Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 07-24-2026

THE LATEST BY MAYA ALDEN!!! IS LIVE & IT’S THE #1 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!! HE INSISTS THEY ARE HAPPILY MARRIED…

Lucy knows her marriage is over when she overhears her husband tell a friend he’s never loved her. When confronted, Fox confirms the sad truth that he only married Lucy because he knocked her up and stayed after she lost the baby out of guilt.

Devastated—because she is hopelessly in love with her husband—Lucy agrees to a divorce, but before that can happen, she is severely hurt in a car accident.

She wakes up in the hospital to a frantic, attentive Fox, a performance Lucy assumes is for an audience. Annoyed, she pretends to have amnesia and is shocked when Fox, believing her, insists they’re happily married…”

LIVE!! SHE’S HIDING OUT

“One brutal night shattered Hallie Holiday’s life.
By morning, the girl everyone knew had vanished. No goodbye. No explanation. Only silence.

Three years later, Hallie lives under a different name in a town where no one knows her past. Staying invisible is the only way to survive.
But fate has a cruel sense of humor because he is the last person she ever expected to see again.

Kit Rivers—her childhood best friend’s older brother. The town’s favorite bad boy…”

SUPER-SALE!!

Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery. Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four women who vanished during a music festival. The event’s promoter was eventually convicted of their murders, and Sheriff CJ Taggart closed the case. But for Sloane, it’s still open. Because the bodies were never found.

With Taggart now long dead, Sloane must make do with questioning the victims’ families and the few remaining witnesses once again…”

LIVE!! MARIE FORCE’S LATEST!!!

Lieutenant Sam Holland is running on empty. After her nephew Ethan’s traumatic kidnapping, a case that once again rocked her family, she’s holding on to her husband, Nick, her safe place in a world that never stops demanding more.
But even Nick can’t protect her—or his presidency—from what’s coming.

When a young woman arrives with information about her brother’s murder, Sam is pulled into a cold case just as a political scandal erupts around the vice president and her ties to a Russian operative…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!! MAFIA ROMANCE

At a gala dripping with New York’s elite,
my trash ex walks in with the girl who used to hold my hair back in college.

“Poor Lyra,” she says sweetly. “Still think you belong here?”

Her gaze drags over my body. Laughter ripples. Soft and cruel. It takes Julian Volkov four words to ruin them both.

“She’s here with me”…”

LIVE!! HIS TWIN BROTHER’S EX!!

She was my twin brother’s girlfriend in college.
But I’d wanted her first. Gorgeous, sharp-tongued, impossible to ignore, Evangeline is the kind of woman you never really forget. And when I run into her at a teammate’s wedding years later, one dance turns into too many drinks … and one reckless night neither of us can take back…”

LIVE!!! SHE’S ALWAYS LOVED HER

I’ve been in love with Archer Lockwood since I was fourteen years old. I’ve never told him. I stood at his wedding, held his newborn twins in the hospital, and cried in my car afterward. I smiled through every moment that should have been mine—because that’s what best friends do…”

LIVE!! MAFIA ROMANCE

I have one goal. Survive my abusive husband long enough to escape. Every bruise, every insult, every sacrifice has a purpose. I’m saving money and waiting for the day I can take my disabled sister and run.

Then Ares Zervas crashes into my life. On paper he’s the breathtaking CEO of Zervas & Company. In the shadows he’s the powerful and lethal head of the Greek Mafia. And the last man I should ever trust…”

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN ROMANCE

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SULLIVAN LONDON has loved the same girl since she moved in across the street fourteen years ago, even after she broke his heart senior year of college. He hasn’t seen her since, not until a chance run-in ends with them in bed together, promising each other that it’s just one night—one more night for old time’s sake…”

LIVE!! BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE

I’m the irresistible one. The man who always gets what he wants. Too bad the only woman I want is the one I can’t have…”

LIVE!! BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE

The first time I met Asher Remington, I thought he was a self-centered, uber-wealthy jerk who cared about no one but himself. I thought he deserved the horrible reputation he had with some of the townspeople in Crystal Fork, Montana.

