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Fall Into Love
Cuddle up and fall in love with this collection of five wonderful romances. Whether you’re in the mood for saucy or sweet, small town or big fame, sports or cooking, this anthology has it all, featuring a novella from New York Times bestselling author Melody Anne and your new favorite debut Sara Rider, Samantha Joyce, L. E. Bross, and Rachel Goodman.
Once Taken by Melody A new lodge has opened in the hills of Montana and its owner, Jenna Pine, just wants to make it through another lonely Christmas. One night she says a prayer out loud on her balcony, never imagining that anyone would be listening, or that she’s about to get more than she could ever hope for.
For the Win by Sara What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.
Flirting with Fame by Samantha Elise Jameson is the secret author behind the bestselling Viking Moon series. But when a stranger poses as Elise, the painfully shy, deaf nineteen-year-old starts to see how much she’s missing. Can she really hide in the shadows forever? This clever, coming-of-age debut is for anyone who has ever felt unsure in her own skin.
Right Where You Are by L. E. In this smart, snappy romance—the first in the Second Chances series—a college senior finds herself sentenced to community service, where she happens to meet a bad boy who might just be exactly what she needs.
From Scratch by Rachel This critically acclaimed novel, hailed as “smart, sexy, and funny” (Publishers Weekly) is a down-home, feel-good Southern romance that explores one woman’s journey back home to Dallas, Texas, where her family is cooking up a plan that doesn’t quite suit her tastes…
Once Taken by Melody A new lodge has opened in the hills of Montana and its owner, Jenna Pine, just wants to make it through another lonely Christmas. One night she says a prayer out loud on her balcony, never imagining that anyone would be listening, or that she’s about to get more than she could ever hope for.
For the Win by Sara What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.
Flirting with Fame by Samantha Elise Jameson is the secret author behind the bestselling Viking Moon series. But when a stranger poses as Elise, the painfully shy, deaf nineteen-year-old starts to see how much she’s missing. Can she really hide in the shadows forever? This clever, coming-of-age debut is for anyone who has ever felt unsure in her own skin.
Right Where You Are by L. E. In this smart, snappy romance—the first in the Second Chances series—a college senior finds herself sentenced to community service, where she happens to meet a bad boy who might just be exactly what she needs.
From Scratch by Rachel This critically acclaimed novel, hailed as “smart, sexy, and funny” (Publishers Weekly) is a down-home, feel-good Southern romance that explores one woman’s journey back home to Dallas, Texas, where her family is cooking up a plan that doesn’t quite suit her tastes…
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Melody Anne
132 books5,044 followersNobody likes sexy men, sassy heroines, and emotionally charged books, right? WRONG! We all want to feel extraordinary when we read, and that's exactly what you'll get when you pick up a Melody Anne book. She has the feel-good stories of a damsel in distress with prince charming riding in to save the day . . . and she also has emotionally charged books that take you through a journey of emotion as you try to figure out if you love or hate the characters as they find themselves. What you get at the end of every Melody Anne book is a resolution that has you begging for more.
Melody Anne is a NYT best selling author of more than 70 books about strong women, strong families, and sexy strong men. Each series has its own theme, and each is different. Melody touches subjects others might not want to touch and you won't get away from reading one of her series without laughing, crying, and thinking about the journey you've just gone on even months later.
See her website and subscribe to her newsletter or text messaging service at: www.melodyanne.com. She makes it a point to respond to her fans. You can also join her on facebook at: www.facebook.com/authormelodyanne, or on Instagram and TikTok @authormelodyanne. Also, follow her blog at authormelodyanne.blogspot.com. Come say hello and peek beneath the covers of her books to go to a whole new world.
Melody Anne is a NYT best selling author of more than 70 books about strong women, strong families, and sexy strong men. Each series has its own theme, and each is different. Melody touches subjects others might not want to touch and you won't get away from reading one of her series without laughing, crying, and thinking about the journey you've just gone on even months later.
See her website and subscribe to her newsletter or text messaging service at: www.melodyanne.com. She makes it a point to respond to her fans. You can also join her on facebook at: www.facebook.com/authormelodyanne, or on Instagram and TikTok @authormelodyanne. Also, follow her blog at authormelodyanne.blogspot.com. Come say hello and peek beneath the covers of her books to go to a whole new world.
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October 10, 2016
I have read many of the Melody Anne books in her Montana series and I was excited to see a few in this book too. Plus one by Rachel Goodman, whom I have read several books from too! Here are my thoughts on this collection of five authors and their romantic short stories.
This is one beast of a book. Definitely worth the money with five amazing authors offering wonderful works for us to read and devour. These five novels are full length and are definitely perfect for those fall and winter evenings.
