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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| More Than Scars | Layla Dorine & TL Travis | Sapphire Publishing | 10/27/2025 | The Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 | Amazon |
| Burying Venus | Ari Domna | Self Published | 10/27/2025 | Amazon | |
| Earth | Aiden E. Messer | Self Published | 10/27/2025 | The Thylsnean Chronicles #1 | Amazon |
| Two for Holding | S.B. Barnes | NineStar Press | 10/28/2025 | Minor Penalties #1 | Amazon |
| The Best Parts of Him | Amy Aislin | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Vermont Trailblazers #1 | Amazon |
| Grayson’s Magical Mishaps | Kevin Klehr | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch | Amazon |
| Kiss My Axe | May Archer | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Axford Brothers #1 | Amazon |
| Quarterback Drill | Christie Gordon | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Desert Football #2 | Amazon |
| Bad Blood | Lyla Dane | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction | Amazon |
| Feral Wolf | Tessa Kane | Self Published | 10/28/2025 | Exiled Omegas #3 | Amazon |
| The Curse Before Christmas | Eli Easton | Pinkerton Road | 10/31/2025 | Amazon | |
| Catching Hanif’s Eye | Patrick Doyle | Self Published | 10/31/2025 | Amazon | |
| Snowed in at Santa’s Lodge | Lorelei M. Hart | Decadent Publishing | 11/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| Peppermint Potions and Tentacles | Kota Quinn | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0 | Amazon |
| Cream and Sugar | S.T. Gillard | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Shaun & Freddie #1 | Amazon |
| My Best Friend Is Broken | Jessica Jackman | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | My Mobster | Amazon |
| Forbidden Hockey | S. Legend | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Heartbreak Hockey Series #5 | Amazon |
| All in December | Bec Benson | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| A Little Christmas: Rivi | Wendy Rathbone | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | A Little Christmas Season 4 | Amazon |
| Detectives in Love | Gaia Tate | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| Fire | Laura Rye & Bailey Hansen | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | A Monster By Any Other Name #5 | Amazon |
| Graves & Griggs: A Very Bloody Christmas | Katelyn Taylor | Self Published | 11/1/2025 | Amazon | |
| I Scented My Mate On The Day I Agreed To Marry A Stranger | Lorelei M. Hart & Colbie Dunbar | Surrendered Press | 11/2/2025 | Amazon | |
| Festive Fugitive | K.A. Merikan | Acerbi & Villani | 11/2/2025 | Murder and Mistletoe #3 | Amazon |
| Snowed In with My Firefighter | Taylor Knox | Self Published | 11/2/2025 | Holiday Heat | Amazon |
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TITLE: More Than Scars
AUTHORS: Layla Dorine & TL Travis
SERIES: The Road to Rocktoberfest 2025
PUBLISHER: Sapphire Publishing
LENGTH: 208 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/27/2025
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Music was Bowie’s everything. From the moment his father placed a guitar in his hands until a motorcycle wreck nearly stole his ability to play,
When his backstabbing bandmates cast him out rather than wait for him to heal, they left him drifting with bitterness and scars. Now, he plays in the shadows, a lost star who never had the chance to shine.
Freshly hired to the Masterson Management family to manage their latest band endeavor, Imminent Danger. Though he feared what this may do to his employment he couldn’t walk away. Everything about Bowie called to him on levels he couldn’t fathom. The haunting look in Bowie’s eyes awoke a calling deep inside Pressley Darren. The urge to nurture and protect, to keep him safe from the harsh, cruel world.
Will the broken guitarist open up to Pressley and thus thrust himself into the limelight where he belongs? Or will he succumb to the darkness inside and continue to hide away from the rest of the world.
TITLE: Burying Venus
AUTHOR: Ari Domna
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 280 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/27/2025
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Seduced by a faerie, an envious servant poisons his masters and sets off a brutal chain of events that could destroy his homeland, his people, and the young lord he secretly loves.
Dermot Hatfield is no one. A kitchen servant and a bastard, he serves the once-mighty Stanley family while they hide behind stone walls and foreign titles, living in luxury while the local people starve. Aubrey Stanley, the kind-eyed youngest son, is a fantasy far beyond his reach.
