Her grandfather’s sacrifice was supposed to spare her from this life, but his death has pulled her right back home to the ranch she thought she’d left behind for good. Now she’s fighting with her brother for the right to save it. She has a plan but no one will listen to her.
Her brother’s solution is to bring in outsiders, that’s what she says. He claims without the club’s help, the ranch is doomed.
But I see the genius in Della’s vision.
And this ain’t our first rodeo. Literally.
Now we’re up against more than just her brother. Between small minds, big business, and a bunch of folks who don’t think Della belongs here, she’s determined to prove everyone wrong. And I’m determined to prove to her the spark that’s igniting between us is a whole lot more than basic attraction. Can we protect what’s rightfully hers—and ours—or will outside forces burn our new dreams to ashes?
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🔥brother’s best friend/best friend’s little sister
🔥pierced hero
🔥blue collar FMC
🔥small town
Pretending to be engaged to my enemy might not be my brightest idea.
But it is definitely necessary.
On the brink of the biggest car show of my career, I start to panic because it’s the first time I have to see my ex since our break-up.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t clean or amicable.
Then when Elliot Thorne’s ex-fiancé shows back up in town, I devise a plan for both of us to get what we want: a buffer from our exes with a dash of revenge.
The problem is Elliot takes his role to protect me too seriously.
He brings me food while I’m working to make sure I eat. He even silences the self-doubt I feel on a day-to-day basis.
And before I know it, he has me on my knees in my garage, and on my back on the hood of my car.
The hate I’ve harbored toward him melts away as fast as my panties, and I soon realize we have more in common than I thought.
Then he tells me a secret that makes me reevaluate our entire relationship.
Now I’m left to consider if something fake could be real…
And that maybe it’s about time I admit that Elliot isn’t my enemy after all.
Three brothers have built their lives with one rule—work hard and don’t rely on anyone else to carry your load.
Noah runs the ranch and keeps everything moving. Luke works the horses, intent on establishing a respected breeding program. Zane stays in town, focused on his position at the local school, keeping his distance from the ranch life even if he’s never far from it and always willing to lend a hand.
When Geraldine arrives to step in and take over her uncle’s vet clinic, she brings skill, independence, and a past she doesn’t talk about. Someone from that past isn’t finished with her, and it doesn’t take long before it follows her to the ranch.
Aoife steps into the horse program with experience that strengthens what Luke has begun building, but she’s also left something behind in Ireland that hasn’t let go. Trouble doesn’t stay where it started.
Harper has always been part of Sandy Plains, steady in her work at the library and clear about what she will and won’t accept. When Zane comes back into her life after walking away years earlier, she doesn’t forget how easily he left. Trust isn’t something she’s again willing to risk.
Past choices start catching up and each of them has to decide what they’re willing to face, what they’re willing to fight for, and whether they can trust the people standing beside them when things stop being simple.
The brothers’ lives have always been about hard work.
Now it’s about whether they can build something strong enough to last.
I met Ben Wells at an airport on one of the worst days of my life. We talked, laughed, connected, and survived a travel disaster. Then we shared one wild, passionate night together.
That was where the story was supposed to end.
Ben went back to his life as a professional rugby player, and I went back to mine as a college student. Except mine came with a positive pregnancy test and a life I never planned for. One Ben made it clear he wanted no part of.
I didn’t fall apart or chase him. I picked myself up and brushed myself off, raised my daughter, and fought my way into law school.
For five years, we did just fine without him. We were happy, even.
Then, out of nowhere, Ben crashes back into our lives, smiling like nothing ever happened, and everything I thought I knew comes undone. Because some misunderstandings don’t just break hearts. They steal years.
Now Ben is determined to make up for lost time, and not just with our daughter.
The passion we shared is still alive and well, but the stakes are much higher now. But if there’s one thing Ben is good at—besides being relentlessly cheerful and sexy in his rugby uniform—it’s persistence. He doesn’t give up.
If Ben has it his way, the end of our story will be only the beginning.
Grizz is a scorching, emotionally charged hockey romance about two people who were never supposed to fall for each other, and the bruising, tender, inevitable collision that happens when they do.
A Very Good Bad Idea by Emma Chase is now available for pre-order on audio!
Narrated by Sean Masters & Brooke Bloomingdale
Releasing onJuly 9, 2026
New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase is back with this red-hot romantic comedy about two rival real estate developers who inherit the same lucrative property. There’s just one catch: they have to live in it…together.
