I didn’t plan on getting into a fake marriage with a millionaire pilot I barely know, but that’s exactly what happened when I said “I do” to Wes Winters, Deep Cove’s broodiest bachelor.

So how did I get here? It’s all thanks to a looming scandal, a pushy publicist, and a deal too tempting to turn down. When a long-buried controversy from Wes’s past resurfaced and threatened to destroy the reputation he spent years rebuilding, suddenly I became the perfect solution. It turns out a sunshine wedding planner with a spotless track record is exactly what his image needs.

The plan is simple: fake the perfect marriage and play happy newlyweds for one year, long enough for the tabloids to lose interest. Thanks to our carefully arranged marriage, Wes will get the squeaky-clean image he desperately needs, and I’ll get my dad’s medical bills taken care of.

Simple enough, right?

Except pretending to be Wes’s wife is a lot harder than I expected. He’s guarded, frustrating, and impossible to read. One minute he’ll barely speak to me, and the next he’s looking at me with those deep, charcoal eyes like he wants to devour me.
Good thing none of this is real. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself as my ruggedly handsome new husband kisses me in public, calls me his wife like he means it, and slowly starts showing me pieces of himself no one else gets to see.
Somewhere between sharing a home, pretending to be in love, and a chemistry so intense it’s impossible to ignore, the lines between fake and real blur beyond recognition and falling for my husband starts to feel inevitable.

Heart Breaker is a spicy, tension-filled small-town romance featuring a smoldering hot millionaire pilot with a guarded heart, the sunshine wedding planner who turns his world upside down, and a fake marriage that quickly becomes far too real.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

After getting some hints about growly Wes in the first two books, I was really looking forward to getting to know him once his story came around. Wes and Lottie were so good together in Heart Breaker!

I love a hero who doesn’t do XYZ until he meets the one woman whom he’s more than willing to do XYZ for, and that’s what we get with Wes and Lottie. He definitely has some issues trusting people after a legal incident back when he was in high school. That controversy resurfaces among the Deep Cove brothers around the same time that a photograph of Wes and Lottie leads the public to think that they are married. So Wes makes Lottie an offer to pay for her father’s medical care to go along with the fake PR marriage.

But of course, there is much more that develops between them, and it was a delicious ride. I loved the tension between these characters and the journey they went on together. Lottie was a strong woman, secure in who she was, and Wes was so closed off, but she managed to break through his walls. I really liked that things stopped being fake between them fairly early on, so we got to see them truly be a couple rather than go through chapters of each wondering if the other was feeling what they did.

Oh, and the scene in the cockpit of his airplane was five-flames hot!

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Trying Not to Need You, Moran Sisters #2 is NOW LIVE

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Opposites Attract

He Falls First

Retired Bull Rider

Childhood Crush

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From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan comes a new standalone small-town series about four sisters finding love. Trying Not to Need You is a he-falls-first, opposites-attract romance featuring a retired bull rider and the woman he’s never stopped loving.

Baylor

I thought I was living my happily ever after.

But after five years in New York, building my life around a man who stopped choosing me, I realized our future was nothing more than a dream.

So I walked away.

From the city. From him. From the family I thought we’d build together.

Now I’m back in Magnolia Ridge with my sisters, trying to figure out who I am without the life I planned.

I didn’t come home looking for love.

But somehow, love has been waiting for me all along.

Macklin

I’ve loved Baylor Moran for years.

The timing was always wrong. Until now.

She’s back in Magnolia Ridge with a bruised heart and walls higher than ever. But that’s okay. I’ll be here when they’re ready to come down.

Baylor can take all the time she needs.

I’m not going anywhere.

And while she’s trying not to need me, I’ll keep loving her until she realizes she’s not falling apart anymore.

She’s finally falling—straight into the future we were always meant to have.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Trying Not to Need You was perfect!

I loved Macklin’s calm, steady presence in Baylor’s life as she tried to piece herself back together following her breakup and move back home. I absolutely adored how devoted he’d been to her ALL. THOSE. YEARS. and the little things he did every day to just let her know he was there. Zero pressure. Baylor had no choice but to fall hopelessly in love with Mack and start to need him. The way he treated her was pure Boyfriend Goals compared to her scummy ex.

