A surprise baby romance from USA Today bestselling author Layla Hagen
“Have dinner with me.”
Four words. That was all Travis Maxwell needed to charm me, even though I’d just met him. In my defense, we were kind of stuck together, and he was the hottest man I’d laid eyes on. We spent a glorious week together, knowing we'd go our separate ways in the end.
Then two blue lines turn my life upside down. I'm pregnant.
Travis and I agree to be friends—nothing more—and to focus on raising our child.
Easier said than done.
Travis transforms from a master flirt to a caveman, intent on protecting me and our unborn baby. He spoils me and tends to all my cravings, including supplying my favorite cupcakes on demand and watching Netflix with me.
As we bicker about which season of Bridgerton is better, he suddenly tells me that he wants me.
That he needs me.
And I need him too.
But I want him to want me for me, not just because of the baby. Travis doesn’t want to settle down. He told me as much when we met. I fear he's mixing up his feelings, and I don't think that's the right recipe for forever…
The Cabin at Candy Cane Lane byLaramie Briscoe is live!
Holly, jolly and all that's naughty...
Holly Wreath
Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. But not this year; at least not for me.
Laid off from my job, left at the altar, and wanting to bury my head until the new year I head to my family's cabin.
Blizzard Bluff was in my rearview as soon as I graduated high school, but now I'm heading back to lick my wounds.
The last person I expect to see is the boy who made my heart pound as a teenager. Only he's a man now, and he's going to be the one to turn my holiday around.
Cruel North, an all-new surprise pregnancy, forced proximity contemporary romance with sizzling chemistry from New York Times bestselling author JB Salsbury is now available!
Cruel North is an angsty second-chance, enemies to lovers romance where the most hated man in the North Brothers world finally gets brought to his knees.
A teenage girl with my eyes and a familiar glare, strolls into my life and she’s calling me Dad.
Vanessa was my high school girlfriend and the smartest person I knew. She had a plan, a future, and she swore nothing would get in the way. Until she became pregnant. I thought we agreed on our plan. I sent her the money. Then she disappeared.
Her parents told me she was in South America for a year. They told me she needed space. I never heard from her again.
Seventeen years later and she’s back. I’m staring into those green eyes that used to tempt and taunt me. But it’s not just about us anymore. We have a daughter.
Wanting to get to know her, I convince them to move in with me for one month. I’m so angry with Vanessa and she seems to be equally upset. Every insult from her smart mouth invites me to engage. The brutal chemistry between us ignites old embers. I wish I could hate her. Instead, I want her.
But too much time has passed, and I fear some hurts run too deep to heal. At the end of thirty days, I’ll have to let them go. Unless I figure out a way to keep them.
but his magnetic touch and warm heart is making me feel alive again.
Cait
Ever since my accident, I feel like damaged goods. I do my best to hide in plain sight until the one guy I want to notice me... doesn't.
Westfall U hockey star, Evan Hayworth, is way out of my league. If I want him to see me as more than just his tutor, I'll need help igniting the spark.
Lucky for me, his hockey teammate comes to my rescue and makes me an offer I can't refuse-- I help him with science, and he will educate me in the bedroom.
A fake relationship with the most unavailable guy on campus seems like the perfect solution.
Noah is caring, loyal, and very good at pretending. Even I'm starting to believe the chemistry between us is real.
He may be a damaged player... but his magnetic touch and warm heart are making me feel alive again.
Noah
My life has been falling apart. After desperately trying to hold it together and focusing on hockey, the last thing I need is a serious relationship.
What I need is to keep my head in the game, but Cait is the exception to that rule.
Because hooking up with her is homework... or an experiment, depending on how you look at it.
I need a tutor to get my science grade up and she needs my expertise in the bedroom to give her the confidence to go for the guy she really wants... my teammate.
It's a win-win, until the variables change, and our combustible attraction takes us from friends to lovers.
Suddenly our fake relationship feels much too real and I'm regretting our little deal.
Once Upon a Sexy Scrooge by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine is now live!
Ah, Christmas. The most magical time of the year. A time when the snow is falling, cider is flowing, and couples are kissing under the mistletoe.
Too bad all that makes me want to gag.
