Have you Pre-Ordered your copy of Freed by E.L. James…

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I absolutely love the love story between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele… And yes, I enjoy a good steamy read too! But, this particular love story is exactly why I read romance. I am so excited for E.J. James newest release, Freed. Can’t wait to dive into the world of Fifty Shades again.

Releasing June 1st, 2021

Relive the sensuality, the romance, and the drama of Fifty Shades Freed―the love story that enthralled millions of readers around the world―through the thoughts, reflections, and dreams of Christian Grey.

Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele have tied the knot―but marriage brings its own challenges. Though their passion burns hotter and deeper than ever, Ana’s defiant spirit continues to stir Christian’s darkest fears and tests his need for control. As old rivalries and resentments endanger them both, one misjudgment threatens to tear them apart.

Pre-Order your copy of Freed today: https://www.bloombooks.com/freed-fifty-shades-freed-as-told-by-christian.html

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine’s “Most Influential People in the World” and Publishers Weekly’s “Person of the Year.” Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is represented by her long-standing agent Valerie Hoskins of VHA London.

E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

Falling by T.J. Newman ~REVIEW~

Make sure Falling by T.J. Newman is on your TBR! What an incredible debut!

Releasing July 6th, 2021

“Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.” —Don Winslow
“Falling is the best kind of thriller…Nonstop, totally authentic suspense.” —James Patterson
“Amazing…Intense suspense, shocks and scares…Chilling.” —Lee Child
“The perfect summer thriller. Relentlessly paced and unforgettable.” —Janet Evanovich

You just boarded a flight to New York.

There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.

What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.

For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.

The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.

Enjoy the flight.

Pre-Order your copy of Falling today: https://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Falling/T-J-Newman/9781982177881

REVIEW

Falling by T.J. Newman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Mind blown! When I saw the cover for T.J. Newman’s debut release I knew I had to read it. Little did I know what a wild ride I was in for.

From beginning to end, Falling had me on the edge of my seat with my heart in my throat. Full of twists and turns, and anxiety-inducing suspense. Just when you think you know what’s coming next, Ms. Newman tosses something else at you! Fab characters and a brilliant plot, Falling kept me engaged and wanting more…Ok, maybe I was a little nervous to find out what would happen next. 😉 Definitely one of my favourite reads this year!

If you love suspenseful thrillers, buckle up! Falling by T.J. Newman is a must read for you!

Photo by Melissa Young

T. J. Newman, a former bookseller turned flight attendant, worked for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 to 2021. She wrote much of Falling on cross-country red-eye flights while her passengers were asleep. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Falling is her first novel.

The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher ~RELEASING DECEMBER 29, 2020~

From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Wives comes another twisted psychological thriller guaranteed to turn your world upside down.

Have you ever been wrong about someone?

Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch.

Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore.

Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel…

She shouldn’t get involved.

She really shouldn’t.

But this could be her chance to make a few things right.

Because if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.

From the wickedly dark mind of bestselling author Tarryn Fisher, The Wrong Family is a taut new thriller that’s riddled with twists in all the right places. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49875586-the-wrong-family

Regretting You by Colleen Hoover is LIVE

“This is Hoover at her very best.” —Publishers Weekly

Regretting You, an all-new poignant and moving novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, is available now!

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

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About Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times and International bestselling author of thirteen novels and multiple novellas. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She is the founder of The Bookworm Box, a non-profit book subscription service and bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas.

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The Arrangement by Robyn Harding…Releasing July 30th

Natalie, a young art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not go online and find a sugar daddy—a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and even give her a monthly allowance? Lots of girls do it, Nat learns. All that’s required is to look pretty and hang on his every word. Sexual favours are optional.

Though more than thirty years her senior, Gabe, a handsome corporate finance attorney, seems like the perfect candidate, and within a month, they are madly in love. At least, Nat is…Gabe already has a family, whom he has no intention of leaving.

So when he abruptly ends things, Nat can’t let go. She begins drinking heavily and stalking him: watching him at work, spying on his wife, even befriending his daughter, who is not much younger than she is. But Gabe’s not about to let his sugar baby destroy his perfect life. What was supposed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement devolves into a nightmare of deception, obsession, and, when a body is found near Gabe’s posh Upper East Side apartment, murder.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201920-the-arrangement

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The Mister by E.L. James…A Swoony Read Awaits You.

The Mister will sweep you off your feet…

THE MISTER, the highly anticipated new love story from #1 New York Times bestseller E L James is available now!

London, 2019.  Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.

But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past.  Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she’s an alluring mystery, and Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name. Just who is Alessia Demachi? And can Maxim protect her from the malevolence that threatens her? And what will she do when she learns that he’s been hiding secrets of his own?

From the heart of London through wild, rural Cornwall to the bleak, forbidding beauty of the Balkans, The Mister is a roller-coaster ride of danger and desire that leaves the reader breathless to the very last page.

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The Mister by E.L. James
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Mister was the perfect read for a hopeless romantic like me! Maxim Trevelyan is dreamy! A swoony romance mixed with edge of your seat intrigue, my favourite kind of romance.

