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The Brazen by Willa Nash is now live! 

Kerrigan Hale’s personal life is about as exciting as a bucket of tar. With hard work and hustle as her steadfast companions, who needs romance or adventure? Her empire in Calamity, Montana, isn’t going to build itself.
For years, her mentor–and investor–helped make her dreams come true. Until his unexpected death put her fate in his grandson’s hands. A brazen billionaire, he seems intent on ruining Kerrigan’s life.

But if Pierce Sullivan thinks she’ll go down without a fight, he’s sorely mistaken. Pushed to the extreme, she drives to his ritzy mountain lodge to force the arrogant You Can Call Me Mr. Sullivan to hear her out.

No sooner does she arrive than a snowstorm traps her with Pierce. Stranded together for days, she’s in for the battle of her life. Pierce is nearly irresistible by candlelight. Without his suits and fancy cars, he’s almost human.

Except only a fool would let down her guard. And Kerrigan can’t risk her future. Not when she doesn’t know if he’s out to pilfer her dreams . . . or to steal her heart.

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Willa Nash is USA Today Bestselling Author Devney Perry’s alter ego, writing contemporary romance stories for Kindle Unlimited. Lover of Swedish Fish, hater of laundry, she lives in Washington State with her husband and two sons. She was born and raised in Montana and has a passion for writing books in the state she calls home.

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UNCOVERED (Bainbridge University #1) by Andi Burns

Release Date: July 28th

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Blurb:

My family destroyed hers, but I can’t let her go…

Ty

Amends…they’re not mine to make, but I’ve been haunted by the memory of a shattered girl in that courtroom two years ago.

So, I tell myself I’m doing what’s right. I’ll stay in the shadows, out of her way. She won’t know I’m there–she doesn’t even know who I am. I’m just setting it up and walking away with as clear a conscience as my guilt will allow me.

But then she needs a tutor. And I’m the only one working. How can I say no?

But one coincidental meeting turns into two, and then three. And before I can stop myself, I’m falling hard for a woman I have no business wanting. The problem is, she’s falling hard for me, too.

I need to tell her who I am–I have to. But I know that the moment I do, I’ll break her. And she’ll break me, too.

Uncovered is a full-length novel with a tortured hero, a broken heroine, and an HEA. It is the first STANDALONE in the Bainbridge University Series.

About the Author:

Andi Burns writes contemporary romance infused with humor, sass, and steam. She loves a happily-ever-after as much as her characters do, and she always reads the last page of a book first, just to make sure it all turns out okay.

Andi lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two daughters. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, folding laundry, or daydreaming about her next hero and heroine.

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“That’s just what it’s like with Sienna. She makes bad days better. She makes everything better.”

Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

If you’ve been reading Rebecca Jenshak’s Campus Nights’s stories, then you are familiar with Rhett, Adam and Heath’s roommate who has struggled with his relationship with his long-distance girlfriend. No one seems to like her except Rhett, and it causes some issues with the chemistry of the apartment. Not a lot of issues, but going into Broken Hearts, Rhett’s story, you’re ready for him to find the woman who truly fits him. 

We meet the heroine of Jenshak’s story quickly. Sienna is a figure skater who attends Valley U. Like Rhett, she’s in her final year at Valley, and she’s unsure where her life will take her after graduation. She will no longer skate competitively, she isn’t sure what she really wants to do with her life, and working for the same company as her father doesn’t interest her. 

One day, wanting some alone time on the ice, she stays behind after practice, only to be met with Rhett, who also is looking for peace. When they decide to share the ice, everything is going well until two of Rhett’s teammates show up. Even though they are louder than she would prefer, she decides to ignore them…until she can’t because Rhett accidentally runs into her and knocks her down. It is there when Rhett and Sienna’s story begins. As both of them traverse their busy schedules and various meetings, they begin to grow feelings for each other. However, tragedy strikes and almost derails their journey. 

As is the case with other Rebecca Jenshak stories, Rhett in Broken Hearts falls hard for Sienna. There is an ease to their relationship that you don’t find in the earlier books with his long-distance girlfriend. For Rhett to find Sienna and grow almost instantly attached to her, you can’t help but love his character in this story. There are eventual complications, ones I don’t want to divulge here, but the trend of Jenshak’s hero and heroine spending much of the story together continues in this book. They are sweet together, and their story touches your heart. 

