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A trailblazing female economist is determined to build Britain’s first women’s bank, but she must fight both financial corruption and a system intent on destroying the newly found family she’s created…

In Victorian England, no woman—not even a brilliant economist like Reina Martin—is allowed to open her own bank account. Men will take care of everything, women are told. But Reina knows better. As the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish immigrant mother, she’s haunted by the memory of living with unpaid grocer’s bills and no coal for the hearth.

So together with her mentor, the powerful banker William Farlow, Reina will build the first all-women’s bank, where women can manage their own financial security.

At home, Reina’s domestic staff of recently paroled prisoners are building new lives and becoming a found family. But soon Reina is shocked to discover that her enigmatic butler, John Pembroke, is an undercover police detective. He’s been assigned to investigate Farlow, who’s suspected of financial crime on a scale so massive, it could destabilize the British economy. Pembroke needs Reina’s expertise for a high-stakes nighttime heist to obtain incriminating evidence.

Now Reina faces the agonizing choice of betraying her mentor or turning her back on thousands of working-class families who stand to lose everything. Either way, her dream of the women’s bank may be over.

But courage and sacrifice aren’t limited to the battlefield—they also occur at the kitchen table, where women who believe in compassion and community are working to remake the future. And when the stakes are highest, Reina knows to trust her heart as well as her intellect.

This is a standalone novel.

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OPPOSITES ATTRACT + ONE NIGHT STAND + SMALL TOWN + MOTORCYCLE CLUB ROMANCE

Della
I understand why alligators are ecological engineers, what disappearing amphibians mean, and how one tiny change can destabilize an entire ecosystem.
People are more complicated.
Especially Lucas “Sunny” Reed.
He’s an outlaw biker who thinks everything can be improved with a joke, owns a three-legged cat, and somehow likes all the things about me other people find strange.
I’m trying to prove someone is poisoning the wetlands I love.
And, I didn’t think I needed protecting. Until one night changes everything.

Sunny
I thought my job was protecting the men who ride beside me.
Then I met the brilliant, socially awkward Dr. Della Hart.
She’s the smartest person I’ve ever known. She can explain why alligators are ecological engineers, identify a bird by its call, and somehow make a patch of mud sound like the most important place on Earth.
Me?
I once tried to microwave a Pop-Tart still in the wrapper.
But while Della notices every bird, every flower, and every tiny change in the water that tells her someone is poisoning an entire ecosystem, she doesn’t notice the men following her.
Or the ones lying to her.
Good thing I do.
Everyone thinks I’m the funny one. The laid-back one.
And they’re right.
Until they come after Della and give me a reason not to be.

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

Series recommended reading order: Knox Unleashed | Vandal Unbound | Sunny Undone | Lock Unchained (Jan 2027)

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SECOND CHANCES + HOCKEY ROMANCE

Toren Kane has always been a magnet for trouble. Branded as dangerous and brutal, his reputation has followed him from the playground to the ice rink. After a scandal cost him his first-round NHL draft pick, Toren’s last shot at redemption lies with Waterfell University’s hockey team—who all despise him for what he did to their captain at the last Frozen Four competition. To make matters worse, Waterfell’s new assistant coach is Christophe LaBlanc, Toren’s former coach and the man who knows all his darkest secrets.

Lillian LaBlanc is out of chances, according to her father. After flunking out of an Ivy League, she’s struggling and her father’s strict rules are the only things keeping her afloat. Suffering beneath the weight of his suffocating control, Lily is desperate to keep her need to paint as hidden as her depression. But her fragile stability is threatened when she discovers that Toren Kane, her childhood best friend and first love, is also attending Waterfell—and is on her father’s team.

As Toren and Lily’s lives collide once more, old wounds and unresolved feelings resurface. Toren must confront his self-destructive tendencies and learn to let others in, while Lily faces the daunting task of breaking free from her father’s grip. Their connection could be the key to healing—or the spark that reignites the chaos they’ve both been trying to escape.

This is a standalone novel in The Undone series.

