Knock Down, Drag-Out Dirty (Sin City, Book 1) by Rylee Dare
Published by @flockpublishing
Featured on @the_flock_on_tour
Blurb:
What happens when a tiny party planner goes toe-to-toe with a big, British MMA fighter, nicknamed The Tornado? Well, have you ever heard the phrase, โIt was love at first sight?โ Yeah, that doesnโt really apply here since for Diem and Tor, it was lust at first fight.
I moved to #1 Love Place for peace, quiet, and absolutely zero drama. At thirty-six, my knees crack when I stand up, I own three different types of heating pads, and Iโve accepted my destiny as the neighborhood grouch. I fight fires for a living; I donโt need to start any in my personal life.
Then thereโs Iris. My twenty-four-year-old neighbor is a walking glitter bomb of sunshine and chaos. She has curves that should be illegal, a smile that blinds me, and the ability to talk at the speed of light. I try to scare her off with my best glare, but she just waves at me like weโre best friends. I tell myself she needs someone her own ageโsomeone who understands TikTok trends and stays up past 10 PMโbut every time she knocks on my door, my resistance crumbles a little more.
Iris
Okay, so maybe my crush on the guy next door isn’t exactly subtle. But have you seen Hunter Hartwell? Heโs big, brooding, and smoking hot. Sure, he communicates primarily in grunts, frowns, and heavy sighs, but I know thereโs a soft gooey center under that rock-hard exterior.
Iโve been trying to wear him down with cookies and relentless cheerfulness for months, but the man is stubborn. When I get myself into a ridiculous jam in the middle of the night (don’t ask), Hunter is the one who comes running to save me. And suddenly, the line between “annoying neighbor” and “something more” gets very blurry. Now I just have to convince this grumpy hero that heโs not too old, Iโm not too much, and that we might just be perfect for each other.
In a town fueled by gossip and nosey neighbors, can a grumpy firefighter and a chatterbox secretary survive falling in love? Spoiler alert: Itโs going to get hot.
From their first meeting Iris has been attracted to Hunter, her neighbor, however she has unable to get a read on how he feels and her attempts to be friendly have been unsuccessful. When she decides to adopt a dog she never thought that he would be the one to bring them together.
Hunter is a firefighter who believes that he is wrong for Iris for multiple reasons which include the age gap and their different personalities. He was prepared to keep his distance until a misunderstanding changes everything and he gives up the fight from keeping his distance to not being able to get close enough.
The characters draw you in, the heat between them intense and humorous interactions and the adorable puppy make this story so much fun.
Part Four to the New Series by the Author of NocturneโA Retired Master Sergeant Sucked into an Inter-Galactic Arena Called the Crucible of War, a Man Chained by The PTSD of Deaths He Committed in a Fit of Madness. At His Side, His Best Friend, His Kid, His Cane Corso, Bose.
In the scope of Primal Hunter and Defiance of the Fall as far as an expansive universe, world building.
A LITRPG Post Apocalyptic Progressive Fantasy
They’ve made it through the Iron Dungeon but not without a heavy cost, mentally and spiritually, for Jeb. His madness once again flared up, instigated by the revelation some of his soldiers have been pulled into the Crucible of War, and yet, they still have no clue where humanity will land, in which deranged City they will be shoved into, and if it is not Blood City, how they will get to them?
One thing is sure, Jeb would never abandon his Soldiers but they have far more on their plate than just humanity as they exit the Dungeon into the still waiting teeth of Greenskins looking to end them. They are also joined by some crazy Blood-elf Woman with questionable motives but they have no time to figure it out when blood is in the offing and the Emporium’s gates are in sight. Jeb struggles hard to think clearly with all that has happened, the guilt eating his soul along with the PTSD for the use and abuse he subjected his Boy to against the final Boss.
His sanity and guilt are just two of many weights crushing his shoulders. He is told within a couple years Earth will have the System dropped on its head and the Great Galactic Empire, not far behind. His immediate impulse is to go to his home and defend it but none have ever escaped the Crucible of War in the long history of its debauchery, ever.
