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February 8, 2025
The Kiss Lottery: A Novella by Ilsa Madden-Mills
From bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills comes a steamy novella about first love and second chances where a city girl returns home for a Valentine’s Day tradition…and the boy who broke her heart.
Roses are red, violets are blue—someone in Rose has feelings for you…
Yeah, bad ones. Everly Davis didn’t leave her tight-knit hometown on the best terms. It’s been ten years, but you don’t forget heartbreak like that. Then again, the anonymous invite to the annual Kiss Lottery in Rose, Tennessee, gives Everly content for her podcast. And she has a bone to pick with that old heartbreak anyway.
Beckett Whitfield has never left Rose—and he’s never forgotten Everly. He even named the villain in his latest bestseller after her. Turns out she’s not happy about that. Nothing about their reunion is particularly happy, and after the way they left things, what did he expect?
When the Kiss Lottery pairs them together, Everly and Beckett will have to confront old feelings that never went away and the secrets they never shared. But finally telling each other everything might be exactly what they’ve needed all along.
Daring the Defender : Wittmore U Hockey by Angel Lawson
There’s only one person who would take me in after leaving my fiancé—my brother Axel.
Unfortunately, he’s not the one who answered the door on that wintery Valentine’s night. That was his best friend and roommate, Reid Wilder. Copper-colored hair, dark eyes, and the number eight tattooed on his bicep.
I should have turned around when he mistook me for a puck bunny and invited me in.
I definitely should have said no to the drink he offered while I waited.
But the biggest mistake I made was climbing into his lap and kissing him.
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The rest of the campus may think it’s pathetic that I spent Valentine’s Day alone and not with one of the puck bunnies that love the Wittmore hockey players. But I know better. Valentine’s Day is for committed relationships—like the one I just got out of with my ex.
Nah, I’ll just stay home, eat my heart-shaped pizza, and grab some half-off candy tomorrow. At least that was my plan until a girl showed up on my doorstep looking for my roommate Axel.
Figuring this was a former hook-up, I tried to shoo her off, but she was persistent.
And cute.
Axel’s got a girlfriend now. I figure why not mend my broken heart with the girl Cupid dropped off at my doorstep? So I kiss her.
Not just a kiss, I realize. Her first kiss.
And when her overprotective brother finds out?
It’ll probably be my last.
Shelby and Reid’s story is about a brother’s best friend, secret and forbidden, college hockey, spicy romance. Daring the Defender is a standalone novel in the Wittmore U: Hockey series.
Wittmore U: Hockey
Faking It with The Forward
Guarded by the Goalie
Daring the Defender
February 6, 2025
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn
Heartstopper meets Derry Girls in this wonderfully hilarious rom-com about finding your first love when your personality might be too big for the world around you.
Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it’s goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world!
Unfortunately, the only other “out” boys in his school year are dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn’t going to be easy… Until fate finally intervenes and two new mysterious boys join drama club: Peter, who’s just moved from New York (very chic) and his best friend, Sam.
Patch is confident that one of them (although either of them will do!) will be his first boyfriend. So armed with his single mum’s outdated self-help books, his over-supportive best friend Jean and an alarming level of self-confidence, Patch is confident that this mission will be a complete success. Whether or not they actually like boys or him is a problem for later.
The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King is a heartfelt, laugh-out-loud comedy from rising star Harry Trevaldwyn, a story about boldly being yourself, going for what you want, but never losing sight of who truly has your back.
February 4, 2025
Priest and his Anarchist (Carpe Noctem #2) by Amo Jones
People said he was emotionless. Cold. But he burned her to the ground every chance he got. Priest Hayes thought he knew everything there was to know about the society of outlaws who ran by their own set of rules, and right now, he’d just taken the gavel. It didn’t feel heavy. It felt like it belonged there all along.
In his hand.
Just like her.
But Luna Nox was the one girl he could never have. He knew that the second he fell for her. Bound by a past they both shared, their souls were connected in a way that no one would ever understand. But love isn’t always what conquers all. Sometimes, it’s the only thing you’ll surrender to.
Luna knew she had limited time to prove herself in a world that she always felt she belonged in, but that never wanted her. She had two choices. Follow her mother’s footsteps by becoming a menacing circus brat, or be led by a secret society that her father was born into. Little did she know she had no choice. The path was already formed, and she was on a one-way road that led directly to the one man she swore she’d never find herself back to.
Priest Hayes.
He took the kingdom…but handed her the sword. This is a tale of heartbreak. A story of two people who defy all odds to find love in a place that most people run from.
The dark.
February 3, 2025
Sanctum by Luna Kayne
An angel destined to fall.
A demon determined to rise.
A mortal fated to unite the realms.
When Lily stumbled into the Underworld as a child, she awakened a prophecy that had been waiting for her since the dawn of time.
Now, twenty years later, she unknowingly alerts the realms of her existence, and Hell isn’t the only thing coming for her.
LILY
If you’d told me yesterday that I was chosen to battle the Celestial Lands and the Underworld alongside an archangel and an archdemon who hate each other, I would have said you were crazy.
That was yesterday.
Today, I am the key to saving both worlds. A war is coming, and the fate of a god rests in my hands.
*Sanctum is an urban paranormal fantasy and epic supernatural adventure with elements of spice, why choose, and romance.
February 1, 2025
On Screen & Off Again by Caitlin Cross
A romantic will-they-won’t-they debut with a Hollywood twist, for fans of Love & Other Words and Every Summer After.
When Dax left, Wil swore she’d never forgive him. But now they’re co-stars and each other’s second chance at stardom… and maybe something more.
Seven years ago, childhood sweethearts Wilhelmina Chase and Daxon Avery were on top of the world as the charismatic star and beloved sidekick of a hit kids’ TV series. But when the show got cancelled, Dax left for college across the country and they broke up.
