Dog-Eared Daydreams

Screwed by CD Reiss Release Date: June 30, 2025 About Screwed She handles her screwdriver every day, but she has no clue how much he likes it. Yeah. There’s a real man in that tool, and he’s determined to break a curse for love. Sophia’s a handy girl with a toolbox, a job using it, and a vibrating silicone toy that takes care of those special needs. All that’s missing is a few grand for a new pickup truck to get her business running. A new contracting job with Jaeger Duke, the slimy son of a politician, will get her the dollars, but she doesn’t realize how dangerous this dumb, coked-up, nepo-douche baby can be. Fortunately, the guy cursed to live inside her screwdriver knows the deal and is willing to strip some threads to protect her. Unfortunately, the woman he’s pining for only appreciates him for his flathead. That’s when an itsy-bitsy spider that’s possessed by an ambitious demon drops by with a way to break the curse. Sophia has to grasp her screwdriver’s thicker side...

Let It Be Me (Shafer U #2) by Kristen Vail Release Date: June 30, 2025 About Let It Be Me All I did was agree to be there for my best friend during a routine surgery. How could I have known his first words when he woke up would change our friendship forever? To everyone else on campus, Lorenzo Rossi is the star football player with the promising future. To me, he's the other half of my heart. My source of strength since I was a kid. Oh yeah, and the only man I've ever loved. But he doesn't need to know that. Because Lorenzo isn't just tall, dark and covered in hot tattoos, he's perfection. Totally unattainable for a girl whose biggest accomplishment is landing a job cleaning aquariums. Until the day Lorenzo goes into surgery… and comes out saying the words I’ve spent a lifetime longing to hear. Suddenly I have everything I've ever wanted and one long, steamy summer to enjoy it—warm days under the sun with Lorenzo, hot nights in his bed, and scor...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author via Grey's Promotions. Stirring Spurs  is the first book in the multi-author Rainbow Ranch  series. This novella is from M.A. Wardell, an author whose work I've been wanting to read for the past couple of years, and it, along with the rest of the books in the series, is set on an Oklahoma ranch owned by the four Adams siblings--Beau, Boone, Billie, and Bennett--and known for being "a sanctuary that celebrates diversity, creativity, and community". The series kicks off with Boone's story, and it's a feel-good, low angst romance where the ranch's resident cook shows the new horse whisperer a thing or two about love, acceptance, and family. Boone Adams is the caretaker among his siblings, the younger twin who's got a sunnier disposition compared to the broodier Beau. Feeding those who matter most to him makes him happy, and that includes those who make up the staff of Rainbow Ranch. So, whe...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. Keeping It Real  is the first book in the Milwaukee Mayhem  series by Tracy Solheim, and she's made the switch from football to hockey. If you've read the author's Milwaukee Growlers  series, particularly, the third novel, Catch and Release , then Alek Bergeron should be familiar to you. Having said that, this new series starter can be read as a standalone, with Solheim providing enough information so that you know what happened when Alek was introduced as a peripheral character in the previous book, making reading it unnecessary (but read it anyway because it was quite a notable read, as were the others in that series. Alek Bergeron has spent his career as hockey goalie with his eye on the prize--winning the much coveted championship. His team, the Milwaukee Mayhem, are poised to make it all the way to the finals, and he refuses to have his focused swayed by anything else than finally hoisting that elusive Cu...

Last Chorus (A Perfect Song #2) by L.M. Halloran Release Date: June 27, 2025 About Last Chorus Some love songs never end, and some promises are meant to be broken… For over six years, I’ve respected Evangeline’s wishes, Kept my last promise to her and stayed far away. I’ve learned to live without my missing piece, Grown used to the ache of my broken heart. All while I’ve worked to become the man she always deserved... Even if I never have a chance to show her. But my distance was dependent on her happiness, On the conviction that not only did she not want me , She didn’t need me. Now her star is fading right before my eyes And that conviction is smoke. I’m done playing dead. I’m still the only one she can’t hide from. The only one who can read her music. All I have to do is help her remember... We’re a perfect song, matched note for note. Last Chorus   is the conclusion of A Perfect Song duet and ends with a HEA. Content warnings can be found at the b...

Final Down (The Waiting Series: Next Generation #3) by Ginger Scott Release Date: June 26, 2025 About Final Down Years ago, I accepted that football would always be a part of my life. I just didn’t know how. When I met Wyatt Stone, I figured the game would weave its way into my young heart and become a part of my first real love. When I married him, I assumed my life would follow the same path as my mother’s—the wife of an NFL quarterback, with all the highs and lows that come along with it. But when Wyatt didn’t get picked in the draft, everything changed. And Wyatt’s light, however hard he fought to keep it alive, dimmed. Football has a funny way of operating in this family, though. It lingers, like the haze that hovers over my family’s ranch fields in the Arizona desert horizon. For my dad, the game stuck around through coaching, and Wyatt thought maybe that was enough for him too. But football had other plans. A second chance at glory. A renewed spark in his soul, call...

Frat Around and Find Out (Peach State Fratboys #1) by Devon McCormack Release Date: June 26, 2025 About Frat Around and Find Out Lance Ty Mother-effing-Lancaster. The cocky, charismatic president of Sigma Alpha. And most importantly, my frat rival. I’m a fun, chill guy, but around Ty, all I can think about is winning. Last year, his frat beat ours in the annual TaskFrat challenges, and even though I’m known for becoming Alpha Theta Mu’s prez as a joke, I take my responsibility to my guys seriously. I refuse to let those fratholes take us down again. Unfortunately, the only thing bigger than Ty’s inflated ego is his competitive spirit. I’m supposed to be focused on defeating him, but soon, I discover there’s a spark between us. Not something a straight guy should be saying about his straight rival. It’s weird, confusing…and surprisingly hot. I’m curious, and apparently, he is too. Living the Greek life with my buddies, we’re always joking about what happens when you f...