Midnight is a story of two broken individuals finding their way to love. It is a bit of an emotional roller-coaster that sucks you in making you desire the happily ever after you know they both deserve. I can’t wait to read the next book. This book gives you two sides to the coin if you will. Charlie and Colin trying to build independence within their own future and the unbridled moments of sweet passion they have for one another. My favorite parts are when Colin is able to remove himself from his mindset of being political persona and become just another person.

This story leaves a lot of unanswered question but it does it in a way that makes you want to read the next book, without throwing the current book against the wall. Typically I don’t care for stories that leave so much in up in the air, but I didn’t feel that way with Midnight. Well done Elizabeth Miller!

     I want to tell you how I came to read this book. I was at Books and Bourbon, which was a book signing that I attended in Kentucky. That’s where I met Apryl Baker’s and stopped by her table because of her book “The Ghost Files”. The cover drew me right in!  Also the fact that it will be turned into a Major Motion Picture says a lot about the book.
    
    Not only does the cover pull you in…but the first page does as well. I couldn’t put it down, and I can't wait to read the second and third book as well. Apryl is a great suspense writer, and she is good at plot twists….(can’t give too much away). I would have to say this is more of a suspense book rather than a horror book. It just keeps you guessing.
    Baker’s take on ghosts is pretty normal…its hard stray from what everybody knows. Her ghosts are typical, but they are creepy. Her take on the Reaper legend is pretty creative. I like that she also talked about wraiths in the story! It isn’t just about the ghosties.
    Mattie is such a great character! She is tough, caring, courageous and daring. I also like that Mattie knows who she is as a person, and I feel like I can relate to her character (we have a lot of the same qualities). I found that I enjoyed the fact that Mattie handles her problems in a very teenage way. She just does, and worries about the consequence later. Although I am still kind of unsure of Officer Dan’s intentions, I like him as well. I love the banter between the two characters and the loyalty that Officer Dan offers Mattie. He really completes the story; I enjoyed the fact that he was so young and its easier for Mattie to trust him and his boyish good looks. Overall this books was a great read, and I can’t wait to review the next two for you! I give this book 5 ghostly stars!

Carlie McEwan loves many things.
She loves being a witch. She loves her town of Halfway, NY—a tourist destination nestled on the shores of an Adirondack lake. Carlie loves her enormous familiar, Gus, who is twenty-five pounds of judgmental Maine Coon cat, and she positively worships her Grandmother, a witch of incredible power and wisdom. Carlie spends her days cooking at the finest—and only—real diner in town, and her life is a balance between magic and the mundane, just as she likes it.
When a blonde stranger sits at the diner counter and calls her by name, that balance is gone. Major Pickford asks Carlie to lead him into the deepest shadows of the forest to find a mythical circle of chestnut trees, thought lost to forever to mankind. There are ghosts in the forest, and one of them cries out to Carlie across the years--Come find me.
Like the forest shadows, danger can run deep. The threat is real, but Carlie’s magic is born of a pure spirit. With the help of Gus, and Gran, and a rugged cop who really does want to save the world, she’ll fight to bring a ghost home, and deliver justice to a murderer who hides in the cool, mysterious green of a forest gone mad with magic.

Harper and Rafe don't meet under ideal circumstances and by no means should be attracted to each other. Harper is an ATF agent that is kidnapped by a drug lord named Carlos in Colombia and Rafe is his "Segundo" or "Second".  Harper senses that there is more than meets the eye but trusts no one, especially the "Segundo" that held her at gunpoint.

Harper is an explosives expert and is threatened with the harm to her ATF team if she does not cooperate with and follow the orders that the Carlos has issued, to build him a bomb. A VERY dangerous one at that.

Rafe the ex-Navy Seal and Carlos the Colombian drug lord have history, one that makes Carlos trust Rafe and never doubt his loyalty making Rafe the perfect candidate to be recruited by the CIA to be a double agent, when his school friend started his nefarious and no longer purely humanitarian dealings. Carlos may have started off trying to help his country become a more beautiful place but his ambitions and increased paranoia have made him a dangerous man. 

