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FATE Series
Book 1: Fate
Vince’s
knack for doing without thinking seemed to get him into quite a few
messes. Even if it was a good thing he was doing….for him it ended
up badly. Only this time being grounded and forced to attend his
cousin’s baby shower ended up pretty well. He met Rose. Getting to
know her caused him to want to be a better man, one worthy of this
faultless beauty. Would fate step in and be for or against him this
time?
Rose
Zendejas didn’t have the easiest of lives. Her mother didn’t
really care for her daughters but at least Rose had her sister Grace.
Once Sal and Grace married they let Rose come and live with them.
Life was better than ever before, a good neighborhood, better school
and Vince. He had a rough history but promised her he was on the
straight road. Only it seems that road had a pot hole in it.
Fate
takes up the romance of Vince and Rose that started in book 5 of the
Moreno Brothers Series, Making You Mine (Sal and Grace’s story).
The author took our young couple down a different path in this book
adding a bit of reality by bringing Vince into Iraq. A page turner as
always with all of her books. For Moreno fans….the guys and gals
have plenty of cameo appearances in Fate….including a quick stint
with Max, Manny and Aida. And even though Romero is not a Moreno….you
may find that he and Vince have something in common.
**Sexual
situations and language
Yet to come....
Book 2: Breaking Brandon
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The 5th Street Series...
Book 1: Noah
Author Blurb:
Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she's left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her twenty-eight years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets Noah. Assigned to help Veronica lose weight, Noah is everything she expected a young trainer to be--perfectly chiseled, supportive and motivating. Add to that, he's incredibly sexy. He's everything she's ever looked for in a man. what she least expected was for him to fall for her, but he has. There's just one glaring problem: Noah is eight years younger.
Noah Quintanilla has his eye on a boxing title--someday. Down for a few months with an injury, his maintenance-boy pay at 5th Street Gym won't cut it. He's finally given the opportunity to train. The catch? His trainee is an out-of-shape woman with a free week pass. Taking on the challenge, Noah stumbles into one of the closest friendships he's ever known, and before he knows it, he's in love. But Veronica's not having it--the age difference is too much. Their platonic relationship means having to watch her date other men--something that would make him crazy. Believing he's the man for her, Noah sets out to prove that age is but an illusion, and there's more to him than just a number.
My Review:
This
new series by Elizabeth takes place in Los Angeles. The 5th
Street gym is where we find Noah, Gio, Abel and Hector. The guys are
all training as boxers and they are all big handsome hunks! The
Moreno Brother's Series was so good and the characters seemed so real
I didn't know if a new series could compare. I was pleasantly
surprised and can't wait until the next books are released. Once
again she has created characters that you can laugh and cry with. Get
mad at for their secrets or dumb decisions. And be happy for when
they finally get it together.
Noah
has been working at the 5th Street Gym for years and is
wanting to become a trainer. Jack, the owner of the gym, finally
gives him that opportunity the day that Veronica and Nellie walk in
the gym with their coupons for a free week. They look out of place
but Noah decides to prove himself to Jack and whip these gals into
shape. A decision that changes Noah's life.
Veronica
has let herself go since her mother's death. She has put on too much
weight and barely leaves the house. When Nellie drags her to what
looks like a all male gym, she wants to run back home and hide. When
their handsome and young trainer greets them the last thing she wants
to do is get on a scale or work out, but for Nellie's sake she does.
Noah is not only a great trainer but he soon becomes a good friend
and roommate to Roni.
It's
a long and bumpy road for these two as their friendship grows into
more. Their pasts come between them and there is an age difference
that Roni struggles with. Noah has a bigger fight on his hands then
what he faces in the ring when he sets out to win this prize.
**Sexual
situations and language
Book 2: Gio
Book Blurb:
When tragedy
strikes in the ring, Giovanni Bravo falls into a deep depression,
walking away from his dream of boxing to train instead. He agrees to
a two month get-away, helping train Felix Sanchez, his high school
best friend and now welterweight champ of the world. Once at Felix's
lavish boxing complex, he's reunited with Bianca Rubio, someone he
remembers only as the girl with innocent doe eyes back in high
school. Her refreshing, cheerful demeanor not only takes Gio's mind
off his troubles conscience, he finds himself falling for her fast
and hard. The problem—Bianca is Felix's girlfriend.