Look, it isn't that I'm a hater, it's just that I have a job to do, and this particular holiday is getting in the way of that. And I know what you'll say, that Micah Noble's Christmas Tree Farm is a beloved tradition for many of the families of Merrihill, but you have to see the bigger picture here: a five-star luxury resort where overworked Manhattanites can escape to, a serene place of spas and shopping and watching sexy lumberjacks chopping wood...
Oh, wait, scratch that last one. Lumberjacks aren't my thing. Anymore. Micah Noble cured me of that, which tends to happen when you're trying to buy someone's family land to bulldoze to the ground.
He can call me a Scrooge all he wants, but business is business, and pleasure is...well, not something I can afford to think about. Even if it does come packaged in those tight jeans and flannel shirts that make me want to rip them off with my teeth—
No. This is not happening. I will not think of Micah as anything other than an obstacle to getting what I want. A really, really sexy obstacle.
Ugh. Screw Christmas and the sleigh it rode in on.
Just one night, becomes one more, becomes one more, becomes ... forever?
Dr. Nora Reynolds saves lives. It's what she does. It's all that matters.
Walker Hewitt wins Formula One races. It's what he does. It's all that matters.
She's on the verge of getting a grant to do the important research on women's health that is her passion, delaying her parent's dream of joining them to practice medicine in some of the world's neediest places.
He's on the verge of leaving the flashy career his billionaire parents are so proud of and finally heading home to the family ranch in Texas.
When a snowstorm strands the two strangers in Seattle, it's one night to set it all aside, the expectations, the pressure, the questions. One night to be someone other than a driven overachiever.
A blissful night of slow and consuming passion against the backdrop of magical holiday lights turns into another, and another. Sticking together, they make their way to small-town Perry Harbor to soak in the joys of the season and learn some sexy tips from a few surprisingly active seniors in town.
Now, he wants more with her, much more. He wants forever. Can she set aside the person she was supposed to be in order to become the person she wants to be, or was this just a formula for one incredible Noel?
In this world, where gowns, castles, and crowns make for the perfect reflections, life isn’t always as it appears. Love is elusive, even when the most beautiful woman is right before you. Illusions distort visions, shadows lurk in the sunshine, and monsters tread behind smiles and chivalrous facades.
I, Roman Archibald Godfrey, swore an oath to Molave.
To the king.
And above all, to Princess Lucille.
Forget the fairytales you’ve heard. This world is ruthless.
Have you been Aleatha’d?
From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new contemporary romantic-suspense series, Royal Reflections, set in the world of the royal elite, where things are not as they appear.
*RUTHLESS REIGN is book one of the Royal Reflections series.
Victoria “Vic” Paige thought she was firmly back in the saddle since returning to her job as a firefighter after a three-year hiatus. These past twelve months with her new crew at Station 3 have rebuilt her confidence. That is until they are called to a motel fire where she stumbles onto the scene of a murder, which has her shaken to the core. But a pair of calm blue eyes and the deep composed voice of the first detective on the scene restores her equilibrium.
As a recent transplant from the Denver PD to the smaller Durango force, Detective Bill Evans is enjoying the slower pace. So when he is called to a motel fire, he doesn’t expect it to be the first in a series of gruesome murders, bringing back unwelcome memories. The only high point is finding the familiar, beautiful, blond-haired firefighter on the scene. Despite the heavy workload inevitable with a difficult case like this, he’s determined not to let that stroke of good luck go to waste.
However, when the killer turns the investigation personal, Evans finds himself reconnecting with his former partner, Quint Axton, as he scrambles to keep those he cares about safe.
You’ve heard the story about the wedding planner who falls for the groom?
Well, this is the one where she falls for his father.
And that groom? He’s my ex.
TEMPT, an all-new scorching hot age gap, forbidden, small town romance, featuring a plus-sized heroine and her ex’s irresistible dad from USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow, is now available!
I didn’t realize who the gruff, gorgeous older man was the night he rescued me from a creep in a Manhattan hotel bar. All I knew was that a hot, bearded stranger with a protective streak showed up right when I needed a reminder that real gentlemen still exist.
(Although he left his manners behind after asking me up to his room.)
It was the hottest night of my life, but I never thought I’d see the former Navy SEAL again.
Imagine my surprise at the rehearsal dinner one week later, when my sexy one-night stand is introduced as the father of the groom. Even more surprising? That temptation we felt in New York was no fluke.
In public, we pretend there’s nothing between us.
In private, we can’t keep our hands off each other.
