Here are the new releases for the week.
Let us know if there’s something missing & we’ll add it to the list.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Release Date | Other Details | Link |
| Discrete | Meredith Spies | Self Published | 1/17/2022 | Science of Magic #3 | Amazon |
| The Tentacle Pirate’s Prince | Charlotte Brice | Self Published | 1/17/2022 | Amazon | |
| Dad’s Omega Best Friend | Anna Wineheart | Self Published | 1/17/2022 | Meadowfall Professors #2 | Amazon |
| Heartbeats in a Haunted House | Amy Lane | Dreamspinner Press | 1/18/2022 | Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club #4 | Amazon |
| The Runner | Thom Collins | Pride Publishing | 1/18/2022 | Success #3 | Amazon |
| Hide Bound | Jodi Payne & BA Tortuga | Tygerseye Publishing | 1/18/2022 | The Les’s Bar #2 | Amazon |
| Fire and Ice | Minerva Howe | Turtlehat Creatives | 1/18/2022 | Secret Springs #3 | Amazon |
| The Best Men | Sarina Bowen & Lauren Blakely | Troliver Books | 1/18/2022 | The Best Men #1 | Amazon |
| Wisdom Check | Katherine McIntyre | Troliver Books | 1/18/2022 | Dungeons and Dating #2 | Amazon |
| His Boy To Tame | Skyler Snow | Self Published | 1/18/2022 | Naughty or Nice Season Two | Amazon |
| Hunting Party | Robin Moray | Self Published | 1/18/2022 | Willful Wolfmate #1 | Amazon |
| To Love and Protect | Romeo Alexander | Self Published | 1/18/2022 | Amazon | |
| The Missing Page | Cat Sebastian | Self Published | 1/18/2022 | Page & Sommers #2 | Amazon |
| Ima-GIN-ation | Sam E. Kraemer | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | On The Rocks #2 | Amazon |
| Reflection of a Curse | Lissa Kasey | Layer Kake Publishing | 1/20/2022 | Romancing a Curse #3 | Amazon |
| Until His Last Goodbye | Kiki Clark & E.M. Lindsey | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Scythe #1 | Amazon |
| Catching Out | Nicky James | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Rail Riders #3 | Amazon |
| Iris | Eden Finley | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Mike Bravo Ops #1 | Amazon |
| In Betweeners | Barbara Elsborg | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Lost and Found #3 | Amazon |
| Backslide | Nicole Dykes | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Amazon | |
| Whispering Ember | Meraki P Lyhne | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | The Vargr #3 | Amazon |
| Ride or Die | Beth Bolden | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Food Truck Warriors #6 | Amazon |
| Seth | Carly Marie | Self Published | 1/20/2022 | Johnson Family Rules #3 | Amazon |
| In Vineyard Veritas | Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid | Self Published | 1/21/2022 | Amazon | |
| Breaking His Serve | Christie Gordon | Self Published | 1/21/2022 | Amazon | |
| Our Blood | Brea Alepoú | Self Published | 1/21/2022 | Blood Series #4 | Amazon |
| Arran | Tia Fielding | JMS Books | 1/22/2022 | Wolfy #2 | Amazon |
| He Comes with the Dark | Deirdre O’Dare | JMS Books | 1/22/2022 | Amazon | |
| Going for Glitch | Eve Morton | JMS Books | 1/22/2022 | Amazon | |
| A Stronger Calling | Terry O’Reilly | JMS Books | 1/22/2022 | Amazon | |
| Separate Natures | Gordon Phillips | JMS Books | 1/22/2022 | Still The Beating Heart #2 | Amazon |
| Kane | H.M. Wolfe | Self Published | 1/22/2022 | The Kingmaker’s Sons #1 | Amazon |
| Baby Bows and Mistletoe | Jovee Winters | Self Published | 1/23/2022 | The Dark Kings | Amazon |
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TITLE: Discrete
AUTHOR: Meredith Spies
SERIES: Science of Magic #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 193 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 17, 2022
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Carmine
I have to admit, my college crush telling me I was everything he’d been looking for on the same day my life went to hell in a hand basket wasn’t as great as I thought it’d be.
Mostly because he meant it in more of a scientific way than a take me now, you scarecrow of a man sort of way.
Sean is brilliant. He’s on the verge of a breakthrough in biomagical research that could change everything, not just for the magical community but for the entire world. All he needs is proof that his theories are true… And I might just be it.
Remember my life in that hand basket? Sean decides to come along for the ride as I try to outrun the people I thought were on my side. The people who manipulated me into working against everything I believe in. The same people who also want Sean dead and his research in their hands.
