#ReleaseBoost for the Haircuts and Heartthrobs Series by @swati.mh #GiveMeBooksPR

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From the author of MOTHER PUCKER, the fan-favorite hockey romcom, comes a sizzling new spinoff featuring a broody billionaire, a haircut gone wrong, and a fake engagement that tests the limits of every rule she's ever made.

I botched a broody billionaire’s haircut, and what did he ask from me in repayment?

That I become his fake fiancée!

In my defense, my new migraine meds had packed quite the drowsy punch that morning. One minute I was trimming his GQ-worthy locks, and the next, I'd given him a side shave that would make a Marine jealous.

Fast forward through a ticked-off Dev Menon storming out of my salon, threatening legal action, and I’m thinking the day couldn’t get worse.

Except, it does . . .

Dev returns hours later with a wild proposition: “Marry me. Temporarily.”

Turns out his mother’s dying wish is to see him get hitched, and I’m the lucky girl who owes him a debt. The catch? I also have to move in with him to really sell the ruse.

Soon enough, I’m realizing my career isn’t the only thing on the line with my hot-as-Hades fiancé. My heart is, too.

So, I counter with a wilder proposition: a purely physical relationship with three simple rules. No kissing, no sleepovers, and definitely no falling in love.

Except, the more time I spend with him, the harder it becomes to stick to my rules. Dev’s charm, his skilled hands, and his enormous . . . heart are testing my resolve. Even my traitorous cat is smitten.

Did I get more than I bargained for, or am I about to lose this very hairy game of pretend?

Author’s Note: Reading this book can induce uncontrollable giggling, squealing, a newfound belief in true-love, and an inexplicable need to pet a hairless cat. Reader discretion is advised.

#BookBlitz: What We Carry Forward: Love, Dogs, Baseball, and Other Temporary Things by Keith Ferris

Synopsis:

I grew up believing everyone else got a manual on how to be a person. Mine never arrived.

These twenty essays are what I figured out instead—about raising three kids while wrestling anxiety, OCD, and the black dog of depression; about marrying the steadiest woman I’ve ever met and learning what staying actually requires; about trading certainty-soaked faith for a doubt that finally feels honest; about Wednesday nights in a neighbor’s basement where men learn it’s safe to say, “I’m not okay.”

From panic attacks in a Sonic drive-thru to watching my daughter outgrow childhood one Snapchat at a time, this memoir traces an ordinary life shaped by therapy, fatherhood, mental health recovery, and the slow work of rebuilding identity after religious deconstruction. It’s stitched together with Nebraska sunrises, root-beer-barrel candy in a therapist’s office, and the stubborn belief that showing up is a kind of grace.

Funny, aching, and relentlessly kind, What We Carry Forward is for readers who enjoy reflective personal essays, honest stories about parenting and marriage, narratives about leaving evangelical Christianity, and memoirs of healing from anxiety and depression. It’s a book for anyone who has ever felt a little sideways to the world—and found that home was built in the small, imperfect choices to keep walking anyway.

#BookBlitz: Kind Kids by @jennamcdonough @RABTBookTours

The Adventures of Hurley, Pearl, and The Pink Soldiers of Kindness

Children's Book

Date Published: October 10, 2025

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Hurley and Pearl are a brother and sister duo who usually get along but, like all siblings, sometimes struggle with their emotions. One day, when Pearl’s singing pushes Hurley to his limit, a family conflict teaches them both an important lesson: kindness begins with understanding and taking responsibility for your emotions.

With Mom’s loving guidance, Hurley and Pearl learn the power of pausing, breathing, and reflecting before reacting. They discover that kindness can heal hurt feelings, bring people together, and make everyone feel seen and loved. Inspired by Mom’s story of spreading kindness through small pink toy soldiers, the siblings embark on a heartwarming mission of their own—to brighten others’ days, one soldier at a time.

At school, Hurley comforts a classmate with a pink soldier after a tough moment on the playground, while Pearl lifts the spirits of a substitute teacher who feels overwhelmed. Through these small but powerful acts, Hurley and Pearl realize that kindness doesn’t just help others—it also fills their own hearts with warmth and happiness.

Their journey is about more than sharing toys; it’s about spreading love, empathy, and connection to everyone around them. Along the way, they discover a simple truth: kindness can change the world, one thoughtful gesture at a time.

Complete with a heartfelt letter from the fictional Colonel Michael T. Pinkerton, Kind Kids inspires young readers to share their own adventures of kindness. This delightful and empowering story encourages children to take small steps to make big impacts in their families, classrooms, and communities while reminding them that kindness to others begins with being kind to themselves.

Perfect for parents, teachers, and children alike, Kind Kids is a touching exploration of sibling dynamics, emotional growth, and the ripple effect of simple, kind acts.

