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✍🏻 Claudia Burgoa’s Once Upon A Holiday is coming November 7th. Check out an excerpt on her Facebook page. ✍🏻

Title: Once Upon a Holiday
Author: Claudia Burgoa
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Holiday Romance
Cover Design: Hang Le
Release Date: November 7, 2019
Blurb
This holiday season, there’s more than gingerbread in
the oven.


I was always a type-A kind of girl— and that’s exactly what got me into
trouble with Sterling Ahren.
Having a baby before thirty didn’t work out, so I took some time off to
sort out my life.
Sterling’s my new landlord… and he doesn’t plan anything.
He’s a billionaire playboy who can’t stand the holidays.
A recluse of the worst kind.
Sterling makes Scrooge look like a generous soul
… except Ebenezer was never this sexy.
He doesn’t want a family— until the night we have a spontaneous
one-night stand, and we run out of condoms.
I can’t have a baby with a disorganized, free spirit like him.
Between my overprotective brothers and his crazy fans, I already know
this isn’t going to work out.
Except Sterling isn’t willing to let me go.
He wants me home for the holidays
… and this is my last chance to make a Christmas miracle happen.
One thing I know for sure: when Sterling and I collide, it’s going to
be anything but a silent night.


Funny, touching,
and delightful, this smoking hot billionaire holiday rom-com by Claudia Burgoa
will make you feel the magic of Christmas.
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$2.99 for a limited time!
Author Bio
Claudia is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling
author. She lives in Colorado, working for a small IT. She has three children
and manages a chaotic household of two confused dogs, and a wonderful husband
who shares her love of all things geek. To survive she works continually to
find purpose for the voices flitting through her head, plus she consumes high
quantities of chocolate to keep the last threads of sanity intact.
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✍🏻 If you haven’t download Kennedy Ryan’s The Kingmaker, then you are missing out on a top read for 2019. Check out an excerpt from this exceptional romance. ✍🏻

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“Powerful, gripping, unflinchingly honest and sensuously gorgeous writing.”

— Kristan Higgins, New York Times Bestselling Author

The Kingmaker, the first book in the addicting All The King’s Men Duet, from RITA ® Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan, is available now!

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Power. Passion. Betrayal.

Kennedy Ryan delivers the epic first installment of the All the King’s Men Duet.

Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition.

In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it.

My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and will do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied.

And neither will I.

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Excerpt

“What do you want?”

The look he pours over me is hot oil, burning me even through serviceable layers of cotton. His heated perusal caresses my face, sluices over my breasts and hips, and then pools at my feet.

“Oh, that you won’t ever get again,” I say, my voice a soft, certain promise. “I don’t screw liars. I’m particular that way.”

“Never say never,” he drawls, tilting up my chin with his finger.

“Nev–”

He crushes the word between our mouths. It falls apart in the scorching, sweet tangle of lips and teeth. With one hand, he digs his fingers into my hair. The other splays across my lower back, his grip on me almost convulsive, urging me up and closer. I’m in stasis. I’m completely startled by the kiss, unable to respond. I send a desperate message to my brain.

Move. Pull back. Push him away.

But the urgent glide of his hand down my spine to cup my ass melts my thoughts to liquid and they swim in my head. I can’t pull back, and all hope of resistance dissolves when he presses his thumb to my chin, prying me open. He stalks my tongue, hunts down a response, licking and sucking and groaning and growling. His hands tighten on me until I strain up to seek him, yanking his hair, pulling him even closer.

“Dammit, Nix,” he mutters between kisses. His hand wanders down my neck and across my shoulder, and cups my breast, twisting the nipple through flimsy barriers of cotton and lace. He shoves up my skirt, pulling my legs wider, and pushes my panties aside, his fingers invading me. My body remembers this mad craving that claws out of my bones—that wants out. That wants him. Under his rough touch, my body blooms and my hips rock.

“That’s it,” he says, taking my earlobe between his lips.

My head falls back and I moan. It’s so damn good. His touch awakens me. His hands, his kisses bring me to life. It feels like I’m taking my first deep breath since we were last together, and it fills my lungs, seeps into my pores.

“I missed you,” he says, sucking my lips and kissing the corners, quick, hungry. “I’m sorry. Baby, I—”

“Stop talking.” I reach between us to loosen his belt, catching his zipper and dragging it down, dragging him out. “Shut up.”

About Kennedy

A RITA® Award Winner and Top 25 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts.

