Friday Finds & Reader Recommendations – 03-07-2025

LIVE!! BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE!! THE BILLIONAIRE & BAKER…

He’s a no-nonsense businessman. She’s a free-spirited baker. But the magical building they live in seems to think they’re a perfect match… 

...Willa never believed in the rumors about her “magical” building. But that was before she walked into her closet looking for a sweater and found herself in another apartment altogether–in the penthouse closet of the grumpy and unfortunately attractive new building owner.

This is less of a meet cute than a meet ugly, and things only go downhill from there...”

LIVE!! HOCKEY STAR ROMANCE!!

“…Camden Church is the guy I should’ve stayed away from. But when he mistakes my identity, I don’t correct him. I let him break all my rules. It’s a night I’ll never forget—not that he’ll ever let me. If my brother discovers our secret, he could jeopardize Camden’s pro hockey career and end it before it’s begun.

Camden thinks I’m going to rat him out, but he’s wrong. I’d rather let him drag me into ruin than admit my most hidden desire: I like the dark, twisted things he does to me…”

SUPER-BARGAIN & IT’S A READER RECOMMENDATION!!

A single-dad, enemies-to-lovers stand-alone romance from NYT and USA Today bestselling author A.L. Jackson about a jaded club owner and his son’s teacher…

Nancy: I Borrowed from PRIME! My 5* Review: GIVE ME A REASON (Redemption Hills Book1) by A.L. Jackson is an emotional dark romance, with characters that gravitate to each other. They are so completely opposites yet realize they are drawn to each other. A match made in trouble! …Trent’s a father to a young 5-year-old, starting kindergarten. You probably can guess who his teacher turns out to be!

SUPER-BARGAIN ALERT!! HER PERFECTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLD COMES APART WHEN SHE ANSWERS THE DOOR…

“…Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be.

But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her...”

LIVE!! FOOTBALL STAR ROMANCE!! ONE NIGHT WITH THE STAR THAT HER EX IDOLIZES…

“...I went to Vegas to celebrate my divorce, and the pro football star was there celebrating his new contract. I heard someone call his name, and I wasn’t about to miss my chance to get with the man my ex had idolized. I didn’t find out until long after a sizzling night filled with fingertips dragging along skin and breathless whispered pleas that it was a case of mistaken identity.

I never thought I’d see him again, but then he walks into my office. I’m working hard to rebuild myself as a financially independent single mother when my eyes lift to the VIP client my boss warned me about...”

READER RECOMMENDATION!! ROCK STAR ROMANCE!! THE SINGER ONLY WANTED TO HANG WITH HER…

“…When I ended up mistakenly walking into the men’s room on my way out, I struck up a conversation with a stranger—not realizing it was the lead singer, Tristan Daltrey. He seemed to like the fact that I had no idea who he was, that I saw him as a normal person.

That night, I got a call offering me the job. So began my complicated story with Tristan. Millions of women loved him. Yet for some reason, after the shows, he only wanted to hang out with me.

Late-night talks. Casual dinners in his hotel room. I wasn’t supposed to be fraternizing with the band’s frontman. Despite our fifteen-year age difference, Tristan and I had a connection. But I had a secret…”

Mary Ann: I read Penelope Ward’s the Rocker’s Muse and the Drummers Heart. Love both books! They have the rockstar shenanigans, all the feels and I even shed some tears.

LIVE!! ALIEN INVASION SCI-FI ROMANCE!! SHE NEEDS HIS HELP…

“...Humanity is rebuilding after a devastating invasion. But the growing towns all have walls to protect them from the monsters. Created in alien labs, the monsters hide in the swamps, rivers, and forests—breeding, mutating. Every now and then, they crawl out of the shadows.

That’s where I come in. I’m Jameson Steele, the leader of Hunter Squad—the toughest group of soldiers in New Sydney. It’s our job to keep people safe and secure. We’re the monster hunters. When I get a panicked call from my childhood friend, Greer Baird, my usual cool goes out the window...”

READER RECOMMENDATION!! ROCK STAR COMING BACK HOME & PRETENDING TO STILL BE MARRIED…

“...After our divorce, I threw myself into the rock scene, trying to forget my heartbreak. Three years after we split, a phone call from Nicole changed everything.

She told me her grandmother wasn’t doing well. Mimi was still family to me, and she apparently had one wish before dying: to spend time with us—Nicole and me. With Mimi’s caretaker away on vacation, it would be the ideal time for us to move in with her for a couple of weeks. Of course, I couldn’t refuse.

But there was a catch. Nicole apparently never told her that we’d gotten a divorce. …

So, not only would I have to see Nicole again, but I’d be pretending to still be her husband. Two weeks in a tiny house in a small town with the woman who broke my heart...”

Mary Ann: I read Penelope Ward’s the Rocker’s Muse and the Drummers Heart. Love both books! They have the rockstar shenanigans, all the feels and I even shed some tears.

HISTORICAL ROMANCE SUPER-BARGAIN!! SHE WON’T ACCEPT SHE’S HIS SOUL MATE!! 😂 This one sounds like so much fun!!

“Magnus Ericsson is a simple man. He loves the smell of fresh-turned dirt after springtime plowing. He loves the feel of a soft woman under him in the bed furs. He loves the heft of a good sword in his fighting arm.

But, Holy Thor, what he does not relish is the bothersome brood of children he’s been saddled with. Or the mysterious happenstance that strands him in a strange new land—the kingdom of Holly Wood. Here is a place where the folks think he is an act-whore (whatever that is), and the woman of his dreams—a winemaker of all things—fails to accept that he is her soul mate...”

LIVE!! HOCKEY STAR ROMANCE!!

“How to complicate your rookie season in the NHL: fake date your former college rival and now teammate’s ex-girlfriend.

It’s a bad idea, and I know it, especially since Kendra Hart has had a hold over me since our freshman year of college. She has no idea how I feel, and I have zero control over my mouth when her life goes up in smoke and she needs a friend, along with a place to stay.

My coach, who also happens to be my stepdad, is warning me to stay away not only for the team’s sake but to spare me from getting hurt...”

LIVE!! M/M HOCKEY FORBIDDEN ROMANCE!!

“...Zach Knight is cold, dangerous, and determined to make me pay for almost destroying his hockey career. But beneath that icy exterior burns something far more intense than revenge.

Now I’m back home, trying to build a future while dealing with the fierce attraction between us. Every touch, every heated glance draws me deeper into dangerous territory.

My stepbrother may be broken in ways I’m only beginning to understand, but so am I. His darkness calls to mine, and when he claims me as his, I can’t resist falling…”

LIVE!! THE DESIGNER & THE ROCK STAR MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE!!

“…Harper Abbott’s reputation has never been worse. The one time she tries to be spontaneous ends with her and her two best friends getting arrested for a prank gone wrong. Now, her cheating ex and his new girlfriend are on a mission to ruin her fledgling career as a fashion designer. 

Wes Holden, guitarist for Altas Oaks, was pleasantly surprised to find out the charity date he was wrangled into was won by Harper, the woman he’d been quietly into for years. When he hears about the trouble she’s facing, he has the perfect solution: they should get married. His band needs a distraction in the media, and he could help her designs get more exposure...”

MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE!! THE ROCK STAR & THE DESIGNER WITH A BAD REPUTATION…

“...what started as a mutually beneficial fake agreement starts to become more, and Wes finds himself working to convince her to give them a shot while Harper struggles to keep the full truth of her breakup—and its repercussions—under wraps...”