In remembrance of those that lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, join authors, Danielle Sibarium, Roslyn St. Clair, Nicole LaBrocca, Sandra Ramsey, S.L. Hollister and Judy Lynn Ichkhanian in six different tales of love, in Rescued by You.
Our rescuers come from our world and beyond, where anyone can be a hero: dragons and raven shifters, fae and rescue dogs, police and firefighters. Witness the lengths they go to as they prove they’ll do anything for the women they love.
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What you need to #ONECLICK this book… ✓ Brother’s Best Friend
✓ Teammate’s Sister
✓ Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine
✓ Football
✓ Small College Town
✓ Childhood Crush & Neighbor
✓Girl next door vibe
✓ Interconnected Standalone
A sizzling and addictive romance from USA Today Bestselling author Brooke O’Brien about a football legend about the one girl he walked away from—and a past that refuses to stay buried…
He finished his taco and tilted his head, considering me. The jack**s was so handsome and easygoing it made me want to rage. Not that I’d show him how he affected me. I was a pro at remaining icy cool.
Still, beneath the surface, I was ready to throw hands.
“It’s funny,” he said, picking up his beer. “All that power in Washington. Your big job and fancy clothes and degrees. But here you are, still the bad guy. Must be hard, coming home and slipping into second place again.”
Eye twitching, I ground my teeth, working to get a handle on my aggravation. I’d been attacked by a sheik’s bodyguards and private military contractors. Once in a private jet over the Indian Ocean. But never had I wanted to throttle a man so badly.
All the Zen, the breathing techniques, the therapy I’d done to ensure I wouldn’t crack, went straight to hell.
I picked up a taco, giving him a moment to bask in his insults.
Then I threw it.
The corn-shelled delicacy hit him in the chin with a wet slap. Sticky pork slid down the front of his shirt and a slice of fennel stuck to his jawline.
Silence fell over the brewery. Behind me, pint glasses clinked.
The two of us stared at one another.
The taco had barely hit his lap when it dawned on me that I may have overreacted.
Also, this would be major town news before I even made it to the parking lot.
Across the room, a phone was lifted. Dread swept through me. Great. This would be all over TikTok by morning.
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I was raised to believe the danger lived outside our walls. And Ford James looked like the most dangerous thing of all.
I’ve spent my entire life inside Bright Covenant — a religious community with rules for everything, a place where questions aren’t allowed. When my family is sent to heal Westside, a small Florida beach town, I arrive certain of two things: the world outside is exactly as dangerous as I was warned, and Ford James — who vandalized our home before we’d even unpacked — is proof.
He’s the reason I had to leave home during my final year of school. He’s the reason half the senior class wants me gone. But he also makes me question everything I know, and want things I’ve never wanted before—things I’m meant to save for my husband.
Come June, I board a plane to Bolivia, and will return engaged to a member of Bright Covenant.
Which means I have one year to decide if Ford James is really the villain. Or worth burning my world down for.
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Melissa writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women’s fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa’s fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big-family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summers, Bayside Summers, Harborside Nights, Wild Boys and Bad Boys After Dark, Tru Blue and the Whiskeys, the Wickeds, and the Montgomerys. Melissa’s emotional journeys are always family oriented. Perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy and blue-collar heroes and smart, sassy, and empowered heroines with complex and relatable issues.
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Sometimes you have to break all the rules to find everything you never knew you wanted. Come along for the fun, sexy ride as billionaire Fitz Silver pursues his biggest challenge yet—taming wild child Jennifer Stone. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, standalone romance is unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you thinking about it long after you read the last page.
Silver Island’s golden boy Fitz Silver keeps his business dealings clean, his affairs private, and fulfills every promise he makes. Infuriatingly so. He’s six-plus feet of gentleman in the streets and an unrelenting alpha in the sheets. I should know. I enjoyed a single scorching night in his bed over the summer. But contrary to him being every woman’s fantasy, Fitz is my worst nightmare. I’m a risk taker, a rule breaker. I wasn’t looking for more than a little vacation fun, but that passionate night knocked me off my feet. When a chance encounter brings me face-to-face with the man who ruined me for all others, I know better than to land in his bed again. Unfortunately, outside my job as a high school principal, I’m not known for my good decisions. Once again I plan to leave Mr. Silver and our surprising connection behind, but he’s annoyingly unforgettable, and then two pink lines change everything.
Fitz is the perfect package as he balances sweet and swoony. One night with Jennifer was not enough however his attempts to see her again are rebuffed until they both find themselves in Costa Rica and he knows that he isn’t going to let her walk away. He knows that they are meant to be together and he is willing to be patient until she realizes it as well.
Jennifer isn’t looking for forever but a fling with Fitz is something she could agree to. She enjoyed their night together and their time in Costa Rica even more however her past has shown her that all good things must end however Fitz doesn’t agree and that was before he found out she was pregnant.
This is an enchanting story about love, family and second chances that is filled with romance and emotion. Fitz knows that Jennifer is his destiny and with everything he does he shows her that she can trust him to keep her heart safe.
Neve Snowe doesn’t need to settle down. She is already settled in her small harbor town, with a cozy beach cottage and part ownership in the family-run auto repair shop. She doesn’t want a man, but she likes them. And she has one golden rule: only sleep with flatlanders. You know, the guys who never intend to stay in Lovewell Landing, only use the coastal area for a brief holiday.
