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FRIENDS TO LOVERS + FORCED PROXIMITY + SHE FALLS FIRST + REFORMED PLAYBOY + FORBIDDEN SUMMER ROMANCE

After a brutal breakup, college junior Blake Logan escapes to her family’s lake house in Tahoe, determined to shut out the world. Her plan is simple: no men, no drama. Until Wyatt Graham shows up. Four years older and far too good at getting under her skin, Wyatt is the living embodiment of a “bad idea,” and the guy who shattered her pride when she confessed her crush at sixteen.

With his music career stalled, Wyatt has come to Tahoe for inspiration. The last thing he expects is to find it with Blake. He’s spent years keeping his distance, convinced he’s all wrong for her, but she’s no longer the innocent girl he once knew. She’s confident, captivating, and impossible to ignore. And the slow-burning tension between them? It’s catching fire fast.

They both know this can’t last, but one reckless kiss turns into another, and soon they’re tangled in something that feels dangerously like more. Just as they finally give in to the pull, tragedy tears them apart, leaving their hearts in pieces.

But forgetting that one, nearly perfect summer? Not a chance. And when fate brings them together again, Blake and Wyatt must decide if this is a second chance…or the final verse.

This is a standalone novel set in the Briar U and Campus Diaries worlds.

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SECRET BABY + TEAM OWNER’S DAUGHTER + SECOND CHANCES + PRO FOOTBALL ROMANCE

She vanished, but I’ve never stopped wanting her.
And now I’m back … for everything.

Two years ago, the woman I had a holiday fling with—and wanted to keep— disappeared from my life. There was no goodbye or explanation. Just gone.

So, I buried myself in football, training, and trophies. In anything that kept me from thinking about her. But it never worked.

It feels like kismet when I get traded to the New York Titans and the woman I’ve spent years looking for is none other than the owner’s daughter and one of my new bosses, Alie Grant. I should keep my distance. But every heated glance across the locker room hallway, every whispered conversation behind closed doors, and every time she looks at me like I’m hers … I lose control.

She tells me we shouldn’t do this.
I tell her I don’t care.
Because when she’s in my arms, nothing else exists.

What I don’t know is …
She’s been hiding more than her heart, and she’s been raising my daughter alone. Because the man she trusted most lied to her. He wanted her for himself.

When everything comes out, I’ll fight for the future that was stolen from us. For her and my daughter. A little girl with my eyes and smile.

Because this time … I’m not letting her walk away. This time, I’m keeping them both.

This is the first book in the all-new Gridiron Legacy series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: The Trade | The Pact (22 May) | The Secret (24 Jul)

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MMF + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE/LIGHTNING + MOTORCYCLE CLUB ROMANCE

Isla
I wanted to be loved by a biker with my whole heart, but all they ever took was my body.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognizing the woman I’d become.
Inheriting my Nanna’s rundown house is the fresh start I need.
A life away from the club. Away from men who only ever take.
So the last thing I need is Jackal and Shade moving into the only other house on the street…and offering me more than just help with renovations.

Shade
I’ve never thought I was worth loving.
I’m grumpy, withdrawn, and come with baggage.
Jackal saw through all that and loved me anyway. For me, he chose monogamy.
Men like me don’t get one great love, let alone two.
But I’m looking at Isla differently now…and wondering if there’s a way to love her without destroying what we’ve built.

Jackal
I fell in love with Shade the day I met him, even though he had no intention of loving me back.
He wanted monogamy, and he was worth the sacrifice.
But now he’s looking at Isla the same way I am.
And I can’t stop imagining a life where the three of us choose each other.

Until violence hits, and we don’t know which of us is the target.
We’ve been given the kind of love you only dare to hope for.
And we’ll burn the world down to protect it.

This is a standalone novel in the Iron Outlaws MC Colorado series, a spin-off from the Iron Outlaws MC series.

Series recommended reading order: The Grief We Hold | The Oath We Take | The Fire We Crave | The Heart We Guard | The Trust We Broke | The Touch We Seek | The Hope We Dare

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SINGLE DAD/NANNY + SMALL TOWN + BASEBALL ROMANCE

Brooks Callahan is a star on the diamond. But when it comes to parenting an infant, he’s in over his head. Good thing I know a thing or two about being a nanny.

When my marriage blew up, my life was on the verge of spiraling. As a single mom of toddler twins with zero job prospects, I wasn’t sure how I was going to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table without living with my dysfunctional parents. But when my sister’s boyfriend gives my number to one of his teammates, talking up my nannying skills, I’m suddenly thrown a life raft. All I need to do is keep things professional.

