Alone.Thatโs the way FBI Agent, Santino Alvarez, prefers to live his life.
To serve, and protect. The oath Santino took the day he was sworn in and one that he fully intends to keep. Playing pretend and blending in.
Nothing is as it seems.
Especially when he collides with Silva Hunt and sparks begin to fly. Romance was never supposed to be in the cards. But Silva awakens something in Santino that he hasnโt felt before.
As things heat up between the two of them, so does the chase between Santino and The Reaper.
My Mountain Man Returns – While attending college in England Suzie spent two unforgettable weeks with Jack until he disappeared from her life and she ended up returning to the US to be there for her family. When his career in the military tore him away from Suzie he always intended to find her and now that he has she has a surprise of her own.
My Mountain Man Grump โ Carrie has been getting to know Cole online however her first meeting with him does not go as expected when she finds out she has been corresponding with his matchmaking grandmother. After his wife passed away Cole has been a single father to his daughters, and he isnโt looking for love or a relationship or at least he thought he wasnโt until Carrie came into his life.
My Mountain Man Valentine – When Lucy takes her students on a field trip one of them is missing and isnโt about to give up until she finds her. Ethan leads the Search & Rescue and comes across Lucy and knows the best way to keep her safe is for them to stay together however after a little forced proximity and steamy evening he knows that one night will not be enough.
My Mountain Man Boss – Amy has had feelings for Landon, her sisterโs dad, for years knowing that he will never feel the same way. After the passing of his wife Landon never expected to find love again however when he sees Amy at his daughterโs wedding he canโt deny the intense and protective feelings he has for her and is determined to show her they belong together.
It is great to have these stories in one collection.
Have you ever wondered about the monster under your bed?
LIBRA
Sleep is a curse that refuses to release me from its tight grasp. Every night, I am held hostage by sleep paralysis, unable to escape the demon that haunts my dreams. I thought it was just a figment of my imagination, a shadowy figure under my bed. But as I confront it, I realize it is much more than that. Itโs realโhe is real.
AXELLE
Trapped in a never-ending cycle, I am bound by chains to an endless stream of human souls. Each one a mere pawn in my eternal game of torment until their time runs out, and I am shackled to the next. But she was different. For years, I have been fixated on her, deriving twisted entertainment from her mundane existence, until one night, my dark desires took over and I crossed a line. Now, she is about to discover who, or rather what, I really am.
Sometimes all it takes is one spark, one touch, one brave leapโto turn a slow burn summer into forever…
Bronwyn
All I needed was a fresh start.
A quiet, peaceful place to open my dream bookstore. Space to justโฆbreathe.
Carolina Cove was perfect for that.
Falling (literally) into the fire chiefโs arms? Not part of my plan. Because the truth is, I donโt know if Iโm even capable of love anymore.
Or if I deserve itโฆ
Gabriel
Love, for me, has always meant heartbreak and loss. So, duty became my refuge, the firehouse my home.
Until her.
Bronwyn shined a light into all the dark corners of my life, making me want things I swore Iโd never have again.
Hope.
Forever.
Her.
But I built the walls around my heart for a reason. Letting her break them down is a risk Iโm just not sure I can afford to takeโฆ
Slow-Burn Summer, book 1 in the Hearts on Fire series, is a sweet, emotional, friends to lovers, small town contemporary romance/womenโs fiction beach read featuring a silver fox fireman hero and a heroine who is much stronger than she realizes. Grab your copy today and get ready to fall for Bronwyn and Gabriel.
In the delightfully nosy town of Whynot, North Carolina, secrets and sweet tea never stay cold for long. When sparks fly between two localsโone returning home and one with secrets to hideโthe gossip mill isnโt the only thing turning up the heat.
Penny Pritchard thought sheโd traded in small-town chatter for political banter when she left to build a big career in Washington, D.C. But when her beloved Aunt Muriel needs help running Central Cafรฉโthe local hotspot for gossip, grits, and good intentionsโPenny comes home with a suitcase full of high heels and denial about just how much sheโs missed this place.
Enter Sam-Pete Rochelle, the easygoing bartender at Chestyโs with a smile that could make a girl forget her rules and a secret bigger than the town itself. Everyone thinks heโs just the guy pouring whiskey and fixing the jukebox. No one suspects heโs actually a wildly popular, very rich, and very anonymous author of steamy fantasy romance novels.
When the truth is revealed and itโs time for Sam to stop hiding behind his pen name, Whynot loses its collective mind. The church ladies are clutching their pearls, Floydโs hosting a โBanned Books & Bourbonโ club, and the mayorโs calling an emergency meeting about moral decay. And Penny? Penny is learning firsthand that Sam doesnโt just talk the talk where his books are concerned. Sam excels at walking the walk, if you know what I mean.
Now, Penny is torn between her two worlds. Does she go back to the career that provides a sense of fulfillment and purpose or stay in the small town with the man who writes about epic love stories and might just be her own real-life happily ever after?
