NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you the continuation of the stand-alone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. “Are You Ready?” is an age gap, single mom, found family, small-town romance.
Forrest
The moment I met Briar, I couldn’t stay away. She’s my sister’s friend, but that didn’t stop me. Especially after her daughters stole twin pieces of me.
I might have inked her flawless skin, but she’s the one under mine. Something about her draws me in, even when she pushes me away.
Every time we’re together, it feels like I’m home. I want to give her my heart, my time, and my love—not just to her but to her daughters too. I’ll do whatever it takes to prove I’m the man they can depend on.
Briar
I never thought I’d fall in love again, not after everything I’ve been through. Then Forrest walked into my life, turning everything upside down.
He’s tough on the outside—with his tattoos and confidence—but underneath, he’s gentle, patient, and kind—especially with my girls. He shows he cares in small, consistent ways, even letting the twins paint his nails, making them sparkle.
The fact that they adore him scares me, because it’s not just my heart at risk if he leaves. I love him more than I’ve let myself believe. But now, I’m ready to admit it—to him and myself. The next time he asks me, I’ll be ready.
Briar’s life experiences have shown her that the only person she can trust is her twin sister. She doesn’t allow many people close and is determined to protect not only her heart but the hearts of her four-year-old twin daughter River and Rayne. She may have feelings for Forrest, but she isn’t sure if she is ready to open her heart to anyone and that includes him even if he seems perfect in every way.
Forrest is happy that his sister has found love, but it also reinforces that he wants the same thing for himself. From his first meeting with Briar, he knows that she completes his world, and her daughters quickly capture his heart as well, but he knows that he will have to be patient and understanding and show her that she can count on him to be there for her.
Briar has endured more than any person should have to and Forrest was everything as he showed her that she was no longer alone and that she and her daughters were his whole world and that there wasn’t anything he wouldn’t do to protect them and ensure their happiness.
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.
As the head elf at Santa’s Christmasland, I never expected to be butting heads with the new executive—or going on a date with him. But when he asked me to go home with him for Christmas, I surprised myself by saying yes.
Oh, and he’s from the North Pole.
And apparently, I’m an elf.
Teddy Claus
Training to take over the family business was no small undertaking, but for the last few years, I’d been working my way up through the ranks, mastering each branch of our enterprise.
But everything was different when I arrived at our Christmas themed amusement park and met her.
Maybe that was why I invited her home with me for Christmas.
It felt like I’d been searching my whole life for something, and I’d finally found it.
Maybe, what I’d needed all along was Ivy by my side.
✨TEASER: GROUCH-ISH by @lbdunbarwrites releasing November 19th!#PreOrderNow https://a.co/d/55DnlRm Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🎄silver fox 🔥single dad 🎄fireman x boss’s daughter 🔥snowed-in 🎄holiday romance
Let’s start here. The twelve days of Christmas are actually after the holiday. And my dad, being the great guy he is, and the fire department’s battalion chief, signs up one of his rebellious firefighters for a retreat because of his bad behavior. The guy is a total grouch. But when the grumpy silver fox misses the bus for the adult redemption camp, Dad sticks him with me for twelve days. Alone. So, on the dozen days some mysterious true love—which I have yet to experience—should be bringing me gifts, like French hens and golden rings, I’m in charge of this firebird on our pear farm. Being the city man he is, he doesn’t have a clue how to can fruit, mend fences, or milk cows. But he knows how to kiss . . . Not that we should be doing such a thing. Only his silver beard is sexy, and his crooked smile kind of sweet. He has this alpha energy vibrating around his well-honed body but underneath the grumpy exterior is a man lonely for something more in his life, like me. And instead of gifting each other random birds, leaping lords, and piping pipers, the gift we give one another is time . . . and our bodies. But what about our hearts? Maybe true love will strike after all. A lot can happen in twelve days. + + + In a new tradition from L.B. Dunbar comes another holiday hottie certain to heat up your holidays.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁: » Hockey Romance » Alpha Males » Found Family » Trip of a Lifetime » Sports Fiction » Scheming Raven named Monty » Later in Life » Meeting Second Generations » On the Road
🏒 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥-𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 but you can catch up with the entire Chicago Steel Series now with #KindleUnlimited ➜ https://mybook.to/ChicagoSteelSeries
My pack thinks I’m stoic. In truth, I’m a murderer who has never shaken off the scars of my first kill when I was a child. Once my life was forfeit, now it belongs to my King. And when the Panther King orders me to retrieve his mate from the chaos happening on Earth, I do it without asking questions.
