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[Release Blitz + Review] Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Entress's Blog) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400

🎄NEW RELEASE!! Christmas Staycation by Meghan Quinn is LIVE!!

Tropes.

Holiday Romance

Ex’s Brother

Baseball Romance

He Falls First and Hard

Opposites Attract

Spicy Romance

Small Town Romance

Rom Com

BLURB.

Nothing says Merry Christmas like fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex's brother.

Nolan never met a spotlight he didn't like. As a major league baseball player with a filthy mouth, an ego the size of the North Pole, and zero interest in behaving, he's perfectly happy breezing into Christmas in Kringletown like the charming disaster everyone expects him to be.

Taran, on the other hand, has made an art form out of keeping the peace. She's polished, careful, and so committed to making everyone else happy that she's somehow agreed to a fake wedding with her ex just to keep her family's holiday from imploding.

There's only one problem: the ex in question is Nolan's brother, and Nolan sees right through her. He knows Taran deserves better than pretending her way through life.

And he'd really like "better" to be him.

Now Taran is juggling family expectations, holiday chaos, and a man who is far too cocky, far too funny, and far too determined to bulldoze every wall she's ever built.

But with Christmas closing in, secrets snowballing, and one very fake engagement threatening to blow up in spectacular fashion, this holiday season is about to get messy. And someone's sure to end up on the naughty list.

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MY REVIEW.

4.5 Stars from Tiffany!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Back to Kringletown We Go!

In this third installment of the series, the spotlight is on Storee’s sister, Taran, and a future she doesn’t want. Nothing like a pretend wedding to bring the family together for the holidays in the most Christmassy town imaginable!

Taran and Guy have been dating for five years. They aren’t an opposites-attract couple; rather, they’re basically the exact same uptight person. Things have gotten boring, so they decide to call it quits. But with Aunt Cindy’s failing health and Taran wanting her parents to visit more Christmases, she agrees to fake-marry Guy and then move on after the holidays. If that right there doesn’t tell you how this story is going to go, add Guy’s brother Nolan and let the fun begin!

Nolan is A LOT in a good, yet annoying, way. He’s Guy’s opposite and has longed for Taran since the first time he met her in a strip club. Sure, he’s still living his life, but after a stolen kiss with his brother’s girlfriend on New Year’s Eve four years ago, his mission was to make Taran his. As I always mention in a Meghan Quinn review, Jason Orson is one of my favorite characters, and Nolan is a super-sexual version of him in my mind. This guy was sex 24/7 and didn’t care who was around when he was throwing out the lines or making his moves. While cringey at times, it was still laugh-out-loud funny, and you had to take him with a grain of salt to fully appreciate his personality.

The book loosely follows the format of Christmas Vacation, with a little Sixteen Candles thrown in. All the parents are under one roof, additional guests add to the chaos, and there’s a crazy house-lighting event for everyone to enjoy.

There’s a fake wedding being planned in the background while Nolan and Taran are getting together, and all the while, I was feeling bad for Guy, who was actually a nice guy. The big question was when the other shoe was finally going to drop, because you just know that wedding isn’t happening.

The book is well-written and funny as all get-out in pure Meghan Quinn style. While a tad gratuitous at times, I do have the sense of humor of a fifteen-year-old boy, so I appreciated most of it! I loved that all our Kringletown characters were represented, too, as we got to catch up with them along the way. The book can be read as a standalone, but it’s more fun when read in order.

MEET MEGHAN QUINN.

USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, MEGHAN QUINN brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.

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[Release Blitz + Review] Craving Silence by Freya Barker

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Entress's Blog) — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400

TITLE: Craving Silence

SERIES: Silence #5

AUTHOR: Freya Barker

GENRE: Romantic Suspense

RELEASE DATE: October 16, 2026

BLURB.

Nurse practitioner, Dana Kerrigan, finds her steady and comfortably predictable life suddenly turned upside down as the result of a family emergency. With no choice but to take a leave from work, she has to hustle to keep Silence’s favorite pub running and her parents looked after.

When heartbreak brings with it an unexpected opportunity to realize a long-held dream, it presents a new set of problems.

