HAPPY FRIDAY & HAPPY WEEKEND!! I’VE GOT A BUNCH OF NEW RELEASES over the last 24 hours including some from our favorites (the very first one, below is unrequited love!! She overhears him say he wishes he wasn’t married to her. GASP!!! 😮). One from Monica Murphy. One from L.B. Dunbar (age gap!!) and more.
PLUS!! I have some reader recommendations/feedback on recent releases like that one to the left (readers are LOVING Tijan and she’s in Amaozn’s TOP 100 right now!!
Jill: Started the new Tijan book yesterday. Loving it so far, guessing I won’t be disappointed by the end.
AND Annnnnnnnd!!! I end the entire list today with the TOP FIVE books on all of Amazon right now below!!
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UNREQUITED LOVE!!
That’s Amore: An Arranged Marriage in Crisis Love Story by Maya Alden
LIVE & ALREADY IN AMAZON’S TOP 20!! GASP!! 😮 UNREQUITED LOVE!! SHE OVERHEARS HIM SAY HE WISHES HE WASN’T MARRIED TO HER…
“…When Elysa Costa married Dante Giordano, it wasn’t for love. It was a marriage of convenience—a union of tradition and legacy. But what started as an obligation quickly became more for Elysa when she fell in love with her husband.
Dante, burdened by expectations and unsure of his own heart, treated his marriage as nothing more than a duty, keeping things friendly, if distant, with the woman he was tied to.
After Dante’s grandfather’s funeral—the man who orchestrated their marriage—Elysa overhears her husband confiding in a friend that he wishes he wasn’t married to her and wonders if another woman would make a more suitable wife…”
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DARK MAFIA ROMANCE!!
Dance of Madness: A Dark Enemies To Lovers Mafia Romance
LIVE!! DARK MAFIA ROMANCE!!
“...I was supposed to be a distraction. A game. Just a girl stupid enough to dance too close to his fire. But I looked him in the eye when I should’ve bowed. I bared my teeth when I should’ve begged.
Now I’m locked in his cage of silk and steel. His captive. His obsession. His war. But I’m not the delicate thing he thinks he stole...”
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SHE’S RUNNING FROM HIM…
House of Soot (Kingdom of Sinners)
LIVE!! SHE’S RUNNING FROM HIM…
“…He swore he loved me. Then he used me to destroy the only man I’d ever wanted. Blaise Ifrinn wasn’t just another soldier in the Kean empire. He was a ghost from a burned-down past… A hidden heir with a vendetta—and I was his perfect pawn.
I gave him my secrets. My trust. My innocence. He repaid me with betrayal so brutal, it nearly got Ronan Kean killed. And now that I’ve seen the monster behind the mask? I ran. Too bad I’m not just running from him. I’m running with his baby inside me…”
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The Grump Next Door: A Small Town Fake Dating Romance (Steele Brothers of Starlight Cove Book 1) by Brighton Walsh <— LIVE!! FAKE DATING!! “…Sutton Sinclair—the sharp-tongued troublemaker who left claw marks down my back and a dent in my self-control—is living in my backyard cottage with her teenage daughter. And I’m her goddamn landlord. I like things quiet. Controlled. She’s neither. Sutton’s chaos wrapped in sunshine, a temptation in scrubs I can’t seem to stay away from. When her ex shows up acting like Sutton’s still his to lose, I claim her on instinct. The kiss? Hot. The fallout? Immediate. Now my family—and the entire town—thinks we’re a couple...”
Duplicity: A Billionaire, Single Mom Romance (Seraph) by Elodie Hart <— LIVE!! HER DAUGHTER IS SICK BUT SHE GETS A LUCRATIVE SHAMEFUL OPPORTUNITY “…𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲? 𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. My little girl has a life-threatening heart condition, and I’d like to think I’d do anything to save her. Anything at all. But it’s not until the most lucrative, shameful opportunity falls into my lap that I learn just how far I’ll go to protect her. The opportunity? A “full-service” executive assistant role through the discreet agency Seraph, putting my body and my soul at the mercy of a ruthless billionaire who has a reputation for eating women like me for breakfast: Brendan Sullivan...”
HE HUMILIATED HER…
You Were Never Not Mine (Lancaster Prep Book 8)
LIVE!! HE HUMILIATED HER…
“…August Lancaster is a menace. His power at Lancaster Prep is legendary, and no one dares cross him. He’s a ruling senior, and everyone wants to be his friend, or at the very least stay in his good graces.
When he sets his sights on me my freshman year, he makes me wish I never existed. His constant, unwanted attention is humiliating. He makes me burn with both anger and desire. Even though I try to give as good as I get, it isn’t until he graduates that I can actually breathe.
Now I’m finally at college, and it’s everything I want it to be. New people, new experiences, new Sinclair. Until I discover that August attends the same university. When he starts flirting with me at a frat party, I realize he doesn’t even recognize me. At first, I’m humiliated all over again, but I quickly decide to make it my mission to remind August f’ing Lancaster exactly who I am…”
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READER RECOMMENDATION!!
