Tuesday, February 3, 2026

NOW IN KINDLEUNLIMITED: A SIMPLE REQUEST (COOPER TOWN BOYS #1) BY LACEY BLACK

 



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Title: A Simple Request
Series: Cooper Town Boys #1
Author: Lacey Black
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town, Workplace Romance
Alpha Hero, Independent Heroine, Boss/Employee
Release Date: February 3, 2026






BLURB

Collin

I’m not a fan of change. So, when I hear the old bar I work at a couple of nights a week has sold, I wonder if it’s time for me to give up that side gig. It’s not like I need the cash. My job as a full-time firefighter is more than enough to keep me comfortable and plenty busy.
Then I meet the new owner, my new boss, Lizzie Meyer.
She makes me a deal: give her thirty days. If I don’t like the direction she takes the place, I can quit. Simple, right? But nothing feels simple once I’m around her. I try to ignore the pull, but her easy smile, hypnotic green eyes, and that stubborn streak wrapped in determination makes it impossible. The line between professional and personal is clear…until it isn’t.
Just when something real starts to take shape between us, my past stirs—ready to drag its way back into the light and threaten everything we’re beginning to build together.

Lizzie

I’ve spent years dreaming of a place to call my own. Growing up inside the biggest bar and restaurant in my hometown, I learned early on what my calling was. But lately, I’ve wanted something more. Something that isn’t tied to my family’s legacy. I want to build my own.
That dream leads me to Cooper Town, Ohio, a quaint small town with an old bar for sale and enough possibility to make me pack up my life and take a chance.
I know it will take hard work to bring the place back to life, and I’ve got the drive, the grit, and a modest savings account to get started. What I’m not prepared for is Collin Miller, the brooding bartender with a rare, disarming smile and a work ethic that mirrors my own. He’s impossible to ignore, even harder to resist. I try to keep things strictly professional, really, I do, but being around him feels like standing too close to a flame.
My simple request is that he doesn’t break my heart along the way.







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REVIEWA SIMPLE REQUEST (COOPER TOWN BOYS #1) BY LACEY BLACK

A Simple Request (Cooper Town Boys #1)
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A chance to revisit old friends and become acquainted with new ones. From sensory overload to emotional upheaval, Black knows how to make a lasting impression. With every sassy interaction, Collin and Lizzie keep hearts racing and hope burning bright. A Simple Request is a reminder that love and family go hand and hand.








COMING SOON

#2 A Simple Hello 



Releasing April 14

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

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for a limited time






AUTHOR BIO


USA Today Bestselling Author Lacey Black is a Midwestern girl with a passion for reading, writing, and shopping. She carries her e-reader with her everywhere she goes so she never misses an opportunity to read a few pages. Always looking for a happily ever after, Lacey is passionate about contemporary romance novels and enjoys it further when you mix in a little suspense. She resides in a small town in Illinois with her husband, two children, and three rowdy chickens.


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COMING SOON: WHISKEY, WORDS, AND WHISPERS BY SAWYER BENNETT

 




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WHISKEY, WORDS, AND WHISPERS by @sawyerbennett123 releasing February 24! 


Why you will love this book:

💖Small Town
💖Friends to Lovers
💖Second Chance
💖Returning Home

💖Slow Burn
💖Found Family
💖Community Healing
💖Mutual Pining
💖Golden Retriever Hero
💖Everyday Intimacy

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EXCERPT REVEAL: FALLING FOR TROUBLE (DARE TO FALL #1) BY CARLY PHILLIPS

 




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FALLING FOR TROUBLE by @carlyphillips is #nowavailable 


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Will be exclusive to Amazon on release day, February 5th! 

"Off the charts chemistry meets unpredictable emotion and delivers unforgettable romance.  Phillips unites heartbreak and intrigue with thrilling results." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)


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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…

🔥Bad boy/good girl

🩷Brother’s best friend

🔥Office romance

🩷Opposites attract

🔥Billionaire

🩷He falls first

🔥Forbidden love

🩷Not good enough for her

🔥Alpha

🩷Protector

🔥1st person POV



EXCERPT

“We make quite a team,” I tell him.

“We do.” He grins at me and I’m drawn into his green-eyed  .

Rising to my feet, I act on impulse and wrap my arms around his neck. “Lucas Carras, I appreciate you.”

“Same goes, Ms. Dare.” Our lips meet, and the kiss isn’t hot and rushed, it’s more intense and real. There’s feeling beneath the physical act and butterflies take flight inside my belly.

I try reminding myself that we’re in a temporary arrangement that can’t go any further, but nothing about being around him, working with him, or even kissing him seems short term. He feels like a guy I can rely on. Like my guy.

Just as his tongue slides over my lips, I hear the tap of high heels and a chuckle. I step back from Lucas and glance toward the office entrance.

