Latest Romance Book Releases – 10-15-2024

SUPER-SALE!!! I LOVED THIS ONE! Here's my review

"...While Josephine was trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same small town as Lydia. There was nothing disguised about Jake. Including the fact he made a habit of making very bad decisions about who to give his love. 

But for Josephine and Jake, there was one person who adored them. One person who knew how to lead them to happiness. And one person who was intent on doing it. Even if she had to do it as her final wish on this earth..."

Suzanne: Great review, Maryse, I know what you mean about the synopsis. I too thought that it did not sound like KA. But, I was pleasantly surprised and totally loved it. Joe was classic KA Alpha.

Danette: This is so sweet and … *real.* I just devoured it. Loved the older H/h. Loved the slow build. Loved their interactions. I actually like this one a whole lot. But, you know, even when a KA book is not her best — it’s still pretty darn good! She is my GO TO girl!

THE SECRET INGREDIENT... LOVE!

"A Story About Pizza" delves into the rich history of Italian immigration and the merging of Italian and American cultures through the beloved dish of pizza.

Erica D’Arcangelo weaves a narrative that spans generations, sharing her grandfather Pietro's dream, struggles, and triumphs. From the bustling streets of Windber to the fragrant kitchens of D’Arc’s Pizza Shop, this tale celebrates the spirit of perseverance and the enduring love that binds families and communities.

Join Erica as she uncovers the secret ingredient that makes a classic Italian pizza more than just a meal: love. "A Story About Pizza" is a testament to the lasting impact of Italian-American heritage and the unifying power of food."

SUPER-BARGAIN!! HE'S HER NEIGHBOR & SHE'S CRUSHING ON HIM...

"...Sweet, shy Mara Hanover is in love with her neighbor. For four years, she has secretly watched her dream man from afar. Handsome police detective Mitch Lawson is way out of her league.

She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and there's no way a guy like Mitch would want anything to do with her. But when Mara has a leaky faucet that she can't fix, it's Mitch who comes to her rescue..."

Teri: Law Man was so,good. I really miss those old school KA reads.

Xenia: “Law Man” by Kristen Ashley. Awesome book, fabulous writer.

Erika: My Favorite book boyfriend has to be Mitch Lawson from Law Man by Kristen Ashley. I love a good guy that does everything to build a family with the girl he’s wanted for four years.

Anna: I love Mitch Lawson (of Law Man fame) a whole lot! The whole Dream Man series is awesome, but Mitch was one of my favorite hot guys in this series. Plus this whole story is just really great and touching.

SUPER-BARGAIN!!!

"...in an instant, their lives are changed forever.

In the aftermath, Eve’s world is upended. As stunning secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if she really knew her friends as well as she thought. And when someone from the past comes back into her life, Eve’s future veers in a surprising new direction..."

R. Renee: I finished Just Last Night a few days ago and ended up loving it. I wasn’t sure at first because it’s more women’s fiction than romance, but then the romance kicked in and swoon!

Michele G: I also loved Just Last Night!!! …that Robin mentioned was phenomenal as well. Probably my favorite so far by Mhairi McFarlane!!

SMALL TOWN ROMANCE ALERT!! HE'S HER SECRET CRUSH... and now she's pregnant by him!

"...My first day in Montana, I got into a tug-of-war over a grocery store shopping cart. The most handsome man I’d ever seen broke up the scuffle before he asked me on a date. I was seconds away from accepting but then he told me his name.

As an owner of the Haven River Ranch, Jax Haven wasn’t my boss. But he wasn’t not my boss either.

Obviously, my only option was to turn him down, scurry away, then pretend like he was a stranger on my first day of work. And obviously, I could never, ever admit that he was my secret crush..."

THE LATEST BY CATHARINA MAURA!! THEY MAKE A DEAL...

"...When the man she's always been in love with starts dating one of her friends, artist Serenity Adesina creates a to-do list that will help her get over him once and for all. The first item on that list? Losing her virginity to Archer Harrison, her older brother's billionaire best friend…and her boss.

He's the perfect choice—alluring, caring, and entirely emotionally unavailable. Their deal was supposed to be simple: Serenity will paint Archer anything he wants in return for a secret, no-strings-attached relationship. Except each kiss leaves them both wanting more..."

HE'S ANTI-CHRISTMAS

"...all was going according to plan until my nemesis, Storee Taylor, moved in next door to care for her Aunt Cindy. Without blinking, she turned my simple world into a real nightmare-before-Christmas, especially when she decided to enter the town Christmas Kringle contest - which she was determined to win.

Well guess what? Over my cold-hearted body. There was no way I was going to let her win, not after the history we'd shared. So despite my promise to myself of never participating in the sickening Christmas season, I entered the competition as well..."

MARRIAGE AUCTION!!! HOW SHE MET MADAM ALANA

"...While my attacker was on the ground, twitching and convulsing, his face as red and puffed up as ole St. Nick, I was grabbed from behind by Santa’s helper. As luck would have it, a limo rolled through the parking lot just in time. A pair of men exited the vehicle and dispatched my attackers as if by magic.

