Here are the new releases for the week.
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Release Date | Other Details | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fangs and Flesh | TJ Nichols | Self Published | 7/28/2025 | Hunting Hearts #2 | Amazon |
| Faeheart | Blake R. Wolfe | Self Published | 7/28/2025 | Widdershins Supernatural Academy #2 | Amazon |
| The Beast of Breyvan | Jordan Demaine | Dreamspinner Press | 7/29/2025 | Amazon | |
| A Hard Note | Jennifer Moffatt | Pride Publishing | 7/29/2025 | Falling Hard #3 | Amazon |
| Something to Prove | Lane Hayes | Self Published | 7/29/2025 | Smithton Bears #2 | Amazon |
| Broken Highway | Logan Rivers | Self Published | 7/29/2025 | Cult Boys #1 | Amazon |
| Silken Collar | Tavian Cross | Self Published | 7/30/2025 | Pleasure Palace #2 | Amazon |
| Wild Card | DJ Jamison | Self Published | 7/30/2025 | Foster Bro Code #2 | Amazon |
| Baker | V.L. Locey | Self Published | 7/30/2025 | Bastian Brothers #1 | Amazon |
| Hudson River Homicides | C.S. Poe | Emporium Press | 7/31/2025 | Memento Mori #4 | Amazon |
| Danny Hall Gets a Lawyer: | Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey | Self Published | 7/31/2025 | Goose Run #1 | Amazon |
| The Legacy of Summer | Hope Irving | Self Published | 7/31/2025 | Summers in Seaside | Amazon |
| Did It Have To Be Gnomes?! | Michele Notaro | Self Published | 7/31/2025 | Carry A Faerie #1 | Amazon |
| Dead Drunk | Pandora Pine | Self Published | 7/31/2025 | Cold Case Psychic #36 | Amazon |
| Stubborn Puckboy | Eden Finley & Saxon James | Self Published | 7/31/2025 | Puckboys #9 | Amazon |
| The Care of Broken Things | October Arden | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Breaking Free #1 | Amazon |
| Mr Collins in Love | Lee Welch | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| The Naughty List | Matthew Dante | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| Creatures Like Us | Ally Avery | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Unforgivable Needs #3 | Amazon |
| Crossbones | Devyn Rivers | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| Finding Archie | Brina Brady | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Foggy Basin Season Two | Amazon |
| Bittersweet | Ana Ashley | Self Published | 8/1/2025 | Dads of Stillwater #5 | Amazon |
| Finding Noah | Gabbi Gray | Self Published | 8/3/2025 | Foggy Basin Season Two | Amazon |
| Entranced by the Nakken | Delilah Dare | Self Published | 8/3/2025 | Freedom, Love, Monsters #4 | Amazon |
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TITLE: Fangs and Flesh
AUTHOR: TJ Nichols
SERIES: Hunting Hearts #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 225 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/28/2025
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Fangs are revealed when a vampire enforcer meets an unblooded vampire in need of protection.
Joel Reid is either escaping into fantasy books and crossword puzzles, or he’s cleaning up a vampire mess to keep them safe from humans. He needs something for himself but doesn’t know what when the Reid family consumes everything they touch.
For Aiden Green, being a vampire means danger. He was raised to avoid others of his kind and warned about being sucked into another family’s drama. His mother fled Ireland because she wanted more for her life and the lives of her children. Now, the trouble has found him, and the Orlan vampire crime family has convinced his brother to join them, and his brother is demanding Aiden follow suit.
Being sent to tidy up any remaining Orlan problems in what was neutral territory puts Aiden in Joel’s sights, and he must confront his duty to the Reid family and his desire for Aiden. But the Orlans are determined to keep the precarious toehold no matter the cost.
