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Just For Christmas (Longwood U) by Crea Reitan -review tour

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💜Just For Christmas (Longwood U) by Crea Reitan -review tour💜

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 11, 2025

It’s only temporary holiday magic

Brent

Life has taught me not to get attached to anyone because they’ll only let you down but I can’t stop myself from falling in love with my roommate and frat brother the moment we meet. It’s been three years and not only do I secretly pine for him, but now he’s also my very best friend. My first real friend.

Nothing can possibly go wrong when I agree to be his fake boyfriend for the holidays, right? I know I’m putting my heart on the line but it’ll just be a bit of hand-holding. My heart can survive that…

Rafe

I know my mother will get off my back about settling down if I bring home a partner so I recruit my best friend into becoming my fake boyfriend. It’ll be fun, easy, and a great holiday without all the subtle hints from my parents.

One kiss under the mistletoe changes everything and the childhood make believe suddenly morphs into so much more.

There’s only one problem – this arrangement is only for Christmas and then we’re back to being only friends when we return to school.

I didn’t plan to fall in love with Brent Mitchell… I don’t know what to do now that he’s acting like I don’t exist.

This is a LGBTQIA+ story with content not intended for those under 18 years of age due to graphic scenes and situations.

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REVIEW: Brent and Rafe have been frat brothers and secret best friends (with insane chemistry) for three years.

Brent is head over heels, painfully pining, and convinced Rafe is straight.

Rafe is clueless (or so we think) and just wants his meddling, high society parents off his back about finding “a nice partner” over Christmas break.

Solution? Drag his sweet, golden retriever roommate home as a fake boyfriend for the holidays.

What could possibly go wrong?

Everything apparently 😜

The PINING…. Brent’s quiet, aching longing is written so tenderly you’ll want to reach into the book and shake Rafe yourself.

The author nails the “I’ll take whatever scraps of affection I can get” energy without ever making Brent feel pathetic.

And Rafe’s awakening is perfection. He’s not in denial, he’s just never thought about it until one mistletoe kiss rewires his entire brain.

Watching Mr. “I’m straight, I guess?” realize he’s demisexual/Brent-sexual is chef’s kiss levels of satisfying.

Fake dating done RIGHT, forced proximity in Rafe’s fancy family mansion, one bed (naturally), dancing at the holiday gala, meeting the parents, the works. Every trope is here and executed with glee.

Spice that builds beautifully. It starts with sweet, tentative kisses and escalates to “we’re defiling every room in this house while the parents are downstairs” in the most delicious way. 😜

Third act conflict that actually hurts. There I was tissues/blanket and clucking my kindle sobbing. No ridiculous miscommunication, just two scared boys who agreed to an expiration date on something that turned terrifyingly real. The grovel is top tier.

Just For Christmas is peak comfort romance with a side of angst sharp enough to make the HEA taste like hot chocolate with extra marshmallows.

It’s warm, sexy, heartbreaking in the best way, and then puts you back together with one of the sweetest endings of the year.

If you love the “we were roommates” micro trope, mutual pining that finally explodes, and Christmas lights reflecting off bare skin, this is your book.

Clear your schedule, grab a blanket, and let Brent and Rafe ruin you for all future fake dating tropes.

Read it with tissues and maybe a locked door. You’ve been warned.

Reading Order and Previous reviews
Rumor Has it
Wicked Confessions
Project FU
Dirty Wrong Love

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Reviewed by Julie🦋

 

Crea lives in upstate New York with her dog and husband. She has been writing since grade school, when her second grade teacher had her class keep writing journals. She has a habit of creating secondary, and often time tertiary, characters that take over her stories. All of her RH relationships end up being heavily polyamorous – meaning it’s not just all the men for one woman. There’s also some M/M action going on. When she can’t fall asleep at night, she thinks up new scenes for her characters to act out. This, of course, is how most of her meant-to-be-thrown-away characters tend to end up front and center – and utterly swoon-worthy! Don’t ask her how many book boyfriends she has…

When not writing, Crea is an avid reader. Her TBR pile is several hundred books high (don’t even look at her kindle wish list or the unread books on her tablet). Sometimes, she enjoys crafting; sometimes, exploring nature; sometimes, traveling. Mostly, she enjoys putting her characters on paper and breathing life into them. Oh, and sleeping. Crea loves to sleep!

