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New Release ~ A Simple Hello ~ by ~ Lacey Black

Title: A Simple Hello

Series: Cooper Town Boys #2

Author: Lacey Black

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town, Friends to Lovers, He Falls First

Sworn Off Relationships, Cinnamon Roll Hero

Release Date: April 14, 2026

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Cade

When it comes to women, keeping things casual is my forte. What can I say, I like to live life to its fullest. Then I spot the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen at The Tipsy Lizard, and I know I need to get to know her. Like a moth to a flame, I’m drawn. The only issue is, she’s dating someone else.

So, the only choice I have is to give Oaklee my number and tell her to use it when she’s single.

To my surprise, that phone call came sooner than I expected. She’s just getting out of a relationship and isn’t looking for anything serious, which is right up my alley. Spending time with her isn’t a hardship, and sending little gifts to her office to say hello is a lot more fun than I would have imagined.

The problem is, I’m not sure I can keep her safely in the friend zone much longer.

Oaklee

Relocating to a small town was exactly what I needed. However, from the moment I arrived in Cooper Town, everything seemed to snowball. The jerk I was dating decided to cheat, leaving me in a new place with a new job and a support system of one to lean on.

Meeting Cade at a bar turned out to be more than just a casual happenstance.

Being around him is easy. He’s gorgeous, charismatic, fun, and always sends me little things to let me know he’s thinking of me. When I have to start working beside my ex, Cade kicks it into overdrive, showing me exactly how easy it could be to fall for a guy like him. Too bad he’s not looking for forever. Cade only wants right now.

Suddenly, my easiest hello might be my hardest goodbye.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.

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New Release ~ Be the Full Problem ~ by ~ Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Be The Full Problem

Series: Don’t Date Him #4

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Secret Baby, Second Chance Romance

Grumpy/Sunshine, Small Town

Release Date: April 14, 2026

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I blame getting pregnant on my sister getting mauled by a bear.

If she hadn’t been attacked that day, I wouldn’t have come home to check on her. I wouldn’t have run into Boone Windsor at that bar. I wouldn’t have gone home with him, ready to drown my sorrows in a different, more satisfying way.

I wouldn’t have given him that second chance.

Not after he’d so badly burned the first chance.

I would’ve gone back to work half the country away, and I would’ve kept my head in the sand where Boone was involved.

But my sister did get attacked. I did give Boone a second chance.

And I almost died because of it.

After my memories are lost in an accident that almost takes both of our lives, Boone makes me fall in love with him all over again.

And since I didn’t know all the hell that awaited me, I didn’t guard my heart.

I fell, and fell, and fell until there was nowhere else to go but down.

Then, when those memories come back and I’m faced with the consequences of my actions, I didn’t falter.

I knew he was hell, yet I chose to burn with him anyway.

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Lani Lynn Vale is an American author of humorous romantic suspense novels. Born in the Great State of Texas, she has lived the majority of her adult life in East Texas where most of her novels are based. She’s married to her high school sweetheart whom her readers refer to as “LLV’s Bearded Half.” She published her first novel, Boomtown. in the summer of 2013 after the birth of her third child. She’s gone on to publish over 100 novels, with most of them going on to become USA Today Bestsellers.

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New Release ~ Prisoners ~ by ~ K.M. Shehata

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A Russian mafia romance laced with vengeance, loyalty, and a love that refuses to die.

Carter thought she escaped the Bratva.

She was dead wrong.

When her past with Vladimir Ivanov resurfaces, Carter is dragged back into a world ruled by power, secrets, and control—where walking away with a pulse is no longer an option.

Vladimir reigns as the Pakhan of the Ivanov Bratva, an empire built on blood, loyalty, and fear. He’s survived betrayal, war, and prison—but one woman still has the power to unravel him. As enemies close in and the Bratva turns against her, Vladimir has only one choice.

Protect Carter at all costs.

Even if it makes her his prisoner.

With a bounty on her head, Carter becomes both Vladimir’s greatest weakness and his most dangerous weapon. Bound together by obsession, survival, and a past neither can outrun, their connection deepens—blurring the line between protection and possession, love and captivity.

