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June 25th:



The Troublemaker by Piper Rayne


A fake marriage deal was never in my life’s plan.

Especially not to Easton Bailey.


Chicago Colts flashy shortstop.

The kind of man built for a good time and allergic to forever.

And the one who just slid a ring on my finger… on paper.


It’s supposed to be simple.

A mutually beneficial arrangement.

I play nanny to his son. He plays husband to my family.


No emotions. No complications. And absolutely no falling for each other.


Turns out pretending to be a family is the fastest way to break every rule we set.


Because he watches me like it was never just a deal.

Because he trusts me with the person who matters most.

Because the more we pretend, the less fake it feels.


And now the man who was never supposed to stay is the one I can't lose.


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Duet Narration by: Connor Crais & Christine Lakin
Also featuring: JF Harding, Sean Masters, Teddy Hamilton, CJ Bloom, Erin Mallon, Willa Jaymes, Meg Sylvan & Austin Stone


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June 17th:



Billionaire Falls First by Julie Capulet


It was impossible not to notice him, even though I tried. Or at least I tried to try. What I didn’t expect him to do was to turn my whole world upside down.

Amelie Thibodeaux
almost inherited her family’s historic Bourbon Street hotel, which is the only home she’s ever known. Instead, it turns out her beloved late father secretly gambled away three generations of hard work. Which means Amelie is now destitute. And desperate. She’s forced to live by her wits, barely scraping by with three jobs and sheer grit.

When Dallas Wilder walks into the bar of the Hotel Thibodeaux, he’s enigmatic. Mysterious. And wildly magnetic.

But as drop-dead gorgeous as Dallas might be, Amelie doesn’t trust him. Because trusting people has never panned out for her. And she needs to survive. Her reality consists of work and struggle. Which makes resisting him easy.

Or does it?

As the billionaire owner of one of New York’s most lucrative investment funds and a major movie studio, Dallas Wilder is ruthless, direct and very good at getting whatever he wants.

What he wants is Amelie.

Behind Dallas’s brutal appeal lies a singular obsession.
Her. From the sultry streets of New Orleans to the glittering penthouses of New York City, Amelie is swept off her feet by the most intoxicating man she’s ever met.

But obsession has a dark side. Will his savage addiction for her destroy them both?


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June 16th:



You've Got Hate Mail (Accidentally Infamous #1) 

by Pippa Grant


Read in Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GWS794C6?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks


I should’ve worn underwear that day.

I’d have far less hate mail in my inbox. I’d also still have a job.

But I didn’t wear underwear. And I had a wardrobe malfunction on a livestream.

So now I’m the proud owner of the internet’s most famous… you know.

The good news? I’ve been invited to hide from my sudden infamy at a closed winery with other women who’ve suffered their own five minutes of shame.

The bad news? The winery has a live-in handyman.

A competent, compassionate, patient, sexy, single dad handyman.

Whom I met when I punched him in the face.

Accidentally, of course. But I still get why he’s happy keeping his distance from me.

But when we find out the winery that’s saving my life is in danger of foreclosure, he and I become accidental partners.

No big deal, working with a guy that I’m falling harder for each day.

I’m already the internet’s favorite punching bag. Why not add an unrequited crush to my life?

But what if it’s not unrequited after all?

From USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author Pippa Grant comes a funny, heartwarming, swoony romance perfect for readers who love protective book boyfriends, found sisterhoods, slow burns, epically awkward meet-cutes, and love conquering all.

Content note: This book contains toxic family and references to bullying, suicide, abuse, and the off-page cancer death of the hero’s first wife several years before the story begins.

June 12th:



Hero Next Door (Gibson Hollow #3) by Kait Nolan


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https://kaitnolan.com/hero-next-door


Losing everything was supposed to be the end. It might be the beginning.

I built my life on moving on—new places, new projects, new causes. Make an impact, then keep going. It worked… until a scandal I never saw coming destroyed my reputation—and a house fire took everything else.

