Title: Fighting My Way Back
Author: Jacob Chance
Genre: Dark MMA Sports Romance
Tropes: Age Gap, Hurt/Comfort, Grumpy Hero
Stalker, College Student, Tragic Past
Release Date: July 26, 2024
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After a brutal attack at college, I return home to heal over the summer.
Enter Silas: a former MMA champion with a scowl as permanent as his tattoos. Taking self-defense lessons from him feels like a step in the right direction.
With every training session, our bond strengthens, turning pain into passion and doubt into self-confidence. Before long, our self-control unravels and we cross lines we shouldn’t.
But my emotional wounds linger longer than the physical ones. How can I move beyond my tragic past to embrace the future I deserve?
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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.
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Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo -- EXCERPT: “There you are, Boo!” Michelle ran over and threw her arms around him. Finn seemed to freeze in place, his arms remaining where they’d been at his side. “Huh?” “Please,” she hissed in his ear. “Go along with this and I’ll make it worth your while.” “Go along with what?” “Long story, I’ll explain later. For now, pretend you’re my boyfriend.” Hands on her waist, he set her back a step, eyes narrowed. “Have you been drinking?” “No. I wish! Listen, there’s someone here I need to impress.” “With me?” He quirked a brow. “Well, you’ll do.” He scowled. “I’m not interested in pretending. I know you’re a lawyer and this is your life but the rest of us don’t lie to people daily. Excuse me.” He tried to step aside but she grabbed him by the lapels of his navy peacoat and planted a kiss on him. Nothing too crazy as she wasn’t big on PDA especially when she actually knew people were watching. Arthur hadn’t taken his eyes off them since she ran over here. Still, Finn’s lack of resistance surprised her. So did the buzz through her body. Finn was not a terrible kisser, as it turned out. And dear Lord he smelled good. When she broke the kiss Finn was staring at her with mossy green eyes. It was a look that said he thought she should be committed to the nearest mental hospital, and the idea made him a little sad. Well, she could work with that. ![]()
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Title: The Way to You
Author: S. Moose
Genre: NA Romance; Second Chance Romance; Star QB/Quiet Girl; Best Friends to Lovers
Release Date: July 23, 2024
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First there was light, love, and laughter. But then, the darkness struck, and there was no escape. I was trapped, lost in a world of loneliness and despair. And my best friend walked away, sealing my pain and suffering.
And I was only fifteen years old.
But now, I'm ready for a new start, a fresh beginning, and college is the answer to finally finding that light again. Of all the campuses in the world, my best friend, my closest confidant, the boy who could've saved me all those years ago is on mine.
ALEX
My graduation night was the worst night of my life and quite possibly the best. My best friend closed herself off and shut me out of her life. When we were just kids, young, fun, and carefree. On the night of my graduation, she was there.
And I owe her everything.
For her strength. Her courage. And her persistence.
But now, seeing her on campus, I know there's a reason our paths crossed again. We were never meant to be apart.
Can I convince her to open up, and share her heart once again?
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Title: Escape
Series: Harper Security Ops #16
Author: A.K. Evans
Genre: Military Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Friends to Lovers/Touch Her and Die
Second Chance/Close Proximity/Survivor Story
Release Date: July 23, 2024
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What happens when your home turns toxic?
The place she should have felt safest was a nightmare turned reality for Josie Day. Each day that passes gets worse and worse. And it’s been that way her entire life.
But she refuses to be a statistic, so she comes up with a plan to get out.
Huck Davidson immediately recognizes the signs when a chance encounter puts him face-to-face with Josie for the first time in years. He pleads with her to let him help, and she agrees.
Sadly, before she can escape, things take a horrific turn.
Fortunately, Huck answers Josie's call for help. He’s more than prepared to mend her wounds and give her the life and love she was always meant to have.
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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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PRIVATE LISTING: BOSS ME & by: C.S. Berry Release Date: July 22 I might be falling deeper in love with my four protectors, but my stalker is getting closer.Blake, Seth, Noah, and Cooper are mine–even if no one else can know. I’ve never known jealousy until now. I’ve never felt claimed until them. They’ve done everything in their power to make me feel cherished and adored. It was supposed to be one night of glamor surrounded by my men until it became so much more. One wrong move. One distraction. And everything will come crashing down.
