Fallen Royal by Rachel Van Dyken is now live!

A mafia romance about betrayal and faith by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series.

“The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever.”—Ryan Bigge

I grew up knowing it would happen one day.

Believing that I would fall into my father’s footsteps and become a monster of my own making.

So I fought it.

I lived.

I loved.

I teased.

And then one day… I destroyed.

And realized I loved the pain.

Obsessed over the feeling.

So I cut again and again and again.

She saw my rage, my madness, and tried to stop me from destroying myself, and I hated her for it, pushing her away past the point of no return.

Izzy Abandonato was supposed to be mine.

But there are some things people can never come back from. I hurt her, she hurt me, and now I’m living a lie. Telling the ones I love that I’m on one side when for years I’ve been forced to play both.

I’m no angel.

I’ve fallen.

And I may single-handedly bring down the Cosa Nostra—by default.

I, Maksim Sinacore, will have my vengeance.

I will win her back.

Even if it means I have to kill everyone in my path.

The pain masks the betrayal.

I never realized that one day—I’d be the very rat that I hated. That I was sent to kill. But once you’re deep in a lie—you’ll do anything to hide the truth.

She fell for the bad one.

She fell for the sinner.

So why does that make me smile?

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Meet Rachel

Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times Bestselling, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 90 books ranging from contemporary romance to paranormal. With over four million copies sold, she’s been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs. For more information about her books and upcoming events, visit www.RachelVanDykenauthor.com.

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“I have to commit mass murder tomorrow night—enough to classify me as a serial killer,” he said. “You do not need to comfort me.”

Canary, an all-new unforgettable enemies-to-lovers standalone mafia romance from New York Times bestselling author Tijan is available now!

We were on the front lines in that world, the mafia world.
There was nothing soft or glamorous about it.
Who you were before no longer mattered. Names didn’t exist.

I joined anyway. I had no other choice because they took my sister.
Join. Find her. Try and make it out alive.

Then he won me in a poker game.
I hated him instantly, thinking he was like my other bosses before him.
He wasn’t. He was worse.

He wasn’t just cold. He was dead inside.
It didn’t matter that he was gorgeous.
He was the most lethal thing I’d ever met.

He was also the only person who could keep me alive, if he didn’t kill me himself.

A/N This is a 102k mafia/cartel standalone.
This is the most violent book Tijan has ever written.
Trigger warning: references to sexual violence

“Canaries sing to save lives. I sing and people die.”

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Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new series from north Minnesota where she lives with an English Cocker she adores.

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Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

Louise Bay’s Mr. Park Lane is a reminder that the British hero in romance should be considered a British National Treasure. From the beginning to the end, there is so much to love about Joshua, the next victim of Louise Bay’s series of standalones that center around a male friend group of 5. After Beck, Dexter, and Gabriel falling for their loves in Mr. Mayfair, Mr. Knightsbridge, and Mr. Smithfield, I was ready for Joshua’s story, the representative playboy of the group with a woman on a different day of the week. And Bay doesn’t disappoint with Mr. Park Lane. What she does is take an independent, intelligent, capable, and compassionate heroine such as Hartford (such a cool name for a heroine), and she pours her into Joshua’s soul. That is the only way that you can reform a playboy allergic to relationships. She also takes the space of an entire book to (1) build the trust of her characters so as to show their vulnerabilities and (2) make it possible for friends to become lovers in a way that feels organic, especially to the playboy hero allergic to relationships. With a deft hand, Bay works out their characterizations in ways that allow us to believe this couple, pining for their happy ending. She also makes you fall deeply for Joshua even when he seems completely unreflective about who he is. In fact, one of the best surprises of Mr. Park Lane is the wizened voice of Andrew who has been fairly silent in the last two books. Joshua is the other surprise of this book with his deep love for baths, cake, and spoiling Hartford. It softens him to the reader, allowing you to accept the ease of his interest in Hartford. She is an easy character to love because Bay carefully plots her vulnerability, it only being invisible to Joshua. Add to that her compassion for others, and the reader pines for a happy ending for her. It’s Joshua’s characterization where Bay shows her skill at storytelling. 

