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Release Day Blitz & Review…Unbroken by Jane Henry

Unbroken by Jane Henry is now live!

A dark single dad, forbidden, mafia romance from USA Today Bestselling author Jane Henry

Vadka Dragunov—Bratva executioner, cold-blooded strategist… and my dead sister’s husband.

The man who built his empire in blood and protected it with silence. The man with a stare that holds me hostage—and a voice that cuts straight through me. I’ve avoided him, and the way he makes me feel, as I’ve wallowed in my own grief following my sister’s death.

But now there’s no escape. I’m living in his world. I’ve been targeted. The Irish want war. And the only safe place left is under his watch… or under him.

He’s a single father now—haunted, vengeful, and dangerous. A man who reads bedtime stories with the same blood thirsty eyes that promise death and retribution. The man who would raze the world to keep his son safe.

He thinks I’m reckless, chaotic, unpredictable. I was only a child when we first met. But he doesn’t see me as one anymore.

I see what he hides beneath all that control—the obsession simmering just below the surface. The way he watches me like he wants to equally destroy and devour me.

And now the same loss that tore us apart is now pulling us together.

I wasn’t supposed to end up in his bed.

But the Bratva is splintering. The Irish want blood.
And I’m spiraling – holding a secret that could end it all while falling for the man I can’t have.

Is there a future for Vadka and me, or will the secrets between us cause another tragedy?

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Unbroken is definitely the most emotional book in this series so far.

If you read the previous book, we were left on a cliffy with Vadka losing Mariah, Ruthie’s sister.

Vadka, now a single dad, and Ruthie are now trying to navigate a world without Mariah. On top of dealing with grief, working through very emotional feelings these two share alot with one another and grow closer. And then the Irish attack.

I like that readers can empathize with Vadka and Ruthie as they navigate their loss and you see things start to come to reality for them in how they feel towards one another. I will say that Ruthie’s was easier to accept than Vadka’s but you could see he was not replacing Mariah with her sister.

Jane does a great job of blending the suspense of the Bratva and the relationship growth in this. I love how the plot of this book just helps move the romance part of this story along and yet doesn’t get lost either. This family is not one to mess with and you can visualize that with every book.

And that ending – oh I have quite a few thoughts on what we get next but I will not spoil anything.

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Release Day Blitz & Review…The Wildest One by Marni Mann

The Wildest One by Marni Mann is now live!


A scorching hot, hockey, forbidden, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …

I’m not the calm before the storm. I am the storm. And only she can tame my wild ways.


Hockey is my religion.
My body is my temple.
My only goal in life is to win another Stanley Cup with the Los Angeles Whales, so women are just a sexy distraction.

Until her.
The fiery redhead I see across the bar while I’m at an away game.

With one look, I know I have to meet her.
With one touch, I need her beneath me.
With one bat of her long lashes, I want those eyes gazing up at me as she kneels before me.
And with booze flowing through my veins, I do something I’ve never done. I offer her a proposition—to spend a long weekend with me.

What is only supposed to be three nights of sizzling passion turns into much more, and when I leave for my next away game, I find myself wanting her in ways I’ve never felt.

She’s a young heart with an old soul.
My dream woman in every way.
The only thing I’ve ever encountered that my family name, talent and money can’t attain.

But there’s too much distance between us, and I realize that maybe we just aren’t meant to be.

Until a chance meeting skates us right back together and our time is suddenly now.

Except all of that changes when I learn the truth …

She’s forbidden, untouchable, and off-limits.

With my heart on the line, can I score the most crucial goal of my life, or will she realize that being with the wildest one isn’t worth the sacrifices she’ll have to make?

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Narrated by: Sean Masters & Savannah Peachwood


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Oh yes, give me some more Beck and Jolie!!

The Wildest One is the second book in the Weston Group series but can easily be read as a standalone. I did not read the first one and had I had not seen it was part of a series, I would have never known.

Beck Weston is a man in his own league – holy smokes. Not only is he a professional hockey player, his family is well known in the food industry. He’s cocky in the right ways and knows how to make the right woman feel like a queen.

Jolie is going to college to learn the ins and outs of what he father does and looking to one day take care for her father. She’s very smart, confident yet does have some weaknesses she does not show many people.

