You Were Never Not Mine 🎀 Now Live

You Were Never Not Mine by Monica Murphy is now live!

She should hate him at first sight…

August Lancaster is a menace. His power at Lancaster Prep is legendary, and no one dares cross him. He’s a ruling senior, and everyone wants to be his friend, or at the very least stay in his good graces.

When he sets his sights on me my freshman year, he makes me wish I never existed. His constant, unwanted attention is humiliating. He makes me burn with both anger and desire. Even though I try to give as good as I get, it isn’t until he graduates that I can actually breathe.

Now I’m finally at college, and it’s everything I want it to be. New people, new experiences, new Sinclair. Until I discover that August attends the same university. When he starts flirting with me at a frat party, I realize he doesn’t even recognize me. At first, I’m humiliated all over again, but I quickly decide to make it my mission to remind August f’ing Lancaster exactly who I am.

I start running into him everywhere. Problem is, he can’t stop talking to me. Kissing me. Touching me. It’s like he’s obsessed with me, and soon enough…I’m worried I’m becoming obsessed with him, too.

But can I trust him? Does someone like August ever truly change? Or is he going to ruin me yet again?

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Meet Monica


Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance.

A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, son, their goofy dog, and three cats. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing. Or reading. Or binge watching something.

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🎀Review🎀
After everything that August had put Sinclair through while she was in high school she hoped to never see again. That hope is thwarted when not only are they attending the same college but now he has chosen to pursue her for a different reason, and it is only made worse when he doesn’t connect the girl he used to know with the woman she has become.

August is a character who will infuriate you and intrigue you. He may not always treat Sinclair the way that she deserves but he will fight to the end if anyone else tries to disrespect or hurt her as his antagonism for her hides the depth of his feelings.

I enjoyed seeing August finally acknowledge his love for Sinclair and become the man and champion she needed even if she fought him along the way.

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𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑭𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑺𝑨𝑵𝑫𝑺 (Sandcastle Cove Book 6) by Amber Kelly releases on June 19th. Check out this teaser!

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🐚 Secret Identity

🐚 Friends with Benefits

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I arrive in Sandcastle Cove expecting peace and quiet—just a few weeks of house-sitting for Aunt Ida while she dotes on her new grandbaby. But then I meet Brew—a tall, tempting, and dangerously charming local bartender with a slow smile and hands that know exactly how to make a woman unravel. My plans change completely. Our chemistry is instant, electric, and impossible to ignore. One taste of him has me lost in late nights, tangled sheets, and a heat that has nothing to do with the coastal sun.

However, Brew is hiding something—something that doesn’t quite fit with the quiet life he pretends to lead.

Now, I’m falling hard for a man who might be everything I never knew I needed. One who has me reconsidering everything about my life in Balsam Ridge. But if he won’t let me in, how can I trust him with my heart?

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𝐍𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 (Dayton Series book 4) by Stevie J Cole & LP Lovell releases on June 19th! Check out this teaser!

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What to expect:

💜 Second Chance

💜 Enemies to Lovers

💜 Morally Grey MMC

💜 Forced Proximity

💜 Blackmail

Blurb:

Wolf Brookes was the bad boy who broke my heart, moved on faster than I could blink, and didn’t even bother to look back. Which is why I hate him.

A year and a half after the heartbreak, I’ve made some questionable choices—like breaking into his house and stealing from him. In my defense, I needed the money. He didn’t need to catch me… or blackmail me into playing little sister to the makeshift frat of reprobates he helps run.

Now I’m stuck in a party house from hell with my tattooed, arrogant ex.

My plan? Use being in his house to my advantage, get what I need to beat him at his own game, and get out.

His plan? Apparently to torment me by acting as though he doesn’t own a shirt.

But the more time we spend together, the more I see glimpses of the boy I loved—and the man he’s become. He’s still the same reckless, infuriating disaster I fell for, and I’m still the idiot who can’t seem to quit him.

Falling for him again would be the worst idea of my life.

But losing him twice?

That might break me for good.

USA Today bestselling authors Stevie J Cole and LP Lovell bring you a steamy, second-chance, enemies-to-lovers romance full of banter, bad boys and bad decisions, and the kind of love that never dies—even when it should.


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🔥Love at first sight

🔥Overprotective hero

🔥Forced proximity

🔥Workplace romance

🔥Secret past

🔥Small town

A storm never felt so safe.

