AND!!! A few that are new-to-me that sound SO good (like that rock star one that he doesn\u2019t remember her? EEEEEP!! MINE!!).<\/p>\n I bet you\u2019ll agree. \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n Wall Street Journal<\/span> and <\/span>USA Today<\/span> bestselling author Jewel E. Ann parachutes into the burning, hazardous heart of love in a sexy yet dramatic romance set in Big Sky country.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n When Jamie Andrews moves in with a house full of firefighters, things start heating up fast. Battling the wilderness of rural Montana, these guys are always charging into danger\u2014for a living, for duty, for the rush\u2014and since Jamie is a psychiatric nurse, they fascinate her analytic mind. She can\u2019t help but fixate on Calvin, a grumpy, enigmatic smoke jumper ten years her senior.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tTHE LATEST BY JEWEL E. ANN!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n THE LATEST BY JEWEL E. ANN!! SHE LIVES WITH FIREFIGHTERS & HE’S THE GRIMPY ONE SHE LOVES TO TORMENT!!<\/strong><\/p>\n “When Jamie Andrews moves in with a house full of firefighters, things start heating up fast. Battling the wilderness of rural Montana, these guys are always charging into danger\u2014for a living, for duty, for the rush\u2014and since Jamie is a psychiatric nurse, they fascinate her analytic mind. <\/em><\/p>\n \ufeffShe can\u2019t help but fixate on Calvin, a grumpy, enigmatic smoke jumper ten years her senior..<\/em>..”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026When I find her in Austin, working at a quaint general store and living in an RV behind it, those twelve years vanish. She\u2019s exactly how I remember her.<\/em><\/p>\n Scottie thinks our reunion is a small-world coincidence, and I\u2019m not ready to tell her the truth. After we rekindle our friendship, she convinces me to work part-time at the store while she pursues her budding relationship with Koen, a welder and the grandson of a customer..<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tJEWEL E. ANN’S LATEST IS LIVE!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n JEWEL E. ANN —> HE’S LOOKING FOR HER & SHE HAS A NEW BOYFRIEND…<\/strong><\/p>\n Mona: <\/em><\/strong>I just finished Jewel E. Ann\u2019s latest, \u201cI Thought of You\u201d. The book is awesome, a little predictable, but tissues are needed! I love this author! I love how I get pulled into her stories and the emotions they elicit.<\/em><\/p>\n “…It\u2019s been twelve years since I last saw Scottie Rucker. A grim prognosis has upended my life, and no amount of my hard-earned money can fix it. So, after leaving a note on the nightstand, I search for my first love\u2014I search for life.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n When I find her in Austin, working at a quaint general store and living in an RV behind it, those twelve years vanish. She\u2019s exactly how I remember her. Scottie thinks our reunion is a small-world coincidence, and I\u2019m not ready to tell her the truth.<\/em>..”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 <\/span>New York Times<\/span> bestselling author of <\/span>Love, Theoretically <\/span>and <\/span>The Love Hypothesis.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast\u2014again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange\u2014again\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Jessica:<\/strong> Just finished Ali Hazelwood\u2019s \u201cBride\u201d \u2013 loved it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tREADERS LOVE ALI HAZELWOOD’S LATEST!!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n —> I ONE-CLICKED THIS SO HARD LAST WEEK WHEN IT WAS ON SALE!!<\/strong>! BACK ON THE LIST ‘CAUSE READERS LOVE IT!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Marriage of convenience between the vampire & the werewolf… <\/strong><\/p>\n “…Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances,\u00a0and everything to do with the\u00a0only thing she’s ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what\u2019s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory\u2026alone with the wolf.”<\/em><\/p>\n Lisa: <\/em><\/strong>I just finished Bride by Ali Hazelwood!! Great suggestion. I may need to start reading Were\/vampire books now. Highly recommend!!<\/em><\/p>\n Mona: <\/em><\/strong>I finished Bride by Ali Hazelwood this week. It was great!\u00a0I highly recommend it to anyone that loves a good wolf shifter\/vampire book. It\u2019s not like any other shifter or vampire books I\u2019ve ever read. I didn\u2019t want to put it down and finished all 410 pages in two days. I didn\u2019t want the story to end!\u00a0\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f for me! <\/em><\/p>\n Tiffany:<\/em><\/strong> Just finished Bride by Aly Hazelwood and really enjoyed it. Was tentative cause paranormal is not her normal genre, but the paranormal was light-ish and the slow burn\/misunderstandings\/chemistry was on point.<\/em><\/p>\n Aurelya: <\/em><\/strong>Just finished Ali Hazelwood\u2019s Bride (audiobook version), and I loved it! It\u2019s not her normal STEM books, but it\u2019s just great. Highly recommend!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026he shattered me in the way only a flawless rock god can: irreparably, and with devastating finesse.<\/p>\n Four years later, the last place I expect to be is sitting before him, reading through a contract with a pen poised in my fingertips. A favor for a favor<\/span>, he says. A US tour and a fake relationship in exchange for the answer to all my problems.<\/p>\n I hate him. I hate that I need<\/span> him. And what I hate the most? He doesn\u2019t remember me. At all\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tLIVE!! THE ROCK STAR THAT RUINED HER…\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n HE DOESN’T EVEN REMEMBER HER!<\/strong> THE ROCK STAR THAT RUINED HER…<\/strong><\/p>\n “…Torren King is rock-and-roll\u2019s broodiest bachelor. Mysterious, moody, and coveted by nearly everyone. But to me, he\u2019s just the sad boy who set fire to my heart, then reduced me to ashes in the desert…<\/em><\/p>\n …Four years later, the last place I expect to be is sitting before him, reading through a contract with a pen poised in my fingertips. A favor for a favor, he says. A US tour and a fake relationship in exchange for the answer to all my problems.<\/em>..”