Block 42 Lot 17 is the most coveted oceanfront property in Shore Haven, and both Damon Burke and Jade Buchanan are certain it’s already theirs.
The elderly owner, Clarabelle Spicket, promised it to Damon. She also promised it to Jade. Awkward…
Now thanks to a provision in the will, the town’s coldest real estate shark and its fiercest power player are forced to spend the next four months living there together or else they forfeit the property.
Even worse, the dilapidated beachfront mansion seems determined to shove them into the same room—and the same bed. As wills clash, tempers flare and walls crumble…so do their defenses.
It’s a bad idea to get too close to your enemy. To care about them, need them, desperately want them.
But when rivalry turns into something far more than either of them ever expected, Damon and Jade discover that love can be a very good bad idea.
A dark atmospheric psychological thriller packed with small-town secrets, buried trauma, and shocking twists. She escaped her past—and the man she never forgot.
Now with two girls gone missing, she’s pulled back into a deadly game she may not survive.
Jillian Thorne built her career making the unreal feel real. On Hollywood soundstages, she stages murder, kidnapping, and violent crime with chilling authenticity—turning fiction into gripping entertainment.
But nothing she’s created compares to the truth waiting in Blue Gil.
Nearly six years after escaping her small hometown, Jillian is drawn back by the suspicious death of the town’s beloved high school football coach. What first appears to be a tragic loss quickly unravels into something far more sinister—a dark mystery no one is willing to confront.
Because in Blue Gil, secrets aren’t just buried… they’re protected.
As disturbing clues surface and a brutal tragedy strikes dangerously close to home, Jillian finds herself trapped inside a real-life psychological thriller. The instincts that made her successful in Hollywood may be the key to solving the crime—or the very thing clouding her judgment.
Everyone in this small town is hiding something. Including Jillian.
To uncover the truth, she must break through an unspoken code of silence, deception, and loyalty—and face the past she thought she left behind. Because some secrets refuse to stay buried.
And in this twisted game of suspense, trusting the wrong person could be deadly.
Have you been Aleatha’d?
*Perfect for fans of Sharp Objects, All Good People Here, and The Last House Guest, Rising Waters is a dark and addictive psychological thriller filled with buried secrets, small-town corruption, twisted family loyalties, and devastating betrayals.
This is a complete 80K stand-alone psychological thriller with a STEM FMC who needs to learn secrets before it’s too late. The only connection to Aleatha’s FEAR OF FLAMES is that our favorite podcasters from Crime DailyPodcast are back, showing the readers another perspective.
*You do not need to read Crime Daily Podcast book one, FEAR OF FLAMES before RISING WATERS.
Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns or her new lighter side, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!
PART FIVE TO THE NEW SERIES BY THE AUTHOR OF NOCTURNE — A RETIRED MASTER SERGEANT SUCKED INTO AN INTER-GALACTIC ARENA CALLED THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, A MAN CHAINED BY THE PTSD OF DEATHS HE COMMITED IN A FIT OF MADNESS. AT HIS SIDE, HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS KID, HIS CANE CORSO, BOSE.
It is only days before the majority of Humanity lands onto the Crucible as they finish their Tutorials and Jeb still has no clue what City it will be only that it will not be the one he is in. In the meantime, Jessica Lewis, the nerdy girl who took the portal that was meant for her older Brother, is lost, scared, looking to the broken Jeb to save her, to teach her, to make her strong enough to stand on her own or at least to stand in his shadow without being obliterated. There is only one place according to the Blood-elf, Nes, to do so, the Endless, the Endless Dungeon, the place Jeb and Bose had been dumped in to begin with, the place they almost died multiple times, the place of their birth within the Crucible of War.
Both have some payback to give to the lizards who almost took their lives when they were only Copper Ranked, weak. Now they are Iron, two Tiers higher, and with many plans and little time. They need to get Jessica stronger while Jeb needs to keep his mind from breaking on the anvil of madness if they are ever going to protect his soldiers lost within the Crucible. The Empire is watching ever closer as the exiled Network Journalist, the dhampir, Shovani Tor, decides he and Bose and Bogie are her ticket back to relevance. All of it is spiraling in ever growing circles. Throw in the Greenskin hit squad led by the Vulture, hired by a Weaver through the Bloody Skull and you have a shit storm in the brewing.
Will they survive? Will Jessica and Nes find their own fates tied to the broken old soldier? Will Bogie get his rent paid?
Find out on the Crucible of War Network, your source of all entertainment, 24/7. Stay tuned!!!! All hail the Great galactic Empire!!!
