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On the roof of a house outside Truelove, Maine, master carpenter Max Doyle looks down through a skylight and sees the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes on. She’s naked, she’s gorgeous, and everything about her is perfect, down to the ball-busting tattoo of a rose that wraps around her hip. But it isn’t just any woman making his knees buckle. It’s his best friend, Rosie Madden. And as he stands there, mesmerized and precariously close to toppling off the roof, he knows he’ll never, ever be able to look at her the same way again.
Rosie can’t help but notice that Max is suddenly acting very strange—lots of long stares, totally tongue-tied, and not at all like the slightly cocky hunk she’s proud to call her best friend. She can’t figure it out, until later that night when Max rescues her from the world’s worst date, challenges her to a game of pool, and shows her just exactly what she’s got him thinking about. Repeatedly.
But life is complicated. Rosie’s cat, Julia Caesar, wants to eat Max’s dog Cupcake for an afternoon snack. A dream job threatens to pull them apart. And another glance through the skylight changes everything, one more time. Yet try as they might, they can’t go back to being just friends, because falling in love with the one you’ve always adored?
It feels so good.
This is a standalone novel.
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STUDENT/TEACHER ROMANCE
The name on the screen was “Absinthe.”
But I knew her as the sultry voice blowing up my phone for late night chats about Proust and Hemingway interspersed between the filthiest little … mutually satisfying exchanges … I’d ever experienced in my life.
We’d never met.
Until the day she walked into my office, her cherry lips wrapped around a candy apple sucker and an all too familiar voice that said, “You wanted to see me, Principal Hawthorne?”
This is a standalone novel.
BEST FRIEND’S SISTER
Jorinda Pearce thought she did everything right – graduated from college, married her long-time sweetheart, established a career. But what does she have to show for it now? A degree she doesn’t use, a job she hates, and an ex-husband that broke her heart.
Looking for a long overdue adventure, Jorie takes a walk on the wild side and attends a masquerade event at The Wicked Horse Vegas. It’s exactly the escape she’s looking for, and even better, she can explore anonymously. Drawn to the man masked in black leather with the body of a god, Jorie finds the greatest pleasures of her life at the hands of a stranger.
Walsh Brooks is the most sought after man in The Wicked Horse. Sex is nothing but a game to him and he’s the type that will always leave at the end of the night without looking back. Unfortunately for Walsh, there’s no way he can walk away from the mysterious green-eyed beauty behind the mask of sapphire feathers, because he knows exactly who she is.
Jorie is his best friend’s little sister and there’s not another woman in the world that’s more off limits.
This is the second book in The Wicked Horse Vegas series of interconnected standalone novels.
Series recommended reading order: Wicked Favor | Wicked Wish | Wicked Envy (27 Oct 2017)
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One heinous tragedy changed my entire family forever.
That morning, my world crumbled. I lost my parents.Now, I live by certain rules.
Don’t let anyone know what goes on inside your head.
Stay away from crowds.
Never fall in love.Though, that was until her. She has me questioning everything.
It’s the haunted eyes.
The sultry voice.
The sweetness under her armor.
Everything about her captivates me. The surge of energy we create with one touch has me searching for her, even when there’s also something dark underneath her bright smile.Unable to resist the desire toward her, I break my rules giving her all of me while expecting all of her.
This is a standalone novel.
BEST FRIEND’S SISTER
I used to believe there were lines in life you don’t cross.
Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t steal.
Until I learned people don’t always practice what they preach.
I turned in my badge and gun and walked away from everything.
Then I got the call no one wants, and I’m back in New Orleans.
What I don’t expect is for her to be here too.
Another line you don’t cross?
Don’t touch your best friend’s little sister.
She’s always been off-limits.
Too bad I don’t follow the rules anymore.This is the final standalone romance set in the world of the Beneath series.
Series recommended reading order: Beneath This Mask | Beneath This Ink | Beneath These Chains | Beneath These Scars | Beneath These Lies | Beneath These Shadows | Beneath The Truth
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma.
Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held.
But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn’t add up.
Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway.
And where one sister’s return might just be the beginning of the crime.
This is a standalone novel.
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PARANORMAL ROMANCE
When Piper Jones fled New York for a secluded mountainside in Alaska, she thought she was safe from the back-stabbing, supernatural drama of the city.
Now she’s back, with the sexy werewolf Alpha Knox, his pack, and her grizzly bear sidekick for backup. But Piper’s plan to get closure is derailed when her vampire mate Merc is abducted, forcing her to form a shaky alliance with a warlock lord.
Faced with death threats, romantic entanglements, and dubious allies, Piper is running out of time before someone she loves becomes the latest casualty in a never-ending war…
This is the second book in the Force of Nature series and the storyline continues from one book to the next.
