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Publication Date:  July 21, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Romance Publisher:  self published Length:  462 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis All it took was one shot of whiskey to let myself burn. Cash told me loving him wasn't a risk. He promised we would dance in the moonlight. He swore he was nothing like the ones who broke my heart. And he was right.  He was so much worse. But what do you do with an addiction you can’t kick? Drink in the shadows, take shots in the dark, and savor the buzz knowing the next morning won’t be worth it.  Because it’s not enough. Nothing is ever enough when the person you hate is also the one you love. Review:    Available for free on Kindle Unlimited. ...

Heated Naima Simone (Burned, Inc., #1) Publication date: July 5th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance From USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone comes Heated , a sizzling novel about a breakup professional who embarks on a fake relationship with a client’s ex—the one person she wasn’t supposed to fall for. Zora I’m Denver’s unmatchmaker. Every city needs one. Why? Because people break up—and sometimes they should. But when I learn that entertainment attorney Cyrus Hart is someone else’s mistake, I can’t believe it. He’s smart, successful, and sexy as hell. When a chance encounter with Cyrus turns into something more, I can’t help but fall for him. Our chemistry is undeniable. But his ex used my company to send him that letter—and that’s a problem. Especially since he doesn’t know I own the company. How can this possibly work? I know from experience that the riskiest ventures are the worthiest ones…but falling for Cyrus Hart may be my biggest gamble yet. Cyrus ...

Cross Check Lynn Stevens (Ridder U Hockey, #1) Publication date: January 27th 2022 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance, Sports She’s too trusting… Elora has never been so cold. Growing up in the tropics did not prepare her for a new life in Minnesota. For the first time, she’s living in a place that doesn’t float and her best friend isn’t also her family. Everything is a new experience, a new adventure. Including hockey. The arena is freezing, but the game is fierce, fast, and fascinating. She can’t take her eyes off the action… or off a certain player. He’s wary of everyone… Wyatt is done with puck bunnies. He just wants to play, go to class, and be left alone. The opposite sex dishes out nothing but misery. School and hockey must come first. Then he meets Elora, and she’s totally clueless about hockey, about school, about a little bit of everything. And she’s the opposite of the ice queen who crushed his heart. But he’s not ready to light that lamp. When Elora suffer...

Tabou Rachel Rossano (Beckett Riley) Publication date: September 1st 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Trapped between societal boundaries, siblings Tom and Theia Edwards thought they knew all about the family business they just inherited from their father. When the true nature of his dealings are revealed, they are thrust into the savage world of drug smuggling for a Mexican cartel. Forced to continue the work their father once did or suffer the consequences of having their darkest secret exposed, they embark on a journey that will reel them into a nest of vipers full of deceit and betrayal at every turn. But underestimating the forbidden and unbreakable bond between Tom and Theia can prove to be just as deadly to anyone standing in their way. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Eden Books — EXCERPT: “Get the fuck out of my house,” he spat, blocking Theia from Tenoch’s view. “That’s no way to speak to your guests, gringo. We just stop...

Capturing the Texas Rancher’s Heart Debra Holt (The Tremaynes of Texas, #1) Published by: Tule Publishing Publication date: June 3rd 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance She thought she’d protected her heart… After a tumultuous childhood, nurse Jamie Westmoreland craves the comfort of predictability. She loves her quiet life in a small Texas ranching town and finally feels in control until a handsome rancher becomes her newest patient. He challenges her at every turn, but Jamie is too stubborn to admit she enjoys their sparring, and that he makes her heart race. But when his charming little cowboy son starts following her around, her long-neglected heart opens. Thomas Tremayne , the eldest son of a well-respected local ranching family, is both mom and dad to his young son and has no plans to change. When a ranch injury requires an in-house expert, the nurse who called him out on his attitude is sent to help him heal. She’s even harder to resist on his ranch than she was...

My Forever Kira Adams (Infinite Love, #3) Publication date: April 16th 2021 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Madalynne Life can be cruel and unexpected, ripping your heart out when you least expect it. You never think it can be you, and then it happens and you’re left to pick up the pieces of your broken life. I was grieving, understandably so, each stage pushing me further and further from him. There was never a doubt in my mind that Parker and I were soul mates. No one had ever made me feel the way he did, and I didn’t want them to. Through all the hard times, he was there. Parker was the only person I could lean on, the only person I could talk to about my feelings. He pulled me out of my depression. He helped me see the light again. Parker She was hurting, and I wanted to be there for her. When my brother Bo passed, I slipped into a deep depression, and even though I pushed Madalynne away at every turn, she never gave up on me. I owed her my life, and I wanted to...

Jagged Line Paradise Brynn Ford Publication date: April 15th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance A single moment of human brutality marks the difference between heaven and hell. It’s a rapid free fall from paradise and the drop is catastrophic. Back then, we were just a couple of dirt poor teenagers who had nothing except for our friendship. I wanted it to be more and one night I made my move. Everything was perfect then, but perfection is fleeting. For one brief shining moment, everything was beautiful, but an inconceivable nightmare sent us straight to hell…to depths from which we could never return. I left our hometown—a place she once called paradise—to flee the aftermath of that brutal event that broke us so completely. I left her behind to pick up the broken pieces of her soul that had shattered irreparably. And now, I’m going back to face the wreckage that I thought I’d put behind me—my father’s gruesome legacy, the trauma of our past, and the girl who survived i...

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...

Release Date:  November 30, 2020 Publisher:  Spectrum Audio Books Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 14 minutes Narrator:  Stephanie Nemeth Parker, Matthew Maddox Genre: Romance  Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Once a man who lived by the letter of the law... Newt Tobias will do anything for his little girl, even take early retirement, sell his city home, and move to cottage country, hoping that the simpler life will provide a better balance for his troubled teenage daughter.  Yet, not long after they’ve settled, he finds himself toe-to-toe with a stubborn, fiery-tempered woman with pretty brown eyes.  Once a recluse preferring to live alone... Working with troubled adolescents, Frederique Marchand doesn’t suffer fools and won’t put up with bullies, especially handsome strangers like Newt, who think they can run roughshod over...