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new release

✍🏻 I am a DAY LATE … but definitely not too late for you to grab Jolie Vines’s newest book, Take Her From You! Do NOT miss this next book in her McRae Bodyguards series. ✍🏻

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It’s live! Valentine is finally here.

I’m so thrilled to announce the launch of Take Her from You (McRae Bodyguards, #3) by Jolie Vines.

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A single mom in hiding and the bodyguard roommate she can’t resist

Mia

Hiding out in the Scottish Highlands, I’ve fled my old life. I need a home for my little daughter, a job, and the eyeful of my roommate naked in the shower has me thinking

I might need a hot Scottish boyfriend, too.

But the gorgeous bodyguard only offers fun nights between the sheets. While he’s preoccupied worshipping my thick thighs and claiming he doesn’t want commitment, I’m meant to be busy on the dating scene.

For longterm, he’s telling me to look elsewhere, but what if it’s him I fall for?

Valentine

My new roomie is a wet dream come true. With her kind personality and curves for days, I can’t keep my mind off her. A welcome distraction from the broken relationship with my brother and the ex-fiancée who won’t leave me alone.

Except Mia’s looking for more than I can offer. I had my fingers burned by love and won’t ever go there again.

Only when people come looking for her do I realise just how easily she could be taken from me.

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Take Her from You features a plus-sized single mom, her Scottish roommate with golden retriever energy, and an intimate toy she creates using him as a template.

This swoony, friends-to-everything, steamy read is a standalone in the McRae Bodyguards series and set in the gorgeous Scottish Highlands.

Join Mia and Valentine’s adventure in love today!

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In Kindle Unlimited and beautiful paperback with black and white chapter art of the Scottish Highlands.

https://mybook.to/TakeHerfromYou

new release

✍🏻 Oh, Skye Warren, how I missed Tanglewood. The Professor is dirty and suspenseful and everything you LOVE about Skye Warren and her stories. Grab it TODAY! ✍🏻

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The Professor by Skye Warren is now live! 

New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, delivers the sizzling first book in a brand new trilogy, The Professor, a forbidden, student/professor, ex-boyfriend’s dad romance.

It was supposed to be one night with a handsome stranger. I never thought I would see him again. Until the first day of class.

He’s my new professor.

And my ex-boyfriend’s father.

He has a world of secrets in his eyes and the weight of the world on his shoulders. I should stay away from him, but the more I try, the more consumed he gets.

His possessiveness is rivaled only by his secretive nature. He knows everything about me, but mystery surrounds him. Shadows threaten the entire university…and our forbidden love.

“Every page of THE PROFESSOR shines with poetry and eroticism. If you love forbidden romances, secret societies and age gap, this book is for you!” – USA Today bestselling author Saffron A. Kent

  Download today on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo!

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Meet Skye

Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dangerous romance such as the Endgame trilogy. Her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. Her books have sold over ​two million copies.​ She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, sweet dogs, and evil cat.

Connect with Skye

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new release, Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Jillian Liota’s The Echo of Regret, the final book of the Cedar Point series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B

Tropes: second chances; pro baseball MMC; artist FMC; small town romance; opposites attract

The Echo of Regret is the first book I’ve read from Jillian Liota. Something about the blurb attracted me to this story, even though it’s the final book of her Cedar Point series and I hadn’t read the earlier books of the series. With all of that, I was pleasantly surprised that I chose well with this story. Often when you read a story in a series, you feel as though you missed out on a bigger sense of the story. I never felt this way reading The Echo of Regret. Did it pique my curiosity for the other stories? Of course, but I also didn’t feel compelled to pick them up immediately to read them. 

Bishop and Gabi have different intensities throughout the book. At first, Bishop reads as almost indifferent to the reason for their break-up. It is underplayed in contrast to Gabi’s disdain for him. Even more, Liota ameliorates this pretty quickly which is one of my criticisms of this book. Bishop moves from indifference to intense interest in reconciling. At 61%, Bishop and Gabi are already moving towards reconciliation, and I thought they needed more discussion of the past before doing this (my second criticism). I’m certain Liota didn’t want her readers to wait too long for it, given Gabi tended to cycle through her feelings for Bishop quite a bit (almost repetitively – my third criticism). Still, Liota remedies it through Gabi and Bishop moving forward. Bishop recognizes that Gabi will never be more important than baseball, the mindset of a man four years older and wiser. 

