Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🔥Rugby Player x Nerdy Drag Artist 🔥Rugby/Sports Romance 🔥Hookups to Lovers 🔥Friends to Lovers 🔥Roommates to Lovers 🔥Hookup Arrangement 🔥Super low angst 🔥Smutty 🔥Bisexual Exploration 🔥British set 🔥Idiots in love 🔥Queer Romance
Wanted: A Way To Get Tackled On And Off The Pitch
When I walk in on my roommate jerking off, I’m supposed to walk away and shut the door, not stand and watch.
I’ve always wondered if I might not be totally straight and watching Ryan has made me question things more than ever. So when he offers a low-key, no strings attached hook-up arrangement to help me explore my bisexuality, I jump at the chance. We’re great friends and there’s no feelings involved. What could go wrong?
Ryan is gorgeous, funny, and I love spending time with him both in and out of bed. On paper, we’re completely different people but Ryan gets me in a way that nobody ever has before. And he’s even learning the rules of rugby.
But now the only problem is that I can’t imagine ever being with anyone else.
And I can’t picture my life without Ryan in it.
It might have started as something casual, but now I need it to have a happy ending.
Why you will love this book… 🔥Billionaire 🔥Plus Size Love 🔥Fear of Intimacy 🔥Virgin Heroine 🔥15 Year Age Gap 🔥Alpha Male 🔥Fake Marriage 🔥Small Town Romance 🔥Slow Burn
King is a determined billionaire… posing as a professional cuddler to get close to me.
He’s the type of man who always gets what he wants, and right now, he wants me—the socially awkward, plus-size model with intimacy issues.
I’ve never had anyone hold me, hug me – or even love me – and my therapist thinks a professional cuddler will help break down the walls I’ve built to protect my heart.
I’m skeptical at best…
But King is so good at holding me together that the line between professional and personal quickly blurs, igniting a passion I’m not prepared for.
King and I might be fifteen years apart, but our connection is undeniable.
When his true identity is revealed, I feel betrayed.
Until he proposes an irresistible deal: a fake marriage. He gets what he desires, and I get what I need.
I reluctantly agree… with boundaries of course.
Now, I just have to keep reminding myself that this isn’t real.
✨TEASER: AN ENDLESS MEMORY by @mariejohnstonwriter is coming August 15!
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Why you will love this book:
🔥Small Town
🔥Marriage of Convenience
🔥Boss’s brother
🔥Single Mom
🔥”My Wife”
Get married or move out. Those are my options, thanks to the trust my grandma left and my aunt is determined to enforce.
From Marie Johnston comes a single-mom, marriage-of-convenience romance.
If I don’t get married, I’ll have to find somewhere to live that I can afford with two kids and a lot of debt—and do it without losing my brand-new job. When my aunt confronts me on the move-out deadline, I try to buy time. I blurt out a name. I tell her I’m engaged to Eliot Knight.
Eliot’s my boss’s brother and he’s been around the vet clinic where I work. He’s hot. He’s charming. He’s who I’d pick if I had to marry someone at a moment’s notice. But he wasn’t supposed to hear me. He wasn’t supposed to get dragged into my mess. And he wasn’t supposed to agree to help me. Now, we’re Mr. and Mrs. Knight.
We only need to be married for a year, and he runs his family’s ranch in another town. Three hours away. Yet circumstances keep throwing us together, and I get a lot of time with my new husband. I fall hard the first time I hear him say, “My wife.”
But our lives are still separate. At the end of the year, I’m afraid I’ll get to keep my house, but I’ll lose my heart and be left with nothing but endless memories.
Why you will love this book… 🏈Sports/Football 🖤Romantic Suspense 🏈Ex-best friend’s little sister 🖤Touch Her & Die 🏈Mine! 🖤Breeding Kink 🏈Size Difference 🖤Bad Boy x Good Girl 🏈Teach Me x Please Me 🖤Forced Proximity 🏈Virgin FMC 🖤Praise
He shattered my trust, now he swears to protect me.
