Series: The Last Best Place for Love Book #8 Author: Giulia Lagomarsino
Genre: Small Town Romance
Tropes: Opposites Attract; Alpha Hero; Emotional Scars; A Doozy of a Secret; Willing to Risk Everything for Her
Release Date: November 9, 2026
Cover Design: Artscandare
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
I’d risked a lot in my life because of my job.
Pedos? Eliminated.
Cheating spouses? They always seemed to have an accident.
People who couldn’t pay their dues? Well, they needed to be taught a lesson.
The list went on and on, and I’d never once cared about the sacrifice I was making.
Until her.
Feisty, funny as hell, cute as a button…
But that all changed the night of the fire.
The night I ran in and nearly died for her.
Hell, she nearly died.
It was sheer luck that she survived that night. By all accounts, she should have died.
And that should have been my wakeup call, my chance to turn it all around.
But my life was not my own, and if she ever found out, it would be the end of whatever this was between us.
I’m no good for her, but I never wanted to change my life as much as the night I heard her Whisper My Name.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazon Review – “Asher & Cheyenne – a stalker romance with a twist you never see coming!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Review – “This book was funny, scary, and traumatizing in all the BEST ways! Is it love or stalking? With Archer and Cheyenne, who the heck knows! 🤣 These two bring the tears, the laughs, and all the feels. Another fantastic addition to the series! ❤️”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Review – “This book has it all. Obsessive love….Danger….This story is a whopper!…… For me, this probably ranks up there in the top five of Giulia Lagomarsino’s books.”
I’m a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, “No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book.” I didn’t think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn’t already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven’t been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full.
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Archer has feelings for Cheyenne but rather than be an active participant in her life he chooses to watch her from the shadows content with that until he finds out she is danger. He may have saved her from one threatening situation, but he also knows that it won’t end there and he will do whatever is necessary to keep her safe.
Cheyenne may have been rescued by Archer but the emotional turmoil that she feels hasn’t diminished. She feels a connection for him and is conflicted by the way he keeps pushing her away and by what he isn’t telling her.
Cheyenne’s and Archer’s journey finds the perfect balance between suspense, emotion, humor and will have you invested in them finding their way to each other. As always the camaraderie between the secondary characters is so much fun to experience.
Grace Hamilton thought she had it all right up until the moment her life fell apart. Betrayed by the man she trusted, Grace’s only choice is to return to the one place she spent her childhood trying to escape. Wattle Creek. She knows it’s not forever, just a chance to reset and figure out the next step.
Cole Flanigan is enjoying the simple life. One he earned on the back of a decorated military career; he now spends his days tending cattle and taking advantage of the peace and quiet on his ranch. But the moment he finds Grace crying and bleeding on the side of the road, everything changes.
Could it be that the last thing these two want is exactly what they need… each other?
He studies monsters. She shares DNA with one. Now they’re hunting a copycat killer determined to finish what her twin brother started.
As a former rescue squad firefighter, Dallas Garrity knows danger when he sees it. As the newest behavioral analyst for the Remington Police Department, he knows evil when he sees it, too. When a body turns up with all the signatures of the city’s most notorious serial killer, Dallas knows he must break the case and bring Ezekial Murphy’s copycat killer to justice.
He just never expected he’d have to work with the one person who almost broke him to do it. Wren is rapier sharp. A highly dedicated police officer. Passionate. Fierce. Gorgeous.
She’s also Ezekial Murphy’s twin sister.
Wren Lennox is no stranger to hard work. After all, she had to bury herself in it just to prove her worth after her brother murdered a dozen rookie cops five years ago. Being paired with Dallas to catch a copycat isn’t ideal, but she’s hidden her feelings for him before. She’ll do whatever it takes to get this job done.
No matter how much Dallas knows about her past. No matter how much she still wants him now.
As secrets unravel and their chemistry burns hotter than ever, Dallas and Wren must stay a step ahead of not one killer, but two. Before it’s too late for them both.
Wren has spent the last six years trying to prove to herself and the police department that she is nothing like her twin brother. As a result, she is focused on her job and doesn’t allow many people close. The circumstances that bring Dallas back into her life also bring back the past she shared with him and the past that she wishes she could forget but she also knows that she must now deal with both.
Dallas’s life also approached a turning point six years earlier as that is when his career as a firefighter came to an end he needed to find a new dream and that led to his current career as a profiler. His most recent case holds a striking similarity with her family’s past so there is no one better than her to help him investigate the circumstances of the crime and find out who is responsible, but it also means facing the past they shared.
