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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Annika Martin’s The Grumpy Billionaire ✍🏻

Overall Grade: B+

Tropes: unrequited love; opposites attract; found family; grump/sunshine; billionaire MMC; rom-com

Gah, I don’t want Annika Martin to ever stop writing grumpy billionaire romances. Seriously. Just when I think she can’t write a different story, she finds one. Now, she has found a formula that seems to work for her: grumpy billionaire plus a heroine who keeps him on his toes, extrapolating his humanity through her erstwhile, independent way. Martin’s newest story, The Grumpy Billionaire, is more of this, and it is sure to put a smile on your face by the end. 

To get there, however, her billionaire MMC, Hugo, has to recognize his feelings for her FMC, Stella, and he has to become comfortable acting on them. Thankfully, it doesn’t take him too long to recognize them, but it does take him a while to accept them. Martin has paced out her story well, building a mountain of chemistry between Stella and Hugo. It’s one of my favorite parts of this book. But Stella’s burgeoning understanding of Hugo is the piece de resistance of this book. If you fall in love with anything in The Grumpy Billionaire, it’s the puzzle pieces clicking together that charm your pants off.

I love Annika Martin’s ability to draw characters that are equal parts quirky and spicy. Her capacity to draw a swatch of characters over several books is special. She treats her readers to past beloved characters, and they work together to build a world that readers want to return to over and over again. Stella and Hugo now exist in this universe. We can also add their parents and Stella’s brother to that mix. Honestly, Annika Martin’s world of billionaires makes me remember the days of Fisher Price Little People toys: so many options and potential stories to tell. 

If you’re looking for a story that will put a smile on your face, you should grab Annika Martin’s The Grumpy Billionaire today.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Review: Catherine Bybee’s The Whole Time ✍🏻

Overall Grade: B

Tropes: insta-attraction; opposites attract; friend’s brother

Catherine Bybee’s The Whole Time gifts us with Salena’s romance. If you’ve been reading her The D’Angelos series, Salena has been a breath of fresh air amongst the old charm of the D’Angelo’s romances. While her best friend, Chloe, is the requisite rule-follower, Salena marches to the beat of her own drum. She’s independent (seemingly so) and knows herself well. She’s a $exual being who doesn’t apologize for it. Instead, we find through her story that she leans into it, and it’s her superpower. 

It would make sense that she would need a partner such as Ryan who would accept her as she is and be attracted by it. The self-professed “black sheep” of his family, Ryan is an apt match for Salena. The Whole Time is a story of instant attraction and a journey of becoming. The story begins with Salena sneaking out of her parents’ home to find the independence she craves from her old-world Italian family. It ends with her having found that independence and a whole lot more. 

What I’ve loved about The D’Angelos series is its location, the charm of its characters, and the real-life feel of Bybee’s characters. These are characters whom you expect to meet on your street. While we might not be Italian, we understand the difficulty of growing up with a certain amount of respect for parental expectations while also wanting to find our own space. Bybee deftly crafts this struggle in both Ryan’s and Salena’s lives. She makes it palpable and understandable for her reader.  Whether you’re the son of a wealthy wine owner or the daughter of traditional Italians, we can understand the want to be our own person on our own terms. 

Throughout The Whole Time, we are once again treated to the lives of the D’Angelos after the conclusions of their stories. I love the relationships that Bybee has created through these stories. The theme of family is the foundation of these stories, and they add a layer to Salena and Ryan’s romantic journey. 

My biggest criticism about this story is its heavy-handedness in chronology. In the former D’Angelos stories, they don’t read like a time diary. This one, however, walks us through each month of Ryan and Salina’s lives. It sometimes makes the story feel tedious. While I believe the character development and the capacity to place them in the space of this world are these story’s strengths, there were times when the story read slow, and I believe it has to do with the plodding of its chronology.

Catherine Bybee, however, did not disappoint with The Whole Time. My favorite moments come at the end when Ryan and Salena find their happy ending on their own terms. Even though this book and its predecessors are set in San Diego and Temecula, neither of which I’d describe as traditional “small towns,” this newest book from Bybee gives you all the feels of a small-town romance.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Alert! Alert! Foxx Carmichael is HERE. I repeat, Foxx Carmichael is here. I don’t know about you, but I have been WAITING for Adriana Locke’s Flame…because Foxx Carmichael. You can grab it NOW! ✍🏻

Flame by Adriana Locke is now live! 

