Spotlight: High Tea at the Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim

The Beach House Hotel, Book 8

Women’s Fiction with Romantic Elements

Date Published: April 15, 2024

Guests can be surprising…

Ann and Rhonda continue their work at The Beach House Hotel, always striving to make their upscale property the best on the Gulf Coast of Florida. As they’ve learned, not all guests are easy. When they receive a request from Hilda Hassel, a member of the Bavarian royal family, for a two-week stay at the hotel in January, demanding the best room and high tea every afternoon, Ann is uneasy. Other Hassel family members cancelled a large, fancy wedding at the last moment leaving a mess behind. But Rhonda convinces Ann that having a royal guest could increase important European business, and Ann agrees.

After deciding to give Hilda the Presidential Suite for two weeks during their high season and welcoming her to the hotel, Ann and Rhonda are left to wonder if they’ve made the biggest mistake of their lives when Hilda arrives with her “nephew” and strange things begin to happen.

Another of Judith Keim’s series books celebrating love and families, strong women meeting challenges, and clean women’s fiction with a touch of romance—beach reads for all ages with a touch of humor, satisfying twists, and happy endings

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About the Author

Judith Keim, A USA Today Best Selling Author, is a hybrid author who both has a publisher and self-publishes. Ms. Keim writes heart-warming novels about women who face unexpected challenges, meet them with strength, and find love and happiness along the way, stories with heart. Her best-selling books are based, in part, on many of the places she's lived or visited and on the interesting people she's met, creating believable characters and realistic settings her many loyal readers love.

She enjoyed her childhood and young-adult years in Elmira, New York, and now makes her home in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their adorable dachshund, Wally, and other members of her family. While growing up, she was drawn to the idea of writing stories from a young age. Books were always present, being read, ready to go back to the library, or about to be discovered. All in her family shared information from the books in general conversation, giving them a wealth of knowledge and vivid imaginations.

Ms. Keim loves to hear from her readers and appreciates their enthusiasm for her stories.

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Cover Reveal: Painting Celia by Maya Bairey

Genre: Women’s Fiction, Steamy Romance 

"You can live in my pool house, if you'll teach me to paint."

A stunning contemporary romance novel that will leave you breathless, Painting Celia resonates with its relatable story about growth and love.

Living alone in her bare mansion in LA’s Hollywood Hills, gentle Celia takes up art therapy, hoping it will soothe the deep scars of her past. Each failed artwork deepens her fear of losing to depression, like her father.

León, an intense painter struggling with a creative block, empties his savings to move to LA in search of new visions. He needs a cheap studio and some raw, authentic inspiration—his dreams and future as an artist depend on it.

Brought together by their colorful mutual friends, Celia offers León a deal: he can live in her pool house for free if he teaches her to paint. As he becomes her infatuated teacher and she his reluctant muse, both are laid bare by their pursuit of honest art. Could the desperate creativity that drew them together also rip them apart?

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Maya Bairey lives on the banks of the Columbia river in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and their old cat, Dory. Turning from corporate writing to storytelling, Maya was surprised to find she had a bunch of passionate stories inside her, where stuck people learn to live out loud.

Her debut novel, Painting Celia, explores the intersection of honest art and intense love, where creativity and passion can heal and change us. Maya invites readers to have a fun escape, but also to look inward, discovering their own creative and emotional depths.

For a deeper dive into the Celia’s world, visit bairey.com. 

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Spotlight: Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE.

From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes them back decades, to when they were girls, and they lived on a farm with a foster mother named Miss Fairchild. Miss Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable. And Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed.

In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild, and they thought they were free. But the reach of someone with such power is long, and even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds. When bones are discovered buried under the farmhouse of their childhood, they are called in by the police to tell what they know. Against their will, they are brought back to the past, and to Miss Fairchild herself. DARLING GIRLS asks the questions: what are we capable of when in a desperate place? How much can we hide the demons inside us? And can the past ever truly be buried?

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Spotlight: Summer Camp Secret by Kait Nolan

Pretending to be the fiancée of some random guy in a bar isn't the kind of thing Aspen Fairchild would normally do. Ever. But when a medical scare sends her reeling onto a path of "live life to its fullest," and she sees an opportunity to do a good deed, she figures she can use all the good karma she can get.