But when Dermot crosses paths with Maldred, a beautiful faerie eager to exploit his bitterness, something in him cracks. Maldred doesn’t offer justice. He offers vengeance. And Dermot, with a sick thrill, agrees to slip something into the meals of the men he’s spent long nights fantasising about destroying.
The poison doesn’t kill—it drives the Stanleys mad.
No one is more affected than Robert, Lord Stanley’s eldest son, who sets his sights on burnings and witch trials. He sends for the most infamous witchfinder in the mainland, a man as unsettlingly beautiful as he is unhinged.
As his mother and village fall under suspicion, Dermot must put aside his hatred to stop Maldred’s rising influence and the Stanleys’ last desperate push for power. But his growing desire for Aubrey threatens to undo what little control he has left.
TITLE: Earth
AUTHOR: Aiden E. Messer
SERIES: The Thylsnean Chronicles #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 178 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/27/2025
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Caliel loves to learn and discover new things, that’s why he decides to leave his home world, Thylsnea, and go study among humans. That, and to escape the gaze of other ialtags who, because of his rare power marked by his red eyes, either distrust him or worship him.
On earth, he’s just another face in the crowd. It’s refreshing, but Caliel still feels alone. This feeling only grows stronger when he meets his new roommate, Gabriel, an introverted yet passionate young man. Despite their budding romance, a wall of lies and secrets stands between them, born of the impossibility for Caliel to tell him who he truly is.
Everything changes when Caliel senses the presence of other ialtags on campus. He doesn’t understand what they’re doing or what they want, but one thing is clear: they’re not here to study innocently like he is.
Are they here for him? Is he putting Gabriel in danger by befriending him?
Being the most powerful member of his species might not be enough to keep himself or Gabriel safe.
TITLE: Two for Holding
AUTHOR: S.B. Barnes
SERIES: Minor Penalties #1
PUBLISHER: NineStar Press
LENGTH: 340 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Tom Crowler has been captain of the San Francisco Sea Lions for a decade of failures. With no cups or trophies to show for his time in the NHL, Tom retreated into himself a long time ago, and that’s exactly where he intends to stay until he retires. But when he catches the new team superstar, Jaxon Grant, in a compromising position, Tom finds it impossible to continue hiding his deepest secret behind a bland, pleasant mask.
Jax is everything Tom isn’t: loud, flashy, the winner of multiple NHL Awards, and—oh, yeah—gay enough to get traded to San Francisco because of a potential PR scandal with his old team. At first, he thinks Tom catching him means the next trade, the next rejection for being just a little too much for other people to take. When it turns out the two of them have more in common than talent on the ice, though, Jax finds himself drawn in by pulling Tom out.
As animosity gives way to a partnership neither of them saw coming, Tom and Jax are left facing new challenges. Will Jax’s impulsive nature put Tom’s deeply valued privacy at risk? Or will Tom’s reticence force Jax into pretending to be someone he isn’t? And if they can’t even figure each other out, how can they save a struggling NHL team from bad coaching and internal division?
TITLE: The Best Parts of Him
AUTHOR: Amy Aislin
SERIES: Vermont Trailblazers #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 230 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Sometimes the sweetest victories happen off the ice.
Ryland Zervudachi lives for the game of hockey—and for the chance to build the kind of team unity that will carry the Columbus Pilots all the way back to the playoffs after last season’s crushing defeat. Off the ice, though, there’s one goal he hasn’t managed to score—the heart of Kyle Dabbs, the Vermont Trailblazers’ team captain and his long-time crush.
Kyle Dabbs has built a life centered on quiet strength. After a childhood scarred by his father’s verbal abuse, Dabbs pours his energy into his career on the ice and the book series he’s written to help kids like the boy he once was. He doesn’t need someone flashy, loud, and spotlight-loving like Ryland turning his world upside down.
