NBJ WEEKLY RECAP

NEW RELEASES

✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATION | SECOND CHANCES + ALPHA HERO + FOUND FAMILY

Luna Nelson and Knox Chambers fell together fast, and they did it hard. It was so big, so special, they wanted it just for themselves and kept it a secret from their found family: the Avenging Angels and the Hottie Squad.

They both knew this was it. Together forever.

What Luna didn’t know was that Knox had secrets.

Secrets that tore them apart.

But when Knox asked for them to continue being friends—for the sake of their crew, and so he wouldn’t lose her—Luna loved him enough to say yes. Yes to the torture of being in the life of a man who was the love of hers, but he let her go.

Then, Knox gets shot. He gets shot not because he’s got a dangerous job (which he does), but because his family is an absolute mess.

With the man who means everything to her recuperating, Luna can’t keep away.

While Luna tries to keep the Angels safe from interfering in Knox’s family’s criminal enterprises, she and Knox circle each other, drawing a different kind of blood.

Will Knox continue to keep his secrets?

And will both of them be safe in the Chambers Family Feud?

This is the fifth book in the Avenging Angels series of standalone novels with interconnected characters. This is a continuation/next generation of the Rock Chick series. The Nightingale Investigations & Security team is expanding. Their new branch is in Phoenix, and beloved characters we know, as well as new family we’ll gather along the way, participate in hijinks in the Valley of the Sun.

Series recommended reading order: Avenging Angel | Avenging Angels: Back in the Saddle | Avenging Angels: Tenderfoot | Avenging Angels: Bad Medicine | Avenging Angels: A Lick and A Promise | Avenging Angels: Ambush (TBA)

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✭ NBJ TOP RECOMMENDATION | SECOND CHANCES + FORBIDDEN LOVE + SINGLE MUM + FORCED PROXIMITY + SMALL TOWN

Emery McAllister once dreamed of leaving Cold River with the boy next door, but one devastating night destroyed their future and left her heart carefully guarded. Twenty years later, she’s built a life of control: running the town’s police detachment, raising her daughter, and keeping a fragile peace with her ex-husband, the mayor.

She’s certain she has moved on until the day she has dreaded—and secretly hoped for—finally arrives.

Logan Landry is home.

After two decades behind bars for being in the wrong place at the wrong time—and the choices that haunted him ever since—Logan returns to his family’s bison ranch carrying the weight of everything he lost, but especially Emery. Friendship is all he dares hope for now, but seeing her ignites a fire he thought long extinguished.

When a teenage girl disappears and old wounds reopen, Logan becomes Cold River’s favorite suspect, despite his airtight alibi. As distrust closes in, Emery must choose between the life she’s built … and the love she can’t let go.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SMALL TOWN + MYTHOLOGY MEETS MODERN WORLD + PARANORMAL ROMANCE

Hope is a dangerous thing for gods. Even former ones.

Hayden Harlow, once the mighty Hades, has spent centuries quietly resenting his fall from immortality. Stripped of his godhood by the allegedly irreversible Immortal Retirement Act, he now runs Harlow and Sons Funeral Home—a front for his eternal sentencing among mortals, and a bleak reminder of the purpose he’s lost. Still, he’s determined to claw his way back…if only the Fates at City Hall would stop toying with him.

Enter Levi Wilder: a florist with an artist’s heart, an infectious smile, and a gift for finding beauty in life’s messiest moments. When Hayden storms into Levi’s shop to complain about a bouquet of sunflowers—an offensive choice for a funeral, in his opinion—their worlds collide. Hayden is all restraint and shadows; Levi is all sunshine and charm. But beneath the clash lies an undeniable spark neither can ignore.

As their connection blossoms, Hayden finds himself caught between the life he once knew and the bright future Levi dares him to imagine. But trusting Levi means risking the walls he’s kept in place all these years—and it’s not just his heart on the line. Because in the threads of fate, one choice can change everything.

This is a standalone novel.

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COWBOY + FAKE DATING + FORCED PROXIMITY

A heartbroken romance novelist is forced to address her writer’s block when the villainous cowboy character from her books shows up in the real world, desperately in need of his own Happily Ever After. . .

