This
is never an easy task for a blogger and each and every one of us will have
different books that resonate with us throughout the year.
This
list comprises of a few of the amazing works that I have read this year {and I
have read over 125 books} that left a lasting impression. This by no means that the other authors works
that I have read this year were not memorable but these just either made me
feel a little more.
Who
knows you may find one of the authors you currently enjoy or you may discover a
new one.
Take a look………
Perfectly Imperfect
by
Harper Sloan
Harper Sloan
~ Synopsis ~
Mirror, mirror ... who's the fairest of them all?
Mirror, mirror ... who's the fairest of them all?
I still cringe when I hear
that line. A fairy tale that had girls pretending they were the fairest, the
most beautiful, and the most entitled. A fairy tale most couldn't grow out of
turned my haunted childhood memories into a living nightmare. Girls who grew up
believing that pile of garbage became the meanest of all 'mean girls.'
And those
mean girls were right - it was a line meant for all the beautiful people in the
world - and I knew the answer would never be me.
The women
with long legs, flat stomachs, and perfect chests.
The type
of women Kane Masters gravitated toward.
Well,
that's definitely not Willow Tate.
No. That
will never be me.
Because
I'm completely imperfect.
And ... I
hate myself.
I have no
idea what Kane could possibly see in someone like me when he could have them.
~ About the Author ~
Harper lives in small town Georgia just a short drive from
her hometown of Peachtree City. She (and her 3 daughters) enjoy ruling the
house they dubbed 'Estrogen Ocean', much to her husband’s chagrin. Harper has a
borderline unhealthy obsession with books; you can almost ALWAYS find her with
her eReader attached. She enjoys bad reality TV and cheesy romantic flicks. Her
favorite kind of hero--the super alpha kind!
Harper started using writing as a way to unwind when the
house went to sleep at night; and with a house full of crazy it was the perfect
way to just relax. It didn't take long before a head full of very demanding
alphas would stop at nothing to have their story told.
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Tough Enough
{Tall, Dark & Dangerous #2}
by
M. Leighton
M. Leighton
~ Synopsis ~
From the author of the New York Times bestselling
Bad Boys novels comes the second book in a dark, sexy contemporary trilogy.
He’s a
fighter who never loses, but is he tough enough to win her heart?
There was a time when I had everything–a wonderful
family, a bright future. Love. But all that was taken away in a single night,
torn from me like flesh from bone. Since then, I’ve hidden away in my
second-choice job as a makeup artist. But I prefer it that way, actually. I’m
comfortable in the shadows, where no one can see my scars.
Kiefer Rogan literally took my breath away the moment I
met him. MMA champion-turned-actor, notorious playboy, charming to a fault—he’s
everything I vowed to avoid.
But he just wouldn’t stop until I opened up and let him
in. Maybe I should’ve tried harder to resist him. Maybe I shouldn’t have fallen
in love with him. Because I, of all people, know that everyone has secrets.
Scars. And that they’re usually ugly and painful and destructive to the people
we love most.
I just never guessed that they could be deadly, too.
~ Links to Buy ~
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~ About the Author ~
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author M.
Leighton is a native of Ohio. She relocated to the warmer climates of the
South, where she can be near the water all summer and miss the snow all winter.
Possessed of an overactive imagination from early in her childhood, Michelle
finally found an acceptable outlet for her fantastical visions: literary
fiction.
Having written over a dozen novels, these days Michelle
enjoys letting her mind wander to more romantic settings with sexy Southern
guys, much like the one she married and the ones you’ll find in her latest
books. When her thoughts aren’t roaming in that direction, she’ll be riding
horses, swimming in ponds and experiencing life on a ranch, all without leaving
the cozy comfort of her office.
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Ruin & Rule
(Pure Corruption MC #1)
by
Pepper Winters
by
Pepper Winters
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Release Date: July 7, 2015
Publisher: Grand Central
~Synopsis ~
We met in a nightmare.
The in-between world
where time had no power over rhyme, reason, or connection. We met. We stared.
We knew.
There was no distortion
from the outside world. No right or wrong. No confusion or battles from hearts
and minds.
Just us. In our silent
dream-world.
