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.
Under an Endless Moon by A.L. Jackson is now live in audio!
Narrated by: Connor Crais and Desireé Ketchum
I should have known I’d break the oath I made when I offered to let my best friend’s little sister move in with me…
She’s the sweetest woman on the face of the planet.
And to my great misfortune, the sexiest one, too.
She’s been living under her brother’s roof her entire life, and she’s ready to spread her wings.
And I’m the masochist who offers she stay at my place until she can find an apartment.
When I hear her having a nightmare, the only thing I can do is go to her. Hold her so she knows she’s safe from her demons.
The second she’s in my arms, the attraction I’ve tried to hide sparks to life. I know better than to push past the boundaries I’ve set for us, but when she begs me to touch her in a way she’s never been touched, I can’t resist.
And with my name on her lips as I send her soaring for the first time, I know there’s no going back.
I’m willing to break every rule and oath I’ve ever made to keep her.
Accept every consequence.
Only she and I have a dark, dangerous history that no one knows about.
And I’m afraid the consequences of loving her have just caught up to us…
A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.
🎧Review🎧 Raven has a difficult past, but she refuses to let it define her as she has always had her brother and his best friend Otto. She has been living with her brother but now that he has fallen in love it is time for her to move out. Until she finds a place of her own, she finds herself staying with Otto who has owned her heart since she was a teenager.
Otto feels regret and guilt for the events of the past and he is determined to protect Raven, but he doesn’t believe they can ever be together. He has always made her feel safe but now that they are living together keeping her safe from him may be the biggest challenge of all.
Raven and Otto take us on an emotional and suspenseful journey you won’t be able to put down. Raven is strength and resilience is a perfect match for the protector in Otto as they show they are each other’s equals in every way. Connor Crais and Desiree Ketchum do a wonderful job with the characters and you can feel the depth of their love through their portrayal.
Since I was a teenager, I’ve used baseball as a way to distract myself from everything my life was missing. I grew up too fast, taking care of my two younger brothers. They were all I had, until one day, they were taken away and I was alone. Being drafted by the Daytona Fury brought with it a gift I wasn’t expecting—my best friend, Jackson Blake. I’ve opened up to him about my past and he’s accepted me for who I am, but I’ve never felt fully understood…at least not until I met his stepsister. Arden makes me feel seen, and she’s secretly owned a piece of me for years. The problem? He’s in love with her too.
Jackson
I’ve known Arden Levine since we were kids, but by the time I was ready to shoot my shot with her, it was too late. Our parents’ whirlwind engagement and wedding turned us from friends to step siblings, and any chance at a future with her flew right out the window. I thought I was okay with knowing we could never be, but now that I’m forced to sit back and watch my best friend have everything I’ve always wanted but gave up on long ago, I’m not so sure.
Arden
As a member of Florida’s first professional volleyball team, the pressure to be perfect is constantly there. Some days, it’s great. Others, the darkness finds me and pulls me under. Jackson has always been a source of comfort, but now that I’m living with him and his best friend, Hawk Mason, I find myself seeking solace in both of them—each in very different ways. As confusing as my feelings for these two have been for a long time, I’m starting to wonder what it would be like to really have it all.
C.L. Rose is a wife and mother of two. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband, son, daughter, and dog, Tank. When she isn’t writing, you can find her reading in front of a space heater, wrapped in a thick blanket, probably complaining that she’s cold.
A relic hidden by the kings of Tarzinëa that holds a hidden power, has disappeared from its hiding place, leaving behind a beckon that calls to the chosen one.
In the kingdom of Tarza, Rachel is first in line for the throne. Confused at her true purpose, she jumps at the chance to discover her true path when chosen by the beckon. But Rachel finds the gods have a different destiny in mind for her.
Now cursed with visions of a far off shore Rachel finds she is taken beyond her kingdom—beyond the sea itself.
Rachel commanders a ship with two lords that seek to aide her in her quest. But love blooms on the journey to discovery that threatens to change her fate forever.
