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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Script Swap | Gregory Ashe | Hodgkin & Blount | 10/6/2025 | The Last Picks #11 | Amazon |
| Destined Prey | Bailey Bradford | Self Published | 10/6/2025 | Wild Ones #1 | Amazon |
| Sinning with the Spirits | F.A. Ray | Self Published | 10/6/2025 | Halloween Temptation | Amazon |
| Feels Like Home | Casey Cox | Self Published | 10/6/2025 | Amazon | |
| Off Limits | Leo Rivers | Self Published | 10/6/2025 | Mating Run #6 | Amazon |
| Quinn | S.A. Sommers | Self Published | 10/6/2025 | Foxy’s Rent-a-Date | Amazon |
| Beyond the Darkness | Thom Collins | Pride Publishing | 10/7/2025 | Basic Instincts #3 | Amazon |
| Husky and Heartfelt | Jole Cannon | NineStar Press | 10/7/2025 | Big Boys of Gilroy #2 | Amazon |
| All of Us Murderers | KJ Charles | Poisoned Pen Press | 10/7/2025 | Amazon | |
| Rough Draft | RJ Scott & V.L. Locey | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | The Games We Play – Season 2 | Amazon |
| The King of Halloween | Ellen Mint | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Amazon | |
| Outsiders | October Arden | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Amazon | |
| Room for Three | Silvana Falcon | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Monsters of Veridia | Amazon |
| I Will Always Find You | Ryan Lawrence | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch | Amazon |
| Obliterated | N. Boeyer | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction | Amazon |
| Conditioning Loan | L.A. Witt | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | The Games We Play – Season 2 | Amazon |
| Instructed by the Summoner | Rowan Amaris & Theo Behr | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Halloween Temptation | Amazon |
| Puck Shots | Becca Jackson | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Love The Game | Amazon |
| Drop the Gloves | A.L. Heard | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Amazon | |
| The Physician’s Barbarian | Amy Padilla | Self Published | 10/7/2025 | Not-So-Savage Barbarians #5 | Amazon |
| Promised Secret | Rye Cox | Eternal Spring Publishing | 10/8/2025 | Promises, Promises #3 | Amazon |
| Voice to Raise | Gabbi Grey | Self Published | 10/8/2025 | Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 | Amazon |
| Marry Me, Maybe? | Sage Abbott | Self Published | 10/8/2025 | Bristlecone Springs #2 | Amazon |
| The Call of Azure | Rayne Hawthorne | Self Published | 10/9/2025 | Unexpected Love #3 | Amazon |
| His Forbidden Obsession | Silvia Violet | Self Published | 10/9/2025 | Amazon | |
| The Temptation | Jocelynn Drake | Self Published | 10/10/2025 | Executive Suite Secrets #4 | Amazon |
| Released | BH Lynn | Self Published | 10/10/2025 | Restitution Series #3 | Amazon |
| Wonder | Bix Barrow | Self Published | 10/10/2025 | Wonderfall #3 | Amazon |
| Medically Necessary | Emily Carrington | Self Published | 10/10/2025 | Medically Necessary #4 | Amazon |
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TITLE: Script Swap
AUTHOR: Gregory Ashe
SERIES: The Last Picks #11
PUBLISHER: Hodgkin & Blount
LENGTH: 278 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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They say the show must go on. Thank goodness for intermission.
Dashiell Dawson Dane isn’t thrilled that a new play at the community theater is based (however loosely) on his life. But when Dash’s friend Fox asks him to attend opening night, things take a strange turn: the actor playing Dash’s role seems to have been given a different script. Even stranger, the new lines trigger a bizarre response from the rest of the cast and crew—right before the lights go out and the box office is robbed.
At Fox’s request, Dash agrees to investigate, but he’s surprised to discover that everyone at the theater seems more preoccupied with the altered (and now missing) script than with the robbery. And when one of the actors is murdered in what appears to be a burglary gone wrong, Dash is sure there’s something much darker afoot.
But someone is determined to keep the truth from coming out, and Dash will have to navigate aging starlets, a disgruntled custodian, and a reclusive stage manager—among others—to catch the killer before they can strike again.
