Title: Charming as Puck
Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Sexy Romantic Comedy
Release Date: February 1, 2019
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The man could charm the panties off of a nunâ¦
Nick Murphy. Hockey god. My best friendâs big brother. My friend-with-mindblowing-benefits. The best thing to happen to my nether regions since my subscription to the toy of the month club. The man Iâve been secretly in love with for years. And total ass. I am so done with him. Except thereâs one small problem. Now that Iâve cut him off, his hockey game is in the toilet. Heâs convinced Iâm his good luck charm, and he wants me back. But only for his game. Iâll be strong. I will. Iâll resist. Asses donât change their stripes. Or do they? This plan would be so easy if the man wasn't Charming as Puck⦠Charming as Puck is a romping fun romance between a hockey player and his sister's best friend, complete with farm animals, over the top birthday presents, and Berger Twin sightings. This romantic comedy stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers and ends with a pucking awesome happily ever after. $2.99 for a limited time!! Free in Kindle Unlimited
Pippa Grant is a stay-at-home mom and housewife who loves to escape into sexy, funny stories way more than she likes perpetually cleaning toothpaste out of sinks and off toilet handles. When sheâs not reading, writing, sleeping, or trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, sheâs fantasizing about chocolate chip cookies.
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Title: Black Light: Celebrity Roulette
Authors: Livia Grant, Jennifer Bene, Dani René,
Lesley Clark, Maren Smith, Measha Stone, Sue Lyndon, Renee Rose, & Maggie Ryan
Publisher: Black Collar Press
Genre: BDSM Romance/Erotica
Release Date: February 7, 2019
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How high would you bid for a fantasy night with your celebrity crush?
Black Light is back for the 3rd year in a row with nine *brand new* sexy stories set in their new West Coast club! This year you're invited to celebrate Valentine's Day VIP-style as Black Light combines their annual kinky game of BDSM roulette with a celebrity charity auction. Three hours of fun. Five hard limits.
We've loaded the wheel with naughty new kinks for our couples as they play to win a free month at the exclusive club... but there's more than money on the line when hearts get involved.
Drama, fame, and fantasies await if you're brave enough to spin the wheel!
Publisher's Note: If youâve checked out the previous Valentine Roulette anthologies, then you already know the high stakes for these daring couples. If you havenât spun the wheel with us yet, what are you waiting for? Each set is full of completely new, edgy, stand-alone BDSM romance stories! Dive in and enjoy this one of a kind anthology, full of tempting dominance and tantalizing submission.
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Hooked by Jennifer Bene
Humor flashed in his eyes, a slight crinkling at the corners before he nodded. âI think I understand.â His thumb stroked up and down the column of her throat, but his grip never tightened, there was just a little more⦠pressure. âYou think because youâre in the ballet that youâre somehow less than the other celebrities involved in the auction?â
âWell, theyâre actual celebrities, so⦠thereâs that.â A quiet laugh almost escaped her lips, but then his grip really did tighten. Higher on her throat now, just under her jaw, and he used the hold to tilt her head back again until his face filled her view.
âLet me add on to your friendâs requirements. While weâre playing tonight, you wonât refer to ballet, or yourself, in a negative way or youâll earn a punishment, and it will be one you donât enjoy. Understood?â
âYes, sir,â she whispered, practically breathless, but that had a lot less to do with his relatively gentle hold on her throat and a lot more to do with the arousal currently buzzing through her bloodstream and concentrating the pulse between her thighs.
âWonderful.â He removed his hand and smiled again. âThank you for your trust.â
âTrust?â she echoed.
âYes. Not every sub will let you touch their throat like that without proving yourself first, establishing the trust. I appreciate that you gave me that on faith alone. You trusted that I would keep you safe, and I swear that I will.â Wyattâs smile changed a bit, widening into a grin that made him seem a lot less serious, more⦠playful. âThat doesnât mean I wonât hurt you, though. I admit that Iâm looking forward to pulling some of those sweet cries from your lips myself.â
And, boom.
The pulse between her thighs turned into an all-out fire, which didnât help the fact that she already felt too hot in the stifling room.
