Cover Reveal: On the Fakeway by Piper Hale

 

ON THE FAKEWAY 

Piper Hale

Release Date: November 19 

Meet Piper Hale:

Piper Hale is a Midwestern girl who loves golden-retriever heroes, imperfect heroines, and some coffee with her sugar. She lives with her two crazy (but amazing) kids in the middle-of-the-map USA.

Piper grew up listening to her dad’s silly stories at bedtime, became a voracious reader as a child, and never forgot her high school creative writing teacher, who told her she had what it took to write romance. Even if she didn’t give it a go until the pandemic.

These days, you’ll find Piper writing contemporary romance that’s sassy, sexy, and chock-full of cinnamon rolls.

Connect with Piper Hale:

https://www.instagram.com/piperhalebooks/ 

Blurb:

Sawyer Sullivan is an insufferable golden boy, and I dream of burying him under the ice with my Zamboni.

Unfortunately, I just agreed to fake date him.

All I want is to live in peace. To create art by day and work on the Blizzard’s ice crew by night. I’m happy being alone, but my parents can’t accept that.

After my mom ambushes me with yet another bland blind date, I’ve had enough. Desperate to get her off my back, I do something completely unhinged. I tell her I have a boyfriend.

Which is a lie.

When Sawyer overhears my plans to beg someone to pose as my boyfriend, he volunteers himself. He’ll keep my parents off my back, and I’ll help ward off the rookie gunning for his spot by making him look good for the team.

The problem is, he’s sunshine, I’m storm clouds. No one would believe we’re into each other, but we’ll have to convince them because my sanity and his career are on the line. But at least my heart’s not, because my one hard and fast rule…

Absolutely no feelings allowed.

Pre-Order Link:

https://books2read.com/onthefakeaway 

Release Blitz: Fallen Rook by L.J. Shen

 

FALLEN ROOK

L.J. Shen 

Release Date: September 22 

Meet L.J. Shen:

L.J. Shen is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of contemporary, new adult, and young adult romance. Her books have been sold in twenty different countries, and she hopes to visit all of them.

She lives in Florida with her husband, three rowdy sons, and rowdier pets and enjoys good wine, bad reality TV shows, and reading to her heart’s content. Connect with her on her website at www.authorljshen.com or on Instagram (@authorljshen), or join her Facebook group at http://goo.gl/QZJ0NC. Sign up for her newsletter at https://bit.ly/3LhsIrb, and text SHEN to 313131 to get new release alerts (United States only).

Connect with L.J. Shen:

https://www.authorljshen.com 

Blurb:

From New York Times bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a sizzling age-gap, forbidden MM romance about an FBI agent and the Camorra enforcer who thaws his frozen heart.

Tom

I know a secret that can destroy the most powerful crime organization in America.

For years, I’ve watched Enzo Ferrante get away with murder. Literally.

He’s slipped between the FBI’s fingers time after time, spreading terror and mayhem on the streets of New York, masked beneath a gorgeous face and elegant pedigree.

A sloppy error on his part results in an incident that unexpectedly binds us together.

Suddenly, I’m no longer the special agent who is thirsty for his blood.

I’m his savior. His god. The light in his pitch-black existence.

Now that I caught the social butterfly in my spider web, I’m never letting go.

He is about to taste the venomous kiss of betrayal as I put him and his entire family behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Because when the night falls, the Camorra’s enforcer crawls between my sheets and whispers all his sordid secrets in my ear.

Enzo Ferrante is completely and utterly mine, and nobody knows.

Not even his lovely fiancée.

Buy Links:

All Buy Links: http://shor.by/00WF

Audio (full cast): http://amzn.to/4uTMVKV

Audio Release: Sin Bin With the Scrooge by Brooke O'Brien

 

SIN BIN WITH THE SCROOGE 

Brooke O’Brien

Release Date: September 22 

Meet Brooke O’Brien:

Brooke O'Brien grew up with a creative mind and a wild imagination, writing poetry and short stories when she was younger. This passion ignited when she began reading angst and hate-fueled stories about vampires and werewolves before she branched into contemporary and new adult romances. 

When Brooke isn't writing or falling in love with a new book boyfriend, you can find her scrolling TikTok, watching ASMR, or devouring her latest binge-worthy TV show. 

She loves rockin' a good hoodie with leggings, is addicted to chocolate, and believes the best days include a good nap.

Brooke O'Brien is represented by Two Daisy Media. For all subsidiary rights, please contact Savannah Greenwell at info@twodaisy.com.

Connect with Brooke O’Brien:

https://beacons.ai/authorbrookeobrien 

Blurb:

It’s the most wonderful time of the year... to end up snowed in with your ex-boyfriend's brother.

