New Release Round-Up September 28th-October 4th
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Check out these new Black romance releases from September 28th-October 4th.
Love Overdose: St. Louis (In The Heart of A Valentine) by Stephanie Nicole Norris
Frankie Mellows is always up for a good time. When she spots a handsome stranger at her favorite diner, thoughts of momentary bliss with him are all she can think about. As a single mother to a special needs child, Frankie’s time is limited, so entertaining a man for longer than a nightcap is not in her realm of possibilities. But when that man asks her out on a date, Frankie can’t help but entertain ideas about what could be if they were more.
Neurosurgeon Elijah Valentine begins his day much like he ends it—with a surgical tool in his steady hands in an effort to save a life. His days and nights blend together, and often he wakes in the warm bath he falls asleep in. With such a busy schedule, there was no time for relationships, friendly or otherwise, until the woman he’d flirted with at a local diner continued to fill his thoughts with interest. When he’s presented with the chance to take her on a date, he takes it, and now getting the alluring, sultry woman out of his mind is impossible. It could be the drawl in her voice, the sway in her hips, or the way in which her face lights up when she laughs that holds him captive.
Either way, he’s willing to hold on to her as long as she’ll allow, and for his sake, he begins to hope it’s forever.
Love Me Down to Christmas by Aries Skye
Amariah Luke built a successful life far away from Skye Ridge, the small town filled with memories she’s spent years trying to outrun. But when her father falls ill just before Christmas, she returns home for the holidays and comes face-to-face with the one man she never truly forgot.
Jacob Gold never stopped loving Amariah. Not after the silence and not even after all those years apart. And now that she’s back in Skye Ridge for Christmas, he’s determined not to lose her a second time.
When Amariah’s father makes one heartfelt Christmas wish, Jacob sets out to win her back with a holiday countdown inspired by the memories, traditions, and quiet gestures that once made them inseparable. From snow-covered nights and spiked cocoa to long-buried confessions and second chances wrapped in twinkling lights, every day brings them closer to the love they left unsaid.
But as Christmas draws near, Amariah must decide whether the life she built away from home is truly where her heart belongs…or if the future she’s been searching for has been waiting for her in Skye Ridge all along.
The Darkest Love Affair: A Dark Paranormal Romance by Wynta Tyme
Thirty-four-year-old Solar Moonly had a simple everyday routine. During the day she liked to create different sauces, and at night she managed the local Stop N’ Go with her twenty-five-year-old brother Tyrese. They were roommates and spent most of their time together, but with him always wanting to hang out with his friends, they had more of a mother-son relationship.
Life threw a wrench in her routine when one night she’s held at gunpoint with no witnesses but the sexy yet mysterious customer who saves her. After the dust settled, Solar thought she could return to her life, but when she's rescued by that same mysterious customer again, he pulls her into his dark world. Just like her attackers, he demands something in return as well. Only his demands involve, safe words and bites.
Thirty-seven-year-old Sylence “Sy” Gatz life consisted of three things: bullets, boobs, and bank rolls. He was a paid contract killer that completed every job necessary, until he was contracted to kill the brown-skinned beauty from the Stop N’ Go. Sy didn’t know what it was about Solar that held him hostage, but he knew he couldn’t kill her.
After rescuing her and spending time with Solar, he wants her to take up occupancy in his home and soon his heart. All she had to do was tell him what he wanted to hear. But that’s if she can handle his extracurricular activity fueled by the moon.
Unbeknownst to the pair, revenge is broiling on high for those disgruntled and betrayed, and they will stop at nothing until both Sylence and Solar are unalived.
Write Here With You (Another Love Series Book 2) by Meisha G.
What was supposed to be a one night stand leads them to a place they never thought they’d be.
Lyric Jackson is more than satisfied with her rolodex of men and women to warm her bed, with no room for feelings. For nine years, she has found comfort with her editing job, apartment with her best friend, and being away from home which holds reminders of her father’s passing.
When Lyric gets a call about her mom's health scare, she decides to return home. She sees the move as a chance to embrace new opportunities. However, she is forced to face everything she's been avoiding: writing, grief, and... love.
With Summer Break ahead, Drew Brown only has plans for one thing: painting to his heart’s content before another school year. A chance meeting during a night at the karaoke bar ends in a rendezvous in the sheets with Lyric. A night with a woman he can’t stop thinking about.