Gertie Bickerstaff writes happily-ever-afters for a living. . . . Or she did, until her own love life fell apart. Now her ex is thriving, her deadline is looming, and she can’t write a single word.

The last thing Gertie needs is more drama—like waking up to find a confused and rugged cowboy on her sofa. And not just any cowboy, but River Oakley, the villain from her unfinished novel. Somehow very real . . . and very shirtless.

River wants to go home. Gertie wants her life back. So they strike a deal: he’ll use his cunning ways to help her win back her ex, she’ll finish the novel, and, surely, he’ll return to whatever world he rode in from.

But as River Oakley proves to be so much more than just the bad guy, Gertie has to choose: the ending she thought she wanted . . . or the plot twist she never saw coming.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + AGE GAP + FAKE DATING + ONLY ONE BED + TRAVEL ROMANCE

A party girl and a grumpy British CEO fake a dream European honeymoon for a reality TV show that could save their travel agency—and give them both a new lease on life (and love)—if only they’d take the chance.

Rebecca “Bex” Daniels has just lost her entire family in a freak train accident, leaving her completely alone in the world and responsible for their travel agency. Only a few months after the tragedy, her father’s UK partner, the straitlaced Theo Porter, reveals that the business is about to go under. Their only hope? A reality TV deal brokered before her father’s death . . . with a rebrand: Bex and Theo are to pose as newlyweds, exploring the world on an extended honeymoon.

Bex and Theo couldn’t be more different—but though they initially clash, Bex soon discovers he’s amusing, protective, and kind, the sort of man she’d want to be married to in real life, if she thought for a second she deserved him. As for Theo, he can’t help but be swept up into the brilliant whirlwind that is Bex, but ever since his brother died, a real relationship is the last thing he wants.

As Bex and Theo flit across Europe, from Capri to Paris, exploring sun-drenched villas and remote fjords, they can’t help but notice their walls coming down, and their arguments begin to feel a lot more like foreplay than fighting. But they each carry around more than enough emotional baggage, and they’ll have to contend with public scandals and crushing grief before they can decide if they’re ready to ride off into the sunset once the cameras stop rolling.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND + FORCED PROXIMITY + FORBIDDEN LOVE + SECOND CHANCES + ONLY ONE BED

Two childhood neighbors, connected by a shared tragedy, unexpectedly reunite to ghostwrite a love story for a reclusive author. Spending the summer at her secluded Hamptons estate, they soon discover that dozens of classic romance tropes, including the ones they’re crafting on page, are mysteriously playing out in real life.

Katie Caruso is a completely normal twenty-five-year-old girl. At least, for the past eight years, she’s tried to be. She likes glitter and sequins and flirting with cute boys at New York City bars. She’s also a ghostwriter for Meredith Bradford, the bestselling romance novelist of all time. But then Tyler McNally walks back into Katie’s life, and that bedazzled facade crumbles at her platform-sneakered feet.

Katie and Tyler haven’t seen or spoken to each other since the overdose death of Katie’s older brother, a standout MLB pitching prospect. Tyler was her brother’s best friend, and Katie—naturally—was the girl next door. But now, Tyler is a sleeve-tattooed, Ivy League–educated aspiring literary fiction novelist, nine years sober . . . and Katie’s writing partner for the summer.

As genre conventions require, Katie and Tyler soon find themselves removed from Manhattan and instead writing their love story in “forced proximity” at Meredith’s isolated Southampton home. As the summer unfolds, the tropes Katie and Tyler have written into their novel begin to play out in their own lives. Call it destiny, fate, or magic itself: it’s clear their love story isn’t finished. This time, though, they’ll work through the pain that tore them apart—and fight for their happy ending.

This is a standalone novel.

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AGE GAP + FATHER’S BEST FRIEND + FORBIDDEN ROMANCE

He’s my father’s best friend. My protector. My forbidden obsession.

For as long as I can remember, Kittredge Evers has been my anchor—the powerful CEO who never let me down, the man who called me Magpie and filled my childhood with treasures. My father’s best friend. But when one drunken confession shattered our careful boundaries, I learned how dangerous it was to want him.