The situation is beyond complicated. Zach never even knew he’d fathered a child until recently, and he wants to earn his son’s trust and respect. As for me, I’m looking for a man who wants to start a family, and Zach has made it clear he’s not that man. He’s fifteen years older, newly divorced, and he lives across the country.
But no matter how many times we draw the line, we keep crossing it.
A sexy, dirty talking alpha. The beautiful, sweet, and fiery Bella. Her boss. A contract that forces him to marry. An arrangement that will change them forever. Meet Tyler Hawk...
Tyler Hawk is a man with secrets and a dark past. A man who has known tragedy and betrayal. He wants for little, but what he wants is more power, a legacy that is his own, and not his father's. There are obstacles in his way, one of which is the scandal his father left behind and a will with certain demands.
Behind the scenes he is a man on edge, and only one woman sees the truth hidden beneath his strong will and dominant rule. Bella is somehow demanding and submissive, fiery and yet sweet. She can give him everything he wants, she just doesn't know it, not yet, but she will. If she'll just say yes and sign on the dotted line.
My name is Lexi and I went missing for seven years. When I returned I realized that my family has moved on. I can't explain to you the heartache that I felt.
I have amnesia but it's different. It's like I remember my previous life but nothing about the seven years I was gone.
When I find a new job at a jazz club, I meet Dan Harbor and oh my he's gorgeous.
Never would I have thought I would fall head over heels for him so fast.
As time goes on, I start to get very vivid flashbacks of my time when I was missing. The man that kidnapped me is back and he will stop at nothing to have me, to make me his.
I will soon realize that I have to fight for my life and never give up. Dan will do anything to protect me. He makes me feel again. He makes me want again and no matter what happens I will do whatever it takes to keep him.
I no longer have my husband but who says you can't have two loves in a lifetime?
Trigger warnings: Talk of sexual assault, foul language, and violence.
Gemma Fiore can’t decide what’s worse: sharing a forbidden kiss with a stranger on her wedding day, or her husband being murdered before the marriage has even been consummated. Matteo Santarossa never planned to steal a kiss from a married woman . . . it just happened. He hadn’t planned to kidnap her either, but when gunshots are fired, decisions get made fast. And Gemma Fiore? She’s the kind of woman he’s ready to make risky decisions for. The heat between Gemma and Matteo is nothing either of them can seem to control. It doesn’t help matters that they’re hiding away at his cabin, which only has one bed, while he nurses her back to health. However, when Gemma learns her kidnapper, the same man starring in her darkest forbidden fantasies, is planning to marry her cousin, she knows it can’t last. The question is, does she go back to her father, knowing he’ll promise her to yet another business associate? Or can she stay with Matteo against her family’s wishes and break the sacred promise she made to her dead mother?
Professional football has an intense rulebook, but it’s the unwritten rules that come with the harshest consequences. The biggest one of all: don’t date your teammate’s sister. And if you do, don’t you dare fall in love with her. I never meant to fall, but when it comes to Brenna Donald, I don’t think I ever stood a chance. She’s everything I’m not; a light-hearted, wild child who shines brighter than the sun. Since that one fateful night in college, she’s had me under her spell—a spell I can’t break. Not that it makes a difference. Not when she’s the sister of my best friend and the team quarterback. In his eyes, no one is good enough for Brenna—not even me. I’ve never been one to break rules, but when it comes to Brenna, I’m not just breaking them. I’m taking a sledge hammer to them, and I don’t care. I love her, and by some miracle, she loves me too. To be together, we have to rewrite the book. But can we? Or will we have to pick between playing by the rules or following our hearts.
My life was a series of horrifying moments and sleepless nights that caused me to become a suspicious person. I learned to trust my gut and not be afraid to defend myself from the monsters that scratched at my door. But as time went on, the things I’d seen and experienced shaped me into someone I considered to be broken, damaged, and beyond redemption.
I never expected the stranger staring down the barrel of my gun would be the one to save me. He saw through the armor I had encased myself in and silently vowed to set me free. He showed me that I was worthy of love and gave me everything I ever wanted but didn’t think I deserved.
When one of those monsters from my past comes calling, threatening to drag me back into the darkness, secrets are exposed and my world is ripped apart. Will he stand by my side as I embrace my nightmares, or will I be forced to walk away from the only person who’s ever shown me love?
The Death Hounds say when you’re family, you’re family for life, but what happens when family ties threaten to strangle us all?
