HUSHED HARMONY

Kaylene Winter

Release Date: February 9

AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

Three chords can ruin a man if you hit them right.

I spend my life chasing sound. Grit, feedback, the moment a crowd holds its breath.

Fireball is the only thing I’ve built without it turning on me. Everything else stays locked tight.

Then Linus O’Donnell comes back.

My first real love.
The one man who knows exactly how I break.
The one I never stopped wanting.

Avonna doesn’t need an entrance.
She coaxes me past my defenses into truth.
Raw. Unfiltered. Impossible to ignore.

What starts as music turns carnal fast.
Late nights. Sweat-soaked rehearsals. Heat carrying into every chord.
Desire doesn’t divide. It multiplies.

I want them both.
Bodies. Loyalty. A future. The way we fit once the world goes quiet.

The problem?
It never does.

I lie. I stall. I pretend control is possible.

Some harmonies refuse to stay hushed.

Hushed Harmony is a white-hot, polyamorous rockstar romance about identity, obsession, and choosing a love powerful enough to risk everything.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Hushed Harmony closes out Kaylene Winter’s Charming Irish series, and we finally get rockstar Liam’s story as he falls in and out of love with his manager, Linus, and their lives intersect with singer Avonna.

This story is full of secrets, grief, heartache, reconnections, overcoming trauma, making peace with yourself, and so much more. It follows Linus and Liam over two-ish decades, from when they first meet as college students. Their lives become intertwined with Avonna, who ends up as Fireball’s lead singer. And her backstory is a doozy since she escaped from a religious cult. From the previous books in this series, I knew that Liam had a tumultuous relationship with his father (because of his dad’s alcoholism years ago), so I really enjoyed getting deeper into that through his POV. Then there’s Linus, who grew up in a super strict, religious family.

All three characters are flawed, with tremendous baggage and trauma. The chemistry and connection between all three of them was lovely, and there was so much depth to their story as they clawed their way to finding a way to be together as a polyamorous couple. For that fact alone, Hushed Harmony was quite different than the other books in the Charming Irish series, but Liam’s story was just as captivating as his brothers before him.

I have really enjoyed following the McGoughlin siblings as they find their HEA, and Hushed Harmony was a super emotional ending!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Kaylene Winter:

Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.

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BURNING ENEMIES by Mina Elwood

Blurb:

Jack

Control. I strive for it. In school, on the soccer field, and definitely with my unwanted crush. When things heat up between my team and the football players, it takes all I’ve got to stay out of it. Then Cal steps in, and my control snaps.

I’m drawn to him, but we ignite at every turn. And the more I push him away, the more he leaves me burning.

Cal

I’m already shaken, stretched thin. My parents’ divorce, violence at school, football, a girlfriend who’s no angel. And now Jack? He sees through my smile, sees the cracks in my armor. He keeps pushing until even the smallest spark sets us off. When the fires ebb, loathing becomes a building fascination I can’t explain.

I don’t want to hate him, but I’m not sure we can be anything other than enemies.

Burning Enemies, Book Two in the Burning Torments series, is a brooding and seductive return to the small town of Hickory Bend. When two jocks find out just how thin the line is between love and hate, which side will they choose to be on?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars

(This is a high school romance, but both characters are 18.)

Jack and his twin brother, Ty, move to small-town Alabama from California just before their senior year. They are both talented soccer players, which immediately puts them at odds with the football team… including popular player Cal. Jack had been bullied at his previous school for being gay, and even though he’s wildly drawn to Cal, something about the popular jock triggers his anxiety. When prank wars and animosity between the soccer and football teams get out of hand, Jack and Cal are forced to work together by the school — and Jack discovers that Cal might have feelings for him, too.

I felt bad for Cal. His home life is a mess; there is a ton of unnecessary responsibility on him, and he always feels like he has to be “on.” In contrast, Jack has a solid support system in his brother and parents. Plus, Cal’s girlfriend is a major witch who is actually abusing him, but he’s hesitant to come forward about that. (They break up before anything happens between him and Jack, so no cheating there.) His feelings for Jack kind of sneak up on him, and there’s push and pull between these characters as he comes to terms with his confusion and Jack figures out whether Cal is someone he can actually trust.

