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How To Survive A Hot Italian Summer

How To Survive A Hot Italian Summer

by Frida Mo

Lisa once lives and breathes the water, until loss turns it into something she cannot face. Now, she arrives in Italy determined to endure the summer and nothing more. New surroundings, new people, no expectations. Easy plan… until Jacob steps in, calm, distant, and somehow impossible to ignore. What begins as reluctant help slowly becomes something warmer, pulling Lisa toward the very thing she fears most. Between sunlit days, quiet challenges, and unexpected connections, she starts to feel pieces of herself return. But trust does not come easily, and neither does letting go. As emotions rise and old wounds stir, Lisa must decide if she is ready to take the leap—both in and out of the water.

Summer Love

Summer Love

by Evelyn Miller

It's the summer before her senior year, and Hazel Young is skeptical of love. But there's a new guy in town, a mysterious stranger with a troubled past. As temperatures rise, Hazel will have to confront her own misgivings: is this just a summer fling, or is it the real deal?

Between Two Goals

Between Two Goals

by Ayomide Babade

Jennifer lives and breathes soccer. Every drill, every bruise, every early morning is for one goal: the championship that could unlock the future she’s been chasing for years. But pressure follows her everywhere, especially with her father coaching the underdog team and the whole town watching. Then a dangerously charming rival coach arrives and turns everything upside down. He’s bold, magnetic, and completely off-limits, yet impossible to ignore. As tension builds on and off the field, loyalty, ambition, and longing begin to collide. In a town split by pride and pressure, Jennifer faces a choice that could change more than the scoreboard. Because sometimes the hardest games aren’t played on the field, but in the heart.

Sahara Ashdell Book 1: Threat to Malorsty

Sahara Ashdell Book 1: Threat to Malorsty

by Alyson Linker

Brooklyn grows up believing her life is meant to be small, quiet, and survivable. Orphaned and mistreated, she learns to endure rather than dream. Then the truth shatters everything she knows. She is also Sahara, heir to a hidden elven realm that thrives on magic, secrets, and strict expectations. Royal blood unlocks ancient power, but it also comes wrapped in prophecy, rules, and a future already written by others. As magic stirs and choices narrow, Sahara must decide who she is willing to become. Obedient heir or defiant force? Strength rises where fear once lived, and destiny begins to look less like a promise and more like a challenge she is ready to face.

Flames in the Frost

Flames in the Frost

by Sofia Jade

Max was my best friend growing up—the awkward new kid from Minnesota who somehow fit perfectly into my New York City world. Somewhere along the way, friendship turned into something deeper. But before we could figure out what it meant, my parents moved me to Florida. Fourteen years later, life had done its best to erase him from my heart—until he walked back into my life unexpectedly. He’s no longer the shy boy I once knew; he’s the confident, magnetic billionaire CEO of the company I work for.

Emma and Max were inseparable as kids, their bond evolving into something deeper before life pulled them apart. Fourteen years later, Max reappears in Emma’s life, no longer the shy boy she remembers but a confident billionaire CEO—and her new boss. Emma struggles to keep things professional while protecting her heart, but Max is determined to rekindle what they once had. Just as old feelings resurface, the ghosts of their past threaten to tear them apart again. Can they rewrite their story, or will the mistakes of yesterday keep them from a future together?

The Night We Met

The Night We Met

by Talia Sommers

Rory is certain of one thing: love is not for her. Not the soft, dreamy kind people write about. So when she agrees to a blind date, it is only to prove her point and keep her best friend happy. Then she meets Max, and suddenly nothing feels quite so simple. There is an easy spark, a pull she did not plan for, and a tension that keeps her coming back for more. As her feelings shift in ways she cannot ignore, old wounds begin to surface, especially the quiet ache left by her distant mother. Between laughter, confusion, and moments that feel a little too real, Rory starts to wonder if love might not be the story she thought it was.

Guns and Royalties

Guns and Royalties

by H. F. Perez

Beau Anderson is a whiz accountant who wants a baby—without a husband. But when she crosses paths with the domineering Dominic Vasiliy, they tumble into a love neither one had expected.

