Monday, April 6, 2026

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: LJ EVANS

 




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#SwiftRiversSeries



Where heroes fall hard, cowgirls fight back, and love is the bravest rescue of all.


California Small Town ♫ First Responders ♫ Stalkers



Welcome to Swift Rivers, where danger lurks beneath quiet streets and every love story is forged under pressure. Broody first responders carry scars they can’t outrun. Fierce women refuse to be protected quietly. When threats close in and hearts are on the line, love becomes the one risk worth taking—and the one thing worth fighting for.


https://www.ljevansbooks.com/swift-rivers



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THE MOMENTS YOU WERE MINE




When she’s the only promise that matters…

PARKER

My life has always revolved around two absolutes: serving as a Navy SEAL and loving Fallon.

When a promise I couldn’t break forces me to keep her at arm’s length, I bury my heart in the Teams and swear off relationships. Until tragedy rips me from the battlefield and leaves me raising a little boy alone.

Returning home to find Fallon’s life is in danger, I drop all pretense of keeping the oaths I once made. Nothing matters now except keeping her and Theo safe—and finally claiming the future I should never have denied us.

FALLON

Parker was my first love, my forever—until he crushed me with a single rejection. I told myself I was over him, that I’d moved on.

But when trouble follows me home to the ranch, Parker is the one who shows up, strong and steady, with a child in his arms and a vow in his eyes.

Except letting him close this time risks more than a broken heart. It could have deadly consequences… for all of us
 

With “My Wife” swoon, this small-town, single-dad spin-off of the fan-favorite Hatley Family series is a chemistry-filled kiss to your heart. Get this broody bodyguard, standalone HEA today.





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A small-town firefighter faking forever…

BECKETT

Maisey’s always been more than my best friend. She’s the only woman who tempts me to burn down the walls I built around my heart. So when I’m called to a fire and watch her world go up in flames, I can’t stop myself from stepping in. A fake engagement is the only way to give her and her dad safety, a home, a chance to breathe again. 

I swear I can keep my distance—until one kiss, one dare, and one taste undo me completely. Until our charade draws a stalker’s attention.

Now, I’ll risk my job, my future, and my life to keep her safe.

MAISEY

I’ve loved Beckett forever—before my scars, before I believed I wasn’t the kind of girl men keep. His proposal promises security, not love. But every stolen kiss makes this engagement feel dangerously real. I almost let myself believe I can finally be enough…

But Beckett doesn’t believe in forever, and as the threats surrounding us turn violent, I realize the biggest risk isn’t losing my heart.

Get this standalone, spin-off of the fan-favorite Hatley Family series now





LJ Evans Books






About the Author




LJ Evans


Award-winning author LJ Evans lives in Northern California with her husband, child, and the three terrors called cats. She's written compulsively since she was a little girl, often getting derailed mid-task by a song lyric that sends her scrambling to jot a scene down. 



A former first-grade teacher, she now spends her days deep in the pages of romance and mystery with a bit of the otherworldly thrown in. Her stories are known for fierce heroines, protective heroes, and found families, following characters who live resiliently—stubbornly and triumphantly navigating this wild ride called life with hope, love, and hard-earned happily-ever-afters.



Her novels have won multiple industry awards, including Charming and the Cherry Blossom, which was named Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published E-book Romance of the Year. At the heart of every story LJ tells is her belief that love is the only real superpower.


Website https://www.ljevansbooks.com/books 

Amazon page https://www.amazon.com/stores/LJ-Evans/author/B071R365YK




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Off Season (Nashville Fury, Book 3) by @chelle_sloan


Narrated by @duncanprescottromance & @lessalamb


Published & Produced by @pinkflamingo_productions 



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Blurb


She broke me. She's also the only one who can put me back together.



When you’re at the top of professional football, the fall to the bottom is steep.


One minute I’m the face of the franchise.


The next I’m being sent back to my hometown.


Little does my team know that's the worst thing they could have done.


She’s here.


Lucy Valenti.


The one who sent me to rock bottom.


The only one who can fix me.


I've loved Lucy since the moment I met her.


Her big brown eyes and kind smile hooked me in.


Her faith in me made me want to be a better man.


She’s the only one who has ever seen me as more than a football player.


She was my end game. My final play.


But I ran out of time.


Or did I? Because I can’t ignore the sparks that fly when we are around each other.


Or the heat that still burns between us.


I always said the offseason was going to be our time.


And if I don’t throw one last Hail Mary, it might be the end.


And this is a game I’m not willing to lose.



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The Stone Flame (The Metalwood Saga Book 2) by @jeremythomasfuller


Narrated by Lesley Isles ( @katherinelmcclain)


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Blurb


To save her son, she must face the fire alone.