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Bound (Sinners & Saints 3) by Kathy Lockheart-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 11, 2025

“Marry me or watch your company burn.” That’s how Axel Pierce—my biggest rival and brother’s best friend—proposed our fake engagement.

Some call him a corporate shark.
I call him the devil in a three-piece suit.

Too bad he kisses like an angel and touches me like he means it.

Now every staged dinner feels like foreplay.
Every public appearance tests our control.
And every night I’m left asking:

Is this elaborate charade really about saving our companies…
Or is there something else he’s trying to claim?

From International & Amazon Top 25 Bestselling Author Kathy Lockheart, BOUND is a fake engagement billionaire brother’s best friend romance with enemies-to-lovers banter, a prank war, and a dangerously possessive alpha hero.

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REVIEW:BOUND is the third instalment in Kathy Lockheart’s contemporary, adult SINNERS AND SAINTS erotic, romance series. This is CEO businessman Axel Pierce, and social media influencer Dakota Blackwood’s story line. BOUND can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Dakota is Knox Blackwood’s sister

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers.

SOME BACKGROUND: The Sinners and Saints, is a group formed by childhood/college best friends, each with a speciality and a darkness that is required to save and protect the people they love: Ryker, Blake, Axel, Jace and Knox.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Axel and Dakota) BOUND follows several intersecting pathways including the acrimonious but building relationship between businessman Axel Pierce, and social media influencer Dakota Blackwood. Axel Pierce is one of Dakota’s brother Knox’s best friends, and the hatred between our couple is predicated upon heart break and humiliation but a photo taken at a charity gala finds Axel and Dakota on the wrong end of a social media hate campaign, and the only way to save face is to pretend to be in a relationship, an engagement meant to appease their followers and Axel’s company investors. All does not go according to plan when a possible connection to organized crime threatens the lives of our story line couple, and Dakota’s ex returns for a second chance.

The world building follows numerous paths, and inclinations as our couple must come to terms with the possibility of danger in the wake of the fiasco that is spiralling out of control. PR crisis manager Rebecca Winters pushes the couple in an effort to save their damaged online presence but someone else is determined to destroy them all.

The relationship between Dakota and Axel is an enemies to friends to lovers but Axel has been in love with his best friend’s sister for as long as he can remember, and pushing Dakota out of his life was never in the plans. Dakota struggled to move forward but another betrayal would threaten any chance of her own happily ever after. The $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters are flirty and fun including the return of the Sinners and Saints group: Ryker, Dr. Blake Morrison (and Tessa), and Jace and Scarlett. We are introduced to Rebecca Winters, a controlling crisis manager, and Dakota’s ex Mathew Ashford.

BOUND is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, madness and obsession, family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is tragic, emotional and dramatic; the romance is edgy and fated; the characters are determined, charismatic and compelling.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Crash
Power

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Reviewed by Sandy

Kathy Lockheart is an author of Romantic Suspense novels. Her books—which have a unique blend of emotional elements typically found in women’s fiction and the romance and danger elements found in romantic suspense—contain themes of dark romance, antiheroes, and forbidden romance. When she’s not writing, you can find her silently cursing the person who put fluorescent lights in dressing rooms.

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Torque & Tinsel (Summit Hill Vipers) by Nikki Landis -review tour

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🎄Torque & Tinsel (Summit Hill Vipers / 25 Days of Christmas Bikers and Mobsters) by Nikki Landis -review tour🎄

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 10, 2025

Torque:
When a chance meeting at the local mall introduces me to sexy, curvy Noelle, I know just what I want for Christmas this year: Her.
But when I ask Noelle out, and one disaster after another prevents our date and getting to know one another, I decide I have to eliminate every obstacle in my path.
Rival clubs, grumpy neighbors, and screaming kids begging for Santa won’t stop me.
I’m pulling out all my skills and holiday treats to convince her to be mine.
Just one kiss under the mistletoe and I know she’s the one.
Noelle:
I’m not looking to date a bad boy biker.
But when I meet Torque, and he helps me during a crisis, I wonder if he’s more than the gruff, leather-wearing, tattooed mistake I pegged him as.
His warm smile and chocolatey brown eyes melt my resistance.
And when a snowstorm hits and half the city is without power, I know I’ve lost my heart when he shows up dressed as Santa, tossing around tinsel, jolly laughs, and plenty of Christmas cheer.
But will the two of us stand a chance at a merrily ever after?