As a mafia war ignites in Russia, a rival Bratva boss wants Vladimir’s crown—and the woman he loves.

And he’s willing to burn everything to claim both.

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K.M. Shehata’s stories explore power, obsession, and relationships shaped by control, desire, and consequence. Known for blending emotional intensity with morally complex characters, she crafts narratives that pull readers in and refuse to let go.

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Cover Reveal ~ A Forced Bond ~ by ~ Ann D. Lang

Title: A Forced Bond

Series: Dark Pack Series Book 1

Author: Ann D. Lang

Genre: Adult PNR

Tropes: Werewolf Shifter Romance; Forced Mate Bond; Fated Mates; Wolf Shifter FMC; Future Alpha MMC; Instant Attraction; Pack Alliance Marriage

Release Date: May 15, 2026

Cover Design: Ann D. Lang

She was supposed to find her fated mate under the full moon.

Instead, she is ordered to bond with a stranger.

The full moon after Rhia’s twentieth birthday was meant to be the happiest night of her life. Among wolf shifters, it is the first full moon after turning twenty when a wolf might finally recognize the mate chosen by the Moon Goddess.

Rhia has always hoped that mate would be Caleb, the boy she has loved for years.

But when an entire neighboring pack is brutally wiped out, everything changes.

Fearing they could be next, the Red Moon Pack forms a desperate alliance with the powerful Silver Lake Pack. And alliances between alpha families require one thing above all else: a mating bond.

As the only unmated alpha daughter of Red Moon, Rhia’s future is decided for her. Instead of discovering her fated mate under the coming full moon, she is ordered to form a bond with Jalen, the future alpha of Silver Lake.

Leaving her home, her family, and the life she thought she would have.

Jalen never wanted a forced bond any more than Rhia did. But protecting their packs comes before everything. What neither of them expected was the instant pull between them, a connection that feels far too real to be political.

But if the Moon Goddess had a plan for their bond all along, it may be because the Dark Pack is not finished yet—and their own may be the next target.

When Ann D. Lang isn’t writing, she can be found with her family and her cats — who treat everyone in the house as their personal servants and are entirely unbothered by deadlines. A lifelong lover of paranormal romance in all its forms, from vampire courts and fae kingdoms to witch covens and wolf pack politics, she has spent years falling in love with other people’s worlds — and one day simply decided to open the doors to a world of her own.

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New Release ~ Redemption Road ~ by ~ Katie Ashley

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Born into a powerful political family, I’ve spent my life being sheltered by wealth and privilege. In an effort to fly free of my gilded cage, I embrace a relationship with a man my family would never accept–a biker bad boy from a notorious MC club. But my brief taste of freedom results in a betrayal that lands me trafficked into a hell on earth I never could have imagined.

Born and bred into the Hells Raiders MC, I’ve spent my life devoted to the club. With the President patch now stitched on my cut, I would give my life for my brothers. But when I become the unexpected savior of a rival club’s captive, I put everyone at risk with my personal mission to shelter Annabel from the madman who hunts her and the nightmares that torment her.

Despite being from two different worlds, we bond through our shared trauma. But as Anabel begins to heal, the glaring differences between our worlds become more evident. Can she ever accept the life I lead, or will I be forced to choose between the only life I’ve ever known and the woman I was never supposed to love?

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Katie Ashley is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Top Three Best-Selling author of both Indie and Traditionally published books. She’s written rockers, bikers, billionaires, manwhores with hearts of gold, New Adult, and Young Adult. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter, Olivia, her rescue mutts, Belle and Nova, and her cats, Mama Kitty, Joe, and Jake. She has a slight obsession with The Golden Girls, Shakespeare, Harry Potter, and Star Wars.

She holds a BA in English, a BS in Secondary English Education, and a Masters in Adolescent English Education and spent fourteen years teaching both middle and high school English, as well as a few adjunct college English classes.

Although she is a life-long Georgia peach, she loves traveling the country and world meeting readers.