She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Atlanta families living with Autism, she has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for families living with autism.

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5 ⭐️ Review: Jiffy Kate’s Stud Muffin, a SmartyPants Romance ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dreams derailed can bring about disappointment, disarray, and anger. Lots and lots of anger. What do we do when we expected a certain life for ourselves, and instead, we are handed a big fat pile of dung? This is the premise of Jiffy Kate’s newest book, Stud Muffin, a SmartyPants Romance featuring the Donner Bakery. 

Tempest is the Duchess of Muffins. She’s living the dream: loves her job, her husband, and her life. Except she’d like a child, and that isn’t coming easily. One day, when her conceiving temperature is right for conception, she runs home to her husband to find him…in bed with the high school mean girl. At that moment, Tempest lives up to her name in that she creates a tempest of her own out of anger over her now broken marriage. Over and over again, Tempest finds herself in trouble because she struggles to control her anger and lacks control over the dissolution of her dreams. As a consequence of her legal trouble, the judge presiding over her case requires her to go to anger management classes. And it’s the first step in healing and accepting that life can change in an instant. 

Enter Cage Erickson, a retired UFC fighter. Cage is also mourning the dissolution of his dreams. He’s been forced to retire early from UFC fighting due to a career-ending injury. He’s rudderless, but his friend, Hank, offers him a job as a bouncer at his strip club, the Pink Pony. This is an opportunity for Cage to get away from his life in Dallas to figure out his next steps. One night, Tempest visits the Pink Pony. There to celebrate her divorce, she becomes very drunk, and Cage is tasked with getting her home safely. He is instantly enamored with her. Over time, these two build a friendship. Cage decides to help Tempest deal with her anger through kickboxing. This provides Tempest with an outlet along with her anger management classes, and it affords Cage the opportunity to find his future: opening a training facility in Green Valley. As these two spend time together, their feelings grow stronger; however, are their pasts too much for these two to find their future together?

Honestly, I fell in love with Jiffy Kate’s heroine the minute she began destroying her bedroom in the face of her husband’s infidelity. Tempest is a woman who trusted her husband deeply, and he failed her. Jiffy Kate create this palpable anger on the page that you can’t help but feel her despair, anger, and sadness at that moment. In fact, throughout her story, every time Asher, Tempest’s ex-husband, and Mindy, his mistress, enter the story, I felt Tempest’s feelings. Through her characterization, you cannot help but feel her pain and her sadness over broken dreams. My heart wrenched for her because Jiffy Kate make it so. To me, this is indelible writing. It’s the type of writing that keeps you remembering the story long after the book is complete. Tempest is THAT type of heroine. Her pain and subsequent journey towards healing write their words on your heart. When she allows her happy ending, it’s with relief that she’s found new dreams and a new future with, quite frankly, a much better, more attractive man. This is the power behind Jiffy Kate’s Stud Muffin: the ability to feel the emotions of their heroine. 

In Cage Erickson, you will find the best kind of hero. This is a man whose dreams have also been shattered, like Tempest’s, outside of his control. He had hoped to retire a storied winning fighter, but life interceded and his dream has to be rewritten. His journey mirrors many of our own. We create expectations for our lives, but instead, life interrupts those plans and changes our course. It doesn’t make us better or worse necessarily; it simply means change and reimagining a different outcome. Besides the impact of his journey on readers as a mirror to their own experiences, Jiffy Kate characterize him as swoony. This is a man who, prior to Tempest, engages in one-night stands. He’s not looking for relationships. He’s known heartbreak in the past, and he forgoes attachments as a protection to his heart. With Tempest, though, he becomes dreamy. He recognizes her innate qualities as someone who cares deeply for others. He sees her inner beauty along with her outer beauty, and he adores her pretty much from the beginning. In fact, if anyone is going to be heartbroken first, it will be Cage because he wants “more” with her, but she requires healing in order for them to have a future. Since he adores her, he guides her, he acknowledges her pain, he indulges her physically, and he showers kindness and compassion over her, sometimes to his own sacrifice. This is why Cage and Tempest’s characters shine in this story. Their connection and friendship are my favorite parts of the book. 

