Accidentally Pregnant… Accidentally Charmed by the Grumpy Cowboy… Accidentally in Love
When I inherit the dilapidated Loveland Ranch on my birthday, I do what any self-respecting L.A. career woman would do —have one unforgettable night with a hot, broody cowboy and skedaddle before sunrise.
But when I hear that a crabby neighbor is suing my beloved grandmother’s estate, I decide her legacy is worth the dirt under my manicure and start renovating.
Cue the hot, broody cowboy, who rides up on a horse and informs me he’s the crab. And just when I think things can’t get worse, the universe hands me another surprise.
A little pink plus sign.
Fitz and I have nothing in common except being fiercely independent. We come from different worlds. We have different visions for the future. We don’t share the same dreams, backgrounds, or even the same zip code.
But it doesn’t take long before I find myself wishing for all the things I’d given up on—a real partnership with a protective, kind, hot-as-sin man who reassures me I’m not fighting my battles alone. Except he’s fighting his own battles, and they may be too big for us to overcome.
Will this accidental family we created lead to heartbreak? Or could it be the life I’ve always wanted?
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🤠Review🤠 Tessa is a successful lawyer who is striving to becoming a partner at the firm where she works. When she and her sisters decide to take a trip to see the ranch that they have been given by their grandparents the surprises keep coming. Not only is the ranch a work in progress but a night out at the local pub leads to an unforgettable experience with a swoony cowboy and a pregnancy she never saw coming.
Fitz is dealing with an uphill battle when it comes to the success of his ranch so a fun night with a sassy stranger seems like the break he needs. What he didn’t know he needed was to find out that he was about to become a father and now they must try a path forward when neither is looking for love and the different paths their lives are on.
The chemistry between Tessa and Fitz was never in question but neither were the complication of their situation. As they spend time together the heartwarming romance between them begins to unfold and has them reconsidering what and who they want in their lives.
Wanting him could destroy me, but it could also save me.
Carson
I dreamed of being a Navy SEAL, but to achieve my goal, I had to choose. I could be gay or be a SEAL. Being a SEAL won out. You couldn’t miss what you had never experienced. I hoped being a team guy would fill the void left by denying who I was.
And it did, until terrorists took my teammate captive, and I watched two of my best friends find love. Now repressed thoughts and feelings plagued me, and I didn’t know if I’d be able to resist.
Especially not when my first and only crush showed up.
Roman
Growing up in the bible belt was hard enough, especially when my dad, the town doctor, committed suicide. I hid in the closet until I left for college. There twosomes turned into moresomes, which somehow led to a drunken hook-up with a sorority girl. When she turned up pregnant, I married her, but she disappeared as soon as the baby was born, leaving me a single dad.
Statistics professor Amelia Hawthorne never expected to find herself in a rundown Atlantic City casino. But here she was, counting cards to help pay off her brother’s debt under the watchful eye of the mysterious Judah Greear.
The last thing Jude wanted to do was kidnap the hot brainiac, but orders were orders. Especially when they came from legendary mob boss John Valentine.
Now, Jude must choose between duty and desire. Will he protect the girl who sees past the tattoos and mugshots or save himself?
I built my global security empire from nothing. Control and discipline are the only rules I live by. Some might call me ‘intense’. I prefer ‘meticulously prepared for every disaster imaginable.’
Growing up in a group home with my two brothers taught me the only lesson that mattered: never let anyone close enough to hurt you. As a CEO, I don’t improvise. I plan. I command.
When I’m hired to provide security for an engagement party, I expect an easy job.
Instead, I meet a woman who treats my rules like optional suggestions. I’m used to being obeyed. Ruby clearly doesn’t plan on doing that. Not even a little.
She tempts me like no one else ever has. Whenever we’re together, my thoughts drift in dangerous directions. Wanting her becomes an obsession. I want to give her everything. But surrendering control means breaking my own rules. And I’ve never done that before.
Ruby
I love my restaurant, my life, and finding the bright side of just about everything. Hosting my best friend’s engagement party? Easy. Fun. Right up my alley.
What I’m not prepared for is Grant Clifford—and his many, many rules.
He’s a fine specimen of a man. Unfortunately, he also comes with a massive stick lodged firmly up his gorgeous behind. Under that perfectly tailored suit is a man who desperately needs to loosen up. Preferably with me.
The closer I get, the more clearly I see the scars beneath his rigid exterior. And I want to heal them all. But how do I reach a man who refuses to let anyone in?
This is a second generation series coinciding with the Oakwood Legacy Series. One light and one dark, set in a brand new world that is a part of Serena’s beloved Five Points Mob Universe.
Catch up with Victoria, Zach, Denny, Shay, Wynter, Pecan, Sofia and so many more.
