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Scarlett Cole

Cover Reveal: The Hope We Dare (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado, #7) by S. Cole

February 13, 2026 AJ Book News

We’re excited to share the cover for The Hope We Dare by S. Cole An electrifying MMF, grumpy x sunshine x lightning, motorcycle club romance   Releasing 19 March Amazon       Blurb I […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Touch We Seek (Iron Outlaws: Colorado, #6) by S. Cole

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 AJ Bikers

  The Touch We Seek by Scarlett Cole is live! The sixth book in the Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado series, this is an exciting, close proximity, forbidden romance that is sweet, sexy and super functional, […]

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Cover Reveal: The Touch We Seek (Iron Outlaws: Colorado, #6) by S. Cole

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025 AJ Book News

Scarlett Cole has revealed the cover of The Touch We Seek, book #6 in the Iron Outlaws: Colorado series A grumpy sunshine, forced proximity, hands off clause, electrifying small town MC romance   Releasing 8 […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Trust We Broke (Iron Outlaws: Colorado, #5) by S. Cole

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 AJ Bikers

  The Trust We Broke by S. Cole  is live! This is the most beautiful second-chance romance! A gritty MC read, it’s emotional and swoony with a smitten hero who owned my heart, and I […]

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Cover Reveal: The Heart We Guard (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado, #4) by S. Cole

July 9, 2025 AJ Book News

Today, we’re excited to share the cover reveal for The Heart We Guard by S. Cole! MC Romance  |   Trauma surgeon & Outlaw  |   Hurt/comfort  |   Forced proximity  |   One week stand turned forever  |  […]

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Release, ARC Review & Excerpt: The Fire We Crave (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado, #3) by S. Cole

June 6, 2025June 5, 2025 AJ Age Gap

  The Fire We Crave by S. Cole is live! The third book in the Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado series, this is Smoke’s story, and it’s an emotional and steamy age gap, enemies-to-lovers romance with […]

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Cover Reveal: The Fire We Crave (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado, #3) by S. Cole

May 2, 2025May 3, 2025 AJ Book News

  We’re so excited to help reveal the cover of The Fire We Crave by Scarlett Cole! MC Romance  |  Age Gap  |  Grumpy/Sunshine  |  Enemies to Lovers   Releasing 5 June     Amazon […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Oath We Take (Iron Outlaws MC: Colorado, #2) by S. Cole

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 AJ Bikers

  The Oath We Take by S. Cole is live! A gorgeously romantic MC President’s daughter/childhood friends/forbidden romance with, action, drama, a strong heroine, a cowboy biker hero, and a beautifully emotional love story, this […]

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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 Fates We Tame (Iron Outlaws MC, #8) by S. Cole

August 16, 2024August 15, 2024 AJ Bikers

  The Fates We Tame by Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole is live! OMG, this book! A dark, exciting, emotional and beautifully romantic story with a grumpy/sunshine fake marriage, amnesia and a warring family […]

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Review: Jingle Bell Fling by Scarlett Cole

October 29, 2023October 28, 2023 AJ Celebrities

Buy:  Amazon Review “You were the only place I wanted to come to.” 4 stars! This is such a cute read! A best-friends-to-lovers celebrity romance it’s sweet, sexy, gorgeously romantic and blessedly angst-free, and I […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Lies We Tell (Iron Outlaws MC, #3) by S. Cole

June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 AJ Bikers

  The Lies We Tell by S. Cole (Scarlett Cole) is live, and damn, what a read! The third book in the Iron Outlaws MC series, this is Saint’s book, the club’s much-loved preacher who in the […]

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Release & ARC Review: The Sins We Hide (Iron Outlaws MC, #1) by S. Cole

January 12, 2023January 10, 2023 AJ Bikers

  From USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an electrifying MC, friends to enemies to lovers romance.   The Sins We Hide, first book in the Iron Outlaws MC […]