That nightmare became our
home. Planting ghosts, raising fantasies. Entwined together in our happily
skewed reality.
We fell in love. We fell
hard.
In those fleeting seconds
of our nightmare, we lived an eternity.
But then we woke
up.
And it was over.
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~ Links to Buy ~
~ About the Author ~
Pepper Winters wears many
roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark,
taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the
better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh,
and sex... her books have sex.
She loves to travel and has an amazing,
fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends.
~ Connect with Pepper ~
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Email: pepperwinters@gmail.com
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The Broken By Lies Duet
by
Rebecca Shea
Broken by Lies
by
Rebecca Shea
Broken by Lies
~ Synopsis ~
I had no
idea how much I would love Alex the day he walked into my life.
He changed everything.
The way I breathed.
The way I thought.
The way I loved.
He brought me back to life.
He gave me strength and a safe place to land.
And then he broke me.
Finding Emilia was a chance to do something good for once in my life.
I wanted to change.
She believed I was her savior.
I ached to be.
She found her way into my heart and claimed it as her safe place.
I should be telling her the truth about me…instead I break her with lies.
He changed everything.
The way I breathed.
The way I thought.
The way I loved.
He brought me back to life.
He gave me strength and a safe place to land.
And then he broke me.
Finding Emilia was a chance to do something good for once in my life.
I wanted to change.
She believed I was her savior.
I ached to be.
She found her way into my heart and claimed it as her safe place.
I should be telling her the truth about me…instead I break her with lies.
This book is a New Adult Romance
and contains mature subject matter. It is not intended for those under 17 years
of age.
~ Links to Buy ~
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Bound by Lies
(Broken by Lies #2)
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Release Date: June 8, 2015
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~ Synopsis ~
Torn between two men;
one was what I needed, the other was what I wanted.
One man was safe and the
other was dangerous.
But both men would lay
down their lives to save me.
ATF agent Sam
Cortez is fighting to bring down the Estrada family empire, which was built on
murder and corruption.
Alex Estrada did what
was needed to keep me safe…and paid with his life.
Starting over as I try
to rebuild my life, it’s clear that the past is never what it seems.
What no one knew was
that we were all bound by lies.
~ Links to Buy ~
Rebecca Shea is the
USA Today Bestselling author of Unbreakable. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with
her family and her beagle, Miles. From the time Rebecca could read she has had
a passion for books. Rebecca spends her days working full-time and her nights
writing, bringing stories to life. Born and raised in Minnesota, Rebecca moved
to Arizona in 1999 to escape the bitter winters. When not working or writing,
she can be found on the sidelines of her son’s football games, or watching her
daughter at ballet class. Rebecca is fueled by insane amounts of coffee,
margaritas, Laffy Taffy (except the banana ones), and happily ever afters.
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by
Leylah Attar
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| Release Date: August 4, 2015 Cover Design: Hang Le |
~ Synopsis ~
They say it takes 21 days to form a
habit.
They lie.
For 21 days she held on.
But on Day 22, she would have given
anything for the sweet slumber of death.
Because on Day 22, she realizes that her
only way out means certain death for one of the two men she loves.
A haunting tale of passion, loss, and
redemption, The Paper Swan is a darkly intense yet heartwarming love story,
textured with grit, intrigue, and suspense. Please note: This is NOT a love
triangle.
A
full-length, standalone novel, intended for mature audiences due to violence,
sex and language. Subject matter may be disturbing for some readers.
~ Links to Buy ~
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Leylah Attar writes stories about love - shaken, stirred and served with a twist. When she's not writing, she can be found pursuing her other passions: photography, food, family and travel. Sometimes she disappears into the black hole of the internet, but can usually be enticed out with chocolate.
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ShutterGirl
by
C.D. Reiss
C.D. Reiss
~ Synopsis ~
I am
not hurt.
I don’t need a second chance with him, or a life I thought I had.
While he was out forgetting me to become a movie star, I was building a career out of nothing. A career as a paparazzi, but a career. For a foster kid who bounced around every home in Los Angeles, that wasn’t easy.
This camera is all I have.
