I’m trapped between two controlling males and I’m not sure if I’ll survive their domination games.
The Elders made their move and now the future has been thrown into chaos.
With Seifiek missing and Axel biding his time, I’ll delve into my studies for as long as I’m allowed at the Academy—or as long as I can survive. There’s a dark secret within the Collegium, one that I need to understand if Rowa, Zeke, and I are going to make it out on the other side of this mess and new enemies are fighting me every step of the way.
The worst being a third powerful male who has set his sights on me. He is delighted by the realms on the verge of war. Chaos is his home and madness is his bedmate.
He’s as ancient as time itself and he’s set the future on a course where I’ll become his queen.
The crowd shouts as I smile, hugging my girl close. I twirl her around the stage, feeding their cheers while planting a show-stopping kiss on her sinfully red lips. Our fans scream at our love, both excited and envious of what we have. But little do they know that, in spite of the goddess wrapped in my arms, my eyes look past her and gaze into those of another. My loverboy.
This story invites you into the long, aching aftermath of trauma — the part most stories skip. In fragmented vignettes, raw inner dialogue, and poetic reflections, Megan doesn’t just tell you what happened. She lets you into her mind as it unravels, remembers, resists, and rebuilds. This book doesn’t offer a before-and-after arc or a neat conclusion tied with a bow. Instead, it brings you into the in-between — the place where healing isn’t linear, and becoming whole means learning how to live alongside what hurt you. For the ones who feel like healing might be a lie because they’re still hurting, this book is for you.
I met Ben Wells at an airport on one of the worst days of my life.
We talked, laughed, connected, and survived a travel disaster.
Then we shared one wild, passionate night together.
That was where the story was supposed to end.
Ben went back to his life as a professional rugby player, and I went back to mine as a college student.
Except mine came with a positive pregnancy test and a life I never planned for.
One Ben made it clear he wanted no part of.
I didn’t fall apart or chase him. I picked myself up and brushed myself off, raised my daughter, and fought my way into law school.
For five years, we did just fine without him.
We were happy, even.
Then, out of nowhere, Ben crashes back into our lives, smiling like nothing ever happened, and everything I thought I knew comes undone. Because some misunderstandings don’t just break hearts. They steal years.
Now Ben is determined to make up for lost time, and not just with our daughter.
The passion we shared is still alive and well, but the stakes are much higher now. But if there’s one thing Ben is good at—besides being relentlessly cheerful and sexy in his rugby uniform—it’s persistence. He doesn’t give up.
If Ben has it his way, the end of our story will be only the beginning.
Julia Wolf writes sexy rockers, grumpy billionaires, snarky heroines, and bad ass women. She’s a firm believer in happily ever afters, no matter how rocky the road is to get there.
She doesn’t believe in “guilty pleasures”, only pleasure. Reading about a plus size woman who gets absolutely railed by a hot rock star is pleasure. Reading about a damaged college student whose flaws are valued and loved by the grumpy guy next door is pleasure. Reading about love in a small town or big city or on a tour bus is pleasure. Reading romance is pleasure!
Julia lives in Maryland with her husband and three crazy, beautiful children. When she’s not writing romance, she’s reading it. Some of her favorite things are, in no particular order: goats, books, coffee, and Target.
He thinks he dislikes her. He has no idea she’s the woman he’s falling for.
I’m Violet Morales — hopeless romantic and firm believer in the universe’s timing.
So when I stumble across FYS, aka Find Your Soulmate, a matchmaking website that promises to find your perfect match, it feels like destiny calling.
What I didn’t count on was being matched with Rowan Teager. Reclusive, selectively mute, billionaire — and the one man in our small town who seems entirely immune to my sunshine. To my face, anyway.
But behind the anonymity of a screen name, we are two opposite strangers falling fast and completely for each other.
The night we’re finally supposed to meet, I end up in a car accident instead. I wake up with a cast on my arm and every memory of my past wiped clean. Including him.
Working through my amnesia, I fall for Rowan all over again — this time not just the man behind a screen name, but the real, quiet one.
In the safety of his home, we start building something real.
But Rowan is convinced that his selective mutism and his silence make him wrong for me. And no matter how loudly I fight for us, he keeps choosing his fear over our love.
One small town. Two powerful families. Thirty years of bad blood threatening to tear everything down.
New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello continues the high-stakes drama of the Firebrook Valley series. Get ready for a soulful, slow-burn, brother’s-best-friend romance that proves some fires don’t just smolder; they consume. One spark is about to set everything ablaze.
She’s innocence and sunshine.
I’m nomadic and jaded.
Neither of us belongs in Firebrook Valley, but here we are, trying to put out fires we didn’t light.
If she wasn’t dating my brother . . .
If I didn’t know I’d hurt her when I leave again . . . maybe I’d finally ask myself why I’ve always gone out of my way to make sure she’s okay.
I need to stay away from her because it's killing me that the only woman I want is the one I can’t have.
I've spent my life creating my own sunshine even in the middle of storms. But this time, I'm caught between two angry brothers and a whole lot of family drama. And, somehow, I'm the one tasked to fix this.
The feud between our fathers is heating up, and so are my exchanges with Evan.
My father’s afraid I’m falling for a Holliston.
And I am, just not the one he thinks I am.
Evan has been my secret guardian angel ever since we were children. Can I get him to wake up and see past the chaos to me before he leaves again?
In Firebrook Valley, the only thing more heartbreaking than falling for the man your family doesn’t want you with . . . is lusting after the one fighting for you to have the right to be with his brother.
