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Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Stacy Travis for the opportunity to help promote this new release! This bad boy needs an image makeover. Can the quirky librarian get the job done?  He’s a Keeper, an all-new opposites-attract, grumpy-sunshine romance full of heat and heart from bestselling author Stacy Travis is out now! Drunk-texting a grumpy soccer star? Best worst decision of my life. Especially when the player is the sinfully handsome, foul-mouthed Holden Sanders… my new library assistant. The benched bad boy needed an image makeover, I needed to save my job, and his star status was just what the library ordered to raise awareness for our fundraising campaign. The press can’t get enough of Mr. Growly reading to kids. It's win-win and completely platonic. Until I need a shoulder to cry on after drowning my heartbreak in too many margaritas. I only typed that invitation to his brawny biceps and perfect pectorals for fun–I never meant to hit send. Holden isn’t the kind of guy ...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Roxie Noir for sending me an e-ARC of this book to read and review!  As always, this review reflects my honest opinion and can also be found on my Goodreads . I will say fake dating is one of my favorite tropes and that I sort of expected this one to be the same as many others I’ve read. I will also say I was a FOOL for thinking that. This book is honestly now one of my favorite fake-dating stories!  (What else can you expect when it is also enemies-to-lovers?   It’s a two-for-one, best-of-both-worlds situation!) To start, Silas and Kat are kind of forced into fake-dating each other rather than intentionally seeking each other out for a fake date, which switches up the usual dynamic. I love that they have a backstory, lending history to their mutual dislike. And that both of they are determined to do what it takes to take down Evan - a mutual enemy. The concept of a mutual enemy is also a new element of a familiar trope but I was...

 Thank you to Social Butterfly PR and Erin Nicholas for sending me an e-ARC of this book to read and review!  The Boys of the Bayou and Boys of the Bayou Gone Wild books are some of my favorite romance series, and while I'm sad to see it end, I cannot wait for Badges of the Bayou up next! As a planner and a perfectionist, Knox was just fine keeping Fiona out of his private life (and staying out of hers). She is always in the middle of the action with her animal rescues, and he has enough on his plate already. But when she temporarily relocates to Autre and he learns some big secrets she’s been keeping, Knox may need to reevaluate what he really wants from the fierce brunette who is always in his thoughts.  Fiona has some thinking to do as well, about family, home, and the definition of her own personal freedom.  Luckily for her, she knows someone great at making plans and sorting things out.  Photo from my bookstagram - @ bookworminkayla Another Boys of the...