Spotlight: Love in the End Zone by Carina Rose

Release Date: April 12

Pro quarterbacks regularly face tough linemen determined to knock them down—but for one hotshot athlete, it was an infuriating blonde who stood the best chance of laying him on his back.

I was one of the top quarterbacks in the league, riding high after scoring a lucrative deal with the DC Rockets. Fans adored me, sponsors wanted me, and women, well, they were eager to date me. Except my life revolved around football, not falling in love.

Until I saw her.

I’d just scored the winning touchdown, sending the Rockets into the playoffs and ending the Virginia Thunder’s season. I spiked the ball and basked in the fans’ cheers. I’d done it. But then I took off my helmet and locked eyes with a gorgeous blonde.

She wasn’t cheering. Instead, she stood with her arms crossed, glaring at me. I smirked and winked, hoping to soften her murderous expression. Except it had the opposite effect. Rather than smiling back, she lifted her hand and extended her middle finger before disappearing into the crowd.

That was unexpected.

After my press conference, I couldn’t stop thinking about the woman in the stands. It didn’t help that social media had turned our interaction into a meme, and then I found out that the beauty was none other than Reese Parker, granddaughter of Charles Parker, owner of the Virginia Thunder. Which explained her reaction… sort of.

I should prep for the playoffs, but all I wanted to do was convince her I wasn’t enemy number one—and that scoring with me would be her best move.

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Meet Carina Rose:

Carina loves everything about romance. To her, it’s the little things that matter. She also believes in insta-love, since she knew her husband was the one the first day she met him.

When it comes to books, she uses them as an escape from reality. . . . to get swept away. Carina hopes her words do the same for her readers.

She’s a mother and wife and loves spending time with her family. She enjoys meeting new people, traveling, reading, watching sports, and, of course, relaxing on a beach.

Carina looks forward to sharing more love stories in her future novels.

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Spotlight: Reasons Why Not to Date Public Enemy CEO by Melanie Munton

(Shell Grove, #1)
Publication date: June 21st 2022
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

What happens when the most hated man in town goes after everyone’s favorite girl-next-door?

Reason #1: Big, bad CEO Aiden Beaumont wears his grumpy mask every day like a badge of honor. Mia Sparks wants nothing more than to honk his nose or throw a pie in his face, à la The Three Stooges, just to see if he’s capable of smiling. Unfortunately, she can’t. Because he’s technically her boss, and she’d like to keep her gig at the new five-star beach resort for longer than two weeks.

Reason #2: Everyone in her small hometown of Shell Grove, SC hates the man. He brought big business to their little beach town, and as far as her fellow citizens are concerned, that makes him the devil incarnate. But he won’t be staying forever, which works for Mia. She doesn’t go for the flashy city types anyway. She’s quite happy living her quiet life in Shell Grove. The faster the cranky—albeit stupidly hot—CEO is out of her life, the better.

Reason #3: Every time Aiden frowns at her, it hits her like a thousand-watt smile. He has a language all his own, and it’s starting to make way too much sense to her. She can’t avoid him in a town the size of a postage stamp, and it finally hits her that…she doesn’t want to escape him. This always-irritated, too-serious businessman couldn’t possibly be the stable safe haven she’s been looking for. Could he?

Aiden knows there’s a million and one reasons to stay away from the sugary sweet Mia. But who runs away from sunshine after living their entire life in a secluded cave? And when someone from her past unexpectedly emerges and tries to drive a wedge between the two of them? All bets are off. Aiden has never lost a fight in the boardroom, and he’s not about to lose the fight for the woman he wants to deserve. He just has to prove to her that he’s not the PUBLIC ENEMY CEO everyone thinks he is.