Melody Anne with her Montana series updates are always wonderful read and Once Taken is particularly hot. Then we have several by authors I have not yet had a chance to read before this book. All of the books I have read so far have been a delight. Full of the romance and fun we love to curl up with in the evenings and weekends.
This is a great choice for your fall reading marathons. I love grabbing these anthologies to keep in my reader. Perfect for relaxing when I have some time here and there. I think you will love it too!
This is one beast of a book. Definitely worth the money with five amazing authors offering wonderful works for us to read and devour. These five novels are full length and are definitely perfect for those fall and winter evenings.
Melody Anne with her Montana series updates are always wonderful read and Once Taken is particularly hot. Then we have several by authors I have not yet had a chance to read before this book. All of the books I have read so far have been a delight. Full of the romance and fun we love to curl up with in the evenings and weekends.
This is a great choice for your fall reading marathons. I love grabbing these anthologies to keep in my reader. Perfect for relaxing when I have some time here and there. I think you will love it too!
October 29, 2016
ONCE TAKEN: MELODY ANNE
Jenna and Carter went to highschool together at 16 when Carter saw her he knew he had to have her. He told his friend Michael he was going to date her. He thought Carter was crazy. They were 16 and just starting the dating scene. When he went to Jenna and announced he was taking her out that night she was, “Yeah right, good luck with that.” He was stunned. Every girl wanted him she had to know that. Right?
Michael was laughing his ass off. Carter’s response he was going to “marry her.” It took poor Carter a boatloads of rejections to get that first date. It was a year and a half but he got it. It was another three months before he got his first kiss. Once they kissed they knew there would be no one else for either of them. Then, tragedy strikes sending Carter into a tail spin.
It turns him into a man Jenna doesn’t even know or recognize. He had disappeared right before her eyes. 10 years and a wish later passes and Jenna’s aunt passes away. Leaving her the inn in Montana. It was the one that Jenna had grown up in with her aunt. It’s riddled in back taxes, debt, and repairs but she is determined to make a go of it. When she makes a wish.
This is a heartwarming, sexually charged and highly emotional story of two ex-lovers who come together not to have a relationship but just to meet natural needs for the time they will be around each other. Wow! Always love Melody’s story’s the spin she can give to an average happening.
I give this story: 5 stars
For the Win: Sara Rider
Lainey used to have posters up in her room of Gabe he has been her idol for years in the soccer world up there with Pele. Not today though all she feels is that he has mocked her. She does not like that feeling at all. If the rags are correct about him he thinks that his sexy smile will endear him to her and is does in all the wrong places for this event but not what needs to be happening right now or anytime for that matter she will put it on her bucket list. (For things she wants to do after she wins the World Cup for the second time.)
It’s when he says that she should go with his lead that gets her as if she needs his help. That really gets her goat and that is what gets them in even bigger trouble because she just talks off the top of her head.
You see Gabe is a secret admirer of Lainey’s also. But he can’t let on because inside him he has a real fear of what it would mean to practice at the Cricket Field. It is just the way he has grown up. What or who will it take to get him to get out of that way of thinking?
As far as Lainey she has been so dedicated to her sport she has no time to live and one of the things on her bucket list is get a library card. Something most of us takes for granted but she can’t find the time to do because she spends her every waking moment working at her craft. She’s good but who or what can make her see what she is missing and who?
Very cute story about a young woman who was always made to feel made to feel different and not equal to a man. And her fight to make it in a man’s game and to help women make the cross over. Yet, she comes to realize she has no friends, no life, and no man until she meets her idol Gabe.
I gave this story: 5 stars.
FLIRTING WITH FAME: SAMANTHA JOYCE
This was a little hard at first for me to get into but once all the supporting characters came into play, WOW! What a mixture of dynamic personalities in a multilayer storyline that just all works so well. It just makes you want to keep turning the page. It has you booing for the good guys and cheering for the good guys (males or females I won’t tell.) Shhh! ;)
It’s about Elise Jameson a young woman inured as a young person to where she is not only scarred but is totally deaf. The only time she ever felt like she could still hear is when she was writing. All the characters had something to say. What started that path was reading the author Duncan Creed who gave her hope. Through that hope, she found a new way to use that sound to write a book that became a bestseller. It has now become a series of books that became a T.V. series.
Only as a minor at sixteen and being hounded by her agent for a picture for a book back cover she panicked. She sent one of a beautiful woman off the internet to go with her pen name.
They bought it. Now, the third book is coming out, she’s in the works for number four the final one and they are picking up the book for a T.V. series.