But when an untimely appendectomy leaves Dabbs stuck at home, Ryland—recovering from an injury—shows up to help. Between late-night Scrabble competitions, pumpkin-carving mishaps, and long talks that peel back layers they’ve both kept hidden, Dabbs begins to see past Ryland’s bold exterior.
With chemistry sparking and walls crumbling, both men must decide if they’re ready to risk their hearts for something even better than a championship: love.
TITLE: Grayson’s Magical Mishaps
AUTHOR: Kevin Klehr
SERIES: Haunted Hearts: Season of the Witch
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 224 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Grayson sneezed. This in itself is not unusual but it’s what happened next which freaked him out. A small pink elephant appeared.
Enter Penelope, a glamorous cottage witch with a drinking problem. She’s been sent to help Grayson master his new wizard powers. And she’s here to fix his sneezy magical mishaps.
Grayson has also fallen in love. His new boyfriend, Milo, is the best friend of bitchy social influencer, Summer. She doesn’t approve of their relationship and has video proof of one of Grayson’s mystical screw ups.
With the threat of being exposed, Grayson soon learns he’ll need more than magic to keep him out of trouble.
TITLE: Kiss My Axe
AUTHOR: May Archer
SERIES: Axford Brothers #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 366 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Living in a treehouse? Unavoidable.
Falling for the grumpy lumberjack hottie next door? Unthinkable.
After a viral PR disaster torpedoes my marketing career, I flee Manhattan. The only place left to land? A fairy-tale treehouse in a pickle-obsessed Vermont town, left to me by an uncle I barely knew.
Yes, I said pickles.
No, I’m not okay.
But I’m only here temporarily. Just long enough to regroup, let the notoriety die down, and figure out my next steps in peace.
Unfortunately, my new neighbor has other ideas.
Beckett “the Axe” Axford–cranky local heartthrob and unapologetic tree-murderer–claims Uncle Jim made him promises about the forest around the treehouse, and he’s none too pleased when I won’t take his word for it.
Unfortunately for him, I’m done playing by other people’s rules. I’m not backing down just because some sexy–I mean grumpy–lumberjack says so, and I can handle whatever he dishes out.
Tree climbing? No problem.
Pickle festival popularity contest? Sign me up.
Kissing my unexpectedly-tender, flannel-clad nemesis in the woods after dark? I can take it, bro. And take it. And t– Ahem. You get the picture.
I’m tired of losing, so I’m not giving up my inheritance or my heart without a fight.
And if Beckett thinks differently, he can kiss my axe.
TITLE: Quarterback Drill
AUTHOR: Christie Gordon
SERIES: Desert Football #2
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 300 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Breaking down in front of a repair shop wasn’t what I needed. Neither was falling for the broody mechanic under the hood.
Casey
Football is my future—my escape, my identity.
But when my Beamer craps out in a sketchy part of town, I meet Ryker Hart, the grumpy mechanic who calls me a pretty boy and still makes my stomach flip.
Fixing my car turns into coaching his brother, crashing dinners, and falling harder than I should.
He’s rough around the edges and hiding his pain.
But when he lets me in, I want everything.
Even if that means risking my career before the draft.
Ryker
I don’t have time for cocky quarterbacks with BMWs and perfect smiles.
I’m busy keeping my shop running and my kid brother on track after our mom landed in prison.
But Casey Carter crashes into my life like he owns it, and somehow ends up coaching my brother, eating dinner with us, and making me laugh like no one ever has.
He shouldn’t want a guy like me.
And I definitely shouldn’t be dreaming of a future with him.
TITLE: Bad Blood
AUTHOR: Lyla Dane
SERIES: Mayhem Manuscripts Season One: 1nf3ction
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 235 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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All I know is this prison cell.
All I do is the bidding of my masters.
They call me a bloodhound and treat me like the dog I am.
When I finally get the chance to escape, I take it. I travel far away from this wretched place to create a new life where no one owns me.
But just when I think I’m free, I fall into another man’s trap.
Except… this one is different.
He treats me like a human, not a beast.
He saves me from the brink of death and gives me time to heal, a new name, and a new purpose.
He teaches me how to live outside of a cage.
