Happy Book Birthday to Five Brothers by Penelope Douglas

From New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a never-before-seen dark romance that is sure to satiate readers’ most taboo cravings. Known for their twisted and sultry romances that leave nothing to the imagination, Douglas is back with FIVE BROTHERS (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; on-sale: July 30, 2024), where one woman becomes the irresistible object of five brothers’ desires but must decide which one is the real deal. 

About the Book

Five Brothers

by Penelope Douglas

560 pages, Paperback

First published July 30, 2024

One woman learns the secrets of the five Jaeger brothers.

On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain…

Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile.

Army is twenty-eight. A single dad with the most beautiful green eyes. He has no idea who he is, if not a Jaeger brother.

Iron will be in prison soon. You’d never think it to meet him. He’s a nice guy, actually. But he can’t stop reacting to everything.

Dallas is the one I hate. Twenty-one, cruel, and selfish. He takes and then throws away whatever’s left.

And Trace is mine. Or he was for about two seconds. No one can tame him for long.

Not that I ever wanted to. It was fun, but now I need to go home. Back to my side of the tracks. Away from the swamps and these men. To my parents’ big house. On my clean street. Where I’m never dirty or messy or hot. And I will. I’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning. I just want to crash on the couch tonight.

Their house is dark and quiet, everyone else is asleep. Except for one. He sees me crying and comes at me from behind. I let him wrap his arms around my body and hold me tightly. His breath is on my neck, his fingers are in my hair, and he doesn’t stop there.

I don’t think it was Trace.

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Happy Book Birthday to Primal Mirror by Nalini Singh

For more than fifteen years, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nalini Singh has brought readers the most incredible worlds and unforgettable characters, remaining one of the most popular paranormal romance writers on the market. This summer she takes us into a family tainted by secrets in PRIMAL MIRROR (Berkley Hardcover; July 23, 2024) as the world of the Psy teeters on the edge of a catastrophic collapse.

About the Book 

Primal Mirror

Psy-Changeling Trinity #8

by Nalini Singh

400 pages, Hardcover

First published July 23, 2024

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a family dark with shadowy secrets, as the world of the Psy hangs on the edge of a final catastrophic collapse…

Daughter of two ruthless high-gradient telepaths, Auden Scott is not the child her Psy parents wanted or expected, even before her brain injury. Her thoughts are scattered, her memories fuzzy—or just terrifyingly blank. The only thing she knows for certain is that she must protect her unborn baby…a baby she has no recollection of conceiving and who draws an abnormal intensity of notice from her dead mother’s closest associates.

Leopard alpha Remi Denier is a man driven by the primal instinct to protect. Protect his pack, protect his allies… and protect the mysterious woman who has become a most unlikely neighbor. With eerie eyes that see too much and a scent that alters in ways disturbing and impossible, Auden Scott is the enemy…but nothing about this strange Psy is what it seems, Remi’s feline heart as fascinated by her as the human half of his soul.

Then Auden asks Remi to help her shatter the wall of secrets that is the Scott bloodline. What they unearth will reveal a nightmare beyond imagination. This time, the battle is to the death…

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Spotlight on Once Charmed, Twice Cursed by Shaylin Gandhi

 

About the Book

Once Charmed, Twice Cursed
by Shaylin Gandhi
250 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 16, 2024

Bria Radcliffe is Charmed, blessed at birth with the Mark of the fortune goddess. Armed with divine favor, Bria has survived freak storms, unearthed buried treasure, and secured her family’s fortune. Now she has no shortage of admirers clamoring to share her magical luck—of her hometown’s hundred eligible bachelors, ninety-nine have proposed.

Only Weston Wildes, her brother’s best friend, remains silent. He’s the only man Bria wants, but he bears the Mark of a Null—one whose touch can permanently negate her luck. Bria suspects Weston distances himself to protect her, but he doesn’t realize her “blessing” feels more like a curse, and that what she craves most—even more than him—is freedom from her Mark.

When Bria’s brother arranges her marriage to a reviled duke, a masked highwayman kidnaps her en route to the ceremony. It’s then she realizes Weston isn’t the only Null in town. Now Bria’s captor holds the key to the life she's always wanted—one that includes Weston and normalcy—if only she can convince the masked man to touch her before her luck runs out for good.

Once Charmed, Twice Cursed is a standalone, brother's-best-friend romantasy, perfect for those who wished Princess Bride had been a little bit angstier and a little bit steamier.

