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  Hating Patterson Cross is easy. Keeping my hands off him? Not so much. He’s my ex-fiancé’s identical twin brother, my father’s star hockey player, and the man I’ve  despised  for years. That’s three very good reasons I shouldn’t ask Pattycakes to be my hookup for the season. But I recklessly do it anyway. To my surprise, my biggest hater says  yes . We agree to keep it secret. Behind closed doors, I’m his. In public, nothing changes. It’s so much harder than it sounds. Because the more time I spend with Patterson, the more I realize hate was never the problem. It was just easier than admitting the truth. My Review As soon as I started this book, I was hooked. This is no surprise to me. If Lyra writes it, I will read it. The enemies to lovers trope is very strong in this book.  Kendall and Patterson hate each other for the past history. Yet all it took was a night out with alcohol and a little jealousy involved to make both Kendall and Patterson forget for a mo...

  What's a girl to do when she's looking for true love but can't seem to find it on Earth? She applies for an alien husband, of course! But when Fiona receives two for the price of one, both of them decide she's their fated mate. Saddled with this "clerical error," the soft-spoken Fiona has to help her territorial alien husbands get along when all they want is to tear each other apart. Shathar left his grocery business behind to find a new life on Earth—and a bride he could love and call his own. But now he must compete for the title of Fiona's husband when all he wants is peace and happiness. Khesan came from a wealthy family and a strict military life. Knowing he's found his forever in Fiona, he’ll use all his drive and determination to show he’s better than Shathar and earn her love. But only one of them can stay, and it will be up to Fiona to decide who. How can she choose when sparks start to fly between all three of them? My Review Fiona sure got...

  She wrote fiction for a living—until her own life became the plot twist. When bestselling author Amy Willows vanishes without a trace, her disappearance is written off as a publicity stunt—until her daughter, Rylie, a struggling journalist, uncovers a digital breadcrumb trail leading to an enigmatic social media group her mother recently joined. As Rylie plunges deeper into the group’s shadowy corners, she realizes Amy wasn’t just researching her next standalone novel—she was reliving it. With a disgruntled agent fuming over Amy’s decision to abandon her wildly successful series, and clues that suggest the standalone may be more confession than fiction, Rylie finds herself unraveling a twisted narrative written in secrets and stained in truth. The deeper she digs, the more Rylie begins to fear: her mother’s past didn’t stay buried—and someone will do anything to keep it that way. When a bestselling author vanishes, her daughter follows the digital trail—into a story darker than f...

  When I find my fiancé cheating on me, I make the mistake of turning to the one man who wants to destroy my ex more than I do… his brother. Once upon a time I was torn between the two of them. Dean Graham laid his heart on the line and asked me to choose him, but I couldn’t for reasons he can never find out about. He left town and I haven’t seen him since. Now I’m at his mercy in the heart of Vegas and he’s nothing like the rancher I remember. He’s Jaded. Cold. A Twisted King. He’s a permanent fixture at his MC’s strip club, and he’s spent more years behind bars recently than free from them. If I were smart, I’d have hightailed it back to Texas the second we came face to face. Except now that he has me a second time, he refuses to let me go. Dean makes me beg. Bargain. Crawl… If I want his help ruining his brother, I’m going to have to let him ruin me first. Author's Note: Chaos is a dark, ex-boyfriend's brother, MC romance with a morally grey hero, heavy subject matter, matur...

  Indulge your sweet tooth. Welcome to the world of the Faeries of Arydis, where the stakes are low and the steam is hot. Inside this collection, you’ll meet three tooth fairy heroines who are ready to find their fated mates. Perfect for a quick escape, four stories deliver spice and sweetness without the stress. This Omnibus Edition features: 4 Complete Short Stories (Including one never-before-published title!) Guaranteed HEAs Female Fairy / Male Human Low Angst, Medium Heat Grab the complete collection today and see why these human men are falling for the  Faeries of Arydis . My Review This is a really fun collection of short stories. Each one features a different tooth fairy, who finds their "human" mate. The children are not the only ones that got a "reward" when the tooth faeries visited! I thought the stories were good lengths. They were not too long or too short that I felt like anything was rush or missed. I was satisfied by the end of each story. It was fu...

  They were never meant to be more than a secret. One reckless summer. A mistake that burned too hot to survive daylight. When Bastian walked away without a word, Lyzander told himself it didn’t matter. He learned how to bury want beneath bruises, discipline, and the weight of leadership—until anger sharpened into something meaner. Something easier to control. Now Lyzander is captain—untouchable, respected, feared. And Bastian is back. Same university, same elite hockey team, same cramped dorm. Every shift on the ice is a power play. Every practice is punishment disguised as leadership. Every cutting remark, every extra drill, every public correction reminds Bastian who holds the power. To the team, it’s authority. To Bastian, it’s personal. Lyzander calls it discipline—control, armor. Because if he breaks Bastian down first, maybe he won’t break himself. But resentment curdles into hunger. Every brush of skin is a threat. Every look dares the other to remember what they were—and w...