While I enjoyed parts of this book, I felt like it took a while for me to get into the story. The lead-up to Jack and Cal eventually hooking up was a slow-burn, but I was skimming over pages to get to the bona fide relationship because I felt like there was too much back-and-forth. And even when Cal was clearly trying to reach out, Jack kept pulling away. And while his past trauma influenced that reaction, I felt like it just happened too many times, and I wondered why Cal was even bothering with him. BUT… once they finally came clean with one another and admitted how they were feeling, the story clicked for me and I enjoyed the latter part much more. (Admittedly, I am obsessed with a very popular enemies-to-lovers television series at the moment, so there was a high bar, here.)

This is the second book in the series, but it totally reads as a standalone. The characters from Book 1 show up towards the end as part of a larger friend circle, so I didn’t feel like I was missing any plot points by not having read that book first.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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🎧New Audiobook Alert! 🎧

📚FOUND FOREVER by Whitley Cox

🎤Dual narration by Sean Masters & Andi Eloise

She’s looking for Mr. Fun Right Now, but he’s looking for Mrs. Forever.

After leaving her job as a dancer on cruise ships, Joanna Fernsby was sure that the fast-paced world of luxury real estate was her dream career. Wrong. Television definitely over-hyped things. It’s demanding, dog-eat-dog and not at all what she signed up for.

So when her best friend Mieka asks Joanna to fill in for her at her dance studio while she goes on her honeymoon, Joanna agrees. This will also give her a chance to get to know the mysterious Decker McKnight better after a steamy, but also confusing, moment on the haystacks with him at the wedding.

Decker is tired of his nomad life. He hasn’t unpacked his apartment in the six years he’s paid rent there. He also can’t take his eyes off the bubbly Joanna as she rips up the dance floor at the wedding, and is quick to offer his help on the ranch while the newlyweds are on their honeymoon. Especially when he finds out Joanna is sticking around.

However, Decker wants to take it slow with Joanna and see where things go, which causes the dancing Brit all kinds of frustration since she just wants a good shag.

Will Joanna get what she wants? Or will it take Decker offering her the promise of a real future where she can dance again, for her to see that he’s more than just a good shag—he’s a fantastic forever?

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Found Forever is a quick, bingeable story, narrated by Sean Masters and Andi Eloise. I think the entire audiobook is just over two hours, so I was easily able to listen to it in a day while I did work around the house. I thought that Masters and Eloise did a great job of bringing the sizzling chemistry between these characters to life.

Decker and Joanna had first met at the wedding of mutual friends, where they shared a sexy moment. Now that the newlyweds are on their honeymoon, Joanna is looking after her friend’s dance studio and Decker offers to help out on the ranch, hoping to get to know Joanna better. While she’s looking for a quick hookup, he’s at a point in his life where he’s tired of being a nomad and wants to settle down, get to know a woman, and make a connection. He’s looking for Forever and she’s looking for Right Now…. is it a recipe for disaster, or will Decker give Joanna everything she didn’t know she wanted?

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

MERRY QUINN-MAS

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal is NOW LIVE!!

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a brand new holiday rom-com with all the humor and heat her fans adore.

Nothing says I love you like trespassing, public humiliation, and a town-wide Christmas spectacle to win your crush back.

Atlas “Max” Maxheimer did not sign up for this. One minute, he’s anxiously trying to keep his family’s Christmas tree farm from imploding. The next? He’s passed out in the snow after getting clocked by a suspiciously strong bottle of soda.

Enter Betty: new in town, full of holiday cheer, and helping her uncle open a rival tree farm next door. Max is convinced she’s out to destroy everything Evergreen Farm stands for. Betty thinks Max might be one sleigh short of a winter parade.

Cue the holiday chaos.

Between blizzards, blown reputations, wildly misguided romantic plots, and one stolen ornament with a seriously tragic backstory, this small-town war turns into something far messier―and much more delicious―than either of them expected.