Rebecca Jenshak’s Broken Hearts is a story about finding your true partner and “leaning” into them when times are tough. It’s about becoming vulnerable when you want to run and hide because, in the end, the payoff is greater intimacy and greater love. And that is what you get from Broken Hearts: big love. In fact, I think the epilogue and bonus epilogue might just be the sweetest of the bunch. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

Let me begin with the fact that I am intrigued by Kylie Scott’s writing. There is an understated quality to it that drags you into her stories. Case in point: Pause, her newest book. To be fair, I’m a relative newbie to her booklist. I’ve read a few of her stories: The Rich Boy and Love Under Quarantine. I found myself transfixed by the level of story in these books, and I know…I know that these aren’t even her best ones. There is still so much to read ahead of me as I fall down the rabbit hole of her booklist. That being said, at the end of Pause, I finished and found myself heavily pondering it. Let’s talk about why.

1. This is NOT a dual point of view. It’s entirely the point of view of her heroine, Anna. Usually, I prefer a dual point-of-view story, but this choice works for Pause. Even though there is a part of me who would love inside Leif’s mind, Scott is careful in constructing him through Anna’s point of view that we get some sense of his interest in Anna. 
2. All of the worst that can happen to a heroine or hero is in this story. Before Anna can find her happy ending, she must traverse a field of emotional landmines to get there, but the way that Scott builds tenacity in her makes you fall in love with her character. 
3. Remember, everything you know about this story comes from Anna’s point of view, and again, she’s a bada$$ heroine who has been constructed through the fires of trauma. However, while it’s easy to love Leif, as he is THE most supportive person for Anna, we cannot fully know Leif because he’s constructed through her point of view. This makes you constantly off-kilter because it’s difficult to anticipate his response to her. I love that, though, because it builds anticipation in Pause. Kylie Scott keeps you sitting at the edge of your seat as you wonder if Leif and Anna will traverse the friends’ landscape into becoming lovers. And that anticipation built through potentially misinterpreting Leif’s words and gestures is the impetus for you turning the page. 
4. There is so much understatement in this story that it feels almost niche in its expression. Even the epilogue with a sweeping grand gesture feels like an everyday occurrence for Leif and Anna, and it reads kind of weird (for lack of a better way to put it), but I found myself beguiled by its understatement because romance can be so EXTRA sometimes. 

There is just something special about Leif and Anna in Kyle Scott’s Pause. Honestly, I’d love to see more of their story elsewhere because they felt like real people living out real-life traumas. This is a must-read in my opinion. If you haven’t yet downloaded Pause, then grab it quick. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

You have to be forewarned when you enter a Vi Keeland tome. To be honest, there is a bit of a bait and switch involved with most of her books. As you begin her stories, you enter them, in my opinion, with some lightness. Whether it’s a hero and heroine who detest each other and their meet-cute involves fireworks, or there is some situation that pulls them together, their beginning is generally couched in ease. You find out about midway through her books that there is something deeper, graver afoot. And it’s that moment when the switch happens when you fall head over heels in love with her stories. At least that’s the case with this reader. 

The Spark, Vi Keeland’s newest story, begins with a seemingly innocuous meet-cute. The heroine, Autumn, accidentally takes the luggage of one Donovan Decker. On calling his number, found on his luggage tag, they make plans to meet at a coffee shop to exchange luggage (he notes a lonely piece of luggage and takes it, thinking it might belong to the person who took his). On meeting, there is an instant attraction, and they spend a weekend together, which ends with Autumn sneaking away and out of Donovan’s life. Until she comes back in. 

Again, at first glance, The Spark seems harmless, nothing to wrench your heart in two. Except that Keeland’s genius is her ability to connect her easy story to darker human issues. This book handles the struggles of the foster system, the horror of dating abuse, and the psychology of trauma as it upends a person’s life. At Autumn and Donovan’s meet-cute, these deeper issues are nowhere to be found, but without them, this book would miss. Under Keeland’s deft hand, The Spark becomes a story about love healing the hurts of the past, about the need to move on. It’s a story beautifully wrought, engaging, and heartrending. It’s a reminder of the best parts of romances that take something ugly and turn that ugly into a scarred, but complete beauty. All of that is here in Vi Keeland’s The Spark. Unlike some of her stories, her hero, Donovan, is lost to Autumn. The holdout in this story is its heroine. Yet, Donovan shows his mettle, and he is impervious to failure. He loves her without restraint, and as a reader, you can’t help but fall for him. 

From its start to its finish, Vi Keeland’s The Spark is a tapestry of the highs and lows of love. As she has done in the past, Keeland has crafted a story that grabs at you, pulling you through to her end. Once you begin reading this one, you will not be able to put it down. And Donovan and Autumn will steal your heart. 