Like that wasn’t bad enough her parents are making her go to college and stay in the dorms even though her house is 20 minutes away. Also, her agent calls to say how lucky she is that the T.V. show is moving the show to her hometown so she can be near set in case they need her. There is a small matter when she goes to the book signing of the third book and the woman on her book cover is there signing as if she were her. WHAT THE HELL!
She and her BFF Lin are floored. She has to think what to do. Lin, he says to confront the B….! You will not believe what all happens but it is fun and enjoyable to read.
I give this story: 5 stars.
RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE: L.E. BROSS
Avery Melrose Hartley was in a relationship with Grant for almost four years. When she arrived at his apartment and found him banging the out of some blonde in the bed they shared. As she left his apartment he shared with a roommate she grabbed Grants baseball bat he always left by the door on her way out. She walked over to his pride and joy and started beating the hell out of it. Beat out all the windows and mirrors first. Then started on the body before the roommate and Grant could pry the bat out of her hands.
He tried to tell her it wasn’t what she thought. Well, either was the truck she said. Now they were even. Only now he took her to court and now she has a record with fifteen thousand dollars to pay him in damages. Not to mention three hundred community hours doing road work in scratchy orange jump suits. Which does not make her father and lawyer one in the same happy at all. You see he’s running for mayor who’s tough on crime. Plus, he’s the D.A. The only good thing he had it filed under her mother’s maiden name. Grant after was gloating until she announces for all to hear from her mouth out to everyone why she did what she did. He wasn’t laughing anymore.
Avery being an overachieving child but a very rich pampered daughter tried to have her dad get her out of it but he said no. She said she had her sorority agenda to do but he said she had to take a semester off but she said she couldn’t it was her senior year you don’t do the hours he said you go to jail. Not happy when he says remember you now have a record you are a criminal.
Now Seth is being acclimated back into the community after serving twelve months in prison. Because he said he would have three months’ community service. For beating his crap out of his stepfather. You see his mom married him when Seth was ten and by fourteen she was dead from an overdose.
Within, three months his stepfather had gotten her hooked on heroin, running drugs, and turning tricks for him also. When, she died Davis ended up with the kids. Seth went off the deep end acting out when he got his senses back and started watching and paying attention to his baby sister Sara, he realizes she is acting just like his mother. He asked her if she was using, she said she was and that Davis had given it to her. When he confronted Davis about it he called child protective services saying he was acting out and was being violent.
Locking him in juvie for a while. When he was allowed out and to come home again he came home one day in the middle of a transaction where his sister, sixteen, was higher than a kite, and was being offered up for the drugs. He lost it. Out on work program and his CS program. Meets Avery one night before they both start serving their sentence. Now things get sticky.
Sometimes things happen in our lives that are bigger than us. With this story the author shows that not all things were done out of our control. Sometimes we have to rely on the power of love and friendship. Other times we just need to get out of our own way. This was a very touching story that was one you just didn’t want to put down.
I give this story, 5++++ stars.
FROM SCRATCH: RACHEL GOODMAN
This was an amazingly good book. I so enjoyed the lifelong friendships, the angst, her father, and the community budding in out of love. The situations of the friendships of their pasts are funny and heartbreaking all at once.
Lillie Turner and Nick Preston have known each other since she was five and he was seven. They were best friends through thick and thin. Him loving music and she loving to cook. Which was good since her dad owned Turner’s Greasy Spoon.
It used to be her mother’s pride and joy until one day her mother disappeared. No one knew what happened to her. All anyone knew is that after she had Lillie she became despondent. Leaving three-year-old Lillie with her dad. Having to quit his job to take over the restaurant or lose it and the house. He couldn’t afford either. Using the recipes his wife left behind he made it work.
Until Lillie started cooking at a young age. When she could stand on a chair she wanted to cook with her dad. She would order him around and tell him what she wanted and he would do it and they would taste it. He was amused when these little hands would come up with such creations. Eventually the “blue plate special” came into play.
Nick on the other hand came from old money. His father was a well-known heart surgeon, fifth generation, and by gosh so would Nick be. Although Nick groomed to be one his heart was just not in it. With his love of music always his first choice. From the first day Lillie’s dad, Jack, taught him to play the guitar.
He got so good at it he was even writing his own songs. As his and Lillie’s friendship and support for their individual interest they grew closer. Her listening for hours and him helping her with recipes, well as much as she would let him.
That’s when that first kiss happened. It was an explosion that lasted and a love that opened up and grew quickly and, forever right? As their love grew she moved in with him. He did his residency started to change him with all the odd hours and the cases. Nick started becoming more and more detached. More angry, short tempered, never just wanted to spend time together, cuddle, and he wouldn’t even talk to her when he was home. He felt like she was attacking him if she dared ask how his day was so she stopped asking.
