Rule number one of being a sports journalist. Never get too close to the players.
Rule number two. Oops, too late.
The Comeback Plan is a sports romance featuring a confident quarterback and a feisty reporter, that’s packed with all the tension and heat you can handle with a guaranteed happily ever after.
He’s the league’s most dangerous enforcer. She’s the specialist sent to determine whether he’s too broken to save.Neither of them is prepared for what happens when the truth hits back.
From USA Today bestselling author, Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying small town, opposites attract, single mom romance.
VANDAL
The men who took me thought they could break me, and maybe they did.
Physically, I get better every day. By my head is so messed up, I can’t tell the difference between a memory and a nightmare. The club says I survived. Most days, it doesn’t feel like it.
Then a little girl calls my phone by mistake.
One wrong number puts Daisy and Elsie right in the middle of my wrecked life. Daisy with her gentle touch and guarded eyes. And Elsie clutching her teddy bear, looking at me like I’m someone safe.
I’m not.
I’m an Iron Outlaw. Damaged. Barely holding myself together.
But Daisy’s running from dangerous men. And I start wanting things I stopped believing I deserved. A home. A family. Her.
So, when Daisy’s past finally catches up to her, they’re going to learn exactly how dangerous a broken man can be when you threaten the only people keeping him alive.
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“Wait.” Emerson holds up a hand. “Does that mean Hutch expected me to live here too?”
I grind my molars together. Acid reaches my throat and dread fills my gut.
“Yes, and . . .” The paper in Zack’s hands shakes. He draws in a fortifying breath. Brooks turns back around, and Emerson takes another step closer to the lawyer. They sense the impending doom. Zack clears his throat and wets his bottom lip. “You’d have to be married.”
Emerson barks out a laugh so loud it startles Ethel. Hillary has to put her catch down or get wacked in the face by Ethel’s wings. “That’s not happening. I’m not married, and I’m not just grabbing some guy off the street so I can have this shithole.”
Regret crosses Zack’s face, and not for the first time, I wish I could’ve talked sense into Hutch.
“You can’t just marry anyone,” Zack says weakly. “He had someone specific in mind.”
Emerson screws her face up. “Who?”
Zack flicks his gaze up to me. The poor guy has been through enough. I’ll take this one. “Me.”
When not writing or reading, the author can be found gardening barefoot or chasing her spirited daughter. Some of her favorite things are puzzles, podcasts, and small dogs that resemble Ewoks. Home is Portland, Oregon.
Everyone knows falling for your best friend’s brother is a disaster waiting to happen…
Good thing I can’t stand him.
River Ashburn has all the makings of a main character — striking looks, seductive charm, and a career as modern art’s reigning prince. But to me, he’s a villain.
For the last nine years, the only passion we’ve shared is mutual loathing. As for the other tension I occasionally feel around him? That’s just my body confusing fury with foreplay. Easy to ignore.
Until a plot twist changes everything.
When I arrive for my writing residency at a secluded retreat in Northern California, the last person I expect to cross paths with is River. Now he’s derailing my dream from the other side of a paper-thin wall.
Seeing him every day is a distraction I don’t need. Listening to him shower? Torture. But the real danger of forced proximity is a truth unveiled over days and weeks: beneath our hostility is powerful chemistry.
With every shared smile, vulnerable confession, and not-so-accidental touch, the magic between us grows. So does my fear.
Writing happy endings isn’t the same as believing in them, and surrendering my heart means risking more than I can afford to lose.
Except River isn’t the villain in my story anymore.
He’s the hero.
And he’s about to steal my pen.
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If you love banter, slow burn tension, summer camp vibes, emotional romance with humor, and a hero who falls first and hard, you won’t want to miss RIVER & RUE.
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.
✓ Brother’s Best Friend ✓ Teammate’s Sister ✓ Reverse Grumpy/Sunshine ✓ Football ✓ Small College Town
✓ Childhood Crush & Neighbor
✓Girl next door vibe ✓ Interconnected Standalone
From USA Today bestselling author Brooke O’Brien comes a small-town, brother’s best friend football romance about a guy who swore she was off-limits—but some lines were meant to be crossed.
Football rules everything in our small town. Under the stadium lights of the Gridiron, no one plays under more pressure than Zane Kinnick—the hometown legend and future NFL star who’s spent his life proving he’s built for the spotlight.
And me? I’ve always been the one risk he wasn’t willing to take.
I’ve loved Zane for as long as I can remember. My next-door neighbor. My brother’s best friend. The boy who swore I was off-limits.
For years, he kept me at a distance—until the night we finally gave in.
Then he walked away like it never happened.
Now, he’s done pretending. The stolen glances have turned into lingering touches. The tension we ignored is finally snapping. And for the first time, he’s tearing down all the walls he’s built between us.
But we aren’t the only ones holding on to the past. His rival is out for blood, using me and the people he loves to get inside his head, feeding him lies, and twisting the truth.
