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Hi reader,
Wednesday is romance, and Friday is a big day for the lane: two brand-new romances land August 7, at opposite ends of the heat scale. Plus the just-released romcom everyone keeps replying about. Pick your poison.
Coming Friday, high heat, morally gray: Hostile Intent, by Kira Deveraux
Lena Cross built the Arden Holdings empire from a chair nobody thought she would earn, and she runs it from behind a wall nineteen years in the making. When a quiet, brutal takeover starts squeezing the company she would burn the world to protect, she traces the hand on the scale straight to the Halcyon Group, the firm that never loses. The man they send is Dominic Rourke, who has spent twenty years believing everything has a price, until he walks into her boardroom and meets a number he cannot make. Then he finds the truth beneath the deal: her company was never the prize. It is the cover, for a secret that could end the most powerful man in the city.
"The thing about a number is that it cannot lie to you. People lie. Numbers only get used by liars."
Enemies to lovers, a hostile takeover, a shark who refuses to use her one weakness, and a heroine who never folds. Book one of The Halcyon Group Series. High heat, full happily ever after, 18+.
Coming Friday, warm and slow-burn: Hidden Truths at Mercy General, by Clara Langford
The small-town hospital series returns to Cedar Falls. Dr. Rachel Kim is very good at keeping people alive and even better at keeping them at arm's length, until a threat to Mercy General itself, and a paramedic named Ethan Cole who has always seen her more clearly than she is comfortable with, make the arm's-length thing impossible. This is a book about being known, which is the scariest and best thing that can happen to a person who has spent years making sure no one gets close. Over-40, closed-door, hard-won happy ending.
Already on the shelf, funny and unhinged: The Night Shift Witch, by Jennie Wren Foster
An ER nurse discovers she can heal the supernatural. One catch: every monster she saves gets magically, permanently bonded to her soul. Now she has a grumpy ancient vampire who keeps faking injuries, a fae life coach she did not hire, and a two-hundred-year-old vampire queen with the temperament of a Yelp reviewer who has been wronged.
"The clock said 2:47 a.m., which in nurse years is the hour the soul quietly leaves the body to go get a snack and think about its choices."
Paranormal romcom, open door, guaranteed happy ending. Book one of the new Coven General series.
All of it lives here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Want to read the next romance first, for free? Read It First is the JL Collins launch team. Members get brand-new books about three weeks ahead of release in exchange for one honest review, and both Friday titles are going out to the team now. There is no form to fill in. Just hit reply with the words READ IT FIRST and tell us which shelf you want, sweet, warm, or scorching.
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Tell me your poison this Friday: the takeover with a body in the walls, the hospital love story that sneaks up on you, or the nurse who cannot stop adopting monsters? Hit reply. I love knowing which lane you are in.
Happy reading,
Jennie, Kira and Clara
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