Release Blitz for Sweet Little Hearts by Shanora Williams

 

Sweet Little Hearts by Shanora Williams is now live! From New York Times bestselling author Shanora Williams comes a deeply heartfelt romance about the tragedies that put our lives on hold--and the love that makes us want to start again. Javier Valdez hasn't had much luck with nannies, and he can't imagine this one will be any different. Octavia Klein is all sass to his stoicism, free spirit to his hard work. But he's a widower, and with a career in the NBA, he can't keep doing this alone. Despite Javier's reservations, Octavia turns out to be the best thing for his four-year-old daughter...and for him. But he's reluctant to admit it. Javier swore off love after his wife died, and Octavia has her own reasons for avoiding relationships. As their bond deepens far past professionalism or even friendship, it's hard to deny the crackling tension of something more. They're both toeing lines they said they wouldn't cross--and when their pasts come rushing back, there's no telling which way they'll fall. With old wounds reopened, can Javier and Octavia overcome the pain once again? Or will their future together become just another scar? Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited Amazon: https://a.co/d/eaAnfix Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/5W9H2 Audible: https://bit.ly/3Lz12n1 Narrated by Andre Santana & Aure Nash Goodreads: http://bit.ly/453QuE0

Release Blitz for The Mysterious One by Marni Mann

 

The Mysterious One by Marni Mann is now live! A spicy grumpy-sunshine, age-gap, close-proximity romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann … I’m the mysterious one. The angriest alphahole who never bends. And she’s the woman who will bring me to my knees. As the executive chef and face of my family’s billion-dollar empire, time is the one luxury I don't have. With endless responsibilities and nonstop demands, I lost my passion and love for the art of cooking. What used to be my dream job is now my worst nightmare. I was ready to walk away and give up everything we’d built … Until Alivia happened. She was supposed to be a temporary diversion so we could satisfy each other’s desires and then never see each other again … Yet I knew she was different right away. A woman who was my complete opposite, the calm to my storm. The sunshine to my darkness. With a body that left me speechless. What I didn’t see was how much we both craved a break. Me from a career that would eventually kill me, her from an abusive home life. When two people in pain connect, an explosion erupts. That was us. All fire and longing, mixed with a genuine need to seek shelter in one another’s arms. While I’m still savoring the taste of her on my lips, I see her again unexpectedly and wonder … is our connection enough to surpass the secrets between us, or were we only meant to have those two nights together? Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited https://geni.us/TheMysteriousOne Audiobook: ​​https://geni.us/TheMysteriousOneAudio Narrated by: Jason Clarke & CJ Bloom Goodreads: http://bit.ly/3JG4DPt

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Wilde Cowboy by Kelly Elliot                                                                                                                                                                                     From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Kelly Elliott, comes a new series that takes us back to her roots. Introducing the Love is a Cowboy series.

 

Audiobook Review for Irresistibly Wicked by Melissa Foster

 

The Wickeds: Dark Knights at Bayside #7

Irresistibly Wicked: Zander Wicked by Melissa Foster

Narrators:   Savannah Peachwood (Narrator), Sean Masters (Narrator)

Release date: 12-09-25

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher: World Literary Press

Tropes: Small-town, found family, MC/biker romance, close proximity, protective hero, alpha hero, he falls first, strangers to lovers, chance meeting, reformed playboy, marriage of convenience.

Taken from Audible:  Get ready to fall hard for everyone’s favorite playboy, Zander Wicked, in Irresistibly Wicked.

When the woman who helps save his life needs a little saving herself, Zander takes on a role he never saw himself playing—husband of convenience. Irresistibly Wicked may be enjoyed as a standalone romance or as part of the larger series.

Zander Wicked lives life fast, on his bike, on the job, and with women. But one split second shatters his world and forces him to face truths he’s spent a lifetime outrunning. His family doubts he can change, but Zander knows better, and when the woman who helped save him needs more than a little help herself, he sets out to prove everyone wrong.