Dive into the chaos that is Ruth Cardello. Not Him is a firecracker that never loses it's spark. Humor and heart unite to turn up the heat. Personality takes center stage. Evan and Nora give the soul something to sing about. Sweet and spicy are a delicious combination.
One small town. Two powerful families. Thirty years of bad blood.
New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello returns to her billionaire world-building with the first book in the Firebrook Valley series. Get ready for a high-stakes, forced-proximity romance and a town you’ll want to return to over and over again.
Drew:
Was her goal to intimidate me? Is that why she called for a meeting here, in Boston, at this dusty, old-world exclusive club? If so, she doesn’t know me as well as she thinks she does.
I’m the “find out” part of FAFO.
And I’m only here because she said she needed help with a matter regarding my sister.
They say, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
How close is too close? I’m willing to test that limit.
Bella:
My family calls me “the fixer”, but I’m at a loss this time. It probably wasn’t a good idea to ask for help from the son of the man my father has been openly trying to destroy for decades.
But desperate times call for desperate measures.
Is Drew Burke hot? Yes.
Surprisingly willing to help me? Also yes.
My plan to save both of our families from imploding relies on us working together.
This wasn’t supposed to lead to us tangled up in each other’s lives, waking up in each other’s beds.
And, so far, it’s not making the situation better.
Because in Firebrook Valley, the only thing worse than working with the son of your family’s rival is falling in love with him.
Their secret fake relationship began with a little white lie...
Nora
My ginger beer brewery is, quite literally, my life.
Unfortunately, my male business partner's new fiancรฉe is insanely jealous. It's only a matter of time before she forces him to quit, which means we'll both lose the business we love.
So I ask him what will get her to back down.
A boyfriend.
I make one up, telling her it's too early to introduce him, which works right up until she walks in on a heated private conversation between me and Cormac, my soon-to-be stepbrother.
She comes to a wild conclusion: the reason I'm keeping my boyfriend secret is because it's him.
I know I should set her straight. Cormac is the last person I'd ever date, and not just because our parents are about to get married. He's awkward, introverted, and has the people skills of a houseplant.
But I'm desperate enough to tell the worst lie ever.
Cormac
Nora makes me an offer any sane man would refuse.
She wants me to be her secret fake boyfriend–an act that only has to work on two people.
In exchange, she promises to help me brush up my dating skills.
It doesn't seem like much of a bargain, to be honest. She's been prickly since high school and isn't much of a charmer herself, but I agree because I've promised my father I'll try to get along with her.
But the more time Nora and I spend together, the more I realize that I'd like our secret fake relationship to be real.
**A standalone romcom in the Babes of Brewing series.**
Note: There are TWO different versions of this romcom:
1) A spicy open door version with some strong language and sex scenes
2) A closed door version with mild language and only kissing.
One night in Vegas. One drunken vow. One surprise husband.
I don’t drink. I don’t date.
And I definitely don’t wake up married.
Ronan Black—A.K.A the stranger in my bed—is everything I don't need.
He’s a morally bankrupt charm offensive with trouble written all over his chiseled face.
I’m the good daughter, the responsible best friend, the person who never makes bad decisions.
Now, one night in Vegas just turned into a lifetime of consequences when I wake up in Ronan’s bed…with his ring on my finger.
Because he wants it to stay there.
Maybe even for good.
It’s a bad idea. The worst.
His plan is simple: stay married long enough for him to take control of his company and for me to keep mine afloat.
It’s not fake…but it’s not exactly legitimate either.
So why am I starting to think this ridiculous marriage could actually work?
Ronan might be morally gray, but he’s also becoming the only man I trust.
But do these strange feelings go both ways?
When his corrupt world forces him to pick, will Ronan choose his billions?
Or will he choose us?
MORALLY BLACK ELOPEMENT is the second standalone novel in the Morally Black Weddings series.Tropes inside: woke up married, bad boy/good girl, opposites attract, marriage of convenience, and black-hearted hero meets no-nonsense heroine.
Warning: Contains questionable decisions, shameless flirting, and a hero who’ll convince you bad boys are worth the risk.
Just the right amount of heat to throw the heart into a tailspin. French pushes the envelope as only she can. With the senses on high alert and emotions on full blast, Morally Black Elopement plays by it's own rules. From sweet and spicy to frustratingly, unpredictable, the heat is on and the heart may not survive the burn.
๐he falls first
๐friend’s brother
๐return to small town
๐what could have been
❤️ Genre: Contemporary Romance
๐ Cover Designer: Elizabeth Turner Stokes, @estokescreative
Release Date: May 12, 2026
Four friends made a promise to live one night like it was their last. That night changed everything.
Ten years ago, Mila Ferguson fled Hart’s Landing with a devastating fire, a stolen kiss, and a shattered circle of friends in her wake. But when a crisis brings her home, Mila just wants to get in and get out, unscathed by her mother’s constant criticism and unseen by her former crush, Everett McKean.
Only...Everett is everywhere. The boy Mila once loved is now the town’s scorching hot, beloved mayor. And when he’s not serving his constituents or running the family farm, Everett is taking advantage of his second chance with Mila―the one who got away.
As Mila reconnects to her roots and opens her heart, she discovers that coming home again isn’t about where you’ve been―it’s about who you’re brave enough to become. But when old wounds threaten to open after questions emerge about what really happened the night Mila left, it’s that bravery that will finally set her free.
Sexy, heartfelt, and steeped in small-town charm, Hart’s Landing is a story of forgiveness, friendship, and finding the family who loves you no matter how far you wander.
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