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THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story

About THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story

THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story offers an alluring portrait of the love and life of Jasmine, Teresa, and their friends in Baltimore. The vibrant genesis of their relationship is revealed through parallel conversations of Jasmine, a pragmatic social worker, and Teresa, an elusive artist. Their perspectives — honest, intimate, heartfelt, and at times humorous — engage readers in a dynamic study of vulnerability and expectations.

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680 Miles Away

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Running away is Evie’s coping mechanism, but what happens when she can’t escape the truth anymore?

Set against the backdrop of a quiet Colorado suburb at the height of the pandemic, “680 Miles Away” follows Evie as she navigates through old wounds and new possibilities, all while trying to outrun the powerful emotions that threaten to expose her fragile heart.

When a chance encounter reveals the existence of a sister she never knew she had, Evie’s carefully constructed walls start to crumble. With unexplored feelings for her best friend Finn growing stronger and the truth about her family’s history looming over her, Evie must confront her past and learn to embrace love and forgiveness.

A gripping tale of family, friendship, and redemption, this book will captivate you until the very end. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jodi Picoult will love this emotional rollercoaster of a story.

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The Treasure of Adonis by C.S. Kjar

The Treasure of Adonis by C.S. Kjar

It’s 1964, and Charlea Ludlow is the head librarian in a small east Texas town. Her life is quiet and lonely as she waits for her MIA husband to return from the Korean Conflict. Everything is turned upside down when Roland Parker and David Collins come into the library seeking help with an old letter that mentions a mysterious treasure hidden somewhere in town. Charlea cannot resist their charms and joins them in their hunt. When word leaks out of the hidden wealth, they aren’t the only ones wanting to find it. The others will stop at nothing to have it and will even kill whoever stands in their way.

As David and Roland seek the treasure trove, Charlea searches for her own answers. Should she hold on to the hope her husband will return, or should she open her heart to a new love? The question may be moot when her life is threatened.

Follow the trio and their adventures as they search for the Treasure of Adonis.

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An Unexpected Kind by Angela K Parker

An Unexpected Kind by Angela K Parker

She’ll never forgive herself. He can’t forget the fighting. With their whole lives ahead of them, dare they risk a kiss?

Samantha Young’s wounds run deep. Plagued with guilt because her mother died during childbirth, the aspiring chef is overjoyed when someone finally notices her. But after she falls head-over-heels for a charming jock who turns out to be a cheater, she builds a wall around her emotions forever.

Bradley Pierce doesn’t believe in romance. Growing up with his parents constantly arguing, he makes a pact with his best friend never to fall for the lure of affection. But when his heart breaks as a result of her moving away, he wonders if maybe he was wrong all along.

Spending the first half of college brushing off any lustful looks, Samantha is caught off-guard when she runs into a handsome guy. And with Bradley realizing he’s more than the sum of his past, their chance meeting may very well have come at the ideal time.

Will the two learn and grow from the follies of young love and step into a perfect match?

An Unexpected Kind is the captivating first book in the Kind contemporary romance series. If you like well-written characters, intriguing journeys, and sweet-and-spicy courtship, then you’ll adore Angela K Parker’s moving tale.

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Rhythm That Surrounds Us by Monica Nelson


About Featured Book: Rhythm That Surrounds Us by Monica Nelson

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Kaddy Chandler is a resolute woman. Her strongly held beliefs tell her that all powerful men are egocentric scoundrels like her father, that romance absolutely cannot be found in the law firm she works for, and that life events follow a pattern of pendulum swings. The challenge side of the pendulum brings growth and learning. But the pendulum’s restful, happy, life-is-good side seems to be eluding her. Can an unexpected alliance with a handsome partner in her firm bring her love life rhythm swinging toward a blissful future?

