UNDENIABLE by Cara Dion – Featured New Release

UNDENIABLE

Cara Dion

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Pretending to be in love never felt so real.

Noah doesn’t believe in falling in love, and he definitely doesn’t do relationships. But unless he can convince his future boss that his playboy days are over, he’ll lose out on his dream job. When his little sister’s best friend suggests that they pretend to date, it seems like the perfect solution. Or it would be, if she wasn’t the only woman who’d ever made him question his own rules.

Callie doesn’t need anyone else to take care of her, especially not her best friend’s overbearing older brother – even if she has been in love with him since she was twelve years old. Determined to get her mother to stop meddling in her life, a fake relationship with Noah could be the answer to both their problems. But sharing a hotel room for a week wasn’t in the plan, and the more time they spend together, the more it feels like she’s only fooling herself.

Can they face the truth they’ve been denying for years, that love is the exception to every rule?

Undeniable, book 2 in the Love Song series, is a standalone, spicy, forced proximity, fake dating romance with only one bed and a guaranteed HEA.

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ABOUT CARA

Cara has always had an overactive imagination. Her aunt tells the story of 4-year-old Cara demanding that she pretend to “be a doctor who’s really a wolf who’s pretending to be bad but is really good.” Now she knows, she was just a romance reader at heart!

She has been an English teacher, professional musician, and nonprofit administrator. When she’s not reading or writing romance, Cara loves cooking, Broadway musicals, and all things Disney.

She lives in a small town in New England with her family and two cats (who want all the attention).

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PRIDE NOT PREJUDICE, A Romantic Charity Collection – Featured New Release

Pride Not Prejudice

A Romantic Charity Collection Celebrating the LGBTQIA+ Community

About the Anthology

Pride Not Prejudice is a charity collection of 22, never-before-published, brand-new stories featuring and benefiting love and Happily Ever Afters across the gender and sexual identity spectrums. Proceeds from both ebook and paperback will be donated to four nationally renowned organizations in support of LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized and oppressed communities in the United States, including PLANNED PARENTHOOD, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY and HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ADVANCING LGBTQ+ MEDICAL TREATMENT AND EQUALITY.

BUY LINK: https://books2read.com/u/4EJqDg

About The Authors

The following contributing authors are either NYT or USA Today bestselling or LGBTQIA+ or BIPOC own-voice authors who are allies, parents, or children touched by the need to read more romance where people of all identities and orientations find love.

Amalie Howard ~ April White ~ Camille Duplessis ~ Chencia C. Higgins~ Cynthia St. Aubin ~ Darynda Jones ~ Erica Ridley ~ Hildie McQueen ~ Jade Lee w/a Kathy Lyons ~ Janna MacGregor ~ Jennifer Ashley ~ Mila Finelli ~ Kerrigan Byrne ~ Kim Loraine ~ Kristan Higgins ~ Mira Lyn Kelly ~ Piper Huguley ~ Robyn Peterman ~ Rosalind James ~ Ruby Dixon ~ Sara Ney ~ Skye Warren

Please note: **We are not affiliated with these charities, but are a collective of authors who hold human rights, dignity, and the ability to love and live without fear incredibly sacred.**

THE COUNTESS AND THE CASANOVA by Ginny Moore — Featured New Release

THE COUNTESS AND THE CASANOVA

Ginny B. Moore

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Henry needs no lessons in charm and wants none in art history, but a trip to Italy and a fake marriage teach him to be the man who can win Ellie’s heart.

Traveling to Italy to study art history is a fantasy fulfilled for Ellie, even if the only way to do it is to pretend to be married to her best friend–and notorious rake–Henry.

Widowed at twenty-four, Eleanor’s life lacks purpose and direction, the only bright spot being her annual Christmas visits with her dear friend Henry, the secret object of her affection. After her miserable marriage comes to a merciful end, she turns to him to find the adventure missing in her life. Posing as husband and wife will allow them to travel without causing a scandal, but when she raises the stakes by asking him to teach her how to be a good lover, she opens her guarded heart to be broken again.

Henry is London’s favorite idle nobleman and walking scandal, but few know the secret torment he carries in his soul. Helping Ellie travel to Italy raises his spirits for the first time in years, but comes at a cost–he will have to confront the shameful secret in their shared past and the terrible decision that may tear them apart.

Will Ellie and Henry find the love they are looking for in each other, or will their damaged pasts destroy their future?

The Countess and the Casanova is a steamy, open-door romance, perfect for lovers of witty banter, road trips, and the love that exists between best friends.

Available in paperback and eBook from Amazon

ABOUT GINNY

Ginny was the kid who loved kissing scenes in movies and always rooted for Mulder and Scully to hook up. Her first piece of writing, a horrendous fanfic romance based on The Three Musketeers when she was thirteen, will never see the light of day.

Ginny started writing romance with purpose in 2021 to avoid doom-scrolling social media and has never stopped. To pay the bills, she is a middle school assistant principal and has been in education for fifteen years. She has earned two master’s degrees, one in secondary education and another in school leadership. Most of her writing is done on her phone or in the parking lot of her kids’ extracurricular activities.