Jillian Liota’s The Echo of Regret reminded me of Laura Pavlov, Devney Perry, and that ilk. It’s sweet and spicy small-town romance that uplifts after putting you through a juggernaut of emotions first. If this is your jam, you should grab this one!

In love and romance,

Professor A

new release, Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Hit Me with Your Best Shot ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A

I have recently spent quite a bit of time reading sports romance. It has slowly taken over my Kindle, and I enjoy the stories. Hit Me with Your Best Shot, an anthology of 6 new sports romances from some beloved authors, is a wonderful surprise. The stories in its pages are engaging, entertaining, and exciting. 

My favorite of the lot is Saffron A. Kent’s “Love Made Me Do It,” a short story from SAK’s St. Mary’s Rebels and Bad Boys of Bardstown series. It’s actually a story I didn’t even know I needed until I found myself lost in its pages. It follows Riot Rivera, a fellow soccer player on the New York FC soccer team and the nanny of his daughter, Sophie, Meadow. If you’ve never read SAK, it’s imperative to know that she has a specific style, a pared-down, almost stream-of-consciousness way of writing, and her signature is all over this story. Even more, she writes forbidden angsty romance like it’s her job (which it is), and her MMCs cannot help their obsession with the FMC and vice versa. It’s stylized, engaging, and messy. And this reader loves it. The way that SAK decidedly and deftly develops tension between her MMC and FMC (in this case, Riot and Meadow) intrigues me every single time. She hides the attraction fo the MMC to the FMC, drawing you deeper into her story, anticipating its revelation. In the short space of “Love Made Me Do It,” SAK reminds us of her writing voice while enticing us with Riot and Meadow’s love journey. It isn’t necessarily a surprise, especially if you know SAK’s storytelling, but it’s a delight to be introduced to these characters and reminded of some of her beloved ones. 

Hit Me with Your Best Shot is a MUST-read if you love sports romance. The authors represented in this anthology are next-level, and they remind you why you LOVE to read their stories, even ones laden with sports.

In love and romance,

Professor A

new release, Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Tia Louise’s A Little Naughty, the final book of the Be Still series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

Tropes: small town romance; marriage of convenience; bad guy/good girl; found family; he falls first; touch her and die

Tia Louise’s Hamiltown Heat series had all the angsty feels mingled with a huge helping of spice. Coming out of that series, I needed some levity, and she didn’t disappoint with her Be Still series. From the first book of the series, A Little Taste, I found myself engaged with Tia Louise’s rendering of small-town couples finding love against the odds. It is a lighter series than her Hamiltown Heat series, but its power lies in the sometimes light-angsty nature of the couplings. 

Her final book of the series, A Little Naughty, is the perfect exclamation point to the series. It happens to be my favorite. Jemima and Raif are magical in that they know they want each other from the start, and they don’t allow outside forces to keep them apart. Even more, Tia Louise has drawn Raif as a good man from a “bad” family, and the protectiveness that Jemima shows him draws you into their relationship. The complications of Raif proving to people he isn’t his family makes you fall hard for him, but it’s also how he falls hard for Jemima, protecting her at all costs that really cements it. To me, this is the lightest feeling book of the series, and I believe it’s because Tia Louise brings Raif and Jemima together and keeps them there. A Little Naughty sets out to offer you a marriage of convenience, and she has underscored the found family/community of the special small town of Eureka. That’s really the gem of this story. As the happy ending unfolds, you cannot help but be filled with all the good feelings. Tia Louise’s Be Still series is a feel-good series of special romances that will absolutely steal your heart.

In love and romance,

Professor A

new release, Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Stacy Travis’s Love You Anyway ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

Stacy Travis’s Love You Anyway, the second book of her Buttercup Hill series, promises so much for this continued series of siblings. Stacy Travis has written about the undeniable chemistry between Colin, an astrophysicist hiding from scandal, and PJ, the youngest sister of the Corbett family. Some suspense is a running thread thus far in this series, although Travis treats us to a surprise in this second book. Colin and PJ’s “cat and mouse” foreplay drives the reader forward into the story. The age gap, the “will they/won’t they”, and the almost forbidden-esque nature of their coupling make for a story that keeps you engaged to the last page. 