Series reading order: From the Ashes | Into the Storm
WALL STREET MEETS SONS OF ANARCHY
Would you bleed for the one you love?
To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make. His father is dying. His brother is desperate to rule the empire and this means war and all gloves are off. His brother only thought he knew what dirty meant. Shane is about to give it new meaning. There is another war brewing though, and that one, is inside him, his battle between right and wrong, light and dark, and in the heat of the night, it is Emily he turns to for escape. Driving her to new limits, pushing her to accept a part of him that even he cannot.
In every one of Shane’s seductive demands, Emily can taste and feel, his torment, his struggle to save his family and not lose himself. But he is losing himself, and that is a problem just as dangerous as her secret, that still lurk in the shadows, a threat to the Brandon Family waiting to erupt. No matter where she and Shane have traveled, or will travel in the future, she can’t just sit back and watch him become everything he hates, everything he never wanted to become, everything she tried to save him from when she tried to run. It could be their undoing, the end. Hisend.
This is war, blood will spill, and someone in the heart of the Brandon family will not survive….
This is the third book in the Dirty Money series, and it is not a standalone novel.
Series reading order: Hard Rules | Damage Control | Bad Deeds | End Game (2 Jan 2018)
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ENEMIES TO LOVERS
I spent six weeks screwing Austin Wright’s brains out and all I got was this broken heart.
He can’t be trusted. Not with my body or my heart. Yet, two years have passed and I still crave him like an addict needing a fix.
The last time we tried this, it nearly ruined me. I know I should run and never look back. But his dark haunted eyes and razor blade smile speak to my soul. His touch sets my body on fire. And we all know what happens when you light gasoline. Someone is bound to get burned.
A second chance might destroy us both.
Because everyone knows two wrongs don’t make a Wright.
This is the third book in the Wright series of interconnected standalone novels.
Series recommended reading order: The Wright Brother | The Wright Boss | The Wright Mistake | The Wright Secret (9 Jan 2018)
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn’s happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville’s notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.
Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father’s footsteps to become a lawyer herself — the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it’s a case that unleashes the terrible memories she’s spent so long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won’t stay buried forever…
This is a standalone novel.
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Evangeline du Maurier is the definition of a good girl. Attending Yale, raised with the best tutors and etiquette instructors, she’s expected to toe the family line and be a trophy wife for a future senator. But when this good girl takes a quick getaway to clear her head, she finds a whole lot more than she’d bargained for. She finds herself in the arms of a bad boy.
Baxter Badd.
Big, hard-drinking, and as rough and demanding in bed as he is out of it, Bax may be the baddest brother yet…
This is the fourth book in the Badd Brothers series of interconnected standalone novels.
Series recommended reading order: Badd Motherf*cker | Badd Ass | Badd to the Bone | Good Girl Gone Badd
What do you do when you can’t control your feelings for someone? When you know you shouldn’t go there? Not even in your head.
Annie has never experienced the ‘spark’ with a guy-the kind of instant chemistry that steals your breath and blindsides you completely. Until a night out with friends brings her face to face with the wickedly sexy and mysterious Jack. It’s not just a spark that ignites between them. It’s an explosion. Jack promises to consume Annie, and he fully delivers on that promise.
Overwhelmed by the intensity of their one night together, Annie slips out of their hotel room. She is certain that a man who’s had such a powerful impact on her and who could bend her to his will so easily, must be dangerous. But she’s already in too deep. And Jack isn’t only dangerous. He is forbidden.
This is a standalone novel.
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Falling in love will be brutal.
Bryan is ruthless, heartless, and more than a little proud of his notorious reputation, until his bad attitude threatens to strip him of the one place he can’t live without. His sanctuary. The Vault. The exclusive club is the only place he feels at home, and he’ll do whatever it takes to reclaim what is his. Even if it means asking for help from the woman who landed him in trouble in the first place.
Pamela may have become weak-kneed over Bryan’s talented hands once before, but this self-empowered widow isn’t stupid enough to want more from the sanctimonious ass. Nope. At least that’s what she tells herself before he turns up at her café, offering to refresh her memory on his skilled fingers and filthy words in exchange for a favor.
He needs her to set things straight in the Vault. She needs him to satisfy the cravings of fulfilment she’s been missing. It’s a match made in hedonistic heaven, until hostility turns to lust, and lust into passion, capturing them both in an emotional web neither one of them want to be ensnared in.
This is the third book in The Vault series of interconnected standalone novels.