Shauna Flores knows what it means to fight for survival. As an EMT and a person in recovery, she’s rebuilt her life piece by piece while carrying the weight of a best friend she refuses to give up on. The last thing she expects is to end up bound to a man like Zander Wicked, or to find herself in a marriage of convenience that blurs every line between right and wrong.

Two people with checkered pasts, an arrangement that ties them together, and a future neither sees coming—one that will test their limits, their loyalties, and the lengths they’re willing to go to for the people they love.

Audiobook Review:  Oh the heat in this book.  The narrators, Savannah Peachwood and Sean Masters, brought that head to life.  I could feel Zander’s cockiness, his alpha male attitude, and his need to help Shauna.  Savannah Peachwood, as Shauna, brought to life how strong and self-reliant she is.   But it also brought to life how sexy and sassy she is.   The dual narration is my favorite to listen to and these two are perfect together.   Melissa Foster wrote the perfect book and then chose the perfect narrators to bring it to life.

 eBook Review:  Holy hotness.  I am a Melissa Foster fan and have read all her books so far and this one is  the steamiest yet.   I could not get enough of Zander Wicked.  His alpha protectiveness is just what Shauna Flores needs, even though she may not have thought so.

Irresistibly Wicked is so perfect.  I love the main characters, but I love just as much the appearance of other characters from past books in this series.  It was fun to hear about relationships, babies, weddings, etc. and catch up with the going on of the Dark Knight family.   Each book in this series it’s own complete story with different main characters, but the characters from past books make appearances as secondary characters.

Thank you to the author for an audible copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

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Available Now!!! Hot for Mr. Moneybags by Whitley Cox

 

Title: Hot for Mr. Moneybags

Series: The Single Moms of San Camanez: The Vino Vixens

Author: Whitley Cox

Genre/Tropes: Forced Proximity; Small Town; Single Mom; Silver Fox; Age Gap; Anxiety Rep; Cinnamon Roll Hero; Pro Athlete Hero 

Release Date: December 20, 2025 

A quiet man. A cautious heart. A love that refuses to stay silent.

Because sometimes, healing feels like falling—and falling feels like home.

Welcome to San Camanez, a humble, peaceful little island in the Puget Sound and home to the Vino Vixens. Four cousins—and single moms—who run a vineyard, love the wine they sell, raise their kids together, and still hold out hope that not all men are like the ones they married. This is Danica’s story …

Tommaso

I came to San Camanez to keep a promise to my late wife—to turn our land into a sanctuary for the lost and forgotten. The animals give me purpose; the silence keeps me steady.

Then Danica Ross and her daughter arrive, and my carefully contained world begins to shift. She’s gentle but strong, scarred but unbroken. And when her little girl’s laughter fills the barn, I start to remember what hope sounds like.

But when my wife’s cousin threatens to take the farm, I realize I could lose everything—again. This time, though, I’m not sure I can go back to being alone.

Danica

After escaping a cruel marriage, I built a quiet life for my daughter and me—safe, small, predictable. Love wasn’t part of the plan.

Then Tommaso Barone walks into our quiet, kind, infuriatingly patient. He makes me believe in trust again. In laughter. In warmth.

When his sanctuary—and our fragile new bond—are threatened, I have to decide if I’ll run like I always have… or fight for the man who’s teaching me that love doesn’t always hurt.

Set against the windswept shores of San Camanez, this tender, slow-burn romance celebrates second chances, quiet strength, and the kind of love that heals what life once broke.