RSVP to my Marriage of Convenience

I swore I would only get married if my life depended on it. Oh, the irony.

Many things have happened over the last few weeks that I didn’t see coming. My family imploded. Our business was turned upside down. And someone threatened to harm me if I didn’t make good on my father’s promises.

But the biggest thing I didn’t see coming?

Foxx Carmichael demanding marriage.

He’s doing it out of loyalty to my brother. I know that. But I can’t help but think if, through that deliciously hot, grumpy exterior, my bodyguard doesn’t have ulterior motives.

There’s no denying the fire in his touch or the heat in his blue eyes. He protects me with a ferocity that leaves me breathless. He makes me rethink many things I thought I knew for sure—like my position on marriage.

But how we dance around our fake relationship makes me wonder what part of this is pretend. None of it matters if he doesn’t admit he feels the same way.

Our sham wedding will fall apart as soon as the threat is contained. But what happens if the flames between us burn everything to the ground first?

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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.

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✍🏻 Devlin and Lexi are HERE! The next book in Melanie Harlow’s charming Cherry Tree Harbor series is LIVE. Make Believe Match is the perfect spicy snack before your Thanksgiving holiday. Grab it TODAY!!! ✍🏻

Make-Believe Match by Melanie Harlow is now live! 

𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝘆? 𝗡𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘆.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗸𝗶 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁? 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆…

Getting hitched is the only way I can inherit Snowberry Lodge, and I’ll do anything to spare my childhood home from the wrecking ball-even wear Devlin Buckley’s ring on my finger.

Not that I’ll enjoy it.

Sure, he’s charming and handsome, and that no-last-names one night stand we shared ended with a fantastically big bang (I saw stars I hadn’t seen in six months, if you catch my drift).

But I’ll never trust him-he was working for the company trying to bulldoze my life.

Right up until the day he knocked on my door with an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Marry him, and he’ll help me restore my family’s crumbling resort to its former glory-and get revenge on his ex-boss in the process. Once our goals are achieved, we’ll go our separate ways.

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄.

𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 “𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗳𝗲.”

Once we’re sharing a last name-and a bed-our make-believe match starts to feel a little too real.

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝗜’𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹, 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴… 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁.

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Meet Melanie


USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Melanie Harlow writes sweet, sexy, feel-good romance. She likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. If she’s not writing or reading, she’s probably at Orangetheory or watching Schitt’s Creek again. She lifts her glass to readers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

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new release

✍🏻 If you love small-town romance a la Devney Perry, Melanie Harlow, or Catherine Cowles, you will LOVE Stacy Travis’s newest book, Love You More, book 1 of her new Buttercup Hill series. It’s out NOW! ✍🏻

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Love You More by Stacy Travis is now live! 

A Sizzling, Small-town, Grumpy/Sunshine, Single Dad Romance.

Jackson Corbett is a gorgeous single dad who doesn’t want complications at his family winery. And I’m the messy tornado who just offered to be his new nanny.

Jackson Corbett is not impressed when I show up for an interview in my pajamas at the wrong time. But I need this job working in the tasting room at Buttercup Hill Vineyards and I’ll do anything to get it. Years of sommelier courses and amateur wine-making have landed me here, at the best winery in Napa Valley, and I’m here to stay.

So I make him a deal. 

He’s overworked and stretched thin with parenting and a stressful job. I tell him that if I’m hired by the winery, I’ll work a second job as his nanny. 

I can endure the world’s grouchiest dad and entertain his feisty seven-year-old if it means career advancement, paying off my debts, while taking care of my younger sister.

I also know there’s no risk of romantic entanglement because Jackson is a grade-A grump—albeit a hot and chiseled one—who’s been burned by love. The weight of the world sits on his muscular shoulders, and he spends most of his time worrying about his daughter and looking at spreadsheets.

The last thing I’m concerned about is how he looks at me. 

