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WHEN WE DARE J.H Croix Release Date: January 13
What could go wrong when my brother’s best friend becomes my roommate? I’m about to find out. When I met Hudson Fox, I drove over his crutches. Way to go, girl. My hormones think this hotshot firefighter is all that and then some. My hormones have a terrible track record. They are cheering for Hudson, but my brain knows better. I’m a smart woman with plans and none of them involve romance. Until I move into my new place and Hudson is my roommate. Complete with Butter, his cat. Hudson isn’t just easy on the eyes, he’s everything I didn’t know I wanted, including a little grumpy with a protective streak bigger than Alaska. We both have our reasons for avoiding romance, but when he proposes a with benefits arrangement, I can’t even think over the sound of my hormones screaming for joy. When my messy past catches up to me and I discover Hudson is my brother’s best friend, well, things get even messier. Hudson is keeping his own secrets. I tell myself it doesn’t matter. Until my heart wants more. Hudson & Stella’s story is perfect for readers who love: protective firefighters, slow burn, roommates, brother’s best friend, messy secrets, chemistry on the rampage, small town shenanigans, emotional romance with a dash of angst, oodles of swoon, and a cinnamon roll hero who will protect the woman he loves with everything he has. *A full-length, standalone romance. Grab Your Copy! Amazon https://amzn.to/3P5RlLj Apple https://apple.co/3VPjeey Google Play https://bit.ly/4fmwyxS 
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Title: Medusa's Revenge: Valkyrie MC
Series: Mayhem Makers MMM
Author: Jaime Russell
Genre: MC Romance; Romantic Suspense; He Fell First
Release Date: January 12, 2025
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Amelia “Medusa” Baxter lives by the principle “an eye for an eye” after holding her dad’s hand while he took his last breath when she was fifteen. She vowed to seek revenge on all those who had harmed him.
Her town, run by wannabe tough guys, was in need, and she knew she had to clean up the unsavory. Starting the Valkyrie Motorcycle Club with friends from her old neighborhood, they worked to protect those who couldn’t take care of themselves, all while she continued searching for the men who took her father away.
The DeMarco family took everything from her. And now fifteen years later, she’s ready to finally take them down for good.
Noah Cameron was finally living his passion. After growing up with a silver spoon in his mouth, never having to struggle for anything, he realized having his entire life, including who would marry, planned out with no input from him, he decides it’s time to live life for himself.
He’d always loved working on cars, and now in trade school for his love, he knew it was fate when he saw a help wanted sign, he took a leap, and landed what he thought was a dream job in his new profession. Little did he know he’d be thrown into a world of guns, a sex club…and the red headed siren who makes him want to stand beside her as she seeks her revenge.
Will Medusa finally be able to stand up to the man who changed her life forever?
Can Noah break through the walls and show Medusa it’s not a weakness to lean on someone or to love them?
Can they survive the dangers chasing them?
    
 
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Jaime Russell grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, but she currently resides in a smaller town in Indiana. She lives in the country with her husband, and she is caregiver to her mama who you see with
Jaime at signings and mother in law. In August 2023, Jaime lost her dad suddenly so she's navigating a new normal.
Jaime suffers from some autoimmune diseases, so on her good days she is active and most likely shopping. But on her bad days, she spends time curled up with her fuzzy blanket, escaping reality with her puppy Annie.
Jaime is a fur mama to three dogs and two adopted dogs. She is an aunt to two crazy nephews and two nieces, as well as being the oldest child in a family of three and their spouses. Life has never been dull for Jaime, and family means everything to her.
She enjoys watching movies, shooting guns, and spending time with family and friends. She is an avid gamer when her internet permits, as she enjoys talking and goofing off with her online family.
Jaime Russell never liked reading growing up, but now she never goes anywhere without either a paperback or her Kindle because there is always a new book boyfriend to be discovered.
