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AGE GAP + AMNESIA + FORCED PROXIMITY + FRIENDS TO LOVERS + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + POLYAMORY + SECOND CHANCES
He saved my heart.
She owns my soul.The first time I saw her, I had a feeling about her.
It was the hypnotizing indigo eyes.
Her smile.
Her.I find myself drawn to her music.
I can’t stop thinking about her voice.
I’m captivated by her beauty.
I don’t understand the bond between us.Also, I belong to someone else.
He put me together when I was broken.
He loved me when I couldn’t stand on my own two feet.
We fought for our freedom.
But still, I feel incomplete.Piper Decker might own a piece of me.
But Derek Hastings claimed me when I was broken.Can I belong to two people?
Can we coexist as one and find our forever?This is the second and final book in The Downfall of Us duet, part of the larger Decker Family series.
Series reading order: Almost Strangers (Somehow Everlasting #1) | Strangers in Love (Somehow Everlasting #2) | Who We Are (Perfect Everlasting #1) | Who We Love (Perfect Everlasting #2) | After The Vows (Covert Affairs #1) | Love After Us (Covert Affairs #2) | The End of Me (The Downfall of Us #1) | When Forever Finds Us (The Downfall of Us #2)
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SECOND CHANCES + FAKE DATING
A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends…
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.
They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?
This is a standalone novel.
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DAD’S BEST FRIEND + AGE GAP + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SMALL TOWN
Help!
I’ve inherited my aunt’s historic house in small-town Oregon, and I need to fix it up and sell it fast before I move on to my big-city dreams. I’m one of the navy’s best investigators, but twenty years of living in base housing means DIY isn’t part of my extensive skill set.
Luckily, my best friend has the solution: his twenty-three-year-old son. Knox recently graduated from college, needs a room for the summer, and comes with a giant cat and years of remodeling experience.
Not only is Knox all grown up and hot as sin, but I recognize him. He’s the bossy, bearded guy I shared the hottest kiss of my life with. No way can my buddy find out I’ve got it bad for his son. But with all the stripping, hammering, and drilling, my defenses crumble one dance break at a time.
As our sexy secret summer fling continues, Knox also proves himself handy at fixing my grumpy mood and wounded heart. Now I can’t imagine a future without him. I can solve any problem the navy throws at me, but I have no clue what to do about loving Knox or the damage this could do to my decades-long friendship.
Can we build a forever together, or are we destined to go our separate ways?
This is a standalone novel in the all-new Safe Harbor series. Each book focuses on a different couple, but the background mystery of the town’s secrets ties the series together.
Series recommended reading order: Bring Me Home | Make Me Stay (13 Jun 2023) | Find Me Worthy (28 Sep 2023)
BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE
Paul Crane has it all except for the one thing he truly wants…Me.
I know what you’re thinking. Young design student. Rich, handsome billionaire.
I’m a kept woman, a sugar baby. That’s what all my friends say, at least. And maybe they’re right.
Paul Crane has it all: wealth, fame, and stunning good looks.
Despite all that, I ran as far away from him as I could–all the way back home.
Back to my loving family, endless medical bills, and twisted past.
But Paul can’t seem to stop rescuing me…even from myself.
He’s willing, and all I must give him is everything. And I do, all the way to Rome.
It’s like a dream come true. But really, it’s just a fantasy, and I want the real thing.
Deep down, I know Paul loves me, but grief and fear have trapped his heart in chains.
And now, I may have just ruined my one chance at setting our love free…This is the second book in The Kept Trilogy and it is not a standalone novel.
Series reading order: The Billionaire’s Arrangement | The Billionaire’s Fascination | The Billionaire’s Devotion (TBA)
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I run the most elite auction in the world.
Candidates and bidders come from all over the globe hoping to change their lives.
And I deliver.
I’m in the business of bringing couples together in a mutually beneficial and legally binding marriage. The terms are three years for no less than a million dollars a year, not including my commission. Once a pair signs on the dotted line, the contract ensures there is no going back.
Most couples find over time they are a love match, but not all.
Before I took over The Marriage Auction, there wasn’t an extensive vetting process. Some candidates were subjected to horrors that haunt my every waking moment.
I vowed to change that. To stand up for those who deserve more and to release them from the wrongs inflicted upon them by circumstance and chance.
What my bidders and candidates don’t know is that I understand exactly what they are experiencing.
I wasn’t always known as Madam Alana.