Pro hockey player Brooks Hennessey was just taking time off, working through his grief, trying to do a good deed. But now his fake engagement has gone viral, and his publicist wants to know what he's going to do about it.

He knows what he'd like to do: spend his week at grown-up summer camp with the woman he can't stop thinking about.

She knows what she'd like to do: spend her week at Camp Firefly Falls with the guy who unexpectedly rocked her world.

But the girl of his dreams is hiding something, keeping him at arm's length. Because the guy who makes her heart beat is oh-so-vulnerable to the last thing she'd want to burden him with. Will she give them a chance, or will she run away before he can learn her summer camp secret?

Grab this steamy contemporary summer romance about a fake engagement, real attraction, and the secrets people keep when they’re trying to protect those they love.

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About the Author

Kait Nolan is a USA Today best selling, RITA® Award-winning Mississippi author who calls everyone sugar, honey, or darlin', and can wield a 'Bless your heart' like a Snuggie or a saber, depending on requirements. She believes in love, laughter, and that tacos are the world's most perfect food. When she's not writing, reading, or wrangling family (both the two-legged and the four-), you can find her obsessively watching The Great British Bake Off. 

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Spotlight: Sir, Yes Sir by L. L. Ash

Publication date: April 12th 2024
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis:

Ashton

One single moment changed everything. After receiving life-altering injuries on my last operation, I was forced to retire early. What was I if not a Raider and a Marine? When my brother in arms Tommy (Gun) Blair offered his home up to me to finish my recovery, I snatched up the opportunity with both hands because I had nowhere else to go. Amidst all my calculations, however, I realized that I’d missed one significant detail. Freya, Tommy’s daughter. She’d been a kid last time I’d seen her. She was definitely NOT a kid anymore. Living up to her namesake, the daughter of my best friend was beautiful, sweet, and deadly. If Tommy knew the kinds of things running through my head, he’d kill me in my sleep with a rusty spoon. Didn’t matter though. The woman was temptation embodied, and despite all my training, discipline and control, she was the one weakness that I just couldn’t give up.

Freya

I’d never met a man like him. Ashton was solid, confident, rigid, and bold. He also had the body of a god. No joke. But I was just the kid of his best friend. Seeing a man as powerful as him bow to the agony of injuries and PTSD…it broke my heart. It also proved that he wasn’t just a fighting machine. When he started working at Dad’s dealership with us, I started to get to know the man instead of the legend, and I loved what I found. Good with his hands, and loyal to a fault, I fell so deep in love with him it’s almost disgusting. Too bad he was my father’s best friend and would never love me back.

Excerpt

“We waiting until we get back to eat?” I asked, overwhelmed with the scent of our dinner in the small cab.

“Fuck no. I’m starving,” he said, cranking up the air conditioning, which barely spewed tepid air, and turning the radio dial until it was on a classic rock station.

AC/DC burst into song when he settled on the station, and it made me smile. Dad always loved classic rock, and it was just another thing that Ashton did that felt like home.

“Gimme gimme,” he said, doing little grabby motions with his hands while he sat there impatiently.

“We’re going to make a mess,” I said with a laugh, looking for his butter chicken.

Once the styrofoam container was in his hands, he dug into the spiced rice and golden chicken gravy with a ragged moan.

“Fuck yeah…” His words were strained, and for half a second, I wondered if that was his orgasm voice.

 “I’m a little worried with how intimate you’re getting with that chicken,” I teased, ripping into the naan before dipping it into his container.

“You’re riding one fine fucking line, stealing my food like that,” he told me, eyeing me like a predator.

“Chill, I’ll share mine,” I assured, taking another dip.

His hand shot out like a viper and gripped my wrist, holding it between us with the curry about to drip onto the upholstery.

Pulling a little, he moved my hand, still holding that naan, and brought it to his lips where he took a massive bite, making sure to include every bit of his butter curry.

My breath hitched in my throat as his sharp eyes met mine.

