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  Title: Last Wish Motel Duet: Angel Bayou #1 Author: Alicia Hunter Pace Genre: Paranormal Romance Tropes:  Secret Baby, Enemies to Lovers, Matchmakers Country Music Star, Humorous Small Town Romance Release Date: October 1, 2026 BLURB Deep in Cajun country, the dead don’t stay quiet at the Last Wish Motel — and the meddling Soublet ghosts have a habit of matchmaking their descendants, wanted or not. Reese Soublet LeBlanc traded a basketball scholarship to Duke for single motherhood after one reckless night. Now she paints caskets, orders embalming fluid, and tries to keep her ancestors’ ghosts in line at the family-owned Peaceful Rest Funeral Parlor. Chase Callahan is a country music star who swore he’d never come back to Angel Bayou. But his aunt’s funeral drags him home — straight into the path of a toddler with his eyes. Co-parenting? Fine. Falling for each other? Not a chance. But this is Angel Bayou, where the gumbo is spicy, the ghosts are stubborn, and love has a...

  Title:  One Night Band Stand Series: Get What You Need #2 Author:  Julia Kent Genre: Contemporary  Romantic Comedy Tropes: One Night Stand, Single Father, Widower Single Mom, Blended Family, Cinnamon Roll Hero Release Date:  September 30, 2026 BLURB Who accidentally has a one-night stand with her alumni band director? Yep. Me. I know what you’re thinking. Whoops! I slipped on some valve oil and accidentally landed on his baton during a rousing chorus of Stars and Stripes Forever. That’s not quite how it went. But the alumni band director is really, really skilled with that baton, if you know what I mean. So what am I supposed to do now, as I walk into the morning’s rehearsal — three feet from the podium because of course I play piccolo — and find the guy I ghosted on this morning … right there, smiling at me like he remembers exactly what tempo I prefer? He’s perfect. Too perfect. He's a widowed dad of two adorable little kids that — oh, by the way — he forg...

       ♦ ♦ ♦ Title : Critical Target Series: Sentinel Ops, Book One Release Date: November 20, 2026 Author: Delta James Genre: Dark Military Romantic Suspense Designer: Dar Albert (Wicked Smart Designs) Tropes: Dark Military Romance, Romantic Suspense, Possessive Hero, Conspiracy, Forced Proximity ♦ ♦ ♦ She needs me to keep her alive. I need her under my control. Someone wants the investigative journalist dead, and the classified intel she’s carrying may explain why my last mission ended in betrayal. I should take the intel and send her somewhere safe. Instead, I bring her inside Sentinel Ops. My protection. My rules. She’s stubborn, fearless, and determined to expose a conspiracy powerful enough to destroy us both.  Every time she pushes back, I want her more. This was supposed to be professional. Then protecting her becomes personal. The closer we get to the truth, the harder it is to remember she isn’t mine. And when the people who destroyed my care...