.

Now, July is alone. Every single person in her small town of Lithia has disappeared. No family. No Alex or Sydney. No Sam. July’s only chance at unraveling the mystery of their disappearance is a series of objects, each a reminder of the people she loved most. And a mysterious message: GET TH3M BACK.

From the #1 bestselling author of the Matched series, The Only Girl in Town is a searingly candid reckoning with both love and loneliness that perfectly distills the messy, beautiful realities of growing up, growing apart, and the courageous act of self-discovery.

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Mystery Monday: Saving Emma by Allen Eskens

If you love a good mystery then you should check out this week’s spotlight!

Title: Saving Emma by Allen Eskens
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery, Legal Thriller
Length: 337 pages

Summary:

A lawyer’s race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from “one of our best crime writers at the top of his game” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).

When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he’s certain there’s not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah’s file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady’s own home.

Ben’s daughter, Emma, has lived with Boady and Boady’s wife Dee ever since that awful night. Now fourteen years old, Emma has been growing distant, and soon makes a fateful choice that takes her far from the safety of her godparents. Desperate to bring her home, and to free an innocent man, Boady must do all he can to investigate Elijah’s case while fighting to save the family he has deeply come to love.

Written with energy, propulsion, and his characteristic pathos and insight, Eskens delivers another pitch-perfect legal thriller that reveals a twisted murder and explores faith, love, family, and redemption along the way.

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Book Talk: What have you been reading lately?

Welcome to this week’s Book Talk!

Too Soon for Adiós by Annette Chavez Macias: 4.5 stars. EXCELLENT novel!

Our missing Hearts by Celeste Ng: 2.5 stars. Did’t care for the writing style but I liked the novel’s themes. And no quotation marks drive. me. crazy.

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong: 3.5 stars. Really enjoyed it until the “big reveal”.

The Second Husband by Kate White: 4 stars. Great twists and turns.

Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens: 4.5 stars. Outstanding!

Now it’s your turn. What have you been reading lately? Join the discussion by commenting below!

: 4 stars.

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