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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Teaser: Flag On The Play

✨TEASER: FLAG ON THE PLAY by @tlakermannauthor releasing August 9th! Preorder the ebook now for only 99¢!

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Why you will love this book…

🩵Forced Proximity

🏈Dislike to Lovers

🩵Roommates to Lovers

🏈Football Romance 

🩵He Falls First and Harder

🏈Grumpy x Sunshine

🩵Brother's Best Friend

After a messy breakup upends her carefully planned future, Odelia Miller moves in with her twin brother and his three college football roommates—trading quiet nights for chaos and way too much testosterone.

Her life is now one surprise after another. The biggest surprise at all? Griffin Halstead. The grumpy, brooding tight end who speaks in grunts, never smiles, and seems determined to hate her on principle alone.

Forced into close quarters, Odelia and Griffin clash over everything… until they don’t. Somehow not being able to stand each other quickly turns into late-night conversations, stolen glances, and accidental touches. What starts as an uneasy coexistence turns into something that’s impossible to ignore, something that feels an awful lot like love.

In a house full of craziness, laughter, and unexpected family, Odelia might just find that the one who challenges her the most is also the one who makes her feel like she’s home.

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Release: Worse Than Her Bite

Title: Worse Than Her Bite (The Eternity College Chronicles, Book 5)

Author: Lauretta Hignett

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Publication Date: July 15th, 2026

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb:

Everything is falling into place.

There are only a couple of months to go before I turn eighteen, and I can take custody of my baby brother. My mother is still pretending I don't exist, which is a relief. Ronan is a little further along in the grieving process and not being such a giant sad sack anymore, which is also fantastic. We've got the blood witch on the run, and we've got plans to shrink the Hellmouth so nothing else can come out. I've even started making weapons for my Iron Man suit.

Therapy is going well, too. I'm starting to understand myself a little bit better. Especially with certain... realizations I've had lately.

Everything in my life is working out for the best. And I can't imagine anything possibly going wrong...

Right?

Worse Than Her Bite is book five in the Eternity College Chronicles, a fun new supernatural comedy and urban fantasy series that’s a little bit Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a little bit Wednesday, and a whole lot of Big Bang Theory.

NOW LIVE & AVAILABLE ON KU!

Lauretta is an Amazon bestselling urban fantasy author with a passion for writing kickass characters, weird magical creatures, hilarious banter, and a touch of romance.

When she’s not writing, you'll find her enjoying terrible craft projects, unnecessarily complicated cocktails, and hanging out with her two little kids and her dog, Lola the delinquent lab cross.

In case you're here to check, please know that Lauretta does NOT use generative AI in any story or in any artworks in her books AT ALL. Every weird character and bizarre plotline comes entirely from her own brain, and she types every word herself. Support human art!

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NOW LIVE & AVAILABLE ON KU!

Release: Sweet Devotion

✨Let’s celebrate! It’s release day for SWEET DEVOTION by @rileyhartwrites! Grab it in KU!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

💞Friends to Lovers

💞First Time Queer Relationship

💞Sapphic Romance

💞Found Family

💞Touch Her & Die Vibes

💞Mafia Family

💞Novella

When I first laid eyes on Zuri Alexander, I knew she was mine.

And becoming more than friends was just as easy as breathing.

But she doesn’t know my secrets. There’s a dark side to the family business. So, I lie to her to cover it up.

I know she can feel the wall building between us, and I want nothing more than to tear it down…but the only way to do that is to share my truth with her.

That the girl she’s dating is involved in organized crime.

But When Zuri becomes a target of what appears to be some red pill incel, I know we’re the only ones who can keep her safe.

I just hope she can trust me one last time.

Because my devotion to her means there is nothing I won’t do to protect her.

Sweet Devotion is a 24k word FF novella that contains violence, misogyny and discussion of losing parents.

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Pre-Order: Late Harvest

✨PREORDER NOW✨ LATE HARVEST by @cathrynlyonsromanceauthor releasing August 18!

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Why you will love this book:

🍷Queenager & Silver Fox

🩶He falls first…and hard

🍷Love at first sight

🩶Later-in-life Romance

🍷Fake Marriage

🩶Self-awakening

🍷Healing power of female friendship

🩶Grump & Sunshine (she’s the grump)

🍷Hollywood Royalty

🩶Prickly Surgeon

🍷Found Family

🩶She has a lop bunny & loves F1

🍷He reads shifter romance

The role of a lifetime doesn’t always take place on the silver screen

Arabella “Remy” Remington

I’m a surgeon. I like things tidy—rules, routines, predictability, perfection. And I guard my heart as fiercely as the women and children I’m dedicated to helping.

Until he enters the picture.