Tropes:

Holiday hijinks

Small-town laughs

Rivals to lovers

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

We go back to the Christmas-loving town of Kringle in Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal. After being Cole’s sidekick in the first book, Atlas “Max” Maxheimer now gets his own chance at love in this Home Alone-inspired, rivals-to-lovers romance that was sweet, spicy, and HILARIOUS.

After having to close her retail store, Betty is down on her luck when her uncle Dwight gives her the opportunity to help him create a new business on a parcel of farmland that he’s owned for years. But the business Dwight wants to open will put the Maxheimers’ tree farm out of business. Nobody in his family believes Max when he gets wind of this, so he sets out to save his family’s farm — and ends up falling hard for Betty along the way.

These characters were so in sync. It’s a wild, messy, chaotic journey, but I loved going along for the ride as Max and Betty fell in love, especially with his Grand Gesture to win her back that involved most of Kringle. There’s a great subplot with the hate that Dwight has for Atlas — and it involves a Christmas tree ornament with a tragic backstory. As much as I laughed throughout this book, the history behind Dwight’s ornament made me shed a tear.

As amazing as this book was, it was even better listening to the audio as I went back and forth between the two versions. Teddy Hamilton and Samantha Brentmoor were phenomenal as Atlas and Betty, with Vanessa Edwin and JF Harding back again as Storee and Cole, additional characters voiced by Robert Hatchet, and Shane East returning as the hilarious narrator. (And yes, we finally find out who the narrator is! Can he get his own book?)

I wish I could have a conversation with Meghan Quinn about where she comes up with some of her scenarios. I really think Atlas and Betty’s use of popcorn tops Cole and Storee’s candy cane escapade. IYKYK. Definitely put this book on your holiday reading list!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

VICTORIA FALLS by B.J. Hill is AVAILABLE NOW

Blurb:

After a decade in a suffocating marriage, I finally walked away.

Want to make me the villain? Fine. Here’s the truth: when you hate yourself, you’ll hate everyone who crosses your path.

I can’t love Chase enough for the both of us—and I’m done trying.

Now it’s a new city, new job, new start.

What I didn’t plan for? My new manslut coworker.

Leo is everywhere. My office. The copy room. Even the women’s bathroom (no, I don’t care if yours is closed—get out).

He’s everything I swore to avoid. Working together only makes the tension worse. He hides his pain behind hookups and humor; I’m still picking up the pieces of my past.

We weren’t looking for each other, but the more time we spend together, the more the walls start to crack.

I don’t need a man to fix me. But do I want this one to love me? Maybe.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

BJ Hill is a new-to-me author, and I am so glad I got the chance to read Victoria Falls. The blurb drew me in, and the story itself was phenomenal. It was so much more than I was expecting from a workplace romance with a playboy hero.

After leaving her abusive husband, Tori starts her life over again, moving in with a friend and taking a job as an assistant to several math professors at a college. She and Leo, one of the professors, get off on the wrong foot, mostly because while Tori is trying to deal with the trauma of leaving an abusive ex, Leo turned into a manwhore after being dumped by his wife, and holds it against Tori that she left her husband.

It’s a super slow burn between these two (and lots of math puns, which were genius) as they keep bumping into each other everywhere they go. The way they exchange barbs was foreplay all on its own; the witty banter between these characters was top-notch. But the core of this story is a messy journey of finding yourself again, and that wasn’t just true for Tori, but for Leo as well. While Tori’s hurt and pain were more apparent, Leo hid his underneath sarcasm. And once you got past his prickly personality, he was such a gem. The building of Leo and Tori’s relationship is told against the breakdown of her marriage with Chase, and in each other, Leo and Tori found exactly what they needed and what neither of them ever expected, and it helped them both heal and find a way to forge a path forward.

I will definitely put this one on my re-read list! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet B.J. Hill:

B.J. Hill wants to live in a world where it doesn’t matter if you’re a square peg or a round hole; where ’round’ is a perfectly-acceptable goal for getting ‘in shape’; and where unfiltered and messy life is not only welcomed, but celebrated.