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REVIEW:– TORQUE & TINSEL by Nikki Landis is a contemporary, adult, erotic, romance novella found in the author’s Summit Hill Vipers MC series, and a part of the multi-authored 25 Days of Christmas Bikers and Mobsters. This is MC member Torque, and Noelle’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspective (Noelle and Torque) TORQUE & TINSEL follows insta-lust to love between our story line couple. A meet-cute at the local mall finds Torque helping Noelle find a table, then searching for our heroine’s niece who decided to go see Santa on her own. An approaching storm, and the possibility of a power failure forces Torque to insist Noelle come back to the clubhouse but a stop at the club owned garage places Noelle in a precarious position, when lives are threatened in the name of revenge.

The world building is short and sweet, and covers but a couple of days in the life of our story line couple. A winter storm, a rescue, and a new family by blood and choice, celebrate the approach of the holidays at the Summit Hill Vipers MC club house.
The relationship between Noelle and Torque is an insta-lust to love. Torque knows immediately Noelle is the woman to tame his heart but threats against our heroine push Torque to take control, and in doing so, Noelle suspects he’s in for the long haul. The $ex scenes are limited but passionate.

We are introduced to several members of the Summit Hill Vipers MC, as well as Noelle’s sister Amy, and her daughter Ainsley.

TORQUE AND TINSEL is a fast paced, quick read; a story of family and friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is entertaining and engaging; the romance is limited but seductive; the characters are determined and desperate.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Nikki Landis is the USA Today & International Bestselling, Multi-Award-Winning Author of over 50 romance novels in the MC, reverse harem, paranormal, dystopian, and science fiction genres. Her books feature deadly reapers, dark alpha heroes, protective shifters, and seductive vampires along with the feisty, independent women they love. There’s heart-throbbing action on every page as well as fated mates and soul bonds deep enough to fulfill every desire.

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He’s A Mean One (Content Advisory 8)by Lani Lynn Vale-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 9, 2025

For a solid five years, Jasper Madden has done nothing but look the other way when it comes to Calliope Hodges. At first, she was way too young for him, barely eighteen the first time he laid eyes on her. It also didn’t help that he’d witnessed her at the lowest of lows, practically making peace with rock bottom.

But as time goes by, he realizes that Calliope is different. She’s a brave, stunning young woman that has slowly captured his heart while he was watching from the shadows.

He knows that it’ll take time for her to realize that he’s not the enemy, but instead her saving grace. So he decides to play the long game.

For years, he’s waited in the periphery for her to be ready. He stands right there, knowing that one day she’ll look up and finally see him as the man that is desperately in love with her.

But that chip on her shoulder keeps her from looking everywhere but his direction.

Luck finally leans his way when she moves in next door, and a battle of the neighbors ensues.

Where she sees war in the form of a friendly holiday decorating competition, he sees the opportunity of a lifetime.

All it takes is one bed, a freak snowstorm, and a Christmas miracle for her to realize that he’s been there all along. A silent knight in shining armor willing to take on the world just to make sure she never has to feel unworthy ever again.

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REVIEW: The last and final book in the Content Advisory series is here with He’s a Mean One. Book eight in the series features Jasper and Calliope. As always I recommend reading a series in order to get the most out of it, but for the Content Advisory series each book can be read as a standalone in the interconnected series.

