Going forward this will be a list of the books I\u2019ve added to my Kindle\/bookshelves versus books I\u2019ve read. Choosing this format I\u2019m hoping it might, albeit gradually, curb my excessive purchasing. That said I\u2019m fairly certain that books purchased will always exceed books read! However, on the money side I\u2019m normally very good at keeping my spending within budget, so one set of books might balance.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n (NB This post features Affiliate links<\/a> from which I earn a small commission on qualifying purchases)<\/p>\n Purchases since 1st January<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Since 1st January<\/strong><\/p>\n Books Purchased<\/strong><\/p>\n Always and Only You by Fiona Lucas (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n Erin is about to marry the love of her life. She and Simon have been together for eight years so it feels right that they\u2019re finally tying the knot. It\u2019s been stressful balancing the demands of friends and family \u2013 not to mention Simon\u2019s difficult best man, Gil \u2013 but Erin couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n Couldn\u2019t be happier, that is, until she walks down the aisle and finds the wrong man waiting for her. But is the universe playing a cruel trick on Erin, or could it be that her perfect life isn\u2019t quite what she imagined\u2026?<\/p>\n An Ideal Husband by Erica James (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n After a long and seemingly happy marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He\u2019d never seemed unhappy \u2013 and they\u2019ve raised three children together.<\/p>\n For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman \u2013 and if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, it\u2019s the woman who broke their youngest son\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n Now Kip is moving out and embarking on a new life with Zoe, and Louisa is left to pick up the pieces. Their beloved family home, Charity Cottage, is up for sale, and tensions are running high.<\/p>\n Yet, despite the betrayal and anger, when Louisa lays eyes on what might be a unique and welcoming new home, she feels a first glimmer of hope that life might be taking a turn for the better.<\/p>\n And while Louisa is making exciting plans, Kip finds himself facing challenges of his own and begins to learn that living the dream may not be as simple as he thought\u2026<\/p>\n Sex\/Life 44 Chapters about 4 men by BB Easton (\u00a33.48 pbk)<\/strong><\/p>\n One woman\u2019s secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir.<\/strong><\/p>\n School psychologists aren\u2019t supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be considered \u2018unethical\u2019 and \u2018a fireable offense\u2019. Lucky for you, ethics was never my strong suit.<\/em><\/p>\n Sex\/Life: 44 Chapters About 4 Men\u00a0<\/em>is a laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest look at female sexuality, as told through the razor-sharp lens of domesticated bad girl BB Easton. No one and nothing is off limits as BB revisits the ex-boyfriends \u2013 a sadistic tattoo artist, a punk rock parolee, and a heavy metal bass player \u2013 that led her to finally find true love with a straight-laced, drop-dead-gorgeous . . . accountant.<\/p>\n After settling down and starting a family with her perfectly vanilla \u2018husbot\u2019, Ken, BB finds herself longing for the reckless passion she had in her youth. She begins to write about these escapades in a secret journal, just for fun, but when Ken starts to act out the words on the pages, BB realizes that she might have stumbled upon the holy grail of behaviour modification techniques.<\/p>\n The psychological dance that ensues is nothing short of hilarious as BB wields her journal like a blowtorch, trying to light a fire under her cold, distant partner. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn\u2019t, but in the end, BB learns that the man she was trying so hard to change was perfect for her all along.<\/p>\n Muse by Ruth Millington (\u00a37.49 hbk)<\/strong><\/p>\n Meet the unexpected, overlooked and forgotten models of art history.<\/strong><\/p>\n Who was Picasso\u2019s \u2018Weeping Woman\u2019?<\/em> The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the mercy of an influential and older artist. But is this trope a romanticised myth? Far from posing silently, muses have brought emotional support, intellectual energy, career-changing creativity and practical help to artists.