I’ve been extolling the virtues of Stud Muffin all over social media for the past two weeks. It’s really a simple story: a scorned woman finding herself while finding love with a man who loves and adores her deeply. Add in some delicious muffin baking, a couple of villainous characters, and a town full of colorful characters, and you’ve got Jiffy Kate’s story. Yet, below its surface, there really is a reminder. We can heal after disappointment, we can find love again, and we can dream new dreams, as long as we are open to rewriting them. If you love a little sadness, a little humor, and little passion, then you really should be reading Stud Muffin

In love and romance, 

Professor A

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✍🏻 Jiffy Kate’s Stud Muffin, a Donner Bakery book 2, part of the SmartyPants Romance, is LIVE! Tempest and Cage = 🔥 ✍🏻

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It’s hard to get revenge without getting a rap sheet.

Stud Muffin, an all-new friends-to-lovers standalone romance from Jiffy Kate, is available now!

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After Tempest Cassidy walks in on her husband banging her high school nemesis, her whole world gets turned upside down. She goes from being known as the Duchess of Muffins to the town crazy. Her new MO: revenge. Eventually, Tempest grows weary being arrested. Yet what choice does she have? If she’s not angry, then she’s simply . . . sad.

Just as she decides to get her life back on track, in walks Cage Erickson, the new bouncer at the local strip club. He’s scary-handsome and the polar opposite of her ex. She’s attracted to him, but she’s not looking for a rebound. He’s attracted to her, but he’s not looking for a serious relationship. So, they agree to be friends.

But when lines get blurred in the friend zone, will they both get burned? Or will it be a TKO?

‘Stud Muffin’ is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#2 in the Donner Bakery series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

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Jiffy Kate is the joint pen name for Jiff Simpson and Jenny Kate Altman. They’re co-writing besties who share a brain. They also share a love of cute boys, stiff drinks, and fun times.

Together, they’ve written over twenty stories. Their first published book, Finding Focus, was released in November 2015. Since then, they’ve continued to write what they know–southern settings full of swoony heroes and strong heroines.

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✍🏻 Devney Perry’s Gypsy King is LIVE! This is a steamy, edge-of-your-seat romance. ✍🏻

🔥🔥 NEW RELEASE 🔥🔥

Gypsy King by Devney Perry is LIVE! 

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The former Tin Gypsy motorcycle club has everyone in Clifton Forge, Montana convinced they’ve locked their clubhouse doors and ripped off their patches. Everyone but Bryce Ryan. There’s more happening at the club’s garage than muscle car restorations and Harley rebuilds. Her instincts are screaming there’s a story—one she’s going to tell.

As the new owner of the small town’s newspaper, Bryce is hungry for more than birth announcements and obituaries. When a woman is brutally killed and all signs point to the Tin Gypsies, Bryce is determined to expose the club and their leader, Kingston “Dash” Slater, as murderers.

Bryce bests Dash match after match, disappointed her rugged and handsome opponent turns out to be an underwhelming adversary. Secrets are exposed. Truths defeat lies. Bryce is poised to win this battle in a landslide. 

Then Dash breaks all the rules and tips the scales. 

One kiss, and she’s fighting to save more than just her story. She’s fighting to save her heart from the Gypsy King.

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5 ⭐️ Review: Devney Perry’s Gypsy King ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“‘What’s going on, Dash?’ With us?’ ‘I don’t know. It’s more than I thought it would be.’ He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. ‘You kind of snuck up on me.’ I smiled. ‘You snuck up on me too.’”

Just when my heart seemed mended from my sadness over the Jamison Valley series ending, Devney Perry finds a way to revitalize it. Yes, she published Tinsel and Letters to Molly in the meantime. Yet, it seemed as though there was unfinished business with the Jamison Valley folks. And there was. Namely, we needed stories born out of Nick’s life. Remember Nick? The dreamy, mechanic hero of The Clover Chapel. Emmeline’s Nick? In that book, it takes Nick’s father and brother to help save Emmeline from being kidnapped. With their aid, the family finds some reconciliation after Nick fails to join the family MC group, The Tin Gypsies. From that experience, the Tin Gypsies decide to disband, and a story is created: Gypsy King, Perry’s newest offering. And this one is an edge-of-your-seat page-turner of a book.

