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An Unsanctioned Attraction

by Lia Adams

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She was a perfect lady… until she met him. Katherine Sullivan knows who she is: A woman in a gilded cage of satin and high expectations… and she’s determined to break free. She steps into a private sanctuary where the smoke of a hookah swirls around her like a whispered promise. Where Touma Maalouf—a Lebanese scholar with ancient secrets behind his eyes and a duke's trust in his pocket—pours her wine and watches her like no man ever has. In the dim light of a sweltering summer night, he changes her life forever. What begins as daring flirtation spirals into an unchaperoned weekend, erotic manuscripts, the steam of a Turkish bath, and honeyed kisses. Freed from her cumbersome English layers by experienced hands, Kitty discovers a passion that defies borders. Their affair is a sensory revolution hidden behind velvet curtains and claret-colored satin. Every kiss, every whisper, every reckless, secret assignation is a rebellion against a bigoted empire that would tear them apart. With an army of loyal allies and the thrum of London's crowded ballrooms at their backs, Kitty and Touma risk everything for a love that doesn't just break the rules. It burns them in a fit of passion. She was a perfect lady. Now she's his perfect sin. ✨ WHAT'S INSIDE: 🏛️ Setting: High-society Victorian London meets Lebanese sensuality 🔥 Vibe: Gritty, high-heat, sensual open-door romance 🖤 Tropes: Opposites attract, forbidden secret affair, and cultural defiance 📖 For fans of: Rule-breaking historicals, rich historical detail, and intense heroes [Read More]

Of Ice and Innocence

by Karen Hunter

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She fought for her freedom. He's dying without her. Fate doesn't care what either of them wants. Book 2 of The Dragon's Flame Series. This story stands on its own, set within the world of The Dragon’s Flame. While returning characters make appearances, no prior reading is required. Though readers familiar with the first book may recognise a few extra layers. Laya survived four brutal Chases to remain unclaimed — the only free female wolf in a generation. She chose scars over submission and solitude over a mate who would strip away everything she'd bled to protect. The last thing she needs is a diplomatic mission into dragon territory. Kaeldric, advisor to the Dragon King, has been fading for months — his dragon slowly dying because he refused a mate bond he couldn't accept. When he finally finds her, she's everything he dreamed of and nothing he prepared for: a wolf warrior with claws already extended, who would sooner gut him than acknowledge what they both know. One crumbling railing. One frozen river. One impossible bond neither can outrun. Stranded in the wilderness with broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, and only each other, enemies have no choice but to survive together. But surviving is the easy part. When they return to civilisation, their bond will either become the bridge between two warring peoples — or the spark that ignites the war that destroys them both. A wolf who refuses to be claimed. A dragon who's running out of time. And a mate bond that will demand the one thing neither of them is willing to give. [Read More]

Because Fate Said So

by R. B. Gourley

A guarded heart. An unyielding wall of morals. And a collision course with destiny. Connor Byrne is a dedicated Brisa Heights paramedic whose life is governed by a tight routine. He manages the raw chaos of the first-responder ranks with effortless clinical skill, but off-duty, he keeps his heart under lock and key. Trapped behind a multi-generational legacy of family tragedy, Connor weaponizes a flawless moral high ground like a protective shield. His rigid rules are a psychological bunker designed to prevent him from ever being vulnerable enough to risk failing in a relationship. But when a cold morning call for service completely fractures his world with a shattering discovery of betrayal, his carefully guarded perimeter is permanently breached. Enter Brandi Schmidt: a sharp, fiercely independent, and quick-witted Brisa Heights Police Officer. A former Marine and a martial arts black belt, Brandi is a formidable force on the street who commands absolute authority. Yet, she approaches her private life with a resilient, clear-eyed honesty. She is the last person Connor ever expected to pull him out of the wreckage of his life. Intrigued by the quiet, capable paramedic she has crossed paths with on mutual-aid calls, Brandi intentionally shifts her world to cross his path, meeting his stubborn, guarded distance with an unforced warmth that begins to systematically thaw his defenses. WHAT ARC READERS CAN EXPECT: * Dual-POV, Slow-Burn Pacing: An organic intimacy built through raucous weekly group dinners. * Mutual Competence: Hyper-competent leads who protect each other as equal partners on and off the street. * A Mature Subversion of the Genre: A sophisticated, deeply moving look at how two people can do the hard work to salvage a protective post-divorce friendship. * Healing Multi-Generational Trauma: A profound thematic payoff about throwing away the fear of vulnerability to build a foundation designed to last. [Read More]

