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✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATION | PARANORMAL ROMANCE

The only place small-town outcast Alex Lawson fits in is the online fan forum she built for The Arcane Files, a long-running werewolf detective show. Her dedication to archiving fictional supernatural lore made her Internet-famous, even if she harbors a secret disdain for the show’s star, Devin Ashwood. (Never meet your heroes—sometimes they turn out to be The Worst.)

Ever since his show went off the air, Devin and his career have spiraled, but waking up naked in the woods outside his LA home with no memory of the night before is a new low. It must have been a coincidence that the once-in-a-century Wolf Blood Moon crested last night. The claws, fangs, and howling are a little more difficult to explain away. Desperate for answers, Devin finds Alex—the closest thing to an expert that exists. If only he could convince her to stop hating his guts long enough to help….

Once he makes her an offer she can’t refuse, these reluctant allies lower their guards trying to wrangle his inner beast. Unfortunately, getting up close and personal quickly comes back to bite them.

This is a standalone novel.

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SECOND CHANCES + SINGLE PARENT(S) + WORKPLACE + HOCKEY ROMANCE

Two nights with her ruined me for all other women, but I never got the chance to make her mine.

I’m the pinnacle of control. I protect the net, my team, and my daughter.
It’s my final season and I can’t afford any distractions.
Except our new assistant coach just walked in.
And I would know her face anywhere.
She’s the one I dream about.

That weekend, I was just a man—not the legend, the dad, the mentor.
I didn’t care that I was a decade older.
For the first time in my life, I was ready to risk everything if it meant having her.
Until I woke up to an empty bed and no note.
Three years of wishing I knew how to find her, now she’s my new boss.

I can be patient.
But for her—I want to break all the rules.

This is a standalone novel in the Toronto Terror series.

Series recommended reading other: If You Hate Me | If You Want Me | If You Need Me | If You Love Me

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SECOND CHANCES

Nash Sinclair abandoned the world of formula racing after a deadly crash left him injured and on a long road to recovery, both physically and mentally. Even prior to the crash Nash was healing in another way, putting together the pieces of a broken heart. They say time heals all wounds and when Brienne Norcross, owner of the newly acquired Titans Racing team approaches him about a job, he decides it might just be time to reclaim the life he once loved.

Bexley Toliver just joined the Titans’ team as their chief race strategy engineer. As a woman working in a male-centric sport, Bex is no stranger to a man’s eyes on her. Whether it’s in silent awe, not-so-silent disgust, or somewhere in between, Bexley has earned her way. But there is one set of eyes that Bex hasn’t seen in years and when Nash Sinclair walks into the conference room for a team meeting, old memories are hard to ignore. As the heat between them becomes all-consuming, they are unable to resist the temptation to fall once again.

Bex and Nash’s history is…complicated. Young love that turned into the promise of forever crashed and burned long before the race that ended Nash’s career. Years apart dulled the pain of their failed union but some things aren’t meant to be forgotten, no matter how hard one tries. When the same issues that broke them apart re-emerge and spin them full-speed toward a barricade, Bex and Nash need to make a decision—hit the brakes and walk away or race forward to their happily ever after.

This is a standalone novel in the Race Fever series.

Series recommended reading order: Formula Fling | Formula Chance | Formula Freedom (Aug 2025)

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SINGLE DAD + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SECOND CHANCES + SMALL TOWN

Montgavin Township will never be the same when one night changes the lives of six people.
The course of their lives and the trajectory of the town sets them on a collision course for disaster.

Everleigh

One night changed my whole life.
After the truth about that night came out, I knew I had to leave.
Taking my broken heart with me.
I had no choice but to go back.
I knew it would slice me back open again.
But sometimes, the root of the flower you planted starts to grow again, no matter how many times you’ve cut them down.
He was my everything, and then he was my nothing.

Brock

My father taught me honor and integrity.
And in one split second, I ruined it all.
I lost everything I ever wanted.
But I had no choice.
I tried to go on with my life.
And the only good thing I had was my daughter.
Never expected to see the one woman who I’d loved and lost here again.
They say time heals old wounds.
They were wrong.
It just splits you open, making you bleed out.
I just have to survive again.

This is the third book in the Dream series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: Shattered Dreams | Forbidden Dreams | Buried Dreams | Stolen Dreams (May 2025) | Forgotten Dreams (Jul 2025)

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REGENCY ROMANCE

The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station. But Christopher’s pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family’s fortune and the Eden estate. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he isn’t attracted to women, his chances of making a wife happy are slim. Furthermore, if his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff.

Enter James Harding, Christopher’s new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet. After a rocky start, the two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship that threatens to shatter under the looming shadow of Christopher’s impending nuptials—and the secrets both men are keeping.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FAKE DATING + SMALL TOWN

Hazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer’s block. Having failed (and failed some more) to deliver her new manuscript, she’s hiding from the world behind a wall of old takeout containers until her publisher lays down the law. If she misses her next deadline it’s The End.