So what if my new employer looks great with his shirt off. And has blue eyes that literally reflect an ocean of possibilities. And stares at me with enough heat to melt a glacier.

Brooks Callahan might be the best Sweetwater Mavericks player I’ve ever seen step up to the plate. But for him, baseball isn’t just a passion—it’s his path to survival. Our late-night talks give me a glimpse into every struggle he’s overcome to get here, and just as he thought his dream was crashing to an end, I show up and buy him an extra inning.

When lines start to blur and quiet moments turn into temptations too hot to ignore, the careful balance of our situation starts to feel shaky. My heart was broken not long ago. And Brooks has kept his on ice for years.

Could this sweet baby girl with eyes bluer than her daddy’s be an angel of second chances? And is this love we’re feeling real, or just the figment of our sleep-deprived imaginations?

This is a standalone novel in The Boys of Sweetwater Springs series.

Series recommended reading order: Easy Tiger | Hey There Slugger

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ALPHA MALE/PRIEST + SECRET ROMANCE + FORBIDDEN + BILLIONAIRE + FRIENDS TO LOVERS

He hears my confessions.
Now he can’t unhear them.

I keep showing up to church.
I don’t speak. I don’t confess. I just sit there—close enough to remember what it felt like to be his.

Father Rafael Vitale thinks he can keep this professional.
Measured. Contained. Holy.

I’m none of those things.

I’m Alessio Trentacapelli—the technocrat of the Park Avenue Kings. I live in shadows, break systems, and protect my brothers at any cost. I still believe in God. I just don’t forgive Him for demanding the man I love.

Rafael is discipline and devotion.
I’m want and resentment and everything he was never supposed to crave.

We were boys together. Then lovers.
Then nothing we were allowed to keep.

Now we’re orbiting each other again behind a confessional screen—through silence, ritual, and everything we refuse to say out loud. Every look lingers. Every boundary bends. And every time he tells me no, it hurts worse than the last.

Because the priest with the steady hands and the quiet voice?
He remembers me.

And then we cross a line we both know by heart.

If he makes me choose between losing him again…
or giving in to something we can’t take back—

I already know which sin I’ll commit.

This is a standalone novel in the Park Avenue Kings series.

Series recommended reading order: Savage | Devilish | Immoral | Merciless | Ruthless | Unholy

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BEST FRIENDS TO LOVERS + FORCED PROXIMITY + FIREFIGHTERS + SMALL TOWN

Falling in love with my straight best friend? Tragically inevitable.
Telling him? Completely out of the question.

Everyone in Winsome knows Robbie and I are a matched set. A package deal. Ames and Robbie, Robbie and Ames.

He’s the calm to my chaos. The sun shining through my rain cloud. The guy who convinced me to be a firefighter. The man who’s known every single thing about me since we were thirteen…

Except for the teeny, tiny, inconsequential fact that I’ve been in love with him for years.

I planned to take this secret to the grave. Robbie’s straight. He’s engaged. And I’m finally–finally–ready to move on.

But one uncontrollable blaze, one daring rescue, one inconvenient injury, and one heavily-medicated, wildly inappropriate love confession later, my plan’s up in flames.

Suddenly helpful, perfect, shirtless Robbie is bathing me, dressing me, and nursing me back to health. And if being around my gorgeous bestie 24/7 wasn’t torture enough, it seems I’m not the only one having un-platonic thoughts.

But there’s no way I’m letting myself fall into the fantasy again. Because if I let myself believe this is real and it isn’t, it won’t just break my heart… it’ll break us.

And I refuse to risk our friendship, no matter how tempting the man’s hot axe might be.

This is a standalone novel in the Axford Brothers series.

Series recommended reading order: Kiss My Axe | Hot Axe | Axe Backwards (Feb 2027)

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + FAKE DATING + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FORCED PROXIMITY

When the maid of honor and the best man fabricate a romance to keep the peace, the only thing they can’t fake are the sparks.

Lucy Jones is tired of being the “other sister.” Elizabeth is the golden child—beautiful, serene, and engaged to the perfect man. Lucy? She’s thirty, single, and still dodging her mother’s digs about how she never quite measures up. But when Elizabeth names Lucy as her maid of honor, she vows her sister’s wedding will be her grand rebrand. She’ll prove she’s polished, sophisticated, and totally in control.

