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Dancing in the Dark (The Base Book 1)

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Dancing in the Dark (The Base Book 1)

by H.M. Wolfe & Evera Ellis
 


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One man created a home for the survivors of unimaginable sins. A place of peace, harmony and recovery with a family that has been chosen, not forced.

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Ardan has broken many rules in the eyes of the law, but for the survivors, he is their saviour. To bring down the man in charge of a child trafficking ring, he needs the help of a team of investigators. Unfortunately, they were incarcerated when they got too close to the man’s identity, meaning Ardan must leave his home and become a prisoner in one of the most dangerous places on earth.


With help from friends and family alike, Ardan, Alasdair, and the rest of the crew at The Base fight to save as many lives as possible, even if it means sacrificing their own wellbeing.


Freeing the innocent men is their first goal. Their second is showing them they can come home, not to the place where they came from, but to the safety and understanding of The Base.

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Shameless Vows by Katherine L. Evans

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 Title: Shameless Vows
Series: A Shameless Love Novel #2
Author: Katherine L. Evans
Genre: Contemporary/Dark Royal/Suspense Romance
Release Date: July 7, 2020
When we fell in love, he was royalty. When our wedding day arrived, he had become a nightmare. And I became his prisoner.
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As children, he promised to protect me for as long as he lived. As teens, we fell in love and promised each other forever. He was the love of my life. Then he disappeared without a trace.
Ten years later, he shows up at my family’s estate, wielding his royal title and influence over my father like a weapon.
Malachi Sterling, the Duke of Corwick, transformed from a tender, sweet boy who held my heart in his loving hands, into a steely-eyed, sinister man who purchased my life and freedom with the sweep of a pen.
Ten years after promising to marry each other, Malachi and I stand before God and our power-hungry families as we exchange vows.
“I, Isla Sofía Reyes, take thee, Malachi Sterling, to be my wedded husband.
To have and to hold…”
To be ensnared and possessed.
“In sickness and health…”
In selfishness and torment.
“To love and to cherish…”
To defy, and despise, and make him rue the day we met.
“‘Til death do us part.”
‘Til the day I can finally uncover the secret that changed him forever.
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Dreamland by Beth D. Carter

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Title: Dreamland
Author: Beth D. Carter
Genre: Time Travel – Fantasy – Romance
Release Date: July 2, 2020 Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Dicen Burke had it all. As lead singer in the world famous rock band, Dark Army, the world lay at his feet. But the path to super stardom warred with a painful past and during a performance the demons haunting him finally descended. Unable to stop the self-destructive path of alcohol and drugs, when he fell, he fell hard.
He wakes up in a world he doesn’t know. The Twenty-first century rocker is now in the 1920’s, lost and bewildered. He’s taken in by Juliet Fox, a beautiful woman trying to be a positive influence in her brother’s wild lifestyle among the Hollywood Motion Picture elite.
Dicen does his best to adapt, and with Juliet by his side, he discovers a world that offers him a clean slate. But when he’s pulled back to the present, separated by time from the one person that gives him a reason to live, will he find a way to push past his demons as well as find Juliet again?
❝Dreamland is a unique story that keeps you glued to the pages as a rock star learns to cope with his demons of his past and present.❞ – Beyond the Covers Blog
I began reading my mom’s Harlequin Presents in the fifth grade, and from the first story I knew I wanted to write romance novels. I like writing about the very ordinary girl thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so my heroines will probably never be lawyers, doctors or corporate highrollers. I try to write characters who aren’t cookie cutters and push myself to write complicated situations that I have no idea how to resolve, forcing me to think outside the box. I love writing characters who are real, complex and full of flaws, heroes and heroines who find redemption through love. 
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Broken Rules by DL Gallie

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Broken Rules by DL Gallie is releasing August 13th!

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Rule #1: Never fall in love. Rule #2: Never sleep with a local. Rule #3: Never sleep with the same person twice Rule #4: No glove, no love. Rule #5: Never break Rules 1-4.

These are the rules that I’ve lived by since I opened The Grove Bar three years ago, but in the last thirty-six hours, I have broken most of them…repeatedly. And boy-oh-boy, did I break them.

Damn you, Burton-f’ing-Hayes.

I didn’t just break my rules with this sexy as sin man; I smashed every one of them to smithereens, and then set each one on fire and pissed on the simmering ashes.

