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Hi reader,
Wednesday is romance, and the lane is busy. Two brand-new romances landed last Friday at opposite ends of the heat scale, and two more from Jennie Wren Foster arrive August 21. Pick your poison, then pick your next one.
Out now, 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, and a heroine who never folds. Book one of The Halcyon Group Series. High heat, full happily ever after, 18+. Live now.
Out now, 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. Live now.
Both are here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Coming Friday, August 21, a double from Jennie Wren Foster:
The Broken Script of the Stars (Chronicles of the Celestial Fold, Book 2). The library is at peace. The peace is the lie. Three months after they broke a god and remade the Last Library into a place that keeps instead of consumes, a student's name goes missing from every mouth in the school, and only the three who love her most still remember the girl existed. Something older than the god is unwriting people again: its grieving first love, a thousand years in the dark and done watching the world build furnaces out of the people it claims to love. Sapphic-centered romantasy, open door, found family, and the kind of dark that keeps. "Some cages are built of iron. The cruelest ones are built of tender words."
The Broker's Mask (Midnight Auction, Book 2). The second descent into the Midnight Auction, where nothing changes hands without a price and every face at the table is a mask over a deal. Worldbuilding-forward romantasy, bond-driven and high-stakes, romance-forward and closed-door. Book two of five.
All of it lives here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Want to read a Jennie romantasy first, for free? Join Read It First, our launch team, and tick Jennie on the signup form. Both August 21 books are going out to the team now. You can tick Kira and Clara too, and you will only hear about the lanes you choose: https://readitfirst-jlcollinspublishing.beehiiv.com/p/read-it-first. And if Hostile Intent or Hidden Truths landed for you this week, an honest review is the single most helpful thing you can do for it.
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Tell me your poison: the takeover with a body in the walls, the hospital love story that sneaks up on you, or a library where love is the only thing the dark cannot unwrite? Hit reply. I love knowing which lane you are in.
Happy reading,
Jennie, Kira and Clara
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