Desperate for inspiration, Hazel impulse-buys a historic home online and flees Manhattan to tiny Story Lake, PA. Upon her dramatic arrival—involving an incident with a bald eagle—she discovers the charm of her new home may have been slightlyexaggerated.

The house is a wreck and the town is struggling after their biggest employer shut down. Also, since her raccoon-infested home came with a seat on the town council our introverted heroine is stuck with a front row seat to all the small-town shenanigans.

But Hazel isn’t worried. Not since all six-feet-three inches of grouchy contractor Campbell Bishop slapped a bandage on her forehead and unintentionally inspired the heck out of her. There’s only one thing to do: Hire Cam and his equally gorgeous brothers to renovate her new spider museum…er…house.

Okay two things. A fake date for “research purposes” will really put her work-in-progress on track. Before Hazel knows it, she’s writing a romance novel and living one. At least until the drywall dust settles, the town she’s falling in love with faces bankruptcy, and growly Cam remembers why he can’t live happily ever after.

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Story Lake series.

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Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn’t sure they’re going to make it to twenty. The mother of two feels unneeded by her teenagers, and her writing career has screeched to an unsuccessful halt. Her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She’s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it’s as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce.

But before they even get to the second course, an underground climate activist group bursts into the dining room. Jane is shocked—and not just because she’s in a hostage situation the likes of which she’s only seen in the movies. Nearly everything the disorganized and bumbling activists say and do is right out of the pages of her failed book. Even Dan (who Jane wasn’t sure even read her book) admits it’s eerily familiar.

Which means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what’s going to happen next. And they’re the only ones who can stop it. This wasn’t what Jane was thinking of when she said “’til death do us part” all those years ago, but if they can survive this, maybe they can survive anything—even marriage.

This is a standalone novel.

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FANTASY ROMANCE

The only choice is surrender.

In my world, magic and danger go hand-in-hand. It has from my earliest memory. Magic was currency, and if you have it, you have power. I was shaped by some of the most influential Druids into a lethal weapon. Their weapon.

Until the night they betray me—and I wind up in the hands of my enemy.

He’s nothing but a job for me. To him, I’m the key to finding his father. Too bad I know nothing.

But right now, he’s the only thing keeping me alive, so I’ll do whatever it takes. Yet, if we’re going to survive, it means doing it together.

I’ve never allowed myself to care, to feel. To hope. He shows me a world that was always just out of reach, one I was never meant to be a part of—and a love that burns bright enough to scorch the earth.

Together, we will bring an empire to its knees.

This is the sixth 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 | After Midnight (Sep 2025)

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BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SECRET MARRIAGE + FORCED PROXIMITY + HOCKEY ROMANCE

Nothing has gone right since my brother’s new teammate entered my life.

Season one: I betrayed him.

Season two: a literal tornado almost ends it all for both of us.
(In my defense, I didn’t summon the tornado. I just happened to lead us to where it hit.)

Season three: I might have unleashed a stampede of teenage fangirls on him.
(Okay. I take full responsibility for this one.)

And season four…
That’s when things get complicated.

Hudson Wilde.
Star right wing for the Redville Saints.
Cocky, infuriating, and the bane of my existence.

Oh, and as of last night, my brand-new husband.

It was supposed to be a wild Vegas celebration for my brother’s hockey championship win.
Instead, I wake up with a splitting headache, a cheap ring on my finger, and my sworn nemesis pounding on my door.

Now, we’re stuck in a secret marriage until we can get it annulled.

These are the rules:
Pretend everything is normal around the team.
Avoid the media at all costs.

But the hardest rule of all?
Fighting the urge to turn “I do” into “forever.”

This is a standalone novel in the Saints Of Redville series.

Series recommended reading order: Sweet Collide | Twisted Collide | Beautiful Collide

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(SOON TO BE) STEPBROTHERS + FRIENDS TO LOVERS

Taylor

I’m the quiet one.
At a party, I’ll be sipping from my Solo cup, hanging by my much chattier best friend Brenner.
Easygoing, all smiles, and hot as hell, Brenner always has his pick of guy or girl by the end of the night.
I do fine, but I don’t trust easily, so he’s one of the few people who really knows me.
We do everything together—studying, playing video games, and occasionally, ridiculous dares.
Like this latest dare.
I’ve always considered myself straight, but recently, I’ve been curious.
And what better way to explore this uncharted territory than with my bi bestie, who, given his long list of satisfied hookups, I know will do the job right.
I expected it to be good.
I wasn’t prepared for how it would leave me hungry for so much more, needing Bren to show me what I’ve been missing out on.
What is it they say? It’s always the quiet ones…