Until he does.

I catch him sneaking glances, and I can’t help staring right back. And noticing how sweet he is with his daughter, how his chilly façade starts to melt, and how he lingers longer than necessary when I’m around.

I find myself wanting to help him even if it means spending more time away from my sister, right when she needs me the most. I’m terrified of letting down the only real family I have left.

Falling for him could ruin my carefully-wrought plans.

But what if I love him more?

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Meet Stacy Travis

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Stacy Travis writes spicy small-town romance about bookish, sassy women and the hot heroes who fall for them.

Writing makes her infinitely happy, but that might be the coffee talking. 

She’s worked as a journalist, camp counselor, TV writer, SAT tutor, corporate finance researcher, education technology editor, and non-fiction author. When she’s not on a deadline, she’s in running shoes complaining that all roads seem to go uphill. Or on the couch with a margarita. Or fangirling at a soccer game.

She’s never met a dog she didn’t want to hug. And if you have no plans for Thanksgiving, she’ll probably invite you to dinner.

Stacy lives in Los Angeles with her two sons and a poorly-trained rescue dog who hoards socks. And she’s serious about the Thanksgiving thing.

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new release

✍🏻 Annika Martin’s romances are pure deliciousness. Her broody misunderstood MMCs with her smarter-than-the-MMC FMCs create some of the best rom-com magic in romancelandia. Grab The Grumpy Billionaire TODAY! ✍🏻

The Grumpy Billionaire by Annika Martin is now live! 

I’m the most feared man on Wall Street…unfortunately, my best friend’s little sister hasn’t gotten the memo.   

I brandish equations like lightning bolts and shatter fortunes with mere scribbles on a whiteboard. People up and down Wall Street steer clear of me—or come to regret it. 

My walls are impenetrable as Alcatraz, and my self-control? Rock solid, my friend.

Except when it comes to her.

The woman I’ve secretly longed for. The only woman I can never have.

My best friend’s little sister, Stella.

Growing up, she saw me as a heartless robot. It couldn’t be further from the truth, but a promise I made to her brother binds me, and my code of honor is as rigid as my isosceles triangle.

I hadn’t laid eyes on her for years, but now she’s in the heart of Manhattan, and I’ve unintentionally sent her career into a nosedive. My solution? Offer her a job at my hedge fund. 

Suddenly I’m the boss of her, faced daily with her sparkling eyes and gummy worm obsession–and her infuriating refusal to stay away from me. 

Well, I buried my feelings for her once before. I’ll do it again—to the nth degree.

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Meet Annika

Annika Martin is a NYT bestselling author who loves reading, taking pictures of her cats, consuming boatloads of chocolate suckers, and helping animals. When she’s not writing, she can be found hanging out in Minneapolis coffee shops with her awesome husband and tending her out-of-control garden.

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Jewel E. Ann’s Not What I Expected is such a fantastic read. Check out its surprise special edition cover! ✍🏻

🎉 Surprise! 🎉 

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 @𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐣𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰! 

𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 #𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝  

Amazon: https://books2read.com/u/4XEa7N 
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𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬:  

Limited Edition Cover 

Not What I Expected—a full-length enemies-to-lovers, small-town romance. 

Christmas in Birdville—a sexy holiday novella previously published in The Holidate Season anthology. 

USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Jewel E. Ann redefines modern romance with this unforgettable enemies-to-lovers story. 

Are humans meant to mate for life? 

After four kids and an unfortunate but fateful end to her twenty-two-year marriage, Elsie Smith meets the new guy in town. 

Kael Hendricks is … a little younger, a lot sexy, and too confident for his own good. He also doesn’t believe in marriage, and all that goes with it. 

And … 

He’s just opened a new business that threatens the livelihood of Elsie’s family’s store—just in time for the holidays. 

The problem? 

There’s an undeniable attraction that leads to out-of-control situations, a loss of inhibitions, and a lot of small-town gossip. 

As Elsie tries to redefine herself and convince her family she isn’t having a midlife crisis, she’s forced to answer the biggest question of all … 

Can she love an enemy who will never surrender? 

