Dog-Eared Daydreams

The Keeper (Redemption Ridge #5) by Aimee Nicole Walker Release Date: June 30, 2024 About The Keeper Sabotaged brakes didn’t kill Rueben Sanchez, but waiting for his assailants’ trial to start just might. A potential witness for the prosecution can’t explore his lusty feelings for the hunky sheriff who saved him, but that doesn’t stop his imagination from running wild. Rueben has already shaped his traumatic mountainside meet cute with Seth Burke into a happily ever after to tell their future grandkids. When the delay threatens to stretch on for years, Rueben feels his dreams slipping out of reach. Should he surrender gracefully or fight for his man? Pressure and scrutiny are nothing new to Seth, but shouldering his duties has never felt like a burden until they keep him from the man he wants most. Cracking an unsolved murder, safeguarding a high-profile trial, and winning re-election should be enough to keep him busy. But he can’t stop thinking about the perfect weekend he sh

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the authors via Valentine PR. A marriage of convenience between strangers can be complicated, but when it's between the best of friends, nothing could possibly complicate things. Right? Well, when it comes to Jude Noughton and Sadie Wilkins, what was a case of the former helping the latter in the way he thought best became a situation that may force them to confront and deal with certain feelings that they've made their mission to ignore, unbeknownst that it's all very much mutual. It's no secret that thirty-four-year-old rancher Jude would do absolutely anything for thirty-three-year-old graphic designer Sadie, but in The One I Stood Beside , offering to marry her in order to help save her family's failing farm is something that they should NOT readily share with their family and friends--and the nosy townspeople of Willowbrook. Convincing everyone that they've been madly in love for years, however, may be

Oh, You're So Cold (Bad Boys of Bardstown #2) by Saffron A. Kent Release Date: June 28, 2024 About Oh, You're So Cold I swear I didn’t do it on purpose. All I wanted was a harmless kiss from the handsome stranger at my eighteenth birthday party. But when he said — with a cruel twist of his cigarette smoking lips — that he doesn’t kiss ‘annoying little girls,’ I stupidly decided to flirt with a random guy to make him jealous. I never wanted that random guy to fall in love with me. Or worse, accidentally start a relationship with him. But now I have a new boyfriend while I can’t stop thinking about the guy who doesn’t care that I exist. So it’s time to move on and focus on my new relationship. Only the moment I make that decision, he decides to notice me. He decides to stare at me a little too hard and in a way that makes me blush. Oh and one day when my boyfriend isn’t looking, he decides to corner me in a lonely hallway and put his rough and heated hands on me

Level Up (Franklin U 2 #4) by Max Walker Release Date: June 28, 2024 About Level Up Joey 'Jay' Cruz Moving to San Luco wasn’t my choice. I was kicked out of my old school because of a protest I organized that went south. Now, I was attending Franklin University with only a semester left until graduation and not knowing a single soul. Until I meet Ryan Redpine at a frat party. He’s handsome, muscular, has a great smile, and I quickly find out he’s the son of a CEO hell-bent on destroying the environment. I push Ryan out of my mind, deciding to keep my sanity and morals intact. But fate had other plans. When Ryan ended up as my surprise dorm mate, avoiding him became impossible. And so was avoiding the feelings that started to develop... Maybe getting expelled wasn't the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. Maybe it was actually the best? Ryan Redpine Jay entered my life like a lightning bolt. I’d never met someone I was so attracted to, and someone who clea

The Sinner (Spade Hotel #3) by Marni Mann Release Date: June 27, 2024 About The Sinner A scorching hot, he-falls-first, touch-her-and-die, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann … The first time I saw her, I wanted her. The second time I saw her, I knew she had to be mine. Beautiful blonde hair. Cornflower-blue eyes. Body to die for. All things I knew I couldn’t live without. But after one night, she ghosted me, leaving me desperate for another taste. I was usually the one to walk out the door before the morning light came. This time, it was her, but not without becoming my obsession in the process. Lily was a mystery. She had a past shrouded in secrets she was unwilling to divulge. She was running from something, and I was determined to find out what it was. And once I did, I’d do anything to protect her. They called me the sinner for a reason. Because I wouldn’t hesitate to burn down the world or cross any line to save her. Add