A Sweet Life Boxed Set (Fourteen Contemporary Romances by Bestselling Authors to Benefit Diabetes Research)

Presents A Sweet Life Boxed Set to Benefit Diabetes Research

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I purchased this set when it came out on May 1st.  It is a great bargain and you have a chance to win one set. Scroll down to the Rafflecopter Giveaway to enter. One winner will be chosen and will receive the set by email on June 19th. If you don't win go ahead and buy. It is only 2.99 and the entire amount goes to Diabetes Research.  It is a great chance to read books by some of your favorite authors and a great introduction to new authors.

Book & Author Details for A Sweet Life Boxed Set

Synopsis:

Have your cake and eat it too–your purchase of A Sweet Life helps fight against diabetes!

Priced at only 2.99 (regular price 7.99), indulge in this stunning limited edition collection of fourteen contemporary romances by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling authors…

You can make a difference while you read! All proceeds from the sale of A Sweet Life will be donated to the Diabetes Research Institute via Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for Diabetes Research.

Featuring a foreword by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber.

Get your copy today!

1500 pages/ 675 000 words

I Only Have Eyes For You by Bella Andre (The Sullivans)

The only woman wealthy Irish pub owner Jake McCann wants is the one he can’t have–Sophie Sullivan, his best friend’s off limits sister. But when the beautiful librarian appears on his doorstep as his every fantasy come to life, even though Jake knows loving Sophie isn’t the right thing to do…how can he possibly resist? (This is the only book in the group I had already read.  I love the Sullivans.  It is a series but you can start anywhere.  I loved Sophie and Jake's story so this is a good place to start.)

On A Night Like This by Barbara Freethy (Callways #1)

From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the first book about the Callaways, a big Irish family born to serve and protect, many as San Francisco firefighters.

May Day! By Heather Graham

Members of the Krewe of Hunters team plan a relaxing vacation to jolly old London for the English celebration–they never figured that a May Pole just might be murder.

Shopping for a Billionaire by Julia Kent

When mystery shopper Shannon Jacoby meets billionaire Declan McCormick with her hand down a toilet in the men’s room of one of his stores, it’s love at first flush.  (I could not read for laughing.  This is a great short fun story).

Built to Last by Susan Mallery

The tale of Aaron Cross, a man who doesn’t know he needs saving…until he meets Marissa Spencer, a heroine inspired by the real life founder of the Motheread/ Fatheread Literacy Program.

A Baby of Her Own by Brenda Novak

Delaney is tired of waiting for the right man–all she wants is a baby. After seducing a handsome stranger, she returns to Dundee to find that same man is actually taking up residence on a ranch just outside of town–where he will very likely realize she’s expecting.

Dare to Love by Carly Phillips

In relationships, Ian Dare offers the bare minimum–until one glimpse of sensual Riley Taylor changes his perspective. Their affair heats up and love comes into play, but Riley’s secret past just might cost them everything.

Executive Seduction by Jennifer Probst

When Chandler Santell turns to Logan Grant, the most ruthless CEO in the finance industry to save her beloved Yoga and Arts Center, she never intended to have seduction as part of the plan…

In Too Deep by RaeAnne Thayne

Though fiercely drawn to the comfort of Andrea McPhee’s arms, Will Tanner isn’t sure he can find room for a woman like her in a life focused on vengeance–until he discovers she has secrets of her own.  (Read on my new iPhone and loved the story and the phone.  This is a great RaeAnne Thayne story)

Every Girl Does It by Rachel Van Dyken

Amanda gets a flash from the past when the nerdy kid she rejected in high school suddenly reappears in her life…dead sexy, he’s all man and he wants her.

Homecoming Season by Susan Wiggs

Miranda Sweeney and her family find hope and healing while spending an autumn at Willow Lake after Miranda survives breast cancer.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21857185-a-sweet-life-boxed-set?ac=1

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The Marriage Merger (Marriage to a Billionaire #4) by Jennifer Probst

Romance

What Goodreads says:

"Her sisters have found wedded bliss with their wealthy,

wonderful dream men, but not Julietta Conte. She’s stayed

on terra firma as top executive of the family’s corporation,

La Dolce Famiglia bakery. Work is her passion, and her

trendy Milan apartment her sanctuary . . . until Sawyer

Wells, a masculine masterpiece in a suit, lures her out of

hiding with an irresistible offer: an exclusive partnership

with his international chain of boutique hotels.

