“Kiss Me in the Rain” (#1 of Destined for Love: Mansions Collection) by Lindzee Armstrong

“Kiss Me in the Rain” (#1 of Destined for Love: Mansions Collection) by Lindzee Armstrong

I really enjoyed this story! I loved reading about Tyler and Layla’s summer and then their reuniting at Cypress Grove. Layla doesn’t want to lose her home so she decides to help out after their event coordinator suspiciously gets fired. Layla finds out that things aren’t always what they seem as she starts investigating employees and the mansion’s financial records. Tyler starts helping Layla out at the mansion but she wonders if he will ever get the courage to ask her out.

I can’t wait to read more in this series! Well written, steady pace, great characters, clean romance!

I received a copy of this ebook complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Cypress Grove has always been a treasured constant in Layla’s perfect life. Now the mansion will be sold to the highest bidder if she doesn’t date an investor’s son. The problem? The man she really wants just rolled into town.

Tyler is done being responsible and never going after what he wants. Layla’s finally given him the courage to quit grad school and use his student loans to flip houses. And he’s decided to move near Cypress Grove to do it.

When Layla happens upon suspicious ledgers at the mansion, her family’s financial woes take a sinister turn. As Tyler and Layla work together to find the culprit, the attraction between them threatens to burst into flames. But admitting their feelings could spell disaster for Cypress Grove.

Books in the Destined for Love: Mansions Collection
—Kiss Me in the Rain by Lindzee Armstrong
—Roping His Heart by Jaclyn Hardy
—The Princess and the Pizza Man by Cassie Mae
—Mending Fences by Lorin Grace
—Love Me at Sunset by Lucinda Whitney
—Saving Her Plantation by Cami Checketts

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Biography
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Lindzee Armstrong is the USA Today bestselling author of the No Match for Love series and Sunset Plains Romance series. Like any true romantic, she loves chick flicks, ice cream, and chocolate. She believes in sigh-worthy kisses and happily ever afters, and loves expressing that through her writing.
Lindzee met her true love while at college, where she studied history education. She and her Prince Charming are now happily married and raising twin boys in the Rocky Mountains.

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“Run Like a Diva” 5k race, promo code & race packet #runelikeadiva #divaDC

I am SO excited!! On Friday my friend Sarah and I are headed up to northern VA for the Run Like A Diva race packet pickup and 5k race!! I have been a runlikeadiva race ambassador for them which means I received a complementary race ticket in exchange for sharing my honest thoughts and experiences about their race and about my race training.

I also have a promo code that can save you 10% off you D.C. 5k or half marathon race registration: RDDIVADC17

This will be my third year participating in their races and it’s well worth the 3 1/2 hour drive one way for me to go!

I get a bag, pink tutu and shirt at packet pickup and then a HUGE amazing medal and a tiara when I finish!

In fact, EVERYONE gets all those things when they register and participate…and this year we even get a jewelry charm!!

Check out their website www.runlikeadiva.com for upcoming races or to join me next year! They already have 2018 dates posted!!

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“The Berenstain Bears Bless Our Gramps and Gran” by Mike Berenstain


The Berenstain Bears Bless Our Gramps and Gran (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights) by Mike Berenstain

This book focuses on explaining “Grandparents Day” (which is in September) as Mama and Papa help the cubs decide how to honor them on a rainy day. I love the Living Lights series because it focuses on family, faith and values using scripture references and bible stories.

They also included great suggestions in the back of book to help celebrate Grandparents day. My 7 year old LOVES Berenstain Bear books and we look forward to getting the newest book!

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
In The Berenstain Bears Bless Our Gramps and Gran, the newest title in The Berenstain Bears Living Lights series, Mama, Papa, and the cubs decide it’s high time they honor Grizzly Gramps and Gran.
It’s almost Grandparents Day and the Bear family has never celebrated this special day before. So working as a team, the cubs, with a little help from Mama and Papa, come up with a fun and creative way to show Gramps and Gran just how much they are loved and appreciated.

Age Range: 4 – 8 years
Grade Level: Preschool – 3
Series: Berenstain Bears/Living Lights
Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Zonderkidz (July 11, 2017)

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About the Author:
Stan and Jan Berenstain introduced the first Berenstain Bears books in 1962. Mike Berenstain grew up watching his parents work together to write about and draw these lovable bears. Eventually he started drawing and writing about them too. Though Stan died in 2005 and Jan in 2012, Mike continues to create the delightful Bear adventures from his studio in Pennsylvania, in an area that looks much like the sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country.

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“Mind Games” by Stephanie Black


“Mind Games” by Stephanie Black

This story was fast paced, thrilling but a little confusing at times. Natalie is a psychologist and is excited to open her own mental health clinic to help others but things aren’t going as she had planned. She tries to work with her friend Gideon to figure out why Heather is “haunting” her new clinic and why someone doesn’t want her to be successful.

“Mind Games” was well written and had a lot of twists and turns that I enjoyed. The story obviously dealt with serious concerns like mental health and mental illness. I would classify “Mind Games” as a thrilling suspense book.

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Psychologist Natalie Marsh’s dream is now reality: her mental health services clinic has opened and is housed in an elegant, newly renovated nineteenth-century building. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy with the clinic’s presence, including Heather Osbourne, a troubled young woman who wholly objects to the occupation of the building. Heather has spent years wandering the halls of the abandoned structure, convinced she’s communing with her ancestor’s ghost. When Natalie thwarts Heather’s attempt to leap from a window, the shaken psychologist soon realizes Heather’s failed jump is merely one piece of a disturbing puzzle. Greed and deceit are weaving a web around Natalie, and someone will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what they want. Stretched to her breaking point, Natalie struggles to learn the truth, but only one thing is clear: nothing is as it seems.

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