The Stone Flame is the second book in the epic Metalwood Saga series.



In the shattered city of Newfris, magic isn’t a gift—it’s a curse. In the year 2311, survival means joining a Crew, and no one fights harder than Phoenix, leader of Shock Crew. With her partner Beam by her side, Phoenix defends her territory, fending off rival Crews and navigating a city torn apart by war and magic.



But when Waller Crew mounts a vengeful attack, Phoenix is forced to unleash a deadly power that nearly consumes her. As dark forces rise, she discovers an even greater threat: the ancient Eldrim, masters of a magic far more dangerous than any human can control.



As a catastrophic war looms, Phoenix must confront her deepest fear—the addiction to her own magic. But to save the world, she may have to sacrifice everything, including herself.



When the world is burning, how far would you go to protect those you love?




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Escape From Faerie (The Dragon Portal Series, Book 0.5) by @booksbyjamiewaters


Narrated by @megpriceaudio


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Blurb


The Hunt begins the moment blood is spilled...


The Unseelie queen is dead—murdered before Sabine’s eyes. And the princess is the one being hunted for the crime.



Sabin’theoria, heir to the Unseelie throne, never expected to watch her mother die beneath the shadowed boughs of the Silver Forest. But truth and illusion twist together, and whispers of regicide spread faster than fire.



Betrayal in Faerie always comes at a deadly price...



Pursued by the Wild Hunt and betrayed by her own people, Sabine has only one choice: run. Every step beyond Faerie’s borders carries her closer to exile, but also deeper into a deadly game of vengeance and lies.



Because no one dares accuse the Seelie king of murder and survives long enough to tell the tale.




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BOOK BUZZ (DEALS, REVEALS AND NEW/UPCOMING RELEASES FOR MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2026)

 





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Why you should one click this book…

🔥Medical Romance

🔥Work Romance

🔥Small Town

🔥Second Chance

🔥Family Drama

🔥Forced Proximity





He left with a goodbye.

I learned how to live without him.

Now we’re in the same town—and the past is wide awake.

Alaric

Liz Ward is the woman I loved.

She’s also the woman I walked away from.

I told myself leaving was the right choice. That going back to Paradise meant being there for my family.

I convinced myself she’d move on.

She didn’t.

Neither did I.

Now Liz is here in Paradise—she’s brilliant, capable, and here for the job she’s earned.

And someone in Paradise is making sure she doesn’t get to keep either.

The sabotage starts quietly. Easy to dismiss.

I don’t dismiss it.

Because I know her. I know when something’s wrong. And I know this is my fault as much as anyone’s.

I lost her once by choosing absence.

This time, I choose her.

Liz

Alaric Dempsey broke my heart with a goodbye and no explanation.

I thought Vancouver was forever.

Then my brother moved. My best friend followed. My parents chased the sun to Mexico. When the perfect job opened up in Paradise, I took it.

A clean start.

Or so I thought.

The job turns hostile fast. Files disappear. Mistakes pile up. Someone wants me gone—and the last person I want watching it happen is Alaric.

He’s still calm. Still controlled. Still looking at me like I never stopped mattering.

A business trip to Hawaii and one hotel room makes it impossible to pretend I’m over him.

His family drama makes it impossible to keep things simple. And the man who once left is suddenly the one standing between me and the fallout.

I survived being abandoned once.

If I let him back in, I need to know he’s not leaving again.




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REVIEWDR. DEMPSEY (DEMPSEY FOLLIES #1) BY GRACE MAXWELL 

Dr. Dempsey (Dempsey Follies Book 1)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Maxwell delves deep into the heart with haunting characters and soulful emotion. Alaric and Liz bring heartache full circle. Dr. Dempsey takes a stroll down heartbreak road to get to maybe this time avenue. From unpredictable to irresistible is a beautiful mess that runs wild and cuts deep.



#Excerpt

I’m reaching for coffee beans, proud of how functional and normal I’m being, when a voice cuts through the music overhead. Low. Warm. Threaded with laughter that once curled through my chest and stayed there.


I freeze. No, no, no. That can’t be him.


I tell myself it’s someone else. There must be other men in Paradise with voices that sound like warm whiskey. 


I turn my head, slow and unwilling. And there he is.


Alaric Dempsey.


He looks older than the last time I saw him three years ago, but better.


Every bit of healing I’ve done since then fractures.


Then panic grips me. I haven’t washed my hair in three days. I have a coffee drip on the front of my sweater. There’s a pimple on my chin, and my period has me bloated. I wanted to see him when I looked my best—so he’d know he didn’t break me. 


I duck behind a display of cereal boxes and peek through a gap. 


Brilliant move, Liz. Real dignified.


Somewhere inside, the rational part of me asks, What are you doing? The rest of me whispers, Survival strategy.


