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THE SWEET SPOT by Adriana Locke Release Date: 11/29/2022 Genre/Tropes: Single Mom, Baseball Pro, Small Town Romance THE SWEET SPOT by USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke is NOW LIVE! Grab this all-new small town romance TODAY! NOW AVAILABLE! FREE IN KU! https://geni.us/TSSpot Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60806368-the-sweet-spot Blurb She wants forever. He plays it day by day. They’re both wishing for the best in USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke’s charming and sexy hopefully-ever-after romance. Single mom Palmer Clark will not be sidelined by the new man in town. Sure, the honey-tongued baseball legend is gorgeous, loves puppies, and has charmed his way into the community’s heart, but Palmer craves stability. Nothing about Cole says forever. So why is he so hard to resist? Cole is swinging through town to visit his parents when he meets the kind of down-to-earth distraction he’s been looking for since retiring from the

Time has passed. But their chemistry remains. Cruel North, an all-new surprise pregnancy, forced proximity contemporary romance with sizzling chemistry from New York Times bestselling author JB Salsbury is now available! Cruel North is an angsty second-chance, enemies to lovers romance where the most hated man in the North Brothers world finally gets brought to his knees. A teenage girl with my eyes and a familiar glare, strolls into my life and she’s calling me Dad. Vanessa was my high school girlfriend and the smartest person I knew. She had a plan, a future, and she swore nothing would get in the way. Until she became pregnant. I thought we agreed on our plan. I sent her the money. Then she disappeared. Her parents told me she was in South America for a year. They told me she needed space. I never heard from her again. Seventeen years later and she’s back. I’m staring into those green eyes that used to tempt and taunt me. But it’s not just about us anymore. We have a daught

Release Date: November 29 One grumpy billionaire. One sassy-sweet supermodel. Add in a tropical private island paradise. What could go wrong? As owner and CEO of Dirty Dare Spirits, thirty-three year old, Asher Dare has it all. Money. Power. Women whenever he wants. A private island retreat when he doesn’t. People he trusts? He can count those on one hand. When one of his best friends asks a favor—hide his twenty-one year old, supermodel sister, on the island until a scandal blows over—Asher can’t say no. But he doesn’t have to like it. The daughter of a Senator and a Presidential candidate, Nicolette Bettencourt always acts with decorum. Yet through no fault of her own, scandal seems to follow her every move. When nude photos surface, the uproar puts her father’s campaign at risk. And forces her into hiding with Asher, the hottest—and grumpiest—billionaire she’s ever met. Under soothing tropical breezes, Asher discovers that Nicolette is nothing like the spoiled brat portray

Cali Melle has revealed the covers for The Goalie Who Stole Christmas! Releasing December 16, 2022 Asher After my mother was diagnosed with cancer last year, she has been on my siblings and I to get married. Afraid that her time is running out, she just wants to be here for all of the milestones in our life. I'm the last one left, the one who doesn't even have a girlfriend. My family knows that my life is invested in hockey, yet they still continue to push. I can't show up at my brother's wedding alone and deal with their disappointment. Instead, I need to find someone who will pretend to be my girlfriend for the week. And Sydney Phillips  is the perfect candidate... Sydney With my family gone for Christmas, it looks like I'm spending the holidays alone. Until Asher Golding propositions me. We've been friends since freshman year and swore to keep it that way. Asher asks me to go to Maine with him, to be his fake date for his brother's

It’s the season for gift giving! Six FREE standalone holiday short stories! Get Sleighed by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward When my ex dumped me right before Christmas, I was left with a luxury, all-expense paid trip for two to Cabo—private jet and all. Somehow, my best friend roped me into giving away the other half of the trip as a contest prize on her podcast.  Kelly won the “World’s Worst Dump Story.” She and I didn’t meet until we arrived at the airport, which was when I discovered she was actually a he . Apparently we’d forgotten to include open to women only in the rules. My trip to Cabo started as a disaster, but as time went on Kelly and I grew close. Until someone unexpectedly showed up… Christmas in Birdville by Jewel E. Ann Henry Bechtel’s mom is coming home for Christmas. Only, he lost the family house in a game of poker. Days before his mom’s arrival, he meets the new owner and seizes the opportunity to coerce her into letting him move back “home” for the holi

