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Monday, October 14, 2024

Release Blitz & Review - BOUND BY A PROMISE by Aleatha Romig

BOUND BY A PROMISE

Aleatha Romig

Release Date: October 14

Arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, Mafia/cartel romance

As the only daughter of the Kansas City capo, at eighteen years of age, I was given to the son of my father’s consigliere, a man who was expected to accomplish great things for the famiglia. Things didn’t go the way we planned.

There wasn’t love.

My husband was a traitor, taking part in a coup against the famiglia.

My husband is dead.

I’m free.

Until the fateful night my brother, our new capo, informs me that I’ve once again been promised in marriage. He explains that as a childless widow and the daughter of the late capo dei capi, I am desired—requested.

Aléjandro Roríguez is the son of the leader of the Roríguez cartel. My brother married a woman from the cartel, securing the Mafia/cartel alliance. He says that it’s now my turn.

I’ve only met my future husband a few times, but I know without a doubt that I don’t like him. Loving him is impossible. I’ve lived in a marriage without love. I won’t do it again.

Aléjandro lives a dangerous existence.

Death saved me once before.

Maybe it will again.

Have you been Aleatha’d?

TILL DEATH DO US PART is a stand-alone dangerous Mafia/cartel romance in the new “Brutal Vows” series. Each arranged-marriage story is filled with the suspense, intrigue, and heat you’ve come to expect from New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig.

Unspoken Promises by Sienna Judd is now live!

Running a tech company that brings down the ugliest criminals makes trust impossible.

My focus is on keeping my family safe in our small town and protecting my life’s work.

That was easier before Ava came to live on our land. The spunky winner of our hacking contest isn’t who she says she is. But the more time I spend with her, the more I’m blinded by the sunshine in front of me.

Ava is talented, quirky and joyful. She's a pair of long lean legs stuffed into sexy Doc Martens, shaking her peachy backside around our land like it's the first time she's danced.

She’s a lot younger and my employee. She’s not my friend… or anything else. But her cute quips and natural brilliance have me spiraling out of control— right toward her.

When her secrets catch up with her, I know she’s not just hiding who she is; she’s running from it. The danger chasing her is worse than I imagined, and I’ll sacrifice it all to keep her safe.

But her past promises to destroy us both.

Release Blitz - OUT OF BOUNDS by Kara Kendrick

Out of Bounds by Kara Kendrick is now live!

A small town, coach's daughter, forbidden, football romance from bestselling author Kara Kendrick

Rule #1: Don’t date the football coach’s daughter

Rule #2: Don’t fall for your best friend

Rule #3: Definitely don’t do both

Some rules are made to be broken…

Sloane Carter.

The good girl with gorgeous curves and an easy smile. Also my best friend – and my high school football coach’s daughter.

She’s majorly off-limits.

I resisted temptation for years, focusing on football, college, and finally, a professional career in the league.

A decade later, I’m back in Thunder Creek after getting cut from my team. Standing on Coach Carter’s doorstep, I beg him to help me get my mojo back. After all, he is the winningest football coach in the state of Georgia.

Except I’m not the only one on a losing streak. Sloane’s back home reeling from a bad break-up. Next thing I know, I’m down the hall in the spare bedroom and things between us start to feel so high school—in all the right ways. The more time we spend together, the closer we get. Soon, plays are made and forbidden lines are crossed.

But when I finally get the call from a new team, a secret scandal threatens to shatter everything—including Sloane’s heart.

Will a Hail Mary be able to save this Happily Ever After?

THE PLAYER + THE PACT = I DO

Louise Bay

Release Date: October 10

AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED!

I hate my boss. Like, loathe him. Two years ago, he semi-broke my heart and he still doesn’t remember who I am. Okay so I was covered in electric blue body paint, and wearing a wig, but is that a good excuse to not remember the girl you said was your destiny?

Now I’m stuck working for the jerk because only he can give me the job I really want—manager of his hotel.

When he needs a fake fiancé for business reasons, there’s an easy solution—blackmail. He has to give me a trial run as hotel manager in return for wearing his ring.