It’s not all terrifying: Sean is still a sexy, adorkable geek. And my heart still does that funny flutter thing whenever I see him. The fact we can’t keep our hands off each other definitely makes the moments of sheer terror a little easier to handle.
TITLE: The Tentacle Pirate’s Prince
AUTHOR: Charlotte Brice
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 199 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 17, 2022
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I am Prince Ezra, the crown prince of my wealth solar system. My coming-of-age party is being held on the furthest planet in the system, where I am to find my queen. Turning 21 is looking a dismal prospect.
When I begged and prayed for an alternative, being abducted by space pirates wasn’t what I had in mind. Falling for the tentacle pirate wasn’t anywhere on my list. But I’m not complaining.
TITLE: Dad’s Omega Best Friend
AUTHOR: Anna Wineheart
SERIES: Meadowfall Professors #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 334 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 17, 2022
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What if your best friend’s son crashes into your life on a banana boat?
With a too-short arm and goggle-thick glasses, the last person Nico should get involved with is his best friend’s alpha son.
It shouldn’t happen. He’s just providing River with a place to stay during his exchange program. But when a flood sweeps through Meadowfall and ruins Nico’s house, Nico and his guest are left in a predicament: There is only one bed.
Nico should be wary—he’s been brutalized by too many alphas. But each time River offers him hugs and safety, each time River teases smiles and blushes out of him… Nico slips deeper into trouble. Especially when River promises to see him for who he is.
River is absolutely off-limits. Why can’t his heart understand that?
TITLE: Heartbeats in a Haunted House
AUTHOR: Amy Lane
SERIES: Hedge Witches Lonely Hearts Club #4
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 206 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Dante Vianelli and Cully Cromwell have been in love since college, when Dante saved Cully from the world’s worst roommate and introduced him to his friends. Seven years later, they’re still roommates and they’re still in love… but they’ve never become lovers.
Now a catastrophic spell gone wrong has cut them off from their coven. Wandering their suburban prison alone, separated by the walls of their own minds and gaps in the space-time continuum, Cully and Dante are as stuck as they have been for the past seven years.
And they’ll remain lost in their memories—unless they confront the truths that kept them from taking the step from friends to lovers and trust their friends and coven to get them out. But it’s easier said than done. Those walls didn’t build themselves. Dante’s great at denial, and Cully’s short on trust. Can they do the work it will take to get into each other’s arms and back to the sunlight where they belong?
TITLE: The Runner
AUTHOR: Thom Collins
SERIES: Success #3
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 126 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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An Olympic hero faces his longest run – to make up for the past.
Alex Schaefer is a sports journalist and commentator at the top of his game. He hosts a successful weekly podcast has just written the biography of a world class football player. With his career on an upward trajectory, Alex has never been busier. There is no time in his life for love or romance.
Ethan Bower was used to success. As a British sprinter, he won a host of silver and gold medals at the Olympics, European and Commonwealth championships, and spent over a decade at the top. Persistent injuries brought Ethan’s career to an abrupt halt in his mid-thirties. Now he has to start over again. Trying to get his foot in the door of athletics commentary and presenting isn’t easy.
Ethan and Alex have history. Eight years ago, at the height of Ethan’s success, Alex was chosen to ghost write his autobiography. An experience they would both rather forget. Ethan hated what Alex wrote about him; a fact he’s made very public. When Ethan attends the launch of Alex’s latest book, they meet again for the first time in years and something becomes apparent to both of them – they have each improved with age. Now in their thirties, they are older and more mature.
Can they put the past behind them and their ambitions for the future to take a chance on each other now?
TITLE: Hide Bound
AUTHORS: Jodi Payne & BA Tortuga
SERIES: The Les’s Bar #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 260 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Peter Marshall has had enough of working for Parks and Rec when he comes across an opening for a real carpentry job and decides to give it a go. Building things is his passion, so even though the shop seems a little out there, and the owner seems pretty grumpy, Peter decides to go for it.
Brandon McPhail wishes he didn’t have to hire a new carpenter, but his current one is going out on maternity leave. He’s especially wary of this kid who can’t possibly be old enough to spell BDSM, let alone know what the lifestyle means. But Peter impresses Brandon with both his talent and his tenacity, so Brandon hires him on, reminding himself that he’s in a wheelchair due to his MS, he had a terrible experience in his last relationship, and despite how clueless Peter is about the lifestyle, he’s not interested in taking on another sub.
The chemistry between them is undeniable, though, and it’s not long before they’re exploring what they can learn from each other. Peter is a natural at fulfilling Brandon’s needs, and Brandon thinks he’s teaching Peter everything he’s eager to learn, but when danger threatens, they have to help their friends through it while trying to navigate their new relationship. Can they forge bonds strong enough to bind them together for life?
