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RELEASE BLITZ – Pretty Relentless (Pine Village #4) by Lacey Black


Title: Pretty Relentless
Series: Pine Village #4
Author: Lacey Black


Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Single Dad/He Falls Hard First/Secret Relationship
Release Date: September 17, 2024
 

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Ava
 
My life is content. Living and working in my small hometown of Pine Village is right where I want to be, especially with family and a few close friends nearby.
It’s taken me some time to dig my way out of the negative spotlight I found myself under a few years back, thanks to an old photo from college that resurfaced. That’s why I have rules: no social media, no drinking alcohol in public, and no dating the father of one of my students. Then, Gavin Pierson rescues me from the side of the road.
He’s not making it easy to say no, especially when he flashes that sexy boyish grin of his. The only problem is dating him would be a complication I’m not prepared to deal with, but he’s proving to be relentless.
 
Gavin
 
Something calls to me when I’m near my daughter’s shy fifth-grade teacher. I wanted Ava Rutledge when we were teenagers in high school, and now that seems to be the case once again.
However, she’s given herself strict guidelines, and despite the attraction I know she feels, convincing her to take a chance on us could be a challenge. It’s a good thing I’m a patient man. The biggest hurdle we face is the fact she’s my daughter’s teacher, and that’s the one rule she’s not willing to budge on.
I’m going to have to show her how much fun it can be when we break it.
 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209230440-pretty-relentless
 
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BLP REVIEW – Tracy

I love Lacey Black’s books. Small town romance is one of my go-to tropes and something LB does really well

We met Ava previously in the Pine Village series. She’s one of the quiet friends. A teacher at the local school, she keeps her head down and doesn’t do anything to create waves. When you find out why and how judgemental some people in the town have been in the past it’s understandable (to a degree) why she lives as she does.

Gavin stopped to help when Ava was broken down and from that minute he was hooked – when they were younger and in high school he had a crush on her that he never acted on, he knew now was the time to make his move.. He really was pretty relentless in his determination to get Ava to go out with him and then in convincing her to consider a relationship..

I loved the supporting characters, the grandmothers shenanigans, Gavin’s daughter and how much she adored Ava, who was her teacher. Gavin definitely had a cheer squad on his side when it came to his pursuit of Ava.

Can’t wait for move from Pine Village……

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AUTHOR BIO

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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RELEASE BOOST – Saving ZaneA Scarred Hero, Age Gap Romance (Oakside Military Heroes #7) by Kaci Rose


Title: Saving Zane
A Scarred Hero, Age Gap Romance
Series: Oakside Military Heroes #7
Author: Kaci Rose


Tropes: Age Gap/Scarred Hero/Small Town
Grumpy/Sunshine
Release Date: May 3, 2024
 

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He’s fighting the silence; she’s painting his world with color again.

Zane

Battled, broken, and branded by war, I came to Oakside seeking refuge, not redemption.
The blast took my hearing and tossed my world into silence.
Now I’m a grizzled former Navy SEAL battling with my demons and the silence of my world, until I stumble upon Carlee.
Despite the years and experiences that separate us, she looks at me and sees a man, not a collection of scars and stories.
But with my past and her dreams of a future, I’m not convinced I can it give to her.

Carlee
Art is my refuge, my way of speaking when words fail me.
Oakside is supposed to be just another step in building my dream.
Helping Zane find his way back to himself wasn’t in my plans, despite the shadows that linger in his eyes, I see the possibility of a future together.
Until I get the phone call that says I’m the sole guardian of my six year old niece.
Now I’m thrust into a life he’s made clear he doesn’t want.
 
 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123236104-saving-zane
 
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AUTHOR BIO


Kaci Rose runs on coffee, chocolate, and Oreos. She writes the type of romance books she wants to read.
Kaci loves her book boyfriends with tattoos, muscles, beards, and a little dirty.
 