A sleek, elegant, and expensively dressed woman alighted from her shiny sleigh, took one look at me, and offered me a Christmas miracle… Three million dollars for three years of my life. And that’s how I met my savior, Madam Alana, the owner of The Marriage Auction..."

PSYCH-THRILLER!! SHE STARTED OVER UNDER A DIFFERENT IDENTITY...

"...Seventeen-year-old Theodora Briggs left home in the dead of night, after a brutal crime shattered her life. Thirteen years later, she’s made a name for herself as Gemma: beautician, wife, and mother. But the trauma still lingers… And then one day, it’s more than just a phantom pain.

Gemma is suddenly accosted by stranger after stranger, all of whom seem to know the truth about her. They confront her with her real name and ominous allusions to the tragedy that drove her out of town. When her family begins to have their own strange episodes, Gemma is rattled. There’s no one left to trust but herself..."

HOCKEY ROMANCE!!

"...Technically, Rowan Landry, the hot as hell center for the Chicago Falcons, is no longer my brother’s teammate. Or his best friend. Their college days are long behind them, and they barely talk now.

Also, I’m not dating him—we’re just sleeping together. There’s a difference..."

SHE SAW IT ALL...

"...They wanted a housemaid: “smart appearance, full time,” their ad said. She wanted to make enough money to support her mother and return home. For seven years, Estela cleaned their laundry, wiped their floors, made their meals, kept their secrets, witnessed their fights and frictions, raised their daughter.

She heard the rats scrabbling in the ceiling, saw the looks the señor gave the señora; she knew about the poison in the cabinet, the gun, the daughter’s rebellion as she grew up, the mother’s coldness, the father’s distance. She saw it all.

After a series of shocking betrayals and revelations, Estela stops speaking, breaking her silence only now..."

SERIAL KILLER PSYCH-THRILLER

"...Forty-eight hours until Christmas, Jessica Kane wakes up with blurred vision, ears ringing, and in excruciating pain. A gash in her head and blood running down her face, the last thing she remembers is going for a run and something or someone hitting her in the head.

It doesn't take her long to realize she is trapped in an unknown, deserted town with five other strangers who share similar stories of being attacked and stranded there. Unsure why and how they got there, she knows one thing for certain, she has to find a way out..."

HISTORICAL THRILLER!! HER MISSING SON & THE TINY HEART IN A JAR...

"1826. Isobel Tait finds herself, by chance, staring at a tiny human heart floating in a jar. It should be of little consequence; Dr. Burnett is renowned for his collection of oddities and medical specimens, and this, a juvenile heart with a damaged mitral valve, is not the strangest thing on display. Except that the condition is rare, and that Isobel's young son, who has been missing for months, suffered from the ailment. 

A phantom pulse beats in Isobel's ears. She knows something here isn't right..."

SHE'S THE MAID OF HONOR AT A STRANGERS WEDDING & HER BOSS IS THE BEST MAN!

"...when fun falls in my lap in the form of a desperate heiress looking for someone to be her maid of honor, I agree to do it. It all feels too good to be true including a whirlwind weekend trip to Paris to choose her wedding dress and champagne tasting after work.

I’m having the time of my life until the night I meet the groom and his best man at one of the most expensive restaurants in Manhattan. Fate gets the last laugh when Mr. Hunt heads straight to our table and sits down beside me.

He’s the worst best man ever. I’m the maid of honor who loves to hate him..."

SERIES CONCLUSION!!

"...Betrayed by the one she most trusts, Gwendolyn must now find a way to defeat the Fae King, alone… To do that she must remember what she has forgotten. But time is running out, and the odds are rising against her and even The Fates appear to favor a cruel king, whose reign began with the end of all she holds dear.

Arise the Queen is the exciting conclusion of the Goldenchild Prophecy..."

DARK FANTASY HORROR!! THE ULTRA RICH CONTROL MAGIC...

"...The ultra-rich control magic—the same way they control everything else—but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the author of the Alex Verus novels..."

THE WITCH & HER FAKE MARRIAGE

"...Teal Flores is desperate for two things—control over her gift of weather, and a date to her ex’s wedding. The first isn’t possible until she finds her long-lost mother, but the second has a very handsome last-ditch solution: Carter Velasquez.

Carter needs Teal too. His chance at receiving an inheritance is dependent on him being married by age thirty (blame his traditional Cuban grandmother), so who better to pose as his wife than Teal? But fake marriage and cohabitation prove tricky..."

SLOW BURN FANTASY ROMANCE!!

"...Oralia Solis hasn’t felt the touch of another in 245 years. Not without them crumbling to ash at her feet. Cursed by the bite of a daemoni, she has been sequestered away for the greater good of Aethera by her adopted father, King Typhon.

King Renwick rules the rival kingdom of Infernis, the land of the dead. When Oralia flees the palace of Aethera after her power is let loose with deadly results, he recognizes her potential as a weapon and aids her escape.

Oralia finds herself the prisoner of the man she has been taught to fear most, and Renwick is surprised to find there is more to this princess than her untamed powers..."

