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ASYSTOLE Jillian D. Wray Release Date: September 24 Pre-Order Link: https://a.co/d/0duS4TrN Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🚁Friends to Lovers 🩺Surgical Resident x Helicopter Pilot 🚁Bi-Awakening 🩺F*ck It 🚁Workplace Romance 🩺Cheating (not between MMCs) Blurb Asystole is a friends to lovers MM romance between a surgery resident and a helicopter pilot with a bi-awakening and a guaranteed HEA. LOGAN I excel at running from my problems and my past. Unfortunately, I’m also really good at running straight into trouble. While trying to get as far away as possible from the man who broke my heart, I ended up sharing an apartment with his fiancé’s best friend. I’m determined to keep Chase at arm’s length, but Chase is determined to get inside my skin. Who knew straight guys with long term girlfriends were so into platonic cuddling? Chase’s stressful days as a medical resident have me doting like an eager housewife—which is ridiculous… Until we cross a line, a...

🎀𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋 🎀 𝘽𝙀𝙉𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙍𝙐𝙇𝙀𝙎 (Clifford Brothers #2) by USA Today bestselling author Layla Hagen releases on October 2nd! Check out this gorgeous cover! PRE-ORDER/ ADD IT TO YOUR AMAZON WISHLIST! https://laylahagen.com/bendinghisrules Apple: https://laylahagen.com/bhrapple Barnes & Noble: https://laylahagen.com/bhrbn Kobo: https://laylahagen.com/bhrkobo 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐔𝐩: https://forms.gle/arm8cw2E2Ks1YZpp8 Cover Designer: Uplifting Designs What to expect: ❤️ Single Dad x Nanny ☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine 🥹 Widowed Hero 🏡 Found Family 💕 He Falls First Blurb I run a global security company with my brothers and negotiate high-stakes deals without breaking a sweat. But my daughter deciding she suddenly hates every outfit in her closet five minutes before school? That brings me to my knees every time. Honestly, being a CEO is easier than being a single dad. That’s why I have rules. Routines. Structure. My life ru...

FALLING FOR REAL Carly Phillips Release Date: April 16 Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🩵Fake Date 💙Wedding Weekend 🩵Forced Proximity 💙One Bed 🩵Miami Heat 💙A Dare Family Series Story 🩵A Dare to Fall Novella Blurb One canceled date. One overbooked hotel. One fake boyfriend who feels way too real. I fly into a destination wedding expecting maid-of-honor chaos—not to share a room with Tristan Hayes, the devastatingly charming nightclub owner I’ve crushed on for too long. When the hotel runs out of rooms, Tristan gives his to an elderly couple without hesitation. I see the kind of man he is… and offer to share my king bed. Just for the weekend. Totally innocent. Until my ex shows up. With a date. Suddenly Tristan’s hand is on my waist, his smile lethal, and he’s my fake boyfriend. Temporary. Perfect. Except the chemistry isn’t fake. And wedding weekends don’t last. Or do they? A fun, flirty wedding-weekend romance featuring fake dating, forced proxi...

Title: Taylor’s Father Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Age Gap (17 Years), Best Guy Friend’s Father Single Dad, Forbidden, Second Chance Protective Hero, Sassy Heroine Release Date: February 22, 2026 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance… When my best friend Taylor gifted me a vacation at a resort owned by his grandparents, the last thing I expected was to bond with a man seventeen years older. Tate was also vacationing alone. He’d come to Midnight Key to clear his head and reevaluate his life. I’d come to get over my high school sweetheart who’d dumped me. I’d spotted the brawny, tattooed Adonis in the lobby on the first day and thought he had to be someone’s hot dad. But then we matched on an app that paired single men and women by proximity. The problem was? At nineteen—almost twenty—I’d lied and said I was twenty-nine. Tate outed me on our first date, and I f...

Title: Crooked Authors: Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative Photographer: Michelle Lancaster, @lanefotograf Model: Andrew Murray Release Date: March 29, 2026 BLURB A new, sexy standalone novel from New York Times Bestsellers, Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward… The last thing I needed was a live-in bodyguard. And I definitely didn’t want him. Six foot two, with broad shoulders that were impossible to ignore and a talent for getting in my way, Wes Callahan was a walking bad decision. But when you’re the daughter of a notorious mob boss, apparently your opinions stop mattering the moment your father ignites another war. I’d spent my entire life trying to escape that crooked world—new name, new city, newfound freedom. At least until I was suddenly shacked up with my new bodyguard. Wes knew exactly how to push my buttons. He was also infuriatingly protective. And smart. And funny. And thoughtfu...

ONLY FOR HIM Natasha Madison Release Date: March 13 Pre-Order Link: https://books2read.com/Only4HimNM Why you will love this book… 🏒Hockey Romance 💛Sworn off Relationships 🏒Single Dad 💛Emotional Scars 🏒Opposites Attract 💛Frenemies with Benefits 🏒Teammate's Sister Blurb Nothing could prepare them for what was to come. Kylie I learned early in life that love isn’t just given, it’s earned. Now I’ve decided love isn’t worth it. At least that type of love. Until him. He was broken. It was safe. But then I went and did the unexpected. I fell in love with him, knowing he would never love me back. Knox I thought I had it all. I was playing hockey in the NHL. Three beautiful kids and a wife who loved me. Until I walked in on her in bed with my brother-in-law. Everything I thought I had was a lie. She was everything I thought I didn’t want, and when I least expected it. I just hope when I finally figure it out, I haven’t lost her for good. Me...

