Release Blitz: Burning Love by Ashley James

 

BURNING LOVE 

Ashley James

Release Date: August 27 

Meet Ashley James:

Ashley James is a romance author who enjoys writing (and reading) LGBTQIA+ books. She is from Washington State—and no, not Seattle—and currently resides in South Carolina with her two kids and hairless kitties, Goose, Maverick, and Houston. Ashley is introverted and slightly (okay, majorly) awkward. She refuses to make this section sound like a tacky dating app profile, so she won't be telling you how much she enjoys music, how she thoroughly enjoys dancing and singing in her kitchen, despite not being able to carry a tune, and she won't be telling you about her love of toxic and broken fictional men.

Connect with Ashley James:

https://authorashleyjames.com/links/ 

Blurb:

One year. Two ranches. A secret neither of them can outrun. 

Chesney Jennings is the last person Jasper Smith ever expected to see back in Sweet Briar, Wyoming. So when Jasper’s grandfather dies and leaves half of Wind River Ranch to him and the other half to Chesney, heir to the family they’ve been feuding with for generations, he’s blindsided. 

But the will comes with one non-negotiable condition: 

To claim the inheritance, they must run the ranch together for one full year.

Jasper has spent his whole life holding Wind River together with grit, loyalty, and stubborn determination. The ranch is struggling, and his family is running out of options. The last thing he needs is help from a Jennings—especially one who disappeared years ago and left a hole in Jasper’s chest that never quite healed.

Chesney never planned to return to Sweet Briar. Not after spending years trying to outrun the town, the feud, and the devastating memories he left behind. But refusing the inheritance isn’t an option, and neither is avoiding the man who once meant more to him than anyone else. 

Forced into long days, sleepless nights, and a partnership neither of them wants, the tension between Jasper and Chesney sparks fast—and burns hotter than either man is prepared for. 

Secrets come out, lines blur, and somewhere between shared burdens and stolen moments, resentment turns into something far more tumultuous. 

But in a town where everyone remembers everything—and families don’t forgive easily—loving each other might cost them more than the ranch.

It might cost them everything.

Buy Link:

https://a.co/d/096gCLTH 

Available in KU 

Release Blitz: Craving Sin by Riley Hart

 

CRAVING SIN

Riley Hart 

Release Date: August 27 

Meet Riley Hart:

Riley Hart’s love of all things romance shines brightly in everything she writes. Her primary focus is Male/Male romance but under various pen names, her prose has touched practically every part of the spectrum of love and relationships. The common theme that ties them all together is stories told from the heart.

A hopeless romantic herself, Riley is a lover of character-driven plots, many with flawed and relatable characters. She strives to create stories that readers can not only fall in love with, but also see themselves in. Real characters and real love blended together equal the ultimate Riley Hart experience.

When Riley isn’t creating her next story, you can find her reading, traveling, or dreaming about reading or traveling, and spending time with her two perfectly snarky kids, and one swoon-inducing husband.

Connect with Riley Hart:

https://www.instagram.com/rileyhartwrites/ 

Blurb:

Rian

As head of the O’Shea family, I don’t make mistakes.

I certainly don’t become obsessed with a guy. Stalk him. And then proceed to kidnap him to a secluded cabin when an attempt on my life is made.

But that’s exactly what I did.

While my family hunts down the men who tried to kill me, Doctor Preston Abbott is trapped with me, and I expect him to nurse me back to health before paying the ultimate sacrifice. Abbott…who is also the governor’s son.

Each day my interest in him grows. He cares for me, shares parts of his life with me, willingly gives his body to me and begs for more…even though he knows he’ll die by my hand.

I never thought I would want someone again this way, that I would crave another person the way I do Abbott. He’s too good for the violence of my world, and all the sinful things I revel in. I’m a monster but he’s mine until the end.

Mine to crave…mine to touch…mine to kill…

Craving Sin contains MCs dealing with grief, violence, darker themes, and morally gray characters with no redemption arc. This is still a Riley Hart romance, so you can expect a happily ever after for our guys.

Buy Link:

https://geni.us/CravingSin 

Available in KU 

Excerpt Reveal: The Challenge by Penelope Ward

 

Title: The Challenge

Author: Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Single Dad, Second Chance, Forced Proximity

Friends to Lovers, Small Town, Found Family

Release Date: August 30, 2026

Take a sneak peek of THE CHALLENGE...

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By Penelope Ward

There was so much I wanted to know about his life. More than anything, I wanted to ask what he’d dreamed about when he called my name. I was also tempted to ask about Effie’s mother. He’d said they were divorced, but was she still in the picture? Why was Effie living with him full time?

