Lex Martin has revealed the covers for Chasing Shadows!
Releasing December 3, 2026
Cover Designer: Najla Qamber
Photographer: Wander Aguiar
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No kissing. No strings. No exceptions.
That's the plan to create the family I’ve always wanted on my own terms, no husband necessary.
I never expected the donor to be Isaiah Walker — the man who broke my heart twelve years ago and has been running from that wreckage ever since.
Our arrangement is simple. We do just enough to make a baby before we go our separate ways.
But Isaiah’s done running. And the more time we spend together, the harder it is to remember why I need to keep this single dad at arm’s length.
Between a corporate land grab threatening everything I’ve built, a secret that could tear Isaiah’s family apart, and feelings I thought were buried long ago, I’m starting to worry that a baby and a broken heart aren’t the only things on the line.
Chasing Shadows is a single dad, second chance, forced proximity romance that features a daredevil cowboy and a wildlife rescuer. If you enjoy found families, adorable pets, and small-town secrets, this one is for you!
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Meet Lex Martin
Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of Varsity Dads, Texas Nights, and the Dearest series. She writes contemporary romance novels, the steamy kind she hopes readers love but her parents avoid.
She’s always been obsessed with writing, starting in elementary school when she would pen short stories and make her father read them. (Afterward, he’d have to take her tests, but he was a good sport and did them without complaint.) In high school, when she wasn’t playing basketball, she wrote emo poetry and worked on the school newspaper.
She later became a nationally-certified high school English teacher and freelance journalist but decided she’d rather write romance novels than tests or city hall articles.
Lex loves coffee, rom coms, pen hoarding, planners, and college football.
She married her almost college sweetheart (they met right after graduation), and she’s still obsessed with him, especially when he writes her songs.
She currently resides in her hometown of San Antonio with her husband, twin daughters, and their bunny. Drop her a line. She loves hearing from readers.
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I saw the sign up for this and realised that I had missed book 1 releasing. So I checked out book 1 and saw that it was Beefcake all grown up and I had to get my hands on it. In typical me logic I decided to wait on reading book 1 until closer to getting my grabby hands on book 2. So I one clicked it on KU and waited patiently. Then we took the kids to Bali and I realised how little I read while on holiday.
And I have to admit I liked beefcake aka Cutler and Gracie but I didn't love it like I expected. I went into it expecting too much from it and it didn't hit for me. So then I was somewhat reluctant to pick this one up. Although this one is also a 4 star read for me I liked it a bit more.
Bass is one of those heroes you instantly love despite him being grumpy and somewhat closed off. He loves hard and he shows up for his people. He doesn't play games and you always know where he stands. And getting his point of view was even sweeter.
Briar started out with a lot of questions about her and even more about her motives. And her coming in so hot at the start didn't help. But I was pretty quickly won over by her and I loved that she fired straight back at Bass without missing a beat.
The chemistry between these two was fun to watch and I enjoyed watching them fall together. There was the perfect mix of emotions, drama, chemistry and story. Book 3 looks like it's going to be a great addition to the series and I can't wait.
The Last Goodbye by Laura Pavlov is now live!
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A Small Town, Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Romance from USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, Laura Pavlov.
Briar Sinclair is enemy number one.
She came to Blue Sky Bay with a multimillion-dollar plan and one goal: to buy my restaurant.
Too bad it’s not for sale.
She’s pulled every stunt in the book to get my attention, though I refuse to engage with a woman who came here to ruin my life—no matter how relentless she is.
Unfortunately, my restaurant is the last thing standing in the way of her powerful father’s approval.
She’s determined to convince me that this is a good idea.
We can agree to disagree.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying the effort that she’s putting in.
One minute she’s arguing with me about real estate, the next she’s tripping outside my houseboat or falling asleep behind my restaurant after working herself to exhaustion.
Did I mention the fact that she’s insanely beautiful.
I should hate her for what she’s trying to do. Instead, I can’t stop noticing her pretty pink mouth or her sharp tongue.
The more we clash, the harder it becomes to remember that she’s the enemy.
Because somewhere between the arguments, late nights, and undeniable attraction—Briar Sinclair stopped feeling like the woman trying to destroy my future…and she started feeling like she belonged in it.
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The league called him the Brick Wall.
Tina Pappas knew better.
The dangerous part was not how hard he was to get past.
It was how safe he made it feel to stay.
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola returns to the ice with the next installment in her Shots on Goal: MN Frosthawks series - where love does not erase the past, and moving forward might be the bravest play of all.
Harry Vestergaard has built an entire career out of being impossible to get through.
The Minnesota Frosthawks’ veteran goalie is calm in the crease, brutal under pressure, and stubborn enough to make the whole league regret taking a shot at him. But his body is starting to betray him. His career is closer to the end than the beginning. And for the first time in his life, Harry is not sure what comes next when the game stops loving him back.
Then he meets Konstantina Pappas.
A second-grade teacher. A widow. A single mom doing her best to raise a little boy who is terrified that moving forward means forgetting the father he lost.
Tina is not looking for a love story.
She already had one.
She had the husband. The family. The forever.
But Harry is not easy to dismiss. He is steady when he should be intimidating. Gentle when no one is watching. Patient with Tina’s heart and careful with her son’s. And when seven-year-old Theo starts letting Harry into his small, carefully built world of LEGOs, firehouse patches, and memories he is scared to lose, Tina realizes the most dangerous thing about Harry Vestergaard is not how hard he is to get past.
