🏍️friends to lovers 🖤mc romance 🏍️road trip 🖤anxiety rep 🏍️secret pining 🖤found family 🏍️pierced MMC 🖤tattoo artist FMC 🏍️protective hero 🖤forbidden romance 🏍️close proximity 🖤one bed 🏍️small town
Aria Bad is a tattooist who’s mastered the art of hiding in plain sight. Her art is her only safe place. Crowded rooms make her panic. People’s eyes burn too hot. Except his. Zeke Wicked has been the steady presence she’s leaned on since he tutored her through high school. He’s a loyal, protective Dark Knight biker, the kind of man who sees everything and the one man who could unravel her without even trying. Every year he takes her to see her family for the holidays, but this year she’s harboring a secret and needs to go alone.
Years ago, Zeke swore to protect, and never touch, Aria Bad, but that didn’t stop his heart from staking claim to her. Lately she’s been secretive and has been pulling away, and now she’s determined to make their annual trip without him, but his instincts won’t let her go alone. When a storm strands them, boundaries blur and buried feelings rise to the surface, unearthing a passion neither can deny. But as the storm clears, they discover two dangerous truths—one that ties them together and one that threatens to tear them apart.
It’s not easy to live knowing that your best days are behind you. It’s not easy feeling like you have nothing to live for, even with an amazing, lucrative career and a loving family. It’s damn near impossible to keep breathing when the love of your life chooses your best friend and teammate over you. I barely survived by burying that part of myself, leaving my heartbreak firmly in the past. But when a pre-season trade re-opens old wounds, I’m forced to reconsider everything, because if she’s not happy with him…it might be my chance to ensure that this time, she chooses correctly. And this time she won’t have a choice.
Blake
The life of a hockey wife isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When I imploded the best thing that had ever happened to me, I hoped it wouldn’t be for nothing. I hoped there’d be a way to salvage some sort of happiness lying in the bed I’d made. I was worse than wrong, and I’ve paid for it in a million little ways over the last ten years. Now, thrust back into the life of the person I hurt the most, the reality is worse than I expected. It’s not just that I have to see him, looking better than ever, and remember the love that I thought I had imagined. It’s that everything from the past feels like it’s just below the surface, waiting to explode. Every stolen glance, every barely there touch…it’s kindling on a pyre that will destroy everything.
I spent years of my childhood dreaming of the day I’d call Atlas Grant my own.
He was my older brother’s best friend, my protector, my friend, and the guy I had loved for as long as I could remember.
I bided my time, waiting until I was old enough to make my move.
But the moment I finally worked up the courage to tell him how I felt, he shattered my heart without a second thought.
Since then, I’ve done everything I could to avoid him.
Too bad that’s no longer an option… Because now I’m on a plane to Las Vegas for a combined bachelor and bachelorette weekend. Which means spending the next few days with Atlas is unavoidable.
If I can’t escape him, I’ll settle for making the football superstar regret ever rejecting me.
But you know what they say about Vegas…
What happens there stays there.
Well, unfortunately for us, some things can’t be buried under those neon lights.
🏈Review🏈 When Henley was 18 she declared her feeling for Atlas, her brother’s best friend, and was hurt when he didn’t feel the same. Since then, she kept her distance however that is about to be put to the test when they both will be in Vegas to celebrate their friends upcoming nuptials.
Seeing Henley again intensifies the feelings that Atlas has had for Henley. When their fun night together results in an impromptu marriage he isn’t disappointed and now he needs to show her that this wasn’t a mistake, but they are meant to be together.
Henley is feisty, fiery and not about to just forgive and forget the past, but Atlas is determined in his pursuit to show her that she can count on him to be there for her both when it comes to the little things he does for her but the romance as well.
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Christmas was supposed to be quiet for nurse and former Army medic Tessa Hensley until a wrecked motorcycle and a mouth-watering biker crashes into her life.
Caleb “Bear” Lawson is big, tattooed, and far too tempting to resist. Taking him home to recover should’ve been a mistake…but one smoldering look, one stolen kiss, and suddenly Tessa’s holiday feels anything but lonely.
She knows he’s not here to stay. He knows walking away will hurt like hell.
This Christmas, sparks fly, hearts tangle, and Tessa learns some gifts are impossible to give back.
About the Author:
Avelyn Paige is the mischief-maker behind steamy dark romance, gritty mafia love stories, and high-octane motorcycle club tales that have blazed their way onto the Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestseller lists. She calls Indiana home, where she lives with her husband and five furry troublemakers who think they’re her editors.
When she’s not fighting the good fight in cancer research, Avelyn trades test tubes for plot twists and dives into worlds filled with danger, devotion, and deliciously bad decisions. She writes romance because it’s the one place where chaos and love can coexist, bullets can fly, hearts can heal, and everyone still gets the kind of ending worth fighting for.
