Review: When You Stayed by Ashley Munoz

May 15, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

WHEN YOU STAYED
Series: Generations of Rose Ridge #1
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
Author: Ashley Munoz
Release Date: May 15, 2026

was never meant to stay in Rose Ridge.

My father was the president of a notorious motorcycle club, so if something rattled him enough to request that I go, I should have listened.

In my defense, at the time, it seemed more terrifying to give up the only dream I ever had than to leave like everyone else.

I should have known that chasing that dream would lead back to the club, because everything in this town eventually did.

I wasn’t expecting to see a familiar face, glaring as usual, amidst the chaos surrounding the Stone Riders. For years, I had endured scowls, glares, and scoffs from Ford Ryan. However, there was something new and different about his heated stare, and even that oddly protective touch.

Something dangerous and addictive.

I should have left when I had the chance, because my proximity to Ford and the club meant I was close to danger.

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Review: Bound by Lies by Lylah James

May 13, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

BOUND BY LIES
Series: Fatal Alliances #1
Genre: Dark Romance 
Author: Lylah James
Release Date: May 13, 2026

From Amazon bestselling author Lylah James comes a new dark, arranged-marriage romance about a mafia princess and the cruel man who did everything to ruin her in an effort to make her…his.

For the longest time, I had been a pawn between two empires built on blood.
I had been promised to Matteo, who was supposed to be my future.

But it was his brother who ruined me.

Adrian Salvatore—reckless, merciless, carved from sin and evil. The brother no one dared to control. The one who looked at me like I was always meant to be…his.

He stole my first kiss beneath the moonlight, right there at my engagement party.
And he never stopped.
Not when I begged.
Not when I threatened.

Until one night…

One mistake. One unforgivable moment that shattered everything I was raised to protect.

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Review: Vicious Reign by Monica Kayne

May 1, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

VICIOUS REIGN
Series: Bratva Kings #4
Genre: Dark Romance 
Author: Monica Kayne
Release Date: May 1, 2026

Kirill Baronov is the heir to a bratva empire built on sin and lies. And I’m going to ruin him.

My mother left when I was just a girl. It broke something in me that never healed.

Eighteen years later, I learn she didn’t abandon me. She was taken by the Baronovs—the most powerful crime family in New York.

I’ll do anything to find out what happened to her.

With a fake name and a pretty smile, I walk into their exclusive club and convince Kirill to hire me.

He doesn’t know I’m here for answers. For revenge.

Seducing him was part of the plan. His obsession with me wasn’t.

He claims me as his. Kills to keep me safe.

And with every forbidden touch, I forget I’m supposed to hate him.

But secrets don’t stay buried forever.

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Review: Falter by Aly Martinez

April 26, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

FALTER
Series: Guardian Protection #3
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
Author: Aly Martinez
Release Date: April 26, 2026

Welcome to Guardian Protection Agency—a sizzling series of interconnected standalones featuring alpha bodyguards and the women who bring them to their knees.

I once made the mistake of falling for a client, and it nearly cost me my career.
Jaded and disgraced, I used my attitude as armor so it could never happen again.

Until I was assigned to protect Lofton Beck.

Hollywood’s golden girl had a stalker on her tail—and two dead bodyguards.

She was a nightmare from the start. Didn’t follow orders. Had no concept of boundaries. Worst of all, she was so damn gorgeous I couldn’t build my walls strong enough to keep her out.

As the threats escalated, we were forced into hiding at her family’s farm. Keeping my distance became impossible with her sleeping in the room next door.

Somewhere between our early mornings together and the quiet moments when the world disappeared, it became clear her stalker wasn’t the most dangerous part of the assignment.

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Review: Love Overboard by Kandi Steiner

April 21, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

LOVE OVERBOARD
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
Author: Kandi Steiner
Release Date: April 21, 2026

From USA Today, #1 Amazon, and BookTok bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes a sizzling, second-chance romance set on the high seas—perfect for fans of Below Deck and readers who crave angsty, high-stakes love stories.

Ember Reed is finally living her dream: chief stew on a Mediterranean superyacht, sun-kissed days at sea, and the star of Close Quarters, the hottest new reality TV show. But just as she finds her stride, the producers throw her a curveball—by hiring the one man who nearly sank her.

Finn Pearson was the one that got away. The boy who kissed her like they had forever, then left without a word. But now he’s the chef in her new crew, and the cameras are watching their every move, innocent, or not.

Even on a superyacht, there’s nowhere to hide from the past. Every stolen glance, every whispered argument, every lingering memory threatens to ignite what never fully burned out.