Series recommended reading order: Unsteady | Unloved | Unbound | Undone

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ENEMIES TO LOVERS + COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROMANCE

They say I’m Demere University’s Golden Boy.
The Senator’s perfect son and heir.
The kicker who never misses.
The man who doesn’t make mistakes…

Until I do, and my fall from grace lands me in a dorm room with Elliot Vaughn.

Vaughn is reckless and rough.
Solid muscle wrapped in ink.
He runs an illegal fight ring.
He breaks rules like it’s his job.

And since he hates my guts, Vaughn’s decided to break me.

He brings people home—men, women.
Locks eyes with me across the room while he ruins them.
Whispers teasing words that burrow into my brain.
Calls me names no straight man should respond to.

He steals my focus. Annihilates my control.
Makes me want things I can’t afford to want.

Like those rough hands on my skin.
Like giving up everything they say I am for a future that’s all my own.
Like choosing to be his babygirl, even if it destroys us both.

This is a standalone novel.

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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

Welcome to Knife’s Edge, Alaska, where the four Osprey brothers return from military service with shadows in their eyes and secrets in their hearts. As danger looms, new romances ignite, and these rugged men must fight for love…and survival.

Damian Osprey spent years in intelligence, where secrets were currency and trust was a liability. Taking a job as head of security at a remote research facility deep in the Alaskan wilderness brings him back to the land he once called home. It should be routine. But the facility sits at the center of a pattern Damian can’t ignore, and every answer he finds only leads to darker questions.

Stella Osprey has never stopped watching his back. Their marriage began as part of an undercover operation, but the fire between them was never pretend. She’s been working in the shadows ever since, following a trail of secrets that leads her to Alaska. And back to the only man she was never supposed to love.

When Damian finally catches the woman he knows has been moving just out of reach, the heat between them ignites fast and fierce. But with secrets buried in the wilderness, a ruthless killer stalking the land, and a conspiracy that could destroy them both, trusting each other again could cost them everything.

This is the fourth book in the Knife’s Edge, Alaska series.

Series recommended reading order: Dead of Winter | Thaw of Spring | Burn of Summer | Shadow of Fall | Silence of Snow (Feb 2027) | Whisper of Rain (Apr 2027)

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SECOND CHANCES + SINGLE DAD + SECRET RELATIONSHIP + PRO FOOTBALL ROMANCE

Desmond

I was sixteen years old when I met Oakley Manning during a family beach vacation. He was funny, gorgeous, as obsessed with football as I was, and hurting after his mom abandoned him.

For two weeks, we were inseparable. Oakley made me feel complete, settling something inside me.

Then one night, I kissed him…and he kissed me back.

When he walked away afterward, I pretended it hurt less than it did. It’s a lesson that’s stuck with me—the people I want never choose me back.

Oakley

Everything about what I shared with Desmond Jackson was perfect.

Then, on the last morning of our trip, my ex-girlfriend-slash-best friend dropped a bomb: “I’m pregnant.” For the sake of the baby, we decided to make it work.

Eleven years later, Serena and I are still best friends, but our relationship is over, though we haven’t told anyone. Between her mom’s recent diagnosis and our daughter, we aren’t ready for more complications.

Enter Des, recently traded to L.A.’s second pro football team—my team being the first. Now he’s always in my periphery, infuriating and needling me…and still capable of making my pulse race. Our chemistry is as combustive as ever. Des worships my body in ways I’ve never experienced, but he doesn’t believe in forever, and I can’t do casual.

We compete at everything, but he doesn’t know he’s already won my heart. I just hope it’s a prize he wants…and that my world won’t implode if I have him.

This is a standalone novel in the Necessary Roughness series.

Series recommended reading order: The Comeback King | The Lockdown Mann

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BROTHER’S BEST FRIEND + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FORBIDDEN + AGE GAP + BODYGUARD + ROOMMATES TO LOVERS + SMALL TOWN + MOTORCYCLE CLUB ROMANCE

It was a terrible idea to agree to move in with my best friend’s little sister…

She is everything I’ve ever wanted and the one thing I can’t have.
As our motorcycle club’s Vice President, I’m charged with her protection.
Touching her would be a penalty subject to death.

