Looking to escape life for a few hours? Pick this one up. Whoosh! Hours will have sped by. It’s a bit implausible but, whoa, is it a fun ride. 

Get ready to lose some sleep! Alex Finlay’s latest, If Something Happens to Me, is so addictive you will gladly sacrifice a good night’s rest to get to the end.

He had to change his name, switch colleges, and declare a new major. For five years, Ryan Richardson’s life has been defined by one night. A rainy evening when he and his girlfriend Ali (Alison) went to Lover’s Lane and did not see the monster approaching their vehicle through the fogged-up windows. They only knew he was there after. After he had yanked open the door, ripped Ryan from the car, and driven Ali’s BMW into the night, her screams piercing the dark.

When Ali disappeared, so did Ryan’s reputation. The police were skeptical (to say the least) of his description of a man with no pinkies materializing in a remote area of a backwater town, perpetrating a kidnapping (or murder) and leaving no trace of himself, Alison, or the car. To close the case, the cops and community needed Ryan to have done it. They would all sleep better, they assured him, knowing the killer in their midst had been locked away. Unfortunately for them, lack of evidence and a good defense attorney meant Ryan was never charged, much less incarcerated. That hasn’t stopped people from convicting him in their hearts, though. Nor has it kept the media from heavily implying he got away with it. The former basketball star had to cease to be Ryan Richardson and become nerdy Ryan Smith to have a shot at a future.

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This historical romance is hot and heavy. It’s predictable but well done. 

In some ways, this is a tale you’ve heard before. Heroine feels she can’t marry, hero has no intention of marrying – until boom! They fall in love. But it’s written with thought and care, so in the end the reader feels that the characters are people rather than types. I particularly liked Annabel. She’s resourceful, and though she takes several risks she does it with both eyes open. When she has sex, she’s careful (something you think would be a given, but so many heroines just don’t even think about it).

I also enjoyed the whole background of the ale-brewing world. It’s more than just window dressing – both Jarret and Annabel talk and think about their business, and both have a passion for it. Though Jarret is a lord, his background is nearly as common as Annabel’s; his mother married up. More authors seem to be embracing heroes and heroines who aren’t of the nobility, and it’s a trend I can really applaud.

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Readers can’t get enough of The Palace of Rogues series. Our reviewer really enjoyed this one! She wrote:

I really enjoyed the whole thing! The angst between Hugh and Lillias, the delightful characters at the Grand Palace, the self-discovery Lillias made, and the humor made it a total win for me!

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We’ve given Temple a number of DIKs at AAR.

So far Phoebe Brimford’s experience of Dominic, Lord Wrexham, is that he lives up to his reputation as a dissolute rake. But he’s also frustratingly charming and distractingly attractive! And while undercover spy Phoebe knows entangling herself with such a character is the wrong way to go about her mission, the closer she gets to Dominic, the more she suspects he’s not as lost as Society seems to think he is…

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