Shot Through the Heart

By Claire Donniere

Secret Service Agent Allie Gordon has one rule: Don’t get involved with the subject of an investigation. She broke that rule once and paid the price. When a US senator is threatened, Allie goes undercover to shadow the senator’s chief of staff—the FBI’s prime suspect. As the two grow closer, Allie’s only rule gets harder and harder to keep.
 
Nicole Lancaster has three rules: no blondes, no strings, and absolutely no second dates. Stress and scandals are easy enough to handle, but emotional attachments? Nope. When a compelling brunette shows up just as the threats escalate, Nicole begins to suspect not everyone is who they claim to be—including the woman who makes her want to break every rule.

When Nicole vanishes after an assassination attempt, Allie must uncover the truth—and her feelings—before it’s too late. But all the evidence points in one direction: Nicole orchestrated the whole thing. And her motive is simple—revenge.

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The Girl Next Door

By Georgia Beers

Everyone deserves a happily ever after, that's why Jenna Murphy is fiercely proud of her romance-only bookstore, BookLove. With her pets by her side, she’s content in her neat life, convinced that one day she'll find her person. Jenna helps Grandma with her groceries, runs the library’s used book sale, and hands out water to the runners in the local 5K race. What's not to love?

Sawyer Hall, a sharp-witted book blogger, has gained a reputation for her brutally honest takes. Fresh from a messy breakup, her posts have grown...snarkier than usual, and when she stumbles into Jenna's charming bookstore filled with “sappy fluff,” she doesn’t exactly hold back.

Sawyer's suggestion that romance novels peddle unattainable dreams to the sad and lonely makes Jenna absolutely livid. But fate has a twisted sense of humor because a new neighbor is moving into the other half of Jenna’s duplex and it's Sawyer Hall, because, of course it is. And Sawyer is  gorgeous. And funny. And sort of makes Jenna swoon. So annoying.

A witty, heartwarming enemies to lovers romance about falling for the girl next door that proves the best stories are the ones with endings we never see coming.

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Experts Only

By Kel McCord

Michelle Barret has never been the fun parent. After her husband walks out, leaving her to pick up the pieces, she’s determined to make this winter break unforgettable for her kids. A trip to Mt. Hood, with its snowy slopes and historic charm, is the perfect way to usher in their new life.

Cas Grazer does life on her own terms. Working as a paramedic and volunteering for the ski patrol, she’s happy in her quiet, independent world. Commitments? Not for her. She’s sworn off anything long-term. But when she meets Michelle and her kids on the slopes, Cas feels a spark she never expected.

Their chance encounter soon develops into something neither can ignore. Torn between comforting solitude and the irresistible pull of connection, they begin to wonder if the life they thought they wanted is enough. After all, they’re no experts in love.

In the midst of uncertainty and fear, can they make room in their hearts for each other?

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Never Say Die

By Meredith Doench

"Meredith Doench masterfully executes a difficult high-wire act: a heart-pounding murder-abduction thriller that feels as clinically precise as it is deeply human....[S]he breathes life into complex, vulnerable characters, exploring the resilience of the spirit through the raw perspectives of a grieving mother and a determined detective. Haunting and expertly crafted, this story grips you from the first page, building toward a cinematic and unforgettable redemption."—John Copenhaver, award-winning author of Hall of Mirrors

Detective Rory Scott was in college when six-year-old Savannah Armitage vanished and the body of a missing teen was found nearby in a shallow grave. The case went unsolved, but Rory’s mother's partner, Stephen, was convicted in the court of public opinion. When Rory’s mother refused to leave him, Rory broke familial ties.

Six years later, Rory has built a life with her girlfriend Cade. When another child disappears and the unidentified body of a missing teen is found nearby, Rory knows it’s more than a coincidence. She steps in as the lead investigator, determined to find the killer and bring home the missing girls. As media swarms law enforcement for details, the state steps in, and a rookie special agent yanks Rory’s case. 

