HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!! A bunch of great new releases just for us, featuring all of our favorite tropes, from mafia romance, to fake relationships, to rock star romance, to psych-thrillers, to fantasy romance and on and on. If you’re in the mood for a specific read, I bet it just went LIVE today. 😉
Don’t forget to check out:
Leadership Begins Within! “Leadership: The Paradox of Surrender” by Hilda Koch is live!! <— today’s newsletter sponsor!- Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 06-08-2026 <— yesterday’s included one by Gena Showalter!!
- A Family Broken: A true story of love, betrayal, suicide, and forgiveness by Retired Detective Cari C. Perry <— a past colleague of my husband’s
- Reader Question – The book where the main character is trans or lesbian and meets a girl behind the mall… <— Have a guess?
- Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 06-05-2026 <— Did you miss it?
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➔➔ CONTEMPORARY JUST WENT LIVE:
Lead Me Home: A Novel (Queen Anne Hill)
Harvest Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy Book 2)
The Summer Girlfriend (Heart Beach Book 1)

A Nantucket Fling: A Novel – A Delightful Age Gap Rom-Com about a Career Woman and the Single Dad Who Steals Her Heart by Freeman, Kathryn <— SMALL TOWN SINGE DAD ROMANCE! “…A casual summer fling between a businesswoman on vacation in Nantucket and a young single dad turns into something more in this delightful rom-com from the author of Booked for the Summer. Olivia is a fiercely independent woman climbing the ladder of corporate finance. But when her family demands she take time off to go to her niece’s bachelorette and wedding in Nantucket, she reluctantly agrees. On the island, she catches the eye of Connor: a handsome, cocky, playboy type—also ten years her junior. Olivia’s sisters egg her on, encouraging a summer fling, but she’s more interested in catching up on her finance reading. Except…he’s funny and sexy, and doing her ego a world of good. Connor might come across as a playboy because he was one, eight years ago. That all stopped when he became a dad…”
A Rancher’s Redemption (Prosperity, Montana Book 2) by Roth, Ann<— COWBOY ROMANCE!! “…A friends-to-lovers contemporary romance where one kiss changes everything—and risks a friendship that’s lasted a lifetime. He’s been there all along. She just never saw him that way. Until now. Restaurateur Dani Pettit has always had one person she can count on—her best friend, Nick. Since they were teens, he’s been her rock, her confidant, the one constant in a world of disappointing men. Their relationship has always been purely platonic. Then one kiss changes everything. Now Dani is falling hard for the one man she shouldn’t—the one who could truly break her heart...”
The Missed Connection
A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord (The Heiress Hunters Book 1)
Scandal: A Fake Dating Royal Rockstar Romance (The Creed Legacy Book 3)
All the Little Ways: A Novel by Laura Lekkos <— FRIENDSHIP! THEY MEET IN AN EXPECTANT MOTHERS GROUP! “…Victoria and Liz barely breathe the same air, but they collide headfirst when they meet in a group for expectant mothers and find common ground against all odds. Victoria, forty-three, is confident, poised, and powerful, on the fast track to major career success in finance. Having kids is not in the plan. She had avoided love for decades—and hadn’t been too keen on female friendship either—when she fell for Ace, a dashing man twenty years her senior. Liz, thirty-two, lives a fairly unstable life, trying to make her situationship work and navigate a job on a vile reality dating show. She’s desperately wanted to experience motherhood for her entire life, but anxiety and insecurity have landed her with a laundry list of failed romances. It’s an accident—ish—when she gets pregnant with her emotionally elusive boyfriend Preston’s baby just shy of a year into dating…”
Behind White Picket Fences: A Novel by Gunderson, Christine <— FRIENDSHIP!! “…Fusing page-turning suspense with keenly observed humor, this homage to female friendship explores the hamster wheel of modern motherhood, and the consequences for jumping off. Kiersten Cleaver feels like she’s flunking Motherhood 101. Exhausted by travel sports, homework, and her son’s dyslexia, she joins forces with her neighbors, Rosamund and Piper, to drop out of the scholastic rat race for one year. Together, they start the Beaverbrook Academy for Inquiring Minds in Kiersten’s kitchen, embarking on a journey back to the idyllic life they experienced as children, when phones were attached to the wall and kids played outside until the streetlights came on at dusk. But the women quickly realize fractions aren’t their only problem...”