While Lyric plans on leaving that night as it was, Drew plans to make it more than just a one night stand. He goes into full pursuit to show Lyric things she’s never experienced romantically: understanding, attention, and his heart.
But can Lyric let go of pains of the past to embrace the love that awaits her right here at home?
Private Lessons (Mind, Body, & Soul) by Netra Antionette
*** THIS IS A SPIN-OFF OF THE MIND, BODY & SOUL SERIES. IT CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE, AS IT FOLLOWS SIDE CHARACTERS FROM THE ORIGINAL SERIES. HOWEVER, CHARACTERS FROM PREVIOUS BOOKS ARE MENTIONED AND MAY MAKE APPEARANCES. ***
I’m a dancer. It’s what I love, what I’m great at, and what keeps my bills paid and my peace intact. Dating isn't on my to-do list. I haven't clocked into that shift for a while. These days my world is simple: perfect my craft, stack my money, have a little fun, and keep my heart off the floor.
Most of my downtime goes to teaching women who want to unlock a side of themselves they never knew existed. That consists of seductive dancing, pole, twerk, and most of all.. confidence. No drama. No feelings. Just movement and power.
Then a gorgeous bride-to-be slides on my schedule, hoping to surprise her introverted fiancé on their wedding night. I expected an easy job. But what I got were late nights full of laughter, walls breaking down, and an unexpected pull I can’t quite name.
Just as the connection starts to feel real, cracks appear in her picture-perfect life. Secrets surface. And the safe little world I built for myself suddenly doesn’t feel so safe anymore.
Some lessons change more than your body.
Some teach you how to love again.
These are Private Lessons.
Succulent by Shay Dawn
Novi always knew she was... different.
This Halloween, she Finds out just how different she is.
Bloodween: A Dark Fantasy Halloween Novelette by Bella Jay
The Halloween I was accidentally kidnapped by my best friend’s boyfriend.
That was his first mistake.
Now, he was prey.
Welcome to Bloodween.
And It’s Still You by Fallynn West
Moya Collier
No longer able to handle the strain O’Shea’s family business is putting on their marriage, Moya decides to divorce him. For five years, they co-parent their son, Ocean, and Moya holds ill feelings toward Shea. Everyone tells her it is because she still loves O’Shea, but she is in denial. That is until an attempted robbery at her home forces her and Ocean to live with Shea temporarily.
O’Shea Collier
O’Shea didn’t choose JMG. Through the Collier bloodline, JMG chose him. In the end, it results in him losing his wife and having a strained relationship with his father. Despite the divorce, and Moya telling him it is too late, O’Shea cuts his ties and opens his pharmacy. When the attempted robbery happens, O’Shea sees it as an opportunity to have a second chance with his ex-wife. He takes advantage of it while trying to figure out who is after them.
Just as things are getting better between O’Shea and Moya, a disagreement with his father and stepping back into JMG leads to the worst, damaging the second chance O’Shea had. Will history repeat itself, or will the second time around lead to forever?
Kindred Flame by L. Shauntel
Ember Rae Sullivan is a rising chef determined to build her own culinary empire. Control is her comfort zone, and she plans to keep it that way.
Love is a distraction she can’t afford, so she lives by two rules: make your money and never let a man get in the way of your dreams.
Elijah Claus is exactly the kind of man those rules were made for.
Persistent, possessive, and used to getting what he wants, Elijah takes Ember’s boundaries as a challenge—and her resistance as a reason to try harder.
One blurred line is all it takes to complicate everything.
Now, Ember is determined to keep her focus on the future she’s worked too hard for, while Elijah seems just as determined to make room for himself in it.
But when one impulsive decision forces Ember to rethink everything she thought she wanted, she decides it’s finally time to bet on herself.
Except Elijah has already decided he’s betting on her too.
And the more Ember tries to keep her boundaries in place, the harder it becomes to ignore the pull bringing her right back to him.
Because when two people share the same flame the rest is just timing.
Beast of the Bayou: A Romantic Werewolf Novella by Dominique Black
The last descendent of Bayou Mourne's founding family—Solomon Mourne has spent twenty years hiding from the world and learning how to control the beast within him. He has built his life around solitude…until Lila walks through his door.