Mr. Park Lane is ultimately a story about balance. Both Joshua and Hartford pour themselves into their careers to ignore the vulnerability of past hurts. In doing so, they don’t allow anyone to grow close to them intimately. Without the ability to balance work and a personal life, Bay shows us the deficit in their lives, and as they evolve romantically, she shows the true depth of a person when they allow love into their lives. I adored every moment of Mr. Park Lane, and I can only wish that a bath-loving Joshua type would enter my life. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I get Avery Flynn’s brand of romance. Centered on moments mixed with a little absurdity and coy romance, you move through her stories with relish as the hero and heroine battle their feelings. This ends solidly in a happy ending and the reader pleased with the journey. Flynn’s latest offering, Mama’s Boy, the first of a series of standalones, orbits her series, The Hartigans and Ice Knights. And I liked it. Overall, I found myself sated by the journey of Dixon and Fiona, one of the Hartigan triplets. But…I have to admit, I was also a little bit confused. Let’s begin there.

1. I never comment on covers. Really, I never, but I am not a huge fan of the cover for Mama’s Boy because the cover model is not Dixon. He looks like a country hero, not a wealthy, alpha-hole, playboy. Add to that the title, and as I read Mama’s Boy, it didn’t fit. We are told that Dixon is a ‘mama’s boy,’ and I don’t doubt he is, but that isn’t the focus of this story. Instead, “The Bet” or something related to a dating app would make more sense. Even more, within the confines of this story, Dixon makes choices to win a final gift from his grandmother away from his cousins (Griff and Nash). The cover and title miss on encompassing this key aspect of the story. 
2. The first quarter of the book seemed silly. Honestly, it took me until 40% in before I liked the coupling of Fiona and Dixon. Flynn’s choices for them initially make them seem more cartoonish, less real. 

However, with those points being said, after the 40% mark, I found myself settling into the story more. I think this has more to do with Fiona and Dixon finding their stride and moving beyond the machinations of his cousins and further into understanding each other. And honestly, the crux of Avery Flynn’s Mama’s Boy lies in the idea of authenticity. Both Dixon and Fiona learn through the evolution of their story to be true to themselves because people like you just as you are. This is always a worthy lesson in any story, and Avery Flynn’s romance entices you with it. 

There were moments when I found myself chuckling, and there were a few moments when I was moved by the trials of Dixon and Fiona. By the end of Mama’s Boy, Avery Flynn shows you why people flock to her romances. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

MAFIA QUEEN (The DiLustro Arrangement #3) by CD Reiss

Release Date: October 12th

Genre/Trope: Arranged Marriage/Mafia Romance

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MAFIA QUEEN from New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss is coming soon! Get ready for the FINAL book in THE DILUSTRO ARRANGEMENT!

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Blurb:

What doesn’t kill you makes you a killer.

Santino DiLustro changed me. You can’t spend time in bed with the devil without getting addicted to the heat.

Before him, I was a girl. Innocent and weak.

Now, I’m a woman. A fighter. A killer.

I’ll burn the world down for him. Shatter the sky. But I will not break.

No. I will rise up and destroy whoever dares to threaten what my king has built, because I am forever his queen.

About the Author:

CD Reiss has a long history of aimlessly moving from place to place. She finally settled in Los Angeles where she earned a master’s degree in cinematic writing from USC. After graduation, she ultimately failed to have one line of dialog put on film, but stayed in Hollywood out of spite.

Since screenwriting was going nowhere, she switched to novels. Soon after, luck arrived with a complete set of baggage. She now has over two dozen titles under her belt. Two of those are NY Times Bestsellers and a handful more are USA Today bestsellers. Her audiobooks have won APA Audie Awards and Earphones Awards, swelling her ego to an inhuman size.

She lives with her family, two cats and her long-suffering husband in a small Hollywood house that’s been outfitted with huge, ego-sized doorways.

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Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

How to write this review? Hmmm…well, it seems as though I’d love to start with highlighting the chameleon-like nature of Jewel E. Ann. While there are qualities of her stories that both frustrate and endear her readers to her, making her mark on our souls, from book to book, Jewel E. Ann reinvents herself with each new tome. Yes, there is a guaranteed “a ha” or “oh wow” that troubles your spirit. She loves to play with themes that challenge her readers, and she writes real stories for real people, even when she loves to reimagine tropes through a filter that makes them more acceptable, but not always comfortable to consider. 

