Every thirteen years, beneath a blood moon, a bride is chosen to appease Alderfen’s curse. Liora Hale is the lamb the temple has chosen to lead to slaughter.
After her mother secretly bargains to spare Liora’s sister from the Choosing, Liora is left to bear the consequences. She is taken from the village and delivered to the fortress of a masked ruler known as the Unnamed King. The temple calls him Kael—a name used in place of the true one stolen from him.
Within his fortress walls, Liora learns the stories of a cruel, bloodthirsty king are another of the temple’s lies. Kael is not the curse’s master, but its prisoner—bound in iron and condemned to bleed for an Oath he never forged. He is haunted by the Remnants of the brides who came before her, and for one hundred years, he has searched for a way to break the curse that ensnares them all.
But Liora is not like the others. As the curse awakens and the fortress begins to hunger, she resists what consumed every bride before her. Where Alderfen sees a monster, Liora sees a man: wounded, imprisoned, and surviving despite everything stolen from him. And Kael begins to see her as more than the blood-price meant to keep her village alive. She is a healer. A defiant heart. And the woman who makes him want to live.
If Liora can survive until dawn, she may become the first bride to escape the curse. But surviving is no longer enough. Drawn to the king she was taught to fear, she must decide whether she is willing to risk everything and stand beside Kael against the god who claims them both.
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🎄 Christmas Romance
🏒 Pro Hockey Player
💔 Ex-Boyfriend’s Brother
❄️ Snowed-In / Forced Proximity
🛏️ Only One Bed
📚 Standalone
Clay Barlowe’s NHL career ended the night his knee gave out. One torn ACL was bad enough. The second? Game over.
Now he’s the guy with a reputation—grumpy, stubborn, hotheaded. Every teammate would agree he’s impossible, and he hasn’t bothered to prove them wrong. Coaching might be his second chance…if he can avoid distractions and keep the rumors under wraps.
Which is why being snowed in with Tessa St. James is a temptation he can’t afford.
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.
In a brand new, sizzling arranged marriage romance, a mafia princess is forced to marry her enemy and live with him in Paradise Grove, a billionaire’s enclave filled with luxury and secrets. For fans of TL Swan, LJ Shen, and Rina Kent.
He was only supposed to be a secret fling.
A forbidden kiss stolen in the dark . . . Not the cold-blooded monster who betrayed me.
She’s Sworn off Love. He’s About to Change Her Tune.
Anne’s life is perfectly on track. She’s committed to her career and has no time for romantic distractions. As far as she’s concerned, happily ever after only exists in sappy movies and three-minute pop songs. She certainly didn’t expect to meet a handsome stranger on vacation who draws her in with a fiddle and a Grammy worthy smile. But she knows love isn’t real, and she’s not willing to give up her hard-won dreams for song.
Joe is the whole package: handsome, sweet, kind to strangers and a musical prodigy on the fiddle. But he isn’t just Joe, he’s a national country-music super star about to hit the road for a grueling months-long tour. When he should be laser focused on his fans from the stage, all he can think about is Anne as he looks for her face in the crowd. She’s closed off to love, but he didn’t get where is by giving up.
When Anne turns away, Joe turns up the volume. He believes in the power of music, and in the power of love.
Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter who keeps her on her toes.
From USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Knight comes a high-spice, father’s-best-friend age-gap romance about crossing the line with the one man she knows she shouldn’t want.
The last person Blair Hart expects to run into at a members-only sex club in Beverly Hills is her father’s best friend.
She’s only in Los Angeles for a work conference, and after catching her boyfriend cheating, one night of no-strings-attached fun sounds like exactly what she needs. Until she walks into Sensation and comes face-to-face with Dane Kincaid.
He’s older, tempting, and completely off-limits, and he knows better than to see Blair as anything more than his best friend’s daughter. But the woman standing in front of him isn’t the girl he remembers, and once they cross the line, one night in his private room is supposed to be where it ends.
Instead, Blair returns to New York with Dane still on her mind—and it isn’t long before dirty texts turn into late-night calls, and the secret they left behind in LA follows them across the country.
When Blair receives an offer she’d be foolish to refuse, it’s a career-changing position at the construction company owned by her father and Dane.
Moving home means being closer to her family, stepping into the job she’s worked years for … and leaving three thousand miles of safe distance between her and Dane in the past.
They already know what happens when they’re alone together. What neither of them knows is how long they can keep their secret after Blair returns to California.
Because she was never Dane’s to want, but knowing that hasn’t done a damn thing to stop either of them.
Not Yours to Wantis a high-spice, dad’s-best-friend age-gap forbidden romance novella featuring a one-night stand that turns into something more, an older man/younger woman pairing, a secret relationship, and a very exclusive sex club.
🔥Review🔥 Being in her hometown not only gives Blair the opportunity to attend a work conference but to spend some time with her parents as well. Now that she is single her best friend suggests that they go to an adult club to help her get over her ex however she never expected to see Dane, her father’s best friend, or the intense attraction between them.