 
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RELEASE BLITZ – Fierce Protector (Ruthless Guardians #1) by Via Mari


Title: Fierce Protector
Series: Ruthless Guardians #1
Author: Via Mari


Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Second Chance
Release Date: May 9, 2024
 

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Cole

When my best friend is shot by orders of a rival crime family, I take matter into my own skilled hands to find out why.
 
All thoughts of vacation turn to the job when I learn the hit came after his refusal to sell the casino in Deadwood, South Dakota to the rivals of my boss.
 
As a bodyguard to the family of the most ruthless crime syndicate around, I will find the ones responsible and make them pay dearly for what they’ve done.
 
And I plan to do exactly that, until a woman I saved from a fate worse than death gets drug right back into the trafficker’s deadly little game.
 
They should have left town when they had the chance, because no one messes with this town and the woman I’ve already begun to consider mine.
 
 
Fierce Protector is the explosive first book in the Ruthless Guardians series by International Best-Selling Author, Via Mari. You will love these spicy, instalove bodyguard novels set in Deadwood, South Dakota, where the passion is fiery, the loyalty is fierce, and the stakes are high. Each book is a standalone with different couples in each book. All have a guaranteed happily ever after.
 
 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213073252-fierce-protector
 
 
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AUTHOR BIO


Via lives in the Midwest with her husband. As a child raised in both the United States and the United Kingdom, she spent countless hours traveling and developed a passion for the written word at a young age.
 
She is also an avid reader of romance. In fact, you can find her curled up in an overstuffed chair, especially during winter when the wood fire is crackling and popping, reading a page-turning novel until the early hours of the morning.
 
 
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COVER REVEAL – Midlife Gumbo (Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo #3) by Reggi Dupree


Title: Midlife Gumbo
Series: Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo #3
Author: Reggi Dupree


Genre: Paranormal Women’s Fiction
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Fated Mates
Sibling’s Ex, Grumpy/Violent Sunshine
Cover Design: Moor Book Designs
Release Date: May 2, 2024
 

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When you think life can’t get worse, the universe says: hold my beer.
 
Anastasia
 
This forty-five-year-old honey badger shifter is newly single and ready to mingle.
 
And freaking tired of playing small.
 
The fantastic news? I’m no longer alone. I have a sister and an entire birth family in Hoodoo, Texas. But with some new unexplainable powers, I may be too big of a freak for even my vampire aunt to accept.
 
The bad news? The sadistic honey badger clan I fled twenty-five years ago has found me. Someone else is trying to kill me. And if their threats of kidnapping, forced mating, and death weren’t enough…
 
I’m going into heat. Of course, the only viable candidate to offer a… helping hand is my escort to Texas–a grumpy werewolf who doesn’t even like me.
 
Carlos
 
I’m in San Diego to make the long-lost sister of my former high school sweetheart disappear—by any means possible. Instead, I discover that not only is the sister her identical twin, but my fated mate.
 
Now, my mission is to get the violent ball of sunshine to Hoodoo, where she’ll become someone else’s problem. That should be easy enough because I’m a wolf with a plane, a plan, and a purpose. What could go wrong?
 
How about everything?
 
Midlife Gumbo is the third book in the Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo series. While it’s part of the larger world, this full-length paranormal romance is a stand-alone.
 
If you love road trips, laughter, and grumpy sunshine stories, then you’ll love Midlife Gumbo. This novel is high in humor and medium in spice and perfect for fans of Darynda Jones, Mandy Roth, and K.F. Breene.
 
 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207040460-midlife-gumbo
 
 

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AUTHOR BIO


Something about magic, action, and the supernatural calls to my wicked soul. I enjoy most genre fiction, but am drawn to heroines like me and my weird circle of friends: not that slim, not that young, and even a wee bit cranky. But we also find joy and laughter, even in the darkest times.
 
I fill my books with adventure, magic, loss, love, and inclusive casts.
 
Okay, now the personal stuff.
 
