I Love Romance: TEASER ALERT: TRYING NOT TO NEED YOU (MORAN SISTERS #2) BY KAYLEE RYAN

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"...the kind of melody that filters through the soul. Baylor and Macklin turn a blast from the past into the sweetest duet. Love has the last word and hits all the right notes." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)

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Duet Narration by Stephen Dexter and Erin Mallon

Tropes:

Small Town

Opposites Attract

He Falls First

Retired Bull Rider

Childhood Crush

Amazon & KU Release Day: September 22, 2026

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Blurb:

From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan comes a new standalone small-town series about four sisters finding love. Trying Not to Need You is a he-falls-first, opposites-attract romance featuring a retired bull rider and the woman he’s never stopped loving.

Baylor

I thought I was living my happily ever after.

But after five years in New York, building my life around a man who stopped choosing me, I realized our future was nothing more than a dream.

So I walked away.

From the city. From him. From the family I thought we’d build together.

Now I’m back in Magnolia Ridge with my sisters, trying to figure out who I am without the life I planned.

I didn’t come home looking for love.

But somehow, love has been waiting for me all along.

Macklin

I’ve loved Baylor Moran for years.

The timing was always wrong. Until now.

She’s back in Magnolia Ridge with a bruised heart and walls higher than ever. But that's okay. I'll be here when they’re ready to come down.

Baylor can take all the time she needs.

I’m not going anywhere.

And while she’s trying not to need me, I’ll keep loving her until she realizes she’s not falling apart anymore.

She’s finally falling—straight into the future we were always meant to have.

REVIEW: TRYING NOT TO NEED YOU (MORAN SISTERS #2) BY KAYLEE RYAN

Trying Not to Need You by Kaylee Ryan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Trying Not to Need You is the kind of melody that filters through the soul. Ryan is perfectly in tune with the heart. Baylor and Macklin turn a blast from the past into the sweetest duet. Love has the last word and hits all the right notes.

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"Haunting takes the soul by storm. Trying Not to Love You is emotion in it's rawest form. Ryan invites you to explore all the colors of love." - (Isha C., Blogger, Reader, Reviewer - Hopeless Romantic)

Release date: July 14, 2026

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Narrated by Savannah Peachwood and Connor Crais

Tropes:

Second Chance

High School Sweetheart

Ex-Military Hero

First Love

Emotional Healing

Small Town

Blue Collar

Moran Sisters Series

NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Moran Sisters of Magnolia Ridge, Tennessee.

The Moran Sisters Series is a collection of interconnected small-town romances about love, loss, and the pull of coming home, and the people who make it impossible to leave. From the fiercely loyal older sister who swore off love, to the free spirit running from her past, the quiet heart who’s always lingered on the sidelines, and the firecracker who masks fear with laughter, each sister is about to fall hard for the last man she ever expected.

Four books:

1 - Trying Not to Love You

2 - Trying Not to Need You

3 - Trying Not to Kiss You

4 - Trying Not to Hate You

Blurb:

NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series set in a small town, surrounding four sisters. Trying Not to Love You is a small-town, second-chance, first-love, ex-military romance.

Ellison

Copeland James was my first love, my first heartbreak, my first everything.

Then he left without explanation, and never came back.

My sisters and our closest friends helped me pick up the pieces, but my heart hasn’t been whole since the day he walked out of Magnolia Ridge.

I’ve learned to live with what could have been… until his mother’s illness brings him back to our small town. He’s older, harder, and more magnetic than I remember.

He’s a man now. The man I learned to live without. And yet, he’s back, stirring everything I thought I’d buried, making my world feel unsteady.

Because loving him nearly destroyed me… and now, I’m still trying not to love him.

Copeland

I left Magnolia Ridge with nothing but a duffel bag and a decision.

I told myself joining the Marines was the right choice. That loving her meant protecting her, and this was the way to do it.

I was wrong.

Now I’m back, years later, and she’s just as breathtaking as the day I left. All these years, I imagined she’d have moved on, married someone else, but she’s still single, and in my heart, she’s still mine.

But Ellison doesn’t see me the way I see her, not anymore. All I find in her eyes is the wound I left behind. The one that never healed.

I didn’t fight for us back then, but I’ve learned. Now I’m ready for battle, fighting for what we could be while she tries not to love me.

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