TITLE: Faeheart
AUTHOR: Blake R. Wolfe
SERIES: Widdershins Supernatural Academy #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 321 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/28/2025
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A sheltered witch. A reckless Fae. A bond they never wanted… and a passion they can’t escape
Wild:
Rules? I don’t follow them. Hearts? I don’t keep them. I live for the chase, for the thrill of taking what I want and leaving before anyone gets too close. As a Fae, passion is my power, and at Widdershins Academy, where magic pulses in every shadowed corridor, I have my pick of lovers.
Then there’s Elias Thorne.
Sweet, quiet, untouchable Elias, the witch with too much potential and too little confidence. He’s the only one who has ever dared to look at me like I’m dangerous instead of desirable. The only one who doesn’t melt under my charm. And for some reason, that makes me want him even more.
But Elias isn’t interested in my games. He sees through the mask, past the wicked smirk, to the part of me I don’t want to acknowledge. And that terrifies me.
I don’t do commitment. I don’t do love. But Elias is different, and I can’t tell if he’s my greatest weakness or my only salvation. When a magical accident binds us together, things get dangerous. Because at Widdershins Academy, witches and Fae aren’t compatible, but now that we’re bound together, neither of us has a choice.
Elias:
I’ve spent my life hidden behind spellbooks and expectations. The son of a prestigious coven, I was raised to be polite, reserved, and obedient—everything Wild is not. He’s reckless, untamed, a storm wrapped in silk and sin. And he infuriates me.
He pushes, I retreat. He flirts, I ignore. But somehow, Wild always finds a way under my skin, testing my patience and my control. The worst part? I think he enjoys watching me unravel.
Then on our first day back, a wild magic accident binds us together in ways neither of us understands. Now, his magic calls to mine, a pull that’s impossible to resist. Every touch is a spark, every glance a challenge, and the more I fight him, the more I realize… I don’t want to.
Loving him means risking everything—my magic, my future, my heart. But as whispers of war spread through the academy, I begin to wonder: what if Wild is the only one who can teach me how to fight back?
TITLE: The Beast of Breyvan
AUTHOR: Jordan Demaine
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 104 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2025
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The eldest son of impoverished nobility, Maksim learns young that he’ll be married off to secure his family’s future. Trapped in an engagement he doesn’t want to a man he’s never met, he frequently runs away, but he never gets far enough to escape his fate, always being dragged back home.
Maksim is pleasantly surprised when his husband, Piotyr, turns out to be sweet and generous. He never dared dream of a husband he might fall in love with. But as enchanting as Piotyr is, there’s a secret haunting Maksim’s new home of Breyvan—one that could tear his heart to pieces.
TITLE: A Hard Note
AUTHOR: Jennifer Moffatt
SERIES: Falling Hard #3
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 320 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2025
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Trying to find perfect harmony from rock bottom.
Morgan has hit the rockiest of bottoms. Fired from his job, with nothing to show for his life but a broken heart, a failed band, and a box full of his crap from his emptied-out desk, Morgan has to face the ugly reality of how he got to this point—he is a bad person.
While drowning his sorrows, he strikes up an unlikely relationship with Kazio, a cranky bartender who has no problem asking Morgan tough questions about who he wants to be. Their friendship grows over time as Kazio helps Morgan tear down the walls he’s built up around himself and put his life back together, one piece at a time.
Job hunting, volunteering, finding a new band…things are heading in the right direction, until it all comes screeching to halt…because Morgan realizes he has feelings for Kazio. This is the worst idea ever, and could lead to everything coming crashing back down. Can Morgan ignore those feelings for his best friend, or will he ruin it all again?
TITLE: Something to Prove
AUTHOR: Lane Hayes
SERIES: Smithton Bears #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 234 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2025
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The hockey star, the influencer, and the deal of a lifetime.
Ty
I’m going to the pros, baby! Deal made, contract signed. Now all I have to do is finish out my final season at Smithton and stay out of trouble. I like to have a good time, but don’t worry, I’ll behave.
What I won’t do is talk to that double-crossing influencer who’s been badgering me for an interview. No thanks.
I know Walker’s type—sweet as pie on the outside, a shark on the inside.