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About the Author

Melanie grew up in the Midwest, but she loves living in the Southeast (where the beaches are!) now with her husband and daughter.
Melanie's other passion is traveling and seeing the world. With anthropology degrees under their belts, she and her husband have made it their goal in life to see as many archaeological sites around the world as possible.
She has a horrible food addiction to pasta and candy (not together...ew). And she gets sad when her wine rack is empty.
At the end of the day, she is a true romantic at heart. She loves writing the cheesy and corny of romantic comedies, and the sassy and sexy of suspense. She aims to make her readers swoon, laugh out loud, maybe sweat a little, and above all, fall in love.
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Spotlight: The 30-Day Mindset Shift Devotional by Danielle Nicole Ramsey

Genre: Christian, Inspirational Self- Help

Preparing for Purpose is no easy task and requires your full attention. It takes being intentional in your day-to-day life to create the life God has for you and that starts with breaking bad habits and having faith and belief in yourself. This devotional will help you:
• Identify your triggers
• Hold yourself accountable
• Focus on your WHY and be more intentional in your walk
• Become more aware of what you are actually thinking about and help you practice mindfulness
• Replace bad habits with intentionality

In this devotional, you will learn what it takes to shift your mindset, first and foremost. Volume I will take you through your first thirty days of a six-month journey as this is the first book of a trilogy series to help you not only change your life, but to ultimately transform it in the best way possible. 

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Preparing for Purpose is no easy task and requires your full attention. It takes being intentional in your day-to-day life to create the life God has for you and that starts with breaking bad habits and having faith and belief in yourself. This devotional will help you:

o   Identify your triggers

o   Hold yourself accountable

o   Focus on your WHY and be more intentional in your walk

o   Become more aware of what you are actually thinking about and help you practice mindfulness

o   Replace bad habits with intentionality

In this devotional, you will learn what it takes to shift your mindset, first and foremost. Volume I takes you through your first thirty days of a six-month journey as this is the first book of a trilogy series to help you not only change your life, but to ultimately transform it in the best way possible. 

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About the Author 

Danielle Nicole Ramsey was born and raised in the Midwest in the great state of Illinois. Danielle considers her faith and family to be most important to her. She is married to A.W. Ramsey III and together they have two daughters. Danielle leads her life with a “glass always full” mentality and loves to bring out the best in others. 

When she's not writing you can find her managing a hotel in her home state of Missouri, helping people gain their life back through health and fitness and expanding her brand FitnessDani! When Danielle can get away, she travels to her “happy place” on a beautiful beach soaking up the sun rays!

The 30-Day Mindset Shift Devotional: Preparing for Purpose is the first of a trilogy series and is Danielle's first book. 

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Spotlight: Piper's Purgatory by Maureen A. Miller

Is it possible to fall in love in the afterlife?

The last thing Piper Malko ever expected was to have her life snatched away so early. When she wakes up on the front steps of her brownstone to a rose-colored facsimile of her world, she is forced to come to grips with her demise. Why is she still trapped on her street, though? Was there a debate as to her final destination? Any attempt to ask the gauzy pedestrians passing by goes unheard. No one notices her. Until she sees him—over six feet of well-defined humanity staring back at her from across the street.

Russell Hughes is dead. He can remember the impact of the car. But there was no bright light. No portal to the beyond. Instead, everything around him is pink. Except for her. The attractive woman across the street.

Together, Piper and Russ try to piece together the crime that killed two strangers on the same road. If they can find their killer, then maybe they can escape this rosy limbo.

But will leaving purgatory tear them apart…just as they're falling in love?

Excerpt

     “So, trusting you—” Piper’s voice broke through. “—was not a given. I don’t care what world we’re in.  I don’t care that you’re the only person here. I am independent. A loner. And could easily remain that way in this rosy paradise.” She flailed her hand. “I don’t need you.” Her eyes flashed. “I want you.”

     A vortex of memories whirled with dizzying speed inside Russ’s mind. School hand-holding. Girlfriends. His failed relationship with his fiancé. Unfulfilling rebounds.

     Piper. In his arms. Sleeping on a sagging couch.

     Piper. On his lap. Holding her head as he tried to soothe her pain.