I married my first boyfriend who survived the four-month mark. Since we’ve been hitched for over thirty-seven years, I think he just might stick. The cats? Well, he’s too spoiled and stubborn to move off the couch.
 
 
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RELEASE BLITZ – Wild Ride (Rookie Rebels #9) by Kate Meader


Title: Wild Ride
Series: Rookie Rebels #9
Author: Kate Meader


Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Hockey Romance, Single Mom
Older Woman/Younger Man, He Falls First
Release Date: March 26, 2024
 

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Chicago Rebels hockey player Dex O’Malley has been a naughty boy … again.
 
Only his latest stunt isn’t quite like when he was caught with his pants down at a nightclub or was cited for drag-racing on Lake Shore Drive or even that time he said a few critical things about his teammates on a hockey podcast. Oops. This time, Dex is in real trouble, the kind that could get him kicked off the team and out of the league. And that cannot happen. Hockey is the only thing he’s ever been good at. The only thing he cares about. He’ll do whatever it takes to rehab his rep, even if it means cleaning up dog poop and suffering the steely-eyed disapproval of his new no-nonsense “boss” at the animal shelter, Ashley Adams.
 
Ashley has enough on her plate between her low-paying job, her high-maintenance family, and a love life she’s trying to resurrect after her divorce. She’s already mom to an amazing nine-year-old; the last thing she needs is mothering a celebrity volunteer with more money than sense. But the troublemaking f-boy needs Ashley to sign off on his good deeds so he can get back to what he does best: lighting up lamps both on and off the ice. And while a guy like that could never interest her mind, it seems her body is not on the same page. Sure, Dex O’Malley is too young, too hot, too flighty for Ashley to take seriously, but maybe a brief ride on the wild side might fit the bill …
 
Only that’s not enough for Dex. What happens when this notorious player decides the older, single mom is the hottest woman he’s ever met and that he wants to light her lamp … forever?
 
 

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208030012-wild-ride

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#10 Hockey Wife – Releasing September 16

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BLP REVIEW – Tracy

This is where I admit I have most of the earlier Rookie Rebels books but haven’t yet read them….. so yeah, picking a book late in the series is very much me!!!

I loved Dexter & Ashley (& Willa!!)
There was so much personal growth in this story – for all 3 of them – and it was fabulous to read.

Dex had so much emotional baggage from how he grew up and then seeing his past in his present, it would be a lot to deal with for anyone never mind a guy who still hadn’t made any kind of peace with his past and held on to some sense of misplaced guilt.

Ashley broke my heart a little. She was awesome but couldn’t see it as she’d had Willa young, kinda grew up with her daughter, was in a marriage that neither party was really invested in and when it ended her ex said some pretty horrible things. This lass needed someone who ‘saw her’ and thought she was as awesome as she was….. enter Dex!

Their initial meeting didn’t go so well but in all honesty, Dex needed someone like Ash who wouldn’t let him do what he wanted and who didn’t feed his ego. She made him think about his actions and their consequences!

Willa, oh sweet little Willa. She was a wee sweetheart and I understood how Dex fell for her as hard as he did for her momma. Willa was an older soul in little girl form but was so good and caring. She saw the good in Dex and wasn’t afraid to tell him what she believed.

This was a really great read. I felt fully invested in these three becoming a family – Along with Dexter’s teammates, their families and Dexter’s remaining family.

I’m definitely gonna be going back to read the rest of the players stories.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

AUTHOR BIO


Originally from Ireland, USA Todaybestselling author Kate Meader cut her romance reader teeth on Maeve Binchy and Jilly Cooper novels, with some Harlequins thrown in for variety. Give her tales about brooding mill owners, oversexed equestrians, and men who can rock an apron, fire hose, or a hockey stick, and she’s there. Now based in Chicago, she writes sexy contemporary romance with big-hearted guys and strong heroines – and heroes – who can match their men quip for quip.
 