TITLE: Fire and Ice
AUTHOR: Minerva Howe
SERIES: Secret Springs #3
PUBLISHER: Turtlehat Creatives
LENGTH: 247 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Chase Deveraux thinks food is love, and while he’d enjoy some fun games with a once in awhile friend with benefits, his business is the most important thing in his life. Between his pop-up restaurant, his catering gigs, and feeding all his friends, this Harley riding, trust fund bad boy has no time for love. And he certainly doesn’t have time for a jerk like Jack Harlan.
Jack Harlan is used to people doing things his way. His family helped found Secret Springs, and he’s incredibly happy to be back in town and to see the place bloom again, but there’s one new resident he could do without. Chase. Thing is, he knows he would turn Chase inside out given half a chance, and that secretly he’s jealous that Chase seems to want to feed and nurture everyone in their circle but him.
When they do come together, Chase and Jack create fireworks that light up Secret Springs like a bonfire. But Chase is not the settling down kind, and Jack wants his ranch to be the type of home he had when he was a kid living with his grandparents. Can the two of them come together and make a new kind of life, or will they fizzle out like a doused flame?
TITLE: The Best Men
AUTHORS: Sarina Bowen & Lauren Blakely
SERIES: The Best Men #1
PUBLISHER: Troliver Books
LENGTH: 332 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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In my defense, I was left alone with a bottle of single-malt and a life-long penchant for protecting my baby sister. Still, that’s no excuse to send ten drunk-texts on why her hasty marriage would be a mistake.
If only I had just texted my sister. But nope. I accidentally sent the message to her, her groom, and his super hot wingman.
I also used the phrase “super hot wingman,” so I’d like to die now.
Instead, I have to plan a wedding with the aforementioned hottie and share a too-small guesthouse in steamy Miami.
Three days in the sun with the cocky, charming former athlete who likes to push my buttons? Fine, two can play at that let’s-infuriate-each-other game.
Until Asher ups the stakes with one wildly sexy suggestion. A no-strings fling, then I go back to my single dad life in New York, and he returns to his star-studded one.
Sign me up.
But the more nights I spend with the other best man, the more I want days too, and that just can’t happen. Especially when I find out the real reason why…
TITLE: Wisdom Check
AUTHOR: Katherine McIntyre
SERIES: Dungeons and Dating #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 317 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Julian’s boss is newly single, ridiculously hot, and looking his way. He’s so screwed.
Cal Morgan’s life was going right on plan—got the wife, the baby, and the board game café he opened with his best friends. At least, until his wife dropped the dreaded ‘d’ word. Newly divorced and juggling custody of their toddler with his ex, Cal’s dreams of a family are burnt to ash.
Julian Hale’s been carrying a torch for his sexy boss, Cal, for far too long. As the oldest of five and surrogate mom to his siblings, Julian gets tugged in so many directions that he’s never made time for himself—his wants, his desires—and he definitely desires this man.
However, when Cal starts turning those scorching stares Julian’s way, he can’t resist, even though he should. They’re boss and employee, and Cal’s fresh out of a divorce with a two year old—it’s a recipe for disaster even if they’re both falling fast. But when Julian’s application to nursing school gets accepted, he’ll have to choose between pursuing the dreams he set aside when his mom died or the one man he could imagine a future with. Life taught him early on that he’ll never get both.
Roll the dice on romance at Tabletop Tavern…
TITLE: His Boy To Tame
AUTHOR: Skyler Snow
SERIES: Naughty or Nice Season Two
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 248 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Dear Santa,
It feels weird to try this again.
But I want a boy of my own.
Someone a bit bratty and fun and not so easily pushed over.
I don’t have a long list of demands because all that really matters is that he loves me.
Unconditionally.
Corny_Daddy
Clay
I’ve done this before.
The last time I looked for a boy of my own I thought I’d found one.
It was nothing more than a fantasy that never came true.
But it seems Santa might have brought me a whole lotta boy with a whole lotta attitude.
Tyler is everything I could ever want.
But he also drives me crazy.
Can this small town even handle him?
Tyler
A Daddy has been my secret desire for a long time.
They all want one thing and while I don’t mind getting down and dirty, I need more than that.
A firm hand, a good sense of humor, a man that will love me for something other than the family money.
Is that so much to ask?
Meeting Clay was a fluke.
But now I can’t get this gruff, older man out of my head.
Could he be my perfect Daddy?
