Rodeo Rebel by Debra Kayn

4 STARS I enjoyed the fact that Florentine McDougal had a different job than I have ever read about for a woman. She is a bull rider. I have to say that it is hard for me to think about a women doing that job. Just how physical it is. I learned that I am not as well rounded on that profession as I should be. Florentine is named after a lace and all four of her sisters are too. Florentine is a twin too. She was raised on a ranch by her father after her mother died when she was younger. Her dad passed away last year. Florentine gets no respect from the other cowboys. They feel threatened by her as a female bullrider who is beating them. She has just a few rides left of the season and she is on her way to being a professional bull rider. Cole Reardon just bought Turner Grain Corporation and along with that he found himself to be sponsering a bullrider Florentine. Cole feels strongly that he does not want to be a sponser of someone risking thier live for entertainment. He wants out of the contract. Cole is a widower and is raising his daughter Sarah and he wants to be a good example to her. He is over the top protective of her. Cole takes Florentine to dinner after the rodeo and tells her he wants to buyout his contract. Florentine gets angry and tells him no. This is her dream and she has a tight contract. She wants to win so that she can help other girls to realize that they can be whatever they want to be. If she can make her dream come true with hardwork so can they. She is not leting Cole out. Right before her next ride Cole agains tries to get her to let him buyout his contract. Right after that she gets injured from her ride. Cole contract states he be responsible for her medical bills. Also feels guilty for distracting her before her ride. Florentine has a concussion and Cole thinks she will let him buyout his contract now that she is injured and can't ride. Florentine plans to be back riding the bulls in 10 days. The doctor wants her to take it easy for 2 weeks but agrees that if she rests should be able to compete in 10 days if she wants to. Cole is torn he wants her but does not want her risky behavor around his daughter. He takes Florentine home for her 10 days off. He also brings his little daughter with him. Florentine family always puts on a big 4th of July party with fireworks on her family ranch and this year her sister is getting married right before the party. Sarah is glad to be thier she wants a mother. She also wants more freedom than her father gives her. Now can Florentine cook cookies? It is on her wish list for a mom. Florentine has to act tough to be a bullrider. She is lonely out on the circut one day a cowboy wants to bed her and the next he wants her gone. She will not date a cowboy. I stayed up late because I had to see if she won or lost and how the book would turn out. Thier are a few love scenes in the book. I want to read more about Florentine family. I think they have had thier own story written. I would read more from Debra in the future. The rodeo action seemed so believeable you could almost taste the dirt. Too bad I missed my towns rodeo last week. If it was this week I probably would go after reading this story. Florentine's father did a fine job raising his daughters to go for thier dream whatever they wanted. Let them know how much he loved them and how proud of them he was. I liked her family. I was given this ebook to read in return for giving honest review of it from Netgalley. 06/15/2012 PUB Entangled Publishing Imprint Indulgence

An Inconvenient Affair ny Catherine Mann

3 STARS love the story line. the characters are charming. This is a harlequin desire so thier are a lot of hot stuff in this book. Hillary Wright is on a airplane heading for Chichago where she will be working on identifing her ex-boyfriend's partner is stealing money from a charity to help with scholarships. She will be working with CIA and Interpol agents. This way she can prove her inocence. Troy Donavan at age 15 broke into the Pentagon computer and shown a lot of corruption going on. Because of his age he was sent to a milatary boarding school. When he turned 21 was approached to working with Interpol by he his boarding school general. He also created computer games and software to become a billionare. He was supposed to meet Hillary at the fundraser tonight to work with, but he wanted to meet her early so he got the seat next to her on the plane. He knew she was pretty but not that hot. They flirted the whole way but Hillary told him she was not going to date him. Before they could depart the plane Troy name was called out and he was handcuffed and taken off the plane. Which was a stunt for the charity and good cover for him. He played rich playboy to the press and did assignments about once a year. Did more work on computer for them more often. Hillary could not believe the guy she was flirting with was Troy Donavan the rich playboy who had got into trouble all those years ago. At the Black tie event the last item up for bid was Troy. He was now on stage in tux still handcuffed up for auction was this weekend as his date. He went for almost 100,000. The winner was his assistant and he told the audience that he was known for not following the rules and said this way he got to pick the date of his choice for the weekend and in the spotlight went up to Hillary and picked her. They both have issue with thier parents, and still have a lot of issues to workout. I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley. 08/01/2012 PUB. Harlequin Harlequin Desire

