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Title: The Simple Wild Author: K.A. Tucker Pages: 400 Genre: Romance Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: August 7, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo *Received for review by Atria Books* Summary ( Goodreads ) Calla Fletcher wasn't even two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. But when Calla learns that Wren’s days may be numbered, she knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born. She braves the roaming wildlife, the odd daylight hours, the exorbitant prices, and even the occasional—dear God—outhouse, all for the chance to connect with her father: a man who, despite his many faults, she can’t help but care for. While she struggles to adjust to this rugged environment, Jonah—the unkempt...

Title: All Your Perfects Author: Colleen Hoover Pages: 320 Genre: Romance Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: July 17, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo *Received from publisher for honest review* Summary ( Goodreads ) Colleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects  is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? Review:  Colleen Hoov...

Title: Save the Date  Author: Morgan Matson Pages: 480 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers Release Date: June 5, 2018  Summary (Goodreads) Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge. There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl ...

Title: Without Merit Author: Colleen Hoover Pages: 384 Genre: Fiction/Romance/New Adult Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: October 3, 2017 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo *Received for review from Simon Schuster Canada* Summary ( Goodreads ) Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s compl...

Title: Wish You Were Here Author: Renee Carlino Pages: 320 Genre: Romance/Contemporary Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: August 15, 2017 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, floating from interest to interest, job to job, and guy to guy, searching for a spark but never quite finding it. All she knows is that she won’t discover it working as a waitress at a pies-and-fries joint in Los Angeles or living with her fun but aimless best friend in a tiny apartment in the Arts District. Then Charlotte collides with Adam, a gorgeous and soulful painter who seems just as lost as she feels. Their instant connection turns into a midnight drink… and a whirlwind night of champagne, Chinese food, and the kind of conversation that only happens in romantic comedies. But the next morning, Adam gives Charlotte the cold shoulder, leaving her confused and hurt—and wondering if the few odd moments betwee...

Title: Fate of Flames (The Effigies #1) Author: Sarah Raughley Pages: 368 Genre: Fantasy/ YA Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: November 22, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) Years ago, everything changed. Phantoms, massive beasts of nightmare, began terrorizing the world. At the same time four girls, the Effigies, appeared, each with the unique power to control a classical element. Since then, they have protected the world from the Phantoms. At the death of one Effigy, another is chosen, pulled from her normal life into the never-ending battle. When Maia unexpectedly becomes the next Fire Effigy, she resists her new calling. A quiet girl with few friends and almost no family, she was much happier to admire the Effigies from afar. Never did she imagine having to master her ability to control fire, to protect innocent citizens from the Phantoms, or to try bringing together the other three Effigies. But with the arrival of the mysterious Sau...

Title: The Diabolic Author : S.J. Kincaid Pages: 416 Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, YA Publisher: Simon Schuster BYR Release Date : November 1, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for. Nothing else. For Nemesis, that person is Sidonia, heir to the galactic Senate. The two grew up side by side, and there’s no one Nemesis wouldn’t kill to keep her safe. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the Imperial Court as a hostage, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Now one of the galaxy’s most dangerous weapons is masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians and two-faced Senators’ children, and Nemesis must find within herself the one thing she’s been told she doesn’t have—humanity. With the Empire beginning to fracture and rebellion looming, that could be the one thing that s...

Title:  Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All The Boys I've Loved Before #3) Author: Jenny Han Pages: 336 Genre: YA Contemporary/Romance Publisher : Simon Schuster for Young Readers/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: May 2, 2017 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo  *Received a finished copy to review from Simon Schuster Canada Summary ( Goodreads ) Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling  To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before  and  P.S. I Still Love You. Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father’s wedding, she can’t ignore the big life deci...

Title: The Perfect Stranger Author: Megan Miranda Pages: 337 Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction Publisher: Simon Schuster/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: April 11, 2017 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary ( Goodreads ) In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit  All the Missing Girls , a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they in...

UNTIL IT FADES is a contemporary romance novel featuring K.A. Tucker’s signature heart-stopping suspense releasing May 2 nd , 2017 and being published by Atria Books ! Check out the gorgeous cover below and preorder your copy today!   About UNTIL IT FADES: A sexy new romance about a small-town woman who saves the life of a mysterious man, and finds herself unexpectedly thrown into a whirlwind love affair, featuring bestselling author K. A. Tucker’s signature “well-constructed, pulse-pounding suspense” ( USA TODAY ). Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in Balsam, Pennsylvania: population three thousand outside of tourist season. And then one foggy night, on a lonely road back from another failed attempt at a relationship, Catherine saves a man’s life. It isn’t until after the police have arrived that Catherine realizes exact...