Now I’m stranded in a small mountain town with nothing but borrowed clothes and a growing list of problems.

And a firefighter next door who refuses to let me fall apart quietly.

Colter Gibson is everything I’m not—steady, grounded, rooted. A single dad with a protective streak a mile wide and a habit of showing up when it matters most.

Letting him help is supposed to be temporary.
So is staying in Gibson Hollow.
So is the undeniable spark igniting between us.

But the longer I’m here, the more I find something I’ve never had before—a chance to see the impact of my work up close… and a place that feels like home.

Then the life I lost comes calling—with a chance to take it all back.

And I have to decide…

Do I go back to who I was—
or risk my heart on the one man—and the one town—that make me want to stay?

Perfect for readers who love:
✔ small-town romance
✔ single dad heroes
✔ forced proximity
✔ found family
✔ redemption arcs with emotional depth

In a town that takes care of its own, sometimes you have to learn how to let yourself be one of them.




Mine (Kincaid Syndicate #1) by L.A. Gallagher


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Blurb:

DOMINIC:
She burst into my bar in a torn wedding dress, barefoot and bleeding, running from my rival.
I offered her a marriage of convenience–my name to hide behind until the danger passed.
But now, she’s in my house.
In my head.
And in my bed.
Turns out—I don’t make promises I can’t keep.
I vowed to love, honour, and protect Aoife O'Shea, and not even the devil himself will stop me.
I’ve built my empire on blood, loyalty, and silence.
But for her?
I’ll burn it to the ground.
Because her stumbling into my arms wasn’t an accident—it was fate.
And I have absolutely no intention of letting her go…
Not now she’s finally
mine.

AOIFE:
I ran from one dangerous monster straight into the arms of another–the ruthless king of the Irish mafia.
Marrying Dominic Kincaid was supposed to be a ruse.
A name.
A way out of the fire consuming my life.
The only trouble is, the flames licking my skin now threaten a very different kind of heat.
He's dark, ruthless, and everything I should hate.
But no matter how hard I fight it, there’s no denying the attraction between us—
and every minute we’re together, the fire burns higher, threatening everything I thought I was.
Because if I fall for him—
really fall for him—
I lose the only person I’ve ever had.
Myself.



🔥Marriage of convenience
🔥Possessive Irish mafia king
🔥One bed
🔥Forced proximity
🔥"My wife"
🔥VFMC
🔥Filthy talking tattooed morally grey MMC
🔥Blush inducing steam
🔥Touch her & 💀
🔥No third act break up




June 11th:



The Spare (Belevedere #2) by Elodie Hart

Read in Kindle Unlimited:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GK992MT4?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_1&storeType=ebooks&qid=1779901981&sr=8-2 


I've spent my entire life engaged to one man. But it's his brother I've always yearned for.
Now, four days before our wedding, Xavier has thrown me over—and Benedict has stepped in instead. The spare. The playboy. The heartbreaker whose reputation stretches across the Mediterranean.

Benedict de Vere is everything his brother isn't: reckless, restless, and seemingly unbothered that this match is a transaction. He's marrying me to save my reputation. My reasons for wedding him are... more complicated.

I'm going to be his duchess.

I'm going to share his life.

His bed.

I should be up to the challenge. After all, they call me the ice queen for a reason. I've had years to perfect my mask.

But I've longed for him since I was eighteen years old. And Benedict doesn't do serious. He doesn't do forever. The trail of broken hearts he's left behind is evidence of that.

Being one of those broken hearts would be devastating enough. Knowing him that intimately, then being cast aside?

Now imagine that happening in our marital bed.

It's a loneliness I wouldn't survive.

Tropes:
👑 Arranged marriage
👑 Modern duke and duchess
👑 Billionaire
👑 Opposites attract
👑 Reformed playboy MMC
👑 Ice queen FMC
👑 She marries her fiancé's brother



June 8th:



Left Field by (The Bradley Legacy #5) Lisa Suzanne 


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LEFT FIELD is a spicy Pro Baseball, Forced Proximity, Vacation Romance from Amazon Top Ten Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne.