When she demands the chance to spread her wings, it’s my duty to go with her.
I knew staying at her new apartment would be excruciating.
Listening to her in her room and imagining her under the fall of the shower.
But when she asks me to crawl into bed with her so she won’t feel so alone, there’s nothing I can do.

One brush of her hand and I’m crumbling.
One crook of those fingers and I’m trapped.
One reckless night and there’s no going back.

Only with the lives we lead, our enemies are never far away, and as she begins to receive threats, I’m in a race to end the threat before it’s too late.
Soon, our secrets unravel, and I’m faced with the consequence of loving her.
But I promised her everything, and I’m willing to offer the greatest sacrifice.

This is a standalone novel in the Crimson Crows series.

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

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ALPHA HERO + FANTASY ROMANCE

She came to destroy me. Now I’ll burn the world to keep her.

She gets beneath my skin. Haunts my thoughts.
Strips away my control.

And I keep going back for more.

Every glance pulls me deeper. Every touch weakens my grip. And when she looks at me with those silver eyes full of secrets and fury, I know I’m already lost.

Something dark is closing in around us.

Power is shifting. Truths are unraveling. And the woman I can’t stay away from may be the key to it all.

I should walk away before she ruins me. Before this obsession consumes us. But when she’s in my arms, nothing else matters.

Not the lies.
Not the danger.
Not even what’s coming.

Because once I claim something as mine, I never let it go.

And I’m beginning to realize she was always meant to be mine.

This is the ninth 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 | Kiss of Skye | Between Twilight

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HE FALLS FIRST + EX-FIANCE’S BROTHER + OPPOSITES ATTRACT + FORCED PROXIMITY + SMALL TOWN + HOLIDAY ROMANCE

Nothing says Merry Christmas like fake fiancés, family pressure, and accidentally falling for your ex’s brother.

Nolan never met a spotlight he didn’t like. As a major league baseball player with a filthy mouth, an ego the size of the North Pole, and zero interest in behaving, he’s perfectly happy breezing into Christmas in Kringletown like the charming disaster everyone expects him to be.

Taran, on the other hand, has made an art form out of keeping the peace. She’s polished, careful, and so committed to making everyone else happy that she’s somehow agreed to a fake wedding with her ex just to keep her family’s holiday from imploding.

There’s only one problem: the ex in question is Nolan’s brother, and Nolan sees right through her. He knows Taran deserves better than pretending her way through life.

And he’d really like “better” to be him.

Now Taran is juggling family expectations, holiday chaos, and a man who is far too cocky, far too funny, and far too determined to bulldoze every wall she’s ever built.

But with Christmas closing in, secrets snowballing, and one very fake engagement threatening to blow up in spectacular fashion, this holiday season is about to get messy. And someone’s sure to end up on the naughty list.

This is a standalone novel in the How My Neighbor Stole Christmas series.

Series recommended reading order: How My Neighbor Stole Christmas | Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal | Christmas Staycation

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WORKPLACE + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + BILLIONAIRE + SECRET ROMANCE

Holden

She’s my rival. My obsession. My ruin.
I told myself Rowan Rothschild was nothing more than the enemy across the boardroom table.
But the longer our worlds collide, the harder it is to remember which battles are worth winning.
Now she’s the woman I can’t stay away from, even when the cost might be everything I’ve worked years for.

Rowan

The company. The inheritance. The family name.
I’ve fought to protect it all from Holden Knight, but nothing prepared me to face him again.
Every look, every touch, every ruthless move he makes drags me deeper back into him.
The line between love and hate has never been thinner.
And this time, falling for him could destroy us both.

This is the third and final book in the Tangled Hearts trilogy.

Series reading order: Twisted Knight | Threaded Lies | Twined Fates

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SPORTS ROMANCE + LOVE TRIANGLE + ENEMIES TO LOVERS + FAMILY SECRETS

Shay MacDonald was raised to avoid two things: race cars and the Ashford family. But when an injury puts her mechanic father on bedrest, she vows to save his career by covertly covering his shifts at the Ashford garage and enrolling at Ashford Academy—an elite school that trains aspiring drivers and engineers, like herself, for the lucrative F1 circuit.

