When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…
As a little girl, I dreamed of finding my own Prince Charming—just like in the story my mom used to read to me.
But as a woman who grew up living a life that was anything but a fairy tale, I never expected it to happen to me, and certainly not in the bordello I worked at in Las Vegas.
When our eyes locked, I knew, in another life, Liam could easily be my Prince Charming, but in my world, those kind of men didn’t exist.
He was determined to prove me wrong, though, and in one weekend, he not only showed me the world in a different light, but made me feel like a princess—before he disappeared without a trace.
After he walked away, I was determined to write my own happy ending—turns out the first chapter was becoming a single mom. Because that handsome prince… He left me the most exquisite crown jewel, who’s now my entire world.
And while I might’ve given up on finding my Prince Charming, I’ll make sure my daughter has the fairy-tale life I never did.
Resisting the Running Back by Lisa Suzanne is now live!
A steamy Pro Football, Best Friends to Lovers, Fake Relationship Romance from Amazon Top Ten Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne.
When my ex exposes my secret romance pen name to my students and my world unravels, I turn desperately to the one person who’s always had my back: my childhood best friend Miller Banks. The pro football running back drops everything, leaving in the middle of his wild Vegas birthday party to be by my side.
With my life in shambles back home, Miller invites me to stay with him in San Diego, offering both a sanctuary and a chance to pursue my writing career since my teaching days are over. It’s the perfect setup with the ultimate book boyfriend, though we’ve never crossed that line and never will.
But then I make the mistake of telling my mother that Miller and I are in a relationship, and we tell my ex that we’re engaged. Thankfully Miller plays along, grabbing me into the kind of steamy, soul-shattering kiss I can’t stop thinking about.
As I watch my new roommate work out and cook dinner, it’s becoming harder to ignore the chemistry simmering between us. Especially when our “engagement” hits the media and we’re forced to be a happy couple in public, further blurring the line between real and fake.
We can’t cross that line. I have to continue resisting the running back. If I don’t, we could both lose the very thing that matters most to us.
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Lisa Suzanne is an Amazon Top Ten Bestselling author of swoon-worthy superstar heroes, emotional roller coasters, and all the angst. She resides in Arizona with her husband and two kids. When she’s not chasing her kids, she can be found working on her latest romance book or watching reruns of Friends.
🏈Review🏈 When Sophie’s professional life implodes she reaches out to the one person who has always been there for her, Miller. Like always he is there for her in the blink of an eye and before she has a chance to regroup he is not only her roommate but her pretend fiancé as well.
There is nothing that Miller won’t do for Sophie and that includes being there for her while she handles this challenge. Pretending to be her fiancé may help her with both her mother and her ex but he is finding it harder to deny his feelings for her which have always been much deeper than friendship.
Neither Sophie nor Miller can imagine a future that doesn’t include the other which has them conflicted between protecting what they share and exploring that it could be so much more. Seeing them finally acknowledge what they are meant to be included humor, heat and all the feels and is everything you could ask for and more
✨TEASER: SOMEHOW YOU KNEW by @harlowjamesauthor releasing July 10th! This will be a simultaneous release in Audio with the amazing narrators Erin Mallon and Brandon Francis!
I never imagined I’d agree to an arranged marriage for over 5 million dollars.
Not to mention that the man I’d be marrying is someone I’d already met once before.
Gage Kingston waltzes into the meeting with the lawyer unaffected—cocky, tattooed, and acting like he didn’t know who I was.
But after we agree we’d be stupid to walk away from that kind of money, we embark on a six month timeline to riches despite the animosity between us.
Now I’m living with the man his aunt thought would be perfect for me while wondering if the woman was going insane before she died to think this was a good idea.
Then the first letter came.
Turns out Diane had a plan to get us to fall for each other while trying to make our marriage work.
Arguments turn to meaningful conversations.
Innocent brushes turn to lust-filled challenges.
And before I know it, we’re crossing every line we drew in the sand.
Did Diane somehow know that we were meant for each other before we figure it out for ourselves?
Or was jumping into a marriage with a man I barely knew one of the worst mistakes of my life?
A dark, steamy, mafia romance, sizzling with heat when the stalked … stalks back. AXEL is my hot d*ckhead boss who stalks me. I know. He’s arrogant. Powerful. Evil. But those eyes. So, I stalked him back, and that’s when I discovered… He’s the escaped heir to a criminal empire. A dark prince. The head of a secret society of vigilante mafia kings.
I spied on their taboo ex-Bratva rituals. I know their dark secret, how they initiate their queens.
