First, she tampered with my pickle. Then, she got us both kicked off a cooking show. Now, we’re fake engaged. Sit back, friends, this is one crazy tale of treachery and pickle juice.
Anthony: All right. Here’s how it went. My pickle went viral. Millions saw it. Thousands ate it. Hold up, pervs. Let me backtrack. I invented a very spicy pickle made with ghost peppers. One bite and you’ll swear someone stuffed a hot coal in your mouth. It’s extremely popular in pranks. I’m in the middle of filming with a prominent cooking show when in walks Little Miss Perfect Pants from a rival deli to insist she has improvements for my pickle. It all goes downhill from there.
Magnolia: Read the reviews and weep, Anthony Pickle. I got the best of you on reality TV. You got me back with a very public kiss. After your new deli poached on my territory, I swore to hate you. But every time those smoky eyes meet mine, I melt a little. Cheesy, right? By the time you’ve kissed me, I already know I’m in deep. But then you propose? How am I supposed to keep faking it when every swoon is real?
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Spicy Pickle is a romantic comedy about a culinary feud, potent pickle juice, and the most not-fake fake love story in the history of reality TV.
Fight for freedom, for country, and for love. That was my MO but after the ultimate betrayal, I put my life on hold.
My name is Joshua McLaren and between being a Hospital Corpsman, EMT, and father, I have no room in my life for relationships. Women weren’t even on my radar. Work, eat, and sleep. That’s it.
It was just supposed to be another answered call. Routine in its entirety. Then, I held that little girl in my arms. Saw the damage done at another’s hands. Felt the pull to my soul. I can’t let them go. I can’t leave Magnolia Gossett alone. The protector in me needs this. Needs to do something, make it right.
In helping her I’m finding that love matters, and some promises may have to be broken.
Whoever or whatever he wants, he can easily have with just a snap of his talented fingers. He’s rock royalty, a handsome prince with a court of beauties to command. To the outside world, the legendary life he leads seems charmed, but it’s not. Looks can be deceiving.
Sierra Marshall is a single mom. Every day is a challenge as the sole parent to her wonderful five-year-old son Dylan. She’s a busy professional. Her life is complete, only not exactly. Since she had her heart broken as a teenager, a big part of her is asleep. She learned a hard lesson. Now she does her dreaming and dancing alone.
His rock band is going out on tour, and she’s the new manager. His charmed world and her challenging one are about to clash.
He’s a wounded dark knight.
She’s a wronged princess with a broken crown.
Can she heal him?
Can he right her wrongs and repair her crown?
He has private pain. She has secret shame. Can true love conquer all?
The Right Wrong is a modern-day retelling of Sleeping Beauty by New York Times bestselling author Michelle Mankin that will make your heart happy.
Do you believe? In fairytales? In happily ever after? In love?
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MICHELLE MANKIN is the New York Times bestselling author of the Black Cat Records series of novels.
Fall in love with a rock star.
Love Evolution, Love Revolution, and Love Resolution are a BRUTAL STRENGTH centered trilogy, combining the plot underpinnings of Shakespeare with the drama, excitement, and indisputable sexiness of the rock ‘n roll industry.
Things take a bit of an edgier turn with the TEMPEST series. These pierced, tatted, and troubled Seattle rockers are young and on the cusp of making it big, but with serious obstacles to overcome that may prevent them from ever getting there.
Rock stars, myths, and legends collide with paranormal romance in a totally mesmerizing way in theMAGICseries.
Get swept away by temptation in the ROCKSTARS, SURF AND SECOND CHANCES DIRT DOGS ROCKSTAR series.
Romance and self-discovery, the FINDING ME series is a Tempest spin off with a more experienced but familiar cast of characters.
The ROCK F*CK CLUB series is a girl-power fueled reality show with the girls ranking the rock stars.
When Michelle is not prowling the streets of her Texas town listening to her rock or NOLA funk music much too loud, she is putting her daydreams down on paper or traveling the world with her family and friends, sometimes for real, and sometimes just for pretend.