Having a sexy,
famous boyfriend has it's perks, but they come with a price. Bianca
not only has to deal with the ongoing tabloid rumors about her
boyfriend hooking up with other women, but also his constant absence
when he is on the road. So now that Felix will be in town for two
whole months to train for his next big bout, Bianca is thrilled. He's
even asked her to move into his cabin while he's there. But when he
leaves for days at at time to promote his fight, Bianca spends time
getting to know Felix's gorgeous new trainer and good friend, Gio.
Increasingly drawn to his sweet smile and smoldering green eyes, she
finds herself saying and doing things she normally wouldn't.
As it becomes
more and more difficult for each to resist each other, Gio crosses
the line between them. He hopes that one kiss will alleviate the
overwhelming temptation and clear both their systems, but it does
just the opposite. Their temptation suddenly becomes an obsession—a
dangerous obsession that can only lead to heartache—for everyone.
My Review:
My Review:
Giovanni
Bravo's life has just taken a turn. After a tragedy, he has decided
to give up boxing. When his old friend, Felix Sanchez, offers Gio to
come up to his compound in Big Bear for two months, to train with
him, his friends urge him to go. Little does anyone know that this
decision will once again change Gio's life in both good ways and bad.
With these Alpha guys there always seems to be quite a bit of life
changing drama when you throw a beautiful girl into the mix.
Bianca
Rubio felt so special. She was dating the famous and popular Felix
Sanchez. She had to learn not to read or believe what the tabloids
said about him and different women, that the paparazzi could take
pictures that didn't tell the real story and that Felix couldn't be
around for her too often. But she was squealing with delight because
he was going to be her's for two months while he trained at his
compound. What Bianca did not expect was seeing Gio, the boy from her
World History class who never noticed her at school, or so she
thought.
Neither
Gio or Bianca had plans of being attracted to each other but that did
not stop the sparks from flying...or prepare them for the
explosion of emotions that would touch all those around them,
due to that attraction.
Another
well written book by Elizabeth Reyes, Gio will take your emotions for
a complete work out. There is a touch of suspense and adventure as
our characters have to be a bit clandestine, especially with hidden
camera's and paparazzi all around. The characters we met in Noah
(book 1) return in Gio; Noah and Roni, Abel, Hector, Jack and Roni's
friend Nellie. I always enjoy series books where you get to see
“friends” again.
**Contains
Sexual situations and language
Book 3: Hector
Amazon Smashwords
Womanizer - check. Arrogant - check.
Dangerous - checkmate. Staying away from
him was indisputably the sensible thing to do.
The problem? She wasn’t just drawn to him,
she was utterly mesmerized...
Hector
Ayala had a few problems in life, getting girls was definitely not
one of them. His school friends were kind of bullies, he may have
laughed but didn’t join in. Nor did he stop him. After one incident
in senior year, he was bothered and it weighed on him. When he came
face to face with that very person he decided he would help him, now
since he didn’t back then. Little did Hector realize that the guilt
from the past would take so much from his future.
Charlee
Brennan moves to California with her best friend, Drew. Charlee was
running away from her life in the East. She’d been humiliated and
needed a clean slate. Yet with everything wrong that happens she
wants to run away again. Especially when the handsome chess
player/boxer enters her life. He sends her such mixed messages that
it drives her to the brink.
Elizabeth
Reyes does it again when one of her tough alpha guys falls hard. The
little brother of Abel is all grown up now and love sneaks up on him
when he least expects it and with the last person he would choose.
And sweet Charlee has a few naughty secrets of her own.
**Sexual
situations and language
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The Moreno Brothers Series
Book 1: Forever Mine
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Sarah was happy living in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was the longest she had a place that could be called home. She had always avoided friendships because she never stayed long but Sydney sat by her at lunch and befriended her. He became her best friend and was like a brother. They helped each other through tough times. With her mom working so much she became part of the Sydney's family. Right before Senior year Sarah's mom informs her she is going to jail and that Sarah will go to La Jolla, CA and stay with her Uncle, aunt, and cousin Valerie. Sarah is devastated. She decides she will work and come January first when she turns eighteen she will return to live with the Maricopa's in Flagstaff again.
Once in California Sarah starts babysitting to earn money to pay to live with Sydney's family and she determines once again not to make friends at school, besides Valerie.
