*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*
Monday, June 15, 2026
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Apartment Life #424
This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.
Life Update:
My daughter had her first infusion on the 11th. They got her in earlier than expected which is great. She's doing better. Still more doctor visits coming up, but her primary care doctor told her she has stage 1 Kidney disease too. But they are treating her to keep it from getting worse.
I'm getting better. First thing in the morning I can barely move but as the day goes on, I'm in less pain and am trying to walk a little more.
This week I saw 2 police cars in front of my complex. There was a domestic fight going on in one of the apartments in that courtyard. Didn't look like anyone went to jail though.
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Friday afternoon I spotted the police had pulled a car over and gave the driver a ticket. I wasn't out there when he got pulled over so I don't know what he did wrong.
After the driver pulled away, the cops stayed there talking to each other for a while.
The high this week was 107F/41C
The low this week was 82F/27C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Book Review: Billionaire Wolf Needs A Nanny by Drusilla Swan
Book Description
Lacey has bigger dreams than being a nanny for the Discreet Talent Connections Agency, but rent needs to be paid and desperate times call for desperate measures. Besides, the job is only supposed to last one year, and the financial reward will make it possible for her to fulfill her dream of publishing her novel. The little girl she is in charge of is wild, but sweet. The child's uncle, and guardian, on the other hand is a grumpy bachelor wolf shifter who both infuriates her and ignites her senses on fire.
Blake Wulfthorn is on the cusp of landing the biggest acquisition of his life. But being the sole guardian of his orphaned niece threatens to derail his plans, unless he finds a nanny who can handle an energetic wolf pup. The last person he expected the employment agency to send, was a woman with sharp eyes behind heavy glasses, and curves in all the right places. A human woman is only another distraction from his role as CEO and his duties to his wolf pack. She fits in his family and his life perfectly in almost every way except one. She was human, and his employee, and 100% off limits. Is he willing to risk it all for the one who could be his mate?
My Review
Blake is the guardian of his niece after his sister passed away. Because he and his niece are wolf shifters, the little 4-year-old is fast and smart. Keeping up with the kid is a full-time job and since he runs a huge company, he needs a nanny. So, he puts the job on the Discreet Talent Agency.
Lacey meets Blake in a chance meeting when she goes to pick up food and they run into each other, literally. She found Blake intimidating and gorgeous, but their encounter lasted but a moment before Blake got the heck out of there because he found the human interesting and he doesn't have time for an interesting human right now.
So when the agency informs him that they found a suitable nanny for him, he's not expecting to see Lacey walk into his office. Neither of them can believe that they are face to face again. But the interview and test to get his niece to eat her food goes off well and he gives her a chance to be the nanny.
Of course, they have to spend a lot of time together and because of that, Blake is having a hard time keeping his thoughts pure about Lacey. He thinks she smells really good and his wolf is telling him she's, his mate. If you've read any shifter romances then you already know when a shifter finds their mate, it's almost impossible for them to ignore the pull to them. But Blake does try to keep her at arm's length because he's afraid he'll hurt or scare her during the mating process.
Good thing that Lacey won't let him get away.
These two are great together. But Blake irritated me a little bit. I thought that he asked a little too much of Lacey during their first sexual encounter. She went along with it but it seemed like a lot to me.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
Monday, June 08, 2026
Happy Raturday!
"Searching the internet for donut recipes."
*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Apartment Life #423
This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.
Life update:
My daughter was supposed to have her infusion last Friday but the office called last minute and cancelled because the person doing it had an emergency. So they rescheduled it for the 15th. My daughter is also going in for a mammogram and ultrasound at the end of this month, because while she was in the hospital they found a lump in her breast when she had a CT scan. I'm really hoping she won't have to deal with breast cancer on top of everything else.
I'm getting better. Still using the crutch outside but I can now walk around the apartment without it. My back is getting better.