  I thought I had it all. I’m beautiful, smart, and I know exactly how to get what I want. As a legacy of the most popular sorority on campus, I was thrilled to rush with my best friend, Blair. Then, I met Tyler. My one-night-stand who kept coming back for more. He’s charming and just so happens to be rushing the hottest fraternity on campus, Alpha Chi. I was happy. Until I wasn’t. I stumbled upon something I shouldn’t have, and now I’m paying the price. I was whisked away in the night, becoming a ghost to all who knew me. My body is broken, battered, and bruised. My mind isn’t far behind. But I won’t give up. I won’t let them break me. This is my survival story. My Review Holy moly! This book took me for quite the roller coaster ride. It started out good. I though ok, Cassidy and her friend stumbled upon a s@x club. No big deal. Things heated up when Cassidy met Tyler. Yet the story progressed really quickly soon afterwards.  What Cassidy and the other women went through had ...

  I saved his life. Now he owns mine. I’ve lived my whole life in a golden cage, the captive daughter of a powerful mafia don. When my father arranges my marriage to Vincenzo Vici, a cold-blooded assassin from a rival family, it’s a death sentence. For both of us. Because my father uses our engagement to slaughter the Vicis and take their territory. But he makes a grave error. He doesn’t kill the most dangerous Vici of Vincenzo himself. I’ve never met my intended fiancé, so when I stumble upon a handsome, bloodied stranger being tortured in a laundromat in the middle of the night, I follow my instincts and save his life. Big mistake. The man I saved is Vincenzo Vici, and when he discovers I’m the woman who led his family to slaughter, I realize there are circles of hell my father never showed me. Vincenzo should kill me. He wants to kill me. Instead, he decides to make me pay in a different way—by holding me to our arranged marriage and exacting his revenge on me. But Vincenzo isn’...

  Some battles don't end when you come home. Cal Bishop left a part of himself in Afghanistan-alongside brothers whose names are now etched into stone. Back in coastal North Carolina, he's a man adrift, haunted by flashbacks, sleepless nights, and the weight of promises he couldn't keep. Then Ana walks into his life. She doesn't try to fix him. She listens. She stays. And slowly, against the backdrop of salty winds and quiet mornings, Cal begins to believe in something he thought he'd buried hope. Through memories of combat and the wrenching aftermath, The Weight of Sand is a deeply human story about love that grows in the cracks, the ghosts we carry, and the courage it takes to set them down. My Review Warning: You will become fully invested in this book.  I have not read a book like this in a long time. Although, what drew me into this story even more was listening to the audiobook. The audiobook is duet narrated by two of my favorite narrators, CJ Bloom and Joe A...

  Emmanuel Love is a weakness. You either kill it or it will kill you. I’ve been in love once, and that’s what I did. I killed it. I’ve managed to avoid the weakness throughout my entire life. And then I saw her. A ghost from my past, very much alive and right in front of me. When she tries to flee from my grasp, I hold tighter. Because dead or alive, Evie is mine. Evie I’ve spent my life being put on display. Beautiful is a word I’ve heard a million times. Do I believe it? No. I might be shiny on the outside, but the inside… is a dark, scarred, bruised place. When I wake up to a cartel boss looming over me, his jaw clenched tight and his eyes darker than the emptiness I feel, my first instinct is to reach out and comfort him. That’s when I realize my mistake. But it’s the one word he utters that has my skin crawling. “Who?” And I know he knows. He knows my secrets. Emmanuel Lopez can see all of me and he’s not disgusted by the ugliness he finds there… My Review Emmanuel did not st...

  A Small Town, Single Dad, Nanny, Age Gap Standalone Romance from  USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, Laura Pavlov. Winnie Smith is the perfect nanny. She’s reliable, warm, and my daughter adores her. She cooks like a pro, styles pigtails like a fairy godmother, and knows her way around a car engine better than most mechanics. She’s made life easier. The house feels full again. And maybe… so do I. But living under the same roof has its challenges. Like catching her in the kitchen after midnight… barefoot, in tiny sleep shorts, eating ice cream straight from the tub. Don’t even get me started on the way that her lips wrapped around that spoon. I digress. It shouldn’t mean anything. She’s a decade younger. I’m her boss. She’s off-limits. And yet, it’s all I can think about. I was just looking for a nanny—not nightly cold showers and definitely not feelings. But the more we blur the lines, the harder it is to keep pretending. We say it’s temporary. No strings. Just one ...

