A man has to make a living, especially when he lives forever. How hard can stand-up comedy be?
There aren’t a lot of career options for vampires. You need to move every twenty years so that people don’t catch on to the fact that you don’t age. Work is also tricky when you’re references go back a hundred years or so and you don’t want to show proof of your age or education. But hey, how hard can it be to make people laugh?
Most days Poppy feels like she doesn’t belong. Anywhere. When she finds out that her hot, quirky new neighbor is doing stand-up at a local club, she can’t help but go and see what he’s all about. She never expects for him to call her on stage, or to be the only one that seems to appreciate his humor.
Can a human survive the attention of a vampire for more than one night?
It’s Not Funny- A Vampire comedian is a standalone in the Sweet Home Monsters series, where monster romance meets rom-com with a twist of Southern charm.
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Hadley Wright never expected one unforgettable night with a stranger to become the beginning of something she couldn’t forget. After slipping away before sunrise, she’s convinced she’ll never see the quiet, guarded man who made her feel safe on one of the hardest nights of her life again.
Until he walks right back into Coral Bell Cove.
Nolan Pierce has spent his entire life believing it’s easier not to need anyone. Buying the town’s struggling marina is supposed to be his fresh start—not falling for the woman who comes from the loud, loving family he’s never had.
But while Hadley believes love means showing up, Nolan is convinced it means protecting the people he cares about… even if that means shutting them out.
Now they’re both about to discover that falling in love is the easy part.
Trusting someone enough to stay might change everything.
At First Catch is a heartfelt, steamy small-town romance featuring a one-night stand, found family, slow-burn chemistry, meddling siblings, marina life, and a hero who falls first, falls hard, and learns that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is let someone stand beside you.
Julian Langley has everything a man could ever want—a sprawling Manhattan townhouse, a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, and ownership of the New York Vipers, one of the most coveted franchises in professional hockey. What he doesn’t have, and will never allow himself, is anyone who matters too much. Carrying a devastating loss that completely reshaped him, Julian has since built his life around the certainty that nothing will ever cost him that dearly again.
Harper Hawthorne isn’t looking for a billionaire. She’s looking for a way to keep the lights on. Single-handedly holding her world together since she was a teenager, Harper works two jobs, lives in a rent-controlled apartment on the Lower East Side, and sacrifices everything for her younger brother. When an unexpected phone call lands her a chauffeur job behind the wheel of Julian’s car, she takes it for exactly what it is: a paycheck.
Julian notices everything about her. Harper tries not to notice anything about him. What begins as a professional arrangement starts to crack at the edges when Harper proves, repeatedly and effortlessly, that she’s unlike anyone Julian has ever encountered before. She’s too sharp to ignore, too genuine to keep at arm’s length, and entirely unimpressed by his world in a way that makes it impossible for him to stop thinking about her.
Julian doesn’t do commitment. Harper doesn’t believe in fairy tales. But some collisions are inevitable and some people are worth every risk you swore you’d never take again.
The Great War is no place to start a feud with a fellow officer. Lieutenant Hart did – and came to regret it.
The War to End All Wars is no place for illicit lust. Captain Thorn inspired it.
Beginning of the 20th century Britain was no place for homosexual love. They couldn’t resist it.
To find love on the fields of the Western front – where each step promises death and discovery carries severe consequences – is as difficult as nurturing a delicate flower to bloom on those godforsaken fields. Two officers will learn how to do it, but they have to let go of their enmity first.
Genre/Tropes:Morally Gray Cowboy / Forced Proximity / Guardian/Ward / Slow Burn / Grumpy x Sunshine / City Girl vs Broody Cowboy / Talks Her Through It / Teaches Her To Protect Herself / Touch Her & Die / She’s Keeping A Secret
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After the man I was supposed to marry shatters my life, my father sends me to a remote ranch in Black Hollow Creek, Montana, with one order: Stay put. Heal. Move on.
Instead, I spend my days clashing with Sawyer Bishop.
The broody cowboy who can’t stand me. The rancher my father trusts with my life. The man who’s always watching.
He thinks I’m spoiled. I think he’s insufferable.
Neither of us expects our constant battles to turn into late-night conversations, lingering glances, and the kind of tension that’s impossible to outrun.
