Book Blitz with Giveaway: Shopping for a CEO's Wife (Shopping for a Billionaire #12) by Julia Kent

Book info:
Title:  Shopping for a CEO’s Wife
Author:  Julia Kent
Series:  Shopping for a Billionaire #12
Publication date: April 25th, 2017
Genres: Adult, Romance

Snowbound. Sounds so romantic, with visions of cuddling before a roaring fire, hot chocolate spiked with brandy, and a secret elopement.

Wait. What?

My fiancé’s father won’t stop trying to turn our pending wedding into a three-ring media circus so he can get free publicity for his family’s Fortune 500 company. My mother has decided she’s done with All Things Wedding and asks her teacup Chihuahua for mother-of-the-bride advice.

They’ve all gone certifiably mad.

Then the stress from the wedding puts my mother in the hospital, I scream at my future father-in-law in front of a camera crew and the video goes viral, and the romantic wedding that started with Andrew’s grand Pride and Prejudice proposal looks less like Jane Austen and more like Dostoyevsky.

So what do you do when you’re a fixer and you can’t fix something?

You give up on it.

Not on Andrew, silly.

The wedding.

Shopping for a CEO’s Wife is the 12th book in Julia Kent’s New York Times bestselling Shopping series. As Shannon and Declan enjoy their newlywed bliss, Andrew’s father wants to exploit Amanda and Andrew’s nuptials, much to Amanda’s chagrin. Can she learn to stand up to her future father-in-law and fight for what’s right? But the real question is: will Spritzy the teacup Chihuahua end up being a flower girl?

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EXCERPT:

“You have a remarkable capacity for imagining the strangest worst-case scenarios, Amanda.”

“I have to. I’m in love with you.”

“Hey!”

“Did I or did I not walk miles in an 1800s Regency-era costume after you lost your car keys AND a three-carat diamond ring in Walden Pond?”

“Yes, but — ”

“Did you or did you not have to rescue me, half clothed, from a pool at your brother’s wedding?”

“I am sensing a trend.”

“And did you, or did you not, wake up with me in a Vegas hotel room, thinking for a few hours that somehow we’d both married more than one man?”

Now he just sighs.

Ah.

Victory.

Author Bio:

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever, down.

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Review: Bigger and Badder by Jackson Kane

Book info:
Title:  Bigger and Badder
Author:  Jackson Kane
Genre:  Contemporary romance
Published:  October 2016
Source:  E-book from author for review
My rating:  4 stars

I just recently found this author, but I found him first as a cover model.  I'd been following him on Facebook for awhile, and when the opportunity came up to read his book, I definitely volunteered.  And I have to say I was not disappointed in the least!  As far as I know, I've only read romances by women authors before.  There were a few things that kind of stood out as a man having written this, but not in any way that made the story bad. 

There are two main characters that we get the story from, Judy and Garrett.  The start of the story we see the "meet-cute" between the two.  It's at a masquerade ball and while the two have a really nice dance and time, Garrett soon leaves, and goes on with his life.  The two of them didn't really know who the other was at the time.  But when Judy's town is trying to save itself by building a stadium, they call Garrett in to try to finance their plan to save the town.  Garrett is sure from the very start that there is no way he can help this town.  It isn't until Judy shows up, and he sees something about her, that he decides he will give her the chance to convince him, especially when she immediately pegs him as a conceited jerk.  Garrett's life is already pretty full, with many reasons for him to be pretty conceited.  He's been a champion football player, he's a billionaire, and all of this before the age of 30.  He does have a young daughter though, and she comes first. 

The three days that Judy has to convince him seem to go pretty well, until at the end the town refuses to accept the terms he puts out in order for him to help.  And when that happens, someone else swoops in to "help" the town. But really, they don't plan to help, they plan to let the town sink, and he intends to make it so that it seems it is all Garrett's fault in the end. 

Garrett will have to decide just how much Judy means to him, and if he is able to save the town and still reach his goals before the age of 30.  Judy will have to figure out how to deal with what is in Garrett's life, and what his being back has changed in her life. 

This second chance romance was a good one.  There were definitely some very hot and sexy scenes.  I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to reading more.