Trying Not to Need You

Moran Sisters #2

Kaylee Ryan 

Release Day: September 22, 2026

From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan comes a new standalone small-town series about four sisters finding love. Trying Not to Need You is a he-falls-first, opposites-attract romance featuring a retired bull rider and the woman he’s never stopped loving.

Baylor

I thought I was living my happily ever after.

But after five years in New York, building my life around a man who stopped choosing me, I realized our future was nothing more than a dream.

So I walked away.

From the city. From him. From the family I thought we’d build together.

Now I’m back in Magnolia Ridge with my sisters, trying to figure out who I am without the life I planned.

I didn’t come home looking for love.

But somehow, love has been waiting for me all along.

Macklin

I’ve loved Baylor Moran for years.

The timing was always wrong. Until now.

She’s back in Magnolia Ridge with a bruised heart and walls higher than ever. But that's okay. I'll be here when they’re ready to come down.

Baylor can take all the time she needs.

I’m not going anywhere.

And while she’s trying not to need me, I’ll keep loving her until she realizes she’s not falling apart anymore.

She’s finally falling—straight into the future we were always meant to have. 

Tropes:

Small Town

Opposites Attract

He Falls First

Retired Bull Rider

Childhood Crush

My Review

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Ok seriously this has to be one of the sweetest books I have read in a while. I was kind of expecting a little bit of angst and drama after where we left off with Baylor in the last book. But it just didn't play out that way. And it was just sweetness and falling from the start.

Add in the fact I listened to the audio version and I wasn't able to put it down. The voices were perfect for the books and getting it in duet was awesome.

Anyway this book picked up from Ellison's baby shower with Baylor returning home. And like I mentioned, I expected Baylor to be sad about the circumstances she was returning home under. And that wasn't really the case, which was great. Because boom, along comes Macklin ready and waiting to shoot his shot.

And I couldn't get enough of Macklin. Every time I thought he couldn't get swoonier he went right along and proved me wrong. It was almost to the point where I had to sit back and wonder if his devotion was veering into creepy stalker territory. But then i realised if it was i didn't care, i am so here for it.

Baylor and Macklin were perfect and sweet and then very hot together and I devoured this in one sitting. I am loving the Moran sisters and I can't wait to see the next one fall.

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Until I Remember by Karla Sorensen is now live!

She has no memory of choosing him. Her heart, apparently, didn’t get the memo.

I wake up in a hospital with a year of my life missing—and Grant Hastings at my bedside. I remember him, all right. He’s wealthy. Arrogant. British. And my late brother’s best friend. The last man I’d ever want to marry.

Except apparently I did.

Now I’m living in a beautiful house I don’t recognize, wearing a ring I don’t remember receiving, and expected to play the devoted wife while his aristocratic family, unaware of the gaps in my memory, descends for his birthday. Grant is patient and attentive, dropping hints about an explosive relationship that makes my pulse race. He’s nothing like the cold, haughty man I remember.

Torn between suspicion about this inconvenient marriage of convenience and an attraction to my husband I’m not ready to name, I have to make a choice: leave the past buried or trust Grant to help me find my way back to a life I can’t remember choosing.

The terrifying part? I’m starting to think past me knew exactly what she was doing.

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When I saw a new book by this author, I absolutely had to get my hands on it. So, I signed up without reading the blurb and honestly, I'm not a fan of the whole amnesia trope. And then it landed on my kindle while my life is literally a chaotic little bag of cats and I  had a bit of trouble staying focused.

Needless to say, the first few pages I was wondering if I should admit defeat and try again later. Until suddenly I realised I couldn't put it down. I was so invested in both Grant and Mercy. And for the first half to two thirds of the book, we only got Mercy's POV. But the way Grant loved her just came through so vividly I was absolutely obsessed with him.

Mercy was so strong and so strong willed. Watching her struggle through her own life had me in tears a few times. But then we have the vision of Grant then and his actions now and Mercy trying to navigate her own memories and his feelings and god it was some really beautiful, talented writing.

Seriously, I could feel Grant's love for Mercy through the pages. And the angst was so real but in a comforting way, which makes no sense. This whole story was so superbly written that I feel as though I literally lived it with them. 

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I received a copy of this front netgalley and I was super excited because that blurb was screaming “read me now.” And then I realised how quickly I had to read this, followed by oh crap this is book 3 in the series, and I haven't read book 2. So, I picked up book 2, because my fomo made me.

Full disclosure, I didn't love book 1, which I hate for me, but I find Sara Ney very hit and miss. But I will always read them because I either love them or am a little ambivalent, but I never hate them. Anyway book 2 I liked more than book 1 and book 4 I was loving. Thought for sure it was my favourite and I knew where it was going then if just kind of slowly sailed off a cliff.

Layla and Hayes had wicked hot chemistry and I loved their interactions. It felt natural and flirty and so fun. And then you've got Benny and I couldn't get enough of her. She was the perfect 9 year old and damn did she remind me of my girls. She knew what her dad needed, she knew what she wanted and she had decided Layla fit the bill.

And like I said I had thoughts on where this was going. I was just wrong and the direction it did go I didn't love. I don't necessarily have anything against the detour this took, I just didn't feel it. And it pulled me out of the lust fog I was feeling with Hayes and Layla and I wasn't ready. 

On a side note book 1 and 2 felt like the same series, book 3 felt like a standalone that didn't have much to do with the previous 2. So I really didn't need to read book 2 before this but here we are. 

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Forever After Fall is NOW LIVE

BLURB:

One little mistake tangles me up with a sexy stranger in a dark room. Not that I’m complaining. It’s the most fun I’ve had in forever. At least until the lights come on and I see the single dad, my best friend’s older brother and my sister’s widower, standing in his place.

He’s grumpy as hell when he realizes our mistake, and even grumpier when he finds out the two of us are stuck together for the foreseeable future setting up the fall festival at the family ranch.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to figure out how the man from that night is the same steadfast workaholic who eats the food I cook in silence and barely grunts when I thank him for his latest handyman miracle at my house.

No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop thinking about that night. Especially not when we’re working side by side for long hours every day planning romantic hayrides and decorating a haunted house. When I finally admit as much in a moment of weakness. we’re both making confessions that have my heart pounding.

So what if we finish what we started? A secret friends with benefits agreement that expires at midnight on Halloween. Because if we can just get it out of our minds, we can go back to business as usual. No one ever has to know.

But I’m not ready for all the secrets I uncover playing this game or for the way this man makes me feel.

And neither of us are prepared for just how haunted the house turns out to be.

What to Expect:

Best friend's older brother

Single dad 

Widower x SIL

Grumpy x Sunshine

Secret friends with benefits

Small town holiday

Forced proximity

Touch her and die

Western small town

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