✨TEASER: JUST MY LUCK by @authorlenahendrix is releasing in a new Deluxe Limited Edition Paperback on May 26 at a store near you! Don’t miss the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION paperback featuring stenciled edges, holographic foil, designed interior covers, chapter headers, and full color special character art!!
Unexpected sparks ignite a slow burn in this grumpy/sunshine workplace romance when a single mom proposes a marriage of convenience to save her boss’s brewery.
Fans of Lucy Score, Elsie Silver, Carley Fortune, and B.K. Borrison will find their next obsession with this second standalone in bestselling author Lena Hendrix’s spicy, emotional, deeply romantic Kings Series set in small town Michigan.
You might think it’s reckless for a single mom to enter into a marriage of convenience with her boss.
You would be correct.
To make matters worse, Abel King is a grumpy local brewer with a criminal past. He also happens to be my boss and a total stick-in-the-mud. Every time I come to work with a smile and wave, I’m lucky if I can get a grunt in response.
When I accidentally-on-purpose overhear that he’s having trouble securing a business loan due to his criminal record, I hatch a plan to help the both of us.
The arrangement is perfect—a business transaction and nothing more. Like having a roommate without the hassle of other people bugging you for dates.
I will definitely not be falling in love with him—no matter how many times he says “my wife” and tingles dance in all the right places.
Trouble is, as time goes on, things stop feeling like business and start feeling a whole lot like pleasure . . . and really, that’s just my luck . . .
Why you will love this book: 💙Friends to Strangers to Lovers🏒Hockey Romance 💙Single Dad 🏒She Plays Hockey/Women in Sports 💙Forbidden Romance 🏒Next Gen Langfield, but can be read as a standalone
There are only two things I’ve ever truly wanted in my life. To be a goalie in the NHL and JJ Hanson.
In a twisted way, both dreams have come true. Rather than a spot on the roster though, I’m now the first female goalie coach in the NHL. JJ Hanson’s coach, specifically.
Not only is he one of my players—making him totally off limits—he’s also a single dad and still technically married. Oh, and thanks to my father’s meddling, he’s now my roommate, along with his cousin and her three kids, my sister and her four-year-old twins, my cousin, and JJ’s daughter, who I unfortunately adore.
Yup, I’m living with six kids under the age of five, and the only man I’ve ever loved.
There was a time when JJ was my closest friend, and for one perfect moment, he was mine. Now we don’t even talk. JJ is determined to change that, though, and when opportunity strikes and suddenly both of my dreams are within reach, I have to make a decision. Can I step out onto that ice as the first female goalie in the NHL and trust JJ with my heart?
I’ve never been one to walk away from a challenge. Maybe the only way JJ and I can move forward is to go back to the start.
Paper Rings is a friends-to-lovers, single-dad, second-chance hockey romance with dual POV and a dual timeline featuring a Brownstone like Mother Faker and many of your favorite characters from the Langfield Brothers’ family. It is the first book in the New Romantics Series and a complete standalone
Hannah Scott is great at finding the perfect match. For everyone except herself. When she travels to Sagebrush County for her best friend’s wedding, she expects a quick visit—help set up, celebrate, and head back to Denver. But the wide-open land, slower pace, and surprising shortage of women have her rethinking everything. Sagebrush doesn’t just need a matchmaker. It needs her.
Rhett Calder isn’t looking for a relationship. He’s just looking for a reason to keep Hannah from leaving. So he signs up for her matchmaking service—playing along, letting her set him up, and turning down every woman she puts in front of him. Because none of them are her. Hannah is convinced she’s building something real in Sagebrush. A new life. A new business. A future that finally feels right. Until she realizes Rhett never intended to find a match at all. He just wanted her to stay. Now she’s left wondering if any of it was real—or if she was just part of his game. But Rhett Calder isn’t playing anymore. And this time, he’s not looking for a match. He’s choosing one.
While in Sagebrush for her friend’s wedding Hannah can’t deny the appeal and the residents and is convinced to stay and start up a matchmaking business as the differential between men and women is substantial. Her first client turns out to be Rhett, the cowboy she shared a dance with, however every match she makes doesn’t work out.
Rhett was drawn to Hannah from their first meeting and wants to spend time with her even if the only way for that to happen if for him to hire her as his matchmaker. While she tries to find his perfect match, he is going to use that time to show her that he has already met his perfect match and it is her.
I thought it was touching that Hannah believed that love was for others not her until Rhett comes into her life and shows her that she is the woman he has been waiting for even if it requires a little subterfuge to get there.
The Sweet Gum Café smells like grease and coffee and something sweet that’s been sitting too long on a heated rack.
Lark slides into the booth across from me, glancing around like she’s cataloging everything at once.
“This feels very… you,” she says.
“Should I be concerned?”
“You probably should be.”
I huff a quiet laugh. And just like that, the edge of the day softens. Something I’m afraid only Lark could do.