BRUTAL STRENGTH series:
Love Evolution
Love Revolution
Love Resolution
Love Rock’ollection Box Set
TEMPEST series (also available in audio):
SOUTHSIDE HIGH
Irresistible Refrain
Enticing Interlude
Captivating Bridge
Relentless Rhythm
Tempting Tempo
Scandalous Beat
The Complete Tempest Rock Star Series, Books 1-6
The MAGIC series (also available in audio):
Strange Magic
Dream Magic
Twisted Magic
ROCK STARS, SURF AND SECOND CHANCES DIRT DOGS ROCKSTAR series (also available in audio):
Outside
Riptide
Oceanside
High Tide
Island Side
The Complete Rock Stars Surf and Second Chances Dirt Dogs Rockstar Series, Books 1-5
FINDING ME series (also available in audio):
Find Me
Remember Me
Keep Me
ROCK F*CK CLUB Girls Ranking the Rock Stars series (also available in audio):
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 1
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 2
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 3
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 4
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 5
ROCK F*CK CLUB BOX SET, Books 1-5
ROCK F*CK CLUB, Girls Ranking the Rock Stars, Book 6
Once Upon A Rock Star:
The Right Man
The Right Wish
The Right Wrong
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I watch her from afar wondering if she could ever love a monster.
I’ve spent years watching Adrianna King, waiting for the day I’m supposed to take her life but something has changed. Somehow, I’ve fallen for the soul I have to kill.
For years Adrianna has been experiencing nightmares that have her facing terrifying monsters leaving her shaken and traumatized but one night her nightmares turn to a dream and she meets a smart mouth, handsome stranger that likes to tell her what to do.
Unable to forget him she closes her eyes seeking answers to her questions and the reason the monsters want her dead. Dane Black is like no one she’s ever met before and while wrestling with her feelings, Adrianna has to fight not only for her life but for his as well.
Three brothers.
One girl.
Is your soul safe?
Biggs_bookcase – “Intriguing read! I’m not sure I have read anything quite like this! I am not even sure what it would be considered for soul jumping but it’s a great escape and opens up the world to possibilities.”
E.A. Weston was born and raised in Dublin Ireland, She now resides in southern California.
She is the best-selling author of New Adult contemporary, paranormal, and Fantasy romance novels. By day she stays at home with her daughter but each night she slips away to spin her tales and gets lost in her fantasy worlds.
As an avid reader, Elizabeth enjoys anything with a bit of romance and a paranormal twist. When she’s not writing or devouring her latest read, she can be found spending time with her family or watching movies.
Rose was Luke’s high school crush. Years ago he asked her out and was left hanging. He still remembers her laughter slapping him in the face.
She was a heartbreaker—Luke’s heartbreaker, and he’s been avoiding her from the moment their eyes met again. When she’d come around, he would disappear.
When Rose shows up to their best friend’s wedding on the arm of another guy, something inside of Luke changes. He’s a selfish man, and she doesn’t belong to him. He doesn’t want to admit that he wants her, but he can’t stand to see her with someone else. So, he’s left with only one option—prevent his heartbreaker from becoming anyone else’s.
Luke throws himself into Rose’s life, and she allows it. Only it’s not what she’d hoped. She wants all of him, but unresolved remnants of his past won’t permit it. The more time they spend together, the harder it is to keep his secret. Luke soon realizes that the only way to have a future with Rose is to stop avoiding his past, but he’s afraid that if he drags her into his mud, he’ll lose her all over again.
Angela K. Parker is a country girl with a big heart. She’s a South Carolina native with a passion for writing, reading, music, & math. When she’s not engaged in any of the above, she’s spending time with her family or catching up on the latest movies. She’s always had a very active imagination. Now she’s putting it to good use.
The Vicci Crime Family Series is made up of Interconnected Standalones. While each book follows a different couple, books need to be read in order. Book 1, which is Jefferson & Giovanna’s story, kicks off the general storyline that continues in Gabriel’s book.
My hands have been covered in blood since I was old enough to drive. I’ve been a soldier for the Vicci Crime Family alongside my best friend, Angelo Rizzuto. Nothing has ever distracted me from my duties as a soldier and underboss.
Until now.
Angelo’s first order of business as head of the family is to end the lives of the firstborn children to capos in the Mancini Crime Family. A task I accept without hesitation. After all, taking a life isn’t anything new to me. One, two—quick, easy kills. But number three stops me dead in my tracks and has me questioning if I can go through with it.
For the first time ever, it looks as if I will fail the family…
This kill should be just as easy as the others, but nothing is ever simple when it comes to Victoria Devecchio, the one girl I’ve given my heart to as a kid. Even though I moved on and married another woman, who blessed me with a daughter, nothing in the world could’ve prepared me for this.
