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SLOW BURN
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SLOW BURN

by Dani Skye

He's loved her since high school. He just had to make 94 PowerPoint slides to say it. A small-town firefighter romance about the firefighter who waited seventeen years, the artist learning to come home to herself, and the Colorado town that refuses to let either of them do it alone. Harlow Green came back to Collins, Colorado with a chocolate lab named Cassidy, an MFA she stopped using, and three years of bruises she is finally done carrying. She is not looking for a love story. She is looking for somewhere safe enough to start painting again. Then her Victorian decides to murder her with a chandelier. Captain Jake Bowers has been in love with Harlow since junior year of high school. He has 94 PowerPoint slides on the subject. Charts. Graphs. A risk-assessment matrix. He also has the only crew in town qualified to keep responding to her possibly-haunted house, and a barn studio he built on faith before she even knew she needed one. In six weeks, Harlow’s first solo gallery show opens in Denver. On her ex-husband’s territory. Jake promised to stand beside her, not in front. It might be the hardest promise he has ever kept. And the 247-member town group chat, plus one peacock named Kevin in a tactical vest, has decided these two have waited long enough. The odds were low. But that was always going to be okay. Book 1 of the Station 12 series. Standalone with HEA. Open-door heat. No cliffhangers. ✦ He falls first (and has been falling since 1994 American History class) ✦ Slow burn that earns every page of the wait ✦ Small-town firefighter romance · Forced proximity · Found family ✦ Survivor heroine finding her voice, and her paint colors, again ✦ Patient hero who built her a studio on faith and learned which coffee she drinks ✦ Open-door heat · Standalone HEA · Kindle Unlimited For readers who love Lyla Sage, Elsie Silver, Lena Hendrix, and Hannah Grace’s Wildfire. [Read More]

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Bound To Ash
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Bound To Ash

by Rafaela Drougouti

A haunted archaeologist must destroy an ancient mirror that steals hope. But the vampire bound to protect it will turn to ash if she succeeds. Trapped together by a curse, they fall into a forbidden love that could be the loophole to save them both… or the fire that consumes everything.... He's been chained to the cursed mirror since 1623. She's the woman bent on shattering it. One touch — and now she can't let go. If the Sorrowglass breaks, he burns to ash. If she walks away, it devours the world. And the enemy hunting them through the dark wants them both — alive, bound, and bleeding. She came to destroy a monster. She's falling for the man trapped inside him. Some curses don't want to be broken. They want to be kept. Trigger Warnings: This book contains mature themes, including violence, vampire bites and both on and off page death mentions and descriptions. -Clean Vampire Romance -Enemies to Lovers -Forced Proximity -Touch Her and you Die -Reluctant Monster [Read More]

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The Price of Traveling Light
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The Price of Traveling Light

by S. E. Morris

Rae Stevens is a woman on the run. So desperate to escape the compound where she was raised that she walked thirty miles through the Texas countryside to Odessa before fleeing south to San Antonio, she has settled into a quiet life in a tiny apartment, careful to keep her identity and background secret. A chance meeting with her new neighbor leads to the belief she might just deserve more… Ward Schramm has strict rules when it comes to women. No women his buddies or brother might be interested in. No one very much younger. No sex with a woman who might feel obligated. No relationships. Most of all, no developing feelings. Rae Stevens is very much not his type, but he’ll try anyone once. Something about the mechanic has him wanting more than he ever has before… Eddie Cooper took his father’s religious cult and built it into a drug trafficking stronghold. Rae can bring it all down. He’s already reclaimed her once. If he can’t bring her back to the Panhandle alive, he’s more than willing to make sure she can’t testify. The danger brings Ward and Rae together. Can they make it long enough for love to bloom? [Read More]

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Of Ice and Innocence
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Of Ice and Innocence

by Karen Hunter

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]

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The Fractured Wing
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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]

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Blue Sky Black
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Blue Sky Black

by Lea Vale

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]

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Duskshade
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Duskshade

by Madison Patershuk and Ebony Dobson

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]

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