Sweet Redemption by Bella Matthews is now live!

From #1 Amazon and USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Matthews comes a single dad, dual athlete, second chance, hockey romance.

Hendrix Sinclair is everything I’ve ever wanted and nothing I could ever have.

He’s hockey’s hottest single dad, with a sinfully sexy smile and a deliciously dirty mouth. One I’ve loved for nearly half my life. Not that anyone but the two of us have ever known that fun little fact . . .

We spent a decade in two different cities.
Chasing two different dreams.
And were supposed to be falling in love with two different people.
Only I never did.

He was busy becoming the NHL’s newest superstar, while I was fighting to become one of the biggest names in professional soccer.

Now, after years spent convincing myself we could never work, it only takes one look, one searing kiss, and one forbidden night to unravel everything I thought I knew.

It also only takes one day to shatter it all.

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When I read in Bella's newsletter that this was her angstiest book yet, I so wasn't ready. And because I've had to wait for these books to be written and can't just binge them, I feel like I forget a lot of the small details. Until they literally slap me in the face and I am thrown right back into things. It never occurred to me that this book was happening in the same timeline as the last one and overlapped with others. So the deja vu was real.

I remember Serena crawling into bed with Olivia and I really had no clue as to why. I had this image of her that couldn't have been further from the woman in this book. It's hard to imagine feeling sorry for the heir to the kingdom but oh my heart broke for her. And then just kept right on shattering. 

Hendrix made me so mad at him. I had to remind myself that we have all done stupid things when we were young. Especially when we are hurting and think we are doing the right thing. But honestly I still kind of hate him. He made some major decisions and took his sweet arse time rectifying things.

And as much as he explained things, he didn't really do enough to make up for everything. I needed a lot more grovelling. Luckily for him, Serena was amazing. Also lucky for him I didn't realise how mad I am at him until right now because the book was so superbly written that I was so busy being lost in the story I didn't sit back to think about how stupid he was until now.

I really can't wait for the next book. Even if it feels like the few months is an eternity.

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As soon as there's a new Jennifer Sucevic novel I'm right there, I always fail to read the blurb. I don't look at teasers because I have zero self control and a habit of fixating on books I can't read yet and being unable to read other books while I'm waiting. So, I open each one like it's a surprise present. Then I realise it's a Railers book and I'm so excited.

Knox and Cheyenne are the main characters in this book but there's so many characters we already know and love, and few we hate and some who's story we needed to already be out in the world. And I love that while reading this and falling for Knox and Cheyenne we also get so much more.

Don't get me wrong, the romance between Knox and Cheyenne was enough. Everything else was just the icing. Knox was the perfect mix of protective and possessive and watching him love and support Chey was awesome. 

I expected more drama and chaos from Cheyenne's past as we got towards the end and as I watched the pages pass I was bracing. But that wasn't how it played out and what we got was so much more. We got such an emotional part of Evelyn and Hugh's history I actually needed to go back to the light and beauty of Cheyenne and Knox.

Add in the teasers for Sloane and Jax and I think the next book is going to be all the feels. It already is shaping up to have a lot of great tropes.

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I have a dilemma. I adore London Snow's writing. And I am both thrilled and miserable that I found them so early in their career. Because I hate having to wait for new books but I haven't missed any. But this book was too short and I feel like I needed more background information but I also love that there was no unnecessary fluff.

I read the tropes and blurb for this a while ago and for some reason my brain decided this book was going to be a romantic comedy. And then I was introduced to Crew and realised I was going to be feeling all the feels. Because I know too many of the Crew's of the world.

Crew was so closed off and on top of his childhood trauma and broken attachment he also had OCD and anxiety. And I loved him. But more than that, I loved that he knew and accepted these things as part of himself but he also actively worked to make his life work. Even though he had decided he was broken, he still tried to improve himself. 

Emmie was beyond beautiful. She didn't expect perfect. She saw Crew as he was and loved him for everything he was. And there was a lot to love. On top of that she had her own issues that she was dealing with and she never used them as an excuse to feel sorry for herself. She just woke up each morning and chose to live her best life.

