Two fake names and a simple agreement—one night only, wherever the moonshine takes us.
I don’t have time for the cool, older guy with wavy hair, a smile that makes me tingle, and who leaves my sheets smelling of Irish Spring. Even more so after I discover he’s the man on the other side of my family’s corporate battle. He’s my rival.
My focus is on the distillery that’s been in my family for four generations and our newest product. That’s where it needs to stay.
Problem is, the longer he’s around, the longer I want him to stay…to explore this chemistry between us. To make this fling last forever.
Brandt owns a competing brand and might be after something other than a picket-fence forever. I need to keep my guard up.
Finding that balance between rivals and lovers won’t be easy.
USA Today Best-Selling Claire Hastings is a walking, talking awkward moment. She loves Diet Coke, gummi bears, the beach, and books (obvs). When not reading she can usually be found hanging with friends at a soccer match or grabbing food (although she probably still has a book in her purse). She and her husband live in Atlanta.
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Tennessee Trouble is a really good start to Claire’s newest series.
This is a rivals-to-lovers romance that brings all the chemistry to the forefront and makes that rival tension even more delicious to watch.
The blurb is really all you need to know going into this one. Brandt and Lindee are after the same thing in business. But neither can deny the chemistry they feel after that one night – what happens if they choose to go for more?!?!
Claire writes this high chemistry story very well. I love that readers can see how both characters react to one another and their inner musings while they are working out where to go after that wild night and then seeing each other unexpectedly the next day.
The story flows really well and I enjoyed this one alot.
HIDING IN THE OUTFIELD by Lizzie C Koz — MM Teammate’s Brother Coming Out Pining Baseball Romance | Blog Tour
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HIDING IN THE OUTFIELD
by Lizzie C Koz
Series: Bridgeport Jetties: The Call-Up Years – Book 2
Release Date: September 17, 2026
Genre: MM Baseball Romance
Tropes: Teammate’s brother, found family, sex lessons / inexperienced hero / first times, soft redemption arc, touch starved / lonely boy hurt x comfort sad boy x sassy boy, yearning/longing/pining, boyfriend experience, nicknames, cooking as a love language
“No pressure either way,” I murmur. “Just opportunity. If you want it.”
I thought I was the one helping him. Giving him something.
How wrong I was.
FRANKIE
My brother’s teammate watches me when he thinks no one’s looking. But I’ve caught him, and I know exactly what’s hiding in those stormy blue eyes.
It’s not the first time a closeted guy has looked at me like I’m a problem he desperately wants to solve. And I’ll gladly let him. This Frankie fun-ride is at your service.
Temporarily.
Because like all rides, this one comes to an end. But everybody needs somewhere to land, and I don’t mind being that place for a while.
Make it a ride they won’t forget and on to the next.
Life has taught me I’m made for moments, not forever. And I know better than to fall for men who can’t choose me in the daylight.
I won’t ever make that mistake again.
JACKSON
My plan is simple: stay locked up tight until my baseball career is over.
I’m just another straight ballplayer in a straight world, keeping my head down. Because in my family, inside every locker room I’ve ever known—being gay isn’t an option.
Baseball is supposed to be enough. It has been.
Then Frankie Nebiolo walked in and offered me something I couldn’t resist.
A secret place to be myself in a way I’ve never risked before.
With him, I can finally breathe. I can finally want.
Except…the longer we’re together, the more painful hiding becomes.
Now I’m starting to wonder if I’d trade everything for the chance to stop pretending.
Lizzie C Koz is a writer of fast-paced stories full of heat that will have you fanning yourself, and humor that will have you spitting out your wine. She lives in New England in a fixer-upper with her husband, toddler, and Golden Retriever.
When she’s not writing, she’s likely trying to convince her husband to tackle yet another DIY project around the house.
Lizzie loves nothing more than falling into a romance book as an outlet, especially when she was struggling through postpartum with her son. Now, she hopes to provide that same escape and small slice of joy to others.
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YESSSSS!! This book was EVERYTHING!!