Sebastian Wheatley is a walking red flag. A charming, sexy as sin, Hollywood-mega-star red flag. He’s smooth and unpredictable—something decidedly unsafe in the world I’ve intentionally created for myself. But one look at him has my blood heating, and I’m not sure if it’s from annoyance…or desire.

The charming devil slides into my life, looking to make a deal. A temporary marriage of convenience to help him land the role of a lifetime. In exchange, I get the funds necessary to secure the stability of a cause deeply important to me.

My common sense says “run.” But despite the risk to my carefully tidy life and the fortress it provides for my painful secrets and battered heart, something about him has me accepting the proposal. And hoping I haven’t just derailed everything I’ve ever worked for.

Late Harvest brings heart, heat, and humor in book one of the Red Wine Supper Club, a later-in-life romance series.

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Teaser: The Villain

✨TEASER: THE VILLAIN by @vivallenauthor releasing August 7th!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book...
🔥MM Dark Romance

🔥Enemies to Lovers

🔥Hate to Love

🔥Captive/Captor

🔥High Heat

🔥Possessive and Controlling Hero

🔥First Time

“My face will be the last thing you’ll ever see.”

“Promise?”

Devlin

After falling from my criminal kingpin throne, I know my days are numbered. So I can’t say I’m surprised when masked strangers snatch me off the street, throw a bag over my head, and toss me into a trunk.

Once I’m handcuffed in a dark room, my abductor reveals himself as a mountain of a man who says I killed his father. What I expect next is pain. What I don’t expect is to be attracted to my captor who oozes power from every pore…

Cian

I have a green-eyed devil chained in my shed, and I hate him. So why can’t I stop putting my hands on him? With every day he’s still alive, my crew grows more restless that I haven’t avenged my father, our former leader, while I keep finding new uses for Devlin’s mouth.

There are snakes in my crew, and hyenas waiting to steal my territory. When I’m betrayed, the one who saves me is Devlin. And suddenly keeping him alive and by my side seems like the most important purpose in my life. But we’re both villains, so this can’t end well for either of us… can it?

The Villain is a high-heat, enemies-to-lovers, captive/captor dark MM romance between a tattooed mob leader with a filthy mouth and a fallen crime lord who finds captivity exciting. Expect D/s elements, “No one hurts you but me” energy, violence, and a very happy ending.

The books in this series are interconnected standalones. See author’s note (accessible through the sample) for a full list of content warnings.

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Release: Slapshot Summer

✨Available Now: SLAPSHOT SUMMER by @authorg.k.brady! Grab it now at your favorite book vendor!

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book...

💚Fake Dating

🏒Grumpy/Sunshine

💚On the Rebound

🏒Inconvenient Attraction

💚Opposites Attract

🏒Hockey Romance
💚3rd person POV

A jilted bride. A wrecked goalie. An unexpected kiss that changes everything.

I came here to reset.

After a season that pushed me to my limits, I needed sun, quiet, and space—somewhere I could shut out the noise and get my head back under control.

Then Lexi Campbell sat beside me at the bar and asked for my help flirting with another guy.

I said yes because it was supposed to be fake. A distraction. Something with clear lines and no consequences. I’m good with pressure. I know how to stay focused, how to hold my ground when everything’s coming at me fast.

What I didn’t expect was how easy it felt to want her.

One kiss blows past every boundary I set. Suddenly, I’m not playing defense anymore—I’m all in, and I don’t know how to pull back. Lexi’s on a honeymoon she’s taking alone, guarding a broken heart she pretends doesn’t still hurt. I’m standing at my own crossroads, unsure where my future leads or if I’m ready to risk wanting something real again.

It was supposed to be a fling. But wanting her is the one thing I can’t seem to control.

For fans of fake dating, opposites attract, and swoony NHL players who actually like to dance, Slapshot Summer is a heartwarming romance with plenty of spice … and, of course, a guaranteed HEA.

**PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally published as Sunsets, Stick Saves, and a Honeymoon in the Love in Destiny Series. The content has not changed. If you’ve read that version, then you've read this one as well.**

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Excerpt: A Simple Love

✨EXCERPT: A SIMPLE LOVE by @morelandmelanie releasing July 22nd!

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“Just being honest,” I insisted. “You said you liked honesty. And that was the most delicious pie I’ve ever had. And that mouth of—”

She whirled around, her eyes no longer soft. She glared at me. “Keep it to yourself. And no flirting, funny stuff, or innuendos, Oliver Wendall Hart. You hear me?”

She was gorgeous when she was annoyed. Her eyes flashed emerald, her cheeks rosy, and her voice lower than normal. Fucking sex on legs. But I knew when not to push. I widened my eyes in mock fear. “Oh, full name. No flirting, funny stuff, or teasing. Got it.”

“Good.” She turned to head to the door, but I caught it. A glimmer of a smile on her face. A smile she was trying to hide.