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Cover Reveal

✍🏻 Stacy Travis’s Love You Truly is coming June 27th! Check out her gorgeous cover for this fake engagement/small town romance! ✍🏻

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Stacy Travis has revealed the gorgeous covers for Love You Truly!

Releasing: June 27, 2024

Best way to get rid of an evil ex? Plan a fake wedding with a gorgeous heartbreaker and let the small-town gossip fly. What could possibly go wrong?

Just when I’m about to inherit my family’s sleepy winery and bring it to life, my old-fashioned parents throw a wrench in my plans. Thanks to my ex, they’re convinced I can’t run it without a man’s business savvy, so they’ve made him my partner. 

The only way out is to marry some other guy.

Dash Corbett comes to my rescue with a pretend kiss in a cowboy bar, and we devise a one-year plan that will help us both. Dash needs a reputation makeover, and I need a husband. Win-win.

And falling for my fake fiancé? Not a chance.

Dash might have a distractingly hot exterior, but rumor has it he’s a playboy–and I’ve had enough of men who don’t mean what they say.

Then I get to know him.

Beneath the surface, he’s a guy with his own vineyard dreams and a cinnamon roll heart. He’s the first man to see me as more than a social butterfly. And when he touches me, I melt like butter on toast.

Soon our pretend relationship starts feeling very real. Especially when he says “my wife” in a possessive way that makes me believe our lie. 

Falling for Dash could ruin more than my wine country dreams. But what if I love him truly? 

Love You Truly is a standalone, small-town romance in the Buttercup Hill series, where the wine is chilled and the men are hot.

Pre-order your copy today!

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Meet Stacy

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

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

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💫 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

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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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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Kilby Blades’s Young Buck, a Green Valley Heroes romance ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

Tropes: close proximity/neighbors; age gap; small town; he falls first; grump/sunshine; golden retriever MMC; girl squad

Kilby Blades’s contributions are among the best things that have happened to Smartypants Romance. Don’t get me wrong; I have a lot of authors whom I love writing in this world, but Kilby Blades has a way of bringing more to her romances, and it brings added layers to this world. In Young Buck, Blades introduces us to neighbors, Buck Rogers (a nice throwback to one of my favorite 80s shows) and Loretta. These two have a wild meet-cute that makes you laugh and feel bad for Buck. As the story progresses, Blades gifts us with Loretta’s capacity as an independent, intelligent woman who transcends a traumatic background to succeed in her present day. She wraps Loretta’s story in the genuine adoration of Buck, who falls first. The PR machine behind this book considers Buck the sunshine of the tale and Loretta the grump, but I think the reality is a golden retriever/black cat trope. Loretta, as a PI of cheating spouses, has seen the worst of relationships while also living through it. It isn’t that she’s grumpy; she’s careful and decisive about relationships. With his privilege, Buck has been less thoughtful about it, but a situation in his life allows him an understanding of Loretta’s past. Buck must also navigate a new job in leadership at the Green Valley Fire Department, which brings tension. Blades challenges him throughout this story, and it adds gravity to his “golden retriever” vibe. 

Throughout all of this is an underlying story about Buck’s family that surprises him and the reader. This plotline drives the story forward and keeps the readers engaged. As Buck and Loretta grow closer, their romance becomes the sweet essence of the book. It’s also here where my one criticism of the story lies. Blades makes a choice about Buck that threatens his relationship with Loretta, and I understand its need to create tension in their relationship. However, given how Blades develops Buck’s character, it is “out of character” for him and seems inconsistent. 

With Young Buck, Kilby Blades shows us why we should read her more. She crafts entertaining characters and draws us into her romantic stories. The ending of Young Buck is precisely what is needed to put a smile on your face for the day, the weekend, or your week. Smartypants Romance is better for having her on their author list.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Lexi Blake’s The Accidental Siren, book 1 of her Texas Sirens: Legacy series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B

Tropes: MFM; who did this to you; dom/sub; small town romance; found family

Lexi Blake’s The Accidental Siren, the next generation of her Texas Sirens/Nights in Bliss series, is everything you love about those series. The MFM drama, two of the throuple needing the steadiness of the alpha, some romantic suspense, and the healing nature of the found family trope are wrapped up in spicy, curl-your-toes romance. Blake isn’t trying to rewrite her MFM romances; instead, she’s welcoming us into another generation of throuples surrounded by people who love and protect them. In this book, much like the others of this ilk, Blake plays with the societal dilemma of a throuple in a small town filled with people who accept the three, narrow-minded people, and people who use religion to reduce the autonomy and authority of others. She magnifies the double standards of ‘acceptable’ behavior for men and women, as well. Blake wraps these heavier messages in the $exual yearnings of, in this book, Jared “Grim”, Josh, and Nicole, while weaving in characters from several of her series. She loves to remind us that Big Tag is only a call away, but there are a plethora of Blake universe characters in this story. I oftentimes have to remind myself of them because her prolific book list keeps her readers on their toes. 