 
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RELEASE BLITZ – Pretty Dependable (Pine Village #2) by Lacey Black


Title: Pretty Dependable
Series: Pine Village #2
Author: Lacey Black

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Single Mom/Friends to Lovers
Release Date: December 12, 2023

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Ellie

Being a single mom is the most challenging, yet rewarding job I’ve ever had. Especially in a small town, where everyone knows your story, or at least their version of it.

They say it takes a village, and they’re right. I’ve been lucky to have close friends to help me raise my son, Brody. One particular friend stands out above the rest. TD stepped up in a big way, teaching my son everything a father should. That’s why his friendship means so much to me. Brody and I both rely on his friendship. Any feelings I have for my sexy friend must stay buried. It’s safer that way.

Turns out, it’s much harder to do when he decides he’s done being just my friend. He wants more.


TD

There’s nothing worse than being in lust with one of your friends. For years, I’ve been fighting my attraction to Ellie and keeping it a secret. I thought I was doing what was best for all of us.

Between working as the local police officer and coaching high school football, I’m left with very little downtime, but what I do have is spent with Ellie and her son. When I find out the seventeen-year-old boy might be working to get this football coach and his mom together, all bets are off. With Brody on my side, I’m willing to take the chance and blur the lines between friends and lovers.

I have to make her see we can have it all. Despite her reservations, I’ll show her love is worth the risk.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198330944-pretty-dependable

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BLP REVIEW – Tracy

*****

AUTHOR BIO

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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COVER REVEAL – Pretty Dependable (Pine Village #2) by Lacey Black


Title: Pretty Dependable
Series: Pine Village #2
Author: Lacey Black


Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Single Mom/Friends to Lovers
Cover Design: The Book Cover Boutique
Photographer: Sara Eirew Photography
Release Date: December 12, 2023

BLURB

Ellie

Being a single mom is the most challenging, yet rewarding job I’ve ever had. Especially in a small town, where everyone knows your story, or at least their version of it.

They say it takes a village, and they’re right. I’ve been lucky to have close friends to help me raise my son, Brody. One particular friend stands out above the rest. TD stepped up in a big way, teaching my son everything a father should. That’s why his friendship means so much to me. Brody and I both rely on his friendship. Any feelings I have for my sexy friend must stay buried. It’s safer that way.

Turns out, it’s much harder to do when he decides he’s done being just my friend. He wants more.


TD

There’s nothing worse than being in lust with one of your friends. For years, I’ve been fighting my attraction to Ellie and keeping it a secret. I thought I was doing what was best for all of us.

Between working as the local police officer and coaching high school football, I’m left with very little downtime, but what I do have is spent with Ellie and her son. When I find out the seventeen-year-old boy might be working to get this football coach and his mom together, all bets are off. With Brody on my side, I’m willing to take the chance and blur the lines between friends and lovers.

I have to make her see we can have it all. Despite her reservations, I’ll show her love is worth the risk.


GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198330944-pretty-dependable

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AUTHOR BIO

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.


AUTHOR LINKS

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RELEASE BLITZT – Undertaking Love (Last Responders Romance #2) by Megan Montgomery

Title: Undertaking Love
Series: Last Responders Romance #2
Author: Megan Montgomery

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine
Release Date: April 25, 2023

BLURB

When Bethany West swapped her lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a funeral director, she expected to blow the roof off the Victorian-era mortuary with her eco-friendly innovations and death positive attitude. Instead she’s only managed to piss off her bitter business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his family business.

The worst part is pretending she doesn’t have feelings for the grump in the gray suit—a man so rigid, he probably has embalming fluid surging through his veins.

When the pair are forced together at a conference in New Orleans, Bethany finally gets the chance to exhume what’s really buried beneath George’s ice-cold contempt for the living.
Little by little, he lets her dig.
Soon enough, he starts to recognize not only the value of her business model, but an intense and dangerous attraction to the blonde bombshell mortician.

