Good morning everyone and happy Monday. I was lucky enough to get a copy of Mixed Signals by B. K. Borison through the post last week. Mixed Signals is the third book in the Lovelight Farms series and another book that sounds absolutely fantastic.
I’m currently reading Lovelight Farms and really enjoying it so far. Huge thanks to Clio and Pan Macmillan for my copy of this book.
Do you have a favourite book series?
Book Synopsis:
Layla Dupree has given up on love.
She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life – despite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the cheque.
Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution.
After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: one month of no-strings dating. He’ll do his best to renew her faith in men while she rates his dating game. It’s a win-win situation. All the benefits of dating, without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations.
But there’s one ingredient they haven’t considered. The chemistry between them is red hot and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla’s double fudge mocha brownies. Will the heat between them boil over? Or will it be another case of mixed signals?
Mixed Signals is a standalone romance and the third book in the Lovelight series, a collection of interconnected novels.
About The Author:
Amazon bestselling author B.K. Borison is fueled almost entirely by coffee and spends her days with imaginary characters doing imaginary things. She lives in Baltimore with her little family, including her giant dog.
Good morning everyone here’s some of the books I’ve added to my shelves recently:
⭐ The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa ⭐ The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods ⭐ The House In The Olive Grove by Emma Cowell ⭐ Four Seasons In Japan by Nick Bradley ⭐ Zero Days by Ruth Ware ⭐ Fearless by M. W. Craven
As you can see my book buying ban is going well…🤣 Find out more about the books below!
I’ve seen great reviews for The Lost Bookshop and The House In The Olive so I’m excited to read them for myself. I’m a huge fan of Ruth Ware and M. W Craven so they are both auto buys for me. I’m especially excited to read Fearless as it’s a new series from him. The other two were books that caught my eye at the shop!
Have you read any of these? Which should I read first?
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
It’s not the journey that counts, but who’s at your side.
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why and Satoru won’t say.
Set against the backdrop of Japan’s changing seasons and narrated with a rare gentleness and humour, Nana’s story explores the wonder and thrill of life’s unexpected detours. It is about the value of friendship and solitude, and knowing when to give and when to take.
At the heart of this book is a powerful message about the importance of kindness. It shows, above all, how acts of love, both great and small, can transform our lives.
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
The House In The Olive Grove by Emma Cowell
Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever?
Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past.
Food journalist Kayla thought this was going to be just another work trip. But right before she leaves for Greece, she discovers that her whole life is built on a lie.
Jewellery-maker Alessandra has always lived according to her own rules – despite what it has cost her to do so. But she has just had some devastating news.
As these three very different women come together at the house in the olive grove, unlikely friendships blossom and a season of self-discovery begins. Will the sumptuous flavours, sapphire waters and golden sands of Greece give each of them the answers they so desperately seek?
The breathtaking, escapist second novel from Emma Cowell, perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Carol Kirkwood and Karen Swan.
Four Seasons In Japan by Nick Bradley
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway. From the very first page, Flo is transformed and immediately feels compelled to translate this forgotten novel, a decision which sets her on a path that will change her life…
It is a story about Ayako, a fierce and strict old woman who runs a coffee shop in the small town of Onomichi, where she has just taken guardianship of her grandson, Kyo. Haunted by long-buried family tragedy, both have suffered extreme loss and feel unable to open up to each other. As Flo follows the characters across a year in rural Japan, through the ups and downs of the pair’s burgeoning relationship, she quickly realises that she needs to venture outside the pages of the book to track down its elusive author. And, as her two protagonists reveal themselves to have more in common with her life than first meets the eye, the lines between text and translator converge. The journey is just beginning.
From the author of The Cat and The City, Four Seasons in Japan is a gorgeously crafted book-within-a-book about literature, purpose and what it is to belong.
Zero Days by Ruth Ware
Her husband has been murdered and she’s the only suspect. What should she do?
Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband Gabe are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead.
It soon becomes clear that the police have only one suspect in mind – her.
Jack must go on the run to try and clear her name and to find her husband’s real killer. But who can she trust when everyone she knows could be a suspect? And with the police and the killer after her, can Jack get to the truth before her time runs out?
An adrenaline-fueled thriller from international bestseller and Richard & Judy pick, Ruth Ware, described as ‘one of the best thriller writers around today’ (Independent).
Fearless by M. W. Craven
Five million reasons why Ben Koenig had to disappear. Only one to bring him back . . .
Ben Koenig is a ghost. He doesn’t exist any more.
