Thursday, August 20, 2026

BOOK BUZZ (DEALS, REVEALS AND NEW/UPCOMING RELEASES FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2026)

 


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THE WILD CARD, an all-new roommates-to-lovers, opposites attract romance about a grumpy FBI agent and a sunshine cookbook author from New York Times Bestselling author Kendall Ryan is LIVE and available in Kindle Unlimited and paperback! (audio is coming)


"An explosion of personality that leaves an irresistible impact .... Ryan dives heart first into over the top. Heat, humor and heart set the stage for delightfully, haunting temptation." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)



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Release Date: August 20, 2026


He buried a fake-girlfriend clause in a roommate agreement.
She signed it without reading.
What could possibly go wrong?


FBI agent Crew Jensen thrives on control. His rigid routines keep his anxiety and OCD in check: no chaos, no distractions, and definitely no relationships.

Until his boss threatens to transfer him to Alaska.

Desperate to prove he has "roots," Crew makes a wildly unhinged decision: he slips a fake-girlfriend clause into his roommate contract, hoping his next applicant won't read it carefully.

Emmie Marshall signs on page seventeen without blinking.

Emmie is everything Crew is not—warm, messy, impossibly chatty—and currently racing a cookbook deadline that could make or break her career. She needs stability. He needs a convincing relationship. It's a simple, mutually beneficial arrangement.

Fake dates. Public hand-holding. Mandatory cuddling sessions (her counter-demand—he's just so touch-starved and grumpy).

The more they pretend, the harder it becomes to remember where the contract ends and real feelings begin.

Because she makes the counting in his head stop. He makes her feel like she doesn't have to try so hard.

Suddenly, the arrangement that was supposed to be temporary feels dangerously real. 


REVIEW: THE WILD CARD BY KENDALL RYAN

The Wild Card
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An explosion of personality that leaves an irresistible impact on the heart. She's a pocketful of sunshine, he's more than a little rough around the edges, sparks ignite and heartache ensues. Ryan dives heart first into over the top. The Wild Card is as endearing as they come. Heat, humor and heart set the stage for delightfully, haunting temptation.







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Reserve your copy now – Small Town, Rockstar Romance Fans will be here October 2, 2026



Lucky Spring (Chincoteague Seasons Series Book 1) by @mktilghman_novelist


Published by @flockpublishing



Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4yUrXy3


Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Ri9ric


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Featured on @the_flock_on_tour





Blurb


She’s Sworn off Love. He’s About to Change Her Tune.



Anne’s life is perfectly on track. She’s committed to her career and has no time for romantic distractions. As far as she’s concerned, happily ever after only exists in sappy movies and three-minute pop songs. She certainly didn’t expect to meet a handsome stranger on vacation who draws her in with a fiddle and a Grammy worthy smile. But she knows love isn’t real, and she’s not willing to give up her hard-won dreams for song.



Joe is the whole package: handsome, sweet, kind to strangers and a musical prodigy on the fiddle. But he isn’t just Joe, he’s a national country-music super star about to hit the road for a grueling months-long tour. When he should be laser focused on his fans from the stage, all he can think about is Anne as he looks for her face in the crowd. She’s closed off to love, but he didn’t get where is by giving up.



When Anne turns away, Joe turns up the volume. He believes in the power of music, and in the power of love.



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✨FALL LOVE by @lbdunbarwrites is releasing September 10th!





Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…


πŸ‚reunited one-night stand

🧑pregnancy

πŸ‚second chance

🧑opposites attract

πŸ‚small town

🧑love over 40

πŸ‚she-grump x sunshine

🧑she-blue collar x businessman




FALL LOVE

L.B. Dunbar

Release Date: September 10 



Blurb:

Neve Snowe doesn't need to settle down. She is already settled in her small harbor town, with a cozy beach cottage and part ownership in the family-run auto repair shop. She doesn't want a man, but she likes them. And she has one golden rule: only sleep with flatlanders. You know, the guys who never intend to stay in Lovewell Landing, only use the coastal area for a brief holiday.

And the last thing she desired was the unexpected . . . to be expecting.

Tate Love spent his summers in Lovewell Landing as a teenager, but somehow he'd missed the beautiful girl who turned into a spunky woman, daring him to jump into the icy ocean one New Year's Eve, then slept with him near the town's sacred well, holding spell-binding waters.

He never thought he'd see her again, until nine months later, a business prospect brings him back to the area.

