From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the second standalone small town rom com in her bestselling Darling Springs series, I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU! This spicy, grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, workplace, forbidden small town romantic comedy releases July 28^th in all formats, including the deluxe edition paperback featuring stunning salmon-colored sprayed edges, and will be free to read in Kindle Unlimited! Find out more about Sawyer and Chloe below, and pre-order your copy today!

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About I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU (Coming 7/28/2026):

My secret workplace romance starts innocently enough at a birthday party.

But when a rowdy partier knocks me into a lake and a sexy stranger comes to my rescue – my night becomes one to remember.

A night so steamy I almost forget why I’ve sworn off men after a failed workplace romance.

Trouble is, the brand new doggy daycare in Darling Springs that I’ve contracted with is owned by none other than my sexy stranger. Thanks, fate.

Sawyer turns out to be a total grump in a tailored suit, no matter how sunshine-y I am. Even when he squeezes that hard body past me as I bring donuts to work. Or when he pretends he’s not roaming his dark eyes over me as I teach Fido to sit, stay and come.

But I’m focusing on my shiny new future—my dog-training business is suddenly the hottest thing in town, thanks to a new actress client. And when I’m roped into a charity dance number, I smell an opportunity, especially when I learn my hot landlord has an alter ego and a fandom.

Turns out Mr. Serious Boss is up for dance lessons.

Then the entire Dirty Dancing experience.

Giving into our chemistry once won’t hurt. Two might be pushing it. By the seventh, it’s undeniable–I’ve got a crush on him too.

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ABOUT LAUREN BLAKELY:

A #1 New York Times Bestselling, #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling, and #1 Audible Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that’s sexy, feel-good and witty. Her books have been featured in US Weekly and People. Lauren likes dogs, cake and show tunes and she is the vegetarian at your dinner party. 

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Review

Gentry is a protector who doesn’t hesitate to come to the assistance of Sage, a woman he doesn’t really know, which has now resulted in him being incarcerated and a marriage of convenience with her and losing his son. When Apollo offers to help him escape and create a new life he agrees if it means that she will get the fresh start she needs as well however the only problem is that everyone has believed he has passed away.

Sage found herself being forced by her mafia family into a marriage she doesn’t want to a man she wants nothing to do with. When Gentry comes to her rescue she wants to do what she can to help which includes a marriage of convenience and daily letters, so he doesn’t feel alone while she tries to get him set free. When she believes he has passed away the offer she receives for a job in Montana couldn’t have come at a better time however she is about to find out she is no longer a widow but a wife.

This story hits on so many levels from the romance between two people whose beginning was not ideal, to the chemistry that is always there to the secrets that are about to be unleashed and the emotional impact that keeps coming as these two characters fight for the happiness that has always been out of reach.

🏈𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑬𝑹 𝑹𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑨𝑳 🏈

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 (𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 3) by Ava Suttonreleases next week! Check out this teaser!

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What to expect:

🏈Twin Brother’s Ex-Girlfriend

🏈He Saw Her First

🏈Secret Relationship

🏈Pro Football Romance

🏈Protective Hero / Soft-for-Her

🏈Woman in a Male-Dominated Field

🏈They Fall Together

🏈Found Family

🏈Strong Family Bonds / Family Tension

🏈Banter & Chemistry

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I knew falling for Evangeline Carrington would ruin everything.

I just didn’t know how fast.

She was my twin brother’s girlfriend in college.

But I’d wanted her first.

Gorgeous, sharp-tongued, impossible to ignore, Evangeline is the kind of woman you never really forget. And when I run into her at a teammate’s wedding years later, one dance turns into too many drinks … and one reckless night neither of us can take back.

I try putting distance between us again, but that becomes impossible once Evangeline starts covering my team as a field producer. She’s determined to prove she earned her place, and keeping us a secret is the only way to protect the career she’s fought for.

And I want to keep us a secret because my brother wants her back.

But secrets like ours were never built to survive.

Not with cameras following her every move, looking for a scandal.

