99c FIRST & LIMITED TIME ONLY: AF MC Ohio The Complete Series from USA Today bestselling author Esther E. Schmidt. Be sure to snatch this ebook up quick before the price increases to $6.99 February 15, 2025. Get it here: books2read.com/AFMCOhio
This boxed set includes the complete AF MC Ohio series: Ransom, Casey, and C.Rash. Love at first sight, fast-paced stories filled with hot, suspenseful alpha biker romance and their happily ever after.
RANSOM – When you’ve been riding a dark road, it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But when you do? You ride full throttle until you’ve claimed what’s rightfully yours.
CASEY – When you’ve been living a shiny life, one might think you have it all. But when you’re ready to trade everything you’ve worked for to save the life of a woman, you become aware life has been nothing but mediocre.
C. RASH – Christmas is a time to come together, to love, to share heartwarming gifts, and to make new memories. Yet everything is at risk when danger from the past threatens to take away everything.
In High School, Daphne Elliot was voted “most likely to become a romance novelist.” 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.
Once in a while, after life gets you down, the universe throws you a bone. And if you’re really lucky, it comes in the form of a tattooed baby-wearing firefighter with piercing blue eyes and a heart of gold.
When Noah Hebert swung his axe and rescued me from a coffee shop bathroom, I had only a vague sense of who the tattooed lumberjack was. Turns out he’s more than broad shoulders and a thick beard. He’s a devoted single dad and my new neighbor.
Soon after, we find ourselves falling into an easy friendship. I help him with his fussy baby, and he helps me survive my ex-husband and little sister’s wedding. Despite my vow never to risk my heart again, my defenses quickly crumble. The sight of him rocking his sweet baby in those muscular, inked arms only makes matters worse. And when he defends me to my toxic family, the sparks of attraction between us catch fire.
I moved back here with a mission. Grow the food pantry and make our little town a better place. I can’t get mixed up with the grieving single dad, even if he likes to braid my hair and slow dance in the kitchen.
He moved across the country to escape the flames of his past and protect the little girl he now calls his own. But our town is sitting on a bed of secrets ready to ignite.
And when the heat causes my world to go up in smoke, I’m not sure it’s possible to sift through the rubble and find our happily ever after.
Author’s Note: Axe Backwards is a standalone small-town romance featuring a bleeding-heart heroine, a lumberjack firefighter, and a cute baby. If you enjoy single dads, fake dating, small-town shenanigans, lumberjack competitions, and baby sign language, you will not be disappointed. Come for the wood chopping, stay for the moose!
🪓Review🪓 When circumstances unfold that have Noah become a single father to Tess he knows that he needs help so he returns to his hometown to be near his family. Rescuing Victoria was an experience that neither will forget but finding out she is his neighbor was a surprise he didn’t see coming especially when she offers to help him with his daughter.
Victoria will do anything for anyone which allows people, especially her family, to take advantage of her. When she hears what her neighbor is going through, she doesn’t hesitate to help and he returns the favor by agreeing to pretend they are in a relationship to make her appearance at her sister’s wedding to her ex more tolerable. When they find themselves having to extend the relationship that isn’t they realize what is fact and what is fiction.
Noah and Victoria are perfect for each other in every way as they realize what love and partnership really mean as they take us on a journey filled with humor, romance and so many feels.
✨TEASER:FORBIDDEN DESIRES by @erikawilde1 is coming February 20th! Pre-Order now at your favorite book vendor as it will be exclusive to Amazon on release day!
Our agreement was strictly professional…until it wasn’t.
As an escort to the ultra-rich, I knew my place in the world. I’d mastered the art of blending in and keeping my true self—and my desires—hidden. When billionaire Eric Maxim hired me to be his date to an exclusive art show, I expected another impersonal arrangement. But Eric, with his piercing blue eyes and arrogant charm, was anything but ordinary.
Eric didn’t want complications. All he needed was a polished date for various events—not someone like me—a much younger woman who challenged him, exasperated him, and worst of all, made him feel.
Just as we were on the brink of something real, shadows from my past threatened to tear us apart. Would Eric and I find a way to overcome our fears and fight for the connection we never saw coming, or would doubt and betrayal destroy our chance at happiness?
Forbidden Desires is a steamy, age gap, billionaire romance about love, redemption, and finding the courage to truly be seen. One-click today to follow Jasmine and Eric’s story of love, betrayal and ultimately…happiness—HEA guaranteed!