Flesh and Blood

by Marion Thomas

A Dark Historical Fiction Romance Set against the tumultuous backdrop of America’s Civil War, Flesh and Blood paints a stark portrait of a southern family torn apart as Jack and his sister Abigail navigate their secrets and treacherous circumstances in a salacious tale of forbidden love, loyalty and survival they struggle to save their farm and keep a buried treasure out of the hands of the crumbling Confederacy. Flesh and Blood offers a raw and unflinching look at the human heart in crisis. Brace yourself for a passionate tale that pushes boundaries and challenges societal norms. (contains explicit graphic language and mature themes) [Read More]

Between the Glass: A Steamy Off-Limits Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

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Off the record: they are not supposed to want each other. On the record: they have spent an entire season pretending otherwise. A slow-burn athlete/journalist romance where the thing they can't say out loud is the truest thing either of them has. Ben Kowalski has been the funniest person in every room since he was eleven. One contract year left, one shot at the deal that keeps him in Portland, and the absolute last thing he needs is the new beat reporter who is the only person in the press room who does not laugh at his material. Renee Lavoie has been watching the people around her perform for six years and writing down what she sees in notebooks she does not share. Now she is credentialed inside the Wolves season for access that could rebuild what she lost, and the alternate captain keeps offering her the version of himself that does not make it into the press conference. Between the Glass is Book 2 in the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GRRC3NPY. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Last Save: A Steamy Forbidden Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

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He notices everything. She was sent to find what the team is hiding. Neither of them planned for this. Milo Varga is twenty-four, the Portland Wolves' starting goaltender, and the most observant man in any room he walks into. He catalogs details the way other players read plays: quietly, completely, with nothing asked in return. He has spent his entire career being the youngest guy on the ice, the quiet one, the one nobody sees. Until a league attorney walks into the practice facility with a binder and a list of names, and Milo realizes she's the first person who has ever looked at him the way he looks at everyone else. Risa Kwon is thirty-seven, a senior league investigator, and the woman the Wolves hired her firm to bury. Her job is simple: trace the pattern of misconduct her predecessor refused to document, build a case that cannot be ignored, and protect the players who deserved better. She cannot be seen with anyone on the roster. She cannot let a twenty-four-year-old goalie rearrange her entire understanding of what she came to Portland to do. She definitely cannot fall for him. Last Save is Book 5, the series finale, of the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GX2ZSP4T. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Last Change: A Steamy Single Parent Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

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He has been carrying her words for seven years. She does not remember saying them. Her seven-year-old sees everything they refuse to say out loud. A slow-burn, single parent hockey romance where a veteran who edits himself to survive and a producer who stages herself to stay safe discover that the person watching most carefully is seven years old and entirely unimpressed with their systems. Vince Mercer is thirty-four, a Portland Wolves veteran defenseman approaching his thousandth game, and a man who has learned to compress every true thing into the minimum viable sentence. Elara Vasquez is thirty-three, owner of Vasquez and Associates, and a single mother whose marriage taught her what happens when you disappear into someone else's schedule. She has spent three years building a life she controls entirely: color-coded binders, precise timelines, and a production vocabulary she uses on her own feelings. The Heritage Season is a celebration and an excavation. As Elara digs into the archive, she finds a memo proving the organization suppressed Vince's career-threatening shoulder injury for seven years. Last Change is Book 4 in the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GKHCX5NF. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Unassisted: A Forbidden Slow-Burn Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

