#BookReview: My Kind of Trouble by L. A. Schwartz

A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian in this debut romance, perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.

Conwoman Harmony Hale has sold lies up and down California for years, never looking back at her crafty scams or one-night stands. Now she’s come to Brookville, California, with her sights set on its wealthy mayor—the man who stole her father’s music-streaming algorithm and ruined his life. Harmony is finally ready to take him down, with her trusty con of selling a nonexistent music festival. All she needs is the cooperation of the man who owns the potential festival site.

Autistic librarian and piano teacher Preston Jones spends his days fighting book challengers trying to shut down his library programs. He’s responsible for raising his selectively nonspeaking little sister and needs to focus on keeping his job. He doesn’t have time for a romance like the ones in his books—and certainly none for the brassy festival promoter who wants to use his land for her “Coachella North.” Preston sees things in black and white, and he sees Harmony—amazing curves, flashy smile, and all—as nothing but trouble.

But when Harmony promises to help him win the public over and save his youth programs, Preston finds himself wondering if this hustler with a heart of gold might be the someone he’s been waiting for. Soon things are getting steamy in the stacks, and with her con coming to a crescendo, Harmony needs to choose: revenge and running again or the happy ending she never saw coming. 

Romance readers and musical theater fans alike will adore this steamy, gender-swapped homage to The Music Man.

#BookReview: Love You a Latke by Amanda Elliot

Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance.

Snow is falling, holiday lights are twinkling, and Abby Cohen is pissed. For one thing, her most annoying customer, Seth, has been coming into her café every morning with his sunshiny attitude, determined to break down her carefully constructed emotional walls. And, as the only Jew on the tourism board of her Vermont town, Abby's been charged with planning their fledgling Hanukkah festival. Unfortunately, the local vendors don’t understand that the story of Hanukkah cannot be told with light-up plastic figures from the Nativity scene, even if the Three Wise Men wear yarmulkes.

Desperate for support, Abby puts out a call for help online and discovers she was wrong about being the only Jew within a hundred miles. There's one Seth.

As it turns out, Seth’s parents have been badgering him to bring a Nice Jewish Girlfriend home to New York City for Hanukkah, and if Abby can survive his incessant, irritatingly handsome smiles, he’ll introduce her to all the vendors she needs to make the festival a success. But over latkes, doughnuts, and winter adventures in Manhattan, Abby begins to realize that her fake boyfriend and his family might just be igniting a flame in her own guarded heart.

#BookReview: A Reign of Rose (The Sacred Stones Trilogy #3) by Kate Golden

From Kate Golden, author of viral phenomenon A Dawn of Onyx, comes the seductive, action-packed conclusion to her sweeping Sacred Stones trilogy.

They must save the world—but can they also save each other?

Kane Ravenwood, King of Onyx Kingdom, would go to the ends of the continent for Arwen Valondale, but what if she’s beyond even that? Broken in ways he never imagined he could be, Kane must find a way to fulfill the prophecy and kill his father, Fae King Lazarus. And after what he’s endured, he’s willing to save Evendell by whatever means necessary—even if that spells his own death.

Little does Kane know, he’s not the only one fighting for revenge. Arwen is no longer afraid to fight—no sacrifice is too great, no enemy too daunting. Now, nothing will stop her from destroying Lazarus and his allies, because she knows if she fails, both realms will be doomed forever.

#BookReview: The Knight of the Trove (Knights of Mellora, #1) by @writerhollyrose

What if the princess didn’t want to be rescued from the dragon?

As the well-trained knight of a dragon’s trove, former princess Nesrin would rather fight off suitors than invite one in. Twelve years ago, Nesrin’s uncle murdered her mother and stole her deceased father’s throne. Nesrin lived under her uncle’s brutal thumb for years until she was rescued by a benevolent dragon. Now a grown woman, she protects herself and the dragon trove from the interloping “rescuers” her uncle sends to retrieve her so he can marry her off to the highest bidder.

In a neighboring kingdom, Kas was forced to take monastic orders when he was a child, but the handsome monk volunteered when his country needed someone to find the lost artifact Nesrin’s uncle a magical golden casket rumored to make any army invincible. Forbidden from fighting by his vows but desperate to do his part in the coming war, he arrives on Nesrin’s doorstep with a quest she can’t refuse. If they can find the casket first, the nations united against her uncle’s iron rule might have a fighting chance.

As Nesrin and Kas are pursued by the enemy through a dangerous world, their budding trust blooms into a love Nesrin never wanted and Kas is forbidden to feel. But when the casket falls into the hands of the enemy and an evil far worse than Nesrin’s uncle is unleashed, Nesrin and Kas must trust their love and work together to imprison it before the world burns.

This high fantasy romance delivers a slow-burn, forbidden love between a sword-wielding knight and her cinnamon roll monk. Funny and heartfelt, this series-opening quest takes readers across the dangerously beautiful world of Mellora, through foreign palaces, sprawling libraries, into the den of manticores, the bedroom of a knight, and finally to a showdown between good and evil.

#CoverReveal: Improper Bastards duology, The Secrets of JaneL Reborn by @cmalloryauthor @rrbooktours

We're so excited to tour the sequel in the Improper Bastards duology, The Secrets of Jane: Reborn!

