Everly Fairhope is desperate. When threats against her mother’s life escalate, there’s only one man she can turn to. But he’s as likely to slam the door in her face as he is to help her.
Special Ops soldier Jax “Gem” Stone didn’t think he’d see Everly again after the abrupt way she walked out of his life and got engaged to someone else. So when she turns up at his front door, begging for help, the answer is no.
Until someone takes a shot at them both.
Gem doesn’t want to get involved for good reasons, but there’s no turning back. He’ll protect Everly and end the threat, then he wants her gone.
Some things are easier said than done, though.
Saving Everly from danger could be harder than expected when powerful forces work against him. But letting her go a second time?
Impossible. She’s his, and he intends to prove it to her. If they survive what’s coming…
**Start reading the Hostile Operations Team Series – Strike Team 2 today and enjoy an action-packed, seriously romantic and steamy-good-fun military romantic suspense. Each book can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers or cheating and a guaranteed happily-ever-after ending!
Lynn Raye Harris is a Southern girl, military wife, wannabe cat lady, and horse lover. She’s also the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM Ⓡ SERIES of military romances, and 20 books about sexy billionaires for Harlequin.
A former finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award and the National Readers Choice Award, Lynn lives in Alabama with her handsome former-military husband, one fluffy princess of a cat, and a very spoiled American Saddlebred horse who enjoys bucking at random in order to keep Lynn on her toes.
Lynn’s books have been called “exceptional and emotional,” “intense,” and “sizzling” – and have sold in excess of 4.5 million copies worldwide.
Everly met Gem when he and his team were assigning to protect her mother who has come under threat due to her political position. They developed feelings for each other and decided to pursue their relationship after the assignment until Everly ended their relationship not because she didn’t love him but because she did.
Gem was hurt when not only did Everly end their relationship but that she was about to marry another. Having her arrive at his door asking for help to protect her mother once again was the last thing he expected but he wasn’t about to leave her to fend for herself. As the danger escalates around them so does the chemistry between them but will it be enough to overcome the events of the past?
Action and romance combine as Everly and Gem get their second chance as he realizes he isn’t about to let her walk away again despite all the outside forces who try to keep them apart.
I love my job working for Silver Breweries. Managing the largest location in the Denver area, I have a lot of responsibility that keeps me busy. My favorite part of the job is when the CEOs come in. Well, one in particular who never fails to catch the eye of this Southern girl.
We’re complete opposites, but I can’t take my gaze off Lincoln Silverstone. Those crystal-blue eyes and broad shoulders. The way his suit fits him like a glove.
He’s like a cool drink of water on a hot Alabama summer day.
But Linc is all about business. I doubt he notices me when he comes in, only throwing me the occasional glance, that I’m sure is strictly professional. Seems I’ll have to try harder to get him to see me as more than just an employee.
So, when he offers me a position where I’ll be working more closely with him, I jump at the chance.
Lincoln
I’m always on the lookout for the next business opportunity. Which company I can take over, and what I can do to appease my corporation’s bottom line. With the other CEOs busy in their new domestic roles, more responsibility is falling on me lately.
I believe Quinn Walker is the best person for a new job we’re creating. She runs our Silver Park location like it’s her own pub. The problem is that Quinn is extremely attractive and I find myself drawn to her the second I walk into the brewery, wanting to be in her sweet Southern presence. She makes my otherwise serious persona relax with her inane euphemisms, and I can tell she’s flirting with me.
I’ve told my colleagues not to mix business with pleasure, so I’ll just have to maintain my professionalism if she decides to take my job offer, because we’ll be working very close together if she does. But, keeping it strictly business won’t be easy.
Bestselling author Lucy Score returns to Knockemout, Virginia, following fan-favorite Things We Never Got Over with Knox’s brother Nash’s story.
Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. Nash isn’t about to let anyone in his life know he’s struggling. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. As a rule, she’s not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but for some reason Nash’s touch is different. He feels it too. The physical connection between them is incendiary, grounding him and making her wonder if exploring it is worth the risk.