Her newest story, The Naked Fisherman, book 1 of her Naked duet, enacts the qualities I’ve listed above beautifully. Your heart will not be in one piece when you leave this story, but she will use the second book of the duet, The Lost Fisherman, to piece it back together…well sort of. It will take the scope of that entire book to do so, but I digress. 

The Naked Fisherman, as it’s labeled, is a coming of age, age-gap, forbidden love story. Remember, though, that in the world of Jewel E. Ann, the story is always more than its labels. It follows Reese, who for this book, is the voice we have to consider the most and is the only voice we get from Ann. Fisher Mann is her foil, her roommate, her mother’s friend, and her boss. And yes, he’s ten years older than her. Yet, from the moment they meet, there is a connection, an attraction, an interest, and at first, Jewel E. Ann allows us to feel the discomfort of this pairing through Reese’s, her heroine’s, naivete. Raised in a strict Christian home with its empirical values, Reese has yet for her values to be challenged by the real world. However, from Day 1 in the shadow of Fisher Mann, Reese begins her journey to experience the world and reconsider the values by which she was raised. 

What I loved about this book is the banter and camaraderie between Reese and Fisher. Ann writes their discourse as foreplay. Without their disagreements, there would be no attraction, in my opinion, between Reese and Fisher. It’s what makes their chemistry palpable with their physical attraction as the cherry on the sundae of their relationship. Add in the complications of age and experience, and there is a whole lot of tension in this book. And that is simply the surface-level stuff of The Naked Fisherman. 

The real stuff, the gravity of Ann’s book, is its insistence on challenging values and “norms.” Reese comes to Denver with a set of values that she’s been told to believe, untested. From Day 1, she is met with the “real world” through the characterization of Fisher. Through the testing of her beliefs, Reese’s growth begins. Yet, as we find with this book, she needs various teachers, and by the book’s end, Reese’s journey must continue elsewhere. When you get to the end of this first book of a duet, you will moan and cry and NEED the next book. Again, this is the beautiful torture that brings JEA readers back for more, but it’s a poetic end, one carefully constructed by a master storyteller. 

I’ve been curious as of late about the romance books written and published in 2020 and 2021. In future years, will we look back and re-see romance authors using the genre to interrogate the way in which a post-COVID world handles truth? When you consider Jewel E. Ann’s Naked Duet, more specifically for purposes of this review, The Naked Fisherman, can we see it as a response to the “truths” and “values” of a certain population in our world? It feels like it. And her duet adds to a pile of books that seem to be doing the same: highlighting the challenge to ‘truth’ and ‘values’ in our current world. I think when you get to the end of this book you might consider that suggestion. It might be better than running for the tissue box to dry your tears or one-clicking The Lost Fisherman in anticipation of Fisher and Reese’s continued journey. But then again…maybe we should take the space to consider Reese’s response to her changing values and sit with it. I think it would make us better people in the end.

In love and romance, 

Professor A

The Naked Fisherman by Jewel E. Ann is now live!

USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E. Ann returns with an addictive new adult romance about a young woman who discovers years of Sunday sermons didn’t prepare her for the many lessons of the crude and sexy man who is now her boss.

It’s official.

I’m eighteen and a young woman with endless possibilities on my way to reunite with my mom in Colorado after five years apart–she had a little weed incident in Nebraska.

At the airport, she springs the news on me … she’s leaving for a month of job training. And me? I’m left on my own in the basement she’s renting from the fisherman, aka her landlord who lives upstairs.

He’s ten years older than me. Never wears a shirt. And makes it hard to remember all the things I learned at Christian Academy.

Did I mention he’s also my new boss?

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Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best selling author a with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance.

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Hotshot and Hospitality, an all new charming friends to lovers small town romance from Nora Everly, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited! 

Molly Cooper is through with men.

She means it this time.

Being stood up and humiliated was the last straw.

But after her all grown up and smokin’ hot childhood bestie kissed her to help her save face, she’s left wondering if it was the tequila or his lips that gave her all the feels.

Garrett Monroe had no intention of falling for his childhood best friend.

Unfortunately, one unplanned kiss in a bar was all it took for him to stumble. 

Now he’s stuck with a crush that won’t quit on the most stubborn woman he’s ever known.

