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.
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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.
I’ve been in love with Addison Whitman since high school. I knew right away that she was my end game and I thought she felt the same. I never thought there’d come a time when she’d leave me behind, but that’s exactly what she did. And as much as I’ve tried to move on and be happy without her… the truth is that I can’t do either of those things. I want one woman, and one woman only, but I don’t think she’s ever coming back.
Leaving Patrick was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to chase my dreams in New York City. Not to mention the chance to reconnect and spend time with my little sister. I never expected to stay away from Sugar Mountain for so long, but it’s been almost 4 years now and I haven’t been home once.
How long is too long to stay gone?
And can love find its way back together after that much time apart?
Find more books by J. Sterling: jsterlingbooks.com
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.
I’ve been in love with Addison Whitman since high school. I knew right away that she was my end game and I thought she felt the same. I never thought there’d come a time when she’d leave me behind, but that’s exactly what she did. And as much as I’ve tried to move on and be happy without her… the truth is that I can’t do either of those things. I want one woman, and one woman only, but I don’t think she’s ever coming back.
Leaving Patrick was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to chase my dreams in New York City. Not to mention the chance to reconnect and spend time with my little sister. I never expected to stay away from Sugar Mountain for so long, but it’s been almost 4 years now and I haven’t been home once.
How long is too long to stay gone?
And can love find its way back together after that much time apart?
Find more books by J. Sterling: jsterlingbooks.com
🏒 𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑬𝑹 𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑨𝑳 🏒
𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 (Seattle Scorpions Series Book 4) by Ruth Stilling releases on January 23rd! Check out this teaser!
They think my greatest gift is my ability on the ice. But they’re wrong.
I’ve been hailed as the guy who has it all when it comes to hockey. Powerful people have invested their time and money, determined to turn my potential into their reality.
The most influential of those people? Graham Jenkins—former NHL player and the General Manager of the Dallas Destroyers. The second he set eyes on me in the little leagues, he piled all his resources into my success. And when the Destroyers were awarded the first-round draft pick, he didn’t hesitate to snap me up.
He thought I was the golden boy, the star that would make his team as successful as his playing career. Only I wasn’t. Instead of unleashing my potential in front of the goal, he discovered my real talent—secrets.
And I have many that I will never share. One for every scar disguised beneath the tattoos painting my body, along with the childhood memories either buried deep inside my broken mind or drowned out by empty bottles lining my kitchen counter.
There’s only one secret I wish I didn’t have to keep. She’s also the addiction I know I’ll never kick. A detox my heart could never survive since it only beats for her. And even years after we were torn apart, my fixation hasn’t changed. Although neither have our circumstances—I’m still the broken boy, suffocated with trauma. And she’s still Mia Jenkins, the good girl, and daughter of the man who offered me everything except his blessing to date her.
But one thing about addiction? It never seeks permission.
TW include: Abusive parents, domestic violence, substance abuse, off page child loss (not involving the main characters) mental health rep namely PTSD, off page discussion of self harm.
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.
“You’re going to let me see what’s going on with your back.” His words are a low caress. “So are we doing this the easy way, or the hard way?”
While I know the easy way is to just let him look, my imagination is captivated and my body thrums at the idea of finding out what the hard way looks like. But my confidence fails me at that moment.
“Easy,” I squeak out.
His hips settle against my lower back as his hand trails around to the nape of my neck, then down the bare skin along my spine. Knuckles pressing against me, he slides his hand into the dress and holds the fabric together as his other hand tugs the zipper the rest of the way down in one fluid motion.
He dips his head so his lips are right next to my ear. “Good girl. Now show me where it hurts.”
My entire core clenches in need, my hips flexing back against him without my permission. What the hell was that?
I’ve never in my life wanted to be treated like someone’s f*cking pet. Yet here this man is, his deep, gravelly voice melting me with his words of affirmation.
What to expect:
🏒 Enemies to lovers
🏒 Single dad
🏒 Reverse age gap
🏒 Forced proximity
🏒 Workplace romance
🏒 She’s his boss
Blurb:
Some people might call it a grudge, but in reality, hating Alessandra Jones is more like an obsession.
AJ is the league’s first female general manager, and my boss. As the team captain, I have to play nice with her—in public, at least.
But in private, the gloves come off. And then one time, our clothes do too.
We vow it won’t happen again.
Not only can we not stand each other, but we’re in tense negotiations over my contract right now, and AJ is up for the league’s GM of the Year award. Getting involved wouldn’t just be a PR nightmare—it would be unethical.
It doesn’t help that we have a history, or that she and my daughter adore each other. When AJ is injured protecting my baby, there’s no choice but to move her into my place.
Taking care of someone I hate shouldn’t feel so right. Getting to know her better shouldn’t break down my defenses. She’s hurt me once before, and I’d be a fool to trust her again.
But the more time we spend together, the more I realize that maybe I’m not obsessed with hating her . . . maybe I’m just obsessed with her.