Till the one fateful night, when she really needed to talk to him. She had been crying and she really needed to discuss her situation with him and he got angry with her and before she could even say what was even wrong he discounted her feelings. He blew up at her and throwing a plate at a wall that was on the coffee table. That night she realized she was worth more than to be treated that way. She was hurt so deeply and need to get out while he was sleeping or she would never go. She packed a bag and she left what she needed to talk to him about on the bar in the kitchen and left.
See if things can be saved. See what can happen when you don’t try and even if you think you do.
I give this story: 5 ++++ stars.
Jenna and Carter went to highschool together at 16 when Carter saw her he knew he had to have her. He told his friend Michael he was going to date her. He thought Carter was crazy. They were 16 and just starting the dating scene. When he went to Jenna and announced he was taking her out that night she was, “Yeah right, good luck with that.” He was stunned. Every girl wanted him she had to know that. Right?
Michael was laughing his ass off. Carter’s response he was going to “marry her.” It took poor Carter a boatloads of rejections to get that first date. It was a year and a half but he got it. It was another three months before he got his first kiss. Once they kissed they knew there would be no one else for either of them. Then, tragedy strikes sending Carter into a tail spin.
It turns him into a man Jenna doesn’t even know or recognize. He had disappeared right before her eyes. 10 years and a wish later passes and Jenna’s aunt passes away. Leaving her the inn in Montana. It was the one that Jenna had grown up in with her aunt. It’s riddled in back taxes, debt, and repairs but she is determined to make a go of it. When she makes a wish.
This is a heartwarming, sexually charged and highly emotional story of two ex-lovers who come together not to have a relationship but just to meet natural needs for the time they will be around each other. Wow! Always love Melody’s story’s the spin she can give to an average happening.
I give this story: 5 stars
For the Win: Sara Rider
Lainey used to have posters up in her room of Gabe he has been her idol for years in the soccer world up there with Pele. Not today though all she feels is that he has mocked her. She does not like that feeling at all. If the rags are correct about him he thinks that his sexy smile will endear him to her and is does in all the wrong places for this event but not what needs to be happening right now or anytime for that matter she will put it on her bucket list. (For things she wants to do after she wins the World Cup for the second time.)
It’s when he says that she should go with his lead that gets her as if she needs his help. That really gets her goat and that is what gets them in even bigger trouble because she just talks off the top of her head.
You see Gabe is a secret admirer of Lainey’s also. But he can’t let on because inside him he has a real fear of what it would mean to practice at the Cricket Field. It is just the way he has grown up. What or who will it take to get him to get out of that way of thinking?
As far as Lainey she has been so dedicated to her sport she has no time to live and one of the things on her bucket list is get a library card. Something most of us takes for granted but she can’t find the time to do because she spends her every waking moment working at her craft. She’s good but who or what can make her see what she is missing and who?
Very cute story about a young woman who was always made to feel made to feel different and not equal to a man. And her fight to make it in a man’s game and to help women make the cross over. Yet, she comes to realize she has no friends, no life, and no man until she meets her idol Gabe.
I gave this story: 5 stars.
FLIRTING WITH FAME: SAMANTHA JOYCE
This was a little hard at first for me to get into but once all the supporting characters came into play, WOW! What a mixture of dynamic personalities in a multilayer storyline that just all works so well. It just makes you want to keep turning the page. It has you booing for the good guys and cheering for the good guys (males or females I won’t tell.) Shhh! ;)
It’s about Elise Jameson a young woman inured as a young person to where she is not only scarred but is totally deaf. The only time she ever felt like she could still hear is when she was writing. All the characters had something to say. What started that path was reading the author Duncan Creed who gave her hope. Through that hope, she found a new way to use that sound to write a book that became a bestseller. It has now become a series of books that became a T.V. series.
Only as a minor at sixteen and being hounded by her agent for a picture for a book back cover she panicked. She sent one of a beautiful woman off the internet to go with her pen name.
They bought it. Now, the third book is coming out, she’s in the works for number four the final one and they are picking up the book for a T.V. series.
Like that wasn’t bad enough her parents are making her go to college and stay in the dorms even though her house is 20 minutes away. Also, her agent calls to say how lucky she is that the T.V. show is moving the show to her hometown so she can be near set in case they need her. There is a small matter when she goes to the book signing of the third book and the woman on her book cover is there signing as if she were her. WHAT THE HELL!
She and her BFF Lin are floored. She has to think what to do. Lin, he says to confront the B….! You will not believe what all happens but it is fun and enjoyable to read.
I give this story: 5 stars.
RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE: L.E. BROSS
Avery Melrose Hartley was in a relationship with Grant for almost four years. When she arrived at his apartment and found him banging the out of some blonde in the bed they shared. As she left his apartment he shared with a roommate she grabbed Grants baseball bat he always left by the door on her way out. She walked over to his pride and joy and started beating the hell out of it. Beat out all the windows and mirrors first. Then started on the body before the roommate and Grant could pry the bat out of her hands.
He tried to tell her it wasn’t what she thought. Well, either was the truck she said. Now they were even. Only now he took her to court and now she has a record with fifteen thousand dollars to pay him in damages. Not to mention three hundred community hours doing road work in scratchy orange jump suits. Which does not make her father and lawyer one in the same happy at all. You see he’s running for mayor who’s tough on crime. Plus, he’s the D.A. The only good thing he had it filed under her mother’s maiden name. Grant after was gloating until she announces for all to hear from her mouth out to everyone why she did what she did. He wasn’t laughing anymore.
Avery being an overachieving child but a very rich pampered daughter tried to have her dad get her out of it but he said no. She said she had her sorority agenda to do but he said she had to take a semester off but she said she couldn’t it was her senior year you don’t do the hours he said you go to jail. Not happy when he says remember you now have a record you are a criminal.
Now Seth is being acclimated back into the community after serving twelve months in prison. Because he said he would have three months’ community service. For beating his crap out of his stepfather. You see his mom married him when Seth was ten and by fourteen she was dead from an overdose.
Within, three months his stepfather had gotten her hooked on heroin, running drugs, and turning tricks for him also. When, she died Davis ended up with the kids. Seth went off the deep end acting out when he got his senses back and started watching and paying attention to his baby sister Sara, he realizes she is acting just like his mother. He asked her if she was using, she said she was and that Davis had given it to her. When he confronted Davis about it he called child protective services saying he was acting out and was being violent.
Locking him in juvie for a while. When he was allowed out and to come home again he came home one day in the middle of a transaction where his sister, sixteen, was higher than a kite, and was being offered up for the drugs. He lost it. Out on work program and his CS program. Meets Avery one night before they both start serving their sentence. Now things get sticky.
Sometimes things happen in our lives that are bigger than us. With this story the author shows that not all things were done out of our control. Sometimes we have to rely on the power of love and friendship. Other times we just need to get out of our own way. This was a very touching story that was one you just didn’t want to put down.
I give this story, 5++++ stars.
FROM SCRATCH: RACHEL GOODMAN
This was an amazingly good book. I so enjoyed the lifelong friendships, the angst, her father, and the community budding in out of love. The situations of the friendships of their pasts are funny and heartbreaking all at once.
Lillie Turner and Nick Preston have known each other since she was five and he was seven. They were best friends through thick and thin. Him loving music and she loving to cook. Which was good since her dad owned Turner’s Greasy Spoon.
It used to be her mother’s pride and joy until one day her mother disappeared. No one knew what happened to her. All anyone knew is that after she had Lillie she became despondent. Leaving three-year-old Lillie with her dad. Having to quit his job to take over the restaurant or lose it and the house. He couldn’t afford either. Using the recipes his wife left behind he made it work.
Until Lillie started cooking at a young age. When she could stand on a chair she wanted to cook with her dad. She would order him around and tell him what she wanted and he would do it and they would taste it. He was amused when these little hands would come up with such creations. Eventually the “blue plate special” came into play.
Nick on the other hand came from old money. His father was a well-known heart surgeon, fifth generation, and by gosh so would Nick be. Although Nick groomed to be one his heart was just not in it. With his love of music always his first choice. From the first day Lillie’s dad, Jack, taught him to play the guitar.
He got so good at it he was even writing his own songs. As his and Lillie’s friendship and support for their individual interest they grew closer. Her listening for hours and him helping her with recipes, well as much as she would let him.
That’s when that first kiss happened. It was an explosion that lasted and a love that opened up and grew quickly and, forever right? As their love grew she moved in with him. He did his residency started to change him with all the odd hours and the cases. Nick started becoming more and more detached. More angry, short tempered, never just wanted to spend time together, cuddle, and he wouldn’t even talk to her when he was home. He felt like she was attacking him if she dared ask how his day was so she stopped asking.
Till the one fateful night, when she really needed to talk to him. She had been crying and she really needed to discuss her situation with him and he got angry with her and before she could even say what was even wrong he discounted her feelings. He blew up at her and throwing a plate at a wall that was on the coffee table. That night she realized she was worth more than to be treated that way. She was hurt so deeply and need to get out while he was sleeping or she would never go. She packed a bag and she left what she needed to talk to him about on the bar in the kitchen and left.
See if things can be saved. See what can happen when you don’t try and even if you think you do.
I give this story: 5 ++++ stars.