Once upon a time, I too was purchased in The Marriage Auction… And this is my story.Series reading order: Season One, Volume One | Season One, Volume Two | Season One, Volume Three | Season One, Volume Four | Madam Alana (novella)
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SECOND CHANCES + HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Beth Howell needs to find her dowry, post haste. After her good-for-nothing first husband married her—and two other women, unbeknownst to them all—she’s left financially ruined and relegated to living with her brother, who cares more for his horses than he does his blood relatives. If Beth fails to acquire her funds, her brother will force her to marry someone fifty years her senior and missing half his teeth. She’d prefer to avoid that dreadful fate. But her now-deceased husband, Meri, absconded with her money mere days after their illegitimate marriage. To find it, Beth will have to leave town and retrace Meri’s steps if she’s to take her future into her own hands.
Julian Raleah, Marquess of Grayson, cares not a whit for social norms and generally growls at anyone in his path. Grayson has had a heart of stone ever since his engagement to Beth Howell went down in flames—long before she married that cad, Meri, and sealed her own fate for good. But now she’s on his doorstep, asking for use of his carriage and accompaniment on the hunt to find her lost dowry. Surely Grayson cannot go on the road with the woman who has occupied his thoughts for the past decade. Yet, knowing she needs him, how can he resist helping her this one last time? And maybe that’s just enough time to change the ending to their over-too-soon love story.
This is a standalone novel in The Widow Rules series.
Series recommended reading order: A Duke in Time | Rules for Engaging the Earl | How to Best A Marquess
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Skye Arroyo will do anything for her family…
When her father is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Skye leaves her dream life at UC Santa Cruz and returns to the island of St. Croix to help her mother and sister run The Frangipani, their family hotel. Months later, overwhelmed by grief and unable to move on, Skye finds herself clinging to a sense of duty…even if that means letting go of all the things her heart truly wants.Xavier Grant doesn’t mind mixing business with pleasure…
As a successful associate at his grandfather’s private equity firm in Atlanta, Xavier is used to going after—and getting—what he wants. His sister’s destination wedding in the Caribbean provides the perfect opportunity to scout a few properties, including the cozy beach hotel serving as venue. What he doesn’t expect is the fiery young woman at the front desk, who’s as protective of her heart as she is of her hotel.Can Skye open up to all of the possibilities life is suddenly throwing at her? And can Xavier prove to her that in a world of acquisitions she’s what he wants most? That what they have is the real deal?
This is a standalone novel in the Tanlines series.
Series recommended reading order: The Sweet Spot | The Real Deal
ENEMIES TO LOVERS
One (crumbling) French castle. Two enemies-at-first-sight. The holiday of a lifetime.
Merry DeLuca has a problem—a big problem. Her sister just married her best friend and the only man she’s ever loved. Her life is rapidly spiraling down the drain and she doesn’t have an escape plan.
So when Merry is offered a three-month holiday living in a romantic castle in the French countryside she leaps at the chance. Merry knows her French holiday will fix everything—there will be mouthwatering pastries, delicious (meaningless) flirtations, and languid strolls through vineyards at sunset. Her holiday will be perfect.
At least, Merry believes that until she arrives and finds Noah Wright—the best man at her sister’s wedding and the worst man she’s ever known—staying in her castle.
Famous travel documentarian by day and arrogant devil by night, Noah refuses to leave the castle. Which means that Merry and Noah are stuck together in France, in a crumbling castle, in a holiday where nothing goes right. Not for Merry and not for Noah.
So they strike a truce—they’ll live as cohabitating friends for three-months, and then they’ll amicably part ways, never to see each other again.
But the thing about friendship? Sometimes secrets are uncovered. Mysteries revealed. Hearts laid bare. And friendship can start to feel a lot like caring. A lot like love. It can even make you wish that the holiday never has to end.
This is a standalone novel.
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MFM + TABOO + STEPBROTHER ROMANCE
Home is just a place, right?
Arien Brogan had plans. In Denver. The only place she’d ever call home.
Then her mom met Matthew Brooks, and Arien’s plans were no longer her own.
So here she was, on a ranch in Wyoming, with her two new stepbrothers.
She’d never met cowboys like them before.
Kellan, the sullen one.
Tanner, the sweet one.
What did they want from her?
There was something strange about this town, their ways, and everyone in it.
Everything that comes in threes is perfect.
Where in the hell was she?
She wasn’t staying anyway. Come summer, she’d be gone.
But if plans can change, then dreams can too.
Because home is more than a place.
It’s a feeling.
This is a standalone novel in the all-new Brookside series.
MAFIA ROMANCE
This was my place. My business. Easter Lanes.