Too bad Lina’s got secrets of her own, and if Nash finds out the real reason she’s in town, he’ll never forgive her. Besides, she doesn’t do relationships. Ever. A hot, short-term fling with a local cop? Absolutely. Sign her up. A relationship with a man who expects her to plant roots? No freaking way. Once she gets what she’s after, she has no intention of sticking around. But Knockemout has a way of getting under people’s skin. And once Nash decides to make Lina his, he’s not about to be dissuaded…even if it means facing the danger that nearly killed him.
Sandizzlereads ✰✰✰✰✰ Review – “Lucy Score’s Things We Hide From The Light, is a book you simply can’t miss!”
Amazon ✰✰✰✰✰ Review – “Highly anticipated sequel to Things We Never Got Over and WOW WOW WOW!!! This book is absolute perfection!”
Amazon ✰✰✰✰✰ Review – “Hard-hitting and fraught with emotion, Nash and Lina’s story was the perfect continuation of Things We Never Got Over.”
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Nash thought that he had his life planned out as he had a career that allowed him to love and protect and he knew that he was destined to spend his life with a special someone even if he didn’t know what that was yet. One night changed everything and now everyday is a struggle as he tries to heal from the past. All he wants is to be left alone but his new neighbor is a distraction he wasn’t expecting.
Due to her past Lina wants nothing to do with love or a relationship however what would be the harm in a little fun with her neighbor. She has her own agenda and she knows that Nash wouldn’t approve but she isn’t about to let anyone talk her out of it and that is when the suspense start of the story really begins.
Lina is independent and is the perfect challenge for the protector in Nash as he slowly breaks through the walls he has built around himself. I enjoyed the growth of both these characters as well as catching up with the characters we have come to know.
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Lucy Score is a Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Small town contemporary rom-coms are her lady jam and she enjoys delivering the feels with a huge side of happily ever after.
Her books have been translated into several languages, making readers around the world snort laugh, swoon, and sob. Lucy lives in Pennsylvania with the devastatingly handsome Mr. Lucy and their horrible cat.
In her spare time she enjoys sleeping, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and reading all the romance novels in the universe.
I’ve been an outcast my whole life. If my scars don’t scare people away, my attitude certainly will. I don’t know what I am or how I got the power to stop time. What I do know is, there are far too many questions I need answers to. When I cross paths with a local gang member, his presence unravels a part of my past I never knew existed. At every turn, danger leaps closer, and I realize that stopping the killer will mean losing everything—including the first man I’ve ever loved. But I should’ve known better. We were never meant to be anything more than a brief stop in time.
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🖤Review🖤 Everyone in town has distanced themselves from Mac due to her physical scars but there is so much about her that they don’t know. Not only does she have the ability to stop time she also has periods of time that she doesn’t remember not only from her past, but they have also continued into the present. When Daniel comes into her life rather than fearing the man she finds herself drawn to him instead.
Daniel is a powerful man within the Scorpions who believes that Mac holds the answers to what happened to his sister. His past has made him dark and dangerous and was determined to get the answers he needed by any means possible, but Mac is a complication he wasn’t prepared to.
Daniel and Mac’s story will captivate you from beginning to end. Entertaining banters, suspense that keeps you on edge, hot chemistry and surprises that will keep you guessing as you wait to see where this compelling story will take you.
A Guide To Just Being Friends by Sophie Sullivan
Published by: St. Martin’s Press
Publication date: Jan 17, 2023
Genres: Romance
Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind. Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a bad ex in her rearview, her one and only focus is living life the way she wants to. No distractions.
Wes Jansen never did understand the fuss about relationships. With a string of lackluster first dates and the pain from his parents’ angry divorce following him around, he’d much rather find someone who he likes, but won’t love. Companionship, not passion, is the name of the game.
When Hailey and Wes find each other in a disastrous meet cute that wasn’t even intended for them, they embarrassingly go their separate ways. But when Wes finds Hailey to apologize for his behavior, they strike up a friendship. Because that’s all this can be. Hailey doesn’t want any distractions. Wes doesn’t want to fall in love.
