NEW RELEASES
MENAGE + ARRANGED MARRIAGE + MAFIA ROMANCE | ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
She fell in love, got married…and it was all a lie.
They expected a mafia princess, but when Rodrigo meets the woman his father is forcing him to marry, he realizes Giada is much more than she seems. Smart and dangerous, she’s the kind of woman he could love…too bad everything he’s about to tell her is a lie.
Casson knows Rodrigo is in too deep. Rodrigo’s undercover mission as the heir to a powerful Camorra don should have ended long ago, but now he’s engaged to the daughter of another dangerous man, and it’s Casson’s job to pull him out.
There’s just one problem. Giada.
She’s nothing either man expected, and everything they want. The last thing they expect is for Giada to invite both of them to her bed.
As the wedding day looms closer, and enemies close in, the line between what’s real and what’s a lie becomes blurred, and Rodrigo and Casson have to decide if love is enough. And if they should tell her the truth.
Unfortunately, there’s someone else waiting in the wings to make sure they never say “I do.”
This is a standalone novel in the Trinity Masters: The Mafia series.
Series recommended reading order: Suspicion’s Fire | Desire’s Addiction | Danger’s Heir
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BILLIONAIRE + ESCORT
In the rough and tumble world of New York City, these men don’t mind getting down and dirty—in business or each other.
It isn’t every day a gorgeous stranger shows up in my bedroom wearing not much more than an arrogant smile. When I discover he’s a high-priced escort and a surprise birthday present from my sister…now she’s gone too far.
Except I haven’t been able to stop kissing him long enough to tell him to leave.
No one has to know he’s spent the night. And when we’re done, he’s gone and out the door. Never to be seen again.Well, not exactly.
Because for some crazy reason, I can’t quite forget Archer Strong.It’s a job like all the others. Another evening of million-dollar seduction and fake desire that’s made me the most exclusive escort in New York City.
But after one kiss from billionaire real-estate mogul Madden Steele, I’m not pretending anything.And when he wants to see me a second time, I break my rule of one and done.
Because just one night with Madden isn’t enough. I want to see him again.
And again.Now he’s asking for something more. Something that could solve all my problems, and his. But it’s something I can’t give him.
Or can I?With an enemy from inside Madden’s family scheming to take control of his company and destroy me, we’re in for a fight. Holding on to each other might be the biggest risk of our lives, but it’s the only way to reap the greatest reward—love.
This is a standalone novel.
DARK ROMANCE
My name is Rev.
I like long walks on the beach.
A neat scotch.
And I like stealing from rich losers who have no idea the town’s Big Bad Wolf screwed their wives six ways to Sunday.
Such a scandal, indeed.
I have one end goal—to get out of this town.
I’m a loner. And that’s by choice.
People aren’t really my thing. That is…until I meet her. The little firecracker who sets more than my soul on fire.
No one has ever stuck around.
But Darcie is different. She seems to be as broken as me, and when our worlds collide, nothing but trouble looms.
Watch out, baby…down the rabbit hole we go.
This is the first book in the Revenge Is Sweet series.
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Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home.
But not only does he win week one’s challenge—he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris’s fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. And when the show’s vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, Paris’s confidence is torn apart quicker than tear-and-share bread.
But if Paris can find the strength to face his past, his future, and the chorus of hecklers that live in his brain, he’ll realize it’s the sweet things in life that he really deserves.
This is a standalone novel in the Winner Bakes All series.
Series recommended reading order: Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake | Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
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PARANORMAL ROMANCE
He was an assassin. She was his lover.
And his victim.
Now, years later, she’s back from the dead and looking for vengeance.Thanks to an unexpected and fortuitous disaster, Tavin’s contract with the underworld’s Assassin Guild was broken decades early. But instead of freedom, he’s suffocated by guilt and regret. In many ways, he’s more trapped than he was before. In an attempt to numb his pain, he works at Underworld General Hospital, saving people instead of killing them. But nothing can diminish the memory of assassinating the female he loved…not even the knowledge that he’d done it to spare her an even worse fate.
Deja remembers all of her dozens of former lives, and she knows that she only found love in one of them…until her lover murdered her. As a soul locked inside the nightmarish boundaries of demon hell, she stewed in hatred until a single, fateful event gave her one more shot at life.
