How did I get my name? Nah, let’s leave that story for another day. Fact is, at six foot seven, I’m the tallest member of the King’s of Anarchy Arizona chapter, with a physique to match my height. Men fear me just for my size alone.
But my bulk only meant I went down more heavily, when I came off my bike due to an ambush. Knocked out, crushed under my bike, left for dead, the brothers with me had to battle it out on their own. When I eventually came back to life, it was to find, as expected, the Kings had vanquished the enemy in that they’d soon turned their backs and fled. For now.
Me though? Well, I was beaten up quite badly, taken back to the club, and subjected to the mercies of our on-call medic, who I hate with every bone in my body.
It was no secret that though his medical proficiency wasn’t in doubt, he’d been struck off the practitioners’ register due to his more dubious activities with patients. With the Kings being his best customer now, we knew he’d treat us and keep his mouth shut.
Turns out we didn’t know the depths of the depravity in Doc’s past. Can we turn a blind eye? He’s an important asset to us, one we couldn’t replace easily. One especially necessary now we’re being targeted by another club.
Are there limits to what even the Kings of Anarchy can stomach?
I have a personal reason for wanting to prove where that line lies.
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A shocking find. A search for answers. And a journey to the brink of madness.
When her older brother, Felix, dies in a motorcycle accident, Nora Lambert is left to clear out his London flat, home to his prestigious artwork and life’s work. But among his possessions, she stumbles upon something far more disturbing.
A hidden USB stick. A file marked “Nobody’s Eyes.” Something she was never meant to see.
What she watches is beyond comprehension. A collection of disturbing clips that appear to be real snuff footage. And the most terrifying part? She thinks Felix might be in the film.
Is this a twisted art project or something far more sinister?
Determined to uncover the truth, Nora plunges into a shadowy world of dark web conspiracies, underground collectors, and depraved obsessions. The deeper she digs, the more she realises someone doesn’t want her asking questions.
Because some doors should never be opened, and some secrets are worth killing for.
Valentine’s Day in Willowby turns frosty when the Heart & Scoop Festival ends with a death instead of dessert.
Tamsin Blake, owner of the Velvet Scone Café, is busy baking hokey pokey heart scones and dodging romance overload, until Neville Templeton, founder of Templeton’s Treats, collapses during an ice cream tasting. A whiff of almonds tells Tamsin this was no accident.
From a jilted fiancée to a snubbed event planner and a scheming heir, everyone has a motive. As clues melt faster than ice cream on a hot day, Tamsin must untangle the secrets behind Neville’s so-called vow renewal before the killer serves up another helping of heartbreak.
And with both Cal and Reuben sending Valentine gifts, love is proving just as complicated as murder.
Sweet treats, small-town gossip, and a scoop of murder make A Hokey Pokey to Die For the perfect cozy mystery for your next indulgent read.
I didn’t plan on meeting my new neighbor for the first time wrapped in a towel, dripping wet, and half-awake. The worst part? She’s glaring at me like I just ruined her morning, but the way her eyes roam over me tells a very different story.
I definitely didn’t plan on mistaking her for the dog walker who was supposed to be here an hour ago. Kara isn’t late, she also isn’t who I hired. She’s my new neighbor—and the second I see her, I know she’s the kind of trouble I wouldn’t mind getting into.
What starts as irritation turns into heat so fast it knocks me off balance. Every run-in crackles. Every lingering glance only makes me want Kara more.
I’m just a guy with a blue-collar job, a loud dog, and zero intention of falling for anyone. And from the moment Kara storms into my life, it feels too right to deny.
She’s newly on her own, trying to prove something—to herself and to the world. What she doesn’t know is that she walked right into my world. And once I decide she’s mine, there’s no going back.
❤️Review After an accident put her life on hold Kara has decided it is time for her to be on her own away from her protective and loving family. Although she likes her new apartment she can’t deny that the noise coming from her neighbor in the evening is affecting her sleep, so she decides to leave a polite letter on his door.
Dane has been enjoying his casual encounters with Kara even before he knew her name. Once he finds out she is his neighbor it only makes him want her more and has his own notes to leave as well.
Fun and flirty I enjoyed the relationship between Dane and Kara and the dog who brought them together. He wants Kara just the way she is and despite everything she has been through she is both strong and sassy and the chemistry between them never in doubt.
Alex Bain didn’t fall into Hell—she was taken, and someone’s going to pay.
Trapped in a realm of nightmares after Lucas’s devastating sacrifice, Alex has two priorities: keep Sarah and Argo alive, and carve a bloody path back home. But Hell isn’t just fire and brimstone—it’s a world of ruthless politics, twisted bargains, and creatures older than sin itself. And at the center of it all? A dangerously seductive demon who wants to make Alex his queen.