Stephen Dexter and Erin Mallon delivered a perfectly nuanced narration for this couple. They hit every note of the sweet and spicy and flirty as Baylor and Macklin reconnected and grew from friends to lovers.

So far, this series is definitely 2 for 2 and I can’t wait to see what comes next! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Welcome to Lovewell Landing, where autumn is in the air, pumpkins decorate every doorstep, and a little fiasco might cause opposites to fall in love.

Fall Love, the all-new accidental pregnancy, second-chance small-town romance, and book one in the brand-new Lovewell Landing series by bestselling author L.B. Dunbar is Available NOW!

Neve Snowe doesn’t need to settle down. She is already settled in her small harbor town, with a cozy beach cottage and part ownership in the family-run auto repair shop. She doesn’t want a man, but she likes them. And she has one golden rule: only sleep with flatlanders. You know, the guys who never intend to stay in Lovewell Landing, only use the coastal area for a brief holiday.

And the last thing she desired was the unexpected . . . to be expecting.

Tate Love spent his summers in Lovewell Landing as a teenager, but somehow he’d missed the beautiful girl who turned into a spunky woman, daring him to jump into the icy ocean one New Year’s Eve, then slept with him near the town’s sacred well, holding spell-binding waters.

He never thought he’d see her again, until nine months later, a business prospect brings him back to the area.

Now, the man who longs to be tied down finds that one night planted the seed to everything he ever wanted, while he holds the pen that could sign away all she’s ever loved.

Welcome to Lovewell Landing, where autumn is in the air, pumpkins decorate every doorstep, and a little fiasco might cause opposites to fall in love.

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“I’ll do it,” Tate says, shrugging off his suit coat and draping it over the back of the plastic chair still between us. Next, he loosens his tie, tugging it free from his collar like a magician waving a wand, casting a spell on me.

“Uhm.” I swallow thickly as he pops the first two buttons of his dress shirt before reaching for one cuff, unhooking a cuff link. An honest-to-the-autumn-goddess cuff link.

“Uh.” I clear my throat, appreciating this striptease a little more than I should. My cheeks heat. A lower part of me reacts when it has no business reacting.

“Just because you once dressed like a racecar driver, Driver, does not make you a mechanic.”

I squeak when he yanks his dress shirt free from his pants. The crisp material rustles like rolling on fresh bedsheets.

Do not think about him and a bed, Neve Snowe.

“I think I can handle an oil change.” He reaches for the back of his collar.

Don’t do it. My head slowly shakes side to side, a warning he’s not heeding.

He tugs the shirt up over his head.

Oh no you didn’t. A shiver ripples through me.

He draws the shirt in front of him and pops his arms free.

Plus ten.

My sister and I started rating men a few years ago. Pluses go for things like backward baseball caps and low-slung jeans. And pulling off a shirt over the head by the back collar.

Negatives are khakis and three-quarter zips. At least for me.

And in front of me stands a dichotomy. A truly mismatched puzzle of white tee and dress pants, reminding me of the intriguing man wearing a rather authentic racing getup last winter.

A man I was unexplainably drawn to during that New Year’s Eve party.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Fall Love is the perfect kind of cozy, heartwarming, fall-themed romance.

It starts out when Neve and Tate have a one-night stand on New Year’s Eve. Because they hadn’t exchanged much info, Neve had no idea how to contact Tate when she realized she was pregnant. But fate intervened, because just about nine months later, he arrived in her small town to sell her late father’s auto shop.

Immediately, Neve and Tate are at odds because she has such an emotional connection to the shop, but it’s been bleeding money and her family needs to unload it. When Tate — who is the golden retriever type who always wanted to be a husband and father — realized that not only was Neve in Lovewell but she was also pregnant, he was all in on trying to win her over. Unfortunately, Tate really had his work cut out for him because a relationship was the last thing Neve wanted.

This story was so cute and fun, everything I want in a small-town romcom, but also hit all the right emotional spots. Neve and Tate are more mature characters (late 30s/early 40s), and I found it refreshing how they communicated and interacted with one another. Erin Mallon and Ryan West did a great job in bringing these characters and their story to life!

