Beyond the Spotlight by Megan O’Brien

Title: Beyond the Spotlight
Series: Green River #1
Author: Megan O’Brien
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Small Town/Obsessed Alpha Hero
Release Date: June 30, 2026

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What if the life you’ve built isn’t the one you truly want?

Hudson Carter has everything: chart-topping hits, sold-out arenas, and a reputation as country music’s golden boy. But behind the spotlight, he’s burned out and craving something real beyond the fame.
Lucy Kincaid is starting over in Green River, Colorado, determined to build a life that finally belongs to her. No expectations. No looking back.
Until Hudson walks into it.
The connection between them is instant, intense, and impossible to ignore. Hudson knows what he wants the moment he meets her. But can Lucy risk her heart when she’s fought so hard to reclaim her life on her own terms?
When Lucy’s past resurfaces and the dark side of Hudson’s fame threatens the life they’re building, they’ll have to decide: play it safe… or fight for a love that feels like home.
A small-town romance featuring an obsessed alpha hero, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA

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AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU

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Megan O’Brien is the bestselling author of the Ride Series and the Talon Security Series. She has a passion for a good love story and most enjoys writing stories with an alpha male and strong female characters.
Megan was born and raised in Northern California where she still resides with her handsome hubby and three amazing kiddos.
When she’s not enjoying family time or burying her nose in her kindle she loves hiking, running and relaxing moments on the back porch with a glass of wine.

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Cursed Forevermore by Khardine Gray
Shadows and Curses Series Book 3
Cover Designer: Cover Craft-Fantasy Covers by Julie
Genre: Fantasy Romance, Romantasy
Release Date: June 30, 2026

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Blurb:

The bond has been shattered. Destiny has been rewritten. The cost has risen.

Can Wolfe and Elariya outrun the curse tightening around them, or has fate already claimed its price?


Can their love survive what’s coming… or is the end already written?


The Shadows & Curses series continues…

Jonah by Mirrah McGee

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Jonah by Mirrah McGee
Kosher Nostra Book Two (Covenant of Ascent: Kosher Nostra 2)

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Jonah

Most of my life was planned since before I was born. I am to serve the Avraham Avinu of the Kosher Nostra in North Carolina and protect the mishpocheh with my life. Despite the heavy that description implies, I have enjoyed a blessed and propserous existance of glutton and indulgence. I run Swingin’ Schlay Productions, a porn studio and one of many legit businesses that fill my own coffers, as well as the coffers of the Mischpocheh Consortium. Right before our Avinu, Moshe and his fiance Seril tie the knot, a new acquisition at the studio has me questioning who I am as a man and what I want out of life most. One pleasured plea and I know in my soul, that I no longer only serve Moshe and the family, I serve her…and I will ignore concussions and warnings to shed all the blood necessary to keep her safe.

Because she is mine.

Author’s Note: Jonah is book two of the Kosher Nostra series, part of the Covenenat of Ascent. All three series under the COA can be read as standalone, or together for a more enjoyment. This book contains coarse language and strong sexual content. If crude humor, pop culture references, violence, and smexy times are not your matza, please do not nosh.

Enter the alluring world of the ruthless and the dangerous with Mafia Boss

Mafia Boss (The Accidental Mafia Queen Book 1) by Khardine Gray

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From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully devilish, seductive Mafia Romance series. Enter the alluring world of the ruthless and the dangerous with book one.


Luc
Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path…
When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to.
My enemies know I’m a bastard who shows no mercy—exactly the cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we’re not the ones in charge. Yet…
The Boss wants me to take over his billion-dollar business, and the only way that’s happening is if I can win the heart of his cop daughter.
I planned to treat her just like all the other women who meant nothing to me, until I met her and everything changed.
Money and Power. That was all this was supposed to be about… Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan.
Neither was finding out that her father has a hidden agenda, and I’m just a pawn in his game.


Amelia
Running…
Running away again. That was me.
Always running from something. Running from my past and the terrible, dark, family secrets.
Running away from myself, from the person I was and who I used to be.
Now I’m running from my heart. It betrayed me and fell for the devil.
Luc… A mobster, a criminal.
The type of man I never wanted to end up with.
The mobster, the criminal, who called me his goddess and worshiped the ground I walked on.
I shouldn’t want him…because loving this man would be my worst nightmare.
Loving this man could destroy me.
But… I couldn’t resist him…
I wish I could…

MAFIA BOSS is The Godfather and The Sopranos with the sexy edge of a drool-worthy Alpha male.

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Mafia Boss is the first book in The Accidental Mafia Queen trilogy. Lucian and Amelia’s intriguing, sexy, story continues in Mafia Scars and completes in Mafia Love.

Meet the Chicago Familia in these series by USA Today bestselling author, Khardine Gray!

<The Accidental Mafia Queen

1.Mafia Boss

2.Mafia Scars

3.Mafia Love

Meet Levi, Dominic, Logan, and Aiden.

🎵 🎸STRAIGHT WICKED: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION 🥁 🎵

Meet Levi, Dominic, Logan, and Aiden.

The members of Straight Wicked.

The hottest rock band in years.

Millions of fans scream their names. Women throw themselves at their feet. The world sees fame, fortune, and rock-and-roll excess.

The truth is far messier.

🎤 Levi is haunted by a love he can never reveal.
🥁 Dominic will stop at nothing to claim the woman who was never supposed to be his.
🎸Logan is a beautiful disaster spiraling toward self-destruction, and the only woman he wants is the one he can never have.
🎸Aiden swore he’d never trust another woman again—until the one who shattered his heart returns to remind him exactly why he should.

