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Counting down the days until you can meet Noah Calahan?
Love, Noah by is coming to ebook & paperback July 16th!
Get ready to fall in love with this spicy, friends to lovers romance, coming just in time for some summer sunshine reading!

You can expect!
🌸 Childhood Friends to Lovers
🌸 Yearning
🌸 It’s always been you
🌸Low angst, high heat!
🌸 Super spicy, hallmark vibes
🌸 Older MCs - 35 & 36
🌸 CEO x Florist

BLURB:
Fall in love.
Get married.
Have babies and live happily ever after.

That’s what I wrote in my diary when I was fifteen years old and now at the age of thirty-five, I’m still clinging to them.
I am truly a hopeless romantic, I just love, love, it just doesn’t love me back and those goals are slipping further and further away.

That’s where my best friend of fifteen years swoops in, ever my knight in shining armor. Noah Callahan is rich, handsome and the kindest man I know, and he’s just offered me a chance to tick one of those goals off my list.

Make a baby… the old-fashioned way.

Now listen, I’m not inexperienced in the least but Noah? He’s teaching me things about myself I didn’t think were possible.
But with all those long nights wrapped up in each other, and the thread that’s kept us tied together since High School, feelings start to bubble to the surface, feelings that have always been there but can no longer be ignored.

Falling in love with my best friend is out of the question but I’m not sure even I can stop it from happening.

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Gracie Reynolds and Cutler Heart stole many scenes in the series where their parents fell in love (Cottonwood Cove and Magnolia Falls). Now they get their own story and seeing these two get their own happily ever after was a beautiful thing.

Cutler stated long ago that Gracie Reynolds was always going to be his girl and he’d marry her one day. Despite his claims on Gracie the two have never crossed the line despite being best friends all this time. Cutler has been known as a bit of a player while Gracie has always been a relationship girl, even though they haven’t worked out.

Now Grace is getting over another broken relationship that took her all the way to France and Cutler is there to help her return home and find her feet.

Gracie still seems to have that sweet confidence she had as a child but adult life has slightly dulled the edges. Her best friend Cutler is her safe space and always there for her.

It seems the distance has made Cutler look at Gracie differently upon her return and Gracie is looking for the passion she’s never felt before but it sure Cutler can deliver. They’ve always been a little bit attracted to each other but denied anything with the risk of their friendship being damaged always on their mind.

So, what happens when these two agree to a friend with benefit situation? Things get complicated.

There was so much to love about their story. seeing them all grown up was a great change to past series, where tends to start with a character we’ve meet previously. As scene stealing kids these two had to grow up but keep that special something we adored when in those books.

We also got the bonus of some of the characters we loved from Cottonwood Cove and Magnolia Falls make an appearance and as always, Laura Pavlov throws in a lot to laugh about, scenes to make you swoon and your heartbeat faster. as well as all those beautiful gooey happy feelings a good romance will give you.

The other characters we’ve met in Bluewater Bay seem like they’re going to have a lot to say and I can’t wait for more of this series

Amazing again from Laura Pavlov signed me up for more

Currently reading newest release Volik and wow this starts off with a bang and I can't wait to see where it's going.

🖤 OVERSIZED VAMPIRE
❤️ SENSITIVE HORNS
🩶 PLUS SIZE HEROINE
🖤 FATED MATES
❤️ SHARP FANGS & LOVE BITES
🩶 HE CAN SCENT HER FROM ACROSS THE CITY
🖤 ALTERNATE TILLY VERSE

Volik is now live and you can read it too,

Ready for Saint View Blood and Ink cover #2?
Ex prisoner, current bodyguard, newest Slayers prospect...Lynx!
The Mafia prince, the biker bodyguard, and the tattooed fighter...why choose? They're all coming in the Saint View Blood and Ink series!
Book 1, Diary of a Mafia Princess coming August 15
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Book 2, Diary of a Biker Queen coming September 15
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Book 3, Diary from an Inked Throne coming October 15
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Here it is!
Love, Noah by is coming July 16th 2026! Just in time to add to your summer TBR!

Preorder now! Available on Amazon & Kindle Unlimited

You can expect!
🌸 Childhood Friends to Lovers
🌸 Yearning
🌸 It’s always been you
🌸Low angst, high heat!
🌸 Super spicy, hallmark vibes
🌸 Older MCs - 35 & 36
🌸 CEO x Florist

BLURB:
Fall in love.
Get married.
Have babies and live happily ever after.

That’s what I wrote in my diary when I was fifteen years old and now at the age of thirty-five, I’m still clinging to them.
I am truly a hopeless romantic, I just love, love, it just doesn’t love me back and those goals are slipping further and further away.

That’s where my best friend of fifteen years swoops in, ever my knight in shining armor. Noah Callahan is rich, handsome and the kindest man I know, and he’s just offered me a chance to tick one of those goals off my list.

Make a baby… the old-fashioned way.

Now listen, I’m not inexperienced in the least but Noah? He’s teaching me things about myself I didn’t think were possible.
But with all those long nights wrapped up in each other, and the thread that’s kept us tied together since High School, feelings start to bubble to the surface, feelings that have always been there but can no longer be ignored.

Falling in love with my best friend is out of the question but I’m not sure even I can stop it from happening.

This series has ended with Frozen Heart and I am terribly sad that it’s ending.

