Let the Trials begin...
The time has finally arrived! The Trials are in full swing and celebratory parties fill The Isle as Candidates go head-to-head to prove themselves worthy of the coveted Ranger title. Drinks, dances, and masquerade balls set the stage for a glamorous series of events until suddenly, it all changes.

The most dangerous criminal on the island escapes from prison. Tragedy strikes. The Isle is thrown into chaos due to old, forbidden black magic, and only one person can help.

As the island’s Mixologist, Lily is expected to step in and save the day. When she’s forced to keep secrets from X while deciphering decades old clues, however, she’s pushed to the edges of her sanity.

With the help of her family, The Core, and her new boyfriend, X, Lily must stop The Puppeteer from taking over the island before it’s too late.

Because if she doesn’t succeed, nobody will.

Welcome back, Islanders.

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Jinx & Tonic is the third book in The Magic & Mixology Mystery Series. Though it can be read as a standalone, it's best read in series order. For additional news, updates, and information, please sign up for my newsletter at ginalamanna

This novel is a full-length, humorous cozy mystery featuring a splash of magic, a handful of witches, and a dash of romance. It's rated PG-13 due to mild language and some romance.

I am in love with this series!!! I was hooked when I first met Lily and her quirky little family! I always had high hopes for how Lily's story would play out with her new family and new responsibilities but when I starting reading this book I had no idea how much she would actual go through. I felt my heart jump a few times at the most heartwarming times, but also at the most horrifying times! Yes, I do know that this is a PG-13 book but when I read some of these scenes I was just upset by the way things were turning out I went full on dramatic. The scenes with Ranger X and Lily made me laugh, smile and also a little angry about all the secrets! I understand they are protecting each other and the Island but UGH it was frustrating.

Ms. LaManna shocked me several times throughout the book with her ability to paint the exact picture of each scene that she wanted you to see in your mind. Every part of Lily's obstacles were mapped out beautifully and I could not put this book down! This book was sent to me for my honest review and I apologize for the delay in posting. Congratulations on such a captivating series and I can not wait to see what happens next for Lily Locke.

Can two hearts entwined by hardship move on to form a healthy bond? From the author of His to Love and His to Protect, this tender, bittersweet romance brings together a man who loses everything—and a woman with everything to give.

Chelsea Dwyer arrives home from her job at the middle-school library in Latham Hills, Michigan, expecting another quiet evening—until she hears the screams for help through her living room window. As the first witness to a terrible accident involving two local students, Chelsea doesn’t anticipate how her own life will be irrevocably changed by the father of one of the boys. In the wake of tragedy, she’s the only one who seems to understand his grief. Chelsea’s a survivor, too—and she knows that there are brighter days ahead.

As a single father, Aidan Deveraux worked his entire life to provide a stable home for his son, Derrick. Without him, Aidan feels the deepest despair imaginable. The one thing that keeps him going is his connection with the woman who tried to save his son. Hard as he tries, Aidan just can’t stay away. Chelsea’s warm embrace is the comforting solace he desperately craves—and it doesn’t hurt that Aidan had noticed the beautiful librarian and wanted to ask her out for years. Now that she’s in his life, he doesn’t ever want to let go.

*Gifted to me by Stacey in her reader group, Stacey's Sultry Readers.

When you read a Stacey Lynn book you feel the emotion and the depth of pain/joy each character is feeling throughout the book. I have been attached to characters and loved them but no of them compared to what I experienced reading this book.

This book was so much more to me than a book, it was a book of hope to me personally. I love Chelsea and the person she was and even more the person she became through everything. My story is not like Chelsea's but I feel this connection with her through what she was thinking and my frame of mind. I felt like her words were exactly how I feel.

I hope to NEVER feel what Aidan goes through during this book, but I hope anyone that does or has can read this book and feel the growth in Aidan to help them overcoming their struggles. I will say that I felt like slapping Aidan a few times, which after you read this book you will agree with me. But I LOVED this story!!

My stomach is in knots after reading this emotional, heart warming and gut wrenching story. This has been hands down the best read I have had the chance to read from Ms. Lynn! Thank you for giving me such an overwhelming book that I connected with in such a soul deep level. I am patiently waiting for your next read.....for now.

I didn't start reading any of Ms. Jones' books from the beginning so going back to see where you meet Alaina, Vicky and Blake put all the books into order for me. Seeing what these men and women went through at the beginning of their friendships and relationships blew me away! I knew Ms. Jones could write and express so much emotion through her stories but talk about HOT and PASSIONATE!

I am a very big Amo Jones fan and to say that I was thrown back into a wall, pushed and shoved with emotions for these amazing characters does not even come close to describing what they went through and how I was pulled along. I can not and will never get enough of Amo Jones' books and I can not wait to see where she takes us next time. Ms. Jones these characters are becoming apart of my soul and I nearly broke several times during this box set! I love you for all of the pain though and congratulate on an outstanding job of writing greatness!