<\/p>\n Muse\u00a0<\/em>tells the true stories of the incredible muses who have inspired art history\u2019s masterpieces. From Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s studio to the covers of\u00a0Vogue<\/em>, art historian, critic and writer Ruth Millington uncovers the remarkable role of muses in some of art history\u2019s most well-known and significant works. Delving into the real-life relationships that models have held with the artists who immortalised them, it will expose the influential and active part they have played and deconstruct reductive stereotypes, reframing the muse as a momentous and empowered agent of art history.<\/p>\n A Photo Finish by Elsie Silver (\u00a35.50 pbk)<\/strong><\/p>\n A small-town second chance romance from the bestselling author of\u00a0Flawless\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Wild Love<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve seen every square inch of Violet Eaton\u2019s delectable body and she has no idea who I am. Until now. What happened between us online, in our chats, was meant to stay anonymous and in the past. Until it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a small world, but Ruby Creek is even smaller. When I move to the tiny town, the grumpy facade I\u2019ve created slips when we\u2019re forced to live under the same roof. Every time her eyes flare with heat, every time she begs me not to stop, the ice I\u2019ve encased myself in melts. She has me wanting things I can\u2019t want \u2013 things I don\u2019t deserve.<\/p>\n But my invisible wounds have the power to ruin us both. As a former soldier, I should have the discipline to walk away, but the more I open up to Violet, the more I want to keep her. I came back from the war a different man, but my scars are older and deeper than anyone knows \u2013 and I planned to keep it that way. I planned to keep my secrets hidden. Until her.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pride and Privilege by Rachel Rowan (was free now \u00a33.99)<\/strong><\/p>\n When you\u2019re stuck sharing a flat with a man known as Lecherous Dave to save money, you\u2019ll do anything for a leg up at work\u2014even if rumours say that requires cosying up to the boss\u2019s son. Fortunately for admin assistant Poppy, he\u2019s gorgeous. Unfortunately, she\u2019s just drunkenly laughed in his face and accused him of tax avoidance. And she\u2019s about to make it worse\u2026<\/p>\n Roscoe Blackton has sacrificed sleep and sanity to land a senior role at London\u2019s biggest wealth management firm. The fact his dad owns the whole company has nothing to do with it\u2014or so he tells himself. But he can\u2019t escape the whispers of nepotism, and his new assistant makes it horrifyingly clear everyone believes climbing\u00a0him<\/em>\u00a0is the best way to climb the corporate ladder.<\/p>\n Desperate to prove he\u2019s more than his background, Roscoe realises Poppy might have the answer\u2014if they can ever recover from their disastrous first impressions. She could teach him how to live without privilege, while he can give her a true taste of luxury. But as their social experiment causes their personal lives to become hopelessly entangled, keeping things professional gets complicated.<\/p>\n He\u2019s her boss. She\u2019s his assistant. But they\u2019re both adults. They know what they\u2019re doing. And they\u2019re definitely, absolutely, obviously not going to fall for each other\u2026right?<\/p>\n There\u2019s Something About Mira by Sonali Dev (free with Prime Amazon First Reads)<\/strong><\/p>\n Mira Salvi has the perfect life\u2014a job she loves, a fianc\u00e9 everyone adores, and the secure future she\u2019s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn\u2019t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone.<\/p>\n While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira does: journalist Krish Hale. Brooding and arrogant, he will do anything to get to write this story.<\/p>\n As Krish and Mira reluctantly join forces and jump into the adventure of tracing the ring back to where it belongs, Mira begins to wonder if\u00a0she<\/em>\u00a0is in the right place in her own life. She had to have found this ring for a reason\u2026right? Maybe, like the owner of the lost ring, her happy ending hasn\u2019t been written yet either.