Review By Sky - Blind Passion, by Bonnie Dee

Blind Passion, by Bonnie Dee
BLURB:

Leah Schaeffer has come a long way since an accident took her sight. She’s finally ready for independence, but convincing her wealthy parents she’ll be safe on her own isn’t easy. The first night in her own place at last, she encounters her neighbor with the midnight velvet voice and her world shifts again.

Since finishing a military tour, J.D. Wyatt has struggled both financially and emotionally. When Leah’s parents hire him to act as her bodyguard, he seizes the opportunity. The catch—she can’t know she’s being followed. As he grows closer to the intriguing woman and begins to have feelings for her, the burden of this secret grows heavier. 

Although Leah and J.D. have suffered different types of trauma, their mutual understanding of each other’s pain bonds them. But their relationship, dependent on absolute trust, is rooted in lies which will detonate like an IED when exposed.

This is a beautiful story of two broken people; one of which is physically broken and the other mentally. When the two come together by a stroke of serendipity, they fill each other’s voids with the little pieces that they have left.
J.D.Wyatt, a returning war vet diagnosed with PTSD, first met our main character, Leah Schaeffer, at a club. She won’t remember seeing him there with his friends and hers because little does he know, she’s blind. I absolutely love how determined Leah is to be independent despite her new disability. She won’t let the car wreck destroy her life like it had done on her eyes.
Her parents aren’t happy about her decision to move out on her own, but they go along with it anyhow—but on their terms. Out of the goodness of their hearts but to Leah’s unknowing dismay, they have hired someone to watch over her covertly and have paid rent for the apartment room next to hers so that he can be nearby at all times.

You will be floored when you read who it is!

J.D. wants to show Leah how much he cares, but he struggles to be honest to her with who he is, and what he has done. But as they say, love conquers all and even through their toughest obstacle, they arise stronger than ever before.

Bonnie does a fantastic job with portraying someone who has lost their site and try to cope with the world around them and their relationships. It’s almost like she brought two guardian angels together and they gave each other the strength where the other one lacked. This is most definitely a story with a happy ending and I cannot wait to read the next in the series! So many great, vibrant characters who will pull you deeper into the story to see the main characters from a wider scope.

This is my first Bonnie Dee read and I am so excited to say that I am immediately picking up a few more reads from her other works!

Find Bonnie Dee on:

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1166851.Bonnie_Dee

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bonnie-Dee/e/B003LJ0DS6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1425508087&sr=1-1


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Review by Sky: Calla Lily, by Vivian Winslow

Calla Lily, by Vivian Winslow
Book 2 of the series, Gilded Flower
72 pages
5 stars
Blurb: Having experienced a profound personal and sexual awakening during her solo honeymoon to Brazil, New York socialite Lily Baron rushes back to New York upon hearing the news that her father has fallen ill. Now, Lily must take the helm of the Baron Media empire and fend off a high-stakes hostile takeover attempt. With the fate of the company hanging in the balance, will Lily be able to resist the advances of the luring, unwanted suitor in the boardroom as well as the bedroom? Things get steamy in this highly anticipated sequel to Gilded Lily.

Each book in this series just gets hotter and HOTTER! Seriously!
Not only do these installments feature, panting, hot, sex scenes, but also drool-worthy tall, dark, and handsome men.
This installment picks up right after the first book, where a call from her mother informing Lily of her ill father, she rushes back home to NYC and finds herse
lf as CEO of Baron Media until he can recover. Lily can’t seem to catch a break! The strong woman that she is, she picks up the job naturally and feels blessed that she will at least have something to occupy her mind from that damned Brazilionaire, Gustavo.
Hot Todd from the last book, is also quite a delectable distraction, and this time, she isn't leaving him hanging. Smooth sailing and not a thought of the Brazilian is on her mind, until . . . she finds herself on the opposite side of a board meeting from none other than . . . Gustavo.
Feeling betrayed and curious all in the same moment, she has to wonder if this wasn't coincidence at all. Eventually, family drama thickens when Gustavo’s motives and reasoning’s for chasing Lily slap her in the face with the truth . . . and her mother may have played a big part in her meeting with Gustavo.  After all the lies, and deceiving, Lily spirals into a state of madness.
Right when you start to believe things will never get better for Lily, she finds herself in the path of someone who knows exactly where she’s coming from, and how she feels. Young, dark, and . . . Alejandro. ;)
They find they have a lot in common, can vent about the weight of their parents business crushing their young lives. I thought they were SO perfect for each other! I feel like Lily began to believe so as well, but not having enough to get over her sister’s and fiancé's betrayal and the over-bearing, back-stabbing Gustavo, she felt it was too soon to even consider such thoughts, that he could do so much better than her.
Like strong, female characters I adore, she doesn't dwell too hard on it and pushes romance to the side temporarily to get down to business and uncover the truth about her father’s company and what fate it holds.  At this point, I am hoping Alejandro will be the ultimate lover, the one who wins her heart! Off to book three and see if my wish comes true!

Thanks, again, Vivian, for a copy of this series, I am still panting!

Purchase your copy! 99 cents in your preferred format!

Amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Calla-Lily-Gilded-Flower-Book-ebook/dp/B00L5XLH08/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1403448519&sr=8-4&keywords=Vivian+Winslow

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Review by Sky: Master of the Island

Master of the Island by Lauren Hawkeye
Prequel to the Invitation to Eden series
Length: Short story
My Rating: 5 Stars

Master of the Island is a prequel to the series “Invitation to Eden” --- a series that I am genuinely disappointed at myself for not finding sooner! The series consists of a different installment each written by another author, a brilliant and creative concept!


This particular “prequel” was short in length – four chapters – but definitely was enough to get my curiosity piqued about this mysterious and broken Greek man with a marred face named Theodosius Vardalos.





Mr. V-- as dubbed by a young lady named Joely who seriously reminds me of Kaylee Frye from the show “Firefly” for some reason?! -- purchases an island near the Bermuda Triangle six months prior to the rest of the story. Joley comes into the picture when Theo is bantering back and forth with the charter employee at the private hanger after finding out his scheduled pilot called out sick and there’s no one else available to fly him to his new getaway-- the getaway he’d been vying for for months to seek refuge from gawking eyes and his broken past.

Joely offers to fly him out there herself. He was skeptical at first, but desperate enough to take her on the offer. Upon arrival to the island, things get a little interesting to say the least.


That’s where I should leave it since it is a short snippet. But ah-my-gosh, lemme tell ya, it’s h-a-w-t!
I can easily admit that the ending left me wanting more; more about this lively, jubilant yet enigmatic Joely, more about the mysterious incident in the thicket of the forests when Mr. V awoke the next morning, and even more so, wanting to dig into his past to discover what in the hell happened to him?!

Luckily, there is an entire series out there finished and ready to be in my hands and read!
If you haven’t read the series before the release of this prequel such as I, this was definitely a little something delicious to begin with. And hey, maybe we can read the series together, yeah? Let’s go!