“Hello!” Kaylee places the four-cup coffee holder on her desk and waves. “No need to stop on my account. Wish I’d known you were here, Lucas. I’d have gotten you one.” 

He chuckles. “I think I’ll let you ladies get back to work.” He leans in close. “I’ll pick you up for the gala on Saturday night. And I’ll text you the time, friend.” He stands tall and grins, then strides past Kaylee’s desk. “Bye, Kaylee.”

She treats him to another finger wave. “Bye, Lucas.”

“What was he doing here?” she asks me.

I blink and realize I don’t know. I’d just been having a mini meltdown, looked up, and there he was. “He was… in the neighborhood,” I tell her.

Across from me, Kaylee grins and busies herself with work on her desk.

My phone rings.

I see it’s Jack and groan but swipe to take the call and put the cell to my ear. “Hi, Jack. What’s up? Aren’t you in Nashville?” I ask.

“And that means I can’t call and say hi to my sister?” he asks.

I roll my eyes, knowing in Jack-speak that probably means checking up on me. “Of course not. How are you?” 

“I’m good. Scoping out places, meeting new people,” he says. “How are things going there? Is Lucas taking good care of you?” he asks.

If only he knows just how good.




He’s the bad boy my family warned me about—and the one man I can’t have.

I just landed the job of my dreams—planning the Miami Thunder football team’s 50th-anniversary celebration—and I can’t afford distractions. Especially not tattooed billionaire and reformed troublemaker Lucas Carras. He exudes alpha-hero intensity, but he’s been off limits for as long as I’ve known him.

But the kickoff party is happening at the nightclub he co-owns with my brother… and with my sibling out of town, I’m stuck working with Lucas.

Forced proximity ignites the desire we’ve both been pretending doesn’t exist. From bedrooms to storage rooms, the scorching tension causes us to cross every line we swore we wouldn’t. On paper, we’re complete opposites. In reality, the chemistry is undeniable.

This party is everything I’ve worked for—my moment to prove myself. Until the sabotage starts.

Orders vanish. Vendors back out. Someone is determined to ruin the anniversary… and my reputation along with it.

Suddenly Lucas isn’t just a distraction. He’s my protector, my anchor, and the only man I trust to stand by my side.

But when my brother finds out about us, family drama explodes. And I’m torn between being the good girl who plays by the rules... and falling for trouble.

Perfect for fans of Carly Phillips and high-heat sports romance, Falling for Trouble features a possessive hero, high-stakes suspense, and a guaranteed HEA.


REVIEWFALLING FOR TROUBLE (DARE TO FALL #1) BY CARLY PHILLIPS

Falling for Trouble (Dare to Fall #1)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Off the charts chemistry meets unpredictable emotion and delivers unforgettable romance. Phillips unites heartbreak and intrigue with thrilling results. From breathtaking, drama to heartaching attraction, Falling for Trouble leaps into the unknown and delivers savory salvation.



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SERIES SPOTLIGHT: DON'T DATE HIM SERIES BY LANI LYNN VALE

 



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DON'T DATE HIM SERIES

by Lani Lynn Vale


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People We Avoid (Don't Date Him Book 2) by Lani Lynn Vale 

Releasing February 10, 2026


"CAN'T PUT DOWN ROMANCE. 

Morally grey may have lost it's soul, but it never lost sight of it's heart." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)


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About the book:📕 


CREED + BIRDEE

All Birdee Calvert wanted was to be normal.


She wanted the parents who didn’t divorce when she was a kid and make her life a living nightmare. She wanted the sisters who actually liked her. She wanted to live in a town where everyone loved her and didn’t have a single bad thing to say about her.


That was not the life Birdee was given.


She had the exact opposite life. The kind of life where she slunk through the grocery store with a hoodie on so no one would recognize her. The kind of life where men like Creed Daugherty didn’t give her a second look.


After years of abuse and heartache, she built walls. Big, huge, thick ones that no one could ever breach. If she didn’t put forth the effort to get to know someone, she couldn’t be hurt.

At least, that was the theory.


She never counted on Creed 


Daugherty hitting her with his truck. Then, deciding that once he entered her life, he would never leave it.

Though Birdee should’ve known that Creed was too good to be true.

All it takes is one mistake on her part, and Creed freezes her out. Then forces the rest of the town to make it almost impossible for her to live in Sawtooth, Montana, anymore.

Birdee only thought it couldn’t get worse.


But Creed makes sure to show her that it can and will.


The thing about rock bottom?


Once you’re there, you have nothing else to lose.


And Creed Daugherty just made himself enemy number one.