Dane is intrigued by the woman that Blair has become however he also knows that because of his relationship with her father that they shouldn’t pursue anything further. That becomes difficult when she not only moves to her hometown but is working at the company that he and her father are partners in. Let the complications begin!
The steam radiates off the pages and Blair is a woman who knows what she wants while Dane is swoony. They quickly realize that what they share goes beyond the physical and now they must face what this means for them and everyone they love.
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.
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He’s my former best friend and my husband of convenience, but he’s not the man that got me pregnant.
One year into my nursing program, two little pink lines alter my reality.
Add on that the baby’s father wants nothing to do with us and I no longer have healthcare coverage, and well?
I start to panic.
Enter Easton Buckley—Mr. Dependable, lineman with great health benefits, and a stubborn streak that pays off when he convinces me to marry him so my baby and I can be taken care of.
The problem is, Easton and I haven’t been on good terms for years, and neither of us has attempted to fix it.
Yet now I’m living with him, forced to see him shirtless, and wondering why hearing him call mehis wifeis making my hormones even more wild.
Then I figure out his secret.
And there’s no stopping the flood of emotions and unresolved feelings that come up.
I’m scared to fall for Easton. I don’t want him to be a mistake like every other love interest in my life.
But what if the reality is, you can’t help who your heart chooses to love? Even if they could be the one to break it once and for all?
As a single mom, my life is built on routine, responsibility, and putting my son first. There isn’t room for distractions—especially not from a playboy hockey player with a reputation as big as his ego.
One night with Sawyer Hill, star forward for the Grizzlies, was supposed to be a moment of indulgence. Nothing more.
Only…he keeps showing up. Keeps looking at me like I matter. And worst of all, he looks at my son like he plans to stay.
But I’ve trusted the wrong man before, and I won’t make that mistake again.
USA Today bestselling author Elise Faber writes romances with swoony, possessive heroes who fall hard and fast—and have just the right amount of heat. When she’s not writing about hockey or cheering on the Sharks, she’s playing it—her favorite date nights happen on the ice with her husband. Off the rink, you’ll usually find her soaking in the bathtub with a book or bingeing reality TV. Elise lives in Northern California with her husband and two teenage boys, and firmly believes happily-ever-afters are non-negotiable. Connect with her on Instagram, TikTok, or at elise@elisefaber.com.
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He is the team’s golden boy who has a broken foot and whose contract expires this year. She is the trainer whose job it is to say no to him, and for the following six months both of them will be unable to leave.
Quinn Abbott has rules. Rule one: the athlete’s health outranks the athlete’s opinion. Rule two: never get attached to a patient. Rule three, written specifically for the San Antonio Outlaws’ star running back: do not, under any circumstances, fall for the smile.
Grant Hale has never met a door that stayed closed to him. Then a broken foot puts his season, his contract, and his entire identity on an exam table, and the trainer running his rehab turns out to be the one person in Texas immune to his charm. She has a clipboard, a timeline, and zero interest in his comeback-of-the-year plans. He has a comeback clock, a stubborn streak, and a growing problem: the best part of his ruined season is the hour a day she spends telling him no.
Every morning, the same training room. Every session, her hands on the injury that could end him. Team flights, hotel treatment tables, a rehab schedule written into his contract and hers. They can’t avoid each other, and it’s starting to show. Falling for your trainer is against the rules. Falling for your patient can end a career. And somewhere between the countdown on the whiteboard and the question he shouldn’t ask, two people who’ve spent their lives carrying everything alone have to learn what it costs to let someone in.
Neither of them stands a chance, and the whole season is watching.
Tropes & tone:
• Slow burn — the wait is the point
• Athlete × athletic trainer, forced proximity (three sessions a week, no escape)
• Forbidden — he’s her patient, and one signature could end her career
• Golden retriever hero who falls first and earns it
• Found family — the Outlaws locker room, opinions included
• Open door · guaranteed HEA · standalone
Book Two of the San Antonio Outlaws series. Each book follows a different couple
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!
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🏈NFL Quarterback × Coach’s Daughter
💜One Night Stand
🏈Forced Proximity
💜Forbidden Romance
🏈Found Family
💜Mental Health Rep
🏈Interracial Romance
💜Caretaking MMC
🏈Praise Kink
💜He Falls First…and Harder
One night with a beautiful stranger is supposed to be exactly what I need to forget that my NFL career is hanging on by a thread. No last names, no strings, no expectations. Just two people having a little fun before going their separate ways.
At least, that’s the plan.
Problem number one. I definitely want more. Problem number two. She disappears before the sun. Problem number three. I can’t stop thinking about her.
Surely the universe is done with me now. The universe: Bet. Because the woman of my dreams is my coach’s daughter, who I absolutely can’t have.
Pretending our night together never happened is probably the smartest thing either of us could do, but I’ve never been good at walking away from something I want.
Not a text that says “let me know if you need anything” and then nothing.
Dinner. And hands.
I unlocked the door and opened it. “Dr. VanRyan. Is this a house call?”
He grinned. “Could be.”
“Really, what are you doing here?”
He lifted a bag. “I brought dinner and a pair of willing hands.”
