Ripe For Reader: December 2023

Friday, December 29, 2023

Release Blitz - LETHAL VOWS by T.L. Smith & Kia Carrington-Russell

Title: Lethal Vows

Author: T.L. Smith & Kia Carrington-Russell

Genre: Dark Romance

Release Date: December 29, 2023

Dear Miss Ricci

You don’t know this yet, but you will be my wife.

Sincerely

Your soon-to-be husband

He thought I was his—that’s what his emails indicated.

He thought that because our families signed on the dotted line many years ago, it was a done deal.

But I ran away from that life for a reason.

Little did I know, he would find me. And he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

Crue wanted me to be his wife.

And all I wanted was him in my bed.

Cover Reveal - STAY PRESENT by Kaylee Ryan

Kaylee Ryan has revealed the covers for Stay Present!

Releasing January 23, 2024

Ryder

Two years of silence and no goodbye—she slipped away and through my fingers, leaving me with nothing but questions... and a heavy heart from missing her.

I know what we had was real, that our love was once in a lifetime.

Now she's back from her Parisian fashion internship, and I'm ready for answers, desperate to understand why she couldn't just stay.

Jordyn

When I walked away, it was to protect him. Yet, all he knows, all he cares about, is that I left. Coming home is a bittersweet journey, each step heavier than the last.

While I'm no longer half a world away, the obstacles in front of us make it feel like we've never been farther apart.

I want to give him the answers he so desperately craves, and this time, I'll get to say goodbye. However, what I didn't plan on was Ryder's fight. He's not going to let me go so easily this time.

Release Blitz - FROM THE ASHES by KE Osborn

FROM THE ASHES

KE Osborn

Release Date: December 28

FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

From the ashes.

That was my plan from the very beginning.

To rise from the inferno and build something new with Makaylie. She’s everything I never knew I wanted.

Everything I thought I didn’t need.

She’s a good girl—I’m nothing but a wounded man with a black heart, keeping my identity from her.

When our different worlds collide, the outcome will be catastrophic—not only for her but for the people we love. The chaos I’ve unleashed will wreak havoc on the streets of Baton Rouge, and no one will be safe.

Not even the sanctity of the Baton Rouge Bachelors can outrun the storm that’s coming.

From K E Osborn, USA Today bestselling author comes…

The conclusion to the Baton Rouge Bachelors Duet.

An opposites attract spin-off from the NOLA Defiance MC Series, but you don’t need to read NOLA Defiance to enjoy the conclusion to this duet. The alpha hero has ‘touch her and I will unalive you’ vibes, with a great supporting cast that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Excerpt Reveal - BOONE by Laramie Briscoe

Title: Boone

Author: Laramie Briscoe

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 13, 2024

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

I’m old enough to be her father, and a life-long confirmed bachelor, but after one night together, all that is about to change. Boone Wilson Instead of building my forever with a conventional family, I’ve dedicated my life to being the best father I can to the son I had way too early in life. Now that he’s grown, I’m giving all I can to my job. I make a construction site run smoothly, and can build anything with a couple pieces of wood and my imagination.

My world is small and calm. That’s how I like it. Until Alexis Monroe barrels her way into my peaceful existence and turns my world upside down.

Alexis Monroe Since graduating college I’ve been hustling, trying to make a dent in the crippling student loan debt I’ve accumulated. Just when I think I’m about to hit major burnout, Boone Wilson walks into the bar I sling drinks at.

His swagger and quiet self-assuredness is a flame that draws me to him.

All I can do now? Try not to get burned.

The Broken Falls Series is a new small-town, steamy, blue collar romance series set in the fictional town of Broken Falls, WV from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Laramie Briscoe.

Cover Reveal - SACRED VOWS by Measha Stone

Measha Stone has revealed the cover for Sacred Vow!

Releasing January 12, 2024

Seven years ago, I put her on a plane out of Chicago. But now she's back.

In place of the girl I sent away emerged a fiery, alluring woman who hates me as much today as she did seven years ago.

No matter that I sent her away for her own safety, Isolde holds me responsible for the chaos that turned her world upside down.

I made a vow to her brother before his death. Keep her safe, no matter what. And I plan to honor it.

Her resistance only makes me crave her submission more. And now I make a new vow.

I will keep her safe.

I will make her mine.

That is my Sacred Vow.

Release Blitz - THE SHAKE OFF by Lulu Moore

The Shake Off by Lulu Moore is now live!

My name is Ace Watson, and I’m having an existential crisis.

I finished last season as one of the league's best pitchers. Baseball’s smooth-talking boy wonder. The future of The New York Lions.

I'm starting this season as the worst.

And I don't want to sound dramatic, but the fault lies entirely with Payton Lopez.

She walked into my life with her mile long legs and dark brown waves, and threw me the curviest of all curve balls. Overnight my ability to pitch disappeared with my ability to charm, and I found myself riding a one way ticket to being the most expensive bench warmer in the M.L.B.

The only solution: to get Payton to fix what she broke, something she agrees to on one very easy condition.

Before long, what started as a way to get my pitch back, soon turns into any excuse I can find for us to spend time together.

Before long, I have everything I didn't even realize I wanted.

Now I just need to prove to her that while I exist without baseball, I can’t live without her.