But he doesn’t know what kind of dangerous creature he’s let into his home. A creature with tainted blood, a creature that’s more animal than man…
𝙀𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨.
TITLE: Feral Wolf
AUTHOR: Tessa Kane
SERIES: Exiled Omegas #3
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 242 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/28/2025
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Experience is a brutal teacher.
At fifteen, I was tossed into the human foster care system. Packless and alone, I survived by learning how to blend in, how to go unnoticed…and how to steal money from those who won’t miss it.
A shifter-owned casino, however, is not the best place to employ that last lesson.
Caught cheating and tossed into an illegal underground fight, my human best friend and I are forced face off with the Vegas Alpha’s champion, a hulking alpha wolf who’s ripped apart countless other shifters. But instead of a killer’s bloodlust, all I see lurking in the wolf’s eyes is misery.
And my fated mate.
After managing to fight our way out, we make our way halfway across the country to my new mate’s former pack. Unfortunately, the situation there isn’t anything like Blake remembers and the people in charge don’t look kindly on his bloody history—or my own.
To prevent the mistakes of our past from destroying our future, we need to prove my mate can control his wolf well enough to lead his pack and bring down the Vegas Alpha once and for all.
TITLE: The Curse Before Christmas
AUTHOR: Eli Easton
PUBLISHER: Pinkerton Road
LENGTH: 138 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/31/2025
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Someone wants Patrick to find love this Christmas–no matter what it takes.
When game developer Patrick Bocker receives a Krampus figurine in the office Secret Santa exchange, he doesn’t think much of it. Then the accidents start happening. The absurd calamities mount, and Patrick becomes a repeat offender at the Emergency Room. By his third visit, Patrick starts to believe that maybe, just maybe, the Krampus figurine is cursed. There is, however, one silver lining – a super hot ER doctor.
Dr. Gray Reynolds is prepared to ignore his attraction to the striking young man in bay two. But by the third time Patrick shows up with new injuries, Gray starts to fear for the cute redhead’s life. He’s determined to drive Patrick home, make sure he’s safe, and get to the bottom of this string of bad luck.
To lift the curse, Gray and Patrick have to find out which of Patrick’s co-workers gifted him the Krampus and return it, all while evading livestock, a criminal Santa, and general mayhem. Oh—and fall in love. Is that too much to ask of one crazy Christmas Eve?
TITLE: Catching Hanif’s Eye
AUTHOR: Patrick Doyle
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 268 pages
RELEASE DATE: 10/31/2025
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A mystery. A romance. An ocular adventure.
Tom’s a data analyst. It’s not a passionate affair. Neither is his relationship with Mario, although Mario thinks it is. That’s Tom’s way. He makes things work, whether they work for him or not. With anyone else it would be called low expectations. Not Tom. His passion lies elsewhere. He’s a secret writer.
The commitment is unusual and he keeps it to himself. Life has already dealt a few blows and he’s reluctant to test its limits. Undemanding relationships. Unpublished books. A job that requires little thought. A bad attitude. These are the markers that keep him in place.
But when an accident leads him to discover he’s losing his sight, life screeches to a halt. His writing, his career, his very independence are at stake. Time, once the future, is turning into the past.
Then a man appears. Beautiful yet damaged, Hanif brings light to Tom’s darkness. The irony isn’t lost on him, if it’s irony at all. Just when he’s about to give up on life, he finds a new reason to live. But things may not be as they seem. Lies can be told. Accidents can be arranged. Identities can be assumed.
TITLE: Snowed in at Santa’s Lodge
AUTHOR: Lorelei M. Hart
PUBLISHER: Decadent Publishing
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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I thought the snow was preventing me from getting home. Instead, it brought me straight to it.
I never count on the weather report to be accurate, but when they predicted something between a dusting and a half inch, I thought I could make it the rest of my way home. I thought wrong. My car is barely making it on the flat terrain, and I’m about to head into mountain country when I see an old sign for Santa’s Lodge. It’s time to say uncle and hunker down for the rest of the storm.