But instead of unloading all my questions, I scratched my pounding head and asked, “Do you have coffee here, by any chance?”

Rather than answer, he stalked over to a cabinet above the fridge—the one place I hadn’t checked.

With my arms wrapped around my chest, I watched as he pulled out a filter and placed it in the machine before scooping some grounds. I admired how the muscles in his back moved with the motion of his arms, the way his jeans hugged his ass.

After he started the pot, the room filled with the bubbling sound of coffee brewing. Evan turned toward me, and we stared at each other in tense silence.

“How did you sleep?” he finally asked.

“Not bad, all things considered.”

“All things being me?” He arched a brow.

“I have nothing against you, Evan.”

“Oh really? Because that unhinged letter you wrote me says otherwise. It’s not like time could change all that. Especially when we haven’t been in touch since then. I never reached out. And you never called, either.”

“I was very emotional when I wrote that letter.” I gulped. “And drunk. I wasn’t supposed to send it. It was just meant to be a way to let out my feelings.”

“So, why did you send it?”

“I wish I understood…”

“You mean to tell me you don’t still feel that way, even a little?”

My gaze fell to the floor. “It’s been a decade. Like I told you, I’d been drinking, so I don’t entirely remember what I wrote.”

Evan scratched his chin. “I don’t know if I believe that.”

I looked up. “Regardless of what unkind words I expressed in a drunken, regrettable moment…I’ve moved on.”

“Doesn’t seem like you’ve moved on given the way you raced out of here yesterday to find another place, just so you didn’t have to look at me.”

“Well, you weren’t exactly welcoming.” He was right that I’d raced out of here. But his assumption that I didn’t want to look at him? No. After all these years, it was still hard not to look at him.

The coffee gurgled to signal the end of its cycle. Saved by the gurgle.

Evan opened the cabinet. To my surprise, he set down two mugs and began preparing my coffee just the way I liked it: two sugars and heavy cream. He stirred and then handed it to me.

“Thank you.”

I didn’t have to ask how he knew the way I took it. Back when he’d been living with us, Evan and I had often caught up over coffee in my family’s kitchen before the crack of dawn while everyone else was asleep. So this was far from the first time he’d prepared a cup for me. Little did he know, I’d actually had my very first cup of coffee with him. When I’d started getting up early to join him, I hadn’t tried coffee yet. But I’d pretended to need the caffeine just as much as he did, though the only morning jolt I’d wanted back then was Evan. The smell of coffee right now, the smell of him... I was drowning in nostalgia, tinged with a bittersweet knowing that so much had changed.

We stood across from each other, silently sipping our coffees as if this was some sort of duel—who could drink it the fastest without saying anything?

Eventually, Evan set his mug down. “There are fresh towels in the linen closet off the hallway. Effie has some girly bodywash in the shower, if you need it. Pomegranate scent or some crap.” He lifted his mug again and added, “You look like you could use a shower.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “Thank you. I guess I’ll take a shower before I head out to look for a place. I’ll let you know if I find one, so I can get out of your hair.”

He took a sip and saluted me with his mug. “Good luck with that.”

It was embarrassing to think I hadn’t taken a shower since I left Chicago. I grabbed a couple of towels from the closet and headed into the small bathroom.

After sliding the shower curtain open, I smiled at the sight of both masculine and “girly” bodywash side by side. As the warm water rained down on me, I squeezed pomegranate shower gel into my hand and thought about how cute and honest Effie had been last night when she’d come into my room. Closing my eyes and trying to relax, I took my sweet time lathering my body and massaging my neck. After I finished what turned out to be a twenty-minute shower, I stepped out and wrapped myself in a towel. But a loud crash just outside the door caused me to jump. “Is everything okay?” I called.

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The current paperback preorder is for the alternate cover only.

A model-cover paperback will be live on release day.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

SINGLE DAD

SMALL TOWN

FRIENDS TO LOVERS

SECOND CHANCE

FORCED PROXIMITY

FOUND FAMILY

BLURB

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance…

Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreak…and his little girl.

Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my family’s old belongings.

Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricci’s house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place I’d rented. He’d taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay.

Evan—the guy my parents took in years ago after his mother died.

The same Evan who used to dare me into ridiculous challenges that somehow always made me stronger—a game we’d dubbed The Challenge.

The same guy who ultimately rejected me before I left for college after I’d finally garnered the courage to shoot my shot.

Now Evan was a rugged single dad with an eight-year-old daughter, a cocky attitude, and a dangerous ability to make me forget every reason I should still hate him.

