20 Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations + the TOP 5 books right now – 06-06-2025

SATURDAY FIND UPDATE!!! —> HOLY MOLY —> AMAZON DEAL ON THIS PINK STANLEY!!! Not book related but I thought I’d share, since I have 3 Stanleys (and a Yeti) tumbler already… but I don’t have this color & I want it!

Annnnnnd…. I bought it. Annnnnnd it’s coming today!! Hrmmm… I’m going to see if any of the other colors are on sale too.

HAPPY FRIDAY & HAPPY WEEKEND!! I’VE GOT A BUNCH OF NEW RELEASES over the last 24 hours including some from our favorites (the very first one, below is unrequited love!! She overhears him say he wishes he wasn’t married to her. GASP!!! 😮). One from Monica Murphy. One from L.B. Dunbar (age gap!!) and more.

PLUS!! I have some reader recommendations/feedback on recent releases like that one to the left (readers are LOVING Tijan and she’s in Amaozn’s TOP 100 right now!!

Jill: Started the new Tijan book yesterday. Loving it so far, guessing I won’t be disappointed by the end.

AND Annnnnnnnd!!! I end the entire list today with the TOP FIVE books on all of Amazon right now below!!

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The Grump Next Door: A Small Town Fake Dating Romance (Steele Brothers of Starlight Cove Book 1) by Brighton Walsh <— LIVE!! FAKE DATING!! “…Sutton Sinclair—the sharp-tongued troublemaker who left claw marks down my back and a dent in my self-control—is living in my backyard cottage with her teenage daughter. And I’m her goddamn landlord. I like things quiet. Controlled. She’s neither. Sutton’s chaos wrapped in sunshine, a temptation in scrubs I can’t seem to stay away from. When her ex shows up acting like Sutton’s still his to lose, I claim her on instinct. The kiss? Hot. The fallout? Immediate. Now my family—and the entire town—thinks we’re a couple...”

Duplicity: A Billionaire, Single Mom Romance (Seraph) by Elodie Hart <— LIVE!! HER DAUGHTER IS SICK BUT SHE GETS A LUCRATIVE SHAMEFUL OPPORTUNITY “…𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲? 𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁. My little girl has a life-threatening heart condition, and I’d like to think I’d do anything to save her. Anything at all. But it’s not until the most lucrative, shameful opportunity falls into my lap that I learn just how far I’ll go to protect her. The opportunity? A “full-service” executive assistant role through the discreet agency Seraph, putting my body and my soul at the mercy of a ruthless billionaire who has a reputation for eating women like me for breakfast: Brendan Sullivan...”

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Tameron (Honorably Discharged Book 3) by Nora Phoenix and E.M. Lindsey <— LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!! “...Losing my hearing has far more consequences than I expected. The physical part is frustrating and annoying, but the emotional part is so much harder. I don’t belong anywhere anymore, always an outsider. And now there’s Dayton, the older, sexy firefighter who keeps popping up everywhere I go. At my gym, in my house, in my dreams. Wait, why am I dreaming about him? I don’t even like him—though that doesn’t seem to be mutual. Surprisingly, Dayton understands my struggles better than anyone else, and before I realize what’s happening, he’s decided we’re friends...”

Faking It with the Firefighter (Small Town Sizzle Book 2) by Lilian Monroe & Mandy Michaels <— LIVE!! SMALL TOWN FAKE GIRLFRIEND! “…Abigail Stone owes Rex Montgomery a favor, and all he wants is a date to his brother’s wedding. Fake it for a weekend, everyone walks away happy. But Rex isn’t the good guy she thought she knew. And when they’re forced to share more than just the charade, the line between pretend and reality starts to blur. She’s the town’s beautiful troublemaker. He’s the reliable fire marshal who’s tired of always playing it safe...”

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His to Save: A Small Town Romantic Suspense by LK Farlow <— LIVE!! HE’S PROTECTING HER & HER UNBORN BABY… “...An all NEW age gap, forced proximity standalone small town romantic suspense. I used to believe in happily ever afters, until the man my mother married stripped away my innocence, piece by piece. For years, he kept me completely isolated, locked away and out of sight. If not for my diary, I’m not sure I would have survived his torment. But when two pink lines turn my world upside down, I know it’s now or never—I have to escape before the monster down the hall learns my secret and destroys my only reason for living...”

When Hearts Remember: An Angsty Amnesia and Brother’s Best Friend Romance (The Orchid) by Victoria Lum <— LIVE!! BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE!! “…She doesn’t remember her first love. But her brother’s best friend never forgot her. Two love stories unfold—one in the past, full of stolen moments and reckless devotion, and one in the present, where fate has given them a second chance. Alexis Vaughn first fell in love with a forbidden stranger through the pages of a secret journal. Their romance burned fast and bright—until a car crash stole her memories and nearly her life. Eight years later, she wakes up from a coma to a world she doesn’t recognize. When her brother’s best friend offers her an internship, she accepts. But something about the brooding, enigmatic billionaire unsettles her...”

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P.S. THESE ARE THE TOP 5 BOOKS ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE (as of the moment I put this post together) 😃 

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➔➔ PREORDERS (coming soon!)

1. Seven Year Itch by Amy Daws | June 10, 2024
2. With a Vengeance: A Novel by Riley Sager | June 10, 2024
3. King of Ashes: A Novel by S. A. Cosby | June 10, 2024
4. Never Been Shipped by Alicia Thompson | June 10, 2024
5. Scarred by Love (Blackguard Security Book 7) by Elizabella Baker | June 10, 2024
6. Kill Your Darlings: A Novel by Peter Swanson | June 10, 2024
7. I Could Be Yours by Helena Hunting | June 10, 2024
8. The Primal of Blood and Bone: A Blood and Ash Novel by Jennifer L. Armentrout | June 10, 2024
9. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab | June 10, 2024
10. The Lies We Tell by J.D. Barker & Richard Bailey | June 10, 2024
11. With a Vengeance: A Novel by Riley Sager | June 10, 2024
12. Slow Burn Summer: A Novel by Josie Silver | June 10, 2024
13. Caught Up: Into Darkness Trilogy (Into Darkness Series) by Navessa Allen | June 10, 2024
14. The Life of Chuck by Stephen King | June 10, 2024
15. At the Edge of Surrender (Moonlit Ridge Book 3) by A.L. Jackson | June 16, 2024
16. No More Yesterdays (The Heirs Book 3) by Catherine Bybee | June 17, 2024
17. Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston | June 17, 2024
18. The Robin on the Oak Throne (Oak & Holly Cycle Book 2) by K.A. Linde | June 17, 2024
19. The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel | June 17, 2025
20. Gloves Off: a marriage of convenience hockey romance (Vancouver Storm Book 4) by Stephanie Archer | June 17, 2024
21. Rise of the Witch (Witches of Keating Hollow Book 17) by Deanna Chase | June 17, 2024
22. Hell Fae King by Lexi C. Foss and J.R. Thorn | June 17, 2024
23. Don’t Open Your Eyes: A Novel by Liv Constantine | June 17, 2024
24. Someone Knows: A Novel by Vi Keeland | June 17, 2024
25. Scatter the Bones (Lost Kings MC Book 26) by Autumn Jones Lake | June 19, 2025
26. The Final Exam (Tanglewood University Book 3) by Skye Warren | June 21, 2024

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