Southern Playboy by Jessica Peterson is now live!

Hiring the woman who wrecked me to nanny the kid I just found out I have is a dumb idea. Getting naked with her in the back of my truck is even dumber.

But old habits die hard.

Amelia Fox was my high school sweetheart, the girl who broke my heart and nearly ended my football career a decade ago. It was all I could do to put one foot in front of the other, much less make a comeback.

But I did come back. And I’m not about to let go of everything I fought for just because my world is imploding again.

When I find out I’m the father of a two-year-old boy, I’m ready to start my final season in the pros. It’s my last chance to nab the championship I promised my dad I’d win before he died.

Enter Amelia: teacher, toddler whisperer, and–oh yeah–my ex-girlfriend. We haven’t spoken in ten years, but I’m desperate, and she’s looking for a job.

I need to focus, which means I need help with this kid. Which means I need her.

The arrangement works until one night of bad decisions and great sex threatens to ruin everything.

Can we make it work this time around?

Or is she just another bad habit I need to break before she breaks me?

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Jessica Peterson writes smokin’ hot romance set in her favorite cities around the world. She grew up on a steady diet of Mr. Darcy, Edward Cullen, and Jamie Frasier, and it wasn’t long before she started writing swoon-worthy heroes of her own. She loves strong coffee, stronger heroines, and heroes with hot accents.

She lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Ben and her smelly Goldendoodle, Martha Bean. She’s hard at work on writing her next favorite sex scene. Stay tuned for exciting news on her next release!

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STARLIGHT BY CHRISTINE DEPETRILLO

Release Date: September 2, 2021

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He doesn’t trust women. She only trusts dogs. Why can’t they keep their paws off each other?  

Darren Reade builds stone walls in Vermont–and around his heart. Women don’t stick around, so it’s better to put up No Trespassing signs and focus on raising his adopted son. Darren is willing to do whatever it takes to help the boy cope with his mother’s death. But doing it alone is a challenge. 

Grace Hollings indulges her love of old-school jazz by singing nights at the Speakeasy Taproom,  and spends her days training service dogs, connecting small humans with smart pooches. Of course she’d planned to be married already, but a failed engagement has taught her that dogs make better company than men.  

One evening, Grace and Darren don’t exchange names, but they do engage in a single night neither of them will forget. Is once all there is? Or can they train their hearts to trust what they’ve built under the starlight?

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Releasing: October 5, 2021

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New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels returns to Willow Creek Valley in this stunning surprise baby/unrequited love romance.

I was totally over Joshua Parkerson.

Sure, I had a teenage crush on him way back when–and everyone knew it–but he never saw me as anything but his little brother’s friend, the girl who got tongue-tied any time he walked into a room.

I had long ago accepted the fact that his strong arms would never hold me, his lush lips would never claim mine, and his blue eyes would never see me as anything more than who I used to be.

But now he’s back in Willow Creek Valley, and there’s a brand-new spark between us–even he can’t fight it. Our chemistry is explosive, and every time we’re together, I swear I can feel the earth shake.

It doesn’t mean anything… how could it? I’m over him.

Until I see that little pink plus sign, and the earth stops turning completely.

Now I want it all again, a life with him. But Joshua built walls around his heart for a reason, and his secrets haunt him.

How can I show him that the ghosts of his past don’t have to define our new family’s future?

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Corinne Michaels is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of romance novels. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love, and she enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak before finding a way to heal them through their struggles.

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BS BOYFRIEND by J.D. Hawkins

Release Date: September 23rd

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She’s the perfect fiancée… except for the perfect stranger part.

Being single wasn’t a problem until it was… to my new boss.

So I picked the hottest girl out of the crowd, as though there was any chance she wasn’t already promised to some other alpha jerk.

Turns out she was a unicorn.

Single, willing to play along, and oh so dedicated to her role as my wife-to-be. In dinners with the boss and even more so in the executive suite.

It’s the most fun a guy can have at a work conference.

But what if I want to keep having fun?

What if she does too? It’s just a flight away. So easy. But making it easy means wondering just what things could be like if we kept faking it.

Guess I forgot to ask her.

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JD Hawkins writes erotic romance with modern-classic alpha males and strong, independent women. He currently lives with his wife in Austin, TX. He loves to travel and has lived in many places, including LA, New York City, India and Thailand. When he isn’t writing, JD enjoys surfing, training in Mixed Martial Arts, reading and taking naps. He once dreamed of becoming a ballerina. He’s always loved making up stories, especially ones inspired by real life.

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Bet the Farm is on sale for only 99¢ for a limited time! This heartfelt, flirty story of opposites attract from Staci Hart is just what you need. 💕

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Olivia Brent has one summer to save the dairy farm she just inherited.

But there’s one problem, and it’s not her lactose intolerance.

Jake Milovic.

The brooding farmhand has inherited exactly fifty percent of Brent Farm, and he’s so convinced the city girl can’t work the land, he bets she can’t save it in a summer. 

