My spine stiffened in outrage before I turned to face my stalker, Alessandro “Sandro” Rossi. Never mind that it was my brother Nico’s wedding. Lurking at De Lucci gatherings was nothing new to him. He’d made a sport out of it, and he continued to aggravate and confound the hell out of me.
“You’re seriously going to do this here?” I snapped.
“He doesn’t deserve you.” A muscle pulsed at his stubble-covered jaw. I kept my gaze from wandering over his tux-clad body, but I’d spied him earlier. He was hard to miss when he decided to be seen. His clothes clung to his six-four frame and the formality of the attire did nothing to leash the feral power emanating from its seams.
I raised a brow. “And you?”
“Especially not me.”
“Then I don’t see your point. We’ve been through this dance a million times, Sandro. Every time I date someone, you and your brutish self show up and scare him away.”
“That’s why they don’t deserve you.”
“Oh, and somehow you consider yourself the barometer?” I scoffed. “You’re not my father. Nor are you my brother. And newsflash, Sandro, even they don’t have a say in who I date nowadays. So what makes you think you do?”
He stepped closer and cupped my cheek in a tender gesture. Even his eyes gentled from their murderous glint earlier. “I care enough.”
I jerked my face out of his grasp. “Really?”
“I’m saving myself the trouble of having to kill someone who might hurt you.”
When Nash Pearson finds himself at the altar about to be married to a wonderful woman, what could go wrong? Exactly one he realizes the woman he’s marrying is not the woman he sees a “forever” with.
The moment he realizes he’s in love with someone else, he immediately calls off the wedding, unwilling to hurt the woman in front of him more than he already has, but knowing he needs to do the right thing.
Taylor Asher is finally in a good place. Her son, Cooper, is the light of her life, and her longtime boyfriend, Brad, is about to propose. She never expected to marry a man like Brad, especially not after co-parenting with her best friend and father of her child, Nash. The two men are unbelievably different, and she can’t help but think about all the what-ifs still surrounding her friendship with Nash…
She just needs to remember that not all dreams become reality.
When Taylor finds out Nash has called off his wedding, her hesitation about Brad intensifies. She’ll never act on her feelings for Nash because she’s given Brad her word. She’s marrying him—old, lingering feelings for the father of her child be damned.
As Nash and Taylor dance around their feelings and try to do what’s best for each other while ignoring what’s best for themselves, their son continues to bring them closer…until they are forced to face the truth that’s always been in front of they belong together.
In the ultimate friends-to-lovers story, with themes of hidden feelings, love, and tempting fate, will Nash and Taylor realize that sometimes, the best love stories are the ones you least expect? Or will they continue to ignore the everlasting love between them?
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Nash believed he had his future planned out until the moment that he was about to marry. Realizing that his heart belonged to his best friend and the mother of their son he realizes he wants a future with her but that brings complications of its own.
Taylor thought she had her life planned as well as she believes her relationship with the man in her life will lead to marriage. Her feelings become conflicted when she realizes that Nash is suddenly single and now she must choose the future she wants.
A little drama, some angst and a friendship that was always meant to be more as Nash and Taylor finally acknowledge who they truly belong with even though there was some ups and downs along the way.
In the second book of New York Times Bestselling Author Sawyer Bennett’s Race Fever series, she turns up the heat when a familiar name looks to shake up the world of formula racing. Buckle up for this heart stopping, second chance ride in Formula Chance.
Nash Sinclair abandoned the world of formula racing after a deadly crash left him injured and on a long road to recovery, both physically and mentally. Even prior to the crash Nash was healing in another way, putting together the pieces of a broken heart. They say time heals all wounds and when Brienne Norcross, owner of the newly acquired Titans Racing team approaches him about a job, he decides it might just be time to reclaim the life he once loved.
