This is a childhood crush, best friend’s brother, second chance romance! You get a slow-burn, banter-filled, small-town romance about forgiveness, falling again, and finding the one person who feels like home—no matter how far you’ve run.
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After the broken heart that she experienced at the hands of Crew while they were in high school she decided to lead a quiet life so as not to attract attention. She is content with the life she has built until Crew comes back into her life and although she is drawn to him she isn’t about to risk her heart a second time as she believes that she and her town will never be enough for him to stay.
Crew left his hometown to pursue a career in football and now an injury has him returning to his hometown to recover. Seeing Bailey again only reinforces that she is the biggest regret in his life and he wants a chance to fix the mistakes of the past however he knows that she isn’t about to just forgive and forget.
This is a heartwarming story that features a second chance and a new beginning. Being home again allows Crew to reclaim that man he left behind and fight for the woman and the future he wants.
Kimberly Kincaid has revealed the cover for Smolder!
Releasing August 18, 2026
An action-packed Romantic Thriller from USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Kincaid—perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Chicago Fire, but with a lot more heat.
As a former rescue squad firefighter, Dallas Garrity knows danger when he sees it. As the newest behavioral analyst for the Remington Police Department, he knows evil when he sees it, too. When a body turns up with all the signatures of the city’s most notorious serial killer, Dallas knows he must break the case and bring Ezekial Murphy’s copycat killer to justice.
He just never expected he’d have to work with the one person who almost broke him to do it. Wren is rapier sharp. A highly dedicated police officer. Passionate. Fierce. Gorgeous.
She’s also Ezekial Murphy’s twin sister.
Wren Lennox is no stranger to hard work. After all, she had to bury herself in it just to prove her worth after her brother murdered a dozen rookie cops five years ago. Being paired with Dallas to catch a copycat isn’t ideal, but she’s hidden her feelings for him before. She’ll do whatever it takes to get this job done.
No matter how much Dallas knows about her past. No matter how much she still wants him now.
As secrets unravel and their chemistry burns hotter than ever, Dallas and Wren must stay a step ahead of not one killer, but two. Before it’s too late for them both.
Tropes include:
· Firefighter/cop
· He falls first
· “Who hurt you”
· Protector hero and heroine
· Forced proximity
· Workplace romance
· Second chance at a first chance
Cover Designer: Shanoff Designs Photographer: Christopher John of CJC Photography Model: Keith Manecke
USA Today best-selling author Kimberly Kincaid writes romantic suspense that sizzles and contemporary romance with heart and heat. Equal parts action and emotion, her firefighters and first responders always save the day.
When she’s not finding adventure with her husband, three teens, and naughty Whippets, Olive, Daisy, and Jack. She can be found practicing obscene amounts of yoga, whipping up anything from enchiladas to éclairs in her kitchen, or curled up with her nose in a book.
Kimberly’s series include Remington Medical, Station Seventeen, the Line series, Cross Creek, and her brand-new Intelligence Unit series. All titles stand alone for easy reading.
A lot of people use their jobs to define them, but my life really starts after I clock out. Making sweet treats is my passion, but it doesn’t pay the bills. One day I dream of having my own shop in Denver, but right now building my business means tables at events.
I’ve seen Joss working security at a few events, but he doesn’t see me. Until he does. Now it’s like he doesn’t look away. I’m not sure what to do with his interest, no matter how much I want to believe what he’s offering me.
Will Joss coming into my life be the first thing that changes everything? Maybe I really can leave my boring job behind and switch to full time with my treats. A chance meeting at an event just may prove to help both of our dreams come true. Then what happens with us, can we really have forever together?
JOSS
I thought I’d have more options after coming back stateside and joining civilian life after my time in the military. It was naïve of me; I get that now. I’ve been struggling, but without a lot of help the best I could do is this security job and an empty studio apartment.
One of the events I worked brought me my side gig. Modelling for book covers wasn’t part of my plan, but it helps pay my bills. Maybe it’ll mean I can leave my security job behind. The events make me want to pull my hair out, until I see her there.
Syndal is everything I’ve ever wanted. She’s driven, passionate, and more beautiful than she realizes. Her curves make me want to map her body with my hands, but I can see the wariness in her eyes. Watching her back at events, even when she doesn’t need me to, while convincing her she’s mine is the purpose I’ve been waiting for. There’s no doubt in my mind that she’s the sweetness I’ve always needed in my life.