Releasing 10: An Epic, Emotional, and Addictive Romance from TikTok Phenomenon! (Boys of Tommen Book 6)
LIVE & IT’S A READER RECOMMENDATION!! HOLY MOLY HOW DID I MISS THIS ONE??
Linda: Reading the latest Boys of Tommen series by Chloe Walsh’s Releasing 10. They all have difficult subject matter but so very good!! Important to read in order.
Maryse: Thank you so much Linda!! That is one of the most popular series on my blog!! 😃
Sabrina: Seriously these are the best recommendations. I binged the Boys of Tommen series and can’t wait for more books in the series.
“He was her anchor. She was his storm. Together, they were everything—and it still wasn’t enough.
From Chloe Walsh, the international bestselling author of the viral Boys of Tommen series, comes a devastatingly raw, achingly beautiful love story that will rip your heart out and patch it back together.
Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she’s never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own.
But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look bright for the first time in her life…”
Marion: I can’t recommend this series enough, you will laugh, you will cry and you will feel young love at its purest. Brilliant writing by the author. I can’t wait for the rest of the series
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TIJAN’S LATEST!!
A Captive Situation (Kings of New York)
TIJAN’S LATEST IS BACK ON THE LIST ‘CAUSE & JILL IS LOVING IT!! THE MAFIA IS AFTER BOTH OF THEM SO HE KIDNAPS HER…
Jill: Started the new Tijan book yesterday. Loving it so far, guessing I won’t be disappointed by the end.
“…I’m just hoping to distract myself from my heartbreak. That is, until I met Jake Worthing. Grumpy. Hot. A total jerk. Did I mention hot? Also, extremely presumptuous. Just because I look like I’m a thought away from a total meltdown does not mean I need an ambulance. He had the audacity to ask if I needed medical treatment. Well, good riddance to him. I don’t ever have to see him again.
Except, well, I do when I’m taken to the police station for a total misunderstanding. He walks in and…gah. He’s the same that I remember from our first meeting. Brooding. Still gorgeous. (The universe is not fair sometimes.) He’s stirring up emotions that I didn’t know were still inside of me. Then someone tries to shoot him and I’m a witness, and…er, how is it that I’m the one being kidnapped? And by Jake?…”
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Tameron (Honorably Discharged Book 3) by Nora Phoenix and E.M. Lindsey <— LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!! “...Losing my hearing has far more consequences than I expected. The physical part is frustrating and annoying, but the emotional part is so much harder. I don’t belong anywhere anymore, always an outsider. And now there’s Dayton, the older, sexy firefighter who keeps popping up everywhere I go. At my gym, in my house, in my dreams. Wait, why am I dreaming about him? I don’t even like him—though that doesn’t seem to be mutual. Surprisingly, Dayton understands my struggles better than anyone else, and before I realize what’s happening, he’s decided we’re friends...”
Faking It with the Firefighter (Small Town Sizzle Book 2) by Lilian Monroe & Mandy Michaels <— LIVE!! SMALL TOWN FAKE GIRLFRIEND! “…Abigail Stone owes Rex Montgomery a favor, and all he wants is a date to his brother’s wedding. Fake it for a weekend, everyone walks away happy. But Rex isn’t the good guy she thought she knew. And when they’re forced to share more than just the charade, the line between pretend and reality starts to blur. She’s the town’s beautiful troublemaker. He’s the reliable fire marshal who’s tired of always playing it safe...”
MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
Bourbon and Proof (The Bourbon Boys Series #3)
LIVE!! MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
“...she’s the woman I swore to stay away from in a bargain I never wanted to make, and now . . . she’s my wife.
Hadley’s wild attitude and smart mouth have always been impossible to ignore. She’s the only person who pushes every last shred of my resolve. When she peels off her clothes, shares her desires, and uses a nickname that will be my undoing, the chaos that led us here falls away.
There are a decade’s worth of secrets and lies between us, but if we can both get what we want—I’ll keep Foxx Bourbon, and she can escape the fallout from her father’s sins—then none of that matters...”
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BIKER ROMANCE
The Fire We Crave: Iron Outlaws MC Colorado Book 3 (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado)
LIVE!! BIKER ROMANCE – SHE HATES HIM BUT NEEDS HIS PROTECTION…
“…Two things happened on my thirteenth birthday. My older sister went missing. And I told Smoke Callahan, the Iron Outlaws Road Captain, that it was his fault she was gone. Fourteen years later, I still hate him. But hate doesn’t keep me safe when the Bratva sets its sights on me.
I need protection. The kind only a ruthless, broken man like Smoke can provide. So I make him an offer. I’ll help him recover from the burns that nearly cost him his life. In return, he keeps me breathing. It should be simple. It isn’t...”
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LIVE!! HER SON’S BASEBALL COACH…
Sterling Touch (Sterling Falls Book 6)
LIVE!! AGE GAP ROMANCE W/ HER SON’S BASEBALL COACH…
“...I wasn’t supposed to love him. I wasn’t even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life, I’ve had heart-eyes for my oldest brother’s former best friend, Cortland Haven.
