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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Book Blitz: Falling For Her Brother’s Best Friend by Noelle Adams...Sale Plus Giveaway!


Fifteen years ago, three girls were thrown together because their brothers were best friends. Now they’re all grown up, and their brothers are grown up too. The Tea for Two series tells their stories. Fans of contemporary women’s fiction will become engrossed in this new series by New York Times Bestselling Author, Noelle Adams.

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Title: Falling For Her Brother’s Best Friend
Author: Noelle Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Series: Tea For Two
Format: Digital eBook
Digital ISBN: 9781386206675

After too many bad decisions in romance, Emma is going on a man-fast. For the next six months, she's fasting from men. No sex. No dating. No soulful gazes. No fond memories of her first crush. She's going to spend the time focusing on her career, getting in touch with herself, and helping her two best friends with the launch of their new tea room. No men.

And that includes her brother's best friend, Noah Hart, who has just returned to their hometown.

She doesn't want Noah anyway. He might be even hotter than he was before, but he's not a nice guy anymore. He's made a fortune by acting ruthless in business, and the last thing he's looking for is small-town domestic life. He doesn't even want to be in town again, but a sick grandmother guilted him into it. Then he has nerve to not even recognize Emma when he sees her again. Maybe it's been seven years, but a decent guy would remember his best friend's little sister.

Noah is not a decent guy. Anyway, Emma is on a man-fast. And she doesn't want Noah.

At all.

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Noah felt an emotional pull toward her, that she seemed to understand him so well, even when he wasn’t sure he understood himself.
But he shouldn’t—he really shouldn’t—be feeling that way.
He cleared his throat. “And I noticed your Man-Fast flew out the window.”
She gasped and straightened her spine, which unfortunately called attention to the curve of her breasts. “What are you talking about?”
Struggling not to gaze too fixedly on the slight outline of nipple he could see beneath the white fabric of her dress, he managed to say, “Your Man-Fast. With all the flirting you were doing, I figured you’d given up on it.”
“I was not flirting!”
He lifted his eyebrows.
“Don’t you give me that snide look,” she said, her lush lips turning down in a frown. “I was talking to some people I know, same as you.”  
“There was definitely more than talking going on over here.” He had no idea why he was pursuing this. It was stupid. Futile. It would just make things worse. 
But he’d been bristling for too long about all the guys falling over themselves around her, and it was going to come out one way or the other.     
“What are you talking about?” she demanded. “I didn’t do anything but talk.”       
“Right. You didn’t smile at them and show them all that skin and make them think they might be getting lucky later on.”        
She gasped again. “I did nothing of the kind.”
“Okay.”
“I didn’t! I was talking. A girl can talk to guys without being accused of leading them on. I could say the same thing about you—every time you talk to and smile at women.”
“I haven’t been talking to women tonight.”
“You talked to a few.”
He tried to remember back to the people he’d chatted with and only remembered two young women. “They were married. I knew them from high school.”
“So? What’s your point? You can flirt with married women, you know.”
“Are you saying you think I’m the kind of guy who would do that?” His voice was now as angry as hers was.
She opened her mouth with some sort of sharp reply, but she must have rethought it. She slumped slightly. “No. I know you’re not.” 
“Good.”
“It would be nice if you’d know I wasn’t like that either.” 
“I’d never think you’d come on to married men.”   
“You just think I’m some kind of tease, torturing men for fun.   
Noah sighed and leaned against the counter. “No. I really don’t.”  
“Then why were you acting like that then?”  
Good question.  
And a question he couldn’t possibly answer honestly.  
I was just being an ass.”
“Yes. You were.”
“Sorry.” 
Her frown was relaxing slightly, and she was peering at him closely. “Okay then.” 
“Okay?” 
“Yes. Okay.”    
He felt a little better, now that she wasn’t so mad at him. But it just made him want to touch her even more.
He really needed to get out of here.
“I already have an older brother,” she said, still scrutinizing his face. “I don’t need another one.”
Damn it.
She thought he was acting like an older brother.
She had no idea he felt like a jealous boyfriend, resenting the fact that any other guy was thinking about what was his.
Could things be any more of a mess for him?  

Copyright © 2017 Falling For Her Brother’s Best Friend by Noelle Adams


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Other Books in the Tea For Two series:

Winning Her Brother’s Best Friend

Ginny Hart loves men. And she loves dating. She just doesn't want a serious relationship. She's tried it before--with her brother's best friend, Ryan--and it's clear she's not cut out for it. So she'll keep having fun and focusing on the new tea shop she recently opened with her best friend.

That's all she needs in her life.

She definitely doesn't need Ryan, who is always hanging around and has turned into a real player. When he challenges her to prove which of them is more popular with the opposite sex, she takes him up on the bet. One month. Four Saturday nights. She'll show him she's not still holding on to old feelings. It doesn't matter if she can't seem to keep her hands off him.

She's not about to let him win.

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Seducing Her Brother’s Best Friend

After too many years being overlooked by men, Carol is ready to take action. She wants a man, and she knows which man she wants. Her brother’s best friend, Patrick Stevenson.

Patrick is funny and brainy and the sexiest man she’s ever known, but he has never looked at her as anything except his friend’s little sister. That’s going to change.