     Piper. Sleeping on a pillow beside him.

     Love you—

     Piper. 

     In black lace. 

     “I was just about to make love to you.”

     Air dragged in across her lower lip, making it quiver.

     “But you heard tires. You hear the past. Making love to me is the future.” Long lashes lowered as she added, “I hope.”

     Those last words tugged at the corners of his lips. 

     “I hope so too. I’m hoping for the near future.”

     Piper looked up. “Real near future.”

     “I’m standing here with no shirt on.”

     “That amps up the timeline for sure.”

     Past be damned.

     The future be untold.

     In this rose-colored limbo—only they existed. They were the rulers of this world. The deciders of this fate.

     “You don’t have to be a loner, Piper. You don’t have to be alone.” His hands slid into her hair and he urged her head back so that he could kiss her. Slow. Long. Forever. “Because I want you too.”

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About the Author

USA TODAY bestselling author, Maureen A. Miller worked in the software industry for fifteen years. She crawled around plant floors in a hard hat and safety glasses hooking up computers to behemoth manufacturing machines. The job required extensive travel. The best form of escapism during those lengthy airport layovers became writing.

Maureen’s first novel, WIDOW'S TALE, earned her a Golden Heart nomination in Romantic Suspense. After that, she became hooked to the genre. As hooked as she was, childhood fantasies still danced around in her head––little voices calling for her to write the young adult science fiction BEYOND series. To her it was still romantic suspense…just on another planet! She now divides her time between romantic suspense and young adult novels.

Maureen is a mother of a crazy Corgi, and a lover of mozzarella.

Find more about Maureen at www.maureenamiller.com

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Spotlight: One Bossy Proposal by Nicole Snow

Publication date: April 8th 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a hilarious office romance where two archenemies who drive each other crazy pretend they’re madly in love.

Strange men do funny things when you score the last cinnamon roll.
Sometimes he rages about the high crime of jacking his precious pastry.
Sometimes he offers you ludicrous bribes to buy it back.
And sometimes—after shattering your faith in humanity—you find out he’s your new boss.

I’m not laughing.
My sweet tooth betrayed me and Lincoln Burns is one bad sugar rush.
A coldhearted grump. A mile-wide ego. An eligible bachelor who doesn’t “do” dating.
Did I mention Mr. Congeniality runs a fashion empire with weddings in its sights?
Of course he does.
And, of course, weddings make me gag after my ex made my heart roadkill.

Every instinct I have screams run.
But money talks, and Lincoln’s deep pockets roar.
One big fat bonus proposal lures me into his world.
Somehow, our vicious fights become vivid flirting.
His secrets thrill me in the worst ways.

Then he makes a second proposal.
Pretend we’re engaged. Smile for pretty photos like we’re soulmates. Dress up like we’re actually getting married.
Oh, how I wish cinnamon rolls came with warnings.
It’s all sticky sweet heaven until you catch feelings for the bossman from hell…

Full-length enemies-to-lovers romance loaded with uh-ohs. Office banter, pastry mischief, slow-burn spice, plus one bossy suit who might stop stomping around long enough to realize he’s falling hopelessly in love.

Excerpt

Anna Patel calls a marketing meeting on Thursday and asks me to sit in. Of course, there’s a vacant chair beside Nevermore.

I hesitate a second too long, leaving an opening for this junior copywriter to step past me toward the seat. I can’t even remember his name.

Jake? Jeremy? James?

He’s a newer kid, and he’s damn near undressing her with his eyes so obviously that if she ever looks up from her laptop, she’ll feel buck naked.

The punk thinks he’s sitting beside her.

Like hell.

I speed up, stepping behind him and grabbing his shoulder.

“Why don’t you take the seat beside Miss Patel? I may need to talk to my assistant.” It’s not a question. My words are professional, but my tone is barbaric.

I’ve never felt so uncivilized in the office, and fuck, it has everything to do with the hot prick of jealousy coursing in my veins.