Brooke O’Brien grew up with a creative mind and a wild imagination, writing poetry and short stories when she was younger. This passion ignited when she began reading angst and hate-fueled stories about vampires and werewolves before she branched into contemporary and new adult romances.
When Brooke isn’t writing or falling in love with a new book boyfriend, you can find her scrolling TikTok, watching ASMR, or devouring her latest binge-worthy TV show.
She loves rockin’ a good hoodie with leggings, is addicted to chocolate, and believes the best days include a good nap.
Brooke O’Brien is represented by Two Daisy Media. For all subsidiary rights, please contact Savannah Greenwell at info@twodaisy.com.
A close proximity sports romance by Brooke O’Brien about a woman who’s spent her life playing it safe and her brother’s ex-teammate who risks it all for the chance to spend a week with her.
I’ve been told to stay away from football players my whole life. Dating one was out of the question. That’s what happens when your brother warns his teammates you’re off-limits.
It wasn’t just him—my parents controlled every move I made throughout high school. Now, with graduation behind me, the life I’ve been planning with my best friend is finally coming together.
✓ Get accepted to Braysen University
✓ Join the Bulldogs Dance Team
✓ Find an apartment
✓ Soak up every ounce of freedom
Everything was going perfectly until I arrived to pick up our new apartment keys and discovered water damage made it temporarily uninhabitable. My brother, Alec, would offer me his couch, I’m sure, but that’s not an option I’m willing to consider.
I want to prove to myself I can handle this on my own. So when Colter Vaughn, the football team captain and Alec’s former teammate, suggests I stay with him, I happily agree.
Except he failed to mention one small detail—the room he’s offering is his.
I’ve spent my life playing it safe. If keeping this secret means I get to share a bed with Colter, it’s a risk I’m willing to take.
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Between her father and her brother Ava has been sheltered so attending Braysen University is her chance to chart her own course. She thought she had it all planned out from joining the dance team to the place she is renting with her best friend. The only setback she hadn’t account for is that her residence isn’t ready for occupancy, so Colter suggests she stay at his place until it is.
Colter is the captain of the football team and used to be teammates with her brother. From their first meeting he knew that Ava was special, so when she finds herself with nowhere to stay he not only helps her with storing her belongings but offers her his room as well. Spending time with her only intensifies his feelings for her and the only regret he has is that she is only staying for a week.
Colter and Ava fit together like pieces of the puzzle and romance between them is both heartwarming and hot. Lee Samuels brings out the protective side of Colter while Stphanie Kay brings out Ava’s resilience. This is the beginning of a new series that leaves us wanting more stories centered around Braysen University.
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That’s the one thing Brace Cordova is convinced of when he’s released from a five year stretch in a military prison.
He figures the best he can do is spend the rest of his days as a freighter pilot and vicariously live out his dream of a Commonwealth Fleet career through his cousin, Commander Letessa Cordova.
His plans unravel when he’s accosted by gangsters, rescued by smugglers, and swept up in the search for an ancient Earth relic.
With a vengeful crime lord and a Commonwealth Fleet gunship both hot on his heels, Brace soon realizes he might not live long enough to ever get a taste of the quiet life.
The Cordova Vector is book one in The Brace Cordova Space Opera Series. It’s an action packed science fiction adventure filled with diverse alien races, ruthless criminals, dedicated soldiers, and millennia-old mysteries.
Theo Williams loved and lost once and isn’t interested in doing it again. He has his family and friends, and plenty of women passing through his new hometown who are happy with a no-strings attached night of passion. Working as a partner at his cousin’s construction company, he’s perfectly content with his life—until he meets Collins Henderson, the one-night stand who will change his world forever.
Collins grew up on the wrong side of her small hometown. Thanks to her parents’ shady schemes, every local knows a Henderson cannot be trusted. She works hard as a paramedic, putting in every extra hour she can to save for a better life. But every time she starts to get ahead, her parents show up to pull her back down. Having one night of passion with a man she doesn’t know is not something she’d normally do, but there was just something about him … And two months later, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.
When she runs into the mysterious stranger again, she has to tell him, not because she needs or wants anything from him, just so he knows. But now he’s showing up at her house to cook her meals, stocking her refrigerator, and doing everything he can for her. Collins has always taken care of herself, she wasn’t looking for a relationship, but she can’t deny the chemistry between them.
She knows it’s only a matter of time before he learns who she is and changes his mind. She can’t let herself fall for this guy, but every day he’s getting harder to resist …
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