This author is quickly becoming one of my favorites; it excites me because I don't know her books well enough to know what to expect and she delivers amazing work every time! I was blown away by Catching Butterflies and after reading Catching Fireflies I was left in awe because of the choices that were taken throughout the book. I love second chance books and this book was filled with second chances or missed chances and Chance the sexy football player who was burned at an early age. Chance was raised by his dad, who himself was burned by his wife and lives with it everyday. After reading that I was left devastated because I knew that Chance would believe all woman to be as is mother was, a runner. Luckily he met the love of his life in high school...or so he thought.

Brie was a young girl who was raised by doctors and she knew she had to deliver the best in everything she did, even boys. Brie meets an incredible guy but the butterflies she felt quickly fell away when she told him something about herself that made him change his mind about their relationship. After one phone call could all that change the past and rekindle what felt right?

Like I said, I am a major fan of second chances and this book had me swooning and holding my husband tight with the love flowing through me. I have read quite a lot of endings and I have to say that this was one of my favorites! I love how Ms. Laine intertwines fireflies with these characters and makes for one of the best endings I have read yet. I didn't just fall in love with Chance or Brie but I fell in love with each character from Lenny to Kelley and I even became a fan of Sawyer. I really really need Sawyer and Ashton's story though because I am dying to find out what is going on with those two! Great work Ms. Laine and congrats on this awesome new release!

I think I am officially obsessed with this author because every time I read her books I get completely consumed by everything in the book I am reading. Everything in the world gets closed off for me and it feels like I am sitting near the people in the stories she tells. Especially this book had me right next to Bryleigh for the entire book, even if it switched to another person, and my stomach was aching around every different chapter wondering how things could have gone this way or that.

This read takes you back to what happened with Bryleigh and Ryker all those years ago during high school and what happened between them for Ryker to not have her family invited to a certain event. Let me tell you I was LIVID when I read about the past that she was put through and no wonder Ryker didn't want them invited. I understood how Ryker was from reading Losing Traction but the way he reacted with Phoebe made me hope he wasn't guy I had pictured in my head. But, Ryker is well, Ryker and he has a hot head when it comes to Bryleigh.

This book was my everything for the past two days, and two days because I wanted to expand this book out as much as I could because I am in love with these characters. All things that include this band and the people they are connected to pulled me into their world and has me aching for more. Some crazy stuff happens throughout this book and not only did those things shock me but they left me speechless with many different emotions. Ms. Jones kept me sad, excited, turned on, disgusted, hurt, and I even laughed quite a bit with Indie and Phoebe at times. If you haven't read an Amo Jones book yet, I suggest you start now because they are dark but they are AMAZING!!

Holt

She likes it quick and dirty.

I like orders and rules.

She hates small talk.

I hate to share.

She’s an open book.

I’m a closed dresser drawer.

She rides a Harley.

And that drives me f’ing nuts.

Annalyse and I have both lived in our own personal hells for half a decade. She’s learned to love the warmth, and I’m still consumed. But my new neighbor is stoking more than my libido these days. We agreed on only pleasure. But she changed the rules.

And now I’m not even sure what they are.

Maybe there’s a reason she found me that night, maybe there’s a reason I can’t stop thinking about her, maybe there’s a reason for the pain. Maybe not.

We all look for reasons in life. Reasons for death, love, pain. Why one thing happens and not another? It’s human nature. We’ve been looking for the meaning of life since the beginning of time. But maybe the reason for all of it — life, love, loss, heartache — is the curvy brunette living next door.

I find when a book makes me cry I have really felt the book deep in my soul. The last couple of Prescott Lane books I have read have left me in tears and I LOVE that about this author. You feel exactly what she wants you to feel and you grow with these characters. Every chance I get I will grab a Prescott Lane book because I know she will deliver EPIC books! Her latest The Reason For Me is greater than her last EPIC book and I LOVED Annalyse so much!!

Annalyse is a young writer who is house sitting for her sister because she recently sold her place she had with her husband and her sister is going traveling. The way Ms. Lane shows Annalyse's growth, strength, courage, and choice to be happy was my all time favorite thing about this book! Annalyse's life has had some tragic things happen but she is overcoming them in her own way. She meets Holt is a crazy way and you can tell the level of friendship that could happen would be awesome. But, Holt is closed off and he has his own tragic past he is dealing with in that way all men do, they don't.

My mind was BLOWN when I read many parts of this book that I was not expecting Ms. Lane to take this book that way. I applaud they way you made me feel every emotion they were feeling, when they were happy, aroused, closed off and I was even taken to the dark places when I knew they closed themselves off. I would absolutely love to see this turned into a movie but the level of epic this book emanates I would hate for a director to cut any part of this book out! Thank you for another EPIC book Ms. Lane!

This was only my second read by Ms. Steiner and she had my full attention throughout the entire book! I started on a Saturday morning, taking breaks throughout the day, and finished Sunday morning because once you start this book you HAVE to keep going to find out what happens next! My poor stomach was in knots, my nails are completely gone because I was so anxious about this story and at one point I had to stop and talk to my husband about it because I was just broken by what I read. In this book you meet Brecks/ B and her best friend Jenna who are in high school and they meet a boy named Jamie and they become a friendship of three. You watch the pull and push, the heart break and heart mend of young love evolving into more but never finding the right time. Ms. Steiner takes you through their high school, college and after college years trying to understand how to love.