TITLE: Hunting Party
AUTHOR: Robin Moray
SERIES: Willful Wolfmate #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 44 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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An indecent proposal never looked so good.
Ryan Delaney knows one thing: he’s not supposed to be here. He’s not going to find an alpha shifter patron, he’s not getting his career kickstarted, no one is going to hand him a research grant to solve all his problems. He’s not that kind of person.
But his sister is.
So when the sexiest bloke he’s ever seen makes him an offer he really should refuse, what’s he supposed to do? Play the blushing maiden? Hah. Yeah right.
No, Ryan’s going to do what he always does. One night, one time—no strings, no regrets.
But Patrick isn’t like any alpha he’s ever met, and Ryan’s never felt so much like prey.
This time, he’s not getting away scot-free. He’ll be lucky to get away at all.
TITLE: To Love and Protect
AUTHOR: Romeo Alexander
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 333 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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Marcus Felps loves being a US Marshal. It suits the former military man perfectly. The predictability and logic help him try to bring order and justice to the world, which is just how he likes it. Even if he does come across as grumpy and more than a little tense.
Of course, life isn’t always neat and tidy.
Marcus’ world is turned upside down when he’s charged with the safety of Adrian Morgan, a reluctant addition to the government’s list of protected witnesses. Adrian is the only key witness the US government has to bring down a massive, international crime family.
However, Adrian seems designed to drive Marcus crazy. The man is flighty, impulsive, loud and way too cheerful. In fact, he’s everything Marcus is not. But he has a secret past hidden behind his wide grin and obnoxious jokes.
The two men have to find a way to live with one another while Marcus tries to keep Adrian alive against all the odds. However, the shaky peace cannot last, and Adrian and Marcus are thrown from frying pan to freezer and back into the pan again. Amid the bullets, car chases and betrayal, the two men have to face brutal mercenaries as well as the realization that there is more between them than just irritation and growing respect.
And if they live long enough, they might even find the best thing they’ve ever known in their lives…in each other.
TITLE: The Missing Page
AUTHOR: Cat Sebastian
SERIES: Page & Sommers #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 235 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 18, 2022
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England, 1948: Semi-retired spy Leo Page and country doctor James Sommers team up to solve a decades-old mystery.
When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his will, he figures that the least he can do is head down to Cornwall for a weekend to honor the old man’s parting wishes. He finds the family home filled with half-remembered guests and unwanted memories, but more troubling is that his uncle has tasked his heirs with uncovering the truth behind a woman’s disappearance twenty years earlier.
Leo doesn’t like any of it. He’s just returned from one of his less pleasant missions and maybe he’s slightly paranoid about James’s safety, but he’s of the opinion that rich people aren’t to be trusted where wills are concerned. So he does what any sensible spy would do and infiltrates the house party.
Together they unravel a mystery that exposes long-standing family secrets and threatens to involve James more than either of them would like.
TITLE: Ima-GIN-ation
AUTHOR: Sam E. Kraemer
SERIES: On The Rocks #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 240 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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Can an architect and a bar owner build a strong relationship? Not without a strong foundation and ImaGINation!
Leo Anderson is about as confused as a guy of twenty-eight can be. All his life he’s been denying a part of himself, and now, with the appearance of a dashing architect in Leo’s simple life as a bar and restaurant owner, that side of him—the side that is attracted to men—comes exploding from the closet like a battering ram.
Cameron March, a forty-something architect, discovers his attraction to men and women—after he’s married with a family. Being a responsible father, he buries those feelings deep inside himself for the sake of his two sons until one-day, his wife decides she’s done with the marriage… nearly fifteen years later.
When Leo contacts Cam about expanding On the Rocks, the beach bar Leo owns with his singer-brother and best friend, Cameron’s immediately attracted to the barman—and the timing couldn’t be worse. Cam’s divorce is final, but he’s still fighting his ex-wife to keep her from taking his younger son to live in the Pacific Northwest where she wants to begin her new life.
How can Cam and Leo explore the possibility of a relationship without Cam losing his son?
It’ll take a lot of ImaGINation…
TITLE: Reflection of a Curse
AUTHOR: Lissa Kasey
SERIES: Romancing a Curse #3
PUBLISHER: Layer Kake Publishing
LENGTH: 266 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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A manor filled with secrets is Brand’s last hope for recovery, and maybe love.
After a yearlong battle with declining health, Brand is offered the opportunity to live and work building a small home community in Upstate New York, and reconnecting with his best friend. But Brand is a long way from recovered and doesn’t know if he’ll actually be able to do the job.
Law thought he escaped small town life, and was on the verge of adding to his list of rehab skills when everything shut down. Now he’s in limbo, unable to work with suspended certificates, and back home with a family curse he’d like to keep secret.