Desperate for a new life, Gretchen escapes her abusive ex and finds refuge in the small town of Gracemont. Her plan is simple: lay low. But when she meets Theo Storm, her sexy new boss, everything changes. Drawn into the warmth of his world, Gretchen discovers the possibility of happiness, love, and family—things she thought were out of her reach.

For Theo, it’s love at first touch. From the moment he takes Gretchen’s trembling hand, he knows he’s found someone worth fighting for. Though he senses she’s hiding something, he’s determined to help her overcome her painful past.

When old demons come knocking, Theo calls on his family to help protect the woman who’s quickly claimed his heart. The Storms are a force of nature, and they quickly step up, ready to defend their own at any cost.

Will they succeed in keeping Gretchen safe, or will her dangerous past tear her and Theo apart?

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Pretty Wild 🩷 Now Live

Title: Pretty Wild
Series: Pine Village #5
Author: Lacey Black
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town, Opposites Attract
Vacation Fling, Grumpy/Sunshine, Age Gap
Release Date: June 3, 2025
BLURB
Ryan
Some might say I’m running away. I prefer to look at it as an extended vacation, from social media, the paparazzi, and my very public life back in Los Angeles.
That’s why I rented a small cabin in the woods in Nowhere, Wisconsin. I needed an escape and time to lick my wounds from a breakup. What I wasn’t expecting was Marcus Wright, the most frustrating man on the face of the planet, to be right next door. Our chemistry is undeniable, and it doesn’t take long to realize a summer fling is just what the doctor ordered.
Our time has a deadline though, and at the end of a month, I’m going back home to Los Angeles. Problem is, despite Marcus’s grumpy demeanor, I’m not sure I want to.
Marcus
My days, and some of my nights, are spent working on vehicles in my shop. Working and living in my hometown of Pine Village is where I’m comfortable, where I belong.
My quiet little world is disrupted the day Ryan Marcotte rolls into town in her high heels and designer clothes. She’s the exact opposite of me, a spoiled rich girl who pushes my buttons like no other. She’s famous, has her own TV show, and is only here for a short time. I’m also wildly attracted to her. I try to fight it, but the pull is too strong. So when she suggests a little no-strings fun, I’m all in.
Unfortunately, our private bubble is popped the moment fans discover her location. All good things must come to an end. I just wasn’t expecting my heart to be so invested.
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🩷Review🩷

Even the star power that Ryan holds isn’t enough to bring her love and happiness. Needing to distance herself from public situation she found herself in she heads to Pine Valley where hopefully she can stay under the radar.

The lifestyle that Marcus is leading couldn’t be more different than Ryan’s and now she is his tenant. He believes that she is entitled and totally out of her depth however when circumstances keep bringing them together what she lacks in experience she makes up for with enthusiasm.

Great chemistry, a little angst and a heartwarming romance as Ryan is embraced not only by Marcus but the town as well.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.
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Till Summer Does Us Part 💗 Available Now

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes a brand new sizzling summer read that will have you laughing, swooning . . . and sweating.

Scottie Price just started a new job and it’s a real sausage fest. She’s the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads. Expecting a bachelor pad atmosphere, she is quickly corrected when she finds out everyone is happily married.

In an effort to impress her boss, Scottie mentions her nonexistent husband in a company meeting. But eagle-eyed Chad points out her lack of wedding ring. Panicked, Scottie creates a story about her unhappy marriage. Unfortunately for Scottie, her boss has a solution—a one-on-one session with the best marriage counselor in the Northeast, who happens to be her boss’s husband.

With no way out of her lie, Scottie agrees to see him. Frantic, she calls in help from her best friend who sets her up with his brother, an improv-obsessed millionaire.

Enter Wilder Wells. More than happy to take on the job, he teaches Scottie the main rule of improv: always say yes. But the rule backfires during the session when Wilder signs them up for an eight-day summer marriage camp with all of Scottie’s co-workers where she’ll have to share a cabin with her way-too-handsome fake husband.

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Scottie is having difficulty fitting in with her co-workers as they are all blissfully married while she has just gone through a divorce that changed her. One white lie where she tells everyone she is married has left her in quite the dilemma when she needs a husband for a marriage camp that her boss and her husband are hosting.

Wilder is the brother of Scottie’s best friend who has just sold his business and is now a wealthy man. He hasn’t’ decided what comes next so when Scottie needs a pretend husband he is all in for the what he believes will be a fun experience and spending time with Scottie only increases the appeal.