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Title: Pleasure Cove
Author: Kristina Luckey
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Design: Murphy Rae
Release Date: March 7, 2019
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After the death of her husband, Keely Mack walks away from the wild rush of the pro-surfing world to raise her daughter. Two years later the sea still calls out to her, but sheâs not the same reckless girl she once was.
Until the first man to break her heart walks back into her life.
Pro surfer Brett Garrett suffered a career-ending injury. He used his name and winnings to invest in a professional surf team, and he needs one rider for the ultimate team. The one woman heâs ever loved. The one woman who has every reason to hate him. Brett is convinced Keely is the key to everythingâsurfing and his heartâif only he can get her back on a board.
Keelyâs memories of both her husband and Brett scream for her to stay away. Giving Brett and surfing a second chance might ignite the spark she lost, or she could lose everything sheâs ever loved.
Kristina writes multi-layered stories with characters that stay with readers long after the words The End. Her first work of womenâs fiction A Forgiving Heart received honorable mention for a novel excerpt in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women. Her contemporary romance novels Pleasure Cove and Pacific Blue promise the same emotional read, stunning California settings, along with strong, sassy heroines and heroes who will steal your heart.
A California native, Kristina shares her love of the Golden State with readers through setting and culture in a series of contemporary romance novels. When she isnât writing, she is exploring her state, traveling, looking for the best eats (sheâs a major foodie), and spending time with her family.
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Title: The Quarantine Station
Author: Michelle Montebello
Genre: Historical Romance
Cover Design: Kris Dallas Designs
Release Date: March 6, 2019
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1918 ... When Londoner, Rose Porter, arrives on the shores of Sydney with little more than her suitcase, she is forced to take a job as a parlourmaid at the mysterious North Head Quarantine Station. Itâs a place of turmoil, segregated classes and strict rules concerning employee fraternisation.
But as Rose soon learns, some rules were made to be broken.
2019 ... Over a century later, Emma Wilcott lives a secluded life in Sydney. Still reeling from a devastating loss, her one-hundred-year-old grandmother, Gwendoline, is all she has left. Suffering the early stages of dementia, Gwendolineâs long-term memories take her wandering at night and Emma realises she is searching for something or someone from her past.
Emmaâs investigation leads her to the Quarantine Station where she meets Matt, the station carpenter, and together they begin to unravel a mystery so compelling it has the power to change lives, the power to change everything Emma ever knew about herself.
Michelle Montebello is a writer from Sydney, Australia where she lives with her husband and two young children. She is the author of the bestselling Belle Series which earned her 2018âs Best New Author in the AusRom Today Readerâs Choice Awards, as well as a finalist for Book of the Year for Interwoven and Author of the Year.
The Quarantine Station is her fourth novel, a standalone historical romance.
Michelle has a keen passion for reading, writing and travel.
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Title: Times Like These
Series: Blue is the Color #1
Author: Julia Wolf
Genre: Contemporary/Rock Star Romance
Release Date: February 8, 2019
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Nick Fletcher has the voice of a god and a tongue as sharp as a knife. His words can cut, and this time, his quick temper has earned him an intruder in his life and on his tour.
Dalia Brenner looks like a grown-up Annie gone bad, but he wants nothing to do with her pin-up worthy curves and smart mouth. His method of dealing is to keep his head down, get through the tour, and then he'll never have to see her again.
Dalia has no intention of having heart-to-hearts with Nick. They share a bus and sleep three feet apart every night, but that doesn't mean she can't ignore the scowly, grumpy lead singer.
Except she can't seem to deny the annoying instinct to "fix" the pain and grief behind Nick's sea glass eyes, even though she definitely knows better.
And Nick, well, he's getting tired of denying Dalia...period.
Dalia has plans though, and none of them involve being a rock star's girlfriend. Too bad Nick couldn't disagree more.
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Julia Wolf is a lover of all things romance. From steamy, to sweet, to funny, to so dirty youâll be blushing for days, she loves it all.
Formerly a hair stylist, she spent years collecting stories her clients couldnât wait to spill. And now that sheâs writing full time, sheâs putting those stories to use, although all identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent!
