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*ARC* Say You Still Love Me - Review

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Say You Still Love Me By: K.A. Tucker Published: August 6, 2019 by Atria Books 384 pages Genre: Contemporary Romance Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus, she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day. Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group Industries, and coincidentally the first love of her life. The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The g...

*ARC* - The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker

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The Simple Wild By: K. A. Tucker Published: August 7, 2018 by Atria Books 400 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance Source: ARC from Netgalley ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker. Calla Fletcher was 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 her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla 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 dayligh...

*ARC* Until It Fades - Review

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Until It Fades By: K.A. Tucker Published: June 27, 2017 by Atria Books 368 pages Source: ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: 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 two 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 exactly who it is she has saved: Brett Madden, hockey icon and media darling. Catherine has already had her fifteen minutes of fame and the last thing she wants is to have her past dragged back into the spotlight, only this time on a national stage. So she hides her identity. It works. For a time. But when she finds the man she saved standing on her doorstep, desperate...

*ARC* Four Seconds to Lose - Review

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Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) By: K.A. Tucker Published: November 4, 2013 by Atria Books 345 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of  One Tiny Lie  and  Ten Tiny Breaths . Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with the staff” rule. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control... and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that.  Twenty-two-year...

*ARC* Chasing River - Review

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Chasing River (Burying Water #3) By: K.A. Tucker Published: July 7, 2015 by Atria Books 320 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: A suspense-driven New Adult romance novel from the  USA TODAY bestselling author of  Ten Tiny Breaths  and  Burying Water.  Armed with two years’ worth of savings and the need to experience life outside the bubble of her Oregon small town, twenty-five-year old Amber Welles is prepared for anything. Except dying in Dublin. Had it not been for the bravery of a stranger, she might have. But he takes off before she has the chance to offer her gratitude. Twenty-four-year-old River Delaney is rattled. No one was supposed to get hurt. But then that American tourist showed up. He couldn’t let her die, but he also can’t be identified at the scene—so, he fled. Back to his everyday life of running his family’s pub. Only, everyday life is getting more and more complicated, thanks to ...

*ARC* Becoming Rain - Review

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Becoming Rain (Burying Water #2) By: K.A. Tucker Published: March 3, 2015 by Atria Books 384 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Luke Boone doesn't know exactly what his uncle Rust is involved in but he wants in on it-the cars, the money, the women. And it looks like he's finally getting his wish. When Rust hands him the managerial keys to the garage, they come with a second set-one that opens up the door to tons of cash and opportunity. Though it's not exactly legal, Luke's never been one to worry about that sort of thing. Especially when it puts him behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 and onto the radar of gorgeous socialite named Rain. Clara Bertelli is at the top of her game-at only twenty-six years old, she's one of the most successful undercover officers in the Washington D.C. major crime unit, and she's just been handed a case that could catapult her career and expose one of the west coast's ...

Waiting on Wednesday: Surviving Ice

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: Surviving Ice (Burying Water #4) by K.A. Tucker Expected Publication: October 27, 2015 by Atria Books Preorder Buy Link: Amazon The  USA TODAY  bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths series and  Burying Water —which  Kirkus Reviews  called “a sexy, romantic, gangster-tinged page-turner”—returns with a new novel packed with romance, plot twists, and psychological suspense. Ivy, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is finally looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have found it in San Francisco, but all that changes when she witnesses a terrible crime. She’s ready to pack up her things yet again, when a random encounter with a stranger keeps her in the city, giving her reason to stay after all. ...

Teaser Tuesday #106: Chasing River

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Chasing River (Burying Water #3) by K.A. Tucker: Teasers: "Right, of course. A curtsy. My American princess wouldn't bow." (Loc 51%, 2490 of 4919) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Teaser Tuesday #105: Chasing River

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Chasing River (Burying Water #3) by K.A. Tucker: Teasers: My plans to travel the world were back on with a vengeance, along with a promise to myself to never again divert my life for a guy. (Loc 12%, 610 of 4919) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Teaser Tuesday #104: Burying Water

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Burying Water #1 by K.A. Tucker: Teasers: I am lost and yet somehow found. I am afraid and yet somehow comforted. I am drifting and yet somehow...home. (Loc 76%, page 3855 of 5101) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

*ARC* In Her Wake - Review

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In Her Wake (Ten Tiny Breaths #0.5) By: K.A. Tucker Published: September 1, 2014 by Atria Books 320 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Before you knew him as Trent in Ten Tiny Breaths, he was Cole Reynolds—and he had it all. Until one night when he makes a fatal, wrong decision…and loses everything. When a drunken night out at a Michigan State college party results in the death of six people, Cole must come to terms with his part in the tragedy. Normally, he’d be able to lean on his best friends—the ones who have been in his life since he could barely walk. Only, they’re gone. Worse, there’s the shattered body of a sixteen-year-old girl lying somewhere in a hospital bed, her entire life ripped from her because of a case of beer and a set of keys. Everyone assures him that they know it wasn’t intentional, and yet he can’t ignore the weight of their gazes, the whispers behind his back. Nor can he shake the all-consuming guilt ...

Teaser Tuesday #68: In Her Wake

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  In Her Wake (Ten Tiny Breaths #0.5) by K.A. Tucker: Teasers: If only I had stayed sober like I was supposed to. If only I hadn't handed Sasha the keys. If you haven't yet read this book, I highly encourage to read book one first ( Ten Tiny Breaths ) and then check out this novella. It's definitely an emotional story. What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!