Get this…he wants to make a deal that sounds a lot like a bribe.
Not interested. No way.
But I am curious.
Walker
I’ve never worked so hard for an interview in my life. Ugh!
Look, I get that Ty doesn’t like me. As in…he won’t return my calls and avoids me like the plague on campus.
Too bad. I’m not giving up.
I don’t want to beg, but I’m willing to barter. Every man has his price—and something to prove.
Even Ty.
TITLE: Broken Highway
AUTHOR: Logan Rivers
SERIES: Cult Boys #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 292 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2025
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NOAH
My life is a blur of asphalt and regret, the highway my only refuge from a past that’s bruised and bloody.
By day, I crash in dingy motel rooms, chasing sleep that never comes.
By night, I drive, picking up strangers for fleeting trysts that keep the ghosts at bay.
But then I meet Seven: wild-eyed and dangerous.
One night should’ve been enough, but Seven’s touch lingers like a brand, promising something I’m too broken to name.
SEVEN
I’m running from the echoes of cult hymns that still claw at my mind.
Freedom came with a price: the body of a man in the trunk of my car.
My mother always said I was a lost cause with a pretty face.
She was right.
I hustle my body to survive.
But then I meet Noah.
One look, one spark, and a carefully buried hunger roars to life.
TOGETHER
We’re two fractured souls on a collision course, our meeting a lit match in a world soaked with gasoline.
We could burn it all down.
But when our ghosts catch up to us, will we save each other or become the wreckage that’s left behind?
TITLE: Silken Collar
AUTHOR: Tavian Cross
SERIES: Pleasure Palace #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 167 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2025
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I was commanded to bond. To prove my strength through dominance. To lead as all militants must. But everything I was taught is wrong.
My name is Rion, and I’m a soldier who was never meant to command.
Assigned to bond with Kaelen, a brilliant scholar from the Temple of Aerius, I should be the dominant partner. Military tradition demands it. My training requires it. Both our Orders expect it.
But Kaelen sees through my carefully constructed facade to the truth I’ve hidden my entire life.
I don’t want to lead. I want to submit.
Under his confident guidance, I discover that surrender isn’t weakness. It’s liberation. That kneeling for him feels more natural than standing over others. That his quiet commands awaken something in me I never dared acknowledge.
But our bond defies every expectation, challenges every tradition. In a world where militants must dominate and scholars must submit, we’ve found the opposite to be true.
As our connection deepens beyond anything either Order has seen before, we face an impossible choice: conform to roles that will slowly poison us both, or risk everything to honor what we’ve discovered together.
Some bonds can only survive by breaking all the rules.
TITLE: Wild Card
AUTHOR: DJ Jamison
SERIES: Foster Bro Code #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 345 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2025
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I’m the wild brother …
I live for the moment. For instant gratification.
And Deputy Dalton Harvey will bring me a lot of gratification.
He’s fighting our attraction, but I see the lust in his eyes. I don’t care that he’s slapped cuffs on me before and probably will again. It’ll just make it all the sweeter when he breaks.
When that happens, I’ll gladly dirty up that lawman and move on, like I always do. It doesn’t matter that Dalton is one of the best men I’ve met. Or that he’s sexy as sin with a sweet smile that always reaches his eyes. Everyone leaves in the end.
The only ones I trust are the strays I take in. The pets abandoned on the side of the road are thrown away just like me. I give them my heart because they’ll be unquestionably loyal to me.
Unlike humans.
Unlike Dalton.
He says he wants more. He has honorable intentions. But he just doesn’t understand.
He’ll leave too. He’ll have to when he becomes the sheriff this town needs.
I’m bad news. I’ll only drag him down with me. And he deserves better.
He just doesn’t know it yet.
TITLE: Baker
AUTHOR: V.L. Locey
SERIES: Bastian Brothers #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 221 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2025
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While battling to save his family’s ranch, Baker finds himself falling for a man as unrestrained as the Oklahoma winds.