Scottie and Wilder couldn’t be more different as he takes whatever comes their way while she tries to plan everything out which makes the situations they find themselves in humorous. Erin Mallon was a great choice for Scottie as you can feel her insecurities while Teddy Hamilton is swoony as he shows Scottie she is perfect just the way she is.

A Captive Situation 💛 Now Live

A Captive Situation by Tijan is now live!

New York Times bestselling author Tijan delivers a bold romance about two people wrestling with emotional trauma, thrown into a deadly—and heated—power dynamic when the mafia comes after them both.

Every bride dreams of her wedding day.

Today was supposed to be that day for me, except it’s not me marrying my college sweetheart.

My best friend is doing that. Or, well, my ex–best friend.

Instead, I’m over a thousand miles away, riding the subway in a city where lost people come to dream.

Me—I’m just hoping to distract myself from my heartbreak.

That is, until I met Jake Worthing.

Grumpy.

Hot.

A total jerk.

Did I mention hot?

Also, extremely presumptuous.

Just because I look like I’m a thought away from a total meltdown does not mean I need an ambulance.

He had the audacity to ask if I needed medical treatment.

Well, good riddance to him.

I don’t ever have to see him again.

Except, well, I do when I’m taken to the police station for a total misunderstanding.

He walks in and…gah. He’s the same that I remember from our first meeting.

Brooding. Still gorgeous. (The universe is not fair sometimes.)

He’s stirring up emotions that I didn’t know were still inside of me.

Then someone tries to shoot him and I’m a witness, and…er, how is it that I’m the one being kidnapped?

And by Jake?

Now I’m heated for a whole different reason.

If I get myself out of this captive situation, I’m going to reign down my own destruction starting with Jake Worthing.

I just have to survive first and, also, not get my heart broken. Again.

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A Captive Situation is book three in the Kings of New York series. It can be read as a standalone but does mention events from books 1 & 2.

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Meet Tijan

Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing after college and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Fallen Crest series, Ryan’s Bed, Enemies and others.
​She is currently writing many new books and series with an English Cocker she adores.

Connect with Tijan

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💛Review💛

After Sawyer’s life implodes she decides to head to NY to not only distance herself from the situation but also confront some family drama by meeting her cousin.   The meeting didn’t go as planned when a misunderstanding results in her being held in police custody.  The last person she expected to see was the sexy stranger who caught her attention earlier that day or that she would become a witness when he is attacked.

Jake’s life has taken a twist he never saw coming as he goes from being in law enforcement to leading his mafia family.   When his life is threatened and Sawyer sees everything he knows the only way to keep her and himself safe is by keeping her under his control whether she likes it or not.

Both Sawyer and Jake are at a crossroads in their life as they try to determine what comes next.   Chaos erupts both between them and from outside sources as they take us on suspense and emotional filled journey as they find love under the direst of circumstances.

Exposed Ink 🎧 Whispersync Blitz

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Blurb

Kinsley:

Exposed Ink is my sanctuary, where I can hide behind the needles and ink, shielding my shattered heart from further pain and loss.

Until Shane, a firefighter and single dad, threatens to unravel the carefully constructed walls I’ve built to survive.

First, he saves my life—literally—and then he turns it upside down by making me long for things I can’t have.

He says he wants to get some ink done, but I know he wants something more… something I can’t give him—me.

Shane:

As a firefighter medic, I’m used to fixing physical wounds, but Kinsley’s scars run deeper.

To some, her brokenness might be perceived as a weakness, but I can see the strength buried deep.

With each passing day—and mark to my skin—I find myself falling harder for the striking beauty with the sad eyes.

She’s quickly tattooed herself on my heart, and I’m determined to be the one who shows her that love can heal even the deepest wounds.

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🔥 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 ☞ Caught (Bering Sea Crabbers Book 2) by Jessica Buss is releasing in 

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✔︎ Frenemies to Lovers
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🔥Slow-burn enemies to lovers

🧁Injured smoke jumper and sassy baker

💔He was her missing sister’s boyfriend

🥵Age gap tension & sexual awakening

🧨Heavy angst & emotional wounds

😭Life-ruining, heart-stopping romance

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✨TEASER: STERLING TOUCH by @lbdunbarwrites releasing June 5th!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🔥Forbidden Romance

🔥Age Gap

🔥Older Brother’s Former Best Friend

🔥Childhood Friends

🔥Small Town

I wasn’t supposed to love him. I wasn’t even supposed to acknowledge him. But my entire life, I’ve had heart-eyes for my oldest brother’s former best friend, Cortland Haven.

