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Hi reader,

Wednesday is for romance, and this week the romance came in two very different temperatures.

Both of these released yesterday, June 30, and they ask completely different things of a reader. So pick by the ache you are in the mood for.

If you want cozy, magic, and a slow burn worth the wait: The Provenance Problem, by Jennie Wren Foster

Crabapple Antiques Mysteries, Book Two. Sweet, closed-door. (Yes, the first kiss is still Book Four. We are savoring it.)

The antiques in Addie Wrent’s shop remember everything. They just cannot tell you when. A new Victorian desk reorganizes her filing overnight, a historian turns up dead in the archive, and a sixty-year-old cold case rhymes with the new one a little too closely. The desk saw both deaths. It files them in the same neat stack and waits, with infinite patience, for Addie to separate the truth from itself.

“The desk had been in my shop for forty minutes, and it had already corrected me twice. I knew it was a Victorian secretary desk, walnut, circa 1880, with a fall-front writing surface and a bank of pigeonholes labeled in a hand so small and even it looked typeset. What I did not know was that sometime in the last forty minutes, while I was at the counter ringing up a man who wanted a brass doorknob and a conversation, the desk had reorganized my receipts.”

If you want heat, grief, and two grown people betting on a second life: Quiet Money, by Kira Deveraux

Rowe Capital Series, Book Two. High heat, 18+, standalone, guaranteed HEA.

Garrett Walsh is the one man who knows what his firm really was, and the feds want him deposed first. Nora Castellan is the independent counsel who is supposed to have no stake in any of it, and has the biggest one in the building, for reasons she can tell no one. He guesses her secret on the third day. He chooses to wait. And then they both fall, eyes open, into the one love each of them is most gifted at ruining.

“There is a sound a building makes when it has decided something, and Rowe Capital made it that morning at 7:14, which was the moment the lawyers’ elevator reached thirty-seven and the doors opened on men I had never met carrying briefcases whose contents I already knew. I had been at the window since six. I am always at the window by six.”

Both live now: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books

Not sure which mood you are in?

Want magic and longing? Jennie Wren Foster.

Want heat and danger? Kira Deveraux.

Want second chances and grown-up heart? Clara Langford. Start with the Mercy General series.

Read the next romance first. Each pen name runs an ARC team: early copies, free, for an honest review. Email the author you want to read early:

Jennie: [email protected]

Kira: [email protected]

Clara: [email protected]

Coming July 10: Love at First Brew (Jennie, a small-town coffee-shop romance) and The Fracture Courts. Mark it.

Tell me your ache: magic, heat, or second chances? Hit reply. I love knowing which lane you are in.

Happy reading,

Jennie, Kira and Clara