And he busted me.
Now, Axel says he owns me. He makes me stay with him … or else.
Or fall in love with my sinful stalker? Or become the mafia queen to the son of the most dangerous man in the world?
Author’s note: AXEL is a standalone, dark, not-mafia-mafia romance set in a world of taboo traditions, biting banter, morally grey heroes in a band of brothers with some heavy themes, and very explicit scenes. This is an 18+, interconnected romance with a guaranteed HEA.
✨TEASER: AT FIRST FLIGHT by @renee_harless is coming June 26!
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mybook.to/atfirstflight Why you will love this book… 🔥Single Parent/Nanny 🔥Billionaire🔥He Falls First🔥Runaway Bride🔥Small Town
Lila Wright never expected to flee her dress fitting covered in a cloud of lace—let alone land in a first-class seat next to the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen. With mascara-streaked cheeks, a shattered heart, and no plan beyond “anywhere but here,” she spills her secrets to the stranger with the sharp jawline and stormy eyes. She expects a little sympathy. She doesn’t expect a two-week, all-expenses-paid escape on his dime.
Dean Harrington isn’t just any passenger. He’s a man with a heart locked up tighter than his family’s luxury yacht empire. The reclusive billionaire isn’t in the mood for small talk—until the runaway bride beside him turns out to be as intriguing as she is unfiltered. She’s beautiful, chaotic, and clearly a flight risk. But somehow, she puts him at ease. That is, until they land—and he discovers he’s now the full-time guardian of his niece and nephew.
By a twist of fate, Lila’s no longer just a fleeting encounter—she’s the nanny he hires from a small-town agency. And he’s her brooding, infuriatingly hot boss.
Forced under one roof in his bayside home, a temporary arrangement soon spirals into something far more complicated. Between sizzling tension and curious kids who want their uncle to be happy, Lila and Dean are on a collision course with feelings neither saw coming.
But sometimes love shows up uninvited—35,000 feet in the air.
This steamy small-town romance delivers billionaire angst, nanny sweetness, and a slow-burn love story full of heat, heart, and unexpected happily-ever-afters.✨INFLUENCERS: Sign up to review here:https://bit.ly/atfirstflightsignup
🔥**NIALL is bringing the HEAT.**🔥 One kiss—and she was wrecked. His mouth? Sin. His hands? Possessive. His words? Irish-accented filth that will ruin you.
From Melanie Moreland’sNiall, this scene is pure tension, deep kisses, and the kind of alpha energy that leaves you breathless.
💋 “That is how I would kiss you, Anna. Every time.” 🥵 We were not ready.
Nothing prepared for the onslaught of sensation as Niall truly, properly kissed me. The feel of his tongue on mine. The taste of him how he coaxed me to kiss him back, groaning as I imitated what he was doing in my mouth. He licked deep, teased, and explored. He slid his hand into my hair, fisting it, directing me, kissing me deeper, making me gasp as he slid his lips from my mouth along my jaw and up to my ear.
A sexy, accidental pregnancy, one night stand, sports romance from bestselling author, Lulu Moore
My name is Tanner Simpson and I’m gonna be a father.
I never intended for it to happen, but one thing led to another and now Millie Robinson and I are connected for life.
I have no problem with this as she’s the woman of my dreams and her being the future mother of my child is the icing on the cake.
There’s just one small snag.
She can’t stand me.
Shocking, I know, but nevertheless a problem I must solve, preferably before the baby arrives.
So when she needs a new place to live, an opportunity presents itself for Millie to become my neighbor.
When I’m not on the road fighting for a spot in the post season, I’m with Millie morning, noon and night. She wants ice-cream, I’m getting it. Chocolate brownies, no problem.
Navigating impending fatherhood is nothing compared to convincing Millie to take a chance on me. On us.
She’s been my Home Run since the first day I laid eyes on her.
Now I need to prove to her I’m as lovable as everyone says I am, and the one she needs around forever.
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Lulu started writing by accident, and somehow found herself stuck in a fictional world of ice hockey, baseball and billionaires. A world she has no plans to leave. She’s the creator of The New York Players Series, The Tuesday Club Series, and The New York Lions – the worst team in the M.L.B.
More recently she’s ventured across the Atlantic to where her latest novel is set – the beautiful cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the annual rowing showdown on the River Thames.
She’s a big fan of strong heroines, because those fierce alphas need someone to keep them in check. You’ll find her navigating her way through Romance Land one HEA at a time, and trying to figure out the latest social media platform she needs to post to.