I enjoyed the easiness of Lexi Blake’s The Accidental Siren. It wrings emotions from you as Grim and Nicole struggle to accept the found family of the Barnes-Fleetwoods. Once they accept their fate to be loved, it’s a no-holds-barred tale of spicy love-making and happily ever afters.

In love and romance,

Professor A

new release

✍🏻 Karla Sorensen’s Promise Me This is a gorgeous story about two friends finding love after years of denial. Don’t miss this one which out TODAY! ✍🏻

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PROMISE ME THIS

Karla Sorensen

Release Date: May 9

FREE 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.

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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

✍🏻 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!

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Meet Tia Louise


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: Nora Everly’s Passing Notes, book 1 of the Green Valley High Teachers’ Lounge series ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B-

Tropes: second chance romance; single divorced dad; close proximity – neighbors; soulmates

Nora Everly has been a staple of the Smartypants Romance world. Her Oh Brother! Series is a favorite, as it’s easy to fall hard for the Monroe brothers. Everly continues this world in her newest story, Passing Notes, book 1 of the new Teachers’ Lounge series. In this book, Nick and Clara are high school sweethearts, split apart by some manipulations, only to be reunited years later. When Nick moves next door to Clara, their latent chemistry is ignited, and they must decide if they want more. 

Clara is the sister of the FMCs in the Monroe brothers’ stories, and I love that Everly found a space for her to inhabit. I loved her edginess; she’s the grump of this story. It’s Nick’s almost golden retriever, pining characterization that humanizes her. My issue with Everly’s book, however, is her choice to delay a talk about the past. In my opinion, it was delayed too far into the story, and it felt manipulative to me. Instead, for me, there was a repetition of Nick and Clara’s struggles. As they grow close, one or both of them push the other way, which grows tiring after a while. They simply needed to talk, and Everly kept that from happening with too much delay. 

Does Passing Notes have the charm of Smartypants Romance’s small-town world? Indeed. Am I looking forward to more stories in the Teachers’ Lounge series? For sure. Do I think Nora Everly could have taken Nick and Clara in a different direction, granting us more spice and more development of their relationship? Absolutely. She wrote a beautiful ending for this couple, and you’ll end the story with a swoony sigh. It’s the middle of the book that needs a bit more focus.

In love and romance,

Professor A

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Max Monroe’s What I Should’ve Said ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: B-

Tropes: runaway bride; single dad; small town romance; hate to love; enemies to lovers; grumpy/sunshine; “I’ll kill anyone who hurts this woman”

Let me begin with this: I adore Max Monroe. From my head to my toes, I have loved their stories. I have felt, however, that some of their humor had become a bit staid. It didn’t have the same punch as their earlier billionaires’ books, and I was excited by how they talked about What I Should’ve Said, their newest book. This is a single dad, runaway bride, small-town romance at its most basic level, but they (they being Max Monroe) are right: it is something they haven’t written in a while. I’m an unusual Max Monroe reader because my favorite Max Monroe book is The Girl in the Painting. It’s unlike much of their book list, and something about it grabbed me. It’s hung onto my soul even though it’s been a couple of years since its release. For me, What I Should’ve Said feels shaded in the same feelings as The Girl in the Painting, which made me think I would love this story beyond measure. While I was caught in the thrall of Norah and Bennett and felt the tense emotion of this story, I struggled with this story. Not because I needed it to have the humor of the billionaires or the Winslow brothers or the funny stories series. One part of this book was developed in a way that caused one of the most important parts of the book, the chemistry and relational development of the couple, to be underdeveloped. The plotting and development of the story were uneven, ticking me off. Why? Because Max Monroe have found another place to inhabit in romancelandia, and I love it when authors try something new. 

I can’t divulge details even though I’m sure the emotional gravitas of this story has been revealed elsewhere. However, I can speak to Norah and Bennett’s story. You see, their initial hate-to-love was developed well and intentionally. It made sense that Bennett would be annoyed with Norah; she represents aspects of his past. And his present is taken up with his daughter. The more Max Monroe had them cross paths and fight their attraction, the more I was enticed into the story. When Norah meets and falls in love with Bennett’s daughter, Summer, the story becomes more complicated, and I was curious how they’d bring Bennett and Norah together because it seemed so complicated. Except in dealing with Summer’s emotional storyline, they gave up the tension between Bennett and Norah. They attempt to resurrect it later in the story, but by then, the ship has sailed, and it reads as more manipulative of the readers’ emotions than congruent with the story. And it saddened me.  