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Review: The Woman From Nowhere by Kristen Ashley

April 14, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

THE WOMAN FROM NOWHERE
Series: Misted Pines #5
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Author: Kristen Ashley
Release Date: April  14,  2026

After a heartbreaking betrayal, Mabel Adams reinvents herself for the fourth time. Regardless of the alarming reputation of the deceptively sleepy town of Misted Pines, she decides to move all the way across the country to start yet again.

Mabel has a one-night stand with a mountain man who rocks her world in bed but doesn’t tell her his name.

The next day, after receiving a threatening note from her neighbors, she discovers she’s living next to an extremist cult where the women go in and are never seen again.

After serving, former Navy SEAL Hutch Hutchison is living a peaceful life on his patch in the mountains outside Misted Pines. He’s been burned so many times by women, he’s happy to train his guard dogs, play his guitar, live remote, and most of all, quiet.

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Review: Green Eyed Devil by Veronica Lancet

April 3, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

GREEN EYED DEVIL
Series: Morally Questionable #2
Genre: Dark Romance 
Author: Veronica Lancet
Release Date: April 3, 2026

Allegra Agosti is dead.
She died five years ago, while her husband watched.

But now she’s back.

Alive, unrecognizable, and colder than the girl she used to be. The girl who loved too deeply. Trusted too fully. Broke too easily.
And Enzo Agosti… He is not the man she remembers.

His reputation precedes him. Beautiful. Lethal. Amoral. As do his conquests: every week he has a new stunning model on his arm.

So why, then, when he sees Allegra again, he looks at her like she is the answer to all his prayers?

Their marriage was once tragic obsession dressed as love. Now it’s longing sharpened into a weapon.

And no matter how much time passes, some things never change:

Allegra is the only person Enzo has ever loved.

But Enzo is the one person Allegra has vowed to kill.

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Review: Burning Blood by Pepper Winters

March 27, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

BURNING BLOOD
Series: Darkest Destiny Trilogy #2
Genre: Dark Romance Fantasy Fusion
Author: Pepper Winters
Release Date: March 27, 2026

The second book in the Darkest Destiny Trilogy by New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters.

Lucien has three goals.
Escape Cinderkeep.
Ignore his feelings for Rook.
And drown in a sea of his enemies’ blood.

Rook only has one goal.
Stay alive.

But if she gives him what he wants…one of them will die.
And if one dies…the other follows.


Dark. Obsessive. Fated.
Perfect for readers who love morally grey villains, forced proximity, touch-her-and-die energy, and romance that becomes elemental.

Tropes:
Fated Mates
Elemental Magic
High Stakes
Secrets & Lies
The Burn is REAL
Power Play
Corruption
Soul Bonds
Modern to Epic Fantasy
Morally grey antihero
Touch-her-and-die energy

AMAZON

We were both driven to a disastrous edge. An edge that promised total destruction if we didn’t stop. But we couldn’t stop.
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Review: Hunt The Villain by Rina Kent

March 24, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

HUNT THE VILLAIN
Series: Villain #2
Genre: Dark MM Romance 
Author: Rina Kent
Release Date: March 24, 2026

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a standalone dark MM mafia rivals romance set in the world of Legacy of Gods.

I’m hunting a monster

The first time I met Yulian Dimitriev, it was hate at first sight.
He’s brash, chaotic, and a violence-junkie.
In short, everything I disregard.
As heirs to two notorious mafia organizations, we were shoved together in an unorthodox setting.
The more I learn about Yulian, the deeper my loathing seeps.
Until I truly see the person within, and something forbidden sparks between us.
But our coexistence is cut short when tragedy strikes.
Yulian and I go back to our respective, parallel worlds that shouldn’t cross.
But they do.
And once again, I’m dragged into the orbit of a man I shouldn’t want.

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Review: Right Your Wrongs by Kandi Steiner

March 10, 2026 by · Leave a Comment

RIGHT YOUR WRONGS
Series: Kings of the Ice #6
Genre: Contemporary, Sports Romance
Author: Kandi Steiner
Release Date: March 10, 2026

What happens when the youngest, most successful coach in the NHL comes face-to-face with the woman he never got over — only to find out she’s married to his new General Manager?

Everything I’ve spent my life building is suddenly at risk.

I loved Ariana Ridley long before the world knew my name. Before the NHL. Before the pressure of being one of the youngest coaches in the league. Before I learned how to survive by locking my heart down tight.

Leaving her was the hardest thing I’ve ever done — and the one choice I never made peace with.

Now she’s back.
And she belongs to another man.

My new General Manager.

I tell myself I can handle it. Discipline is my job. Control is my strength. I know how to keep my distance — how to respect the lines that should never be crossed.

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