Her books—edgy and heartfelt narratives—explore the depths of human connection, the bittersweet taste of life, the redemptive power of love, and the belief that true strength is often found in vulnerability. They are important to her because they offer a space where passion meets purpose, where characters break and mend, and where readers can find solace in the shared experience of resilience and hope.

Adding to her repertoire, B.J. is also the innovative founder and CEO of JibblyBitz, a company that embraces the vibrancy and authenticity of storytelling. Through JibblyBitz, she aims to extend that connection, crafting a community where stories uplift, challenge, and transform.

She is the sunshine to her grumpy-ish college sweetheart, mom to the three coolest offspring in the world, and devoted subject to her feline royal majesties, Belle and Lucy. When she’s not writing stories about her imaginary friends, you can find her reading, using her outside voice at inopportune moments, or being generally awkward (I mean, awesome. Totally awesome).

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💙 Beyond the Blue Horizon by A.L. Jackson is Now Live 💙

The fourth standalone in her Moonlit Ridge series is available for you to read now!

💙 Single mom⁠

🪵 Motel shenanigans⁠

💙 Heroine in hiding⁠

🪵 Hate to love⁠

💙 He falls first⁠

🪵 Touch her and ☠️⁠

💙 Band of brothers⁠

🪵 Morally gray hero⁠

💙 Secret society⁠

🪵 Small town⁠

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I should have known I’d break the promise I made when I found her stranded in a blizzard… 

Feisty as hell and the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen. 

With the cutest kid and her grandmother in tow, she’s completely off limits. 

I don’t get involved with women like that. 

I learned long ago I don’t have the ability to love. 

My life is sordid and danger is always hiding in the shadows.

Only I can’t turn my back on them when I realize she’s in trouble, and I insist on them staying in a cabin at the motel I own. 

As penance for my sins, I promised my life to protecting others.

Except she becomes so much more.

A need I don’t recognize. A desperation that burns beneath my flesh.

One kiss, and I’m falling for her.  

One touch, and I’m at her feet. 

But when my dark past comes back to haunt me, I’m in a race against time to save the only woman I’ve ever loved. Only it may be the demons that have been chasing her that destroy what we built… 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Beyond the Blue Horizon is another great book in A.L. Jackson’s Moonlit Ridge series. From the moment Theo saves Piper, her son and grandmother during a snowstorm to the epilogue, I was hooked on this couple and wanted to know what kind of secrets they were both carrying.

As with the rest of this series, Amy weaves a thread of suspense throughout the romance. She is a master at writing the heroine-in-danger trope, and once it all played out, I thought it was brilliant how linked together Piper and Theo were, without either of them ever knowing that their pasts were entwined.

I listened to the audio of this book, and as always, Teddy Hamilton was perfection. This was actually the second book in a row I’d listened to with Teddy narrating, and I could listen to him all day long. He always manages to bring such depth and vulnerability to his characters, and I loved his performance as Theo. Meanwhile, Kit Swan nailed Piper. The scared side, the reluctance, the determination, the vulnerability… she was spot-on in her performance.

I was so happy once Piper finally felt settled and safe with Theo’s found family, and adored how excited Finn was to get some “cousins” to play with finally. Well done!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

HER DIRTY BEST FRIEND by Adele Knight is NOW LIVE ON AUDIO!!

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BLURB

How does a romance author with practically zero experience find inspiration to write raunchy bedroom scenes?

I listen to my best friend describe his hookups…in explicit detail.
Except, now I picture myself in every scenario.
It’s Olly’s fault…with his cocky smirk and dirty mouth, it was only a matter of time before my crush turned to obsession, and every scene I wrote became a fantasy I could never act out.

Because we are just friends.

So when I need to write a story about turning the good boy bad, it makes sense to stop relying on Olly’s experiences and get some of my own. Seducing our timid college professor will work.
Except I seduce on paper, not in real life…I have no clue where to start, but my dirty best friend does.

