The Fantastic World of A Reader

A Christmas Dream Shanna Hatfield (Hudson House Holiday, #1) Publication date: November 14th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance He came to build the house of his dreams, but found a home for his heart. After an extensive search for the ideal location to build a house he’s spent years designing, Brant Hudson knows he’s found the perfect site the moment he sets foot on the land near Silver Bluff, Oregon. However, frustrating delays leave him laboring alongside the very crew he hired to finish the house in time for Christmas. His work leads the woman who catches his eye to believe he’s a carpenter rather than the owner of the grand manor. Holland Drake grew up on a farm, but she aspires to secure a position as a housemaid at Hudson House. While delivering lunch to her brother at the worksite, the door opens to a job when Holland encounters a strikingly handsome carpenter whose charm captivates her. Soon, Holland discovers the enchanting man is none other than the...

Inked in Blood and Memory Allison Ivy Publication date: December 3rd 2024 Genres: Horror, LGBTQ+, New Adult Recluse Sophie Vanguard’s winter cabin retreat turns ominous when blue flowers mysteriously appear. They’re everywhere. On her front porch, in kitchen cabinets, and even on her pillow. It isn’t long before chilling whispers echo in the halls, and her journal repeats seven unsettling entries. Enter the bloodied and beautifully eccentric Ly Thi Ren. Though Ren seems familiar, Sophie refuses to believe the girl’s insistence that they are trapped inside a book. In a land of fiction, truth and lies blur together, clear decisions are marred by doubt, and shared family trauma lurks just below the surface. Can Ren and Sophie make it out alive? Or will they end up nothing more than words inked in blood and memory? With elements of gothic horror, splatterpunk, romance, and fantasy, Inked in Blood and Memory is a self-aware LGBTQ+ horror that wraps its clutches around the reader...

All the King’s Men Empress Chang (Kingdom of Lies & Truths, #2) Publication date: December 4th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Mafia, Romance I married him for safety. He married me for love. That is where our problems lay. He thought he knew me. He didn’t. Our love was never a fairy tale. Our stories were dark and twisted and morally gray, with survival being our motive. That meant watching out for myself first and last. But being Marcello’s wife is harder than I thought. In our story, I am the villain, while he played the knight, my protector. *All The King’s Men is the second book in the Kingdom of Lies & Truths series and can be read as a standalone. It is a dark new adult mafia romance that includes scenes that may be disturbing to some. Recommended for readers 18+. Goodreads / Purchase — EXCERPT: “The house is being sold.” “Excuse me!” Shocked, I spun around. “Be careful.” “My house! You put my house up for sale?! My family possessions. My things!...

Sought By Destiny Monica Ageno (CHRONICLES OF THE FATES, #2) Publication date: December 1st 2024 Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Romance A Betrayal Forced to betray her fated mate—a man she despises as much as she craves—Feylin is thrust into a world where dark magic is used without restraint and her survival depends on her cunning alone. As she struggles to guard her secrets, the new mate bond begins to fracture her resolve, threatening to tear her apart from the inside. One truth remains: nothing is more dangerous to her than him. Olron, The Dark Mage. The exiled King of Gravindale. He has plans of his own for Feylin, twisted ambitions that go far beyond the bond they are forced to share. He may have taken her, but he will never have her. Olron She was supposed to be a pawn, she has turned herself into a Queen. An important piece in a dangerous game. A choices that he intends to take full advantage of. After all, he is best known for capitalising on his opportunities. He has p...

Made To Last A.S. Kelly (Love At Last, #5) Publication date: December 4th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tommy O’Doherty, and I’m madly in love. Too blunt, you say? Seriously, why lie? Everyone seems to know about it already. The gossip about my major crush on my best friend’s neighbour has spread like wildfire. And I have to admit, I didn’t do anything to stop it. Not everyone is as good at pretending to be a playboy—even if the most they can handle is a PlayStation—like my weird colleagues and messy friends. Not everyone can keep it together when they meet the sweetest, most sensitive, and most wonderful creature on Earth. Too bad she doesn’t see herself that way. Too bad she doesn’t believe my words, my kisses, my caresses, or my romantic gestures. Too bad she’s not ready to believe that what we have is real and that I’m not just her backup boyfriend, but the man who truly wants to be with her. Even though I keep tellin...

Dreams That Bind Us Irene Lawless (Romancing The Keys, #3) Publication date: November 26th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance What does it mean when you’re tormented by sensual dreams night after night? When you wake aching for your lover’s touch? Anna Kingsley spends her days crafting custom furniture for Key West’s top galleries and hiding from her psychic talents. Tortured on a nightly basis, she is visited by a mystery man who invades her dreams and sends her soaring to new heights with his touch. James Armstrong, a billionaire real estate mogul, arrives in Key West to fulfill his deceased mother’s life-long dream. He left New York to open a five-star resort in her memory. But he never expects to be haunted by dreams of a beauty with turquoise eyes. When Anna and James crash into one another at a local coffee shop, they realize their dream lovers are real. But when Anna runs, James becomes obsessed with tracking her down. He’ll stop at nothing to possess her and m...

Forever We Fall: A Dark MM Romance Meg Everly (Pieces of Us, #2) Publication date: November 26th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Dark Romance, LGBTQ+, Romance A love worth dying for. Hotaru Kido Leaving Japan was bad. Leaving sh*tty London is worse. Why? My destination. Willoughby Ridge Boarding School. It smells as old as it is. No one can find the place on a map. And it’s boys only. Did you hear that last bit? No. F*cking. Girls. Even the teachers. Male. The only pair of t*ts for kilometers belong to the headmaster’s hot little secretary. That’s why I got myself in trouble and am sitting in the office when he walks in. This guy is new. He’s gaunt and terrified of the big man behind him. No one seems to notice the wince when he sits or the way he catalogs the guy’s every move. I do. If I’d stayed in class that day, my life would have been a billion times easier. If given the chance, would I have chosen to keep it simple or put myself between him and his tormentor? Arl...