That is until my first whiff of the woman who my panther believes is his fated mate.
She will undoubtedly be my queen.
But does my loyalty rest with the crown the king, my best friend, wears?
Or at the feet of a witch whose touch is forbidden to me?
Julia Wolf has revealed the covers for See It Through!
Releasing: December 12, 2024
Cover Designer: Y’all. That Graphic.
Photographer: Madison Webb
This house isn’t big enough for the both of us…
Remington Town is the estranged son of my beloved mentor and my older brother’s former best friend. He’d once been like a member of my family, but he left our small town of Sugar Brush, Wyoming thirteen years ago and never looked back. When he finally shows up a month after his father passed away, as far as I’m concerned, he should’ve stayed gone.
Remi’s back in town to settle his father’s estate, but he’s in for a surprise when he finds out the old farmhouse he intends to sell is now half mine.
I expect Remi to hit the road just like he did all those years ago, but infuriatingly, he settles in like he plans on staying for a while. It’s impossible to avoid him since I run my farrier business out of the house he’s now haunting. Everywhere I turn, I seem to find him–and sometimes he’s not wearing any clothes.
When push comes to shove and I’m in danger, Remi stands by me without question. His steady, surprisingly gentle presence softens me to him. Soon, a tentative friendship leads to a fiery passion neither of us saw coming.
Remi and I find solace and beauty in each other, but behind the picturesque facade of our small town lurks an ugliness. Someone doesn’t like me having all that I do, and if they have their way, I’ll be left with nothing at all.
Julia Wolf writes sexy rockers, broken bad boys, snarky heroines, and bad ass women. She’s a firm believer in happily ever afters, no matter how rocky the road is to get there.
Julia lives in Maryland with her husband and three crazy, beautiful children. When she’s not writing romance, she’s reading it. Some of her favorite things are, in no particular order: goats, books, coffee, and Target.
A fiery second-chance, sizzling romance in which two former spouses are forced back into each other’s lives—whether they like it or not.
My grandmother always had a flair for drama.
At eighteen, I was forced to marry so I could pay my college tuition.
Enter Caleb Cunningham: my best friend’s brother and Navy SEAL.
I needed my inheritance, he needed money to cover his dad’s hospital bills.
It seemed like a win-win.
The marriage didn’t last, but that’s okay. It was a marriage of convenience.
At least, that’s what I told myself.
Over a decade later, Grandma’s still pulling the strings from beyond the grave.
Her last wish? For me to live with my estranged husband for six months, or I lose everything—my company and my employees’ livelihoods included.
Now, I’m stuck with Caleb, the rugged, infuriating, and the man who once broke my heart. The deal is simple: he’ll stay with me for the next six months as long as I give him… well, everything.
He wants control.
He wants my grandmother’s penthouse.
And, of course, he wants the Bentley.
Caleb seems determined to make my life hell, and he’s enjoying every minute of it.
But if he thinks I’m going down without a fight, he’s got another thing coming. It takes two to make a marriage, and it’ll take two to crash it into the ground.
That is until I woke up in Vegas married to a former hockey player who also happens to be my best friend’s ex.
Cole Hebert and I are opposites. I’m the new town doctor, a rule follower, and five-five on a good day. He’s the six-seven bad boy currently doing court-ordered community service.
I’m struggling to earn the respect of the people in our hometown, and he’s doing some soul searching after an injury ended his hockey career. We’ve already drunkenly said I do, so we agree to a marriage of convenience.
Forced to live together, we slowly become friends. I see a side of Cole I never knew existed. He coaches kids’ hockey, knits for the entire town, and loves snuggling while watching Jeopardy.
Soon, we’re growing closer, and the way the hockey-playing lumberjack worships my plus-size body and obsessively calls me his wifey has me embracing my inner bad girl and tearing down all my carefully constructed walls.
Our feelings eventually burn as bright as our passion, but the small town we both love is harboring dark secrets. After a shocking discovery, we learn there are those who want us silenced forever, and we’re forced to risk it all to protect our happily ever after.