You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror.
To receive her inheritance, the estranged daughter of a mysterious magician must overcome her fear and spend three nights in her father’s sinister mansion, where he has vowed to return from the grave. Helped by an adventurous reporter, she discovers a terrifying childhood secret that thrusts her into a world of illusion and jeopardy.
I’ve been living Outside The Wire for the past five years.
Struggling to survive after my wife killed herself has been hell, and the guilt has torn me up inside.
I was barely breathing.
Nothing helped. Not my friends talking to me. Not the run-down house I bought to fix up. And definitely not the alcohol I drowned myself in every night to rid myself of the nightmares.
I missed all the signs.
I never saw it coming.
The bottle of pills she had on her that day had a permanent place in my pocket for way too long as a reminder of just how badly I’d let her down.
Then came the storm.
The pain was too much to take and all I wanted to do was end it all.
And I almost went through with it.
But then the cycle would have continued and my friends would be paying the price.
So, I escaped.
I wake every morning with a new take on life. My mind no longer revolves around the pain I once felt, and for the first time, I actually looked at another woman and wanted to kiss her.
She’s a breath of fresh air, reminding me every day that not everything in life is tragic and horrible.
We’re so insanely happy that this Hallmark romance is bound to nauseate a few people, including my boss and her best friend. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. Even her conspiracy-theorist dad made me smile the first time I met him.
Life is just perfect.
But the life I’m living is based on a lie. You can never truly escape your past. Burying the truth and pretending it never happened doesn’t actually work, and when the storm returns, sometimes, it’s like a tornado, tearing everything you love apart.
I’m a stay at home mom that loves to read. Some of my favorite titles are Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Horatio Hornblower. I started writing when I was trying to come up with suggestions on ways I could help bring in some extra money. I came up with the idea that I could donate plasma because you could earn an extra $500/month. My husband responded with, “No. Find something else. Write a blog. Write a book.” I didn’t think I had anything to share on blog that a thousand other mothers hadn’t already thought of. I decided to take his challenge seriously and sat down to write my first book, Jack. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing. From there, the stories continued to flow and I haven’t been able to stop. I hope my readers enjoy my books as much as I enjoy writing them. Between reading, writing, and taking care of three small kids, my days are quite full.
L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever after. She’s a USA TODAY Bestseller as well as #1 Bestseller on Amazon in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.
To get all the scoop about the self-proclaimed queen of silver fox romance, join her on Facebook at Loving L.B. or receive her monthly newsletter, Love Notes.
These former friends might be faking their engagement, but revealed crushes prove there might not be anything fictional about their arrangement.
In college, I often saw Judd Sylver in the library. He was a cool, broody type of guy who reminded me of a deeply tortured soul who might write poetry.
He was very different from the boy I met in third grade on National Make a New Friend Day when I passed him a note, asking if he wanted to be my new friend: Check yes or no.
(I’m a bit obsessed with calendar days.)
He was also vastly different from the young man who stood me up after I asked him to his prom.
Twenty years later, I can let bygones be bygones, especially when he rescues me from a bad date.
Then I witness him breaking up with his girlfriend which resulted in a sticky coffee drink on his chiseled cheeks and ice cubes on his fine-fitting jeans.
I offered him a napkin.
Hey, once a friend, always a friend, right? *insert sarcasm*
However, Judd takes us to the next level at my mother’s garden party, where a misunderstanding occurs with a teeny tiny slip of the tongue and a precious ring on my finger.
And suddenly, I’m Judd’s fiancée.
Fake or not, things are about to get a little too real with my old friend.
💜Review💜 Genie is very different from her mom and has become accustomed to being belittled by her mother when it comes to her personal life and the business she has created. The last person she expected to come to her rescue is Judd, her childhood best friend who was also her first love until he walked out of her life with no explanation.
The passing of his mother and the aftereffect it had on his family changed Judd’s life. He has loved Genie since he was a teenager, but circumstances made him feel they could not be together. Now that they are pretending to be engaged, he is going to do everything he can to convince her to make it real.
Genie and Judd are kindred souls as they both lost a parent as a child and their relationship with the surviving parent was years of turmoil. You can’t help but feel for both of them as they try to navigate the depth of their feelings for each other and give each other exactly what they need. The choice of the narrators were a great match as you could feel the insecurities of both characters as well as the love they have always had for each other.
