Genre: Dark Sports Romance Tropes: Reverse Harem/Hockey Romance Release Date: May 2, 2024
BLURB
Ice racing was the only thing on my radar. My goal? To return from a knee injury and make the Winter Olympic team.
My problem? Having to share my practice rink with up-and-coming hockey team, the Opal Springs Ghouls.
All they want is to turn professional and put the town on the hockey map.
Their problem? They don’t want to share the ice with me either, and they don’t mind letting me and everyone else know. Three of them in particular have made it their mission to make my life hell, by any means necessary.
Even if they break me.
Good luck with that, I won’t be broken that easily, but fighting both them and my attraction to them might just shatter me forever.
**This is a RH/why choose hockey romance with darker themes and a hot pink boa.**
Maggie Alabaster lives in NSW Australia with her husband, two daughters, a beloved dog, countless birds and a growing collection of books and dragons. She writes reverse harem, both paranormal and contemporary.
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 Shelly Laurenston.
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.
Title: HEA: Happily Ever After Series: After Oscar #5 Authors: Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox
Genre: MM Contemporary Romance Tropes: One Night Stand/Lovers to Friends to Lovers Always the Groomsman, Never the Groom Billionaire/Fake Dating Release Date: May 2, 2024
BLURB
Have you heard the expression “twelve times a groomsman, never a groom”? Neither had I… until it suddenly became clear that every man I dated found their One True Love in the person they dated after me.
Now I’m writing Best Man speeches for my former boyfriends twice a month, the “After Oscar” thing has become a legend, and I have finally accepted that Oscar Overton is nobody’s Happily Ever After.
Which is fine.
Between running my investment company, providing for Frank, my emotional support hedgehog, and keeping my enthusiastic family from getting in my business, my life is plenty busy. The last thing on my mind is a relationship.
Until Hugh Linzee.
One hot night with the gorgeous wedding photographer somehow turns into a text conversation I just can’t quit, but I’m determined to keep my distance. Hugh has ideas… ideas about romance and fireworks and capital-L love… and I care about him too much to let him get those ideas about me.
Fate keeps throwing us together, though. After an accidental all-night phone call and a convenient wedding run-in, suddenly I find myself agreeing to be his fake boyfriend, and distance quickly becomes a thing of the past.
But how long until Hugh figures out he’ll only get his HEA… After Oscar?
Lucy Lennox is a USA Today bestselling author and winner of the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award.
After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day. She writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
Molly Maddox is the romance pen name for a New York Times bestselling author who started writing at an early age because her older sister, Lucy Lennox, was a writer and Molly wanted to be like Lucy in all ways (she still does).
When she’s not writing, Molly likes to cook, read, take pictures of her dog and cat cuddling, and finds an odd satisfaction in folding sheets so that the top sheet is indistinguishable from the bottom sheet.
She loves all things romance and is grateful every day she gets to write for a living.
Title: My Dearest Mackenzie Author: Rachel Blaufeld
Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Second Chance/Middle-Aged Romance Release Date: April 25, 2024
BLURB
Frankie Burns, brash and bold on the outside, divorced and scarred on the inside, is determined to figure out what really happened with her Paps and his long-lost love, Rosie. Understanding why the duo didn’t find their happily-ever-after is her biggest mission. With every inch of her five-foot-two frame, she’s determined to discover why they were separated and forced to live a life without one another, convinced it will fix her own unhappiness.
Mackenzie Miller, handsome, rich, and one of New York’s most eligible bachelors, keeps everyone at an arm’s length and believes the only barometer to happiness is how wealthy and powerful he becomes. Shoving back his grandmother Milly’s wishes for him to find an everlasting love, he is successful in every other area of life. Abandoned by his mother, fairy tales are not part of Mack’s world, but running his makeup and perfume empire is paramount.
That is…until a feisty blond woman blasts into his life and won’t accept no for an answer when it comes to looking for a connection between his beloved Milly and her beloved Paps.
He doesn’t understand the severity of her search. She needs to know the story to fill a gap in her own life.
The twist neither of them expects is falling for one another in the process…
ROMANCE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART AND MEND IT WITH THE PROMISE OF EVERLASTING LOVE.
Rachel Blaufeld writes Second Chance at Love Stories. Some of her favorite categories are Middle-Aged, Romantic Suspense, New Adult, Coming-of-Age, and Sports Romance.
A recent poll of her readers described her as insightful, generous, articulate, and spunky. Originally a social worker, Rachel creates broken yet redeeming characters. She’s been known to turn up the angst like cranking up the heat in the dead of winter.
As a side note, Blaufeld, also a long-time blogger and an advocate of woman-run anything, is fearless about sharing her opinion. To her, work/life/family balance is an urban legend, but she does her best.
Rachel has also blogged for The Huffington Post, Modern Mom, and USA TODAY, where she shared conversations at “In Bed with a Romance Author” and reading recommendations at “Happily Ever After.”
Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her family and two beagles. Her obsessions include running, coffee, basketball, icing-filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues.
