Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 05-01-2026

SUPER-BARGAIN ANGSTY ROMANCE BY ONE OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS!!

“…I already had a life. A future. A man I’d promised forever to. But the night I found Chase Rhodes—bleeding, broken, and more lost than I was—everything changed.

I wasn’t supposed to let him in. Wasn’t supposed to write music with him in secret beneath the moon. What started as a quiet escape became something unstoppable. Our songs caught fire, and now the whole world knows our names.

Music has a way of pulling the broken together, even when the timing is impossible and the fallout inevitable. But some hearts don’t settle. Some songs were never meant to stay quiet. Because the night I saved him was only the beginning…”

THE #3 BOOK ON ALL OF AMAZON KINDLE RIGHT NOW!!  PIONEER LIFESTYLE SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER FINDS HERSELF BACK IN 1855…

“…A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel…”

LIVE!!! FOOTBALL STAR ROMANCE!!

LIVE!! SHE WITNESSED AN ASSASSINATION

SUPER-BARGAIN
LOVE & BETRAYAL ALERT!!

“…life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth.

For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source…”

LIFE!! DARK ROMANCE

“Wicked Wife. Sinister Sister. Daughter of Darkness. Baroness. My life has been a series of cages– first my uncle’s home, then the kidnapper’s cell, now the iron bars in my husband’s bedroom. Freedom will come at a price, and I must be willing to pay for it through blood, tears, and sacrifice.

The King commands my loyalty. Damon wants my surrender, given freely at his demand. Hunter needs my darkness to answer his depravity. Every day, they get a little closer to breaking me down, but outside the walls of the House of Night, another mystery haunts Forsyth. Who is snatching women off the streets? Until I unlock the memories of what happened to me…

LIVE!! SHE’S SECRETLY BEEN IN LOVE WITH HIM FOR YEARS!

Lee Orrico is stuck. The family he depended on to care for his daughter since he lost his wife is moving on and moving out. Having his best friend Stella become his live-in nanny while he works as the team chiropractor for the Brooklyn Bats seems like the right idea. Until the combination of close quarters and cozy nights ignites an attraction that Lee never saw coming.

After years on the road in a job she never liked and a messy breakup, Stella Parker is ready to come back to Brooklyn to make it a real home for herself, not just a pit stop. Moving in with Lee to help care for his adorable daughter is the perfect temporary solution…except it means moving in with the man she’s always been secretly in love with…”

Her once-forbidden love for her best friend was always just a one-sided fantasy…”

LIVE!! FORBIDDEN LOVE!! THE NURSE & THE PRISONER!!

Now he keeps getting hurt on purpose,
just to see that I’m safe. As a prison nurse, I keep my heart locked away tighter than the men I treat. No gray areas. No second chances. Especially not after escaping my abusive ex.

Then Knox Blackwood, the most dangerous man in the prison, winds up in my infirmary. Whatever he did to get locked up remains the prison’s darkest secret.

He should terrify me. Instead, he sees what no one else does. The scars. The flinch when a door slams. The fear I can’t bury.

“Who hurt you?” he growls. When I don’t answer, Knox starts showing up in my infirmary…”

LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!!

Me—lovable, easygoing, sexy-as-hell Dax Armstrong, always there when a fellow fratbro needs a hand…or if that fratbro would like to enjoy more than just my hand…

Miles is the broody artist-type who just got off probation for starting the fire at Sigma Alpha.
Basically, a walking red flag.

But for a guy who’s always looking to start a fight with me, I can’t wrap my mind around a night when I was a little too tipsy and he helped me back to Alpha Theta Mu.

Since then, he’s hot and cold…”

LIVE!! SHE’S STARTING OVER BUT SOMEONE WANTS HER GONE…

Veterinarian Hadley Chase moved to Blue Ridge Hollow looking for a fresh start. After the chaos of Atlanta, the quiet rhythm of a small mountain town—and her new clinic—feel like exactly what she needs. But she never expected danger to shadow her there.

