<— WEDNESDAY BREAKING NEWS UPDATE! I was right!! Chasing Shelter (Sparrow Falls Book 5) by Catherine Cowles the #1 book on all of Amazon Kindle right now! 😃
HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!! Over 30 new books just went live including that one to the left that I suspect will hit #1 very soon!
BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! Chasing Shelter (Sparrow Falls Book 5) by Catherine Cowles (I have a feeling this one is going to hit #1 on Amazon’s Top 100!!), Ancient Warlord (Ancients Rising Book 10) by Katie Reus (grumpy dragon shifter!!), Careless Whisper: A Second Chance Medical Romance (A Modern Vintage Romance) by Maya Alden (he took her ex’s side!!), It Was Her House First (grieving woman buys a haunted house…), The Perfect Boyfriend (psych-thriller!! She creates her perfect AI boyfriend…)
Don’t forget to check out:
- 5 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 07-21-2025 <— yesterday’s!
- It Starts With This List! My CoHo Collection: Everything I’ve Written About Colleen Hoover <—my latest greatest list!
- Reader Question – The book where she’s always been in love with him & attends his wedding to someone else… <— have a guess?
- Reader Question – The mafia series where the couple pretend to be dead and they have children… <— have a guess?
- 21 Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 07-18-2025 <— Did you miss it? Quite a few of our FAV authors just released a new one on this list!!
- Reader Questions <— Our latest, solved and unsolved! I LOVE THESE ’cause it introduces us to new books + we get to build mimi-lists of guesses in specific tropes. And you know me. I LOVE lists!!
Okay now… READER RECOMMENDATIONS & BARGAIN FINDS:
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➔➔ CONTEMPORARY JUST WENT LIVE:
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The Marriage Demand by Sam Crescent <— HE SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER BUT HE MARRIED HER INSTEAD “...Four years ago, Winnie met her husband, Elias Moore. He had stormed a warehouse where she was fighting off multiple attackers and killed them all. He should have killed her. Only, he married her. Now, she was his wife, and she had to follow his rules…”
Heart Marks the Spot by Libby Hubscher <— TREASURE HUNT!! “…A treasure hunter and the bestselling adventure novelist who broke her heart after one successful expedition reunite for a summer to search for lost riches. Treasure hunter Stella Moore dreams of having it all—wealth, love, and a flourishing career—but knows she’ll never be that lucky. Every summer she and her childhood friends travel to search for hidden treasure, but she can barely manage her bills, let alone a relationship. Then, a chance encounter with alluring novelist Huck Sullivan during an expedition in Iceland has Stella thinking maybe her fortune has changed...”
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Until Death Parts Us: A Dysfunctional Short Story (A Dysfunctional Series) by Isabel Lucero <— SOMEONE TRIED TO TAKE HIM AWAY...”The last time I went into a cabin unannounced, I killed a woman who threatened to take away the one person I’ve met in this lifetime who made me feel normal. Now, I’m here because someone else is trying to do the same thing. This trip was a Christmas gift to Kaspian. We were going to drive across several states and wreak perfectly calculated havoc to feed the darkness within us. But my careful planning goes out the window when he disappears, taken by someone stupid enough to think they can get away with putting their hands on what’s mine...”
Fire and Silk: A steamy dark mafia romance down under (Melbourne Syndicate Book 4) by Nikki Blake <— MAFIA DARK ROMANCE!! “…They dragged me from the stage and into a mansion built like a tomb. They say I’m legacy—blood inked in a pact older than love, older than mercy. And the man who holds me here? Severo Dantès. The Cartographer. He maps empires. He doesn’t flinch. He watches me like a threat he intends to consume. He says I’m safer locked inside his walls. But safety has never looked so much like sacrifice. Then Nico returns—my brother’s best friend. My almost. He offers escape. But I don’t want out. Not anymore. Because this isn’t a love story. It’s a blood ritual…”
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Friends to Lovers: The Ultimate Summer Romance Book Club Pick of a Sweeping Love Story at a Family’s Shared Summer Home by Sally Blakely <— FRIENDS TO LOVERS “…Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in touch: they’ll be each other’s plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives. It’s a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined. Now Joni is back at their families’ shared summer home for her sister’s wedding, and she’s determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Ren...”
First Time, Long Time by Amy Silverberg <— OLDER MAN & SHE’S LOSING HER SENSE OF SELF “…she’s rudderless, unable to write and barely scraping by as an English teacher. So when she has a serendipitous run in with famed radio personality Reid Steinman, an idol of her father’s and her late brother’s, she’s eager to see where their relationship might go, and who she might become. Caught in his thrall, she falls back into her old self-effacing patterns, struggling to maintain the boundaries of her own identity. Suddenly, an unanticipated lifeline emerges: an intoxicating tryst with Reid’s adult daughter, Maddie.…”
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The Marshal & Mrs. Morgan (Matchmaker Mischief Book 2) by Marie Patrick <— HISTORICAL ROMANCE!! “...Devlin Goodrich needed a change—a new life, a new town, a new job—and hopefully, the chance to leave behind the haunting memories of his wife’s death and the blame placed upon him by her mother. Accepting the position of Marshal in the little town of Serenity, New Mexico, far from his mother-in-law, might just fit the bill for him and his young daughter. Tresia Morgan has a plan. She wants to take back Sullivan’s Emporium, the family store, from her cousin, so when Serenity’s matchmaker offers Tresia the job of taking care of the new Marshal’s daughter in order earn the money needed to put her plan in motion...”