“What time is it?” I yawned.
“Eleven-thirty.”
My eyes flew open wide and I sprang up from where I was on his lap. “Eleven-thirty?”
“Si.”
“Oh my god, I hardly ever stay up this late.”
“Neither do I, but I have been having such a nice time with you.”
I was on my feet now and headed to his front door, wide awake. “And I was—am—with you. But it’s still late. I need to let you get to bed. I need to get to bed. It’s a schoo—wait, it’s not a school day tomorrow, is it?” My feet practically made a screeching sound on his hardwood floor. I stopped so fast.
“Tomorrow is Sunday,” he said, totally calm, if not a little amused at how I went from zero to sixty to zero so quickly.
“Right. Saturday.” I exhaled, and my shoulders rounded. “Sam is having a sleepover with her cousins at Gabrielle’s. So as long as I’m home in the morning before she comes to find me …”
A slow smile curled on one side of his mouth as he stepped closer to me. I thought he was going to put his hands on my hips, or scoop me up and cart me off caveman style to the bedroom, but instead, he took my hand. “Let me play with your hair a little longer.” Then he tugged me back to the couch.
I was too weak, too relaxed, too infatuated with this man to say no.
“I know you said this is your first date, and I said that it’s been over twenty years since my last first date. So I am okay taking this as slow as you would like.”
We sat back down on the couch.
“However, if you are okay with it, Danica, I would very much like to kiss you.”
My breath stuttered as I inhaled, my eyes falling to his full lips. He’d shaved today, and the five o’clock shadow in all its salt-and-pepper glory was as sexy as ever. I ached to feel it scratch my cheek.
Swallowing, and unable to keep my hands from shaking, I knitted them in my lap as I sat facing him on the couch. “Yes. I … I would like that too.”
His eyelids dropped to half-mast as he reached forward and gently, but possessively, cupped the back of my neck, his pinky against my raging pulse, his thumb cradling my jaw. With his other hand, he grabbed my twitching, clasped fingers, and stilled them. “Relax. I will bite you only if you ask me to.”
My breathy “ha” of a laugh came out as more of a squeak, as he leaned forward and slowly pressed his mouth to mine.
I closed my eyes and let him take the lead, slowly letting our lips touch, then pull back, then touch and explore. He inched forward a little more, tightening his grip on my neck just a fraction, and encouraged me to open my mouth wider.
I was putty in his safe, strong hands and let him guide me through the best kiss of my life. I thought for sure that he was going to push his tongue into my mouth or lay me on my back, but he didn’t. He pressed his soft lips to mine one more time, then slowly pulled away.
I was breathless, rampant with need, and so incredibly relaxed.
Blinking open my eyes, I found him watching me, a small smile lifting one corner of his mouth higher than the other.
Was he going to kiss me again?
Please.
“Come,” he said, encouraging me to lay back down and rest my head in his lap. He started playing with my hair again. “Tell me something about you that would surprise people to learn,” he said, reaching to the side table and grabbing his wineglass. He took a sip, set it back down, then reached for my free hand again, twining our fingers together.
Swallowing, I studied the strong, angular shape of his jaw and the way the firelight cast beautiful flickering shadows across it. This man was a work of art. A stunning representation of the male form both inside and out.
“Hmm?” he probed. “What is something nobody would expect Danica St. Claire to have done?”
Biting my lip, I hedged a smile. “For my thirtieth birthday, I went and got a tattoo, then I went bungy jumping. Is that surprising?”
“Do you think people would be surprised to know that about you?”
I shrugged. “I’m the shyest of all of us. So, maybe. I take the fewest risks. I’m a bookkeeper, for goodness sake. I crunch numbers and sit in my home office all day, toiling over our business accounts. I’m boring. I’m—”
