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Christmas on Stardust Lane by Garrett Leigh – Caz's Reading Room
A scarred ex-biker sworn off love. The hot new nurse in town guarding his own bruised heart. Tam Dubois is used to being alone. With a body that bears the marks of his mistakes, he’s grown to like it. But scratching out a living with pen and ink is tough, the numbers don’t work, and…
TBR Challenge: A Chance Encounter by Gayle Buck – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon The fateful encounter, and a rash decision, changes their lives forever. Lord Humphrey Dewesbury doesn't want to offer for the annoying Augusta Ratcliffe, but the alliance was concocted when they were children. Joan Chadwick, an orphaned vicar's daughter, faces a dreary life as a governess. Neither wants to…
Missing Chord (Road to Rocktoberfest 2024) by Kaje Harper – Caz's Reading Room
Two huge mistakes. One second chance. Griffin Music's a harsh mistress, if you want to make a living by her. Years ago, when I was on my way up, I met a man. Sparks flew, hearts leaped, you know the song. But I was chasing my dream all across America, and Lee was tied to…
Quickie Reviews #7 – Caz's Reading Room
It's been a while since I've done one of these round-ups of shorter-than-usual book and audio reviews. FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK by Various Narrated by Joel Leslie & Kale Williams Entrée to Murder by Nicole Kimberling After a steady diet of big city trouble, Chef Drew Allison moved to the island town of Orca's Slough to…
The Kiss Principle (Hazardverse: Sidetracks) by Gregory Ashe – Caz's Reading Room
Keep it simple, stupid. After spending his whole life taking care of his family, Fernando Lopez is ready for simple. His younger brothers have grown up and moved out of the house. His mom is stable—or as close to stable as she’s ever going to get. He’s even got a shot at his dream job…
Halo (The Beginning of Everything #1) by E.M. Lindsey (audiobook) – Narrated by Iggy Toma – Caz's Reading Room
One mistake: Victor got into the wrong car. One decision: Oliver didn't kick him out. One lie: neither of them knows who the other person is—at least, not until it's too late to turn back. There are many words for what Oliver does for a living, and none of them are very kind. Oliver's time…
Storm Tossed Moon (Storm Over Scotland #3) by Maggie Craig (audiobook) – Narrated by Steve Worsley – Caz's Reading Room
Edinburgh, January 1744: Scotland stands on the brink of armed and bloody conflict. Travelling secretly across Europe from Rome, Prince Charles Edward Stuart is determined to claim his birthright. His fervour is matched by homegrown Jacobites who long to see the House of Stuart restored to the British throne. Redcoat Captain Robert Catto has painful…
Phase Shift (Chaos Station #5) by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen – Caz's Reading Room
Zander and Felix’s relationship has always pushed boundaries—personal and professional alike—but their love and commitment is stronger than ever. So strong that Zander’s ready to ask commitment-shy Felix the question of a lifetime when he’s interrupted. The Chaos is being hacked, and crucial, top secret information about the project that created Zander—and his fellow super…
By His Side (Reset #2) by H.L. Day – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Probation officer Darien Quinn prides himself on being good at his job, but his new client is about to test his professional and personal boundaries to their limits. Felix Church is sexy, clever, and too damn manipulative for his own good. And as for his background… that’s dark…
Dust Bowl Magic (Carnival of Mysteries) by Z.A. Maxfield – Caz's Reading Room
Dr. Lucas Hamilton is the best cardio-thoracic surgeon on the West Coast when he learns that a one-night stand he had fifteen years before produced a daughter, Sophie. Lucas knows how bad it feels to have remote, status-obsessed parents and wants to do better. They move to New Mexico and spend more time together, but…
Cold Spite (Cold Justice: Most Wanted #5) by Toni Anderson – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon When FBI Agent Delilah Quinn survives an attempt on her life, she pretends to be dead in order to outwit her attacker. There is only one person she can turn to for help—a man she never wanted to see again…a man who abandoned her five years ago and…
Grave Misfortune (Fortune Favors the Fae) by Nazri Noor (audiobook) – Narrated by Zachary Johnson – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon Darkness sleeps beneath Barrowdeep. War-weary mercenary Leoric has traded his sword for a shovel, burying the undead blight that plagues the little town of Barrowdeep. Now he fights for the living instead of against them. Fae trickster Orphium travels from town to town, stealing human trinkets…
Between You and Me (The Last Picks #5) by Gregory Ashe – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Hunting a killer is scary. Talking about your feelings is scarier. Dashiell Dawson Dane is certain the universe is conspiring against him. After all, things have been good—almost too good—for way too long. He’s got a great group of friends. He’s writing regularly. And things with Bobby seem like…
