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Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 02-28-2025


HAPPY FRIDAY AND HOLY MOLY IT’S THE END OF FEBRUARY!! March starts this weekend and so does my reading marathon of the book “Creep” that I’ve been waiting ALL week to read since I pre-ordered it and it went live this week. YAY ME!!!!! Plus… maybe I’ll start a container garden this weekend. Fun project for me.

Whatcha doin this weekend? Whatcha readin’? Looking for something to read? One of my 5-STAR twisty favorites is in Amazon’s TOP 50 right now AND… it’s on sale. IT’S A MUST READ & I included it below. 🙂

 

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ELLE KENNEDY’S LATEST!!


The Charlie Method (Campus Diaries Book 3)

ELLE KENNEDY’S LATEST IS THE #1 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! SHE’S CHATTING W/ TWO BEST FRIENDS THAT SHARE…

“…The third in the steamy, hilarious Campus Diaries series by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy, set in the same world as Off Campus and Briar U.

College senior Charlotte Kingston is living two lives―and she’s nailing both of them. By day, she’s the perfect sorority girl, a STEM student in biomedical engineering, and the adopted daughter of an overachiever family. At night, she’s Charlie: a risk-taking daredevil looking for fun who finds herself chatting on a dating app with two anonymous hotties…”

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THE LATEST BY ABBI GLINES!!!


Old Flame (Judgement Series Book 3)

LIVE!! THE LATEST BY ABBI GLINES!!! BIKER ROMANCE!!! Ooooooh that part in the blurb GASP!!! 😮

“…I’m back in Florida, trying to create a new life for myself after a year of going through the motions since my husband’s death. It’s probably best we don’t know the future because I wouldn’t have walked into that bar if I’d known my eyes would collide with the boy who had shattered me long ago.

But Rome wasn’t that boy anymore. He was a biker with a leather vest, tattoos, and piercings.

While I’d been mesmerized by the man he’d become, all he’d had to say to me was that I had gotten old. Leaving to never step foot back there again, fate plays a cruel twist where the new life I thought I’d found turns out to be a lie constructed by someone I trusted most, and the only one to save me is a biker named Tex…”

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M/M MAFIA ROMANCE!!


His Enforcer (Unexpectedly Twisted Book 3)

LIVE!! M/M MAFIA ROMANCE!!

“...no one gets under my skin quite like Luca Rossi, Anthony’s right-hand man. I hate him more than words can express, I always have. He torments me and toys with me, just a plaything in his twisted and cruel game of control, until I’m feral with rage and barely able to contain myself.

But when a series of unidentified bodies begin showing up on our property and it becomes clear someone is trying to take the Costello family down, Luca and I are teamed up to solve the mystery.

And working up close and personal with this man has me realizing that there’s no one in the world quite as dangerous to me as him. Because the real reason I hate Luca so much, and maybe even the reason why I hate myself, is because he’ll never really want me...”

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SUPER-BARGAIN HISTORICAL ROMANCE!!


Romancing Mister Bridgerton: Penelope & Colin’s Story (Bridgertons Book 4)

SUPER-BARGAIN HISTORICAL ROMANCE!! HE’S NOT INTO HER AT ALL…

“...Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesn’t know him at all.

Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who can’t seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the same…”

Anne: Julia Quinn (her Bridgerton series is amazing!) Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn too! He doesn’t even find her attractive at first!

MichelleS: Romancing Mr. bridgerton? With Colin & Penelope Featherington? My absolute fave of that whole series!!! Loved that one. Slow burns are best. I said that about bad boys too…. Hmmm…

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The Etiquette of Love (The Academy of Love Book 7) by Minerva Spencer & S.M. LaViolette <— LIVE!! HISTORICAL ROMANCE!! THEY HATE EACH OTHER but have to marry “...Lady Winifred, the young Dowager Countess of Sedgewick, has already had one husband. She doesn’t want another. And if Freddie ever did change her mind on the matter, she most certainly would not marry a ruthless, dominating, and heartless block of ice like the Duke of Plimpton…

Homecoming: A Downeast Novel by Marie Force <— LIVE!! THE LATEST BY MARIE FORCE! “…For years, Kara Ballard Torrington has kept her distance from the town in Maine where she was raised and the boisterous, often-troubled Ballard family. She’s made a whole new life for herself on Gansett Island that is upended by a phone call in which she learns that two of her brothers have been accused of murder. When her parents ask her husband, celebrated attorney Dan Torrington, to come help them, Kara is forced to confront the drama she left behind in Maine...”