I can’t help it that boys can be stupid, and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families.
Try as I might to ignore Cort, I didn’t miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar, twelve years ago. Oh, the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me…”
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His to Save: A Small Town Romantic Suspense by LK Farlow <— LIVE!! HE’S PROTECTING HER & HER UNBORN BABY… “...An all NEW age gap, forced proximity standalone small town romantic suspense. I used to believe in happily ever afters, until the man my mother married stripped away my innocence, piece by piece. For years, he kept me completely isolated, locked away and out of sight. If not for my diary, I’m not sure I would have survived his torment. But when two pink lines turn my world upside down, I know it’s now or never—I have to escape before the monster down the hall learns my secret and destroys my only reason for living...”
When Hearts Remember: An Angsty Amnesia and Brother’s Best Friend Romance (The Orchid) by Victoria Lum <— LIVE!! BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE!! “…She doesn’t remember her first love. But her brother’s best friend never forgot her. Two love stories unfold—one in the past, full of stolen moments and reckless devotion, and one in the present, where fate has given them a second chance. Alexis Vaughn first fell in love with a forbidden stranger through the pages of a secret journal. Their romance burned fast and bright—until a car crash stole her memories and nearly her life. Eight years later, she wakes up from a coma to a world she doesn’t recognize. When her brother’s best friend offers her an internship, she accepts. But something about the brooding, enigmatic billionaire unsettles her...”
P.S. THESE ARE THE TOP 5 BOOKS ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE (as of the moment I put this post together) 😃
FREIDA MCFADDEN ALERT!!!
Death Row (Alibis collection) by Freida McFadden
RECENT RELEASE SUPER-BARGAIN & IT’S THE #1 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! THE LATEST PSYCH-THRILLER BY FREIDA MCFADDEN!!
“Talia Kemper is on death row for murdering her husband. She had an alibi and no known motive, yet Talia’s unwavering protestations of innocence have always been ignored.
Then one day in the visiting area, she sees a recognizable stranger she’s certain is her husband. It turns out the man she’s been convicted of killing may not be dead after all. But as the days tick away toward Talia’s execution, what will it take for her to be believed?”
“Freida McFadden’s Death Row is part of Alibis, a collection of stories about lies, truth, and deception. It’s just a matter of what you can get away with. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.”
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FREIDA MCFADDEN’S LATEST!!
The Tenant
FREIDA MCFADDEN’S LATEST IS THE #2 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! SOMETHING ISN’T QUITE RIGHT ABOUT HIS NEW TENANT
“There’s no place like home…
Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet.
Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she? Because something isn’t quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...”
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HOCKEY STAR ROMANCE
Rewind It Back (Windy City Series Book 5)
IT’S THE #3 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! HOCKEY STAR ROMANCE!!
“...when I was nineteen, we broke each other’s hearts. Six years later, I’ve landed an internship with a big-name interior designer in a new city. Unfortunately, that city just so happens to be the one he plays hockey for.
I thought Chicago was big enough to avoid him, until I get the surprise of a lifetime and unknowingly move in right next door. Even worse? The renovation project I’m assigned to in hopes of turning that internship into my full-time dream job…
It’s his house…”
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FANTASY ROMANCE BY DEVNEY PERRY!
Shield of Sparrows
FANTASY ROMANCE BY DEVNEY PERRY & IT’S GOING TO BE A MOVIE! AND!! IT’S THE #4 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!!
Now in development as a feature film with Amazon MGM Studios, with John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad attached to write the script!
Shield of Sparrows is a slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros—where enemies become lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the strength to tear off her crown and become the warrior she was never meant to be.
The gods sent monsters to the five kingdoms to remind mortals they must kneel. I’ve spent my life kneeling—to their will and to my father’s. As a princess, my only duty is to wear the crown and obey the king.
I was never meant to rule. Never meant to fight. And I was never supposed to be the daughter who sealed an ancient treaty with her own blood. But that changed the fateful day I stepped into my father’s throne room...”
The author says:
“…for anyone who doesn’t read romantic fantasy, don’t worry. This is still very much my book with a BIG romance.”
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MEGHAN QUINN’S LATEST!!
Till Summer Do Us Part
MEGHAN QUINN’S LATEST IS #5 ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE!! FAKE MARRIAGE ALERT! SHE TELLS HER BOSS SHE’S HAVING MARITAL ISSUES & HER BOSS HAS A SOLUTION…
“…her boss has a solution—a one-on-one session with the best marriage counselor in the Northeast, who happens to be her boss’s husband. With no way out of her lie, Scottie agrees to see him. Frantic, she calls in help from her best friend who sets her up with his brother, an improv-obsessed millionaire.
Enter Wilder Wells. More than happy to take on the job, he teaches Scottie the main rule of improv: always say yes. But the rule backfires during the session when Wilder signs them up for an eight-day summer marriage camp with all of Scottie’s co-workers where she’ll have to share a cabin with her way-too-handsome fake husband…”
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