Sharing a house with him should’ve been unbearable. Instead, it felt dangerously familiar, nearly making me forget that I had a life and a job to get back to in Chicago. I realized the biggest challenge wasn’t surviving living with Evan Ricci.

It was not falling in love with him all over again.

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Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.

She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.

With millions of books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author of over forty books. Her novels have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.

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New Releases: Week 5 August

    

 

Here are this week's New Releases for August 30-September 5:

Releases August 30:

1. The Challenge by Penelope Ward

Releases August 31:

1. XOXO by Mandy Muse

2. Sugar & Shadows by Daphne Elliott

Releases September 1:

1. The Black Orchid by Loreth Anne White

2. A Simple Regret by Lacey Black

3. The Last Summerville by Annabelle Lewis

4. What's Left of Us by Lexi Kingston

5. A Simple Regret by Lacey Black

6. Tracking Wolfe by Lucy Lennox

7. Julian by Sawyer Bennett & Kill Keenan

8. Traitors by Willa Hollis

Releases September 2:

1. The Truths We Find by Donna Bollen

2. Rookie Attraction by Ava Olsen

3. The Boyfriend Proposal by Felice Stevens

Releases September 3:

1. Obsessive Lover by Simran

2. Falling For Mr. October by Angela Casella

3. River and Rue by L.M. Halloran

4. Vameer by S.J. Tillu

5. Fearlessly Us by Samantha Brown

Happy Reading!!
Melissa

Cover Reveal: Whiskey Wildflower by Mia Rhiannon

WHISKEY WILDFLOWER

Mia Rhiannon 

Release Date: October 22 

Meet Mia Rhiannon:

Mia Rhiannon is a contemporary romance author who writes modern and billionaire love stories featuring confident, passionate, career-driven women capable of leaving even the most swoon-worthy men utterly undone.

Her stories are cinematic, brimming with laughter, resilience, vulnerability, and just the right amount of sarcasm.

When she is not writing, she is sketching, composing the occasional musical track in her head, running after her border collie, sipping far too much coffee or a dangerously loaded cocktail, and expertly avoiding real responsibilities.

She is an avid reader with a love for billionaire, sports, and contemporary romance often with a twist of suspense.

Connect with Mia Rhiannon:

https://www.instagram.com/authormiarhiannon/ 

Blurb:

Wildflowers aren't the only things that bloom where they shouldn't.

Margot Grace knows everything about love stories.
As Hollywood royalty, she's spent her life watching romance play out in headlines and across movie screens.
Enough to know chemistry is easy, attraction–– fun, but happily-ever-afters rarely leave room for both love and
the life you've built for yourself.

Unfortunately, her family thinks she's overdue for a romance arc—starting with her cousin's wedding.

Enter Luca. Her ridiculously hot, rockstar neighbor.
He's charming, confident, and far too pleased by the idea of being the man on her arm.
The arrangement is simple: Glamorous appearances with zero expectations, and one rule.

Friends only.

It's easy. Fun and it works.
Until a fire leaves Margot temporarily homeless and her family decides she should move in with her boyfriend.

Her fake boyfriend.

Now they're sharing a home, routines, and far too much time together.
Between wedding events, late-night confessions, whiskey cocktails, and one annoyingly attractive man bun, their carefully controlled friendship starts becoming something neither of them planned for.
Because, the more Margot sees the man behind the rockstar image, the harder it becomes to remember why she ever thought they were just friends.

Love, like a wildflower, has a habit of growing exactly where it shouldn't.
And whiskey has a way of making sure the truth always comes out.

Pre-Order Link:

https://a.co/d/02IqzpZc 

Release Blitz: The Trouble with Flings by Melissa Foster

 

THE TROUBLE WITH FLINGS

Melissa Foster

Release Date: August 26 

Meet Melissa Foster:

NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Download FREE first in series! www.MelissaFoster.com/LIBFree 

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Melissa writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance and women's fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Readers adore Melissa's fun, flirty, and sinfully sexy, award-winning big-family romance collection, LOVE IN BLOOM featuring the Snow Sisters, Bradens, Remingtons, Ryders, Seaside Summers, Bayside Summers, Harborside Nights, Wild Boys and Bad Boys After Dark, Tru Blue and the Whiskeys, the Wickeds, and the Montgomerys. Melissa's emotional journeys are always family oriented. Perfect beach reads for contemporary romance lovers who enjoy reading about loyal, wealthy and blue-collar heroes and smart, sassy, and empowered heroines with complex and relatable issues.

Melissa also writes sweet romance with no harsh language or explicit scenes under the pen name Addison Cole.