Chase Shearan is a lost man. While pursuing the rigors of career, he has become a high-profile triumph that his colleagues respect and admire. But at a high cost. He’s lost the marriage he has valued and believed was solid. And he’s having trouble filling a growing emptiness in his soul. These things have shaken his worldview to its core. Love remains a high priority in his life but the loss of it makes him question everything. Who he is, what he does, and most of all, what he must give up to be the man he wants to be. At the start of his identity crisis, he meets Kaddy whose uncomfortable insight adds more questions than answers. He can’t get her beliefs or her image out of his mind. Could this woman with the crazy philosophy of life have a place in his?

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Surprise Baby for the Mafia Bad Boy: An Enemies to Lovers Off Limits Romance

About Surprise Baby for the Mafia Bad Boy: An Enemies to Lovers Off Limits Romance

Caught in the crossfire of a brutal cartel war, she wakes with no memory of their atrocities.

She was there, the lone witness to our deadly confrontation that night.

I couldn’t leave her dying in the street, struck down by a rival cartel’s car.

Taking her in, her amnesia makes her a ticking time bomb, but her presence stirs my primal instincts to protect her.

Can a dangerous cartel member become a devoted lover?

As her memories stir, so do forbidden passions, revealing my burning desire to explore more than just her memories.

With the cartel closing in, every moment is a battle for survival.

Her own brother, a ruthless hitman, is sent to silence her.

Danger lurking at every turn, will we survive the cartel’s wrath?

Our turbulent affair reaches new heights and fuels my dangerous quest for redemption.

My billions in networth can’t prepare me for these stakes, she’s pregnant.

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My Dragons: Menage Protector Romance

About My Dragons: Menage Protector Romance

Lost in a hot dragon triangle.

I lost my heart to my handsome dragon a long time ago.
A tortured soul, Cade paid the price for his grandfather’s transgression.

My small town wants me to reject my mate.
He’s treated like an enemy when all he’s ever done was protect me with those strong arms.
When we sneak away to a remote beach for some alone time, Zane enters our lives.

His presence electrifies me.
I can’t tear my eyes from his muscular body.
I’m terrified of Cade’s reaction, but to my surprise, he’s open to sharing me.

Soon two tongues claim me.
My body trembles with ecstasy I could never imagine.
Passion unspools through me, delivering pure bliss.

When I realize I’ve fallen for Zane, I must decide how far I’ll go for this love.
Zane wants to travel to our home planet… changing life as we know it.

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La Famiglia: The Black Sheep: Gabriel’s Story by Annalisa Russo

About La Famiglia: The Black Sheep: Gabriel’s Story by Annalisa Russo

Chicago, 1925.
She’s not looking for trouble.
His middle-name is trouble.
They both got more than they bargained for.

Charity O’Malley is about to break the law of the land to follow her dreams. She’ll be called a whisper sister, a tarnished woman. Jezebel. But Charity is a woman who wants to shape her own destiny. So, just as she’s about to reopen her father’s speakeasy, Big Mike O’Malley reaches out from the grave to save his recalcitrant daughter from her folly.
Gabriel Cavelli, the Harley riding, bad-boy of the Cavelli family, must honor a deathbed promise to a friend to look out for his young, educated-out-east daughter. Gabe, one of the three untamed Cavelli boys, could never resist a damsel in distress, but this one could end up getting him killed. Still, a promise is a promise…
Join Annalisa in the marvelous Roaring Twenties!

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The Christmas Proof: A spicy, small-town romance

About The Christmas Proof: A spicy, small-town romance

Is following her dreams worth losing out on once-in-a-lifetime love?
A Hallmark-esque You’ve Got Mail meets a modern adaptation of Mackenzie’s Mountain in North Georgia with a spoonful of spice.

♥ Secret Identity

♥ Celebrity Crush

♥ Soul Mates

After her mother’s cancer goes into remission, Kasa is finally ready to move away from her parents and meet up with her best friend in Atlanta so they can chase their childhood dreams together.

But when the celebrity author who she’s been in love with since she was a teenager (and whose fan club she’s been the president of for just as long) waltzes into the grocery store where she works, her life takes a turn that knocks her off course in all the best ways.