Enter Hunter Bain. Best man. Business bro. Walking scowl emoji. Also the rudest, most aggravating man Lucy has ever met—and her new partner in planning the joint bachelor/bachelorette weekend. Fantastic. Because nothing says “reinvent yourself” like clashing with a man who thinks party planning is beneath him.

From drunken disasters to shenanigans on Martha’s Vineyard, Lucy and Hunter can’t stop butting heads. Until one impulsive lie forces them to pretend they’re dating. It’s supposed to be temporary. It’s supposed to be fake. But every lingering glance, every stolen kiss, every unexpected laugh makes it harder to remember what’s real and what’s not.

This is a standalone novel.

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HISTORICAL ROMANCE

In Nazi-occupied Belgium, an ordinary merchant ship docks at Antwerp. Hidden deep in its hold lies a mysterious cargo—something the Germans must never find.

To stop it from falling into enemy hands, the U.S. Army dispatches a covert unit drawn from the survivors of D-Day, a hardened team of specialists sent to parachute behind enemy lines and secure the shipment before it’s too late. The soldiers are prepared for anything . . . except what they find: their only allies on the ground are a partisan cell made up entirely of women.

Thrown together in the crucible of war, this unlikely band of brothers—defiant, reckless, brave—must put aside their differences to stop the desperate Nazis from a diabolical plan that could deliver the Germans their ultimate victory.

Leading the partisans is Charlie, a steely Belgian fighter who meets her match in Fletcher, a brilliant American lieutenant determined to see the mission through—no matter the cost. Alongside them is the lethal and charismatic Rafael, made defenseless by the dazzling and complicated Louise. With help from a Congolese colonial officer and a ten-year-old Jewish boy—both marked for death—they are all that stands between a world turning to peace and a world reduced to ashes . . .

This is a standalone novel.

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SECRET IDENTITY + HEIRESS IN DISGUISE + FORCED PROXIMITY + ROOMMATES TO LOVERS + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SMALL TOWN

If I’d known a tall, broad mountain of a man would crash the one-bedroom cabin I’m borrowing, I might have handled things differently.

I still would’ve lied to him. He doesn’t need to know all of my reasons for wanting to meet my surprise triplet half brothers while undercover as a housekeeper.

But if I’d known I was going to have a surprise roommate, I wouldn’t have rigged a homemade security system in the cabin that left him…erm… Let’s just call it easy to spot in a crowd.

And he wouldn’t have tried to blackmail me when he figured out my real identity.

And I wouldn’t have been so attracted to his audacity that I started looking deeper at the wounded man beneath the gruff exterior.

And then we wouldn’t be here, with him making me scream his name for all of the good reasons every night.

But I can’t keep faking Cinderella forever, and when it’s time for me to come clean, he’ll have to choose—loyalty to my half brothers or belief in me and the noble reason for the long game I’ve been playing.

This is a standalone novel in the Small Town Sisterhood series.

Series recommended reading order: The Spite Date | The Grumpiest Billionaire | Faking Cinderella

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HISTORICAL ROMANCE

For sale: Greek cottage. One euro.

Skye MacKinnon is desperate for an escape. When she wins a lottery to buy a run-down cottage on a Greek island for only one euro, Skye jumps at the chance to get out of England and start over. As she unlocks the tattered blue door of her whitewashed new cottage, the sun-kissed sea glinting in the bay outside her windows, Skye immediately feels like she’s found her true home.

Skye and the other lottery winners—the first residents in these houses since the 1940s—form a tight-knit group, finding in one another the strong relationships they’d been missing in their own lives. When Skye and local contractor Andreas find a set of mysterious letters, they begin to unravel the history of the prior residents, and the truth about life on Folegandros during World War II.

This is a standalone novel.

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FIREFIGHTER + HE FALLS FIRST + SURPRISE PREGNANCY + SMALL TOWN

It all started with a bee sting, and ended with a firefighter who changed everything.

When a bee sting sends me into a near-anaphylactic shock, I crash into a boulder. Enter Kincaid Greene — rugged, swoon-worthy hotshot firefighter, all calm strength, quiet confidence and my unexpected hero. Even in my dazed, half-conscious state, my hormones take notice. Extra points: my dog instantly adores him.

Kincaid is the kind of small-town hero who falls hard and doesn’t hesitate. Protective, loyal, and determined to win my heart one slow, sizzling kiss at a time. He’s not afraid of the trust issues I’ve built brick by brick. But trusting a man like him—one who burns this hot—feels like playing with fire.