I want to start off by saying that I loved The Mister. I didn’t love it because E L James wrote it, I loved it because it was a fabulous love story. I’ve read some horribly mean reviews and I honestly don’t understand why. The Mister had everything I look for in a romance, strong characters, interesting plot that kept me wanting to know more, a healthy dose of swooning along with some toe-curling sexy time. If I can’t put a book down it ’s a winner for me and I couldn’t put this book down.

What are people wanting from a romance? This reader wants to feel butterflies…I want to be swept away and my heart to be happy after I put a book down, and The Mister did exactly that. I’m praying hard that E L James writes more of Maxim and Alessia’s story, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!

If you are in the mood for sweet, sexy, intriguing romance, The Mister is for you.

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New From Charles Sheehan-Miles…

Make sure to check out Winter flower, the new release from Charles Sheehan-Miles, Winter Flower. It sounds fabulous!!!

From the bestselling author of Just Remember to Breathe and The Last Hour, a shocking and poignant story of a family on the brink of destruction and the transformational events that could bring them back together–or tear them apart.

Every day, Cole Roberts reminds himself that life wasn’t always this bleak. He was once passionately in love with Erin. Sam used to be an artistic and lively kid. They hadn’t always lived in a shabby two-room house in rural Alabama, where he runs a mediocre restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

That was before Brenna disappeared. It was before Cole lost his job and they lost their home.
Every day it gets worse. Erin drinks wine out of the bottle and spends her days with a tormented expression, searching the web for signs of their daughter. Sam hides in his room and rarely speaks. And Cole works himself to a stupor for a paycheck a fraction of the size of his old salary.

Until one day a phone call changes everything.

Winter Flower is at once a tragic tale of the disappearance of a child; struggling with gender identity; of the dark world of sex-trafficking and the transformation and healing of a family. Sheehan-Miles’s longest novel delves into the depths of family life–and how, sometimes, we can heal and find restoration.

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~NEWS~ Checkmate, A Neighbour From Hell Novel by R.L. Mathewson

It’s getting close, who is excited to read R.L. Mathewson’s next chapter in the Neighbour From Hell Series???  WE ARE!!! 🙂

 

Checkmate: A Neighbor From Hell Novel | R.L. Mathewson.

Feature Friday is here!!! We have Liz Reinhardt

 

 

This Feature Friday we have the fabulous Liz Reinhardt! She is a Contemporary/New Adult writer who just released Fall Guy (a MUST READ BTW!). Her work includes the Brenna Blixen Series — Double Clutch, Junk Miles and Slow Twitch. She also collaborated with another fab writer Steph Campbell on the book Lengths (again another MUST READ). She is also the author of Inherit, a mature YA Paranormal, and Forgiving Trinity.

Flirty and Dirty got a chance to catch up with Liz and got a little interview. Here’s how it went down…

Thanks Liz– you know you rock right? We love you.

1. What is it about romance that makes you want to write about it?
I’m kind of a romantic at heart! I met my husband when we were pretty young, and it wasn’t always 100% easy and rosy. We had our ups and downs, but, in the end, we always worked really hard because we are just very much in love. And I love reading about that…about couples who work really hard and do the best they can and seem like maybe they make no sense together, but love each other so much, everyone wants to root for them! After more than 10 years together, I think my husband and I like each other even more than we did when we first me!

2. Do you think you might venture into other genres? (although we really like that you enjoy contemp/romance)

I actually did write a YA para, called *Inherit,* which was an incredibly fun experience and really made my brain work in a whole new way! And I started out writing adult contemporary romance, which was fun, but wasn’t drawing me the way Young Adult and New Adult romance. One thing I’d love to write about is those first few crazy, amazing years of marriage when you’re trying to get your footing and learn how to go from being two separate people to a working unit. And maybe the years with young children. Because little kids are hilarious and I honestly cannot think of anything sexier in my personal life than watching my young, crazy husband become this patient, loving father. It’s absolutely amazing!

3. You co-wrote Lengths with another amazing writer Steph Campbell– how was that? It seems like it would be a difficult task especially to get the right vibe to the book? (Lengths was some AWESOMENESS by the way)

Thank you so much! I’m so thrilled Steph agreed to work with me! What happened was that she was reading my book (*Forgiving Trinity*) while I was reading her book (*Grounding Quinn*), and we’d always been friends, but we suddenly got to emailing more and more. And we were joking that Trinity and Quinn were basically like sister separated at birth, and then I said that we should, maybe, someday write a book together. And Steph was like, “Dude. Don’t joke. Cause I’d love to do that.” She sent me this gorgeous picture from Pinterest and the idea of Marigold, Deo’s mom. Then I wrote a chapter. And she wrote one back. And I wrote another. It was amazing. The story just poured out of us, and I woke up every morning so excited to see if there was a new chapter. It was incredibly fun and Steph and I wound up developing this incredibly fun, easy, lovely, amazing relationship! We plan to write more books together, AND I’m super, super, super excited because I get to meet her at an indie writer get-together this weekend. After countless hours on the phone and online, this will be the first time we meet in person, and we absolutely cannot wait!