He’s nothing to me. Every time I take his picture and sell it, I remind myself that I did it all without him or his approval, his cinnamon smell or his clear green eyes. He lights up the screen like a celestial body, but he’s nothing but a paycheck to me.
He can throw my camera off a balcony, and nothing has to change. We can stay king and queen of the same city, and different worlds.
Except this is Hollywood, and here, anything can happen.
I don’t need a second chance with him, or a life I thought I had.
While he was out forgetting me to become a movie star, I was building a career out of nothing. A career as a paparazzi, but a career. For a foster kid who bounced around every home in Los Angeles, that wasn’t easy.
This camera is all I have.
He’s nothing to me. Every time I take his picture and sell it, I remind myself that I did it all without him or his approval, his cinnamon smell or his clear green eyes. He lights up the screen like a celestial body, but he’s nothing but a paycheck to me.
He can throw my camera off a balcony, and nothing has to change. We can stay king and queen of the same city, and different worlds.
Except this is Hollywood, and here, anything can happen.
~ Links to Buy ~
Amazon ** Amazon UK **
Barnes & Noble ** iTunes ** Kobo
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~ About the Author ~
CD
Reiss is a USA Today and Amazon bestseller. She still has to chop wood and
carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out
with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn’t pick up, she’s at the
well, hauling buckets.
Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get
her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that
went nowhere, but it did embed TV story structure in her head well enough for
her to take a big risk on a TV series structured erotic series called Songs of
Submission. It’s about a kinky billionaire hung up on his ex-wife, an ingenue
singer with a wisecracking mouth; art, music and sin in the city of Los
Angeles.
Critics have dubbed the books “poetic,” “literary,” and “hauntingly atmospheric,” which is flattering enough for her to put it in a bio, but embarrassing enough for her not to tell her husband, or he might think she’s some sort of braggart who’s too good to give the toilets a once-over every couple of weeks or chop a cord of wood.
If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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Forgetting August
by
J.L. Berg
~ Synopsis ~
She can forgive, but can she forget?
Some days, Everly still thinks she sees him. In the food court at the mall, or in a car speeding past as the light changes. It only lasts a second, but when it happens, she slips back to a time when she was ruled-and nearly ruined-by August Kincaid. And it doesn't matter that she's moved on, that she's about to marry another man. In those moments the only thing she can do to regain control is take a deep breath and remind herself that August can't hurt her-because he's in a coma. Except that he's not anymore.
August is awake. With no memories, he sets out to solve the mystery of his lost life. He unearths a photograph of a beautiful redhead named Everly and knows instinctively that she's the key. But when he finds her, the August she describes is more monster than man.
Tortured by the thought of having hurt her, August wants only to become the man Everly deserves. As the new August emerges, Everly glimpses the person she first fell in love with. But can she trust that this August is real? When the final secret of their shared past is revealed, one of them will make a choice that changes their future forever . . .
Some days, Everly still thinks she sees him. In the food court at the mall, or in a car speeding past as the light changes. It only lasts a second, but when it happens, she slips back to a time when she was ruled-and nearly ruined-by August Kincaid. And it doesn't matter that she's moved on, that she's about to marry another man. In those moments the only thing she can do to regain control is take a deep breath and remind herself that August can't hurt her-because he's in a coma. Except that he's not anymore.
August is awake. With no memories, he sets out to solve the mystery of his lost life. He unearths a photograph of a beautiful redhead named Everly and knows instinctively that she's the key. But when he finds her, the August she describes is more monster than man.
Tortured by the thought of having hurt her, August wants only to become the man Everly deserves. As the new August emerges, Everly glimpses the person she first fell in love with. But can she trust that this August is real? When the final secret of their shared past is revealed, one of them will make a choice that changes their future forever . . .
~ Links to Buy ~
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~ About the Author ~
Author
J.L. Berg is a California native living in the South. She is the author
of the self-pubbed Ready series, which has sold over 100,000 copies.
Married to her high school sweetheart. She and her husband have two
beautiful girls that drive them batty on a daily basis. When she's not writing,
you can find her with her nose stuck in a romance book, in a yoga studio or
devouring anything chocolate.