Julia lives in Maryland with her three crazy, beautiful kids and her patient husband who sheâs slowly converting to a romance reader, one book at a time.
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Title: Somewhere Between Us
Author: Holly Hall
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: February 7, 2019
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We were an unlikely couple: the cocky athlete and the preacherâs daughter. Once he finally won me over, he wasnât supposed to break my heart.
Ten years later, heâs back in our hometown. Only now, heâs different. A cunning businessman, a big-city resident.
...and the father of someone elseâs child.
When he left town, I stayed. Now Iâm a teacher by day and aspiring artist by night. Dating the one man he hates more than anyone else: his brother.
I have no business falling for him again; he traded this life for one he thought was better. One that didnât include me. But history has a way of repeating itself, and old flames? They donât always go out.
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âYou really want to know who I thought youâd be with when I came back?â Jeremy said, sobering. He goes on without my answer. âI didnât picture anyone, because I knew all along it was supposed to be me.â
I feel my pulse in my temples in the residual silence. Why? Why would he say something like that, knowing how much I yearned for him after he left? For what couldâve been?
âNot what you wanted to hear?â
My breath hisses against my teeth. âNot what I expected to hear.â
âThe truth hurts sometimes.â
No kidding. It feels like tiny crowbars are wrenching open my heart, allowing him to slide in through the cracks. âAnd when did you find that out? Before or after you made your laps around campus?â
âI always knew it.â
Ouch. Was that supposed to hurt more or less than any other answer?
Before I get the chance to ponder that further, his hand is on my neck, his fingers curled into my hair. His mouth is on mine in less than the span of a heartbeat, the time it takes a hummingbird to beat its wings. There is no chance for reason to invade my senses, because heâs already there, his lips filling me with nostalgia, his tongue caressing the ache of loneliness thatâs only expanded since the moment he left.
Time stops. Or maybe it moves backward. I can remember everything he made seventeen-year-old me feel when he singled me out in a classroom and wouldnât accept that I didnât want to let anyone in. That Iâd embraced the isolation my classmates made me feel.
He filled me with strength. He made me forget. But most of all, he made me feel.
And then he left.
I push my chair back from the table, breaking the connection between us. The look in his eyes is half dreamy, half dazed. Not at all confused as to why I cut that reminiscent moment short.
âYou canât just kiss me like that.â
âLike what?â
âLike you never left.â
He rubs his fingertips over his lips. âYou canât tell me you donât feel like nothingâs changed.â
âBut everythingâs changed.â I stand and push my hair back with both hands, clutching my head. âYou hurt me, Jeremy. I donât think youâre even aware of how much. It wasnât just puppy love.â
âThat was a different time. We were younger. We both had a lot of growing up to do.â
âYou were everything to me!â Iâm borderline yelling until I remember Asher upstairs in his room. I run a hand down my face and shake my head. âYouâre too important to be casual. I canât be indifferent with you.â And I canât act like every time he touches me, the scar tissue around my heart doesnât quake.
He stands and matches my gaze, his expression just as hard and intense as it was before. Canât he see he has the power to break me? Canât he see I canât afford to let that happen anymore?
Holly Hall drinks coffee on the daily, would love to travel for a living, thinks animals are often better than humans, can count on one hand the number of things she loves more than reading and Texas A&M football (okay, that might be an exaggeration), and couldnât handpick a better family than her enormous one. She is the author of four other standalone contemporary romances, Forever Grace, All the Pieces That You Left, Love in Smoke, and Smoke and Lyrics. She resides with her husband, daughter, and German shepherd in Houston, Texas.
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Title: Our Options Have Changed
Series: On Hold #1
Authors: Julia Kent & Elisa Reed
Genre: Romantic Comedy/Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 5, 2016
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Having it all is a fantasy, right?
Chloe Browne knows all about fantasy. Fantasy is her job.
And sheâs very, very good at what she does.
As director of design for the O Spa chain, a sophisticated womenâs club that is trending its way into being the Next Big Thing, Chloeâs ready to take on the world.
One baby at a time.
