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✍🏻 Ready for more of the Whitlocks? Brynlee’s story, Forgotten Desires, is coming June 5th. Take a peek at Carson Knight… ✍🏻

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Corinne Michaels has revealed the gorgeous covers for Forgotten Desires!

Releasing: June 5, 2024

Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative

Cover Art Drawing: Samaiya Beaumont

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Cover Model: Shaun Collins

He’s a billionaire in need of a wife …

And I’m his ex who can’t say no to him.

Ten years ago Carson Knight was my one great love, but he abandoned me without a trace.

Now he’s a billionaire single-dad in need of a temporary wife.

And he’s at my house on one knee with a proposal …

Marry him, so he’s more likely to win full custody of his daughter, keeping her safe from her unstable mother. In return, he’ll take care of the medical expenses for a surgery my father needs to survive.

Reluctantly, I agree to tie the knot, on one condition. Once those custody papers are signed, we go our separate ways. Because he’s even more gorgeous, charming, and sweeter than he was back then, and I don’t trust myself not to fall for my fake husband.

Especially when I hear him say “my wife.”

Or feel his hands on my skin. Taste his kiss or see the way he looks at me with those blue eyes and know that our carefully crafted rules will shatter.

Right alongside my heart.

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Meet Corinne


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.

Corinne is a former Navy wife and happily married to the man of her dreams. She began her writing career after spending months away from her husband while he was deployed–reading and writing were her escapes from the loneliness. Corinne now lives in Virginia with her husband and is the emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children.

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Kristen Ashley’s Avenging Angel ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A

Two truths are self-evident about Kristen Ashley and her brand of romance: she writes the found family trope better than just about everyone, and she is the queen of writing a girl gang. Over and over again, whether it’s the Rock Chicks, her Dream Team ladies, or MC babes, Ashley wins her readers over with the characteristics of her writing that matter to her readers: community and depth of storytelling. Her latest book, Avenging Angel, of her spinoff Rock Chicks series, Avenging Angel, is no different. If you’ve read her Rock Chick/Hot Bunch series or her Dream Team series, you’ve read this story before: quirky, independent FMC, attractive, protective MMC, and a plot infused with past characters, suspenseful moments, and pure romance. Avenging Angel is no different. Well, except that it is in a way. 

Reading Avenging Angel was like going home after a long stay away. Ashley recognizes the interests of her readers, and the Rock Chicks/Hot Bunch/Dream Team have been her bread and butter, so to speak. While she has written several novels in that series, there are beloved characters, the next generation, that have piqued the curiosity of her fan base. Sniff aka Julien Jackson aka Cap has found keen interest from readers. To grant us access to his story, set it in Phoenix (also connecting us to her River Rain series…), and bring back characters such as Mace, Lee, and the rest of the Hot Bunch, is a dream to many of us, her dedicated readers. Here’s where Ashley deviated with this story, where I think she has listened to readers or read reviews. It can be hard to accept a true alpha hero today. Some might consider it toxic masculinity. While she could write that type of hero ten or so years ago, it’s a hard pill to swallow today. This is where her genius lies with this new series. Julien (“Cap”) has learned from the best: the Hot Bunch but also his adopted mother, Shirleen. As such, Ashley gifts us with a modern-day hero, one who is both protective and possessive but also acknowledges and respects Rachel aka Raye’s choices. Cap and Raye work together acknowledging each other’s strengths and personal choices. We can still fall in love with Cap’s want to protect Raye, while also recognizing her autonomy and authority. This reads like growth in these beloved Kristen Ashley universes. And I’m here for it. 

