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Abundance of Obsession

by Violet Hale

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Obsession. Vengeance. Trauma. Love. Fear made her survive. Obsession made him dangerous. Eli Montgomery was raised to become a weapon for the Pact—cold, controlled, and loyal only to the empire built on blood. As the organization’s feared General, he knows exactly how monsters are created. And he became one willingly. Then he meets Zoe Monroe. Beautiful. Broken. Secretive. A woman with darkness living behind her eyes and revenge stitched into her soul. She was never supposed to matter to him. But from the moment she walks into his world, Eli’s obsession turns vicious. Protecting her becomes instinct. Touching her becomes addiction. Loving her becomes the one weakness that could destroy everything. Because Zoe isn’t just hiding secrets. She’s hunting the men who ruined her life. And when her past catches up to her, Eli discovers there’s no line he won’t cross for her. No law he won’t break. No body he won’t burn. Not even if it starts a war. Now trapped between vengeance, trauma, and a love powerful enough to ruin them both, Zoe and Eli are about to learn the most dangerous truth of all: Sometimes the person who saves you… becomes the darkest part of your soul. Abundance of Obsession is a dark mafia romance featuring possessive love, trauma healing, morally gray characters, violent themes, and obsessive devotion. [Read More]

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by Catarina T. Vex

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She reads paintings. He reads people. Nell Sayer is an art authenticator hired for a seventy-two-hour job at a Boston estate. Private collection. Simple contract. The door locks from the outside. He is calm. Controlled. He never threatens her. He just pays attention, the kind of attention that makes her feel seen in places she has never shown anyone. Nell knows she is being studied. She doesn't know that by the time she understands why, she won't want to leave. [Read More]

A Field Beyond Notions

by Atria J. Merian

Rosario My alchemy diploma is as useless as the men I’ve been dating. Blacklisted from the industry, I took the job nobody else would touch: glorified assistant to the Divine Executioner—God’s favorite assassin. He tortures with flair. Kills with a smile… but it’s his longing stares that leave me truly terrified. This gig is only temporary. Until I save up enough to start my own alchemy boutique. But the Executioner is a ruthless immortal beyond mortal laws, said to tally corpses and lovers in equal measure. I have a bad feeling he will never let me go. The Executioner Humans think I’m a psychopath. I don’t think about them at all. My routine keeps me sane. Seven days per prisoner. Feed on fear. Dispose. Paperwork. Repeat.
But ever since Rosario became my operations manager, I’ve been lovestruck. For the first time in centuries. I watch her sleep. I plan our life together. I hear the bells toll.
 She may be trying to outrun her past, but she will never outrun our future. Till death do us part is a wonderful notion… especially when you’re immortal. Content note: this is a paranormal dark romance. It contains mature themes that some readers might find very disturbing. Read at your own risk. A full CW list is available on the author’s website. Tropes: Icy Black Cat FMC x (Rabid) Golden Retriever MMC Stalking, Obsession, Intense Devotion Forced Proximity Revenge [Read More]

A Shore Thing

by Emily Shacklette

Juliette Matthews has chased light across the globe—from the Andes to North Africa—but nothing throws her off balance quite like being back at her family’s Jersey Shore summer home. Especially when “temporary” starts looking a lot like staying… and Wesley Olson is everywhere she turns. Wesley never left Ocean City—and never forgot the girl next door who wrecked him in the best and worst ways. He’s spent seventeen years building a life that’s safe, steady, and entirely Juliette-free. That is, until, she shows back up on his front porch like the prettiest ghost he’s ever seen. Because one look at her, and suddenly the past isn’t so past. The summer is hotter, the tension thicker, and staying away? Not an option. Not when every shared glance feels like a dare—and every touch reminds them exactly what they lost. This summer, Juliette and Wesley will have to decide—were they destined to be nothing more than a summer fling…or have they always been a shore thing? [Read More]