One that involves murder, and the man sent to investigate.

As a recent transplant to Silence, sheriff’s detective, Rick Althof, was aiming for less stress and more solitude. Instead, he finds himself frequently drawn to The Kerrigan, a popular pub in town, to enjoy a meal, a beer, and—if lucky—a friendly chat with the owner’s pretty daughter.

Still bearing the invisible scars of past mistakes, he’s determined to keep things friendly, despite a growing attraction.

AVAILABLE NOW.

Grab your copy today!

https://freyabarker.com/books/silence-series/craving-silence/

MY REVIEW.

4 Stars from Renee!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was pulled right into this story. The story has laughs, suspense, twists & turns, secrets, and heartbreak.

This is Dana and Rick’s story. She is a nurse who is helping out after a family emergency. He is a detective who is pretty new to town. He comes into the pub for friendly conversation with her. If he wanted more, he would want it with her. She somehow gets involved in a bad situation and he knows he has to help her out. As they are working together to figure things out they both fall hard but in the end they have each other or will they walk away?

I recommend this book.

MEET FREYA BARKER.

USA Today bestselling author FREYA BARKER loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories.

With forty-plus books already published, she continues to create characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy.

Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We've Read All Year Award for "Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, and Finalist for the 2020 Kindle Book Award with “When Hope Ends”, Freya spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!

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[Release Blitz + Review] Lavender Hill by Aurora Rose Reynolds

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Entress's Blog) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400

✨Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for LAVENDER HILL by Aurora Rose Reynolds!

You will love Lavender Hill if you love…

🌱Small Town Romance

💜Return to Hometown

🌱Opposites Attract

💜Grumpy Sunshine

🌱Sworn Off Relationships

💜Protective, Loyal, Alpha Sheriff

🌱Meddling, Match Making Mother

💜Dog Dad

BLURB.

From New York Times bestselling author Aurora Rose Reynolds comes a heartwarming small-town romance about a woman returning to the roots that shaped her—and finding a love that will heal her.

Genevieve Fenwick has her life together—until her fiancé’s betrayal tears their future apart. Now, heartbroken and unsure of what’s next, she looks for comfort where it all began: Gooseberry Ridge, the quaint and still-welcoming hometown she left behind.

Genevieve’s heartache is soon displaced by family drama, eccentric neighbors, and a loveable search and rescue dog. Not to mention scandalous thoughts about deputy sheriff Wyatt Foster. But while Wyatt is ruggedly handsome, loyal, and protective (everything her fiancé wasn’t), Genevieve’s still hurting. No amount of chemistry can change that.

And yet, as her meddling, matchmaking mother and tight-knit Montana home keep pushing her and Wyatt together, Genevieve realizes there’s more than just a spark there. The charge burns brighter with every run-in, every word, every layer exposing the softness beneath his strength.

Wyatt has something Genevieve wants. Something she needs. And though her best-laid plans lie in ruins, he might be the best shot she’s ever taken.

AVAILABLE NOW.

Grab it here & in Kindle Unlimited!

https://aurorarosereynolds.com/books/lavender-hill/

MY REVIEW.

5 Stars from Renee!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was pulled right into this story. The story has laughs, pain, sadness, secrets, and heartbreak.

This is Genevieve and Wyatt’s story. She is back in her hometown after being betrayed by her fiancé. She has a bad year trying to get over that and move back home. Now she is ready to work, and the work starts out with her new client Wyatt. He is a deputy who is running for sheriff. Her mother is helping him run and pushing them together at every turn. The more time they spend together the more they fall for each other. Can she move forward with Wyatt and trust the man he is and trusting he is the one for her? Or will she lose him because of her past relationship issues?

I highly recommend this book and can’t wait for the next story from this author.

MEET AURORA ROSE REYNOLDS.

AURORA ROSE REYNOLDS is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author whose wildly popular series include Until, Until Him, Until Her, Underground King, Shooting Stars, Fluke My Life and How to Catch an Alpha series.

Her writing career started in an attempt to get the outrageously alpha men who resided in her head to leave her alone and has blossomed into an opportunity to share her stories with readers all over the world.

Connect with Aurora Rose Reynolds:

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