One minute, I’m minding my own business, and the next, I’m rescuing a beautiful woman in front of my family’s hotel.
I’m not prepared for the instant attraction I feel for her, but the chemistry is undeniable.
Paige warns me all she can give me is London, and I agree, but when our time is up, I’m desperate for more.
I slip my card into her purse, hoping she will call, but after two months of silence, it’s clear she’s not going to.
So, I do what any man in my position would do …
I go after her.
Paige
What started as a grand gesture for the man I thought was the one ends with me fleeing after catching him with my best friend.
With tears in my eyes and my heart in my hand, I stumble on the cobblestone. One second, I’m closing my eyes and praying I don’t die, and the next, I’m being swept off my feet by a handsome stranger—literally.
Nate shows me passion like I’ve never known, and it only takes five unforgettable days to fall head over heels for him.
Faced with the harsh reality of long-distance love, I make a heart-wrenching decision to throw away his number—a choice I believe will spare us both from inevitable heartbreak.
But after returning home, I realize what a colossal mistake I made. Because what had happened in London didn’t stay in London …
Erika Wilde is a New York Times Bestselling author. She is best known for her super sexy Marriage Diaries series and The Players Club series, and has also co-written the Dirty Sexy Series and the Book Boyfriend Series with Carly Phillips, her best friend and writing buddy for the past twenty years. She lives in Oregon with her husband and two daughters, and when she’s not writing you can find her exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest. For more information on her upcoming releases, please visit website at http://www.erikawilde.com and sign up to receive my newsletter for updates and news!
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!
S.J. Sylvis has revealed the covers for Skate the Line!
Releasing: February 6, 2025
Cover Designer: Ashes & Vellichor
A grumpy/sunshine, single dad/nanny, hockey romance by Amazon Top 50 and USA Today bestselling author, S.J. Sylvis.
I’ve been making rational decisions my entire life.
If someone is in need, I’m there. My Nana needs help with the bills? I’ll drop out of art school and secure a well-paying job. Someone needs the shirt off my back? They can have mine.
When the league’s most desirable bachelor and single dad needs a nanny that can look past his star power and won’t end up in his bed, I’m the perfect choice.
Except, Rhodes Volkova isn’t the easiest to get along with. He’s grumpy, blunt, and cynical from past women and their inability to do their job and nothing else. It doesn’t matter that he has a serious soft spot for his daughter and is irresistibly good-looking.
It doesn’t affect my ability to be the best nanny, and it surely won’t lure me into his bed like the rest.
Rhodes is skeptical of me, fearful I’ll turn out like the rest with dollar signs in my eyes or just wanting a fling with someone rich and famous. But what he doesn’t know is that I’m distrusting too. I’m done with men and have issues of my own. He doesn’t have to worry about me crossing a line.
No one said anything about skating the line, though.
S.J. Sylvis is an Amazon top 50 and USA Today bestselling author who is best known for her new adult romances. She currently resides in Arizona with her husband, two small kiddos, and pets! She is obsessed with coffee, becomes easily attached to fictional characters, and spends most of her evenings buried in a book!
Daring Destiny is a sweltering saga of billionaire intrigue, opposites-attract, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers with an unexpected life-changing twist.
Before I founded my AI tech company, I spent my high school years silently pining over Astrid Gustafsson, the unattainable ice-blonde beauty. Fast forward a decade and I’m shocked when she asks to collaborate on a secret project. The opportunity is too enticing to pass up.
Our newfound friendship quickly ignites into a wildfire of
desire, and my passion for Astrid intensifies, leaving me eager to risk everything for our future. The challenge is, relentless demands of my high-stakes empire threaten to smother the flames of our burgeoning romance.
When fate dramatically intervenes, will a life-changing twist dare us to embrace our destiny?
Astrid appears to be living the dream as she went from being part of the popular crowd in high school to a successful career in real estate. When Brennan’s brother becomes her client, it seems like fate as she believes that Brennan would be the perfect person to help her with a project she wants to start.
Brennan is the brains behind the tech company he created however the reality isn’t turning out the way he planned. He had feelings for Astrid when they were teenagers however, he believed she was out of his league. As they spend time together, he realizes that there is a lot about her he didn’t know.