Somewhere between all the fighting, Sawyer becomes the first person to make me laugh again. The first man I’ve trusted. And the ranch becomes the first place that feels like home since my world fell apart.
But monsters don’t stop hunting their prey just because it runs.
The past I came here to escape has finally caught up with me. Only this time… It isn’t just my life on the line.
And the people coming for me are about to learn why no one in Montana crosses a Bishop.
Because Sawyer Bishop doesn’t just protect what’s his.
He buries anyone who tries to take it.
About JL Beck:
Beck writes steamy romance that’s unapologetic, meaning it makes no apologies for the way it rips you open and makes you crave more. Her heroes are alphas who take what they want, and she pairs them with heroines that bring them to their knees.
She loves writing about darkness, passion, suspense, and of course, steam.
Leaving her readers gasping and asking what the hell just happened is only one of her many tricks.
Her books range from morally grey to dark and spicey but always end with a happily ever after. She loves to write across numerous tropes, but her favorite is enemies to lovers.
She started her writing career in the summer of 2014 and hasn’t stopped since. She lives in Wisconsin and is a mom to two, a wife, and likes to act as a literary agent part-time.
She isn’t supposed to care about a ranch. She definitely isn’t supposed to fall for the foreman. And his six-year-old son is absolutely, definitely not supposed to capture her heart.
Lainey Brown is not ranch material. She’s a city girl who landed on the legendary Wallace Ranch to give the place a fresh coat of branding—and get her career back on track. She’s got no interest in cowboys, cattle, or the infuriatingly gorgeous foreman who clearly wants her gone.
Colton Wallace has spent every day since losing his wife building something worth leaving his son: a spotless reputation, a thriving operation, and a life with no room for complications. The last thing he needs is a firecracker from Austin with a sketchbook full of big ideas and a smile that makes him forget every reason he swore off wanting things he can’t keep.
But somewhere between their very first fight and a Texas night sky that stretches on forever, something shifts. Lainey stops counting the days until she can leave. And Colt stops pretending he wants her to.
The ranch has always been the Wallace legacy. But Colt is starting to wonder if the best thing that’s ever happened to it—and to him—just walked in wearing city shoes.
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🧡Review🧡 Now that Lainey has finished school she is ready to embark on her marketing career however her options don’t seem to mesh with what inspires her. The opportunity to increase the profile of the Double U Ranch is her opportunity to prove herself and that begins with Colt, who doesn’t want her there disrupting his life and the ranch.
Colt was not happy when he found out that Laney has been hired to help with the image of the ranch. He doesn’t see what an inexperienced woman both when it comes to her career and ranch life could add any value however the more time they spend together the more their relationship turns from adversaries to love.
The banter between them is witty, the heat between them intense as she helps him overcome the pain of his past and he shows her a life, love and family she never expected as they take us on a journey that is both heartwarming and romantic.
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🔥Fated Mates (And Fighting It)
🔥Instalust (And Not Fighting It)
🔥Forced Proximity
🔥Enemies To Lovers
🔥Witchy RomCom
🔥Magic And Mayhem
🔥Sassy Banter
🔥Voyueristic Magical Creatures
🔥A Blue Moon Race
🔥And An Orgy Bed Oh My!
An impulsive witch and a buttoned-up werewolf discover love is its own beast in this spicy rom-com fromUSA Todaybestselling author Avery Flynn.
As the eldest daughter of the magical Sherwood family, I’m supposed to have everything together. Well, joke’s on them—I, Effie Sherwood, am chaos incarnate, and you’ll never be able to guess my next move.
Like jumping on the back of Darius Aetos’ motorcycle. Not only is Darius grumpy, gruff, and hot, he’s also the head of the Aetos werewolf pack.
My spur of the moment decision has quickly become a much bigger commitment, because a pack elder is convinced this hunk of a man (or wolf, depending on the hour) is my fated mate.
Even though I’m a witch and he’s a werewolf, we’re stuck together until we can find our way out of the tricky pack politics. But under the light of the blue moon, it’s almost starting to feel like Darius doesn’t want to stay away from me. And I’m not sure if it’s my magic going haywire or the starlit skies, but I can’t imagine leaving his arms either.
I’ve spent my whole life chasing eight-second rides, gold buckles, and the roar of a sold-out arena. But after watching my big brother win the PBR World Championship, I’m left wondering if the dream I’ve fought so hard for is still the one I want.