Keeping a low profile is out of the question when she has a run-in with the Ashford brothers on day one. Theo and Jameson are racing royalty who know they can get away with anything. Theo, the charming and reckless playboy, tempts her to break every rule, while Jameson, the brilliant prodigy, unsettles her with a cold intensity that cuts deeper than she expects.

Shay will always be the adopted daughter of a mechanic, trying to survive unnoticed in a world that was never meant for her. But Theo and Jameson’s only reprieve from their father’s sky-high expectations is Shay. She’s a shiny new pawn in their old rivalry—or a prize worth risking everything for.

When a competition to work on the F1 circuit brings her further into their orbit, Shay is forced to work harder to protect her secrets. But the deeper she’s pulled into the world of the rich and famous Ashfords, the more she realizes everyone is keeping secrets.

Secrets that could shatter her past, her future…and her heart.

This is a standalone novel in the all-new Ashford Academy series.

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RIVALS TO FRENEMIES TO LOVERS + ASSASSINS IN A SMALL TOWN + FORCED PROXIMITY + FAKE MARRIAGE

For these rivals, the chemistry is lethal.

Sabrina and Lawton go together as well as Dom Perignon and Frito pie. They have nothing in common—except for the fact that they unalive people for a living. Sabrina’s a clever, Manhattan darling with a penchant for poison-tipped manicures. Lawton is a reckless, down-and-dirty cowboy who isn’t afraid to get the pigs involved in clean-up duty. They despise each other, and not just because of what happened two years ago…

When they’re hired for the same job in cozy, postcard-perfect Wyoming, they quickly realize they’ll have to stop tossing out death threats if they want to get it done successfully. There’s only one problem…They have to pose as an oh-so-happily married couple to get close to their targets, which means strolling through pumpkin patches and smiling on horseback rides—all while pretending they’re not fantasizing about what the other would look like in a coffin. Things get even messier when they start wondering if they’ve walked into a dangerous trap. And, more importantly, will they kill off any chance at something real before they make it out alive?

This is a standalone novel.

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HOLIDAY ROMANCES

Tis the season to fall in love!

Anna thought only the food would be a disaster at her Christmas dinner—until her high school ex shows up and they quickly have to hatch a fake-dating scheme to save face with their families.

For Matty, the idea of sitting in a diner all day dressed as a zombie Santa after losing a bet has zero appeal. But his cute and funny server might just make him change his mind.

And finally, will Lauren be able to convince her best friend that getting married after a three-day relationship is absolutely ridiculous? Or will the town called Little Christmas pull her in with its happily-ever-after magic once she meets the best man?

This is a collection of three standalone novellas.

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FATED CONNECTIONS + HE FALLS FIRST + RELUCTANT ALLIES + PARANORMAL ROMANCE

In a single, devastating moment, I lost everyone I loved.

Now I’m in London, living with my sort-of-uncle Dylan.

And the only thing we have in common is loss.

This new life isn’t a life. It’s unbearable.

Except—there’s someone else here.

A young man.

He can’t be real. Can he?

He’s funny, cool, infuriating…and he understands me in a way no one else does.

But only I can see him.

Before I know it, he’s all I can think about. All I can dream about.

I just wish I could touch him.

And I wish he could touch me.

Am I falling in love…with a ghost?

This is the first book in the all-new Land of Ghosts series.

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FIREFIGHTER + WORKPLACE ROMANCE + FORCED PROXIMITY + HE FALLS FIRST + SMALL TOWN

A deeply betrayed heroine starting over. A brooding small-town Alaska firefighter, and two guarded hearts who never expected love.

When I discovered my ex was cheating with my best friend, it felt like I lost everything in a day. Months later, I packed up the broken pieces of my life and fled to Willow Brook, taking a job at the remote Heartfire Falls Resort. I came to the Alaskan wilderness for a fresh start.

When Lincoln Silver walks into my office, I take in his tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed presence and tell my pulse to chill out. The Silver family owns the resort, so technically I work for Lincoln. Minor detail.

