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GOOD MORNING & HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!! I’m late today, but you’ll see why in my “three things” below. 😉 Stick with me while I build today’s list and let me know your three things (and if you found anything awesome to read). 😀

THREE THINGS:

1.) I spent the weekend in Sarasota and Bradenton and had the best weekend ever!!! I laughed and laughed the entire weekend, and spent it with a permanent smile on my face. I think I’m still smiling!! Lots of great discussions, and laid back ambiance, and just… pure fun. From morning to night… happiness.

2.) Spent time walking (and eating) on the beach at amazing restaurants on the water. One called the Sand Bar rocked my world (and had an amazing ceviche that I devoured). Literally at a table on the beach sand by the water. Watched the sunset, then the night sky, the moon, the stars… everyone eating there was in vacation mode and having fun!

3.) I ate pretty much non-stop this weekend (tried all sorts of amazing places – including “The Salty Dog” in Sarasota also on the water – and I was SO BAD!! I ate their famous “Salty Dog” which is: “1/4 pound hot dog dipped in our batter and fried to a golden brown” <— I loaded it up with yellow mustard and ate 3/4s of it. I wanted to eat it all, but that would have been weird right? LOL!!

4.) So from Prime Rib and truffle fries, to crazy huge hot battered dogs, to cobia ceviche and cobia fish tacos to an all meat pizza and buffalo wings (that was a midnight snack order-in LOL!!) to an amazing blackened redfish on creamy risotto… WOW. Just an amazing weekend feast.  Now I need to get back on my “eating track” ’cause I’m feeling a difference in how my clothes fit. 😉 LOL!! But SO worth it.

LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE  !!!