TITLE: Destined Prey
AUTHOR: Bailey Bradford
SERIES: Wild Ones #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 206 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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The call of the wild has never been so hot.
Jack Tucker didn’t plan on coming back to Wyoming. But after a rough breakup and a life that’s spun off course, the Double T Ranch feels like the only place left to catch his breath. He just wants some peace, maybe a little clarity. What he doesn’t expect is to walk straight into a brewing war between coyotes, wolves, and something even more unexpected.
Coywolves. Hybrid shifters born of wolf and coyote, feared and hated by both. More predatory. More powerful. And hunted because of it.
Ben Akers is one of them, fighting alongside his pack to survive constant threats from all sides. He never expected to find his mate in a human, especially not one like Jack, who stirs something deep in his soul from the first moment they meet.
As danger closes in and loyalties are tested, Jack and Ben must decide if they’re brave enough to fight for something wild and rare, the kind of love that doesn’t just survive the odds, it rewrites them.
TITLE: Sinning with the Spirits
AUTHOR: F.A. Ray
SERIES: Halloween Temptation
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 44 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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I’ve spent my life as a chaste saint, a good Catholic boy. But Halloween has a way of bringing out the sinner in all of us.
I don’t believe in any of this sinful Halloween nonsense. Sure, I might work at a haunted house, but I have my reasons.
Unfortunately, that’s where my neighbor Emmanuel finds me. Does he want revenge for me ruining his college Halloween party by calling the cops on him? Or is it something else entirely? When he corners me in a back hallway, fog from the haunted house’s special effects clouding the air, something truly unholy possesses me body and soul. And when Emmanuel touches me, I swear it’s more than his hands tempting me—but no, that’s impossible. That cool, spectral hand feeling its way up my leg must be him…
Right?
TITLE: Feels Like Home
AUTHOR: Casey Cox
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 321 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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Courtland
I swear I’m not deliberately avoiding telling my best friend I’m in love with him. Life just has a funny way of getting in the way…for the last fifteen years or so.
Take prom. Buzz was my date, and I was planning on telling him that night. One week before, my mom and his dad drop a bombshell—they’ve been having an affair. The aftermath destroyed two families.
I moved away to Boston and pursued my medical career. Buzz stayed in Clovelly and became a firefighter. He started dating. We stayed best friends.
Now, thirteen years later, I’m back in town after Grandpa Arnie dies. He leaves me his inn in his will. On two conditions. One, I get married, and two, I stay in town for at least six months.
Buzz loves that inn as much as I do, so he offers himself as tribute. Now that we’re married and living together, nothing is going to get in the way of me telling him how I feel.
Not his annoying new himbo-rific friend.
Not even my lifelong habit of avoiding talking about my feelings.
Nothing.
But then my mother drops another bombshell—and it makes what happened before prom look like a warm-up act.
Buzz
The last guy I dated dumped me because he said he wanted a boyfriend, not an emotional support animal. All my relationships have ended the same way—guys leave because I’m too needy, too clingy.
The sad truth is, they’re all right.
The only person who accepts me for who I am in all my needy glory is Court.
Having him back in Clovelly is great. And marrying him has come with some unexpected benefits…of the bedroom variety.
But just because we’re releasing a little steam doesn’t change the fact that I want to settle down and have kids, and Court has a career waiting for him in Boston. Even though this fake marriage feels better than any relationship I’ve been in, the reason it works is because it has an inbuilt end date.
Once six months are up, he’ll inherit his grandfather’s inn and leave like he always does.
Why would this time be any different?…
TITLE: Off Limits
AUTHOR: Leo Rivers
SERIES: Mating Run #6
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 94 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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He’s denying himself the one thing he craves most: his best friend’s son.
Older, battle-scarred alpha Gabriel has shunned the mating run for years—because the only mate his wolf wants is the one he can never have.
Asher. His best friend’s son.
Gabriel made a promise to protect him. Not claim him. But when Asher tracks him down during the full moon and demands answers, Gabriel’s iron control shatters like glass.
The boy he’s tried so hard to keep safe isn’t a boy anymore.