Lila Saint-Claire is desperate for a fresh start. When a live-in housekeeping job at the mysterious Mount Mourne estate lands in her lap, it seems like the perfect opportunity to build anew.
From the moment they meet, something between them feels impossible to resist. As their attraction deepens, Lila soon discovers the tragic history of Solomen, and the truth behind the whispers of the Beast of Bayou.
Is Solomen something to fear—or is he the very thing that led her to Bayou Mourne?
I'll Matcha Energy (Little Autumn Love Stories) by Tina Martin
A crochet class full of women just got a whole lot more interesting when Tristan Calloway walks in to learn the craft. But he’s no stranger to Kaylani Ellis, at least in his mind. They used to know each other years ago. He figured now’s the perfect time to get reacquainted. The only thing is, she doesn’t think their previous association was significant enough to justify his deep feelings for her.
Harts & Hurts by Tracy Gray
This story isn’t a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. This story is more like, After the Poison. For almost a century, The Hart and The Melrose Families have had animosity, and bad blood between them. What happens when one young couple defies the feud and falls in love? They start to live their happily ever after, of course. When their romance is cut short by their untimely deaths, there is a directive in their will that their infant daughter is to be raised by their siblings, Griffin Hart, and Anistyn Hurt.
Anistyn Hurt has never known a time when her maternal family (The Melroses), and The Hart family have gotten along. She doesn’t subscribe to holding the grudges of people who are long since dead. Anistyn judges people on their own merits. Based on her interactions with her brother-in-law, he was a good man with a good heart, who loved her sister completely. He always treated Anistyn like a cherished family member, but never in a million years did she expect him and her sister to leave guardianship of their daughter to her. Anistyn tended to be a dreamer, but the thought of pairing up with a Hart in co-guardianship was a lot, even for her.
Griffin Hart doesn’t have time to hold grudges against people who have never done anything to him personally. As a former professional football player, he’s focused on solidifying his place as a television analyst. His schedule is completely demanding. His days are filled with meetings, game tape, statistics, and interviews. He’s never even considered making space in his life for a baby. Now, not only is there a baby, there’s also the baby’s aunt—and the expectation of his brother and sister-in-law that he’ll step up to the plate.
Determined to honor their late siblings’ final wish, Anistyn and Griffin agree to raise their niece together. As bottles, sleep deprivation, diaper changes, and midnight feedings dominate their new dynamic, they seamlessly move from co-guardianship to partnership.
Their siblings had always hoped that their daughter sharing the blood of both families would provide a bridge toward healing, now it’s also providing a growing affection between her aunt and uncle. Will Anistyn and Griffin rewrite the family’s history all over again, finally giving Romeo and Juliet the closure they never received?
Kobalt by Egypt Cynaè
Kaimera Slope was a good girl who believed in doing the right thing, but sometimes doing the right thing leads to unfavorable consequences. When a reminder is left in her home that “snitches get stitches,” she has no place to go except to a farm in the North Georgia mountains—the last place on earth they can ever find her, but it’s also the one place she hadn’t expected to find him—her former love.
Kobalt Harden’s MMA career has come to an end, and after fighting allegations of using PEDs, he goes to the one place on earth that peace is guaranteed—the farm he inherited from his grandma. What he didn’t expect was that his sister had sent the one woman his heart always desired there.
With the enemy searching for her, she has no choice but to rely on Kobalt to protect her. And in his protection lies the remedy to everything that’s broken within her.
Love and Brushstrokes (Artists of Ghana Book 3) by Nana Prah
Therapist Serwaa Aboagye has swept a grown man off his feet in the most embarrassing of ways. She’s now desperate for the kind of help that only the popular painter can provide. Asking him for the favour comes with an intriguing catch she finds impossible to resist. A life-threatening deception by her ex-husband has her guarded, even when the attraction between them is undeniable. Releasing her fear will allow her to have fun, but will the emotional risk involved be worth it?
Justice Asare is in Ghana for a month to celebrate his cousin’s wedding. When the woman who captures his attention, inspires him to paint again, and catapults them into viral social media status asks for his assistance, he has a counteroffer of his own. The magnetic draw to his beautiful muse makes it difficult to remember that, unlike the stroke of a paintbrush, all romantic relationships in his life are inevitably temporary.
