As an enforcer for the Famiglia, Maximus Trevisan has no trouble hurting others, but when heโs forced to hurt someone heโs meant to protect, ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ป๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น.
Saraโs plans for her future were simple. Marry the man she was promised to, have several children, and build a happy family.
๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐, sheโs left with no choice but to marry Maximus. Itโs the last thing she wants, but itโs a burden sheโs willing to carry in order to protect her familyโs honor.
Cora Reilly is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature.
Cora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. When she doesn’t spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world.
Maggie Cole is committed to bringing her readers alphalicious book boyfriends and fiercely strong heroines.
Sheโs been called the literary master of steamy romance. Her books are full of raw emotion, suspense, and will always keep you wanting more. She is a masterful storyteller of contemporary romance and loves writing about broken people who rise above the ashes.
Maggie lives in Florida with her son. She loves tennis, yoga, paddleboarding, boating, other water activities, and everything naughty.
Widower Alexander Cartwright has one thing on his mindโhis kids. He plans on keeping it that way until his mother hires a sassy, free spirited nanny to watch them during the holidays.
Art teacher Phoebe Love needs a job and to take a secret time out from her long-term, not always nice boyfriend. She plans to focus on the two boys and figure her situation out, but their father isnโt making that easy on her.
There are three rules I live by: My boys come first, the rest of my family second, and never mix business with pleasure.
I take pride that Iโve never broken these.
Until her.
Sheโs a wildcardโthe type of woman I never chase.
She has no straightforward plan for her life.
Her version of how to be strict with my boys is laughable.
I swear, she selects her outfits based on what tattoo she wants to peek out, just to make me wonder all day what the rest of it looks like against her flesh.
And that blush she somehow has nailed everytime I look at her, wreaks havoc everywhere it shouldnโt.
The most annoying thing about her?
Sheโs taken by a neanderthal who treats her like crap (based on the phone conversations Iโve secretly overheard).
So I just have to get through the holidays.
Her two month gig canโt be over soon enough.
Or can it?
Holiday Hire is a billionaire single-dad/nanny romance. Itโs a slow-burn, steamy, standalone novel with a strict widower father and a fun-loving, carefree nanny. This workplace love story is sure to keep you entertained.
๐ฅReview๐ฅ After his wife passed away Alexander has been trying to balance the responsibilities of the ranch and being a single father to his two sons. Now that his parents are going to be away for a few months he believes he can handle it all on his own so he is resistant to their plan of hiring a nanny especially one he meets Phoebe.
Phoebe needs to take a step back from her life and what better way than to accept a nanny arrangement which will give her the time and distance she needs. It doesnโt take long for the boys to win her heart and Alexander isnโt far behind but are their past too much to overcome?
Phoebeโs feisty and laidback personality is exactly who Alexander didnโt know he needed as she bring light and love into his and his familyโs lives.
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the next book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team.
Trust Laramie Briscoe to provide engaging characters in a well-built world I want to revisit again and again. Carly Phillips, NY Times bestselling author. Madden
Being the newest member of the Laurel Springs Police Department and the LSERT hasn’t been easy. I’m trying to carve out a place of my own where family bonds run deep in this tight-knit group of men. They haven’t been unwelcoming, but I yearn to truly belong.
In both Laurel Springs, and the LSERT. The one friend I can count on is my K-9 partner, Donut. We’re working hard to prove our spot in the police department, and find a sense of home.
When I’m thrust into the role of school resource officer for the local elementary school, I never anticipate being drawn into an investigation that threatens to unravel the fabric of Laurel Springs. Going back to the origins of the Moonshine Task Force. Nor do I expect a little boy with sad eyes and his hot aunt to wiggle their way into my heart. Becca My new life as a dispatcher is a far cry from the dreams I had before I took custody of my nephew. I’ve put a lot on hold to make sure he has what he needs, and the stability he craves.
But Madden? He’s a beacon of warmth and strength during an emotionally cold time for me. Despite my resolve to focus just on being a guardian, there’s a spark between us, igniting a flame I thought was long gone.
As we navigate what is becoming an increasingly complex situation, we discover that in the craziness of chaos, love has a way of finding it’s place. Even in the darkest of nights.