With Finn tearing through anything in his way to bring her back and Lucifer’s prophecy tightening around her throat, Alex is running out of time. If she doesn’t find a way out soon, Finn might cross a line that can never be uncrossed—or she might not want to leave at all.
Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter who keeps her on her toes.
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Rachel Lyn Adams is a USA Today Bestselling author who was born in Southern California and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, five children, and a crazy number of fur babies. In 2017, she took a chance and published her very first book. Little did she know just how much that decision would change her life.
The president’s daughter shouldn’t be sharing a bed with two men.
She definitely shouldn’t still be thinking about them after one night together.
Faye Donnelley lives with every move photographed or judged. She can handle gossip blogs and political narratives, but what she really wants is something that isn’t for public consumption. One Fourth of July with two college baseball players finally gives her a night that isn’t for cameras or anyone outside that room.
Dylan Statler and Jase Matthewson are best friends, stepbrothers, and college teammates with dreams of making it to the big leagues. Hooking up with the president’s daughter was supposed to be a one-time thing. Except they can’t stop checking Faye’s socials or replaying how it felt with her pressed between them, their hands and mouths all over her.
After Dylan and Jase are drafted by different teams hundreds of miles apart, their private group text with Faye turns into stolen weekends, hotel rooms, and late-night video calls they can’t resist. It starts to feel like they aren’t just playing for their careers, but for the president’s daughter, and for something between the guys they can’t ignore.
If their relationship gets exposed, Faye could become a political talking point while sports media outlets dissect Dylan and Jase’s personal lives instead of their stats. That fallout would be bad enough, but when a terrifying moment shakes their world, it forces them to decide if they’re willing to risk it all or walk away from a relationship that only works when all three are together.
⚾️Review⚾️ Faye knows how important the public’s perception of her and the effect a scandal could have on her father’s career. When it comes to Dylan and Jase she decides to finally do something for herself and it is a night she will never forget even if she doesn’t believe it could ever be more.
Jase and Dylan have been connected with each other since they were children as friends, stepbrothers, playing for the same college team and getting ready to start their professional careers in baseball. Neither can deny the feelings they have for Faye, and they soon realize that one night is not enough when it comes to Faye and the changing relationship between them as well.
Through this story Faye, Jase and Dylan make discoveries not only when it comes to the relationship between them but about themselves as well. Before Faye, Jase and Dylan never questioned the relationship between them but once that door is opened there is no going back and all three are better because of it. Hot chemistry, a little danger and a love that wasn’t to be denied even if it wasn’t going to be easy.
I don’t do distractions. I work, I train horses, and I keep my hands to myself.
Then Lilah Martinez shows up at my ranch.
She’s younger, confident, and all curves and sunshine where I’m grit and restraint. A trick rider fighting her way out of a bad contract, she needs temporary access to my horses. I say yes and tell myself it’s just business.
That’s a lie.
Lilah works hard, rides harder, and looks at me like she knows exactly what I’m trying not to do. The age gap alone should shut this down. Instead, it makes every glance sharper and every quiet moment more dangerous.
I’ve spent years staying in control. Now all I want is to pin her against my truck, drag my mouth over hers, and show her exactly how bad a grown man can be when he finally lets go.
Since I was a little girl, I’ve known the fairy tale I’ve wanted to live.
Grow up. Fall in love. Get married to a man who will dance with me in the kitchen and kiss me for no reason. Have a big family and live happily ever after.
There’s just one problem—men suck.
What’s a southern girl have to do to find her future husband? It’s certainly not on the dating apps, so I do something out of my comfort zone—I ask my step sister to set me up.
And what does she deliver? A six-foot-two, sexy as sin football coach who has a fear of commitment.
Great. The definition of my Prince Charming.
Only this man is no prince. He’s a tall, dark, and handsome playboy who is impossible to resist.
I’ve never been a fling kind of girl, but with Davis, something so wrong feels so right. Maybe it’s that we’re doing it in secret? Or that I can somehow always feel his lips on me?
We both know we need to stop. Get out before anyone gets hurt.
There’s just one problem. Well, two.
Two pink lines specifically.
Yup, this is definitely not how the fairy tale is supposed to go…
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All Sadie has ever wanted is to find the man she is destined to be with and have their happy ever after which would include a family. From her first meeting with Davis the chemistry was undeniable, but what was supposed to be one night has turned into a casual relationship. She also knows that he is not the man who can give her what she wants so she decides to end their relationship.
Davis is a professional football coach who is determined to be there for his family and doesn’t believe that leaves time for anything else. He knows that the best thing he can do for Sadie is back away however finding out they are about to become parents will change everything.