The Sicilian Trap: A Grumpy Coach World Cup Spicy Soccer Rom-Com

by Mara J. Ova

He demands absolute control to win the World Cup. She is the sunshine that refuses to bend. Grumpy Meets Sunshine • Forced Proximity • Steamy Soccer Romance • Opposites Attract • Workplace Romance • Protective Hero • World Cup Stakes • Slow-burn With Sparkling Chemistry • Hilarious Banter • Found Family • Italian Vibes Vincenzo Messina is a tactical genius who demands absolute control to win the World Cup, but his new PR director is a walking distraction. Armed with weaponized sunshine, Sofia Hofer threatens his sacred locker room, igniting a fiery clash of wills and sizzling chemistry they both refuse to acknowledge. Arriving at the secluded Base Camp, Sofia's relentless optimism immediately collides with Vincenzo’s dictatorial temper. She treats football as a passionless branding puzzle to protect, while the volcanic coach fiercely shields his squad from the media. Bound by a lucrative Armani sponsorship, they are forced into thirty days of inescapable proximity within a secure compound and high emotion during the matches. As the grueling tournament progresses, their battle lines blur. Sofia discovers the devout heart beneath his melodramatic touchline theatrics, while Vincenzo realizes her efficiency actually protects his players, shattering his defenses. He engineered the perfect tactical trap on the pitch, but her weaponized sunshine cornered his heart. With the championship final looming, they must choose between maintaining their rigid professional boundaries or risking a catastrophic public scandal for a passion they cannot control. The Sicilian Trap is a standalone, fast-paced, steamy soccer romantic comedy by Mara J. Ova featuring grumpy-meets-sunshine and forced proximity tropes. It is a perfect read during the US-hosted World Cup, and the Italian vibes make it an ideal summer escape. Scroll up and look inside to experience the explosive chemistry and high-stakes tension. [Read More]

Birthspell - Book 1 - Part 1

by Miriam Khan

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With a voice similar to Kendare Blake, Gayle Forman, and Brittni Chenelle, if you’ve enjoyed Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares, If I Stay, or The Gifted Fae Academy Collection, you will love this book! Sabrina Jackson -Amazon reviewer...FIVE STARS. Fans of Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series and Patrica Briggs's "Mercy Thompson" series will fall in love with this book by Miriam Khan, and keep an eye out eagerly for the next book in the series. KK jones book reviews - Amazon reviewer - FIVE STARS I had always longed for a family, but some bonds come at a price. After spending my whole life in group homes, I finally have somewhere to belong. Blacksville, West Virginia, isn’t much—quiet, forgotten, a little too empty—but it’s home to the only family I have left: The Lockes. They’re everything I never expected: wealthy, refined, and eager to claim me as one of their own. After a lifetime of being unwanted, I tell myself not to question it. But something in Blacksville feels wrong. Secrets seep through the cracks of the town, and the Lockes begin to act strange and erratic, too watchful, almost afraid. The truth always seems to circle back to Thorncrest Manor. I didn’t expect it to involve a spell cast a century ago. I definitely didn’t expect it to involve crossed bloodlines and something waiting to be born. Because the people of Blacksville already know what I’m starting to see: there’s something I'm supposed to uncover, something powerful and life-changing. And whatever has been haunting my family for generations is waiting for its moment to rise and take reign, which is why it's time for me to find out not only who, but what I am, and save my kind before it’s too late. A spell-binding new adult paranormal romance with a touch of gothic... Part 1 novella length of 145 pages. Part 2 available on Amazon. Book 2 released July/August. [Read More]

