What Brooke Read

It's Friday and that means I have two new (to me) books to stare with you. Okay, one isn't out yet and I was given the privilege of getting an ARC and it was fabulous!
The Sacrifices of Life by K.L. Humphrey's instantly pulls you in and takes you on a journey of a young lady finding her way through life after tragedy takes a loved one away.
Blurb:
Sacrifices: we never know how much we'll have to give up.

Katy Akers dreams of college and a shiny future were ripped away when her brother was stabbed to death.

Drowning in despair since her family was destroyed and her life turned upside down, she takes the only job she can—she becomes a stripper.

Amidst the turmoil, a beacon of light shines through her dark world - Owen Hughes.
But when Katy finds out about Owen's past, the light she desires flickers right before her eyes.

Now she’ll have to make the decision of her life; will she fight for her happiness or fall back into the darkness

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Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid is a blast! The second in the series and just as fun as the first. I love the Winston brother's and I can't wait to see what comes next.
Blurb:
USA TODAY Bestselling Romantic Comedy Series
Sienna Diaz is everyone's favorite "fat" funny lady. The movie studio executives can't explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood's most beautiful elite. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-sized Sienna.

But she has a problem, she can't read maps and her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar. Therefore, when Sienna's latest starring role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park she finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the back roads of Green Valley, Tennessee. Much to her consternation, Sienna's most frequent savior is a ridiculously handsome, charming, and cheeky Park Ranger by the name of Jethro Winston.

Sienna is accustomed to high levels of man-handsome, so it's not Jethro's chiseled features or his perfect physique that make Sienna stutter. It's his southern charm. And gentlemanly manners. And habit of looking at her too long and too often.

Sienna has successfully navigated the labyrinth of Hollywood heart-throbs. But can she traverse the tenuous trails of Tennessee without losing her head? Or worse, her heart?

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