Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 05-22-2026

JUST WENT LIVE!! BASEBALL STAR ONCE GHOSTED HER…

“…One thing is certain, a desperate kiss after the state championship our senior year made those feelings impossible to outrun.

Then he ghosted me completely. Years of friendship gone. My person, no longer a phone call away. The perfect kiss . . . tainted. So I focused on my game. And I turned my talent into the job my father always wanted—an MLB hitting coach.

I’m the first female member of the Sweetwater Mavericks coaching staff. The weight of it isn’t lost on me. And I have my sights set on breaking down more barriers. I’m determined not to let anything get in my way. Not even Mavericks star player Jayden Vargas…”

RECENT RELEASE!! SHE’S A COMMONER BUT HE WANTS HER…

“…For nine hundred years, the Dukes of Oxford have served three masters: the crown, our title, and our estate, Belvedere.

Love? That’s not in the De Vere family playbook. Passion? Reserved strictly for producing heirs. We marry for duty, bed for bloodlines, and keep our desires locked away like the family silver.

As heir to the dukedom, I’ve perfected the art of noble restraint. My engagement to a beautiful, blue-blooded ice queen has been set in stone since birth. I’ve never questioned it—never even wanted to.

Until Ivy Cooper explodes into my grey, duty bound existence, flooding it with colour and chaos.

She’s everything I shouldn’t want: a potty-mouthed commoner who scoffs at my title and makes Eliza Doolittle look refined. She works at London’s most exclusive sex club, guards secrets darker than my family’s dungeons, and has zero respect for the duties that define me.

She’s also the most magnificent creature I’ve ever encountered…”

SUPER-BARGAIN FANTASY ROMANCE!!!

Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them.

Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped—stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting—Meryn’s world falls apart.

Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life.

Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate…”

JUST WENT LIVE!! OOOOPS!!! HE’S HER PROFESSOR…

SUPER-BARGAIN MAFIA ROMANCE!! HER EX’S BROTHER…

A stranger with cold eyes. Filthy mouth. And lethal hands. He dragged me into the bathroom of my Prague flight. Fisted my hair. Bit my throat. Burned filthy Russian promises straight into my soul.

Then I learned his name. Matvei Volkov. Bratva kingpin. Chicago’s deadliest shadow. And my ex-fiancé’s estranged half-brother.

His offer? Stand on his arm at my ex’s wedding…”

SUPER-BARGAIN MAFIA ROMANCE! HE BOUGHT HER!!!

“…The most dangerous man in the room bought me. One minute, I’m a hotel maid no one notices. The next, I’m dragged onto a stage where ruthless men buy women for property.

Then Gabriel Moretti walks in. Silver at his temples. Violence in his eyes. Power in every cold, effortless step. He buys me in front of everyone.

Now I’m trapped inside his world of marble halls, shadowed deals, and bloodstained secrets. Where his word is law, his touch is ruin… and every glance brands me as his.

Then I learn the truth…”

RECENT RELEASE!! COZY FANTASY ROMANCE!!

After a lifetime as a mercenary and years of war, Rylana seeks a peaceful new career, and this job looks perfect. What could be calmer and more relaxing than crunching numbers while delightful scents waft from a professional kitchen?

There’s just one problem. The Dragon Diner is run by a real dragon, one she shot with an arrow during the war. And, oh yes, he remembers her.

This might not be the relaxing new start to life that Rylana envisioned…”

RECENT RELEASE!! TYRANT CHEF ROMANCE

“…Chef Draven is known as a tyrant in the kitchen, but when the new dishwasher arrives, he finds himself spellbound by Claire’s beauty. She’s young, brave, in need of a guardian…and obviously running from something.

At first touch, he’s vowing to protect her from all harm and proclaiming himself as her man. She’s his now. But there’s something different about his girl. Her very presence, and a unique spice all her own, cause his cooking to improve to the point of inciting riots outside the restaurant…”

RECENT RELEASE REVERSE HAREM FANTASY ROMANCE BOOK #2!! MUST BE READ IN ORDER

I survived the Choosing. I claimed my mates. I became immortal. But the kings weren’t finished with us yet.