I can’t help it that boys can be stupid, and a feud broke apart a long-time friendship and divided once-close families. 

Try as I might to ignore Cort, I didn’t miss his eyes on me from across a crowded bar, twelve years ago. Oh, the way my skin tingled under his appraisal. The way my heart pattered knowing he was looking at me.

We shared more than a moment.

Now, we’re older and wiser. And with a little over a decade age gap between us, and a divide greater than that between our families, my heart still hasn’t gotten the memo.

No, that fickle organ has other plans for Cortland and me.

Especially when the silver fox is my son’s new baseball coach and I suddenly find myself assigned as his physical therapist.

I don’t just fall for the man adverse to touch, I tumble hard for him, when he should never be mine.

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Cute But Creepy 🎧 Pre Order Alert

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Cute but Creepy (Verfallen Asylum Book 2) by @beatrix.hollow

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Blurb:

I’ve come to wreak vengeance on the man who killed my parents. My own little brother—an abomination, a snake in the nest.

I’m Hazel Fury—a phoenix, a killer—and I’m not leaving this insane asylum until Baz is in a body bag. Someone has to do it and that someone will be me.

Bring on your friends, little brother. Bring on death and mayhem—there’s no stopping a phoenix. Nothing but you.

I’ll do whatever it takes. Even if that means using a trickster you can’t outmaneuver and the big man himself—Dr. Stein.

And don’t worry about being lonely in Hell…
I’ll send your friends there with you.

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✨TEASER: HIS TO SAVE by @authorlkfarlow releasing June 5th!

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“Can I taste you now, Nora?” He looks up at me, watching my face carefully as he waits for my answer.I nod.
But that’s not enough for him. “Words. I need you to tell me. So, I’ll ask again—can I put my mouth on your pretty pussy?”
Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I’ve never understood the appeal of dirty talk, but now, I totally freaking get it.
“I-I think I might die if you don’t,” I tell him honestly. 

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EXCERPTSUMMER PEOPLE by @authorbrittaneenicole & @jennibarabooks releasing June 6th!

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The island is only four square miles, but we could walk home as quickly as it takes to drive along the narrow dirt paths we call roads. Three minutes later, our house on the far end of the island comes into view.

There are only two homes out on the point. Mine, and the one owned by Elizabeth Sweet’s family. I’ve been taking care of the place since my brother passed, and he’d been doing it for years before that without once seeing the family, so I was shocked when Dan called and asked me to do a couple of things around the place before his daughter arrived.

I park in front of the large white-cedar-shingled house. The sun is just setting, and nothing about the dark house looks inviting. Even with the large wraparound porch and the massive second-story windows, the structure looks angry. Like it doesn’t want a Hollywood princess here either.

“Hurry up!” Sutton hops out of the truck and takes off across the grass I cut last week.

I’m reaching for the luggage when a feminine scream pierces the air.

“Stay here, Sutton,” I demand. Heart thudding, I take off toward the house. Just as I hit the porch, another scream sounds from inside, making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I throw the door open and find a tiny blonde in jeans and a tight shirt standing on the table, feet bare, with a broom in her hand.

“Get it off. Oh my god, it’s in my hair.” She steps back, her foot teetering on the edge.

I rush across the six feet, arms out, and catch her as her arms windmill and she falls backward.

She smacks into my chest, still thrashing like a wild woman, causing me to stumble.

“It’s in my hair,” she shouts again.

I have one heartbeat to decide whether to drop her or just go down with her. I curse myself for being a gentleman as I hit the ground with an umph.

All the while, her hands never stop flapping. We’re flaton the floor, yet she’s flailing, hitting herself and me in the process.

“What in the holy hell is the problem?” Deciding it’s best to keep my hands to myself rather than try to stop her, I drop them to my sides, leaving the young superstar on top of me.

“There’s a spider on me.” She shudders, though the spastic movements finally slow.

I survey the silky blond strands, and sure enough, I spot the little guy. Gently, I pick it off her head, then fling it away.

“You touched it with your hands?” Huge blue eyes fixate on my fingers.

I shake my head. “They’re everywhere. Better get used to them.”

“I hate spiders,” she whispers, her voice shaky.

No shock there. I smirk. “Ready to go home yet, Princess?”

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