Kathy Lockheart has revealed the covers for Doubt! Releasing: February 12, 2026 Model Cover Designer: By Hang Le Photographer: Wander Aguiar Discreet Cover Designer: Wild Love Designs I buried my past years ago. Now I’m on trial for murder, and trusting the man I love with the truth means risking the one thing I can’t survive losing: him. Ryker Kincaid. Chicago’s top defense attorney. My brother’s best friend. The man I should never have fallen for. He should keep his distance. Instead, he’s risking his reputation, his future, and everything he’s built to prove I’m innocent. The price he demands is simple: total honesty. Every shadow I’ve buried. Every dark piece of me I never wanted him to see. But letting Ryker in means exposing a past that has ruined every relationship I’ve ever had. If he uncovers who I used to be, I won’t just lose my freedom. I’ll lose him. As the trial draws closer and my world collapses, Ryker becomes the only safe place I have left. His touch...

FALLING FOR TROUBLE Carly Phillips Release Date: February 5 Pre-Order Link: https://www.carlyphillips.com/books/falling-for-trouble/ Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🔥Bad boy/good girl 🩷Brother’s best friend 🔥Office romance 🩷Opposites attract 🔥Billionaire 🩷He falls first 🔥Forbidden love 🩷Not good enough for her 🔥Alpha 🩷Protector 🔥1st person POV Blurb He’s the bad boy my family warned me about—and the one man I can’t have. I just landed the job of my dreams—planning the Miami Thunder football team’s 50th-anniversary celebration—and I can’t afford distractions. Especially not tattooed billionaire and reformed troublemaker Lucas Carras. He exudes alpha-hero intensity, but he’s been off limits for as long as I’ve known him. But the kickoff party is happening at the nightclub he co-owns with my brother… and with my sibling out of town, I’m stuck working with Lucas. Forced proximity ignites the desire we’ve both been pretending doesn’t exist. Fr...

Title: Taylor’s Father Author: Penelope Ward Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance Tropes: Age Gap (17 Years), Best Guy Friend’s Father Single Dad, Forbidden, Second Chance Protective Hero, Sassy Heroine Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs Photographer: Brennen McMurray Model: Levi Stocke Release Date: February 22, 2026 BLURB From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance… When my best friend Taylor gifted me a vacation at a resort owned by his grandparents, the last thing I expected was to bond with a man seventeen years older. Tate was also vacationing alone. He’d come to Midnight Key to clear his head and reevaluate his life. I’d come to get over my high school sweetheart who’d dumped me. I’d spotted the brawny, tattooed Adonis in the lobby on the first day and thought he had to be someone’s hot dad. But then we matched on an app that paired single men and women by proximity. The problem was? At ninete...

STERLING STONE L.B. Dunbar Release Date: January 29 Pre-Order Links: Amazon US: https://a.co/d/7GmOhyS Amazon UK: https://amzn.eu/d/6EPEo05 Amazon AU: https://amzn.asia/d/6gAYPJO Amazon CA: https://a.co/d/7z7pxYC Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🔥Silver fox sheriff 🔥Wanderlust urban artist 🔥Small town 🔥One night reunite 🔥Opposites attract 🔥He's protective 🔥She's restless 🔥Eldest brother responsible for large family 🔥All the steam Blurb Quiet. Serious. Protective. All words Stone Sylver would use to describe himself. And yet, something in his classic blue eyes said he was so much more. Buried beneath the years of raising his younger siblings and being a small town sheriff was a man looking for love. Of course, I didn’t get all that the first night we met. The night we did a one-two step in a hotel hallway and knocked heads. The same night we shared a sweet potato cupcake and a single kiss. Why didn’t we share more? The moment became a gre...

Samantha Young has revealed the covers for Drifting Dawn! Releasing: April 16, 2026 Cover Designer: By Hang Le Photographer: Wander Aguiar After eighteen years, I’ve come home to the Scottish island of my childhood. It’s the place I vowed I wouldn’t return to so I never again had to see the man who broke my heart into a million pieces. Yet family has inevitably brought me back, and avoiding my ex, Quinn McQuarrie, is proving impossible when he insists on digging up the past every time we meet. Quinn is now a single dad, the local contractor, and the person the entire town is rooting for to get his happily ever after. The problem is, he wants me to be his HEA, and I just want to move on. When Quinn sees my plans to save the town’s volunteer lifeboat service as an opportunity to work together, I’m stuck with him. And, unfortunately, I soon realize there’s no denying that the chemistry we share has only grown more intense with the passing of time. I know Quinn wants more than ...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the final standalone hockey romance in her Love and Hockey series, THE FLIRTING GAME! This sexy, revenge fake dating, neighbors-to-lovers, workplace hockey romance is filled with unexpected surprises while spying on the neighbor, fake-turned-very-real sleepovers, and all the feels, spice, and heat you’ve come to expect and love from a Lauren Blakely sports romance! Available on Audible now, THE FLIRTING GAME releases in eBook and paperback on December 26th and will be free to read in Kindle Unlimited! Check out the cover and blurb below and pre-order your copy today! ✦ Amazon ➜ https://blkly.pub/flirtinggameAMZ ✦ Audible ➜ https://blkly.pub/FlirtingGameAUD Listen Now! Brooke Bloomingdale & Sean Masters Narrate in Duet! Cover Illustration and Design: Qamber Designs & Media About THE FLIRTING GAME (Coming 12/26/2025): Revenge was the plan. Falling for the hockey star next door wasn’t. My new neighbor is...