Jasper AKA “Hush” is a member of the Truth Tellers MC and meets Calliope at the wrong time in his life. She is years younger than he is, and still suffering from the trauma she experienced, but Jasper knows what he wants and is ready to play the long game. As time goes on, Jasper becomes a norm in Calli’s life and the two slowly build what I like to think of as a love-hate relationship. More love than hate for sure. These two have been put through the ringer, Callie and her upbringing, and Jasper with the fire and the scars that it left him with. Together they work in a way that feeds the parts of them that are missing. Two people that couldn’t be more different, like oil and water, but love each other so fiercely.

What a fast paced, spicy romance. For something so quick, He’s so mean is filled with giggly moments, spicy sexy time, and shared times of love with each other and family. One of the best things this author highlights is that meaningful and lasting bonds of love and family aren’t always with the ones you’re born into but the ones that you meet and choose to make part of your life.

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Reviewed by Sarah

Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. She’s married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as “LLV’s Bearded Half.” She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. She’s gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.

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Craving Revenge (Kings of Mafia 6) by MIchelle Heard-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK:Release Date December 9, 2025

For years, I’ve been groomed to be my brother’s shadow. To protect my father’s heir, who will one day take over from him as the Kumichō of the Yakuza, I’m forced to dress and act like a man when I’m out in public.

The ruse works, and when I’m grabbed off the street by the Sicilian mafia, I’m in for a world of pain.

Augusto Vitale, a ruthless and unforgiving capo, wants revenge for what the Yakuza did to his younger brother, and I’m the one paying in blood. That’s until Augusto realizes I’m a woman and I’m set free.

I think it’s the last I’ll ever see of him, but then my father comes up with a plan that will ensure I live the rest of my life in hell.

Once again, I find myself at Augusto’s mercy, but this time he has no intention of letting me go.

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REVIEW: Craving Revenge is book 6 in The Kings of Mafia series by Michelle Heard.

Yuki Tanaka is a 22 year old Yakuza Princess living in Japan. But she can’t be herself. Ever since her brother Ryo was hidden away when she was eleven, she has been pretending to be him. Not by her choice, her father’s-To protect her brother until he is ready to take over the Yakuza – She pretended to be him. Her father making her take Botox shots to the face to make her look more masculine. She is out at a popular Japan nightclub, Molecule, one night and she sees the most beautiful woman with her new husband.

Yuki can’t help but stare. She has been pretending to be her brother for years and the softness and beauty of this woman is overwhelming. She can’t seem to look away. What that sets off is a myriad of a battle between the Yakuza and Cosa Nostra.
The woman she was staring at is Gianna Vitale – the newly married wife of Riccardo Vitale. The youngest brother of the head of the Cosa Nostra. The capo of the Cosa Nostra – Augusto Vitale.

When Yuki can’t look away, Gianna’s husband Riccardo takes offense and tells Yuki to stop looking at his wife. Yuki’s over zealous body guard oversteps and in the end Riccardo is shot and taken away to the hospital. Augusto wants revenge for what has happened to his brother in Japan. When they find who they believe to be Ryo the beat him within an inch of his life.
That is until they realize that the person pretending to be Ryo is actually his sister Yuki.

Trying to calm the violence and deaths between the Yakuza and the Cosa Nostra – Yuki’s father arranges a marriage with none other than the man that beat her almost to death – Augusto Vitale.

Will Augusto ever be able to get Yuki to forgive him for what he has done. Will Yuki ever feel safe with the man she was arranged to marry? What transpires is a beautiful building of a relationship between Yuki and Augusto.

But once Augusto finds out about the truth of how his new wife was treated up until he married her – he has but one thought.He is Craving Revenge.

This was probably one of my favorite Mafia stories by Michelle Heard. The build up between Augusto and Yuki was wonderful. While Augusto had one thought – to make his wife feel safe and secure after he mistook her for a man and beat her. Yuki is young and vulnerable – and scared – oh so scared of the life she didn’t ask for. Her one wish is to find her brother. She has no concept of living a good life – she has never experienced that. But maybe she will one day. Maybe she will….

Highly recommend – can be read as a stand alone but every single book in this series is worth a read.

Please be mindful of the trigger warnings at the front of the book.