  I swore I’d never let another man touch me after the last one broke more than just my heart. Loneliness makes a liar out of anyone. I was good for the wrong man. Quiet. Obedient. Broken. I promise myself never again. So I join Mythinder, the dating app for the presented, not for love but to feel something again. Then I meet them—men who awaken pieces of me I thought were lost. Gentle. Protective. Dangerous. Dane, a tattooed, dominant alpha with a dangerous smile. Everything about him says I should run, but I can’t. Being his good girl isn’t about obedience. It’s about finally being safe enough to be seen…and discovering a desire I never a pack. This book is a standalone Dark Why Choose Omegaverse. My Review Vera is very lucky to have found not one but three men to come into her life. They worship her. She is a very well cared for omega. There is Dane aka Daddy, Kade, and Uriel "Uri". I don't usually have a favorite but this time there was a clear stand out for me and th...

  Greer Allen has a secret. Her Stalker knows it. The Question is will she survive him knowing? My Review Greer made a choice ten years ago. Just when she thought she did not have to watch her back anymore, she learned that she was wrong. Koen has been on the "hunt" for years for the one that captured his attention. Now that Koen has put a face and name to his obsession, he is not about to let Greer go.  "I'm the tempting poison in his veins, and he's the vice I should probably let go of rather than embrace." Koen is lighter fluid and Greer the flame. Gimmie all the spice and psycho craziness that is Greer and Koen.  Ok, if this is what K.M. is delivering already to kick off 2026, then, I am in for a real treat. Where are my horror fans? This book is for you. If you love, I Know What You Did Last Summer, then, you are going to go "feral" for this book!

  Tropes and Triggers: 🔪 M/M  🔪 M/F/M  🔪 M/M/F 🔪 Stalker 🔪 Rockstar 🔪 Secret Identity  🔪 Security Guard 🔪 Possessive Men 🔪 Grumpy X Sunshine 🔪 Touch Her and ☠️ 🔪 Second Chance 🚩 Mentions of Past Abuse 🚩 Off-Page Unaliving 🌶️ Mask Kink Stalking is such an ugly word. I much prefer obsessively watching and watch I did. My Rosebud was breathtaking, a force to be reckoned with. Even if she didn't know it yet. Fate has a way of challenging everything you know. When a call from my past takes me away from my Rosebud only to land the three of us in the best night of my life, I think I've won the best prize. Both my Songbird and Rosebud in the palm of my hand. Things start going bump in the night soon after but, don't they know? When it comes to my obsessions, I'm the only scary thing here. Nothing threatens my Songbird but me, and absolutely nothing hurts my Rosebud. Anything that tries meets my knife. My Review Ethan is the DOM in the relationship. He is morall...

  TROPES: Insta-love Human MMC/Panther FMC She lives in a jungle & he brings her home Dub Con/Somno Sweet SUPER possessive FMC Fated Mates Short Read HEA I watched him. I hunted him. And the moment I scented him, everything inside me snapped into place. Mine. My Review I enjoy a good fated mates' story. I felt the pull that Soleil and Griffin shared instantly. As soon as Soleil spotted Griffin, I knew that these two were meant for each. The first encounter between these two is a hot one. Griffin may have been a bit out of sorts in the beginning not fully comprehending what had just happened, but it did not take him too long afterwards before he wanted Soleil.  This may be a short novella, but I did not feel like anything was missing from the short length of the story. HOT, HOT, HOT. That is what you will find in this novella. It is like once Griffin and Soleil had one taste of each other; they were addicted and wanted more. I now need more panther shifter stories. 

  It was only a dream... Every night, Blaire Barlow wakes up screaming. Her sticky hands are covered in blood from sins she barely remembers. Every morning, the light proves it was only a dream. Real or not, the lack of sleep is tearing her life apart, threatening both her job and her sanity. Desperate, she turns to less than legal measures to cure her nightmares once and for all – the local drug dealer, Winder. Winder denies her, until he is forced to shelter Blaire from a threat no longer contained to her dreams. With no other option, Winder offers protection and insight into the unsettling gaps in Blaire’s memory. The deeper they dig, the closer they come to the truth that could save them both, or damn them forever. Bound by shared secrets, and a growing, forbidden desire, the two must work together to save Blaire’s life. But the truth can be twisted...and we all know how quickly a dream can turn into a nightmare. My Review: Blaire is seeing a de@d body and her hands covered in ...

  She wants a one-night stand. He wants forever. Gracie Smith has a plan for St. Patrick’s Day. Find a bar. Find a stranger. Have a reckless, forgettable one-night stand. No feelings. No promises. No complications. There’s just one problem. A man. Her lifelong friend, Beck. Best friends since kindergarten, they grew up in each other’s backyards, scraped knees and whispered secrets. A first kiss they promised meant nothing. He’s her safe place. Her comfort. The one person she can truly be herself with. But this St. Patrick’s Day, with green lights flashing and beer cups overflowing, Beck is done standing by while Gracie gives herself to men who don’t deserve her. Done pretending friendship is enough. Done watching her break her own heart. Tonight, he’ll make her see him. Make her see herself. Tonight, he'll ruin the friendship. A spicy, emotional friends-to-lovers novella about crossing the line, choosing forever, and realizing the most dangerous thing isn’t losing your best friend,...