Full Package by Lauren Blakely

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The best relationships begin as friendships.

When fire meets friendship, burning with the flames of desire, that friendship ignites and goes BOOM! Friends to lovers, is there any more perfect match? My perfect match is Lauren Blakely’s latest romance: Full Package. A chemistry-clad friends-to-lovers story full of heat and heart, Full Package will have you swooning and smoldering from beginning to end.

I fell in INSTA-LOVE with Full Package, a story that seduced every ounce of me from the very first page. Full Package wrapped itself around me like a cinnamon roll, full of sweetness and spice that poured from the pages. Butterflies fluttered in my tummy, a tingling of sensations and emotions from laughter to love to smiles to swoon.

Full Package is full of spark—chemistry that binds a bookworm to a book—that brings it to life, bringing the reader to life. Oh did my soul spark with love and life! I was caught like a fish in the water or a Swedish Fish in my mouth as Full Package pierced and caught every part of me. I WAS ALL IN!

Chase Summers, Wyatt Hammer’s best friend with dark hair, hazel eyes, and a tall and muscular body, is pure man candy. Chase is a hot doc who can examine me anytime. I LOVED him and his dirty mouth, big heart, and sweet soul. Chase had me hanging to his every enticing word.

Difficult living situations throw Chase together with Josie Hammer, Wyatt’s little sister and Chase’s close friend. From longtime friends to room-mates, Chase is challenged to stay in the friend zone with the gorgeous, dark-haired, green-eyed, and curvy Josie, a baker whose sweet goods he would definitely not mind sampling.

“Josie Hammer turns me on, and that’s a big f**king problem.”

Josie cooks up sinfully sweet desserts but she would not mind having one hot doc for the sweetest dessert ever. She should not fantasize about her life-long friend, but Chase’s devastatingly handsome looks combined with his flirting and big heart make for one irresistible package. PURE PERFECTION.

“No, I swear I didn’t fantasize about every naked inch of him, and he’s not the reason I had to bite my lip to keep from screaming out his name.”

Oh how Josie and Chase’s friendship is full of sparks that are ready to ignite into a firestorm. Their chemistry sizzled and was even more powerful since it’s mixed with friendship…spice and nice. Sparks sprinkled with swoon, and oh did Chase bring the swoon! I melted into a pool of goo all over the pages.

“Josie is my sunshine in this rain-soaked day.”

Josie is sick of dating losers and is ready to chase her happily ever after. This Cinderella is ready to meet Prince Charming. Her Prince Charming may be morphing into her roommate and best friend, Chase. The Chase is on to see if Josie will finally find her full package.

“I want what every woman wants.”

“What’s that?”

“The full package. I want the full package.”

Lauren Blakely has again written a love story that is LITERARY PERFECTION. Full Package is creative writing at its finest: fresh, fun, flirty, and fabulous. I COULD NOT GET ENOUGH!

What I LOVE about Lauren Blakely’s books is that they aren’t just sets of series; they are family that are so perfectly and lovingly linked that they feel familiar. Reading each story with subtle ties to previous tales feels like coming home to characters who have carved out a piece of my heart. Characters who feel close. Characters who I love like family. Characters who feel like more.

The perfect recipe for romance, Full Package is sheer brilliance from beginning to end. A breath of fresh air filled with a lethal dose of heat and heart. The heated innuendos…oh how I melted with thee! The food analogies had me hungry for more. Food has never been so sexy! I LOVED this sweet and spicy story…and Swedish Fish…and EVERYTHING in this romance that made my heart dance! Full Package is a ride to ROMANCE HEAVEN.

Oh how I pant for a fun and flirty friends-to-lovers romance, and Lauren Blakely delivers the goods…the Full Package! Full Package touched me HARD. I was quickly captivated and claimed. Full Package is full of chemistry and has THE CLICK—that connection to the characters and everything about the story from inside out—where I could not help but fall fast and furiously in LOVE. I want to squeeze this Full Package a little longer.