Author’s Note: If you enjoy opposites attract, flirty banter, possessive heroes, wood-chopping, meddling moose, and small-town hijinks, you will not be disappointed.
Welcome to Lovewell, Maine, where the moose outnumber the people and you can’t swing an axe without hitting a hot, grumpy lumberjack. The books of the Maine Lumberjacks Series are ALL standalones but are most fun when read in order!
Widower Alexander Cartwright has one thing on his mind—his kids. He plans on keeping it that way until his mother hires a sassy, free spirited nanny to watch them during the holidays.
Art teacher Phoebe Love needs a job and to take a secret time out from her long-term, not always nice boyfriend. She plans to focus on the two boys and figure her situation out, but their father isn’t making that easy on her.
There are three rules I live by: My boys come first, the rest of my family second, and never mix business with pleasure.
I take pride that I’ve never broken these.
Until her.
She’s a wildcard—the type of woman I never chase.
She has no straightforward plan for her life.
Her version of how to be strict with my boys is laughable.
I swear, she selects her outfits based on what tattoo she wants to peek out, just to make me wonder all day what the rest of it looks like against her flesh.
And that blush she somehow has nailed everytime I look at her, wreaks havoc everywhere it shouldn’t.
The most annoying thing about her?
She’s taken by a neanderthal who treats her like crap (based on the phone conversations I’ve secretly overheard).
So I just have to get through the holidays.
Her two month gig can’t be over soon enough.
Or can it?
Holiday Hire is a billionaire single-dad/nanny romance. It’s a slow-burn, steamy, standalone novel with a strict widower father and a fun-loving, carefree nanny. This workplace love story is sure to keep you entertained.
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🏈 Football Player / Sports Romance
💕 Second Chance Romance
🏈 Single Guardian
💕 Pediatric doctor
🏈 No third act breakup
💕 Found family
🏈 Forced Proximity
Wildflower and Wide Receivers is a second-chance, contemporary sports romance about our hero who unexpectedly becomes a single guardian over his five-year-old niece and the one who got away.
When fate throws a second chance . . . catch it.
Jonah Dallmann
Over two years ago, I met a woman on New Year’s Eve, and it was the best night of my life. That is until the next morning when it became the worst.
One voice message. One swerve over a double yellow line. One little girl, my niece, that’s now mine.
It hasn’t been easy, these things never are, but we’re trying. Now, I’m twenty-six, and determined to be the best wide receiver on our team, while she’s seven and spends her days reading books and dancing ballet.
Only, I haven’t just grieved the loss of my brother, but her too. My heart has ached for what could have been, and what I had to let go. I know what I did to her was wrong, unfortunately, I never had an opportunity to explain that at the time I thought I was right. But as the door opens and she steps in wearing green scrubs and a long white coat, shock ripples through me and hope that I might finally get the chance.
Sophie Black
I always wondered if this day would come, but I never expected to see him here, with her, in one of my patient rooms. He’s even better looking than I remember and giving off single dad vibes, too, as he cares for his adorable niece. A niece I didn’t know he had.
I was surprised when he asked if he could see me again, but I instantly declined. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Only now we keep running into each other, and I’m confused. Is fate throwing us a second chance, and if so, should I catch it?
Author Jerica MacMillan has revealed the cover for her upcoming release The Christmas Cookie Crush!
This sweet and spicy holiday romance is sure to lift your spirits!
Blurb:
She hates me. And I have no idea why …
Yeah, I teased her when we were kids. It’s what you do when your best friend’s little sister hangs around. But nothing bad enough to earn this level of hatred … right?
Now I’m back in Arcadian Falls to help with my grandparents’ bakery, and when Nora walks in, I’m genuinely happy to see her. Except, she’s not the tomboy with scraped knees anymore. She’s stunning—and she can’t stand me.
Determined to fix whatever I messed up, I try everything.
A free scone? Shot down.
Sour candy as a joke? Fail. Actually, worse than a fail.
Her favorite Christmas cookies? I think I might be on to something …
Maybe, just maybe, some holiday spirit will sweeten the past—and give me a chance to make things right.
The Christmas Cookie Crush is a small-town Christmas romance. Watch Nora fall for her brother’s childhood best friend in this sweet enemies to lovers romance full of banter, family, and all the Christmas feels!