For as long as he can recall, Baker Bastian has been the backbone of Bastian Acres Ranch. He’s carried a heavy load, trying his best to keep his family legacy from being swallowed up by corporate farming while battling a fondness for the bottle, a messy divorce, and a grandmother who’s set on becoming the next Annie Oakley if she could just get a gun that shoots straight. It’s not been an easy road. Now, with his worthless philandering father’s death, the deed to the ranch is to be split four ways with three half-brothers he never wanted to get to know better.
As the ranch is tossed into chaos, Baker is driven to open the gates to strangers, and not just his brothers and their traveling companions. In order to turn a buck, the once proud owner of prime cattle is reduced to calling his farming legacy a guest ranch. The first client to show up is Hanley Welsh, a world-renowned wildlife photographer. Baker should be too busy to notice how rugged Hanley is, or how his eyes crinkle with his easy smile, or how well his jeans fit, but notice he does. Will Baker’s lonely existence end with the arrival of a man who carries the song of the indigo bunting in his heart?
TITLE: Hudson River Homicides
AUTHOR: C.S. Poe
SERIES: Memento Mori #4
PUBLISHER: Emporium Press
LENGTH: 328 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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The Cold Case Squad has a problem: Someone won’t stop taunting Detective Everett Larkin. He’s been able to apprehend some of the worst criminals to ever stalk the streets of New York City, thanks in great part to forensic artist and boyfriend, Ira Doyle, but after their last case, events have taken a turn for the worse.
A body recovered from the Hudson River bears a message addressed to Larkin and another token from Victorian mourning culture. As nineteenth-century hair jewelry leads Larkin deeper into the growing tangle of interconnected crimes, it becomes evident that solving these mysteries will come at a profound cost. To be a good detective, Larkin will have to endure sleepless nights—lest the sender act on their threat against his partner—as well as put his relationship on the line when clues lead in the direction of Doyle’s past.
What began as a game of cat and mouse has turned into a fight for love and life itself.
TITLE: Danny Hall Gets a Lawyer:
AUTHORS: Lisa Henry & Sarah Honey
SERIES: Goose Run #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 230 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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Danny Hall is terminally single. That’s not surprising, given that he lives in the tiny township of Goose Run, Virginia, and the only other gay guys he knows live with him in his grandma’s house and are like brothers to him. It probably also doesn’t help his dating prospects that he works at a gas station.
When a series of petty disputes with his awful neighbor escalates into a legal matter, Danny calls in a lawyer. But when Miller Clarke turns up on his doorstep, Danny finds himself chasing more than just legal advice.
Miller Clarke is used to dealing with minor claims and oddball cases. But tree law? That’s a new one. He can’t exactly be mad though, not when his new client Danny is super cute and just Miller’s type. But Miller only intends to stay in the area for long enough to gain some experience before establishing a real career in the city. He doesn’t have time for a relationship, no matter how tempted he is. Miller’s got big plans, and Danny Hall and Goose Run don’t fit in with them.
You know what they say. The course of tree—true love never did run smooth.
TITLE: The Legacy of Summer
AUTHOR: Hope Irving
SERIES: Summers in Seaside
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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Two guys locked in a quiet war until the music—and whatever’s building between them—breaks through the silence. Is this their shot at something real?
EZRA
I’ve worked too damn hard to earn my place here as a program assistant, resident, and musician. The youth center gave me a roof, a reason to stay clean, and a shot at being more than what people see: tats, blue hair, and a temper.
Then he walks in like he owns the place.
Sasha doesn’t belong here. Smug grin. Preppy clothes. Ridiculous freckles. He plays at being the cool guy, but I see right through him—he’s hiding something. And I don’t trust pretty boys with perfect smiles. Especially not ones who make my skin itch in all the wrong ways.