I need everyone to sit with the fact that “let me know if you need anything” is not help. It’s a way of feeling helpful while doing nothing. Turning up at the door with food and the willingness to actually DO something — that’s help.
He’s an ER doctor. His job is to walk into other people’s worst days and be useful. Turns out he does it off the clock too.
I haven’t read this yet. I am simply looking at four lines of dialogue and quietly rearranging my October around a man who brings dinner.
Right person, wrong time. A year apart. A second chance neither of them saw coming.
PAGING DR. VANRYAN — Melanie Moreland, October 22.
From Amazon Charts bestselling author Jennifer Millikin comes a new cozy, laugh-out-loud romance.
Callum Goode, the grumpy creator of the beloved website Goode Tidings, never planned on unlawfully occupying the abandoned lakeside cabin where he spent summers as a child. But after a painful and humiliating betrayal, he trades the city for a secluded life in the mountains. There he finds peace, solitude, and a hot tub—which is where Callum happens to be when Eden Madigan and her teenage son wander onto his property claiming the cabin is theirs for the next year.
Seeking space from the newcomers, Callum moves into the small backyard office. Eden might be beautiful and funny, but she’s also the no-filter ex-wife of Callum’s former stepbrother, making her totally off-limits.
Callum appears to be all scowls and ruggedly handsome, but Eden knows there’s more to him. She’s determined to peel back his layers, but what she’s really doing is getting under his skin in a way neither of them expected.
Eden maintains that bringing Callum coffee every afternoon is just a simple kindness. Callum claims he was only offering a friendly ear when Eden was upset. But the way Callum has been showing up in town wearing an uncharacteristic smile on his face says otherwise.
With tentative touches lingering, and lengthy glances heating up, Callum’s grasp on his control begins to slip.
And when the tension finally snaps? There’s no going back.
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💙Review💙 When Eden and her son Oliver begin to move into the cabin that her ex has arranged for her to stay for a year she is the one surprised when she realizes that she isn’t alone. Unknown to everyone Callum, her ex’s stepbrother, has been staying there without anyone knowing.
Callum’s attempt at solitude has been disrupted when Eden and Oliver come crashing into his life. He plans to stay in the office and keep his distance however that is easier said than done especially when their constant interruptions and interfering make him feel alive in a way he hasn’t felt for a while.
The interactions between Eden and Oliver were humorous and the way that Callum was there for Oliver will touch your heart. Eden and Oliver are both going through difficult times, and they give each other exactly what they need and the evolution of their romance was perfect as they realize that they are destined to be together.
Shain Rose is a USA Today and #1 best-selling author. She writes romance filled with angst, steam, and emotional rollercoasters that lead to happily ever afters.
She lives where the weather is always changing with a family that she hopes will never change. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading and loving life.
In a brand new, sizzling arranged marriage romance, a mafia princess is forced to marry her enemy and live with him in Paradise Grove, a billionaire’s enclave filled with luxury and secrets. For fans of TL Swan, LJ Shen, and Rina Kent.
He was only supposed to be a secret fling.
A forbidden kiss stolen in the dark . . . Not the cold-blooded monster who betrayed me.
Callahan Knight is the Diamond Syndicate’s perfect weapon with honed muscles, lethal control, and merciless loyalty. Even when taking out a rival cartel’s capo—my uncle—he doesn’t flinch. He shatters my family without hesitation, and I swear I’ll never forgive him for that.
But the Syndicate doesn’t care about my hatred. To secure their power, they demand more: A vow of marriage or watch everything we love get destroyed.
Now I’m the unwilling bride living in the luxurious prison of Paradise Grove with the man I refuse to call my soon-to-be husband. Instead, he’s the villain. Enemy number one. My tormentor . . .
But also maybe my undoing.
Because when he looks at me with the same fire we once shared, I can’t decide if I want to kill him . . . or kiss him.
Yet, I refuse to be distracted by his touch or piercing gaze. Instead, I’ll play the part, wear the ring, and say my vows all while I dig for his greatest weakness.
Because he may be the Syndicate’s deadliest weapon—
But I’m just as lethal as the monster I have to marry.
💙Review💙 Jasmina is loyal to her mafia family, and she has been trying to show them that she is a force to be reckoned with and not someone who needs to be protected. There is nothing she wouldn’t do for them which is why she finds herself marrying Callahan from a rival family who she shares a heated and at times a vicious past.
Callahan has decided the terms of their marriage and expects that Jasmina will just comply however he has met his match as she isn’t about to let him due whatever it wants when she won’t have the freedom to do the same. His intention that this will be an arrangement is soon pushed aside when he can’t control his protective and possessive tendencies and the more he learns about his bride the deeper he falls.
Rather than their romance being flowers and sentiment it is anything but. The chemistry between them radiates off the pages and the way they know exactly how to infuriate the other is entertaining which combined with the humor and suspense will have you absorbed as Callahan and Jasmina evolve from enemies to everything. Elena Wolfe and Corvin King perfected the suspense, emotion and enduring love of this story.
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