Like every hardworking member of Harper Security Ops, Forrest Hickman takes time away from work to relax and recharge. And he often does that while riding his snowboard on the slopes of his favorite ski resort.
He wasn’t sure anything would be better than some time alone to clear his head. That is, until he meets someone to spend his break with.
Daisy Clark is searching for a place to put down roots. And she’s doing that while she tries to get back to some semblance of a normal life. Daisy’s always been an adventure seeker—that’s what got her into this mess—and that adventure leads her to Forrest.
For two weeks, Forrest and Daisy spend time with one another forming a deep connection. And when the time is up, they go their separate ways. But neither forgets about the other.
Then Daisy’s trouble catches up with her.
And that’s when she throws caution to the wind and confides in Forrest. She just hopes that her predicament doesn’t dull the spark between them.
Daisy has always been open to new experiences so after recent events in her life Daisy decides to take a vacation and learn how to snowboard. When a fellow snowboarder sees her struggles, he offers to teach her and as they spend time together feelings develop but will their connect transcend beyond their vacations.
Forrest is taking a vacation from his job at Harper Security. When he meets Daisy, he is drawn to her in a way he has never felt before and knows that he wants to see her after the vacation ends. When she arrives at his door trying to escape the danger of her past, he is determined to not only protect her but show her that their time together was a beginning and not an end.
It was wonderful how not only Forrest was there for Daisy when she needed someone the most but how the entire team welcomed her and made her part of the family.
A.K. Evans is a contemporary romance author of over forty published novels. While she enjoys writing a good romantic suspense novel, Andrea’s favorite books to write have been her extreme sports romances. That might have something to do with the fact that she, along with her husband and two sons, can’t get enough of extreme sports.
Before becoming a writer, Andrea did a brief stint in the insurance and financial services industry and managed her husband’s performance automotive business. That love of extreme sports? She used to drive race cars!
When Andrea isn’t writing, she can be found homeschooling her two sons, doing yoga, snowboarding, reading, or traveling with her family. She and her husband are currently taking road trips throughout the country to visit all 50 states with their boys.
I don’t do commitment. And though I swing both ways, I don’t do men either.
It’s too messy, too stressful, and just asking for trouble.
I’d rather shine bright like the sun than drown in the rain, so I adopt a pounce-and-bounce lifestyle for which my sparkling charm keeps me from being hated.
When I show up in Sweden for a semester abroad, I expect a roomie. What I don’t expect is Lars. The storm to my sun. The test of my patience. How easy he makes it to forget all my reasons for staying away from guys.
No big deal. I’ll just pivot from pounce and bounce to roomies with benefits. I’ll get to indulge in that side of me, then leave it half a world away. What happens in Sweden stays in Sweden… until he follows me home.
Lars shows up at Westbrook looking like my little brother’s new swim bro. Just as alluring as he did before.
And all I can do is ask myself, WTF?
My resolve for an uncomplicated, stress-free life isn’t something I’m willing to give up for anyone, even if his icy-blond hair begs for my fingers and those pale-blue eyes are haunted by shadows.
I might be the sun, but I am not his sun, and it’s not my job to chase away whatever sent him running here. He swears it isn’t me. But I’m calling bullshit. Why else would he show up on my turf?
But then shit starts happening, and the shadows in his eyes turn to panic. I catch a glimpse of the bruises on his creamy, flawless skin.
I can’t keep him at arm’s length anymore. I don’t want to. Protecting him means surrendering to everything I always refused. His destruction or mine.
The choice is simple, so achingly absolute that I can’t help but wonder once more…
Never Too Close is a friends to lovers, single mother, protective alpha, family saga, cinnamon roll romance, and the third book in the Star Falls series.
Flora Reed discovers a lifeless body in her front yard the morning after the last day of her junior year of high school. Matters get worse when more people from her small town are found dead under mysterious circumstances and police take an interest in the boy next door, Carl. Flora is convinced that Carl is innocent. Instead, she suspects that the deaths are somehow connected to her younger sister Fauna’s tragic accident a year earlier. What she learns changes everything, and she has to race against time to prevent the killings from spreading. Flora and a small group of friends soon find themselves at the onset of an apocalyptic battle between man and nature, with no one believing their story.
𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 by Evey Lyon is releasing the first book in the Lake Spark Inn series on April 9th! This is a small town, hockey romance set in the Lake Spark world.
𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 (Lake Spark Inn book 1 April 9th)
What to expect: Insta-attraction, opposites attract, he falls first, emotional wounds, long distance
BLURB:
Stone is Harlow’s opposite and the retired hockey player with whom she ends up sharing a bed with…
Showing up to a small town for an author retreat began with a bad arrival at the inn. Stone Madden, the cocky retired hockey star with a tight jawline, and my opposite? He’s actually the man behind a writer I assumed was a recluse. And he’s ready to make my day miserable due to our apparent lack of enthusiasm for one another. But it doesn’t take long to discover we click with an inflammable instant attraction. The fire I thought I’d lost inside of me begins to return.
Because of him.
Together, we unlock the unexpected, a strong bond we don’t want to break. There may be distance on a map between us, but our emails and visits bring us even closer. Stone entered my life as the key to healing my emotional wounds and giving me my own love story. But eventually, something has to give, and I’m not sure my heart can handle the risk, even if he won’t give up. In retrospect, the moment our eyes first connected, I should have known…
Stone and Harlow bring the feels and steam in this he-falls-first and instalove romance. It is the first standalone book in the Lake Spark Inn series, which is part of the Lake Spark world where small-town romance has a hint of hockey.
Authors note: Like all of my books, Should Have Known is a heartwarming, feel-good romance full of banter and steam. However, it does reference assault from the past (off-page).
✨TEASER: CAUGHT IN THE AXE by @daphneelliotauthor is coming April 11!
Why you will love this book… 🔥Ex’s Brother 🔥Age Gap 🔥Grumpy/Sunshine 🔥Boss/Employee 🔥Lumberjack 🔥Small Town
Off Limits.
She’s too young for me.
Too nice for me.
And she’s my little brother’s ex-girlfriend.
So why can’t I keep my hands, and my heart, to myself?
Lila Webster is my temporary assistant. That’s it. But I’m distracted by her gorgeous face, her sharp mind, and the sunshiny smile that burns straight into my grumpy soul.
I’m determined to keep my head down and my hands off. In a few weeks, I’ll head back to my life in Boston and leave behind the moose, the lumberjacks, and the crazy small-town gossip.
But between the thefts, break-ins, and constant danger, my family is counting on me to clean up the mess my criminal father left behind. And she’s the only person I trust to help. Our late nights, road trips, and inside jokes bring us too close and make it difficult to stay away.
And soon, I can’t stop myself from taking what’s not mine.
We’ve both been burned by the small-town rumor mill, so we agree to sneak around. But things don’t stay secrets in Lovewell for long, and it’s only a matter of time before we get caught in the act.
I know that when I go, I’ll be forced to leave my heart behind. Because no matter how badly I want her, she can never truly be mine.
The college genius needs to help the football all-star survive his science lab for the sake of the school’s football season.
What to expect:
💙Opposites Attract
💙Football
💙College Life
Blurb:
I was supposed to be bumping shoulders with the best and brightest in chemistry at a London University. Instead, I’m bumping into the shoulder pads of Tiff U’s star football player. And I’m his tutor.
I’ve never had many friends. The only one I thought I could count on ended up stealing my scholarship—and then my boyfriend. Now, instead of spending my fall semester abroad, I’m stuck here in Iowa, with zero funds and even less hope that I’ll get to study abroad at all before I graduate this spring.
Even worse? My mentor asked me to take on the impossible—tutoring arrogant running back Logan Ford and helping him finally pass Chem 101. Apparently, the team needs him, and the governing board is cracking down on letting grades slide for athletes. Normally, I’m all for accountability. Except now getting him to pass is my problem. And everyone on campus is looking to me—Rachel Edwards, chemistry genius, bonafide introvert—to get it done.
