The One I Didn’t See Coming by Piper Rayne is now on ebook, paperback & audio!

Duet narration performed by: Jason Clarke & Ava Erickson

It’s the classic story—girl returns to her hometown only to end up moving in with her high school crush, who she hates.

Returning to Willowbrook was my only option after Chicago chewed me up and spit me out. Technically, it wasn’t Chicago’s fault. It was his fault—the man I thought I knew who turned out to be a liar.

My older sister, always the one to swoop in and fix things, secured me a job as a yoga instructor on her fiancé’s family ranch. As my self-assigned protector, she’s keeping one eye on me and one eye on Emmett Noughton, her fiancé’s brother.

He’s the charming, fun-loving, take-life-as-it-comes kind of guy, and once upon a time, his name was scribbled in my notebooks. Back then, I was invisible to him. Now, he’s looking at me like I’m the only thing in the room. But he lost his chance with me a long time ago.

It’s easy to keep him at arm’s length and nurse the grudge I’ve held onto for years. Until the house I’m staying in sells, and I have nowhere to go except his house. Now, resisting him isn’t just difficult—it’s impossible.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Book 3 in the Plain Daisy Ranch is the youngest Noughton brother, Emmett, and Gillian’s baby sister, Briar. I loved the connection between these characters, and the evolution of their romance from Briar hating him (thanks to something that happened when they were teenagers) to reluctant roommates, to friends to more.

Briar comes back to town after her life implodes. She’s hiding a major secret, and is hesitant to tell her sister about it. Things between Briar and Emmett’s relationship really take a turn once he figures out what she’s going through, and a friendship develops. Emmett, meanwhile, has been struggling with his hopes/plans for the ranch, and what is expected of him, and Briar becomes his sounding board. Eventually, it gets to the point where they can no longer deny the sexual tension building between them, and they start up a secret relationship.

It was really enjoyable to watch the progression between these two characters. I really loved the sweet connection that both Briar and Emmett have with his cousin’s little girl, Wren, and the way the two of them connected over the loss of their mothers. Narrators Jason Clarke and Ava Erickson did a beautiful job with the duet narration of Emmett and Briar, and I enjoyed listening to them bring this story to life.

I loved the tease in the epilogue about Lottie and Brooks, and am so excited that this series will continue on! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Piper Rayne

Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write “heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle” about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they’re married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they’re both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!

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Life doesn’t always go as planned, but sometimes, that’s where the magic happens.

About That One Night, an all-new frenemies to lovers, forced proximity romance from bestselling author Kendall Hale is now available!

She’s a corporate lawyer; he’s a carefree bodyguard. When their worlds collide, sparks fly in ‘About That One Night’—a romantic comedy about opposites attracting in the most delightful way.

Life doesn’t always go as planned, but sometimes, that’s where the magic happens.

Enter me: Zoe Harper.

Let me tell you, life has a funny way of flipping you upside down when you least expect it.

Case in point: I’m currently packing up my life into cardboard boxes after leaving my long-term, commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend.

Just when I think things can’t get worse, I find myself at a destination wedding with a grumpy but ridiculously handsome bodyguard, Maximillian McCallister.

Max and I have always been frenemies: he’s annoyingly charming, and I’m just trying to figure out my next move without losing my mind.

But one night, fueled by tequila and maybe a little bit of spite, we end up having the most incredible one-night stand. It changes everything.

Now I’m back in Boston, trying to figure out my new life with my meddling family, my stressful career, and stupidly hot Max popping up everywhere I go.

He’s infuriatingly perfect, and did I mention he’s my brother-in-law’s best friend? Yeah, it’s complicated. Even before factoring in the positive pregnancy test that flips my world upside down.

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“And just like that, my life became a series of cardboard boxes and half-hearted pep talks. As it turns out, my emotional baggage is the only thing that doesn’t require bubble wrap.

While packing, my fingers trace the edge of a framed photo. Suddenly, I’m transported back to Cabo. The phantom warmth of the sun kisses my skin, and I can almost feel Tom’s arm around my waist. We’re grinning at the camera, blissfully unaware that our happiness came with an expiration date.

“It feels like a lifetime ago. With a sigh that seems to come from my very bones, I wrap the frame in an old newspaper and gently place it in the box labeled “Memories” in my loopy handwriting. Then I pause, gnawing on my lower lip. Is it even worth saving?

