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If you want the aforementioned LADY KNIGHTS and also YEARNING and also QUEERNORM FANTASY and also WANT TO CRY (wait what) you'll want to check out The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino. But if you don't believe us, check out some quotes below...

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: A faux summer fling seemed like the perfect solution . . . until they start falling in love for real. Teacher Stella Marshall’s summer break has just began, but the gossip is already sizzling: Luke Keegan’s back in town! Stella’s high school crush is all grown up and smolderingly sexy. She might even consider a fling with the former Navy SEAL, if she hadn’t already sworn off all romantic entanglements. But there isn’t a single thing she can do to stop the rumor mill whispering about her and Luke being together—unless . . . A showmance! Luke never thought he’d propose a fake relationship, but it’s the only way to stop the runaway speculation about their love lives. Pretending to date a woman as stunning as Stella is easy. Not actually falling for her is the hard part. Luke isn’t sure he deserves a hometown happy ending, when members of his SEAL team never made it back at all. But there’s real attraction buzzing between him and Stella . . . and he knows she feels it too. Could their faux summer romance lead to true love?

Review:

In the small beach town of Mistletoe, Maine, two people are about to find out that maybe faking a relationship can lead to really falling in love. Stella Marshall is a teacher who loves her job and can’t wait for summer to begin. But things are about to get a little bit off track when her high school crush has come back in town, cue, extremely handsome Navy Seal, Luke Keegan. Luke is trying to find himself after leaving the SEALs and dealing with PTSD and survivor’s guilt over the two members of his team that never made it back. He’s back in town to spend time with his brother and nephew and maybe see if Mistletoe, Maine is where he is meant to be. One thing both Luke and Stella have in common is that they’re both not looking for relationships after the one’s they had been in. Stella’s ex-fiancee had dumped her days before the wedding and now she’s sworn off relationships, except Luke just might be what tempts her to give them another try. When rumors start spreading like wildfire in this small town, everyone is convinced that Luke and Stella are dating, and Luke comes up with a proposal: they both pretend to fake date for the summer so that they’ll both be left alone by people who either want to date them or set them up with other people. Since neither of them are looking for a relationship, it should be the perfect idea? Except the more time they spend together the more they start to realize feelings may be blooming between them. This was the perfect cozy seaside romance read! Super cute and sweet and though its the second book in the series they can be read as a standalone!

Who is ready for Summer?

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Thank you to @readforeverpub and @jhaleauthor for the copies of Summer at Firefly Beach and The House on Firefly Beach💜 I read Summer at Firefly Beach in one day friends! I got sucked into the story and could not put it down. I think it is my favorite book by her yet. Of course now I have to read The House on Firefly Beach, because who knows, I might like it even more. Both of these books are out now!

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Synopsis from the publisher: For Sydney Flynn, her treasured family home, Starlight Cottage, is her sanctuary. The house on the beach, surrounded by glittering turquoise waters, is the perfect place for her fresh start, piecing her life back together after it fell apart. That’s until her knees almost buckle at the sight of Nate Henderson. As teenagers, Sydney and Nate spent their summers whispering sweet nothings and promising “forever” to each other. Sydney never imagined that her childhood sweetheart was going to break her heart, driving away from her and Firefly Beach, never looking back. Now, when Sydney spots him at her sister’s wedding, their eyes meeting across the rows of guests, she barely recognizes him. The down-to-earth son of a fisherman, forever in beach t-shirts and flip flops, is replaced with a successful songwriter in a designer suit, a superstar in the country music scene. Yet despite everything, his dazzling blue eyes and easy smile stir up all the feelings she thought she’d left behind. Nate is back to make it up to Sydney, but can she forgive him for all the heartbreak he caused? And it’s not only about her – Sydney is a single mother to Robby, her whole world, and she won’t let just anyone into their lives. Can she trust that Nate has really changed? As if worrying about Nate wasn’t enough, a new development threatens Starlight Cottage, the safe haven that saved her when she had nothing else. Can Nate and Sydney overcome their past to save Firefly Beach and the house that holds so many memories for them? Or will the town they adore, and the love they have for one another, be lost forever?

Less than 24 hours until this beauty is on sale!!

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Do you like the movie Cutting Edge? The the phrase "toe pick!" mean anything to you? Thrown for a Loop by the Sarina Bowen is the book for lovers of that movie!

actually do nothing but INTERNALLY I will fight!!!

we are pumpkin spice-READY for this fall season babyyyyy!

Gimmie all of those cozy reads! I want to feel COZY in my BLANKETS and watch LEAVES FALL and feel DELIGHTED about a DELICIOUS LOVE STORY.

links below for some cozy, cozy reads:

Deja Brew by Celestine Martine