Gabriel thought he was strong enough to deny himself.
He was wrong.
TITLE: Quinn
AUTHOR: S.A. Sommers
SERIES: Foxy’s Rent-a-Date
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 113 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/6/2025
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Andrej Krastins never had any luck in love.
No single girl he’s ever gone on a date with requested a second date. He didn’t understand why and gave up–choosing instead to throw himself into his work. With a genius-level IQ, he figured it was a better use of his time.
But Andy’s nosey little sister was tired of listening to their parents complain about her brother being a hermit and never showing an interest in their galas and pet charities, or their friends’ very eligible daughters. So she took matters into her own hands.
Quinn Seward fled New York City after not one, but three people absolutely screwed him, one after another. He found a job in Seattle that paid, but that wasn’t helping him climb out of the financial hole the Triple Exes had dug for him–and that’s when he discovered Foxy’s. He quickly joined the staff.
Andrej’s shock was profound when his sister told him that he had date. He was left dumbfounded when the date that showed up was a man. Quinn was told Andrej had never gone on a date, so he was upset when he discovered that wasn’t the truth: Andrej had dated, he had just never dated a man.
To both of their surprises, the sparks fly all night and before either of them reliaze, Quinn’s schedule at Foxy’s is full for weeks with just one name.
That’s only the start of the problems…
TITLE: Beyond the Darkness
AUTHOR: Thom Collins
SERIES: Basic Instincts #3
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 256 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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A starring role in a new show could give Hudson the career boost he needs… if he lives that long.
American actor Hudson Rhodes enjoys working in the UK. After a successful career in film and TV in his twenties, he’s established himself as a bankable star in the theatre world. A month long run in a new play at Blyham’s Empire Theatre has the potential to lead to a West End run and Hudson is ready for it. The only thing threatening to spoil it is a series of sinister letters that point to a role he would rather forget.
Rehearsals for the show are going smoothly until a local journalist, Luke Kamal, arrives to write a piece about the production. Luke is handsome and smart and highly regarded in his field, but Hudson hates reporters. He’d learned the hard way that the press can not be trusted.
When a member of the cast is murdered, the show is thrown into greater jeopardy. The victim is someone close to Hudson. As he struggles with his attraction to Luke, the menacing letters continue to arrive. The killer has Hudson in their sights and he might not make it to opening night.
TITLE: Husky and Heartfelt
AUTHOR: Jole Cannon
SERIES: Big Boys of Gilroy #2
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
LENGTH: 353 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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Loneliness has taken its toll on Sean’s life. He once loved Hugo but let him go after college. After twelve years, he misses what they had, but dating a man could end his career as a high school gym teacher and varsity football coach. Staying in the closet has become a shield for him, one that is cracking.
Openly gay music teacher, Hugo, puts on a happy persona to his students and colleagues. He’s tried dating, but they always want what he isn’t: a masculine, well-toned man. Outside, everyone he knows says he’ll find the right guy, and he needs to be patient with himself. Inside, there is a hole in his heart no one can fill except for Sean.
When Sean finally talks to Hugo after avoiding him for years out of fear of being outed, a friendship sparks. Can this spark be enough to reignite the passion they had in college before Sean broke Hugo’s heart, or will it dwindle into nothing?
TITLE: All of Us Murderers
AUTHOR: KJ Charles
PUBLISHER: Poisoned Pen Press
LENGTH: 352 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE?
When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative’s remote Gothic manor, he is horrified to find all the people he least wants to see in the world: his estranged brother, his sneering cousin, and his bitter ex-lover Gideon Grey. Things couldn’t possibly get worse.
Then the master of the house announces the true purpose of the gathering: he intends to leave the vast family fortune to whoever marries his young ward, setting off a violent scramble for her hand. Zeb wants no part of his greedy family—but when he tries to leave, the way is barred. The walls of Lackaday House are high, and the gates firmly locked. As the Dartmoor mists roll in, there’s no way out. And something unnatural may be watching them from the house’s shadowy depths…
Fear and paranoia ramping ever-higher, Zeb has nowhere to turn but to the man who once held his heart. As the gaslight flickers and terror takes hold, can two warring lovers reunite, uncover the murderous mysteries of Lackaday House—and live to tell the tale?
