Title: When Lies Unfold
Author: RC Boldt
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Alpha Hero/Heroine in Distress/Close
Proximity/Enemies to Lovers/Opposites Attract
Cover Design: Hang Le
Release Date: May 23, 2024
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The moment I witness a murder, my quiet, careful existence goes up in smoke. I'm thrust into the world of Santiago Hernández, Central America’s most ruthless cartel leader.
In exchange for my life, I’m placed under his watchful eye. Day in and day out, he waits for me to betray my promise of silence.
The longer I stay in his world, the deeper I fall for the glimpses of the man beneath that handsome yet cunning exterior. The man whose possessive touch ignites a long-lost part of me.
But I should know better than to open my heart to a cold-blooded criminal with a laundry list of deadly sins and secrets. Especially when he has no idea who I really am.
Because when the lies unfold, he’ll discover I have a list of sins and secrets of my own.
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RC Boldt is a USA Today bestselling author currently living in part of the Costa Rican jungle with the love of her life and her mini-me.
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Title: Mr. Almost
Series: The Kings of Boston #1
Author: Cala Riley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Billionaire Romance/Secret Baby
Cover Design: Y'All. That Graphic.
Release Date: June 13, 2024
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Olivia
Four years ago my entire life changed.
A one-night stand turned into the best thing that ever happened to me.
Too bad Mason didn’t feel the same.
Now struggling to keep my head above water, I take on a temp job at the same hotel that changed my life.
I never thought I would see him again, but then he walks in. They say lightning rarely strikes twice, so why do I feel like I’ve been struck once again?
Mason
Four years ago she disappeared into the wind without a trace to be found.
I never thought that I would want more from a woman until I met Olivia.
I only wish she had felt the same.
So when I see her standing behind the reception desk in my hotel, I’m amazed.
Only, she wants nothing to do with me and I can’t figure out why.
Can I break down her walls and get her to trust me enough to give us a real shot?
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Cala Riley, better known as Cala and Riley, are a pair of friends with a deep seated love of books and writing. Both Cala and Riley are happily married and each have children, Cala with the four-legged kind while Riley has a mixture of both two-legged and four. While they live apart, that does not affect their connection. They are the true definition of family. What started as an idea that quickly turned into a full-length book and a bond that will never end.
Title: Wicked Vows
Trilogy: Sovereign Brotherhood #2
Author: Jo McCall
Genre: Russian Mafia Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage/Enemies to Lovers
Touch Her and Die
Cover Design: Raven Ink Covers
Release Date: April 15, 2024
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Heâs the head of the most feared crime family in New Orleansâ
And I was supposed to be his brideâ¦
Iâve spent the last few years running as far as I could to get away from him.
Only to have him find me, drag me down the aisle and make me say âI doâ
Kenzo Nakamura.
The devil in an Armani suit.
Head of the Yakuza and my fiance.
The match had been arranged long before I was born.
A blood oath between our fathers.
At eighteen, he came to collect.
But before he could force me down the aisle, I ran.
Fast and far.
I should have known I could never outrun him.
He haunts my every step.
An elusive figure I canât escape.
Every turn, he is there.
I never truly escaped him.
Weâve been playing a game of cat and mouse.
And heâs finally done playing with his prey.
He says he owns me.
That he will punish me for running away.
He expects me to be docile.
Meek.
Iâm anything but.
âââââââ
The head of the Yakuza has let a viper into his bed.
And Iâll strike before I let him ruin me.
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Jo McCall writes dark, contemporary and PNR romance. She is an avid reader of anything dark and steamy and when she isnât writing, you can find her making a rather large dent in her TBR.
She is a lover of strong heroines who find their own and hot, sexy alpha males who might be a tad bit over-possessive. Jo loves to lose herself in her characters and the flaws and darkness that surround them.
There is no shame found here, and she often gets lost when writing out those erotic, steamy scenes that make womenâs (and menâs) fantasies come true.
âThere is nothing like getting lost in something you know is wrong, but still canât resist.â
Jo currently resides in the beautiful state of Washington with her two dogs and has dreams of quitting her day job and traveling in a converted van around the states as she writes.
Title: Cruel Saint
Series: Saint Trilogy #1
Author: T.K. Leigh
Genre: Dark Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Stalker/Age Gap/Revenge
Morally Grey Hero/Hidden Identity
Release Date: April 11, 2024
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Gideon:
For the past five years, all I’ve thought about is revenge.
