𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒆: 𝑨 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝑱𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒆 by Amber Kelly releases next weeek. We are thrilled to share this teaser with you!!
I am a ballet dancer from New York City, currently in Lake Mistletoe, Idaho, to perform as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker at the Sun Valley Ski Resort. After my breakup with my boyfriend, I needed a break from my fast-paced life. This quiet, snow-covered town seemed like the perfect escape. Staying at The Gingerbread Inn feels like stepping into a holiday postcard. However, what really catches me off guard is Dutch.
Dutch is the electrical engineer working on the sets, and he’s a single dad to Josie, an adorable little girl who loves ballet. As I bond with Josie, I find myself drawn to Dutch in a way I didn’t expect, and the life I left behind in Manhattan starts to feel distant. He’s a different kind of distraction. He’s not the type of guy I usually go for—he’s all flannel, muscle, and practicality. But there’s something about him that’s hard to ignore.
What starts as a hot holiday fling turns into something more, and I begin to wonder if small-town life, with its snow-covered streets and warm, welcoming people, is what I’ve been searching for. Maybe Lake Mistletoe isn’t just a temporary stop but the beginning of my second chance at love.
A YOUNG MAN DISAPPEARS in the California gold country. He leaves behind a gold-flecked rock and a vial of toxic mercury. He is a misfit in the modern world, a throwback to Gold Rush days.
A hotshot venture capitalist—whose gold country is Silicon Valley—hires forensic geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws to track his missing brother.
The geologists are hooked by the story of this lost man, this wounded soul. And they have the skills to find him. It’s what they do: view a rock under the microscope and unravel a mystery. Solve a crime. Prevent a crisis. Find a missing person.
Joined by their edgy client, Cassie and Walter track the mineral clues deep into the wilderness. Their journey soon turns harrowing, plunging into the dark history of the legendary lands, into the dark past of the brothers, into a poisonous sibling feud that threatens both lives and the land.
And they are not the only ones on the hunt.
All books in the series are standalone novels and can be enjoyed in any order.
Dog trainer and handler, Jillian Lederman, is moving with her pack to Libby, Montana, a place where she has made friends and hopes to find a fresh start. It’s time. For years, she’s just been keeping her wounds fresh by staying in Missoula—where there were regular reminders of all she’s lost—while the rest of the world has continued to move forward.
Perhaps the new house, the beautiful mountains, and a certain pair of clear, blue eyes hold the promise of new beginnings.
Since changing careers years ago, former FBI agent Lucas Wolff has found a much better work-life balance as a member of High Mountain Trackers. Still able to serve his community, he has also been carving out a comfortable existence for himself and is not looking to make any changes to it anytime soon. Not even for a particular bold and ballsy redhead he’s been trying to avoid.
That turns out to be an impossible feat when a plane crash during a blizzard sets both of them on the trail of a young girl, all alone in the mountains. But it soon becomes evident they are not the only ones looking, and staying safe means sticking close together.
“Oh, Jillian, I’d like you to meet my son, Lucas.” I meet those pretty green eyes, now sparkling with amusement. Of course a dog named Peanut would belong to this woman. She named her cadaver dog, Emo, after all. Hell, I knew she recently moved to the area—Sloane mentioned it more than once—but I wasn’t expecting to run into her at my mother’s assisted-living home. That’s a little too close for comfort. “So you do have a first name; Lucas, huh?” “You already know each other?” Mom looks back and forth between us. “We do. How are you doing, Jillian?” She adjusts the small furball she’s holding in her arms. “Good, thanks.” I turn to my mother to explain, “Jillian and I met working on a search last summer.” Despite my immediate attempt to identify our connection as a professional one only, I see Mom’s mind already at work behind the gleam in her eyes. Great.
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After leaving the FBI Lucas has returned to his hometown and joined the High Mountain Trackers. He believed that he was content being single until Jillian comes into his life. Those feelings only grow stronger when he and Jillian work together to help rescue a missing child.
Jillian moved to town to try and distance herself from the pain of her past. She has her dogs for company and doesn’t believe she is ready to open her heart to love. As she and Lucas spend time together on a search, she sees the loyal and protective man he is as he helps her heal from what she has been through.
Suspense, action and romance combine into an adventurous story that you won’t be able to put down as Jillian and Lucas fight for the happiness they both deserve.
USA Today bestselling author Freya Barker loves writing about ordinary people with extraordinary stories. With forty-plus books already published, she continues to create characters who are perhaps less than perfect, each struggling to find their own slice of happy. Recipient of the ReadFREE.ly 2019 Best Book We’ve Read All Year Award for “Covering Ollie, the 2015 RomCon “Reader’s Choice” Award for Best First Book, “Slim To None”, Finalist for the 2017 Kindle Book Award with “From Dust”, and Finalist for the 2020 Kindle Book Award with “When Hope Ends”, Freya spins story after story with an endless supply of bruised and dented characters, vying for attention!