TITLE: Rough Draft
AUTHORS: RJ Scott & V.L. Locey
SERIES: The Games We Play – Season 2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 204 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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Success isn’t measured in goals or stats; it’s a rough draft waiting to be rewritten.
Walker Hannan was supposed to be the next big thing in the NHL. But instead of carving out a legendary career, he’s been sent down to the minors to fix his game—and his attitude. The rink used to be his sanctuary, but now it feels like his prison. Angry, frustrated, and desperate to claw his way back, the last thing Walker needs is a distraction.
Enter Finn Carter—elementary school art teacher, eternal optimist, and the human equivalent of sunshine. With his paint-stained hands and infectious smile, Finn is everything Walker isn’t: open, warm, and willing to see the beauty in the mess. He knows life isn’t about perfection—it’s about expression. And somehow, against all odds, he starts to chip away at the walls Walker has spent years building.
But just when Walker begins to believe there’s more to life than hockey, he gets the call he’s been waiting for—his shot at the NHL, his second chance.
Now, with his career on the line and his heart tangled in something real, Walker has to decide: Can he fight for his place on the ice without losing the one person who taught him how to live beyond it?
TITLE: The King of Halloween
AUTHOR: Ellen Mint
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 321 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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Let the war for the Halloween Crown begin!
Adam Stein is the King of Halloween in Anoka, Minnesota four years running. Pumpkins, ghosts, falling leaves, bonfires, fake knives, and vampire teeth—Adam adores it all. Halloween is more than just a holiday to him. It’s life, but one that’s kept him alone, until a stranger blows into his town.
A hot, cuddly, mysterious stranger who loves obscure horror movies and everything Halloween almost as much as Adam.
Raj has abandoned his special effects job in Hollywood to try to run the first guaranteed haunted hotel. He has to charm Anoka’s city council to get his hotel open in time for spooky season, but there’s a problem. A problem named Adam Stein.
Certain that Raj is a rich big city man here to take away everything Adam loves about his town, he’ll fight like hell to protect the Halloween capital of the world. And Raj, certain that Adam’s got a stick stuck up his tight twink ass, refuses to back down…even if he has to pin Adam to the wall to do it.
When they’re not fantasizing about tearing each other’s throats out, they want to rip each other’s clothes off.
Let the war begin.
TITLE: Outsiders
AUTHOR: October Arden
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 258 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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“To love them both, he has to stop being afraid of himself.”
After losing them both, Luke isn’t giving up. He refuses to be just another outsider—he wants to be part of the system, not just orbiting around it. Jaime and Alex need him. Even if Alex hates him. Especially if he does.
As Luke pushes deeper into their world, Alex fights him every step of the way. But even rivals can learn to trust. Even enemies can fall in love.
And in the middle is Jaime, still struggling to hold on while the two people who love him most finally see each other clearly.
TITLE: Room for Three
AUTHOR: Silvana Falcon
SERIES: Monsters of Veridia
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 168 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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A bookstore that moves.
A bond that won’t be broken.
A future built for three.
Jamie likes his life predictable—quiet mornings, strong coffee, and a bookstore where everything stays exactly where he left it. But when a magical rift pulls his shop into another realm, he ends up with sentient shelves, a brooding Tideborn warrior with a secret past, and an emotionally chaotic fae who flirts like it’s his full-time job.
Oh—and a soul bond that ties all three of them together.
Now Jamie’s orderly world is bursting at the seams. The magic is misbehaving, his heart’s tangled in feelings he didn’t plan for, and somehow he’s become the grounding force in a triad he never saw coming.
But maybe… that’s exactly where he belongs.
TITLE: I Will Always Find You
AUTHOR: Ryan Lawrence
SERIES: Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 348 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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In the shadow of a restless Mount Vesuvius, a grieving Romani witch casts a vengeful spell—one that may cost him his life. At the edge of death, he dares to call out across the veil, a final plea for help.
And something primordial, a magic older than the gods, answers.