Even more, Ashley has gifted us with more of her universe. The rest of the Angels are coming, Tito and Tex as protective father figures, and the potential for connections to the River Rain gang means an opportunity for more stories like Cap and Raye’s. The overall story behind this series, a dangerous element threatening the local community, is the thread between the books. Ashley’s focus on the plight of $ex workers and human trafficking lends gravity to her newest romance. Her allusion to Charlie’s Angels makes for a titillating read especially if you were raised on Kelly Garrett, Jill Munroe, and Sabrina Duncan. These were women who were both beautiful and intelligent. And this is the foundation of Kristen Ashley’s Avenging Angel series. In 2024, a romance such as this one is needed, showcasing the strength of women with men at their backs to support their choices. 

Thank you, Kristen, for reminding me, once again, why your stories are supreme. Avenging Angel did not disappoint. It holds all the best of the Rock Chick/Hot Bunch world with its own signature of female authority and power.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Meghan Quinn’s Bridesmaid for Hire ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A- / B+

Tropes: one bed/forced proximity; brother’s best friend; best friend’s little sister; fake relationship

Do you ever start reading a book because you want to escape life? You find yourself lost in the pages, both laughing and crying in equal measure. Meghan Quinn’s Bridesmaid for Hire is the type of book to deliver you from the doldrums of life. Maggie, the best friend of Hattie, the FMC of The Way I Hate Him, is the FMC for this story, and I am so thankful Meghan Quinn found a space for her. Quinn has a way of writing characters’ misfortunes that will make you belly-laugh. Unfortunately, Brody, the MMC and best friend of Maggie’s brother, Gary, is the target in BFH. Everything that can go wrong for Brody, does, and it makes the reader laugh out loud. 

One of the challenges of this book is building the chemistry between Maggie and Brody. And quite frankly, it takes some time to accept their attraction to each other. Meghan Quinn spends much of the first two-thirds of the story building the back story for Brody wooing his boss so that, at times, Maggie and Brody’s burgeoning attraction can get lost. Eventually, after some serious hardships and mishaps, Brody and Maggie find their stride, only to have Quinn upend their path forward. Thankfully, Meghan Quinn knows how to craft a happy ending for her characters, and Maggie and Brody find theirs. However, Quinn leaves her readers until almost the very end for that gift. 

Meghan Quinn’s Bridesmaid for Hire is the book that will save you from the stress of life. Honestly, I laughed out loud so many times at Brody’s misfortunes that I hated for the book to end. This is Quinn’s superpower: finding humor in the midst of a difficult world. 

In love and romance,

Professor A

Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Skye Warren’s The Professor ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B / B-

Tropes: student/teacher; interconnected series of standalones: forbidden; romantic suspense

Any time Skye Warren announces she’s returning to her storied Tanglewood, I’m in. The dark romances wrought from this universe have been some of my first and favorite romances. When she announced a spin-off series set at Tanglewood U, I jumped for joy. Like her earlier stories in Tanglewood, I found myself engrossed in the “cat and mouse” chase of Professor Stratford and Anne Hill. As with her other romances, The Professor is sensual and erotic. There is a darkness underpinning Anne’s journey to know herself. Warren guides us through their story through the POV of Anne which automatically makes her an unreliable narrator. This affords Skye Warren a surprise ending that leaves us on a cliffhanger and the promise of more in her next book. 

Here are my criticisms:

  1. I need Warren to stop writing trilogies. I don’t know her direction, but I often feel like her stories would work as duets. 
  2. There are places in the stories where the editor missed continuity issues as though scenes had been removed and the remaining scenes were spliced together. The story is not seamless.

Skye Warren has a craftsmanship issue, and I believe her stories could be stronger with a better editor. However, her storytelling entices me enough that I want more stories from her. I need to understand Professor Stratford’s real motivations; I need Anne to bring him to his knees and stand in her power; and I need another HEA for another couple in the Tanglewood world. It may take her three books to do so, but she always leaves us with exactly what we need in the end. I’m certain The Professor is simply a step in that direction.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Adriana Locke’s This Much Is True, the next Marshall Family series romance ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

