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Stealing for Keeps (Frost Lake High #1) by Rebecca Jenshak Release Date: December 31, 2024 Bloom Books About Stealing for Keeps From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Jenshak comes a brand-new YA romance series that follows Frost Lake High School's state champion soccer team. This book will include a special inside cover. Frost Lake High's new soccer star, the team captain's ex-girlfriend, and a dare that changes everything. When Austin Keller's family moves across the country for his chance to play with the prestigious Frost Lake soccer team, he's ready to seize the opportunity. But on his first night out with the team, a dare to kiss the team captain's ex-girlfriend sets in motion a rivalry that threatens his future. Claire Crawford was once an aspiring figure skater, but a recent injury has changed everything. To make matters worse, her boyfriend dumped her. Starting her junior year, she's unsure of her next steps. One thing she knows f...

Mr. Broody (The Nest #2) by Piper Rayne Release Date: December 31, 2024 About Mr. Broody I’ve loved Henry Hensley since I was seven years old. We’ve gone from best friends to lovers to nothing. To most people, he’s the Chicago Falcons starting right winger and hot single dad, but to me, he’s my first boyfriend, my first kiss, my first love. Eight years ago, that all changed when our lives took us in two different directions. Our break-up almost broke me, so I kept my distance until our hometown called me back to where our story began. I promised myself a quick visit to help my family out, and then I’d leave town before he even knew I was back, which should have been easy. He’s way too busy being a professional hockey player and raising his son to ever find out. Of course, I’m only in town for a week before I run into him, and one thing is clear from our brief encounter—Henry wants to hash out our past, whereas I’d rather forget it. But my plan really goes up in flames ...

Dear Presti: The Prince's Pen Pal by Karrie Roman Release Date: December 31, 2024 NineStar Press About Dear Presti: The Prince's Pen Pal Two men. One a royal born and bred, the other…not. Prince James lives a life of stifling duty behind the walls of Buckingham Palace. He keeps his secrets and his stiff upper lip while dreaming of the day he will be free to find the man of his dreams. It’s a day he believes might never come. Until Prestidigitation Jones, an ethnobotany student from a small town in Australia, bursts into his life. Prestidigitation marches to his own beat along with his small group of family and friends. He long ago accepted most people found him a little eccentric, but that won’t stop him from living on his own terms. Though happy enough, Presti dreams of finding a man who accepts him as he is and loves him unconditionally. A fated meeting throws them together. An attraction blooms, and a friendship begins. Distance keeps them apart, but destiny bri...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by Bloom Books. Rebecca Jenshak has done new adult and adult contemporary romances before--and I enjoyed them all--but now, she's venturing into young adult territory, and well, I'm happy to report that she did not disappoint! Her new series is Frost Lake High , and the first book is Stealing for Keeps , a story that involves the newest player on the soccer team, the ex-girlfriend of the team captain, and one dream he's chasing and another that has ended and left her adrift. Set in the fictional town of Frost Lake, Michigan, readers are introduced to Claire Crawford and Austin Keller, both seventeen and juniors of the local high school. Claire spent all summer recuperating from an injury that ended any hope of her pursuing a figure skating career. Add to that the fact that Vaughn Collins decided to break up with her because he couldn't be a boyfriend AND be an athlete. All Claire wants to do is get through the school y...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the authors via Valentine PR. "I'm already invested, Jade. I've never not been invested in us. Even over the last eight years, you're still the one I think about all the time. Day or night, it's always you."   Kyleigh's words flow back through my mind. He's been waiting. Mr. Broody  is the second novel in writing duo Piper Rayne's The Nest  hockey romance series, and it's their longest writing effort to date. This is a second-chance romance featuring Jade Keebler and Henry Hensley, and if these two sound familiar to you, then you must be a longtime reader of Piper and Rayne's! Jade and Henry first appeared as seven-year-olds in Smitten with the Best Man , formerly known as Manic Monday  and the first book in the Chicago Law  series. Yup, Jade is Victoria Warner née Clarke's daughter and is Reed Warner's stepdaughter, while Henry was Reed's "little brother" as part ...

The One (Spade Hotel #5) by Marni Mann Release Date: December 27, 2024 About The One USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann brings an angsty, tortured hero, billionaire romance to the sizzling conclusion of the Spade Hotel series. They call me insensitive. They call me uncaring. I'm a raging alphahole ninety-nine percent of the time. But no one really knows Rhett Cole at all. Memories are my currency. Regret is my drink of choice. I’m not the guy who didn’t care. I’m the guy who only cared about her. Lainey Taylor. My reason. My why. My one. The woman I’ve been in love with since my freshman year of high school. A love so strong that I had her name inked on my body when I was eighteen. She was my fairy tale. My happily ever after. Until I ruined … everything. Until she looked me in the face and told me she never wanted to see me again. That’s the day my life lost all meaning. Fifteen years later, she’s back, and my dead heart begins to beat ag...

Fusion (Gravity #2) by Kindle Alexander Release Date: December 27, 2024 About Fusion Dash Richmond After what my family did to us, I somehow manage to not only survive, but to thrive. I’m an attorney, a junior partner in one of the most prestigious law firms in the country. The climb up the ladder is daunting. But my guy, the love of my life, pushes me to never give up, and I haven’t. We know the sacrifices we’re making will give us a better life once my education pays off. While that’s all true, fast forward in time. Somehow, I’ve lost my way. I’m walking a tightrope where one wrong step could cost me everything. Now I’m stuck in a place I never planned to be with a man who’s losing faith in me by the second.  Beau Brooks My determination to be a self-made man is becoming a hard goal to achieve. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner. I love him beyond reason, but all that devotion isn’t helping me get through the long, lonely days and nights for months on end. Das...