Review: Something Blue by Dianne Christner

5 STARS I enjoyed watching Megan grow and change. This was a perfect sunday book to enjoy. Megan is a Mennonite. She is working for a small airplane company. They do private charters and charity flights. Megan's boss is Randy and he is taking off two months to try and save his marriage. His brother Chance Campbell works in Ecuador as a mission piliot and coming to run the company for him. Chance flirts right away with Megan and tells her stories about his work. Chance has a hard time understanding why Megan does not want to date him or even have lunch together as friends. Megan is very attracted to Chase and keeps saying no to him but she is worried about him. Megan's Preacher died and they are interviewing two men for the job. The first one to come is going to stay with Megan's family. Her father is an Elder of thier church and they have room for him. Megan is surprised when she comes home to find the preacher who has come first to interview and preach is Micah Zimmerman. She knew him at collage and in fact he asked her out time after time. She finally had to threaten to get him to leave her alone. She hoped he did not come here just to try with her again. Micah the moment he first met Megan in his last semester of collage he felt that she was going to mean a lot to him. He remembered how he kept asking her out. Micah was having lots of allergies problems. He felt like he was looking like a fool to Megan. Then he found that Megan had lots of allergies too. Megan got to know a little bit more about Micah and they became friends. Micah realized he still felt attracted to Megan but he was afraid of thier past would hurt him to get the job. Micah was asked back to stay for a three months and than the members would vote to offer him the job or not. Chance really wanted Megan to come with him to Ecuador when he left. He thought she would love it. He hid somethings to Megan. Megan confided to Micah about Chance. Megan was starting to think that she needed to spend more time with Chance. This story did have a lot of different scriptures and subjects of different sermons topics came up. It was all natural to the story. I liked the Characters. This is the third book of a series. I have now read the second & third books. I would love to go read the first one sometime. Look forward to reading more of Dianne's novels in the future. I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest reviews from Netgalley. 08/01/2012 PUB Barbour Publishing, Inc.

Treasure of the Celtic Triangle by Michael Phillips

5 STARS
This is the second book with these characters,but it stands alone.  I
have not read the first one but I am going to read it soon.
No bedroom scenes or swearing in the book.  Lots of caring for
others.
The book starts in 1872 Courtenay is the heir to Viscount but he
will inheirit when he turns 25.  In less than 2 years he has come back
home because he spent almost all of his money.  Thier has been no
money added to his account since his father died. He is very spoiled
and greedy.
Viscountess Lady Katherine is the last wife of the Viscount.  She is
mother of Courtenay and Florilyn.  She is caretaker of the estate till
her son turns 25.  She has money of her own where their is not a lot
of money with the lands.
Florilyn is the younger than her brother.  She is engaged to her cousin
Percy.
Percy is engaged to Florilyn.  Has been coming to Wales to stay with
his Aunt since age 16 when he kept getting into trouble so his parents
thought that might help.  He is just finshing collage and is thinking he
wants to go into law. Percy was with his Uncle when he was dying and
his Uncle asked him to look into a matter of his past for him.  If he can
find something or someone than tell his Aunt Katherine the truth but if
proof can not be found don't hurt his family
Florilyn and Percy are reading the same book and writing letters back and
forth to discuss it.  Florilyn soon see herself in the book along with Percy and Gwyneth.  She thinks that maybe they got engaged too fast and need to
pray and think if that is Gods will.
Percy is hurt but feels it would not hurt to slow down and make sure that they are right for each other.  He also has to look into his feelings of the
missing Gwyneth.
Stephen was a shepard but Viscountess asked him to manage the estate for her.  Stephen is a well read man.  He follows God and cares for the families
that live on the property.  He knows how to take care of the horses. Has been friends with Percy and Florilyn.  His cousin is Gwyneth and his family don't know where Gwyneth ,her father and Granny moved too.
Lots of secrets and plans that go behind each others back. It kept my attention in the book. I hated to put it down.
I was given this book to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley.
08/01/2012 PUB  Barbour Publishing, Inc.

