๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ฌ (The Monsters Duet Book 2) by NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover releases on October 23rd on all retailers! We are thrilled to share these gorgeous covers with you!
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Some secrets are silent.
It began with a contract, with Channing Harvey being forced into marriage by the worldโs grumpiest billionaire. She hated every moment of her marriage to Win Hallidayโฆ until she didnโt. It was hard to resist when he proved he valued her more than his massive fortune. Channing is having a hard time picturing her life without him, and if Win finds that out, he wonโt rest until he has all of her. Deep, dark secrets included.
Some secrets scream.
Win Halliday is so close to having everything heโs ever secretly wanted. Heโs ready to do battle with Channingโs demons, no matter what they are. Or who they might be. Someone from Channingโs past wants to use her, and theyโll go to desperate lengths to get what they want, including targeting an innocent teenager. But whatever lengths they go, Win will go farther. He finally has the family heโs dreamed of, and heโs going to protect them at all costs.
***NOTE: This is book two and a continuation of The Monsters Duet. It is strongly recommended that you read The Silence of Monsters first.
**TW: Mental health and mental health disorders, suicide, domestic violence, and loss of a child.
A small town, coach’s daughter, forbidden, football romance from bestselling author Kara Kendrick
Rule #1: Donโt date the football coachโs daughter
Rule #2: Donโt fall for your best friend
Rule #3: Definitely donโt do both
Some rules are made to be brokenโฆ
Sloane Carter.
The good girl with gorgeous curves and an easy smile. Also my best friend โ and my high school football coachโs daughter.
Sheโs majorly off-limits.
I resisted temptation for years, focusing on football, college, and finally, a professional career in the league.
A decade later, Iโm back in Thunder Creek after getting cut from my team. Standing on Coach Carterโs doorstep, I beg him to help me get my mojo back. After all, he is the winningest football coach in the state of Georgia.
Except Iโm not the only one on a losing streak. Sloaneโs back home reeling from a bad break-up. Next thing I know, Iโm down the hall in the spare bedroom and things between us start to feel so high schoolโin all the right ways. The more time we spend together, the closer we get. Soon, plays are made and forbidden lines are crossed.
But when I finally get the call from a new team, a secret scandal threatens to shatter everythingโincluding Sloaneโs heart.
Will a Hail Mary be able to save this Happily Ever After?
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Kara Kendrick writes fun and flirty small-town romance destined to give you all the feels. A reformed English major, she also has a master’s in counseling and was an elementary school counselor in her pre-mom life.
She loves the beach, wine, and rock hard abs, not necessarily in that order. When she’s not dreaming up Happily Ever After’s, you can find her chasing after her boy-girl twins, working out semi-hardish, or walking her adorable Shiba pups with her husband, who’s not too bad himself.
๐Review๐ With his football career in jeopardy Cam has come to the man who was his high school coach hoping to not only enhance his skills but to seek his counsel on how to overcome the situation he finds himself in. One surprise he wasnโt expecting was that Sloane would also be there and that resisting his feelings for her would be even more difficult as an adult then as a teenager.
Sloane and Cam were best friends but taking the relationship any further was complicated as her father was his high school coach. She thought her future was planned out until she realized that her fiancรฉ was not the man she thought he was and she has returned home to decide where she goes from here but she never expected it might include her best friend and first love.
Even though they havenโt been part of each otherโs lives for a while when they reconnect as if they had never been apart which allows them to overcome the challenges that come up. Fun and flirty I enjoyed seeing the relationship between Sloane and Cam unfold.
๐พ๐ถ๐น๐ป๐ฏ ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐ณ๐ณ (๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ 1) by J. Sterling releases in FOUR DAYS!
Thomas O’Grady is the unofficial King of Sugar Mountain. He’s always been untouchable; the kind of man you admire from afar, but don’t get to be close to. So imagine my surprise when I get offered a job working underneath him at his resort. It’s a dream come true… until it isn’t. He’s grumpy, opinionated and judgemental. I want to tell him exactly where he can shove it, but then I meet his daughter…
Nothing matters more to me than my little girl. My world stops and starts with her. Running my family’s resort is a job. Being Clara’s dad is a gift. I wasn’t looking for a relationship, but when Brooklyn walked into my office with her firey red hair and matching personality, all bets were off. I’ve tried to keep it professional, but that woman pushes every single button I’ve got. And hell, I sort of love her for it.
I swore off bikers and my familyโs motorcycle club, and enrolled in nursing to save lives instead of taking them.
When a rival club murders my father, my brother orders me to infiltrate and avenge him. Iโm the only one who can get close without being recognized.
Destroying my enemies from within wonโt be the hard part. Hiding my identity will be, and it wonโt be long until the Jackals discover my secret, and I wind up like my dad.
Inside their club, the lines between executioners and truth blur with what I learn about my dangerous and disarming enemies. Weโre not just adversaries, weโre fated mates, and Iโm fighting the mate bond convincing me we belong together.
Whatever happens, one thing is clear: the Jackals are my damnation and my salvation, and Iโm going to burn in hell with them.
