Title: Is This Love?
Series: Everlasting Ink #2
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Age Gap/Marriage of
Convenience/Fake Relationship/Only One Bed
Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs
Photographer: Rafa G Catala
Release Date: March 19, 2024
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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you the continuation of the stand-alone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. "Is This Love?” is an age gap, marriage of convenience, friends to lovers, small-town romance.
Legend
A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated.
Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn’t care less about the money. It’s not like I even knew my grandparents.
I wasn’t even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I’ve never let myself consider her as an option for me.
She’s been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.
Monroe
It’s not like I planned to marry one of my friends… or fall for him.
One minute I offer to be his fake wife, and the next, we’re going through the motions— saying, “I do,” and playing house.
Legend is the kind of guy fantasies are made of—tall, dark, and tattooed. Now I’m sharing his bed and his last name for the next year.
Everything looks good on paper, and while this may have started out as playing pretend, the way I feel for him is the realest thing I’ve ever known.
As the weeks pass by, it doesn’t take long before either of us begins to question if we’re just friends or if this is this love after all.
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she's not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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Title: Heartbreaker Handoff
Series: Varsity Dads #5
Author: Lex Martin
Genre: Standalone Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Fake Dating, Small Town
Football Player/Cheerleader, Coach's Daughter
Cover Design: Najla Qamber Designs
Photographer: Lindee Robinson
Release Date: March 8, 2024
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Billyâs not my baby daddy, but he doesnât mind pretending to beâ¦
Iâm a Division 1 cheerleader with hopes of becoming a sports broadcaster. None of my plans for college include getting knocked up by a cheating ex who just got engaged to another girl.
When my father finds out Iâm pregnant, he goes ballistic. Thatâs when my BFF, bad boy Billy Babcock, comes to my rescue and agrees to âtake responsibility.â
Billy and I solidify our contract on a napkinâheâll pretend to be my babyâs father, and Iâll help him clean up his image. The only problem is my father, the football coach, hates Billy. He warned me off dating players a long time ago, and he thinks Billyâs the biggest player out there.
Now that weâre in a ârelationship,â Billy thinks we should spend some quality naked time together, but Iâm worried about crossing that line. Because athletic guys with big muscles, intricate tattoos, and sexy smirks are my biggest weakness, and Billy ticks off all those boxes.
Can my football player âboyfriendâ walk the straight and narrow for me?
Or did I just get handed off from one heartbreaker to another?
Heartbreaker Handoff is an angsty, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance featuring a sassy cheerleader, whoâs about to be a single mother, and a criminally charming football player determined to prove heâs the man for her, one sizzling kiss at a time. Heartbreaker Handoff is a dual POV standalone in the USA Today-bestselling series Varsity Dads.
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Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of The Varsity Dad Dilemma, the Texas Nights series, and the Dearest series, books she hopes readers love but her parents avoid. A former high school English teacher and freelance journalist, she resides in Texas with her husband, twin daughters, and a bunny named Dandelion.
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Title: Stolen by the Billionaire
A Twisted Billionaires Series Standalone
Author: Blair Babylon
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Only One Bed
Cover Design: Q Designs
Release Date: March 5, 2024
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I am an American Navy SEAL, and I will not be blackmailed by a goddamn Russian mafia boss.
Years ago, I parlayed a loan into a billion-dollar crypto fortune. The head of the White Russian Syndicate is demanding I pay it back in illegal military-grade weapons, but I won’t. I will not be responsible for adding to the misery of innocents.
It’s time to hit back at the head of the White Russian Syndicate.
So I kidnap the mafia boss’s niece.
Who I did not realize is my best friend’s estranged little sister.
Who he’s never mentioned.
Not even once.
Sarah is a sweet little hayseed right off her Iowa farm, but when the mafia boss decides she’s a liability to eliminate, she becomes my responsibility to protect.
We’re on the run. But with each passing day, with each attack I defend her from, every hotel room with only one bed, I’m starting to fall for her.
The Russian mafia wants Sarah dead, and her brother is going to murder me when he finds out I’ve gone too far with his sister.
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Dear Lord, her kidnapper was hugging her.
He reached with one hand, his shoulders shifting sideways, riffling through the duffel bag beside the bed and plucking out a square. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” he rumbled into her neck.
He stepped back. Sarah almost fell forward into the cold air, hobbled by her jeans and panties around her ankles.
Blaze shoved his hands under her armpits and lifted her, not even giving her a chance to jump to help him, and he raised her over his head and planted her bottom of the cool metal roof of his car. “Oh!”
“Lie back,” he snarled as he bent, pushing with his hands on her calves and pressing her knees toward her chest.
After Blaze settled her at the dining table, he brought her a bowl of baked oatmeal and a tall glass of milk. “Eat.”