⚾️Review⚾️ Tanner has always known that Millie is his end game and he has just been waiting for her to realize it as well. When she makes a small crack in the wall between them he doesn’t hesitate and when that crack results in her expecting his baby it only makes him more determined to show her that he is and always has been the man for her.
Millie believes that she knows who Tanner is but she is about to realize that she couldn’t have been more wrong. Finding out she is pregnant has her nervous not only about the future but about how others will react, but she is about to find out that she won’t be alone either now or in the future.
The swoon factor of Tanner is off the charts as he shows with everything he does and says that Millie can count on him to be there for him while Millie realizes that opening her heart to love and a future with Tanner is a reward worth the risk.
I’ve come to wreak vengeance on the man who killed my parents. My own little brother—an abomination, a snake in the nest.
I’m Hazel Fury—a phoenix, a killer—and I’m not leaving this insane asylum until Baz is in a body bag. Someone has to do it and that someone will be me.
Bring on your friends, little brother. Bring on death and mayhem—there’s no stopping a phoenix. Nothing but you.
I’ll do whatever it takes. Even if that means using a trickster you can’t outmaneuver and the big man himself—Dr. Stein.
And don’t worry about being lonely in Hell… I’ll send your friends there with you.
Genre/Tropes: Small Town; Blue Collar; Alpha Male; Playboy MC; Sunshine FC; Best Friends Little Sister; Enemies-to-Lovers Vibes; Accidental Pregnancy
Release Date: June 9, 2025
Cover Design: Karen Hulseman at Feed Your Dreams Designs
Off-limits. That’s what we are to each other.
Eirik has been my older brother’s best friend since we were kids. Back then, he was nice to me, friendly, even though I was the annoying little girl who constantly shadowed them. But as we’ve gotten older, our relationship has become strained. Instead of showing kindness, we pick fights and bring out the worst in each other. He’s known as the town playboy, and was never supposed to be on my radar. So why do I find him so irresistible?
Amelia is the forbidden fruit that’s only gotten sweeter with age. I’ve been captivated by her since we were teens. I considered us friends once, but now we’re more like frenemies. We fight like cats and dogs. No matter what I do, I annoy her. But I’ve never lost sight of how incredible she is, and when I realize I have feelings for her that are more than just a passing fancy, I have to make my move. Damn the consequences.
But what if something unexpected happens just as we’re starting out? Will we be able to survive it?
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Amelia has hidden the depth of her feelings for Eirick, her brother’s best friend, under a mask of animosity for years. As much as she wants a relationship with him she has begun to realize it is never going to happen and just when she is ready to move forward without him everything changes.
Eirick has had deep feelings for Amelia for years, but he is torn between his love for her and loyalty to his best friend. He has kept his distance from her for years but that is only becoming more difficult especially when he begins to see how empty his future would be without her.
This a story of two people who have always belonged together who take us on a journey filled with emotion and surprises as they must decide if what they share is worth fighting for.
“Hiya, handsome,” Erin coos over my shoulder, startling me.
“Hi yourself. What can I get you?” he asks.
“What’s your name and number?” she asks.
He licks his lips as his eyes fall to her ring finger and then flit back to hers.
She waves off his playful judgment. “I’m not trying to pick you up. I’m just gathering information in case I need to rescue my friend here,” she says, gesturing to me.
His eyes slide to me, and the corner of his mouth lifts into a sexy grin. “Rescue her from what exactly?”
“Evading the question, hmm.”
“Name’s Brew,” he says as he sets a shot glass in front of her and pours a shot of tequila. “Yours?”
She looks at the shot and back at him. “A bribe. Really?” she asks, shaking her head as she grabs the glass and looks at me. “I’m Bambi?”
I shake my head.
“Um, I mean, Erin.”
“Which is it?” he asks, resting his elbows on the bar.
“Erin. And I don’t know, Brandee; he looks like a bad decision to me,” she says as she throws back the shot.
“And why’s that?” I ask, keeping my eyes on his.
“For one thing, his name is Brew, and he works behind a bar. Suspect for sure. He’s too good-looking. Plus, he serves hot women drinks every night. Which means he’s probably got a bedpost full of notches. Odds are, at least a few of them were crazy,” she says, looking over her shoulder. “I bet there’s one in here right now, wanting to scratch your eyes out for just talking to him.” She turns back and narrows her eyes at him. “All red flags.”
I laugh. “Aren’t you the one who told me to find the sexiest man in the club and take him home tonight, no questions asked?”
He quirks an eyebrow at her.
“Oh, right. I did. Sorry. I turned into Maxi there for a minute,” she cries as she slaps the bar. “Carry on.”