Series recommended reading order: A Shot of Sin | Union of Sin | Brutal Sin
Sam Cooper has just become the most eligible bachelor in New York City. Now that he has foiled a jewelry-store robbery and has been rewarded with the ring of his choice by the owner, single women all over the city are fawning over the crime reporter. But Coop isn’t interested in the admirers sending racy underwear his way. His attention is centered solely on Lexie Davis, the only woman in the city who claims not to be interested in his bachelor status.
Instead, free-spirited Lexie is interested in Coop’s antique ring and its – potentially scandalous – history in her family. But Coop is quickly becoming more than just her route to the ring. When his investigation starts to uncover the truth, will she trust her heart – and her family secrets – to this most eligible bachelor?
This is a standalone novel in the Most Eligible Bachelor series.
Series recommended reading order: Kiss Me if You Can | Love Me if You Dare
When hostage negotiator Rafe Mancuso takes a bullet to save Sara Rios, his former partner, his actions make him a bona fide hero – and New York City’s newest most eligible bachelor. Then Rafe admits that Sara is much more than just another woman he’s rescued. Suddenly, a firestorm of gossip turns him into exactly what he doesn’t want to be: the Bachelor Blog’s newest hot topic. His only solution is to leave town and get himself out of the spotlight… and sexy, jaded Sara out of his mind.
NYPD officer Sara Rios has Rafe to thank for saving her life, and Rafe to blame for the media chaos surrounding her. She wants to throw herself back into duty at full throttle, but until her injuries heal, she’s on leave and in search of her rescuer. From the moment she finds Rafe and meets his large, boisterous family, she’s hooked. But mutual attraction doesn’t always mean happily-ever-after, and these two have a long way to go to find their fairy-tale ending.
This is a standalone novel in the Most Eligible Bachelor series.
Series recommended reading order: Kiss Me if You Can | Love Me if You Dare
Brooke Delancey is looking for a fresh start. She’s packed up her heartbreak and traded her old life for a new beginning, managing the prettiest hotel on Cape Cod. She swears this time will be different: no drama, no distractions, and definitely no heart-stopping kisses with a handsome stranger. Which is exactly what she finds the night she meets Riley Ford.
Riley is gorgeous, charming… and intrigued by the buttoned-up blonde whose kisses are anything but restrained. He knows a thing or two about starting over, and he’s convinced a little fun is exactly what Brooke needs to put the past behind her. And he knows exactly the man for the job…
With a tempting offer like that, Brooke can’t help but try another kiss – or two, or three. But as the chemistry gets hotter, and their connection deepens, Brooke and Riley will discover that building a new future means reckoning with the past.
Can two unlikely hearts take a chance on a new tomorrow? Or will their sparks burn out with the end of summer in Sweetbriar Cove?
This the third book in the Sweetbriar Cove series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Meant to Be | All for You | The Only One
After James Cole’s wife walked out on him, he put his dreams aside to raise his daughter. But now she’s grown and he’s ready for more.
When the opportunity arises to own a restaurant, his life-long dream, he can’t deny that it’s meant to be. And for more reasons than one.
He’s kept his heart closed off since the day his wife walked away. He’s never found someone who he thought was worth opening himself up to.
But one look at her, and he knew she was everything.
Carly Hanson has a secret. A secret only she and her teenage son Jack know about. She’s built a new life but kept herself carefully guarded.
The day Carly stumbled, literally, into James, her world was turned upside down. She tries to keep him strictly as a friend, but he’s relentless in his pursuit. Can he break down the walls she’s so firmly built? Can he get her to join him in… A Better Place?
This is a standalone novel.
REVERSE HAREM ROMANCE
Five forgotten souls.
All of us misfits, outcasts, throwaways.
Orphans.
But me and my four best friends, we’re family.
These boys, they make the group home we live in bearable.
They’re everything to me, almost like brothers.
Except…I don’t want them to be my brothers.I want them to be my boyfriends.
Only, I can’t decide on just one.Everything changes the night we decide to escape.
Just the five of us on the run, five teens alone in the city.
Nash. Gunner. Maddox. Hitch.
And me, Merit Burden.
Falling in love wrapped in the gritty arms of reality.
Poverty, danger, uncertainty.
And the only way we can tackle it is together.This is the first book in the Five Forgotten Souls trilogy.
BDSM ROMANCE
Lynne has not wanted for anything since she began working as Nathaniel and Abby’s nanny—until the night they invite her to a group BDSM meeting. The abrupt breakup she had with her last Dom made her turn her back on the lifestyle, but now she’s ready to dive back in. When she starts chatting on online BDSM message boards, she’s shocked to discover Simon, her former Dom, is a frequent poster—and even more shocked at herself when she creates a secret identity and strikes up a conversation.