Six years ago it was Koenig who headed up the US Marshal’s elite Special Ops group. They were the elite unit who hunted the bad guys – the really bad guys. They did this so no one else had to.
Until the day Koenig disappeared. He told no one why and he left no forwarding address. For six years he became a grey man. Invisible. He drifted from town to town, state to state. He was untraceable. It was as if he had never been.
But now Koenig’s face is on every television screen in the country. Someone from his past is trying to find him and they don’t care how they do it. In the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a town called Gauntlet, and there are people in there who have a secret they’ll do anything to protect. They’ve killed before and they will kill again.
Only this time they’ve made a mistake. They’ve dismissed Koenig as just another drifter – but they’re wrong. Because Koenig has a condition, a unique disorder that makes it impossible for him to experience fear. And now they’re about to find out what a truly fearless man is capable of. Because Koenig’s coming for them. And hell’s coming with him . . .
The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II.
Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.
Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant – both on the beaches and in distant capitals.
Annie Wrenne, working at Lord Mountbatten’s cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.
Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.
And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths.
Three lives linked by Operation Jubilee: the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Over six thousand men will storm the heavily defended French beaches.
Less than half of them will make it back alive.
The blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris.
My Review:
I’m a huge fan of this author so I was very excited to learn he had a new book coming out. Once again he’s written a fascinating, absorbing book that’s based on true events.
The story is told from the point of view of a Canadian journalist called George Hogan and German Intelligence Officer Wilhelm Schultz. Of the two I much prefer George who came across as a determined and hardworking character. His ability to alway be in the right place for a story has drawn attention to himself and as well as trying to follow leads he’s also having to prove he’s not a spy. His relationship with Annie who works in Lord Mountbatten’s office puts him under deeper suspicion. Wilhelm Schultz was a character I loved to hate and I didn’t like that he stopped at nothing to get the results he wanted. It was very chilling to witness him planning events that you know so many died in.
I always love books set in the Second World War especially if they teach me something new about the period. I hadn’t read anything about the Dieppe landings so found it interesting to learn more about them, particularly from the two different sides. The author has clearly done his research and I thought it was clever how the author managed to bring these true events to life. I also found it interesting to see how journalists operated at that time and to realise how brave they had to be.
This story has a great pace to it and I was quickly drawn into the story and into the characters lives. The author has a great way of describing events so I felt like I was actually there watching everything unfold. It’s a very intense read and I found it difficult to put down as I was so caught up in the story and wanted to find out what happened. As the story is based on true events the story was quite emotional at times but I still enjoyed following the story to it’s sad conclusion.
Huge thanks to Sophie for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book. If you’re a fan of historical fiction then you need to read this book.
About The Author:
Born November, 1946, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Seaside childhood punctuated by football, swimming, afternoons on the dodgems, run-ins with the police, multiple raids on the local library…plus near-total immersion in English post-war cinema classics including The Dam Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, The Wooden Horse, The Cockleshell Heroes and Reach For The Sky. War-crazy? Sort of…Wins scholarship to a London boarding school and then onward to Cambridge University. Reads English, volunteers for Six-Day War (those films again!), and emerges three years later with five mercifully unpublished manuscripts, still intent on becoming a full-time novelist. Yet more rejection slips (plus hunger) compel a career rethink…Becomes a promotion script-writer with Southern Television, then researcher, then director. Spends the next twenty years making ITV documentaries, many of them networked. Films seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck (with American oceanographer Bob Ballard), profiles the Brighton Bomber, produces ITV’s account of Richard Branson’s near-fatal attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon, wins a number of awards…but still dreams of getting into print.An ITV commission for 6-part drama series Rules of Engagement is sucessfully finessed into a two-book contract with Pan-Macmillan. Two more novels, both dubbed “international thrillers” follow. Sacked after Television South loses the ITV franchise and embarks on new career as – at last – a full-time novelist.To date, 25 novels, one biography, two books for challenged readers, plus Airshow, a fly-on-the-wall novel-length piece of reportage, and Backstory, a book-length account of how and why I embarked on crime fiction. Draws gleefully on home-town Portsmouth (“Pompey”) as the basis for an on-going crime series featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. Contributes five years of personal columns to the Portsmouth News, pens a number of plays and dramatic monologues for local production (including the city’s millenium celebration, Willoughby and Son), then decamps to Devon for a more considered take on Pompey low-life.The Faraday series comes to an end after 12 books. Healthy sales at home and abroad, plus an on-going (and immensely successful) series of French TV adaptations, tempt Orion to commission a spin-off series, set in the West Country, featuring D/S Jimmy Suttle.First book in the series, Western Approaches, publishes 2012. Second title, Touching Distance, already in the bag.Married to the delectable Lin. Has three grown-up sons (Tom, Jack and Woody). Plus recently-arrived grandson Dylan. A corker.Lifetime ambition? To properly master colloquial French. Current passion? Coastal quad rowing with Lin and the rest of The Forty Niners (don’t ask).Favourite time of the day? Six’o’clock.More on my website: http://www.grahamhurley.co.uk
Good morning everyone and happy Saturday. I was challenged to try to spell the month of July in book titles by the lovely Portobello books:
⭐J – Joan by Katherine J Chen
⭐U – (The) Unheard by Anne Worthington
⭐L – Lovelight Farms by B. K. Borison
⭐Y – You Can’t See Me by Eva Ægisdóttir
I set myself a challenge to find other book for J and I then I had used for the June challenge so I was pleased when I found the above books. I haven’t read these yet, though Lovelight Farms is second on my tbr list!
