Welcome to Stacking the Shelves #75! This meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Review and the last few years it’s been co-hosted at Team Tynga’s and at Reading Reality. Let me show you what I’ve added this week! Click on the book’s cover to add to your Goodreads shelf.
Library Audiobooks:
From The Publisher:
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.
The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.
Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes–especially after what happened last time.
Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn’t be higher–but then, Evie has always liked a challenge…
Books Added From Fantastic Fiction:
From The Publisher:
Working is what Erica does best. As the owner of a chain of well-respected salons, she’s confident and wholly herself at work. But at home–at home, she’s a mess. Her ex-husband shattered her when he left in the cruelest way possible and she’s still putting herself back together. The one good thing to come out of their marriage is Summer, their teenaged daughter. Bright, kind, big-hearted, Summer seems to be getting closer and closer to Allison, her ex’s new young wife, and their toddler, and as much as Erica hates to admit it, it hurts. When Summer comes home, frantic that her dad has been arrested, leaving a very pregnant Allison and her toddler on their own, Erica wants to run. How is this her problem? But the more anxious Summer gets, the more Erica realizes she can’t turn her back on her daughter’s stepmom and half-sibling. So she does the unthinkable–she asks them to move into her house.
Allison is horrified. She never wanted to be a charity case and Peter never ever had a kind thing to say about Erica, but she doesn’t have any other options. With a twenty-month old son and a daughter on the way in a few short months, little money, and no family around, Allison has to bite the bullet and accept Erica’s help. It will only be a little while until Peter comes home, right? But when days turn into weeks and her due date approaches, Allison is thrown into a tailspin. Erica is nothing like Peter described. She’s warm, welcoming, kind, and brilliant, and with each passing day, Allison can’t help but wonder how well she knows her husband after all.
Forced together out of duty but held together by the bonds of family, Erica and Allison will soon see how far they’ll go…for the love of Summer.
From The Publisher:
Sunshine incarnate Bhanu brings big UX energy to whatever she does, including going for the promotion where her only serious competition is her work nemesis, AKA Sunny, the grump with the Denzel voice. She expected to get a reprieve from him while visiting her family in Hawai’i, but the universe has other plans. When Bhanu runs into Sunny at the hotel and witnesses his ex criticizing him about being single, Bhanu does the first thing that comes to she impetuously claims to be Sunny’s girlfriend just to get some peace and quiet. Except Sunny is on island for a friend’s wedding and his ex has already texted the entire wedding party about this mysterious girlfriend.
Bhanu truly is the bane of Sunny’s existence. But the last thing he wants to do is cause tension during his friend’s wedding festivities, much less be the object of their pity. He has no choice except to play along, if only he and Bhanu can put aside their quarreling and act like a real couple.
Between Bhanu’s hilariously meddling family and Sunny’s ecstatic friends, the two are pushed closer together, even as stress mounts over the impending promotion.
They say what happens on island, stays on island. But as Sunny and Bhanu let their guards down, will either of them be able to resist this romantic getaway without crossing the line?
That concludes Stacking the Shelves #75! Have you read any of these books, or are they on your list of books to read? Let me know in the comments!
Jody
My daughter loved First Lie Wins. I hope you enjoy it too, Jodie! ☕📚🐉🤗🫶
thathappyreader
Thank you Jody!
Jonetta | Blue Mood Café
Really hope you enjoy First Lie Wins, Jodie💜 Thanks for the heads up about the new Susan Mallery book, too.
thathappyreader
Thank you Jonetta!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
Interesting sounding books. I’ve seen First Lie Wins around a lot and am certainly getting more curious about it!
Have a great weekend!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/stacking-the-shelves-63/
thathappyreader
Thanks Emily! You too.
Lisa Mandina (Lisa Loves Literature)
The Decision of Us look like one I’d like to read. Hope you enjoy all of these!
https://lisalovesliterature.bookblog.io/2024/02/11/weekly-wrap-up-156-february-11th-2024/
thathappyreader
Thanks Lisa!
Carla
Susan Mallery is an auto-read author for me. I am watching for that one. Enjoy your little haul, Jodie.
thathappyreader
Thanks Carla.