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Title: The Challenge: A Single Dad Romance Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Single Dad, Second Chance, Forced Proximity Friends to Lovers, Small Town, Found Family Release Date: August 30, 2026 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance… Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreak…and his little girl. Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my family’s old belongings. Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricci’s house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place I’d rented. He’d taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay. Evan—the guy my parents took in years a...

FIT FOR A KING Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine Release Date: August 25 Buy Link: ✨Amazon: ⁣ https://geni.us/FitforaKing Available in KU ✨PB: https://mybook.to/FitforaKingpb Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🔥Grumpy x Sunshine 🔥Forbidden Romance 🔥Royal Romance 🔥King x Footman 🔥Upstairs / Downstairs 🔥Class Difference 🔥Opposites Attract 🔥Secret Relationship 🔥Forced Proximity 🔥Touch-Starved Hero 🔥Duty vs Desire 🔥MM Romance Blurb Red, White & Royal Blue meets a modern-day Downton Abbey in this forbidden royal romance about a newly crowned king who falls for the sunshine footman assigned to serve him. Nicholas Being king was never the life I wanted. But it was the one I inherited. Every decision I make belongs to Valoria. Every smile, every appearance, every promise. Including the one that says I’m expected to marry a prince I’ve barely met. It’s the perfect match. The perfect alliance. The perfect future. Until my new footman starts re...

THE TROUBLE WITH FLINGS The Silvers at Silver Island Melissa Foster Releasing August 26, 2026 World Literary Press Blurb Sometimes you have to break all the rules to find everything you never knew you wanted. Come along for the fun, sexy ride as billionaire Fitz Silver pursues his biggest challenge yet—taming wild child Jennifer Stone. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, standalone romance is unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you thinking about it long after you read the last page. Silver Island’s golden boy Fitz Silver keeps his business dealings clean, his affairs private, and fulfills every promise he makes. Infuriatingly so. He’s six-plus feet of gentleman in the streets and an unrelenting alpha in the sheets. I should know. I enjoyed a single scorching night in his bed over the summer. But contrary to Fitz being every woman’s fantasy, he’s my worst nightmare. I’m a risk taker, a rule breaker...

UNLEASHED BY EDEN Jade May Release Date: August 25 Buy Link: https://books2read.com/unleashedbyeden Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… ✦ Brother’s Best Friend ✦ Rockstar Romance ✦ Second Chance ✦ Tour Life ✦ Secret Relationship ✦ Angst ✦ Slow Burn ✦ Free-Use Kink Blurb The worst part about loving a rock star isn’t the fame. It’s knowing the world will believe the lie before it ever asks for the truth. Whether I’m photographing music icons, or working at the gentlemen’s club, Eden, I’m the woman everyone wants. So when I’m hired to shoot Carter Ashford’s world tour documentary, I take the gig. Even if he ruined my life at seventeen and never looked back. My rules haven’t changed: Don’t touch the rock star. But Carter is still the only man who makes my hunger burn hotter than my fury. Onstage, he belongs to the world. Offstage, he’s mine. Until a tabloid blows his life wide open and pins the betrayal on me. I’ve survived worse than gossip—bu...

CARRY ON WAYWARD SON Harper Jackson Release Date: August 21 AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED Final book in the Wayward Sons series. I've spent my career searching for the missing. The irony isn't lost on me. When the investigative podcast I work for gets a request to look into a cold case off the Carolina coast, there are a hundred reasons I should say no. But some cases find you for a reason, and this one hits too close to home to refuse. Hatterwick Island is beautiful and insular and hiding something far deeper than one missing girl. The closer we get to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes—for the investigation, for the people I'm working with, and for me in ways I can't afford to examine too closely. Jace Hollingsworth is island royalty with twelve years in the Navy and eyes that don't miss much. He's got good instincts, and he's already suspicious of me. I have good reasons to be careful. But the longer I stay on this island, the harder...

KEEPING KNIGHT Gia Cobie Release Date: October 2 Pre-Order Link: https://a.co/d/0aUl8s2n Why you will love this book… 🔥Friends to Lovers 🔥Who did this to you? 🔥Former Military 🔥Protective Alpha Hero 🔥Hurt/comfort 🔥Security Team 🔥Found Family 🔥Forced Proximity Blurb Seeing Micah was the best part of my week. I didn’t sign up for a cooking class as a way to meet men. But my handsome partner made it really hard to remember why I wanted to stay single. It wasn’t the right time. I had too much else going on. I’d been burned before, and had no desire for it to happen again. They were all reasons that should have been enough to convince me. Still, I couldn’t stop thinking about him. Then I’m violently attacked, and Micah shows up just in time to save me. Hurt, scared, and still in danger, when he asks me to stay with him for my protection, I agree. If I’d arrived minutes later, I wouldn’t have saved her. I’d seen a lot of bad things during my years in the ...

TO TANGO, WITH DESIRE Ida Brady Release Date: October 1 Pre-Order Link: https://a.co/d/0gnjIjHN Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🔥billionaire 🔥alpha male 🔥arranged marriage 🔥marriage of convenience 🔥age-gap 🔥spicy 🔥feisty heroine 🔥traumatic past 🔥tango dancers Blurb A spicy billionaire age-gap marriage of convenience... I swore I’d never agree to an arranged marriage—until Zane Nasser walked back into my life with a ring and a contract. The billionaire businessman is older, wealthier, and more powerful than any man I’ve ever known. Six months ago, I gave him one night. One reckless, passionate night that no man can live up to. He was my first… and then he disappeared. I told myself I was over it. I convinced myself I didn’t care. Now he’s back, offering me a deal: marry him, save my father, and secure my chance at business success. There’s just one condition—don’t fall in love. It should be simple, but in marrying Zane, I’m giving up my fairy ...

FILTHY TWISTED DEVIL Lena Hunt Release Date: September 8 Pre-Order Link: https://a.co/d/0aF1fCjf Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… ♠ Fake Dating ♠ Little Sister's Best Friend ♠ Billionaire Meets Cowgirl ♠ Three Overprotective Brothers ♠ "No Falling in Love" Rule (Broken Spectacularly) ♠ He Falls First and Harder ♠ Guaranteed HEA ♠ Virginity auction gone wrong ♠ Slow burn turns into high heat ♠ Complete Standalone & Finale of the House of Cards series Blurb I watched her for six weeks before I knew who she was. I bid $1.3 million the moment I did. The anonymous cam girl was my secret escape at the end of long days. I never planned to be anything more than a stranger in her audience—until she put one night up for auction, and I recognized the wildflower birthmark in the poster. Eden Locke. My little sister's best friend. Off-limits in every way that matters. Eden was furious. But I didn't bid to collect. I bid so no other man could...