★★★★★ fully satisfying and sweet Swedish Fish (because candy)

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I’ve been told I have quite a gift.

Hey, I don’t just mean in my pants. I’ve got a big brain too, and a huge heart of gold. And I like to use all my gifts to the fullest, the package included. Life is smooth sailing….

Until I find myself stuck between a rock and a sexy roommate, which makes for one very hard…place.

Because scoring an apartment in this city is harder than finding true love. So even if I have to shack up with my buddy’s smoking hot and incredibly amazing little sister, a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.

I can resist Josie. I’m disciplined, I’m focused, and I keep my hands to myself, even in the mere five-hundred square feet we share. Until the one night she insists on sliding under the covers with me. It’ll help her sleep after what happened that day, she says.

Spoiler—neither one of us sleeps.

Did I mention she’s also one of my best friends? That she’s brilliant, beautiful and a total firecracker? Guess that makes her the full package too.

What’s a man stuck in a hard place to do?

I point to the curved wooden stand with a hook at the top. “This. Explain this.”

                Josie sets her hands on her hips. “It’s a banana holder.”

                I give her a stern look. “I can read. I don’t need to know what. I need to know why.” I poke the object on the shelf at Bed Bath & Beyond, otherwise known as the Nexus of Unnecessary Things. Pretty sure there’s some kind of vortex or force field right smack dab in the middle of this store attracting all the weird, bizarre, and odd home goods. “Why can’t they sit on the kitchen counter? Or, how about in a bowl?”

                “Maybe the bananas just like to dangle?” she suggests. “Hang free and all?”

                Smacking my forehead, I go along with it. “Aha. That makes perfect sense.”

                “I’m here to help.” She tugs on my shirtsleeve. “But can we please get to the sheet aisle? You can’t sleep on a naked mattress.”

                “That may be true, but I could definitely sleep naked on a mattress,” I offer, and she laughs as we navigate through another sardine-packed aisle in the mammoth store.

                It’s one in the afternoon, and I just moved in this morning. That took all of two hours. Spending my twenties in med school and as a resident gave me very little time for the acquisition of things, so most of my possessions fit in a duffel bag. I have very little. Not even sheets for a queen-size bed. Ergo, I’m spending Saturday at Bed Bath & Beyond, which is a bit like wandering through a Buzzfeed post titled “Ten Things I’ll Never Use.”

                More like five hundred. Wait. Make that five hundred and one, because I just spotted the new number one item on the list.

                “That,” I say as I make a beeline for a shelf of crème brûlée torches. Grabbing a silvery one, I hold it up. “Please say we can have a housewarming party, and you’ll make crème brûlée, and I can stride all proud and awesome into the kitchen,” I say, puffing out my chest and deepening my voice. “And I can light it with a torch, and we’ll all ooh and ahh at the manly fire I made when I lit up a dessert.”

                She arches an eyebrow. “A manly fire?”

                I nod vigorously. “And then you’ll let the guests take turns punching me in the face for being a total douche for owning a crème brûlée torch.”

                She narrows her eyes. “You actually want people to punch you?”

                I’m deadly serious as I answer her. “If I ever own a crème brûlée torch, you have carte blanche to punch me, Josie. You really should.” I drop the torch on the shelf and take her hand, clasping it tightly in mine. “Promise me. From this day forward. Promise you’ll punch me if I ever own a crème brûlée torch, a rotating tie rack, or more than one kind of cheese grater. This is part of our roommate pact.”

                She grips my hand tighter, her green eyes glowing with stark seriousness. “I solemnly swear to pummel you under all the aforementioned circumstances. As proof of our friendship and roommate solidarity.”

                “You’re a saint,” I say, then wrap a hand around her head and tug her close for a quick kiss on her forehead.

                And hello, sweet, sexy scent of Josie. What is this delicious smell? Is it . . . oh fuck me.Cherries. My God, she smells like cherries. Like the perfect summer fruit. Like the naughtiest fruit. And I’ve got to wonder if that cherry scent is her face lotion, her shampoo, or her body wash?

