RISING WATERS

Aleatha Romig

Release Date June 15

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A dark atmospheric psychological thriller packed with small-town secrets, buried trauma, and shocking twists.
She escaped her past—and the man she never forgot.

Now with two girls gone missing, she’s pulled back into a deadly game she may not survive.

Jillian Thorne built her career making the unreal feel real.
On Hollywood soundstages, she stages murder, kidnapping, and violent crime with chilling authenticity—turning fiction into gripping entertainment.

But nothing she’s created compares to the truth waiting in Blue Gil.

Nearly six years after escaping her small hometown, Jillian is drawn back by the suspicious death of the town’s beloved high school football coach. What first appears to be a tragic loss quickly unravels into something far more sinister—a dark mystery no one is willing to confront.

Because in Blue Gil, secrets aren’t just buried… they’re protected.

As disturbing clues surface and a brutal tragedy strikes dangerously close to home, Jillian finds herself trapped inside a real-life psychological thriller. The instincts that made her successful in Hollywood may be the key to solving the crime—or the very thing clouding her judgment.

Everyone in this small town is hiding something.
Including Jillian.

To uncover the truth, she must break through an unspoken code of silence, deception, and loyalty—and face the past she thought she left behind. Because some secrets refuse to stay buried.

And in this twisted game of suspense, trusting the wrong person could be deadly.

Have you been Aleatha’d?

*Perfect for fans of Sharp Objects, All Good People Here, and The Last House Guest, Rising Waters is a dark and addictive psychological thriller filled with buried secrets, small-town corruption, twisted family loyalties, and devastating betrayals.

This is a complete 80K stand-alone psychological thriller with a STEM FMC who needs to learn secrets before it’s too late. The only connection to Aleatha’s FEAR OF FLAMES is that our favorite podcasters from Crime Daily Podcast are back, showing the readers another perspective.

*You do not need to read Crime Daily Podcast book one, FEAR OF FLAMES before RISING WATERS.

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Meet Aleatha Romig:

Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns or her new lighter side, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams! 

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Blurb

PART FIVE TO THE NEW SERIES BY THE AUTHOR OF NOCTURNE — A RETIRED MASTER SERGEANT SUCKED INTO AN INTER-GALACTIC ARENA CALLED THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, A MAN CHAINED BY THE PTSD OF DEATHS HE COMMITED IN A FIT OF MADNESS. AT HIS SIDE, HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS KID, HIS CANE CORSO, BOSE.

It is only days before the majority of Humanity lands onto the Crucible as they finish their Tutorials and Jeb still has no clue what City it will be only that it will not be the one he is in. In the meantime, Jessica Lewis, the nerdy girl who took the portal that was meant for her older Brother, is lost, scared, looking to the broken Jeb to save her, to teach her, to make her strong enough to stand on her own or at least to stand in his shadow without being obliterated. There is only one place according to the Blood-elf, Nes, to do so, the Endless, the Endless Dungeon, the place Jeb and Bose had been dumped in to begin with, the place they almost died multiple times, the place of their birth within the Crucible of War.

Both have some payback to give to the lizards who almost took their lives when they were only Copper Ranked, weak. Now they are Iron, two Tiers higher, and with many plans and little time. They need to get Jessica stronger while Jeb needs to keep his mind from breaking on the anvil of madness if they are ever going to protect his soldiers lost within the Crucible. The Empire is watching ever closer as the exiled Network Journalist, the dhampir, Shovani Tor, decides he and Bose and Bogie are her ticket back to relevance. All of it is spiraling in ever growing circles. Throw in the Greenskin hit squad led by the Vulture, hired by a Weaver through the Bloody Skull and you have a shit storm in the brewing.

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Nora’s three bidders don’t get along, but each of them has a piece of her heart. The only thing they all agree on is that they want to please her in every possible way. Can they find common ground and win her forever, or will one night of passion fall apart before the sun comes up?

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When Nora agrees to participate in the auction she hopes that the three men she has developed feelings for will be the ones who win dates with her.   When that happens she couldn’t have been happier until they want her to choose and that is a choice she isn’t prepared to make.

Penn, Rocky and Vance all have very different personalities who bring something different to the relationship.   They all want to be with Nora even if that means that they have to share as they aren’t about to lose the woman they all love.

The heat between them radiates off the page and it only takes one night for them to realize that this isn’t a fantasy but a life they all want.

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THE GAME WE WIN

Brooke O’Brien

Release Date: June 16

Meet Brooke O’Brien:

Brooke O’Brien grew up with a creative mind and a wild imagination, writing poetry and short stories when she was younger. This passion ignited when she began reading angst and hate-fueled stories about vampires and werewolves before she branched into contemporary and new adult romances. 

When Brooke isn’t writing or falling in love with a new book boyfriend, you can find her scrolling TikTok, watching ASMR, or devouring her latest binge-worthy TV show. 

She loves rockin’ a good hoodie with leggings, is addicted to chocolate, and believes the best days include a good nap.

Brooke O’Brien is represented by Two Daisy Media. For all subsidiary rights, please contact Savannah Greenwell at info@twodaisy.com.