Brenner

What’s that saying…never met a stranger?
That’s me. I’ll talk to anyone, anytime.
It’s how Taylor and I became friends, and I’m thankful for that every day.
He’s my chill, zero-effs-given, video-game-loving bestie.
Whom I’m now hooking up with.
It’s just fun, but then our parents drop the bomb on us that they’ve been secretly dating.
Oh, and they’re in love and getting married in just a few months’ time.
As hot as the idea of him being my stepbro is, we agree we should stop our little…extracurriculars…because what if it comes between our parents?
But keeping our hands to ourselves proves easier said than done.
I’ve become addicted to Taylor, and he to me.
What our parents don’t know won’t hurt them, right? And it’s not like this means anything.
Only…the more we mess around, the more I realize it does.
What started out as just a good time has become so much more, but with everything that’s at stake, do we stop now, or do we dare take a chance on what’s happening between us?

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

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MAFIA ROMANCE + SECRET BABY + FORCED PROXIMITY + SECOND CHANCES

Ava

Four years ago, I thought I had escaped the dangerous allure of Dare Kavanaugh, a man with a gaze that could ignite flames. That night when he swooped in and saved me from danger on the dance floor at one of his co-owned clubs, it was supposed to be just a casual fling. Our passionate weekend left me breathless, but the revelation of his ties to the Irish mafia sent me running. I vowed never to see him again, but fate had other plans. Now, with an unhinged ex on my tail, and when restraining orders did nothing to stop him, I was forced to seek Dare’s help—the only person who could protect me. Seeing Dare again awakened my buried feelings. But even if I trusted him with my life, I feared unveiling the secret that I’d kept from him would fuel his hatred for me.

Dare

For four years, Ava’s memory lingered like a haunting melody. So when she showed up at my club asking for help, my first instinct was anger that she had kept her distance all this time. But hearing about her stalker ex, I knew I had to keep her safe, even if it meant separating my personal feelings. After unexpectedly dropping by her house, I discovered a revelation that shattered my world—our little rendezvous had left more than just sparks. To safeguard my newfound family, I had no choice but to marry Ava, binding her to the protection of the Irish mafia.

As alliances shift and enemies close in, will our forced union become the key to our salvation, or will it lead to our ultimate destruction?

This is a standalone novel in The Irish Rogues series.

Series recommended reading order: Poison and Wine | Dust to Dust | Fix You | Safe and Sound

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FANGIRL/PLAYER + HOCKEY ROMANCE

I didn’t mean to roast Gio Montagalo, goalie and crown jewel of The Houston Baddies hockey team. Honestly, I was screaming at the TV in a sports bar like any self-respecting sports junkie does when their team is on a losing streak! So when his twin sister sidles up on the stool beside me, laughing at my commentary, I figured I’d made a fan, too. What I didn’t expect? For her brother—the guy I called “a flashy ice peacock with the reflexes of a sloth”—to hear about it.

Yikes. What were the odds?!

Next thing I know, Gio is in my DMs with a challenge: “Hold up a sassy sign at my game and hit me with your best shot. Roast me in front of everyone.” For him, it’s fun. For me, it’s humiliating. But I did it. Glitter included. And because the universe thrives on chaos, the Baddies won.

Now Gio thinks I’m his good luck charm, begging me to show up with more signs. He also wants to see me—off the ice.

What does a hot, hockey hunk want with a bookish girlie like me?

I try to keep my distance. Mostly.

Soon, Gio is showing up at my job for swoony kisses and trying to charm my dog—also named Gio—and failing because my dog hates him at first sight. I wonder if this whole “lucky charm” thing has less to do with hockey and more to do with the overwhelming, undeniable pull I feel toward him. Or maybe it’s fate’s way of showing me that sometimes, the guy you roast on national TV can be the one you accidentally fall for.

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Houston Baddies series.

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SPORTS ROMANCE

The world loves Maverick Houston. Me? I’ve hated him since we were ten.

It’s not exactly easy to escape your childhood nemesis when your parents are best friends who live on the same block. Through countless vacations, parties and holidays, Maverick and I have spent the past decade trading insults.

Until that family dinner when his mother tells us she’s dying. When she asks us to forget the past and start fresh. That’s how I found myself on a date with the Treasure State Wildcats football star. The campus playboy. The boy I kissed when I was three. The man who is the bane of my existence.

He’s arrogant. He’s blunt. He’s too handsome for his own good. But if he has a single, redeeming merit, the guy sure does love his mom. And that’s why I started fake dating Maverick Houston. That’s why I made him a proposition of my own. That’s how this sham of a relationship ruined my life.

The world loves Maverick Houston. Me? I hate that he made me love him too.

This is a standalone novel in the Treasure State Wildcats series.

Series recommended reading order: Coach | Blitz | Rally | Merit

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