The life that Hailey had in NY wasn’t making her happy so she has recently moved to town and is focused on the friendships she has made and making her salad business a success. After her last relationship she isn’t looking for love so when Wes suggests a friendship after their less than ideal first meeting she agrees.
Wes has seen and experienced the negative side of love and knows what he doesn’t want. The friendship he forges with Hailey is exactly what he needs especially since she isn’t who he would expect to be his life partner until he starts to wonder if she is exactly who he has been looking for.
A heartwarming romance with a mix of turmoil and humor as Hailey and Wes realize where true happiness lies. Not only are they relatable characters but the secondary characters only make the story better.
A mafia romance about family, loyalty, and love, Dissolution is the powerful conclusion to #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken’s Eagle Elite series.
“There is always a beginning—I will be their end.”
For ten years the Cosa Nostra has ruled with an iron fist in Chicago—their reign is about to end, and I’ll be the one to bring them down.
One more job for the Italian Americans, and I’m done. Except this “one job” involves saving the boss’s brother and sister. When things go horribly wrong, and a price is put on all of our heads from my Family back home—I’m forced to stay in Chicago, offer not just my gun but my protective services to the young girl I saved while also making sure nobody touches her. Myself included.
My own Family has splintered. Half want me dead, half want me alive, and the only people willing to protect me are the very ones I hate—her included.
I’m the Grim Reaper of the Sicilian mafia, and I bow to no one, not even her, so when she asks me to teach her to fight, when she tells me she wants to be made, I give in just so I can piss off the bosses. Only I made one mistake.
I protect her from the world. But who protects me from her?
One more battle remains between the families in Italy and in the States. One more battle where I’m torn between both sides. And I’m left protecting the one girl who has the potential to wreck us all.
It all started a decade ago at Eagle Elite University—the beginning. It will end on the streets of Chicago—with me as the end.
I, Santino Sinacore, am their end.
**This may be the end of the OG Eagle Elite, but it is NOT the end of the Eagle Elite World!**
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❤️Review❤️ Santino is a large part of the force behind the Sicilian mafia, but he isn’t content with his position or his life. He is hoping that one last mission to rescue the siblings of Andrei will be the leverage he has to leave but once that is accomplished he realizes that his need to protect Katya has just begun.
After Katya is rescued, she realizes that her life will never be the same again. She is trying to adjust not only with her new circumstances but trying to heal from all she has endured. The one thing she does know is that she doesn’t ever want to be in that position again and who better to prepare her than Santino.
Once you start Santino and Katya’s story you will not be able to put it down. It has the elements you could want from loyalty to betrayal, love to hate and captivating characters that take us on an emotional and action-packed journey that is a fitting ending to this series.
Meet Rachel
Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 110 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she’s been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated into more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, a naked cat, and two dogs. For more information about her books and upcoming events, visit www.RachelVanDykenAuthor.com.
Alice Martin isn’t a woman who gets mad, she gets even.
She had a plan for a quiet night with her husband.
Just the two of them, alone for a romantic evening and some quality time.
Then everything got turned on its head
When their babysitter came knocking…
Turns out her husband has been keeping a little secret.
But he’s not the only one.
Alice has secrets of her own.
Secrets she’s never told anyone.
Desires & fantasies she has been hesitant to pursue.
Until now.
All is fair in love and war as they say
And now she knows about Richard’s fun and games,
Nothing will stop her from settling the score.
But can her marriage survive?
Sweet Temptations: Ménage à Trois is a contemporary Age Gap MFF romance that will seduce you with each turn of the page and leave you very satisfied. The concluding chapter in the Sweet Temptations Trilogy. Fans of Selena Kitt’s Polyamorous Babysitting the Baumgauters are going to love this.
Author Bio:
A self-confessed Tiger fanatic, L.M. Mountford was born and raised in England, first in the town of Bridgewater, Somerset, before later moving to the city of Gloucester where he currently resides. A fully qualified and experienced Scuba Diver, he has travelled across Europe and Africa diving wrecks and seeing the wonders of the world.
He started writing when he was 14. Under the pseudonym Dark Inferno, he has written more than thirty Fanfiction stories.
