Wild Card #13 ❄️ Available Now

Will Wild Card #13 end up in the sin bin? Grab your copy of Kristen Hope Mazzola’s latest release to find out!


He was her first bad decision.

He never stopped wanting to be her last.


Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola returns to the ice with the next installment in her Shots on Goal: MN Frosthawks series—where chemistry is dangerous, and some lines were never meant to be crossed.


Ty “Buzz” Burns was never supposed to come back into Lucy Thomas’s life.


Not after high school.

Not after the mistake that ended everything.


Because Lucy didn’t just move on—she rebuilt.

A life where reckless boys like Buzz don’t belong.


Except now he does.


Buzz plays for the Minnesota Frosthawks.

The team her father owns.

The team she works for.

The one place she can’t avoid him.


He’s still chaos on the ice—fast, loud, impossible to ignore.

But this version of him doesn’t disappear when things get hard.


He shows up.

He stays.


And the more they’re forced into the same space, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth—

This isn’t over. It never was.


Lucy has everything to lose—her career, her father’s trust, the life she’s built.

Buzz has one chance to prove he’s not the boy who broke her.


But wanting each other has never been the problem.

Walking away is.


Wild Card #13 was supposed to stay in the past.

This time, it might be the one mistake they can’t walk away from.


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Lucy fell in love with Ty when she was a teenager and was devasted when he ended their relationship before leaving to embark on his hockey career. In the years since then Lucy has moved forward with her life and never wanted to see him again however that is about to change when he joins the team that Lucy works for and that her father owns.

When Ty ended his relationship it wasn’t because he didn’t love her and it is the one thing in his life that he would like to change. Seeing Lucy again has brought up all the feelings he has always had for her and now he needs to convince her that he is not the boy who hurt her but a man who will do whatever he can to be with her.

Ty is so determined in his pursuit of Lucy, but she isn’t about to just forgive and forget. Learning what motivated their actions allowed us to understand them better and their journey is tumultuous, entertaining and well worth the ride.

About the Author:


Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola is a Florida native now happily rooted in North Carolina with her loving husband and two lazy basset hounds. After several years away from publishing, she has returned to the romance world with a renewed passion for storytelling and a bold, reimagined vision for her Shots on Goal universe. She writes every flavor of contemporary romance— from steamy rom-coms to gritty biker tales to emotional, heart-thumping sports love stories.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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RIVER & RUE

L.M. Halloran

Release Date: September 3

Meet L.M. Halloran:

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.

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Blurb:

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.

_________________________

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.

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🍂reunited one-night stand

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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.

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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.

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The Saga of Nocturne III: Fiat Justitia by @jdglasscock

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Blurb

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.

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Title: Venomous Games

Series: The Venomous Series
Author: T.L. Smith
Genre: Dark Romance
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.

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BLURB

Sometimes, the most extraordinary people appear under the oddest circumstances…


I got caught up in one of my boss’s out-of-the-box ideas to generate business, and it led me to meet him.

Somewhat undercover, I was to meet one of the most powerful men in New York City.

Jonas Crane was the most handsome, mysterious, and private man, but he recently surprised the world by being willing to publish a tell-all memoir that would undoubtedly be an instant bestseller.

How I met him wasn’t how it ended, and that was only the beginning.

He wasn’t as ruthless as the public believed.

For me, he was magic, charismatic, dynamic, and in sensual ways demanding.

He had his own rules and fears, but he offered me an opportunity to see more of what was behind the curtain.

At times, our time together was overwhelming and challenged everything about me.

At times, he was the only beacon of light in my grief, pulling out that old part of me I thought died with my parents.

All I knew was that I was falling in love fast, and hope and a future I never thought possible started to bloom.

Or so I thought, until shadows from my past resurfaced.

Could I have dared to dream, or would it all end before it truly began?


Dark themes: 

Relationship violence, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, verbal, physical, and mental abuse. Other: divorce, death, grief


This book is a remastered edition. It was previously published as Tiger Lily: An Alpha Billionaire Romance Trilogy Book 1.



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THE TROUBLE WITH FLINGS by @melissafoster_author releasing August 26! Get EARLY ACCESS release in Melissa’s shop on August 21!

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🔥Accidental Pregnancy

🔥close proximity

🔥vacation romance

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🔥fling to forever

🔥Black Cat / Golden Retriever

🔥Small town romance

🔥Reverse age gap

🔥Just a fling

🔥He falls first

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.

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🏒Billionaire Hockey Team Owner

💚Boss/Employee

🏒Opposites Attract

💚Forced Proximity

🏒Slow Burn

💚Damaged/Emotionally Guarded Hero 

🏒Found Family

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.

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✨TEASER: LOCKE

 by @sawyerbennett123 releasing August 11

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Why you will love this book:

🔥Emotionally Wounded Hero

🔥He Falls First (and Hard)

🔥Sports Romance (Hockey)

🔥Forbidden Workplace Romance

🔥Grumpy × Sunshine

🔥Forced Proximity

🔥Slow Burn

🔥Opposites Attract

🔥Found Family

🔥Damaged Hero Learns to Love

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.

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