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by
Penelope Ward
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Genre: Contemporary Romance, Standalone
Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, r.b.a designs Photo: Scott Hoover Photography Model: Zeb Ringle Release Date: September 21, 2015 |
~ Synopisis ~
From the New York Times
bestselling author of Stepbrother Dearest, comes a new forbidden STANDALONE
romance.
What happens when the one you want is the
only one you can’t have?
My name is Sevin.
Homeschooled and sheltered by my
ultra-religious family, I was always taught that lust was a sin.
Elle was the girl who’d been carefully
chosen for me.
After a long-distance courtship, I’d be
moving into her family’s guesthouse so that we could get to know each other in
the months before the wedding.
Boundaries were set: no inappropriate
touching, no kissing, no sex before marriage.
I’d accepted those rules and my fate.
Until I met the one I wanted to sin with.
That was when restraint became a
problem…especially since the one
wasn’t Elle.
It was her sister, Evangeline.
You know what they say about best laid
plans.
My name is Sevin, and I have sinned.
Told in alternating points of view, Sins of Sevin is a full-length
standalone novel. Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. Only
appropriate for adult readers age 18+.
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~ About the Author ~
Penelope Ward is a
New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. She grew
up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a
television news anchor, before switching to a more family-friendly career. She
is the proud mother of a beautiful 10-year-old girl with autism and a
9-year-old boy. Penelope and her family reside in Rhode Island.
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Hollywood Dirt
by
Alessandra Torre
Alessandra Torre
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Hang Le
Release Date: September 7, 2015
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~ Synopsis ~
Cole
Masten. Abandoned by his
superstar wife, Hollywood’s Perfect Husband is now Hollywood’s Sexiest
Bachelor: partying hard and screwing even harder. Move over Colin Farrell,
there’s a new bad boy ruling Los Angeles.
Summer Jenkins. That's
me, a small town girl stuck in Quincy, Georgia. I cook some mean chicken and
dumplins, can bluff a grown man out of his savings in poker, and was voted Most
Friendly my senior year. Other than that… I don’t have too much going on.
We were from different worlds. Our lives shouldn’t have collided. But when Cole
Masten’s jet landed in our country airport, we all sat up in our rocking chairs
and watched. And when an opportunity crossed my path, I jumped at the chance.
But I didn’t expect what ended up happening. I didn’t expect Cole Masten to be
an ass, or to pursue me, or for everything to get tangled up around set
riggings, camera cords, bra straps and heartstrings. Sometimes, opposites just
aren't meant to attract.
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~ About the Author ~
Alessandra Torre is an award-winning New York Times bestselling
author of ten novels. Her books focus on romance and suspense, all with a
strong undercurrent of sexuality. Torre has been featured in such publications
as Elle and Elle UK, co-hosted Dirty Sexy Funny with Jenny McCarthy, as well as
guest blogged for the Huffington Post and RT Book Reviews. She is also the
Bedroom Blogger for Cosmopolitan.com.
You can learn more about Alessandra on her website at www.alessandratorre.com, or you can
find her on Twitter (@ReadAlessandra) or Facebook.
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Dirty English
by
Ilsa Madden-Mills
by
Ilsa Madden-Mills
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Release Date: October
12, 2015
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~ Synopsis ~
A scarred fighter.
A girl with rules.
One night of unbridled passion.
There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth
Bennett: she’s smart as a whip, always in control, and lives by a set of
carefully crafted rules. She’s learned the hard way that people you love the
most always hurt you in the end.
But then she meets Declan Blay, the new neighbor at her
apartment complex.
A tattooed British street fighter, he’s the campus bad boy
she’s supposed to avoid, but when he
saves her from a frat party gone bad, all her rules about sex and love fly out
the window.
She gives him one night of unbridled passion, but he longs
for more.
With only a cardboard-thin wall separating their bedrooms,
he dreams of possessing the vulnerable girl next door forever.
One night. Two damaged hearts. The passion of a lifetime.
New York Times and USA Today best-selling
author Ilsa Madden-Mills writes about strong heroines and sexy alpha males that
sometimes you just want to slap.
