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Love Over Logic 
by Diana A. Hicks 
(Desert Monsoon #2) 
Publication date: November 15th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Attorney, Emilia Prado has been living in hiding, ever since the local cartel killed her dad and left her and her mom for dead. But when her long lost cousin needs help leaving her drug lord husband, Emilia knows her time for justice has come.

Hot shot lawyer, Dom Moretti never met a case he couldn’t win. Each win puts distance between him and an old life he wants to forget. But when Emilia, a crush from law school, asks for his help, the life he worked so hard for hangs in the balance.

Out to even the score, Emilia is ready to enact revenge on her father’s killer. But will she risk losing Dom to a side of himself he thought was dead and buried?

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38392787-love-over-logic

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Love Over Logic is the 2nd book in the Desert Monsoon series.

Summer, love, and second chances in the Southwest

Three women too proud to ask for help find the last thing they were looking for: a second chance at love and a new life they never thought could be theirs.

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/series/226212-desert-monsoon

1 Lover Over Lattes
2 Lover Over Logic

3 Lover Over Time

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Top 10 Most Romantic places

Hey romance readers of Stormy Vixen’s Book Reviews, I’m so happy to be here today sharing my Top 10 Most Romantic Places. In my sometimes humble opinion, I think a place earns it’s romantic stars if it gives couples a chance to explore new things together in a spectacular setting. Bonus points if it also offers bubbly wine. Most of these places have definitely made it into my writing in one way or another.

In no particular order….

1. Beijing, China - I know, I know. Bear with me, I’ll explain. For your romantic experience, you have to take a gondola that I’m sure gets maintained often up to the Great Wall. If you’re there in January, it’ll be freezing. Snuggling with your favorite person while risking your life to see one of the 8th wonders of the world is romantic. I promise you. When you get to the top, thousands of years of history will leave you breathless, and you will always associate that rare feeling with the person standing next to you.

2. Paris, France - I had to follow with an easy one. Paris has Uber now, so it’s hard to get lost while counting all the bridges and getting drunk on cheap Bordeaux. But it still meets my criteria for best romantic place, AND they have champagne.

3. Bora Bora - This place makes the list because it’s a secluded Polynesian island with over-the-water bungalows and crepes. I think this place needs no explanation. Honestly, for me, any beach will do.

4. The Blue Ridge Mountains - If you’re going to visit, do it at end of October when the season changes and the views are spectacular. Find a porch and try some local mead. Or if you can’t make it all the way to the South, watch Outlander, the new season.

5. San Gimignano - A short drive from Florence, Italy, this 12th century village is perfect for people watching and drinking all the Chianti you can handle. Tons of old alleys to explore and just get lost in the history.

6. Sedona, Arizona - I’m a desert girl. This place has it all...good food, drinks, and spectacular views. I sent Dom and Emilia from my latest release (LOVE OVER LOGIC) here for their first date.

7. Vail, Colorado - There’s just something romantic about fresh snow, a roaring fire, and a warm drink.

8. Livingstone, Zambia - South Africa has been on my bucket list for years. But here, you get to stay in a tree house built into the riverside canopy. The idea of this place makes my little romance writer brain spin with ideas and scenes.

9. Mendoza, Argentina - Malbec Vineyards, beautiful views, and long walks. Day made.

10. Home - Oh come on, I had to. Some of the best romantic moments can happen right at home. Best part is you don’t have to pack or learn how to say “Ten beers, please,” or “Where’s the bathroom?’ in Mandarin. It’s as they say, home is where the heart is. I know it’s corny, and I’m okay with that. :-)

Wow! Thanks for joining me and my followers here today, Diana! I love your most romantic, lots of varied and unusual places to make the romance extra special! I also have to agree with you that exploring new places and things is a great way to spend time with your partner and provides lots of memory making moments. How about you romance readers out there, what do you think? 

Until next time, Diana!