Jeremiah Blackwood is a silent storm brewing at St. Charles University. Surrounded by brothers as ruthless as himself, Jeremiah is a paradox of empathy and cold calculation. But his carefully structured life changes when Oakley Ashford, his former best friend’s younger sister and also the one girl who holds a vendetta against him, steps into his territory.
Oakley carries the weight of betrayal and loss like armor. When life turns cruel after her brother disappears it leaves her shattered. Oakley’s move from St. James University to St. Charles seems like a wicked twist of fate. To Oakley, she wants her life back even if it means dealing with her enemy to claim it.
Loyalty is a commodity and secrets wield destruction, Oakley has to decide between sin and betrayal, and Jeremiah must face the ghosts of his own past.
Before that night, there wasn’t much in my life I could complain about. I hunt rogue demons for a living, which is the coolest thing ever, and my brothers are the best. Sure, there was that thing with our parents betraying humanity, and okay, I wasn’t thrilled when my brother-bestie hooked up with a demon, but everything else was amazing.
Except that Dylan, the person I love more than anything, wanted to keep our relationship secret.
I got it; I really did. He’s lost all his family, and he was afraid if my family adopted him, he might lose them too. It’s not like we’ve got the world’s safest jobs. I was sure he’d change his mind eventually.
That decision was taken from him one awful night. Now, everyone knows, but Dylan’s more worried about the people trying to kill me. Unidentified and vicious; that’s all we know. Oh, and they hacked The Collective’s server.
How does a demon hunter fight a virtual threat? He doesn’t… that’s his kickass techie boyfriend’s job. Dylan will find these people, and then we’ll deal with them.
Even if there is more going on than we know about.
Why you will love this book… 🔥Drunken Vegas Wedding turned Marriage of Convenience 🔥Obsessed MMC w/a dirty mouth 🔥He falls first & falls hard 🔥Strong Independent FMC 🔥Forced Proximity 🔥Voyeurism 🔥Sex Club 🔥Kink Exploration
Ember
It was supposed to be one night with one incredibly handsome stranger. A night of giving into temptation and forgetting all my inhibitions. Instead, it ends with wedding vows and promises of “I do”.
But it turns out, this is exactly what we need for the sake of both our blooming careers. Especially after my new boss tasks me with the opening of a hot new lifestyle club.
Hudson needs me to wear the title of wife for the benefit of his career, and I need him to teach me the lifestyle to solidify mine. Adding sex lessons to our agreement surely won’t complicate things, right?
We’re blurring the lines of business and pleasure, unable to avoid the contagious desire between us. But I need to keep this strictly professional and emotion-free; it’s the only way I can get through it.
Forever is not what I signed up for, and there is no other way that this can end except with divorce papers and broken promises.
Hudson
I am never letting her go. One year. I have one year to convince her that our future is forever.
The Promises We Break is a Marriage of Convenience Romance and an interconnected standalone in the Balance of Power book series. You do not need to read any prior books, but it’s always recommended. As usual, please check TW’s before reading.
Why you need to #ONECLICK this book… 🔥Crush revealed (and acted upon) 🔥Sexy silver fox 🔥Single mom 🔥Roommates 🔥Small town romance 🔥Bit of suspense 🔥All the heat!
Love doesn’t break us; it makes us whole, my nana used to say.
However, one minute, my world is set on fire, literally. The next, I am raising a six-year-old as a single mom without a clear path ahead of us. No place to live. No job. No money.
I’m returning to Sterling Falls to claim what’s mine, then there will be no looking back on this beloved small town, a place I consider a handful of sand in the hourglass of my life.
Then again, Clay Sylver has shaken up that ancient time clock. The silver fox in his forties is a bit cocky, but solid in every way that matters. He loves his siblings. He works hard. He owns an honest business. Honest, the emphasis here. He also suffers from damsel-in-distress syndrome with a savior complex for lost causes, like stray animals and down-and-out women.
And I have a secret crush on him.