Following the tropes of romance, the Gypsy King is an enemies-to-lovers story. Centered around Bryce, a new-to-Clifton Forge-reporter, and Kingston “Dash” Slater, the son of Draven Slater and former president of the now-defunct MC group, the Tin Gypsies, the romance follows their undeniable attraction and eventual involvement. Dissatisfied with her career as a television newswoman in Seattle, Bryce joins her father’s newspaper in Clifton Forge intent on righting her life. Disappointed that she failed to meet her life goals, she sets about investigating on and writing about the dissolution of the Tin Gypsies. She believes there is more to the story and sees it as an opportunity to meet new personal goals, rectifying her perceived failures in Seattle.  Complicating this is Dash Slater. He’s handsome, intelligent, and shrewd. However, Bryce challenges him from their first meeting, and he finds himself instantly attracted to her. Unfortunately, a murder occurs in Clifton Forge, causing the arrest of his father. Dash believes in his father’s innocence and challenges Bryce to investigate the death with him. In order to do that, though, he may need to allow her access to the Tin Gypsies’ secrets, and he’s not sure if this will help or hinder his father’s investigation. In the midst of all of this, Bryce and Dash fall deeper for each other, potentially complicating their lives further. Do they find a happy ending together? 

I have to admit that I haven’t read too many MC books. They aren’t my usual draw. However, this is Devney Perry, one of my favorite authors, and the idea of meeting Nick and Emmy again built a definite interest in this book. And Perry did not disappoint. From its outset, I was hooked. Around every corner of this book is drama, a challenge to keep you reading. If it isn’t Draven’s arrest, then it’s family secrets coming to light. Each page reveals a new part of the story, and it pulled me in until the very end. Even in the midst of Dash and Bryce’s struggle to be together, I simply couldn’t put this book down.

Even more, the characters, Bryce and Dash, are complex in their development. Bryce is an older heroine. She believed that the goals she set for herself in her early twenties would come to fruition eventually. She wanted a career, a husband, and a family. However, her career in Seattle fails to launch her. She doesn’t find a husband, and there are no prospects on the horizon when she comes to Clifton Forge. She represents anyone who holds dreams and flounders at achieving them. In a world where success is oftentimes measured by meeting life goals, Perry’s depiction of Bryce asks us to question our own goals. Is it possible that goals can be re-defined and met later? In the midst of her romance with Dash, her thinking is challenged in ways that change her and change her prospects. Her growth and journey are representations of our need to remain open to life and change. 

Similarly, Dash’s life is also challenged. At the beginning of the story, it has really only been a short time, a few years, since the dissolution of the Tin Gypsies. He’s developed a strong business working on cars, but there is a hole in his life, a ghost of his former life left in his soul. He attempts to fill that hole with meaningless one night stands with women, his friendships with lifelong pals, and his family. But that void still exists. Interestingly, Dash doesn’t realize it until his enemy, Bryce, the reporter, challenges him. Like Bryce, he must make choices that run contrary to his past decisions. His involvement with Bryce pushes him out of his comfort zone and rattles his life. Together, Dash and Bryce’s evolution add depth to the excitement of the story. Their character growth is the meat to the potatoes of Perry’s story.

It is always an emotional journey when reading a Devney Perry book. What I found most interesting, though, is the grittiness of this new book. Maybe it’s the MC influence. Maybe it’s the hero who reminds us multiple times in the story that he doesn’t “do” love because no one could love a man who has engaged in the dangerous and violent activities of his past with the Tin Gypsies. Or maybe it’s the engaging and oftentimes heart-pounding action of Perry’s story. This isn’t Jamison Valley. It’s Clifton Forge and something dangerous is afoot here. In the midst of this danger, Devney Perry grows a deep and abiding love between her hero and heroine. She takes a woman with broken dreams and allows her to dream again. She creates a man who doesn’t believe he can be more than his past, and she knits them together into a seamless quilt of past, present, and future. Face value, the Gypsy King is a daring suspense-filled story with a fiery chemistry between its hero and heroine. Below its surface, however, is a story reminding us that, in the midst of our brokenness, we can become whole again when we give our broken pieces over to a mender who loves us deeply. 

“For so long I’d wanted this. Never would I have imagined I’d find it, a home—love—with the man I’d set out to expose. The enemy. A criminal who’d stolen my heart. All the foolish days and nights I’d spent wondering if I’d end up an old maid had been for nothing. The timing simply hadn’t come together. I’d been waiting for my Gypsy King (my emphasis).”

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 It’s the official Release Day for A.L. Jackson’s Hold on to Hope. Such a moving, beautiful message of best friends turned lovers. Download your copy today! ✍🏻

A best friends-to-lovers stand-alone romance from NYT Bestselling Author A.L. Jackson

“My FAVORITE!! The love, the bond, the soul connection…. there will never be a love as destined and powerful and sweet and beautiful as the once in a lifetime love of Evan and Frankie Leigh!!!!!!!!”