And at revenge.Now another specter from the past is threatening them both. Can two damaged people overcome their history to save not only themselves, but a second chance at love?
This is standalone story in the Demonica series.
Series recommended reading order: Pleasure Unbound | Desire Unchained | Passion Unleashed | Ecstasy Unveiled | Sin Undone | Reaver | Azagoth (novella) | Revenant | Hades (novella) | Base Instincts (short story) | Z (novella) | Razr (novella) | Vampire Fight Club (short story) | Hawkyn (novella) | Her Guardian Angel | Dining with Angels: Bits & Bites from the Demonica Universe (slices of life + recipes) | Cipher (novella) | Reaper | Bond of Destiny (novella) | Bond of Passion (novella)
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FAKE ENGAGEMENT + REVENGE
I seduced her for revenge…but I won’t let up until she’s mine.
I’m Xavian Costa—financial master, maverick, and manwhore. Since my dad ran out before I was born and my best friend slept with the woman I intended to marry, I don’t get close to people. But Parker, who poached my ex, is now a bestselling author with a movie deal, and he’s modeled his villain after me to ruin my reputation. I want revenge.
Then his innocent little sister, all grown up, traipses into my office. To save her burgeoning business, she needs a fake fiancé. Since she’s the sexiest brunette I’ve ever seen, I’m happy to help—for a price.
We begin our whirlwind “engagement,” and I get to know Corinne, not as the gawky teenager I remember, but as a beautiful woman.. She’s sweet, sassy, and smart as hell. I admire her kindness. I relate to her ambition. And I love the way she moans when I take her to bed. Soon, I’m falling and questioning my plans to use her to destroy Parker. But when our sham blows up in my face, I’ll have to prove to Corinne that I feel more than desire for her until she says yes for real.
This is a standalone novel in the More than Words / Reed Family Reckoning series.
Series recommended reading order: More Than Want You | More Than Need You | More Than Love You | More Than Crave You | More Than Tempt You | More Than Pleasure You (novella) | More Than Dare You | More Than Protect You (novella) | More Than Possess You (novella) | More Than Hate You | More Than Desire You
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SURPRISE PREGNANCY + BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND + SMALL TOWN
Nothing says forever like two pink lines!
Presley
After my sisters’ disastrous weddings, I’m never going to get married.
I’ll just stay single forever.
It doesn’t matter that I’m in love with my brother’s best friend.
Or that Bennett and I shouldn’t even be friends with benefits.
Until the positive sign tells me I’m pregnant.Bennett
I fell in love with Presley when she was eighteen and asked me for a favor.
She didn’t want to go to college a virgin.
I said no, but she kissed me, and I was lost in her.
Years later, I’ll take her with any rules she gives me.
She thinks this is just a fling. She’s wrong.
Because she’s always been mine to love.This is a standalone novel in the Southern Wedding series.
Series recommended reading order: Mine To Have | Mine To Hold | Mine To Cherish | Mine To Love | Mine To Take (2023)
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Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers—and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out…
When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation, they vowed to never speak to each other again. Ten years later, on the eve of the new millennium, they find themselves back on their snowy, picturesque New England campus together for the first time for the wedding of mutual friends. Frankie’s on the rise as a music manager for the hottest bands of the late ’90s, and Ezra’s ready to propose to his girlfriend after the wedding. Everything is going to plan—they just have to avoid the chasm of emotions brought up when they inevitably come face to face.
But when they wake up in bed next to each other the following morning with Ezra’s grandmother’s diamond on Frankie’s finger, they have zero memory of how they got there—or about any of the events that transpired the night before. Now Frankie and Ezra have to put aside old grievances in order to figure out what happened, what didn’t happen…and to ask themselves the most troubling question of all: what if they both got it wrong the first time around?
This is a standalone novel.
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SMALL TOWN
The Seaside Chronicle
November 1, 2022Keepin’ it Reel
Seasiders,
We all know the youngest Bradley sibling must be the most carefree of the bunch. Last this writer heard, Palmer was employed with at least five different jobs. Pet walker, house sitter, vet receptionist, nanny, and the least of my favorite, pooper scooper. To each her own, I guess.