It’s a perfect plan until he remembers when we first met.

Things suddenly shift and now he’s looking at me with eyes that see straight through to the real me, touching me with hands that make me weak and kissing me with a mouth that threatens to do things to me they don’t even talk about in movies.

There’s just one wrinkle. I don’t trust him not to break my heart again.

Release Blitz - BRUTAL BARGAIN by Laurelin Paige

Brutal Bargain by Laurelin Paige is now live!

She needs a husband. He won’t let anyone else have her.

Ax Morgan has played many roles in my life: My brother’s best friend. The most notorious member of the Sebastian News Corp executive team. My enemy with benefits.

But my husband?

No thanks.

Our after hours scenes are simply a convenient way for me to blow off steam while I plot my exit from my toxic family’s company.

But when I need a groom so I can claim my inheritance, he presents me with a choice that’s more like blackmail—marry him, or he’ll sabotage me. So between the devil and the deep blue sea, I let the devil put a ring on it.

Turns out this is the role he plays best of all.

The worst part of pretending with Ax is how real it's starting to feel.

Now my future is in his hands. And if he finds out what I'm planning, he'll be the one with the impossible choice. Who loses everything—his best friend or his fake wife?

Release Blitz - YOUR HERO by Christina Braver

Your Hero by Christina Braver is now live!

They have nothing in common. Except how much they want each other.

Ione Abrams has everything except the perfect dad for her son—and so far, the dating pool has been shallow. When she accidentally gets doused with water at a youth basketball game, and the soaked shirt leaves her ample curves on display, it’s not the attention she needs. But it’s not like the world hasn’t seen her body before.

Travis Gray was calling foul on a layup gone wrong when his friend’s sister came into focus. Incredible. Practically naked. In public. Whipping off his referee jersey to cover her was only the first time he saved her. He didn’t mean to make it a habit.

Now, preparing for the presentation of his career, he’s the one who needs saving. But Ione’s help is dangerous with her curves, her smile, and her smarts. Travis may have shoulders that could hold up the world, but she needs a partner, not a hero. And as much as he wants to, he can’t be either.

Your Hero is the sixth and final book in the Perry Harbor Series.

Author’s Note: A strong single mom, starting over, slow burn romance with a little suspense and a hot protector hero with 5+ spicy scenes, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After. It’s about getting what you want and finding out you deserve it after all.

Release Blitz & Review - ALL THE AFTERS by J.H. Croix

ALL THE AFTERS

J.H. Croix

Release Date: October 7

A brand new, swoony small town firefighter series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!

I’m falling in love with a firefighter, and I’m pregnant.

Big problem: It’s not his baby.

When I met Griffin Cannon, I fainted. He saved me from face-planting into the gravel. He’s the rescue-y, protective type, which fits seeing as he’s a hotshot firefighter.

I didn’t think I’d ever see him after that. Until he saves me again. Just when I think maybe fate is trying to throw me into his arms, my life skids sideways in a big way. I’m pregnant. The guy who should step up skips town instead.

Scrambling, I accept a new job and move. I figure Griffin is in my rear-view mirror, yet fate brings him back into my life. I’m working for his brother and Griffin’s the newest smokin’ hot firefighter in town. He can have any woman he wants, while I’m busy learning how to live without sleep and win awards for the most-frumpy single mom ever.

And yet, Griffin wants to cook me dinner. From changing diapers to so much more, he’s there as I stumble through the stress-fest of my life. I don’t even believe in love. But when a firefighter with a heart of gold does the dishes, it’s near impossible to resist.

Griffin & Tish’s story is perfect for readers who love: protective firefighters, slow burn, he falls first, workplace romance, boss’s brother, small town gossip, emotional romance with a dash of angst, oodles of steam and swoon, and a golden retriever hero who takes protecting the woman he loves as the most important job in his life.

*A full-length, standalone romance.

The Way We Play by Tia Louise is now live!

How does one get to be a thirty-year-old virgin?