October 13, 2017
I enjoyed every book in this collection. I've read a lot by Melody Anne and loved everything. I don't think I've read anything by the other authors before but I liked these stories. Each one was different with well developed characters and lot of chemistry.
December 23, 2018
the first story was fine but no wow. the second was painfully long winded i skipped a fair bit to get to the end. i gave up on the entire book after realising the third was going to be like the 2nd.
October 14, 2016
Charming characters and enchanting plots can be found in each story featured in FALL INTO LOVE, where entertainment is guaranteed. There is a new story from Melody Anne, plus four more recently released books from Sara Rider, Samantha Joyce, L.E. Bross and Rachel Goodman. Also included are excerpts from either upcoming stories or other connected books to a series. If you like your romances to be overflowing with emotions and often some witty conversations or clever retorts, then these five stories are a great way to experience some delightful reading pleasure.
“Once Taken” by Melody Anne
Though Jenna Pine did not plan on returning to Sterling, Montana, inheriting an inn from a great-aunt has her eager to become a business owner and also gives her a chance to finally be happier. While she enjoys fixing up the old inn which holds many good memories, there are some aspects of being back home that she never wants to recall. But when a painful part of her past reappears, Jenna hopes things do not end like last time.
A return to Sterling and its matchmaking citizens is always a treat, and Melody Anne makes her second chance story definitely steamy and emotional. Jenna just wants a new start, but she did not think someone with whom she has history would be involved. “Once Taken” is a compelling romance with likable characters and lots of heated sexual encounters.
“For the Win” by Sara Rider
When her dream of being a champion soccer player becomes a reality, Lainey Lukas is determined to keep racking up the wins. A severe injury has not stopped her, and there is no way another team from Seattle will keep her own team from playing professionally. Just because the captain of the men’s team is someone whom she once idolized and still thinks is very good-looking, it does not mean she will ever let him get the better of her.
With its compelling romance and large number of spirited characters, “For the Win” is constantly engaging. Sara Rider interweaves sports with a complicated love story, and the results are often humorous yet also filled with genuine emotions and enthusiastic desire. Lainey and Gabe are strong-minded and frequently at odds with each other, and I really enjoyed their quick-witted banter while they were coming to know more about each other.
“Flirting with Fame” by Samantha Joyce
Even though Elsie Jameson has written three young adult books, very few people actually know she wrote the popular series. Since an accident caused her to be deaf, it made her want to avoid the recognition connected with being an author. But when another individual says she has written the series, Elsie wonders if she can keep her identity hidden any longer or whether the truth will finally come out.
Sometimes circumstances force people to adjust their life, and Elsie is certainly going through many changes, as she is starting college and must deal with a dilemma associated with her books. I totally enjoyed her journey to just being herself and taking full responsibility for her actions. “Flirting with Fame” by Samantha Joyce is particularly emotional with heartfelt moments.
“Right Where You Are” by L.E. Bross
The punishment Avery Hartley receives for destroying her cheating boyfriend’s truck is several hundred hours of community service, and will regretfully consume much of her time in the coming days. Seth Hunter can reduce his prison sentence if he agrees to do three months of community service, and he ends up working with a girl who intrigues him. As they come in contact day after day, Seth and Avery come to realize there is much more to the other than they first thought.
L.E. Bross had me truly caring for her main characters from the start, and my concern for these two only increased as I learned additional facts. The relationship of Seth and Avery is sometimes playful and teasing, yet they still go through a wide range of sentiments while they explore what is growing between them. “Right Where You Are” is profoundly affecting with realistic reactions and a fascinating couple.
“From Scratch” by Rachel Goodman
After moving from Dallas to Chicago, Lillie Turner never missed the family diner where she was a great cook but worked way too much. Yet a message from her father has her hurriedly returning home, only to learn she has been tricked by him and now must take part in a baking contest. Though Lillie has a dream job and a perfect boyfriend back in Chicago, she finds there are loads of fond memories to be recalled from when she lived much farther south.
Small town charm and lively characters cause “From Scratch” to be a pleasurable read, while the amusing comments and thoughts are undeniably comical. I laughed often because of the hilarious visuals in the story, while the more poignant scenes were very touching. Rachel Goodman has created a fun romance about discovering what is most important in life.
Copy received from publisher via NetGalley - 4.5 Stars
“Once Taken” by Melody Anne
Though Jenna Pine did not plan on returning to Sterling, Montana, inheriting an inn from a great-aunt has her eager to become a business owner and also gives her a chance to finally be happier. While she enjoys fixing up the old inn which holds many good memories, there are some aspects of being back home that she never wants to recall. But when a painful part of her past reappears, Jenna hopes things do not end like last time.