Shot and left for dead by the people I trusted, only to be saved and taken to an even worse hell, I vowed to make them pay. To make them suffer as I once did. To listen to their pleas for mercy as they draw their final breath.
But to do that, I need her.
Which comes with its own risks.
I may be able to make everyone else believe my lies, but Imogene’s not like everyone else.
And if anyone might recognize me beneath my carefully planned disguise, it’s the woman I once planned to marry.
Imogene:
I moved to California for a fresh start. After the past five years, I was desperate to finally leave the past behind me. What better place to do that than Southern California?
Until I’m attacked and nearly killed in a dark alley.
I would have been if he hadn’t intervened.
Gideon Saint. Mysterious. Dangerous. Lethal.
And possessing eyes that look far too much like the man I lost all those years ago.
But that’s impossible. Samuel Tate is dead. Apart from those haunting blue eyes, he bears little resemblance to the man I once gave my heart.
At least that’s what I try to tell myself. Because if he is Samuel, where has he been the past five years?
And why did he make the world believe he was dead?
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T.K. Leigh is the USA Today Bestselling author of romance ranging from fun and flirty to sexy and suspenseful. Originally from New England, she now resides outside of Raleigh with her husband, beautiful daughter, special needs rescue dog, and three cats. When she’s not writing, she can be found training for her next marathon (of which she has run over twenty fulls and far too many halfs to recall) or chasing her daughter around the house.
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Title: Lady Luck
Author: Lane O'Neil
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: He Falls First/Small Town Romance
Cover Design: Silver, Bitter Sage Designs
Cover Art: Amy Patterson
Release Date: April 4, 2024
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Fortune may favor the bold, but lately, it hasn’t favored Bree Faust.
Raised in the neon-lit embrace of Fortuna Casino & Resort, Bree is a twenty-two-year-old with more than a smattering of freckles and a sense of loyalty that runs deep. When change is thrust upon her again, she finds herself at a major crossroads and is torn between embracing her legacy as Lady Luck or drawing a card for a new life filled with unknowns.
Enter Vinh Lott, a twenty-nine-year-old with a fierce protective streak and a heart scarred by fire. A reserved software engineer moonlighting at his parents’ new restaurant, Vinh is the steady rock Bree never knew she needed. When fate brings them together in the chaos of the casino, Bree faces the biggest gamble of her life—trusting Vinh to be both her anchor and safe harbor in the greatest storm she has ever faced.
As obstacles loom, from Bree’s demanding grandmother, the return of an antagonistic former friend, and the temporary nature of Vinh’s stay on the coast, their love story unfolds against the glittering backdrop of a casino resort. Will Bree and Vinh beat the odds, or will they lose it all in the grand game of love?
Lane O’Neil is a former enneagram Type 2 and current enneagram Type 9 (Cancer sign, if you must know) who loves change. You can just ask her husband—who is asked to rearrange their living room furniture every seven business weeks—to verify that statement.
Born, raised, and forever resident of Atlanta-ish, Georgia, she loves egg rolls, blankies, and her four dogs—a feisty mutt and three pitties, or “senior pitizens.”
Lane rekindled her love of reading during the tumultuous, emotional trench warfare time of her life known as the postpartum period after she had her first and only son in 2021.
That renewed spark led her to link up with indie authors as an alpha and beta reader, which eventually led to a crazy idea—one that had never once crossed her mind before.
What if she tried to write something?
Once her mortifying flashback to completing the writing portion of her SATs in 2009 was done and she took a shower to wash off the nervous sweats, she opened a document and began writing.
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Title: Love Hard
A Memoir
Author: Monica James
Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
Cover Design: Sommer Stein
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Photographer: Michelle Lancaster
Release Date: May 15, 2024
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If love is an addiction, your first love is the first hit.
How many of you remember your first love?
Because falling in love for the first time…I remember that. And that’s the thing about your first love—we all have a love story.
But this isn’t a love story.
This is a life story.
The good.
The bad.
The heartache.
It’s all here.
Love is truly a battlefield…
Love is scary, and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. When you love someone wholeheartedly, you leave yourself open to being destroyed…and that’s what I did, what I still do even though I know better.
But it doesn’t make a difference.
