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Take Me Now

Light My Fire Series #8

J.H Croix

Release Date: August 14

A swoony hotshot firefighter romance from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!

It all started when my cat needed something expressed. Do I have to explain?

That’s when Farrah Taylor walked into my life, a fantasy spun true. Aside from stealing my breath, she handled the awkward situation with aplomb.

Turns out she’s my neighbor, and my grumpy cat has a crush on her. He’s not the only one.

Neighbors with benefits is the perfect option. I don’t have time for romance.

Until I want more. Until just being neighbors isn’t enough.

*A full-length standalone romance.

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https://jhcroixauthor.com/series/light-my-fire-series/

Meet J.H. Croix:

USA Today Bestselling Author J. H. Croix lives in a small town in Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She writes swoony contemporary romance with sassy women and alpha men who aren’t afraid to show some emotion. Her love for quirky small-towns and the characters that inhabit them shines through in her writing. When she’s not writing, you can find her cooking, counting the turtles in her backyard pond, and running with her dogs, which is when her best plotting happens.

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RELEASE BLITZ – The Proposal by Adriana Leigh

Aug 14

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An unexpected proposal occurs when a Vegas oops marriage turns into a marriage of convenience between a rugby player and his best friend’s little sister.

The Proposal by Adriana Locke is now live!

Breaking News: Rugby’s bad boy marries his best friend’s little sister

If Renn Brewer would’ve asked me to marry him, I would’ve said no.

Why?

One, his reputation precedes him. His name is in the headlines at least once a month. Two, he’s not just my brother’s best friend. They’re teammates. And three, I’m in my self-care era.

Unfortunately, a version of me equates self-care with bad choices.

The cocktail in my hand—similar to the one that got me into this situation—is the prettiest shade of pink. It’s almost the same color as the giant rock on my left hand. And instead of discussing an annulment, I’m considering a 90-day marriage of convenience to the man I accidentally married in Las Vegas.

Renn didn’t propose marriage. But he does deliver a proposal I might be unable to turn down.

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BLP REVIEW – Tracy

Adriana Locke makes my heart so happy!!!! I adore her Carmichael Family books and was pretty sure I was gonna enjoy The Proposal but the gods, I wasn’t quite prepared for how much I was gonna love Blakely & Renn’s story!!!!

Renn & Blakely have been dancing round each other for 10 years but nothing happened – 2 things in the mix stopped them from crossing lines…. Renn is B’s older brothers’ best friend and Blakely just didn’t view Renn as husband material!

One drunken night in Sin City and all of that was turned on it’s head!!! The morning after made for fun reading!

I loved Blakely. She was down to earth, didn’t make the best choices in blokes, had a great heart and just wanted to be loved!
Renn, lordy, this guy!!! He had a bit of a trouble maker reputation, but was it entirely deserved?? He was so good to and for Blakely, while she was everything he didn’t know he wanted or needed! The story takes place over a fairly short time span but how long does it take to know how you feel about someone, or to actually admit to yourself how you feel about someone??

I loved the family dynamic of the Brewers… well, all except Reid; he’s a horrible excuse for a person, a narcissist and totally detestable. Adriana wrote him well, even though I couldn’t stand him!
Renn’s family are awesome – especially his mom – and I have everything crossed that we’ll get more of them in a series of their own.

Brock, B’s brother, and Ella were an interesting side story. I’d have loved more of them but what we got was fab.

Can I just say, after a cameo from Foxx (with some awesome banter and honest to the gods LOL conversation with Blakely) I cannot wait for the oldest Carmichael brother’s book. I’m more intrigued by the guy than I’ve ever been!!!!

** thanks to Valentine PR for an advance copy of the book. As ever, with books I love and fave authors I had this one pre-ordered too!!

Meet Adriana

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.

Connect with Adriana

Website: www.adrianalocke.com

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RELEASE BLITZ – Stay Here With Me (The Wilder Brothers #5) by Carrie Ann Ryan

Aug 14

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Title: Stay Here With Me
Series: The Wilder Brothers #5
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Rock Star/Tortured Hero
Release Date: August 14, 2023

BLURB

The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a secret romance that East and Lark never saw coming.

The world thinks I only write songs about my ex-boyfriends.

They study each lyric to point a finger at which man broke my heart—even if I’ve never met him.

Only the man I refuse to write about is the one who is so tangled in my mind that I know I can never be with him.

I had one night with East Wilder, and I know that’s all there will ever be.

He broke my heart without even trying.

