Claudia Burgoa has revealed the cover for Yours to Keep!
Releasing: September 7, 2021
Cover Design: Hang Le
Opposites attract in this dynamic romantic comedy featuring M/M leads by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa.
I know everything about brains, but nothing about hearts.
Love isn’t in my future. Romance isn’t in my cards. I focus on my job and nothing else. Neurosurgery doesn’t play well with distraction, anyway. If only my meddling, matchmaking Mom would get the hint.
Accepting a move to Baker’s Creek, getting off her radar and away from any eligible bachelors that she knows should keep me safe, right?
Wrong.
I might not want a boyfriend but I do have a type: broody, angsty, and quiet. And there’s one of those living in this small town.
Vance Aldridge.
He’s a military man who’s numbed himself to the point of no return. He’s been forced to choose between love and family one too many times, and I just saved the life of his baby brother.
He fascinates me far beyond his chiseled good looks. I want to know how he thinks, what makes him tick, and if I can make him smile…
But can I learn to read his mind without giving away my heart?
The Baker’s Creek Billionaire Brothers series is a fun and flirty saga that combines sweet stories with sensual heat. This is a gay male contemporary romance that’s sure to make your heart swoon.
Claudia is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author.
She writes alluring, thrilling stories about complicated women and the men who take their breath away. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and her youngest two children.
She has a sweet Bichon, Macey, who thinks she’s the ruler of the house. She’s only partially right.
When Claudia is not writing, you can find her reading, knitting, or just hanging out with her family. At night, she likes to binge-watch shows with her equally geeky husband.
Stacy Travis’s Falling for You is hands-down my favorite book on her book list. Hands-down! There is something special about her hero, Owen, and her heroine, Isla. Travis crafts their chemistry so carefully and beautifully that you absolutely need them to be together from the beginning of their story. Most importantly, these two are friends at the foundation of their love. As Isla struggles through her business challenges and as she overcomes the backlash from her past relationship, Owen reads like a steady presence for her.
What I love most, though, about Travis’s Berkeley Hills series is the inclusion of the family network. In every story thus far, it’s clear the importance of family as the Finleys support, interrogate, and machinate to the betterment of its people. Thus far, in the first two books of this series, you can’t fully accept the relationship of the hero and heroine of the story until they’ve run the gauntlet of the Finleys. That camaraderie and love provide the perfect backdrop for a story such as Falling for You.
Even more, the way in which Stacy Travis treats her setting like another character in the story is seamlessly integrated into Owen and Isla’s romance. The steaminess of their time away at his vineyard just adds an additional layer that pulls you into Travis’s book.
I simply adore Owen and Isla together. They are everything you love in a hero and heroine: compatible, supportive, challenging, and combustible. When you finish Stacy Travis’s Falling for You, you won’t want to miss any future Finley family stories.
From USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn, and narrated by Connor Crais and Mackenzie Cartwright, comes THE STRIKE OUT…
It started with one night out with the boys. She was the hot diner waitress putting herself through school. I was the rich, arrogant player everyone misjudges. On paper, we didn’t match. Yet all it took was one day. One single day to change her mind.
She wasn’t planning to spend her day off with me. She wasn’t supposed to fall for my charm. But one day, one smile, turned into several nights of her calling out my name.
I’m not the guy she should end up with. I’m jealous, possessive. Not here for a long time – just a good time. She’s changed me. But, for some reason, I feel her slipping through my fingers, and no matter what I do, I fear I’m going to strike out with the one and only girl I’ve ever fallen for.
About the Author:
USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.
No man has ever been able to rattle Isabel Ward. Until Aiden Hennessy walks in the door of her gym—ownership papers in hand.
The former fighter is a lot of things- a devoted single dad, a widower trying to start over, and a watchful presence that knocks her off her very capable feet.
To make matters worse, Isabel had a crush on him for the entirety of her teenage years. Doodles in her diary, and letters declaring her admiration—while never sent—haunt the absolute crap out of her now that she has to face him every single day.
She’s not the only one affected.
No woman has tempted Aiden to move on from the memory of his wife—until Isabel. But she’s too young, too feisty, too much of everything he should avoid.