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We had a 3.8 earthquake on Thursday. At first they thought it was a 4.1 but then changed it. Just jolted my apartment building really hard for a second. That's enough to wake you up in the morning. 🤣 I've only felt about 5 earthquakes here in Las Vegas in the last 35 years.
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It was a quiet week.
The high this week was 105F/40C
The low this week was 77F/25C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
Book Review: Guarded by the Grizzly Bear by Reece Barden
Book Description
Enemies-to-lovers meets fated mates in this scorching shifter romance. Book 3 in the best-selling bear protectors series is second chance romance features some unusual bear biology ;) a one-night stand that goes horribly wrong, forced proximity, one bed, human x supernatural, and a hero who falls first and falls hardest.
LISA
I had the best night of my life with a stranger.
That was, until I found out he was from the notorious Lennox family.
I told myself I made the right call, that I dodged a bullet, and that the feelings I got every time I saw Beau Lennox around town were irritation, not regret.
Now we're investigating the same case, a missing woman, and he's determined to keep me on the outside.
But I'm the one with the badge.
And no matter how hard he tries, no matter what happens between us, Beau won't be able to stop me bringing her home.
BEAU
She accused me of running a con and treated me like a criminal because of my last name.
I should be over it, over her.
But as soon as she's near, fighting me at every turn, I'm battling urges I don't understand and can barely control.
Now she's inserting herself into my investigation, demanding answers and taking risks.
Too stubborn to back down, she's getting too close to dangerous people who won't hesitate to hurt her and a secret she was never meant to find out.
She thinks I'm being territorial about the case, but that's not the thing I want to keep all to myself.
After one night trapped together on a case, my bear has decided she's his.
But once she discovers what I am, she might decide she was right all along and run.
MF, all the spice and HEA guaranteed.
My Review
Lisa and Beau hook up soon after meeting, they feel a pull towards each other and act on it. But things go south pretty quickly when Lisa finds out who Beau is. His family for the most part are on the wrong side of the law and she's been trying to bring down his father. Lisa is a cop and once she finds out who Beau is related to, she breaks things off pretty harshly.
But Beau isn't a bad guy, isn't in the business like his father is. When Beau and Lisa are thrown together again this time to find a missing kid, they have to work together, and Lisa ends up seeing that Beau isn't a bad guy.
Lisa is afraid that her coworkers won't take her seriously if she's dating the son of a man who's she's investigating. Not that her coworkers take her seriously now. She's more afraid that the people she works with will find yet another reason to roll their eyes at her and talk about her behind her back than she is that she might have just pushed a great guy out of her life.
It takes time for Lisa to see that she and Beau are great together, but Beau has a secret that he can't tell just anyone. He's a bear shifter. So there are things about him that he can't tell her until she makes up her mind to be with him, which causes a little conflict between then because she knows he's hiding a secret from her.
Lisa's coworkers are horrible and I was glad that she didn't let them rule her life in the end. Beau and Lisa are such a great couple and I am loving this series so far.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
Everyone Has A Story, Here's One Of Mine
I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir, but it just never comes together for me, but I figured if I write one story at a time and post it on my blog maybe once a month, I can do that. Maybe one day I'll pull all the stories together and put them in a book but for now I'll just share some stories with you about my childhood and into adulthood. Some of the stories will be happy, some sad and some horrific because that was my childhood. But they will all be real, things that actually happened. If it seems like something that people enjoy reading maybe, I'll keep it going. These stories will not be in any kind of order; I'll just write them as they come to me.
Marshal Claffey
When I was 18 years old, I was living with my mom, her boyfriend Roger and my brother. I was walking to the store down the street and saw a "Now Hiring" sign in the window of the laundromat, so I went in and asked about the job. She hired me on the spot. After a week of training, I was left alone in the laundromat to clean the washers and dryers, give change for the machines, and take any dry cleaning that came in. It was a pretty easy job.
A few months later, a homeless guy named Marshal came in and asked if I could keep an ear out on the pay phone that was right outside my shop. I said yes because he said his sister was going to call and he wanted me to get her phone number so he could call her back. I did that and thought that would be the end of it.
