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Release & ARC Review: If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 AJ Drama

If Tomorrow Never Comes by Allison Ashley is live! This is the most beautifully romantic read! An emotional and heartfelt love story that is sweet and functional with just the right amount of angst to […]

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New Release & ARC Review: The Girlfriend Zone (Love and Hockey, #4) by Lauren Blakely

March 26, 2025April 8, 2025 Mel Age Gap

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, comes the next standalone hockey romance in her Love and Hockey series, THE GIRLFRIEND ZONE! This sexy, coach’s daughter, one who got away, age gap, forbidden […]

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Release & ARC Review: Save Your Breath (Kings of the Ice, #4) by Kandi Steiner

March 20, 2025March 19, 2025 AJ Celebrities

  Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner is live! The fourth book in the Kings of the ice series, this is a beautifully emotional best-friends-to-lovers, fake relationship, celebrity/sports romance that is full of chemistry and […]

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Release & ARC Review: On Loverose Lane (Return to Dublin Street, #1) by Samantha Young

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  On Loverose Lane by Samantha Young is live! Oh, what a gorgeous read! A sexy and emotional second chance, enemies-to-lovers, fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, sports romance with epic chemistry and all the feels – and […]

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Release & ARC Review: In a Rush (Friendship, Rhode Island, #2) by Kate Canterbary

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 AJ Fake Relationship

  In a Rush by Kate Canterbary is live! A friends-to-lovers, not-so-fake relationship romance, this is a sweet, fun and sexy read   Amazon  |  Paperback   Blurb What’s better than a revenge date? A […]

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Release & ARC Review: Reckless Love (The Single Dad Playbook, #3) by Willow Aster

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 AJ Feeeeeeels

  Reckless Love by Willow Aster is live! This is the most beautiful friends-to-lovers romance! Best friends with lifelong feels for each other finally come together in this chemistry-filled, slow burning, single dad, forbidden love […]

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New Release & ARC Review: The Proposal Play (Love and Hockey, #3) by Lauren Blakely

January 8, 2025January 10, 2025 Mel Book News

  The Proposal Play (Love and Hockey, #3) by Lauren Blakely   Released – 8 January 2025   Available today! Amazon  |  Paperback  |  Audiobook     Blurb My plan when I win a date […]

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Release & ARC Review: Undeniably Married (Boston’s Irresistible Billionaires, #4) by J. Saman

December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 AJ Fake Relationship

  Undeniably Married by J. Saman is live! I love this book! Great characters, fabulously fun tropes, a blisteringly hot and swoony love story, and a completely smitten hero who stole my heart, I enjoyed […]

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Review: King of Sloth (Kings of Sin, #4) by Ana Huang

December 7, 2024December 6, 2024 AJ Billionaire

Buy:  Amazon  |  Amazon Paperback  |  B&N Paperback  |  Audible Review 4 stars! This is such a great read! An opposites-attract romance between an uptight, mostly emotionless publicist, and her billionaire playboy client. Smart and sexy with a […]

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Release & ARC Review: Forever the Highlands (The Highlands, #6) by Samantha Young

December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 AJ Angsty

Forever the Highlands, the final book in The Highlands series by Samantha Young is now live! Oh my heart, what an amazing read! An angsty and emotional brother’s-best-friend, friends-to-lovers romance, this is such a beautiful […]

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New Release & ARC Review: Quiet Longing (Quiet Love, #2) by L.H. Cosway

October 29, 2024November 1, 2024 Mel Book News

Quiet Longing by L.H. Cosway is now live!   Released October 29, 2024   Download today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited on Amazon     Blurb When she agreed to spend her last […]

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Review: Risking it All (Pushing the Limits Next Generation, #1) by Katie McGarry

October 26, 2024 AJ Drama

Buy:  Amazon Review 5 stars! Oh, what a delight to come back into this world! Pushing the Limits remains one of my all-time favourite reads, even 12 years after its publication. It’s an incredible YA […]

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Release & ARC Review: Finding Hayes (Magnolia Falls, #5) by Laura Pavlov