After losing her dad in 2015, she turned heartbreak into creativity and never looked back. Now, she’s on a mission to prove that even the darkest hearts can find redemption, and that love—no matter how twisted—always leaves a mark worth remembering.
One More Goal is a fake dating, opposites attract romance…
As the newest forward for the Jacksonville Mud Hens, I’m determined to make a name for myself.
But it’s not easy. I stumble my way through interviews and choke when there are lights and cameras in my face. When the fans get a little too friendly, I freeze up. My public persona is taking a nosedive and my rookie season has just begun.
The solution? A fake relationship. Apparently, a girlfriend will make me look more approachable, and she’ll have no trouble telling fans to keep their hands off her man.
My team and my publicist think they’ve found the perfect person for the job. She’s a figure skater. She’s gorgeous. And her reputation could use a little rehab, too.
But she’s no stranger. I already know Emersyn Zabek. How could I forget being snowed in with the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen? How could I forget losing my virginity to her?
Now that I think about it, I couldn’t have asked for a better fake girlfriend.
My feelings for Em are far from fake. They’re heating up as the days go by. And when her safety is threatened, there’s nothing I won’t do to keep her out of harm’s way.
One More Goal is the first book in the Dirty Puckers Book Club pro hockey series and it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If you love sassy heroines, stoic heroes, and enough steam to melt your Kindle, then Leo and Emersyn are the perfect couple for you!
Between running my western-inspired women’s boutique, sipping iced coffee, and spending time with my best friends, I’ve got everything I need. Everything except a love that lasts. My dating history is full of frogs, and I’m starting to wonder if finding my prince just isn’t in the cards for me.
Then Brycen Pierce comes back to town.
Despite our unpleasant past, the chemistry is instant, and being around him feels effortless. He makes me laugh and my heart race, which has me wanting more. But if this is going to be something real, I’ll have to take a chance on love and trust him with my heart.
Brycen
Coming home to Freedom is exactly what I needed.
After years of professional schooling, I’m finally doing what I love, caring for animals at my hometown’s veterinary clinic. With my career on track, I’m ready to make room for something more.
I just didn’t expect that something to be Moriah Fletcher.
Our connection is undeniable, and the more time I spend with her, the more I want a future I never knew I was missing. Being with her feels right, but taking a chance on love means risking it all. And Moriah just might be worth every bit of it.
USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.
An addicting small town, single dad, grumpy x sunshine, fake fiancé romance.
My first mistake was kissing a hot cowboy.
My second was agreeing to be his fake fiancée to save his handsome hide in a custody battle.
My third…well, there’s still time…
Single dad Luke Reilly doesn’t trust women who leave for greener pastures. He’s fiercely protective of his four-year-old son and even more protective of his own heart.
But then he met me, or more accurately, my lips…
I’m a free-spirited city gal, newly unemployed and in desperate need for an adventure. Between renovating the dilapidated ranch I inherited with my sisters, the last thing I need is a broody cowboy, even if he is the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen.
But when Luke asks me for a quick favor: block him from view of his vindictive ex, I do one better and plant a kiss right on his lips.
His response? Introducing me as his fiancée. Now I’m fake-engaged to a grumpy single dad who seems more irritated by me than grateful for the favor.
But his little boy wins me over, and long afternoons of babysitting lead to longer nights of getting to know Luke Reilly. Photo shoots and fake kisses to document our “relationship” start to feel dangerously real.
Pretty soon, my body can’t tell the difference–and neither can my heart.
When the call of a fresh adventure beckons, I’m tempted to protect myself and leave this town in the dust.
Because I think I’ve just made my third mistake—falling hopelessly in love.
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🩷Review🩷 When Callie finds herself between jobs it seems like the perfect opportunity to spend time with her sisters and to help with the changes they are planning to Loveland Ranch. Her decision to go and arrange payment of a past due ticket at the courthouse must have been fate as it brought Luke and his son Scout into her life when she impulsively agreed to pretend they were engaged.
Luke is battling for custody of his son Scout and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for him. This is why he finds himself pretending to be engaged to Callie however what he wasn’t prepared for was the light she brought into their lives or the way that she captured both of their hearts. The only problem is that their engagement and her time in town was only temporary.
This is a heartwarming story about love and family with all the feels. Callie is a woman who protects her heart by never getting attached to people or places while Luke’s roots are firmly planted because of his son however it was so rewarding to see Callie, Luke and Scout realize that they belong together.
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You will love this book if you love: 🔥rockstar romance 🔥married MCs 🔥tropical getaway (honeymoon) 🔥angsty/emotional 🔥forced proximity 🔥miscommunication 🔥baby/pregnancy
On a second honeymoon in gorgeous Tulum, Mexico, Natalie and her rock star husband, Easton, must confront their past before they can fight for a future together in this steamy, passionate, epilogue to Drive and Reverse from New York Times bestselling author Kate Stewart.