<\/p>\n The Art of Starting Over by Heidi McLaughlin (free with Prime Amazon First Reads)<\/strong><\/p>\n In this journey from first love to second chances,\u00a0<\/strong>New York Times<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin brings a single mom and a widower back home to renew the spark that will light their way forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n Devorah Campbell\u2019s life falls apart under the pressure of one truth: her husband is having an affair with her best friend. So Devorah packs up her daughter and their shared heartbreak for small-town Oyster Bay, where she grew up. Her relationship with her father is still on the rocks, but Devorah has her brother there\u2014and, unexpectedly, her brother\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n Hayden McKenna lost his wife a year ago and has struggled with single fatherhood ever since. Moving back home with his son is a last but best resort, a chance to start fresh, surrounded by family and old friends. But when Hayden runs into Devorah, his childhood crush, sparks fly as bright as ever. If only he could make her see them too\u2026<\/p>\n Amid a swirl of hurt and healing, Devorah and Hayden grow closer, rekindling what they had all those years ago to discover that, sometimes, a new start means going back to the beginning.<\/p>\n One on One by Jamie Harrow (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n Annie Radford swore she\u2019d never work in college basketball again, but eight years after fleeing her job with the Ardwyn Tigers, she has no choice but to accept a role as the team\u2019s hype woman and videographer.<\/p>\n Annie\u2019s old friend and colleague, Ben Callahan, is as sexy and wholesome as ever, but why is he so determined to undermine her? Clearly, he hasn\u2019t forgiven her for disappearing on him in senior year.<\/p>\n When Annie and Ben find themselves competing to keep their jobs, tensions rise and old feelings come sizzling to the surface.<\/p>\n With everything on the line, including their hearts, can they put their differences aside to work together and save the team? Or will the truth of why Annie left destroy their tentative new relationship . . . ?<\/p>\n Friend Me by Michelle McCraw (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n Romance novels are my jam. And everyone knows the plucky assistant \u2013 that\u2019s me \u2013 always charms the billionaire in an office romance.<\/p>\n Too bad Cooper Fallon has never read a romance novel.<\/p>\n If he had, he\u2019d know that if you take a fake date to a wedding, you\u2019re sure to fall for him. But I forget that when I take my work bestie, Tyler. In fact, after we dance, when he kisses me under the stars, I forget my own name.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s no way I\u2019m falling for my friend. Tyler is nerdy and gentle, lets me win at videogames, and gives magical foot rubs. He\u2019d do anything for me. I won\u2019t risk losing my best friend. Besides, Cooper is who I want. Isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n Be enchanted by this slow-burn-to-red-hot, friends-to-lovers, fake-relationship romantic comedy featuring a starry-eyed heroine, a sweet, cinnamon-roll hero, and a pair of cranky cats.\u00a0Friend Me<\/em>\u00a0can be read as a standalone.<\/p>\n Speed Rail by Lainey Davis (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n My life revolves around just one thing: my daughter. I don\u2019t have the time or energy for anything else\u2014not my foolish dream of an acting career and definitely not the annoying woman who opened a gym in the warehouse behind my garage.<\/p>\n Piper\u2019s a menace to society, between her loud music, hurling weights around like a shot putter, and her building that is definitely not up to code.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, my kid thinks she\u2019s the best thing since unlimited screen-time. It\u2019s getting harder to avoid Piper when my daughter keeps going over there to ask about hair braids and sports teams.<\/p>\n Maybe I took things too far when I called the building inspector on Piper, but she can\u2019t keep bringing clients into that fire hazard of a gym. And I can\u2019t have her behind my house all the time, clad in spandex and making me think about things I have no business wishing for.<\/p>\n I\u2019m done with relationships. Whatever I feel for Piper is passing. If I drive her away, I can get back to raising my daughter in peace.\u00a0Anything else is just a pipe dream\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n After Care by LB Dunbar (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n When a sexy silver fox meets a breast cancer survivor on vacation, love might be just what the doctor ordered.