He started coming around a lot and just talking to me, sometimes he brought in a couple of shirts to wash in the machine. He never dried them though. I found out that he lived in the overgrown desert lot right across the street from the laundromat I worked at. He had dug a huge hole in the ground out there, shored up the sides with wood and put 2x4 wood slats across the top. He covered the wood slats with a tarp and a large rug and some broken branches. He had a step ladder down inside the hole so he could get in and out of it.
After talking for a few weeks, he asked me if I wanted to come see his hole (in the desert) and I stupidly said yes. *You live and learn I guess* So after work I went over to the desert with him, and he took me over to a campout/bbq that a bunch of homeless people were sitting around. They had scored a bunch of McDonald's hamburgers in the trash can behind the McDonald's and were unwrapping them and putting them on the BBQ grill they made. I ate one, because, *When in Rome* smh
The other homeless people talked to me and told me what they did to get by and digging through the trash bins of the fast food places was how they ate because these places throw away a lot of food. One couple even had a toddler out there with them and they had been homeless for over a year. Some of them had holes in the desert, some didn't.
I can't believe I'm going to say this but Marshal and I started dating and a few weeks later, I let him move in with me in my trailer. My mom agreed since her boyfriend Roger had also been homeless when she met him because he was schizophrenic. Roger and my mom stayed together for years until he had a heart attack and passed away. She got him on medication and he did really well for a while.
Things were going good until I found out that Marshal got high by huffing paint and paint thinner. Huffing is when you spray the paint into a bottle or paper towel and then breathe in the fumes. It gets you high. I told him that I didn't want him doing that around me and we had a fight Halloween day. I went off to work, and he came in later that night dressed as a clown and high as hell after huffing paint. It was dripping down his face and his clown face paint was all messed up because of it.
I told him if he didn't leave, I was going to call the police, and he just went crazy and started hitting me. I ended up having bruises all over my arms and neck, a black eye, a concussion, bruised nose and broken rib. He ran out and the 3 people who were at the other end of the laundromat came running up to me. I called the police, pressed charges and they went out in the desert and found him near his hole in the desert. He got 30 days in jail.
He tried to apologize but I wasn't having it and we broke up. I woke up screaming at night from nightmares for almost a year after that. Roger, my mom's schizophrenic boyfriend walked me to and from work everyday for a week and even stayed in the laundromat with me during the day, the man was really good to me and my mom.
I found out that Marshal beat up his next girlfriend too, but her brothers beat him so badly that he ended up in the ICU for over a month. Karma?
I found out years later that he got high, went into a bank and tried to rob it while 2 police officers were sitting in a car right outside. He was arrested and died in prison a few years later. The police report I found online years ago said they found him dead in his cell. I have no idea what happened to him.
Links to past stories
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2024
Monday, June 01, 2026
Happy Raturday!
"Summer means, watermelon!"
"Any time is a good time for pancakes."
*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Apartment Life #422
This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.
Life Update:
I'm still in a lot of pain and walking with a crutch. Nothing is broken but I have a pulled muscle in my back, a pinched nerve and sciatica pain shooting down the back of my leg like lightning. I also found out I have Osteoporosis and some bone loss. Taking Calcium supplements now. I'll get back to posting more after some of this pain goes away.
My daughter starts her infusions soon and she's not in as much pain, thankfully. So that's a big relief. Still waiting on the referrals for a couple of places. She called her insurance company and got the names of the places that do take her insurance and left a message with the referral dept. So this time they shouldn't send her to a place that doesn't take her insurance. You would think they would be smart enough to do that themselves, but apparently not.
I'm still in a lot of pain and walking with a crutch. Nothing is broken but I have a pulled muscle in my back, a pinched nerve and sciatica pain shooting down the back of my leg like lightning. I also found out I have Osteoporosis and some bone loss. Taking Calcium supplements now. I'll get back to posting more after some of this pain goes away.