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She speaks in diagnoses. He's learning her language. They call it the Translation Game. A slow-burn, forbidden hockey romance where two guarded professionals can only tell each other the truth in code. Declan Rourke has spent a decade being the man everyone on the Portland Wolves can count on. The captain who never misses a shift, never shows weakness, never lets anyone close enough to see what holding it all together actually costs. He learned the price of being seen as a rookie, when a teammate sold his story to the press. So when a torn shoulder threatens to end everything, the last thing he needs is a therapist who treats his silence like a symptom. The trouble is, he doesn't want to flinch from her. He wants to learn her words. Elena Marlowe doesn't trust athletes, institutions, or men who smile like they're hiding something. She weaponizes clinical terminology the way other people use small talk. Posterior capsule. Capsular adhesion. Safe, precise words for things she refuses to feel, the armor she built the year an institution decided she was the problem. The captain is the one variable she cannot diagnose. He doesn't back away from her vocabulary. He leans in, asks what each term means, and turns her defenses into a private language only the two of them speak. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GRNLLZ3L. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

The Fractured Wing

by Zenna Lake

This is Book 2 of The Shackled Oath series. She survived captivity. But survival was never the same thing as healing. Azaria Sylvenhart was freed from captivity. What they could not free was her mind. Broken by what was done to her and driven by something darker than grief, Azaria descends into a war of her own making—one her squad watches helplessly, caught between reaching for her and fearing she may no longer want to be reached. Dain fights to hold her together. And Quinton Thornvale, the blood mage who would burn kingdoms to keep her alive, is learning that saving Azaria’s life and reaching her are not the same thing—and that whatever is growing between them was never going to survive unscarred. But darkness does not wait for her to heal. Hunted by the same forces that have tried to destroy her from the beginning, Azaria is forced to confront what she is willing to become in order to survive. And the arrival of a stranger from across the continent—one bound to her by something neither of them understands—threatens to unravel everything further. Because Torven Kaelor is not finished with her. And this time, the cost of stopping him will not be measured in blood alone. Perfect for fans of: 🖤 Morally gray heroes & obsessive devotion 🔥 Dark fantasy romance & escalating tension ⚔️ Found family pushed to the breaking point ✨ Praise kink, dominant MMC & emotional intimacy 🩸 Trauma, vengeance & dangerous loyalty ⚠️ This book contains heavier themes than Book 1, including graphic violence, torture, death, grief, trauma, and explicit intimate scenes between consenting adults. The Shackled Oath (Book 1) is currently available on Kindle Unlimited and for £0.99 on Amazon for readers wishing to catch up before release. [Read More]

Blue Sky Black

by Lea Vale

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Zelda never stopped loving Ari. She just got better at pretending she was over him. Then she ran into him again on the last normal morning in America. By the end of the day, he was missing. Now Zelda is searching the wreckage of September 11th for two people: her best friend, Charlie, and the man she thought she'd lost long before the towers fell. *** As teenagers, Zelda and her best friend Charlie had been trying to escape Philadelphia for as long as they could remember. Ari was never part of that plan—until he walked into the pawn shop where Zelda worked and refused to leave her alone. They fell in love too young. They fell apart too fast. Six years later, September 11th puts them face to face on a Manhattan street, hours before the world changes forever. When the towers fall, Zelda survives and realizes Charlie and Ari were both inside and are missing. She has to find them both. Blue Sky Black moves between Zelda's desperate search through the aftermath of September 11th and the years that made her: a lonely, furious girl learning the value of things in a back-room pawn shop, falling in love for the first time, and losing everything she wasn't ready to hold. Perfect for readers who love: - Emotionally devastating love stories - Second chance romance - Slow burn with heat - Dual timeline - Found family - Female ambition Steam: Open door emotionally driven intimacy with explicit detail. Content Warning: Depictions of September 11, 2001, Grief, Loss [Read More]