But the truth behind George’s past is worse than Bethany suspected. Unless he opens up and leans on her—at the risk of succumbing to their cremation-level attraction—he’ll jeopardize both the business and their hearts by refusing the true partnership they both need.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62068732-undertaking-love

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With her scalpel aimed straight at his heart, the last person Detective Waylon Wells expected to see in the morgue this morning was Soula, the woman who ghosted him after their one-night stand.

Dr. Smythe is the youngest (and for my money, the prettiest) Medical Examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, only I didn’t know it last night when she was between my legs and just Soula.

This morning, we meet again as our careers cross paths and if I wasn’t concentrating on not spilling my guts from the nasty fumes of this D.O.A., it’d be awkward as hell.

Our eyes meet over the autopsy table…
…ahem…
…cough…
…the autopsy table absolutely covered in melted, gooey human remains that are long past recognizable.

I open my mouth to speak. The name, Soula, is right there on my tongue.

Unfortunately, so is the stench—and taste of putrescine.When I wake up on a scratchy, tweed couch with a pounding headache, Soula’s handing me something steamy in a Dolly Parton mug. She’s just as beautiful in her light green scrubs as she was naked in my bed last night, but her expression is clear—She wants nothing more to do with me.

But I want everything to do with her.

This is a contemporary romance featuring high heat and graphic depictions of the dead–not occuring simultaneously.

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Megan Montgomery writes romance. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes they’re morbid, but all her characters have cool jobs. She and her husband, Johnathon Olavarria co-host Forced Proximity podcast, a romance book and movie club.

Her debut novel, Well… That Was Awkward, inspired by her homesickness for southern Maryland, was a Best Indie Book Award winner, IndieReader Discovery Award winner, a B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree, and a Page Turner Awards finalist.

She now lives halfway across the US on the prairie with her husband, son, and mom.


AUTHOR LINKS

Website: https://www.meganmontgomerywrites.com
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/megan-montgomery
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganmontgomerywrites
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meganmontgomerywrites

RELEASE BLITZT – Undertaking Love (Last Responders Romance #2) by Megan Montgomery

Title: Undertaking Love
Series: Last Responders Romance #2
Author: Megan Montgomery

Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Grumpy/Sunshine
Release Date: April 25, 2023

BLURB

When Bethany West swapped her lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a funeral director, she expected to blow the roof off the Victorian-era mortuary with her eco-friendly innovations and death positive attitude. Instead she’s only managed to piss off her bitter business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his family business.

The worst part is pretending she doesn’t have feelings for the grump in the gray suit—a man so rigid, he probably has embalming fluid surging through his veins.

When the pair are forced together at a conference in New Orleans, Bethany finally gets the chance to exhume what’s really buried beneath George’s ice-cold contempt for the living.
Little by little, he lets her dig.
Soon enough, he starts to recognize not only the value of her business model, but an intense and dangerous attraction to the blonde bombshell mortician.

But the truth behind George’s past is worse than Bethany suspected. Unless he opens up and leans on her—at the risk of succumbing to their cremation-level attraction—he’ll jeopardize both the business and their hearts by refusing the true partnership they both need.

GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62068732-undertaking-love

STORYGRAPH LINK: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7e5345f2-bec4-49ca-b6e1-b435fe756416

PURCHASE LINKS

US: https://amzn.to/3ZP510e
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Free in Kindle Unlimited


ALSO AVAILABLE

#1 Morgue to Love – FREE for a limited time! (US only)

With her scalpel aimed straight at his heart, the last person Detective Waylon Wells expected to see in the morgue this morning was Soula, the woman who ghosted him after their one-night stand.

Dr. Smythe is the youngest (and for my money, the prettiest) Medical Examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, only I didn’t know it last night when she was between my legs and just Soula.