After accepting an offer from a luxury resort in the Bahamas, my dream of becoming a travel influencer is finally within reach. I just need one thing to make me stand out…like the pro baseball player I run into on my first night.

Archer Bradley is here for the opposite. He doesn’t want attention. He definitely doesn’t want me crashing his dinner with a smile and a camera. He’s broody and distant, but he’s also hot and charming. One night tangled in his sheets has me addicted.

When he finds out what I do, he makes me promise not to feature him. And the more time I spend with him, the easier it becomes to respect that boundary—especially as he starts to see the real me behind my camera-ready smile.

I didn’t come here to fall for some athlete, but somewhere between couples’ yoga and sunset walks on the beach, I did.

Now I have to choose between the career I’ve worked for my entire life and the love that slammed into me straight out of left field.


June 3rd:


Just Playing for Keeps by Lauren Blakely


When she’s fake dating the hockey star, but he was never faking it…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey rom com in her brand new Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS! This spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey romance releases in one week on June 3rd in all formats, and will be free to read in Kindle Unlimited. Check out the excerpt below, and one-click your copy today!

✦ Audible ➜ Erin Mallon & Jason Clarke narrate in duet with a full cast!


June 2nd:


My Forever Girl (Blue Sky Bay #1) by Laura Pavlov


Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FR3Q76JK?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks&qid=1779903042&sr=1-1


A Small Town, Friends-to-Lovers, Forbidden Love Standalone Romance from USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, Laura Pavlov.

Gracie Reynolds and I have been best friends since we were kids.
She’s smart, kind, funny, beautiful—and one of the best parts of my life.
When Gracie walks into a room, people notice.
I always notice.

But when she moved across the world with a guy I despised, it felt like I’d lost a piece of myself.
I missed her in ways I still can’t explain.

Now she’s back— and she’s crashing at my place for a couple of months while she figures things out.
She’s single and ready for a fresh start.
I’ve always had her back, and that hasn’t changed.

What has changed?
The way that she looks at me.
The way I can’t stop looking at her.
So, when Gracie makes me a once in a lifetime proposition--obviously, I'm all in.
But this isn't your average gray area--it's a full-on, sweat-inducing, five chili pepper detour we never meant to take.

Gracie has big dreams though, and I’d never be the guy to hold her back.
Even if all I want…is to be the reason that she stays.

**This is Book 1in the Blue Sky Bay Series. Each can be read as a complete standalone. A HEA is guaranteed!**
Blue Sky Bay Series:
My Forever Girl
The Last Goodbye
My First Promise
The Best Part of Me
My way Back to You


May 28th:



Devilish Debt by Xavier Neal

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑼𝑺𝑨 𝑻𝑶𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑩𝑬𝑺𝑻𝑺𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑨𝑼𝑻𝑯𝑶𝑹 𝑿𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍-𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝑴𝑴𝑭, 𝒂𝒈𝒆-𝒈𝒂𝒑, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒚, 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕!


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Once upon a time, they were asked to find treasure.

Little did this trio know, the arrangement they agreed to was going to get a bit more devilish than the original fairy tale...

*This is a STANDALONE dark retelling, MMF reinvention of the Little Mermaid fairy tale intended for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.



TROPES:
Dark Romance
MMF
Age Gap
Mystery
Ticking Clock 


May 26th:


Bad Boy Era by Amy Daws

Buy Link: https://geni.us/BadBoyEra-All


Rule #1 on the Everly Fletcher Matchmaking Manifesto…Never fall for your best friend’s grumpy brother.

Everly is the matchmaking mastermind of her family, but her own love life is a bit of a flop.

Back from four years in Dublin, she’s ready for a quiet summer on Fletcher Mountain helping launch her aunt’s animal rescue center—until Conri “Wolf” Reilly shows up.