The Bait (Milvus Files #2) by N.R. Walker – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon When three men turn up in their sleepy little town of Tallowwood, Harry and Asher know something’s wrong. Not because someone could find them, but the fact that Asher’s informant and oldest friend, Yunho, failed to alert them. Messages and phone calls unanswered; Harry and Asher go to…
On the Edge (Mount Hope #3) by Annabeth Albert – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon DANGER! RIDING TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE! My life is one big caution sign. Ever since my best friend’s all-grown-up son joined our shared home, I’ve been navigating a growing attraction to the injured motocross rider. Declan unleashes every protective and caretaking impulse I have, and I genuinely…
Immortal Sentry by Eden Winters – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon. Honor, redemption, destiny, and magic. As captain of the king’s guard, Kerric should have laid down his life for the royal family. Now, the king and his heirs lie dead. Kerric deserves death, too, yet the court mage has another punishment in mind. For their failure on the…
TBR Challenge: A Frost of Cares by Amy Rae Durreson – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Looking for a fresh start, historian Luke Alcott takes on a job cataloguing the archives in an old army training centre. Eelmoor Hall is an old house on a lonely heath and the only other living soul on site is Sergeant Jay McBride, the surly caretaker. But Luke…
Vine (Island Love #3) by Fearne Hill – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Caspian Pumkin-Watts is at the end of his rope. Miserably divorced and facing a career crossroads, when he’s offered a chance to spend nine months filming a reality TV show on a French holiday island, he grabs it with both hands. There are only two problems. His co-star…
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon. Low stakes. High heat. Sharp steel . . . Mattinesh Jay, heir to his family’s struggling business, needs his arranged marriage to go off without a hitch. But if he’s to successfully restore his house’s fortunes, Matti must first hire a swordsman to defend him against any sword-challenges…
Inversion Point (Chaos Station #4) by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Zander and Felix’s relationship has been to the brink and back: the Human-Stin War, imprisonment and an actual death/resurrection. Zander’s death, to be specific, and the experience has left him…changed. The mysterious race known as the Guardians chose to revive him and appointed him as their emissary. A…
The Flirty Vet (Vet Shop Boys Down Under) by Casey Cox (audiobook) – Narrated by Rupert Channing – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Audible via Amazon Wilby Linfox is the world's biggest flirt . . . From the moment he stumbles into my life-drunk, singing, shirtless-I knew he'd be trouble . . . But I'm in Australia to do exactly three things: work, check out some touristy hotspots, and scatter my mother's…
The Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Saving Christmas? Easy! Saving their relationship? Not so much . . . Patrick Hargrave and Quinn Muller have been married for less than a year, but their passionate romance is cracking under the pressures of domestic life. That's until Christmas Eve, when Patrick wakes Quinn up with: 'I…
Look Up, Handsome by Jack Strange – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Quinn wants to save his bookshop, the last thing he needs is to fall in love… Hay-on-Wye’s only queer bookshop is always a hive of activity. So when it’s threatened with closure, its owner Quinn Oxford is determined to do whatever it takes to save his beloved shop. That is…
Lighting the Darkness (Carnival of Mysteries) by Eden Winters – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Only Light can balance Darkness. Lio wakes in someone else’s battered body with plenty of questions but no answers. Who is he? Who are the strangers who rescued him? Why do they call him Tenebris and Darkness? And why does everyone treat him like a feral dog about…
Secondhand Skin by Hailey Turner (audiobook) – Narrated by Gary Furlong – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Audible via Amazon Nothing says you can’t steal a heart. Keeping it though? That’s another problem. Wade Espinoza knows a thing or two about hoards. As a dragon, he’s got plenty. What he doesn’t have is a relationship, and he swears he’s not looking for one. But when he’s…
The Phantom (The Mind Hacker #2) by AJ Rose – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon How do you catch a killer whose playground spans the United States? FBI Special Agent Tracey Smith is barely back on his feet when Behavioral Analysis Unit 4 is dropped into the heart of another case. This one proves a brilliant agent’s hunch was right: This perpetrator hunts…
Settle the Score by Kris Ripper (audiobook) – Narrated by Pete Cross – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Audible via Amazon Aspiring investigative reporter Des Cleary had dreams of a better world—one more accepting of people like him—when he broke the story of Orion Broderick’s relationship. A story that kicked Orion out of the soccer halls of fame and sent him careening into obscurity. Racked with shame,…
