Day: May 14, 2019

#Review “Covering Ollie (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) (On Call, #2)” by Freya Barker

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5/5 Stars!

This author delivers another suspenseful romance with just the right amount of spice, wit, and humor that shows second chances are possible no matter how long and hard you try to avoid them.

Widower Joe Benedetti has settled in as Durango’s new chief of police. Though he’ll never get used to department budget cuts, staff shortages or the political schmoozing that comes with the job, he knows he’s made a positive step toward a fresh start for himself and his two young sons.

He even lucks out when the snarky teenage girl across the street, Trinity, introduces herself and offers her babysitting services.

Trinity lives with her mom, whom Joe has noticed… from across the street, but notice is all it will ever be. He still mourns his wife, and he’s got sons to raise and a new job to handle.

Olivia “Ollie” Rizzo has worked hard to provide for herself and Trinity. The forty-year-old landscape architect even snaps a blade to the front of her pickup and does snow removal during the winter. She is independent, self-sufficient… and closed off.

Was good to see Ollie’s “disabilty” not treated as such. When it’s addressed, there is a discussion (sometimes ‘glib’), then it’s on to the next thing. Kudos to the author!

Joe and Ollie meet when Trinity has an accident, and it doesn’t go well, but they do settle into a neighborly friendship.

However, when a familiar face from the FBI comes calling with news that Ollie’s past is no longer in the past, Joe goes into protect-mode. Not just as the chief of police, but something about the quirky force-of-nature makes him want to keep her and Trinity safe.

Loved the pacing of this read. As the level of danger grows, so do emotions, and not just Joe and Ollie’s.

Joe’s boys, Ryder and Mason, are still adjusting to losing their mom, his parents show up and everyone has to adjust to Rita Benedetti (HA!), and more familiar law enforcement faces are trying to make Joe see what’s right in front of him while doing their jobs.

By far my favorite character is Grace, Ollie’s friend and confidante of eighteen years.

They met when Ollie was a young girl alone with an infant daughter and are as close as any family.

Though she’s seventy-five, the eagle-eyed Grace doesn’t miss much… or have any problem sharing her “bits of wisdom.”

But she goes to the top of my list when Joe and Ollie invite her to dinner on her Bingo night. When they arrive to pick Grace up she says, “This better be good. Tonight was my night to take the Bingo Queen title away from that ho, Lettie Driver, from the third floor. Bought all new dabbers for it too.”

OMG! I need Grace to have her own story! LOL!

If you follow the series by this author, you’ll love seeing the friendly faces of Tony, Dylan, Keith and even Autumn.

We don’t get to actually “see” Luna Roosberg, but her actions near the end of this read had me cheering.

There’s also plenty of folks to despise here with Josh Carey being slimeball number one. The wealthy mama’s boy’s unwanted attention to Ollie gives the word creeper new meaning, but Ole Josh will prove himself to also be the weakest link.

Covering Ollie is a solid, satisfying read full of strong characters making the best of bad situations (excluding Josh, of course). Even the children have intestinal fortitude! Loved how Trinity stepped up near the end. I highly recommend it.

Enjoy!

Covering Ollie (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) is book 2 in the On Call series and follows Burning for Autumn and is available today – 5/14/19.

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Title: Covering Ollie(On Call #2)
Author: Freya Barker
Genre:Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Living in Durango, Colorado for the past eighteen years allowed Ollie Rizzo to build her own business and carve out a quiet existence for her and her teenage daughter. She’s used to going it alone. However, their new silver-haired neighbor might present a problem—not only is he handsome—he’s also Durango’s new chief of police; a complication she can’t afford.

For recently widowed Joe Benedetti, the job offer as Durango’s new chief of police came at the right time. With life, the new job, and his two young sons settling into a comfortable routine, he does his best to ignore the beautiful and intriguing woman across the street. Yet when he discovers she’s caught the attention of the FBI, there is no way he can stay away.

Their worlds collide with the appearance of FBI Special Agent Cruz Livingston. The agent has a warning to deliver, one that spins life in Durango out of control, giving Joe a crucial mission—keep Ollie alive.

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#ReleaseBlitz “Covering Ollie (On Call, #2)” by Freya Barker

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Title: Covering Ollie(On Call #2)
Author: Freya Barker
Genre:Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Living in Durango, Colorado for the past eighteen years allowed Ollie Rizzo to build her own business and carve out a quiet existence for her and her teenage daughter. She’s used to going it alone. However, their new silver-haired neighbor might present a problem—not only is he handsome—he’s also Durango’s new chief of police; a complication she can’t afford.

For recently widowed Joe Benedetti, the job offer as Durango’s new chief of police came at the right time. With life, the new job, and his two young sons settling into a comfortable routine, he does his best to ignore the beautiful and intriguing woman across the street. Yet when he discovers she’s caught the attention of the FBI, there is no way he can stay away.

Their worlds collide with the appearance of FBI Special Agent Cruz Livingston. The agent has a warning to deliver, one that spins life in Durango out of control, giving Joe a crucial mission—keep Ollie alive.

Freya Barker inspires with her stories about ‘real’ people, perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy.

She is the author of the Cedar Tree and Portland, ME Series, the Northern Lights Collection and the Rock Point Series. She is also co-author of the SnapShot Series.

To see Freya’s complete backlist, or to find out what is coming down the pipe, visit freyabarker.com.