Too bad my heart doesn’t get the memo.

What starts as a slow burn turns into chemistry that smolders. Every touch feels like striking a match with an emotional pull we can’t ignore.

This is a standalone novel in the Wild Fire series.

Series recommended reading order: All The Afters | When We Dare | Fake It True | Only Ever You | Just For Us

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FORBIDDEN + SECRET ROMANCE + AGE GAP

While my parents search for my future wife, a pretty painter arrives at the palace and ruins everything in the best possible way…

I’m the crown prince and tabloid regular who couldn’t find a bride by thirty-five so now my fate is being decided for me. As the palace fills with eligible princesses, Addison Cross shows up to compete for the esteemed royal artist position. I never thought I’d see her again.

There are too many reasons why she needs to leave. Her being my friend’s little sister is close to the top. Plus, I’ll be engaged any day now with a wedding and child not far behind. The timing is terrible and we’re both off-limits. It’s trouble in the making, but that doesn’t stop us.

We break every rule to be together. We sneak out at midnight, steal moments in corridors, and choose each other in secret as everyone around me plans a marriage I don’t want. Now I’m hiding a forbidden affair from those who control my future while falling for the one woman I can never have.

This is a standalone novel in the Billionaire Situation series.

Series recommended reading order: The Wife Situation | The Friend Situation | The Boss Situation | The Bodyguard Situation | The Hookup Situation | The Hockey Situation | The Royal Situation

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Love is brewing as a barista falls for a reclusive artist struggling with the tragic aftermath of an accident…

Audrey Adams knows the exact routine for all her regular customers. That’s what happens when you work at the same Brooklyn coffee shop for years. So it’s completely normal that she notices Theo Sullivan, a shy new patron who comes in at exactly 8:17 a.m., right? And that this incredibly tall (and cute) man never drinks his coffee, always leaves a generous tip, only stays long enough to scribble in a notebook, and wears the same KN95 mask. Call it barista instincts or a reasonable reaction to Theo’s undeniable sweetness, but Audrey is crushing hard.

Eagerly anticipating Theo’s visits, Audrey relishes the precious few minutes they chat every time he orders his large, extra-hot Americano. When an incident reveals the horrific facial scar he’s hiding beneath his mask, Theo flees the café in shame, dropping his sketchbook and leaving a part of his broken heart behind.

Audrey decides to find Theo, return his book, and confess her feelings. Before long, they’re inseparable, talking nonstop and meeting up for dates at the coffee shop.

But Theo is reluctant to fully let Audrey into his heart. He continues to hide his scar and refuses to talk about his past. Their feelings are bubbling under the surface, but will Theo—and the truth behind his accident—keep him from finding the love they’ve both been longing for?

This is a standalone novel.

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BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND + ONE NIGHT STAND + HE FALLS FIRST + SECRET ROMANCE + BOSS/EMPLOYEE + SMALL TOWN

I had the best night of my life with a stranger on Halloween.

No names.
No numbers.
No complications.
Perfect.

Until I walk into my parents’ kitchen on Thanksgiving and discover that stranger is actually my brother’s best friend…
and my brand-new boss.

Now we’re stuck in the same small town, working together, and pretending that night meant nothing.

At least I am. Or, I’m trying to anyway.

Everett says that’s impossible.
He says what we had wasn’t just a fling.
He says we can’t ignore the chemistry that nearly burned down the hotel.

I say sleeping with my boss is a terrible idea.

But Everett is determined to prove our one-night stand should have been the beginning.

And the more time we spend together, the more I think…he might be right.

This is a standalone novel in the Sapphire Falls Next Generation series, a spin-off from the Sapphire Falls series.

Series recommended reading other: Make Her Mine | Making It Up | Making It Happen

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SECOND CHANCES + SNOWED IN

He’s the last man she ever wanted to see again—or get snowed in with. It’s going to be a rocky reunion…

For Lily, falling in love with her childhood friend Walker was the easiest thing to do back in high school. His sudden rejection was unforgettably crushing.

Seven years later, their families have conspired to bring them back together at a cabin in the Rockies when a sudden snowstorm traps them overnight with no power.

Thanks to a cozy fire, a prowling bear, and a little forced time in an open-air gondola, they confront their unresolved feelings—and a past more complicated than Lily knows.

This is a standalone short story.

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