Touch Me Not By: Apryl Baker

     A past tragedy has left Lily Holmes burdened with a devastating secret...

     Since the death of her twin sister, Lily can't bear to be touched. Not accidentally, not casually...and certainly not intimately. This makes it impossible for her to confess to her best friend Adam Roberts that she's in love with him. She can't give him the sort of relationship he needs, so she watches in silence while he plans his wedding with someone else. 

      Enter Nikoli Kinkaid, the campus manwhore....

      Nikoli is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of women, and he wants to add Lily to his list on conquests, but she wants nothing to do with him - until he makes her an offer she can't refuse. He'll teach her to enjoy human contact again, giving her a chance to win over Adam, while Nikoli uses all his considerable charm to seduce her. 

      But Lily raises the stakes...

      Lily loves cars. Her late father was a racer, and she grew up under the hood of a car and on the racetrack. Nikoli has a limited edition 1970 Plymouth Barracuda she covets, so she informs him the terms of their deal also require he not sleep with anyone for six months. If he does, she'll win the car. If she surrenders and ends up in his bed, his beloved 'Cuda is his to keep. 

      In the intricate dance of control and surrender, a reluctant friendship becomes something more. Lily begins to crave things she never believed she could, and Nikoli realizes there is more at stake than his reputation. If Lily overcomes her phobia, will she crave Adam's touch as she starting to crave Nikoli's? Or will she only find pleasure from the touch of a semi-reformed manwhore?

      

     When I first started reading Touch Me Not, I didn't think that I would actually enjoy this read. It was a book I got for free and didn't think much of it. But sometimes those are the books that while reading really get me interesting and Touch Me Not was one of those times.

Rebellious And Reckless (Campus Hotshots #1) By: Michelle Valentine

      Sky Cold knows exactly what she wants, and its Luke Finnegan, the college campus star quarterback. The only problem is she's not even a blip on his radar. In order to get noticed by her crush, she's willing to exchange the extra bedroom in her apartment to Luke's tattooed, older brother to find a way into his social circle. 

      Baker Finnegan is determined to get out of his father's shadow and do things his way. When he falls on hard times, and the sexy, slightly nerdy co-ed Sky offers him a place to live in exchange for a fake friendship, he can't pass up the opportunity. But when Baker quickly realizes the only match he wants to make for Sky is one with himself, he has to convince her to look past his reckless ways. 

      I enjoyed reading the first half of Rebellious and Reckless but by the time the second half of the book came around I wasn't as interested. I don't know what it was, I thought I was going to love this book and want to read it over and over again but then it was like what happened? It was almost like there was more included in this book that needed to be there. 

What If You By: Sandi Lynn

 

        Everly has lived her life as low key as possible. Her childhood wasn't easy, and relationships never worked out, so she stopped trying. She accepted the fact that she would more than likely grow old alone, and she was okay with that. The more men got to know her, the faster they ran. Then she met Asher Remington under unusual circumstances. For him, it was unusual, but for Everly, it was the norm. Everly was sent to New York to convince him not to go through with a merger that would end up destroying him and the company his father worked so hard to build. He thought she was crazy until he discovered the truth. Everly's job was complete, and she needed to forget about him. But after spending one beautiful night together, it became impossible. The more time they spent together, the harder she fell. He was living in the shadow of a lie, only he didn't know it. If they were to have a chance together, he needed to know the truth, and he needed to put the past to rest.

       Everly King was crazy. She was the craziest yet most beautiful woman Asher had ever laid eyes on. They met under very unusual circumstances. She saved him from making what would have been the most destructive decision of Asher's life. He owed her. After spending one night with her. Asher craved more. Even though there were things about her that frightened him, Asher didn't want to stop seeing her. Then he let his guard down and feelings emerged. Asher couldn't allow it, and he needed to stick by the decision he had made several years ago after an incident determined the course of his life. He needed to forget about her and let her go. There was no "us" and there never would be. The problem was the fear he had inside was giving in and it tried to reason with Asher. It kept asking the same thing over and over: what if you.... 

       I always love whenever Sandi Lynn comes out with a new book because more often than not I find myself unable to put her books down and that's exactly what happened here. It's funny given the synopsis of What If You, I didn't think I was going to enjoy this read and only gave it a try because of who the author was. Well, color me surprised when I found myself not only enjoying this book but being unable to put it down and finishing it in practically one sitting. 

Signed (The Agency #1) By: Marni Mann

                                                      

       A one night with James Ryne, the hottest actress in LA as well as America's sweetheart, and Hollywood agent to the stars.

       It was a one night stand that Brett didn't think would happen again. For Brett given his worry about the age difference between him and James and would be scandal should the world find out about them was all too much for him. That being said, Brett does care about James and has this attraction for her. Things change when James ends up being a victim to a leaked online sex tape that threatens her career. After this happens, all her people except for her manager leave James, all her currents contracts are cancelled and worst of all Brett leaves James just when she needs him the most.

