HAPPY TUESDAY NEW RELEASE DAY!!! Between yesterday’s early bird releases list & today’s we have almost 40 NEW BOOKS to choose from. Let alone the Lisa Jewell super-sale on many of the books in her repertoire (I one-clicked a few for myself and highlighted a few of them here.).
Maryse: I JUST ONE-CLICKED THIS ONE SO. HARD. Watching You: A Novel <— Take a look at that amazing blurb jolt. This is going to be trouble sure, the reviews sound awesome and I AM IN!!!
Amy: And I just one-clicked! Thanks for the rec!
Maryse: My pleasure!! I feel like starting it now but I’m already halfway into one that I’m liking!!
BLURB JOLTS & STAND-OUTS!! Too Old for This by Samantha Downing (psych-thriller that sounds right up my alley!! She “used” to be a serial killer...) Outlier by Susie Tate (HOLY MOLY UNREQUITED LOVE?!! YES PLEASE! She’s obsessed with him but he isn’t interested...) Handsome Devil: A Dark Mafia Romance (Forbidden Love Book 3) by L.J. Shen (MAFIA ROMANCE!! “...When he discovers my weakness, he makes me an offer I cannot refuse, and I become his wife…”), Dream On by Jennifer Hartmann (he’s now famous & everyone is obsessed with their story…) 13 Months Haunted: A Novel (paranormal!! there’s something strange about the new girl...)
Don’t forget to check out:
- 17 Monday Early Bird Book Releases – 08-11-2025 <— yesterday’s!!
- Lauren Landish – Never Say Never Series Reading Order <— latest release is a hockey star romance!!
- Hannah Nicole Maehrer – Assistant and the Villain Series Reading Order <— HUGELY popular & just had a new release!!
- Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-08-2025 <— short (but still great) list (electricity went out! Grrrr!!)
- 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 Violet Hour: A Lowcountry Tale by Victoria Benton Frank <— THRIVING AFTER TRAGEDY “...Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she’s always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she doesn’t know who she is anymore. Aly Knox, Violet’s best friend, is a young influencer still struggling with the loss of her mother and adjusting to joining Violet in Southern living. With her best friend’s help, Violet is determined to break out of her shell...”
#Resort Romance: A Lakeview Harbor Series Prequel by Samantha Chase <— IT’S A PREQUEL!! “...Kelsey Brooks dreaded going back to Lakeview Harbor Resort. Especially because she was going back alone. But it’s the perfect place to say goodbye to her mother, and with the resort closing at the end of the season, it’s now or never. The last thing she could have imagined was literally running into the boy she never forgot. They have ten days to walk down memory lane and wonder about what might have been. But maybe they can also create the future they always wanted...”
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Savage Ends (Chaos and Carnage MC Book 3) by Sam Crescent <— AGE GAP BIKER BOOK!! “…Pat struggled to sleep, so he stepped into a late-night coffee shop.That’s where he first met her—Ava Beckett. Ava knows she shouldn’t keep looking for Pat. He’s a member of the Chaos and Carnage MC, and they are nothing but trouble. But, she likes him. He makes her smile. Even though she knows she should stay away from him, Ava is drawn to him. He’s older than her. She deserves someone her own age, but he still can’t let her go...”
I Dream of Danger (Ghost Ops Book 2) by Lisa Marie Rice <— SECOND CHANCE MILITARY ROMANCE!! “…They are the Ghost Ops: a covert squad of super-elite soldiers. After their team was betrayed and massacred, the three surviving members went underground and built Haven, a community of misfits and geniuses. Now facing a new threat capable of destroying the world. He’s her first love. Her only regret. And the only man who can save her. After a decade apart, brilliant scientist Elle Thomason never expects to see Nick Ross—the brooding, protective soldier who broke her heart—walk back into her life. But when her groundbreaking research puts a target on her back, Elle has no choice but to trust the man she’s never stopped loving...”
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An Earl Like You (Games Earls Play Book 6) by Anna Bradley <— HISTORICAL ROMANCE!! “...Lady Harriet Parrish never dreamed of having a London season. She’s been content to live a life of comfortable obscurity in her sleepy corner of Kent, but when her dearest childhood friend, the newly crowned Earl of Windham ends their secret correspondence and embarks on a ruinous path of debauchery, Hattie braves the grime and gossip of Town to snatch him back from the brink of destruction…”
Gone Country: An enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy by Hunter Snow <— THE ROCK STAR & THE COUNTRY STAR!! “...Two worlds. One accidental hit song. The stage is set for the ultimate showdown. Jamie Keaton is a rock star with a reputation as fiery as her songs. Clayton Langley is a country singer who epitomizes Southern charm. Their paths were never supposed to cross—let alone collide—but when a chance encounter forces them to collaborate on a song, she’s suddenly thrust into his universe of cowboy boots and steel-string guitars…”
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Fonseca: A Novel by Jessica Francis Kane <— HISTORICAL FICTION! SHE THOUGHT THERE WAS AN INHERITANCE COMING HER WAY “...Winter 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald’s husband is a struggling alcoholic, their literary journal is on the brink, and she is pregnant with their third child. When she receives a letter from two elderly sisters named Delaney, distant relations with a silver mine, who dangle the possibility of an inheritance, she recognizes it as a creative and practical lifeline. Jessica Francis Kane’s brilliantly imagined Fonseca fictionalizes Penelope’s real and momentous trip to northern Mexico in pursuit of this legacy. She leaves her two-year-old, Tina, with relatives and sails for New York with her six-year-old, Valpy, in tow. From there, mother and son take a bus all the way to . . . Fonseca. But when they arrive, nothing goes to plan...”