I’m about to give up before I start. But then I get a crazy idea. What if I can get Logan to be my date for the winter science ball? The one where the honors students compete in a pool for massive cash for the one who lands the hottest hottie on campus. Tiff U athletes have their fun, and we have ours too. It just doesn’t get the same attention. Probably because nobody has ever walked into the ball with someone like Logan Ford.
Last year’s pool got all the way up to five grand, enough to pay for my semester abroad. But can I really land the running back? And if I ask him to pretend in exchange for passing his class, can I handle the way he looks at me, touches me, makes my insides incinerate like a chemical reaction?
And what happens if I forget that none of it is real?
Start the series with The Tomboy and the Captain Now!
Colby McNichols, otherwise known as the baby-faced assassin, is the left wing for the Western Wildcats hockey team. All he has to do is sign his name on the dotted line and he’ll play for the pros after his senior season. What I’ve heard from the girls on campus, who aren’t shy about spilling the tea, is that he’s totally earned his reputation.
And then some.
It’s just one of the reasons I choose to steer clear.
Trust me when I say that my life is complicated enough without getting tangled up with a player.
For reasons I can’t fathom, Colby has decided to insert himself in my life. Everywhere I go, there he is. Which makes holding him at a distance nearly impossible. He might be smoking hot but there’s zero point in starting something with this guy. Especially since I can’t be honest about who I am.
Unfortunately, a weekend spent in Vegas changes everything.
Turns out that our friends weren’t the only ones who tied the knot in Sin City.
I can only hope that what they say is true—what happens in Vegas stays there.
He’ll do anything to stop her… and she’ll do anything to survive.
Titus is just trying to control his new power without losing himself to the darkness. Already cursed, and now suffering with noxious black magic, he believes his luck couldn’t get any worse.
Until an assassin appears, ready to end his life. He never expected such an infuriating woman, and now he’s not sure what to do. Kill her before she can kill him, or give in to the intense desire that proves bad luck comes in threes.
Rae is prepared for a typical hit. But when she can’t seem to eliminate her target, she quickly realises that it wasn’t only Titus who has a price on his head.
Forced to work together, or risk both their lives, Titus and Rae must unravel the mystery of who hired the hits, all while fighting against a dangerous attraction that’s a frustration to them both.
Can they trust each other to survive long enough to discover who wants them dead?
Genre/Tropes: Small town, Fake dating, He falls first, Boss, Opposites attract
Series: Part of the Tequila Rose world and a complete standalone
Get ready to swoon with the latest release from USA Today Bestselling Author Willow Winters! Kiss Me in this Small Town is a sexy small-town romance that will capture your heart from the very first page.
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Tequila Rose with this standalone novel brimming with fake dating, undeniable chemistry, and the irresistible allure of love blossoming in unexpected corners. Don’t let this enthralling tale of secrets, passion, and forbidden love pass you by!
From USA Today Bestselling Author Willow Winters comes a sexy, small town romance.
In this small town, everyone talks… and they all know I’m head over heels for my boss.
I didn’t know I had a type until he came to town. His charming smile and rough laugh did a number on me. It’s the way I found him always looking my way though, with his piercing gaze, that really did me in.
We’d share a glance. I’d blush.
Then we’d pretend there wasn’t sexual tension piled high between us.
First it was a look, then it was a touch, then it was late nights after work.
He’s the owner; I serve drinks at his bar.
He comes from money; I live paycheck to paycheck.
He told me to kiss him and I did more than that.
It happened so fast and I couldn’t stop it even though I know I shouldn’t have fallen for him. There’s too much he doesn’t know, including the very reason I could never be with him.
What we want doesn’t matter, there are some secrets that never let go.
About the WILLOW WINTERS:
Willow Winters is so happy to be a USA Today, Wall Street Journal and #1 Contemporary Best Selling Author!
Willow started writing after having her little girl, Evie, December 2015. All during her pregnancy with Evie she continued to read and she only wanted to read romance. She was reading a book a day — sometimes two.
In January 2016 Willow was staying up late with Evie and just thinking of all these stories. They came to her constantly so she finally sat down and just started writing. She always wanted to do it so she figured, why not? Today Willow cannot be happier for making that decision!
