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Feisty Julia Kent (Do-Over Series, #3) Publication date: January 28th 2020 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Romance I’m not too proud to admit that finding Mr. Right involves swiping right. Right? Welcome to dating in avocado toastland. Here I am, on my first blind date, ever, courtesy of a smartphone app and my two annoying best friends. So what is Chris “Fletch” Fletcher doing, walking across the room, looking at his phone like he’s pattern matching a picture to find a real person he’s never met before? Oh. Oh, no. The guy I drop-kicked in seventh grade cannot be my blind date. The guy who earned me this infernal nickname. That’s right. Feisty. — More from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent as Fiona “Feisty” Gaskill gets her chance at love – drop-kick included. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play / Audible / Amazon Audio Only 99¢ for a limited time! — EXCERPT: My lungs have decided that the world is too dangerous to m...

Publication Date:  February 2, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   YA/Thriller Publisher:  St. Martin Press Pages:  352 Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis "The Unity Project saved my life." Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it. "The Unity Project murdered my son." When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportu...

Smoke Eden Butler (The Carelli Family Saga #1) Publication date: December 15th 2020 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense Smoke Carelli lived by his own rules. He wasn’t interested in normal. He didn’t care about things like love and commitment, damn sure not marriage and forever. But the second Maggie Ramirez parked outside his family’s restaurant, his life became a series of distractions he was learning to love. Maggie and her kid have shaken up his world and dislodged every hard and fast rule he’d ever made. And when the demons from her past resurface, Smoke and Maggie may have to break more than their own rules to win their freedom. But will it cost them everything and everyone they love? The Carelli Family Saga Book One – Smoke Book Two – Dario Book Three – Dante Book Four – Toni Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play REVIEW:  I loved that this book started after Smoke and Maggie already had a relationship and instead focuse...

Publication Date:  January 1, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Psychological Thriller Publisher:  Thomas & Mercer Pages:  347 Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad… In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,” couldn’t be more inviting. And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village. The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can’t shake the feeling that every move she ma...

A Warlock’s Storm Marie-Claude Bourque (The Order of the Black Oak – Stories #1) Publication date: January 21st 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy A WARLOCK’S STORM: A Seasoned Urban Fantasy Romance Meet the Order of the Black Oak: a powerful order of modern-day warriors fighting evil to protect the ones they love. When rugged warlock turned fisherman Reynolds Stanford finds himself stranded in a haunted New England harbor at the approach of a powerful tropical storm, he must battle more than sea monsters and revenants. The gorgeous female panther shifter sent to help him by his family is tugging emotions buried deep within his soul and he fears that while he might survive the night from the deadly assault on his ship, he may very well end-up losing his heart in the process. If you love loyal tough guys with hearts, satisfying slow-burn paranormal romance and safe Happily Ever Afters, the Black Oak World is for you. Fantastic series of action, magic ...

  Publication Date:  December 10, 2018 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Romantic Suspense Publisher:  Independently Published Pages:  331 Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin. When Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, asks Lowen to complete the remaining books in a contract his permanently injured wife is unable to fulfill, Lowen has no choice but to accept. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home with the intention of only staying one or two nights—long enough to sort through Verity’s chaotic home office to collect all the notes and outlines she’ll need to start writing the first novel. But the more time Lowen spends with Jeremy Crawford,...

Enemies To Lovers: Series Starters Set Brittni Chenelle Publication date: January 22nd 2021 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal, Young Adult Their most dreaded rivals might be their greatest need. But with peril dogging their every encounter, will they give into dangerous desires? Box set: 750+ pages of angsty enemies-to-lovers adventures with daring heroines and their foes destined to become forever partners. Princess Charlotte’s whole world changed one morning over breakfast. With her mother announcing a rushed arranged marriage to a humorless prince, she’ll do anything to stop the wedding – including shooting him with an arrow. But after the kingdom is invaded and a sinister plot to capture her discovered, can she convince her unwanted suitor to help keep her out of enemy hands? Reina Bennet won’t stop believing that she’ll eventually get her abilities. But when her childhood champion grows up into a smug superpowered bully, her escalating rivalry with her ex-fr...

Trust Me Candace Hutton (A Manhattan Marriage Novella) Publication date: January 22nd 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Brooke Anderson never pictured herself as a divorcee at twenty-eight. But when she mentions getting a post-nup to her husband Garrett after one deliciously sex-filled year, he promptly serves her with divorce papers. Admittedly, she could’ve told him about how her father left her and her mother homeless when she was young, and how she’s never been wired to trust anyone. Especially those closest to her. Now, all she wants to do is avoid anywhere he might be so she won’t have to face him again. But she’s not the only one who can’t seem to trust. Garrett Call grew up with parents who married for money and wants no part of a life that puts material possessions above love. He reinvented himself in college, complete with a new last name so he couldn’t be tied to his family’s lucrative business. He never even told Brooke the truth. Admittedly, he could’ve h...