SASHA
I came back to Seaside, Oregon, to clear my head, find some guidance, and play guitar, not clash with the world’s angriest violinist. Ezra acts like he’s got me figured out from day one, but he doesn’t know me. He doesn’t know how loud the silence is at home, how much I need this band to feel like I matter somewhere.
Still, every glance from him sets me on edge. Rehearsal is a battle. He’s infuriating, impossibly talented, and far too distracting.
The rock legend mentoring us says whatever’s between us—resentment, rivalry, whatever it is—needs to fuel our performance.
But what if the tension breaks us before the music ever begins?
TITLE: Did It Have To Be Gnomes?!
AUTHOR: Michele Notaro
SERIES: Carry A Faerie #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 296 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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Am I afraid of gnomes? Maaaaaaaybe.
Did I take on a huge gnome job anyway? I sure did.
Am I about to ask my crush for help? Well, I have to ask someone, right?
I get called out to a huge mansion with the biggest number of invading gnomes I’ve ever seen, and I’m not sure who to call to help. And I definitely need some help.
So when Winter Montgomery just so happens to stop by, I know I have to ask him. I’ve been crushing on the handsome guy from afar for years, so now’s my chance to get close—and get some much needed support.
As long as I don’t let him see just how much I hate gnomes—okay, I’m actually terrified of them, but he doesn’t need to know that… right?
TITLE: Dead Drunk
AUTHOR: Pandora Pine
SERIES: Cold Case Psychic #36
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 119 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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After a friend of Madam Aurora is arrested for drunk driving, he calls psychic Tennyson Grimm with a wild story: the city jail is haunted by a spirit claiming a member of the Salem Police Department murdered him. Ten wants to help the spirit and get to the bottom of his claim, but he’s rocked to his core when the spirit proclaims his killer to be none other than Salem Police Chief, Cisco Jackson.
Detective Ronan O’Mara doesn’t believe for a moment that Cisco is a stone-cold killer, but when three others deaths with the same MO are uncovered, all with links to Cisco, Ronan and the cold case detectives have no choice but to believe Cisco could have committed the murders.
Was Jefferson McGrath really murdered in his jail cell? If so, how? More importantly, is the chief of the Salem Police Department a serial killer?
TITLE: Stubborn Puckboy
AUTHORS: Eden Finley & Saxon James
SERIES: Puckboys #9
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 328 pages
RELEASE DATE: 7/31/2025
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COLBY
Once upon a time, playing for the NHL was my dream. Then Radimir Novicov skated circles around me and made it clear I’d never be good enough. He was smart, talented, and worst of all–sexy. Every closeted guy knows that you don’t hit on your teammate, even if his gaze lingers longer than it should.
All it took was one drunken close call before our friendship was in tatters, he was called up to the NHL, and I was sent for further conditioning.
Playing in the NHL was off the table, so coaching became my new dream.
And seventeen years later, I’m finally heading to the big time.
Video coach. Pro level. The only downside?
It’s for Novi’s team.
NOVI
Radimir Novicov is not scared of anything. I am one of the best. Future Hall of Famer. There are two years left on my contract and I will end my career on the highest high anyone did see.
Then I will slink into the shadows where no one will hear of me again.
Because while I’m playing professionally, I cannot come out and be myself. Not with my family still in Russia.
The plan has been set since I first moved to America, and I only have two years left to wait. It should be easy to focus on hockey.
Then Colby Kessinger walks back into my life. The teammate with the lopsided smiles and cocky attitude–the one who made my heart want things it can’t have.
Now two years feels like a lifetime.
TITLE: The Care of Broken Things
AUTHOR: October Arden
SERIES: Breaking Free #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 302 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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Samuel has spent years building walls.
Not the prison’s concrete ones, but the kind that keep lives from bleeding into each other. As the prison’s self-appointed librarian, he’s carved out a fragile peace where silence is his shield. The inmates call him The Ice Queen—a title he wears like armor. After a lifetime of being preyed upon, he knows better than to let anyone close.
Then Eli arrives like sunlight through bulletproof glass.
