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January 6th:


Stardust (Second Chance at Love #3) by Cathryn Lyons


Preorder Link: https://www.amazon.com/Stardust-Second-Chance-Love-Book-ebook/dp/B0G3BJ5J8M?ref_=ast_author_dp&th=1&psc=1 


Blurb:


A beloved silver screen star
A playboy doctor
Two scandals
One solution—fake date your long-lost first love


When two scandals unexpectedly reunite long-estranged first loves almost two decades after their painful breakup, can they put hurtful bygones aside to help each other? Will their surprising alliance lead to lost love found?

Honor Wheatley’s world has just imploded. A decorated film actor, the beloved “nepo baby” and darling of the silver screen flees to the Shenandoah Valley to escape the fallout from a devastating scandal. When Honor’s arranged lodging floods, she finds sanctuary in an unexpected place—the home of her first love and the man who shattered her surgically repaired heart years ago. And when Brinder agrees to be her personal guide on a sexual exploration journey as preparation for a film role—what could go wrong with that?

Dr. Brinder Desai has a well-earned reputation as player, earning him the nickname Dr. Desiiigh. A fabricated scandal jeopardizes his dream job. Brinder needs to show stability or risk losing the position he loves. Having Honor Wheatley—the woman who broke Brinder’s heart a lifetime ago and ruined him for relationships—in his home is a prescription for chaos he doesn’t need. Except—fake dating the woman he lost could be the very thing he needs to keep his job.

Stardust is a steamy, humorous, emotional contemporary romance about lost love found, healing, redemption, and second chances.


January 8th:



The Grumpiest Billionaire by Pippa Grant


Trope List: road trip, accidental stowaway, sister’s ex, opposites attract, billionaire hero, grumpy/sunshine


Narrators: Jason Clarke and Mackenzie Cartwirght in DUET narration


Full Blurb: 


From USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Pippa Grant comes a witty road trip romcom about a billionaire on the run and the last woman on earth he wants in his passenger seat… 


That didn’t turn out the way I planned it.

All I wanted was five minutes with Oliver Cumberland to explain to him that proposing to my sister—again—is a bad idea.

Instead, I’m now trapped in his car, on a cross-country road trip I didn’t anticipate, attempting to talk the grumpy billionaire out of something much, much worse than an arranged marriage for business purposes.

I don’t care if Mr. Square Jaw McMoneyPants wants to give away his entire fortune and disappear to live out his life working the popcorn counter at a movie theater or whatever in Podunk, USA.

But I do care that dozens of non-profits will lose their funding without Oliver in charge of his family’s empire. After all, I work for one.

I have to convince him to go home.

But by the end of the first week of our (mis)adventure, one thing is becoming obvious:

Oliver refusing to return home is the least of my problems.

The fact that I’m starting to fall in love with my sister’s ex is the real issue.


The Grumpiest Billionaire is a runaway billionaire road trip romance featuring a man who’s tired of taking responsibility for everyone around him, a woman who’s made a lot of mistakes while on a lifelong mission to save the world, and a slew of unintended consequences that prove no good deed goes unpunished.


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Ebook: https://readerlinks.com/l/4854952

Website: https://readerlinks.com/l/4975960

Audible: https://readerlinks.com/l/4854963

Amazon Audio: https://readerlinks.com/l/4854955

Paperback: https://readerlinks.com/l/4854954





About Bucking Time (Out to Pasture #1) 

by Marika Ray & Sylvie Stewart


Preorder Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1KPC8Q5?ref=author_qv_ov_kndl_dp_rw 


Blurb:

No woman wants a pity proposal.

Just because I’m turning forty, dealing with perimenopause, and recently dumped another loser doesn’t mean I need rescuing—especially not by my best friend.

But when Dallas Gamble blurts out that we’re engaged in a very public attempt at protecting me, there’s not much I can do but play along. Bless his dumb, beautiful heart.

The man has always been impulsive. Protective. Flirty. And able to fill out a pair of Levi’s like nobody’s business. In no time at all, he slides a ring on my finger, moves me into his house, and swears it’s no big deal.

But then things get complicated.

Because suddenly, he’s trying—as in, really trying. And even though every clumsy romantic gesture ends in disaster, it’s getting harder to pretend this isn’t real.

Dallas Gamble was never supposed to be my happily ever after. If we do this, I risk losing my best friend.
And if we don’t… I might lose the great love story I’ve been chasing my whole life.