It was supposed to be one night to feel alive after getting out of a dud of a relationship. Now I’m having a baby, and I only have the soon-to-be dad’s first name.
After my breakup, I need to find a job and place to live, but I can’t move into the house my grandma left me unless I’m married. Fortunately, the guy renting the place doesn’t know that, so I stop by and find out if he can move at the end of his lease.
Only when the door opens, it’s him. My one-night stand. I do the only reasonable thing possible. I tell him we’re going to have a baby and promptly puke over the railing of the porch. Next thing I know, I’m on his couch, and he’s demanding a paternity test.
Except he doesn’t just want the test. He wants to make sure I don’t tamper with the results. He doesn’t believe me. Apparently showing up jobless and homeless to persuade him to move doesn’t make me trustworthy. Guess I’m not the only one with a dating history that leaves me jaded.
He insists I stay in the house that should be mine, right where he can monitor me. And the longer I’m around him, the more I can see that below his gruff exterior is a softie who planted acres of pumpkins for his cousin. A guy who wants to reconnect with his family. A man who makes me want to be more to him than violet promises.
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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.
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In a new tradition from L.B. Dunbar comes another holiday hottie certain to heat up your holidays.
A collection that takes you on a journey that is replete with unmissable flairs of poetic brilliance, many layers of writing that as a reader you will want to dive into the emotional variety of her words, if you’re discovering her for the first time through this book, you are likely to go on a binge read in the beginning in a curious exploration of her versatility. Getting to know her softness, her toughness and the wide spectrum in between is being able to see her in the words she writes; a unique gift and treasure.
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While tracking down an escaped felon, FBI Special Agent Evan McGarry and his
K-9, Blue, uncover a smoking hot lead on the location of dozens of missing
children―including Evan’s own sister. The shocking discovery reopens cold cases
throughout Colorado, along with painful wounds and the heartbreaking guilt
Evan’s kept buried for decades.
Three years ago, hospital custodian Marlie Foxe’s world imploded, causing her
to cut herself off from the world. But when one of the missing boys turns up at
her hospital, he only allows Marlie to get close. Now, Evan needs her help with
the boy―and he won’t take no for an answer. When she finally agrees to work
with him, Evan suspects there’s more to the woman than she’s letting on. She’s
hiding something. The question is what.
As Evan and Marlie unearth a cult targeting runaways, they’re forced to
confront not only dangerous criminals but the truths they’ve both been
avoiding―including the blistering passion they can no longer deny. But when
more children disappear, they’ll have to risk more than just their hearts.
Each book in the K-9 Special Ops series is STANDALONE:
* Tough Justice
* Burning Justice
* Ultimate Justice
“Ultimate
Justice is romantic suspense done right! It has great
characters, a riveting plot, and sizzling romance.
Tee O’Fallon’s law enforcement background shines through in the realistic and
suspenseful plot… The story moves at a brisk pace that will
keep the pages flying… This is one of my favorite books of the year and Tee
O’Fallon is an author to seek out.” – Just Another Damn Book Blog
What Evan and his family went through impacted him to not only join the FBI but to protect those who are most vulnerable with the assistance of his K9 partner Blue. When his latest investigation leads him to Noah it opens a door to his past and he wonders if Noah may have information, he doesn’t realize he has. The only problem is that the only person he will talk to is Marlie, who is a janitor at the hospital.
Marlie has a tragic past and she is not living a very different life than the one she had been living. She doesn’t allow many people close, but she feels a connection to Noah. She and Noah now find themselves joining forces with Evan trying to save other children like Noah however as the feelings between them escalate so does the danger around them.
The characters and their story will draw you in and have you feeling for what they have all endured. The suspense keeps you on edge, the surprises keep coming and if anyone deserves a happy ever after all they have been through it is this couple.
Tee O’Fallon is
the author of the Federal K-9 Series and the NYPD Blue & Gold Series. Tee
has been a federal agent for twenty-three years and is now a police
investigator, giving her hands-on experience in the field of law enforcement
that she combines with her love of romantic suspense. When not writing, Tee
enjoys cooking, gardening, chocolate, lychee martinis, and spending time with
her Belgian Sheepdogs Loki and Kyrie. Tee loves hearing from readers and can be
contacted via her website https://teeofallon.com where you can also sign up for
Tee’s newsletters.
Tropes: Marriage of Convenience, Hurt Heroine, Revenge, Standalone, Mafia Romance, Accidental Pregnancy, Marriage in Crisis
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𝗔 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿.
As an enforcer for the Famiglia, Maximus Trevisan has no trouble hurting others, but when he’s forced to hurt someone he’s meant to protect, 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹.
Sara’s plans for her future were simple. Marry the man she was promised to, have several children, and build a happy family.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀, she’s left with no choice but to marry Maximus. It’s the last thing she wants, but it’s a burden she’s willing to carry in order to protect her family’s honor.