Maybe I should just remove our picture and donate the frame. It’s a cute ornament . . . I think. Then again, I could be completely wrong. If there’s something I’ve learned in the past couple of weeks, it’s that my judgment is about as reliable as a chocolate teapot.

There’s a huge difference between what I believe and what is real.

I believed Tom and I were heading to a happily ever after.

Reality check: here I am, packing my life into boxes and preparing for a glamorous new chapter on my parents’ lumpy futon. If only I could kick out the people who are currently renting my brownstone.

“Look at the silver lining, Zoe. This is only temporary,” I remind myself, eyeing the mountain of boxes. “Nine months, and you’ll be back in your cozy and beautiful brownstone. Assuming the renters don’t turn it into a frat house.”

For more information about Kendall Hale and her books, visit her website: 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

About That One Night is the second book in Kendall Hale’s Happily Ever Mishaps series, and wow, is this a happily ever mishap!

Max and Zoe had insane chemistry, and I loved how well they balanced each other out despite having such opposite personalities. Max and Zoe are part of a larger friend group, so they’ve known each other for years and have a kind of frenemies relationship. I thought it was really sweet how he checked in on her after her breakup; I wasn’t expecting him to do that knowing that they kind of drove one another crazy. They give in to their crazy chemistry and have a one-night stand, and then a secret no-strings situationship… but growing feelings and a positive pregnancy test soon tie them together forever.

I thought the banter between these two was really top-notch. Max challenged Zoe in so many ways, and after living just a ho-hum life with a guy who was just “okay” to be with, I felt as if being with Max was like a burst of color for Zoe.

This book gave me all the feels.

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

WON’T BACK DOWN

Harper Jackson

Release Date: September 6

I drowned when I was sixteen.

 

My brother’s best friend brought me back, but nothing was the same. I can’t remember what happened. My parents dragged me away from my island home in the name of keeping me safe, and thrust me into hell instead.

 

I came back to Hatterwick to rebuild my life and–hopefully–my memory.

 

Now a new inheritance threatens to expose those long buried secrets, and someone will stop at nothing to ensure I never remember what really happened that fateful night.

 

The only thing standing between me and whoever wants to hurt me is a marriage of protection with the boy who saved me–now a man grown and determined to keep me safe at all costs.

 

But what began as protection turns into more. Because he’s the key to unlocking what hides in the shadows of my mind, which will either save or damn us both.

 

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 3.5 Stars

Meet Harper Jackson:

Harper Jackson has rescued her co-workers from a hostage situation, battled ninjas, and stopped international espionage—in her head anyway. Now that she’s no longer busy devising ways to make staff meetings more entertaining, she’s pouring that imagination into tales of breath-stealing, small-town romantic suspense. She believes that peach cobbler with ice cream is the best dessert ever and has a black belt in taekwondo to back it up. She lives in the Deep South with her husband and three canine furbabies.

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MEANT FOR GABRIEL by Natasha Madison is NOW LIVE!

Blurb:

From Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestselling Author Natasha Madison comes a new small town, single dad, surprise baby romance.

When a hockey princess takes a trip to the south and two pink lines change everything!

Zara

The day I picked out my wedding dress is the day I found out my fiancé was cheating on me.

After that, I needed an escape.

A distraction to take my mind off what a mess my life was.

It was supposed to be a one-night thing.

Then it turned into more.

We knew going in that it was for two weeks.

Then, two pink lines changed everything.

Gabriel

I thought I had the perfect life.

I had an amazing son, and I was running the family bar.

But all that changed the day she walked in.

She was gorgeous and funny all wrapped into one.

It was temporary, we both knew that.

She’s a city girl. I’m a cowboy.

But I fell in love with her and let her go all at the same time.

Now she’s back and pregnant with my baby.

It’s time to show her she was meant for me.

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This city girl + country boy romance was on fire!

After finding out that her fiance had been cheating on her, Zara heads down South to her sister-in-law Sofia’s house, and ends up having a steamy fling with Sofia’s dirty-talking, Cowboy cousin, Gabriel. They aren’t supposed to be anything more than a two-week affair, but when Zara accidentally gets pregnant, everything changes for both of them. But when her life is in New York, and he runs a bar and the family horse business on a farm in Georgia, how will they make co-parenting work?