Busy Mitchell is moving home to give her daughter a better life. That means accepting help, and sheโs never been good at leaning on anyone. Especially not her handsome neighbor. He was her childhood crushโฆone smile from him and all those pre-teen feelings come rushing back.
Reid Cohen prefers a quiet life of working in his shop and hiking with his dog. He tries not to get too attached to anyone, and definitely doesnโt have space in his life to fall in love again. But when he begins spending time with the beautiful woman next door, his heart says otherwise.
Instead of acting on their mutual attraction, Reid and Busy settle into a friendship they didnโt know they needed. Casual dinners at home, short hikes into the mountains, swimming in the lakeโฆevery day is wonderful when youโre spending time with someone you care about.
But true love is once in a lifetime, and despite their best efforts, the two fall hard and fast. When Busy finds out that Reid is harboring a painful secret, sheโll need to prove her love can weather any storm, and that the depth of what they share will last forever.
๐Review๐ Even though Busy has returned home so that she and her daughter can be close to her family she is also determined to be independent. She is focused on being the best mother that she can be and isnโt looking for love or a relationship but that would be easier if Reid wasnโt her neighbor.
Reid has his own reasons of why he isnโt looking for love or a relationship. He only allows people so close before he pushes them away but there is something about Busy and her daughter that makes it difficult, but will it be enough to overcome his past?
Both Busy and Reid donโt believe they need anyone in their life but as they spend time together, they realize how wonderful the future could be if they are willing to open their hearts to the possibilities.
I thought I was a phoenix who rose from the ashes of my past free of the pain and betrayal, but I was wrong.
Jinx, Dwyn, Coda, Raz, and Mo were nothing more than bad memories until they magically reappeared in my perfectly organized world as smoking hot adults. By the time I realized they were the boys I loved as a teen, it was too late.
For the second time, an explosion changed the course of my life in the blink of an eye.
I donโt know if The Five are dead, captured, or hiding.
What I do know is the shadowy client intent on conquering the criminal underworld by killing off competition will pay for daring to take what is mine.
He may believe heโs won by using me to eliminate The Five, but thereโs a twist he couldnโt plan forโฆ
I should never have touched her. I didn’t know she’s my best friend’s little sister. When I found out… well… My life went off the rails, and we didn’t see each other again.
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Now three years later, we’re in the same small town, and she hates my guts. But when her ex won’t take no for an answer, it’s me she improbably reaches out to for help.
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Sure we can fake a relationship to keep him off her back. We’ve done it before. Except there’s nothing fake about the heat between us. Or the very real threat from my past that’s the true reason I ghosted her. Maybe she’ll finally give me the chance to explain.
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I’ll do anything to protect her, even face down her brother for a second chance.
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Kait Nolan is a USA Today best selling, RITAยฎ Award-winning Mississippi author who calls everyone sugar, honey, or darlin’, and can wield a ‘Bless your heart’ like a Snuggie or a saber, depending on requirements. She believes in love, laughter, and that tacos are the world’s most perfect food. When she’s not writing, reading, or wrangling family (both the two-legged and the four-), you can find her obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off.ย
Ghost stories abound in the lowcountry, and Detective Andy Winslow is about to find himself in the center of one.
Andy Winslow grew up hearing campfire tales of the Scarecrow; a monster that stalked the lowcountry’s rural areas, killing people with a vengeance. Now, with farmers and their families around Charleston being murdered in record numbers, people start talking about the Scarecrow again.
Andy doesn’t believe in ghost stories, though. He knows that the sort of monster behind this is of the decidedly human variety, and it’s his job to find them. But when someone very close to Andy gets targeted by the killer, Andy just might find that those stories just might be the only way to save them…and himself.
That is until I woke up in Vegas married to a former hockey player who also happens to be my best friendโs ex.
Cole Hebert and I are opposites. Iโm the new town doctor, a rule follower, and five-five on a good day. Heโs the six-seven bad boy currently doing court-ordered community service.
Iโm struggling to earn the respect of the people in our hometown, and heโs doing some soul searching after an injury ended his hockey career. Weโve already drunkenly said I do, so we agree to a marriage of convenience.
Forced to live together, we slowly become friends. I see a side of Cole I never knew existed. He coaches kidsโ hockey, knits for the entire town, and loves snuggling while watching Jeopardy.
Soon, weโre growing closer, and the way the hockey-playing lumberjack worships my plus-size body and obsessively calls me his wifey has me embracing my inner bad girl and tearing down all my carefully constructed walls.
Our feelings eventually burn as bright as our passion, but the small town we both love is harboring dark secrets. After a shocking discovery, we learn there are those who want us silenced forever, and weโre forced to risk it all to protect our happily ever after.
Authorโs Note: If you enjoy opposites attract, flirty banter, possessive heroes, wood-chopping, meddling moose, and small-town hijinks, you will not be disappointed.
Welcome to Lovewell, Maine, where the moose outnumber the people and you canโt swing an axe without hitting a hot, grumpy lumberjack. The books of the Maine Lumberjacks Series are ALL standalones but are most fun when read in order!
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