The Secrets of Jane: Reborn (Improper Bastards Book 2)

Expected Publication Date: March 3, 2025

Genre: Dark Fantast Romance

Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean meets The Witcher in this true enemies-to-lovers duology.

He’s a mercenary set on claiming the bounty on her head, only to forcibly turn into her bodyguard once her secrets are revealed; he selfishly wants what she has to offer, but he must keep her alive to claim it.

"No one will hurt her without suffering. Not anymore. Not with me in her shadow." -- Soren

I’m being hunted.

The pursuer is more terrifying than I ever imagined.

Those in my life want to keep me safe; alive. But I’m capable in my own right, and I will do anything to protect them. Once Soren discovers my plan that’s concocted by a witch we all detest... he will despise it.

It will require muting my soul to him, the thing he loves to invade.

I admit, there’s a part of me that dreads his reaction when he can’t have unbidden entry into my heart. If this strategy gets me close to my assailants, though, my family will be avenged and my loved one’s safety will be secured.

It’s time the world meets the side of me that is born and bred in Skull’s Row.

I will be reborn.

This the second book in Dark Fantasy Romance is a Duet full of foul language, sensual scenes, and improper bastards.

DUAL POV – his/her
Finished Series. Guaranteed HEA... even if it might hurt to get there.

Content Warning 18+: This series contains explicit scenes (3.5 chili peppers), depictions of war, battle violence, abduction, graphic depiction of violence, drugging, abandonment, death, and overall, a very crude world.

#ReleaseBlitz for Finding Lord Landry by @lucylennoxmm @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Finding Lord Landry

Series: The Billionaire Brotherhood #5

Author: Lucy Lennox

Genre: Contemporary Gay Romance

Tropes: Enemies with Benefits, Boss/Employee

Workplace Romance, Secret Fling, Fake Fiancé

Release Date: March 25, 2025

BLURB

When a secret enemies-with-benefits situation turns into the world’s most public fake marriage…

The world knows me as Landry Davis, supermodel. A beautiful face and killer abs that have spawned a hundred fantasies.

To my friends, I’m simply Landry, the snarkiest (read: most fun) member of our billionaire brotherhood.

But to Kenji Toma, the gorgeous and oh-so-capable personal assistant I’ve been in love with for years, I’m “effing Landry,” the charming slacker who disappears for weeks only to resurface in trouble. His favorite enemy-with benefits. A man he refuses to fall in love with (though I’ve tried) and also can’t resist managing (a fact I’m not too proud to take advantage of).

What none of them know is that I have another title–in fact, a whole other life. One I was born into. One that comes with sprawling estates, a coronet, and a metric ton of familial and political expectations. A life I’ve kept secret for way too long… and hope to keep secret for just a little while longer.

At least until I learn Kenji is in danger.

When all my money and fame can’t save the man I love, I don’t hesitate to use long-hidden political power to whisk him to safety, even though it means outing myself as Viscount Hawling, the elusive heir to the Davencourt earldom…

And pretending the man who loves to hate me is actually my doting husband.

#ReleaseBlitz for Sinfully Mine by @nikkilandisauthor @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Sinfully Mine

Series: Royal Bastards MC: Tonopah, NV #20

Author: Nikki Landis

Genres: Dark MC/Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Found Family/Touch Her and Die/One Bed

Voyeurism/Dirty Talk/Holiday Romance

Release Date: March 21, 2025

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Xenon:

I’m the tech expert for my motorcycle club.

It’s because of me that we’ve interrupted the trafficking ring in Nevada.

I have cameras in multiple cities, and I’m always watching.

But the long, lonely nights have taken a toll.

When I find an online game and a new friend, all that begins to change.

GivemeGracexx411 has the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard.

It’s not long before we’re chatting outside our nightly games.

And now she wants to meet.

I’ve always been a geek and gamer; it shocks people when they find out.

Maybe it’s all the dark ink on my body or the fact that I put so many hours in the gym.

I don’t look anything like my profile pic, and that’s intentional.

The internet is forever. Nothing can hide for long.

I don’t know if I want Grace to know the biker half of my life.

But one night, she forgets to log off her computer and shut down the camera.

And that’s when I meet Grace’s other persona, Dolly.

I can’t stop watching as she strips, parts her thighs, and begins a whole different game with her viewers.

They get to watch her up close on her laptop. But I get to see every part of her.

In an instant, I’m addicted. I need more.

But when she finds the camera on her computer still running, she shuts me out.

Cat and Mouse is my favorite game.

I’ve always been good at stalking my prey.

And now Grace is my sweet, scared little mouse.

I do love it when she decides to run.

But what I thought is a tease meant to entice me is really a setup to catch an entirely different group of voyeurs.

And those sex traffickers who can’t get enough of underage girls?

They think they can snatch what’s mine.

I’ll do anything to save Grace.

As I race against the clock to rescue her, I know I won’t be capable of showing mercy.

My Reaper is ready to spill blood and bring justice before he claims my Dolly.

She doesn’t know it yet, but Grace will be all sinfully mine.

Sinfully Mine can be read as a standalone, but the series is best enjoyed when read in order since ongoing storylines and characters appear throughout and overlap. There are steamy scenes, biker slang, violence, human trafficking, a slight age gap, a paranormal REAPER twist, and a HEA. You'll find a wild, street-smart woman and a possessive, voyeuristic protector who clash, combust, and nearly set the world (or your kindle) on fire.