Bloodbound Moon

by Sicara J Weaver

Some loves demand sacrifice. Winifred has already lost too much. Her coven, those who trusted her, and the man who almost stole her heart. She swears she’ll save them all. The only thing she has left is a fragment of a forbidden grimoire and the burning vow to bring back those she lost from the dead, no matter the cost. Her search leads her to Ireland, where every stone whispers of old magic and something lurks in every shadow. There she collides with Connor, a half-demon whose visions foretell only blood and ruin should she succeed. He offers his help—but his secrets are darker than the bargains he makes, and his heart is the one risk she never planned to take. As Winifred hunts for the final pieces of the ritual, the line between salvation and damnation blurs. To raise the dead, she must gamble with her own soul… and decide if love is worth binding herself to darkness forever. [Read More]

Floodlights

by Maria D'Angeles

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"A sapphic love story set on the football fields of Brazil — a quiet, luminous story about being seen before you are ready." Marina had always understood the game before she understood herself. On the training fields of her Brazilian neighborhood, recognition happened quietly — through movement, through timing, through the way certain players began to see each other before anyone else did. When a place on the national team training list began to come into view, the field that had always been hers started to change. Dani read the game differently. Watched differently. Moved toward Marina in ways that were difficult to name and harder to ignore. As federation attention tightened and the neighborhood began to claim Marina as one of its own successes, the space between them became something neither of them could pretend not to feel. "Defenders moved differently when Dani played. Tighter. Closer together. Like birds adjusting their flight a moment before the storm arrives — because birds know what the sky is about to do long before the rain knows it is falling." Set in the streets, kitchens, and small stadiums of contemporary Brazil, Floodlights is a slow-burn literary romance about the women who raise us, the moments that ask everything of us, and the connections that begin long before either person knows what they are becoming together. For readers of Sarah Waters, Madeline Miller, and Bryan Washington — for anyone who loves literary sapphic fiction with restraint, atmosphere, and emotional weight. Set against the world of Brazilian women's football, Floodlights is a debut novel of family, ambition, and the quiet kind of love that arrives before either person knows what to call it. [Read More]

Seasons of War

by Lindsay French

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Dark Dystopian Romance Sergeant Zayne Riven was born to take his father's place as the emperor's right hand man, but he has plans of his own. Trapped inside the corrupt regime he wishes to dismantle, Zayne plays loyal war hero while secretly fighting both sides of the war. He is determined to rise to the top and destroy the emperor, even if it means destroying his soul along the way. That is until one political prisoner shatters all of his plans. The emperor has captured the rebel woman Zayne once secretly saved. The woman he could never stop thinking about. And now Zayne has been ordered to break her spirit and use her to crush the uprising. Kira Stiles is a true revolutionary. She papers alleyways with forbidden news and hijacks the emperor's magi-tech to write messages of rebellion across the sky. And she would die a thousand deaths before helping the emperor destroy the rebels. Captivity will not break her, not even at the hands of the grumpy and brooding Sergeant Riven. But as her imprisonment stretches on, Kira begins to suspect that the infamous war hero Zayne Riven may not the heartless loyalist he seems. He may secretly be as dangerous to the emperor as she is. Zayne faces an impossible choice. Her life or the fate of the entire rebellion. [Read More]

Duskshade

by Madison Patershuk and Ebony Dobson

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Ophelia’s life is anchored by the measurable laws of the universe. As a dedicated heliophysicist, she trusts what she can prove and she trusts Nick, the man she believes is her soulmate. But when an impossible fracture in reality violently tears Ophelia, Nick, and her loved ones out of the human world and plunges them into the untamed Fae realm of Fenraeis, all earthly logic shatters. Stranded in a world that shouldn't exist, Ophelia quickly realizes they aren't just lost. They are being hunted. The Crownless, a terrifying and relentless entity, doesn't want her dead; he wants her caged. He intends to enslave Phee to siphon the elusive, ancient power awakening in her blood. It is a dormant, near-endless well of magic that hasn't been seen in an age, and this scientist has no idea how to control it. Desperate to keep the people she loves alive, Ophelia must become the warrior she was never meant to be. To survive, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kane—the ruthless, infuriating High King who might be just as dangerous as the monsters hunting them. As her impossible abilities rise to the surface, Ophelia realizes her arrival in Fenraeis wasn't an accident. She doesn't believe in destiny, but to keep her power out of the hands of a monster and to save those she loves, she must forge her own. [Read More]