Small towns arenโt meant for billionaire Movie Stars, but somehow, Sutton Silvers fits right in. I know I should ignore him, the diner regular with his easy charm and quiet intensity. He belongs to another world, one of flashing cameras, billion-dollar contracts, and fake Hollywood smiles. I belong here, in the safety of routine. In the safety of Whispers.
But Sutton sees through the walls Iโve built, through the secret past I keep hidden. He should walk away, just like I should guard my heart. But thereโs something about him, the way he looks at me like Iโm worth the risk, that has me wanting more.
I know better than to dream of a future with a man like him. And yet, when danger starts creeping closer, heโs the one stepping in, refusing to let me face it alone. He has a choice to leave Hollywood behind or risk it all for the chance that Iโm his forever.
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I returned to Huckleberry Springs to start over with my name on a bakery and my past sealed up tighter than a mason jar. I plan to run my business, keep my history to myself, and ignore handsome flirts like local distillery owner and rancher, Cruz Foster.
Cruz might make me forget how to frost a cookie, but Iโve been taken in by guys like him before. When he turns up the charm, I punch his efforts down like a first proof of sourdough.
He backs off but continues being sweet. My car dies, and heโs there. I need a ride, and heโs there. I want to tell him that I miss the whiskey flirt with the lopsided smile, and heโs there with a sizzling kiss.
The real Cruz is even better than the one he shows everyone else. I fall harder for the guy who loves his family, works hard, and shares his troubled childhood with me. A man who fixes himself is my weakness
But secrets like mine donโt stay buried in small towns. If I donโt want Cruz sinking to the bottom with me faster than blueberries in cake batter, I need to break my heart and go back to minding my own business.
Iโd almost forgotten what it felt like to smile, to laugh, and to really live. Until I met him.
Heart-stoppingly handsome.
Totally forbidden.
Keats Matthews looked at me like I was something special.
He was escaping his past. I wanted to escape my present. Together, we fell hard and fast and knew we had found forever. Or so we thought โฆ
Six years later, his shoulders are broader than I remembered, his charming smile thaws my frozen heart, and itโs so tempting to run my fingers through his hair like I did years ago. But itโs the tenderness and warmth in his brown eyes that remind me of the forever we almost shared.
Itโs magic when weโre together again. Our chemistry has only magnified. Seeing him, confident and more irresistible than ever, has me falling for him all over again and hoping for a second chance.
But he still believes our timing was off before. Heโs wrong. It was the secret I kept hidden that was our undoing. Time hasnโt healed old wounds, and not everything hidden has come to light. When it does, weโll stand together or fall apart. Either way, we must find out.
The portal seals have begun to fracture, poisoning the magic of their world, and endangering those dependent upon it. Time is running out for Sabine and her companions to find the last artifact.
A cryptic clue found in the underworld is their only lead. But the magical race entrusted with the relicโs safekeeping was annihilated by the dragons centuries earlier.
Determined to find any trace of the mysterious artifact, Sabine agrees to face down the dragons in their own den.
Can love withstand dragonfire?
Sabine may have fallen for the charismatic dragon who captured her heart, but his people are harboring a deadly secret.
The dragons have no intention of allowing Sabine and her magic to escape their grasp.
Brooke O’Brien grew up with a creative mind and a wild imagination, writing poetry and short stories when she was younger. This passion ignited when she began reading angst and hate-fueled stories about vampires and werewolves before she branched into contemporary and new adult romances.
When Brooke isn’t writing or falling in love with a new book boyfriend, you can find her scrolling TikTok, watching ASMR, or devouring her latest binge-worthy TV show.
She loves rockin’ a good hoodie with leggings, is addicted to chocolate, and believes the best days include a good nap.
Brooke O’Brien is represented by Two Daisy Media. For all subsidiary rights, please contact Savannah Greenwell at info@twodaisy.com.
The girl behind the bar with a guarded smile has something in her eyes that pulls me in. The one who insists she doesnโt need protectingโeven after I watch them threaten her right in front of me.
Brinley isnโt just a risk. Sheโs a secret that certain people donโt want getting out.
I knew she was my head coachโs daughter. What I didnโt understand was why no one else did.
Iโve spent my whole life building a name on the ice. Now Iโm being warned to stay away from her or risk losing everything Iโve worked for.
And the pressure doesnโt just come from the bench. The threats arenโt subtle anymoreโstopping at nothing until she leaves town. They expect me to fall in line, focus on blocking shots, keep my mouth shut, and choose my career over her.
But theyโre wrong.
Because this time, Iโm not just protecting the net.
Iโm protecting her. And the truth theyโll do anything to keep silent.
The blistering sun brought waves of tourists to the peaceful town of Golden Coast, its sandy beaches beckoning with promises of a perfect summer. Beneath its idyllic allure and carefree crowds lurked two twisted killers, their murderous desires simmering just beneath the surface. While one left her signature kiss of death on her victims, the other stalked silently in the shadows by the sea. As fate would have it, their paths would soon collide, igniting a fiery and deadly dance that would consume the innocent town in a lustful haze of bloodshed and terror.