“Yes, sir,” she grumbled.
He braced his arms around her and lowered his head almost to her shoulder, whispering, “If you’re trying to be a smart aleck, try something else. I’m used to being called sir, and I like it.”
Darn military officer guys.
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I never plan to fail.”
Blaze was a predator by nature, and prey had tripped his instincts. He leaned toward her and captured her hand under his, a tiger snatching a rabbit that had ventured too close.
He shouldn’t.
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Blair Babylon writes bestselling romance books that will free your mind. These five star billionaire boss, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, and romantic novels quickly turn into suspense thriller books that will make your pulse pound and soothe your heart. Whether the couple are trapped in a pretend marriage or there’s only one bed, Blair’s books are like romancing your own duke, mister, or billionaire. Some are an ugly cry, some are an affair to remember with a king or a prince, and some are a few shades darker, but all are unputdownable. Fans of E.L. James, Rina Kent, Nicole Snow, Sadie Kincaid, Catharina Maura, and Shantel Tessier will love Blair's romantic books and romance audiobooks. Set your heart free with these fantastic, complete series!
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Title: Evading the Enforcer
Series: Charleston Coyotes #5
Author: Jacob Chance
Genre: Contemporary Hockey Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Fake Engagement
Release Date: February 7, 2024
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My peaceful existence gets body-checked when a brooding, grumpy hockey player moves in next door…
The first time I meet Niall O’Rourke, he greets me, wearing little more than a scowl and a demeanor colder than the ice he skates on. My deeply ingrained Southern manners force me to give him the benefit of the doubt, but every interaction we share convinces me he’s a grade-A jerk.
I do my best to avoid him, that is, until he makes a proposition too good to refuse: I pretend to be his fiancée, and in return, he’ll appear on my local television show, which could give Bigfoot’s Hairy Tale the ratings bump needed for national syndication.
Despite our personalities clashing like hockey sticks, I discover beneath his brawny exterior is a man burdened by a complex past and a wounded heart.
But I’m not interested in “fixing” him. I’ve been down that road before, and it never ends well. If only Niall weren’t so hellbent on using his lips to convince me otherwise.
It’s going to take everything in me to evade the enforcer.
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Jacob Chance grew up in New England and still lives there today. He's a martial artist, a football fan, a practical joker, and a bacon lover.
A USA Today bestselling author of sports romance and romantic suspense, Jacob has endless ideas and plans on providing his readers with many more entertaining stories.
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Title: Surly Sheriff
A Cocky Hero Club Novel
Author: Nicole Ann Nielsen
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Second Chance/Secret Baby
Small Town Romance
Release Date: February 11, 2024
Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward are excited to bring you the Cocky Hero Club: original works from various authors inspired by Keeland and Ward's New York Times bestselling Cocky Bastard series.
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A former marine hitchhiking home. A footloose woman passing by. Their love was fated, but their future doomed.
Rae Williams never thought she would stop running. For years she looked over her shoulder, afraid her brutal history would catch up to her. Until Beau. For the first time in her life, she feels safe and loved. But when her past rears its ugly head, it puts the lives of the people she loves in jeopardy.
Beau Stirling swore off women years ago, and over the intervening period, no one has challenged his decision. Until Rae. He falls for the troubled woman, loving her while she wrestles with the nameless demons plaguing her dreams. But his life shatters when she disappears, leaving nothing but a cruel note.
And when Rae returns years later begging for his protection, Beau vows to fight the pull of love. His resolve slowly crumbles when she reveals the violent secrets that have held her captive since childhood.
Can they rebuild their marriage, or will the scars of betrayal and abandonment prove too deep?
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Nicole Ann Nielsen believes in romance, in love, and in everyone deserving a happy ever after.
And that is what she writes — Contemporary Romance.
Nicole lives in scenic Cape Town, South Africa. She is an avid reader, enjoys Pilates, inhales coffee, and loves dreaming about her next novel.
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Title: Notorious
Series: LA Defiance MC #1
Author: K E Osborn
Genre: MC Romance
Tropes: Age Gap/Secret Identity
Found Family/Single Dad
Release Date: February 12, 2024
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Nothing but death surrounds me.
For years, I’ve lived with the ghosts of the people who have died because of me.
I hear their screams, I see their bodies.
Like a never-ending circle, the vision replays in my mind.
Hiding, locking myself away when the voices in my head get too loud, is my only saving grace. That is until one wild night, I meet Haven at a bar. She’s crazy, uninhibited, a little unhinged. Everything I didn’t know I needed.
By chance, she shows up at the clubhouse a week later—our connection instant. But war is brewing between the club and the Rojas Cartel. We’re on shaky ground, and tensions are high.