There are two things I know: Adriana Locke can continue to write small-town romance and second-chance romance, and this reader will be content. Her latest book, This Much Is True, showcases her strengths in crafting these types of stories. She invests us in Laina and Luke’s enduring love, fraught with misunderstandings, misgivings, and feelings of inadequacy. At the core, though, Locke has written two characters who mutually respect and love each other. What this gifts her readers is a story to get lost in. As Laina stands in her authority, making choices that benefit her, you cannot help but cheer her on. She is loveable, albeit naive to her father’s management of her life. And Luke is fun-loving, but also serious. He becomes her protector and confidante, drawing them together. Locke sprinkles spice throughout their story, but it never borders on smut or detracts from their evolution. The tension of This Much Is True is mild, never devolving into anything too angsty. 

Adriana Locke’s version of romance feels like a warm blanket on a cold day. This Much Is True is a promise, a reminder that romance can be so many different things, but in the end, it leaves us filled with hope. That’s the gift Adriana Locke offers her readers with each of her stories.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Laurelin Paige’s Brutal Arrangement ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

Laurelin Paige’s Brutal Arrangement is a romantic interrogation of old-moneyed family dynamics set against the world of popular music. As Paige has so deftly done with the other stories in this series, we are treated to erotic tension between a Sebastian and his brother’s former girlfriend, turned fake relationship. Paige is a queen of spicy romance, making nothing off limits between her characters. The tension between Riah and Alex in Brutal Arrangement engages the reader and draws us into this world of familial machinations. As I read this story, I listened to Alex’s brother’s story, Brutal Secret. What compels me to continue to read about these privileged billionaires is the realization that family trauma is the cornerstone of the Sebastian family. These stories interrogate the older generation’s stilted politics in the face of the younger generation’s message of “can’t we all just get along.” I find this compelling. In Brutal Arrangement, Riah and Alex’s journey ahead against the stricture of Alex’s brother Hunter’s machinations makes for an exciting read. Every step forward for Riah and Alex is met with complications, creating tension throughout most of the story. I love how these Sebastian men fall hard for their FMCs, ameliorating their power and laying it at the feet of an FMC such as Riah or any of the former FMCs in this series. I am most excited for Adly’s story, teased in Brutal Arrangement. 

Laurelin Paige proves once again that she writes the “heck” out of a billionaire romance. Whether it’s the guys from Reach, Hudson Pierce, Edward Fasbender, or any of the Sebastians, you know a dirty, difficult road ahead leads to a wallop of a happy ending. What I find the most intriguing of Paige’s newest books is her capacity to write alpha-hole MMCs while testing the autonomy and authority of the women in her books. I’m ready for more of the Sebastian family.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 I am in LOVE with the cover for Karla Sorensen’s Promise Me This, Ian Wilder’s story. This couple is GORGEOUS!!! ✍🏻

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PROMISE ME THIS

Karla Sorensen

Release Date: May 9

WILL BE AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

Imagine this: an author with a raging case of writer’s block finds an unexpected source of inspiration in her grumpy, gorgeous new roommate. Sounds amazing, right? Except that new roommate is my childhood best friend. And Ian Wilder has been off-limits since I was five.

It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen him, but when I return to my hometown after years away, Ian’s exactly the man I remembered. The same guy who gave me his coat on a playground when we were kids and promised he’d take care of me forever. I need a quiet place to work with this deadline looming. I need a place where my daughter can unwind. Enter Ian with an offer I can’t refuse: his spare bedroom.

It’s an easy yes. Except now the problem is I can’t stop thinking about him, and these thoughts? They’re wandering out of the friend zone. I keep imagining very creative ways to rip off his clothes. And Ian starts giving me looks of his own, the kind that make my heart race.

One night, we cross a line we can’t uncross. The lines have blurred, and our friendship is hanging by a thread.

Imagine this: a woman falling for her best friend. And she has no idea if he feels the same.