                Body wash.

                My mind is adrift, and the word association begins. Because what goes with body wash but nudity?

                Naked woman in the shower. Washing. Lathering. Soaping.

                Ah, hell.

                Snap the fuck out it, Summers.

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Since self-publishing her debut romance novel CAUGHT UP IN US over three years ago, Lauren Blakely has sold more than 1.5 million books. She is known for her sexy contemporary romance style that’s full of heat, heart and humor. A devout fan of cake and canines, Lauren has plotted entire novels while walking her four-legged friends. She lives in California with her family. With thirteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than seventy times. Her bestselling series include Sinful Nights, Seductive Nights, No Regrets, Caught Up in Love, and Fighting Fire as well as standalone hit romances like BIG ROCK, MISTER O, WELL HUNG, and THE SEXY ONE which were all instant New York Times Bestsellers. In January she’ll release FULL PACKAGE, a standalone romantic comedy. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter.

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Hollywood Prince by Kim Karr is a total royal treat. One I was fully engrossed in and one I ended up falling head over heels in love with.

This ‘series’ of standalone books are my favourites of Kim’s. I feel so connected to the characters and I am in awe at Kim’s writing, which just goes from strength to strength. Each book, while featuring new characters, holds so many similar aspects to the others that just pushes my love up higher and higher. 

As always Kim’s story telling was flawless. For me, it’s hard not to fall in love with Kim’s books, they captivate me, they give me everything I look for in a book. And she writes some of the most swoony, delicious hero’s I’ve met!  After meeting Cam & Keen, I was incredibly excited to meet Brooklyn. Luckily for me Kim did not disappoint. If anything she gave me SO MUCH MORE than I was expecting.

I absolutely ADORED the friends to lovers aspect of this book, the tension between Brooklyn and Amelia was to die for. Everything about them sizzled and popped and just excited me. From their obvious connection to the flirty banter to the dirty talk, everything was OH SO RIGHT! 
I keep saying it, but now, I think this is my favourite Kim Karr book, from the cover, (OMG THE COVER THOUGH!) to the story, to the characters #Brookmelia, to the very last page, Hollywood Prince was the ultimate star of the show!

Brooklyn James should know better.
Born into Hollywood royalty, the brooding prince has a reputation as being a player. A manwhore. A womanizer.
Adoring fans are his thing.
His best friend’s little sister is not.
Even thinking about her the way he is isn’t cool.
Not cool at all.
And yet every time she pouts those sexy lips at him, she turns him inside out. Makes him harder than he’s ever been. Drives him to the brink of insanity.

Amelia Waters has always idolized her big brother, and the last thing she wants to do is disappoint him. 
Falling for her brother’s ex-roommate is off-limits. 
She knows this, but she can’t help herself. 
The way Brooklyn looks at her with those smoldering blue eyes makes her wet in an instant. Turns her into a shivering, shaking mess of sexual frustration. And soon the idea of spreading her legs for him is the only thing she can think about.

She wants him.
He wants her.

When they finally decide to give in to their insane attraction, they agree it will remain between them. That their illicit affair will be short-term. No strings. No baggage. No messy ending.

But when the first night of mind-blowing sex leads to another, and another still, how long can the endless hookups go on before Amelia’s brother finds out? Or worse yet, before feelings develop?

Brooklyn and Amelia know they need to walk away from each other before either of those things happens.

The problem is doing it.
Talk about a mess.

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Commander in Chief by Katy Evans

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ~President Ronald Reagan

Growing up in the Virginia suburbs of DC, I was never a fan of politics, but I had two presidents and political heroes whom I greatly admired: one who was before my time, John F. Kennedy, and one was during my childhood, Ronald Reagan. When I heard these presidents speak, both great communicators, I could not help but feel American pride and positivity surge through me. So many candidates feed us broken promises and are all ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Somehow in the past several years, I lost faith in politics and the presidency.