Her home studyâs done, and sheâs about to adopt, a thirty-something single mother by choice. Who needs to put her life on hold for the right guy when the right baby is waiting for her?
Besides, talk about fantasy.
The right guy?
Pfft. Right.
And then in walks Nick Grafton, with those commanding sapphire eyes and wavy blonde hair and a sophisticated mouth that only smiles for her.
Heâs perfect.
But the last thing Nick wants is to start fresh with a new baby as his college-age kids fly the coop. A single father for more than fifteen years after his wife walked out on her family, Nick finally tastes freedom.
But he likes the taste of Chloe more.
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Our Options Have Changed is a full-length standalone contemporary romance, the first in the On Hold series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent and journalist-turned-fiction-writer Elisa Reed. It is a loose spinoff from Julia Kentâs Shopping for a Billionaire series, with cameo appearances from favorite characters.
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When my alarm goes off at six a.m., I know itâs time to get up. My meeting with Nick Grafton is today. Iâve been awake since four, when I woke to find Mink covering my face, fur tickling my nose.
Mink. My living, purring fur coat. My cat.
I tried so hard to hold on to sleep, blissful unconsciousness. General anesthesia.
My brain, however, wanted to watch a slideshow:
The mystery shop report. Who highlighted all those pages?
Me, at the market, shopping for treats for Joe.
Me, in the ladiesâ room, primping a treat for Joe.
Joe, getting treated. By someone else.
I have read that itâs essentially impossible to think of nothing, but I tried. I visualized grey. The O shade.
Quite right. Impossible. I started running through the alphabet backwards.
Z Y X⦠W⦠not as easy as you would think, right?
...P O...
N... Nick Grafton in my office doorway, somehow familiar. Starched white shirt. The scent of Bay Rhum when he caught me. If masculine has a scent, itâs Bay Rhum.
â¦M L K...
J... Joe, red-faced and drunk, Nickâs arm around his neck. Pathetic. I wish I could un-see this.
...D C...
B... Baby. Baby coming soon. Life will change, forever. Am I ready? I think so. But is anyone ever ready? Maybe Iâm too readyâwhat if Li changes her mind? Should I buy diapers, baby clothes, a crib? Would I be tempting fate? So far I just have an infant car seat. If this doesnât happen, I can just put it in the closet. Way far back in the closet where I canât see it.
Li is so young. Old enough to get pregnant but far too young to be a mother. In so many ways, sheâs really still a baby herself. Sheâs been forced into a situation with no possible happy endingâat least not for her. Her tragedy will make my dream come true. Can I help make some of her dreams come true in return? She wants to be an esthetician, told me the day I met her on the gO Spa. Can I find a scholarship for her? Create one?
A... Anterdec. Meeting today with Nick Grafton. Okay. This is better. This I can handle. What to wear?
I am representing O. I visualize grey again. Dove grey suit of raw silk, seamed to fit my body perfectly, never too tight or too loose. High heels, but not too spiky. And most importantly, a necklace of glass Os, linked together with silver.
And for todayâs secret power, rose silk cheeky panties that lace up the back. Matching bustier. Grey thigh highs in fine mesh.
On the outside, chic and understated. Underneath, intimate pleasure.
I am O.
Julia Kent
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever, down.
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Elisa Reed is a journalist-turned-fiction-writer whose snappy, irreverent prose combines with an irrepressible zest for the simpler, and often intimate, pleasures of life to produce fun(ny) contemporary romance with a focus on second chances. New England born and bred, Elisa Reed now lives, writes, and plays in New Orleans and along the sugar sands of the Gulf Coast.
Title: Everything's Better with Kimberly
Author: Lucy Eden
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 31, 2019
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Kimberly Simmons is gorgeous, brilliant, and way out of my league. Sheâs definitely not the type to fall for a guy who walked away from his family's fortune to become an architect. Good thing, too, because she works for Wolfe Industries, making her completely off-limits. Nailing this pitch to Wolfeâs CEO is exactly what I need to make my bosses forget about the last time I mixed business with pleasure. Too bad she has the most beautiful brown eyes and dazzling smile Iâve ever seen. Too bad I canât stop staring.