Max Kincaid keeps his head down and his past where it belongs—behind him. He came to Refuge Cove to rebuild the honor he nearly lost, and working there suits him fine . . . until Hadley becomes the focus of escalating danger. When unsettling incidents turn into targeted threats, it becomes clear someone wants her gone…”

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN ROMANCE WITH RECLUSIVE ROOMMATE!

“…Weston Vaughn has always been the most charming man in any room—until he saved my brother’s life and the accident took his leg. Now he’s a gruff recluse and my new roommate.

After my life goes up in flames on my wedding day, I become my small town’s favorite scandal. I want to lie low while the gossip dies down, but living with my parents feels impossible. Moving in with my brother’s best friend is my best option.

He won’t ask for help and I won’t be dismissed. Trouble is, I like this gruff side of Wes, and despite his rules, I enjoy showing up for him…”

SUPER-BARGAIN BEACH READ ALERT!! THEY BECOME BEST FRIENDS…

As the owner of Twisted, Seattle’s best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She’s terrified that she’s losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her “other” family, especially to her stepmom, Allison.

All it takes to blow up Allison’s happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter ferrets out the truth, the teen rushes to the last person Allison wants to ask for help—her husband’s battle-ax ex.

Erica would do anything for Summer, even take in the woman her daughter loves like a second mom. Allison feels intimidated by Erica—a woman who would never let herself become so dependent on a man…”

LIVE!! STEAMY M/M ROMANCE!!

“…My college plans are simple: study, graduate, and get my business off the ground. Until one chance encounter in the library has my sights shifting.

Isaac is as fiery as the hair atop his head. With his ire directed at me, I should steer clear. But I can’t step away from the English major I suspect is harboring some hurt.

With a mutual love for poetry and undeniable chemistry sparking between us, it’s not long before Isaac starts letting me in…

Bruiser is an opposites-at-first-glance romance between an up-and-coming adult entertainer and the reluctantly smitten brat who doesn’t mind playing voyeur. There’s budding love in a library, ridiculous friends, poetry as flirting, and one very HEA. It’s book seven in the Elite 8 Studios series but can be read as a standalone…”

LIVE!! BIKER ROMANCE!!

“…To everyone else, my husband is Viper; hard, uncompromising, and completely committed to his brothers in the Devil’s Rejects MC. But I just fell in love with a man named Roman, a man who called me Sunshine and who treated me like a treasure. By the time I realized the club would always come first, I was in too deep.
He had many enemies.

And on the night they came for me, he protected someone else. Her. The woman who treats me like an interloper, who never misses a chance to point out that I don’t fit into Roman’s world.

Roman begs for my forgiveness. He promises to spend the rest of his life earning back my trust. But promises are cheap, and I no longer trust his. I leave to start a new life, far away from him and the danger of his world. It turns out that danger is not so easy to escape…”

LIVE!!! FOOTBALL STAR ROMANCE!!

LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!!

Me—lovable, easygoing, sexy-as-hell Dax Armstrong, always there when a fellow fratbro needs a hand…or if that fratbro would like to enjoy more than just my hand…

Miles is the broody artist-type who just got off probation for starting the fire at Sigma Alpha.
Basically, a walking red flag…”

LIVE!! SHE WITNESSED AN ASSASSINATION

A single gunshot rings out, shattering Laurel Hayward’s debut as a professional dancer—and witnessing an assassination is only the beginning of her nightmare. The ruthless killer will stop at nothing to find her—determined to possess her or silence her forever.

Enter Deputy U.S. Marshal Jason Dunn: handsome, confident, and far too good at getting under Laurel’s skin…”

LIVE!! SMALL TOWN ROMANCE WITH RECLUSIVE ROOMMATE!

“…Weston Vaughn has always been the most charming man in any room—until he saved my brother’s life and the accident took his leg. Now he’s a gruff recluse and my new roommate.

After my life goes up in flames on my wedding day, I become my small town’s favorite scandal. I want to lie low while the gossip dies down, but living with my parents feels impossible. Moving in with my brother’s best friend is my best option…”