NEW RELEASES
FORBIDDEN + AGE GAP + STUDENT/TEACHER + EX-BOYFRIEND’S DAD
It was supposed to be one night with a handsome stranger. I never thought I would see him again. Until the first day of class.
He’s my new professor.
And my ex-boyfriend’s father.He has a world of secrets in his eyes and the weight of the world on his shoulders. I should stay away from him, but the more I try, the more consumed he gets.
His possessiveness is rivaled only by his secretive nature. He knows everything about me, but mystery surrounds him. Shadows threaten the entire university…and our forbidden love.
This is the first book in the all-new Tanglewood University trilogy. It is not a standalone novel.
Series reading order: The Professor | The Student (Jun 2024)
Rumor
There are moments in life when you make a decision. Accept who you are. What you have become. This was one of those times…
The fairytale I thought I’d found had become a nightmare so quickly after I said, “I do.” Which was the reason I ran when I had the chance. Not thinking about the consequences. Just knowing I had to get free before it was my life that was taken.
I never expected to end up finding a haven. A place where people were willing to help me hide. It was as if I had walked into my own perfect daydream.
King
“Don’t believe every pretty face you meet, sweets. You should know by now that’s a terrible f——g idea.”
She was my job. I was to make her feel safe and do whatever I had to in order to make sure she didn’t run. Underneath the abused and broken exterior, there was a fighter. It was in her eyes. I lived for the moments when she let me see that spark.
I had been headed straight to Hell years before I met Rumor, but letting her fall in love with me was going to reserve me a room in the darkest pit available. One day soon, she was going to find out I was the monster she was running from and the family she had come to trust was the mafia that had killed her husband.
This is the first book in the Slay duet, part of the all-new Georgia Smoke series, and set in the same world as the Smoke and Judgement series. It is not a standalone novel.
Series reading order: Slay | Slay King (14 Apr 2024)
Thirty-four-year-old Wren Waters believes that if you pay attention, the universe will send you exactly what you need. But her worldview shatters when the universe delivers two life-altering blows she didn’t see coming, and all she wants to do is put the whole heartbreaking mess behind her. No one is more surprised than Wren when she discovers that geocaching—the outdoor activity of using GPS to look for hidden objects—is the only thing getting her out of bed and out of her head. She decides that a weeklong solo quest geocaching in Oregon is exactly what she needs to take back control of her life.
Enter Marshall Hendricks, a psychologist searching for distraction as he struggles with a life-altering blow of his own. Though Wren initially rebuffs Marshall’s attempt at hiker small talk, she’s beyond grateful when he rescues her from a horrifying encounter farther down the trail. In the interest of safety, Marshall suggests partnering up to look for additional caches. Wren’s no longer quite so trusting of the universe—or men in general—but her inner circle might argue that a smart, charismatic psychologist isn’t the worst thing the universe could place in her path.
What begins as a platonic road trip gradually blossoms into something deeper, and the more Wren learns about Marshall, the more she wants to know. Now all she can do is hope that the universe gets it right this time.
This is a standalone novel.
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SECOND CHANCES + SINGLE DAD + SMALL TOWN + ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Miles Thatcher and I would not have gotten together if my life had gone according to plan.
Recently single with her whole life up in the air, Emma Abate knows that getting into any kind of relationship, is a bad idea. Especially when the man she finds herself drawn to is Miles Thatcher, a single father, and a man that seems determined to break down every barricade she places between them.
Could this be real?
Miles doesn’t do complicated. But it’s difficult to remember all the reasons why Emma is supposed to be off limits when she begins to fill a void in his and his daughters’ life, a void that he never realized was there, until her.
Before this ends will Miles and Emma realize they have something worth fighting for? Or will his job as a detective, the murder of two young women, and Emma’s past get the best of them before they ever get the chance?
Life is never simple, and neither is love.
This is the second book in the Before series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Before We Fall | Before This Ends
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
A demon soldier of fortune . . .
Rök Kours dives into a dangerous mission, only to cross swords with the one woman who bewitched him.A cursed Wiccan mercenary . . .
Poppy Dyer has never let her uncontrollable magic interfere with her work, but she can barely withstand one demon’s charms.Trapped in a terrifying lair.
If the two rivals can defeat Halloween’s worst nightmares to escape a haunted castle, can they overcome their pasts to claim a spellbinding future together?This is a standalone novel in the Immortals After Dark series.