Pressing his finger across my lips, he shook his head. “You are not boring. And your job has meaning. Just because you are not fighting bad guys or sailing the high seas catching crabs does not mean your life, your work, is without meaning.”
“Superheroes and crab boat fishermen are the examples you used?”
“I like Batman and Deadliest Catch.” His broad shoulder lifted as his eyes and smile became boyish and sweet. “But you are not boring. I do not find you boring. I find you fascinating. And I want to see this tattoo.” He bobbed his silver brows salaciously. “I would never bungy jump. I do not like heights very much. So to me, that is surprising and not boring at all.”
“You’re not allowed to laugh, okay?”
“I will remain as still as a statue.”
“As still as the David?” I asked, grinning.
“Do you want me to take off all my clothes?”
Yes.
“Just don’t laugh.”
His smile was electrifying, and when I untangled our fingers, my hand trembled when I reached for the hem of my dress. His eyes followed my every movement as I slowly peeled the hem of my dress up my thighs. But my hand couldn’t stop trembling.
My breath grew ragged, and my stomach tightened into unforgiving knots.
“Here,” he said softly, resting his hand over top of mine. “Together.”
Eyes locked on each other, we dragged my dress hem up my thighs, over my pelvis, exposing my black underwear with the little satin bow, until my hipbone and the bunch of grapes with an ocean wave all in grayscale came into view. “Nothing fancy,” I croaked out. “I just liked how it represented my new life.”
With his index finger, he touched each grape, counting them in Italian. “Dieci,” he said. “Ten. One for every member of your family.”
“Yeah,” I breathed, impressed that he figured it out so quickly.
His thumb grazed my hipbone, sending electric zaps to all my erogenous zones. “I like it.”
“Me too.”
Releasing my hip, he gently, slowly tugged my dress back down my legs. “I have a tattoo.”
“Yeah?”
“You can see it on the next date.” His smile made me want to lunge up, grab him by the back of the neck, and devour his mouth. “Incentive.”
“Is that your way of securing that second date? Because the dinner and company already locked that in for you.”
Twisting our fingers back together, he nodded. “Just trying to make it impossible for you to say no.”
“It’s already impossible,” I breathed.
“Bella?”
“Si?” I asked, playfully.
“Can I hold you?” The sincerity in his eyes was almost too much. The first date of my life, and it was with the most genuine, passionate, patient man in the entire world. How was that possible? How did men like him still exist? I wasn’t sure they did in America, which was why we had to import them from the Old World.
My head bobbed, even though I wasn’t sure what “hold you” meant.
He helped me sit up, then gently, as if cradling a newborn foal and not a woman in her thirties with damp panties, he maneuvered us so we were spooning on his couch with him behind me.
“We are in no rush for things,” he said, his wine-scented breath against my neck as we settled in. “What do they call this in books?”
“Torture?” I asked, loving the way his thumb had found my hipbone over my dress and drew erotic little circles around it.
Huffing a laugh, he kissed my shoulder. “No. A slow fire?”
“Oh.” I chuckled. “A slow burn. Yeah, this is a slow burn all right.”
“You are okay with that?”
Was I?
While I was nervous as hell to take things to the bedroom, considering I hadn’t had sex with a man since Sam was conceived, every cell in my body screamed with the urgency to be beneath Tom. To feel his skin against mine, his weight on me. I knew he’d be gentle. That he wouldn’t hurt me, and would undoubtedly bring me pleasure—for the first time ever during sex. Even if I didn’t orgasm, it would be better than every single time Rufus climbed his bloated, old, zombie corpse on top of me, pumped twice, grunted, then rolled over and went to sleep.
“You have not answered, bella. Are you okay with the slow burn of us?”
“I am,” I finally said. “We’re getting to know each other.”
He kissed my shoulder again. “We are. And I really like what I am learning.”
“Me too.”

