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Title: The Challenge Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Single Dad, Second Chance, Forced Proximity Friends to Lovers, Small Town, Found Family Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs Photographer: Robert Dahey Photography Model: Beau Carrillo Release Date: August 30, 2026 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE…

⚾TROPES⚾ ⚾Sports Romance ⚾Baseball Romance ⚾Slow Burn ⚾He Falls First                                                           ⚾Neighbors   BLURB They’re just friends. At least, that’s what she thinks. Him? He has other plans. Bennett Brinkman is San Francisco baseball’s golden boy―focused, disciplined, and very bad at ignoring the one woman he shouldn’t want. Falling for his sister’s best…

A whistleblower is dead. A journalist is hunted. And only one man can keep her alive. After a career in special forces, then as a smokejumper, Cole Mercer is ready for a new challenge. When he hears that the world-renowned covert operations team at Jameson Force Security is opening a facility in Seattle, Cole knows exactly where he belongs. What he doesn’t expect is to come face-to-face with the…

ICE COLD CHEMISTRY 🏒✨ 💙 a broody hockey defenseman 💙 a sunshine yoga instructor 💙 explosive chemistry Amazon https://amzn.to/4u9kUi9 Audio: https://geni.us/jj23tn Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245877496-ice-cold-chemistry   About the Book: She’s the distraction the team can’t afford. He’s the solution no one saw coming. Winnie Garrett is done with men. After a toxic relationship…

Title: The Fall Affair Author: Vi Keeland Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Opposites Attract/Found Family Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative Photographer: Mark Mendez Release Date: August 18, 2026   BLURB   She’s counting down the days until she leaves Tuscany. He’s counting on making her stay. Some people go to Tuscany to find themselves. I went to escape—New York,…

The Wild Card by Kendall Ryan It’s got everything … tension… heat … laugh out loud moments. Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine Fake Dating Roommates to Lovers Forced Proximity Touch-Starved Hero Slow Burn He Falls First (Realizes Last)   About the Book: He buried a fake-girlfriend clause in a seventeen-page roommate agreement. She signed it without reading. What could possibly go wrong? FBI agent Crew…

Blurb: Sophie is coasting through life—everything feels beige, predictable, safe. She doesn’t realise she’s losing her sparkle… But someone does. Someone has been watching her. Waiting. The first email feels harmless… Until it says things no stranger should know. Until he starts asking for more. It’s risky. It’s reckless. It’s exactly what she didn’t know she needed. Throwing caution to the wind,…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey rom com in her Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS! This spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey rom com is filled with all the steamy tension, yearning, and heat! JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS is now available in all formats, including the special edition…

Why you should read this book: Hockey Romance Slow Burn Opposites Attract Found Family Emotionally Guarded Hero Bold, Unapologetic Heroine Blurb: She’s here to expose hockey’s biggest flaws. He’s the complication she never planned on. Neither one is prepared for the sparks that fly every time they collide. Juno Paxton has built her award-winning documentary career dismantling institutions people…

Blurb:  No one is innocent. We were meant to be collateral damage. We became their obsession instead. Pierce Worthington needed someone to blame. I was convenient. When his brother dies in a scandalous wreck, threatening to drag the Worthington name through the filth, Pierce does what his family has always done. He finds a sacrificial lamb. Me. With a single phone call, he has me arrested for…

Blurb:  POV: You wake up with no memory of the night before, and the boy you’ve trusted your whole life is already telling you what happened. What you wanted. And ultimately, who you chose to belong to now. Would you believe him? Harper did. Just like she believes the paternity results he puts in front of her. Until the cracks start showing… and she realizes— someone has been rewriting her story…

Blurb: Mason Gallo is known for two being a perpetual bachelor with commitment issues and the hunky co-owner of a family-owned Chicago bar. Now that he’s older and ready to settle down, there’s a problem—he only has eyes for a woman who lives hundreds of miles away.     Free with Kindle Unlimited     Desire by Chelle Bliss Tanya’s rating: 5 of 5 stars Desire is the fifth book in the Men of…

TROPES ⛱ Summer Romance ⛱ Opposites Attract ⛱ Neighbors ⛱ Forced Proximity ⛱ He Falls First   BLURB He clicked “yes” on a dare. She bought a failing candy shop. Now they’re neighbors for the summer—and neither is ready for what comes next. Renley Gossage has one shot to prove she’s more than Cape Meril’s favorite cautionary tale: restore her favorite candy shop before the town writes her off like…

About I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU (Coming 7/28/2026): My secret workplace romance starts innocently enough…at a birthday party. But when a rowdy partier knocks me into a lake and a sexy stranger comes to my rescue – my night becomes one to remember. A night so steamy I almost forget why I’ve sworn off men after a failed office romance. But I’m focusing on my shiny new future—my dog-training business…

FROSTBITE BY JL BECK Release date: Coming this fall SERIES: Sterling Vultures, Book #1 Genre/Tropes:  Hockey Romance / Good Girl x Bad Boy / Enemies to Lovers / Angsty / Stalking  / Forbidden Romance / Groveling / Touch Her and Die / Praise Kink / Dark Romance / Eyes On Me  Cover Design: Simply Defined Art BLURB I’m Sterling University royalty. She’s the girl who refuses to kneel.   They call me…

Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn Releasing on May 5th TROPES Summer Romance Opposites Attract Neighbors Forced Proximity He Falls First From New York Times bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a new laugh-out-loud summer rom-com. He clicked “yes” on a dare. She bought a failing candy shop. Now they’re neighbors for the summer―and neither is ready for what comes next. Renley Gossage has one…

When she’s fake dating the hockey star, but he was never faking it… From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey romance in her brand new Hockey Ever After series, JUST PLAYING FOR KEEPS! This spicy, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, only one bed in a room, opposites attract hockey romance releases June 3rd in all formats, and will be free to read in…