He was her first bad decision.

He never stopped wanting to be her last.

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola returns to the ice with the next installment in her Shots on Goal: MN Frosthawks series—where chemistry is dangerous, and some lines were never meant to be crossed.

Ty “Buzz” Burns was never supposed to come back into Lucy Thomas’s life.

Not after high school.

Not after the mistake that ended everything.

Because Lucy didn’t just move on—she rebuilt.

A life where reckless boys like Buzz don’t belong.

Except now he does.

Buzz plays for the Minnesota Frosthawks.

The team her father owns.

The team she works for.

The one place she can’t avoid him.

He’s still chaos on the ice—fast, loud, impossible to ignore.

But this version of him doesn’t disappear when things get hard.

He shows up.

He stays.

And the more they’re forced into the same space, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth—

This isn’t over. It never was.

Lucy has everything to lose—her career, her father’s trust, the life she’s built.

Buzz has one chance to prove he’s not the boy who broke her.

But wanting each other has never been the problem.

Walking away is.

Wild Card #13 was supposed to stay in the past.

This time, it might be the one mistake they can’t walk away from.

About the Author:

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola is a Florida native now happily rooted in North Carolina with her loving husband and two lazy basset hounds. After several years away from publishing, she has returned to the romance world with a renewed passion for storytelling and a bold, reimagined vision for her Shots on Goal universe. She writes every flavor of contemporary romance— from steamy rom-coms to gritty biker tales to emotional, heart-thumping sports love stories.
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River

I moved to Santa Maria for peace and quiet.

Not for a saucy little bookworm determined to ruin both.

But Jasmine Knudsen is the most infuriatingly stubborn woman I’ve ever met.

Everywhere I go, she’s there, refusing to take no for an answer.

She might be winning because I’ve never wanted anything the way I want her.

But she isn’t interested in being caught…until I don’t leave her a choice.

Now, we aren’t playing her game. We’re playing mine.

And when a future with her is on the line?

There’s nothing I won’t do to win.

Jasmine

I read smut, and I know things. It’s what I do.

What I don’t do is back down.

So when local romance author, River “I’m Too Good for Your Book Club” Jamison, refuses to come speak, I declare war.

He thought I was kidding when I swore to annoy him until he agreed.

I wasn’t.

I thought he was joking when he threatened to have me arrested.

Turns out, the big grump wasn’t kidding, either.

Now, he’s refusing to drop the charges unless I go out with him.

And I must be losing it because I’m not saying no.

But I did not expect to become the main suspect when his latest manuscript goes missing.

Which means I might end up right back in jail.

Only this time, it’s not just my freedom at stake.

It’s my heart, too.

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Jasmine enjoys the stories that River writes and decides that he is the perfect speaker at the book club she is part of however she can’t believe that he is unwilling to do it.   His refusal only makes her more determined even if it involves persistence and a little subterfuge to convince him.

Even though he said no River can’t stop thinking about Jasmine.   When she arrives at his door and refuses to leave he is determined to convince her to go on a date even if the way he goes about it becomes an experience she might not be filling to forget or forgive.

Jasmine and River were so much fun together and their banter was next level.   Once they give into the feelings between them the heat between them radiates off the page.

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✨TEASER: TRY AGAIN, BABY by @authorjuliawolf releasing June 25th!

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💜secret baby

🏉surprise pregnancy

💜one night stand

🏉rugby playing golden retriever MMC

💜plus size law student FMC

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I met Ben Wells at an airport on one of the worst days of my life.
We talked, laughed, connected, and survived a travel disaster.
Then we shared one wild, passionate night together.

That was where the story was supposed to end.

Ben went back to his life as a professional rugby player, and I went back to mine as a college student.
Except mine came with a positive pregnancy test and a life I never planned for.
One Ben made it clear he wanted no part of.

I didn’t fall apart or chase him. I picked myself up and brushed myself off, raised my daughter, and fought my way into law school.

For five years, we did just fine without him.
We were happy, even.

Then, out of nowhere, Ben crashes back into our lives, smiling like nothing ever happened, and everything I thought I knew comes undone. Because some misunderstandings don’t just break hearts. They steal years.

Now Ben is determined to make up for lost time, and not just with our daughter.

The passion we shared is still alive and well, but the stakes are much higher now. But if there’s one thing Ben is good at—besides being relentlessly cheerful and sexy in his rugby uniform—it’s persistence. He doesn’t give up.

If Ben has it his way, the end of our story will be only the beginning.

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 by @sawyerbennett123 & @billkeenanwrites releasing July 7! 