She winks at him and then sashays back to Jena.
“So, no questions asked, huh?”
I slide my glass to him. “Maybe a couple. Can I get another martini? And a ride home?”
Blurb:
I arrive in Sandcastle Cove expecting peace and quiet—just a few weeks of house-sitting for Aunt Ida while she dotes on her new grandbaby. But then I meet Brew—a tall, tempting, and dangerously charming local bartender with a slow smile and hands that know exactly how to make a woman unravel. My plans change completely. Our chemistry is instant, electric, and impossible to ignore. One taste of him has me lost in late nights, tangled sheets, and a heat that has nothing to do with the coastal sun.
However, Brew is hiding something—something that doesn’t quite fit with the quiet life he pretends to lead.
Now, I’m falling hard for a man who might be everything I never knew I needed. One who has me reconsidering everything about my life in Balsam Ridge. But if he won’t let me in, how can I trust him with my heart?
Amusement flickered in his blue eyes, his attention drifting from my face to the blade in my hand. “I don’t believe that.” He kept moving forward, not stopping until the tip of the blade pressed against his stomach, pitting the fabric of his shirt. “Not for one fucking second, Jade.”
My hand shook. I couldn’t believe I was holding a knife to his gut. That he, of all people, was doing this to me, pushing me to this. But he was right. I didn’t think I could physically bring myself to stab him. Not even if he was going to hurt me.
“I wish I could say the same,” I whispered.
My grip on the knife tightened as my gaze met his, searching for a hint of recognition, a trace of the boy I once loved. But all I found in his hardened expression was hate. I understood it. It stung, but I understood because I’d tried hard to hate him, too.
Smirking, he wrapped his calloused fingers around mine. I didn’t fight when he forced my hand away from him and carefully plucked the weapon from my grip. It was almost as if he was making sure I didn’t hurt myself.
He stabbed the blade into the drywall, and defeat washed over me. “Never expected you to turn into a knife-wielding, drug thief and dealer,” he said, so close, his breath stirred the strands of my hair.
“And I never expected you to enjoy scaring women.” I struggled to keep my voice steady. “Yet here we are.”
He leaned in even more, bracing one hand on the cabinet beside my head and caging me in. “Come on, Jade…” His nose swept along my jaw.
The sensation of his warm breath on my skin sent an involuntary shiver through me.
“You’re not scared,” he whispered. “Your cheeks are the same fuck-me pink as when you come.”
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Wolf Brookes was the bad boy who broke my heart, moved on faster than I could blink, and didn’t even bother to look back. Which is why I hate him.
A year and a half after the heartbreak, I’ve made some questionable choices—like breaking into his house and stealing from him. In my defense, I needed the money. He didn’t need to catch me… or blackmail me into playing little sister to the makeshift frat of reprobates he helps run.
Now I’m stuck in a party house from hell with my tattooed, arrogant ex.
My plan? Use being in his house to my advantage, get what I need to beat him at his own game, and get out.
His plan? Apparently to torment me by acting as though he doesn’t own a shirt.
But the more time we spend together, the more I see glimpses of the boy I loved—and the man he’s become. He’s still the same reckless, infuriating disaster I fell for, and I’m still the idiot who can’t seem to quit him.
Falling for him again would be the worst idea of my life.
But losing him twice?
That might break me for good.
USA Today bestselling authors Stevie J Cole and LP Lovell bring you a steamy, second-chance, enemies-to-lovers romance full of banter, bad boys and bad decisions, and the kind of love that never dies—even when it should.
Tyler Falcon is protective, flirtatious…and frustratingly responsible. We almost did something reckless when he found me alone in my wedding dress, and I blurted out all the things I’d never truly experienced.
Now, the sexy single dad is saving me again with a job I desperately need—and a promise to never mention The Night of 1001 Confessions.
I live in his house. Take care of his kids. Pretend I don’t notice his heated gaze lingering on me after they fall asleep.
Until one night, the tension snaps.
Now we have a deal. Five lessons in seduction. No strings attached.
But he’s not just good in bed. He spoils me with thoughtful gifts and supports my dreams. For the first time, I feel like I belong.
Except…this was never meant to last. I’m his employee. He has kids to protect. And neither of us can afford to make a mistake.
The more nights we spend tangled up together though, the harder it is to pretend it’s just physical. Because I’m not only falling for my boss—I’m falling for the man whose kids have stolen my heart.