Justice Denied

by Marle Berry

A kidnapped criminal defense lawyer branded a fugitive by police and a rule-breaking, rogue detective who tries to help her must get over their past combative roles. A history of suspicion and underlying attraction, suppressed and never explored, makes their cooperation a challenge. Their fateful decisions expose them to unforeseen deadly threats and life changing consequences. [Read More]

Talk to Me at Midnight

by Stephanie Harina

The voice that once saved her nights is now her trainer at work. Forced out of Bangkok by her dad, Yannie finds comfort in one thing: a mysterious voice who calls her every midnight. He doesn’t know her. She doesn’t know him. And that’s exactly why it works. Until she moves to Manila. And the voice gets a face. Now a teaching intern navigating office politics and Manila slang, Yannie is assigned to Ash Anderson, her serious, exacting English curriculum trainer—who is nothing like the man she talks to every midnight. Except he is that man. To protect her secret, Yannie makes one rule: Ash must never recognize her. Not when he texts her under the table with that ridiculous grin. Not when he stands far too close while demonstrating materials. And definitely not when he singles her out to present in front of everyone… where she’s now a walking disaster in heels. But when her fake deep voice slips, his smirks sharpen, and Ash starts calling her at work, Yannie realizes midnight secrets don’t survive daylight... especially when trouble wears a suit and knows all her confessions. [Read More]

Shattered Edges

by Marion Thomas

A contemporary dark romance about forbidden love and ambition in elite competitive figure skating and what happens when survival leaves no safe choices. (warning: contains graphic, explicit language and mature themes) Richard Hale has spent his life on the ice, chasing precision, relevance, and a career that refuses to wait for anyone. When his skating partner walks away he’s left staring down the quiet, humiliating end of everything he’s built. His younger sister Holly faces the same erasure when her partner’s injury ends her season overnight, leaving her suddenly expendable. The solution is obvious, dangerous and unthinkable. Forced to skate together by circumstance and desperation, Richard and Holly form a partnership that some think shouldn’t exist. On the ice, their connection is undeniable. Off it, the pressure fractures restraint, blurring lines they were never meant to cross and leaving them scrutinized by a world eager to judge what it doesn’t understand. As Nationals loom, obsession threatens to eclipse reason, and desire threatens to destroy the very thing they’re fighting to save. [Read More]

Operation Black Horse

by N.J. Gervasi

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The first rule of war: Never fall for the enemy. And if you do, well, be prepared for the fallout. Sixteen years into the Great World Famine of 2025, Dr. Caitlyn Svendsen’s patients are no longer hungry, thanks to America's classified growth formula designed to outsmart crop failure, but they are still dying. The cause of their illness is a mystery that Caitlyn seeks to unravel despite the risk to her career—and life. Meanwhile, Spetsnaz Commander Kaleb Volkov is as restless as his motherland. Russia is still starving, denied access to America's growing techniques. Caitlyn and Kaleb are the epitome of clashing personalities, raised to resent each other in a society teetering on the brink of destruction. She is Russia’s salvation. He is the eye of a storm heading for America, ready to tear her reality apart. While America blackmails enemies and allies alike into submission with the promise of food, Russia is desperate to restore its influence in the wake of America's agricultural domination. To level the playing field, Kaleb is tasked with a mission that leads him to Caitlyn, forcing the two natural enemies to work together in a world turned upside down. [Read More]