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn\u2019t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house. For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine. Once a week, I forced myself to walk to the diner at the end of the block\u2014a ritual I despised but relied on as my last anchor to the real world.<\/em><\/p>\n Until the day a \u201cClosed\u201d sign on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the new owner was the most haunting ghost from my past. It had been years since I\u2019d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me\u2014and rightly so.<\/em>..\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tRECLUSIVE HERO ALERT!!!\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n RECLUSIVE HERO ALERT!!! HE HATES LEAVING HIS HOUSE…<\/strong><\/p>\n “…People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn\u2019t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house. For my daughter, I kept some semblance of normalcy by implementing a rigid routine. Once a week, I forced myself to walk to the diner at the end of the block\u2014a ritual I despised but relied on as my last anchor to the real world.<\/em><\/p>\n Until the day a \u201cClosed\u201d sign on the door shattered my fragile existence. Worse, the new owner was the most haunting ghost from my past. It had been years since I\u2019d laid eyes on Gwendolyn Pierce. She hated me\u2014and rightly so.<\/em>..”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra\u2019s ex, Miles Nowak.<\/em><\/p>\n Scruffy and chaotic\u2014with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads \u2014Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she\u2019s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan..<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Destiny: <\/em><\/strong>I read it so fast ! I loved it so much !!!! I even went to a midnight release party<\/em><\/p>\n Alice:<\/em><\/strong> I got this one much quicker than I anticipated from the e-book library. I am about 30% in and enjoying it.<\/em><\/p>\n Kvk:<\/em><\/strong> just finished it and went on an Emily re-read!!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tHER FIANCE DUMPS HER…\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n A HUGE AMAZON HIT RIGHT FROM RELEASE DAY!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Destiny: <\/em><\/strong>I read it so fast ! I loved it so much !!!! I even went to a midnight release party<\/em><\/p>\n Branden:<\/em><\/strong> Reading this one now\ud83d\udc4d<\/em><\/p>\n Alice:<\/em><\/strong> I got this one much quicker than I anticipated from the e-book library. I am about 30% in and enjoying it.<\/em><\/p>\n Kvk:<\/em><\/strong> just finished it and went on an Emily re-read!!<\/em><\/p>\n HER FIANCE DUMPS HER FOR HIS CHILDHOOD LOVE SO SHE BECOMES ROOMMATES WITH HER “EX FIANCE’S NEW FIANCE’S EX”… <\/strong><\/p>\n “…proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra\u2019s ex, Miles Nowak.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Scruffy and chaotic\u2014with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads \u2014Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she\u2019s either FBI or in witness protection. <\/em>The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan<\/em>.<\/span>..”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201c\u2026a determined Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money. And considering Josephine\u2019s professional and personal life is in shambles, she could really use the cash\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n As they travel together, spending days on the green and nights in neighboring hotel rooms, sparks fly. Before long, they\u2019re inseparable, Wells starts winning again, and Josephine is surprised to find a sweet, thoughtful guy underneath his gruff, growly exterior\u2026<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n\t\t\tPRO-GOLFER IS LOSING UNTIL HE MEETS HER…\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/p>\n GRUMPY PRO-GOLFER IS LOSING UNTIL HE MEETS HER…<\/strong><\/p>\n “...Josephine Doyle believed in the gorgeous, grumpy golfer, even when he didn\u2019t believe in himself. Yet after he throws in the towel, she begins to wonder if her faith was misplaced. Then a determined Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money. And considering Josephine\u2019s professional and personal life is in shambles, she could really use the cash\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n As they travel together, spending days on the green and nights in neighboring hotel rooms, sparks fly. Before long, they\u2019re inseparable, Wells starts winning again, and Josephine is surprised to find a sweet, thoughtful guy underneath his gruff, growly exterior…<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tWe earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tTHE LATEST BY JEWEL E. ANN!!\t\t<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81nwBotI29L._SL1500_.jpg\")
<\/a><\/strong>Welp. Connie\u2019s a girl after my own heart! Her favorites include so many of my VERY favorite authors ever (like Jewel. E. Ann, Tessa Bailey & Aly Martinez!!) and tropes that are my absolute catnip (grumpy, reclusive men), and I can\u2019t wait to turn her list into my own TBR list.<\/p>\nConnie\u2019s Best Books of 2024 List\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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From Air<\/a> by Jewel E. Ann <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom Air (Wildfire)<\/a><\/p>\n
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I Thought of You<\/a> Jewel E. Ann <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tI Thought of You<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Bride<\/a> by Ali Hazelwood <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBride<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\nOf Heartbreak and Harmony<\/a> Brit E. Benson <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOf Heartbreak and Harmony (The Hometown Heartless)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t![\"Of](\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41xizEn-spL._SL500_.jpg\")
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<\/a>Alone with You<\/a> Aly Martinez <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlone with You by Aly Martinez<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Funny Story<\/a> Emily Henry <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFunny Story<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Fangirl Down<\/a> Tessa Bailey <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFangirl Down: A Novel (Big Shots Book 1)<\/a><\/p>\n
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