What Happens in the Highlands

Match made in heaven or maid of dishonor?Tight-laced Rose Hensel arrives in Scotland for her best friend’s wedding with a plan—to be the greatest maid of honor ever, let loose for the first time in years, and find out what Scottish guys really wear under their kilts. After meeting the best man, she thinks she found the man who checks all the boxes for a no-strings-attached romp among the heather.Lachlan Calder-Mackinnon knows how to show a girl a good time. Gourmet dinners in castle ruins, picnics among rolling hills, and a seaside escape create some unforgettable dates. But as the fling begins to morph into something more, an unexpected wedding guest threatens to ruin Rose and Lachlan’s new romance.With a plane ticket in one hand and her broken heart in the other, Rose prepares to head home to reality. However, she’s about to learn that what happens in the Highlands doesn’t always stay there.Witty, wanderlust-filled, and full of chemistry, What Happens in the Highlands is the perfect getaway read for anyone who’s ever dreamed of a Scottish escape and a second chance at love.

Godbound

The Scarlet Letter meets the divine, deadly trials of The Games Gods Play.In a kingdom where a forgotten goddess’s curse has become law—where purity is power and desire is a death sentence—Raylane has lived her life playing the perfect girl. Obedient. Untouched. Destined for the crown.All so she might one day reshape a realm that damns cursed women like her mother… women who dared to fall in love.Until one kiss ruins everything.Branded impure and cursed with rot-magic that spreads by touch, Raylane is cast into the Trial of the Bound—a brutal arena where champions fight to the death, gods revel in blood, and power feeds on the prayers of the crowd.Her only hope of survival? Swear fealty to the very goddess who cursed her. In return, the goddess tears a shadowbeast from another world and binds him to Raylane’s side—feral, unwilling, and the only one who can help her tame the power threatening to consume her.He doesn’t want her. Doesn’t trust her. But their fates are entwined, and every step toward mastery binds them tighter.As her power grows and their bond deepens, Raylane must make an impossible choice: win the trial, free the cursed, and unleash a forgotten goddess bent on reclaiming the world… or lose everything to save those who now pray for her death.One path leads to love.The other, to mercy.Both end in ruin.Godbound contains mature content and is recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of content warnings, please visit the author’s website.Perfect for fans of:- Forced proximity- Reluctant allies-to-lovers- Slow burn romance- Who did this to you- He nurses her back to health- Forbidden desire- One bed and One horse- She’ll hate me for this, but at least she’ll be safe… and books like Blood and Ash, The Serpent & the Wings of Night, and The Plated Prisoner Series.

Knot So Social

**She’s hiding behind her hashtags**Willow:My exotic omega online brand hides the truth—I’m flawed. Scarred.For years I’ve been housebound and keeping people at bay, but suddenly my missing heats return and now I need an alpha’s help. Heat Waves’ premium home-help service isn’t supposed to come with strings attached, but my biology doesn’t understand that. Now I’m completely tangled with my helper, his twin brother, and my neighbor.A little fun is okay, but I can’t let them uncover my secrets. Because the truth is, I’m not so social at all.I already lost everything once. A second time would destroy me.Note: This is an omegaverse standalone in the Heat Wave shared world where each book can be read as a standalone. Knot So Social is why choose; the main female character doesn’t have to choose between her love interests.Contains a MFMM pairing (all about her) – check the ‘look inside’ for triggering content advice.

Force Protected

When innocent lives are on the line, protection becomes personal.Callum Hayes didn’t become the youngest leader of Ewingsberg’s elite Strategic Response Team by breaking the rules. He follows protocol, leads by example, and never lets emotion cloud his judgment. But when babies start disappearing from the city’s most vulnerable families, no one wants to listen, except one disgraced social worker who’s willing to risk everything to prove she’s right.Maeve Layne knows what it’s like to be a forgotten child in a broken system. She lived it. That’s why she fought so hard for every kid on her caseload, even when it cost her everything. One confrontation with the wrong parent, and her career was over. But the trafficking case that landed on her desk before she was fired? She can’t let it go. These babies deserve someone who won’t give up on them, even if she’s the only one who believes they’re in danger.When Callum offers her a chance to go undercover as his wife to infiltrate the ring from the inside, Maeve knows it’s her shot at redemption. Playing house was supposed to be simple. Fake marriage, fake affection, real results. But living together 24/7, pretending to be a loving couple while innocent lives hang in the balance, blurs every line Callum swore he’d never cross. And the more time he spends with Maeve, the harder it becomes to remember what’s real and what’s just part of the cover.In the world of S.T.R.I.K.E. Force, some missions demand more than tactical precision. They require trusting your heart under fire.

She’s Leaving Home

London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles’ Abbey Road recording studio.The police are called to a residential street in St John’s Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen’s last chance to prove he’s up to the job. Breen is of the generation for whom reaching adulthood meant turning into one’s parents and accepting one’s place in the world. But the world around him is changing beyond recognition. Nothing illustrates the shift more than Helen Tozer, a brazen and rambunctious young policewoman assisting him with the case. Together they navigate a world on edge, where conservative tradition gives way to frightening new freedoms — and troubling new crimes.