The Invitation by Adriana Locke is now live!

I hate Ripley Brewer.

So, why am I cuddling on his lap, peering into his ocean-blue eyes while cameras record our every move?

My best friend needs my help to save her career, and I would do anything for her. Besides, filming a reality show sounds fun … until Ripley shows up to play the role of my fake boyfriend.

As always, we nearly come to blows within minutes of seeing each other. The playboy billionaire accuses me of a setup, but I insist I’d rather live in a world without carbs than spend a minute with him.

At some point during the melee, we sign contracts. I can’t stand the look of his six feet two inches of chiseled abs and broad shoulders. And I loathe his arrogance. But now that he’s my pretend beau, I’m stuck acting like I’m falling in love with my biggest enemy.

It turns out that Ripley’s a good actor, too. Every soft touch on the small of my back makes my heart thump faster. His sultry smirk feels like it’s only for me. I should detest every word that passes his kissable lips.

Is this all a ruse, or does Ripley want to end this episode of The Invitation going from enemies to lovers? Because now? I’m not convinced I can despise him anymore.

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USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.

She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.

Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.

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💜Review💜
Georgia will do anything for those she cares about so when her best asks her to participate in a reality show she can’t say no. She might have felt different is she realized that her co-star would be Ripley who has been her biggest nemesis for years.

The one thing that Ripley and Georgia have in common is that he too will do anything for those he cares about. Finding out that they are about to be castmates doesn’t sit well with each of them, but they can be professional while on the set and enemies off however lines are about to get very blurry.

The banter between them is humorous and they are both dealing with some family drama. As they are forced to spend time together it allows them to look at their feelings and their relationship honesty and see what they truly mean to each other.

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AXE-IDENTALLY MARRIED

Daphne Elliot

Release Date: October 28

Meet Daphne Elliot:

In High School, Daphne Elliot was voted “most likely to become a romance novelist.” After spending the last decade as a corporate lawyer, she has finally embraced her destiny. Her small town steamy novels are filled with flirty banter, sexy hijinks, and lots and lots of heart.

Daphne is a coffee-drinking, hot-sauce loving introvert who spends all her free time in her garden. She lives on a small farm in New England with her husband, two kids, two dogs, twelve backyard chickens and a hive of Italian honeybees.

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Blurb:

I used to be a good girl.

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: Axe-identally Married is a marriage of convenience romance featuring a sassy plus-size doctor and a cinnamon roll hockey player with a heart of gold. 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!

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🪓Review🪓
Cole is trying to adjust to a very different life after his career as a professional hockey player ended and the family dynamics, he finds himself embroiled in. A trip to Vegas was supposed to be an opportunity to support his brother until he and Willa wake up married. Pretending it never happened is not an option so for the sake of both their reputations they decide to stay married and what happens next will surprise them both.

Willa is trying to show that she is worthy of taking over for her father as the town doctor, so an impromptu wedding is not going to help that cause. As she learns more about Cole and his life, she realizes that neither she nor the rest of the town know who he really is, and she wants everyone to see the caring man she has come to know.

Willa and Cole are kindred souls and each other’s support system through every challenge they face. I enjoyed the evolution of both characters and their relationship as their love made each other stronger and is filled with humor and heart.

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Blurb

Echo Adler hates Reign Davidson. He’s the reason the love of her life left her all alone and broken hearted two years ago.

So it should be easy to stay away.

It should be easy to not dream about his dark and mean eyes, or his cruel but sexy smirks.

It should be easy to not think about the guy who ruined her happily ever after.

Only it’s not.

Sometimes his intense stares make her heart race, and those smirks of his make her breathless.

But it needs to stop.

Because she has a mission: to get back together with her ex-boyfriend. And Echo will be damned if she keeps dreaming about Reign.

The guy who not only makes her sick with hate but who also happens to be her ex’s best friend.

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🏈 Football Player / Sports Romance 

💕 Second Chance Romance

🏈 Single Guardian 

💕Pediatric doctor

🏈 The one who got away

💕 Overachiever 

🏈 No third act breakup 

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Jonah Dallmann

Over two years ago, I met a woman on New Year’s Eve, and it was the best night of my life. Until the next morning when it became the worst.

One voice message. One swerve over a double yellow line. One little girl, my niece, who’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 ached for what could have been, and what I had to let go. I know what I did to her was wrong, yet I never got the opportunity to explain. But when the door opens and she steps in wearing green scrubs and a long white coat, shock ripples through me, and I hope 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?

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🔥Accidental Pregnancy

💕One Night Stand

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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Her brothers think she’s an angel. Not from what I’ve seen as her bodyguard. And I can’t get enough.

Shea-Lynne O’Rourke is no innocent princess.

But she is off-limits.

Older. Strong-Willed. Mouthy AF.

That doesn’t stop me from wanting to possess this feisty Irish Rose and make the only woman I can’t have mine.

She’s my last bodyguard gig before I take my place in Quinlan Empire as an enforcer.

I’m riddled with scars and past sins too filthy for an angel.

Who surprises me with a savage taste for the forbidden.

My restraint gives way to temptation that I tell myself is temporary.