My daughter starts her infusions soon and she's not in as much pain, thankfully. So that's a big relief. Still waiting on the referrals for a couple of places. She called her insurance company and got the names of the places that do take her insurance and left a message with the referral dept. So this time they shouldn't send her to a place that doesn't take her insurance. You would think they would be smart enough to do that themselves, but apparently not.
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Today is also my 21st Blogoversary!
I just want to thank everyone who stops by, reads and comments on my posts. You guys are the reason that I am still here doing this. I love reading all your comments and reading your blogs as well.
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I only saw the police around here once this week but I haven't been doing much walking because of the pain. This car got pulled over and the guy was handed a ticket for something.
The high this week was 98F/36C
The low this week was 66F/18C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Book Review: The Nightmare Keeper by Vienna James
Book Description
In a world where the unknown is feared and persecuted, a gifted dream wielder fights against a terrifying conspiracy in an enthralling novel about nightmares gone wild.
Azalee Saunders is a dream wielder whose wellness magic calms a troubled night’s sleep. Her enemy since childhood, Gabriel Ford, is the grandson of the High Witch, Salem’s honored protector, and was raised to distrust all who share Azalee’s powers. But when Azalee saves Gabriel’s life, the life debt makes him a dream wielder too—a secret that could cost him succession to his grandfather’s reign.
For Azalee, fighting the dangerous myth that dream wielders stalk, unchecked, through strangers’ dreamscapes is vital. Especially as the public’s fears and bigotry escalate amid a string of murders in Salem. Azalee knows this is the work of Nightmares, whose mutated magic frightens people to death in their sleep. To prove it, she needs the help of an adversary. After all, Gabriel owes her big-time.
As the death toll rises, Azalee’s sacred gift and future are at stake, and she and Gabriel must work together. But for both of them, uncovering the truth and vanquishing the real evil in Salem will be a nightmare.
My Review
Azalee is a dream wielder, meaning she can go into a person's dreams and change them. The High Witch is against all dream wielder's though because one killed his wife many years ago and he's out to make sure they can't hurt anyone else. Gabriel is The High Witch's grandson, and he has no idea that his own grandson, Gabriel is now a dream wielder after a bad incident that happened. Azalee and Gabriel don't like each other, but Azalee saved Gabriel's life without thinking about it and now Gabriel owes her a life debt.
When Nightmare's start becoming a problem, Azalee and her coven try to save the people or at the very least stop them from hurting others. A dream wielder can turn into a nightmare and hurt others. Someone is killing people in their dreams, and The High Witch thinks it's a dream wielder and is going to take what's happening to try and keep the dream wielders in a cage, so to speak.
Gabriel and Azalee have to put their feelings for each other and work together to try and stop whoever is killing people and blaming it on a nightmare or dream wielder.
The people who are locked up in the cells because they have turned into living nightmares was so sad. When one of them tries to tell Azalee something and help her figure who is behind it. It was interesting to see inside someone's nightmare.
When I read the blurb for this and saw it was about dreams, nightmares and witches with the ability to go into others dreams, I knew I had to read this one. I suffer from nightmares all the time, so I found this really interesting.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
Disclosure: I was given an e-ARC of this book via NetGalley but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Monday, May 25, 2026
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Apartment Life #421
This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.
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So about 3 weeks ago I was turning over in bed and something popped in my back. I've had what I think is really bad pulled muscle since then. My doctor came out on the 17th and said that I could have weakened the bone when I fell and hurt my arms a couple of months ago and then fractured my pelvis when I turned over in bed. Because of where the pain is, he thinks it could be a pelvis fracture like a hairline fracture, a bulging disc or a compression fracture in my back. So he sent the X-ray techs out here again this week to do X-rays of my lower back.
I had to lay on the couch to get the xrays done.
I've been having to walk with a crutch for the last 3 weeks and it could be any number of things, so he wanted to rule them all out. I'm hoping it's not any kind of fracture and just a pulled muscle since my blood and urine tests came back and he found Myoglobin in my urine which could indicate a damaged muscle.
