Ella Green is looking forward to some time off from her stressful job.
Soaking up the sun with her toes in the sand is a hell of a lot less dangerous than chasing down bad guys and dodging bullets on the regular. But when a wealthy resident of the small town she’s ended up in approaches her with a unique problem he’d like her to handle, saying no isn’t as easy as Ella thought it would be. Will her standard alias and quick wit get the job done and still leave her time to relax? Or will she have to work a little harder to earn the money this time?
“I’ll be a good girl. Promise.”
Welcome to Summers in Seaside, a small town located along the Oregon Coast and home of the Seaside Festival. This brand new series of short contemporary romance stories is filled with sun, sand and summer adventures that will tug at your heart strings.
It’s not about me, it’s about them *nods to characters*… however, simply put:
→ FanAddict → Superhero geek → Sarcasm academy → Mystery aficionado → Paranormally fascinated → Twisted sense of humor → Broken in oh, so many ways → Believer that love is perfectly imperfect
Life is messy. I like to write about the mess and make something good come out of it. That includes any, and / or all of the above + everything else that happens along the way.
And the delicious way the water trickled down over his washboard abs and the V thingy.
And the fact that I’m on the trip that was supposed to be my honeymoon until I caught the bastard cheating.
Yeah, I’m going to blame it on all that.
Because reckless behavior is so not usually me.
But surfer god Fyn is a breath of fresh air I so badly need.
A break from reality of the world around me.
One he seems to need, too.
It’s a single wild moment in my otherwise structured life that seems to be crumbling.
A perfect snapshot in time…
Until the royal guard shows up looking for him.
Turns out the king of the waves is actually a prince.
A real one next in line for the throne.
And I just banged him on the sand.
People say a one-night stand can be good for you, especially after a break-up.
I’m starting to question that advice.
Because finding my prince is only the beginning…
Things are about to get royally complicated.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Gwyn McNamee is an attorney, writer, wife, and mother (to one human baby and one fur baby). Originally from the Midwest, Gwyn relocated to her husband’s home town of Las Vegas in 2015 and is enjoying her respite from the cold and snow. Gwyn loves to write stories with a bit of suspense and action mingled with romance and heat. When she isn’t either writing or voraciously devouring any books she can get her hands on, Gwyn is busy adding to her tattoo collection, golfing, and stirring up trouble with her perfect mix of sweetness and sarcasm (usually while wearing heels). Gwyn loves to hear from her readers, and here’s where you can find her:
Writing with a whole lot of sarcasm and humor, mixed with a bit of Southern charm, Christy Anderson ain’t no sweet tea kinda storyteller. As an author of romance, Christy believes it doesn’t always have to be hearts and flowers; sometimes, it is dark and twisted, but romance nonetheless. She mixes terror, revenge, and a sliver of love and hope into stories about family, friends, struggles, blurred lines, and happily-ever-afters. Christy lives in the beautiful mountains of Eastern Tennessee with her husband and 152 cats (not really, but close), where she enjoys writing one twist at a time. Christy loves to hear from her readers, and here’s where you can find her:
Being the black sheep in a mafia family is hard. I desperately want to escape my life, and I thought I found a nice, boring, regular man to do that with.
Demertri Sokolov is anything but those three qualities. He rules the Bratva, making my family look like saints. He has a reputation for violence, cruelty and being unforgiving. My heart drums with anticipation each time I see him, even though I know it’s wrong. We have enough chemistry to explode a room. I should have known he was a horrible decision that I continued to play with.
When I find out I’m carrying his baby, I’m terrified. I’m left with no other choice but to run away. Instead of forgetting about me, he searches for where I disappeared. Hiding his baby is a sin not even a mafia princess will get away with when he finds out.
He may be handsome, but he’s not the type to fall in love. When he finds me, will he take mercy or kill because of my betrayal? Will he see a choice?
Emily Bowie is from a small town in Western Canada. She has been making characters come to life through her writing since she was old enough to put her thoughts on paper. She loves her white wine cold, her heels red, and her books spicy.
She married her high school sweetheart and they have two amazing children.
When she is not writing she can be found reading a good book, making digital scrapbooks and being physically active—whether it is at the gym, going for a walk, or playing /keep up with her children.
Fake date. Real trouble. Fall for a new trope-tactic, fake dating rom-com series from USA Today bestselling author, Lila Monroe!