Days before the destruction of ancient Pompeii, a grand love is devastated by bigotry and fear within the walls of the great city. But where the Roman gods offer silence, an older, arcane force offers the despondent witch hope: to live and love again, reborn into new eras, new bodies, an eternal search for the soul of the man he lost.
Yet the Wheel of Destiny, that enigmatic celestial force, spins cruelly; it does not take kindly to those who dare to circumvent their fate. From ancient times to modern-day Toronto, Canada, this is the story of a true love that will not be denied by time, fate or death. However, with every reunion comes risk: loss, madness, as well as dark, eldritch forces that seek to do the lovers harm. Destiny may bend, but it does not break without consequence.
TITLE: Obliterated
AUTHOR: N. Boeyer
SERIES: Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 284 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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MAX
They fear me. Worship me. Call me an abomination.
I’ve earned my freedom a dozen times in The Pit, but I keep going back. Because violence is my church, and blood is the only thing that makes me feel alive.
Then he arrives. Pretty. Fast. New. A golden-haired boy with ocean eyes and no clue how this island works.
He doesn’t belong here, and he’s going to get himself killed. Just like all the other wide-eyed fools who think survival is about hope instead of brutality.
So why the fuck can’t I stop watching him? Why do I keep stepping in? Why does the monster in me go quiet when he’s near?
He’s everything I never wanted.
And everything I’d burn this whole godsdamned island for.
KIERAN
My mother is dead.
I followed her last instructions to the letter: get on the boat, get to the island, survive. Her final words still echo in my head—Live, Kieran. Live.
But Ibitha doesn’t want me. I have no papers, no useful skills, nothing to offer… except a pretty face. And here? That’s enough to get you owned. Now I pour drinks in a brothel I never chose, counting down the days until my debt’s repaid. Until I’m free.
Then he notices me. Max. A legend carved in blood and bone.
I should fear him, everyone does. He looks at me like I’m already his. Like he’s made up his mind. Like I’m something he plans to keep. And the most dangerous part? A piece of me wants that. Wants him.
But you don’t fall for someone like Max.
You survive him. Or you don’t.
TITLE: Conditioning Loan
AUTHOR: L.A. Witt
SERIES: The Games We Play – Season 2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 154 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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When a hockey star asks him to dance at a club, minor league forward Taylor Wilson is thrilled. Maybe that cute teammate who laughed in his face was wrong after all, and he is good enough for someone.
But then that star loses interest and bails… leaving Taylor back at bruised ego square one.
The universe isn’t done, either—months later, that star is getting ready to return to his team after an injury. The last step in his rehab? A two-week conditioning loan to Taylor’s team.
Vasily Abashev is excited to play for the Everett Orcas because it means he’s one step closer to being reactivated. He just isn’t expecting that cute guy he met at the dance club last summer to be his temporary teammate. Or linemate.
This could either be the longest two weeks of their lives… or not nearly enough time to work up the nerve for a do-over from last summer.
TITLE: Instructed by the Summoner
AUTHORS: Rowan Amaris & Theo Behr
SERIES: Halloween Temptation
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 49 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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Is there anything more pathetic than an incubus who’s barely been kissed?
Xak has an encyclopedic knowledge of desire. Too bad it’s entirely theoretical. Sure, he’s an A student at the incubus academy, but he’s too anxious to face the practical, hands-on exam.
Just as he’s on the verge of dropping out, an accidental summoning lands him in the lap of a lonely, soft-hearted human with a seductive magic of his own. Xak’s used to being humiliated by his teachers and mocked by his classmates. But Kai calls him perfect and answers his fears with firm reassurance.
Under Kai’s gentle instruction, Xak has the chance to learn the real meaning of pleasure. All he has to do is listen, obey, and be Kai’s very good boy.
TITLE: Puck Shots
AUTHOR: Becca Jackson
SERIES: Love The Game
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 247 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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I’m here to play hockey, get drafted, and maybe break a few campus records while I’m at it. My plan is simple, keep my head down, my skates sharp, and my name on the scouts’ radar.
Babysitting a legacy was not part of the plan.