A return to Sterling and its matchmaking citizens is always a treat, and Melody Anne makes her second chance story definitely steamy and emotional. Jenna just wants a new start, but she did not think someone with whom she has history would be involved. “Once Taken” is a compelling romance with likable characters and lots of heated sexual encounters.
“For the Win” by Sara Rider
When her dream of being a champion soccer player becomes a reality, Lainey Lukas is determined to keep racking up the wins. A severe injury has not stopped her, and there is no way another team from Seattle will keep her own team from playing professionally. Just because the captain of the men’s team is someone whom she once idolized and still thinks is very good-looking, it does not mean she will ever let him get the better of her.
With its compelling romance and large number of spirited characters, “For the Win” is constantly engaging. Sara Rider interweaves sports with a complicated love story, and the results are often humorous yet also filled with genuine emotions and enthusiastic desire. Lainey and Gabe are strong-minded and frequently at odds with each other, and I really enjoyed their quick-witted banter while they were coming to know more about each other.
“Flirting with Fame” by Samantha Joyce
Even though Elsie Jameson has written three young adult books, very few people actually know she wrote the popular series. Since an accident caused her to be deaf, it made her want to avoid the recognition connected with being an author. But when another individual says she has written the series, Elsie wonders if she can keep her identity hidden any longer or whether the truth will finally come out.
Sometimes circumstances force people to adjust their life, and Elsie is certainly going through many changes, as she is starting college and must deal with a dilemma associated with her books. I totally enjoyed her journey to just being herself and taking full responsibility for her actions. “Flirting with Fame” by Samantha Joyce is particularly emotional with heartfelt moments.
“Right Where You Are” by L.E. Bross
The punishment Avery Hartley receives for destroying her cheating boyfriend’s truck is several hundred hours of community service, and will regretfully consume much of her time in the coming days. Seth Hunter can reduce his prison sentence if he agrees to do three months of community service, and he ends up working with a girl who intrigues him. As they come in contact day after day, Seth and Avery come to realize there is much more to the other than they first thought.
L.E. Bross had me truly caring for her main characters from the start, and my concern for these two only increased as I learned additional facts. The relationship of Seth and Avery is sometimes playful and teasing, yet they still go through a wide range of sentiments while they explore what is growing between them. “Right Where You Are” is profoundly affecting with realistic reactions and a fascinating couple.
“From Scratch” by Rachel Goodman
After moving from Dallas to Chicago, Lillie Turner never missed the family diner where she was a great cook but worked way too much. Yet a message from her father has her hurriedly returning home, only to learn she has been tricked by him and now must take part in a baking contest. Though Lillie has a dream job and a perfect boyfriend back in Chicago, she finds there are loads of fond memories to be recalled from when she lived much farther south.
Small town charm and lively characters cause “From Scratch” to be a pleasurable read, while the amusing comments and thoughts are undeniably comical. I laughed often because of the hilarious visuals in the story, while the more poignant scenes were very touching. Rachel Goodman has created a fun romance about discovering what is most important in life.
Copy received from publisher via NetGalley - 4.5 Stars
October 21, 2016
Look at that pretty cover. It’s so autumn, my favorite time of the year and I know I’m not alone there. I picked it up Fall Into Love because I thought this would be a well-rounded collection. There are stories featuring second chances, athletes, NA/YA, and small towns. Also I have been short on time lately with kid activities and work so I thought an anthology with short novels or novellas will be right up my alley. They’re not all short, but I enjoyed three of these stories, a lot.
Once Taken by Melody Anne
Melody Anne headlines this anthology with her novella of a second chance romance. This story was ok. It may have hit the mark more had it been longer. The story moved along too fast, the hero was too much of an asshole with deceptions and it seemed like it was missing chunks of detail. It was just too short, so I’m going with OK.
For The Win by Sara Ryder
Who loves a badass heroine? Ryder gave us one who kicks ass as well as she kicks a soccer ball. Lainey is a bit prickly and her stubbornness could get old with some but she has a heart. There are clever chapter headers and the chemistry between our couple is goooooood. Lainey and Gabe’s battle of the sexes got a little tedious to read but I really enjoyed their story once Lainey quit being so contrary all of the time. This one is a winner in this collection…no pun intended!
Flirting With Fame by Samantha Joyce
I’m not gonna lie. I skipped this one. I started it, and I didn’t like how it started. It raised my anxiety level so it had to go. I cannot tell anything other than that…decide for yourself and if you read it, let me know what you thought in the comments.
Right Where You Are by L.E. Bross
Next up, we go back to college where the good girl, the daughter of a rich politician who wants for nothing, meets the bad boy who just got out of prison. This story got off to a rocky start for me. And I’ll tell you why…spoiled rich girl. I kind of wanted to smack her entitled ass. Alas, she came to her senses and the book took a drastic turn. It turned from a predictable, told a million times story to one that surprised me in the end. Well done to author Bross on that!
