Shooting Scars by Karina Halle
Rating: B+       Raunch: 3.5/5      Romance: 3.5/5 Redonk Nutshell: Lovers battle through cartel to find each other & themselves If I had to pick one word to describe book two in The Artists Trilogy it would be transformation. First, if you haven’t read the 1st in the series, Sins & […]
Sins & Needles by Karina Halle
Rating: A Â Â Â Â Romance: 3/5 Â Â Â Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Con-artist returns home & is forced to face her past Ellie Watt has been on the move since she was a child. Born to grifter parents, she learned young how to pull cons. She returns home after a job turned sour […]
The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
 Rating: B     Romance: 4/5      Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Two unlikely people hiding in plain sight fall in love I always enjoy whatever Courtney Milan has to offer up, and The Heiress Effect was no different. That said, I had a hard time finding my words in describing this installment […]
Spinning Gold by Vivi Andrews
Rating: B Â Â Â Romance: 2/5 Â Â Â Raunch: 3/5 Redonk Nutshell: Rumpelstiltskin gets a new spin <-see what I did there? Juliana Ravel is seeking desperate measures to save her brother from the Prince’s executioner. She seeks to make an appeal, and as a last ditch effort to woo the Prince to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beyond Shame by Kit Rocha
“But maybe there is something wrong with me. I don’t like things even though they feel shameful. I like them more because of it.” So close. “Why, sweetheart?” She barely whispered the answer. “Because it feels good.” Redonk Nutshell: Sexually repressed woman is banished into a sexually liberated underworld. Noelle Cunningham’s fumblings of rebellion have […]
The Prince by Tiffany Reisz
“What does bother me is that you pulled your tricks on my son. You used him, chewed him up and spit him out.” Wesley opened his mouth to protest, but Nora spoke up first. “You say you know me, Mr. Railey, but obviously you don’t. If you did, you’d know I don’t spit out.” Redonk […]
Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
Redonk Nutshell: Intense love affair is put to the test when elements of their past come back to haunt them Sylvia Day’s first book in her Crossfire series, Bared to You, was a smashing success. I personally found it’s crack factor uber addicting, and I was really excited to get my hands on it’s follow […]
A Lady By Midnight by Tessa Dare
A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare Redonk Nutshell: Orphaned woman learns of her past while battling attraction to local Corporal Book 3 in Tessa Dare’s Spindle Cove series is A Lady by Midnight.  It’s the story of Kate Taylor, a local woman we’ve seen in the previous two books who gives music lessons. She’s sweet, patient […]
At Your Pleasure by Meredith Duran
You see, I have rehearsed this hour, this very moment, a thousand times and a thousand times more since last I lay with you. Trust me when I say that you do not wish me to heed my own desires, Nore: they are too impatient and too hungered to guide me wisely. Redonk Nutshell:Â After many […]