Earned

by Lilly Manning

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Elena Varela built her career on reading people. Adrian West is the first one who reads her back. As a crisis intelligence analyst newly recruited by the secretive Directorate, she's trained for difficult assignments. She isn't trained for Adrian West—controlled, severe, infuriatingly attractive, and convinced she has no business in his world of covert operations and lethal drawing rooms. Their first mission together should be straightforward. Infiltrate an elite private auction at an English country estate, and pose as Mr. and Mrs. Blackwood. Locate a young woman believed to be under coercion before she disappears into a network of stolen art, forged provenance, and powerful people who prefer their crimes wrapped in silk and champagne. But covers have a way of becoming complicated. In public, they stand close enough to convince a room full of watchers they belong together. In private, every correction, every touch, every near-miss turns the performance into something harder to dismiss. Adrian is all control and restraint—a man shaped by one failure he refuses to repeat. Elena is the one variable he can't manage, and the one woman he can't seem to keep at a safe distance. When the mission moves from the estate to a luxury yacht on the Thames, the line between performance and desire finally breaks. To save the woman they came for, they'll have to trust each other with more than the operation. By the time the cover falls, neither of them will be able to pretend it was ever only a lie. EARNED is a slow-burn romantic suspense novella featuring fake marriage, forced proximity, and an enemies-to-lovers dynamic set against the backdrop of London's most dangerous social circles. Book I of The Alias Series. [Read More]

The City of the Gods: Gold

by Zach Erwin

Raymond Chandler meets Stephen King in a universe like early DC Comics. As the scars of T-Day fade into memory, Empire City braces for a new nightmare brought forth by the sudden disappearance of Bonnie Connor, daughter of the enigmatic Theodora Connor. Reluctantly returning to her Scarlet Sparrow persona, Theodora seeks aid from the demon who bestowed powers upon her. As the devil inside takes control, she grows weaker and more disconnected, slowly losing her life and soul to her demonic savior. In his search for Bonnie, rookie detective Skip Gibson unexpectedly unearths a chilling truth—a sinister cult consisting of Empire City's most affluent socialites, intricately woven into Theo's dark past and possibly withholding information as to Bonnie Connor's whereabouts. Meanwhile, the same night Bonne vanishes, Doctor Nadir Singh's scientific team stumbles upon a mysterious UFO near the Connors' residence north of the city. With each revelation, Empire City transforms into a battleground where technology and the occult clash. In the midst of this chaos, Theodora, Skip, Nadir, and others must navigate a treacherous maze of betrayal and redemption, racing against the clock to uncover Bonnie's fate and protect the city's very soul. As the mysteries intertwine and enemies emerge, the fate of Empire City teeters on a knife's edge, balancing between salvation and utter destruction. [Read More]

An Unsanctioned Attraction

by Lia Adams

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]

Room 002: Devoured and Desired

by Nyx Walker

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Emily came to Whispering Hollow for artistic inspiration and ended up with a roommate who howls at the moon. Caleb is gorgeous, guarded, and cursed: a loup-garou bound to the land, he storms out when his wolf threatens to get the better of him. Emily doesn’t flinch—she sketches him, teases him, and maybe stares a little too long. At the Specter Suites, where magic is just part of the décor, Nina—the hotel's owner and resident witch—offers a tea that coaxes truth from the heart. When she proposes a ritual to help Caleb gain control, Emily volunteers. What started as curiosity becomes connection. The ritual forces Caleb to see himself through Emily’s eyes; it forces Emily to decide how much of herself she’s willing to risk. The stakes are personal: a future he chooses, or a curse that keeps choosing for him. Part small-town charm, part dangerous heat, this novella is for those who aren't afraid of the big bad wolf. [Read More]

King's Brother

by Kai Ashford

My brother is the king. I am the brother. That was supposed to be the whole arithmetic. Then the Irish carpenter in the warehouse trailer looked at my shoulder holster, did not comment, and changed the math. Kieran Ives is not in the family. Kieran Ives is on my payroll, on his own two feet, on the books, with a Cork tune in his head and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars of his brother's debt sitting in a drawer in my office. He should be a transaction. He is becoming a sentence I have been failing to finish for three weeks. Ty moy. Two Russian words. The third one is English. I have not said it out loud in either language. My brother offered me the Council seat tonight. He told me to think about Kieran while I do. I am thinking. KING'S BROTHER is a dark mafia MM romance with: - A morally gray brigadier finally asking who he is outside his older brother's shadow - An Irish-American carpenter who walked onto Bratva payroll on his own two feet — and refuses to be the leverage - Slow-burn enemies-to-lovers with a 4-year age gap and a midpoint kiss that breaks the math - Possessive Russian vocabulary (Ty moy) translated by an English answer (I am here) — bilingual intimacy signature - Cliffhanger ending into Book 2 Sons of the Bratva Book 1. Standalone entry into the Volkov Bratva universe — read on its own or carry the saga forward from the original four-book series. Adult readers only (18+). [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]