Only, when I pull up to the inn, it looks like someplace time has forgotten. If not for the man carrying an armload of firewood, I’d have thought the place vacant. I grab my bag, expecting to pay a huge amount for a last minute booking only to walk in and discover the entire building is under renovations with one exception: the owner’s residence.
He offers to let me ride out the storm there, but I politely decline. As I’m about to leave, the emergency sirens on our phones go off. All roads have been closed until further notice. Looks like I’m taking him up on it after all.
TITLE: Peppermint Potions and Tentacles
AUTHOR: Kota Quinn
SERIES: Tinsel and Tentacles 3.0
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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A determined kraken shifter and a sassy witch.
After losing the only family I’ve ever known, all I want is a fresh start. What I get instead is the most gorgeous man I’ve ever seen, claiming he’s some kind of magical tracker. And now, he’s telling me that not only am I a witch, but that I come from an elite coven. A magical family who have been searching for me for years.
Oh! And did I mention I just walked in on him and all his glorious tentacles?
Yup. Merry Christmas to me.
TITLE: Cream and Sugar
AUTHOR: S.T. Gillard
SERIES: Shaun & Freddie #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 363 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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Shaun needs a new barista.
Freddie needs a job.
Exhausted, heartbroken and woefully understaffed, Shaun Harrison is at the end of his tether.
All his life, Shaun has dreamt of owning his own coffee shop. Now his dream is real, it’s quickly becoming a nightmare. Staff are quitting left and right, he hasn’t had a day off since he opened, not to mention he’s still reeling from a brutal breakup.
When Freddie Young, a disarmingly handsome unemployed musician and self-confessed flirt-machine, walks through the café door one morning looking for a job, could it be Shaun’s luck is finally turning around? Or are things about to get a whole lot more complicated?
TITLE: My Best Friend Is Broken
AUTHOR: Jessica Jackman
SERIES: My Mobster
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 367 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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Prison took him from me. Love is bringing him home.
Liam was supposed to be invincible. Popular, brilliant, destined for greatness. The golden boy who was going to escape our rough neighborhood and conquer the world. I was just the loyal sidekick, happy to bask in his light.
Then one stormy night shattered everything. A fatal crash. A girl’s life lost. My best friend behind bars.
For five years, he refused every letter, every visit.
For five years, I built myself into someone worthy of his return. Someone powerful enough to protect him, successful enough to give him anything he needed.
The day he walks out of those prison gates, I’m waiting.
But the broken boy who emerges isn’t the king I remember. He is too thin. His hair is too long. He can’t look anyone in the eye. He talks in the faintest of whispers and jumps at his own shadow.
And at night he clings to me because I smell of safety and home.
It doesn’t matter. He’s still mine to protect. Still the other half of my soul.
Some people think love is about the fall. But real love? Real love is about holding on when everything else lets go. It’s about building a home in each other’s hearts and refusing to leave, no matter how long the winter lasts.
Underneath all that trauma, he’s still my Liam. Still the person I’d move heaven and earth for.
Now we have to learn how to be us again. How to heal together. How to build something beautiful from the wreckage of what we lost.
Some love stories are about falling. Ours is about never letting go.
TITLE: Forbidden Hockey
AUTHOR: S. Legend
SERIES: Heartbreak Hockey Series #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 493 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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What do you do when a man takes your breath away? Literally?
Travis Nolan
I’m tarnished. Ex-con. Trailer trash. Rebel-rouser. I’ve spent years trying to be the kind of father my son deserves—don’t know if I’ll ever get there, but it’s my only path to redemption.
The last thing I need is a dangerous attraction to Dirk Boulder, one that’ll carve my name onto the Devil’s guest list. But when the man who once tore my son’s life apart resurfaces, I have to decide: kill the monster and betray the man I love, or walk away from vengeance and leave my son vulnerable.
Dirk Boulder
Hockey is life. I’ve had a great career in the AHL with the Kelowna Wildcats, and my found family—while a little over the top at times—is made of stuff money can’t buy. But something’s missing.
I’m used to having the wind knocked out of me on the ice, but nothing prepares me for falling for my best friend’s dad, Travis Nolan. Of flipping course. The only man I can’t have.