But it ended on a high. Adriano Ruffo might be just the most complicated, mysterious man in the series. It’s the quiet, unassuming Iris Fabbri, an employee of the Don, that brings him to his knees.

Iris has been around the Cosa Nostra most of her life and she well accustomed to the dangerous, violent men in this world. She can’t see how Adriano fits into world with those men. He doesn’t display any of the outward characteristics all the others do. Is he large and powerful and hold an air of authority? Yes. But Iris can’t see him causing the pain and destruction she knows the Cosa Nostra are known for.

Adriano doesn’t need or want people. He only married his wife because what he always wanted was a child. Despite that it turned out he couldn’t have children he stayed married. He would have been content to live a life with her and let her do her own thing, but when her cheating turns to a murder plot, he can’t and won’t let it stand.

This is where the Iris see the real side of Adriano and this is where Adriano goes against his typical instinct to get rid of loose ends.

For Iris she tries to stay out of his way. For Adriano she becomes and obsession.
It becomes a twisted tale between the two where there is a push and pull between wanting and denying. It’s a chaotic tale of them fighting attraction, fighting each other, and fighting to stay alive.

There were so many moments in this book that I loved. The story took some twists and turns that were unpredictable and had me searching for answers and there were parts of their puzzle that I put together. It was the underlying buzz of things always feeling on edge that had me craving more.

Frozen Heart was just another phenomenal book by She has created a series that had highs and lows, danger and suspense, passion and spice. It was a ride I would take over and over again and I plan to re-read and listen to the audiobooks of the Perfectly Imperfect series again.

The final book in The Dugour series will be here before we know it. have shared the cover for The Troublemaker.
I can't wait for this single dad romance to hit my kindle.

BLURB:

A fake marriage deal was never in my life’s plan.

Especially not to Easton Bailey.

Chicago Colts flashy shortstop.

The kind of man built for a good time and allergic to forever.

And the one who just slid a ring on my finger… on paper.

It’s supposed to be simple.

A mutually beneficial arrangement.

I play nanny to his son. He plays husband to my family.

No emotions. No complications. And absolutely no falling for each other.

Turns out pretending to be a family is the fastest way to break every rule we set.

Because he watches me like it was never just a deal.

Because he trusts me with the person who matters most.

Because the more we pretend, the less fake it feels.

And now the man who was never supposed to stay Is the one I can't lose.

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I'm currently reading newest release Heir or Ruin. I think I'm in for a bumpy ride, these two sound like they are going to be complicated and I'm looking forward to seeing how it all plays out and why.

BLURB

Two years ago, I weakened and kissed her—the woman who demanded my attention, my obsession, and everything in between. Then my brother walked in with a brutal reminder of why I never should’ve succumbed.

Cutting her loose wasn’t enough. I had to treat her like my enemy.

I should’ve anticipated the rejection bruising her pride. But threatening my company? My family?

She has no idea what she’s done, and I can’t let the transgression go unpunished.

She calls it intimidation. Manipulation. Kidnapping.

To me, it’s a necessary course correction.

I’m more than the polished New York businessman she thinks I am. Hidden beneath the tailored suits and effortless boardroom control is a violent malevolence written into my DNA—the traits of an unwanted legacy from the lethal underworld I’ve distanced myself from since childhood.

And while some heirs acquire wealth and power, I’ve inherited something far more dangerous.

The ability to ruin Isla Cross.

And everything she cares about.

is takign us back to Saint View on August 15!

Check out the cover of book 1 - Diary of a Mafia Princess

❤️Mafia
❤️Bikers
❤️Fighters
❤️Why choose
❤️Arranged marriage
❤️dark romance
❤️bodyguard

Blurb reveal coming soon!

From New York Times Bestselling author, comes a contemporary friends to lovers romance.

MADE

Maddox James is the entire package. Soulful, deep, hotter than the fiery pits of hell. He’s also my best friend, and did I mention, he’s celibate?

Two years ago, we were strangers sharing sunsets, secrets, and a connection neither of us could ignore. For one perfect night, I thought something extraordinary was beginning—until he rejected me without explanation, leaving me feeling humiliated.

Now, fate has thrown us together again in the worst possible way: he’s my boss’s younger brother. Still maddeningly handsome, endlessly compassionate, and impossible to ignore. The worst part? He’s impossible to dislike too. Beneath the sexy confident smiles and effortless charm is someone quieter than I remember, someone carrying shadows I don’t understand. And when he finally tells me the truth, that rejecting me had nothing to do with him not wanting me—it changes everything.

Somewhere between late-night conversations, daily laughter and sharing our dreams, he becomes my best friend. Which would be fine if I wasn’t falling for him all over again.

Because friendship starts to feel dangerously small when every touch lingers too long, every look feels like a confession, and the man who once swore off intimacy begins breaking every rule he made for himself.

But love doesn’t erase the past. And when the darkest parts of our lives come back to claim us, we’ll have to decide if what we have is strong enough to survive the things that almost destroyed us both.

MADE is a slow-burn, emotional romance about healing, forgiveness, and discovering that love is worth risking everything for.
🧡Contemporary romance
🧡Friends to Lovers
🧡Second Chance
🧡Curvy FMC
🧡Golden retriever energy, with a dark dirty side
🧡He falls first (and hard)
🧡Standalone with HEA