<\/strong><\/p>\n Cancer-free<\/em>. Were there any sweeter words? Grateful for this second chance, I was ready to live, and the first celebratory step was a trip to Hawaii with my grown children. Two weeks to reconnect, reboot, and refresh. I hadn\u2019t planned on the awakening adventure of meeting him\u2014Tommy Carrigan.<\/p>\n Not Tom. Not Thomas. But Tommy, even in his mid-forties. His salt and pepper hair gave his age away, with the slightly longer locks curling at his neck in shimmery silver and black satin. My mouth dried when he looked in my direction. My cheeks heated. He wasn\u2019t a young man, but all-male. His tight T-shirt showed off the sexiness of an older man\u2014barrel chest, firm abs, confidence\u2014leaving not much to the imagination. But my imagination ran rampant, as did my heart.<\/p>\n Falling in love with a former rock star might not have been on the doctor\u2019s prescription pad, but this late in life, I wasn\u2019t passing up the unexpected.<\/p>\n Only, what happens after the vacation ends?<\/p>\n The Tanglewood Bookshop by Lilac Mills (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n A rural book shop. A chance to start over. But can she make her dream a reality?<\/p>\n Kazz used to love the excitement of her London life, but lately her passion for expensive city living has begun to wane. So when she\u2019s given the opportunity to open a bookshop in picturesque Tanglewood, she jumps at the chance.<\/p>\n But village life is much quieter than she anticipated \u2013 is she actually suited for rural living? Resigned to a boring and uneventful Christmas, when she meets gorgeous Saul she is more than ready to have some fun and enjoy the festivities. If only Saul didn\u2019t have a reputation for being a player\u2026<\/p>\n Will Kazz become the heroine in her own Christmas romance, or will he love her and leave her under the mistletoe?<\/p>\n Make Me Fall by Ember Leigh (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s one rule in my family. Stay away from the Daly brothers.<\/strong><\/p>\n We were raised to know them as users. Manipulators. But I only ever saw Connor as the enigmatic senior hottie who dropped into fifth period to teach us about the perils of drunk driving. When my first big girl job out of college ends up with us working at the same company, it\u2019s heart throb city all over again.<\/p>\n Except he\u2019s way ahead of the game. Successful, talented, put together. I\u2019m just a frumpy twenty-something in a quarter life crisis who doesn\u2019t know a glue stick from a makeup highlighter.<\/p>\n He would never want me, even though he\u2019s all I ever wanted in secret. So when we cross paths one night at the bar and one drink leads to another, he slaps me with an offer I can\u2019t refuse. Accompany him back to Bayshore, flight included.<\/p>\n Only stipulation? Pose as his girlfriend.<\/p>\n Our families will flip, but I\u2019m not strong enough to say no to those baby blues, especially if it means I\u2019ll have a chance to go on vacation with my adolescent heart throb. We\u2019ve got two weeks to prove we\u2019re head over heels for each other. Which is just enough time to make me fall.<\/p>\n The Show by Lulu Moore (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n As any true sports fan will tell you, once you have an allegiance to a team it\u2019s set in stone. It\u2019s unwavering. It\u2019s finite. You never leave. The False Flat by Melissa R Collings (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n In this uplifting story about friendship, love, and growth, one woman must untangle herself from a past that\u2019s holding her back in order to move forward into the life that will set her free.<\/strong><\/p>\n Penelope Auberge is at her breaking point. With an overbearing mother, a married boyfriend, and a boss who gives Pen\u2019s high-profile finance clients to male colleagues, it feels like nothing she\u2019s accomplished in her thirty-two years belongs to her.<\/p>\n Determined to build a life entirely her own, Pen moves from Minnesota to Tennessee to open a solo financial business. There, she meets siblings Deanna and Grant, who attempt to coax Pen out of her socially anxious shell. Hesitant to open up so she doesn\u2019t get hurt (again), Pen is slow to develop a friendship with Deanna, and she\u2019s determined to ignore her feelings for Grant, which is difficult given she\u2019s joined his cycling group and a clear\u00a0something<\/em>\u00a0begins blossoming between them.<\/p>\n Pen\u2019s path in Nashville appears to be smoothing out, but she soon learns that packing up her past isn\u2019t quite that easy. If she wants to start fresh, she\u2019ll have to decide what she really wants\u2014even if that means riding away from her old life for good.