     
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A Guide to Fake Dating Your Enemy
-- EXCERPT: Samuel moved, breaking his stare. He leaned back in the love seat, his face thoughtful for a moment before that teasing smile of his appeared. “Well, Miss Mann,” he drawled, “I believe you’ve presented a creative solution to our admittedly inconvenient war. No need to consider alternatives.” His gaze locked on mine again, his eyes full of mischief. “I’m in. Let’s fake date.” My jaw dropped. That was it? No arguments, no questions, no conditions? He just agreed?That was way too easy. I’d prepared for at least fifteen minutes of criticism followed by an hour of strenuous arguing and deal striking. A seed of suspicion wormed its way into my mind. What ulterior motives could he be hiding? “Really?” I asked. “Just like that? You’re agreeing to this? What’s the catch?” “Would you prefer if I refused your offer?” Samuel smirked, as if he had the upper hand in this. (Which, I suppose he did.) “There’s no catch. We both want our families to get along and improve relations in Fox Creek, right? If this is what it takes, then I’m game.” “Right,” I slowly drew the word out. Although the idea had been mine, facing Samuel and his handsome, crooked grin, I couldn’t help but feel I might have made a mistake. He caught on to my growing reservations. “We’re both adults here, Miss Mann. Surely we can handle a fake relationship for the greater good.” “Yes,” I agreed. I hadn’t come up with any other ideas to help Owen out, so this was my best plan.
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Title: An Ex Affair
Series: Wolfe Brothers
Author: Marika Ray
Genre: Small Town Romance
Release Date: January 9, 2025
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.png) The last person I expected to run into when I moved back home was my ex-wife, Tully Cassio—my high school sweetheart, the love of my life, the woman I hated as much as I still loved. She dumped me nineteen years ago and moved to Hollywood, quickly becoming a star and leaving our marriage in the dust.
My dad’s last wish included me moving back home and joining the local fire department. I agreed, mostly to be there to take care of Mom. But apparently, I’m not the only one back in Blueball, and now I’m somehow working with Tully on the fundraiser needed to keep the fire station open and me in a job.
On the one hand, seeing her again is everything I’ve ever wanted. On the other hand, I’ve harbored a lot of anger toward her over the years. After all, she damaged my pride and took my heart with her when she left town. She’s still a gorgeous spitfire, however, and doesn’t take my snarky comments lying down. Which means our fights start with a tiny spark of leftover attraction and billow into an inferno of feelings and frustration and…well…other F-words.
Instead of dumping water on this situation, we let it burn. In secret. Except nothing in a small town stays a secret for long. Soon everyone knows that the crush I’ve had on this woman since freshman year of high school hasn’t gone away just because she handed me divorce papers. Now my pride’s on the line again…along with my heart.
Because this town has always been too small for Tully, and her agent just called with the offer of a lifetime.
 
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Marika Ray is a USA Today bestselling author of steamy and sweet RomComs, spending her time behind a computer crafting stories, walking any beach she can find, and making healthy food for her kids and husband whether they like it or not. Prior to writing novels, Marika held various jobs in the finance industry, with private start-up companies, and then in health & fitness. Cats may have nine lives, but Marika believes everyone should have nine careers to keep things spicy. All her books come with a money-back guarantee that you’ll smile at least once with every book.
More information can be found at www.marikaray.com
   
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The Magical Tea Shop
Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo -- EXCERPT: Ivette Wayland caught her breath. With the sun shining down on him, Jaxon Langford always caught her just a little unawares. He only lived upstairs, but every morning she found herself anticipating his first appearance of the day. She gazed through the plate glass window of her cozy tea shop as his little black Scottie dog scampered to keep up with his long strides. Jaxon halted just outside her door. Would he enter? She ached to run her fingers through that molasses-brown hair, still damp from the shower and sparkling like sugared ginger crinkles. It was ridiculous how much she yearned to touch him. He was her landlord, for goodness’ sake. Ivy reined in her longing. Jaxon paused on the sidewalk and quickly stepped over to hold open the door for the tiny, elderly Hazel Bestwick, president of the Hazard Historical Society. Please come inside, Jaxon. A couple of young boys on their way to school, backpacks swinging, asked him a question. Jaxon leaned down to answer. He fist-bumped the taller of the two boys and grinned. Jaxon’s smile shot straight to her core. As if sensing her watching, he glanced at the window, trying to see through sunlight bouncing off glass, his eyes the color of a well-steeped Irish breakfast tea. She let out a little sigh. What she wouldn’t give to have him for… “Focus,” said a voice behind her. Ivy jumped and blinked twice to bring herself back to reality. “You have customers. Remember your goals.” Her older sister’s constant criticism put her on the defensive. Ivy swung abruptly to face her, causing her high blonde ponytail to smack her own cheek. She shoved it back. “Business is steady.” “My business is steady.” Holly drew herself up straighter in her pink bakery smock smoothing a hand over her flawless updo before sweeping an arm out to draw Ivy’s attention to the nearly empty tearoom. “Your business is slow. And he…” She flapped her hand toward the window “…is a distraction to success. You can’t have it all.” 