Title: The Diabolic  Author: S. J. Kincaid  Pages:  416 Publisher: Simon Schuster for Young Readers/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: November 1, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for.  Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator’s daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side, but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia’s father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia—a killing machine masquerading in ...

Title: It Ends With Us Author: Colleen Hoover Pages: 384 Genre: Romance/Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: August 2, 2016 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo *Received ARC for review purposes* Summary ( Goodreads ) Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself...

Title: It Ends With Us  Author: Colleen Hoover Pages: 384 Genre: Romance/Contemporary  Publisher: Atria Books/Simon Schuster Canada Release Date: August 2, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up. She graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.  Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant and has a total soft spot for Lily; and the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head, but Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his no dating rule, she can’t help but wonder what made ...

Title: The Unexpected Everything Author: Morgan Matson Pages: 496 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Simon & Schuster Release Date: May 3, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo | *ARC was provided by Simon Schuster Canada & Edelweiss for review* Summary ( Goodreads ) Andie had it all planned out.  When you are a politician’s daughter who’s pretty much raised yourself, you learn everything can be planned or spun, or both. Especially your future. Important internship? Check. Amazing friends? Check. Guys? Check (as long as we’re talking no more than three weeks) But that was before the scandal. Before having to be in the same house with her dad. Before walking an insane number of dogs. That was before Clark and those few months that might change her whole life. Because here’s the thing - if everything's planned out, you can never find the unexpected.  And where’s the fun in that? Review:  I loved this book!! Morgan Matson definitely got me hooke...

Title: Swear On This Life Author: Renee Carlino  Pages: 320  Publisher: Atria Books Genre: Romance Release Date: August 9, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  When a bestselling debut novel from mysterious author J.Colby becomes the literary event of the year, Emiline reads it reluctantly. As an adjunct writing instructor at UC San Diego with her own stalled literary career and a bumpy long-term relationship, Emiline isn’t thrilled to celebrate the accomplishments of a young and gifted writer. Yet from the very first page, Emiline is entranced by the story of Emerson and Jackson, two childhood best friends who fall in love and dream of a better life beyond the long dirt road that winds through their impoverished town in rural Ohio. That’s because the novel is patterned on Emiline’s own dark and desperate childhood, which means that “J. Colby” must be Jase: the best friend and first love she hasn’t seen in over a decade. Far from being flattered that he wrot...

Title: The Diabolic Author : S.J. Kincaid Publisher: Simon & Schuster  Release Date : November 1, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  Red Queen  meets  The Hunger Games  in this epic novel about what happens when the galaxy’s most deadly weapon masquerades as a senator’s daughter and a hostage of the galactic court. A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for. Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator’s daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side, but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe. When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia’s father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis ...

The day has finally come for the cover reveal of It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover! She is one of my favorite contemporary new adult books and has never made me hate her books. Just fall in love with them more. This book will be no different but definitely an auto-buy for me! It doesn't have a description but its still looks good! Here is the cover ... . .... ........ ................. .................................. ................................................... Comes out on August 2, 2016!!!! Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So  when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. ...

    We are absolutely thrilled to be able to bring you the Prologue and Chapter 1 Reveal for K.A. Tucker’s HE WILL BE MY RUIN! HE WILL BE MY RUIN is a Romantic Suspense novel, published by Atria books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, and is set to be released February 2, 2016! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Kobo IndieBound | Book Depository | Audible   K.A. Tucker’s HE WILL BE MY RUIN – Prologue and Chapter One: Prologue Maggie December 23, 2015 My wrists burn. Hours of trying to break free of the rope that binds my hands behind my back have left them raw, the rough cord scrubbing away my skin and cutting into my flesh. I’m sure I’ll have unsightly scars. Not that it will matter when I’m dead. I resigned myself to that reality around the time that I finally let go of my bladder. Now I simply lie here, in a pool of urine and vomit, my teeth numb from knocking with each bump in the road, my body frozen by the co...