       Wanting to get her career back after spending some time wounded and beyond devastated James signs with a new agency. Imagine her surprise when she finds out that Brett is one of the heads of her new agency. Now James has to work with Brett in order to get her career back on track only he wants to keep their night together a secret as well as keep their relationship business professional only from here on out.

      I have had Signed in my to-read list for far too long, longer than I care to admit. Now having finally got around to reading Signed, I was surprised with how much I did find myself enjoying this book. Did I enjoy it enough to continue on with the series? Not really, but would I read this book again? I would, so I guess that's something for a book I got for free a long time ago and am only now reading.  

Lost Girl (Wolf Girl #2) By: Leia Stone

 

     Demi has just been kidnapped by vampires and Sawyer is under some type of love spell. Now Demi got to traipse through the entire Magic Lands without getting killed to make it back to Werewolf City...hopefully in one piece. 

     Everything would have worked out as planned if Sawyer hadn't gone on another revenge killing spree in Demi's honor. Now the entire magical world is at war, and Demi and her True Mate are stuck in the middle of it. 

     It's just another Monday. 

     While the first book in this series pulled me in right from the beginning the same cannot be said for Lost Girl. While I did enjoy reading Lost Girl I found myself not being as into it as I was for the first book in this series. Don't get me wrong I still plan on reading the next book in this series and I know I will want to read these books again, I just know this one won't hold my attention as well as its predecessor. 

Shattered Souls (The Harkwright Trilogy #3) By: B C Morgan

      Maybe if she says it enough Luna will believe that she's ready for year three. It's nearly upon them, and Luna's not even sure that will be the most worrying thing she will have to face. Luna may be free from one of the Harkwrights, but another is taking his place. A wildcard and mystery. Whether he's better or worse than the one he's replacing remains to be seen. 

      If she keeps baking Luna might succeed in fooling herself into believing she is safe. That everything that has happened in the past two years was just a nightmare. But really that's just wishful thinking, because there are some things even fresh bread and homemade cakes cannot fix. 

      Luna has a lot of things to consider and she doesn't know where to begin. From facing the way she feels, to questioning every belief she holds. Luna doesn't know who she will be when she comes out of this, or where her path will finally lead. 

      One thing Luna knows for sure, she's not the same girl she was when she first entered the Academy, she's stronger, and hopefully wiser. She's come this far and she will see it through. 

      I have been waiting with anticipation to read the conclusion of the Harkwright Trilogy and I want to start out by saying I was not prepared for how long this conclusion was going to be. When I opened the book and saw that it was over 600 pages I was surprise but I was also ready to begin. Since Shattered Souls is so long I held off on reading right away because I knew it would take longer to read and I wanted to make sure it had my undivided attention. Now having finished both this book and this series I can say I am in love with this series and will be reading these books over and over again.

Sex, Not Love By: Vi Keeland

      Natalia's relationship with Hunter Delucia started backwards. 

      They met at a wedding - him sitting on the groom's side, her sitting on the bride's. Stealing glances at each other throughout the night, there was no denying an intense, mutual attraction. 

      Natalia caught the bouquet; he caught the garter. Hunter held Natalia tightly while they danced and suggested they explore the chemistry sparking between them. His blunt, dirty mouth should've turned Natalia off. But for some crazy reason, it had the opposite effect on her.

      The two ended up back in Natalia hotel room. The next morning, she headed home to New York leaving him behind in California with the wrong number.

       Natalia thought about Hunter often, but after her last relationship, she'd sworn off of charming, cocky, gorgeous-as-sin men. A year later, Hunter and Natalia met again at the birth of their friends' baby. Their attraction hadn't dulled one bit. After a whirlwind trip, he demanded a real phone number this time. So she left him with her mother's - she could scare away any man with her talk of babies and marriage - and flew back home. 

       Natalia thought it was funny, until the following week when he rang the bell at her Mom's house for Sunday night dinner. The crazy, gorgeous man had won over her mother and taken an eight-week assignment in her city. He proposed they spend that time screwing each other out of their systems. 

       Eight weeks of mind-blowing sex with no strings attached? What did Natalia have to lose?

       Nothing, she thought. It's just sex, not love. But you know what they say about the best laid plans...

     

       By now, I've read a few books by Vi Keeland and while I loved her books at in the beginning, I can't say the same about the few books of hers that I have read recently. Sex, Not Love started off good enough it just wasn't enough to keep me interested as the story continued. If this continues I might have to stop reading books by her altogether and that would be a shame because like I said I did like her stories at first. I think I'll give Vi Keeland's books a few more tries before I just give up entirely.