Syndal may work at an insurance company but the career she really wants is to make her chocolate creations full time. She meets Joss when he is working security at an event where she has a booth and at first she doesn’t believe that a man like him would be interested in someone like her.
Between the end of his military career and a personal betrayal Joss is trying to decide what comes next. When he meets Syndal he is enchanted by both her and her chocolate and now that he has met her he can’t imagine a future without her.
Syndal and Joss were perfect for each other in every way as they only wanted the best for each other and the chance meeting that turns their futures around was perfection.
A.L. Jackson has revealed the narrators for On the Brink of Bliss!
Narrated by: Sean Masters and Samantha Brentmoor
Releasing: February 10, 2026
A sizzling single mom, fake marriage, heroine in danger romance from New York Times & USA TodayBestselling author, A.L. Jackson
The last thing I expected when I found the trespasser bathing in my river was for it to be her…
Daisy Adair has always been my dream girl. From when we were best friends in high school to finding her now. A gorgeous mother who shows up on my property with three kids in tow. But I became a recluse for a reason. The life I chose is full of wickedness and peril. The last thing I need is the object of my every fantasy invading my space and risking her life because of me. Only when she tells me she’s on the run from her ex, I promise to do anything to keep them safe, even marry her to protect her kids. That single kiss at the altar rips through every barrier, our passion unleashed. Now, living under the same roof blurs the lines I’ve drawn. Each glance of her down the hall and I am splintering. Each brush of her hand and I am brought to my knees. Our future—bright, hopeful, and almost within reach—hovers on the edge of becoming real… Until we discover the threat surrounding her is grimmer than either of us imagined. Now I’m fighting to save her and her children before our second chance at forever is burned to the ground…
Fifteen years ago, Cassian Byers murdered his older sister.
And I witnessed the whole thing.
For years, I’ve fought to bury the memories of my troubled childhood, which includes the haunting image of my babysitter’s murder. Life in Hayden Fields has been eerily calm—no big crimes or chaos—until now.
Until the first girl dies.
And I see Cassian outside of my work like he never left.
It seems he remembers me just as well as I remember him. And when people I know start showing up dead, there’s only one likely suspect.
No matter that he promises me with sweet words and an obsession that makes my heart race, I refuse to believe that he isn’t doing this.
He should be off limits, but he’s the best kind of trouble.
Briar
My father gave me the family brewery as an early Christmas present.
Generous, right? Except every single person on staff just quit, and I only have a budget that’ll last through the end of the year.
I need a miracle.
Lucky for me, my best friend Hannah’s big brother, Liam, is a genius brewer, and she convinces him to quit his job and come work for me. She only has one condition: I can never date him.
It’s an easy agreement to make. I’ve vowed to stay away from men after an embarrassing breakup, and I’d never sleep with someone who works for me. Besides, Liam’s an amateur boxer and frankly a bit terrifying.
Only…it turns out my best friend’s brooding, insanely talented big brother is the only man who’s ever really understood me.
Liam
I promised my sister not to date any more of her friends, because the last time I tried, it ended badly. Very badly.
I took this job thinking it wouldn’t be a problem to stay away from Briar. She’s a daddy’s girl who looks like a princess and talks like a boarding school teacher. Not my type.
But the woman I wrote off knows a lot about beer, and she’s a whole lot tougher than I gave her credit for. I want to run this brewery with her…and I want her too.
To my complete shock, I’m falling hard for my boss, and if my sister finds out, there will be hell to pay.
Note: There are TWO different versions of this romcom:
1) A spicy open door version with some strong language and sex scenes
2) A closed door version with mild language and only kissing.
Am I broken beyond repair, or can the two men who want me, flaws and all, help me love myself enough to give us a chance at a happily ever after?
Barely escaping my abusive ex, I find refuge in a sliver of Alaskan paradise in the tiny town of Anchor Bay. A great job, a cute cabin situated inside the poly community, and new friends — things are great, except for him.
Langston Allen. Jerk extraordinaire, never lets me have a moment’s peace and, for some reason, hates me. Tatted, grumpy and with a stalking fetish, the man pushes me at every turn, but the underlying heated tension between us confuses me as much as it does him.
Good thing he comes with his best friend with benefits, West O’Donnell. Not only is he sexy, sweet, and kind, but the man has dimples that make me melt with every shy smile flashed my way.
Still putting together the pieces of my shattered self, getting involved with the two men is a terrible decision, but the pull between us becomes too much for any of us to withstand. When my past and present collide, can I withstand the impact, or will I disappear again, this time for good?