Will she choose love over her true destiny? Or will lovers break apart by the pull of the forces beyond their understanding?
And what’s the dragon stone have in store for her once she finds it?
Join Rachel, Lord Thomas, and Lord Amberhill as they embark on their quest beyond the waters of Tarza to discover what one woman’s destiny can truly be.
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When the game ends, will Cade prove he’s the real deal—or leave me blindsided?
Blindsided By The Enforcer, an all-new Fake Dating, Hockey romance, and book 3 of the Riverside U series from bestselling author R.C. Stephens is Available Now!
The perfect defense against my lying, manipulative ex? Fake date the enforcer for the Riverside U hockey team.
It’s the least Cade Price can do after I helped him save face when he caught his girlfriend playing tonsil hockey with another guy.
Convincing him to be my pretend boyfriend doesn’t take much—his cheating ex is already trying to crawl back into his life—and he’s desperate to prove he’s moved on.
Our arrangement is simple; no strings, no feelings. But he’s everything I didn’t expect: warm, fiercely protective, and far too easy to fall for.
Cade suggests we upgrade our fake relationship to one with benefits, but every kiss and touch feels more real than it should.
Now I’m starting to wonder if the only people we’re fooling is ourselves.
When the game ends, will Cade prove he’s the real deal—or leave me blindsided?
Keep Reading for a look inside Blindsided By The Enforcer!
“Take off your clothes and put the jersey on,” I say, my tone demanding.
“Oh, Cade, I didn’t realize you have an assertive side.” She giggles.
“Annie, I’ve been fantasizing seeing you in my jersey since I bought it at the campus store an hour ago.”
“Hmm, I like the sound of that. What else is involved in this fantasy of yours?” she asks. Her sultry tone makes me rock-hard.
“It involves me on my knees tasting your sweet pussy,” I tell her.
She licks her lips and removes her tank top. “I’m definitely game for that.”
“The bra too,” I say.
I hold her eye contact as she reaches to her back and unclasps the bra.
“You’re so beautiful. I don’t know what I did to deserve this, but I’ll take it.” I bite into my lower lip as her breasts spill free. I take a step toward her, needing to touch her nipples.
“Ah ah, you have to wait until I have the jersey on,” she says, getting into her role as seductress.
I take a step back and watch her slip on my jersey. She makes a show of swaying her hips as she pulls her shorts down, along with her panties.
“Take a seat on the bed, baby,” I urge. I’ve never been this turned on in my life, the hunger and need to taste her has my body burning with need.
She takes a seat and I kneel before her. “Spread your legs for me.”
She does as I say, and I dip my head between her thighs. Her fingers run through my hair as I taste her. “You taste so good.”
“Hmm,” she moans.
The angle is a bit off. “Let’s change this up,” I suggest. I lie on my back at the top of her bed. “Come here.”
“How?” she asks, looking confused and maybe out of her element.
“Spread your thighs on my face,” I say.
“Are you effing crazy, Cade?” she asks.
“I’m crazy about eating your pussy,” I answer. I’m crazy about her too, but this isn’t the time to freak her out more. I just need to show her how good we can be together. “I need you to trust me with this. I think you’ll enjoy it.”
She bites her lip for a moment, looking like she is contemplating. Then she shifts and straddles my face and holds on to her headboard.
“That’s it, baby.” I hold on to the globes of her ass, urging her to settle on my mouth. With the first stroke of my tongue, she moans, so I pick up the pace.
“OMG, Cade. This feels so good.”
I want to say I told you so but I don’t want to lose momentum.
I press her pussy into my tongue and go to town eating her. Her moans get louder. I smack her ass.
“Ride my face, baby. Take yourself over the edge,” I urge, pressing her pussy on my tongue as I lick her from clit to seam.
“Yes, Cade. OMG, so good. Too much.” She’s panting and moaning and it’s the sexiest thing in the world. She falls over the edge, head tipping back, as the sweetest sounds leave her. I lick up all her juices, continuing to lick her swollen pussy.