Hellebore Fields: A Dark Academia Hockey Romance

by Rivkah Plume

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He says I'm his light. But loving him feels like drowning in shadows. At UC Wisteria, I'm supposed to be chasing my future: books, scholarship, and a life I've fought tooth and nail to earn. But instead, I'm being chased by Branwen Atthill, the campus hockey star with sharp edges, hidden scars, and ice-blue eyes that track my every move like I belong to him. When his obsession transforms into something that looks like love, I fall headfirst into the dark fairytale I always craved—until I start losing myself in its twisted pages. Branwen is dangerous. Possessive. Beautiful in ways that make me forget to breathe. When the violence starts, I convince myself I can fix him. That if I love him hard enough, my light will chase away his darkness. But as secrets unravel and the campus grows more dangerous, I'm forced to confront the question I've been too terrified to ask: if I survive loving him, will I still recognize the girl I was before he consumed me? He's everything I was warned about, and the only boy I've ever wanted to burn for. Trigger Warning & Tropes: Contemporary, Dark Romance, Erotic Thriller, Dark Academia, Hockey Romance, Stalker, Grumpy/Sunshine, Dubious Consent, Possessive, Tortured Past, Rags-to-Riches, Murder [Read More]

Blood Debt

by Roman Vasiliev

I have two obligations. To escape. To keep him alive. Both are killing me slowly. A year ago my brother died trying to stitch a Krovavy lieutenant who'd taken a bullet in his own kitchen. A year later I'm in a Sheepshead Bay safehouse with the brigadier who runs that lieutenant's crew, and I'm the one keeping his shoulder from going septic, and he's the one keeping me from walking out the door. His name is Maxim. He's thirty-five. He has amber eyes the fog made look almost warm and a habit of asking the names of men he's about to kill. He hasn't asked mine. He calls me doktor. He hasn't decided what to do with me yet. I haven't decided either. That's the problem. Krovavy Brigade — Book 1 of 4. Dark MM mafia romance. Brighton Beach, Russian + Medical Latin bilingual, on-page violence from Chapter 1. Cliffhanger ending. [Read More]

The Divine Feminine Scent

by E.C. Beaumont

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She seduces powerful men to harvest their energy. Selene is a high-stakes investor building life-saving infrastructure, powered by a secret. It starts as a gift. It becomes her Protocol, refined through psychology, ritual, technology, and obsession. Then Ethan signs the Protocol. Ethan is a Silicon Valley millionaire with everything to lose. He becomes her most powerful subject yet. Their connection is intoxicating, obsessive, and irreversible. But Selene's power comes with a brutal cost. As the line between harvest and love blurs, the stakes become more dangerous for both of them. This is not a conventional love story. This book does not end the way you want it to. That's the point. A story of dark feminine power, psychological intensity, and the cost of loving your prey. What would you do to the man you love if it saved thousands? Inside this high-heat, dark literary fiction: - A powerful, morally complex woman who may be saving the world or destroying what she loves - Psychological conditioning, power exchange, and sensory domination including foot worship - Supernatural elements woven into a grounded, literary narrative - Explicit, high-intensity scenes (no fade-to-black) - No redemption arc. No conventional ending. For readers of Neon Gods (Katee Robert), Priest (Sierra Simone), and Circe (Madeline Miller). Content note: This novel contains explicit sexual content, power exchange dynamics, psychological manipulation, and morally dark themes. Intended for adult readers (18+). [Read More]

Runt of the Brooklyn Pack

by A Dark MM Omegaverse Pack Shifter Romance (Brooklyn Pack Book 1)