Now, the man who longs to be tied down finds that one night planted the seed to everything he ever wanted, while he holds the pen that could sign away all she's ever loved.

Welcome to Lovewell Landing, where autumn is in the air, pumpkins decorate every doorstep, and a little fiasco might cause opposites to fall in love.

Fall Love is a steamy, romantic comedy companion novel to The Holiday Post and continues the romances of the Snowe sisters in the beautiful and quirky small town of Lovewell Landing.



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Meet L.B. Dunbar:

L.B. Dunbar loves sexy silver foxes, second chances, and small towns. If you enjoy older characters in your romance reads, including a hero with a little silver in his scruff and a heroine rediscovering her worth, then welcome to romance for those over 40. L.B. Dunbar’s signature works include women and men in their prime taking another turn at love and happily ever after. She’s a USA TODAY Bestseller as well as #1 Bestseller on Amazon in Later in Life Romance with her Lakeside Cottage and Road Trips & Romance series. L.B. lives in Chicago with her own sexy silver fox.

To get all the scoop about the self-proclaimed queen of silver fox romance, join her on Facebook at Loving L.B. or receive her monthly newsletter, Love Notes.


Connect with L.B. Dunbar:

https://linktr.ee/lbdunbarwrites 



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𝐇𝐄𝐑 ππŽπ–π„π‘ ππ‹π€π˜ by Hayley James releases on September 18th! Check out this teaser! 


PRE-ORDER/ADD IT TO YOUR AMAZON WISHLIST! 

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Buy link in bio @authorhayleyjames


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What to expect: 

πŸ’•Meet Cute 

πŸ’Alpha Hockey Hero 

🧁Bakery Owner 

🐢Golden Retriever Hero 

🌸Shy Wallflower
πŸ”₯Outgoing Playboy

πŸ’˜He Falls First





Her Power Play 

by Hayley James

Release Date: September 18th



Blurb

The only thing sweeter than her cupcakes is the way he falls for her.

Ruby Bennett has three goals for her day…

One: Deliver twelve dozen cupcakes to the charity fundraiser at the arena.

Two: Avoid making a complete fool of herself in front of hot hockey players who will likely already be there.

Three: Get home without any injuries.

Unfortunately, she only checks off two. 

One runaway puck, one spilled iced coffee, and one devastatingly handsome hockey player later, Ruby finds herself face-to-face with Liam Fichtner–the Houston Lonestars charming left defenseman. 

Liam has always kept life simple. Hockey comes first. Women come second. And relationships? Those are for other people. He’s perfectly happy keeping things casual… 

Until Ruby 

She’s sweet and easy to fall for. She isn’t chasing him and doesn’t do the limelight. She’d rather stay in the shadows, behind the scenes. The more time he spends with her, the harder it becomes to remember why he ever wanted casual to begin with. 

What begins as an accidental collision quickly turns into something neither of them expected.

Because sometimes the sweetest things in life aren't on the menu—they're the ones you never saw coming.

If you love instalove, extra-steamy romance, protective hockey players, sizzling chemistry, and heroines who know exactly what they want, the Houston Lonestars series is ready to steal your heart.

Get ready for high-octane passion, locker-room tension, and happily-ever-afters that score every time. πŸ’πŸ’™

Preorder The Houston Lonestar series here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H42DS2V9

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Dagger’s Shield by Heather Slade


"....a love worth fighting for. Slade captivates. Dagger and Givre push boundaries, break hearts and set the senses aflame with their dance of danger. Dagger's Shield is binge worthy." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)


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 Amazon:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_a

Other retailers:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_d

Read Chapter One:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_chapter1





She saw him clearly. A player. Not her kind of man. He’d never told her she was the only woman he actually wanted. What neither of them knew was how little time they had left to get this right.

DAGGER

Givre has been telling me with her silence for months that I'm not the sort of man she takes seriously. A scoundrel. A dog. A player. And this morning, I stepped out of Magnolia's room at the exact moment Givre stepped out of hers, and handed her the proof. Fifteen minutes later, I rounded the final curve above the lake, and the Minerva headquarters blew apart in front of me. Givre was inside. And whatever quiet chance I'd been holding out for was buried under four centuries of stone.

