The Kiss Lottery by Ilsa Madden-Mills is now live!
From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy story about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine’s Day tradition…and the boy who broke her heart.
Roses are red, violets are blue–someone in Rose has feelings for you…
Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn’t leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It’s been ten years, but you don’t forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway.
Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose–and he’s never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she’s not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect?
When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they’ve needed all along.
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#1 Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills pens angsty new adult and contemporary romances.
A former high school English teacher and librarian, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice, and of course, Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.
She’s addicted to frothy coffee beverages, cheesy magnets, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females. Feel free to stalk her online.
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💋Review💋 After the events that transpired in high school Everly couldn’t leave town fast enough and it would be a decade before she returns. After receiving an invitation to the kiss lottery her curiosity is piqued so she returns fully expecting to feel the wrath of the whole town and in particular the man who was her best friend when they were growing up.
When they were in high school Beckett wasn’t sure how to handle the situation, he found himself in when it came to Beckett, and it is one of the biggest regrets in his life. Now that she is back it brings up all the feelings between them that haven’t diminished over time, but this time around he isn’t about to make the same mistakes.
The banter between was humorous and the eclectic cast of townspeople only enhanced this second chance at love.
𝑽𝑰𝑪𝑰𝑶𝑼𝑺 𝑨𝑫𝑫𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺: A Mafia Romance (The Next Vicious Generation Book 1) by USA Today bestselling author Ivy Fox releases on February 28th. Check out this teaser!
🖤Coming of Age – First Love 🖤Touch her and die vibes
🖤Boy Obsessed
🖤Strong heroine
🖤Revenge, drama and lies
🖤And a whole lot of ANGST!
Blurb:
Vicious Addictions is the first installment in this action-packed, drama-filled mafia romance series from USA Today Bestselling Author Ivy Fox.
“Enter the dangerous world of power, passion, and forbidden love in The Next Vicious Generation—where blind loyalty always comes at a price.”
Everyone in Chicago knows my name.
I’m Jude Adamo Romano—the eldest son of the Romano clan and the heir to the Outfit crime syndicate.
Power, control, and loyalty are my family’s legacy, the only things I hold dear.
As for love? Love is a weakness.
I’ve witnessed how it twists, destroys, and corrupts even the most honorable men, and I vowed never to let it ruin me.
Not again.
I kept that promise—until she walked back into my life.
Mina Crane… the one woman who ever made me question everything. The only one I’d risk it all for, even my birthright.
But in my world, something as fragile as love always comes with a steep price.
As loyalties shatter and enemies close in, I find myself at a crossroads, faced with an impossible decision.
Will I fight for the woman who brings me to my knees with just a smile, or will duty and honor chain me to a fate I no longer desire?
For what is a throne without a queen to rule by my side?
Author’s note: The Next Vicious Generation is an interconnected standalone series that serves as a spin-off to the Rotten Love Duet. Each book in this series will focus on one of Selene’s children, now grown up and just as fierce and fearless as their fathers. While reading the Rotten Love Duet is not essential before starting this series, it is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of the characters and their backstory.
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. “What About Now?” is an age gap, found family, drunken Vegas wedding, small town romance.
Brogan
I didn’t plan on hooking up with my new brother-in-law’s best friend… or marrying him.
Life hasn’t been easy, and it’s left me a little bruised, and a lot cautious. So, when I wake up in Vegas married to Maddox, I’m convinced it’s a mistake. A drunken accident that we should undo before anyone finds out.
But he doesn’t see it that way. He asks for six months. Six months to show me we could be something real. And I don’t know why I say yes, except maybe a part of me wants to believe him.
I’m not sure I deserve someone like him. But with every look, every touch, and every little gesture, Maddox is breaking down my walls.
That’s why the next time he asks “what about now?” I know I’m going to say yes.
Maddox
I always thought Brogan was off-limits. Our paths didn’t just cross, they tangled.
If things didn’t work out between us, it would hurt a lot of people. So I stayed in my lane, convincing myself it was for the best.
Until Vegas.
One too many drinks, a blurred wedding chapel, and a couple of shiny rings later, Brogan wakes up next to me… as my wife.
She’s ready to call it a mistake and move on, but I see it for what it is: fate handing me the chance I’ve been too scared to take.
So I make her a deal. Six months. I’ll prove we belong together, and if she still doesn’t believe it, we’ll walk away. No hard feelings.
But I’m not going down without a fight. Flowers, her favorite coffee—I’ll give her everything she never knew she wanted, including me.
And one of these times when I ask if she believes it yet that were meant to be, I just might get the answer I’m hoping for.
Because I’ve waited long enough to make her mine, and this time, I’m not letting her go.
While attending his best friend’s wedding in Vegas the last thing Maddox expected would be that he would return home married as well. He has not acted on the feelings he has for Brogan but when they find themselves married, he isn’t disappointed and now he has six months to convince her they belong together.
Brogan has been denying her feelings for Maddox due to the events of the past. Her only concern is ensuring the happiness of her sister all the while believing she didn’t deserve the same for herself. She agrees to six months believing that what they shared would be over before then, but she is about to realize she couldn’t have been more wrong.
With everything that Maddox does and says he shows Brogan that she is his everything and that there is nothing he won’t do to show her the future that she is worthy of.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.
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The sweetest love stories often bloom from friendship.
From Friends to Forever: A Love Grows Collection, a steamy friends to lovers romance collection, part of the 1001 Dark Nights Trope Collection from New York Times & USA Today bestselling authors Darynda Jones, J. Kenner, Shayla Black and Susan Stoker, is available now!
The sweetest love stories often bloom from friendship. From Friends to Forever is filled with heartwarming romances where bonds of friendship evolve into something deeper. Whether they’ve always known each other, or their friendship stood the test of time, these characters will find that the best love grows from the most unexpected places.
