That's Amore!

By Georgia Beers

Food
International Setting

Meet Lily Chambers—the hugely successful, book-tour loving, swoon-inducing romance writer at the pinnacle of her career. At least for now.

When Lily sent her last manuscript to her publisher, she had no idea it could be her last. Struggling with more than a terminal case of writer’s block, Lily has lost her passion. For writing. For romance. For life. How can she not feel like a fraud after being on her own for years?

Hoping to shake things loose, Lily’s BFF suggests she spend some time in one of the most romantic cities in the world: Rome. If the architecture, the history, and the food don’t inspire her, nothing will. Or it would, if Lily was able to look away from Marina Troiani, her witty, smart, and unassumingly beautiful Italian tour guide.

Marina makes Lily feel <i>something</i>. Finally. Slowly the words start flowing. But the age gap and continent that separates them make starting a new chapter together impossible. What’s even worse than torpedoing your career? Falling in love only to have your own HEA just out of reach.

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The Unexpected Heiress

By Cassidy Crane

Financial gap/Class disparity

All Clara Cooper wants is something exciting to happen to her for a change. She chafes against the constraints of her society, which would rather see her married off than achieve her artistic dreams. A surprise inheritance turns her life on its head, opening doors she’d never dreamed of.

Addie Barnes is nothing if not pragmatic. Getting by on nothing but her wits and her looks, she turns her savvy eye to Clara and her secret fortune. If she can become Clara’s companion, she’ll be set for life. She initially sees Clara as a means to an end, but as their connection deepens, she grapples with conflicting emotions.

Amidst the tumultuous backdrop of the Great Depression, can they find redemption and love in the face of adversity?

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Through Sky and Stars

By Tessa Croft

Time Travel

In 2763, humanity teeters on the brink of extinction after centuries of war with the alien Sh’keth. Val Koroleva, special forces operative, sacrifices her universe to leap across space and time to avert the disastrous war before it begins.

Eight centuries earlier, the world has yet to tumble into chaos. Bush pilot Nicole Baker, blissfully unaware of the alien threat lurking near her home, lives in peaceful solitude flying her airplane between far-flung corners of remote Alaska until a charming, mysterious stranger turns her world upside down.

Val won’t set her mission aside, but neither woman can ignore their unlikely connection. Can Val risk the future? Will love find a foothold despite a world on the brink of war?

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Uncomplicate It

By Kel McCord

Workplace Romance

When an office attraction threatens her career, Hollis Reed’s carefully laid plans demand revision.

After a painful breakup, Hollis is determined to climb the corporate ladder by charting a meticulous three-year plan. Just as she vows to keep love at arm’s length, her new boss threatens to disrupt everything. Ainsley Jones is a force to be reckoned with—brilliant, sophisticated, and irrefutably attractive.

As Hollis navigates her new role, she can’t deny the magnetic pull between them. But workplace policies against fraternization, Hollis’s doubts about mixing business with pleasure, and Ainsley’s micromanaging style prevent their budding romance from blooming. With the unwavering support of her best friend, Harrison, Hollis must risk everything she thought she wanted to have the love she can’t live without.

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Vanguard

By Gun Brooke

Dystopian
Freedom | Book 2
Financial gap/Class disparity
Age Gap

Beth Wild was born as a Subterranean and after almost dying in a fire set by raiders from the skyscrapers, she joins the resistance movement. Now fleeing the Celestial authorities with her team of freedom fighters, Beth is strapped into a SkyBird escape vessel and hurtles to the ground. There, she finds the dissident leader’s SkyBird has also crashed, and LaSierra Delmonte is injured and concussed. 

LaSierra is confused. With Beth’s assistance, she struggles to find her bearings and, against her better judgment, grows fond of Beth. But resuming her duties means breaking both their hearts. 