Julietta’s been burned before—and trusting her brother-in-

law’s friend, whose powerful gaze alone has her

rethinking the best use of a conference room, is the

riskiest proposition. But with a once-in-a-career chance

to take the bakery global, will she mix stone-cold business

with red-hot seduction?"

Trope:  Each book in the Marriage to a Billionaire series shares one trope.  Mama Conte is determined to see all of her daughters married and will do what ever is necessary to make it happen.  She uses trickery, sickness, the modern version of a shotgun wedding, and in this book she uses a promise given years ago as a hammer.  In this book it leads to another trope:  a marriage of convenience.

Plot:  Both Julietta and Sawyer are buttoned up personalities who put work first.  Neither is into emotions.  Both think that they can have an affair and walk away with no trouble.  There is a nice addition to this book.  Sawyer has a young protégé who plays an important part in the story.

Characters:  Both Julietta and Sawyer are great characters with interesting flaws.  All of the characters from the previous book appear and play a part in The Marriage Merger.  Sawyer’s protégé is an interesting new character who added depth to the story and could have his own book sometime in the future.

Tension:  There is a business deal and the protégé that provided the external tension.  The fact that neither Sawyer nor Julietta want to deal with emotion provides the internal tension.  There is plenty of both.

Writing:  The writing in The Marriage Merger is brisk.  The tension continues to build throughout the story.  There is never a break in the action making it hard to put the book down.

Galley Books published The Marriage Merger by Jennifer Probst  in 2013.

I received an eARC of The Marriage Merger from Netgalley.

The Marriage Trap and The Marriage Mistake by Jennifer Probst

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Contemporary Romance

I received both The Marriage Trap and The Marriage Mistake from Edelweiss.  The books are the second and third in a series.  I haven’t read the first book but that didn’t make any difference in following the stories. At the heart of each story the main character uses a love spell found in a book.  They write what they want in a husband, do the spell and then burn the paper in a fire that is part of the spell.  The theme in both books are marriages that do not start as love stories but end up with a HEA. The love spell brings  exactly what Maggie and Carina asked for in a husband.

Here is the Goodreads summary for The Marriage Trap:

In order for his sister to marry, Italian billionaire Michael Conte has to find himself a bride – and fast! When he learns that photographer Maggie Ryan is going to be in Milan, Michael hatches a plan to introduce her to his family as his “fiancée.” Never mind that Maggie is confident, independent, and a control freak. Never mind that she’s everything he doesn’t want in a wife… and everything he wants in his bed!

Convinced that Michael is in love with her married gal pal, Maggie agrees to keep up the ruse if he’ll keep away from her friend. Besides, she’s not attracted to charming, ridiculously hot billionaires who drive her nuts. Once they’re in Italy, however, everything changes – and the sexual tension between Maggie and Michael goes from simmer to naked nuclear meltdown!

Both Michael and Maggie are great characters.  Both have run from the mutual attraction.  When you add the characters from Michael’s family you have a great mix.  Watch for how Michael’s Mother influences the story.  She is really sneaky.  This is a fun, interesting book that would make a good weekend read.  The characters in the next book play a part in The Marriage Mistake.

Here is the Goodreads summary for The Marriage Mistake:

Carina Conte has had a crush on her brother Michael’s best friend, Max Gray, since she was a teenager. Now she’s earned her MBA and come to work at Michael’s new venture, America’s fastest-growing bakery empire. But some things never change: her family still treats her like a child. With three drop-dead gorgeous siblings, she’s still the ugly duckling of the bunch. And Max, the company’s new CEO, still barely notices her.

Max knows Carina Conte is strictly off limits. But hot-blooded lust wins out at a conference when the two share a scorching one-night stand—and are busted by her mother! Now, forced by old-world Italian tradition into a marriage he’s not ready for, Max is miserable—and Carina is furious. Her new husband is about to realize that hell hath no fury like a woman transformed.

This is another quick fun read.  Carina and Max have a long history.  It is fun to see Carina try to ignore her feelings for Max and as Max is realizing his feeling for her.  Some of the time lines in the book did not mesh.  I think it was probably because this was an arc and had just not gotten everything edited.  The characters from the first two books were a part of this story.  Michael’s and Carina’s Mother is also at it again in this story.

Both are feel good stories and enjoyable reads.  That book with the love spell is still out there so there may be another story or two in the series.

Gallery Books published The Marriage Trap and The MarriageMistake you Jennifer Probst in 2012.