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New Release Review! THE LOVE FIX by Jill Shalvis (Sunrise Cove #8)

Welcome back to Sunrise Cove for this heartwarming enemies-to-lovers tale where found family, forgiveness, and love may just be the key to finding yourself, from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis. Lexi Clark’s life is falling apart around her, so when she’s summoned home to Sunrise Cove, the last thing she wants to do is face all the complications she left behind. Her past, her stepsister Ashley, and especially her infuriatingly gorgeous childhood nemesis-turned-crush Heath Bowman. Yep, Lexi’s pretty sure being home again just might kill her. She’s an overachieving art appraiser who doesn’t believe in trust, love, or Happily Ever…

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! ROUGH AROUND THE HEDGES by Emma Hart

He’s the city boy who wants to destroy the place she loves most. She’s the countryside girl who is determined to break him first. But when hearts are involved, can either of them truly win? I, Rose Matthews, have always considered myself a perfectly reasonable person. Until the day Oliver de Havilland—the hottie I wham, bam, thank you ma’am’d two weeks ago—shows up at Hanbury Allotments and hands me a closure notice. In two months, he’s going to shut down the place I love the most—the very place that keeps the dwindling community of our village alive. Long story short;…

New Release Review! THE BAD BOY RULE by Maren Moore (Hellcats Hockey #1)

The Bad Boy Rule by Maren Moore is now live! A deliciously sexy, bad boy/good girl, hockey romance from Amazon Top 20 bestselling sports romance author, Maren Moore. LennonSaint Devereaux has a reputation that precedes him.Orleans University’s resident bad boy on and off the ice.And I know to stay far away.Until there’s a mixup and we’re forced to share our ice time.I can’t stand his cocky attitude, or how annoyingly attractive he is.He’s the reason the Bad Boy Rule exists.Because guys like him will break your heart.But the more time I spend with the hot, tattooed enforcer, the more I…

New Release Review! THE PAST by Sawyer Bennett (Bluegrass Empires #4)

THE PASTSawyer BennettRelease Date: June 3 Before ascending the throne of the Blackburn Empire in Kentucky horse country, they were just Tommy and Fiona, two teenagers from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Young love bloomed during an Irish summer set amidst the rolling green hills and lush pastures of Tipperary County. Fiona Conlan grew up sheltered by her overbearing parents and vibrating with the need for something more. In the summer of 1978, she found exactly what she needed. Ready to test the boundaries set for her, Fiona trained in the exhilarating and dangerous sport of steeplechase, and in…

Release Day Review! HER MOUNTAIN RESCUER by Alyson Archer (Honey Ridge #1)

I went on a hike to clear my head. But then a storm blows in, and now I’m taking shelter with my rescuer—my dad’s best friend. My goal was to clear my head. To figure out what I want in life—besides mountain ranger Beau Cameron, that is. He’s my dad’s best friend, more than twenty years older than me, and it’s not like he returns my feelings. Beau and I are never going to happen. I need to let it go. Move on. But I get caught in a life-threatening deluge of wind, rain, and hail. Soon, I’m lost, freezing,…

New Release Review! BUILT TO LAST by Lexi Blake (Park Avenue Promise #3)

From New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake, discover The Park Avenue Promise Series… Three young women make a pact in high school—to always be friends and to one day make it big in Manhattan Built to LastHarper Ross has always dreamed of working on one of the magnificent brownstones of Park Avenue. Now one of her closest friends has bought the house of her dreams and hired Harper to do the construction work. She wants to showcase the renovation on a television show for her brand-new production company. It’s the same grand home she and her friends promised themselves…

Release Day Review! UNTIL THE RAKE SURRENDERS by Darcy Burke (The Rogue Rules #5)

When a young lady is ruined, her friends vow none of them will ever be ensnared by a scoundrel again. They will resist every gentleman’s charms even—and especially—if it means gaining a reputation for being impossible to woo. It will take extraordinary rogues to break their rules… It will take nothing less than the promise of a heart-stopping, breath-catching, happily ever after to woo Lady Minerva Halifax into marriage, but that dream seems doomed. She only attracts money- and position-hungry rogues because she’s the daughter of a wealthy duke. Then her friend’s dashingly irrepressible brother, Evan Price, is injured showing…

Release Day Review! THE PRETEND FIANCE FIASCO by Pippa Grant (Copper Valley Bro Code #6)

Title: The Pretend Fiancé FiascoSeries: Copper Valley Bro Code #6Author: Pippa GrantGenre: Romantic ComedyTropes: Mysterious Protective Hero/FakeRelationship/Forced Proximity/Treasure HuntRelease Date: May 8, 2025 A reclusive former celebrity, a recovering good girl, and small town trouble… It started as a joke. After a string of bad boyfriends, I made up a fake boyfriend so people would quit asking when I was going to meet a grumpy lumberjack trying to save his mama’s inn in my adopted hometown. When my grandma demanded proof from afar, I sent her a picture of me and my “boyfriend.” Spoiler alert: He wasn’t really my boyfriend.…

Release Day Review! TIME LOOPS AND MEET CUTES by Jackie Lau

The “masterful, inspiring, and full of heart” (Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author) Jackie Lau returns with a thoroughly unique love story about a woman reliving the same Friday over and over again—and the intriguing man who can’t quite remember her. Noelle Tom really shouldn’t have eaten those dumplings at the night market. But the old woman at the stall said they’d give her what she needed most, and what Noelle desperately needed after another long workweek was food. Except now she’s reliving the same Friday. Every morning her alarm goes off at 6:45, and the Wordle answer is…