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Title: Until it Was Love
Series: Copper Valley Pounders #1
Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Tropes: Rugby Romance, Fake Dating, Grumpy
Sunshine, Teammate's Sister, Enemies to Lovers
Cover Design: Najla Qamber, Qamber Designs
Release Date: April 11, 2024
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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.
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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: Lonely Heart
Series: The Westwoods #4
Author: A.K. Evans
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Brother's Best Friend/Workplace Romance
Friends to Lovers/Small Town
Release Date: January 7, 2025
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Being a Westwood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Sure, Ivy loves her family, their business, and knowing she’s got a secure future. But there’s a downside, too.
Love.
Ivy’s convinced she’ll never have the happy ending her three older brothers have found. But she’s determined to put herself out there anyway.
Marco Kingston doesn’t have a care in the world. He loves his life, his job, and his family. He even loves his best friend’s family, the family he works for.
Despite his closeness to the Westwood family, Marco’s never considered the possibility of something more meaningful with Ivy.
But when a horrifying event leaves Ivy abandoning her search for love, Marco steps up in ways neither of them anticipated.
And Ivy starts to believe that maybe there’s hope for her, after all.
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A.K. Evans is a contemporary romance author of over forty published novels. While she enjoys writing a good romantic suspense novel, Andrea’s favorite books to write have been her extreme sports romances. That might have something to do with the fact that she, along with her husband and two sons, can’t get enough of extreme sports.
Before becoming a writer, Andrea did a brief stint in the insurance and financial services industry and managed her husband’s performance automotive business. That love of extreme sports? She used to drive race cars!
When Andrea isn’t writing, she can be found homeschooling her two sons, doing yoga, snowboarding, reading, or traveling with her family. She and her husband are currently taking road trips throughout the country to visit all 50 states with their boys.
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Title: Coat of Many Colors Author: Deanndra Hall Genre: Cozy Mystery Release Date: January 6, 2025 Hosted by: Buoni Amici Press, LLC.
A dangerous killer, a psychic, and the coat that has all the answers … Maisey and Aaron Friedman (Justice for Maisey) are enjoying married life and their new blended family. But everything changes after the social worker’s simple trip to a consignment shop where she finally purchases a coat she's had her eye on. Despite Aaron deeming the coat "ugly," Maisey still loves the garment, and she’s sure he’ll love it too when she models it for him. But when she wakes up on the floor with her deputy sheriff husband standing over her, concern in his eyes, Maisey knows something is terribly wrong. The coat’s sad origin reveals an unsolved slaying, and without the victim to help them, the Friedmans begin their attempts to solve the case using the secrets the coat reveals in Maisey’s psychic visions as their only clues. But as they delve deeper into the mysteries of the coat, the murderer refuses to allow them to uncover the truth. Suddenly, Maisey’s security is in question, leaving Aaron and his crew of hometown heroes to strategize ways of keeping her safe while unearthing the identity of the culprit. The coat comes with answers, but will those answers be the catalyst that puts them all in danger?
