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Body Check<\/em><\/h1>\n

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Body Check\u00a0<\/em>by Elle Kennedy is $1.99! This was Kennedy\u2019s first hockey romance and released in 2009 under Harlequin Blaze. It\u2019s since had a re-release for obvious reasons and I don\u2019t love the new cover.<\/p>\n

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Off Campus series, don\u2019t miss Elle Kennedy\u2019s first hockey romance, now including bonus scenes! More story, more hockey\u2014and more heat!<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a childhood spent being dragged around the country by her hockey coach father, Hayden Houston intends to take some time to figure out her future. Whether that future will include her currently off-again boyfriend remains to be seen. What it certainly won\u2019t include is the for-one-night-only guy she just met at a bar.<\/p>\n

It seems hockey star Brody Croft did not get the memo about being temporary. Big, bold and driven, he\u2019s dedicated in everything he does. Up till now, that\u2019s been his team\u2014the one owned by Hayden\u2019s dad. But his night with Hayden has sparked something he didn\u2019t expect. The two of them are good together. Really good. There\u2019s a connection he\u2019s never experienced before, one he knows they\u2019d be wrong to ignore. Even with a game-fixing scandal testing both their loyalties\u2014to teammates, to friends\u2026to family.<\/p>\n

Part of Hayden wants to turn tail and run. A complicated relationship with a bad boy hockey player is exactly what she never wanted. But when it comes to Brody, Hayden is realizing that people can be so much more than what they seem.<\/p>\n

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How to Summon a Fairy Godmother<\/em><\/h1>\n

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How to Summon a Fairy Godmother\u00a0<\/em>by Laura J. Mayo is $4.99! This is book one in the Fairies and Familiars<\/em> series. Book two is also available for $4.99. Have you read this one?<\/p>\n

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If a fairy godmother can get one sister\u00a0into\u00a0a marriage, getting another\u00a0out\u00a0of one should be\u00a0easy\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lady Theodosia Balfour has certainly gotten the short end of the stick\u2014her stepsister, the newly crowned Princess Beatrice, is telling everyone in polite society that Theo, her sister, and their mother\u00a0are\u00a0evil, wicked, and horrid people who treated her like a slave. Though Theo knows this isn\u2019t\u00a0exactly\u00a0true, it seems her life is thoroughly ruined by the rumor. With the Balfour family estate on the verge of bankruptcy, Theo\u2019s only path forward is a forced betrothal to the Duke of Snowbell, a foul-tempered geezer who wishes only to use her as a brood mare for spare heirs.<\/p>\n

Desperate for help, Theo clings to the only thing that might save the rumor of a fairy godmother, one that supposedly helped her stepsister secure a prince.\u00a0After discovering a way to summon a fairy in Beatrice\u2019s old room, Theo thinks her prayers have been answered. But the fairy she meets isn\u2019t\u00a0at all\u00a0what she imagined. Drop-dead gorgeous, incredibly cunning, and slightly devious, Cecily of the Ash Fairies is much more interested in gathering powerful favors and smoking her pipe than providing charitable magic for humans in a bind.<\/p>\n

Before she receives magical assistance, Cecily\u00a0sets Theo to\u00a0three tasks, seemingly to prove that Theo is a selfless and kind person. Helping her along the way are Cecily\u2019s familiars, the flirty human-turned-mockingbird Phineas and the aloof Kasra, a fox shapeshifter\u00a0who should not be as handsome as he is for someone with such cutting remarks. As Theo works on her tasks, she shockingly\u00a0finds kinship with the magical creatures she\u2019s helping, and starts to wonder if a continued life among her human peers is what she really wants after all.<\/p>\n

From debut author Laura J. Mayo comes a hilarious new spin on the Cinderella tale!<\/p>\n

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Read Between the Lines\u00a0<\/em>by Emily Kerr is $2.99! This is a bookish contemporary romance. It also appears to be a standalone.<\/p>\n

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Romance might be closer than she thinks\u2026The brand new escapist Oxford-set bookish romance from award-winning author, Emily Kerr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kat Fisher<\/strong>\u00a0wishes her parents had thought harder before they chose her name. A self-confessed romantic, she dreams of finding a guy who can live up to her book boyfriends,<\/p>\n

Former police officer\u00a0Leo Taylor<\/strong>\u00a0is trying to decide his next step following his departure from the force. His habit of spreading his belongings around the library where she works has been niggling at Kat for days, and his joke about her name is the final straw.<\/p>\n

Kat and Leo might not seem like the perfect match, but romance might be closer than they think. If only they could read between the lines\u2026<\/p>\n

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Love on Lexington Avenue<\/em><\/h1>\n

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Love on Lexington Avenue\u00a0<\/em>by Lauren Layne is $1.99! This is an opposites attract romance and book two in the\u00a0Central Park Pact <\/em>series. Book three received a B grade on the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFans of The Devil Wears Prada will flip over Love on Lexington Avenue.\u201d \u2014Karen Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author<\/p>\n

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne comes the second delightfully charming installment in the Central Park Pact series, following a young widow whose newfound cynicism about love is challenged by a sexy, rough-around-the-edges contractor.<\/p>\n

There are no good men left in New York City.<\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s Claire Hayes\u2019s conviction after finding out her late husband was not the man she thought he was. Determined to rid her home of anything that reminds her of her cheating husband, Claire sets out to redesign her boring, beige Upper East Side brownstone and make it something all her own. But what starts out as a simple renovation becomes a lot more complicated when she meets her bad-tempered contractor Scott Turner.<\/p>\n

Scott bluntly makes it known to Claire that he only took on her house for a change of pace from the corporate offices and swanky hotels he\u2019s been building lately, and he doesn\u2019t hesitate to add that he has no patience for a pampered, damaged princess with a penchant for pink. But when long workdays turn into even longer nights, their mutual wariness morphs into something more complicated\u2014a grudging respect, and maybe even attraction\u2026<\/p>\n

Filled with laugh-out-loud scenes that blend perfectly with the touching friendships Layne brings to life on the page, this \u201chugely entertaining\u201d (USA TODAY) novel is perfect for fans of Lauren Weisberger.<\/p>\n

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Body Check Body Check\u00a0by Elle Kennedy is $1.99! This was Kennedy\u2019s first hockey romance and released in 2009 under Harlequin Blaze. It\u2019s since had a re-release for obvious reasons and I don\u2019t love the new cover. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Off Campus series, don\u2019t miss Elle Kennedy\u2019s first hockey romance, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}