Heart Strings (A Love in Galway Novel Book 2) by Ivy Fairbanks <— SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE! HE BROKE HER HEART ONCE… “…When the tough-as-nails Texan moved to Galway for medical school, she wasn’t looking for love. Aidan, a gorgeous, tattooed, mandolin-playing lawyer, slipped past her defenses. They each fell hard and fast. But when Aidan was given the opportunity of a lifetime—to move to London and record an album—he took it, breaking Lo’s heart. Yet more than two years and a successful album later, every song he writes is still about her, the one he let get away. And every time Lo hears his voice on the radio singing about love, it’s an arrow straight to her soul. Now they’re on a collision course as maid of honor and best man at a weekend-long Irish castle wedding...”
➔➔ PARANORMAL/FANTASY/SCI-FI/DYSTOPIAN
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➔➔ PREORDERS (coming soon!)
The Deal (Neighbor from Hell Book 15) by R.L. Mathewson | Aug 13, 2025- The Lyon Loves Last: The Lyon’s Den Connected World by Charlie Lane | Aug 13, 2025
- The Bear’s Second Chance Mate: A Cozy Small Town Shifter Romance (Bear Creek Forever:Thornberg Vineyard Book 5) by Harmony Raines | Aug 14, 2025
- The Underboss’s Secret Twins: An Age Gap, Secret Twins, Mafia Romance (Underworld Heirs) by Lisa Cullen | Aug 14, 2025
- Play Me : a Grumpy Sports Hero, Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Adriana Locke | Aug 15, 2025
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand | Aug 19, 2025
- Emma on Fire: A Thriller by James Patterson & Emily Raymond | Aug 19, 2025
Close Call (Kate Green Book 3) by Elise Hart Kipness | Aug 19, 2025- Emma on Fire: Patterson’s most emotionally gripping thriller ever by James Patterson & Emily Raymond | Aug 19, 2025
- Valeria and Enzo’s Story by Catharina Maura | Aug 19, 2025
- Emma on Fire: A Thriller by James Patterson & Emily Raymond | Aug 19, 2025
- Missing Pieces (Brantley Walker: Off the Books Book 12) by Nicole Edwards | Aug 19, 2025
- Loki’s Spellbinder (Hunters Creek Archangel’s Warriors MC Book 14) by Ciara St James | Aug 19, 2025
- Wicked Ends: A Dark Hockey Bully Romance (Hellions of Hade Harbor Book 4) by Mila Kane | Aug 20, 2025
- A Lyon’s Promise: The Lyon’s Den Connected World by C.H. Admirand | Aug 20, 2025
- The Office Bet (King Sports Book 2) by Eden Finley | Aug 21, 2025
- Always Hope (Guardian Hall Book 2) by RJ Scott | Aug 21, 2025
- Ravaged Wolf (The Five Packs Book 6) by Cate C. Wells | Aug 22, 2025
- Shadowman (Alabaster Penitentiary Book 5) by Nyla K | Aug 22, 2025
- A Touch of Treachery: A Section 47 book by Jennifer Estep | Aug 26, 2025
- Formula Freedom (Race Fever Book 3) by Sawyer Bennett | Aug 26, 2025
- Playing With Forever (Hollow Point Book 4) by Riley Edwards | Aug 26, 2025
- To Kill a Badger (The Honey Badger Chronicles Book 6) by Shelly Laurenston | Aug 26, 2025
- Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham | Aug 26, 2025
- Pucking Strong: An MM Workplace Hockey Romance (Jacksonville Rays Book 4) by Emily Rath | Aug 26, 2025
- Love’s a Witch: A Cozy Fantasy Romance (The Scottish Charms Series Book 1) by Tricia O’Malley | Aug 26, 2025
- Darkest Desire: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (The Dark Mafia Book Two) by Ivy Davis | Aug 26, 2025
- Greed: The Savage (Seven Deadly Sins Book 7) | by Christi Caldwell | Aug 27, 2025
- The Enemy’s Defector (The Ivanov Syndicate Book 3) by Scarlett Shelton | Aug 27, 2025
- Lucky Shot by Rebecca Jenshak | Aug 28, 2025
- One More Made Up Love Song (Midnight Rush Romance) by Jenny Proctor | Aug 29, 2025
- Auctioned Innocence: A Dark, Mafia Romance (Bonds of Betrayal) by Ajme Williams | Aug 29, 2025
- Her Wicked Promise: a Dark Sapphic Mafia Romance (The Devil’s Plaything Book 2) by Persephone Black. | Aug 29, 2025
- Escape of the Highwayman by Mary Lancaster | Aug 29, 2025
- The Company of Vengeful Crows: Season of the Crow by Lana Pecherczyk | Aug 30, 2025
- Finders Keep Her (A New Reign Book 3) by Lucy Darling | Aug 30, 2025
The House Guest: A Contemporary Romance by Penelope Ward | Aug 31, 2025- Ground Zero (Lantern Beach Blackout: Detonation Book 3) by Christy Barritt | Aug 31, 2025
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