Bexley Toliver just joined the Titans’ team as their chief race strategy engineer. As a woman working in a male-centric sport, Bex is no stranger to a man’s eyes on her. Whether it’s in silent awe, not-so-silent disgust, or somewhere in between, Bexley has earned her way. But there is one set of eyes that Bex hasn’t seen in years and when Nash Sinclair walks into the conference room for a team meeting, old memories are hard to ignore. As the heat between them becomes all-consuming, they are unable to resist the temptation to fall once again.
Bex and Nash’s history is…complicated. Young love that turned into the promise of forever crashed and burned long before the race that ended Nash’s career. Years apart dulled the pain of their failed union but some things aren’t meant to be forgotten, no matter how hard one tries. When the same issues that broke them apart re-emerge and spin them full-speed toward a barricade, Bex and Nash need to make a decision—hit the brakes and walk away or race forward to their happily ever after.
Once, I was the lead guitarist of the hit rock band, Midnight Sun. Then a tragic accident took everything from me. I can no longer play guitar, my wife left me, and the future I worked so hard for is slipping away.
All I am now is a grumpy, infamous, former rockstar.
So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m not in the market for a woman, especially not Jade Cantrell—who’s as beautiful and talented as she is sweet.
Then the media pounces on a story about the two of us, and suddenly we’re zipping off to a mountain retreat and writing an album together.
I can’t keep it strictly business—no matter how hard I try.
And the more I get to know her, the more I know I don’t have any hope of keeping her out of my heart.
One night will never be enough.
I’m going to keep her forever.
When the Game Breakers meet more than hearts will be broken… They’ll claim, protect, and…maybe just rock their women’s worlds.
Book tropes include:
🎸Snowed in
🎸Forced Proximity
🎸One night stand
🎸Reclusive hero
🎸Country singer + her rock star
🎸Friends to lovers
🎸Starting over
🎸Protective MMC
🎸Grumpy/Sunshine
🎸Found Family
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BECAUSE THE NIGHT by @authorkyliescott Is coming March 4th!
Waking a monster from its sleep is never a good idea.
Skye Carter is as normal as normal can be. But when she chances upon a man in the basement of an abandoned Hollywood Hills house, she’s suddenly playing tour guide, and introducing a fifteen-hundred-year-old vampire to this century. And who even knows what’s going on with her teeth.
The truth is, immortality can get old—which is why Lucas Thorne went to sleep for seventy years. But he’s back and ready to take on undead enemies and friends alike. In a world where threatening creatures roam the night streets, he’s the most dangerous of them all.
The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills is now live!
From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy story about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine’s Day tradition…and the boy who broke her heart.
Roses are red, violets are blue–someone in Rose has feelings for you…
Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn’t leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It’s been ten years, but you don’t forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway.
Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose–and he’s never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she’s not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect?
When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they’ve needed all along.
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#1 Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills pens angsty new adult and contemporary romances.
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💋Review💋 After the events that transpired in high school Everly couldn’t leave town fast enough and it would be a decade before she returns. After receiving an invitation to the kiss lottery her curiosity is piqued so she returns fully expecting to feel the wrath of the whole town and in particular the man who was her best friend when they were growing up.
When they were in high school Beckett wasn’t sure how to handle the situation, he found himself in when it came to Beckett, and it is one of the biggest regrets in his life. Now that she is back it brings up all the feelings between them that haven’t diminished over time, but this time around he isn’t about to make the same mistakes.
The banter between was humorous and the eclectic cast of townspeople only enhanced this second chance at love.
𝑽𝑰𝑪𝑰𝑶𝑼𝑺 𝑨𝑫𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺: A Mafia Romance (The Next Vicious Generation Book 1) by USA Today bestselling author Ivy Fox releases on February 28th. Check out this teaser!
🖤Coming of Age – First Love 🖤Touch her and die vibes
🖤Boy Obsessed
🖤Strong heroine
🖤Revenge, drama and lies
🖤And a whole lot of ANGST!
Blurb:
Vicious Addictions is the first installment in this action-packed, drama-filled mafia romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Ivy Fox.
