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Hi reader,
Wednesday is for romance, and this lane is running warm right now. Two new books just released, a third is waiting for the readers who like their love stories over forty and hard-earned, and two more land Friday. Pick by the ache you are in the mood for.
Magic and longing: The Provenance Problem, by Jennie Wren Foster
Crabapple Antiques Mysteries, Book Two. Sweet, closed-door, slow burn. 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 files itself in the same neat stack as the new one.
"The desk had been in my shop for forty minutes, and it had already corrected me twice. I want to be clear that at the time, I did not know the desk could correct anyone."
Heat and grief and 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, and has the biggest one in the building.
"There is a sound a building makes when it has decided something, and Rowe Capital made it that morning at 7:14. I had been at the window since six. I am always at the window by six."
Second chances and grown-up heart: Clara Langford
If you want the human ache of romance, start Clara's Mercy General series. In New Beginnings at Mercy General, a charge nurse who has given everything for twenty-five years comes home from twelve days in Tuscany with a sourdough starter and a decision, right as the man sent to decide whether her hospital survives walks in the door. Some second chances arrive right on time.
All of it lives here: https://www.jlcollinspublishing.com/books
Mark your calendar for Friday, July 10: Love at First Brew, a small-town coffee-shop romance by Jennie Wren Foster, and The Fracture Courts by Kira Deveraux. Two very different Fridays in one.
Want to read the next romance first? Each pen name runs an ARC team: early copies, free, for an honest review.
Jennie: [email protected]
Kira: [email protected]
Clara: [email protected]
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