While Haven is staying at the LA Defiance clubhouse, I notice her inquisitiveness. It seems innocent at the time, but when everything comes to light, the betrayal is brutal, and nothing is as it seems. There’s so much more going on than I could have possibly imagined.
Secrets are revealed, enemies are closer than I could have predicted, and the war I am fighting in my head, is about to consume my entire world.
From USA Today Bestselling Author K E Osborn comes the highly desired first book in the LA Defiance MC Series.
This is a secret identity, age gap, suspense romance book, and can be read as a standalone.
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With a flair for all things creative, USA Today Bestselling Author K E Osborn, is drawn to the written word. Exciting worlds and characters flow through her veins, coming to life on the page as she laughs, cries, and becomes enveloped in the storyline right along with you. She's entirely at home when writing sassy heroines and alpha males that rise from the ashes of their pasts.
K E Osborn comforts herself with tea and Netflix, after all, who doesn't love a good binge?
Explosive. Addictive. Romance. at www.keosbornauthor.com
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Title: The Tropical Romance Test
Series: Hollywood Bachelors #4
Author: Lila Monroe
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers/He Falls First
Release Date: February 12, 2024
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Sleeping with the enemy is looking awfully tempting… Fall for the sizzling new rivals-to-lovers rom-com read from USA Today bestselling author, Lila Monroe! Perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey, Ali Hazelwood, and Emily Henry.
Josh Carlyle is charming, sexy as hell, and the perfect destination wedding hookup... At least, that’s what I think when I touch down in paradise with four days to pull off a lavish ceremony fit for Hollywood royalty. The groomsman in the next cabana with baby blues and a chiseled jawline that could crack a coconut? He’s the cherry on top of my tropical cocktail, and exactly what I need to shake off my single status and get my head (and, um, other parts) back in the dating game.
Then Josh reveals the truth: he’s vowed to sabotage the big day and send the gold-digging bride running before his uncle even gets to ‘I do’. Suddenly, we’re on opposite sides of the great wedding war, and I refuse to let this happily-ever-after - or my career - go down without a fight.
But Josh plays dirty… and he talks it, too. Even as I scramble to keep his sabotage shenanigans from derailing the happy(ish) couple, I can’t deny the chemistry between us. Sleeping with the enemy is looking awfully tempting…
They say all’s fair in love, war, and wedding planning… But who’s happy ending am I chasing here? And can Josh and I turn our rivalry into real romance before it’s too late?
Find out in the sizzling new romance from “the reigning queen of rom-com,” Lila Monroe!
HOLLYWOOD BACHELORS:
1 The Hollywood Marriage Bargain
2 The Great British Bachelor Chase
3 The Treasure Hunt Hookup
4 The Tropical Romance Test
5 The Smalltown Seduction Plan
PRAISE FOR LILA:
"Romantic comedy at its best!" - Seraphim Books Reviews
"A fun and flirty feel-good story that put a smile on my face!" - Goodreads
“A funny rom-com that gives me all the laugh and fluff was exactly what I need. This quirky and heartwarming second-chance romance was fun, light and perfect to take me away from all the heaviness in life.” - Goodreads
“Lila Monroe’s writing is a sure thing to put me in a good mood especially in the gray days… I smiled all the time while reading it and these characters made my day so much better.” - ItaPixie Reviews
"I love the humor in Ms. Monroe's stories! They are outrageously funny! Add to that the romance and off the charts steaminess and you get one helluva story!" - Bibliophile Chloe
"This is a great… new series. I enjoyed playful characters, the funny moments and the steamy romance! 5 Stars." Reading Keeps Me Sane Blog
“Lila Monroe is an author who knocks romantic comedy books out of the park. Her books are, sweet, spicy, romantic and so funny that you cannot help but fall in love with her characters and her stories.” - Goodreads
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Combining her love of writing, sex and well-fitted suits, Lila Monroe wrote The Billionaire Bargain. Lila enjoys writing, as it gives her a flexible schedule to spend time with her kids and a wonderful excuse to avoid them. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, who strips out of his well-fitted suits nightly.
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Title: The End is the Beginning
Author: Jennifer N. Lloyd
Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Small Town/Forbidden Love/Love Triangle
Cover Design: Y'All. That Graphic.
Release Date: February 27, 2024
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At 35, Sandy's life diverges from her idyllic dreams. Her husband, Johnny, once a seemingly promising partner, now embodies a monstrous abuser. Their turmoil affects not just Sandy but also her teenagers, Lisa and David.
When David steps in to defend his mother, Johnny becomes critically injured.
During Johnny's absence, the Hansen family experiences freedom from his control. Sandy navigates single motherhood and finds herself drawn to a man who introduces her to a world of love and passion.