My older brother, the only real parent I’ve ever had, will never go for it. Betraying him after all he’s done for me seems like the greatest treason of my life.
Feral Soulmates
The rules were simple: live in denial, dance around our attraction, relieve the agonizing desire with innocent flirtations, and unending proximity. Never, never, touch each other.
But even the thought of the other with someone else? Yeah, that’s a big effing no. Was it jealousy that tipped the scales, or love with a gravitational pull so hard we were too human to resist?
Probably both.
We’re bruised, reckless, and beautifully ruined for anyone else.
TITLE: All in December
AUTHOR: Bec Benson
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 244 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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Caleb
I’ve spent the years since my divorce raising my son, not figuring out who I am or what I want. Especially not romantically.
I’ve known I’m attracted to men, but I’ve never let myself explore anything. Not until a handsome stranger asks to share a ski lift, and suddenly I can’t stop thinking about what I’ve been missing.
Nash makes me laugh, and more importantly, he makes me feel safe and seen.
And for the first time in a long time, I want to figure out who I am with him.
Nash
Dating has been a disaster since my divorce. Between raising two kids and dodging blind date setups, I’ve pretty much sworn off the idea of falling for someone again.
Still, there’s something captivating about Caleb, and I want to know him. He’s quiet, gentle, and wildly unaware of how easy he is to fall for.
I want to show him what it feels like to be cared for. To be chosen. And if he’s ready to open up, I’ll be right here.
TITLE: A Little Christmas: Rivi
AUTHOR: Wendy Rathbone
SERIES: A Little Christmas Season 4
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 172 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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Rivi: I’ve known I’m a little for a long time but never acted on it.
I’m far too shy to go looking for daddies, even online. Dating sites are untrustworthy. Besides, who would want me? I’m too small, annoyingly quiet and I wear awful, thick glasses that make my eyes look too big. No one would glance my way even if I did get up the courage to go to a club or gay bar.
But then I find out my uncle, Trent Winterbourne, owns a large kink club and has a little for a significant other. How did I never know this before? Uncle Trent is having a huge but very private Christmas party at his country estate in the middle of a Christmas tree farm. This man must know lots of daddies.
If I do anything right with my life from now on, I need to wrangle an invitation to stay with my uncle through the holidays. Maybe then I can finally begin the hunt for my one true daddy.
Briar: I’m an experienced dom and daddy but I’ve lost my fire in the past year or so. I work at a kink club and night after night it’s the same thing. Am I bored? Do I need change in my life?
These days, I focus mainly on work, until my friend Trent Winterbourne invites me to his estate for the Christmas holidays. There will be mostly kink “family” members there, and an exclusive kink party in his secret BDSM basement.
There, I meet Rivi, and my life is never the same again.
TITLE: Detectives in Love
AUTHOR: Gaia Tate
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 546 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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I’m Newt Doherty—half of Partners-in-Crime, the detective agency I built with Xavier Ormond, the infuriating genius who once dragged me out of a serial killer’s den and saved my life. We live together (for efficiency). We solve murders (for fun and bills).
We’re not dating.
Try telling that to Shorewitch’s tabloids.
Now every corner hides a camera, every headline swears we’re sleeping together, and every “no comment” sounds like a confession. Which would almost be fine—except I’m hopelessly in love with Xavier, and we’re knee-deep in two murder cases, one with a killer who’s always a step ahead.
The city wants a scandal. The killer wants silence. And I have to find out what happened between Xavier and me on the drunken night I can’t remember—before someone writes our final headline.
TITLE: Fire
AUTHORS: Laura Rye & Bailey Hansen
SERIES: A Monster By Any Other Name #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 275 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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Freedom came with a price—now the past demands payment.
Jake swore that he would never take Tobias back to Freak Camp. But as they chase the secrets of Tobias’s past, the truth leads them back to the prison where it all began.
When a nationwide scandal erupts, shaking the very foundation of the Agency of Supernatural Control’s iron grip, Tobias and Jake find themselves with unexpected allies—and a chance for revenge. But the price of justice may cost them everything they’ve worked so hard to win.
