![]() AUTHOR: Nicole Hurley-Moore GENRE: Rural Romance PAGES: 304 pages RELEASED: 1 April 2017 SERIES: Violet Falls #2 SYNOPSIS: In one short day Lily Beckett's life falls apart when she loses her dream job in fashion and finds out her boyfriend is having an affair. Totally devastated, she ends the relationship and flees the city. Lily heads to the country town where she grew up to seek sanctuary with her big sister, Violet, and niece, Holly. But bad luck hits her yet again when she crashes her car on the way. Fortunately a local grazier, Flynn Hartley, arrives on the scene to find her dazed but uninjured. Gradually Lily's life picks up and she decides to stay put for a while, helping out her sister and renovating the beautiful old shop she inherited but has never had time to focus on. Meanwhile, Flynn showers her with attention, but Lily is aware of his bad-boy ways and isn't willing to risk heartbreak by becoming his next conquest. And yet, he won't give up and insists he's turned over a new leaf. ![]() AUTHOR: Lise Gold GENRE: LGBTQ+ Romance PAGES: 308 pages RELEASED: 27 January 2023 SERIES: The Resort #3 SYNOPSIS: London-based casino manager Meghan has no expectations of her two-week holiday in Spain; she’s just tagging along with her friend who’s visiting her love interest. When they arrive at a deserted hotel due to a booking fault and her friend leaves to see her boyfriend, she’s left with the bartender who stays on for the night. Bartender Florence is excited for the Pride weekend held at Paradise Hotel, but she did not anticipate working a shift the night prior to serve only one guest. Meghan, the guest in question, is anxious about staying in her room alone, and after an unexpectedly pleasant evening together, Florence offers her company to make her feel safe. Meghan is delighted with the arrangement that serves them both, but her attraction to Florence confuses her. As the only straight woman at a Pride event, she can’t help but feel conflicted about all the female attention her new friend is getting, and she starts questioning everything she thought to be true about herself. ![]() AUTHOR: Alice Oseman GENRE: YA Contemporary PAGES: 392 pages RELEASED: 31 July 2014 SYNOPSIS: My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people – I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that’s all over now. Now there’s Solitaire. And Michael Holden. I don’t know what Solitaire are trying to do, and I don’t care about Michael Holden. I really don’t. ![]() Happy Autumn Besties! March marks the official start of Autumn here in Australia - I know that other countries don’t use calendar months to signal seasonal change, but that’s what we do here, although I do know that the actual official start of Autumn is at the equinox on March 21. But regardless of when seasons officially start or finish, I do know that the season of my Summer 2023 playlist has come to an end, which means it’s time to share the songs that got me through the past three months! I’ve definitely started the year off on the right foot and have been listening to some absolutely amazing songs and artists on repeat - it’s going to be so hard to not include some of these songs on my next playlist again, just so I can mix things up for the Autumn. Spoiler alert: I’ve been OBSESSED with The Wldlfe recently… ![]() AUTHOR: Lise Gold GENRE: LGBTQ+ Romance PAGES: 321 pages RELEASED: 14 February 2022 SERIES: The Resort #2 SYNOPSIS: After years of working abroad as a chef, Zoe returns to her home town in Spain to embark on the next step in her career: executive chef in a new hotel. She’s excited to put together a team and create a menu to die for before the hotel opens, but after meeting the building contractor, wounds from her past put a dampener on the challenge. Marcy keeps herself busy. Apart from her day-to-day job as a contractor, she’s either working on her dream home or chasing the ladies. She’s a people pleaser; always friendly and on good terms with everyone, yet the new chef at the hotel she’s renovating can’t stand her, and she can’t figure out why. When they meet at a pool party during a women’s only weekend, Marcy is shocked to discover she shares a brief history with Zoe. A history she’d long forgotten about. ![]() AUTHOR: Elle Kennedy GENRE: College Sports Romance PAGES: 361 pages RELEASED: 11 January 2016 SERIES: Off-Campus #3 SYNOPSIS: He knows how to score, on and off the ice Allie Hayes is in crisis mode. With graduation looming, she still doesn’t have the first clue about what she’s going to do after college. To make matters worse, she’s nursing a broken heart thanks to the end of her longtime relationship. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution to her problems, but gorgeous hockey star Dean Di Laurentis is impossible to resist. Just once, though, because even if her future is uncertain, it sure as heck won’t include the king of one-night stands. It’ll take more than flashy moves to win her over Dean always gets what he wants. Girls, grades, girls, recognition, girls…he’s a ladies man, all right, and he’s yet to meet a woman who’s immune to his charms. Until Allie. For one night, the feisty blonde rocked his entire world—and now she wants to be friends? Nope. It’s not over until he says it’s over. Dean is in full-on pursuit, but when life-rocking changes strike, he starts to wonder if maybe it’s time to stop focusing on scoring…and shoot for love. ![]() Happy Thursday Friends! I don’t know about you, but I’ve been favouring a much more pared-back makeup routine these days, opting for a more lightweight and natural look. I may have a million and one makeup products that I’ve loved playing around with and using, but time and time again, I stick with my trusty favourites and keep things as simple and as easy as possible. Don’t get me wrong, I still love going all out with a full-face of glam makeup when the occasion arises, but for the most part, I just stick with the basics. I don’t know if it’s the post-pandemic world we’re living in, the current makeup trend, or just that I can see 30 somewhere on the horizon, but simple and lightweight is where it’s at for me these days. So I thought it was time to give my trusty favourites a moment to shine and share my current makeup routine, where the focus is on keeping it simple. This post contains some affiliate links* and products have previously been sent for review+.
![]() AUTHOR: Lise Gold GENRE: LGBTQ+ Romance PAGES: 347 pages RELEASED: 28 October 2021 SERIES: Resort #1 SYNOPSIS: Paradise Hotel is anything but paradise. Lisa Walker comes to that conclusion the moment she arrives at the all-inclusive resort in Benidorm, Spain. Recovering from a painful break-up and the loss of her job and her flat, she was hoping the low-budget escape might do her good, yet she couldn’t have been more wrong. Stella Castillo, poolside manager at Paradise Hotel, is delighted to be back at work after a long lockdown. The guests are equally excited, celebrating life going back to normal. Apart from one woman, who her colleagues refer to as ‘Miss Grumpy’. When Stella’s colleague makes a faux pas and insults Lisa, Stella steps in to try and smooth over the situation. What starts out as a tentative friendship soon leads to more and as Stella begins to understand why Lisa is so unhappy, she unexpectedly finds herself falling head over heels with the beautiful Brit. ![]() AUTHOR: Amy Lea GENRE: Adult Romance PAGES: 384 pages RELEASED: 10 May 2022 SERIES: The Influencer #1 SYNOPSIS: Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym - her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding, Crystal discovers there's a soft heart under Scott's muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, she just might have found her swolemate. But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength. ![]() Happy February Friends! Where on earth did January go? I feel like this year is already flying by and it’s only just started! It’ll be bloody March before we know it, and then Christmas will be back round again… With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I thought it was the PERFECT time to share some romance books that you totally need to be picking up this month. If you’ve been following me for a while now, you will know that I absolutely LOVE reading romances, meaning I had a tonne of books to wade through in order to narrow the list down to just 14. So to try and make things a little easier, I wanted to share specifically queer romance reads. I’ve made it a point over the last year to get some more queer books on my TBR, and I’ve read some absolutely fabulous books thus far. So if you want to add a little more romance to your February and want to make it a little more queer, then these fourteen books are ones you definitely need to be checking out! The post contains some affiliate links.*
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