With her brother facing an extended time in prison Becca is now raising her nephew Mick. She has been attracted to her co-worker Madden for a while but when he and his K9 partner are assigned at the school where Mick attends it brings them closer.
Madden was waiting for the right time to pursue Becca but when he meets Mick he realizes that he is a kindred soul and he is determined to be there for both of them.
Madden and Becca understand each other in a way that others donโt as they are both dealing with some family drama but they prove that as long as they have each other they can overcome anything.
Laramie Briscoe is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of over 30 books, with sales of over half a million copies.
Since self-publishing her first book in May of 2013, Laramie has appeared on the Top 100 Bestselling E-books Lists on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Her books have been known to make readers laugh and cry. They are guaranteed to be emotional, steamy reads.
When she’s not writing alpha males who seriously love their women, she loves spending time with friends, reading, and marathoning shows on Netflix. Married to her high school sweetheart, Laramie lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband.
Kathryn Andrews is a #1 Inspirational Romance Bestselling Author who loves stories that end with a happily ever after. She started writing at age seven and never stopped. Kathryn is known for Chasing Clouds, the Starving for Southern series, and her much loved Hale Brothers series. Her stories are sweet, southern, and fall into the genres of chi-lit, contemporary romance, sports romance, and southern fiction.
Kathryn graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She spends her days as a sales director for a medical device company and her nights lost in her love of fictional characters.
When Kathryn is not crafting beautiful worlds that incorporate some of her most favorite real life places, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two young sons, while drinking iced coffee and enjoying the sun.
Wildflower and Wide Receivers is a second-chance, contemporary sports romance about our hero who unexpectedly becomes a single guardian over his five-year-old niece and the one who got away.
When fate throws a second chance . . . catch it.
Jonah Dallmann
Over two years ago, I met a woman on New Yearโs Eve, and it was the best night of my life. That is until the next morning when it became the worst.
One voice message. One swerve over a double yellow line. One little girl, my niece, thatโs now mine.
It hasnโt been easy, these things never are, but weโre trying. Now, Iโm twenty-six, and determined to be the best wide receiver on our team, while sheโs seven and spends her days reading books and dancing ballet.
Only, I havenโt just grieved the loss of my brother, but her too. My heart has ached for what could have been, and what I had to let go. I know what I did to her was wrong, unfortunately, I never had an opportunity to explain that at the time I thought I was right. But as the door opens and she steps in wearing green scrubs and a long white coat, shock ripples through me and hope that I might finally get the chance.
Sophie Black
I always wondered if this day would come, but I never expected to see him here, with her, in one of my patient rooms. Heโs even better looking than I remember and giving off single dad vibes, too, as he cares for his adorable niece. A niece I didnโt know he had.
I was surprised when he asked if he could see me again, but I instantly declined. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Only now we keep running into each other, and Iโm confused. Is fate throwing us a second chance, and if so, should I catch it?
๐ Review๐ The night that Jonah spent with Sophie was unforgettable which left him wanting more until a tragedy has him raising his five-year-old niece Vivi alone. He regrets that he never reached out to Sophie however life got in the way. He never expected to see her again and he certainly didnโt expect that she would be the doctor who would handle Viviโs injury.
Itโs been two years since Jonah disappeared after their night together and she still has so many questions. Learning about the choice that Jonah made a couple years earlier it only deepens her feelings for them but will this be their chance to overcome the mistakes of their past.
Sophie and Jonah never had the opportunity to see what their relationship was destined to be. When fate brings them back together, they know special their relationship is as they take us on a romantic journey filled with all the feels.
NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting lives outside of Toronto with her amazing family and her adorable, emotional cat, who thinks the best place to sleep is her keyboard. Helena writes everything from emotional contemporary romance to romantic comedies that will have you laughing until you cry.
Garrett Carter knew the moment he saw her years prior that she was the one.
His one, however, had a fiancรฉ. And she was rich. She also lived out of state.
So what other option did he have but to let her go?
Years later, he sees her again at her worst.
Her husband-to-be has stranded her on a hiking trail with a head wound, convinced sheโs faking her blindness.
Garrett takes one look at the injured Bindi Howe and knows thereโs no way sheโs faking it.
Rushing her to the hospital, he gets her there just in time to save her life.
During the craziness, Garrett has no clue itโs herโhis one.
