Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 08-07-2026

RECENTLY RELEASED SHIFTER ENEMIES TO LOVERS!!

“The werewolf who’s been keeping me alive with his blood for the last few months just declared me his.

He also says he isn’t mine, so that’s fantastic.

At least we’re not soulmates. Yet. Being a turned vampire has been rough for me…”

SUPER-SALE ALERT

“The widely acclaimed debut novel―about three sisters, three tales, and a very dark secret―that’s a “chilling bedtime story for adults” (People).

“Fiona Walsh thought her family’s secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman, Niall, the truth about her untimely demise―and that of her sister and aunt―begins to see the light of day.

It’s the most tragic love story he’s ever heard….”

SUPER-BARGAIN!! TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE!!

“#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN FANTASY

“What if you could take a vacation to your past?

With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story.

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday…”

FIREFIGHTER ROMANCE!!

“A freshly divorced heroine. A rugged small-town Alaska firefighter, and the accidental glacier rescue that changes everything.

My marriage blew up. So I went to Alaska. Obviously, the logical next step. If my cheating ex hadn’t gotten caught, I’d still be the fool who thought I had forever. Instead, I’m on a reckless divorce trip, trying to figure out what starting over even looks like. I came to the wilderness to find myself again, not to break my ankle on a freezing glacier.

Enter Tanner Houlton. He’s a local hotshot firefighter, a flannel-wearing knight, and the exact kind of steady, protective man who shows up when everything goes wrong…”

BIKER ROMANCE ALERT!!

“It was supposed to be one night of fun before my next life chapter, but that reckless decision follows me to my new home. I’m drawn to the biker more than I should be, and his charming self lingers in my heart even when he’s not there. Being with him jeopardizes my career in law enforcement, yet I can’t seem to stay away. I can only hope that no one finds out.

I shouldn’t want her, the new deputy in town. She’s the epitome of a bad idea, making my life harder, but I’ve never backed down from a challenge. The more time I spend with her, the more my desire to make her mine becomes unbearable to control. One quick, selfish decision seals our future. I’ll do anything to protect and keep her…”

BIKER ROMANCE ALERT!!

“He’s the club’s playboy who doesn’t believe in forever. She’s the survivor who’s placed under his club’s protection. When the past threatens her future, protecting her becomes the only thing that matters. After all, all’s fair in love and wrath.

As the secretary of the Hell’s Heathens Motorcycle Club, my job isn’t just to keep things running smoothly; it’s to use my head and never become distracted. Which is why I have rules in place to remain attachment-free…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!!! SHE GOES INTO HIDING…

“…when the transport bus taking her to prison careens off the road, killing everyone onboard except her, she does what’s in her nature. She survives.

While searching for a place to hide, Leigh stumbles upon an unexpected sanctuary: a flower farm in rural Alabama tucked away from the world. What Leigh doesn’t expect is the found family there who have built something from the wreckage of their own lives…”

ENEMIES TO LOVERS!!

Sixteen years ago, Rainy Cox walked away from the only man she ever loved. She told herself it was the right decision. That they were too young. That someday the ache would fade. It never did.

Now she’s back in Hollow Point, raising her ten-year-old son and trying to build a quiet life. The last person she expects to see is Detective Jase Turner…”

SUPER-SALE!!!

All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice.

Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment…”

FOOTBALL STAR ROMANCE!!

“…I’ve had bad ideas before, but getting wine-drunk and playing He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not might be my worst yet. Especially since the subject of my petal-plucking spiral is none other than the world’s favorite wide receiver, Dawson Iverson…”

SUPER-SALE!! NEWLY DIVORCED!!

…Bitterness at her broken marriage has distanced her from her son, Alex—even as she’s poured all her remaining energy into battling the development company that wants to purchase her family’s land to build a golf course.

Now Liz must confront a few things, including the fate of the farm, her feelings for her ex-husband, and a trip to Spain that rekindles a fire in her she had forgotten existed. Liz returns to Balmuir a different woman…”

RECENTLY RELEASED FORCED PROXIMITY!!

“When flames destroy her fresh start, a grieving paramedic offers shelter. But the real danger isn’t the fire, it’s falling for a man when her ex-husband wants her dead.
Lydia Harper did everything right. New town. A new name on the mailbox. A farmhouse at the end of a quiet road where the man she’d run from could never find her.

The fire came in the dark, while her children slept. She doesn’t remember the blow that put her on the floor. She doesn’t remember the arms that carried her out. She wakes in a hospital with smoke in her lungs, both kids alive beside her, and one impossible certainty settling into her bones: the fire was set on purpose … and the man who set it isn’t finished…”

FAKE RELATIONSHIP SUPER-BARGAIN!!

“A pretend relationship gives two friends more than they bargained for in a Renaissance Faire rom com filled with flower crowns, kilts, corsets, and sword fights.

Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for twelve years with a wall around her heart. On the verge of being an empty nester, she’s decided to move on from her quaint little town, and asks her friend Mitch for his help with some home improvement projects to get her house ready to sell…”

RECENT RELEASE COP-WITCH ROMANCE!!

“Life is going smoothly for Freya Holmes for a change. She has new partners—from the Legacy Foundation, no less—and the most pressing problem she’s facing is an infestation of ghouls in the Garden District. Hardly something to worry about.

Then the unthinkable happens, and a couple is killed in their home. Right before their terrible deaths, somebody called on the phone and told them to play jazz if they didn’t want to die. The couple blew off the call, and paid the ultimate price.

It seems there’s a copycat in the Big Easy, only this killer is reenacting something that happened more than a century before. It’s not the original killer, of course, or is it…”

AGE GAP ROMANCE!

She’s too young. Too reckless. And now she’s my wife. Vanessa Baker is a temptation with a body made for seduction and secrets swirling in her violet eyes. There’s no denying that she’s a stunning woman, but she’s a wild card.
Irresistible, unpredictable, and unexpected.
Exactly the kind of trouble I’ve vowed to stay away from.

So, imagine my shock when I wake up in the Bahamas with a ring on my finger and Vanessa in my bed—with no memory of how either got there. She swears she had no choice. That marrying me was the only way to save herself from a dangerous deal she’d never agreed to.
And now I’m torn between protecting her and resenting her…”

HOCKEY STAR MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE!!

“Avery Chamberlin is fresh out of a toxic marriage and trying to put her life back together one step at a time.

Hired as the new play-by-play commentator for the Green Bay Bobcats, Avery is excited to start this next chapter. The only downfall—her ex-boyfriend plays for the team…”

SUPER-BARGAIN!!!

“Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating. And he’s about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can’t legally fire a dead person).

As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again…”