So I come home to Wildhaven for the summer, teaching at the Raintree-Storm Rodeo Academy while I figure out what comes next.
Then Marina Kincade walks back into my life.
Five years ago, we were two lonely rodeo stars sharing stolen nights with no promises. Then she disappeared without a goodbye.
Now she’s standing in Wildhaven as the academy’s new barrel racing instructor.
She’s stronger. More guarded. Just as impossible to forget. And the little boy by her side makes it clear that she had a reason to walk away.
As we get to know each other again, a ghost from Marina’s past comes looking for her.
He’s one of the fiercest rivals I’ve ever faced—determined to make sure Marina’s future belongs to him, not me.
Rule #3: Never get emotionally invested in your quirky small hometown.
Unfortunately, I’ve broken all three rules…
When a career-ending scandal sends me back to Maplewood, Vermont, I need to lay low and figure out my next steps. Instead, I find my hometown in crisis. The local economy is struggling, the beloved Maple Festival has been stolen by a rival town, and I’m forced to work side by side with Mayor Gabriel Harding, my childhood rival and the town’s optimistic hometown hero.
Helping Gabe save Maplewood should be simple. I’m a political strategist. He’s a small-town mayor. Together, we’re supposed to save Maplewood.
The problem? Gabe refuses to see me as the villain I think I am. Every time I push him away, he fights harder for me, for this town, and for the future neither of us imagined. Somewhere between arguing over town budgets, getting snowed in together, and one ill-advised one-night-stand, our enemies-to-lovers rivalry turns into an unexpected pregnancy.
Apparently, saving a small town requires public humiliation, emotional vulnerability, forced proximity … and an alarming amount of maple syrup.
As I fight to bring the Maple Festival back to town, I uncover a dangerous corporate conspiracy, become the target of powerful enemies, and discover someone wants Maplewood to fail.
Now we’re fighting for our town, our future and the family we never saw coming.
Because falling for my enemy was never part of the plan.
Tennis is my life. Work hard. Win clean. Trust no one but yourself. That’s how you become number one.
Too bad Cordon University only worships Bryson Moss—the golden boy quarterback I’ve despised since our train wreck of a first meeting three years ago.
Now he wants a favor I can’t afford to refuse. His sister’s dating app needs a power couple for launch, and I need the cash to stay in school.
The contract is simple: fake the romance, fool the internet, cash the checks.
Except our chemistry isn’t fake. The banter, the tension, the way he looks at me when no one’s watching—it’s all devastatingly real. When we go viral, the pressure intensifies. And when my body betrays me on the court, threatening everything I’ve worked for, Bryson won’t let me quit.
I’ve always believed champions stand alone.
But what if falling for my enemy is the bravest thing I’ve ever done?
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“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Ben came running over, his voice filled with horror. “Woman, what in the hell are you doing?” “Cleaning house,” I grinned. “Fine, clean the house. Clean the whole damn thing, but my bucks stay on the wall!” I thrust my fists on my hips, glowering at my husband. “Benjamin Parker, I will not look at those beady eyes for one more minute!” “You don’t have to! Just close your eyes! Problem solved!” “I can’t very well close my eyes when I’m painting.” “Painting?” His face twisted in confusion. I may have forgotten to inform him of my plans. “Or writing.” “What the hell are you gonna write?” “A book,” I grinned. “It’s going to be amazing.” “Since when do you write?” My smile dropped into a scowl. “Since today. Well, probably next week since I still have to paint the room.” A frown appeared as he thought it over, then realized what I meant, and that frown quickly turned into a scowl. “Now, hold on a minute—” “You hold on a minute, Benjamin Parker!” “Would you stop last naming me?” he snapped. “I need a place to write—” “That’s my den,” he shouted, pointing toward the house. “And it’s about time you learned to share. I’ll be taking over.” “That’s not the definition of sharing.”
“You know…” She laughs, fake smile plastered back on her face as she pops back off the bench. “Sex is more of a man thing anyway. It’s not like…it’s not like something that I usually enjoy, which is fine. I was just really surprised because you felt good, and then, it’s…it normally, well. You know it can hurt for women, and—”
She gasps as I strike, my hand wrapping around her wrist, stopping her from making one more goddamn flippant gesture as if her sexual trauma is just the way things are for women. Her heartbeat throbs under my grasp, and the eroticism of this woman’s wrist has my dick hardening down the leg of my sweatpants. I want to sink my teeth into it, drape it in diamonds, chain it to my bed…but I’m getting ahead of myself. For now, I settle for placing a chaste kiss to the delicate skin covering her pulse point and pulling her back down next to me on the bench.
