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Review: The Grump Next Door by Brighton Walsh

5 June 2025

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Review: Can’t Always Get What You Want by Sara Ney

1 June 2025

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Review: A Very Grumpy Neighbor by Shaw Hart

27 May 2025

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Review: Finn by Melanie Moreland

21 May 2025

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Review: Wild Peak by Cassie Mint

15 May 2025

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Review: Just One More Affair by Carly Phillips

11 May 2025

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Review: Digging Dr Jones by Olivia Jackson

2 May 2025

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Review: Hot Shot by Staci Hart

25 April 2025

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Review: A Very Grumpy Mountain Man by Shaw Hart

25 April 2025

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Review: Just A Little Crush by Carly Phillips & Erika Wilde

15 April 2025

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Review: The Grump Next Door by Brighton Walsh

5 June 2025

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Review: Can’t Always Get What You Want by Sara Ney

1 June 2025

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Review: A Very Grumpy Neighbor by Shaw Hart

27 May 2025

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🔥He kissed her like he meant it. Nothing prepa

🔥He kissed her like he meant it.

Nothing prepared for the onslaught of sensation as Niall truly, properly kissed me. The feel of his tongue on mine. The taste of him how he coaxed me to kiss him back, groaning as I imitated what he was doing in my mouth. He licked deep, teased, and explored. He slid his hand into my hair, fisting it, directing me, kissing me deeper, making me gasp as he slid his lips from my mouth along my jaw and up to my ear.

“That is how I would kiss you, Anna. Every time.”

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Author @morelandmelanie has revealed the cover for

Author @morelandmelanie has revealed the cover for the newest in her My Favorite series of standalones. And it’s a beaut. 😍

Illustration by Bigfoot Creative (@bigfoot.creative)

My Favorite Hero will be here, with all the swoon, on 30 September 2025.

I’ve already got my paperback pre-ordered but you can get yours in all formats at:
https://geni.us/MyFavoriteHero

📚 ABOUT:
In a house full of rules, the only one they can't follow… is staying away.
Jesse Thorne
Local hero, firefighter, loner, and now grumpy landlord.
She wasn’t what he expected.
His new tenant is a walking disaster wrapped in sunshine, breaking every rule he sets and driving him insane.
Controlling her? Impossible.
Ignoring her? Even harder.
And he’s not sure he can stop it.
She’s under his skin, melting his frozen walls, and making him question everything—including his stubborn heart.

Casey Lawson
Roamer, IT specialist, current tenant, and golden ray of trouble.
Her new landlord is a thorn in her side with his never-ending house rules.
He’s always there when things go wrong—rescuing her with his strong arms and that sexy, smug smile. Breaking down her defenses, one gesture, one growl at a time.
They love to argue, but the chemistry between them is undeniable.
And when they give in, it’s explosive.
Can they escape the fire without getting burned?

𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳'𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭, 𝘔𝘺 𝘍𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦—𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦’𝘴.
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🌳 ROUGH AROUND THE HEDGES by @emmahartauthor is

🌳 ROUGH AROUND THE HEDGES by @emmahartauthor is coming to Kindle Unlimited on June 19th! Get ready for this sexy, snarky, enemies-to-lovers romcom.

Blurb:
He’s the city boy who wants to destroy the place she loves most.
She’s the countryside girl who is determined to break him first.
But when hearts are involved, can either of them truly win?

I, Rose Matthews, have always considered myself a perfectly reasonable person.
Until the day Oliver de Havilland—the hottie I wham, bam, thank you ma’am’d two weeks ago—shows up at Hanbury Allotments and hands me a closure notice. In two months, he’s going to shut down the place I love the most—the very place that keeps the dwindling community of our village alive.
Long story short; I’m ready to riot.
Riot. Protest. Run naked through the village centre with nothing but lettuce leaves covering my lady bits. You know, the usual.
The new Duke of Hanbury is as arrogant as the last, but there’s no way I’m going to let him get away with this. Especially not since his plan is to sell the land to make way for more cookie-cutter housing nobody wants.
This is more than a battle of wits—it’s a war, and a dirty one at that.
But I won’t lose.
Because if Oliver didn’t want to play dirty, he shouldn’t have roughed up a gardener...
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I’ve read the book and now I’m diving into the

I’ve read the book and now I’m diving into the sexy voices of Jason Clarke and Emma Wilder.