Ms. Steiner broke me many times and put me back together only to be broken a few chapters later. My heart was wrapped up into B and all she goes through, and at a young age what she has to face with her family was just overwhelming. I really had a love-hate relationship with B though and I wanted to scream, cry and punch her in the face many times while reading this book but I kept up hope that she would overcome herself and really understand what she felt. When I was reading about Jamie all I had for him was love, that was again until I got about half way through the book and wanted to throw my phone at the wall in disappointment. I had a strong case of whip lash with this book and I LOVED it! I will say that I was VERY disgusted during some parts of this book where there is cheating but I truly believe this book was written so well that I didn't bother me ask much as it could have.

You will not be able to put this book down until you finish because you will be so wrapped up in the story that your sanity depends on finding out how the story ends. I had to know and my head was so torn from what happened before the end I started to cry because I just knew it wasn't ending how I wanted it to end, Ms. Steiner you wrote one heck of a book!!

Every time I read one of Ms. Hart’s amazing books I get pulled into the world she has created and I feel every emotion that these characters are experiencing. We are brought into the world of tattoos and reality TV coupled with the drama of the behind the scenes of reality TV. Annika is a TV producer who has iced her heart over because of the harsh things she has had to do in her daily job. Annika and her boss Laney are in charge of a new reality show based on a tattoo shop’s owner Joel, his brother Shep, and their crew at the shop. Annika has some life changing decisions to make throughout most of the book and had my heart attached to her and the decisions she made.

My emotions ran from angry to deeply depressed and then bawling my eyes out in a sad way to bawling my eyes out in a happy way. My love for these characters was so deep I think I cried for majority of this book just out of pure love for them and the hope I was struggling to hang onto. I really thought I was not going to like Annika by the first couple of chapters because I immediately fell for Joel and his charm, but by the end of the book I understood where she was coming from and why she did the things she did throughout the book. I felt many different things about each character in Tonic from the new characters and even a familiar face had my stomach in knots by the end. Whether you meant to make me cry or not Ms. Hart this was one amazing cry for me and I will be feeling this one for a while. Congrats on this heartwarming 5 star read!

Synopsis

I was light, and I was pure. Until I wasn’t.

Millie
I’m Millie Hart, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve dedicated my life to my Catholic faith. It was a part of me every step of the way. So when I decided to join a nunnery, no one in my family was surprised. I’m not sure at what point my life changed or where it went extremely wrong. My nightmares are becoming realities as my world starts to slowly tremble under the ground I’m presently shackled to. I was taken. Everything I thought I knew was about to rain down on me in drops of lies, deceit, and undiluted evil.

Tripp/Raze
I’m more machine than man. I’m the alpha and the omega of The Army, and the leader of The 6 masked huntsmen. I live and bleed this life. The arms that raised me weren’t carrying love— they were carrying knives and AKs. I’m agent 000, the executioner, and the damn devil who walks in the flesh. No one can break through my hard shell— not even her.

I am still in shock of what I just finished reading! This book just goes to show how incredibly talented and amazing this author is what how she puts exactly what she wants you to see in writing. I envisioned ever single sick detail of what went on during this book that left me so fascinated it scared me. When we last heard from Millie she was just taken from her sister and the Devil's Due MC; what happened to Melissa's nun sister, I for one was terrified to know.

I could tell you about this story in certain details and describe each character but knowing what I know now about the ending and throughout this story just wouldn't give it justice. You need to just know that this was the most twisted story I have ever read, and I absolutely loved every moment. Millie meets Raze/Tripp and her world comes falling down around her to a dark place she won't be able to come out. I am so heartbroken over a certain character in this book and I don't know how things will carry on but I am aching to find out more of this story. You are left in such an heart warming way at the end it left me in tears. I fall more and more in love with this author every new book I read! This book was filled with blood, death, dismembered bodies, sister love, twisted romance, hot sex and even some humor at times. I craved to keep reading each chapter as it would get darker and darker. Thank you Amo Jones for pulling me out of my reading funk and back to life through your darkness!

To say that I was excited about this book doesn’t even come close to how I felt after reading Tomorrow’s Lies. I am so happy I found a new favorite author because Ms. Grey’s books have been life changing! In Tomorrow’s Lies left you with so many emotions and my main emotion was hopeful! I felt like the end of that book was poetic and once you get to the end it was just amazing! Then to get more about their story was excellent and my mind went through many scenarios about how everything would play out.

Again, so much to tell you about these characters but I will say that I couldn’t believe half of what I read and it was an inspiring story of courage, love, and overcoming devastating circumstances! Ms. Grey really piled on the shocking aspect of her books and that made this book so much better than I could have even thought possible! Jaynie is a character you can only hope gets better and to say that she goes back and forth with her emotions threw in a very real aspect of her character. Flynn didn’t have to always be the strong character he was and save everyone because he could lean on Jaynie for support.  They both had someone they didn’t think was possible to be a helping hand for them in their time of need because he could have turned on them and I truly thought he would turn on them because almost everyone did.

I am completely honored to have been able to read this book because Ms. Grey wrote an epic book here! Congrats on such an inspiring story!