Beth loathes the role LaSierra must play. It’s impossible for her to reconcile her ideals and values with the sacrifices LaSierra is asking for. Thrown headlong into the battle for freedom for dissidents and Subterraneans alike, LaSierra may have to risk everything by acknowledging that there are less lethal ways to accomplish what must be done—and if so, will Beth ever understand that there are times when leaders must make the hard decisions for the greater good? Will they be able to bring peace long enough for them to dare to love?

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Wild Night Rising

By Barbara Ann Wright

Federal Agents
Age Gap
Close Quarters
Big City
Good girls/Bad girls
Las Vegas
Magic

The Wild Hunt is under new leadership: the Fury of Vengeance, who wants to bring back the horror of the old days, when gods and fey terrorized mankind. Gwyn, former leader of the Hunt, now serves as its herald but is desperate to get her old job back before the entire modern world finds out about the Hunt’s existence.

Holly has always wanted to be a cop, but her chaotic fey ancestry makes conforming to rules an actual pain. She’s recruited by a secret agency designed to round up supernatural criminals in Houston and banish them. When the Hunt targets a prisoner she’s sworn to protect, she and Gwyn must fight together, or the entire city could burn. And after meeting Holly, Gwyn wants more in her life than just her old job. All that stands in their way is an unforgiving force of nature…and the immortal host at her back.

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A Thousand Tiny Promises

By Morgan Lee Miller

Enemies to Lovers Romance
Close Quarters
Friends & Community
Friends to Lovers Romance

Audrey, Reid, Emma, and Sadie have been best friends since they were fourteen years old. When Sadie tragically passes away more than a decade later, she leaves them each a note with her last wish: to complete the bucket list they made together on the night of their high school graduation.

Audrey and Reid haven’t spoken since the last time they ticked an item off that list. As they work with Emma to fulfill Sadie’s wish, they’re forced to confront their unresolved emotions—none of them good. But when Audrey goes through a devastating breakup, she finds an unlikely support system in Reid. Perhaps she’s been wrong about her all along.

As Audrey and Reid draw closer in ways they never thought possible, their last promise to Sadie takes them on a journey toward healing their broken friendship and discovering the love they’ve always had for each other.

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Behold My Heart

By Ronica Black

Disability
Financial gap/Class disparity
Actors/Artists
Age Gap
Close Quarters

A soaring tale of love, resilience, and the power of following one’s heart.

Alora Anders’ paintings are sought after by wealthy collectors worldwide, and up until recently, she’s led the life she’s always dreamed of. There’s only one problem. She’s quickly losing her vision to a degenerative eye disease with no cure. Devastated, she falls into a deep depression, assuming her life is over. Worse, she must hire someone to help her get along in life with her impaired vision. 

Bodie Banks is a struggling young artist looking for a new lot in life. When she learns of a job as a live-in caregiver for a well-known artist, she jumps at the opportunity. It might be inspiring to work with a fellow artist. All her hopes are dashed when her new employer, Alora, is rude, angry, and anything but welcoming.

As these two opposites learn to navigate daily life together, they grow closer and Alora slowly begins to soften, learning to live with her new reality and maybe even open her heart.

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Fearless Hearts

By Radclyffe

Women in Uniform
Workplace Romance
First Responders
Age Gap
Police / Cops
Friends & Community
Small Town Romances

Forest Ranger Nat Evans is perfectly happy with the safe haven she has created in the Adirondack Forest and her life fighting forest fires, aiding stranded and injured hikers, and policing the waters of Lake George, New York. She has a good friend with uncomplicated benefits, and romance with a much younger woman is not on her to-do list.

After losing everything that matters, Vic O’Brien takes a seasonal position on the Water Patrol unit while she figures out her life. Emotionally bereft, when Vic reconnects with Nat over their shared past and the present challenges of keeping the tourists safe on lake and land, she refuses to deny the attraction kindling between them.

One wounded woman, one determined to protect her—and a summertime of risk, danger, and desire.