Simultaneously, 14-year-old Lisa faces her first date with a longtime friend and neighbor, prompting the question: will their bond evolve into young love?
Upon Johnny's return, Sandy confronts a pivotal choice: return to the all-too-familiar abuse or embrace this newfound connection, defying her oppressive past.
Set in 1975, The End is the Beginning, showcases how the women of a small town grapple with love, trauma, and the courage to rewrite their destinies in the face of adversity.
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Jennifer is embarking on her debut as an author with her novel "The End is the Beginning." She is married to Robby, a caring and loving man, and is the devoted mother of Norah, her very smart and sweet daughter, as well as a dedicated dog-mom to Mia, her Weimaraner.
Jennifer earned her bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University and has worked as a Radiologic Technologist for a decade. For the past five years, she's specialized in the Cardiac Catheterization field, particularly in Electrophysiology (that’s right, embracing the super-nerd status).
A lifelong Midwesterner, Jennifer finds joy in staying active outdoors, whether it's going for runs with Mia and Norah, enjoying family bike rides, or simply soaking in the sun. Her most productive writing hours are between 8 and 11 PM, when her daughter is fast asleep. During this time, she channels her creative energy into crafting dark romance stories.
Jennifer enjoys creating storylines that form deep emotional connections between readers and characters. She roots for the underdog and crafts narratives where true love wins!
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Title: Difficult
Series: Neighbor From Hell Chronicles #2
Author: R.L. Mathewson
Genre: Contemporary YA Romance
Tropes: Coming of Age/High School
Friends to Lovers
Release Date: February 5, 2024
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Surviving high school was going to be hard enough, but surviving telling the one girl that he couldn’t live without how he felt was going to be one of the most difficult things that Sebastian Bradford was ever going to do.
From New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling author R.L. Mathewson comes the second novel in the Neighbor from Hell Chronicles that will bring it all back, leaving you unable to help but smile as you remember the first time that you fell in love.
For years, Sebastian has been lying to himself, doing whatever it took to convince himself that Mikey was just his best friend and the pain in the ass that he couldn’t stop thinking about and now…
He would do absolutely anything to stop screwing this up, but that probably wasn’t going to happen, not with his brother determined to help him. With every soul-crushing piece of advice his brother threw his way, Sebastian found himself thinking about everything that he had to lose if Mikey didn’t feel the same way and wondered if he was about to make the biggest mistake of his life.
The glaring was definitely starting to concern her, but Mikey had bigger problems to worry about than her best friend suddenly acting weird around her, like the teenage girl and her minions going out of their way to make her life a living hell. She couldn’t risk losing her scholarship, not when it meant that she would never be able to do the one thing that she loved more than anything again.
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New York Times Bestselling author, R.L. Mathewson was born in Massachusetts. She’s known for her humor, quick wit and ability to write relatable characters. She currently has several paranormal and contemporary romance series published including the Neighbor from Hell series.
Growing up, R.L. Mathewson was a painfully shy bookworm. After high school she attended college, worked as a bellhop, fast food cook, and a museum worker until she decided to take an EMT course. Working as an EMT helped her get over her shyness as well as left her with some fond memories and some rather disturbing ones that from time to time show up in one of her books.
Today, R.L. Mathewson is the single mother of two children that keep her on her toes. She has a bit of a romance novel addiction as well as a major hot chocolate addiction and on a perfect day, she combines the two.
If you’d like more information about this series or any other series by R.L. Mathewson, please visit www.Rlmathewson.com
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Title: Back Against the Wall
Series: Lindell #1
Author: Marie James
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Single Dad/Enemies to Lovers
Release Date: February 15, 2024
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A small town, single dad, enemies to lovers romance.
Crawling back to this small town was never in hockey star Chase Woodson’s plans.
From hitting hockey pucks in front of thousands to selling urinal pucks at his father’s hardware store, coming back home is his worst nightmare.
But being a (newly) single dad of twin boys means making sacrifices. His boys need stability and his dad needs his help in the store.
Now he needs her.
Except, Chase has been the bane of Madison Kelly’s existence since high school.
She just so happens to be the only available nanny in town.
Besides, high school was ten years ago.
People don’t hold grudges that long, right?
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Marie James is a full-time author, mother of two boys, and wife of 18+ years. Dog Mom to four great danes: Maximus, Sassy, Kiki, and Hargid.
She has spent almost my entire lifetime living in central Texas, with only short stays in South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. She is currently residing in a sleepy little town in East Tennessee.
Writing is her passion, and she absolutely loves being able to sit down and put all of her thoughts and emotions into her stories.
She loves dogs, coffee, making handmade cards, and reading steamy romance novels!
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