I've been in love with my best friend's sister for years. And does she have a clue? Nope.RobShe's smart, funny, beautiful—and completely off-limits. Not just because she's my best friend's little sister, but because for eight years, she's been stuck on a guy who treats her like an afterthought.But this time when they break up, something feels different. She's different.Between our daily carpool and text threads, being her safe landing after disastrous internet dates, and the accidental touches that don't feel so accidental anymore, something has shifted.Do I finally tell her the truth and risk losing her completely? Or do I stay silent and watch her move on with someone else?KelseyWhen my boyfriend dumps me for another woman, I'm blindsided. Eight years—gone. Just like that.My coworker convinces me it's time to get back out there, but online dating is a nightmare. Turns out, I have no idea what I'm looking for anymore.And then there's Rob—my brother's best friend, my coworker, and the guy who's been there through it all. Suddenly, I'm noticing things I never noticed before. The way he looks at me. The way he seems to know what I need before I do. The way my heart races whenever he's close.Falling for him would complicate everything—our friendship, our jobs, our entire lives.But what if the perfect guy has been there all along?A sweet, swoony rom-com featuring:? Brother's best friend? He falls first? Workplace romance? Dual POVs? All the feels, zero spicePerfect for fans of Emma St. Clair and Jennifer Peel!

Sometimes, the best gift isn’t under the tree, it’s finding someone who makes you believe again.HardyLast Christmas, I messed up so badly my daughter asked Santa to be her new dad. This year, I’m determined to make it right—except I have no clue how to pull off the effortless kind of holiday magic my late wife did. I need help.When I walk into the local PTO meeting, I don’t plan to volunteer to help my daughter's teacher. We make a deal: She’ll be my Christmas coach and teach me the Santa Rules, and I’ll help her build the most magical Santa Workshop.BellaI’m determined not to be the hot mess everyone thinks I am, so I volunteer to create the biggest and best Christmas event the PTO has ever seen…along with my student’s hot dad.He swears he can’t fall in love again—and isn’t sure his daughter is ready for him to try—but somewhere between decorating trees, making questionable Christmas cookies, and defiling Santa’s throne, we start breaking more than just the Santa Rules.A holiday rom com with a single mom, a single dad, two kids, and a whole lot of fun.Single Dad (widower)Single MomFirefighter/EMT romanceSmall TownGrumpy/SunshineRom Com

He’s a cowboy trying to save his family ranch, she’s a high-level equestrian on the run. Their worlds would never have collided—until she needs a place to hide her top-class competition horse.Madison James is riding straight to the top. Or she was—until she finds out her fiancé is planning to sell her best competition horse. In the middle of the night she leaves with her horses to hide out at an old friend of her coach in a valley near Rustler’s Ridge, a small West Virginia town. All she must do is stay under the radar and make it through two months. But across the valley there’s a cowboy who is desperately trying to keep his farm afloat. She can’t help it, whenever they meet there are sparks. Jack Coleman has only one goal: to keep his family ranch out of the hands of an unscrupulous debtor. This was his sole focus until he finds a beautiful, mysterious blonde and her horses stuck on a flood-washed backroad. He has no idea who she is hiding from, or why. But he knows that she has lit a fire in him that had been dead for years. Now, if only he could forget about her and carry on with the business of saving his farm. But fate keeps throwing them together.There is no way they can be together—but how do you stop falling in love?A closed-door romance with all the sparks to make you fall in love. This contemporary Western is for fans of Emma St Clair, Katherine Center, and everyone who loves horses and pure romance.

The Double Trouble Duet Identical twin brothers separated at birth. War veteran Dawson Trudeau never expected his estranged identical twin to walk into his bar in Alaska, let alone offer him twenty million dollars to pose as the CEO of King Enterprises while he secretly heads to rehab for thirty days. With dreams of starting a homeless shelter for veterans and locating his retired service dog from Afghanistan, Dawson can’t say no. Then he meets his brother’s sexy assistant and he hopes she can’t say no—some overtime between the sheets. Lacey Brooks isn’t attracted to her metro-sexual boss, but his rough and ready identical twin is just her type. When lust turns into love, she fears she is betraying the CEO. If she can navigate the family feud to ensure a spot-on impersonation by Dawson, she’ll finally be promoted to VP. If they can pull off the masquerade, everyone wins. But once the thirty days is over will victory matter if they don’t have each other?

While battling to save his family’s ranch, Baker finds himself falling for a man as unrestrained as the Oklahoma winds. For as long as he can recall, Baker Bastian has been the backbone of Bastian Acres Ranch. He’s carried a heavy load, trying his best to keep his family legacy from being swallowed up by corporate farming while battling a fondness for the bottle, a messy divorce, and a grandmother who’s set on becoming the next Annie Oakley if she could just get a gun that shoots straight. It’s not been an easy road. Now, with his worthless philandering father’s death, the deed to the ranch is to be split four ways with three half-brothers he never wanted to get to know better.As the ranch is tossed into chaos, Baker is driven to open the gates to strangers, and not just his brothers and their traveling companions. In order to turn a buck, the once proud owner of prime cattle is reduced to calling his farming legacy a guest ranch. The first client to show up is Hanley Welsh, a world-renowned wildlife photographer. Baker should be too busy to notice how rugged Hanley is, or how his eyes crinkle with his easy smile, or how well his jeans fit, but notice he does. Will Baker’s lonely existence end with the arrival of a man who carries the song of the indigo bunting in his heart?Baker (Bastian Brothers #1) is a first in series grumpy/sunshine M/M contemporary western gay romance with a lonesome cowboy, a globetrotting wildlife photographer, unwanted family arrivals, a not-so-straight shooting octogenarian, and a picture-perfect happy ending. Content warning: This story has references to past substance abuse.

Two things were not on Stephanie’s color-coded schedule: a murder scene and a detective who made her forget how sentences work.She has a system for life: keys go in the bowl, shoes go in the closet, lavender goes in the diffuser, and emotional chaos is not allowed past the front door.Then she finds her apartment manager murdered in the stairwell.Now her spotless world has a crime scene in it, her goldendoodle may be in danger, and the detective is the sort of man no amount of lavender can make less distracting.Detective Mark Wellborn notices everything.The things moved in her apartment.The white van that keeps reappearing.The fear Stephanie tries to organize into something manageable.And her.The more Mark tries to protect her, the harder it is to pretend he is only part of the investigation. He is comfort when her world feels unsafe, complication when she needs control, and entirely too good at making her feel seen.But Mark is also the detective on her case.Until the murder is solved, every look has to stay professional. Every almost-touch has to become nothing. And every feeling Stephanie cannot file away becomes one more thing she is absolutely not allowed to want.Someone is invading the safest corners of her life, and the murder in the stairwell was only the beginning.The Lavender Thief is a clean, romantic comedy suspense with cozy mystery twists, essential oils, murder, mishaps, a lovable goldendoodle, and one detective who sees far more than Stephanie wants him to.She has spent her whole life getting everything exactly right. The question is whether she is brave enough to let it all go wonderfully, beautifully, sideways.