In a world where your identity is determined by those in power, Tobias and Jake must decide: Are you what they call you, or who you choose to be? Their love survived Freak Camp’s walls, but some demons are harder to escape than others.
TITLE: Graves & Griggs: A Very Bloody Christmas
AUTHOR: Katelyn Taylor
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: 11/1/2025
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It all started with a favor.
Now he is calling, and he’s calling to collect.
When two worlds collide, two families combine under one roof and there is no telling what is in store.
One thing is for certain, when the Graves family meets the Gallows Hill crew, it’s about to be a
Very Bloody Christmas.
TITLE: I Scented My Mate On The Day I Agreed To Marry A Stranger
AUTHORS: Lorelei M. Hart & Colbie Dunbar
PUBLISHER: Surrendered Press
LENGTH: 272 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/2/2025
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I don’t want to marry anyone, especially not a stranger.
I always planned to marry for love, the kind of love you read about in fairy tales. But with my father’s ailing health and an offer that would cover his medical expenses, I have no choice but to toss the future I wanted away. My father’s life is worth more than my happiness.
It will be fine. Really it will. It’s not like I have to fall in love with the guy. It’s a business arrangement, nothing more. I can handle it. Easy peasy.
Only it isn’t easy peasy, when I meet the man of my dreams right after agreeing to the contract marriage. Now what?
TITLE: Festive Fugitive
AUTHOR: K.A. Merikan
SERIES: Murder and Mistletoe #3
PUBLISHER: Acerbi & Villani
RELEASE DATE: 11/2/2025
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I didn’t expect my Christmas gift to be six-foot-two, a trained killer, and obsessed with me.
Eli
One bullet. One dead man. And now my wreck of a life is spiraling out of control.
The bastard deserved it, but I’m just a regular guy. I botched the escape, and since I killed him while wearing a Santa costume, they call me the Festive Fugitive. Cute. Too bad I’ll be spending Christmas behind bars or in a body bag.
Then he appears. Cesar.
My dark salvation. A trained killer who looks at me as if I’m his personal miracle. I killed his boss, yet he says I did him a favor. He wants to protect me, claim me, cage me in his arms, and God help me… I let him.
Because what’s falling for a monster when there’s a manhunt hot on my tail and a target on my back?
Cesar
Taken as a child, I was turned into a loyal weapon. I killed, tortured, burned, and bled. I was respected and needed. Until I wasn’t.
When I lost an eye, my master pushed me aside, but as I waited for my ‘one last job’ so I could retire, Eli pulled the trigger.
I never expected some half-starved, grief-drunk civilian in a Santa outfit to free me, but that’s what happened.
Eli is everything I am not—fragile, impulsive, untrained. And yet he killed the man I was bound to. He doesn’t know it, but he owns me now.
He thinks I’m his protector, that I’ve taken him under my wing. But it’s more than that.
He’s mine. My obsession. My purpose. My beautiful, reckless mess of a man, and I’ll burn the world before I let anyone take him from me.
I guess Christmas came early for Eli this year.
TITLE: Snowed In with My Firefighter
AUTHOR: Taylor Knox
SERIES: Holiday Heat
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 228 pages
RELEASE DATE: 11/2/2025
BLURB:
I should have known I was in trouble the moment I wanted to shut him up with my mouth.
Liam Carter, my annoyingly perfect ski instructor, with his patient smile and those hands that know exactly how to touch—skis, equipment, and apparently every nerve I have. I came to Pine Ridge to cool off after my suspension, not to spend every lesson fighting the urge to pin him against a tree and find out what sounds he makes when he’s not being so damn professional.
He thinks I’m reckless. He’s right. He thinks I’m stubborn. Also right. He has no idea how badly I want him.
That’s about to change.
When a blizzard traps us in an abandoned cabin with nothing but body heat and bad decisions, the cold outside has nothing on the fire building between us. And I’m done pretending I don’t want to tear through all that perfect control and see who he really is underneath.
Turns out the best way to warm up isn’t fighting the cold—it’s surrendering to the heat.
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