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#CoverReveal “Smoke (Archer’s Creek #5)” by Gemma Weir

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Book: Smoke (#5 in the Archer’s Creek Series) 

by Gemma Weir

Genre: Series-interconnected stand-alone Contemporary MC Romance

Release Date: 13th June 2019

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Synopsis:

Smoke

I know women. I love them and they love me.

I don’t chase them; they line up and I pick out whichever takes my fancy.

Only now there’s her.

She’s unimpressed, disinterested. She’s different and I can’t look away.

I don’t understand her, but I need to make her look. I need to make her see me and then never look away again.

Sometimes the things that don’t come easily are the things that we should fight the hardest for, and with Riley I’m in for the fight of my life

Riley

I’ve been hurt and my heart’s still bruised.

I know who Smoke is. I’ve seen it all before, the arrogant ‘king of the world’ attitude.

So I’m mean, cold, and harsh because offense is the best defense when it comes to protecting myself.

Only what if he’s not who I think he is?

I don’t want to want him, but I just can’t help myself, and sometimes what we shouldn’t want is exactly what we need.

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Meet the Author
 
Gemma Weir is a half crazed stay at home mom to three kids, one man child and a hell hound. She has lived in the midlands, in the UK her whole life and has wanted to write a book since she was a child. Gemma has a ridiculously dirty mind and loves her book boyfriends to be big, tattooed alpha males. She’s a reader first and foremost and she loves her romance to come with a happy ending and lots of sexy sex.
 

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#TeaserTuesday “Avoiding Matthew (International Heroes Book 3)” by Caroline Bell Foster

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Avoiding Matthew by Caroline Bell Foster

📍A kiss. A promise. A mistake.

📍On Sale May 21

Lacy Dawson would rather spend her days experimenting with brownie recipes and trying on wedding dresses, than go on yet another secret mission to save her country. She needed a way out and found it.

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“Why would you?” he asked, getting into the vehicle.

“Why would I what?”

“Know that I have a brother,” Matthew clarified, watching as she put on her seat belt before driving up the ramp to street level. “You’ve never bothered to ask.”

He sounded almost angry, she thought, picking up the tight edge in his voice.

Lacy laughed it off. “You know zilch about me too Matthew. It’s not like we’re friends or anything. We have sex and that’s it. We don’t need to know anything about each other.”

“Your full name is Wallace Rosemarie Dawson,” he began as he drove through Manhattan. “You were adopted at two and a half, your parents are white and work in law enforcement. You weigh one hundred and eight pounds and have to get an iron shot every month because your periods can be heavy. Your birthday has just gone and pickles give you a rash on your neck.” Matthew volunteered. “How am I doing so far?” he asked.

“Have you gone through my file?” Lacy spluttered, angry that he knew so much about her, even the intimate stuff.

“You don’t sleep around,” he went on. “Although you do sleep with me every chance you get.” The glance he leveled at her was hot and deliberate. “You don’t like skirts or dresses. You spend a lot of time walking around baby stores, and you hate your parents.”

“Now you hold on! I don’t hate my parents! And how would you know I walk around in baby stores?!” She asked, beyond angry now. That was too much. It was her secret escape.

After an assignment, especially if it was a particularly harrowing assignment, she would go into a baby store to decompress. Seeing the tiny furniture and clothes, all the innocence of soft colours and textures brought a sense of worthiness to what she did. She cleaned up the world to make it a better place for all the babies that would be born. It made it all feel worthwhile.

“And I do have sex!” She shouted when they cleared the city. “Lots of it!”

“I hope you’re on the pill,”

“Matthew!”

He shrugged. “I haven’t been using anything when we make love.”

“We don’t make love we have sex!” Lacy yelled. “No emotion is involved! You could be anyone!”

“Keep telling yourself that sweetheart.” He drawled around tightly clenched teeth, swiftly changing lanes.

“I’m right and why are you even getting mad?” she charged, hearing the edge in his voice again. “I should be the one getting mad, you looked into my background!”

“Do you want a baby?” he asked instead, after a deep breath.

“Not with you I don’t,” Lacy snapped. She wanted a baby and a husband. She even wanted a porch swing and a people carrier to use for carpool.

Matthew swerved the car to the side of the road with a chorus of car horns objecting behind them.

“What the hell is wrong with you?!” Lacy sputtered, when he tore down a side street lined with Silver Maples. They were out in the suburbs she noticed, seeing a couple of sprinklers watering lawns, a red tricycle laying on its side in a driveway, and an older man washing his car, in one sweeping glance. Matthew stopped under the shade of a large maple.

He grabbed the back of her neck and tipped her head so that she was looking at him.

“One, we make love,” he growled. “We do not have sex. Understand?” he gritted. When she didn’t answer quick enough, he got in her face, his hazel eyes blazing fire into hers. “Understand?”

She nodded.

“Two. You want a baby?” he didn’t wait for her to answer, but flexed his fingers at her neck. “I will give you a baby.” He promised angrily. “And three,” he took a deep breath before continuing. “If I hear you have been with another man, I will fucking kill you both. Have you got that?” He snarled.

Lacy nodded again. She wasn’t scared, Matthew would never hurt her no matter what he said. But to see him like this, all possessive and he-man’ish did all sorts to her insides, and she surreptitiously moved her hands to the inside of her thighs and pressed down.

 

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