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REVIEW: PEOPLE WE AVOID (DON'T DATE HIM #2) BY LANI LYNN VALE

People We Avoid (Don't Date Him, #2)
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Morally grey may have lost it's soul, but it never lost sight of it's heart. People We Avoid blends haunting with heated. Vale pushes emotions to their limit. Creed and Birdee step out of the shadows of life and find redemption in an intriguing tango of love. The soul takes quite a beating, yet it's the healing power of the human spirit that empowers the journey. CAN'T PUT DOWN ROMANCE.




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#1 House of BS & Lies 

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#2 People We Avoid (2/10)

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#3 Not A Side Chick (3/10)

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#4 Be the Full Problem (4/14)

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#5 Forget That Guy (5/12)

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#6 Spicy Disaster (6/16)

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#7 Not A Gentleman (7/14)

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(more to come)

 

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NEW RELEASE: WHEN TIME FLIES BY JENNIFER MORENO

 



When Time Flies
Jennifer Moreno
Publication date: February 3rd 2026
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Romance, Time-Travel

She was just a flight attendant…until she landed in her past.

Indy Kash is a corporate flight attendant, jet-setting with the rich and famous in a world most only glimpse through glossy magazine covers. But beneath the polished service and designer luggage lies a past she’s spent years trying to forget. When a mysterious time-slip yanks her mid- flight into the trauma that derailed her life thirteen years ago, Indy is forced to face the crime that destroyed her future—and the man who made sure she took the fall.

Back in the present, he’s suddenly on board her jet, and Indy’s thrown into a battle across time to stop him from destroying the world. With a reluctant spirit guide, a crash course in time travel, and a love she never saw coming, Indy must untangle the past to rewrite her future.

Can she finally clear her name, save the world, and discover if time really does heal all wounds?

Goodreads / Amazon

EXCERPT:

The old rage from my liver rose, and my intestines churned like an electric whisk on the lowest speed. I was a cliché of both Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. The fact that my shame, anger, and fear culminated into Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) really made me textbook. As the spiritual experts would say: You keep holding onto old crap.

I’d tried everything to let go of the past. I talked about my feelings to numerous therapists—some good, some not. I even attempted the “woo-woo” including:

Inner child work.

A soul retrieval from a Native American shaman (Apparently my soul couldn’t be retrieved).

Good ole fashioned journaling.

Cry therapy.

Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle (The result? Shitting and vomiting at the same time).

Exploring my “shadow side.”

Breath work while a didgeridoo played in the background (One word: painful).

Shrooms.

Trauma workshops.

Belief coding.

Vision boarding (I was desperate).

Transcendental Meditation.

Ketamine.

Visits to psychics, mediums, astrologers, and tarot readers, who all agreed…

I was pretty fucked.

Then I returned to the Western approach and did a one-week stint each with Lexapro and Zoloft, which only gave me migraines. I freakin’ loved the I-can’t-even-get-anxious-if-I-wanted-to feeling of Xanax…but alas, it wasn’t enough.

Nothing worked.

I let out a sigh from my belly, as a multitude of yoga teachers had taught me. As I expelled the air, I felt strange…odd…not dizzy, not nauseous, but weird. I checked the monitor that displayed the airshow. Time To Destination, or TTD, was three hours to go until we landed in Teterboro, New Jersey.

The words and numbers on the monitor blurred into an astigmatism.

I rounded the corner into the crew rest and then plopped onto the club seat. Exhaustion crawled through my veins like slow lightning. My vision pulsed. The feeling was jetlag times infinity. I tried to stay centered and think through what was happening. I had been flying, almost nonstop to save money to buy a house. Crossing all those time zones and the constant fatigue combined with the IBD did not make for a healthy lifestyle.

I’d let myself get that run down. Damn.

My body felt weightless. It was like the moment before a fall, that breathless pause—only it never ended. A newfound hum in my ears grew until it swallowed my every thought. My eyes darted over my lap to the khaki fabric wall and finally to the window. The sky brightened to an angelic white, nearly blinding me. I wasn’t dizzy. I had the urge to stare straight ahead, yet I could not focus.

Am I vaporizing?

I stretched out my fingers. They were disappearing! I felt so airy, as if I could levitate off the seat. I grasped the armrests until…

I couldn’t grasp them anymore.

The outline of my body began to blur. I lost the solidity of flesh. Tiny sparks of light flickered along my arms, breaking apart into floating specks, like dust in the sun. These particles—that were once me—scattered outward. Where I had sat, I was now only a swirl of luminous dust, leaving me somewhere between confused and terrified.

The world spun ahead of me, leaving no room for panic, no room to understand. In an instant, purple lightning hummed and sounded like the constant static of a bug zapper. The spinning intensified, yet I wasn’t queasy.

What the fuck is going on?

I realized I was spinning through blackness, as if I was on an otherworldly plane. Then the particles of my body snapped back together and returned it to its human shape. I kept rotating and twirling until, out of nowhere, I smelled old wood and cleaning solution. And then…

There I was, sitting on a chair in a—was it a courtroom?