October 24, 2024October 23, 2024 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  Finding Hayes by Laura Pavlov is live and oh, what a gorgeously romantic and swoony story! A best-friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance with a marriage of convenience, I was all in on this one from the beginning, […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Deals We Make (Iron Outlaws MC, #9) by S. Cole

October 17, 2024 AJ Bikers

  The Deals We Make by S. Cole is live! The final book of the Iron Outlaws MC series, this is Vex’s story. A childhood-best-friends-reunited love story that is beautifully emotional with great character development […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Downside to Forever (Cedar Point, #5) by Jillian Liota

October 10, 2024October 9, 2024 AJ Drama

The Downside to Forever by Jillian Liota is live! The fifth and final book in the Cedar Point series, this is a sweet and heartfelt single parent, age gap, friends-to-lovers romance that brings the feels, and […]

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Audio Review: The Rocker’s Muse (Delirious Jones Rockstar Romance, #1) by Penelope Ward

September 21, 2024January 25, 2025 AJ Age Gap

Buy:  Amazon  |  Apple Books  |  B&N  |  Kobo  |  Google Play Blurb From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE novel… No one but me knew why I was actually in the California desert that day. Nestled […]

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Release & ARC Review: All Too Well (Ember Falls, #1) by Corinne Michaels

September 18, 2024 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  All Too Well by Corinne Michaels is live! The first book in a brand new series from Corinne Michaels, this is such a sweet read! A brother’s best friend, childhood friends to lovers, single […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Rockstar Returns (Beacon Harbor, #2) by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  The Rockstar Returns by Kayley Loring & Connor Crais is live! The second standalone in the Beacon Harbor series, this is a fantastically fun frenemies-to-lovers story that had me laughing out loud and falling […]

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Audio Review: The Rocker’s Muse (Delirious Jones Rockstar Romance, #1) by Penelope Ward

September 11, 2024January 25, 2025 AJ Age Gap

Buy:  Amazon  |  Apple Books  |  B&N  |  Kobo  |  Google Play  |    Paperback  | Amazon – Special Edition Paperback Review 4.5 stars A gorgeous age-gap, forbidden(ish), rockstar romance, and the beginning of a new series […]

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Review: Scorched Redemption (Sendaxa Chronicles, #2) by Rebecca Hefner

August 31, 2024 AJ Action

Buy:  Amazon Review 4 stars The second book in the Sendaxa Chronicles, this is an exciting and steamy read with great action and a heartfelt friends-to-lovers romance. Picking up where the last book left off, […]

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Release & ARC Review: Northern Twilight (The Highlands, #5) by Samantha Young

August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 AJ Feeeeeeels

  Northern Twilight by Samantha Young is live She’s the girl he left behind. He’s the boy she tried to forget. But after seven years apart, one passionately reckless night will tie them together forever… […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Arrangement (The Brewer Family, #2) by Adriana Locke

July 22, 2024July 24, 2024 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

  The Arrangement by Adriana Locke is live! This is a gorgeous read full of fantastic chemistry and sexual tension, with a friends-to-lovers, sort-of-pretend marriage, boss/assistant romance. It’s sweet, sexy and gorgeously romantic, and I […]

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New Release & ARC Review: If You Want Me (Toronto Terror, #2) by Helena Hunting

July 11, 2024July 19, 2024 Mel Book News

  If You Want Me by Helena Hunting   Released – 11 July 2024   Available Now! Amazon US  |  Amazon Universal  |  Paperback  |  Audiobook   Blurb A standalone age-gap, dad’s best friend’s hockey romance. […]

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Release & ARC Review: Chasing Harlow by Jay McLean

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 AJ Enemies-to-Lovers

  Chasing Harlow by Jay McLean is live! Jay McLean owns my heart once again with this stunningly emotional YA romance! This book had me feeling in all the best ways; I laughed, I cried, […]

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Audio Review: Legacy (Montgomery Brothers, #1) by Laura Pavlov

June 14, 2024July 19, 2024 AJ Audio Recommendation

Buy:  Amazon Review 4 stars! I’m a huge fan of Laura Pavlov, she has become an auto-buy author for me, and I have eagerly thrown myself into her last few series. So I thought it […]

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