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Stranger in the Sand

By Renee Roman

Virgins/First Love
Age Gap
Amnesia
Provincetown
Close Quarters

A heartwarming love story about overcoming loneliness and grief by embracing the power of connection.

Grace Langley needs to make peace with the past to finally be happy. She’s lived her life in relative isolation consumed with the death of her childhood best friend. An artist’s residency in beautiful Cape Cod is an extraordinary opportunity for her to figure out how to have a full and rewarding life.

When an accident stole her memories, Fagan Shaw’s future turned bleak. She lost friends and any motivation to relate to others. Returning to the scene where she almost died may be her only chance to remember what really happened and recapture what she’s lost.

Amid an angry Atlantic storm, Grace and Fagan find comfort in each other while sheltering together, but can they brave the emotional tide that comes with falling in love?

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The Nursing Home Hoax

By Shelley Thrasher and Others

People of Color
Reunion Romance
Small Town Romances
Lawyers

In this fresh take for grown-ups on the classic Nancy Drew series, crime-solving duo Taylor and Marilee investigate suspicious activity at a small East Texas nursing home.

Taylor, a semi-retired lawyer, and Marilee, whom she met in college, reunite in their eighties with a bang. They bond over the return of their college friend Edith, a doctor working in Africa who returns to the US for medical treatment and ends up in rehab at a local nursing home not far from Taylor and Marilee.

But when Taylor and Marilee visit, all is not as it seems. Several long-term patients have been victimized by a cybercriminal, and local law enforcement seem as uninterested as they are inept.

With the help of two high school seniors, amateur sleuths Taylor and Marilee must solve the mystery of who is taking advantage of wealthy residents so they can spend more time dealing with their romantic feelings, which have evolved during their sixty years apart.

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The Rise and Fall of Conner Cody

By Chelsey Lynford

Music
People of Color
Actors/Artists
Friends & Community
Celebrity
California
Friends to Lovers Romance
Multicultural 

Conner Cody is poised to have it all. Whether on the big screen or a concert stage, she commands adoration, lust, and more money than she can count from millions of fans across the world. Behind the scenes, she keeps people at arm’s length, having learned her lessons from her famous parents—better to hurt them first before they can hurt her.

Her love life is as dramatic as the roles she plays, so Conner fills the void with meaningless hookups, and her infamous parties provide a facade of friendship. But when a few people begin to slip past her defenses and her estranged sister returns, happiness finally appears within reach.

But letting people in is risky and her insecurities take center stage, pushing away everyone she cares about. On the verge of destroying everything she holds dear, Conner must choose: will she stay behind her walls, safe yet alone, or will she risk it all to finally learn what it means to love?

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A Conflict of Interest

By Morgan Adams

New York City
People of Color
Bisexual
Second Chance at Love
Lawyers
Medical Romance
Multicultural 

Senior associate Ana Mendez is always being overlooked. By her family, by her peers, heck, even by her latest crush. But when a power vacuum emerges at her law firm, she knows the medical malpractice case she's working on is her golden ticket to the promotion she deserves. 

Cardiac surgeon Rachel Cohen is stunned when she is served legal papers compelling her to testify in a lawsuit. One night after work, Rachel goes out to a bar and ends up going home with the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen. Rachel’s world is rocked when she arrives at her deposition and discovers that the attorney questioning her is none other than the woman she just slept with.

Like opposing sides of a magnet, Rachel and Ana are undeniably drawn to one another. But will love find a way to beat this conflict of interest? Or does fate have other plans in store?

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Big Corpse on Campus

By Karis Walsh

University Police | Book 3

Library director Jasmine Harald has no desire to attract police attention, not since a murder made her temporarily shut down her precious library. But now Jazz needs the cops. One of her favorite students is dead, and everyone believes he died by suicide. She’s certain the police can help her prove them wrong.