When I see Clay stranded on the side of the road one dark, stormy night, I stop to offer assistance. Burning with fever, Clay is sick, and my mom-instincts kick in to give him comfort. That decision throws me off course again. While my past lurks everywhere, I find myself falling in love with Sterling Falls once more and falling harder for the man giving my son and me a safe haven.
Love is a risk, according to Clay, but he’s slowly rescuing my heart while I’m saving his.
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Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life—food.
Women are a distraction, and he doesn’t do those. Especially Cal Litvin, his baby sister’s best friend. Her entire existence is a complication; she’s awkward, eccentric, infuriating…
And, much to his chagrin, hotter than his kitchen.
Ambrose has a lot on his plate: a new restaurant to open, a multimillion-dollar property deal to execute, and a violent stalker to tame.
Then Cal shows up at his doorstep, looking for both a job and salvation after their messy goodbye. His resolve, like his patience, is ebbing each day she works at his restaurant.
Because Cal is no longer a doe-eyed girl.
Now? She’s the woman he’ll do anything to conquer.
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Quirky, compassionate ball of sunshine Calla Litvin can’t catch a break, and not just because she swore off running. Back in her hometown to nurse her mother’s broken heart after losing her father, she finds herself jobless, hopeless, and penniless. She hopes to rekindle her friendship with her former BFF, but Dylan is attached at the hip to her cruel brother—the one Cal’s been secretly crushing on since middle school.
Falling for the bad boy the second time around would be a mistake of gargantuan proportions.
Why you will love this book… 💕Steamy RomCom 🧪Women in STEM 💕Enemies to Lovers 🧪Reverse Age Gap
Working with the enemy and breaking a few laws are lines neither expected to cross.
I need to save my company. That means I must steal back the for-her-pleasure pill formula from my megalomaniac ex-boyfriend. To pull off the biggest challenge of my life, I’ll have to find a partner in crime.
I can’t ask my business partner and my best friend without jeopardizing everything we’ve built together. Trusting a nosy reporter might seem counterintuitive, but this is the best plan I have. Even if I hate him.
The younger and far too attractive Jack Parker wants the scoop of a lifetime and helping me is his golden ticket.
I just didn’t account for the sizzling chemistry that could burn us both in this corporate caper. Jack is nothing like I imagined. He isn’t looking for the perfect piece to spin – he’s just looking for the truth.
Late nights of reconnaissance turn into days where I hypothesize what we could be after this mission is over.
I should know better than to trust myself when it comes to men, but I can’t help but wonder if Jack might be worth risking it all for.
Love Under the Microscope, a steamy rom-com series set at a pharmaceutical company in Seattle, Washington, features enemies to lovers, women in STEM, older woman/younger man age gap, and a heist. Find out what happens when a female scientist must rely on a reporter angling for a scoop to make sure a new product launch is successful.
Why you will love this book… ❤️🔥Small Town Romance 🔥Fake Dating ❤️🔥Dislike to Lovers 🔥He Falls First ❤️🔥Found Family 🔥Dual POV
The first rule of fake dating? Never fall for your pretend boyfriend.
But no one ever warned me about falling for his best friend.
Alex Green has spent the last three years rebuilding her life from scratch. Sure, her job is hell, and her boss is Satan incarnate, but that’s a small price to pay for a fresh start. She’s content living her life within her perfectly drawn confines, unwilling to let anyone get too close.
But when popular movie star, Adam Rice, comes to her small town, Alex finds herself in a situation she never could’ve imagined. At first, it seems like pretending to be Adam’s girlfriend will solve all of their problems. He gets the press off his back, while she gets the benefits of being in a relationship without any messy feelings.
The only downside?
Adam’s best friend- Cole.
Cole Campbell has no problem watching the world from a distance. After dealing with a rocky few years, he’s content to stand on the sidelines of his best friend’s booming acting career. But when they travel to the opposite side of the country to film Adam’s latest movie, Cole expects things to continue as they have. At least, until he meets Alex, and for the first time in a long time, he finds himself wanting someone, even if she’s the last person he should have feelings for.
When annoyance turns to attraction, Alex and Cole find themselves drawn to each other Feelings and loyalties get questioned, and they both have to decide if love is worth the risk, even if it comes at the most unexpected time.