When these two meet, the chemistry is fire and neither can deny it. Their connection is great but they both have busy lives, leading them in different directions. I truly enjoyed how Marni let this play out; it was real and honest and so relatable. The timeline was authentic, which made it all the more real.

Beck and Jolie are perfect for another. Their playfulness, respect for one another and their lives/goals, and that undeniable chemistry that was incredibly naughty and spicy – loved it!

This was a fantastic read and I am definitely going back and reading the first book but also looking forward to the next one.

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Release Day Blitz…Crazy Love by Willow Aster

Crazy Love by Willow Aster is now live!

A small town, marriage of convenience, single dad, sports romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Willow Aster

Penn Hudson. Sexy. Intense. Gorgeous.
The star running back of the Colorado Mustangs.
Well-known playboy and consummate bachelor.
We met in the Bahamas.
I knew exactly who he was.
He had no idea who I was.
Yet for a few blissful hours, it didn’t matter.
We had an unbelievable connection…
Something special that held so much promise.
Then I unexpectedly had to leave and never had a chance to say goodbye.

Fast-forward to today, when I am about to see Penn again,
and he’s going to find out exactly who he was kissing in the Bahamas.
I’m excited about my new job and returning to my hometown of Silver Hills.
But seeing him every day won’t be easy,
especially with the lingering memory of his touch and the attraction that still burns between us.
When he faces an obstacle in adopting a young boy he’s mentored for years,
I offer him a solution I never thought I’d make:
A fake marriage.
He needs to show stability and a squeaky-clean public image,
and I figure, how hard could it be to play house?
But as time goes by, nothing feels fake anymore.

I’d always planned on getting married for love,
but sometimes we make once-in-a-lifetime sacrifices.
I just hope I won’t be devastated in the process.

Crazy Love is book five in the standalone The Single Dad Playbook series.

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Release Day Blitz & Review…Good Directions by Claire Hastings

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GOOD DIRECTIONS

Hayes Family #4

by Claire Hastings

Release Blitz

Release Date: July 10, 2025

Cover Design: Y’all That Graphic
Photographer: Jane Ashley Converse Photography
Model: Dane Peterson

Genre: Contemporary Romance Standalone
Trope: Enemies to lovers, fake dating, golden retriever/black cat, sex lessons, peach innuendos, small-town


Synopsis

It was a stupid bet—that I could find a date, a real date, to my sister’s wedding. Or I was at the mercy of my brothers’ whim.

No problem. I got this.

Except…I don’t.

Until I meet Sawyer Brown. The moment she pulls up to my roadside fruit stand looking for directions, I’m all in.

Then she tells me to go to hell.

Which is just peachy since she just so happens to be the expert the state sent to help my company this summer.

To say that we don’t exactly hit it off is an understatement. As it turns out, I happen to have something Sawyer desperately needs, and I’m not above using that to leverage her into being my girl—even if it is just for show.

But pretty soon fake dates turn into real ones, keeping secrets turns into baring it all, and our reasons for doing this slowly fade away.

Or so I thought…


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About the Author

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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Cover Reveal…Almost Ravaged by Abby Millsaps

Abby Millsaps has revealed the cover for Almost Ravaged!

Releasing: August 13, 2025

Cover Designer: Silver, Bitter Sage Designs

Almost Ravaged is book one in an all-new dark hockey romance series by bestselling author Abby Millsaps. Full blurb to come!

❤️ Why Choose
🏒 Hockey Romance
🍁 Fall Semester in Northeast Ohio
✨ Brother’s Best Friend
🌅 Fresh Starts for Everyone
❤️‍🔥 Friends to Not-Quite-Lovers
🙌 Double Age Gap
🍎 Grumpy Apple Orchard Owner
👨‍🏫 Broody Professor
🌽 Primal Play
😤 Secretly Possessive
🥅 Jersey Moment with the Wrong MMC

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Release Day Blitz…The Complication with the Best Man by Piper Rayne

The Complication with the Best Man by Piper Rayne is now live! 

One wild night turns into two pink lines.

Sleeping with the best man at my cousin’s wedding felt right at the time—he was a hot, available firefighter, and I was the tipsy maid of honor. It’s a rite of passage.

No regrets… until two pink lines flipped my world upside down.

Now I’m wildly unprepared and trying to hide my pregnancy in my small Alaskan town where privacy is a myth and gossip spreads faster than frostbite.