I’m working at the bookshop today which I’m looking forward to, especially as I have a new bookish t-shirt to wear. The kids are going to the family reading club at the library and want to sign up for their summer reading challenge which we try to do each year.
Good morning everyone and happy Friday! I was lucky enough to get a reading subscription for my birthday from a good friend and I always look forward to seeing what they will send me. This month I’ve received Nettle And Bone by T Kingfisher which is especially exciting as it’s a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while.
In other news I’ve just taken the plunge and joined Threads so do follow me if you’re on there!
Book Synopsis:
A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award-winning author T. Kingfisher
NEBULA AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra―the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter―has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.
Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince―if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.
On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra’s family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.
About The Author:
T. Kingfisher is the vaguely absurd pen-name of Ursula Vernon, an author from North Carolina. In another life, she writes children’s books and weird comics. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy and the Eisner, and has won the Hugo, Sequoyah, Nebula, Alfie, WSFA, Coyotl and Ursa Major awards, as well as a half-dozen Junior Library Guild selections.
This is the name she uses when writing things for grown-ups. Her work includes multiple fairy-tale retellings and odd little stories about elves and goblins.
When she is not writing, she is probably out in the garden, trying to make eye contact with butterflies.
Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.
Twenty years later, mother-of-two-teenagers Helen is still in Manchester, a part-time primary teacher, stunned by the behaviour of her love-rat husband. In an old T shirt and scruffy jeans, she feels at the lowest point in her life.
And suddenly, impossibly, Ben is standing on her doorstep. Tired maybe, lonely even, but clearly still the world-famous, LA-based multi-millionaire rockstar he has become.
Can you ever go back?
For Helen and Ben, so much has happened in the years between. But just to sit in the kitchen for a while and talk – that would be nice.
Before the world comes crashing in.
My Review:
Oh my goodness Mike has done it again as A Song For Me And You is a beautiful, heartwarming read that’s very emotional.
Firstly I really loved the characters in this book who were all very real and easy to warm to – apart from Helen’s horrible ex. I really felt for Helen as I think we’ve all been there at the low moment in life wondering what went wrong. I thought it was so lovely that Ben came into her life at the moment when she needed him the most. It was really nice to see them grow closer and I loved the fly on the wall glimpse the reader has of their relationship as we are witness to their most intimate conversations.
The author covers some quite thought provoking topics in this book which I’ve continued to think about long after reading. It was especially interesting to see the impact the breakdown of the marriage had on everyone, especially the children. It was very emotional to follow the characters through everything and watch them slowly heal.
The book has a great pace to it and I soon found myself absorbed into the story. There always seemed to be something happening to keep my interest and even in the slower moments I found I didn’t mind as I was so invested in the characters. I think I went through every emotion whilst reading, laughing one moment, feeling intense anger and then sobbing my heart out. The ending was quite bitter sweet and while I was hoping for a different ending, maybe that wouldn’t have made the story so real.
Huge thanks to Alainna from Hodder books for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Mike Gayle was born and raised in Birmingham. After graduating from Salford University with a degree in Sociology Mike moved to London with ambitions of becoming a music journalist. This didn’t happen however and following a slight detour in his five-year plan he ended up as an agony uncle for teenage girls’ magazine Bliss before becoming Features Editor on the now much missed Just Seventeen. Since those early days Mike has written for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Cosmopolitan.
Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by The Independent as ‘Full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations,’ and by The Times as ‘A funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic.’
To date Mike is the author of twelve novels including Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty and Wish You Were Here. His books have been translated into over thirty languages.
Good morning everyone I was lucky enough to receive a copy of this fantastic sounding book this week. I seem to be enjoying reading historical fiction at the moment and, as I loved The Tenderness Of Wolves when I read it, I think I’ll have to bump this up my list to read really soon.
Huge thanks to the lovely Ana from Quercus for my copy of this book.
The Beasts Of Paris is out in hardback now!
Book Synopsis:
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.
‘A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore’ GRAZIA ‘Exquisite, relevant and immersive’ ANNA MAZZOLA ‘A triumph’ GUARDIAN
Anne is a former patient from a women’s asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn’t understand her. Newcomer Lawrence is desperate to develop his talent as a photographer and escape the restrictions of his puritanical upbringing. Ellis, an army surgeon, has lived through the trauma of one civil war and will do anything to avoid another bloodbath.
Each keeps company with the restless beasts of Paris’ Menagerie, where they meet, fight their demons, lose their hearts, and rebel in a city under siege.
A dazzling historical epic of love and survival, Stef Penney carries the reader captivated through war-torn Paris.
About The Author:
Stef Penney is a screenwriter and the author of three novels: The Tenderness of Wolves (2006), The Invisible Ones (2011), and Under a Pole Star (2016). She has also written extensively for radio, including adaptations of Moby Dick, The Worst Journey in the World, and, mostly recently, a third installment of Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaise series.
The Tenderness of Wolves won Costa Book of the Year, Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, and was translated into thirty languages. It has just been re-issued in a 10th anniversary edition.
Five facts about SP:
1. I like snow. There is a magic in cold landscapes that compels me more than any other. I’m the ultimate armchair explorer. In my mind this is linked to my former agoraphobia. Wide open, hostile places produce in me a visceral reaction; perhaps that’s why I can’t stop writing, or reading, about them. I’m drawn to what scares me – treeless wilderness, the open sea, Space…
2. I do zero-carbon research. Unlike the protagonist of Under A Pole Star, I haven’t been to the North Pole. I have been to the Scandinavian Arctic – which is totally different – but am unconvinced that being there has made my writing about landscape any stronger (I hadn’t been before The Tenderness of Wolves). Being there normalises a place; you are struck by differences, but even more by similarities: wherever there are people, there be dentists. Still, I have great memories of Lapland: picking sour blueberries from the banks of a mountain stream; cross-country skiing and realising that I could still fall over as safely as when I was a child; watching a Japanese contestant in the Air Guitar World Championships channel Star Wars; visiting Santa’s village and meeting the man himself – and sitting on his knee – in August…
3. I’m Scottish. I have a love-hate relationship with Scotland that is shared by many Scottish exiles. Elements of this: pride in its Enlightenment thinkers, its inventiveness and internationalism; love and awe of the landscape; nostalgia for chilly Highland summers; a sneaking pride in having endured games on frozen fields, in shorts, and endless walks in scenery obscured by drizzle. Then there’s the food: deep-fried Mars bar – delicious. Deep-fried frozen pizza, on the other hand… Scotland’s a great place. I’d probably want to live in it, if I hadn’t grown up there.
4. I’m a feminist. Doesn’t need saying these days, right? Or maybe it does. Writing about a female explorer at the end of the 19th Century, I’ve been more aware of it than ever. The protagonist struggles to be taken seriously with her ambition, of course, but something else happened in the writing process I didn’t expect: it became a deeply explicit love story. This felt like a political as well as a narrative necessity; there have been far too many vague, unconvincing and plain misleading sex scenes in books and films, and it felt vital to tell the truth – and for that, “Dot, dot, dot. Afterwards” was not going to cut it.
5. I have a degree in Philosophy and Theology. It made me unemployable. In my final year, I was browsing through the job pages when I came across my perfect job – Officer for Comparative Religions in a local authority. Hurray, I thought, finally, something that suits my skill set. Then I noticed that the advert next to it was for a Senior Carrot Inspector. I looked at the date – it was April 1st. Obviously, I had to become a writer.
Good evening everyone I’ve just finished reading The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers which I read as part of the new Malvern Rossiter Book Club. I actually ran in this month and I really enjoyed it. Everyone was so nice and they all seemed really up for discussing the book which was really nice.
If you’re local and would like to join us let me know!