Working together makes avoidance impossible, and so is pretending like the blistering chemistry between them doesn’t exist.
Now that the unshakeable woman is shaken and the un-temptable man is tempted, Isabel and Aiden have to decide what they’re willing to risk for a taste of the forbidden.
Well, let’s see … I’m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone’s face, then I’ve done my job.
I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I’m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob.
If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies.
I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I’ll love you forever.
Have you ever watched the Jane Lynch game show Hollywood Game Night? There is a game on that show called Kaboom!. It entails a large bowl, full of confetti, and a timer. As the game show celebrities try quickly to answer questions, they pass the bowl back and forth with the fear that the timer will go off, the bowl will express a huge puff of air, and the confetti will explode into the face of the celebrity (don’t worry – they wear protective glasses). The kick of this game is the anticipation of that explosion. The timer is set to some undetermined period of time, and you have no idea when the burgeoning energy will be exposed, leaving you with a quick shock of fear and anticipation. You can feel its palpability even through your television screen.
As I was reading Karla Sorensen’s Forbidden, the last book of her Ward Sister’s series, I kept trying to compare the feelings of anticipation running through me as I turned page after page, chapter after chapter of this emotionally grave, beautifully drawn story. And the best comparison is Hollywood Game Night’s Kaboom!. Sorensen’s genius in this book brings a three-fold gift: building that anticipation of the coupling of Aidan and Isabel, articulating the frenzy of their attraction through the careful craftsmanship of her words, and expressing the will of one of her most complex characters to date in Isabel. All of these conspire to build, build, build your emotions about these characters and their story in a way that makes turning the pages difficult because you can’t do it fast enough. Then, once you’ve done it, you’re sad because you know this world is complete, and you hate to leave the Ward sisters behind. This maelstrom of emotions makes for a book that is the perfect end to this series.
Where to begin.
It’s clear from the beginning of my review that my love for this book lies first in Sorensen’s careful plotting of her story. In her acknowledgments, she writes of the difficulty of bringing Isabel’s story to life. Interestingly enough, as you read the story, you can’t find that difficulty anywhere because her capacity to build such explosive chemistry between Isabel and Aidan is extraordinary. You hold your breath as the story progresses because you just can’t help it. Aidan and Isabel’s chemistry takes up so much space that the story itself feels like an exercise in edging (see any erotic romance for that understanding). If Sorensen is the dom in this situation, then you the reader are her sub, and she makes you wait all the glorious minutes and hours to the eventual consummation of all of Aidan and Isabel’s attraction. When it happens, it isn’t disappointing at that moment, which can often be the case when you anticipate something so much. It feels right and it is a testament to Sorensen’s pacing of her story. Even if you’re impatient for heroes and heroines to finally end up together, you won’t be disappointed by Sorensen’s story here. It’s just so right.
I’ve loved Karla Sorensen’s style through her books. It’s as though the syntax of her prose, the careful construction of her words, match the meter in my mind. Through her words, I can feel the soul of her books in ways that match something in me. There is a chapter in Forbidden, Chapter 28, where this feels like the zenith of her writing. Through her use of repetition and the meter of her words, you can feel the spring-loaded tension of her characters through the careful selection of her words and phrasing. This happens over and over again in her books, and it’s one of the reasons she’s one of my favorite authors. Again, I just get her style in a way that makes me feel complete in her stories. I didn’t realize how important this was to me until, recently, I’ve found myself in a bit of a desert of stories. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve read a couple of other exceptional stories recently, but I’ve read several that stylistically make me stutter through the story. Honestly, I thought I was a little broken, that maybe my love for romance had diminished. I found myself interrupting my reading for bouts on TikTok to give me a break from having to wade through the stories that I connected only with the story. Yet, Sorensen’s Forbidden reminded me how much her stories call to me through her capacity as a writer, not just as a storyteller. Forbidden, honestly, made my heart soar again at the words on the page because Sorensen’s style brought it back to life. Maybe that sounds dramatic, but it’s the honest truth.