GHOST ROMANCE!!

"...Jessica has always felt as restless as the spirits who choose to appear to her. Then an unexpected encounter in the small southern town of Fairhaven Falls changes everything. Now she leads an ordinary life - or at least as ordinary as a girl with a constant ghostly companion can have. But is simple companionship enough?..."

PARANORMAL ROMANCE!! HIS DESTINED MATE!

"...When he demands she marry the Alpha of a rival pack, she reluctantly agrees. Even if it means never finding her soulmate.

Liam O’Connor is loyal to his pack too. When his pack leader tasks him with taking care of his bride-to-be, Liam can’t—and won’t—say no, despite having his hands full running his Colorado ranch and investigating the troubling case of a missing witch.

Then he meets the promised bride and his loyalty to his pack is tested like never before. Because she’s the one he’s been waiting for his whole life..."

TIME TRAVEL!! SHE'S THE NEW GIRL IN SCHOOL & MESSING W/ THEIR FRIEND GROUP

"...When Nell and Stevie B finally confront Cole and Charlotte, they learn the impossible—Charlotte is actually from the future, and for life altering reasons none of them could have imagined, she wants Cole to jump to the future with her, leaving Nell behind. It’s dangerous, it’s reckless, but Charlotte convinces them that it’s the only choice they have.

The trio’s future has always seemed set—but with the knowledge that time travel is real, and with a multiverse of futures before them, they now have the option to live lives they could have only dreamed about..."

THE HUMAN & THE SHIFTER

"...No one can break down his carefully-constructed walls…until he meets Timber.

The quirky beauty has a dark destiny of her own, and awakens something inside of him that can never be released onto the world. Wreck knows it is safer to stay away from her because she is human, and has no idea what destruction is coming for Wreck and his Crew. It's not fair to put a human in the middle of the war that has been building for so long, but he can't seem to leave her alone..."

THE SHIFTER & THE SOCIALITE!

"...People think I'm the hottest property in town. Every time I turn around, there’s a camera lens there. Snapping my side-boob. Trying to catch me pantie-less. But the truth is, I’m so tired of being watched. Pursued.

Then there’s my manager—AKA my dad—controlling my every move. The truth is, I’m so done with it all. When I try to escape, my dad hires a thug to guard me—a huge, grumpy, grizzly shifter..."

I should have known everything was going to change when she walked into my tattoo shop...

Timid as hell and gorgeous to the extreme. I knew better than even thinking about touching a woman like that. My life is dangerous. My calling wicked. Willing to cross any line to protect the innocent. I thought I’d never see her again until my little boy tumbled and busted his lip, and I found her working at the doctor’s office. The woman who’d taken possession of my thoughts. When it becomes clear she’s in trouble, I offer up a deal..."

THEY MAKE A DEAL 

"...When the man she's always been in love with starts dating one of her friends, artist Serenity Adesina creates a to-do list that will help her get over him once and for all. The first item on that list? Losing her virginity to Archer Harrison, her older brother's billionaire best friend…and her boss..."

MYSTERY!!

Ex-spy, English professor, and sleuth Cameron Winter finds his past and present colliding as he tracks his first love in the newest entry in this USA Today bestselling series.

DARK FANTASY HORROR!!

The ultra-rich control magic—the same way they control everything else—but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the author of the Alex Verus novels.

ENEMIES TO LOVERS!!

An enemies to lovers romance with a spooky twist where two feuding writers end up on a writers retreat together at a haunted castle in Scotland.

PSYCH-THRILLER!!

"In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mike Omer, a woman who fled home with a dark secret must now flee the strangers who seem to know it—and the stalker behind it all."

SHE INHERITS A BAIT SHOP!

"In Erin Hahn's cozy, swoony romance, Maren Laughlin has been fishing her whole life, but she’s finally ready to be caught."

THE MAID WHO SAW TOO MUCH...

From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point

FAMOUS RECLUSIVE AUTHOR DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S...

"Libby Lost and Found is a book for people who don't know who they are without the books they love. It's about the stories we tell ourselves and the chapters of our lives we regret. Most importantly, it's about the endings we write for ourselves."

TIME TRAVEL!!

"When a new girl arrives in town, seemingly from the future, three teens' lives are turned upside down in this speculative YA novel full of love and loss, and the power of the unknown."

SERIAL KILLER THRILLER!

"Forty-eight hours until Christmas, Jessica Kane wakes up with blurred vision, ears ringing, and in excruciating pain. A gash in her head and blood running down her face, the last thing she remembers is going for a run and something or someone hitting her in the head.

It doesn't take her long to realize she is trapped in an unknown, deserted town with five other strangers who share similar stories of being attacked and stranded there. Unsure why and how they got there, she knows one thing for certain, she has to find a way out..."

HOCKEY ROMANCE!!

"Technically, Rowan Landry, the hot as hell center for the Chicago Falcons, is no longer my brother’s teammate. Or his best friend. Their college days are long behind them, and they barely talk now.

Also, I’m not dating him—we’re just sleeping together. There’s a difference..."