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๐cowboy romance
๐ฉทsmall town
๐friends to lovers
๐protective golden retriever
๐ฅbaker x distiller
๐not-so-secret crush
๐งblack cat with a past
๐ฅตmutual yearning & pining
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.
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Falling for the single dad next door wasnโt part of my plan when I moved to Blossom Peak.
I accepted the teaching job for a fresh start, far away from the controlling ex I left behind.
But Rhonan Hart is everything you could ask for in a man. Strong, dependable, helpful, an amazing father to his daughter, Ellisโฆ and looks beyond sinful in his sheriffโs uniform.
Except his daughter is my student, and heโs determined to pretend like our connection doesnโt exist.
(Iโm determined to pretend he didnโt see me naked when my shower blew up, and he tried to save me.)
But soon, heโs sneaking over to my house at nightโwarming my bed, tearing down his walls, and making me want something I knew I couldnโt have.
My life is a mess, one Iโm still trying to clean up.
But this man and his child give me a glimpse of a future I want, no matter what the cost.
Just when I think Iโm on the path to moving on, fate decides to give us the test of time.
For the last five years I’ve been running from both my sisters vengeful anger, and from my husband’s intense obsession.
When Gaven finally captures me, I have no other choice but to use him the same way he always planned to use me. The closer I am, the more information I have, the safer we both are. So, I’ll take his punishment for leaving. I’ll take his pain and his pleasure.
My wedding night might have ended in pain and betrayal, but I won’t let my life end the same.
He’s a killer and I’m a target. In the end, someone has to die, but who is it going to be this time?
Becca Steele is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling British new adult romance author. She currently lives in the south of England with her family and a horde of characters that reside inside her head.
When sheโs not writing, you can usually find her reading or watching Netflix. Failing that, sheโll be online hunting for memes, or making her 500th Spotify playlist.
As the daughter of the head of the Thorpe Syndicate, my life was decided for me from the beginning. I was expected to look a certain way. Act a certain way. To put the syndicate above my own desires. To marry the son of the head of another crime family in a deal brokered by my father.
The night my arranged betrothal was announced was when everything changed.
My brotherโs best friend chased me into the woods and stole my first kiss.
Now, my engagement is drawing closer. Iโm doing my best to survive one day at a time, keeping my head down while I attend classes at Cranham University, a former Victorian prison and home of the Cranham Kings hockey team.
But heโs there, a constant reminder of what happened in the woods. His hateful gaze tracks me in the hallways and the lecture halls. I loathe him. Yet when heโs flying across the ice with his teammates, I canโt help but notice him.
And the way he makes me feel? Thatโs a secret Iโll take to the grave.
Tensions are rising. Something is brewing, and my family risks being caught up in it all. I donโt know who I can trust, and as for Jay?
Heโs a complication I canโt afford, because the consequences would be devastating for us all.
USA Today and International Best Selling Author, I am most known for my mafia and MC series set in the Five Points’ Mob Universe.
An avid reader of all things romance, I first started my career as a Why Choose author in both contemporary and paranormal. I eventually made my way to MF romance where I found my groove with the OโDonnelly brothers, the Satan Sinners, the Valentini Family, and most recently, the New York Stars and Pigeon Creek series!
In my back list, you can find some MM, MF, MFM and Why Choose romances. HEA guaranteed!
When I’m not writing, I’m either reading, traveling or coloring.
From Top 30 Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Author Jennifer Sucevic comes a steamy, pro hockey romance featuring a one-night stand, surprise pregnancy, forced proximity, and a hero who falls first and harder than he ever expected.
I thought I had Oliver Van Doren all figured out. The Railersโ star forward with the charm of a devil, the discipline of a toddler, and a talent for creating messes I always get stuck cleaning up. Weโre barely friends and definitely better off pretending the sexual tension humming between us isnโt combustible.
Itโs the only explanation for how one moment of weakness turns into a night I canโt forget. And the worst part? I canโt stop. Itโs too damn good.
Two pink lines change everything.