Angel Moreno locks eyes with the lost looking girl across from him on that first day of school and Valerie makes sure Sarah knew who was staring at her. Sarah remembered Angel from her visit two years ago. She had seen him on the beach surrounded by a group. She had ended up walking with a guy named Jesse who has continued to try and contact her in Arizona the last few years but she wanted nothing to do with him. When he starts bothering her on the field where she is running, Angel comes to her rescue.
Angel and Sarah quickly find they are strongly attracted to each other. Valerie informs her how intense the Moreno's are and Sarah experiences quickly how protective and possessive Angel is. Being she never had a father she don't mind.
Angel assumes her best friend, Sydney, is a girl and Sarah has trouble correcting him. The time is never right. When Angel tells her there is no such thing as a friendship between a guy and girl she puts off telling him longer. Some secrets come back to bite you. As does this one.
Great story and there are side stories as well. Sofie Moreno and Eric as well as Valerie and Alex Moreno. Which those characters have their own books as well in Always Been Mine & Sweet Sofie.
**Language & subtle sexual situations
Book 2: Always Been Mine
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In Forever Mine, the first Moreno book, we meet Sarah who lives with her cousin Valerie's family. When Sarah dates Angel Moreno and eventually become engaged after the ups and downs even out.
Sarah knows her cousin always had a thing for Angel's older brother Alex and so she introduces them.
Valerie and Alex go back and forth but neither wants a commitment, or that was how Valerie use to be.
In this book we find that Alex and Valerie have been going back and forth through the years. It is about four years since they graduated high school. Some have went to college. Valerie now has her Realtors license. She had grown tired of being with Alex just to have him disappear so she spies on him. After seeing a leggy young woman go into his home with an overnight bag she confronts him and ends it. He tries to tell her its not what it looks like but her heart can take no more.
A year has passed. The parties are starting for Angel and Sarah's wedding. Alex and Valerie definitely notice each other and after he kisses her Valerie has to work hard at reminding herself of how he broke her heart time and again with his womanizing. So she invents a boyfriend and he backs off.
Alex had a tough year. His folks travel to see family more in Mexico and have left him to run the restaurant, he still wants to finish his schooling and when he sees Valerie again he misses her. His pride kept him from telling her the truth of what had happened during college and when he saw her last. He still wanted her back. Now more than ever.
Valerie tries to move on after seeing Alex again and dates her office manager, Luke. And a date from the past reappears as well. A guy she met in a bar and dated a few weeks. He was suppose to be in jail but was out already and Bruce decided she owed him.
There is much going on in this story. Alex and his possessive and protective nature, Valerie and her stubbornness, Bruce the stalker, Luke who would not give up on Valerie, Isabel is Valerie's roommate and she is attracted to her total opposite when she meets Romero at the party. Looking forward to reading the third book Sweet Sofie, which is Sofie and Eric's story.
**Language & sexual situations
Book 3: Sweet Sophie
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This time the Moreno is a sister. There are two more stories in the series that are not out yet. Romero's story, Angel's friend and then the story for the oldest brother Sal. I found this book to be the most emotional. Many of the conversations were in the previous books and now we see more in depth what happened from Sophie and Eric's view.
Sophie Moreno's story starts when she is ten. Angel, Eric Diego & Ramon Romero are eleven, Alex is twelve and Sal is fourteen. Even at that young age Eric is starting to feel protective of Sophie but not so much in a brotherly way. Eric is biding his time for Sophie as she won't be allowed to date until she is seventeen. By the time she is sixteen they have had time to spend together though. Eric is trusted to watch over her when the brothers are busy. When Alex catches him kissing her on New Year's Eve everything changes though. Alex don't believe it is a kiss that one would give a friends sister.
When she turns seventeen she goes from being protected by her brothers to being claimed by Eric, which is fine with her. They run into many pitfalls along the way though. Eric's dad sends him to LA for a summer internship to separate them. Later he sends him to Spain for a month for another internship.
Brandon is a neighbor who was always known as a bit odd and mean. He bullied Sophie in the neighborhood and at school. In high school he ends up sharing a table with Sophie and they become friends. He joins the marines after high school and while home on a visit he hits on Sophie. Eric is in LA at the time and Sophie is battling a jealousy over Eric meeting a girl from their school years who had a bad reputation, her name is Asia.