Always, Savion (The West Grove Series Book 2) by Kafi Wise
Officer Savion Evans is known for his playboy ways, quick wit, and status as the son of West Grove’s Chief of Police. He’s been avoiding Dr. Kendra Solomon, the one woman capable of unraveling his controlled lifestyle of working hard and playing harder. Once Kendra is forced into his life, Savion experiences a connection he never believed he was capable of.
Dr. Kendra Solomon, a dedicated trauma surgeon, sacrificed her ambitions to follow a man to West Grove in the name of love. She’s determined to reclaim her independence and escape to the job she’s always wanted. Now she must choose between chasing her dream and a love that has made her feel more like herself than ever before.
Brutal Beauty (Yadili Book 8) by Kiru Taye
She asked the Beast for revenge. He demanded her hand in marriage.
When Daniella Badu’s boyfriend vanishes with her money, leaving her facing foreclosure, scandal, and possible prison, she turns to the one man powerful enough to find him: Idehen Cruz.
A retired MMA legend, once known as the Beast, Idehen rules Lori Osa with discipline, loyalty, and fear. He has never forgiven Dani for stealing from him, but he agrees to help on one ruthless condition: she must become his wife.
Trapped in his guarded Braeburn Island home, Dani finds that Idehen’s protection comes with rules, surveillance, and a dangerous attraction neither of them can ignore.
But as the Cruz–Falana feud threatens Idehen’s son, his empire, and everyone close to him, Dani must decide whether their marriage is a temporary bargain, a weapon, or the one risk that could cost her freedom and her heart.
Brutal Beauty is an age-gap, forced-proximity, Beauty and the Beast retelling set in the Yadili universe. It can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed after reading Bad Santa.
Marked by the Dragon: Curvy Girl Dragon Romance (Dragons of Willow Creek Book 3) by Norah Rose
I thought I was human until something inside me started waking up.
SHANETTA
Something is wrong with me. I’m burning up for no reason. My dreams are filled with fire. And every now and then, I swear my brown eyes aren’t brown anymore.
Then I meet Buzz.
Fine. Dangerous. Arrogant as hell. I should stay away from him, but the closer I get, the hotter I burn. And when something impossible happens right in front of him, the way Buzz looks at me changes.
Like he knows something I don’t.
BUZZ
I knew Shanetta was different the second I saw her.
I just didn’t know how different.
She thinks she’s an ordinary woman. I know there’s something hiding beneath the surface—and whatever it is has my dragon paying attention. Walking away would be smart.
Too bad I’ve never been good at letting go of something I want. And I want Shanetta. Even if finding out what she really is changes everything.
Marked by the Dragon is the third book in the Dragons of Willow Creek where the Dragons are hotter than fire.
In Every Lifetime, Volume I (Roseville Archives Book 1) by A.A. Bailey
Some people come into your life. Others feel like they’ve always been there.
Daielle Diahann Rose Snow has spent her whole life knowing exactly who she is supposed to be. A Snow. A Roseville girl. The granddaughter of one of the town’s most respected families. Her future has always seemed carefully laid out in front of her.
Then there’s Thierry Gibbs.
He’s tall, talented, impossible to ignore—and carrying the weight of a family name that means something entirely different in Roseville. Thierry has his own expectations to live up to, his own loyalties to protect, and a future everyone around him seems certain they understand.
Neither of them expects the other.
What begins in the hallways of Roseville High grows through friendship, first dates, basketball games, family dinners, jealousy, mistakes, and all the little moments that turn a teenage crush into something neither of them knows how to name yet.
But growing up in Roseville means love never belongs to just two people.
Their families have histories. Their names carry expectations. And while Elle and Thierry are busy figuring out who they are to each other, the world around them is quietly shaping the people they will become.
Before the marriage. Before the children. Before the legacy.
There was just Elle and Thierry—and the beginning of a love that would change everything.
ClickBack by Tia Kelly
She only meant to make her ex look twice. Then the wrong man looked first.
At forty-four, Giselle Dawkins is done being gracious. Done smiling through her ex’s new marriage like it did not cost her anything. Done being the dependable one, the woman expected to make every awkward moment easier for everyone except herself.