One thing is certain…
When your past crashes headfirst into your present, nothing is off the table.
K.L. Myers was born in West Berlin, Germany while her father was stationed there. She spent her childhood moving from continent to continent finally landing permanently in Colorado when her father retired. Eventually, K.L. moved to “hell”, aka Arizona where she resides with her husband & their fur babies. She has 2 grown daughters & 3 grandchildren.
KL has a passion for reading and writing hot romance when she isn’t juggling family & a full-time job.
Her books & novellas show a pension for a bad boy with a heart of gold. Coupling her bad boys with strong, independent women who don’t need rescuing, and just maybe a taste of naughty redemption! Her characters will pull you in & leave you satiated, yet panting for more, more, MORE!
J.L. Drake’s All In, is an emotionally raw, romantic suspense, written in the K. Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes Worlds project.
Physical and emotional wounds that stem from a ten-year marriage are hard to get over. It takes something out of a movie to snap Arizona back to reality. It’s time to start over.
With the help of a Christmas tree, a cast, and some dark sarcasm, she comes butt to face with an amused neighbor—a very attractive neighbor.
Unfortunately, as much as she wants to close the dark chapter in her life and move on, there are a few more secrets that must cross her path first.
Lieutenant Carter with the New York Fire Department runs a smooth ship over at Firehouse Fifty-Nine. He is well respected and loved by all.
With the Fireman’s Curse deeply rooted in his subconscious, living alone is something he’s made peace with. But when he hears a struggle outside his apartment and finds a woman trying to move a tree nearly twice her size, he finds himself entertained at her predicament and witty comebacks. More so, he finds himself very intrigued and unable to walk away.
Massive fires suddenly start to consume nightclubs and bars, sending the community into a frenzy. With too many close calls and the police on edge, Firehouse Fifty-Nine is now running on fumes.
As evidence piles up and the truth starts to surface, links are made. With everything unfolding around Arizona and Carter, one thing is certain—hearts could end up broken once more.
J. L. Drake was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, later moving to Southern California where she now lives with her husband and two children.
When she is not writing she loves to spend time with her family, travelling or just enjoying a night at home. One thing you might notice in her books is her love of 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 books as much as she has enjoyed writing them.
Marriage and Murder, an-all new quirky and witty cozy mystery and the second book in the Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid is available now!
The Devil is in the details . . .
Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries). His future mother-in-law has other plans, plans his intended has been willing to indulge, much to Cletus’s chagrin. Therefore, so must he. To a point. But truth be told, he wouldn’t mind if the meddlesome matriarch disappeared, at least until the nuptials are over.
On the night of Cletus and Jenn’s long-awaited engagement party, just when the surly schemer is of a mind to take matters into his own hands, a shocking event upends everyone’s best laid plans and sends the small hamlet of Green Valley into complete disarray. The final months leading up to Cletus and Jenn’s matrimonial bliss are plagued with chaos and uncertainty. Will Cletus and Jenn finally make it to the altar? Or will murder and mayhem derail their happily-ever-after?
And most importantly, who done it?
‘Marriage and Murder’ is the second book in the cozy mystery series Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries. It is best read after Winston Brothers #3, ‘Beard Science’ (which can be read as a standalone) and Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries #1, ‘Engagement and Espionage.’
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Excerpt
“Here.” Cletus suddenly appeared, looking devilishly handsome in the dim light and seemingly all put back together—like we’d been in here holding hands instead of. . . ANYWAY.
He held out my underwear. His eyes were bright even in shadow, and I could see they were half-lidded as they lazily trailed over me. He looked at me like he was hungry, and I was dinner. Despite all the encore orgasms I’d just had, the effect hit me right between my legs.
I wondered what he was thinking, watching as he licked his bottom lip and drew it into his mouth. Was he just as insatiable for me? And if so, was he okay with that?
Tearing my eyes away, I pulled on the lace and fixed my skirt, telling my body to settle down. We were getting married for hootenanny’s sake!
Cletus cocked his head to the side while I smoothed my hands down the red fabric, working to get a hold of all this raging want always coursing through my veins whenever he was near. Maybe it was because he was my first, and I guess, my only. Was that why I felt so crazed for him all the time?
“Miraculous,” he said.
