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New Release Review! BUILDING THEIR HOME: A VALOR RIDGE CHRISTMAS by Tonya Burrows

Walker Nash has one Christmas to build a sanctuary where broken veterans can heal. When therapist Johanna Perrin arrives at a snow-covered Montana ranch on Christmas Eve, she’s only planning to help one troubled veteran—then leave. But Walker’s dream for Valor Ridge pulls her in deeper than she expects, and the connection between them feels dangerously like coming home. Over ten years and four life-changing Christmases, Walker and Johanna build something neither of them dared hope a family forged not by blood, but by choice. From Boone and his loyal dog Bishop, to the mischievous River who hides his pain…

New Release Review! EDGE OF CONTROL by Tonya Burrows (Edge Ops #2)

EVELYN I thought I’d finally found peace. A small town. A new name. A quiet life for my daughter and me. But lately, the town feels… off. Neighbors I barely know greet me like an old friend, then say the exact same words the next day. Conversations loop, rehearsed and hollow. And sometimes… I swear I hear thoughts that aren’t my own. The past I ran from is coming. And there’s only one person I can call—The man who saved us once.The man who took my heart with him when he walked away.The man I swore I’d never need again.…

New Release Review! EARNING HER TRUST by Tonya Burrows (Valor Ridge #2)

He doesn’t let people get close. Owen “Ghost” Booker doesn’t believe he deserves a second chance. Not after what he’s done, not after the lives lost because of him. At Valor Ridge, he stays in the shadows, watching, calculating, protecting from a distance. Only Cinder, his fiercely loyal and equally guarded K9, sees the man beneath the silence. Neither of them trusts easily. They don’t connect. And they definitely don’t let anyone in. Until her. She doesn’t trust anyone to tell her the truth. After burning out at the FBI, Naomi Lefthand returns to Solace, Montana, to breathe. But when…

Release Day Review! COLD TRUTH by Toni Anderson (Cold Justice: Most Wanted #6)

Title: Cold TruthSeries: Cold Justice – Most Wanted #6Author: Toni AndersonGenre: Romantic Thriller/SuspenseTropes: Age Gap, Grumpy/Sunshine, Fake Relationship, Band of Brothers, Only One BedRelease Date: June 23, 2025 Protecting Her Becomes His Mission; Resisting Her Becomes Impossible. Secrets and lies collide in this upcoming explosive Romantic Thriller from New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson. Rowena Smith may be a top-shelf librarian, but solid investigative skills won’t keep her safe after her newest research project—tracking down her biological father—leads her to a brutally murdered body. The scene offers up one hope for assistance: the card of FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kurt Montana.…

Release Day Review! THE BEAST TAKES A BRIDE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #8)

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair their good name… but neither are prepared for the genuine sparks that begin flying between them. A blue-blooded beauty bartered to a Beast… He would pay any price to possess her. But even though Alexandra Bellamy sacrifices herself to save her family’s fortunes, a shocking betrayal sunders her marriage to a taciturn brute of a war hero, Colonel Magnus Brightwall, before it even begins. Five years of icy separation later, a scandal—with Alexandra at…

Release Day Review! MY SEASON OF SCANDAL by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #7)

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, a notorious rake meets his match in a doe-eyed girl from the country, changing the course of both of their futures… A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton’s glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins…until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone. Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons—and any woman…

Release Day Review! HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #6)

In Julie Anne Long’s thrilling new romance in the Palace of Rogues series, an infamous privateer’s limits are put to the test when he’s trapped during a raging tempest with a prickly female at the Grand Palace on the Thames. He clawed his way up from the gutters of St. Giles to the top of a shadowy empire. Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing shocks Lorcan St. Leger—not even the discovery of an aristocratic woman escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called…

Series Spotlight! AFTER DARK WITH THE DUKE by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #4)

Our countdown to HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE (here July 25th!) continues this week with AFTER DARK WITH THE DUKE, the fourth book in the Palace of Rogues series—in which Delilah and Angelique welcome England’s revered war hero, the starchy, formidable Duke of Valkirk, who is hiding out at The Grand Palace on the Thames to write his (overdue to his publisher *cough*) memoirs, and Mariana Wylde, a scandalous opera singer on the run from a mob out for her blood. The crackling enmity between these two (seeming) opposites reaches a crescendo when Mariana leads the guests in a…

Series Spotlight! I’M ONLY WICKED WITH YOU by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #3)

I’m helping Julie Anne long count down to HOW TO TAME A WILD ROGUE, the next book in the Palace of Rogues series, coming July 25th! This week is all about Hugh Cassidy, rugged American, and Lady Lilias Vaughn, the daughter of an earl, whose worlds collide at The Grand Palace on the Thames in I’M ONLY WICKED WITH YOU! Hugh is on a mission to find another girl entirely—one with whom he was secretly love, and who bolted from America across the sea—when he stumbles upon the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen… sneaking a cheroot. He quickly learnsshe’s…

Pre-Release Review! HOLIDAY HEART ON Charity Anthology (19 authors writing for a great cause!)

Get a head start on the holiday spirit by reading for a great cause! Nineteen of today’s most entertaining rom-com authors have teamed up on #Books4Beats. This collection of festive shorts ranges from sweet to steamy and promises to entertain. 100% of proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women® movement, an initiative designed to increase women’s heart health awareness and serve as a catalyst for change to improve the lives of women globally. Authors:Playing by Heart by Sylvie StewartBetter than Christmas by Brenda St John Brown and Serena BellHang Your Heart by Arell RiversHockey Hotties Heart-On…

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