Ex-pro athlete Austin Banks is cocky, charming, and the ultimate player… at least, that’s what I think when he makes me an offer I can’t refuse for my dream job. Except, it’s not technically me he’s offering it to…
Other Jennifer Walker is the bane of my existence. We may share a name (and a similar email address) but that’s where the similarities end. Other Jenn is bold, confident… and off having wild adventures on the other side of the world. So, she won’t mind if I borrow our identity back and prove I’ve got what it takes to have Main Character Energy, too. Right?
I figure I can put up with Austin’s playboy shenanigans long enough to level up my career, but I’m not expecting the sparks between us to be quite so sizzling, or for there to be a sweet, driven guy buried under all that charm. Soon, my one little white (not-quite) lie is spiraling, and I’m in way over my head (and out of my underwear).
Can I find a way out of this mistaken identity mix-up? And will Austin’s past keep us from scoring a home-run – on, and off the field? Find out in the hot and hilarious Billionaire Bachelors rom-com from Lila Monroe!
Combining her love of writing, sex and well-fitted suits, Lila Monroe wrote The Billionaire Bargain. Lila enjoys writing, as it gives her a flexible schedule to spend time with her kids and a wonderful excuse to avoid them. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, who strips out of his well-fitted suits nightly.
Luke Kessler is known for his daring play on the field and his carefully scripted life off it. The Growlers’ wide receiver has a strict rule of dating one woman he’s meticulously chosen per season, then letting her down gently. After all, his game is football, not love. That is until his dopey mutt falls for a French bulldog owned by a hot mess of a woman whose sassy mouth and mind-blowing curves have him fumbling his best laid plans.
After a humiliating concert performance played out in front of the world on social media, cellist Summer Pearson has sworn off a career in music. Forever. She’s hiding out with her grandparents in Milwaukee, licking her wounds and preparing for a predictable, if not boring, law career. The last person she needs challenging her life choices is a sexy, dog-rescuing jock who loves his grandma as much as he loves a good dare.
Especially when that same guy is dating her perfect cousin.
This fun, flirty sports romance delivers a happily ever after that will have you laughing, crying, sighing, and cheering in the endzone. One-click it now for doggy hijinks, senior citizens bent on shenanigans, sexy ax-throwing, locker room bromance, steamy private cello performances, and all the feels as two people discover they are worthy of love.
Double Dog Dare is book 2 in the Milwaukee Growlers Football series but can be read as a standalone with no cliffhangers.
USA Today bestselling author Tracy Solheim writes books with shirtless men on the cover. Some of them are actually best-sellers. The books, not the men. When she’s not writing, she’s practicing her curling. . . bottles of wine, that is. She’s been known to cook dinner but no more than two nights in a row. Most days, she’d rather be reading, which to her is just necessary research. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband and a neurotic Labrador retriever. Her two adult children visit but not often enough. (See the note above about cooking.) Check out her romantic suspense series featuring the Men of the Secret Service–shirtless, of course! See what she’s up to at www.tracysolheim.com
This is for one story on Season 8 Crystal “The Double Life” Listen on Wondery. I am a subscriber, so I listened commercial free. Lucky me no more Best Fiends or Madison Reed garbage.
So now I am seriously stuck on these few episodes in Season 8 All by Iridian speaking of her boyfriend’s brother and his wife Crystal. So we gather the facts about Crystal. Her story is she leads a double life, has a so-called affair with someone at work. So Iridian and Crystal work at the same place and don’t interact there too much. Enough of the soft talk about Crystal- she is young and has a child with Grant, who is Ben’s brother & Iridian’s boyfriend, and lastly she lies.
Basically, we find out that Crystal is a typical twenty something girl. Rumors fly about cheating and a little lie here and there. But wait! She supposedly has told some pretty nasty ass lies. My issue with the first 2 episodes is WHY is it your business? If you have issues with her speak on it. If you don’t like what she does, then don’t bother with her. Oh, wait you don’t hang around, go to lunch or speak that much. Go on about your life then. NO Iridian loves this crap. She thrives on the gossip and fake comradery she gets with a few people at work and her new gay bff Zachary, who makes a couple of comments so typical like “I don’t play that way” Like he is a gay Lou Ferrigno. Please! I bet he is sipping his soy latte while wearing some hot pink crocs performing fake outrage.