Boss Me is a Why Choose billionaire romance with heroes who will do anything to protect and pleasure their heroine, originally published as part of the #1 Private Listing series on Kindle Vella. Boss Me is the third book in the Private Listing series, an expanded edition. Buy Links: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CV66VVCR Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/private-listing-boss-me/id6477540381 Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/private-listing-boss-me Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/private-listing-c-s-berry/1145087183 Meet C.S. Berry: As always, thanks for reading ;) XOXOXO Keep up with C.S. Berry and subscribe to her newsletter: https://csberry.com/subscribe/ Connect with C.S. Berry To learn more about C.S. Berry & her books, visit here! Hosted By: ![]() Mating Season
Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo -- EXCERPT: I start to move off the dance floor when someone comes up behind me. A male someone. My first instinct is to have an embarrassing freak out… but he smells… wow he really smells good. What is that? It’s strong yet subtle at the same time. Warm, musky. But also mossy. But somehow in a good way. I’m not sure I’m describing it right. I’m not sure mere words could convey it. And the solid warmth of him pressed up against my back feels… comforting somehow. His hands skim my sides to land on my hips as he urges me to move with him. His erection grinds shamelessly against my backside as his arm wraps around my waist, urging me to press harder against his length. It’s a heady cocktail of that powerful scent, pure masculine strength, sensuous movements, and stark primal possession. He hasn’t spoken a word to me, and given recent traumatic events, I should be panicked, but all I feel is calm—and other things I’m going to ignore. Dark animal things. I’m hit with a bolt of such overwhelming lust that suddenly I want this man more than anything I’ve ever wanted. I want him to hike up my skirt and fuck me right here in the middle of the dance floor. I want him to put me on my hands and knees and drive into me from behind in front of all these people—sweaty, writhing hot bodies that could never compete with the inferno building between us. I feel hot and cold all at once and the arousal between my legs thumps heavy with the beat of the music. The pornographic images flitting through my mind only grow stronger the longer we dance. If you could call this dancing. One of his hands has moved up to grip the front of my throat, holding me in place against him as he brings us impossibly closer. His other hand starts to slide up my thigh, under my dress, between my legs, his fingers barely brushing against the heat and wetness of my panties. And then my fear starts to edge out my lust. No! I can’t let this happen. Forgive me if I don’t want to just jump back out there and let a man touch me after… the woods. It’s normal to feel a bit of disgust toward all men when one tries to hurt you like that. It almost feels shameful to let any man touch you ever again. So why the fuck am I letting this stranger so close? Why am I rewarding any man for the bad behavior of his kind? Bad behavior I have personally suffered. I don’t know him. He could be a fucking serial killer. I come back to my senses and pull away. He grabs me and pulls me back to him, and instead of more fear, I feel a kind of rage I’ve never felt before. I stomp down HARD on his foot with my heel. He lets out a yelp, and releases me. “Rosalie, wait!” I shouldn’t be able to hear him over the noise of the club, but I do. I turn around, and there’s Cooper. I shouldn’t be surprised. Didn’t some small part of me subconsciously just know? It’s why I didn’t look back at him—just let him be a stranger, because the stakes are far too high with him as he really is. He’s wearing jeans and a black T-shirt that pulls tight over his muscles. His tattoos wind down his arms, ending just above his hands. Those warm brown eyes… that closely shaven beard… No. Absolutely not. His agenda might not look as bad on the surface as the guy from the woods, but it still involves his fucking boner… and controlling me. No. I’m not his mate. I’m not dealing with this alpha bro You belong to me, bullshit. I’m not going to just swoon into his arms because he’s pretty and saved me, as though a man doing the decent thing somehow now obligates me to give all my freedom away to him. Men really are just living on an entirely different planet. And he doesn’t get to just decide any of this. I fight to get through the crowd on the dance floor, but his hand is around my wrist before I can get away. “Let GO of me!” A few people start to notice the conflict and back away, and I see a bouncer eyeing us. I’m pretty sure even as large as the bouncer is, that Cooper could take him. He holds his hands up in surrender and takes a step back. “Just talk to me. I just need to talk to you.” ![]()
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-- EXCERPT: Ruthie is staring at the new arrival when I step back into the diner. “I’ve already given him a menu,” she says. I nod and grab the coffeepot in case he wants a cup, so I don’t have to backtrack. Looking at him from behind, it’s another buzz cut. Well, his hair isn’t exactly that short, but that’s how I refer to all the military guys we get here. There’s an Army base in the next town, but eventually, they cruise over here for something different. “Would you like coffee?” I ask. Without looking up from the menu, he places a hand over the cup. “Too late in the evening. I’ll be up half the night.” I glance over at Sally’s table to see where the demons are hiding. Rufus sticks his tongue out, but I ignore him. I put the pot down and pull out my order pad from my pocket. I could do this by memory, but Russell likes a paper trail. “Do you know what you want, or should I come back?” My pencil is poised to put down the order. “Is the meatloaf homemade?” His head still bent over the menu. “Yeah, Ruthie makes it herself; it’s a favorite around here.” He continues to study the menu like he’s planning a freaking tactical maneuver. Gee, dude, why is it so hard to decide? It’s just basic American diner food, not the menu at the ritzy Holiday Inn. He looks up. “I’ll have that and a beer. Could I have water first?” I just stare at him for a moment, looking into intense blue eyes. He holds my gaze, connecting, boring deep into my soul until he