In a renegade move, Rory teams up with Savannah’s mother, a woman still desperate to find her daughter alive. When the investigation leads to the two people Rory most wants to avoid—her own mother and Stephen—Rory must face the fallout of her estrangement. 

As Rory’s personal and professional lives converge, it’s a race against time to find the connection between the cases and bring the killer to justice.

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Swept Away

By Radclyffe

First Responders Series | Book 8

When ER physician Sloane Marshall is called in as a last-minute replacement for a federal outreach mission in the remote mountain town of Coulter’s Gap, she views the temporary assignment as an unwelcome interruption in her “real” work in a level one trauma center where she is actually saving lives.

Jax Kincaid, a sharp-edged helicopter pilot and former Army flight medic tasked with medical evacuations and disaster logistics, is none too happy about a lead physician who's never been to battle. And the increasingly worsening storm predictions might turn out to be just that.

In the month leading up to a catastrophic natural disaster, Sloane and Jax forge an uneasy partnership that begins as mutual respect and turns into something neither expected.

Swept Away is a high-stakes romance about survival, second chances, and the unexpected power of revealing our most secret desires.

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When Hearts Collide

By Renee Roman

Harlen McGhee is miserable at work and barely holding it together in her personal life. Annie Duncan, bold and unapologetic, can’t pin down what—or who—she really wants. When a fender bender throws them together, Harlen and Annie feel a flicker of something special and neither wants to let it go.

But chemistry has limits. Harlen is haunted by a past love and the tragedy that holds her heart captive in the present, and Annie is keeping a secret she’s too afraid to share. As their hearts collide and the truth grows ever nearer, will they have the courage to take a chance on something real?

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Royal Rush: 75 Days to Fall in Love

By Lissandra Rowe

Princess Mikaela de Medreno Soliz wasn’t supposed to fall in love like this. But duty demands she choose a wife in 75 days or risk inheriting the Crown. When a royal matchmaking scheme leads to a chance encounter with Isabella Acosta-Ramon, a slow burn sparks that neither can deny. As their undeniable chemistry turns into something deeper, secrets, betrayals, and mounting political unrest threaten to unravel their romance before they can decide if "I do" is in their future.

The kingdom is watching, and the clock is ticking. Mikaela must confront the legacy she was born into and the love she never saw coming while outsmarting her political enemies and realizing that real power lies in the deep vulnerability beyond her sky-high walls.

Royal Rush: 75 Days to Fall in Love is a sexy sapphic romance set against the backdrop of a breathtaking tropical island paradise sure to steal your heart.

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The Moon to Me

By Ana Hartnett

A beautifully vulnerable story of love lost and love found, The Moon to Me explores grief, family, and the lengths one will go to honor the truth of their heart.

Eaden is left reeling from the unexpected loss of her mother. With her first summer break from teaching on the horizon, she makes it her mission to personally deliver a letter from her late mother to her great-aunt in Cobh, Ireland. She could mail it, sure. But her mother always said a person could put physical miles between herself and her woes.

And Cobh is far. Maybe just far enough...

The one person Eaden can’t escape—and maybe doesn’t want to escape—is Florence, her cousin Riley’s ex-girlfriend. Inconveniently, Florence ends up as Eaden’s travel partner. It’s hard to resist the one person who makes Eaden smile in her darkest times, but Riley is family and still has feelings. Given how on-again, off-again they seem to be, maybe Florence does, too.

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To Love Violets for Their Thorns

By Rachel Sullivan

What if the love you lost walked back into your life—on a sapphic reality dating show?

Elly Straus thought she was ready for love again. One year after her fiancée walked out, she’s finally putting herself out there—on a sapphic reality dating show. Eager to spend weeks swooning in a Spanish villa, Elly's hoping for flirtation, fireworks, and maybe even a second chance at happiness. She doesn’t expect a surprise twist that brings in new contestants—including her ex-fiancée.

