REVIEW: Calla’s Kitchen by Teresa Crumpton

Calla’s Kitchen

Teresa Crumpton

5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Let me start off by saying this book made me very hungry while reading.  I mean seriously they were always cooking in the kitchen of Belladonna and the food sounded amazing!!!

Besides the fact that I really did want to smack Calla a time or two throughout this book I truly loved her and 

Wes.  Best Friends who struggle with their attraction to 

each other - What could possibly go wrong?

I loved getting to know a little bit about Calla in Donut Leave Me and fell completely in love with her in Calla’s Kitchen.  

Poor Miss Calla...my heart ached for her at times but again I also wanted to smack her a few times. I mean seriously I get why she was upset and in a funk but I felt at times she really  just needed to pull up her big girl panties and take control of her life again. The one main thing she totally had going for her was her support system with her friends.  They were there to be her rock while she was crumbling apart.  

In Calla’s Kitchen we see how Calla deals with her breakup from her fiancé who she finds in bed with another woman.  Her confidence is shattered and it is not only effecting her daily personal life but also her cooking.  To add more drama to the mix her long time best friend Wes and her have been dancing around each other for years.  Will the two be able to sort out issues and finally be together?

Teresa Crumpton has definitely been added to my one-click Authors list. I was hooked on the story from the beginning all the way through and can’t wait for the next book. A 5 star read in my book. 

Calla Bond needs a rebound, and unfortunately so does her cooking. The chef and restaurateur lost her edge right about the time she found her fiance in bed with another woman. For the last year, the only thing saving her restaurant has been her family of friends willing to pick up the slack while she nursed a deeply broken heart. Now, however, Calla’s nearly out of credit with her closest pals, and they’re determined to help her heal her spirit and find her cooking mojo again.

Wes Westminster adores Calla, but his close relationship with Calla’s brother – not to mention Calla’s engagement – has ensured the two have been strictly friends. Even now, with no fiance in his way, Wes isn’t ready to jeopardize both of those friendships just to pursue the girl of his dreams. But Wes will have to make peace with his inner conflict soon, because Calla’s restaurant family is setting her up, and Wes is the one pushing her to move on.

Calla’s Kitchen may be read and enjoyed as a standalone contemporary romance!

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REVIEW: Claiming Tuesday ~ By Riley Edwards

Claiming Tuesday

By: Riley Edwards

5 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When a man is on a mission he is going to let nothing stop him until he gets the end results that he wants.....

Riley Edwards has once again blown me away. I am so in love with The Next Generation boys and just when I think I can’t love another one more Riley brings us a new book.  Claiming Tuesday is everything and then some.  The story is all consuming and I devoured it and I truly mean devoured it within hours of starting. I was at the point that I didn’t want the story to end but I needed to keep reading because I was  so engrossed in the story.  

Jackson is a man that I wish could be mine.  He is compassionate. He is all Alpha male with a soft side thrown in.  He is hot and sexy. He is possessive.  At the end of the day he is a true sweetheart and my heart swooned numerous times throughout Claiming Tuesday.  

Now onto my poor Tuesday.  The girl had my heart aching for her from the beginning.  She has a kind soul but very few know the true her.  Her past is something she truly wants to forget but it still haunts her to this day.  The strength this girl had amazed me and I was cheering for her throughout even when she was being mean and unreasonable to sweet Jackson.

Tuesday is the game changer for Jackson.  When Jackson first sees Tuesday at a family gathering he knows his world has just changed.  Jackson’s pursuit of Tuesday is challenging none the less.  She is pushing him away and he is pushing her to open up and let him in.  The back and forth banter is comical at times and heartbreaking at others.  Throw in a twist and some suspense and Claiming Tuesday will leave you wanting more.   

Claiming Tuesday nearly broke me.  Again I was so addicted to it that I didn’t want it to end.  Then don’t get me started on the ending.   Riley, you have me very intrigued about poor Delaney.   I need the next book STAT!!!

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*The Next Generation Book 4*

Everyone meet Jackson Clark,

 a hot firefighter who knows what he wants and

 will do everything to get it.