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Release: Dissent Anthology

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 AJ Novella

  For National Read a Book day, DISSENT is available for a limited time!   DISSENT is a charity romance anthology with NEW, never before published content from over 150 authors of various romance subgenres. […]

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Release & ARC Review: Let Me Love You (Excess All Areas, #5) by Scarlett Cole

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 AJ Angsty

Let Me Love You by Scarlett Cole is live!   He’s loved her forever. Now she’s marrying another man.     The fifth and final book of the Excess All Areas series, this is an […]

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Release & ARC Review: Love You Like That (Excess All Areas, #4) by Scarlett Cole

May 17, 2022July 22, 2022 AJ Drama

  Love You Like That by Scarlett Cole is now live! An emotional, heartfelt, passionate and functional friends-to-lovers rockstar romance with all the feels! Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Apple  |  Kobo  |  Nook  […]

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Release & ARC Review: How Good It Was (Excess All Areas, #3) by Scarlett Cole

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 AJ Drama

  How Good It Was, the third book in the Excess All Areas rockstar romance series by Scarlett Cole is live!   Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Kobo  |  Apple  |  Nook  |  Google […]

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Release & ARC Review: Next Time I Fall (Excess All Areas, #2) by Scarlett Cole

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 AJ Drama

  Next Time I Fall, the second book in the Excess All Areas series is live! An emotional, sweet and heartfelt story of redemption, with wonderfully written family drama and a gorgeous love story   […]

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ARC Review: One Day Like This (Excess All Areas, #1) by Scarlett Cole

September 21, 2021August 29, 2025 AJ Brother/Best Friend

  One Day Like this is live! The start of a brand new rockstar series from Scarlett Cole, this is a beautifully emotional brother’s-best-friend, forbidden romance with fantastic chemistry and just the right amount of […]

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ARC Review Blitz: Love in Secrets (Love Distilled, #3) by Scarlett Cole

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 AJ Friends-to-Lovers

Love in Secrets by Scarlett Cole is live! The third and final book in the Love, Distilled series, and my favorite of the three, this is a fun, heartfelt and chemistry-filled friends-to-lovers romance that is […]

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Blog Tour, Excerpt & ARC Review: Love in Moments (Love Distilled, #2) by Scarlett Cole

February 12, 2021August 29, 2025 AJ Romance

Love in Moments, the second book in the Love Distilled series from bestselling author Scarlett Cole is available now!   Amazon  |  Amazon Worldwide  |  Apple Books  |  Nook  |  Kobo  |  Google Play   Blurb […]

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Review: The Sweetest Gift (Second Circle Tattoos, #4.6; Preload, #4.5) by Scarlett Cole

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 AJ Novella

Buy:  Amazon Review 5 stars! OMG, yes, this book is what I needed, without knowing that I needed it. I’m a huge fan of both the Second Circle Tattoos and Preload series, and though all […]

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Review: The Greatest Risk (Second Circle Tattoos, #4.5) by Scarlett Cole

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 AJ Novella

Buy:  Amazon Review 3.5 stars! I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read this book, but I’m so glad I finally got to it! A novella set at the end of the […]

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Blog Tour, Excerpt & ARC Review: Love in Numbers (Love Distilled, #1) by Scarlett Cole

October 22, 2020October 20, 2020 AJ Romance

  Love in Numbers by Scarlett Cole is live! A sweet, sexy, sort-of-enemies-to-lovers romance that is low angst and super functional Amazon US  |  Amazon UK  |  Nook  |  Kobo  |  Apple   Blurb Connor isn’t in […]

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ARC Review: Deep Cover (Love Over Duty, #3) by Scarlett Cole

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018 AJ Action

Buy:  Kindle Ebook  |  Paperback Blurb ARE THEY IN TOO DEEP? Ex-Navy SEAL Cabe Moss always comes when called to duty—at all costs. Even though the death of his fiancée nearly destroyed him, Cabe won’t […]

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