Rating: 2.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When Ben’s ill-tempered, bigoted father died, he didn’t expect to inherit anything. Ben's older brother, Nate, is clearly the best caretaker for their family farm. However, not only does the will split the farm between Nate, Ben, and their younger brother, David, it does so on the condition that Ben has to get married—and stay married for up to a year—or else the property will be given to their neighbor, Colin Fraudel.

Today I am so pleased to welcome Duncan Gaye to Joyfully Jay. Duncan has come to talk to us about his latest release, Finding Harbor. Please join me in giving him a big welcome! Excerpt Farrow’s crew had gone quiet, their earlier bravado replaced by focused attention. Even the captain himself had stopped teasing. He watched closely as Angus finished his circle around the anchor.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel For their three years at Silvercrest University, Jace has driven Shane crazy. Jace is smug and arrogant and seems to go out of his way to annoy Shane -- and it works. What's even more frustrating is that while Jace easily spins Shane up to irritation and frustration, Jace himself always appears calm and unbothered.

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Andrew Gibson Length: 6 hours, 46 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Dash is realizing that when people in town see him, they think there is a murder—because as they say with Dash, it’s “always murder.” But this time, there is a crime, but no murder…yet.

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Battleboxing comes in many forms, but all across Inofar, the bloodsport is seen as lucrative and as prime entertainment. Imalroc had long been a crowd favorite for his ruthlessness in the sandy ring, but his owner/handler decided to sell his contract when Imalroc's performance began to falter. Seizing an opportunity to save the family estate from ruin, Etiana Toriem bought Imalroc's contract and hoped her cousin Rerdas could eke out a few more wins from the battleboxer.

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel The world is gripped by Christmas fever! Not just in the days and weeks leading up to Christmas, and not just on Christmas day, but for days and weeks and months afterwords. Dubbed “Jingleheads,” thousands of people — primarily Evangelical Christians, Republicans, and Fox News fans — can’t seem to understand that it’s not Christmas anymore.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Arrick and Evan have settled into life together and are more in love than ever. Silver Rock is still making waves in Ashland and at the school, which means that it’s part of the men’s lives. Arrick has a feeling something more is going on, but he tries to heed Evan’s optimism that it won’t touch them.

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella River and Bodie both arrive at the lodge on Christmas Eve, both escaping holidays with their respective families who have entirely too many questions — When will you get married? When will you have children? Where are my grandchildren? Are you seeing anyone? Both men just want to relax and unwind in a cozy cabin, enjoy some peace and quiet, and maybe indulge in some Christmas cookies.

Rating: DNF Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel 1592. Cybil Harding is a First Daughter. Cursed to bring disaster to those around her, she is trapped in a house with a mother paralyzed by grief and a father willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of magic. Miriam Richter is a creature of shadow. Forged by the dark arts many years ago, she is doomed to exist for eternity and destined to be alone—killing mortals and consuming their souls for sustenance.

Today I am so pleased to welcome Katey Hawthorne to Joyfully Jay. Katey has come to talk to us about her latest release, Prey, the fourth book in the Rade series. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Exclusive Excerpt: Prey Rob started to pull off his shirt but then paused and raised both eyebrows at Kay. Kay just watched, unmoving.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Incubus Vampire Slayer is the second book in Alex Woolfson's fabulous Alvin Alonso's Secret Files duet. This book picks up immediately after the end of the first, The Reluctant Incubus, and completes the story. So this book and review will have spoilers for book one and you should start at the beginning if you want to check out this series.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Sloan and his younger brothers, Brayden and Riley, are dragons who spent their time in the Earth realm hunting and destroying vampires. When they return to check on some friends, they learn the entire family has crossed the Dragon Veil and started living in Lunastra, a dragon-only realm that can be accessed through a portal located at their friends’ old house.

