Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 06-12-2026

RECENTLY RELEASED!! MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE WITH HER BEST FRIEND’S BILLIONAIRE BROTHER…

James Hamilton is grumpy. Emotionally unavailable. Impossible to reach. He’s also my best friend’s brother. The man who broke my heart without even trying. Now he’s a world-famous chef. Well known for his brilliance. Working for him is my chance at the career of my dreams. But when he calls me out in front of his entire staff. I decide to leave.

But James stops me with an offer I never saw coming. A marriage of convenience to secure the future of his culinary empire. In return, he will pay off my debts and help my family. I should refuse. Instead, I say yes…”

THE #4 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!! THE GRUMPY NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE HALL

“…I came to Seattle to settle my late aunt’s estate. Not to uncover a family secret that rewrites my entire life. Definitely not to fall for the grumpy neighbor across the hall.

Alec Horvath is broody, intense, and completely incapable of minding his own business. He acts like my daughter, and I are temporary inconveniences in his carefully controlled life. Unfortunately for him, my daughter, Mila, decides he belongs to us almost immediately.

The problem?

I’m still grieving. Still untangling decades of lies buried inside my family. Still trying to understand why the woman I thought was my aunt was actually my mother.

Falling in love was never part of the plan. And maybe the scariest part is this: I’m starting to want forever with him too. But love requires trust…”

PSYCH-THRILLER SUPER-BARGAIN!!

Dr. Rachel Hadley has barely absorbed the shock of her ex-husband, psychiatrist Dr. Colton Hadley, vanishing when County Detective Lane Archer uncovers something Colton left behind: a set of taped interviews no one was supposed to find.

On them is a voice labeled Patient 7—a patient Colton should never have been treating. Calm. Precise. And describing four murders before they happen. Locations. Timing. The victims.

Even more chilling, Patient 7 has had no contact with the outside world in over six months. As Rachel and Detective Archer race to uncover who Patient 7 really is, the first predicted murder comes true. And then the next.

Now, with each clue dragging them deeper into a deadly pattern, Detective Archer must identify the next victim before the killer strikes again…”

LIVE!! VAMPIRE ROMANCE!! SHE WANTS TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIM…

…It’s my first day as a substitute professor. I’m in a new city, with new coworkers, and all I want to do is keep my head down. And maybe catch a glimpse of Volik.

I’ve read everything there is to read about vampires. The good and the scary. But I have all semester to sneak a look, so I focus my attention on the clock. Because in three minutes, I turn thirty. But when the moment strikes, an invisible force slams into me.
Weight swells inside my chest, and heat roars through my veins…”

LIVE!! HIS ENEMIES DAUGHTER…

Bayou born and raised, Ronan Boudreaux’s childhood was a fight for survival. The choices he made to save his siblings and himself set him on a spiral of self-destruction…until fate put him in the path of the father he’d never known.

An old betrayal haunts three generations of his family. To destroy its malignant shadow, Ronan hides his feral nature beneath a civilized veneer and redirects his ruthlessness toward Chris Vidal, Sr. — the man whose past treachery demands the ultimate vengeance. Arriving in New York to witness Vidal’s orchestrated downfall, he’s planned for every possible intervention…except for Ireland Vidal, his enemy’s captivating daughter…”

KRISTIN HANNAH SUPER-SALE ALERT!!

“…When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together and care for their grieving, frightened children. Doctors tell Liam not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish what medical science cannot. Daily he sits at Mikaela’s bedside, telling her stories of the precious life they have built together, hoping against hope that she will wake up. But then he discovers evidence of his wife’s secret past: a first marriage to movie star Julian True.

Desperate to bring Mikaela back at any cost, Liam knows that he must turn to Julian for help. But will that choice cost Liam his wife, his family, and everything he holds dear? One of Kristin Hannah’s most moving novels, Angel Falls is a poignant and unforgettable portrait of marriage and commitment, of an ordinary man who dares to risk everything in the name of love…”

RECENTLY RELEASED!! SHE THOUGHT HE HAD CHOSEN HER…

“…He said another woman’s name at the altar. Charlotte Hoffman should have known Dominic Weston was too good to be true.

He was handsome, powerful, impossibly wealthy. He made her feel like she’d stepped into a life she was never meant to have. In a whirlwind courtship, she fell hard, gave him her heart, and walked down the aisle believing he had chosen her.