RELEASE BOOST Title: Until It Was Love A Complicated Situationship RomCom Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy Tropes: Teammate’s Sister, Enemies to Lovers Accidentally Dating, Grumpy/Sunshine Release Date: April 11, 2024
BLURB
There are a million reasons why I shouldn’t agree to a date with Fletcher Huxley.
He’s a growly-faced, stubborn-streaked, international rugby legend trying to revive his flailing career in the US after being canned by his team overseas.
While he might have the good kind of thunder thighs, intriguing tattoos, and a booty of steel, he also holds the top position on my very short nemesis list thanks to what happened the first time we met.
Plus, his mustache is as terrible as the reason he’s picked me to be the woman he wants to date.
But he has one big checkmark in the why this date is a good idea column: he’s my brother’s new teammate.
They already hate each other.
And my brother has made an unfortunate habit of interfering with my love life recently.
So a revenge date with Fletcher to make my brother mad? While letting Fletcher think this date is merely for the good of the team?
Yep.
I’m in.
I’m moving to London for work in a month. And it’s just one date. What could possibly go wrong?
Until It Was Love is a banter-tastic romcom featuring an overgrown snack of a man with a soft spot for his purse dog, a normally optimistic life coach trying to live her best life, a mustache catastrophe, and one little tiny fainting spell. It stands alone and comes complete with a swoony happily ever after that will leave your heart in a happy puddle of joy.
Pippa Grant wanted to write books, so she did. Before she became a USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling romantic comedy author, she was a young military spouse who got into writing as self-therapy. That happened around the time she discovered reading romance novels, and the two eventually merged into a career. Today, she has more than 30 knee-slapping Pippa Grant titles and nine written as Jamie Farrell. When she’s not writing romantic comedies, she’s fumbling through being a mom, wife, and mountain woman, and sometimes trying to find hobbies. Her crowning achievement? Having impeccable timing for telling stories that will make people snort beverages out of their noses. Consider yourself warned.
Title: Obeying the Owner Series: Charleston Coyotes #6 Author: Jacob Chance
Genre: Sports Romantic Comedy Tropes: Hockey Team Owner, Single Father Billionaire, Boss/Employee, Age Gap Release Date: April 24, 2024
BLURB
When my dad retires, I take over as the new owner of the Charleston Coyotes hockey team.
As a businessman and father of a teenage daughter, I’m prepared for the challenges of the game, but Maeve, the stunning blonde I meet on a dating app—not so much.
Despite the large age gap, the connection between us is electric, and our one-night hookup quickly spirals into something deeper.
But life checks me harder than a hockey player when I discover Maeve is the executive assistant my dad raved about—which means she now works for me.
Suddenly, our steamy affair is put on ice, and navigating the delicate balance between boss and ex-lover becomes a high-stakes game with no playbook to follow.
Cue the awkward office encounters and the never-ending struggle to keep my hands off her.
Spoiler alert: I’m failing spectacularly.
It seems the harder I work at remaining professional, the more I long for her to once again obey this owner.
Jacob Chance grew up in New England and still lives there today. He’s a martial artist, a football fan, a practical joker, and a bacon lover.
A USA Today bestselling author of sports romance and romantic suspense, Jacob has endless ideas and plans on providing his readers with many more entertaining stories.
Title: Falling for Her Series: Boston Love #3 Author: Kelly Elliott
Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Forced Proximity She Falls First/He Falls Harder/Family Saga Release Date: April 18, 2024
BLURB
Wes Ward finds himself in new territory. Less than a year ago, he lived in New York City in a fantastic loft that overlooked upper Manhattan. Women in and out of his bed anytime he wanted and not a damn care in the world.
Now?
Now, he finds himself back in Boston plotting ways to stop his high school girlfriend, Mandy, from getting married, dodging his mother’s every attempt at helping him settle down, and trying to understand why Clare Monroe makes him forget everything and everyone when she smiles at him.
What is this insane feeling he feels anytime Clare is near him? Why can’t he stop thinking about her every second of every day?
And what does he do about Mandy, the woman he fought so hard for who is willing to give their relationship another try right when Wes is ready to admit his feelings for Clare?
Kelly Elliott is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author. Since finishing her bestselling Wanted series, Kelly continues to spread her wings while remaining true to her roots and giving readers stories rich with hot protective men, strong women, and beautiful surroundings.
Her bestselling works include, Wanted, Never Enough, Lost Loveand Returning Home, to name a few.
Kelly has been passionate about writing since she was fifteen. After years of filling journals with stories, she finally followed her dream and published her first novel, Wanted, in November of 2012.
Kelly lives in central Texas with her husband, their two pups, Gunner and Ellie, too many cats to name, and a plethora of wild animals. When she’s not writing, Kelly enjoys gardening, reading and spending time with her family.
Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Second Chance/Still the One Sister’s Best Friend/Best Friend’s Brothers Release Date: April 18, 2024
BLURB
Break my heart once, shame on you. Break my heart again, there’ll be hell to pay.
Savannah My once-thriving company is on the rocks, my business partner is in bed with seriously bad guys, and I’m in trouble up to my naughty bits. I’m desperate enough to do the last thing on earth I ever want to do: ask for help. Worse, the only man with the skills to save me is Ben Hays, the ex I can never trust again.