My mouth was so dry it felt like sand had settled on my tongue. A dull ache pulsed behind my temples, the kind that usually came from waking too early and too thirsty. My eyes darted across the courtroom, desperate to anchor on something steady, but every face seemed sharpened against me, a blur of judgement I couldn’t decipher. My chest tightened, heavy as stone, and though I begged my body to move, shift, or raise even a finger, nothing obeyed. It was as if my body had betrayed me; every molecule refused to budge. Before I could get one thought together, I heard:

“Indy, doodoo, what’s wrong?”

Mom.

Where am I?

Author Bio:

Jennifer Moreno has a master’s degree in creative writing from New York University. She was a corporate flight attendant for six years and is the host of the Corporate Flight Attendant podcast.

She is deeply involved in metaphysical practices, including obtaining certificates in trance and advanced mediumship; medical intuition; and psychic detection. She is also a reiki master and hosted a metaphysical podcast called Two Inches Off the Ground.

In her personal life, Jennifer is a proud Colombian adoptee. As a Colombian American, she enjoys improving her Spanish and exploring her roots in her native Colombia. “Jennifer” is her adopted American name, and “Moreno” is her original Colombian surname, thus combining these different…yet magical cultures.


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SERIES SPOTLIGHT: FREE FALLING (COLBURN BROTHERS #2) BY JILL SHALVIS

 



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FREE FALLING (COLBURN BROTHERS #2) BY JILL SHALVIS is #NowLive!


"Caleb and Emma are irresistible. Shalvis has readers falling down the rabbit hole of romance with heartwarming vigor. A beautiful mess becomes an enduring love story that sticks to the soul ...." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)


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Release Date: February 3, 2026


College rivals become workplace frenemies-turned-lovers in this warm, sexy contemporary romance from New York Times bestseller Jill Shalvis. First, they were rivals… Now they're stuck with each other…

Retired hockey player Caleb Colburn needs this construction project to prove himself in the family business, but he also needs to recover from the injury that ended his pro career. Too bad Emma Sumner, architect liaison and Caleb's college nemesis, is back in town and assigned to the project. They're going to have to see each other almost every day. Which means once again she'll make his life a living hell.

As for Emma, her job is on the line with this big project, made all the more challenging by the project manager. Caleb was the one who had snagged the scholarship she'd desperately needed to stay in college. She's been living hand to mouth ever since and has no intention of ever forgiving the man.

But the beautiful historic building they're renovating is exactly the kind of project that they both love best. Their surprising common ground and a burning mutual attraction start bringing them closer and closer to a potentially explosive mistake. And that's even before the secrets come out…






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REVIEWFREE FALLING (COLBURN BROTHERS #2) BY JILL SHALVIS

Free Falling (Colburn Brothers #2)
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Shalvis has readers falling down the rabbit hole of romance with heartwarming vigor. From the heat of attraction to the sweetness of emotion, Caleb and Emma are irresistible. Free Falling tiptoes through life in all it's stages to find the humor and hope waiting on the other side. A beautiful mess becomes an enduring love story that sticks to the soul and awakens the senses.




START AT THE BEGINNING


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A trilogy of three unruly brothers, where adventures and shenanigans abound, as well as guaranteed, heart-stopping and heart-melting happily-ever-afters (with a blink and you’ll miss it overarching mystery)  You’ll want to read this series in order! :)



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Book #1: He Falls First



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Book #2: Free Falling


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#ComingSoon

Book #3: Falling Into You


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He Falls First (Colburn Brothers #1) by Jill Shalvis is #NowLive!



"Shalvis stirs up trouble with heat, humor and heart. Penny and Ryder thrive on being unpredictable. From surprise revelations to never ending shenanigans this duo is sure to keep emotions invested and readers craving more." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)






Release DateAugust 5, 3025


"The perfect escape! You'll fall for He Falls First!" —Lucy Score, #1 New York Times bestselling author

No one is going to convince her to fall in love again…

Ryder Colburn has his hands full running the family business and caring for the ailing father who’s a virtual stranger from the cold, heavy-handed man he used to be. He’s got zero free time for hobbies or women. Or so he thinks until one walks into his life… and the path of an oncoming truck.

Ryder doesn’t mind playing the hero for the skittish, wounded chef Penny Rose. Maybe it’s the secrets in her eyes or the bandage along her jaw. Whatever the reason, he’s compelled to get closer.

Penny’s learned her lesson and now she’s paying the price. That’s why she’s sharing a dilapidated house in a tiny California town with her feisty grandmother and tween brother living off the leftovers from her catering job. It’s a far cry from her dream life. But who needs dreams… or love… or sex…when there’s amateur plumbing projects to tackle and breakfast casseroles to bake?

One thing’s for sure, she’s never falling for a man again. Not even the sexy, snarky contractor who keeps testing the walls she’s built.




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