LIVE!!! ROCK STAR ROMANCE!!


Finding Home: A small town, single dad, rockstar romance

LIVE!!! ROCK STAR ROMANCE & HIS LIVE-IN NANNY!

I’m Caleb “C-Bomb” Baumgarten, the bad boy drummer of Red Card Riot. After tragedy strikes, I get the bright idea to hire my daughter’s remaining lifeline, her “Auntie Aubbey,” as my live-in nanny in her small town.

I’m determined not to give in to my white-hot attraction to Aubrey, since I need her to testify on my behalf at an upcoming custody hearing and certify my sobriety. But you know what they say about best laid plans, right? Yeah. My bad...”

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SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!!!


PUCKED Over (A Standalone Romantic Comedy) (The PUCKED Series Book 3)

SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!!! ONE NIGHT STAND WITH A HOCKEY STAR!

“…I’m not a casual sex girlie. But after seven years in a bad relationship, I’m willing to give it a shot. And who better to try it with than my best friend’s boyfriend’s best friend? Pro hockey player, Randy Ballistic, just might live up to his last name on the ice and in the bedroom...”

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HIS DARK PAST HAUNTS HIM!! author sponsored


Pilgrim: A Chiang Mai Love Story (Bike Ride to Ban Talat Trilogy Book 1)

HIS DARK PAST HAUNTS HIM…

“...Daniel knows that something needs to change. As he reconciles a dark past that continues to haunt him, he knows he has to do all he can to avoid returning to it. With this in mind, he finds himself in Northern Thailand.

However, as someone brought to their spiritual knees, the esoteric starts to find him. Each character that unveils themselves to him seems more mysterious than the last. Are they all just a reflection of his inner demons? The story follows Daniel’s journey, which takes him deep into the realm of the mystical and mysterious.

This is the gripping first book in the ‘Bike Ride to Ban Talat’ Trilogy. Told in an intriguing setting, the door is flung open for the reader to enter into the most intimate moments of a divinely human man...”

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LIVE!! SHE’S IN LOVE WITH HER BEST FRIEND…


By His Play: A Friends to Lovers Fake Engagement Romance (Callahan Billionaires Book 3)

LIVE!! SHE’S IN LOVE WITH HER BEST FRIEND…

“…Kieran Callahan is every woman’s fantasy—charming billionaire, star running back, and heartbreakingly handsome. He’s also my best friend.

When my grandmother’s final wish puts me in an impossible situation, I tell the biggest lie of my life: Kieran and I are engaged.

I planned to tell him the truth—really, I did. But before I can come clean, a nosy nurse and a sleazy tabloid blow up my little secret. Now, the media’s in a frenzy, and instead of setting the record straight, my best friend turned fake fiancé agrees to play along. All for Grams...”

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Knotting Hearts: A Charity Omegaverse Romance Anthology by Kelex , Piper Scott, et al. <— LIVE!! ANTHOLOGY! “...Immerse yourself in seventeen tales of love, heat, pregnancy, and romance from some of today’s biggest names in omegaverse all while supporting a worthy cause—ensuring marginalized populations have access to reproductive care without fear of discrimination or prejudice.…”

A Place for Daydreams (Rosewood Beach Book 3) by Fiona Baker <— LIVE!! SWEET AND UPLIFTING! “…after learning that he has arthritis, everything he’s taken for granted—his job at the garage, his independence, even his confidence—feels like it’s slipping away. At his family’s urging, he reluctantly agrees to start physical therapy, expecting nothing more than a routine list of exercises. Instead, he meets Noelle Calhoun, a sweet and encouraging therapist who recently moved to town to be closer to her grandparents. At first, Dean struggles to accept that he might need to slow down, but Noelle’s gentle humor and genuine care spark something in him that he can’t ignore...”

SUPER-SALE & I LOVED IT!!!