The Christmas Proof is a slow-paced, low-stakes romantic novella with a spicy center.

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Vicious Game

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I barely survived High School, but it taught me a valuable skill. Hiding. Blending into my surroundings like a chameleon, ensuring that I’m never on anyone’s radar again. If I tiptoe through the shadows, I’ll be able to cling to normality. It’s worked well for me so far. I excelled through college, and I’m working my dream job at a leading Publishing House in New York.
I’m happy.
As happy as a girl in the shadows can be.
Well, I was…. until the ruthless playboy of ice hockey, Cain Carter, gatecrashed my party for one. It was supposed to be a short assignment. Help our firm’s leading ghostwriter with the initial research for Cain’s autobiography. He had a tarnished reputation to restore, and I received an opportunity to climb the career ladder and make a name for myself at work. Win–Win.
I had all the best intentions in the world.
But you know what they say about good intentions…. supposedly, the road to hell is paved with them. Except, no one warned me that Cain Carter would be waiting for me at the gates, ready to drag me out of the shadows and into the flames.
But maybe for the first time in his life, he’s the one who’s bitten off more than he can chew. And I may just stand back and watch him choke.

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May 11

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May 11. The cursed day of pain.

A gunshot outside Cora Albright’s Sprinter van catapults her into the protective custody of the Havlin Motorcycle Club and a sexy older biker on her first night in Seaglass Cove. When Wire invites Cora to move her van behind the clubhouse, where she’ll be safe, she leans on him while she searches for her long-lost brother. A brother she’s never met.

Wire, suspecting Cora might possess crucial information about the threats facing the club, keeps her within arm’s reach, which is too close when Cora’s a beautiful, young, curvy woman with enough confidence to get her into trouble.

He’s lived a hard life—and he’s a sucker for a woman’s plump softness. To his surprise, Cora doesn’t scare easily and comes to him with open arms.

Alone and grieving her parents, Cora finds comfort and security with Wire, making it impossible to think of leaving him at the end of the tourist season. But she must find her missing brother.

Wire won’t let her go—not even when the biggest threat to Cora’s happiness is heading her way.

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I Visited My Wife’s Hometown… And Found Her Hidden Life, Book One

About I Visited My Wife’s Hometown… And Found Her Hidden Life, Book One

With James’s wife Lisa working overseas, he travels alone to her hometown of Barnesfield to attend a family wedding in her place, anticipating a weekend of awkward encounters and superficial pleasantries. Instead, he finds himself plunged into a labyrinth of secrets that everyone but him seems to know.

Navigating through whispered warnings and enigmatic conversations, James discovers that the rundown fishing town holds more than just faded memories; it harbours a hidden world of intrigue and betrayal. Unearthing illicit affairs, old flames, and dangerous liaisons, each revelation drags him deeper into Lisa’s hot past—a past she swore was behind her.

Caught between his love for Lisa and the haunting allure of her hidden life, James is forced to decide how far he’s willing to go to uncover the truth. But in Barnesfield, some secrets are better left buried. As allies and adversaries from Lisa’s past resurface, James learns that unravelling Lisa’s secrets might require delving into the darkest corners of her life… and his own.

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The Second Chance Inn

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An emotional homecoming that will tug at your heartstrings & inspire you to believe in happy endings.

Wendy vowed never to return to the small coastal town where her parents abandoned her. But when she inherits the family inn at the beach, she must come home and face her past. Will handsome millionaire Max help her heal old wounds and open her heart?

From a New York Times bestselling author, don’t miss the chance to unite with friendships that endure and a love that will last forever in THE SECOND CHANCE INN.