Are you a member of a bookclub?
Book Synopsis:
England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatized Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a clapped-out camper van to undertake an extraordinary project.
Under cover of darkness, the two men traverse the fields of rural England in secret, forming crop circles in elaborate and mysterious patterns. As the summer wears on, and their designs grow ever more ambitious, the two men find that their work has become a cult international sensation – and that an unlikely and beautiful friendship has taken root as the wheat ripens from green to gold.
My Review:
The Perfect Golden Circle is a beautifully written, unique and intriguing read from a new author for me.
The story is told from the point of view of two characters Redbone and Calvert who are the only characters in the book for the majority of the story. The two are described as old friends but not much about their past is discussed and at one point it’s revealed that Calvert doesn’t even know Redbones first name. Their friendship seemed a bit distant at times as they don’t hang out other than doing the crop circles and don’t have much in common but, as discussed in the book group, maybe that’s just how male friendships are.
As someone who’s old enough to remember the crop circles craze I found it very interesting to learn more about how crop circles were made. I thought they were just made from stepping on the crop but there was actually a lot more to it then that. I especially liked that they created them in such a way that the crop wasn’t damaged. There are a lot more dangers to making crop circles then I thought which actually created some of the more hilarious moments in the book as the pair tackle fly tippers, poachers and even a drunk aristocrat. The way the pair handled these situations were brilliant to watch unfold and I actually laughed out loud several times as I read.
The book is divided into sections each describing a crop circle that they are creating. I found this very interesting and I enjoyed getting to know the characters in the intimate, close setting of their van as they travel to the crop circle sites. Some of this was quite repetitive but I actually liked this as it was quite soothing to know what was going to happen. My only slight niggle with this book is the rants the characters go off on at various points in the story. While I understand that they are important issues that the characters are discussing, it didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the stories sometimes and felt like the author was just trying to fit them into the story somehow.
Overall I did enjoy this book and felt sad leaving the two characters behind, particularly after that rather poignant ending. I’d highly recommend it as a bookclub read as we found there was lots to discuss.
About The Author:
Benjamin Myers is an award-winning author and journalist, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism. His novels have been translated into ten languages. He is the author of Cuddy, The Gallows Pole, The Offing, The Perfect Golden Circle,Male Tears and many more.
Good afternoon everyone here are some of the books I’m hoping to read in July!
⭐ After Anne by Logan Steiner ⭐ Conviction by Jack Jordan ⭐ The Fascination by Essie Fox ⭐ The Villa by Ruth Kelly ⭐ The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse ⭐ Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong ⭐ From Now Until Forever by Rowan Coleman ⭐ The Illusions by Liz Hyder ⭐ The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons ⭐ The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry
I always struggle with these as I’m a bit of a mood reader and easily distracted so I might change my mind but these are the books I’d like to read soon as they sound fantastic!
Have you read any of these? What shall I start with?
Good morning everyone today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring two of the Lovelight Farm books I received recently.
I love a good romance book! There’s nothing quite like snuggling up and living precariously through someone else for a little bit. When you’ve been married 13 years and have three kids there’s not much time for romance. This series sounds fantastic and I’m excited to read it soon – plus it’s being compared to Hannah Grace whose books I love.
Huge thanks to the lovely @libraryofchlo and @panmacmillan for sending me these books.
Do you read romance fiction? Who’s your favourite author?
Lovelight Farm by B. K Borison
Lovelight Farms is a wholesome rom-com featuring a handsome, freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas tree farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. This sweet and steamy romance, by B. K. Borison, is a holiday happily-ever-after for fans of Tessa Bailey and Hannah Grace.
In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a child, Stella enters a contest with insta-famous influencer Evelyn St. James. With the added publicity and the huge cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. There’s just one problem. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said that she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. Only . . . there is no boyfriend.
Enter best friend Luka Peters. He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious relationship in the process. Will their fake love affair save Lovelight Farms in time for Christmas?
In The Weeds by B. K Borison
Evelyn St. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget. Beckett Porter certainly hasn’t. One incredible weekend in Maine and he’s officially a man distracted.
So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he’s . . . confused. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. James.
Feeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, Evelyn is trying to find her way back to something real. She returns to the last place she was happy – Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with. Nothing at all . . .
In the Weeds is the second book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners.
About The Author:
Amazon bestselling author B.K. Borison is fueled almost entirely by coffee and spends her days with imaginary characters doing imaginary things. She lives in Baltimore with her little family, including her giant dog.
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