But wait, it gets worse.

Baby Daddy just came back to town—with a fiancée in tow.

And guess who she wants to plan their wedding?

Me.

Keeping the secret was hard enough.

Keeping my distance from the father of my baby? Impossible.

Just when I think I have it all figured out, he reveals his own secret that changes everything.

Author’s Note: There is no cheating in this book. Gasp! We would never.

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Meet Piper Rayne

Piper Rayne is a USA Today Bestselling Author duo who write “heartwarming humor with a side of sizzle” about families, whether that be blood or found. They both have e-readers full of one-clickable books, they’re married to husbands who drive them to drink, and they’re both chauffeurs to their kids. Most of all, they love hot heroes and quirky heroines who make them laugh, and they hope you do, too!

Connect with Piper Rayne

Website: www.PiperRayne.com

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Release Day Blitz…A Royal Mile by Samantha Young

A Royal Mile by Samantha Young is now live! 

Going into my senior year of university at war with a member of the British royal family wasn’t in my carefully laid plans. Sebastian Thorne might be the grandson of a princess, but it’ll take more than a royal pardon to get me to forgive him for pretending to be someone he’s not.

But Sebastian is determined to be my friend. Even if it means signing up to a psych experiment just to get me to talk to him. Who knew a sincere apology and him saying my name in that posh English accent would make me weak in the knees?

This year was supposed to be about my dissertation and graduate school. Only, Sebastian has thrown my ordered world off kilter. He makes me bolder, more confident. A braver version of me.

Yet every lingering glance and stolen touch has me realizing one thing…

I’m falling for my best friend.

There’s just one problem. Sebastian has demons, ones that make him determined to keep me in the friend zone no matter the cost.

And even when temptation sends his walls tumbling down, the beauty we’ve found might not survive against the will of powerful outside forces…

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Audio coming soon!

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/4hqwXkU 

Meet Samantha

Samantha Young is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She’s been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. Samantha writes adult contemporary and paranormal romance, YA urban fantasy and YA contemporary fiction and is currently published in 31 countries.
She resides in Scotland.

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Website: http://authorsamanthayoung.com

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Release Day Blitz…Someone Knows by Vi Keeland

Title: Someone Knows
Author: Vi Keeland
Publisher: S&S/Emily Bestler Books
Genre: Standalone Thriller
Release Date: June 17, 2025
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As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the teacher dead. Because she was the one who killed him.
Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.

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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 by Passionflix, 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.

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Release Day Blitz…At the Edge of Surrender by A.L. Jackson

At the Edge of Surrender by A.L. Jackson is now live! 

A surprise single dad, small town romantic suspense…

I’m the last guy on the planet who should be a dad. My life is chaos. My sins written dark and deep.

So, imagine my surprise when my doorbell rings and I open it to find the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen standing on the other side.

And she’s holding the hand of a little girl who looks just like me.

Emery tells me her sister, the child’s mother, is dead.

I feel like dirt since she’s a woman I can hardly remember, and it’s no wonder Emery doesn’t trust that I’m worthy of caring for her niece.

But I can’t turn my back, and I insist on raising Maci.

So, we strike a deal—she’ll stay with me for one month to ensure the little girl is safe.

Emery tries to hate me for who I am, but neither of us can resist the attraction that blazes between us.

One brush of her hand, and she has me on my knees.

One kiss, and I’m falling fast.

Soon, we find ourselves tangled in my sheets.

But when it’s discovered her sister’s death wasn’t accidental, the secret life I’ve been living collides with the past Emery has tried to keep hidden.

And when the fiends come back to finish the job they started, I’m in a race against time to save the two people who I’ve come to love most…

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Also available in audio!

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Tropes:

🖤Surprise Single Dad

🌹Morally Gray Hero⁠

🖤 Hate to Love

🌹Forbidden⁠

🖤Roommates to Lovers

🌹Touch Her and ☠️⁠

🖤Band of Brothers

🌹Small Town ⁠

🖤Secret Society ⁠

Meet A.L. Jackson 

A.L. Jackson is the New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes emotional, sexy, heart-filled stories about boys who usually like to be a little bit bad.

If she’s not writing, you can find her hanging out by the pool with her family, sipping cocktails with her friends, or of course with her nose buried in a book.

