I give Stirred With Love Five Cups of Coffee.

Oh, Stirred With Love by Marcie Steele has so much heart. It is a tale of love, friendship and heartbreak. It had me laughing one minute and crying my eyes out the next.

This is the story of what the three phases of life.

Lily the owner of the coffee shop is a sixty year old widow who like the other two girls is ready for a new phase in her life. She is the mother figure who has known love but lost it due to death.

Kate is the older sister figure. She has lost love due to divorce and isn't sure how to carry on. But, when she sees the add in the paper she is intrigued and decides to see what might be.

Chloe is the younger sister who is in love with love. Her father wants her to go to University right after graduation, but she just isn't sure that's what she wants.

Together these three women hope to put themselves back together and something even more wonderful happens.

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

 

On Twitter a couple of days ago I had a poll. What should I read next?

What should I read next? To Catch a Rake by @OrrSally Sutherland's Secret by @SharonCullen or Stirred with Love by @Marcie_Steele

I got back four completely different answers.

So, I decided to read them in order of response of those listed. And I will look into the fourth book that wasn't listed.

That means I will be reading 

1. Stirred With Love by Marcie Steele
2. To Catch a Rake by Sally Orr
3. Sutherland's Secret by Sharon Cullen

OMG!! I have now received my first Auto-approval on Netgalley!!

Thank You Gelineau and King!!!!

I've loaned out my copy of Charlotte's Story to my mother. But, as soon as I get it back I'm going to have to start reading it...

What a wonderful series this is going to be.

Twelve Days by Teresa Hill is the introductory book into The McRaes series.

In this story we concentrate on Sam and Rachel. A couple whom it seems life just keeps knocking down and aren't sure that they can get back up.

But, when Rachel's Aunt Miriam has no other option but to bring three siblings to their doorstep, they have to decide whether or not they can try this one more time.

What I wouldn't give to be part of a family like this where, yes everyone is into one another's business, they are also undeniably there for one another.

Trust me, give this book a try and you too will be hooked.

I Kissed a Rogue by Shana Galen is a wonderful Historical Romance.

Once again Shana Galen has given us a superb novel. The chemistry between Lila and Brook is irresistible. My inability to put this book down was undeniable..

When the Duke's daughter Lila is kidnapped, her father turns to the man who had once proposed to her to locate his daughter. 

What follows is a series of both fortunate as well as unfortunate events.

Find out what happens when the two find themselves entangled in one another's lives.

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I DO NOT enjoying giving unfavorable reviews. But, to be fair to those books that I love I have to sometimes to the unwanted.

Tales From the Graveyard, while well written, was not a collection that I could enjoy.

I'd tried to give it a chance multiple times, but I just couldn't find myself wrapped up in the story line I am sorry to say.

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I am so hooked on the An Echo of an Ascended novella series.

Best Left in the Shadows, just like the other three I've read is totally addictive.

I haven't quite figured out how all of the books piece together. But, I do enjoy the way that each of the four pieces have a completely different air about them.

I received this copy of Best Left in the Shadows by Mark Gelineau and Joe King from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Rend the Dark by Mark Gelineau and Joe King is the third novella in the An Echo of the Ascended series that I have read. Each of these novellas can either be read as part of the whole or as a stand alone read. And has a completely different feel from the other two. But just as enthralling. I received this copy of Rend the Dark by Mark Gelineau and Joe King from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

A Reaper of Stone is part of a series of Novellas that form the first book of An Echo of the Ascended.

This is the second of the novellas that I have read and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. In this novella we follow Elinor, one of the King's Reapers, is a remarkably strong female character.

And while part of the same series as Faith and Moonlight, A Reaper of Stone has a completely different feel to it.

I received this copy of A Reaper of Stone by Mark Gelineau and Joe King from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

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The novella Faith and Moonlight is an introduction to the series of novellas by the same name. This series will take you into a world completely different than any other I've read. The writing is intriguing bringing up visions of what it must of been like for Roan and Kay as they too enter this new subculture for the first time. I received this copy of Faith and Moonlight by Mark Gelineau and Joe King from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Snowflakes on Silver Cove has everything you are looking for in a Christmas romance. It has two love stories, a purple cat and a mannequin.

This tale checked all kinds of boxes. I laughed, cried and pondered the what ifs.

I received this copy of Snowflakes on Silver Cove by Holly Martin from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Who can resist the latest Lisa Jackson novel? Definitely not me. Somehow Lisa Jackson leaves you guessing till the last minute as to who the killer is. Cassie Kramer is not only the mentally unstable sister, but also the leading suspect when her younger, more successful and sexier sister goes missing. The suspicion only rises when other people who were involved in the movie Cassie and Allie had just wrapped up are murdered. I received this copy of After She's Gone by Lisa Jackson from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

Well, I guess it's time. I have to try and find some work to help pay some of the bills. It's just getting tougher and tougher for the business to keep all three of us employed.

So, Bill is a 911 operator and I just applied at Books A Million here in Griffin.

Now that would be a dream job.

It isn't often that you receive an email from a author or her staff asking you if you'd like to be able to read their work before it is even out on Netgalley.

So, when Heatherly Bell wrote and asked if I'd like to read her next book Unforgettable You, I of course had to say yes!!!

In Unforgettable You we return to Starlight Hill where it is Scott's turn to tell his tale.

Diane thought she had hit rock bottom when her fiancee, whom she'd been with for six years, fell for one of the brides who had come into her mother's bridal shop to buy a dress before she'd even had a groom. 

So she decided to go back to Starlight Hill to help her grandmother whom her mother was worried about.

But low and behold she discovered that you hadn't hit rock bottom till your most embarrassing moment is not only caught on film, but goes viral on the internet.

What exactly happened and will she and Scott be able to succeed at getting the video taken down?

Read it and find out.

I received this copy of Unforgettable You for the author Heatherly Bell in exchange for an honest review.