Yet now I can’t seem to write a single verse and I need a place to hide while I figure out who I am. The Wilder Retreat will have to be my refuge as the Wilders prepare for my best friend’s wedding.

And when I’m there, I refuse to fall for East again.

Even if the dark shadows in his eyes draw me in. And the dangers of his past might be the one thing that forces us to finally give in.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61965862-stay-here-with-me

PURCHASE LINKS

Amazon: https://geni.us/StayHereAms
B&N: https://geni.us/StayHereBN
Kobo: https://geni.us/StayHerKobo
Apple Books: https://apple.co/3rl8rJv
Google Play: https://bit.ly/45fsriA
Paperback: https://amzn.to/3kmRG0g
Special Edition: https://geni.us/StayHereSpecial
Audio: https://geni.us/StayHereAudio

BLP REVIEW – Tracy

I honestly hate to admit this but…. I wasn’t wild for this particular Wilder for a lot of the story!!!! He eventually won me over but it took a while!

We know from earlier in the series that all of the brothers have come home from serving their country with varying degrees of trauma and damage…. Scars both seen and invisible.
East was really good at telling his brothers to open themselves up and talk in previous reads, to make them see what was in front of them when it came to their significant others but when it came to himself he was a tightly closed book – not once did he tell his brothers about his past, how things affected him and how much he was struggling.

I get that he was dealing with his demons (or maybe not dealing is a better description!!) but the way he treated Lark was awful and even though he knew it and acknowledged his behaviour himself, he was still an almighty ass. He assumed way too much about her and her work (choosing to believe what he heard rather than learning the truth for himself) and you know what they say about assumptions!!!!

Lark, I liked but the gods, she deserved better than she got from East and I just wanted her to tell him where to go for a lot of the story!!!! Yeah, they had a spark and hell they were combustible together but the constant pushing away would have been enough for me to walk away permanently from him and I found myself hoping she’d do that to maybe make him see sense and sort himself out.
I hated that she had to constantly be on guard and that she could barely talk to someone without the media making up stories about who she was seeing and who her latest song was about. It was good that she had a retreat of sorts at the brothers’ resort and she had friends who were there for her, no expectations, just accepted her for who she was.

When he finally got his head together it still took East a bit to man up, be honest and open himself to Lark. I did like that he managed to connect with some people during the story and that these interactions seemed to help to degrees.

There was a little suspense in the story and while I think I understand why the character felt as he did I kinda would have liked a little more on his reasoning and thoughts!

All that said, I did enjoy this instalment of the Wilder Brothers series. I loved that the brothers all got themselves involved in trying to get East to talk (they seriously are a gossipy band of blokes!), I like the group of gals that were there for our leading lady and I cannot wait for the next book – after that little teaser at the end I’m so intrigued about the main characters in Finding The Road To us!!!

ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE WILDER BROTHERS SERIES

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Audio: https://adbl.co/447opb4

COMING SOON

#6 Finding the Road to Us – Releasing December 11

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Special Edition: https://geni.us/FindingSpecial

#7 Moments for You – Releasing April 22

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#8 A Wilder Wedding – Releasing May 13

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AUTHOR BIO

Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.

AUTHOR LINKS

Website: http://carrieannryan.com
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COVER REVEAL – End Game (New York Stars #1) by Serena Akeroyd writing as G.A. Mazurke

Aug 14

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Title: End Game
Series: New York Stars #1
Author: Serena Akeroyd writing as G.A. Mazurke

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend/Hockey Romance
Cover Design (Illustrated & Discreet): Chelsea Chira
Cover Design (Hardcover): RBA Designs
Photographer: Rafa G Catala
Model: Aitor Ferrón
Release Date: September 7, 2023

BLURB

She’s my lifeline, my rock…

When I was billeted with the Bukowskis, I made a mistake.

I didn’t lock Gracie Agnieska Bukowski down.

Instead, like a 16-year-old idiot, I became best friends with her brother, Kow, and now, the family considers me one of their own.

Until her, hockey was my only refuge. So, when I’m traded to the New York Stars, my first move is to change my number to 35. See, we made a vow, one that she might have forgotten, but I haven’t.

Gracie’s about to be swept off her feet.

I’m going to prove to her that not only is she not my sister…

She’s my end game.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194922978-end-game

AUTHOR BIO

G.A. Mazurke is the crazy lady behind Serena Akeroyd, crafter of smexy heroes you just wanna lick. While Serena has us expecting dark romance with lots of twists and turns … G.A. is her more mainstream/contemporary personality.

She explores her sweeter side while keeping the sexy we love, where the women fall hard but the men fall harder.