Clay Barlowe’s NHL career ended the night his knee gave out. One torn ACL was bad enough. The second? Game over.

 

Now he’s the guy with a reputation—grumpy, stubborn, hotheaded. Every teammate would agree he’s impossible, and he hasn’t bothered to prove them wrong. Coaching might be his second chance…if he can avoid distractions and keep the rumors under wraps.

 

Which is why being snowed in with Tessa St. James is a temptation he can’t afford.

 

Their families spent every Christmas together. Everyone thought she’d grow up to marry Clay’s brother. No one knew her heart quietly belonged to Clay.

 

She’s sunshine, sugar cookies, and Christmas cheer. He’s a grinch, cold as ice, with more coal than candy canes.

 

When one stolen kiss under the mistletoe leads to one night tangled up by the fire, Tessa isn’t just snowed in… 

 

She’s stuck in the sin bin with the scrooge.

 

And this holiday season, the only thing at risk is her heart.

Buy Link:

Ebook: geni.us/sinbinscrooge

Available in KU 

Audio: https://geni.us/axAw 

Book Review: Cold Rage by Toni Anderson

  

 I have chosen Cold Rage by Toni Anderson to review. 

I received an ARC copy of the e-book for an honest review of this book.

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Here is a brief description from Goodreads:

In the remote Montana wilderness, a child has vanished—and time is running out.

When a fugitive accused of murdering his ex-wife disappears into the Montana backcountry with his nine-year-old daughter, FBI Hostage Rescue Team sniper Sebastian Black leads an intensive manhunt, battling snowstorms and brutal terrain in a race against the clock.

National Park Service ranger and search-and-rescue specialist Nora Deacon knows the mountains better than anyone. Alongside her K9 partner, Chance, she’s determined to find the missing girl. Nora is achingly familiar with what can happen when a child falls into the wrong hands.

As the search narrows, Sebastian and Nora are forced to work together in a fight for survival as much as a rescue operation. The closer they get to their target, the more dangerous the situation becomes—and the harder it is to ignore the attraction burning between them.

With a blizzard closing in, a desperate fugitive growing increasingly unstable, and a young girl’s life hanging in the balance, they’ll have to risk everything to bring her home alive—even if it means confronting secrets they’ve both worked hard to bury.

Cold Rage is Book 8 in the Cold Justice: Most Wanted series. Every book stands alone—start anywhere.

Readers can expect:
- 🖤 Slow-burn, forced-proximity romance
- 🖤 An FBI sniper hero and a haunted search-and-rescue ranger
- 🖤 A loyal K9 partner
- 🖤 A snowbound survival manhunt against the clock
- 🖤 A wounded heroine with a buried past
- 🖤 A child-in-peril race through the Montana wilderness
- 🖤 The Cold Justice team readers love

FBI: Most Wanted meets Yellowstone. For fans of Karen Rose, Kendra Elliot, and Laura Griffin.

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This is book #8 in the Cold Justice: Most Wanted series. 

This is the story of FBI Hostage Rescue Team Sniper, Sebastian Black, and National Park Service Ranger and Search and Rescue specialist, Nora Deacon.   Loved this story so much. It had everything I love in a romantic suspense book: suspense. Intensity, past pain, and plenty of swoons. And the end was OMG!

I have loved everything I have read by Toni Anderson, and that won't ever change. I can't wait to read the next book in this series, Cold Touch, which is due to be out on June 4, 2027. Why June? 

CAWFILE: 10.0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Recommend this book? Yes! Author? Yes!

Read more from this author? Yes!

Happy Reading!

Melissa 

Review coming next: 

FTC Disclosure: The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company has provided me with a copy of this book for review or I have purchased the book with my own funds.  The opinion I share about the story are mine and have not been influenced by The Publisher/Author/Book Tour Company if received for review.

Cover Reveal: Shattered Trust by Shannon Jade

 

SHATTERED TRUST

Shannon Jade

Release Date: December 10

Meet Shannon Jade:

International Bestselling Author, lover of fiction, and bagel enthusiast. With a masters in creative writing and over 10 years of experience in the publishing industry, Amanda Sinatra’s works feature complex women who kick ass, take names, and learn the importance of loving themselves along the way. She resides in Massachusetts with her black lab Jack. 

Connect with Shannon Jade:

https://authorshannonjade.my.canva.site/ 

Blurb:

Alice Knight was never meant to survive.

She was supposed to disappear into the darkness like countless others before her.

But she didn’t.

Rescued by the Irish mafia, Alice is alive, but surviving isn’t the same as living. Not when she still flinches at shadows, and her mind refuses to believe she’s truly safe.