 

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After years of struggling with alcoholism and drug abuse, I got clean and put my best foot forward. I became the man worthy of Lacey Parrish’s love and made the girl with the sad brown eyes my wife. But I’m not the only one in our marriage with demons. Diagnosed a manic depressive, Lacey struggles daily with her mind, never willing to succumb to the stigma of mental illness. The odds have always been stacked against us, but the stakes have never been this high. Pregnant with our child, Lacey is forced to choose between her mind and the baby we wished for. I can take pain, but I can’t take hers. Helpless and at the mercy of her illness, I turn to my past. It’s always our favorite sins that do us in. Leather. Lace. Me. Her. Suffering through hell, hoping love is enough for us to survive one more blackout. *A Satan's Knights MC Standalone*

.•´✶Excerpt-More Than Anything•´✶

Blackout ©Copyright 2019 Janine Infante Bosco Panting, she falls on top of me. Her perky tits press against my chest as she buries her face in my neck and whispers my name once more. Enjoying the high, I breathe in her sweet scent and wrap my arms tightly around her small frame. It doesn’t matter that I just came or that my dick is still swollen, pulsing inside of her, I’m already looking for another fix. Overdosing on Lacey wouldn’t be the worst thing to ever happen to me. Hell, I can’t think of a better fucking way to go. “Blackie,” she calls softly, running her fingers down my arm. “Hmm,” I murmur, flattening my palm against the small of her back. “We didn’t…” Her words trail as she lifts her head and turns her eyes to me. “You know,” she finishes, worrying her bottom lip between her teeth. Her gaze drifts to where our bodies are still joined, and the weight of her words penetrate through my haze filled head. I wait for regret to replace my high. For panic to fill her eyes. I wait and wait and none of it happens. She doesn’t scramble off me and I don’t move to lift her either. There is no mad dash to the bathroom to wash my seed from her. There’s just us and the possible promise of something beautiful hanging heavy in the air. “Blackie, say something,” she pleads. Lifting my hands to my face, I comb my fingers through my long hair, pushing it away from my eyes. With nothing obstructing my view of her, I take her in. I’ll never understand what the fuck she sees in me. She could have had her pick of men and yet she still chose me. Demons and all, the girl married me and took my name. Took a beaten down drug addict and gave him a purpose. A will to live and a goddamn future. Reaching out, I cup her chin. The pad of my thumb caresses her lower lip as my gaze trails down her body, settling on her flat stomach. For a second my imagination carries me away and I picture her pregnant. My throat clogs with a mixture of emotions as I let myself entertain the idea a little longer and it isn’t long before I’m envisioning her with a baby in her arms. My baby. I don’t deserve Lacey and I sure as fuck don’t deserve the honor of being anyone’s father. I’m a fucking criminal with a rap sheet that spans as many years as my wife has been on this earth. These hands of mine have been covered in blood and aren’t worthy of holding an innocent child. I’m a fucking addict too. So, I’m clean—big fucking deal. All it takes is one time. One fucking slip. Being an addict isn’t a choice. Addiction doesn’t go away because you got a woman thirteen years younger than you loving on you, wanting to give you a child. You’re not miraculously healed because you’ve done a stint in rehab and have a sobriety coach on speed dial. It’s a beast that lives inside of me and every day I open my eyes, I struggle to starve that fucking animal. Some days are worse than others. Like today. Today, I wanted to tie a tourniquet around my arm and shoot my veins from here to kingdom come. Instead, I came home and abandoned the weight of my burdens by sinking between my wife’s legs. I got lost in her sweet body and ignored the fact that the day I’ve been dreading is fast approaching. That day being the one when Jack Parrish loses his mind altogether and I take his place as the president of the Satan’s Knights MC.   He’s been grooming me for years. Instilling all his wisdoms and beliefs, sharing his vision for the club and making me lead in situations when he’s more than capable of leading himself. If you ask Jack Parrish if I’m ready to take his place, they’ll be be no hesitation, only conviction as he says yes. But no one ever asks me if I’m ready. Just like no one ever asked if I wanted the role in the first place. For as long as Jack has had the gavel, I’ve been his V.P., the man who sits at his right. The guy who stands between him and any loaded gun. I’ve sacrificed myself on the sword more times than I care to admit. I’ve thrown my sobriety down the toilet and have done more stints in jail than any other motherfucker with a reaper on his back. Loyalty, respect and honor—I’ve got it all in spades. I just don’t have a lick of it for myself. Focusing my attention back to Lacey, I draw out a ragged breath and lift my eyes to hers. Hope radiates from her dark irises and I swallow the lump in my throat. When Jack first took office, people called him a liability. They said a mentally ill man couldn’t possibly lead, that he’d act on impulse and recklessly get us all killed. Over the years, he proved himself. He took the hopeless pessimists and made them believers. If a deranged man can lead, then surely a recovering addict can follow in his footsteps. Maybe I can lead my brothers. Maybe I can be the man my wife needs me to be. Maybe I can be someone’s father. “You want a little Petra running around this house?” I ask hoarsely, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. God, if we have a baby, I hope she looks just like Lacey. Cocking her head to the side, she splays her palm against my cheek and smiles at me. “I want ten little Petra’s running around this house,” she replies softly. A laugh escapes the back of my tight throat. “How about we start with one?” Her eyes light up at the suggestion and the smile that spreads across her face makes me fucking feel invincible. Then again, drugs will do that to you. They’ll erase your pain and make you think you can conquer the world. “Yeah?” she questions, pushing her fingers through my hair. “You want to make a baby with me?” I want so much more than that. I want to give her the whole world. Every dream, every desire. I want to tie a perfect bow around them and give them to her. I suppose a beautiful baby is good place to start. “Yeah, girl,” I whisper hoarsely. “I want it more than you could ever know.” More than drugs. More than power. More than anything.