Wolf is her college roommate’s infuriating twin brother. He’s brooding, Irish, and college rugby’s resident bad boy with thighs that could crack a watermelon.

His red card reputation has trashed his rugby prospects…until a training camp in Denver comes calling. As a favor, Everly reluctantly gets Wolf a place to stay if he volunteers at the rescue center.

Now Everly finds herself working and living next door to the Irish tattooed grump who treats her like a nuisance—but looks at her like he could press her up against a hay bale until they forget their own names.

Wolf swore he came to America to fix his image, not fall for his sister’s best friend, but the more time he spends with Everly, the harder it is to keep his distance.

Perhaps Everly’s in her bad boy era…or maybe Fletcher Mountain has its own matchmaking plans.


May 18th:


The Summer That Changed Us by Jami Albright

Buy Link: 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ5RFRLG?ref=author_qv_ov_kndl_dp_rw


Blurb:

Steel Magnolias meets Schitt’s Creek with the heart of This is Us.

At fifty, Hope Hall has done everything right. She earned a PhD, built a career, and held her marriage together with determination and stubborn denial.

When her life publicly unravels, Hope returns to her hometown in Texas, and the loud, loving, opinionated family who never quite understood her. Surrounded by her four sisters, who make everything bigger, messier, and usually a public spectacle, she expects the chaos, the old grudges, and small-town rivalries that always seem to involve toilet paper and bail money.

What she doesn’t expect is June—her wild, fearless sister, who has spent a decade giving cancer the middle finger. But you can only run from the devil for so long, and what’s coming for June may be the thing Hope’s family can’t survive.

Told with sharp humor, messy love, and the kind of honesty that sneaks up and wrecks you, The Summer That Changed Us is a deeply moving, laugh-through-the-tears story about sisters, second chances, and what it really means to show up when it matters most.

*This book contains themes of terminal illness, grief, and the death of a sibling.

May 7th:



High Heat: A MMF Baseball Novella by Kathryn Nolan


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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDFHH5Q7?ref=author_qv_ov_kndl_dp_rw


Blurb:

With their rugged good looks and Southern charm, it’s obvious why Cash Barlow and Sawyer Knight are America’s favorite baseball players. As the sports reporter sent to document their rise to fame, I was hoping our intimate interviews would catapult my career. Instead, I found myself being seduced…by both of them.

It’s not like they’re easy to resist. I’m spending every moment of the day with two hunky baseball gods polite enough to say “yes ma’am” and filthy enough to make me blush. And the more I study them – the more I notice the furtive glances and lingering touches – the more I realize that Cash and Sawyer aren’t only best friends. But when I promise to keep their secret, they reveal another of their own.

They don’t just want each other. And when these star baseball players want something, they get it. And now they want me.

But each time the three of us give into temptation, we’re breaking rules that threaten all of our careers. Should we risk it all for our unconventional love? Or will this baseball season end with three broken hearts?

High Heat is a spicy MMF poly novella (20,000 words) with a guaranteed Happily Ever After. Read in public at your own risk!


May 5th:


Heaven Forbid (Southern Charm #2) by Marika Ray


📖 Grab it here: https://geni.us/heavenforbid


Why you definitely want to read:
🌷Forbidden
🌷Single Dad
🌷Grumpy/Sunshine
🌷Family Feud
🌷Wrong side of the tracks
🌷Opposites attract
🌷Southern Small town
🌷RomCom

➡️ Blurb:
Heaven’s most angelic good girl is about to fall for the ultimate fallen angel.
Mary London Winthrop has spent her entire life being Heaven’s golden child—perfectly polished, the grace of a Southern belle, and positively bored out of her halo. She’s ready to trade her wings for something a little…devilish.
Enter Rhett Price: single dad from the other side of the tracks, cowboy hat on a motorcycle, and the kind of trouble Mary London’s daddy always warned her about. He’s everything a Winthrop shouldn’t want—especially since Winthrops and Prices have been sworn enemies since Heaven was founded. Think Montagues and Capulets, but with more church potlucks and passive-aggressive town council meetings.
Hiring Rhett as her contractor for her new project? Risky. Falling for him? Absolutely forbidden. Dating him in secret while the whole town watches her every move? Pure romantic chaos.