The best kind of love doesn’t make sense. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
This one-in-a-million story is mine, and if you take anything away from this book, it would be to never be afraid to love.
So, let me introduce myself. You may call me Z.
Buckle up, besties, because this will be a bumpy ride.
Love hits you when you least expect it.
Are you ready for the fall?
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Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare, and Emily Dickinson.
When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two. She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt, and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers. She draws her inspiration from life.
She is a bestselling author in the U.S.A., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and the U.K.
Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals. She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks, and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.
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Title: Gunner
Series: Satan's Disciples
Motorcycle Club #3
Author: Elyse Kelly
Genre: Contemporary Romance Novella
Tropes: Second Chance/Friends to Lovers
Single Parent/Small Town
Cover Design: Ashley Slaughter, Book Cover Couture
Release Date: March 28, 2024
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I didn’t expect to see him again. Now I need him to save my son…
When I left Carnage, Nevada, I said I’d never come back. That was ten years ago when the boy I thought I’d marry destroyed my heart.
Yet, I found my way home, returning to the life I left behind. And back in the arms of James Black… The man I never stopped loving.
But he’s no longer the beautiful boy who promised to love me forever. He’s Gunner now, one of the most dangerous bikers of Satan’s Disciples MC.
And he’s just who I need when trouble comes knocking for me and my son.
GUNNER is book 3 in the SATAN'S DISCIPLES MC SERIES. This is a second-chance, friends-to-lovers, single-parent, MC romance packed with fast action and lots of spice! Get ready to swoon over this sexy, protective biker when he'll stop at nothing to keep a single mom and her little boy safe.
SATAN’S DISCIPLES MC SERIES
Faithful. Loyal. Ruthless.
The men of SATAN’S DISCIPLES MOTORCYCLE CLUB live a dangerous lifestyle with deadly consequences. And that’s just the way these possessive alphas like it. Get ready for a long, hard ride with the bad boys of Carnage, Nevada, in these sexy, sinful HEAs that are guaranteed to leave you satisfied and breathless.
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I’m just a true southern girl, reading and writing books, asking you to love me! My books are extra steamy, contemporary romances, all with HEAs and no cliffhangers! They’re short, smutty, and tastefully trashy.
If you love over-protective, sexy, alpha book boyfriends who make you swoon and reach for your favorite… bookmark, then you’ve come to the right place.
When I’m not writing books or doing bookish things, I’m probably listening to music, designing smutty stickers, adding to my spectacular band t-shirt collection, or learning how to do something new like arm-knitting because I’m neurodivergent AF! And yes, I really do know how to knit with my arms.
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Title: Easier Said Than Done
A Lindell Series Standalone
Author: Marie James
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Best Friends to Lovers
Baby Pact/Broken Hero
Cover Design: Qamber Designs & Media
Release Date: March 28, 2024
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If you can’t ask your best friend to get you pregnant then who can you ask?
Adalynn Tate made a promise to her childhood friend.
They vowed that they’d do everything together, including marrying their junior high crush and having all their babies at the same time.
Her friend has succeeded. She got the guy, and the first bun is in the oven.
Now it’s Adalynn’s turn to make her own dreams a reality.
When Adalynn’s best guy friend comes over, he sees the pamphlets for her to have a baby on her own.
Cash does what any best friend would do – offers his free, platonic services instead of extra medical bills.
He doesn’t know Adalynn has had a crush on him since junior high, something she’s done her best to lock down deep as not to threaten their friendship.
Adalynn knows in this world you don’t get to have it all: the baby, the man, the fairytale.
But Cash has other plans for her.
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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!
Title: Making Waves
Series: Getaways #1
Author: Harper Robson
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Tropes: Frenemies to Lovers, Opposites Attract
Only One Bed, Grumpy/Sunshine
Cover Design: Natasha Snow
Release Date: April 10, 2024
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Penn
I'm the wild friend. The social butterfly who always knows where the party is (hint: it's usually at my place). After getting my heart stomped on, I end up with a pair of non-refundable tickets for a super-luxurious cruise vacation. The thought of going solo makes me want to puke, but the only person available to come with me is the one guy who's completely unimpressed by my trust-fund lifestyle and wild antics.