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PreOrder Blitz ~ Break Inside ~ by ~ Karen Renee

Title: Break Inside

Series: Riot MC Next Generation

Author: Karen Renee

Genre: MC Romance

Release Date: April 21, 2026

Cover Design: Bee at Bitter Sage Designs

Cover Model: Draven

Photographer: CJC Photography

Ivy

Hunting down my biological father wasn’t supposed to lead me to a broody, sexy, triplet biker.

Ryan “Nickel” Garrison ticks all of my boxes, but he prevents me from talking to my bio ‘dad.’

Determined to outsmart Nickel, I never expected to be cornered at gunpoint…or for the sexy biker to put himself between me and the gunman.

We’re captured, knocked out, and taken miles away.

Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Nickel and I work together to escape, only things go from bad to worse.

The threat looms and Nickel insists on keeping me safe even if it means I’m thrust into the world of the Riot Motorcycle Club.

I have no choice but to trust Nickel and his club to neutralize the danger.

Soon I realize, the biggest threat isn’t from criminals, it’s from a man who will break inside my heart.

Karen Renee is the author of the Riot Motorcycle Club, Beta, and O-Town series of books. She once crunched Nielsen ratings data but these days she brings her imagination to life by writing books. She has wanted to be a writer since she was very young, but it’s taken the last twenty plus years for her to amass enough courage and overall life experience to bring that dream to life. Some of those life experiences came from the wonderful world of advertising, banking, and local television media research. She is a proud wife and mother, and a Jacksonville native. When she’s not at the soccer field or cooking, you can find her at her local library, the grocery store, in her car jamming out to some tunes, or hibernating while she writes and/or reads books.

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New Release ~ King of Deception ~ by ~ Bianca Borell

Title: King of Deception

Series: Kings of the Underworld #3

Author: Bianca Borell

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Tropes: Arranged Marriage, One Night Stand

Age Gap, Hidden Identity, Secret Relationship

Release Date: April 9, 2026

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Viviana Bertinelli

I’ve always followed the rules.

Good girls don’t sneak away for one reckless night with a dangerous stranger.

No names.

No promises.

Just passion.

It was supposed to be a secret – until fate brought him back into my life.

I’m promised to another man, but the stranger from that night refuses to let me go.

He says I belong to him.

He swears he’ll burn the world before he loses me.

But our love was built on a lie.

He fooled me once.

He won’t do it again.

Tristan Kinkaid

Control made me the American king of the Irish mob.

Then she shattered it with a single night.

She’s too pure for my world.

Too innocent for a man like me.

But that didn’t stop me from wanting her.

From claiming her.

She believes she’s promised to another man.

She just doesn’t know that man is me.

There are secrets between us.

Betrayals that could start a war.

She thinks we’re over.

She’s wrong.

I didn’t rise to power by letting anything – or anyone – slip through my fingers.

And I’m not losing her.

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Bianca Borell is a contemporary romance author, voracious reader, nature lover, and unapologetic daydreamer. She spends her nights deciding between getting up to write or trying to silence the voices of her characters. The battle is never-ending. She has a weakness for tormented characters, second chances, and happy endings.

She currently lives in Germany with her amazing husband and indulges in way too many pastries than she should.

For updates, news, and releases, be sure to visit Bianca’s official website at www.biancaborell.com

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Cover Reveal ~ Rock Me ~ by ~ Jessica Buss

Title: Rock Me

Author: Jessica Buss

Genre/Tropes: Small Town – Sexy Geologist/Injured Retired MLB Pitcher – Protector – Opposites Attract – Virgin – True Crime Podcaster – Secret Online Pinup Model – Crochet Queen

Release Date: April 20, 2026

Cover Design: 907 Publishing, LLC

Sharing a heated glance across a crowded bar, they both feel the spark of something monumental. And then life throws a curveball, separating them before they even have a chance to properly meet.

Bryce is a former major league pitcher who retired after a career-ending injury. Still young, he embraces his love of geology, and secures a job in Homer, Alaska. He falls in love with the state, and becomes infatuated with a woman he saw only briefly, who looks strikingly similar to an internet pin-up model he follows.

Craving independence and privacy after high school graduation, Lucinda moved to a small town outside Homer to start living her best life as a true crime podcaster. A virginal introvert with a big heart, she spends her free time crocheting blankets for babies in the NICU. But she’s not as innocent as she appears. She has a secret… She’s a sultry internet pin-up model.