Four princes. Four thrones. And a final season designed to decide if we’re worthy to rule. Every task is a test. Every smile is a lie. The people judge. The council votes. And the kings are waiting for us to fail.

I was never meant to be queen. I was an Ashlander who broke into a palace searching for her sister. Now I stand beside the Legends of Chaos, holding power the kingdom fears and love fierce enough to burn it all down…”

RECENT RELEASE REVERSE HAREM

She walked in as something no one believed existed, and she proved it in front of all of them. She fought, held her ground, and gave them every reason to trust and respect her. But they didn’t. The Nightfall Shield saw her power and chose to question it. They made her fall in love, and then ripped the rug out from under her feet.

Without looking back, she fled Dominion and found herself at the gates of Imperium Academy in London. This place didn’t run on reputation, money or old names. If you had power, you proved it. If you didn’t, you didn’t last. Simple as that. Jupiter fit in, finally able to prove her worth. For the first time, no one was trying to decide what she should be or where she belonged. She got to choose that for herself.

And people noticed. Jupiter didn’t make it easy for the men of the Stardust Shield to get close…”

SUPER-SALE FANTASY ROMANCE!!

Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to discover their magical potential. Those who pass Belavere’s test will become Artisans, wielders of powerful elemental magic destined to fulfill the city’s grand ambitions. For Nina, the Artisan School symbolizes a dream and an escape from her harsh reality, while Patrick yearns to return to his Craftsman family, whose extraordinary physical strength serves the idium mines keeping the city alive.

And then they uncover a devastating truth: Artisans aren’t born, they’re chosen…”

SERIES BOOK BUNDLE SUPER-SALE!!

Men tremble at the sound of their names while women run, their lives flashing before their eyes. They’re the monsters under your bed, the boogeymen in your closet. Every living soul fears them. They’re relentless and they’re coming to play.

They’re the sons of the most notorious mafia boss, the leader of the DeAngelis Family, and they’ve just set their twisted sights on me.

They stalked me through my apartment, haunted my hallways, and crippled me with fear. They led me straight into their trap and captured me as though they had every right.

Little did I know, these three psychos already owned me…”

JUST WENT LIVE!! HER READERS ARE GOING TO LOVE HIM…

“…I kiss and tell, then profit from it. He’s the first man I want to keep off the page…
My ex destroyed my life and my ability to write a single decent sentence. So I do what any desperate romance author with a contract on the line would do…take a workcation. I rent a bubble gum pink cottage in a touristy town and promise myself no distractions.

Then I meet my temporary landlord.

He has a jawline that belongs on a warning label and the kind of confidence that tells me he breaks hearts for a living. Each morning he makes me coffee and has me laughing. Every night I write scenes I swear aren’t about him. Even though I know better.

I’ve built my career writing about my relationships. Every man. Every crush. Every heartbreak. Every dirty little detail. My readers are going to love him. That’s exactly what I’m afraid of…”

JUST WENT LIVE!! SHE HAS SEVERE OCD & HER WORLD IMPLODES…

“…Ava Williams has always been the responsible one.

As the eldest daughter of an alcoholic mother, she learned early that love means holding everything together—even when it’s falling apart. Now, she runs Hey Honey’s, the beloved coffee shop she’s poured her life into, clinging to carefully ordered routines that keep her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—and her heart—in check.

Anderson Montgomery has spent his whole life running toward disasters.

A firefighter with a chronic caretaker streak and a habit of cleaning up his brothers’ messes, Anderson knows how to shoulder other people’s burdens. But, what he doesn’t know how to do is tell Ava he wants more than the “no-strings-attached” arrangement they began eight months ago. He’s finally ready to risk everything and confess—until Ava’s world implodes…”