Frankie just became my favorite EVER!!
He and Jackson – perfection. GAH!!
I want to read this story all over again and just soak up all the deliciousness – both in and out of the bedroom.
Jackson, oh sweet Jackson. You are the redemption ARC I didn’t know I needed til this book.
Frankie!! He won me over with his outgoing personality but his compassion and deep understanding of Jackson won me over. I need Frankie as my best friend.
Lizzie, thank you for writing a story that is so relevant in today’s society. It’s raw, real and authentic in so many ways.
This story had me cracking up so much, made me deeply emotional and had me celebrating all the wins with them.
When The Smoke Clears by Jewel E. Ann is now live!
From USA Today bestselling author Jewel E. Ann comes a bittersweet second-chance romance about deferred love, impossible timing, and the courage of choosing happiness after devastating loss.
Everleigh Reichart and William Landry fell hard—and far too fast. Their weeklong romance ended the moment Will, a twenty-nine-year-old firefighter, learned the truth: Everleigh was seventeen. He walked away to protect them both. Destiny had other plans.
Eleven years later, Will is still running into burning buildings, while Everleigh has become a brilliant psychiatrist. When a house fire strands her on his land, their old feelings ignite like patient embers. But she’s desperate to keep concealing the childhood trauma that has shaped her life, and he’s struggling under the weight of his father’s terminal illness. Too soon, the strain snaps their fragile reunion, flinging them farther apart than ever before.
Now Everleigh must face her past to salvage a future with Will…if he can accept that loving her includes the broken parts too. But first, he needs to come and find her—this time by faith, not fate.
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Falling for the one woman who has the power to end my football career was never part of the plan . . .
This was supposed to be Cole Valor’s record-breaking season.
Instead, the star quarterback can’t seem to find his game. Missed throws. Bad reads. And someone is making a fortune betting against him.
When suspicious betting patterns surrounding his performance raise red flags, the NFL assigns its top integrity investigator to determine if its golden boy is the victim . . . or the mastermind.
Dublin Locke has built her career on facts, not feelings. She’s determined to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it points back to the man whose kiss she’s never forgotten.
The deeper Dublin digs, the more the evidence points to Cole. Yet he insists on helping her uncover the truth. Is he proving his innocence . . . or trying to throw her off his trail?
Working side by side as the investigation tightens its grip, the line between professional and personal begins to blur—and every stolen kiss pushes them further over a line neither of them can afford to cross.
Because every instinct tells Dublin to keep her distance. But the more she falls for him, the harder it becomes to know which to believe—the facts . . . or her heart.
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Hard Pass is a sports romance that has a nice little trope added in with the long ago one-night stand.
Cole is the quarterback of the team of that Dublin is now in charged of investigating for integrity. But these two ran into another one night years ago. Honestly – that one night didn’t quite make me believe these ever really forgot the other – but more like, oh dang, it’s you in this odd situation.
I did like how this story played out and enjoyed the uniqueness of the sports romance with the investigation. I enjoyed the mystery of the unknown bets and that probably kept me more drawn in than the romance. But the reveal came, and I honestly saw it coming, so for me, this was a letdown because it was a big build up.
Cole and Dublin are both very strong characters, but it was great to see Cole grow and deal with some things from his past.
Overall, a good sports romance with some suspense added in to keep things interesting.
She’s counting down the days until she leaves Tuscany. He’s counting on making her stay.
Some people go to Tuscany to find themselves.
I went to escape—New York, my ex’s new relationship, and a career that derailed the moment I was passed over for partner.
My plan was simple: settle my eccentric Italian grandmother’s estate, sell whatever wasn’t nailed down, and return to the life I’d worked too hard to lose.
Instead, I walked into a mess—a crumbling antique shop, two hundred acres of leased vineyard land, and one infuriating clause in the will: Live and work in the shop for three months, or inherit nothing.
Then there’s the neighbor I clash with instantly. Matteo Lucchese is the infuriatingly handsome winemaker who leases my family’s land and refuses to be impressed by my credentials—or my attitude. He’s rugged and stubborn, stuck living in a time that has long passed us by, and the word rush isn’t part of his vocabulary. Basically, we’re exact opposites.