Once upon a time Donavon Jewel was the boy next door. Then he became the bane of my high school existenceโฆ okay, technically that was his girlfriend. Not that itโs a problem anymore, now that weโre both adults and Donavon doesnโt even live in Saddle Creek anymore (heโs a football superstar in Austin). Exceptโฆ Now my mom is marrying his dad. Wait, what?
Donavon
I fell in love with the girl next door since I was eleven. Not that Kathryn has given me the time of day since we hit puberty and she caught me ogling her really big โฆ eyes. But Iโm a grown man now and Iโm certainly not going to grovel where Iโm not wanted. Except, sheโs about to be my step sister. And our families have tricked us into spending the weekend together to โsort this out once and for all.โ Can I spend a weekend with her without telling her how I really feel? Not if she doesnโt stop looking at me like that, I canโt.
Kace Elliott is the hockey player with a genius IQ and a secret side hustle in applied physics. Heโs falling for his research partner, but she doesnโt know who he is outside of the lab. Now, the closer they get, the harder it becomes for him to keep his two worlds from colliding.
On the ice, Iโm Kace Elliottโstarting goalie for the Pittsburgh Titans, fighting to prove myself in the playoffs. Off it, Iโm Williamโa scientific researcher, quietly holding on to the academic world Iโll return to when hockey is over. Both versions are real, they just arenโt meant to overlap.
Until Dr. Laurel Kent.
Laurel is brilliant, principled, and deeply rooted in a world where transparency matters. She knows me online as William, her intellectual equal, the man who shares her passion for data, late-night collaboration, and easy, unexpected chemistry. William is very much her type whereas athletes are not.
I need her to like the bigger part of meโthe hockey player. When she meets me in person, as Kace, I make the choice to let her see the type of man sheโs sworn off from ever dating. She gets the Titans goalie and all the craziness that comes with the playoffs. But hereโs where it gets complicated: I make the dangerous decision not to tell her Kace and William are the same person.
By some stroke of luck, Laurel agrees to give Kace a shot, and our time together is more than I ever hoped for. The closer together we grow, the less she talks about William, and I convince myself Iโll tell her the truth when the timing is better, once Iโm able to prove Iโm more than the label sheโs written off. But timing has a way of unraveling even the best intentions.
As the pressure of the playoffs intensifies, the boundary Iโve relied on becomes impossible to maintain. When Laurel discovers how closely intertwined my worlds really are, Iโm faced with the cost of asking someone to love only part of me.
And winning on the ice means nothing if I lose the woman who made me want to stop dividing my life in two.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ (๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ค๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐) by Andi Burns releases on April 2nd! Check out this teaser!
BLURB: Neutral Zone is a friends-to-lovers romance featuring an unconventional hockey hero and his live-life-to-the-fullest best friend who have to get honest with each other when life gets real.
Iโve fallen in love with my best friend. I know, I know. Thatโs a terrible idea, but itโs going to be fine because we have a plan. A best friends with benefits plan.
Weโll keep spending our days and nights together. Weโll keep cheering each other on and making each other laugh. Weโll keep staying up all night in my room, watching true crime documentaries the way besties do.
But now itโs going to get steamy. Very steamy.
In order to keep our friendship intact, boundaries have been set, and as long as we donโt cross the line, everything will be fine. Seriously. Trust me. Itโs a great plan, and itโs all going to work out, and thereโs zero chance that everything will go up in flames.
Although I do have a history of accidentally lighting things on fireโฆbut really, that was just a couch. And a house. This is different. I swear.
Neutral Zone is the fourth and final book in Season Two of the Bainbridge U Hockey series, and it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If youโre a sucker for a hot mess hero with a heart of gold and a feisty heroine who isnโt afraid to fight for the man she loves, then get ready for Mickey and Viv!
From USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying MMF, grumpy x sunshine x lightning, motorcycle club romance.
Isla
I wanted to be loved by a biker with my whole heart, but all they ever took was my body.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognizing the woman Iโd become.
Inheriting my Nannaโs rundown house is the fresh start I need.
A life away from the club. Away from men who only ever take.
So the last thing I need is Jackal and Shade moving into the only other house on the street…and offering me more than just help with renovations.
Shade
Iโve never thought I was worth loving.
Iโm grumpy, withdrawn, and come with baggage.
Jackal saw through all that and loved me anyway. For me, he chose monogamy.
Men like me donโt get one great love, let alone two.
But Iโm looking at Isla differently now…and wondering if thereโs a way to love her without destroying what weโve built.
Jackal
I fell in love with Shade the day I met him, even though he had no intention of loving me back.
He wanted monogamy, and he was worth the sacrifice.
But now heโs looking at Isla the same way I am.
And I canโt stop imagining a life where the three of us choose each other.
Until violence hits, and we donโt know which of us is the target.
Weโve been given the kind of love you only dare to hope for.
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