Immortals After Dark/Dacian: The Warlord Wants Forever | A Hunger Like No Other | No Rest for the Wicked| Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night | Dark Needs at Night’s Edge | Dark Desires After Dusk | Kiss of a Demon King | Deep Kiss of Winter| Pleasure of a Dark Prince | Demon from the Dark | Dreams of a Dark Warrior| Lothaire | Shadow’s Claim| MacRieve | Dark Skye | Sweet Ruin | Shadow’s Seduction | Wicked Abyss | Munro | The Witch Queen of Halloween
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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FIREFIGHTER
What happened to my predictable life?
I had a stable life as a fire captain in Seattle, married to one of my best friends and raising two awesome kids. Now, my kids are grown, and my marriage is toast. I’m solidly past forty and back in my tiny hometown of Mount Hope, Oregon, filling in as a firefighter. My future is one big question mark keeping me up at night.
Also keeping me up? The short-order cook at Honey’s Hotcake Hut.
Denver might be close to my age, but we’re total opposites. The former rock roadie runs from stability, never puts down roots, and lives for the moment. Point in case, we barely speak before he invites me into his shower.
I’ve never been with a man, but my fresh start has me trying all sorts of new things—including Denver’s shower.
Our future? Hopeless.
Denver doesn’t do repeats, but I convince him to have a fling since we’re both in Mount Hope short-term. The more time we spend together, the deeper our friendship and bond grows. Our time together outside of the bedroom, reveals a caring side to the grumpy cook. Even better, my sunshine-y optimism softens him like butter.
Should a fling give me these deep feelings? Nope.
Worse, the feelings are mutual. Big decisions loom for both our futures, and our time together grows short. I might have Denver’s heart, but his trust is far harder to win. He’s the answer to all my question marks, and I need him to believe in us. Can I convince him to give our love a chance?
This is a standalone in the all-new Mount Hope series.
Series recommended reading order: Up All Night | Off the Clock (Jun 2024)
FRIENDS TO LOVERS
What’s a love story without a good plot twist . . . ?
Becca Taylor is having a bad summer.
Her best friend is dead. Her good-for-nothing ex is back in her life. And her career is in freefall.
So, when fellow writer Riley O’Connell invites Becca to the charming Irish countryside, she can’t pack her bags fast enough, even though they have never met.
But happily-ever-after isn’t quite so simple.
And Riley is not a sensitive female romance novelist like Becca assumed. No, he is definitely a man. A hot, six-foot tall, Irish man.
But with their complicated pasts getting in the way, Becca and Riley just can’t get on the same page.
So can fate give their love story a rewrite?
This is a standalone novel.
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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SMALL TOWN
Ruby Rose declared me the enemy before I had a chance to defend myself.
I may be an attorney, but this girl had appointed herself judge and jury.
And I’d never minded a good verbal sparring.
There was a comfort in going to battle against the evil queen.
Maybe it was just the recognition of one damaged soul to another.
But the more we fought—the more I craved her.
Until our arguing turned into a bit of a wager.
One I was determined to win.
One time. Sixty seconds. A secret only we would share.
I’d work my magic and she’d declare me the winner.
I’d gloat, she’d sulk—that was my plan.
She was determined to prove me wrong.
But from the minute we crossed the line, there was no turning back.
She was so far under my skin I couldn’t think straight.
Feeling things that I’d never felt before was one thing.
But knowing the clock was ticking was another.
Ruby Rose may have given me more than sixty seconds, but she wasn’t offering forever.
And now my world doesn’t work without her in it.
But how do I convince her to stay, when she already has one foot out the door?This is a standalone novel in the Magnolia Falls series.
Series recommended reading order: Loving Romeo | Wild River | Forbidden King (Jun 2024) | Beating Heart (Aug 2024) | Finding Hayes (Oct 2024)
FIREFIGHTER + BILLIONAIRE + SMALL TOWN
How we met: I got a black eye.
Where we met: At a wedding.
Our first date: We’re not dating. Cross my heart.True story: Jack Hamilton gave me a black eye when we met. He didn’t throw a punch, but he did open a door right into my face. On the same day I was a bridesmaid in my brother’s wedding.
My head spun when I took a good look at him. Maybe it was running full-force into a door, but maybe it’s because he’s melt-your-panties H-O-T. Oh, and he’s a hotshot firefighter.
But I don’t date, and I don’t ever intend to fall in love. It’s all so simple. Until the chemistry that’s hot enough to melt me nearly does. Maybe Jack can help with that, what with the whole firefighting thing.
No one warned me that a good man could make me forget all the reasons why love is a bad idea.
This is a standalone novel in the Fireweed Harbor series.