Both Wren and Dallas are captivating characters with hidden depths that they don’t share with others. Seeing them learn to trust each other with their thoughts and their hearts is a big part of what makes their relationship so special as the chemistry and intrigue continue to intensify.
MeetKimberly Kincaid
USA Today best-selling author Kimberly Kincaid writes romantic suspense that sizzles and contemporary romance with heart and heat. Equal parts action and emotion, her firefighters and first responders always save the day.
When she’s not finding adventure with her husband, three teens, and naughty Whippets, Olive, Daisy, and Jack. She can be found practicing obscene amounts of yoga, whipping up anything from enchiladas to éclairs in her kitchen, or curled up with her nose in a book.
Kimberly’s series include Remington Medical, Station Seventeen, the Line series, Cross Creek, and her brand-new Intelligence Unit series. All titles stand alone for easy reading.
Forsaking All Others by Giana Darling is now live!
In this scorching dark romance from bestselling author Giana Darling, a mafia princess transforms herself into the ultimate mob wife in order to survive her new world—and the man who rules it.
Fiametta
As daughter of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra’s capo, I’m sheltered, protected, and expected to do as I’m told. So, I lock away my heart and walk down the aisle to a man I don’t love. But that day costs me everything. And my new husband is harder and fiercer than any man I’ve ever known.
Dario Ferretti may not want me. But if I can’t find my place as his wife, I’ll make my mark on his kingdom instead.
Dario
I rule the Ferretti Corporation’s Chicago outfit with strength and fear, but my father still forces my hand to secure an alliance with our greatest rival. I’ll do what it takes to maintain my position, even if it means marrying a woman too young, too innocent, and far too enticing.
Fiametta Cavallaro is more than I expected. But I’m not who she thinks I am. I’m so much more, so much worse—and it’s all to keep her safe.
🎧Review🎧 Dario doesn’t want to marry anyone but especially an innocent Sicilian mafia princess however he will do his duty to his family. He keeps his distance from her and over time gives into his physical connection for her, but the emotional connection stays buried. He is a complex man with a complex family which only makes the story more intriguing.
Fiametta’s wedding day was emotionally devastating in all areas. She now must move to Chicago to be with the husband who doesn’t want her, but she is determined to embrace her independence and that includes finding her own group of friends and a career she isn’t sharing with anyone. She is conflicted when it comes to Dario as she tries to breach the walls he has erected around himself but based on his actions isn’t always certain she is succeeding.
The twists and turns that this story keeps you wondering what surprise will happen next. The characters are well developed and the relationship between is intense but complicated and the suspense keeps you on edge. Rose Dioro and Sean Masters gave a masterful audio performance of this story as you could feel every emotion as well as the tension when it came to the action part of the story.
At twelve years old, I killed my mother– And found my father dead in the bathtub.
I didn’t mean to; at least, that’s what I tell myself. Years of neglect, cruelty, and being told I wasn’t really her daughter pushed something inside me past the point of return. When she stood over me with a shattered wine glass, I snapped. Sometimes I think I regret it. Other times, I wonder if she was right—if I was never meant to be human at all.
That was a lifetime ago. I’ve spent years learning how to hide the monster that came out that night.
But monsters recognize their own.
When my violence resurfaces and blood stains my hands once again, someone notices. Someone who saw me back then too, only he hadn’t found me yet.
Larkin never pretended to be anything but a monster. For years, he’s carved a path through the Pacific Northwest, hunting the girl who unknowingly stole his first kill. Instead of ending me, he draws me into a deadly game—one I shouldn’t enjoy, no matter how intoxicating it feels to let go with him, to beg for my hands to be soaked in more blood.
As the bodies pile up and Larkin makes it clear he has no intention of leaving, and one truth becomes impossible to ignore.
If he brings the monster in me back to life, I may never be able to cage her again. And the most terrifying part?
“I think it’s funny you think I’m the one who will fall in love.” Dancing in the reflection of her eyes, amusement mingles with the confidence that’s come soaring back. “Between the two of us, my money is on you being a goner before we reach first base.”
Funny.
She’s cute.
Running my fingers under her chin, I reply, “First base? I’m calling it now. You won’t even make it up to bat by New Year’s Eve before you trip over your feelings for me.”
When she crosses her arms over her chest, that fire I’ve lit inside her is such a turn-on.
Sexy.
“New Year’s, huh? How much do you want to bet, Big Shot?” She pokes me in the chest. “I’m not afraid of putting something of value on the line. My love doesn’t come easy, especially when falling for you.”
