Desperation for cash has led me down a rainbow painted hallway to Frankie’s Funhouse—a children’s gambling casino. Or as my boss likes to call it, a pizza arcade.Thoughts on Frankie's Funhouse: Going to be honest, a circa-1980's mall is already setting the stage for some serious carnage, so when a possessed animatronic gets thrown into the mix I just figure that ALL BETS ARE OFF. And I was right.
The coworkers are strange, the patrons are disturbing, and the animatronics are possessed. Which I was willing to put up with until my boss died.
Well, he was murdered, actually.
Now I have to serve pizza and birthday cake while thinking about burning down the mall to hide a body for an animatronic that keeps hitting on me.
Drug dealings in the backrooms, puddles of blood seeping out from the storage closet, and parents threatening to talk to my (dead) boss if I don’t get their screaming kids' pizza was all manageable...
Until I realized I didn’t mind Frankie’s possessed tongue in my mouth.
When I’m hanging over a cliff and getting ready for death, the only way out is to promise the Grim Reaper anything he wants.Thoughts on Grim: Faced with an ignoble end, Beth does what anybody who's about to expire thanks to falling off a cliff while trying to help an abandoned goat would do. She tells her Grim Reaper she'll do anything to survive. He, quite naturally, sees this as a binding agreement and now Beth has to complete her side of the bargain since her Grim DID save her.
Because what’s a girl to do when her arms are going numb and she doesn’t want to become a pancake? Also, he is kind of gorgeous. I mean, apart from the terrifying skull he has instead of a head, his eye sockets filled with fire, his horns, and his prehensile tail.
When I fall to my death and Grim catches me to whisk me off to his lair, I am ready to look past the skull and the horns. But then, it turns out I’m not really saved. The only way for me to stay alive is to drink his essence. The essence that shoots out of the sinfully monstrous thing between his legs. Yup. That essence.
It tastes nothing like what I’ve expected.
Red’s plan is to drop off treats at her grandmother’s cabin, and maybe catch a glimpse of the Wolf everyone’s warned her about. But she’s about to discover that some legends are dangerously real—and impossibly tempting.Thoughts on Hunted and Knotted by the Wolf: I enjoyed this book overall, but I did think there was a lot of repetition in how often both Red and Wolf thought of how she'd been claimed and was his now. Like, I absolutely get that this is supposed to be primal and a deep, driving urge and maybe both of them were lost in the moment and what was happening, but there was a lot of how he had claimed her and marked her and was now his.
The Wolf doesn’t just want to catch her…he wants to claim her.
One sniff of her scent, and this alpha’s primal instincts roar to life. This curvy girl is his fated mate, his omega, and he’s ready to chase her down, knot her tight, and show her exactly what it means to be caught by the big bad wolf.
He’s the one man in town she’s been warned about. So why does he feel like the only safe place to be?Thoughts on Healed by My Hyde: We're back in Fairhaven Falls and Dr. Victor Jackson is up. His special someone? Pregnant, independent (although maybe not entirely by choice) Chloe who's new to town, but who finds her groove pretty quickly. Partly thanks to Flora who sets her up with a job that suits her organizational skills perfectly.
Pregnant and seeking a quiet place to start over, Chloe arrives in Fairhaven Falls hoping for a peaceful sanctuary. What she finds is Dr. Victor Jackson—a male as handsome as he is rigidly controlled. The town whispers about the darkness he keeps locked away, but Chloe sees past his forbidding exterior to the lonely male beneath.
Victor has spent his life caging the beast within him. Every emotion is suppressed, every minute scheduled. But the gentle female with the sad eyes and warm heart is a temptation he can’t resist. Her touch threatens to awaken the possessive, primal instincts he has fought for so long.
One passionate, reckless night shatters his carefully built defenses, leaving Victor convinced he has to push Chloe away to keep her safe. But when a historic blizzard traps them together in her isolated cabin, the storm outside is nothing compared to the one raging within him. And when disaster strikes, the only thing that can save Chloe is the very beast she’s been told to fear—and his monster has already decided she belongs to him.
I planned for s’mores, sunburns, and a peaceful summer by the lake.Thoughts on Hot Monster Summer: Lily's rented an isolated, lakeside cabin in an attempt to get over her ex-fiancĂ© cheating on her with her sister. Which is already terrible and it's made even worse when the two cheaters expect her to be happy for them. Umm, no? But thanks for playing. So. To give herself some space to deal with her heartbreak (on two fronts), Lily is looking to be alone so she can grieve and move on.
A little solo soul-searching. A few regretful texts to my ex. Maybe a hot summer rebound. Not, uh… monster custody battles over who gets to eat me first.
(Literally. Probably. Hopefully.)
Turns out the “quaint cabin” I rented? Yeah, it’s smack in the middle of monster territory claimed by:I wanted time to wallow.
- A Kraken shifter who collects vintage romance novels and thinks personal space is optional.
- A forest troll with arms like oak trees and the world’s most dangerous smile.
- A jealous Dire wolf shifter who claims I’m his mate.
Instead, I got monsters fighting over who gets to roast marshmallows—and me—first.
Now my “healing girl summer” looks more like: one massive monster pile-on, three possessive idiots who don’t know how to share, and about a thousand ways this could end in very questionable decisions.
Surviving the summer might require a lot of sunscreen, a lot of bad choices… and maybe letting myself get a little bit ruined.
Welcome to my Hot Monster Summer.
Where the men are feral, the cuddles are aggressive, and the s’mores are definitely very sticky.
The huge alien orc who runs the pub on Elora Station knows what he wants for Christmas: me.Thoughts on Alien Orc for Christmas: We're back on Elora Station where a sweet, determined human woman is working on setting up her new bakery. As luck would have it, her location is right next to a pub and the charming orc who owns said pub is instantly smitten.
MAGGIE
Seeing my friend Sophie find happiness on the bustling Elora Station is just the kick in the pants I need to follow my dreams. I’m finally going to open my own bakery. When a coveted rental space opens up on the festive commerce station, I jump at the chance.
I have my work cut out for me getting the bakery ready in time for Elora Station’s busiest season: Christmas. I don’t mind – I’m used to hard work.
What I’m not used to?
Having a flirtatious, grinning orc all up in my business. Literally. The absurdly-named Archibald runs the pub next to my bakery, and he spends more time in my shop than his own.
Sure, he’s attractive in a giant, muscly, boisterous sort of way. He’s also funny and kind and shockingly generous. But I need to focus. A girl’s gotta have priorities.
And those priorities absolutely do not include falling head over heels in love with an alien orc at Christmas.