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Spotlight on Business Casual by B.K. Borison

From the TikTok phenomenon B.K. Borison comes the highly anticipated Lovelight Farm series finale, BUSINESS CASUAL, in which two polar opposites find out if one night together is enough to get each other out of their systems.

About the Book

Business Casual

Lovelight #4

by B.K. Borison

384 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 2024

Two opposites decide to test their chemistry with one steamy night together. But will once be enough?

Nova Porter isn’t looking for love, and she certainly has no explanation for her attraction to buttoned-up, three-piece-suit-wearing investment banker Charlie Milford. Maybe it’s his charm? Or maybe it’s his determination to help her fledgling business however he can. Either way, she’s distracted every time he’s around. With her new tattoo studio set to open in her hometown of Inglewild, she doesn’t have time for frivolous flirtations. 

In an effort to get Charlie out of her system once and for all, Nova offers a proposition. One night. No strings. They’ll kick their uncomfortable attraction to the curb and return to their respective responsibilities. But their explosive night together scatters their expectations like fallen leaves. And with Charlie in town as the temporary head of Lovelight Farms, Nova can’t quite avoid him. 

And Charlie? Well, Charlie knows a good investment when he sees one. He’s hoping he can convince Nova he’s worth some of her time.

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Spotlight on Dragon Born by Donna Grant

Now available!

About the Book

Dragon Born
Dragon Kings #8
by Donna Grant
352 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 9, 2024

She’s the most dangerous being alive…and the only one I crave.

I feel her across realms. Through the vast emptiness of space, weaving among the stars. She is the Queen of Violets. Powerful, shrewd, defiant. Utterly exquisite. Feared among her own and pursued by all.

She is the Dragon Queen.

I was an ordinary MI5 agent before being thrust into the world of Dragons Kings, Fae, Reapers, and magic. But it was a world I soon discovered I was bound to by blood from my Druid ancestors.
The instant we met, I was hers. Forever. I would have ripped the moon from the sky for her. I would have razed worlds. Then she deceived me.

Yet, I can’t stop thinking about her. Craving her. She’s in my very psyche, like a fever that burns through my veins like dragon fire. Scorching and eternal.

When I sense a malicious danger closing in around her, I defy every rule to get to her.
My love.

My queen.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant delivers one of the most anticipated books in the exhilarating Dragon King series.

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Cover Reveal of Hexed by Emily McIntire

Why have one reveal when you can have two?
So excited to share the double cover reveal for 𝐻𝐸𝑋𝐸𝐷, a dark contemporary romance inspired by The Little Mermaid, and the sixth and FINAL complete standalone in Emily McIntire's Never After series.
Both designs by the incredible @trcdesignsbycat 

About the Book

Hexed

Never After #6

by Emily McIntire

544 pages, Paperback

Expected publication November 5, 2024

𝑯𝒆’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒔𝒂 𝑵𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂. 𝑺𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕.

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn’t good enough for her parents, and she isn’t good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she’s cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle’s demands. And she doesn’t have time for a moral compass, anyway. 

When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he’s the only one who’s ever seen her for her.

There’s just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo “Loverboy” Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the Northeast. When he’s tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn’t think twice.

Until he meets his fiancée’s cousin.

Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. 

When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they’ll both have to choose what’s more important: duty to their families, or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.

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Spotlight on Until Next Summer by Ali Brady

Follow two former best friends who each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic novel that proves “once a camp person, always a camp person.”

About the Book

Until Next Summer 
by Ali Brady
Format 448 pages, Paperback
Published July 9, 2024 by Berkley
ISBN 9780593640821

Two former best friends each find love at an adults-only summer camp in this romantic and nostalgic novel that proves “once a camp person, always a camp person.”

Growing up, Jessie and Hillary lived for summer, when they’d be reunited at Camp Chickawah. The best friends vowed to become counselors together someday, but they drifted apart after Hillary broke her promise and only Jessie stuck to their plan, working her way up to become the camp director. 

When Jessie learns that the camp will be sold, she decides to plan one last hurrah, inviting past campers—including Hillary—to a nostalgic “adult summer camp” before closing for good. Jessie and Hillary rebuild their friendship as they relive the best time of their lives—only now there are adult beverages, skinny dipping, and romantic entanglements. Straitlaced Hillary agrees to a “no strings attached” summer fling with the camp chef, while outgoing Jessie is drawn to a moody, reclusive writer who’s rented a cabin to work on his novel.

The friends soon realize this doesn’t have to be the last summer. They’ll team up and work together, just like the old days. But if they can’t save their beloved camp, will they be able to take the happiness of this summer away with them?

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