Carol isn’t good at flirting. Or seduction. Or anything that requires putting herself out there. But she’s going to make sure Patrick sees her as a desirable woman—and one he wants for more than one night—even if it turns her whole world upside down. He already likes her a lot. He just needs to open his eyes to how good they’d be together.

After all, how stubborn can he be?

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Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she reads any book she can get her hands on and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.

She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Blog Tour: Everyday Magic by Emily Albright...Review, My Dream Cast, & Giveaway!


Everyday Magic (Untitled #2)
by Emily Albright
Publisher: Merit Press
Release Date: December 2nd 2016
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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Synopsis:

For once, Maggie McKendrick just wants to control her own life. Her overbearing Hollywood director father has it all planned out for her: UCLA, law school, then working as an entertainment lawyer, preferably for him. But Maggie has other, more creative-spirit friendly, plans. Namely, Thrippletons School of Fashion and Design in England, and then onto becoming a designer, preferably a wildly successful one. The big snag in her plan? Getting it past her dad.

A movie shoot takes the family to the Scottish Highlands for the summer, and closer to Maggie’s dream school. While there, she runs into the charming Preston Browne. Maggie is intrigued and decides to bend her no guys rule—instituted after her ex used her to get close to her dad. Forced to keep secrets from Preston in order to protect the future plans she’s made, Maggie finds herself falling for the tall Brit. And for once in her life she knows that he’s interested in her, not her Hollywood connections. When Maggie's father blackmails her into dating his lead actor, she isn’t left with a choice. The biggest problem isn’t having to date hunky, mega-hottie, Ben Chambers. No, it’s praying she doesn’t lose Preston in the process.

Excelling at her dream school, Maggie’s personal life is a tangled mess. She needs to decide if living a lie is worth losing Preston or chance going against her father and facing his wrath. When the tabloids expose the truth of her fake relationship with Ben, Maggie's world is thrown into a tailspin. Ultimately, Maggie must find the courage to take risks and forge ahead on her own path.






Emily Albright's debut novel, THE HEIR AND THE SPARE, is releasing January 18, 2016 from Merit Press.

She's a writer, a major bookworm, a lover of romantic movies, a wife, a mother, an owner of one adorable (yet slightly insane) cockapoo, and uses way too many :).




My Review

You can read my review for the first book in the Untitled series, The Heir and the Spare, here!


Title: Everyday Magic (Untitled #2)
Author: Emily Albright 
Format: Digital ARC
Source: FFBC/Author

Everyday Magic is just as delightful as the first book in this fun series from author, Emily Albright.

The daughter of a famous film director, Maggie is spending the summer with her family in Scotland while her dad shoots a new movie. While there Maggie hopes to build up the courage to tell her father about her aspirations and plans to attend design school in England. However, things don't quite go as Maggie expected when her father concocts a scheme blackmailing her into dating his new star.

This also interferes with a new relationship that Maggie has formed with Preston, a character we met in the first book in the series who I am delighted to see return.  Maggie and Preston have an instant connection from the moment the two meet, but lies and lack of communication threatens their relationship almost from the start.

I really felt for Preston and Maggie in this one and wish Maggie had been honest and stood up for herself sooner, but could understand her fear. Maggie and her family have a lot to adjust to and have to make quite a few changes as consequences of certain actions. This has a big impact on Maggie and her choices, but just like in the first book (and in many romance novels to be honest, not to mention real life), novels, a lot can be solved if people would simply communicate. But then I wouldn't have gotten to enjoy this lovely book.

And Everyday Magic was definitely an entertaining book filled with great characters, both the main and secondary ones. Both Maggie and Preston have a wonderful circle of friends. I certainly hope we get to see more of them in future books.

I truly am a sucker for a nice romance and while I wanted to shake the main characters a time or two, I couldn't help but root for them as a couple and hope they'd work things out and find happiness. Especially Preston, who won me over in The Heir and the Spare.  And while this is part of a series, I think it reads quite well as a standalone...but you might want to read the first anyway just to see more of Preston and his friends, who do make an appearance here.

This lovely romance by Emily Albright was a quick and easy read that was very entertaining.

My Rating: 4 Stars

*I received a digital ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.*


My Dream Cast


So I thought it would be fun (and since the book involves some Hollywood Royalty) to Dream Cast a movie version of Everyday Magic....please keep in mind that I am usually HORRIBLE at this and expect most (if not all) of you to disagree with my choices if/once you've read the book.  I am only casting the main couple because this is really their story and they were my main focus while reading. If I ever re-read the book, I might have thoughts on the other characters or even different thoughts about these.


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So for Maggie...she's described as having brown and blue eyes hair, very creative interested in fashion and design...Don't know about the eyes, but I could definitely see Hailee Steinfeld in this role. Plus, I adore Hailee Steinfeld. 

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And Preston is a tall, blond, cute, kind, and clever young Brit...Sam Claflin...because well, he's Sam Claflin. And he's who I pictured reading book one.






There are so many other characters that I could also cast and so many possibilities, but I'm more interested in who you'd cast? I know you might not have read this one yet, but have any suggestions for The Heir and the Spare? Or any actors or actresses come to mind when you read the blurb for Everyday Magic?



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