Contemporary
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New Mercies: A Christian Romance by Julia Colquitt Allen
Bestselling author Julia Colquitt Allen weaves an inspirational tale about the stigma Christians face following a divorce, particularly should they consider remarriage. In New Mercies, Dolores Hansen discovers the mercy and forgiveness of God in the face of her own guilt over her divorce and the gossip her friendship with new pastor Christopher Tanner stirs among her church’s parishioners. It’s a story about new beginnings and second chances.
Love You Write by Julia Kent
If you’re looking for a fun read about enemies to lovers, forced proximity, heroines who get their comeuppance and sworn bachelors felled by unexpected true love, featuring a hot bearded lumberjack impervious to poison ivy, and a city-slicker, jaded career woman with a penchant for great coffee, set in a small town in New England – then this is your book.
Ravens Love by Terri Burke
Raven Trevinoa’s life is about to change. Straight out of university, she is looking for the perfect first job to start her career. Answering a cryptic advert in the local paper, Raven is enticed by the idea of money, fancy living and unforgettable experiences.
The last thing she is looking for, as she begins this new journey, is love. Aaron Chapman enters her life—and although the air electrifies every time they’re together, he treats her with disdain.
Trauma pulls her away from him, and miscommunications break hearts. What final tragedy will test their true feelings for one another? Can they overcome these hurdles, and surrender themselves to love? Or will bitterness and confusion triumph in keeping them apart? Simply Sinful by Carly Phillips
He’s not the man she thought he was. But when danger lurks, he’s the man she needs.
Dinner out leads to a hot night in bed, and Kayla falls hard and fast. Until she learns the business suit hides a badge, and she calls it quits. But Kane’s already lost his heart—and discovered she’s in danger. And if he can’t convince her she’s safe with him, he’ll lose the woman he loves.
Killer Love: a new m/m gay mafia crime enemies to lovers romance novel by Ryder O. Cox
Harris McGuire and Dalton Gardener are both assassins utilized by the mafia. Dalton is one of the highest professionals on the totem pole, known for his precision and planning, who works for the top crime family in the area. Harris, on the other hand, is a brutal yet efficient freelancer who various mafia outfits have been known to contract. The two assassins’ paths cross on occasion and they enjoy a friendly rivalry, with Dalton teasing Harris for not ‘settling down’ to work with a single mafia family and Harris thinking that Dalton is the more stuck up and limited of the two due to the mafia’s rules which he must follow to a T.
But one day, unbeknownst to each other, they both receive peculiar assignments – to kill the other assassin. Dalton’s comes from his mafia boss, whereas Harris’ is from a strange anonymous (but wealthy) client. The two men chase each other around the city attempting to complete their jobs, each using his own skill set to the best of his ability.
But when Harris corners Dalton in his home, it’s not fighting that he has on his mind…
Doctor of the Heart by Grace Maxwell
He’s a billionaire doctor with a supportive family. I’m an artist who can’t keep a day-job while taking care of my little sister. We’re opposites in every way.
My BFF and I are going out to meet men. Lots of men!
I’ve been focused on other more important things, but when my best friend insists we do something fun, I give in. It’s been a long time. Did I mention I even needed to dust off my Jimmy Choo’s?
His chocolate brown hair and piercing dark eyes find me in line outside the club, and my stomach does cartwheels. Yes, he puts the yum in yummy.
It gets us in and when we connect, it’s fireworks—my heart beats triple time, and I’m doing something I never dreamed was in my DNA.
It was only a onetime thing. I knew we weren’t star-crossed lovers. We were quick, down, and dirty.
Then it was back to real life—bills, keeping a roof over our head and food on the table, all while dealing with my sister’s chronic illness.
When my sister takes a turn for the worst, we head to the emergency room and my jaw drops and not because the doctor is dressed in a tuxedo. It’s because it is him.
We are opposites in every way. Dr. Davis Martin saves my sister’s life and somehow he’s out to save mine.
Doctor of the Heart is a stand-alone, steamy romance with a happy ending. It is the first in the Men of Mercy series. Cocky Enemy by Sia Wiley
I was never supposed to see him again. Now this cocky prick is back in my life trying to steal my promotion and crush my heart.
He was supposed to be a one-night stand.
When I returned to work from time off to learn he was the guy covering for me, my heart sank like a lead brick.
Smith Kingsley is irresistibly hot, and he’s the kind of guy who takes what he wants and makes no apologies.
Even if it means playing dirty and sabotaging me to get what he wants.
I hate him.
And I hate that the only thing I want him to take and play dirty with is me.
He’s an insufferable flirt all the while trying to undermine me.
And little did I know he was keeping a devastating secret.
This little secret could make me hate him or want him even more.
He can’t know I am painfully attracted to him.
I won’t let that jerk charm me.
I could lose my career or even worse, he could shatter my heart.
Celeste’s Valentine by Marie Silva
One missing Valentine’s Day card reconnects two lonely souls for love.
Growing up in a chaotic home environment, Celeste Edwards had one bright spot as a lonely teenager, a puppy dog crush, to whom she sent a friendly thank you card, but was met with silence. Ten years later, now settled down as a well known artist in Sedona, the man who was her teenage crush shows up at one of her exhibitions. His revelation leads her to explore a friendship with him while dealing with a lustful attraction to him that begins to consume her.
The life of a soon to be divorced man was not the life that Cyrus Walsh envisioned for himself, but that is what he was dealing with as his new reality. It was pure luck that he found a lost Valentine’s Day card from a young woman he mentored as a teenager that compels him to fly cross country to apologize for the unintentional oversight. The moment that he sees her again unlocks a erotic temptation that overshadows the friendly connection he desires to keep with her, before he can live freely his life again.
A friendship starting off on sexual lust transcends into a loving relationship that will require a choice in love.
The Hot Steamy Wild Passionate affairs I Almost Had by Sally Connors
Linda is frustrated. she loves her husband of many years but he bores her. She wants passion. She wants excitement. She wants good old fashioned thrilling sensual lust. Linda goes looking for love in all the wrong places. And what she finds disappoints her. She returns to her husband and wonders if she is doomed to a life of safe and familiar.
Just One Kiss by Carly Phillips
It was supposed to be one fun night of hot sex.
It turned into a second. Then a third.
Now Mother Nature is having the last word—with a secret baby surprise!