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Eamon Tauk was literally born into the Space Corps. They spent two decades forging him into a Marine. Training him to be a killer. Twisting him into a fanatic. Then they assigned him to protect Dr. Jella Duverii, a mildly subversive alien zoologist who could very well undo all the work they put into him.
When the young cadet and his charge crash land on Kanaris with the survivors of their Recon battalion, they find themselves leagues away from their objective, marooned in an environment so hostile even the trees seem hellbent on killing them. After the Marines are denied rescue for no other reason than to protect the reputation of a high-born coward, Jella begins to educate Tauk on the dynamics at play that have the Kyperion League teetering on the brink of civil war.
As Tauk watches over Dr. Duverii during the long slog to Narman’s Pyke, she teaches him how to combat the horrific creatures stalking them through the rainforest. He must figure out for himself, however, that the biggest threats to their lives are not the beasts lurking beneath the Kanarisian underbrush.
It is the monsters who sent them to Narman’s Pyke in the first place.
A workplace, billionaire, second chance standalone romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M. Robinson
“I need you to let me go…”
What was supposed to be only a three-year career choice in London turned into me losing the love of my life. For the past seven years, I became the successful multibillionaire I sacrificed her for.
Now after all this time, I made her an offer she couldn’t refuse to have her back in my life. She’s the woman who’s haunted my dreams. I can’t wait to show her just how much I’ve changed, starting with how good I am at using my power to get what I want.
And what I want is her…
From friends to lovers.
To enemies.
To now I was her boss, and she was my publicist.
I did what I needed to do to ensure her future with me.
I lied to the world and said we were engaged.
She should have known better then to sign her life over to me…
Capri fell in love with Elias when they were in college and thought that he would always be a part of her future. She was understanding when he received a job opportunity overseas and agreed to a long-distance relationship but when that is extended, she believes the only choice for both of them is to end their relationship.
A decade later Elias is back and is determined to find a way back into Capri’s life. He arranges to hire her family’s firm, under less than up front methods, so that he can control the situation. Even though they didn’t get off to the best start he is persistent in his pursuit and isn’t about to give up without a fight.
I enjoyed seeing the evolution of Elias’s character as he acknowledged his mistakes and did everything he could to show Capri she was his everything and how Capri wasn’t about to just forgive and forget. The emotions are heartfelt, and it quickly becomes apparent that the only place they belong is with each other.
Meet M. Robinson:
M. Robinson is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of more than thirty novels in Contemporary Romance and Romantic Suspense. Crowned the “Queen of Angst” by her loyal readers, you’ll feel the cut of her pen slicing through your heart as your soul bleeds upon the words of her stories with each turn of the page.
Most notably known for the Good Ol’ Boys, M’s newest venture has graced her with the #1 Bestseller on Apple Books with Second Chance Contract. The Second Chance Men are powerful, intelligent and will sweep you off your feet and leave you weak in the knees–every woman’s wildest dreams.
M. lives the boat life along the Gulf Coast of Florida with her two puppies and real life book boyfriend, the inspiration for all her filthy talking alphas, Bossman.
When she isn’t in the cave writing her next epic love story, you can usually spot her mad-dashing through Target or in the drive-thru of Starbucks, refueling. Yes, she’s a self-proclaimed shopaholic, but only if she’s spending Bossman’s money.
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Vanessa and Curtis have just moved to an idyllic house in the seaside town of Whitstable. Their life there is wonderful, until Vanessa’s ex-boyfriend Hayden shows up out of the blue.
Hayden is not only brash and unpredictable with a warped sense of humour, he also seems intent on making life very difficult for Vanessa, who hasn’t seen him since she was sixteen.
As Hayden causes more and more disruption in their lives, Curtis begins to realise that he has some kind of bizarre hold on Vanessa.
And when she suggests a plan to remove Hayden from their lives forever, Curtis becomes convinced she’s hiding some big secret from her past.
But has Vanessa underestimated how dangerous and unpredictable Hayden is? How far will he go to get what he wants? And how far will she go to stop her perfect life from being destroyed?
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