The Carpenter's Second Chance

by Dan Leonard

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When Ellie Marsh returns to Laurel Ridge to renovate and sell her late grandmother's cottage, falling in love is not part of the plan. Single dad Nate Calloway has spent years keeping his world small: his daughter, his work, and the town he's always called home. But as they work side by side to restore the cottage, Ellie finds herself falling for more than the town she left behind. She finds herself caring about a guarded carpenter and the thoughtful little girl who's spent years wishing for someone to braid her hair. Now, with summer drawing to a close, and difficult choices ahead, Nate and Ellie must decide whether protecting their hearts is worth losing the home, family, and future they've unexpectedly found. A heartwarming small-town romance filled with second chances, found family, slow-burn romance, and a happily-ever-after. [Read More]

I Already Planned My Retirement: A Vampire Romance Series

by Shanna Lee

Colette Briars has had her retirement perfectly planned since she was a kid, every detail neat, quiet, and under control… or so she thought. One fateful run in with a charming teenage vampire, Theo Dragos, sends her plans spiraling into chaos. Now she’s stuck choosing between the life she carefully organized and a romance she never saw coming. [Read More]

In Every Other Way

by Clementine Hart

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Elsie Morgan has two problems, and she's fairly sure they're unrelated. The first is her boss. Joshua Larsen is meticulous, maddening, and impossibly self-contained — the one man Elsie has spent two years being scrupulously, exhaustingly normal about. The second is @plaintext: the anonymous true-crime obsessive she's been arguing with online for eight months, who somewhere along the way became the person she tells everything. Including, lately, far too much about the boss. They are the same man. Elsie has no idea. Joshua finds out by accident, and it stops him cold: the woman he stays up talking to every night is the colleague he's been so carefully keeping at arm's length. And now he's the only one who knows. So he says nothing — and has no idea how long he can keep it that way. A slow-burn, dual-POV workplace romance for readers of Ali Hazelwood and Sarah Adams. [Read More]

My Hot New Problem

by Devyn Remi

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When a fox shifter chief has a Skulk to run and a business to get off the ground, he doesn't need a sexy she-wolf distraction in heels to make him lose his senses. Love has burned Elle Lafleur too many times for her to let a silver fox turn her world upside down. The shadows of her past still lurk, threatening to consume everything she's rebuilt. Étienne Renardeau doesn't scare easily. The shadow is dark, and persistent. [Read More]

Weddings Coordinated

by Lisa S. Gayle

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Twin sisters. Two men. One wedding? Danielle and Mallory are as different as can be! And they’re about to get themselves tangled into an unexpected, sticky web of drama. What the twins anticipated being a simple, brilliant plan quickly becomes a complicated mess with both sisters hiding secrets and fighting strong feelings for some incredibly tempting, off-limits men. Mallory needs Danielle to impersonate her at work so she can sneak off to her best friend’s wedding. But how can you pretend to be your twin sister when you’re nothing alike? Danielle finds herself trying to save Mallory’s career while her sister’s demanding, perceptive boss, Ethan, watches her every move. It doesn’t help that she is inexplicably attracted to him when she vows to hate his guts. Meanwhile, Mallory begins to have conflicting feelings for her engaged best friend, Jesse, a sweet, rough-and-tough auto-mechanic who’s been her rock since childhood. Will the twins get caught in their silly plot to hide the truth? Or will they get more than they bargained for? Weddings Coordinated is a standalone, open-door romantic comedy. It features two emotionally charged romances roped together in one hilarious, fast-moving plot! [Read More]

The Witch's Broken Crown

by Calla Robin

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An enemies-to-lovers romantasy with a slow-burn romance and court intrigue. Perfect for fans of star-crossed lovers and aching yearning. She should fear him. He should hate her. But a masquerade ball was all it took to bind them together forever. Her whole life, Elise Thornwall has wished for nothing more than to rid herself of the curse that has controlled her family for over five centuries and to claim her throne on her own terms. But hidden behind a white mask, she found the one man her heart could not refuse. Andrew Aistle is her enemy. And, apparently, her fate. With war threatening their kingdoms and treachery lurking in every shadow, Elise and Andrew must do the impossible. Trust each other. Trusting your enemy is a dangerous game. And falling in love, even worse. Five hundred years of bitterness cannot be undone by love… can it? [Read More]