The vows are just the beginning…
For Natalie, being the wife to the most sought-after rock star on the planet has its privileges, but in the last year, she’s been put through the wringer as far as the pitfalls.
So, when Easton summons her to Mexico for a second-anniversary honeymoon vacation in the very place that brought them back together, Natalie becomes filled with hope to close the space between them…along with a special request.
A request that leads them into a day-long exploration of sorting through their past—while trying to imagine the rest of their future together.
They’ll soon recognize that in order to keep what they have, they’ll have to rediscover the other again. And with a little reminder from both their parents, they’ll realize the fight to keep what they hold most sacred—begins after I do.
For as long as I could remember, Eloise Lawson had been my girl.
Growing up in a quaint North Carolina beach town, the two of us were inseparable. Ellie and I were thick as thieves. But with our last names came pressure and responsibility.
At eighteen, we went our separate ways, but we never lost each other. The two of us shared a bond that couldn’t be broken—not even by distance or decades.
But when Ellie returns to our small town under a smokescreen of scandal and secrets, our past might be the only thing that can salvage the life she’s worked so hard to build.
I’ve never kissed her, but now I’m calling her my fiancée. Our engagement is the headline of Page Six.
Ellie was my first friend. My first crush. My first love.
I would do anything to be hers forever.
The question is: will the girl of my dreams finally become my wife? Or will the weight of our names drag us down?
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Best friends to lovers? Check. Fake engagement? Yes, please. The son of a millionaire and the daughter of a billionaire wrapped up in small-town romance? Absolutely. Smoke Ring is the long-awaited romance between Giovanni DeRossi and Eloise Lawson.
This book is a complete standalone and is not part of the Beaufort Poker Club series.
She came to Whynot to uncover her mother’s scandal and instantly disrupted the quiet life of the local man who prefers bees to people.
Travel blogger Reese Cartier lives for the rush of discovering the unknown. She’s survived missed flights, bad haircuts, and questionable hostels, but nothing could have prepared her for quirky, southern town of Whynot, North Carolina. She’s here for one reason… to untangle the truth about her late mother’s mysterious past.
Her first clue? A dusty rented cottage on a secluded bee farm. Her second clue? The infuriatingly handsome, maddeningly quiet beekeeper who owns it.
Eli Hart likes his life simple, which includes tending hives, bottling honey, and avoiding unnecessary conversation. Then sunshine-in-a-sundress Reese crash-lands on his property—literally—sending her drone into a tree over his bee boxes and his sanity straight into jeopardy.
She’s chaos. He’s calm. She wants answers. He wants her to stop breaking things.
But when the too-curious tenant begins to chip away at her mother’s long-buried secrets, a reluctant partnership is formed with Whynot’s hottest, most reclusive bachelor and becomes a full-blown adventure steeped in the town’s secrets, gossip, and nosiest residents.
Somewhere between Reese’s big questions, bigger ideas, and the way she keeps tripping into his quiet life… Eli realizes she’s the most disruptive thing he’s ever wanted.
A grumpy-sunshine romance full of small-town meddling, slow-burn heat, and one impossible beekeeper who learns that sometimes love buzzes in when you least expect it.
I spent years of my childhood dreaming of the day I’d call Atlas Grant my own.
He was my older brother’s best friend, my protector, my friend, and the guy I had loved for as long as I could remember.
I bided my time, waiting until I was old enough to make my move.
But the moment I finally worked up the courage to tell him how I felt, he shattered my heart without a second thought.
Since then, I’ve done everything I could to avoid him.
Too bad that’s no longer an option… Because now I’m on a plane to Las Vegas for a combined bachelor and bachelorette weekend. Which means spending the next few days with Atlas is unavoidable.
If I can’t escape him, I’ll settle for making the football superstar regret ever rejecting me.
But you know what they say about Vegas…
What happens there stays there.
Well, unfortunately for us, some things can’t be buried under those neon lights.
After five years of writing contemporary romance on a relentless release schedule, I’m burned out. My last two books have barely made a ripple, and for the first time in my career, I’m not sure I have another love story in me. So when my agent offers me a secluded stay at the luxurious Belicourt Resort in the Teton Mountains, I’m ready to say yes.
The resort’s general manager, Porter Garrison, wants me to write the story of the Belicourt’s most famous resident: The Lady in Red, a mysterious spirit who has supposedly haunted the hotel for decades. But the project offers something more—a chance to step outside my genre and create an entirely new series. Maybe it’s exactly what I need to fall in love with writing again.
Then Gaige Keaver gets in the way.
The ridiculously sexy ski instructor has a habit of appearing whenever I’m trying to work—and making it nearly impossible to remember why I swore off men, romance, and happily-ever-afters. And the Lady in Red seems determined to meddle in my life, too, leaving clues to her own mysterious past and somehow nudging Gaige and me closer together.