Eli shows up to rush Kappa Omega Kappa looking like he got lost on the way to chess club. He’s quiet, awkward, and clearly has no clue what he’s doing in a house full of loud, alpha-type frat bros. But on day one, his quiet confidence somehow gets under my skin.
Then he goes and builds this crazy program that helps fine-tune my slap shot, and I realize there’s way more to him than shy smiles and nervous energy. He’s brilliant, thoughtful, and kind of a menace in the best way.
I was supposed to keep an eye on him. Instead, I can’t stop looking.
And suddenly, the biggest thing on the line this season… might be my heart.
TITLE: Drop the Gloves
AUTHOR: A.L. Heard
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 358 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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Evan Abernathy is starting a new season with the Pittsburgh Riveters. This is his shot to prove he belongs in the big leagues, and he’s determined to make it count.
There’s just one problem: his new linemate. Riley Barczyk is a league pest, seasoned brawler…and the guy who injured Evan last season.
Evan sure hasn’t forgotten, but it seems Riley has.
Now Riley’s offering to teach Evan how to fight. Worse, Evan could use the help. But all that one-on-one time with someone he can barely stand? That’s asking for trouble. It was supposed to be about learning to fight, not falling for the guy throwing the punches.
TITLE: The Physician’s Barbarian
AUTHOR: Amy Padilla
SERIES: Not-So-Savage Barbarians #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 165 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/7/2025
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When my father schemed to marry my sister off to a decrepit old man to boost his standing, I swore I’d protect her. Together, we drove suitors away, but his fury only grew. To punish us, he rigged the barbarian lottery—and when Evelyn’s name was drawn, her fate was sealed. Unless I stopped it.
There was only one way to spare her. I would take her place.
I’d do anything for my family. Even if it meant becoming a barbarian’s tribute.
TITLE: Promised Secret
AUTHOR: Rye Cox
SERIES: Promises, Promises #3
PUBLISHER: Eternal Spring Publishing
LENGTH: 278 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/8/2025
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He stole my first kiss when he was ten, then my heart at fifteen.
My crush was destined to lead to nowhere when our parents announced they’ve been dating and plan on marrying.
Now they expect me to act like a family with the man I’ve been crushing on—my new stepbrother—and I can’t imagine a worst hell. But for them, I’ll do it. Even if every one of his smiles makes me fall in love a little more while also killing me inside.
It doesn’t help that Clay is too nice for his own good. I mean, who kisses their stepbrother even if it is to comfort them? Much less offer up his body when I’m pretending to be depressed from a breakup I really couldn’t have cared less about.
I know I’m taking advantage of his kindness, but how can I stop when it means I can possess him, even if it is for a short while? Maybe once I get him out of my system, I can finally put this stupid crush to rest. We can return to playing the happy family, and I won’t have to disappoint my father or break our family apart.
If only it’s that easy to stop loving someone…
TITLE: Voice to Raise
AUTHOR: Gabbi Grey
SERIES: Road to Rocktoberfest 2025
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 260 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/8/2025
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Malik
Until I turned twenty-five, I took the safe route, the good boy route. Played with the orchestra, kept my head down, didn’t make waves. Now I can’t stay silent any longer. I walked away from my violin, relearned the guitar, and started a rock band. With Razor’s Edge, I can create the music I’ve always dreamed of, and we’re good enough to win an invite to Rocktoberfest. But I also love my band for helping me raise my voice to support social justice. Now I just need to convince Spencer I can chase musical success and still be deeply committed to making a difference.
Spencer
I’ve been fighting for justice practically from the cradle, and I believe organizers should welcome everyone who wants to be involved. That said, when an upstart rockstar looking for the limelight comes to join our fight, I’m skeptical. I want true believers, not people who are looking to leverage our cause into a viral hit. Malik might be gorgeous, and even a sweet guy under the tattoos and bad boy persona, but he’s chasing his dream of fame in Black Rock while I’m on the ground in Vancouver trying to make meaningful change. He doesn’t have room in his life to be serious about music, serious about justice, and serious about me.
TITLE: Marry Me, Maybe?
AUTHOR: Sage Abbott
SERIES: Bristlecone Springs #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 500 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/8/2025
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Hudson Granger was mine for one summer.