He leaves her there with her family and goes back home to his lonely life.
Only fate intervenes for him a third time, and itโs then that Garrett decides that heโs going to go for it.
But, like always, life intervenes, and heโs forced to leave her behind once again to keep her safe.
As luck would have it, fate gives him one last shot, and brings them together one last time, and Garrett refuses to let her go, despite Bindiโs fiancรฉ coming back begging for a second chance.
Even though he hadnโt met her from the moment that Garrett saw Bindi she owned a piece of his heart however it would take multiple meeting and a devastating accident to bring them together.ย He is thoughtful and considerate as he allows her to adjust to the changes in her life while doing whatever is necessary to protect her.
Bindi has endured so much in her life and had to overcome so much.ย ย She hasnโt let the events of the past define her but rather it shows how strong and resilient she is as she fights for the life she wants with Garrett.
Garrett and Bindi were destined to be together as despite the circumstances that tried to keep them apart, they were meant to be and letโs not forget the Carter family who are there every step of the way to add humor and support.
Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. Sheโs married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as โLLVโs Bearded Half.โ She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. Sheโs gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.
๐ป๐๐ฐ๐พ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ by Maggie Rawdon releases on January 3rd! Weโre thrilled to share this gorgeous cover with you!
As the head elf at Santaโs Christmasland, I never expected to be butting heads with the new executiveโor going on a date with him. But when he asked me to go home with him for Christmas, I surprised myself by saying yes.
Oh, and heโs from the North Pole.
And apparently, Iโm an elf.
Teddy Claus
Training to take over the family business was no small undertaking, but for the last few years, Iโd been working my way up through the ranks, mastering each branch of our enterprise.
But everything was different when I arrived at our Christmas themed amusement park and met her.
Maybe that was why I invited her home with me for Christmas.
It felt like Iโd been searching my whole life for something, and Iโd finally found it.
Maybe, what Iโd needed all along was Ivy by my side.
Kendall Hale is a daydreamer and a bookworm with a dangerous addiction to chocolate and wine.
At night, sheโs a fiery wordsmith with a penchant for creating romantic mayhem with a lot of heat. She believes in the power of laughter, love in its messiest form, and the magic of happily ever afters.
When sheโs not crafting swoony, steamy stories, Kendall can be found at home with her family, including her adorable furry companions. She loves experimenting with new recipes, watching movies, and losing herself in her favorite books while music plays in the background.
A fiery second-chance, sizzling romance in which two former spouses are forced back into each other’s livesโwhether they like it or not.
My grandmother always had a flair for drama.
At eighteen, I was forced to marry so I could pay my college tuition.
Enter Caleb Cunningham: my best friendโs brother and Navy SEAL.
I needed my inheritance, he needed money to cover his dadโs hospital bills.
It seemed like a win-win.
The marriage didnโt last, but thatโs okay. It was a marriage of convenience.
At least, thatโs what I told myself.
Over a decade later, Grandmaโs still pulling the strings from beyond the grave.
Her last wish? For me to live with my estranged husband for six months, or I lose everythingโmy company and my employeesโ livelihoods included.
Now, Iโm stuck with Caleb, the rugged, infuriating, and the man who once broke my heart. The deal is simple: heโll stay with me for the next six months as long as I give him… well, everything.
He wants control.
He wants my grandmotherโs penthouse.
And, of course, he wants the Bentley.
Caleb seems determined to make my life hell, and heโs enjoying every minute of it.
But if he thinks Iโm going down without a fight, heโs got another thing coming. It takes two to make a marriage, and itโll take two to crash it into the ground.
๐Review๐ When Emersonโs grandmother passed away, she finds herself in a difficult situation as she wants to protect the employees at the family business but the only way to do that is to live with her estranged husband for six months. A decade earlier their marriage did not end well when misunderstandings and mistakes created a divide that would be impossible to overcome.
When Caleb married Emerson, it was an effort to give them both what they needed financially until their hearts became involved. Between their insecurities, how young they were and outside forces they found themselves forced apart. He plans to use this opportunity for payback so he will agree to her terms but everything she inherits will be his.
The banter between them is humorous as they go from enemies to lovers and the performance of the narrators portrayed the angst, humor, and heat as Caleb and Emerson fight for their second chance.
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