“Oh, sure thing, Mr. Burns!” he says, fear flashing in his eyes before he scurries off without looking back at me.

That’s what I thought.

I sit down beside Dakota, grateful she’s oblivious to my territory marking.

Until she laughs, leans over, and whispers, “Behave.”

“Why?” I ask, flashing her a clueless look.

“You practically gave the poor guy shell shock.”

I’m not sorry.

He should be scared when he tries to usurp the boss’ seat—or his woman. Let him drool over a hundred thousand other beautiful women in this city.

“You’re welcome, Nevermore. From the looks he gave you, I think he writes angsty poetry about you. If he’s able to write at all. Is he any good?”

I’ve never noticed his work when he’s assigned to a less pressing line under Anna. Hell, like most new hires, I half forgot he even worked here until now.

“He’s where he should be, I think. We don’t collaborate a ton,” she says diplomatically, hiding a rosy blush on her cheeks.

“He should do more writing and less eye-fucking,” I growl in her ear, leaning close.

What the hell is wrong with me?

My nostrils flare at her scent. It’s bad enough that I practically tossed the boy on the floor, and now I’m low-key smelling her like a Neanderthal with a rose.

“Mr. Burns, shut up!” she hisses.

I can’t help smirking as her green eyes roll with shock.

“Did you see how he looked at you?” I whisper, undaunted. “If he was looking for his muse, it damn sure wasn’t interested in PG-13 poetry.”

She’s bright red but she grins.

“You’re such an idiot. Jim does not write poems about me. I doubt he even reads anything that isn’t a bargain thriller. I mean, that’s usually what he’s got his nose stuffed in during lunch.”

Her quip shouldn’t make me happy. At least Nevermore isn’t impressed with his reading habits.

“Takes one to know one with writers, I guess. You are a Poe and a literary princess,” I tease.

Her eyes lock onto mine harshly.

“Boss, I will stab you with my pen,” she whispers.

“Doubtful.”

“Want to bet?”

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Nicole Snow is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author. She found her love of writing by hashing out love scenes on lunch breaks and plotting her great escape from boardrooms. Her work roared onto the indie romance scene in 2014 with her Grizzlies MC series.

Since then Snow aims for the very best in growly, heart-of-gold alpha heroes, unbelievable suspense, and swoon storms aplenty. With over a million books sold, she lives for the joy of making two people fight with every bit of their soul for a Happily Ever After.

Current fan favorites include her Enguard Protectors series, accidental love novels, plus long beloved MC romance thrillers like the Grizzlies and Deadly Pistols.

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Spotlight: The Dayton Dilemma by Dave Ives

When doing the right thing, isn’t the right thing.

Crime Thriller

Published: November 2021

Dayton, Ohio 1986, Sean Mitchell finds himself in a gut-wrenching dilemma, ‘Trust the legal system or trust the fact that – they ain’t lookin for us? We shut up, we’re safe, we start blabbing, who knows what the lawyers and legal system will do to us?

Sean’s world is turned upside down when he discovers a shocking life truth – sometimes telling the truth is the wrong thing to do.

Sean Mitchell is on a summer engineering work study program at the Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson, AFB. Taking a term off from his ‘stressed out’ aerospace engineering studies at Ohio State, Sean’s new home in Dayton is a hotel right next door to a fancy, gorgeous-lady-filled, nightclub.

What could go wrong?

Everything.

Sean’s life of ‘working out at the gym’ and ‘meeting pretty ladies at the nightclub,’ took a nosedive one night. His world changed. He entered the ‘secret’ world. The world of people with a secret, people who know something they’re not supposed to know; something they don’t want to know, but too bad, no going back.

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About the Author

Dave Ives transitioned from air force officer to civilian engineer, to property investor and then to author. ‘The Dayton Dilemma’ is Dave’s seventh book and is a continuation of the Sean Mitchell adventure. If you liked Dave’s other books, you’re in for another treat when you read ‘The Dayton Dilemma.’

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