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✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATION | ENEMIES TO LOVERS + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SECOND CHANCES
This old flame just might set them on fire.
Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life—food.
Women are a distraction, and he doesn’t do those. Especially Cal Litvin, his baby sister’s best friend. Her entire existence is a complication; she’s awkward, eccentric, infuriating…
And, much to his chagrin, hotter than his kitchen.
Ambrose has a lot on his plate: a new restaurant to open, a multimillion-dollar property deal to execute, and a violent stalker to tame.
Then Cal shows up at his doorstep, looking for both a job and salvation after their messy goodbye. His resolve, like his patience, is ebbing each day she works at his restaurant.
Because Cal is no longer a doe-eyed girl.
Now? She’s the woman he’ll do anything to conquer.
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Quirky, compassionate ball of sunshine Calla Litvin can’t catch a break, and not just because she swore off running. Back in her hometown to nurse her mother’s broken heart after losing her father, she finds herself jobless, hopeless, and penniless. She hopes to rekindle her friendship with her former BFF, but Dylan is attached at the hip to her cruel brother—the one Cal’s been secretly crushing on since middle school.
Falling for the bad boy the second time around would be a mistake of gargantuan proportions.
Too bad she’s always been clumsy.
This is a standalone novel in the all-new Forbidden Love series.
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✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATION | FRIENDS TO LOVERS + FORCED PROXIMITY
That Kiss…
Gorgeous New York socialite, Nora Ellington has been waiting a very long time for her happily ever after.
So long, she’s given up on it and has decided, even though she’s the plus-one friend without benefits to a man she’s head over heels in love with, an HEA will forever be out of her reach.
Handsome billionaire Jamie Oakley thought he’d had two happily ever afters in his life. However, neither lasted long, and both ended in tragedy. He’s not about to try it again or put his children through the trauma Jamie has learned from experience undoubtedly will come their way.
And he’s made this decision even if the woman who’s become his constant companion is a woman he loves straight to his soul….and wants with everything that is him.
But then, one night, Jamie loses control and kisses Nora.
He can’t go there.
She can’t go on without it.
They’ll never be the same.
This is the sixth book in the River Rain series. It can be read as a standalone novel, but reading this series in order is advised.
Series reading order: After the Climb | Chasing Serenity | Taking the Leap | Making the Match | Fighting the Pull| Sharing the Miracle (novella) | Embracing the Change
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REVERSE AGE GAP + HOCKEY ROMANCE
Jack Kingston is known for his dominant playing skills on the ice, but off, he’s a down-to-earth guy who values a true connection over a meaningless hookup.
I love being a member of the Pittsburgh Titans, even if my teammates are constantly ribbing me about women who they claim are throwing themselves all over me. Could I go for the easy lay? Sure, but that’s not my style. I’m more of long-term kind of guy. Instead, I’m going to keep doing what I do best—killing it out on the ice. Everything else will fall into place…eventually.
That time comes sooner than expected, in the most unlikely of ways. At the rink to watch our goalie’s kids play Peewee hockey, I meet Willa Montreaux and somehow, by the end of that interaction, I’ve offered to help her coach the Ice Pups. Altruism or were there other intentions in that offer? A little of both, if I’m being honest.
As the time I spend with Willa increases, I am absolutely certain I want even more. She’s gorgeous, sure, but that’s superficial. Willa is also funny, loving, determined and smart. SO smart. Doctor smart. Probably too intelligent for a jock like me, but that’s not going to stop me from shooting my shot.
Not looking for anything more than a fling and concerned that she’s too old for me, Willa doesn’t want to venture into anything serious. I’m willing to put in the work and give her the space she needs to come to terms with the fact that the connection we have is far more than physical. Willa and I are end game, but I’m willing to play into overtime if that’s what it takes to walk away with her by my side.
This is the fourteenth book in the Pittsburgh Titans series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Baden | Stone | Gage | Coen | Drake | Cannon | Hendrix | Camden | Bain | Van2 | Boone | Callum | Foster | King | Rafferty (Jan 2025) | North (Apr 2025) | Penn (Jul 2025)
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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + WORKPLACE + COWBOY ROMANCE
Lennon
Rule number one: Committing crimes is not a group project.
Rule number two: Don’t start fights. Finish them.
Rule number three: Don’t try to hustle a hustler.I should have walked away. I should have ignored that sweet-talking cowboy.
Good things don’t happen to people like me. Good people stay away from people like me.
But that cowboy wouldn’t leave me alone.
He should have known better. After all, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Carson James
Rule number one: When you’re holding a grudge, don’t think about how attractive the object of your hatred is.
Rule number two: When you do think about how attractive she is, ignore it. It’ll go away. Probably.
Rule number three: When you’re stealing a car, it helps to have the keys.That girl was trouble. I knew it from the moment I laid eyes on her bruised knuckles in the bar.
The last thing I expected was for her to show up on the ranch and bring that trouble to my front door.
I always liked playing with fire, but apparently, so did she. Only time will tell which one of us is going to get burned.
This is the third and final book in the Griffith Brothers series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Dust Storm | Downpour | Fire Line
FANTASY
A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.