GIVRE

Killian Curran, code name Dagger, is everything I’ve spent my career avoiding. English charm, easy smile, a reputation that precedes him into every room. I keep him in the colleagues-zone because I’m not the kind of woman who becomes a story he tells later. This morning proved I was right to. Then the building came down, and I woke up in an ambulance with his face above mine, and I realized the thing I’ve been most afraid of is not that he’ll break my heart. It’s that he’s the only man who ever could.


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Amazon UK:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_uk_a

Amazon CA:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_ca_a

Amazon AU:  https://oashort.com/s/HEA_dagger_au_a


REVIEW: DAGGER'S SHIELD (K19 GENESIS CONSORTIUM TEAM ONE #2) BY HEATHER SLADE

Dagger's Shield

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Dagger's Shield is binge worthy. From the thrill of the chase to the drama of the heart, Slade captivates. Dagger and Givre push boundaries, break hearts and set the senses aflame with their dance of danger. From dangerous liaisons to breathtaking, romance, Givre and Dagger are a love worth fighting for.



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First Moon by Tess Thompson releases on September 8th!

Read With Kindle Unlimited





Everyone said they were made for each other. Fate finally caught up.

For years, Ivy James's best friend has been telling her the same thing: Jack Wilder is perfect for you. And Madeleine would know—she's the publicist behind half the biggest names in country music, Jack included. Professionally, personally, she swore they were a perfect match. Ivy never quite took it seriously. She and Jack had crossed paths a dozen times—award shows, back hallways, a handshake and a we should work together sometime—but always in passing, always with a plane to catch.

Jack has spent his whole life disciplined, focused, building an empire one sold-out night at a time. But lately he's started to feel how empty the house gets when he's there alone.

Ivy's gotten everything she ever dreamed of. Number one records. Sold-out arenas. More money than she could spend in a lifetime. The only dream left is the one she's afraid she'll never get—a true love like her mama and daddy have, and a house full of kids.

But some part of Ivy must have been listening to Madeleine after all. Because when she and songwriter Hunter Sloan sat down to write a duet, they wrote it with Jack in mind.

And the moment Ivy and Jack are in a recording booth, singing it together for the first time, they both know.

This is my missing piece. Quite possibly, my forever home.

The prequel to Cowboy Christmas at Crescent Moon Ranch—the soulmate love story that starts it all, and leads to a Christmas Eve wedding under the Montana sky.

A closed-door country music romance. Soulmates, instalove, and a best friend who told them so.




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Fighting For Family by Cassie Colton releases on September 8th!

Read With Kindle Unlimited





Derrick “Leo” Armstrong built Serenity Securities as a refuge—an unbreakable brotherhood forged from the military and second chances. On Serenity Mountain, he finally found the life he’d always dreamed of: a home, a purpose, and Catherine, the woman he’d loved for a lifetime. With three children and another on the way, Leo believed his world was complete.

Then one mission shattered everything.

Left reeling by the devastating news of her husband’s death, Catherine must navigate grief while protecting the family Leo adored. As the men of Serenity Securities rally to bring their fallen brother home, the mountain community surrounds Catherine with the same fierce loyalty Leo once gave them. But when a final letter from Leo forces her to face an impossible truth, Catherine makes the heartbreaking choice to call off the search. Her children need closure. Life must move forward.

Leo’s team refuses to accept it.

Driven by loyalty, love, and the lessons Leo carved into their souls, the men of Serenity Securities push deeper into danger, determined to uncover the truth about their mission and bring their brother home. Their greatest mission isn’t one they were trained for.

It’s one they learned from Leo himself: Family is worth fighting for.


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THIS GOOD GIRL IS DONE PLAYING BY THE RULES...
AND YOU CAN START HER STORY FOR FREE
Calling Her Bluff, book one of the Dangerous Games Trilogy by #AuthorSinistreAnge, is currently free to download!

Get your copy here πŸ‘‡

https://geni.us/CallingHerBluff

After years of being a very good girl, Allison can no longer ignore her deepest, darkest desires.

Exploring them will require someone depraved enough to unleash her wild side.
Someone powerful enough to take total control.
Someone skilled enough to bring her to her knees.
Someone reckless enough to gamble on a dangerous game of his own.

Someone just like him.


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About Sinistre Ange

Sinistre Ange is a USA Today Bestselling author and the alter ego of Golden Angel. She explores some of the darker sides of romance and erotica - kink, fetish, supernatural creatures, breeding fantasies, etc. You might find some love in these books, but they are not necessarily romances; the focus is on the fantasy and the physical interactions between characters. Come to the dark side... we have cookies.

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