And the last thing she desired was the unexpected . . . to be expecting.
Tate Love spent his summers in Lovewell Landing as a teenager, but somehow he’d missed the beautiful girl who turned into a spunky woman, daring him to jump into the icy ocean one New Year’s Eve, then slept with him near the town’s sacred well, holding spell-binding waters.
He never thought he’d see her again, until nine months later, a business prospect brings him back to the area.
Now, the man who longs to be tied down finds that one night planted the seed to everything he ever wanted, while he holds the pen that could sign away all she’s ever loved.
Welcome to Lovewell Landing, where autumn is in the air, pumpkins decorate every doorstep, and a little fiasco might cause opposites to fall in love.
Fall Love is a steamy, romantic comedy companion novel to The Holiday Post and continues the romances of the Snowe sisters in the beautiful and quirky small town of Lovewell Landing.
Knox McNichols and I have one thing in common—we can’t stand each other.
He’s the NHL playboy who enjoys getting under my skin, and thanks to the marriage between our siblings, avoiding him isn’t an option.
When my ex refuses to take no for an answer, I show up at Knox’s penthouse with a desperate proposal—pretend to be my boyfriend.
The plan is simple: convince my ex I’ve moved on.
Except Knox has a few rules…
Rule #1: No flirting with anyone but him. Rule #2: If my ex contacts me, I tell him immediately. Rule #3: My location stays on at all times.
His rules should send me running.
Instead, they make me wonder if the man I’ve spent years fighting with is hiding something entirely different beneath his easy smiles and reputation as hockey’s favorite playboy.
The more time we spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the sparks between us—or Knox’s determination to protect me at all costs.
When pretending starts to feel a little too real, I realize there might be something far more dangerous than my ex refusing to let me go.
It’s discovering that the man I’ve spent years fighting with just might be the one I can’t live without.
Keep Me Close is a swoony, boy-obsessed, enemies-to-lovers pro hockey romance featuring fake dating, off-limits tension, a hero who’s been secretly pining from page one, and no third-act breakup. It’s book five in the Chicago Railers series and can be read as a standalone.
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🏒Review🏒 Knox is a professional hockey player who despite his reputation with other woman is only interested Cheyenne since their lives became connected by their siblings. For the first time in his life, he isn’t sure how to convince her of his feelings until she comes to him looking for help to distance herself from her ex. Pretending that they are together might just give him the opportunity to show her they are meant to be together.
Chey is feeling stifled both by her career and her ex and she is nervous about finding a path forward. She went into this situation with Knox knowing that he will help her with one situation, but she got so much more. He shows her with everything he says and does that her dreams can be achieved and that he wants to be there every step of the way.
The interactions between them are both humorous and hot. Knox is a man that any woman would be lucky to have as his feelings and devotion to her were never in doubt and her happiness is his only goal. There is also a great cast of secondary characters that only enhance this entertaining story.
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.
Falling for the one woman who has the power to end my football career was never part of the plan . . .
This was supposed to be Cole Valor’s record-breaking season.
Instead, the star quarterback can’t seem to find his game. Missed throws. Bad reads. And someone is making a fortune betting against him.
When suspicious betting patterns surrounding his performance raise red flags, the NFL assigns its top integrity investigator to determine if its golden boy is the victim . . . or the mastermind.
Dublin Locke has built her career on facts, not feelings. She’s determined to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it points back to the man whose kiss she’s never forgotten.
The deeper Dublin digs, the more the evidence points to Cole. Yet he insists on helping her uncover the truth. Is he proving his innocence . . . or trying to throw her off his trail?
Working side by side as the investigation tightens its grip, the line between professional and personal begins to blur—and every stolen kiss pushes them further over a line neither of them can afford to cross.
Because every instinct tells Dublin to keep her distance. But the more she falls for him, the harder it becomes to know which to believe—the facts . . . or her heart.
🎧Review🎧 Cole finds himself in a bit of predicament when his struggles on the field are proving lucrative for the person who is betting on them. This has drawn the attention of the league, and he now finds himself facing an investigation. That would be difficult enough but finding out that the woman who will be leading the investigation is the same woman he shared an unforgettable kiss with five years earlier.
Dublin knows that the job entails and that is to try and put aside her personal feelings for Cole and find out what role, if any, he played in what was going on. The circumstances that have brought Cole back into life creates a increased level of complication and tension as she finds herself conflicted between the details she has been given and the belief she can’t help having in him.
The connection between Dublin and Cole hasn’t diminished over time and the way they support each other during their most difficult time only makes that connection stronger. The audio performance by Mariana Olmeda & Christian Alexis bring out the heat between them as well as the emotions and heartwarming romance.
No stranger to pain, Torin “The Tornado” Correy had been hit by the best and never once tapped out. Yet, a little wisp of a thing accomplished that impossible feat with nothing but a strappy pink shoe. Like a Cinderella from a ball for the criminally insane, she fled the instant Big Ben struck midnight—leaving her weapon behind.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “It was love at first sight?” Yeah, that doesn’t really apply here since for Diem and Tor, it was lust at first fight.
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