Soon, I’m not sure whether I’m writing the Lady in Red’s love story…or living one of my own.
Maybe I came to the Belicourt to find my next story.
Why you will love this book… 🏈Pro Football Romance
🏈Single Mom
🏈Best Friend’s Brother
🏈Meant To Be
🏈Reluctant Love
I built my football career by keeping everyone at a distance. Then I met my sister’s best friend.
For years, winning was the only thing that mattered.
I was the perfect star quarterback. Focused. Controlled. A team player. I smiled for the cameras, kept my head down, and made damn sure the people I loved stayed safely out of reach.
Until my best friend’s bachelor party forced me back into the life I’d left behind.
And there she was. Lily Callahan.
My sister’s best friend. A single mother with a heart too big for her own good. And someone I had absolutely no business wanting.
It started with one conversation while my defenses were down and turned into hours together that replayed in my mind.
Then came the wedding. Christmas. New Year’s. And suddenly, I was finding every excuse to return to the city I’d spent years avoiding.
Except it wasn’t the city pulling me back.
It was Lily.
She makes me want things I gave up on a long time ago. A home. A family. A future beyond football. Even her daughter has become someone I would protect with my life.
But wanting Lily means letting her past my walls. And I know what happens when I let people get too close.
I’m already the reason someone I love got hurt. I won’t risk becoming the mistake that costs Lily and her daughter everything.
But what happens when the woman I’m determined to protect is the one person who makes me want to stop running?
An undercover cop. A mobster’s daughter. The best love stories start with a lie in this funny, emotional, suspenseful rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe.
Valentina Cordone doesn’t need a prince—she’s got a thriving bagel-and-book shop in Nashville, game nights with her quirky crew, and a perfectly good life. But when her attractive new neighbor shows up with effortless charm and an award-winning smile, she starts to reconsider.
Detective Shane Maddox went undercover to surveil a mob boss’s daughter. What he didn’t expect? That she’d be a lovable ray of sunshine, nothing like the crime princess he imagined. He planned to get close but walk away untouched. Instead, he’s falling hard…and realizing she’s in more danger than she knows.
Torn between duty and desire, Shane keeps his identity secret while protecting Valentina from her family’s criminal empire. As the truth explodes, he must prove his love is real while keeping her alive—no small feat when she won’t take his calls.
Even though the prince is a liar, he can’t risk losing his princess.
Sometimes fairy tales don’t start with once upon a time. They start with once upon a lie.
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🥯Review🥯 Valentina was raised in a mafia lifestyle until her father walked away and they relocated to Nashville. She is content with the life she has built as she is close to her family, has an apartment she likes and runs a successful bakery. When she meets Shane, her new neighbor, there is no denying the chemistry and connection between them despite the secrets.
Shane is an undercover detective who has been assigned to investigate not only Valentina’s family but her as well. From the first time he saw her he was drawn to her and spending time with her only escalated those feelings. He knows that she is innocent, but he also knows that when she finds out who he is and why he has come into her life that it may not be a betrayal she can forgive.
The group chats with the apartment building was humorous and the relationship she had with her best friend Alfred heartwarming. Shane is torn between his loyalty to his job and his love for Valentina, especially as the suspense part of the story amps up. Teddy Hamilton gave a masterful performance as Shane as you could feel every emotion while Shiloh James brings out both the sassy and caring sides of Valentina.
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“I haven’t been your Lennon since high school, Easton. That’s what you wanted, remember?”
“I never wanted that,” he fires back, reaching up to cup my jaw. I wait for him to elaborate further, but he doesn’t, leaving the words hanging between us.
“How are we supposed to go from barely talking to being married, and make it believable?”
“We have history, Lennon. Everyone in town grew up watching us together. Is it really so hard to believe we might find our way back to each other? We can tell everyone that the baby is mine. It’s the perfect story. Plus, having a baby on the way would only strengthen my case for wanting to stay local for work.”
Hearing him say these words is making me grow emotional because I never imagined him being the one to come up with an idea like this. And of course, I miss our friendship too. The closest we got back to that was after my father’s heart attack, but then he left again and the distance he worked so hard to put between us returned.
Uh, you played a part in that distance too, Lennon. Remember?
“I—I need to think about this,” I manage to reply just as his hand drops from my jaw.
Nodding, he takes a step back, but the softness in the lines of his face remain. “Okay. But don’t take too long, please. My boss wants me to leave on Monday.”
“You want me to decide something like this that soon?”
“I don’t really know why you need to think about it, but yes, I need an answer tomorrow.”
I shake my head. “You’re insane.” “No, I’m just a man, standing in front of a woman, asking her to marry me so I can take care of her.”