The Silent Patient

SUPER-SALE & I LOVED IT!!! PSYCH-THRILLER & IT KEPT ME GUESSING…

“The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.

One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety…

…Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him….”

P.S. HERE’S MY 5-STAR REVIEW

Nay: So SO happy you loved it!!! Now I want to find another just like it!

Sue: i absolutely loved this book! Loved the way the chapters were set up and I was surprised by the ending. Just wow!! Five plus stars for sure!!

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HOCKEY ROMANCE!!


The Sweetest Chirp (IceCats Book 6)

LIVE!! HOCKEY ROMANCE!! BEST FRIENDS & SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HIM…

“…Doing a challenge from social media, I thought I had my best friend right where I wanted him. As mine. Just when I thought we were going to be together forever in the all the ways I had dreamed of, he pulled the rug out from under me. He broke my heart in a matter of seconds, and I had no choice but to take off.

After three years, I thought I was in the clear; I thought I’d never see him again, and I was finally building a life. Maybe not one I’d wanted, but one I loved. I should have known better. Thatcher Orlov would never give up...”

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LIVE!! ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS!


Rogue Souls

LIVE!! ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS!

“...Betrayed by Dax, her only ally, childhood confidant, and fiercest rival, Irene Delmare embarks on a relentless quest for the Divine Sapphire, a lost treasure said to hold the power to rewrite fate itself. The Sapphire is Irene’s only hope for revenge and a chance to settle the score with the man who shattered her trust.

But as destiny draws Irene and Dax together in a deadly race, their obsession reignites a bitter rivalry and an undeniable pull between them...”

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FANTASY ROMANCE!!


The Sea-Ogre’s Eager Bride (Aspect and Anchor)

LIVE!! FANTASY ROMANCE!! SHE VOLUNTEERS TO MARRY THE SEA-OGRE!

“...Valessa is in danger. Her town has been captured by Aventinian raiders, the women taken, and now she’s on a ship destined for nowhere good. But when a terrifying, four-armed sea-ogre pirate boards the ships and demands compensation, Valessa’s luck changes.

The sea-ogre demands a bride. It’s the perfect opportunity for her to escape. Valessa volunteers. She tells everyone she’s very experienced with sea-ogres and knows just how to please them. She’s very descriptive about it, too.

Thing is…Valessa’s a liar.  She’s never met a sea-ogre in her life. But it can’t be that hard to keep one man-slash-monster happy, can it?”

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The Friend Situation: A billionaire, friends to lovers stand alone romance (Billionaire Situation Book 2) by Lyra Parish <— LIVE!! FAKE RELATIONSHIP WITH A BILLIONAIRE!! “…Weston Calloway is the last man I imagined meeting after one of my boring breakups. But there he was, in a dive bar, drinking cheap whiskey, looking like my next favorite mistake. Instead of hooking up, we become secret friends. When his jealous ex stirs up unnecessary drama, Weston asks me to go public with our friendship, but things quickly escalate and we lose control of the situation. Now, we’re roommates, and I’m wearing a diamond ring that he slipped on my finger...”

Three Reckless Words: A Grumpy Sunshine Romance (The Rory Brothers Book 3) by Nicole Snow <— LIVE!! RUNAWAY BRIDE & THE BILLIONAIRE! “...Is there any coming back after you blow your own wedding to pieces? I braced for the fallout when I left my emotionally unavailable groom. I expected the tears, the family wrath, the drama galore. I found the perfect little cabin to hide out and heal. But I never planned for him. Archer Rory makes my bridal breakdown look tame. A gruff single dad with a genius son. A billionaire control freak who only speaks common sense. Also, the man who’s now my landlord, my boss, and my protector. Whew…”

LIVE!! A BABY ON HIS DOORSTEP!


Baby Contract

LIVE!! A BABY ON HIS DOORSTEP!

“…When a baby is dropped on Carr McRae’s doorstep, his first instinct is to send the child back to its parents but when no one claims the little girl, he has no choice but to learn how to be a dad. A contract nanny is his solution but he didn’t bargain for Addison Parker, who is sweetness and sex, in one irresistible package. He knows better than to fall for the nanny but his heart isn’t listening to his head.

Addison Parker falls in love with each of her charges but she knows better than to get involved with the family...”

