Review: Tea and Temptation at the Cat Café (A Furrever Friends Sweet Romance Book #3) by Kris Bock

Can two lonely people get a second chance at finding love?

Zach may be a best-selling novelist, but it's been a long time since he's felt truly alive. In the last six months, he moved to the country, his wife left him, and he was diagnosed with cancer. Now he lives in a haze of treatments, writer's block, and simply trying to survive each week. But when a pretty woman comes into his favorite café and throws herself down on a padded bench with a groan of despair, he feels something he thought he'd lost long ago: curiosity.

As a veterinarian, Jenna knows both joy and heartbreak. The former she can share with her clients. The latter she keeps to herself. She learned one lesson from her ex-husband: Men don't want to deal with your emotions. It's odd to have a stranger ask about her problems. It's even more of a shock when he offers to solve one of them by fostering the sick kitten abandoned by its owners. Zach and Jenna bond over kitten care and build a close friendship. Could they have more?

Zach is finally starting to hope for a future, ideally one that includes Jenna, but he can't move forward until he's dealt with his past. Meanwhile, Jenna is afraid to risk her heart on someone who might not survive the next few months.

The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series features the workers and customers at the Furrever Friends Cat Café, and the adorable cats and kittens looking for their forever homes. If you enjoy friends to lovers or seasoned romance/mature romance, check out Tea and Temptation at the Cat Café. You'll also find rescue cats with plenty of personality and their own ideas about love.

 

My Review:

A sweet and inspiring story.

This heartfelt story pulled me in from the start.  The man characters, Zach and Jenna, both have pasts they would rather forget.  Both love the cats in the cafe and the friendly workers.  Together they form a friendship that could lead to more.  But first they need to work through their own personal issues before they can move on to anything else.  This is a sweet, clean romance with lots of fun feline antics included. 

Review: Dark Irish Demon (Witch and Demon Hunter Book 1) by Leigh Ann Edwards

Tall, dark and devilishly handsome Lorcan Wright can spot evil better than anyone. As a half-demon, he knows it well, and numbs his own urges with alcohol and the many women eager to share his bed. Now, however, he’s determined to use his supernatural abilities for good. His job locating and assessing magical beings at the LAMB agency seems perfect… until he disagrees with them on which evil beings should be destroyed.

Lovely Fiona Maguire is a strong, independent woman who’s been around long enough to trust her instincts. She’s also a powerful witch employed at LAMB and has no patience for Lorcan’s immature antics. About the only opinion they share is the stupidity of LAMB’s rules. Why let someone die when, with a wave of her hand, she could send them to a safer time or place, right?

Rogue agents aren’t popular at LAMB, so when disturbing events occur that could change the course of human history, Lorcan and Fiona are forced into a partnership. Their assignment: gather a team of other gifted creatures from the past, uncover the mystery, stop the evil and save the current world.

To do that, they must first learn to trust each other.

Saving the world might be easier. 

 

My Review: 

I was hooked from the very first page.

Forced to work together, regardless of their dislike for each other, LAMB agents, Fiona Maguire’s and Lorcan Wright, make the best of the situation and set out to fight evil.  This first book in the Witch and Demon Hunter series is a fast paced highly addictive story.  I couldn’t get enough of Fiona and Lorcan.  I enjoyed seeing how they became friends and learned to work together.  The book has lots of action and fun banter making it one that I won’t soon forget.

 

Review: Christmas Baby for the Cowboy (Sweethearts of the Rodeo Book 4) by Jamie K. Schmidt

He has big rodeo dreams. She dreams of one true love.

Loretta Keller had a five-year-plan to get her life back on track after a series of romantic disasters. Getting pregnant during a fling with a charming bullfighter was not on her agenda, but she struggles to make their new dynamic work until their son falls ill. Making a difficult decision, Loretta leaves the rodeo tour to settle in Last Stand, Texas to build a life of love and stability for her child.

Raised in the shadow of his famous rodeo clown father, Taylor Keating is driven to prove himself but torn by the challenges of providing for his new family. He’s surprised that even with the chaos of sleepless nights and diaper changes, he and Loretta find happiness and a love they never imagined.

As Christmas approaches, Taylor and Loretta navigate the joys and challenges of parenthood. But when Taylor’s desire for validation leads him to take a dangerous bull riding gig, will it unravel everything they’ve begun to build?

 

My Review:

Their journey wasn’t perfect, but it was well worth it. 

This is a beautiful romance about two young people with big dreams. Taylor is a bullfighter, who wants to be a bull rider and Loretta is a traveling artist with the rodeo.  In this book we see Loretta and Taylor’s real-world trials learning to support themselves, along with their baby, and how they finally achieve their dreams. This book felt so real with lots of emotional and memorable moments. It is a great addition to the Sweethearts of the Rodeo series.