~USA Today Bestselling Author Lauren Rowe

Ahhh, my loves!! IT IS HERE! IT IS HERE! I can’t even express to you how freaking overjoyed I am over HOLD ON TO HOPE! This is my favorite book I have ever written, and Evan is absolutely everything – more than I ever could have imagined when I started writing. Evan and Frankie Leigh’s story came to life in a way that absolutely CAPTURED me, heart and soul, and I am so excited and proud to share their story with you!
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RELEASE DATE: October 28th, 2019
Evan Bryant wasn’t your typical hero.
But he was mine.
Broken by the worlds’ standards, he was still the strongest boy I would ever know.
My best friend. The boy I’d given everything to. My heart, my body, and the promise of forever.
The day I’d needed him most, he walked away.
He left me shattered and questioning the love I’d thought we’d shared.
Three years later, I wasn’t prepared for him to return to Gingham Lakes.
It wouldn’t have mattered if he wasn’t the most beautiful man I’d ever seen.
My fingers still would have ached to caress his skin.
My body still would have begged to get lost in his touch.
And my heart . . . it would have always sung his name.
But time changes things. With it, secrets that could ruin everything.
Can we find a way to love again, or have the fears of our past stolen the hope of our forever…

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I can’t wait for you to experience HOLD ON TO HOPE! I know you’re going to ABSOLUTELY FALL IN LOVE with these two!! 
Read inspired ~ 
Amy 

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.
Her bestselling series include THE REGRET SERIES, CLOSER TO YOU, BLEEDING STARS, FIGHT FOR ME and CONFESSIONS OF THE HEART novels. Grab A.L. Jackson’s latest novel, HOLD ON TO HOPE, a best friends-to-lovers stand-alone romance.
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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 5 ⭐️ Review: A.L. Jackson’s Hold on to Hope ✍🏻

Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Because the second it hit, I was done for. Annihilated. Decimated. A crack of thunder that rang of paradise Otherworldly. Our connection unlike anything possible. This boy the other half of my soul And we were there together, shooting toward the stars where we soared.”

Do you read a book and your heart feels like it’s beating out of your chest as you progress through the story? Usually, I feel this during a particularly angsty romance, although rom-coms also provide moments where this can happen. In A.L. Jackson’s newest romance, Hold on to Hope, this was a constant state of being. From the start of the book until its end, I felt as though I had run a race. My heart pounded and my stomach dropped through this telling of best friends turned lovers. In the few books I’ve read of Jackson’s, this is her modus operandi, her craft. She has this ability to grab your soul and invest it within the pages of her story. Hold on to Hope is no different. 

At its core, this romance is about soulmates. It’s about finding that person and holding on to them for as long as you can. It’s also about the temporality of life. That we need to live each day because we aren’t promised the next. Sometimes, when faced with serious, potentially fatal health issues, it can stunt a person’s understanding that life is meant to be lived each day, not placed on hold, and Jackson’s story challenges us in this fact.

Hold on to Hope follows the story of Evan and Frankie Leigh. We’ve met them in two other Jackson books, Show Me the Way and Follow Me Back. In those stories, Evan and Frankie Leigh are the children of the heroes/heroines. On first meeting, Evan and Frankie Leigh become fast friends. Not just friends, but best friends. There is a metaphysical connection that binds these two together. As they grow older, this connection morphs into feelings of deep love. Yet, Evan’s health complicates their future, and he makes a decision for them that changes its path. In doing so, it breaks a fundamental trust in their relationship. This potentially damages their future. Until it doesn’t. As the story progresses, Evan must fight for his love with Frankie Leigh. While doing this, the two of them must fight against a predatory outsider who threatens them and their future life together. 

Hold on to Hope is a beautifully wrought tale of acceptance. Evan struggles with his health diagnoses and believes he is more hindrance than helpmate. He believes his life is better if he keeps himself away from the people who love him because his life seems temporary, at least to him. His mind is tunnel-visioned, and he deeply hurts his loved ones in his inability to accept that people want whatever time they can have with him. He’s short-sighted. When a surprise changes his life, he recognizes quickly that he needs his family and friends, specifically Frankie Leigh, in his life, and he returns to make amends. For me, it’s at this point that I fell in love with Evan. Honestly, I understood his decision to leave his family and Frankie Leigh, but it seemed more selfish than selfless, and it took me some time to accept him back. When he decides to pursue Frankie Leigh and make amends as a way to live his future with her, Jackson shows us his power and depth of love. Their chemistry is palpable. Each page of this story felt heavy with want and need. That is Jackson’s craftsmanship. That’s her strength. 