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ~President John F. Kennedy

I had not felt that feeling of pride, possibility, and positivity for many years until my one of my favorite authors, Katy Evans, wrote a political romance that started with Mr. President and ended with Commander in Chief. THIS DUET BLEW BOTH ME AND MY ANTI-POLITICAL MIND AWAY! Katy Evans’ Commander In Chief is an intoxicating, inspirational, and passionate-powered political romance that dares you to dream big as you fall in love with one beautiful president and his positive politics. OH DID I FALL SO VERY HARD!

Commander in Chief picked up where Mr. President ended but I felt as if I had never stopped reading this spellbinding story. This political scene with one powerful and passionate president, the breathtakingly beautiful Matt Hamilton, still moved my mind and definitely still had my heart. I WAS STILL ALL IN…still on a high from Mr. President, one that grew into one aching addiction with Commander in Chief.

Adrenaline surged through me while I pounded through Commander in Chief like I was running a race…excited…breathless…fearless…as my heart beat out of my chest to the sweet song of love mixed with a world of possibility. I FELL IN LOVE AGAIN AND AGAIN with the dashing president and his gorgeous first lady in Commander in Chief, adoring Matt and Charlotte more than ever in this story. Patriotic pride beamed bright like a beacon of light—a beacon of faith—as I read these wondrous words filled with so much heart and hope, and passion and promise. Commander in Chief make me feel proud to be an American!

“I drink him up like a starved woman, six feet plus of pure fantasy, all packaged in a real man—beautiful beyond belief. So beautiful, I can’t believe beauty like that exists.”

Oh Matt Hamilton…Mr. President and Commander in Chief…where do I begin?!? This man is beautiful inside and out with his dark, dark eyes, and over six feet of all man. His passion, promise, huge heart, and hope for everything great were inspiring and heartwarming! This man and president are PURE PERFECTION!

“I don’t want to forget that for a little while, Matt Hamilton—forty-sixth president of the United States—was mine.”

Beautiful red-haired and blue-eyed Charlotte Wells grew up with her crush and reunited ten years later, her once lover and now president, Matt Hamilton, but had to let him go months ago so he could pursue his White House dreams and not be distracted by her…though the pain of letting him go eats at her alive every day as it does Matt. Two broken-hearted lovers needed to be reunited so their hearts could become whole.

“I want to be able to kiss you anywhere, anytime I want.”

My eyes teared up with these declarations of love that lit my soul on fire. Oh Matt’s sweet words to Charlotte made me melt like chocolate on a hot day. The Commander in Sweet made me smolder and swoon. I LOVED MATT SOOO MUCH!

“Every time we kiss feels like the first time, but this time feels like it’s the only time.”

Charlotte and Matt’s kisses were a combustible mixture of fire and fate that when fueled by the flames, created an inferno that, once ignited, may forever burn…always there. Their passion was off the charts heat and heart—unbreakable and unstoppable—like their love for each other.

“He takes a moment to look down at my kissed lips—at me. In the way only he sees me, as if he knows my every dream and fare and nightmare, and all I have been and ever will be. As if he knows that I…was and am and will always be his.”

Oh sweet sigh. These words of beauty shone through the pages, words that touched me everywhere: body, heart, mind, and soul.

“I’m in over my head for this girl. Once I thought I couldn’t do both, govern a broken country and have her. But I know now that I will die trying to do both. This is who I am. I’m the president and a man.”

Katy Evans’ Commander in Chief seduced me, as I scorched and swooned, a power play of words that caught every piece of me until I fell so very hard in love. This story rendered me breathless, so full of exhilaration and emotion, where I felt every word…FELT EVERYTHING.

I was powerless to the power of this story, one of politics and passion, one of love and life. This story did not just hit this Virginia gal, this DC area native, and American patriot; Commander in Chief tore at my military wife heart. This story moved me…ALL OF ME.

