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Melt My Heart by Marie Tuhart

Veterinarian Lexi Mallory wants to submit to the sexy new Dom from the club, but trauma from her past keeps getting in the way. It's a good thing Gabriel Huntington has a special way with difficult subs and sees the gorgeous Lexi as a delicious challenge. Unfortunately, Lexi fears her inability to relinquish control will finally test Garbriel's patience and he'll end their contract. Can Lexi lower her barriers and allow Gabriel's touch to melt her heart?

This story is hot, hot, hot! Gabriel is sex on a stick! Heroine Lexi is one lucky submissive! I love his patience with her. No wonder she puts her pleasure into his capable hands.

He also rescues puppies! Made of win!

This is a very sexy story so readers should be 18+

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Me + You by Brenda Gayle

Teacher Lori Tait has always wanted a family, but now she's 40, she’s pretty much decided all the good men are taken. Instead, she devotes herself to her students, particularly one little girl whose struggle with math seems inconsistent with an otherwise brilliant and artistic mind.

Mark Wilder hadn’t planned to become a father, but when a fling resulted in his daughter, Grace, he whole-heartedly embraced the role. Raised in a family of boys, what does he know about women and girls? Once he learns of Grace’s inability to comprehend basic math, he welcomes the role of tutor as a way to connect with his daughter; the opportunity to spend time with her sexy teacher is an added bonus.

When Lori cracks the mystery of Grace’s problem Mark’s world is thrown into turmoil; he’s the last person who can help his daughter. He pushes everyone away, confirming Lori’s theory about men. Grace, however, has other plans. Using her new-found understanding of math, she sets out to prove to her father and teacher that, together, they add up to the perfect match.

I loved this story! I was one of those kids who couldn't do math, in a time when if you were a girl and was quiet and well behaved, the teachers ignored you. Nobody even had a clue I couldn't do math. When I finally got a diagnosis of ADD confirmed, the psychologist diagnosed Dyskalkulia. I can add, subtract, and multiply. I can't do division, especially long division.

How I wish I had had a teacher like Lori! She's warm and an advocate for her students. Mark is a good father and his daughter's diagnosis reminds him of all his supposed failings. Lori and Mark have their problems and they work through them to make a family: Lori, Mark, and his daughter Grace.

You have to read this story! It's totally made of awesome!

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Tweet Me by Desiree Holt

Don’t call. Don’t text. Tweet me…

Married to her work, event planner Avery Kurtz runs her life and her business on a private message feed. She has no time to waste on emails or a love life, and Valentine’s Day means just more parties to plan. But when Tanner Voss, best man in Avery’s best friend’s wedding, is assigned to help finalize plans, her world is turned heart-side up. The hotshot attorney might be a player. He’d hit on her before and she avoided that mistake but he’s also surprisingly cooperative, focused on making the perfect choices for their friends, and even on board with her messaging preference. Between the erotic dreams about the sexy litigator and her body urging her to forget caution, Avery is wondering if she was wrong about Tanner and wants him to do more than “tweet me.”

Both Avery and Tanner are engaging characters and very rootable. I really like Tanner. I've got a soft spot in my heart for men who have unrequited love for the heroine! The whole aspect of Avery only communicating via tweets may seem a little silly for older readers, but really it is up to date. Twenty somethings really do "date" that way!

This is a very satisfying love story between and man and a woman who have real chemistry. Their love scenes sizzle on the page! This does have adult content so readers should be 18 or over.

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Real Love by Charlotte Copper

As a young girl, Monda was placed into the tutelage of Mistress Teevac. Trained to use her empathic skills and educated in the ways to please a man, Monda is on her way to her new mate and master when her spaceship crashes. Rescued by a handsome space lieutenant, who literally makes her heart race, Monda’s eyes and heart are opened to new possibilities.

When Lieutenant Patrick Lancaster looks at the exotic Monda, he sees beautiful not alien. With an instinct to protect her and the desire to have her, he’d be honored to call her his own, but the starts have something else in mind. Or do they?

In the case of full disclosure, I'm not usually a fan of sci-fi romance but I really liked this story. Monda is a true innocent, even though she's been trained in the ways of sexually pleasing both men and women. Patrick can't get past the fact that Monda's been promised to someone else, but with Monda's mentor being in a coma, there's no way of knowing where to take Monda. Patrick fights his attraction to the lovely alien being the honorable man he is, and longs for her to be free.

Real Love is a well written story about the twisty path to finding your true mate. This is a sweet love story.

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Say Yes by Katie O'Sullivan

Darby Malone has trouble saying no. Hosting a children’s Valentine party at her recently renovated gallery is the last straw, and the last time she intends to say yes to anything. That is, until she meets Ben, a well-known Cape Cod artist with eyes as deep and blue as the ocean. He stirs feelings in her that have been dormant for too long. Can she afford to say yes to him?

Ben Phillips needs this gallery show. His life has been empty since his wife died four years ago, his paintings the only thing giving him solace. But his style has changed, his art completely different than the breezy shore paintings he staked his reputation on. Can he convince Darby to give him a chance – and to consider him for more than just a place on her gallery walls? Will she give him a place in her heart as well?

Coming from Cape Cod, I grew up in Provincetown, I'm always wary of books set on the Cape as sometimes the author just doesn't get it. That is not the case with Ms. O'Sullivan. She hits all the right notes about being a townie in the dead of winter. She made me homesick!

I also grew up with a grandmother who was active in the Cape art scene, especially in P-town, so I enjoyed that aspect of this story as well. Ben is a great hero. I'm always a sucker for an artist hero. Darby encapsulates all the feelings of someone who grew up on the Cape, moved away for a while, and then moved back when life didn't deliver like she had dreamed.

Wonderful book!