Airs Above the Ground (Carnival of Mysteries) by Rachel Langella – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon As a member of the Flying Galliers in the Carnival of Mysteries, Mario Gallier has remained an eternally young and carefree teenager for over a hundred years. When the Carnival stops for a time on a magic-sparse world, Mario finally meets a man for whom he wants to…
The Cursed Sebastian Storm (Moonlight Falls #2) by Colette Rivera – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Some magic changes you forever. Sebastian Storm didn’t dare dream of a future beyond Storm House. He never hoped James Gray might want to keep him. But it seems that’s exactly what James plans to do. Too bad they won’t last. No one ever picks Sebastian, and he…
The Seduction of James Gray (Moonlight Falls #1) by Colette Rivera – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Mystery, temptation, and risking it all. James Gray lives a life free of complications. Even in Moonlight Falls, a town known for supernatural activity, he stays away from the more sinister magical arts, preferring the simple work of a magical electrician. Sebastian Storm is a man James hasn’t…
TBR Challenge: Fall Hard by J.L Merrow – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon When you’ve already paid the price for falling, is it safe to trust again? An accident at Iceland’s Gullfoss Falls robbed British academic Paul Ansell of his American lover—and his memories of all their time together. Eight months later, back in the volcanic land to resume his research…
Power of the Mind (Shadowy Solutions #2) by Nicky James – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon It’s not a real case, he’s not my boyfriend, and we aren’t partners. Three lies I told myself for survival. After ten months of shamefully stalking and showing up randomly on Tallus’s doorstep at midnight (for reasons), the sinfully hot records clerk decided he’d had enough of my…
Maybe You (Until #3) by Briar Prescott – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Wren: These days I’m a keeper: I keep to myself, keep busy, and keep my head down. Until him. Sutton Holland. Annoying, arrogant, spoiled man-child extraordinaire. And he’s not even trying to hide any of it. He says he’s shallow. That he’s blunt to the point of offensive.…
One Burning Heart (Welsh Blades #4) by Elizabeth Kingston – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon William prefers not to think of his insufferable burden of a wife. She’s far too pious and, even worse, painfully meek and submissive – qualities he holds in the highest contempt. But there’s very little he won’t do to achieve his political ambitions and fulfill his duty as…
Broken Bird (The Last Picks #4) by Gregory Ashe – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon All’s fair in love and…publishing? It’s nearly Christmas, and Dashiell Dawson Dane already has enough on his plate: finding a present for his parents, coming up with excuses not to hang the Christmas lights, and finishing this stupid story he’s been writing (okay, maybe he needs to start writing it).…
Fall For Him by Andie Burke – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Dylan Gallagher’s hot neighbor loathed him from the second he moved in, and causing a flood, falling through the floor, and landing directly onto that same neighbor’s bed probably means that’s unlikely to change. The poorly timed “It’s Raining Men” joke didn’t help. Meanwhile, ER nurse Derek Chang’s…
Cold Cold Heart (Willow Falls Murders #1) by Laura Jordan (audiobook) – Narrated by Teddy Hamilton – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be downloaded from Audible via Amazon Two things saved Lincoln Bennett after his wife died. The first was a murder Marla had been trying to solve, a murder that hinted at the secret life she'd been leading, and the lies that had formed the bedrock of their entire marriage. The second was…
Skip Trace (Chaos Station #3) by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon Zander Anatolius has been revived from the fatal effects of the super-soldier program, but now he has to face his estranged family and tell a story few would believe. With his lover and the crew of the Chaos at his side, Zander returns home to a media frenzy, threats from…
You’re the Problem, it’s You (Mischief & Matchmakers #2) by Emma R. Alban – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon There’s a fine line between love and hate. Bobby Mason is sick of being second best: born the spare with the personality of the heir. James Demeroven, is a Viscount who wishes he wasn’t one. His title brings far too much attention. They can barely get through a…
Angel’s Share (Agents Irish and Whiskey #5) by Layla Reyne – Caz's Reading Room
This title may be purchased from Amazon FBI agent Aidan Talley just wanted to spend the holiday weekend cheering on his husband’s basketball team. Instead, he’s investigating a cargo theft for the family business and coming face-to-face with a loose end from the case that almost tore him and Jamie apart. Coach Jameson Walker may…