Deserving of his Diamonds by Melanie Milburne

4 STARS I would have read this book faster if not for the tears making it hard to see the words. I feel like I have been in a emotional wringer with this book. It does have love scenes in the book. Gisle found her fiance did not trust her when he heard and saw her on line in a sex tape. He kicked her out of his house told her to never contact him again. Gisele was heart broken that he did not believe her. Two years later Emilio Andreoni read in the paper about her twin being reunited. Emilio who was building a perfect life found he was not perfect but made a big mistake. Gisele Carter did not know she was a twin. Her father did not let her know that he had an affair that resulted in twin girls. Each parent took one twin. Gisele owns a baby store with clothes and she will do personal needle work that the customers want on it. One day she looks up and her former fiance is thier wanting to say he was sorry. She did not want anything to do with him. He threw her away days before thier wedding. Since that time she had thier baby and lost her. She still has a hard time eating and sleeping. Work is all she does now. Emilio wants her back. When she refuses to even talk to her he buys her building than offers her a million dollars for a month of her time. She agrees for two months. She wants to make him sorry he let her go. They find out they did not know each other as well as they thought when they were a couple before. Thier were a few scenes that just it me hard. I like Gisele and would like to get to know more about her twin in a future book. I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley. 08/01/2012 PUB Harlequin Presents

The Diamond Secret by Lenora Worth

4 STARS I liked it but sad to because of the bad guy. The Diamond Secret is a treasure hunt for a famous diamond that was last seen in Louisana with a pirate. Has lots of drama trying to figure out the clues of where the diamond is and who is the real bad guy or is it gals? Esther is running her father's antique shop she inheirited after her fathers death. She sells antique jewelry,furniture,weapons and clocks. Also in the shop she has her art that she makes using different broken pieces. One evening as she is about to close a guy comes into the shop and is looking for something that her father had. Esther tells him to come back tomorrow and look around. Cullen tells her that he also brought her father's letters to him for her to keep. As Cullen is leaving he sees two guys and pushes Esther back into the shop saying they were there. They go toward the back and hear the breaking of glass. As they are running and hiding out they have shots fired. Cullen uses a blow torch from her studio and a gun to give Esther a chance to get away. Cullen goes back with her to her apartment with her after the cops are through. They can tell someone has been to her home too. Esther reads the letters her father wrote to Cullen and remembers all the treasure hunts he made up for her. Also the stories he would tell her when she was younger. Her shop is broken into and this time they took stuff from the safe and some papers were gone too. Who knows that Cullen is after the chocolate diamond and has clues that her father had left for her to find where it was. Was her father murdered? Or was he going senial? Did her father know where the diamond was hid? If he did how did he figure it out? Thier are a lot of mystery surrounding the famous chocolate diamond that Cullen is looking for. This is a good story and nothing to worry about in this story. No sex, No swearing. I was given this ebook to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley. 08/01/2012 PUB Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense

Phantom Marauders of the Bermuda Triangle by R.C. Farrington

5 STARS I made the mistake of picking this book up right before I was planning to read just for a bit and bed early. Well its after 1:00 am. The story is told in a easy clear manner. Thier is lots of things blown up and people killing in this drug war. Now I want to read more books from Farrington. an ex-cop who worked undercover in drugs now searchs for wrecked boats. Finds an empty boat with a cabin full of cocaine they take and dump it out into the ocean and plan to turn the empty bags over to authority. Instead of a warm welcome he is met with former fellow cop that says he is now running drugs. He is taken away instead of police he is taken somewhere and then down secret tunnel and surprised to see the Govenor of Bermuda. Then an FBI Agent comes in the room too. They want him to destroy the drugs,disable their ships and do it only in the Bermuda triangle. They can come ashore in this one secret base but only at night. He will get a few new members of crew and big boat that can't be tracked by radar whem its on. It is a war and thier is a cost to what they are doing. Some get wounded and others disappeared. I kept wishing somehow they woud all make it. Turk Black is the captain, ex-cop and has a glass eye. He hates drugs. This is a book you won't want to put down and has lots of action, lots of heros. I could definately see this as a movie someday. I was given this book to read for free and asked in return to give my honest review of the book when done from Librarything. CreateSpace PUB 03/25/2012 219 pages