Is it over yet? No Iridian feel like she must right some wrongs from her LEFT leaning self. So, she goes and tells Boyfriend Ben and then begins to try to get the sister and the mother involved. I get the feeling that Crystal has what Iridian wants. She has a kid, is married and this bothers Iridian to the point that she contacts a podcast.
Hit the lights and microphone because now she gets all emotional saying that her and Ben decided to have an abortion. She sort of fake cries a bit. Trying to gain sympathy for her choice to be a baby killer. Now the dramatic Tiffany “I’m SO sorry” More behind the back talk goes on, it is now bordering on juvenile. I would think telling Grant will be the thing, let me light up her marriage. OK? No, he doesn’t want to hear anything. Good for you Grant. For whatever reason he chooses to cut that off. I respect that. keep your business private and don’t engage with this juvenile behavior.
Crystal leaves the job and moves to another job at a different building so Iridian feels no more drama at work BUT this can’t be.
Iridian needs attention to be focused on how awful Crystal is. Now she has for the last episode gone on about politics. Left leaning Tiffany who screams liberal to me, lets her go off on a rant about the Texas border with Mexico. Crystals mother makes a post and then there is the “family group chat text” that is in the “Hostile as Fuck” episode.
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We learn Iridian and her boyfriend Ben say that people in the family post things in the group chat to get a rise out of her. Again, she thinks it is all about her. The family has nothing better to do but say things in the chat to get her annoyed. Grant hates her and I think it is about politics? hhmmm Next, they use 👍and it is “digital blackface”. She finds the group chat text so hostile but stays involved. Why? She likes the drama. “It was so mentally draining and so exhausting to feel like if you turn on your phone you’ll be in a political debate.”
REALLY? She is so full of herself. She really thinks that 7 people do nothing but post brown skin color thumb emojis to hurt her? So, this dim bulb goes on about her being Mexican (go figure) and has issues with anyone who watches Fox News. She uses Facebook a lot and openly speaks about issues and apparently has to explain things to people and correct them and help them learn more. She goes on to say that someone asked “can you dumb it down for me?” I guess she thinks she’s a brilliant person.
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This is where I feel like I would lose my shit! She posted “It’s getting really really hard not to pop off on so many of those ignorant posts and comments about the migration detention center. Those ignorant comments are hurtful uneducated and dehumanizing to a community” blah blah WOW now this bitch is on a pedestal looking down. So, Crystal’s mother is her Facebook friend so she comments that she has family members who work for ICE and it is not what it seems. Being that Crystal’s Mother has a family member who works for ICE and dim bulb says “someone who is an ICE agent is an Immigration Police officer who works on the border” Correction idiot- ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement – their mission is to protect us US citizens from crime at the border. CBP for the US is homeland security for the border. “The way ICE works is not very ethical”. Well, I disagree. This girl has turned this episode on its ears. She infuriates me. “If all the information someone gets is from Fox News” So this girl who know nothing about what the border crisis does. I think the fact that Tiffany Reese left all this garbage in shows that she is very liberal and while I appreciate her and respect her choice, she didn’t have to leave such HATE words in the episode. When Iridian was reading her posts, you could tell that it was not what she wrote the way she stuttered over her words. Very disappointed about this and I do hope it is addressed.
For Iridian, you my dear, you are ignorant and need to be educated yourself. I take offense to what you said. The people who I am sure you refer to as migrants are in fact #ILLEGAL. To come into the country legally through proper channels is what America needs.
Illegals drain resources from the US. When you have a family, let’s say 2 kids and parents who jump the wall, they get to their relatives and then what? Get benefits, Medicare and send their kids to school. Right? Their family here is not turning them away and advising them to go back. So when they start collecting benefits, they find a place to live and do not assimilate.
Kids– overwhelm the schools by requiring ESL, an aide and who pays for this? Taxpayers
Medical– They can see a doctor for free! They need vaccines and well care almost immediately. Who pays for this? We do the taxpayers
Police and Fire a big strain when they need all personnel to be bilingual. Nothing like getting called to an issue and you cant communicate.