 

Reading Order and Previous reviews
The Hermit
The High Priestess
Death
The Empress
The Devil

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Reviewed by Erin K

Michelle Heard is a Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author who loves creating stories her readers can get lost in. She resides in South Africa with her son where she’s always planning her next book to write, and trip to take.

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RELENTLESS (Las Vegas Defiance MC 1) by KE Osborn-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 8, 2025

They call me Sin for a reason.

As President of Las Vegas Defiance MC, I’ve built something real—a brotherhood that’s survived every enemy Vegas could throw at us. We’ve worked too damn hard to let anyone tear us down.

Then she walks into my clubhouse with a recorder and questions that could destroy everything. Elizabeth Hale. An ambitious journalist, who’s here to write about us, to expose the truth about her brother’s death—a truth that could get us all killed if she prints it before we’re ready.

I should keep my distance. Control the story and send her packing.
She’s fire and fearlessness wrapped in curves that make me forget she holds our fate in her hands. And when she looks at me with those defiant eyes, demanding answers I can’t afford to give, I realize I’m caught between protecting my club and protecting her from a truth that could destroy us both.

One wrong move and I lose the club.
One right move and I might lose myself to her instead.
Some secrets are worth dying for. Some women are worth the risk.
But Elizabeth is the biggest risk of all.

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REVIEW: RELENTLESS is the first instalment in KE Osborn’s contemporary, adult LAS VEGAS DEFIANCE MC erotic, MC romance series, set in the author’s Defiance MC world. This is journalist Elizabeth Hale, and thirty-seven year old, Las Vegas Defiance MC President Diesel aka Sin’s story line.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Elizabeth and Sin) RELENTLESS follows in the wake of the arrival of journalist Elizabeth Hale as she ventures into the world of the LVDMC. Elizabeth is hoping to write about the Las Vegas Defiance MC, research the who, how and why but Elizabeth is keeping secrets, and those secrets are about to threaten any chance for a future with the man with whom she will fall in love. Sinister aka Sin is the president of the Las Vegas Defiance MC, and a man who doesn’t trust too easily. A war is on the horizon with cartel known as the Hidden Hand Alliance but once again nto everything is as it appears to be. Secrets and lies will expose both a personal and a professional betrayal, secrets that will dig further into the past than anyone could have ever imagined.

The world building follows several paths including the ongoing betrayal perpetuated against the Las Vegas Defiance MC. Elizabeth is on the hunt, and what she discovers throws a proverbial wrench into the direction of her ‘story’, a direction that reveals deception and betrayal at the highest level.

The relationship between Elizabeth and Sin is one of immediate attraction but Elizabeth struggles to cross an imaginary line, a line that is about to crumble and fall. Sin is determined to claim Elizabeth as his own but exposing the truth means heart break for everyone involved. The $ex scenes are erotic and intense.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and dynamic secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to several members of the Las Vegas Defiance MC:VP Nitro, tech genius and secretary Ghost, SAA Koa, Mace, Bear, and his sons, Road Captain Deek and Will, as well as club girls Millie McLane, Ro: law enforcement Chief Detective Maria Moretti, Captain Rourke; Capo Lorenzo of the Hidden Hand Alliance. The requisite evil has many faces.

RELENTLESS is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family and friendships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is dramatic, edgy and engaging;the romance is seductive ; the characters are desperate, determined and decisive.

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Reviewed by Sandy

KE OSBORN

With a flair for all things creative, International Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She’s entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.

K E Osborn comforts herself with tea and Netflix, after all, who doesn’t love a good binge?

Turn lust into love at www.keosbornauthor.com

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Somethin’ Fierce by Laramie Briscoe-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 5, 2025

The dark knight saved me on the worst day of my life…

Paisley

I never intended to make it out of the field that Chase finds me in. Ready to end it all, a man on horseback rides in and saves me.

I’m broken, betrayed, and out of options.

When a fall storm washes out the bridge to town, we find ourselves snowed in and stuck in Chase’s remote cabin. It’s a forced proximity arrangement neither of us planned, but both desperately need.

