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Quiet Love Series: Books 1-3 by L.H. Cosway Release Date: July 28, 2026 About Quiet Love Series: Books 1-3 Dive into the first three books in the Quiet Love series, plus brand new novella, A Quiet Promise ! Meet the unforgettable Irish heroes who will steal your heart and make you swoon! The Quiet Love series has it all, from neighbours to lovers to protective heroes, workplace romance to second chances, this series is your next comfort read. This boxset includes: Quiet Types (#1): Maggie shares stolen glances with a handsome stranger on her daily bus journey. But what happens when she finds out that the man she’s been obsessing over can’t speak? Quiet Longing (#2): While spending her last summer before college in Ireland, Charli falls for Rhys, but their romance is cut short at the end of her visit. Years later, a newly divorced Charli returns to Ireland for a fresh start and comes face-to-face with the man she could never forget. Quietly Yours (#3): After her ...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. We're back in Ashford Creek with the third book in the eponymous series from Carrie Ann Ryan. Westward  is a second-chance romance featuring Elizabeth Ellis and Atlas Carter, both thirty-one and childhood sweethearts who broke up, with him going on to become the best goalie in professional hockey and her returning to their hometown to become a high school teacher. When Atlas is attacked and left injured, he knows that the safest place for him to rehabilitate is back home with family nearby and his community supporting him. Elizabeth--his Lizzie--is there as well, and being that close to her could very well be their opportunity to see if there was a way for them to move forward--together. But there was a reason why they went their separate ways, and being a couple would mean making certain decisions. Unfortunately, it looks like someone in the shadows is looking to make a life-altering choice for them. Ah, I loved this r...

Mike Bravo Ops: Hazard (Mike Bravo Ops #5) by Eden Finley Release Date: July 23, 2026 About Mike Bravo Ops: Hazard Mike Bravo. Knights in shining … camo. Hazard Joining the infamous Mike Bravo Ops to meet the godfather I never knew doesn't go the way I expect. I'm hoping to meet the man I've only read about in my late father's journals, someone who's warm, caring, and a ride or die. But when I arrive, all I get is coldness and hostility from someone who doesn't even want to know me. I don't understand how he can be the same man my father wrote so passionately about. Or why I find him annoyingly attractive. Decaf I've been through a lot in my lifetime—rejection from my family, enlisting in the military, a literal warzone—but nothing, nothing, comes close to the day I lost my best friend. He's the reason I have nightmares and hate sleeping, the reason I drink so much coffee. Now, his grown son shows up in my life, and there are so ...

The Irresistible One (The Weston Group #4) by Marni Mann Release Date: July 23, 2026 About The Irresistible One A naughty enemies-to-lovers, single dad, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann … I’m the irresistible one. The man who always gets what he wants. Too bad the only woman I want is the one I can’t have. Dating apps can’t touch the dark and uninhibited desires I keep hidden. For the kind of kink I crave, I go to Lush—a playground where fantasies become reality. That’s where I meet her. The breathtaking blonde in the crimson dress who steals the air from my lungs, becoming an instant fixation after just one night. Daring. Uninhibited. Captivating. One taste will never be enough. And when we meet again, it’s the worst possible scenario … The sexy bombshell who ruined me for anyone else is now the one person who is completely out of my reach. Off-limits. Untouchable. Forbidden. The absolute enemy of everything I stand for. But whe...

Grumpily Yours (Stick Taps #2) by Teagan Hunter Release Date: July 21, 2026 Montlake About Grumpily Yours When a blacklisted chef is forced to work for a grumpy ex–NHL player, sparks fly in and out of the kitchen. A steamy workplace romance about rebuilding dreams, breaking rules, and finding forever. When a public meltdown ruins chef Summer Turner’s career, she flees to her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, hoping to rediscover her passion for cooking. Summer doesn’t want to work for someone else again, but when her father secures her a job at a local cidery, she doesn’t dare say no, even if it means working for scowling former NHL player Ezra Rawlings. After a career-ending injury, Ezra knows what it’s like to lose everything. Emotionally guarded, he’s sworn off relationships to focus on business. But sparring with Summer ignites something he thought was gone forever, and what starts as a casual fling becomes impossible to ignore. As their connection deepens and defense...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. "All of you is beautiful," he rasped. "Your hope and your fear. Your joy and your pain. Because all of it is you ."   "There is nothing more comforting than knowing, down to your bones, that you are loved for exactly who you are. That is the most precious gift I'll ever be given." It goes without saying that I've been eagerly awaiting the release of Into the Fading Twilight  ever since the events that unfolded in the first Starlight Grove  novel, Across the Vanishing Sky . That's the thing with Catherine Cowles's writing--she hooks you in for the next book in the series just as the current story is wrapping up. But how could anyone who's read the series starter not have book two on their list of most anticipated reads, what with needing to know how Nova Monroe was doing after everything she endured?! And then there's the man who found her just as she was giving up hope--...

Big Stick Energy (New York Legends #2) by Sarina Bowen Release Date: June 30, 2026 Forever About Big Stick Energy A hockey team captain and a bubbly staffer mix business with pleasure when they start fake dating through the wedding season in this hot sports romance perfect for fans of Mariana Zapata​ and Elle Kennedy. Darcy Kendrick is used to putting out fires. As an overworked admin to a hockey team, she's seen it all. But nothing prepares her for accidentally DMing her very private, very NSFW fantasy to the subject of this fantasy: team captain Eric Tremaine. Nobody actually dies of embarrassment. Right? But when a wedding invite puts them on a collision course with her chaotic family and his emotionally fraught past, Eric suggests a plan: they fake-date their way through the “Wedding Experience.” It's mutually beneficial. Totally strategic. And definitely not real. Except between mini tacos, slow dances and lingering glances, Eric starts to wonder if the sharp-t...