So when the family gathers for her grandson’s birthday, Giselle buys an influencer’s designer castoffs, gets her hair right, and walks into the party ready to disturb one man’s peace.
The problem is, the man watching is not her ex. It’s Jarrett Simmons. Twenty-nine, fine as hell, and a pro basketball player between seasons. Jarrett knows better than to feed the headlines, but Giselle is hard to ignore and even harder to leave alone.
What should have been one reckless night keeps finding reasons to become another. Soon, petty revenge has turned into something hotter, softer, and much harder to keep to themselves. When the truth gets out, everyone has something to say about a forty-four-year-old grandmother, a younger athlete, and a relationship neither of them planned to explain.
Giselle Dawkins came to disturb her ex’s peace. She did not expect Jarrett Simmons to become the one disturbing hers.
Missed Calls & Broken Promises by Tyra Racquel
Fallon Rhodes thought Soren Cross was the man she would marry.
They fell in love young, survived college and long distance, and built the kind of relationship everyone around them believed would last. Their families became family, their future was already taking shape, and Fallon never questioned whether Soren would be part of it.
Without warning, Soren stopped answering her calls, ignored her messages, and cut Fallon out of his life without giving her the one thing she deserved: an explanation.
Seven years later, Fallon has built a life she's proud of and learned how to live without the man she once thought she couldn't live without. Then Soren Cross walks back into it.
The love is still there, but so is the hurt, and this time, Fallon isn't the same woman who will keep calling a man who refuses to answer.
If Soren wants another chance with the woman he never stopped loving, he'll have to finally tell her why he walked away in the first place.
Fallon will have to decide what happens when the man who broke her heart finally gives her the answers she stopped waiting for years ago.
Heaven & Hennessy: Blaque Brothers Book 1 by Queen Rae
Heaven Domino has spent most of her life taking care of everyone else.
As a pediatric oncology nurse, being strong for others comes naturally. But when betrayal brings her long-term relationship to an abrupt end, Heaven decides it’s finally time to choose herself. Love is the last thing on her mind, and she has no interest in giving another man the opportunity to break her heart.
Hennessy Blaque isn’t looking for love either.
Successful, devoted, and fiercely protective of the people he loves, his entire world revolves around being a father. With his young son battling an illness no parent should have to face, Hennessy doesn’t have room in his life for anything that could distract him from what matters most.
Then he meets Heaven.
What begins as a connection formed through his son slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Beyond the walls of the hospital, conversations turn into comfort, comfort turns into attraction, and before long, staying away from each other becomes harder than either of them anticipated.
But falling in love is easy compared to everything waiting on the other side of it.
As Hennessy faces the kind of loss that can change a man forever, Heaven finds herself doing the one thing she swore she wouldn’t: opening her heart. Because sometimes love doesn’t arrive when life is perfect. Sometimes it finds you in the middle of the heartbreak, sits beside you through the grief, and reminds you that even after losing a piece of yourself, there may still be room for something beautiful.
Unexpected : A Holiday Novella (Second Edition) (The Holiday Shorts) by DL White
Saidah Harland has plans for Christmas: good food, good wine, and making sure the college boyfriend who broke her heart gets a good look at what he let get away more than a decade ago. She doesn’t plan on Jay ruining dinner and any chance at reconciliaton.
She also doesn’t plan on the other Hunter brother capturing her attention.
Will Hunter is used to standing in his older brother’s shadow. Jay is the charming one, the salesman, the man everyone remembers. Will is the one who stays behind to handle the details and clean up the messes. But when Christmas dinner goes spectacularly wrong, he gets something he wasn't expecting: a chance to get to know a beautiful, intriguing woman without his brother taking all the attention.
Neither expects one night to become a relationship, or for falling in love to bring everything they’ve spent years searching for. Saidah knows how quickly the people she loves can be taken from her. Will knows how easily loving someone can turn into carrying them. If they want the life taking shape between them, they’ll both have to decide whether they’re ready to stop letting the past dictate what comes next.
One unexpected Christmas brings Saidah and Will together. By the next, they may have found the love, family, and home neither knew they were missing.
UNEXPECTED is a steamy, emotional holiday romance about love after loss, complicated family ties, and choosing a future you never saw coming.