Oh did Katy Evans’ enlightening and emotionally-entangled words make me BELIEVE! I BELIEVED IN LOVE…I BELIEVED IN POLITICS…I BELIEVED IN THESE FEEL-WORTHY WORDS. I dared to dream and I DREAMED BIG as I pounded through these pages, passion and promise penetrating every piece of me.

Commander in Chief is so much more than a politically-powered romance. It’s heart and hope…inspiration and passion…beauty in words…magic. It’s a dream for the future of America. It’s making every moment count.

Mr. President and Commander in Chief should be every president’s bible. If every president could be non-partisan and positive like Matt Hamilton, voting would be a seamless. Matt Hamilton, while a fictional president, should be real, a model for every campaign and one that would make America’s forefathers beam with pride just like I did while inhaling this brilliant book.

Katy Evans painted Commander in Chief to perfection in a book that’s sheer brilliance from beginning to end. I was besotted as this book buzzed excitement, so full of love and life, blasting big dreams through me. I FELL HARD. I FELL FAST. I FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Intoxicating and incredible, Commander in Chief COMMANDED ME…every part…JUST EVERYTHING. I LOVED IT ALL. I’m still wrapped up in this dream of a story and I’m still DREAMING BIG.

“You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” ~Nancy Reagan

Commander in Chief COUNTS.

★★★★★ but worth 10 ‘dream big’ stars

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The sizzling second installment of the White House series, by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Evans.

We fell in love during the campaign.
The stakes were high.
Reputations could have been ruined.
Scandal hovered over us like a cloud.
Now the man I love is the President of the United States of America.
And its not my vote he is after.
He wants it all.
My heart. My body. My soul.
He wants me by his side.
In the White House.
Normalcy will be gone from my life, privacy forgotten.
I am only twenty three. I just wanted to play a part in history. But it seems like history wasn’t done with me. The part where I lost my heart to Matthew Hamilton? It was only the beginning…

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Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“She didn’t need to be saved. She needed to be found and appreciated for exactly who she was.” ~J. Iron Word

Since I was a little girl, I’ve always loved a good fairytale where I could pretend to be a princess and marvel in magic. Today, my favorite fairytales are romance books, love stories with a hard-fought happily ever after where the prince and princess may not be perfect but are perfect for each other. I live and feel fantasies through love stories like Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley. Spellbinding, sexy, and sweet, Rock Chick Reawakening is a fiery fairytale of strength that sweeps up your heart in one magical and moving love story.

From the start, I was swept up in this romance like Cinderella getting ready for the ball. I WAS ALL IN THIS FAIRY TALE…hook…line…sinker. The synthesis of sweetness, sorrow, and strength that streamed from the pages both mesmerized and moved me.

It didn’t take me long to realize a few things: First, I was a fool for waiting so long to meet a Kristen Ashley book. Second, this story only scratched at the surface as I’m still aching for more. Third and finally, I need to go meet the rest of this amazing author’s brilliant books since Kristen Ashley definitely lives up to and exceeds the hype.

One of the strongest heroines I’ve ever met is Daisy, and oh did I love her so! With the looks of Marilyn Monroe meets Dolly Parton, this blonde, blue-eyed, and busty beauty has sass and strength in SPADES! Daisy is a stripper, yes, but also a Southern lady with a huge heart.

“I’ve been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair.”

Daisy has had a life of hell and battled back like a warrior woman. Tragedy after tragedy has only made Daisy stronger. Her most recent tragedy has a dark hero, Marcus Sloan, surfacing to protect her and her fragile heart.

“In terms I hope you understand, darling, in fairytales, the prince vanquishes the wicked queen. The evil stepmother. The malicious goblin. In real life, Daisy, to avenge wrong done to his princess, if the need arises, the prince puts a bullet in somebody’s brain.”

Dark hair, blue eyes, tall, handsome, a bit dangerous, intense, commanding, and caring, the story’s hero, Marcus, and his many layers were PURE PERFECTION. This hardened man had a soft heart, which made my heart go pitter patter a lot.

“I’ve been waiting thirty-five years for you to come into my life, Daisy.”