Suddenly Iโm living with the one man who knows exactly how to get under my skin. Only Oliver isnโt who I thought he was. Heโs patient. Attentive. Protective. And somehow, day by day, he makes it impossible to pretend heโs not everything Iโve been too terrified to want.
Now I canโt help wondering if what started as a mistakeโฆ Might just be the beginning of forever.
Show Me Forever is a swoony, boy-obsessed, enemies-to-lovers pro hockey romance packed with off-limits workplace tension, a one-night stand, a surprise pregnancy, and a hero who was all in from page one. Itโs book three in the Chicago Railers series and can be read as a standalone.
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๐Review๐ It has been ingrained into Rina that men donโt stay, and she needs to focus on her career so that she can be self sufficient and not have to rely on anyone. This is why she is cautious when Oliver starts to break through her walls as she knows that if anyone found out they were together, let alone that she was expecting his baby, that her PR career for the team he plays for would be over.
Oliver has had feelings for Rina for a while and once they give in to the chemistry between them he isnโt about to let it end. Finding out she is pregnant only make him more determined that they will be together and he will show her that he is the one man she can count onto always be there for her.
I really enjoyed the special relationship that Rina had with her friends and the camaraderie between the team. From the beginning Oliver is all in and he will do whatever is necessary to show her that they belong together and not just because of the baby but because of their feelings for each other. Jason Clarke brings the charm and heat when it comes to Oliver while Mollie Stark brings the sass and the emotions of Rina and together they were perfection.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and being in the hospital with stitches in my head and no way out makes me pretty desperate. So I log in to a dating app, searching for a guy willing to pretend to be my boyfriend so I can bust out of this overpriced nightmare.
But what do I get?
Accused of being a prostitute. Talk about a waste of phone minutes.
With plan A a no-go, I move on to plan B. Escape. Except, on my way to freedom, Iโm nearly pummeled by a man wearing all black and with the bluest eyes Iโve ever seen.
When he pretends to be my boyfriend, Iโm shook. And even more shook when I discover this is the rude guy from the app.
Turns out heโs not only rude but bossy, irritable, and he keeps calling me a walking hazard. I go along with the lie anyway, thinking I can ditch him as soon as Iโm free.
Except that doesnโt happen.
I end up back at his place, eating soup and trying hard not to catch feelings.
Then my apartment is broken into, and Iโm running for my life, confused, injured, and with nowhere else to go. Kieran vows to keep me safe, something he seems more than capable ofโฆ Which is kinda odd for a real estate agent, right?
As the threat to my life intensifies, I start to wonder if Iโll make it to my next birthday and, more importantly, if trusting Kieran is the deadliest hazard of all.
Stephanie Rose is an Amazon top 60 author. She’s also a lifelong New Yorker, a wife, a mother, and a lover of all things chocolate. Her sweet spot is writing the nice guy who goes alpha for the woman he loves. In fact, the alpha cinnamon roll hero is her specialty.
She married her prom date and her biggest fan is her teenage son who tries to offer book ideas in exchange for video games and LEGO.
She spends her free time avoiding discarded LEGO and obsessing over what book to read or listen to next (audiobooks are her favorite!). Weight lifting is her happy place but she loves a good iced coffee or glass of wine and has never met a cookie that she didnโt like.
Keep in touch with Stephanie by signing up for her newsletter at http://www.authorstephanierose.com or join Stephanieโs Rose Garden on Facebook.
Lee Orrico is stuck. The family he depended on to care for his daughter since he lost his wife is moving on and moving out. Having his best friend Stella become his live-in nanny while he works as the team chiropractor for the Brooklyn Bats seems like the right idea. Until the combination of close quarters and cozy nights ignites an attraction that Lee never saw coming.
After years on the road in a job she never liked and a messy breakup, Stella Parker is ready to come back to Brooklyn to make it a real home for herself, not just a pit stop. Moving in with Lee to help care for his adorable daughter is the perfect temporary solutionโฆexcept it means moving in with the man sheโs always been secretly in love with.
Her once-forbidden love for her best friend was always just a one-sided fantasy, but the lingering touches, long looks, and almost kisses make her start to wonder if this love isnโt so unrequited anymore.
