Michele

Three great holiday stories

Beauty’s Punishment is the continuation of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice’s erotic retelling of the popular fairy tale.

Lieutenant Colonel Chad Cassavetes has just been promoted…to the rank of single father. With his two daughters in tow, the daredevil fighter pilot is trading the open skies for the dusty plains of Oklahoma. But when his trailer breaks down, Chad doesn’t expect to be rescued by an angel in pink cowboy boots.

With her riot of red curls and roots deep in Okie soil, Kelbie Montgomery isn’t your ordinary savior. She’s also a single mom who’s sworn off military men. Until Chad starts changing her mind…

Falling for the feet-on-the-ground widow is risky business for a man whose heart has always been in the skies. But Kelbie and her daughter are tempting Chad and his two girls to combine forces. Because he has a new mission. To make Kelbie fall in love with a certain top-gun dad.

The third book in the trilogy. I really enjoyed these stories and hated to finish because they were good and I want more.

Three short holiday romances. Quick and fun reads.

There were a few “facts” that I thought were inaccurate, and most of the information in here was easily found via google searches, etc but otherwise not badly put together.

Smart

Great Sense Of Humor

Hardworking

Kind To Children And Stray Dogs…

Did she mention handsome? Mind-bogglingly sexy? Single mom Lisa Kincaid doesn’t want to be attracted to Kevin Decker. She knows the sexy, caring construction-company owner will always be there for her, and up until now friendship has suited her just fine.

But suddenly she isn’t looking at her husband’s former boss in the same way…and neither is a certain four-year-old Cupid.

For the past three years Kevin has felt responsible for Lisa. He knows the accident that left her a widow wasn’t his fault, but that doesn’t stop him from wanting to help. Except his feelings go beyond mere friendship. And her little boy thinks Kevin and his mom are perfect for each other.

Now, if Kevin can only get Lisa to believe it, too

Did you ever want to know just what waiters and waitresses go through on a daily basis? What they think of us, the customer? Then this is the book to read.

Loaned to me by my daughter, who is a waitress, its an interesting guide to what not to do when eating out. At the back of the book are tips such as “40 ways to be a good customer” and “50 ways to tell you’re working in a bad restaurant”. The author maintained a website called WaiterRant.com where he anonymously kept a blog on his insights as a waiter. Interesting reading.

I really enjoyed this. At first I was sure I knew who did it, but as the book went on, it changed a couple of times.

Three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a Nantucket native home from college for the summer. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women, two sisters and one friend, make their way to the sisters’ tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They’re all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, learned her husband was having an affair, and then discovered she’s pregnant; Brenda embarked on a passionate affair with an older student that got her fired from her prestigious job as a professor in New York; and her sister Vicki, mother to two small boys, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. Soon Josh is part of the chaotic household, acting as babysitter, confidant, and, eventually, lover.

Josh Goldin’s happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their breaking points.

Natalie Goodwin thinks she has everything she needs in life as she opens up her florist shop in Boise, Idaho. She is single again after divorcing her husband, and her daughter has started her first year of college in Chicago. So she is proud of her florist shop. After all, she dropped out of college for marriage and family. As she starts living life on her own terms, however, Natalie discovers that she is a bit lonely, but the dating scene turns out to be a disaster. The only man who interests Natalie is her neighbor, Tony Cruz, a hunk featured on the firefighter’s calendar. But he is nine years younger than Natalie, so she believes they’re destined for friendship until Tony sets out to prove her wrong. Holm’s delightful romance not only shows that that you are never too young or too old for romance, it also celebrates the firefighting profession and the tremendous sacrifices firefighters make.

I really love this series and was so excited when I went to the library and so this on the new release shelf.

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Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand. Such as taking the body of her werewolf friend Antonia-who died in her service-to Cape Cod, where she’s not sure if the Wyndham werewolves will welcome her with fangs or friendship. Meanwhile, her posse back in St. Paul is sending frantic e-mails alerting Betsy to her half-sister’s increasingly erratic behavior. Looks like the devil’s daughter is coming into her own-and raising hell.

I’ve had this book sitting on my bookshelf for about 2 years and finally got around to reading it.

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Isabel Wright thought that the new director of the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research wanted to meet to discuss her promotion; instead, Isabel is informed that her services are no longer required. With the dearth of available openings for dream analysts, Isabel is prepared to return to her old job at the Psychic Dream Hotline. But Ellis Cutler, one of two anonymous clients from the sleep research center whose dreams Isabel had been analyzing, offers Isabel the opportunity to come work for his employer, Frey-Salter, Inc., a highly classified government agency involved in dream research and the use of extreme dreaming as an investigative technique. Working for Frey-Salter, Inc., would be a dream come true for Isabel, as long as it’s on her terms. Ellis is more than willing to give Isabel a more active role in his investigations, but their mutual attraction may make keeping things strictly professional between them mighty difficult.

This is the 3rd book of hers that I have read and I really enjoyed it. As far as I can tell she has just 4 out. Great story.

I really enjoyed this book (outside of one little part that brought me to tears because I could relate to it).

Rewarding job as a local doctor on Cape Cod? Check. Cute cottage of her very own? Check. Adorable puppy suitable for walks past attractive locals? Check! All she needs is for golden boy and former crush Joe Carpenter to notice her, and Millie will be set.

But perfection isn’t as easy as it looks—especially when Sam Nickerson, the town sheriff, is so distracting. Sure, he needs a friend after being dumped by Millie’s fortune-hunting sister, but does she really need to enjoy his company that much? He is definitely not part of her master plan. But maybe it’s time for Millie to start a new list . . .

I really enjoyed this book and very pleased with the outcome. Not a real quick read and I felt there was a lot of depth to the characters.

I’m halfway to my goal!!!

In the latest Kimberly Quincy thriller, the FBI special agent is five months pregnant. Most women might be thinking about taking things a bit easy, but not Quincy: not only is she still working full time but she also stumbles into what might be the biggest case of her career (and, as regular readers know, she has already tackled a few big ones). A serial killer is targeting young women. This in itself isn’t so unusual, but here’s the twist: he is, or so it appears, using spiders as murder weapons. Kimberly is convinced she is on the trail of a psychopath, but without any bodies or hard evidence, she is having a difficult time convincing her superiors she isn’t on a wild-goose chase.

Unfortunately for me, I hadn’t read the previous too Kimberly Quincy books, so I will have to go back and get them.

I LOVE THIS SERIES!
_{~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}SISTERCHICK® n: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you’re being a brat.

Two midlife mamas hop over to jolly ole England and encounter so much more than the usual tourist stops. Liz does have a bit of a childhood crush on Big Ben, and she has hoped to “meet” him ever since her fifteenth birthday. Kellie dreams of starting an interior design business and figures Liz needs to be a part of that equation–a calculation that hasn’t added up for Liz yet.

Nothing on the excursion goes the way these two friends had envisioned. They start with a village pancake race and end up being held for questioning on The Underground. Kellie and Liz take a wild tour through the land of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien and then find themselves swept up, up, and away in a hot air balloon over the Cotswalds. London beckons with the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, shopping at Portabella Road in Knotting Hill, and of course, reservations at the Ritz for a posh high tea.

A few detours along the way and the possibility of being lost in a London fog of wonderment aren’t enough to stop these two Sisterchicks! Each step of their regal journey is lined with evidence of God’s gracious compassion, and both come to realize that God knows their every wish. He is the One who planted every dream in their hearts.

And, oh, what a surprise awaits them when they return home!