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Learn the Play by Kaylee Ryan @Author_K_Ryan @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Learn the Play
Series: Nashville Rampage #3
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Coach’s Daughter/Forbidden
One Night Stand/Surprise Pregnancy
Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design
Photographer: Michelle Lancaster
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Release Date: October 14, 2025


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NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Learn the Play is a coach’s daughter, forbidden, one-night stand, surprise-pregnancy romance.

Bellamy

I watched my parents’ marriage crumble when my father chose football over family. His love for the game destroyed us. It’s why I loathe it. It’s also why I don’t trust easily.

So when I meet a handsome stranger at a hotel bar, we trade nothing but first names. I’m miles from home and I’ll never see him again.

Until I do. At a family event with my dad, he’s there—my mystery man from weeks ago. Only now, I know who he is: a football player on my father’s team. Which means I need to forget him… and his tight end.

Reid

The night I meet the dark-haired beauty at the bar, everything changes. We talk, laugh, and our connection is unlike anything I’ve ever felt. The next morning, she’s gone, leaving me with only her name.

I think I’ve lost her, until she walks into my stadium, standing right beside my coach. Fate hands me a second chance, and I’m not letting it slip.

To her, I’m just another football player. But I’ll prove to her that I’m not her father… I’m my own man. And my dream girl, she was meant to be mine.



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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.


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FIGHTING CHANCE by Jessica Lane @inkslingerpr

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We’re excited to share the release of Jessica Lane’s FIGHTING CHANCE! Check out the small town romance and be sure to grab your copy today!

Title: FIGHTING CHANCE

Author: Jessica Lane

Genre: Small Town Contemporary Romance

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Victoria Adams is a fiercely independent owner of the Morning Brew café by day, renowned artist by night, and full-time protector of her adopted sister. She’s worked hard to build a life far from the shadows of the parents who said she’d never amount to anything. But just as she’s hitting her stride, her estranged mother walks into her café… and right into a steaming mess of mistaken assumptions.   Enter Joshua Roberts, local gym owner and V’s old high school flame. Their banter has always been sharp, their chemistry undeniable, but now, her mother is convinced they’re a couple. With a tense family dinner looming, a best friend trying to escape an abusive marriage, and a gallery deadline breathing down her neck, V agrees to fake it. But somewhere between pretending and protecting, V starts to wonder: is it possible that love could be more than just another obligation?

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  Jessica Lane is an active writer who loves all things romance! Her series, the Scynthian Chronicles have been top sellers on the Amazon list for Gothic Romance and she is proud to announce that the series will be complete on Sept. 3! She also wrote Raggle Taggle Rover, a gripping and emotional journey that is reflective upon her own struggles with infertility. When Jessica isn’t writing, she can be found with her nose in a book, hiking, kayaking and drinking an iced coffee. Follow her on Facebook @Jessica Lane- Author, Instagram and Tiktok @jlynne_lane.  

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Something Resembling Love by Elizabeth Standish @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Something Resembling Love
Series: Something Resembling #1
Author: Elizabeth Standish
Genres: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
with Romance Elements
Tropes: Found Family/STEM Background
Medically Child-free/Chronic Illness Rep
Release Date: September 16, 2025


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Life has a way of uprooting us when we least expect it.

Jane Davenport has been shattered twice—once by the tragic loss of both her parents, and again by her own life-threatening diagnosis. She’s learned relying on people is risky, and the only thing she can count on is the scientific method.

Dr. Peter Livingston has always sought validation through achievement and professional success, masking self-doubt behind the expected uncertainty of his cancer research. Despite his dedication, Peter can’t shake the restless sense that life could offer something more. Even if he’s never stopped long enough to consider what more might be.

When Jane and Peter cross paths at Thanksgiving dinner, their shared fascination with scientific puzzles sparks a passion that’s as physical as it is intellectual. Sharing about her illness has always left Jane feeling like she’s on the outside, but with Peter, it seems she’s found someone who speaks a common language. Yet as their relationship deepens, the boundaries Jane has built to protect her heart and her life are challenged, and Peter begins to unearth the truth about his own desires.