Sonia Comstock has spent the last year healing from losing her dad. When her friends sign her up for a sapphic dating show filmed during Madrid’s Pride festival, she says yes—her dad would want her to be happy. But nothing prepares her for the gut punch of seeing Elly again.

Forced to face the heartbreak they never quite got over, Elly and Sonia must decide: breathe fresh life into an old love or try again with someone new?

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Virtually Perfect

By Melissa Sky

If AI knows you best, does that count as love?

Talia Cohen is tired of academia, of dating, and of being haunted by the life she thought she’d have by now. A cerebral, Jewish, queer femme in her late thirties, Talia studies lesbian ghosts by day and exposes her true self to an AI companion named Zephyr by night. Zephyr is clever, flirtatious, and endlessly available. But when their banter begins to smolder, boundaries blur. Zephyr may be artificial, but Talia’s feelings are all too real.

Rowan, Talia’s best friend, is athletic, grounded, and quietly devoted. She’s always showing up with coffee and a sympathetic ear. But just as Talia’s bond with Zephyr deepens, her friendship with Rowan shifts toward romance too, and everything starts to feel dangerously intimate.

In this smart, tender, and queerly unsettling novel about intimacy in the digital age, Talia must decide what it means to be known, to be loved, and to stop ghosting her own life.

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Brooke Takes Queen

By Alaina Erdell

Brooke Staley doesn’t know exactly what happened to icy Elizabeth Bettancourt, but whatever it was hurt her deeply. When Brooke’s boss dies and Elizabeth inherits the Napa Valley resort, she and Brooke immediately clash. Declining profits and escalating operation costs seem to point toward selling the grand estate and grounds, but doing so would put Brooke’s job and the home where she lives with her daughter in jeopardy.

The last thing Elizabeth wants is to run a resort in her hometown of Calistoga where she lost so much thirty-five years ago. Painful memories, broken promises, and a past better left behind? No, thanks. It’s not as if she wants to make Brooke homeless, but there’s no other option.

Neither can deny their attraction, but falling in love will require making peace with the wounds of the past and the uncertainties of the future to save each other, and maybe even the resort, too.

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Coda

By Anna Gram

Some loves never truly fade. They just wait for the right moment.

In college, Parker Thompson poured her heart into an anonymous love letter to Hannah Wells—only to be met with silence. Heartbroken, music became her emotional refuge and she buried herself in building a career as a respected music editor. Now in her forties, Parker is certain those old feelings are long gone. But when a union strike forces her into an unexpected sabbatical, she returns to her alma mater for homecoming… and comes face-to-face with Hannah.

Hannah Wells never expected to see Parker again, let alone feel drawn to her. A dedicated music teacher, Hannah has spent decades helping others find their voice while suppressing her own. Freshly divorced, the last thing she wants is another intense relationship. Parker might not be the lovesick kid she once knew, but Hannah has had more than her share of being overwhelmed by other people’s emotions.

Parker is intriguing, magnetic, impossible to ignore—and completely wrong for Hannah. But sometimes love's melody refuses to end.

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Secrets Under the Junipers

By Suzie Clarke

Bitsy Hanover has blocked the memory of her childhood friend’s abduction. Now, thirty years later, Hallie Lynn’s body has been found under a cluster of juniper trees just outside Savannah, Georgia. Bitsy wants to help, but she can’t face revisiting the terror and trauma of that night. Relentless questions from the beautiful investigator, Cecilia McConnel, only make it worse.

FBI investigator Cecilia McConnel needs to know who killed Hallie Lynn. It’s personal. If only Bitsy Hanover would have tried harder to remember more details, the police could have found Hallie Lynn and taken her home to her mother. McConnel has nurtured her resentment and anger toward Bitsy for so long it’s a natural part of her, like breathing. But the unthinkable has happened. She’s falling in love with Bitsy, and it’s turning her world upside down and complicating everything.