Can their love survive the separations, Asia, Brandon, and later when he is in Spain his dad brings his girlfriends sister with for over New Years and Jennifer is a hot looking girl who would not mind having Eric. Definitely an emotionally charged book. The books brings back most everyone you have met in the earlier books. It is one of those series that you are sad when you finish the book and have to leave the people you met behind.
**Language & subtle sexual situations
Book 4: Romero
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How
does one go about telling about Romero? In the earlier books we see
him as the one always getting drunk early and only caring about what
girls he can pick up at the parties. And his mouth, well the words
that come out of it, not good. Be warned that Romero was raised by
his two uncles and they are... well...Manny and Max are hilarious but
pretty crude. They love their boy they raised and straightened out
some of their activities to be a good example for him but they don't
consider cursing to be bad, they don't do well with table manners and
they own a bar that is a bit more than going out for a beer. Along
with his drinking, cursing and womanizing...Romero also has a temper.
It goes from cold to boiling in less than 10 seconds and it's pretty
dangerous considering Romero's muscular well kept physique.
Isabel
is not from a perfect family but it sure is opposite of Romero's. Her
sister Pat is all about finding the perfect man for Izzy. And Romero
is not it, according to Pat anyways. If she is not fixing her up with
some fancy Navy man than it is dragging Izzy's high school sweetheart
into the mix. A mix that turns into dynamite if Romero sees a man
anywhere near his girl and even a bit more explosive if it's an
ex-boyfriend and it might as well be like a nuclear bomb ready to
blow when you add Pat into it, they hate each other.
This
book is full of up and down emotions. You see all the sides of
Romero, including the vulnerable one. He is as possessive as his
friends the Moreno's but not even Alex has a temper that matches his.
If your like me your emotions will take you from wanting to strangle
Pat to struggle along with Romero when he is trying to hold his
temper.
Elizabeth
has added another great book in her series and she has a extra
mystery in the story that adds to it as well. And than there is her humor! Be ready to laugh hard at the antics of Manny and Max, Romero's
uncles. The last story is the oldest Moreno brother, Sal. Already
looking forward to it.
**Contains
strong language and sexual situations
Book 5: Making You Mine
Sal
Moreno is the last single brother in his family. He takes care of the
business end of the restaurants and has dreams of honoring his
father, grandfather and the Moreno name by opening more Moreno
restaurants. He is neat and most folks just say he's anal. When
Graciela Zendejas comes in for an interview at Alex's restaurant, it
don't take long for Sal to find three strikes against her. And
something about her makes him a bit more anal than usual.
Grace
had been turned down time and time again in her interviews. She
decided to try and look older than her twenty-one years and she added
a few extra on her application. She knew she could be a head chef
with no problems but all anyone saw was her age. By the time she met
with Sal Moreno, she was in a pretty nasty mood. Grace does get the
job a few days later no thanks to Sal, Alex hires her. And she proves
herself as a bartender and cook.
As
Sal and Grace get past their first impressions and head towards
starting over, one road block after another trips them up. Sal has to
accept her best friends, Joey & Taylor. And the biggest problem
is one of Sal's ex's who won't let go. It seems there is no such
thing as a smooth sailing relationship when a Moreno is involved. And
you will find out that what happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas!
Once
again we get to be with our friends from the previous stories and see
how their lives are changing. Angel & Sarah now have their own
restaurant, Alex & Valerie start their family, Sofia & Eric
are engaged, Romero & Izzy...well Romero will always be Romero.
We
get to meet a new relative as well. And like all Moreno men, he
carries the handsome gene as well.
There
is an epilogue that updates what is happening with the families and
than there is a separate short story for Angel and Sarah. Can their
love survive more tough times and suspicions?
**Sexual
situations and language
Author's Blurb:
Always in control, the meticulous and professional Salvador Moreno is thrown for a loop when the newly hired bartender Grace Zendejas suddenly invades his family's restaurant, and infuriatingly, his every thought. for the first time in his life, Sal is fumbling. But after recovering from a few blunders he discovers his feelings for Grace run much deeper.
Things begin to heat up between him and Grace, but then the ever-perfect Sal does something even his brothers never did--screws up royally. Now he's scrambling to cover up a mistake he knows could cost him dearly. As his relationship with Grace grows even more serious, Sal's secret is a ticking bomb, threatening to destroy the one thing he now lives and breathes for--his relationship with the love of his life--Grace.
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Elizabeth has more
books in the workings as well. Check
out her blog for excerpts and
updates!
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out her blog for excerpts and
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