Tropes: single dad/nanny, runaway bride, forced proximity, spicy lessons, she’s his daughter’s skating coach, confession of all secrets, love notes, found family
“I’m a virgin to good sex. And I want good sex.” Then, I give him my best come-hither pout—lips parted slightly, one shoulder bobbing coquettishly. Look at me go! I must radiate sex appeal right now. “I’m pretty sure you could do it right. I have this whole fantasy that starts with your beard.”
His eyes flicker. His lips twitch. “That’s awfully specific.”
Heat shimmers between us. I step closer. “I keep thinking about how it’d feel. I keep wondering, too, about those arms,” I say, my gaze drifting to his biceps, visible in his tight polo. “How you could pin me down. I wonder about your mouth. I think I’m obsessed with it.”
He winces, then shakes his head.
Shoot. I’ve crossed a line with a student’s dad. But then, maybe even against his better judgment, he asks, “How obsessed?”
My knees buckle. I’m hot everywhere. “I can’t stop thinking about how you might kiss me.” I take another step closer in my mismatched slides. “Everywhere.”
And I wait. This time, though, he doesn’t make me suffer. He closes the distance between us, lifts a big hand, and cups my cheek.
I gasp.
Dear god, the feel of his hand on me. It’s unreal. Warm and strong, everything I want. I lean into his touch, lit up from the electricity sparking between us.
He slides a thumb along my cheekbone, up and down, like he’s memorizing me. Then, one more small step, and he dips his head closer.
I sway.
I’m falling closer to him when his lips dust across my forehead.
The gasp that escapes me is both carnal and innocent, like his kiss.
Then, he lets go, scoops me up, and lays me down on the bed.
ABOUT LAUREN BLAKELY:
A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, feel-good and witty. Her books have been featured in US Weekly and People. Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and she is the vegetarian at your dinner party.
I didn’t expect to fall for a Scottish footballer so annoyingly sunny you need shades to be around him.
I didn’t expect to say yes to his heart-felt, if loopy, proposal while he lay injured on the pitch, blathering on about banana pudding and sparkly unicorns.
What I definitely didn’t expect?
For our engagement to explode into a paparazzi circus, our mothers to turn into wedding bulldozers, and for our wedding protector’s perfectly reasonable elopement plan to spiral into a roadtrip escape.
So here we are.
In Love You, Maine, a town that celebrates Valentine’s Day every single day. We’re here to get married. Quietly. No drama. In disguise.
Although good luck hiding a 6’5” ginger Scottish striker wearing a knee brace and a perpetual extrovert smile.
Instead of being subtle and blending in? Our quiet escape is vibrating heart-shaped beds, mirrors on the ceilings, secret identities, interfering mothers, and one suspiciously enthusiastic moose that humps dumpsters.
This was supposed to be a simple wedding. Just me and Hamish. No fuss.
But nothing about us has ever been simple with us.
Still, this is what love is, right? It’s chaos. It’s compromise. It’s crying in a wedding planner’s office, then kissing in a hot spring.
It’s choosing each other again and again, even when everything goes sideways.
No matter what comes next… this is our comeback story, in more ways than one.
And no – that’s not a euphemism. 🙂
Shopping for a Highlander’s Elopement is a romantic comedy that blends the worlds of four bestselling series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent:
– Shopping for a Billionaire
– Shopping for a Highlander
– Whatever It Takes
– Love You, Maine
If you love sports romance, surprise proposals, grand gestures, chaotic weddings, Scottish footballers, golden retriever/black cat energy, and characters who love too hard, mess up spectacularly, and always find their way back to each other with plenty of laughter (and lovingly-used scrunchies) along the way, then this is your book.
Hamish’s unorthodox proposal to Amy after being injured on the field and the media frenzy that ensued should have been a sign that planning the wedding wasn’t going to be any easier.
Not only are they dealing with the publicity that has taken over their lives, but their mothers are determined that the wedding will be the extravaganza that they want which isn’t necessarily the wedding their children want. Heading to Maine to elope was supposed to allow them to avoid the chaos however the fun is only beginning.
Hamish and Amy take us on quite the ride filled with humor that will have you laughing out loud, a romance that is enchanting and so many surprises. It was wonderful not only to spend time with this couple but all the other characters we have grown to know and love
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013, she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and more than 21 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into French, German, and Italian, with more titles releasing in the future.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men’s room toilet (and he isn’t a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).
She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet paper rolls.
She loves to hear from her readers by email at julia@jkentauthor.com, on Twitter @jkentauthor, on Facebook at @jkentauthor, and on Instagram @jkentauthor. Visit her at http://jkentauthor.com
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