<\/p>\n The Reunion by Elizabeth Drummond (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n Two high school rivals. Ten years later. A vow not to fall in love . . .<\/p>\n School reunions: the perfect opportunity to catch up with old friends, dazzle old foes, and basically show everyone that your life could not be going better.<\/p>\n But for Lucas O\u2019Rourke and Posy Edwins this isn\u2019t quite the case. Lucas is about to lose his business, and Posy\u2019s father has cut her off financially. And a reunion is the worst moment to come face-to-face with your rival. Ten years ago they hated each other, what could have changed since then?<\/p>\n As tensions rise, Posy comes up with a plan to solve both their problems, all she needs to do is persuade Lucas to go along with it. Trouble is, how do you ask your high school enemy to pretend you\u2019re madly in love when everyone knows you don\u2019t get along?<\/p>\n Our Last Summer by Jennifer Joyce (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n A summer that changed everything. A second chance to put things right.<\/p>\n Four years ago, Elodie Parker left the village of Little Heaton where she\u2019d lived for her entire life. She hasn\u2019t been back since.<\/p>\n Now, with her little sister\u2019s wedding looming, she\u2019s going home again. It should be a time for celebration, but there are things Elodie left behind she\u2019s not ready to face. Not least the love of her life, Tomasz. The man who, if Elodie is really honest, she still loves.<\/p>\n But something magical happens on the flight. As turbulence hits, Elodie is thrown back into the past. It\u2019s eight years ago, the day she met Tomasz for the very first time. Before everything went wrong and Elodie ran away forever.<\/p>\n Can Elodie find a way to change the past \u2013 and get the happy ever after she longs for?<\/p>\n Books Read<\/strong><\/p>\n The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score<\/strong><\/p>\n She\u2019ll save Christmas just to spite him\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s only one thing standing in the way of Cat King saving a small town\u2019s Christmas festival: Grumpy town manager Noah Yates.<\/p>\n Single dad Noah takes his responsibilities seriously. When a late season hurricane turns Merry, Connecticut, into a disaster, he\u2019s left scrambling to pick up the pieces of the town he loves.<\/p>\n At least, until home renovation expert and smoking hot reality TV star Catalina King arrives with a camera crew and a budget big enough to put the town back together again. But Noah doesn\u2019t want a celebrity diva capitalizing on their tragedy or filling his daughter\u2019s head with visions of glitz and glam.<\/p>\n Blonde bombshell Cat is used to being underestimated, but Noah has an uncanny knack for getting under her skin. They can\u2019t be in a room together without rubbing each other the wrong way\u2026except that time in the dark alley where the rubbing was just right. Can these enemies work together to pull off a Christmas miracle or will their fighting leave them both on the naughty list?<\/p>\n War : Boston Bolts Hockey by Brittanee Nicole<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve never been a good bet.<\/p>\n I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. 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Yet somehow, I\u2019ve been asked to do just that.
To set aside my love for The Yankees and take ownership of The New York Lions \u2013 the worst team in Major League Baseball.
Oh, yes, and turn them into winners.
An impossible job I don\u2019t want, from a gift I couldn\u2019t get a refund on.
But bring me a challenge and I will rise to it\u2026 Never, in all my thirty one years, have I shied away. And, technically, I still haven\u2019t.
Because, technically, I haven\u2019t accepted this particular challenge. Or two.
Enter Lowe Slater. The woman of my dreams. The woman I\u2019ve loved from afar since I knew what love meant. My sister\u2019s best friend and the one who\u2019s been tasked to help me.
Twenty-five years I\u2019ve kept Lowe at arm\u2019s length. Now she\u2019s everywhere I go.
I have a team to build and somehow I\u2019m doing it with Lowe by my side.
The walls I\u2019ve so carefully constructed are falling down brick by brick, and soon it\u2019s not just the Commissioner\u2019s Trophy at stake.
It\u2019s my heart, too.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71Ocp0SWXvL._SY466_.jpg\")
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