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    Her New Groove
    Love Grind
    Audiobook series2 titles

    MacLaine Girls Series

    Written by Shelly Ellis

    Narrated by Una Knight and Phoenix McKay

    4.5/5

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    About this series

    An R&B songstress….

    The bad boy that got away…

    Can they get a second chance at love?

    Monique Starr’s music career is at an all-time low: she’s in danger of losing her label contract and an embarrassing event has her front and center in all the gossip blogs—for all the wrong reasons! She decides to head back to D.C. and the MacLaine Academy of the Performing Arts to revamp her image, give her career a badly needed boost, and get her groove back. But she comes home to find her old Academy ailing financially, her mentor battling cancer, and her ex—whom she left behind to seek fame and fortune—very angry and unwilling to give her a second chance. But being back home reminds Monique of her old dreams and what she lost along the way to success. Now faced with second chances, will the music diva choose between love or fame, passion or ambition?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Publishing
    Release dateMay 25, 2021
    Her New Groove
    Love Grind

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      Love Grind
      Love Grind

      Love Grind

      Shelly Ellis
      4/5 - 132 ratings
      4/5 - 132 ratings

      She’s used to baring it all . . . but baring her heart is a whole different story. Down on her luck and broke, Jennifer Dudley long ago traded dancing in the chorus line for swinging from a stripper pole to make ends meet. She’s hoping an offer to come back home and teach dance at her old performance academy will be the opportunity she needs to fix her life. When she moves in with—and falls for—a fine software developer with brains and a boyish smile, she decides she might be well on her way to a second chance at success—and love. But her X-rated past may come back to haunt her, compromising her newfound happiness and hurting the ones she loves the most.

      She’s used to baring it all . . . but baring her heart is a whole different story. Down on her luck and broke, Jennifer Dudley long ago traded dancing in the chorus line for swinging from a stripper pole to make ends meet. She’s hoping an offer to come back home and teach dance at her old performance academy will be the opportunity she needs to fix her life. When she moves in with—and falls for—a fine software developer with brains and a boyish smile, she decides she might be well on her way to a second chance at success—and love. But her X-rated past may come back to haunt her, compromising her newfound happiness and hurting the ones she loves the most.

    • 2

      Her New Groove
      Her New Groove

      Her New Groove

      Shelly Ellis
      4/5 - 44 ratings
      4/5 - 44 ratings

      An R&B songstress…. The bad boy that got away… Can they get a second chance at love? Monique Starr’s music career is at an all-time low: she’s in danger of losing her label contract and an embarrassing event has her front and center in all the gossip blogs—for all the wrong reasons! She decides to head back to D.C. and the MacLaine Academy of the Performing Arts to revamp her image, give her career a badly needed boost, and get her groove back. But she comes home to find her old Academy ailing financially, her mentor battling cancer, and her ex—whom she left behind to seek fame and fortune—very angry and unwilling to give her a second chance. But being back home reminds Monique of her old dreams and what she lost along the way to success. Now faced with second chances, will the music diva choose between love or fame, passion or ambition?

      An R&B songstress…. The bad boy that got away… Can they get a second chance at love? Monique Starr’s music career is at an all-time low: she’s in danger of losing her label contract and an embarrassing event has her front and center in all the gossip blogs—for all the wrong reasons! She decides to head back to D.C. and the MacLaine Academy of the Performing Arts to revamp her image, give her career a badly needed boost, and get her groove back. But she comes home to find her old Academy ailing financially, her mentor battling cancer, and her ex—whom she left behind to seek fame and fortune—very angry and unwilling to give her a second chance. But being back home reminds Monique of her old dreams and what she lost along the way to success. Now faced with second chances, will the music diva choose between love or fame, passion or ambition?

    Author

    Shelly Ellis

    Shelly Ellis is an award-winning journalist who earned her journalism degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her novel, Another Woman’s Man, was nominated for a 2014 NAACP Image Award. The romance and women’s fiction author is also a film buff and amateur painter. She lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, not far from Washington, D.C., with her husband. Visit her online at www.shellyellisbooks.com.

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    • 4/5
      I Enjoyed the second chance romance between Monique Star & Officer Justin. It seemed that Justin held on to his grudge with Monique far to long and he prevented them from rekindling their relationship a lot sooner. Phoenix McKay did a nice job of narrating all of the characters in this story.