In my case, start with being risk-averse and cautious, focused on building your career, then inherit your 12-year-old, special-needs brother. Done!

Zane Bradford appeared at the perfect time.

He takes my brother to equine therapy, he gives me rides to work, and he rescues me when I collapse in the shower. (Yes, he saw me naked.)

He says he only breaks things, but I only see him fixing everything. Heck, his job is as a repair man.

This grumpy, angry god with lean muscles, silky dark hair, and ice blue eyes has taken himself out of the game.

But massage therapy is my job, and I'm ready to play.

Hello, I'm Zane Bradford, and I break things.

Starting with my little sister's dreams, followed by my football career.

Yes, I'm grumpy and distant; I'm following the script: No attachments; no one gets hurt.

Rachel Wells is ruining everything.

She walks into my workplace and argues with me, talks back, defends herself.

She gives me romance books to "improve my mood," and insists on massage therapy to ease my pain.

Chronic pain isn't my problem--she is, with her bright green eyes and sassy attitude.

Then she tells me she's never been kissed. (What's wrong with the men in Birmingham?)

The more she tempts me, the more I feel my resolve weakening.

She wants to play, but I'm not going to break.

(THE WAY WE PLAY is a small-town, grumpy-sunshine, sports romance with close proximity, enemies-to-lovers vibes, and a virgin FMC, and an over-protective alpha hero. No cheating. No cliffhanger. No third-act breakup.)

Title: High Intensity (High Mountain Trackers HMT 2G, #2)

Author: Freya Barker

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: November 4, 2024

Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.

Dog trainer and handler, Jillian Lederman, is moving with her pack to Libby, Montana, a place where she has made friends and hopes to find a fresh start. It’s time. For years, she’s just been keeping her wounds fresh by staying in Missoula—where there were regular reminders of all she’s lost—while the rest of the world has continued to move forward.

Perhaps the new house, the beautiful mountains, and a certain pair of clear, blue eyes hold the promise of new beginnings.

Since changing careers years ago, former FBI agent Lucas Wolff has found a much better work-life balance as a member of High Mountain Trackers. Still able to serve his community, he has also been carving out a comfortable existence for himself and is not looking to make any changes to it anytime soon. Not even for a particular bold and ballsy redhead he’s been trying to avoid.

That turns out to be an impossible feat when a plane crash during a blizzard sets both of them on the trail of a young girl, all alone in the mountains. But it soon becomes evident they are not the only ones looking, and staying safe means sticking close together.

Release Blitz & Review - BEFORE HIGHLAND SUNSET by Kait Nolan

BEFORE HIGHLAND SUNSET

Kait Nolan

Release Date: October 4

I should never have touched her. I didn't know she's my best friend's little sister. When I found out... well... My life went off the rails, and we didn't see each other again.

Now three years later, we're in the same small town, and she hates my guts. But when her ex won't take no for an answer, it's me she improbably reaches out to for help.

Sure we can fake a relationship to keep him off her back. We've done it before. Except there's nothing fake about the heat between us. Or the very real threat from my past that's the true reason I ghosted her. Maybe she'll finally give me the chance to explain.

I'll do anything to protect her, even face down her brother for a second chance.

One click this woman in trouble, protector in a kilt, brother's best friend small town romance today!

Release Blitz & Review - LOVING THE CEO by Layla Hagen

LOVING THE CEO

Layla Hagen

Release Date: October 4

Leo Whitley's story is a steamy friends-to-lovers romance. It can be read as a standalone.

When I find out on my wedding day that my fiancé is cheating on me, my whole world comes crashing down.

The only bright spot?

My best friend Leo is by my side every step of the way, offering his unconditional support — including a temporary getaway, which I so badly need right now.

Once in Boston, he invites me to stay with him until I get back on my feet. Temporarily, of course.

And I don’t even think twice before agreeing.

But I quickly question if this was the right thing to do.

Did I forget to mention Leo is the hottest man on the planet?

And now his hotness is front and center, as there’s plenty of opportunities to spy on those sexy muscles when he works out in his home gym...or when he gets out of the shower.

