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FALLING FOR XMAS Carly Phillips Release Date: November 12 Pre-Order Link: https://www.carlyphillips.com/books/falling-for-xmas/ Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… ❄️Christmas Magic ❄️Forced Proximity ❄️Grumpy Sunshine ❄️Happily Ever After ❄️Holiday Romance ❄️Neighbors to Lovers ❄️Opposites Attract ❄️Protective Alpha ❄️Small Town ❄️Sports Hero Blurb I move to Charleston expecting a fresh start. What I don't expect is her. My new neighbor has enough Christmas lights to be seen from space, a front door wrapped like a giant present, and an endless supply of holiday cheer I want absolutely nothing to do with. Holly Monroe is everything I'm not. She's sunshine. I'm a Grinch. She's an elementary school teacher who believes Christmas can fix anything. I'm an NFL player who's spent years avoiding the holiday altogether. Unfortunately for me, our neighborhood has other plans. One innocent offer to help out at a community event lands me...

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...

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...

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...

THE LONG WAY FOUND CJ Chambers Release Date: August 13 Buy Link: https://a.co/d/0aTMyuBM Available in KU Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🔥Second Chance 🔥Small Town 🔥Retired Military MMC 🔥Steamy MM Romance 🔥Return to Hometown 🔥First Loves Blurb Two decades ago, Jack Garrison boarded a plane for West Point and left Luke Calder behind. Luke stopped waiting. Eventually. Now, as he approaches forty, Luke has built a life he loves in Calder Ridge, the Colorado mountain town he's always called home. The past is finally where it belongs. Then Jack comes back. After a decorated Army career, a failed marriage, and a lifetime spent wondering about the boy he left behind, Jack plans only a brief stop. Everything changes when he sees Luke again. Confident. Stronger. Somehow even more handsome than Jack remembered. Their attraction flares to life again, but desire is the easy part. Heartache and distrust don't disappear overnight. What happens when the ...

While You Were Trending (Accidentally Infamous #2) by Pippa Grant is NOW LIVE! Amazon Ebook: https://readerlinks.com/l/5425033 Amazon Audiobook: https://readerlinks.com/l/5425036 Audible: https://readerlinks.com/l/5425044 Amazon Paperback: https://readerlinks.com/l/5425035 Why you'll love Ginny and Declan: 💚 Best friend’s ex/ex’s best friend 🐾 He falls first 💚 Forced proximity 🐾 Opposites attract 💚 Former Pro-hockey player 🐾 Hurt/comfort 💚 Heroine gone viral BLURB There are three things I will never do (again) in my life: 1. Agree to be filmed doing something stupid 2. Let someone else decide if I’m worthy 3. Fall in love Four years ago, I went viral in a moment that earned me the nickname The Wedding Wrecker. I’ve been in hiding at a closed winery with a small group of other accidentally viral women ever since. But the winery is in financial trouble, and we’re taking every opportunity we get to try to save it. Including agreeing to be the focus...

Small Town, Big Storm (Home Ice Heroes #1) by Elise Faber is NOW LIVE! https://geni.us/SmallTownBigStorm What to expect: 🏡 Small Town Romance 👶 Secret baby ☀️ Grumpy/Sunshine 💔 Second chance 🏒 Hockey Romance I’ve taken pucks to the face… But nothing hits harder than hearing her call me Dad. I return to Cedar Hollow for my father’s funeral. Not for forgiveness. Not for Poppy. And definitely not for the daughter I never knew was mine. Poppy rebuilt her life without me—and she has every reason not to trust the man who left her behind. But the moment I meet my little girl, everything changes. Walking away isn’t an option anymore. They can warn her about me all they want. This time, I’m not leaving. I’ll burn this town to the ground before I lose them again. MY REVIEW Storm is back in his hometown, Cedar Hollow, where he never wanted to be again. He's going to his asshole father's funeral, then leaving. No need to stay here where all his worst memor...

BAD DECISIONS & BACK ROADS Zoe Forward Release Date: August 3 Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/4A9pYk Why you need to #ONECLICK this book... 🔥small-town family feud 🔥second chance romance 🔥revenge-minded hero 🔥forced proximity 🔥veterinary romance Blurb The problem with bad decisions is you never stop wanting them. I used to be the rebellious girl from the wrong side of the fenceline. He was the local hellraiser nobody could tame. While our families carried on a feud older than indoor plumbing, we fell for each other. Then my vicious father found out. To save Timothy's life, I broke his heart and disappeared. Now over a decade later, I'm back as a large-animal veterinarian, working at his brother's clinic and treating everything from prize dairy cows to Timothy's homicidal llama. Avoiding him should be easy. It isn't. He's a single dad running two businesses, still infuriatingly irresistible, and determined to make me pay for eve...