FALLING FOR YOU
Falling For #1
Natasha Madison
Release Date: July 14
Blurb:
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Natasha Madison turns up the heat when a night of passion brings together a man who was never looking for love and a woman who thinks she doesn’t deserve it.
Theo Williams loved and lost once and isn’t interested in doing it again. He has his family and friends, and plenty of women passing through his new hometown who are happy with a no-strings-attached night of passion. Working as a partner at his cousin’s construction company, he’s perfectly content with his life—until he meets Collins Henderson, the one-night stand who will change his world forever.
Collins grew up on the wrong side of her small hometown. Thanks to her parents’ shady schemes, every local knows a Henderson cannot be trusted. She works hard as a paramedic, putting in every extra hour she can to save for a better life. But every time she starts to get ahead, her parents show up to pull her back down. Having one night of passion with a man she doesn’t know is not something she’d normally do, but there was just something about him … And two months later, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant.
When she runs into the mysterious stranger again, she has to tell him, not because she needs or wants anything from him, just so he knows. But now he’s showing up at her house, cooking her meals, stocking her refrigerator, and doing everything he can for her. Collins has always taken care of herself. She wasn’t looking for a relationship, but she can’t deny the chemistry between them.
She knows it’s only a matter of time before he learns who she is and changes his mind. She can’t let herself fall for this guy, but every day he’s getting harder to resist …
My Review
Buy Link:
https://www.natashamadisonauthor.com/falling-for-you
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Meet Natasha Madison:
When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…
Connect with Natasha Madison:
https://linktr.ee/natashamauthor
Trying Not to Love You
Moran Sisters #1
Kaylee Ryan
Release date: July 14, 2026
Blurb
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series set in a small town, surrounding four sisters. Trying Not to Love You is a small-town, second-chance, first-love, ex-military romance.
Ellison
Copeland James was my first love, my first heartbreak, my first everything.
Then he left without explanation, and never came back.
My sisters and our closest friends helped me pick up the pieces, but my heart hasn’t been whole since the day he walked out of Magnolia Ridge.
I’ve learned to live with what could have been… until his mother’s illness brings him back to our small town. He’s older, harder, and more magnetic than I remember.
He’s a man now. The man I learned to live without. And yet, he’s back, stirring everything I thought I’d buried, making my world feel unsteady.
Because loving him nearly destroyed me… and now, I’m still trying not to love him.
Copeland
I left Magnolia Ridge with nothing but a duffel bag and a decision.
I told myself joining the Marines was the right choice. That loving her meant protecting her, and this was the way to do it.
I was wrong.
Now I’m back, years later, and she’s just as breathtaking as the day I left. All these years, I imagined she’d have moved on, married someone else, but she’s still single, and in my heart, she’s still mine.
But Ellison doesn’t see me the way I see her, not anymore. All I find in her eyes is the wound I left behind. The one that never healed.
I didn’t fight for us back then, but I’ve learned. Now I’m ready for battle, fighting for what we could be while she tries not to love me.
Tropes:
Second Chance
High School Sweetheart
Ex-Military Hero
First Love
Emotional Healing
Small Town
Blue Collar
My Review
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I don't even know what I was expecting picking this book up but what I got was a lot. First this is a new series but it's set in a familiar town. With some crossover references to previous characters which made it feel comfortable and familiar.
Collins and Theo were awesome together. Although the way this was written we barely got their initial meeting. But because of that we got so much of the present them. Which gave us so much of Theo being all sweet and swoony and impossible not to fall for.
Meanwhile Collins was there with her beautiful heart and strength thinking she was the villain of the story. Everything she had been through made her so amazing and I couldn't get enough of how everyone around her saw that.
The epilogues were cute but I could have stayed in this book for days. And I can't wait for the next book, hopefully we get more Collins and Theo.
Second chance romance isn't my thing but a new series by Kaylee Ryan will always be my thing so I jumped straight in. And I had absolutely nothing to worry about. As always the author wrote the sweetest book and despite the fact that it was the dreaded miscommunication that caused the initial break-up I'm ok with that.
Copeland and Ellison were so young and although Copeland was an idiot, he was a well meaning idiot. And the mistakes weren't all his alone. It helped that getting both points of view meant we knew what they were both thinking and feeling. No-one played games and they both communicated brilliantly.
Aside from being such a sweet read, there were a lot of emotions. And despite being a quick read it had all the feels and a great depth. I can't wait to get the other sisters books and watch this beautiful family grow.
THE GEEK AND THE GHOST
The Protectors #2
Cambria Hebert
Release Date: July 10
Blurb:
I’m about thirty seconds from a toe tag and my own freezer at the mortuary when he materializes from the shadows and fights like hell to keep me breathing.
I had no idea homeless disasters like me got guardian angels—or that guardian angels punch people and smoke—but suddenly, there he is: a hero dressed all in black who ghosts me so hard I consider calling a medium.
But that would be a waste of money I don’t have.
I thought I’d never see him again, but just as I’m about to eat a bullet, he appears, using his body to protect mine. I might have swooned—okay, fine, I do but only on the inside—if it weren’t for the fact he thinks bleeding is an adequate apology for implying I’m a prostitute and running off with my heart.