April 30th:



Pinch Hitter by Stephanie Rose

Blurb:

Lee Orrico is stuck. The family he depended on to care for his daughter since he lost his wife is moving on and moving out. Having his best friend Stella become his live-in nanny while he works as the team chiropractor for the Brooklyn Bats seems like the right idea. Until the combination of close quarters and cozy nights ignites an attraction that Lee never saw coming.

After years on the road in a job she never liked and a messy breakup, Stella Parker is ready to come back to Brooklyn to make it a real home for herself, not just a pit stop. Moving in with Lee to help care for his adorable daughter is the perfect temporary solution…except it means moving in with the man she’s always been secretly in love with. 

Her once-forbidden love for her best friend was always just a one-sided fantasy, but the lingering touches, long looks, and almost kisses make her start to wonder if this love isn’t so unrequited anymore.

The passion between Lee and Stella is undeniable. But Lee isn’t sure he can love again – he barely survived the loss of it the first time.

Still, the heart he didn’t think would beat for anyone else… wants Stella.

And Stella has always wanted Lee. The question is, does Lee really love her back?

Or is she just a pinch hitter for the real love of his life?

Read in KU Link:

https://geni.us/PH_Amazon


April 27th:

Maple & Moonlight by Daphne Elliot

Blurb:

As a single mom rebuilding my life from scratch, I don’t need help. And I  definitely don’t need the attention of a six-foot-three maple farmer with a beard and a hero complex who looks at me like I’m a problem he didn’t sign up for.

My landlord is broad-shouldered, permanently unimpressed, and entirely too comfortable telling me when I’m wrong. I think he’s grumpy, rigid, and overprotective. He thinks I’m chaos in Crocs.

Falling for Josh Lawrence was never part of the plan.

But then he starts showing up.

For my son when he’s overwhelmed.

For my daughters when they need someone steady.

And for me when my hands won’t stop shaking.

I didn’t come to Vermont looking for a protector. I don’t need rescuing. But somewhere between harvest festivals, pumpkin canoe races, and quiet mornings in the sugar shack, the man I swore was just an annoyance becomes my safe place.

And when my dangerous past resurfaces and threatens the new life I’ve built, the grumpy maple farmer next door becomes my fiercest protector, ready to stand by my side while I fight for my family.

 

Because it turns out maple farmers are a lot like their trees: quiet, stubborn, and surprisingly sweet when the pressure builds.

Read in KU Link:

https://a.co/d/0c9nLlkf



April 24th:


In the Friend Zone (Mile High Stallions #2) 

by Christina Hovland


Get your copy → christinahovland.com/itfz

Emily Sinclair lives by the Rule of Three: work hard, stay organized, and never, under any circumstances, look at Finn Taylor as anything other than her brother’s best friend.

Finn has always been her safe harbor. The late-night phone call. The permanent plus-one. The only person who knows she’d rather temper chocolate than draft a legal brief. He is also the pro football star whose career just slammed into a brick wall of a humiliating season-ending injury.

When Finn’s confidence hits rock bottom, Emily does what she does best. She makes a plan. She will help him through rehab, and in return, he will help her transform a dusty storefront into the chocolate shop of her dreams.

Simple.

Except somewhere between physical therapy sessions and renovation dust, the lines they spent a decade drawing start to blur. Finn is not just offering tool-belt advice anymore. He is looking at her with a hunger that has nothing to do with truffles.

Breaking her overprotective brother’s one rule was supposed to be the hard part.

But as the friend zone disappears in the rearview mirror, Emily realizes the real danger is not losing her heart.

It is risking the one relationship she has never been able to live without.

Because if this goes wrong, she does not just lose a boyfriend.

 She loses Finn.




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