Then a guy comes in, trying to rob me, daring to take it away from me.
My home. My life.
Hell no. I won’t let my livelihood be threatened.
No one knows what I’ve done to build this life for myself.
Except he might.
Ashton Walden, a man I remember from when we were kids.
Even back then I could tell how dangerous he would be one day.
He’s now the head of the Walden mafia family, and my father is so in debt to them that they practically own him.
My dad and I are estranged and I want nothing to do with him or his debt, but the day after the attempted robbery, I don’t wake up in the hospital.
I wake up in Ashton Walden’s home. And he drops a bomb on me.
If I want my livelihood back, I need to earn it back.
And thus begins our cruel arrangement.
This is a standalone novel in the Kings of New York series.
Series recommended reading order: A Dirty Business | A Cruel Arrangement
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Love makes life a little wilder…
After a panic attack puts him in the hospital, charity executive Teagan Van Zijl is dragged by his sister to a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods while absconding from midafternoon meditation, Teagan is nearly eaten by a bear before his rescue by a furious angel in muddy hiking boots: the program’s handywoman, Darcy Albano, who was mostly worried for the bear.
Darcy thought she was going to work as a trail guide when she was hired onto the camp staff but ended up cleaning and hauling instead—merely the latest screwing-over she’s endured since her ex stole her car and her parents ruined her credit score. Teagan becomes the silver lining she didn’t expect, a man clearly going through something yet willing to commit to Darcy’s unique brand of wilderness education as the cure for what ails him.
After weeks in the mountains with Darcy, Teagan doesn’t want to return to New York without her. He hires Darcy as his sober companion—a position he doesn’t actually need filled and for which Darcy is completely unqualified—hoping she can help him figure out a way to move forward. But once they get to the city, all Teagan can think of is how to confess the truth without losing her. Together, they begin to imagine what their lives might look like if they could depend on each other for help—even in outrunning a bear.
This is a standalone novel.
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An earth shattering secret. A life-changing love story.
When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.
On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on.
Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again.
But Wren doesn’t know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?
This is a standalone novel.
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ROMANTIC POLITICAL SUSPENSE
Theo Moreau never wanted to be involved with politics.
When his mother wins the presidential election, he reluctantly agrees to tag along for his younger siblings. Nothing could have prepared him to juggle his anxiety, complex family dynamics, and the complicated world of the White House. Lacking supportive friends and family, he leans on his steadfast Secret Service agent as tensions rise across the divisive political landscape and the dangers of being close to the president come to the surface.
Agent Connor O’Brien always wanted to be a hero.
Working on the protective detail for the First Family seems like the perfect opportunity to become just that. What he isn’t expecting is to fall head over heels for the man under his protection. As their relationship blossoms, the foundation of the administration grows more unstable and the chatter from America’s right-wing demographic rises to a fever pitch. But when Theo becomes the target of their campaign, the stakes get even higher.
Unsure of who to trust, and with little help from the President, Theo and Connor join forces with their motley group of friends to unravel the mystery of who is working against them from inside the White House before the situation turns explosive. As the sinister reach of this masked shadow spreads, Theo and Connor grow even closer and the magnitude of everything they risk losing propels them into a race against the nefarious mastermind, desperately clinging to the hope they’ve found in one another before their dream come true turns into a nightmare.
This is a standalone novel in the all-new The Rainbow Brigade series.
Series recommended reading order: Whisper into the Night | Illuminate the Night (1 Sep 2023)
Since the day she married her husband, Lo Harper has watched her happy ever after slip away before her eyes. Feeling lost and alone, she’s stumbling through life, each day getting longer, harder, and more hopeless. She doesn’t know how much longer she can hold on. Until she meets a stranger who ironically becomes a lifeline after he nearly runs her down. He’s charming, kind, and he doesn’t pry. He’s just there, making Lo smile, distracting her, if only briefly. Because she will always return to the pain. To the heartbreak. To the unshakable guilt.
Luke Williamson is successful, content, and he keeps his relationships with women uncomplicated. But his simple, carefree life is turned up on its head the night a young woman walks out in front of his car. Drawn to each other for very different reasons, Lo and Luke forge an unlikely friendship that they both come to rely on. And yet while Luke shares his life with Lo, he knows she’s keeping hers from him. And as her truth unfolds, Luke slowly realizes that for Lo to have her happy ever after, he must sacrifice his own.
So he has to make the ultimate decision.
Keep Lo in his life as she is, a broken, shadow of a woman.
Or walk away and let her heal.
This is a standalone novel.
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