Pre-Order Link:

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Meet Karla Sorensen:

 Karla Sorensen is an Amazon top 20 bestselling author who refuses to read or write anything without a happily ever after. When she’s not devouring historical romance or avoiding the laundry, you can find her watching football (British AND American), HGTV or listening to Enneagram podcasts so she can psychoanalyze everyone in her life, in no particular order of importance. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University, she made her living in senior healthcare prior to writing full-time. Karla lives in Michigan with her husband, two boys and a big, shaggy rescue dog named Bear.

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Check out this gorgeous cover from Lexi Blake. The Accidental Siren is coming April 30th! ✍🏻

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Lexi Blake has revealed the gorgeous cover for The Accidental Siren!

Releasing: April 30, 2024

Cover Design: Books and Moods

Joshua Barnes-Fleetwood is the prince of Willow Fork, Texas, but not all is right with his world. He’s the heir to a multimillion-dollar company, has a family he adores, and his best friend at his side. He can’t figure out what is missing until Nicole takes a job at Christa’s Café. The pretty waitress is a mystery he needs to solve. He’s never been so attracted to a woman, and after one night in her company, he’s sure she can handle his needs. Unfortunately, he’s also sure she’s lying to him. 

Jared “Grim” Burch found a home with the Barnes-Fleetwood family when he desperately needed one. With support from his newfound family, Grim beat all the odds and became a veterinarian. In Willow Fork, however, there are still people who are suspicious of him and his past. When he sees Nicole, he knows she’s the perfect woman for him and Josh, but he wonders if he has the right to bring her into his sometimes dangerous circle. 

For Nicole Mason, Willow Fork is nothing more than a pit stop. Once she can save up the money to fix her car, she’ll do what she’s been doing for the last several years. Run. Framed for her husband’s murder, she can never stop looking over her shoulder. There’s always someone on her trail, and she can’t let them bring her back to the real killer. Getting to know Josh and Grim makes her dream of the life they could have together. If only she could trust them with her secrets. 

When their past catches up to them all, they’ll find out that even a small town can be big trouble.

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Meet Lexi


New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.

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✍🏻 Guarantee: Meghan Quinn’s Bridesmaid for Hire will make you laugh until you cry, and it will pluck your heartstrings by its end. You don’t want to miss this new book! ✍🏻

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From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a new rom com series. This steamy, laugh out loud, enemies-to-lovers, fake dating standalone romance is now available in all formats! Check out the excerpt below and one-click your copy today!

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About BRIDESMAID FOR HIRE:

Sometimes the wedding of the century calls for desperate measures.

And sometimes those desperate measures are to pretend the person you hate most is actually your boyfriend.

After years of working her tail off at her event-planning business, Maggie Mitchell is ready for a vacation. With nothing on her mind but R & R, she’s enjoying the warm weather of Bora Bora when in saunters Brody McFadden, her brother’s best friend and also her sworn enemy. Thanks to years of tension between the two―kicked off by a make-out session at her brother’s wedding that ended horribly―Maggie has sworn to stay away from the man. That is, until she finds out he’s in Bora Bora for his boss’s daughter’s wedding, hoping to use the trip to win a real future at the company.

Maggie promised herself she wouldn’t even think of work on the island, but as word spreads about the “wedding of the century” taking place in the midst of her vacation, she realizes offering her services as a bridesmaid and planner could bring her business to the next level. The only catch? She needs to pose as Brody’s girlfriend to get the job…while letting him stay in her peaceful bungalow.

Tensions rise, irritation flairs, and despite years’ worth of bickering behind closed doors, Maggie can’t quite squash the sparks building between her and her new fake boyfriend, especially when she learns the real reason their first kiss was cut short. But as the wedding day draws closer and everything starts to go wrong, it just might be Brody who sends Maggie’s business crashing down―and her heart along with it.

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Read the Excerpt Here!

“What the heck was that back there?”

She crosses her arms over her ample chest. “That was me helping you out.”

“That’s what you consider helping me out?” I ask. “You just made yourself my girlfriend in front of my boss.”