“It’s too much. It won’t stop,” she pants, riding me hard. Knowing I have her first experiences makes me rock-hard. When she slows down, I urge her beside me and she curls into my side. Her cheeks are flushed and she looks thoroughly fucked.
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When it comes to hockey Cade is torn between following the path his father wants him to take and the path that he wants to take. When he finds out that his girlfriend hasn’t been faithful all he wants to do is distance himself however she doesn’t make that easy but hopefully a pretend relationship with Annie will make things less complicated, right?
All Annie wants to do is finish school and return to help with her family’s dairy farm. After the way her ex treated her, she wants nothing to do with him however he isn’t about to just let her walk away. Pretending to be a couple seems like the perfect solution for them both.
Both Cade and Annie are going through a similar situation not only when it comes to their pasts but their families as well. This allows them to understand and support each other as their arrangement turns into a love that neither saw coming.
🔥 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 ➜ Outside The Wire (Owens Protective Services) by Giulia Lagomarsino is releasing in 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 #PreOrder today on #Amazon ➜ https://mybook.to/OutsideTheWire
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 I’ve been living Outside The Wire for the past five years. Struggling to survive after my wife killed herself has been hell, and the guilt has torn me up inside. I was barely breathing. Nothing helped. Not my friends talking to me. Not the run-down house I bought to fix up. And definitely not the alcohol I drowned myself in every night to rid myself of the nightmares. I missed all the signs. I never saw it coming. The bottle of pills she had on her that day had a permanent place in my pocket for way too long as a reminder of just how badly I’d let her down. Then came the storm. The pain was too much to take and all I wanted to do was end it all. And I almost went through with it. But then the cycle would have continued and my friends would be paying the price. So, I escaped. I wake every morning with a new take on life. My mind no longer revolves around the pain I once felt, and for the first time, I actually looked at another woman and wanted to kiss her. She’s a breath of fresh air, reminding me every day that not everything in life is tragic and horrible. We’re so insanely happy that this Hallmark romance is bound to nauseate a few people, including my boss and her best friend. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. Even her conspiracy-theorist dad made me smile the first time I met him. Life is just perfect. But the life I’m living is based on a lie. You can never truly escape your past. Burying the truth and pretending it never happened doesn’t actually work, and when the storm returns, sometimes, it’s like a tornado, tearing everything you love apart.
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Our agreement was strictly professional…until it wasn’t.
As an escort to the ultra-rich, I knew my place in the world. I’d mastered the art of blending in and keeping my true self—and my desires—hidden. When billionaire Eric Maxim hired me to be his date to an exclusive art show, I expected another impersonal arrangement. But Eric, with his piercing blue eyes and arrogant charm, was anything but ordinary.
Eric didn’t want complications. All he needed was a polished date for various events—not someone like me—a much younger woman who challenged him, exasperated him, and worst of all, made him feel.
Just as we were on the brink of something real, shadows from my past threatened to tear us apart. Would Eric and I find a way to overcome our fears and fight for the connection we never saw coming, or would doubt and betrayal destroy our chance at happiness?
Forbidden Desires is a steamy, age gap, billionaire romance about love, redemption, and finding the courage to truly be seen. One-click today to follow Jasmine and Eric’s story of love, betrayal and ultimately…happiness—HEA guaranteed!
Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 10 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring Dramione fan fiction or avoiding the laundry, you can find her binding books, and watching football (British & American) or HGTV. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.
Who forgets marrying a football player? Me, apparently. Turns out countless shots and a bad breakup lead to questionable decision making. But waking up in Vegas with a ring on my finger beside a hot, naked man is hard to ignore. I married Parker Wilder. Thanks to our quickie nuptials, I’ll get my inheritance, and he’ll get his family and their well-intentioned meddling off his back.
