Saved By A Scoundrel by Stephanie Ellis

Elizabeth Wentworth with the help of her sister, Christina, form a plan to save her best friend (Rachel) from an unwanted marriage to Lord Bentley. They know they will need luck to be able to achieve Rachel's freedom.

The help comes in the form of Damon Kendrick, a handsome bachelor who after saving Elizabeth's life, decides she will be his. He will need to persuade the lady of the same. He will help save her friend while keeping her out of trouble.
2/5 Fangs

Angel's Pawn by Nalini Singh

This is a prequel to the Guild Hunter Series.

The novella is about Ash(Ashwini) a human who is a vampire Hunter for the Guild. Her job is to captured rogue vampires for the Angels. In this world, Vampires are made by Angels. They are given immortality is exchange for one hundred years of servitude. It seems to be an unpleasant century and most vampires try to run away.

Ash is contracted by the Archangel Nazarach, who rules Atlanta to find a rogue vampire. Ash turns to Janvier, a Cajun Vampire for help. Janvier has been one of her usual runs. But, this time he will work with her instead. They soon learn this is a power play between vampires (an old vampire family vs a new vampire) and the Archangel and united they will try to survive it.

I enjoyed this novella. Left me wanting to read more about Ash and Janvier.

3/5 Fangs

My One and Only by Kristan Higgins

Successful divorce attorney Harper James is ready to tie the knot again. She has been dating Dennis, a firefighter for two years. She believes there are many reasons this will work for them.

She pops the question without romanticism. To her surprise, Dennis doesn't answer her immediately and the proposal gets interrupted by her step-sister Willa's call. Willa is calling Harper to announce her engagement and wants Harper as her maid of honor. This is Willa's third marriage and Harper thinks this is a mistake. But, if that wasn't enough, she is also marrying Harper's ex-brother in law Chris Lowery. After many years of avoiding her painful separation from Nick Lowery, she will have to see him again.

She flies to Montana with Dennis (who has to leave right after the wedding) and her dog Coco and seeing Nick again brings all the memories back.

As fate will have it, Nick and Harper get thrown together and have to share a cross country car ride. Sparks are flying and the love they share is still there. Can they find happiness this time? Their relationship failed before, can it work now?

Kristin Higgins has become one of my favorite contemporary romance writers. Her books make me laugh and cry too. Her secondary characters are great as well. In this one, I enjoyed Father Bruce's character who makes Harper perform a good deed of the day.

4/5 Fangs

Fools Rush In by Kristan Higgins

Millie Branes is back in Cape Cod. She recently finished her residency in medicine and will start a new job at a walk in clinic. Now, Millie has a plan on how to get her love life going. Ever since she was a teenager she has dreamed of dating Joe Carpenter. He was nice to her once during an embarrassing situation in a school bus. She is determined to get him.

She comes from a close family. Her grandmother has left Millie her home. She gets along with her ex brother in law Sam Nicherson and her nephew. Unfortunately she doesn't get along with her sister. She has left her family and moved to New York.

Her plan involves loosing weight, so she starts running. She gets a new dog, because Joe has one too. She changes her hairstyle and her clothes. Her two gay friends help her with this.

But contrary to her plan, she starts having feeling for Sam, the local cop with a heart of gold.

I loved this book too. The way the heroine gets together with the hero at the end always makes me smile.

In real life it will be weird for Millie to be in love with her brother in law, but Miss Higgins makes it believable.

4/5 Fangs

Catch Of The Day by Kristan Higgins

This is the story of Maggie Beaumont. She lives in a little town in Maine. She is the proud owner of Joe's Diner left to her by her grandfather. Her old dog Colonel is her beloved pet, which has helped her during tough times.

She has a twin sister who is happily married with a beautiful child. Maggie is not as lucky. She had a boyfriend in high school who she loved and who broke her heart when he came back to town with a new girlfriend ten years ago. Fast forward a few years later, she meets another guy, who she tells everyone about that he may be The One. To her embarrassment the new guy in town is the new priest. She develops a crush on him which the whole town knows about.

When the priest Tim tries to set her up with different dates, hilarity ensues. On one of the dates, while she is waiting for the blind date to show up she sees her old boyfriend with his beautiful wife. She is saved by the town taciturn hermit Malone.

Malone is a man of few words, he has a mysterious past. He is a lobsterman. Maggie keeps on getting drawn to him.

Can she make him open up? Can she accept him for what he is?

I read this book just after finishing Too Good To Be True, I loved it too. Maybe not as much because I wish I would have learned more about Malone. Every chapter I was expecting to read more about Malone. He was an interesting character.

Spoiler Fanglert: 

Her beloved pet passed away during this book. It was devastating in a way. I sobbed.

4/5 Fangs

Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins

Grace Emerson lives in Peterston, she is a school teacher in a Prep School. She loves history, especially the Civil War. During her free time she likes to Reenact the Civil War with hundreds of others. She also likes to make up boyfriends. She has done it through high school and college. This time she invents a Pediatric Surgeon/Feral Cat lover/Married to his profession boyfriend.

Why, you may ask? Her little sister, Natalie is dating her ex-fiancee Andrew, and she is tired of people pitting her. It's specially tough around her cousin's wedding. Her parents, grandmother, her older sister worried about her and spinsterhood. When she finds Natalie crying in the bathroom at the wedding she figures out her baby sister is not moving forward with her ex because of trying not to hurt Grace's feelings. This too good to be true boyfriend is her savior.

During this wedding she drinks a little too much, goes home (the home she bought with Andrew) and sees a stranger around the house next to her. Since she lives alone, she calls the cops and arms herself with a hockey stick. When her doorbell rings she answers it thinking the police are there. When she sees the stranger she just reacts and hits him with it. The cops take him to jail and later confirms he is her new neighbor Callahan O'Shea. She cooks brownies and takes a bottle of wine to apologize, and ends up hurting him again.

Callahan has just been released from prison for embezzlement and is trying to start his new life. What he didn't expect is to find himself in prison a night later because of getting mistaken for a robber.

This book is funny, at times it can make you cry. But, I just loved it. I love the way it is written. Miss Higgins does a beautiful job with her descriptions, the secondary characters are all great in their own way. It was so refreshing to read Too Good To Be True. The addition of her dog Angus makes it fun to read.

As soon as I finished this book I grabbed another one written by her.

5/5 Fangs

The Sarantos Secret Baby by Olivia Gates

The Sarantos Secret Baby

Sarantos Brothers #1

Olivia Gates 

Selene Louvardis has always had a crush on a Greek millionaire Aristedes Sarantos. He has been her family's nemesis/rival in the shipping business for years. Her father has loved to fight him. But when her father passes, Aris comes to her house uninvited and tells her he will miss her dad.

Later on the same night they connect and spend the night together. In the morning, she leaves before he wakes up. Ari leaves the States without saying goodbye.

A year and a half later, Ari is back. He knows he missed Selene and tries to reconnect with her. She declines an affair saying she has a new man in her life. He follows her and discovers that the new man is none other than his own child, now nine months old.

After the shock wears off, he decides to try to convince her that they can be a family. He is willing to try. He takes them to Greece away from work and her brothers to prove they belong together.

Can Ari prove to be a good father and a good husband? Can they overcome their family rivalry?

This was a believable romance. I enjoyed their fights and I enjoyed an alpha male who can admit when he is wrong.

3.5/5 Fangs