Only Theirs is the third book in the Anchor Bay series. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone (each book will have an HEA for the main throuple), however the mystery/case discussed in book one will continue through the full series and will conclude in book 5. Please note this book does include two males who are into each other and one female who doesn’t have to choose between them.
Quiet. Serious. Protective. All words Stone Sylver would use to describe himself. And yet, something in his classic blue eyes said he was so much more. Buried beneath the years of raising his younger siblings and being a small town sheriff was a man looking for love.
Of course, I didn’t get all that the first night we met. The night we did a one-two step in a hotel hallway and knocked heads. The same night we shared a sweet potato cupcake and a single kiss.
Why didn’t we share more? The moment became a great mystery to me and because I thought he was only a brief interlude in my wanderlust life, I wasn’t prepared to see him again in Sterling Falls.
Visiting the small town where I once lived, I learn the man who I witnessed act like a superhero was more entwined in my past than I’d remembered. And for a woman often afraid of a future, I suddenly craved one…with him. Which made no sense as I’d never stuck in one place before. No one had ever asked me to stay.
Then again, from our first encounter, I knew Stone Sylver was different.
Bear shifter Everett has found his fated mate, but he’ll have to defeat another alpha to keep him.
When Milo’s date sprouts fangs and tries to bite him, he flees into the nearby forest and ends up lost. The gorgeous man who rescues him seems too good to be true…until Milo discovers his secret.
Everett knows the human omega is his fated mate, but the last thing Milo needs is another alpha shifter trying to claim him so soon after his traumatic experience.
Unfortunately, Milo’s date from hell is determined to mate with him—willing or not—and Everett will have to fight tooth and claw to protect their love.
If you love mpreg, possessive shifters, and omegas who just want to belong, then The Bear’s Brave Omega is your next must-listen audiobook.
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She’s been his from the moment they met… she just didn’t know it yet.
Jax is tasked with hunting down the pages connected to a dangerous artefact. The last of his brothers to break his curse, he never believed he’d ever find his mate. Until he met her, his opposite in every way. Thea is impulsive, loud, and brings color to his world of grey. But with danger lurking and the fate of everything tied to the artefact, Jax must keep his distance and protect her from the shadows.
Until one of the pages is stolen…and he knows exactly who took it.
Thea was content being a petty thief, but with her father’s hospital bills piling up, she needed to earn more. And fast. So when a friend offers her a high-stakes job, she would be a fool not to take it, wouldn’t she? It’s just a page, a simple document, but this quick job spirals into a dangerous mistake. Because others are after the same page, and they’re willing to harm her to get it—everyone except for him.
Thrust into a war she never knew existed, Thea is forced to work with the quiet, cold Guardian to hunt down the remaining pages.
Will they be able to find them in time, or will she lose everything?
She ruined his pants. His plan? Get her out of hers.
Serena
Hockey is my sport. Football? I couldn’t care less.
But when I get invited to a Washington Monuments party, I go.
My mistake.
One spilled glass of wine and a case of bad timing later, and the whole world thinks I’m servicing Austin Hawkes—their new quarterback and golden boy.
He refuses to clear my name unless I go out with him first.
I’d rather die. Until he kisses me.
Now, I’m seeing football—and Austin—in a whole new light. But his fans adore him, despise me, and they’re louder than an entire stadium of hockey fans on dollar-beer night.
Austin
Fans have done some wild things to get close to me, but spilling wine down my pants? That’s a first.
So are half the names Serena Abrams calls me when we get caught.
I should walk away, but there’s something addictive about the way she looks at me like she wants to kiss and kill me.
Convincing her to give me a shot will take every trick in the book. Especially with my rabid fanbase acting like this is the fourth quarter of the championship game.
It’s all good, though.
I always get what I want…and what I want is Serena in my bed, wearing my ring.
When Serena agrees to attend a Washington Monuments party she never could have anticipated how the evening would end. When she loses her balance she finds herself in what looks like a compromising position with Austin and the only way to control the media frenzy is to pretend they are dating.
Austin was smitten by Serena and her sarcastic banter from their first meeting, and he isn’t about to lend it end there. Convincing her to date him will not only help with the media but will give him the time to show her they belong together and what they share is meant to last.
The repartee between them is humorous as Serena’s feisty personality has met her match in Austin and he is protective and understanding as Serena deals with the impact her past is having on their relationship.
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