In love and romance, 

Professor A

Title: The Rookie

Series: Looking to Score

By Kendall Ryan

Release Day: July 20, 2021

About the Book

He has everything a man could want. A lucrative hockey contract. Adoring fans. A family who loves him.

But he’s about to throw it all away. Logan Tate’s name is dominating the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Instead of goals and assists, the talented young defenseman has been racking up fights and suspensions.

I work with athletes who are struggling, but Logan’s different. He’s not just going to blow his season, but his entire career. And now he can’t return to the ice until he deals with his issues, but the stubborn man won’t let anyone get close enough to help.

Which is why I packed up and followed him to his family’s property in the remote mountains of Colorado. He can’t avoid me here.

The only problem?

I can’t avoid him either. He’s chopping wood and building fires, rescuing my car from snowy ditches, and inviting me to Sunday dinners with his loud extended family. He’s a whole lot of man, but beneath all those hard edges is an unexpected tenderness.

Tempted or not, I have to stay out of his bed and get him back to the ice . . . no matter how difficult that might be. 

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A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than three dozen titles, Kendall Ryan has sold over 3 million books and her books have been translated into several languages in countries around the world.

Her books have also appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists more than 100 times. Ryan has been featured in such publications as USA Today, Newsweek, and InTouch Magazine.

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Pause, an all new emotional friends-to-lovers standalone romance from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott is available now!

An unpauseable new romance from New York Times bestselling, Audie Award winning author Kylie Scott!

When Anna wakes up from a coma after a car crash, she discovers life has gone on without her. Her husband has been unfaithful—with her best friend—and she’s been long since replaced at work. While her old life is a distant memory, her new life feels like an empty shell. Then she meets the stranger who saved her life during the crash, and he changes everything.

Leif Larsen—tattooist, joker, and player—has his own scars thanks to the crash that put Anna in a coma. Helping her move on from her failed marriage, and create a new life, sounds like a perfect distraction. So when he needs a new roommate, he invites Anna to begin her new life with him.

Although their lives may have been put on pause, together they just might find a way to heal.

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Kylie is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year, 2013, 2014 & 2018, by the Australian Romance Writer’s Association and her books have been translated into eleven different languages. She is a long time fan of romance, rock music, and B-grade horror films. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet.

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Broken Hearts by Rebecca Jenshak is now live!

She’s a figure skater. He’s a hockey player. Things are about to heat up on the ice.

Rhett Rauthruss is single for the first time in six years. He’s fresh off a long-term, long-distance relationship and ready to make the most of what’s left of college.

Party with his boys, get to the Frozen Four with his team, and maybe play the field for a change.

Sienna Hale knows a thing or two about heartbreak. She’s a college athlete about to skate for the last time, and nothing is going to throw her off course. Not her worries about finding a job after college, not the whispers of last year’s accident on the ice, and not the cute hockey player who keeps asking her out.

They think they want different things, but when it heats up between them, there’s no denying they have something in common–even if it’s just for a night.

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Rebecca is a new adult romance author, caffeine-addict, and lover of all sports. She’s a Midwest girl at heart, but currently resides in Arizona.

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The Special Edition of After the Climb, a beautifully written second chance romance with all new material from New York Times bestselling author Kristen Ashley is available now and ZERO PENNIES to read digitally!

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NEW, EXTENDED VERSION!
With many new chapters, and introducing a new series character, this re-released Special Edition version of After the Climb is the book you have, but it’s also so much more!
They were the Three Amigos: Duncan Holloway, Imogen Swan and Corey Szabo. Two young boys with difficult lives at home banding together with a cool girl who didn’t mind mucking through the mud on their hikes.
They grew up to be Duncan Holloway, activist, CEO and face of the popular River Rain outdoor stores, Imogen Swan, award-winning actress and America’s sweetheart, and Corey Szabo, ruthless tech billionaire.
Rich and very famous, they would learn the devastating knowledge of how the selfish acts of one would affect all their lives.
And the lives of those they loved.
Start the River Rain series with After the Climb, the story of Duncan and Imogen navigating their way back to each other, decades after a fierce betrayal.
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Kristen Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels including the Rock Chick, Colorado Mountain, Dream Man, Chaos, Unfinished Hero, The ’Burg, Magdalene, Fantasyland, The Three, Ghost and Reincarnation, Moonlight and Motor Oil and Honey series along with several standalone novels. She’s a hybrid author, publishing titles both independently and traditionally, her books have been translated in fourteen languages and she’s sold over three million books.
Kristen’s novel, Law Man, won the RT Book Reviews Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Romantic Suspense. Her independently published title Hold On was nominated for RT Book Reviews best Independent Contemporary Romance and her traditionally published title Breathe was nominated for best Contemporary Romance. Kristen’s titles Motorcycle Man, The Will, Ride Steady (which won the Reader’s Choice award from Romance Reviews) and The Hookup all made the final rounds for Goodreads Choice Awards in the Romance category.

