Windows by Billy London

What I look for in a good romance novel, whether it’s a super spicy-hot erotica or a sweet and tame “vanilla,” is the chemistry between the characters. I want a good story, don’t get me wrong, but what many novels seem to lack are believable heros and heroines. Frequently, I’m left wondering why they even love each other? The story may have been enjoyable, but where’s the chemistry? I want a heroine I can either identify with or want to be and a hero I can fall in love with.

I’m happy to say that this story, Windows by Billy London, delivered everything I look for and then some. The heroine was a strong willed woman, the kind of woman I would like to be, but throughout the story you could see her vulnerability shine through. It didn’t make her less of a woman, by any means, but it did make her seem real. She’s a woman with hopes and dreams, doubts and fears, almost as if she wears a mask of toughness to hide her soft gooey center and we, as the reader, get to see her mask chipped away at until she finally allows the man of her dreams to enter her heart. 

When she found out what Nick really did for a living she was understandably scared and worried, wondering if they could ever make it work between them, but who wouldn’t react this way? I didn’t find this in the least off-putting, in fact, I found it a very real emotional response. Throughout the story we watched her work through her fear and find a way to make the love work.

As for the hero, I almost have to say the same for him. He’s an alpha male, no doubt about that, but there’s a soft spot in his heart that adores Gina with every fiber of his being. He loves her the way every woman wants to be loved. Maybe he comes across a little brash and bold in the beginning, even dominating and irritating, but you soon realize that this is only because he has found a woman he can’t live without, can’t even breathe without, and is trying to find a way to crack through the barrier that surrounds her heart. 

This story was a wonderful adventure, complete with twists you never see coming (I LOVE when an author actually manages to surprise me!) and secondary characters just as interesting as the primary ones. Characters whose stories I can’t WAIT to read! Thank you Billy London for writing characters I believed in and chemistry I could feel in every page. Thank you for a heroine I could stand behind and a hero I could fall in love with. I would highly recommend this book to anyone!

If you read the book I’d love if you could leave a comment about your favorite part, or even just a comment saying exactly what it is that YOU look for in a romance!

Find Windows by Billy London here:  
https://beautifultroublepublishing.com/xcart/Windows-EBOOK.html

IT'S HERE!!!

My new book, Wolfwitch, was just released through Beautiful Trouble Publishing. It's a bite sized, contemporary paranormal romance.
Blurb:

Thrown into the fray two years ago by the bite of a rogue werewolf, Bobbie finds herself caught in the shockingly unfamiliar world of shifters and vampires. Her world is turned upside down by the fact that she’s a werewolf who can’t shift. Only the fact that she’s fated to be the mate of the Alpha of a local pack spares her life. She lives day to day under the rule of her abusive husband and the constant reminder that she is an abomination that shouldn’t have been allowed to live. And to top it all off, she is snatched from her packlands by a lunatic vampire spewing ridiculous lies about her mate and something called a wolfwitch.

James thought it was a simple enough mission. Negotiate the release of the wolfwitch from the local pack. Talk to them reasonably and sensibly and convince them of the error of their ways, forcibly if need be. But for the first time in centuries he finds himself thrown completely off balance. And by a woman, no less. Bobbie is a seductive, tempting she-devil of a woman, but it’s not the stake she plunges into his heart that breaks it. It’s the fact that she belongs to another man.

This is a story about the wolfwitch. A rare, once-in-a-generation breed of shifter who can never shift, but holds the fate of all Were-kind in her hands. Whoever controls the wolfwitch has the potential to control the world, and some will stop at nothing to own her.

https://beautifultroublepublishing.com/xcart/Wolfwitch-EBOOK.html

Vacation chaos...

Sooooo...I'm driving cross country, from Michigan to Cali, so I can visit my family. I know it would be alot faster to fly, but my intense fear of flying requires me to drive and my husband is awesome enough to put up with it.

We stop in Vegas, four hours from our final destination, to refuel and I check my emails on my phone. Right there, in the drive thru for McDonald's, I'm checking my emails...big mistake.

There it is, the email I've been waiting for. Just a harmless little email from Beautiful Trouble Publishing and all it says in the subject line is "congrats."

I open it and read it.

...and immediately start crying.

I can't even talk. My husband and daughter have no idea if these are happy tears or sad tears. Did someone die? Did I get a promotion? They just don't know...

Of course it was none of the above but I can't stop sobbing to tell them. Finally, my husband guesses.
"Did they release your book?" All I can do is nod.
My husband's not good with tears but he did the best he could, rubbing my shoulders and saying: "This is a good thing, it's a happy day." or something like that, I really can't say for sure. You know, tears and all that...

The worst part is that I was FOUR hours away from my momma!

FOUR hours away from the woman who would scream and do the happy dance with me!

Four hours is a long time to wait to do a happy dance! :-) Anyway...here it is, the book that took me a year to write. The book I thought I would never finish. The book someone believed in.

Thank you Beautiful Trouble Publishing.

https://beautifultroublepublishing.com/xcart/Throne-of-Teresh-EBOOK.html

Welcome to my blog!

My name is Shirelle and I am a brand new author. The first book I ever wrote will soon be released through Beautiful Trouble Publishing. It's a fantasy/romance about a queen and the forbidden love of her guardian. (Who doesn't love a little forbidden love?)

When the publisher sent me this cover I broke down and cried. Was it because I didn't like it? H*ll no!! I mean look at it! It's hot hot HOT! I cried because, for the first time, it seemed real.

I never thought I'd get this far...

I hope you enjoy the book when it's released and don't forget to check out all the amazing authors at BTP!