Everything about this book made me feel. Thankfully there were also a few laugh out loud moments and so much sweetness and happiness. And we got an adorable ending. 

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When I saw this I knew I had to get my hands on it. I really enjoyed the last book and I was excited to see where this series was going next. Even more intriguing was the fact that it was Wolfe and I couldn't wait to see how this author was going to approach his neuro-diversity. 

And I have to say that Wolfe was perfect. His neuro spicy personality shone through so beautifully and made him a really unique character. Watching him fall for Eva and discover that he was capable of those feelings and emotions despite having to fight his own brain to understand and express it.

Eva was perfect for Wolfe. She had her own hyper fixations and such an analytical mind that she could appreciate all of Wolfe's quirks. And after everything that she had been through she was so strong and independent while also being a little bit broken. 

The story had so much going on and watching the brothers working together after everything they went through in the first book was great. I think you could absolutely read this as a standalone but I highly recommend reading it in order. 

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I kind of have this thing against rockstar romance. Which is not the genre it's more the person I imagine you would have to be to be anyone famous like that. And while I know it's my own bias it does jade the way I view the characters and it was a major factor for me reading this.

Because I instantly loved June. And I wanted to go find her ex and run him down with my car. And I feel like half of the residents of the bend would ride with me and the other half would have put in for petrol. On top of that you have her fractured family relationship, and I was relating so hard I felt like we were actually related.

Then along came Nash and he was so good with words but not getting his point of view made me wonder if he was just a beautiful wordsmith. Throw in his history and I wanted June to be cautious, so I kept waiting for the big gutting drama. And when it did arrive it was so human and not at all the soul crushing experience I expected and Nash stood up so perfectly and we got the tiniest bit of his point of view but enough to win me over.

And honestly it makes me think back to who this author is and the books of hers I've loved and wonder why I was expecting to be shattered. Because this story was awesome. The secondary characters were such actual characters and so well written I could actually picture them at the bar. I sincerely wish the epilogue was longer or, even better, that Charlie and Audrey or Angus get their own book at a later date and we can get a little more Nash and June.

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I have been both dying to get my hands on this and super nervous to read it. Friends to lovers when they are older and one has been married with kids always has me expecting a lot of pining and an imbalance that's awkward and makes me either sad or stabby so I wasn't sure. 

Especially since the breakdown of Archer's marriage wasn't particularly anyone's fault. So, it wasn't like we could hate his ex-wife and see how he needed consoling. So, when Sydney first packed up her life and went to help Archer I kind of thought she was an idiot. But as the story played out, I completely appreciated how she literally put her feelings aside and showed up as a friend. And the fact she was such a girl's girl, I couldn't fault her.

Which ordinarily would cast Archer in the role of the bad guy, but he just wasn't. He genuinely loved Syd, he just didn't want to cross that line, so he went about his life with her as his best friend and didn't realise she was wanting more. And it was nice that all the adults put the children first and acted like adults.

So, I guess, long story short I really shouldn't have worried because this author has never done us wrong and she nailed friends to lovers. I can't wait for the next book.

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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 …

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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…

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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

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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.

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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.

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I've really been excited to get Winnie's book after getting to know her as Tori's best friend in the last book. I really wanted her to get an amazing boyfriend who may or may not run her ex down with a zamboni. And while I am sad I didn't get any zamboni bloodshed there was nothing else I could have asked for in this book.

For such a cute, sweet, easy read I am a little surprised (kind of feels like the wrong word) that I felt all the feels and literally had to wipe my eyes a time or two. Not in a sad way, just caught in my feels. Then a few seconds later I was back in my happy space smiling and falling even harder.

Banks was the grumpy to Winnie's sunshine and to be fair he wasn't grumpy so much as just closed off. And I completely related to his situation and just wanted to adopt him. But damn, watching him not only fall for Winnie, but acknowledge it and open himself up to it was beautiful and so well written.

I adored these two together and I loved seeing more of the rest of the team. I can't wait to get the books for a lot of these guys. You just know Logan is going to be a lot of fun but he's also going to go down hard. And Archer's book next already sounds like it's going to be great. I really can't wait to get my hands on it.

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