From Scratch by Rachel Goodman
This hit all of my buttons…second chance romance, quirky setting, it made me feel and the characters were real. To say I only liked it would be an understatement. Lillie had some growing to do and she did it, her character growth was some of the best I’ve ever read. She has some abandonment issues and she needed to take a hard look at herself and heal. I respected her. She ran away 5 years earlier and she did something new and scary and she succeeded. Sometimes you need to run away. With her dad’s medical emergency, she had to return to her hometown and had to confront her fears, her losses and she came out the real winner because she got to reunite with her one true love. Oh, how I cried in this book. This story had me so immersed in Lillie’s life. I loved it.
ARC review
Once Taken by Melody Anne
Melody Anne headlines this anthology with her novella of a second chance romance. This story was ok. It may have hit the mark more had it been longer. The story moved along too fast, the hero was too much of an asshole with deceptions and it seemed like it was missing chunks of detail. It was just too short, so I’m going with OK.
For The Win by Sara Ryder
Who loves a badass heroine? Ryder gave us one who kicks ass as well as she kicks a soccer ball. Lainey is a bit prickly and her stubbornness could get old with some but she has a heart. There are clever chapter headers and the chemistry between our couple is goooooood. Lainey and Gabe’s battle of the sexes got a little tedious to read but I really enjoyed their story once Lainey quit being so contrary all of the time. This one is a winner in this collection…no pun intended!
Flirting With Fame by Samantha Joyce
I’m not gonna lie. I skipped this one. I started it, and I didn’t like how it started. It raised my anxiety level so it had to go. I cannot tell anything other than that…decide for yourself and if you read it, let me know what you thought in the comments.
Right Where You Are by L.E. Bross
Next up, we go back to college where the good girl, the daughter of a rich politician who wants for nothing, meets the bad boy who just got out of prison. This story got off to a rocky start for me. And I’ll tell you why…spoiled rich girl. I kind of wanted to smack her entitled ass. Alas, she came to her senses and the book took a drastic turn. It turned from a predictable, told a million times story to one that surprised me in the end. Well done to author Bross on that!
From Scratch by Rachel Goodman
This hit all of my buttons…second chance romance, quirky setting, it made me feel and the characters were real. To say I only liked it would be an understatement. Lillie had some growing to do and she did it, her character growth was some of the best I’ve ever read. She has some abandonment issues and she needed to take a hard look at herself and heal. I respected her. She ran away 5 years earlier and she did something new and scary and she succeeded. Sometimes you need to run away. With her dad’s medical emergency, she had to return to her hometown and had to confront her fears, her losses and she came out the real winner because she got to reunite with her one true love. Oh, how I cried in this book. This story had me so immersed in Lillie’s life. I loved it.
ARC review
November 2, 2016
****ARC provided by NetGalley****
Once Taken gets 4 stars but all the other ones I'm sorry I couldn't finish. I just felt let down after the Melody Anne story.
I am a fan of Melody and it's worth it just to but this anthology for this book. Heck you might think I'm crazy and enjoy the other books as well.
Jenna returns to Sterling Montana to take over an old Inn she inherited and grew up in. With returning to Montana comes with running into Carter, the old flame who broke her heart. This is a second chance love story that has steamy moments and heartfelt dialogue between the two. While Jenna tries to fix up the Inn, Carter attempts to fix what he broke way back when. This is a perfect read for those time by a fire place in a Cabin.
Once Taken gets 4 stars but all the other ones I'm sorry I couldn't finish. I just felt let down after the Melody Anne story.
I am a fan of Melody and it's worth it just to but this anthology for this book. Heck you might think I'm crazy and enjoy the other books as well.
Jenna returns to Sterling Montana to take over an old Inn she inherited and grew up in. With returning to Montana comes with running into Carter, the old flame who broke her heart. This is a second chance love story that has steamy moments and heartfelt dialogue between the two. While Jenna tries to fix up the Inn, Carter attempts to fix what he broke way back when. This is a perfect read for those time by a fire place in a Cabin.
September 19, 2016
Once Taken by Melody Anne - A sweet, sexy story about second chances. I wasn't fond of the secret acquisition aspect, but the rest great. It looks like there are more stories to come in this series. :)
ARC provided through NetGalley.
ARC provided through NetGalley.
October 25, 2016
Hope breaks down all of the books in this anthology...3.5 stars of autumn love.
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January 21, 2017
A great collection of stories! Sure to satisfy all you romantic cravings. Definitely 5 stars!
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