Forgetting the wedding was the easy part. Being married to him is a whole different story. Parker is too … everything. Chiseled by the gods good-looking. A heartbreaking kind of broody. The kind of man you know will wreck you for all others. Good thing this is all pretend. And oh, how we pretend. We pretend ourselves right into me ripping the clothes off his body.
It’s all fun and fake marriage until the day he gets a knock on the door with the surprise of a lifetime. Until the bomb goes off and we’re left to pick up the pieces. Until the pretending stops and we’re left with only one question: was any of it real?
💛Review💛 Parker is struggling with the aftermath of his father’s death which first led to some questionable choices and now have him trying to hide the depth of his feelings. He has been fighting his feelings for Anya for a while so when they both find themselves in Vegas it leads to an impulsive marriage that is beneficial for them both and neither wants to end.
Anya has recently ended a long-term relationship to a man who never deserved her. A get away to Vegas will allow her to distance herself from the situation but returning home married wasn’t part of the plan. Their pasts have made them both cautious which doesn’t make things easy.
Seeing Parker and Anya open their hearts and emotions to each other was both heart wrenching and inspiring. The characters draw you in and will have you invested in seeing them find the happiness they both deserve.
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.
Oliver comes across as a man who doesn’t have a care in the world and is content to work through the women in town one by one. Briar was a driving force in his past, both physically and emotionally, until she wasn’t. When fate bring her back into his life he is determined to reclaim the only woman he has ever loved even if means a little subterfuge to ensure that happens.
Years earlier Briar believed she had found her Prince Charming in Oliver only to realize that he is frog and reinforced her belief that love would never be part of her life. When an accident leaves her with amnesia even though she believes that she and Oliver are together she also feels that something isn’t quite right no matter how charming Oliver appears to be.
Seeing the side of Oliver that he keeps hidden was a revelation as he shows that when he loves he loves deeply and there is nothing he won’t do for those he cares about. Briar is his perfect match as she challenges him at every turn and makes him want to be a better man.
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.
Once in a while, after life gets you down, the universe throws you a bone. And if you’re really lucky, it comes in the form of a tattooed baby-wearing firefighter with piercing blue eyes and a heart of gold.
When Noah Hebert swung his axe and rescued me from a coffee shop bathroom, I had only a vague sense of who the tattooed lumberjack was. Turns out he’s more than broad shoulders and a thick beard. He’s a devoted single dad and my new neighbor.
Soon after, we find ourselves falling into an easy friendship. I help him with his fussy baby, and he helps me survive my ex-husband and little sister’s wedding. Despite my vow never to risk my heart again, my defenses quickly crumble. The sight of him rocking his sweet baby in those muscular, inked arms only makes matters worse. And when he defends me to my toxic family, the sparks of attraction between us catch fire.
I moved back here with a mission. Grow the food pantry and make our little town a better place. I can’t get mixed up with the grieving single dad, even if he likes to braid my hair and slow dance in the kitchen.
He moved across the country to escape the flames of his past and protect the little girl he now calls his own. But our town is sitting on a bed of secrets ready to ignite.
And when the heat causes my world to go up in smoke, I’m not sure it’s possible to sift through the rubble and find our happily ever after.
Author’s Note: Axe Backwards is a standalone small-town romance featuring a bleeding-heart heroine, a lumberjack firefighter, and a cute baby. If you enjoy single dads, fake dating, small-town shenanigans, lumberjack competitions, and baby sign language, you will not be disappointed. Come for the wood chopping, stay for the moose!
These former friends might be faking their engagement, but revealed crushes prove there might not be anything fictional about their arrangement.
In college, I often saw Judd Sylver in the library. He was a cool, broody type of guy who reminded me of a deeply tortured soul who might write poetry.
He was very different from the boy I met in third grade on National Make a New Friend Day when I passed him a note, asking if he wanted to be my new friend: Check yes or no.
(I’m a bit obsessed with calendar days.)
He was also vastly different from the young man who stood me up after I asked him to his prom.