Ten years later, I’m grown. I’m no longer the sweet kid he swore to protect—I’m a man with desires of my own. And Kit? He’s still the most compelling man I’ve ever known. Stern, gorgeous, untouchable… and the one person I can’t seem to let go.

Every stolen glance and slip of the tongue drags us closer to the line we swore we’d never cross. But once we do? There’s no turning back.

This is a standalone novella.

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BILLIONAIRE + SINGLE DAD + HE FALLS HARDER

Thirty-six, and somehow I’d become the supporting character in everyone else’s love story.

I never left my village in England except for university. Never took the risk. Then one phone call from New York and one piece of news I couldn’t outrun sent me across an ocean for a three-month trial at Hotel on Ninth Street. And my one shot at finally starring in my own life.

I lasted exactly six minutes before a gorgeous, glowering stranger slammed into me, drenched my shirt in coffee, and stalked off without so much as sorry.

Of course Deacon Black is the hotel’s most important guest.

Of course he’s there every week.

And of course he’s a fiercely protective single dad whose entire life is built around never letting anything — or anyone — shake his daughter’s world.

I’m leaving in three months. He doesn’t do temporary. Falling for him is the worst possible use of my brand-new fresh start.
So why does it feel like walking away is the biggest risk of all?

This is a standalone novel.

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SECRET RELATIONSHIP + BROTHER’S EX + SPORTS ROMANCE

Lucas

To my dad, Hunter King is a football prodigy destined for greatness.

The son he always wanted.

To me, Hunter King is the guy I’ve loved most of my life.

The guy who happens to be my dead brother’s boyfriend.

We were kids when Hunter came into our lives—the boy with the skill my brother didn’t have and the drive I lacked. The one who was always kind to me, who cared about my photography when, to my dad, it was a hobby, not worth anyone’s time.

Looking at the world through the lens of my camera is the only thing I’ve ever wanted.

Other than Hunter King.

Hunter

I would be nothing without the Blakes. Coach Blake nurtured my football talent from high school through college and now professionally. For all intents and purposes, he was my father. And when I started dating his son Ellis, it felt like I truly became part of the family.

But since Ellis died, nothing feels right anymore—not even the game I’ve always loved.

Until Lucas walks back into my life.

With each lingering touch, I feel sensation returning. Every kiss breathes air into my lungs. And for the first time in three years, it feels like my heart starts beating again.

But with every embrace, I’m betraying Ellis’s memory. The media, my team, Coach Blake will all condemn me. I’ll no longer be their Comeback King. I’ll be the man who is sleeping with his dead boyfriend’s brother.

Yet none of it is enough to make me stop.

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Necessary Roughness series.

Series recommended reading order: The Comeback King | The Lockdown Mann (Dec 2026)

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + SINGLE DAD + SMALL TOWN + MOTORCYCLE CLUB ROMANCE

It was a terrible idea to agree to protect my enemy’s sister…
The second she stepped out of her brother’s car, I knew she was a wildfire.
Spitting mad and so stunning she stole my breath.
She thinks her brother made a deal with the devil, and by working for me, she’s paying off his debt.

She doesn’t know the real reason she’s here.
Doesn’t know the danger that surrounds her.
Soon, she realizes there is something sinister lurking in the shadows.

She hates me for keeping her in the dark.
I want to hate her back, but with every sassy thing that fires from her mouth, she gets deeper under my skin.
With each heated glance, I feel myself losing control.
And when I crawl into bed with her, I combust.

I know better than thinking I can keep her. My life is nothing but secrets and peril.
But as outside threats begin to infiltrate, I’ll do anything to keep the oath I made to keep her safe.
Even expose her to the monster that I am…

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Crimson Crows series.

Series recommended reading order: Forged in the Fire | Carved in the Shadows (Oct 2026) | Etched in the Ruins (Feb 2027)

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FORBIDDEN + WORKPLACE + SMALL TOWN + FORCED PROXIMITY

I absolutely should not be attracted to my boss.

I’m living on Tucker Hendrix’s ranch for the next year as a veterinary intern. But imagine my surprise when I walk onto the property on my first day and recognize the owner.

He’s the mysterious customer I used to flirt with at the diner all those years ago.

Now, the chemistry is hotter than ever, and all I can think about is his muscles and the fact that none of my scars bother him.

