Tag: brother’s best friend

new release

✍🏻 Thanks to Outlier, I have become a dedicated reader of Susie Tate. This story is unputdownable. I hadn’t read Susie Tate before, but I’ve been binge-listening to her booklist ever since finishing this beautifully written, emotional story about overcoming the trauma of our pasts and finding a soul-filled love for the future. ✍🏻

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✨ neurodiverse heroine

✨ protective hero

✨ she falls first but he falls harder

✨ opposites attract

✨ not-so-secret crush

✨ hero grovels

✨ brother’s best friend

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Vicky is an outlier. An outlier in society, an outlier in the business world; she’s even an outlier in her own family. She knows that people find her weird and annoying, and she’s resigned to her loneliness until she sees him. Having never been attracted to any man before, her new obsession with burly, rough and ready Mike and the fact she can’t breathe when he’s close comes as a shock.

Unfortunately, Vicky’s cold beauty doesn’t appeal to Mike. The woman they call the Ice Princess is the opposite of his type, and her obvious crush irritates him. How many times does he have to make it clear he’s not interested before she gets the message?

But there are things about Vicky Mike doesn’t know. Reasons she behaves the way she does. Loneliness, vulnerability and kindness, that she keeps hidden. And information her family should have shared with him. So when the fireworks start, and she screams, he acts on instinct, pulling her body into his. And when she buries into his chest, shaking in fear, for some reason he’s not so annoyed by her anymore…

This is a full-length, enemies-to-lovers romance with a neurodiverse heroine and a grumpy but protective hero.

Trigger warnings for assault and mentions of child abuse and neglect.

CONTENT WARNINGS

This novel contains descriptions of assault, domestic violence and past childhood neglect and abuse. Please read at your own discretion.

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new release

✍🏻 J. Saman’s next story in her Boston’s Irresistible Billionaires series, Undeniably Enemies. This is, by my estimation, one of her kinkiest stories. You can grab this one TODAY! ✍🏻

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🩺💥❤️‍🔥UNDENIABLY ENEMIES is LIVE ❤️‍🔥💥🩺

Undeniably Enemies is…

👨‍⚕️Grumpy, obsessed doctor

🩺 Sunshine medical student with a tragic past

💥 Enemies to Lovers

🫣 Brother’s Best Friend

🏥 He’s her boss

🤭 Age gap (10 years)

🏠 Neighbors to Lovers

🤫 Secret relationship & texts

🔥SUPER STEAMY w/ k!nk and play

❤️‍🔥So Many FEELS

http://geni.us/UndeniablyEnemies

BLURB:

I knew better than to take my best friend’s little sister’s virginity at that Halloween party. But in my defense, I didn’t know how to say no. Or maybe I simply didn’t want to.

She was my Cinderella and I was her masked villain.

Then I ruined everything. Twice.

Years later we’re undeniably enemies, our hate for each other legendary.

Except I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her. Or that night.

Only now she works for me in the hospital where she’s a medical student and I’m an attending physician. Not to mention, without realizing it, I bought the apartment next to hers.

We try to keep things professional but when she learns the truth behind the secrets I’ve been keeping, angry sparks explode into a raging inferno of scorching touches and burning passion.

I know I have to keep my distance. She’s all wrong for me. Too young. Too bratty. Too dangerous to the life I’ve worked tirelessly to rebuild. The one being with her would destroy.

The problem is, I’ve never wanted anyone more. And I don’t know how to stay away for long.

Especially when I discover I’m not the only one keeping secrets.

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Free book

✍🏻 Looking for a free read? Today is your day. Grab Amy Daws’s Replay TODAY! Sale ends December 15th! ✍🏻

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⚽️ 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐁𝐈𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓!! ⚽️

For a limited time 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 by Amy Daws is ZERO PENNIES!! The follow up to Amazon #1 bestseller, BLINDSIDED… this Scottish lass isn’t falling for her brother’s best friend. 

She’s falling for his enemy…

⚽️ Grab Replay here: https://geni.us/Replay

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Well hello, Ax! Who’s ready for Laurelin Paige’s Brutal Bargain? This cover is pure FIRE!!! ✍🏻

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BRUTAL BARGAIN by Laurelin Paige

Release Date: October 9th
Photographer: Wander Aguiar

Model: Chris C
Alternate Cover Designer: Pretty Indie

PREORDER NOW!!! 

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Add to Goodreads: 

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What to expect: 

✔️Marriage of convenience

✔️Forbidden romance 

✔️Enemies to lovers 

✔️He falls first
✔️Brother’s best friend  

✔️Fake relationship
✔️Forced proximity 

✔️Family saga
✔️Billionaire Romance 

Blurb:

She needs a husband. He won’t let anyone else have her.

Ax Morgan has played many roles in my life: My brother’s best friend. The most notorious member of the Sebastian News Corp executive team. My enemy with benefits. 

But my husband?

No thanks.