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

I’ve been a single dad for five years. Then the wrong woman rented the guest cabin behind my house, and I knew right then she was going to ruin everything.

When Baylor’s mother walked out, I made a promise—I’d be enough. Just the two of us. No one to disappoint her. No one else to leave.

Then Emelia Greene rolled into Echo Lake in a Mercedes and a power suit to convince the townspeople to change what makes our small town great. She’s everything this place isn’t.

Emelia’s not supposed to be kind. She’s not supposed to be good with my daughter. She’s definitely not supposed to be the one I find myself confiding in at the end of my dock every night.

She’s leaving in three months. I know that.

The problem is, I can’t stop wondering what it would be like if a woman like her belonged in a place like this.

In a life like mine.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Holding Ground was a wonderful start to the new Mercer Family series, also tying in Piper Rayne’s Greene Family series! I loved how grumpy single dad Elliot Mercer fell for out-of-towner Emelia Greene (the daughter of Jed & Molly from My Sister’s Flirty Friend).

This story delivered exactly what I wanted: a grumpy single-dad, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity story. But more than that, it was about finding where you belong, learning to open yourself up, and so much more. Both Elliot and Emelia have trust issues, so it was so fulfilling to see them open up to one another and figure out how to trust in what was happening between them.

Aside from the delicious slow-burn relationship between Emelia and Elliot, I really liked the relationship that developed between Emelia and his daughter, Baylor. There were some great parallels there with Baylor being left by her mom as an infant and Emelia never knowing her birth mother.

Holding Ground features a full cast narration, with Jason Clarke and Callie Dalton perfectly voicing the main characters. I am looking forward to what comes next in this series! I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Camden and Maren’s romance was the perfect kind of second-chance romance.

It’s been a while since I’ve read a solo Lacey Black book (outside of her co-writes with Kaylee Ryan). This story was absolutely a feel-good kind of romance where everything works out in the end for the main couple, even if they had to take a detour to get there.

Seven years after Maren broke Camden’s heart, she is back in town, with her toddler son in tow — and ends up moving next door to the guy she was dreading seeing again. At first, Camden tries to keep his icy demeanor around his bruised heart, but it’s not long before all that ice melts and he’s thawing towards Maren. And the relationship he develops with Theo just warmed my heart!!

I really did not like Maren’s mother, and I wish there had been a scene where Maren addressed the situation with her. On the flip side of that, I love Maren’s dad for his helpful meddling in getting them back together, and Camden’s parents were awesome in how they immediately stepped into the grandparents role with Theo.

This book is part of a series, but I had not read any of the others before this and was able to follow along just fine!

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USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.

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NEWSLETTER

He’ll protect them both, no matter the cost.

Summer Lewis can’t catch a break. An overworked single mom, she’s struggling to make ends meet. The one bright spot is her favorite customer at the diner where she works—the big, tattooed Reese.

But the dark spot in Summer’s life threatens to blot out the sun. Her ex is a member of a notorious motorcycle club, and they refuse to leave her alone.

Reese Haven hasn’t been home in almost two decades. Burdened by the weight of his mistakes, he’s convinced he can’t return. Instead, he uses his skills for good—protecting clients through his private security business.
When Summer’s dangerous ex shows up, she turns to her friend, Reese. She has no choice but to disappear, and Reese knows exactly where he can take her.

Tilikum. His hometown.

Reese makes the agonizing decision to return home, bringing a fake family with him. He’ll stick it out until he’s sure they’re safe, then they’ll go their separate ways. He can’t possibly stay.

But pretending to be married turns out to be more complicated than either of them anticipate. As tensions mount and lines blur, their relationship begins to feel all too real.

And when the threat to Summer and her son returns, Reese will risk everything—even his life—to keep them safe.


Author’s note: A big, tattooed hero with resting scary face falls hard for a down-on-her-luck single mom. A story of found family, forgiveness, and redemption, with the heartwarming happily ever after you’ve been waiting for.