Life was easy with my rules, but now that I’ve obliterated them, I don’t know what to do. Do I follow my heart and set new rules? Or do I stick to my original rules and risk it all?

They say rules are meant to be broken, but at what cost?

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Meet the author: DL Gallie is from Queensland, Australia, but she’s lived in many different places all over the world. She currently resides in Gladstone with her husband and two kids. She and her husband have been together since she was sixteen, and although they drive each other crazy at times, she couldn’t imagine her life without him.

Shortly after her son was born, DL began reading again. With encouragement from her husband, she picked up the pen and started writing, and now the voices in her head won’t shut up.

DL enjoys listening to music, drinking white wine in the summer, red wine in the winter, and beer all year round. She’s also never been known to turn down a cocktail, especially a margarita.

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Dishing Up Love by K.D. Robichaux

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Title: Dishing Up Love
Author: K.D. Robichaux
Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing LLC
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 13, 2020



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One hot chef
One beautiful woman
One chance encounter
Mix and dish up some love

Erin Bazzara is living life to the fullest as a single woman in New Orleans and making a name for herself as one of the top psychologists in the state of Louisiana. Years ago, she swore off men after receiving devastating news, news that proved her fiancé didn’t care about the rule “in sickness and in health.” It also proved he didn’t really care about her.
Good riddance, who needs a man anyway? Not her. Not ever again.
Or so she thought, until she literally runs into a certain world-renowned chef who looks at her like she might be his next four-course meal.

Chef Curtis Rockwell, host of the award-winning Chef To Go, never knows who the next participant on his show will be. State to state, city to city, he scours grocery store aisles each episode, looking for the perfect stranger to go home with so he can teach them how to cook a gourmet meal. It’s always been just a part of his job, a job he loves but still a job…
Then he spots her. The perfect participant. The perfect woman. A woman not even his dreams could have conjured up.
Now, all he has to do is prove the heat between them won’t just sizzle out like yesterday’s flambé.







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KD Robichaux wanted to be a romance author since the first time she picked up her mom’s Sandra Brown books at the ripe old age of twelve. She went to college to become a writer, but then married her very own alpha and had babies. Putting her dream job on hold to raise her family as a stay at home mom who read entirely too much, she created a blog where she could keep her family and friends up-to-date on all the hottest reads. From there, by word of mouth, her blog took off and she began using her hard-earned degree as a full-time editor. When her kids started school, and with the encouragement from her many author friends, she finally sat down and started working on her first series, The Blogger Diaries, her own real-life romance. She’s now published more than fifteen stories in many different genres of romance.


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Aurora Rose Reynolds and her husband, Sedaka Reynolds, created Boom Factory Publishing to use their experiences to expand and promote upcoming and existing indie authors.

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Tears of a Rose by Remontae Brown

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Title: Tears of a Rose
Author: Remontae Brown
Genre: June 15, 2020
Release Date: Fiction R Rated
Living in one of the finest mansions in Boston, life for Lauren couldn’t get any better. Looking good. Feeling good. Married to the love of her life Michael Wilson, a handsome, intelligent and extremely wealthy businessman who’s career is beginning to reach new heights. 

Then comes a beautiful young lady with a mysterious past named Allison who threatens to derail it all. The feeling of something new entices Michael. He slowly becomes detached with his marriage while Lauren becomes enraged with the sudden deceitfulness of his affair. Suddenly, before Lauren can grasp the immediate changes in her life, bodies start to drop and life as Lauren once knew it seems to be all crashing down…or does it?
Red and blue lights reflected beautifully in the bright New York snow as police cars filled the crowded streets. Dozens of bystanders gathered as yellow tape was used to mark off the crime scene. Face down in the snow laid a man completely naked gasping for air as paramedics attempted to perform CPR. “Sir, sir, can you hear me?” Detective Bolden spoke. “Detective Bolden!” An officer spoke. “What you got for me?” He asked. “Just spoke to an individual who claimed to have seen a black car fleeing the scene.” “A black car? Is that all? You know how many black cars there are in this city.” “I’m aware sir.” The officer spoke. “I guess some information is better than none at all. Thank you officer.”
Remontae Brown is a 29 year old newly inspired author who’s looking to make a name for himself within the writing industry. Mr. Brown also has a degree in Business Management and a love for sports. The nephew of former NFL Star (Andre Rison).
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Past Hurts by Jessie G