He’s seen everything that no one else has, and he’s not running away from me, or the fact that I’m a Lexington sister and we come from a monster.

In fact, for the first time in my life, a man is patient, gentle, and treats me like I’m the most important thing in his universe. Like he can’t live without me.

Like my scars aren’t the failure of a lifetime.

I’m starting to see a life for myself here with this man, on this gorgeous Montana ranch. His family has welcomed me into the fold as if it were a foregone conclusion.

But someone is hell bent on hurting me and making sure I don’t get the happy life I’ve worked so hard for.

Will they succeed? Or will Tucker and I come out the other side stronger than ever?

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Silver Springs series.

Series recommended reading order: Pretty Little Scars | What About Us (Sep 2026) | All I Know (Dec 2026) | Written in the Stars (Mar 2027)

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Diana never hoped for connection, nor attention—especially given her wild, dysfunctional upbringing—but when both happen, she’ll have to figure out how to survive all the good and bad those bring.

I never meant to become an influencer. Ugh, that word even makes me grimace. It started with a few restaurant reviews for cute local spots, then suddenly it snowballed into a career. Now I’m recognized nearly any time that I stop for even a quick bite. My long red hair doesn’t exactly make me inconspicuous, but I love my Boston restaurants, and so I’ve learned to roll with the attention.

While I might have millions of followers, I can count the number of true friends I have on one hand. If even that. Most of my connections feel more like business deals. Sponsors often ask to send me on luxury trips, but I usually refuse, as it feels crazy unjustified and humbling. And strangely lonely.

Until I accept a trip to Puerto Rico. And until I meet Dave while there in paradise. Both are all kinds of perfection, both temporary in my life, but I’ll gladly take them for the time being.

Vacation hangovers are never fun, but the trifecta of traumas that I return home to weren’t on my Bingo card, nor are they things I know how to handle. Not in the moment, nor during the hard rain that deluges me after they’ve hit.

As refuge, Dave lets me hide away in his adorable cottage in Maine, and while he seems determined to help me heal, it turns out that he needs me, as well.

Maybe together, we won’t drown in our rainstorms.

This is a standalone novel.

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SMALL TOWN + DARK PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

Now with two girls gone missing, she’s pulled back into a deadly game she may not survive.

Jillian Thorne built her career making the unreal feel real.
On Hollywood soundstages, she stages murder, kidnapping, and violent crime with chilling authenticity—turning fiction into gripping entertainment.

But nothing she’s created compares to the truth waiting in Blue Gil.

Nearly six years after escaping her small hometown, Jillian is drawn back by the suspicious death of the town’s beloved high school football coach. What first appears to be a tragic loss quickly unravels into something far more sinister—a dark mystery no one is willing to confront.

Because in Blue Gil, secrets aren’t just buried… they’re protected.

As disturbing clues surface and a brutal tragedy strikes dangerously close to home, Jillian finds herself trapped inside a real-life psychological thriller. The instincts that made her successful in Hollywood may be the key to solving the crime—or the very thing clouding her judgment.

Everyone in this small town is hiding something.
Including Jillian.

To uncover the truth, she must break through an unspoken code of silence, deception, and loyalty—and face the past she thought she left behind. Because some secrets refuse to stay buried.

And in this twisted game of suspense, trusting the wrong person could be deadly.

This is a standalone novel in the Crime Daily Podcast series.

Series recommended reading order: Fear of Flames | Rising Waters

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + RIVAL FAMILIES + FORBIDDEN + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SINGLE DAD + SMALL TOWN

Tristan Stone is off limits.

It doesn’t matter that the grumpy, single dad did nothing wrong. He’s a cowboy and his last name means I’m bound by blood to hate him. My family would never be okay with me having feelings for our enemy.

When he stops—in the pouring rain—because I have a flat tire, the last thing I expect is for him to help me.

I do my best to ignore the water sliding off his hat and how he fills out those jeans. My best, however, is not good enough. Each night I close my eyes and dream of a future we can never have. And after he defends me at the bar and we share a magical dance? It only gets worse.