Peaks and Promises can be read as a stand-alone.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Having read the rest of the Haven series, and the Baileys before that, I’ve been really curious about the mysterious Reese Haven, who was essentially estranged from his family and hadn’t been back home in nearly 20 years. In Peaks and Promises, Claire Kingsley delivered a wonderful story — not just in the romance between Reese and Summer, but in Reese’s reacclimation to his family as well, and with all the healing that had to happen between Reese and his parents and Reese and his brothers.

Needless to say, I was excited to finally get to read Reese’s book! I absolutely fell in love with Reese and Summer and sweet little Nate. Reese is such a tortured soul and has been carrying around so much baggage ever since he left Tilikum. It made my heart happy to see how much his life changed for the better over the course of the book, and Summer found the family she never had in the Haven bunch.

The audio is narrated by Aiden Snow and Stella Hunter, with Stephen Dexter showing up every now and then with a chapter from the POV of Summer’s ex, Axel.

Don’t miss out on this one! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

THE TRUTHS WE FIND by Donna Bollen

Blurb:

She’s chasing the biggest story of her career.

He’s her new boss… and the ex who shattered her heart.

DANI

I fought my way up the newsroom ladder. So when I’m passed over for a promotion, I tell myself I can handle it.

Until my new boss walks in.

Gavin. The man who ghosted me for ten years. The man I thought I would marry.

Now I’m stuck working for my biggest mistake… while my possessive boyfriend and unfinished feelings threaten everything I’ve built.

GAVIN

I left to protect her. Keeping a secret that could destroy everything.

Now I’m her boss… and still hopelessly in love with her.

Office rules say she’s off limits. My heart says Dani’s always been mine.

One truth could change it all, but a second chance could save us both.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Truths We Find was a pretty darn good debut novel by Donna Bollen. Ten years after Gavin broke up with Dani over a phone call, he takes a new job and discovers that he is her new boss. On top of that, he got the position that Dani was passed over for, so she is less than thrilled to see her ex at work every day.

This story hit all the right notes for angst and pining, because Gavin has never stopped loving Dani. He is determined to get her back, but her relationship with her childhood friend, Sam, complicates matters since he picked up the pieces and helped her move on after Gavin left. And Gavin does not take the news that Dani is now dating Sam too well. The reason why becomes apparent as the story goes on and we learn more about Dani and Gavin’s past.

The Truths We Find has some really sweet moments, and I really loved Dani’s journey of self-acceptance. Once she got away from the situation she was in, she really became a spitfire of a character, and Gavin was such a solid, supportive presence for her compared to the relationship she had been in.

I really enjoyed this story, and I am looking forward to more from this author! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

About Donna Bollen:

Donna fell in love with journalism at a very young age and always knew she wanted to use it to help people. She graduated with her degree in Broadcasting, but started working in newsrooms even before she graduated, learning from award winning writers and producers. She became a full-time producer, running various hours of a morning news show for nearly eight years, earning an Emmy Award in the process.

When the pandemic hit, she felt she needed to do more and went back to school to earn her Legal Studies degree. Now, Donna works as a Trust and Estate Litigation Paralegal, giving a voice to those who no longer have one. Every day feels like she’s living in a real-life soap opera.

Donna is an avid romance reader and has her nose in a book any chance she gets. She lives on the West Coast with her husband and son.

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💛 THREE MONTHS YESTERDAY by Erin Graves IS AVAILABLE NOW 💛

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Three Months Yesterday, the first story from Stonebridge Hollow is available now!

Life has a way of throwing you off course…especially when you least expect it.

My boyfriend of ten years breaking up with me definitely wasn’t planned and threw me for a loop. Except…when I stop to think about it, maybe it wasn’t as surprising as it should have been.

But life didn’t stop there. No, it kept throwing me curveball after curveball.

Having the world’s most charming celebrity living next door on the property for my family inn? Check.

Finding out I’m twenty weeks pregnant with my ex-boyfriend’s baby? Check.

Falling in love with that same majorly attractive and apparently down-to-earth celebrity? Check.

How in the world can I ask someone like Beckett Stone, a world-famous superstar, to love me, a small-town inn manager and my unborn child? A child who’s not even his?