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Diana A. Hicks is an award-winning author of steamy contemporary romance and science fiction. Her latest release LOVE OVER LATTES, Book 1 in her Desert Monsoon Series, is a 2018 Readers’ Favorite Honorable Mention in the Romance – Contemporary genre! 

When Diana is not writing, she enjoys kickboxing, traveling, and indulging in the simple joys of life like wine and chocolate. She lives in Atlanta, and loves spending time with her two children and husband.

Connect with Diana on social media to stay up to date on her latest releases.

Website - https://dianahicksbooks.com/

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The SEAL’s Contract Baby 
by Katie Knight 
Publication date: November 29th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

After an “incident” on his last SEAL mission, Zachary “Z” Raybourn has been relegated to babysitting duty. He’s spent the last six months guarding the daughter of a small foreign nation, a girl so valuable to the US that she apparently can’t buy milk without him trailing along like a lost puppy. He’d joined the military to make a difference and stayed enlisted because of the SEAL team he considers family. Now all he wants is to get back to them ASAP.

Esme Hollycombe is her country’s last hope. Her father the King controls a very important port that serves as a naval base for the US. But with her father’s rapidly declining health, and her US-hating cousin next in line for the throne, Esme has been frantically searching for a loophole in her country’s law that says only a man can rule. The only thing she finds is that she can rule in the stead of any male heir she gives birth to. Unmarried and certainly not pregnant, the loophole isn’t of much use to her. Until her attention turns to the hot SEAL protector who has been pacing the palace for the last six months like a caged animal. He’d do anything to get back to his squad; and she’d do anything to keep her cousin off the throne, leaving him unable to evict the US and all their military protection from her country.

Esme offers a contract to Z: get her pregnant, marry her so the heir will be legitimate, and he can have his life back. Z eventually agrees. But being the partner of a princess comes with far more action and intrigue than he’d ever dreamed. He also finds that making a baby is an easy way to fall in love. Now, Z will have to choose: the military family he misses, or the nuclear family he’s creating.

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Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42598383-the-seal-s-contract-baby

Riffle - https://www.rifflebooks.com/books/1029556

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“I’m twenty-eight years old. I don’t need a babysitter.” Her Royal Highness, Princess Esme Hollycombe of the tiny southern European country of Prylea, squared her shoulders and raised her chin. “I’ll take a regular security team with me to Washington, DC and be done with it.”

Her father’s intelligence advisors exchanged a look, then the head of security—a slightly hunched older man named Greaves who’d been hired by her father before Esme was born—gave her a quizzical stare. “Yes, your grace. But please remember that this trip is not only about you. Your ailing father, the king, will also be making the journey to get a second opinion on his condition. We cannot afford to leave either one of you unprotected during these turbulent times.”

Darn it. He had a point. And he knew just the right buttons to push. Esme would do just about anything for her father, as Greaves was well aware. Never mind the fact that the king was dying. This new opinion he was seeking in Georgetown would only slightly prolong his life, at best, or put another nail in his already well-sealed coffin. But she couldn’t turn down the chance to extend her time with him, even by one more day.

She swallowed hard against the lump of sorrow that had been lodged in her throat since her father had first been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years prior. Since then he’d been in and out of treatments, traveling the world to seek a cure for what was, as of yet, incurable. Still, if it gave her father some small measure of hope, she’d do whatever she could to ensure he got to see the specialist in DC.

Her fingers itched to pull out the knitting she’d brought along in her purse, but she clenched her fists instead. The hobby kept her busy and sane during these dark times and also helped her with one of her dearest charitable causes. All of the blankets she made were distributed to a charity for Prylea’s poor—under a fake name, of course. It wouldn’t do to have the royal family seen as nothing but a bunch of crafters, even for a good cause.

Esme took a deep breath and looked across the room to where her usual contingent of security guards stood. Most of them were middle-aged and indistinguishable from the others. They blended into the background as their job demanded. Silently watching and waiting for danger to rear its ugly head, then they’d spring into action to defend and protect.