Not with my brother suddenly showing up at my games and making a play for my girl.

And definitely not when every stolen touch between us feels less like a mistake … and more like something neither of us is willing to give up.

Because the deeper I fall for Evangeline, the more impossible the decision becomes—choosing my family … or the woman I think was always meant to be mine.

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𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟓) by USA Today bestselling author Layla Hagen releases next week! Check out this teaser!

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What to expect:

💋Friends to lovers

💋Billionaire hero

💋Forced proximity

💋One hotel room

Blurb:

I‘m Knox Sterling. Self-made billionaire. Playboy.

My whole life, I’ve chased women, thrills, and anything that keeps things uncomplicated.

Commitment? Not my style.

Except for Amy. My best friend is the only woman who’s ever been completely off-limits. She’s the one person who’s kept me grounded since the days when my bank account barely covered rent.

The one woman I’ve secretly wanted for years… but never touched.

But after a minor car crash reminds me how quickly life can change, waiting suddenly feels like the worst mistake.

So when Amy asks me to chaperone a school field trip and inspire her students with stories from my career, I say yes without hesitation. Any excuse to spend more time with her.

But the trip doesn’t go as planned. A freak accident leaves us stranded in a small town overnight.

Just the two of us.

One hotel room.

Years of tension finally snapping.

One reckless kiss turns into an unforgettable night.

Falling for my best friend might be the most dangerous move I’ve ever made…

But once I have her in my bed, there’s no way I’m letting her walk away.

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Why you will love this book:

🔥Emotionally Wounded Hero

🔥He Falls First (and Hard)

🔥Sports Romance (Hockey)

🔥Forbidden Workplace Romance

🔥Grumpy × Sunshine

🔥Forced Proximity

🔥Slow Burn

🔥Opposites Attract

🔥Found Family

🔥Damaged Hero Learns to Love

He’s the league’s most dangerous enforcer. She’s the specialist sent to determine whether he’s too broken to save.Neither of them is prepared for what happens when the truth hits back.

Donovan Locke has a reputation carved in blood and penalty minutes. The league’s most dangerous enforcer, he’s an angry, unapproachable loner who fights harder and refuses to let anyone in. The Portland Wildfire only took him because no one else would, and Locke seems determined to prove every rumor true. He doesn’t do teammates. He doesn’t do relationships. He barely does conversation.

Dr. Livia Cross is quiet, brilliant and controlled. Officially, she’s the Wildfire’s new high-performance consultant. Unofficially, she’s been embedded by the league to evaluate one player.

One risk.
Locke.

Her job is simple: observe him, test him, and determine whether he’s safe to stay on the ice, or too volatile to keep playing. But the man she finds beneath the scowl and silence isn’t what she expected. He’s sharp. Watching. Walled off for a reason. And when sparks ignite where there should only be professionalism, Livia’s carefully built boundaries start to crack.

Locke doesn’t trust easily yet he lets Livia closer than he ever intended, long before he learns she isn’t who he thinks she is. And when the truth comes out, it won’t just shatter their fragile connection… it might end his career.

Dark, emotional, and electric with slow-burn chemistry, LOCKE delivers a gripping workplace romance between a guarded enforcer and the woman sent to evaluate him—until desire becomes danger, and the lines between loyalty and love blur beyond recognition.

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Title: Elite Player

Author: Sophie Andrews

Release Date: July 14, 2026

BLURB

Hockey’s biggest playboy knocked me out with a puck. One minute, I’m taking pictures of the team, and the next, I’m in a hospital room. With a fiancé.

Due to his off-ice shenanigans, Nico Tremblay needs to prove to the front office that he has changed his ways or else. So, after he gives me a concussion and sprained writst, he concocts a wild idea to pretend we’re engaged. It would allow him to keep his spot on the team and get my family off my back.

There is only one small problem—no one would actually believe the gorgeous and charming left-winger could ever actually want to marry me, backward and inexperienced Josephine Atkins.

Except when he calls me his fiancée while staring at my lips, I almost believe it. Maybe it’s the concussion or a moment of wild rebellion against everyone I’ve ever known underestimating me…but I agree.