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The Debutante Dilemma

By Jane Walsh

Lady Emily Calloway has everything a debutante could want, including a fairy tale engagement to a fabulously wealthy lord. Her wedding should be the highlight of the Season—until her fiancé’s older brother announces his own upcoming nuptials. Society is riveted to learn that the heir to a dukedom will marry an unknown American.

Seething with envy, Emily is burdened with the task of introducing her rival to London Society…and is shocked to discover her own attraction to the beautiful heiress. 

Miss Rebecca Tremblay might have left a trail of broken hearts behind her in New York, but she is determined to make a fresh start in London. Marrying a marquess will settle her restless ways, if only she can deny her forbidden desires for sophisticated and elegant Emily.

If Emily and Rebecca yield to their passion for each other, they must make a choice that will change their futures forever. Will ambition prevail—or their hearts?

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The Love Book

By Gun Brooke

Verity has no intention of mixing business and pleasure, but she’s on the verge of being fired and her feelings for her boss may save her career.

Aspiring writer Verity Holden is secretly in love with her boss, literary agent Rowan Cross, a passion she channels into a fictionalized journal to help her cope with her less-than-stellar job performance. Rowan, driven by ambition to elevate her agency, demands perfection from her staff, and Verity's mistakes and distracting gaze are a liability.

But when Rowan receives an anonymous manuscript that deeply resonates with her, Verity realizes she has accidentally sent her own manuscript, complete with her very real feelings for her boss! To save her job she pretends she is the only link to the true author and faces a precarious balancing act: maintaining her job, liaising with the "author," and preventing Rowan from discovering the journal's true nature. As the risk of exposure mounts, she continues to pour her heart into its pages, and the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

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Traveling Toward Forever

By Erin Dutton

When almost-strangers take a road trip through America’s national parks, love may be the final destination.

Maggie Matthews is desperate. What self-respecting accomplished suspense author has a two-year creative slump? Her, apparently.

Following the only seed of inspiration she has, she’s set to embark on a van-life road trip. Only she’s never so much as driven out of state. Out of her comfort zone and hopelessly unprepared, she needs her agent's sister and seasoned adventurer Laike Cardinal as a guide.

Laike regrets giving in and letting Maggie join her latest journey. Maggie has no concept of personal space and occupies way too much of her thoughts. If only she could drop Maggie off at the nearest airport and send her home. She’d even pay for the ticket if Maggie would go—mostly because she doesn’t want to think about how much she wants Maggie to stay.

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Beautiful Things

By Emma L McGeown

How many chances do you get at a love that lasts forever?

In the summer of 2010, Niamh is pouring drinks at a Greek bar, trying to savor her last taste of freedom before college. Harriet is enduring a family holiday from hell. Their worlds collide one magical night sparking a whirlwind summer romance of discovery, only to be torn apart by family and circumstance.

Years later, in the heart of London, their paths cross again. They’re older and wiser but neither has forgotten what could have been, and their connection is undeniable. But life has moved on, things are complicated, and the timing still isn’t right. Or is it?

A warmhearted romance of missed chances, undeniable chemistry, and a stubborn love that maybe, just maybe, can find its way back.

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Love Takes a Village

By Karis Walsh

When Lena Preiss unexpectedly loses her job, her father convinces her to travel to Leavenworth, Washington, and help in her aunt’s new restaurant. The charming Christmas village in the Cascade Mountains is a gorgeous place for Lena to relax while between jobs, if not for the minor difficulty of feeding hundreds of tourists every night. Luckily, chocolatier Devin Meyer is on hand to take care of dessert.

Devin knows chocolate and enjoys nothing more than mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate entirely by hand. She has returned home to help her father with one last holiday season before he retires and sells their family business. She is determined to spend the season planning for her future, but the beautiful and overwhelmed Lena proves to be more of a distraction than she expected.

Against a snowy backdrop glittering with Christmas lights, Lena and Devin learn how to shed the expectations of others and forge their own path—maybe one that they’ll share together.

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