Soon enough they’re overwhelmed by out-of-control feelings, one match making momma, and two tight knit families who think they’re dating when they’re not.

Or are they?

Nothing stays secret in Green Valley, Tennessee.

Can Molly and Garrett navigate the nosy waters and fall for each other in private?

Or will secrets sink their friendship instead? 

‘Hotshot and Hospitality’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone, and is book #8 in the Green Valley Library series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.

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Nora Everly is a lifelong bookworm. She started reading the good stuff once she grew tall enough to sneak the romance novels off the top of her mother’s bookshelf and it has been non-stop ever since.

Once upon a time she was a substitute teacher and an educational assistant. Now she’s a writer and stay at home mom to two small humans and one fat cat.

Nora lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and her overactive imagination.

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Forrest for the Trees, an all new slow burn small town romance from Kilby Blades, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited! Kilby kicks off the brand new Green Valley Heroes series in the Smartypants Romance Universe with her enemies to lovers standalone!

Forrest Winters isn’t just a federal fire marshal; he’s a thorn in Ranger Sierra Betts’s side. The way he swings his big axe, fixes her with his chameleon gray eyes, and talks about his jurisdiction has a way of breaking her concentration. He has a way of showing up everywhere he doesn’t belong, including Greenbrier Ranger Station. And he really needs to quit stealing her bacon bites.

When a series of suspicious fires, an underhanded co-worker, and a cagey Parks Police Chief threaten her job and the park itself, Sierra grudgingly agrees to partner with Forrest. Their side investigation may be her best shot at preventing the framing of an innocent man. But can his firefighting expertise and her detective skills lead them to the real arsonist before Forrest breaks her with his charm?

‘Forrest for the Trees’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone and is book #1 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe

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Kilby Blades is a USA Today Bestselling author of Romance and Women’s Fiction. Her debut novel, Snapdragon, was a HOLT Medallion finalist, a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist, and an IPPY Award medalist. Kilby was honored with an RSJ Emma Award for Best Debut Author in 2018, and has been lauded by critics for “easing feminism and equality into her novels” (IndieReader) and “writing characters who complement each other like a fine wine does a good meal” (Publisher’s Weekly).

During her career as a digital marketing executive, she moonlighted as a journalist, freelanced as a food, wine and travel writer and lived it up as an entertainment columnist. She has lived in five countries, visited more than twenty-five, and spends part of her year in her happy place in the Andes Mountains. Kilby is a feminist, an oenophile, a cinephile, a social-justice fighter, and above all else, a glutton for a good story. Follow her everywhere @kilbyblades.

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You thought you knew where this was going…

Savage Hearts, the highly-anticipated third standalone in the Queens & Monsters mafia romance series by JT Geissinger is coming November 19th and we have the dreamy cover!

Savage (adjective):
1) Not domesticated; wild and untamed
2) A brutal or vicious person
3) Malek Antonov

When my older sister calls out of the blue to announce she’s getting married, it’s a shock. She’s
not the settling-down kind, and we haven’t spoken in almost three years.
Even more of a shock? Sloane wants me to visit her and meet her new fiancé. Curious, I decide
to take her up on the offer.
I should’ve known something was wrong when she wouldn’t tell me where I’d be going. I
should’ve known things were odd when she sent a private jet to pick me up. But there’s no way
in hell I could’ve ever guessed what would happen when I finally meet her fiancé.
Declan O’Donnell.
Head of the Irish Mob.
Target of a savage Bratva assassin who wants revenge for the murder of his brother.
Now, I’m thousands of miles from home, I’m smack in the middle of a mafia war, and I’ve got a
Russian assassin who’s decided he likes the looks of me.
They say revenge is a dish best served cold.
They never met Malek Antonov.

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J.T. Geissinger is a #1 internationally bestselling author of twenty-seven novels. Ranging from funny, feisty rom coms to intense, edgy suspense, her books have sold over five million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages.
She is a three-time nominee in both contemporary and paranormal romance for the RITA® Award, the highest distinction in romance fiction from the Romance Writers of America®. She is also a recipient of the Prism Award for Best First Book and the Golden Quill Award for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy.
She’s a Southern California native currently living in Nevada with her husband and rescue kitty, Zoe.

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