A Canadian West Coast baby born and raised, Whitley is married to her high school sweetheart, and together they have two beautiful daughters and a fluffy dog. She spends her days making food that gets thrown on the floor, vacuuming Cheerios out from under the couch and making sure that the dog food doesn't end up in the air conditioner. But when nap time comes, and it's not quite wine o'clock, Whitley sits down, avoids the pile of laundry on the couch, and writes.

A lover of all things decadent; wine, cheese, chocolate and spicy erotic romance, Whitley brings the humorous side of sex, the ridiculous side of relationships and the suspense of everyday life into her stories. With single dads, firefighters, Navy SEALs, mommy wars, body issues, threesomes, bondage and role-playing, Whitley’s books have all the funny and fabulously filthy words you could hope for.

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The Rewrite
Beth Rinyu
Publication date: January 29th 2026
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance

How long would you hold a grudge?
If you’re Eloise Hendrickson, the answer is twenty-five years.

After being humiliated by her overseas pen pal in seventh grade, Eloise, now a successful writer, has never quite let go of that one mortifying moment. One bad breakup, a late night of drunken internet sleuthing, and a half-baked excuse to bust through writer’s block send her straight into the path of the boy she’s hated her whole life.

Her plan? Turn him into the villain of her next novel.
The plot twist? He’s not the jerk she remembers.

Instead, he’s a charming chocolatier, a devoted family man, and awkwardly, a huge fan of her books. But as Eloise reconnects with the past, it’s not him who captures her attention, it’s someone else entirely. Someone unexpected. He’s rude, infuriating, and gets under her skin like no one else. He’s the exact opposite of the heroes she creates and the men she dates.

With new friends, a fresh perspective, and possibly the beginnings of something romantic—Eloise must decide if she’s finally ready to let go of the perfection she’s always demanded from herself as well as everyone around her, and embrace the unpredictable, wonderfully flawed life waiting for her.

Maybe her next bestseller won’t be about righting the past after all.
Maybe it will be about rewriting the future instead.

Warning: This book may contain chocolate and possibly a happily ever after.

Author Bio:

I've always had a passion for Creative Writing. There's something special about being able to travel to a different place or become a different person with just the stroke of a pen—or in today's world, a tap of the keyboard. Maybe it all started with the soap opera-level drama I used to script for my Barbie dolls. Plot twists, emotional arcs, surprise twins... it was basically a writer’s room before I even knew what one was. Whatever the spark, storytelling quickly became my favorite creative outlet. I craft stories that keep me on my toes and constantly push me beyond my comfort zone. Deep characters you either root for or love to hate are the ones I’m most drawn to.

Exploring new places helps me uncover fresh and exciting settings for my books, but there’s nothing quite like a quiet walk in the woods or sitting by the ocean close to home. Turns out, plot twists and inspiration arrive just as easily with a sea breeze—or a few curious squirrels.

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A Harlem Wedding by Tiffany L. Warren 

From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen was the society event of the year...even though the bride and groom were not-so-secretly in love with other people.

Muted by Miranda Mundt

A summoning ritual gone awry kicks off a lush, witchy graphic novel series with joyful streaks of found family and polyamorous sapphic romance—in this first volume of the hit Webtoon coming-of-age story, now with bonus content.

Book Review for Keeper of My Heart by Traci Borum

 

Keeper of My Heart by Traci Borum

Published:  December 1, 2025 by Red Adept Publishing LLC

Taken from Goodreads:  Lexi Price runs an antiques shop she inherited from Gigi, her great-grandmother, in the charming Texas town of Morgan’s Grove. When Lexi stumbles on a mysterious necklace once owned by Gigi, she becomes curious about the secrets her great-grandmother may have been hiding from the family.

Lexi enlists the help of Graham Faulkner, a handsome history professor with an affinity for World War II-era memorabilia. Together, they unravel clues about the necklace and discover that the mysteries run even deeper than they realized. Their search takes them on a quest that spans eight decades and multiple generations.

As they work, Lexi and Graham grow closer, but Lexi’s relationship hang-ups stand in the way. Will Lexi’s past prevent her from accepting the same once-in-a-lifetime love Gigi discovered all those years ago?

 

My Thoughts:   Everything is this book tugged at my heart.   Lexi’s relationship with her Gigi and the way she carries on the traditions while also making the store hers is perfect.  I love how much she cares about the store and knows that things have to advance in order to stay in business.   Graham is the perfect professor.  He is the one to step up to help Lexi find the story behind the necklace.   I love how cautious he is of his own heart and of Lexi’s heart.  He is the perfect gentleman. 

 Keeper of my Heart is the perfect sweet romance with minimal heat.  There is no doubt there will be a HEA but the path to get there is fun. I enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the storyline so much that I did not want the book to end.  