Because this rivalry? It’s not only about football.
It’s about secrets that refuse to stay buried. And when the truth finally comes out, it won’t just change the game—it’ll shake up his world.
Gideon has vowed to take down the Capitol Ship, the Sword of Vonomidea, and its fleet before touching the City Stone of Umbra Mortem and freeing Erebus. After decades of slavery and his people pushing through starvation and constant siege, they have given him and L’Sana their faith and hope. It is a risk, a gamble but anything less would do nothing to bring the Multi-Versal War from the brink of loss. They had decades of their lives stolen from them, their souls and bodies entombed as a chess piece on the board of Primordials and their murderous creation, the System. For them to have a shot Gideon has to send a message.
To take on a Capitol Ship is the equivalent of taking on a God of War. Gideon Sho has become powerful beyond imagining but even he may fall before this enemy.
Tropes: Secret Society; Forced Marriage; Marriage of Convenience; Enemies to Married Couple; “We have to pretend we’re happily married”; Bound by Duty; Reluctant Partners; Opposites Attract; Detective x Assassin; Secret Identity
Release Date: September 24, 2026
Cover Design: RBA Designs
Discreet Design: Hang Le
He was supposed to catch killers, not marry one.
Detective Boston has built a career on hunting dangerous people. Rules don’t scare him. Blood doesn’t bother him. And morality has always been … negotiable.
But nothing prepares him for the night he walks in to find her.
An assassin for hire with electric blue hair, a blade in her hand, and no intention of being caught.
He should arrest her.
Instead, he makes her an offer.
Marry him, and he’ll keep her secret.
Refuse, and her life will fall apart.
For him, it’s a calculated move.
For her, it’s blackmail dressed up as a wedding.
Living with an assassin was never part of the plan.
But the longer they’re married, the harder it becomes to decide who is more dangerous.
USA Today Best Selling Author T.L. Smith loves to write her characters with flaws so beautiful and dark you can’t turn away. Her books have been translated into several languages. If you don’t catch up with her in her home state of Queensland, Australia you can usually find her travelling the world, either sitting on a beach in Bali or exploring Alcatraz in San Francisco or walking the streets of New York.
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.
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.
He’s the league’s most dangerous enforcer. She’s the specialist sent to determine whether he’s too broken to save.Neither of them is prepared for what happens when the truth hits back.
Two years after suffering from a stress-induced breakdown, defence lawyer Beth Gunning is struggling to cope with life. When her husband, Rory, suggests they join Beth’s sister and partner on a wild camping trip in a remote part of Montana, she decides that the freedom and tranquillity of a place far away from London might be what she needs. A chance to repair, relax, and get her head together.
Rory’s brother, Elliott, invites himself and his two teenage kids along for the trip. So it’s set to be a wild adventure of a lifetime. Provided that Rory and Elliot can set aside their sibling rivalries, that is.
Apart from some quarrelling and physical struggles, the trip seems to be going well. The Bob Marshall Wilderness is a stunning place, and everybody is embracing the fabulous experience.
But after a GPS malfunction and one wrong turn that leads them off course, cracks quickly form within the group. As some clash and others struggle with their dire predicament, the situation goes from bad to worse.
But Beth’s dark past is about to come back to haunt her and rock the very foundations of her world. Because it appears that someone in their hiking group has an ulterior motive for joining this trip.
Something extremely sinister that could ruin everything.
And out here in the vast, untamed wilderness, Beth knows she can no longer run from her bleak past and must finally face her dire demons…
Genre/Tropes:Morally Gray Cowboy / Forced Proximity / Guardian/Ward / Slow Burn / Grumpy x Sunshine / City Girl vs Broody Cowboy / Talks Her Through It / Teaches Her To Protect Herself / Touch Her & Die / She’s Keeping A Secret
RECKLESS & RUINED by JL Beck is coming September 18th! Make sure to preorder this all-new dark cowboy romance and check out the tropes below!
Morally Gray Cowboy Forced Proximity Guardian/Ward Slow Burn Grumpy x Sunshine City Girl vs Broody Cowboy Talks Her Through It Teaches Her To Protect Herself Touch Her & Die She’s Keeping A Secret
About JL Beck:
Beck writes steamy romance that’s unapologetic, meaning it makes no apologies for the way it rips you open and makes you crave more. Her heroes are alphas who take what they want, and she pairs them with heroines that bring them to their knees.
She loves writing about darkness, passion, suspense, and of course, steam.
Leaving her readers gasping and asking what the hell just happened is only one of her many tricks.
Her books range from morally grey to dark and spicey but always end with a happily ever after. She loves to write across numerous tropes, but her favorite is enemies to lovers.
She started her writing career in the summer of 2014 and hasn’t stopped since. She lives in Wisconsin and is a mom to two, a wife, and likes to act as a literary agent part-time.
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