And then there’s no way out of this lie that binds us closer and closer together.

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Instead of being supported by the people who should be there for her Jo finds herself being belittled.  As a result, she has tried to distance herself from the situation and is working for the photographer for the hockey team when a flying puck leaves her with a concussion.   When the player responsible wants to make amends she didn’t think it would include pretending to be her fiancé to shield her from her family.

Due to his activities off the ice Nico finds himself in a precarious situation with the team.   He feels guilty for injuring Jo so when he sees her situation with her family he doesn’t hesitate to step up and pretend they are engaged as it is a win-win for them both.  The more time he spends with her and gets to know her he realizes that there is nothing pretend about their feelings but first they both have pasts they need to overcome.

Both Jo and Nico have difficult pasts that will draw you in and have you hoping they find the happiness they both deserve.   They are exactly who the other needs in their lives and even when the turmoil escalates you know that the only place they belong is with each other.  The audio performance by Willa Jaymes and Ryan Lee Dunlap brought out every emotion of the story as well as the depth of the characters.

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Sophie Andrews is a contemporary romance author who writes steamy books that will leave you smiling. As a millennial, she’s obsessed with boybands, late 90s rom-coms, and will always be team Pacey. When she’s not writing, she’s most likely trying to wrangle her children or drinking red wine. Or both at the same time.

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About Returning to Romance:

Title: Returning to Romance
Author: Jennifer Shirk
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 13, 2026
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Series: Sunny Banks

Synopsis:

Saving her family’s beloved seaside resort was never going to be easy—but falling for the man who could ruin everything wasn’t part of the plan.

Kalinda Wingate is pouring her heart into restoring the Sunshine Sisters Resort, determined to protect the legacy her parents left behind. With renovations stretching her budget, guests dwindling, and the future hanging by a thread, one thing could change everything: a glowing review from the elusive travel critic known only as The Secret Sightseer.

When rumors spread that the mysterious reviewer may be headed to town, Kalinda is determined to make every moment perfect. What she doesn’t know is that the critic is already closer than she thinks.

Clarke Cantor only planned to stay long enough for his sister’s wedding. Instead, he finds himself face-to-face with Kalinda—his first love, the woman he never forgot, and the one person who can never discover the secret he’s keeping. As wedding festivities, quirky mishaps, and the charm of their coastal hometown pull them back together, the sparks between them are impossible to ignore.

But with old wounds still lingering and a life-changing secret standing between them, Kalinda and Clarke must decide whether love deserves a second chance—or if some mistakes are too painful to forgive.

A heartwarming small-town romance filled with second chances, hidden identities, family bonds, and all the cozy seaside charm readers love.

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About Jennifer Shirk:

Jennifer Shirk is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of sweet (and sometimes even funny) romances for Montlake Romance and Entangled Publishing. Her novel, FIANCE BY FATE—a 2015 Readers’ Crown Finalist—became an Amazon #1 best seller for Series Romance. And recently, Wrong Brother, Right Match, WON the Sweet Traditional category of the 2017 Golden Quill Contest and became a #1 Amazon bestseller for Holiday Romance.

She resides in a beach resort in NJ, so when she’s not writing or working on her tan, she’s taking care of her most treasured possessions: her husband, daughter and puppy (Sox).

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🩵Review🩵

Kalinda is determined to ensure the success of the resort not just for financial reasons but emotional reasons as well.   When she learns that a secret reviewer is coming to rate their resort she needs to ensure that it goes well as a positive rating could bring in new guests while a negative review could destroy any progress they have made so she doesn’t need the turmoil of the return of the man who left her with a broken heart.

Clarke has come to the resort for his sister’s wedding but that is only one of the reasons.   This trip may finally give him the opportunity to try and repair the damage he caused by leaving but there is also the secret between them of another reason that brought him there.   Will this be their second chance or will the past and the complications in the present be too much to overcome?