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Are you ready to return to Corinne Michaels’ Salvation series world?!?

THE SALVATION SOCIETY is a collection of books written by various authors, filled with Navy SEALs, strong heroines, CIA operatives, plus so much more!!! Check out who are featured in the 10th set!

ALL 5 BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND FREE IN KU!

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Unveiled by Verlene Landon

Revelation by Missy Ann

Reckless by Nicole Blanchard

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Unveiled by Verlene Landon

Featuring: Mark and Charlie

Genre/Trope: Romantic Suspense

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Blurb:

If someone told Tatum six months ago that she’d be running down the road in a wedding dress, she’d have laughed. With each step of her white flats, she realizes it’s really no laughing matter. But with the help of strangers, she at least has a safe place to hide. Now all she has to do is solve the mystery of her parent’s death and get her life back.

All Rush wants after a grueling ride through four states is to walk into his new home, fall face down on the first piece of soft furniture, and sleep for hours. When he arrives, however, he discovers an addition to his bedroom that wasn’t listed in any of the closing documents. . .a drop-dead-gorgeous woman, wrapped in a towel, singing off-key into a hairbrush.

Can a serial relationshipist unveil the heart of the passionate but wounded woman posing as his housekeeper or will his emotional unavailability destroy their newly-forged connection?

Revelation by Missy Ann

Featuring: Natalie and Liam, Gretchen

Genre/Trope: Single Parent

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Blurb:

“Never say never, or it will be your forever.”

It’s a saying my mother has repeated my entire life. Fortunately, for Rhett Barnes, I’ve never been known to listen.

Never have children.

Never tell my secrets.

Never stay.

How was I to know each never would be what put my pieces back together?

With each revelation, I’m watching it all slip away.

Reckless by Nicole Blanchard

Featuring: Catherine and Jackson

Genre/Trope: Opposites attract

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Blurb:

She plays by the rules. He lives to break them.

Phoebe Hart can’t take any chances. Her new job as a publicist on a breakout Hollywood film is her one shot at getting her life back under control. Screwing up could cost her everything.

From his time as a U.S. Marine to the silver screen, Griffin McNalley is a wild card and makes no apologies. But his devil-may-care attitude may have finally caught up with him. If he makes one more mistake, his career could be over, and getting involved with Phoebe Hart could be the biggest mistake of his life.

Despite their determination to stay apart, when Phoebe is thrown into a real-life action/thriller, it’s Griffin who volunteers to be her protector.

Revive by Heather Lyn

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Genre/Trope: Single parent

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Blurb:

Genevieve Miller

I thought I found a prince, but he turned out to be a toad. Then that toad turned into a monster and I ran away, taking my little girl with me. Deciding to start over, I moved to Virginia, hoping for a safe place to live and finding so much more. I found my gorgeous neighbor, and he set out to heal my heart, to show me true happiness existed. But when evil comes knocking on my door, I discover that even my newfound salvation might not be enough to protect me.

Sawyer Ellsbury

Being a Ranger was my life, until it was taken away from me in the blink of an eye. I spent years healing and trying to decide what my next steps would be. Owning a boxing gym is my own slice of heaven, and I never thought it would get any better until my new neighbor moves in with her little girl. I want them more than my next breath of air, but I have to prove to her that I’m worth the risk. I’ve vowed to always protect them, but soon enough I’m fighting to keep that promise. And if I can’t, we just might lose everything.

Relinquish by Alexia Chase

Featuring: Mark and Charlie

Genre/Trope: Enemies to lovers

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Blurb:

What happens when chaos and control collide? Find out in this explosive battle of wills between two enemies who must learn to work together.

Lola has escaped the clutches of her over-protective yet loving father. And for the first time, she’s experiencing life out on her own. New city. New job. New life.

The destruction and chaos of Cade’s past have taught him that control is the only answer. He doesn’t let anyone close to keep from experiencing any more pain. And why would anyone want him? He’s damaged goods.

Lola wants freedom. Cade wants to control.

Can these two opposing forces squelch the sparks that fly every time they meet?

Or will they succumb to the flames?