Wrap-Up Wednesday | July

It’s Wrap-Up Wednesday time, and I don’t have much to report. I’ve read about 20 MF aliens romances (don’t judge! 😆 I was in the mood), and then I’ve been drowning in edits and didn’t feel like reading after having spent the day reading my own words. So…

I have a few, precious few, titles this month.

Cat-astrophe by Liv Rider

I can’t remember when I picked this one up, but it’s short and sweet. Low heat with a mage and a lion shifter, and a disappearing kitty. Cute. (And I just saw it’s free)

Matthew is working on a spell when his cat wants his attention. The accidentally enchanted cat disappears — and re-appears in Matthew’s hot new neighbor’s apartment.

Lion shifter Ethan is happy to meet the kitty welcoming committee. Even if the cat’s cute owner is being kinda weird about why the cat keeps turning up in Ethan’s apartment…

Embarrassed by the accident, Matthew is desperate to make a good impression on Ethan, but how can he do that when his cat is busy cuddling up to Ethan instead?

https://books2read.com/Cat-Astophe

Reluctant Rockstar by Frances Fox

I got an ARC of this one, it’ll be out on August 1st – the perks of having author friends 😁 It’s a story about a world-famous rockstar who’d rather stay at home tending to his garden than go on tour. Who doesn’t like a story with aubergines?!

A tired rock star and a judgemental gardener…what could possibly go wrong?
The Purple Lizards are a rock world phenomenon, but lead singer Martin’s tired of his rock-and-roll persona. He’d rather be at home with his garden. When he gets home from tour he finds his gardener has had a heart attack and Simon, his grandson, is helping him out. Simon’s different to Fred. He talks, for a start. Martin and Fred have a perfectly functional friendship based on long silences and discussions about heritage vegetables. Simon talks about personal things as well. It makes Martin prickly.
Simon’s at a bit of a loss. He stepped up to help his grandfather whilst he was in hospital despite his misgivings about the absent Martin. But Fred clearly likes him, which is unusual. Fred prefers plants to people. That he actively likes a rock star who used to smash up hotel rooms is really strange. Simon’s reserving judgement. Apparently the band have a break in their tour coming up. He’ll see whether he can work for the man once he’s spent some time with him.
A tired rock star and a judgemental gardener…what could possibly go wrong?

https://books2read.com/ReluctantRockstar

Not His Kiss to Take by Finn Marlowe

This is the reread of the month, so you can hop on over to Holly’s and read what I wrote there. Doctors kink. Not my thing. At all. And yet… Dr Pervy Pants has a special place in my heart LOL

A single kiss could change both their lives forever, but it’s not his kiss to take…

Dr. Evan Harrison has become a recluse, a prisoner inside his own house, felled in his prime by a migraine headache without end. All he’d ever wanted was to be a doctor, and now he’s nothing – until chance delivers a beaten and battered Jamie into his care. Fourteen years his junior, gorgeous, mouthy, stubborn and completely and unquestionably straight. Maybe. Or maybe not…

Jamie doesn’t know what hit him, other than there were three of them, and that he’s broken and in pain and he doesn’t know the identity of the kind stranger with the cold stethoscope and warm eyes taking care of him. And he sure as hell doesn’t know why he likes his bossiness or finds him sexy….

Chance may have brought them together, but a shared attraction keeps them together long after Jamie’s bruises have faded. As Evan enjoys the longest pain-free stretch he’s known in two years, they begin to explore their attraction, the caresses of a kind Jamie’s never known. But even as Evan revels in his young lover’s first, tentative touches, the guilt is never far from mind. Jamie’s never looked at another man romantically and Evan’s never looked at anything but. And Jamie won’t kiss him. That would be…gay.

Evan wants Jamie’s kiss more than he’s ever wanted anything before in his life, but it’s not his kiss to take, its Jamie’s to give. Evan knows wanting Jamie is wrong, their relationship unethical, a relationship forbidden with just cause. He swore an oath to do no harm. And it’s not only his oaths that are going to get broken–he’s never given his heart away before.