Maiden of the Pages

Paint on the Canvas   Love on the Line Book 2  by Lynn Michaels  Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance  A life-changing sacrifice for art and love.  Daltrey Boxbaum is an artist, a lover, an addict, and more. Through the years, he finds and loses love, fights addiction, and defines himself in new ways.  Martin Hannan was the love of Daltrey’s life, the son of a world-famous Silicon Valley developer and tycoon. Left behind to fight his own battles, Martin’s reappearance in Daltrey’s life turns the stable world he’s worked so hard for inside out.  Note: Love on the Line books can be read in any order, but best fits the numbered order.  Goodreads * Amazon By the time I got to the airport to catch my flight home, the snow had started falling heavily. The news said it was going to be a raging storm. I settled in to wait. Flight after flight had been delayed and then canceled. I sat there in the airport, alone amid...

Unforgettable   Always Book 2  by Lexxie Couper  Genre: Contemporary Romance  Sometimes being an optimist is hard work.  Brendon Osmond’s an optimist, a fitness geek, a man with a plan and the drive to achieve it. He’s sure he knows everything there is to know about his life and where it’s headed—until he gets one brief text.  A text from her.  Amanda. The girl who broke his heart.  ‘Thinking of you.’  Just three little words, but they’re enough to make Brendon drop everything and head half way around the world to see her.  Acting only on gut instinct, nothing can prepare Brendon for the truth he’s about to learn.  A truth Amanda kept from him for almost two years. A truth who has Brendon’s eyes and claims his heart in an instant.  A truth that comes with a devastating diagnosis with the power to destroy everything he never knew he wanted or held dear.  “A heartbreak...

Beast by J.A. Wynters Genre: Fairy Tale Retelling, Paranormal Romance  Falling out of a window didn't hurt as much as falling for her. Tove Savage. When the most beautiful girl in the world treats you like her dirty little secret, you’re reminded that beasts are meant to live in the dark. Tove used me to get back at her boyfriend, breaking something inside that left a scar far deeper and uglier than the one marring my face. Three years later Tove arrives at my hospital broken and without her memories. So, what am I meant to do? Try to forget how much I love her or exact my revenge? BEAST is a twisted Beauty and the Beast retelling. Beauty is more than skin deep. Goodreads * Amazon Jane Wynters doesn't quite know how to answer the question of "where are you from?" She's moved from place to place like a snowflake on the wind always searching for a safe place to land. She loves meeting new people and exp...

The Pool Boy's Beatitude   by DJ Swykert  Genre: Contemporary Romance  Jack Joseph understands physics. He understands the nature of quarks, leptons, dark matter and the desire to find the God particle. What Jack doesn’t understand is Jack. He has a Masters degree in particle physics, an ex-wife, a sugar mama into spanking, a passion for cooking and chronic dependencies he needs to feed. He cleans pools to maintain this chaotic lifestyle. Spinning about in a Large Hadron Collider of his own making, facing a jail term, the particle known as Jack is about to collide with a particle known as Sarah. The Pool Boy’s Beatitude convincingly portrays a life of romance, addiction, and entropy, filled with the temptations of drink, drugs, and sex, broken with the miseries of ruined relationships, and balanced on the needle of false hope. Somehow through it, all the story is hopeful, positive, humorous and oddly enticing. The question is not so much will Jack su...

Strange Girls   A Women in Horror Anthology  with stories selected by Azurra Nox  Genre: YA Horror For fans of American Horror Story, Shirley Jackson, and Creepshow. You know them. Those girls that aren't quite like everyone else. Those girls who stand out in the crowd. Those girls that dare to be different. Those girls are dangerous. In Strange Girls, twenty-one authors dare to tackle what makes the girls in this collection different. Vampires, selkies, murderous mermaids, succubus, and possessed dolls take center stage in these short stories that are sure to invoke feelings of quiet terror and uneasiness in the reader. Following the successful debut of Women in Horror anthology with My American Nightmare, Strange Girls is the sophomore effort to showcase these talented women in a genre that is often dominated by the male gaze. Dare to take a walk on the dark side. Stories in the Anthology : 24 Hour Diner by Charlotte Platt Sid...

Halcyon   by C.L. Donley  Genre: Contemporary Romance  The Halcyon program has only grown in respect and mystique over their now fifteen years of matchmaking. When I went through it six years ago, they were still boasting 100% success of all the participants. Single, usually hopeless, candidates leave the program as part of a couple. The foolproof methods Halcyon uses to guarantee a soulmate comes from a blend of technology, biology, psychology, and, of course, sex. Naturally, with its high price tag, extensive, invasive testing, and painstaking process, only serious participants make it through, and everyone found success. Until us.  Goodreads * Amazon Felix Even though he’s now an hour out of the way, I’m still visiting this kid faithfully on weekends at the St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center. I’m starting to look forward to our visits. In any other universe, the two of us would probably never like each other. He’s a trust fund kid,...