He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.
Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.
But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.
And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.
Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.
This is the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, and the second book in the Cerulean Chronicles series.
Series reading order: The House in the Cerulean Sea | Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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FORCED PROXIMITY + SMALL TOWN
Excited to return to Sandcastle Cove as maid of honor for my best friend Avie’s wedding, I’m ready for sun, surf, and celebration. That is until I learn I’ll be sharing a beach cabana with the sexy-as-sin but uptight Naval officer, Lennon Harraway—the groom’s older brother and best man.
With his strict, by-the-book personality, Lennon and I are complete opposites. He likes to play by the rules, and I like to break them all. Sparks fly, and tensions rise, but as the days unfold, so does an undeniable attraction.
Caught between fiery clashes and off-the-chart chemistry, we must navigate our differences and work together to ensure the wedding goes off without a hitch while discovering opposites really do attract.
This is the third book in the Sandcastle Cove series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Changing Tides | Building Castles | Passing Ships
SMALL TOWN + ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
He’s hunting a killer so she won’t be next.
Single dad Garrett Haven doesn’t have time for dating. With a teenage son and a high-stakes job in law enforcement, he has enough on his plate.
Besides, he risked his heart once. He has no intention of doing it again.
Until he meets her.
Harper Tilburn brought her passion for baking to the small town of Tilikum to take over her aunt’s bakery. Anything else will have to wait, at least until her bad luck curse runs out.
Her dating hiatus is essential, and she’s sticking to it.
Until she meets him.
The sparks that fly between Garrett and Harper are instantaneous—their attraction undeniable. And suddenly, the practical, responsible sheriff’s deputy is throwing caution to the wind, boldly pursuing Harper, determined to make her his.
But when the cold case Garrett is investigating takes a chilling turn, he fears the perpetrator will strike again—and Harper will be his target.With his career—and his life—on the line, he’ll sacrifice everything to protect the people he loves, and catch a killer before it’s too late.
This is a standalone novel in the Haven Brothers series.
Series recommended reading order: Obsession Falls | Storms and Secrets | Temptation Trails
FANTASY ROMANCE
A Druid with a secret past. A man looking for a second chance…
Forest child they call me. It is within the woods that I find solace and feel the magic of my ancestors. For I am a Druid. One who can trace her roots from the very first to call the Isle of Skye home.
The isle draws many to its magical shores. It drew him. Imposing, bold, and handsome. We fell hard and fast that summer. Then he left with the tide to the city.
I learned to live with the cracks and fissures on my pieced-together heart, the scars only I can feel.
Until the day he walks back into my life asking for a second chance. I yearn to give it to him. How can I not? He’s the only one I’ve ever loved.
The only one I will ever love.
But there is a darkness growing on the isle—a treacherous evil that has targeted him. I’ve lost him once.
I won’t lose him again.
This is the fifth book in the Skye Druids series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Iron Ember | Shoulder the Skye | Heart of Glass | Endless Skye | Still of the Night | Blood Skye (Mar 2025)
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AGE GAP + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE
Adam Wright may be a self-made billionaire, but he’s also a beast.
Most children grow up hating a storybook villain. Based on the injuries that man inflicted on my brother, I grew up hating a real one.
When he sort-of kidnaps me and drags me back to his fairytale mansion, it feels like yet another cliché antihero stunt.
Here’s the thing, though.
Most villains don’t weep real tears when they see you having a diabetic episode.
They don’t abandon their billion-pound empire so they can roll up their sleeves and pull your company back from the brink of bankruptcy.
They don’t put you first, care for you, at every single opportunity, dammit.
Not in the storybooks I’ve read, anyway.
My body succumbs first. It doesn’t stand a chance. It’s game over from the moment I wake to find him sleeping next to me, the Empire State Building tenting his pants.
I despise myself. I shouldn’t want him. Not when I know the despicable acts he’s capable of.
But when my heart starts to succumb, that’s when I know I’m really in trouble.
Because what if the villain I’ve loved to hate all these years is really my hero?
And if indeed he is, how on earth will I persuade my brother of that?
This is the sixth book in the Alchemy series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.
Series recommended reading order: Unfurl | Undulate | Unveil | Untether | Unstitch | Unbind
STEPBROTHERS + FRIENDS TO LOVERS + FORBIDDEN ROMANCE
Ash
All stepbrothers need Step Don’ts.
Colin and I have ours.
Like, don’t pit our parents against either of us. Don’t hog the TV. And definitely…
Don’t.
Keep.
Secrets.
These rules have done more than help us keep the peace between us.
After all these years since our parents got together, I can’t imagine my life without Colin.
To most people, he’s the hot, straight tight end for Peach State.
But to me, he’s my backward-cap-wearing, football-loving, piggyback-ride-giving best friend and fellow Alpha Theta Mu frat bro.
Life’s pretty incredible living together at the same frat house, but suddenly, I find myself keeping a particularly naughty secret.
I tell myself Colin wouldn’t want to know what his bi bro does in private, but then why do I feel like I’m committing a huge Step Don’t?Colin
There’s nothing I’m more of an expert in than my stepbro, Ash.
