Made the Grade: Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series, Copper Mountain Series, & Montana Born Rodeo Series, Book 3

- This is an ARC book - Available Formats through Amazon.com: Kindle Edition - File Size: 316 | Expected Release Date: September 7, 2014 | Publisher: Tule Publishing : Montana Born Books | Obtained: Goddess Fish Promotions/Melissa McClone

"Kiss Me, Cowboy" [Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series, Copper Mountain Series, & Montana Born Rodeo Series, Book 3] by Melissa McClone

Author's Book Description : She didn’t mean to kiss him...

When dude ranch wrangler Charlotte – aka Charlie – Randall kisses Zack Harris in an act of empathy, she falls hat over spurs for the handsome military veteran turned cowboy. Zack has too many demons, however, and refuses to get involved. A year later, he’s still stonewalling, and Charlie needs to move on with her life so she can find a fulfilling relationship, not frustrating unrequited love. Putting distance between them seems the best way to get Zack out of her head and heart…but that means quitting the job she loves and accepting a position in Colorado.

He didn’t mean to kiss her back...

Growing up, Zack longed for a real family, and had one with his squad while deployed in Afghanistan. Now, he’s back in the States and doesn’t want anything messing up his new ranch family, no matter how much he’s attracted to the sexy, hard-working Charlie. She could break his heart and ruin the comfortable working relationship they and the other wranglers enjoy. Besides, her friends claim she’s looking for the perfect guy, and perfect he’s not.

A kiss is just a kiss...or is it?

When Zack learns Charlie’s thinking about leaving the ranch, he decides to find her a boyfriend — someone so good, so perfect, she has a reason to stay in Montana. Until he realizes too late that the only cowboy he wants her kissing is him. Can he commit to love and convince Charlie not to leave? Or has she made up her mind to put the past, and the kiss that started it all, behind her and move on without him?

My Book Review : 3 out of 5 stars!! Past experiences come back to haunt two friends/co-workers. One who has chosen to get over her heartache if only she can find a way to forget about her seemingly unrequited crush. While the other uses his past as a guide of "what not to do" and in doing to he stifles his options for his future. Will they finally be able to be honest with each other in hopes that everything will work out between them the way it's suppose to be or will new options for them come to light instead?

A sweet romance that reels you in and doesn't let go! Charlotte and Zack are so alike that it’s hard not to see them together as a couple. I liked how these two played out their love interests in a way that they both have to find the truth of what they truly wanted for themselves.

Not completely, what I expected. Yet, I liked how the plot plays out while getting fun updates of the previous characters in this series. Can't wait to see where this series will take us next!

I recommend this novel and series to those who like contemporary romances!

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My Previous Review(s) for the Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series & the Copper Mountain Series : Mistletoe Magic

My Previous Review(s) for this Author : Expecting Royal Twins!

Author's Novel Extras : Pinterest: Marietta, Montana - Zach | Kiss Me, Cowboy - Overview (with links to more) | Update and New Release! | Sierra: The Story Behind a Dedication | Kiss Me, Cowboy Playlist

Author's Series Extras : Pinterest: Mistletoe Wedding - Tyler and Meg | Home for Christmas - Overview (with links to more) | Mistletoe Magic - Overview (with links to more) | Mistletoe Wedding - Overview (with links to more) | A Welcome from Marietta Chamber of Commerce | Home For Christmas | Out a Day Early! | I Wear Her Necklace | Mistletoe Magic! | Amazon Top 100 Best Seller! | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Alissa Callen’s Cherish Me, Cowboy | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Rachael Johns’ Tease Me, Cowboy | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Megan Crane’s Please Me, Cowboy


Book Teaser(s) :

"I'm supposed to be looking for a guy. I can't do that if we're"—Charlie pointed to him, then herself—"dancing."
Leaving off the kissing seemed to be best.
He flashed a cocky grin. "I'm a guy."
Her breath caught in her throat, and her pulse skittered. "Does that mean you've thrown your no dating people you work with rule out the window?"
Please tell me you have. Please, oh, please. She crossed her fingers behind her back.
"I haven't." A muscle twitched at his jaw. "I'm sorry. You're right. This was—"
"If you say this was a mistake and apologize, I will hurt you bad."
Amusement gleamed in his eyes, along with something else. A challenge, perhaps. "Think you could?"
She raised her chin. "I'd give it my best shot."
"I'd like to see that, sweetheart, but I wasn't going to say either of those things."
"Oh." Had he just called her sweetheart? Or maybe she was hearing things. ~ within Chapter 6

