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Love at Stake, Book 10
Heat Factor: Smoldering, but watch out for Hellfire.
Character Chemistry: Cosmic insta sparks.
Plot: Fallen angel tries to get back into heaven by helping some good vampires defeat an evil vampire. Learns about love in the process. But specific sexual love, not the general anonymous love for humanity that all angels experience.
Overall: A romance novel that is also a meditation on faith and free will.
Bro Code, Book 1
Heat Factor: It’s steamy pretty much before you even get to know them
Character Chemistry: It starts with a bang and ends the same way
Plot: Ellie has a wedding and her ex is going to be there. Wyatt just wants to reconnect after the one night stand that resulted in Ellie’s traumatic car accident. Add pirates, Wyatt’s adorable son, and a cast of memorable characters and you have yourself the next series you won’t be able to put down.
Overall: Guys, I have a problem. It’s a Pippa Grant problem. I don’t want help.
First Comes Love, Book 1
Heat Factor: Mildly steamy
Character Chemistry: Like an old pair of jeans
Plot: A widow starts a school and rubs a neighbor the wrong way…but then kind of the right way…
Overall: It’s cute, you’ll fall in love with the characters, it’s well-written. It’s a keeper.
Heat Factor: Men who like strong women = sexy.
Character Chemistry: Instantaneous, but with near-constant fails. It’s sublime.
Plot: Absolutely badass female zero-gravity pilot and business owner meets a gigantic professional hockey player. Competition commences. Plot twist: she beats him at EVERYTHING and it never occurs to him that his masculinity could be threatened by that
Overall: It’s refreshing, it’s hilarious, it’s riveting, and it’s going to make you think about gender roles (but in a genuinely subtle, sexy way)
Heat Factor: You’ll start it for the steam, but you’ll stick with it for the one-liners.
Character Chemistry: It starts off strong and just pretty much stays that way
Plot: Pro hockey player and very nice nerd veterinarian start off as friends with benefits and veterinarian grows a backbone, wherein pro hockey player suddenly shapes up and their relationship ends up being just genuinely nice. And hilarious.
Overall: Worth a read.
