NBJ WEEKLY RECAP

NEW RELEASES

GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + SNOWED IN/FORCED PROXIMITY

The arctic heats up when a photographer who rarely holds anything back is forced to share a private wing with a grumpy lodge owner who holds everything in…

Photographer Aadya Williams has trekked all the way to northern Canada to nab a career-making shot of a polar bear … and to put 1,500 miles between her and a messy breakup. Despite expecting freezing temperatures, nothing’s colder than the welcome she gets from Reid Doerksen, the gruff owner of the Northern Wilderness Polar Bear Lodge. Even worse, the lodge is overbooked, so now she has to share the private family wing with him for the next two weeks.

At least Aadya has plenty to keep her occupied when she’s not out searching for the perfect photo op. But when a storm strands Aadya and Reid together at the lodge, it’s impossible to avoid the heat simmering between them. As the snow comes down, so do Reid’s walls, and Aadya begins to realize the most important shot of her life may not be one she takes with her camera.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FORCED PROXIMITY + SMALL TOWN + HOLIDAY ROMANCE

Chloe
When I surprise my boyfriend with a vacation I’d secretly planned, I never imagined he’d break up with me.
Definitely not two weeks before Christmas.
So instead of letting me spiral, my best friend insists I take the trip anyway.
Fresh air. Fresh start. What could go wrong?
Everything.
The second I arrive in the most festive town on earth, I discover all my reservations have been canceled.
It’s peak Christmas season.
Every room is booked. Every restaurant is packed.
And I’m stranded.

JB
When I decided to open a Christmas tree farm, everyone laughed.
Now we’re one of the biggest producers in the region. Hard work pays off.
Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
While the world calls it the most wonderful time of the year, I call it exhausting.
Dropping off a tree at the local inn should’ve been simple. Instead, I walked in on two women on the verge of a meltdown. I planned to keep walking—until my cousin volunteered my house as their backup.
I should’ve said no.
Except now I’m hauling her luggage through my front door, reminding myself it’s only for ten days.
Then she’ll be gone.
Except with every day that passes, she gets further under my skin.
You can’t fall in love in just over a week.
…Right?
Unless it’s a Holiday Rebound.

This is a standalone novel.

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FOOTBALL ROMANCE

Xavier Lord is a bitter man. Outed by his teammates and his college football scholarship withdrawn, life has taught him not to trust or believe in anyone but himself. Xavier—or X, as he calls himself to preserve his anonymity—has built a business on athlete’s mistakes. His hit podcast, You F’ed Up, dissects and calls out their bad plays with zero mercy. Lately his favorite target is Phoenix Young, the Lancaster Legends’ gorgeous but struggling new quarterback.

Phoenix Young has it all: the stats, drive, and championship dreams. Yet since his trade to the Legends, he’s unable to deliver, stumbling to a losing record. As one of the few out, gay players, he feels like he’s let the team and fans down. He’s bearing the burden alone—along with a secret he refuses to reveal: Someone’s been leaving him ugly, anonymous notes. He tries to ignore them and takes the blame for losing solely on his shoulders, but he’s never felt so alone and defeated.

When Xavier and Phoenix hook up on a dating app, one night turns into more, and both fall hard and fast—until Xavier panics and shuts things down, certain Phoenix wouldn’t want a man who makes a living tearing him apart.
Except he does.

But a relationship runs the risk of Xavier losing credibility with his listeners and Phoenix losing his teammates’ trust and friendships. Meanwhile, the ugly notes haven’t stopped. And they have no idea who’s writing them.

This is the first book in the all-new Lancaster Legends series.

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SECOND CHANCES + BOSS/EMPLOYEE + HATE TO LOVE + HE FALLS FIRST

In a searing, dark love story steeped in grit, obsession, and secrets, two broken souls keep coming back together—no matter how much they tear each other apart.

Birdie Fast is thriving, with two degrees, a stable fiancé, and her dream job. Her mistakes are in the past, and she’s determined to keep them there.

Jarrod Storm, Birdie’s new CEO, is the man who destroyed her life and stole everything from her. Grown rich and powerful, he’s spent years waiting for her in the shadows.

Now, he wants her back.

Birdie loathes him, but she can’t deny how he makes her feel: safe. He’s the only one who’s ever truly seen her.

If there’s anything Birdie has learned, it’s to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Because you’re never truly safe with a past like hers.

This is a standalone novel.

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HOLIDAY ROMANCE

All I want for Christmas is to unload my father’s farm and get the hell out of Majestic, Wyoming…
Until a certain gorgeous cowboy throws me a curveball.