Yeah. Life sure knows how to make a mess of things.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Three Months Yesterday was such a cozy, feel-good romance.

I am always a sucker for a celebrity/commoner couple, and then Erin Graves gave me a not-his-baby romance on top of it! I loved the sweet slow burn between Beckett and Madison, how she had no idea who he was when they first met at her family inn, and how amazing he was when she found out she was pregnant with her ex’s baby. Their relationship unfolded so nicely, and I was *shown* everything I needed to see to really root for this couple. Beckett and Madison were so perfectly matched, and the way he was so warmly welcomed by her family helped him heal so much from the horrible accident he’d been in.

I’ve adored all of Erin’s small-town romances and am looking forward to spending more time in Stonebridge Hollow. This is in the same world as her Ashford Falls series; Madison is best friends with Sadie from Nine Holidays Falling.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

YARD SALE by E.M. Lindsey

Blurb:

“Would you rather be trapped in a cabin with your arch enemy, or not be allowed to shower for a hundred days?”

Problem number one: My arch enemy is the jackass reporter who keeps making up lies about me.

Problem number two: He’s also absurdly hot so the idea of being trapped in a cabin with him gives me ideas.

Problem number three: As much as he pisses me off, Aravind Gupta might actually be right about a few things: namely that my career in hockey is probably over.

A poorly timed check might have robbed me of being able to retire old and with nearly half of my original teeth, and Aravind was right there on the front lines to tell the world about it.

In a wild attempt to get away and figure out what comes next, I find him on my same ferry, heading out to a quiet island where I planned to do nothing but bed rot.

Aravind has other ideas though, and he makes those known before we’re even off the boat.

And while it’s not like me to want to sleep with a man I can’t stand, somehow, he’s turned into the only bright light in the dark shadows my terrible family casts.

I might not be used to believing in myself, but with Aravind’s quiet and gentle persistence, I’m starting to think that despite what I’ve always been taught, I deserve my happily ever after.

Yard Sale is the third and final book of the Legends and Fury trilogy, a spin-off of Punk as Puck. It’s a rivals to lovers romance featuring a tired, injured D-man with a crappy family who is failing to cope at life, a reluctant reporter with a thing for lace and silk who is doing his best to figure out who he is and what he wants, sandcastles, walks on the beach, making unique use of panties, the joys of too many aunties coming to visit, and a steamy, swoony happily ever after.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

I’m a relatively new reader of E.M. Lindsey, having only discovered their writing several months ago. But I’ve very much enjoyed the way they craft their stories, and I think Tiago and Aravind’s has been my favorite so far!

These two characters were as opposite as opposite could be. Tiago comes across as a big, burly athlete (at least in my mind!) while Aravind was a femme who liked frills and satin. Tiago is somewhat quiet and reserved, and Ara is a flamboyant force. They have a bit of an antagonistic relationship at the start of this book; Tiago has suffered a career-ending injury and Aravind is a sports journalist reporting on it. An odd twist of fate puts them both on the same ferry out to an island retreat as Ara is looking to reset after leaving his job and Tiago tries to figure out what his next move will be — and one fake relationship to get Tiago away from his toxic family later makes them both realize they’ve found a soulmate.

I really liked what these two brought out in each other. Aravind gave Tiago the courage to stand up to his family rather than retreat into himself and hide, and Tiago gave Aravind the space to be his true self and heal those insecurities and trust issues he had. I loved that Aravind wasn’t “too much” for Tiago, and how Aravind cheered on Tiago as he stepped up for his poor nephew, Oliver, and was just a gentle presence as Tiago dealt with his diminishing vision. (Seriously, what is wrong with that family?!?)

There were so many sweet moments between these two characters, especially Aravind taking photos on his phone so Tiago could see things. They communicated and were honest about their feelings, even when they were scared. And as steamy as Aravind and Tiago’s romance was, it was also incredibly tender and sweet.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet E.M. Lindsey:

E.M. Lindsey is a Romance author, an ancient historian, and avid lover of nerdy things.  EM lives on the East Coast of the United States. 

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