Shep might be a huge grump of a man, but she was glad he was with her.
Grumpy loner hero
Military romance
Protector hero
Woman on the run
Forced proximity
Bodyguard romance
The last thing he wants is to trek into the jungle to save the President’s daughter.
Shepherd “Shep” Barlow left the military behind. All he wants is to stay on his Colorado mountain—alone, with no interruptions, and no people. He especially likes to avoid people.
Then his former commander arrives, asking him to risk his life on a deadly mission to Central America. A mission to rescue the archeologist daughter of the President of the United States.
Once a member of a covert Ghost Ops team, Shep has the skills to get in quietly and rescue Ms. Sinclair. And as much as he wishes otherwise, he can’t leave an innocent woman in danger.
Hayden Sinclair loves her work. It keeps her far away from the liars, cheats, and phonies in Washington D.C. But when she’s abducted from her archeological dig in Nicaragua, she’s plunged into a life-or-death situation. Her captors plan to use her as a bargaining chip, and Hayden knows she has to escape.
What she never expected was to collide with the world’s biggest, grumpiest rescuer.
On the run in the jungle with six and a half feet of rugged, muscular, scowling man, she finds Shep rude and annoying. But as her captors ruthlessly hunt them, she also discovers a man who’ll risk his own life to protect hers.
Neither of them are looking for love, especially when they have to fight to survive…besides, there could never be a happy ending for the daughter of the President and a grumpy, battle-scarred soldier, could there?
Why you will love this book: 💕Baseball Hero 🤰Accidental Pregnancy 💕One Bed 🤰He Falls First 💕Single Mom 🤰Found Family 💕Tons of Laughs
All I want is one night.
One night away from the falling down brownstone filled with my three best friends, a broody billionaire, and our seven children. Oh, and you can’t forget those adorable raccoons.
But the universe apparently has other ideas because I get drunk and sleep with the baseball player. Now two little lines turn my escape into a completely new adventure. But we’re just going to co-parent not get into anything serious.
No matter how many times I tell Cortney Miller, who is now sharing my bed and watching my every move, that we’re not meant to be, he won’t let go.
Is it possible he could be more than just the mother maker?
Why you will love this book… 🔥Fake Dating 🔥Billionaire 🔥Cinderella Story 🔥Escort and CEO 🔥Dark Secret 🔥Forced Proximity
If it’s fake…why does it feel so real?
I come from nothing. I’m the only person who’s ever had my back—and that’s fine with me. But in the dazzling world of Boston’s elite, I’m getting in too deep with Cole Bryson, a handsome, muscular, sexy billionaire with charm to spare. It started as a temporary gig, an assignment through my escort agency. But the lines blurred between fantasy and reality, and…
I made a rookie mistake. I fell for him.
I know better—I can’t risk my heart in this billionaire’s game. Cole’s a self-proclaimed bachelor. Still, he’s become my roommate, my lover, and…my best friend? When Cole’s father finds out about me, he threatens his empire. And then my secret past comes back to haunt me, and the only hope I ever had of being happy is ripped away forever.
Why you will love this book… 🔥Secret Society 🔥Kidnapping 🔥Serial Unaliver 🔥Touch her and die 🔥Stalker 🔥Praise kink
Last month I was a normal girl living a normal life not thinking of the dangers outside my door. Less than a month later I have been exposed to some of the most powerful and dangerous men, and their secrets that were in my own backyard.
I will never return to the sweet girl I once was. I will be the danger these men need to worry about. I will be the hushed secrets spoken in the shadows. I will be Nathan’s downfall.
Enjoy this excerpt from Too Far, the final book in the Boys of Lake Chapel series
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She was worth it.
She’s so f*cking worth it.
I swallow past the dread threatening to take over. I’ve made my choice. It’s one I’d make a thousand times over to ensure she leads a long, beautiful, private life.
A life so different from the fate I’m resigned to.
I’ll trudge along without her, without them, even. After tonight, I don’t see how I can keep any of them. Because they love her. She loves them. And I love them all.