“I’m sorry for touching you without your consent. Will you sit for a moment with me? I’d like to talk about what you said.”
“You don’t have to apologize. It’s fine,” she whispers. “But I do need to go soon, and I—”
“Just a few minutes of your time, Abby. Please?”
She loosens a shaky breath and nods.
“Can I touch you? Just your hand?”
Thankfully, she nods again, and I pull her left hand onto my thigh, flipping it so that I can continue my new obsession of tracing the intricate veins from her wrist to her palm.
“I don’t know why you think that about sex. Although in my nightmares, I suppose I could guess,” I say, still gently tracing patterns across her soft skin. Her finger needs a ring. One with a diamond so massive that it’s clear she’s taken from far, far away. “It should absolutely not hurt for a woman, and if it ever does, that’s something that her partner should immediately do everything within his power to rectify.”
I’m Azura, an omega and a sea princess, a mermaid with power over the Song of the sea and the elements.
I am also alone. Not lonely, because I decided long ago that I don’t need anyone. I’m perfectly happy on my own… I think.
Then I spot a black ship on the surface and my curiosity gets me caught in a net woven with iron that disrupts my magic and delivers me right into the hands of a bunch of pirates… in particular Captain Caspian and his two trusted and close mates, Jax and Archer.
They need me to locate and retrieve a treasure, it seems, and don’t care whether I suffer for it. It doesn’t help that my body appears inordinately interested in them, their handsome faces and ripped bodies.
Now is not the time, body. Not the time to want them, and certainly not the time to go into heat, okay?
Mermaids don’t tend to spend their heat with human alphas. Or humans, period. Humans are odd and have strange… equipment, compared to mermen.
I need to bargain my way out of the tank they’ve put me in and never look back – so please explain why, when I convince them to do so… I find myself swimming right back to them?
This is a standalone omegaverse why choose MMFM romantasy with a mermaid FMC and three hunky pirates MMCs. Enemies to lovers, they fall first, touch-starved FMC, boyfriends who are already boyfriends, too.
I don’t get involved with clients. I keep them safe, stay focused, and when the job is over, I walk away.
Addison Blake makes that rule impossible to follow. The rodeo queen has been receiving threats she insists are nothing to worry about. But when someone gets close enough to track her every move, protecting her becomes my only priority.
I shouldn’t get possessive over clients. And I refuse to be distracted by green eyes and dusty boots and a woman who smiles like she’d rather bleed than admit she’s scared.
The longer I stay by Addison’s side, the harder it gets to separate the job from the woman underneath the crown. She’s stubborn, brave, and determined to keep living her life no matter who’s trying to scare her.
I’ve already failed to protect someone I loved once. I won’t fail her. And whoever thinks they can get to Addison will have to go through me first.
The Cowboys of Mustang Mountain carry regrets, rivalries, and reputations they’ve never quite outrun. They’re the men who fix fence lines by day, fight their demons by night, and swear they don’t need anyone. Their pasts are messy. Their scars are real. And their hearts are locked down tight.
Until the right woman walks into their path and shakes the dust off their hardened hearts. Women who aren’t afraid to push back, dig deep, and call these cowboys out on every wall they try to hide behind.
On Mustang Mountain, even the roughest cowboy can find a future, but only if he’s brave enough to love the woman who won’t let him walk away.
Addison is a rodeo queen who has been taught to smile and not to show how she really feels and that includes the fear she is hiding because of the threats she has been receiving. When Braxton is hired to provide security she will agree however she isn’t about to let him deter her from appearing in her scheduled events.
Braxton is a man with a tumultuous past who has made it his mission to protect others so they will never have to feel the pain that he did. He is more concerned about the danger that Addison is in then she is but he also sees everything she wants to hide and he is determined to protect her from everything and that includes herself.
Even though Addison and Braxton start out on different sides the escalating danger brings them closer and there is nothing Braxton won’t do to keep her safe and help her uncover the secrets of the past.
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