Brand needs more than just a physical therapist. And Law is looking for a place to belong. When the truth is revealed, can the two of them find love, despite the mysteries and curses that plague their past?
TITLE: Until His Last Goodbye
AUTHORS: Kiki Clark & E.M. Lindsey
SERIES: Scythe #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 274 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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When Death is your soulmate, finding love has never been so heart-stopping.
Having been a powerful medium for as long as he can remember, Elias knows his fair share about the afterlife.
Spirits are pushy.
Spirits are needy.
And they don’t respect personal boundaries.
Being a conduit between the living and the dead is exhausting but ignoring his gift isn’t an option. Even though embracing his calling has ruined nearly every relationship he’s ever had, Elias has learned to offer what comfort he can to those left behind, knowing his own time is limited.
So the day Death comes knocking, Elias is resigned.
Then intrigued.
And then enchanted.
He has no business falling for an immortal collector of souls. No matter how kind and surprisingly innocent he is. Or how the Reaper’s gentle nature soothes the hollow ache inside his chest.
There can be no way forward when you fall for Death…
…unless you join him.
TITLE: Catching Out
AUTHOR: Nicky James
SERIES: Rail Riders #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 374 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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Dodger Valmai is sure about three things:
He is straight.
He will ride the rails until the end of his days.
And there is a serial killer out on the lines.
When rail riders in the community start to go missing, Dodger is convinced the Canadian rail lines have their very own serial killer. When those same riders start turning up dead, he is determined to prove it and get justice for his long-lost comrades.
Brady Thompson has been studying the mythical rail killer and tracking his movements for the better part of a year in his quest to finally write his thesis and obtain his doctorate. But there are holes in his theory, and only one person can help fill in the gaps. He isn’t sure if requesting help from a homeless vagabond on a sketchy freight-hopping forum is the answer, but he is running out of options.
When Brady seeks Dodger out to help him prove a killer exists, Dodger can’t turn him down. With a little more evidence, and a little more proof, they can take their suspicions to the authorities and have the killer caught once and for all.
Dodger isn’t what Brady expects, and he’s unprepared when Dodger says he will only help under one condition: Brady must take to the rails too.
Will this cross-country journey give them the answers they’re looking for? Or will Brady and Dodger discover things they never expected as their summer adventure turns into much, much more.
TITLE: Iris
AUTHOR: Eden Finley
SERIES: Mike Bravo Ops #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 284 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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Mike Bravo. Knights in shining … camo.
Iris
I live for adrenaline. The thrill of the chase. And because I work for Mike Bravo, a private black-ops firm, it’s my job to go into dangerous situations.
But when we’re called in to extract a military team from a hostile situation, the thrill is so much better. Because one of those men happen to be the golden boy from my basic training days.
Brock “Saint” Harlow was a walking Captain America in the flesh. The perfect soldier.
Now my boss wants to recruit him, and I can’t wait to rub it in his face that he was rescued by me. The class clown.
I’m not called Iris “I require intense supervision” for nothing.
Saint
Military life is all I’ve known since I was born. I was raised to be a soldier.
But when a top-secret mission fails, I find myself suddenly discharged with nowhere to go.
Mike Bravo saved my life, and they want me to join them, but there’s one small problem.
Isaac “Iris” Griffin.
He’s as irresistibly snarky as he always was, only there’s a big difference this time. I’m no longer closeted or scared to live my truth. And the truth is, I’ve always wanted him.
It’s against Mike Bravo’s rules to fraternize with other team members, and I always follow orders.
But something tells me Iris might be worth the insubordination.
TITLE: In Betweeners
AUTHOR: Barbara Elsborg
SERIES: Lost and Found #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 392 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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An angel and a demon walk into a bar…
It should be the start of a joke, except Emmett and Phoenix loathe each other the moment they meet. Reluctant and mismatched partners they may be, but they’ve been given a job to do on Earth: persuade the newly dead to move on to wherever they’re destined to go.
A friendly word here, a nudge there, all the dead should need is a push in the right direction—but dark forces are working against the pair, and the mission takes a dangerous turn.
From hate at first sight, to toleration, to something more… Except time is running out, and soon Emmett and Phoenix will be torn apart and returned to the worlds from which they came. That’s not what they want, and neither is willing to go back without a fight…
…. Because even though they’re dead, they’ve never felt more alive.
TITLE: Backslide
AUTHOR: Nicole Dykes
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 266 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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When you’re young, everything seems brighter, more hopeful, and like anything is possible.
Which is great. But it can also lead to so many mistakes.