Both must confront the fragile, often painful truth of what it means to truly love: that choosing themselves might mean letting go of each other.

Told from both Jane and Peter’s perspectives, Something Resembling Love is a tender exploration of the ways love can both heal and hurt, how the choices we make echo throughout our lives, and how sometimes, the most significant love story we write is the one we create for ourselves.



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Elizabeth Standish is an attorney based in Denver, Colorado who has: had a solo practice, presented criminal appeals to the Colorado Court of Appeals, worked in-house in biotechnology. When she finally got tired of telling other people’s stories in her legal briefs, and telling happy endings only to herself, she wrote her first novel. Just like her first heroine, Emmalyn, she too grew up showing horses. She shares her home with a chaotic yellow lab, a cat who likes to sleep in her bathtub, and an assortment of wildlife that like to eat the vegetables that escape the confines of her garden.

Rescuing Dr. Marian by Lucy Lennox @GiveMeBooksPR @lucylennoxMM

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Title: Rescuing Dr. Marian
Series: Made Marian Legacy #1
Author: Lucy Lennox
Genre: Contemporary Gay Romance
Tropes: Opposites Attract/Late Bi-Awakening
Forced Proximity/Only One Cabin/Fake Boyfriend
Release Date: August 19, 2025


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One kiss changed everything.
As sheriff, I’m the guy people call for help.
But when my solo Hawaii trip gets hijacked by my clingy ex, suddenly I’m the one who needs saving.
My unlikely rescuer?
A gorgeous stranger who plants one breathtaking, reckless kiss on me in the middle of a crowded bar—sending my ex packing… and stealing my carefully guarded heart.
Tommy Marian kissed me like he knew me.
Like he wanted me.
Like I was his.
Like he was mine.
But he’s not.
He’s a straight, ambitious city doctor—here in paradise for his own damn wedding.
And I’m going home alone, as usual.
Six months later, I land a dream search and rescue gig in Legacy, Montana.
One summer. A break from my coupled-up friends. Zero distractions.
Except guess who’s freshly single… and bunking in my tiny cabin? The biggest distraction of my life.
Tommy Marian is still beautiful, still infuriating, and still everything I can’t want.
He says what happens in Legacy stays in Legacy.
I say I’m not even tempted.
At least one of us is lying.
Because when Tommy disappears on the mountain, I realize I’d burn the world to get him back…
And maybe this time, I won’t let him go.



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Lucy Lennox is a USA Today bestselling author and winner of the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award.

After enjoying creative writing as a child, Lucy didn’t write her first novel until she was over 40 years old. Her debut novel, Borrowing Blue, was published in the autumn of 2016. Lucy has an English Literature degree from Vanderbilt University, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the years and years of staying up all night reading tantalizing novels on her own. She has three children, plays tennis, and hates folding laundry. While her husband is no shmoopy romance hero, he is very good at math, cooks a mean lasagne, has gorgeous eyes, looks hot in his business clothes, and makes her laugh every single day. She writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!


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Extraction by J.L. Drake @j.l.drake @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Extraction
Trilogy: Stonewall #1
Author: J.L. Drake
Genre: Military Romantic Suspense
Tropes: Secret Child/Found Family/Cartel World
Alpha Male/Enemies to Lovers/Forced Proximity
Release Date: June 26, 2025


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From the author of the bestselling Broken Trilogy and Dark Water Series comes Extraction—the first book in Stonewall, a dangerous suspense series in the World of Mayhem, where brotherhood runs deep, and the fight for what matters most only gets harder when the heart is on the line.

Agent Paul is a soldier of many faces—
a ghost, an undercover operative, a team leader.

But those are just titles.

When a letter lands in his hands, everything changes. The past he buried resurfaces with a single revelation—his son.

Returning to the cartel world he barely escaped is a mission he can’t face alone. His brothers rally behind him, shifting their current operation to follow a trail that leads into the darkest corners of Mexico. What they encounter is far more than intel.

A pawn.
An heir.
A child.

Nicole Winter is a war correspondent with a reputation for chasing the truth. Smart. Relentless. And already three steps ahead. When their paths collide, she’s holding the one document Paul needs—and carrying secrets of her own.

