Frisky the Snowman by Lauren Biel
18+ Contains Adult Content
Frisky the Snowman is as weird a read as it sounds. It follows Holly, who loves the snow and builds herself a snowman she names Frisky, with whom she gets frisky. Imagine her surprise when Frisky comes to life.
There’s something about snow for me. I’m obsessed with the stuff. Most people find building a snowman fun, but I find it e****c
The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore
The Gingerbread Bakery is book 5 in the Dream Harbor series; however, each book can be read as a standalone. This one follows Annie, the owner of the Gingerbread Bakery, and Mac, the owner of the pub. Annie is just as sweet as the cookies she bakes. She likes everyone well, everyone except Mac. Mac wants the only thing he can’t have…Annie. There is bad blood between the two of them, and whenever they are around each other, all they do is bicker, but when two of their friends are getting married, they have to put aside the bickering and get along.
She’d never been friends with Mac. They’d never made sense together. It was exactly what she’d told him eleven years ago. But Mac had never been good at listening.
Sweet Doe by Melissa McSherry and Dana LeeAnn
18+ Contains Adult Content
Sweet Doe is book 4 in the Wrecked series, but you only need to read Slaying for Sloan (book 3) before you read this one. You must read Slaying for Sloan first as Sweet Doe continues where Slaying for Sloan ends.
Sloan is in Holly Grove for the holiday’s meeting her boyfriend’s family. When Alex starts acting differently, he has a darker, more exciting side to him that Sloan loves, only she realises it isn’t Alex. It’s his twin brother Asher. It was a game that started in a lustful haze, that soon turned into fear when Asher takes Sloan deep into the mountains, hiding her away and keeping her for himself. Sloan wants to be angry, wants to be scared, but on one hand, he killed his own twin brother; on the other hand, he treats Sloan well, cares for her, cooks for her, and loves her. She knows she should run, but she finds herself not wanting to. Instead, she runs with Asher, away from the law and their families. Just the two of them against the world.
A severed fucking human hand, pale and lifeless, with a note tucked between the stiff fingers.
Frost by Lo Gold
18+ Contains Adult Content
Frost follows Elisa, who is in her last year of college, has no family, and it’s Christmas break. She decides to travel, joining a foreign exchange program. It is not what she thought it would be, and now she is stuck in a cabin in the middle of the woods in below-freezing temperatures. Not only that, there is a monster lurking outside. Jack is the monster outside. He is a creature of legend that has been lost to time. Jack Frost is cursed to an eternity in the woods, collecting the souls of the wicked. Only his soulmate can release the curse if she can fall in love with the monster he is.
A monster with no fear to feast upon is no monster at all. And I’m nothing if not a motherfucking monster.
Fatal Collision by Harleigh Beck
18+ Contains Adult Content
Fatal Collision is book one in the new Harleigh Beck series, Dark Lanes. It follows Jessica, who is from the “poor” side of town and Kane, who is from the “rich” side of town. Jessica’s only goal is to survive; her mum is in hospice, dying from cancer. Her Dad is an alcoholic, her brother keeps losing money in races, and her younger sister needs her to protect and care for her. Jessica needs money to keep her family together and feed them, so she decides to gate-crash a party on the rich side of town and steal from Mr Ravencourt himself, one of the town’s founders. Unfortunately for Jessica Kane, one of Mr Ravencourt’s sons catches her. Jessica holds her own, and one forbidden touch was like waving a red flag at a bull. Kane is obsessed and isn’t about to let his prey get away.
“If anything” I add, “the men on our side of town have fought for every penny they’ve earned. Poor guys fuck harder. It’s science.
You May Now Kill The Bride by Kate Weston
You May Now Kill The Bride is a mystery thriller following a group of friends, Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy, who have been best friends since they were in nursery. Tansy is about to get married, and the girls get together for her spiritual hen party in the woods. They enter the woods together, but they don’t leave together. Tansy stays behind after choking on a drink that contained peach, which she was allergic to. It couldn’t be murder, right? Just one of Tansy’s allergies. However, come Farah’s hen do not long after, and another hen dies. Hen do 2.0 for Farah, and there is another body. The group now suspect it is one of their own doing the killing. But who is it and why? Will Farah manage to walk down the aisle? And what happened twenty years ago, that they have all been keeping secret?
I know your secret, and I’ll tell your fiancé unless you follow my instructions. Do everything I say, and he never needs to know.
Mariposa by Lexi Axelson
18+ Contains Adult Content
Mariposa is a military romance that follows Violet Isla, who has made it into the special forces course. Her instructor is known as Operator Beast, who is well known for being cold-hearted. Violet is known as the Unbreakable Soldier. Beast, also known as Kade O’Connell, has made it his mission to break her. However, Violet’s heart skips a beat when she is near him, and it isn’t out of fear like everyone else. Not only is he older than her, but he is also her Master Sergeant and her ex-boyfriend’s dad. Kade has never broken the rules, never put anything before his work, but Violet is breaking down his walls and seeing underneath the mask.
The worst scars are the ones you can’t see-the ones imprinted in your soul and the ones you take to your grave.
A Wife for the Blacksmith by Viola Grey
18+ Contains Adult Content
Grace is living in misery, married to John, who treats her with zero respect, who hurts her and goes out gambling away all their money. One day, John gets himself into deep trouble, deep enough that he needs to flee the village. He grabs Grace, telling her to pack, but Grace has an idea. She tells John to sell her, auction her off in the town square. Which is exactly what John does, not knowing that the village blacksmith Gerald has been harbouring a longing for Grace for quite some time. Gerald is silent, grouchy and gruff, but when he sees Grace being auctioned, he steps up and pays a substantial amount of money for her to be his. Now Gerald can show Grace how she is meant to be treated; he can shower her with love and hope she will love him back.
Wife selling was an archaic practice, she knew, more suited to those wanting a cheap divorce or a convenient end to a disastrous match.
Becoming Justice by Liv Macy
18+ Contains Adult Content
Becoming Justice is book one in the Infinites Universe by Liv Macy. This book follows Cassie, who is living on her own, surrounded by grief after the loss of her brother and her mother, her only family. The police say her brother Brian died of an overdose, but Cassie knows that isn’t Brian; he wouldn’t do that, and she is hell bent on finding out who killed her brother. Armed with a new hair colour and a lot of contour to change her appearance, the best she can, Cassie gets a job as a bartender at the club where Brian died. She wants answers, but what she didn’t expect was to find a secret society of magic and darkness. Cassie also did not expect to be so drawn to her boss, Dex. She is bound to him by a contract to protect her, but did he bother to protect her brother? Cassie has to decide if vengeance is worth outing Dex’s abilities in which she is also handing Dex a death sentence.
Did you just summon me?
Of Darkness and Ruination by Rachel Fallon
18+ Contains Adult Content
Of Darkness and Ruination is book one in Rachel Fallon’s The Star Queen Chronicles, set in the magical world of Celesterra, a world run by fae and where all humans are slaves. At the age of 21, each human is to leave their families and face Placement Day, which is where they are placed in a different kingdom within Celesterra. Asteria is sent to the Dusk Kingdom and is to be the personal slave for Crown Prince Cyrus, who wants Asteria to give in to his lust and desire for her. She refuses and knows it is a matter of time before he takes it by force, and the only option is to escape. She will be killed if she is caught, and what’s worse, the ruthless King Calix of the Night Kingdom keeps attacking the Dusk Kingdom. There is a war brewing in Celesterra, and Asteria seems to be in the middle of it.
Today was placement day, what I oh-so-affectionately called Imprisonment Day.