Series recommended reading order: Make You Mine | Dare To Fall | Be The One | One More Time | Wait For You (Jun 2024) | Ever After All (Aug 2024)
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TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE
Setting aside grief from the fallout of the second World War and putting her energy into curating an upcoming show critical to her career as the Keeper of the Metalworks at London’s renowned Victoria and Albert Museum, Jeannine Maycroft stumbles upon a unique collection of jewel-framed miniature eye portraits—a brilliant romantic device and clandestine love token of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
One piece among the assembly intrigues her more than all the others: a twilight-blue man’s eye framed by opals shimmering with enchanting flashes of fiery color. But the beauty is just the beginning. Not only is the painting a self-portrait of one of her favorite Pre-Raphaelite artists, Ashe Lloyd Lewis, but the brooch itself is a portal eight decades into the past.
Despite being cast into an era she was never meant to be in, Jeannine and Ashe develop an immediate and passionate bond, complicated by the undeniable fact that she does not belong in 1867, and the disaster about to destroy her family and reputation in her time.
Striving to live a dual life and dangerously straddling two time periods, Jeannine fights to protect her career and her father from scandal in the present while desperately trying to save her lover’s life in the past.
This is a standalone novel.
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Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan—and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she’d known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he’s the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore.
Now thirty-one, Jess didn’t bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself. But Tegan plans to do exactly what Jess has always feared—leave their safe, stable home to search for their mother—and she’ll be accompanied by the prying podcast host and her watchful, handsome producer, Adam Hawkins. Unwilling to let the sister she’s spent so much of her life protecting go it alone, Jess reluctantly joins them.
Together, the four make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why. But soon Jess is discovering other things too. Like a renewed sense of vulnerability and curiosity, and a willingness to expand beyond the walls she’s so carefully built. And in Adam, she finds an unexpected connection she didn’t even know was missing, if only she can let go and let him in . . .
This is a standalone novel.
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It’s 1927, and Helen Montgomery is coming of age on Philadelphia’s Main Line, where privileged young women are set for life. But Helen has desires of her own. Debutante balls, eligible bachelors, and marriage aren’t among them…until her father is embroiled in a devastating scandal that jeopardizes the family’s financial future and social standing, that is. Then it becomes up to Helen to repair both by marrying a man of wealth and connection.
Edgar Scott is as independent as Helen. The black-sheep scion of a railroad magnate, Edgar’s aspirations of becoming an author go against the grain of his own family’s expectations. For a time, Helen and Edgar’s marriage grows from attraction and convenience to genuine loyalty and respect. But as Edgar’s frustrations and rejections mount and Helen’s personal dreams recede, the cracks in the perfect life Helen wants are beginning to show.
So begins Helen’s journey of forgiveness, redefining the meaning of perfection—for herself and in others—and accepting with all her heart the mistakes humans make in the name of love.
This is a standalone novel.
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SHIFTERS + PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Nox
People see me as the asshole who deals with the hellish jobs. That’s because people fear me, which is how I like it.
Unfortunately, I also have to put up with the tiger inside me. My beast should have protected me when I was younger, but instead, all he’s ever wanted are pats and attention.
I’ve hated that tiger… until him.
Our fated mate.
Kieran
Single life as a young college professor with anxiety is trying. Add in my poor coordination and I often wonder if there’s someone in the world who will ever accept me as I am.
Even the men my parents try to set me up with don’t work out—that second date never does come.
But after one heart-stopping, breathtaking glance from a stranger, I figure that none of the men before him are meant for me.
Thankfully, after a mugging and meeting a loveable tiger, Nox is back in my life.
Now all I have to do is keep him there.
This is the second book in the Protected series of standalone novella-length stories with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Protected by the Bear Shifter | Protected by the Tiger Shifter | Protected by the Fox Shifter (Apr 2024)
ROMANTIC COMEDY
What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party…
After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family. Chinese New Year, already the biggest celebration of the Lunar calendar, gets even more festive when a former beau of Second Aunt’s shows up at the Chan residence bearing extravagant gifts—he’s determined to rekindle his romance with Second Aunt and the gifts are his way of announcing his courtship.
