Streetwise Mercy by Stella Graves

Blurb:

Sometimes you can’t press REWIND. Is FAST FORWARD an option?

Mercy Reynolds has a problem. She has a $30,000 scholarship but has to dumpster-dive for dinner.

And she’s exasperated. She has no trust for men. None. Zip. Nada. The last guy she wants helping her is Deacon. And he just had to be hot, didn’t he?

Deacon Morgan has preconceptions about homeless people. But Mercy Reynolds doesn’t fit them. She doesn’t fit the mold of any girl he’s ever known. What happens when the girl you want to help doesn’t want you to?

Too bad they both have pasts they’d rather keep buried deeply, and feelings they’d rather bury even deeper. Too bad they can’t change those pasts.

Review:

Mercy Reynolds hasn’t been on the streets long enough to become either streetwise or tough when she meets Deacon Morgan while dumpster diving for a meal behind his parents’ upscale Italian restaurant. She blew her full-ride scholarship/ticket-out-of-hell when she killed her step-brother fending him off the night he tried to rape her. Of course she knew her mother would take his side, so she ran away from home. A younger girl, Sage, takes Mercy under her wing and is showing her the ropes, but when Deacon steps out of the restaurant, Sage breaks her leg trying to escape. Deacon assumes the girls are sisters and decides to take them home until Sage’s leg heals, and help them since his parents are out of town.

Of course Mercy balks at his help. What if he discovers who she is and that she’s a murderer? What if he calls the cops on her? She can barely hold her own as a homeless person. How would she survive in prison? As her feelings for him grow, how could she face him if he knew what she’d done? And finally, who is the girl whose initials he’s carved on the tree by the pond? The one to whom he seems so devoted?

Streetwise Mercy held my attention throughout and kept me turning the pages. I kind of had a feeling about how it would end, but there were one or two twists that caught me by surprise. It’s a pretty good read. I definitely recommend it.

Length:  196 Pages

Price:  $2.99

Buy Link:  http://www.amazon.com/Streetwise-Mercy-Stella-Graves-ebook/dp/B00J3CUDQW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402650546&sr=1-1&keywords=Streetwise+Mercy+by+Stella+Graves

Thanks for visiting. Rose & Rochelle

White Stripe, Dark Deeds by Stella Wilder

Blurb:

Can an immortal-possessed assassin accustomed to dealing in death and deception lower her defenses enough to work with a disowned deckhand and an urban denizen? Will dropping her guard lead to heartbreak and betrayal?

Yaz wants to be human again. Or dead. She pretty much doesn’t care which. Or didn’t care, until she met Sloan. One thing she sure as hell doesn’t want is to care for that freakin’ deckhand and that weird-ass brat from the ghetto with the white stripe in his head. Torn between what she wants to do and what she needs to do, she’s faced with choices. And consequences…

Sloan’s more than a deckhand on a charter boat. He’s on a mission, too. But damn if that sexy, cold-hearted bitch that throws knives wasn’t effing it up all the time. What he can’t figure out is why he’s helping her and how to keep her from finding out his own deepest and darkest. He derails his mission, his plan, his life for Yaz…

G-Mail doesn’t need much. Or so G thinks. Until meeting an assassin with the gift and skills G wants—the gift of immortality and the skill to kill. Can G trust the assassin when it’s time to reveal an identity and a secret, or will the assassin join the pile of bones G-Mail leaves in the past?

What happens when three forces converge on the hot and humid Houston docks? What happens when they travel back in time to a parallel past?

Review:

I hate the kind of time-travel books where the heroine goes back to the past, meets Prince Charming and stays in the medieval castle with no running water or electricity. Is she nuts? This is not that kind of time-travel. This is the sort of time-travel in which Yaz, the heroine goes back to her past to get answers and then returns to the present—back to the land of electricity and sophisticated plumbing. And the answers she gets in the past put her life and a few others into some very interesting perspective. Now if Ms. Wilder could learn to stay in one point-of-view in each scene, the book would be perfect.

Length:  187 Pages

Price:  $2.99

Buy Link:  http://www.amazon.com/White-Stripe-Deaths-Disciple-Series-ebook/dp/B00INKDYEI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400357506&sr=8-1&keywords=white+stripe+dark+deeds

Thanks for visiting. Rose & Rochelle