They live under stadium lights and behind locked doors.

They’re possessive.

They’re damaged.

They’re obsessive.

And when these men fall in love, they fall hard enough to burn their worlds and everyone around them to the ground.

Secrets will be exposed. Hearts will be broken. Friendships will be tested. The band itself may not survive.

But some loves are worth the destruction.

This complete collection includes:

Make Music With Me — Levi’s story
Snare My Heart — Dominic’s story
No Treble Allowed — Logan’s story
String Me Up — Aiden’s story

Four full-length interconnected rock star romances featuring jealous heroes, forbidden love, marriage of convenience, second chances, heartbreak, redemption, and happily-ever-afters that are hard-earned and unforgettable.

Welcome to the world of Straight Wicked.

Once they get under your skin, they’re impossible to forget.

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Dread’s Beloved by Glenna Maynard ~ Preorder

Welcome to Kill Creek, Kentucky. Home to the jealous and possessive men of Grave Prowlers MC. Legend has it that the Devil himself haunts these hills. The only thing spookier than the lore of Kill Creek are the men who own this town and everyone in it.

Dark, dangerous, and deadly.

Prepare for one hell of a ride with these outlaws.

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Dread’s Beloved by Glenna Maynard

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Get ready for HARD HAT HOTTIES coming your way in August!

🛠️💗Get ready for HARD HAT HOTTIES coming your way in August!

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Hard Hat Hotties is a blue-collar romance series set in Forge Creek—a town rebuilt by sweat, steel, and stubborn hearts.

From construction sites and repair crews to firehouses and machine shops, the men and women of Forge Creek work long hours and love just as hard. They’re welders, linemen, mechanics, and first responders—rough around the edges, loyal to their own, and ready to risk everything when the right person walks into their lives.

Join 13 authors as they deliver high heat, fast connection, and a guaranteed happily ever after, all woven into a shared world where hard work builds more than buildings—it builds forever.

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Bad Boy Bachelors of Orange County Collection Volume One

Bad Boy Bachelors of Orange County Collection Volume One

A Sports Romance Collection

Khardine Gray

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If you like hot, steamy, romance with gorgeous, drool-worthy billionaires, you will love this collection. Dive in now for some fun with books 1-4 of the Bachelors of Orange County series…

One Last Time

Dylan has a stare colder than the Arctic.

Even so, I can’t stop staring at him.

I should – the guy’s been a thorn in my side since my father hired him as a consultant. I’m supposed to be taking over the company but it feels like dad doesn’t trust me at all.

To impress him I have to impress Dylan.

Not an easy task when I’m pretty certain Dylan is the devil.

The devil with the kind of gorgeousness that should come with a warning.

One that says ‘look but don’t touch’.

I learned the hard way one late night, when we turned into something more.

A mistake?

Yes, it should be.

Until it happened one more time… and again and again.

Then we became a hot, sinful, secret that could cost us everything.

Crossing the Line

Abby wants to get pregnant.

The old-fashioned way.

Without the issue of dating…

She just wants the baby.

No relationship, no fuss.
I’m her best friend, so I give her my opinion freely.

This is by far the craziest idea she’s ever come up with.

It all feels bad to me until she propositions me herself and opens my eyes to something I might not be able to resist.
I’d always wondered what it would be like to be with her.

Abby Cartwright, the girl who’d been my best friend since birth.

Her with her beautiful, sassy smile, and that live for the moment daring personality.
I’d never been able to say no  to her before.
Now would be a good time to start.

Except this idea of hers has unlocked my curiosity.

And temptation wants me to explore…her.

Auction Time

When disaster strikes Newport Beach, The Centaurs decide to host an auction to raise money for repairs.
Wonderful idea, except they want to enlist the services of Cartwright Marketing Agency.
I hate athletes. More than that, I loathe football players and I’m absolutely not an Eric Declan fan.
We hooked up one night and left me straight after.
What a dog.
I should have known better because they actually call him ‘the dog’ on the field and off it.
Foolishly, I allowed the man to charm me with his smile, that bad boy attitude, the masterpiece body, then out of my dignity.
I, for one, want to skip this collaboration, but I have to work with him if I want the chance to do more at the agency.
Working with him is a nightmare.
The man is temptation designed for sin.
He wants a repeat of our little mistake.
I want to stay away from him.
The problem is …it’s getting harder to resist him.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me…
Or is it?
Did I mention he looks really good in a suit?

Not Before Game Night

Cole

Our coach is incredibly superstitious.
He truly believed it was because he found a four-leaf clover why The Centaurs won the national championships two years in a row.
I could live with that.
What I can’t live with are his other rules.
After being traded to the Centaurs, I’m warned never to have sex the night before the opening game.
Coach’s orders my teammates dare me to break by dragging me into a bet with the girl who used to follow me around in high school like a lovesick puppy.
This should be very easy.
Vanessa wanted me then, there’s no way she can resist me now.
The little lovesick puppy is now a gorgeous babe and I’m willing to
partake – because I’m not superstitious.


Vanessa
Sure, I want to lose my v- card.
But not to him.
He had his chance and blew it.
I just wished my brain could sync with my stupid heart and war.

Icarus’ Risk (Granite Peak Grizzlies MC) By E.M. Shue

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Icarus’ Risk (Granite Peak Grizzlies MC) By E.M. Shue

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From award winning author E.M. Shue comes another installment in the Granite Peak Grizzlies MC series—the enforcer with a tragic past has found his forever, but she’s been targeted for death. Will Icarus be able to figure out why before they get their revenge or will she and his sister both be the ultimate sacrifice?

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