Kayla is a scavenger, driven to search the ruins of abandoned cities for artifacts in exchange for critical life-saving supplies. But, the rarest artifacts are found in the most dangerous ruins—those under control by the OmniLab traders.
Carl is one of those traders—and Kayla’s invaded his district. He’s determined to stop her and the best way to do that is to recruit her. The only problem?
Kayla hates traders.
When a powerful man intent on revenge starts hunting her, Kayla realizes the only way to save herself may be to accept Carl’s offer. But that would mean surrendering to OmniLab and giving up everything she knows.
Monica Murphy has revealed the gorgeous cover for All My Kisses For You!
Releasing in the US on June 4, 2024
Available in the UK/Commonwealth on May 23rd in ebook & print
Monica Murphy goes back to Lancaster Prep with a new generation of Lancasters, kicking it off with the daughter of Crew and Wren from the BookTok sensation A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime…
Everyone loves Willow Lancaster, and every girl wants to be her. She’s the perfect student. Stylish, kind to all and always flashing that beautiful smile.
After spending her junior year studying in Europe, she returns to Lancaster Prep, eager to kick off being a senior with her friends and maybe even start something up with her old crush?
But everything has changed. Her supposed best friend is dating her crush, new cliques have formed and everyone is OBSESSED with the new guy on campus.
Rhett Bennett is gorgeous. Lethally charming. Absolutely full of himself. He’s also the star quarterback of the football team and suddenly everyone on campus is a sports fan.
He is everything Willow should never want yet…he’s all she can think about. And when she realizes Rhett might feel the same way about her, she’s desperate to throw away her good girl reputation and do bad things.
Monica Murphy is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling romance author. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and have sold over two million copies worldwide. Both a traditionally published and independently published author, she writes young adult, new adult and contemporary romance.
A native Californian, she lives on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere with her husband, son, their goofy dog, and three cats. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing. Or reading. Or binge watching something.
When celebrity Laina Kelley bolted from her small hometown church on her wedding day, she ran to the first place that came to mind—to the home of the local farrier, a gorgeous playboy who just so happens to be her first love … and biggest frenemy.
Adriana Locke has revealed the gorgeous cover for This Much Is True!
Releasing: March 18, 2024
Cover Designer: Kari March Designs
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke delivers a new “sweet and spicy!” standalone romance about a runaway bride who finds herself in the arms, and horse barn, of her deliciously handsome frenemy—who just so happens to be her first love.
This isn’t your average romance. It begins with me in a wedding dress, just not at an altar …
I never expected to be a runaway bride. I also never thought I’d end up on my ex’s doorstep to flee from said wedding. Now that I’m here, it’s easy to find the key in an old boot by the door and let myself inside. It’s not breaking and entering if I have a key, right?
It’s safe to say that Luke Marshall didn’t expect to find me on his couch in my wedding dress, my veil over my face in tears. He has no choice but to listen to my panic-induced plea for salvation. It’s only a matter of time before the tabloids get wind of my disappearing act, and my life is over.
Luke takes pity on me and says I can stay… on one condition.
I can’t sing for my supper—I have to earn it. I have to work in the barn alongside him, up to my elbows in horse manure. Oh—and because there’s only one bed, I get the couch.
This works … in theory. However, when sparks start flying, and the small-town farrier asks me to stay, I’ll have to decide between my life as a pop star or a second chance with my first love.
USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.
She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.
Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.
Captain Jordan Threat is determined to overthrow the oppressive and tyrannical Hallion Imperium. But to lead the revolution, he’ll have to level-up his steampunk pirate ship and master his new magical powers. Fortunately, his flirtatious first mates are willing to give him plenty of hands-on attention…
But the sinister Lord Governor Jakjobb won’t go down without a fight. In order to crush the budding rebellion, he seeks a demonic relic with enormous destructive power. When Jordan and his crew set out to find it first, they make an unlikely ally in the form of a slick-talking demon aviatrix.
The sensual succubus has an antique airplane, a shady history, and a very dangerous secret. But the relic is the only thing that can save her from an eternity of sexual servitude in the pits of the deepest hell. And Jordan Threat is not the kind of man to abandon a devilish damsel in distress.
Can Jordan and his crew of captivating companions uncover the artifact and turn the tide, or will the Imperium unleash all seven hells on them? Fast-paced, swashbuckling adventure awaits in this humorous tale of seduction, rebellion, and aviation!