Determined to prove him wrong, Olivia accepts what might be the dumbest wager of her life.

His strategy to win seems simple: follow her around, shirtlessly distracting her between bouts of relentless taunting. And it’s effective—if his dark eyes and rare smiles aren’t enough to sidetrack her, the sweaty, rolling topography of the manbeast’s body would do the trick.

What they don’t know: they’ll have to weather more than each other. 

Mysterious circumstances throw the farm into disarray, and with the dairy farm in danger, Olivia and Jake have to work together. But when they do, there’s more to fear than either of them imagined.

Because now their hearts are on the line, and the farm won’t be the only casualty if they fail.

Staci has been a lot of things up to this point in her life — a graphic designer, an entrepreneur, a seamstress, a clothing and handbag designer, a waitress. Can’t forget that. She’s also been a mom, with three little girls who are sure to grow up to break a number of hearts. She’s been a wife, though she’s certainly not the cleanest, or the best cook. She’s also super, duper fun at a party, especially if she’s been drinking whiskey. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, sleeping, gaming, or designing graphics.

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Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

If you’ve seen any of the promotional material for Penelope Ward’s The Aristocrat, then you’ve been warned that her newest offering is “angsty.” And it is. You should shore up your spirit before entering this book, but you ought not to miss the opportunity of its beauty and its message should angst not be your romance calling card. 

In a world where headlines proffer the worst of our current world (COVID, Afghanistan, Haiti, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.), The Aristocrat reminds you of what really matters, what we should ground our lives in. In the words of her handsome, British, stalwart, aristocratic hero, Leo, “[t]he purpose of life is to love with all of your heart and soul.” And this is the reason that The Aristocrat should be on your Kindle/Nook/Kobo/etc. right now. 

The angst aside, I adored the characters of Ward’s romance. Felicity (not British but with an incredibly British name) and Leo are, for lack of a better word, quite adorable together. You will immediately fall in love with them. Leo, while a member of the British mid-range royalty, is down-to-earth, kind, and approachable. Their meet-cute will make you giggle, and their chemistry is clear from the beginning. Felicity is the type of heroine perfect for Ward’s Leo. She is compassionate, insightful, and a challenge for him. They are opposites in many ways, but they are complete together. 

The Aristocrat is simply a story of bad timing. We’ve read romances where people have found each other at the wrong time, and this is more of that. It’s a story of second chances and sacrificing for love. Over and over again, Leo and Felicity make sacrifices that show their maturity and deep love for the other. Every moment of this story feels intentional and deep in its revelation of love. 

To counter the heaviness of Leo and Felicity’s story, Ward adds in Sigmund aka Sig, Leo’s cousin and traveling companion, along with Felicity’s guardian, Mrs. Albertini,  to provide some levity to the story…at least early on. I’m not sure that Ward will ever consider it, but I would LOVE a story for Sig, given his own tale of angst.

We are also treated to the English countryside and all the Britishisms of that place, and you simply become lost in Felicity and Leo’s struggle. Please don’t miss this book, though, because you’re afraid of the “angst.” This is a romance; therefore, there is the promise of a happy ending. Penelope Ward’s The Aristocrat is a must-read to remind us that choosing love is the most powerful action one can take in the world. 

In love and romance, 

Professor A

Tin Queen by Devney Perry is now live!

No promises. No expectations. No names. That’s what Emmett Stone agreed to with the woman who caught his eye two months ago. After years of drama following the end of the Tin Gypsy Motorcycle Club, a no-strings fling with a mystery woman is exactly what he needs. Except as they find themselves together more and more, it’s impossible for him to keep his feelings at bay. She’s clever and sassy. She’s gracious and kind. She loves riding on the back of his bike every Saturday afternoon and lazing in his bed every Sunday morning. She’s the perfect woman.
Except she’s Nova Talbot, the daughter of his archenemy–the man who murdered his father.
Her identity will cost her the man who’s captured her heart unless she can convince Emmett her feelings are true.
Before he learns the reason she proposed their fling in the first place.

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Devney is a USA Today bestselling author who lives in Washington with her husband and two sons. 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 family. 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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SAINT by Sierra Simone

Release Date: September 7th

Genre/Tropes: M/M/Second-chance romance/Brothers Best Friend/Forbidden Romance

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Why leave a life as a millionaire? Why leave a perfect boyfriend?

Why leave family and a cute, derelict farmhouse and sex—God, why give up sex?

Because if I hadn’t, that darkness spilling in through my farmhouse window would have taken me. I’d wanted it to take me. I was ready for it to take me.

And somehow I managed to crawl my way here instead, gasping like a drowning man who’d just clawed his way to shore. I managed to save my own life—or I managed to let God save my life.

Either way, that was the cost of surviving. My old life.

Him.