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READER RECOMMENDATION!!


Cowboy Command: Book 1 (Cowboy Justice Association)

READER RECOMMENDATION!! NANCY LOVED IT!

“…One minute Katie is eating lunch with her sister, the next she barely escapes a car bomb meant to kill her. Luckily, Federal agents are going to give her a new identity until she can testify against the man who wants her dead. They change her name to Presley, her hair color to brown, and her shorts and sandals to jeans and cowboy boots. She’s not thrilled about being sent to a small town in Montana to hide, but she wants to stay alive…”

Nancy: It is a story with Danger, Passion, Secrets, True Love, and Romance Suspense and you get to meet the Cowboy Justice Association. …Their attraction was fast and easy. Opposites seem to attract. The cutest

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Beautiful Thing: A Small Town Best Friend’s Brother Romance (The Brighton Family Book 6) by Cassie-Ann L. Miller <— LIVE!! HE JUST WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE… “…Fake-dating my best friend’s brother should be easy. He’s grumpy. He’s guarded. He’s older.  And he’d never fall for a complicated single mother like me. Or that’s what I need to tell myself…so I don’t fall in love with him. Archer Brighton needs a girlfriend. If the broody lumberjack shows up at his younger brother’s wedding without a date, his meddling family will drive him insane…”

Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 02-28-2025

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LIVE!! THE LATEST BY MARIE FORCE!!


Homecoming: A Downeast Novel

LIVE!! THE LATEST BY MARIE FORCE!!

“...One of our favorite couples from the Gansett Island Series takes a fraught journey to Kara’s hometown, where their bond becomes even stronger as they face these new challenges together—with a goal of returning home to Gansett before their baby is born.

For more about Dan & Kara’s story, make sure you’ve explored Dan & Kara: A Downeast Prequel...”

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M/M MAFIA ROMANCE!!


His Enforcer

M/M MAFIA ROMANCE!! HE HATES HIM BUT THEY HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER!

“...working up close and personal with this man has me realizing that there’s no one in the world quite as dangerous to me as him. Because the real reason I hate Luca so much, and maybe even the reason why I hate myself, is because he’ll never really want me…”

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ROCK STAR ROMANCE!!


Finding Home by Lauren Rowe

ROCK STAR ROMANCE!!

“Finding Home is a standalone, small town, single dad rockstar romance with deep feels, suspense, spice, no cheating, no third act breakup, and a happily ever after.

No prior listening required. Please check author’s website for content warnings.”

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Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 02-28-2025

➔➔ PREORDERS (coming soon!)

  1. Prince with a Chance of Darkness (Grimm Cove Book 7) by Mandy M. Roth | March 1, 2025
  2. Dark Little Reign: A Dark Bully Romance (Kings of Bolten Book 6) by K.G. Reuss | March 1, 2025
  3. From Nowhere (Wildfire) by Jewel E. Ann | March 4, 2025
  4. Wild Dark Shore: A Novel by Charlotte McConaghy | March 4, 2025
  5. Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole | March 4, 2025
  6. Far From Home: A Novel by Danielle Steel | March 4, 2025
  7. Shadow’s Heart by Kresley Cole | March 4, 2025
  8. Walking Red Flag (Semyonov Bratva Book 3) by Lani Lynn Vale | March 4, 2025
  9. You Killed Me First by John Marr | March 4, 2025
  10. The Last Guy On Earth (Hockey Guys: a series of MM stand-alone novels Book 3)by Sarina Bowen | March 4, 2025
  11. Simi (Shadows of Fire Book 5) by Sherrilyn Kenyon | March 4, 2025
  12. Because the Night: A Vampire Romance by Kylie Scott | March 4, 2025
  13. Sneak Peek for What Sleeps Within the Cove by Harper L. Woods | March 4, 2025
  14. The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid | March 4, 2025
  15. Wild Side by Elsie Silver | Mar 4, 2025
  16. A Pearl Before Spies (Agents of the Convent, Book 5) by Rebecca Connolly | Mar 4, 2025
  17. Blood Moon by Sandra Brown | March 4, 2025
  18. Alphas Never Hide (Willow Lake Supernaturals Book 5) by Lori Ames | March 4, 2025

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