Our after hours scenes are simply a convenient way for me to blow off steam while I plot my exit from my toxic family’s company. 

But when I need a groom so I can claim my inheritance, he presents me with a choice that’s more like blackmail—marry him, or he’ll sabotage me. So between the devil and the deep blue sea, I let the devil put a ring on it. 

Turns out this is the role he plays best of all. 

The worst part of pretending with Ax is how real it’s starting to feel. 

Now my future is in his hands. And if he finds out what I’m planning, he’ll be the one with the impossible choice. Who loses everything—his best friend or his fake wife?

Check out the Brutal Billionaires

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About Laurelin:

With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. 

When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Killing Eve or Letterkenny, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She’s also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn’t do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio. 

She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.

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✍🏻 J. Saman’s Undeniably Forbidden is LIVE! ONS to more! What’s not to love? ✍🏻

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Undeniably Forbidden by J. Saman is now live! 

From USA Today bestselling author J. Saman comes a steamy new standalone, brother’s best friend, age-gap, billionaire romance about a broody single dad doctor and the curvy nanny who brings him to his knees.

In my defense, I had no clue the gorgeous guy I had a wildly steamy night with was my brother’s best friend. Or the single dad of the little girl I was about to nanny.

I hadn’t seen Dr. Owen Fritz since I was twelve and he was twenty-four, but even back then, I didn’t care much about him.

He was doing his billionaire, master-of-the-universe, medical school thing, and I was too into art and books to notice anyone.

Now he’s cold and broody, but he doesn’t scare me the way he does everyone else.

He’s been scarred, but I’ve been scarred worse.

We both promise to leave that night in the past, vowing to keep this secret between us and stay professional from now on.

Especially since I’m living with him—sleeping down the hall from him—and his adorable little girl.

Until one night of hell changes everything and all those promises we’ve been struggling to keep don’t just break, they shatter.

Now there’s no holding him back.

And the more he watches me with those magnetic eyes or whisks me into dark corners and puts his heated hands on my body, the more I forget why what we’re doing is so undeniably forbidden.

We’re playing with an unstoppable fire.

And we’re both about to get burned.

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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

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14923699.J_Saman

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-Saman/author/B01FOIUR46

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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 I was in a post-Book Bonanza coma yesterday and didn’t get a chance to show you this beautiful specimen. J. Saman is NOT disappointing with Sean as Dr. Owen Fritz. Hell-oooo handsome! Get ready for Undeniably Forbidden, coming July 22nd! ✍🏻

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

Releasing: July 22, 2024

Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Model: Sean

In my defense, I had no clue the gorgeous guy I had a wildly steamy night with was my brother’s best friend. Or the single dad of the little girl I was about to nanny.

I hadn’t seen Dr. Owen Fritz since I was twelve and he was twenty-four, but even back then, I didn’t care much about him.

He was doing his billionaire, master-of-the-universe, medical school thing, and I was too into art and books to notice anyone.

Now he’s cold and broody, but he doesn’t scare me the way he does everyone else.

He’s been scarred, but I’ve been scarred worse.

We both promise to leave that night in the past, vowing to keep this secret between us and stay professional from now on.

Especially since I’m living with him—sleeping down the hall from him—and his adorable little girl.

Until one night of hell changes everything and all those promises we’ve been struggling to keep don’t just break, they shatter.

Now there’s no holding him back.

And the more he watches me with those magnetic eyes or whisks me into dark corners and puts his heated hands on my body, the more I forget why what we’re doing is so undeniably forbidden.

We’re playing with an unstoppable fire.

And we’re both about to get burned.

Pre-order your copy today!

http://geni.us/UndeniablyForbidden

Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3URHD36

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

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14923699.J_Saman

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-Saman/author/B01FOIUR46

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jsamanbooks

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jsamansradtasticreaders

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/jsamanbooks

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new release

✍🏻 Tia Louise’s The Way We Touch will steal your heart! Run and grab this one quick! ✍🏻

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✨Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for THE WAY WE TOUCH by @authortlouise! I could NOT put this story down. Logan is complete and utter swooniness. There is nothing better than an MMC who falls HARD and fast, not letting “his girl” get away. Grab this from KU NOW!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🔥Small Town
🔥Brother’s Best Friend
🔥Sports Romance
🔥Different Worlds
🔥Found Family
🔥Mutual “self-care”
🔥Dirty Talking hero

My brother’s best friend might be a cocky wide receiver with an ego the size of Texas, but I did not mean to almost kill him with a ghost pepper.

Logan Murphy should come with a warning.

He’s as hot as a Carolina Reaper on black asphalt in the middle of July.

With perfectly messy dark hair and smoldering blue eyes—and don’t even get me started on the way that black tee stretches across his toned chest…

He’s my brother’s best friend.

He’s also a football star on track to win the first wide-receiver MVP in league history.

Good thing I only date golfers… or I did.

Good thing he’s only visiting for a month, because the more I see he’s not a player, the harder it is to block him from running away with my heart.

