Between fantasy and reality

Goodreads / Amazon / B & N / Book Depository “The rain picks up outside. It hits and slams against the window, but I think it sounds like music--a light mix of tambourine and cymbals. The wind sounds like a guitar, all low, melancholy notes. Thunder takes the drums. I'm quiet as I listen to the song.” The story of Dylan and Gray made me smile, made me laugh, then it made me swoon, and of course, cry. Their story is a beautiful one, one of growing up, never stop believeing in yourself, learning to let go and take a chance and mostly about love. It is written beautifully and it is just one of those stories whose soundtrack you hear in your mind while reading. Sour Cherry by The Kills Shout when you wanna get off the ride Shout when you wanna get off the ride Shout when you wanna get off the ride 'Cause you crossed my mind You crossed my mind Made my blood thump 7-8-9. Make my heart beat double time Now I'm only sour cherry on...

G OODREADS / AMAZON / B & N / BOOK DEPOSITORY “You know, usually the people who smile the most and laugh the loudest are the ones who…suffer the most.”  This was a beautiful story and it begged for a playlist. These songs immediately popped in my head and I think they just work.   You really got me by The Kinks Yeah, you really got me now You got me so I don't know what I'm doin' now Oh yeah, you really got me now You got me so I can't sleep at night Missing by Everything but the Girl And I miss you - Like the deserts miss the rain I'll Be Your Crying Shoulder by Goo Goo Dolls Rain falls angry on the tin roof As we lie awake in my bed You're my survival You're my living proof My love is alive and not dead Tell me that we belong together Dress it up with the trappings of love I'll be captivated I'll hang from your lips Instead of the gallows Of heartache that hang...

Synopsis: There’s nothing worse than a cruel, cunning enemy with time to kill—and my murder to plan. With wicked Fire elemental Mab Monroe long gone, you’d think I could finally catch a break. But someone’s always trying to take me down, either as Gin Blanco or my assassin alter-ago. Now along comes the Spider’s new arch-nemesis, the mysteriously named M. M. Monroe, who is gleefully working overtime to trap me in a sticky web of deceit. The thing is, I’m not the only target. I can see through the tangled threads enough to know that every bit of bad luck my friends have been having lately is no accident—and that each unfortunate “coincidence” is just one more arrow drawing ever closer to hitting the real bulls-eye. Though new to Ashland, this M. M. Monroe is no stranger to irony, trying to get me, an assassin, framed for murder. Yet, as my enemy’s master plan is slowly revealed, I have a sinking feeling that it will take more than my powerful Ice and Stone magic to stop my whole ...

Under My Skin (The Immortality Strain, #1) By  Shawntelle Madison Release Date: 12/09/14 Book Summary: Everyone wants to either be a member of the Guild or work for them. Little does the populace know that the Guild hides sinister secrets... For Tate Sullivan, life in her small, coastal town is far from glamorous. The affluent lives of the Guild members and their servants isn't something she has ever wanted. But all sixteen year-olds must take a simple test, and Tate's result thrusts her into the Guild's world, one where they hide horrible plans for those they select. Tate must fight the relentless General Dagon for control of her mind, body, and soul to keep the one precious thing she has always taken for granted: herself. Her only ally is the same handsome boy she is pitted against in General Dagon’s deadly game. Quinn desires nothing more than to end the life of General Dagon who has taken over Tate's mind. ...

Summary: Some people wait decades to meet their soul mate. Courtney Kaufman suspects she met hers in high school only to lose him at seventeen. Since then, Courtney's social life has been a series of meaningless encounters, though she's made a few close friends along the way. Especially her roommate Max Cooper, who oozes damaged bad-boy vibes from every pore.  Max knows about feeling lost and trying to move beyond the pain he's been on his own since he was sixteen. Now it's time to find out if he can ever go home again, and Courtney's the only one he trusts to go with him. But the trip to Providence could change everything because the more time he spends with Courtney, the harder it is to reconcile what he wants and what he thinks he deserves.  It started out so simple. One misfit helping another. Now Max will do anything to show Courtney that for every heart that's ever been broken, there's another that can make it complete. Goodreads / Amazo...

Summary: New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh stuns with a sizzling contemporary romance…  A bad boy wrapped in a sexy, muscled, grown-up package might be worth a little risk…  Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media’s harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin, and a touch that could become an addiction. A one-night stand with the hottest rock star on the planet, that’s all it was meant to be…   Fox promises scorching heat and dangerous pleasure, coaxing Molly to extend their one-night stand into a one-month fling. After that, he’ll be gone forever, his life never again intersecting with her own. Sex and sin and sensual indulgence, all with an expiration date. No ties, no regrets. Too late, Molly realizes it isn’t only her body...