The pack said I'd never be more than a runt omega. The Alpha King said I'd be his only mate. For nine years Kaelen Ironclaw has been the Alpha King of Brooklyn Pack. Twenty-three wolves. Four refused mate votes. Half-mile scent range. A discipline nobody in the borough has watched crack. For five years Finn Callahan has lived alone in a fourth-floor Sunset Park walk-up, suppressant-buried under a bergamot candle, clerk at Marlowe's Books in Park Slope, last of a Red Hook omega family that dissolved when he was twenty. He has been the runt since he was eighteen. He has believed it. On a Tuesday in October the wind turns on Fourth Avenue and the nine-year line ends. Kaelen will not touch him by instinct. Finn will not be saved. ═══════ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT ═══════ ✦ MM Omegaverse / Pack Shifter / Urban Brooklyn ✦ Fated Mates — scent-lock, no-instinct restraint ✦ Alpha King × Runt Omega (age gap 5 yrs — both adults 27/32) ✦ Heat Cycle / Knot / Mutual Mate Bite on-page ✦ Consent-King Alpha (restraint until omega chooses) ✦ Rival pack kidnap → self-rescue (omega walks out on his own four legs) ✦ 21-to-2 pack council ratification climax ✦ Dual POV (Kaelen + Finn alternating) ✦ Spice 4.5/5 ✦ Book 1 HFN — Series HEA at Book 4 (Book 2 already live) ═══════ CONTENT NOTES ═══════ Explicit MM sexual content (knotting + mutual mate bite) / on-page suppressant crash / rival pack kidnap + self-rescue / bond-fracture grief reference / age gap 5 years / no mpreg in Book 1 / HFN ending with Book 2 setup. ═══════ FOR ARC READERS ═══════ If you're here for the dark, welcome home. Runt is for readers who want fated mates without the savior trope, an alpha king who refuses to touch by instinct, and an omega who saves himself. Book 1 of four. Brooklyn Pack series. HEA guaranteed at Book 4. — Felix Nordstrom [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]

First Bloom

by Aprille Karats

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Falling for Marco Pueblo was the easiest decision Sharry Greene ever made. She just didn't realize choosing him would cost her everything else. Sharry didn't come to the vineyards of Mendoza to fall in love. She came to work. But Marco is steady, warm. The kind of man who makes you believe love doesn't have to hurt. Her heart chooses him without apology. His brother, Lucas, is the complication she never asked for. Rejection turns Lucas cold. Then calculating. Then dangerous. What starts as wounded pride becomes something uglier — sabotage, humiliation, and a quiet war waged against the woman who chose his brother over him. When the brothers collide, and the family is forced to reveal a secret that reframes everything, the damage runs deeper than anyone anticipated. As tensions explode within the Pueblo family, Sharry finds herself caught in a battle she never asked for — one that threatens her career, her future, and the love beautifully flourishing between her and Marco. When the Mendoza project ends, Sharry returns home to Houston — carrying all that bloomed thousands of miles away. The work is finished. The love is not. Marco promises to follow. What neither of them knows is that the secrets waiting in Houston will make Mendoza look like the beginning. First Bloom is Book One of the Enduring Hearts Trilogy — a sweeping, multi-generational romantic saga set against the breathtaking vineyards of Argentina. For readers who love emotionally-charged romance, family secrets, and fierce heroines who choose love even when everything fights against it. The petals are just beginning to fall. [Read More]

Protocol

by Alison Austin

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Dr. Cassia Hayes has spent months trying, and failing, to create a vaccine for a novel pathogen at biotech giant Baker and Pryor. Her research is going nowhere, and the only bright spot in her day is her ongoing flirtationship with the janitor, Elias Correa. But when the pathogen escapes containment and the facility erupts into chaos, Cassia learns two things very quickly: The virus is more dangerous than anyone admitted. Elias is not a janitor. He’s armed, trained, and the only person standing between her and a kill order she doesn’t understand. They’re fugitives, running from the same people who created the outbreak, and Cassia is the only one who can stop it. She just has to survive long enough to finish the vaccine… and figure out why Elias saved her. [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]