Recommended Reads for Sept. 2016

Title: Double Cross (Doubleback #3) Author: Lissa Ford Publisher: Lissa Ford Books Release Date: September 22, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary / Mystery Page Count: 150 (estimate) Reviewed by: Crabbypatty Heat Level: 5 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Happily ever after wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. At last, Jude Anderson and his lover, homicide detective Rowan Muir, are settling into domestic bliss. Or so it seems. Rowan says all the right things, and the sex is still hotter than ever. But something isn’t quite right, and Jude can’t put his finger on what it is.…

Title: Reading the Signs Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: KA Books/ Self Published Release Date: September 22nd 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 293 Reviewed by: Ele Heat Level: 3.5 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5 Blurb: This hot-headed rookie needs discipline—on and off the field. Pitcher Nico Agresta is desperate to live up to his family’s baseball legacy. Since he was a teenager crushing on his big brother’s teammate, he’s known he can’t act on his desires. His father’s made it clear there should be no queers on the field, but if Nico can win Rookie of…

Title: Reading the Signs Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: KA Books Release Date: September 22nd 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 293 pages Reviewed by: Lili Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: This hot-headed rookie needs discipline—on and off the field. Pitcher Nico Agresta is desperate to live up to his family’s baseball legacy. Since he was a teenager crushing on his big brother’s teammate, he’s known he can’t act on his desires. His father’s made it clear there should be no queers on the field, but if Nico can win Rookie of the…

Title: A Kind of Honesty (A Kind of Stories, #3) Author: Lane Hayes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: October 7, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Length: 240 pages Reviewed by: Renée Heat Level:  4 flames out of 5 Rating:   4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Music is drummer Tim Chalmers’s great escape and the one thing that’s never let him down. But his band Spiral’s meteoric rise to fame has made it difficult for him to maintain a low profile. Unwanted press pesters him after a public breakup with a volatile ex-girlfriend who loves the limelight as much as he loathes it. Tim’s main goal is…

Title: The God of Jazz: Fugue, Concord Author: Varian Krylov Publisher: Self-published Release Date: 26th sept, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 326 Reviewed by: PIU Heat Level: 5 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.8 stars out of 5 Blurb: After years struggling to realize his dream of directing a feature film, on the final night of his fundraising campaign Godard is on the cusp of having everything he ever wanted. The man he loves is upstairs waiting for him, and he's just a few dollars short of his GoFundYourself goal. Then everything falls apart. His personal and professional life in…

Title: Trick Play (Eastshore Tigers #3) Author: Alison Hendricks Publisher: Self-published Release Date: 14th sept, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary, Sports, Best Friends to Lovers Page Count: 148 Reviewed by: PIU Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: They'll do whatever it takes to save their team. But can two best friends survive a fake relationship? Luke Trent is desperate to bring his team back together. If the Tigers can't get over their slump, he'll never make it to the pros. With the LGBT-inclusive 'Rainbow Tigers' mania dying down, it'll take a crazy scheme to…

Title: Where we left off Author: Roan Parrish Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: September 26, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 260 Reviewed by: Vallie Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Leo Ware may be young, but he knows what he wants. And what he wants is Will Highland. Snarky, sophisticated, fiercely opinionated Will Highland, who burst into Leo’s unremarkable life like a supernova… and then was gone just as quickly. For the past miserable year, Leo hasn’t been able to stop thinking about the powerful connection he and Will shared. So, when…

Title: Dinner at Jack's Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: October 3, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Romance Page Count: 220 Reviewed by: Crabbypatty Heat Level: 2 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Personal chef Beau St. Clair, recently divorced from his cheating husband, returns to the small Ohio River town where he grew up to lick his wounds. Jack Rogers lives with his mother, Maisie, in that same small town, angry at and frightened of the world. Jack has a gap in his memory that hides something he dares not face, and he’s…

Title: Bitter Legacy Author: Dal Maclean Publisher: Blind Eye Books Release Date: October 3, 2016 Genre(s): Murder Mystery, Literary Fiction Page Count: 350 Reviewed by: Crabbypatty Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5+ stars out of 5 Blurb: Detective Sergeant James Henderson of London's Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation Team is no ordinary police officer. His remarkable gut instincts and relentless detective work have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector. When the murder of barrister Maria Curzon-Whyte lands in his lap, he finds himself drawn back into the insidious world of London's privileged elite…

Title: Blank Canvas (Paint #2) Author: Emma Jaye Publisher: Purindoors Publications Release Date: 1st oct, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary, Healing, Abuse Page Count: 310 Reviewed by: PIU Heat Level: 3 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Chris Bacon is dead. Long live Chrisander Baccioni? Unable to walk or talk coherently after a hit and run attack, Chris finds himself on the other side of the world with Jase firmly in babysitting mode. Pity and betrayal, even if it was for ‘his own good’ wasn’t something Chris tolerated from anyone, least of all from an ex-lover who…