Publication Date:  October 15, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Native American Lit Narrator:  Tai Amy Grauman Publisher:  Inanna Publishing Length:  4 hours 45 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Blue Bear Woman  or  Ourse bleue  is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman’s search for her roots and identity, this is also the author’s debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a “ texte de resistance ”, showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in Northern Quebec, posited as “virgin” territory, yet which has actually bee...

Bjorn Cursed N.J. Walters (Forgotten Brotherhood #4) Published by: Entangled: Amara Publication date: January 18th 2021 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Lucifer is up to his old tricks, causing problems for the Forgotten Brotherhood. This time, he’s had a woman removed from the Norse afterlife and placed her right in the path of Bjorn Knutson. After the slaughter of his wife and family centuries ago, tortured and broken, Bjorn was cursed as the first Norse werewolf. Now he’s been tasked by Odin himself with killing the woman who escaped. Failure is not an option. Before he can track her, he stumbles across a woman being accosted by three men in the middle of the night. Even though she’s human, he intervenes and is shocked to recognize the face of the one woman he could never kill — his wife Anja. She’s also the one he’s hunting…and if he doesn’t kill her then both their lives are at stake. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXC...

  Publication Date:  January 1, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Kidnapping Thriller Publisher:  Lake Union Publishing Pages:  325 Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis When eighteen-year-old Ellie Canning is discovered wandering the countryside, dazed and traumatized, she tells a harrowing story of abduction, captivity, and escape. An overnight symbol of survival and empowerment, Ellie enthralls an outraged nation. Then authorities zero in on an unlikely suspect: high school teacher Suzannah Wells, identified by Ellie as the woman who kept her drugged and bound in a basement. The evidence against Suzannah is damning—vilified by the media, Suzannah’s only defense is that not a single word Ellie says is true. Suzannah has no reason to l...

The Lost Princess R.G. Angel Publication date: January 15th 2021 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Romance “The path to peace is full of wars just as the path of love is full of pain.” Fay Newman is about to start college, a new chapter of her life—a way to reinvent the nature lover and unsociable introvert she has always been. However, when she saves her roommate’s life in a way that no human could, she finds more than she bargained for when she is thrown in the midst of kingdoms’ wars, blood feuds, forbidden love, and forgotten promises. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Fay tries to navigate her new reality, with friends and foes being closer than she realizes. When nothing is as it seems, she doesn’t know who or what to trust until taking up the weapon to fight is all that’s left. Any choices available to her will ultimately lead to sacrifices. Fay must figure out what she is ready to sacrifice—her heart, her soul, or even…her life. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCE...

Publication Date:  January 5, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Domestic Thriller Narrator:  Morgan Hallet, Suzanne Toren Publisher:  Recorded Books Length:  8 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Who will you cross to protect your own?  When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to protect her child.  Even if that means pointing the blame her sister's way instead.  With investigators swarming and...

Happily Ever After: A Contemporary Romance Boxed Set Publication date: January 12th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance These heroes and heroines are lost without each other … but obstacles stand in their way. Inside the pages of this steamy, limited edition boxed set created for you by your favorite romance authors, you’ll find sexy, funny, heartwarming, and red hot romance reads, where characters navigate their love through all the twists, turns, and ups and downs required to reach a happily ever after. Which passionate romance will be your favorite? The enemies turned to trusted lovers or the rock stars who know exactly what they want? Best friends who wish they could be more, forbidden love, or second chance at forever? No matter what you love – enemies to lovers, second chance romance, a forbidden tale, vacation fling, opposites attract, comedy, or contemporary romance – every story in this limited edition boxed will deliver the satisfying end you crave. One-clic...

Simply You Maggie Wild Publication date: January 12th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance She needs someone she can count on. He’s gun-shy after being hurt. Can a brush with fate in a rained-out English village turn into enduring love? Sarah Tildon thinks she’s found the perfect man. But after her overbearing future mother-in-law insists her quiet country wedding become a high-society shindig, she sets out on a two-week ride to rethink her plans. Stranded when her bicycle is stolen in a picturesque hamlet, she’s touched by the kindness of a handsome young farmer who comes to her rescue. The big city failed Michael Marsden’s ample ambitions. After his fiancée cheats on him, he turns his back on the hustle and bustle and takes on a farm to prove he can lead a self-sufficient life. And taken by surprise when a charming outsider helps sing his hens into laying, he realizes his newfound Eden is missing its Eve. Unexpectedly falling for the sweet homesteader, Sarah is torn ...