Garbage and city services– also a huge strain
When you have 207,000 illegals coming through in one month what happens? We are in serious trouble that is what happens. We are overwhelmed at the Arizona and Texas borders. The counties closest to the border are the ones that are drained of resources. How can they serve the taxpayers in their communities when all of a sudden they are flooded with 50 new students who don’t even speak English. They can’t because next week there will be 50 more. So the schools need more teachers, aides, ESL teachers, lunch aides, custodians and school nurses. Moving on they need a larger bus route, because these kids have to be brought to school.
It’s past time we secured our southern border. The people who come here and are seeking asylum are another issue. The Migrant Camps are a temporary settlement that is built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced people. So people are taking not days but months to slowly walk through from other countries like Honduras and Guatemala. They come because the border is not secure, and we give free things when they get here like a little welcome party.
I have no hope that Tiffany will read and respond to this or the ignorant and uneducated Iridian will do the same. My hope is to reach one person that will ask me, like they did her, to dumb it down.
In the end this girl Iridian had no hurts.
What did she do to you? nothing
Were you hurt directly? NO
Wait I got it I know her issue:
That’s a big YES
All you did was play a little drama game. I don’t know what you need in your “healing” process when Crystal did nothing to you. Seems like you were only effected by her because you wanted to be. You liked the drama.
The last episode had a link because this dim bulb and two friends wanted to start a podcast. In the interest of fairness I gave a listen. I made an attempt to listen at half speed and count the “like” word and got up to forty three and gave up. At the end I copied the landing page, and it is clear that the one who labels herself a “scholar” wrote it.
“most of the words we are starting off with are words and phrases that we personally have seen misconstrued in the wild world of social media (or even news media). they’re the kinds of yours that your racist uncle are sharing because biased news sites find it most effect to fear mongrel with. they’re the things you find people holding your tongue back about at work (thanks HR). They are things that have become difficult tot talk about without someone having some sort of opinion on (whether it be well informed or not).
although we do have a list of words that we want to personally talk about, we are also completely open to suggestion. please submit your suggestions or email or dm us! we encourage a dialogue and want to give you beautiful people an open safe to talk and learn and teach!”
@dirtywords
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So in closing, basically, I don’t see any damage, pain or suffering inflicted on Iridian by Crystal. If the entire family has a problem it seems to be with her and that is telling. I say shame on Tiffany for adding all of Iridian’s nasty comments and allowing her hate towards conservatives. It is pretty sad that she was given this platform.
They say love is like war. Easy to begin but hard to stop.
Scarlett has been watching her father fall in love all her life. It never lasts and after a lifetime of uprooting her life so that her father can chase after his latest love interest, she’s done.
She’s sworn off love and dating. She never wants to settle down because she knows that it’s all a lie. Love never lasts.
Then she meets Nash.
The first time that Scarlett sees Nash, she knows that he’s dangerous. No one has ever tempted her to break her rules of engagement, but there’s something about the charming small-town lawyer that she can’t ignore.
When Scarlett has to face a new threat, she turns to Nash. He may be the enemy but he’s the only one who can help her out of this fight.
Except the more that the two fight her battle, the closer they get. Will the BOOM between Nash and Scarlett be strong enough to survive the war that’s coming?
Until Nash is part of Aurora Rose Reynolds’ Happily Ever Alpha World. If you loved Until November and Until Rex from the HEA World, then you will want to read Until Nash.
Shaw Hart is an Amazon Top 100 best-selling author of contemporary and New Adult romance. She loves writing instalove romances that always end in happily ever afters.
She lives in a constant state of motion, chasing after her two children and three dogs. Shaw enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends.
When she’s not doing that, she’s reading romance books, watching stand up comedies or crime TV shows. Her favorite book tropes are secret baby and boss/employee romances. She’s a big fan of James Acaster, Anthony Jeselnik, Nate Bargatze, and John Mulaney’s comedy. Her favorite TV shows are Psych, Burn Notice, Leverage, Barry, Bob’s Burgers, and New Girl.
She’s a Pinterest addict, dog lover, tea snob, and a wannabe yogi.
She also writes contemporary romance books under the pen name, Rebecca Wilder, and she’s one half of the paranormal romance duo, Skye Alder.
Cameron Hart is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. She writes books with lots of heat, plenty of sweet, and just enough drama to keep things interesting.
Cameron graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2012 with a degree in creative writing. When she’s not working on her next book, Cameron can be found reading, crocheting, doing yoga, and chasing around her grumpy cat.