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ~ Megan Hetherington

~ AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ~

~ Megan Hetherington ~

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Megan Hetherington is a wife, and mom to two teenage kids. She lives in Yorkshire (aka as God’s county) in the UK.

Her passion is writing and she does it listening to music and drinking coffee (or more likely, red wine).

When there’s a deadline to meet you can usually find her in the garden trying to unsuccessfully tame nature or snuggled on the sofa watching a romance movie.

She loves to travel with her husband, and places they visit often pop up in her stories.

Of course, she’s a sucker for a HEA.

Her first release was a rockstar romance “Falling for His Angel” and was soon followed up by a sequel “Loving His Angel. She is releasing “Into The Light”, a standalone steamy romance on October 24 2018.

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INTO THE LIGHT

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Series: Standalone

Publication: October 24, 2018

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Blurb

A dramatic story of love and hurt and everything in between.

Rosa is deeply traumatised by her husband's betrayal and struggles to come to terms with what her life has become.

Helped by her sister, she is encouraged to date and finds the potential to love again with the enigmatic Kane. He is not quite what he seems on first meeting, and has his own demons to contend with. Will they stay together or will he turn out to be the one that she has to measure all others against?

A powerful, emotional, steamy romance with characters that will live on in your heart.

 EXCERPTS

I look up into his eyes.

“Sounds perfect.” 

Just like you, Kane.

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I wonder what will be in store for the two of us and if in ten years time it is he who I still share a bed and am forging a life with.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

And if it’s not, I will have a benchmark. A touchstone to measure all others against.

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“I won’t ever let you fall Rosa.”

And I believe him. 

His words are significant in so many ways. I know he would stand up for me, he showed that on Saturday night but a time frame has now been hinted at.

Ever.

I won’t ever let you fall.

My heart thuds to a slowing more meaningful beat.

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I feel the boat rock beneath my feet at the same time as my whole world suddenly rights itself.

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As usual with men, Kane is ready in no time and he is laying on the bed watching me apply makeup.

“I’m going to have to go downstairs.”

“Oh. Okay.” I say, a little bemused at the urgency of his remark.

He rises off the side of the bed and comes up behind me, wrapping his hands around my stomach like the dress I am planning to wear will do later.

“Because if I don’t, I’m afraid I will have to have my wicked way with you, and then we will miss the show and, more importantly, dinner.”

It makes my stomach flip to hear him speak that way. After all that has happened and the years of comfortableness that Charles and I tolerated, it is breathtaking that Kane reacts to me like this.

He nibbles on my ear lobe and then leaves me fizzing.

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Holy shit.

I have a new drug.

I tried it once and liked it.

Went back for more and now I’m hooked.

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He’s scented and his clothes are fresh, which is unfortunate because I secretly desired him in his work clothes, dirt soiled hands and sweat drenched chest.

~ ANGEL SERIES ~

Title: Falling for His Angel

Subtitle: A Rockstar Romance

Series: Angel Series: 1

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Blurb:

There was some amazing rock music in the eighties, and that's where this story starts.

Jonny can have his pick of girls in London, but that's not enough for the effortlessly cool and naturally talented.

Whilst trying to make it in the rock world he falls for Dutch rock singer, Eliza. She's more experienced than him and needs convincing that this handsome guitarist is the one to capture her free natured spirit. 

A steamy, angsty romance with characters and places that will live on in your heart. 

Set in some of the best rock and roll hang outs on the planet.

Title: Loving His Angel

Subtitle: A Rockstar Romance

Series: Angel Series: 2

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Blurb:

A beautiful conclusion to Jonny and Eliza’s story…

Jonny’s new band, Karma Life, have been catapulted into rock stardom, thanks to his song writing skills.

The love of his life, Dutch rock singer, Eliza, is his Angel and he is hellbent on spending the rest of his life with her.

They are carving out the perfect life together in London, but Jonny’s past catches up with him and threatens to ruin it all.

An emotional story, full of love, angst and rock music.

The sequel to Falling for his ANGEL.

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