But I’m starting to think it’s about bucking time we go for it.

About Bucking Time is a later-in-life cowboy romantic comedy between the town flirt and his veterinarian best friend. It comes complete with a weed-smoking Meemaw, a drunken marriage pact, a herd of nosy siblings, a runaway heifer, and no third-act breakup because our heroine refuses to play that game. Grand gestures—yes, plural—and one long-overdue happily ever after are guaranteed. No vintage romance novels were harmed in the making of this romcom, but they definitely inspired it.


January 16th:


On Borrowed Time (Blossom Peak #2) by Harlow James

Blurb:

Being a nanny for a newly single dad wasn’t the job I applied for when I decided to lick my wounds in Blossom Peak.

But showing him my bare backside wasn’t in my plans either.

When the pursuit of my dream career seemed unattainable, instead of going home and proving my parents right, I made a detour to the small mountain town I remember visiting as a kid.

I just wanted a waitressing job to make some extra money while I figured out my next steps.

But then the lumberjack of an owner begged me to help him with his three month-old daughter that he just found out existed, and I couldn’t resist his plea.

Or his massive physique—the one I saw every detail of when he appeared shirtless in front of me three times in the first week.

The problem with living together though is there’s little space, especially when my boss is so closed off that he’s like a nut I want to crack open.

And when I do, he steals the breath from my lungs—and reignites my creativity as well.

But I gave myself a deadline to figure out what’s next.

Nowhere in that plan though did I account for falling for Henley Clark.

Turns out the heart doesn’t care, even when you’re on borrowed time.

 

Pre-Order Link: 

https://mybook.to/onborrowedtime2

January 21st:


Just Breaking the Rules by Lauren Blakely


Breaking the rules has never tasted so good…

How did I end up opening a bakery with my brother’s hockey star best friend?

Start with one cake disaster, add a dangerously hot pro athlete, and mix in a steamy encounter that definitely wasn’t supposed to happen.

But when the sexy, single dad hockey player saves me from a cake contest catastrophe, I do something reckless: ask him to go into business with me.

I’m out of options—no loan, no backup plan—and this bakery is my last chance to prove I’m more than my past mistakes.
Now we’re partners, and we agree that one moment up against the door stays in the past.

Not that Corbin makes it easy.
He sends flowers when I’m down.
Braids my hair before we bake.
Gives me his jersey to wear to games.
Shows up late to test recipes… then stays way too long. 

When we find a box of old love letters tucked inside a bakery cupboard, suddenly, our story feels just as risky—and just as impossible to resist.

Maybe some rules are meant to be broken. No matter the cost to our dreams.


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January 23rd:


Penalty Play by Julia Connors


Julia Connors has revealed the cover and tropes for Penalty Play!


Releasing: January 23, 2026

Cover Designer: Qamber Designs


Blurb Coming Soon.


Pre-order your copy today!

Amazon: http://bit.ly/4gsrp9M


Add to Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3JYYs9l


January 29th:


Chasing the Storm by Amber Kelly


PRE-ORDER/ ADD IT TO YOUR AMAZON WISHLIST! 

https://geni.us/ChasingTheStorm


𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩: https://forms.gle/xyeMA74oC5GewdTg9


Cover Designer: Perfect Pear Creative

Photographer: J. Ashley Converse Photography

Models: Joel Ros and Crystal Viola


What to expect:

🌼Small Town

🌼Western Ranch

🌼Single Dad 

🌼Enemies to Lovers

🌼Former Crush 

🌼Nanny 


Blurb:

Waylon Ludlow was my first heartbreak—the boy I secretly loved from the sidelines while he ruled Wildhaven High and then disappeared without a word. Now he’s back, all smirks and whiskey-soaked charm, and with a baby no one knew about.

But I’m not the same quiet girl I once was. I’m fire now. Feral, stubborn, and one smart-ass comment away from punching him square in the jaw.

I live loud, love hard, and fight for what matters. And even though Waylon is a mess of mistakes wrapped in faded denim, my heart still skips like it’s seventeen every time he looks at me. And his little girl, well, she’s got me wrapped around her tiny finger.

We clash. We burn. We break things. But the more I push him away, the more I wonder—am I chasing the storm, or is it chasing me?


Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244138571-chasing-the-storm


Find more books by Amber Kelly here: 

www.authoramberkelly.com


May 26th:


Bad Boy Era by Amy Daws


 Preorder: 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.

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