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🔥Enemies to Lovers 

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🔥She’s the Only One Who Sees Him

🔥Workplace Forbidden Romance

🔥Sports Romance / Hockey Romance

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🔥Past trauma

🔥Found family

Grizz is a scorching, emotionally charged hockey romance about two people who were never supposed to fall for each other, and the bruising, tender, inevitable collision that happens when they do.

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A Very Good Bad Idea by Emma Chase is now available for pre-order on audio!

Narrated by Sean Masters & Brooke Bloomingdale

Releasing on July 9, 2026

New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase is back with this red-hot
romantic comedy about two rival real estate developers who inherit the
same lucrative property. There’s just one catch: they have to live in
it…together.

Block 42 Lot 17 is the most coveted oceanfront property in Shore Haven,
and both Damon Burke and Jade Buchanan are certain it’s already theirs.

The elderly owner, Clarabelle Spicket, promised it to Damon. She also
promised it to Jade. Awkward…

Now thanks to a provision in the will, the town’s coldest real estate
shark and its fiercest power player are forced to spend the next four
months living there together or else they forfeit the property.

Even worse, the dilapidated beachfront mansion seems determined to shove
them into the same room—and the same bed. As wills clash, tempers flare
and walls crumble…so do their defenses.

It’s a bad idea to get too close to your enemy. To care about them, need
them, desperately want them.

But when rivalry turns into something far more than either of them ever
expected, Damon and Jade discover that love can be a very good bad idea.

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RISING WATERS

Aleatha Romig

Release Date June 15

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A dark atmospheric psychological thriller packed with small-town secrets, buried trauma, and shocking twists.
She escaped her past—and the man she never forgot.

Now with two girls gone missing, she’s pulled back into a deadly game she may not survive.

Jillian Thorne built her career making the unreal feel real.
On Hollywood soundstages, she stages murder, kidnapping, and violent crime with chilling authenticity—turning fiction into gripping entertainment.

But nothing she’s created compares to the truth waiting in Blue Gil.

Nearly six years after escaping her small hometown, Jillian is drawn back by the suspicious death of the town’s beloved high school football coach. What first appears to be a tragic loss quickly unravels into something far more sinister—a dark mystery no one is willing to confront.

Because in Blue Gil, secrets aren’t just buried… they’re protected.

As disturbing clues surface and a brutal tragedy strikes dangerously close to home, Jillian finds herself trapped inside a real-life psychological thriller. The instincts that made her successful in Hollywood may be the key to solving the crime—or the very thing clouding her judgment.

Everyone in this small town is hiding something.
Including Jillian.

To uncover the truth, she must break through an unspoken code of silence, deception, and loyalty—and face the past she thought she left behind. Because some secrets refuse to stay buried.

And in this twisted game of suspense, trusting the wrong person could be deadly.

Have you been Aleatha’d?

*Perfect for fans of Sharp Objects, All Good People Here, and The Last House Guest, Rising Waters is a dark and addictive psychological thriller filled with buried secrets, small-town corruption, twisted family loyalties, and devastating betrayals.

This is a complete 80K stand-alone psychological thriller with a STEM FMC who needs to learn secrets before it’s too late. The only connection to Aleatha’s FEAR OF FLAMES is that our favorite podcasters from Crime Daily Podcast are back, showing the readers another perspective.

*You do not need to read Crime Daily Podcast book one, FEAR OF FLAMES before RISING WATERS.

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Meet Aleatha Romig:

Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Together with her high-school sweetheart and husband of over thirty years, they’ve raised three children. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns or her new lighter side, she likes to spend her time with her family and friends. Her pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams! 

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PART FIVE TO THE NEW SERIES BY THE AUTHOR OF NOCTURNE — A RETIRED MASTER SERGEANT SUCKED INTO AN INTER-GALACTIC ARENA CALLED THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, A MAN CHAINED BY THE PTSD OF DEATHS HE COMMITED IN A FIT OF MADNESS. AT HIS SIDE, HIS BEST FRIEND, HIS KID, HIS CANE CORSO, BOSE.

It is only days before the majority of Humanity lands onto the Crucible as they finish their Tutorials and Jeb still has no clue what City it will be only that it will not be the one he is in. In the meantime, Jessica Lewis, the nerdy girl who took the portal that was meant for her older Brother, is lost, scared, looking to the broken Jeb to save her, to teach her, to make her strong enough to stand on her own or at least to stand in his shadow without being obliterated. There is only one place according to the Blood-elf, Nes, to do so, the Endless, the Endless Dungeon, the place Jeb and Bose had been dumped in to begin with, the place they almost died multiple times, the place of their birth within the Crucible of War.

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Nora’s three bidders don’t get along, but each of them has a piece of her heart. The only thing they all agree on is that they want to please her in every possible way. Can they find common ground and win her forever, or will one night of passion fall apart before the sun comes up?