Word on the docks is Palmer has caught the eye of our latest new Seaside resident and single dad, Mason Bryan. Oh, his little boy, Charlie, is just the sweetest thing. A little seagull has planted in my ear that Palmer will be Charlie’s new nanny…don’t worry, Seasiders, I’ve got my ear to the ground and will keep you updated on this latest development.
Fair winds and following seas!
This is the third book in The Seaside Chronicles series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Returning Home | Part of Me | Lost to You | Someone to Love (3 Jan 2023)
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SECOND CHANCES | HOLIDAY ROMANCE
Country music’s golden boy Colton Wheeler felt the most perfect harmony when he was with Gretchen Winthrop. But for her, it was a love him and leave him situation. A year later, Colton is struggling to push his music forward in a new direction. If it weren’t about to be the most magical time of year and the support of the Bromance Book Club, he’d be wallowing in self-pity.
It’s hard for immigration attorney Gretchen not to feel a little Scrooge-ish about the excess of Christmas when her clients are scrambling to afford their rent. So when her estranged, wealthy family reaches out with an offer that will allow her to better serve the community, she’s unable to say no. She just needs to convince Colton to be the new face of her family’s whiskey brand. No big deal…
Colton agrees to consider Gretchen’s offer in exchange for three dates before Christmas. With the help of the Bromance Book Club, Colton throws himself into the task of proving to her there’s a spark between them. But Gretchen and Colton will both need to overcome the ghosts of Christmas past to build a future together.
This is a standalone novel in the Bromance Book Club series.
Series recommended reading order: The Bromance Book Club | Undercover Bromance | Crazy Stupid Bromance | Isn’t It Bromantic? | A Very Merry Bromance
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COZY ROMANTIC MYSTERY | HOLIDAY ROMANCE
Jane Ladling presents the perfect fail-proof recipe to spice up the holidays. Or ruin them. Baker’s choice!
Mix a murderous cat with a goofy corgi. (Ignore any hissing. That definitely probably means the two ingredients are blending amazingly well.) Then add a landlocked cemetery allegedly peppered with gold-stuffed coffins. Whisk in a gravekeeper convinced a family curse forever dooms her to lose any man she loves. Marinate with a ridiculously charming special agent whose muscles and lopsided smile make her forget said curse. Toss in a pinch of mystery courtesy of an old, coded treasure map and crank up the heat. Broil, baby!
If no one dies, serve with a smile. If they do, smile wider.
And maybe, just maybe, Jane can solve a series of bewildering clues, end the curse for good, and finally find her own happily ever after. Or not.
This is the fourth book in the A Jane Ladling Mystery series.
Series reading order: Romancing the Gravestone | No Gravestone Left Unturned | Game of Gravestones | Twelve Graves of Christmas | Conrad: Falling For the Gravekeeper (Mar 2023)
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HOLIDAY ROMANCE
A woman fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister…
One year ago, recent Portland transplant Ellie Oliver had her dream job in animation and a Christmas Eve meet-cute with a woman at a bookstore that led her to fall in love over the course of a single night. But after a betrayal the next morning and the loss of her job soon after, she finds herself adrift, alone, and desperate for money.
Finding work at a local coffee shop, she’s just getting through the days—until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. They make a plan to spend the holidays together at his family cabin to keep up the ruse. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack—the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.
This is a standalone novel.
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We have the cover of Katherine Center‘s next novel—a tale about finding love, confronting a haunting past, and figuring out what, and who, really matters—out in Jul 2023. And if you haven’t read any of her books yet, I can’t recommend The Bodyguard highly enough.
A workplace fling is flipped on its head after one life changing phone call in the fourth and final book in Claudia Burgoa’s Luna Harbor series, out in January 2023, and we have the gorgeous cover. This is Iskander and Siobhan’s story.
Katee Robert‘s scorchingly hot Dark Olympus series continues in Aug 2023, and we have the cover. It’s a modern retelling of the myth of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).
We have the cover of the next novel in Kristen Proby‘s Single in Seattle series, a meet-cute sports romance out in Jan 2023.
Samantha Young is kicking off a brand new series in May 2023, set in the Adair Family world, and we have the gorgeous cover of the first book in the series—a grumpy/sunshine, single parent, age gap romance set in the Scottish Highlands.
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Meghan Quinn has revealed the cover of her next romance, a spin-off story from her novels A Not So Meet Cute and So Not Meant To Be, out on Nov 15.
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