But as the days stretch into weeks, Tuscany chips away at the armor I didn’t realize I was wearing, and Matteo shows me the appeal of slowing down, of staying rooted, of wanting something other than climbing the corporate ladder.
I came to Tuscany to escape.
But now that the countdown to going home was on, I wasn’t sure if I was ready to leave. And the life I was falling for came with a looming expiration date.
Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twenty-seven languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in the US, Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, Israel, and Hungary. Three of her short stories have been turned into films, and two of her books are currently optioned for movies. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.
Wicked Ruin: A Dark Irish Mafia Forbidden Love Romance by Jane Henry is now live!
He has a fiancée. But I’m carrying his secret.
I’ve been in love with Declan McCarthy for years. He’s dangerous. Forbidden. Already promised to another woman. Every instinct told me to run the night he kissed me. I stayed anyway. Now I’m carrying his baby and he doesn’t know it.
Declan’s sense of duty keeps him blind to the one person who’s loved him all along. I’ve spent years pining for a man who can’t choose me. Except now I can’t hide this secret anymore. If the truth comes out, I become a target. And the only man standing between me and the vengeance that’s going to unleash is Declan.
Too bad, they don’t know he’s also the man who will burn the whole world down before he lets anyone touch what’s his.
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For fans of Lights Out and You, this follow-up to Love Me Stalk Me is a dark rom-com about a woman matched with her fantasy boyfriend by an AI app–unaware he’s actually her ex-husband, back to win her over in disguise.
When Amanda Bennett signs up for the beta feature of the Obsess AI boyfriend app, she thinks it’s just another marketing gimmick. Go on a date with a real man who matches her digital fantasy? Spoiler: she’s skeptical.
Then the app delivers. Her match is hot, brooding, motorcycle included. Perfect–except he refuses to remove his helmet, won’t share his name, and somehow knows things about her no stranger should.
Because he’s not a stranger. He’s Kade Steele, her ex-husband. The one who disappeared. The one she’s spent years trying–and failing–to forget. Now he’s back and determined to win her heart. With a little romance, a little mystery, and a deeply questionable amount of stalking.
She thought she was moving on. Instead, she’s falling for the one man who broke her heart…and this time, he’s not letting go.
This was quite the entertaining read for a second-chance romance.
Laura definitely plays into the motorcycle excitement with this one, especially with Kade keeping his helmet on each time they get together.
I really enjoyed the banter and dialouge/texting in this one. It helped create that level of humor needed for this story. Amanda definitely had me laughing quite a bit – she’s got my humorous attitude.
Kade – I have some many issues with you if you were real. But alas, in this book your mannerisms can be seen as endearing – except to Amanda. LOL
This was a great story to truly get lost in because we all know if any of this happened IRL – yea, it wouldn’t. HA! Looking forward to the next book.
Silver Sweet by Krista & Becca Ritchie is now live!
Phoenix is a hot drummer with a bad attitude. Tom is a punk-rock singer who’s too hard to impress. Two problem children of their bands have one shot at making it big in this M/M Rockstar Romance—if they don’t burn it all down.
Tom Cobalt has been called a lot of things. Arrogant god. Overachiever. Demanding, uncooperative jerk. It comes with the territory of being the fifth-born of a storied family. Not even his own punk-rock band can meet his high standards. So when every member of The Carraways quits on him before finishing an album, he’s left with a bruised ego and a major dilemma.
Reviving his childhood dream comes down to one infuriating choice: pair up with a hard-edged drummer or be dropped by his music label permanently.
Phoenix St. Pierre has enough baggage to ground every plane in New York City. He’s volatile, sleep-deprived, and still carrying the fallout of imploding his own band. He should not be paired with Tom, the stuck-up trust-fund baby who pushes all his buttons—yet the second chance is impossible to walk away from.