Then, in front of three hundred guests, Dominic began his vows… And said another woman’s name. Humiliated and heartbroken, Charlotte walks away from the wedding, the dress, the diamonds, and the man who never truly saw her. She starts rebuilding a life that belongs to her — one with no room for a man who treated her like the safest choice…”

LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE… HE HIRES AN ESCORT

Sawyer Montgomery spends his nights broadcasting heartbreak on his prime-time radio show—spinning sad songs, giving terrible love advice, and pretending he’s totally over the ex who shattered his heart.

(Spoiler: he’s not.)

But when he needs a fake boyfriend to survive a weeklong family celebration with that very ex, hiring an escort seems like the perfect solution.

Simple. Efficient. No emotions required. The only problem? The man he mistakes for the escort… isn’t one…”

RECENTLY RELEASED!! VAMPIRE FANTASY ROMANCE

“…The world ended eighty-one years ago. A quantum bomb shattered civilization and split North America into four warring kingdoms ruled by magic, teeth, and fire.

I grew up in the wreckage—a slave in a Coldiron mine, disguised as a boy, protecting my little sister, the only thing keeping me human.

Then I escaped. Half-dead. Starving. Hunted.

I didn’t claw my way to freedom to fall at the feet of four immortal princes.
But here I am. Heart pounding. Skin on fire. Secrets unraveling.

A Fae heir whose touch commands the chaos inside me to still. A vampire prince who’d burn down his own kingdom to keep me, even as his fangs ache for my blood. A shifter prince who fought his way across the fortress just to be the first face I saw when I woke.

And a dragon prince who looks at me like he wants to destroy me because he believes I carry the bloodline of the White Witch…”

LIVE!! M/M ROMANCE!! GRUMPY SUNSHINE…

“…I’m Milo Brandt, the sunshine coach who fixes everyone else’s world but his own. Until the grumpy single dad next door cracks everything open.

Holt Calloway lost his husband three years ago and built a fortress around his silent six-year-old daughter and his own heart. One dead battery, one stuffed fox, and one rainy morning later, I’m standing in their kitchen, falling for the man who barely speaks, the kid who finally laughs again, and the warm light across a dark yard I can’t stop watching.

But loving Holt means fighting his grief, his walls, and his fear that choosing me could break what’s left of his family. This isn’t casual. This is forever, if I’m brave enough to claim it out loud, in front of everyone, for keeps…”

LIVE!! PSYCH-THRILLER SPORTS ROMANCE!!

Then one badly timed photograph turned me into his fake girlfriend, and suddenly the entire sports world wanted to know whether Drew Halpern was kissing the woman investigating him.

For the record, he wasn’t. Not then.

The first time he kissed me, it was strategy. The second time, it was a choice we couldn’t afford. By the third, we were both in too deep to pretend the lie belonged only to the cameras.

And somewhere between the death of my brother, the point he never should have thrown, and the betting empire willing to destroy us both…”

LIVE!! ARRANGED MARRIAGE BUT SHE WANTS HIS BROTHER…

“…I’ve spent my entire life engaged to one man. But it’s his brother I’ve always yearned for.
Now, four days before our wedding, Xavier has thrown me over—and Benedict has stepped in instead. The spare. The playboy. The heartbreaker whose reputation stretches across the Mediterranean.

Benedict de Vere is everything his brother isn’t: reckless, restless, and seemingly unbothered that this match is a transaction. He’s marrying me to save my reputation. My reasons for wedding him are… more complicated.

I’m going to be his duchess. I’m going to share his life. His bed. I should be up to the challenge. After all, they call me the ice queen for a reason. I’ve had years to perfect my mask. But I’ve longed for him since I was eighteen years old. And Benedict doesn’t do serious…”

LIVE!! THE GRUMPY NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE HALL

“…I came to Seattle to settle my late aunt’s estate. Not to uncover a family secret that rewrites my entire life. Definitely not to fall for the grumpy neighbor across the hall.

Alec Horvath is broody, intense, and completely incapable of minding his own business. He acts like my daughter, and I are temporary inconveniences in his carefully controlled life. Unfortunately for him, my daughter, Mila, decides he belongs to us almost immediately…”

LIVE!! HIS ENEMIES DAUGHTER…

Bayou born and raised, Ronan Boudreaux’s childhood was a fight for survival. The choices he made to save his siblings and himself set him on a spiral of self-destruction…until fate put him in the path of the father he’d never known…”