Twenty years later, I can let bygones be bygones, especially when he rescues me from a bad date.
Then I witness him breaking up with his girlfriend which resulted in a sticky coffee drink on his chiseled cheeks and ice cubes on his fine-fitting jeans.
I offered him a napkin.
Hey, once a friend, always a friend, right? *insert sarcasm*
However, Judd takes us to the next level at my mother’s garden party, where a misunderstanding occurs with a teeny tiny slip of the tongue and a precious ring on my finger.
And suddenly, I’m Judd’s fiancée.
Fake or not, things are about to get a little too real with my old friend.
♡ public displays of “she’s mine, and I’ll burn the world down for her”
♡ unhinged hockey friend group
♡ girl group bonding
♡ poor girl/rich boy
♡ tracks her without her knowledge
♡ only soft for her
♡ he falls first
♡ touch her/ look at/ breathe near her and literally die
♡ virgin FMC & MMC
♡ somno w/ prior consent
♡ birth control refusal/tampering
♡ mirror play
♡ s*xting
♡ co*kwarming
♡ no third act break up
♡ no other woman drama
If he can’t have her, no one can.
Hayden Lockwood harbors a dark obsession with Madison Caldwell. The brooding hockey captain’s unhinged infatuation began the instant he laid eyes on the most untouchable girl on campus. The night his mother and her father were found slain amidst their affair, Hayden couldn’t tear his eyes away from the girl who didn’t shed a single tear. Hayden’s fixation on Madison deepens as he watches her every move, intervening at every imposing threat and sabotaging any potential suitor.
Madison can’t avoid the hothead hockey player when their surviving parents find comfort in each other and decide to marry. As their parents’ wedding approaches, a violent attack on campus forces Hayden and Madison to make life-altering choices. When someone threatens to expose the dark secrets of their elite circle, Hayden is forced to reveal just how obsessed he is with Madison, and how far he’s willing to go to protect her.
Kings of Castlebrook are elite hockey legacies born to cause trouble on and off the ice. Please read Pucking Obsessed with caution as it contains dark themes, and please note that this book is not enemies to lovers and there is no malice between the main characters.
The last thing I need while trying to make a success of my outdoor adventure company is a beautiful distraction. It takes all my focus to fight off the demons that remain from the injury that ended my career as a Royal Marine and deal with the clients that make me want to climb the nearest mountain and never come down.
But Parker Lawrence walks into our office, takes over a phone call, and changes everything. My desperate desire to keep her close has nothing to do with the fact that she’s sunshine personified—sweet, capable, and completely unfazed by my grumpitude and total lack of charm.
She’s also hiding something. I should mind my own business, but this bright Southern belle has gotten under my skin, and I want to save her every bit as much as it feels like she’s saving me.
When her secret catches up to her, I’ll do anything to keep her safe, even if those overprotective instincts risk driving away the best thing that’s ever walked into my life.
The aftermath of Callum’s military career has left him both physically and emotionally scarred. He has moved to Glenlaig to open a business with his two best friends however dealing with people is not his forte. When he becomes involved in an altercation with a client the way that Parker came to his rescue convinces him to hire her.
Parker wants independence and has escaped her life to try and obtain it. She isn’t sure is Glenlaig is where she wants to stay but it provides a safe landing place when she is given a job. Her outgoing personality is exactly what Callum needs in his life, and it isn’t long before being co-workers or friends isn’t enough.
There is an element of suspense and the romance between them is heartwarming. She helps him open up and let people see the man he truly is while he is protective without being overbearing
Meet Kait Nolan:
Kait Nolan is a USA Today best selling, RITA® Award-winning Mississippi author who calls everyone sugar, honey, or darlin’, and can wield a ‘Bless your heart’ like a Snuggie or a saber, depending on requirements. She believes in love, laughter, and that tacos are the world’s most perfect food. When she’s not writing, reading, or wrangling family (both the two-legged and the four-), you can find her obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off.
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.
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