I’ve always loved football, but after eight years pro, everything about it leaves me cold.

So when I agree to head south with my best friend, the last thing I expect is to have my face melted off by his pepper-loving little sister.

Dylan Bradford was supposed to be a kid, not a feisty pinup who looks at me like she’s never seen a man before.

She’s all curves and cutoffs, bare feet dancing in the warm summer night,

But I’m only in town a month, and she doesn’t date football players.

Then late-night talks turn to sharing past hurts and future dreams, and shy looks turn to confident kisses.

The heat between us can’t be denied.

It’s spicy and sweet, and it melts us together.

Until the way we touch becomes more than friendly—it’s forever.

(A small-town, brother’s best friend, sports romance with hilarious “accidents,” and a dirty-talking hero. No cheating. No cliffhanger. No third-act breakup.)

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 A sports romance from Tia Louise? What? Check out the covers for The Way We Touch and preorder it TODAY! ✍🏻

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Tia Louise has revealed the covers for The Way We Touch!

Releasing June 10, 2024

My brother’s best friend might be a cocky wide receiver with an ego the size of Texas, but I did not mean to almost kill him with a ghost pepper.

Logan Murphy should come with a warning.

He’s as hot as a Carolina Reaper on black asphalt in the middle of July. 

With perfectly messy dark hair and smoldering blue eyes—and don’t even get me started on the way that black tee stretches across his toned chest…

He’s my brother’s best friend.

He’s also a football star on track to win the first wide-receiver MVP in league history.

Good thing I only date golfers… or I did.

Good thing he’s only visiting for a month, because the more I see he’s not a player, the harder it is to block him from running away with my heart.

I’ve always loved football, but after eight years pro, everything about it leaves me cold.

So when I agree to head south with my best friend, the last thing I expect is to have my face melted off by his pepper-loving little sister.

Dylan Bradford was supposed to be a kid, not a feisty pinup who looks at me like she’s never seen a man before. 

She’s all curves and cutoffs, bare feet dancing in the warm summer night, 

But I’m only in town a month, and she doesn’t date football players.

Then late-night talks turn to sharing past hurts and future dreams, and shy looks turn to confident kisses.

The heat between us can’t be denied. 

It’s spicy and sweet, and it melts us together. 

Until the way we touch becomes more than friendly—it’s forever.

(A small-town, brother’s best friend, sports romance with hilarious “accidents,” and a dirty-talking hero. No cheating. No cliffhanger. No third-act breakup.)

Cover Designer: Lori Jackson Design
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
Model: Andrew Biernat
Cover Designer: Wildheart Graphics
Cover Illustrator: Laura Moore 

Preorder your copy today!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWJZ9QDT   

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/49XtLIZ 

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Tia Louise is the USA TODAY best-selling, award-winning author of super-hot and sexy romances. All her heroes are alphas with hearts of gold, and all her heroines are the smart, sassy ladies who love them. 

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Jessica Peterson’s I Wish We Had Forever, the final book of her Harbour Village series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-

Tropes: brother’s best friend; best friend’s sister; small town; unrequited until it’s not; fated/soulmates; opposites attract; fake marriage

Jessica Peterson’s I Wish We Had Forever is the perfect exclamation point to a series that has stolen the hearts of many, including mine. A story in her Harbour Village series, her newest book tells the story of Abel, the friend of the heroes in the first two books of the series, and Jen, the younger sister of Tuck from book 2. Peterson has crafted a narrative that delves deep into the emotional struggles of two souls meant to be more, but Abel’s past and family have taught him that he “isn’t enough” for Jen. The tension between Abel’s clear love and attraction for Jen and his reticence to pursue her for something more is a heart-wrenching journey. You want to reach into the story and comfort him, telling him he is worthy of Jen’s brand of “good girl” love. Peterson uses the character of Abel to incite your emotions because his denial is painful to endure at times. 

The heat of the book comes from Jen’s willingness to accept his idea of a fake marriage. In fact, this is one of Peterson’s steamiest since Abel likes it rough and dirty. When Jen and Abel decide to get it out of their system, it lights the pages on fire. Peterson vacillates between their $exfest and their emotional entanglement. 

Thankfully, I Wish We Had Forever has the Harbour Village crew to add dimension to Abel and Jen’s story. From the tension between Tuck and Abel to the fatherly advice of Tuck and Jen’s father, Joe, readers find themselves on a roller coaster of emotions. As Joe shows Abel the truth about himself, he recognizes that he has loved and will always love Jen, mitigating their final coupleship. For me, Joe and Abel’s talk was the impetus for my tears in this story because Abel just wants to love and be loved by the love of his life. 

Jessica Peterson’s I Wish I Had Forever provides the perfect ending to her Harbour Village series. It stands as a powerful testament that love, when given a chance, can conquer our pasts and set us up for a beautiful future. It’s a beacon of hope, reminding us that love has the power to heal and transform, if we simply allow it.

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