Since exchanging glances that one fateful night, they’ve been pining for each other. Then fate steps in and brings them together in the most unexpected place… on a fishing charter in the middle of Kachemak Bay.

An unlikely pair with intense, unquestioning chemistry, they’re forced to work together, and confront the assumptions they hold about one another.

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Cover Reveals ~ The Brewhouse Series ~ by ~ Tina Gallagher & Cissy Mecca

Join us for this exciting spotlight featuring the covers for Fake It Until It’s Real and Fight It Until We Can’t by Tina Gallagher & Cissy Mecca. Fans who love forced proximity romances will sink their teeth into these sexy, small-town romances. Keep scrolling for more details about these sexy covers.

Title: Fake It Until It’s Real

Authors: Tina Gallagher & Cissy Mecca

Release Date: 04/28/2026

Genres: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 58,000

Trope: Small-Town, Fake Dating, Forced Proximity, Cinnamon Roll Hero, Friend’s Brother, Blue Collar Hero, Matchmaking Dog, Found Family

She’s afraid she’s too much. He’s convinced he’ll never be enough.

Maplemoor is Jess Harper’s fresh start. A quiet place to rebuild after a future that never happened. Now she has a book club that feels like family, a coffee shop that knows her order, and a life that finally feels steady again.

What she doesn’t have is a date to her best friend’s wedding—the one where her ex and his brand-new fiancée will also be there.

Enter Caleb Ward. Dependable. Steady. The kind of man who shows up before you even have to ask—for everyone except himself. He’s got a life in Maplemoor that works for him, but when it comes to love, he keeps his walls firmly in place—and exactly where he wants them.

Agreeing to be Jess’s date to the wedding is just a favor. Nothing more.

Until it isn’t.

One weekend together. One very convincing performance.

Turns out the line between pretending and real is thinner than either of them thought. The hard part is knowing which side they’re on.

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Title: Fight It Until We Can’t

Authors: Cissy Mecca & Tina Gallagher

Release Date: 05/12/2026

Genres: Contemporary Romance

Word Count: 65,000

Trope: Small-Town, Rivals to Lovers, Forced Proximity, He Falls First, Found Family, Competence Kink

He’s a property analyst hired to find the cracks.

She’s the operations manager who will make sure he doesn’t.

Carli Porter runs The Lochwell like it’s hers. The coffee shop is her living room. Its book club members are her family. The residents are her friends. The pub is her Friday night. The only problem? The building belongs to someone else, and that someone just sent his best friend to decide its fate.

Alexander Grassi is smart and annoyingly hard to hate. He also has the kind of forearms that make it very difficult to stay mad at him. (She’s tried. It hasn’t worked.) He’s supposed to write a report, hand it over to his friend and leave. He wasn’t supposed to start showing up to trivia night. Or turning her coffee cup so the handle faces her. Or looking at her like she’s the best thing in a building full of things worth saving.

She says his report could ruin her life.

He says she’s not wrong.

She says that’s makes him the last person she should want around.

He says he’s staying anyway.

Because some legacies (and people) are worth fighting for.

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Tina Gallagher grew up and continues to live in Northeast Pennsylvania. As a tween, she and her best friend would create happily ever afters for their favorite soap opera couples. Eventually, the soap operas lost their appeal, but the writing never did. Before living her dream as a full-time author, she worked a spectrum of jobs ranging from baking and cake decorating to marketing and project management. In between creating memorable characters, traveling, and taking pole dance lessons, Tina enjoys spending time with her two grown children and Golden Irish named Thea.

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A “recovering” 8th-grade teacher and curriculum consultant with a PhD in Language & Literacy, Cecelia loves writing high-heat, emotionally charged romance. The Brands (The Mecca Romance Multiverse): Cissy Mecca: Contemporary Romance, Cecelia Mecca: Medieval and Scottish Historical Romance. C.L. Mecca: Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. Mecca Romance Signature Style: Heroines: Bold, strong women who fall hard but never lose their identity. Heroes: High-heat, protective, and intense. Vibe: Visceral, sensory-rich escapes… from family-owned vineyards to the war-torn Anglo-Scottish borders. Other Info: Representation: Katie Reed (Katie Reed Literary) Personal: Married, two teens, Disney enthusiast, traveler, and wine lover. Authority: PhD background makes her an excellent guest for craft-focused podcasts or literacy-based panels.