London Snow likes her heroes unhinged and obsessed. Whether it’s a brooding cowboy or a possessive hockey captain, they are always willing to burn the world down for the object of their obsessions. When she’s not dreaming up moody broody suspenseful romances, she’s hiking with her pup Kodi. If you want sneak peeks of her upcoming books, follow along on her socials for all the unhinged and obsessed vibes.
Hayden Lockwood harbors a dark obsession with Madison Caldwell. The brooding hockey captain’s unhinged infatuation began the instant he laid eyes on the most untouchable girl on campus. The night his mother and her father were found slain amidst their affair, Hayden couldn’t tear his eyes away from the girl who didn’t shed a single tear. Hayden’s fixation on Madison deepens as he watches her every move, intervening at every imposing threat and sabotaging any potential suitor.
Madison can’t avoid the hothead hockey player when their surviving parents find comfort in each other and decide to marry. As their parents’ wedding approaches, a violent attack on campus forces Hayden and Madison to make life-altering choices. When someone threatens to expose the dark secrets of their elite circle, Hayden is forced to reveal just how obsessed he is with Madison, and how far he’s willing to go to protect her.
Kings of Castlebrook are elite hockey legacies born to cause trouble on and off the ice. Please read Pucking Obsessed with caution as it contains dark themes, and please note that this book is not enemies to lovers and there is no malice between the main characters.
Even though the circumstances were devastating from the moment that Hayden and Madison’s lives collided he was all he. He knows that she is the only woman for him, and he isn’t about to let the fact that her mother and his father are about to marry stand in his way. He is determined that they will be together but first he will need to protect her from their past.
Madison’s feeling for Hayden are complicated especially since he always seems to be wherever she is whether they are at home or at school. She sees beyond his overprotective actions to what drives those feelings, and she soon realizes that she can count on him to always be there for her.
Hayden and Madison’s journey is one of an encompassing love between two people who are each other’s everything. There is nothing they won’t do for each other and no challenge too big to come between them and the trust they have in each other unfailing.
It began as a fake marriage. It became so much more. I’m Nick Whitley, CEO of Whitley Sports Industries. I’m a bonafide bachelor, and never intended to settle down. But I’m also a dependable kind of guy and do what’s right when I can.
So when my best friend and his wife pass away, leaving behind their twins, I do everything possible to help out their aunt—Allison . She’s gorgeous and funny and someone I enjoy being around .
I even propose marriage when the kids’ grandparents unexpectedly contest the custody. It’s the only way Allison can win.
To make things legitimate, we need to live in one home, and sleep in one bed. Things escalate, but I’m all in. Not that it’s any hardship—Allison is damn perfect, and the twins are worming their way into my heart. I enjoy reading them bedtime stories, eating pizza, while watching the same cartoons for the millionth time. I’m ready to adopt them tomorrow if they’d have me.
Now I’ve got to convince Allison that I’m the man for her, because I know without a shadow of a doubt that she’s the woman for me.
Even as he watched his brother’s find the women who changed their lives Nick didn’t believe that was part of his future despite the close relationship he shares with his family. He is focused on the family business and didn’t believe he had time for anything else until the passing of his best friend has him wanting to help his child and their intriguing aunt.
Although devasted by the passing of her sister and brother in-law she is determined to be there for her children. When that is being threatened what begins as an arrangement between two people to keep the children safe and secure turns into a love that neither saw coming.
It was wonderful to catch up with other members of the Whitley family and to see how far their relationships have come. The romance between Nick and Allison was heartwarming and they fit together like two pieces of a puzzle.
Meet Layla Hagen:
My name is Layla Hagen and I am a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance.
I fell in love with books when I was nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years later.
I write romantic stories and can’t wait to share them with the world.
Clara Winslow knows what she signed up for—stolen nights, whispered promises, and a love that exists behind locked doors. She’s given her heart to a man who can never give her more, but she tells herself it’s enough.
One Valentine’s Day changes everything…
Luke has spent his entire life playing by the rules. Hockey comes first. Reputation is everything. And Clara? She was his one indulgence. His biggest weakness. But when their relationship is exposed in the most public way possible, it threatens everything—his career, his family, and the only woman he’s ever truly wanted.
But with the media circling and his career on the line, Luke has to decide: Is she worth the risk? Or was she always just a beautiful mistake?
This Valentine’s Day, more than love is in the air when six of your favorite authors bring you a series full of temptation.