He’s a quick-witted, nerd-boy genius who’s always there to help a friend cram for a test or capture bugs for me when they invade my space.
He’s my favorite person.
Making him happy gives me a rush…but for the first time, he’s keeping a secret from me.
When Ash cops to his Step Don’t—his new extracurricular of doing dirty things on camera—I’m confused.
He is too, so we work together to figure out why this excites him so much.
In places we’re likely to get caught.
After all, what’s a little exhibitionism between stepbros?
I didn’t even realize I could be into guys—or be so intoxicated by these new experiences—but exploring my bisexuality with Ash is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
And with each touch, each time we up the stakes, I discover I want more than just Ash’s body.
I want his heart too, even though that surely must be the biggest Step Don’t of all.This is a standalone novel in the Peach State Stepbros series.
Series recommended reading order: The Step Bet | The Step Don’t | The Step Dare (Jun 2025)
COWBOY + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + FORCED PROXIMITY + SMALL TOWN
It’s the classic story—girl returns to her hometown only to end up moving in with her high school crush, who she hates.
Returning to Willowbrook was my only option after Chicago chewed me up and spit me out. Technically, it wasn’t Chicago’s fault. It was his fault—the man I thought I knew who turned out to be a liar.
My older sister, always the one to swoop in and fix things, secured me a job as a yoga instructor on her fiancé’s family ranch. As my self-assigned protector, she’s keeping one eye on me and one eye on Emmett Noughton, her fiancé’s brother.
He’s the charming, fun-loving, take-life-as-it-comes kind of guy, and once upon a time, his name was scribbled in my notebooks. Back then, I was invisible to him. Now, he’s looking at me like I’m the only thing in the room. But he lost his chance with me a long time ago.
It’s easy to keep him at arm’s length and nurse the grudge I’ve held onto for years. Until the house I’m staying in sells, and I have nowhere to go except his house. Now, resisting him isn’t just difficult—it’s impossible.
This is a standalone novel in the Plain Daisy Ranch series.
Series recommended reading order: The One I Left Behind | The One I Stood Beside | The One I Didn’t See Coming
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If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.”
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
This is a standalone novel.
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SINGLE MUM + SILVER FOX + ROOMMATES + SMALL TOWN
Love doesn’t break us; it makes us whole, my nana used to say.
However, one minute, my world is set on fire, literally. The next, I am raising a six-year-old as a single mom without a clear path ahead of us. No place to live. No job. No money.
I’m returning to Sterling Falls to claim what’s mine, then there will be no looking back on this beloved small town, a place I consider a handful of sand in the hourglass of my life.
Then again, Clay Sylver has shaken up that ancient time clock. The silver fox in his forties is a bit cocky, but solid in every way that matters. He loves his siblings. He works hard. He owns an honest business. Honest, the emphasis here. He also suffers from damsel-in-distress syndrome with a savior complex for lost causes, like stray animals and down-and-out women.
And I have a secret crush on him.
When I see Clay stranded on the side of the road one dark, stormy night, I stop to offer assistance. Burning with fever, Clay is sick, and my mom-instincts kick in to give him comfort. That decision throws me off course again. While my past lurks everywhere, I find myself falling in love with Sterling Falls once more and falling harder for the man giving my son and me a safe haven.
Love is a risk, according to Clay, but he’s slowly rescuing my heart while I’m saving his.
This is a standalone novel in the Sterling Falls series.
Series recommended reading order: Sterling Heat | Sterling Brick | Sterling Streak | Sterling Clay
SINGLE PARENT + BILLIONAIRE + ONE NIGHT STAND
Two strangers at a beat down biker bar. A hot night twisted up in the sheets. Absolutely no strings attached.
My life is too complicated for more than that. Besides, what would I do with a possessive, demanding, sexy as hell motorcycle man? Especially one who’s younger than me.
As an executive with a demanding career and single mom to a three-year-old little girl, my life is planned down to the minute, but everyone knows what they say about the best laid plans…
When Jake Hayes walks into Rossi Motors looking for a partnership between our two companies, I’m lost for words. It turns out, my motorcycle man looks just as good wearing a finely tailored suit as he does straddling a bike in his leathers.
Now that he’s found me, he wants more hot, steamy nights with me. He’s persistent and I’m…tempted.
I try to keep him at arm’s length, but he slowly draws me in with his searing kisses and lighthearted teasing. It doesn’t hurt that he’s sweet and gentle with my little girl either. But then, he has plenty of experience with kids since he has a daughter of his own.
Jake wants me and all the baggage I come with. I want him too, but my heart’s been too battered to give it away easily.
If I don’t choose, Jake just might take matters into his own hands and steal it anyway.
This is a standalone novel in the all-new Mile High Billionaires series.
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Lucy Lennox has revealed the cover of the next book in her Billionaire Brotherhood series—a forced proximity, small town, opposites attract, single dad, cowboy/billionaire romance—out on Oct 8.
Laurelin Paige has revealed the cover of her upcoming billionaire romance, set in the Brutal Billionaires world and out on Oct 9.
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