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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Wells Ambrose thinks I’m evil, and I wish he was wrong. I ruined his life the summer I turned fifteen, and he hasn’t let me forget. Nearly everyone in our small town turned on me after that, which used to be a bad thing.
Until I decided I need Wells’s hate.
He’s failing college, and I’m the only one who can get him out of the backlash he receives from his parents. He needs me, and I need him to believe I’m that evil girl from years ago, because his hatred comes with attention and protection.
His protection.
Sweet.
Innocent.
Lovely.
Bruno Sloane-Mallick has always protected me from Wells, but he doesn’t know the truth. He doesn’t know I’m a bad person, willing to use Wells’s pain to my own advantage. To make matters worse, I’m falling for Bru, my brother’s best friend, and I have no business mistaking his kindness for something more.
He and Wells are close, and as I watch them, I’m curious how close that bond truly is. There’s a heat between them I recognize quite well. It’s a heat I’ve felt myself with Wells before I ruined him. He’s another one of my brother’s best friends, and the worst part is, I may ruin his life again.
Because I just kissed Bruno Sloane-Mallick.
Warning:A Little Bit Reckless is an enemies-to-lovers, college romance. Please see the author’s website upon release for content warnings. The book is recommended for readers 18+ and is the seventh and final book in Eden O’Neill’s Court Legacy series. A Little Bit Reckless is a standalone romance and can be read by itself.
Author’s Note:Court Legacy is a spin-off series about the children of characters featured in Eden O’Neill’s Court High and Court University series. It’s not necessary to read the previously released series to enjoy Court Legacy. This is a new series that can be read completely on its own.
About the Author:
Eden O’Neill is an Amazon top 10 bestselling romance author known for sweeping readers off their feet with dark romance, fire-emoji-level spice, and a whole lot of angsty feelings. Eden inspires audiences to embrace their desires without shame—whether they want to fulfill them through fiction…or otherwise.
She teases over 100,000 followers on Tiktok and Instagram every week with her sassy (and ultra spicy) videos that pack an emotional punch. Her debut dark romance series featuring a found family spanning multiple generations has sold over 85,000 ebooks and paperbacks and continues to tantalize readers with passionate stories about morally gray heroes and the heroines who have no problem breaking them.
When Eden is not penning spicy reads, she can be found at Disney World with her favorite human and a vegan beignet. She’s also a dog mom of one good corgi and another one who’s doing her best.
From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby comes When You Blush, a small-town, forced-proximity romance set in Bitterroot Valley!
Blake
I don’t do relationships, but I’m excellent at casual hookups. That’s not to say I’m a jerk. Not at all. I respect women—all women—and I know the value of love. But I’m married to my job as a physician. In fact, I’m married to the hospital, having a full-time affair with the clinic, and my family is my side piece. I don’t have time for a relationship with a woman.
But then the most beautiful human I’ve ever laid eyes on walks onto my plane, and my world tilts. Thanks to a Montana snowstorm, I spend one incredible night with Harper, but wake up alone. She never told me her last name. She’s just … gone. It would figure that the one woman I could see myself breaking my own rules for is the one I can’t have.
Harper
It’s time for me to come home to Montana to help take care of my dad and pick up the slack for my siblings. I’ve been gone for a long time, but this beautiful corner of the world is my home. I’m excited to start my job as a NICU nurse at Bitterroot Valley General and begin a new chapter in my life. A fresh start. A clean slate.
Then he walks into the room, and it’s suddenly hard to breathe. Blake was the one-night stand who still haunts my dreams. The man can do things. Amazing things. But I never thought I’d see him again. Okay, that’s a lie. I knew he worked at this hospital, but he’s an ER doctor. I’m in a different department, so I planned to avoid him. Yet that didn’t last more than the first hour of my first shift.
Now, he’s pursuing me and saying things like forever. But with a past like mine, can I trust that he won’t tire of me and leave? Or is this finally my happily ever after?
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🩷Review🩷 Harper loves the Hendrix’s family and how they were there for her and helped her heal from her tumultuous childhood. There is nothing she wouldn’t do for them and that includes returning to Montana and accepting a job in the hospital. She knows that it may mean that she will reunite with the man she spent one night with, but she assumes that he will also be content to leave any thoughts of being together in the past.
Blake’s life is full between his career as a doctor and his family, and he believed he was content. Seeing Harper again only makes him surer that he wants a future with Harper and he is determined to show him that he is nothing like her ex and that she can trust him with her heart.
I really enjoyed how patient and romantic Blake was when it came to Harper. He knows that she is his destiny and everything he does and says are to convince her of the depth of his feelings and that she is the priority in his life. The characters are relatable; their journey is heartwarming and the love between them enchanting.
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