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 💕Small Town Romance 🔥One Weekend Stand 💕Second Chance 🔥Cowboy 💕”Hands off her.” vibes 🔥Spicy 💕Dual POV
One weekend. No names. No complications.
That was the deal we made. But the moment she sat beside me at the hotel bar, I wanted her to complicate the hell out of my life. I agreed to all her terms but one. I wanted her name.
She promised to give it to me before checkout.
She lied.
She snuck out without a trace, leaving me to wonder if the best weekend of my life had been a figment of my imagination.
Now, two years later, she’s here. In my town. At my store. Only she didn’t come looking for me. In fact, her arrival is nothing more than a coincidence. With the anger I’ve bottled up since the morning she ditched me threatening our shot at a second chance, I know I have to take control of the situation.
When Dalton played us this song at my house last month, all I could think about was Maya. She was always this thing in my life that I had so many feelings for, feelings I wasn’t sure I even fully understood.
But she was also like poison to me, poison that I knew I had to stay away from.
At least, that’s what I always told myself.
Now, I’m not so sure.
When the song says, “She’ll probably be the death of me. But damn if it ain’t sweet,” I feel that shit so deep in my soul that it hurts.
I don’t know what I thought we would become or how our lives would be when we were older, but I know I never imagined my life without her. That was never even an option.
Now, I feel like she’s slipping away, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.
I sing at the top of my lungs, “My pretty little poison,” hoping it heals whatever is going on in my heart and my mind for at least the time being.
Right now, that’s all I can ask for. I’ll have to figure out the rest as time goes by.
There’s one thing for sure though: she can’t cut me out of her life completely.
“Kal Seward? How did you guys allow Whit to end up with his ring on her finger?”
Marks hits the turn signal, pulls into the hotel parking lot, and throws it in park in front of the entrance.
He turns in his seat and looks at me. “You needed to do your thing, Pope, and we understand. We all gave you the space to do that. You did a season in the Majors, and we all hung back cheering you on. You come back here and start dissing our life choices? Nah man.” He opens the door and climbs out.
I glance at Danny who holds out a fist, I simply look at. “Bump it.” I do so begrudgingly. “I’ll pick your ass up at seven so you can grab your rental and do whatever you need to do.”
“Yeah man, yeah.”
Marks opens the door for me, and I slide out.
After shutting it behind me, I give as close to an apology as I can muster today. “Not trying to start shit.”
“Understood,” he says, rounding the front of the patrol car. “You’ll get it tomorrow when you inevitably run into Whit and give her shit about that ring.” He opens his door and taps the roof of the car. “Go easy on her. She’s a single mom and doing the best she can.”
I’m not sure what the hell is happening right now, but I’m pretty damn sure I’m on another fucking planet, or in an alternate universe because I’m not drunk enough to have imagined that Marks just said Whit was a mother.
He takes off in a sprint and I turn to run but before I can get very far his arms come around me and he hoists me up and over his shoulder. Then he slaps my behind and takes off for the water as I kick.
We stroll into the surf behind the others.
The warm water laps at my skin as I slide down Sebastian’s body just as a wave crashes over us.
The rush of water tosses me into him and he catches me and pulls me to his chest as I sputter and cough up seawater.
Once I’m stable I splash him in the face as he reaches out to clasp my waist. I struggle to kick past him but he has a firm grip on me.
“My dress is all wet and I lost my sandals,” I gripe.
“I’m sorry,” he laughs out as he buries his face in my neck.
“You don’t sound sorry,” I say as I push against him.
He locks his biceps and I finally give up and wrap my arms around his broad shoulders.
My fingers find the hair at the nape of his neck as I look over my shoulder to see where Amiya is off in the distance being tossed into the waves by Anson.
I bring my eyes back to Sebastian and that hidden dimple peeks out of his right cheek.
“Now that you have me what are you gonna do with me,” I ask.
A glint of mischief fills his eyes.
He takes a huge step moving us deeper into the ocean and I instinctively wrap my legs around his waist as we reach a depth that is over my head.
Life can often be awkward when you’re a child genius. For Louisa Ward, that came in the form of meeting her one true love at the age of 12. TJ Taggart was perfect. But being a year younger and a full grade ahead of him in school always made things weird. Working in the CIA has turned her into a strong and capable woman. Until TJ walks into a room. Fifteen years later, she still gets butterflies every time she sees the gorgeous soldier, but she’s tired of waiting and ready to find love, even if it can’t be with him.