Each story is filled with true love, twists and turns along with unexpected surprises. From the spark of a first kiss to happily ever afters, you’ll find everything you need and more this holiday season.
I’ve had a thing for Ivy Scott since I first laid eyes on her a year ago. She’s smart, sexy, and everything I’ve ever wanted.
Too bad she was engaged to one of my best friends.
But that idiot leaves her at the altar.
So, as one of the groomsmen, I have to be there for her, right?
Even if that includes a cross country road trip with the other two groomsmen—her best friend, Liam, and my best friend, Harrison–-to the beach house she’s inherited in South Carolina.
Sure, her car is tiny, she’s massively hungover, and Liam and Harrison hate each other (despite hooking up almost a year ago) but this will be fine.
But then I find out Liam’s in love with Ivy too.
And we’re caught in a rainstorm after a night in a Texas honky tonk, and the only option is to stop at a motel with just one room left—and only two beds for the four of us. Suddenly we’re all a lot closer.
When we finally get to the small coastal town of Honeysuckle Harbor two beds become only one and, well, you do the math.
Ivy and Liam think our fun, laughter-filled days and our hot-as-sin nights are just to get me and Harrison out of their systems before they head back to their lives in California. But Harrison and I are in love for the first time and we’re determined to make this foursome last forever.
Three Grumpy Groomsmen is a jilted bride why choose rom com with grumpy-sunshine combos galore, where the guys fall first, millionaires really enjoy a run down motel’s “room service”, and the girl gets her man… times three. No cheating, no other woman or other man drama, and a definite HEA.
Blurb: Loyal, hardworking, and trustworthy, I’m used to putting everyone’s needs before my own. I’m the ultimate good guy. But when Sophia Jones walks into my life, everything changes. Beautiful, guarded, and completely off-limits, she’s all I can see. Even though she’s being set up with one of my best friends, I want her for myself.
I try to fight my feelings but soon realize it’s futile. Thrown together at our friends’ wedding in Vegas, the more I spend time with her, the greedier I am for longer.
Vegas has a way of turning rules upside down, and one night changes everything. Between stolen glances and secret moments, I do the unthinkable—I ask her to marry me. Maybe it’s the drinks. Maybe it’s the city. Or maybe it’s because she feels the same connection I do, but she says yes.
Sophia’s hiding something—I can see it in her eyes—but it doesn’t matter. She’s mine now. And I’ll do whatever it takes to convince her this isn’t just a mistake. This is the beginning of forever.
The last person I expect—or want—to take shelter with as a hurricane descends on Hatterwick Island is Daniel LaRue, the man who broke my heart barely three months ago.
I don’t have time for… whatever this is. My medical clinic has been targeted by thieves—hardly a month after returning to my home town. Coming back to the Outer Banks was always the plan after med school, and for a while in residency, I thought I might bring the hot Coast Guardsman with me. Right up until he accepted a new promotion without talking to me.
Turned out he was more of a situationship than anything real.
Except now he’s appeared on my doorstep, declaring he’s on the Outer Banks for me, and despite my considerable temper pointed in his direction, he insists on helping me weather the storm. Literally.
Stranded together, we have no choice but to deal with the chemistry still sizzling between us. I can’t deny that he still affects me. But as the hours tick by, I start to realize there’s more to his arrival on the island than he’s telling me—and I long ago learned that the secrets of Hatterwick Island are always dangerous.
Gabi thought that what she shares with Daniel had a future until he didn’t give a second thought to leaving her to pursue his career. She is focused on her career and preparing for an upcoming storm when the man she never expected to see again shows up to help.
The biggest regret of Daniel’s life was leaving Gabi, and he is determined to make amended. He has come to her hometown to be there for her as the storm moves closer, but they will soon realize it isn’t only the storm they need to fear.
This story gives Gabi and Dani a chance to undo the mistakes of the past and realize how strong what they feel for each other truly is. The chemistry and connection between them were never in doubt but it is tested by the dangerous situation they find themselves in.
Meet Harper Jackson
Harper Jackson has rescued her co-workers from a hostage
situation, battled ninjas, and stopped international espionage—in her head anyway. Now that she’s no longer busy devising ways to make staff meetings more entertaining, she’s pouring that imagination into tales of breath-stealing, small-town romantic suspense. She believes that peach cobbler with ice cream is the best dessert ever and has a black belt in taekwondo to back it up. She lives in the Deep South with her husband and canine furbabies. You can explore her lighter contemporary romances at https://kaitnolan.com.
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