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July 3, 2020
Martimus by Seelie Kay
Agent Cate Creighton is in love. Unfortunately, as the Agency honeypot, she is knee-deep in an assignment that tests the bounds of her new relationship. It seems eight socialites have gone missing, all wealthy twenty-somethings with influential parents. No one seems to care until a former vice president’s daughter disappears. When the vice-president shares a… Continue reading Martimus by Seelie Kay
July 1, 2020
Love Me, Lust Me Not by Brittany Boykin
Enjoy this must-read romance novel based in the heart of New York City as you walk with Beverly through a whirlwind of emotions. It’s amazingly intriguing and full to the brim with tons of drama, sex, and betrayal. Who does she fall for? Is it love? Is it lust? What about her crazy business partner?… Continue reading Love Me, Lust Me Not by Brittany Boykin
Fireworks & Flames — A Happily Ever Austen Excerpt #MFRWhooks
Love is a lot closer and more complicated than Marty ever dreamed. Rash and Rationality is a modern gender-swapped friends-to-lovers Sense & Sensibility, set in a cozy bookshop. In this excerpt, Marty's invited Brandy to his family's backyard party. He rescues her from an errant sparkler and starts to think maybe she's more than just… Continue reading Fireworks & Flames — A Happily Ever Austen Excerpt #MFRWhooks
June 30, 2020
Serendipity by Lisa Chalmers
Spend an entire week alone in a private villa with a man I just met on an airport layover? Crazy? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely. There was something about Cillian that drew me in from the moment he took the bar stool next to mine. That layover was nothing short of fate, and the fact we… Continue reading Serendipity by Lisa Chalmers
June 26, 2020
First Kiss Friday
First Kiss Friday »»————- ♡ ————-««Every Friday I share the first kiss from one of my books.This week it's a hot bounty hunter alien and the woman ensnared in his mission.»»————- Cutie Pi ————-«« “Yes!” Nolan cried. Those hands that’d held me close and pinned me to him to fool the scanner didn’t fall off. His palms… Continue reading First Kiss Friday
June 25, 2020
I Holoed my Taco
I've never had much interest or skill in makeup. That I live like a troll lurking under a bridge waiting for tasty billy goats to go leaping past helps fuel that. But I am an author, and I spend a lot of my day staring at my nails (instead of writing). So nail polish has… Continue reading I Holoed my Taco
June 24, 2020
Fear in the Stars
Cutie Pi Trini Martinez never thought of herself as flaky. No matter the radius of the problem, she could be counted on to solve and understand it. But when tentacles burst out of the newest Post-Doc to join the lab, and she finds herself pulled into an intergalactic game of tug she begins to question… Continue reading Fear in the Stars
June 23, 2020
Anarchy—A Free Short Story
I was tasked to write a short romance story with the prompt “As she stood there, she felt it. That weird burning coursing through her veins. Except this time it was stronger.”
What came out was a sci-fi story with a heroine trying to capture a man she believes to be a threat to her world. Things are never as they seem.
Anarchy

Stand down.
The order from Central clanged through every cell in her body, but June Hill didn’t pause. Interceptors ripped ...
June 22, 2020
Let’s Have a Book Duel
In Rash & Rationality, Marty and Brandy work in a bookstore. When things are slow, they have what they call a book duel. Here's how the game works: Both of you Pick a BookOne person calls out a number.The other person reads the first sentence on that page.You keep that up, working through the books… Continue reading Let’s Have a Book Duel
Saving Suki by Sierra Brave
An abusive childhood and an accident in his teens left stallion-shifter, Malcolm Patterson, with a distrust for his father and a lot of holes in his memory. When his dad passes away, Malcolm returns to Horse Mountain to fulfill his obligation to settle his old man’s affairs but finds the shifter community’s near hero-worship of… Continue reading Saving Suki by Sierra Brave