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When Nora agrees to participate in the auction she hopes that the three men she has developed feelings for will be the ones who win dates with her.   When that happens she couldn’t have been happier until they want her to choose and that is a choice she isn’t prepared to make.

Penn, Rocky and Vance all have very different personalities who bring something different to the relationship.   They all want to be with Nora even if that means that they have to share as they aren’t about to lose the woman they all love.

The heat between them radiates off the page and it only takes one night for them to realize that this isn’t a fantasy but a life they all want.

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THE GAME WE WIN

Brooke O’Brien

Release Date: June 16

Meet Brooke O’Brien:

Brooke O’Brien grew up with a creative mind and a wild imagination, writing poetry and short stories when she was younger. This passion ignited when she began reading angst and hate-fueled stories about vampires and werewolves before she branched into contemporary and new adult romances. 

When Brooke isn’t writing or falling in love with a new book boyfriend, you can find her scrolling TikTok, watching ASMR, or devouring her latest binge-worthy TV show. 

She loves rockin’ a good hoodie with leggings, is addicted to chocolate, and believes the best days include a good nap.

Brooke O’Brien is represented by Two Daisy Media. For all subsidiary rights, please contact Savannah Greenwell at info@twodaisy.com.

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Blurb:

A close proximity sports romance by Brooke O’Brien about a woman who’s spent her life playing it safe and her brother’s ex-teammate who risks it all for the chance to spend a week with her.

I’ve been told to stay away from football players my whole life. Dating one was out of the question. That’s what happens when your brother warns his teammates you’re off-limits.

It wasn’t just him—my parents controlled every move I made throughout high school. Now, with graduation behind me, the life I’ve been planning with my best friend is finally coming together.

✓ Get accepted to Braysen University

✓ Join the Bulldogs Dance Team

✓ Find an apartment

✓ Soak up every ounce of freedom

Everything was going perfectly until I arrived to pick up our new apartment keys and discovered water damage made it temporarily uninhabitable. My brother, Alec, would offer me his couch, I’m sure, but that’s not an option I’m willing to consider.

I want to prove to myself I can handle this on my own. So when Colter Vaughn, the football team captain and Alec’s former teammate, suggests I stay with him, I happily agree.

Except he failed to mention one small detail—the room he’s offering is his.

I’ve spent my life playing it safe. If keeping this secret means I get to share a bed with Colter, it’s a risk I’m willing to take.

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Between her father and her brother Ava has been sheltered so attending Braysen University is her chance to chart her own course.   She thought she had it all planned out from joining the dance team to the place she is renting with her best friend.   The only setback she hadn’t account for is that her residence isn’t ready for occupancy, so Colter suggests she stay at his place until it is.

Colter is the captain of the football team and used to be teammates with her brother.   From their first meeting he knew that Ava was special, so when she finds herself with nowhere to stay he not only helps her with storing her belongings but offers her his room as well.  Spending time with her only intensifies his feelings for her and the only regret he has is that she is only staying for a week.

Colter and Ava fit together like pieces of the puzzle and romance between them is both heartwarming and hot.  Lee Samuels brings out the protective side of Colter while Stphanie Kay brings out Ava’s resilience.   This is the beginning of a new series that leaves us wanting more stories centered around Braysen University.

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NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED

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✨TEASER: FALLING FOR YOU by @natashamauthor releasing July 14th! 

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Why you will love this book…

🔥Small Town

🔥Opposites Attract

🔥Blue Collar Hero

🔥One Night Stand

🔥Accidental Pregnancy

🔥First Responder

🔥Sworn Off Relationships

🔥Black Cat x Golden Retriever

Theo Williams loved and lost once and isn’t interested in doing it again. He has his family and friends, and plenty of women passing through his new hometown who are happy with a no-strings attached night of passion. Working as a partner at his cousin’s construction company, he’s perfectly content with his life—until he meets Collins Henderson, the one-night stand who will change his world forever.

Collins grew up on the wrong side of her small hometown. Thanks to her parents’ shady schemes, every local knows a Henderson cannot be trusted. She works hard as a paramedic, putting in every extra hour she can to save for a better life. But every time she starts to get ahead, her parents show up to pull her back down. Having one night of passion with a man she doesn’t know is not something she’d normally do, but there was just something about him … And two months later, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.

When she runs into the mysterious stranger again, she has to tell him, not because she needs or wants anything from him, just so he knows. But now he’s showing up at her house to cook her meals, stocking her refrigerator, and doing everything he can for her. Collins has always taken care of herself, she wasn’t looking for a relationship, but she can’t deny the chemistry between them.

She knows it’s only a matter of time before he learns who she is and changes his mind. She can’t let herself fall for this guy, but every day he’s getting harder to resist …

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