
When college student, Nora Stirling, makes the tough choice to transfer schools to be closer to her family, what she isn’t prepared for is that things start to go wrong the minute one of her new roommates opens the front door. When a house meeting is called and Milo appears, one look has Nora spinning.


“You still have the hots for him too, don’t you?”
I could never lie to my friend. “Do we have to talk about this now?” I asked. When he nodded, I continued reluctantly. “He always seems to be around and he consumes my dreams,” I sighed.
Adam grinned. “That’s what I thought. Now let’s swim. Want me to flirt with you and make him jealous?”
“Uh no, that would get awkward fast. Thanks though.”
I slid slowly into the pool while Adam decided on a cannonball. Milo swam over and hung unto the wall beside me. He looked around before he began to speak.
“What was Adam saying to you a minute ago?”
“Nothing important.”
“Do you have a thing for each other?”
A laugh burst from my mouth. “Not a chance. Adam is like the brother I never had. Why?”
Milo shrugged. “Just curious.” He pulled on my hand as he pushed off the wall into the middle of the pool, dragging me with him.
I had to tread to keep myself afloat, but he put his arm around me, pulling me closer to him.
“You know, you are making staying above the water a little difficult, Milo.”
“So put your arms around me, I’ll keep you up.” He said with a smirk.
“Stop being all cutesy with me.” I said pushing off of him.
“You think I’m cute?” He asked, his smirk turning into a full-on glorious smile.
“Ugh that is not what I meant and you know it.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that attention was falling on us. “People are beginning the stare.”
“So?”
Really? How could he have such a nonchalant attitude?
He drifted a little closer to me, and I tried to put more distance between us, but he just kept coming until soon there was nowhere else for me to go as I pressed up against the wall. Closer still, he came until my mind was short-circuiting. My gaze flicked between his gorgeous eyes and his lips that were close enough to kiss.
“Nora?”
“Mmm?”
“I asked you a question.”
I shook myself out the daydream. “Sorry. What was the question?”
Milo smiled. He knew what he was doing to me. He leaned in even closer, speaking the words against my ear.









He hides in the dark. Angry, alone and miserable.
His only source of happiness is music and the sanctuary it provides when he lets it seep into his soul and wash over him like purifying water.
That is, until a raven-haired dancer starts to bring him back into the light, showing him how to feel, how to be happy again. His own personal ray of sunshine at his fingertips, mesmerizing him with every move she makes.
Happiness is so close; he can almost touch it.
But will he accept it? Will he follow her out of the shadows and into the light? Or will he stay hidden forever?



Orlando DJ, Gabe Sullivan spins a woman up only to revolve right out the door. His tune changes when his only female friend, Cassie, pretends to be more than friends. Sparks fly from their fake kiss, and Gabe insists on exploring things further with Cassie.






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Title: Marsala Maroon
Series: Franki Amato Mystery (book 5)
Author: Traci Andrighetti
Release Date: November 17, 2020

Jazz Fest is in full swing in The Big Easy, but PI Franki Amato is singing the blues. The owner of an historic Italian grocery and deli is murdered in a manner eerily reminiscent of the Axeman of New Orleans, a notorious serial killer who hasn’t struck in over a century, and someone Franki knows has been arrested for the crime. Adding to her distress, Franki, her mom, and her meddling Sicilian nonna finally meet her fiancé’s family, but the tone of their encounter is decidedly downbeat. And just as her personal life strikes a sour note, the killer jazzes up his techniques. The pressure is on Franki to decipher an odd assortment of clues—an old gramophone record, a stolen trumpet, and a bottle of marsala wine. If she doesn’t, she could be the next one to get the ax.

Traci Andrighetti is the USA Today bestselling author of the Franki Amato mysteries and the Danger Cove Hair Salon mysteries. In her previous life, she was an award-winning literary translator and a Lecturer of Italian at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics. But then she got wise and ditched that academic stuff for a life of crime—writing, that is. Her latest capers are teaching mystery writing for Savvy Authors and taking aspiring and established authors on intensive writing retreats to Italy with LemonLit.
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without a new Christmas romance from Samantha Chase! THE CHRISTMAS PLAN is out now and it’s the perfect way to kickstart your holiday reading!
If only life was a cheesy holiday movie…
Unfortunately for Aspen Harris, her life doesn’t even come close.
Finding herself unemployed just before the holidays, she has no choice but to move back home and in her parents’ house. And that means leaving behind her best friend Gabriel and all her dreams of someday owning her own chocolate shop. So when Gabe suggests she come to Silver Bell Falls to spend the holidays with his family, it seems like the perfect distraction.
What’s so great about holiday movies?
Don’t people realize that living in an actual Christmas town is anything but magical?
Every year, Gabriel Andrews goes home to Silver Bell Falls to help his father run the family Christmas tree lot. When Aspen tells him she has to move to the other side of the country after losing her job, he suggests she come home with him for the holidays. It’s the perfect way to spend as much time together as possible before a whole country separates them.
But this is Silver Bell Falls at Christmas time…between a mother with matchmaking tendencies, tight living quarters and far too much chocolate, it doesn’t take very long for life to start imitating art.


Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than forty titles under her belt! When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
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Robin Nova was a wolf shifter longing to find her mate. Settling wasn’t in her vocabulary, but her animal was getting restless. She didn’t desire a relationship of convenience, she wanted the one person whom fate had designed for her.