As I felt the chemistry and love between Frankie Leigh and Evan, I questioned how Jackson creates this. I mean, it’s palpable. I found my heart pounding in worry that these two wouldn’t find their way back to each other. I felt tension and heat when they finally do reconcile, and I felt anxious during the final action of this story. And I pondered over Jackson’s ability to keep this level of erotic and story tension throughout her romance. It’s the rope that binds you to her story, honestly. She creates this through the phrasing of her words. She’s a master of the well-placed fragment and simple sentence, and that one-two combination builds the depth of her story in its words. Over and over again, my heart felt pummelled by her craft. I mean this in the best of ways because I want to feel deeply when I read a romance, not something transitory, but something immersive. Jackson does this flawlessly in Hold on to Hope

Above it all, Frankie Leigh is the best combination of heroic qualities. She is tenacious when necessary, vulnerable as a way to connect our heart to hers, and she loves deeply and fervently. Honestly, there were times when I wanted her to turn her back on Evan as a way to protect her heart from him because she gave it to him so readily. In fact, there is an image that Jackson paints in the flashbacks of Frankie Leigh and Evan’s story that illustrate the depth and breadth of Frankie Leigh’s love for Evan. It’s so beautifully drawn on the page that it will make you cry. Frankie Leigh’s wildness and fervor for life along with her love for Evan and his life are, quite frankly, THE best part of Jackson’s Hold on to Hope

If you want to know the heart of this book, it is the soul connection between Evan and Frankie Leigh, the Unicorn Girl and the Froggy boy. These two are chemically and spiritually connected to each other in ways that seem important. And their connection is the ultimate beauty of Hold on to Hope. I have yet to read all of A.L. Jackson’s booklist. It isn’t that I don’t love her. It’s simply that her books take little pieces of my soul. I invest my heart in her characters and their stories, and it requires time and patience to allow them to take little bits of me. Jackson is a master craftswoman in the art of the angsty romance. Her ability to pull at you, to show the power of deep abiding love, and to remind you of the need to live a life surrendered to its heart, make her an important storyteller in the world of romance. Hold on to Hope offers the best of all these qualities.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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After all those years of being just friends, suddenly we’re insatiable.

Insatiable, an all-new irresistible friends to lovers romance from USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow is coming November 11th and we have the gorgeous cover!

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I didn’t mean to see him naked–it was an accident.

It had to be, right?

Because Noah McCormick and I have never been anything more than friends. In all the years I’ve known him, he’s never once laid a finger on me. And even though he was a cute lifeguard at 16 and a hotter-than-hell sheriff’s deputy at 34, he’s always been that protective guy I could trust to keep his hands to himself. I never wanted to mess with that.

Until I walked in on him getting out of the shower and saw his hard, muscular body totally bare and dripping wet. At that moment I never wanted to mess with anything so badly in my entire life.

I should have covered my eyes. Said I was sorry. At the very least, I could have handed him a towel.

After all, I was only in town for a few days, and he was just doing me a favor by escorting me to my sister’s wedding. It wasn’t a real date.

But I didn’t apologize. And he didn’t cover up.

(Talk about a hot mess.)

After all those years of being just friends, suddenly we’re insatiable.

He’s made it clear he’s not interested in romance. Which is fine with me because

I’ve got a plane ticket back to my real life at the end of the week.

It’s all in fun…or is it?

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Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. When she’s not writing or reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of Thrones, Succession, and Homeland. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.

Melanie is the author of the ONE & ONLY series, the AFTER WE FALL series, the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

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✍🏻 Do you want to know what it’s like to read a top romance? If your answer is YES, then you should download Kennedy Ryan’s The Kingmaker today. This is a top read for 2019. ✍🏻

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“A dazzling, thought-provoking, layered romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. One of the best books of 2019.”

— L.J. Shen, USA Today bestselling author

The Kingmaker, the first in the all-new powerful and emotional All The King’s Men Duet, from RITA ® Award-winning author Kennedy Ryan, is available now!

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Power. Passion. Betrayal.

Kennedy Ryan delivers the epic first installment of the All the King’s Men Duet.

Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition.

In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it.

My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and will do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied.

And neither will I.

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A RITA® Award Winner and Top 25 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts.

She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. A contributor for Modern Mom Magazine, Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Atlanta families living with Autism, she has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as an advocate for families living with autism.

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