Ciaran O’Malley is cold, lethal, and untouchable—an enforcer who has sworn off women, love, and anything that could ever crack him open again. His heart is a locked vault, and he intends to keep it that way.

Declan Fitzgerald has never been afraid of bloodshed or broken bones. The only thing that terrifies him is having the secret he’s kept buried for decades exposed.

Because Declan is secretly in love with his best friend. And the man who owns his heart is the same man intent on pushing everyone away.

But Declan is determined to make both Alice and Ciaran feel alive again—no matter what it costs him. Even if it means crossing lines that can never be uncrossed. Even if it means sacrificing his time… his heart.

Because in a world of violence, betrayal, and darkness…

Sometimes healing doesn’t come softly.

Sometimes it comes with possession, sin, and three hearts tangled together—whether they’re ready or not.

And in the mafia… love has never been simple.

Shattered Trust is a standalone MMF mafia romance.

Pre-Order Link:

https://mybook.to/ShatteredTrustSJ 

Cover Reveal: Checked Inn by Amanda Sinatra

 

CHECKED INN

Amanda Sinatra

Release Date: January 26, 2027

Meet Amanda Sinatra:

International Bestselling Author, lover of fiction, and bagel enthusiast. With a masters in creative writing and over 10 years of experience in the publishing industry, Amanda Sinatra’s works feature complex women who kick ass, take names, and learn the importance of loving themselves along the way. She resides in Massachusetts with her black lab Jack. 

Connect with  Amanda Sinatra:

https://www.instagram.com/authoramandasinatra/ 

Blurb:

She’s the boss.
He’s the unwanted guest.
Are you ready to check in?

Maya Gomez has always marched to the beat of her own drum. Living in New York City and thriving as the social media manager of a Michelin three-star restaurant in the heart of the city, she feels like she might finally have her life figured out. That is, until her parents drop a total bomb on her: they’re retiring and their beloved family ski resort now belongs to her.

What she didn’t plan on? Accidentally calling Mr. Control Freak himself, Henry Parker. Chalking the incident up to an embarrassing accident and nothing more, she goes in blind trying to learn what it means to run Snowy Peak full time on her own. That is, until Henry shows up on her doorstep and offers his expertise.

As the ghosts of exes past come out of the woodwork now that she owns the resort, Maya must face the music of her own bad decisions. But when her friendship with Henry starts to mix business with pleasure, she begins to wonder if she’s been going about love all wrong…

Pre-Order Link:

http://a.co/d/02KESOc7 

Cover Reveal: The Cockpit by Kimberly Knight & Rachel Lyn Adams

 THE COCKPIT

Kimberly Knight & & Rachel Lyn Adams

Release Date: November 2 

Meet Kimberly Knight:

Kimberly Knight is a USA Today Bestselling author who lives in the Central Valley of California with her loving husband, who is a great research assistant, and young daughter who keeps her on her toes.

Meet Rachel Lyn Adams:

Rachel Lyn Adams is a USA Today Bestselling author who was born in Southern California and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, five children, and a crazy number of fur babies. In 2017, she took a chance and published her very first book. Little did she know just how much that decision would change her life.

Connect with Kimberly Knight

https://authorkimberlyknight.com/socialmedia

Connect with Rachel Lyn Adams:

https://linktr.ee/rachellynadams

Blurb:

MASON MONROE

Age: 23
Occupation: MMA fighter
Location: Sacramento
Personal rule: Don’t let anything get in the way of the next fight
Current problem: Accidentally rejected the hot pilot

NOLAN BRADFORD

Age: 29
Occupation: Airline pilot
Location: Tampa
Personal rule: No repeats
Current problem: Finding reasons to break his own dating rule

When MMA fighter Mason Monroe accidentally rejects airline pilot Nolan Bradford on the dating app The Click, he doesn’t expect to run into him on his flight. He definitely isn’t prepared for one drink at their hotel to turn into a one-night stand.

They go their separate ways, convinced that’s the end of it, until three months later, when they’re reunited as best men on a weeklong wedding cruise.

Nolan has one rule when it comes to hookups: no repeats. But with Mason in the cabin next door and the attraction between them impossible to ignore, finding a loophole is way too tempting.

Their vacation fling quickly turns into friends with benefits, with one agreement: whatever happens on the cruise ends when they get off the ship.

Except neither of them wants it to.

With Mason building his fighting career in Sacramento and Nolan based in Tampa, more than two thousand miles and two demanding schedules should make keeping things casual easy.

Too bad walking away from each other gets harder every time they try.

Pre-Order Link:

https://books2read.com/u/bP2oLJ