His grand gesture goes awry however, when it’s discovered that not all the gifts were meant for Second Aunt and the Chans—one particular gift was intended for a business rival to cement their alliance and included by accident. Of course the Aunties agree that it’s only right to return the gift—after all, anyone would forgive an honest mistake, right? But what should have been a simple retrieval turns disastrous and suddenly Meddy and the Aunties are helpless pawns in a decades-long war between Jakarta’s most powerful business factions. The fighting turns personal, however, when Nathan and the Aunties are endangered and it’s up to Meddy to come up with a plan to save them all. Determined to rescue her loved ones, Meddy embarks on an impossible mission—but with the Aunties by her side, nothing is truly impossible…
This is a sequel to Dial A for Aunties and Four Aunties and a Wedding.
Series reading order: Dial A for Aunties | Four Aunties and a Wedding | The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties
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HISTORICAL ROMANCE
A case of mistaken identity between a proper earl and a feisty American heiress turns scorching…
Bold and fiercely opinionated American heiress Lucy Chartrand has proudly left a string of scandals in her wake on both sides of the Atlantic. Her matchmaking mother may long to secure her an aristocratic English husband, but Lucy is tired of being sought after for her family’s fortune. She longs for a life of independence and freedom, far from the glittering world of London ballrooms, and she’s finally put a plan in motion to make that happen.
Gareth Claremont, Earl of Rexingham, has only accompanied his wayward younger sister to a Yorkshire country house party to keep her out of trouble. As always, mayhem finds her. This time, in the form of a new friend, the gorgeous, thoroughly improper, utterly appalling hellion Miss Lucy Chartrand. Gareth intends to do everything he can to keep the ruinous influence of a wild hoyden like Miss Chartrand far from his impressionable sister.
But Lucy’s brilliant scheme goes hopelessly awry, and now there’s one tall, handsome prig standing between her and what she wants most. He finds everything about her infuriating. She finds everything about him insufferable. They’ll never suit, regardless of what happened by mistake in the moonlight.
Or will they?
This is a standalone novel in the Dukes Most Wanted series.
Series recommended reading order: Forever Her Duke | Forever Her Marquess | Forever Her Rake | Forever Her Earl | Forever Her Viscount (May 2024)
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Two friends reunite—and discover hidden feelings—while investigating a murder…
Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own—but those dreams (and her dowry) died with her father. Now, she works as a governess, preparing her charge for a future no longer within her reach. When her employer is murdered during a house party, however, Jane is forced back into the world of the ton. But stepping in as hostess will require working with the same lord who once broke her girlish heart.
Lord Adrian Fielding was too consumed with his job at the Foreign Office to pay young Jane much heed, but he always considered her a friend. Which is why he’s confounded by her icy demeanor now. More troubling still is his desire to melt the tensions between them. But his mentor’s murder means he must first find the culprit—and ensure Jane’s safety as she manages a house full of foreign dignitaries.
Only Jane insists on joining the investigation, and Adrian, despite all his diplomatic skills, finds himself seduced by her sharp wit and sparkling eyes. But with a vicious killer circling ever closer, will it soon be too late for their chance at forever?
This is a standalone novel in the Ladies Most Scandalous series.
Series recommended reading order: A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem | An Heiress’s Guide to Deception and Desire | A Spinster’s Guide to Danger and Dukes | A Governess’s Guide to Passion and Peril
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The harmony they create together may not be enough…
Rocker Jesse Pike’s chance at fame may be ruined when his drummer ends up out of commission. Jesse blames himself. If he’d been with his friend instead of shacking up with Brianna Steel, none of this would be happening. Now their big break as the opening act for Emerald Phoenix on a hugely publicized tour of Europe may end as they’re technically in breach of contract.
Brianna also blames herself. She put herself between Jesse and his band for purely selfish reasons, and now Jesse and his drummer are paying the price. She desperately wants to fix things, but she doesn’t know how.
Circumstances aren’t always what they seem, though, and a surprise admission from a trusted friend plus the arrival of a newcomer upend Jesse’s world. But the worst is yet to come…
This is the twenty-ninth book in The Steel Brothers Saga.
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A brand new star-crossed lovers, second chance, cowboy romance is coming on Apr 24 from one of my favourite writing duos—Riley Hart and Christina Lee—and we have the gorgeous cover.
Another sexy, high-stakes holiday novel in J.R. Ward‘s Black Dagger Brotherhood series is coming in Nov 2024, and we have the cover.
Rebecca Yarros has announced the title and release date of the third book in The Empyrean series. Onyx Storm is coming on Jan 21, 2025.
Enemies turn to lovers, strangers become friends, dark secrets bust open like cans of worms, and summer will never be the same in Max Monroe‘s newest novel, out on Apr 19, and we have the cover.
Pam Godwin‘s Frozen Fate trilogy continues on Apr 23, and we have the cover of the second book in the series.
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