Christmas in Birdville 

Henry Bechtel’s mom is coming home for Christmas. Only, he lost the family house in a game of poker. Days before his mom’s arrival, he meets the new owner and seizes the opportunity to coerce her into letting him move back “home” for the holidays. What he doesn’t know is that she has questionable motives, too. 

#notwhatiexpected #jeweleann #ContemporaryRomance #HolidayRomance #SmallTownRomance

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 I LOVE Meghan Quinn’s Vancouver Agitators series…and I’ve been WAITING for Halsey Holmes’s story. The cover is HERE. Check out He’s Not My Type. You can preorder it NOW!!! ✍🏻

From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a new roommates-to-lovers, standalone sports romance featuring the hockey men you can’t get enough of. This steamy, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy will bring all the laughs while making your cheeks blush at the same time.

Releasing November 28th in all formats, check out the cover and sneak peek below and pre-order your copy today!

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About HE’S NOT MY TYPE (Coming 11/28/2023):

Word to the wise, never become roommates with a girl you’ve been pining over for the better part of a year. 

You’re probably wondering why I would do such a thing? Well, I didn’t. 

It was my teammates. 

The moment they found out Blakely White was single, they took it upon themselves to play cupid and instruct me on how I should win her over.

Don’t wear a shirt around her.
Make her dinner.
Lightly touch her shoulder when you say goodbye. 

I’m so flustered, so overwhelmed, so madly in love with this woman who barely notices me, that I lose control of the situation and make one huge mistake: I offer to be her fake date for a wedding so she can make her ex jealous. 

That means, for one whole night I get a free pass with her. I get to hold her, dance with her, kiss her…stare at her from across the room like she’s my entire world because she has been for months now. 

But when the night comes to an end, I’m faced with two options: bring her back to my bedroom and show her how I really feel, or let her walk away, succumbing to the fact that I very well might not be her type.

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Get your sneak peek here!

When I see the office door is open, I steel my nerves and knock on the wood while poking my head in. 

She’s sitting at her desk, staring into space so my knock startles her. “Oh, Halsey,” she says, making eye contact. “What are you doing here?”

I step into her office. “Uh, I thought you might need a new phone.” I walk up to her desk and place it on the glass surface. 

“Seriously?” she asks, looking stunned. “You got me a phone?”

I pull on the back of my neck while holding the donuts, starting to feel even more foolish from her reaction. “Well, I assumed you might need one for the game tonight and everything. You just need to insert your SIM card. I didn’t know what case you’d like so I just grabbed this,” I say while pulling a purple case from my back pocket. “Apparently it doesn’t slip from hands easily. And there’s a screen protector already installed on it as well. The purple is for the Agitators, but feel free to change it.”

She stares at the phone and the case for a few seconds before looking up at me. 

“If you don’t like it or if it’s wrong, I can take it back. I have time, so I can make the trip.”

She shakes her head. “No, sorry, I love it, I’m just . . . stunned, is all. This was so nice of you. Thank you, Halsey.”

“Oh sure.” I set the donuts down as well. “And these are because you said you needed a donut. Not sure if you were able to pick one up or not.”

She offers me that beautiful smile, which makes me so goddamn weak that I grip the chair in front of me so I don’t make a fool of myself. 

“I wasn’t able to grab a donut, so you just made my day.”

“Well, I felt bad, so . . . hope your day goes better.”

She stands from her desk and rounds it, coming right up to me. Unsure what she’s about to do, I just stare at her as she loops her arms around me and pulls me into a hug. 

A warm, genuine hug. 

I’m quite stiff at first, but after one second of feeling her around me, my arms immediately circle her, and my head leans in, taking in the sweet scent of her shampoo—it’s like a field of flowers. 

“Thank you so much, Halsey. I appreciate it.”

“Oh, you’re welcome,” I say as she pulls away. My fingers drag along her slender back before I let go. 

Those beautiful eyes stare up at me as she says, “It’s been an insane day, and I’m not sure I even apologized for flashing you. Did I? I blacked out. I know I spoke of a loincloth. Honestly, it wasn’t my best moment.” She flips open the donut box and pulls one out. She then takes a giant bite before letting her head fall back while she moans in delight. 