From the beginning, Rafe feels the need to protect Harper. She feels drawn to him, something she is not familiar with. Harper uses men until she is done then boots them from her bed, Rafe is a gentlemen that does not love and leave em. 

The story is fast paced and there is an element of danger throughout the book. Harper and Rafe eventually can no longer fight their attraction and give in to those feelings. But those feelings are confused and contradictory. They cannot believe they feel the way they do, but they also can not help themselves. 

Although Harper is a a damaged character she is not weak, she knows what she wants and takes it. She is not used to feeling at all. She also has a rule "No sex during a mission". Rafe has a type of woman and Harper is it. He wants her but he is not willing to go there again. Both are afraid of heartache that love pretty much guarantees but they can have a fling and use it a pretense to keep Harper safe. And keep feelings out of it, right?

I liked the suspense and thrill I got reading this book. You are on the edge of your seat from the beginning. It is also apparent that the author has a lot experience with the military. She writes almost like she lived the life.

I would have like the characters to have had more time to develop their relationship so that is was not so much of a tennis match of feelings. The sex scenes were tastefully done and not too frequent and that was okay with me because there was enough and the rest of the story was actually very enjoyable.

If you are looking for a steamy, suspense thriller, this book is perfect for you.

I give it:

In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without.

Titus King has always seen his world in black and white. There is a firm right and wrong in his mind, which is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he’d ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can’t deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.

The new criminal element in The Point has brought vengeance and destruction right to Titus’s front door, and walking the straight and narrow seems far less important now. The difference between right and wrong is nothing compared to keeping those he loves alive. To add to his already strained moral compass, the beautiful and mysterious Reeve Black has made her way back to town. This girl might be as dangerous to Titus as the guy trying to destroy the Point but he can’t walk away because he needs her—in more ways than one.

Reeve knows all about the threat trying to destroy The Point. She knows how ruthless, how vicious, and how cruel this new danger can be… and instead of running away, she wants to help. Reeve knows that she has a lot to repent for and saving the city, plus the hot cop that she hasn’t been able to forget might just be the only way she can finally find some inner peace.

With an entire city poised on the brink of war, Titus and Reeve stand in the crossfire—and it will take two brave souls to fight for the ultimate love.

Better When He’s Brave by Jay Crownover

This is the third book in Jay’s Point Series and they just keep getting better and better! In this book she takes the most hated girl in the Point, Reeve Black, and pits her against the most honest person in the Point, Titus King. They must form an uneasy alliance in order to take down the threat to the city he’s vowed to protect.

Titus’ character, as the honorable cop in a bad city, is multifaceted. His brother is a criminal and his friends are the new reigning crime lords, and they are the only ones he trusts, especially when it comes to protecting Reeve.  His seemingly quiet facet hides the fact that he’s capable of being as bad as he needs to be in order to safe those he holds dear. Slowly peeling away the layers shows the reasoning behind this complicated cop. 

 Reeve Black, lives with guilt. Guilt from being unable to save her sister, guilt of being one that caused the death of one person, and the guilt of the being the one to get her friend kidnapped and almost killed. Reeve finds peace with Titus, because she can accept all of him, and he can accept her – the good and the bad.

I loved, loved, loved this book. It was hot – HOT! Titus fights his feelings for Reeve, and Reeve feels like she doesn’t deserve having someone as good as Titus. 5 stars and if I could give it higher than that, I would! 

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

    Whoa! This book is intense. Beautiful Disaster caused me to have so many emotions throughout the book. I felt anxiety, fear, love, heartbreak, stress and longing. This book will drag you through emotional mud! Abby Aka Pidg is a sensible college freshman in the beginning... Travis is a hard-headed frat boy with a sad past. He can also have any pick of the litter. Abby and Travis are a volatile duo.
    I really enjoyed the story because the characters really work together. Not only do you have Abby and Travis, but you have the besties America and Shep. They help with bringing sanity to the situation and they also add in a dash of chaos themselves. I also liked seeing into both Travis’ and Abby’s family lives...it makes them more real and relatable. I rate this book a 4.5