A wrongfully convicted pediatrician, and unbearably kind, Eli is everything Samuel knows to avoid, so when he steps in to protect the man, it’s supposed to be a one-time act of mercy.
But Eli’s husband has another plan.
Nathaniel—who looks at Samuel like he’s something more than a convict—makes a request that shatters everything:
“Be his prison husband. Love him where I can’t.”
It’s a lie that should be easy. Samuel’s an expert at deception. But the longer he plays the role, the more the lines blur: Eli’s warmth seeping into his frozen bones, Nathaniel’s quiet strength, the whispered secrets of Eli’s daughter who trusts only him.
Now the man who built his life on solitude hoards these moments like contraband.
Some loves rewrite your sentence.
TITLE: Mr Collins in Love
AUTHOR: Lee Welch
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 151 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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The year is 1811 and the new rector of Hunsford, Mr William Collins, must be above reproach. He must be respectable, pious, good at losing at quadrille, and disapproving of popular novels. Above all, he must obey his terrifying patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
When William’s boyhood friend Jem arrives, looking for safe harbour from the press-gangs, William’s ‘perfect clergyman’ disguise begins to slip. A farm labourer’s son, Jem is gentle and loyal, and being with him is all William wants. Soon, Jem and William renew their youthful intimacies—until Lady Catherine’s demands come between them.
Can William find a way to navigate the Regency marriage market without losing his beloved Jem?
TITLE: The Naughty List
AUTHOR: Matthew Dante
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 48 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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There are a few places that can be described as hell on earth. David Vale learned that lesson the second he walked into the Gaul Psychiatric Hospital. The facility is understaffed, the hours are long, and the patients are… dying. The more he investigates, the stranger things get.
Is the facility just an unlucky place? Or is something much darker roaming the hallways and crossing people off its… list?
TITLE: Creatures Like Us
AUTHOR: Ally Avery
SERIES: Unforgivable Needs #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 310 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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Noah
The same night I’m meant to end it all, I find a golden-haired angel passed out in the snow.
I’m just supposed to bring him home and nurse him back to health. To save him. To take care of him. But then I get greedy. I want him to stay. After all, he’s the only thing standing between me and my ruin.
Asher
The start of the new year is going down the drain along with my sanity, and that’s even before I wake up in some weirdo’s basement.
He keeps me under lock and key, claiming it’s for my own good—that if he lets me go, I’ll spiral back into the dark hole he pulled me out of.
I should want to run. To escape as soon as I have the chance. But as the days pass and the lines blur, everything turns on its head, and I’m no longer sure who’s the captive and who’s the captor—who’s in control, and who’s desperate to submit.
TITLE: Crossbones
AUTHOR: Devyn Rivers
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 309 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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They were forged in rebellion, bound by ruin and undone by something far more dangerous—
Prince Caspian De’Vero isn’t the Crown Prince—thank God—but he is still burdened by the weight of a corrupt kingdom. To combat his guilt by association, he wages a quiet war against his own bloodline—siphoning gold from the royal treasury to fund a haven for refugees displaced by his father. For years, his rebellion has gone unnoticed but as the gold dwindles and suspicions rise, he needs to find a way to keep his cause alive.
Captain James Blackwell—The Stormbreaker—a pirate with a haunted past, a violent vendetta, and a ship whose reputation is whispered about in every tavern from the Seven Landings and beyond. When he captures who he thinks is a De’Vero noble, he decides to ransom him for some much needed gold. But things take a turn when the man is hardly what he expects and much to his dismay, he begins to take an interest in the charming rogue who throws himself recklessly into danger and challenges everything he thought he knew about himself.
Their fates collide further when an uneasy alliance is formed over a lost treasure that would solve both of their problems—if it exists. As they’re forced to work together, their relationship is volatile, dangerous and—dare they admit it, intoxicating. When the past resurfaces in more ways than they expect, both men soon realize the truth—the tides are turning, the storm is coming and some secrets were never meant to stay buried.