sits back, eyes narrow, a devious grin pulling at the corners of his lips as his hungry gaze takes me in slowly, traveling over the contours of my body like I’m the special on the menu. I’m used to men looking at me. Waiting on the military guys, it’s what you put up with while waitressing, but his brash inspection is different; it stirs something inside me, forcing me to look down at my order pad to break the contact. I write water on the top of the page to give me time to gather enough control to look at him again. “Sure, I can get you water,” I say, trying to sound like the last few seconds didn’t affect me. I breathe in deep, pull my gaze back to him, and I can’t believe it. I’m dragged back into this crazy surreal space like somehow this moment is important. “That would be good,” he says, breaking me out of a weird time gap. His gaze turns quizzical as he pushes the menu toward me. I snap out of it long enough to scoop up the menu and lift the coffeepot off the table, heading for the counter. Did that happen, or was that all in my head? I quash an urge to look over my shoulder to check to see if he’s real. Ruthie leans into me as I’m pouring the water, still a little shaken by the encounter. “That’s a bona fide hottie you got in that booth. He looks military. Maybe he’s on leave, maybe he’s lonely, maybe you just got lucky?” she whispers. ![]()
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Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo -- EXCERPT: “How much money did you get?” Paul drops in, trying not to seem as outright aggressive as my other siblings but still trying to ferret out the information. “It was nothing,” I say, trying to shut this conversation down. “Oh, it wasn’t nothing,” Benjamin says. “It was over five million dollars.” Everyone at the table looks ready to either spill their drink, fall off their chair, or turn me upside down to try and shake the five million out of my pockets. “Can I have some?” Winnie says, shifting her attention for the first time this evening from my father to me. “No,” Benjamin says sternly to Winnie. “Your mother is giving that back.” “What about,” Paul says, daring to get between Benjamin and his money, “if you give us all five million dollars, so Lizzie doesn’t feel so alone. I mean…I’m sure my mother left something for all of us and Lizzie’s just came through first.” “No,” Benjamin says. “Lizzie won’t feel alone when I have it back. Because none of you are getting any extra money. Everything that was Kate’s is now mine. That’s what we decided. And upon my death—which should be noted, won’t be happening anytime soon—you will all receive the entire inheritance split into five.” “Wait,” Paul says, clearly upset. “Wait. She’s our mother. Mine. I’m her son. I mean, no offense to your kids Benjamin, but me…and Julian, we should get something now. Not have to wait until you die. You’re not my father.” Paul’s words visibly cut through Benjamin, like an unexpected knife in the back. Even I can’t help but wince on his behalf—considering he’s spent the last thirty-three years trying to convince Paul he’s a reasonable, viable father. Meanwhile, he’s made not one corresponding overture in my direction, relegating me to the status of just an afterthought that will always linger… ![]()
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Title: The Stranger
Author: J.L. Perry
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Billionaire, Grumpy/Sunshine, Age Gap
Fake Relationship, Forced Proximity, Office
Romance, He's Her Boss, Friends to Lovers
Release Date: July 19, 2024
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When I woke to my phone ringing just after 5 am on a Sunday—my only day off—it was safe to say I wasn’t impressed. I answered the call with an abrupt, “What!” The audible gasp and berating that followed had me grumbling, “Someone better be dead, Mother.”
“After the relationship status you were tagged in on Facebook, no less, I very well could be,” was her reply.
Relationship status?
With who?
I immediately clicked on the app, only to find it was true.
Delilah St. James had one of those faces that was hard to forget, and I knew I’d never laid eyes on this pretty blonde with beautiful blue eyes before.
I could’ve let my assistant, PR company, or my lawyer deal with it, but against my better judgement, I clicked on the Messenger app.
“Do I know you?” I typed.
DELILAH:
When my sister decided to post photos of her—on what was supposed to be my honeymoon—with my ex-fiancé on social media, I did something reckless and impulsive. I tagged her long-time crush, Spencer Prescott, in a fake relationship post. The last thing I expected was for him to reach out.
I apologised profusely and told him I’d take it down immediately, briefly explaining why I had done it, and he replied with something unexpected.
“Leave it up. What can it hurt?”
Minutes later, I got a friend request from his mother … immediately inviting me to brunch. I only agreed to go, so I could tell her the truth to her face.
What happened next was a domino effect that would change the course of all our lives.
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Jodi is a wife and mother, born in Sydney, Australia. She recently moved to a property in the Hunter Valley with her family for a tree change. Under the name of J. L. Perry, five of her books have been #1 Bestsellers; including BASTARD, JAX, HOOKER, NINETEEN LETTERS and THE BOSS. Foreign rights to some of her books have been sold to Germany, Hungary, Czech and France where BASTARD became a top #20 bestseller. Some of her other titles include, FINDING HIM, FINDING FOREVER, FINDING US, FINDING FORGIVENESS, THE THIEF, ONLY ONE NIGHT, MR. BLACK, MR. EDWARDS and THE STRANGER.
NINETEEN LETTERS was debuted under the name of Jodi Perry through publishing giants, Hachette where it won the RWA Ruby Award for 2018 Romance Book of the Year. She also secured a publishing deal in the UK, with Sphere, an imprint company of Little Brown.
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![]() THE WISDOM WITHINThe Collective Series - Book Threeby Gwen MartinBlog TourRelease Date: July 18, 2024Cover Design: We Got You Covered Book Design
Photographer: Xram RagdeGenre: M/M Bisexual Romance StandaloneTropes: Hookups-to-lovers, addiction recovery, found family, hurt/comfort, angst SynopsisTo have a future together, they must trust the wisdom about their past.
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