Story Rating: 4.5 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Lance West Length: 7 hours, 48 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks All is good in Elijah Rodriguez and Alex Price’s world. Christmas with Eli’s family was perfect. Love confessions were exchanged. The Houston Hell Hounds are strong contenders for the playoffs, and Eli’s enjoying his successful semester, vlog, and collegiate ice skating.

Today I am so pleased to welcome Sarah Wallace to Joyfully Jay. Sarah has come to talk to us as part of the Coastal Magic Convention Blog Tour about their Meddle & Mend and Fae & Human Relations series. Please join me in giving her a big welcome! Hello! I’m Sarah Wallace and I’m very excited about meeting everyone at the Coastal Magic Convention!

Hi all! I hope you had a great week! We are enjoying a long weekend at the beach with my older daughter. It has been mostly cold and cloudy, but we got a chance to take some nice walks Thursday and Friday during our lunch breaks from working, and then enjoy two days of relaxation (and reading!). Now, we are gearing up for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Gabriel Karne had hoped coming to Hearthstone Island would be a chance to lay low and stay out of trouble. But instead, he got himself into conflict with park ranger Casey Lundin almost immediately upon arriving and then ended up in the middle of a murder investigation. And as soon as that got resolved, Gabriel learned that his former partner (both in the relationship and criminal sense) has come to the island asking about him.

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Simon Miller has been crushing on Pierce Sutton since his brother, Sawyer, first brought Pierce home from college. However, now that they are both adults and Sawyer is gone, Pierce won’t even stay in the same room with him. But that hasn’t stopped Simon from wanting the beautiful, grumpy, kind man.

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Vincent is his father’s only Alpha child, but not his only child. All of those who were omegas, such as Vincent’s brother Micah, were sold away into houses like Lockswell, to be forgotten about. Vincent never forgave his father, never stopped mourning for his mother, trapped in that house, and has thrown himself into work.

Story Rating: 3.75 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Andrew Gibson Length: 7 hours, 37 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks It’s Halloween in Hastings Rock and Dash is looking forward to his favorite candy and treats, but he and the Last Picks get a trick instead when Keme is accused of murdering a local man.

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Over twenty years ago, humanity was devastated by a mysterious outbreak that turned healthy people into mindless zombies. Society reorganized itself into strictly segregated classes in a walled city known as The Citadel. The Citadel has been crusading to reclaim once-human settlements by sending teams of hunters to exterminate zombies and make way for new, human residents.

Rating: DNF Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel After being stood up at the altar, casino owner Atlas Lewis and his best friend Tanner Mitchell visit the Alpha Lounge at the Phoenix Casino down the street to drink and spend some time in the company of some pretty omegas to take Atlas’s mind off being dumped. The Alpha Lounge is notorious for having the best liquor, and is frequented by the richest alphas and the sexiest omegas.

Today I am so pleased to welcome L.E. Perez to Joyfully Jay. L.E. has come as part of the Coastal Magic Convention Blog Tour to talk to us about their release, Reaper Revealed. Please join me in giving a big welcome! Reaping is not the end… Reap the Night-The Reaper Chronicles: Destiny Matters Death has rules. Alex Dante knew them all—until she broke the most sacred one.

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links:  Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel With his father out of town, Benjamin Whitaker III is running the family seafood processing business in his absence. Ben's father has always expected nothing but perfection and he trained Ben from an early age to be prepared to handle anything. So while Ben is quietly dying inside from the stress and anxiety of managing everything himself and making sure he doesn't let his father down, he is determined to put on a brave and confident face.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Carlo is a reluctant priest. When Carlo was a teen, his father, the head of an organized crime family, found Carlo kissing boys and he gave Carlo an ultimatum. Carlo has accepted his life as a priest, but it’s not his life’s calling and his relationship with his father has been distant ever since.

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Carter Wilkes only wants to be loved and to find his true mate. That yearning has led him into one bad relationship after another, and Carter's last boyfriend beat him so badly he ended up in a coma with neurological damage. Since his release from the hospital, Carter has struggled to find a path for himself and, despite the support from his cousin, Nick, he just isn’t sure what comes next.