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
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.
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.
Dark Desires by Effie Campbell
18+ Contains Adult Content
Dark Desires is book four in the McGowan Mafia series. It is a standalone, and you don’t need to have read the others to read this one. It follows Valentina, who is a cam girl and Logan, who is a mafia boss. Logan is engaged to Nicole, not because he loves her, but because marrying her will merge the two mafia families together and be good for business. Logan, bored and restless one night, signs onto a cam girl website where he sees Cherry. He can’t stop thinking about her after they have a cam session together, one where he doesn’t show his face; he is well known in Scotland after all. Imagine his surprise when he sees Cherry, or should I say Valentina, at his engagement party, even more surprised when his fiancée introduces her as her cousin. Valentina recognises Logan from his tattoos and his voice; she was obsessed with him before she saw his face, by the way he dominated her and now, after seeing him in the flesh, she can not and will not settle for anyone less than Logan.
I guess I should call you Valentina.
I guess I shouldn’t call you Daddy.
Blood & Throttle by Nova Kane
18+ Contains Adult Content
I started November off strong with my first ARC of the month, Blood & Throttle, which follows Sienna ‘Sin’ Vega and Riot Carter. This book is set in the future in a dystopian world, where the streets run red with bloodshed in The Gauntlet, a brutal death race. There are no rules in the gauntlet; you win or you die. Sienna is forced into the gauntlet to pay for a crime she is being framed for. She has a chance of freedom by winning, but Sienna doesn’t submit, and the men in the gauntlet don’t like that. She has a target painted on her back, a busted-up motorbike, and sheer stubbornness to make it to the finish line. Riot Carter is the reigning champ, the legend known as the Reaper. He’s got the fastest bike and is a weapon in his own right. Riot doesn’t care for other racers, but when he sees Sienna, he knows she is different, and he claims her as his. It becomes a full-time job trying to protect her, a job that puts a target on his back too. Blood & Throttle is being released on 12th November and is available for pre-order now.
Because in The Gauntlet, you’re fair game. On or off the track.
Mara by SK Pryntz
18+ Contains Adult Content
Mara is the last book in the Wellard Asylum series, although they can be read in any order. It will be released on the 31st of October.
Mara follows Mara, who is a nurse at Wellard Asylum. Mara has always been very career-driven and has never given her love life much thought. When she bumps into a tattooed biker in a frozen yoghurt shop, she can’t help but feel pulled to him. So she does what anyone would do, she drags him to the bathroom, where he shows her that his mouth has a much better use than talking. She doesn’t want his name, just a quick fumble. Except it turns out that the stranger whose face she just rode, is her sister’s boyfriend, Jinx. Jinx, who is obsessed with Mara, uses her sister to get close to Mara. Gianna Mara’s sister turns up dead, with all the evidence pointing to Jinx.
I kept Gianna sheltered as much as I could…I thrived in chaos. It freaked me out when things were too calm.
Can’t Stop by Lauren Biel
18+ Contains Adult Content
Can’t Stop is a sequel to Don’t Stop. It follows Rayna and Dalton, who find their way to a small town which is full of death and dead things. Which really Rayna should love, but even she thinks that something is not right and is creeped out. When they meet the crazy family who wishes to sacrifice Dalton and use Rayna to “wake” their son, things go from creepy to murderous fun for the Halloween Harvesters.
Almost as fabulous as the taxidermy-rat thong I hold against my pants.
Nightmare Acres by Dakota Wilde
18+ Contains Adult Content
Nightmare Acres follows Lydia, who is going on a “fun” girls’ trip away to what she believes is a fright camp with scare actors. However, they soon realise that the monsters at Nightmare Acres are not actors; they are real. Not everyone leaves Nightmare Acres. Will Lydia and her friends?
Nightmare Acres is a place for the broken, the depraved and the damned. And I fit into all three categories.