And one summer was enough to ruin me for anyone else.
On my father’s ranch, we worked side by side.
Rode hard. Kissed harder.
Between sunburns and sweat, he became my everything.
I told him I loved him before I left for university.
A month later, he married a woman and built a family.
I should’ve let him go.
But the land keeps us tied together.
Now we speak in silences sharp as barbed wire.
Every glance feels like a bullet.
Every day, I hate him a little more.
Every day, I remember how it felt to love him.
Then his world falls apart—wife gone, a three-year-old depending on him, and Hudson barely holding himself together.
And just like that, I’m caught in his gravity again.
Four years ago, we loved each other at the wrong time.
It nearly destroyed me.
Now, with a child between us and old wounds ripped open, do I dare to trust him again?
TITLE: The Call of Azure
AUTHOR: Rayne Hawthorne
SERIES: Unexpected Love #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 347 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2025
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Gabriel
I can do this.
Lots of people have hookups rather than relationships. I mean, I’ve had them in the past, I just didn’t realize that’s what they were at the time. It’s not my fault that I assumed those encounters were going to turn into something more even though the men I was with didn’t end up feeling the same.
Tonight, I’m not going to let myself fall into old patterns, and nothing is going to change my mind. I’m going to completely forget that I believe in love. I have a job I enjoy, my performance art, and friends that would burn down the world for me – even if I do worry sometimes that one of these days they’ll finally leave me too.
Tonight is the start of a new life and a new me. No prince charming required.
Yep…I can do this.
Liam
There was a time not all that long ago when I felt lost and out of control. Like the world surrounding me wasn’t real, and I wasn’t sure how to survive in it after all that I’d seen. These days, things are a bit better. I have my bakery where my work is repetitive and focused. One step after the other, the same steps as yesterday, the same steps tomorrow. It’s calm and consistent and ordered. I need that. Still, there are moments it’s not enough. That’s okay though, because when even the bakery won’t calm me, the water will.
I’ve always felt a sense of peace when I’m near the water. I lose myself under the surface or sit and listen to the waves and wonder if my heart and mind will ever manage to settle. If I’m still capable of joy and love and peace. If I’ll ever really find a way to belong in this world. Or if memories and emotions will push and pull like the endless turning of the tide until the sharp edges of pain and loss that have shaped so much of my life are worn smooth and there is nothing left of me but a pebble tossed up on the shore.
TITLE: His Forbidden Obsession
AUTHOR: Silvia Violet
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 279 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2025
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From the moment I see Lorenzo, I want him. He’s dangerous, part of the infamous Theriot family who runs the New Orleans crime scene.
I have no doubt he’d enjoy destroying me. He hates my father almost as much as I do.
The danger I’m in at home frightens me, but when Lorenzo sends shivers down my spine, it turns me on. He becomes my fantasy, the man I long for, the one who might save me.
My father tries to sell me to the highest bidder, but I escape. I have no one to run to except Lorenzo.
He agrees to protect me… for a price.
I’m more than willing to pay with my body, but when my heart gets involved, I no longer know if I’ll survive my time with him.
TITLE: The Temptation
AUTHOR: Jocelynn Drake
SERIES: Executive Suite Secrets #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 282 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/2025
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There was no escape.
Pierce had been running from me for years.
No more.
This time, Pierce needs me to play the role of doting boyfriend to keep his parents from dragging him back to Boston.
With the help of some sneaky accomplices, I’m turning this fake boyfriend into something real.
I will finally understand all his secrets and the haunted look that darts through his eyes every time my brother is mentioned.
Preferably before Pierce learns the truth behind too many of my own secrets.
TITLE: Released
AUTHOR: BH Lynn
SERIES: Restitution Series #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/2025
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Adam Dawson is finally on the right path. He’s ended his toxic marriage, come clean about his darkest secrets, and is building a healthier life in Peyton. But recovery isn’t linear. It doesn’t erase years of damage, and when his budding relationship with Caleb starts uncovering unexpected wounds, he’ll have to decide between finding courage to trust the process, and his relationship, or the ease of falling into old habits.