The Red Letter (The Orphanage by the Lake Book 2) by Daniel G. Miller <— MURDER MYSTERY THRILLER “…A spine-tingling new suspense-thriller from bestselling author Daniel G. Miller that will keep your heart racing to the last page. A DEAD BODY. A MYSTERIOUS RED LETTER. Hazel has everything she wants. Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She’s dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter...”
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Curveball: an enemies-to-lovers, grumpy-sunshine, single dad, single mom, fake relationship baseball romcom by Ruthie Henrick <— BASEBALL STAR/FAKE RELATIONSHIP ROMANCE!! “...I kissed him on a dare. Turns out he’s famous. Max Murphy, starting pitcher for the Tennessee Terrors. Oh, and the single father of one of my students. Talk about a curveball. And now it seems I must make nice with the tattooed hottie, no matter how much his surly attitude grates on my nerves. America’s heartthrob is throwing a pretty good season, and the press is all over us when we’re together—something I have experience with, and ran from long ago. When our accidental touches trigger heart-stuttering moments that are caught on camera, my bad boy offers a solution that just might be a game changer—play along as man and wife…”
Wild For The Knight (The Wilder Brothers Book 2) by Lindsey Saenz <— ENEMIES TO LOVERS! “…Being forced to plan a surprise bachelor/bachelorette trip with Abby Knight, the one person I can’t stand, is my version of hell. But my brother asked, and I can’t say no to him. So, I grit my teeth, make more than a few compromises, and spend an unhealthy amount of time pretending not to notice the way she drives me crazy. Then I kiss her to get her out of a sticky situation, no big deal. Except it is...”
➔➔ PARANORMAL/FANTASY/SCI-FI/DYSTOPIAN
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➔➔ PREORDERS (coming soon!)
- Falling Stars (Wild at Heart Book 2) by Lex Martin – July 23rd 2025
- Immoral (Park Avenue Kings Book 3) by Brooke Blaine Ella Frank – July 23rd 2025
- Against All Odds (Ember Falls Book 3) by Corinne Michaels – July 23rd 2025
Lead Me Knot: A Small Town, Sister’s Best Friend, Marriage of Convenience Romance by S.L. Scott – July 24th 2025- The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey Book 4) by Lauren Blakely – July 24th 2025
- State of Retribution, A First Family Novel (First Family Series Book 9) by Marie Force – July 25th 2025
- Denim & Diamonds by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland – July 27th 2025
- Over the Moon: A Small Town, Hockey Romance (Rosewood River Series Book 3) by Laura Pavlov – July 29th 2025
- She Didn’t See It Coming: A Novel by Shari Lapena – July 29th 2025
- The Reluctant Siren (Texas Sirens: Legacy Book 2) by Lexi Blake – July 29th 2025
- You Belong Here: A Novel by Megan Miranda – July 29th 2025
- Scythe (Devil Daddies MC Book 2) by Pepper North – July 29th 2025
- Road Trip With a Rogue: Her Majesty’s Rebels #3 (Her Majesty’s Rebels) by Kate Bateman – July 29th 2025
- Write Me For You by Tillie Cole – July 29th 2025
- The Reluctant Siren (Texas Sirens: Legacy Book 2) by Lexi Blake & Sophie Oak – July 29th 2025
Biggest Player (Not Yours) by Sara Ney – July 29th 2025- Precious Hazard: An Arranged Marriage Mafia Romance (Perfectly Imperfect Book 11) by Neva Altaj – July 31 2025
- Final Breakaway (For Puck’s Sake Book 11) by Crea Reitan – July 31 2025
- Forbidden Kisses: a single dad nanny romance by Layla Hagen | Aug 1, 2025
- Possessive Mafia Vows : An Arranged Marriage Dark Mafia Romance (Ruthless Billionaire Mafia Kings)by Vivy Skys | Aug 4, 2025
- Cold Truth: A Novel (Cold Justice® – Most Wanted) by Toni Anderson | Aug 5, 2025
- A Beginner’s Guide to Forever: A Novel by Kendall Ryan | Aug 5, 2025
- Freaky Festivals (A Mystic Caravan Mystery Book 20) by Amanda M. Lee | Aug 5, 2025
- Married to the Beasts: A Reverse Harem Romance (Sin City Beasts Book 4) | by Stephanie Brother | Aug 5, 2025
The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen | Aug 5, 2025- Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain Book 3) by Hannah Nicole Maehrer | Aug 5, 2025
- Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings | Aug 5, 2025
- The Blonde Who Came In from the Cold: A Novel (The Blonde Identity Series Book 2) by Ally Carter | Aug 5, 2025
- Patchwork (Ink Slingers Book 3) by K.M. Neuhold | Aug 8, 2025
- Never Dance with the Devils (Never Say Never Book 6) by Lauren Landish | Aug 8, 2025
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For anybody who reads Shannon Mayer, her new book/series Neverthorn is out today.
Thank you Randi!! I’m adding it to the Friday Finds as we speak!! 😀