1. Cocky Tech God: A Hero Club Novel by Roe Valentine <— SHE HAS TO SHARE HER ROOM WITH HER COMPETITOR!! “…When I left Manhattan to go to a technology conference in the Cayman Islands, only to run right into my competitor Hansen, AKA the Tech God, I should have known things would get complicated. We were both there to land the cybersecurity contract for Morgan Financial Holdings, and neither of us were willing to play nice. But I didn’t expect things to get so messy when the hotel screwed up our reservations and I ended up having to share the same hotel room with Hansen…”
2. Genmate Mistaken (Genmate Dilemma Book 1) by Cara Bristol
3. Mystic Veil: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel: (Poppy’s Potions) (Haven Hollow Book 11) by J.R. Rain and H.P. Mallory
4. Endgame Romance (Lost Daughter of a Serial Killer Book 3) by C.M. Stunich <— TRILOGY CONCLUSION REVERSE HAREM ALERT!! “…Finding out you’re in love with three impossible boys isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The stepbrother. The boyfriend’s best friend. The sister’s ex. Life would be complicated enough if we didn’t have to navigate a social circle populated with serial killers...”
5. Mating Monsters (I.S.S.) by M. Sinclair <— REVERSE HAREM!! “…My monsters had found me… and they weren’t letting me go. The institute, also known as ISS, housed the most terrifying nightmares that existed in this world…but the true monster was the one that tortured me day in and day out. The one that made me feel worthless and question if I could even call myself a monster. My mother. I knew I would never escape her…”
6. Playing Dirty in Alaska (Captivity, Alaska Book 2) by Samanthe Beck <— SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!! “…Bush pilot Bridget Shanahan runs from responsibility like a child runs from a dentist appointment, but when her brother leaves the family’s airfield in her hands, she knows it’s time to step up and behave like a Responsible Adult™. So of course that’s when Archer Ellison III blows into her tiny town of Captivity, Alaska, every inch the hot-as-hell mistake that most definitely belongs in her past...”
7. Secret and Lies: A Secret Baby Romance (Recovery Ranch) by Annie J. Rose
8. How to Win a Duke’s Heart: A Regency Romance (Seductive Scoundrels Book 14) by Collette Cameron
9. Tyrell: Novella (Black & White) by Xyla Turner
10. Truth is a Whisper: A Christian Cowboy Romance (Wolf Creek Ranch Book 1) by Mandi Blake
11. The Baby Proposition: A pregnancy bargain romance (Anything for Love) by Kim Loraine <— HOCKEY STAR & SHE’S HIS BEST FRIEND… “...The night she tells me she’s ready to get knocked up by some random donor changes everything. Not on my watch. I might not be partner material — running the family business and my new hockey team keeps me so busy. I barely have time to talk to a woman, let alone fall in love. But there’s no way I’m letting my friend pick Donor #257, or anyone besides me. The arrangement is perfect. I make my donation, she gets her baby, we go back to being friends. No strings. No messy heartbreak. Until we decide it’ll be a lot more fun to make a direct deposit and get her pregnant the old-fashioned way...”
12. Iced (VII Knights MC) by Winter Travers
13. Tempting the Vicar (The Wicked Waywards Book 2) by Liana LeFey
14. Taken: A Dystopian Fated Mates Omegaverse Romance (The Uncaged) by Amber Ella Monroe
15. Hayes (Holy Sinners MC – California Book 3) by Evie Monroe <— BIKER ONE NIGHT STAND PREGNANCY ALERT!! “...When I see the sweet waitress at Freddie’s Bar, I know she’ll be mine. Just for a night. Didn’t even get her name. No need to, it’s just a hook up. That’s what I do, love ‘em and leave ‘em. I don’t expect to fall for any woman, and I don’t expect them to fall for me. I’m a hard man to love…“
16. Dancing with Dandelion: A Christian Enemies-to-Lovers Romance (Bloom Sisters Book 7) by Tara Grace Ericson
17. Original Sin, A Dark Mafia Romance: The Sinners Duet Book 1 by Elizabeth Miller
18. Falling for My Nurse (Falling, #2): Second Chance Romance by Theresa Paolo
19. He’s with the Band by Julie Stone <— SHE USED TO BE A MEGA-FAN & NOW SHE’S THE BACKSTAGE PHOTOGRAPHER! “…she takes her Divorce Party one bottle of Pinot Grigio too far and wakes to discover she’s quit her boring-ass job, arranged to sell her house, and has tickets to the Golden Tiger reunion show. Which is exactly when fate and Campbell decide it’s time to pick up where she left off all those years ago. Now Campbell’s on tour as the official photographer of her favorite band and living the life she’s always dreamed. But backstage access means that she’s about to discover a whole lot…”
20. The Second Chance (Brookhaven Blues Book 2) by Amanda Bailey
21. Torn in Texas (Big Heart, Small Town Address Book 3) by Sandy Appleyard
22. Postcards by Elizabeth Maddrey
23. Kingdom of Cruel Intentions: Book: 1 (The Kingdom) by Aleena Rhea James <— MAFIA ROMANCE!!! “…Julian Caradonno, the crown prince of the Caradonno crime family: He was my hero. He was my lover. But now, he is my enemy. His love was a blade that stabbed me in the back. All I see is revenge for the naïve, lovestruck girl I was. It wasn’t until the Savage King of Russia, Ivan Petrov, emancipated me from that silly girl who had faith in fairytales...”
24. The Second Chance (Brookhaven Blues Book 2) by Amanda Bailey
25. Waiting for Right Now (Finding Home Book 4) by K. Leah
26. Everything Is Fine (The Thing About Love Book 2) by Halo Roberts
27. A Trial of Deception: Book 4 (Fantasy Romance) (The Kingdom Trials Series) by Abigail Grant
28. Gunshy by Marnie Vinge <— ROCK STAR ROMANCE!! “…Together on a tour bus for several weeks, Wade and Stevie navigate the downfall of their relationship, a political gathering for the NRA, backlash from the country music community, what’s really going on in Stevie’s current relationship, and the fact that some flames never burn out as Stevie’s ulterior motive takes a back seat while she’s on that tour bus with Wade…”
29. Boone’s Girl by Tracy Broemmer <— HER EX’s BEST FRIEND! “…When Bodhi Reyburn returns to Lake Clair to take a teaching position, the last person she expects to see is her ex’s best friend, Will Bennet, and the last thing on her mind is finding love. She needs a fresh start, which includes leaving the past—Tyson Boone—in the past and finding herself...”
30. Tease Me (Hart of Stone Family Book 1) by Tory Baker <— SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!! THEY MET AT A WEDDING… “…Tanner is a tall glass of water on a hot summer day, handsome didn’t even touch the surface and the way he gave me his rapt attention at my best friends wedding it was unbelievable until it was too good to be true. Yet, he never called and no girl ever wants to be forgotten…”

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