“You need to stop provoking me, Frey,” he murmured, his tongue flicking out to get a tiny bit of the sauce off my fingertip before he dropped my arm completely and went back to his dinner like nothing happened.

My heart was stuttering, breath trapped in my lungs, feeling like they were about to burst as heat infused every cell in my body.

Finally, a jagged inhale of air finally filled me as he slurped up a rather big piece of chicken.

“Can I have the other naan?” he asked, as if he hadn’t just changed everything with the tip of his tongue.

I got it and handed it over, then brought my fingers to my lips, unable to stop myself from licking that same spot he’d put his mouth on.

He dipped his flatbread into the sauce, but looked up long enough to see that fingertip in my mouth, my insatiable self sucking on it like a savory lollipop that tasted oh so vaguely like…well, like him.

I saw the sharp inhale he took, but other than that he didn’t let anything show as he wrenched his eyes away from me and focused on his food. God, I just couldn’t tell anything with him. Did he want me, too? Even just the tiniest little bit? Oh, what I’d do just to have his hand slapping my ass again, or maybe even another smack to my vag. Hell, I didn’t even need that. I was already throbbing with need just from that tiny little lick of my finger.

To distract myself from my thoughts, I opened my own container and got hit with a punch of spicy cardamom and turmeric, and my mouth watered. Even still, he tasted better.

I managed a couple of bites before he reached over and dipped his own bread into my container.

“What the hell?” I barked as he stuffed it quickly into his mouth with a grin on his lips.

“Karma,” he said, licking his own fingers.

“The only karma I need in this life is my Goddamn mother,” I growled at him, staring at his fingers, coated in granules of salt and garlic from the naan.

He chuckled, and the smirk on his lips was infuriatingly sexy.

I thought about gripping his wrist the way he had mine, knowing he’d let me do it because revenge was fair to a guy like him…but I was too much of a coward.

We got through our meals without any more suggestive moments, then headed back to his place while I smashed all our trash back into one of the restaurant’s takeaway bags. After pulling up to his house, we stopped on the side of the street in the same place I had parked yesterday. He took the takeaway bags from my hand and clicked the button to open the garage door. Now, time to get back to working on that Firebird.

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L.L. Ash is a Washington-born writer who has traveled and lived across the western coast of the US. Ash has been writing fiction since she was a pre-teen, and while her writing has improved since then, her love for literature has not changed.

Oftentimes you can find Ash reading an indie romance or enjoying a historical fiction. Dabbling in culinary arts and music, Ash has been an artist for decades but found her true love and passion in romances.

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Spotlight: The Tryst List by Kaylene Winter

When a man, haunted by secrets, reunites with the only woman who's ever ignited his soul, he'll do anything to prove he's more than his mistakes.

From the moment I laid eyes on her in Vegas, I knew tattoo artist Jordan Deveraux was my destiny.

Our chemistry was too fiery to ignore, one night of passion could never be enough.

Walking away was agony.

Easily, the biggest regret of my life.

Years later, I'm successful and rich but still crave my siren of the sea.

Her game of pretend doesn't mask the heat still smoldering between us.

Little does she know, I have the roadmap to turn her fantasies into reality.

Stranded in my boat, the waves aren't the only things rocking.

Her ability to resist me sinks faster than a lead anchor.

Here's the catch—my past isn't as spotless as the buildings I design.

And my secrets threaten to pull us under.

Can we navigate these turbulent waters to find a future?

Or, will my mistake capsize everything?

The Tryst List is a sizzling, standalone, billionaire, enemies to lovers, forced proximity tale of second chances, where the ink of passion and the scars of the past collide

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Meet Kaylene Winter

Kaylene Winter is an Amazon best-selling author of steamy, contemporary romance.

Each character-driven novel is filled with snappy dialogue, pop-culture references and enough steam to make you fan yourself. Kaylene weaves authenticity, emotion and angst into a turbulent rollercoaster ride of love, passion and soul-searing romance always ending with a delicious HEA.

Kaylene lives in Seattle with her amazing Irish husband and gorgeous Siberian Husky. She loves creating art of all kinds.

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