Long weekend at the beach. What starts as a few people is now two basketball teams, tons of teenagers and I don’t want to think of anything else. It is 1:46 am and I am so in need of sleep. But I am

Starting 

Jaz & Miguel
by R.D. Raven 
Seattle born-and-bred Jaz Curtis knows only one thing in her life: that she doesn’t know where it’s going. Maybe that’s why, when she sees an article about a student exchange program in South Africa, it sounds like a great idea.

Portuguese South African, Miguel Pinto, and Xhosa-Speaking, Sandile Mabuyo, have been best friends since they were ten, but the harsh realities of the country they live in (and what can happen to loved ones in it at any moment) transforms their friendship into a veritable brotherhood in blood when they are only seventeen.

Two years later, Sandile is dating Afrikaner girl, Elize van Zyl, which, in the “New South Africa,” should be fine–if not for the (allegedly) racially motivated killings that occurred in Elize’s neighborhood only a few weeks before they met.

Miguel, on the other hand, is not interested in love. What for? So it can be lost in a breath?

Enter Jonathan P. Abbey, freelance tabloid journalist, suffering a mid-life crisis at forty-two and desperate for his lucky break. Abbey has come to realize that luck comes to those who make it–and that veld fires, once lit, burn endlessly. Jaz, Miguel, and Sandile might just be the right veld fire waiting to be lit, one which will disgorge a torrent of reportable events, each worthy of being published in the finest newspapers across the world.

Will Abbey light that fire? Or let it light itself and simply take the pictures?

then

March by Sunni Overend

A creative wunderkind who once topped the country’s most prestigious fashion school, Apple March is now languishing behind a retail counter. When fate shifts and her imaginative passion is reawakened, so too is the threat of a past secret.
From the cool heart of Melbourne to Paris and New York, in a vibrant world of Pimms and croquet, crocodile boots and cocoon coats, Apple seeks the thrill of creative freedom and the one man worth sharing it with.
A page-turning debut novel written with fun, stylish wit, March is too satisfying to miss

Followed by

Distorted
by Laura Dunaway 

Aly Chase has worked for Paul Pierce for years, loving him from afar. He is handsome, rich, and the powerful CEO of Pierce Homes. Just when Aly has decided her love for him is futile and vows to move on, Paul begins to give Aly the attention she had always desired, forcing her to feel confused by his actions.

Then there’s Aly’s best friend, Ethan Baker. He’s sweet, handsome and charming. He is also in love with her. He’s accepted that Aly and he will only be friends, until one day Aly realizes that her feelings towards Ethan are way more.

Aly is caught in between the man she’s loved for so long and the man that has always been there for her. As her feelings are pulled and tugged in both directions, she must make a choice before her distorted life loses both of them.

Who will end up winning Aly’s heart?

THEN

The Bow Wow Club
by Nicola May 

Ruby is back and never expected to be starting over…

…but after a shocking bereavement, she begins
to question whether or not she will ever be happy again.

A chance encounter with handsome author Michael Bell
throws her fragile heart into turmoil. Plus, a dark family secret
and completely unexpected love interest add to her confusion.

Encouraged to face her demons, she volunteers at the Bow Wow Club – (Boyfriends of Widows, Wives of Widowers).

You will laugh and cry along with a myriad of eccentric characters as Ruby searches for her inner peace. But will she let love win? Or allow her past to continue to haunt her?