And lastly, the one place where I connected the most with Forbidden is in its characterization of Isabel. Could I be talking about Aidan and his journey through grief? Yes. But I won’t. Should I mention that the Ward family is all here, and Logan Ward is still my favorite book boyfriend? That his brief moments with his sisters ALWAYS make the tears stream down my face? That even writing those words on the page make me tear up because I adore the gentle giant’s fierce words over his sisters? Yes. I should spend time on it, but Isabel calls to me in ways her sisters don’t. Karla Sorensen develops her in a way that feels kindred. If you’ve read The Marriage Effect, you know that Isabel stuffs her feelings until they become rage. In that book, Paige introduces her to kick-boxing as a vehicle to help her unleash it, to help her connect with her emotions, to help her express them to others. Isabel is a character study in control to sometimes its detriment, and I felt every one of her internal thoughts as she denies her attraction to Aidan. As she locks herself down so that she doesn’t make a fool of herself. As she struggles to contain her essence. As she loses her composure with her sister, Molly, in the face of potentially seeing their mother again. And mostly in her belief of her difference from others, her soul that sets her apart from others because she can be difficult to read. There is a poignant moment in the story when she wishes for a man who “sees” her beyond that outer shell that is protective of her soft underbelly, and I. Felt. All. Of. It. Because her struggles are my struggles. When you see your reflection in a character, you can’t help but fall deeply for them and their story. And that, my friends, is what I did.
As I said above, Karla Sorensen’s Forbidden is the perfect ending to this series. Thankfully, we will circle it in coming stories in her book world, and I’m thankful for that because I need glimpses of Logan, Paige, and his sisters. But even if they are quick glimpses, Forbidden has left me replete; it’s satiated my need for the Wards. In the end, Karla Sorensen brought to life a family, one who endured the trauma of abandonment, and in the end, taught us all that family isn’t always blood; it’s the people we choose to love and who love us in return.
Falling for You, an all-new slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance from Stacy Travis is available now!
When brilliant, logical Owen Miller walks into my bakery and witnesses the worst break-up in the history of public, mortifying break-ups, I can only think of one thing to do… so I kiss him.
Is it a mistake? Yes. Do I regret it? Maybe.
Friends aren’t supposed to kiss—or have red-hot moments next to the bread oven. And respected bakers with designs on a San Francisco bread empire aren’t supposed to manhandle their customers.
It’s a rebound, pure and simple. We both admit it. I don’t have time for anything more, especially when I’m on the cusp of achieving my dream—expanding my business into hand-picked, perfect locations.
But Owen is a savvy hotel owner who knows a thing or two about business. So when location scouting leads to wine tasting, long leisurely drives, and a hands-on meeting in a wine cave, I decide mixing business and pleasure with the smoking-hot charmer might be the best of both worlds.
Until an anonymous competitor seems determined to sink everything I’ve put my heart and soul into. Maybe it’s time to end our friends with benefits arrangement before I lose everything.
But what if losing Owen is losing everything? What if I’m falling for my rebound guy?
It’s a rough world out there, and we all sometimes need a good, romantic beach read, even if we can’t make it to the beach. I’ve spent many lazy days walking the streets of Paris and other gorgeous European cities, and if I’m doing it right, I’m bringing you a dash of romance and a vacay fantasy. I can’t sit still, so when I’m not hiking, biking or running, I’m playing a very average game of tennis. Background music for writing undoubtedly features some U2, Lizzo, Billy Joel, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Led Zeppelin. Not necessarily in that order. And if I could only eat one food group, it would be cheese. Or wine. Or bread. Are those food groups? Whatever.
Emma Renshaw has revealed the cover for Vow of Justice!
Releasing: July 20, 2021
Cover Designer: Hang Le
She’s been betrayed by everyone she trusted.
Daphne has been keeping her past a secret from everyone in her new life. Her best friend doesn’t even know her real name. All she wants is her quiet life with foster animals and the justice she finds through crime scene photography. She’s built a wall around herself to stay safe. That was until the rugged detective crashed into her world.
He lives for the honor of his badge.
For Maddox, rules and routine are necessary. He has been living with the sole focus of making up for his past mistake. A mistake that almost cost him everything.
The wild and quirky photographer was a distraction that he didn’t need, but her beauty is impossible to ignore. With one snap of Daphne’s shutter, her past comes back to taunt her and puts her life in danger. Every answer Maddox finds only brings more questions. As a spark flares between them, Maddox finds he wants to protect her more than his badge.