Cora Reilly is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature.
Cora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. When she doesn’t spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world.
Maggie Cole is committed to bringing her readers alphalicious book boyfriends and fiercely strong heroines.
She’s been called the literary master of steamy romance. Her books are full of raw emotion, suspense, and will always keep you wanting more. She is a masterful storyteller of contemporary romance and loves writing about broken people who rise above the ashes.
Maggie lives in Florida with her son. She loves tennis, yoga, paddleboarding, boating, other water activities, and everything naughty.
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.
🔥Review🔥 After his wife passed away Alexander has been trying to balance the responsibilities of the ranch and being a single father to his two sons. Now that his parents are going to be away for a few months he believes he can handle it all on his own so he is resistant to their plan of hiring a nanny especially one he meets Phoebe.
Phoebe needs to take a step back from her life and what better way than to accept a nanny arrangement which will give her the time and distance she needs. It doesn’t take long for the boys to win her heart and Alexander isn’t far behind but are their past too much to overcome?
Phoebe’s feisty and laidback personality is exactly who Alexander didn’t know he needed as she bring light and love into his and his family’s lives.
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the next book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team.
Trust Laramie Briscoe to provide engaging characters in a well-built world I want to revisit again and again. Carly Phillips, NY Times bestselling author. Madden
Being the newest member of the Laurel Springs Police Department and the LSERT hasn’t been easy. I’m trying to carve out a place of my own where family bonds run deep in this tight-knit group of men. They haven’t been unwelcoming, but I yearn to truly belong.
In both Laurel Springs, and the LSERT. The one friend I can count on is my K-9 partner, Donut. We’re working hard to prove our spot in the police department, and find a sense of home.
When I’m thrust into the role of school resource officer for the local elementary school, I never anticipate being drawn into an investigation that threatens to unravel the fabric of Laurel Springs. Going back to the origins of the Moonshine Task Force. Nor do I expect a little boy with sad eyes and his hot aunt to wiggle their way into my heart. Becca My new life as a dispatcher is a far cry from the dreams I had before I took custody of my nephew. I’ve put a lot on hold to make sure he has what he needs, and the stability he craves.
But Madden? He’s a beacon of warmth and strength during an emotionally cold time for me. Despite my resolve to focus just on being a guardian, there’s a spark between us, igniting a flame I thought was long gone.
As we navigate what is becoming an increasingly complex situation, we discover that in the craziness of chaos, love has a way of finding it’s place. Even in the darkest of nights.
With her brother facing an extended time in prison Becca is now raising her nephew Mick. She has been attracted to her co-worker Madden for a while but when he and his K9 partner are assigned at the school where Mick attends it brings them closer.
Madden was waiting for the right time to pursue Becca but when he meets Mick he realizes that he is a kindred soul and he is determined to be there for both of them.
Madden and Becca understand each other in a way that others don’t as they are both dealing with some family drama but they prove that as long as they have each other they can overcome anything.
Laramie Briscoe is the USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of over 30 books, with sales of over half a million copies.
Since self-publishing her first book in May of 2013, Laramie has appeared on the Top 100 Bestselling E-books Lists on Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Her books have been known to make readers laugh and cry. They are guaranteed to be emotional, steamy reads.
When she’s not writing alpha males who seriously love their women, she loves spending time with friends, reading, and marathoning shows on Netflix. Married to her high school sweetheart, Laramie lives in Bowling Green, KY with her husband.
Kathryn Andrews is a #1 Inspirational Romance Bestselling Author who loves stories that end with a happily ever after. She started writing at age seven and never stopped. Kathryn is known for Chasing Clouds, the Starving for Southern series, and her much loved Hale Brothers series. Her stories are sweet, southern, and fall into the genres of chi-lit, contemporary romance, sports romance, and southern fiction.
Kathryn graduated from the University of South Florida with degrees in Biology and Chemistry, and currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She spends her days as a sales director for a medical device company and her nights lost in her love of fictional characters.
When Kathryn is not crafting beautiful worlds that incorporate some of her most favorite real life places, she can be found hanging out with her husband and two young sons, while drinking iced coffee and enjoying the sun.
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?
🏈 Review🏈 The night that Jonah spent with Sophie was unforgettable which left him wanting more until a tragedy has him raising his five-year-old niece Vivi alone. He regrets that he never reached out to Sophie however life got in the way. He never expected to see her again and he certainly didn’t expect that she would be the doctor who would handle Vivi’s injury.
It’s been two years since Jonah disappeared after their night together and she still has so many questions. Learning about the choice that Jonah made a couple years earlier it only deepens her feelings for them but will this be their chance to overcome the mistakes of their past.
Sophie and Jonah never had the opportunity to see what their relationship was destined to be. When fate brings them back together, they know special their relationship is as they take us on a romantic journey filled with all the feels.
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