But that only holds until a dangerous man from my past attempts to claim her as his.

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🎄silver fox
🔥single dad
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🎄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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Blurb

Elliot is now alone. He’s left Elmor and his friends behind as he heads for the Mountains of the Forgotten World on a mission, which is almost impossible to accomplish.

The Elder Races, the creatures that according to legend are haunted by an ancient curse, are his only hope of defeating Walter. Nobody knows if Elliot has the power to break the curse, and Queen Sophie and the people of Elmor depend on him. Walter may have been defeated in the last battle, but he’ll soon return more determined than ever to destroy his remaining enemies once and for all.

Elliot needs new allies, but the creatures he wants to get on his side have suffered at the hands of humans. Will he manage to convince the Elder Races that he is different?

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💕Small Town

🖤Enemies to Lovers

🏘️Return to Hometown

❤️‍🩹Hurt/Comfort

💕Angsty

🐎Cowboy

🖤Forbidden

💔Grieving Lover

🔥Shared Pasts

❤️‍🩹Healing After Trauma

💕Sworn Off Relationships

💔Broken MMC/FMC

Charlie

It was supposed to be a regular day out.

Three couples celebrating the last days of summer.

When tragedy struck.

I thought I was going to marry her.

Instead, I was burying her.

I blamed the world for my pain.

I buried it all.

I became a man I didn’t even recognize.

Autumn

In a blink of an eye, everything changed.

My best friend was gone, and I was responsible for it.

I may not have been driving the truck, but I didn’t stop it.

Escaping the town was the only thing I could do to survive the guilt.

I thought I was strong enough to go back.

I was wrong.

One look from him and I knew I wasn’t welcome.

But this is my home, and I wanted to come back.

One night turned into more. But at the end of the day, I know he’ll never love me.

Besides, we all have shattered dreams.

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💙💙🩷MMF

💕Small Town

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🏒Hockey Coach

🎤Pop Star

🩵Friends to Lovers

🖤Heroine in danger

The first time I set foot in Fire Chief Declan Everhart’s small town he declared me trouble.

Maybe it’s because I’m a pop star hiding in his house for the holiday season. Or maybe it’s

the way I can’t help but tease the grinch.

More than likely, though, it’s because his best friend Cade touched me right in front of him,

lighting a fire so hot it threatens to incinerate us all.

Now I can’t keep my hands to myself.

Cade is famous for being the playboy assistant coach of the Boston Bolts, a man only out for

a good time, but I know what we have is rare. Cade wants me, Declan wants me, and Declan

would be a bad liar if he didn’t admit that some part of him wants Cade too.

I’ve gone round and round about these feelings. Can we really just say the heart wants what

it wants, or are we just asking for more trouble?

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💕Small Mountain Town 

🔥Amnesia

💕Former Baseball Star

🔥He Falls First

💕Found Family

🔥Large Crazy Family

💕Legend about Falling in Love

🔥A Rescue Puppy

He’s Major League Baseball’s former power hitter, and now he’s making a play for her heart.

Maggie doesn’t know why she’s in the small mountain town of Starrycard Creek. After a blow to the head leaves her with amnesia, all she has left is her name stitched onto an apron.

And then there’s him…the man who saved her life.

Christian Starrycard was trying to drown his sorrows after an injury ended his baseball career. The last thing he expected to become was a woman’s hero. But Maggie isn’t just any woman. She’s the woman he’s been dreaming of—his dream girl he thought existed only in his mind.

His dreams become their steamy reality when he insists she live with him until her memories return. When their attraction deepens into an undeniable love, they can’t imagine life apart. But when fragments of her past resurface, so does the fear that her heart might belong to someone else.

Christian can’t bear the thought. 

Town folklore says that love is always in the cards in Starrycard Creek. And Christian won’t let Maggie go. Not without a fight.

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🔥baseball romance

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Meeting Ross Davis, professional baseball coach and my sports crush, is a funny story involving a stalled elevator, the potty dance, and an attempt to get into his hotel suite. In my defense, that last one was an accident.

He came to my room instead with a bottle of scotch and a sad soul.

My one night was not a stand, but more like a lie-in. As in, we snuggled and talked and not another thing happened.

So, nothing surprises me more than seeing him again when he becomes the manager of the Chicago Anchors, my hometown pro-team, and our paths intersect once more.

It’s here the story gets fuzzy, because Ross Davis, that sexy silver fox, has a proposal for me.

Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, and Ross is somehow convinced I’m his good luck charm. One who brings him success by sleeping with him.

Only sleeping.

The problem with this arrangement begins when those funny, fuzzy things called feelings get involved. Eventually, his elevator pitch is no longer an easy walk in the ballpark or a simple sleepover in his bed.

And I’m worried I’ll be the one left in the outfield when the season ends.

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Karma’s Kiss by R.S. Grey is now live!

Every small-town girl has known a Sawyer Garnett. He’s the dimpled dreamboat we used to fantasize about in algebra class, the hometown heartbreaker with no shortage of outraged exes. But unlike most golden boys, this one didn’t peak in high school. Oh no no. Like the fine wine at the vineyard he’s the literal heir to, Sawyer’s only gotten better with age.