I surmised he meant the dress. “Right? The wrinkles are hidden, if there are any. It’s ’cause they ruched the outer fabric at the seams, see?” I turned to the side to show him the seam, and he stepped forward as though he were going to investigate.
Instead, his hands cupped my face and tilted my chin back. He stared at me with a vibrant intensity I felt all the way to my fingertips. “No, Jenn. Not the dress. You.” Cletus gave me a soft kiss, ending it by gently nipping my bottom lip. “You are my miracle.”
I sighed. And I smiled. And I felt like I was walking on a cloud instead of in four-inch heels, which was also probably something of a miracle. “You say the sweetest things.”
“I think you mean, I say the truest things.”
I laughed, and he kissed my forehead. He held me there, in the dark with his lips pressed to my forehead. “I love you so completely, with every cell in my body. I wonder sometimes if I’d cease to exist—just evaporate or disappear—if anything ever happened to you.”
“No.” I anchored my hands to his wrists and squeezed. “Don’t think like that. We’ve got our whole lives in front of us. There’s nothing anyone can—”
Three bangs in quick succession pierced the quiet moment, and not a second later Cletus had me on the ground beneath him, covering my back with his body.
“Gunshots,” he whispered in my ear. “From the parking lot. Don’t move.”
Meet Penny Reid
Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.
I moved all the way to Texas to start a new life. Move on from the girl who fell for her brother’s best friend.
What I didn’t plan on was her. She blew in like a Texas Tornado, spinning my life out of control.
I gave my heart freely once and was burned.
They say everything happens for a reason, but they never said it would be easy.
Cassi
Gripped by mistakes of my past, all I want is to move on with my life. I wanted desperately to come to terms with my past while having a better future.
Then he showed up. It started as a small favor, but soon turned into so much more. Who knew I would find someone who could make me forget.
Secrets aren’t meant to be kept, and soon I spiral out of control.
They say learn from your past and move on, but can the past really stay in the past?
Cala Riley, better known as Cala and Riley, are a pair of friends with a deep seated love of books and writing. Both Cala and Riley are happily married and each have children, Cala with the four-legged kind while Riley has a mixture of both two-legged and four. While they live apart, that does not affect their connection. They are the true definition of family. What started as an idea that quickly turned into a full-length book and a bond that will never end.
Cade Bradbury. Billionaire island owner, at your service.
I’m not used to people giving me the finger. Especially people I’ve just met. Especially when I’m standing in front of my own island resort. So I’m more than intrigued when cute but feisty Emma Clarke does just that…right after dumping a suitcase full of lingerie onto my sidewalk. Questionable lingerie. If this girl is who I think she is, then she’s in big trouble. I won’t even bother going to the police to report someone soliciting…er…clients in my resort. I’ll run Emma off the island, and enjoy every second of it. Which is what I tell myself until I actually spend time with her. Now I’m thinking I might have made a mistake. I don’t want Emma off my island. I want her in my bed. Which makes me wonder if she planned this every step of the way. Me chasing her. Me catching her. Me falling in love with every inch of her…right down to that naughty finger.
The Billionaire Blooper is a spicy romantic comedy set in the charming small town of Hibiscus Bay. All books in this series are full-length, standalone romances with HEAs and NO cliffhangers and can be read in any order.
Goodreads Review – “The setting is beautiful, the banter is hilarious, and the chemistry is hot.”
Goodreads Review – “The Billionaire Blooper is an engaging steamy romance with memorable characters and an interesting ending.”
Goodreads Review – “This book is absolutely hilarious!”
“That’s Island Royale,” he says in a deadpan voice. “That’s where you’ll be spending the next week in five-star luxury bliss.” He turns back to me, crosses his arms over his chest. “And that—” he uses his chin to point at the boat, “is the preferred method of reaching the island. Unless you plan on swimming there, or waiting for the next ferry, which is about two hours from now.”
My face sets like jelly. “Is it safe?”
“The island?” he shrugs, despite my warning glare. “Put on enough sunscreen and don’t swim alone, and you should be fine.” Then he gives me a crooked smile and steps closer, tilting his head to the side. “Although I am a little worried that I might not like the relaxed Emma you’ll turn into at the end. Honestly, I’m terrified.”
Thorne writes spicy small-town romantic comedy romances set in the sunny vacay spot of Hibiscus Bay.
First, she tampered with my pickle.