“Tell me something about yourself. Something I can’t find out by asking any person in this room.”
Her inquiry should have been expected, but panic rushes through me at the same time.
“The me you know now wasn’t always me,” I say.
Her brows rise in that way that asks me to continue without saying a single word.
“What changed?”
I hesitate, afraid to show her that part of myself, then answer anyway.
“I was the town goofball for a long time. In my large family, it was a way to guarantee I got some attention. Funny T-shirts, silly slogans, things like that. I just wanted to make people laugh.”
Lark smirks and says, “I can see that about you.”
“Yeah, then there was a fire at my parents’ farm,” I say. “Nothing big. But I was there.”
“And?”
“And I didn’t know what to do, like I was frozen on the spot.”
Her expression doesn’t shift into pity, so I keep talking.
“I watched everyone else move like it mattered,” I say. “Like they knew exactly how to fix it.”
“And you didn’t.”
“No.”
I exhale slowly.
“It was as if suddenly I felt like the current version of me was taking up space, taking away the air they needed to breathe. I didn’t like that version of me.”
Her gaze holds mine.
“So you became someone else.”
“Yeah. Someone my family and the town could be proud of.”
She doesn’t respond right away, just watches me, like she’s seeing something new. Something she didn’t expect.
I shake my head slightly.
“What you do matters, Holt. You matter, always did.”
I’m trapped between two controlling males and I’m not sure if I’ll survive their domination games.
The Elders made their move and now the future has been thrown into chaos.
With Seifiek missing and Axel biding his time, I’ll delve into my studies for as long as I’m allowed at the Academy—or as long as I can survive. There’s a dark secret within the Collegium, one that I need to understand if Rowa, Zeke, and I are going to make it out on the other side of this mess and new enemies are fighting me every step of the way.
The worst being a third powerful male who has set his sights on me. He is delighted by the realms on the verge of war. Chaos is his home and madness is his bedmate.
He’s as ancient as time itself and he’s set the future on a course where I’ll become his queen.
Ivy Quinlan knows how to find people. But this time, she might be the one who’s truly lost.
Ten years ago, private investigator Ivy Quinlan slammed the door on her Boston life and started a new, untraceable one in Maine. Or so she thought. For years, she’s made a living slipping into other people’s lives—catching liars, exposing secrets, and getting out clean. (Or mostly clean. She tries.)
Until Frazier Morello—the guy she never got over or forgave—shatters her peace with a problem that makes no sense: a missing influencer who looks exactly like Ivy.
Not similar, identical. Same voice. Same laugh. Same everything.
Kelsey Chillingham vanished three days ago, and the internet is obsessed. The only lead the police have is Ivy, and they’re not going to let her go without a fight. Which leaves Ivy–who’s spent her life not knowing where she came from–at the center of a story she never asked to be a part of.
Now Ivy is chasing a case that’s dangerously personal, tangled up with the one man who still has the power to wreck her, and getting closer to a truth that refuses to stay buried. With time running out for Kelsey, Ivy must rush headfirst into her past no matter the cost.
Ivy has spent years running from her past, and now it’s on her doorstep—wearing her face.
The crowd shouts as I smile, hugging my girl close. I twirl her around the stage, feeding their cheers while planting a show-stopping kiss on her sinfully red lips. Our fans scream at our love, both excited and envious of what we have. But little do they know that, in spite of the goddess wrapped in my arms, my eyes look past her and gaze into those of another. My loverboy.
She thought I was lying. The first time we met, she dismissed me as a smooth-talking stranger with a cheap pickup line and easy smile…and decided to walk away.
I should’ve forgotten her. I didn’t.
Now she’s on my doorstep—surprised, breathtaking, saying my name like she owns it. And all I can think about is pressing her against the wall and stealing the words from her mouth.
Because she’s wrong about me. I’m exactly who I said I was—the artist her boss is desperate to sign. The man behind the metalwork her boss can’t stop talking about.
Now she’s here to convince me to agree to an exclusive show.
I might. On one condition. I get what I want. And what I want… is her.
📖 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 ✔️ Heavy Banter ✔️ Mistaken Identity ✔️ Negotiation Romance ✔️ City Girl/Country Boy ✔️ Dominant Energy ✔️ Creative/Artist Hero ✔️ Opposites Attracts ✔️ He Yearns For Her
❤️Review Indy has been sent by her boss to Whispering Oak to meet the artist whose work in metal has drawn attention to convince them to participate in a show. After spending a day trying to find this person she is surprised to find out that he was the man she met in the pub the night before who she rebuffed because she didn’t believe him.
Toren was drawn to Indy from their first meeting and when she showed up at his door it only reinforced that feeling. He is willing to do the show as it will allow him to show Indy they belong together
The heat between them radiates off the pages and now that Indy is in his life Toren is willing to make whatever changes are necessary to keep her.
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