After messaging with a mysterious submissive online, Simon forms an immediate connection. Lynne and Simon’s D/s relationship grows in intensity, but can their relationship survive after the truth is exposed, and Lynne’s identity is laid bare?
This is a novel in the Submissive series.
Series reading order: The Submissive | The Dominant | The Training | The Chalet (novella) | Seduced By Fire| The Enticement | The Collar | The Exhibitionist | The Master | The Claiming (novella) | The Exposure | The Flirtation
ROMANTIC COMEDY
BLUE BALLS: When the universe gets in the way of your “follow through”
BLUE BALLS
Truth: A painful condition caused by a prolonged state of sexual arousal without release.
Myth: Only affects males.Sarah
I’m beyond frustrated with the man who’s left me high and very far from dry. Multiple times. But, somehow, even though I’m not interested in a relationship, Mr. Tall-Dark-and-Handsome keeps me coming back for more—one crazy, sexual debacle after the next.Come hell or high water, the stars will align, and the release will be out of this world.
Jack
I’m captivated with the woman who’s left me sixty-nine shades of blue, and she’s only in this for one thing. The first time, I blew it—and not in the good way—but I’m going to ensure we finally see it through. I need to put an end to this “plague” of sexual calamities and prove to Sarah that we can have more.It’s time to grab the universe by the balls and show it who’s boss.
This is a standalone novel.
BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND
I fell in love with Holden York when I was six years old.
Most of my youth came with spiral notebooks filled with doodles, wedding plans, and “Janelle York” looped in bubbly handwriting.
However, one night in Vegas changed everything.
I woke up to more than just a fantasy of my brother’s best friend.
Five years later, I’m standing on his doorstep confronting him about the secret he kept from me.
If you think this is the story of how we rode off into the sunset together…
You’re so wrong.But if you think this is the story of how Holden blackmailed me into living with him…
You couldn’t be more right.This is a standalone novel.
When someone asks what I do for a living, I answer it plain and simple . . . I’m a hunter. I hunt the dregs of society and I’m very damn good at it.
I’m Ian Chandler, FBI agent and a member of the Circle of Justice, an organization of justice seeking vigilantes. My mission is to solve a string of ‘accidental’ hiking deaths occurring around my Wyoming town. When Grace Myers –a woman who’s been missing for days –shows up on my land, it turns out she’s the key to it all. Someone is hunting her, and I make it my duty to keep her safe.
However, the deeper I get into the case, the more dangerous it becomes; especially, now that I’ve fallen for the woman I have to protect. If hunting is the game, I won’t fail. I always hit my mark.
This is a standalone novel in the Circle of Justice series.
Series recommended reading order: Trigger | Target | Aim
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New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young returns to her Scottish roots with a brand new Adult Contemporary Romance series of interconnected standalone novels, and I have the stunning cover of the first book for you, coming on 12 Sep 2017, as well as the Prologue! It is now available for pre-order on all platforms.
The fifth book in the amazing Temptation series by Ella Frank, and the next chapter in the lives of the two men we have all come to know and love, is coming on 12 Sep 2017, and we have the gorgeous cover. There are no pre-order links at this point.
Melanie Harlow has announced her next standalone romance, and from the blurb we know that the heroine falls for her late husband’s twin brother! From This Moment releases on 10 Oct 2017, and it is now available for pre-order.
We have the cover of the second and final instalment in the Kingwood duet by S.L. Scott, releasing on 13 Aug 2017, and now available for pre-order.
John Green returns with his first new novel since The Fault in Our Stars, and we now have a cover! Turtles All the Way Down has been described as a story “of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship,” and it is set to release on 10 Oct 2017.
CD Reiss revealed the cover of her upcoming standalone novel in the Hollywood A-List series, releasing on 14 Nov 2017, and now available for pre-order.
Staci Hart announced the second instalment in her romantic mythology series where love is the ultimate game, and Aphrodite always wins. Shift is expected to release on 24 Aug 2017, but there are no pre-order links just yet.
We have the cover of the fourth standalone novel in Laura Kaye‘s Blasphemy series, releasing on 26 Sep 2017 and available for pre-order now.
Ruth Clampett has announced her upcoming standalone m/m romance, expected on 17 Aug 2017, but not yet available for pre-order.
BN Toler has announced her next standalone novel, the story of a romance author who’s lost all she’s ever cared for in her life, including her writing mojo. So she joins a dating app in search of a muse. Crazy Girl is expected on 16 Aug 2016, but no pre-order links are available just yet.
I have heard such amazing thinks about Sara Ney‘s How to Date a Douchebag series, and now we have the cover and pre-order links for the third standalone novel in this series, releasing on 26 Sep 2017.
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