Reid Erickson was perfectly happy with his life as it was. But when he gets a call that he needs to return to his Ohio hometown to carry on his family’s business, he’s perfectly miserable.
And things don’t get much better when he meets the one woman who understands the business better than anyone else.
Natalia Barton has a zest for life. She enjoys her work, is happy every day, and doesn’t care that Reid wants to be a grouch. It won’t stop her from doing what she loves.
But when something happens with the power to crush Natalia’s spirit, everything changes for Reid.
He finally admits Natalia got under his skin and softened his heart of stone.
Reed returns to his hometown to help out his parents with their resort during a challenging time even if it is the last place he wants to be. It is only because of the arrangement his father offers that he agrees but that doesn’t mean he needs to be friends with Natalia who seems to love the resort like he despises it.
The resort has become a home and family for Natalie, and she enjoys every aspect of being there and isn’t about to let the owner’s grumpy son tell her differently. Every attempt she makes towards him are met with resentment until everything comes to a head and truths are revealed.
This is a heartwarming story about two very different people that if filled with emotion and a love that even though unexpected is meant to be.
A.K. Evans is a contemporary romance author of over seventy 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.
In the storm of life, some passions can’t be tamed.
Mila has spent her life working on Stormy Weather Farm, alongside her fiercely loyal, slightly eccentric family. The Storms believe in hard work, the importance of tradition, and—most of all—love at first touch. It’s a family legend, passed down like a vintage bottle of truth: when you touch the one meant for you, you’ll just know.
Mila always thought it was just a romantic notion… until Boone.
A rugged, brooding single father with a past that still smolders, Boone has one priority: giving his twelve-year-old daughter a stable, quiet life. Love? He’s been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Or so he thinks…until Mila.
She’s all sunshine and cinnamon, and she makes Boone ache with cravings he thought were long dead. Every time she blushes, every time she touches him by accident, the tension coils tighter.
Soon, late-night harvests turn into stolen glances, and shared glasses of wine become heated whispers in the dark. But love is risky business, and Boone’s heart isn’t the only thing on the line—his daughter’s trust, and Mila’s future, hang in the balance.
My hockey career’s final chapter is writing itself. I’m thirty-five now, and with retirement looming, I’m desperate to make this season count—even if it means playing in L.A., the last city I ever wanted to call home.
Then Billie crashes into my life.
She’s sunshine personified—more than ten years younger and my teammate’s little sister.
Every instinct screams she’s forbidden territory.
But one taste of her changes everything.
The chemistry between us is undeniable, explosive.
I know I should walk away, but I can’t.
If her brother discovers us, I stand to lose more than just her—my career could end before I’m ready to hang up my skates.
Rome understands that the time he has left to play hockey is coming to end and he needs to make the most of the opportunity with the Phantom’s to secure his future. Now he finds himself adjusting to a new team as well as new teammates so getting involved with Billie, his teammate and roommate’s sister, is a complication he wasn’t expecting to face.
Billie has a difficult past, but she has always had her brother to rely on. When her living situation goes sideways once again he is there for her and offers her a room at the place he shares with Rome. What he doesn’t know is that she is the woman he hasn’t been able to forget, and he now finds himself torn between his loyalty to the team and feelings he has for Billie.
I really enjoyed how supportive Billie and Rome were of each other when the challenges in their live seem overwhelming. The chemistry between them is intense but it is the emotional connection and the way they put each other first that makes them perfect for each other.
Meet Kat Mizera:
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Kat Mizera was born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of Wanderlust. She’s lived from coast to coast, and everywhere in between, but home is wherever her family is. A devoted mom and wife to her wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat loves to travel the globe with her adventurous, hockey loving family. Greece is at the top of that list. She hopes to one day retire there, spending her days writing books on the beach.
Kat is former freelance sports writer who now writes steamy hockey romance about her favorite fictional teams, the Las Vegas Sidewinders and the Lauderdale Knights. The library of novels she’s penned also include sexy contemporary stories about baseball stars, alpha sex club owners, bodyguards, rock stars, and royalty. Regardless of genre, her books about bad boys with hearts of gold will steal your breath, rock your world and melt your heart.