He’s a rugged hotshot firefighter, and he carries his own grief. He’s the kind of man who never fails to show up and never fails to protect.

We are both haunted by our pasts, bumping into each other in the dark hours of the night when sleep refuses to come. When he catches me spiraling over the betrayal I left behind, he protects me. I swore I’d never want anything from anyone again, but as our shared midnights turn into a burning attraction, this devoted hero is determined to prove that some risks are worth it.

This is a standalone novel in the Heartfire Falls series.

Series recommended reading order: What We Keep | Mine To Hold | Be With Me | Believe In Us | Kiss Me Again (Feb 2027)

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SECOND CHANCES + DARK MAFIA ROMANCE

Carson

Seven years ago, my world ended.

My wife was stolen from me and brutally murdered. I spent five years in prison and emerged a vengeful, hateful assassin. I’m the most dangerous man alive: I kill without a second thought, searching for my nemesis and the retribution I’m owed.

Until the day I find out Rina might not be dead after all.

Everything I thought was true is ripped out from under me, and the hunt of a lifetime begins. Nothing surprises me anymore. But I’m not ready for what I find.

Rina

I’ve been on the run for seven long years.

Ever since the horrifying day I lost everyone I cared for at the hands of a madman. I escaped and ran until I found a stable place to land and blend in. With a job I love and one true friend, I finally feel like I can breathe—as long as I don’t let my guard down. I never know when I might have to flee again to keep us safe.

I even get up the nerve to go on a date for the first time since I lost Carson, but I quickly realize it’s not the right fit. I’m just not ready. I lost the only man I ever wanted, and I don’t think I’ll ever recover enough to fall for someone else.

But when my date takes me home, I get the shock of my life.

My husband is alive.

And when he discovers what I’ve been hiding, he’ll be shaken to his core. Nothing prepared me for being in his arms again, but our challenges are just beginning—and someone doesn’t want us to get our happy ever after.

This is a standalone novel in the Kings of Vegas series.

Series recommended reading order: Sinful King | Blood King | Savage King | Vicious King

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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE + FORCED PROXIMITY + ALPHA HERO + MOBSTER’S DAUGHTER/DETECTIVE

An undercover cop. A mobster’s daughter. The best love stories start with a lie…

Valentina Cordone doesn’t need a prince—she’s got a thriving bagel-and-book shop in Nashville, game nights with her quirky crew, and a perfectly good life. But when her attractive new neighbor shows up with effortless charm and an award-winning smile, she starts to reconsider.

Detective Shane Maddox went undercover to surveil a mob boss’s daughter. What he didn’t expect? That she’d be a lovable ray of sunshine, nothing like the crime princess he imagined. He planned to get close but walk away untouched. Instead, he’s falling hard…and realizing she’s in more danger than she knows.

Torn between duty and desire, Shane keeps his identity secret while protecting Valentina from her family’s criminal empire. As the truth explodes, he must prove his love is real while keeping her alive—no small feat when she won’t take his calls.

Even though the prince is a liar, he can’t risk losing his princess.

Sometimes fairy tales don’t start with once upon a time. They start with once upon a lie.

This is a standalone novel in The Protectors series.

Series recommended reading order: Call Me Anytime | Once Upon a Lie

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FATED MATES + SMALL TOWN + FRIENDS TO LOVERS + FORCED PROXIMITY

The closer the proximity, the stronger the spark…

Phoebe never expected to fall in love, and especially not with the annoyingly handsome werewolf she’s been hanging out with for years.

Theo has spent his life comparing himself to his brothers, never quite matching up to his father’s expectations. But in Maple Hollow, everything is different. Theo finally has a life of his own and a chance at redemption and he’s reluctant to risk it for anything, or anyone.

But after years of fighting their attraction to each other, Phoebe and Theo find that denying their feelings is no longer possible. Especially when they end up on a road trip that might change everything…

This is a standalone novel in the Maple Hollow series.

Series recommended reading order: Big Bad Wolf | Wild Wicked Mate

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