I know I should forget about him, but when I find him alone one night, I offer up a no-strings attached relationship that we both promise to keep secret. Sidelong glances across property lines morph into clandestine meetings under the stars wrapped up in each other’s arms.

Never mind that our families will never approve or that he told me he can never love again, I crave him.

Soon our no feelings agreement is in tatters, and my heart belongs to that broken cowboy. Will he break it or will he defy them all and choose us instead?

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Heartstone Ranch series.

Series recommended reading order: West of Forever | Never Been Tamed (Oct 2026)

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POLYAMORY + ROMANTIC FANTASY

Ancient gods reborn battle against terrifying new adversaries in Prince of Storms, the thunderous finale of Kit Rocha’s tantalizing tempest of polyamorous fantasy, dripping with political intrigue and divine warfare.

After narrowly escaping with their lives, three lovers board the Kraken once more, determined to uncover who tried to kidnap them—and why. Reveling in each other’s tangled embrace, water nymph Naia, god of love Aleksi, and pirate lord Einar sail back to the kingdom of ice. But the enemy they seek hides deep within the queen’s court. And the traitor’s trail of deception leads to a danger unlike anything they’ve ever encountered.

As the trio bears witness to old powers rising anew, memories from another lifetime come to the surface too. Naia and Einar, each discovering hidden truths about themselves, get swept up in a past connection that further complicates their current situation—and their mutual devotion to Aleksi.

Up against an ancient enemy who has wronged each of them deeply and personally, they have only one path that offers a chance at victory: the ultimate sacrifice. But love is a powerful weapon, and the island’s ancient magic still harbors a few secrets.

This is the second and final book in the Born to Sea and Storm duet.

Series reading order: Daughter of Tides | Prince of Storms

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FORCED PROXIMITY + SINGLE DAD + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SMALL TOWN

I should’ve worn underwear that day.

I’d have far less hate mail in my inbox. I’d also still have a job.

But I didn’t wear underwear. And I had a wardrobe malfunction on a livestream.

So now I’m the proud owner of the internet’s most famous… you know.

The good news? I’ve been invited to hide from my sudden infamy at a closed winery with other women who’ve suffered their own five minutes of shame.

The bad news? The winery has a live-in handyman.

A competent, compassionate, patient, sexy, single dad handyman.

Whom I met when I punched him in the face.

Accidentally, of course. But I still get why he’s happy keeping his distance from me.

But when we find out the winery that’s saving my life is in danger of foreclosure, he and I become accidental partners.

No big deal, working with a guy that I’m falling harder for each day.

I’m already the internet’s favorite punching bag. Why not add an unrequited crush to my life?

But what if it’s not unrequited after all?

This is a standalone novel in the Accidentally Infamous series.

Series recommended reading order: You’ve Got Hate Mail | While You Were Trending (Aug 2026) | How to Troll a Guy in Ten Days (Oct 2026) 

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DARK ROMANTIC FANTASY

Can love survive an unbreakable curse?

Kierse McKenna’s magic is bound to a man she hates—one who has spent lifetimes fighting the man she loves.

To end this binding, Graves—her winter god, her monster—will stop at nothing. He discovers that the only hope of freeing Kierse is to locate a stone relic of legend, rumored to lift any curse.

The only problem? The stone has been missing for a century.

And the Oak King is on their trail.

Now Kierse is trapped at the heart of a centuries-long battle while the rest of the world comes unraveled. The Fae Killer is hunting. The peace with monsters is fracturing. And as the very rules of their myth start to shift, escaping the Oak King’s hold may demand more than stolen artifacts and clever heists.

For Kierse and Graves, it may mean risking the only thing they have left to lose.

But the battle for Kierse’s heart—and the fate of the Oak and Holly kings—doesn’t end here.

This is the third book in the Oak & Holly Cycle series.

Series reading order: The Wren in the Holly Library | The Robin on the Oak Throne | The Raven at the Ash Door

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SMALL TOWN + PARANORMAL ROMANCE

The new head gardener at the enchanting Lilymoor House stumbles upon a secret garden . . . with a mysterious man trapped inside…

When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer—for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House—she doesn’t expect to fall in love.

But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.

And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.

This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie’s careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor’s owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires—including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.

Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.

This is a standalone novel.

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