 Thank you to the author for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.

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Meet the Author (taken from her website): Traci Borum is a writing teacher and native Texan.  She's also an avid reader of women's fiction, most especially Elin Hilderbrand and Rosamunde Pilcher novels.  Since the age of 12, she's written poetry, short stories, magazine articles, and novels.

Traci also adores all things British.  She even owns a British dog (Corgi) and is completely addicted to Masterpiece Theater--must be all those dreamy accents!  Aside from having big dreams of getting a book published, it's the little things that make her the happiest:  deep talks with friends, a strong cup of hot chocolate, a hearty game of fetch with her Corgi, and puffy white Texas clouds always reminding her to "look up, slow down, enjoy your life." 

 

 

Q&A with Ray M Schultze, Author of Jack London and Murder on Nob Hill

Publication date: December 2, 2025 by Ray M. Schultze

Genre(s): Mystery, murder mystery, historical fiction, historical mystery, literary fiction, biographical fiction

In Jack London and Murder on Nob Hill by Ray M. Schultze, a murder Jack London witnesses vanishes from all official accounts, setting him on a path into areas defined by competing interests and guarded truths.

The narrative unfolds in 1898 San Francisco, where Jack’s concerns about the unacknowledged killing lead him to examine places characterized by long-standing disputes and informal structures of authority. As he navigates Chinatown’s alleys, he encounters evidence of disappearances and alliances that seldom draw outside attention. A woman tied to these elements complicates his understanding of what occurred, offering insight laced with uncertainty. Jack’s determination places him in the path of individuals who depend on discretion to retain control. His search exposes the deeper framework shaping interactions across the city’s hidden pockets.

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What are the hazards of fictionalizing a real person? 

The thought that you might be guilty of libel plays on your mind, which is a good reason to choose as a subject someone who’s been dead for at least a century! I fictionalized Bogart in one of my novels, and I sweated that one because he’s so iconic. You really feel the pressure of getting the personality down right. The last thing you want is some expert on the man telling you that you got it all wrong. Arrggg.

How do you come up with your ideas for novels? 

Because I’m an independent author trying to seduce the major publishing houses, I’m always on the lookout for what the industry calls “high concept” stories—basically ones based on an outrageous or over-the-top premise like the idea of the writer Jack London getting involved in a murder investigation. Seriously?

When do you get your best ideas for writing? 

Sometimes when I’m half-awake in the middle of the night or just rousing myself in the morning. Sometimes entire lines of dialogue pop into my head and I try to write them down before I drift off again.

You’ve written some international thrillers. Do you try to visit the setting when it’s a far-away place? 

It’s a must for me. You can research your heart out on, say, Portugal or Austria, and probably uncover every detail your story needs—except for the intangible feel of a place. The only exception I made was my novel Beranek’s Stand, set in Iran. I chickened out on that one.

If you could time-travel, where would you go? 

The bronze-age city-state of Knossos, on the island of Crete. It was the first sophisticated urban civilization of Europe, and the Minoans produced magnificent art and gloried in nature. By coincidence, Knossos happens to be the setting of my next novel…

Ray M. Schultze is the author of six novels, five of them works of suspense—The Last Safe Place, Combustion, The Devil in Dreamland, Decatur’s Dig, and Beranek’s Stand. His most recent novel, Russian River, is historical fiction. His interest in writing began in childhood with a handmade, folded-paper “magazine” that his mother encouraged. After graduating from the University of California at Riverside, he pursued newspaper reporting as a practical way to support himself while writing fiction. Over a twenty-five-year career, he covered politics, the legal system, and education for newspapers in California, Florida, and Arizona. When he turned to fiction full-time, he drew inspiration from authors such as Alan Furst and Ken Follett. Ray now lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Judi. They enjoy tennis, hiking, exploring the region’s beaches and headlands, and international travel—experiences that often shape his novels’ settings. He is also an award-winning woodworking artist. Visit him at his website.