Single and Ready to Jingle by Piper Rayne is now live!
The girl who loves Christmas falls for the Grinch—it's a Christmas miracle.
What started as a dumpster fire of a blind date turns into a deal.
In truth, it probably didn't help that I showed up dressed like an elf but that's a story for another time. Our start was rocky at best which is why it's so frustrating that I can't stop thinking about his sexy British accent. Or the way his chest and arms fill out his suit. Or his perfect hair with that single streak of grey at the front.
Santa likes lists and so do I, so here's all the reasons why Andrew and I aren't right for each other:
He's my brother's best friend He's the biggest grump I've ever met. He hates Christmas.
That last one is big for a girl like me who thinks that the entire month of December should be a national holiday. So, when he calls for my help in planning his firm's holiday party, I can't pass up the opportunity to grow my small business. Bonus, we make a deal, and he agrees to attend three holiday events with me so I can make him fall in love with Christmas. As if I'd pass up an opportunity to make a Grinch's heart grow three times its size.
It isn't long until I discover Andrew has a very real reason to hate Christmas and I start to see him in a different light. That's when the Christmas miracle begins.
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling romance author, W Winters, comes a provocative tale of a club designed for wealthy sinners. It’s a story crafted for those of us who crave the villain.
Declan Cross is powerful, brooding and his dark eyes speak of damage that my soul begs to unravel. I’ve always been drawn to men who are rough around the edges, the bad guys so to speak… but he’s a kind of brutal that scares me. So I promised myself I’d stay away. I swore up and down, I would never give in to the fantasies that haunt me at night.
One night changed everything. He knows I witnessed everything that happened. There are no deals or negotiations with men like him.
He made it known in no uncertain terms what he desired most… I saw something I shouldn’t have. And now I’m his.
I'll Kiss You Twice is book two in the Shame on You Series. Tease Me Once must be read first.
From Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a small town, second chance romance! Fernhill Lane is the newest installment in the Huckleberry Bay series!
She didn't think she'd ever come home again.
When Sarah Bitterman left Huckleberry Bay at the tender age of nineteen, newly married to a much older man, she had every intention of coming home to visit. Sadly, she quickly learned that was out of the question.
Until her husband throws her out with only the clothes on her back and finally sets Sarah free.
Coming back to the small seaside town has been the hardest thing she's ever done. Facing those who loved her the most and think she turned her back on them is almost unbearable. But she needs her two best friends, and she's longed to make amends with her little brother.
Huckleberry Bay is like the art in her soul. And now she can put down roots and begin to heal.
Tanner Hilleman knew it was a mistake to let the love of his life go all those years ago, and he's never stopped thinking about her. Now that she's home, while he's giving her the space she needs, he's also determined to make Sarah see that they belong together.
Unfortunately, Sarah's past has followed her to Huckleberry Bay and threatens to destroy everything she loves. Will she and Tanner survive it? Or will it tear them apart for good?
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5 StarsThe best of both worlds, a Kristen Proby swoony romance with a bit of a suspense twist. A second chance at a love that was strong once, life got in the way, can they have it all now?Sarah didn't think she would ever go home after realizing the how wrong she had been to leave chasing love and proposed happiness. Other than her besties and her little brother Scott there was nothing left for her when she left to marry the man who swooped her off her feet. The worst things got the less chance she knew she had of going home. She was so thankful for the open arms of many when came home with nothing but regrets. She is so strong and determined to get herself back on her feet, not wanting help for anyone. Wishing so badly to reconnect with her brother.Tanner knew quickly that he had made a big mistake all those years ago, when he let Sarah go. He has loved her always but youth and hormones got in the way. Giving Sarah time to heal when she returned was the hardest part for him, he wanted so badly to swoop in and take care of her. When his time finally arrives, there is not turning back, he is going to win her heart back.Someone isn't happy to have Sarah back. Things are happening that she can't explain. Will they be able to figure it out before something serious happens? Loving this new series and can't wait for June's story.*** Advanced copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ***
Kristen Proby has published more than forty titles, many of which have hit the USA Today, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers lists. She continues to self publish, best known for her With Me In Seattle and Boudreaux series, and is also proud to work with William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, with the Fusion and Romancing Manhattan Series.
Kristen and her husband, John, make their home in her hometown of Whitefish, Montana with their two cats.