TITLE: Finding Archie
AUTHOR: Brina Brady
SERIES: Foggy Basin Season Two
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 233 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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Archie Star’s life had always been marked by loneliness. After losing his mother at eleven, he was left with a father who never quite knew what to do with him. Even after earning a literature degree, Archie felt like a ghost in his own home, unseen and unneeded. When his cousin Andrew offered him a job at the Blue Star Diner in Foggy Basin, he took it as a sign. With nothing but a duffel bag and a restless heart, he climbed onto his motorcycle and rode toward a fresh start, hoping to find a place where he could finally breathe.
Andrew secured him a room in the home of Brogan Finnegan, a charming Irish high school teacher with a storyteller’s soul. Brogan had traveled the world before settling in Foggy Basin, drawn to teaching after years of volunteering in communities abroad. His warm home and steady presence offered Archie something he hadn’t felt in years—comfort, safety, and maybe even belonging.
But it was Brogan himself who truly captivated Archie.
What started as quiet conversations over late-night cups of tea and shared glances across rooms soon became something deeper. Two men, both searching for connection in their own way, found solace in each other. In the gentle rhythm of daily life, in the laughter that softened the edges of their pasts, they pieced themselves together. And in doing so, they learned that home isn’t always a place—it’s a person.
TITLE: Bittersweet
AUTHOR: Ana Ashley
SERIES: Dads of Stillwater #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 100 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/1/2025
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Things I like: bitter coffee, competency…oh and the guy that breezes into my coffee shop like a shot of espresso—bold, invigorating, and impossible to ignore.
Running Bittersweet has been nothing short of a rollercoaster—and not the fun kind. Between kitchen fires and unreliable helpers, I’ve been on a first-name basis with disaster.
Enter Constantine.
With his teenage brother in tow, Constantine whips up pastries with an expertise that leaves me both impressed and intrigued.
But it’s not just his skills that catch my attention. Constantine brings a new dynamic to my life, forcing me to rethink my priorities.
Could it be that amidst the chaos, I’ve found something, or someone, worth holding onto?
TITLE: Finding Noah
AUTHOR: Gabbi Gray
SERIES: Foggy Basin Season Two
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 188 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/3/2025
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Noah
I need a fresh start, and Foggy Basin, California, is the perfect place to begin my new life. The accepting small town is such a contrast to the large town I came from. Making a success of my dog-training business—Tricks, Tips, and Backflips—is important to me, and I totally lucked out when my straight best friend, Christian, decided to move with me. He makes my life easier. I just hope he’ll be as happy here as I am.
Christian
Following my best friend to Foggy Basin was a no-brainer. I’ve been in love with him since we were five years old. Problem is, I’ve never had the guts to say so, and while he’s out and proud, I’m still in the closet. Somehow, I need to find the courage to make a move before he finds someone else in this gay-friendly town, but Noah thinks I’m straight, and I’m not sure what he’ll do when I tell him that’s not exactly true.
TITLE: Entranced by the Nakken
AUTHOR: Delilah Dare
SERIES: Freedom, Love, Monsters #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 168 pages
RELEASE DATE: 8/3/2025
BLURB:
Lately, every song Tsunis plays is sad. No humans fall into a trance at their laments. No bodies sink below the surface.
Without sustenance, Tsunis will never find a portal home. Their homeland finally found peace, and Tsunis would not be there to shed the war from their scales, maybe take a mate and lay eggs. They were a failure.
Beware the fiddle-playing näkki in the falls. Their song brings certain death.
When Casey slinks home from college with his tail between his legs, his hometown is exactly the same. His mom still dotes on him, his father still yells at the T.V., and the townsfolk still cling to legends of malevolent water spirits in the rapids.
Except Casey knows the spirit isn’t evil. An evil spirit wouldn’t have used their beautiful voice to save him when he was a boy. The mer-child swam off before Casey could show his gratitude.
Maybe it isn’t too late.
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