As trust is tested and loyalties blur, the mission spirals. When Paul vanishes mid-operation, Nicole is left with one impossible task—to get the boy out alive.

Even if it costs her everything.

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Author J.L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she lives with her husband and two children. 

When she’s not writing she loves to spend time with her family, traveling or just enjoying a night at home. One thing you might notice in her books is her love for the four seasons. Growing up on the east coast of Canada the change in the seasons is in her blood and is often mentioned in her writing. 

An avid reader of James Patterson, J.L. Drake has often found herself inspired by his many stories of mystery and intrigue.

She hopes you will enjoy her stories as much as she has enjoyed writing them.


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Soft Tissue Damage by Lilith Vincent @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Soft Tissue Damage
A Boyfriend’s Dad Dark Romance
Series: Deadly Hearts #2
Author: Lilith Vincent
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Forbidden Romance/Boyfriend’s Dad
Cover Design: Soren Designs
Release Date: September 24, 2025


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His obsession for me is deadly, and I’m falling prey to his pleasure.

There’s never been any security in my life. After being dumped on indifferent relatives as a child, it hurt when I realized that no one was ever going to protect me.

But Cullan, my boyfriend’s father, makes me feel safer than any man I’ve ever known. He’s twice my age and totally forbidden, but his protective embraces, deep voice, and inked muscles have awoken things in me that I shouldn’t want.

When darkness swallows me, it’s Cullan who pulls me into his strong arms and leads me back into the light. He gives me protection, and a job as a nanny to his very young child. But I suspect that Cullan is drenched in his own darkness. There’s a killer on the loose in the city, and I think I know the identity of the man behind the red mask.

My instincts tell me to run from Cullan as fast as I can, but my boyfriend’s father has stolen my heart with hands that are soaked in blood.

And though it should be impossible, I think I’m having his baby.

Author’s note: Soft Tissue Damage is a standalone boyfriend’s father MF romance with dark themes, a twenty-year age gap, the hero as the other man, breeding, a jealous and possessive alphahole, and a sweet but strong virgin heroine. This book features appearances of characters from Fear Me, Love Me. The story is dark, dirty and delicious, so please read at your discretion.





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I put my hands on Elena’s waist and slowly back her against a bookcase. “You didn’t tell Leon about our kiss?”

Elena shakes her head. She’s in the circle of my arms with my head bent over her.

“Why didn’t you tell him?”

“We made a mistake because of the intense situation.” But she looks conflicted. Because she doesn’t know what she wants, or because she doesn’t know if she’s allowed to have it?

I bend my head lower toward her lips and whisper, “Was it a mistake?”

Is there a chance she doesn’t want Leon, and she wants me instead? Her mouth is parted, and her eyes are filled with longing. Does she ever look at Leon like this, or is this needy expression just for me? We’re so close that her face is just inches from mine.

“Elena, how attached are you to my son?”

I know what I’d say if she wasn’t dating my son. Be a good girl and tip those pretty lips up for a kiss. But first I have to know how she feels.

“Cullan…” she breathes.

I cup her jaw and slide my thumb over her full lips. Elena closes her eyes and arches her throat as I touch her, and desire pours through me. She shouldn’t say my name like that and respond to my touch like that if she wants me to back off.

I have to know if I have a chance with her. “Tell me. How much do you really want my son?”






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Lilith Vincent is a steamy romance author who believes in living on the wild side! Whether it’s reverse harem or M/F romance, mafia men and bad boys with tattoos are her weakness, and the heroines who bring them to their knees.


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Make the Play by Kaylee Ryan @Author_K_Ryan @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Make the Play
Series: Nashville Rampage #1
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: Football Romance/Brother’s Best Friend
Teammate’s Sister/Forbidden/Secret Relationship
Release Date: June 24, 2025


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Corie

Knox Beckett is heartbreak in a helmet. He’s also my brother’s best friend, and so far out of my league, he’s untouchable.

But a few stolen glances turn into a welcome home that blindsides us both.

The rules are clear. We just chose not to follow them.

Now we’re sneaking around like we’re running a trick play, hooking up behind closed doors, and pretending our actions don’t have the power to blow up our lives.

