Two childhood friends, two sides of the tracks, one beach house.Oliver Madden doesn’t do relationships. Which I’d do well to remember because, at 38, he’s the same maddening heartthrob he was in high school.I’ve known him since we were six. My mother cleaned the house Oliver grew up in. A lonely kid in a big villa with no love. From the moment we met, we became each other’s shore to crash upon, until life pulled us apart.Now, the broken boy I once loved learns I’m drowning in debt and offers me a place in his beach house. I can’t afford to say no. I just need to make sure I don’t fall for the man he is now. A green-eyed man with barbed wire around his heart.Oliver claims he made the offer because he owes me. But every kind act, every lingering look, every burning touch, tells me that this rugged man is a gun loaded with pain, rage, and love.And he doesn’t want to risk my finger on the trigger.Shores of Your Heart is a dual pov, forced proximity, slow burn, second chance, childhood friends to lovers romance with an achingly heartfelt road to a HEA.

A divorced bakery owner. The meddlesome company wanting to steal her land. And the widowed father with the power to heal her heart?and his.Running a bakery and staying one step ahead of a mining company determined to buy her family homestead keep Debi Thomas busy in the lakeshore town of Hendricks. Since her ex-husband ruined her desire for romance, she’s more content selling donuts than dating anyway.Widower Mick Graham has long admired effervescent Debi, and not just for her baking talents. But keeping his preteen daughter out of the principal’s office and his mother-in-law out of his hair have made dating a low priority.When an accident thrusts Mick and Debi together, she wonders if Mick is the one to heal her heart. However, trouble brews for their budding romance when she discovers Mick might be behind the mine president’s lucrative offer for her property, an offer almost too good to refuse. Can Mick make her a better one—a second chance at love?

When Marietta newcomer Elena Puente is coerced into attending a speed-dating event at the popular Copper Mountain Chocolate Shop, she’s blindsided by a serious attraction to Wesley Banks, the rugged cowboy who’s as charming as he is off-limits.Still recovering from a broken engagement, Elena's focus is on starting fresh. She’s in Montana to get to know the great-grandfather she never knew existed until she found some hidden family letters. Judge Kingsley is a grouchy recluse and he’s far from welcoming, but Elena is determined to stay in town long enough to give his neglected estate on Bramble Lane a facelift.Elena’s plans get complicated when she discovers Wesley is the caretaker of her grandfather’s rural property. Soon, she and the cowboy are attending more speed-dating events at the chocolate shop and she’s seeking his advice on how to deal with his ornery boss. Local gossips wager the old Judge will run Elena out of town before anything serious develops between her and Wesley. But Wesley’s a determined man, too, and he’s betting Elena belongs in Marietta forever…with him.Perfect for fans of RaeAnne Thayne, Debbie Macomber, and Carolyn Brown, Sweet Home Cowboy is a heartwarming small-town romance filled with chocolate-shop charm, cowboy kisses, and second chances.

Rylie’s been in love with Jarrett Alvarez since long before he became a billionaire. Too bad Jarrett’s in love with her twin sister!Isn’t your wedding day supposed to be the happiest day of your life? Not if you’re the emergency substitute bride! But how could Rylie say no when a child’s life hangs in the balance? Now she’s married to the man she loves, but he’s still pining for her sister!Jarrett owes Rylie a huge debt. She’s giving up a year of her life to help him adopt Gabe to get him the medical treatment he needs. But the more time he spends with Rylie, the more he’s beginning to think he fell for the wrong twin. The problem is Rylie doesn’t believe him!You'll love this fake relationship, forced proximity, slow burn romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Tamie Dearen. Laugh, cry, swoon, and fall in love.Grab your copy now!Possible triggers: CancerNote from the author: The Billionaire's Alternate Marriage is an inspirational romance, the fourth of the Limitless Sweet Billionaire Romance Series, which centers on heroes with disabilities. These standalone romances can be read in any order, but a chronological listing is show below. Or, grab the Limitless Billionaire Complete 7-Book Set.Limitless Sweet Billionaire Romance SeriesChronological ListingBook 7 - The Billionaire’s Fortunate Blizzard (Liam and Carly)Book 1 - The Billionaire’s Secret Marriage (Bran and Steph)Book 2 - The Billionaire’s Reckless Marriage (Finn and Laurie)Book 3 - The Billionaire’s Temporary Marriage (Cole and Brooke)Book 5 - The Billionaire’s Bodyguard (Mack and Mariah)Book 4 - The Billionaire’s Alternate Marriage (Jarrett and Rylie)Book 6 - The Billionaire’s Practice Kiss (Logan and Ellery)

Ava Wells had no idea that Dear John letters actually existed until she received one on the morning of her wedding. When she woke up, she expected to walk down the aisle and say, “I do.” Instead, she ended up at a diner commiserating with her sisters as she inhaled a carb heavy breakfast and ate her feelings. With her entire future in limbo, Ava was plotting her next move when she overheard a deep, sexy, blast-from-the-past voice ask for a table for two. She tried to place where she'd heard the baritone vibrato before but it was sort of hard to concentrate with the tiny hairs on the back of her neck standing up, goosebumps lifting on her bare skin, and her lady parts throwing a rave.After nearly twenty years on the force Asher Ford thought he could handle anything, but becoming a single dad to a rebellious teenage girl overnight was proving to be more difficult than he’d expected. In a hail Mary move, he decided to quit his job as a homicide detective in New York City and move his daughter across the country to a simpler life in a small town. Things were going as planned until his fresh start was threatened after running into a breathtakingly beautiful woman whose smile made him feel like a teenager again and he also happened to share a complicated history with.Sometimes it's best to leave the past in the past...spoiler alert: this isn't one of those times.Author’s Note: Falling in Fate is a hot cop, jilted bride, single dad, slow burn, small town Hope Falls standalone romance. This happily-ever-after tale comes complete with a damaged hero, optimistic heroine, a misunderstood teenage daughter, a meddling sister, town folk who all think they know best, a plethora of heartwarming moments and swoony sexiness that will warm up more than just your heart. Warning: this HEA may restore and/or ignite your belief in fate and true love.

Ride along on the date disaster that never ends in this hilarious and sexy comedy of errors from the author of Planes, Trains, and All the Feels.The one saving grace of dating on the apps? You're supposed to be able to ghost the bad ones...but I can't shake Alex Conroy.From the moment he arrives—30 minutes late!—it's clear we have nothing in common.I was born and raised in blink-and-you'll-miss-it Avondale and have no desire to ever leave. He's lived in more cities than a Taylor Swift tour and has no desire to settle down.My classroom full of hyper-excitable preschoolers hardly feels like work. Alex is the poster boy for the corporate hustle, laser-focused on the grind.I'm more "Let's Bridgerton and Chill." He's "Let's jump out of an airplane."Residual embarrassment scars aside, I escape the night thinking that will be the end of it. But suddenly, Alex is everywhere. Our best friends are dating. And worse, he's my dad's work nemesis.But spending more time together results in the absolute worst thing yet: me catching a glimpse of his gooey soft interior. And that's exactly when our bad date that won't end really goes off the rails...