As days turn to weeks and then to months, his calm steadies my emotions. But winter is long and the cabin is small. Secrets both of us thought were buried come to the surface, and force us to face the lives we’ve left behind.

He saved my life. I might save his right back.

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REVIEW:I’ve consumed many books by Laramie Briscoe, but Somethin’ Fierce lives up to its name. Be mindful of the triggers warnings with this book, while the characters are amazing, there are many things that could possibly trigger readers.

Paisley and Chase meet when both of them are at the end of their robes, both have lost so much and both need something to intervene in their life to save them. When Paisley is drowning in the suffering she feels, she calls 911 and Chase rushes to find her and talk her off the edge. This is where their story begins. Chase convinces Paisley to return home with him and then together they get stranded due to an oncoming storm. As time slowly ticks by, they learn that they must move on from their past and look towards the future together. The only catch? Neither of them knows where to start.

These characters were very relatable, Chase is a closed off alpha in so many ways. While he may still be battling his own demons, he makes Paisley a priority. Their relationship is slow built, both again still healing from trauma, but it’s their slow burn understanding that makes the book feel as emotionally draining as it is. They both have suffered such tragedy, but together they find a way to move forward and love again. Truly moving story.

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Reviewed by Sarah

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Laramie Briscoe is the USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of over 30 books.

When she’s not writing alpha males who seriously love their women, she loves spending time with friends, reading, and marathoning shows on Netflix.

Laramie lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband and an adorable dog named Gus.

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First Class Fling by Kaylene Winter-review tour

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First Class Fling (Hearts Without Borders 2) by Kaylene Winter-review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 5, 2025

Love wasn’t on the menu…He served it anyway.

My family staged an intervention and called it a vacation.
Barcelona was supposed to fix me.
No work. No noise. No more sixteen-hour days ending with me in an empty bed, alone.
I agreed because fighting back took more energy than I had.

Then he sat beside me in first class.
A voice like Rioja, dark, smooth, slow to finish.
Eyes focused on mine when I should have looked away.
A stranger who felt like the beginning of something I forgot I wanted.
By the time the sun came up, I wanted more.

The moment I sat down, I knew exactly who she was.
Rosa Delgado. The chef. The legend. The woman behind the meals I still dream about.
She’s everything I imagined.
Worn out. Walled in. Still somehow shining.
I thought love was over for me.
Now I’m wondering if this flight is the beginning of a whole new chapter.

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REVIEW:The next installment in the Hearts Without Borders series has arrived. Each of the books in this series can be read as complete standalones, they do not interconnect, they merely share a theme. In First Class Fling we meet Santiago and Rosa, they have an insta-love connection and embark on a journey that feeds their souls and their bellies.

Rosa is a chef, renowned for her recipes and attention to details, when her family stages a much needed vacation for her in the form of an intervention, Rosa goes along with it, no fight left in her to give. The city of Barcelona, good food, good rest, nothing but rest and relaxation, until she meets a certain dark eyed sommelier who sets her life and heart ablaze.

Santiago is looking for a slower pace of life, with the way he has been living, his fast pace life is becoming more and more exhausting, he is enjoying things less and less. When he meets Rosa on the plane to Barcelona, their meet-cute sparks something in him that he has never felt. Not to mention, he knows who she is and what she does for a living. He has dined at her restaurant many times, and is blown away each time. Together they explore Barcelona, the flavors of the city and the slow burn pursuit of each other as well. Nothing truer has ever been said than the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

For a short, fast paced, insta-love romance, First Class Fling has such good substance. Rosa and Santiago are both workaholics who have lost their passion for things that they love, and needed a reminder of a slower way of life. He saw that in her, just like she saw that in him, they each needed reminding of why they love good food and good people. Burn out is so real in this day and age, no matter the life you lead, we all need a reminder to slow down and enjoy the chaos of life once in a while. Kaylene gave her readers a lovely reminder to take a breath and drink the wine now again.

✈️ Strangers to Lovers

❤️‍🩹 Healing Romance

🍛 Foodies

💕 Insta-Love Connection

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Reviewed by Sarah

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Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.

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