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Ashley James is a romance author who enjoys writing (and reading) LGBTQIA+ books. She is from Washington State—and no, not Seattle—and currently resides in South Carolina with her two kids and hairless kitties, Goose, Maverick, and Houston. Ashley is introverted and slightly (okay, majorly) awkward. She refuses to make this section sound like a tacky dating app profile, so she won’t be telling you how much she enjoys music, how she thoroughly enjoys dancing and singing in her kitchen, despite not being able to carry a tune, and she won’t be telling you about her love of toxic and broken fictional men.
When I wake up next to my best friend’s brother after a night of bottom shelf tequila and a sizzling one night stand, I do my best to pretend the whole thing never happened.
Until six weeks later, when two pink lines derail my every plan.
Not only is Graham Astor the brother to my three closest friends and the boy I secretly crushed on for years as a teenager, but he’s also a single dad and a grieving widower.
With a new career on my horizon, I don’t have time for complicated or messy—everything Graham and this news brings—and yet, when he expresses how much he wants this, I can’t deny how much I do too.
Even if that means I might wind up heartbroken later.
Navigating this new reality and everything that comes along with it quickly becomes a test of my willpower and self-control as he continues to say all the right things and shows up for me, even when I don’t ask him to. The more time we spend together, the harder it is to keep my feelings out of it.
Especially when I move in with him, and the memory of his hot breath on my neck and the weight of his body on mine haunts me, reminding me of the blazing chemistry we shared.
I tell myself I won’t fall in love with Graham—not again—I swear, I won’t.
But then he looks at me the way he does, or he talks to my belly, telling our growing baby how lucky he is to be their dad, or I watch how incredible he is with his daughter, and it’s impossible not to.
It’s impossible not to picture what our life could be like together, in love and as a family.
But then I think about how the truth of our beautiful little surprise, and all the history we share, will come out eventually.
What if the fantasy in my head is as close as I’ll ever get to being loved by him?
Brittanee is an author who lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two children. Her town is a character in itself in all of her books.
When she is not writing she enjoys spending time outdoors by the water with her children, reading at the beach or by the pool (or really anywhere), dancing with her friends, singing Karaoke, spinning, bike riding and boating.
Some of her favorite authors are Sophia Kinsella, Elin Hilderbrand, Liane Moriarty, Mary Higgins Clark, Meghan Quinn, Daphne Elliott, Amy Alves, Claire Kingsley, Melanie Harlow, Christina Lauren, Sally Thorne and Sarah Adams. (Clearly, she has a problem and can’t pick favorites.)
Even as a young child Jenni Bara would conjure up all kinds of tales with her endless imagination. She’s improved her skills since the days of scaring her younger cousins with ghost stories, but her love for books and stories has never changed.
In her everyday life, she is a paralegal for family law writing unhappily ever afters for people every day. So in turn she spends her free time with anything that keeps her laughing including life with her kids!
All joking aside, she is blessed to have not only very amazing kids but super supportive parents as well as a loving extended family always happy to share their opinions!
Her favorite spots all have the best views of the sunsets and she loves to share the views through photos.
She just began her career as a romance author writing books full of life, love, and laughter.
From the Authors of the Mom Coms comes a laugh out loud new series featuring three single dads.
Fatherhood has never been so hilarious.
Sloane Marie Murphy is the only woman I’ve ever loved. She’s my favorite person, the mother of my child and my soon to be ex-wife.
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to fix my family but when a provision in my late father’s trust forces me to move my family and our law practice from New York City to a dump in Jersey I think all hope is lost. She’d rather sign the papers than move with me.
Until only one night, turns into two pink lines and now my father’s ridiculous trust and the heir she’s currently carrying, might just save my marriage.
Sloane might not like me at the moment, and she certainly doesn’t love our living arrangements, but I’ll do anything I can to not only be a better daddy but to prove she’s the only woman for me.
🩵Review🩵 Sloane isn’t certain how her life has gotten to this point, but she knows that she is no longer happy. She has no regrets about stepping back from her career as a lawyer to be their for T.J. their son however during that time she has seen less of her husband who seems to be always working and the distance between them continuing to grow. She believes the only option is divorce but fate throws a wrench into that plan when she realizes she is pregnant.