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Title: Past Hurts
Series: Sizzling Miami Book 1
Author: Jessie G.
Genre: M/M Romantic Suspense
Release Date: June 24, 2020 (2nd edition)
Cover Design: Andrew Reyna
Before they can get back together, Alaric and Davin will have to unravel the secrets that tore them apart.
Abandoned by his mother and raised by a judgmental, homophobic father on the unforgiving streets of Overtown, Davin Monroe knows a lot about survival and little about love.
As heir to the family business, Alaric Bennett’s innate strength makes him the pillar upon which the family problems fall, but leaves him emotionally abandoned by those that need him.
One chance meeting and five beautiful years together do not prepare them for the dark, depraved jealousy threatening their hard-earned happiness.
Now a killer has forced Detective Monroe to face the past and the only man his heart has ever wanted. With only one shot at redemption, Alaric is determined to uncover the truth and bring his lover home for good.
Before they can get back together, Alaric and Davin will have to unravel the secrets that tore them apart. But will the truth be enough to heal their past hurts?
Past Hurts is the first suspenseful novel in the Sizzling Miami Series. Originally published in 2014, Past Hurts has been rewritten and expanded, adding more than twenty thousand words to the overall story. If you love mystery and second chance romance, then you’ll love this newly expanded version by Jessie G.
“Are you going to say something or just stare at my ass until dinner’s done?”
Holy shit, he had been staring at that ass and who the hell could blame him? Didn’t he know firsthand how fine that ass looked and felt? “What the fuck, Ric? What are you doing here? How did you get in?”
“Cooking dinner so we can eat before we run, and I have a key,” Alaric answered without turning and continued to move food around a frying pan as if he had the first fucking clue how to cook. He never cooked or rarely ever cooked in the years they spent together.
Dumbfounded, Davin wasn’t sure he heard correctly. “You have a key?”
“Yep.” The spatula-free hand gestured toward the small breakfast bar. “It’s over there with my wallet if you want to take it.”
Obviously, there was no point in bothering. “You have copies.”
“Of course, I do.”
Of course, you do. You are Alaric Bennett and locked doors just magically open for you.
Then the rest of his words registered. “We aren’t running anywhere.”
“You didn’t come home to run?” Alaric finally looked over his shoulder, one perfectly sculpted eyebrow lifting as if to say, ‘who are you trying to kid?’ That subtle arrogance directly affected Davin’s libido and Alaric knew it. “Right. That’s what I thought.”
“If you came here to talk…”
“Do I look like I want to fucking talk?” Slamming the spatula on the stove, Alaric turned, reached out and curled a hand around the back of his neck, shrinking the already small space between them to nothing. “Or that either of us is ready for that conversation? You need to eat, you need to run, and you need to sleep. In that order. Go get changed.”
“Ric.” Davin was appalled to hear the helplessness in his tone, the one that begged Alaric to complete the embrace and finally give him a safe place to rest.
“Go get changed, Davin, now.”
With their foreheads touching, Davin could see that he wasn’t the only one all tied up in their emotions. That Alaric, who had always been so strong, was barely holding it together. In that moment, Davin realized he expected Alaric to take the news of his brother’s death, delivered by an ex-lover, the way he did everything else. With strength and stoicism, do what needs to be done and never show any emotion. Except with Davin, Alaric never hid them, and it was ridiculous to think he would start now.
No, they weren’t ready for that conversation and Alaric was right about what he needed, so retreat seemed the obvious choice. This—the dinner, the pretense of caring about what he needed—was nothing more than a way to ease some guilt. Maybe if he let Alaric get it out of his system, they could both move on.
“Yes, Ric.”
Like many readers, the dream of being a writer has been with me a long time. After three decades of trying, I’d begun to doubt. Thanks to social media, I followed my favorite authors hoping to glean some words of wisdom as I pounded out half-formed ideas with alarming regularity. Two repetitive themes emerged: to be a great writer you must read a lot and your butt must be in the chair every day like it’s a job. The more you write, the easier it will be to write and the better you will be at writing. I took that advice to heart and write every day. With three series in the works and a full schedule of releases planned for the next two years, it’s been amazing to have made this dream my reality.
I am a firm believer in marriage equality, love at first sight, power dynamics, and happily ever after. I’m a lover of strong secondary characters, and series filled with families—biological or chosen. All are themes you’ll find throughout my books.
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The Unconventional Duchess

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THE UNCONVENTIONAL DUCHESS
Author: Rosie Chapel
Genre: Historical Romance
Release Date: June 7, 2020
Refusing to suffer the humiliation of her husband flaunting his mistress at Society events, the newly married Duchess of Wallingstead, Ella Lennox, takes control of her life. She leaves London for the family’s country seat in remote Yorkshire.