Homecoming by Brittanie Ganai
"Homecoming" — Every October, the whole city comes out for the HBCU homecoming: tailgates, the step show, the parade. Jaelyn left town after her engagement to Zeke fell apart, and she hasn't been back in seven years. Now she's back for homecoming weekend to support her little cousin. Zeke is running the biggest tailgate on the yard and is still the reason she left. The book takes place over one wild weekend, with flashbacks to what really happened between them.
What They Started by Tasha Kennedy
Jacki Williamson thought she knew the man she married. Then she discovers his affair—and learns the other woman has a husband, too.
Former FBI agent Wayne Hutchinson knows what it’s like to have a marriage undone by someone else’s lies. He and Jacki have every reason to keep their distance. Instead, an unlikely friendship gives them both somewhere to be honest while they rebuild their lives.
As Jacki pours herself into her growing baking business, friendship with Wayne begins to feel like something more. But wanting him is easier than trusting a new future, especially when their past refuses to stay behind them.
What They Started is a steamy, later-in-life Black romance about finding love after betrayal and choosing it on your own terms.
Chasing After Forever: A Christian Romance Novel (Forever Faithfully Yours Book 3) by LaToya Battle
Some Things are Worth Believing in Again…
Miranda McNeil has the successful nail salon she once dreamed of and a life she’s worked hard to build. But after years of unanswered questions and painful seasons, the faith that once came so easily doesn’t feel quite the same.
Then Izaiah Davenport walks back into her life.
He’s the boy who once made her feel special and the man she never expected to see again. As an old friendship gives way to a love neither of them saw coming, Miranda begins to wonder if some connections really are meant to find their way back.
But opening her heart to Izaiah means facing the fears she’s carried for years—and deciding whether she can trust God with everything she wants most.
Because sometimes chasing after forever leads you right back to the person you were meant to find.
Loving Her Enemy: A Billionaire Marriage of Convenience Romance by Sharon C. Cooper
A billionaire businessman. A heartbroken, unemployed chemist. A marriage agreement that can benefit them both.
Billionaire businessman Sloane Davidson needs a wife—fast. And although Halayna Tanaka is ten years younger than him, and an enticing temptation he managed to resist years ago, she's perfect for the role. But she thinks he's some gold-plated scumbag and wants nothing to do with him.
After a devastating string of bad luck, Halayna is struggling to stay afloat in a world that keeps knocking her down. So when Sloane, her best friend’s brother, offers a marriage of convenience as a solution to both their problems, she’s tempted. The thing is she can't stand him. He may be the sexiest man on the planet, but he’s also arrogant, infuriating, and overbearing. She shouldn’t want him. Shouldn’t even give him the time of day. Yet, her body ignites with desire whenever he’s around.
Is selling out to a billionaire worth it? Especially if he tempts her beyond her control. Or is this marriage of convenience the path to the love she always dreamed of?
SAGA: A Music Industry Second Chance Romance by Mariah Deleone
Saga Nash has spent his entire life protecting the empire his father built.
Northside Sound is more than a record label. It is money, family, reputation, and the legacy Big Frank Nash expected his oldest son to carry long after he was gone. When Big Frank dies and leaves Saga controlling interest in the company, Saga expects grief, responsibility, and enough family drama to make him regret having siblings.
He never expects Mona Ellis.
Eight years ago, Mona walked out of Saga’s life with unfinished feelings between them. Now she is back with a hard drive full of missing music, a mother who claims Northside stole her songwriting legacy, and enough evidence to shake everything Saga believes about his father.
There is another complication.
Saga still wants her.
Forced together to complete Big Frank’s secret final album, Saga and Mona spend long nights inside the studio peeling apart old recordings, buried contracts, and the history neither family wants examined too closely. Their old attraction comes roaring back, and this time Saga has no interest in pretending one kiss is enough.
Then someone breaks into Northside.
Money trails lead to companies nobody recognizes. An old friend is attacked. Someone inside the family’s trusted circle has been stealing for years, and Big Frank may have known far more than he admitted.
Saga has always believed love means protecting the people who belong to him.
Mona makes him question what protection costs when the truth is the thing everyone needs.
Now Saga has to choose between preserving his father’s empire and exposing the secrets holding it together, even if the truth destroys Northside, fractures his family, and changes Big Frank’s legacy forever.