The world sees me as Hendrix effing Lanier. Laser-focused World Series champion catcher for the Nashville Copperheads. Out-and-proud millionaire.

What they don’t know is that my father walked out when I was a kid so he could play farmer. And twenty years later, I haven’t figured out how to stop giving a damn.

When I learn I’ve inherited his dairy farm, my plan’s simple: sell the place and get back to my real life in time for Christmas.
Then I meet Taza Daggett.

My father’s foreman is my polar opposite. He’s infuriatingly cheerful, ridiculously attractive, and determined to keep the dairy running.

His main interests seem to be organizing the town’s Christmas Wish fundraiser and getting under my skin.

So why is he suddenly all I can think about?

Before I know it, I’m milking cows, decorating trees, stealing mistletoe kisses, befriending meddling Majesticans, and finding creative ways to stay warm in a blizzard.

Worse, I’m tearing down walls I’ve spent decades building and questioning everything I thought I wanted.

Because holiday magic can’t last forever. The career I’ve built my life around is waiting for me in Nashville. And no matter how hard I’m falling, I know I have to leave…

But after twenty years of wondering how my father could walk away from the people he loved, my own Christmas wish just might be finding a way to stay.

This is a standalone novel in The Billionaire Brotherhood series.

Series recommended reading order: Prince of Lies | Marrying Mr. Majestic | Inheriting Miss Fortune | Protecting Mr. Fine | Finding Lord Landry | A Majestic Christmas

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PARANORMAL MYSTERY ROMANCE

An icy vampire corporate heiress and a human software engineer must team up to thwart the saboteur who’s turned their sexy human-vampire dating app into a bloodbath…

As heir to HemoCorp Industries, vampire Sophronia Vega has devoted herself to the company her family founded. Most recently, she’s led the creation of Stokr: the wildly successful dating app that pairs lusty vampires with humans they can’t accidentally, er, eat. But when Stokr’s matching technology goes haywire—and vampires start draining their dates—Sophronia’s disciplined life goes up in flames.

Enter Casey Amato, the human software engineer whose team programmed Stokr. Casey knows the Stokr failure wasn’t a glitch—the app’s been sabotaged. To fix it, he’ll have to convince the gorgeous, guarded vampire exec that someone in her inner circle has betrayed her.

Sophronia has never met a human who makes her feel quite so . . . thirsty. But to fix her app and save its users, she must team up with the brilliant programmer. As they hunt the traitor, their attraction burns hotter, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Because without Stokr, giving in to temptation could be deadly.

This is a standalone novel.

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ACADEMIC ADVENTURE ROMANCE

After a bruising book rejection, tenure-track history professor Jessica Wilson is scrambling for something new to publish to secure her spot at the top of the academic food chain. While researching in the archives, she discovers a coded message written by one of the founding fathers with the power to change her—and the world’s—understanding of American history forever. But first, she’s got to prove it’s real.

Desperate for answers, Jess searches out Calloway Morgan, a Harvard PhD student turned adjunct professor. Cal was forced to leave graduate school after presenting theories about a shadowy revolutionary organization. Jess heard his conference presentation and thought his findings were absurd, but now, she believes he was onto something.

With their fates intertwined by their discoveries, the two begin to work together, but danger lurks around every corner. The clandestine fraternity that they’ve uncovered still exists and is ready to kill. With it hot on their heels, the embers of Jess and Cal’s attraction grow. But unless they can make their findings public, they’ll soon become the conspiracy’s latest victims…

This is a standalone novel.

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FORBIDDEN ROMANCE + ONE NIGHT STAND + UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY + GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + FORMULA 1

Formula 1 driver Zaid Yousef is back—though he’s not sure he wants to be. After a crash last season left the seven-time world champion with two broken wrists and a hesitance to get back behind the wheel, his future in the sport is nothing short of uncertain. Saddled with an unfinished contract and expectations to win a record-shattering title, the only choice is for him to return . . . right?

The press turned Ava Farahani’s life upside down in the last few years, forcing her to leave her job in marketing and the world of F1 she grew up in. She knows she should stay far away from the track, but the draw of the sport she loves is too strong to resist.

A preseason event brings the two together for one hot, reckless night, and weeks later, results in a positive pregnancy test. Ava desperately wants to be a mother, and the baby gives Zaid a newfound drive to survive the season and break the world record.

There’s just one little problem: Ava is a team principal’s daughter . . . and Zaid is their biggest rival.

