Oct 16, 2023

Weekly Spotllight - Series I Started in '23




“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
 Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing


Fourth Wing 

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. 

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.  

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. 
 
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. 
 
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. 
 
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die. 


My Review





King of Wrath 

She’s the wife he never wanted…and the weakness he never saw coming. 


Ruthless. Meticulous. Arrogant.  


Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally.


The billionaire CEO never planned to marry— until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows. 

 
Vivian Lau, jewelry heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. 
 
It doesn’t matter how beautiful or charming she is. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal.   
 
There’s only one problem: now that he has her...he can't bring himself to let her go. 
 
*** 
Elegant. Ambitious. Well-mannered. 
 
Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family’s ticket into the highest echelons of high society. 
 
Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. 
 
While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.  
 
Craving his touch was never part of the plan.  
 
Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband.
 


King of Wrath is a steamy billionaire/arranged marriage romance. It contains explicit sexual content, profanity, and mild violence. Recommended for mature readers only.


My Review




Love Me Today 

A jaded single dad. A woman returning to her small-town roots. Neither was prepared for their paths to collide… 


I should have known I was in trouble when I backed my old, beat-up truck into the shiny Range Rover. 


The driver looked like a gorgeous fallen angel – one who’d been booted right out of paradise for being a giant prick. 


Good thing I’ll never have to see him again. 

Except when I show up for my new job to teach a little girl how to ride her horse, I find the same icy blue eyes glaring back at me. 
 
Paisley Dae is completely reckless. She’s also the best trainer in this small town. And Evelyn gets the best. 
Protecting the little girl is my one focus. 
Only the sassy trainer in her cut-offs and cowgirl boots quickly gets under my skin. Distractions are dangerous, but she soon becomes everything I crave. 
 
One reckless night of giving in, and Caleb and I spiral into a web of passion. 
But when I begin to unravel the secrets hiding in this place, I find there is more riding on this job than I thought. 
Caleb and Evelyn are worth any sacrifice – only Caleb has to decide what he will sacrifice for me… 


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