Sully loves his wife and son and wanted to provide the best life he could for them, but he lost sight of what they really needed. Finding out that Sloane is pregnant is a second chance for him to show Sloane and T.J. that they are his priority and he can be the man and father they need him to be.
This story finds the perfect balance between humor and emotion. You can feel the love and connection between Sloane and Sully and I enjoyed seeing Sully fight to reclaim the family he loves.
Live hard. Love harder. Trapped under my controlling mother’s expectations and rules, I’ve lived my life for everyone but me. My only escape—a carefully guarded list of things I can only dream of doing. One by one, I slowly find the courage to start living. And that dream becomes a reality the moment my lips crash against a mysterious stranger’s in a drunken attempt to check another item off my list. Only I wasn’t prepared for how that one kiss would alter the course of my entire life. In a single night, everything changes.
Ethan Romero is the opposite of everything I’ve ever known. He’s the dark to my light. The corruption to my innocence. He shows me that life is more than a list of experiences to check off. It’s about living in the moment so you don’t miss the ones not on the list—the ones you didn’t even know you wanted.
✨TEASER: ALL THIS TIME by @harlowjamesauthor releasing October 10th! This will be a simultaneous release in Audio with the amazing narrators Teddy Hamilton and Samantha Brentmoor in DUET!
Fletcher Adams is not just the man that stole my heart at fifteen and never gave it back.
He’s also my brother’s best friend, and now one of the most famous players in the NFL.
But now he’s back in Blossom Peak for our mutual friend’s wedding, and guess who are the maid of honor and best man?
That would be us.
I’ve spent the past twelve years ignoring what happened between us that fateful night, and avoiding him as much as possible when he did pop into town to visit.
But now he’s everywhere.
In my salon getting a massage to support my business.
Participating in yoga to support my family’s winery.
And even hacking into my phone to monitor my glucose—which makes me furious and also a little bit weak in the knees.
Then he finds out that my ex-fiancé never satisfied me in the bedroom, so he instantly volunteers for the job.
Turns out time couldn’t snuff the flames that still burned between us.
But Fletcher has demons from his past he hasn’t faced, the kind that you can try to bury but always manage to get washed up in a storm.
And this storm just might destroy us both.
There’s one thing we can’t deny however, even though we try—feelings still matter, even after all this time.
TEASER REVEAL! Through the Five-Hole by S.L. Sterling releases October 14!
“We may have known one another a long time ago, but I can assure you I’m not the same girl I once was. So, I’d appreciate it if you’d stop acting like you’re outraged at the fact I didn’t run into your arms and wrap myself around you.” “I’m not outraged.” “You sure look like you are.” “I’m not. Shocked, maybe, but not outraged. You say it as if we were two people who hung out occasionally, not like two people who once dated and were in love.” “Be shocked all you like. I don’t really remember it the way you are describing it,” I lied. “You also don’t know me. I’m not the dreamy-eyed girl you remember. I’ve grown up. I’m also in an amazing relationship with a wonderful man, and the only thing I’m here to do is repair the mess you’ve gotten yourself into. This is my job, so whatever you were hoping to have happen when you got me alone, you can forget it.” Colton chuckled and then shook his head as he looked out at the road in front of him. “What is so funny?” “Enlighten me, what was I hoping to have happen?” “I know guys like you. You think you’re all that because of what you do. Think that women will fall at your feet and beg to crawl into your bed at night. It won’t happen, so get over yourself.” “Is that so?” “Yep.” He glared at me as we stopped at a light and then leaned over. “Newsflash, there, baby girl, I’m not desperate, and you could beg and plead all you want. Nothing will ever happen between us,” he whispered, not taking his eyes from mine until I broke contact.
USA TODAY bestselling author, Elise Faber, loves chocolate, Star Wars, Harry Potter, and hockey (the order depending on the day and how well her team—the Sharks!—are playing). She and her husband also play as much hockey as they can squeeze into their schedules, so much so that their typical date night is spent on the ice. Elise changes her hair color more often than some people change their socks, loves sparkly things, and is the mom to two exuberant boys. She lives in Northern California.
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