Oh man, I’m a goner . . .

Erin Mallon and Connor Crais narrate this sexy, roommates-to-lovers romance in duet with a full cast including Jason Clarke, Teddy Hamilton, JF Harding, and Kelsey Navarro! HE’S NOT MY TYPE will be released on November 28th, and you can pre-order it now!

https://mybook.to/HesNotMyType

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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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Happy Cover Reveal Day, L.B. Dunbar! What’s not to love about a silver fox cover! Check out Sterling Brick, coming January 25th! ✍🏻

From L.B. Dunbar comes an all-new small-town romance with a big family and the silver fox swoon one expects from her love over-40 romances. STERLING BRICK will be released on January 25, 2024. We are thrilled to share the cover with you! 

PRE-ORDER HERE

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What to expect:

✔️reunited high school sweethearts

✔️former military man

✔️current fireman/bricklayer

✔️newly divorced single mom

✔️she-grump/sunshine

✔️all the spice

✔️small-town romance

BLURB: 

Love wasn’t part of the blueprint when high school sweethearts reunite in their small town. But this former military man never forgot the girl he left behind and he’s more determined than ever to rebuild their relationship brick by brick and heart by heart.

Getting locked in the men’s restroom during my mother’s funeral wasn’t exactly how I expected to run into my high school sweetheart. The one who got away. The one who broke my heart.

I could toss the busted doorknob in my hand at him, but I’d prefer to get the heck away. Because twenty years later, Knox Sylver isn’t a teenage boy anymore but a broad-shouldered, thick scruff man with eyes that still look at me like I’m the only person in the room.

As a newly divorced mother of two teenagers, it’s been a long time since anyone sees me. And Knox is definitely watching.

Unfortunately, he made choices in the past and I wasn’t one of them.

According to him, that is ancient history. 

Also, according to him, it’s never too late for a second chance. He’s out to prove he’s solid and stable, having returned to our small hometown, in a better place after a career in the military. He’s a local hero as a fireman and he wants to rekindle the flame between us.

I’m the one with decisions this round.

Do I stay where memories hurt? Or do I leave my past, and Knox, behind me again?

Golden Czermak/FuriousFotog, photographer; Joey Berry, model; Lori Jackson Designs, cover designer. 

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 ABOUT L.B. DUNBAR:

L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever. She’s a USA TODAY Bestselling Author, as well as an Amazon Top 10 Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Sarina Bowen is one of my FAVORITE authors. Check out the cover for her first thriller, The Five Year Lie, coming May 7th, 2024! ✍🏻

RELEASE DATE: MAY 7TH, 2024

“I devoured this book in one day, and I guarantee you will too.”—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell

“An expertly woven story of love, revenge, and murder. In a world where so many books feel so similar—this was a refreshingly unique read and an addictive blend of love and mystery that I couldn’t put down. This is storytelling at its finest and I can’t recommend this book enough.”—AR Torre, New York Times bestselling author of Every Last Secret

Bestselling romance author Sarina Bowen’s debut thriller, about one woman’s search for the truth after receiving a text from her deceased ex.

Dead men don’t send texts . . .

On an ordinary Monday morning, Ariel Cafferty’s phone buzzes with a disturbing text message. Something’s happened. I need to see you. Meet me under the candelabra tree ASAP. The words would be jarring from anyone, but the sender is the only man she ever loved. And it’s been several years since she learned he died.

Seeing Drew’s name pop up is heart-stopping. Ariel’s gut says it can’t be real. But she goes to the tree anyway. She has to.

Nobody shows. But the text upends everything she thought she knew about the day he left her. The more questions she asks, the more sinister the answers get. Only two things are clear: everything she was told five years ago is wrong, and someone is still lying to her. 

The truth has to be out there somewhere. To safeguard herself—and her son—she’ll have to find it before it finds her. And with it, the answer to what became of Drew. 

For fans of Laura Dave and Julie Clark, but with a heart-stopping romance that only Sarina Bowen can execute, The Five Year Lie is a page-turning, spine-tingling thriller that will have you guessing until the very end.

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