It was love at first sight, for the romantic Marcos. THIS MAN…JUST SWOON!!! I soared to the clouds every time this man uttered a word to Daisy. SIGH!!!

“He kissed me. It was soft and it was sweet. But it was more.”

Marcus has to convince Daisy to be his princess. More importantly, he has to convince her that he she is as beautiful inside as out.

“You’re the woman for me, which means, darling, I’m the man for you.”

I could not stop swooning at this amazing man’s sweet yet sincere words to Daisy. Marcus sees Daisy as so much more than a stripper. Daisy is sass, strength, and sparkle.

“Nothing a little sparkle won’t fix.”

Daisy is heart and her own hero. This super woman didn’t need a superman to rescue her; she needed a hero who understood and loved all the parts of Daisy. Oh was Marcus that hero! I LOVED my dark prince, Marcus, from the very start. Like Daisy, Marcus is a man of many layers and roles: strip club silent partner and one of Daisy’s bosses, multi-business owner, modern day vigilante, and protector of his princess, Daisy.

“Marcus Sloan wasn’t like a dream. He was just a dream.”

Rock Chick Reawakening was a dream…MY DREAM. This story is the best potion of SWOON, SEXYINESS, SWEETNESS, AND STRENGTH IN SPADES. Rock Chick Reawakening is Cinderella but better. This book is PURE BLISS. Kristen Ashley transported me to a feel-worthy fantasy world and I loved getting lost in her wondrous words.

I felt my Southern roots from head to toe, I felt that badass sass, I felt butterflies fluttering in my tummy from the swoon and sweetness that oozed off the pages, and I felt strength from these characters of steel. This story is a fairytale of feels, and oh did I feel everything! I FELT ALL THE FEELS. I FELT ALL THE LOVE. Rock Chick Reawakening ROCKED MY WORLD! Kristen Ashley is a rock star writer and new favorite author of mine; I’m her new biggest fan.

Rock Chick Reawakening doesn’t just sparkle; it’s PURE GOLD! Oh did this sweet, sexy, sassy and strong story shine! I’m still swimming in glitter.

“I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.” ~Steel Magnolias

★★★★★ sparkling stars

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From New York Times bestselling author, Kristen Ashley, comes the long-awaited story of Daisy and Marcus, Rock Chick Reawakening. A prequel to Kristen’s Rock Chick series, Rock Chick Reawakening shares the tale of the devastating event that nearly broke Daisy, an event that set Marcus Sloane—one of Denver’s most respected businessmen and one of the Denver underground’s most feared crime bosses—into finally making his move to win the heart of the woman who stole his.

“You, thinkin’ I’d have a problem with you bein’ Marcus Sloan,” I expanded.

“Do you know who I am?”

“Nope.” I shrugged. “Don’t care either. Though, that’s to say ‘nope’ don’t mean that I don’t know. I just don’t really know. I still don’t care. And that’s not why I don’t wanna have dinner with you.”

“I’m still not understanding.”

“Honey bunch, I’m a stripper.”

“Yes. And?”

I shut up.

Dear God, he thought I thought I was better than him.

No.

He thought I thought I had reason to think I was better than him.

“I don’t judge,” I said quietly. “Life’s life and a person’s gotta do what they feel they gotta do to get along in it.”

“This is correct.”

“So I don’t care what you do or who you are.”

“And this delights me.”

My heart started racing because it did. It delighted him.

And I knew this because his eyes were again twinkling.

“Men are a**holes,” I shared.

“Some of them are, yes,” he somewhat agreed.

“Not met many who aren’t. My count, all my life, that number equals two.”

Those twinkling eyes stopped twinkling in order to flash.

“Just two?”

“Yup. Two,” I confirmed.

“Although I find that knowledge upsetting, I’ll share I’d like to make that three,” he told me something I already (mostly) got.

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Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorize and she hadn’t taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen’s Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning. 

Nothing’s changed.

Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she’s blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched).

Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up. 

And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.

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