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Re-Release Blitz ~ Birdsong Trilogy ~ by ~ Nina Lane

Series: Birdsong Trilogy

Author: Nina Lane

Genre: Contemporary Forbidden Romance

Tropes: Age Gap, Teacher/Student

Father’s Best Friend

SPARROW & HAWKE

He shouldn’t touch her.

Nell Fairchild knows how to survive. How to stay quiet, stay invisible, keep the worst parts of herself hidden. She’s good at it.

She’s not good at Darius Hawke.

Her father’s oldest friend. A war photographer with a dangerous past, a talent for disappearing, and eyes that see far too much.

Darius knows better than to want Nell. She’s too young, too vulnerable, and completely off-limits. He’s spent a lifetime navigating war zones, captivity, and the darkest corners of human nature. The last thing he should do is drag his best friend’s daughter into his shadows.

But some lines were made to be crossed.

And when Darius takes a temporary teaching job at Nell’s high school, staying away isn’t an option. She’s everywhere — too close, too tempting, too determined to draw him out of the darkness. And the more he resists, the hotter the tension between them burns.

If they give in, there’s no coming back.

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Sparrow & Hawke is a slow-burn, high-heat romance filled with forbidden desire, forced proximity, and a love so wrong it might ruin them both.

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FEATHER & FLAME

He walked away to save her. From himself.

Four years ago, Darius Hawke left his mark on Nell Fairchild — and she’s never been the same. He didn’t just change her. He ruined her for anything safer, anything lesser, anything that doesn’t burn.

Then he decided she deserves better than what he is.

She hasn’t forgiven him.

Now Darius is back, and one look is all it takes to bring everything roaring to life again.

He still wants her. He never stopped.

When the violence of Darius’s past comes for them both, the heat between them goes from impossible to incendiary. But the most terrifying thing isn’t the danger closing in.

It’s what they’ll destroy to stay together.

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Feather & Flame is a scorching second-chance romance of both reckoning and desire between two people who are finally out of reasons to stop.

Note: This is the second book in the Birdsong trilogy, to be read after Sparrow & Hawke (Book 1).

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WISHES & WINGS

Everyone is telling Nell that Darius Hawke is dead.

Everyone is lying.

She knows it the way she knows her own heartbeat. His absence doesn’t feel like a loss. It feels like a locked door.

Nell knows how to open locked doors.

What she finds on the other side is worse than a disappearance. Darius has been keeping secrets — about his past, his choices, the life he kept carefully separate from everything they built together. The man she finds may not be the man she thought she knew.

She still wants him back. She can’t reason her way out of that.

To reach him, she’ll have to trust a man who frightens her in ways Darius never did. Wade into darkness she can’t walk back from. And decide, when the truth finally surfaces, what she’s willing to forgive.

Some loves are worth setting the world on fire.

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Wishes & Wings is the explosive conclusion to the Birdsong Trilogy — a gripping, obsessive romance of danger, devotion, and a love tested until there’s nothing left but the truth.

Note: This is the final book in the Birdsong trilogy, to be read after Sparrow & Hawke (Book 1) and Feather & Flame (Book 2).

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Though she was born and raised in California, Nina Lane now lives in Wisconsin where the winters are freezing and the cheese is exceptional. Mom to two teenagers and a neurotic dog, she lives in two worlds—one world of laundry, driving, horses, Girl Scouts, and football, and the other of epic romances between hot alpha heroes and the women who bring them to their knees. Nina only cooks when she can’t avoid it (i.e., there are no frozen pizzas left), binge-watches serial TV whenever she can get control of the remote, and checks in about the weather daily with her meteorologist husband. She’s a fan of popcorn, actual print magazines, French Roast coffee, working out, and trying new things…especially if it’s food.

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