Been Searching for You

Weekenders Romance Watch

Author: Nicole Evelina
Genre: Mainstream Romance
Buy: Amazon


Blurb:
Annabeth is a hopeless romantic who believes in soul mates. She’s been writing to hers since she was 16. Now, at 34, she’s still holding out hope of finding Mr. Right despite her trust issues due to a past traumatic experience. When she meets Alex, she thinks her quest may finally be at an end. Soon she’s working in close quarters with Alex and her long ago ex, Nick. Fighting attraction to one, loathing for the other, Annabeth is forced to face her old insecurities while keeping an eye on a scheming frienemy bent on derailing her hopes and dreams.


Enchanting Excerpt: 
“How can you possibly be so calm? Your interview is tomorrow morning. Why aren’t you freaking out?”

“Because you’re doing that enough for both of us.” Alex pulled me down next to him, pinning my hands behind my back and covering my face in kisses. “I was going to wait to give this to you, but it looks like you need it now.” He fished a long, thin rectangular block out of the pocket of his wool sweater and presented it to me.
            
When I looked closer, I realized it was one of those weekly pill boxes that older people keep their daily medications in. “You’re giving me drugs?”
            
“No. Open the one for today.”
            
I popped open the lid on the far left marked with a capital S for Sunday. A small folded piece of paper jumped out at me, leaving a bed of dark chocolate Mini Kisses behind. I opened the page and read. “‘This note entitles the bearer to a single wish fulfilled.’”
            
Alex whispered a few racy suggestions in my ear.
            
My face flushed in response. “I’m up for that.”
            
He pried my fingers from around the pill box. “And that’s just the beginning. Each day has a little surprise in it to help you get through the week since I won’t be here to help you in person.”
            
I placed a hand on the side of his face and kissed him. “This has to be the most thoughtful thing anyone has done for me. How did you think of it?”
           
 “I could lie and say it was my own ingenuity, but I’m man enough to admit I found it on Pinterest.”
            
“Should I start calling you Mr. Stewart?”
            
“Perhaps not, but that does conjure a lovely mental image of you in only an apron.”

Website: http://nicoleevelina.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicoleEvelina
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicoleevelinapage/

Losing Who

Weekenders Romance Watch

Book 3 in the Loving Who series

Author: Cynthianna
Genre: Mainstream Romance
Buy: Mojocastle Press



Blurb:
Cici Connors is losing her mind—or is she? Alien time traveler John Smith vows to return her memories, but will his sci-fi con only attract an invasion of Earth by artificially intelligent life forms?
 

Enchanting Excerpt:
(A telepathic conversation between John and Cici, wherein he tries to explain why he had to blank her memories.)


The time lines…They got a bit muddy. We had to undo them and start afresh in order to keep the universe from exploding. You’re sensitive to how the time lines flow, Cici, but you’re not one of us who can step totally out of time and look at them objectively. So, you’ve got to trust me on this point—you know me from before, and I’ve come back for you against the wishes of my own kind.

Some of what he was relating to her mind made sense. Cici had felt these past few days as if she’d been yanked out of time and thrust back into it at another spot against her will. She sensed that the clock had been turned back and that she was reliving the same days again, only this time with a slightly different cast of characters in a completely different situation. You’re risking your own safety to be with me? she wondered.

I am. I’m risking your safety, too. That’s why I wanted to confess as soon as you seemed able to deal with this knowledge. If you want me out of your time line, I’ll go, Cici. But before I go, I wanted you to know that it wasn’t my idea to leave you behind in the first place.

You want to be with me? Cici felt tears burning beneath her eyelids, but she couldn’t find either her eyes or her tissue to wipe them away.
My kind doesn’t know what romance or love means really, but I think I’ve learned more about it since we met. It’s why I came back for you.

Damn… You’ve wrecked my cynicism. She felt the warmth of a sun upon her cheek like a kiss of an angel. Anything is possible, isn’t it, John Smith?

She heard a soft chuckle then, It is when you love someone, Cici Connors. Love makes all things possible.


Website: http://www.cynthianna.com
Blog: http://momsday.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cynthianna.CelineChatillon
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/celinechatillon_cynthianna 

Satin Pleasures

Bustiers, Birds, and the Blues...
Karen Docter

Dan McDonald walked away from the American dream, a life full of money, glamorous women and power. Now nothing can lure him back into the corporate deathtrap. Except….

Dan’s scheming aunt snares him into opening a lingerie shop in Tess Emory’s shopping mall. Tess is everything Dan has vowed to avoid…sexy, smart, and obsessed with work.

Tess is determined to make her life a success and right the wrongs of her past, no matter the cost.

They’re both going to discover that true love breaks all their rules.

Satin Pleasures

The P-TOWN Queen

Ute Carbone

Nikki Silva's funding for shark research is cut off. She’s written a grant proposal funded by a commission run by her ex-husband Ned, who would rather not give money to his ex-wife.

When Marco Tornetti’s silent partner, Fat Phil Lagosa, has him marked for a hit, he takes the first bus out of the city. Marco figures that Phil would never look for him in Provincetown's gay community. But when he meets Nikki, he finds that pretending to be gay isn’t as easy as it would seem.

The P-TOWN Queen

 

Heating Up the Holidays

Marcia James

Nicky is up to her pointed elf ears—filling in for Santa’s helper, corralling kittens and running her department store. With 14 shopping days till Christmas, the last thing she needs is her high school heart-breaker.

Chris leaves the city to raise his five-year-old daughter, Holly, in his hometown. His plans don’t include a second chance with his first love.

With the help of mistletoe, a hairless dog and a lonely child, Chris and Nicky just might get their Christmas desires.

Heating Up the Holidays

Nothing Serious

Barbara Morgenroth

Disconnecting from the internet and the city, Paige moves to the
Catskills. Opening a shop, Nothing Serious, Paige nearly nails her hand to the wall while hanging her sign, avoids zoning board jail and falls for Jonathan Macklin, the antiques dealer next door. Spotting a rare portrait at an auction, Paige borrows money from Jonathan. The windfall is used to bail a local character out of jail but when Paige can’t pay Jonathan back, he thinks the worst. Considering life, her art and love as nothing serious for so long, can Paige change in time to be with Jonathan?

Nothing Serious

Gnome on the Range

Jennifer Zane

Jane West has everything a woman could want. A job in a Montana town’s only adult store, two young boys and one dead husband. Everything except a little excitement-- zing. But that changes one summer morning at a garage sale when her kids buy some garden gnomes.

Someone wants those gnomes and nothing will get in their way. Including Jane. This excitement for Jane spells trouble for a relationship with neighbor--and hot fireman--Ty Strickland. Can Jane and Ty handle a relationship meddling mother-in-law, crazy kids, and stay alive while trying to solve the mystery of the garden gnomes?

 

Gnome on the Range