These two characters were on fire! I loved Zara’s sass, and Gabriel’s drawl and possessiveness and dirty mouth. There are lots of appearances from the other characters in this larger series, and the reader gets to know Sofia’s family a bit more during the time Zara spends on Grandpa Casey’s farm.

i received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Natasha Madison:

When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…

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What We Keep by Jennifer Millikin is now live! 

Amazon Charts bestselling author Jennifer Millikin delivers an emotional and riveting love story.

Charming and heroic, there’s nothing about Gabriel Woodruff that Avery Burke doesn’t love. His warm brown eyes, his generosity, that small scar above his lip. The newspaper photo of him carrying her from a burning home only adds to the romance of it all.

A fairytale beginning and a picture-perfect marriage practically guarantees Avery and Gabriel a ride into the sunset. But every relationship has flaws, and what they ignored while they were busy being flawless eventually surfaces. The unraveling begins with the smallest tug on the tiniest string.

Their fall is spectacular, the kind that makes the paper.

When the fairytale goes up in smoke, Avery and Gabriel are forced to ask themselves hard questions.

What does for better or worse really mean?
Is this their second chance at a once-in-a-lifetime love?
What do we keep, when we lose it all?

*What We Keep is a full-length love story with NO CHEATING, no other woman/other man drama, and an HEA. Trigger warnings listed at the beginning of the book.

  Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited

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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

This book was beautiful! I read it in a day because I could not put it down! I love an intense marriage-in-jeopardy book, and Jennifer Milliken delivers with What We Keep! Avery and Gabriel’s story will warm your heart, make you cry as they are torn apart, and then feel all glowy as they fall in love for a second time.

I love how the story is set up. The first half is told as flashbacks during Avery’s therapy sessions. She and Gabriel were on fire from the moment they met (quite literally! As well as figuratively). But when they crashed and burned, they fell hard! The reader goes along on the journey with Avery and Gabriel’s picture-perfect romance, the fissures that made them crack, their marriage eventually crumbling to bits, and her struggle to pick up the pieces and move on.

The second half of the book is in present time, when karma… fate… destiny… brings them back together. They have both changed so much over the past three years. There is so much hurt to move past, and they are in this suspended state for a while, living in a bubble where they don’t need to face the past. But when time runs out and they have to make some hard decisions, will Avery be able to forgive Gabriel and trust him again?

If you are looking for a second-chance romance that is raw, gritty and intense, don’t miss What We Keep! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Meet Jennifer

Jennifer Millikin is a bestselling author of fifteen contemporary romance and women’s fiction novels. She is the two-time recipient of the Readers Favorite Gold Star Award, and readers have called her work “emotionally riveting” and “unputdownable”.

Following a viral TikTok video with over fourteen million views, Jennifer’s third novel, Our Finest Hour, has been optioned for TV/Film. She lives in the Arizona desert with her husband, children, and Liberty, her Labrador retriever.

Connect with Jennifer

Website: https://www.jennifermillikinwrites.com/

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EMBERS IN THE OUTFIELD by Stefanie Castro is Available Now!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
Enemies to Lovers
Firefighter MMC
Strong Heroine
Found Family

When Kennedy met River at a frat party ten years earlier, sparks definitely flew—but not the kind she would have preferred.

A decade later, they find themselves thrust together at their best friends’ wedding. Even though their intense attraction remained, nothing else seemed to mesh between the two. Constantly opposing one another, they couldn’t run faster in opposite directions.

Too bad fate had different ideas.

Their lives became a continual game of push and pull until the day came when they could no longer fight that overwhelming connection.

What started as a way to just scratch an itch soon turned into unexpected feelings and questions of what-ifs.

Can these two enemies find their way to true love, or will they be destined to challenge what the future has in store for them?

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars

Stefanie Castro has quickly become a must-read author for me, and I loved this kick-off to a new series. River and Kennedy’s story gave me all the feels for an enemies-to-lovers romance.

These characters were so fabulously flawed. They hated each other for years, and there is a fine line between love and hate. Once they gave in to that passion, they were combustible! A secret relationship soon became so much more as these two commitaphobes realized they had more in common than they ever realized. There is also a lovely layer of the long-term effects of grief and the loss of a parent, and I thought that was handled so well by SC.

River and Kennedy complemented each other so wonderfully! I loved the supporting characters, and the sense of found family among the friend group. I CANNOT WAIT for Clay’s book!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.