I’m excited about the future stories in this series. I can’t wait to find out more about what’s lurking in Kingston Corbett’s mind. Stacy Travis’s Love You Anyway moves us decidedly and beautifully forward into this world of grapevines and casual living.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Well, hello Dr. Lawson! Check out this handsome face on the cover of J. Saman’s next book, Undeniably Convenient, coming April 29th! ✍🏻

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J. Saman has revealed the gorgeous cover for Undeniably Convenient!

Releasing: April 29, 2024

Cover Design: Lori Jackson

A baby of convenience with my new boss? Not exactly what I had in mind when I decided I wanted to try to get pregnant.

But that’s exactly the situation I find myself in with Dr. Bennett Lawson.

The ridiculously gorgeous, broody billionaire I kissed years ago is asking to have a baby with me.

We both have our reasons for wanting this and with our ugly pasts, it’s an undeniably convenient arrangement.

No love. No relationship. Strictly business. 

Now I’m living with him and pretending every searing touch, whispered word, and moaned breath is all in the name of our contract and nothing more.

Even as it becomes harder to keep our hands to ourselves and our feelings separate.

But when that stick shines with two pink lines, we both know what we’ve grown addicted to has to stop.

Except what happens when everything starts to fall apart and what we promised would never happen becomes the one thing we can no longer live without?

Pre-order your copy today!

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Meet J. Saman

J. Saman is a USA Today and Amazon top 40 bestselling author who writes sassy, swoony, and scorching contemporary romances. She is addicted to Diet Coke, sour candy, and indie rock. She swears way too much (especially after a glass of wine) and has a penchant for sarcasm (or so her husband and children like to tell her).

J. is an admitted lover of second chance romances, enemies to lovers, and the perfect amount of angst. She is best known for writing funny and emotional romances filled with smart, strong women, and sexy alphas who have a softer side—especially for their women.

Connect with J. Saman

Website: http://jsamanbooks.com

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new release

✍🏻 Second chance? ✓ Runaway bride? ✓ Frenemy longing? ✓ Adriana Locke’s “spicy and sweet” This Much is True is LIVE. Treat yourself to this story on this lovely Monday! ✍🏻

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When celebrity Laina Kelley bolted from her small hometown church on her wedding day, she ran to the first place that came to mind—to the home of the local farrier, a gorgeous playboy who just so happens to be her first love … and biggest frenemy. 

This Much Is True by Adriana Locke is now live! 

USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke delivers a new “sweet and spicy!” standalone romance about a runaway bride who finds herself in the arms, and horse barn, of her deliciously handsome frenemy—who just so happens to be her first love.

This isn’t your average romance. It begins with me in a wedding dress, just not at an altar …

I never expected to be a runaway bride. I also never thought I’d end up on my ex’s doorstep to flee from said wedding. Now that I’m here, it’s easy to find the key in an old boot by the door and let myself inside. It’s not breaking and entering if I have a key, right?

It’s safe to say that Luke Marshall didn’t expect to find me on his couch in my wedding dress, my veil over my face in tears. He has no choice but to listen to my panic-induced plea for salvation. It’s only a matter of time before the tabloids get wind of my disappearing act, and my life is over.

Luke takes pity on me and says I can stay… on one condition.

I can’t sing for my supper—I have to earn it. I have to work in the barn alongside him, up to my elbows in horse manure. Oh—and because there’s only one bed, I get the couch.

This works … in theory. However, when sparks start flying, and the small-town farrier asks me to stay, I’ll have to decide between my life as a pop star or a second chance with my first love.

  Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited

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Meet Adriana


USA Today and Amazon Charts Bestselling author, Adriana Locke, writes contemporary romances about the two things she knows best—big families and small towns. Her stories are about ordinary people finding extraordinary love with the perfect combination of heart, heat, and humor.

She loves connecting with readers, fall weather, football, reading alpha heroes, everything pumpkin, and pretending to garden.

Hailing from a tiny town in the Midwest, Adriana spends her free time with her high school sweetheart (who she married over twenty years ago) and their four sons (who truly are her best work). Her kitchen may be a perpetual disaster, and if all else fails, there is always pizza.

Connect with Adriana 

Website: www.adrianalocke.com

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new release

✍🏻 𝐇𝐢𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐭, a sports anthology by six of your favorite authors is NOW LIVE! Participating authors include Saffron A. Kent, Becca Steele, S.J. Sylvis, Maggie Rawdon, Ki Stephens and Jay McLean. ✍🏻

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ONE CLICK TODAY!!! FREE IN KU! 

➜ https://books2read.com/HMWYBS

About Hit Me With Your Best Shot

They may dominate the field and rule over a million hearts. 