Connect with Brooke O’Brien:

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Blurb:

A close proximity sports romance by Brooke O’Brien about a woman who’s spent her life playing it safe and her brother’s ex-teammate who risks it all for the chance to spend a week with her.

I’ve been told to stay away from football players my whole life. Dating one was out of the question. That’s what happens when your brother warns his teammates you’re off-limits.

It wasn’t just him—my parents controlled every move I made throughout high school. Now, with graduation behind me, the life I’ve been planning with my best friend is finally coming together.

✓ Get accepted to Braysen University

✓ Join the Bulldogs Dance Team

✓ Find an apartment

✓ Soak up every ounce of freedom

Everything was going perfectly until I arrived to pick up our new apartment keys and discovered water damage made it temporarily uninhabitable. My brother, Alec, would offer me his couch, I’m sure, but that’s not an option I’m willing to consider.

I want to prove to myself I can handle this on my own. So when Colter Vaughn, the football team captain and Alec’s former teammate, suggests I stay with him, I happily agree.

Except he failed to mention one small detail—the room he’s offering is his.

I’ve spent my life playing it safe. If keeping this secret means I get to share a bed with Colter, it’s a risk I’m willing to take.

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💙Review💙

Between her father and her brother Ava has been sheltered so attending Braysen University is her chance to chart her own course.   She thought she had it all planned out from joining the dance team to the place she is renting with her best friend.   The only setback she hadn’t account for is that her residence isn’t ready for occupancy, so Colter suggests she stay at his place until it is.

Colter is the captain of the football team and used to be teammates with her brother.   From their first meeting he knew that Ava was special, so when she finds herself with nowhere to stay he not only helps her with storing her belongings but offers her his room as well.  Spending time with her only intensifies his feelings for her and the only regret he has is that she is only staying for a week.

Colter and Ava fit together like pieces of the puzzle and romance between them is both heartwarming and hot.  Lee Samuels brings out the protective side of Colter while Stphanie Kay brings out Ava’s resilience.   This is the beginning of a new series that leaves us wanting more stories centered around Braysen University.

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Blurb

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED

That’s the one thing Brace Cordova is convinced of when he’s released from a five year stretch in a military prison.

He figures the best he can do is spend the rest of his days as a freighter pilot and vicariously live out his dream of a Commonwealth Fleet career through his cousin, Commander Letessa Cordova.

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✨TEASER: FALLING FOR YOU by @natashamauthor releasing July 14th! 

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Why you will love this book…

🔥Small Town

🔥Opposites Attract

🔥Blue Collar Hero

🔥One Night Stand

🔥Accidental Pregnancy

🔥First Responder

🔥Sworn Off Relationships

🔥Black Cat x Golden Retriever

Theo Williams loved and lost once and isn’t interested in doing it again. He has his family and friends, and plenty of women passing through his new hometown who are happy with a no-strings attached night of passion. Working as a partner at his cousin’s construction company, he’s perfectly content with his life—until he meets Collins Henderson, the one-night stand who will change his world forever.

Collins grew up on the wrong side of her small hometown. Thanks to her parents’ shady schemes, every local knows a Henderson cannot be trusted. She works hard as a paramedic, putting in every extra hour she can to save for a better life. But every time she starts to get ahead, her parents show up to pull her back down. Having one night of passion with a man she doesn’t know is not something she’d normally do, but there was just something about him … And two months later, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.

When she runs into the mysterious stranger again, she has to tell him, not because she needs or wants anything from him, just so he knows. But now he’s showing up at her house to cook her meals, stocking her refrigerator, and doing everything he can for her. Collins has always taken care of herself, she wasn’t looking for a relationship, but she can’t deny the chemistry between them.

She knows it’s only a matter of time before he learns who she is and changes his mind. She can’t let herself fall for this guy, but every day he’s getting harder to resist …

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Blurb

Evan and Reese Lock didn’t think they’d ever find a pack they fit into like their destroyed Silver Moon Pack. They count their blessings every day they have spent with the Springlake Pines Pack. But when the same evil huntress who annihilated their home comes for their new pack, Evan and Reese will do whatever they can to protect everyone from her. The hiccup? This huntress who hates wolf shifters with everything in her is their mate. Reese wants nothing to do with her and would rather see her dead, while Evan is willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. They only get one mate in this life and the next. Can all parties involved overcome years of prejudices to become the ultimate Alpha Triad the Black Forest Pack needs?

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Jennifer Millikin has revealed the cover for Goode Tidings!

Releasing: October 1, 2026

Cover Designer: Okay Creations

Callum Goode, the grumpy creator of the beloved website Goode Tidings, never planned on unlawfully occupying the abandoned lakeside cabin where he spent summers as a child. But after a painful and humiliating betrayal, he trades the city for a secluded life in the mountains. There he finds peace, solitude, and a hot tub—which is where Callum happens to be when Eden Madigan and her teenage son wander onto his property claiming the cabin is theirs for the next year.

