Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 07-10-2026

LIVE!! MAFIA ROMANCE!! HE’S STALKING HER TOO…

My sister was stolen seven years ago. Gone without a trace. Five years later, I received a letter from her that led me to the Las Vegas underworld. I’d do anything to find her and bring her back to me, including getting tangled up with a sexy, dangerous, tattooed cage fighter named Mateo.

Convinced that he’s the link to Rose, I start to stalk him. But little do I know that he’s stalking me too…”

RECENT RELEASE THAT I MISSED!! COMEDY ROMANCE

“I’ve believed in fairytales and happy endings my whole life. This feels like the end of my love story. But it’s impossible to ride off into the sunset with Jacob when there’s still the mystery of the kiss thief looming over me.

Is my kiss thief Jacob Miller? Axel Stevens? Someone from the football team? A drifter…”

LIVE!! BULL RIDER HERO!!

“I ride bulls for a living—chasing buckles, eight seconds at a time. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been good at. Tough. Disciplined. Built for the dirt and the danger. When I’m not on the road, I’m back home in Wildhaven, Wyoming, putting in work at the Raintree-Storm Rodeo Academy — training the next generation on my family’s land.

It’s a simple life. The way I like it. Then Jovie Asbury walks into the arena and wrecks everything…”

LIVE!! BIKER ROMANCE!!

Or that I was accidentally getting caught up in a war. Not until one night of bliss led to two pink lines on a pregnancy test.

Now I’m at Hayes Roman’s doorstep, asking him to protect his baby from my family. The same family that is trying to destroy his club.

Hayes is a flirt. He’s reckless. A heartbreaker. The only commitment he’s ever made is to the patch on his chest…”

LIVE!! MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE!!

After losing my apartment and librarian job in the same week, I’ve hit rock bottom. That’s the only reason I consider Jace Walker’s offer to be his toddler’s nanny while he goes on a national tour.

I don’t even like the man. But he recently had a baby he didn’t know about dumped on his doorstep, and for once in his charmed life, he’s as desperate as I am.

The plan seems simple—until his label says only spouses can join the tour…”

PSYCH-THRILLER SUPER-SALE

Riley Fletcher’s morning run should have been ordinary—muscle memory, fresh air, home by breakfast. Instead, she wakes bound and bleeding in a lakeside cabin, her captor a ghost from her past: Dawson Miller, a former coworker with nothing left to lose…”

HISTORICAL MYSTERY ROMANCE RECENTLY RELEASED!!

“In the shadowed mountains of nineteenth-century Appalachia, seventeen-year-old Polly Justice struggles to survive a troubled marriage while carrying the burden of a devastating secret she can never escape.

Living in the isolated community of Blue Ridge, Polly dreams of becoming a healer and midwife, learning the ancient wisdom of herbs, roots, and mountain remedies from the elderly Nan. But her quiet life takes a dark turn when they discover the remains of a murdered man hidden deep in the forest. As rumors spread through the mountain town, Polly begins to suspect the killer may be closer than anyone imagines.

Haunted by guilt over the death of her baby sister and trapped between a volatile husband and lingering feelings for a former love, Polly must navigate betrayal, violence, family expectations, and the dangers of frontier life…”

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN SPORTS ROMANCE!!

“Breaking into the major leagues of sports PR is my ultimate dream. Landing a job with the Sweetwater Mavericks is my shot, but my ticket to the top is a complete nightmare with a chiseled jaw and catcher’s gear.

To make the splash I need, I have to sell the team’s most complicated story: hometown catcher Jake McKinney and his estranged, all-star father, Roddy. Only problem? Just because they’re teammates now doesn’t mean they’re talking.

I’ve dealt with difficult athletes before, but Jake is a special brand of prickly…”

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN HOCKEY ROMANCE!!

Running into Lola Donavan wasn’t exactly on my summer agenda—not after she broke my heart in college. But there she is, at my family’s resort…with her new boyfriend. And not just any boyfriend—my hockey rival. Perfect…”

COMEDY ROMANCE!!

“I’ve believed in fairytales and happy endings my whole life.

This feels like the end of my love story. But it’s impossible to ride off into the sunset with Jacob when there’s still the mystery of the kiss thief looming over me…”

MAFIA ROMANCE!! KRISTEN PROBY WRITING AS…

“From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby, writing as NATALIE KANE, comes a cat and mouse, dark Mafia novel in her Kings of Vegas series, Savage King.

My sister was stolen seven years ago. Gone without a trace…”

SUPER-SALE!! TWO LIFELONG FRIENDS.

Jess loves her work as a high-profile lawyer in Charleston. But when her marriage implodes, she retreats to her childhood home on Cape Cod with her thirty-year-old daughter, Caitlin, hoping to regroup with her longtime best friend, Alison.

ONE BOOKSHOP BY THE BAY.

Alison’s career has taken a hit after twenty years as an editor for the magazine Cape Cod Living. But when she learns her beloved bookstore on the Cape is looking for new ownership, a new dream starts to form.

AND THE SUMMER THAT COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING…”