Ear swoons.

Blurb:
Our first kiss was a lie. Our second was a mistake. And the night we spent tangled up in each other? Hot as hell but a complete disaster.

Because now Sutton Sinclair—the sharp-tongued troublemaker who left claw marks down my back and a dent in my self-control—is living in my backyard cottage with her teenage daughter. And I’m her goddamn landlord.

I like things quiet. Controlled. She's neither. Sutton’s chaos wrapped in sunshine, a temptation in scrubs I can’t seem to stay away from.

When her ex shows up acting like Sutton’s still his to lose, I claim her on instinct. The kiss? Hot. The fallout? Immediate.

Now my family—and the entire town—thinks we’re a couple.

Fake dating Sutton wasn’t in my playbook, but if being a pro-footballer turned high school coach has taught me anything, it’s how to pivot. All I have to do is keep my hands to myself.

Then her cottage floods.

Now we’re sharing a roof…and a bed. The line between real and fake is blurring faster than I can redo the guest house.

This is supposed to be temporary. But Sutton doesn’t just crash into my life—she rewrites it. She’s in my home, moaning my name, breaking every rule I’ve ever lived by.

And I’m starting to want something permanent with the woman who’s already got one foot out the door.
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It’s release day for The Grump Next Door by @bri

It’s release day for The Grump Next Door by @brighton_walsh

And oh boy is this a goodie.

And we get to return to Starlight Cove. The hometown of my dreams.

Read my review on my website. Link in bio.

Or just grab it now:
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Blurb:
Our first kiss was a lie. Our second was a mistake. And the night we spent tangled up in each other? Hot as hell but a complete disaster.

Because now Sutton Sinclair—the sharp-tongued troublemaker who left claw marks down my back and a dent in my self-control—is living in my backyard cottage with her teenage daughter. And I’m her goddamn landlord.

I like things quiet. Controlled. She's neither. Sutton’s chaos wrapped in sunshine, a temptation in scrubs I can’t seem to stay away from.

When her ex shows up acting like Sutton’s still his to lose, I claim her on instinct. The kiss? Hot. The fallout? Immediate.

Now my family—and the entire town—thinks we’re a couple.

Fake dating Sutton wasn’t in my playbook, but if being a pro-footballer turned high school coach has taught me anything, it’s how to pivot. All I have to do is keep my hands to myself.

Then her cottage floods.

Now we’re sharing a roof…and a bed. The line between real and fake is blurring faster than I can redo the guest house.

This is supposed to be temporary. But Sutton doesn’t just crash into my life—she rewrites it. She’s in my home, moaning my name, breaking every rule I’ve ever lived by.

And I’m starting to want something permanent with the woman who’s already got one foot out the door.
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✨ It’s release day for CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT

✨ It’s release day for CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT by @saraneyauthor!

Grab it here:
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What you need to #ONECLICK this book:
🏒Hockey
💚Forbidden (but fun)
🏒Teammates Sister
💚RomCom
🏒No Strings Attached
💚Whoops, He's Actually Perfect
🏒All the Banter
💚Steamy, Slow-Burn
🏒Grocery Store Foreplay
💚Off Limits
🏒Twin Sibling Drama
💚Emotionally Clueless (but physically obsessed)
🏒He Falls First
💚Secret Relationship
🏒Online Dating
💚Should Have Swiped Left

There are two sacred rules in the Montagalo household:
1. Family comes first.
2. Don’t date my brother’s teammates.

Of course I went and broke both.
It started with a little banter on a dating app.
A teeny, tiny secret: Flirty messages with Luca Babineaux, the sweet, charming—and stupidly attractive forward on the Houston Baddies—who makes sweat and bruises look so f’ing hot. One spark turns into a secret first date. A few kisses become way more.
Now I’m tangled in a full-blown secret romance and every time Gio walks into the room, I have a full-blown anxiety attack.

Dating in secret? Thrilling.
Lying to my brother? Exhausting.

Falling for Luca Babineaux obviously wasn’t part of the game plan.
He wants to go public with our relationship. I’d rather not.
Now I have to decide what matters more: keeping my promises to my dumb, overprotective brother…or choose myself for once.

All’s fair in love and hockey. Right?
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