"Ready?" he asked.
"As I'll ever be." She looked up at him. "Kiss me, cowboy."
"You can kiss me, cowgirl."
Charlie lifted her chin. "Your idea."
Fine. She wasn't going to have to twist his arm. He would kiss her. Gladly.
For Arrow.
Better not forget that key point.
Zack lowered his mouth to hers, touching her lips gently.
Soft, warm, sweet.
The words described Charlie's lips, her kiss, the woman. He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer, but the jacket she wore—more life vest than piece of clothing—and his kept them more separated then he'd like.
Still no complaints. ~ within Chapter 7

For more information on this book, series, and/or any other books by Melissa, then please check out her website.

Made the Grade: Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series, Copper Mountain Series, A Copper Mountain Christmas Series, Book 3, & Montana Born Brides Series

- This is an ARC book - Available Formats through Amazon.com: Kindle Edition - File Size: 2583 | Expected Release Date: November 21, 2013 | Publisher: Tule Publishing : Montana Born Books | Obtained: Goddess Fish Promotions/Melissa McClone

"Mistletoe Magic" [Bar V5 Dude Ranch Series, Copper Mountain Series, A Copper Mountain Christmas Series, Book 3, & Montana Born Brides Series] by Melissa McClone

Author's Book Description : Spending a quiet Christmas housesitting and reading novels about hot cowboys sounds perfect to Caitlin Butler. Until a stray kitten brings her face-to-face with Noah, her crush from college. Watching the handsome vet in action melts Caitlin’s heart and brings back long forgotten emotion. She would be safer back at the house lost in the pages of a book. But a toe-curling mistletoe kiss tempts her to stay. Maybe she won’t be spending this Christmas… alone.

Veterinarian Noah Sullivan isn’t a Scrooge, but the Christmas Eve tradition of hanging mistletoe in the clinic’s waiting room annoys him. Kissing doesn’t belong at the Copper Mountain Animal Hospital. Noah rethinks his position when Caitlin arrives with a stray kitten she found freezing in the snow. All he wants now is to maneuver the pretty preschool teacher under the mistletoe. If he’s not careful, he’ll wind up on Santa’s naughty list.

My Book Review : 3.5 out of 5 stars, exes meet again after years apart at a veterinary clinic while trying to save a kitten, with all that "mistletoe" around they might just ignite their old passions for one another in time to celebrate Christmas!

This was a sweet story about college sweethearts finding one another in unexpected circumstances. I liked Caitlin and Noah together as they both seemed nice but my only wish is that I felt more sparks between them then I did. Nevertheless, this novella creates a lot of potential for the two of them within a short time period that you read about them. I'm curious to see how they grow within this series.

I recommend this novella to those who like quick sweet holiday reads!

Purchase This Book and/or The Other Books From It's Series/Connected Series Here : SMASHWORDS : Mistletoe Magic



My Previous Review(s) for this Author : Expecting Royal Twins!

Author's Novel Extras : Mistletoe Magic - Overview (with links to more) | Mistletoe Magic!

Author's Series Extras : Pinterest: Marietta, Montana - Zach | Pinterest: Mistletoe Wedding - Tyler and Meg | Home for Christmas - Overview (with links to more) | Kiss Me, Cowboy - Overview (with links to more) | Mistletoe Wedding - Overview (with links to more) | A Welcome from Marietta Chamber of Commerce | Home For Christmas | Out a Day Early! | I Wear Her Necklace | Amazon Top 100 Best Seller! | Update and New Release! | Sierra: The Story Behind a Dedication | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Alissa Callen’s Cherish Me, Cowboy | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Rachael Johns’ Tease Me, Cowboy | Kiss Me, Cowboy Playlist | Copper Mountain Rodeo: Megan Crane’s Please Me, Cowboy

Book Teaser(s) :

Her gaze widened with recognition. “Noah. It’s you.”
His heart crashed against his chest. His world tilted.
“Caitlin.” His arm reached forward, as if touching her would assure him this—she—was real. That of all the vet clinics in Montana, she’d walked into this one. “I can’t believe it.”
“Me, either.” She gave her head a shake, then lifted the blanket toward him. “I found a kitten in the snow. Something’s wrong with him. Or her. I don’t know which. Can you help?”
Noah remembered where he was, what he was. He took the bundle, ignoring the million questions racing through his mind. Talking could wait. “I’m going back to the triage area. Does she have a name?”
“A stray. I think.” Caitlin glanced around the waiting room. Looked up. Her gaze narrowed. “But it’s Christmas time. Mistletoe sounds like a good name, don’t you think?”
Noah nodded. He preferred that use of the word to the offending greenery overhead. But he wondered if Caitlin’s kiss was still as sweet and if his kiss might put the spark back into her eyes.
What the hell was he thinking? ~ within the novel as there isn't any chapters

For more information on this book, series, and/or any other books by Melissa, then please check out her website.

