book release – Professor Romance

new release

✍🏻 If you love romantic suspense, you will ADORE K.K. Allen’s Firefly Effect, out TODAY! This is a PERFECT read for this weekend! ✍🏻

May 24, 2024 professorromance

💫 𝐇𝐎𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 💫

𝙵𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙵𝙻𝚈 𝙴𝙵𝙵𝙴𝙲𝚃 by USA Today bestselling author K.K. Allen is now LIVE! Don’t miss this all new steamy romantic suspense!!!

One click today! FREE IN KU!

➜ https://geni.us/FireflyEffectBook

BLURB:

When a single dad moves to a small town and becomes obsessed with a potential client—a beautiful woman haunted by her tragic past.

For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents of the Appalachian Mountains.

Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods.

Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice.

All while she watched the boy she was with that night take the fall.

Fourteen years later, Evelyn is nothing more than a shell of her former self.

Her life moves like a clock from one moment to the next, never a surprise.

Gone are the days of chasing fireflies through the woods.

Until her therapist goes missing, and he’s replaced with someone new.

Dr. Lincoln Reed, a devastatingly handsome single dad with an intensity behind his evergreen eyes that jolts her back to life.

Or does it?

Evelyn is quickly losing grip of the suppressed reality she’s worked so hard to maintain.

With every new session on Dr. Reed’s couch comes a startling new revelation that has her past awakening like the sparkles of light she used to chase through the nighttime woods.

The Firefly Man was supposed to be a rumor, a fable, a spooky tale.

But Evelyn knows the truth.

He’s her very own phantom.

And he’s back.

𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳:⁣⁣⁣

💫 Small town romantic suspense

💫 Single dad to an adorable little girl

💫 He’s new to town & her new therapist

💫 She’s a book-loving bar manager

💫 This Hero is OBSESSED with her

💫 Angsty AF, of course 😉

💫 Thrilling, mysterious, and packed with steam

Add to Goodreads:

https://geni.us/FireflyEffectGR

ABOUT THE K.K. ALLEN:

K.K. Allen is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author who writes heartfelt and inspirational contemporary romance stories. K.K. graduated from the University of Washington with an Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences degree and currently resides in central Florida with her ridiculously handsome little dude who owns her heart.

K.K. published her first contemporary romance, Up in the Treehouse, 2016, which went on to win the Romantic Times 2016 Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best New Adult Book of the Year.

With K.K.’s love for inspirational and coming of age stories involving heartfelt narratives and honest emotions, you can be assured to always be surprised by what K.K. releases next.

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new release, Review

✍🏻 Professor Romance’s 4.5 ⭐️ Review: Melanie Harlow’s Hideaway Heart, book 2 of the Cherry Tree Harbor series ✍🏻

August 8, 2023 professorromance

Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐️

Tropes: a little bit of hate to love; small town romance; forced proximity/one bed; bodyguard/music star romance; found family; opposites attract; cinnamon roll alpha hero; best friend’s little sister

“I didn’t have to let fear stand in the way.”

Melanie Harlow’s Hideway Heart handily reminds us of the power of fear. Both her MMC and FMC struggle with different types of fear (fear of relationships and the consequences of standing up for oneself), and Harlow does many things well in this book to illustrate these struggles. Making this the focus of her characters’ journeys creates a tension that expands and recedes, creating an explosive chemistry between Xander and Kelly Jo, the main characters of her book. From one minute to the next, Harlow deftly keeps her readers guessing as to when they will finally consummate their relationship. The eventuality of that becomes explosive, offering up some serious 4-star steam. Crafting this tension is one of Harlow’s standards, the reason for her dedicated fan base.

Additionally, the initial hate-to-love between Xander and Kelly Jo turns up the fire of their chemistry making their physical moments much spicier. Xander’s domination of Kelly Jo and her willingness to feign fighting him create shades of fanciful dub-con in this book. It’s not spicy enough or problematic enough to warrant a content warning, but it feels fresh in a Melanie Harlow romance.

Harlow also adds nuggets of suspense in Hideaway Heart, which is a great vehicle for highlighting Xander’s protectiveness. In book 1 and even in much of this book, Xander is carefree, a bit of a jokester, and seemingly easygoing. It becomes apparent through Xander’s care of Kelly Jo that there is a gravity to his character. Xander and Kelly Jo’s chemistry and connection are a result of Xander’s possessiveness towards Kelly Jo as he unravels the suspense of her story. The intentionality of Harlow’s choices for this part of the story highlights her giftedness as an author.