Elijah scrubs his hands over his head, sinking into the tight curls for a moment. It’s longer now; he used to wear his hair short, with crisp, immaculate edges. Another change I wasn’t there to see. I wasn’t sitting on the couch with him when he rubbed his face and mused about growing a beard; I wasn’t poking him out of the way with my toothbrush while he faced the mirror, posing this way and that to imagine longer hair. I wasn’t there in bed with him at night, my legs tangled with his, while he complained about his job or feeling bored with his work, I wasn’t there when he sold his first article or when he submitted a portfolio to Mode.

I wasn’t there, because I was here. Praying and chopping wood.

I wasn’t there, and this Jamie person was.

Elijah stands up, facing away from me for a moment, before he turns back. The sun abruptly shifts through a break in the clouds and drives back the pre-rain murk in the cloister, illuminating Elijah in a haze of gold.

If I were to make a stained-glass window displaying an image of God’s creativity and capacity for beauty, it would be this. It would be Elijah with an unshaven face and in those shorts, it would be his eyes in that dark gold-brown hue, it would be his mouth, that jaw, that throat. It would be a saint in low-top sneakers with a halo of Kansas sunshine around his head.

He pulls his lower lip between his teeth for just an instant before releasing it, and then he straightens up, looking at me with an expression that defies interpretation. Only his eyes seem beyond his usual control, blazing with a heat that might be fury or grief, I can’t tell.

“I loved you for a long time after you left,” he says. “I thought you should know that.”

He doesn’t have to say the next part, because I already know; I already know he doesn’t love me anymore.

And with a small nod, he turns and walks out of the cloister, the first spots of rain blooming on his shirt and his head bowed, as if in prayer.

Blurb:

I can’t have Elijah Iverson.

I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he’s now engaged to someone else—someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect.

I can’t have Elijah because I’ve chosen God instead.

The Bell brothers, though . . . well, we don’t exactly have the greatest track record with vows. But I’m determined to do this monk thing right—to pledge myself to a cloistered life and spend the rest of my years in chastity and prayer. But now Elijah’s here. He’s here and he’s coming with me on my European monastery road trip, and between the whispered confessions and the stolen kisses and the moments bent over an ancient altar, my vows are feeling flimsier by the day.

And vows or not, I know in my heart that it would take more than a good and holy monk to resist Elijah Iverson right now. It would take a saint.

And we all know that I’m no saint.

(This is the third full-length standalone in the Priest Collection, featuring Father Bell’s brother, Aiden Bell. You do not have to read Priest or Sinner to read Saint.)

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Sierra Simone is a USA Today Bestselling former librarian (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk.) She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

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Overall Grade: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Anyone who has read A.L. Jackson knows that she corners the market on the tortured hero. She writes the heck out of them and causes you to fall deeply for them because their brokenness and belief that they don’t deserve the heroine is attractive. Her newest story, Give Me A Reason, is no different. LIke her Sunder Guys or her Falling Stars heroes, Trent, her newest hero, is the epitome of the broken hero. Jackson writes darkness into him which means, based on the rules of romancelandia and Jackson herself, he needs light and life to counter his shadows. And Give Me A Reason does not disappoint in presenting Trent and Eden as the yin to the other’s yang. 

Beautifully constructed, Give Me A Reason is lyrical in its presentation. Jackson’s writing is as much poetry as it is prose, and she entices you into her story with punctuated fragments to mimic punches to your soul and words that feel like the overwhelming emotions of Trent and Eden. 

The oscillation in the denial of their feelings for each other pulls you in while the broken chronology of her story holds you in its thrall. Moving forward for most of the story, Jackson keenly punches into their forward motion with the details of the past, and she builds her story like an expert mason does a brick wall. Little by little, she teases at your own emotions as Trent and Eden move back and forth between denial and attraction. At just the right times, Jackson gives you more of them, but everything feels precarious even to the last 5 percent of this book. 

I love the message of forgiveness: forgiveness for past wrongs, forgiveness from others, but most importantly, the forgiveness of one’s self. This is the underlying theme that twists and turns through Give Me A Reason. Trent’s denial of love and light comes from his inability to forgive himself of his past. He believes he cannot have good in the world. Jackson makes you empathize with him through his self-flagellation. Then, she gives you his Eden, his paradise, in the form of his heroine. She speaks truth into his darkness, and you find yourself lost in their love affair. 

Add to the message ancillary characters such as Gage, Trent’s son, who steals the story. Jackson has this ability to write children characters that add dimension to her story while providing levity. Additionally, we meet Jud and Logan, Trent’s brothers, who will find their own stories in this new Redemption Hills series. These two act as his wizened and closest advisors, a true place to fall when he becomes overwhelmed by his adoration for Eden. 

One moment, Give Me A Reason is a study in chemistry, and the next moment, it’s a heart-pounding bit of suspense. At its core, though, A.L. Jackson’s newest book is a fluid, beautiful romance that reminds us that forgiveness and love should rule our lives.

In love and romance,

Professor A