Payton Lopez might have thrown me a curve ball, but I’m pitching it right back.

R.C. Stephens has revealed the cover for Anti Player!

Releasing January 24, 2024

Hooking up with my best friend's little sister was my first mistake... falling for her was my second.

But being a twenty-seven-year-old virgin on a pro hockey team was messing with my head and my game.

Plenty of women would have gladly helped me out with my little predicament, but it wasn't me they were after—it was my status.

To keep things simple, I decide to make Madison a proposal: take my virginity and I'll help the beautiful single mom find her confidence after a bad breakup.

We promised each other it was only temporary, our dirty little secret.

We had an expiration date.

The season would start, Maddie would go to school, and my best friend wouldn't have a clue about what transpired between us.

Maddie keeps her end of the deal... it's me who can't follow through.

Release Blitz - EVERYTHING FOR LOVE by Heidi McLaughlin

Title: Everything for Love

Author: Heidi McLaughlin

Genre: fiction/marriage troubles/family decisions (not a romance)

Release Date: December 19, 2023

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Nick Ashford thought he had the perfect life, the perfect marriage, and two perfect kids. And then one day, it all changed.

Shocked by his wife’s revelation and torn about how to be the perfect husband and father, Nick’s life becomes anything but perfect.

Release Blitz - KISSES AT CANDY CANE LANE by Laramie Briscoe

Title: Kisses at Candy Cane Lane

Author: Laramie Briscoe

Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance/ Holiday Romance

Release Date: December 15, 2023

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Noelle, a hotel, and two hearts that fell . . . Noelle Green

Holidays are turning out to be something of a special time for me. On Halloween I got pregnant, and now that we're heading for Christmas - who knows?

When I tell the father of my baby that he’s going to be a dad, he surprises me by not running away. Even though all we had was one night, he's willing to see where this goes, and so am I.

Little do Cal and I know that what we started on Halloween night just might see us through the rest of our lives.

Release Blitz - OWN ME by K.A. Tucker

Own Me by K.A. Tucker is now live!

Own Me is Book Five in the highly addictive forbidden romance The Wolf Hotel series.

Eight months ago, I was a naive, small-town farm girl nursing a shattered heart. Then hotel billionaire Henry Wolf picked me up off the ground (literally), and my entire life changed.

Now, I live in a luxurious Manhattan penthouse, and I'm starting my first company while planning a beautiful wedding to the man of my dreams.

I knew these first months would bring plenty of drama. I expected the savage media attention surrounding our engagement, and I braced myself for Mama's theatrics about the wedding.

But nothing could have prepared me for the big secret that just stormed through our front door, altering the course of our future.

Own Me should be read after Tempt Me, Break Me, Teach Me, and Surrender to Me.

Cover Reveal - FROM THE ASHES by KE Osborn

FROM THE ASHES

KE Osborn

Release Date: December 28

FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

From the ashes.

That was my plan from the very beginning.

To rise from the inferno and build something new with Makaylie. She’s everything I never knew I wanted.

Everything I thought I didn’t need.

So when her safety is in question because of my very existence, I must protect her. Even if it’s from the men who look up to me as their leader. If they found out about her, the cost would be devastating. She’s a good girl—I’m nothing but a wounded man with a black heart, keeping my identity from her.

Not even the sanctity of the Baton Rouge Bachelors can outrun the storm that’s coming.

From K E Osborn, USA Today bestselling author comes…

The conclusion to the Baton Rouge Bachelors Duet.

Release Blitz & Review - SOMETHING LIKE LUST by Piper Rayne

Something like Lust by Piper Rayne is now live!

Do it.

Don’t do it.

Never in my life did I think I’d wager in my head whether to sleep with Chicago Grizzlies wide receiver, Damon Siska.

He’s the perfect package—hot body, killer smile, and flirts like he earned a doctorate in it. But anyone who reads gossip blogs knows he is looking for one amazing night and nothing more.

I’m not the usual type of woman he beds. I’m a middle school teacher who cherishes her quiet nights in, drinking wine, and watching romantic comedies, dreaming I’m the heroine. I’m not embarrassed to admit—I want the fairy tale.

But Damon caught me at a weak moment. Fresh off a break-up and feeling lousy about myself, I gave into temptation and left the next morning like every other woman he’d slept with.

Except I walked away with more than just the memories when three weeks later the little white stick glowed with two pink lines.

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4 Stars

Back to the world of Chicago Grizzlies we go with this one. I love the family atmosphere these players have with each other. Damon is about to embark on a whole new adventure and his friends are standing right behind him supporting the changes in his life.

When Damon finds out he is going to be a father, he is scared to death that he isn't father material. Once he has the paternity confirmed, for legal reasons only, because he knew in his heart Adeline wouldn't be the type of woman to do anything malicious like that. He steps up to the place 100%, determined to be there for her and help in any way he can. Starting with getting to know one another as their pregnancy was a result of a one night stand. Adeline is excited to be a mother and thankful for Damon's involvement but is converned that her simple normal life is going to up ended with Damon's fame and his family money.

Watching the relationship grow between these two is refreshing. Can Damon prove that the right people can make a guy change his player ways? Will the fans come to love Adeline as must as Damon has?

Definitely a recommendation from me.

Excited for what is to come next.

*** Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ***

Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write "heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle" about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they're married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they're both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!