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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 

 

For more about Xavier Neal and her books:

https://www.xavierneal.com/


June 2nd:


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


Preorder 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


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 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 11th:



The Spare (Belevedere #2) by Elodie Hart


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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 12th:



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


Preorder Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FPKJV2X1?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_2&storeType=ebooks


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.



June 16th:



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

by Pippa Grant


Preorder Link: 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 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 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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June 26th:



Anything for You (Pinecrest, Montana #2) by Emily Silver


Preorder Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GMLKCDCF?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_1&storeType=ebooks&qid=1779902354&sr=1-1


As a single mom, I’ve had my fair share of dates with guys who are all wrong for me. But there’s no one more wrong for me than Sam Shaw. My dad’s best friend.

I love my life, but some days, I wish I had a partner. One to share all of life’s ups and downs. But after too many losers on dating apps, I should give up.

Until Sam swoops in and rescues me.

I know I shouldn’t be attracted to him, but I can’t help it.

And when he looks at me the way he does, I know he returns the feelings.

Until it all comes to a head. One time and we can’t get enough of each other. Being with him is dangerous. No one can know.

Being with my dad’s best friend is too complicated. I should break things off. Find someone easier.

But when he treats me—and my son—like we’re treasured?

It makes me want to throw caution to the wind



Untamed (The Bradshaw Brothers #3) by Janice Whiteaker


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I’ve made a lot of bad decisions in my life.
Showing up on Tucker Bradshaw’s doorstep claiming we share a daughter is not one of them.
The youngest Bradshaw brother’s reputation is well known in Willow Bend and I plan to use it against him.
I thought he’d simply throw money at the problem, hoping to make us go away.
But Tucker doesn’t see my daughter and me as a problem.
He sees us as a solution.
So, instead of getting to take the money and run, I find myself being moved into his mansion. Driving one of his cars. Spending time with his family.
But I draw the line at sleeping in his bed. That’s never going to happen.
Except Tucker isn’t at all the man I expected him to be. He’s funny and kind. Selfless and humble.
When he reads my daughter bedtime stories, my resolve forms a crack.
When he builds her a princess bed, complete with a tower, that crack widens.
And when he pulls me close one night, telling me what a good mother I am, it crumbles completely.
And that’s a problem.
Because while Tucker’s presence is keeping my daughter and me safe, mine is putting him in danger.


July 7th:



Once Upon a Lie (The Protectors #2) by Max Monroe


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An undercover cop. A mobster’s daughter. The best love stories start with a lie in this funny, emotional, suspenseful rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe.

Valentina Cordone doesn’t need a prince—she’s got a thriving bagel-and-book shop in Nashville, game nights with her quirky crew, and a perfectly good life. But when her attractive new neighbor shows up with effortless charm and an award-winning smile, she starts to reconsider.

Detective Shane Maddox went undercover to surveil a mob boss’s daughter. What he didn’t expect? That she’d be a lovable ray of sunshine, nothing like the crime princess he imagined. He planned to get close but walk away untouched. Instead, he’s falling hard…and realizing she’s in more danger than she knows.

Torn between duty and desire, Shane keeps his identity secret while protecting Valentina from her family’s criminal empire. As the truth explodes, he must prove his love is real while keeping her alive—no small feat when she won’t take his calls.

Even though the prince is a liar, he can’t risk losing his princess.

Sometimes fairy tales don’t start with once upon a time. They start with once upon a lie.


July 10th:


It's AboutTime (Blossom Peak #4) by Harlow James


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Why you will love this book:
🔥enemies to lovers
🔥fake engagement
🔥he falls first
🔥brother’s best friend/best friend’s little sister
🔥pierced hero
🔥blue collar FMC
🔥small town

Blurb to come. 


July 22nd:


A Simple Love (Return to Richton #2)

by Melanie Moreland


Preorder Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0GX32DYYG?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_1&storeType=ebooks


He left Richton to become a star. He's coming back to face the one he never forgot.

Oliver Hart
A well-known, leading Hollywood heartthrob is suddenly on the downslide.
Gossip and whispers of trouble follow him these days.
His latest project is yanked away, and a new role is offered to him.
One that sends him back home to the small town of Richton.
To the location of his greatest regret.
To where she is.

Kassie Brennan
The girl he once loved.
The one he left behind.
How will she react when she discovers he’s there?
Closer than either one of them realized?
Can the past stay in the past?
Or will their hearts decide their future?

Author’s Note: Get ready to fall all over again — for the Hollywood heartbreaker who never forgot the girl he left behind, and the woman still guarding the heart he once held. Small town. Big feelings. Second chances don't come easy — but some loves were always meant to find their way home.


July 28th:

I've Got A Crush On You by Lauren Blakely

My secret workplace romance starts innocently enough…at a birthday party.

But when a rowdy partier knocks me into a lake and a sexy stranger comes to my rescue – my night becomes one to remember.

A night so steamy I almost forget why I've sworn off men after a failed office romance.

But I’m focusing on my shiny new future—my dog-training business is suddenly the hottest thing in town, thanks to a new actress client.

Trouble is, the brand new doggy daycare in Darling Springs that I’ve contracted with… is owned by none other than my sexy stranger. Thanks, fate.

Sawyer turns out to be a total grump in a tailored suit, no matter how sunshine-y I am. Even when he squeezes that hard body past me as I bring donuts to work. Or when he pretends he’s not roaming his dark eyes over me as I teach Fido to sit, stay and come.

But when I need a dance partner for the town fundraiser that my client’s roped me into, I sense an opportunity. And, it turns out Mr. Serious Boss is up for dance lessons.

Then the entire Dirty Dancing experience.

Giving into our chemistry once won’t hurt. Two might be pushing it. By the seventh, it’s undeniable--I’ve got a crush on him too.

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July 31st:



The Comeback Plan by S. Jones


Why you will love this book:

🏈Pro Football Romance 
🎤Enemies to Lovers
🏈Secret Relationship
🎤Reporter vs Player 
🏈Opposites Attract
🎤Slow burn tension

She thinks he’s arrogant. He thinks she’s judgmental.

 Neither one of them can stay away from each other.

Blurb to come!


October 6th:


Mistletoe All the Way by Lauren Blakely


She wants to make him Mr. Holiday. He wants to stay a certified Grinch. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely comes a small-town spicy holiday romance about a guarded cowboy veterinarian and a Christmas-loving optimist who team up for a town holiday competition.

Dr. Noah Lennox lives by three holiday rules—avoid his hometown, cheerful people, and Christmas itself.

But when his beloved grandfather announces he’s retiring and handing the cherished sleigh-ride farm to either Noah or his slick cousin Stephen, the first rule goes out the window. Back home in Evergreen Falls, the veterinarian vows to fight for the farm that means everything to him. The problem is, the town doesn’t exactly welcome its resident Scrooge with open arms.

Except for one very charming holiday enthusiast. Eloise Langston, a sunny tourism bureau hopeful, needs a win to land her dream job—and to pay the rent. Her holly jolly plan? Turn the broody, broad-shouldered grump into a festive front-runner to help the town’s Mr. Holiday Competition draw record crowds.

Transforming a camera-shy cowboy vet into a small-town sweetheart isn’t exactly in her job description—but neither is falling for him.

Soon, Noah and Eloise find themselves tangled in twinkle lights, fake kisses, and one very real attraction. But with the farm’s future at stake, Stephen’s scheming, and Eloise’s career on the line, there’s a blizzard of reasons to put their feelings on ice.

Or will they fight to turn their holiday fling into forever under the mistletoe?

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