The brunette leans closer. Alaric says something that makes her laugh again. 


My stomach twists. “I’m invisible,” I whisper. “Just another shopper.” I take a breath. I can do this. 


I shift, trying to get feeling back in my legs, and bump the cereal tower, which wobbles. Oh shit!


Too late.


The display tips in a glorious slow-motion disaster. Boxes tumble and crash into the apple pyramid. Honeycrisps scatter like marbles, rolling across the tile. One bounces off my boot and spins under a cart. A man in a puffy jacket swerves to avoid it.


The brunette yelps. Someone gasps.


Alaric turns.


Our eyes meet through the chaos.


Recognition hits like a power line sparking in the snow. Surprise. Then that slow, dangerous smile that used to be my undoing.


I don’t need groceries that bad.



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We’re so excited to finally share the #CoverReveal for Fake It Until It’s Real and Fight It Until We Can’t by @TinaGallagherAuthor & @MeccaRomance! 💙✨


About Fake It Until It’s Real



Jess Harper thought she’d found her fresh start in Maplemoor—until she needed a fake date to survive her ex’s wedding weekend. Caleb Ward is steady, dependable, and completely closed off… but he agrees to help, expecting nothing more than a simple favor.

Except somewhere between stolen glances and shared moments, their fake relationship starts to feel all too real—and now they’ll have to decide if they’re brave enough to risk everything for a love neither of them believed they deserved.

📚 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250326476-fake-it-until-it-s-real

📚 Amazon Pre-Order: https://amzn.to/413dBLV

🎨 Cover Credit: Najla Qamber Designs


About Fight It Until We Can’t



The Hating Game meets Schitt’s Creek in this swoony, rivals-to-lovers romance set in a converted historic brewery.

A fiercely protective operations manager is forced to team up with her rival—a sharp-tongued property analyst who holds the building’s fate in his hands—to save the community she loves.

But as tensions rise and sparks fly, she realizes the biggest threat might not be losing the brewery… it’s how hard she’s falling for the man hired to tear it down.

📚 Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/4d3etjkm

📚 Amazon Pre-Order: https://mybook.to/FightIt

🎨 Cover Credit: Najla Qamber Designs


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📣Sound on for a sample of…

📚Kissing the Chef by S.M. West 

🎤Narrated By Samantha Brentmoor & Gabriel Spires 

▶️Follow S.M. West on Audible to be notified when this audiobook goes live: 

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He cooks like a dream. Kisses like a sin. And wants more than a taste. 

What to Expect…

✨Reverse age gap romance

🩵Golden retriever hero

✨He falls first

🩵Single parent

✨Second chance at love

🩵Chef x interior designer

✨Family/friends series




Happily ever after? Been there, done that, burned the wedding dress.



Happily divorced, I’m now the boss of my own design firm, and my bed is strictly a party-for-one situation.


Until Sam Beaulieu—celebrity chef, five stars in an apron, and way too young for me—asks me to dinner.



There’s only one right answer.


No.


But resisting him is about as easy as swearing off dessert.



So I give in.


To his charm. His sinful mouth. His maddening ability to make me feel.


But this can only ever be a fling.



Because there’s no doubt this younger, irresistible man will break my heart.


And when he does, it won’t just end us–it’ll undo me.




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She expected a marriage of convenience, not a sinfully searing passion that burns behind closed doors...



Download Philip's Rules by Golden Angel Romances while it's #free!!

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He was looking for love. She needed a defender. Together, they could have everything.

The death of Lady Cordelia’s husband left her at the mercy of his cruel heir, a distant cousin who makes her an offer she has to refuse. Desperate to escape a dishonorable fate - and protect her stepdaughter - she accepts the first honorable offer of marriage that she receives – the powerful and stern Marquess of Dunbury. She was prepared to be the perfect, placid, accommodating wife… she never expected the passion and sinful pleasure her new husband brought to their wedding night.

The Marquess of Dunbury was enamored of Lady Cordelia from the moment he met her and laid his claim immediately. Once she's his, he can't keep his hands off her, even when they risk being caught during secret rendezvous just outside the ton's ballrooms. He sees everything she doesn’t believe she is and he’s going to make her see herself the way he does.

Everything would be perfect... except for one person who is determined to ruin Cordelia's newfound happiness.


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About the Author:

Golden Angel is a USA Today best-selling author and self-described bibliophile with a "kinky" bent who loves to write stories for the characters in her head. If she didn't get them out, she's pretty sure she'd go just a little crazy.

She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily-ever-afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.

When she's not writing, she can often be found on the couch reading, in front of her sewing machine making a new cosplay, hanging out with her friends, or wandering the Maryland Renaissance Fair.

Find Her Online!


@goldeniangel

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