Some of G.A.’s books will cross over into Serena’s universes… so expect a cameo or two from beloved characters, while discovering new bands of brothers, with the banter, the laughs and the tears you are used to.

AUTHOR LINKS

Website: https://www.gamazurke.com
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PRE-ORDER – Ablaze (Elements of Rapture series #3) by Swati MH

Aug 14

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Title: Ablaze

Series: Elements of Rapture Series #3

Author: Swati MH

Release Date: August 31, 2023

Genre/Tropes: Brother’s Best Friend, Friends to Lovers, One Bed/One Night, Firefighter, Age Gap

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194025630-ablaze

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/ablaze-elements-of-rapture-book-3-by-swati-mh

Cover Design: Cover Me Darling

NOTE: The discreet cover will only be available on paperback, the hot man cover will be for both ebook and special edition paperback.

Blurb:

Nine years . . . That’s how long I’ve secretly loved my brother’s best friend. A man who fights fires for a living but sets me ablaze with nothing but a cocky grin.

Dean Meyer has made it clear that we’re just friends–best friends. So when we get stranded in an epic snowstorm, sharing one bed in a roadside motel, what could go wrong?

Everything.

We may have blurred the lines over the past nine years, but we’d never crossed them. Not the way we did that night.

He promised nothing would change. That he’d forget every kiss and every touch, every whimper and every moan. He promised we’d walk out the door and go back to the way things were.

He promised . . . but he lied.

And now, a year of missed calls and unanswered texts later, we find ourselves forced back together again.

Will the fire still burn between us, or did that one night’s blaze leave us with nothing but ashes?

PreOrder Links:

Universal: https://mybook.to/Ablaze_SwatiMH

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXVQYKLH

Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BXVQYKLH

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BXVQYKLH

Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BXVQYKLH

Author Bio:

Swati MH is a Texas raised contemporary romance author living in the Bay Area with her very own book husband and two beautiful daughters. When she’s not writing stories full of humor, heart, and heartbreak, she’s likely thinking about doing so . . . preferably while holding a glass of wine.

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NEW RELEASE – Hideaway Heart (Cherry Tree Harbor #2) by Melanie Harlow

Aug 14

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She’s a country music star trying to escape the spotlight. He’s the scorching hot bodyguard she doesn’t want on her vacation. And there’s only one bed.

Hideaway Heart by Melanie Harlow is live!!

All I wanted was a break—two weeks off from being Pixie Hart, country music sensation, and fourteen days of peace, privacy, and solitude as plain old Kelly Jo Sullivan.

But thanks to some overzealous paparazzi, my family refuses to let me go anywhere alone, and I’m stuck sharing this tiny cabin with a tall, dark, and bearded bodyguard.

And guess what? There’s only one bed.

Well, he can couch it.

Xander Buckley might be hotter than a stolen blow torch, and I get that he’s a former Navy SEAL and all, but the man gives new meaning to the words overbearing, overprotective, bossy alpha male. I can’t even post a photo on social media without him warning me it’s not safe, or take a morning jog without him following behind.

But he’s made it clear that what he says goes, and if I don’t like it, I can kiss my vacation goodbye.

Instead, I end up kissing him.

I don’t even know how it happened—one minute we were at each other’s throats, the next we were at each other’s mercy. What’s even more shocking is how good we are together. He understands my need for freedom, and I understand his need for control.

But emotional trust doesn’t come easily to me. And we’re on two completely different paths.

Without question, I’d put my life in his hands.

Just don’t ask me to give him my heart.

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Teaser:

“I’m not here to push you around.”
“Ha! Just the sight of you is nothing but a giant, tattooed reminder that I can’t call the shots in my own life.”
“I’m sorry to hear that. But for the next two weeks, you’re stuck with me.”
She took a breath and tried a different tactic. “Well, you’ll have to sleep in your car, because there’s only one bed.”

🍒 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗕𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 🍒

Have you met the men of Melanie Harlow’s brand-new Cherry Tree Harbor series…

𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆
→ https://harlow.pub/RunawayLove-amazon

𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑿𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝑯𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕
→ https://harlow.pub/HideawayHeart-amazon

Meet Melanie

USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melanie Harlow writes sweet, sexy, feel-good romance. She likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. If she’s not writing or reading, she’s probably at Orangetheory or watching Schitt’s Creek again. She lifts her glass to readers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

Connect with Melanie

Website: www.melanieharlow.com

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7095467.Melanie_Harlow

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Melanie-Harlow/e/B00DXOYC1S

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Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/351191341756563

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