Feasted On: The Princes of Oxenburg Series, Book 1

- This is an ARC book - Available Formats through Amazon.com: Paperback - Pages: 355; Kindle Edition - File Size: 4308 | Expected Release Date: September 23, 2014 | Publisher: Simon & Schuster : Pocket Books | Obtained: NetGalley & Karen Hawkins

"The Prince Who Loved Me" [The Princes of Oxenburg Series, Book 1] by Karen Hawkins

Author's Book Description : COMING SEPTEMBER 2014, the first book in the Princes of Oxenburg Series, THE PRINCE WHO LOVED ME!

Romance sizzles in this Cinderella story set in Scotland, the first in a sparkling new spinoff series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins.

Prince Alexsey Romanovin enjoys his carefree life, flirting—and more—with every lovely lady who crosses his path. But when the interfering Duchess Natasha decides it’s time for her grandson to wed, Alexsey finds himself in Scotland, determined to foil her plans. Brainy, bookish, and bespectacled, Bronwyn Murdoch seems the perfect answer—she isn’t at all to the Duchess’s taste.

Living at the beck and call of her ambitious stepmother and social butterfly stepsisters, Bronwyn has little time for a handsome flirt—no matter how intoxicating his kisses are. After all, no spoiled, arrogant prince would be seriously interested in a firm-minded female like herself. So…wouldn’t it be fun to turn his “game” upside down and prove that an ordinary woman can bring a prince to his knees…

My Book Review : 4 out of 5 stars!! A unique retelling of Cinderella, where the "fair maiden" tries to "beat" the Prince at his own game of seduction. A smartly flirtatious novel that makes you hope the heroine will catch her man!

I really liked Alexsey & Bronwyn's (Roza) romantic "courtship," they were very cute together. Then when Bronwyn found out about Alexsey's wishes for his time in Scotland I liked how Bronwyn thought she would be able to become in control of everything without getting her own emotions involved, it was sweet and funny of her. In truth, I admired her as a heroine, yet I also found her to be naive more so then most of the "innocent" heroines I've read about before. She's naive in a way that it was hard for me to admire her after a while when she kept saying one thing then doing another.

Nevertheless, the only thing that I didn't like about this novel was how Bronwyn's stepmother (who's portrayed as a ditzy but sweet lady) acts out like the actual stepmother in Cinderella does at the very end (even if it was suppose to be for Bronwyn's own good). It made me second-guess this novel a bit, mostly because I liked the secondary characters. Yet, luckily, to my relief, the end helped ease my fears and wrapped up very nicely. It was especially nice to see that one of Bronwyn's stepsisters got to find love too.

I recommend this novel to anyone who is fans of Ms. Hawkins, a fan of her Duchess Diaries Series, and/or like historical romances!

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My Previous Review(s) for this Author : Sleepless In Scotland | How to Treat a Lady

My Previous Mention(s) of this Author's Books/Characters : Second Sentence Saturday: The Prince Who Loved Me

Author's Novel Extras : Cover Reveal!


Book Teaser(s) :

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He sniffed.
Ah! The rosemary! Holding her breath, she waited.
He sniffed again. "Is it an herb, nyet?"
She nodded, smiling shyly. "Rosemary."
"The cook at Tulloch puts it in turtle soup."
Her smile faltered. She smelled like a turtle? Not a fragrant loaf of bread, but a turtle? "Surely you've smelled it in some other dishes, too. Bread, perhaps?"
He shook his head.
"In a delicious stew, then? Something savory and warm?"
He released her cloak. "In my country, we throw rosemary onto graves."
She just looked at him, appalled.
"That seems odd to you, nyet? Rosemary keeps fresh the . . . How do you say---?" He tapped his forehead. "Thoughts about times no longer here."
"Memories?"
"Da! Rosemary keeps fresh the memories of the dead."
Lovely. She smelled like a turtle and the grave. ~ within Chapter 20

For more information on this book, series, and/or any other books by Karen, then please check out her website.