It is how safe he makes it feel to stay.
Harry knows he cannot replace the man Tina loved.
He would never try.
But loving Tina means learning there might be life after loss.
Loving Theo means understanding some saves do not happen on the ice.
And loving them both might be the one thing that finally teaches the Frosthawks’ brick wall how to let something in.
Brick Wall #30 features:
Widowed single mom romance
Aging goalie hero
Second-grade teacher heroine
Instant attraction with emotional depth
Found family
Soft, steady love after loss
A little boy who slowly trusts
A hero who never tries to replace the man who came before him
And one elderly profanity parrot who absolutely should not be trusted in public
About the Author:
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola is a Florida native now happily rooted in North Carolina with her loving husband and two lazy basset hounds. After several years away from publishing, she has returned to the romance world with a renewed passion for storytelling and a bold, reimagined vision for her Shots on Goal universe. She writes every flavor of contemporary romance— from steamy rom-coms to gritty biker tales to emotional, heart-thumping sports love stories.
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THE HONOR SOCIETY
Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: September 30
Charlie knows three things for certain.
She shot Axel.
He survived.
And somehow, he doesn’t remember she was the one who pulled the trigger.
It should be a relief.
Instead, the man she’s secretly loved for years feels different. Colder. More dangerous. Axel still smiles, still flirts, still looks at her like he might remember exactly how good they were together—but there are pieces of him she’s never seen before.
Secrets beneath the jokes.
Blood beneath the charm.
And a darkness he’s very, very good at hiding.
Because Axel remembers everything.
The bullet.
The betrayal.
The woman he still can’t stop wanting.
What Charlie doesn’t know is that Axel has spent years living two lives. In one, he’s the reckless man everyone underestimates.
In the other, he wears a mask.
The Proctor.
Judge. Jury. Executioner.
With the Convocation approaching, four powerful families are preparing to fight for control of the Honor Society, and someone is willing to wipe out entire bloodlines to take it. They need two things to win:
The Ledger.
And the Proctor.
Axel has both.
Now he has eighteen days to discover who is hunting him, keep Charlie alive, and stop a war without revealing the one secret that could destroy them both.
Because Charlie is searching for the Proctor too.
She just doesn’t know she’s already falling for him.
Again.
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Meet Rachel Van Dyken:
Rachel Van Dyken is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over 100 books ranging from new adult romance to mafia romance to paranormal & fantasy romance. With over four million copies sold, she's been featured in Forbes, US Weekly, and USA Today. Her books have been translated in more than 15 countries. She was one of the first romance authors to have a Kindle in Motion book through Amazon publishing and continues to strive to be on the cutting edge of the reader experience. She keeps her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, adorable sons, naked cat, and two dogs.
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I feel like I need to preface this with the fact I love Rebecca Jenshak's writing and I was anxiously awaiting Lucky Shot. Then it released and the blurb just didn't work for me and despite the fact I grabbed it on release day from KU it just kept slipping down my TBR. Then I saw the tropes and teasers for this and HAD to read it. When I realised it was book 3 I knew I had to read the others first so I've had a nice little binge read.
So Conrad I am well acquainted with from the last 2 books. And his nervousness around women made him so endearing. Here he is this famous athlete, who all our previous heroines have made mention of his beauty and he literally can't put a sentence together around women. I couldn't wait to get his POV and back story and it didn't disappoint.
Whitney was a new to us character but i loved her from the beginning. She was so baffled by Conrad's behaviour on their date but she didn't take it onboard as her issue. And she wasn't afraid to call it out or to give him another chance when he tried to explain the problem.
The two of them together were sweet and hot and their couple's journey was fun to watch. It felt real and natural and I was so invested in them. I wasn't sure how the whole Victor thing was going to play out but even that felt authentic. It wasn't perfect, but it felt realistic.
Overall, I couldn't be happier, except for if the other books were available so I could just keep right on with the Moonshot boys. And then maybe throw in Victor's book just to keep the party going.
The Decoy
(Gridiron Legacy Book 4)
by Ava Sutton
Release Date: September 25th
ππ‘π ππππ¨π² (ππ«π’ππ’π«π¨π§ πππ πππ² ππ¨π¨π€ π), the final standalone in the Gridiron Legacy series by Ava Sutton is now LIVE!
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Ellis Renwick and I are barely more than acquaintances—connected only by mutual friends and the endorsement deal I signed with her company. Her baby isn’t mine, and minding my own business should be easy.
But when the baby’s father walks away, I step up. Raised by a single mom, I know the weight Ellis is about to carry, and there is no way I’m letting her do it alone. But somewhere between midnight cravings, stolen kisses, and tiny heartbeats, the woman behind my endorsement deal becomes my whole world. Now I’m falling hopelessly in love with a future that was never meant to be mine.
When her father discovers I’m not the biological dad, he wants to expose the ex publicly, threatening to shatter the quiet haven Ellis and I have built. He wants justice from a ghost. But they've become mine to protect.
What her dad doesn’t understand is that her ex walked away …
But I never will.
What to expect:
πΌNot His Baby
πΌFake Relationship
πΌPro Football Romance
πΌThey Fall Together
πΌProtective Hero
πΌFound Family
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