There is a depth of emotion in What I Should’ve Said that is striking and looks good on Max Monroe. I want more of these stories. I think the stories can be balanced, and this one got away from them given the plot line regarding Summer. The ending of this book is absolutely beautiful, and you will end it feeling bittersweet, a great emotion to feel at the end of a book. There is much more to cull from this small-town world, and I am ready to see where Max Monroe takes us.

In love and romance,

Professor A

Cover Reveal

✍🏻 K.K. Allen’s romantic suspense is some of the best I’ve read. Check out the gorgeous cover for her next book, Firefly Effect, coming May 24th. ✍🏻

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💫 ℂ𝕆𝕍𝔼ℝ & 𝔹𝕃𝕌ℝ𝔹 ℝ𝔼𝕍𝔼𝔸𝕃 💫

 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙵𝙻𝚈 𝙴𝙵𝙵𝙴𝙲𝚃 by USA Today bestselling author K.K. Allen releases on May 24th! We are so excited to share these gorgeous covers with you!!! 

Pre-order this steamy and angsty standalone romantic suspense today!

➜ https://geni.us/FireflyEffectBook

What to expect: 

💫 Small mountain town romantic suspense 

💫 Single dad to an adorable little girl

💫 He’s the small town’s new therapist

💫 She’s a bar manager

💫 Obsessed with her vibes

💫 Angsty AF

💫 Thrilling, mysterious, and packed with romance

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BLURB

For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents in the Great Smoky 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 live.

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 Appalachian woods.

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

But Evelyn remembers the truth.

He’s her very own phantom.

And he’s back.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

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.

CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR

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✍🏻 Professor Romance’s Reviews: Nine Month Contract ✍🏻

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Overall Grade: A-/B+

Tropes: small town; surrogate/baby daddy; mountain man MMC; found family; age gap; grumpy/sunshine; breeding kink; curvy FMC

If you’ve ever met Amy Daws, her self-effacing, almost humble, humorous vibe is her charm. You can’t help but like Amy Daws on meeting her, and I’ve only done so at a book signing, not the best place to get to know someone. Yet, after reading Nine Month Contract, her newest book after a bit of a break, you can’t help but feel that charm threaded through her pages. Daws’s voice is likable and connective. As you read Nine Month Contract, she draws you in with the same humor she exudes in person, but she wallops you emotionally with the sentimentality of her characters. 

I found myself charmed by Nine Month Contract because her characters, Wyatt and Trista, are consumable. That’s a strange word to use for her characters, but Daws has drawn them so that you can’t help but want to know them. Trista is the heart of this book. She’s alone in the world, having never had a family to love her unconditionally. She loves animals who’ve lost their home because she recognizes herself in them. Daws has crafted her foil in Wyatt, a grumpy, gruff mountain man, ready to become a single dad and live out his days building sustainable houses and raising a child. Where Trista is sunny, Wyatt is the opposite, and it creates a pool of deliciousness that you’d love to bathe in. From their meeting, it’s clear that Daws has written rom-com gold. The sharp banter, the inciting chemistry, and the push and pull of their ethical dilemma draw you into the book. The silliness of their situation, coupled with Wyatt’s need to protect and care for Trista from almost a caveman-like place, adds more layers of romance heaven to this story. 

Add to all of this Wyatt’s supportive, but emotionally complicated family. The Fletchers do not have easy relationships per se, but they love each other. Daws uses them to bind Trista and Wyatt’s story together. One of my favorite tropes is the found family especially when a main character lacks that for themselves. The emotional tether of Trista finding a family to love her without any measure is my favorite part of this book, and Amy Daws, who can write humor and banter well, writes Trista’s journey to finding a family to love her unconditionally calls to your emotions. In using the point of view of Wyatt’s niece, Everly, Daws underscores that task even more. 

As I said before, I was charmed by Amy Daws’s Nine Month Contract. I had loved Last on the List, book 5 of her Wait with Me series and the launcher for this new series, but a protective Wyatt falling in love with a beautiful, but lonely Trista was exactly what I needed to be reminded that 1) Amy Daws is a heck of a romance author and 2) her rom-coms are pure heaven.

In love and romance,

Professor A