A Rose Ridge Christmas by Ashley Munoz releases December 6th!Cover Design:
Echo Grayce with Wildheart Graphics
#Preorder ⇒ https://books2read.com/RRCIt’s a rare Christmas blizzard in Rose Ridge, but the Stone Riders are under attack.
It’s been years since the club has been at war, but this particular threat has everyone worried about who it is that’s after them.
When it’s discovered this may be an old foe from years earlier, there is only one person who might have more information but he’s gone missing.
While the parents strive to ensure the safety of their children and The members must pull their families in and hide inside the clubhouse, the older kids find a way to save Christmas, and maybe even create a little magic while doing it.
This novella is told from various points of view, with a glimpse ten years into the future from where the final installment in the Stone Riders series ended. This is also a prequel for a second gen series that will be coming in the near future.
FORBIDDEN DREAMS
Natasha Madison
Release Date: January 3
Meet Natasha Madison:
When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…
When you’re born into a dynasty, you’re never fully free.
I had one goal and I achieved it––keeping my friends safe. But leaving the girl with silver eyes is the hardest thing I ever did.
When danger threatens the people I love, I return to the place that never felt like home, to friends who think of me as a traitor and to the one girl who wants nothing to do with me.
The more I try to stay out, the harder she pulls me in.
I am only human after all and she’ll see what happens when she plays games.
Mia
When Blake left, he made a choice––and it wasn’t me.
Day by day, I stitched my broken heart back together and now he’s back.
He thinks he’s protecting me from the threat of his father, but his presence tortures me. I know he’ll never give me what I crave most.
What I didn’t expect is him losing a bit more control each passing day.
It’s both thrilling and terrifying but ready or not, he’s here to consume me.
The threat to end my life should I dare go near her.
Julian Baker had it all. Stunning good looks, wealth, intelligence, and the girl. To everyone around him, he was Mr. Perfect.
Fate was never on his side, and much like a domino effect, his life starts to spiral out of control. Behind the mask lies a broken man, haunted by his tragic past. In a bid to forget, he finds himself desperately trying to hold on to someone who is equally unattainable, Charlotte Edwards.
In a last ditch effort to save himself, Julian reaches out for help, but the universe has other plans when someone completely unexpected walks into his life, and an unlikely friendship is formed.
Once Upon a Christmas Tree by Lulu Moore is now available for pre-order in audio!
Narrated by: CJ Bloom and Shane East
Releasing: November 15, 2024
A swoony, one night stand, holiday, vacation romance by bestselling author Lulu Moore
Alexander, Lord Burlington, hates the holidays.
But duty calls. This year he’s willing to set his feelings aside for the sake of his eldest brother who’s just been left at the altar – sending shockwaves through British high society – as they escape London for the snow capped mountains of Aspen.
However, it soon becomes obvious that Colorado in December wasn’t the best place to go for someone who usually out-grinches The Grinch.
Haven Wylder has spent the last four years paying off debts her parents left when they died. Between working on her ranch, or in her Christmas store and taking on every other job she can, there’s been no time for fun. But if there’s one thing guaranteed to put a smile on her face it’s the holidays and the annual gingerbread decorating competition.
What she wasn’t expecting was the tall, handsome stranger with the accent to die for who,*gasp*, hates Christmas.
It doesn’t take long for Haven to start changing Alex’s mind. It has nothing to do with her berry red lips and glossy caramel curls tumbling down her back, or her big doe eyes as green as the Christmas trees she selling. Or the way she fills out her jeans.
None at all.
Alexander will never not despise Christmas, but a fling with Haven Wylder might be just the thing to make it a little more bearable. That is… if he can leave her and their unforgettable connection behind.
Lulu started writing by accident, and somehow found herself stuck in a fictional world of ice hockey, baseball and billionaires. A world she has no plans to leave. She’s the creator of The New York Players Series, The Tuesday Club Series, and The New York Lions – the worst team in the M.L.B.
More recently she’s ventured across the Atlantic to where her latest novel is set – the beautiful cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the annual rowing showdown on the River Thames.
She’s a big fan of strong heroines, because those fierce alphas need someone to keep them in check. You’ll find hear navigating her way through Romance Land one HEA at a time, and trying to figure out the latest social media platform she needs to post to.
.png)
.png)
Kari's Book Reviews and Revelations 