What he doesn't know, what none of my friends know, is that I'm trying to start a youth center for LGBT kids. I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm terrified it won't work out, so I'm keeping it under wraps. It's better to let everyone think I'm just a shallow playboy than to face their pity if my plans fall through. I wouldn't be able to face them if they found out I tried to become something more than just a good-time-guy and failed.
Hunter
Penn and I have nothing in common. The guy’s never even had a job, while my career is one of my top priorities. He’s into glitzy parties, designer clothes and fancy cars, while I’m more comfortable behind my keyboard writing code or hitting the neighborhood pub with our friends for a beer. Sharing a room with the guy for an entire week is going to be one helluva challenge.
When we end up sharing not only a room, but also a bed, one thing leads to another. Yeah, hookups happen, but it doesn’t have to be a big deal. We agree to keep things casual and set an expiration date for our friends-with-benefits arrangement, to avoid any drama when we get home.
But then I stumble upon Penn’s secret project, and I’m blown away by his compassion and drive to help others. He makes me promise to keep the whole thing a secret, but when he faces a roadblock I know I can help him get past, I have to trust he’ll understand that accepting help doesn’t make him any less capable.
Making Waves is a spicy, frenemies-to-lovers, tropical vacation M/M romance. It features only one bed, loads of beachy shenanigans, friends who are family, and plenty of proof that opposites do, in fact, attract.
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Harper Robson grew up dreaming of being a writer, but that didn’t work out until she was in her forties. Along the way, she worked in oil & gas marketing, software development, and spent more than a decade as a stay-home mom.
A true Pacific Northwesterner, Harper loves the rain, and when her family decided to make a big move to Southern California in 2023, she was sure she’d miss the cozy gray winters of Seattle and Vancouver. However, it turns out that a daily dose of sunshine and palm trees isn’t too hard to get used to, and San Diego feels more like home all the time.
She’s mom to two teen boys and an adorable but naughty Yellow Lab. Her husband works in the tech industry, and he makes her laugh every single day.
Harper’s favorite things include getaways with her besties, the Seattle Kraken, her dogs and drinking champagne for no reason at all.
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Title: Boss of Attraction
Series: Forbidden #3
Authors: Kimberly Knight & Rachel Lyn Adams
Genre: MM Romance
Tropes: Boss/Employee, Age Gap, Opposites Attract
Cover Design: Nicole, IndieSage
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
Release Date: March 29, 2024
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Declan can’t resist the temptation of his much older boss, but a stolen kiss while trapped in an elevator becomes a ticking time bomb ready to blow up their careers and personal life.
Sean Ashford, a senior partner at a prestigious law firm, became a widower five years ago when his wife of twenty years passed away. Since then, he’s put all of his time and energy into his career and hasn’t wanted to date, nor does he believe his heart is ready to move on. Little does he know that the young, eager, male attorney he hired will change his mind.
Declan Rivers’ dreams of creating a better life for himself and providing for his mom are finally within his grasp when he gets hired at one of the best criminal law firms in Boston. The only problem is he can’t stop lusting after his new boss. As someone who is used to random hook-ups, he soon learns it’s not only his job at stake but also his heart when he wants more with the one man he can’t have.
Long hours in the office, the occasional flirtatious banter, and a fainting spell leaves Sean questioning his sexuality, and Declan hopeful that his crush will turn into more.
When Sean’s children learn about his workplace romance, Declan is accused of being a gold digger, leaving him and Sean to decide if they want to keep their relationship strictly professional or continue to give into their forbidden desires.
Don’t miss out on this boss/employee romance filled with all the GFY, age gap, opposites attract goodness.
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Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter, who keeps Kimberly on her toes. Kimberly writes in a variety of genres, including romantic suspense, contemporary romance, erotic romance, and paranormal romance. Her books will make you laugh, cry, swoon, and fall in love before she throws you curve balls you never see coming.
When Kimberly isn’t writing, you can find her watching her favorite reality TV shows, including cooking competitions, binge-watching true crime documentaries, and going to San Francisco Giants games. She’s also a two-time desmoid tumor/cancer fighter, which has made her stronger and an inspiration to her fans.
RACHEL LYN ADAMS
Rachel Lyn Adams is a USA Today bestselling author who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, five children, and a crazy number of fur babies. She writes contemporary and MC romance.
She loves to travel and spend time with her family. Whenever she has some free time, which is rare, you’ll find her with a book in her hands or watching reruns of Friends.
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