At first glance Astrid and Brennan appear to have nothing in common. First comes friendship then comes love but they have a lot of challenges and turmoil to overcome to get there.
Meet Kaylene Winter:
Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.
Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.
Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.
✨EXCERPT: SOMETIMES YOU FALL by @harlowjamesauthor is coming January 17th! This will be a simultaneous release in Audio with the amazing narrators Sebastian York and Samantha Brentmoor!
“You can pretend like you are mad at me for being here, but I think you’re just scared to accept my help and care,” he says, making me feel like he can see right through me.
“All I keep wondering is if I’m doing enough for you, if there’s something you need that I can give you because I feel helpless in this situation, and I hate that fucking feeling. I can’t grow our kid, Scottie.”
He shakes his head with a pinch in his brow.
“I can’t fucking help you with that, but I can take care of you, so that’s what I’m going to do. And you. Can’t. Stop. Me.” He punctuates the last four words, making his point clear.
“You need ice cream at midnight? Text me. You want your feet rubbed after a long day? I’ll be at your house in fifteen minutes. And if you need anything else to help you relax,” he says with a suggestive smirk, “I can help with that too.”
Licking his lips, he drops his eyes to my mouth and then back up to my gaze before saying, “Eagerly.”
Not many people can say they woke up dead. Even fewer people wake up as ghosts. Guess I’m the unlucky one since no one can see or hear me, and I have no recollection of how I ended up like this.
I thought I’d spend the afterlife alone… until him. The solitary man who stumbled across me during my restless wandering of the Scottish Highlands. He doesn’t want me around. I can’t seem to stay away.
It turns out Ciaran has a dark secret. And I’m determined to discover exactly what he’s hiding even if it might mean the death of me all over again.
He’s her brother’s best friend. She’s never had a thing for single dads or younger men… until him.
Take Me to the Valley, an all-new single dad, forced proximity, small town romance from bestselling author Kaci Rose is now available!
Evan I’ve built my life around two things: protecting my daughter, Skye, and serving Whiskey River as a detective.
Love? It’s off the table.
I can’t have both—it’s not fair to Skye, and I’ve already been burned once.
But when Calista Stapleton—the woman I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember—comes back to Whiskey River, all my carefully built walls start to crack.
She’s my best friend’s sister, and she’s supposed to be off-limits.
But when I’m injured on the job and she steps in to take care of me and Skye, it feels like she’s exactly where she’s meant to be.
Calista I’ve spent the last decade pouring myself into everyone else—patients, family, responsibilities.
Now I’m back home, hoping to reconnect with my family and start fresh.
But Evan Greer is here, too—my little brother’s best friend, the man I’ve always tried to ignore.
He’s strong, stubborn, and so fiercely protective of his daughter, it makes my heart ache.
When he gets hurt, and my brother insists I move in to help him recover, the fragile line we’ve been balancing on starts to disappear.
Every day with him and his daughter makes it harder to ignore the pull between us.
But he’s my brother’s best friend, and if this falls apart, it won’t just be my heart on the line.
Keep reading for a look inside Take Me to the Valley!
“I’m only here another week or two, and I think we just need to get this out of our system until then. When I go home, this has to end,” she says, but the emotion in her voice tells me that it isn’t exactly what she wants.
She doesn’t know she’s mine, and this isn’t ending in a week or two, but if that is what she has to tell herself, then so be it.
For more information about Kaci Rose and her books, visit her website:
From Wall Street Journal bestsellers L.J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes a twisted second-chance romance between a prince haunted by a dark secret and his reluctant Sleeping Beauty.
Oliver
I don’t usually trap women with amnesia into marriage.
But I guess there’s a first time for everything.
When the woman of my dreams falls into my lap, I can’t help but wonder what else she can do in that position.
She’s here. In my house. At my mercy.
And she thinks we’ve been lovers the entire decade we spent apart.
Briar and I have always been unfinished business.
Now it’s time to seal the deal.
Briar
I’m marrying a beautiful monster.
A crooked fraud. America’s wealthiest bachelor.
He claims we’re in love, yet all I taste in our kisses is hate and lust.
I don’t remember why or how.
But I do remember he’s the enemy.
Now, I’m stuck inside a nightmare.
And Oliver will do anything to keep me in the dark.
