Dog-Eared Daydreams

The Mysterious One (The Weston Group #3) by Marni Mann Release Date: December 29, 2025 About The Mysterious One A spicy grumpy-sunshine, age-gap, close-proximity romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann … I’m the mysterious one. The angriest alphahole who never bends. And she’s the woman who will bring me to my knees. As the executive chef and face of my family’s billion-dollar empire, time is the one luxury I don't have. With endless responsibilities and nonstop demands, I lost my passion and love for the art of cooking. What used to be my dream job is now my worst nightmare. I was ready to walk away and give up everything we’d built … Until Alivia happened. She was supposed to be a temporary diversion so we could satisfy each other’s desires and then never see each other again … Yet I knew she was different right away. A woman who was my complete opposite, the calm to my storm. The sunshine to my darkness. With a body that left me speechless. What...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. Secretly Yours  is a companion novella to Stephanie Rose's  Second Time's the Charm , a standalone novel published in May of 2024. (That being said, you can read this new release without having checked out the other book.) Just like the latter, the former is a second-chance romance, but while Emily Patterson and Jesse Evans were each other's first love who went their separate ways, Sabrina Tirado and Caden Williams were Emily's and Jesse's respective best friends who also happened to be friends with benefits. When Emily and Jesse broke up as teenagers, Sabrina and Caden's own arrangement came to an end. Now, everyone's gotten together for their twentieth high school reunion, and Sabrina and Caden slide into their friendship with ease. So seamlessly, in fact, that he offers to not just be her date to her niece's wedding, but to pretend to be her boyfriend as well. All he has to do is to not ma...

Brokered Betrayals (Sawyer and Royce: Felonies and Fatherhood #3) by Aimee Nicole Walker Date Released: December 16, 2025 About Brokered Betrayals Years of dreaming. Nine months of preparing. Fatherhood has finally arrived for Royce and Sawyer Locke. Darla Grace is everything her fathers dreamed she’d be and more. Their precious daughter stole their hearts long before she was born and had them wrapped around her tiny fist with her first breath. But just when their lives start to feel perfect, a diabolical act triggers a chain of events they never could have seen coming. Royce and Sawyer will have to combine their fearless and relentless superpowers to take on this monumental challenge, albeit with a lot less sleep and formula stains on their shirts. Brokered Betrayals is book three in the Felonies and Fatherhood trilogy, the third installment in the Royce Locke and Sawyer Key story arc. New readers should start with the Zero Hour and Matrimony and Mayhem trilogies befor...

Under Gorse and Stone by Lily Morton Date Released: December 17, 2025 About Under Gorse and Stone Cary Sutton isn’t surprised when his boyfriend walks out on him during a holiday in Cornwall at Christmas. It’s far from the first time that someone's accused him of being cold—both inside and out. Cary’s spent his whole life feeling like he’s separated from the world by a sheet of glass. Nothing touches him. Nothing moves him. Which is why it’s so strange to find himself drawn to a small Cornish beach and the man he meets there. Sigurd Arvesen is handsome and charming, but he also holds a secret—one that’s big enough to overturn Cary’s whole world. Sigurd is a centuries-old dragon, and Cary is his mate. Whisked into Sigurd’s magical world, Cary meets strange and wonderful creatures that he’s only ever read about in books. The mystical realm is both enchanting and dark, but even scarier are the warm feelings that Sigurd brings out in Cary. What will happen when Christmas ...

Just a Little Desire (Sterling Family Crossover #2) by Carly Phillips & Erika Wilde Date Released: December 16, 2025 About Just a Little Desire I wasn’t the type of woman who indulged in one-night stands, but the irresistible Liam Powers managed to charm me right into his bed—then disappeared before sunrise. I convinced myself the night was nothing more than a reckless lapse in judgment…until he walked into my office weeks later, looking every bit as sexy and confident as I remembered. Only this time, Liam wasn’t just the man who’d wrecked my self-control. He was the wealthy investor interested in saving my family’s struggling tech company. I told myself I could handle working with him. That I could ignore the spark between us and the way he looked at me. Like he still remembered every place on my body that he'd touched. I warned myself not to fall for that flirtatious smile a second time. Liam Powers didn’t do relationships. And I didn’t do heartbreak. But partner...

In a Heartbeat (Rosewood River #5) by Laura Pavlov Release Date: December 16, 2025 About In a Heartbeat A small town, cowboy, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, standalone romance from USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author Laura Pavlov. Wren Waterstone isn’t just one of the most decorated equestrians in the world―she was also my best friend for as long as I can remember. Until she wasn’t. Now she’s back in Rosewood River, and thanks to a temp agency, Wren has been placed at my ranch. I have no intention of allowing my ex-best-friend to work for me, but when I see the desperation in her eyes, I can’t turn her away, even though I know I should. Old habits die hard. Seeing her every day is more challenging than I expected. She’s guarded. Wounded. And she looks at me like I’m the enemy. I need to know why. The more time we spend together, the more the lines between past and present blur―and we find our way back to one another. The only problem is, she’s got big dreams to chas...