Mistakes you promise yourself you’ll never make again.
You promise yourself you’ll be smarter, guard your heart, and make better decisions. And you won’t ever let anyone crush you again.
But what happens when you’re confronted with the past?
Nash Davis is settled and happy, helping his brother and his wife pursue their dreams.
But when his biggest regret comes crashing back into his life, will he have the strength he promised himself he’d have?
Can he keep his walls up? Or will Adrian Walker’s presence be too much?
Will it lead toward an inevitable backslide to where they began? Or can there be a future after so much pain?
When Nash and Adrian are thrown together in the Ozarks for months, they’re about to find out.
TITLE: Whispering Ember
AUTHOR: Meraki P Lyhne
SERIES: The Vargr #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 379 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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The belief in the old gods of Norse Mythology may have been suppressed by Christianity, but that doesn’t mean the races of old didn’t survive. Like the Vargr wolves.
Matt’s Sköll Hati pack has forcefully merged with the Geri Freki pack on their territory. The many changes challenge all Alphas, who step up to meet the needs of their pack. It challenges the young Alphas to grow. With a whispering ember, Matt’s gaining new insight into the Alpha he’s growing into.
Steffen will die for his pack’s prosperity. Standing the only conquering Pack Alpha in all of Sköll Hati, he’s proven that once before. Having fought to secure his pack again, he relishes in prosperity and fights to grow despite the changes to their structure. A Pack Alpha never stands alone, though. Other than seeing Matt rise to a challenge, Steffen’s focus on prosperity brings a new possible ally to their doorstep.
Frederik rose to have black fur, and he’s since then been renamed Hati. But he’s not doing well with fame. He yearns for something he doesn’t know and dreams of freedom he doesn’t understand.
Then he feels the pull of a new Alpha. All the fame and expectations that smother him seems bearable with the feel of that Alpha. And Hati needs him!
TITLE: Ride or Die
AUTHOR: Beth Bolden
SERIES: Food Truck Warriors #6
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 300 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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Can Ren’s bad boy heart be wooed and won?
Ren Moretti likes his life—and his hookups—just the way they are: fast and loose.
He only ever hooks up with someone once, and relationships? Forget it. Never gonna happen. No guy has ever persuaded him to bend, break, or alter his one date and one night rule.
Until Seth Abramson.
Seth has always tempted Ren—but it’s not a secret that Seth won’t settle for just one night. A few dates won’t cut it, and he’s not interested in playing around. He wants it all, and he intends to win Ren’s heart.
But that’s the one thing Ren’s never given up. He guards it closely and fiercely, until one day, when he realizes it’s no longer his to protect, it’s belonged to Seth all along.
TITLE: Seth
AUTHOR: Carly Marie
SERIES: Johnson Family Rules #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 360 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 20, 2022
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Be yourself because everyone else is taken. But what if that risks everything you know?
Seth Johnson has worked his entire career to be remembered more for his skill than as an openly gay NHL player. Finding a boyfriend has been pushed to the back burner. As for exposing his softer side, the side that loves lace and lingerie? It’s not happening. A Halloween party is the perfect time to indulge with no risk of anyone discovering his identity, not even Phantom, the masked man who knew everything he needed without being told.
Mazdon Grabowski knows the odds are against him ever making it to the NHL, but a surprise call sends him to Nashville for a chance at his. When he gets dragged to a Halloween costume party, the last thing he expects is meeting Pretty. The man wearing a pink nightie and blond wig is desperate for his control but hesitant to share anything personal.
Fearing his secret being exposed, Seth is barely willing to give Phantom his number, much less his name. Lines blur between reality and persona and hearts get involved. When Mazdon discovers his Pretty is none other than Seth Johnson, his teammate and friend, he has no choice but to confront him. The question is: How will Seth react?
TITLE: In Vineyard Veritas
AUTHORS: Clancy Nacht & Thursday Euclid
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 206 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2022
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Local police summon retired CTO Geraldine Thorn from her Austin lake house to Kitsch, Texas, the small town where she grew up, when her beloved Aunt Tilda is found dead at her vineyard home, presumably from a slip in the bath. Upon arrival, Gerry discovers Tilda’s eclectic group of friends—including a much, much younger lover—and rivals. When they realize Tilda’s slip wasn’t an accident, Gerry enlists the help of a handsome Texas Ranger with secrets of his own.
TITLE: Breaking His Serve
AUTHOR: Christie Gordon
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 315 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2022
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Chase is controlled. River is anything but. The two together, on and off the court, are a force to reckon with.
