Callie has had to push herself to survive.  To come here to school, to go forward with her plans, and get on with her life.  After great tragedy she intends to be her best self.

Hayden remembers Callie from high school.  He remembers wanting her from afar.  He remebers her bully attitude.  He does not know who she is now.  Maybe its time?

Such a sweet and sexy story.  I found myself entrenched into the story rather quickly.  Not wanting to put down for anything.  I loved the friendships that were built.  The characters are endearing, charming, and the chemistry is sudden and hot!  I loved this story and cannot wait for the next installment in this incredible series!  I give this read a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

***This ARC copy was given in exchange for an hones review only.

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The past tore them apart.

After a terrible accident took everything from Callie Stewart, enrolling at Blairwood University is supposed to be a chance at a new beginning.

Living his best life, Hayden Watson, star wide receiver for the Blairwood Ravens, is heading straight for the NFL draft and nothing is going to stand in his way.

The present brings them together.

Their paths were never supposed to cross, but when they do, all those old demons and feelings come rushing back. Hayden thinks he knows all about Callie’s life before Blairwood and he’s not ready to let go of the past, much less forgive her for what she has done three years ago.

One thing’s for sure… it’s going to take more than a kiss to conquer their broken past.

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by Hazel Dixon-Cooper & Bridgett Walther

This is a book that would appeal to those interested enough in astrology to read about the specific effects of different planets. It begins with an introduction called "Why we wrote this book" and gives some general information about astrology and Pluto's significance, touching on the official 'downgrade' of Pluto from planet status and the irrelevance of that to Pluto's position in astrology.

The book acknowledges Pluto's bad reputation and clarifies its purpose in presenting challenges, then goes on to talk about how best to use Pluto energy for positive reinforcement. Death is one of Pluto's areas of influence, but the book claims that this is the death of self-destructive behaviors and promises to show you how to overcome self-imposed obstacles.

There is an interesting segment on how the name Pluto comes from Mythology. The official part 1 after the introductory information is about how Pluto has affected each generation. Part 2 is how it relates to each of the sun signs. This part is very general and padded with some information that is likely to be redundant to anyone with enough interest in astrology to be reading books about specific planets.

The third part is about Pluto in the houses. Readers are encouraged to read both the sections on their natal Pluto house and on the current transit. Since Pluto moves slowly, the information is likely to be relevant for the next ten years.

While most people reading this book will probably already have a natal chart for themselves, I think with all the other generalized (beginner) information included in the book that it would have been useful to include a diagram to show the reader how to determine their natal and current house transits for Pluto. It's familiar to me, but there is no guarantee that all readers will have this much previous knowledge of reading astrology charts.

Much of the information offered in the third part sounds rather like a Psychology book, speaking of repeating life patterns that hold us back, only it postulates that Pluto will reveal when and how we are making choices that will continue the repeating patterns. The one thing that bothered me was the level of negative reinforcement, suggesting that everyone has self-destructive behaviors and that Pluto points out the area where they are focused. When I looked at my own transited house, I found an area where I was very much aware of issues and was already on top of taking control of them.

The biggest weakness of the book is not the fault of the authors, but of the limitations of the medium of books written for a wide audience. I felt that the only way to fulfil the promise made in the introduction would be for every reader to obtain an individual analysis to see how Pluto's transit if effected by other elements of their personal natal chart, as well as other current planetary transits. Astrology is a fairly complicated system when done properly.

The one thing I thought would improve the book and overcome the need for padding with general astrological information would have been to be a little more specific with the natal-transit information. Instead of telling the reader to read the segment for both their natal position and the transit, to have sections that related them like "Natal 3rd house, transit 7th house". I have seen Sun and Moon or Sun and Ascendant combinations done in this way in other astrology books.

Overall, I thought the book was interesting and useful and could give someone some perspective on the effects of Pluto in their chart, but it fell a little short on detailed analysis.

This was the most disappointing pair of Ace Double novels that I have yet read. The main point of interest is that they both shared a common theme of sci-fi "supermen," albeit in different circumstances.

The first one I read was Eric Frank Russell's Three to Conquer. In it, a precision instruments maker in the near future who happens to be telepathic stumbles across an alien plot to take over humanity. The idea of an alien virus being able to take over terrestrial life forms is pretty sinister, as it is virtually undetectable by humans, but in the end it serves mainly to give Russell's protagonist the ability to serve as the hero by telling cops and FBI agents how to do their job. It's suspenseful, but the ending is disappointingly anticlimactic.

By contrast, Robert Moore Williams's Doomsday Eve is anything but gripping. His story begins with soldiers fighting in a futuristic third World War encountering frequent interventions by "new people" who demonstrate remarkable superpowers. An intelligence officer assigned to investigate them finds out about their mission to save humanity and the impending effort by the "Asiatics" to destroy the continent. Williams telegraphs his ending practically from the book's early pages, leaving much of the book feeling like a wheel-spinning exercise as a result.