I’m a full time single dad. A former NFL player turned coach, tasked with turning around a college team full of kids who either don’t take it seriously or are determined to get injured.I will absolutely not be falling for my new neighbor, despite the number of times my meddling brothers try to set us up.
Lark Butler is pure chaos wrapped in gorgeous, infuriating sunshine. She showed up out of nowhere—getting paid to cry at a funeral, no less. Who does that? But somewhere between offering her condolences and crawling out of a literal grave site, we’ve found ourselves tangled in the drama of Outtatowner, Michigan-my coastal hometown with a decades-old feud and two aunties determined to end it.
I’m finally putting down roots so my daughter has a normal life and I need to forget about Lark. Forget the way it felt the night we kissed or what it’s like to finally take something just for me. But when those sparks ignited, it was more intense than either of us bargained for.
Trouble is, I can’t trust her, and she never stays.
She’s burning my carefully laid plans to the ground and all it took was one look.
Lena Hendrix is an Amazon Top 20 bestselling contemporary romance author living in the Midwest. Her love for romance started with sneaking racy Harlequin paperbacks as a teenager and now she writes her own hot-as-sin small town romance novels. Lena has a soft spot for strong alphas with marshmallow insides, heroines who clap back, and sizzling tension. Her novels pack in small town heart with a whole lotta heat.
When she’s not writing or devouring new novels, you can find her hiking, camping, fishing, and sipping a spicy margarita!
Welcome to Club Southside. Cerberus has opened an office in Chicago over the Club. The team takes on the jobs no one else wants. They handle everything from protection, covert rescue operations, cyber-crime to reconnaissance and more. These men are driven and deadly, willing to do what is needed to complete their missions and to protect the women they love.
A fast-paced romantic suspense series of interconnected standalone books that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year
Published by: Berkley Publishing Group
Publication date: Feb 14, 2023
Genres: Romance
When a thirty-something American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook she finds more than inspiration—she meets a handsome Scotsman she can’t resist.
Ruby Spencer is spending one year living in a small cottage in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands for three reasons: to write a bestselling cookbook, to drink a barrelful of whisky, and to figure out what comes next. It’s hard to know what to expect after an impulse decision based on a map of Scotland in her Manhattan apartment—but she knows it’s high time she had an adventure.
The moment she sets foot in Thistlecross, the verdant scenery, cozy cottages, and struggling local pub steal her heart. Between designing pop-up suppers and conversing with the colorful locals, Ruby starts to see a future that stretches beyond her year of adventure. It doesn’t hurt that Brochan, the ruggedly handsome local handyman, keeps coming around to repair things at her cottage. Though Ruby swore off men, she can’t help fantasizing what a roll in the barley might be like with the bearded Scot.
As Ruby grows closer to Brochan and the tightly held traditions of the charming village, she discovers secret plans to turn her beloved pub into an American chain restaurant. Faced with an impossible choice, Ruby must decide between love, loyalty, and the Highlands way of life. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712945/ruby-spencers-whisky-year-by-rochelle-bilow/
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Author Bio:
Rochelle Bilow is a romance writer, food journalist, and writer. She is a graduate of The French Culinary Institute and has worked as a baker, a line cook, and the social media manager for Bon Appétit and Cooking Light magazines. Her articles about cooking, eating, and farming has been published in a variety of national publications. Rochelle splits her time between upstate New York and Vermont, where she cooks with copious amounts of butter and reads stacks of books by the wood stove (as is only proper).
💙Review💙
Ruby has decided to take a break from her life writing about food to creating a cookbook. Chance may have sent her to an idyllic village in Scotland but the more time she spends there and with Brochan it is beginning to feel like destiny.
Brochan handles all the repairs that anyone in town needs and once he meets Ruby he finds himself doing the same for her. As they spend time together a romance builds but when changes to the town seem to be coming will it change their relationship as well?
This is a heartwarming story about finding where you belong when it comes to a place and people to call home. I enjoyed seeing Ruby and Brochan overcoming their past experiences and opening their hearts as they realize what will truly make them happy.
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