Connect with A.L. Jackson

Website: www.aljacksonauthor.com

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Cover Reveal…Unbroken by Jane Henry

Jane Henry has revealed the cover for Unbroken!

Releasing: July 11, 2025

Cover Designer: The Book Brander Boutique

Photographer: Wander Aguiar

Model: Lucas Loyola

A dark single dad, forbidden, Bratva romance from USA Today Bestselling author Jane Henry

Vadka Dragunov—Bratva executioner, cold-blooded strategist… and my dead sister’s husband.

The man who built his empire in blood and protected it with silence. The man with a stare that holds me hostage—and a voice that cuts straight through me. I’ve avoided him, and the way he makes me feel, as I’ve wallowed in my own grief following my sister’s death. 

But now there’s no escape. I’m living in his world. I’ve been targeted. The Irish want war. And the only safe place left is under his watch… or under him.

He’s a single father now—haunted, vengeful, and dangerous. A man who reads bedtime stories with the same blood thirsty eyes that promise death and retribution. The man who would raze the world to keep his son safe.

He thinks I’m reckless, chaotic, unpredictable. I was only a child when we first met. But he doesn’t see me as one anymore.

I see what he hides beneath all that control—the obsession simmering just below the surface. The way he watches me like he wants to equally destroy and devour me.

And now the same loss that tore us apart is now pulling us together. 

I wasn’t supposed to end up in his bed.

But the Bratva is splintering. The Irish want blood.

And I’m spiraling – holding a secret that could end it all while falling for the man I can’t have.

Is there a future for Vadka and me, or will the secrets between us cause another tragedy?

Pre-order your copy today!

Amazon: https://bit.ly/4jaCcox

Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3YKxTsX

Meet Jane


Fueled by dark chocolate and even darker coffee, USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry writes what she loves to read— character-driven, unputdownable romance featuring dominant alpha males and the powerful heroines who bring them to their knees. She’s believed in the power of love and romance since Belle won over the beast, and finally decided to write love stories of her own. 

Connect with Jane

Website: https://janehenryromance.com/

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Release Day Blitz & Review…That Crush by Jillian Dodd

That Crush by Jillian Dodd is now live!

She’s scared to fall in love again. He’s determined to be the one she falls for. 

When Damon Diamond first laid eyes on Ainsley Archibald at fifteen, he knew it was more than just a crush. But with their four-year age gap and her indifference, he had to keep his feelings at bay.

Three years later, everything has changed. Damon’s no longer the boy she barely noticed–he’s grown into a confident, irresistible man with one goal for the summer: to make Ainsley his.

Ainsley arrives at her uncle’s resort in the Ozarks, eager to get back out there after a bad breakup. But the moment she lays eyes on Damon, everything shifts. He’s hot, heading to college, and the chemistry between them is undeniable.

What starts as harmless flirting, quickly spirals into feelings that neither of them can ignore.

Torn between her desire for him and the complications of their age difference, Ainsley must decide if she’s ready to risk everything for a summer of love.

Because Damon isn’t just after a fling–he wants her heart.

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That Crush is the 9th book in the That Boy series, but can easily be read as a standalone. In all honesty, Jillian could’ve done this as spin-off series and released it that way.

That Crush is an age-gap, he falls first romance. If you have ever read anything by Jillian before, you know she always deliver a phenomenal romance story and this is no different.

This entire book takes place over the span of a week, but it also doesn’t feel that way. This is the second book recently where the actual time frame is short, but the story itself makes you forget that. What I was not expecting though – that ending.

I now not-so-patiently wait for the next book (or two) for Ainsley and Damon’s story to continue.

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Meet Jillian Dodd


Jillian Dodd is a USA Today and Amazon Top 5 best-selling author of over fifty books. She writes fun binge-able romance series with characters her readers fall in love with–from the boy next door in the That Boy series to the daughter of a famous actress in The Keatyn Chronicles to a spy who might save the world in the Spy Girl series. Her newest series include London Prep, a prep school series about a drama filled three-week exchange, and the next generation of The Keatyn Chronicles, Eastbrooke Academy.
She is married to her college sweetheart, adores writing big fat happily ever afters, wears a lot of pink, buys way too many shoes, loves to travel, and is distracted by anything covered in glitter.

Connect with Jillian

Website | www.jilliandodd.net   

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