“Enter the dangerous world of power, passion, and forbidden love in The Next Vicious Generation—where blind loyalty always comes at a price.”
Everyone in Chicago knows my name.
I’m Jude Adamo Romano—the eldest son of the Romano clan and the heir to the Outfit crime syndicate.
Power, control, and loyalty are my family’s legacy, the only things I hold dear.
As for love? Love is a weakness.
I’ve witnessed how it twists, destroys, and corrupts even the most honorable men, and I vowed never to let it ruin me.
Not again.
I kept that promise—until she walked back into my life.
Mina Crane… the one woman who ever made me question everything. The only one I’d risk it all for, even my birthright.
But in my world, something as fragile as love always comes with a steep price.
As loyalties shatter and enemies close in, I find myself at a crossroads, faced with an impossible decision.
Will I fight for the woman who brings me to my knees with just a smile, or will duty and honor chain me to a fate I no longer desire?
For what is a throne without a queen to rule by my side?
Author’s note: The Next Vicious Generation is an interconnected standalone series that serves as a spin-off to the Rotten Love Duet. Each book in this series will focus on one of Selene’s children, now grown up and just as fierce and fearless as their fathers. While reading the Rotten Love Duet is not essential before starting this series, it is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of the characters and their backstory.
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. “What About Now?” is an age gap, found family, drunken Vegas wedding, small town romance.
Brogan
I didn’t plan on hooking up with my new brother-in-law’s best friend… or marrying him.
Life hasn’t been easy, and it’s left me a little bruised, and a lot cautious. So, when I wake up in Vegas married to Maddox, I’m convinced it’s a mistake. A drunken accident that we should undo before anyone finds out.
But he doesn’t see it that way. He asks for six months. Six months to show me we could be something real. And I don’t know why I say yes, except maybe a part of me wants to believe him.
I’m not sure I deserve someone like him. But with every look, every touch, and every little gesture, Maddox is breaking down my walls.
That’s why the next time he asks “what about now?” I know I’m going to say yes.
Maddox
I always thought Brogan was off-limits. Our paths didn’t just cross, they tangled.
If things didn’t work out between us, it would hurt a lot of people. So I stayed in my lane, convincing myself it was for the best.
Until Vegas.
One too many drinks, a blurred wedding chapel, and a couple of shiny rings later, Brogan wakes up next to me… as my wife.
She’s ready to call it a mistake and move on, but I see it for what it is: fate handing me the chance I’ve been too scared to take.
So I make her a deal. Six months. I’ll prove we belong together, and if she still doesn’t believe it, we’ll walk away. No hard feelings.
But I’m not going down without a fight. Flowers, her favorite coffee—I’ll give her everything she never knew she wanted, including me.
And one of these times when I ask if she believes it yet that were meant to be, I just might get the answer I’m hoping for.
Because I’ve waited long enough to make her mine, and this time, I’m not letting her go.
While attending his best friend’s wedding in Vegas the last thing Maddox expected would be that he would return home married as well. He has not acted on the feelings he has for Brogan but when they find themselves married, he isn’t disappointed and now he has six months to convince her they belong together.
Brogan has been denying her feelings for Maddox due to the events of the past. Her only concern is ensuring the happiness of her sister all the while believing she didn’t deserve the same for herself. She agrees to six months believing that what they shared would be over before then, but she is about to realize she couldn’t have been more wrong.
With everything that Maddox does and says he shows Brogan that she is his everything and that there is nothing he won’t do to show her the future that she is worthy of.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
✨NARRATOR REVEAL: DEAL WITH THE DEVIL by @deborahgarlandauthor is coming to audio March 5, narrated in Duet by Lexi Evans, DB West, Tyler Griffin, Logan Anare,and Troy Duran as Lachlan O’Rourke!
The sweetest love stories often bloom from friendship.
