Title: Easier Said Than Done

A Lindell Series Standalone

Author: Marie James

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/Best Friends to Lovers

Baby Pact/Broken Hero

Cover Design: Qamber Designs & Media

Release Date: March 28, 2024

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If you can’t ask your best friend to get you pregnant then who can you ask?

Adalynn Tate made a promise to her childhood friend.

They vowed that they’d do everything together, including marrying their junior high crush and having all their babies at the same time.

Her friend has succeeded. She got the guy, and the first bun is in the oven.

Now it’s Adalynn’s turn to make her own dreams a reality.

When Adalynn’s best guy friend comes over, he sees the pamphlets for her to have a baby on her own.

Cash does what any best friend would do – offers his free, platonic services instead of extra medical bills.

He doesn’t know Adalynn has had a crush on him since junior high, something she’s done her best to lock down deep as not to threaten their friendship.

Adalynn knows in this world you don’t get to have it all: the baby, the man, the fairytale.

But Cash has other plans for her.

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Marie James is a full-time author, mother of two boys, and wife of 18+ years. Dog Mom to four great danes: Maximus, Sassy, Kiki, and Hargid.

She has spent almost my entire lifetime living in central Texas, with only short stays in South Carolina, Alabama, and Florida. She is currently residing in a sleepy little town in East Tennessee.

Writing is her passion, and she absolutely loves being able to sit down and put all of her thoughts and emotions into her stories.

She loves dogs, coffee, making handmade cards, and reading steamy romance novels!

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𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, the first book in the VEGAS HEAT: BASES LOADED series by Lisa Suzanne is coming March 7th!!! Take a peek inside…

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𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (Book 1 - March 7) https://geni.us/VHBL1

𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 (Book 2 - March 7)https://geni.us/VHBL2

𝐎𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐤 (Book 3 - March 21)https://geni.us/VHBL3

𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 (Book 4 - April 4) https://geni.us/VHBL4

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐦 (Book 5 - April 18) https://geni.us/VHBL5

What to expect from Vegas Heat: Bases Loaded:

⚾️🎤 Baseball Player/Pop Star

👫 Friends to Lovers

❤️ He Falls First

😈😇 Bad Boy/Good Girl

👩‍❤️‍👨 No Third Act Break-Up

🔐 Rapunzel Vibes

🤫 Secret Relationship

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I glance around the room unsure of where to go next that Cooper Noah walks up to me.

Cooper. Freaking. Noah.

In all his gorgeous glory.

“Cooper Noah,” he says, and he offers a hand for me to shake. “Are you here to sing?”

I smile and nod. “I’ve been asked to do a song to open for Vail, and I’ll also be singing the national anthem.”

“Incredible. Thanks for being here to support us today.”

I pull on my professional hat—the mask I always wear in public. “I’m so pleased the team asked. I’m happy to be here to cheer for the home team.” I offer another smile, and I’m trying my hardest to appear genuine. I am being genuine, but all these hot baseball players are throwing me off my game a little.

“Are you a local?” he asks, and the small talk is actually making me feel more comfortable.

I nod. “I grew up in Henderson and still have family here, though I’m based out of Los Angeles now. And sometimes New York.” I always say I still have family here, though the truth is they’re cousins I haven’t seen in years.

“My buddy Danny is dying to meet you.”

Danny?

I giggle a little nervously.

Does he mean Danny Brewer? The man who gave me tingles just looking over at him when good ol’ Brooks here has never been able to pulse a single tiny little tingle in me…ever?

“I’d love to meet Danny.”

Cooper turns to head toward the table he got up from when I walked in, and I follow him. Danny’s focused on his card game until Cooper grunts out his last name. “Brewer.”

Danny looks up at Cooper, and then he sets his cards down and stands as his eyes move over to me.

He’s tall—I think I read somewhere that he’s six feet, four inches.

I’m five feet, five inches. He’s nearly an entire foot taller than me, though I’m in four-inch heels to give me a lift. He still towers over me, and my God is he attractive in person.

“I’d like to introduce you to Alexis Bodega,” Cooper says.

Our eyes meet for the first time, and something changes inside me.

A trance holds my eyes up to his as his hand comes up and I politely place mine there. Heat blazes between us at the place where our hands meet, and tingles race up and down my spine and around through my chest.

It’s positively electric.

And the single word that comes to mind is regret.

Regret that I chose to live my life the way I did when I was a mere sixteen years old.

Regret that I’m stuck playing a role that isn’t the one I want to play anymore.

Regret that I have to stand here and pretend like my insides aren’t quivering as I stare at this man I’ve drooled over as I watched him play for the Rockies for a number of years.

Brooks presses his hand a little more firmly into my back as if to remind me of his presence.

I haven’t forgotten. I never forget. I’m not allowed to.

And so I dredge up the skills my father paid a pretty penny for when I snagged my drama degree from New York University—the university my father urged me to attend because it has produced more Academy Award winners than any other university.

“Lovely to meet you,” I say, and my voice seems to snap the trance between us.

The heat cools as I pull my hand back from his.

“And you,” he says quietly. He doesn’t strike me as a quiet kind of guy. Nothing about his presence has ever been quiet, actually. He’s baseball’s bad boy. He’s a partier and a womanizer. He hasn’t been reduced to quiet a day in his life.