The passion between Lee and Stella is undeniable. But Lee isnโt sure he can love again โ he barely survived the loss of it the first time.
Still, the heart he didnโt think would beat for anyone elseโฆ wants Stella.
And Stella has always wanted Lee. The question is, does Lee really love her back?
Or is she just a pinch hitter for the real love of his life?
In High School, Daphne Elliot was voted โmost likely to become a romance novelist.โ After spending the last decade as a corporate lawyer, she has finally embraced her destiny. Her small town steamy novels are filled with flirty banter, sexy hijinks, and lots and lots of heart.
Daphne is a coffee-drinking, hot-sauce loving introvert who spends all her free time in her garden. She lives on a small farm in New England with her husband, two kids, two dogs, twelve backyard chickens and a hive of Italian honeybees.
As a single mom rebuilding my life from scratch, I donโt need help. And I definitely donโt need the attention of a six-foot-three maple farmer with a beard and a hero complex who looks at me like Iโm a problem he didnโt sign up for.
My landlord is broad-shouldered, permanently unimpressed, and entirely too comfortable telling me when Iโm wrong. I think heโs grumpy, rigid, and overprotective. He thinks Iโm chaos in Crocs.
Falling for Josh Lawrence was never part of the plan.
But then he starts showing up.
For my son when heโs overwhelmed.
For my daughters when they need someone steady.
And for me when my hands wonโt stop shaking.
I didnโt come to Vermont looking for a protector. I donโt need rescuing. But somewhere between harvest festivals, pumpkin canoe races, and quiet mornings in the sugar shack, the man I swore was just an annoyance becomes my safe place.
And when my dangerous past resurfaces and threatens the new life Iโve built, the grumpy maple farmer next door becomes my fiercest protector, ready to stand by my side while I fight for my family.
Because it turns out maple farmers are a lot like their trees: quiet, stubborn, and surprisingly sweet when the pressure builds.
Thanks for joining me for a cocktail and some girl talk. I live the dream in my own slice of paradise where I get to enjoy colorful sunsets from my rocking chair while Iโm working. I have my very own romance hero with Mr. Rose and thereโs more than a few little rose buds running around. A couple arenโt so little anymore! We keep things interesting with cats and a dog and the critters that roam though the yard (fingers crossed the mountain lions stay away).
I came to Huckleberry Springs to regroupโnot to flash a cowboy while rescuing some strays from a ditch.
Haven Hennessy is everything I donโt want anyway: A man who puts himself first. A man whoโd rather have fun than face commitment. A man who can charm a girl right out of a good decision. So he can kiss my red lace panties goodbye the moment I figure out how to ditch this town.
Yet he takes in the puppy and three kittens I rescue from the side of the road. Heโs loyal to his brothers and his company. And he makes it his mission to give me new experiences, like fly-fishing, horseback rides, and getting naked in a tack room.
My stay in this small Montana town is only supposed to be temporary until I can launch a new career. Am I as wrong about that as I am about Haven? Because he makes me feel something no one else ever has: wanted.
But the more I get to know Haven, the more I realize I was right all along. Haven doesnโt let people in. Not fully. Not when heโs spent his whole life being left behind. So when my dream opportunity finally manifests, I have to leave before I break all my rules and my own heart in the process. I donโt dare fall for his whiskey charm.
What kind of witch are you when you can’t even use your magic? Not a good one that’s for sure.
Alise Davis has always felt the energy of her magic churning just below the surface. The only thing she’s been able to do so far is draw pictures that for some reason, make people feel exactly how she was feeling at the time she drew it–a manifestation of her emotions. But all of a sudden she’s been able to see the animals of the many shifters who live in Springlake Pines. She’d not been able to do that before. And it seems as if her magic is pulling her toward something, or someone. Inquiries to her father uncover her mother’s grimoire and the fact her mother has a twin sister. Family may be just who she needs to get the answers to her magic problem.
The monster has a mate and she is the only one who can make him powerful enough to defeat the one person who has answers for the both of them. His Maker.
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