When Chase Rossi steps onto the tennis court for the first time in his senior year at college, he thinks his position at first singles is secure. Then River Adams shows up, with his boisterous attitude, bad-boy good looks and a quest to unseat him. Though Chase considers River an enemy, he can’t ignore a growing attraction to him.
River Adams has to make an abrupt change in his tennis career after his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Now the coach is pitting him against Chase, the hottest guy he’s ever seen, and the best part? The easy way he gets under Chase’s skin and rips him apart, on and off the court, in more ways than one.
As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, the two find their opposite personalities might be a perfect match. Chase is attracted to all the things he should hate about River—his ridiculous antics, his carefree attitude, and his competitive nature—and he knows falling for River could be the thing that does him in. River doesn’t think twice about jumping in with Chase. He knows Chase is a man who could become his rock if he plays his cards right, just when he needs one. As they realize they compliment each other in every way, can they both figure out how to give their hearts fully and find the love they deserve?
TITLE: Our Blood
AUTHOR: Brea Alepoú
SERIES: Blood Series #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: January 21, 2022
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A coven isn’t a home without witches.
Finnely is still dealing with the aftermath of losing all that he’s known. The guilt that eats at him every day is only pushed down by his men who give him purpose: A stalker vampire, an a-hole prince vampire, and a broken wolf.
The humans are done turning a blind eye to the supernatural. They are causing too many casualties, bodies litter the streets and innocents are leaving the world too soon.
Stress levels are high as the weight of the world rests on their shoulders. The search for the false king is not only seeming impossible but deadly. They have to stick together in order to keep from being killed.
What lies in the dark must come to the light. Supernaturals will be forced into the eye of the public and there are so many things that could go wrong. How in the world will Finnely, Rome, Jacob, and Cambridge stay together?
TITLE: Arran
AUTHOR: Tia Fielding
SERIES: Wolfy #2
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 126 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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Trauma and heartache have followed Arran his whole life. Raised by wolf hunters, he was lucky to escape Washington State and that life at his first chance. Becoming a liaison between wolf packs and hunters across the United States was Arran’s way of healing his soul from what he’d seen his family do.
A decade ago, he met Marek, the alpha son of a small pack in Montana. The pair quickly realized they were mates, fell in love, and had plans for a future where Arran being a liaison would make a real difference. But then, everything changed when Marek had to step up as the Alpha.
Since that day, Arran has been running from his past, solving problems for other people while his mating bite throbs in time with his broken heart. He’s had lovers, but everyone who sees the scar on his wrist knows that he belongs to another.
Fresh off one job, Arran receives a late-night call from Marek’s wife — his replacement — begging for help, and there’s nothing he can do but head back to the Alpha he never wanted to face again. Not after he learns that the events from New Mexico are connected to what’s happening to Marek’s pack. Someone is threatening two packs he’s been involved with, and that can’t be ignored.
Showing up on Marek’s doorstep is its own complication with plenty of surprises in store for both men. Not only does Arran have secrets from his hunter past, but Marek has been bearing his own all these years. Old hurts and new revelations mix in a cocktail of hurt and comfort as the pack figures out how to move forward and be happy again.
TITLE: He Comes with the Dark
AUTHOR: Deirdre O’Dare
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 152 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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One paints with line and color, but the other paints with powerful, sensual magic…
Stifled by her restrictive mentor and clientele in the Bay Area, artist Arabella seeks a new home in Sedona, Arizona. The ambience rejuvenates her creativity even as she encounters an earlier denizen of the region who turns her narrow life inside out. How can an invisible entity possibly awaken her deeply sensual nature and school her in the carnal pleasures she’d felt were greatly over-rated? Will she be able to channel this new energy into some incredible artistic efforts?
Zeth fled Lemuria when a natural catastrophe of earthquake, volcanic eruption and tsunami swallowed his homeland. He led a boatload of survivors on a quest to seek a new home. The group struggled and splintered disastrously, leaving him one of a few survivors. After a terrible conflict, he is condemned to remain a disembodied spirit until he can again become human and modify the tragic events in which he played a large part. Millenia later, he finds a new resident making her home in the spot he has come to consider his. Using only the power of his intellect and energy, can he seduce this artist into visualizing a likeness that he can take to create the new body he requires?
Once incarnate again, how will Zeth manage to gather the folk needed to reverse the ancient curse and repair broken karmic patterns? Perhaps Arabella is also the magnet drawing several of them to the scene. Once he is a man again, Zeth must first enact the ancient drama anew, then choose whether to accept his freedom to go on to the spirit realm or remain to live a normal span as a human…with Arabella…
TITLE: Going for Glitch
AUTHOR: Eve Morton
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 75 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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Chandler Ford needs to meet his sales quota. He is convinced it is the only way his boss Elroy will pay any attention to him, and then Chandler can finally get what he thinks he wants: Elroy’s love and affection. Selling anti-aging pills to the old should be easy, but as the month reaches its end, his numbers aren’t where they need to be. And neither is Chandler.