Includes: The Gravedigger’s Son by Darynda Jones Memories of You by J. Kenner More Than Possess You by Shayla Black and Securing Jane by Susan Stoker
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The Gravedigger’s Son
Well, more of the same troubles, but things escalated rapidly one fateful weekend, and his life had never been the same. His relationship with the elfin queen—his descriptor—had never been the same. The fact that he thought about her every day, craved her every day, meant nothing. He’d hurt her. Physically. Emotionally. Psychologically. There was no going back. And in all the years since, in all the towns and all the bars and all the women, he’d never met anyone who compared to the ethereal creature known as Amber Kowalski.
Memories of You
“You and me,” he says. “Forever. Call it a relationship because it is one. Call it friends with benefits, because you are the best friend I will ever have, and if you’ll have me, the last lover I’ll ever have, too.” My heart flutters, and my hand flies to my mouth. “Is this a proposal?” “Yes. No. I don’t know. Is it?” I laugh. “No,” I say, feeling giddy enough that I could float on air. “I want to date first. But why don’t we call it a promise?” “Baby, I will promise you the world if you want it.” I shake my head, then feel warm tears on my cheeks as he pulls me even closer. “God, Renly, don’t you get it? I never wanted the world. All I’ve ever really wanted is you.”
More Than Possess You
But I am, because no matter how familiar Echo is, I’ll never look at her the same. This morning, I notice things about her I never have. Though she’s all woman, her long, dark lashes brush round cheeks that are almost girlish. Her lips are rosy, the bottom one heavy and pouty when it parts slightly, as if in unspoken invitation. Her bare shoulder is dotted with two tiny freckles, which peek out above the crisp white sheet covering the rest of her body. Not that it does any good. Last night, I saw her. I felt her. And I remember her—every detail. I don’t know how I’ll forget. We can’t ever go back to being just friends. I’m not sure I want to.
Securing Jane
How long they sat like that she wasn’t sure, but she felt more connected to Storm than she’d ever felt with another man. Ever. It should’ve scared her. Hell, they hadn’t even really kissed or spent much time together, but he’d shown by his actions that he wasn’t like the boys she’d dated in the past. He was a grown-ass man, an honorable one. One she was desperate to get to know intimately.
Memories of You by J. Kenner – Renly had recently joined Stark Security when Damien and his wife get a frantic call and he decides to go as well when he realizes it is from his childhood friend. Abby has been receiving suspicious calls so when she sees what appears to be blood on her car she panics but she wasn’t expecting Renly, her best friend and first love. Their feelings for each other have not diminished over time but will Renly realize what Abby means to him before the threat against her is successful?
More Than Possess You by Shayla Black – Hayes has been best friends with Echo since they were children but when he takes her along on a business trip to Hawaii with their other friend Xavian things are about to become complicated. Echo wants to experience her first time and has chosen Xavian but she is not certain why Hayes is determined to thwart her plans as she knows what she wants and it is her decision to make and it’s not like he is willing to do the deed, or is he?
Securing Jane by Susan Stoker – Storm manages three SEAL teams and e has always believed that he could not have his career and a relationship even if Jane, the woman who delivers his mail, has attracted his attention. Jane has been attracted to Storm for a while but so is every other woman on the base so she does not believe he will ever see her as more than a co-worker who delivers the mail, but everything changes when she finds herself in danger.
I have not had a chance to read the Gravedigger’s Son by Darynda Jones, but I am looking forward to reading that story as well.
It’s scary how much life can change in an instant.One minute I’m preparing for a new school year in my San Diego town, and the next I’m being ripped from my childhood home.Making the cut from my father’s death two years ago that much deeper.Not only am I being forced to leave a place that reminds me so much of him, but I’m being forced to move hundreds of miles across the country to a city I’ve only learned about through Mom and social media.Different climate. Different lifestyle. Different High School.Riverside Prep is supposed to be the most prestigious school in New York City, little did I know it’s also the cruelest.There’s one faction of sovereignty reigning over the school of the elite: and they call themselves The Royals.These Royals aren’t fancy nobles dripped in gold, though, no.Or typical privileged adolescents.These four guys are cold, ruthless, and take no prisoners.Besides me, that is, because for some reason I catch the eye of their leader, who’s known well to be the worst of them.Crayton Shaw is not a high schooler, or a royal, he’s more like Satan playing God.A psychopath with his sights set on me, and I have no idea why.He claims to hate the new girl from California…But his eyes are always on me from the shadows, his lips tempting me with brutish words, his seductive nature making me want to venture into the dark side and drown in it.Crayton’s allure is almost as deadly as his wrath, and I spend most of my days trying to abstain from wanting both.To remain the good girl my father loved.But the more I’m around Crayton the more I crave his darkness.His punishment. His twisted ways.
As the lawyer for the Hounds of Hellfire MC, Elias “Ash” Prescott III was usually a smooth talker. But his way with words failed him when it came to the sassy EMT who took care of his bullet wound.
Nora Stoll was not impressed when Ash asked her out the first time. Or when he stood her up after he finally talked her into a date. But when she’s taken by criminals in need of medical care, she knew Ash would come for her.
❤️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 ✔️ Motorcycle club ✔️ Age gap ✔️ Protective hero ✔️ Instalove ✔️ He falls first
❤️Review❤️ Ash has walked away from the affluent lifestyle he experienced growing up and is now a lawyer for the MC. When he finds himself injured the paramedic that comes to his aid is Nora and he knows he wants to see her again.
Nora is feisty and has no problem giving as good as she gets when it comes to Ash. When he cancels their date, she is going to ensure that he won’t repeat what happened on their first date.
The chemistry between them is undeniable and there is no one she would rather have by her side when the danger escalates.
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