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The Christmas Proof
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Spicy | Small Town | Soul Mates | Secret Identity | Bookish Couple
A Hallmark-esque You’ve Got Mail meets a modern adaptation of Mackenzie’s Mountain in North Georgia with a spoonful of spice.
♥ Secret Identity
♥ Celebrity Crush
♥ Soul Mates
After her mother’s cancer goes into remission, Kasa is finally ready to move away from her parents and meet up with her best friend in Atlanta so they can chase their childhood dreams together.
But when the celebrity author who she’s been in love with since she was a teenager (and whose fan club she’s been the president of for just as long) waltzes into the grocery store where she works, her life takes a turn that knocks her off course in all the best ways.
The Christmas Proof is a slow-paced, low-stakes romantic novella with a spicy center.
In Helping Hands
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While struggling through a furlough at work (and losing utilities week after week), Avery finally breaks down and accepts financial assistance from his best friend, Tonie. But the cost of that help is higher, and more pleasurable, than he could have guessed!
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- Heir to His Heart by Tatum James
“This quick read left no crumbs on the plate.” — Patrice Latimore-Mason, Amazon Reviewer
After seeing the man she’s been dating post an engagement announcement, Jahnae Greer is devastated. With the advice from her friends, she goes out and has a drunken one-night stand with a handsome stranger. Months later when she finds out her ex-boyfriend isn’t the father of her child, she has no idea how to get in touch with the man from her one night stand. She vows to raise her daughter alone until two years later when she sees him on a news report that he’s been arrested.
Football player Azriel Nichols has never had the best image. Now that he’s losing endorsements and facing a possible trade, he has to do something. When his PR rep comes up with the plan of cleaning up his image by being seen with a good girl, he’s reluctant to take her advice… Even when he finds out it’s her, the one-night stand that he can’t get off his mind.ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am a romance, urban fiction, and women’s fiction author. I love creating unique storylines and unpredictable plots. I have been a published author since 2018 starting with my novella Identical Sins. In the past few years I have penned 20 plus titles. I love to paint pictures with words. My mind is constantly creating stories and when I’m lucky I get them down on paper. Storytelling and music are two of my favorite things. My series Rhymes & Reason highlights those passions. I’m a South Georgia native from a small town called Abbeviile. Being from the rural south encouraged me to develop a wild imagination at a young age. I have also worked as a nurse for over a decade. Follow me on Instagram @authortatumjames and twitter @inkpin_killer. Join my facebook group for updates on new releases, sneak peeks and contest.
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- Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten
“Super Quick and Super Cute!” (Amazon)
It’s Autumn. Is there a better time to fall in love?
Imari Haines has had it with the gossip. The whole town is acting like she’s their very own Runaway Bride. A plus-size, black version of Julia Roberts that left a perfectly nice boy at the altar. Her family is no exception. Her mother won’t stop making passive-aggressive comments.
Exhausted by this charged atmosphere, a boss that doesn’t appreciate her, and the never-ending town rumors, Imari makes a bold decision. Come autumn, she moves to Appeley (a small town in Hill Country) and never looks back. In Appeley, for the first time ever, Imari feels welcome, happy, and unapologetically herself. She tries new things, makes brand-new friends and, while attending the fall apple festival, she accidentally bumps into a very familiar face…
Cassidy Martinez was her childhood best friend and partner in crime. Now, she has grown into a stunning, confident woman, and Imari can’t help noticing.
Should she take a risk? Can the two of them pick up where they left off, or is being friends not going to be enough this time around?
An F/F Black BBW Sapphic Romance featuring plus-size main characters, a small town, autumn themes, butches and studs, motorcycle rides, coffeeshops, childhood friends-to-lovers romance, and tons of found family feels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Georgina Kiersten is an author known for their wide range of LGBTQ+ romance novels that center around the stories of Black queer and trans individuals. As a Black-disabled trans person who was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to having dyslexia, being autistic, and having ADHD. They have a unique perspective on writing romance. It also drives their passion to create a diverse and inclusive romance genre for everyone.
When they’re not writing (which is rare), they can often be found reading a good book, watching bl dramas, drinking their body weight in tea, and co-parenting their five children, two dogs, and their growing horde of stray cats.
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- Best Kept Secret by Maya Alden
romance books, billionaire romance, age gap, forbidden love, single parent romance, sister’s boyfriend romance, baby daddy romance, secret baby romance
The truth about secrets? They always unravel.
I’m Beau Bodine, and someone’s been keeping one hell of a secret from me.
Mira Sen shows up out of nowhere and drops a bombshell: she’s been raising my daughter—her niece—for the past two and a half years. A daughter I didn’t even know existed. I should be furious, and I am, but Mira’s sister—who recently passed away—had convinced her I didn’t want to have anything to do with my kid.
Mira and my daughter move in with me, and before I know it, we become a family. I fall hard for my little girl. Her aunt has gotten under my skin, too. Our age gap, my history with her sister…none of that seems to matter. I’m in deep and for the first time in my reprobate life, starting to dream of white picket fences.
But when Mira’s conservative and influential parents tell me why they’ve been fighting for custody of their granddaughter, everything falls apart. They show me proof that Mira physically hurt my baby. I don’t hesitate. I tell Mira to get the hell out of my house and my life.
Then the truth comes out, and I know I’ve screwed up. Big time.
By the time I find Mira, she’s broken in ways I couldn’t foresee or even imagine. I know it’s my fault. I’ve got to fix this. But she’s shut down and become someone I barely recognize. Now I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to put her back together again.
Best Kept Secret is a billionaire secret baby forbidden romance and features all your favorite tropes:
🏵️Secret Baby
🏵️Sister’s Boyfriend & Baby Daddy
🏵️Single Parent
🏵️Forced Proximity
🏵️Forbidden Love
🏵️Other Woman Drama
🏵️Age Gap (12 years)
🏵️Misunderstood & Uncovered
🏵️Betrayal & Grovel
🏵️Indian Heroine
🏵️No Cheating
🏵️Complete Standalone
Trigger Warning: Reference to past sexual abuse of a minor; on page suicidal ideation and attempt. - If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia
Keywords: divorced, next door neighbor, 1990s, autumn, fall, baker, small town, single parent, opposites attract, friends-to-lovers, slow burn, cozy
A love letter to both the autumn months and the late ‘90s. Grab a cozy blanket, light your favorite fall candle, and revisit the autumn of 1997 where there are small town harvest festivals, crunchy leaves, Halloween celebrations, and Thanksgiving pies!
My new next-door neighbor seems to have everything figured out. Small town golden boy? Check. Single dad extraordinaire? Check. Hot baker forearms? I didn’t notice them, I swear.I, on the other hand, don’t–at all–have anything figured out.
Trust me, I didn’t think taking over my mom’s dream bed and breakfast in Copper Run Vermont was going to be easy. It should be a good place to heal after my divorce. But apparently my scones belong in the garbage with my small talk skills. As pointed out by none other than Cliff.
Cliff is inescapable. He knows exactly what people need–always. His charm, the way he wears flannel, and even his pastries, make not wanting to be friends with Cliff and his daughters pretty hard.
Friends? I can make friends. That’s safe.
Except I’m leaving in three months to pass the inn off to my little sister and get the promotion in Seattle I’ve been working towards.
So ask me why I’m thinking about kissing my hot neighbor.
IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY is a single dad, friends to lovers, small town romance set in autumn 1997. This is a complete stand-alone romance with a happily ever after.
TROPES
- Slow Burn
- Single Dad Baker
- Friends to Lovers
- Opposites Attract
- Divorcées finding love again
- Autumn 1997
- Cozy Small Town