I just can't stop hurting myself I guess. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh and he told me that the xrays they took of my arms when I fell 2 months ago showed I have Osteoarthritis in both shoulders. I had a feeling about that already since I'm like Rice Krispies and snap, crackle, pop every time I move my arms.
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This past Sunday we called 911 because the smoke detector in the apartment right next door was going off for 30 minutes. We knocked on the door and no one was home. The fire department came just to make sure there was no smoke or fire. They had a hand held device where they could see if there were any hot spots in the apartment and there weren't any so they had no cause to break the door down to get inside and check.
Since they couldn't get in and saw no hot spots, they left. Thankfully the woman who lives there got home about an hour later. I have to wonder if she had a faulty smoke detector like I did.
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On the 17th and into the 18th the winds were blowing! The gusts were no joke, they thought only the higher elevations were going to get 70mph gusts but we ended up having 70 mph gusts that night. It did a whole bunch of damage all over Las Vegas including the 2nd level of the pedestrian walkway at the airport collapsed and is closed indefinitely. The winds were crazy. I'm surprised we didn't have more damage here at our apartment complex. And the news said there was a gust at 82 mph on the Hoover Dam Bridge.
The high this week was 98F/36C
The low this week was 61F/16C
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
Saturday, May 23, 2026
The Carnival
Years ago before Cal Ranch bought the parking lot next door and the buildings there was a different store here, it was Smiths grocery store and the Carnival would use the large parking lot for the yearly Carnival. Ken and I would take our daughter over there each year and go one some of the rides.
There were quite a few rides here for the kids and the adults.
We went at night a few times too. But we stopped going when Ken was asked if he needed some extra work by one of the guys who was helping to set up the Carnival. He said sure and went over to one of the small buildings and got hired to help set up all the rides.
The thing was, he saw who else got hired. A bunch of the homeless guys in the area got hired to set up the rides and most of them got told what to do and had NO supervision as they were being set up. Then to top it off, it was the homeless people in the area who were operating all the rides, taking the tickets and manning the ticket booth.
The last time Ken and I took our daughter to this Carnival we noticed that a few of the homeless guys were drinking on the job as they switched the rides on and off. That was the last straw for me and we didn't go again.
But A company bought this property they used to set up on and they moved the carnival to another location. I have no idea if they are still using local homeless people to set up and operate the rides but I wouldn't doubt it.
Friday, May 22, 2026
Freebie Friday!
Welcome to another weekly Freebie Friday post, where I tell you what free samples and full-sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a "Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.
A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.
You can find links to great samples at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.
This week I received:
I won a book on Goodreads!
Did you received any freebies or free samples this week?
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Book Review: Alpha's Obsession by Nova Sloane
Book Description
Nadia Volkov knew she was a political pawn, a human "gift" to secure peace with the most dangerous aliens in the quadrant.
She expected imprisonment, cruelty, and a quick death if she was lucky. She didn't expect Ravek.
The Pack Alpha is massive, terrifying, and absolutely furious that his body has chosen a fragile human as his fated mate. He should reject her. Send her back. Pretend the soul-scent doesn't hit him like a narcotic every time she's near.
But he’s obsessed.
Now Nadia is trapped between a mate who watches her like prey and a bond that's rewriting her DNA. She should be afraid, but the most dangerous alien in the universe kneels only for her.
Fated mates. Possessive alpha. One bond that changes everything.
My Review
The Keth’ari are a predatory race of aliens that have taken over worlds, when they set their sights on Earth, the politicians and government got together and agreed to send the Keth'ari a gift in the form of Nadia. She comes from a prominent political family and knew what was expected of her. She was supposed to kneel in front of the Prince to show Earth's submission to the aliens. But Nadia stood her ground, not knowing if she would anger Ravek and be killed on the spot or be kept as a slave.