Now they’re in their twenties, and their paths have diverged. Wil gets more attention in the tabloids than she does in casting calls, and Dax is about to star in a buzzy new movie that could cement his place on the Hollywood A-list. The one problem? After weeks of searching and auditions, his studio still hasn’t found the right co-star.
Meanwhile, Wil has just been arrested for stealing something from the home of a Hollywood bigwig. She gets to make one call from jail, and Dax’s is the only phone number she can remember.
On a whim, Dax swings Wil an audition for the movie. It’s a long shot, but it soon becomes clear Wil hasn’t lost an ounce of her talent; the years have given her a depth and intensity that Dax (and the casting director) can’t look away from. As filming begins, the chemistry on both sides of the camera is stratospheric. But this is Wil’s last chance to reclaim her career; she can’t get distracted. Plus, Dax already left her behind once.
Will their romance be an on-screen hit but an off-screen disaster?
Dream Girl Drama (Big Shots, #3) by Tessa Bailey
A steamy chance encounter between a professional hockey player and the manic pixie dream girl he just can’t seem to forget takes a turn when the pair realize that their parents are engaged—in an all-new rom-com by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.
When professional hockey player Sig Gauthier’s car breaks down and his phone dies, he treks into a posh private country club to call a tow truck, where he encounters the alluring Chloe Clifford, the manic pixie dream girl who captivates him immediately with her sense of adventure and penchant for stealing champagne.
Sparks fly during a moonlight kiss and the enamored pair can’t wait to see each other again, but when Sig finally arrives to meet his dad’s new girlfriend over dinner, Chloe is confusingly also there. Turns out the girlfriend is Chloe’s mother. Oh, and they’re engaged.
Sig’s dream girl is his future stepsister.
Though the pair is now wary of being involved romantically, Chloe, a sheltered harp prodigy, yearns to escape her controlling mother. Sig promises to teach her the ins and outs of independence in Boston—but not inside his bedroom. They both know there can never be more than friendship between a famous hockey player and his high-society, soon-to-be stepsister. But keeping their relationship platonic grows harder amid the developing family drama, especially knowing they were meant for so much more…
January 29, 2025
Coming Home: (Home Series, Book Two) (The Home Series 2) by Melissa Whitney
One night. One kiss. That’s all it took for everything to change between them.
Dr. Nat Owens has come home to join her family’s medical practice. In the sleepy village, she struggles to be seen as a medical professional. Patients want her father. Staff go to her mother. Village residents respect her older brother. To everyone, she’s just the youngest Owens sibling. Even to the one man who she’s always dreamed of. Or so she thinks.
With the sexiest dimpled smile, Marine veteran Noah Wilson appears to be just the village’s handsome brewery owner. He protects and supports the community and people he loves, including his best friend’s younger sister. To the village she’s just Dr. Owens’ daughter, but to him, she’s his everything. A fact he won’t acknowledge until he decides to ignore all the reasons why she and him are a bad idea.
But is the village ready for this? Are their families? Are they?
A brilliant doctor returns to her hometown to prove that she’s more than just the younger sister in this Little Women inspired small town romance.
January 27, 2025
Possess Me (Stark Ever After Book 8) by J. Kenner
Love brought them here. Darkness may destroy them.
Our historical Catalina Island retreat was supposed to be a dream come true. A charming cottage with a glamorous Hollywood history. A sanctuary where my billionaire husband, Damien Stark, and I can relax, reveling in our ever-growing love.
But the cottage hides a dark secret, and our tranquil paradise soon turns into a haunting nightmare. As shadows of jealousy and betrayal invade our lives and possess our souls, our already intense passion explodes. But now there is a tinge of violence. Of fear. And the walls seem to whisper of murder.
The darkness within these walls threatens to destroy everything we hold dear. And now Damien and I must find a way to break free of these nightmares before they tear us apart.
The Rebel: The Rebels and Redcoats Saga Book #4 by T.J. London
Like father, like son . . .
April 1777
Alexei McKesson is a man caught between two worlds: the son of the disgraced former Duke of McKesson, and an adopted warrior of the Standing Stone. For the past two years, Alexei has been pirating ships on the St. Lawrence, and he’s never been caught until . . .
While spying on a meeting between the British and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, three of Alexei’s men were captured and imprisoned in Fort Niagara to be used in negotiations with the Crown.
When he learns about a ship bound for the colonies carrying a wealthy heiress and a cache of weapons, he hatches a plan to steal the cargo and force the British into trading for his men. But Alexei’s about to get more than he bargained for.
Beautiful, rebellious Lady Wilhelmina Townsend is searching for her missing brother, and she would do anything to find him—even relinquish her freedom to be with a husband she does not desire. When her ship bound for the colonies is set upon by thieves, Will finds advantage in adversity and joins forces with Alexei.
Now they race against time to arrange the trade and find Will’s missing brother as enemies are plotting against them, those with a vested interest in sending her back to her husband and forcing the Confederacy into siding with the Crown. Passion ignites when these two rebellious souls collide on the American frontier, but ghosts of the past threaten to undermine their love, truths yet to be revealed, so dark and dangerous they could tear Will and Alexei apart.
*****TRIGGER WARNINGS*** This book contains graphic violence and depictions of war, graphic language, period-appropriate language, misogyny, violence against women, and sexual content.
Audiobook Cast: Adam Gold, Charlie Albers, Tara Langella, Patrick Zeller, Marnye Young, John Hartley, Nicholas Boulton, Sean Crisden, Aaron Shedlock, Dryw McArthur, Shiloh James, Curtis Michael Holland and introducing Chris Tester.
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