Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 01-31-2025 Leave a comment

FREIDA MCFADDEN’S LATEST & IT’S THE #1 BOOK ON ALLLLL OF AMAZON KINDLE!! SNOW STRANDED & PREGNANT, A COUPLE OFFERS HER A ROOM…

“…The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.

She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.

But something isn’t right...”

ABBI GLINES ALERT!! BOOK #4 IS LIVE & OMG TOTAL KINDLE THROWING BLURB JOLT!!!!!! YES. PLEASE! 🙏

“...I fell in love at first sight when I was six years old. The problem with that was he was a grown man. My young heart had believed that he belonged to me. That should have faded with time. It didn’t. Although I hadn’t seen him in over twenty years, I still found myself measuring up the men I dated to him. That was until the day he walked into a nightclub in Vegas and sat down beside me at the bar.

He didn’t recognize the woman I had become, but I knew exactly who he was. My heart had soared, and the flutters in my stomach that no one else had ever stirred came roaring back to life. Fate had brought him back to me.

Waking up in his suite alone the next morning with a note and a morning after pill with no way to contact him had taught me that flutters were not to be trusted and that fate was a mean bitch.

Five years later, I am engaged, happy, and about to give my four-year-old daughter the life I want for her, complete with a white picket fence and a father.

That is… until I find out that I can’t get married. Because I already am…”

LIVE!! COMEDY BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE! SHE’S STARTING OVER & MEETS A STRANGER…

“...After a smooth-talking ex destroyed her life, Madison Ryan is slowly picking up the pieces while running a ramshackle inn in her tiny hometown of Happiness, Georgia.

Money is tight. So she’s grateful for her mysterious new tenant and his six-month stay, however she’s learned her lesson when it comes to falling for the charming stranger...”

SHORT CREEPY STORIES SUPER-BARGAIN & I ONE-CLICKED IT!!!

“When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there’s something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her. Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.

Desperate, Jenine shares her secret with her best friend, Bree. Together they realize the camera captures unsettling impressions of the dead. But now the ghosts seem to be following the two friends. And with each new photo taken, a terrible danger grows ever clearer…

DISCOVER CHILLING NEW BONUS STORIES, INCLUDING:

A woman survives a plane crash in a remote arctic tundra, accompanied only by a stranger who seems fixated on something moving through the blinding snow.

A house stands empty. Hungry. Waiting for the children drawn to it like moths to a flame.

A woman finds a shoebox filled with old VHS tapes. They have a note attached: “Don’t watch. You’ll regret it.”

And more!

LIVE!! HE’S HER NEW ROOMMATE & HE HATES HER! P.S. It’s already #7 ON ALL of AMAZON KINDLE!

“…My brother’s best friend is such a jerk.  An imposing, handsome jerk who doesn’t trust me. And now we’re roommates. 

He wanders around the apartment in nothing but gray sweatpants, looking like a broody, tattooed muscle god, and playing music that shakes the walls. I want to hate him for treating me like an intruder, but there’s something about the way he looks at me—like he’s trying to figure me out—that keeps pulling me in. 

Archer Holland is loyal, caring, and protective—with everyone except me.  Every time I move around our apartment, I can feel his glare…“

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN ROMANCE!! MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE WITH HER BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND…

“...we didn’t speak for years—until today, when he found me sleeping in my car, threw me over his shoulder, and dragged me “to safety.”

He’s grumpy and overprotective and even more handsome than I remembered. I’m shocked to learn he’s in trouble. Someone is sabotaging his ranch, which is thirty days from foreclosure. He needs a loan from a friend who won’t extend the funds unless he’s married. Only Rhett’s now a single dad with no plans to fall in love again…”

READER RECOMMENDATION!! MARITAL STRIFE/INFIDELITY ALERT!!

“Lucas

Deeds done in darkness will come to light. The first time I saw her, she quieted the demons of my past. Or so I thought. When they came roaring back to life, I stumbled and fell, making the singular worst decision of my life. I’m in the biggest fight of my life, one I will fight till my last breath. One I cannot lose because without her, there is no me.

Alexis

For every beginning, there’s an end. I never thought our ending would come so soon. I thought I was living the perfect life. Then it all came crashing down, revealing the foundation of lies we built our marriage on. This is a fight I vowed I would never fight. Better to cut my losses and walk away...”

Rae: Thanks Maryse. I loved Yesterday’s Fingerprints. It was a 5 ⭐️ read.

REBECCA YARROS IS ROCKING THE CHARTS! AN OLDIE BUT AN AMAZING ONE ‘CAUSE IT’S BACK ON AMAZON’S TOP 20!!!

“...If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair. And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help...”

Lauren: Hi! Long time viewer; 1st time commenter! I JUST finished The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros…SO good but get those tissues ready!

Kathy: Rebecca writes amazing military themed romances. And I have to admit I had put this one off due to all the reviews about needing tissues. But this book was worth every tear and tissue.

LIVE!! SPORTS ROMANCE! HE WAS ONCE HER FIRST CRUSH & THEY MEET AGAIN…

“…our meet-cute turns into a celebration. One night. One perfect night.

Until the next morning when his famous client turns infamous. A scandal to end all scandals explodes into a media nightmare. And since I’m the new darling of sports broadcasting, our worlds collide again … only this time, not in bed. 

Jack needs me, and I can’t say no to Jack in anything...”

IN AMAZON’S TOP 50 RIGHT NOW!

Kristen: The things we leave unfinished by Rebecca Yarros. I thought I knew what the twist would be but I was so wrong. 

Alice: that one will always remain on my favorites list.

Sandy: I’m reading this also!

HE’S THE ONE FINISHING HER GRANDMOTHER’S NOVEL!

“...Now back home at her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He’s just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she’ll be damned if the good-looking writer of love stories thinks he’s the one to finish her grandmother’s final novel…even if the publisher swears he’s the perfect fit...”

LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!! HE HAS PANIC ATTACKS…

“…All my roommates have found someone to love them, and it hurts to see the guys who used to have me at the center of their worlds pair off and grow up, especially when it’s a reminder of how alone I’ve always been. I’ve always had an issue with relationships. With forming a connection with people outside of Seven, but this is more. 

Because I want to find my someone.  Except the one person my brain has latched onto is the one person I can never have. The one person who’s there to help me when my panic attacks get too much.  Nurse Derek...”

LIVE!! HE ONCE STOOD HER UP & NOW HE’S HER FAKE FIANCE!

“…I can let bygones be bygones, especially when he rescues me from a bad date.

Then I witness him breaking up with his girlfriend which resulted in a sticky coffee drink on his chiseled cheeks and ice cubes on his fine-fitting jeans. I offered him a napkin. Hey, once a friend, always a friend, right? *insert sarcasm*

However, Judd takes us to the next level at my mother’s garden party, where a misunderstanding occurs with a teeny tiny slip of the tongue and a precious ring on my finger. And suddenly, I’m Judd’s fiancée...”

LIVE!! FAKE FIANCE!!

“...Judd takes us to the next level at my mother’s garden party, where a misunderstanding occurs with a teeny tiny slip of the tongue and a precious ring on my finger.

And suddenly, I’m Judd’s fiancée. Fake or not, things are about to get a little too real with my old friend…”