Adam Price is a talented rising star architect at Will and Peking Designs. His newest design submission for The Wolfe Industries Caribbean Expansion is set to dazzle my CEO. If Adam's design wins, with my help, I could get promoted, which means his big strong arms and gorgeous lips are strictly forbidden. Itâs a good thing, too, because he has a reputation for leaving a trail of broken hearts all over Manhattan and Iâm pretty sure I couldn't survive a second heartbreak. Too bad every word he says makes me smile. Too bad he gives me a sense of calm I haven't felt in a long time.
Keeping their relationship strictly professional for the sake of their jobs was the perfect excuse to stay away from each other. Too bad fate and undeniable chemistry have other plansâ¦
This standalone, workplace/forced proximity romance features characters from the previous novellas Everythingâs Better With You and Cherishing the Goddess, is full of alphas and steam, and has NO cheating.
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âIâm sorry to interrupt you, but are you Adam Price?â It was his turn to be shocked and he smiled again.
âI am. How did you know that?â
The Man-Whore. I was sitting next to the Man-Whore.
âJust a guess.â I shrugged.
âWell, I assume from your sudden change of expression, my reputation precedes me.â
My poker face needed some serious work. I tried to plaster on a professional smile. âYou studied architecture at The Pratt Institute for both undergrad and grad school. Youâve worked on an impressive number of international projects before becoming the youngest senior architect at Will and Peking Design. Now, youâre on your way to Barbados to pitch WP for a hospitality project for Wolfe Industries.â
âThatâs pretty impressive and spot on.â He nodded appreciatively. âWho are you?â
âThanks,â I said with a nod, feeling like Iâd dodged a very uncomfortable bullet. âIâm Kimberly Simmons. I work for Wolfe. Iâll be working with you on the pitch.â
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Lucy Eden is the nom de plume of a romance obsessed author who writes the kind of romance she loves to read. Sheâs a sucker for alphas with a soft gooey center, over the top romantic gestures, strong & smart MCs, humor, love at first sight (or pretty damn close), happily ever afters & of course, dirty & steamy love scenes.
When Lucy isnât writing, sheâs busy readingâor listening toâevery book she can get her hands onâ romance or otherwise.
She lives & loves in New York with her husband, two children, a turtle & a Yorkshire Terrier.
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Title: Beasts & Bourbon
Series: Top Shelf #5
Author: Alta Hensley
Genre: Dark Romance Standalone
Release Date: February 1, 2019
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My royal blood flows black with twisted secrets.
I am a beast who wears a crown.
Heir to a kingdom cloaked in corruption and depravities.
The time has come to claim my princess.
An innocent hidden away from my dark world.
Till now.
Her initiation will require sacrifice and submission.
There is no escaping the chains which bind her to me.
Surrendering to my torment, as well as my protection, is her only path to survival.
In the endâ¦
She will be forever mine.
USA TODAY Bestselling Author of Hot, Dark and Dirty Romance.
She is also an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. Being a multi-published author in the romance genre, Alta is known for her dark, gritty alpha heroes, sometimes sweet love stories, hot eroticism, and engaging tales of the constant struggle between dominance and submission.
Title: Acceptance
Series: Chicago Defiance MC #5
Author: K E Osborn
Genre: MC Romance
Release Date: February 6, 2019
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Try to forget.
It's easier said than done.
My pastâviolently haunts my dreams.
My presentâbelongs to an MC. My brothers, my support, my family, my life.
But what if you left someone behind?
You failed them.
And set in motion a series of events no one could have predicted.
But in deserting him, you found her.
A constant. A guiding light. A connection that can't possibly not be right.
Or is it?
This story isnât just two souls finding their connectionâitâs lust, treachery, misery, and brutality.
Vengeanceâwill thrill you.
But will I be able to gain my acceptance?
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Australian author K E Osborn was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. With a background in graphic design and a flair for all things creative, she felt compelled to write the story brewing in her mind.
Writing gives her life purpose. It makes her feel, laugh, cry, and get completely enveloped with the characters and their story lines. She feels completely at home when writing and wouldnât consider doing anything else.
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