When she is not writing, Ginny is a very slow long-distance runner or making a dent in her endless “to be read” list. She is the mother of three kids, two exceptionally stupid dogs, two codependent cats, and the grandmother to a hermit crab.

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TWELVE HOURS IN MANHATTAN by Maan Gabriel – Featured New Release

TWELVE HOURS IN MANHATTAN

Maan Gabriel

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Bianca Maria Curtis is at the brink of losing it all when she meets Eric at a bar in Manhattan. Eric, as it turns out, is the famous Korean drama celebrity Park Hyun Min who is in town for one night to escape the pressures of fame. From walking along Fifth Avenue, eating ice cream at Serendipity, to sharing tender moments on top of the Empire State building, sparks fly as Bianca and Eric spend twelve magical hours far away from their respective lives. They talk about love, life, and happiness, and the freedom they both seek to fully exist and not merely survive.

But real life is more than just twelve magical hours.

As the clock strikes the 12th hour, Bianca returns back to the life she detests to face a tragedy that will test her strength and resolve – and the only thing she has to keep going is the memory of a man she loves in secret from a world away.

Two worlds. One heart. Twelve Hours.

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ABOUT MAAN

Maan Gabriel is a mom, wife, dreamer, writer, and advocate for women’s stories in literature. She earned her BA in communications from St. Scholastica’s College in Manila and MPS in public relations and corporate communications from Georgetown University. She has lived in Manila, Brussels, Dakar, and Mexico City. During the day, she works in strategic communications. Gabriel, along with her husband and son, currently calls suburban Washington DC home.

Learn more at www.maangabriel.com

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ADDING UP TO LOVE by Ginny Moore — Featured Debut

ADDING UP TO LOVE

Ginny B. Moore

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When Alex asked for Fern’s help courting her twin, he agreed to help her get into Oxford, but he didn’t expect to fall in love with the wrong sister.

Fern loved nothing more than math. Relating more to numbers than to people, she dreamed of becoming a mathematician at Oxford University, an impossible path for the youngest daughter of a powerful aristocrat. After living her life in her sister Rose’s shadow, a chance encounter with a handsome student gives her the opportunity to chase her dream. Falling in love with Alex was not part of the equation.

Alex did not believe in love at first sight until he met his perfect match at a masquerade. Marrying Rose would be the smart choice and give him the future he always dreamed of — if only he hadn’t fallen for her quirky, brilliant sister. With his plans in jeopardy, Alex realizes that doing what is smart is not always what is best.

Now he can’t stop thinking about the woman he wasn’t supposed to notice, and their lives together won’t add up. Will a future with Alex be the one problem Fern cannot solve?

Available in paperback and eBook from Amazon

ABOUT GINNY

While she started writing during the pandemic, she has found it to be a new lifeline and form of self-care and has already planned her next five books in the series. If you enjoy reading about Fern and Alex in Adding Up to Love, you’ll love Our Path to the Stars (Violet’s story) and Where You Are (Lord Henry’s story), both coming in 2023. Rose’s story (Finding North) is coming in the spring of 2024, and Lily and Marigold will have stories later next year.

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DOUBLE HAPPINESS by Jen Trinh — Featured New Release

DOUBLE HAPPINESS

Jen Trinh

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A pickle-loving industrial designer sets out to prove that the only man worthy of her younger sister is their cute-AF childhood best friend. Forced proximity/one-bed/friends-to-lovers awesomeness ensues in this romantic comedy novella.

Winnie’s sister Nancy is engaged to The Wrong Person. Anyone who isn’t Steven Yi is The Wrong Person. He’s a cute, silly doctor with a crisp, yummy voice, and the two of them were born in the same hospital on the same day. How much clearer could the Universe be?

A recovering divorcee, Winnie knows all too well what it means to marry badly. She’ll do anything to prove that Steven is The Only Person for Nancy, even if she has to throw them together over and over again herself. But her plotting pulls her closer to Steven, close enough where she begins to suspect that The Only Wrong Person is her. She could be happy, so much happier than she is now … but is it worth risking a life-long friendship and utter heartbreak?

Hint: Yes, yes it is. HEA guaranteed!

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ABOUT JEN

A PhD in Physics, Jen left the tech world to write funny, heartfelt contemporary romances with diverse Asian American characters. Her debut novel, Crushing on You, was a finalist in two categories of the 2020 NJRW Golden Leaf contest.

She lives in a pile of blankets near a pretty nice Wawa, with her husband and multiple tropical plants.

Website: jentrinhwrites.com
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An utterly delightful novella by a new-to-me author, Double Happiness lives up to its title by delivering a funny and low-conflict friends-to-lovers story that’s filled with witty banter between lovable characters. A true rom-com.

As an older sister, I related so much to Winnie and her “I know best” attitude. She wasn’t overbearing at all. Everything she did came from a place of caring. I love her and Nancy’s relationship. It reminds me of the same closeness between my younger sister and me.

I was charmed by Steven. He was adorable. Jen wrote him so well. Despite not knowing his POV, the reader can tell his feelings through the dialogue.

Jen incorporated Chinese wedding traditions so seamlessly into the story. The groom’s challenges in the wedding door games were highly creative and really hilarious.

I thoroughly enjoyed this quick read and will now catch up on Jen Trinh’s book catalog.