This morning, we meet again as our careers cross paths and if I wasn’t concentrating on not spilling my guts from the nasty fumes of this D.O.A., it’d be awkward as hell.

Our eyes meet over the autopsy table…
…ahem…
…cough…
…the autopsy table absolutely covered in melted, gooey human remains that are long past recognizable.

I open my mouth to speak. The name, Soula, is right there on my tongue.

Unfortunately, so is the stench—and taste of putrescine.When I wake up on a scratchy, tweed couch with a pounding headache, Soula’s handing me something steamy in a Dolly Parton mug. She’s just as beautiful in her light green scrubs as she was naked in my bed last night, but her expression is clear—She wants nothing more to do with me.

But I want everything to do with her.

This is a contemporary romance featuring high heat and graphic depictions of the dead–not occuring simultaneously.

US: https://amzn.to/414WfMM
UK: https://amzn.to/3zyLMgH
CA: https://amzn.to/3Gn6NyJ
AU: https://amzn.to/3GmwoIe
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AUTHOR BIO

Megan Montgomery writes romance. Sometimes they’re funny. Sometimes they’re morbid, but all her characters have cool jobs. She and her husband, Johnathon Olavarria co-host Forced Proximity podcast, a romance book and movie club.

Her debut novel, Well… That Was Awkward, inspired by her homesickness for southern Maryland, was a Best Indie Book Award winner, IndieReader Discovery Award winner, a B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree, and a Page Turner Awards finalist.

She now lives halfway across the US on the prairie with her husband, son, and mom.


AUTHOR LINKS

Website: https://www.meganmontgomerywrites.com
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/megan-montgomery
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganmontgomerywrites
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meganmontgomerywrites

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Get Sleighed by Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward

When my ex dumped me right before Christmas, I was left with a luxury, all-expense paid trip for two to Cabo—private jet and all. Somehow, my best friend roped me into giving away the other half of the trip as a contest prize on her podcast.  Kelly won the “World’s Worst Dump Story.” She and I didn’t meet until we arrived at the airport, which was when I discovered she was actually a he. Apparently we’d forgotten to include open to women only in the rules. My trip to Cabo started as a disaster, but as time went on Kelly and I grew close. Until someone unexpectedly showed up…

 

Christmas in Birdville by Jewel E. Ann

Henry Bechtel’s mom is coming home for Christmas. Only, he lost the family house in a game of poker. Days before his mom’s arrival, he meets the new owner and seizes the opportunity to coerce her into letting him move back “home” for the holidays. What he doesn’t know is that she has questionable motives, too.

 

The Lucky One by Sarina Bowen

Finnish hockey player Ivo Halla is new in town. He can’t speak the language, he can’t understand the coach. Life is hell until he walks into an Italian cafe (thank God “pizza” is the same in Finnish and English) and falls for the waitress. He’d better learn the language soon, or she won’t agree to date him… 

 

First Holiday by Katee Robert

After a year of turmoil, Hades and Persephone prepare for their first holiday together.

 

A Cloverleigh Farms Christmas by Melanie Harlow

Christmas Eve at Cloverleigh Farms is even more exciting this year, thanks to a blizzard, a power outage, and a baby that wants to make a dramatic entrance. Catch up with the beloved Sawyer family and find out what happens when Meg and Noah’s bundle of joy gives the family a wonderful–and sudden–reason to celebrate!

 

Have Yourself a Grumpy Little Christmas by Pippa Grant

Trevor Stafford hates Christmas. But his best friend’s little sister, whom he stupidly agreed to take in as a temporary roommate when she got a new nannying gig down the street from him, loves it.

She’s turning his house into a freaking winter wonderland of bad memories.

But the bigger problem?

He’s had a crush on her for years, and there’s no amount of annoying holiday cheer that can cure him of his attraction. If anything, watching her in her natural element is making it worse.

What’s a grump to do when the last thing he ever wanted is suddenly the only thing he needs?

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Cover designer:  Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative

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