Authors’ Note: My Dark Prince is a standalone enemies-to-lovers Sleeping Beauty retelling, in which a damaged billionaire with a dark past and his childhood sweetheart fall in love—literally. It is set in the decadent Dark Prince Road universe.
Parker S. Huntington is a stay-at-home dog mom from SoCal, where she discovered her allergy to rain.
In spite of her shoddy attendance record and strong aversion to homework, she earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside and an A.L.M. in Literature from Harvard.
When she’s not writing or exchanging food pics with her friends, she’s binge-watching an unhealthy amount of Netflix while curled up with her dogs.
Parker hates talking about herself and is (also) allergic to social media, but you can catch up with her in her newsletter or through the occasional TikTok video.
L.J. Shen is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary and NA romance. Her books have been translated in over twenty different countries. She hopes to visit all of them.
She lives in a picturesque beach town with her family, pets and inner demons, and enjoys reading, traveling, cooking and spending time with her grumpy cat.
Chase Lovett. Star of my (unrequited) fantasies. Hottest guy on campus. Hockey god.
Too bad he has no idea who I am. Literally, I’m so invisible to him that he once sat on me in class.
No thanks to a fire in the dorms, he just became my accidental roommate. Did I mention the hotel room our university moved us to has only one bed? Not ideal.
Worse, I accidentally left “My Precious” Lord of the Rings underwear hanging to dry in our shower. �My actual nightmare.
My name is Cammie Lovelock and this might just be the worst, best thing that’s ever happened to me.
🏒Review🏒 Cammie realizes that she is different from most college students as she enjoys spending her time writing steamy stories and is a fan of Lord of the Rings. She has been attracted to Chase for a while even if he doesn’t seem to see her. When a fire forces them to become roommates for one night it changes everything, but she isn’t certain how to fit into his life.
Chase plays for the hockey team and is used to the popularity and perks that go along with it however he is growing weary of the parties and the girls. When he meets Cammie, he knows that she is special and now he is determined to show her that even if he has no experience dating that he can be the perfect boyfriend for her
It was so much fun seeing Cammie come out of shell and emerge as the confident woman that she is. The chemistry between her and Chase was intense and even though at times he makes mistakes he owns them and shows that he wants to be the man she needs. The narration only made this story better as the performance of Jason Clarke & CJ bloom not only had you invested in the story but when the epilogue approached as it was as if it had just begun.
I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. In other words, I’m the last person the court would choose to parent any child, let alone three of them.
Yet being their father is all I want.
So when the woman I love to hate offers to help make all my dreams come true, I jump at the chance. Marrying Ava is a convenient solution: she’s my kids favorite person and the court will absolutely approve of the woman who runs the biggest charity in Boston.
But there is nothing convenient about the way I feel when she fights with me, or when we kiss. And I’m not sure which I enjoy more.
This marriage may have a time limit but I’m beginning to think I’d like to keep my wife. She’ll probably fight me on it, but as they say, all’s fair in love and war.
He’s her brother’s best friend. She’s never had a thing for single dads or younger men… until him.
Take Me to the Valley, an all-new single dad, forced proximity, small town romance from bestselling author Kaci Rose is now available!
Evan I’ve built my life around two things: protecting my daughter, Skye, and serving Whiskey River as a detective.
Love? It’s off the table.
I can’t have both—it’s not fair to Skye, and I’ve already been burned once.
But when Calista Stapleton—the woman I’ve wanted for as long as I can remember—comes back to Whiskey River, all my carefully built walls start to crack.
She’s my best friend’s sister, and she’s supposed to be off-limits.
But when I’m injured on the job and she steps in to take care of me and Skye, it feels like she’s exactly where she’s meant to be.
Calista I’ve spent the last decade pouring myself into everyone else—patients, family, responsibilities.
Now I’m back home, hoping to reconnect with my family and start fresh.
But Evan Greer is here, too—my little brother’s best friend, the man I’ve always tried to ignore.
He’s strong, stubborn, and so fiercely protective of his daughter, it makes my heart ache.
When he gets hurt, and my brother insists I move in to help him recover, the fragile line we’ve been balancing on starts to disappear.
Every day with him and his daughter makes it harder to ignore the pull between us.
But he’s my brother’s best friend, and if this falls apart, it won’t just be my heart on the line.
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