Then the oddest thing happens… Leo offers to be my dating coach to ‘help me get back into the game’.

On our first night out, I break out in goosebumps at the lightest touch or seductive smile. And when we get back to his place, well, we take the coaching a little too far and I have the hottest night of my life.

The question is, am I willing to risk my friendship with him for something more? Especially when I’m not even sure I’m ready for anything at all…

Grab Your Copy HERE!

4 Stars

This is the second last Whitley man to find his love. A wonderful friends to lovers story full of emotions, heartbreak, witty banter and a bit of sizzle. As Leo and Tory find themselves in a close proximity, it seems Leo can't hide his attraction for his friend any longer.

Though Leo has always been a self pronounced bachelor, now that he has crossed that line with Tory he is finding it hard to think of life without her, or of her with someone else. Tory has some mixed feelings as to where things might go since Leo has always made his claims but a girl can hope and dream, right.

Grab your copy and a cozy spot to enjoy. Be prepared for the family interferance and Grandma Jeanie's matchmaking as you devour the words. I can't wait to see Nick fall in the next story. I have completely enjoyed this series.

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

My name is Layla Hagen and I am a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. I fell in love with books when I was nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years later.

I write romantic stories and can’t wait to share them with the world.

And I drink coffee.

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Release Blitz - ON THE WILD SIDE by Kristen Proby

On The Wild Side by Kristen Proby is now live!

From New York Times Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes On the Wild Side, a sizzling single mom, cowboy, small town romance in the beloved Wilds of Montana Series!

Brady Wild has focused on one thing this entire adult life: riding bulls. A three-time world champion, Brady’s body has taken a beating over the years and he knows he’s nearing the end of his impressive career. He’s had no time for relationships with his dangerous career but the minute he sees sexy single mom, Abbi Kastella, he knows it’s game over for his resolve to be single.

Abbi is a mom, first and foremost, and she’ll do whatever needs to be done to keep her daughter safe from the danger that’s chased them for half a dozen years. She’s finally been able to set down roots in Bitterroot Valley for herself and Daisy. She adores this community that has welcomed them with open arms, her new business is thriving, and she has a circle of friends that she loves and trusts. And don’t even get her started on the hazel-eyed, muscled up cowboy that makes her whole body tremble with need. Life is good in this little Montana town and Brady is showing her and her little girl what real love is supposed to be.

Despite Brady’s best intentions he can’t resist his blue-eyed siren, or the sweet little girl that has him wrapped around her little finger. But when Abbi’s past catches up with them, Brady quickly realizes that the secrets that Abbi’s been keeping from him are far worse than any damage his career could do to them. Will they lose everything before it even really begins? Or will love prevail so they can get started on their forever On the Wild Side?

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4.5 Stars

This is the fourth installment of the series and though I feel you don't want to miss all that happens and should start at the beginning, you could easily read this one without having read the others. A book full of emotions as Abbi and Daisy win over the heart of our resident Bull Rider.

Brady is determined that though he is not again love and all that comes with it, he needs to wait until his riding career is over. He has seen too many bad things happen and he doesn't want to put that on anyone else. He has watched the heartbreak up close. But for some reason he just can't seem to stay away from Abbi and her little girl Dasiy.

Abbi has had it hard but she has not only survived but made something of herself. Owning her own business that is thriving, purchasing a home for her and Daisy. Finding the best group of friends and business colleages. But her heart still has a missing piece. The threats of the past are very real though and how does she explain all that to someone.

Grab your copy and enjoy watching this love come to light and grow like a cared for flower. I am pretty sure that little Daisy will steal your heart while you read.

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

Kristen Proby is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over seventy published titles. She debuted in 2012, captivating fans with spicy contemporary romance about families and friends with plenty of swoony love. She also writes paranormal romance and suggests you keep the lights on while reading them.

When not under deadline, Kristen enjoys spending time with her husband and their fur babies, riding her bike, relaxing with embroidery, trying her hand at painting, and, of course, enjoying her beautiful home in the mountains of Montana.