4. We gotta ask a couple of Fall Guy questions (I can’t just ignore the fact that Winch is one of the HOTTEST book boys ever!) — was there someone who was an inspiration for his character? or how did you come up with his whole timber/persona? He has just the right amount of bad boy.

This is so incredibly weird, but my first inspiration was this show called *My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.* My mom made me watch it. And there were these travelers who live in Great Britain and they work very hard, but are a little bit of outcasts. And it made me think, ‘What if you were a good person, but got tangled in bad stuff? What would you do?’ And I started re-watching movies like *The Godfather* (which I LOVE), and Winch just took shape in my head. I have a huge crush on him, and am so glad readers have loved him the way I do!

5. Will there be a follow-up to Fall Guy?

There will! I’m currently writing Benelli’s story! And it’s been so interesting, because, where Winch was stuck and looking to get away, Benelli is something of a daddy’s girl and wants to be more involved with the family. It’s just an extremely compelling premise! And I am so in love with Benelli and her man!

6. What do love most about writing? Cuz let’s face it– it’s not always easy.

I absolutely love it when the characters just jump up and down in my brain and demand I write their stories, even when I don’t want to or don’t feel like it. Some days it’s a bit of a grind, but when I go back and re-read, I realize that what was easy for me to write (or hard) is indistinguishable as long as I follow my characters’ voices. I just love when a seed takes root and blossoms in these crazy directions you never expected. It’s almost like looking at a baby picture of your child and thinking, “I have no idea what this baby will look like or be like.” And then, five years later, you look again and say, “Oh, of course! That’s exactly the way she was going to turn out and she’s perfect!”

7. Tell us one thing about Liz Reinhardt that isn’t related to books.

That’s a good question! I love violent, gory mobster movies! And documentaries about anything from the Dali Lama to marijuana! And crazy teen ballet dramas from Australia! I am a very eclectic movie/TV viewer! I hate cooking, I love travelling all over the world, and I plan to learn to ballroom dance one of these days, even if I’m a total klutz!

Thank you SO MUCH for asking me these great, fun, funny questions!! I had such a blast answering them! You girls ROCK!!

Liz is ROCKTASTIC!!! We love her here at Flirty and Dirty and we absolutely love her writing. If you haven’t read any of her books, you are seriously missing out and need to get them right away!!

Here are some links to her blog site and to her books available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble —

http://elizabethreinhardt.blogspot.ca/                                                                                                                            (blog site)

http://www.amazon.com/Liz-Reinhardt/e/B005LR2EW4/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1348812226&sr=8-2-ent (Amazon link)

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/liz-reinhardt?keyword=liz+reinhardt&store=allproducts               (Barnes and Noble link)

~~NEW REVIEW~~ Fall Guy by Liz Reinhardt

Everyone has been buzzing about Liz Reinhardt’s latest novel Fall Guy.  If you haven’t read Fall Guy yet, I would highly suggest adding this to your to-read-next list!

Evan Lennox has had a complicated young life, she has recently moved in with her Grandparents.  She also has a knack for making bad choices, one of which lands her before the courts where she meets Winchester (Winch) Youngblood.  Instantly drawn to each other, Winch is exactly the type of guy Evan should stay away from.  Winch has a complicated life and he knows he should stay away from Evan.  Do either have the strength to stay away??

I loved Fall Guy, it’s a light read without being light on the story.  So much takes place in Fall Guy and yet the story flows with such ease.  Liz Reinhardt is great at character development and I absolutely loved the characters of Evan and Winchester.  I also loved how strong the supporting characters were as they played an important role in this novel.

I couldn’t put Fall Guy down, I kept wanting there to be more.  I am really hoping that Liz Reinhardt keeps the story going… please!!!  Don’t miss out on this great read 🙂   N.  5

(Read September 23,2012) Liz Reinhardt definitely knows how to balance out the sweet Georgian charm and the sexy bad boy in Winchester Youngblood. Just his name is enough to make you fall for this book boy.

Winch is gorgeous, sexy, and he’s hiding something. Evan(Lennox) is beautiful, fierce and trying to compensate for a family that has always been broken. A chance meeting has these two drawn together like a moth to a flame. Both think that maybe they should retreat and not be with one another because of what each thinks is wrong in their life. But they can’t let each other go. They fall hard for each other and discover things that aren’t easy to deal with. Evan does not hold back on what she is feeling– she let’s you know what she is thinking all the while being somewhat guarded yet fierce.
Winch has baggage! Evan is determined to get him to lighten the load and Winch is trying to find balance. He feels responsible and obligated. Together they will find a way to free themselves and let go to really love. Love one another.
Liz is phenomenal at writing this genre. The characters are raw and intense while being funny, honest, and sincere. I really enjoy how she goes back and forth with POV’s yet manages to keep the story fluid and smooth. She adds humour in the banter between characters and being a New Adult book, adds just the right balance of sexy and desire. There always seems to be a character in any of her books that you can relate to on some level. Her secondary characters always play a pivotal role in her stories and aren’t just there for fluff and filler.
FALL GUY is a definite must read! Praise to Liz Reinhardt. D 5