One man, though, a relative newcomer, stood near the window, the sunlight striking his blond hair and making it look like spun gold. After six months of service, he was still an enigma to Esme. She was intrigued by him, watching him as closely as he watched her, and not because he was gorgeous either. Sure, the guy had the ripped physique of an ex-military man. He was a former Navy SEAL after all. But there was something more about him, a lingering haunted look in his gray-green eyes that had her wondering exactly what had happened to him during his time as a SEAL. She’d tried to find out by snooping through his employment records, but with everything else going on, she hadn’t had time to do a proper in-depth search.

“Your highness, we need an answer before you leave tonight,” Greaves said, his stern, jowly look setting her nerves on edge again. She didn’t like being forced into a corner.  “We must insist on the security detail, princess. If you refuse, we’ll be forced to send your cousin Silvester in your place.”

Oh, he was good.

Silvester had once been a friend who’d now turned rival. The guy was only interested in power—namely the throne of Prylea. Unfortunately, Esme’s father had failed to secure her place in the line of succession for the country by changing the outdated rule in the Prylean constitution that said a woman could not rule. So very nineteenth century. So very irritating.

The last person on earth she’d want representing her or her country in the United States was her cousin Silvester. Esme was having a hard enough time trying to figure out how to get around her country’s antiquated rules without thrusting her power-hungry cousin out on the world stage to strut about like the overblown peacock he’d become.

“Fine.” She took a deep breath. “But I choose the team lead.”

“Fine.” A muscle ticked in Greaves’s cheek, but otherwise his face remained stoic. He leaned closer to whisper to his cronies then turned back to Esme. “We agree. But you must choose from the current team members already in the room.” His beady black eyes glittered behind his wire-rimmed glasses, as if he’d just pulled off some wonderful coup. “May I suggest Sutherland. He’s quite accomplished and has long served your father with loyalty and distinction.”

Sutherland was a short, stout man of brisk manners and few words. He and her father were old friends. “He’s fine to guard the king. I’ve got someone else in mind for head of my detail.”

Greaves raised a bushy white brow but remained silent.
“I want him.” She pointed to the blond Adonis still leaning against the wall by the window, looking for all the world as if he were bored to tears. “Zachary Raybourn.”

“But, your grace—” Greaves sputtered. “He’s not even been with the team for a year yet. And he’s not a Prylean citizen. He’s American.”

“All the better.” Esme bit back a smile at the way the old man said that last word, more like an unsavory curse than a nationality. She pushed to her feet, blood pounding and knees wobbling. Her late mother had always said that being a good monarch demanded firm judgment and a will to succeed. Esme had the drive to become the next queen down pat. The judgment part was still in question. But Raybourn was really the only choice she had. All the other men were loyal to the Prylean constitution. At least Raybourn didn’t give two hoots about her country or its dark-age ways. He was here for the job, at least from what she could tell. And he kept his mouth shut, which was even more important. Heck, he’d barely said more than two words beyond the normal civilities to Esme the entire time he’d been in the family’s employ. “I want him to be the lead of my personal team or no deal.”

She gave a quick side-glance to see Raybourn had straightened and was looking as stunned as she felt. Good. She raised her chin to him. “Do you accept the position?”

Raybourn hesitated, then smoothed a hand down the front of his black suit coat. “Yes.”

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It isn’t a big surprise Katie Knight ended up writing romances about the stellar, studdly men of the Navy SEALs; after all, she was a K-9 trainer for the SEALs and met her own Navy SEAL hero husband while preparing one of their K-9 partners for combat. A few years after their marriage, her and hubby decided to retire with their K-9 partner, Sam, to raise their children in the Midwest. It wasn’t long after that before Katie decided to write her own stories featuring the men of the SEAL teams and the women who love them.

When not imagining dangerously romantic scenarios for her heroes and their feisty heroines, Katie enjoys hikes with her husband and Sam, spending time with her children, and long runs (on and off the beach)

Website - http://leslienorthbooks.com/katie-knight

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