From Friends to Forever: A Love Grows Collection, a steamy friends to lovers romance collection, part of the 1001 Dark Nights Trope Collection from New York Times & USA Today bestselling authors Darynda Jones, J. Kenner, Shayla Black and Susan Stoker, is available now!
The sweetest love stories often bloom from friendship. From Friends to Forever is filled with heartwarming romances where bonds of friendship evolve into something deeper. Whether they’ve always known each other, or their friendship stood the test of time, these characters will find that the best love grows from the most unexpected places.
Includes: The Gravedigger’s Son by Darynda Jones Memories of You by J. Kenner More Than Possess You by Shayla Black and Securing Jane by Susan Stoker
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The Gravedigger’s Son
Well, more of the same troubles, but things escalated rapidly one fateful weekend, and his life had never been the same. His relationship with the elfin queen—his descriptor—had never been the same. The fact that he thought about her every day, craved her every day, meant nothing. He’d hurt her. Physically. Emotionally. Psychologically. There was no going back. And in all the years since, in all the towns and all the bars and all the women, he’d never met anyone who compared to the ethereal creature known as Amber Kowalski.
Memories of You
“You and me,” he says. “Forever. Call it a relationship because it is one. Call it friends with benefits, because you are the best friend I will ever have, and if you’ll have me, the last lover I’ll ever have, too.” My heart flutters, and my hand flies to my mouth. “Is this a proposal?” “Yes. No. I don’t know. Is it?” I laugh. “No,” I say, feeling giddy enough that I could float on air. “I want to date first. But why don’t we call it a promise?” “Baby, I will promise you the world if you want it.” I shake my head, then feel warm tears on my cheeks as he pulls me even closer. “God, Renly, don’t you get it? I never wanted the world. All I’ve ever really wanted is you.”
More Than Possess You
But I am, because no matter how familiar Echo is, I’ll never look at her the same. This morning, I notice things about her I never have. Though she’s all woman, her long, dark lashes brush round cheeks that are almost girlish. Her lips are rosy, the bottom one heavy and pouty when it parts slightly, as if in unspoken invitation. Her bare shoulder is dotted with two tiny freckles, which peek out above the crisp white sheet covering the rest of her body. Not that it does any good. Last night, I saw her. I felt her. And I remember her—every detail. I don’t know how I’ll forget. We can’t ever go back to being just friends. I’m not sure I want to.
Securing Jane
How long they sat like that she wasn’t sure, but she felt more connected to Storm than she’d ever felt with another man. Ever. It should’ve scared her. Hell, they hadn’t even really kissed or spent much time together, but he’d shown by his actions that he wasn’t like the boys she’d dated in the past. He was a grown-ass man, an honorable one. One she was desperate to get to know intimately.
Memories of You by J. Kenner – Renly had recently joined Stark Security when Damien and his wife get a frantic call and he decides to go as well when he realizes it is from his childhood friend. Abby has been receiving suspicious calls so when she sees what appears to be blood on her car she panics but she wasn’t expecting Renly, her best friend and first love. Their feelings for each other have not diminished over time but will Renly realize what Abby means to him before the threat against her is successful?
More Than Possess You by Shayla Black – Hayes has been best friends with Echo since they were children but when he takes her along on a business trip to Hawaii with their other friend Xavian things are about to become complicated. Echo wants to experience her first time and has chosen Xavian but she is not certain why Hayes is determined to thwart her plans as she knows what she wants and it is her decision to make and it’s not like he is willing to do the deed, or is he?
Securing Jane by Susan Stoker – Storm manages three SEAL teams and e has always believed that he could not have his career and a relationship even if Jane, the woman who delivers his mail, has attracted his attention. Jane has been attracted to Storm for a while but so is every other woman on the base so she does not believe he will ever see her as more than a co-worker who delivers the mail, but everything changes when she finds herself in danger.
I have not had a chance to read the Gravedigger’s Son by Darynda Jones, but I am looking forward to reading that story as well.
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