Aurora Rose Reynolds and her husband, Sedaka Reynolds, created Boom Factory Publishing to use their experiences to expand and promote upcoming and existing indie authors.
With over five years in the industry, and millions of books sold worldwide, we know what it takes to become a successful author and we will use this knowledge to take our authors to the next level.
“As a successful hybrid author in this ever evolving industry, I know that you’re only as successful as the team that is promoting you!” – Aurora Rose Reynolds
We were more than we pretended to be. Or maybe we were nothing at all.
-Olivia-
I loved him when I shouldn’t have. And I left him to save us both. Now my life is in danger and he’s the only one who can offer the protection I need.
I hate being so vulnerable, so weak… But if I’m going to bare my secrets to anyone, it’s him.
Even if he hates me for them.
-Aiden-
I would have risked it all for her, but she quit before she ever gave us a chance. She chose another man and another life, instead. And now his choices might cost her hers.
I don’t hate her like she thinks I do, but this is more than a job for me. This is my chance to prove that Olivia and I…
Molly McLain lives in a tiny Wisconsin town with her husband, three kiddos, and two adorable German Shorthaired Pointers. She’s addicted to 80’s ballads, 90’s rock, cheesecake, and office supplies, and she’s been scribbling down love stories in spiral notebooks since she was old enough to daydream about hunky boys and happily-ever-afters. Now, she turns those daydreams into steamy, small town romance novels.
The first season was really good so I planned to just move on to listen to season two but the settings on my phone were “Newest First” so I got season 13. The show started on Audio Chuck but I would imagine that like a lot of things Ashley Flowers touched turned to shit. So all of a sudden its on Wondery. I am a subscribers, so I listed commercial free. Lucky me no more Best Fiends or Madison Reed garbage.
Wondery rating
So now I am on season 13 and I dont know when it started but it is no more serialized. So you get a two parter or a 3 part which I personally like for these stories so there isn’t a lot of fluff to drag things out.
The first two episodes on Amelia were killer. This girl, like many others doesn’t draw the line until later. Sometimes listening to stories like these I find myself saying “Get out” or “He is evil” and it takes so long to get that point through to the victims.
The March 31 st episode titled “WitPro” will be the stunner. It was for me. The fact that, for me, some women can be so gullible is amazing. Is it a combination of being gullible and desperate for a man that makes these episodes good. Joe has a line of bull at least 3 miles long.
I like the host on a 1-5 scale a 3.5 She says “I’m so sorry” way too much. She let’s the “victim” speak way too much and that is a reason why overall its a 3.5* The audio on the “victim” part is not as good, they constantly say “like” and “you know” which is my pet peeve. They tend to babble and give events that really have no real significance to the timelines.
When I saw the reviews, I was sorta happy that there were a lot of 1 and 2 *s It means that I am not alone. Many complaints about audio and the “gone woke” comments had me laughing!
In Season 8 I have BIG issues with Crystal’s story that is the next post. Reviews HERE
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.
The day I showed up to Dax Moody’s sprawling home, I had no idea what was coming.
As a traveling massage therapist, I was used to entering the houses of strangers.
But this assignment was different from any before it.
From the outside, I’d correctly assumed the owner was rich. What I didn’t realize was that he would be younger than I’d imagined, single, stunningly gorgeous, and mysterious.
Despite the fact that Dax had booked a massage, it never actually happened, since our first appointment was unexpectedly cut short by a comedy of errors.
Certain I’d never see him again after that day, I’d done nothing but think about the captivating man.
To my surprise, he called a second time. That appointment, we talked a lot, developing a stronger connection. But once again, there was no actual massage.
The man I now affectionately called “Moody” kept calling me to come back.
It took three times before I finally gave him the massage he’d ordered. Let’s just say it was challenging to keep things professional. I was extremely attracted to Dax, and by that time, I was falling hard.
Eventually, I’d find out why he’d been so aloof, the reason why he and I could never be together.
Our story was supposed to end there, but it didn’t.
Instead, I was left perpetually longing for a forbidden man.
Penelope
Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling
author of contemporary romance.
She grew up
in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a
television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son,
and beautiful daughter with autism.
With over two
million books sold, she is a 21-time New York Times bestseller and the author
of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen
languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.
Ella Green is looking forward to some time off from her stressful job.
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