Too Hot To Handle by Victoria Dahl

Rating: B Romance: 3/5         Raunch: 3/5 “There was nothing worse than being felt out when you really wanted to be felt up.” Redonk Nutshell: Cheerful nerd is at her wit’s end and accepts aid from a man who ends up being her arch nemesis Merry Kade has always been a bit flighty. […]

When She Was Wicked by Anne Barton

Rating: A Romance: 4/5              Raunch: 3.5/5 “Though it might seem strange, there’s something very right about you and me. Together. Do you feel it, too?” The sincerity, the vulnerability, in his voice touched her soul. But he was wrong about this. They did not belong together – not truly. They […]

Making Him Sweat by Meg Maguire

Rating: B         Romance: 3.5/5          Raunch: 3.5/5 Redonk Nutshell: Woman falls for an associate of her disowned, deceased father Jenna Wilinski has inherited her father’s seedy boxing gym, and she has intentions to gradually close it and turn it into offices for her new business venture, a dating service. Her plan […]

Beyond Eden by Kele Moon

Rating: C Romance: 2/5            Raunch: 5/5 Redonk Nutshell: Long lost lovers reunite and discover new things about each other Eve Everton and Paul Mattling had a good thing in high school. They were crazy in love, but their paths took them different ways. Eve moved to New York to explore her artistic side […]

Along Came Trouble by Ruthie Knox

Rating: C+ Romance: 3.5/5        Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Security guard becomes attached to his stubborn charge Ellen Callahan is an entertainment lawyer who lives with her young son and works mostly from home with various musicians, including her superstar heartthrob brother, Jamie. When paparazzi threaten to overwhelm her quiet lifestyle, her brother takes it […]

A Most Scandalous Proposal by Ashlyn Macnamara

Redonk Nutshell: Man & woman go from best friends to lovers This was a sweet and somewhat traditional tale. Julia St. Claire isn’t sure how she feels about being pursued by an earl, especially the same earl that her sister has been crushing on for a long time. What Julia doesn’t know is that the earl […]

Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

“If only he would keep his mouth shut he’d be perfect. A piece of duct tape would do the trick. I had some in my desk that I’d occasionally pull out and fondle, hoping someday I could put it to good use.” Redonk Nutshell: Two opposing forces ignite a fierce attraction Chloe Mills has worked […]

Wounded by Jasinda Wilder

He does not just fill my body, my womanhood. He fills me. My heart, my soul. He fills the horrible emptiness that has gaped inside me all my life. The moment that he slide into me, I knew. It has just taken me this long to understand the strange feeling flowing in my veins in place of blood: happiness. […]

His At Night by Sherry Thomas

He wanted to give her some warning. “My story, it isn’t always happy.” “No story is, or it wouldn’t be a story; it’d be a paean.” Redonk Nutshell: Two people who fake their circumstances end up in a forced marriage There aren’t many authors I could trust to successfully pull off a plot like this […]

The Lass Wore Black by Karen Ranney

You’ll hold her when she cries, and try like hell to understand why she’s angry. You’ll coax her and reason with her, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her. You better damn well like her, my boy, because love is ninety percent like and ten percent passion. Redonk Nutshell: Recovering woman finds solace in her physician Catriona […]

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

No, there was nothing at ll to suggest that Lady Philippa Marbury, daughter of one of the most powerful peers in Britain, was anything other than a perfectly ordinary young woman. Nothing, that was, until she opened her mouth and said things like, ‘bipedal locomotion’. And ‘coitus’. Redonk Nutshell: Woman asks notorious gentleman to help […]

The Perfect Catch by Linda Cajio

Redonk Nutshell: Widow and businessman hit it off over a series of baseball games Elaine Simpson has a special love of baseball. She attends the Phillies games as often as possible with her adolescent son in tow, in the company of of three female friends. Elaine is widowed and isn’t really looking for love. In […]