#BookBlitz: Ceremony of Innocence by #StephenAsher @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Literary / Historical Fiction

Date Published: 12-02-2025

Publisher: Scrivener Quill

It is June 1924 when an inquisitive but skeptical Gemma Danforth graduates from Wellesley College. Despite a loving family, an idyllic New England girlhood, and family summers in the Hamptons, little had assuaged her doubts Now, with college behind them, she and two classmates leave America bound for post war France where they will be immersed in the pulsating culture of European modernism. While in France, she reunites with her Paris based parents, and, in Nice, amidst its creative ferment, she falls in love with Rhys, a British aristocrat and ex-pat journalist. During this year spent along the Cote d’Azur, encounters with Sara and Gerald Murphy, Somerset Maugham, Zelda, Isadora Duncan and others, adds a depth and richness to the ambience of le midi. And so begins the process of displacing her doubts.

She and Rhys return to American where their values collide with antithetical and alien attitudes. It is these experiences that come to challenge long-held beliefs and provide a vivid counterpoint to their recent immersion in the Modernist aesthetic and world view.

Resolved to return to France, Gemma shares a final day in America with Gerald Murphy at his ocean front Hampton estate. As this unhurried afternoon unfolds, it becomes clear that Gemma’s skepticism and doubtfulness have been replaced with a clear-sighted maturity and hardened resolve. The next morning, aboard the Ile de France, Gemma and Rhys sail for France.

#ReleaseBlitz for Structure of Love by @sherwoodwrites #GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Structure of Love

Series: Gay 4 Renovations #2

Author: AJ Sherwood

Genre: MM Romance

Tropes: Chosen Family, Gay HGTV

Hurt/Comfort

Release Date: December 26, 2025

BLURB

Gage has a blueprint for his life all mapped out.

First, straighten out his little brother so Gage can finally stop being pseudo father to him.

Second, expand the company to have permanent crews.

Third, avoid any more hookup dates–he wants all or nothing.

The very sexy, tatted bar owner that slides into his life? Not part of the plan.

But god, Gage can go for some red line changes to make Logan part of it.

#BookReview: The Better Mother by @jennvdk @booksparks

Synopsis:
A woman ends up pregnant after a casual fling, but the father's girlfriend has much more sinister intentions in this plot-driven suspense debut. 

A modern spin on Fatal Attraction meets The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, perfect for fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish.

Still recovering from a devastating breakup, 34-year-old Savannah Mitchell has finally managed to put her life back together when she gets the shock of her life—after a brief fling with a man named Max, she is pregnant.

When she gets in touch to tell him, he reveals that he’s just gotten back together with his ex, Madison, and he will need time to break it to her. Surprisingly, Madison isn’t upset—in fact, she’s excited, and wants to help.

Max insists Madison has the best of intentions, but Savannah finds her efforts—popping by uninvited, demanding lifestyle changes, and pretty much trying to take over the pregnancy—anything but helpful. When Savannah finally stands up for herself, Madison’s treatment of her goes from casually cruel to downright dangerous.

All Savannah wanted to do was form a friendly co-parenting relationship with the father of her child—but his new girlfriend obviously has much more sinister plans in mind.

She has no plans to co-parent at all.

#BookBlitz: Rebel of the Forsaken: First Spark Johnathan Penberthy & Sarah Penberthy

Synopsis:
Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Cross has two lives.

By day, she’s just another girl in the fading town of Ashford—pulling espresso shots at Bean & Gone, pretending her dad isn’t dissolving into a bottle, and trying to remember what “normal” is supposed to feel like.

By night, she hunts monsters.

Under the radar of the town that pities her for the fire that killed her mother, Evelyn trains with Jacob Pierce (JP) —the ex-soldier who dragged her out of those flames and turned her into a weapon. Together, they track the demons that slip through the cracks, fighting back the darkness no one else can see.

Evelyn has always known she’s… different. She heals too fast. Hits too hard. Survives what should break her. But when a series of disappearances rocks Ashford and demons begin wearing the same burned symbol—and whispering her name—Evelyn realizes the monsters aren’t circling the town.

They’re circling her.

As an old cult called the Ashen Veil rises, their attacks feel less like battles and more like experiments—measuring her limits, pushing her fear, testing something inside her she doesn’t understand. And when a stranger with storm-grey eyes steps out of the shadows claiming to know what she is, Evelyn’s carefully controlled world fractures.

Her mentor is keeping secrets.
Her blood refuses to behave.
And something waiting in the dark has decided she’s the key it’s been hunting for.

To save the people she loves, Evelyn will have to face what really burned the night her mother died, and what’s been waking inside her ever since.

Because the Veil isn’t trying to kill her.

They’re trying to open her.

Rebel of the First Spark is the gripping first book in a dark supernatural fantasy series perfect for fans of Crescent City, The Mortal Instruments, and Fallen.