TJ Taggart always knew he wanted to be a soldier. But joining the Army would require a sacrifice. Since meeting Louisa, TJ knew she was the one for him, but they had different paths in life. Lou was meant to change the world at some prestigious research job or maybe teach at an Ivy League school. There would be a chance to sweep her off her feet when his time in this dangerous life was done, and their happily ever after could begin.
Before he can make it home on his latest leave, TJ is kidnapped by an unknown adversary. As he waits to die, all he can think of is the time he wasted and how badly he wants to be with Lou. He’s more than a little surprised when his sweet, quiet girl shows up leading a CIA special ops squad to bust him out. Back in Dallas, it’s time to claim the woman of his dreams. He has a plan to win her over, until the adversary who almost killed him returns to finish the job.
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New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.
TJ and Lou have always held a special place in each other’s hearts however he believed that she deserved more than he could give her, and her happiness was all he wanted. When he finds himself in a dangerous situation and believed to be guilty of an egregious offense, he expected his family to rescue him, but he never expected Lou.
Lou has always believed that someone like TJ would not be interested in someone as quirky as her so she accepted that a friendship would be all they would have. When TJ finds himself in danger, she will do whatever is necessary to help him escape and overcome the situation he finds himself in but believing that he wants her as more than a friend will also be a challenge.
Lou and TJ have always belonged together, but it took danger and misunderstandings for them to finally do something about it. Romance, suspense, and surprises as they take us on quite the adventure and leave us wanting more of this series.
He’d wait forever for her. But the way things are going, forever might not be an option…
Relationships bring pain. Anna’s ex taught her that lesson. But unfortunately, her past isn’t content to stay in the past anymore. With her dangerous ex stalking her, now more than ever, she can’t afford to fall for anyone. Not even the man she’s been longing for since she first moved into the MC’s clubhouse…
Riggs would do anything for his club. And for Anna. Too bad she won’t let him. Because as much as he wants her, he can’t seem to convince her to open her heart to him. All he can do now is hope she’ll eventually decide to stop running from what they could have together…
But as it turns out, love is the least of their concerns. Powerful enemies are ready to wage war against them, while Anna’s ex lurks in the shadows. Can they find a way to protect everything and everyone they love—or will it all fall to pieces before Anna and Riggs can claim their happily ever after?
Many sins lay in the creases of my hands. Darkness and corruption are part of my life.
After hints from my brother that all is not right with the family business, I leave Mexico and return to Vegas. I have a responsibility to protect what’s ours, no matter the price or who gets in the way. Those who don’t fall in line will soon realize why I’m called The Vegas Reaper.
I demand order and obedience, so when I come head-to-head with our beautiful new hire, I’m faced with an unusual challenge, one that infuriates yet intrigues me.
When my hotel goes up in flames, my anger flares along with it. I pull on my cut and join The Devils Reach. The desert ride pays off, but there’s more at play here than I ever imagined, and I’m caught in a chess game of power from an unseen force. Deception, secrets, and chaos threaten my world. Could our new hire hold the key to it all?
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Warning: This story is meant to be read in the reading order that can be found in my Amazon bio and website. There is a heavy crossover from my Devil’s Reach Trilogy through the Quiet Mafia Series, and my Dark Water Series, where Grim is first introduced.
This is intended for 18+, violent, may contain trigger warnings, and of course…ends with a cliffhanger.
Author J.L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she lives with her husband and two children.
When she’s not writing she loves to spend time with her family, traveling or just enjoying a night at home. One thing you might notice in her books is her love for the four seasons. Growing up on the east coast of Canada the change in the seasons is in her blood and is often mentioned in her writing.
An avid reader of James Patterson, J.L. Drake has often found herself inspired by his many stories of mystery and intrigue.
She hopes you will enjoy her stories as much as she has enjoyed writing them.
He’ll do anything to stop her… and she’ll do anything to survive.
Titus is just trying to control his new power without losing himself to the darkness. Already cursed, and now suffering with noxious black magic, he believes his luck couldn’t get any worse.
Until an assassin appears, ready to end his life. He never expected such an infuriating woman, and now he’s not sure what to do. Kill her before she can kill him, or give in to the intense desire that proves bad luck comes in threes.
Rae is prepared for a typical hit. But when she can’t seem to eliminate her target, she quickly realises that it wasn’t only Titus who has a price on his head.
Forced to work together, or risk both their lives, Titus and Rae must unravel the mystery of who hired the hits, all while fighting against a dangerous attraction that’s a frustration to them both.
Can they trust each other to survive long enough to discover who wants them dead?
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