Beach Thriller: A Novel
Brighter than Before: A feel-good novel about finding yourself and falling in love again
Hot Girls Die First (Verona Montero Book 2) by Suggett, Kayleigh <— COMEDY MYSTERY SERIES! “…Private investigator Verona Montero hikes fifteen kilometers to a cliff-top lodge in the Canadian Badlands to dodge cheating dirtbags and a crush with better abs than boundaries. She expects R&R. Instead, a sex-bomb named Harper turns up planted in the front garden—daisies and all—and a storm turns the only road out into a mud smoothie. With the cops days away, Verona gets promoted to PI-in-residence with a complimentary bar tab and a house full of alibis that smell like last night’s tequila. The lodge is an adult summer camp for bad decisions: late-night room changes, motives with teeth, and alibis flimsier than a motel towel. When the body count starts flirting with plural, Verona’s strategy is simple—ruin evenings, crack egos, and make the killer sweat through their resort wear. Otherwise her weekend getaway could turn into a permanent check-out…”
Strangers Behind Closed Doors: A Novel by Catherine Adel West <— MYSTERY PSYCH-THRILLER!! “…A twisty thriller about a woman who vanishes from a luxury hotel, and the detective who believes the case is tied to the unsolved disappearances of other Black women in the city. Giovanni Mason worked hard to become the first Black head concierge at Chicago’s exclusive and glamorous Ivory Hotel. It’s a job that requires patience, perfection, and, above all, self-control. But when Giovanni reunites with her former best friend, makeup influencer Natalie Moore, things get heated as a mending of fences morphs into a public argument in the hotel restaurant, and Giovanni loses her cool. Hours later, Natalie is missing. Evidence piles against Giovanni—a ransacked, blood-spattered hotel room, fresh bruises on her body, and a troubling gap in her memory from the last twelve hours. Detective Redding Stark is the only one unconvinced of Giovanni’s guilt…”
Irish Fury (Irish Wolves Legacy Book 3)
The Tiger in the Sack (The Cocky Kingmans Book 7)
Cocky Brutal Sinner (House of Cards Book 4)
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Eternal Vow (The Vampire Empire Book 2)
This Immortal Heart: A Novel of Aphrodite
Light Wielder: Fire & Metal: Book Two
It Came From Neverland: A Novel
Inkpot Gods (Alchemical Journeys Book 4)
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A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord
Lead Me Home: A Novel (Queen Anne Hill)
Light Wielder: Fire & Metal, Book 2
Beach Thriller: A Novel
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The Missed Connection
Inkpot Gods: Alchemical Journeys, Book 4
It Came from Neverland: A Novel
➔➔ PREORDERS (coming soon!)
- Book One: Bonded Souls Book One by S.J. Tilly – June 11th 2026
- Pretty Little Scars: A Forbidden, Forced Proximity Romance (Silver Springs Book 1) by Kristen Proby – June 18th 2026
- Avenging Angels: A Lick and A Promise by Kristen Ashley – June 19th 2026
- Weddings: A Novel by Danielle Steel – June 23 2026
- Crusher (Stealth Operations Specialists Book 3) by Elle James – June 23rd 2026
- The Trouble with Flings: Fitz Silver (The Silvers at Silver Island Book 2) by Melissa Foster – June 24th 2026
- The Witch’s Hidden Garden (Witches of Befana Bay Book 4) by Deanna Chase – June 26th 2026
- Saved By A God (Kings Of Mafia) by Michelle Heard – June 29th 2026
- Code Name: Ember (Jameson Force Seattle Book 1) by Sawyer Bennett – June 30th 2026
- Boys Who Crave by Clarissa Wild – June 30th 2026
- Specter: A Dark Asylum Romance (Ghosts of the Underground Book 1) by K.G. Reuss – June 30th 2026
- Tempting Venom: An Enemies to Lovers MM Hockey Romance (Vipers Book 3) by Rina Kent – June 30th 2026
Keeping Kara (Rescue Angels Book 5) by Susan Stoker – July 7th 2026- In Too Deep (Summer Rangers Book 2) by Susan May Warren and Tari Faris – July 7th 2026
- Love You More: A Novel by Emily Giffin – July 7th 2026
- Scarlett and Her Prince Charming by Ivy Smoak – July 9th 2026
- Forever Remembered: Forever Bluegrass #25 by Kathleen Brooks – July 10th 2026
- The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren – July 14th 2026
- In Stormy Weather: A Novel by Chelsea Curto – July 14th 2026
- Falling Into You (Colburn Brothers Book 3) by Jill Shalvis – July 14th 2026
- Twilight Tides (Scottish Isles Series Book 3) by Samantha Young – July 16th 2026
- Deadly Reckoning (Broken Ashes) Book 7 by Nikita Parmenter – July 19th 2026
- Sea of Charms (The Spellshop Book 3) by Sarah Beth Durst – July 21st 2026
- Fractured Promise (Where Promises Lie Book 1) by Ivy Layne – July 21st 2026
- Law Maker by Susie Tate – July 23th 2026
- King of War by Sadie Kincaid – July 23th 2026
- State of Unrest, A First Family Novel (First Family Series Book 11) by Marie Force – July 24th 2026
- What Roams Beneath the Stars (Of Flesh & Bone Book 5) by Harper L. Woods – July 27th 2026
- Fractured: Shadows Landing: The Townsends #6 by Kathleen Brooks – July 31st 2026
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