A woman alone, Ella spends the next four years turning a cold, grim house into a home, and transforming the fortunes of the estate. Not afraid of hard work, she soon earns the respect of those around her with her determination and unconventional attitude.

Out of the blue, the duke arrives. Resigned to another arduous visit, Ella is stunned when it seems he is attempting to court her.
Impossible!
Could her dream of a happy marriage be about to come true?

Everything hangs on a snowstorm, a herd of cows and an uninvited guest!
At the bottom of the stairs, Roderick stared after his wife, his mouth agape. “Arabella.” Her name was a command, but Ella ignored him and, with as much dignity as possible — given her deplorable state — continued up the stairs, her boots squelching with every step. He stood, rooted to the spot, the faint ticking of the clock in the study counting the seconds. There was a loud bang… a door slamming. She had walked away from him. Not only that, she had upbraided him and, Roderick — while flabbergasted she possessed the mettle — grudgingly admitted had done so with consummate eloquence.

When had Ella become so… independent? Roderick was not sure that was quite the right word, mayhap… self-assured sat better. Whatever it was it gave him a jolt. He had to confess she was nothing like the woman he believed he had married. Had she always been this way? Had he been so blinded by anger at his father’s refusal to listen to his argument that he missed seeing Ella for who she was? While trying to rid his head of disquieting theories, Roderick followed his wife upstairs.

He burst into her bedchamber without knocking.

“Ella? Are you in here?” His quietly spoken enquiry fell into the stillness. There was no reply. Three strides brought Roderick to the doorway of her dressing room. About to repeat his question he was brought up short by the sight which met his eyes.

His words died on his lips.

Ella was climbing into the bath, speaking to someone he could not see. The steam from the water rose in lazy coils around her naked form, as though deliberately veiling her from his stupefied gaze. Roderick had never seen his wife undressed. Their coupling was carried out with the least amount of finesse possible — a quick fumble under blankets and nightgown revealing just enough skin to get it over with. There was no romance, no intimacy, and now this. He could not look away, riveted by her curvaceous figure. Through the vapours her skin resembled fine porcelain, and her hair tumbled around her bare shoulders in riotous abandon. Deuced, if his hands did not itch to be entangled in the curly tresses. He watched Ella sink beneath the water, a small amount lapping over the sides onto the wooden floor.

Soundlessly, and before Ella became aware of his presence, Roderick backed out of the room. He had his hand on the door when Meg appeared with a cloth to mop the spilled water. Her eyes grew wide like saucers when she saw him, but Roderick put his finger to his lips and shook his head. She dipped a curtsy and nodded her understanding.

Roderick slipped away, his head whirling, while other parts of his anatomy throbbed… painfully. What the hell was going on? The logical explanation was because he was missing Honora, for he certainly was not attracted to Ella.
Author of historical fiction and romance, Rosie Chapel lives in Perth, Australia with her hubby and three furkids. When not writing, she loves catching up with friends, burying herself in a book (or three), discovering the wonders of Western Australia, or — and the best — a quiet evening at home with her husband, enjoying a glass of wine and a movie.
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The Lady by Golden Angel

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Adored. Cherished. Pampered. Lady Delilah Darling lives an enviable life. But when cruel hands drive her away from home and into the dangerous streets of London, she’s suddenly frightened, vulnerable, and alone. Desperate for safety, Lady Delilah stumbles right into the arms of Henry Gaunt, the irresistible overlord of the London Underground.

Known as The Tramp to his contemporaries, Henry rules his dark world with both charm and violence, bending the willing and breaking all others. Intent on claiming the newly fallen Lady Delilah for his own, Henry offers her protection for a price. Now Delilah is leashed. Claimed. Mastered. And as she accepts her fate as The Tramp’s pet, she’s left with one question: will she also be loved?

About Angel

Angel is a self-described bibliophile with a “kinky” bent who loves to write stories for the characters in her head. If she didn’t get them out, she’s pretty sure she’d go just a little crazy.

She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily-ever-afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.

She believes the world is a better place when there’s a little magic in it.

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