University police officer Cappy Flannery understands too well the pain suicide can bring to family and friends. She doesn’t believe this death suspicious—simply a young man who couldn’t cope with the loss of his promising future as a star football player. She agrees to investigate more thoroughly because her sergeant ordered her to even though she thinks it’s a waste of time.

As secrets are uncovered, Cappy and Jazz realize that the case—and their growing feelings for each other—are more complex than either of them expected.

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Charity Case

By Jean Copeland

Enemies to Lovers Romance
Close Quarters
Second Chance at Love
Good girls/Bad girls
Homecoming

Lindsay Chase had everything she’d ever wanted until a gambling addiction ruined her flashy life in Los Angeles. Forced home to Connecticut to start over, she’s broke, on probation, and ordered to do community service.

When she meets social worker Ellie Tuttle, their attraction is immediate, but Lindsay’s self-centered nature tests Ellie’s usually endless patience and empathy. Lindsay struggles to reconcile who she used to be with her new, humble existence, and she’s not exactly making a great first impression. As Ellie and Lindsay get to know each other while working together at the homeless shelter, they fall into an unlikely friendship that slowly leads to love, despite Ellie’s efforts to avoid it.

But when the shelter is set to close due to lack of funding, Lindsay has the chance to prove she isn’t as selfish as everyone thinks. She’ll save the day and show Ellie she’s worthy of her love. That is if she doesn’t go to jail for it first.

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Moments to Treasure

By Ali Vali

International Setting
Weddings
Multicultural 

Levi Montbard and Yasmine Hassani have found the prize of a lifetime in treasure and in love. Now they’re looking forward to their wedding and returning to find what else might be hidden in the Sahara Desert to kick off their honeymoon. An anonymous coded book sent to them as a wedding present might alter those plans.

The initial treasure is only the beginning of their quest, for some in the church want the mystery of the female Templar Knight to stay hidden. Even with a new and more liberal Pope, the Vatican doesn’t want any other embarrassments.

Levi and Yasmine are once again pulled into a world of hidden secrets and shadowy dangers. Along with their families, they’ll search for the things that matter most important to them and the moments they treasure with each other.

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Discovering Gold

By Sam Ledel

Bisexual
Blue Collar
Small Town Romances
Children / Families

In Eleanor Perry’s life, people always leave. Now a single mother in the mining town of Idaho Springs, Colorado, she vows no one will abandon her again. Closing her door and her heart to the world, she focuses on making a living and keeping food on the table. Eleanor rethinks things, though, when a charming cowgirl rides into town.

Julia Holte grew up running wild on her family’s oil fields in west Texas. She always wanted to be one of the boys, but her brash behavior has recently caused more trouble than good. After following her sister and brother-in-law to a life in the mountains, Julia is taken by the sweet, intriguing Eleanor.

Both yearn desperately for connection but are wary of the consequences. Grappling with the haunting shadows of their pasts, new love is the last thing either of them expects. Will they discover the biggest treasure of all and let love back into their hearts?

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Dream a Little Dream

By Melissa Brayden

Second Chance at Love
Small Town Romances
Medical Romance

In this small-town second chance romance, Melissa Brayden’s Dream a Little Dream explores the pain of betrayal, the courage to face the unexpected, and the longing for a love that’s unforgettable.

Savanna Potter is having an off year. Her aunt died, and the woman of her dreams, who had agreed to meet her on the suspension bridge one year after their first amazing date, stood her up. Then, in news that rocks her, it turns out the dad she knew isn’t her biological father. So, who the hell is?

Savanna, angry and adrift, can’t believe it when Dr. Kyle Remington, the very woman who left her standing on that bridge like a fool, shows up in Dreamer’s Bay.

Not only has Kyle landed in Savanna’s small town, but she’s managed to charm every other person who lives there. Savanna has no plans to forgive and forget. There’s nothing between them anymore, even if Kyle’s sparkling blue eyes and shiny dark hair make Savanna’s pesky knees go weak. Life is too complicated for second chances. Or is it?

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