Nobody is more annoyed that karma has yet to find Sawyer than my best friend, his old flame. Just hearing his name makes her curse the day he was born. “That man deserves to learn a lesson” turns into a vengeance vow that puts me on a collision course with Sawyer himself.

Go out on a date with him? Easy-peasy. Flirt and play along? No sweat. Let him slip his hands beneath my sundress amidst the lush grapevines? Well…maybe a little bit of sweat.

It’s not long before our simple plan for payback turns into Texas-sized trouble. Under the spell of Sawyer’s piercing brown eyes, my pretend passion threatens to ignite the flimsy facade I’ve built up against him. I’ll just have to stay focused. If I want justice for my friend and every other woman Sawyer has scorned, I have to keep reminding myself he’s run from karma’s kiss for far too long.

They say you reap what you sow…and Sawyer so deserves what is coming to him.

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Review

After being away for a decade Madison has returned to her hometown to regroup after her last relationship ended. Since both she and her friend have not had the best of luck when it comes to men, they decide to show Sawyer what that feels like to be hurt by love, so she begins dating him however she ends up being the one surprised.

Madison has always been part of Sawyer’s life as she is his best friend’s sister however seeing her again, he is drawn to the woman she has become. He is much more than his reputation but will the reasons that brought them together tear them apart?

Sawyer and Madison were so much fun together however you could still feel the angst as you wait for the truth to be revealed. You could not help but feel bad for what Sawyer was going through but Madison did redeem herself in the end.

Emery

“Just tell me to wait for you,” Quinn whispers desperately as he slides his nose along mine. My ribs are having a hard time containing my hammering heart as I keep my eyes locked with his blue ones.

I stroke my fingers along his cheek as a sob hiccups out of me. “I can’t. I wouldn’t do that to you.”

“I would, though.” His words match the promise in his eyes.

On another broken sob, I whisper back, “I know, which is why I won’t ask.”

I walked away from Quinn Adler three years ago.

It was the biggest mistake of my life. I had my reasons, and I thought it was best to let him go. I am chaotic…too much. But even knowing that about myself, I still crave him. I still miss him.

I need him.

I love him.

But while I’ve been building an empire he’s supposed to be a part of—and pining after him like a love-sick fool—he’s been off getting engaged.

To someone who isn’t me.

It’s laughable, really.

He thinks I’m going to allow him to marry someone else?

Not a chance.

Quinn

“I’m getting married.”

Emery’s eyes flash with mischief as a slow, knowing smirk pulls at her thick lips. With a ballbusting confidence only she can exude, she says, “We’ll see.”

I furrow my brow. “We’ll see?”

Her lips curve higher, those gray eyes wicked as they hold mine. “Yup. We will see.”

Emery Brooks has been causing me trouble since we were toddlers. She is loud, assertive, and maybe even an evil genius, but my love for her knows no bounds. She walked away from me, left me behind for a new life, and I had no choice but to watch from afar. I put myself out there countless times for her to take me as her own, but she wouldn’t budge. Something was always holding her back.

So, I moved on. I got engaged.

And now, Emery is back. It’s not a big deal. Everything will be fine. I won’t fall back into my old ways of needing her like I need my next breath. I won’t let her close enough to see the secrets I’ve been hiding from everyone. I’ll keep her at arm’s length.

I’ve got this.

Or so I think. Because, in true Emery fashion, she barrels into my life with no cares for the destruction she causes.

I thought I had a handle on her. But honestly, when have I ever been able to handle Emery Brooks?

Lost the Handle is childhood friends to lovers, force proximity, soul mates, second chance romance that centers in the Nashville Assassins world. While there is no hockey playing, there is mention of all the players we love! This can be read as a standalone but it’s always fun to read the whole series!

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𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝, a small town, enemies to lovers, neighbors romance by Evey Lyon is LIVE on Amazon and available with Kindle Unlimited! This is the first book in a brand new series, Everhope Road.

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Keats is my enemy. And ending up in bed together presents an even bigger complication, considering he’s my grumpy next-door neighbor.

It started with my uptight neighbor being enemy number one. The cocky lawyer always seems to swagger my way with a disgruntled look and piercing eyes when my mail continues to get accidentally delivered to his house. Keats always makes me feisty and annoyed, too. Hence why we’re both always in a showdown where I want to rip his shirt into shreds and maybe his pants, too. Why? Because the attraction is too overbearing and lingers in the air.

And then we snap and give in.

We start the unimaginable. We unintentionally start a neighbors-with-benefits kind of thing. But I begin to see a different side of Keats, and it turns out he isn’t the kind of man I thought he was. The fact that he turns possessive or moves me right into his home due to my house complication tells me that he feels something, too. Our relationship development blindsides us, and neither one of us is sure where this will end. After all, we never planned on being everything I wanted…

Banter, steam, and low on angst, Everything I Wanted is the first in the Everhope Road series, a spin-off from the Lake Spark world. It can be read as a standalone. Readers who love small-town, enemies-to-lovers, next-door-neighbor romances with no third-act breakup will fall for Keats and Esme!

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