Spoiler alert: It’s not.
Now the man with a PhD in vanishing, a tattoo that totally offends me, and eyes with their own force of gravity is suddenly stuck to me like glue and being wildly inconvenient about it.
And he won’t stop calling me a pipgeek. What even is that?
He insists I trust him, but I can’t trust anyone, not even my own body. Unfortunately, when the resident drug lord calls in that favor I foolishly owe, things go from bad to catastrophic with alarming enthusiasm.
On the upside, having a villain with a hero complex for a stalker means staying alive will be easy.
But not getting hurt again is a whole other story.
My Review
Buy Link:
Available in KU
Meet Cambria Hebert:
Cambria Hebert is a bestselling novelist of more than fifty titles. She went to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good hair.
Besides writing, Cambria loves a pumpkin spice latte, staying up late, sleeping in, and watching K drama until her eyes won’t stay open. She considers math human torture and has an irrational fear of chickens (yes, chickens). You can often find her running on the treadmill (she’d rather be eating a donut), painting her toenails (because she bites her fingernails), or walking her chihuahuas (the real bosses of the house).
Cambria has written in many genres, including new adult, sports romance, male/male romance, sci-fi, thriller, suspense, contemporary romance, and young adult. Many of her titles have been translated into foreign languages and have been the recipients of multiple awards.
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https://www.instagram.com/cambriahebert/
IT’S ABOUT TIME
Harlow James
Release Date: July 10
Blurb:
Pretending to be engaged to my enemy might not be my brightest idea.
But it is definitely necessary.
On the brink of the biggest car show of my career, I start to panic because it’s the first time I have to see my ex since our break-up.
Spoiler alert: it wasn’t clean or amicable.
Then when Elliot Thorne’s ex-fiancé shows back up in town, I devise a plan for both of us to get what we want: a buffer from our exes with a dash of revenge.
The problem is Elliot takes his role to protect me too seriously.
He brings me food while I’m working to make sure I eat. He even silences the self-doubt I feel on a day-to-day basis.
And before I know it, he has me on my knees in my garage, and on my back on the hood of my car.
The hate I’ve harbored toward him melts away as fast as my panties, and I soon realize we have more in common than I thought.
Then he tells me a secret that makes me reevaluate our entire relationship.
Now I’m left to consider if something fake could be real…
And that maybe it’s about time I admit that Elliot isn’t my enemy after all.
Buy Link:
Available in KU
Meet Harlow James:
Steamy Romance Author
Harlow James is a pen name I use to protect my identity as a high school teacher. Keeping those two roles in my life separate is necessary, but also fun! It’s like a live two lives, and anonymity gives me the opportunity to be bold and take risks in my stories.
I stumbled upon romance novels in 2018 when I picked up Driven by Kristy Bromberg, and I was obsessed. I had just lost my grandmother too, so reading offered me an escape from reality and a chance to grieve on my own terms.
About a year later, I got an idea for my own book and started writing. I researched self-publishing and jumped in with both feet. I had no idea what I was doing!
But now I’ve built a business and hobby that I LOVE! I have an outlet that’s just for me. When I write, I’m not a mom, a wife, or a teacher…I’m a woman who gets to tell stories that no one else can.
My books are the perfect blend of heartwarming moments, full-bellied laughs, and PLENTY of steam to melt your Kindles 😉 And there are always elements of me sprinkled in to every character and story that I write.
When I’m not writing you can find me reading or spending time in my kitchen. I love to cook and feed my family and friends. Otherwise, you can find me watching comedy specials with my husband, camping with our kids, or taking naps. I live for naps 😉
Connect with Harlow James:
https://linktr.ee/harlowjamesauthor
It feels almost sacrilegious to admit that I liked Ghost and Rett's story more than Haz and Kieran's. And honestly, I only picked it up to get more of them. But this series is just getting better and better and I'm hoping we are getting a certain uncle's book next. Please!?!
Rett was so so sweet and just everything good in the world. He had been given such a rough ride and he still treated everyone with such compassion and appreciated the smallest things. I loved him instantly but I love that he has a Ghost to shield him from all the bad parts and give him nothing but happiness.
Ghost was everything I could ask for in a book boyfriend except I am on the wrong team for him. But I can appreciate him for Rett. His sense of humour was wicked and I laughed out loud so many times at his inner thoughts as much as his outside comments. Plus the way he loved Rett was beautiful. Oh and the fact he just jumped right in on being a plant dad to the extreme. And throw in a breeding kink on top and I was gone.
The two of them together were just beautiful and sweet and jealous and possessive and protective and hilarious and just everything. The storyline was fun and kept me turning the pages dying to know what was going to happen next, or what insane thing was going to be said. The timeline picks up right at the end of the last book but this could absolutely be read as a standalone. But we did get lots of Haz and Kieran, with them all being besties and that book was also awesome so I highly suggest reading it first.
Now I'm off to check out Prince to see if we got any sneak peeks of Rett. And because I am obviously a fan of this author and I can't wait for the next book.