Because some inheritances come with money.
Some come with lies.
And some stories survive long enough for the next generation to decide how they end.
Claiming His Family: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance by Zoey Marie Jackson
Can one little boy
Hold the key to their future?
Nigel Emerson’s world is turned upside down when he learns his late mother’s last wish was for him to restore her house to its former glory with the help of the woman who broke his heart. Still hurt by Peyton Fitzgerald’s rejection, seeing her and her son, Samuel—a child Nigel could never have given her—is the last thing he wants. But as Nigel and Peyton work together repairing the old house, the bond that forms between Nigel and Samuel starts to heal old wounds. Their love for this child might just bring two old loves back together…
The Gargoyle Who Guards the Graveyard: A Southern Fated Mates Monster Romance (Monsters of Tarver, Georgia Book 3) by Lena Lynch
Renee Pitts has kept the books at the Pine Hill cemetery office for six years. She knows what every family in Tarver, Georgia owes on its dead. She shaves her own head in her own mirror every Sunday night, and she pays for everything herself, down to the penny.
Every night after close, she sits on the office step and tells the gargoyle on the cemetery gate about her day. He has never said a word back.
Until the October night he does.
Gideon has guarded that ground since before Tarver had streetlights. He has been listening to Renee since she was new, and he made up his mind about her the first night he saw her. But a man who turns to stone at sunrise can't take her to supper or sit beside her in church, and he will not let the one woman he wants tie herself to a graveyard gate to love him.
Renee has been told no before. She has a church basement full of old promises, a lamp nobody has lit in a hundred years, and a law of her own to lay down. He can come down off that post and have her on her terms, or he can sit up there and be wrong.
Sweet Energy by Juliet Renee
Finding out a close friend took their life is hard to grasp. Harder still is realizing there is more to the story than meets the eye. From the outside, it looks like online bullying pushed her over the edge, but the dreams you keep having and the information you learn when you come home to celebrate her life tell you this choice wasn’t simple. It sends you and your two best friends on a search to find out what truly happened, putting the three of you in the line of fire. As you start to experience the attacks online, you get a glimpse of what she went through, and it pushes you to get justice for her life. Will you be able to get justice for your friend? Or will everything go up in flames?
Cuffed Up: A Cozy, Omegaverse, Football, Reverse Harem Romance (All Knotted Up) by Ayah Jay
It's Cuffing Season!
Eight months. That's how long three alphas courted me. Tonight was supposed to be next steps. I laid my edges. I wore the green dress.
Then I got to the table, and another omega was in my seat, smelling like my man.
So I did what any grown woman would do. I went to the open bar.
That's where Malcolm Hayes found me. He's a six-foot-five All-Pro defensive end who can't stand reporters, and he somehow knows my drink order. He needs his image fixed. I need my exes to choke on it. His offer is to court me in public through the playoffs, and then we both walk away.
Easy. Except he comes with a pack. Isaiah plans our dates down to the minute. Kendrick won't stop scenting me no matter how many times I tell him to stop.
It's all supposed to be fake. So why does it feel like the realest thing I've had all year?
When He Sees Me (Through Love's Eyes Book 1) by Alicia Wiggins
She wasn’t looking for love. He wasn’t looking for her. Fate had other plans.
Walking away from a marriage that ended long before the paperwork caught up, Neenah Harris begins rebuilding everything from scratch while vowing to protect the two kids who deserve better—even though, somewhere along the way, she forgot she deserves better, too.
Cam Wilborn has a thriving business, brothers who always have his back, and zero space for the kind of risk that comes with wanting someone—until he meets Neenah and begins to see everything in a brand-new light.
Reckoning with the Marshal by Simone Sims
If he wants her in his future
He’ll have to face up to his past
Since becoming a federal marshal, Beau Hunt has nurtured a secret fantasy: He’ll be assigned a new witness to protect, and that witness will be Christine, the woman he’d lost years ago after a confrontation with a crime lord. The moment he meets his latest assignment—a woman called Kirsten Spears—he realizes that his dream has finally come true. Beau and Kirsten agree to keep their relationship hidden from his colleagues and her longtime handler. When the truth comes to light, though, it exposes the former lovers to terrible danger. And it leaves them with no one to rely on but each other…
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