THE SWEET SPOT by Adriana Locke Release Date: 11/29/2022 Genre/Tropes: Single Mom, Baseball Pro, Small Town Romance Narrators: Stella Hunter and Teddy Hamilton Preorder available: https://geni.us/TSSpot Add to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60806368-the-sweet-spot EXCERPT I’m lifting my glass to take another sip of sugar when a shoulder brushes against mine. I’m two seconds from turning and giving someone a warning . . . but stop. My body stills as a set of large, calloused hands presses against the laminate countertop next to me. Thick, muscled wrists attach to forearms the size of my biceps. The space around me is impregnated with a very heady, very masculine vibe. A bubble of curiosity blooms in my stomach. The intrigue grows as a rich, balmy scent licks at my senses. It’s the kind of cologne I love—the type that makes the person smelling it feel better, more confident, more attractive by proxy. That is not a harbinger of good things, th

Formula One Noel by Christina Braver is now live! Just one night, becomes one more, becomes one more, becomes ... forever? Dr. Nora Reynolds saves lives. It's what she does. It's all that matters. Walker Hewitt wins Formula One races. It's what he does. It's all that matters. She's on the verge of getting a grant to do the important research on women's health that is her passion, delaying her parent's dream of joining them to practice medicine in some of the world's neediest places. He's on the verge of leaving the flashy career his billionaire parents are so proud of and finally heading home to the family ranch in Texas. When a snowstorm strands the two strangers in Seattle, it's one night to set it all aside, the expectations, the pressure, the questions. One night to be someone other than a driven overachiever. A blissful night of slow and consuming passion against the backdrop of magical holiday lights turns into another, and ano

Nothing so wrong should ever feel so right. TEMPT, an all-new steamy small town, one-night-stand, age gap romance featuring a plus-sized heroine and a hot single dad from USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Melanie Harlow, is now available! You’ve heard the story about the wedding planner who falls for the groom? Well, this is the one where she falls for his father. And that groom? He’s my ex. I didn’t realize who the gruff, gorgeous older man was the night he rescued me from a creep in a Manhattan hotel bar. All I knew was that a hot, bearded stranger with a protective streak showed up right when I needed a reminder that real gentlemen still exist. (Although he left his manners behind after asking me up to his room.) It was the hottest night of my life, but I never thought I’d see the former Navy SEAL again. Imagine my surprise at the rehearsal dinner one week later, when my sexy one-night stand is introduced as the father of the groom. Even more surprising? That t

BEAUTIFUL GAMES by Amity Malcom Release Date: November 15th Genre/Tropes: High Steam/Rom-Com/Sports Romance First book in a new series (can be read as a stand alone, no cliff-hanger, and HEA) BEAUTIFUL GAMES, by Amity Malcom is NOW LIVE! Grab this all-new romcom sports romance TODAY!! NOW AVAILABLE! Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3sHRjhP Universal: https://tinyurl.com/355dnxrs Add Goodreads : https://tinyurl.com/yc7dr5yt Blurb What do you do when Friday’s one-night stand becomes Monday morning’s biggest regret? When plus-size conditioning coach, Eleanor Bigsby, takes on the task of working with her father’s professional soccer team, the last thing she expects is to come face-to-face with the man whose house she crept out of after one night of mind-blowing passion. Notorious playboy, Jensen West, is equally as known for his smooth moves on the soccer pitch as he is for his moves behind bedroom doors. When Eleanor reappears in his life, he’s determined to push her

BASTARD BOSS (TYLER & BELLA DUET #2) by Lisa Renee Jones Amazon / Apple / Nook / Kobo / Google / Print / Hardback (w/ discreet cover) / Signed paperback and hardback MY REVIEW Brother's best friend (Dash from Necklace Trilogy), fellow lawyer, alpha boss. Yeah, Tyler Hawk can't be more off-limits to Bella, that's why she's crushed on him from afar. But when she gets her chance to be with him, will she take it? Even if a little addition to his father's will means he can't ever be with Bella permanently? This author is so good at drawing readers in, then bam that cliffhanger, and now I'm so impatient to find out what Bella will do next. Will she take Tyler up on his proposal? Or will she do what she said she was going to at the end of this first installment? I have high hopes for this couple. They have serious chemistry and even though Tyler comes across as a jerk at first, I know he has layers that Bella just needs to peel back to f