But Ravek found her brave even before he caught her scent and knew she was his mate. So, she's shown to her quarters, where she has no idea what awaits for her future.
While the bond is affecting both Ravek and Nadia, she has no idea what's happening to her at first, but Ravek does. He feels the pull of the bond very strongly and wants to give Nadia time to get used to her surroundings but he's quickly becoming obsessed with her.
Ravek sees red when another male tries to talk to Nadia but after that they start spending time together getting to know one another and find they have a hard time keeping their hands off each other. The bond they share flares hot, so he has to explain what's happening to her and them.
This was a quick, fun read. I really liked how strong Nadia was in the face of being given to an alien who she had no idea how he would treat her. It was fun to watch their bond bring them closer. That book cover was what made me stop and read what this book was about. I love the cover.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Favorite Picture of the Week
When my grandson comes over on the weekends, he's been walking Falor for me since my back is hurt. I was standing on the step, and he walked him down the sidewalk for me. He's only 13 and he's already taller than I am, and I'm 5'6".
So many clouds, no rain. All of the pictures of clouds were from the same day.
It rained over the mountains though.
I love those big, puffy clouds.
Saw a line of clouds rolling in as I was out with Falcor. I can't walk far so I just stayed in one place and let Falcor do his business.
Popcorn clouds in another direction.
Then took another picture of the line of clouds getting closer.
Later that day there were more clouds over the mountains.
As the sun was setting it looked nice.
I stood out there slowly walking Falcor back home and thought this picture was neat. Sun was almost gone, the clouds were driven off with the wind and the mountains looked black. You can even faintly see a few stars in the sky in my picture.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Book Review: Beastly Arrangement by Elizabeth Dunlap
Book Description
An ancient agreement between a family of witches and the Dragon beastkins sends Evangeline straight into a marriage she doesn't want.
Her new husband is scaly, rude, and he makes her heart pound with excitement. She has no intention of bowing her head to this beast, but one touch from him is enough to bring her walls crumbling down.
Julien had no intention of agreeing to this marriage, until he saw Evangeline's face, and his heart was stolen instantly. He knew he would have her, no matter the consequences.
If Julien and Evangeline can't cast aside their differences, their timid new feelings will be shattered when another Dragon comes to claim Evangeline for his own.
Julien must prove to Evangeline, and himself, that she belongs in his bed, in his heart, and nothing will ever tear them apart.
**Warning: For Adult Audiences 18+. Language and actions may be deemed offensive to some. Sexually explicit content.**
My Review
Evangeline has known since she was a small child that one day the beasts might come for her to marry one of their own because of a treaty their ancestors made a long time ago. In order to keep the peace, a female witch from her coven is chosen to marry one of the dragon beastkins.
But no marriages have taken place for decades because no male dragon beastkins have been born until Julien and his cousin were born and now that they're both of age to get married, Julien's father is demanding he take a witch bride.
Neither Julien nor Evangeline want to marry someone they don't love but as soon as they meet, sparks fly, just not exactly the right way. Julien is rude, grumpy and doesn't know how to treat Evangeline because he feels the sparks of passion right away and he thinks she's used her witch magic to enchant him somehow. So he fights the pull he feels for her after she moves into his home.
Evangeline doesn't understand why Julien is so rude to her but she decides not to make things easy for him. The only problem is, if Evangeline doesn't mate with Julien and become pregnant with three months, according to the treaty contract, she'll be passed to the next eligible beastkin, which would be Julien's cousin. Julien doesn't want to see her with him because he knows his cousin would hurt her, he's not a nice guy.
Once Evangeline realizes that her younger sister's life and freedom are on the line if she doesn't try to make her marriage work and somehow get pregnant in three months, the dynamic changes between Julien and Evangeline. They actually start to like each other and the spice level hikes up quite a bit.
I liked the magic part of this story too. It was fun to see the explanation of how her magic works.
There are a lot of misunderstandings between the two of them in the beginning. I love a good enemies to lover's romance and this was good. It had a good ending too.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
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