Knox is under my skin and tackling his way into my heart. Ready or not, it’s time we make the play.


Knox

She’s the last girl I’m allowed to want—my best friend’s little sister. She’s all grown up and looking at me in invitation.

The second Corie crashes into me, with her tanned, toned skin, in a barely there bikini, I know I’m in trouble.

I shouldn’t look. And I sure as hell shouldn’t touch. My hands are already on her waist, one second longer, and I’ll do something we both might regret.

What I do is even worse. I help her land a job working for the team. My team.

Now I can’t get her out of my mind, or my way. And keeping my hands to myself is a penalty waiting to happen. Because Corie isn’t just off-limits—she’s one line I swore I’d never cross, yet I’m sprinting toward it.

I’d risk the season—my entire career—for her just to make the play.



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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan has been crowned the Queen of Swoon by her readers. With nearly fifty romance books under her belt, she’s known for penning happily ever afters with heart. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand or hanging out with her family where she resides in her home state of Ohio.


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Someone Knows by Vi Keeland @vi_keeland #release @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Someone Knows
Author: Vi Keeland
Publisher: S&S/Emily Bestler Books
Genre: Standalone Thriller
Release Date: June 17, 2025


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As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the teacher dead. Because she was the one who killed him.

Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.








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Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author. With millions of books sold, her titles are currently translated in twenty-seven languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in the US, Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, Israel, and Hungary. Three of her short stories have been turned into films by Passionflix, and two of her books are currently optioned for movies. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.


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Final Down by Ginger Scott @TheGingerScott @wordsmithpublic

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Years ago, I accepted that football would always be a part of my life. I just didn’t know how.


When I met Wyatt Stone, I figured the game would weave its way into my young heart and become a part of my first real love. When I married him, I assumed my life would follow the same path as my mother’s—the wife of an NFL quarterback, with all the highs and lows that come along with it.


But when Wyatt didn’t get picked in the draft, everything changed. And Wyatt’s light, however hard he fought to keep it alive, dimmed. Football has a funny way of operating in this family, though. It lingers, like the haze that hovers over my family’s ranch fields in the Arizona desert horizon.


For my dad, the game stuck around through coaching, and Wyatt thought maybe that was enough for him too. But football had other plans. A second chance at glory. A renewed spark in his soul, calling him to give the dream one more shot. And as much as I want to keep him close, to start our family and walk a new path—one that football doesn’t get to dictate—I know that when it comes to this game, I’ve never really called the shots. I’ve merely gone along for the ride. I just hope that this time it doesn’t break my heart completely.


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Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award-nominated author of several young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, The Girl I Was Before, Wild Reckless, Wicked Restless, In Your Dreams, The Hard Count, Hold My Breath, and A Boy Like You.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

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Wistful Whispers by Kaylene Winter @kaylenewinterauthor @GiveMeBooksPR

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Title: Wistful Whispers
Series: Charming Irish #3
Author: Kaylene Winter
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Reverse Age Gap/Enemies to Lovers
Forced Proximity/Plus Size Heroine/Secret Relationship
Release Date: June 9, 2025


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Wistful Whispers is an irresistible battle of the wills where surrendering to forbidden temptation could cost them everything.

I never promised forever.
A good time? Absolutely.
Heartbreak? Only if they got too attached.

My reputation as a quiet playboy precedes me—women talk, and my ‘talents’ follow me wherever I go. But I’ve always been upfront. No commitments. No expectations. No complications.

Marcella Delgado is nothing but complications. Brilliant. Fierce. Eight years older. And the attorney trying to take down my boss in a malpractice case. She should hate me on sight—hell, she does. But that doesn’t stop the heat between us from igniting the moment we meet.

She’s heard the stories about me firsthand, right there in the depositions. She knows exactly what I’m good at, and even though she fights it, I can see the temptation in her eyes.

One night. One line crossed.
Now my future’s unraveling—and she might be the only thing I don’t want to let go.

For the first time, I want it all.

And I’ll fight like hell to be the man she can’t leave behind.

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Kaylene Winter is a best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and her Pomsky, Phalen. She loves creating art of all kinds.


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