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"I had tears in my eyes at the top of the page and was laughing out loud by the next!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reviewer -C.B. "This book has both humor and heart." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reviewer - LR She's not her first love, but could she be her last?Billy is curious when her neighbor's daughter moves back home after a divorce. A couple of gruff encounters with Andi and Billy thinks she understands why she's suddenly single. Except she can't stop checking out Andi's sculpted legs and reveling in her IDGAF personality. After a brunch disaster with crying in public, and a light-hearted game night with ...

Keep your enemies closer, maybe, much closer. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reviewer: "Wanna have fun? Read this. A rom-com that checks every box and is impossible to put down." -C.B. Another day, another doll. Jackie Leeder makes the most of her one-night “bang-and-runs” when her high school tormentor crashes her bar scene. After some serious groveling from Ann Carter–formerly Annie (FN) Banks, Jackie must decide if she wants to hear out her apology fifteen years late. But Jackie’s soft spot is for kids. And a playful, chance encounter with a little guy lost in a grocery store drops her in close...

What happens on girls’ trip doesn’t always stay on girls’ trip… Dani is reeling from a recent break up when her spectacularly everything boss, Hae Park, plays matchmaker and invites her on a girls trip to meet her freshly out niece. They have no chemistry, but while the niece one-night-stands her way through the other women on the trip, a skiing incident lands Dani close & comfortable with Hae. Too comfortable. Just as things are heating up between them, Dani gets a surprise from her ex. With her sights on long-term love, will Danny return to the comfort of the woman she begged not ...

She’d lost almost everything…until a family found her. Canny, well, she goes by her last name because Rose never fit her anyway, is getting by week to week–and sometimes, table to table–after dropping out of art school. So what if she's talented. Life isn't supposed to work out for the daughter of an addict and get-rich-quick (get-broke-quicker) schemer. Still Canny believes in humanity and helps out an overwhelmed mom of three, Ella, struggling to enjoy a meal out with a useless husband, Callahan. Ella offers Canny a nanny job, but she has reservations–and no idea what a nanny ...

When a bad boy brings you hell instead of heaven, call your gay best friend. In a Straight Girls Series twist, this harrowing story is told from the straight girl's perspective. Kary (her name is Karen, but anyone who goes by Karen anymore is a Karen) is eking out young adult life as a bank teller when one lucky transaction brings her Prince Charming. Things heat up fast with Liam, Mr. CrossFit, almost-six-figure car finance guy, and they move in together. Everything’s great, of course, except how much Kary’s best friend, Alex, and Liam hate each other. Liam is alcohol; Alex is fresh ...

Can love at first site go from online interview to forever? Based on one reader’s true story: Super Mom Marty starts work at Lilith publishing house where Dana is her mentor. They hit it off over a "working" lunch and exchange numbers with plans to meet up for a rollicking game of Ultimate Frisbee. Of course, Marty wants to see how straight Dana is because she caught major feels from her just from her job interview. As with most straight girls who don't know they're torturing you with mixed signals, Dana seems like she's getting close and comfortable with Marty. At least until she gets a ...

A first-crush kiss chased by a punch in the mouth. Ehra Havel is pretending to live like the elitist Omeo class that is trying to exploit and extinguish unmatched people just like her. Adopted from the streets of futuristic Chicago by an Omeo couple, she’s raised to follow the rules and emulate their marathon-length marriages by her counselor father. Rules are made to be broken. “Unmarried” to steamy and stormy, nonconformist Mamara, Ehra’s rollicking ride begins with her partner’s derelict brother missing from prison. Can they find him and undo his misdeeds before getting caught ...

When dancing with the stars, you might get burned…again. B-list starlet, Sawyer Quinn, seeks out the perpetually depressed but extremely talented tattoo artist Jules Egan. Jules grants Sawyer's bizarre request for a private tattoo (very near her actual privates), and their chemistry makes an undeniable love potion. With Sawyer unwilling to sacrifice her burgeoning acting career to be in a relationship with Jules, they agree to be "plain friends." Of course, their best laid plans go awry as do their hopes of anything "plain" between them. Jules has never really recovered from losing her ...

Love is a four-letter word. Edgy romantic suspense thriller, Enter the Upperground continues where The Lie That Binds leaves off. Ehra stumbles on a secret society of unmatched people passing as Omeo, even as her second-class status stymies her every turn. With her constant questions, “Uppergrounder” Hami challenges everything Ehra knows about the world and herself. Mamara’s increasing volatility and an unexpected death thrusts Ehra into uncertainty. She is further devastated by Hami’s dangerous declaration of love. When Ehra receives a message from her father that could upend Omeo ...

Before happily ever after, she had other plans… Straight Girls Season One love interests tell all: You met the one-night wonder, Jackie, in Straight Girls Wanna Have Fun. Then the quiet nerd looking for long-term love, Dani, in Straight Girls Trip. You went deep with the brooding artist, Jules Egan in The Straight Girl That Got Away. And went for a wild ride with the reformed player-turned-soul-searcher, Frankie. Now it’s their turn. Ann Carter, the return-to-hometown nurse, reveals her lifelong secret of shame. Savvy CEO Hae Park shows her true colors under her perfect exterior. Movie ...

The luck stops here. A double-wide dose of action and misadventure, Rise & Converge follows Ehra’s transition into Jett as she starts a new life in the nation’s capital, Cleveland. Her subversive policy proposal gets all the wrong attention as it threatens to upend society’s inequities. And pressures of public life brought on by friendly fire strain her fragile new relationship to the breaking point. Plus, one wrong word could undo everything and thrust her back into a life of groveling and worse. Will she be able to hold her tongue and her house together without revealing her ...

Sometimes one word is worth a thousand pictures. Perpetual player, Frankie, is dumped by her latest straight girlfriend for her serial philandering. But this time, Frankie knows Megan is worth fighting for. She vows to change her wandering ways to win her back. Her BF Sam encourages her soul-searching as Frankie pens letters to former lovers apologizing for how she hurt them. An online group of exes emerges revealing one of the very vulnerable letters Frankie sent. After it goes viral, Sam tries to help Frankie see the bright side. Frankie's grandmother cooks up more than incredible Italian...

Imperial Devices is a steampunk anthology presented by Dragon Soul Press featuring novellas and shorter pieces. From retellings of the Pied Piper and bounty hunters hot on the trail of criminals to treasure hunters discovering ancient secrets and horrifying creatures lurking in the dark, this anthology has it all. Featuring stories by R.L. Davennor, Zoey Xolton, Majanka Verstraete, Benjamin Chandler, Lincoln Reed, Laura Quirola, S.O. Green, Chris Bannor, Catherine Butzen, Daniel Simonson, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Andrea L. Staum, and Douglas Allen Gohl.

A love triangle that will leave your ears ringing Vann Townsend is complacent with her perfect life in LA until it's upended when her wife vanishes. While looking for her, Vann finds her brother-in-law all too familiar and too comforting. When life throws Vann another gut punch in the form of her estranged father’s sudden death, she halts the search for her wife to return to the one place she never wanted to be – home. There, she uncovers the redemption of the man she barely knew and starts questioning who she has become. A saucy night with a stranger brings major déjà vu distorting ...