Meanwhile, Caleb Straus is determined to be better version than the man everyone walked over. Adam coming back into his life is the perfect test to show he’s learned to establish boundaries, and finally be happy. Everything he wants is within his grasp, but something keeps pulling him back. Amidst his struggles to find the strength to move forward, the body of Brenda Link, a local pharmaceutical company board member, shows up at the last place he ever wanted to go: Greater Life Church.
With no choice but to face the building, and pastor, who altered Caleb’s life in the worst ways, he and Adam begin uncovering Brenda’s turbulent life. An unstable marriage, a teenage daughter who recently lost her pregnancy, and a shaky relationship with the faith community provide a winding road of leads that never seems to end. Both men see the picture differently which adds fuel to the fire built by the things left unsaid and unaddressed in their relationship. It’s hard to solve a murder when everyone is hiding something to protect someone else. It’s even harder when you and your partner can’t stay on the same page.
With Adam and Caleb both taking damage from their past, and a case threatening to do more harm to a community still reeling from the Keola Antu murder, they’ll discover they’re not the only ones with skeletons in their closet. And if they don’t find what it takes to confront theirs and work together, it might cost them more than their relationship.
It could cost them their lives.
TITLE: Wonder
AUTHOR: Bix Barrow
SERIES: Wonderfall #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 303 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/2025
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Does it still qualify as a mating of convenience when one partner is all in? Asking for a vampire friend…
Simon:
Look, I get it. It’s a shock when some random vampire shows up out of the blue and says you’re his mate. I don’t blame Reno for not welcoming me with open arms. He’s had a lot of responsibilities thrust on him in the last few years, and this mate thing is too much on top of all that.
But me? I have no doubt Reno’s the one I’ve been waiting for. I’ve been trying to find my mate for decades, enduring years of loneliness as I struggled to complete my mission. I’d love nothing more than to give Reno the time and space he needs to get to know me and embrace our mating.
There’s just this one teeny, tiny, deadly issue: Wonders are in danger, and as a Seer, Reno’s in a unique position to find the ones hunting them so I can take them out. Being mated will boost both of our abilities, so when Reno agrees to complete our bond, I’m relieved and ecstatic.
At least until he tells me it can only be temporary.
Reno:
FFS, fine. I’ll do the bonding thing, but only because Wonders are dying and Simon and I need the enhanced skills we’ll get. Yes, he’s easy on the eyes and a super nice guy. He’d make a great mate for anybody who’s in the market for one, but that’s not me.
Two years ago, I took on the District Monitor role short-term. But there’s still no replacement, and I’m constantly barraged by texts and calls from the Wonders. I had to quit the job I loved, and I barely have any time to myself. Now I’m supposed to be thrilled because some guy says we’re mates? No, thank you, I don’t need another obligation. We’ll sever the bond after the danger is over. Simon isn’t happy, but he promised.
Soon I’ll be a free man again, and Simon will find someone else he’s compatible with. We’ll both get what we want.
As long as we survive this fight.
TITLE: Medically Necessary
AUTHOR: Emily Carrington
SERIES: Medically Necessary #4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 334 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/10/2025
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The threat to all werewolves draws Amir and Oliver together, even as their wounds threaten to rip them apart.
Trust is Earned (Medically Necessary 1): Amir is a General Practitioner for magical creatures, particularly werewolves. When the leader of all werewolves comes to him with a problem that presents like psychosis, Amir needs help. Oliver’s nursing a grieving heart and a chip on his shoulder. Still, when Amir asks for his help, he jumps at the chance. The submissive wolf is beautiful.
Trust is Fraught (Medically Necessary 2): As the leader of the werewolves sinks further into insanity, Amir and Oliver fight prejudice and time to rescue their alpha. As Oliver and Amir are pulled deeper into the dangers of the psychic world, their love may be the only thing keeping them sane.
Trust is Sacred (Medically Necessary 3): Oliver’s terrible secret is eating him alive. Amir thinks purging and confession are medically necessary for spiritual and physical well-being, but Oliver will stop at almost nothing to hide his scars.
Can either of them learn to trust?
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