I tip back, slamming my hand to my chest. “Ouch.” But then I stand to my full height and smirk. “I don’t need your money, sweetheart.”
“How about my trade secrets?”
“I wouldn’t throw that in the ring because I might just take you up on it. And if you win?”
“I get a space in the shopping center.”
Betting her business at any level is not what I expected. I search her eyes for any residual effects from almost kissing me that might have led to this, and ask, “Kiosk or shop?” I’m not an idiot despite what my father thinks.
“Details to be determined once I win.” She takes an assured breath and straightens her shoulders.
There’s nothing in her expression that gives me doubt that this is exactly what she wants to bet. “I’m in. How do you want to seal this deal?”
“How about—”
I kiss her, running my fingers into the hair at the back of her head and holding her to me. Her lips part. Gripping the back of my neck, she pulls me lower to deepen it until our tongues are tangling together.
When I win, I’ll have the best of both worlds: the honey and the girl.
Tara never meant to fall for Adam. Older. Powerful. Completely off-limits. What began as a secret romance built on stolen moments and whispered promises quickly became the kind of love that consumes.
Adam fell first and harder
One devastating misunderstanding shattered everything.
Without a goodbye, Tara disappeared… carrying the one secret that could have changed both their lives.
Their baby.
For six years, Adam searched for the woman who took his heart with her. Every unanswered question became another reason to keep looking. Every year without her made his need to find her impossible to ignore.
Then fate brings her back.
Standing beside Tara is a little girl with Adam’s eyes, his smile, and his stubborn spirit.
His daughter.
The child he never knew existed.
But the woman he never stopped loving now looks at him like he’s the villain in her story, while the little girl who should have known his embrace doesn’t even know his name.
Adam has already lost six years.
He won’t lose another second.
Because this time, he’ll fight for his daughter.
He’ll fight for the truth.
And he’ll fight for the only woman he’s ever loved—even if she hates him for it.
When the past comes back with your child in its arms, how far would you go to reclaim the love that was always yours?
She ran from me at eighteen. Spent eight years pretending I was a nightmare she’d outgrown.
Cute.
I wasn’t her nightmare. I was her future—she just didn’t know it yet.
I bullied her in high school because I was sixteen and savage and she was the only thing I ever wanted that I couldn’t take. So, I made her miserable. Made sure no one touched her. Made sure she went to bed every night with my name in her teeth like a curse.
She hated me. Good. Hate is just obsession without the honesty.
Eight years later, our parents’ marriage is crumbling and the family’s drowning in debt they don’t know I own.
Every dollar—every last one—I bought with her name on my lips.
Now she’s home. My house. My rules. My week.
Seven nights before Thanksgiving. Seven nights of whatever I want, and the debt disappears.
She thinks she’s surviving me. She doesn’t realize I’m ruining her on purpose.
By Thursday, she’ll sit at my table, say grace with our family, and when I tell her to say thank you—she won’t just mean it. She’ll be desperate to.
***Say Thank You is a dark Thanksgiving romance featuring step-siblings with no biological relation. Their parents married when they were sixteen—they did not grow up together as children. This book contains mature themes, dubious consent, graphic spice, and a morally corrupt MMC who doesn’t apologize for what he wants. Reader discretion is advised.
A Dark Knight biker, a torturous secret, and a road trip that changes everything. Come along for the emotionally wicked ride in this steamy, pulse-pounding small-town standalone romance. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will stay with you long after you read the last page.
Six weeks after her mother’s unexpected death, Diana Cameron-Hale is still learning how to breathe through her grief. The 53-year-old Jamaican widow is keeping busy, with only four days left to her daughter Rayna’s Christmas Day wedding. She needs—and welcomes—the distraction, since it keeps her from falling apart. What she doesn’t need is a blast from her past blowing in to stir up memories, needs, and desires that she thought she had extinguished over three decades earlier.
Fate—in the form of Rayna Hale—reconnects respected college professor and lifelong bachelor, Dr. Jackson Blake, with Diana, the woman he had never stopped loving. When unforeseen circumstances place him in her home for Rayna’s Christmas wedding, Jackson must reevaluate his decision to stay away completely from the woman who had broken his heart decades before. But he is no longer the boy he had been when she had parted ways with him. Now in his mid-fifties, he is secure in his career, confident in his worth, and finally ready to reclaim his woman.
Will this reunion bring them both the joy that life has stolen from them? Or will the season pass and leave them still mired in longing and regret?
I’d risked a lot in my life because of my job.
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age gap
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
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