The room went black. And then there was a person, their features partially obscured by a hoodie, looming over her and yelling without words, but she could see their lips moving, and they were positively terrifying. Was it a man? A woman? She tried to back up, but she couldn’t. Something was behind her, and the figure came closer. In an instant, there was the flash of something shiny somewhere near the center of her body and she felt the slice of a knife’s blade as it entered her midsection, felt the warmth of blood on her skin, felt herself sinking as the figure bent over her, still yelling, their face even more hidden. There was a flash of light, and she gasped as she opened her eyes. “Babe! Babe, are you okay? Maisey? Talk to me, baby! Are you all right? Maisey, come on. Talk to me.” “Whaaa, what happened?” “You just fell out, honey, flat on your back, like you were in a trance.” “I don’t know. Somebody … Aaron, somebody stabbed me.” He peered down at her. “Honey, there’s nobody here but us.” “No. You don’t understand. Somebody … It was dark, and somebody was coming toward me, and I saw something flash, and I felt it sink into my skin, and there was something warm and wet on my skin, like blood, and I felt weak and tired and …” She stopped. “Did I say anything?” “You were mumbling something. I think it was ‘no,’ but I’m not sure. Can you sit up?” She didn’t get a chance to stand before he bent down, scooped her up, and lifted her in his arms. “I’m okay, really. I think I’m okay,” she said as he plopped down on the sofa and held her in his lap. “Are you sure? We can go to the hospital and have you―” Something felt funny. What was it? It dawned on her in an instant. “Oh, god.” Aaron swept her hair back and away from her face, then grasped her chin between his thumb and forefinger. “What? What’s wrong?” “The coat.”
Deanndra Hall is a working author living in the far western end of the beautiful Bluegrass State with her husband of over 35 years and small menagerie of weird little dogs. When she’s not writing, she’s editing. When she’s doing neither of those two things, she’s having dinner with friends, spending time with family, kayaking, eating chocolate, drinking beer or moonshine, or looking for something that she put in the wrong place and can’t seem to find (which is pretty much everything she owns).
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I Love That Girl
Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks -- EXCERPT: We locked eyes for a moment, the dim light and dark shadows between us. Her wavy sunset-blonde hair was in a messy bun, with tendrils falling around her face. I wanted to let her hair down, scoop it up with my fingers, inhale the flowery scent of her shampoo. I didn’t move a single part of me except my eyes, which traced the dotting of piercings up her left ear and then roamed across to her smallish nose that had just a blush of light freckles that matched her hair and down to her button-shaped mouth. “Okay,” she said, her shoulder sliding out from the old sweatshirt that she cut the hood off of. I wanted to kiss her shoulder so badly, I had to put my hand over my mouth and pretend to cough. The blackout made the moment dreamy. I reached over and pulled her shirt up to cover her shoulder, and when my fingers made contact with her soft skin, her expression changed, softened, and relaxed. She smiled. “I’ll get the wine.” She popped up, slid her feet into her fuzzy slippers, walked over to the kitchen area, and snatched the almost full bottle. Then she said, “Do you have a set of cards? We can play Bullshit. Remember how much we used to love that game?” I laughed and said, “I think it was the only drinking game we knew in high school.” “I’m pretty sure we were the only people who actually found a way to make it a drinking game.” In the darkness, her hair piled up, she looked like a princess but also like an angel, and while I couldn’t find those words in the moment, that’s what I saw. A princess-angel with a pretty but foul mouth. The combination was exhilarating. 
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Title: Ruthless Love
Series: Azure Ridge #1
Author: Selena Sanders
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Marriage in Trouble/Small Town
Second Chance/Touch Her & Die Vibes
Release Date: January 3, 2025
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My soon-to-be ex-husband tangled his fist in my hair and asked me if I’d like to be taken care of one more time…
I said yes, because I’d never seen that kind of passion in Cain Miller’s eyes before. Not in the previous six years we’ve been married – that’s for sure.
It’s why we’d decided on the trial separation, that’s now turned into legal documents that we’re scheduled to sign in two weeks.
Before that encounter, I was content running my bookstore, Enchanted Chapters, and minding my own business. Since then, I can’t stop watching for his Willow County Sheriff's SUV to come rolling by when he’s on-shift.
Life after Cain was carefully laid out. I had plans, and they did not involve the man with the badge. Little did we know that one encounter would change our lives.
Is the relationship we thought was over just now getting started?
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Selena Sanders is the pen name of a multi-USA Today bestselling author. Over the past eleven years she's been published in multiple languages and been in the Top 100 bestselling lists on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google. Under this pen name she loves to write romance reimagined. Couples who look like they may not belong together, and the love that's messy? That's her jam.
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