Seeking space from the newcomers, Callum moves into the small backyard office. Eden might be beautiful and funny, but she’s also the no-filter ex-wife of Callum’s former stepbrother, making her totally off-limits.

Callum appears to be all scowls and ruggedly handsome, but Eden knows there’s more to him. She’s determined to peel back his layers, but what she’s really doing is getting under his skin in a way neither of them expected.

Eden maintains that bringing Callum coffee every afternoon is just a simple kindness. Callum claims he was only offering a friendly ear when Eden was upset. But the way Callum has been showing up in town wearing an uncharacteristic smile on his face says otherwise.

With tentative touches lingering, and lengthy glances heating up, Callum’s grasp on his control begins to slip.

And when the tension finally snaps? There’s no going back.

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THE OFFSIDE RULE

R.C. Stephens

Release Date: July 29

Meet R.C. Stephens:

R.C. Stephens writes the kind of stories that make you laugh, cry, and believe in love all over again.

A Top 100 Amazon bestselling author, she crafts emotional, heartfelt romances full of humor, heat, and happily ever afters.

When she’s not writing, she’s probably wrangling her three kids, sneaking in a coffee date with her husband, or walking her lovable goldendoodle, who’s always by her side during late-night writing sessions.

A proud Toronto native, she loves cozy winters—but it’s the colors of fall and the first bloom of spring that truly inspire her.

Connect with R.C. Stephens:

https://www.instagram.com/rc_stephens_author

Blurb:

A standalone age-gap, coach’s daughter hockey romance with forbidden tension, single dad heat, and one very inconvenient shower incident.

Working with the Dallas Blaze is supposed to prove I belong in sports medicine.

Not because I’m Coach Davis’s daughter. Because I earned it.

The problem is Hunter Russell. Single dad. Captain. Tattooed, broody, and my father’s close friend.

He’s nine years older, completely off-limits and way too good at pretending he doesn’t want me.

Too bad I’m done pretending I don’t want him.

 Getting involved with Hunter could ruin my future with the team.

 Sneaking around with him could ruin a whole lot more.

But the more he touches me behind closed doors, the less it feels like a mistake. And the more I want the one thing he’s too scared to give me.

All of him.

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✨Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for THE SWAN AND THE SENTINEL by @billkeenanwrites! Grab it at your favorite book vendors.

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The Swan and the Sentinel

Don’t miss this closed door, slow burn romance between the hockey player and the prima ballerina! You will get fish out of water and a comeback story you will love!

When the lives of a disheartened prima ballerina and an injured hockey star collide, can their pas de deux end in an encore?

What happens when the one thing that defines you is ripped away, and you’re forced to rebuild from the ground up?

When NHL forward Liam LeClerc’s career-threatening injury refuses to heal, desperation drives him to an unlikely solution: ballet lessons from Petra Montgomery, a talented soloist overlooked due to her company’s politics.

In secret, after-hours studio sessions, Petra teaches Liam that strength comes in unexpected forms while he reminds her why she fell in love with dance, before ambition complicated everything. But when their unconventional partnership threatens both their careers, they must decide if the connection they’ve found is worth risking everything they’ve worked for.

The Swan and the Sentinel is a story that reminds us sometimes the best comebacks require learning an entirely new discipline, even if it’s performed in fifth position.

🏒Review🩰

Liam is a professional hockey player who is trying to heal from a serious injury however the recovery is not proceeding as quickly as everyone would like which is placing his career in jeopardy.   Help comes from an unlikely source as his decision to attend a ballet with his niece brings Petra into his life and hopes that her teaching him ballet will help him recover.

Petra is a professional ballerina who is working towards achieving her dream of being the prima ballerina.  Agreeing to teach Liam how to dance is a game changer for them both as they try to balance the feelings they have for each other against the demands of their careers.

I believe that both the rewards and tribulations of the hockey and dancing industry is portrayed in a realistic as it shows what is required to succeed.   The romance between Liam and Petra was heartwarming as they realized that in the end love is what really matters.  

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✨TEASER: THE BRAT by @serena_akeroyd releasing July 7th!

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Why you need to this book…

🔥Age Gap

💙Marriage of convenience

🔥Secret Society

💙Russian/Irish Mob adjacent

🔥New Adult Dark College Romance

💙Kidnapped Heroine

🔥Ruthless Girl Boss heroine

💙Second Gen

🔥Great Banter

💙She’s as bloodthirsty as he is

🔥Head of the Russian mafia x Bratva princess

💙Grumpy Sunshine

🔥He will burn the world down

💙No 3rd act breakup

Victoria

The first time he sent me the decapitated head of my enemy, I fell in love.

No, it wasn’t exactly appropriate, but the world is dark and mine is only getting darker.

There’s a secret society seething behind my college’s preppy image—and I want in.

Who better to go to for help than my psychotic suitor, Maxim Lyanov?

The Veronians selected me to be the well-connected future wife of a brother.

I’ll play their games, prove my worth but the only person who’ll decide whose ring I wear is me.

They’re about to learn the hard way that I’m a brat and I’ve already chosen my man.

Cloaked in Maxim’s protection, I, Victoria Vasov, will be the next kingmaker.

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