But watch them lose theirs to love in six all-new sports romances by your favorite authors. 

⚽️ 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴 𝙼𝙰𝙳𝙴 𝙼𝙴 𝙳𝙾 𝙸𝚃 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚗 𝙰. 𝙺𝚎𝚗𝚝

Soccer Romance/Age Gap/ Single Dad/Nanny/ Dirty Talk/ Spicy 

⚽️ 𝚂𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙴𝙳 𝚋𝚢 𝙺𝚒 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚜

College Soccer/ Childhood Friends to Strangers to Lovers/ Oblivious to love 

⚽ 𝚃𝙴𝙼𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝚋𝚢 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚎𝚕𝚎

College Romance/ UK Setting/ Soccer Player/Adult Content Creator 

🏒 𝙲𝙰𝙻𝙻 𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝙴𝙰𝙲𝙷 𝚋𝚢 𝚂.𝙹. 𝚂𝚢𝚕𝚟𝚒𝚜

Hockey Romance/Roommates /Brother’s Best Friend/Forbidden Romance/ Spicy Lessons

🏈 𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙸𝙳𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙲𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈 𝚋𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚎 𝚁𝚊𝚠𝚍𝚘𝚗

Friends to lovers/ Single Dad/ Football/ Sport Romance/Runaway Bride/ He falls first 

🏀 𝙸𝙽 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙰𝙽𝚈 𝙾𝙵 𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙺𝙽𝙴𝚂𝚂 𝚋𝚢 𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚗

Sports/ Basketball Romance/ Boy next door/ Small town/ Opposites attract/ Fake dating-ish/Grief/trauma healing

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 I have never wanted to call someone “daddy”…until NOW! Check out Kandi Steiner’s Daddy P on the cover for Learn Your Lesson! This is the book I’ve been waiting for in this series… ✍🏻

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𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞! 👉 https://geni.us/learnyourlesson  
Or, get an email when it’s live in Kindle Unlimited 👉 https://forms.gle/o8ssBAF6SjcJRXA68  
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There will be a simultaneous audio release, narrated by the incredible Hannah Chiclana as Chloe and introducing Max Lindsey as Will!  
Paperbacks will go live a few days before release so you have time to ship them to yourself by release day.   
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There’s still time to request an ARC! 👉 https://bit.ly/3UYFyCZ  
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𝐌𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩… 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡.  
  
Her father left her, and then my father left us. Being raised by her and my grandmother, I was surrounded by the reminder to be independent and guard my heart.   
  
After my one and only experience with a boy in college fell flatter than a pancake, I realized they were right — and I was content to live the life of a twenty-six-year-old cat lady.  
  
Until Will Perry blew my quiet world to smithereens.  
  
Starting goalie for the Tampa Bay Ospreys and the kind of hot that scrambles your brain, all I was ever supposed to be to him was his daughter’s kindergarten teacher. Then, in a twist of events, his temporary nanny.  
  
But temporary turns to permanent, and when I move into his pool house, everything changes.  
  
He’s impossibly grumpy and focused on only two things: hockey, and taking care of his daughter. I’m only focused on using this new income to pay back my student loans.   
  
But in that house, I feel his heated gaze beneath that permanent scowl, the way it lingers and warms my skin. And though I know my mother would lose her mind if she knew, my dreams have become midnight fantasies about my long-haired, muscle-lined mystery of a boss.  
  
When the tension becomes too much, we break, and we make a deal.   
  
He still needs a nanny. I still need a paycheck and for my matriarchy to not disown me. But Will agrees to teach me everything I’ve always wanted to learn, and I’m all too eager to be his student.  
  
I can do this. I’m a grown woman. I can explore my sexuality with the hottest goalie on earth and still remain one-hundred percent professional.   
And I can definitely do it all without catching feelings.   
I have to.  
  
Otherwise, I’ll end up heartbroken in my mother’s arms while she shakes her head and asks me if I’ll ever learn my lesson.  
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𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒:  
👉 Pro Hockey Romance  
👉 Single Dad/Nanny  
👉 Forced Proximity  
👉 Spicy Lessons  
👉 Grumpy Sunshine  
👉 Age Gap  
👉 Opposites Attract  
👉 Found Family  
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𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨: 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴/𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬.  
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Cover Photography: Ren Saliba  
Cover Design: Kandi Steiner   
Discreet Cover Design: Staci Hart