Making music means too much to Phoenix and Tom to let this last shot slip through their fingers. But working together feels like a Shakespearean disaster ready to unfold. Especially when off-the-charts chemistry, undeniable attraction, and destructive habits threaten to make or break them.
It’s nothing personal—but they just might be the best and worst thing that ever happened to each other.
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I love MM books, but add in the rockstar trope, and I am all over this!!
Tom & Phoenix!!! These two are explosive in the best ways possible!!
I really enjoyed how real and raw this story was. The fierce protection that Phoenix had over Tom was perfection, and I loved every bit of that.
Watching these two go from not really caring for the other to creating the music together and truly getting to know one another on an intimate level was soooooo incredibly good.
And add in the Cobalt family antics with everything else going on, and this is a really great read. Krista and Becca know how to blend it all together seamlessly and create a very compelling story.
Definitely one of my favorite reads from these two!!
Everything We Couldn’t Say by Emma Scott is now live!
From USA Today and Wall St. Journal bestselling author Emma Scott comes an all-new emotional, angsty coming-of-age love story in the same universe as Little Pieces of Light.
They were supposed to be rivals. They weren’t supposed to fall in love.
Harper Bennett has fought for every inch of her life: for her dreams, her brother, and the roof over their heads. The Novus Science Prize is her ticket to a brilliant future, and she won’t let anything stand in her way.
Especially not Orion Mercer.
Golden boy. Heir to one of Castle Hill’s elite Big Five families. Orion is all effortless charm, endless jokes, and a future already written within a billion-dollar chemical empire.
But Orion isn’t what Harper expected.
Behind the polished confidence is a secret battle he’s been fighting alone and a musical talent no one saw coming. Harper sees through his mask, while Orion sees her not as charity or competition, but as the only honest thing in a world built on winning.
Late nights in the lab give way to shared music and unspoken truths, and their rivalry softens into something deeper.
Then a party ends in tragedy, a trusted mentor makes a dangerous offer, and when the truth explodes on awards night, Harper and Orion must decide who they are without the prize…and whether love is worth risking everything.
Emma wow’d me with the opposites attract love story.
Harper and Orion come from two different backgrounds and have very different personalities. When they are paired as lab partners things are definitely heated. Add in that they are competing in the same science competition, things get even more interesting.
Harper and Orion definitely start off as huge rivals, but as the story moves along, their interactions begin to change. Harper has alot on her shoulders to uphold when it comes to her family and Orion has alot of expectations when it comes to his family.
While these two may not have made sense at the start, their differences are what made them the perfect mold together.
Emma wrote a fabulous love story with characters that were very unique and touching. Highly recommended read.
A naughty enemies-to-lovers, single dad, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …
I’m the irresistible one. The man who always gets what he wants. Too bad the only woman I want is the one I can’t have.
Dating apps can’t touch the dark and uninhibited desires I keep hidden. For the kind of kink I crave, I go to Lush—a playground where fantasies become reality. That’s where I meet her. The breathtaking blonde in the crimson dress who steals the air from my lungs, becoming an instant fixation after just one night. Daring. Uninhibited. Captivating. One taste will never be enough. And when we meet again, it’s the worst possible scenario … The sexy bombshell who ruined me for anyone else is now the one person who is completely out of my reach. Off-limits. Untouchable. Forbidden. The absolute enemy of everything I stand for. But when scorching chemistry, razor-sharp banter, and an undeniable attraction collide, staying away from her is no longer an option.
What happens when the woman I can’t have becomes the only one I can’t resist?
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OH YESSSSS!! I believe this book is my favorite in the series (so far).
The Irresistible One is Colson’s story, just as much as it is Sophie.
Marni sets the stage of this book with the prologue. And let me tell you, this book is explosive both in and out of Lush. WOW!!
I want to say so much about this book because it is sooooo mouth-watering good. The Weston Group is being sued and Colson is one who is running lead on this one. And then he comes face-to-face with the attorney looking to take it all from his family’s law firm – Sophie.
These two are fire both in their respective jobs and when they’re at Lush, living out their desires.
GAH!! That is all I am saying – just read this one!!