Olly

I’d do anything for my Lovely Lacey, but teaching her to seduce her way into another man’s bed drives me crazy.
Crazy enough to want what I shouldn’t.
Crazy enough…to join in.

This is a short and steamy friends-to-lovers story. It contains MF, MFM, MM scenes.

This is a short and steamy novella in Her Sweet Seduction Series. Each novella is stand-alone with new characters and spicy scenarios to enjoy anytime—but especially fun as a bedtime treat.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

Welp, this audio is the very definition of hot and spicy. Teddy Hamilton tops the list of my favorite male narrators, and he was ON FIRE as Ollie in this audio duet. Paired with Savannah Peachwood as Lacey, these two were blazing hot.

Lacey is a college student who secretly writes romance books. However, she’s a bit inexperienced, so she lives vicariously through the escapades of her he-hoe best friend, Ollie, to write her racy scenes. But lately, Lacey has been in a bit of a slump thanks to writer’s block, and she’s hoping that she can get some real-world experience to draw from. After getting some spicy lessons from Ollie, Lacey decides to seduce one of their professors to get inspiration for her next novel — and it propels these two characters, who have secretly been pining for one another, to finally be up front about their feelings.

This was my first exposure to Adele Knight; I’m not sure if all of her books are as spicy as this one is, but man, oh man, was this spicy. I wasn’t a fan of one scene after Lacey and Ollie spent the night together, because he was clearly taking advantage of her. But other than that, this is totally one of those stories that will leave you hot and bothered. Especially listening to Teddy as Ollie.

This audio is just a little over 3 hours (the novella is 12 chapters), so it was a bingeable listen for me while I was doing work around the house. Definitely need the earbuds for this one, because it is spicy. I received a complimentary copy from the author and voluntarily left a review.

THE COMPLICATION WITH THE BEST MAN by Piper Rayne is available now in Kindle Unlimited and audio

One wild night turns into two pink lines.

Sleeping with the best man at my cousin’s wedding felt right at the time—he was a hot, available firefighter, and I was the tipsy maid of honor. It’s a rite of passage.

No regrets… until two pink lines flipped my world upside down.

Now I’m wildly unprepared and trying to hide my pregnancy in my small Alaskan town where privacy is a myth and gossip spreads faster than frostbite.

But wait, it gets worse.

Baby Daddy just came back to town—with a fiancée in tow.

And guess who she wants to plan their wedding?

Me.

Keeping the secret was hard enough.

Keeping my distance from the father of my baby? Impossible.

Just when I think I have it all figured out, he reveals his own secret that changes everything.

Authors Note: There is no cheating in this book. Gasp! We would never.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Another great Lake Starlight book from Piper Rayne! We are back in town with Harper, the daughter of OG Bailey couple Austin and Holly — the jeep hookup that started it all. Harper had her own random hookup when she slept with Finn, the best man at her cousin Palmer’s wedding. A few weeks later, Harper realizes that she’s pregnant (thanks to antibiotics!) — and the situation is further complicated when Finn returns to Lake Starlight with his fiancee, who has booked Harper as the wedding planner!

At first, Harper stays mum about her pregnancy, especially after Finn asked her to keep their one-night quiet. Unbeknownst to Harper, Finn’s engagement is a marriage of convenience. So when he accidentally finds out that she’s pregnant, he ends his engagement and moves across the country to be closer to his child. Now temporary roommates, Finn and Harper grow closer as they spend time together making plans for their baby… and it’s not long before they agree to give the connection between them a real shot.

There’s not much drama in this story in terms of Finn’s ex (no cheating!), but there is plenty of the Bailey family drama that I love from this crazy clan! I especially loved the way the men all interrogated Finn, led by Austin, and the Buzz Wheel reports. But I especially loved how dedicated Finn was to Harper, and gave her space to prove to herself that while she may have been the family mess-up and irresponsible at times, she was going to be a great mom.

Scott Rose and Willa Jaymes were great with their duet narration in telling this story!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.