Dog-Eared Daydreams

Sterling Clay (Sterling Falls #4) by L.B. Dunbar Release Date: September 12, 2024 About Sterling Clay Love doesn’t break us; it makes us whole , my nana used to say. However, one minute, my world is set on fire, literally. The next, I am raising a six-year-old as a single mom without a clear path ahead of us. No place to live. No job. No money. I’m returning to Sterling Falls to claim what’s mine, then there will be no looking back on this beloved small town, a place I consider a handful of sand in the hourglass of my life. Then again, Clay Sylver has shaken up that ancient time clock. The silver fox in his forties is a bit cocky, but solid in every way that matters. He loves his siblings. He works hard. He owns an honest business. Honest , the emphasis here. He also suffers from damsel-in-distress syndrome with a savior complex for lost causes, like stray animals and down-and-out women. And I have a secret crush on him. When I see Clay stranded on the side of the road

The Happy Cat Series Hosed Hammered Hitched Humbugged Happily Ever Aftered by Pippa Grant & Lili Valente Cover Design: Najla Qamber ( Qamber Designs & Media ) About the Happy Cat series Welcome to Happy Cat, Georgia, where the men are hot, the romance is swoony-worthy, and the animals don’t play by the rules. About the books: Hosed is a steamy romantic comedy featuring a firefighter and the virgin nerd next door, complete with a pet raccoon, scandalous gossip, and dildo football. (No, really.) Hammered is a tipsy fun romance featuring a grumpy bartender and his rainbows-and-sunshine secret crush, complete with a panty-stealing hedgehog, the world’s best wedding rescue, and love saving the day. Hitched is a red hot, enemies-to-lovers laugh-a-palooza featuring a girl in need of a marriage of convenience and a man in need of a cold shower to keep from falling for his fake wife. They say opposites attract, but in this case, they also combust... Humbugged

The One I Didn't See Coming (Plain Daisy Ranch #3) by Piper Rayne Release Date: September 10, 2024 About The One I Didn't See Coming It’s the classic story—girl returns to her hometown only to end up moving in with her high school crush, who she hates. Returning to Willowbrook was my only option after Chicago chewed me up and spit me out. Technically, it wasn’t Chicago’s fault. It was his fault—the man I thought I knew who turned out to be a liar. My older sister, always the one to swoop in and fix things, secured me a job as a yoga instructor on her fiancé’s family ranch. As my self-assigned protector, she’s keeping one eye on me and one eye on Emmett Noughton, her fiancé’s brother. He’s the charming, fun-loving, take-life-as-it-comes kind of guy, and once upon a time, his name was scribbled in my notebooks. Back then, I was invisible to him. Now, he’s looking at me like I’m the only thing in the room. But he lost his chance with me a long time ago. It’s easy to keep

Rent Free (Carter Brothers #5) by Lani Lynn Vale Release Date: September 10, 2024 About Rent Free Fuck me for choosing the wrong sister. Atlas Carter was a protector. He was a police officer, had spent years in the Air Force, spent his entire teen years as a volunteer firefighter. Being a protector was in his blood. It was his dream. So when a woman was in a dangerous situation, it was his every instinct to protect her. To shield her. To watch over her. Only, that woman had played him. She’d set him up. She’d made sure that he only saw her. Then, when the real woman who should hold his heart, the sister, comes into his life, he doesn’t see past the hatred of her to know that she’s only trying to protect him in return. He spends the next year terrorizing the woman who’s supposed to be his. When the dust finally settles, and he can see clearly once again, she’s no longer there waiting for him. Read my four-starred review of Rent Free . Add Rent Free  on B

Anathema (The Eating Woods #1) by Keri Lake Release Date: September 10, 2024 About Anathema Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods... There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—the forest where sinners go to d!e. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what’s taken is never given back. Only those who’ve lost their senses would dare to go near it. Or the banished. Maevyth Bronwick knows better than to breach the misty labyrinth of trees, but a tragic turn of events compels her beyond the archway of bones, to a boundary no mortal has crossed before. One that cloaks a dark and fantastical world that’s as dangerous as it is alluring. It’s there that he dwells, the cursed lord of Eidolon. The one tasked to keep her hidden from the magehood that seeks to crucify her in the name of an arcane prophesy. Zevander Rydainn, known to his prey as The Scorpion, is the coldest, most calculated assassin in all of Aethyria and he’d sooner toss his feisty ward to