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Hit Me with Your Best Shot (Houston Baddies #1) by Sara Ney Release Date: March 10, 2025 About Hit Me with Your Best Shot USA Today bestselling author Sara Ney sizzles with a fast-paced, sexy romp about a sassy fan-girl and flailing hockey star in this hilarious stand-alone... I didn’t mean to roast Gio Montagalo, goalie and crown jewel of The Houston Baddies hockey team. Honestly, I was screaming at the TV in a sports bar like any self-respecting sports junkie does when their team is on a losing streak! So when his twin sister sidles up on the stool beside me, laughing at my commentary, I figured I’d made a fan, too. What I didn’t expect? For her brother—the guy I called “a flashy ice peacock with the reflexes of a sloth” —to hear about it. Yikes. What were the odds?! Next thing I know, Gio is in my DMs with a challenge: “Hold up a sassy sign at my game and hit me with your best shot. Roast me in front of everyone.” For him, it’s fun. For me, it’s humiliating. But I d...

Balance (Oakley's Crew #2) by Nicole Dykes Release Date: March 10, 2025 About Balance Archie My favorite principle in landscaping and in life is balance. In any situation, that’s my goal—to find that perfect balance. And I’m good at it too. That is until I met Cane. Now, nothing makes sense, and everything is off balance. I’m not sure what to make of this and how to make it work. I’ve never felt like this before, and I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. All I know is I want to find a way. Cane I knew I wasn’t happy before I met Archie. But after? It became pretty apparent I wasn’t. Blatantly so. How am I supposed to go back now? Especially since he showed back up in my life at just the wrong time—or right, depending on how you look at it. I don’t even know if I can convince him to forgive me. And I don’t know what I want. All I know is I’ve never felt more secure in who I am than when I’m around him. Add Balance  on BookBub ,...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author. Sara Ney's got a brand-new hockey romance series, and this time around, she's set it in the world of professional hockey instead of the collegiate level. Hit Me with Your Best Shot  is book one in the Houston Baddies  series, and it's kinda-sorta-maybe an opposites-attract romance featuring a hockey player and a professor. Austin Adams is a twenty-nine-year-old sociology professor at the state university, and she also happens to be a huge hockey fan, her love for the sport courtesy of her late father, who bequeathed his beloved Chinese crested, whom he named after his favorite player, to his only child. Austin isn't one to shy away from expressing her opinion, so when the Houston Baddies's star goalie is in a bit of a slump, she shares what she thinks of him while watching a game in a bar. Word gets back to Gio Montagalo about the supposed bashing of his less than stellar skills, and the twenty-six-yea...

Finn (The Moore Men #1) by Ashley James Date Released: March 6, 2025 About Finn Falling for my girlfriend’s twin brother wasn’t what I had in mind when I hired him to be my son’s nanny. Working on my family’s cattle ranch, the hours are long, and sometimes unpredictable, so when my regular nanny quits, leaving me in a pinch, I have to think fast. In walks Ash Tudor. My opposite in almost every way. He’s cheerful and bubbly, has horrible taste in music, and does yoga in my yard almost every morning in the tightest shorts I’ve ever seen. Not that I’m looking. But it’s none of those things that have me scratching my head and second guessing everything I thought I knew about myself. No… it’s the fact that he’s a him and I can’t seem to keep my eyes away, no matter how confusing that may be. I’m nearly thirty, and never once have I looked at another man the way I catch myself looking at him. The feelings and urges growing inside of me make no sense, and then when he gets a s...

Note: An advance reader copy (ARC) was provided by the author via The Author Agency. Ashley James is a new-to-me author, and Finn  is my introduction to her writing, plus it's the first in The Moore Men  series. The series starter is a manny romance set in the small town of Wolf Creek, Texas, with the titular character being Finn Moore, a twenty-eight-year-old single father to a four-year-old son named Tucker who works alongside his father, Gentry, his younger brother, Hollis, and his cousin, August on the family ranch. When his son's nanny informs him that she's moving away with her boyfriend, Finn scrambles to find her replacement. His girlfriend's suggestion that he hire her twin brother gives him pause, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Twenty-four-year-old early childhood educator Ash Tudor is a means to an end, but Finn never expected the two of them to become friends nor did either one mean to share a connection and fall in love. This was a rea...

Guardians of the Heart (Pacific Edge #2) by Dave Henderson Release Date: March 6, 2025 About Guardians of the Heart For years, I believed my story had already been written. Love, loss, and grief—I thought that was all there was for me. My wife, Jessica, was my world, and when cancer took her, it felt like she took the best parts of me with her. I buried myself in work, in routine, in the quiet of a house that still held her touch but no longer her laughter. I told myself I was fine. Then Ethan Williams came crashing into my life. First as the cop who pulled me over. Then as the handyman restoring the unfinished pieces of my home—the projects Jessica had dreamed up but never got to see completed. And now? Now I don’t know what he is to me. Ethan is everything I didn’t know I needed. He’s sharp-witted, fearless, and carries the weight of the world on his shoulders without ever stopping to think about himself. He works himself to exhaustion, balancing his job as a K-9 officer...

Quitting the Quarterback (The Nash Brothers #4) by Lisa Suzanne Release Date: March 6, 2025 About Quitting the Quarterback A steamy pro football, single mom, forbidden doctor/patient romance from Amazon Top Ten bestselling author Lisa Suzanne. I went to Vegas to celebrate my divorce, and the pro football star was there celebrating his new contract. I heard someone call his name, and I wasn't about to miss my chance to get with the man my ex had idolized. I didn't find out until long after a sizzling night filled with fingertips dragging along skin and breathless whispered pleas that it was a case of mistaken identity. I never thought I'd see him again, but then he walks into my office. I'm working hard to rebuild myself as a financially independent single mother when my eyes lift to the VIP client my boss warned me about. Anger courses through my veins, yet I can't seem to tear my gaze from those smoky blue eyes. But the sly look in his eyes from that...