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Some Kinda Romance

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I might be in the business of weddings, but I have no intention of walking down the aisle.
I’ll just make my millions sending suckers to the altar.
It’s an easy gig and I’m far too good at it.
Until it’s a little too close to home.
My mother is getting married, and she wants me to work with a wedding planner.
Talk about a gut punch.
My father is in the ground, and she wants me to pick her flower arrangements and organize the seating chart.
The worst part?
My usual go-to for a wedding like this is no longer in the business.
He left his empire to his ex-wife.
And she’s… what’s the right word?
The worst.
Clumsy.
Disorganized.
Sloppy.
I can’t work with an average Jane like her.
But I can sleep with her.
In that department, she gets a gold star.
Or five.
Nothing average about her.
Maybe there’s more to it than our chemistry.
One thing’s for certain.
Me and her?
We make some kinda romance.

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Forbidden Spice by KC Savage

Forbidden Spice by KC Savage

JADEN
I’ve got huge plans for my life. Falling for someone is not in those plans.
College first, then making my dream of owning, and being the head chef of a restaurant in New York City a reality.
One Friday night while working, I catch sight of the most stunning woman who’s ever entered The Oasis, sitting at the bar with her friend.
Blaire shook my plans upside down and sideways from the moment we met.

BLAIRE
One night at The Oasis and my life is never going to be the same.
After my divorce, I wasn’t looking for anything serious. I have a young daughter to raise.
His inviting smile and mischievous gaze draw me in, and I can’t think straight.
He’s amazing.
So young, fit, and gorgeous.
So, in tune with me and all my wants and needs.
After we spend two magnificent weeks together, I go back to work at the university, where I’m a culinary instructor.
My heart stops when Jaden walks into my classroom.

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Time-Travel Tales Book 9 – Barcelona 1888 by Veronica Sanders

About Time-Travel Tales Book 9 – Barcelona 1888 by Veronica Sanders

In the vibrant heart of Barcelona, amidst the grandeur of the 1888 World Expo, our hero and heroine are thrust into a whirlwind of unforeseen encounters and perilous adventures. The presence of a former contact sets the stage for an emotional and complex reunion. As the city buzzes with excitement for the Expo, counter-agents, armed with insider knowledge, threaten to plunge the event into chaos and ignite a war that could reshape the future of empires.Jed, distanced for some time from the cosmic battles that defined his past, is drawn back into a struggle that challenges his loyalties, his love, and the very essence of his being. As the plot to disrupt the Expo and whispers of kidnap unfold, Jed and his allies must navigate a dangerous game of deceit and power. In a time of dazzling innovation and dark conspiracies, can Jed, with the help of old friends and new allies, protect the innocent and prevent disaster?

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Dark Feminine Energy

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She’s authentic, connected to her shadow self, and full of intuition and mystery. Embrace her, and you’ll know the power of creation and destruction. Cross her, and you’ll face the wrath of her dark feminine energy.

Clare Castleberry, author of Second Skin and Azalea House, delivers twelve bloody doses of vengeance from femmes fully immersed in their shadow selves. The horrors of a best friend’s betrayal. The unbearable weight of home life. An incest victim pushed to her limit. The vast, overwhelming turbulence of dating life.

Dive in for Castleberry’s favorite short stories in one collection, including six brand new stories of femmes who know the balance of dark and light, inner and outer worlds, and the depths of pain and pleasure.

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Sally’s Second Chance

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Sally’s search for love has been a string of disappointments, until a surprise revelation: her first love, Jesus, still carries a torch for her. The one who held her heart all those years ago, the one she thought she’d never see again, wants a second chance. Despite their painful past, Sally agrees to meet Jesus once more, reopening the door to memories and emotions she thought she’d long left behind. Can they rekindle the flame that once burned bright, or will the scars of their past prove too deep to overcome?

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Fallen Heart by J. Paul

About Fallen Heart by J. Paul

Poems from a loveless cynic turned true believer, after meeting the one he thought didn’t exist. As of publication, the only thing he’s absolutely sure of is that she is the sole inspiration for his unprecedented creative streak. Will she accept the heart that has fallen for her? Read this collection of poems and see what you think… 😉

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