Shane Martinez brings out the many faces of Sadie’s personality as she may come across as sweet, but she isn’t willing to accept less than she deserves while Duncan Prescott allows us to experience the evolution of Davis’s character as he realizes that he doesn’t have to be everything for everyone.
L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever after. She’s a USA TODAY Bestseller as well as #1 Bestseller on Amazon in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.
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This small town *could* be big enough for both of them . . .
Quiet. Serious. Protective. All words Stone Sylver would use to describe himself. And yet, something in his classic blue eyes said he was so much more. Buried beneath the years of raising his younger siblings and being a small town sheriff was a man looking for love.
Of course, I didn’t get all that the first night we met. The night we did a one-two step in a hotel hallway and knocked heads. The same night we shared a sweet potato cupcake and a single kiss.
Why didn’t we share more? The moment became a great mystery to me and because I thought he was only a brief interlude in my wanderlust life, I wasn’t prepared to see him again in Sterling Falls.
Visiting the small town where I once lived, I learn the man who I witnessed act like a superhero was more entwined in my past than I’d remembered. And for a woman often afraid of a future, I suddenly craved one…with him. Which made no sense as I’d never stuck in one place before. No one had ever asked me to stay.
Then again, from our first encounter, I knew Stone Sylver was different.
🔥Review🔥 Stone has always been there for his siblings and didn’t hesitate to put his life and dreams on hold for that to happen. He is happy they are all settled but it also shows him what is missing from his life as well. When he meets an intriguing woman he never expects to see her again let alone in his hometown.
Due to her past Taxi is a free spirit who has never found a place to call home and doesn’t allow many people close. She can’t deny the feelings she felt for Stone from their first meeting however as much as she wants to let him into her heart she isn’t sure that she can.
Despite the ups and down of the relationship between them Stone and Taxi are kindred souls. They are both cautious because of their pasts but they both complete each other in way that both had given up finding and seeing them find their way to each is both heartwarming and emotional.
Welcome to Rebel, Louisiana—where the humidity feels personal, even the otters hold grudges, and chaos is a competitive sport.
I used to play hockey in sold-out arenas. Now my wrecked knee and I are stuck in a little bayou town that’s been mad at me for a year. I need a big comeback–and ZERO drama.
So first thing, I get tackled at the airport by a sunshiny woman in yellow overalls who’s thwarting my kidnapping… by her grandpas.
That’s Nora Delaune—Parks & Rec director, caffeine-powered menace, and the only person in Rebel willing to give me a chance. She needs me to win games and help save the town’s ice arena before it gets turned into a laser-tag nightmare.
And I… kind of like being needed by her. Even when she’s producing a singing, dancing, wig-wearing ice extravaganza that is definitely not hockey.
Then my sister—the team’s new owner—drops the bomb: if Nora and I “date,” the town might stop hating me.
Fine. We’ll fake it. As long as we don’t call it love.
But between late-night practices, the sugar-addicted swamp-werewolf mascot, otter drama, and the way Nora looks at me like I’m worth rooting for…I’m in trouble.
Nine months ago, I had one perfect, reckless night with Jasper Lawrence, the tall, tattooed firefighter who made me feel fearless. I told myself it was a mistake I’d never repeat.
Then he finds me at the Maple Festival… in labor with our surprise baby.
The best part? I had no idea I was pregnant.
Now Jasper is everywhere. The two of us stumble through new parenthood together. And he doesn’t just step up, he moves in. Almost. He pitches a tent in my backyard and sleeps outside so he’s never far away from us. He’s a shirtless, helpful menace who cooks, cleans, and cuddles our son. He makes me feel safe, seen, and wanted. And I hate how much I love it.
Every time I shove him away, he shows back up, golden retriever energy and all, with coffee and pastries in tow, ready to carry the baby, the groceries, and occasionally me.
I came to Maplewood, Vermont, to discover my independence. But it’s hard to keep my distance when the town’s been shaken by danger, the scars from my past refuse to stay buried, and the firefighter I should absolutely avoid keeps setting my world on fire.
Turns out the biggest threat to me in America’s most charming small town might be the man who won’t stop rescuing me.
Author’s Note: Sap & Secrets is a small-town romance featuring a curvy black cat, a tattooed golden retriever, and a (very cute) surprise baby. If you enjoy acts of service, small-town shenanigans, and maple syrup madness, you will not be disappointed.
Series Note: Welcome to Maplewood, Vermont. America’s Most Charming Small Town has some dark, sticky secrets. Come for the maple syrup, festivals, and cheese wars; stay for swoon.
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