After he left me, I picked up my broken pieces and came back stronger. The problem is it feels too good having him back by my side again after so many years of going it alone.
I could get used to being under his protection, but I can’t risk slipping under his spell. Even if one reckless night reminds me why I fell so hard for him in the first place.
Because I’ve spent years building up my protective walls. And if he hurts me again, I’ll hate him forever.
Ben With my Army discharge papers in one hand and multiple job offers in the other, my future’s so bright, I have to wear aviators. A run-in with Savannah Lindstrom, the woman I never got over, derails my plans. Scary people are looking for her and she can’t escape them alone. She needs help and fast.
As the former team leader of a Rapid Reaction Force, quick rescues are my forte. The problem is Savannah can’t forgive me for not being a long-term guy all those years ago.
I’m the last person she wants to trust, but I can’t let her face her enemies alone. Even if being close to her reminds me of everything that could have been.
Because her entire life is built on a house of cards. And if I can’t fix it, I’ll lose her for good.
Harper Cross writes award-winning Romantic Suspense. She spends most of her time reading, writing, and binge-watching great stories, especially those full of romance and adventure. When she’s not immersed in fictional worlds, she pursues physical challenges like studying Krav Maga and trying to achieve the perfect crow pose. She also drinks too much coffee, not enough red wine, and just the right amount of bourbon.
Harper lives with her fabulous family, which includes her demanding overlords collectively known as The Cats.
Title: Until It Was Love A Complicated Situationship RomCom Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy Tropes: Teammate’s Sister, Enemies to Lovers Accidentally Dating, Grumpy/Sunshine Release Date: April 11, 2024
BLURB
There are a million reasons why I shouldn’t agree to a date with Fletcher Huxley.
He’s a growly-faced, stubborn-streaked, international rugby legend trying to revive his flailing career in the US after being canned by his team overseas.
While he might have the good kind of thunder thighs, intriguing tattoos, and a booty of steel, he also holds the top position on my very short nemesis list thanks to what happened the first time we met.
Plus, his mustache is as terrible as the reason he’s picked me to be the woman he wants to date.
But he has one big checkmark in the why this date is a good idea column: he’s my brother’s new teammate.
They already hate each other.
And my brother has made an unfortunate habit of interfering with my love life recently.
So a revenge date with Fletcher to make my brother mad? While letting Fletcher think this date is merely for the good of the team?
Yep.
I’m in.
I’m moving to London for work in a month. And it’s just one date. What could possibly go wrong?
Until It Was Love is a banter-tastic romcom featuring an overgrown snack of a man with a soft spot for his purse dog, a normally optimistic life coach trying to live her best life, a mustache catastrophe, and one little tiny fainting spell. It stands alone and comes complete with a swoony happily ever after that will leave your heart in a happy puddle of joy.
Pippa Grant wanted to write books, so she did. Before she became a USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling romantic comedy author, she was a young military spouse who got into writing as self-therapy. That happened around the time she discovered reading romance novels, and the two eventually merged into a career. Today, she has more than 30 knee-slapping Pippa Grant titles and nine written as Jamie Farrell. When she’s not writing romantic comedies, she’s fumbling through being a mom, wife, and mountain woman, and sometimes trying to find hobbies. Her crowning achievement? Having impeccable timing for telling stories that will make people snort beverages out of their noses. Consider yourself warned.
Genre: Romantic Suspense Tropes: Small Mountain Town, Single Dad Forbidden (Psychologist/Patient), Obsessed Hero Cover Design: Qamber Designs Release Date: May 24, 2024
BLURB
From USA Today Bestselling Author, K.K. Allen, comes a steamy and gripping standalone romantic suspense.
For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents in the Great Smoky Mountains. Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods. Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice. All while she watched the boy she was with that night take the fall.
Fourteen years later, Evelyn is nothing more than a shell of her former self. Her life moves like a clock, from one moment to the next, never a surprise. Gone are the days of chasing fireflies through the woods. Until her therapist goes missing and he’s replaced with someone new. Dr. Lincoln Reed. A devastatingly handsome single dad with an intensity behind his evergreen eyes that jolts her back to life.
Or does it?
Evelyn is quickly losing grip of the suppressed reality she’s worked so hard to live. With every new session on Dr. Reed’s couch, comes a startling new revelation that has her past awakening like the sparkles of light she used to chase through the Appalachian woods.
The Firefly Man was supposed to be a rumor, a fable, a spooky tale. But Evelyn remembers the truth. He’s her very own phantom. And he’s back.
K.K. Allen is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author who writes heartfelt and inspirational contemporary romance stories. K.K. graduated from the University of Washington with an Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences degree and currently resides in central Florida with her ridiculously handsome little dude who owns her heart.
K.K. published her first contemporary romance, Up in the Treehouse, in 2016 which went on to win the Romantic Times 2016 Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best New Adult Book of the Year.
With K.K.’s love for inspirational and coming of age stories involving heartfelt narratives and honest emotions, you can be assured to always be surprised by what K.K. releases next.
Book Loving Pixies 