Melissa's interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping others see the positive side of life, and enjoying beach life on Cape Cod.

Melissa is available to chat with book clubs and welcomes comments and emails from her readers. Visit Melissa on social media or her personal website.

"Melissa Foster is synonymous with sexy, swoony, heartfelt romance!" -NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely

"With her wonderful characters and resonating emotions, Melissa Foster is a must-read author!" -NYT Bestseller Julie Kenner

"What sets Melissa Foster apart are her compelling characters who you care about... desperately. I dare you to read the first chapter and not be hooked." NYT bestseller, M.J. Rose

"You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. Every book's a winner!" New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak

"Melissa Foster is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Fated For Love was amazing. It kind of reminds me of Jill Shalvis' books and they are my benchmark for contemporary romance awesomeness." --Books Like Breathing

Comments from Melissa:

I grew up in Maryland with my mother, a slew of wonderful brothers, and never a shortage of friends or pets. I am passionate about writing, reading, living healthy, and helping others do the same, and I enjoy just about anything outdoors (and anything chocolate!). I love to chat with readers and book clubs, and welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me. You can also catch me on Facebook.com/MelissaFosterAuthor.

Thanks for reading!

Connect with Melissa Foster:

https://melissafoster.com 

Blurb:

Sometimes you have to break all the rules to find everything you never knew you wanted. Come along for the fun, sexy ride as billionaire Fitz Silver pursues his biggest challenge yet—taming wild child Jennifer Stone. Loaded with heat, humor, and heart, this steamy, small-town, standalone romance is unputdownable. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a happily ever after that will leave you thinking about it long after you read the last page.

Silver Island’s golden boy Fitz Silver keeps his business dealings clean, his affairs private, and fulfills every promise he makes. Infuriatingly so. He’s six-plus feet of gentleman in the streets and an unrelenting alpha in the sheets. I should know. I enjoyed a single scorching night in his bed over the summer. But contrary to him being every woman’s fantasy, Fitz is my worst nightmare. I’m a risk taker, a rule breaker. I wasn’t looking for more than a little vacation fun, but that passionate night knocked me off my feet. When a chance encounter brings me face-to-face with the man who ruined me for all others, I know better than to land in his bed again. Unfortunately, outside my job as a high school principal, I’m not known for my good decisions. Once again I plan to leave Mr. Silver and our surprising connection behind, but he’s annoyingly unforgettable, and then two pink lines change everything.

Buy Link:

https://melissafoster.com/books/the-trouble-with-flings/ 

Release Blitz: Love, But Wilder by Cassie Graham

 

LOVE, BUT WILDER

Cassie Graham

Release Date: August 25 

Meet Cassie Graham:

A USA Today Bestselling Author, an avid K-pop listener, spooky, autumn babe and a reader of all kinds of love, Cassie Graham has been writing stories since she was thirteen. She prefers getting lost in her own love stories. Both the real one she lives with her sweet husband and the fictional ones she writes in order to feed her soul. A mother to the most wonderful kid in the world, you'll likely find her fangirling over BTS, Stray Kids and Seventeen, at the movies watching some sort of horror film, or sitting at home on her comfy couch with a decaf coffee and a good monster romance. 

Connect with Cassie Graham:

https://www.instagram.com/the_cassiegraham/ 

Blurb:

From Cassie Graham, comes an all-new retelling of her original novel, Enchanting Wilder.

Love, But Wilder is re-imagined and re-edited with 50,000+ added words!

A witch, McKenna Sawyer, doesn’t know what happened to her seemingly (para)normal life. After her parents go missing, the only path forward is to continue running her family’s flower and metaphysical shop, Petals and Potions. And at night, she warns mortals of their impending deaths via dream-jumping. She thought her existence would start and end in Summerson, Massachusetts with her corgi Familiar, Pepperoni, but as months pass without her parents, she starts to feel as if her life is meant for more. Foreign emotions claw at her skin, begging her to do something different—be someone different.

Just as she begins to lose hope, McKenna is assigned Declan Wilder, a self-assured and complicated monster hunter. When they meet face-to-face, they realize their paths are more entangled than they realized and that the red-eyed demon they witnessed in Declan’s dream isn’t a harbinger of death, but a key to unlocking the secrets to McKenna’s parents’ disappearance.

A journey of self-discovery and passion, McKenna and Declan, along with their siblings, begin to uncover deep rooted mysteries that have been put in place by the people they love most. Together, they must face who they truly are, and amid all the chaos, stay true to their hearts.

It’s a love story, yeah, but it’s a lot wilder.

Buy Link:

https://a.co/d/04MY20tz 

Available in KU