This is a heartwarming story that balances family, romance and love.   The story finds a balance between humor, missteps and emotion and has us looking for the next story in this series.

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All’s Fair in Love & Malice (Queens & Heathens Vol 3) by Jenn Plummer

Narrated by Caden Hart & Keturah Quinn

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Blurb:

He’s the monster who hides in the shadows. She’s the sunshine he can’t stop chasing. When two broken souls collide, everything changes, and together, they just might heal enough to finally start living. After all, all’s fair in love and malice.

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TEASER: THE COMEBACK PLAN by @sjonesauthor releasing July 31^st!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🏈Pro Football Romance 

🎤Enemies to Lovers

🏈Secret Relationship

🎤Reporter vs Player 

🏈Opposites Attract

🎤Slow burn tension

She thinks he’s arrogant. He thinks she’s judgmental.

Neither one of them can stay away from each other. 

Rule number one of being a sports journalist. Never get too close to the players.

Rule number two. Oops, too late.

Nate Sandler is the franchise quarterback for the Harbor Bay Hawks. He is confident, infuriating, and way too charming for his own good.

I’ve made it my job to ask tough questions, while he’s built a reputation of dodging them. Every time we are in the same room, the interviews turn into verbal sparring matches.

Especially when he makes a point to call me sweetheart in front of my peers. I should hate it. Instead, my pulse spikes for all the wrong reasons.

To top it all off, my boss assigns me to an exclusive interview with the same man who hates the press as much as he does losing. For the sake of my career, I can’t exactly turn it down. How hard can it be? It’s only a few weeks after all.

Well, the joke is on me because this isn’t as simple as I thought. 

Not when every smirk feels like a challenge and every touch feels like a dare. Instead of keeping things professional, I’m breaking every rule and boundary I set for myself.

Now the closer I get, the more I realize Nate is not the man I thought he was. And that’s a problem, because I’m falling for the one man who could derail my career with a single headline.

If I’m not careful, the story I’ve been chasing might not just cost me my career, but my heart too.

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★★★★★ Goodreads Review – “If you like small-town chaos, stubborn idiots falling in love, enough tension to power an electrical grid, and a healthy sprinkle of “well… that escalated quickly,” do yourself a favor and pick this one up.”

★★★★★ Goodreads Review – “Giulia Lagomarsino is wonderful at world-building. More importantly, she creates characters who are fully three-dimensional, and then she makes you fall in love with them.”

★★★★★ Goodreads Review – “Oh boy… another emotional roller coaster from Giulia! Rumor Has It has it all—thrills, humor, a swoony small-town romance, and plenty of chaos.”

💜Review💜

After an injury ended his boxing career Sam is trying to decide what comes next. He never expected that he would get that direction when he rescues a falling woman who is wrapped up like a Christmas tree. Their meeting left an unforgettable impression on him and now he finds himself wanting to be with her without the whole town knowing. Let the fun begin!

Cassidy is strong, independent and intends to keep it that way. She isn’t going to deny that she is attracted to Sam, but she is a businesswoman who can look after herself but then the danger begins to amp up.

The antics between Sam and Cassidy was humorous especially when it comes to the rest of the town. The connection and chemistry between them is intense, the surprises keep coming as Sam and Cassidy realize what everyone else already knows which is that they belong together.

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Bloody Scraps (Warborn Part 7) by @jdglasscock

Narrated by Michael Norman Johnson (@thanatusnyx) & @cricketthenarrator

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Blurb:

The fight is far from done. Who will live, who will die when the Weavers plans fall to ashes and the Skull and Bones enter the scrap. The Bloody Skull has made many mistakes but he refuses to see his child in all but name, the Blade, fall. Bogie is dying but he for the first time has family so he will die doing everything he can to help them. Jeb and Bose have their backs to the wall but it wasn’t the first time and it wouldn’t be the last. Humanity is arriving and he refuse to let some red lightning spewing Blood-Elf Bitch end his road…..

Will they survive? Will Bogie die? In what City will Humanity and Jeb’s soldiers land? And can he get to them in time?

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