I’ll break my own heart if it means she gets some version of happily ever after.
I don’t care about the state of my heart anyways. Fractured or fragmented. Broken or tattered. None of it matters if my sacrifice fortifies her path and brings her a fraction of peace.
If my heartbreak is her salvation, then let me shatter.
Why you will love this duet… 🖤Dark, Why Choose, Mafia Romance 🔥A Possessive Alphahole, a kinky Golden Retriever, and her Brother’s Best Friend 🖤A grown-ass woman who’ll do anything to protect her daughter 🔥She trades her body in exchange for protection 🖤They put her in a cage and make her wear a collar (and she likes it) 🔥Everyone is morally grey by the end 🖤Everyone loves everyone ❤️🔥Kinks: noncon, dubcon, domination and submission, sadism and masochism, impact play, pain play, pet play, bondage, humiliation, degradation, praise exhibitionism
The deal was simple–protect my daughter in exchange for my body.
My entire life, I’ve been a perfect mafia princess–a pawn for men to further their ambitions.
Three men whispered sweet nothings in my ear, swearing they’d rescue me and keep my kid safe. This city turned them into liars–when the worst happened, no one was there to save me but myself.
These men swear they’ve learned their lesson, and I still ache for their touch. Too bad I can’t trust their promises of vengeance and blood.
My body’s no longer for sale. And my heart? Don’t make me laugh. Now, I’ve got nothing left to lose. With or without them, I’ll rule this city as its queen.
Lies like Rubies, Part Two is the conclusion of Sofia’s story. It is a dark romance where no one has to choose between their love interests. Please see the author’s website for a full list of content notes.
Why you will love this book: 💕Grumpy Hero 💕Small town 💕Mistaken Identity 💕Age Gap 💕Workplace
Myles Foster:
CEO, thief, broody grump. And, once upon a time, the boy who read me stories when it stormed. My brothers hate him for the knowledge he took from our family’s bourbon company to start his own empire. My sisters have forgotten him. But me? I’m going to be his new assistant.
To him, I’m just a temp with a surprisingly deep knowledge about the world of spirits. But if I come clean about just where I got that know-how, he’ll toss me out before I can find out what happened to the boy who calmed my fears.
How did the angry foster kid with a chip on his shoulder the size of Montana become the owner of a respected distillery? How did he get my adoptive father to show him so much of the family business, only to run away and become a huge competitor?
How could he disappear from our lives and forget me when I could never forget him?
He doesn’t trust easy and I’m only in his office because of a lie. But if that lie will get me all the answers I’ve been craving for twenty-two years, then that’s what I’ll do, right up until the moment he finally remembers who I am. And then it’ll be my turn to disappear.
Why you will love this book… 🔥Workplace 🔥Neighbors 🔥Small Town 🔥Southern Belle 🔥Reformed Playboy 🔥Hockey 🔥Soul Mates 🔥Found Family
Hannah The night before starting my new job was not when I wanted to meet my neighbor. Certainly not in the middle of the night, wearing next to nothing, as I bang on his door to tell him to quiet down. And when he answers the door, I almost swallow my tongue. He’s possibly the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. But when he opens his mouth, my Southern upbringing rears its ugly head, and I slam up those carefully constructed walls around my heart.
Luca calls me Pixie, and suggests I need to loosen up. When I finally decide to lower my walls with him however, he walks into my work office. As the social media manager for the Denver Wolves hockey team, I’d been warned about one specific hot player, both on and off the ice. Of course, he’d be that hot player. But I just can’t stay away … until I’m forced to.
Luca I’m the black sheep of the Wolves. The one who has too much bad publicity. Everyone, including my family, thinks I’m a player. No one believes that I’m tired of the partying. The lifestyle. The games. But I don’t know how to change things, until she moves in next door.
Hannah makes me want to be a better man. But life on the ice has gotten murky, and my coach is clearly looking to get rid of me. I’ve never taken chances on anyone before, but something tells me Hannah is worth the risk.
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