She's
addicted to all things fantasy, including unicorns and sword-wielding heroes in
books. Other fascinations include frothy coffee beverages, dark chocolate,
Instagram, Ian Somerhalder (seriously hot), astronomy (she's a Gemini), Sephora
make-up, and tattoos.
She has
a degree in English and a Master's in Education.
When
she's not pecking away on her computer, she shops for cool magnets, paints old
furniture, and eats her weight in sushi.
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Easy Silence
by
Beth Rinyu
by
Beth Rinyu
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Genre: New Adult, Romance
Release Date: July 9, 2015
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~ Synopsis ~
They say you never forget your first love. No matter how many more come along or how much time goes by, there will always be that one person who will be forever embedded deep inside your heart and soul. For me, that was Jaxson Callahan.
We were complete opposites. I was a senator’s daughter. My parents were always too busy keeping up appearances on the political scene to show me love, so instead they bought my affection.
He was the son of a woman who allowed men to use and abuse her as well as him, just for her next fix.
We became each other’s solace during that summer we met, creating a lifetime of memories in three short months. I provided him with a sense of hope that there was more than just the harsh reality of the life he had grown accustomed to, and he showed me a genuine love that I had been yearning for my entire life. We vowed to be together forever. I loved him and he loved me…. and nothing would keep us apart.
Nothing except the secrets that were hiding in that small seaside town.
Secrets that altered our destiny. We were never given any warning as we watched our future shake, crumble and disappear altogether, leaving us with nothing but memories of a bittersweet past.
Life can be beautiful.
Life can be kind.
And, life can be heartless…..because nothing about our situation was fair.
~ Links to Buy ~
~ About the Author ~
Ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed Creative Writing. There was always something about being able to travel to a different place or become a different person with just the stroke of a pen - or in today's world a touch of the keyboard. I am the author of The Exception To The Rule, An Unplanned Lesson, An Unplanned Life, Drowning In Love, A Cry for Hope, A Will To Change, Blind Side of Love, When The Chips Are Down and Easy Silence.
My life is not as interesting as my books or the characters in them, but then again whose life is? I'm a mom of twin teenage boys, a crazy Border Collie and a cat with an identity crisis! I guess you can say writing is my form of relaxation.
My life is not as interesting as my books or the characters in them, but then again whose life is? I'm a mom of twin teenage boys, a crazy Border Collie and a cat with an identity crisis! I guess you can say writing is my form of relaxation.
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Bleeding Stars Novels #1 & 2
by
A.L. Jackson
A.L. Jackson
A Stone In The Sea
( A Bleeding Stars Novel #1)
~ Synopsis ~
He wanted nothing at all…
Until he found she had everything to give…
Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything—fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside. Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia to lie low until the dust settles in L.A.
Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced.
When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she's helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers.
They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won’t let them up for air.
Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he’s not the only one who’s hiding them.
Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea’s past that costs them everything?
~ Links to Buy ~
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| Release Date: September 15, 2015 |
~Synopsis ~
The
danger in pretending is it becoming real...
Sebastian Stone, Sunder front man and guitarist with a rap
sheet about ten miles long, escaped
to Savannah, Georgia, to get away from the trouble he’d caused.
Not find more of it.
The
moment he saw Shea Bentley, he saw beneath all her sweet and innocence to
something that went deeper.
Darker.
Their relationship was built
on secrets; their love built on lies.
Sebastian never imagined how
deep her secrets went.
When the past and present
collide, Sebastian and Shea find themselves fighting for a future neither
believed they deserved. Their passion is consuming and their need unending.
Now, holding the truth in his
hands, Sebastian is faced with sacrificing everything he’s come to love to
protect Shea and his family.
Two
pasts intertwined.
Two
lives bound.
Will their demons drown them
or will Shea and Sebastian finally learn to breathe?
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author
of contemporary and new adult romance.
She first found a love for writing during her days as
a young mother and college student. She filled
the journals she carried with short stories and poems used as an emotional
outlet for the difficulties and joys she found in day-to-day life.
Years later, she shared a short story she’d been
working on with her two closest friends and, with their encouragement, this
story became her first full length novel. A.L. now spends her days writing in
Southern Arizona where she lives with her husband and three children.
Connect with A.L. Jackson online:www.aljacksonauthor.com
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