“I’m aware.”

I stare at her. “Why?”

“Uh, isn’t it obvious?”

“No,” I nearly shout.

“You know, this might not be the best place to discuss this.” She glances around. “Don’t want to start a scene.”

I place one hand on the counter behind her and lean forward so only she and I can hear. “I want to know what the heck is going on, because you just made it impossible for me to shake you this week.”

“Trust me, the last thing I want is to be attached to you. It was a tough pill to swallow.”

“Why are you even swallowing it?”

“Don’t guys like it when we swallow?” That know-it-all grin of hers crosses over her lips, the same grin that got me in trouble with her in the first place.

Let me tell you something about Maggie Mitchell. She’s a different kind of girl—oh, sorry, woman.

Unlike any woman I’ve ever met before.

She’s a combination of orderliness, confidence, and warmth. She has no problem saying what’s on her mind, barely possesses any aptitude for embarrassment—I witnessed this when she sang Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now at her brother’s rehearsal dinner. It was off-key, and sometimes she hit notes only dogs could hear. But she also has a helping heart and will go out of her way to make anyone comfortable—well, anyone besides me.

She’s unashamed.

She’s a natural conversationalist.

She has an infectious energy.

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Jason Clarke and Erin Mallon narrate in duet this steamy, enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. BRIDESMAID FOR HIRE is now available on Audible!

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ABOUT MEGHAN QUINN:

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.

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✍🏻 Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway for Kristen Ashley’s Avenging Angel, coming April 2nd ✍🏻

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I have an exclusive excerpt and a GIVEAWAY for Kristen Ashley next release, Avenging Angel! Peeps…I finished this yesterday, and it’s PERFECTION. 👠 💛

If you’re a KA fan, and you love her Rock Chicks/Hot Bunch, you should already have preordered it. If you haven’t, or if you’re new to Kristen Ashley, check out this exclusive excerpt here and preorder it NOW:

𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭

“Can I go now?”

When he leaned into his elbows on his desk, fingers linked, resting his chin on them, and penetrated me with his perfect jade stare, I figured that was a no.

“Do you know where you are?” he asked.

“No,” I answered.

“Do you know who we are?” he went on with a slight jerk of his head to Chris.

“Well, that’d be nice to know, considering we’re spending so much time together,” I told him.

“I’m Kai Mason.”

Why was that name familiar?

“And that’s Julien Jackson,” he continued on another slight jerk to Chris…or Julien.

I felt a strange, but far from unpleasant, electrical pulse jolt through me at learning his name.

Well then.

I ignored the pulse and focused on the fact that I liked his name. It was unusual, at least his first name was. It didn’t really look like him, but it also did, in an odd way.

“And considering you’re the Avenging Angel, you probably should know who the players are on the street,” Kai Mason carried on.

Uh-oh.

Seemed he knew more than just my name.

I sat back, clasped my hands in my lap and tried really hard not to suck my lips between my teeth in order to bite them, that being in order not to groan at my own stupidity.

Mental note: A girl can be sassy, but no one should be cocky.

“What are you talking about?” I asked.

Mason sat back too, in order to be more comfortable when he shared, “This is Nightingale Investigations and Security.”

“Okay,” I said slowly.

His lips quirked like he found me amusing.

The gall!

Even if I couldn’t bust open a door, I was kickass, not amusing!

At this point, Jackson moved. He lifted his hands and pretended to type on the keyboard.

He did this saying, “Look it up when you get home.”

ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴡɪɴ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴏғ ᴀᴠᴇɴɢɪɴɢ ᴀɴɢᴇʟ? ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴛᴏ ɢɪᴠᴇᴀᴡᴀʏ…

1) Tell me your fav Kristen Ashley book/character or one of her books you’d LOVE to read.

2) Tag a friend

3) Follow me!

I will select ONE person for a copy of this book. US residents only!

𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟓𝐭𝐡.