A Vampire’s Star Marie-Claude Bourque (The Order of the Black Oak – Vampires, #5) Publication date: November 19th 2024 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance A VAMPIRE’S STAR: An Unexpected Pregnancy Slow-Burn Paranormal Romance When music producer and banshee Tilly Davenport learns that her pregnancy puts her and her child at risk from evil sorcerers who would use her as sacrifice to unleash powerful magic, she has no choice but appear at her powerful vampire baby daddy’s concert to ask for his protection. Easy-going Montreal immortal and rock star Cass St-Amand is shocked when his one-night flame shows up heavily pregnant with his child, disturbing his carefree lifestyle. But panic gets the best of him when a mysterious prophecy threatens the life of his expected child, and he vows to protect mother and baby at any cost. If you love loyal tough guys with hearts, steadfast heroines and satisfying slow-burn paranormal romance, the Black Oak World is for you. Goodreads / Purc...

Off the Bench Tiffany Noelle Chacon (Sports in the Sunshine State RomComs, #2) Publication date: November 19th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Austin Taylor, once an undrafted free agent and a third-string quarterback, was never supposed to be the starting QB for the Tampa Bay Bucs. Except now, he is. Dani Marshall, the Bucs’ data analyst whiz, is all in—betting her career, and even her car, on Austin’s success. The real challenge? Keeping her heart out of the game. Austin When the achingly gorgeous Dani Marshall shows up in my tiny Ohio town to sign me to the Bucs, I can’t say no. I expect to ride the bench in obscurity for my entire NFL career. What I don’t expect is to become the starting QB in my first month—or to end up as a viral GIF, tripping over my cleats. Dani’s betting on me, but I’m starting to think her faith might be misplaced. The closer we get, the more her walls stay mile-high—even as I’m being pulled to her as surely as the moon pulls the tides....

One Big Little Secret: A Secret Baby Romance Nicole Snow Publication date: November 9th 2024 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance One wild night and a surprise reunion sends a moody billionaire spinning into fatherhood in this heartwarming and steamy romance by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow. I guessed wrong. A little reckless fun with a stranger never hurts. A drunken one-night stand doesn’t leave you pregnant. A savage twist of fate won’t make your baby daddy your new boss. Bad luck can’t last forever—unless you’re me. Should we count the ways I’m cooked with Patton Rory? He rocks the grumpy gene, dialed up to eleven. He’s so handsome the mirror winks back and his bank account has its own zip code. He’s also totally oblivious— thank God. I’m not sure what he’ll be if he figures out the little boy who trashed his fancy building and ruined his favorite tie is his son. Maybe I’m becoming a human knot, but I won’t make the same mistake twice. If he starts a...

The Man Avishai El Publication date: November 12th 2024 Genres: Adult, Thriller An AK-47 and a series of premonitions. Will it be too late? What is he doing here? Is she safe? Vaughan Mystique is on the run of a lifetime. Will she live? Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: It was almost ominous of where her life was headed. As she went in the back to grab it for the customer, she was startled by a man’s head in her peripheral. She jumped back and almost fell back into the wall. She felt his eyes burning into her, sensing her fear which she tried incred- ibly hard to hide. Her breath caught in her throat, and she dared to look up. Nothing. Nobody. He was gone. Was it a vision? Was it a premonition? Was it reality? The questions raced through her mind at an uncomfortable speed, clashing into one another. Vaughan had 4 hours left to work, she just had to pull herself through it and stop over- thinking. Maybe it wasn’t something to worry about. She then grabbed the rifle, the r...

Bloody is the Night Robin Jeffrey (The Night, #2) Publication date: November 12th 2024 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Unbeknownst to humans, the werewolves of the world live in tight knit gangs, or “dens”, for protection from outsiders – and each other. Every major metropolis has one; to belong to a den is to have a family for eternity. Shaye Cassidy, an unhoused human woman scraping by on the streets of Los Angeles, hasn’t had anything close to a family in over ten years. Shaye left her home under a cloud to chase the dream of a new start, a dream that quickly turned into a nightmare; a nightmare that grows even more twisted when Shaye witnesses a werewolf killing a fellow unhoused man. Andy Vasquez is a top member of Sangre Sagrada, second only to the den leader herself. When she tasks him with tracking down a werewolf gone rogue, someone who is killing humans for sport and risking the exposure of their world, Andy dedicates all his resources to the task. He couldn’t hav...

The Forest and the Sea: A Cinderella Retelling Tracy Zumwalt Publication date: November 12th 2024 Genres: Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance, Young Adult Reynette is desperate to escape the servitude of her step family at Laudermann Manor and the lustful desires of the loathsome, Sir Bjorn. Lord Ehrhart seeks to please his father and their subjects by securing a future wife and future Duchess of Badenberg. Will a chance meeting in the woods lead them to find their hope and future within each other’s arms? The people of Badenberg are preparing to celebrate the anticipated, Midsummer Festival. In the worn hallways of Laudermann Manor, a young servant girl longs for freedom and love. Bound by duty to her cruel step family, she yearns to attend the festival and meet a kind, brave suitor who will seek her floral wreath and therefore, declare his intent to pursue her. Her hope takes a turn when her wreath is sought by a mysterious, yet somehow familiar man. Meanwhile, Lord Ehrhart...