I clear my throat a little awkwardly. “Good luck today. I’m a huge fan.”

His brows shoot up in surprise. “Feeling’s mutual.”

“Brewer, you’re up,” Rush grunts from the table where the men were playing cards.

Danny shakes his head a little as he seems to snap himself out of wherever he just went. “Good luck to you out there, too.”

“Thanks,” I murmur as he sits back down.

The spell is broken, but one truth holds firm.

I’d like to see a whole lot more of Danny Brewer.

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I wasn’t looking to change my “bad boy of baseball” reputation. At least not until my dream girl, Pop Princess Alexis Bodega, stepped foot in my clubhouse to sing for the stadium on opening day.

There’s just one problem, and it’s a big one. Her manager is also her boyfriend, and her father is her agent.

She’s kept on a tight leash with her incredibly busy schedule, and I’m at the start of a new baseball season with a new team.

It’s the worst time to explore this attraction with the wrong girl, but that doesn’t stop me from fighting my way backstage at her surprise performance in Vegas and slipping her my number.

I quickly discover that nothing is what it seems where her manager is concerned. The more I learn about America’s Sweetheart, the more I realize what the world knows of her is the carefully crafted façade of her brand…not the woman behind it all. But I’m getting to know the real Alexis, and I’m falling hard and fast for her.

Her father might be the one holding the ball, but I’m in a scoring position, and I won’t let anything stop me from getting the win.

SCORING POSITION is the first book in the VEGAS HEAT: BASES LOADED series. This series must be read in order.

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Title: Is This Love?

Series: Everlasting Ink #2

Author: Kaylee Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Small Town/Age Gap/Marriage of

Convenience/Fake Relationship/Only One Bed

Cover Design: Lori Jackson Designs

Photographer: Rafa G Catala

Release Date: March 19, 2024

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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you the continuation of the stand-alone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. "Is This Love?” is an age gap, marriage of convenience, friends to lovers, small-town romance.

Legend

A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated.

Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn’t care less about the money. It’s not like I even knew my grandparents.

I wasn’t even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I’ve never let myself consider her as an option for me.

She’s been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.

Monroe

It’s not like I planned to marry one of my friends… or fall for him.

One minute I offer to be his fake wife, and the next, we’re going through the motions— saying, “I do,” and playing house.

Legend is the kind of guy fantasies are made of—tall, dark, and tattooed. Now I’m sharing his bed and his last name for the next year.

Everything looks good on paper, and while this may have started out as playing pretend, the way I feel for him is the realest thing I’ve ever known.

As the weeks pass by, it doesn’t take long before either of us begins to question if we’re just friends or if this is this love after all.

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she's not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.

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MEANT FOR STONE

Natasha Madison

Release Date: February 26

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  From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new sports romance. A spin-off from the Hollywood Playboy & This Is Crazy.   Ryleigh Growing up in Hollywood, I was surrounded by liars and phonies. So when I got my law degree, I knew I wanted to work as a district attorney. Busy days turned to long nights—I was on my way up the ladder. Then he happened. Bullied his way into my life as if there was no choice. Suddenly everything I thought I wanted wasn’t as important. Stone I had one thing on my mind and that was never going to change: The game. The only goal I had was beating the records set by my family. I didn’t have time for anything else. Until she walked in the room. The earth shifted, just like the stories said it would. I said it wouldn’t happen—not to me. I didn’t have the time, but now she was the only thing on my mind. I knew it was her. Now I had to convince her.   Grab Your Copy! https://books2read.com/MeantForStone                   Meet Natasha Madison: When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her… Keep up with Natasha Madison and subscribe to her newsletter https://www.natashamadisonauthor.com/ To learn more about Natasha Madison & her books, visit here!     Connect with Natasha Madison: https://www.natashamadisonauthor.com/contact-me  

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Meant for Stone is book one in the Meant For series and from what I have read spin off of prior series. Wow, I have read other books by this author and the spice level was there, but it was really upped in this book. Tour anyone?! Ha, you must read to understand. Ryleigh and Stone will just say run in the same family and friends circle cause they are huge and I see from prior series. There's a look at one of the events and that's all it takes to spin his world off axis. Ryleigh is funny, yet seriously determined in her career. Stone is Alpha and becomes all in from the get-go. It was nice seeing a man have to earn the relationship instead of the other way around in most books. Long distance may be a big obstacle outside of their careers, but if it is Meant to Be, It will be Meant to Be (or for Stone ;)). This was a great start to a new series and I look forward to reading more Meant For stories or really any book by this author. 

His Claim by Winter Travers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

His Claim is Book 2 and I would highly encourage you to read this series in order as while each set of characters are different the story does continue regarding the mafia world right where the prior book ended and our beloved MC bunch makes appearances. Murphy and Tatum shared a past, but I bet they never thought they would reconnect the way they did (lips sealed). This story is full of suspense, love and claiming what he should have claimed five years ago (although timing was off). You will get a good laugh at Jada and I will say never question us readers, especially a bookstore owner cause do you really think they believe the call in reason. Yeah, NO! But...funny! The Bananchi and Devil's Knights together whether from the men's side of business or the ole ladies is hilarious and I think each time we read a book with them intertwining it gets even funnier even with the bad that comes along. I highly recommend this series or the MC series if you love to laugh, enjoy suspense and so much more.

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