After a demoralizing interaction with his boss, one not ever the ever-cheerful security guard named Manny can soothe, Chandler stops a violent crime. When he realizes the victim is an android named Dash, Chandler wants nothing to do with him. Yet what Dash tells him about perfection, love and attraction, sinks in for the better.
As the month nears the end, Chandler’s boss Elroy, and the security guard Manny, both take on completely different roles in his fantasy life. Now if only Chandler could meet quota, maybe he’d know what to do next …
TITLE: A Stronger Calling
AUTHOR: Terry O’Reilly
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 79 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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William Neilsen grew up on a farm next to The Abbey of the Falls. When his parents died in a tragic car accident while he was a teenager, the abbot agreed to offer a home to William, in exchange for him taking care of the farm, the produce from which fed the monks. The excess was to be sold in the abbey store and cheese and wine shop. William was happy living at the abbey. However, he never felt a religious calling to become a monk and the abbot never pressured him to do so.
Although he loves working in the fields and with the animals, it becomes too much for William to do alone. William asks the abbot for help and his request is answered when a young man, Samuel Drake, joins the abbey. William is confused both by his feelings for Samuel and Samuel’s open and flirtatious behavior towards him. Samuel isn’t like any postulant William has ever known, but he doesn’t feel comfortable quizzing the young man about the nature of his calling to become a monk.
William’s discomfort and guilt intensify as his relationship with Samuel becomes more emotional and then physical. Although William hasn’t taken a vow of chastity, that is Samuel’s eventual goal. Or is it? Do William and Samuel have a stronger calling?
TITLE: Separate Natures
AUTHOR: Gordon Phillips
SERIES: Still The Beating Heart #2
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
LENGTH: 296 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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Garner returns from a trip home, a time-out in which to consider the offer made to him by the love of his life Alonzo, to undergo the Change and become a Vee like him. Garner has made his choice, to accept the offer, but he discovers Alonzo is missing.
Garner is staggered, realizing he doesn’t even know where Alonzo lives. He must seek him through his own abilities, being a sensitive, gifted with ESP powers. He discovers Alonzo is being held somewhere in the city, possibly by an unknown entity residing in the industrial park, which both Vees and their enemies, the Vee hunters, avoid.
Garner is thrust into a cardinal position, leading a force of Vees into this area to rescue Alonzo. He must confront that powerful entity, which calls itself the Caretaker, before he can rescue Alonzo, bringing his own resources to the test. Ingenuity, loyalty, and love challenge the status quo of power that exists hidden beneath everyday life in the city, where Vees, Vee hunters, and the Caretaker all struggle for survival. In such an environment, can love between a Vee and a Norm survive?
TITLE: Kane
AUTHOR: H.M. Wolfe
SERIES: The Kingmaker’s Sons #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 142 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 22, 2022
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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
A solid career, a loving, supportive father and older brother, the best friends in the world, and the love of a special man.
Kane Scott—son of Nathaniel Scott, the Kingmaker, one of the most influential and powerful men in the country—has everything he ever wanted and more. But soon, his happiness becomes clouded by shadows of the past. His husband’s past.
From the start, Kane’s heart was captured by the beautiful, emerald-eyed redhead emanating an inner sadness. When Willard asked for Kane’s promise to never inquire about his past, Kane was quick to make that promise.
Now, that forbidden past stands at Kane and Willard’s doorstep, threatening everything they have built together… leaving Kane with two choices: Break his promise and his husband’s trust by pressuring Willard to reveal secrets buried deep within his soul… or stay true to his word and watch helplessly as the man he loves falls to pieces.
Two choices. Two consequences. Kane must determine before it’s too late, which path will lead to healing… and which will lead to destruction. Choosing the wrong path could cost him more than he’s willing to lose.
TITLE: Baby Bows and Mistletoe
AUTHOR: Jovee Winters
SERIES: The Dark Kings
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: January 23, 2022
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We all know the stories, Little Red Riding Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan… but what if the stories we thought we knew weren’t anything even remotely close to the truth? These aren’t your mother’s fairy tales.
What happened after Jerrick-the infamous Goblin King (now reformed) and his beloved Joon said I do… Only in Kingdom is the impossible possible and happily ever afters absolutely guaranteed even if the road to getting there is a little, shall we say, unconventional.
And baby makes three… or maybe even four.
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