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All Too Well by Corinne Michaels is now live!  For as long as I can remember, Lachlan West has been my brother’s best friend and the love of my life. Trouble is, he kissed me four years ago and then never spoke to me again. I was doing great pretending he doesn’t exist until I was assigned to write an article about former college athletes and I learn that the sexy single-dad is my first interview. Determined to wow my editor with an amazing sportsball piece. (Have I mentioned I know nothing about sports?) I head to Ember Falls, ready to face my fears—and the man I love. The grumpy quarterback turned fireman wants nothing to do with me or my article. Yet, somehow I persuade him to let me follow him around for a few weeks, and even if he said yes just to get rid of me, I’ll take it. But the longer I stay in his small town, the more complicated our story gets. The boundaries we set fall to the ground—along with our clothes. He holds me like I matter, touches me like I’m cherishe...

Title: The Baby Blitz Author: Lex Martin Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Surprise Pregnancy Release Date: February 21, 2023 BLURB Two pink lines won’t change the bad blood between us. I haven’t always hated my brother’s best friend, but Michael Oliver gets under my skin and brings out the worst in me. He knows how to push my buttons, and I relish pushing all of his. He betrayed my trust years ago, so I’ve made it my mission in life to aggravate him until he admits he was wrong. When his sister’s wedding brings us together, Michael suggests a truce for one night. If only he weren’t so handsome and smart, maybe I could resist the allure, but I’ve always been a little impulsive, and this man is my ultimate temptation. After years of pent-up frustration and unrequited lust, I finally let down my guard, and that’s all it takes for us to combust. But like all bad decisions, the morning after brings a reckoning, and I leave his hotel room swearing to never wa...

  Release Date: January 12 From   USA Today   best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying   MC, friends to enemies to lovers romance . Gwen The boy I once loved is now the fearless Vice President of the Iron Outlaws MC. And he hates me. Because of something that happened years ago. It's not my fault his father ended up inside for life because of that night. But that doesn't stop him holding me captive until I tell him what happened. Except I can't. Because not knowing is why I'm back here in this cesspit. Clutch The girl I once loved is now the enemy of my club. Even though she's also the sister of my best friend and our club's new president. I don't care that trouble brings her to my door looking for help. She doesn't deserve our protection. Until she tells me a secret that stands everything we know about the club on end. Sins well hidden killed what chance of happiness we once had. But now, they're going to kill her...

  Brielle Davis wakes up with no memory of the last three years and turns to her brother's best friend, Spencer Cross to help her remember.   Help Me Remember by Corinne Michaels is now live!   New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels brings you a new small-town, brother's best friend romance. In one second, my life disappeared. My past. My memories. My future. The only certainty I have from the last three years is that my older brother is dead, and I am the only eye witness. In order to protect the case, the lawyers demand that no one give me any information about my life . . . I must remember on my own. My only help comes from my brother's best friend and world-renowned investigative reporter, Spencer Cross. He has no idea how many nights I've spent dreaming of his name—and his body—next to mine. Now we're a team and our goal is to recover my memories and retrace my past. But each day we spend together, he's looking at me as more...

***4 ‘Team Eli’ Stars*** Okay. Not gonna lie, my head kinda hurts from the whiplash these two put me through, but I will say that in the end, I did enjoy this chaotic, crazy, sweet, awkward, heartbreaking and heart melting story…but the head kinda hurts. Eli and Penny. I liked these two, I really did, well, I adored Eli and really liked Penny, but man did they put me through the wringer. Eli is a charmer, he is the self proclaimed player of the team, but he’s got his demons and despite his statements against commitment and anything deeper than friendship, the man does care deeply when you are his. Penny is a little bit of everything ~ sweet, snarky, awkward, shy ~ and I was here for it, but she had this one little tendency that kinda drove me batshitcrazy, so there were moments with her, but she was still a great person. Their journey to their HEA is legit craycray, hence the whiplash, but when they stopped being ‘awkward’ ~ and stopped having conversations with themselves in their hea...

  Release Date: September 21 Matt Loving Izabel Bryson should be the easiest thing in the world. Heck, she’s been the inspiration for at least half a dozen of the songs he’s written for his rock band, Sad Fridays. He’s loved her for a decade. But she’s his best friend and fellow-band mate’s little sister, and he promised a decade ago that he’d never put his hands on her. She can never be his, no matter how much he craves her. Izabel Loving Matt Palmer is the most hopeless thing in the world. The hours she spends running her friend’s yoga studio and volunteering at the Manchester homeless shelter only go so far in distracting her from the painful truth. He doesn’t want her. Because she screwed up that awful night two years before when she slept with Matt’s brother. He will never be hers, no matter how much she yearns for him. When a good deed leads to one bed, and one night of ruthless honesty, everything is laid bare. They belong together, but acting on it will cost them everything...

Release Date: June 22 Willette Archer has a secret—though some would argue how well kept it actually is. As right-hand woman and best friend to the owner of Bird’s Eye Tattoo Studio, her job has become her whole life. So, she occupies her days with shop decisions to avoid her disappointing dating life. Of course, that might also have something to do with her two-decade old infatuation with her aforementioned best friend’s older brother. Derek Tanner is at a loss—with basically everything. His apartment lease is up, most of his belongings are somewhere in storage, and the good doctor has been pulling extra shifts at the hospital due to lack of staff. So, yeah. His life is chaos. Thanks to these wonderful circumstances, dating is nowhere on his radar.  When his little brother suggests he stay in Willette’s spare room for the time being, he’s both grateful and hesitant. Sure, he grew up with Will too, but they’ve never been as close—let alone in close quarters.  It doesn’t take v...

***4 Stars*** Oh, Kasey and Dominique. You just have to make things even more complicated than they already are don’t cha? But this is why this is a duet...so… I’ve loved both Kasey and Dom since first meeting them. They are loyal to those they call their own and, despite how they treat each other, they have no problem stepping up to the plate for them. They both also wear masks and hide who they are and how they feel because their worlds, while pretty on the outside, aren’t as golden on the inside.  Their journey, thus far, is definitely complicated, but there is a connection that they have that has me believing that it they can find a way to get out of their own ways and be honest, that they’ll get the HEA they definitely deserve. This was a quick read, and a great addition to the series. While there were a few things I wasn’t surprised by, there was one that had me going “Whoa” because that definitely causes a huge upheaval (total understatement) in more than one life and I have...