This is a standalone novel in the Lights Out series.

Series recommended reading order: Cross the Line | Ride with Me | Crash into You

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OPPOSITES ATTRACT + COLLEGE ROMANCE + TUTOR/FRESHMAN + HATE TO LOVE + FORCED PROXIMITY + LOVE TRIANGLE

Audrey Cobalt never expected a lie to land her between two men: the quiz bowl captain she wants and the bad-boy musician she hates.

The youngest of an accomplished family, Audrey Cobalt has spent her life chasing good grades and fantasizing over happily-ever-afters. Now fresh off to college and living with her older brothers, she’s determined to prove that New York City is where she’s fated to be.

Unfortunately…her dream life starts with a lie.

Guy Abernathy is cutthroat, ambitious, and the handsome captain of Manhattan Valley University’s prestigious quiz bowl team. He’s everything Audrey has always wanted.

Birdie St. Pierre is not.

He’s sharp-tongued, abrasive, and the hot musical prodigy who hates rich, spoiled heiresses. Tragic, since Birdie is her new tutor—and her only shot at staying on the quiz bowl team.

Whom does Audrey truly loathe, and whom does she truly love? It could be a Shakespearean mess if she finds out too late.

Audrey Cobalt thinks she knows exactly who she’s fated to love—and exactly who she’s destined to loathe. Only to find the one she loathes is actually the one she might truly love.

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

Series recommended reading order: Burn Bright | Silver Sweet | Loathed Love

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SINGLE DAD + MARRIED IN VEGAS + ONE NIGHT STAND + SMALL TOWN

What happens in Vegas…stays with you.

I flew to Vegas to watch my little sister Goldie get married, not to fall for a stranger with a British accent and a laugh that could undo a man in one syllable. But that’s exactly what happened.

By morning, she was gone, the ghost of her perfume on the pillow, and a feeling I couldn’t shake for months.

Imogen was supposed to be a story I’d never tell anyone. Especially not Grayson, my son.

Because Imogen was the one thing Grayson wanted—a woman in our life. Someone to fill the void his mom had left, and someone to make his dad happy.

I told myself it was for the best—that Grayson needed a father who kept his heart exactly where it belonged: with him.

My life in Windy Harbor has been quiet. Until a caravan of cameras, assistants, and matching luggage rolls into town, and I find out the woman who vanished on me in Vegas isn’t just unforgettable—she’s Imogen Edwards, the London influencer with a zillion followers and a life I can’t begin to understand.

Suddenly my carefully guarded existence isn’t mine anymore. And the woman I never stopped thinking about is standing on my porch, entourage in tow, asking more of me than I can deliver.

She knows exactly what happened between us that night—a truth I never told a single soul, one that’s about to turn everything I thought I wanted upside down.

This is the fifth book in the Windy Harbor series of standalone novels with interconnected characters.

Series recommended reading order: Take This Heart | What It Takes | All for Love | Endless Summer Nights | Now and Forever

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GRUMPY/SUNSHINE + HOLIDAY ROMANCE + ROMANTIC COMEDY

‘Tis the season for mayhem, mistletoe, and one very unfortunate mall uniform.

Engaged. Overwhelmed. Running a small business with a purple-haired octogenarian who thinks “Rhonda El Bano” is a convincing alias. For reluctant psychic Riley Thorn, the holidays are less “magic in the air” and more “fire in the living room.” Between the backlog of invoices, a PI license teetering on revocation, a disapproving grandmother lobbing ominous predictions about the upcoming wedding, and the fact that Riley cannot see a single thing about her own future with Nick Santiago, she just wants to survive until December 26th.

Nick Santiago doesn’t do “mellow.” He does Christmas. Hard. He’s the man who owns a twelve-foot inflatable Santa and feels no shame about it. So if closing out the year means going undercover at the East Shore Mall to catch a slippery theft ring―even if it costs him one truly terrible security uniform and several shifts with the world’s most punchable assistant manager―fine. The sooner he catches the bad guy, the sooner he can haul his fiancée under the mistletoe and convince her everything is going to be fine.

Between mall chaos, psychic guild parties, warring families descending for Christmas Eve dinner, and one stray kitten who has personally destroyed two rooms and a dog’s dignity, they have five days to catch a thief, save a license―

And figure out why the future looks so suspiciously blank.

This is the fifth book in the Riley Thorn series.

Series reading order: Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door | Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet | Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past | The Body in the Backyard | The Heist Before Christmas

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