Mateo Santiago

Mateo Santiago

by Katlego Moncho

Juniper is a werewolf who can’t shift. When her father, the Alpha, expels her from her own pack, she finds herself a rogue in a foreign land. But she’s about to meet another alpha. One who will change her life forever...

Her Godbrother

Her Godbrother

by T. L. Webb

Stacy feels like life keeps taking pieces of her faster than she can heal. At seventeen, she carries heartbreak heavier than anyone realizes, hiding behind quiet smiles while grief slowly pulls her under. The only person who truly sees her is Chase, the boy who has loved her for years and refuses to let her fall alone. Protective, loyal, and carrying pain of his own, Chase stays by her side even when she tries to shut the world out. As emotions grow deeper and old boundaries begin to blur, their connection turns impossible to ignore. Between aching memories, stolen comfort, and feelings neither of them can control, Stacy and Chase discover that love can heal, ruin, and save a heart all at once.

Crush

Crush

by Cosmic Chaos

Letty has spent years trying to forget her best friend’s brother—the boy who stole her heart and then broke it with one gentle rejection. But on prom night, everything changes. One unexpected moment pulls them back into each other’s orbit, stirring up old feelings that never truly faded. Between laughter, memories, and a spark that refuses to die, Letty begins to wonder if timing was all that ever stood in their way. Now, with one magical night to rewrite the past, she has to decide if she’s ready to risk her heart again… because sometimes the story that starts as a crush is just waiting for its second chance.

Summer In Our Bones

Summer In Our Bones

by Briana Bennett

Jordan Maxwell shows up in sun-kissed Valencia for a family wedding expecting football, food, and maybe a few too many cousins—not the Silva twins. Gorgeous, rich, and way too sure of themselves, they’re the kind of trouble he swears he’s immune to. Except one of them—Nico—smiles, and suddenly Jordan’s pulse is doing cartwheels.

Between orange blossoms, beach parties, and late-night secrets, Valencia turns into a slow-burn battlefield of flirtation and denial. Nico is equal parts danger and delight, and Jordan can’t decide if he wants to punch him, kiss him, or both. But when sparks catch fire under the Mediterranean sun, there’s no hiding what’s real.

Because some secrets can stay buried—until love blows the lid clean off.

Mad Dog

Mad Dog

by Ophelia Bell

I’m the female heir to LA’s underground empire, which makes love a liability. But there are two men I won’t give up … no matter the cost.

One is my first love, a man my ruthless father had beaten more than a decade ago for daring to touch me. He’s back in town and those feelings have been rekindled with a vengeance.

The other is my bodyguard, a man who would take a bullet for me, and nearly dies trying to do just that.

Daring to bring us together for one explosive night of passion puts all three of our lives on a collision course with one of the most deadly Mexican cartels. For some reason my father’s oldest enemy is after me, and uncovering my family’s dark secrets might be the only way to protect the men I love.

First Chance

First Chance

by Andrea Wood

Ryan “Steele” Hurst is the lead singer of Steele’s Army and hands down one of the hottest men on the planet—or so he thinks. And honestly, what world-famous rock star doesn’t think the same? Well, he’s finally about to meet his match in Natalie Wright, a woman who couldn’t care less about his fame and fortune. Now the two of them are stuck together, and this kind of thing only ends one way… explosively.

A Dewbridge Romance Book 1: Hay Season

A Dewbridge Romance Book 1: Hay Season

by Sabrina Guthrie

Every summer, Dewbridge smells like hay, gossip, and heartbreak. For Mattie, it also smells like Rylan—the golden boy next door who somehow always saves her from the chaos of farm life. He’s the star quarterback, the hometown favorite, the one destined to leave their small town behind. But when one secret turns into another and one kiss changes everything, the line between friendship and forbidden love starts to blur. In a place where every whisper burns hotter than the sun, Mattie and Rylan must decide if their spark is worth the firestorm waiting for them.

Adventure Awaits

Adventure Awaits

by S. L. Adams

It’s the summer after high school and everyone is getting ready to leave for college. But not Kari Montgomery—she’s stuck in Eugene, Oregon, because culinary schools are expensive. Then her forever crush, Holt Bennett, suddenly asks her to make a big, life-altering decision—a decision that could make or break her future. Will Kari seize her chance to grow up, too?

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