Unfortunately, he also had an available job that I desperately needed. Employment that would put me in close quarters with Asher almost every day…”

LIVE!! SPORTS ROMANCE

Once upon a time, Cecilia Ricci thought Trey Penrose might be her happily ever after. Until her handsome prince turned out to be nothing but a royal jerk. That was four years ago, and she still hates him. Now, if only she could keep her heart from beating just a little faster every time he’s near…”

RECENTLY RELEASED! FATED MATES!!

Now, I must rebuild from the ashes, one memory at a time. I’m up against unforeseen enemies, wrangling a power I have yet to truly comprehend, while juggling four hated mates who have transformed passive rejection into obsessive protection. I’m starting to wonder if

The Fates blessed magic is more of a curse rather than a gift. It’s time to gain the upper hand, and I have no choice but to fight…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!!

As artists’ muses and working models, these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma, and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with Mr. Edison’s new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America’s sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot.

But the journey to stardom is not simple or straight. While working as a shopgirl, the young Evelyn is recruited as a studio model and soon catches the eye of the preeminent artists of the age. When Broadway comes calling, Evelyn solidifies her status as the first self-made American female celebrity…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!!

To feel is to give power to the past—to let grief and memory carve through her like a blade. But Lyra refuses to let them win. She will not let the sharpened words of men who call themselves nobles and kings cut deeper than they deserve.

If they cannot wound her, they cannot control her. And if they cannot control her, then freedom is hers to claim—despite her feeling anything but free. But when an unexpected opportunity arises, Lyra is thrust into the deadly entrance exams of an elite academy, where only nobility thrive. But first, she must strike a blood wager with a capricious king—one that could win Lyra her freedom or cost her life… if the exams don’t kill her first…”

LIVE!! OOOPS PREGNANCY!!

“Rhett Rivers is a lot of things. Handsome, obviously. A hard worker on my family’s ranch. My brother’s best friend. Oh, and he’s officially my baby daddy.

Our plan was a one-night stand to get the attraction out of our systems. Well, that was two years ago. Rhett’s rules were simple. No strings attached. No real feelings.

That worked for me for a long time, until I decided I wanted what everyone else around me had…”

LIVE!! HER BODYGUARD EX!!

Millie Haven was always the quiet book lover who avoided trouble…until she witnessed a violent attack by a prominent politician’s son.

Now she’s running for her life…”

LIVE!! MFM HOCKEY START & MMA FIGHTER!!

I was born in a life of luxury. The daughter of a hockey legend of the Denver Dragons and of a pop star icon. I’m determined to make my own way in my career. I work hard; I do everything right. Which is why I guess the public calls me a good girl.

But I’m not. Not really. Because I’ve recently found myself involved with two men. My childhood best friend, hockey player, Grayson Wheeler and bad boy MMA fighter, Asher Hudson. They may not get along, but they have one thing in common that none of us can deny.
They both want me.

They aren’t the only ones. Someone else is in the shadows watching me, wanting me. and I can feel their eyes on me even when I’m alone…”

LIVE!! ENEMIES TO LOVERS

We were born with blood in our brushes, taught to make beauty out of pain before we could name the thing bleeding inside us. Some of us mold our grief in clay. Others carve it into bone. We don’t scream, we paint. We don’t run, we compose. And when it hurts too much to breathe, we put it on a canvas and dare the world to look away.

At Alaria University for the creatively damned, art is survival and reputation is currency. I know that better than anyone…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!!

“Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories…

To honour her grandmother’s last wish, Lucy must finish what was left undone – and discover the magic hiding between the lines…”

BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE

“A naughty enemies-to-lovers, single dad, billionaire romance from USA Today best-selling author Marni Mann …

I’m the irresistible one. The man who always gets what he wants. Too bad the only woman I want is the one I can’t have…”

SHE’S ALWAYS LOVED HIM

I’ve been in love with Archer Lockwood since I was fourteen years old. I’ve never told him. I stood at his wedding, held his newborn twins in the hospital, and cried in my car afterward. I smiled through every moment that should have been mine—because that’s what best friends do…”