When Maddox and Daphne get too close, someone is watching and keeping them in their crosshairs and they’ll do anything to keep them in the dark.
Emma loves to write, just don’t ask her to write about herself. If she isn’t writing, you can find her lost in a book or trying to get her doggo to take a selfie with her. He usually refuses. At the end of the day, you can find Emma at the closest Mexican restaurant eating queso and sipping on a margarita. She lives in Texas with her husband and dog.
Ava Ryan has revealed the cover for His Secret Love!
Releasing July 1, 2021
She’s our new nanny. And my new obsession…
Commitments? No thanks.
And after my painful divorce I’m also done with secrets and lies.
The occasional hookup is more my speed as a new billionaire, busy doctor and single dad.
But there’s something about Skye. That’s why I swiped right on her profile.
That’s why we enjoyed sizzling chemistry and an unforgettable one-night stand.
I meant it to be a one-time thing.
I never anticipated this growing obsession with her.
I certainly never expected my ex to hire her as our new nanny.
Now my life is full of messy secrets.
And the relentless desire to get feisty Skye back in my bed…
Don’t miss the final standalone in Ava Ryan’s sexy contemporary romance series, Manhattan Billionaires!
Ava Ryan is an author of sexy contemporary romance. Her favorite things, in no special order, are animals, her family, cookies, people with great senses of humor and love stories. Currently in her writer’s cave (ostensibly working hard on her next book while also checking Netflix every few hours to make sure she hasn’t missed a new true crime documentary show), she loves hearing from readers via her website or social media. If you love billionaire alpha males, the feisty women who snag their hearts and books that end with a happily ever after, you’ve come to the right place. Please make sure to subscribe to Ava’s newsletter to stay in the loop about her latest releases and upcoming books!
Carnal (adjective): 1) Relating to the pleasures of the body 2) Given to sensual indulgence 3) The man who kidnapped me
Carnal Urges, an all-new standalone mafia romance from J.T. Geissinger, is coming June 30th and we have the steamy cover!
The devil has blue eyes, an Irish accent, and a hatred for me that runs deep.
He blames me for starting a war. Consorting with his enemies. Getting his men killed. Though I’m innocent on all charges, he wants his pound of flesh. With an eye on revenge, he makes me his captive.
But as we’ll both soon discover, there are more powerful urges than that for revenge.
When the devil meets his match but she’s his sworn enemy, that’s when the real war begins.
J.T. Geissinger is a #1 internationally bestselling author of emotionally charged romance and women’s fiction. Ranging from funny, feisty romcoms to intense, edgy suspense, her books have sold millions of copies and been translated into several languages, including German, Hebrew, French, Czech, and Japanese. The film & TV rights to her Night Prowler series have been optioned by the BAFTA-winning studio that created VFX for movies such as Avatar, X-Men, and The Avengers.
She is a three-time finalist 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.
Leo Winter loves his life. He works when he needs money. He rides when he craves freedom. He frequents the local bar when he wants a good time. The Tin Gypsies might be a memory, but the bachelor life he lived with his motorcycle club still suits him fine. So when a one-night stand surprises him at a family barbecue and claims she’s pregnant with his child, he’s certain he’s died and gone to hell.
Cassandra Cline took one night off from her structured life. One. And now her wild fling with the local bad boy has turned her life sideways. Her dreams and academic career are circling the drain, and none of it would have happened if she’d stayed far, far away from Leo.
Except avoiding him is impossible, especially when she’s forced to move home to Clifton Forge, Montana. And he refuses to leave her side when a series of strange accidents put her and their baby at risk. But are they accidents? Or is she standing in the middle of a battlefield she doesn’t understand?
Her only allies are people she barely knows. And a man who has the potential to steal her heart.
If only he’d stop playing the fool.
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Devney is a USA Today bestselling author. Born and raised in Montana, she loves writing books set in her treasured home state. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her husband and two sons. Writing one book, let alone many, was not something she ever expected to do. But now that she’s discovered her true passion for writing romance, she has no plans to ever stop.
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