Add to all of this the feeling of “found family” for Kelly Jo with Xander’s family plus a sweet epilogue and bonus epilogue to round out the textures of Hideaway Heart. The balance of humor, saccharine, and fieriness creates the perfect confection of romance. I will say that I felt something missing from the story which I can’t put my finger on. I’m still a bigger fan of the first book of Harlow’s Cherry Tree Harbor series, Runaway Love. But it’s inconsequential enough for me in the grand scheme of this series. I’m absolutely looking forward to the rest of the Buckley siblings’ stories. The teases for them in Hideway Heart have already ramped up my anticipation.

In love and romance,

Professor A

new release

✍🏻 J.L. Beck’s Empire of Lies is LIVE. Grab book 2 of her The Torrio Empire Trilogy TODAY! ✍🏻

May 19, 2023 professorromance

Our love story was doomed from the beginning. Forbidden. A temptation we couldn’t touch.

Empire Of Lies, an all-new dark mafia romance, book two in The Torrio Empire Trilogy from USA Today bestselling author J.L. Beck is available now!

My life used to be simple.

Quiet. Safe.

Until I fell in love with the dangerous billionaire arms dealer Callum Torrio.

Our love story was doomed from the beginning. Forbidden. A temptation we couldn’t touch.

His secrets have the power to kill me, and when I discover the hidden truth and the part he played in my mother’s death, I have no choice but to run.

But nothing will stop him from keeping me by his side.

A king needs his queen.

Where do you hide when the pain becomes suffocating and the man you thought you knew turns out to be the villain?

Start reading today!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/empireoflies

Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/empireoflies

Pre-order Empire Of Pain now, the stunning conclusion to Callum and Bianca’s story!

Releases June 16th!

Amazon: http://bit.ly/empireofpain

Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/empireofpain

Start from the beginning with Empire Of Lust, the start of Callum and Bianca’s story!

Amazon: https://amzn.to/empireoflust

Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/empireoflust

Learn more about J.L. Beck and her releases by visiting her website:

https://www.beckromancebooks.com/

new release

✍🏻 Happy Release Day, Katana Collins. Wingwoman is LIVE! ✍🏻

May 19, 2023 professorromance

Every hit song starts with one thing… heartbreak.

Wingwoman, an all-new steamy, country rockstar romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Katana Collins is available now!

As a country rockstar, I know one thing for sure: Every hit song starts with one thing… heartbreak.

She had two weeks to find my next muse…

…or she, herself, had to become it.

As a country rockstar, I know one thing for sure: Every hit song starts with one thing: heartbreak.

I’ve got six weeks to write my next hit album or else I’ll lose everything: My label. My ranch. My horse rescue.

In order to save everything else, I have to lose the most important thing of all: My heart.

Which means that to write this album, I need a muse.

This is where hiring Hope Evans comes in. Professional Wingwoman and matchmaker extraordinaire.

There’s one problem – my muse has decided it wants Hope.

Another problem? Hope refuses to be The One.

So I made her a bet. She has two weeks to find me a muse… or she herself has to become it.

If she loses our bet, she’ll be losing her heart.

Because hearts like mine don’t love…

They shatter.

In fact, I’m counting on it.

Start reading today!

Amazon: http://bit.ly/wingwoman

Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/wingwoman

Learn more about Katana Collins and her releases by visiting her websites:

https://katanacollins.com

new release

✍🏻 Yesterday was the day for the next Smartypants Romance release. Allie Winters’s Can’t Fight It, book 3 of her Lessons Learned series, is LIVE! Grab it NOW! ✍🏻

May 5, 2023 professorromance

Can’t Fight It, an all-new friends to lovers college romance from Allie Winters, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited!

Mousy bookworm. Psychology nerd. The kind of girl who constantly sticks her foot in her mouth.

The last thing I am is the type to attract the intimidating, motorcycle-riding guy in the apartment next door. Especially when that mouth of mine gets me in trouble and he overhears me talk smack about him…

So no one’s more surprised than me when he shows up as a participant in the psych study I’m running on campus. Or when he generously offers me some much-needed self-defense lessons. Or when we grow closer than I thought possible. It turns out some people aren’t at all what they seem at first glance. They can actually be everything you never knew you wanted in a man.

The thing is, Austin Langford is so far out of my league, it’s laughable. Muscled boxers don’t go for nobodies like me. I need to forget about this one-sided attraction.

Even when it feels like I can’t fight it.

‘Can’t Fight It’ is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #3 in the Lessons Learned series, Educated Romance World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

Grab your copy TODAY!

Amazon US: https://amzn.to/41knDYa

Amazon UK: https://bit.ly/3XLC3xr

Amazon CA: https://bit.ly/41agDNn

Amazon AU: https://bit.ly/3xKHdiG

Audible: Coming Soon

Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3mcKSTV

About Allie Winters

Allie is the author of the Suncoast University series, the Bishop Brothers series, and the Lessons Learned series. She lives in sunny Florida with her husband, daughter, and two cats. A librarian by day, she spends her nights writing happily ever afters. She enjoys reading, playing video games, and all things Disney.